Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
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Speaker 2: It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, this is your wake up call for Tuesday,
Speaker 1: May thirteenth. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Back from vacation, well rested. I was talking
Speaker 1: to producer and I literally, aside from like doing stuff
Speaker 1: on my phone with your phones, I didn't type for
Speaker 1: eleven days, yay, and I I was typing this morning.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I remember how it's so weird.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm anxious to tell you a some of
Speaker 1: my takeaways from our trip to Paris and then to London.
Speaker 1: I'll just say it was fabulous and we saved a
Speaker 1: long time for this one and it was well worth it.
Speaker 3: Yay.
Speaker 1: So brought back a nice shirt and I brought back
Speaker 1: a sparkly shirt. Yes, he sold it to me. He
Speaker 1: said it's very good quality. It's also too small. I
Speaker 1: bought it from my mom, but it fits me, so
Speaker 1: there's no way it's going to fit her. So I'm
Speaker 1: keeping it all right. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: The re sentencing hearing for Lyle and Eric Menendez begins today.
Speaker 1: At issue is whether the brothers who murdered their parents
Speaker 1: in their home in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: and are serving life sentences should be resentenced, which would
Speaker 1: effectively allow for their release from prison. The CEO of
Speaker 1: United Healthcare is stepped down, and the largest health insurer
Speaker 1: in the US has suspended its financial outlook for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five as medical costs rise. President Trump has arrived
Speaker 1: in the Middle East for a four day trip to
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. ABC's Karen
Speaker 1: Travers is traveling with the President. We're going to find
Speaker 1: out what's on tap, who he's meeting with, and what
Speaker 1: he hopes to accomplish during this trip. Something very sweet
Speaker 1: is coming to the Ventura County Fairgrounds. We're going to
Speaker 1: tell you all about that at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: right about five thirty five. We'll also be talking about
Speaker 1: the tariff deal between China and the US, what that
Speaker 1: means for you, and trading in your used car may
Speaker 1: be easier but is it the best choice for you financially?
Speaker 1: The host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard,
Speaker 1: is going to tell us all about that, coming up
Speaker 1: at about five point fifty at six so five. Of course,
Speaker 1: mister Handel's handle on the news lots of good stories
Speaker 1: about today's big topics. Let's get started now with some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. The start of the resentencing hearing for the
Speaker 1: Menendez brothers is just hours away.
Speaker 2: Hearing is expected to last a couple days, stretching into tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Because Eric and lyleman Indez were under the age of
Speaker 2: twenty six when they murdered their parents in nineteen eighty nine, they.
Speaker 1: Could be released.
Speaker 2: They were sentenced to life without parole, but if the
Speaker 2: resentencing grants parole as an option, they would be immediately eligible.
Speaker 2: The La County DA's office opposes resentencing. DA Nathan Hawkman
Speaker 2: says the brothers haven't accepted full responsibility for their actions.
Speaker 2: Their legal team says they've been modeled prisoners for more
Speaker 2: than three decades and deserved to get out. Michael Monks
Speaker 2: KFI News.
Speaker 1: A police chase has ended with a fiery crash in
Speaker 1: LA's Lamert Park area, leaving a woman in critical condition
Speaker 1: and injuring four others, including a twelve year old boy.
Speaker 1: The chase ended on Crenshaw Boulevard last night, just south
Speaker 1: of Vernon Avenue. Two people had to be rescued from
Speaker 1: one of the cars. The suspected dui driver police were
Speaker 1: after got away. News brought to you by Sit and Sleep.
Speaker 1: A man with a knife has been shot by police
Speaker 1: at an apartment complex in Tarzana. This guy says he
Speaker 1: heard the commotion last night, but oh ing off the
Speaker 1: window and everything else. Well, and I heard some I'll say,
Speaker 1: somebody got shot, but I don't know who did it
Speaker 1: because it was dark, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: they ran and the guy got shot in the back
Speaker 1: of my window. Police had been called about an assault
Speaker 1: with a deadly weapon. The said the guy was possibly
Speaker 1: suffering from mental illness. He said to be yelling while
Speaker 1: armed with a knife and a frying pan. Officers found
Speaker 1: the man and the shooting happened a short time later.
Speaker 1: The man was said to being critical condition. Movie industry
Speaker 1: unions in Hollywood have added their names to a letter
Speaker 1: sent to President Trump in support of various tax measures
Speaker 1: intended to stave off runaway production and strengthen the American
Speaker 1: film industry. The letters is more than eighty countries currently
Speaker 1: offer tax incentives, and as a result, a bunch of
Speaker 1: productions that could have been shot in the US have
Speaker 1: been located in other areas. It says returning more production
Speaker 1: to the United States will require a national approach. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers, the World Traveler.
Speaker 1: Greetings to you in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 3: Greetings back to you. We are many hours apart at
Speaker 3: this point, more than we usually are.
Speaker 1: What time is it where you are?
Speaker 3: That's a great question. Five ahead to do the math.
Speaker 3: I keep all my clocks on Eastern time, which drives
Speaker 3: my colleagues crazy, but I have to stay Eastern pact.
Speaker 3: So it is three pm in the afternoon here, okay.
Speaker 1: And you are traveling with President Trump, who's making his
Speaker 1: first overseas trip of this presidency. Just a quick question.
Speaker 1: Does the press pool travel with him to all the
Speaker 1: different places that he goes? We do?
