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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock on your wake up call. Good morning,
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, December seventeenth. I'm Amy King. Feel glad you're
Speaker 1: getting your day started with us today. Eight sleeps until Christmas,
Speaker 1: and quit giving me that look. She's not ready. She's
Speaker 1: stressed out, and she says I trigger her every time
Speaker 1: I say that. Hey, how about three quarters of a
Speaker 1: billion dollars for Christmas? There's a Mega Millions drawing tonight.
Speaker 1: It's worth seven hundred and forty million dollars. It's the
Speaker 1: largest Mega Million's jackpot ever up for grabs in the
Speaker 1: month of December. And if you don't want all of
Speaker 1: that money, you could have about half of it. If
Speaker 1: you take the cash. It's a three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: three million dollars if you take it in a lump
Speaker 1: sum I gotta go buy my ticket, just one. It
Speaker 1: only takes one. But instead of a Starbucks, I'm buying
Speaker 1: lottery today. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. A student,
Speaker 1: a teacher, and the fifteen year old shooter have been
Speaker 1: killed in a shooting at a K through twelve Christian
Speaker 1: school in Madison, Wisconsin. At least six others were hurt
Speaker 1: in the shooting yesterday before noon. At the private Christian school.
Speaker 1: Two students are in critical condition. Police say the shooter,
Speaker 1: a student, shot and kill herself. We're going to find
Speaker 1: out the latest on this with ABC's Jim Ryan. In
Speaker 1: less than five minutes. President elect Trump says Mexico and
Speaker 1: Canada are on notice over the border crisis. In his
Speaker 1: first press conference since the election, Trump criticized the Biden
Speaker 1: administration over reports that it is auctioning off pieces of
Speaker 1: the border wall. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to join Wakeup
Speaker 1: Call to tell us about everything the President elect got
Speaker 1: into during that press conference yesterday at mar A Lago.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at five twenty. A new red flag
Speaker 1: warning's been issued for much of Ventura County and most
Speaker 1: of western La County. Forty to sixty mile per hour
Speaker 1: guests are expected from this afternoon through tomorrow evening at six.
Speaker 1: The high winds and low humidity levels will increase fire danger,
Speaker 1: creating conditions much like last week when the Malibu fire started.
Speaker 1: Coming up at the bottom of the hour, a Christmas
Speaker 1: miracle of sorts, the story of Susie the Stray Dog.
Speaker 1: It's a great story and it's a great idea for
Speaker 1: a Christmas present for your kids and grandkids. Again, that's
Speaker 1: coming up at the bottom of the hour. And then
Speaker 1: at five fifty Joel large Guard's going to tell us
Speaker 1: whether you should run out and buy a car, not
Speaker 1: because of Christmas, but because of what could happen after Christmas.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County
Speaker 1: Department of Public Health has announced a new program to
Speaker 1: help people with medical debt. The Undue Medical Debt Pilot
Speaker 1: program is aimed at tackling the county's growing medical debt crisis.
Speaker 1: Supervisor Janis Hans says one in ten people are burdened
Speaker 1: by medical debt, and many of them are low income.
Speaker 5: No one, she'd have to go into poverty to get
Speaker 5: the health care they need, and yet that's exactly what's happening.
Speaker 5: Medical debt is crushing families across our communities.
Speaker 1: Hans says. Long standing medical debt is often sold on
Speaker 1: the secondary market for cents on the dollar to collection
Speaker 1: companies that do what they can to get people to pay.
Speaker 1: She says La County is going to buy much of
Speaker 1: that debt. The life of a doctor murdered in Woodland
Speaker 1: Hills has been charged in his murder.
Speaker 6: A hong Mereshoj allegedly planned the murder and hired a
Speaker 6: hitman to carry it out. LA County DA Nathan Hawkman
Speaker 6: says the killing of doctor Hamid Mershoj outside his office
Speaker 6: in August was a betrayal.
Speaker 2: The depth of this deceit and violence involved in this
Speaker 2: case is chilling, and we will not rest until justice
Speaker 2: is served.
Speaker 6: A hong Mere show J and two men face murder
Speaker 6: charges in the case, while a fourth woman has been
Speaker 6: charged as an accessory for driving the alleged hitman. Michael
Speaker 6: Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The Chikita Canyon landfill in Castaic has been sued by
Speaker 1: La County. The lawsuit claims the noxious odors and underground
Speaker 1: smoldering reaction have negatively impacted nearby residents for too long.
Speaker 1: County officials have said they want the court to grant
Speaker 1: an injunction forcing the landfill to clean up, to relocate
Speaker 1: neighbors until work is to complete, and to pay civil penalties.
Speaker 1: SpaceX is about to send some spy satellites into space
Speaker 1: from off the coast of Santa Barbara County. Kfi's Daniel
Speaker 1: Martin Dale says the launch is supposed to happen around
Speaker 1: five twenty this morning.
Speaker 7: The Falcon nine rocket will be carrying multiple satellites on
Speaker 7: behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. Because the government is
Speaker 7: its client for this launch, SpaceX has not released any
Speaker 7: other information about the payload.
Speaker 1: SpaceX did say that following the stage separation, the first
Speaker 1: stage will land on a platform in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Now, Jim,
Speaker 1: normally I love talking with you, but I hate that
Speaker 1: we have to talk about this today. Nine days before Christmas,
Speaker 1: a high school student walks into a school in Madison,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and open fires.
Speaker 8: What do we know, Well, the abundant like Christian school
Speaker 8: is where this happened to a school that has fewer
Speaker 8: than four hundred students in Madison, Wisconsin. And yes, yesterday morning,
Speaker 8: just before eleven o'clock, a student of fifteen year old student,
Speaker 8: a girl, walked into class with a handgun. She opened
Speaker 8: fire in a class study in a study hall situation
Speaker 8: with different grade levels there, shot a teacher to death,
Speaker 8: wounded another teacher, shot a fellow student to death, wounded
Speaker 8: critically wounded two other students before turning the gun on herself. So, yes,
Speaker 8: the shooter is dead. The police were on the scene
Speaker 8: within four minutes. This is a private Christian school and
Speaker 8: so you don't have metal detectors or school resource officers
Speaker 8: or the same sort of security that you would have
Speaker 8: in a public school in Madison, Wisconsin. But police were
Speaker 8: there very quickly. They found that the shooter was already down,
Speaker 8: having shot herself.
