Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, December third.
Speaker 1: It is Giving Tuesday. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app and live at the Anaheim White
Speaker 1: House for Postathon. Yes, today is the day we've been
Speaker 1: waiting for, and we hope that you're going to come
Speaker 1: down and join us because we got a lot of
Speaker 1: money to raise. It is Giving Tuesday, the fourteenth annual
Speaker 1: KFI Pastathon is happening now at the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 1: And of course, Chef Bruno's charity, Katerinas Club provides more
Speaker 1: than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids in
Speaker 1: need in southern California, and we can't do it without you,
Speaker 1: so we hope that you'll come down, say hi, make
Speaker 1: a donation, bring your pasta and sauce. You can drop
Speaker 1: it off here. We're going to be here all day,
Speaker 1: right on through ten o'clock with Moe Kelly. All the
Speaker 1: shows are coming down. We've got lots of surprises for you.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, Chef Bruno can't feed twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand kids a week without your generosity. So here's how
Speaker 1: you can help. First of all, as I just mention,
Speaker 1: you can come see us. We would love for you
Speaker 1: to come down and say hi. It is so Christmasy
Speaker 1: and beautiful here at the White House. The trees are up,
Speaker 1: the lights are all over, the fire lamps are on,
Speaker 1: or the heaters, you know, the heaters that keep you warm.
Speaker 1: In fact, I need a heater by me, but we're inside,
Speaker 1: so it's probably not a great idea. Here's other ways
Speaker 1: that you can help. You can donate at KFI am
Speaker 1: six forty dot com slash pastathon. You can also bid
Speaker 1: on auction items. We'll tell you about those a little
Speaker 1: bit later during wake up call. You can also shop
Speaker 1: at any Smart and Final store and donate any amount
Speaker 1: at checkout through December eighth, but of course we want
Speaker 1: you to do it today. And you can also go
Speaker 1: to any Wendy's restaurant in southern California and donate five
Speaker 1: dollars or more and you'll get a coupon book for
Speaker 1: Wendy's goodies through December eighth. One hundred percent of your
Speaker 1: donations go to Katerina's Club. Again. I hope that you
Speaker 1: will come down and see us. Bill Handle's joining us
Speaker 1: at six and of course, the FOK reporter Neil Savedra
Speaker 1: and then we're going to have a lot of fun
Speaker 1: here today and raise a lot of money for a really,
Speaker 1: really wonderful cause. We do have the world continuing. So
Speaker 1: let's get you caught up with what's happening around the world.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The Hawaiian woman
Speaker 1: who hasn't been seen since she missed her connecting flight
Speaker 1: to New York last month, is believed to have gone
Speaker 1: to Mexico. The LAPD says video shows Hannah Kobayashi crossing
Speaker 1: the southern border on November twelfth or thirteenth, and there's
Speaker 1: no evidence of foul play. A law enforcement official says
Speaker 1: she's an adult and she can choose to be missing.
Speaker 1: The White House's President Biden did not lie when he
Speaker 1: said several times that he would not pardon his son.
Speaker 1: Hunter spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre told reporters on Air Force
Speaker 1: One that Biden just decided to change his mind over
Speaker 1: the weekend. Republicans and even some Democrats have spoken out
Speaker 1: saying Biden has put family ahead of country. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: are about to introduce their new picture at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: Two times Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell agreed last
Speaker 1: week to a five year, one hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: million dollar contract. That's the third highest ever for a
Speaker 1: left handed pitcher. Clayton Kershaw's twenty fourteen deal with the
Speaker 1: Dodgers is the second highest, at six o five. It's
Speaker 1: handle on the news California is bracing for Trump with
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars. We'll tell you what that money
Speaker 1: is going.
Speaker 2: To go to.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPD says
Speaker 1: the woman from Hawaii who disappeared after flying into lax
Speaker 1: may now be in Mexico. Chief Jim McDonald says they
Speaker 1: have videos showing Kobayashi walking across the border at the
Speaker 1: Sandy Sea dro Coort of Entry near San Diego, four
Speaker 1: days after she arrived in la last month.
Speaker 3: The investigation has not uncovered any evidence that Kobayashi is
Speaker 3: being trafficked or is the victim of follow play. She
Speaker 3: is also not a suspect in any criminal activity.
Speaker 1: McDonald says. The case is now classified as a voluntary
Speaker 1: missing person. The man accused of fatally shooting his nine
Speaker 1: year old son in Compton is scheduled to appear in
Speaker 1: court today.
Speaker 4: Nicholas Jones is accused of murder and child abuse resulting
Speaker 4: in death. La County Sheriff's Deputy Jacob Sylvie says Jones
Speaker 4: arrested the day after allegedly shooting his young son.
Speaker 5: Jones was booked at the East Los Angeles Shriff Station
Speaker 5: and at this current time it's an ongoing investigation, even
Speaker 5: though they have someone in custody.
Speaker 4: Nine year old Princeton Jones was said by family to
Speaker 4: have been playing outside his grandfather's house in Compton when
Speaker 4: he was shot and died. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Former federal prosecutor Nathan Hoffman is about to be sworn
Speaker 1: in as La County District Attorney. He beat current DA
Speaker 1: Gascone by nearly twenty percentage points in the election last month.
Speaker 1: Hoffman has said he would revoke several of Gascone's directives
Speaker 1: and vowed, as he put it, to restore the purpose
Speaker 1: of the District Attorney's office to fairly, effectively and vigorously
Speaker 1: prosecute those who break laws in the county based on
Speaker 1: the evidence and the law. President Biden's been criticized by
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans for pardoning his son Hunter on gun
Speaker 1: and tax charges, but not all lawmakers are continuing their
Speaker 1: personal attacks. South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham says it's
Speaker 1: time to move on.
Speaker 6: The accusation is that you know that he was picked
Speaker 6: on by the legal system.
