Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's
Speaker 2: time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: Well, good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday, March twelfth. I'm Amy King. We're
Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Got my oatmeal, almost
Speaker 1: missed the start of the show. I was a little
Speaker 1: worried there, Well let's go.
Speaker 4: Where's those I thought it was my big break?
Speaker 1: Take it away, will guys. You know what, last night
Speaker 1: was such a beautiful evening. We got some rain yesterday
Speaker 1: and then I was sitting out on my balcony last
Speaker 1: night and just going, this is gore you get after
Speaker 1: the rain comes in, clears out the air and it
Speaker 1: was clear skies with just some light fluffy clouds. Don't
Speaker 1: let appearances be deceiving. We got a big one on
Speaker 1: the way. Checking out my Eagles. Yeah, they're doing good.
Speaker 1: Everybody got a good feeding last night.
Speaker 5: Even a little Rocky.
Speaker 1: Okay, Rocky's doing good. So we've got we've got I've
Speaker 1: named all three of them now, and they haven't started
Speaker 1: the naming process yet. They'll take applications eventually as they
Speaker 1: get older, because again, we're gonna make sure all they're
Speaker 1: gonna survive. But they'll take applications later and we'll tell
Speaker 1: you about that, of course. But I've temporarily named them.
Speaker 1: So I've got Rocky, the one who was the most
Speaker 1: recent to hatch because he's little and he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to fight, right, Okay. So then there's another one that
Speaker 1: kind of keeps getting away from them from moms. She
Speaker 1: kind of ventures out, so we're calling her Dora the Explore.
Speaker 1: And then there's the third one, who I think is
Speaker 1: probably the first born. He's a vicious little guy. It's
Speaker 1: what they do, this order thing, right, and he just
Speaker 1: kind of attacks the other two when he wants food. Wow,
Speaker 1: so I'm calling him Brutus.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we got our eyes on the nest. They're doing good,
Speaker 1: and they got a snowstorm coming, so mom and dad
Speaker 1: have their work cut out for them to keep those
Speaker 1: babies nice and dry. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: LA County public Works crews have prepared debris basins, stabilized slopes,
Speaker 1: and reinforced drainage systems to reduce flood risk. As a
Speaker 1: second storm moves into southern California, officials say debris and
Speaker 1: mudflows could block streets and threaten homes, and they eaton palisades,
Speaker 1: Bridge Hurst, Kenneth Hughes, Sunset, Lydia, and Franklin Burn areas.
Speaker 1: Man We've had a lot of fires in the last
Speaker 1: few years. La County has its first case of measles.
Speaker 1: Health officials say a person with measles arrived at Lax
Speaker 1: on a China airline's flight on March fifth. People may
Speaker 1: have also been exposed in North Hollywood and Elmonte. The
Speaker 1: Houses passed a bill to keep funding the government through September.
Speaker 1: All but one Republican supported the measure, all but one
Speaker 1: Democrat opposed it. We're gonna find out what happens next
Speaker 1: with ABC Stephen Portnoy. That's coming up in about two minutes.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro is going to tell us how to spot
Speaker 1: a spam call in case you're not quite sure. And
Speaker 1: also a new interactive restaurant in downtown La I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see what an interactive restaurant is and whether it's
Speaker 1: any good. Also, Joel Larsgard coming up before the top
Speaker 1: of the hour. He wasn't able to join us yesterday
Speaker 1: because he was at the iHeart Podcast Awards in Texas,
Speaker 1: but he's joining us today. People are getting worried about
Speaker 1: our recession, so we're gonna take a look at your
Speaker 1: money with that one. Also, Amy's on it. I am
Speaker 1: streaming a chilling docuseries. Things are not always as they appear,
Speaker 1: and when you pull back the curtains, something that looks
Speaker 1: perfect on the surface looks a lot different, possibly even demonic.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Late winter storms
Speaker 1: expected to bring heavy rain to much of southern California
Speaker 1: through at least Friday. The National Weather Service has issued
Speaker 1: a floodwatch for twenty four hours starting at six this evening.
Speaker 1: Meteorologist Robbie Monroe says the rain could cause mudslides and
Speaker 1: debris flows, especially in the burn areas.
Speaker 6: Minor impacts are likely from the rain, and then more
Speaker 6: significant impacts are possible focused in that floodwatch area. With
Speaker 6: the front especially, we could see strong thunderstorms with damaging
Speaker 6: win and a week brief tornado.
Speaker 1: Oh wouldn't that be fun a tornado? He does say
Speaker 1: the chance of a tornado is less than five percent.
Speaker 1: A plan to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: to add security for a utility leader in La has
Speaker 1: been pushed back.
Speaker 7: The OLDWP board of directors had planned to vote on
Speaker 7: a seven hundred thousand dollars private security contract for CEO
Speaker 7: Janie Kinoniez. Board president Richard Katz says he got a
Speaker 7: call from La Mayor Bass with instructions to cut the price.
Speaker 4: We're going to work on that between now in the
Speaker 4: next meeting and see if we'll get either a couple
Speaker 4: more quotes on it or pare down the quote that
Speaker 4: we have.
Speaker 7: The board has decided to re visit the issue in
Speaker 7: two weeks. Kona says she's gotten lots of threats since
Speaker 7: the wildfires in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are getting ready to play the Chicago Cubs
Speaker 1: on opening day in the twenty twenty five MLB Tokyo Series.
