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Speaker 4: Did you see the moon again today? Again? If you
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Speaker 1: We talked about this yesterday, peek your head out because
Speaker 1: it's high in the sky and it's big and bright
Speaker 1: and beautiful. It's still a super moon, although it's not full.
Speaker 1: You can see this not quite full anymore, looks six
Speaker 1: percent larger and fourteen percent brighter, and it's the first
Speaker 1: of four super moons this year. Got lots of head
Speaker 1: on wake up call, So let's dig right in. DNC
Speaker 1: Night one and oh boy, have we got it covered
Speaker 1: for you. On wake Up Call, We've got Gary Hoffman
Speaker 1: in Chicago.
Speaker 4: Of Gary and Shannon, of course, we're going to find out.
Speaker 1: What he's seeing, what he's hearing, and what's ahead today
Speaker 1: at the DNC. We'll be talking to Gary at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. Protesters are being kept away from
Speaker 1: the United Center, but they're causing problems around the perimeter.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan is also in Chicago. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk to him at five twenty and as the Democrats
Speaker 1: gather to celebrate the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: for president, former President Trump is criss crossing the country.
Speaker 1: He'll we'll check in with ABC's Stephen Portnoy about that
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. Two eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: have been charged with murder and other accounts in the
Speaker 1: shooting death a former General Hospital actor. Johnny Wackter, the
Speaker 1: one who allegedly fired the shot that killed Wacktor in
Speaker 1: downtown la is also facing a special circumstance allegation that
Speaker 1: could land him in jail for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1: Two other men arrested are facing lesser charges. US intelligence
Speaker 1: officials say they are confident Iran was responsible for the
Speaker 1: hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It's the first time
Speaker 1: the FBI and other agencies have assigned blame for the attack.
Speaker 1: Officials say Iran is also behind attempts to hack Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris's presidential campaign. Coming up before the top of
Speaker 1: the hour, Joel Larsgard, he's the host of How to
Speaker 1: Money right here on KFI, is going to share a
Speaker 1: rather alarming trend that more people are investing more in
Speaker 1: sports betting and lessen. Therefore, one case doesn't surprise me,
Speaker 1: but I can see where that's just a little bit alarming.
Speaker 1: Of course, the first night of the Democratic National Convention
Speaker 1: at six oh five, it's handle on the news. You
Speaker 1: can't com bet. Bill's going to have a lot to
Speaker 1: say about that. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: That's the crowd saying thank you, Joe as President, Biden
Speaker 1: was given a minutes long ovation as he walked on
Speaker 1: to stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. During
Speaker 1: his address last night, Biden talked up unions and the
Speaker 1: creation of clean energy jobs.
Speaker 5: Tighten hundreds of thousands of jobs and clean energy for
Speaker 5: American workers, including to the IBW installing five hundred thousand,
Speaker 5: five hundred thousand Chardon stations all across Americay.
Speaker 1: Biden says he has five months left on the job
Speaker 1: as president and he plans to finish what he started.
Speaker 1: La Mayor Bass used her time at the convention to
Speaker 1: talk about Vice President Harris's meant to young people.
Speaker 6: Being willing to fight fiercely for.
Speaker 7: Every child, and trust me, Kamala has done that her
Speaker 7: entire life.
Speaker 1: Best commended Harris for her record of helping foster youth
Speaker 1: and reforming the juvenile justice system. Long Beach has started
Speaker 1: clearing out homeless camps in parks around the city.
Speaker 8: CRU's completely cleared out gun by her park and immediately
Speaker 8: put up a chain link fence to keep the homeless
Speaker 8: from going back. This woman who was kicked out of
Speaker 8: the park says she's been there for three months and
Speaker 8: has nowhere to go.
Speaker 4: I'm okay with it because I shouldn't have been there
Speaker 4: in the first place. But peel hopeful. I guess maybe
Speaker 4: that's what we need, you know, to happen.
Speaker 8: Governor Gavin yusubmissioned an executive order in July for homeless
Speaker 8: camps to be cleared out on state property, and has
Speaker 8: threatened to withhold funding if cities don't follow suit.
Speaker 4: Chris Adler KFI News.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy So Stephen,
Speaker 1: as the Democrats gather in Chicago. Former President Trump has
Speaker 1: been a his week campaigning in swing states.
Speaker 4: What's his message so far?
Speaker 9: Well, his message is one you've heard before. I mean,
Speaker 9: the idea is that Kamala Harris would wreck the economy. Yesterday,
Speaker 9: he was in York, Pennsylvania, called his opponent comrade Kamala
Speaker 9: says that she cares more about putting him in prison
Speaker 9: than putting murderers and robbers in prison. He said that
Speaker 9: her father was a Marxist professor, and was he I'm
Speaker 9: not positioned to answer that question. I can only tell
Speaker 9: you what Trump is saying. What I can say is
Speaker 9: that Trump today will appear in Detroit, Michigan. He's going
Speaker 9: to be tomorrow in North Carolina, and then Thursday and
Speaker 9: Friday he's going to be in Arizona. And the whole
Speaker 9: idea here is that he's counterprogramming in swing states where
Speaker 9: local television and radio will cover his remarks and offer
Speaker 9: additional arguments ahead of the Democrats taking the stage in
Speaker 9: Chicago yesterday.
