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Speaker 1: Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
Speaker 1: wake up call for Tuesday, September tenth. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: So much going on, so let's get to it. Here's
Speaker 1: what's ahead on wake Up Call. And here's the latest
Speaker 1: on the fires burning in southern California. A fire that
Speaker 1: started in Trebuco Canyon has exploded to eighty nine hundred acres.
Speaker 1: Officials say they believe the fire that started just yesterday
Speaker 1: afternoon was sparked by a public works crew using heavy
Speaker 1: equipment in the area. Several school districts in San Bernardino
Speaker 1: County are closed, at least for today because of the
Speaker 1: nearly twenty six thousand acre fire burning near Highland. The
Speaker 1: California National Guard is deploying firefighting resources to help the fire,
Speaker 1: including both troops and black Hawk helicopters. Debate day is here.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump and Vice President Harris are in a
Speaker 1: statistical dead heat in a new York Times Siena College
Speaker 1: poll headed into tonight's debate. It's posted by ABC, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be carried by all the networks, and
Speaker 1: of course you can hear it right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: No audience, no notes allowed, and microphones will be turned
Speaker 1: off while the other candidate is speaking. We're going to
Speaker 1: be talking with ABC Stephen Portnoy about the debate and
Speaker 1: how the candidates are getting ready for it. In less
Speaker 1: than five minutes, Joel Larsgard says, you too can be
Speaker 1: a millionaire, and with just the holidays just around the corner,
Speaker 1: it's time to plan now for gift giving. You know,
Speaker 1: you never know what people have gone through in their lives.
Speaker 1: We're going to have part two of Deborah Mark's own
Speaker 1: experience with suicide that's coming up at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, and you don't want to miss it. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Fire Crews in Orange
Speaker 1: County have been battling a fire and Tribuco Canyon that's
Speaker 1: burned almost nine thousand acres and is still zero percent surrounded.
Speaker 5: Firefighters attacked the fire overnight, where earlier planes dropped flame
Speaker 5: retardanted helicopters dropped thousands of gallons of water. OHC Fire
Speaker 5: Authority Captain Steve Concialdi says portions of the canyon are
Speaker 5: inaccessible to ground crews.
Speaker 6: We're using aircraft and helicopters to knock this fire down
Speaker 6: to keep it as narrow as as we can. We'd
Speaker 6: like to keep it like a cigar, basically narrow and straight.
Speaker 5: He says. The fire broke out yesterday afternoon near an
Speaker 5: airport in the canyon where people fly remote controlled airplanes.
Speaker 5: Homes and other structures have not been threatened by the fire.
Speaker 1: Chris Adler KFI News a fire above Glendora in the
Speaker 1: Angelus National Forest has burned close to three thousand acres.
Speaker 1: Evacuation orders now include the area of Baldy Village from
Speaker 1: north of the San Antonio Dam up to the Mount
Speaker 1: Baldy Resort. An earlier order was issued for the East
Speaker 1: Fort communities of Camp Williams Resort in the neighboring river.
Speaker 1: Community officials say the fire activity increased yesterday and burned
Speaker 1: in an easterly direction, creating large columns of smoke that
Speaker 1: could be seen throughout the San Gabriel Valley. More mountain
Speaker 1: communities in San Bernardino County are under evacuation orders as
Speaker 1: a fire that started in Highland has grown to more
Speaker 1: than twenty five thousand acres. It's just five percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: The fire started Thursday and exploded over the weekend in size.
Speaker 1: The California National Guard has been sent in to help.
Speaker 1: Fire officials say stronger winds are predicted today, which could
Speaker 1: help spread the fire and contribute to longer range spotting.
Speaker 1: They say cooler weather this week could moderate the fire
Speaker 1: activity and increase fuel moistures. The San Bernardino County sheriffs
Speaker 1: as hundreds of law enforcement officers could soon be outscouring
Speaker 1: evacuation areas for looters. Homes are homes sure, sand and
Speaker 1: Dyke says.
Speaker 2: Multiple surrounding agencies and the National Guard have sent officers
Speaker 2: to help.
Speaker 7: We've only had.
Speaker 8: One case of a potential book burglary or looter, and
Speaker 8: those subjects have been arrested.
Speaker 2: Says He's got no indication of coordinated looting, but we're going.
Speaker 8: To be out there in force making sure that happens,
Speaker 8: including undercover units that may look like a normal.
Speaker 2: Person bea says even a guy with a warrant was
Speaker 2: caught riding a stolen motorcycle into an evacuation area and
Speaker 2: was arrested at the base of the fire in San
Speaker 2: Bernardino County.
Speaker 1: Corbin Carson k if I knew it's five oh six
Speaker 1: on your wake up call, let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Steven portnoy So Stephen. Yesterday we talked with
Speaker 1: Karen Travers about Vice President Harris's debate prep. So today
Speaker 1: let's talk Trump. What are his people saying his goal
Speaker 1: is for the debate tonight.