Speaker 7: I don't buy that.
Speaker 6: I think he got probably a deal that average American
Speaker 6: wouldn't get.
Speaker 1: Buddy says he's ready to turn the page on the
Speaker 1: whole thing. How Speaker Mike Johnson says Biden abused the
Speaker 1: justice system by pardoning his son. President elect Trump is
Speaker 1: taking a trip to Paris. He'll be attending the grand
Speaker 1: reopening of Notre Dame this weekend. The historic cathedral was
Speaker 1: severely damaged in a fire five years ago. This will
Speaker 1: be Trump's first overseas trip since he was elected president.
Speaker 1: We are live at the ana House Anaheim White House
Speaker 1: for pasta than this year, and hope you will stop by,
Speaker 1: make a donation, bring some sauce and some pasta. Just
Speaker 1: come by and say, hies decked out and decorated beautifully
Speaker 1: in time for Christmas. Get me in the in the
Speaker 1: festive Christmas mood. Right now, let's say good morning, to
Speaker 1: kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. Good morning, John, Hey.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Thank you, Amy. I hope you're doing well today.
Speaker 1: We absolutely are, because we are live at the White House. Hey,
Speaker 1: speaking of the White House, we've got a different one
Speaker 1: to talk about. President Biden has some work to do
Speaker 1: before he leaves his White House. What's what's he hoping
Speaker 1: to get done in the next month and a half.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right, he's got a month and a half
Speaker 2: left in office. He's got a laundry list of items
Speaker 2: that he'd liked to get accomplished. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he'll get every one of them accomplished. But let's go
Speaker 2: through the list of three items in particular. One is
Speaker 2: funding weapons for Ukraine. That is actually something announced yesterday
Speaker 2: by the National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, a new round
Speaker 2: of weapons and munitions for Ukraine and their fight against Russia.
Speaker 2: The second item pressing for some sort of stability in Gaza,
Speaker 2: of course, that war between Israel and Amas has been
Speaker 2: going on for quite some time. And lastly, winning confirmation
Speaker 2: of roughly a dozen federal judges during the Lane duck
Speaker 2: session of He's actually been successful in winning confirmation of
Speaker 2: a number of judges that have been put up for
Speaker 2: votes over the course of the last few weeks during
Speaker 2: the lame duck session. He's hoping to get about a
Speaker 2: dozen or so still confirmed. We'll see if that happens,
Speaker 2: and of course we'll see if there are any other
Speaker 2: pardons that President Biden announces between now and the time
Speaker 2: that he leaves office on January the twentieth of next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And he's getting a lot of pushback about his
Speaker 1: latest pardon, or actually his only pardon, about his about
Speaker 1: his son Hunter. People are saying that one of his
Speaker 1: legacies now is going to be that he's liar in
Speaker 1: chief because of saying so many times I'm not pardoning,
Speaker 1: I'm not partnering, and then saying, oh, yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: to partner.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That was, obviously, twenty twenty hindsight, a huge mistake
Speaker 2: by the White House, a huge mistake by the President
Speaker 2: in terms of answering that question in that mattery. He
Speaker 2: could have simply said, you know, we'll let the legal
Speaker 2: play itself out. He could have said that all the
Speaker 2: way through the election instead of saying definitively, and he
Speaker 2: did this on numerous occasions. Amy and as you know,
Speaker 2: in interviews, you know, anytime he was asked that he
Speaker 2: whether or not he was going to pardon his son Hunter,
Speaker 2: the answer was definitive, he said no. And then of
Speaker 2: course this reversal coming Sunday night, a lot of pushback,
Speaker 2: obviously coming from Republicans, but also some from Democrats as well.
Speaker 2: Democratic Governor of Colorado Jared Paulus an example of that, saying,
Speaker 2: this really tarnishes Joe Biden's legacy and the way that
Speaker 2: he will be remembered as President of the United States.
Speaker 1: I think so too, because you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: the last things he's going to do, and like we
Speaker 1: all have said since the first conviction, we're like, of
Speaker 1: course he's going to do it. I would pardon my son,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, of course you're going to do it.
Speaker 1: Why not be a little more vague about it, might say,
Speaker 1: you know, we're weighing.
Speaker 6: It, possibly exactly the definitive knows so many times by
Speaker 6: both Biden and the White House, I think is what
Speaker 6: makes it even more kind of egregious at this point.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right. You know, in the past twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: we've seen all of these clips of every time that
Speaker 2: Joe Biden has been asked this question every time. The
Speaker 2: White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean Pierre has been asked
Speaker 2: this question, and we know that the answers that they
Speaker 2: gave don't match up with what happened on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Now President Biden and his Press secretary they're overseas. They're
Speaker 2: in Africa. They return early Thursday morning, late Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: early Thursday morning from Angola, and there will be a
Speaker 2: White House press briefing on Friday of this week. And
Speaker 2: you can just imagine what that press briefing is going
Speaker 2: to be like, Amy, I'll be there. Every question virtually
Speaker 2: is going to be about the pardon of Hunter, and
Speaker 2: in fact, that overseas trip right now that he's taking
Speaker 2: to Africa completely over shap by the news that he
Speaker 2: pardoned his son Hunter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm thrilled that you're going to be in
Speaker 1: the room there and we will look forward to talking
Speaker 1: to you to find out all about it. After that,
Speaker 1: John Decker, thank you so much, appreciate the information. As always,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Amy, have a great day. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Look, Bud, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from
Speaker 1: San Diego. State Senator has introduced a bill to repeal
Speaker 1: the new emissions rules passed in California that are expected
Speaker 1: to spite gas prices fifty cents or more gallon. Minority
Speaker 1: Leader Brian Jones says his bill is backed by the
Speaker 1: entire Senate Republican caucus in Sacramento.
Speaker 8: Introducing a bill to repeal the California Air Resources Board decision.