Speaker 3: You know, there's a group, of course that's on Air
Speaker 3: Force one. This small group or the pool that travels
Speaker 3: with the president. Y' all can't fit on the plane
Speaker 3: with him, so we all travel ahead of him and
Speaker 3: then have to try to bounce around to catch up
Speaker 3: get ahead of him because of all these stops we're
Speaker 3: going to be making over the next three days. So
Speaker 3: we travel tomorrow so that he to Gohawk Hutter and
Speaker 3: then to the UAE Abu Dabi on Thursday and Friday
Speaker 3: for the final stop before the President heads back to
Speaker 3: DC Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what's on the agenda for today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Today, the President had a very lavish welcome ceremony
Speaker 3: by the Saudi Air Force One, escorted into the landing
Speaker 3: at the airport by Saudi military fighter jets. There's a
Speaker 3: twenty one gun salute as he walked down the steps
Speaker 3: of Air Force one to the tarmac. And he's done
Speaker 3: some ceremonial greetings already today, but also a lunch of
Speaker 3: business leaders from the region, some Americans there as well,
Speaker 3: And this is all about the economics, ties and cooperation
Speaker 3: the President's emphasizing on this visit. There are obviously significant
Speaker 3: political and security challenges here in the Middle East, but
Speaker 3: for the President, the big focus on his agenda is
Speaker 3: business development and trade agreements. He's already met with Saudi
Speaker 3: Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman one on one and talked
Speaker 3: about how said he's has said that they will invest
Speaker 3: six terns of billion dollars in the United States over
Speaker 3: the next four years. The President once again has told
Speaker 3: him he wants to see that number at a trillion dollars.
Speaker 3: This is again the emphasis of the President is trying
Speaker 3: to say the US is open for business, we want
Speaker 3: you investing money in this country, and he will be
Speaker 3: giving remarks on that in about two hours or so,
Speaker 3: trying to talk about the significant ties he'd like to
Speaker 3: between the US and countries in this area.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Karen, you mentioned that they they've already announced
Speaker 1: that they're going to do some investments in the US.
Speaker 1: Did they say any kind of like what kinds of
Speaker 1: investments or was it just abroad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question. You know, this came up
Speaker 3: right after the President took office. The Saudi Crime Prince
Speaker 3: is one of his first phone calls after taking office,
Speaker 3: and they were very quick to say we're investing money
Speaker 3: six hundred billion dollars. The UAE's is one point four
Speaker 3: trillion over the next decade. But it's not cool what
Speaker 3: that's going to look like. So we'll see if we
Speaker 3: get details on this visit, if there's any more solid
Speaker 3: information about how they're going to invest that what the
Speaker 3: timeline is, because you know, a lot of promises can
Speaker 3: be made. President likes a hue of it, so it's
Speaker 3: music to his ears hearing these types of numbers thrown around.
Speaker 3: But again it's the details that need to be explained
Speaker 3: of what type of investment they'll be doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was watching as I was getting ready
Speaker 1: for work. I was watching because they were doing that
Speaker 1: what you were talking about, the kind of the meet
Speaker 1: and greet with everybody, And I was astounded by the
Speaker 1: number of people that both President Trump and the Crown
Speaker 1: Prince were shaking hands with. I mean, it was like
Speaker 1: hundreds of people.
Speaker 3: It seemed like, yes, three hundred business leaders, executives. You know,
Speaker 3: we don't have a fullest of who is there, but
Speaker 3: quite an event. It took a long time for them
Speaker 3: to go through, like a receiving line of courts. The
Speaker 3: president then we was supposed to have lunch. Not sure
Speaker 3: how much he actually sat down in eight or if
Speaker 3: it was a lot of just chip chatting and meeting
Speaker 3: and greeting, and then now is sitting down one on
Speaker 3: one to shouty crown print.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's today, and then where did you say
Speaker 1: you're headed tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Doha? Cutter tomorrow President as well, and then Abby jabby Thursday.
Speaker 3: He'll have some events and as well on Friday morning
Speaker 3: before heading back to the US.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you mentioned Cutter. Is they going to formally
Speaker 1: present that plane that discussing?
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like it, but it certainly will be
Speaker 3: a topic of conversation and something the President will continue
Speaker 3: to get asked about. Even the timing of that story
Speaker 3: the ABC News broke over the weekend and then him
Speaker 3: making the visit there tomorrow, but he's not bringing the
Speaker 3: plane dock with them.
Speaker 1: All right, it's not maybe not a done deal just yet.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Karen Travers, Safe travels, and we will
Speaker 1: look talk, look forward to talking to you again soon.
Speaker 1: All right. So she's three hours ahead. I think of
Speaker 1: where I was because we were wait, we were nine
Speaker 1: hours ahead three pm. I can't do the math we
Speaker 1: got back. I was so mixed up because you're we
Speaker 1: were eight hours ahead in London and then nine hours
Speaker 1: ahead in Paris, and then we got back at five o'clock,
Speaker 1: which was really three o'clock in the morning if we
Speaker 1: were still in Paris. It's uh, it was interesting. And
Speaker 1: yesterday is interesting because you end up being so jet
Speaker 1: lagged from all of this and you're like sitting there, going,
Speaker 1: I feel great, and two seconds later you're you feel
Speaker 1: like you have narcolopsi because you just got asleep, but
Speaker 1: better today. So that's great. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. A hotel surveillance video has been shown to
Speaker 1: the jury, and a male stripper who says he was
Speaker 1: forced to have sex while Sean Colmes watched took the
Speaker 1: stand in the first day of testimony in Combs's sex
Speaker 1: trafficking trial in New York for prosecutors allege the rap
Speaker 1: mogul used his fame and power to sexually abuse women
Speaker 1: from two thousand and four all the way up to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. The defense told jurors the case is
Speaker 1: only about Coombe's private sex life. The woman in the
Speaker 1: video is expected to take the stand today. Comb's faces
Speaker 1: up to life in prison if he's convicted on all
Speaker 1: charges in another courtroom. Kim Kardashian has arrived at a
Speaker 1: courthouse in Paris. She'll be testifying against the men accused
Speaker 1: of robbing her at gunpoint in twenty sixteen. Most of
Speaker 1: them are in their sixties and seventies. Kardashian has said
Speaker 1: that she begged for her life as masked men bound
Speaker 1: her with zip ties and stole over six million dollars
Speaker 1: in jewelry. Authorities say the thieves, known as the Grandpa Robbers,
Speaker 1: tracked Kardashian using her Instagram posts. Pope Leo has made
Speaker 1: a plea to end world conflicts. ABC's James Longman says
Speaker 1: the pontiff wants the wars in Gaza in Ukraine to
Speaker 1: end and.