Speaker 9: Well, look, the primary goal, according to trump aids, is
Speaker 9: to have him focusing on what they call the disasters
Speaker 9: of the Biden era, tying Kama Harris to things such
Speaker 9: as inflation, immigration, the Israel Hamas war, and other things.
Speaker 9: And the idea being that if Harris is now talking
Speaker 9: about all the things she would change if she were
Speaker 9: elected president, why hasn't she done them in the three
Speaker 9: and a half years that she has been the last
Speaker 9: person in the room by Joe Biden's side. And you
Speaker 9: hate to listen to Republicans talk the ideas that now
Speaker 9: they're arguing that she's truly been in charge all this
Speaker 9: time because Biden clearly doesn't have the faculties to be president.
Speaker 9: That's the argument we heard yesterday from the Trump campaign.
Speaker 9: The two candidates will be six feet apart on a stage.
Speaker 9: The rules have it that only the candidate who's recognized
Speaker 9: to speak will have his or her microphone on. The
Speaker 9: moderators are Lindsay Davis and David Muir of ABC News.
Speaker 9: Donald Trump is an experienced debater. He has, as you know,
Speaker 9: taken part in a wide array of primary debates in
Speaker 9: twenty sixteen and six general election debates as a candidate
Speaker 9: for the presidency. Kamala Harris has taken part in just
Speaker 9: one general election debate as a vice presidential contender, and
Speaker 9: that was against Mike Pence in twenty twenty. The two
Speaker 9: have never met before. Trump broke with tradition and skipped
Speaker 9: the inauguration in twenty twenty one. He declined the opportunity
Speaker 9: to congratulate Kamala Harris and Joe Biden on their victory
Speaker 9: and see to a peaceful transfer of power. So tonight
Speaker 9: they'll be face to face in the same room for
Speaker 9: the very first time.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be interesting because you, like
Speaker 1: you were talking about how Trump has a lot more
Speaker 1: debate experience, but I don't remember anything specific from his debates.
Speaker 1: What I remember from hers were when she was going
Speaker 1: against Mike Pence and it was the excuse me, I'm speaking,
Speaker 1: And it's probably because they've brought it up a lot recently,
Speaker 1: but also her comment in the presidential debate when she
Speaker 1: called out Biden and was saying, I was that little
Speaker 1: girl on the bus. I mean, so she might not
Speaker 1: have the experience, but she's she can be very quick
Speaker 1: on her feet.
Speaker 9: Well, I think you make a good point, Amy, and
Speaker 9: that is the idea that these debates are often not
Speaker 9: just about sitting and watching the engagement for ninety straight minutes,
Speaker 9: but the flashpoints, the takeaways, the moments that live on
Speaker 9: they almost become caricatures, and look they'll be you know,
Speaker 9: the takeaway for Joe Biden, for example, from two months ago,
Speaker 9: was he just couldn't hack it. He couldn't give straightforward
Speaker 9: answers to these questions, and that becomes sort of the
Speaker 9: narrative out of these things. So what will the narrative
Speaker 9: be tonight. Well we could talk about it at this
Speaker 9: time tomorrow morning, but for now, all we can do
Speaker 9: is say that Kamala Harris has been preparing for several days.
Speaker 9: She was hunkered down in Pittsburgh with her own aids.
Speaker 9: They set up a full stage with Cleague lights to
Speaker 9: get her used to the intense white light in her eyes.
Speaker 9: She was faced off against Philippe Ryans, who was a
Speaker 9: senior aide to Hillary Clinton and played the role of
Speaker 9: Donald Trump in Clinton's debate prep in twenty sixteen, so
Speaker 9: he's reprised that role in Harris's debate prep. According to
Speaker 9: Lara Trump, the former president's daughter in law and the
Speaker 9: co chair of the Republican National Committee, Trump has been
Speaker 9: engaging in some limited amount teams of traditional debate preparation,
Speaker 9: but Trump himself has kind of sort of brushed off
Speaker 9: that notion, saying that he's preparing for the debate all
Speaker 9: his life, and particularly the engagements that he's had with
Speaker 9: reporters prepares him to answer their questions, and he basically
Speaker 9: the idea is he's going to wing it because he
Speaker 9: is so comfortable and has such a command of the
Speaker 9: material the policy issues. It'll be really interesting tonight. And
Speaker 9: this is why these debates really are valuable. Beyond the flashpoints,
Speaker 9: beyond the narrative beyond the caricatures and the sound bites,
Speaker 9: Kamala Harris has not had many opportunities, well, the country
Speaker 9: does not have many opportunities to hear from Kamala Harris
Speaker 9: about specifically what she would do if she were elected president.