Speaker 8: You may remember they voted at nine pm on a
Speaker 8: Friday night before the Thanksgiving holiday to increase regulations for
Speaker 8: the low LCFS, the low carbon fuel standards that's going
Speaker 8: to drive up the price of gasoleene sixty five cents
Speaker 8: a gallon.
Speaker 1: If Republicans can get enough Democrats on board to pass,
Speaker 1: the bill would repeal last month's carbon emission standards, which
Speaker 1: are expected to hide gas prices by as much as
Speaker 1: a dollar fifty at gallon by twenty thirty five. A
Speaker 1: person in Torrance has been fatally shot by police. The
Speaker 1: department's officers were called to an unindustrial area on Oregon
Speaker 1: Court last night about an unknown situation. Police say a
Speaker 1: person was contacted and then the shooting happened, but they
Speaker 1: didn't give details. Ted Danson has been named the recipient
Speaker 1: of the Golden Globe's Carol Burnett Award. Danson, who's won
Speaker 1: three Golden Globes, will get the award during a gala
Speaker 1: dinner at the Beverly Hilton January third, two days before
Speaker 1: the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Viola Davis will also be
Speaker 1: honored during the dinner with the organization's cecil b de Mille.
Speaker 1: Award loved Ted Danson, and as I talked about on
Speaker 1: Amy's On It last week, he has a new show out.
Speaker 1: It's on Netflix. It's Man on the Inside. It's such
Speaker 1: a fun show. It's like one of my favorites from
Speaker 1: for a very long time. I want to say a
Speaker 1: big thing thank you to the folks at the Anaheim Hilton.
Speaker 1: The whole KFI postathon crew got to crash at the
Speaker 1: Hilton last night, or they provided our hotel accommodations. It's
Speaker 1: an ideal destination for southern California families if you're seeking
Speaker 1: a staycation. In fact, I ran into somebody in the elevator.
Speaker 1: They said, we just came for the fireworks, so they're
Speaker 1: hanging out in their room to watch the firelight fireworks
Speaker 1: from Disneyland. It's a Disney Good Neighbor hotel less than
Speaker 1: a mile from the resort and now offering newly renovated
Speaker 1: guest rooms, with more exciting changes to come in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Checkout Anaheim Hiltonhotel dot com for current offers.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna be talking to a
Speaker 1: beautiful young woman who's all grown up now and was
Speaker 1: one of the Boys and Girls Club's kids who directly
Speaker 1: benefited from the money that you donate to Pastathon. You're
Speaker 1: gonna love her story. She's coming up next. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: We are live at the Anaheim White House for Pastathon.
Speaker 1: It's Giving Tuesday. This is our fourteenth annual event, and
Speaker 1: you know that we're raising money for Chef Bruno's charity,
Speaker 1: Katerina's Club, which provides meals to twenty five thousand kids
Speaker 1: every week, twenty five thousand. And of course we can't
Speaker 1: do it with you, So here's how you can help
Speaker 1: today on this Giving Tuesday, We're gonna be here all
Speaker 1: day right on through ten o'clock with Mo Kelly, so
Speaker 1: you can stop by see your KFI personalities. We've got
Speaker 1: John Cobalt, and of course we have, except if you
Speaker 1: were listening to John's show yesterday, it was John Cobitt.
Speaker 1: They misspelled his name on the on the auction page,
Speaker 1: but they fixed that since then. And of course Mo
Speaker 1: Kelly and Tim Conway and Garyan Shannon and Handle and
Speaker 1: our Fork reporter Neil Savedra, all of us are here
Speaker 1: today and would love for you to stop by make
Speaker 1: a donation, drop off some pasta and sauce. Here's the
Speaker 1: other ways that you can donate. If you can't make
Speaker 1: it down, you can go online kfiam six forty dot
Speaker 1: com slash Pastathan and today only when you go into
Speaker 1: wild for Food locations in Huntington Beach, Costa, Mesa Mission
Speaker 1: via Ho or lucun A Neguel, do your regular shopping
Speaker 1: and say KFI Pastathon at checkout, and fifteen percent of
Speaker 1: your total is going to be donated to the KFI Pastathon.
Speaker 1: So you can plan your holiday meal at Wildforkfoods dot com.
Speaker 1: Fifteen percent of your total when you shop today is
Speaker 1: going to be donated to the KFI Postathon. Also, you
Speaker 1: can go to any Wendy's in southern California donate five
Speaker 1: bucks or more you'll get a coupon book for Wendy's
Speaker 1: Goodies through December eighth, and when you shop at any
Speaker 1: Smart and Final, you can make your donation of any
Speaker 1: amount at checkout. Anything you can give, we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It is Giving Tuesday. Here's what we're following in the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The father of a nine
Speaker 1: year old boy shot and killed in his grandfather's yard
Speaker 1: in Compton is due in court today. Nicholas Jones was
Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion of murder Sunday, the day after his
Speaker 1: son was killed. The Rose Bowls getting an eighty million
Speaker 1: dollars makeover. The renovation is going to include better eating,
Speaker 1: a sound system, and a new huge video scoreboard. The
Speaker 1: first phase work's going to be done in time for
Speaker 1: the fall twenty twenty five college football season. The rest
Speaker 1: will be done in time for the twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: Summer Olympic Games. A Customs and Border Protection K nine
Speaker 1: has sniffed out two hundred and fifteen pounds of fentanyl
Speaker 1: pills hidden in an suv. The drugs were seized last
Speaker 1: week at the O time a support of entry. The
Speaker 1: drugs were hidden in rear quarter panels, spare tires and
Speaker 1: even the doors of the suv. All I can say
Speaker 1: about that is good. Doc at six oho five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. A woman who's been missing for
Speaker 1: almost a month may not really be missing. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you about that. We got a chance to catch up
Speaker 1: with a beautiful young lady who knows Brunos Arono very
Speaker 1: well and directly benefited from Katerina's clubs. So you can
Speaker 1: see what your donations do. Hey, it's Amy King with
Speaker 1: wake Up Call on KFI. We're talking pastathon today. We're
Speaker 1: here with Alandra Bopeo and Alandra tell us how you
Speaker 1: came to know about Chef Bruno.
