Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1: It is five o'clock straight up. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Tuesday, March eighteenth. I'm Amy King. We're
Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for getting your
Speaker 1: day started with us. Got my coffee. I'm switching things up.
Speaker 1: I'm having cream of wheat. I added too much water,
Speaker 1: so it's now mush of wheat. Yay, what is that?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: It's a rock I'm going to tell you about my
Speaker 1: special rock in just a minute.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five baseball season is underway. Boys in
Speaker 1: Blue playing right now at the Tokyo Dome. Very exciting.
Speaker 1: We have the game on. I don't usually get to
Speaker 1: watch the games because I don't get I don't have spectrum,
Speaker 1: so I can't watch Dodger games at home. I can
Speaker 1: listen to them anytime though. On AM five seventy. Here's
Speaker 1: what's ahead on wake Up Call. La Mayor Bath says
Speaker 1: there's been a big drop in violent crime and homicides
Speaker 1: in the city. Police Chief McDonald's says in the Hollandback
Speaker 1: Division alone, there were twenty five fewer homicides in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four than in twenty twenty three. Overall, fourteen percent
Speaker 1: dropping homicides around the city. Gaza's Ministry of Health is
Speaker 1: more than four hundred people have been killed in air
Speaker 1: strikes by Israel. Israel launched news strikes against Hamas and
Speaker 1: promised increasing military force after talks on more hostage releases stalled.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, the Boys in Blue are back. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers begin their twenty twenty five season against the Chicago
Speaker 1: Cubs at the Tokyo Game. The Dodger are up three
Speaker 1: to one. The game's almost over. You can listen to
Speaker 1: every Dodgers game all season long. Honor Sister Station AM
Speaker 1: five seventy k LAC. Joe Larsgard is gonna share how
Speaker 1: your kids don't have to have a lot of money
Speaker 1: to go to Harvard ooh, and also how looking to
Speaker 1: the future is actually good for your financial future. That's
Speaker 1: coming up at five point fifty. They're coming home. Our
Speaker 1: friend Colonel mcchague and a Russian cosmonaut are headed home
Speaker 1: along with stranded astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore. Will
Speaker 1: be watching that they have undocked from the International Space
Speaker 1: Station and if all goes according to plan, they'll be
Speaker 1: touching down tonight. We're gonna check in with ABC's Jim
Speaker 1: Ryan get the latest on that. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. A man has been arrested in Victorville
Speaker 1: for allegedly leading sheriff's deputies on a chase during which
Speaker 1: one deputy was killed. Deputy Hector Kuavos Junior died yesterday
Speaker 1: when his patrol vehicle slammed into another car and basically
Speaker 1: was torn in half. Sheriff Shannondikas hiss Gwaves had been
Speaker 1: a deputy for six years.
Speaker 4: Hector is the type of law enforcement officer that we
Speaker 4: all want to be. He was a grand and great
Speaker 4: protector and a great.
Speaker 1: Father, Bekas says. The man driving the stolen car is
Speaker 1: going to be charged with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and
Speaker 1: also evading a police officer which caused death. A metal
Speaker 1: recycling business next to a high school in Watts has
Speaker 1: been ordered to shut down.
Speaker 6: On Monday, a judge ordered S and W Atlas Iron
Speaker 6: and Metal Company to stop receiving and processing new metals.
Speaker 6: The business is accused of polluting the adjacent Jordan High
Speaker 6: School and the surrounding neighborhood. The Los Angeles Unified School
Speaker 6: Districts says students have been exposed to sharp metal projectiles,
Speaker 6: debris and metallic dust, and other objects launched from or
Speaker 6: omitting from the property.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the high school was also affected
Speaker 1: by an explosion at the facility last summer. The owners
Speaker 1: of the recycling business are facing felony charges. Crime stats
Speaker 1: in LA are trending in a better direction.
Speaker 7: The stats presented by the mayor and LAPD show a
Speaker 7: decrease in violent crimes just about across the board. LAPD
Speaker 7: Chief Jim McDonald says the city saw two hundred and
Speaker 7: fifty five fewer murders in twenty twenty four compared to
Speaker 7: the year before. That's a fourteen percent decrease and as
Speaker 7: partly thanks to targeted enforcement and community led intervention programs.
