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Speaker 1: Friday morning, May sixteenth, twenty twenty five. In case there
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Speaker 1: know how your day's starting, but hopefully it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more perky than mine.
Speaker 4: Somebody's got a cold.
Speaker 1: Somebody's got a cold. I totally blame it on Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1: I traveled around the world. I don't think I got
Speaker 1: it from the plane. I think I got it from Deborah.
Speaker 1: It's a tough one to call. It is tough to
Speaker 1: talk about she's a mess right now.
Speaker 5: But you also did.
Speaker 1: Travel, and have you ever done this where you know
Speaker 1: how you just feel a little punky and like it's
Speaker 1: almost like you have extra gravity when you're walking around
Speaker 1: you Today everything feels a little heavy and like, you know,
Speaker 1: you just don't have that spring in your step. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna go to bed early. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a good night's sleep. And I was in bed
Speaker 1: by seven thirty and I get up at two thirty,
Speaker 1: So that's that's that would have been seven hours right, good? Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then I woke up at nine thirty, and I woke
Speaker 1: up at ten thirty, of course. Then I woke up
Speaker 1: at eleven thirty, of course. Then I woke up at
Speaker 1: twelve thirty, and then I woke up at one thirty
Speaker 1: and then got up at my normal two thirty time.
Speaker 1: So not exactly well rested. I hate when that happens.
Speaker 1: Like I was, like, I was so excited because I
Speaker 1: got to bed early. But anyway, that's neither here nor
Speaker 1: there for you. You've got to get ready for your day,
Speaker 1: and we're going to help you do that. Here's what's
Speaker 1: ahead on wake up call them Menendez Brothers may get
Speaker 1: a shot at parole sooner than expected. ABC NEWSS Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom's changed a hearing scheduled for June thirteenth from a
Speaker 1: clemency to a parole board hearing, which could speed up
Speaker 1: the process for release. If a parole board recommends release,
Speaker 1: the governor still needs to approve it for the Brothers.
Speaker 1: Community leaders have called for the creation of a two
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar fund to help fire survivors now to
Speaker 1: Dina stay in their community. At a rally yesterday, officials
Speaker 1: said they need the state's help to keep real estate
Speaker 1: speculators from swooping in and forcing longtime residents out. A
Speaker 1: report shows almost of the ninety four properties sold since
Speaker 1: the fire in January, almost half have been bought by
Speaker 1: corporate investors. Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to sit down
Speaker 1: for face to face meetings for the first time in
Speaker 1: three years to talk about ending the three year old war.
Speaker 1: President Putin and President Zelensky are not there for it.
Speaker 1: The two countries meeting in Turkey will be represented by
Speaker 1: lower levered level delegations. ABC's Karen Travers has been traveling
Speaker 1: around the Middle East with President Trump. We're going to
Speaker 1: find out what has been accomplished and what was left
Speaker 1: on the table as the President heads back to the US.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at five twenty. The latest TikTok challenge
Speaker 1: can do more than break your chromebook. It could be dangerous.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes to tell us about the challenge
Speaker 1: that has gone viral around the US. What's your Style?
Speaker 1: The host of Home on KFI, our own Dean Sharp's
Speaker 1: going to help you find yours. He says it's an
Speaker 1: important part of making your house feel more like a home.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to talk to him about that. That's at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, and then Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: wraps up its fiftieth season. Paul Rudd is cringe worthy.
Speaker 1: We'll find out if that's a good thing. And we
Speaker 1: all know that grammas can cook, So what happens when
Speaker 1: you fill a kitchen with them. That's all coming up
Speaker 1: with ABC's Wielgans at the top of the right before
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, right around five fifty, let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County has purchased
Speaker 1: and wiped clean around one hundred and eighty three million
Speaker 1: dollars in residence medical debt.
Speaker 6: The county decided last year that it would buy medical
Speaker 6: debt cheaply and forgive it. They say it would stop
Speaker 6: residents from falling prey to aggressive debt collectors. Supervisor Jennis
Speaker 6: Hahn says the clean slate is clean. It won't be
Speaker 6: classified as income, it won't be tax and doesn't have
Speaker 6: to be paid back.
Speaker 7: And most importantly, this debt relief comes with no strings attached.
Speaker 6: One hundred and thirty four thousand low income residents will
Speaker 6: receive notice of the debt wipeout. County residents oh more
Speaker 6: than two billion dollars in medical debt. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The state Assembly has passed to bill that makes it
Speaker 1: a felony in California to buy a sixteen or seventeen
Speaker 1: year old for sex. Several demic We're against the provision
Speaker 1: in AB three seven nine, but Assembly Member Carl Demyo
Speaker 1: says public pressure forced them to cave. The bill now
Speaker 1: heads to the state Senate. Seventeen family members of Joaquin
Speaker 1: El Chapo Guzman's son have been given protection in the US.
Speaker 1: The family crossed into the US at the O Tai
Speaker 1: Mesa Port of entry. Recently, El Chapo's son a video,
Speaker 1: replaced his father as the head of the Sineloa cartel
Speaker 1: before he was captured.
Speaker 2: This is definitely a very unique situation.
Speaker 5: You know, the son who's in prison. I'll talk, but
Speaker 5: you need to protect my family.
