May 12, 2023 • 41 mins
JIM RYAN BORDER PATROL CHIEF: “THE INCREASE THAT WE HAVE SEEN ... WAS REALLY THE ‘SURGE’.”
CALEB SILVER WEEKLY JOBS REPORT, APRIL PPI, MUSK'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT & THE DEBT CEILING DEADLINE LOOMS EVER LARGER
DEAN SHARP NEW STUFF: BEST ALL IN ONE WASHER/DRYER / AC Soft Starters / Patio Roof Riser Hardware / Plexidoor Pet Doors / Whole House permanent eave mount track lights /This is what will replace garbage disposals - Sepura
JASON NATHANSON THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT
CALEB SILVER WEEKLY JOBS REPORT, APRIL PPI, MUSK'S BIG ANNOUNCEMENT & THE DEBT CEILING DEADLINE LOOMS EVER LARGER
DEAN SHARP NEW STUFF: BEST ALL IN ONE WASHER/DRYER / AC Soft Starters / Patio Roof Riser Hardware / Plexidoor Pet Doors / Whole House permanent eave mount track lights /This is what will replace garbage disposals - Sepura
JASON NATHANSON THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT
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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. It's your wake up
call. My name is Jason Middleton. Today is Friday, May the twelfth.
I am not Jennifer Jones Lee.Jennifer and I go back about ten
years. She's doing something this week, this weekend and next week that she
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looks forward to every year, andthat is a rodeo. She's up with
family and friends in northern California enjoyingsome rodeo, probably some brisket. I'm
gonna guess lots of events as wellthis weekend. A reminder, Today is
Friday. It's a business day.Sunday is a mother's day in case you
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needed to pick up anything or augmentwhat you've already gotten, no doubt because
you planned for it. Of course. Come on later this hour we're gonna
talk with Jason Nathanson from ABC theEntertainment Report. This weekend, there's a
new Jane fond A movie out thisweekend, and other people are starting,
but she's kind of the headliner.She's the one we know identify with a
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little bit. Jane Fonda movie filmedin Italy, so that seems to be
top of mind, at least formy parents, probably for some others too.
So we have Jim Ryan this houras well. We're going to talk
about the border situation. Caleb Silveris going to be in. He's from
Investopedia, he's an ABC contributor.We're going to talk about business economics a
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little bit. I get the nerdout with him about the Elon Musk and
Twitter CEO announcement as well. Andof course Dean Sharp is here and he's
got some stuff that it's gonna Itcould transform your kitchen and the way you
do efficiency if you will in yourkitchen. Let's get some headlines first.
The immigration policy known as Title fortytwo has officially expired. The COVID era
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restrictions ended last night just before midnightEastern time. The policy allowed for migrants
to be turned away at the USborder to slow the spread of COVID nineteen.
More on that soon. The USveteran who allegedly killed a homeless man
in a New York subway will turnhimself into day. Daniel Penny is being
charged with second degree manslaughter for thedeath of Jordan neely On May first to
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board a Manhattan subway train, andTwitter owner Clon Musk. Elon Musk says
he has found a new CEO forTwitter and that she will start in a
matter of weeks. It's most likelygoing to be Linda Yaccarino, that's what's
being reported. She's currently the headof Advertising and Partnerships at NBC Universal.
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Like I mentioned, in just afew minutes, we're going to talk with
ABC's Jim Ryan. The immigration policyknown as Title forty two did end at
midnight, and Jim is on theborder at El Paso, Texas. So
let's start with some other stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Because we do lead.Local border and customs agents have been training
for a potential rush of people throughthe San ye Cedro Port of Venture near
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San Diego. Agents practice shooting teargas in the event they are overrun by
migrants who try to push their waythrough the world's busiest port of entry.
The training began Wednesday night. Officialssay since the Medical Order Title forty two
was implemented three years ago, morethan three million migrants have been turned away
along the US Mexico border. Intwenty eighteen, hundreds of migrants in a
caravan from Central America tried to rushthrough the vehicle lanes at the Sandy Sidral
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port of entry, while others torethrough concertina wire and climbed fences. They
were all pushed back into Mexico.Steve Gregory ca if I knows. A
federal judge in Florida has temporarily blockedthe Biden administration from releasing migrants more quickly
when border patrol holding stations are full. The government's policy would release some migrants
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into the US without court dates orthe ability to track them. Florida's Attorney
general filed an emergency motion to keepthe policy from being implemented. The restraining
order will expire within fourteen days.The Orange County DA's office says more girls
may have been molested by a cheerleading coach charged with multiple felonies. Pedophiles
they never ever stop stalking and groomingtheir prey unless they are stopped. Orange
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County Das kimberly Ed says Eric ChristenSends charged with molesting six girls between eleven
and sixteen years old, taking someof the girls to off campus events and
even to his home where he wouldmolest them. He says. The guy
coach for Magic All Stars Club andTribuco Hills High School between two thousand and
two and two thousand and seven.He's also facing child molestation and child exhibition
charges in Florida relating to four ofhis competitive cheer athletes that he coached in
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Daytona Beach. Christiansen's due back incourt in two weeks. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson ka if I News,Northern California has been shaken by a
magnitude five point five earthquake. Thisman says he had just finished work and
was in his truck near the epicenterwhen the quake hit yesterday afternoon. I
thought somebody was growing around with me, and I thought I got hit by
another truck, and then I feltlike my truck was going to flip over.
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It was pretty great. The quakehit near the community of East Shore
that's in Plumas County and was reportedlyfelt in Sacramento, more than one hundred
and sixty miles away in just acouple of minutes. We're gonna check on
the situation at the Texas border thismorning. With ABC's Jim Ryan, but
first from the Southern California Toyota DealersTraffic Center. Let's go places, Let's
check your drive, and that meansroadwork on the fifteenth in Hesperia. It's
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northbounds side of the fifteen Freeway betweenOak Hill and Joshua Street. The three
right lanes are shut down there andthat's got you really jammed up through the
area. Southbound side of the fifteen. We had road work overnight in that
same area. They've picked up thesouthbound closure, but still seeing the layes
coming away from Oak Hill heading intothe Cahone Pass and towards de Vore.
You also have a problem the SupulitaPass on the northbound side of the four
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l fives and tree branches in thelanes and the right lanes just before Skirball
Center. That's got you backed upto about Getty Center. KFI and the
sky helps get you there faster.I'm Robert Dubucky. It is five almost
almost seven minutes after five o'clock onyour wake up call, and on the
KFI live line, we have ABC'sJim Ryan. He's joining us from El
Paso, Texas. Good more,gym, Good morning, fairly quiet here.
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There were people waiting on the otherside of the fences last night to
come into the country once Title forforty two was transferred or transformed into Title
eight a Title forty two, ofcourse, being the health policy related to
COVID, Title eight being the longstandingimmigration policy that now will govern how people
are allowed to come into the country. Are you seeing the crush of migrants
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there that we were reported were expectedearlier this week? Well, yeah,
I guess you could call it acrush. There are a lot of people,
but it's being done in an orderlyway. Last night, it was
that one of the gates. Thereis a giant fence that separates Huaras,
Mexico from El Paso, Texas,steel tall, thirty forty foot tall fence
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that you can see through, andthere are gates in this fence. I
was at Gate number forty two lastnight. It was open. Customs officials
were there Texas Department of Public Safety. People were being put onto buses from
the other side of the fence,taken to a Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ICE
processing facility and either allowed to stayin this country to continue the immigration the
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asylum application process, or we're sentback down into Mexico. So yeah,
there were you know, those buseswere running last night, and you know,
so it was it a crush ofpeople. It was several hundred and
there are undoubtedly many more than thatwaiting to come into the country and make
application. Veteran reporter Jim Ryan isat Gate forty two for title forty two.
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Well done, sir. I hadto say, helps we keep it
all together in my head as wemove forward? What you mentioned it was
very orderly local authorities there. Whatthe reaction the prep that you saw this
week. Is everything going as smoothlyas hoped? Well? I think it
is. Yeah. I mean ina place here like El Paso, which
has been you know, it hasbeen you know, facilitating the immigration process
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for decades really and dealing with thewith the illegal immigration as well, so
it has a pretty good handle onhow to handle these things. And so
a couple of weeks ago, theUrgency Declaration went into effect for El Paso
that allowed for funds to be usedto set up shelters for people to stay
in for twenty four to seventy twohours as they await their next step.
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You know, people come into thecountry are supposed to have either a financial
sponsor a family member, a placeto go, you know the words.
Once they're here, they can't justbe put out on the streets and told
to fend for themselves. So peopleare staying in these shelters that were established
here in El Paso, so thatin that way it is an orderly process
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and the city was prepared for it. Where they prepared for thousands of people?
Probably not, but you know thatthere are other mechanisms in place to
try to facilitate this surge in people. So when you say they have to
have someplace to go, I understandthat the sponsorship. But if they don't,
are there temporary situations set up?Are they like are they using like
vacant buildings or retrofitting industry? Okay, yeah, that's exactly what happened with
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these these two vacant schools here inEl Paso. And there's all so setting
aside part of the convention center,which often happens in the event of flooding
or you know, if if there'sa hurricane somewhere, people are going to
be moved into convention centers. That'swhat's happening here. So's it's almost like
a natural disaster response in that sheltershave been set up using FEMA funds where
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people are gonna be housed and fedand clothed and where they can wait.