Speaker 2: The sign that Pope is serious about peace. He made
Speaker 2: a call to President Zelenski about the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Zelensky called it a warm and substantive conversation.
Speaker 1: Leo told the media gathering in Rome he wants to
Speaker 1: see world peace. President Trump has signed an executive order
Speaker 1: to slash prescription drug prices, so basically, we'd pay what
Speaker 1: they pay in other countries. Drum says the US often
Speaker 1: pays as much as three times more than other developed
Speaker 1: nations for prescription drugs. Trump called the executive order one
Speaker 1: of the most consequential in the country's history. Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior has gone viral
Speaker 1: for taking his grandkids swimming in a creek in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Kennedy says his group was taking a hike
Speaker 1: in Dumbarton Oaks Park on Mother's Day and they decided
Speaker 1: to stop and take a little dip in Rock Creek.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: The problem is, the National Park Service warns visitors to
Speaker 1: stay out of that creek because of elevated bacteria levels,
Speaker 1: and the city banned swimming there since nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 1: People looking to work in the fast food industry could
Speaker 1: be in luck this summer.
Speaker 4: McDonald says we'll hire up to three hundred seventy five
Speaker 4: thousand restaurant employees in the US as part of its
Speaker 4: biggest hiring push in years. It says job openings are
Speaker 4: partly due to the company expanding in the US. The
Speaker 4: company has more than thirteen thousand, five hundred restaurants and
Speaker 4: plans to open nine hundred more in the US by
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven. The National Restaurant Association says restaurants and
Speaker 4: bars added more than forty six thousand jobs in March
Speaker 4: and April. Deborah Mark KFFI News.
Speaker 1: The last American hostage held by Hamas has been reunited
Speaker 1: with his family after nearly six hundred days in captivity
Speaker 1: in Gaza, Israeli American Edon Alexander, who was raised in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, got his first hug since being freed from
Speaker 1: his mother at a hospital in Israel. Fifty eight remain
Speaker 1: in captivity. The car, once billed as the worst car
Speaker 1: in histories, making a comeback. A German professor is now
Speaker 1: the head of the Yugo brand. He says he plans
Speaker 1: to revive it and will have a drivable prototype ready
Speaker 1: to roll by twenty twenty seven. Our editor Carla had one.
Speaker 1: The car was made in Yugosavia. It was considered one
Speaker 1: of the worst cars ever due to its poor quality,
Speaker 1: low reliability, apparently it broke down a lot, and questionable
Speaker 1: safety standards. It died out nearly twenty years ago. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: Bobblehead Night bonus if you're going to the game. A
Speaker 1: software failure has been blamed for a false wildfire evacuation alert.
Speaker 1: There was sent out to millions of La County residents
Speaker 1: cell phone. I know, I got the root, I got
Speaker 1: the alert. The warning was only supposed to go out
Speaker 1: to people living near a fire in Woodland Hills in January,
Speaker 1: but it was sent out to nearly everyone with a
Speaker 1: smartphone in La County instead. Homeland Securities ordered California to
Speaker 1: turn over information about a federal money that may have
Speaker 1: gone to illegal immigrants. The money comes from a program
Speaker 1: that helps older, blind, or disabled people who are not
Speaker 1: US citizens. Leaders at the Ports of La and Long
Speaker 1: Beach have welcomed to ninety day pause and tariffs between
Speaker 1: the US and China. The US plans to drop tariffs
Speaker 1: on Chinese goods from one hundred and forty five to
Speaker 1: thirty percent. China says it's going to cut its rate
Speaker 1: on US imports to ten percent. Port officials called it
Speaker 1: a positive step, but are warning uncertainty still hangs over trade,
Speaker 1: jobs and consumer options. At six oh five, it's handle
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Speaker 1: Hamas has been released and has reunited with his family.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to be talking about that right now. Ah.
Speaker 1: I did not hear Loveyon Rose once while I was
Speaker 1: in Paris, not once. So first I want to say
Speaker 1: thanks to Heather Brooker, who filled in did an amazing
Speaker 1: job while I was gone. I always left to have
Speaker 1: Heather filling in. So this was my first trip to
Speaker 1: Paris ever, and it's the first trip that I had
Speaker 1: taken a real one. I mean I've gone up to
Speaker 1: see my mom and gone to Vegas and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, but my first real trip since before the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I mean it's been like six years and then anyway,
Speaker 1: so we saved up for a very long time and
Speaker 1: my best friend Amy and I went and had an
Speaker 1: amazing time. So we spent like five days in Paris
Speaker 1: and then three and a half days in London, and
Speaker 1: I was really looking forward to Paris and not as
Speaker 1: much London for some reason. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: London was fabulous. It was just so like picturesque, and
Speaker 1: we just happened to be there, both in Paris and
Speaker 1: in London during the ve celebrations. And it doesn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of play here. Yeah, but it's the victory
Speaker 1: in Europe day huge. The celebrations in England went on
Speaker 1: for days, so we kind of missed those. We got
Speaker 1: out there on the tail end of them. But on
Speaker 1: May seventh they had fireworks in Paris and people riding
Speaker 1: down the streets obviously partying very heavily, and just it
Speaker 1: was so cool. It was such a festive, fun atmosphere.
