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Speaker 3: That include Good Call You host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 4: It's five o'clock, straight up, good morning. This is your
Speaker 4: wake up call for Tuesday, May twenty seven.
Speaker 5: I'm Amy King.
Speaker 4: If you had a long holiday weekend, hope you enjoyed
Speaker 4: your time off.
Speaker 5: We got to work. Will's back.
Speaker 4: Hey, you skipped out on us yesterday along the handle.
Speaker 4: That's okay, that's okay. That's what holidays are for. Handmaid's Tale.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me if you've watched it, because the last episode,
Speaker 4: the season and the series finale dropped last night.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: I hope it's good. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
Speaker 5: I hope it's good too.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say anything because if you haven't watched it,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of like you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: they did what, Oh my god, they did what?
Speaker 5: Which I love that about the show.
Speaker 4: But I still think the first season of Handmaid's Tale
Speaker 4: was probably the best.
Speaker 3: So it was just so creepy.
Speaker 4: It's yeah scary, yeah, yeah, and at some point you're like, June,
Speaker 4: how many times can you avoid being killed?
Speaker 5: And why do you keep going back? Well, she's going back.
Speaker 4: Because of her daughter. I know her daughter, Hannah's still there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, So if you've seen Handmaid's Tale, don't tell me.
Speaker 4: My friend Debbie said, I'm staying up and watching it
Speaker 4: and then I'm gonna text you and I'm like, why
Speaker 4: would you do that to me? Okay, So Will walked
Speaker 4: into the studio and he goes, ooh, and I'm like what.
Speaker 4: He goes, oh, somebody left a mask. I think it
Speaker 4: was Mark Ronner. Oh, but I was.
Speaker 5: I was at the story yesterday because you know, what
Speaker 5: do you do on Memorial there? You go to the store.
Speaker 4: I was at the story yesterday and I was like,
Speaker 4: what is going on? There were so many people in
Speaker 4: the little strip mall where I was wearing masks and
Speaker 4: they were wearing them outside.
Speaker 5: I was like, did you not get the memo?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the outside part I don't get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there were several people and I was like,
Speaker 4: what is happening with this? Maybe are they Maybe it's
Speaker 4: because the cold's going around that I have still that
Speaker 4: they're trying to protect themselves don't. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you know, you can DM me at Amy K. King'
Speaker 4: I don't get it, don't understand it. Also, I don't
Speaker 4: know how you spent your Memorial Day. But since we worked,
Speaker 4: there was no barbecuing and that kind of stuff. Yesterday
Speaker 4: I was in a patriotic move mood and so I
Speaker 4: watched Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick.
Speaker 3: Oh fun.
Speaker 5: I love those movies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun to watch it, and it was
Speaker 4: amazing to watch them. You know, forty years later, it's
Speaker 4: the first one forty years ago or thirty years ago,
Speaker 4: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I know numbers.
Speaker 4: They're still great. They're still great. Anyway, here's what's ahead
Speaker 4: on wake up call. Welcome back to your short work week.
Speaker 4: A woman is in critical condition after she was shot
Speaker 4: by police following a chase and a standoff that ended
Speaker 4: in Woodland Hills. The woman has had surgery after she
Speaker 4: was taken into custody late yesterday morning. Three more of
Speaker 4: the escaped inmates in New Orleans have been recaptured, one
Speaker 4: in Louisiana, the two others in Texas. That leaves two
Speaker 4: remaining inmates on the loose. Two students from La County
Speaker 4: and one from Orange County will begin competing in the
Speaker 4: script's National Spelling Bee today in National Harbor, Maryland. We'll
Speaker 4: be cheering on Kamya Bellagie from Notre Dame Academy in
Speaker 4: Rancho Park, Oliver Halcott from the Merman's School in Brentwood,
Speaker 4: and Sydney Tran from l Rancho Charter School in Anaheim.
Speaker 4: Go kids. Some much needed aid is getting into Gaza
Speaker 4: things to a US backed relief organization, but Hamas is
Speaker 4: warning Palestinians not to take it. ABC Strodana Miller joins
Speaker 4: us to explain that. Coming up in just a couple
Speaker 4: of minutes. The tariff roller coaster continues. ABC's Karen Travers
Speaker 4: has the latest on the proclamation from President Trump that
Speaker 4: has stock futures soaring this morning. That's at five thirty five.
Speaker 4: Where have all the great perks gone? Remember all the
Speaker 4: credit card companies used to have them? Everybody used to
Speaker 4: have them. Kfi's Rory O'Neil on why companies are eighty
Speaker 4: six ing them and why?
Speaker 5: Oh I said, on why and why that's a double way.
Speaker 5: We'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: No tax on tips part of President Trump's Big Beautiful bill,
Speaker 4: which is headed over to the Senate. Does Joel Larsgard
Speaker 4: think that's a good idea and why millionaires are renting
Speaker 4: instead of buying these days.
Speaker 5: That's coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 4: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman shot
Speaker 4: by police after a chase and a standoff in Woodland
Speaker 4: Hills is in critical condition. LAPD Detective Megan Aguilar says
Speaker 4: officers first contacted the woman in Van Eys yesterday morning
Speaker 4: when shots were reported.
Speaker 7: They were able to get a little bit of information
Speaker 7: from her, but during that engagement she produced a handgun,
Speaker 7: pointed it at herself, and got back in the van.
Speaker 4: She then led lease into a neighborhood in Woodland Hills
Speaker 4: where there was another standoff. At one point she got
Speaker 4: onto the roof of the van and was holding a
Speaker 4: gun to her head. She was shot by police when
Speaker 4: she jumped off and ran over to a porch of
Speaker 4: a home. A man's been arrested in connection with the
Speaker 4: shootings of a fourteen year old boy and two adults
Speaker 4: in the Shoreline Village area of Long Beach will Last say.