Speaker 7: Robberies stayed about the same, but everything else, including burglaries, rape,
Speaker 7: and car theft saw decline. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Sony is suing USC over videos on Instagram and TikTok
Speaker 1: that promote the school's sports teams. Kfi's Tammy Trujillo says
Speaker 1: Sony claims more than one hundred and seventy songs in
Speaker 1: the videos were used without permission, thus violating Sony's copyright
Speaker 1: on those songs. The laws it was filed in New
Speaker 1: York Federal cord and says USC never licensed the songs
Speaker 1: by Michael Jackson, Britney spe and ac DC. USC says
Speaker 1: it respects the intellectual property rights of others and will
Speaker 1: respond in court. While we're waiting for Stephen, we're having
Speaker 1: a connection issue. Will ask me about this rock. And
Speaker 1: I got to tell you yesterday I got a package
Speaker 1: sitting on my desk and it weighs. It weighs like
Speaker 1: twenty pounds. It's a very special rock. It's a kindness rock.
Speaker 1: And now I have to put you on hold with
Speaker 1: that thought because now we do have Steven Portnoy. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about my rock. It's actually
Speaker 1: very cool. ABC. Stephen Portnoy, Good morning. Trump lawyers went
Speaker 1: before a judge who ordered the administration to stop deporting
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. What's the latest on this.
Speaker 8: The latest is the judge has questions that were not
Speaker 8: answered yesterday by the Trump administration's attorney. And the Trump
Speaker 8: administration lawyer said, well, because of operational issues and national
Speaker 8: security concerns and diplomatic concerns, your honor, I'm not able
Speaker 8: to answer your questions. And the judge said, wow, is
Speaker 8: it classified? And the attorney said, well, because we deal
Speaker 8: with classified material all the time in this courthouse. So
Speaker 8: let's go down to the skiff, or you can bring
Speaker 8: it to my office. But I have these questions, the
Speaker 8: judge said, And the Justice Department's lawyer said, well, hamaa haamana.
Speaker 8: And so the judge has demanded something in writing from
Speaker 8: the Justice Department by noon Eastern time today. This has
Speaker 8: to do, of course, with the president's invocation of the
Speaker 8: Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight, which says, at
Speaker 8: a time of war or invasion by a foreign country,
Speaker 8: the United States can deport nationals of that country without
Speaker 8: due process, swiftly deport them. This dates back to seventeen
Speaker 8: ninety eight. It's only been invoked three times. War of
Speaker 8: eighteen twelve world War one, world War two, not since
Speaker 8: until now. President Trump argues that the Venezuelan gang trend
Speaker 8: de Arragua poses a national security threat to the United States,
Speaker 8: that its members are the worst of the worst, bad
Speaker 8: own break, as he called them the other day, described
Speaker 8: as rapists and other criminals. Now, the reason this is
Speaker 8: in court is because the ACLU and migrant writes advocates
Speaker 8: say that some people have been swept up in this,
Speaker 8: that some people who may have gang tattoos are not
Speaker 8: actually members of the gang, and they should have the
Speaker 8: right to demonstrate that in court. And the judge who
Speaker 8: was presented with this last weekend said, you know what,
Speaker 8: you might have a point. Let's bring those planes back
Speaker 8: and let's dig into this deeper. He didn't make a
Speaker 8: final ruling, but he did say that this should be
Speaker 8: put on ice, to use a phrase, And the White
Speaker 8: House basically said, well, all right, you know, sorry, your honor,
Speaker 8: the planes have already left us airspace and they landed,
Speaker 8: and in the words of the President of El Salvador,
Speaker 8: oopsie too late. And the judge is not happy, and
Speaker 8: he wants to know why his verbal directive was not regarded,
Speaker 8: not followed, and the Justice Department's attorney said, well, again,
Speaker 8: your honor, there are diplomatic concerns. Is a fast moving case,
Speaker 8: and you know, the executive and all this, and it
Speaker 8: really gets the question of whether this administration believes that
Speaker 8: the court's have anything to say about all this, and
Speaker 8: there seems to be a disconnect on that point.
Speaker 1: Okay, And we understand, Stephen. Things got a little heated
Speaker 1: yesterday too, I mean understandably if they're not answering the
Speaker 1: questions that the judge is posing.
Speaker 8: I would describe it as tense, okay, where the judge,
Speaker 8: you know, really tried to get the Justice Department's lawyer
Speaker 8: to explain the actual rationale, the legal rationale for why
Speaker 8: the administration's taking the position that it is pointing out
Speaker 8: that you know, there is and I don't want to
Speaker 8: get too deep into this, but this idea that you know,
Speaker 8: doesn't matter whether the planes have already crossed US airspace.