Speaker 1: So that was great. So here are a few of
Speaker 1: the takeaways the travel. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: are hesitant to travel because it's kind of a pain.
Speaker 1: We had such a great experience, like everything just kind
Speaker 1: of went with clockwork. I don't think we had any delays.
Speaker 1: We got through, you know, getting getting checked in with TSA,
Speaker 1: We didn't have any problems with customs. Customs was a
Speaker 1: breeze in both London and in Paris Easy Easy and
Speaker 1: the hotels, so I know, that there are a range
Speaker 1: of hotels, but my recommendation is going to be that
Speaker 1: you splurge a bit on hotels in Paris. We got
Speaker 1: this room at a Vaud de Sicil, which means King
Speaker 1: of Sicily by the way. Fabulous little hotel because we
Speaker 1: did tons of research and like looking for the best
Speaker 1: ones and the best prices, and we went back and
Speaker 1: forth and we found this one and it was like
Speaker 1: the coolest place ever. So we're up on the fifth floor.
Speaker 1: We have a balcony that you have to step out
Speaker 1: onto like a window. You don't just walk out, you
Speaker 1: have to step up and out onto the balcony and
Speaker 1: overlooks this whole street and all the buildings are beautiful
Speaker 1: and it was a great place for us to come
Speaker 1: back to after you're out running around and walking a lot.
Speaker 1: It was just fabulous. So I would say my recommendation
Speaker 1: is invest do a lot of research and invest a
Speaker 1: little bit more in the hotel because if you're there
Speaker 1: for like five days, you're going to spend some time
Speaker 1: there too. Because there was one night we went, let's
Speaker 1: just go get some food and bring it back to
Speaker 1: the room because we were exhausted. We've been walking everywhere.
Speaker 1: The metro train system is amazing and it makes me
Speaker 1: so sad when I think about our metro system. It's
Speaker 1: so efficient, and even in French when you can't read anything,
Speaker 1: we were able to get around, didn't get lost in London.
Speaker 1: We got on the wrong train once, but we still
Speaker 1: got to where we needed to go. And then also
Speaker 1: also something that makes me a little sad is high
Speaker 1: speed trains. We took a high speed train from Paris
Speaker 1: to Bordeaux because it's the wine region, and well wine
Speaker 1: for me and my friend Amy, I'll talk, so yeah,
Speaker 1: And so it took two hours to go I think
Speaker 1: six and six hundred miles or something crazy. And it
Speaker 1: was so fun because you see the countryside and then
Speaker 1: I think of our train to nowhere that's coming. That's
Speaker 1: not going to go from Paris to Bordeaux. It's going
Speaker 1: to go from Madera to Fresno or something stupid, and
Speaker 1: I was just like, but I was like, maybe the
Speaker 1: people in the US should go talk to the people
Speaker 1: overseas because they seem to have it. And then we
Speaker 1: also took the high speed train from Paris to London.
Speaker 1: So we went through the tunnel, you went through the tunnel,
Speaker 1: which is not a big deal. It's just a tunnel,
Speaker 1: so you don't see anything. Although there was a guy
Speaker 1: on the Bordeaux planet or train he goes, oh, you're
Speaker 1: going on the chunnel and he said you will get
Speaker 1: to see the fish and everything as you go by.
Speaker 1: And I said, really, it's a glass tunnel and then
Speaker 1: they laughed at me because no, it's not. It's a tunnel.
Speaker 1: The cafes were fabulous. We would just like you were walking.
Speaker 1: They were everywhere. So I love that. Like again, we
Speaker 1: see more of those sidewalk cafes kind of here. But
Speaker 1: the difference is in France, you'll go sit down, they'll
Speaker 1: bring you whatever you want and they never bring your
Speaker 1: check until you ask for it. They're like, yeah, stay
Speaker 1: as long as you want, and they don't care. You
Speaker 1: can have a glass of wine, you can have a
Speaker 1: glass of cappuccino, you can have a full meal and
Speaker 1: there's no pressure and you ask for the check, which
Speaker 1: again is totally different from here, where they just kind
Speaker 1: of just feels like they're trying to turn you over
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, so that was another difference, the walking
Speaker 1: everybody there was nobody over wait. In France, maybe one
Speaker 1: or two people. I mean, it was amazing because everybody's
Speaker 1: walking everywhere, and we tracked our steps. We walked like
Speaker 1: seventy miles in a period of it. We're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, twenty thousand steps today, sixteen thousand steps. I mean,
Speaker 1: you do you walk everywhere? Well, it's all that bread
Speaker 1: and cheese. You gotta work it off. Well when we did,
Speaker 1: we did the baguettes and we did the cheese, and
Speaker 1: that was amazing. And the people whoever tells you that
Speaker 1: the people of France are rude are wrong. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were so wonderful, so great and friendly and charming, and like,
Speaker 1: as long as you make a little bit of an effort,
Speaker 1: you say bonjeoor when you see somebody, when you walk
Speaker 1: into a store, you always say hello, and when you
Speaker 1: leave you always say thank you and say goodbye. And
Speaker 1: as long as you do that, I think that they
Speaker 1: are more friendly. And then I tried my best to
Speaker 1: speak French, which I do not do well, and they'd go, ah,
Speaker 1: chapelle francais, which means do you speak French? And I'd
Speaker 1: go umpaha, which means a little puff. And then I
Speaker 1: would try and then they would laugh at me. And
Speaker 1: then we'd kind of all have a laugh, but then
Speaker 1: the waiters would come over and go, oh, here's how
Speaker 1: to say left and here's how to say right. So
Speaker 1: the people were super fun and friendly. I think if
Speaker 1: you are friendly and you don't go over, I think
Speaker 1: Americans have a bad reputation because I saw a few
Speaker 1: who were going over and looking like Jerko Americans. I
Speaker 1: was like, stop it, you know, because they'll be friendly
Speaker 1: if you're friendly. So again, it was absolutely, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: And we did see the Mona Lisas. So my my,
Speaker 1: oh wait, I get to play my Mona Lisa clip
Speaker 1: oh elsa Mona Lisa. So my fabricated memory of seeing
Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa is no longer fabricated. I actually have
Speaker 1: seen it. So the other thing that you're supposed to
Speaker 1: see at the Louver, according to my friend Amy, was
Speaker 1: the statue of David. It's not, oh, I said, the
Speaker 1: statue of David is not in France. It's it's in
Speaker 1: Italy somewhere. So she had a fabricated memory of seeing
Speaker 1: the statue of David. It's actually the Venus de Milo
Speaker 1: that's at the loof.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure we knew that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, I didn't feel so bad then,
Speaker 1: but again it was so, so, so amazing. I could
Speaker 1: go on about it for a long time. I've gone
Speaker 1: long enough, and thank you for indulging me and listening.