Speaker 4: The boy was shot in the leg Sunday night, a
Speaker 4: man and a woman were both shot in the upper body.
Speaker 4: Officers say there'd been an argument between a large group
Speaker 4: of people near a boat. The guy arrested is the
Speaker 4: owner of the boat. Looks like we're going to have
Speaker 4: a hot summer in California.
Speaker 8: Noah predicts that much of California will experience higher than
Speaker 8: normal temperatures this summer. For June through August, there's a
Speaker 8: fifty to sixty percent chance of warmer weather in northern
Speaker 8: and eastern California, and a forty to fifty percent chance
Speaker 8: along the southern coast. Summer solstice starts on June twentieth,
Speaker 8: marking the first day of summer. Dinakodiak KFI News.
Speaker 4: Let's check in now with ABC's Giordana Millerana. So much
Speaker 4: needed aid is getting into Gaza, but not everyone's happy
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 5: So what is going on?
Speaker 9: Well, we're seeing now for more than a week, aid
Speaker 9: trucks finally roll into the Gaza strip. Not enough, it
Speaker 9: has to be said over and over again. I mean
Speaker 9: the average now for the last week since aid was
Speaker 9: allowed back in and the Israeli Prime Minister lifted that ban,
Speaker 9: we've seen about one hundred trucks go in per day.
Speaker 9: That's really a drop in the bucket, right. Gaza's need
Speaker 9: somewhere around five to six hundred trucks of aid. That's
Speaker 9: what we saw during the ceasefire. So this is way
Speaker 9: under what they need. And we're still hearing the Israeli
Speaker 9: Prime Minister talk about the new Israeli American system that's
Speaker 9: supposed to ramp up and begin in the next several
Speaker 9: days to deliver aid directly to the people of Gaza
Speaker 9: through several different distribution centers that will be set up
Speaker 9: secured by the Israeli Army American private companies there to
Speaker 9: distribute the aid directly to gossens. It's an effort really
Speaker 9: to undercut Hamas's control of aid then, and by that
Speaker 9: we can its grip on the Gaza strip. But having
Speaker 9: said all that, this system, which was really supposed to
Speaker 9: open yesterday according to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, it is
Speaker 9: not up and running yet. The site there appears to
Speaker 9: be opened, but there's no trucks going in. We're not
Speaker 9: seeing gozens come to get aid. In fact, we are
Speaker 9: seeing Hamas tell goosens not to go there. They're trying
Speaker 9: to spread propaganda saying that the distribution centers are a
Speaker 9: plot by Israel to spy on gossens, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 9: And they're telling people not to go to these distribution centers.
Speaker 9: But so far, even the first one that was supposed
Speaker 9: to as I said, open yesterday in southern Gaza, it's
Speaker 9: still not up and running.
Speaker 4: Okay, And there Jordana's saying don't go to these senders.
Speaker 4: Are they threatening the Palestinians or are they just saying, oh,
Speaker 4: it's you know, oh that it's not really aid, so
Speaker 4: just stay away.
Speaker 9: No, there was an implied threat in one of the
Speaker 9: statements from the Hamas Ministry of Interior saying that they
Speaker 9: will be you know, people who go will be quote
Speaker 9: unquote dealt with. So there appears to be threats that
Speaker 9: Hamas is Uh is leveling against people who go to
Speaker 9: these distribution centers, which, of course, you know, we have
Speaker 9: to remember. You know, we call out the intense air
Speaker 9: raids and the air bombing campaigns by the Israelis that
Speaker 9: kill far too many civilians. We know it's a problem,
Speaker 9: it's been going on throughout the war. We also need
Speaker 9: to call out Hamas in times like this when they
Speaker 9: claim and we know people are hungry and starving across
Speaker 9: the Gaza strip, and they're willfully and intentionally trying to
Speaker 9: you know, prevent people from going to get aid to
Speaker 9: get food. And that's a problem.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an impossible situation for the Palestinian people.
Speaker 5: It's just it's so tragic.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, No.
Speaker 9: It is terrible. I mean they always seem to pay,
Speaker 9: you know, the heaviest price the Palestinians.
Speaker 4: Yeah, abcster Donna Miller, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 4: We'll keep an eye on it and hope more aid
Speaker 4: gets in. Tucks in, all right, take care, I know,
Speaker 4: let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Investigators have arrested
Speaker 4: more of the jail inmates who escaped in New.
Speaker 10: Orleans, finding two in Texas yesterday and one in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 10: Eight of the ten inmates who escaped May sixteenth, they're
Speaker 10: now back in custody. Many have faced murder charges and
Speaker 10: were labeled high risk offenders.
Speaker 4: ABC's Andrew Dimbert says the men crawled through a hole
Speaker 4: behind a toilet earlier this month, reportedly using electric hair
Speaker 4: trimers to cut through the cell wall. At least nine
Speaker 4: people have been arrested for helping them. A US German
Speaker 4: citizen has been charged with trying to bomb an embassy
Speaker 4: building in Israel. He was arrested in New York on Sunday.
Speaker 4: ABC Stephani Ramos says Joseph Neumayer had been in Tel
Speaker 4: Aviv before that.
Speaker 6: Authority say Newmeyer arrived in Israel in April.
Speaker 5: He was deported to the.
Speaker 2: US and arrested by the FBI at JFK Airport this weekend.
