Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand Sunday.
Speaker 2: With Tiffany Hobbs right here on KFI AM six forty
Speaker 2: live everywhere on your iHeartRadio app. We are two days
Speaker 2: into this Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3: We are in the thick of it all.
Speaker 2: Can you feel it? Does it feel like a holiday weekend?
Speaker 2: Does it feel like a three day weekend for you?
Speaker 2: Certainly does for me because usually around this time, I'm
Speaker 2: starting to anticipate what Monday generally brings, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of preparing for that and getting back into the work week.
Speaker 2: But we have that extra day, and what do we
Speaker 2: have to thank but those brave people who gave their
Speaker 2: lives to ensure that we have the freedoms in this
Speaker 2: country that we enjoy. So make sure again that you
Speaker 2: keep their memory, that you memorialize those people this week
Speaker 2: and keep them at the forefront, because if it wasn't
Speaker 2: for their sacrifices, we wouldn't have this weekend.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 2: It's definitely about more more than your barbecue and more
Speaker 2: than your hanging out. It's about remembering why we are here.
Speaker 2: But again, we're two days into this Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 2: and like every holiday weekend in Southern California, it always
Speaker 2: comes with news that surprises absolutely no one. So shocker,
Speaker 2: there's a possible record breaking accumulation of travel, if you will,
Speaker 2: over this Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3: And what am I talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the travel rush that's started on Friday
Speaker 2: and is estimated to continue until about eight pm tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And estimate it's three point six million passengers will be
Speaker 2: traveling by plane, many more will be traveling by car.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how you're traveling. If you're traveling,
Speaker 2: but you certainly want to kind of keep abreast of
Speaker 2: what's going on lest you find yourself out in the
Speaker 2: crush of all these people who are coming and going.
Speaker 2: And if you've been outside, especially since our weather is
Speaker 2: pretty decent this weekend, then you know there's traffic driving here.
Speaker 2: The one O one, the one on one North was packed,
Speaker 2: was packed on a Sunday. There are no more, I
Speaker 2: think gap times where traffic is light. It seems like
Speaker 2: if you get on one of our Southern California freeways
Speaker 2: you are bound to run into traffic. There's no more
Speaker 2: rush hour, there's just rush and we're all seemingly going somewhere.
Speaker 2: So let's get into some more information about this quote
Speaker 2: unquote record setting weekend that's supposed to break records set
Speaker 2: twenty years ago. Robin, do you have that audio queued
Speaker 2: up for us? You're ready for it, Let's get into it.
Speaker 4: Triple A predicts a record set twenty years ago will
Speaker 4: be broken as more than forty five million people are
Speaker 4: expected to travel fifty miles or more of this holiday weekend.
Speaker 4: I'll trying to go to Miami, but man, take us
Speaker 4: away to Expencer, So I'm going to shill out of
Speaker 4: southwest Side. Even though domestic flights are a little more
Speaker 4: expensive this year than last year, three point six million
Speaker 4: people will be flying.
Speaker 5: Man, I'm a procascinator, so I've missed so many flights
Speaker 5: from this airport.
Speaker 4: It's so unfortunate.
Speaker 6: But I'm getting there pretty early now.
Speaker 4: Real ideas or passports are required for domestic flights. If
Speaker 4: you don't have one, you will still be allowed to travel,
Speaker 4: but you may have to go through additional screenings. Some
Speaker 4: say flying outs is easier than where you're going. We
Speaker 4: are flying to New York, so it's arguably the worst
Speaker 4: airport in the world. But so far, so I've got
Speaker 4: TRIPAA says thirty nine million people will also be driving
Speaker 4: this holiday weekend, so if you plan to stay local,
Speaker 4: expect to bumper to bumper traffic.
Speaker 7: You want to be mindful that there are going to
Speaker 7: be a lot of cars on the roads people heading
Speaker 7: to the airport.
Speaker 4: If you don't want to sit in traffic, leave early
Speaker 4: and avoid times. Travelers believe the hassle of getting around
Speaker 4: worth it. And remember everyone who's leaving has to come
Speaker 4: back eventually, So on Monday, peak travel times will be
Speaker 4: between four and seven, so it's best to leave before
Speaker 4: two o'clock if you want to avoid any.
Speaker 2: Traffic where you like me waiting for him to clear
Speaker 2: his throat, I feel like he's done a lot of
Speaker 2: talking about this traffic situation over the last few days.
Speaker 3: But you heard it right there.