Speaker 9: And that is the charge of the moderators to tease
Speaker 9: it out and the challenge for viewers listeners to peak
Speaker 9: close attention to what these candidates have to say tonight
Speaker 9: as they weigh their choices.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and we will be watching and hopefully we get
Speaker 1: to talk to you and rehash it all very very soon.
Speaker 1: You back, Thank you, Steven. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour news room. Police in Culver City or warning renters
Speaker 1: about online apartment scams. Pio Jennifer Atenza says the department
Speaker 1: has already gotten four reports between just July and August.
Speaker 7: Do not agree to exchange cash until you have seen
Speaker 7: the property in person. You want to ask questions about
Speaker 7: the property in person. You want to see it for yourself.
Speaker 1: Attenza says three people scammed Spanish speaking residents out of
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred dollars to twenty three hundred dollars in cash
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be used for deposits. She says,
Speaker 1: once renters are suspicious, it's too late because the scammers
Speaker 1: have the money and can't be reached. Police across southern
Speaker 1: California have made more than two hundred arrests for alleged
Speaker 1: child sex abuse.
Speaker 10: The charges include sodomy, meeting a miner for lewd purposes,
Speaker 10: and possession and distribution of child sex abuse material. Glendale
Speaker 10: Police Chief Manny sid says Operation Online Guardian involved dozens
Speaker 10: of local agencies over two weeks in August.
Speaker 3: Each of these arrests don't just represent a statistic, but
Speaker 3: really represent young lives impacted.
Speaker 10: The sting operation was executed by the Internet Crimes Against
Speaker 10: Children Task Force across five counties La Orange, San Bernardino,
Speaker 10: Santa Barbara, and Ventura. In downtown La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: So many people have phones in the Southland, We're running
Speaker 1: out of numbers. That's the reason behind a new area code.
Speaker 1: Anyone with a two one three or three two three number,
Speaker 1: and those who get a new number maybe assigned seven
Speaker 1: to three to eight as their area code. Starting November first,
Speaker 1: twenty one cities are affected.
Speaker 4: Cocolo.
Speaker 1: SpaceX has sent a billionaire and three others into space
Speaker 1: on a trip to conduct the first private spacewalk. The
Speaker 1: Vlaris Don mission got off the ground overnight after being
Speaker 1: delayed several times because of a helium leak and bad weather.
Speaker 1: The trip is expected to last five days. So, as
Speaker 1: you may have heard or may not have heard yet,
Speaker 1: James Earl Jones has died. He died at his home
Speaker 1: in New York on Monday, and just one of the
Speaker 1: most prolific voices that many of us have ever heard.
Speaker 1: And the tributes are coming in from all over the
Speaker 1: place from people who've worked with him over the years.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to share just a few of them,
Speaker 1: because he was one of a kind. So Star Wars
Speaker 1: creator George Lucas says, James was an incredible actor, a
Speaker 1: most unique voice, both in art and in spirit. For
Speaker 1: nearly half a century, he was Darth Vader. But the
Speaker 1: secret to it at all, it all is that he
Speaker 1: was a beautiful human being. He gave depth, verity, and
Speaker 1: meaning to all of his roles, amongst the most important
Speaker 1: being devoted husband to the late Ceci and dad to Flynn.
Speaker 1: James will be missed by so many of us friends
Speaker 1: and fans alike, and how do we forget this y
Speaker 1: un one of the most shocking moments in movie history,
Speaker 1: from the gentle wisdom of Mufasa to the menacing threat
Speaker 1: of Darth Vader. James Earl Jones gave voice to some
Speaker 1: of the greatest characters in cinematic history. A celebrated stage
Speaker 1: actor with nearly two hundred film and TV credits to
Speaker 1: his name, the stories he brought to life with a
Speaker 1: uniquely commanding presence and a true richness of spirits have
Speaker 1: left an indelible mark on generations of audiences. That was
Speaker 1: from Disney's CEO, Bob Iger, my son and the one,
Speaker 1: and of course he was also the voice of CNN.
Speaker 1: The CNN tweeted on or tweeted or said on X
Speaker 1: that he was our brand for many decades, uniquely conveying
Speaker 1: through speech, instant authority, grace and decorum.
Speaker 11: This is CNN.
Speaker 1: And I love this. That booming voice, that quiet strength,
Speaker 1: the kindness he radiated. So much can be said about
Speaker 1: his legacy, so I'll just say how thankful I am
Speaker 1: that part of it includes Field of Dreams. If you've
Speaker 1: seen it, you know this movie wouldn't be the same
Speaker 1: with anyone else in this role. Only he could bring
Speaker 1: that kind of magic to a movie about baseball and
Speaker 1: a cornfield in Iowa. That's from Kevin Costner, who starred
Speaker 1: with James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams.
Speaker 11: The one constant through all the years Ray has been
Speaker 11: baseball America is ruled by like an army of steam rulers.