Speaker 1: But seriously, if you're thinking about a trip overseas, save
Speaker 1: up your money and go do it, because it's just
Speaker 1: so cool to see other places, and also, you know,
Speaker 1: part of it makes you appreciate here, but it also
Speaker 1: is a fun kind of comparison and Paris. It's everything
Speaker 1: that everybody said it was. It's just a fabulous, fabulous place.
Speaker 1: And again, not once did I hear Levion Rose. I
Speaker 1: was waiting, waiting, all right. Voters in LA have a
Speaker 1: more unfavorable opinion of Mayor Karen Bass than they did
Speaker 1: before she was elected in twenty twenty two at UC
Speaker 1: Berkeley Pole shows fifty percent had a positive view of
Speaker 1: the mayor before she got into office, but now fifty
Speaker 1: percent have a negative view of Bass. French movie star
Speaker 1: Gerard de Pardeaux has been found guilty of sexually assaulting
Speaker 1: two women on the set of his movie Les Volvere
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and was an eighteen month suspended
Speaker 1: prison sentence. He was also fined and the court has
Speaker 1: requested he'd be registered in the National Sex Offender Database.
Speaker 1: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo will be performing songs from
Speaker 1: Wicked for a live NBC special this fall. They'll be
Speaker 1: taking the stage at the Peacock Theater in La ahead
Speaker 1: of the release of Wicked for Good, which hits theaters
Speaker 1: on November twenty first, at six o five. It is
Speaker 1: handle on the news. President Trump has signed another executive order.
Speaker 1: This one is gonna cut the cost of prescription drugs.
Speaker 1: Will it really handles? Going to weigh in? Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now too. Strawberry farmer Glenn Hasegawa.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Glenn, Good morning.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to talk to you because there's something
Speaker 1: very sweet coming to the Ventura County Fairgrounds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: We have the.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty five California Strawberry Festival. Tell us a little
Speaker 5: bit vent grounds and it's basically right on the beach.
Speaker 1: So oh, it's on the beach or next.
Speaker 3: To the beach.
Speaker 5: Yeh, the great location.
Speaker 1: I love this. So for somebody who has not been
Speaker 1: to the California Strawberry Festival, I know we drove out
Speaker 1: there last year and visited and got to do a
Speaker 1: little tasting, which was delicious. But if somebody hasn't been
Speaker 1: to the Strawberry Festival before, what can they expect?
Speaker 5: Pretty much everything strawberries, Yeah, all kinds of strawberry related foods,
Speaker 5: lots of attractions for the kids, and lots of strawberry
Speaker 5: related displays. Just pretty much everything to do with strawberries.
Speaker 1: Okay. But it's not just strawberries. You have like arts
Speaker 1: and craft venders and stuff too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there are some mars and crafts venders also, and
Speaker 5: a lot of different types of foods.
Speaker 1: Okay, and there's carnival rides.
Speaker 3: Am.
Speaker 1: It's that's a whole festival, So it's fun for the
Speaker 1: whole family exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great family related festival.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then Glenn tell us because we have this
Speaker 1: strawberry festival, and that's because strawberries are a big deal
Speaker 1: in California. Like how many strawberries are grown in California's year? Like,
Speaker 1: what's what's the crop worth? Wow?
Speaker 5: As far as Ventura County goes, it's the Actually it's
Speaker 5: the biggest crop grown in Ventura County. I think there's
Speaker 5: almost seven hundred million dollars worth of strawberries and it's
Speaker 5: in Venture County alone. And yeah, so I like to
Speaker 5: think that Venture County is not the largest grown strawberry
Speaker 5: grown area, but I think we have the best strawberry too.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Glenn, you're you're an actual grower of strawberries.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, actually I'm a third generation strawberry grower. My
Speaker 5: grandfather was a grower, my father and now I'm also
Speaker 5: doing it.
Speaker 1: I love that. And what makes Ventura County so great
Speaker 1: for growing strawberries.
Speaker 5: We just have a combination of great weather, really good soil.
Speaker 5: Strawberries really like moderate temperatures. They don't like it too
Speaker 5: cold and they don't like it too hot. And with
Speaker 5: ventur County being so close to the ocean, the ocean
Speaker 5: really moderates the temperature. So strawberries love it, love it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when is the Strawberry Festival, because it's coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend right exactly.