Speaker 2: Thirty nine million people by car, up quite a few
Speaker 2: more forty five million by air, and that is through
Speaker 2: Triple a's kind of diagnostic of this weekend, and a
Speaker 2: lot of them seem to be coming to Southern California.
Speaker 2: We are always a go to place. You heard that, gentleman,
Speaker 2: say the procrastinator self proclaimed Miami, Los Angeles, and then
Speaker 2: some other coastal cities, those are the way or those
Speaker 2: are the places in which people want to go most.
Speaker 2: And Triple A did mention as well that rental car
Speaker 2: rates are down, although domestic flights are a bit more expensive.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've looked at your Google Flights
Speaker 2: or any sort of flight booking app, but good lord,
Speaker 2: it's expensive to go to and from It makes you
Speaker 2: want to travel by car. But let's say if you
Speaker 2: travel by car and you want to rent a car,
Speaker 2: there are some issues with renting out of southern California.
Speaker 2: I do remember, maybe a year or two ago, wanting
Speaker 2: to rent a car to travel to Las Vegas, just
Speaker 2: so I didn't put miles on my own car. I
Speaker 2: have a lease and didn't want to inflate those miles.
Speaker 2: And in trying to rent a car the car rental company,
Speaker 2: I forget what the name, which one it was, which
Speaker 2: one of the major ones, like Hurts or Enterprise or
Speaker 2: something like that, they wanted a fifteen hundred dollars deposit
Speaker 2: just to ensure that I would not, I guess, leave.
Speaker 3: The country with the car.
Speaker 2: I have no clue tote of my plan, said this
Speaker 2: is what I'm going to do. I'm just doing this
Speaker 2: for a long weekend, and they want it. As a
Speaker 2: Southern California resident in this is after all the checks
Speaker 2: and balances that we all pass just to rent a car,
Speaker 2: they wanted this hugely inflated deposit. So while rental car
Speaker 2: rates may be down, I do wonder if our Southern
Speaker 2: California residents are faring well because it seems to be
Speaker 2: a bit inequitable when it comes to that. But as well,
Speaker 2: if you are traveling by plane, this is the first
Speaker 2: major weekend in which the real ID policy is being
Speaker 2: put into effect. So far, I'm hearing and reading that
Speaker 2: there aren't many issues.
Speaker 3: There are separate lines.
Speaker 2: Please weigh in on the talk back and let us
Speaker 2: know if you've done any traveling with your real ID
Speaker 2: or without your real ID, what that's been like for you.
Speaker 2: But as you know that IDA is required for domestic
Speaker 2: flights and if you don't have it, there are other
Speaker 2: ways that you can travel, for sure, but it can
Speaker 2: choke the security process. According to Triple A, Monday's travel
Speaker 2: peak times are between twelve am and twelve am. That's
Speaker 2: what I would say, But four pm and seven pm
Speaker 2: shocker to absolutely no one, and they suggest that if
Speaker 2: you are traveling back home, wherever you're going, or wherever
Speaker 2: you may be boarding next that it's best to leave
Speaker 2: before two pm to avoid any heavy traffic, to which
Speaker 2: I say has triple A not been on our Southern
Speaker 2: California roads lately, because before two pm is the same
Speaker 2: as four pm. It's the same thing you're going to
Speaker 2: be in traffic. Just prepare. It's a Memorial Day week
Speaker 2: and it's a holiday weekend. People are out as they
Speaker 2: should be, and just kind of buckle up for it all.
Speaker 2: It comes part and parcel with living in sunny Southern California.
Speaker 2: Something else that comes with living in this beautiful region
Speaker 2: our beach and a lot of people use our beaches
Speaker 2: as their vacation destination. I'm going to tell you when
Speaker 2: we come back, what Southern California beach has made the
Speaker 2: top five on a list of California's dirtiest beaches, and
Speaker 2: what beaches have kind of gotten a pat on the
Speaker 2: back for improving their status. Yeah, we have some really
Speaker 2: dirty beaches, and I'll let you know before you take
Speaker 2: a dip.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Filling in today on this Memorial Day weekend. I guess
Speaker 2: no one else was available. I'm the only one who
Speaker 2: has no life. I'm very happy to be here with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. We're talking right now in these first
Speaker 2: few segments, really about what's going on with our beaches,
Speaker 2: what's going on locally with travel, because California, especially Southern California,
Speaker 2: is a prime vacation destination. People want to here, and
Speaker 2: those of us who are here, we know there are
Speaker 2: wonderful things, and then, of course there are not so
Speaker 2: wonderful things. So if you are looking to come to
Speaker 2: if you're already here in southern California and you're wanting
Speaker 2: to hit our beaches, because that's what we do, that's
Speaker 2: what you're here for. The short answer of it is don't.