Speaker 1: The part of the speech that I watched wherever he
Speaker 1: was yesterday, he seemed more subdued than he does at
Speaker 1: a lot of his rallies, but still managed to get
Speaker 1: those digs in. Is that part of the plan now?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: I mean, if it may be the fact that he
Speaker 9: was speaking to a smaller audience these Yesterday's event, and
Speaker 9: I don't know if all of them will be staged
Speaker 9: the same way, but yesterday's event was inside a manufacturing facility,
Speaker 9: and so it was a relatively small crowd of people
Speaker 9: who could fit inside that space. And it was not
Speaker 9: the kind of large scale rallies where tens of thousands
Speaker 9: of people show up or waiting online all day to
Speaker 9: be there and all this This was more of an
Speaker 9: intimate retail stop, akin to the kind of stops that
Speaker 9: Donald Trump did when he was president. I remember criss
Speaker 9: crossing the country covering Trump as he would appear inside,
Speaker 9: you know, plants and other kinds of manufacturing facilities and
Speaker 9: speak to smaller crowds. And so maybe that's why he
Speaker 9: appeared to be a bit more understated than when he
Speaker 9: is speaking before a crowd of tens of thousands of people.
Speaker 1: Okay, and is it normal, Steven, I can't remember. Is
Speaker 1: it normal to be out campaigning during the opposition parties convention?
Speaker 9: And to the extent that anything is conal or normal anymore?
Speaker 9: I know, right, I mean, I remember back in twenty twelve.
Speaker 9: This is probably the last time that you had a
Speaker 9: dynamic similar to this in a normal year, because in
Speaker 9: twenty sixteen it was a wide open race and it
Speaker 9: was Trump and Trump broke convention. I don't remember exactly
Speaker 9: what he did while Hillary Clinton was having his hurt
Speaker 9: convention in twenty two thousand and eight, sorry, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 9: It was a very late lest.
Speaker 4: Time and gets mixed in together right right.
Speaker 9: The bottom line is I remember in twenty twelve being
Speaker 9: with Mitt Romney in New Hampshire where he had nothing going.
Speaker 9: I stayed at a country a little bed and breakfast
Speaker 9: near Dartmouth, and we had nothing to do all week
Speaker 9: because Mitt Romney had a down week. Well, I will
Speaker 9: say this, Joe Biden, during the Republic convention, traveled to
Speaker 9: Las Vegas in Vakey State and spoke before the NDAACP
Speaker 9: convention and then got COVID and probably would have had
Speaker 9: other events planned for the week, counterprogramming the RNC, but
Speaker 9: for the fact that he had to race back to
Speaker 9: the White House to or I guess it was Rehobeth Beach, Delaware,
Speaker 9: wherever he went. He had no more events because he
Speaker 9: was recovering. So I think that Trump is, you know,
Speaker 9: the old days of going down and allowing the other
Speaker 9: party to have their week uninterrupted. Those days are over plus.
Speaker 9: I mean, look, look what a compressed timetable this is.
Speaker 9: There's not a lot of time for Trump to now
Speaker 9: make a new argument against a new candidate, and so
Speaker 9: he's doing that now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he'd spent like over one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars in his campaign against Biden, and then now it's
Speaker 1: switched and they have to regroup and start over. So
Speaker 1: we'll be watching as they do it. Steven Portnoy, thanks
Speaker 1: as always for the information.
Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You're bet all right.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. And Amber alert's
Speaker 1: been issued to help find a two year old girl
Speaker 1: and a four year old boy last scene in La
Speaker 1: almost a week ago. Official say Wyman and Will O'Bryant
Speaker 1: were at Vermont Avenue and West eighty third Street last Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Billy say the kids were with a man and woman
Speaker 1: who may be driving a Champagne colored two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight Buick Enclave that has paper plates. The relationships are
Speaker 1: not clear, but the mom and or the woman and
Speaker 1: the kids do have the same last name. Four men
Speaker 1: have been charged in the shooting death of actor Johnny
Speaker 1: Wacter in downtown La.
Speaker 6: Whactor was killed on May twenty fifth while leaving his
Speaker 6: job at a hotel bar. He was shot as a
Speaker 6: group of men were allegedly trying to steal the catalytic
Speaker 6: converter from his car. LAPD Chief Dominic Choice says detectives
Speaker 6: have worked hard on the case every day since.
Speaker 10: Our investigators worked tirelessly to gather evidence, interview witnesses, and
Speaker 10: follow every lead to ensure that no stone was left unturned.
Speaker 6: Two eighteen year old space murder charges, Robert Barcelo and
Speaker 6: Sergio Estrada. Another eighteen year old is charged with attempted robbery.
Speaker 6: A fourth man was charged as an accessory in downtown
Speaker 6: La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Family and friends of Johnny Wackers say they're disappointed gang
Speaker 1: related charges were not filed in the case. Retired LAPD
Speaker 1: detective and wactor family spokesman Moses Castillo says that means
Speaker 1: less prison time.
Speaker 9: But I'll let them some grace that this is an
Speaker 9: ongoing investigation.
Speaker 11: They could always amend the complaint later, and that's.
Speaker 4: What we hope they do.
Speaker 1: Investigators say they're still working the case and additional charges
Speaker 1: or enhancements could come later. Neither the DA's office nor
Speaker 1: the LAPD would confirm whether the men charged are gang members.