Speaker 4: He's charged with attempting to destroy the US embassy by
Speaker 4: means of fire or explosive. He's facing up to twenty
Speaker 4: years in prison if convicted. Nearly thirty people have been
Speaker 4: hurt by a mini van that plowed into crowds of
Speaker 4: soccer fans celebrating in Liverpool, England. Witnesses say the driver
Speaker 4: spread through the crowd lining the parade route, but Assistant
Speaker 4: Chief Constable Jenny Simms with my Merseyside Police says they're
Speaker 4: not treating it as terrorism.
Speaker 1: You believe this to be an isolated incident and we
Speaker 1: are not currently looking for anyone else in relation to it.
Speaker 4: Things escalator when the crowd started smashing the minivan's windows.
Speaker 4: The driver hit the gas again, hitting more parade goers.
Speaker 4: He is now in police custody. A boat captain in
Speaker 4: Florida has been sentenced for shooting and poisoning dolphins. Zachary
Speaker 4: Barfield ran a charter fishing boat out of Panama City.
Speaker 4: Prosecutors say shot at least five dolphins with a shotgun
Speaker 4: and fed poisoned bait to many more between twenty twenty
Speaker 4: two and twenty twenty three because he was angry the
Speaker 4: dolphins were stealing fish from his clients. At least one
Speaker 4: dolphin was killed, others became sick. Barfield was sentenced last
Speaker 4: week to a month in jail in a fifty one
Speaker 4: thousand dollars fine. Not nearly enough. Can I just say that,
Speaker 4: not nearly enough? Oh my gosh, that's so infuriating. President
Speaker 4: Trump and House Speaker Johnson are urging the Senate to
Speaker 4: make minimal changes to the the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,
Speaker 4: which was recently passed in the House. The goal is
Speaker 4: to get the bill signed into law by the fourth
Speaker 4: of July. Some Republican senators are pushing back. They say
Speaker 4: the bill increases the deficit and lacks serious spending cuts.
Speaker 5: A hearing is.
Speaker 4: Set for Thursday over a federal judge's order that temporarily
Speaker 4: blocked the Trump administration's ban on international students enrolling in
Speaker 4: Harvard ABC Selina Wang says the government is threatening to
Speaker 4: take three billion dollars in grants away from Harvard Harvard
Speaker 4: and give them to trade schools instead.
Speaker 6: The White House claims Harvard has become a hotbed of
Speaker 6: anti American, anti Semitic, pro terrorist agitators, allegations.
Speaker 5: Harvard denies.
Speaker 4: Nearly seven thousand international students attend Harvard. The first locally
Speaker 4: born giant pandas in Hong Kong finally have names. They
Speaker 4: are Jia and Day Day. I'm not even sure if
Speaker 4: I'm pronouncing this right. The cubs had been affectionately known
Speaker 4: as Elder Sister and Little Brother. They were born in August,
Speaker 4: and the names were announced today in a ceremony theme
Speaker 4: park where they live. Their parents and two other giant
Speaker 4: pandas that arrived from mainland China last year are also there.
Speaker 4: The names were winning suggestions from residents in a naming contest.
Speaker 4: Jiazia and Day Day Day Day, They're what I can remember. Yeah,
Speaker 4: today the Dodgers. Speaking of day days, Today the Dodgers
Speaker 4: take on the Guardians in Cleveland.
Speaker 5: First pitch goes out at three.
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Speaker 4: seventy year old man has been killed in a crash
Speaker 4: with an LAPD SUV and Sun Valley. The crash happened
Speaker 4: shortly before two yesterday afternoon on Sataqoi Street.
Speaker 5: The man died at the scene. Two officers were hurt.
Speaker 5: Their injuries are not said to be life threatening. The
Speaker 5: Palm Springs fertility clinic that got targeted in a car
Speaker 5: bombing is set to reopen at a temporary location today.
Speaker 5: It's going to be across the street. The clinic on
Speaker 5: North Indian Canyon Drive was severely damaged in the bombing
Speaker 5: May seventeenth. The bomber was killed.
Speaker 4: Dodgers' first baseman, Freddie Freeman, and his wife Chelsea, have
Speaker 4: made a one million dollar donation to Children's Hospital of
Speaker 4: Orange County why Well.
Speaker 5: Last year, the.
Speaker 4: Hospital treated Freeman's son Maximus, after he developed a severe
Speaker 4: case of gian Barret syndrome. He has since recovered. Let's
Speaker 4: say good morning now to kfi's Rory O'Neill.
Speaker 5: Okay, Rory, we all love the perks.
Speaker 4: We like the cash back on our Costco cards, miles
Speaker 4: with our credit cards, access to airport lounges, and free
Speaker 4: Uber rides with American Express Gold card.
Speaker 5: But the goodies seemed to be going away. What in
Speaker 5: the heck is going on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this essentially is happening because a lot of the
Speaker 2: companies that provide the goodie, whether it's that airport lounge
Speaker 2: or that hotel or that rental car company, some of
Speaker 2: them are looking at what might be a dodgy summer
Speaker 2: for domestic travel, and the concern is they might start
Speaker 2: to roll back on some of those sweet, sweet premiums.
Speaker 2: And you know, some of the experts who look at
Speaker 2: the credit card space say, you know, if you are
Speaker 2: hoarding these points or you've got to if you've built
Speaker 2: up pretty strong balances of points or miles, this may
Speaker 2: be the time to cash in. The concern is, if
Speaker 2: you have sixty thousand miles, it's a fifty thousand miles
Speaker 2: for a free airline ticket. Well maybe they're going to
Speaker 2: up it to one hundred thousand miles and you just
Speaker 2: missed the boat or the airplan, I guess in that case.