Speaker 1: It starts Tuesday at the Iconic Tokyo Dome. There are
Speaker 1: three Japanese players on the Dodgers roster. Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Speaker 1: can be seen in an Instagram video teaching some of
Speaker 1: his teammates a few words in Japanese.
Speaker 8: Ya.
Speaker 9: That's kunichiwaknichi wa oishi ladishaishi oshi oichi oichi oishi Kwaii cute.
Speaker 6: I'm for sure gonna butcher that one.
Speaker 10: Kawai Kai kawai, kawai I can be kawai.
Speaker 1: Tickets for the series in Japan are selling for over
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. I'm glad they're having some fun. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Stephen portnoys Hos. Stephen,
Speaker 1: we talked yesterday. The House, as expected, passed a bill
Speaker 1: to fund the government. How did it shake out yesterday?
Speaker 2: Well, it passed. It passed two seventeen to two thirteen.
Speaker 2: And one of the big questions hanging over yesterday's vote
Speaker 2: was whether Speaker Mike Johnson would be able to keep
Speaker 2: all of his Republican colleagues in line to pass a
Speaker 2: continuing resolution. And he was able to do it with
Speaker 2: only one exception, and that was Thomas Massey of Kentucky,
Speaker 2: who said he was going to vote no and did
Speaker 2: vote no. But Johnson's bill gained the support of one Democrat,
Speaker 2: Jared Golden of Maine, crossed the aisle and voted for
Speaker 2: the continuing resolution. So now the House has left town,
Speaker 2: and as we describe it here in Washington, the House
Speaker 2: has jammed the Senate ahead of a Friday night deadline.
Speaker 2: The ball is now in the Senate's court. And the
Speaker 2: question there is will Democrats get on board behind this
Speaker 2: the way Jared Golden of Maine did yesterday in the House,
Speaker 2: or will they stand in lockstep filibuster this bill and
Speaker 2: see to a shutdown on Friday night. The choice is
Speaker 2: for Democrats now.
Speaker 1: To make okay. So and then let's review again. Because
Speaker 1: it's different. It's a different threshold in the Senate than
Speaker 1: in the House. The House just needed a simple majority
Speaker 1: to move it over to the Senate. The Senate needs
Speaker 1: more than that.
Speaker 2: The Senate, under its rules, requires sixty votes to end
Speaker 2: debate and bring a measure to a formal vote. Under
Speaker 2: this process and procedure, that will be used. And the
Speaker 2: question is are there sixty votes? The Republicans have fifty
Speaker 2: three in the Senate, and one of them, Rand Paul
Speaker 2: of Kentucky, same state as Thomas Massey, has announced he's
Speaker 2: going to vote no on a principal basis he doesn't
Speaker 2: like CRS. He thinks they don't cut enough, and so
Speaker 2: he'll be in no. Then you need eight Democrats to
Speaker 2: cross the aisle and vote for the bill. So the
Speaker 2: calculus is this. All across the country there are liberal
Speaker 2: activists who are looking at Washington and saying, Democrats, we've
Speaker 2: elected you to make a stand. Your job is to
Speaker 2: make a stand. This is a part as in measure.
Speaker 2: If you get on board behind it, you are undermining
Speaker 2: the liberal movement and your undermining federal workers who are
Speaker 2: calling on you to stand up.
Speaker 3: Here for their rights.
Speaker 2: Overnight we learned that the Education Department is essentially being gutted,
Speaker 2: with fifty percent of the people who work at that
Speaker 2: agency apparently being set to be laid off. And so
Speaker 2: the question is will send it. Democrats object to the
Speaker 2: fact there's nothing in this bill that aims to tie
Speaker 2: Dog's hands to prevent future firings. Plus, they note that
Speaker 2: some money has been taken away from some domestic agencies
Speaker 2: to plus up spending at the Pentagon, And they point
Speaker 2: out that it's a full year CR that is a
Speaker 2: full fiscal year CR under last year's levels. Things only
Speaker 2: get more expensive over time, and this money isn't going up,
Speaker 2: it's going it's staying flat. And they see that as
Speaker 2: a cut the way Washington views spending. So they have
Speaker 2: their reasons for voting against it. The question is will
Speaker 2: all of them vote against it or will a moderate
Speaker 2: Democratic block go on with the Republicans? Say, fellas ladies,
Speaker 2: it's not worth dragging the entire country into a government
Speaker 2: shutdown if we don't have the votes to do what
Speaker 2: we want to do.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Okay, and is there I know you got to
Speaker 1: run any indication, any rumblings of what it might go
Speaker 1: or do. We just don't know yet.
Speaker 3: We don't know yet.
Speaker 2: And that's why I am couching it by saying we'll
Speaker 2: have to say no.
Speaker 3: Otherwise I'd be much more direct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to see. Chuck Schumer will have remarks
Speaker 2: at about midday today as the Senate comes into session,
Speaker 2: and maybe he'll give us an indication as to which
Speaker 2: way things are going.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be watching. Stephen Portenoy, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for the information. Appreciate it, you bet. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Ukraine has agreed to
Speaker 1: a US plan for a thirty day ceasefire with Russia.
Speaker 1: ABC's James Longman says the plan now goes to Moscow
Speaker 1: for approval.
Speaker 11: The tools in Saudi Arabia cool for immediate negotiations to
Speaker 11: end this war. I propose prisoner exchange, the return of
Speaker 11: forcibly displaced Ukrainian children, and the commit to signing the
Speaker 11: Minerals Deal all part of the discussion.