Speaker 1: Actor Michael Madsen has been arrested in malibuans suspicion of
Speaker 1: domestic violence. La County Sheriff's deputies responded Saturday morning to
Speaker 1: a family disturbance where a woman reported her husband had
Speaker 1: pushed and locked her out of the house. Madsen later
Speaker 1: posted twenty thousand dollars bond. He's best known for playing
Speaker 1: Mister Blonde in Reservoir Dogs and Mud in the two
Speaker 1: Kill Bill movies. Gun battles continue inside Russia as Ukrainian
Speaker 1: troops advanced deeper and deeper into Russian territory. ABC's Ian
Speaker 1: Panel says Ukraine claims it has captured hundreds of enemy fighters.
Speaker 12: The men, all young, old conscripts, agreed to talk to us.
Speaker 3: The young soldier says, when they started showing us, our
Speaker 3: commanders abandoned us.
Speaker 4: He says.
Speaker 1: Russian soldiers are desperate to go home. Trojan's junior Miller
Speaker 1: Moss has been tapped to fill the shoes of Heisman
Speaker 1: Trophy winning predecessor Caleb Williams. Moss will earned the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback spot for USC's season opener against LSU in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas on September first. Moss started in last season's Holiday
Speaker 1: Bowl win over Louisville, completing twenty three of thirty three
Speaker 1: passes for three hundred and seventy two yards and six touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers take on the Mariners tonight at Dodgers Stadium. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're going, it's Teoscar Hernandez Bobblehead Knight, who I'd
Speaker 1: like to get my hands on one of those. First
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Speaker 1: Care for all of La. The UC president has urged
Speaker 1: all ten UC campuses to enforce a ban on encampments
Speaker 1: on campus students return this fall. He said the rules
Speaker 1: are now in place to avoid a repeat of the
Speaker 1: pro Palestinian protest encampments that spread across campuses this past spring,
Speaker 1: leading to violent clashes, graffiti, vandalism, and destruction of campus property.
Speaker 1: The Israeli military has recovered the bodies of six hostages
Speaker 1: taken in the October seventh attack that started the war
Speaker 1: in Gaza. The bodies were recovered in an overnight operation
Speaker 1: in southern Gaza. Hostage families say they were kidnapped alive.
Speaker 1: US and Arab mediators are expected to hold more ceasefire
Speaker 1: talks today in Egypt. Gen Z says social media is
Speaker 1: to go for their mental health issues. A Talker Research
Speaker 1: survey of two thousand gen Z social media users shows
Speaker 1: they spend between five and six hours on social media
Speaker 1: every day. Just under half said social media prompts negative emotions,
Speaker 1: which can happen just over a half an hour after
Speaker 1: signing on. But stick with it, kids at six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's handle on the news. Israel says it'll take the deal.
Speaker 1: Hamas hasn't said anything.
Speaker 4: Yet.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan, who
Speaker 1: is on the ground in Chicago, and as the convention
Speaker 1: gets underway, the protesters have come out to play.
Speaker 4: How big are the demonstrations.
Speaker 2: Well, one Sunday involves several hundred people in downtown Chicago.
Speaker 2: Amy they held a rally there alongside the Chicago River.
Speaker 2: Then they had a short march Yesterday. On Monday, the
Speaker 2: opening day of the Democratic National Convention, several thousand people
Speaker 2: pro Palestinian demonstrators gathered in Union Park. They had music,
Speaker 2: they had chanting and speeches, and then made their way
Speaker 2: toward the United Center, the site of the DNC. This
Speaker 2: ally was permitted, the city had issue a permit. The
Speaker 2: police were involved in this, in the planning and the
Speaker 2: execution of the protest. In the march, it was peaceful.
Speaker 2: There was a small group about four protesters who splintered
Speaker 2: off and made their way toward the United Center. Finished
Speaker 2: to get through a perimeter fence an outer perimeter fence
Speaker 2: before they were taken into custody. The police didn't use
Speaker 2: tear gas or batons anything like that, but they just
Speaker 2: did arrest these four people. Put the fence back up
Speaker 2: and went on their way, So that one minor, a
Speaker 2: little tick from thousands of people who were there at.
Speaker 1: Union Park, the group was larger than four, though from
Speaker 1: what I was watching on video, it's just that they
Speaker 1: arrested those four.
Speaker 2: I think they were about a dozen involved. Initially six
Speaker 2: moved maybe taken into custody, and then four eventually who
Speaker 2: were going to be charged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the police chief said, I don't know what they
Speaker 1: were thinking they were going to do when they got through.
Speaker 1: If they've got this wall of police on the inside.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think like anything else, like the
Speaker 2: convention itself, it's an attempt to draw attention, right, That's
Speaker 2: why the convention is held and in primetime television viewing
Speaker 2: and the speeches, the prime the important speeches are given
Speaker 2: during that period, and demonstrators also are looking for attention,
Speaker 2: and doing something like breaching the outer fence knowing that
Speaker 2: they're not going to get into the building is a
Speaker 2: way to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so for the most part, they're so far, protesters
Speaker 1: are playing nice. Are they expected to have the same
Speaker 1: amount of protesters throughout the week or was yesterday sort
Speaker 1: of the big hurrah?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, they've been talk of something like thirty
Speaker 2: thousand protests, not at all, somewhere between a few thousand
Speaker 2: and a lot, right, So this evening there is another
Speaker 2: protest that's been talked about. It is not permitted. It's
Speaker 2: going to be outside the Israeli Consolate, is what we're told.