Speaker 1: Attorney Caesar Luna says Guzman is changing his plea and
Speaker 1: will likely testify against other cartel leaders, which is why
Speaker 1: his family needed to get out of Mexico. They are
Speaker 1: currently in protective custody. A judge in La has denied
Speaker 1: a request for a restraining order to keep La Zoo
Speaker 1: officials from moving two elephants to Tulsa, Oklahoma. A man
Speaker 1: who lives in La had filed for the order, and
Speaker 1: an emergency hearing was held yesterday. The man's lawyer, Melissa Lerner,
Speaker 1: says the judge's ruling was largely on the basis that
Speaker 1: the issue should be taken up with the city council
Speaker 1: and the mayor.
Speaker 8: And frankly, the judge encouraged the public to reach out
Speaker 8: to their city council members and to mayribas to tell
Speaker 8: them that this is unconscionable and unacceptable.
Speaker 1: The director of the La Zoo has said Billy and
Speaker 1: Tina will be moved as soon as they're ready. Activists
Speaker 1: don't want them to go to the zoo in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: They say it's not good enough. They say that they
Speaker 1: would be better off at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Let's
Speaker 1: now check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we
Speaker 1: got another TikTok challenge, and this one's not like the
Speaker 1: ice bucket challenge. This one is potentially pretty dangerous.
Speaker 9: Yes, there's nothing positive about this one at all. Nobody
Speaker 9: knows where it started. Nobody knows when it started or
Speaker 9: who's responsible for it. But all over the country, kids
Speaker 9: have been putting metal objects into the USB ports of
Speaker 9: their laptops. Chromebooks are the ones that so many school
Speaker 9: districts are using now issuing to their kids, and that's
Speaker 9: why this is called the chrome book challenge.
Speaker 7: Jamie.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and once you shove a metal object in there,
Speaker 9: there's a spark Lithian Yeah, spark fire smoke. Schools evacuated,
Speaker 9: you know, and the fire department shows up. Well, yeah,
Speaker 9: the kid and very often these kids are posting video
Speaker 9: of themselves doing this. This is sort of the point
Speaker 9: of the whole thing to get a little bit of
Speaker 9: Internet fame. Well, they're also finding themselves in some cases
Speaker 9: facing serious criminal charges. Thirteen year old girl on Long
Speaker 9: Beach thirteen was arrested last week after she apparently took
Speaker 9: part in this. She's a middle schooler at Lidsey Academy
Speaker 9: and it's accused now of setting her laptop on fire.
Speaker 1: Well, this is wrong on so many friends because one,
Speaker 1: it's not their top, it's not their own property, that's
Speaker 1: school property, right that the chromebooks are issued to the students. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so one, you're destroying somebody else's property. And then the
Speaker 1: chromebooks have lithium batteries in them, don't they right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that makes a whole other issue very difficult.
Speaker 9: This is why you can't carry a lithium ion battery
Speaker 9: and your checked luggage because if that thing catches fire
Speaker 9: in the cargo hold of a plane, there are serious problems,
Speaker 9: hard to fight very smoky, toxic smoke from this thing.
Speaker 9: And yeah, you're looking at your laptop doing the same thing.
Speaker 9: So yeah, there are our health consequences potentially, then the
Speaker 9: danger of having a fire sitting there. You know, there's
Speaker 9: nothing good about this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you said that the thirteen year old
Speaker 1: in Long Beach, I do remember we mentioned that. So
Speaker 1: do you think they're going to actually charge her? Are
Speaker 1: they trying to scare her? Do we know yet?
Speaker 9: I think she might face some charge. I mean they're
Speaker 9: juvenile charges, but it is it's serious.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: And the damage in that case out there at Long
Speaker 9: Beach was isolated to the chromebook itself. But the parents,
Speaker 9: at the very least they're gonna have to pay for
Speaker 9: the chromebook that was destroyed. And you're finding this all
Speaker 9: over the country. The damage for this is it's the
Speaker 9: responsibility to the parents, whether it's the laptop, the desk,
Speaker 9: the floor, they you know, the fire department coming out.
Speaker 9: So this is not just a trivial thing. And kids
Speaker 9: need to know that.
Speaker 1: How widespread is this? I know it's gone viral, but
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 9: I've heard cases in California, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Connecticut. They
Speaker 9: had a rash of them, like like fifteen of them
Speaker 9: in just a couple of weeks time. So it's not
Speaker 9: just one part of the country. It's all over the place.
Speaker 1: All Right, Mom and dad, time to have a little
Speaker 1: chat with the kids. Yeah, yeah, shake.
Speaker 9: Them, shake them up a bet. I mean, come on,
Speaker 9: this is really dumb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get back to the ice bucket challenge. That's
Speaker 1: a much better one. There you go, all right, right,
Speaker 1: ABC Jim Ryan thinks is always for the information. Have
Speaker 1: a great weekend, you too. All right, let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. Officials from Russia and Ukraine have
Speaker 1: arrived in Turkey for cease fire negotiations. ABC's Ian Pannell
Speaker 1: says Russian President Putin was a no show yesterday despite
Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Zelensky's willingness to meet.
Speaker 10: Is it positive even sits in the same room, Well, yes,
Speaker 10: because that hasn't happened for three years. Is Russia willing
Speaker 10: to make any concessions? We just don't know at this point.
Speaker 10: Is Ukraine, Well, Ukraine's been far more open about what
Speaker 10: it's willing to say, what it's willing to do.