Speaker 5: It's this weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: Okay, And it's at the Venture County Fairgrounds. I know
Speaker 1: that when we talked last year, there was limited parking
Speaker 1: on site. So where do people go to find out
Speaker 1: information on where's best to park and how to get
Speaker 1: to the festival.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's, there's many. They have shuttle set us
Speaker 5: shuttle service set up and they can go to www.
Speaker 5: Kyle c a Strawberry Festival dot org.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: And you can also get the tickets there or at
Speaker 1: the gate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can purchase tickets there both at the gate
Speaker 5: and also it's online.
Speaker 1: Okay. And most importantly, can I buy strawberries and take
Speaker 1: them home with me?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, we'll be there. There's there's three of us growers,
Speaker 5: and we're gonna have plenty of strawberries for everybody. The
Speaker 5: heat that we had last week really kicked up the
Speaker 5: crop for us, and they're really tastes good right now,
Speaker 5: so there definite will be plenty of strawberries to buy there.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: Okay. It's a thirty ninth annual California Strawberry Festival happening
Speaker 1: this Saturday and Sunday at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. Glenn Hasagawa,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I hope you have a super
Speaker 1: successful strawberry festival.
Speaker 5: Correct. We hope to see everybody there.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks, Time to get in your business now
Speaker 1: with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Courtney good morning, welcome back a
Speaker 1: great vacation. Y oh yes I did. Sure, we need you.
Speaker 6: Now I'm bringing back my grade school French for you.
Speaker 1: Well, I had grade school French, and I tried to
Speaker 1: pass it off for actual French, except what was high
Speaker 1: school French? But it was the same thing. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of French people who were very sweet and
Speaker 1: kind and laughed at me a lot. Oh exactly, but
Speaker 1: I try the here. Okay, So let's talk about some business, Courtney.
Speaker 1: A movie theater chain is actually I'm gonna like this
Speaker 1: slashing ticket prices, especially for you, who is such a
Speaker 1: big movie buff.
Speaker 6: You'll be able to see the big screen for a
Speaker 6: much smaller price this summer. And this report is sponsored
Speaker 6: by Total Wine and More. AMC is cutting the price
Speaker 6: of a movie ticket in half on Wednesdays. Guess who's
Speaker 6: going on Wednesday to the movies. So the largest movie
Speaker 6: chain they're going to begin rolling out the discounts starting
Speaker 6: July ninth. But there has been a steady declineing movie
Speaker 6: going over the past two decades because of the rise
Speaker 6: in streaming. The number of tickets sold has dropped fifty
Speaker 6: percent since two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that pool I can because you can
Speaker 1: stream so much, and even if unless it's like a
Speaker 1: big blockbuster, like I'll wait it out and I'll wait
Speaker 1: for it to hit the stream and just watch it
Speaker 1: on my semi big screen at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm a big person for sitting on my own couch
Speaker 6: and not around other people.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's coming up this summer. That's good news,
Speaker 1: so market because it is fun to see a movie
Speaker 1: in the actual theater. If you're looking for a job,
Speaker 1: maybe not a high level job, but if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a job. McDonald's on a hiring spree.
Speaker 6: Yes, So they're setting out to hire as many as
Speaker 6: three hundred and seventy five thousand workers all across the
Speaker 6: US this summer. So they want to onboard more employees
Speaker 6: as the weather warms up, more people going out to
Speaker 6: get their fast food.
Speaker 1: But also the chain has been expanding.
Speaker 6: McDonald's is halfway through a four year plan to open
Speaker 6: nine hundred new locations. McDonald's estimates listen to this one,
Speaker 6: about one in eight Americans have worked for the chain
Speaker 6: at some point in their lives.
Speaker 1: I didn't work for McDonald's. I worked for Wendy's. I
Speaker 1: work for Staples. Yeah, I worked in the copy center
Speaker 1: of Staples, but it was right next to a KFC.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I was going to say, if you worked
Speaker 1: at Staples, I had much better food during my breaks.
Speaker 1: Oh man, very very true.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I used to run over though to KFC.
Speaker 6: But I one day I'll tell you some of the
Speaker 6: good stories from that job. Okay, they were quite entertaining.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, you're speaking of hiring. This is
Speaker 1: a more highly skilled position that you're talking about. But
Speaker 1: hiring for air traffic controllers highlighted by some of the
Speaker 1: issues we're having, like the outage to Newark Airport and
Speaker 1: how stressful that is. Is that why it's so hard
Speaker 1: to get those positions filled.
Speaker 6: So the problem is not everybody suited for the job.
Speaker 6: So first of all, you have to be a US citizen.
Speaker 6: You have to be younger than thirty one years old
Speaker 6: and physically fit. So you have to be younger than
Speaker 6: thirty one to start out as an air traffic controller.
Speaker 6: But you have to keep in mind the job can
Speaker 6: pay well into the six figures without a college degree,
Speaker 6: But the FAA says less than ten percent of applicants
Speaker 6: are accepted into the agency's training program, and a third
Speaker 6: of those students don't actually make it out. They don't
Speaker 6: make the final cut, and they need a pipeline the
Speaker 6: FAA because of all the constant turnover, because of all
Speaker 6: the stress, there's a lot of burnout, and there is
Speaker 6: a mandatory retirement age of fifty six. But the US
Speaker 6: is facing a shortage of three thousand controllers.