You know, there is a WiFi access there. How is everybody coming
up from Latin America. You thinkof people who have just about nothing,
but most of them do have smartphones. And that's why Customs and Border Protection
has this phone app that people mustuse to make initial application where before they
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even make it to the United States. It's a glitchy app. People say
it's not reliable. I actually downloadedlast night's my phone to see if it
did work, and and it seemsto at least it seems they've worked out
some of the bugs. Well thatwas my follow up too. But when
you have to have a phone appin order to help you ease your process
through, you have to be ableto charge that phone as well. Are
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those kind situations there too, Yes, Yeah, these these facilities are pretty
well equipped, these short term housingfacilities, the shelters, at least here
in El Paso. There may bea different story in about a Morris,
may be a different story in Laredoor in Santa Cedro or somewhere else,
but at least here in El Paso, they have a pretty streamlined process for
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facilitating this process. Any nootally speaking, is it looked like today is typical
of what you expect over the weekend, At least in El Paso it seems
to be. And some customs officialsthough, said yesterday that based on what
they're hearing from migrants who are comingup, the big surge probably has happened
already. Yeah, we're going tohave big numbers today and tomorrow and probably
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into next week. The expectation isthat they may start to drop off.
A lot of these folks have beentold by custom by smugglers and coyotes that
once Title forty two goes away,all bets are off. You just walk
into the country and not be orfor any means. Obviously, those people
have a vested interest of financial interestin making sure that that that lie is
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believed, because once you do makeit here, you could be arrested for
coming through between the border checkpoints orif you don't have proper road dentification.
Jim, thank you soo much foryour time this morning. Thanks a lot.
We've been speaking with ABC's Jim Ryan, like I said, veteran reporter.
They send him out for the bigstuff, and he's down to El
Paso, Texas at the end ofTitle forty two, the restart of Title
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eight when it comes to immigration intothe United States, and he's monitoring the
border. The administration was ready forwhat they called a chaotic crush at the
border. Turns out that didn't reallyhappen. It seems like much of the
sturge they did expect happened earlier thisweek. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFIHAD twenty four hour newsroom. A pedestrian
has been killed by a hit andrun driver in Palmdale. It happened around
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eleven thirty last night at twentieth Streetand West Avenue N thehpiece as the car
is a two thousand and nine fourdoor dark gray Honda Civic with California play
at least one because that ends inzero four seven. The car lost its
front plate and its front bumper anda windshield wiper in the collision. Transportation
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Secretary Pete Bodhaja says Tesla should notcall it's partially automated driving system autopilot because
the cars cannot drive themselves. Hesays he's concerned about Tesla's marketing as a
system is under investigation for crashes thathave caused at least fourteen deaths since twenty
sixteen. Also from Tesla this morning, the company is recalling virtually every car
it has sold in China due toa breaking and acceleration defect. It may
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increase crash and safety risks. Whenwe come back, we're gonna talk economics
and business. We're gonna get afly over this week's headlines with ABC's Caleb
Silver. He's going to be onthe line with us as well. We're
gonna catch up on jobs, inflation, and possibly that new leader at Twitter.
You're listening to Wake Up Call withJennifer Jones Lee on demand from KF
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five am six forty. My nameis Jason Middleton. I am in today
Friday May twelve for Jennifer. Sheis at the rodeo this week. And
also don't forget Mother's Days coming upin a couple of days, So I
just want to just keep that topof mind as you get your day going
this morning. Here's some of thestories we're watching in the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom, The immigration policy knownas Title forty two has officially expired.
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The COVID Arab restrictions ended last nightjust before midnight Eastern time. The policy
did allow for migrants to be turnedaway at the US southern border to slow
the spread of COVID nineteen. Wejust spoke with ABC's Jim Ryan. He
is in El Paso, Texas.Seems like there's not so much chaos as
there is, just people getting usedto the new normal. Going back to
Title eight, the US veteran whoallegedly killed a homeless man in a New
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York subway will turn himself in today. Daniel Penny is being charged with second
degree manslaughter for the death of JordanNeely on May first, aboard a Manhattan
subway train. San Jose police arerevealing how they stopped a potential tragedy.
Officers say they found more than onehundred pounds of bomb making materials inside a
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man's home and business. It happenedMonday while they were checking out a burglary
report at a building near the oneon one right there in the South Bay
at thirty five. We're going tohave Dean sharp. Of course, the
house whisperer. Today's topics for Deaninclude not one two kitchen transforming appliances,
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and we're going to wander out ontothe patio a little bit as well.
With Dean. Right now, let'swelcome ABC News contributor Caleb Silver. He's
also the editor in chief at investopediadot com. Good morning, Caleb,
Thanks for joining us. Good tobe with you. I'm going to come
back to Investopedia. I have arap for that real quick for you.
But first let's have a let's say, have a job's report. Well,
we have jobs and inflation. Wheredo you want to start which one?
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Well, we could start with both. But the most recent numbers are those
weekly jobless claims that we got yesterday. That was two hundred and sixty four
thousand people filing for weekly unemployment claims. That is a number we haven't seen
in quite a while. That's beenrising every month pretty steadily. That said,
we're still adding more jobs than thosethat are coming out of the workforce.
If you see that unemployment rate,that's around three point four percent.
That's but there have been mounting layoffsin tech, there have been mounting layoffs
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in the financial industry, in retail, so we got to keep an eye
on that. Still, the unemploymentrate very low and a lot of jobs
out there for folks looking for jobs. It's it's kind of iffy math when
it comes to a possible recession.When you have a labor market that's so
strong, strong as it's been infifty years. What are you specifically pulling
out? I'm personally I'm watching youwage increase in percentage as opposed to inflation
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to keep pace. What is somethingyou like to pull out? Yeah,
well, I think wage inflation isa pretty important one to watch because we've
seen it climb pretty steadily month aftermonth. Now it is slowing. It's
around four point four percent year overyear. But the Federal Reserve, our
central bank, wants to slow thatdown even more. Why because if companies
have to pay higher wages, thencompanies are going to pass the higher costs
onto the consumer, and that couldcause a pause in consumer we're spending,
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or a pullback, and that couldreally set the economy into a tailspen.
We know it's seventy percent of ourUS GDP, so it's this very weird
thing where we continue to spend.Credit card debt is rising it's at a
record level, credit card aprs areat record levels just because of those high
interest rates, and there's still ahigh labor market. But other signs are
showing us such a potential recession ofvery peculiar time in the economy. Indeed,
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and you mentioned the sticky inflation goingon, there is there a reason
that stands out to you as towhy it's being so sticky. Is it
because the wage increases are keeping everythingkind of elevated, or is it that
we have cleared the supply chain issueswe were so used to after COVID,
and maybe retailers and other people whoset prices are getting used to the idea
that those prices have to come down. Finally, Yeah, I think it's
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a little bit of both of thosethings, because we definitely cleared it.
But don't forget we've changed the waywe behave as consumers as well. Over
the last three years, we've beenthrough a lot. We went for not
spending anything and saving a lot ofmoney. The savings rate was at an
all time high, to all ofa sudden being able to spend and revenge
spend on travel and going out andeating out a lot more, while prices
were rising for consumers the whole time. We got used to the sort of
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steady state of high prices and dealingwith it. But because of that,
we are pushing our credit to thelimits here because we're borrowing a lot of
money. Now, we're not inextreme levels like we were back in two
thousand and eight. Consumers in alittle bit better shape. Banks are in
better shape, despite the fact thatwe've lost a few lately. That said,
you know, we are maybe onthis unsustainable pattern, just like the
United States government, which is comingup against the debt ceiling. Yeah,
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let's stay right there then, becauseI like nerding out with you on this
stuff, and the debt ceiling isdefinitely top of mind for economics and business
coverage. What's the latest the ecYeah, I mean, we're in a
standoff here, and the Treasury SecretaryJenniellinis says, June first is the deadline
where the United States government will notbe able to pay its bills. Look,
raving being able to pay our billsfor quite a while. We just
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keep borrowing and extending the deadline.Thirty one point four trillion dollars in debt.
Don't worry about that. But that'sthe day that some government services are
going to have to get suspended.That's the day that maybe we don't have
to suspend Social Security checks and medicareat tracks going out. Also, national
parks might have to close. Buteven worse than all of that is the
threat of a debt downgrade, acredit down grade. So the United States
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finances all this money we borrow throughselling our government bonds, and they have
a widely held, widely trusted assetheld by governments around the world. If
we default on our debt and weget a credit downrating, the yields on
those bonds is going to go,but it's going to make the prices fall
for those people who are holding ourbonds. That's also going to help drive
interest rates even higher for the thingswe borrow against as consumers in this country.
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So it is a bad scenario andthey have to find a way to
either kick the can down the roador find another solution. Yeah, we're
speaking with ABC News contributor Caleb Silver, he's also editor in chief at investopedia
dot com. We talked about rightthere the debt ceiling. Now the X
day, the day of default kindof floats a little bit, but the
predictions of the repercussions of actually defaultingrange a little bit. Do you have
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a take on what you think therange would be. What are some initial
responses financially speaking? Yeah, well, I mentioned that the suspension of government
services that's no fun, and potentialfurloughing of government employees. There are a
lot of government employees in this country. Usually they get paid back, you
know, they get their back pay, but it's no fund for families that
are counting on those paychecks. That'son the ground level there, But on
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the debt level of having our creditrating downgraded, that has very serious implications.
And that's why you're hearing not justpoliticians make noise about it, but
the biggest CEOs are the biggest banksin the world, because they know how
important it is to have a stablecredit rating on US government bonds. That
is everything, right, that isthe bedrock of how we finance our governments.