Speaker 1: He says. The US announced it will lift the pause
Speaker 1: on military aid and intelligence sharing. The Canadian province of
Speaker 1: Ontario is pausing a planned surcharge on electricity exported to
Speaker 1: parts of Michigan, Minnesota, and New York.
Speaker 12: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will temporarily suspend
Speaker 12: its twenty five percent charge on electricity exports. The move
Speaker 12: comes after US President Trump threatened to double tariffs on
Speaker 12: Canadian steel and aluminum from twenty five percent to fifty
Speaker 12: percent in retaliation.
Speaker 1: IIRA Spitzer reports Ford made the change on the surcharge
Speaker 1: after the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik agreed to renew
Speaker 1: trade talks. Mass layoffs underway at the Federal Department of Education.
Speaker 1: As you heard Stephen Portnoir mention reduction in force notices
Speaker 1: were sent out yesterday to more than thirteen hundred employees.
Speaker 1: ABC's Mary Alex Parks says all RIF employees will work
Speaker 1: for another ninety days with full pay benefits until they
Speaker 1: are fully terminated.
Speaker 8: National Education Association writing, the real victims will be our
Speaker 8: most vulnerable students gutting.
Speaker 2: The Department of Education will send class sizes soaring.
Speaker 1: The layoffs are part of President Trump's downsizing of the
Speaker 1: federal government. A deportation hearing is being held in New
Speaker 1: York for a pro Palestinian activist at Columbia University.
Speaker 13: Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested by ICE agents and had a
Speaker 13: student visa revoked. His lawyers are now challenging deportation orders,
Speaker 13: arguing he's here legally with the green card. Students are
Speaker 13: weighing in on the fact that Khalil was a key
Speaker 13: leader of the pro Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia.
Speaker 1: Okay if I Scott Pringle says students have been protesting
Speaker 1: since Khalil's arrest on Saturday. His lawyers and civil rights
Speaker 1: advocates say his detention is an assault on free speech
Speaker 1: and an attempt to suppress pro Palestinian views. Hey, wake
Speaker 1: up colleagues, going to the dogs for a good cause,
Speaker 1: and we need you to do it. It is time
Speaker 1: for the Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 1: It's coming up in just over three weeks and we
Speaker 1: would love, love, love for you to join us. So
Speaker 1: here's the lowdown. It's happening on Sunday, April sixth at
Speaker 1: Brookside Park at the Rose Bowl. The walk and run
Speaker 1: starts at nine am. The event opens about an hour earlier,
Speaker 1: and it's a great way for you to grab your
Speaker 1: pooch and head on down to the park. We've got
Speaker 1: vendors and food trucks, training demonstrations, there's a dog costume
Speaker 1: contest if you are so inclined. Also, we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: Please join us. April sixth a late winter storms expected
Speaker 1: to bring one to two inches of rain to the
Speaker 1: valleys and coast, two to four inches in the foothills
Speaker 1: and mountains. The heaviest rainfall is expected tonight into tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: with a floodwatch in effect from six pm through tomorrow
Speaker 1: at six pm. Mud and debrief flows possible in the
Speaker 1: wildfire burn areas. Just one in five people think LA
Speaker 1: may Or Bass did a good job responding to the
Speaker 1: LA wildfires. A new survey out of UC Berkeley says
Speaker 1: more than forty percent thinks she did a poor or
Speaker 1: very poor job handling the fires. In Pacific Palisades and
Speaker 1: other areas. Keyless cars are being targeted in southern California.
Speaker 1: Burbank Police say thieves can use a device that remotely
Speaker 1: scans for a keyfob signal, then it creates a cloned
Speaker 1: key and they can start and steal the car from there.
Speaker 1: Police say people should park in a garage possible, and
Speaker 1: consider installing motion sensing lights or video cameras where they park.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demurro. Rich. Okay,
Speaker 1: both Will and I got to know what is an
Speaker 1: interactive restaurant? And tell us about the one you just
Speaker 1: went and saw.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I stayed out way too late last night going
Speaker 10: to downtown in LA for this this place called the Gallery.
Speaker 10: So this is a new restaurant that's kind of like
Speaker 10: think about like.
Speaker 3: A modern theme restaurant.
Speaker 10: So it's a bunch of theme park designers that decided,
Speaker 10: you know what, let's do something kind of fun and different.
Speaker 3: And so you go in.
Speaker 10: Not only is the bar really cool and it's got
Speaker 10: all these little interactive kind of things going on in
Speaker 10: the background, but then you go into this dining room.
Speaker 10: And in the dining room, they've got all these projectors
Speaker 10: on the ceiling that are sort of hidden, but they
Speaker 10: project things onto your table. And then of course the
Speaker 10: walls all come to life as well. So while you're eating,
Speaker 10: this was like appealing to the five senses. And so
Speaker 10: they had like fire, I guess, not the senses, I
Speaker 10: guess the world the earth. It was like dirt and
Speaker 10: fire and water, and so the whole room comes alive
Speaker 10: with this sort of different theme depending on what you're eating.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what were you eating?
Speaker 3: All kinds of stuff. I couldn't you know. It's it
Speaker 3: was all like.
Speaker 10: Five course meals, so it was a lot of like
Speaker 10: the first one was like the one it was like
Speaker 10: a solid served on a bed of dirt and it
Speaker 10: was I mean, it looked like dirt. It was not dirt.