Speaker 1: Zelensky invited Putin for a face to face meeting, but
Speaker 1: even mid level Russian representatives have not met with the
Speaker 1: Ukrainians yet. If they do meet today, as they are
Speaker 1: scheduled to do, it'd be the first time they sat
Speaker 1: down since the war started. President Trump has wrapped up
Speaker 1: his Mid East tour in the United Arab Emirates with
Speaker 1: a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an
Speaker 1: inter faith place of worship. Is visit to Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: Qatar and the United Arab Emirates outlined a vision for
Speaker 1: restoring global stability. Trump also signed some economic deals and
Speaker 1: pledged to continue the US's partnership with the UAE. Former
Speaker 1: FBI director James Komy is facing an investigation after a
Speaker 1: social media post that appears to have threatened the president.
Speaker 1: Komy posted a picture of some seashells on a beach
Speaker 1: ranged to spell out eighty six forty seven. Komy later
Speaker 1: posted that he wasn't aware that there was anything threatening
Speaker 1: in the post and took it down. Two of the
Speaker 1: biggest cable companies in the US are looking to merge.
Speaker 1: The deal between Charter and Coxcommunications would be worth more
Speaker 1: than thirty four billion dollars and a better cable Prices
Speaker 1: would go up because there'd be less choice. Yeay, an
Speaker 1: ingredient found in many energy drinks, has been linked to
Speaker 1: a higher risk of blood cancers. Tourine is an amino acid.
Speaker 1: It occurs naturally in parts of the human body. It's
Speaker 1: also found in energy, drinks, protein powers, and foods like meat, fish,
Speaker 1: and eggs.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: Researchers from the University of Rochester have found that those
Speaker 1: leukemia cells can use additional tourine to grow and spread,
Speaker 1: kind of like a booster. What's the difference between red
Speaker 1: and black? Apparently not much. Gingers are black.
Speaker 11: A viral video with more than sixty four million views
Speaker 11: claims all white redheads or gingers are basically black people,
Speaker 11: which has opened to floodgate for white people to tell
Speaker 11: their story. People with no Soul have talked about everything
Speaker 11: from educational bias to bullying. Black supporters also posted in support,
Speaker 11: with one saying I never thought I'd hear a white
Speaker 11: person say they wish they were black.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 11: Scientific explanations say red hair comes from a mutation in
Speaker 11: the MC one R gene that also plays a major
Speaker 11: role in the production of melanin. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1: A mutation thanks grow all right, The Dodgers take on
Speaker 1: the Angels. First pitch goes out tonight at seven o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Some trees that were chopped down by a guy with
Speaker 1: a chainsaw in downtown La are being replaced. A tree
Speaker 1: planning event is being held this morning. A man's been
Speaker 1: arrested for an unprovoked attack on woman in Culver City.
Speaker 1: Police say a woman was grabbed by the head Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: The guy pulled her to the ground and repeatedly punched her.
Speaker 1: Police found him nearby and arrested him. Metro is closing
Speaker 1: its d Or Purple Line for the next seventy days
Speaker 1: starting tomorrow. There will be no train service to the Wilshire, Vermont, Wilshire,
Speaker 1: Normandy and Wilshire Western stations during the closure. It's expected
Speaker 1: to reopen at the end of July. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 2: Karen.
Speaker 1: President Trump wrapped up his four day World Wind Tour
Speaker 1: of the Middle East was welcomed in a big way.
Speaker 1: At the United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 12: Oh, I mean, the red carpets were rolled out in
Speaker 12: every country. There was even a purple one in the
Speaker 12: Saudi Arabia for the president. But you know, at every
Speaker 12: stop there was a similar theme where it was pomp
Speaker 12: and circumstance of state dinner in every country for the president,
Speaker 12: and the focus was on business and economic ties and
Speaker 12: opportunity for investment in the United States. There were a
Speaker 12: lot of American CEOs who were here at each stop
Speaker 12: doing these business and investment forums with the president, so
Speaker 12: he was meeting with them. He was meeting with business
Speaker 12: leaders from the region and the countries that he was visiting.
Speaker 12: All were making massive commitments to invest in the United States,
Speaker 12: to work with states, to work with American companies. We
Speaker 12: now have to see how all that plays out and
Speaker 12: whether or not they live up to those commitments. Here
Speaker 12: in the UAE, it's a one point four trillion dollar
Speaker 12: investment commitment over the next decade. They signed an agreement
Speaker 12: yesterday specifically about a two hundred billion dollars in deals
Speaker 12: in partnerships, including a data center here in the UAE
Speaker 12: that would be powered by American made semiconductor chips. So
Speaker 12: that's something specific and tangible. But again for the President,
Speaker 12: this is all about growth, jobs, investment, creating all of
Speaker 12: that back in the US.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Karen, there, what I've heard is that, like
Speaker 1: you just said, there's a lot of investment in the US,
Speaker 1: what are they getting from US in exchange for this?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean that's a big question too, Like they
Speaker 12: will be investing there. They say that they're growing their
Speaker 12: businesses by investing in the United States, getting favorable opportunities
Speaker 12: to do that, and you know there are investments in
Speaker 12: return here. You're going to have American companies that are
Speaker 12: working here. The CEOs of many tech companies. We're in
Speaker 12: Saudi Arabia and cutter this week with the President because
Speaker 12: they're talking about what they want to do here. The
Speaker 12: President highlighted riod as an emerging technology capital, and you
Speaker 12: can see that some of those companies want to see
Speaker 12: what they can do here. There are many Warner Brothers,
Speaker 12: Disney who are doing business in Abu Dhabi right now
Speaker 12: because they see this as a big place where there
Speaker 12: is opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned all the fanfair and stuff, I
Speaker 1: will tell you, and the UAE seeing that the tallest
Speaker 1: building in the world lit up with the starsn stripes,
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool looking at Yeah, kind of empire shame, uh,
Speaker 1: empire state building the shame, not to shame, but it
Speaker 1: was pretty impressive.