Speaker 8: The judge doesn't seem to think. So he says he
Speaker 8: has equitable powers that don't stop at the water's edge,
Speaker 8: and that the attorney should know that. And the lawyer said, well, yes,
Speaker 8: but and so there's a lot of that. Let's see
Speaker 8: how it plays out today.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the deadline is noon Eastern for the judge.
Speaker 1: Just a lawyer Justice Department lawyers to answer the judge.
Speaker 1: We'll see if they.
Speaker 8: Do that's right, and then we'll see what the next
Speaker 8: steps are. But the administration is appealing this beyond that.
Speaker 8: So this is a lengthy process that'll probably play out
Speaker 8: over the next several months, but certainly a tense hearing yesterday,
Speaker 8: and the judge is not happy.
Speaker 1: Okay, ABC. Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: As always be time to tell you about the rock.
Speaker 1: So I get a package in the mail. It's sitting
Speaker 1: on my desk yesterday and I'm like, oh, it's always
Speaker 1: fun to get a package, right, as long as it's
Speaker 1: not ticking right. Well, the thing weighs like five pounds.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this and who is it from?
Speaker 1: So I open it up cautiously and it's this rock
Speaker 1: and it has a picture of Winnie the Pooh and
Speaker 1: Tigger on it that has been painted on it. And
Speaker 1: it's from Robert known as mister Amazing. It's even signed
Speaker 1: by mister Amazing. He said. He I enclosed a painted
Speaker 1: rock of Tigger and Pooh. It's titled today My new
Speaker 1: Favorite Day. And Robert is an early riser listens to
Speaker 1: Wake Up Call, which we always appreciate. He says, it's
Speaker 1: his time of the morning for a little peace and quiet,
Speaker 1: to listen to KFI, have a little caffeine, and occasionally
Speaker 1: occasionally do some painting. This is so cute. And Robert
Speaker 1: is forty years in public service. He spent he had
Speaker 1: four years in the Air Force, five plus years at
Speaker 1: the Post Office, and thirty one years in the Department
Speaker 1: of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He's retired now and this is
Speaker 1: what he does just to kind of chill and relax cool.
Speaker 1: I love it and it's absolutely adorable, So mister amazing,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, he said. The only thing he
Speaker 1: asks is that you kind of pay it forward, is
Speaker 1: to pass on an act of kindness onto someone you
Speaker 1: appreciate in your day. He says, he's spreading kindness one
Speaker 1: rock at a time. I love it and it is
Speaker 1: going to be on my desk every single day, So
Speaker 1: thank you. Robert.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We're going to switch things up a little bit because
Speaker 1: live from Tokyo. We have a klac AM five seventies
Speaker 1: David Ves. Good morning, David.
Speaker 9: Well, good evening, Amy, Because it is the night over here.
Speaker 9: We are a day ahead, as you know, and it's
Speaker 9: the bottom of the eighth inning and the Dodgers are
Speaker 9: beating the Cubs right now, three to one on opening
Speaker 9: nights for Major League Baseball, and shoh Otani collected his
Speaker 9: first hit of the season, thrilling this crowd fifty five
Speaker 9: thousand plus sell out here at the Tokyo Dome.
Speaker 1: So tell us what's the vibe, David, What does it
Speaker 1: feel like? Because we know what it feels like in
Speaker 1: baseball in America. But is it the same here or
Speaker 1: is it different?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Completely different, Amy, It's surreal. They're Japanese baseball san fifty
Speaker 9: five thousand plus packed in here are the most polite
Speaker 9: crowd you will ever find. It was, you know, they
Speaker 9: just sit in silence until something happens. It's a big
Speaker 9: contrast from what we're used to. Just hit it right now,
Speaker 9: for the Cubs got hit by a pitch by a
Speaker 9: fastball from Blake Tryin and with one out in the
Speaker 9: bottom of the eighth inning, that's the reaction you heard,
Speaker 9: but yeah, usually as you could hear, there's fifty five
Speaker 9: thousand people in a dome and they are completely silent.
Speaker 9: So it's not what I expect you.
Speaker 1: It's got to be a nice change because the fans.
Speaker 1: I always like to say that we're nice and respectful,
Speaker 1: but in reality, a lot of times we're not.
Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure, I mean you're not going to see
Speaker 9: any fights inside the Tokyo Dome. I can guarantee that
Speaker 9: by the Japanese fans here. But there are so many
Speaker 9: people from La Amy that have found a way to
Speaker 9: get a thicket here. They started to flood the street
Speaker 9: with Tokyo. I noticed the last forty hours. So there's
Speaker 9: a lot of Dodger fans here. And they're not only
Speaker 9: Dodgers fans from la but the Dodgers' goal when they
Speaker 9: signed Otani and also Yoshiyamamoto who started tonight to paint
Speaker 9: Tokyo blue. That's their words, and they have succeeded. The
Speaker 9: Dodgers are a international brand and Tokyo is the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Dodgers are Tokyo's team.