Ince Alexander Hamilton was around back inthe day. So if that rate,
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if we get a downgrade there,and that yields on those bond spike,
it is going to be tumultuous forthe economy and for capital markets and
for whoever's holding our debt. Iuse the bedrock term as well in my
coverage because it's a twenty four trilliondollar market. A lot of other governments
are pegged too that those tea bills. So thank for using I just I
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like the reinforcement of hearing that itis a bedrock thing. So this is
not just something that causes us somefederal employee layoffs. That could be something
bigger. Let's get a tech Let'sget a tech headline this morning. You
know when I went to bed lastnight, Oliver Bloomberg was all about Elon
Musk. I get up this morningand I have to do a search to
find it. What's going on withElon Musk and the CEO news. Yeah,
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Elon Musk tweeting last night that hehas found a replacement for him as
CEO of Twitter, and she,he says in the tweet, we'll be
starting within the next six weeks.Now, this morning, the Wall Street
Journals reporting that person could be LindaYaccarino. I hope I'm saying that right.
She is the chair of Global Advertisingand Partnerships at NBC Universal. That's
what the Wall Street Journals reporting.No comment from her or her team or
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the NBC team yet, but that'swhat's out there at the moment. We'll
see if that remains true. Interestingthat he has found the replacement. Interesting
that it is if it is thiswoman, indeed somebody from the advertising business,
because don't forget Twitter is an advertiseisdelivery mechanism? Yes, exactly.
You didn't forget that. I didn'tforget that. Elon forgot that apparently when
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he first came on, I think. But that's that goes back to my
other show. He also, don'tforget tweeted that his new CEO was going
to be his dog. So untilI see it for sure, we're gonna
have to wait. But you youdid say her name right. I was
at NBC for a while and itis Yacarino, So you nailed that.
Investopedia dot com is to me abedrock source. How long have you been
working with investopedia dot com and thereany features you want to pull out in
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the last thirty seconds, I haveyou. Yeah, thank you so much.
I've been the editor in chief forseven and a half years. I
have one of the coolest jobs inthe world, learning and teaching people about
money and exploring that. I havea podcast, The Investopedia Express podcast comes
out every Monday, sets you upfor the week as the educated investor.
And also, we just launched ourfinancial Literacy Resource Center for kids and teachers
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and families, so we got we'regoing into financial literacy curriculum for public school.
So it's on our website right onthe homepage investipedia dot com, look
for the Financial Resource Center. Greatlessons are free lessons for teachers and for
families and for kids to take homeand learn about money this summer. That
is very cool. I did notknow about that feature, so that's great.
I'm glad you mentioned it. Ihave been using your other feature and
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other feature with your simulator. Istarted on January two of this year with
a with a fake hundred thousand dollars. It's where you can you have a
small account and you can you cando it. You can invest fake money
if you will. You're gamifying everything. I'm up eighteen percent on the year
so far this year. Thanks forenabling me, Caleb. You're welcome and
can I sign up with your advisoryservice? Sounds like you know what you're
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doing. Well yeah, yeah,Well, what I love about your simulator
is if you get into the game, and you want to try out some
different stocks. You can't have toomany blue chips. You have to take
some risks here and there, whichis kind of fun. So anyway,
it's always a pleasure to speak withyou to learn on that similar and we
have one for crypto as well,so play without it. Oh yeah,
it's definitely a blind spot. Thanksa lot, Caleb, I'll talk to
you next time. Thank you.ABC News contributor Caleb Silver, also of
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course with investopedia dot com. Let'sget back to the newsroom for a couple
of quick stories. Some fire departmentsin La County have been honored for their
help after the fatal mass shooting ofeleven people at a dance hall in Monterey
Park. At one point, MontereyPark Fire Chief Matt Halleck choked up reliving
the night of January twenty first.This was and is a day none of
us will ever forget. That tragicevening. The city of Monterrey Park was
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put on the map for all thewrong reasons. It is the collaboration and
support from the fire departments within thisarea that put the region on the map
for all the right reasons. Alexhas many more lives were saved because of
the mutual aid set up among thearea's twenty nine fire departments. Yesterday,
Halleck recognized South Pasadena, Glendale,LA City County, San Gabriel, Alhambran
Arcadia in downtown LA Steve Gregory KAINews get our first look at weather right
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now. Southern California weather from KFIsunny today after these morning clouds move out
and the fog burns off, asfrom the mid to upper sixties at the
beaches to the lower to mid seventiesinland and on the eastern end of the
San Fernando Valley, highs are goingto hit eighty and Santa Clarita Valley of
or Inland Valleys about eighty five todaycould be the high Tonight, mostly clear
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across the south Land, lows inthe low to mid fifties. Tomorrow is
a sunshine rinse repeat with only slightlywarmer temperatures. And when we come back,
we are going to talk with housewhisperer Dean Sharp, some household appliance
stuff, some patio talk, andI'm going to quiz him on how to
spell something. You're listening to WakeUp Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on Demand
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from KFI AM six forty. Iam Jason Middleton. This is wake up
call. Today is Friday, Maythe twelfth. Sunday May fourteenth is Mother's
Day. You're almost caught up.A YouTuber is now facing up to twenty
years in federal prison after admitting tointentionally crashing his plane into a hillside in
Santa Barbara County to get views online. On Wednesday, twenty nine year old
Trevor Jacob pleaded guilty to a felonyaccount of obstructing a federal investigation. The
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twenty twenty one video called I CrashedMy Airplane shows Jacob parachuting out of a
small plane before it crashed into thelost Los Padres National Force near Santa Maria.
Migrants who are seeking asylum in theUS are getting immigration court dates more
than a dozen years out. Somemigrants who arrived at Brownsville, Texas yesterday
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were given immigration court dates as lateas twenty thirty two and twenty thirty five.
Those have been happening at Chicago andFlorida as well. President Biden's national
security adviser and Channa's China's top diplomatagree on the need for two superpowers to
move past the alleged spy balloon incident. Earlier this year. Jake Sullivan and
Chinese diplomat Wang Yee met for eighthours over the past two days in Vienna.
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At five fifty, we're gonna endwake Up Call with ABC's Jason Nathanson
and get an entertainment report as wehead into the weekend. I mentioned that
Jane Fonda movie at the top ofthe hour, The Air movie about the
Air. Jordan's that's going to migrateto Prime video. I believe that's Tuesday,
and we're gonna have some other entertaineekind of stuff right now. Let's
dig into the great indoors and outdoorswith Dean Sharp. He's the house whisperer.
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He's also the man with the plan. Okay, let me let me
tie this up. Twenty first centurytechnology, a quantum leap ahead for consumers,
new industry standard, and I'm nottalking about AI. I don't mean
a new iPhone. I want totalk to Dean Sharp about the ge all
in one washer dryer. Dean,welcome back. Okay, Jason, how
are you doing? But it's goodto hear your voice. I was compelled
by this. I've been doing myown research. I hate to do that
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first person's thing, but I thinkwe all kind of this time of year
looked to upgrade certain things. Kitchensare definitely part of it. What do
you have with this all in one? I'm dubious. Yeah, well you
should be dubious, absolutely, becauseall in one washers and dryers have been
around forever and this reviewer's opinion isthey all pretty much suck. But but
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Ge released this. We saw thisat the Builder Show this year, and
we heard rumors that it was coming. It is now out there. You
can actually get your hands on one, and I gotta tell you if it
does everything that we expected to do. And the reviews, the early reviews
are looking very promising. Jason,this actually may not just be an all
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in one washer dryer that doesn't suck. It may actually turn the industry.
It may it literally may be asea change for the industry. And the
main reason is the dryer side ofthis is they have abandoned the idea and
this is brilliant on Gee's part.They've abandoned the idea of baking clothes.
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Okay, that's basically what a dryeris. You know, you get to
a gas dryer, or you pulla lot of waddage through an electric dryer
and you get a lot of heatinside the dryer and not so much airflow.
And you know, I was talkingto Conway about this the other day.
None of us probably have much experiencehanging clothes out on a clothesline.
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But if we were to ask,like great Grandma what that was all about,
she would tell us that, youknow, it could be one hundred
degrees outside and if there's no wind, those clothes are staying wet for a
long time. But even on acold day, if the breeze is blowing,
boom, they get dry fast.So what GE has done is they
it's warm air. It's definitely warmair. They're using a heat pump technology,
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and heat pump is basically how yourair conditioner works to extract moisture from
the air. But a big fan, a big fan to create a lot
of airflow in there, and itwould appear as if it makes this dryer
actually work. It's all the difference. So we're talking about a two hour
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cycle from beginning to end for mostloads, a little longer for the heavy
duty stuff. And the other thingis too, this is a full size
washer dryer combo. Now it's notthe extra large, but it's full size,
so it'll take ten pounds of laundryin it per load. And the
fact of the matter is one ofthese is the equivalent of two, you
know, a standard washer and dryer. You get two of these side by
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side, you've doubled the size ofyour laundry room without changing the space.
Well, that depends on the pricepoint, Dudan. The price point point
from ge is twenty eight hundred dollars, which is the price that you're going
to pay for a decent set awasher and dryer set. Okay, so
you know it would be a splurgeto get two of them, But the
fact of the matter is you'll comein just a little bit under on this
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machine then you would buying a brandnew washer and dryer set. And you
know you'll use half the space.No vent, no dryer vent, no
gas hookup. It will plug intoa standard fifteen amp outlet anywhere in the
house. All you need is thedrain and the water supply to it.
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Wow. Okay, so yeah,you're right. This could stand everything on
its head. Because I just assumedall those are Coudremont were necessary to get
this thing to run. So wow, what about finesse cycles? Can I
do? Like some delicates in there, you can do. You can do
all the finesse cycles. You caneven add laundry sheets if you want.