Speaker 1: Mmmm, that is no good, okay. And then real quick
Speaker 1: before we let you go, Oh, Wall Street had a
Speaker 1: really nice day yesterday. What are we looking because then
Speaker 1: that was after President Trump announced the and China said,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're going to put a hold on
Speaker 1: these tariffs for the next ninety days. What are we
Speaker 1: looking forward today? Yeah, so the dowsearch and sixty one points.
Speaker 6: Now this morning, we just got a report moments ago
Speaker 6: on inflation and consumer prices rose less than forecast in
Speaker 6: April of two point three percent from last year. But
Speaker 6: this shows that the immediate passed through of the tariffs
Speaker 6: was quite modest. But it could be a little premature
Speaker 6: to see the full impact of tariffs yet so. And
Speaker 6: by the way, despite the big dropping oil prices, energy
Speaker 6: index was still higher, mostly due to costs for natural
Speaker 6: gas and electricity. So right now, SMP futures, they're a
Speaker 6: little change. They were slightly higher just moments ago. DOW
Speaker 6: futures are down one hundred and eighty four points, all right, getting.
Speaker 1: In your business every day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks Courtney.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you tomorrow. So glad to have you back. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. The rapper who shot Megan these
Speaker 1: Stallion and the foot five years ago and is serving
Speaker 1: a ten year prison sentence has been stabbed in prison.
Speaker 1: TMZ says Tory Lanes was stabbed fourteen times in the
Speaker 1: yard yesterday morning at the California Correctional Institute in Tahatchepee.
Speaker 1: He is expected to survive. Southern California Gas Company says
Speaker 1: it's rolling out a faster way to help victims of
Speaker 1: the Eaton and Palisades fires reconnect to natural gas. The
Speaker 1: utility says it is prioritizing service or customers rebuilding after
Speaker 1: the fires. They can get more details. Customers can get
Speaker 1: more details at socwgas dot com slash rebuild. Governor Newsom
Speaker 1: is called on cities and counties around the state too
Speaker 1: clear homeless camps. The government says or the governor rather
Speaker 1: says he wants every local government to adopt and implement
Speaker 1: policies without delay. Of course, we're just minutes away from
Speaker 1: a handle on the news this morning. The whole gang
Speaker 1: back together, and Bill's going to have lots of great
Speaker 1: insight for you. Let's say good morning though, to the
Speaker 1: host of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel Larscard. Morning,
Speaker 1: Joel morning, Amy. Are you going to yell let me
Speaker 1: for spending too much on a hotel room?
Speaker 7: No judgment here? Oh, come on, you know what, as
Speaker 7: long as you're not like sticking it on like can't
Speaker 7: if you can't pay the credit card balance off, we
Speaker 7: need to talk. But I hope that you have enough
Speaker 7: money in the bank to pay for that expensive hotel.
Speaker 1: I do, I do, yeah, see, but I've been saving
Speaker 1: for a long time for it.
Speaker 7: Also, the moralizing and the talking down on people who
Speaker 7: don't do it the way I would do it, That's
Speaker 7: not what I'm about either.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I don't feel bad, but we did. We
Speaker 1: did just decide to kind of throw caution to the
Speaker 1: wind on this more. And I think it's because we
Speaker 1: hadn't traveled in so long we're just like, let's not
Speaker 1: worry about it now. But and like you said, knowing
Speaker 1: that the money is there, we're going to be able
Speaker 1: to pay off the credit cards is just you know.
Speaker 7: And you know, if you've listened to my show at all,
Speaker 7: you know I talk about something called the craft beer
Speaker 7: equivalent and what that means. I like craft beer, and
Speaker 7: some people think I'm insane for spending twenty five bucks
Speaker 7: on a four pack or twenty two bucks on a
Speaker 7: single bottle of awesome beer. But if you carve the
Speaker 7: things out in your budget on purpose, it makes it
Speaker 7: easier to roll back the spending on a whole bunch
Speaker 7: of other line items in your budget. It makes it
Speaker 7: easier to say, well, yeah, I'll go with the discount
Speaker 7: cell phone provider, because guess what it means, I've got
Speaker 7: more money to funnel into the things I care about
Speaker 7: the most. And so budgeting and getting good with your money,
Speaker 7: it's not all about deprivation to the max. Really, It's
Speaker 7: about funneling money into the areas the matter of the
Speaker 7: most to you. So if that's an expensive hotel on
Speaker 7: a super fun, rare vacation, then go for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I did, all right, so let's talk about how
Speaker 1: you can maybe make more money, or when you come
Speaker 1: when it comes to trading in your car, because there
Speaker 1: are lots of places now that make it very easy
Speaker 1: for you to trade in your car.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the name of the game I feel like when
Speaker 7: it comes to consumer marketing these days, is we're going
Speaker 7: to make it easy on you, but that's going to
Speaker 7: come with a cost. So, whether that's like delivery from
Speaker 7: grub hub, so it's going to be super simple, you
Speaker 7: don't even have to get out of your pjs, we'll
Speaker 7: knock on your door and hand it over to you,
Speaker 7: but it's going to come with a feet And the
Speaker 7: same is true if you're trying to sell your car,
Speaker 7: and so it used to be that there you had
Speaker 7: to maybe take it to a dealership, whether it was
Speaker 7: like a big one or a small local one to
Speaker 7: sell your car, and yeah, they were gonna make it
Speaker 7: kind of easy. But the carvanas of this world now,
Speaker 7: they get your quote online, they'll come to you, they'll
Speaker 7: pick your car up, they'll hand you a check, and
Speaker 7: they're sending emails to basically anyone who's ever done business
Speaker 7: with them, and they're saying, hey, why don't you sell
Speaker 7: us your car again pitching that will make it super simple.