Speaker 11: He has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and raced
Speaker 11: again in baseball. Has marked the time to this field,
Speaker 11: Chris Game, there's a part of our past thread. It
Speaker 11: reminds us all that once was good.
Speaker 1: A cookie can James Earl Jones was ninety three. The
Speaker 1: fire in the San Bernardino Mountains near Highland is five
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. It's grown to almost twenty six thousand acres.
Speaker 1: Thousands of homes in Highland, Running Springs, Redlands, and other
Speaker 1: communities are under evacuation orders and warnings. Slightly cooler temperatures
Speaker 1: are expected today, but winds are also expected to pick up.
Speaker 1: The fire burning north of Glendora and Azuza has grown
Speaker 1: to three thousand acres. Residents north of the San Antonio
Speaker 1: Dam up to Mount Baldy resort were ordered to leave yesterday.
Speaker 1: That fire is zero percent surrounded. LEDWP crews have been
Speaker 1: working around the clock to get the power back on
Speaker 1: to thousands of residents during the worst heat wave of
Speaker 1: the year. As of last night, ten five hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety three customers, mostly in the Lincoln Heights, Arlington Heights,
Speaker 1: Highland Park and Pacoima are is, did not have any electricity.
Speaker 1: At six oh five, it's handle on the news. We're
Speaker 1: talking debates. Harris and Trump go face to face. They've
Speaker 1: never met before. Isn't that interesting. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, I know
Speaker 1: we're talking about a two state solution in just a second,
Speaker 1: but wanted to get the latest because there was an
Speaker 1: Israeli strike on a tent camp housing Palestinians overnight. Do
Speaker 1: we have new information about that?
Speaker 4: That's right. The Israeli armies says it struck part of
Speaker 4: the declared humanitarian zone. It's basically the western edge of
Speaker 4: Communis in southern Gaza, and Israel says it targeted this
Speaker 4: area where there are thousands of Palestinians who are displaced
Speaker 4: their sheltering there. That they hit it because there was
Speaker 4: a Hamas control and command center being operated out of
Speaker 4: the humanitarian zone, and they named at least two top
Speaker 4: Hamas leaders killed in the strike, which came at about
Speaker 4: a little after midnight, but local health officials say at
Speaker 4: least forty house commans have been killed there sixty injured.
Speaker 4: Huge craters left in this part of the tent city
Speaker 4: from the missile strikes and various fires. Some of the
Speaker 4: tents were set on fire, and it, you know, just
Speaker 4: underscores that civilians are paying really the heaviest price here
Speaker 4: for the way Hamas operates and for the heavy munitions
Speaker 4: that Israel is using in this war. This is not
Speaker 4: the first strike in the humanitarian zone. We've seen several
Speaker 4: of them in the last couple of months, and more
Speaker 4: proved sadly that Hamas is operating in the humanitarian zone.
Speaker 4: For example, six bodies of hostages, not the six that
Speaker 4: were just found, including the American, but a few weeks
Speaker 4: before six hostage bodies were found, mostly elderly hostages, and
Speaker 4: they were being hidden in this exact part of the
Speaker 4: humanitarian zone. So Hamas had currently put them there, thinking
Speaker 4: that you know, Israel wouldn't operate there.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, so thank you for that update on that.
Speaker 1: Now let's let's move on to what we planned on
Speaker 1: talking about, and that was that the UN Secretary General
Speaker 1: is saying that a two state solution is a must
Speaker 1: for peace. I'm guessing that Benjamin Natanielle, who's not too
Speaker 1: happy to hear that.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the Israeli Prime Minister is leading
Speaker 4: Israel's most far right government in its history. He already has,
Speaker 4: you know, from his own long record in public office,
Speaker 4: has a very ambivalent relationship with a Palestinian state. He's
Speaker 4: declared it, he's denied it, but at this moment, his
Speaker 4: government would fall if he really pursued a two state solution.
Speaker 4: But you know, there are plenty of people here in Israel,
Speaker 4: in the center and left wing camps, more than half
Speaker 4: the country, that do believe that Israel has to get
Speaker 4: back to a two state solution in order to get
Speaker 4: extremist groups like Hamas off the map of the Palestinian
Speaker 4: Israeli conflict. They're much like Isis. They're extremists and their ideology,
Speaker 4: they're violent in their resistance, and they really have no
Speaker 4: place at the table, nor do they want a place
Speaker 4: at the table for real coexistence and peace talks with Israel.
Speaker 4: They just want to get rid of Israel. So I
Speaker 4: think that the Sectuary General, you know, he's hitting on
Speaker 4: a very central issue that even many Israeli leaders say,
Speaker 4: which is that we've got to get back to a
Speaker 4: two state solutions.
Speaker 1: And how would a two state solution work though if
Speaker 1: the if Hamas and other extremist groups still want Israel
Speaker 1: wiped off the face of the map.