Speaker 1: Okay, we hear that her family has been talking with
Speaker 1: and cooperating with police. Have they provided any kind of
Speaker 1: insight that we know.
Speaker 8: Of, not publicly, but you're right, I mean the family,
Speaker 8: the parents were there at the home. The police showed
Speaker 8: up within just a couple of hours of the shooting.
Speaker 8: Began questioning them, and they are cooperating with the investigation.
Speaker 8: A big question, of course, is why did this happen?
Speaker 8: What was going through the child's mind when she carried
Speaker 8: that gun into her own school. It's just done clear
Speaker 8: at this point. The school is closed now and parents
Speaker 8: are being offered counseling kids and staff members elsewhere. Last
Speaker 8: night that there was a vigil there in Madison, Wisconsin
Speaker 8: to bring people together to begin some kind of healing.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine in the days and weeks to come,
Speaker 1: we're going to start hearing more about this fifteen year
Speaker 1: old girl. Fifteen years old and a girl. The only
Speaker 1: other school shooting that I can recall where a girl
Speaker 1: was involved was the one in Nashville that they were
Speaker 1: very hush hush about it. We never really kind of
Speaker 1: got a lot of information, even though we heard she
Speaker 1: wrote some sort of a manifesto on this one. Do
Speaker 1: we were there indications or is it just too soon
Speaker 1: to tell whether there were posts on social media or
Speaker 1: any kind of warning signs like we've seen with other shooters.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, there were some postings that have been attributed
Speaker 8: to her by family, by other people, but not by investigators. Themselves.
Speaker 8: Then you're right, A fifteen year old girl in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty four has a pretty wide social media footprint, and
Speaker 8: so there's a lot for investigators to go through. The
Speaker 8: shooting last year in Nashville. I was out there covering.
Speaker 4: That, and.
Speaker 8: The shooter was born female. The shooter had transitioned to male,
Speaker 8: So in the record books that still goes down as
Speaker 8: a male shooter inside that school. In forty years of
Speaker 8: covering school shootings, I don't recall ever being at the
Speaker 8: scene where the shooter was female.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so it just again there's so many questions
Speaker 1: on why she would do this, and was she targeting
Speaker 1: somebody or a lot of people.
Speaker 8: That's a great question. And it isn't clear whether the
Speaker 8: teacher she shot or the classmate, if they were targets
Speaker 8: of her shooting, or if it was just sort of
Speaker 8: a random, you know, out pouring of violence against these people.
Speaker 8: And I mean, had the rights the social media writings
Speaker 8: are to be believed, and if they are her writings,
Speaker 8: then it appears she just went into that school knowing
Speaker 8: it was her own school, and opened fire randomly.
Speaker 1: And open fire randomly because if and this is I
Speaker 1: don't know if you call it sexist or what you
Speaker 1: call it. But when I hear that it's a girl,
Speaker 1: I think of like a romantic tie, whereas if it's
Speaker 1: a boy, I don't. I don't know why, you know,
Speaker 1: my brain just kind of goes there. Doesn't appear that
Speaker 1: that's it. But we will find out more in the
Speaker 1: days and weeks to come. Jim Ryan, again, I hate
Speaker 1: to have to talk to you about this. I hope
Speaker 1: we can be talking about more maryon happy Christmasy stuff
Speaker 1: sure later, but appreciate the information as always appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The fire that
Speaker 1: has burned more than four thousand acres in Malibu is
Speaker 1: now fifty six percent surrounded. Officials say fire activity remained
Speaker 1: minimal yesterday, with smoldering and creeping and isolated areas within
Speaker 1: the perimeter of the fire, but they are keeping an
Speaker 1: ey I on the weather because Santa Ana wins are
Speaker 1: coming back. CalFire says crews will continue to build and
Speaker 1: strengthen their lines around the fire. A local assistant center
Speaker 1: will open today at Malibu City Hall. A Border Patrol
Speaker 1: agent has been killed in a helicopter crash near the
Speaker 1: US Mexico border. The helicopter went down near Potrero yesterday morning.
Speaker 1: CalFire says the pilot killed in the crash was the
Speaker 1: only one on board. Communities in the Northeast are still
Speaker 1: on edge because of apparent drone sightings. The Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Securities told New Jersey state officials that there's no
Speaker 1: evidence to suggest any threat to national security or foreign involvement,
Speaker 1: but also they don't know who's operating the drones. New
Speaker 1: Jersey State Assemblyman Craig Kaflan says they need better answers.
Speaker 9: That's another reason to make sure people have clear answers
Speaker 9: so that there aren't wild theories being circulated on Internet
Speaker 9: and other places.
Speaker 1: He says there's nothing to worry about, and then saying
Speaker 1: they don't know who's flying the drones is inconsistent. The
Speaker 1: State Department says negotiations to reach a ceasefire and hostage
Speaker 1: release agreement between Israel and Hamas has been productive in
Speaker 1: the last few days. Department spokesman Matthew Miller says both
Speaker 1: sides agree on most points and it's up to Hamas
Speaker 1: and Israel to close the deal.
Speaker 10: We believe we can get to a deal, but again,
Speaker 10: it remains incumbent on Hamas and Israel agreeing to those
Speaker 10: final terms and getting it over the line.
Speaker 1: He says, they've been down this road many times before,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to be optimistic about it.
Speaker 4: Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy, Junior has met with Republican senators who will be
Speaker 1: key to his confirmation to lead the Department of Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services. ABC's Mary Bruce says there are concerns
Speaker 1: about some of Kennedy's views on health.
Speaker 7: Robert F.
Speaker 11: Kennedy basing fresh scrutiny amid reports his personal attorney, who
Speaker 11: has been helping to interview candidates for top health jobs
Speaker 11: in the Trump administration, petitioned the FDA to revoke multiple vaccines,
Speaker 11: including one for polio.
Speaker 1: Republican leader Mitch McConnell, apolio survivor, says undermining public confidence
Speaker 1: in proven cures is not just uninformed, it's dangerous. Popeye,
Speaker 1: some Mickey Mouse cartoons and others are about to enter
Speaker 1: the public domain.