Speaker 2: And organization with the ominous slogan make it great like
Speaker 2: sixty eight is talking about its protests there and the
Speaker 2: group called Behind Enemy Lines is planning that protest.
Speaker 4: That's a nice name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to be something to watch.
Speaker 2: Clearly a reference back to nineteen sixty at the Democratic
Speaker 2: National Convention that turned violent here in Chicago.
Speaker 4: Why did the sixty eight convention turn violent?
Speaker 3: It was about the any war protests.
Speaker 4: Because that was Vietnam at the time, right.
Speaker 2: Sure, exactly, And it was the conversation inside, it was
Speaker 2: a conversation outside protests and demonstrations people did actually get
Speaker 2: into the building in nineteen sixty eight. This year it's
Speaker 2: more about American involvement in the Israel and Hamas conflict
Speaker 2: in Gaza, right, So you know that's why there there
Speaker 2: is even a specter of possible violence and large scale demonstrations.
Speaker 2: You know, I covered the nineteen ninety six convention here
Speaker 2: in Chicago, the Democratic National Convention. There was no big
Speaker 2: demonstration or presence of protesters, and it was peaceful and
Speaker 2: ended fine.
Speaker 3: This year it's different, okay.
Speaker 4: And we've heard that.
Speaker 1: Some pro Israel demonstrators had applied for permits to protest,
Speaker 1: but they didn't get them.
Speaker 2: Well, there were pro Israel protesters yesterday at the pro
Speaker 2: Palatine demonstration. A group of about a dozen people with
Speaker 2: Israeli flags marched into Union Park. They were you know,
Speaker 2: kind of escorted by police and by these volunteer quote
Speaker 2: peacekeepers who are walking around amid these crowds to make
Speaker 2: sure that people are you know, separated. They can yell
Speaker 2: at each other, do what they want, but they have
Speaker 2: to keep it peaceful and not get physical.
Speaker 3: Then it didn't get physical at the park yesterday.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that mean even without a permit, people are
Speaker 2: still expressing their views.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then Jim, because you're there, do you are you
Speaker 1: outside the whole time? Are you inside too?
Speaker 3: I think my assignment is outside.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then what is the what's the feeling, what's
Speaker 1: the vibe or does it feel like a tinder box
Speaker 1: that's waiting to blow up.
Speaker 4: Does it feel more chill?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's Sunday. Downtown was pretty chill yesterday.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little more tension. I suppose some of the
Speaker 2: folks had these smoke grenades that they were waving around,
Speaker 2: you know, they pulled them, they would light them and
Speaker 2: wave around. That kind of adds a little tension, I
Speaker 2: think in itself. So you know, we'll just have to see.
Speaker 2: We've got three more days of this, and certainly the
Speaker 2: police are hoping that it does stay peaceful, more like
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six than nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And what's the weather like?
Speaker 1: Is it really hot and muggy and miserable or is
Speaker 1: it nice freaking beautiful?
Speaker 4: Oh good?
Speaker 3: Probably when I left.
Speaker 2: Dallas and it's right now, it's sixty four yesterday, I
Speaker 2: think it got up to seventy four as beautiful.
Speaker 4: In Chicago and August. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: And I would think that, you know that with cooler temperatures,
Speaker 1: maybe cooler heads will prevail.
Speaker 4: I think people get testy when it gets hot and
Speaker 4: see whenny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2: I think you're right, or at least it seems that way.
Speaker 2: I think that's only anecdotal. That crime goes up and
Speaker 2: heat waves and you know that sort of thing. But no,
Speaker 2: it's the weather. If that's true, then the weather won't
Speaker 2: be contributed to anything that happens here.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we will check in with you again
Speaker 1: and hopefully you don't have anything really, really raucous to report.
Speaker 4: That's my word of the day, raucous. Thank you, Jim Ryan,
Speaker 4: See you all right.
Speaker 1: Video has been released that shows a woman being attacked
Speaker 1: at a metro train station along the two ten Freeway
Speaker 1: in Pasadena. It shows a man dragging the woman across
Speaker 1: the tracks on August seventh, and then over a wall.
Speaker 1: He then tosses her like a rag doll into traffic lanes.
Speaker 1: The man allegedly seen in the video was arrested a
Speaker 1: short time later. He's charged with felony, attempted murder and
Speaker 1: felony mayhem. The woman was left with several injuries. La
Speaker 1: Kenny Sheriff's investigators say they believe the attack was random.
Speaker 1: At least two cats been killed in a house fire
Speaker 1: into Luca Lake. LA Fire says the two story house
Speaker 1: was engulfed in flames when they got to the house
Speaker 1: on West to Luca Lake Avenue yesterday afternoon. The two
Speaker 1: cats were found dead once the fire was out. Two
Speaker 1: other cats are still missing. It's not yet known what
Speaker 1: sparked the fire. The Democratic National Convention is wrapped up
Speaker 1: its first night with President Biden passing the torch to
Speaker 1: his vice president, Kamala Harris. He told the crowd he
Speaker 1: loves America, it was an honor to serve as president,
Speaker 1: and that choosing Harris as his vice president was one
Speaker 1: of his best decisions. Former Secretary of State and Democratic
Speaker 1: presidential nominee Hillary Clinton praised Vice President Harris during her
Speaker 1: address at the convention. She says Harris will be a
Speaker 1: fighter for the American people if she's elected president.