Speaker 9: I was about six or seven years old when I
Speaker 9: started going to the Boys and Girls club and Bruno
Speaker 9: people come bring pasta to the club that I would
Speaker 9: participate at. So he will give us pasta before we
Speaker 9: will go home every day. And then he went to
Speaker 9: our mobile home park where I used to live at
Speaker 9: com bring his pasta. And then during like the month
Speaker 9: of November, he will come with the Chapman students to
Speaker 9: come deliver turkeys and all the stuff that you know
Speaker 9: it's needed for Thanksgiving dinner and yeah, That's how I
Speaker 9: got to know him.
Speaker 1: So you were involved in the Boys and Girls Club.
Speaker 1: So did you go there every day after school? Yes?
Speaker 1: And about how many kids were in your Boys and
Speaker 1: Girls club clubs?
Speaker 9: Oh, well, we got a lot of kids from my
Speaker 9: mobile home park. It was a good ten of us
Speaker 9: every day, ten of us from Monday through Friday. But
Speaker 9: over on the Boys and Girls Club, I would say
Speaker 9: a good two hundred to fifty kids a day.
Speaker 1: That's great, okay, And I would imagine when you're seven
Speaker 1: years old, you don't really realize what's going on. I
Speaker 1: know that Chef Bruno is bringing you guys food and
Speaker 1: isn't that lovely? But did you as you grew older,
Speaker 1: did you start to realize that one he was helping
Speaker 1: out your family by maybe taking some of the food
Speaker 1: burden off of them and really helping tons and tons
Speaker 1: of people.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 9: It was actually a funny story. Like one time I
Speaker 9: had my shoes off for some reason. There was a
Speaker 9: skate park there and I was changing my shoes and
Speaker 9: there was holes on my socks and Bruno saw that.
Speaker 9: The next day he had someone buy me socks from
Speaker 9: the store, making sure that I have what I needed
Speaker 9: because back then, like it was kind of hard on
Speaker 9: my family, especially with the rent that my parents had
Speaker 9: to pay. Were just him buying socks or even him
Speaker 9: coming to our mobile home parking give us food to
Speaker 9: low income families, like it benefited a lot.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. So that was when you were seven
Speaker 1: years old, and now you're twenty two, twenty one, twenty one,
Speaker 1: oh not twenty she's still talking. Okay, what are you
Speaker 1: doing with yourself these days?
Speaker 9: Right now, I am a for Fear at cal Safe Bullet.
Speaker 9: I'll be finishing up my degree in the sociology in May,
Speaker 9: so I'm hoping that I work with children. I do
Speaker 9: want to give back to my community. Right now, I'm
Speaker 9: actually working as a pre college advisor, So the students
Speaker 9: that I serve are.
Speaker 1: Low income, first generation students trying to.
Speaker 9: Get to higher education and hopefully I get to my
Speaker 9: master's so I could become a school counselor.
Speaker 1: Look at you along here. That is so great and
Speaker 1: I think it's just testament to what this program does.
Speaker 1: It changes lives. It doesn't only fill up their bellies
Speaker 1: and fills up their hearts and their minds too. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much. And that's luck to you. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate it. That's awesome, pretty impressive. Huh.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of good that your donations do. It
Speaker 1: feeds hearts, feeds minds. I get all stappy about it
Speaker 1: because it's really like it's moving to see how it
Speaker 1: really just you know, a plate of pasta can change
Speaker 1: somebody's life, and it definitely did with a laundra. So
Speaker 1: we would love for you to come down and donate,
Speaker 1: donate money, donate pasta, donate some sauce. It is the
Speaker 1: fourteenth annual Pastathon and we invite you to come down.
Speaker 1: We do have a few people here, just a few,
Speaker 1: and I think the crowds come a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But as you just said, one of the people who's
Speaker 1: sitting here said, it's not the quantity, it's the quality
Speaker 1: of the people. But we would like to increase the
Speaker 1: quantity because we want to do a wave before six am,
Speaker 1: and we don't have enough people for a wave yet.
Speaker 1: So if you can come down, we would love to see.
Speaker 1: If we are at the Anaheim White House for Pastathon.
Speaker 1: Here's some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. One person has been killed in
Speaker 1: Fountain Valley and at least one has been arrested after
Speaker 1: or a police chase that ended in a violent crash.
Speaker 1: The collision happened near Ellis Avenue and Magnolia Street last night.
Speaker 1: The pickup truck police were in or we're after rather
Speaker 1: ended up on its side. Several people were taken to
Speaker 1: the hospital. Police in San Diego could get an increase
Speaker 1: in shoplifting calls since the passage of Prop thirty six.
Speaker 3: Store owners in San Diego say they stopped calling nine
Speaker 3: one one after break ins and robberies over the last
Speaker 3: decade because the same criminals just kept showing up and
Speaker 3: stealing things worth less than nine hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 3: with no threat of charges or jail time. The sheriff
Speaker 3: for San Diego County says they are ready to hold
Speaker 3: more people in jail, and the DA's office says they're
Speaker 3: ready to prosecute more crimes under the new law. The
Speaker 3: county has already seen a decline in shoplifting prior to
Speaker 3: the passing of Prop.
Speaker 7: Thirty six.
Speaker 3: On average, the DOJ says shoplifting crime is down by
Speaker 3: twelve percent in San Diego. Andrew Caravella, ky IF I News.