Speaker 4: Well, this is something that I think, you know, really
Speaker 4: all our listeners need to understand, and that is that
Speaker 4: Hamas has actually set back the Palestinian hopes for their
Speaker 4: own independent state because now whereas before Hamas and the
Speaker 4: and the West Bank we're seen as two parts of
Speaker 4: a of a future house and in state, now Gaza
Speaker 4: is in rubble. There's nobody who's going to be able
Speaker 4: to govern it if Hamas doesn't just come back in
Speaker 4: after this war and take it over again. H getting
Speaker 4: Hamas and getting Gaza in a position where it can
Speaker 4: participate in peace talks and be part of a Palestinian
Speaker 4: state that is years away, and it wasn't the case
Speaker 4: just you know, less than a year ago before this
Speaker 4: war So for all those young students on the streets
Speaker 4: or marching or holding Hama's flags, Hamas is not a
Speaker 4: group that is going to bring a Palestini, an independent
Speaker 4: Palestinian state. They've just set the cause back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a really good point. And like we've talked
Speaker 1: about so many times, a lot of the people marching
Speaker 1: don't really understand the complexities of what's going on and
Speaker 1: you know, the true motivations and that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: which is which is too bad. I'm hoping that people
Speaker 1: will educate themselves in As, always hoping that somehow or
Speaker 1: another they're going to figure out how to get these
Speaker 1: hostages released and get the fighting stopped. But we will
Speaker 1: continue to follow it and appreciate your input and your information. Jordan.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you.
Speaker 4: Soon, so much. All right, talk soon, Yeah, okay, Coppy debate.
Speaker 1: Day, Yes, absolutely, something to take our minds off fighting.
Speaker 1: And the latest on the fires burning in southern California.
Speaker 1: Thousands of residents are either under mandatory or voluntary evacuation
Speaker 1: orders near the fire burning in the Tribuco Canyon that
Speaker 1: has quickly grown to eighty nine hundred acres. There are
Speaker 1: also evacuation orderings orders in place for Riverside County on
Speaker 1: the other side of the Santa Ana Mountains. Other fires
Speaker 1: burning in the area include the three thousand acre fire
Speaker 1: burning north of Glendora that has closed parts of Highway
Speaker 1: thirty nine and the fire in the San Bernardino Mountains
Speaker 1: that's grown to almost twenty six thousand acres. It's five
Speaker 1: percent surrounded. The Culver City Police Department is investigating an
Speaker 1: online rental scam where people end up renting apartments that
Speaker 1: are either unavailable or don't exist. Police they would be
Speaker 1: renters are responding to apartment for rent ads. They meet
Speaker 1: up with somebody, pay cash for a down payment or
Speaker 1: a deposit, get a rental agreement, and even get keys,
Speaker 1: but then when they show up to their new home,
Speaker 1: the keys don't work and the person who took the
Speaker 1: money ghosts them. At six oh five, it's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. Former President Trump and Vice President Harris appear
Speaker 1: to agree on one thing weed At five point fifty.
Speaker 1: Christmas is just three months away. Time to plan now
Speaker 1: so you don't end up with a pile of depth
Speaker 1: this holiday season. It's out of money with Joel Larscard.
Speaker 1: September is National suicide Prevention and Awareness Month, and as
Speaker 1: kfi's Deborah Mark explains, it's okay to admit your loved
Speaker 1: one took their own life.
Speaker 12: Even if it was more than two decades ago.
Speaker 13: It's been a secret. It's been a secret that I've
Speaker 13: held on to for twenty two years. So the longer
Speaker 13: you hold on to a secret, right, the harder it.
Speaker 12: Is to share.
Speaker 13: August twentieth, two thousand and two. I got up early,
Speaker 13: as I normally do. I think it was about six
Speaker 13: o'clock and the first thing I always did was check
Speaker 13: my email, and.
Speaker 12: I saw there was an email from my mom and
Speaker 12: it was a it's so crazy to say this, but
Speaker 12: it was a suicide note.
Speaker 13: And I'm reading this and I remember it said, please
Speaker 13: forgive me.
Speaker 12: You're better off without me.
Speaker 13: So I remember driving like a crazy person to my
Speaker 13: mom's house and I'm banging on.
Speaker 12: The door and my stepfather opens the door and he.
Speaker 4: Say, what are you doing.
Speaker 13: It's six point fifteen in the morning, and I said,
Speaker 13: my mom, my mom, she wrote me a note and I.
Speaker 12: Think she killed herself. And he said, what are you
Speaker 12: talking about.
Speaker 13: Your mom is sleeping, and I said, oh, I remember,
Speaker 13: I remember this sense of relief. When he said that,
Speaker 13: I thought, Okay, I knew this was just too crazy.
Speaker 12: And then I said, okay, you've seen her. And then
Speaker 12: he said, well.
Speaker 13: We did get into an argument last night. We slept
Speaker 13: in separate bedrooms, and I remember just barreling past him,
Speaker 13: running down the hallway to her bedroom, and there was
Speaker 13: my mom in her bed. I've never seen somebody dead before.