Speaker 10: The copyrights to intellectual properties from nineteen twenty nine expired
Speaker 10: January first. They include Popeye's debut in The Thimble Theater
Speaker 10: comic strip, and only that version, not the cartoons or
Speaker 10: references to Spinach making him strong. A dozen Mickey Mouse
Speaker 10: cartoons become PD, including the Carnival Kid, the first with
Speaker 10: him speaking. Also the songs Ain't Misbehaving, Singing in the Rain,
Speaker 10: and Tiptoe through the Tulips, but just the songs, not
Speaker 10: the recordings, and the first Marx Brothers movie, The Coconuts.
Speaker 4: Forget about money, don't think of it. Just forget about it,
Speaker 4: because you will get it anyway. Mark Ronner, KFI.
Speaker 1: News, Tiptoe through the Tulips. I love it. It is
Speaker 1: five fourteen. Okay, you may have remembered that earlier we
Speaker 1: had told you that a license plate had been issued
Speaker 1: in California that appeared to be making fun of the
Speaker 1: October seventh attack in Israel by Hamas, And so the
Speaker 1: DMV quickly pulled that license plate, apologized, and the license
Speaker 1: plate said lol oct seven. So lol October seventh. Right,
Speaker 1: So now there's a new twist in this one. The
Speaker 1: license plate was on a Tesla cyber truck in Culver City.
Speaker 1: That's where I was spotted. DMV officials meant it, you know,
Speaker 1: thought it meant laugh out loud and then October seventh,
Speaker 1: But now the son of the cyber truck's owner says
Speaker 1: the license plate is being misread and misinterpreted. He says
Speaker 1: that lolo Lolo means grandfather in Tagalog, and that CT
Speaker 1: is short for cyber truck, so grandfather's cyber truck, and
Speaker 1: the represents the owner's seven grandchildren.
Speaker 2: Soon.
Speaker 1: That's sweet, right, So we'll see if the DMV lets
Speaker 1: that one come back out or it sounds like, you know,
Speaker 1: it could be easily misread, so maybe they won't let
Speaker 1: it be reissued, but we shall see Grandpa's cyber truck.
Speaker 1: The woman from Hawaii who was reported missing after she
Speaker 1: missed a connecting flight at LAX last month has released
Speaker 1: a statement. Hannah Kobayashi says she's okay and she's back
Speaker 1: in the United States. She said she had no idea
Speaker 1: of the massive search for her while she was in Mexico.
Speaker 1: The LAPD closed its missing person case yesterday. The La
Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors is expected to declare a local
Speaker 1: emergency today over the Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.
Speaker 1: State regulators ordered the facility to close last week, but
Speaker 1: it's still operating because there's nowhere else to house the
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty juveniles. The Superior Court has formerly
Speaker 1: dismissed California's lawsuit against Huntington Beach that challenged the city's
Speaker 1: voter ID law. The voters approved the law. It requires
Speaker 1: voters to show ID to vote in city elections. The
Speaker 1: state challenged the law, but a judge ruled to dismiss
Speaker 1: it last month, and it was formally dismissed yesterday at
Speaker 1: six o five. Its handle on the news. A judge
Speaker 1: has rejected President elect Trump's argument that his hush money
Speaker 1: case should be thrown out. Right now, let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Speaking of President elect Trump,
Speaker 1: he held his first news conference since being elected. Let's review.
Speaker 1: Let's so, what was the main topic of it the.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was a wide ranging news conference. I think
Speaker 12: the key takeaway, the headline for a lot of observers
Speaker 12: was what he said about vaccines.
Speaker 4: Of course, this is as Robert F.
Speaker 12: Kennedy Junior is working the halls of Congress trying to
Speaker 12: earn support from senators, and you know, yesterday RFK Junior
Speaker 12: was hounded by reporters asking what he thinks about the
Speaker 12: polio vaccine. The reason why is because of the report
Speaker 12: late last week, and I warn all iPhone users that
Speaker 12: I might alert your phone when I say that. There's
Speaker 12: a fellow named Aaron Siri who is a senior advisor
Speaker 12: to RFK Junior and has been an attorney on the
Speaker 12: RFK Junior campaign. Back in twenty twenty two, this man, Siri,
Speaker 12: asked the FDA to pull back its approval of the
Speaker 12: polio vaccine from nineteen ninety, arguing that the proper tests
Speaker 12: weren't done back then.
Speaker 4: Well fast forward.
Speaker 12: Three and a half decades and you have the Republican
Speaker 12: Minority Leader of the US Senate, Mitchell occonnell, even if
Speaker 12: he's stepping down from leadership, a highly influential man in
Speaker 12: the Senate, saying that any person who hopes to achieve
Speaker 12: confirmation by the Senate should distance him or herself from
Speaker 12: this notion that the polio vaccine is anything but safe
Speaker 12: and effective and should be given to every child.
Speaker 4: In the country.
Speaker 12: The President elect himself is old enough to remember that
Speaker 12: before the polio vaccine, you had children living in iron
Speaker 12: lungs and the and McConnell himself is a polio survivor,
Speaker 12: so this whole controversy is a function of the fact
Speaker 12: that Robert F. Kennedy Junior has said things about vaccines,
Speaker 12: doubting their safety. The medical community insists that there is
Speaker 12: no link between vaccines and autism, for example, but Trump
Speaker 12: said that Rfkgnior is going to look into that and
Speaker 12: then report back. He said, quote, We're going to find
Speaker 12: out a lot. So that was a key takeaway from
Speaker 12: yesterday's news conference, Trump saying that he's a big believer
Speaker 12: in the polio vaccine and doesn't want it, doesn't want
Speaker 12: anyone to fear that that's going away, but there's going
Speaker 12: to be a look at other vaccines. In addition to that,
Speaker 12: Trump was asked about drones and he alleged the government
Speaker 12: knows more than it's saying, and quote, for some reason,
Speaker 12: they want to keep people in suspense.
Speaker 4: He suggested it's not.
Speaker 12: They're not enemy drones that are flying over various parts
Speaker 12: of the New Northeast, because he believes that the government
Speaker 12: would have had them taken down.
Speaker 4: But he says that there's more to the story. They
Speaker 4: know more than they're saying.