Speaker 1: Under prop thirty six, people convicted of certain drug or
Speaker 1: theft crimes could get longer prison sentences. A man from
Speaker 1: Hawaiian Gardens has been since to twenty five years in
Speaker 1: prison for selling fentanyl to an eighteen year old who
Speaker 1: ingested it and had a fatal overdose. Prosecutors at trial
Speaker 1: said the seller put an ad on the online marketplace
Speaker 1: offer up for the sale of black tar roofing materials,
Speaker 1: which was code for black tar heroin. He was found
Speaker 1: guilty in June. A lot of retailers say they've been
Speaker 1: offering up steep promotions on their websites and apps to
Speaker 1: entice people to buy holiday gifts and other merchandise. Big
Speaker 1: retailers like Walmart and Amazon are also relying on generative
Speaker 1: AI customer service and search features to make it easier
Speaker 1: for shoppers to find products on their apps. Sarah Rhodes
Speaker 1: with Amazon says they also use AI to help their staff.
Speaker 1: From the palm of.
Speaker 3: Our employee's hand or from a kiosk, they can enter
Speaker 3: safety suggestions, maybe some operational suggestions that then goes to
Speaker 3: their leadership to address.
Speaker 1: She says it makes it easier for staff to serve
Speaker 1: customers when we come back, we'll be talking with Silvano eBay,
Speaker 1: the VP and chair of Katerina's Club. Silvano, did I
Speaker 1: say your last name right? Ibay? Ibay, eBay, we'll auction
Speaker 1: you off. Silvano's next, Who's got a lot to share
Speaker 1: with us. We are here live at the Anaheim White
Speaker 1: House for the fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon. We hope you'll
Speaker 1: come join us. It's Giving Tuesday and you should come
Speaker 1: out to postathon. But he did it, that's how good
Speaker 1: he is. We're here live at the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be here all day. Would love for you
Speaker 1: to join us. We're raising money for Katerina's Club. Chef
Speaker 1: Bruno's charity provides more than twenty five thousand meals every
Speaker 1: week to kids in need in southern California. You and
Speaker 1: your generosity, that's what makes it happen. So right now,
Speaker 1: we wanted to talk to one of the guys on
Speaker 1: the inside. Silvano Ibay, not eBay, as I said earlier,
Speaker 1: the vice president and chairman of Katerina's Club. So today Silvano,
Speaker 1: first of all, good morning, good morning, and it's a
Speaker 1: very special day. Absolutely yeah. So let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about where Katerina's club started, and then how much
Speaker 1: it's grown. Oh my god, twenty five thousand meals a week.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it's a pretty amazing.
Speaker 10: I remember the first day that has all started back
Speaker 10: in yeah, April two thousand and five, So.
Speaker 1: You've been here from since the very beginning Sunsday one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely cool.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was I remember because I was working over
Speaker 10: here at the front desk at the restaurant and Berno
Speaker 10: and Katerina was visiting one of the local boys and
Speaker 10: girls clubs, and Berno's mom, she's actually my grandmother as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, she's my Norna. Oh yeah.
Speaker 10: So they were over there visiting the kids, and I
Speaker 10: got a phone call from Berno saying, tell the kitchen
Speaker 10: put some hot water on the stove because we're going
Speaker 10: to come back and make some pasta and bring it back.
Speaker 10: So I said, okay, that sounds a great idea. So
Speaker 10: let me tell the kitchen how many you want to
Speaker 10: prep up for? You know, maybe ten, twelve, twenty. He goes, no,
Speaker 10: about eighty. I said, why do you mind? So he said,
Speaker 10: I'll explain why you get back there, So he came
Speaker 10: back to the restaurant five minutes later.
Speaker 7: May I have a picture of my grandma.
Speaker 10: They're in the kitchen with the big pasta sauce is
Speaker 10: making it.
Speaker 7: We went back that day.
Speaker 10: We started about eighty ninety kids that first day, and
Speaker 10: we've been doing it ever since since that day, since
Speaker 10: that day, every single day since then. It's been pretty.
Speaker 1: Amazing because Bruno always tells the story of what his
Speaker 1: mom said after, after you guys fed on those children.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, I looked over at him, says but what
Speaker 7: are your fut men from dinner?
Speaker 1: So just keep doing it, Just keep doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. Yeah, So I'm curious because it's it's quite
Speaker 1: an operation, like it started with feeding those kids, and
Speaker 1: was it did you say it's to Boys and Girls Club?
Speaker 7: Yes, it all started to boys and goes to can okay,
Speaker 7: right down the street.
Speaker 1: So how in the heck do you get all of
Speaker 1: that food because it's is it all cooked here at
Speaker 1: the White House?
Speaker 7: Yeah, most of it's cookia at the restaurant.
Speaker 10: We have a couple sites that are a little too
Speaker 10: far away, so we'll provide the passa and sauce. The
Speaker 10: cook on site first like Long Beach, because we go
Speaker 10: as far as Hambury, you know, La County's, Orange Counties,
Speaker 10: but most of it is Cotier at the restaurant. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and then we have we have drivers and vands that
Speaker 10: we go and distribute to one hundred and twenty eight sites.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you cook the pasta starting at what time
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 7: Morning, About seventy eight o'clock in the morning, they start.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then you make it, you load it up,
Speaker 1: you go, and then by late afternoon is when they
Speaker 1: get their meal after school.
Speaker 10: It depends on the type of day, what day of
Speaker 10: the week it is, but typically we stop cooking about
Speaker 10: five five point thirty for the for our last little delivery,
Speaker 10: and then the restaurant starts up with this dinner service.
Speaker 10: So daytime is strictly for category's. You start all the
Speaker 10: kids during the day, them up in the servicemen d
Speaker 10: and then.