Speaker 2: So they're suggesting that you don't hoard points and make
Speaker 2: sure that you're using a card that gives you rewards
Speaker 2: that you actually want to use. You know, sometimes our
Speaker 2: travel patterns change, we fall in love with another kind
Speaker 2: of a hotel chain or airline or whatever it may be.
Speaker 2: So make sure that if you are using a card
Speaker 2: with perks, that you actually have a perk you want.
Speaker 2: And the last thing, which is paramount over everything, make
Speaker 2: sure you pay the card in full every month.
Speaker 3: Otherwise this deal does not help you out.
Speaker 5: Because you're paying more to get the perks.
Speaker 2: Right, These twenty three percent interest rates pretty much on
Speaker 2: average these days for credit cards really just helped the banks.
Speaker 2: And you're much better off putting that money on the
Speaker 2: credit card balance or paying it off entirely and paying
Speaker 2: for the perk separately, of.
Speaker 4: Course, and that's information our very own Joel Larsgard can
Speaker 4: get behind. We're going to be talking to him more
Speaker 4: about some other fun credit things a little bit later
Speaker 4: this hour. So you mentioned the mileage plans and not
Speaker 4: to hoard them, and I know that I do kind
Speaker 4: of hoard my Alaska Airlines miles. But I've noticed then
Speaker 4: that they they'll come out and they'll go.
Speaker 5: Hey, we've made these great new changes right to.
Speaker 4: The mileage plans, and you got to be careful because
Speaker 4: those great new changes generally aren't. I know that Southwest
Speaker 4: made changes a couple of years ago to theirs. They
Speaker 4: used to have, like you fly eight times and then
Speaker 4: you get a free ride.
Speaker 2: That's gone well, right, and then look at what's Alaska
Speaker 2: and what's the future of that airline and mergers and
Speaker 2: who just got bought and who's on top, and so
Speaker 2: now what's happening to all this That also adds to
Speaker 2: some of the confusion. And look, Southwest is changing again.
Speaker 2: Today is the last day you can buy a ticket
Speaker 2: on Southwest and still get two free bags to fly.
Speaker 3: That policy started, That policy.
Speaker 2: Ends tomorrow, and then they're going to introduce this basic fare,
Speaker 2: which not to be not to denigrate Spirit Airlines, but
Speaker 2: essentially they're selling a spirit kind of ticket. It comes
Speaker 2: with nothing and you board the plane last. That's how
Speaker 2: cheap this fair is going to be from Southwest. And
Speaker 2: if that's what you're interested in, good luck to you.
Speaker 2: But the Southwest is even going to start assigned seating,
Speaker 2: but that's not until fall. The big one to remember
Speaker 2: is that the free bag policy. You can buy the
Speaker 2: tickets through today and then that's it.
Speaker 4: Okay, I gotta say I like Southwest, but my friend
Speaker 4: Debbie and I were just talking about this year. She goes,
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm gonna find anymore because they're going
Speaker 4: to the super cheap like the not having the assigned
Speaker 4: seats has always been, you know, it is what it is,
Speaker 4: kind of going to the bargain basement.
Speaker 5: Airlines is just like stop you guys.
Speaker 3: Well it's a race to the bottom, right You're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: do I have this card? And why do I have that?
Speaker 2: And maybe you want to start flying, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: you want another airline with more of the perks and
Speaker 2: you start flying with them. At the same time, some
Speaker 2: Southwest credit card users or elite people will be able
Speaker 2: to have the free bag, so again, sort of manage
Speaker 2: these things more carefully, because look, these credit card companies.
Speaker 3: Are not loyal to you, so why are we loyal
Speaker 3: to them? Right?
Speaker 2: So if it means hopping around and finding the best
Speaker 2: deal for you, go do it, because they're not going
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: It for you. They don't really reward your loyalty at
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 4: Hey, Rory, is there anywhere that you know of that
Speaker 4: people can find kind of the perks that are still
Speaker 4: being offered?
Speaker 5: Or do you just have to search them out?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I always like to refer to the Points Guy website.
Speaker 2: They dot com. They always seem to follow what's next,
Speaker 2: and they're really good on those maximizing points and doing
Speaker 2: the crazy stuff.
Speaker 3: But look, I'm more for it.
Speaker 2: Can I just get an upgrade as I fly from
Speaker 2: Detroit to Kansas City? I don't need the I get
Speaker 2: to fly in the sky apartment of Cutter Airlines?
Speaker 3: No, No, I just want the little perks. I don't
Speaker 3: need the big ones.
Speaker 2: And I'm six ft six so anything I can get
Speaker 2: to gets me a lot more leg room. That's the
Speaker 2: that's the benefit. All snatch up.
Speaker 4: Okay, forget that, I just forgot everything you said because
Speaker 4: you said sky apartment on Cutter Airlines.
Speaker 5: I want that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's it's got a shower and it's got yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it's for thirty dollars.
Speaker 3: I think I add a zero, but yeah, really yeah,
Speaker 3: it's something crazy like that.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: Well, on that note, welcome back to Radio Amy.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Kavs roy O'Neil. Thanks so much for the info
Speaker 4: check out points guy dot com. That's a great, great tip, Okay,
Speaker 4: and inmate had a brief taste of freedom after escaping
Speaker 4: from this facility in Silmar for convicts who work on
Speaker 4: fire cruise. Thirty three year old Angel Gaola walked away
Speaker 4: from the Holton Conservation Camp on Sunday night. Law enforcement
Speaker 4: picked him up yesterday morning. He's serving a six year
Speaker 4: sentence for second degree robbery and had been working at
Speaker 4: the Holton camp since January. The Department of Corrections says
Speaker 4: since nineteen seventy seven in California, ninety nine percent of
Speaker 4: all inmates who escape have been recaptured. A Pasadena firefighter
Speaker 4: who helped fight the Eton fire has been hurt in
Speaker 4: a motorcycle crash.