Speaker 1: I love it just gives me a little chills And
Speaker 1: tell us, David Messe, what how do the players feel
Speaker 1: about the reception that they're getting in Tokyo.
Speaker 9: No, they're loving it. They you know, they get recognized
Speaker 9: more on the streets of Tokyo than they do sometimes
Speaker 9: in La I've noticed. So they're loving the reception they're getting.
Speaker 9: They they have felt the passion of the fans, and
Speaker 9: obviously they've witnessed for themselves just how popular Sho hey
Speaker 9: Otani is in his native country.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, gosh I bet so. So what's your favorite
Speaker 1: thing about Japan so far?
Speaker 9: The people. I love the people. They make this country.
Speaker 9: You could talk about the food, you could talk about
Speaker 9: the planliness, but it's the respect for their country and
Speaker 9: for their fellow man that really has impressed me here.
Speaker 1: I love that. Davids, I know you're super busy. You
Speaker 1: got to get down onto the field and go talk
Speaker 1: to players because the game is almost over. Hopefully we're
Speaker 1: going to have a w for the Dodgers. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for calling us from the Tokyo Dome. Appreciate it,
Speaker 1: my pleasure.
Speaker 10: Amy, Okay, go.
Speaker 1: Dodgers, Okay, we have just that was so fun. We
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to David Vesa. We didn't know if
Speaker 1: it was going to happen because you know, he's in
Speaker 1: Japan and the Dodgers are playing and he's got a
Speaker 1: job to do. But we appreciate that we also have
Speaker 1: ABC S Jordana Miller in Jerusalem who has a job
Speaker 1: to do, and that is to tell us what is
Speaker 1: going on. We thought a ceasefire was in place, thought
Speaker 1: it was holding, and then yesterday that all changed.
Speaker 11: That's right, can the seasfire is now finished, it's shattered.
Speaker 11: The Israeli Prime Minister decided overnight to launch a surprise
Speaker 11: aerial strike on Gaza, very intense strikes from the north
Speaker 11: to the center to southern Gaza, hitting Hamas leaders, hitting
Speaker 11: a weapon depots, hitting alleged training centers, and really trying
Speaker 11: to set Hamas back.
Speaker 10: Because the Israelis had.
Speaker 11: Said that Hamas was trying to regroup and possibly try
Speaker 11: to relaunch strikes or an attack on Israel. The Prime
Speaker 11: Minister and a statement said that Hamas was refusing to
Speaker 11: release hostages, that Hamas had rejected US offers to extend
Speaker 11: the ceasefire, and that was the reason that the Israeli
Speaker 11: Army has gone back to a very intense military operation.
Speaker 11: Right now, it's only an aerial operation just a short
Speaker 11: while ago we got noticed that there's another wave of
Speaker 11: strikes now underway in Gaza. More than four hundred people
Speaker 11: have been killed. And the question is whether Hamas will
Speaker 11: actually come back to the negotiating table and this pressure tactic,
Speaker 11: military pressure will work or not.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Jordana, you said it was a surprise attack
Speaker 1: and they hit areas. Were they able to find areas
Speaker 1: during the ground assault that they said here this is
Speaker 1: that and now when if we do go back in,
Speaker 1: we know where to target.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 11: I think part of the reason that this was actually
Speaker 11: such a well kept secret was because if Hamas knew
Speaker 11: that the Israelis were going to strike certain spots in
Speaker 11: the Gaza Strip, they might move the hostages. Right, there's
Speaker 11: still fifty eight hostages, twenty four considered alive or hoped
Speaker 11: estimated to be alive. So Israel more or less knows
Speaker 11: where they're being held, given the testimony of hostages who
Speaker 11: came out of the Goza Strip during this the ceasefire,
Speaker 11: so you know, Israel hit certain areas that it felt
Speaker 11: were you know, unconnected to the hostages. But of course
Speaker 11: the families here are gutted and angry and fear that
Speaker 11: these operations will endanger the lives of their loved ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it's such a horrible, it's horrible and
Speaker 1: in every way, but something has to give and maybe
Speaker 1: this is what Israel hopes. We'll make hamas you know,
Speaker 1: cave on this. So we will watch it and appreciate
Speaker 1: your information. Jardana Miller, thanks for hanging on for us,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 11: Thanks so much, Amy uk soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan, homecoming nine
Speaker 1: months in the making. Jim Ryan, how is it going
Speaker 1: the return trip?