Speaker 12: Well but you know, yeah, they certainly have done a
Speaker 12: lot of pomp circumstances. I mean they're camels and two
Speaker 12: of the countries that did kind of a big welcome
Speaker 12: for the president. And he loves this stuff. He loves
Speaker 12: it and they know he loves it, and that's why
Speaker 12: they did it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're headed home. Now, how long a flight
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 12: Ooh, fourteen and a half hours. We leave in about
Speaker 12: fifteen hours after we've finish our full.
Speaker 2: Day of work.
Speaker 12: The president's already actually heading back. He'll do a refueling stuff,
Speaker 12: but he's already on Air Force one to head back
Speaker 12: to the US.
Speaker 5: But we'll work.
Speaker 12: Another day here to wrap up and then head back.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have a safe trip back. I hope
Speaker 1: you get to see lots of good movies on your flight.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 13: I have a great day, all right.
Speaker 1: Take care. ABC's Karen Travers from the Middle East. Health
Speaker 1: officials say the bird flu outbreak that started last year
Speaker 1: could be finally slowing down. In California, the.
Speaker 14: State was the epicenter, with seventy percent of cases in
Speaker 14: dairy cattle and thirty eight out of seventy confirmed human
Speaker 14: cases nationwide. Human cases mostly affected dairy and poultry workers.
Speaker 14: California has recorded seven hundred and sixty six infected dairy
Speaker 14: herds across twelve counties. Concerns do remain about a potential resurgence.
Speaker 14: Wild Birds, the primary source of bird flu, move north
Speaker 14: to Alaska and northern Canada in the spring and return
Speaker 14: back south in the fall.
Speaker 1: Dina Kodiak KFI News. Phillips sixty six has pleaded not
Speaker 1: guilty to federal charges of violating the Clean Water Act.
Speaker 1: The government accuses the energy company of dumping hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of gallons of wastewater, including oil and grease, into
Speaker 1: the La County sewer system. The company is facing five
Speaker 1: years probation and fines of about two point four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Phillips sixty six announced last year that it plans to
Speaker 1: close its refinery operations in La in October. The company
Speaker 1: operates the crude oil processing facility in Carson and a
Speaker 1: finishing plant in Wilmington. The country's first no cost surgery
Speaker 1: center has opened in Orange County. Volunteer surgeons will do
Speaker 1: operations and other procedures for free for low income and
Speaker 1: uninsured patients at the new state of the art medical facility.
Speaker 1: Surgeries are expected to start in a few weeks. The
Speaker 1: goal is to start with about thirty free surgeries every month.
Speaker 1: A judge has refused to dismiss charges related to the
Speaker 1: murder of acting actor Johnny Whacter in downtown La.
Speaker 15: La County Superior Court judge there is sufficient evidence to
Speaker 15: allow the case against two nineteen year old men to
Speaker 15: move forward. The thirty seven year old whactor, who appeared
Speaker 15: on General Hospital, was shot to death last May after
Speaker 15: approaching a group of people trying to steal the catalytic
Speaker 15: converter from his car. Both suspects have pleaded not guilty
Speaker 15: to one count teacher of murder and attempted second degree robbery.
Speaker 15: Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1: A former assistant city manager in Lacanata, Flintridge, is facing
Speaker 1: dozens of charges for allegedly stealing about two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars from the City, La County Prosecutor say Carl Alameda
Speaker 1: sent demand letters to insurance companies over a six year
Speaker 1: period claiming their insured drivers had crashed into city property.
Speaker 1: The insurance money was sent to an account controlled by Alameda.
Speaker 1: Vice President JD. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: are not headed home from the Middle East with President
Speaker 1: Trump just yet. They're heading instead to the Vatican to
Speaker 1: attend the inaugural Mass of Popelo the fourteenth that happens
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Leo is the first American Pope. He was
Speaker 1: a cardinal in Chicago before he was elected this month.
Speaker 1: Vice President Vance is Catholic, and it also met with
Speaker 1: Polpe Francis shortly before Francis died. Actor Don Joe Baker,
Speaker 1: Actually sorry, Joe Don Baker has died.
Speaker 7: Joe Don Baker was a big, tough look a actor
Speaker 7: who got his start in sixties and seventies TV, mostly
Speaker 7: playing heavies. He stood out in supporting roles in crime
Speaker 7: classics Charlie Verick with Walter Mathow in The Outfit with
Speaker 7: Robert Duvall. Then he graduated to lead in Mitchell, which
Speaker 7: became a mystery science theater three thousand classic and Walking Tall,
Speaker 7: which became a drive in classic. He went on to
Speaker 7: star in Fletch and three James Bond films. Baker died
Speaker 7: May seventh, and his family hasn't given a cause of death.