Speaker 12: He also lamented that the alleged killer of the United
Speaker 12: Healthcare CEO now has a following online. How people can
Speaker 12: like this guy is a sickness, Trump said. He also
Speaker 12: said he has a soft spot for TikTok. We learned
Speaker 12: after the news conference that he met yesterday at mar
Speaker 12: A Lago with.
Speaker 4: The CEO of TikTok.
Speaker 12: Of course, the app faces a deadline in a month
Speaker 12: for a ban in this country if it's not sold
Speaker 12: by the Chinese owner Bike Dance. TikTok yesterday asked the
Speaker 12: Supreme Court to step in. Trump was also asked about
Speaker 12: pardoning New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who's been indicted
Speaker 12: on federal bribery charges, and Trump said, yeah, he would
Speaker 12: certainly look at that.
Speaker 1: He did cover a lot of ground, broh, and.
Speaker 4: I haven't even mentioned Ukraine, Oh, another major headline. Well.
Speaker 12: Trump was asked if Ukraine should be prepared to seed
Speaker 12: territory to Russia, and Trump responded to Vladimir's Aelenski, the
Speaker 12: president of Ukraine should quote be prepared to make a deal.
Speaker 12: Got to be a deal, Trump says, too many people
Speaker 12: being killed.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 12: In recent weeks, Zelensky has suggested that he might be
Speaker 12: willing to give up the parts of his country that
Speaker 12: are now occupied by Russian forces if the West degrees
Speaker 12: to grant his country membership in NATO, Well, how would
Speaker 12: Vladimir Putin feel about that?
Speaker 1: Because that was isn't that one of the pushes behind
Speaker 1: going in there in the first place, is he really
Speaker 1: doesn't want NATO to encroach any closer.
Speaker 12: Right, Well, that was Putin's argument, wasn't it. And so
Speaker 12: let's see how it all plays out.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then, but the actual reason for the press
Speaker 1: conference was the one hundred million or one hundred billion
Speaker 1: dollars investment in infrastructure and stuff.
Speaker 12: Right, So, this Japanese investment firm, soft Bank, has pledged
Speaker 12: to invest becaus cross a variety of industries and sectors,
Speaker 12: not clear which one hundred billion dollars, and Trump tried
Speaker 12: to get the CEO of SoftBank to double that to
Speaker 12: two hundred billion and then laughs all around. Exactly where
Speaker 12: that money would go is again not known at this time,
Speaker 12: but the CEO of SoftBank says it will result in
Speaker 12: one hundred thousand American jobs. Of course, lots of questions
Speaker 12: about exactly what the plan is.
Speaker 1: And we will find out in the coming months. I'm
Speaker 1: sure generally I wanted to go back to the New
Speaker 1: York City Mayor Adams and Trump being asked whether he
Speaker 1: might pardon him, and he said, I'll think about it
Speaker 1: or whatever. Generally, presidents issue pardons when they get close
Speaker 1: to leaving office, but Stephen, can they do at any
Speaker 1: time if they want to, of course.
Speaker 12: I mean, the pardon power is what they call a
Speaker 12: plenary power in the Constitution. It's a power that's solely.
Speaker 4: Vested in the office.
Speaker 12: And there's no you know, despite the fact that over
Speaker 12: the decades there has been an apparatus built around pardons.
Speaker 12: There's a pardoner attorney at the Justice Department. They review
Speaker 12: petitions for clemency and there's sort of a structure that
Speaker 12: is meant to facilitate pardons to deserving individuals who might
Speaker 12: not get the president's attention. Nevertheless, president wants to grant
Speaker 12: a pardon, he can do it. And that's how Joe
Speaker 12: Biden pardoned his son Hunter absent any review by the.
Speaker 1: Justice Department and pardon or granted clemency to fifteen hundred.
Speaker 12: Well, that was part of a more thorough review, but
Speaker 12: it also swept up some people who perhaps others feel
Speaker 12: are not deserving and people who committed some crimes that
Speaker 12: you know, perhaps we're so notorious that they shouldn't they
Speaker 12: feel they shouldn't have been granted clemency.
Speaker 4: But again, it being a plenary power, it is beyond.
Speaker 1: Question, right, So it's a done deal.
Speaker 4: It is a done deal.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Stephen portinoy As always, thank you for
Speaker 1: the information. We appreciate it. We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4: You're back, all right.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Service is forecasting more strong Santa Ana
Speaker 1: wins for southern California. Forecasters say starting today, northeasterly winds
Speaker 1: will gust up to forty to sixty miles per hour
Speaker 1: in some areas. The Weather Services the winds, combined with
Speaker 1: humidity down in the ten to twenty percent range, will
Speaker 1: very likely caused critical red flag fire conditions this afternoon.
Speaker 1: The wind is expected to peak tonight into tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4: A guy who.
Speaker 1: Flashed a gun at a target store in Elmonte has
Speaker 1: been fatally shot by police. Investigators say the man drove
Speaker 1: away last night when police were called and officers followed.
Speaker 1: La County Sheriff's Lieutenant Steve DeJong says the guy stopped
Speaker 1: the car a short time later and ran off.
Speaker 6: He was followed by two officers and ultimately one of
Speaker 6: the officers was involved in a shooting.
Speaker 4: With this aspect.
Speaker 1: He died at the scene. Investigator say a gun was recovered.
Speaker 1: A woman in the car was taken into custody for questioning.
Speaker 1: A law prohibiting libraries from banning books about race, gender identity,
Speaker 1: and sexual orientation will take effect January first, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It's called the Freedom to Read Act. The American Library
Speaker 1: Association said more than forty two hundred books were targeted
Speaker 1: to be removed from libraries last year. That's a ninety
Speaker 1: one percent increase over the year prior. A sixteen year
Speaker 1: old has been charged with four counts of murder in
Speaker 1: New Mexico. WILI say the boy killed his entire family,
Speaker 1: then called nine to one one in a drunken stupor
Speaker 1: and confessed. The UN Security Council has held a meeting
Speaker 1: in New York to review peace and security in Ukraine
Speaker 1: as Russia continues the war there. US Ambassador to the
Speaker 1: United Nations, Linda Thomas Greenfield says she blames the Russians
Speaker 1: for constant missile and drone attacks that have caused an
Speaker 1: energy crisis in Ukraine.