Speaker 11: The Pasadena Fire Department confirms firefighter paramedic Armin Hagopian was
Speaker 11: involved in a serious motorcycle crash last Tuesday, he suffered
Speaker 11: a severe spinal cord injury and is recovering in the ICU.
Speaker 11: Doctors say he has paralyzed from the waist down, with
Speaker 11: no indication his condition will improve. Hagopian has been with
Speaker 11: the Pasadena Fire Department for more than six years. Daniel
Speaker 11: Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 4: A man teaching a teen relative to drive in Laguna
Speaker 4: Beach has been killed in a crash Lise. The car
Speaker 4: was on the up We're a parking lot of Gelson's
Speaker 4: Market yesterday when the driver, who has a permit, went
Speaker 4: through a fence barrier and down an embankment. The car
Speaker 4: plummeted about forty feet onto the road below and landed
Speaker 4: upside down.
Speaker 5: The team drivers survived and was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 4: Millions of Americans have taken a hit to their credit
Speaker 4: score because of delinquent student loans.
Speaker 12: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York analysis shows credit
Speaker 12: scores dropped more than one hundred points for over two
Speaker 12: million delinquent student loan borrowers. Scores fell one hundred and
Speaker 12: fifty points or more for more than a million in
Speaker 12: the first three months of twenty twenty five. It's similar
Speaker 12: to the sharp drop that follows a personal bankruptcy filing.
Speaker 12: Researchers said about two million of those previously had favorable
Speaker 12: credit scores and would have qualified for car loans, mortgages,
Speaker 12: or credit cards before the delinquencies were reported.
Speaker 3: Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 4: Your smartphone might really make you smart, Go Figure ABC.
Speaker 4: Sherry Preston says that's the result of a new study
Speaker 4: published in the journal Nature.
Speaker 5: Human Behavior.
Speaker 13: Scientists study more than four hundred thousand adults with an
Speaker 13: average age of sixty nine and found those who engaged
Speaker 13: with digital technology on smartphones, tablets, or computers had a
Speaker 13: fifty eight percent reduced risk of cognitive impairment.
Speaker 4: She says possible reasons why are that the challenge of
Speaker 4: adapting to new technology stimulates your brain and that technology
Speaker 4: can help you connect with others. Police now say more
Speaker 4: than a thousand people were in some way involved in
Speaker 4: Saturday night's chaotic events on the streets of downtown LA.
Speaker 4: The group sprayed a police car with graffiti, also sprayed
Speaker 4: businesses and a metro train. They also blocked metro tracks
Speaker 4: for a time. Mayor Bass says the people were recruited
Speaker 4: for the party at a vacant warehouse. Online shouts of
Speaker 4: joy turned into shrieks of terror as a minivan plowed
Speaker 4: into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans who were out
Speaker 4: celebrating the city's Premier League championship. Forty five people were hurt,
Speaker 4: including at least four children. Four of the victims, including
Speaker 4: a child, were trapped under the van, and firefighters had
Speaker 4: to lift the van off to free them. A fifty
Speaker 4: three year old man's been arrested. Police say they believe
Speaker 4: he acted alone and this is not being investigated as
Speaker 4: an act of terror. Noah has predicted a hotter than
Speaker 4: normal summer for California from June through August. Forecasters say
Speaker 4: there's a fifty to sixty percent chance of warmer than
Speaker 4: normal weather for northern and eastern California, and a forty
Speaker 4: to fifty percent chance it'll be hotter than normal in
Speaker 4: southern California. The first day of summer is June twentieth.
Speaker 4: At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 5: Bill is back.
Speaker 4: I bet you he's going to have a thing or
Speaker 4: two to say, and he's probably really depress because Cosco
Speaker 4: was closed yesterday. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 4: Karen Travers. So, Karen, I don't know if you remember
Speaker 4: these old the old ads. They were EF Hutton ads,
Speaker 4: and they said, when EF Hutton talks, people listen. So
Speaker 4: now it's kind of like when President Trump talks, the
Speaker 4: stock markets listen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and we'll see what the reaction
Speaker 6: is today. There was some relief that there wasn't going
Speaker 6: to be at the end of this week a fifty
Speaker 6: percent tariff on the EU, but the threat is still
Speaker 6: out there. The President has said that this is a
Speaker 6: pause until July ninth, so negotiations can take place. But
Speaker 6: you know, we've heard this booker from the President before,
Speaker 6: where there's a significant tariff that threatens and then you know,
Speaker 6: in some amount of time he backs off of it
Speaker 6: to talk about negotiations. And this one was a forty
Speaker 6: eight hour threat. So it was kind of like, oh,
Speaker 6: we're getting threats, blink, and you missed it because it
Speaker 6: was a holiday weekend. But we'll see that what the
Speaker 6: Wall Street reaction is today, and we'll also see where
Speaker 6: the negotiations go.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Between here and July ninth, the president's trade representative was
Speaker 6: meeting with his European counterpart on the phone, yesterday. The
Speaker 6: Commerce Secretary also had a conversation. The President spoke with
Speaker 6: the EU Commission leader Ursul Evanderland on Sunday, and that's
Speaker 6: what prompted the delay until July ninth. So the President
Speaker 6: was also out last week if there was anything the
Speaker 6: E could do to avoid these tariffs, and he said,
Speaker 6: I don't know. We're going to see what happens. So
Speaker 6: you know, stay tuned for what this will look like
Speaker 6: now in terms of negotiations and how hard ball the
Speaker 6: president plays in the coming weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Karen, when he did that forty eight hour
Speaker 4: panic button, that was because I believe and correct me
Speaker 4: if I'm wrong. Didn't he say we're going to put
Speaker 4: the tariffs on because negotiations aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, you know, and it was to spark a
Speaker 6: progress in the negotiations and our shore Vanderlaine had said
Speaker 6: that Europe is ready now to advance talk swiftly and decisively.