Speaker 7: She will fight to lower costs for hard working families,
Speaker 7: open the doors why for good paying jobs, and yes,
Speaker 7: she will restore abortion rights nationwide.
Speaker 1: Clinton mocked former President Trump, saying he's the first person
Speaker 1: and to run for president with thirty four felony convictions.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking to Gary Hoffman about the convention.
Speaker 1: What's going on there in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: On wake up call, Former President Trump's seventeen year old
Speaker 1: granddaughter Kai Trump has verbally committed to play golf for
Speaker 1: the University of Miami. The younger Trump was one of
Speaker 1: the highlights of the Republican National Convention when she spoke
Speaker 1: about her grandfather and their shared love of golf. Okay,
Speaker 1: Olivia Rodrigo is playing to sold out concerts, and she's
Speaker 1: at the Intuit Dome tonight and tomorrow night. And Crumbles
Speaker 1: the cookie people they've jumped on the Olivia bandwagon basically
Speaker 1: and have come out with this cookie. It's called the
Speaker 1: Guts Cookie. And I thought, what does that mean, It's
Speaker 1: got guts coming out of it. No, that's the name
Speaker 1: of the tour because that's the name of her album.
Speaker 1: And it's this ginormous cookie. It's two and you're supposed
Speaker 1: to serve it chilled purple vanilla cookies that are sandwiched
Speaker 1: around layers of triple berry jam light vanilla butter cream.
Speaker 1: It's all rolled in star studded sprinkles and topped with
Speaker 1: a star cutout and then the gems on the middle
Speaker 1: of it. Like I said, the cookies are ginormous. Crumbles
Speaker 1: sent some over to us. It was our job to
Speaker 1: taste them. They're delicious. I'm going to post it on
Speaker 1: social media at Amy K. King and at KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty.
Speaker 4: You might want to go check it out.
Speaker 1: They're only available like for the next week, from August
Speaker 1: nineteenth through the twenty fourth at Crumbles stores nationwide.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Crumbles.
Speaker 1: They were delicious, so it's I know, guts sounds weird,
Speaker 1: but in this case, it's a really good thing, So
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 4: Crumbled.
Speaker 1: Crews in Long Beach are continuing work today to clear
Speaker 1: out what it has called problematic homeless camps. Workers cleared
Speaker 1: out of camp at Gumbiner Park yesterday.
Speaker 4: They put a fence around the area.
Speaker 1: The city says it will cite or even arrest people
Speaker 1: who don't leave the camp, following order from Governor Newsom
Speaker 1: urging cities to clear camps around the state. New Jersey
Speaker 1: Senator Bob Menendez is apparently trying to get a pardon.
Speaker 1: The New York Post says he's trying to get President
Speaker 1: Biden to pardon him before the president leaves office. Menendez
Speaker 1: will formally resign from office today following its conviction on
Speaker 1: sixteen felony counts of taking bribes, gold, and cash that
Speaker 1: ended up benefiting Egypt. The Department of Homeland securitiesas it
Speaker 1: wants to expand and improve its facial recognition technology to
Speaker 1: include migrant children. DHS says it wants to start scanning
Speaker 1: kids under fourteen, saying its technologies operate legally and it
Speaker 1: is committed to protecting people's privacy and civil rights. At
Speaker 1: six oh five is Handle on the news. Yep, Iran
Speaker 1: did it. The Feds have confirmed, but former President Trump
Speaker 1: has been claiming for a couple of weeks that Iran
Speaker 1: hacked into Trump's presidential campaign. At five point fifty, Joel Larsguard,
Speaker 1: we'll share a rather alarming trend. More people are investing
Speaker 1: more in sports betting, un less in their four oh
Speaker 1: one case. Right now, let's say good morning to our
Speaker 1: very own Gary Hoffman at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Speaker 11: Good morning Gary, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 10: You have a friend named Amy, but you prefer to
Speaker 10: be called a man.
Speaker 11: Aloney, manaloney, manaloney.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a very Manlio.
Speaker 11: You haven't no, yeah, nope, that's new to me.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, so how's it going.
Speaker 11: It's going great. To be honest, this is go ahead.
Speaker 10: Well, I was gonna say, to be honest, this is
Speaker 10: a beautiful city.
Speaker 11: I've never been to Chicago.
Speaker 10: I've never spent a lot of time in Chicago, and
Speaker 10: we're smacking the heart of downtown, so it's very easy
Speaker 10: to see all kinds of great old architecture and things
Speaker 10: like that.
Speaker 11: The weather's been great.
Speaker 10: All of that has played into a background of kind
Speaker 10: of a weird and I hate to use that term
Speaker 10: because it's being overused and it's being loaded politically, But
Speaker 10: it's an unusual convention because there's an article headline in
Speaker 10: Politico this morning that kind of lays it out. I
Speaker 10: thought pretty well that the Democrats gave a thunderous ovation
Speaker 10: to the president that they dethroned. I mean, it's unusual
Speaker 10: for a sitting president to be the first night speaker
Speaker 10: in a convention for either party for any reason, but
Speaker 10: because of the way this specific race has been so crazy,
Speaker 10: so unusual, it probably makes perfect sense to have the
Speaker 10: sitting president be the first night you know, keynote speaker.