Speaker 13: Just days ago, Russia launched one of the largest area
Speaker 13: assaults yet, using drones and missiles to target Ukraine's energy
Speaker 13: grid and other critical infrastructure.
Speaker 1: Ukraine's military intelligence agency and the Pentagon say some North
Speaker 1: Korean troops have been killed in combat against Ukrainian forces
Speaker 1: in Russia's Kersk border region. The woman accused of sneaking
Speaker 1: onto a Delta flight from New York City to Paris
Speaker 1: last month has been arrested again. Guess what she tried
Speaker 1: to do? She was busted yet yesterday in Buffalo, New York,
Speaker 1: Bill says Vetlana Dolly cut off her ankle monitor and
Speaker 1: tried to cross the border into Canada. Dolli is a
Speaker 1: Russian national who holds a US Green card. A man
Speaker 1: who died one hundred years ago is set to become
Speaker 1: a saint because of a priest in.
Speaker 6: La weather One. Manuel Gutierrez is a priest in Baldwin Park,
Speaker 6: and he says a torn achilles he suffered seven years
Speaker 6: ago was healed not by surgery, but by prayer involving
Speaker 6: the beatified peer Giorgio Forsaudi.
Speaker 4: From that day on, I just never thought about my
Speaker 4: injury again. I stopped wearing braces. I just didn't feel
Speaker 4: I needed them.
Speaker 6: The Vatican investigated the priest's claims and say they're verified.
Speaker 6: Setting up for Saudi, an Italian journalist who helped the
Speaker 6: poor and died of Polio, for sainthood. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of words that don't you
Speaker 1: don't get to use in conversation all the time, and
Speaker 1: beatifies one of them.
Speaker 4: It's a cool word.
Speaker 1: And my other favorite word is the one that Stephen
Speaker 1: Portnoy just shared plenary power the president and has plenary power.
Speaker 1: Police have identified the shooter at a Christian school in Madison,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin as a fifteen year old girl. Madison's police chief
Speaker 1: says the girl was a student at Abundant Life Christian.
Speaker 1: She killed a teacher and a student and shot at
Speaker 1: least six others before killing herself Yesterday. He also revealed
Speaker 1: the nine to one to one call about the shooting
Speaker 1: was made by a second grader. A second lawsuit has
Speaker 1: been filed against the owners and operators of Chakda Canyon
Speaker 1: landfill in Castaic. Residents say noxious fumes and owners have
Speaker 1: made local residents sick. The lawsuit, filed by La County,
Speaker 1: claims the owners have failed to control emissions that have
Speaker 1: produced hazardous toxic gases into the community nearby for nearly
Speaker 1: two years. Governor Newsom is named a new chief of
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Speaker 1: Political consultant and former advisor T Kamala Harris Nathan Barenkin
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Speaker 1: Newsom's fourth chief of staff. At six o five its
Speaker 1: handle on the News coming to a store near you,
Speaker 1: ammunition vending machines. At five point fifty, the host of
Speaker 1: How the Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard, joins us, and
Speaker 1: he's going to tell us whether you should rush out
Speaker 1: to buy a car before Christmas, not because it's Christmas,
Speaker 1: but because of what might happen after Christmas. Oh and
Speaker 1: that morning cup of coffee that you're enjoying probably right now,
Speaker 1: like I am, it costs more now. Okay, We've got
Speaker 1: a very heartwarming story for you and a great gift
Speaker 1: idea for Christmas. Let's say good morning to Jack, Joe
Speaker 1: Keenan Jack. There is so much bad news today. We
Speaker 1: get to share a story of kindness and compassion. Kind
Speaker 1: of a Christmas miracle. So Jack, please tell us about
Speaker 1: the surprise you got one night that changed your life.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In December of twenty nineteen, my wife and I had
Speaker 2: a one month old We lived in Philadelphia and we
Speaker 2: had one dog, George. I took him out for a
Speaker 2: walk and it was raining, starting to snow of wintry
Speaker 2: mix as they call it here in the Northeast, and
Speaker 2: came in wet dog, umbrella, all that stuff, and my door,
Speaker 2: it turns out, didn't close all the way. It didn't latch,
Speaker 2: It had just wedged itself shut. But I heard the
Speaker 2: electric handle. I thought nothing of it because I thought
Speaker 2: the door was locked.
Speaker 4: Four I am.
Speaker 2: My wife was standing over me and said, the baby's okay,
Speaker 2: but there's a dog in our house.
Speaker 4: I said, yeah, George, he's right here. Said no, there was.
Speaker 2: Another dog in our house. And I went downstairs to
Speaker 2: find what I thought was a puppy because I hadn't
Speaker 2: wiped the sleep out of my eyes. But it turned
Speaker 2: out to be a senior dog who was underweight and
Speaker 2: into some bad shape medically.
Speaker 1: How did he get in your house?
Speaker 2: I was able to pull up security footage and see
Speaker 2: that the storm blew the door open in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night. And then at three fifteen in the morning,
Speaker 2: Susie came hobbling around the corner down the block from
Speaker 2: us and went up the steps and in the house
Speaker 2: and out of the house and in the house and
Speaker 2: out of the house and in the house. And a
Speaker 2: guy coming home from working a late shift at a
Speaker 2: bar saw our door open and went up and knocked
Speaker 2: and yelled and pulled the door shut, not even knowing
Speaker 2: that Susie was in there.
Speaker 1: I watched the video of her walking back and forth
Speaker 1: in front of your house, and then she like looking
Speaker 1: up like, oh, that could be a dry, safe place
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, it all just kind of worked out
Speaker 2: because when you think about it, in a major city,
Speaker 2: if your door's wide open in the middle of the night,
Speaker 2: things can go really bad, really fast.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so since we had great neighbors, since we
Speaker 2: were very fortunate that nothing bad happened in that moment.
Speaker 2: We first, you know, called animal control first thing in
Speaker 2: the morning. There's not much on the internet when you
Speaker 2: Google found a dog in my house?