Speaker 10: But the whole point of this place is that it's
Speaker 10: sort of interactive and it's a sensory experience. The dinner
Speaker 10: theme is elementa. But here's the deal. I predict that
Speaker 10: this place will be rented out by a lot of
Speaker 10: companies because because of the design of the room, it's
Speaker 10: very tech forward, Like the whole thing can kind of
Speaker 10: be it can take on different looks. So I imagine,
Speaker 10: like if you're premiering a movie or a new album,
Speaker 10: you can transform this room to kind of fit what
Speaker 10: you're trying to do.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the true magic of it.
Speaker 1: Well cool, it was the food good.
Speaker 3: The food was good.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yes, I didn't try the duck, but everything else
Speaker 10: I did try and it was good.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on to scams, because man, they're coming
Speaker 1: up everywhere. I just got several messages on my phone
Speaker 1: and I was like, I got to ask rich about this.
Speaker 1: Where I got texts and the text appears to be
Speaker 1: from Microsoft. It says Microsoft someone else might have accessed,
Speaker 1: and then it shows like the asterisks and a bunch
Speaker 1: of those and then the last two letters or numbers
Speaker 1: of my email address, and it says you can recover
Speaker 1: at I'm like, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 10: I've been getting yep, yeah, a lot of people getting
Speaker 10: that one. Be careful, a lot of people getting that one.
Speaker 10: For sure, that one's trying to steal your Microsoft log in.
Speaker 10: But there's just so many these things, just NonStop.
Speaker 3: All day, every day.
Speaker 10: And what I talk about on my radio show is
Speaker 10: that the scam artists do something that's very similar to
Speaker 10: what we actually get from.
Speaker 3: From a company.
Speaker 10: So they take that actual Microsoft confirmation text or fraud
Speaker 10: alert text and they kind of re engineer it right
Speaker 10: to be scammy. So it looks the same, it reads
Speaker 10: the same, but the link that you're getting is not
Speaker 10: the right one. So just be very careful look at
Speaker 10: who these things are coming from, and if you don't
Speaker 10: expect them, you know, be a little bit spidy sense,
Speaker 10: Like okay, I didn't really try logging in what's happening here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay? And then over on the phone side, you know,
Speaker 1: like when I get a phone call, sometimes it says
Speaker 1: spam risk. When I don't recognize the number, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I should pick up or not. But you
Speaker 1: have a way to detect spam calls.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that one, you know you can safely not pick up.
Speaker 10: But as any parent knows, if you've got kids, you can't.
Speaker 10: Even if it's a number you don't recognize, you kind
Speaker 10: of have to pick it up just because you know
Speaker 10: who knows. And that happened to me once my kid
Speaker 10: broke his arm, and it's like, I should I pick
Speaker 10: up this phone call?
Speaker 3: Should I not? Thankfully I did.
Speaker 10: But I tried this new thing where basically I got
Speaker 10: a call I didn't know if it was a scam
Speaker 10: artist or not. Is from the Bank of America credit
Speaker 10: card Verification department, sounds very official, And I said, I
Speaker 10: think this might be a scam. So I pressed the
Speaker 10: little recording icon on the iPhone and I said, this
Speaker 10: call will be recorded, and all of a sudden, as
Speaker 10: soon as it announced that to the call boom, the
Speaker 10: person hung up. So I was like, oh, this must
Speaker 10: be a scam. So I posted this to my Instagram.
Speaker 10: Many people have tried it since, and I'm getting lots
Speaker 10: of reports that it almost works like a charm every
Speaker 10: single time, And I think it might even work for like,
Speaker 10: if you just want to get off the phone with
Speaker 10: like a telemarketer, just press that. Once they hear that,
Speaker 10: ok they don't want to be on the.
Speaker 1: Recording, Okay, good, good to know. And then I'm having
Speaker 1: issues with my DVD. But this is a different thing.
Speaker 1: There's something called disc rot.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just basically wanted to say that because I've
Speaker 10: never heard of disc rop, but.
Speaker 3: I understand.
Speaker 10: You know, if you've got old tapes around the house,
Speaker 10: like those are definitely at risk of like going bad,
Speaker 10: so definitely get those digitized. But DVDs are supposed to
Speaker 10: last like one hundred years. But apparently there are some
Speaker 10: manufacturing issues with Warner Brothers Home entertainment discs like these
Speaker 10: are you know, movies from two thousand and six to
Speaker 10: two thousand and eight, so they're failing prematurely, which means
Speaker 10: people are putting them in their drives and they're not loading,
Speaker 10: they're freezing while they play, or they just don't play
Speaker 10: at all, and so Warner Brothers apparently is aware of this.
Speaker 10: You can get in touch with them. They will either
Speaker 10: replace the disc and if they can't get the disc anymore,
Speaker 10: they will give you a title of similar value. So basically,
Speaker 10: if you've got Warner Brothers movies that are a little
Speaker 10: bit older on DVD, put them in your DVD player
Speaker 10: if you still have one.
Speaker 3: I mean, who still has this thing?
Speaker 1: I have a DVD DVD player but it doesn't work.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean in La, look where, you know, it's
Speaker 10: a movie city, so people probably have more than other places.