Speaker 1: Fine dining at night. If you have not had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to have dinner at the White House, it is spectacular,
Speaker 1: it's so good, and so tell us Silvano, it's got
Speaker 1: to be a little bit tough, I mean, because you
Speaker 1: are relying on our KFI listeners you're relying on the
Speaker 1: generosity of people to fund this. You don't get government funding, right, correct,
Speaker 1: it's all privately funding. So and you know that now
Speaker 1: you're feeding twenty five thousand children a week. I mean,
Speaker 1: what happens if people decide I'm not going to donate
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 10: Well, I have to say it doesn't. I'm nervous every
Speaker 10: now and then when things get a little bit tight
Speaker 10: certain times of the year, when fundraising a little bit slow, and.
Speaker 7: It does get difficult. So yeah, it does.
Speaker 10: Wear on me and the crew and obviously Suberno as well.
Speaker 10: But you know, it's something that we started that we
Speaker 10: can't stop. I mean, we've we've come this far and
Speaker 10: we're going to go and we're going to keep doing
Speaker 10: it and nothing's going to stop us. As you can
Speaker 10: see now where you know, it's twenty twenty four and
Speaker 10: we're still still going along and we just celebrated our
Speaker 10: We're at about ten point five million meals already since
Speaker 10: two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: That is just crazy. So Silvano, why do you continue
Speaker 1: to do this?
Speaker 7: Because when I said too, I'm not mess with Katerina. No, No,
Speaker 7: you can't say no to her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then do you still I mean, you're busy here
Speaker 1: running the White House and you're the chair of Katerina's Club.
Speaker 1: Do you get to go out to the boys and
Speaker 1: girls clubs and still see the kids and see how
Speaker 1: it's affecting them.
Speaker 10: Yes, not as much as I'd like to, Yeah, quite frankly,
Speaker 10: but yes, I still.
Speaker 1: It's become this massive operation.
Speaker 10: So yeah, Yeah, I've had a couple of instances where
Speaker 10: I was able to go to a place where one
Speaker 10: of the families we moved out of a motel and
Speaker 10: into a new apartment, and that was a day that
Speaker 10: I'll never forget. I remember going in and we gave
Speaker 10: them some beds because they never had a bed before.
Speaker 10: There was there was a family of eight in one room,
Speaker 10: and the apartment had stairs, and I remember the kids
Speaker 10: were playing on the stairs and the kids were they
Speaker 10: were laughing and just having a great old time and smiling,
Speaker 10: and they said they never had stairs before, so they
Speaker 10: were just sliding.
Speaker 7: Down the stairs. Something as simple as that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And just to have that security of being in
Speaker 10: your own place, it was.
Speaker 7: It was something I'll never forget.
Speaker 10: And just to see these faces, see these smiles and
Speaker 10: just see the reaction with these kids. It's it's it's
Speaker 10: that's what makes it all worth it and things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when we talked to Laandra earlier and she was
Speaker 1: talking about how Chef Bruno saw that she had holes
Speaker 1: in her socks and the next time he saw she
Speaker 1: had there was new socks for her. You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: just like, it's the little things, and it's so amazing
Speaker 1: how you impact these children every single day. And not
Speaker 1: only are you feeding children every day. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: Home program, which you've helped hundreds.
Speaker 7: We have moot doubts. It's two hundred and seventy three families.
Speaker 1: As of today, right, And so that is that you
Speaker 1: guys say, Okay, you're getting back on your feet, but
Speaker 1: we know that it's almost impossible to come up with
Speaker 1: that huge chunk of money to get into an apartment,
Speaker 1: and so you gift that to certain families.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well it's called the Welcome Home Program, And what we
Speaker 10: do is we'll supply first and last month's rent, any
Speaker 10: type of moving incidentals to qualifying families. You know how
Speaker 10: rent is Orange County these days, it's astronomical, it's crazy.
Speaker 10: And if you're living in a motel and they're living
Speaker 10: paycheck to paycheck. They can't say enough to do that.
Speaker 10: So that's where we step in and we give them
Speaker 10: the assistance to just you know, a hand up, help them,
Speaker 10: help them get up there.
Speaker 1: I'm so into a hand up. Yeah, it's such a
Speaker 1: great it's such a great you know, as opposed to
Speaker 1: just a handout, just throwing money and stuff. It's giving
Speaker 1: them a hand up, letting them know, yes, I can
Speaker 1: do it. I just need a little bit of help.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And it's it's been so successful because that's what we do.
Speaker 10: We support them and it's like you said, it's not
Speaker 10: necessarily it's not a handout. We just assist the families
Speaker 10: to be successful.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 10: And that's what's been fantastic with Katherine as Lub as
Speaker 10: a whole.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is the is the food and security problem becoming worse?
Speaker 1: Or are you just so successful in raising money and
Speaker 1: being able to feed kids that you're able to feed
Speaker 1: more or is it kind of a combination or do
Speaker 1: you know?
Speaker 10: I would I'd like to say that it is getting better,
Speaker 10: but honestly, I don't see that. I mean, you drive
Speaker 10: down the street, you see how many homeless around the
Speaker 10: streets right now, and I think it's getting it's getting
Speaker 10: more of a more of a problem. And we are
Speaker 10: happy that we're able to help out more. And you know,
Speaker 10: it's it's we start off with eighty or you know,
Speaker 10: five thousand, you know, so it's it's an ongoing increase
Speaker 10: in ongoing help, and.
Speaker 7: It's we do what we can. And I know, you know,
Speaker 7: we're just here a lot.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're just here, and you know, we'd like to
Speaker 10: help out in Colorado, in New York, in Alabama.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: It's but you have to start somewhere, and we started
Speaker 10: with one, yep, and we've moved on to where we
Speaker 10: are now. So if everyone anyone else can do it
Speaker 10: somewhere else, I mean, you know, let's help out.