Speaker 4: What do I do next?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And you know their response was, you can drop it
Speaker 2: off at eleven and we'll take care of it, and
Speaker 2: I did not like the way that sounded. We were
Speaker 2: fortunate we called an emergency VET and were able to
Speaker 2: get her in. She had fleas ticks in fact, and
Speaker 2: all four pause it was about half the weight she
Speaker 2: should be. Also had heart murmur and had some really
Speaker 2: bad teeth, so she gets the regular echo cardiograms and
Speaker 2: had to have nineteen teeth and roots removed. But with
Speaker 2: that we made some global news and we're very fortunate
Speaker 2: to get you know, people like yourself who covered our story,
Speaker 2: and we received a large number of donations for her
Speaker 2: medical bills, way more than we needed. And so after
Speaker 2: Susie happened, which is just kind of how I describe it,
Speaker 2: she happened, I got a message the next day from
Speaker 2: someone with a picture of a dog and said, this
Speaker 2: is Tito. I saw your story on the news, and
Speaker 2: I went and adopted Tito today if I post this.
Speaker 2: And then the next day I got Carson, and the
Speaker 2: day after that was Freckles. Then it was Cassie, then
Speaker 2: it was Harley Quinn, and it kept going. About six
Speaker 2: months in we knew Susie was going to be okay.
Speaker 2: We also were about ninety five adoptions, so I said
Speaker 2: at one hundred adoptions, have a big announcement, And at
Speaker 2: one hundred adoptions, I announced that I would give away
Speaker 2: at least ten thousand dollars to save one hundred animals.
Speaker 2: We just kept that going and we ended up saving
Speaker 2: a life a day for a year for twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: And that was our main focus was just get this
Speaker 2: dog healthy, help other dogs. Use the platform that we
Speaker 2: were fortunate to have to try to just show you know,
Speaker 2: there's good in the world, there's good stories. And then
Speaker 2: after a year, connected with some of the right people
Speaker 2: and got the opportunity to get a literary agent, and
Speaker 2: then wrote a manuscript and was fortunate enough that we have.
Speaker 4: A Stray Dog for Christmas.
Speaker 2: To a great Christmas gift for any child in your
Speaker 2: life or even adult if you just want a heartwarming story.
Speaker 2: And it tells the story of that night, but it
Speaker 2: also has real life pictures.
Speaker 4: There's a QR code to get.
Speaker 2: To Susie's social media so you can see this real
Speaker 2: life dog and the process.
Speaker 1: She has their own social media. Yeah, yes, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love that, okay, And it is and it's just
Speaker 1: an adorable book. So if you have kids, grandkids and
Speaker 1: Christmas is coming up. It's called a stray Dog for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and Jack, I'm just so impressed that your one kind
Speaker 1: act snowballed, you know, like too little girls.
Speaker 2: Now, my main motivation was to just show them that
Speaker 2: you can make a large impact from your small corner
Speaker 2: of the world as long as you work hard and
Speaker 2: you have good intentions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how's Susie doing.
Speaker 4: Susie's doing great.
Speaker 2: I mean we've been on kind of a mini book
Speaker 2: tour in Philadelphia and New York, so she's gotten to
Speaker 2: meet so many people. Everyone comes out with their dog
Speaker 2: to meet Susie, So she's just getting lots of pets,
Speaker 2: lots of sniffs and really just living like a princess
Speaker 2: life right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how's George handling that? Because George is your
Speaker 1: other dog.
Speaker 2: Yes, so George he gets some rest because his sister's
Speaker 2: out of the house sometimes. But George has been amazing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: The first day when we came back from the vet,
Speaker 2: she needed fleeing tick bath and then to dry out
Speaker 2: a little bit, and he was laying on the dog
Speaker 2: bet he had on the first floor of our house,
Speaker 2: and she came out of our finished basement where we
Speaker 2: had the bathroom that we cleaned her in, and he
Speaker 2: was laying on his bed and he just saw her
Speaker 2: and just got up and laid down on the floor
Speaker 2: next to the bed, as if he knew she needed it.
Speaker 2: So they've just created this great bond. You know, it's weird,
Speaker 2: he's a dog, but I'm incredibly proud of the way
Speaker 2: he handled this whole situation.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you just make me cry at five
Speaker 1: point fifty in the morning. And how old is Susie now?
Speaker 2: They estimate she's about fourteen years old, so she is
Speaker 2: a senior pup. We make sure she gets all the
Speaker 2: best medical care. She has her next echo cardiogram coming
Speaker 2: up on the twenty second, and then she goes in
Speaker 2: and sees the vet sometimes twice a year, just to
Speaker 2: make sure she's doing all right.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like, you know, she had a rough
Speaker 1: go of it. So that she gets to live out
Speaker 1: her golden years loved and with company and in her
Speaker 1: forever home. That's just lovely. And I love this story.
Speaker 1: I love this book and so appreciate what you what
Speaker 1: you did for Susie. Jack Joe Keenan, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time and for not only saving Susie
Speaker 1: but also sharing the story of Susie. That's great.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: And you know, if any big you know this is La,
Speaker 2: If any big Hollywood producers are listening, great animated.
Speaker 1: Film, absolutely nice. I love the plug and we have
Speaker 1: this contact information right all right, Thanks so much, Jack.
Speaker 1: Thank you called a stray Dog for Christmas. You can
Speaker 1: kind of get it anywhere. And if you are looking
Speaker 1: for a Christmas present for the kids, the grandkids. It's
Speaker 1: the sweetest story. It's so lovely. I love stories like that.
Speaker 4: I'm not crying. You are.
Speaker 1: Will see what happens when you come and hang out
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 3: In the studio.