Speaker 6: The President said, we'll rapidly get together and see if
Speaker 6: we can work things out. So, you know, you light
Speaker 6: a fire by threatening such a sweeping tariff like that,
Speaker 6: and maybe the conversations can move forward. But you know,
Speaker 6: remember too, we're also in this ninety day pause at
Speaker 6: this point. On the other big round of terrifts, the
Speaker 6: President had announced early April, then a week later had
Speaker 6: put on pause so they can negotiate trade deals. Besides
Speaker 6: the UK, there hasn't been an announcement at this point
Speaker 6: of another trade deal. There was talk about progress with
Speaker 6: one with India, maybe South Korea, Japan or Vietnam, but
Speaker 6: we haven't heard that yet and we'll about halfway through
Speaker 6: that ninety day period.
Speaker 5: I swear I need a flow chart to keep track
Speaker 5: of all of this stuff. ABC's Karen Travis, you have
Speaker 5: many documents that you do.
Speaker 4: ABC's Karen Travers. Thanks so much for the update. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Have a great day, all right, you too. Yeah, my
Speaker 5: head is just spinning on the what's on, what's off?
Speaker 4: How much? How what's pausing? Wait, that's paused, But we're
Speaker 4: still going to do this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I would imagine people with much bigger brains are keeping
Speaker 4: track of this. Speaking of people with bigger brains, let's
Speaker 4: check in with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 5: Get in your business now, Courtney.
Speaker 4: We were just talking about the tariffs and how the
Speaker 4: President saying, hey, we're putting a pause on those until July.
Speaker 4: Is is promising to start the stock market out in
Speaker 4: a positive light this morning, Yes, no doubt about it.
Speaker 7: Anytime that there's any sort of we're going to delay things,
Speaker 7: we're going to move it forward or it's not going
Speaker 7: to happen, and we end up seeing the markets higher.
Speaker 7: Good morning, by the way, Happy Tuesday. So traders are
Speaker 7: back in the office today and we're seeing things popping higher.
Speaker 7: Looking at the Dow right now, it's up five hundred
Speaker 7: and four points. But it was a much different story
Speaker 7: on Friday because the major benchmarks saw major losses because
Speaker 7: Wall Street was rattled by threats to impose aggressive tariffs
Speaker 7: on Apple and also.
Speaker 5: The European Union.
Speaker 7: But it seems the European Union is now back at
Speaker 7: the table accelerating these trade talks too.
Speaker 5: The Dow fell two hundred and fifty six points the
Speaker 5: other day.
Speaker 4: I'm okady and so Trump backed off his trade tariffs
Speaker 4: against the EU. But has he said anything more about
Speaker 4: the Apple tariffs.
Speaker 7: No, and Apple's been undergoing some significant issues of late.
Speaker 7: It actually was reported that he used to be Tim
Speaker 7: Cook used to be one of President Trump's favorites but
Speaker 7: President Trump asked a bunch of CEOs and said, hey.
Speaker 5: Do you want to come with me on my trip
Speaker 5: to the Middle East? And he said no. So it
Speaker 5: ends up being a little bit of a hit lately.
Speaker 7: And I mean, we have this demand, they want, this
Speaker 7: demand for Apple to make iPhones in the US, but
Speaker 7: it's going to be quite difficult for them. I mean,
Speaker 7: some estimates have it that it's going to cost about
Speaker 7: thirty five hundred dollars of an iPhone, is right, because
Speaker 7: labor are.
Speaker 4: Like a minimum of thirty dollars no hour probably to
Speaker 4: make it in the US where across the you know
Speaker 4: wherever it's being made now mainly in China, right yet,
Speaker 4: but it's a dollar.
Speaker 5: Too, yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And also they say they don't have the engineering know
Speaker 7: how here in the United States compared to their So
Speaker 7: there's that's a big difference. So the demand and this
Speaker 7: real big challenge to the company and the supply chain
Speaker 7: has been concentrated in China for years and to be
Speaker 7: able to move a supply chain in any sort of
Speaker 7: way for any sort of company is going to be
Speaker 7: quite difficult because they have the suppliers, they have the manufacturing,
Speaker 7: they have the engineering, know how they are not as
Speaker 7: much here.
Speaker 4: Tariffs are hitting another retailer. We were talking about tariffs earlier,
Speaker 4: but this time it's Claire's.
Speaker 7: Yes, the tween accessory store that my daughter absolutely loves.
Speaker 7: So they're consulting with some financial advisors on way to
Speaker 7: shore up their finances. The mall staple is confronting higher
Speaker 7: import costs. Obviously the deteriorating outlook for consumer spending. People
Speaker 7: are a little more worried holding onto their wallets. But
Speaker 7: the company heavily depends on China to source its merchandise,
Speaker 7: and it's merchandise not so expensive so tweens can afford it.
Speaker 7: But Claire's has more than twenty seven hundred locations across
Speaker 7: seventeen countries, and I haven't stepped foot in one in
Speaker 7: about twelve years, well except for my st Okay and
Speaker 7: really Quick. McDonald's is calling it a rap on its
Speaker 7: new beverage.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well it's a beverage brand and it's called Cosmics, and
Speaker 7: it opened up in a bunch of locations, not many,
Speaker 7: but they wanted this experimental spinoff two years ago to
Speaker 7: compete with the soda chain Swig. Many people have seen this.