Speaker 2: What you're like, what do you mean don't. That's why
Speaker 2: I'm here, why I booked that expensive flight and got
Speaker 2: the whole hotel room situated, and want to go to
Speaker 2: the beach, want to lay out? Yeah, probably not the
Speaker 2: best idea right now.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Some of the beaches they're fine, some of them are fine,
Speaker 2: they're okay, But to be honest, it's kind of a
Speaker 2: crapshoot at this point, no pun intended.
Speaker 3: Let's find out why.
Speaker 7: Hey, I've released it's annual list of the dirtiest beaches
Speaker 7: in California, claiming the unwanted top spot is Playa Blanca
Speaker 7: in Baja California. The beach's water quality is considered dirty
Speaker 7: due to sewage pollution, particularly from a nearby treatment plant.
Speaker 7: The remaining top five spots belong to Santa Monica Pier,
Speaker 7: Tijuana Slough at Tiwanna River, Tijuana River Mouth Rather in
Speaker 7: San Diego County, Chicken Ranch Beach at Channel in Marine County,
Speaker 7: and Linda mar Beach at San Pedro Creek in San
Speaker 7: Mateo County. As for the state's cleanest beaches, the part
Speaker 7: we all want to hear all ten We're in Orange County.
Speaker 3: Lucky Orange County.
Speaker 2: Way to brag, right, Well, the thing about it is
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are vacationing in southern California,
Speaker 2: they're not necessarily going to Orange County beaches. They may
Speaker 2: go to Disneyland, they may go to things out there
Speaker 2: in Anaheim, but they're not necessarily setting their sights on
Speaker 2: beaches that are out that way.
Speaker 3: That's more of a local thing.
Speaker 2: We Southern Californians go to Orange County, we go to Laguna,
Speaker 2: go down to that area. People are coming here for
Speaker 2: the big ones, right your Venice Beach, your Santa Monica,
Speaker 2: your Malibu, all of which have been greatly affected since
Speaker 2: the Palisades fire specifically, But strangely enough, this list of
Speaker 2: dirtiest beaches doesn't even include or does not even account
Speaker 2: for wildfire runoff.
Speaker 3: So what's actually going on? When you think about it.
Speaker 2: These studies happen every year and again they're a shocker
Speaker 2: to no one if you live here. If you live here,
Speaker 2: you kind of know which beaches to avoid. You can
Speaker 2: absolutely give a recommendation recommendation on where not to go.
Speaker 2: And at the top of that recommendation list of maybe
Speaker 2: where not to go is probably the Santa Monica Peer
Speaker 2: and its beach around And Santa Monica Peer actually ranked
Speaker 2: number two to this year on Heal the Based Dirtiest
Speaker 2: Beaches list. That's unfortunate. So the criteria was water quality, Okay,
Speaker 2: now here we go, fecal bacteria coliform E coli and
Speaker 2: and and runoff from bird waste and other urban sorts
Speaker 2: of runoff. Heal the Bay Monitors beaches up and down
Speaker 2: the California coast, and they did survey more than five
Speaker 2: hundred beaches. Santa Monica Pier came in number two on
Speaker 2: the list of dirtiest beaches. We're not talking about the
Speaker 2: syringes in the sand. We're not talking about the tents
Speaker 2: along the boardwalk or the pier there. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the actual water quality and when you also add into
Speaker 2: the toxicity from the runoff from the fires. And we
Speaker 2: had Ashley Osin up the California Coastal Alliance on Saturdays
Speaker 2: with Tiffany a few weeks ago. That water and that runoff,
Speaker 2: that sand is considered right now to be highly toxic
Speaker 2: due to the fire debris. And California Coastal Alliance includes
Speaker 2: the Santa Monica Pier area from that area north into
Speaker 2: Malibu and all the way down to El Segundo at
Speaker 2: least on the list of places they say you should
Speaker 2: absolutely stay out of.
Speaker 3: So that's a separate issue entirely.
Speaker 2: Heal the Bays survey is talking about fecal bacteria.
Speaker 3: There's poop in the water, They're talking about E. Coli.
Speaker 2: They're talking about other pathogens that could be harmful to
Speaker 2: beach goers. Of the five hundred beaches that Heal the
Speaker 2: Bay monitored, the top ten also included four in San
Speaker 2: Diego County, three in San Mateo County, and one in
Speaker 2: Marin County. But the only one in Los Angeles is
Speaker 2: the Santa Monica Pier. That's really disheartening, the only one.