Speaker 10: But check them out. Make sure you don't. You don't
Speaker 10: want disc rot to ruin your day.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: And you can hear Rich say disc rot and so
Speaker 1: many other things when you listen to him every Saturday
Speaker 1: from eleven to two right here on KFI. He is
Speaker 1: KFI tech guy Richdimiro. You can also follow him on
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich on Tech. His website where you can
Speaker 1: get all the information of the stuff he talks about
Speaker 1: is rich on tech dot TV, and of course you
Speaker 1: can see him every day on KTLA.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Rich headed that way. Now, all right,
Speaker 3: we have.
Speaker 1: A good one. Health officials in La County have reported
Speaker 1: the first local case of measles this year.
Speaker 4: The infected person and La County resident recently traveled through
Speaker 4: lax The person was on a China Airlines flight that
Speaker 4: landed in Los Angeles on March fifth. The person also
Speaker 4: visited a nail salon in North Hollywood on March seventh
Speaker 4: and a grocery store in Almonte on March tenth.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield says public health officials will be notifying
Speaker 1: people who may have been exposed. Governor Newsom has announced
Speaker 1: a parole hearing date for the Menendez brothers. They've asked
Speaker 1: the governor for clemency. Newsom asked the parole board to
Speaker 1: do a risk assessment. The governor said on his new
Speaker 1: podcast yesterday that Eric and Lyle Menendez will independently have
Speaker 1: their final hearing on June thirteenth.
Speaker 7: A report then will be submitted to me on the
Speaker 7: thirteenth of June for consideration.
Speaker 1: He says that report will be given to the judge
Speaker 1: for the resentencing and that will weigh into his analysis
Speaker 1: of whether or not to move forward with the clemency request.
Speaker 1: La County DA Hawkman said this week that he is
Speaker 1: against re sentencing for the brothers. Orange County supervisors have
Speaker 1: approved a resolution to prepare for a possible surge in
Speaker 1: children left without guardians because of stepped up immigration enforcement.
Speaker 1: The resolution, which passed on a four to one vote,
Speaker 1: was introduced in response to inquiries from school officials about
Speaker 1: what was being done to take care of children whose
Speaker 1: parents may be deported. Nearly four thousand campsites in California's
Speaker 1: eighteen National Forest could close this summer because of federal
Speaker 1: budget cuts. The New York Times says an email to
Speaker 1: state forest supervisors requested a list of parks that might
Speaker 1: be shut down to save money. The Times as an
Speaker 1: internal agency memo indicates financial limitations could render some sites
Speaker 1: unsafe because there is not the ability to maintain them
Speaker 1: any longer. According to the Forest Service, the list is
Speaker 1: still in the planning stages and no final decisions have
Speaker 1: been made. Evacuation warnings have been issued to specific areas
Speaker 1: vulnerable to mudslides, including the Hollywood Hills, Pacific Palisades, and
Speaker 1: Altadena and Sierra Madre. Fire officials say they've been going
Speaker 1: door to door to alert residents of the warnings. Caltrans
Speaker 1: is closing part of pH starting at noon. Because of
Speaker 1: safety concerns as the storm moves in, people who live
Speaker 1: in the area are being told to take alternate routes.
Speaker 1: Ukraine has agreed to a thirty day ceasefire and its
Speaker 1: war with Russia. The deal was announced following talks in
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says they will
Speaker 1: now present the deal to Russia. National Security Advisor Also
Speaker 1: Walls also announced that the US will lift the pause
Speaker 1: on military aid and intel sharing with Ukraine. A NASA
Speaker 1: SpaceX rocket is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center
Speaker 1: this evening. The Dragon nine capsule will take a four
Speaker 1: person crew up to the International Space Station. The capsule
Speaker 1: will provide a ride home for astronauts Sunny Williams and
Speaker 1: Butch Wilmore, whose eight day mission in June has turned
Speaker 1: into a nine month long mission in space. At six
Speaker 1: oh five, handle on the news, the House has passed
Speaker 1: a bill to keep the lights on in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Will the Senate do the same? Bill's going to weigh in.
Speaker 4: Aamie's on it, Damie's on, Amy's on it, Gami's on it?
Speaker 1: What am I on?
Speaker 9: I'm on?
Speaker 1: Movies? TV shows, documentaries, sometimes even books. Uh, this week,
Speaker 1: I'm on a docuseries. I haven't watched the docuseries for
Speaker 1: a while, and producer and said, oh my god, you
Speaker 1: have to watch Devil in the Family. And I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I will because you know, I like
Speaker 1: to take recommendations from people. So if you have a
Speaker 1: great record mandation, let me know. Because there's so much
Speaker 1: content out on the stream that like, how do you
Speaker 1: know what to watch and spend your time on or
Speaker 1: you know, maybe what you should pass on. Here's something
Speaker 1: you should spend your time on. It's called Devil in
Speaker 1: the Family. Again. It's on Hulu and it's a very
Speaker 1: short docu series. I think it's only three is it
Speaker 1: three episodes or four? Three? Yeah, I watched them all
Speaker 1: in rapid succession yesterday, so I'm not sure how many
Speaker 1: series episodes. But anyway, it's the story of Ruby Frankie.
Speaker 1: She is a mother of six in a beautiful neighborhood
Speaker 1: in Utah. It's very idyllic looking. It kind of actually
Speaker 1: looks like a scene from Paradise, you know, the perfect
Speaker 1: preconstructed world. She looks like she has the perfect family,
Speaker 1: and she is anxious to share it. According to her husband,
Speaker 1: maybe a little obsessive about sharing it. So she shares
Speaker 1: her family on YouTube. She is a parenting influencer. Who
Speaker 1: knew there was such things? I guess there's influencers for everything.