Speaker 5: It's going the right on schedule, right to plan. Butch
Speaker 5: Wilmore and Sonny Williams are aboard that SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
Speaker 5: at this moment. They undocked early early this morning, several
Speaker 5: hours ago, six hours ago now and began the trip
Speaker 5: back to the back to Earth. You know what they're
Speaker 5: doing at this very moment, Amy, what you think that
Speaker 5: the running experiments. They're looking out the window, they're checking
Speaker 5: things out, maybe taking pictures. Now they're sleeping, sleeping, they're asleep,
Speaker 5: that's right.
Speaker 1: They want to get one last one, last nap in space,
Speaker 1: which I hear sleeping in space is like the best
Speaker 1: thing ever.
Speaker 5: I can imagine. Just yeah, But so that's what's going
Speaker 5: on right now. But they'll wake up here before too long.
Speaker 5: There was a rocket firing here just after they undocked
Speaker 5: from the space station. There'll be another one in a
Speaker 5: few hours to get them down into a lower orbit,
Speaker 5: and then they'll hit the opera atmosphere doing many, many
Speaker 5: times the speed of sound. They'll be slowed and then
Speaker 5: dropped down on parachutes into the Gulf they just off
Speaker 5: of Florida, and they'll be picked up there in the
Speaker 5: oceanics afternoon.
Speaker 1: What do we know what time they're supposed touch down
Speaker 1: splash down?
Speaker 5: Fifty seven Eastern time? Five to fifty seven Eastern time, Yes, okay,
Speaker 5: so there be four three, Yeah, so'd be watching for
Speaker 5: that to fifty seven this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. So when they get home, obviously they get picked
Speaker 1: up and then they immediately go where.
Speaker 5: Well they go into they're brought back to Houston to
Speaker 5: the Johnson Space Center and they'll be in quarantine for
Speaker 5: for a while. These two are not kids. Williams and
Speaker 5: Whitmore are right around sixty years old, each of them,
Speaker 5: and so so you know, they've been doing two hours
Speaker 5: of exercise every day aboard the ISS. That's what all
Speaker 5: the astronauts, cosmonauts and other folks working on the ISS do.
Speaker 5: They spend a couple of hours that they trying to
Speaker 5: keep themselves in some kind of shape. But they'll go
Speaker 5: through weeks, maybe months of rehab and physical therapy is
Speaker 5: to get used to gravity again. I mean, they've been
Speaker 5: in weightlessness for nine months, and so I mean, if
Speaker 5: you've ever seen, if you've seen pictures of these two
Speaker 5: they're aboard the ISS, Sunny Williams's hair is all over
Speaker 5: the place, this huge mane of hair because it's weightless
Speaker 5: and it's just kind of floating around there. Imagine that
Speaker 5: their bodies are going through the same thing. My understanding,
Speaker 5: and I just read this recently, is that their vision
Speaker 5: could be a problem. That's part of what NASA is
Speaker 5: studying with all of this is the long term effects
Speaker 5: of being in space on your vision because your eye,
Speaker 5: your eyeball is under pressure from the inside, right, and
Speaker 5: so in weightlessness and without that pressure, it's kind of
Speaker 5: pushing against nothing and that changes the shape of your eye.
Speaker 5: Is it permanent. Certainly, Williamson and Whitmore are hoping it isn't,
Speaker 5: but you know, we'll see what happens well.
Speaker 1: And it would be tough if if all of a
Speaker 1: sudden your vision started to go bad while you were
Speaker 1: up there. It's not like you can just go to
Speaker 1: an eye doctor.
Speaker 5: No, no, and you just hope that it's a it's
Speaker 5: a small enough variation that maybe the readers that you
Speaker 5: brought with you will work okay. But so that's one
Speaker 5: thing that's that's going to be studied with this. So
Speaker 5: beyond besides doing experiments up there that companies and NASA
Speaker 5: and others are, universities have them doing their their own
Speaker 5: bodies are a laboratory as well. Right they're being monitored,
Speaker 5: they're breathing their food, everything is being monitored. All of
Speaker 5: that research being put to use for future missions people
Speaker 5: going to the Moon or going to Mars or going beyond.