If you're a if you're a laundrysheet person, what it's going to do
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if you to notify you, youcan notify you. It will either buzz
or chime or notify you on yoursmart device. After the wash is done
and before the dryer starts, youget a ten minute gap where you can
run over there, grab the door, open it up and throw in dryer
sheets. Otherwise it'll just keep onrolling forward. It takes liquid fabric softener
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and liquid detergent reservoir inside up tothirty two loads worth, so not a
lot of fiddling around with it,you know. And it's it's a brilliant,
brilliant setup for a machine. LikeI said, it stands a little
taller than your standard washer and dryer, about forty seven inches tall, and
there's a pedestal that brings it upeven a little higher if you want to
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just get you know, direct accesswithout bending over. Ge has estimated and
I think this is this has gotto be fairly accurate. GEE has done
their own internal studies and they said, you know, the average time in
North America that a load of laundrysits in the washing machine after it's done
and before it gets put in thedryer is about a hundred and thirty minutes,
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like two hours. And I wouldsay around my house that's probably conservative,
because you know, we'll pop aload in, we're like, oh
yeah, oh yeah, we're gonnaflip that over, right. So the
idea of something that just takes youall the way to the end in two
two and a half hours, it'sa pretty efficient concept done. So,
like I said, we're still waitingfor the mass reviews to come in,
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but I'll tell you right now,already most places are back ordered on this
machine. And if it does evenhalf of what it's promising, I think
it's going to turn the industry onedge. Okay, I appreciate that,
and I want to nerd out alittle bit harder on this. But I've
got another appliance I want to askabout, because if that's transformational, I'm
going to ask about one more indoorthing. In an outdoor thing, are
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garbage disposals also due for an upgrade. Right, Yeah, garbage disposals or
something in my opinion as a builderand a designer, that we shouldn't even
be messing with. In the UnitedStates, we have more garbage disposals than
anybody in the world. They've beenoutlawed throughout most of Europe. Canada only
about five percent of the population hasa garbage disposal. And here's the problem
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with garbage disposal. It's lazy andit hurts our infrastructure. Macerating food down
the garbage disposal and then putting thatslime and that sledge down into our own
drain pipes and the city sewer lines. It's not a good thing. It
prematurely ages causes all sorts of issuesand problems that let alone biological issues when
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the drains, you know, flushout to the ocean. So that's one
thing. Also in southern California,most municipalities now have you divided up with
your garbage, you know, Nowwe're we got a compost bin, we
got the regular garbage bin, allof this kind of stuff. So yeah,
instead of the garbage disposal, thisis a pre order appliance. We
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saw this at the Builder Show againfrom Suppora. It is a. I
don't even know exactly what to callit, but essentially it takes the place
of the garbage disposal. You canstill practice your old habits of scraping food
down the drain. The difference isthis doesn't masserate them. You hit the
button and a large auger bit orwhat some people might call an Archimedes screw,
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basically takes all that food, movesit to the side in the drain,
and dumps it into a compost canisterunder the sink. Wow. Okay,
visualizing the Archimedes screw in my kitchen, and I'm kind of liking the
idea. I have to say,it's very it's actually very cool. Everything
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else drains straight through, but onceyou've got solid foods in there, you
just hit the button. It justtakes it and pushes it aside. And
it's this way. You don't havea compost bin on your countertop, you
don't have to have an extra binnext to your waste basket. You're still
going to be taking it out tothe trash because that's the way things are
done these days. But this doesit automatically for you, stores it in
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large quantities, filtered underneath the sinkand when it's full. Lets you know,
and you know, you just walkit out to the trash game.
Very cool and that company is superaby the way, sep U r A.
If you go to Spora, you'regoing to have a different retail experience,
very very different. Quick outdoor questionfor you, if we want to
update outside patios and patio risers.Now, this also seems like something that
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we may not think about every day, but maybe do for an updateing.
Yeah, this is not something peoplethink about all the time. You know,
you're looking to build an awning orsome kind of patio cover off the
side of the house. Strangely enough, they're super common, and yet they
are so problematic when it comes tothe actual construction of a house. Where
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are you going to mount this thing? If you mount your patio cover at
the level of your facial boarder whereyour roof rafters or eves come down,
it's too low. It's gonna betoo low. You're gonna feel like you're
walking under this low ceiling. Ifyou mount it further up on the roof,
now you are interrupting the water flowthe rainshed off your roof. You're
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kind of potentially be causing leaks aplus, you're exposing that wood to direct
moisture that is running down. Imean, it's just it has always been
a hassle. So this for mostpeople may not feel like the game changer
that it is. But there's alittle company called Patio Roofreiser. You can
find them at patio roofreiser dot com. They have spent their lives kind of
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perfecting this hardware. It is atiny piece of very very structural hardware attractive
also that mounts into the eve ofyour roof and allows you to build as
big of a patio cover off theside of your house as you want with
virtually zero chance of it leaking.It holds all of the wood above the
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roofline very attractively, so none ofit gets exposed, none of it collects
leaves or water or rot. It'sreally again another game changer, outstanding.
Three game changers in one morning withDean Sharp on the House Whisper on a
Friday morning. Thanks so much,Dean. Always a pleasure, always always
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a pleasure to speak with you.Good talking to you, Jason. See
it Dean Sharp house Whisper. Youcan hear him here on the Eric KFI
anytime you want. On the iHeartRadioapp. You're listening to Wake Up Call
with Jennifer Jones Lee on demand fromkf I Am six forty. My name
is Jason Middleton. A couple ofquick headlines, and then we're talking to
Jason Nathanson about the weekend entertainment.No major damage so far from a five
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point five earthquake in northern California struckPlumas County yesterday at the bottom of Lake
Almanor. Forty two is over.Title eight is back as an immigration policy.
We're gonna have more on that changeover in just a few minutes.
A California zoo Zoo is sharing thefirst look at its new Jaguar. The
eleven year old cat has made itsway across the state. He was born
(37:13):
in San Diego, raised in Sacramento, now lives in San Francisco. Five
fifty five On your wake Up Call, ABC's Jason Nathanson is on the line.
Good morny, Jason, Hey,good morning. Let's start with book
club because it's Mother's Day weekend.Is this a good one? Yeah?
I think it's a good one forMother's Day weekend. I think they know
what they're doing when they scheduled itfor this weekend. It's the sequel to
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this is book Club, the nextchapter. It's a sequel two book Club,
which came out a couple of yearsago, starring Diane Keaton, Jane
Fonda, Marystein Bergin, and CandiceBergen. That one made one hundred and
four million dollars worldwide, so itdid pretty decently on something that you know,
wasn't very expensive to make. Thistime around, I think they decided,
Hey, if we're gonna do thisagain, let's go to Italy.
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So that's why they go to Italy. In the movie, there's a bachelorette
party and you kind of follow themaround Rome and Venice, which is you
know, if you're a fan ofthose cities, you get to see them.
You know, they're very beautifully shot, and there's actually some really funny
jokes in this. I you know, wasn't expecting to really laugh because we've
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seen you know, the original onewas was fine, and then a couple
months ago we saw eighty for BradyRight, which is kind of the same
ish thing that start Jane Fonda andthree others. This is a different cast,
of course, but Jane Fonda isincluded, but it's you know,
kind of similar issues and stuff.Eighty for Brady was not I think,
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you know, overall, very goodfilm. This is I think much better,
but also much funnier. Surprisingly someof the jokes that are really racy,
which I really appreciated. So yougot it's got that going for.
It's got the beautiful scenery of Italy. Italy a very popular place to film
during the pandemic because things were alittle bit more open there, uh during
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that time. And while they werefilming this there also the next Fast and
Furious movie was filming at the sametime in Rome. They were both filming
on the streets of Rome at thesame time, very two very different movies,
far fewer car chases and book say, I kind of smell a mashup.
I'm sorry, but you know Iwould I would love to see a
mashup. I think that would befantastic. My producer brain likes the production
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line and costs on that one.But but you don't get that here.
You just you just have the fourof them. There's no Vin Diesel.
But you know, I think fora Mother's Day weekend, I think it's
gonna be, you know, decentlysuccessful. It's not going to be Guardians
of the Galaxy the Second Guardian thatwas a two and a half hour grief
fast. Okay, uh must seefor gen xers this weekend. Muppets Mayhem.
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I gotta go quick because I wantto get to this Muppets Mayhem,
which what's your take? Muppets Mayhemis on Disney Plus. It's a new
show. It's about the the DoctorTeeth and the Electric Mayhem, which is
the house band for the Muppets,which some people I think I think you
know, but you don't maybe don'treally know. I think most people know.
The Animal plays the drums, right, yeah, and that's where he's
playing the drums, is in thatband. This is all about this band
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making a new their first album.They've never made an album before. This
is also surprisingly really funny. Someof the Muppets shows and stuff that they've
done in the past recent years hasbeen hit or miss, but I really
like the humor here. A tonof amazing guest stars, from Morgan Freeman
to Paula Abduel to weird al BillyCorgan from The Smashing Pumpkins shows up in
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the first episode, which was surprisingto me. I didn't expect him to
be in that world, but youknow, everybody loves the Muppets, and
I had a lot of fun withthe series. Jason. I wish we
had more time. It was myfault. I went a bit long a
little bit earlier. But I'd loveto talk with you next week. I'm
going to be on next Friday,so let's try to do it and get
caught up on air and some otherthings too. Okay, all right,
sounds good, Thank you, sir. ABC's Jason Nathanson right there. He'll
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join us next week as well,and whenever he once. Really, let's
do some Southern California weather from KFI. Sunny today after the morning clouds move
out and the fog burns off.Highs from the mid to upper sixties at
the beaches to the lower to midseventies inland. On the eastern end of
the San Fernando Valley could hit eightyfarther Inland could up to eighty five.