Speaker 1: And she becomes a YouTube sensation. She videos anything and everything,
Speaker 1: and she puts out this image to the world of
Speaker 1: the perfect family, and she's making millions doing it. They
Speaker 1: go viral, They've got over like a million followers, and
Speaker 1: then it kind of takes a twist as you pull
Speaker 1: back the curtain a little bit. A counselor named Jody,
Speaker 1: who says she speaks the truth, enters their lives and
Speaker 1: sets about to start manipulating Ruby and Ruby's husband and
Speaker 1: her son, Chad, her teenage son, and the whole family.
Speaker 1: It's a real life story, but it plays out like
Speaker 1: a Hollywood movie. I mean there's demons and cults and
Speaker 1: a fall from grace and abuse and kind of how
Speaker 1: the road to hell is paved with good intentions or
Speaker 1: is it. It's a quick watch, like I said, just
Speaker 1: three episodes, and it is riveting to see her and
Speaker 1: to see what she does and how her family at
Speaker 1: first loves being internet stars, and then hates it, and
Speaker 1: the backlash and how she kind of gets hit by
Speaker 1: cancel culture and her craving for fame and what that
Speaker 1: leads to, and how her relationships develop and devolve. It's
Speaker 1: not the show kind of show that I normally gravitate toward,
Speaker 1: but it is riveting and it's very disturbing, and I'm
Speaker 1: on it and I think you should be too. Kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me of the Urpin family, remember them out
Speaker 1: in Riverside, Camp County. They had the thirteen kids and
Speaker 1: they were torturing them and that kind of stuff. It
Speaker 1: takes a very dark turn, but it's a very very interesting,
Speaker 1: interesting series. Again, it's Devil in the Family and it's
Speaker 1: on Hulu, and I think you should be on it.
Speaker 1: Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Courtney,
Speaker 1: the stock market more continues to take a dark and
Speaker 1: sinister turn.
Speaker 8: Yes yesterday it definitely did. It definitely took a dark
Speaker 8: and sinister turn. But this morning it is a completely
Speaker 8: different story. Yesterday, we did have another volatile day of trading.
Speaker 8: Wall Street whipsaw by President Trump's on and off plans
Speaker 8: with Canada. The Dow wrapped up the day falling four
Speaker 8: hundred and seventy eight points, So it was a rough
Speaker 8: end to the day. Travel stocks really took a hit,
Speaker 8: from the airline to the cruise companies. They were under
Speaker 8: pressure yesterday after both American Airlines and Delta slash their
Speaker 8: financial outlooks on weaker demand. Now this morning, completely different story.
Speaker 8: We just had inflation data just crossing and consumer prices
Speaker 8: came in lower than what economists were expecting. It's giving
Speaker 8: people here on Wall Street a little bit of relief
Speaker 8: here now. To put in in perspective, the consumer price
Speaker 8: indecks increased two tenths of a percent last month, but
Speaker 8: when you look at what happened in January, that was
Speaker 8: a sharp half a percent rise. So year over year,
Speaker 8: inflation rose two point eight percent. That is the smallest
Speaker 8: in November. So people are feeling, ah, this is a
Speaker 8: little bit better.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 8: We see the S and P five hundred jumping. It's
Speaker 8: up one percent right now in early trading, and Dow
Speaker 8: futures are up two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 1: Now when you.
Speaker 8: Dig into the report a little bit more, the list
Speaker 8: of repeat offenders that hasn't really changed much, but there
Speaker 8: are some hints of a little better behavior. Shelter costs
Speaker 8: rose four point two percent over the last year, but
Speaker 8: that was the smallest increase since twenty twenty one. Shelter
Speaker 8: cost housing, yes, exactly, and that's what they call it.
Speaker 8: Car insurance and medical care too. We did see some
Speaker 8: big increases with that, but it's worth noting a four
Speaker 8: percent dip in airline fares and that probably matches some
Speaker 8: of the recent downbeak commentary that we saw yesterday. We've
Speaker 8: put pressure on the airline.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that for a second. We were just
Speaker 1: talking about it. I know prices for flights are just
Speaker 1: stupid expensive right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you want to ask people who are gathering the data,
Speaker 8: where are you going that is cheaper as they are
Speaker 8: coming out with those numbers. But yeah, this is just
Speaker 8: making overall. When you look at what's happening, people are like, oh,
Speaker 8: this is a little bit better because we know we're
Speaker 8: going to have some impact from Tariff's coming up in
Speaker 8: the future, so at least we're coming from a little
Speaker 8: bit better of a perspective or a little bit better
Speaker 8: of a feeling right about now before we go into
Speaker 8: some of the ugliness later on, I'm sure, which is
Speaker 8: going to come down the line for a lot of
Speaker 8: consumer prices.
Speaker 1: Okay. So and speaking of feeling, people are feeling like
Speaker 1: they need to leave work earlier and it's happening.