Speaker 7: Funeral services will be next week in Mission Hills. Baker
Speaker 7: was eighty nine, Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1: So many older actors are passing away. I know that
Speaker 1: when I looked at this story, it was like, who
Speaker 1: is Joe Don Baker? But when you look at his picture,
Speaker 1: it's one of those actors where he might not have
Speaker 1: known his name, but you definitely know who he was.
Speaker 1: Sad to lose him. The popular video game Fortnite has
Speaker 1: been blocked on iOS platforms. At Games made the announcement
Speaker 1: today after Apple blocked an effort to get the game
Speaker 1: back on the app Star. The game was pulled from
Speaker 1: the app store back in twenty twenty after Epic Games
Speaker 1: updated its software in an effort to get around Apple's
Speaker 1: thirty percent commission to say. A federal judge in LA's
Speaker 1: threatened to throw out a lawsuit filed by Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: fans against Ticketmaster. The fans have accused the Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: based company of breach of contract and other charges from
Speaker 1: when ticketmasters servers crashed in twenty twenty three, who didn't
Speaker 1: remember that during a Taylor swift presale event, millions claimed
Speaker 1: they couldn't get tickets because of it. Swifties flocked to
Speaker 1: the courthouse yesterday, where the judge decided instead of tossing
Speaker 1: the suit, the fans can have a chance to amend
Speaker 1: their complaints. Don't mess with Swifties. Ne Li Kenny. Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Department has confirmed it has begun a criminal investigation into
Speaker 1: music legend Smokey Robinson. Four former employees have sued the
Speaker 1: eighty five year old singer, claiming rape, false imprisonment, illegal
Speaker 1: withheld hold of pay and creating a hostele work environment.
Speaker 1: Singer Chris Brown has been ordered by a judge to
Speaker 1: remain in custody after his arrest in UK. He was
Speaker 1: picked up for allegedly attacking a producer with a tequila
Speaker 1: bottle that happened in twenty twenty three. He was arrested
Speaker 1: yesterday during his first trip back to Great Britain since
Speaker 1: the attack at a British nightclub. The two remaining elephants
Speaker 1: at the La Zoo still appear headed to a zoo
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. A judge denied at emergency request yesterday to
Speaker 1: stop the transfer of the Asian elephants Billy and Tina.
Speaker 1: The zoo says they'll have more room to roam and
Speaker 1: can live with other elephants in Oklahoma. Activists say that's
Speaker 1: not good enough, and they want the elephants transferred to
Speaker 1: a sanctuary in Tennessee. At six oh five, it's handle
Speaker 1: on the news. Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to sit
Speaker 1: down for face to face talks. Of course, President Putin
Speaker 1: and President Zelensky aren't there. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to the host of Home. You can listen to it
Speaker 1: every Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. It's Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4: Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about style, shall we. Okay, Okay, So you
Speaker 1: say to make your house your home, you got to
Speaker 1: figure out what your style is so it feels homey,
Speaker 1: so it reflects who you are. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you know when we're when we're transforming
Speaker 4: a home into something that is more you. The trouble
Speaker 4: with that is we got to find out who you are.
Speaker 4: In fact, the one of the biggest challenges for most
Speaker 4: people when it comes to remodeling or redecorating or redesigning
Speaker 4: their home is they run up against this idea of like, oh, no,
Speaker 4: I know something's missing from my life, but I'm not
Speaker 4: exactly sure what it is. And so there's a bit
Speaker 4: of U. There's a bit of style psychology that we
Speaker 4: have to go through a little style therapy, as it were,
Speaker 4: for a lot of homeowners in order to start getting
Speaker 4: a handle of their style. In fact, most people don't
Speaker 4: even really understand what the word style means. They just
Speaker 4: know that they don't have it, or I think that
Speaker 4: they don't have it, and they find out that's that's
Speaker 4: not actually the case.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what are some things that you can do
Speaker 1: as you start pondering you're thinking about redecorating or building
Speaker 1: or something. What are some things you should start looking at,
Speaker 1: like to discover what your style is?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if you understand what the word style
Speaker 4: really means when we say it right, when we say
Speaker 4: somebody's got style, it means that they have a way
Speaker 4: about them. They have a way about them. And if
Speaker 4: you break that down even further, what it comes down
Speaker 4: to is that U style is repetition in your life.
Speaker 4: Style is routine, it's whatever you keep coming back to.
Speaker 4: It's whatever you keep finding yourself attracted to or you know,
Speaker 4: kind of magnetically drawn to. Style is the are the
Speaker 4: things that you like. And on a really simple basis,
Speaker 4: style are the things that you like and the things
Speaker 4: and basically how you like to live. It can be
Speaker 4: as simple as and I ask clients to start doing this,
Speaker 4: start telling me, you know, what are the things that
Speaker 4: you do? What happens every single week? And I just
Speaker 4: don't mean, you know, I get up and I go
Speaker 4: to work, and then I come home and I go
Speaker 4: to sleep. I mean the kinds of things along the
Speaker 4: way that you keep moving towards a style is in
Speaker 4: fact kind of the grooves that you wear into your
Speaker 4: life by traveling those paths again and again. And if
Speaker 4: you want to start keeping a style journal, it's and
Speaker 4: I and this is not therapy for everybody. It's just
Speaker 4: for people who are looking to change the way their
Speaker 4: home looks. Then you set something aside, some notes aside,
Speaker 4: maybe some notes on your phone, and you start taking
Speaker 4: a look at what are the things I keep coming
Speaker 4: back to, the things that I just love more than
Speaker 4: anything else. That's the beginning. It's the roots of your style.