Speaker 1: You cry. It's a beautiful thing. Santa Ana wins will
Speaker 1: be blowing through the Southland, raising the risk of wildfires,
Speaker 1: just a week after a wind whipped fire tour through Malibu,
Speaker 1: destroying twenty homes and other buildings. The winds are expected
Speaker 1: to peak tonight into tomorrow morning. A red flag warning
Speaker 1: for high fire danger will be in effect from three
Speaker 1: pm to six pm tomorrow three pm this afternoon through
Speaker 1: six pm tomorrow. Caltrans by the Way says only residents
Speaker 1: and local business traffic are going to be allowed to
Speaker 1: travel along to Pega Canyon Boulevard between Mulholland Drive and
Speaker 1: pch because of the fire danger. Three adults and two
Speaker 1: children have been hurt when a school bus and an
Speaker 1: SUV collided in Orange. Orange County Fire Authority says the
Speaker 1: crash happened just after a three yesterday afternoon on Santiago
Speaker 1: Canyon Road near Red Rock Canyon Road. The people heard
Speaker 1: are in serious but stable condition. DC Studios is giving
Speaker 1: fans their first peek at next year's Superman movie. Director
Speaker 1: James Gunn shared a motion poster on social media with
Speaker 1: David corn Sweat as the Man of Steel. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure did I say that name right. It also features
Speaker 1: a slowed down version of John William's iconic Superman theme
Speaker 1: from the nineteen seventy eight movie. A teaser trailer for
Speaker 1: Superman will be released on Thursday. We're just minutes away
Speaker 1: from handle on the news this morning. Things are not
Speaker 1: always as they seem. Remember that lol October seventh license
Speaker 1: plate the DMV has pulled. Apparently it wasn't anti semitic
Speaker 1: after all. Let's say good morning to the host of
Speaker 1: How to Money on KFI. It's Joel lars Guard Morning.
Speaker 4: Joel, Morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to talk about why you might want
Speaker 1: to run out and buy a car right.
Speaker 4: Now that you might be over selling what I'm going
Speaker 4: to say.
Speaker 1: Okay, but it's and you might be heading out for
Speaker 1: a car purchase not because of Christmas, but because of
Speaker 1: something else looming.
Speaker 9: Oh gosh, you are making me think of the car
Speaker 9: commercials that happen this time of year where there's like
Speaker 9: a new Lexus in your driveway with a giant.
Speaker 4: Bow on giant bow.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen anybody get a car with a
Speaker 1: giant bow?
Speaker 4: Nope, never seen it in real life. It's it's my.
Speaker 1: Pay I think.
Speaker 9: And if I came home in my driveway to a giant,
Speaker 9: expensive car with a bow on it, I would be like,
Speaker 9: we should have talked about this, honey, Like this is
Speaker 9: a really expensive purchase. But yeah, when it comes to
Speaker 9: car purchases right now, there's something that's on people's mind,
Speaker 9: and it's the threats of looming tariffs coming in with
Speaker 9: the incoming Trump administration, and so people are kind of
Speaker 9: individuals are trying to decide. I just saw an article
Speaker 9: on CNN yesterday that people are even stockpiling on groceries.
Speaker 9: They're assuming that everything's going to get more expensive because
Speaker 9: of these new threats of tariffs, and cars are one
Speaker 9: of those things where tariffs could hit hit the hardest,
Speaker 9: and so people are saying, oh, well, I was thinking
Speaker 9: maybe about buying a car next year, Maybe I should
Speaker 9: do it now instead of waiting. And that's a really
Speaker 9: good question. I think when you look at the numbers,
Speaker 9: the best we can tell is really hard to decipher
Speaker 9: because some of these tariffs like will they or won't they?
Speaker 9: Are they threats? Are they going to become reality? It's
Speaker 9: anybody's guess. And it looks like if the tariffs as
Speaker 9: promised come into being, the car prices will likely go
Speaker 9: up by roughly two and a half percent. That's like
Speaker 9: the best estimates we could I could find. And so
Speaker 9: should you go ahead and buy a new car now
Speaker 9: instead of buying it next year? Well, I think it
Speaker 9: depends on whether or not you were like legitimately going
Speaker 9: to buy a new car, or if you're just kind
Speaker 9: of like telling yourself, oh, now I'll buy a new
Speaker 9: car even though I wasn't planning on it already, because
Speaker 9: you think of it as a money saving thing, but
Speaker 9: really ultimately it's not. I think when it comes down
Speaker 9: to electric vehicles, that's the thing. If you were, like
Speaker 9: I was thinking about buying an EV in February, well
Speaker 9: you might want to kick that up to December.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 9: Often the best car deals are found in December, and
Speaker 9: two if the EV tax credits on the national level
Speaker 9: get repealed. I know there's talks about bringing them back
Speaker 9: in California, but if the EV credits on the national
Speaker 9: level get you know, are gone, that's a seventy five
Speaker 9: hundred dollars increase in the price of the car. That
Speaker 9: could be the biggest reason to front load your car purchase.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then you said that December one, there's there're
Speaker 1: ten to be deals. But don't they start clearing out
Speaker 1: the previous model, like the twenty twenty fours. Didn't they
Speaker 1: start getting replaced by the twenty twenty five models like
Speaker 1: in September?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So yeah, the new cars are new model cars are
Speaker 9: often out these days and they're being sold. So if
Speaker 9: you're opting for an older model and you're looking towards
Speaker 9: buying at the end of the year, I mean, that's
Speaker 9: typically when you're able to find the best prices. So
Speaker 9: it's true that end of the month, end of the year,
Speaker 9: those are legitimately the.
Speaker 4: Best times to buy.
Speaker 9: But you also have to have to be a savvy
Speaker 9: shopper and you have to know how to And there's
Speaker 9: a gosh, there's a great website I'm blanking on the
Speaker 9: name right now, but I'll look it up for you
Speaker 9: that can help you kind of offer some negotiation tactics
Speaker 9: and help you figure out how to find the best
Speaker 9: deal in a car. Just because you're going at the
Speaker 9: best time doesn't mean you're getting the best deal. You
Speaker 9: also have to know how to negotiate and know how
Speaker 9: to play your cards.
Speaker 1: Did you tell me about this or was it Maybe
Speaker 1: it was Rich Jamura? Who was Rich Jamiro told us
Speaker 1: about last week that Amazon's going to start selling cars.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's right. They're selling hun days on their site,
Speaker 9: which is crazy. The Amazon sells everything these days. And
Speaker 9: by the way, that website is called car edge dot com.
Speaker 9: They do a great job. They'll help you. You can
Speaker 9: pay them to help you find the best price, or
Speaker 9: you can just read their blog and watch their videos
Speaker 9: and learn essentially how to negotiate for a car.
Speaker 4: On your own to get the best price.
Speaker 9: But there are a lot of resources out there to
Speaker 9: help you find and get the best deal on a car.