Speaker 8: Yes, I mean, look at how times have changed when
Speaker 8: it comes to work. Remember, I mean, I'm going to
Speaker 8: play a little song for you, because remember back in
Speaker 8: the day working lot a. Yeah, things have changed since
Speaker 8: nineteen eighty. So forget about five o'clock. The average workday
Speaker 8: now ends at four thirty nine pm, not four thirty eight,
Speaker 8: not four fifty, but it's thirty six minutes earlier than
Speaker 8: just two years ago, when the clock out time hovered
Speaker 8: around five twenty one. There's a productivity software company. They're
Speaker 8: called Active Track. They looked at all these different companies,
Speaker 8: more than seven hundred companies, and their workers and said,
Speaker 8: the average worker logs in at seven forty nine am,
Speaker 8: making the work day around eight hours and forty one minutes.
Speaker 8: But even the workday hours are a little bit shorter.
Speaker 8: We're actually working fifty minutes shorter than two years ago.
Speaker 1: We can work, they say, is on the rise. I
Speaker 1: hate we can work on the rise unless it's I
Speaker 1: guess your work week, Okay, And then real quick before
Speaker 1: you go. Metallica is teaming up with Apple.
Speaker 8: Yes, then I got more music for you with that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: They're releasing an immersive concert film on Apple's Vision pro headset,
Speaker 8: coming up on Friday. It was shot this past September
Speaker 8: of Mexico City and includes a rendition of hits like
Speaker 8: you just heard Enter Sandman, and songs from the film too,
Speaker 8: will also be available.
Speaker 1: On Apple Music. Okay, And so I'm guessing you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to buy that in addition to buying the twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars. I'm sure sets they'll find a way, all right.
Speaker 1: That's your business. With Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. We do it
Speaker 1: every day right here Onfi's wake up Call. Thank you, Courtney,
Speaker 1: see you later, Okay. A second storm is moving into
Speaker 1: southern California, with one to two inches of very expected
Speaker 1: along the coast and in the valleys, two to four
Speaker 1: inches in the foothills and mountains, and one to two
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Speaker 1: with the Grapevine likely affected. Heaviest trains expected late tonight
Speaker 1: into tomorrow morning. Residents, small business owners, and workers impacted
Speaker 1: by the January. Wildfires have until five pm today to
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Speaker 1: California Attorney General Rob Bonta and La County DA Nathan
Speaker 1: Hawkman say law enforcement has made its biggest fentanyl bust
Speaker 1: in state history. They say fifty pounds of fentanyl powder
Speaker 1: has been seized. That's enough to make fourteen million deadly
Speaker 1: doses of the drug, enough to kill every person in
Speaker 1: La County. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the
Speaker 1: news this morning, measles has made its way to La County.
Speaker 1: Oh goodie. Let's say good morning now to the host
Speaker 1: of How to Money on KFI. It's our very own
Speaker 1: Joel Larsgard, who stood us up yesterday because he wanted
Speaker 1: to go to an awards show.
Speaker 5: I know, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3: Amy, That's okay.
Speaker 1: Was it fun? You were at the the iHeart Podcast
Speaker 1: awards show.
Speaker 5: That's right, it was so much fun. I didn't win,
Speaker 5: but I enjoyed being there. It was so much fun
Speaker 5: just to meet all the interesting podcasters doing cool stuff
Speaker 5: in the industry.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, so back to money. Everybody's getting very
Speaker 1: nervous because of the tariffs in the back and forth
Speaker 1: with all that, and that has people talking recession.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure, and recession. There's like this like
Speaker 5: Goofield saying that economists have predicted nine out of the
Speaker 5: last five recessions, like they're just always predicting recessions. And
Speaker 5: I remember maybe like eighteen months ago, Bloomberg had this
Speaker 5: like fabled article where they said, our recession indicator is
Speaker 5: telling us that there's one hundred percent chance of a recession,
Speaker 5: and then that recession didn't materialize. And so sometimes people
Speaker 5: get fatigued at hearing these predictions over and over and
Speaker 5: they're like, all right, come on, when is it actually
Speaker 5: gonna happen or we actually gonna experience this recession. It's
Speaker 5: certainly looking a lot more real, uh these days, and
Speaker 5: it's looking a lot more likely. And I think that's
Speaker 5: largely that's not because the economy was on the rock,
Speaker 5: so that there was even this uh, there was something
Speaker 5: happening kind of uh that there was there was an
Speaker 5: underlying weakness or something in in the marketplace. It's literally
Speaker 5: just economic policy from our elected officials right now. And
Speaker 5: so what's happening with tariffs is creating so much uncertainty,
Speaker 5: so much unnecessary uncertainty in the marketplace and for a
Speaker 5: lot of businesses that and it's and it's also causing
Speaker 5: a lot of investors to pull back and saying I
Speaker 5: don't know is this is this the best place for
Speaker 5: me to be putting my money right now, which just
Speaker 5: leads to a lot of uncertainty for consumers too on
Speaker 5: the back end.