Speaker 7: They're not as popular on the East Coast, but you
Speaker 7: see it on Real Housewives.
Speaker 5: I've never seen Salt Lake City.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's this dirty soda trend where people take soda
Speaker 7: and then they add milk.
Speaker 5: To it or different syrups. It's a little it seems
Speaker 5: a little much. I don't know. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 7: But this chain had specialty lemonades and teas, blended beverages,
Speaker 7: iced coffees.
Speaker 5: Was the store so thetaurant front.
Speaker 7: Yes, it was a store about and they only had
Speaker 7: a couple of them, not many of them, because they
Speaker 7: wanted to see if this pilot would take off. But
Speaker 7: now they say they're going to take lessons from cosmics
Speaker 7: this brand and then applied to their own restaurant. So
Speaker 7: try to bring these specialized coffees into McDonald's. Okay, So
Speaker 7: wasn't so successful. I don't think we're missing much on
Speaker 7: that one. At thirty so doesnomic think?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney don Hojo as
Speaker 4: we do every day, and we'll talk to you again
Speaker 4: tomorrow at five point forty. Definitely see you later, all right,
Speaker 4: Thanks Cortney. Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 4: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
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Speaker 4: through the early morning. W NBA superstar Caitlin Clark is
Speaker 4: going to be out of action for at least two weeks.
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Speaker 4: good morning now to the host of How to Money
Speaker 4: on KFI every Sunday. It's Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 14: Morning, Joel, Morning Amy.
Speaker 4: We have been talking about the Big Beautiful Bill that
Speaker 4: includes no taxes on tips, and so we wanted to
Speaker 4: dig into that a little bit and find out one
Speaker 4: if you think that's a good idea, and then talk
Speaker 4: about tipping in general, because it's really well, it ticks
Speaker 4: me off.
Speaker 14: Yeah, the Big Beautiful Bill, there's still like, you know,
Speaker 14: how's it going to shake out, And there's a lot
Speaker 14: of stuff in it to kind of parse through, and
Speaker 14: it's going to impact all of our personal finances based
Speaker 14: on you know, how things actually shake out in the end.
Speaker 14: And the note tax on tips is one of the
Speaker 14: most interesting things to me. And it was a proposal
Speaker 14: that seemed like it was kind of a by the
Speaker 14: seat of the pants, you know, spur of the moment
Speaker 14: sort of thought from President Trump on the when he
Speaker 14: was campaigning. And then you remember, if if you remember correctly,
Speaker 14: the Kamala Harris campaign said yeah, they're like, yeah, we
Speaker 14: think it is a great idea too. So it's like
Speaker 14: a political as a political tool, it makes sense, right,
Speaker 14: you're catering to a certain voter class. As a actual
Speaker 14: policy being implemented, I think there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 14: opportunity to really like swing and miss, and so I
Speaker 14: don't love the idea of saying, hey, this is a
Speaker 14: particular way you earn your income, and because of that,
Speaker 14: we're going to we're not going to make you pay
Speaker 14: taxes on this particular kind of income. Same think about
Speaker 14: somebody who's like a landscaper or something like that, and
Speaker 14: maybe they earn a similar amount of money per hour
Speaker 14: or but their income is going to be taxed at
Speaker 14: regular ordinary income tax rates, unlike somebody who's let's say,
Speaker 14: working in the service industry. And so I think it
Speaker 14: will incentivize people to consider different jobs. And I think
Speaker 14: it will also incentivize different businesses to maybe pay their
Speaker 14: employees less and try to rely on tips more and
Speaker 14: talk about, hey, this is actually going to help your
Speaker 14: tax bill in the end. It's also interesting because a
Speaker 14: lot of the people in some of these industries who
Speaker 14: rely on tips in a lot of ways, well, they're
Speaker 14: not paying much in taxes on those tips anyway.
Speaker 5: So I get because because they're cash, so they're not
Speaker 5: claiming them.
Speaker 14: All well that and also because they don't make enough
Speaker 14: money maybe over the standard deduction to say that there's
Speaker 14: a meaningful tax levied against the income that they're making
Speaker 14: from tips. And of course cash tips are supposed to
Speaker 14: be reported to the IRS, but we all know that
Speaker 14: doesn't happen all the time.
Speaker 4: And then with the servers, they're traditionally not paid very well,
Speaker 4: like have really low base salaries, right, you rely on
Speaker 4: the tips, whereas a gardener may have a higher hourly
Speaker 4: rate but not get the tips.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 14: And but the thing is, at the end of the day,
Speaker 14: their income could be roughly the same and one person
Speaker 14: pays less tax because of just the classification of their income.
Speaker 14: The other thing I think this is going to do,
Speaker 14: and we've seen you alluded to this at the very beginning.