Speaker 5: They'll take what they learned from from Butch Wilmore and
Speaker 5: Sunny Williams.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see too, because I know you
Speaker 1: said they go into corequarantine. And hopefully we'll get to
Speaker 1: ask Colonel Haig about this when we talk to him
Speaker 1: again at Colonel Haigue is of course coming back bringing
Speaker 1: them back to Earth. They're in quarantine. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's because they haven't been exposed to anything for a
Speaker 1: long period of time. And you know how if you're
Speaker 1: not exposed to germs, you become more susceptible to germs.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that plays into it or not,
Speaker 1: but I wonder if it does.
Speaker 5: I think you're absolutely right. I mean, it used to
Speaker 5: be people were concerned about what would the astronauts be.
Speaker 5: What are they bringing back from space? Or they bringing
Speaker 5: back the Andromeda strain and it's going to kill us all,
Speaker 5: so we need to put them in quantine. I think
Speaker 5: it's the other way around. You're right there. They haven't
Speaker 5: been exposed to the common cold since they've been up there,
Speaker 5: and so they'll be acclimated not only to the pull
Speaker 5: of gravity but also to the dirty air around them.
Speaker 1: Well, either way, it's an exciting day as the crew
Speaker 1: nine rocket or space craft comes home with Butch and
Speaker 1: Sonny who've been up there for nine months instead of one.
Speaker 5: Week, along with Nick Agg and the Russian cosmonaut who
Speaker 5: are with him too. Coming back.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much.
Speaker 12: Thanks you all.
Speaker 1: Right, time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 10: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Hey. We were just we got to talk to our
Speaker 1: very own David Veasey, who's at the Tokyo Dome watching
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers play their first game of the season.
Speaker 1: And one of the people who's not in the lineup
Speaker 1: today is Mookie Betts. But he's he's not feeling well,
Speaker 1: but he's betting on things besides baseball.
Speaker 10: Apparently, yes, so he's actually an accomplished bowler. He's even
Speaker 10: bowled a perfect game during a professional tournament for three
Speaker 10: hundred So now Betts is betting on the board. He's
Speaker 10: become the co owner of a franchise in the startup
Speaker 10: World Bowling League. He says he wants to show people
Speaker 10: that bowling has the excitement and the commercial peel to
Speaker 10: compete with the best sports leagues. By the way, some
Speaker 10: bull in high school, I loved boweling. Financial terms were
Speaker 10: not disclosed, but I understand the appeal and the love
Speaker 10: of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he's not actually betting on bowling, he's investing
Speaker 1: in bowling.
Speaker 10: He is definitely investing in it, and he's the first
Speaker 10: one in this league that's starting up, the first named
Speaker 10: investor in the startup league, this World Bowling League. So
Speaker 10: it's exciting to see it take off, and especially with
Speaker 10: somebody behind it who has deep pockets like him and
Speaker 10: also a name too that people want to follow. So
Speaker 10: it should be interesting to see what's going to come
Speaker 10: down for the World Bowling Week.
Speaker 1: Okay, Courney. My very first car was, well, it wasn't
Speaker 1: my car, it was my parents car, and it was old,
Speaker 1: and it was a nineteen sixty three Dodge Polara and
Speaker 1: it had push button gears. And wow, one car maker
Speaker 1: apparently is bringing back buttons. What's up with that?
Speaker 10: Yes, because you know I have to. I tell you,
Speaker 10: every time I'm in the car and I have touchscreens
Speaker 10: all in my car, I always end up flipping on
Speaker 10: the windshield wipers instead of turning up the radio and
Speaker 10: trying to keep my eyes on the road. And I
Speaker 10: know so many people feel the same sort of way.
Speaker 10: With the car dashboard becoming increasingly digital, designers swapping out
Speaker 10: more and more buttons and dials and switches for something
Speaker 10: that looks a little more futuristic. With these touch screens.
Speaker 10: So now Volkswagen says car makers have gone way too far.
Speaker 10: They said, we're bringing back buttons. The company is telling
Speaker 10: British magazine Autocar that all future Volkswagen models will feature
Speaker 10: physical controls for the most important function. So again you're
Speaker 10: not flipping on the windshield wipers when you turn in
Speaker 10: on the radio. But they say Volkswagen's design chief so simply,
Speaker 10: it's not a phone, it's a car. And I understand
Speaker 10: that that is.
Speaker 1: Appealing to me. So maybe not so much to like
Speaker 1: gen Z, but to me, that's appealing. Also when I
Speaker 1: it's Harge, let's check in on the markets. What's up today?
Speaker 1: They're opening lower, but we have the FED meeting too,
Speaker 1: so that could change.