Speaker 1: You know what I think is so interesting you talking
Speaker 1: about that. I definitely have that. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you guys are deal with it, but I
Speaker 1: keep going back to the same kinds of things. I mean,
Speaker 1: whether it's from a car to the color of the car,
Speaker 1: to the kind of clothes I wear, Like I wear
Speaker 1: block more block color, yeah, block colors rather than flower stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you look around my apartment or not really
Speaker 1: anything flowery around where I live. Nothing so cool that.
Speaker 4: You bring that up, Because that's one of the cues
Speaker 4: I think is your own sense of fashion is usually
Speaker 4: a representation of your own style in one way or another.
Speaker 4: So we do a lot of fashion translating. Not that
Speaker 4: people are like, listen, now, you want me to be
Speaker 4: fashionable in the way that I dress. See, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: There's not this expectation that you've got some high fancy style.
Speaker 4: It's just a question of how do you dress. And
Speaker 4: you've pointed out a really important one. Amy you've noticed
Speaker 4: that you don't wear a lot of pattern stuff in
Speaker 4: your clothing.
Speaker 1: Even though I want to. But I never even if
Speaker 1: I try to, I always go back to the other thing,
Speaker 1: because I think it's better for me.
Speaker 4: Okay, and then and then as a result, as you
Speaker 4: look around your place, there aren't a lot of patterns
Speaker 4: as well, right, they just tend to work itself out
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? You're going to be talking about this
Speaker 1: all week right our weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're going to be taking calls tomorrow. Of course.
Speaker 4: We're wide open to take calls on style and then
Speaker 4: finding your style. The big show on Sunday, all.
Speaker 1: Right, six to eight am Saturday and nine to noon
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's called Home with the House, whispered Dean Sharp.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dean, thank you.
Speaker 5: Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: Courtney Donaho, Courtney Ah my team, the Niners. They're selling, yes.
Speaker 3: Selling just a stake in the team. But this is huge.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 13: First of all, Happy Friday. So the forty nine ers
Speaker 13: struck a deal to sell about six percent of the team.
Speaker 13: But this is the interesting part. This would value the
Speaker 13: franchise at a record breaking eight and a half billion
Speaker 13: dollars more than the Eagles. Three different families are splitting
Speaker 13: the steak. Valuations have boomed in recent years because a
Speaker 13: lot of pro teams have maintained their television ratings better
Speaker 13: than a lot of other entertainment out there. But it
Speaker 13: speaks volumes about the current state of sports investing, private equity, money,
Speaker 13: tech wealth increasingly elbowing their way into the luxury suite,
Speaker 13: and this is one of the reasons why we are
Speaker 13: seeing these valuations of teams all across the board soaring.
Speaker 1: People have too much money. That's all I can do.
Speaker 13: Yeah, all right, but the forty nine ers deal, by
Speaker 13: the way, still needs to clear the NFL owners meeting,
Speaker 13: so it's still not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Okay. One of the most influential companies in the crypto space,
Speaker 1: this is not good news has been hacked.
Speaker 13: Yes, crypto exchange Coinbase revealed that hackers bribed workers to
Speaker 13: steal customer data that's the unbelievable part of this, and
Speaker 13: demanded a twenty million dollar ransom. Coinbase is refusing to
Speaker 13: pay it. But the breach may cost a company four
Speaker 13: hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: But what makes this so.
Speaker 13: Outstanding for a lot of people, really interesting is that
Speaker 13: this company led the whole entire digital asset revolution and
Speaker 13: the march into the mainstream financial system, and this revelation
Speaker 13: of the hack actually comes days before it joins the
Speaker 13: S and P five hundred on Monday, it's joining the
Speaker 13: S and P five hundred.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, if you were on the hunt for
Speaker 1: a job, things could be a little dicey for you.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 13: So all of these ever changing tariffs is causing a
Speaker 13: lot of companies to slow their role. The folks at
Speaker 13: the Atlanta Fed surveyed some executives around the country and
Speaker 13: they found that businesses planned to scale back their hiring
Speaker 13: by about thirteen percent an investment by sixteen percent.
Speaker 3: Tariffs overwhelmingly the top.
Speaker 13: Source of uncertainty when it comes to future plans. The
Speaker 13: Atlanta Fed actually added that businesses are in wait and
Speaker 13: see mode at the moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, so be patient if you're out looking. Yeah, okay
Speaker 1: about it. We were talking about this a little bit earlier,
Speaker 1: that the couple of the two biggest cable companies want
Speaker 1: to do a merger, and I said, well, nothing good
Speaker 1: is going to come from that. But what what is
Speaker 1: going to come from that?
Speaker 13: Well, good for them because they've been under a lot
Speaker 13: of pressure from wireless providers such as AT and T
Speaker 13: and T Mobile, which have their own Internet offerings, and
Speaker 13: we all know that streaming has been to paidv but
Speaker 13: it is official. Charter Communications has a great to merge
Speaker 13: with Cox Communications. The deal is valued at about thirty
Speaker 13: five billion dollars, So this is a pretty big deal. Charter,
Speaker 13: by the way, that's the top cable company in the country.