Speaker 7: But the problem is when you sell your car. I
Speaker 7: have no beef with Carvana, and in fact, I think
Speaker 7: for some people it might be a good place to
Speaker 7: buy a car and but potentially a good place to sell.
Speaker 7: But you have to think twice, and you have to
Speaker 7: do some digging because the quote you get for your
Speaker 7: car from a company like Carvana, or from a company
Speaker 7: like CarMax, which is another good company I've got no
Speaker 7: beef with it just might be substantially lower than what
Speaker 7: you could get putting in just a little bit of
Speaker 7: legwork and selling it yourself.
Speaker 1: So can you haggle with those companies at all? Or
Speaker 1: is it just this is what we're offering, take it.
Speaker 3: Or leave it? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Typically not. Typically it's a this is this what we're offering,
Speaker 7: take it or leave it. And again they do try
Speaker 7: to make it super simple and super easy. But the
Speaker 7: best estimates I can find are that you're going to
Speaker 7: get paid fifteen to twenty percent less than what you
Speaker 7: would otherwise get. So you know, if you're selling a
Speaker 7: fifteen thousand dollars car, well, carbon I might say we'll
Speaker 7: give you eleven to five and so we'll make it
Speaker 7: super simple, like no headache, no hassle. But if you
Speaker 7: were to instead go through a little bit of hassle
Speaker 7: and post it on let's say Facebook, marketplace or on
Speaker 7: a site like auto trader finding you know, local people
Speaker 7: who might be interested, And man, I miss this. I
Speaker 7: mean I always try to buy from private individuals and
Speaker 7: then do my due diligence when I'm buying, which means
Speaker 7: getting that car checked out by a mechanic that I trust,
Speaker 7: because I just that's how I feel like I'm going
Speaker 7: to get the best car for me. Although I will
Speaker 7: say CarMax and Carvana, and they both come with like
Speaker 7: better guarantees these days, I believe with Carvana it's seven
Speaker 7: days and with Carmacks it's like thirty days. You can
Speaker 7: take it back if there's an issue with it, which
Speaker 7: is which is really nice. But when it comes to
Speaker 7: selling the car again, I'm a big fan of, you know,
Speaker 7: taking it to the taking it to the car wash,
Speaker 7: cleaning it inside and out, taking some solid pictures, and
Speaker 7: then posting it. And truly that could make the difference
Speaker 7: of thousands of dollars in your pocket or in the
Speaker 7: pockets of Carvana because they're going to make the spread
Speaker 7: when they mark it up and sell it to somebody else.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, so just be careful, and there is
Speaker 1: that cost of convenience. The Chinese tariffs wanted to touch
Speaker 1: base with you on this yesterday. They said, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're putting these on pause for a while, and they're
Speaker 1: going from one hundred and forty five percent to thirty
Speaker 1: percent for China and then down to like ten percent
Speaker 1: for the US.
Speaker 7: Right, yeah, yeah, So, which is a far cry from
Speaker 7: the one hundred and forty five percent that it was
Speaker 7: and the one hundred and twenty five percent that China
Speaker 7: was going to charge on American goods going into China.
Speaker 7: And so I will say, like, if I have like
Speaker 7: two pom poms in my hand, I'm partially putting one
Speaker 7: up in the air and waving it mildly, because this is.
Speaker 2: A tariff pause.
Speaker 7: It's ninety days of tariff pause. And the truth is,
Speaker 7: if you really even just read a basic economics textbook,
Speaker 7: what we know about tariffs is that they're bad. They
Speaker 7: harm free trade, They're going to cost consumers more money.
Speaker 7: And so I would love to see tariffs roll back
Speaker 7: completely and to see and maybe maybe that's ultimately what's
Speaker 7: going to happen at the end of the day, because
Speaker 7: this is again a partial truce, a rollback for ninety days,
Speaker 7: and this is certainly good for businesses. The markets were up,
Speaker 7: they were very excited about this announcement. But where do
Speaker 7: things go from here? And can we find some sort
Speaker 7: of solid landing place with China when it comes to
Speaker 7: a tariff rollback and a free trade agreement that benefits
Speaker 7: all part aarad ease and that benefits American businesses. That
Speaker 7: remains to be seen because right now it's been like
Speaker 7: threats of insane tariffs and then hey, no, we're going
Speaker 7: to pause. And yet finding some real sticking, long ground
Speaker 7: sticking place that's been harder to come by, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because the uncertainty is still there. Since it's not like, hey,
Speaker 1: we have a final deal. It's we're pushing this down
Speaker 1: so we can see if we can come to a deal.
Speaker 1: But the deals are sticky. It's not just an easy
Speaker 1: like I'll do this and you do that and let's
Speaker 1: call it a day, you know, I.
Speaker 7: Mean, yeah, I mean the market rally yesterday was partly,
Speaker 7: I think about the belief that they think that Trump
Speaker 7: is rethinking tariff policy altogether. Not necessarily that thirty percent
Speaker 7: lasting tariffs on Chinese goods coming to the United States
Speaker 7: is a great thing that should be celebrated, but it's
Speaker 7: saying maybe maybe the president's wising up and realizing that
Speaker 7: tariffs aren't as good of a policy as he thought.
Speaker 7: And so yeah, that's like a fingers cross sort of
Speaker 7: situation though, because where does this land. It's anybody's guess.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll be watching and we'll have you to
Speaker 1: weigh in and help you guide us through it. And
Speaker 1: if you want more great guidance on your financial situation
Speaker 1: and your future, you can listen to how to Money
Speaker 1: Sundays noon to two right here on KFI with Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 1: Also you can follow Joel and get some great money
Speaker 1: tips how to Money Joel, Thank you, Joel Larscard.
Speaker 7: Thanks Amy.
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