Speaker 13: And I looked at her and I just knew, and
Speaker 13: I was shaking her. And I remember calling nine one
Speaker 13: one and they're telling me to do compressions and mouth
Speaker 13: to mouth and I did all that. My stepfather and
Speaker 13: I they said, you need to get her off the
Speaker 13: bed and get her on to the ground. Was pretty
Speaker 13: devastated for lots of reasons.
Speaker 12: I was angry.
Speaker 13: I couldn't believe that my mom would leave me a
Speaker 13: suicide note in an email. I mean even now, I
Speaker 13: still can't believe that. And I thought, Wow, the rest
Speaker 13: of my life, I'm going to have to say that
Speaker 13: my mom killed herself. I was on this mission to
Speaker 13: figure out why my mom would do that, and I
Speaker 13: think that literally was driving me crazy.
Speaker 12: So I did go to a suicide support group.
Speaker 13: I think maybe i've told one.
Speaker 12: Or two people since then.
Speaker 13: You know, when you fill out those questionnaires and they
Speaker 13: ask you are your parents alive? And you say yes
Speaker 13: or no anyway, so I said, my dad's alive, my
Speaker 13: mom's deceased.
Speaker 1: How old was your mom?
Speaker 13: Fifty seven? How did your mom die? And I remember
Speaker 13: writing complications of diabetes and the doctor questioned me about that.
Speaker 13: I couldn't the words that my mom killed herself, died
Speaker 13: by suicide. Those words could not come out of my mouth.
Speaker 13: I have felt embarrassed to talk about it. I have
Speaker 13: felt that there's this stigma. I have felt this shame.
Speaker 13: I have felt that I would be judged. I've worried
Speaker 13: that people would think, wow, if her mom did it, well,
Speaker 13: would she do that if something went wrong in her life.
Speaker 13: I don't think people really understand that those that are
Speaker 13: left behind are left with a really big burden. I
Speaker 13: hope that people that are listening are able to talk
Speaker 13: about it, and whether you go to a support group
Speaker 13: where you talk to family and friends or even a therapist,
Speaker 13: that you'll know that you're not alone, and that just
Speaker 13: because somebody in your family killed themselves, it doesn't it
Speaker 13: has nothing to do with you as i've started talking
Speaker 13: about this, I've kind of felt this sense of relief.
Speaker 12: I feel more at peace, and I think I'll be
Speaker 12: able to I'll be able to share more.
Speaker 13: This is the first time I've ever talked about my
Speaker 13: mom's suicide outside of my close circle of friends and family.
Speaker 13: So you might be asking yourself, why now, why, after
Speaker 13: all these years, did I finally decide to tell the
Speaker 13: most personal, traumatic story of my life.
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 12: It did.
Speaker 1: It hit me one day that my.
Speaker 13: Mother was fifty seven when she took her own life,
Speaker 13: and this November I turn fifty seven. It's a reminder
Speaker 13: of just how precious life really is. If you are
Speaker 13: someone you know has suicidal thoughts or a mental health crisis,
Speaker 13: dial nine.
Speaker 12: Eight eight for wake up call. I'm Deborah Mark.
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Speaker 1: morning to the host of How to Money on KFI.
Speaker 1: It's Joel lars Guard Morning. Joel, Morning Amy. So it
Speaker 1: might seem too early to talk about Christmas, but it's
Speaker 1: actually only three months and two weeks away. So let's start.
Speaker 1: But who's killing me out? I know, right? So let's
Speaker 1: talk about it? And why are we Why do you
Speaker 1: want to talk about it now?
Speaker 3: So I don't, honestly, but what we should because last
Speaker 3: time I went to Costco, the Christmas trees are up,
Speaker 3: the Halloween stuff is gone, Like you can't sign costumes anymore.
Speaker 3: My son massively disappointed because he wanted the Ninja costume,
Speaker 3: but he can't be had at this point apparently. So
Speaker 3: because the Christmas stuff is out, I feel like it
Speaker 3: makes sense to at least talk about this. And I'm
Speaker 3: seeing like articles and the Hottest Toys for Christmas lists
Speaker 3: coming out already the beginning of September.
Speaker 4: We're not even.
Speaker 3: Technically in fall yet, So I think it just is
Speaker 3: a good time to say that Christmas is kind of
Speaker 3: sort of around the corner, and it's it's smart to
Speaker 3: start saving for the presence coming up with a budget. Now, Hey,
Speaker 3: who are we gonna who are we going to shop for?