Tonight, mostly clear across the Southlandlows in the mid fifties, and tomorrow
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is a sunshine, rinse repeat,slightly warmer. Seal Beach right now is
at fifty five degrees Orange is atfifty six, Torrance is at fifty two,
Altadena is at forty eight. You'relistening to KFI and ko SThD two
Los Angeles, Orange County. Welead local live from the KFI twenty far
our newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton.This has been your wake up Call.
You've been listening to your wakeup Callwith me Jennifer Jones Lee, and you
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can always hear wake Up Call fiveto six am Monday through Friday at kf
I AM six forty and anytime ondemand on the iHeartRadio app
Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. It's your wake up
call. My name is Jason Middleton. Today is Friday, May the twelfth.
I am not Jennifer Jones Lee.Jennifer and I go back about ten
years. She's doing something this week, this weekend and next week that she
(00:22):
looks forward to every year, andthat is a rodeo. She's up with
family and friends in northern California enjoyingsome rodeo, probably some brisket. I'm
gonna guess lots of events as wellthis weekend. A reminder, Today is
Friday. It's a business day.Sunday is a mother's day in case you
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needed to pick up anything or augmentwhat you've already gotten, no doubt because
you planned for it. Of course. Come on later this hour we're gonna
talk with Jason Nathanson from ABC theEntertainment Report. This weekend, there's a
new Jane fond A movie out thisweekend, and other people are starting,
but she's kind of the headliner.She's the one we know identify with a
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little bit. Jane Fonda movie filmedin Italy, so that seems to be
top of mind, at least formy parents, probably for some others too.
So we have Jim Ryan this houras well. We're going to talk
about the border situation. Caleb Silveris going to be in. He's from
Investopedia, he's an ABC contributor.We're going to talk about business economics a
(01:29):
little bit. I get the nerdout with him about the Elon Musk and
Twitter CEO announcement as well. Andof course Dean Sharp is here and he's
got some stuff that it's gonna Itcould transform your kitchen and the way you
do efficiency if you will in yourkitchen. Let's get some headlines first.
The immigration policy known as Title fortytwo has officially expired. The COVID era
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restrictions ended last night just before midnightEastern time. The policy allowed for migrants
to be turned away at the USborder to slow the spread of COVID nineteen.
More on that soon. The USveteran who allegedly killed a homeless man
in a New York subway will turnhimself into day. Daniel Penny is being
charged with second degree manslaughter for thedeath of Jordan neely On May first to
(02:15):
board a Manhattan subway train, andTwitter owner Clon Musk. Elon Musk says
he has found a new CEO forTwitter and that she will start in a
matter of weeks. It's most likelygoing to be Linda Yaccarino, that's what's
being reported. She's currently the headof Advertising and Partnerships at NBC Universal.
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Like I mentioned, in just afew minutes, we're going to talk with
ABC's Jim Ryan. The immigration policyknown as Title forty two did end at
midnight, and Jim is on theborder at El Paso, Texas. So
let's start with some other stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. Because we do lead.Local border and customs agents have been training
for a potential rush of people throughthe San ye Cedro Port of Venture near
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San Diego. Agents practice shooting teargas in the event they are overrun by
migrants who try to push their waythrough the world's busiest port of entry.
The training began Wednesday night. Officialssay since the Medical Order Title forty two
was implemented three years ago, morethan three million migrants have been turned away
along the US Mexico border. Intwenty eighteen, hundreds of migrants in a
caravan from Central America tried to rushthrough the vehicle lanes at the Sandy Sidral
(03:23):
port of entry, while others torethrough concertina wire and climbed fences. They
were all pushed back into Mexico.Steve Gregory ca if I knows. A
federal judge in Florida has temporarily blockedthe Biden administration from releasing migrants more quickly
when border patrol holding stations are full. The government's policy would release some migrants
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into the US without court dates orthe ability to track them. Florida's Attorney
general filed an emergency motion to keepthe policy from being implemented. The restraining
order will expire within fourteen days.The Orange County DA's office says more girls
may have been molested by a cheerleading coach charged with multiple felonies. Pedophiles
they never ever stop stalking and groomingtheir prey unless they are stopped. Orange
(04:08):
County Das kimberly Ed says Eric ChristenSends charged with molesting six girls between eleven
and sixteen years old, taking someof the girls to off campus events and
even to his home where he wouldmolest them. He says. The guy
coach for Magic All Stars Club andTribuco Hills High School between two thousand and
two and two thousand and seven.He's also facing child molestation and child exhibition
charges in Florida relating to four ofhis competitive cheer athletes that he coached in
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Daytona Beach. Christiansen's due back incourt in two weeks. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson ka if I News,Northern California has been shaken by a
magnitude five point five earthquake. Thisman says he had just finished work and
was in his truck near the epicenterwhen the quake hit yesterday afternoon. I
thought somebody was growing around with me, and I thought I got hit by
another truck, and then I feltlike my truck was going to flip over.
(04:54):
It was pretty great. The quakehit near the community of East Shore
that's in Plumas County and was reportedlyfelt in Sacramento, more than one hundred
and sixty miles away in just acouple of minutes. We're gonna check on
the situation at the Texas border thismorning. With ABC's Jim Ryan, but
first from the Southern California Toyota DealersTraffic Center. Let's go places, Let's
check your drive, and that meansroadwork on the fifteenth in Hesperia. It's
(05:17):
northbounds side of the fifteen Freeway betweenOak Hill and Joshua Street. The three
right lanes are shut down there andthat's got you really jammed up through the
area. Southbound side of the fifteen. We had road work overnight in that
same area. They've picked up thesouthbound closure, but still seeing the layes
coming away from Oak Hill heading intothe Cahone Pass and towards de Vore.
You also have a problem the SupulitaPass on the northbound side of the four
(05:39):
l fives and tree branches in thelanes and the right lanes just before Skirball
Center. That's got you backed upto about Getty Center. KFI and the
sky helps get you there faster.I'm Robert Dubucky. It is five almost
almost seven minutes after five o'clock onyour wake up call, and on the
KFI live line, we have ABC'sJim Ryan. He's joining us from El
Paso, Texas. Good more,gym, Good morning, fairly quiet here.
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There were people waiting on the otherside of the fences last night to
come into the country once Title forforty two was transferred or transformed into Title
eight a Title forty two, ofcourse, being the health policy related to
COVID, Title eight being the longstandingimmigration policy that now will govern how people
are allowed to come into the country. Are you seeing the crush of migrants
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there that we were reported were expectedearlier this week? Well, yeah,
I guess you could call it acrush. There are a lot of people,
but it's being done in an orderlyway. Last night, it was
that one of the gates. Thereis a giant fence that separates Huaras,
Mexico from El Paso, Texas,steel tall, thirty forty foot tall fence
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that you can see through, andthere are gates in this fence. I
was at Gate number forty two lastnight. It was open. Customs officials
were there Texas Department of Public Safety. People were being put onto buses from
the other side of the fence,taken to a Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ICE
processing facility and either allowed to stayin this country to continue the immigration the
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asylum application process, or we're sentback down into Mexico. So yeah,
there were you know, those buseswere running last night, and you know,
so it was it a crush ofpeople. It was several hundred and
there are undoubtedly many more than thatwaiting to come into the country and make
application. Veteran reporter Jim Ryan isat Gate forty two for title forty two.
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Well done, sir. I hadto say, helps we keep it
all together in my head as wemove forward? What you mentioned it was
very orderly local authorities there. Whatthe reaction the prep that you saw this
week. Is everything going as smoothlyas hoped? Well? I think it
is. Yeah. I mean ina place here like El Paso, which
has been you know, it hasbeen you know, facilitating the immigration process
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for decades really and dealing with thewith the illegal immigration as well, so
it has a pretty good handle onhow to handle these things. And so
a couple of weeks ago, theUrgency Declaration went into effect for El Paso
that allowed for funds to be usedto set up shelters for people to stay
in for twenty four to seventy twohours as they await their next step.
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You know, people come into thecountry are supposed to have either a financial
sponsor a family member, a placeto go, you know the words.
Once they're here, they can't justbe put out on the streets and told
to fend for themselves. So peopleare staying in these shelters that were established
here in El Paso, so thatin that way it is an orderly process
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and the city was prepared for it. Where they prepared for thousands of people?
Probably not, but you know thatthere are other mechanisms in place to
try to facilitate this surge in people. So when you say they have to
have someplace to go, I understandthat the sponsorship. But if they don't,
are there temporary situations set up?Are they like are they using like
vacant buildings or retrofitting industry? Okay, yeah, that's exactly what happened with
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these these two vacant schools here inEl Paso. And there's all so setting
aside part of the convention center,which often happens in the event of flooding
or you know, if if there'sa hurricane somewhere, people are going to
be moved into convention centers. That'swhat's happening here. So's it's almost like
a natural disaster response in that sheltershave been set up using FEMA funds where
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people are gonna be housed and fedand clothed and where they can wait.
You know, there is a WiFi access there. How is everybody coming
up from Latin America. You thinkof people who have just about nothing,
but most of them do have smartphones. And that's why Customs and Border Protection
has this phone app that people mustuse to make initial application where before they
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even make it to the United States. It's a glitchy app. People say
it's not reliable. I actually downloadedlast night's my phone to see if it
did work, and and it seemsto at least it seems they've worked out
some of the bugs. Well thatwas my follow up too. But when
you have to have a phone appin order to help you ease your process
through, you have to be ableto charge that phone as well. Are
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those kind situations there too, Yes, Yeah, these these facilities are pretty
well equipped, these short term housingfacilities, the shelters, at least here
in El Paso. There may bea different story in about a Morris,
may be a different story in Laredoor in Santa Cedro or somewhere else,
but at least here in El Paso, they have a pretty streamlined process for
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facilitating this process. Any nootally speaking, is it looked like today is typical
of what you expect over the weekend, At least in El Paso it seems
to be. And some customs officialsthough, said yesterday that based on what
they're hearing from migrants who are comingup, the big surge probably has happened
already. Yeah, we're going tohave big numbers today and tomorrow and probably
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into next week. The expectation isthat they may start to drop off.