Speaker 10: Yes, we've got a lot going on today. First of all,
Speaker 10: the Setter Reserve facing a tricky task of both assuring
Speaker 10: investors that the economy remains on a solid flitting with
Speaker 10: everything going on, but also conveying the message that they
Speaker 10: stand ready to step in when necessary. The Central Bank
Speaker 10: they're widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged when the
Speaker 10: two day meeting wraps up tomorrow, so we're going to
Speaker 10: be watching for that. So stocks are heading for a
Speaker 10: lower open down futures down eighty points. Now, I we
Speaker 10: do want to point out breaking news that we have
Speaker 10: Google parent Alpha that just announced its biggest acquisition yet.
Speaker 10: The tech giant has buying cloud security company Wiz for
Speaker 10: thirty two billion dollars. So they're hoping that the deal
Speaker 10: will help Google catch up with Microsoft and Amazon in
Speaker 10: the cloud computing market, which is quite competitive.
Speaker 1: Okay, that could be good for their stocks. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Court, Donaho getting in your business as we do
Speaker 1: every day on wake Up Call. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: your time and information.
Speaker 10: Of course, see tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right, you got it.
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Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of How
Speaker 1: to Money on KFI. It's our very own Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 12: Good morning, Joel, morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so price, if everything's going up, including your T
Speaker 1: Mobile subscription.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's true. So T Mobile cell phone plans have
Speaker 12: they just announced that they're going to increase rates in
Speaker 12: April early April. So if you're a T Mobile, if
Speaker 12: you get your cell phone service through T Mobile, yours
Speaker 12: are paying more. If you don't make a change. And
Speaker 12: it's just really interesting that this is the case because
Speaker 12: I think some people will say, oh, well, inflation or
Speaker 12: maybe T Mobiles being impacted by the tariffs in some
Speaker 12: way former fashion, and so that's why my price is rising,
Speaker 12: and so you might just kind of sit on your
Speaker 12: hands and take it. But the truth is, I mean,
Speaker 12: if you've watched a sporting event lately, T Mobile advertises
Speaker 12: a lot and that marketing, those marketing costs are certainly
Speaker 12: you're paying at least for some of that too. And
Speaker 12: the thing is cell phone service has been on a
Speaker 12: deflationary trend. Cell phone service has gone down in price
Speaker 12: in recent years, and there's a whole lot of competition
Speaker 12: in the space. So if you stay with the major
Speaker 12: cell phone providers, they're going to keep raising your rates.
Speaker 12: You're going to keep paying more. And I want people
Speaker 12: to go to what are known as MB and o's
Speaker 12: Mobile Virtual Network Operators, and those companies they run on
Speaker 12: the backbone of T mobiles network of AT and t's
Speaker 12: network of Verizons network, and yet you pay a fraction
Speaker 12: of the price that you would pay with a company
Speaker 12: like T Mobile.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's like Mint Mobile, that's one of.
Speaker 12: Them, right, mint Mobile is one of them. I think
Speaker 12: Mintmobile is one of the best ones out there. And
Speaker 12: my favorite one right now though, is US Mobile. That's
Speaker 12: the company I'm current currently using. I Usemobile for a
Speaker 12: bunch of years and I've switched over to US Mobile.
Speaker 12: But that's because it's amazing how little you can pay
Speaker 12: if you go with with one of these alternative plans.
Speaker 12: And so, for instance, US Mobile, you can choose to
Speaker 12: be on any of the three major networks. They work
Speaker 12: with all three, so you can be on Verizons, you
Speaker 12: can be on AT and T's, or you can be
Speaker 12: on T Mobile, and you can even switch it up
Speaker 12: which network you want to be on at any given time,
Speaker 12: and you can pay as little as eight dollars a month.
Speaker 12: If you want what they call a light plan, where
Speaker 12: you're going to use let's say you're gonna be on
Speaker 12: Wi Fi most of the time, you're only going to
Speaker 12: use two gigs max. Well, that's going to be incredibly
Speaker 12: chea less than one hundred dollars a year. And then
Speaker 12: if you're like, well, no, I need more data than that, Joel, Well,
Speaker 12: you can pay two hundred and ten dollars for a year,
Speaker 12: which comes out to seventeen dollars and fifty cents a month,
Speaker 12: and that's going to get you ten gigs of data,
Speaker 12: and it's a technically unlimited day, but you're going to
Speaker 12: get throttled after using ten gigs of data. That's a
Speaker 12: really good deal and it's just far better than what
Speaker 12: the big cell phone providers are offering, and.
Speaker 1: The service is the same. You're not going to have
Speaker 1: more dropouts or anything because you're piggybacking on those major
Speaker 1: carrier lines.