Speaker 13: It operates under the Spectrum brand.
Speaker 1: Just in case you need to know, that's what we
Speaker 1: have here.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and Cox is the largest private broadband company in
Speaker 13: the US.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Courtney, I have a question for you. It's
Speaker 1: a thirty four billion dollar deal. Who gets that money?
Speaker 3: Investors them?
Speaker 13: There's a whole host lawyers just lining up failures all
Speaker 13: the money that these people are going to get. But
Speaker 13: the thing about the Cox family, which will be getting
Speaker 13: a lot of the money.
Speaker 3: It's a privately held company.
Speaker 13: So the Cox family has held onto it for many,
Speaker 13: many years, and and they've tried. There's been a lot
Speaker 13: of speculation over time, actually over the past decade that
Speaker 13: they wanted to sell. Even Charter talk to them about
Speaker 13: ten years ago and it didn't quite work out. So
Speaker 13: now they're like, all right, time to time to give
Speaker 13: it up. So it's mostly going to go to the
Speaker 13: Cox family.
Speaker 1: All right, and that's getting in your business for this
Speaker 1: Friday morning with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: Courtney before we let you go stocks today up down,
Speaker 1: We know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's looking good so far.
Speaker 13: It's actually looking a lot better than a lot of
Speaker 13: New Jersey transit commuters this morning. So it's better on
Speaker 13: Wall Street than there I especially if you're trying to
Speaker 13: get to the office today.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so.
Speaker 3: Ugly for so many folks.
Speaker 1: Luckily we don't have a great transit system, so not
Speaker 1: that many people rely on it here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ay, but it's looking good.
Speaker 13: It's actually one of the best weeks this year so
Speaker 13: far for the S and P five hundred.
Speaker 3: So I'm leaving you on and up note.
Speaker 1: I love that, and we will talk to you again
Speaker 1: Monday morning. Have a great weekend you too, talk to
Speaker 1: you later. All right. Nearly one hundred and thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand people who live in La County you are going
Speaker 1: to be getting their medical debt for given it's being
Speaker 1: paid for by taxpayer and philanthropic money. Eligible residents are
Speaker 1: going to get a letter letting them know that their
Speaker 1: medical debt has been erased Americans credit card balances have
Speaker 1: dropped in the first quarter of this year by twenty
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars. The Federal Reserve Bank says Auto loan
Speaker 1: debt also fell by thirteen billion dollars from the previous quarter,
Speaker 1: but student loan balances hit a record of one point
Speaker 1: sixty three trillion dollars. Because pandemic pauses and student loan
Speaker 1: payments have ended, delinquencies are also spiking. Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande,
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamara have each scored a leading
Speaker 1: four nominations for the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards. The awards
Speaker 1: will be presented June twenty first, in a traditionally green
Speaker 1: slime filled ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Willgans. Will we
Speaker 1: got fiftieth season wrapping up tomorrow night.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So, while that in and of itself is sort of
Speaker 5: a headline after this incredible season that they've had, star
Speaker 5: studded season that they've had, the big question that everyone
Speaker 5: is asking is which cast members are going to announce
Speaker 5: that they are leaving? So, you know, there's plenty of
Speaker 5: options out there. Of course, Colin Jost his wife, Scarlett Johansson,
Speaker 5: is hosting the episode tomorrow night, so I think there
Speaker 5: are a lot of people that are thinking, Okay, maybe
Speaker 5: this is his way of leaving the show. He's going
Speaker 5: to you know, celebrate with his wife hosting the show
Speaker 5: one last time, and his Weekend Update co anchor Michael
Speaker 5: Jay is also sort of leading the odds on some
Speaker 5: of the cast members who may be announcing that they're leaving.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite segment on the whole show is Weekend
Speaker 1: Update with I love those guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they've been there actually for a really long time,
Speaker 5: so you know, it would make sense. I think people
Speaker 5: some cast members may be stuck around. They said, you know,
Speaker 5: it's the fiftieth season, we don't want to bail before this,
Speaker 5: and now that that's over, I do think that there
Speaker 5: might be a little bit of an exodus maybe from
Speaker 5: the cast. You know, they have seventeen cast members. Normally
Speaker 5: it's around I'm fifteen. So we'll have to watch tomorrow
Speaker 5: night to find out who's leaving, and they.
Speaker 1: Make an announcement during the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So it sort of depends like if there are
Speaker 5: people who have had this in the works for a
Speaker 5: long time. Those two in particular, I would think would
Speaker 5: have you know, worked this out with NBC a long
Speaker 5: time ago. They do typically do some sort of send off,
Speaker 5: you know, and being that Scar Joe is going to
Speaker 5: be there, you know, maybe she would be involved in that.
Speaker 5: Other minor cast members if they're maybe you know, they've
Speaker 5: been there for one or two years and they're maybe
Speaker 5: they're being let go as opposed to leaving the show
Speaker 5: of their own volition. They might not get a big announcement,
Speaker 5: but when it's a big name and it's somebody that
Speaker 5: has had this in the works for a while, there
Speaker 5: is usually some sort of nice goodbye that they have planned.
Speaker 1: Okay, before we move on. Have you heard this that
Speaker 1: when they do weekend Update, Colin writes for Michael and
Speaker 1: Michael writes for Colin and they're not allowed to read
Speaker 1: it before they go in the air.