Speaker 11: But it went so late last night.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know I had to stay up late
Speaker 4: to watch it.
Speaker 10: They cut speeches, they cut James Taylor, they cut Debbie
Speaker 10: Wasserman Schultz because everything went so long. We were saying
Speaker 10: yesterday during the show, it's already late for a guy
Speaker 10: like this and he's already said he doesn't do well
Speaker 10: after eight o'clock at night, that things start to happen,
Speaker 10: because that's what happens when you're eighty one, eighty two
Speaker 10: years old. But the idea that the show went so long,
Speaker 10: he didn't the stage until ten thirty Chicago time, and
Speaker 10: I mean he had that angry, yelling cadence to him
Speaker 10: that I think is un what's the word, It's unflattering
Speaker 10: for him. But it was nice to see he got
Speaker 10: up there. He had an opportunity to thank the people.
Speaker 10: Of course they all shouted thank you, Joe. He thanked
Speaker 10: Kamala Harris for just you casting the deciding vote in
Speaker 10: the Senate when it came to a lowering prescription drug
Speaker 10: medication costs. I mean, there were some moments in this
Speaker 10: day one of the convention that were good for Democrats.
Speaker 10: If one image I think is important for them, it
Speaker 10: was in his speech, in the President's speech when they
Speaker 10: would cut to the crowd and everyone had that we
Speaker 10: love Joe's signs, and I mean it was just the
Speaker 10: entire arena was just a wash in those blue signs.
Speaker 10: That's a good moment for them because one of the
Speaker 10: things that they had to do going into this was
Speaker 10: quash any rumors of any sort of division that they
Speaker 10: might have had in their party. Still, after what happened
Speaker 10: wink wink, you know, with pushing the president out and
Speaker 10: then elevating Kamala Harris to the top of.
Speaker 1: The ticket, Yeah, I felt like it was this sort
Speaker 1: of last gasp, you know, it was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: I agree, it was very very weird because they didn't
Speaker 1: even barely mention Joe Biden until Senator Kons took the stage.
Speaker 4: It was all about Kamala.
Speaker 10: Well, and I mean it should be. I think in
Speaker 10: terms of what the conventions. The plan for the convention
Speaker 10: is obviously is to help not just do the official
Speaker 10: business of the nomination and the accepting of the platform,
Speaker 10: of the agreeing on the platform.
Speaker 11: It's to elevate her even more.
Speaker 10: And one of the things that they have going in well,
Speaker 10: and one of the things they have going in their
Speaker 10: favor right now, is that they do have because this
Speaker 10: is such a condensed campaign schedule with you the new opponents,
Speaker 10: this is such a condensed campaign schedule, she has the
Speaker 10: benefit of having the boost, having the headlines, having the excitement.
Speaker 10: I guess for voters, the enthusiasm is the word they use,
Speaker 10: so it makes sense that she's going to be the
Speaker 10: one who's going to get all of the attention. But
Speaker 10: they this almost had to be an old business that
Speaker 10: had to be taken care of, giving him his time
Speaker 10: in the spotlight, paying him the respect that a politician
Speaker 10: of fifty years deserves or doesn't, depending on your opinion,
Speaker 10: but giving him this moment in the spotlight, because the
Speaker 10: rest of the speeches, you know, tonight, you've got Barack Obama,
Speaker 10: You've got First Lady Michelle Obama, You've got Illinois Gutner, J. B.
Speaker 11: Pritzker.
Speaker 10: Those are just three of the known speakers that we
Speaker 10: have tonight. You know, the newt case is giving the speech.
Speaker 10: So yes, and there are questions about Listen, we've been
Speaker 10: trying to track down his people to get a specific
Speaker 10: look for him, and I don't mean like to hunt
Speaker 10: him down and find him. Just when will he be
Speaker 10: at the convention? When will he be available?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's delivering the final delegate votes needed apparently,
Speaker 1: so it's not doesn't sound like he gets a primetime
Speaker 1: spot at all, or does he And it's.
Speaker 11: To be determined.
Speaker 10: We actually don't get the final speaker list until probably
Speaker 10: four or five hours from now.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I have a question for you. So I
Speaker 1: heard your interview yesterday with former Virginia Governor Terry mccalliffe. Right, yes,
Speaker 1: the way you guys are on the air because Gary
Speaker 1: and Shannon broadcasting live nine to one. He seemed kind
Speaker 1: of hesitant about Harris, like he was saying the right things,
Speaker 1: but I didn't.
Speaker 4: Feel like he believed it. Did you get that feeling
Speaker 4: or is that just me.
Speaker 10: The let's see, there was something about him that was
Speaker 10: very honest, and Shannon did ask him about that, and
Speaker 10: the the osty with which he responded, which was, I've
Speaker 10: been friends with Joe Biden for forty years or whatever
Speaker 10: number he used. That would be a hard position to
Speaker 10: be in, wouldn't it. I mean, if this guy that
Speaker 10: you would been friends with for decades you had all
Speaker 10: this respect for and he gets pushed out. He's got
Speaker 10: to obviously tow the party line and do the things
Speaker 10: that he would would we would be expected of somebody
Speaker 10: in the Democratic Party that high up, but he's also
Speaker 10: got to play the whole. But he's my buddy, he's
Speaker 10: my friend. So it was it was a moment of
Speaker 10: honesty that I that was refreshing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we've got lots more good stuff coming up again.