Speaker 2: There's a quote from the chief executive of Heal the
Speaker 2: Bay from Tracy Quinn, and she says, quote, every day,
Speaker 2: families who visit Santa Monica for a day of fun
Speaker 2: in the sun may be unknowingly risking illness by splashing
Speaker 2: in polluted waters. She goes on to say it's time
Speaker 2: for the city of Santa Monica to prioritize efforts to
Speaker 2: identify and reduce bacteria levels at the Santa Monica Pier.
Speaker 2: Santa Monica Pier also experienced quite a few upgrades over
Speaker 2: the last year and plus.
Speaker 3: They got some.
Speaker 2: Nice new wood sighting out there, and they got some
Speaker 2: nice new attractions, made it look all shiny. Everything's in
Speaker 2: preparation for the Olympics and all these other big events
Speaker 2: that are on their way. But everything that is counted
Speaker 2: amongst the list there from Heal the Bay in terms
Speaker 2: of is attributed to urban runoff and high levels of
Speaker 2: water contaminating activities, including the disposal of fish guts from
Speaker 2: recreational fishing. So you have poop in the water and
Speaker 2: you have fish guts, and that, my friends, is what
Speaker 2: sums up Santa Monica. Pere knock yourselves out. So the
Speaker 2: ten dirtiest beaches again, we're in Baja California, San Diego County,
Speaker 2: Mateo County, Marin County, and out there again near kind
Speaker 2: of near the border of Mexico and California. But there
Speaker 2: is some good news in this really really disgusting list.
Speaker 2: Out of the more than five hundred beaches monitored, sixty
Speaker 2: two actually earned a spot on Heal the Bays on
Speaker 2: a roll, which means they've made a significant improvement since
Speaker 2: last year. So here are the beaches you you should
Speaker 2: go to. Don't go to the Santa Monica Pier. Instead,
Speaker 2: go to Balboa Beach at the Wedge in Orange County,
Speaker 2: Balboa Peer Beach in Orange County, Capistrano County Beach, Crystal
Speaker 2: Cove State Park, Dana Point Harbor. These are all in
Speaker 2: Orange County. Huntington City Beach, Laguna Beach.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Robin Newport Bay, North Aliso County Beach, and San Clemente
Speaker 2: Pier in La County. There are seven Honor Roll beaches
Speaker 2: so we can brag as well, and those beaches include
Speaker 2: Doc Whiler State Beach, to which I say, don't do it.
Speaker 3: Don't do it.
Speaker 2: The fact that there's the parking is horrible, and then
Speaker 2: you're just gonna be around a lot of teenagers.
Speaker 3: That's the hot spot.
Speaker 2: Doc Whiler is the hot spot for the bonfires and
Speaker 2: the meetups, and it's just not really a family friendly place.
Speaker 2: But Doc Whiler did make Honor Roll Hermosa Beach, love
Speaker 2: Hermosa Beach, Long Point in Rancho Palace Verdes, Manhattan Beach
Speaker 2: at twenty eighth Streets, specifically Nicholas Beach at San Nicholas Canyon,
Speaker 2: Creek Mouth, and then also Portuguese Portuguese Bend Cove in
Speaker 2: Rancho palace Verdes. If you try to go down into
Speaker 2: Palace Verdes, be fore warned you need to make sure
Speaker 2: that you are doing the right thing because those officials
Speaker 2: down there don't want people bring in their issues to
Speaker 2: Palace Verdes. So if you're gonna go enjoy yourself, make
Speaker 2: sure you are having nice clean fun. Take all your
Speaker 2: debaucherous activities up to Hermosa instead. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about Governor Newsome and Mayor Bass's
Speaker 2: security plan for the reopening of PCH. Just opened on
Speaker 2: Friday after being closed since the Palisades fire in January.
Speaker 2: So it's been months and months and months, and now
Speaker 2: PCH is back open, but not so fast because even
Speaker 2: though you're able to go, it's going to look and
Speaker 2: feel very different when you do. We'll talk about all
Speaker 2: of that and more.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Maybe a drive up PCH is on your list, it's
Speaker 2: in your future. Maybe you're on PCH now. And perhaps
Speaker 2: it's nostalgia. You love like I do driving up PCH
Speaker 2: windows down, or I have a car where you can
Speaker 2: remove the top that it's kind of my favorite and
Speaker 2: get that so that you can drive up a coastline
Speaker 2: and take the top off and soak it all in right,
Speaker 2: Or maybe it's a combination of that nostalgia. And I
Speaker 2: say nostalgia because we haven't been able to drive up
Speaker 2: PCH or down PCH in months, months, months, months, a
Speaker 2: long time because of the Palisades fire. So maybe it's
Speaker 2: a mix of nostalgia and also curiosity wanting to know
Speaker 2: what the landscape looks like. Now I know I do,
Speaker 2: and we've all been barred unless you're a resident of
Speaker 2: the Palisades from seeing the effects up close of the
Speaker 2: Palisades Fire, of just being able to take PCH north
Speaker 2: and southbound past very specific points. Well, it's finally back
Speaker 2: open after all these months of being closed, and I
Speaker 2: am excited. I'm excited. I can't wait to get out there.