A lot of these folks have beentold by custom by smugglers and coyotes that
once Title forty two goes away,all bets are off. You just walk
into the country and not be orfor any means. Obviously, those people
have a vested interest of financial interestin making sure that that that lie is
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believed, because once you do makeit here, you could be arrested for
coming through between the border checkpoints orif you don't have proper road dentification.
Jim, thank you soo much foryour time this morning. Thanks a lot.
We've been speaking with ABC's Jim Ryan, like I said, veteran reporter.
They send him out for the bigstuff, and he's down to El
Paso, Texas at the end ofTitle forty two, the restart of Title
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eight when it comes to immigration intothe United States, and he's monitoring the
border. The administration was ready forwhat they called a chaotic crush at the
border. Turns out that didn't reallyhappen. It seems like much of the
sturge they did expect happened earlier thisweek. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFIHAD twenty four hour newsroom. A pedestrian
has been killed by a hit andrun driver in Palmdale. It happened around
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eleven thirty last night at twentieth Streetand West Avenue N thehpiece as the car
is a two thousand and nine fourdoor dark gray Honda Civic with California play
at least one because that ends inzero four seven. The car lost its
front plate and its front bumper anda windshield wiper in the collision. Transportation
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Secretary Pete Bodhaja says Tesla should notcall it's partially automated driving system autopilot because
the cars cannot drive themselves. Hesays he's concerned about Tesla's marketing as a
system is under investigation for crashes thathave caused at least fourteen deaths since twenty
sixteen. Also from Tesla this morning, the company is recalling virtually every car
it has sold in China due toa breaking and acceleration defect. It may
(12:33):
increase crash and safety risks. Whenwe come back, we're gonna talk economics
and business. We're gonna get afly over this week's headlines with ABC's Caleb
Silver. He's going to be onthe line with us as well. We're
gonna catch up on jobs, inflation, and possibly that new leader at Twitter.
You're listening to Wake Up Call withJennifer Jones Lee on demand from KF
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five am six forty. My nameis Jason Middleton. I am in today
Friday May twelve for Jennifer. Sheis at the rodeo this week. And
also don't forget Mother's Days coming upin a couple of days, So I
just want to just keep that topof mind as you get your day going
this morning. Here's some of thestories we're watching in the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom, The immigration policy knownas Title forty two has officially expired.
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The COVID Arab restrictions ended last nightjust before midnight Eastern time. The policy
did allow for migrants to be turnedaway at the US southern border to slow
the spread of COVID nineteen. Wejust spoke with ABC's Jim Ryan. He
is in El Paso, Texas.Seems like there's not so much chaos as
there is, just people getting usedto the new normal. Going back to
Title eight, the US veteran whoallegedly killed a homeless man in a New
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York subway will turn himself in today. Daniel Penny is being charged with second
degree manslaughter for the death of JordanNeely on May first, aboard a Manhattan
subway train. San Jose police arerevealing how they stopped a potential tragedy.
Officers say they found more than onehundred pounds of bomb making materials inside a
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man's home and business. It happenedMonday while they were checking out a burglary
report at a building near the oneon one right there in the South Bay
at thirty five. We're going tohave Dean sharp. Of course, the
house whisperer. Today's topics for Deaninclude not one two kitchen transforming appliances,
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and we're going to wander out ontothe patio a little bit as well.
With Dean. Right now, let'swelcome ABC News contributor Caleb Silver. He's
also the editor in chief at investopediadot com. Good morning, Caleb,
Thanks for joining us. Good tobe with you. I'm going to come
back to Investopedia. I have arap for that real quick for you.
But first let's have a let's say, have a job's report. Well,
we have jobs and inflation. Wheredo you want to start which one?
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Well, we could start with both. But the most recent numbers are those
weekly jobless claims that we got yesterday. That was two hundred and sixty four
thousand people filing for weekly unemployment claims. That is a number we haven't seen
in quite a while. That's beenrising every month pretty steadily. That said,
we're still adding more jobs than thosethat are coming out of the workforce.
If you see that unemployment rate,that's around three point four percent.
That's but there have been mounting layoffsin tech, there have been mounting layoffs
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in the financial industry, in retail, so we got to keep an eye
on that. Still, the unemploymentrate very low and a lot of jobs
out there for folks looking for jobs. It's it's kind of iffy math when
it comes to a possible recession.When you have a labor market that's so
strong, strong as it's been infifty years. What are you specifically pulling
out? I'm personally I'm watching youwage increase in percentage as opposed to inflation
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to keep pace. What is somethingyou like to pull out? Yeah,
well, I think wage inflation isa pretty important one to watch because we've
seen it climb pretty steadily month aftermonth. Now it is slowing. It's
around four point four percent year overyear. But the Federal Reserve, our
central bank, wants to slow thatdown even more. Why because if companies
have to pay higher wages, thencompanies are going to pass the higher costs
onto the consumer, and that couldcause a pause in consumer we're spending,
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or a pullback, and that couldreally set the economy into a tailspen.
We know it's seventy percent of ourUS GDP, so it's this very weird
thing where we continue to spend.Credit card debt is rising it's at a
record level, credit card aprs areat record levels just because of those high
interest rates, and there's still ahigh labor market. But other signs are
showing us such a potential recession ofvery peculiar time in the economy. Indeed,
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and you mentioned the sticky inflation goingon, there is there a reason
that stands out to you as towhy it's being so sticky. Is it
because the wage increases are keeping everythingkind of elevated, or is it that
we have cleared the supply chain issueswe were so used to after COVID,
and maybe retailers and other people whoset prices are getting used to the idea
that those prices have to come down. Finally, Yeah, I think it's
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a little bit of both of thosethings, because we definitely cleared it.
But don't forget we've changed the waywe behave as consumers as well. Over
the last three years, we've beenthrough a lot. We went for not
spending anything and saving a lot ofmoney. The savings rate was at an
all time high, to all ofa sudden being able to spend and revenge
spend on travel and going out andeating out a lot more, while prices
were rising for consumers the whole time. We got used to the sort of
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steady state of high prices and dealingwith it. But because of that,
we are pushing our credit to thelimits here because we're borrowing a lot of
money. Now, we're not inextreme levels like we were back in two
thousand and eight. Consumers in alittle bit better shape. Banks are in
better shape, despite the fact thatwe've lost a few lately. That said,
you know, we are maybe onthis unsustainable pattern, just like the
United States government, which is comingup against the debt ceiling. Yeah,
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let's stay right there then, becauseI like nerding out with you on this
stuff, and the debt ceiling isdefinitely top of mind for economics and business
coverage. What's the latest the ecYeah, I mean, we're in a
standoff here, and the Treasury SecretaryJenniellinis says, June first is the deadline
where the United States government will notbe able to pay its bills. Look,
raving being able to pay our billsfor quite a while. We just
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keep borrowing and extending the deadline.Thirty one point four trillion dollars in debt.
Don't worry about that. But that'sthe day that some government services are
going to have to get suspended.That's the day that maybe we don't have
to suspend Social Security checks and medicareat tracks going out. Also, national
parks might have to close. Buteven worse than all of that is the
threat of a debt downgrade, acredit down grade. So the United States
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finances all this money we borrow throughselling our government bonds, and they have
a widely held, widely trusted assetheld by governments around the world. If
we default on our debt and weget a credit downrating, the yields on
those bonds is going to go,but it's going to make the prices fall
for those people who are holding ourbonds. That's also going to help drive
interest rates even higher for the thingswe borrow against as consumers in this country.
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So it is a bad scenario andthey have to find a way to
either kick the can down the roador find another solution. Yeah, we're
speaking with ABC News contributor Caleb Silver, he's also editor in chief at investopedia
dot com. We talked about rightthere the debt ceiling. Now the X
day, the day of default kindof floats a little bit, but the
predictions of the repercussions of actually defaultingrange a little bit. Do you have
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a take on what you think therange would be. What are some initial
responses financially speaking? Yeah, well, I mentioned that the suspension of government
services that's no fun, and potentialfurloughing of government employees. There are a
lot of government employees in this country. Usually they get paid back, you
know, they get their back pay, but it's no fund for families that
are counting on those paychecks. That'son the ground level there, But on
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the debt level of having our creditrating downgraded, that has very serious implications.
And that's why you're hearing not justpoliticians make noise about it, but
the biggest CEOs are the biggest banksin the world, because they know how
important it is to have a stablecredit rating on US government bonds. That
is everything, right, that isthe bedrock of how we finance our governments.
Ince Alexander Hamilton was around back inthe day. So if that rate,
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if we get a downgrade there,and that yields on those bond spike,
it is going to be tumultuous forthe economy and for capital markets and
for whoever's holding our debt. Iuse the bedrock term as well in my
coverage because it's a twenty four trilliondollar market. A lot of other governments
are pegged too that those tea bills. So thank for using I just I
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like the reinforcement of hearing that itis a bedrock thing. So this is
not just something that causes us somefederal employee layoffs. That could be something
bigger. Let's get a tech Let'sget a tech headline this morning. You
know when I went to bed lastnight, Oliver Bloomberg was all about Elon
Musk. I get up this morningand I have to do a search to
find it. What's going on withElon Musk and the CEO news. Yeah,
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Elon Musk tweeting last night that hehas found a replacement for him as
CEO of Twitter, and she,he says in the tweet, we'll be
starting within the next six weeks.Now, this morning, the Wall Street
Journals reporting that person could be LindaYaccarino. I hope I'm saying that right.