Speaker 4: But and so much of it depends on how popular
Speaker 4: that vehicle is.
Speaker 9: There a certain vehicles that are more popular than others,
Speaker 9: and so you're going to be hard pressed to find
Speaker 9: a deal on a model that's super hot, like the
Speaker 9: Kia tel You Ride or the Toyota Rav four. Those
Speaker 9: are like incredibly popular, and so you might you're not
Speaker 9: going to get much of a discount on those, But
Speaker 9: on other models that maybe they have more stock on hand,
Speaker 9: you're going to be able to kind of push the
Speaker 9: price down on those.
Speaker 1: Okay cool. We have been talking and you and I
Speaker 1: have discussed how more people are using their credit cards.
Speaker 1: And while using your credit cards is great if you
Speaker 1: pay it off every month, but there's some new information
Speaker 1: that retirees are using their credit cards and they're not
Speaker 1: paying them off.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And so when it comes to credit cards, I'm
Speaker 9: not a hater like some people in the personal finance
Speaker 9: community are. I think they're a tool and you can,
Speaker 9: just like a chainsaw, you can use it to chop
Speaker 9: down a tree or cut your you know, hurt your leg.
Speaker 9: And so you got to be really careful with how
Speaker 9: you use that tool. And so if you use it wisely,
Speaker 9: like it can be, you know, you can get amazing
Speaker 9: free trips, cash back, it's it can be great, but
Speaker 9: as long as you're using it properly. And there's some
Speaker 9: new data out of specifically about how retirees are getting
Speaker 9: into credit card debt and they're staying in credit card
Speaker 9: debt well into retirement, and to me, that is pretty frightening.
Speaker 9: I don't mind certain kinds of debt. Like let's say
Speaker 9: a retiree is holding onto their mortgage because the mortgage
Speaker 9: rates three percent. That's great, Like, especially given what's happening
Speaker 9: with inflation savings rates. Being able to leave some of
Speaker 9: your money invested instead of taking it out to pay
Speaker 9: down the mortgage, that's okay. That's the kind of debt
Speaker 9: I'm not mad about. But six in ten retirees have
Speaker 9: some form of debt, and the majority of those people
Speaker 9: who have have credit card debt, and credit card debt, well,
Speaker 9: the rates, the interest rates on that credit card debt
Speaker 9: hasn't really come down, even as the FED has been
Speaker 9: cutting interest rates, and credit card debt's bad no matter what,
Speaker 9: basically all the time.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's a massive problem.
Speaker 9: And whether you choose the debt snowball method the debt
Speaker 9: avalanche method, retirees in particular getting rid of the credit
Speaker 9: card debt needs to be a top priority.
Speaker 1: Okay, So and Joel, are you finding that they have
Speaker 1: the debt because they don't have the money to pay
Speaker 1: it off, or they're just used to having the debt,
Speaker 1: Like my dad used to say, and this was years ago,
Speaker 1: and go, why do you want to pay off that
Speaker 1: credit card? And I'm like Dad, So it's just a mindset.
Speaker 9: It's a little bit of both. Like I was talking
Speaker 9: to a retiree the other day and yeah, they had
Speaker 9: lingering credit card debt, but they had the money to
Speaker 9: pay it off. And so I think you just kind
Speaker 9: of get used to it, or you think it's no
Speaker 9: big deal and you're like, it's just like three thousand
Speaker 9: bucks in recurring credit card debt. But that adds up,
Speaker 9: especially when we're talking about a twenty two percent interest rate.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Think part of it for some time for some retirees,
Speaker 9: it is just being comfortable with credit card debt. For
Speaker 9: other retirees, it is having to trying to figure out
Speaker 9: where else you can save money so you can throw
Speaker 9: more towards that credit card debt and actually have a
Speaker 9: payoff plan. But it is maybe a lack of financial resources.
Speaker 9: There are ways, I think to reduce some of the
Speaker 9: costs in your life. It's something we talk about on
Speaker 9: the show all the time. In order to find more
Speaker 9: money to throw at the debt. And if worse comes
Speaker 9: to worse and there's no way for you to get
Speaker 9: out of this, going to see somebody at a non
Speaker 9: forfit credit counseling center like Money Management International, I think
Speaker 9: is a great way to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, now, time to talk about coffee.
Speaker 4: Okay, one of my favorite topics.
Speaker 1: I know I'm enjoying a cup right now, but you're
Speaker 1: saying it's getting more expensive.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So, like there was apparently just some terrible weather
Speaker 9: conditions in some of the places where coffee is grown
Speaker 9: the most, and so Brazil being one of those places,
Speaker 9: and so the prices for the nicest coffee beans, which
Speaker 9: is what most of us are these days, have just skyrocketed.
Speaker 9: And I've noticed it when I go out to get
Speaker 9: a coffee at a coffee shop. But you also notice
Speaker 9: it in the price of beans, even if you're just
Speaker 9: picking up a bag at costco. The bag that was
Speaker 9: ten or eleven dollars for two pounds of coffees now
Speaker 9: like fifteen or sixteen dollars, And that price is likely
Speaker 9: to continue to go up because of what's happened with
Speaker 9: the coffee coffee bean producers. And so I think this
Speaker 9: is just a call to people. I'm not one of
Speaker 9: those anti coffee out people, don't do it every day,
Speaker 9: but because it does really add up. But also it
Speaker 9: can be a nice experience. But you know, the more
Speaker 9: you make your coffee at home, the truth is, the
Speaker 9: more you're going to save, especially as the price of
Speaker 9: coffee beans are going up.
Speaker 1: What if I already make my coffee at home, now,
Speaker 1: how am I going to save?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're not going to say if you just get
Speaker 9: keep doing the right thing, and you're just gonna pay
Speaker 9: a little more to do the right thing, all right, All.
Speaker 4: Right, right, that's not great news.
Speaker 1: No it's not. But you know what coffee's worth it,
Speaker 1: I'll take it.
Speaker 4: Don't blame the messenger, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: So we don't get to talk to you next week
Speaker 1: because it's Christmas Eve a week from today, right, that's right,
Speaker 1: so I will issue a Merry Christmas right now then?
Speaker 4: All right, well, thank you Amy, same to you.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Joel. We'll talk to you next year.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, I lovely Do we get to say that
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