Speaker 3: And having those potentially awkward conversations if you don't have
Speaker 3: if you're not going to be able to come up
Speaker 3: with the money on the front end to buy for
Speaker 3: all the people in your life that you would love
Speaker 3: to buy for, kind of having some of those awkward conversations,
Speaker 3: say listen, hey, and people understand this, by the way,
Speaker 3: truly if you're honest and upfront with them. We've got
Speaker 3: some financial things we're trying to take care of. Can
Speaker 3: we keep the gift giving to a minimum in the
Speaker 3: family this year? And and so now is the perfect
Speaker 3: time to start, you know, potentially even shopping ahead to
Speaker 3: find good deals for the people you do want to
Speaker 3: buy for. Start saving up in advance so you don't
Speaker 3: find yourself in credit card debt, and to start having
Speaker 3: those conversations with your loved ones so that you're not
Speaker 3: all overspending when nobody can afford to.
Speaker 1: Those are tough conversations, though, I and even in my family,
Speaker 1: we do tend to overdo it bang here and we
Speaker 1: talk about it and we go, oh, well, let's cut back,
Speaker 1: let's not do it, and then we do it anyway.
Speaker 1: It's like we don't listen to ourselves even though we
Speaker 1: have the conversations. I don't know how to get that.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to break that cycle, Joel.
Speaker 3: The worst time to have the conversation that was Christmas Eve, right,
Speaker 3: so it's okay, guess what not getting me anything tomorrow?
Speaker 3: That's the worst time to have it. So I'm just
Speaker 3: trying to say, there's like plenty of lead room to
Speaker 3: at least kind of talk about that and say, well,
Speaker 3: what are maybe we're just going to buy for kids
Speaker 3: this year and we're gonna do a wide elephant or
Speaker 3: a secret saying a sort of thing. That's I think
Speaker 3: those people understand that and are willing to kind of
Speaker 3: pivot if they're given enough heads up. And so September
Speaker 3: is a good time to start having those chats. And
Speaker 3: you know, maybe you're gonna have some rogue family members
Speaker 3: who don't stick to it, but at least then you
Speaker 3: have an excuse and you can say, I'm sticking to
Speaker 3: what we agreed to.
Speaker 1: I'm following the rules. Okay, so let's set some rules,
Speaker 1: like what are some good guidelines because even aside from
Speaker 1: these conversations, because I know that January hits and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you've got thousands of dollars on your
Speaker 1: credit card and you're like, oh my god, So what
Speaker 1: are some realistic things that we should do that are
Speaker 1: that so we don't have that sticker shock in January.
Speaker 3: Only spend money you actually have. There's a new banks
Speaker 3: It sounds wild amy I know, in the era of
Speaker 3: buy now, pay later, and you know credit card debt
Speaker 3: being completely normalized in our country only by the things
Speaker 3: that you can afford to buy. There was a recent
Speaker 3: bankery study found the twenty seven percent of people said, yeah,
Speaker 3: I plan I plan to go into debt for holiday spending.
Speaker 3: Not only is it a possibility, but I'm banking on it.
Speaker 3: And that that just shocks me. And well, I guess
Speaker 3: it doesn't shock me. Nothing shocks me anymore. But it
Speaker 3: saddens me because what that means is I'm going to
Speaker 3: buy stuff I can't actually afford, and then would January
Speaker 3: February March come around, I'm going to be sweating bullets
Speaker 3: and I'm going to be trying to get back on
Speaker 3: track all for this one day to try to make
Speaker 3: people happy. And the true I don't know. My kids
Speaker 3: just got had birthdays, all three of them. It's in
Speaker 3: rapid succession, and there are some things, yes, they've enjoyed
Speaker 3: and played with. But I also realized, like my wife
Speaker 3: and I keep having this debate, do we need to
Speaker 3: do more? And we kind of always come down on
Speaker 3: the side on the fact that no, we don't. Like
Speaker 3: there's so much already and so many toys that don't
Speaker 3: get played with. Let's air on the side of a
Speaker 3: light birthday and maybe just air on the side of
Speaker 3: a light Christmas. If you can't, if you don't have
Speaker 3: the money saved up, and now it's the perfect time
Speaker 3: to start saving it. If it's ten bucks a week
Speaker 3: something like that, so you can afford to pay for
Speaker 3: that stuff on the front end, and if you don't
Speaker 3: have the cash to pay for it, I don't mind
Speaker 3: if you use a credit card as long as you
Speaker 3: can pay it off. But if you don't have the
Speaker 3: cash to actually pay for that gift, you can't afford
Speaker 3: that gift and you need to come up with something else.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's some sort of homespun etsy Christmas right where
Speaker 3: you're knitting things for your loved ones. It doesn't matter
Speaker 3: to me, But just don't put yourself and your own
Speaker 3: financial future into question because you want to overdo it
Speaker 3: for Christmas.