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon broadcasting live from the Democratic National Convention
Speaker 1: from nine to one today, and we hope to get
Speaker 1: to check in with you again. It's fun to hear
Speaker 1: your thoughts because you're there on the ground. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mary Hoffman. Okay, have a great day. The
Speaker 1: UC president has urged all ten campus says to enforce
Speaker 1: a ban on encampments as students return to campuses fall.
Speaker 4: He said the rules are now in.
Speaker 1: Place to avoid a repeat of the pro Palestinian protest
Speaker 1: encampments that spread this past spring that led to violent clashes, graffiti, vandalism,
Speaker 1: and destruction of campus property. President Biden has officially passed
Speaker 1: the torch to his Vice President, Kamala Harris, paving the
Speaker 1: way for Day two of the Democratic National Convention. The
Speaker 1: theme for today is a Bold Vision for America's Future.
Speaker 1: It'll feature former President Obama, Michelle Obama, Second Gentleman Doug M.
Speaker 1: Hoff and Illinois Governor J. B.
Speaker 4: Pritzker.
Speaker 1: Gen Z says social media is to blame for their
Speaker 1: mental health issues. A talker research survey of two thousand
Speaker 1: gen Z social media users users shows they spend between
Speaker 1: five and six hours on social media every day. Just
Speaker 1: under half said that social media prompts negative emotions within
Speaker 1: just about a half an hour of signing on. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to the host of How to
Speaker 1: Money on KFI.
Speaker 4: It's Joel lars Guard.
Speaker 1: Joel, there's a disturbing new trend that people are investing
Speaker 1: more in sports betting and less in their four oh
Speaker 1: win caves.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: This so this is a new white paper that came
Speaker 12: out Amy and.
Speaker 4: You love this one.
Speaker 12: You know, I've been talking about this for a while,
Speaker 12: especially as we've seen this proliferation of ads. I mean,
Speaker 12: you can't watch a sports game without getting inundated with
Speaker 12: fifty three bucks one hundred and fifty three dollars worth
Speaker 12: of bets. And it's really prompting people to, you know,
Speaker 12: with gambling at their fingertips instead of having to drive
Speaker 12: to Vegas or something like that. It's like cool, why not?
Speaker 12: I mean, especially if they're going to give me some
Speaker 12: free money to gamble. But of course that's the hook
Speaker 12: in the mouth, right, That's the that's the fish eating
Speaker 12: the hot dog or whatever. It is that you put
Speaker 12: on the end of your lore and then they're caught.
Speaker 12: And so yeah, this recent white paper isn't necessarily surprising
Speaker 12: or shocking to me, but it's basically it found that
Speaker 12: what happens is more and more households across the country
Speaker 12: in states where gambling sports gambling has become legalized are
Speaker 12: having a harder or time because more of their money
Speaker 12: is going to the fan, dual DraftKings, stuff like that.
Speaker 12: Credit card debt is increasing, their available credit is decreasing,
Speaker 12: their overdraft frequency is rising, and we know that overdraft
Speaker 12: fees with most banks, not all banks, but overdraft fees
Speaker 12: are exorbitant. And so this just compounds financial issues that
Speaker 12: people in particularly vulnerable financial positions already find themselves in.
Speaker 1: Okay, And does it talk about why people are doing
Speaker 1: in this? I mean my first thought is you know
Speaker 1: that one people don't have the cash and they're getting
Speaker 1: desperate to get some sort of a windfall.
Speaker 12: I think that's part of it for sure, right, And
Speaker 12: I think that that people have found that there is
Speaker 12: a certain amount of like nihilism among people who are
Speaker 12: living on the financial precipice. It's like, well why not
Speaker 12: swing for the fences because that's slow and steady thing.
Speaker 12: I don't think that's going to work for me. But
Speaker 12: if you run the numbers, and I'm weird like this,
Speaker 12: I like to do this, and especially just I want
Speaker 12: to because I want to encourage people.
Speaker 11: R I don't want to people.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I want people to see that it's possible if
Speaker 12: you invest twenty bucks a week, which isn't insane, Like,
Speaker 12: that's something that even people living in really difficult financial circumstances,
Speaker 12: living paycheck to paycheck over time, can maybe ramp themselves
Speaker 12: up to over the course of forty years, you're going
Speaker 12: to find that you have four hundred thousand dollars in
Speaker 12: all likelihood in those retirement accounts inside of something like
Speaker 12: a roth Ira. And so yeah, it's a long play.
Speaker 12: But the problem is when we're talking about sports gambling,
Speaker 12: it's a short term gamble that almost never pays off
Speaker 12: and that almost always puts you in a worse financial
Speaker 12: position instead.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 12: California has not legalized sports gambling yet. These states though,
Speaker 12: they see they're seeing the dollar signs right roll in
Speaker 12: and they're saying, well, it'd be nice to get tax
Speaker 12: dollars in a new way. And this is kind of
Speaker 12: just an easy way to do it. And that's why
Speaker 12: I think states across the country are passing laws to
Speaker 12: make sports gambling legal because they want the revenue from it.