Speaker 12: No, the only time you get essentially deprioritized service is
Speaker 12: on the is on the data when you go over
Speaker 12: that ten gig amount. Right, So people have complained, oh, man,
Speaker 12: it says unlimited data, but after using ten gigs, man,
Speaker 12: it just slows down precipitously. And that is true. It
Speaker 12: will get slower. But when most people look at the
Speaker 12: amount of data they use amy they'll realize, like you
Speaker 12: can go in the back end of your cell phone
Speaker 12: bill and be like, oh, I used three point two
Speaker 12: gigs last month, or I used four point eight gigs
Speaker 12: last month. For a lot of people, because they are
Speaker 12: on Wi Fi, they're either at work or at home
Speaker 12: so much of the time, unless you're the kind of
Speaker 12: person who's like watching YouTube videos all the time when
Speaker 12: you're away from Wi Fi. Then this is going to
Speaker 12: work out just fine for you. Look into you know,
Speaker 12: maybe the last three months of builds and see how
Speaker 12: much data you actually use, and if you're you know,
Speaker 12: meaningfully under ten gigs of data a month, the chances
Speaker 12: that you're going to get proddled are essentially insignificant. They're
Speaker 12: non existent. So make sure you know how much you
Speaker 12: see a lot of people assume, well, I need unlimited,
Speaker 12: I need the top tier, I need the most bank
Speaker 12: from I need the most you know, data that they offer.
Speaker 12: But the truth is, for a whole lot of people,
Speaker 12: you don't.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think I'm one of those people. I need
Speaker 1: to look into this, Okay before we wrap things up.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have a lot of money to
Speaker 1: go to Harvard anymore.
Speaker 12: Why, Yeah, I mean you still have to be.
Speaker 1: Smart, right, I don't know that that's a problem, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you've got kids, so really you want to
Speaker 1: go somewhere and there's an opportunity that wasn't there before.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, which I love to see. And you know,
Speaker 12: other great colleges, well renowned colleges in the country have
Speaker 12: already kind of gone in distruction like mi T, but
Speaker 12: Harvard basically said, hey, tuition is going to be free
Speaker 12: for students who come from families that make less than
Speaker 12: two hundred thousand dollars and their their threshold used to
Speaker 12: be eighty five thousand dollars. So I think that's great
Speaker 12: making that education more widely accessible, at least around financial perspective.
Speaker 12: All their rates of admittance are still incredibly low. But
Speaker 12: I think on top of that, what's interesting is that
Speaker 12: we're seeing the sticker price of college stay pretty high,
Speaker 12: but financial aid is actually increasing. And so when you
Speaker 12: look at like an inflation chart, it looks like the
Speaker 12: price of college has just soared over the last few decades,
Speaker 12: and it has gone it's gone up at a rate
Speaker 12: that's far above almost anything else besides healthcare. But we're
Speaker 12: starting to see that shift. We're starting to see downward
Speaker 12: price pressure, and we're starting to see people hunting for
Speaker 12: scholarships to a greater degree. So, yeah, college is still expensive,
Speaker 12: but there are significant ways to reduce that cost, including
Speaker 12: where you choose to go to school.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then really quick, financial aid is different than loans.
Speaker 12: Yes, oh my gosh for sure. Yeah, just taking on
Speaker 12: more debt to fund that college degree, that's a bad idea, right,
Speaker 12: And that's because the payoff. You know so much about
Speaker 12: how much that degree is going to pay off. It
Speaker 12: is depending on how much it costs. And so it's
Speaker 12: your degree. If you get that degree for fifteen thousand
Speaker 12: dollars versus one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the payback
Speaker 12: is going to change. And yeah, there's like the headline
Speaker 12: about the person who graduates from college is going to
Speaker 12: make over their lifetime an extra million dollars. But so
Speaker 12: much depends on where you go, what you spend, what
Speaker 12: degree you get. And so I want parents and high
Speaker 12: school students to be a little more thoughtful about kind
Speaker 12: of what they're choosing to do and maybe not say
Speaker 12: let me go to the dream school and pay whatever
Speaker 12: it costs, but be a little more value oriented in
Speaker 12: their choice.
Speaker 1: Okay, great is my advice as always, and you can
Speaker 1: get more of that when you listen to how to
Speaker 1: Money on KFI. We've got the host Joel Lars Guard
Speaker 1: with us now, but you can listen to them twelve
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Speaker 1: at How to Money, Joel, Thank you, Joelarsguard.
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