Speaker 5: I mean that, yes, and they do that. They do
Speaker 5: that the joke swap sometimes like once. I don't think
Speaker 5: every episode that that's the case, but they do do
Speaker 5: this recurring bit where that happens, and I do think
Speaker 5: sometimes there are like other liners that are snuck in
Speaker 5: some of the jokes they write themselves. But then the
Speaker 5: other times, yes, they are writing for each other, and
Speaker 5: that's when it gets insane.
Speaker 1: You can kind of tell when they you know, when
Speaker 1: they get cracked up. Yeah, they're like, oh crap, I
Speaker 1: got to read this. Okay, right, right.
Speaker 3: Let's move on.
Speaker 1: Paul Rudd, Love Paul Rudd. He's in a new you're
Speaker 1: calling it a cringe comedy friendship.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's that's exactly what it is. So I have
Speaker 5: not had to watch a movie from behind my own hands,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. I'm sitting in the chair
Speaker 5: just covering my face being like, oh my god, this
Speaker 5: is so uncomfortable. It's hilarious. But if you are easily
Speaker 5: embarrassed by other people's embarrassments, this might not be the
Speaker 5: movie for you. This is in theaters now, and it's
Speaker 5: about a middle aged guy who is trying to become
Speaker 5: good friends with Paul Rudd's character, who's like the local
Speaker 5: weather man, who's like a cool guy, you know, and
Speaker 5: this man just keeps on embarrassing himsel And it's one
Speaker 5: of these things that has you asking, like our men okay,
Speaker 5: are grown men? Okay?
Speaker 6: Like water?
Speaker 5: They so, you know, uncomfortable and awkward, and it's a
Speaker 5: very funny movie. But it is a cringe comedy for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay. So it's a good, uncomfortable.
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then I everybody loves grandma's cooking. It's comfort food.
Speaker 1: And but what happens when you put a whole kitchen
Speaker 1: full of nanas together?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 5: So this is Vince Vaughan. He plays a guy who
Speaker 5: opens up a restaurant on Staten Island and this is
Speaker 5: all based on a true story. I've been to this
Speaker 5: restaurant and instead of chefs in the kitchen, it's real
Speaker 5: life grandma's making their family recipes for people. So the
Speaker 5: menu changes every day. And it's a very sweet story.
Speaker 5: This guy loses his mother and decides he's going to
Speaker 5: honor her by opening up this restaurant on Staten Island
Speaker 5: that employs real life grandma's and Susan Sarandon is in it.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's funny because a lot of the
Speaker 5: humor comes from these grandmas who are like beefing with
Speaker 5: each other because one's from Sicily and from Bologna, and
Speaker 5: they disagree about how to make certain pastas and things
Speaker 5: like that. So it's very sweet, very funny, feel good
Speaker 5: movie that's streaming on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you where can we find
Speaker 1: that Netflix so I can watch that one this weekend
Speaker 1: because I'm sick and I'm going to be on the couch.
Speaker 5: There you go, all right. It will make you. It
Speaker 5: will make you hungry, though, so have some pasta ready
Speaker 5: to go for yourself.
Speaker 1: I've got some spaghetti in the cupboard. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: All right. ABC's will gans. Thanks for all the recommendations.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch them. Have a great weekend, Oki Doki,
Speaker 1: you do take care. All right, Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four our newsroom. A parole hearing date has been set
Speaker 1: for the Menandez brothers.
Speaker 6: June thirteenth was originally scheduled for the convicted killers to
Speaker 6: go before the parole board as part of their attempt
Speaker 6: to get clemency from the governor. Now that they've been
Speaker 6: re sentenced to fifty years to life and are now
Speaker 6: immediately eligible for parole, that day will be used for
Speaker 6: the traditional parole hearing instead. They murdered their parents in
Speaker 6: Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine, and were sentenced to
Speaker 6: life without parole, but that change Tuesday at the re
Speaker 6: sentencing in van NY's. If the parole board says Eric
Speaker 6: and lauman Indez can go free, Governor Newso would have
Speaker 6: ninety days to go along with it or deny it.
Speaker 6: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A federal judge in la has thrown out a lawsuit
Speaker 1: by former county sheriff Alex Vinaeva. He sued for being
Speaker 1: placed on a do not rehire list. The judge yesterday
Speaker 1: found the former sheriff could show no evidence that his
Speaker 1: political or employment ambitions suffered as a result of his
Speaker 1: placement on the list, or that a potential job with
Speaker 1: the county hung in the balance. The judge wrote, it
Speaker 1: is hard to imagine how being placed on a do
Speaker 1: not rehire list could serve as an injury if the
Speaker 1: plaintiff does not desire to be rehired. Two men have
Speaker 1: been arrested for trying to smuggle parrots, parakeets, and even
Speaker 1: chickens into the US. Border Patrol agents found a man
Speaker 1: from Mexico last month with parrots stuffed in his boots
Speaker 1: and hidden under a seat in a separate stop. On
Speaker 1: May fourth, agents noticed that a blanket was moving and
Speaker 1: found sixteen parakeets and three chickens. The men were arrested
Speaker 1: for smuggling. The birds being cared for and checked to
Speaker 1: make sure that they're not carrying any diseases. We'll quit laughing.
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