Speaker 1: Okay. And another way that we can overdo it, because
Speaker 1: I think I heard you mention it. But those buy now,
Speaker 1: pay later things that are all over the place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's another thing. I mean people are doing
Speaker 3: that for when we're talking about Christmas shoppings. So much
Speaker 3: of what happens amy is we see these sales and
Speaker 3: we're saying, well, I can get some stuff from me too,
Speaker 3: and at a sweet discount. So oftentimes we're buying for
Speaker 3: other people, but we end up trying to fill our
Speaker 3: own Christmas list at the same time, and we put
Speaker 3: it on buy now and pay later. And if you're buying,
Speaker 3: think about something like clothes. If you can't afford to
Speaker 3: buy the pair of jeans or the sweater, or the
Speaker 3: purse or the polo, whatever it is up front, all
Speaker 3: in one, all in one purchase, I don't want you
Speaker 3: buying it. And the truth is you'd be better off
Speaker 3: going to the Salvation Army, to the good Will to
Speaker 3: buy something. Then you would be putting something on buy now,
Speaker 3: pay later, just because you can't afford it right now.
Speaker 3: If you can't afford it, and you know at the
Speaker 3: time of purchase, then you can't afford it.
Speaker 1: Okay. And I like the whole plan not to go
Speaker 1: into debt. I think I'm going to write that and
Speaker 1: put it up on my refrigerator. Okay, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good point.
Speaker 3: Any and if you put something in front of your
Speaker 3: face like that, you're gonna be reminded and it's going
Speaker 3: to let it hit you every day, on the refrigerator,
Speaker 3: on the bathroom mirror, whatever it is. Whatever you want
Speaker 3: to accomplish this holiday season, sure it's front and center
Speaker 3: in front of your face.
Speaker 1: Okay, then let's shift gears to four oh one k millionaires.
Speaker 1: There's lots of I wouldn't say us. I'm going to
Speaker 1: say there's lots of them.
Speaker 3: There are so Fidelity just released some stats and it's
Speaker 3: good news that there are more four to one k
Speaker 3: millionaires than ever before. And in some ways this isn't
Speaker 3: terribly surprising given what's happened with the stock market. If
Speaker 3: the stock market was down twenty percent, we would not
Speaker 3: be talking about more four oh one K millionaires, but
Speaker 3: we are because the market's been in fuego.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 3: I think they had something like more than five hundred
Speaker 3: thousand and four to one K or almost five hundred
Speaker 3: thousand and four one K millionaires and that have millionaire
Speaker 3: four one K accounts at Fidelity. That's just Fidelity. So
Speaker 3: there are other people who have their four on and
Speaker 3: K with Vanguard or with a bank or an insurance
Speaker 3: company that have more than a million dollars too. And
Speaker 3: I just think this is a good reminder people think
Speaker 3: of four to one K as this low and slow
Speaker 3: crock pot way to build wealth, which is exactly what
Speaker 3: it is in so many ways. But my buddy Sam
Speaker 3: ran some numbers about how long it will take you
Speaker 3: to become a four to one K millionaire if you
Speaker 3: max out your contributions to your four O one K
Speaker 3: each and every year and you get average annual annualized returns.
Speaker 3: So if you invest in in all equities something like
Speaker 3: the S and P five hundred or a total stock
Speaker 3: market fund inside of your four to one K, and
Speaker 3: you max that out consistently every single year, you're going
Speaker 3: to be a millionaire in just eighteen years. So let's
Speaker 3: say you're twenty two and you start this from the
Speaker 3: get go, at your first job, you could be a
Speaker 3: four to one K millionaire by age forty, which is
Speaker 3: just kind of crazy to think about. We think, I
Speaker 3: think so many times in this country we were wowed
Speaker 3: by the get rich quick, or man if I get
Speaker 3: if I make twenty grand and crypto over here, or
Speaker 3: selling meme stocks, that's going to help me get where
Speaker 3: I want to go. The unsexy thing is investing in
Speaker 3: the stock market regularly and consistently, with every paycheck into
Speaker 3: that four oh one k and the contribution limit this
Speaker 3: year twenty three thousand bucks. That's a lot of money
Speaker 3: you can stick in. And if you're fifty or older,
Speaker 3: you can contribute an additional seventy five hundred bucks. And
Speaker 3: I just want to say too, I know it's tough
Speaker 3: to I remember when I was like twenty five and
Speaker 3: I heard people say that. I was like, that's cool.
Speaker 3: Those contributions are that high. I'm never going to get there.
Speaker 3: But over time, you know, if you remain frugal and
Speaker 3: you invest more of your income. As you get raises,
Speaker 3: you can get there, and so just want to encourage people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it might not be possible today, but it might be
Speaker 3: possible down the road, and so starting to contribute something
Speaker 3: now matters.
Speaker 1: Start now. Yeah, Okay, so much great advice as always, Joel,
Speaker 1: And for more great advice on how to money, you
Speaker 1: can listen to Joel every Sunday from noon to two
Speaker 1: right here on KFI. You can also follow Joel at
Speaker 1: how to Money. Joel. Thanks Joel.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
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