Speaker 1: Okay. So to the people who are getting ready for work,
Speaker 1: or maybe they're on their way to work in their car,
Speaker 1: maybe they're on their way here to see us at
Speaker 1: the Anaheim White House, what's your message to them to
Speaker 1: get them to get off the fence and donate today.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Well there's a Bruno has a popular saying. He said,
Speaker 10: it's time to stop talking about it and time to
Speaker 10: start doing something about it. And we live by that mantra,
Speaker 10: and you know, anybody out there who's listening, just do it.
Speaker 10: I don't care if it's one dollar, if it's five dollars,
Speaker 10: if it's five hundred dollars. The one dollar makes a difference.
Speaker 10: One dollar service one kid. Yeah, that's all it takes.
Speaker 10: And if you can do that, if you can drop
Speaker 10: off a box apasta, a jar of sauce, you're helping.
Speaker 7: And that's all we need. We just need the help.
Speaker 1: Yes, sevano Ibe, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to bringing in a lot of money
Speaker 1: and a lot of pasta. Here are ways that you
Speaker 1: can do it. Of course, you can join us here
Speaker 1: at the Anaheim White House. We're going to be here
Speaker 1: all day until ten o'clock tonight with Mo Kelly Show.
Speaker 1: You can also donate now or bid on auction items
Speaker 1: at KFIM six forty dot com. Slash Pastathon shop at
Speaker 1: any Smart and Final donate any amount at checkout. Go
Speaker 1: to any Wendy's in Southern California. All of the Wendy's
Speaker 1: in Southern California. Donate five bucks or more. You'll get
Speaker 1: a coupon for Wendy's goodies worth at least fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: and of course we would love to see you here.
Speaker 1: It's the fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon, live at the end
Speaker 1: Anaheim a White House. And when we come back, we're
Speaker 1: going to yay the Few and the mighty. I love it.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to be talking to
Speaker 1: Joel Larsgard about how to money because it is Giving
Speaker 1: Tuesday and we want to make sure that the money
Speaker 1: you give goes to the right place, like you know
Speaker 1: Katerina's Club, where one hundred percent of your donation goes
Speaker 1: to Katerina's Club. That's coming up next. We're live at
Speaker 1: the Anaheim White House for the fourteenth annual KFI Pastathon.
Speaker 1: Listen to the crowd roar, I'm Amy King. Thanks for
Speaker 1: getting your day started. Hey, we got Neil Sevader in
Speaker 1: the house. Yippi kaye. He'll be joining us momentarily. Of course.
Speaker 1: We got handle on the news coming up at six
Speaker 1: oh five. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. The woman from Hawaii reported missing in
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Speaker 1: now considered a voluntary missing person. The LAPD says Hannah
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Speaker 1: their proposal to give admission priority to the descendants of
Speaker 1: enslaved people at public universities. The bill is part of
Speaker 1: ongoing discussions about reparations in California, even though California was
Speaker 1: not a slave state. San Francisco's Federal Building has been
Speaker 1: named in honor of the Speaker of the House of
Speaker 1: the former Speaker, it's now the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
Speaker 1: At a ceremony Monday, Pelosi unveiled new signage on the building.
Speaker 1: She has represented California's eleventh district for thirty seven years.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
Speaker 1: even Democrats are ticked that Biden pardoned Hunter will be
Speaker 1: talking more about that right now. Though, Let's talk about
Speaker 1: money and say good morning to the host of How
Speaker 1: to Money on KFI. It's Joel Largoscard. Good morning, Joel,
Speaker 1: Good morning baby. So Joel, it's Giving Tuesday. We want
Speaker 1: to talk about that a little bit because you are
Speaker 1: You're our money man, and we want to make sure
Speaker 1: that when we make a donation that we do give
Speaker 1: to reputable charities like Katerina's Club. We know Katerinas Club
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the money donated goes directly to
Speaker 1: feeding the children, but not charity. There are good charities,
Speaker 1: there are some questionable ones. How do we make sure
Speaker 1: that we're donating to good ones?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question, And you're right on the
Speaker 5: s giving teas day. I mean, you don't want to
Speaker 5: like throw a wrench in anybody's giving plans or made
Speaker 5: people think that, hey, giving my money, I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe it's not going to do what I wanted to do.
Speaker 5: But the truth is there are not all charities are
Speaker 5: created equal, and there are some charities out there who
Speaker 5: aren't using your money in the way you'd like them to.
Speaker 5: Caterina's Club, of course, is that is not doing that.
Speaker 5: And when you actually look up the ratings on some
Speaker 5: of the websites, the charity watchdog websites, you can see
Speaker 5: the good that Katerina's Club is doing in actual data form.
Speaker 5: So I love like the website charity Navigators. You're trying
Speaker 5: to research a charity and see, well, how do they
Speaker 5: spend their money, what's going on with this nonprofit? And
Speaker 5: you can see some of the key metrics of how
Speaker 5: nonprofits are rated. And so I really like that before
Speaker 5: you donate to a charity in a moment of compassion,
Speaker 5: like just go and look up and see. I like
Speaker 5: the idea. I think we're used to more and more
Speaker 5: people just donating kind of at the checkout counter or
Speaker 5: something like that, and there's nothing wrong with that. But
Speaker 5: I love the idea of knowing where you're giving and
Speaker 5: knowing that the money is going to do good and
Speaker 5: giving proactively instead of just giving reactively.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Like you mentioned the checkout stans, I feel bad
Speaker 1: sometimes when I don't want to donate, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: it says donating to a local charity, Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know where that money is going. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a good charity. Joe, what is it like a
Speaker 1: good ratio? Because we know that there are administrative costs
Speaker 1: for running a charity, But what would be a good
Speaker 1: ratio of money going directly to recipients versus what it
Speaker 1: costs to run the program.
Speaker 5: See, that's a really good question and it's really hard
Speaker 5: to answer. I just spoke with somebody on the How
Speaker 5: To Money show about who wrote the book Giving Done Right,
Speaker 5: and he is, you know, he helps people give well.