Speaker 1: Okay, so well Joel, you know, we all hear recession
Speaker 1: and everybody goes, oh, no, a recession, But what I
Speaker 1: mean practically, what does that mean for you? And mean so, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's a good question.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's like the technical definition of a recession,
Speaker 5: right right, so that's like two quarters of down growth
Speaker 5: and and like that is something that that's like that's
Speaker 5: the nerdy economist side of things. But what it typically
Speaker 5: means we're talking about a recession and some people actually
Speaker 5: I hear some people rooting for a recession, but the
Speaker 5: truth is there's a lot of pain involved in a recession,
Speaker 5: and some people are saying, well, a recession, maybe that'll
Speaker 5: mean home price is going down. Maybe that'll mean lower
Speaker 5: stock prices, so I can get in on the action
Speaker 5: at a discounted rate. And that might be true, and
Speaker 5: there might be some fringe benefits for some people, but
Speaker 5: that's given hopefully that you keep your job right, that
Speaker 5: income continues to abound for you in the midst of
Speaker 5: tough economic times, which certainly isn't guaranteed. So you know,
Speaker 5: we could see an uptick in in layoffs. Feels like
Speaker 5: we're already kind of seeing the front end of that
Speaker 5: a little bit. But the more uncertainty there is for businesses,
Speaker 5: the less likely they are to hire people, the less
Speaker 5: likely they are to hand out generous raises. And so
Speaker 5: a recession really could be. We don't know how long
Speaker 5: a recession could last. We don't know how deep a
Speaker 5: recession could be. And again so much that that depends
Speaker 5: on whether we pivot from some of the kind of
Speaker 5: tariff insanity that we're headed towards, and if we can
Speaker 5: kind of back down on some of that and maybe
Speaker 5: use it as more of a negotiating tactic like it
Speaker 5: was early on, instead of actually implementing these tariffs which
Speaker 5: are going to harm consumers, it could mean higher prices.
Speaker 5: Even if you keep your job and things are okay
Speaker 5: in your world, well, it's just likely going to mean
Speaker 5: higher prices for everyone too. So it's really hard to
Speaker 5: say how this shakes out. But there's a lot of possibilities.
Speaker 5: And for me, when I'm talking to people, I want
Speaker 5: them to do two things. I want them to make
Speaker 5: sure that they have cash on hand, like liquid cash
Speaker 5: in a high healed savings account is more crucial in
Speaker 5: a time of economic turbulence and an uncertainty. And then
Speaker 5: the other thing is as an investor, don't do anything different.
Speaker 5: And it sounds weird to say that. I think people
Speaker 5: are like, well, I don't know, man. We can see
Speaker 5: the stock market drop another ten, fifteen to twenty percent
Speaker 5: if you are in the wealth building phase of your life,
Speaker 5: in particular, if you have a decade plus to go
Speaker 5: before you're tapping those funds, I still just don't want
Speaker 5: people touching it. I want you to have a you know,
Speaker 5: an investment policy kind of a strategy that doesn't say
Speaker 5: I'm going to change on a whim based on who's
Speaker 5: in the oval office. I want people to have the
Speaker 5: same investing approach through thick and through thin.
Speaker 1: Because when you're in the stock market, you're in for
Speaker 1: the long run.
Speaker 3: That's right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, the short run it's not been great.
Speaker 5: We're basically in correction territory here, and that you know,
Speaker 5: ten percent draw down, but also know that that's not
Speaker 5: abnormal in a given year. So what we're seeing in
Speaker 5: some ways is a little abnormal as far from a
Speaker 5: policy perspective. But what we're seeing from a stock market drop,
Speaker 5: this happens most years. In fact, that the stock market
Speaker 5: sees a drop like this. I think when it's combined though,
Speaker 5: with the politics and emotion, it just makes it.
Speaker 3: Feel a lot worse.
Speaker 1: Okay, so don't panic exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, where's panicking going to get you?
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly? This is where things are going to get you.
Speaker 1: When you listen to Joel Larsgard every weekend, he's going
Speaker 1: to help get you in get you your money house
Speaker 1: in order. We'll say that. Lots of great advice, lots
Speaker 1: of great tips. It's the host of how to Money
Speaker 1: on KFI. You can hear it every Sunday from noon
Speaker 1: to too. Right here on KFI, you can also follow
Speaker 1: Joel at how to Money Joel, Thank.
Speaker 11: You, Joel.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass says she'll never quit her city. Her comments
Speaker 1: come and she faces strong criticism about being out of
Speaker 1: the country when the wildfires started in January, and is
Speaker 1: also facing a recall effort. A pull out of UC
Speaker 1: Berkeley shows just one in five people think the mayor
Speaker 1: has done a good job responding to the fires. Forty
Speaker 1: percent say she has handled the fire's poor or very poorly.
Speaker 1: LA County supervisors back to Governor Newsom's nearly forty billion
Speaker 1: dollar request for federal wildfire recovery funds. They voted five
Speaker 1: nothing yesterday to send a letter to Congress stressing the
Speaker 1: importance of the funding. The money is needed for business,
Speaker 1: workforce and property recovery. The county has also submitted a
Speaker 1: supplemental state budget request for nine hundred million dollars for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five twenty six fiscal year. A new
Speaker 1: report from UCLA says President Trump's tariffs and deportation policies
Speaker 1: could hurt California.
Speaker 7: The back and forth over tariffs and the volatility in
Speaker 7: the stock market has led to economic uncertainty, according to
Speaker 7: the UCLA Anderson Forecast. Doctor Jerry Nicholsberg, who oversees the forecast,
Speaker 7: says deportations could affect the workforce in industries where illegal
Speaker 7: immigrants make up large numbers.
Speaker 1: There really was a shortage of construction workers and this
Speaker 1: is just going to make it worse.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 7: Construction demand could rise soon as rebuilding begins after the wildfires.
Speaker 7: Nicholsburg also says industries like hospitality and agriculture could also
Speaker 7: see a drop in laborers. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1: News Hey Ihearts Wango Tango is returning to southern California
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