Speaker 12: But the problem is, lots of times it's hard to
Speaker 12: control yourself, especially when the gamblings at your fingertips. I
Speaker 12: remember when I was young and I was like, I
Speaker 12: like to I like to gamble from time to time,
Speaker 12: and then I realized, like, wow, it's really hard to
Speaker 12: control myself. I'm glad that I have to drive to
Speaker 12: go somewhere to do it. I can't imagine, you know,
Speaker 12: having these apps that you're you know, you're becking call
Speaker 12: and yeah, maybe it makes sports more interesting, but ultimately
Speaker 12: it makes your finances worse off well.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like everything in our lives that
Speaker 1: we've talked about several times.
Speaker 4: They make it too easy.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, in the unconscious shopping on Amazon, it's
Speaker 1: too easy to do it.
Speaker 4: Should I put it in my art or just buy
Speaker 4: it now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Buy it now.
Speaker 12: There's a reason for that, right They Behaviorally, these companies
Speaker 12: have a vested interest in getting us to do something
Speaker 12: that's in our own worst interest.
Speaker 11: That's going to make them profit.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's move over to cars.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a good, solid car, what's the
Speaker 1: one to get.
Speaker 12: Yeah, this isn't necessarily shocking if you if you follow
Speaker 12: kind of Consumer Reports or you follow some of these
Speaker 12: reliable ability surveys. But there's a new one from this
Speaker 12: company called ic Cars, and they found in their new
Speaker 12: longevity survey that Toyota has and this is something Consumer
Speaker 12: Reports backs up in their annual reliability ratings too. Toyota
Speaker 12: typically makes the most reliable cars, and it was interesting
Speaker 12: to see IC Cars because they had six out of
Speaker 12: the top ten and five out of the top five
Speaker 12: most reliable cars. So literally the top five models are
Speaker 12: Toyota's and there's a Lexus thrown in there too, which
Speaker 12: is also made by Toyota. So let's say seven out
Speaker 12: of ten. And this is actually one of the most
Speaker 12: important things when you are considering what car to get.
Speaker 12: Getting a reliable make and model is crucial, not only
Speaker 12: like your sanity so you're not in the repair shop
Speaker 12: all the time, but to your finances. So the more
Speaker 12: reliable of a car you're able to purchase, you're talking
Speaker 12: about saving a big bundle and I just love this
Speaker 12: idea of looking to reliability, looking to see which makes
Speaker 12: and models have over time stood the test of time
Speaker 12: to be solid, reliable cars on the road for people,
Speaker 12: because yeah, it stinks to see your mechanic all the time,
Speaker 12: but it also stinks to fork over that money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you want to take a look yourself
Speaker 1: and maybe do a little comparison, because even though Toyota
Speaker 1: is the most reliable, not everybody's going to go there.
Speaker 1: So where can they get more information on the Toyota
Speaker 1: and other cars that they might be looking into.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so they can go look at the iccars survey
Speaker 12: at iccars dot com. They can also, like I said,
Speaker 12: go check out Consumer Reports. Typically have to pay for
Speaker 12: a Consumer Reports membership if you go to the library,
Speaker 12: you can check out Consumer Reports for free on the
Speaker 12: Libby app.
Speaker 11: On your phone.
Speaker 12: You can check out the Consumer Reports magazine for free too,
Speaker 12: so you don't even have to go into the library.
Speaker 11: You can get it at home.
Speaker 12: But Consumer Reports is a great place to turn to
Speaker 12: kind of leaf through and see, okay, because even it
Speaker 12: can vary from year to year. You can say I'm
Speaker 12: looking at getting a twenty fifteen Mazda and Masa is
Speaker 12: another great brand that ranks highly in those reliability surveys
Speaker 12: year after year, and you might say, oh, actually that
Speaker 12: was the new model year. I think I'm gonna get
Speaker 12: the twenty sixteen or the twenty fourteen instead, just because
Speaker 12: that one in particular had more reliable ability issues from
Speaker 12: what Consumer Reports readers reported. So, but the cool thing
Speaker 12: is this. This survey found that those cars that rank
Speaker 12: the most highly have a dramatically higher likelihood of hitting
Speaker 12: the two hundred and fifty thousand mile mark. And I
Speaker 12: think most people think I'm never going to hit that,
Speaker 12: Like my car's got one hundred and fifty thousand miles
Speaker 12: or one hundred thousand miles, it's time to upgrade. And
Speaker 12: if you have one of these reliable models, it just
Speaker 12: means you're going to be able to drive it for
Speaker 12: extra years. And every extra year you continue to drive
Speaker 12: that older car, it's like shoving cash into your pockets.
Speaker 12: And I think most people they've trade in the car
Speaker 12: or they get rid of it before they've really put
Speaker 12: it through its paces. And I would love to see
Speaker 12: people hang onto that car an extra year or two,
Speaker 12: just honestly making it hang on just a little bit
Speaker 12: longer getting the oil changes. Making those minor repairs can
Speaker 12: really make a big difference overall in your finances.
Speaker 1: I love the way you explain it that every year
Speaker 1: you drive it it's like stuff and cash into your pocket.
Speaker 1: I love that. For more great financial advice, you can
Speaker 1: listen to Joel Larscard every Sunday from noon to two.
Speaker 1: The show is How to Money right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: You can also follow Joel at how to Money.
Speaker 4: Jewel. Thanks Joel.
Speaker 12: Thanks Amy.
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