Speaker 2: I imagine the same can be said for you, of course,
Speaker 2: unless you are a person directly impacted by the fires.
Speaker 2: But for those of us who have always used PCH
Speaker 2: as an escape, it's going to look a lot different.
Speaker 3: It's going to feel a lot different. And here's why
Speaker 3: the drive will look different.
Speaker 8: But for the first time since January's fires, almost eleven
Speaker 8: miles the Pacific Coast Highway have reopened, just in time
Speaker 8: for the holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: We're excited for what is.
Speaker 8: An important part of the movement forward towards are rebuilt.
Speaker 8: Many support the reopening, especially because it will help businesses
Speaker 8: hurting since the fires.
Speaker 9: Our business has been off by eighty or ninety percent, probably.
Speaker 8: Carter Crariy is the owner of Malibu Divers. He's hopeful
Speaker 8: that more traffic will boost his struggling shop.
Speaker 9: We're certainly happy. We've gone four months with no business
Speaker 9: in Our summer season starts in May, so we're hopeful
Speaker 9: that we'll have a shop full of people.
Speaker 8: For drivers heading out to pch, there are a few
Speaker 8: things you need to know. Two lanes will open in
Speaker 8: each direction, but look out for lane shifts because of
Speaker 8: repair work. A twenty five mile per hour speed limit
Speaker 8: will be enforced between Tamescal Canyon Road and the Palisades
Speaker 8: and Carbon Beach Terrace in Malibu. There's no parking or
Speaker 8: stopping in work zones. Be prepared for slow moving maintenance vehicles.
Speaker 8: Though many people are happy to see the highway reopened
Speaker 8: with increased track, some have security concerns.
Speaker 2: I'll say, of course, and those security concerns include accessing
Speaker 2: the Palisades, these neighborhoods that were impacted by the fires,
Speaker 2: accessing these properties that are vacant that have been leveled,
Speaker 2: people who are starting to rebuild. Of course, people in
Speaker 2: those neighborhoods have every right to be concerned, and as
Speaker 2: a person who enjoys this area. I also understand people
Speaker 2: who are interested in using it again as a thoroughfare
Speaker 2: or as a kind of leisurely little short dacation getaway.
Speaker 2: But despite this reopening, which did occur on Friday, and
Speaker 2: again I said at the top of the show, we're
Speaker 2: well into the thick of things with this Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 2: access into the Palisades, specifically into these neighborhoods, will continue
Speaker 2: to remain limited to only resid cidence, business owners, employees,
Speaker 2: and contractors. Don't go in there trying to be a
Speaker 2: lucky lou trying to see the burned out properties, or
Speaker 2: trying to see the rebuilding process. It's not for you.
Speaker 2: You are to stay on PCH and go where you
Speaker 2: need to go. Don't try and kreem or take a
Speaker 2: detour up into these neighborhoods, because you will absolutely be stopped.
Speaker 2: City and state officials are saying that there will be
Speaker 2: a robust law enforcement continuance. They were already deployed, they've
Speaker 2: been there, and now they're just repositioning themselves up and
Speaker 2: down PCH to mitigate this insurgence of people who are
Speaker 2: now back on PCH ready to enjoy it. There will
Speaker 2: also be a significant increase in security checkpoints. There were
Speaker 2: originally five checkpoints up and down PCH in the approved area,
Speaker 2: and now there will be sixteen checkpoints. So you're not
Speaker 2: gonna get anywhere fast, I'll tell you that much. And
Speaker 2: there will be twenty four hour LAPD officers and LAPD presence.