Speaker 5: And he was even he who was hesitant to give
Speaker 5: a good answer to that question, because it depends on
Speaker 5: what the charity is doing. And at times you might say, well,
Speaker 5: it looks like a lot of the money is going
Speaker 5: to overhead. But there are some organizations that just require
Speaker 5: more hands, more more people, you know, to get the
Speaker 5: job done. And so yeah, you might say, well, I
Speaker 5: want one hundred percent of the money that I'm giving
Speaker 5: the Counter Ranks Club to go directly to food. Well,
Speaker 5: there are people who need to administer to the services too.
Speaker 5: But then again, there are like charities run by celebrities
Speaker 5: where you look at the metrics and you're saying, wow,
Speaker 5: so look at what the CEO is getting paid, and wait,
Speaker 5: the CEO is the friend of the celebrity, and look
Speaker 5: at how little of the money is actually going to
Speaker 5: the people in need. So that's where you kind of
Speaker 5: have to use your best judgment. And the other thing
Speaker 5: you can and should do, and that I recommend, is
Speaker 5: if there's a charity you want to give, to serve
Speaker 5: alongside the charity as well for a while you'll be
Speaker 5: able to see. Okay, cool, not just like what the
Speaker 5: members on the page look like, but what are the
Speaker 5: boots on the ground look like with where my money's
Speaker 5: going and the impact that it's having.
Speaker 1: Okay, so give, but be careful when you give. And
Speaker 1: I love that there's the charity navigator that you can
Speaker 1: go and at least see. You know, up front, this
Speaker 1: is what goes to administrative this is what goes to
Speaker 1: the actual recipients of it. And just be smart about
Speaker 1: the money you give and when you do decide to give,
Speaker 1: give to Katerina's club one hundred percents going to the kids.
Speaker 1: We love that, Joel. What we have one more question
Speaker 1: for you? Would you be better off using cash only
Speaker 1: for holidays spending?
Speaker 5: Ooh, So that's a really good question, and I think
Speaker 5: so much of it depends on your personality and maybe
Speaker 5: your money habits. There was this a piece by a
Speaker 5: professor from Boston University. I was just reading and he
Speaker 5: was saying, well, he's a fan of using cash, and
Speaker 5: I think he's kind of point because we've gotten so
Speaker 5: used to digital forms of payment and money feels a
Speaker 5: little stake. But the truth to some money you put
Speaker 5: on a credit card or you put on a buy now,
Speaker 5: pay later, it's still coming out of account at some point,
Speaker 5: and often with the FDC attached to it. So for
Speaker 5: people who feel like they lack the willpower to stick
Speaker 5: to a holiday budget, you know, I love the benefits
Speaker 5: that a credit card can bring and the cash back
Speaker 5: that you can get or the travel awards. But if
Speaker 5: it's going to cause you to overspend dramatically and you know,
Speaker 5: ruin the first quarter or two of your year because
Speaker 5: you're paying off that debt for months and months to come,
Speaker 5: then I would say, yes, stick to cash, because once
Speaker 5: it's you know, the envelope runs out the money that
Speaker 5: you've stuck in there like you're done. And that is
Speaker 5: I think a helpful kind of tool in the personal
Speaker 5: finance tool belt to say I'm switching the cash for
Speaker 5: the time being just to make sure I don't go overboard.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like kind of everything with your advice,
Speaker 1: it's you know, be mindful of your money, know what
Speaker 1: you have, and don't overspend. And for more great advice
Speaker 1: on how to money, you can listen to joelars Guard
Speaker 1: every Sunday from noon to two right here on KFI
Speaker 1: it's how to Money with joelar Guard. You can follow
Speaker 1: him at how to Money. Joel. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming on with us as Giving Tuesday, Joel, we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with you next week.
Speaker 5: Sounds good. Thanks Damy.
Speaker 1: All right, and as I mentioned, it is Giving Tuesday
Speaker 1: and we are live at the Anaheim White House for
Speaker 1: the fourteenth annual Pastathon. Yes, the crowd is roaring again.
Speaker 1: We are few but mighty. Actually there's a few more.
Speaker 1: Love it. Good morning everybody. We would love to see
Speaker 1: you down here. Come by, say hi, drop off some sauce,
Speaker 1: drop off some pasta, drop off some cash, because it
Speaker 1: all goes to feed more than twenty five thousand kids
Speaker 1: every single week and we couldn't do it without you.
Speaker 1: Here's other ways to donate. We're going to be telling
Speaker 1: you about this all day. There are auction items that
Speaker 1: you could bid on at KFI AM six forty dot
Speaker 1: com slash Pastathon. Just quickly mentioning a couple of them.
Speaker 1: You could go to a Dodger game with Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 1: You could go to a Kings game with Ding Dong Conway.
Speaker 1: You could co host later with Moe Kelly with mo Kelly,
Speaker 1: oh I love this too. Dean Sharp our house, Whisper
Speaker 1: could come and whisper at your house. It's a three
Speaker 1: hour exclusive in home design consult Also, you could co
Speaker 1: host with John Colebelt And I hear that that one's
Speaker 1: up to like four thousand something. I'm looking at Michelle,
Speaker 1: but she's talking to Handle. So if you would like
Speaker 1: to make a bid on some of those great auction items,
Speaker 1: which of course are priceless and all of the money
Speaker 1: is going right to feeding the kids, go to kfiam
Speaker 1: six forty dot com slash postathon. If you can't make
Speaker 1: it down to the White House, and we certainly hope
Speaker 1: you do, shop at any Smart and final donate any
Speaker 1: amount and that goes to Katerina's Club. Also, if you
Speaker 1: go to Wendy's any of the restaurants in southern California,
Speaker 1: donate five bucks for more and you're going to get
Speaker 1: a coupon book for Wendy's goodies. And again it is
Speaker 1: the fourteenth annual Pastathon. We are live at the Anaheim
Speaker 1: White House. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,