She is the chair of Global Advertisingand Partnerships at NBC Universal. That's
what the Wall Street Journals reporting.No comment from her or her team or
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the NBC team yet, but that'swhat's out there at the moment. We'll
see if that remains true. Interestingthat he has found the replacement. Interesting
that it is if it is thiswoman, indeed somebody from the advertising business,
because don't forget Twitter is an advertiseisdelivery mechanism? Yes, exactly.
You didn't forget that. I didn'tforget that. Elon forgot that apparently when
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he first came on, I think. But that's that goes back to my
other show. He also, don'tforget tweeted that his new CEO was going
to be his dog. So untilI see it for sure, we're gonna
have to wait. But you youdid say her name right. I was
at NBC for a while and itis Yacarino, So you nailed that.
Investopedia dot com is to me abedrock source. How long have you been
working with investopedia dot com and thereany features you want to pull out in
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the last thirty seconds, I haveyou. Yeah, thank you so much.
I've been the editor in chief forseven and a half years. I
have one of the coolest jobs inthe world, learning and teaching people about
money and exploring that. I havea podcast, The Investopedia Express podcast comes
out every Monday, sets you upfor the week as the educated investor.
And also, we just launched ourfinancial Literacy Resource Center for kids and teachers
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and families, so we got we'regoing into financial literacy curriculum for public school.
So it's on our website right onthe homepage investipedia dot com, look
for the Financial Resource Center. Greatlessons are free lessons for teachers and for
families and for kids to take homeand learn about money this summer. That
is very cool. I did notknow about that feature, so that's great.
I'm glad you mentioned it. Ihave been using your other feature and
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other feature with your simulator. Istarted on January two of this year with
a with a fake hundred thousand dollars. It's where you can you have a
small account and you can you cando it. You can invest fake money
if you will. You're gamifying everything. I'm up eighteen percent on the year
so far this year. Thanks forenabling me, Caleb. You're welcome and
can I sign up with your advisoryservice? Sounds like you know what you're
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doing. Well yeah, yeah,Well, what I love about your simulator
is if you get into the game, and you want to try out some
different stocks. You can't have toomany blue chips. You have to take
some risks here and there, whichis kind of fun. So anyway,
it's always a pleasure to speak withyou to learn on that similar and we
have one for crypto as well,so play without it. Oh yeah,
it's definitely a blind spot. Thanksa lot, Caleb, I'll talk to
you next time. Thank you.ABC News contributor Caleb Silver, also of
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course with investopedia dot com. Let'sget back to the newsroom for a couple
of quick stories. Some fire departmentsin La County have been honored for their
help after the fatal mass shooting ofeleven people at a dance hall in Monterey
Park. At one point, MontereyPark Fire Chief Matt Halleck choked up reliving
the night of January twenty first.This was and is a day none of
us will ever forget. That tragicevening. The city of Monterrey Park was
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put on the map for all thewrong reasons. It is the collaboration and
support from the fire departments within thisarea that put the region on the map
for all the right reasons. Alexhas many more lives were saved because of
the mutual aid set up among thearea's twenty nine fire departments. Yesterday,
Halleck recognized South Pasadena, Glendale,LA City County, San Gabriel, Alhambran
Arcadia in downtown LA Steve Gregory KAINews get our first look at weather right
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now. Southern California weather from KFIsunny today after these morning clouds move out
and the fog burns off, asfrom the mid to upper sixties at the
beaches to the lower to mid seventiesinland and on the eastern end of the
San Fernando Valley, highs are goingto hit eighty and Santa Clarita Valley of
or Inland Valleys about eighty five todaycould be the high Tonight, mostly clear
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across the south Land, lows inthe low to mid fifties. Tomorrow is
a sunshine rinse repeat with only slightlywarmer temperatures. And when we come back,
we are going to talk with housewhisperer Dean Sharp, some household appliance
stuff, some patio talk, andI'm going to quiz him on how to
spell something. You're listening to WakeUp Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on Demand
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from KFI AM six forty. Iam Jason Middleton. This is wake up
call. Today is Friday, Maythe twelfth. Sunday May fourteenth is Mother's
Day. You're almost caught up.A YouTuber is now facing up to twenty
years in federal prison after admitting tointentionally crashing his plane into a hillside in
Santa Barbara County to get views online. On Wednesday, twenty nine year old
Trevor Jacob pleaded guilty to a felonyaccount of obstructing a federal investigation. The
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twenty twenty one video called I CrashedMy Airplane shows Jacob parachuting out of a
small plane before it crashed into thelost Los Padres National Force near Santa Maria.
Migrants who are seeking asylum in theUS are getting immigration court dates more
than a dozen years out. Somemigrants who arrived at Brownsville, Texas yesterday
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were given immigration court dates as lateas twenty thirty two and twenty thirty five.
Those have been happening at Chicago andFlorida as well. President Biden's national
security adviser and Channa's China's top diplomatagree on the need for two superpowers to
move past the alleged spy balloon incident. Earlier this year. Jake Sullivan and
Chinese diplomat Wang Yee met for eighthours over the past two days in Vienna.
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At five fifty, we're gonna endwake Up Call with ABC's Jason Nathanson
and get an entertainment report as wehead into the weekend. I mentioned that
Jane Fonda movie at the top ofthe hour, The Air movie about the
Air. Jordan's that's going to migrateto Prime video. I believe that's Tuesday,
and we're gonna have some other entertaineekind of stuff right now. Let's
dig into the great indoors and outdoorswith Dean Sharp. He's the house whisperer.
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He's also the man with the plan. Okay, let me let me
tie this up. Twenty first centurytechnology, a quantum leap ahead for consumers,
new industry standard, and I'm nottalking about AI. I don't mean
a new iPhone. I want totalk to Dean Sharp about the ge all
in one washer dryer. Dean,welcome back. Okay, Jason, how
are you doing? But it's goodto hear your voice. I was compelled
by this. I've been doing myown research. I hate to do that
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first person's thing, but I thinkwe all kind of this time of year
looked to upgrade certain things. Kitchensare definitely part of it. What do
you have with this all in one? I'm dubious. Yeah, well you
should be dubious, absolutely, becauseall in one washers and dryers have been
around forever and this reviewer's opinion isthey all pretty much suck. But but
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Ge released this. We saw thisat the Builder Show this year, and
we heard rumors that it was coming. It is now out there. You
can actually get your hands on one, and I gotta tell you if it
does everything that we expected to do. And the reviews, the early reviews
are looking very promising. Jason,this actually may not just be an all
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in one washer dryer that doesn't suck. It may actually turn the industry.
It may it literally may be asea change for the industry. And the
main reason is the dryer side ofthis is they have abandoned the idea and
this is brilliant on Gee's part.They've abandoned the idea of baking clothes.
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Okay, that's basically what a dryeris. You know, you get to
a gas dryer, or you pulla lot of waddage through an electric dryer
and you get a lot of heatinside the dryer and not so much airflow.
And you know, I was talkingto Conway about this the other day.
None of us probably have much experiencehanging clothes out on a clothesline.
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But if we were to ask,like great Grandma what that was all about,
she would tell us that, youknow, it could be one hundred
degrees outside and if there's no wind, those clothes are staying wet for a
long time. But even on acold day, if the breeze is blowing,
boom, they get dry fast.So what GE has done is they
it's warm air. It's definitely warmair. They're using a heat pump technology,
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and heat pump is basically how yourair conditioner works to extract moisture from
the air. But a big fan, a big fan to create a lot
of airflow in there, and itwould appear as if it makes this dryer
actually work. It's all the difference. So we're talking about a two hour
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cycle from beginning to end for mostloads, a little longer for the heavy
duty stuff. And the other thingis too, this is a full size
washer dryer combo. Now it's notthe extra large, but it's full size,
so it'll take ten pounds of laundryin it per load. And the
fact of the matter is one ofthese is the equivalent of two, you
know, a standard washer and dryer. You get two of these side by
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side, you've doubled the size ofyour laundry room without changing the space.
Well, that depends on the pricepoint, Dudan. The price point point
from ge is twenty eight hundred dollars, which is the price that you're going
to pay for a decent set awasher and dryer set. Okay, so
you know it would be a splurgeto get two of them, But the
fact of the matter is you'll comein just a little bit under on this
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machine then you would buying a brandnew washer and dryer set. And you
know you'll use half the space.No vent, no dryer vent, no
gas hookup. It will plug intoa standard fifteen amp outlet anywhere in the
house. All you need is thedrain and the water supply to it.
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Wow. Okay, so yeah,you're right. This could stand everything on
its head. Because I just assumedall those are Coudremont were necessary to get
this thing to run. So wow, what about finesse cycles? Can I
do? Like some delicates in there, you can do. You can do
all the finesse cycles. You caneven add laundry sheets if you want.