Speaker 2: Mayor Bass went on to say, quote, the reopening of
Speaker 2: Pacific Coast Highway marks an important step forward in our
Speaker 2: recovery effort in the Palisades, which is on track to
Speaker 2: be the fastest in state history. Enough enough with the
Speaker 2: platitudes and the the contextual kind of competition of the
Speaker 2: fastest compared to this, and that it can't necessarily be
Speaker 2: the fastest if it doesn't feel like the fastest for
Speaker 2: the residents who say that many of them are going
Speaker 2: to and have already started the process to actually sell
Speaker 2: their properties because things are not going nearly as fast
Speaker 2: as they would hope. Governor k Newsome went on to say,
Speaker 2: to the survivor of these fires, we have your back.
Speaker 2: The state is committed to the security of neighborhoods and
Speaker 2: families who have been impacted. Councy Member Tracy Park, who
Speaker 2: I just really enjoy she seems to often be on
Speaker 2: the right side of things, pretty logical. She credited the
Speaker 2: ongoing support from state and local agencies for helping reduce
Speaker 2: crime during their recovery, and other Assembly members and local
Speaker 2: officials praise the multi agency responses. They highlighted that there
Speaker 2: are checkpoints and that LAPD is out there, and that
Speaker 2: residence should and will continue to feel safe. This is
Speaker 2: a start contrast to what's going on in al To Dina.
Speaker 2: In Olta Dina in the days immediately after the fire,
Speaker 2: after the smoke started to clear, I'd say about a
Speaker 2: week maybe two weeks after the fire, so end of January,
Speaker 2: anyone could access Alta Dina, didn't matter. There were checkpoints
Speaker 2: at certain points, but overall, the majority of the Altadena
Speaker 2: area was very accessible. There weren't these same precautions and
Speaker 2: measures in place to prevent people from being curious or
Speaker 2: being nefarious. And I'm happy that the Palisades has enjoyed this,
Speaker 2: and i do want them to continue, because.
Speaker 3: All these people are going to get out on PCH.
Speaker 2: Now and you can't monitor everyone, obviously, but it is
Speaker 2: inequitable unfortunately, with those people in Altadena versus the people
Speaker 2: in the Palisades. I hope that the security measures will
Speaker 2: ramp up in Altadena, which reports an influx of burglaries
Speaker 2: and other sorts of criminal activity in the last few
Speaker 2: months since the fires as well. You should know that
Speaker 2: when PCH is fully functional fully functional this weekend, there
Speaker 2: will be a twenty five mile per hour speed limit.
Speaker 3: You are going nowhere fast.
Speaker 2: So if you're expecting to go to your favorite restaurant,
Speaker 2: you're expecting to visit friends, or just to hang out
Speaker 2: on the beach, just to take a drive, you're going
Speaker 2: to have to what do they say, pack your patients.
Speaker 3: I hate that saying, but it's true.
Speaker 2: You're going to have to pack your patients because there's
Speaker 2: a twenty five mile per hour speed limit. And if
Speaker 2: you decide that you want to kind of get around
Speaker 2: that speed limit and test law enforcement, just know that
Speaker 2: there are going to be many police out there and
Speaker 2: Cowtrans and the CHP remind the public that finds, especially
Speaker 2: for traffic violations, are doubled in active work zones. All
Speaker 2: of PCH is an active work zone, So don't think
Speaker 2: that if you see cones that's where you need to
Speaker 2: be slow. You need to really treat this entire stretch
Speaker 2: of highway as an active work zone, and it will
Speaker 2: be that way for quite a while, unfortunately, especially as
Speaker 2: we get back into kind of the major part of
Speaker 2: fire season from now until the fall. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to shift gears from talking about your big, bright,
Speaker 2: beautiful beaches to your bright, beautiful future or is it.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you which college major as one of the
Speaker 2: highest unemployment rates, something we all should be aware of,
Speaker 2: especially if you have kids who are going to college.
Speaker 2: It's graduation season where you yourself are thinking about perhaps
Speaker 2: getting into another field. I'll tell you what field you
Speaker 2: probably won't be able to find a job in and more.
Speaker 3: On the other side of the break, you're.
Speaker 1: Listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Timmy Hobs here with you, and we're talking about not
Speaker 2: vacationing anymore. We're kind moving away from that, although we
Speaker 2: will in our deeper dive segment at the top of
Speaker 2: the three o'clock hour, we'll get into why PCH is
Speaker 2: losing its luster and to be honest, why it's falling apart.
Speaker 2: We'll really look into some detail with that. But returning
Speaker 2: to kind of what I teased before about college majors
Speaker 2: and unemployment.
Speaker 3: It's graduation season.