Speaker 14: People are already kind of frustrated with tipping culture in
Speaker 14: the United States. And I'm not I'm not like a
Speaker 14: Europhile or anything like that. I don't want I don't
Speaker 14: want to necessarily turn into Europe. But that's one of
Speaker 14: my favorite things about about Europe is that the servers
Speaker 14: and workers in restaurants and they get paid just a
Speaker 14: regular wage that they agree to work for and then
Speaker 14: tips are off the table. And I like that just
Speaker 14: as a as a consumer, as a customer, and I
Speaker 14: think more this is actually going to incentivize tipping culture
Speaker 14: to go off the rails even more, and so I
Speaker 14: think there's just a hole. It reminds me of even
Speaker 14: just with the tariffs, And I'm saying, well, with tariffs,
Speaker 14: this is going to incentivize, like on the hardware and
Speaker 14: on the goods, we're going to pay a tariff on
Speaker 14: that stuff. Well what if instead companies can get you
Speaker 14: to pay a subscription and charge you less for the
Speaker 14: actual device ahead of time, and so we're already in
Speaker 14: this amped up subscription economy. Well, tariffs are going to
Speaker 14: increase that the same thing is true, I think of
Speaker 14: no taxes on tips. If this goes through in the
Speaker 14: final big beautiful Bill as it's being called, then it's
Speaker 14: only going to incentivize tipping culture to tilt heavier in
Speaker 14: that direction, and we as consumers are going to be
Speaker 14: even more frustrated. Well, when are we supposed to tip?
Speaker 3: How do we know?
Speaker 14: And is the company like pulling a fast one on me?
Speaker 14: Increasing like you know, higher suggested tip amounts and I'm
Speaker 14: actually paying less for the good because I'm tipping more.
Speaker 14: It's going to just make things even more difficult, I
Speaker 14: think for consumers to parse, and.
Speaker 4: I will tell you in Europe it is frustrating because
Speaker 4: Americans are used to tipping and they're like, yeah, you
Speaker 4: don't have to, but there is sort of this should
Speaker 4: we and there when we were googling it because we
Speaker 4: were just over in Paris in London and they were like, well,
Speaker 4: if you want tip, you know, like a pound or
Speaker 4: two in London is good.
Speaker 5: We're like, on how much of a bill you know,
Speaker 5: like you really don't know.
Speaker 4: It's very It's turned into a very ambiguous thing, even
Speaker 4: though tipping isn't necessarily expected, whereas here it's absolutely expected.
Speaker 5: And I think that the tipping rate is getting a
Speaker 5: little out of control.
Speaker 14: Well I was I was ordering a pizza the other
Speaker 14: night and I ordered it and I was gonna go
Speaker 14: pick it up, no delivery or anything, and there was
Speaker 14: a suggested twenty or twenty five percent tip, and I'm like,
Speaker 14: this is this was not what it used to be.
Speaker 14: Like Like when I'm more than okay to tip my
Speaker 14: server twenty twenty five percent, when I'm going on to
Speaker 14: eat and they're waiting with you to get service right,
Speaker 14: but then when you order it the counter and then
Speaker 14: you come pick up your stuff, or you order something
Speaker 14: and you go pick it up yourself. The fact that
Speaker 14: there are these really high suggested tips, this is just
Speaker 14: this just blurs the lines even more. And I think
Speaker 14: you as a consumer, as an individual, need to have
Speaker 14: an idea of what you're willing to tip and what
Speaker 14: you're willing to tip. For If I go out and
Speaker 14: get a coffee and they handcraft it for me, I'm
Speaker 14: willing to tip a buck or a beer saying like that.
Speaker 14: But you just have to kind of know ahead of time, Hey,
Speaker 14: how much am I going to tip on this pizza
Speaker 14: where I'm paying a lot for the pizza and then
Speaker 14: I'm not necessarily tipping somewhere they're not serving me.
Speaker 3: So do I tip?
Speaker 14: How much?
Speaker 3: Do I tip?
Speaker 14: And I think you have to have an idea ahead
Speaker 14: of time what you're willing to tip so you don't
Speaker 14: feel guilted into tipping more than you expected in the moment.
Speaker 5: And that's the thing that really ticks me off about it.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you feel about it, but that
Speaker 4: they show you the screen, and they know that it's
Speaker 4: a tipping screen. And if you go to custom and
Speaker 4: do a zero and even some of them go and
Speaker 4: here's the place to leave a tip. I'm like, how
Speaker 4: dare you say that to me? I mean, it's just infuriating.
Speaker 4: It's the world doesn't do anything for me at all,
Speaker 4: except like, well, like a Dodger statum, and I love
Speaker 4: Dodger statium. But when they open a beer can for
Speaker 4: me and then they say, here, do you want to
Speaker 4: do an eighteen percent tip?
Speaker 14: I'm like, no, right on the on the fourteen dollars beer,
Speaker 14: now eighteen dollar beer?
Speaker 3: Oh hateen?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, I underestimated, don't get me started. Joel Lard's Guard.
Speaker 5: We ran out of time.
Speaker 4: We didn't get to talk about renting instead of buying
Speaker 4: for millionaires. Maybe we can that un till next week.
Speaker 3: That sounds good, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Joel Larsguard. You can hear him every Sunday noon
Speaker 4: to two right here on KFI. The show is called
Speaker 4: how to Money, and you can follow him for great
Speaker 4: financial advice at how to Money. Joel, Thanks Joel, Thanks,
Speaker 4: Amy ran out of time. You know what, remember how
Speaker 4: Neil Savager got all bent out of shape? Yesterday when
Speaker 4: we were talking about bringing meat up to room temperature.
Speaker 5: Oh well that's okay. Well you were here we.
Speaker 4: Were talking about that, and and Neil got all hot
Speaker 4: under the collar. And that's how I am on tipping.
Speaker 4: I'm so over tipping. And I don't mind tipping for
Speaker 4: good service.
Speaker 9: I like it.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm like, you know, hey, thank you for that
Speaker 4: great service. But the expectation is what kind of chaps
Speaker 4: me and those screens And there's screens more than anything else.
Speaker 4: Ye don't get me started. Okay, Thank goodness, the show
Speaker 4: is over right.
Speaker 5: Okay.
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