If you're a if you're a laundrysheet person, what it's going to do
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if you to notify you, youcan notify you. It will either buzz
or chime or notify you on yoursmart device. After the wash is done
and before the dryer starts, youget a ten minute gap where you can
run over there, grab the door, open it up and throw in dryer
sheets. Otherwise it'll just keep onrolling forward. It takes liquid fabric softener
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and liquid detergent reservoir inside up tothirty two loads worth, so not a
lot of fiddling around with it,you know. And it's it's a brilliant,
brilliant setup for a machine. LikeI said, it stands a little
taller than your standard washer and dryer, about forty seven inches tall, and
there's a pedestal that brings it upeven a little higher if you want to
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just get you know, direct accesswithout bending over. Ge has estimated and
I think this is this has gotto be fairly accurate. GEE has done
their own internal studies and they said, you know, the average time in
North America that a load of laundrysits in the washing machine after it's done
and before it gets put in thedryer is about a hundred and thirty minutes,
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like two hours. And I wouldsay around my house that's probably conservative,
because you know, we'll pop aload in, we're like, oh
yeah, oh yeah, we're gonnaflip that over, right. So the
idea of something that just takes youall the way to the end in two
two and a half hours, it'sa pretty efficient concept done. So,
like I said, we're still waitingfor the mass reviews to come in,
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but I'll tell you right now,already most places are back ordered on this
machine. And if it does evenhalf of what it's promising, I think
it's going to turn the industry onedge. Okay, I appreciate that,
and I want to nerd out alittle bit harder on this. But I've
got another appliance I want to askabout, because if that's transformational, I'm
going to ask about one more indoorthing. In an outdoor thing, are
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garbage disposals also due for an upgrade. Right, Yeah, garbage disposals or
something in my opinion as a builderand a designer, that we shouldn't even
be messing with. In the UnitedStates, we have more garbage disposals than
anybody in the world. They've beenoutlawed throughout most of Europe. Canada only
about five percent of the population hasa garbage disposal. And here's the problem
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with garbage disposal. It's lazy andit hurts our infrastructure. Macerating food down
the garbage disposal and then putting thatslime and that sledge down into our own
drain pipes and the city sewer lines. It's not a good thing. It
prematurely ages causes all sorts of issuesand problems that let alone biological issues when
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the drains, you know, flushout to the ocean. So that's one
thing. Also in southern California,most municipalities now have you divided up with
your garbage, you know, Nowwe're we got a compost bin, we
got the regular garbage bin, allof this kind of stuff. So yeah,
instead of the garbage disposal, thisis a pre order appliance. We
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saw this at the Builder Show againfrom Suppora. It is a. I
don't even know exactly what to callit, but essentially it takes the place
of the garbage disposal. You canstill practice your old habits of scraping food
down the drain. The difference isthis doesn't masserate them. You hit the
button and a large auger bit orwhat some people might call an Archimedes screw,
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basically takes all that food, movesit to the side in the drain,
and dumps it into a compost canisterunder the sink. Wow. Okay,
visualizing the Archimedes screw in my kitchen, and I'm kind of liking the
idea. I have to say,it's very it's actually very cool. Everything
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else drains straight through, but onceyou've got solid foods in there, you
just hit the button. It justtakes it and pushes it aside. And
it's this way. You don't havea compost bin on your countertop, you
don't have to have an extra binnext to your waste basket. You're still
going to be taking it out tothe trash because that's the way things are
done these days. But this doesit automatically for you, stores it in
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large quantities, filtered underneath the sinkand when it's full. Lets you know,
and you know, you just walkit out to the trash game.
Very cool and that company is superaby the way, sep U r A.
If you go to Spora, you'regoing to have a different retail experience,
very very different. Quick outdoor questionfor you, if we want to
update outside patios and patio risers.Now, this also seems like something that
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we may not think about every day, but maybe do for an updateing.
Yeah, this is not something peoplethink about all the time. You know,
you're looking to build an awning orsome kind of patio cover off the
side of the house. Strangely enough, they're super common, and yet they
are so problematic when it comes tothe actual construction of a house. Where
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are you going to mount this thing? If you mount your patio cover at
the level of your facial boarder whereyour roof rafters or eves come down,
it's too low. It's gonna betoo low. You're gonna feel like you're
walking under this low ceiling. Ifyou mount it further up on the roof,
now you are interrupting the water flowthe rainshed off your roof. You're
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kind of potentially be causing leaks aplus, you're exposing that wood to direct
moisture that is running down. Imean, it's just it has always been
a hassle. So this for mostpeople may not feel like the game changer
that it is. But there's alittle company called Patio Roofreiser. You can
find them at patio roofreiser dot com. They have spent their lives kind of
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perfecting this hardware. It is atiny piece of very very structural hardware attractive
also that mounts into the eve ofyour roof and allows you to build as
big of a patio cover off theside of your house as you want with
virtually zero chance of it leaking.It holds all of the wood above the
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roofline very attractively, so none ofit gets exposed, none of it collects
leaves or water or rot. It'sreally again another game changer, outstanding.
Three game changers in one morning withDean Sharp on the House Whisper on a
Friday morning. Thanks so much,Dean. Always a pleasure, always always
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a pleasure to speak with you.Good talking to you, Jason. See
it Dean Sharp house Whisper. Youcan hear him here on the Eric KFI
anytime you want. On the iHeartRadioapp. You're listening to Wake Up Call
with Jennifer Jones Lee on demand fromkf I Am six forty. My name
is Jason Middleton. A couple ofquick headlines, and then we're talking to
Jason Nathanson about the weekend entertainment.No major damage so far from a five
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point five earthquake in northern California struckPlumas County yesterday at the bottom of Lake
Almanor. Forty two is over.Title eight is back as an immigration policy.
We're gonna have more on that changeover in just a few minutes.
A California zoo Zoo is sharing thefirst look at its new Jaguar. The
eleven year old cat has made itsway across the state. He was born
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in San Diego, raised in Sacramento, now lives in San Francisco. Five
fifty five On your wake Up Call, ABC's Jason Nathanson is on the line.
Good morny, Jason, Hey,good morning. Let's start with book
club because it's Mother's Day weekend.Is this a good one? Yeah?
I think it's a good one forMother's Day weekend. I think they know
what they're doing when they scheduled itfor this weekend. It's the sequel to
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this is book Club, the nextchapter. It's a sequel two book Club,
which came out a couple of yearsago, starring Diane Keaton, Jane
Fonda, Marystein Bergin, and CandiceBergen. That one made one hundred and
four million dollars worldwide, so itdid pretty decently on something that you know,
wasn't very expensive to make. Thistime around, I think they decided,
Hey, if we're gonna do thisagain, let's go to Italy.
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So that's why they go to Italy. In the movie, there's a bachelorette
party and you kind of follow themaround Rome and Venice, which is you
know, if you're a fan ofthose cities, you get to see them.
You know, they're very beautifully shot, and there's actually some really funny
jokes in this. I you know, wasn't expecting to really laugh because we've
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seen you know, the original onewas was fine, and then a couple
months ago we saw eighty for BradyRight, which is kind of the same
ish thing that start Jane Fonda andthree others. This is a different cast,
of course, but Jane Fonda isincluded, but it's you know,
kind of similar issues and stuff.Eighty for Brady was not I think,
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you know, overall, very goodfilm. This is I think much better,
but also much funnier. Surprisingly someof the jokes that are really racy,
which I really appreciated. So yougot it's got that going for.
It's got the beautiful scenery of Italy. Italy a very popular place to film
during the pandemic because things were alittle bit more open there, uh during
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that time. And while they werefilming this there also the next Fast and
Furious movie was filming at the sametime in Rome. They were both filming
on the streets of Rome at thesame time, very two very different movies,
far fewer car chases and book say, I kind of smell a mashup.
I'm sorry, but you know Iwould I would love to see a
mashup. I think that would befantastic. My producer brain likes the production
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line and costs on that one.But but you don't get that here.
You just you just have the fourof them. There's no Vin Diesel.
But you know, I think fora Mother's Day weekend, I think it's
gonna be, you know, decentlysuccessful. It's not going to be Guardians
of the Galaxy the Second Guardian thatwas a two and a half hour grief
fast. Okay, uh must seefor gen xers this weekend. Muppets Mayhem.
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I gotta go quick because I wantto get to this Muppets Mayhem,
which what's your take? Muppets Mayhemis on Disney Plus. It's a new
show. It's about the the DoctorTeeth and the Electric Mayhem, which is
the house band for the Muppets,which some people I think I think you
know, but you don't maybe don'treally know. I think most people know.
The Animal plays the drums, right, yeah, and that's where he's
playing the drums, is in thatband. This is all about this band
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making a new their first album.They've never made an album before. This
is also surprisingly really funny. Someof the Muppets shows and stuff that they've
done in the past recent years hasbeen hit or miss, but I really
like the humor here. A tonof amazing guest stars, from Morgan Freeman
to Paula Abduel to weird al BillyCorgan from The Smashing Pumpkins shows up in
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the first episode, which was surprisingto me. I didn't expect him to
be in that world, but youknow, everybody loves the Muppets, and
I had a lot of fun withthe series. Jason. I wish we
had more time. It was myfault. I went a bit long a
little bit earlier. But I'd loveto talk with you next week. I'm
going to be on next Friday,so let's try to do it and get
caught up on air and some otherthings too. Okay, all right,
sounds good, Thank you, sir. ABC's Jason Nathanson right there. He'll
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join us next week as well,and whenever he once. Really, let's
do some Southern California weather from KFI. Sunny today after the morning clouds move
out and the fog burns off.Highs from the mid to upper sixties at
the beaches to the lower to midseventies inland. On the eastern end of
the San Fernando Valley could hit eightyfarther Inland could up to eighty five.
Tonight, mostly clear across the Southlandlows in the mid fifties, and tomorrow
(41:19):
is a sunshine, rinse repeat,slightly warmer. Seal Beach right now is
at fifty five degrees Orange is atfifty six, Torrance is at fifty two,
Altadena is at forty eight. You'relistening to KFI and ko SThD two
Los Angeles, Orange County. Welead local live from the KFI twenty far
our newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton.This has been your wake up Call.
You've been listening to your wakeup Callwith me Jennifer Jones Lee, and you
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