Speaker 2: You probably have seen someone off to graduation during this month,
Speaker 2: or at least the very least. You're aware that it's
Speaker 2: graduation season, and the conversations around what to do next
Speaker 2: are kind of on the tip of everyone's lips. Okay,
Speaker 2: especially in terms of where jobs will be and what
Speaker 2: jobs will be available for all of those entering the
Speaker 2: job market. Well, there's one major that won't make you
Speaker 2: any money. And here's the thing. Often we think of
Speaker 2: that particular category as involving certain majors. Let's let's kind
Speaker 2: of take a little informal survey. Robin, Richie, Nikki, everyone's here.
Speaker 2: When you think about college majors, which ones do you
Speaker 2: think do not equate to a high salary?
Speaker 10: Journalism? But I love it. I love what I do.
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll start the GoFundMe.
Speaker 10: Nicki, she's getting her headphones.
Speaker 3: Getting her headphones.
Speaker 2: Robin being a board or everything's radio based journalism board operation.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 10: I feel like a lot of that's kind of gone
Speaker 10: out of the window.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The arts, Yeah, the arts, I feel like that's
Speaker 5: not you know, what we're thriving for right now? Right?
Speaker 10: It varies like it depends who you ask.
Speaker 5: Like for me, like, I knew from the get go
Speaker 5: that that's not gonna, you know, get me a mansion,
Speaker 5: you know, but I figured I'd rather do something that
Speaker 5: I actually enjoy doing and not make you feel like
Speaker 5: it's work work, And you know, that's that's where I'm
Speaker 5: at with that.
Speaker 10: But what about you, Nikki? What do you think about
Speaker 10: this situation?
Speaker 3: So do sir NICKI?
Speaker 6: It's oh, I can't hear myself. I mean I studied
Speaker 6: journalism at school. Okay, that is definitely not a viable
Speaker 6: career path at the moment. Thinking short form into the future,
Speaker 6: I don't know. Tech is really floundering at the moment.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 6: Tech a few years ago was huge and booming, and
Speaker 6: now it's just layoffs and layoffs and downsizing and AI
Speaker 6: and offshoring. So I think it's something to do with
Speaker 6: tech maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you're right on, Nikki. If we were
Speaker 2: offering a prize, you would be the closest. Because while
Speaker 2: often people think of kind of English or the arts.
Speaker 3: Or other sort of.
Speaker 2: People or social services leaning majors, the one college major
Speaker 2: that has the highest unemployment unemployment rate despite ranking as
Speaker 2: one of the most popular majors actually is computer science.
Speaker 2: I know, I did not expect for that to happen.
Speaker 2: And the thing about it is during COVID, the demand
Speaker 2: for computer science majors skyrocketed. People wanted a lot of
Speaker 2: web based and online sort of expertise. So you had
Speaker 2: these computer science majors and professionals who had work just everywhere.
Speaker 3: It was plentiful.
Speaker 2: But as we've all known this year to be, it's
Speaker 2: kind of been the year of mass layoffs. Companies like
Speaker 2: Amazon and Google have laid off thousands of workers to
Speaker 2: boost their own profits. And because of these layoffs and
Speaker 2: these these big companies cutting out these computer science oriented degrees,
Speaker 2: the major has lost a lot of its appeal in
Speaker 2: the job market. So when we think about jobs specifically
Speaker 2: for computer science majors, these are these software developers. These
Speaker 2: are your people who are creating the patches for your
Speaker 2: software or your upgrades or whatnot. These are these cybersecurity professionals,
Speaker 2: people who are monitoring to make sure that there's no
Speaker 2: inappropriate activity, that you're not being hacked. These are your
Speaker 2: web developers, people who are creating, building maintaining websites. A
Speaker 2: lot of these positions have since been turned over to
Speaker 2: a I. So computer science as a people focused degree
Speaker 2: has lost a lot of its appeal because you have
Speaker 2: to pay people, You got to give people in shure currence,
Speaker 2: you have to hopefully be fair to people. AI None
Speaker 2: of that matters. You program it to monitor cybersecurity, you
Speaker 2: program it to develop this website, you program it to
Speaker 2: develop software and maintain it, and you just let it
Speaker 2: do its thing. So computer engineering has seen a spike
Speaker 2: to seven point five percent unemployment rate, which is making
Speaker 2: people who are in that job market really question whether
Speaker 2: or not they should stay.
Speaker 3: In that area.
Speaker 2: A lot of the computer science majors, a lot of
Speaker 2: these graduates are shifting away from computer science. They're going
Speaker 2: into nutrition sciences, construction services, civil engineering. Those three have
Speaker 2: seen an uptick since computer science has seen this major
Speaker 2: down grade. Sadly, overall, unemployment amongst college graduates is increasing
Speaker 2: across the board. Doesn't really matter what field you're in,
Speaker 2: whether journalism or computer science or anything in between. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: unemployment is increasing. There's a financial literacy instructor for the
Speaker 2: University of Tennessee, and she says, or they say, seeing
Speaker 2: such a high unemployment rate for majors like computer science
Speaker 2: may stun many Americans. Yeah, I think we all were
Speaker 2: a bit surprised. And the person goes on to say
Speaker 2: it's been one of the most encouraged majors in recent
Speaker 2: years due to the unprecedented need and the field by
Speaker 2: many businesses. But if you have someone in your life
Speaker 2: who was thinking about getting into computer science, while in
Speaker 2: previous years you might have encouraged that, hey, get into tech.
Speaker 3: That's at least I know I've done that.
Speaker 2: The money's in technology, the money's online, it's in web development,
Speaker 2: in cybersecurity. Apparently it's not because there are there are
Speaker 2: no jobs in that field. Now, let's say you do
Speaker 2: have a job. You have a nice job. Unfortunately, in
Speaker 2: the state of California, that means you get a big
Speaker 2: chunk taken out of your taxes. Well, when you file
Speaker 2: your taxes, you can hopefully expect something back. Something you
Speaker 2: have to pay, but hopefully you get something back. However,
Speaker 2: there are still people waiting for their refunds from the IRS.
Speaker 2: And it's not because of delayed filing. No, they filed
Speaker 2: on time. So what's going on? What's making their IRS
Speaker 2: returns lag? Why are they delayed? Thieves? Thieves there are
Speaker 2: thieves snatching mail and in that mail contains the filing
Speaker 2: documents for your refund for your taxes. There's a Georgia
Speaker 2: State University professor and he says the market is still
Speaker 2: very hot for this type of commodity. Your IRS refund
Speaker 2: check is a commodity. We're still seeing a lot of
Speaker 2: envelopes being offered for sale out there for sale.
Speaker 3: So what does that mean.
Speaker 2: What it means is there are criminals who are actually
Speaker 2: buying your refund check. And it does not matter if
Speaker 2: you have a doorbell cam, It does not matter if
Speaker 2: you have security. They are still going into these mailboxes
Speaker 2: and snatching mail by the bag full, leaving busted up
Speaker 2: mailboxes in their wake. Many refund checks were sent or
Speaker 2: sent from the IRS we're stolen in California specifically, and
Speaker 2: now a huge stash of those refund checks are for
Speaker 2: sale on the dark web, specifically from California and Los Angeles, which, apparently, surprise,
Speaker 2: I didn't know. This has always been a hot spot
Speaker 2: of check theft. Did you know that if you are
Speaker 2: looking for your IRS return and you know you filed
Speaker 2: it and it said that it was on its way,
Speaker 2: because you're expecting a paper check to come to your
Speaker 2: home and it's still not here after months, you might
Speaker 2: be a victim of one of these check theft rings.
Speaker 2: There was one check for a little over one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars that was supposed to go to a person in
Speaker 2: Long Beach in this in this recently found stash, eyewitness
Speaker 2: News Channel seven did a kind of an expose. There
Speaker 2: was another one for a little over eleven hundred dollars
Speaker 2: that belonged to a woman from Curritos, another one for
Speaker 2: a little over thirteen hundred dollars that belonged to a
Speaker 2: man from la And they're saying this is just a sliver.
Speaker 2: So if you know again that your check is a
Speaker 2: bit late, you could be one of the four thousand
Speaker 2: to five thousand stolen checks every month that are placed
Speaker 2: on the dark web. So I don't know what to
Speaker 2: tell you. I don't know. It's hard to get someone
Speaker 2: on the line obviously from the r from the IRS,
Speaker 2: but you can certainly check with your local post office
Speaker 2: to see if any of your checks did in fact
Speaker 2: arrive there and if they were sent out, And then
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to go through the said and arduous
Speaker 2: task of trying to get a refund for your refund
Speaker 2: because it was stolen. How fun is that? California and
Speaker 2: LA a hotbed for check theft. Who would have thought it.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to take our deeper
Speaker 2: dive and we're going to take a ride up Pacific
Speaker 2: Coast Highway. But instead of really kind of lavishing over it,
Speaker 2: we're gonna really talk about why it's always broken, Why
Speaker 2: is PCH always in need of repair. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: about that, and why the economic disaster in Malibu is
Speaker 2: just adding to an already crumbling infrastructure out there on PCCh.
Speaker 2: When we come
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