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He Hey, everybody, Tiffany Hobbs filling in today for the
brand new Andy Reesmeyers Show from two to four. Andy
is a friend of mine. I'm so happy he's on
the station. He's lovely, He's just lovely, and that he's here,
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well just make us all better. But he's not here
today and I'll be filling in for him until four,
but you can catch him every Sunday after this, and
I hope you do because he's gonna have a great
show for you. I have a great show for you
as well. We have quite a lot to cover. We
have stories we're watching, some updates about local stories, have
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some top stories of the day. Of course, some really
big things that are floating around, things you might have
seen heard. Give you some more information about those. At
two thirty, we're going to talk about something that the
Generation Z is doing. These are our probably I think
sixteen to twenty four year old somewhere in their Generation Z. Well,
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they're bringing their families to job interviews. Can you imagine?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah? Can you like what.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Bringing their families to job interviews? And not not are
they just bringing them to accompany them, They are actually
letting them speak for them. It reminds me of the
scene in Step Brothers. If you've ever seen the movie
Step Brothers, where Will Ferrell John c Riley both go
to and interview together and they kind of jump over
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each other talking for one job, by the way, one job.
This is kind of like that, except it's not John
c Riley and Will Ferrell. It's your mom, it's your dad,
and they're coming to your job interview to beg for
a job.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'll get into that at two thirty. Then at three o'clock.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Our Deeper Dives segment continues with Generation Z back to
school time. Back to school for every level, college included.
Some of your kids may be off to college starting
tomorrow for their very first day or resuming their college career.
And the thing about college now that's a lot different
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than even just ten years ago, is the fact that
social media is heavily influencing the way in which people
are decorating their dorms, and that's where the parents come in.
There are extreme dorm makeovers and expensive school supplies, of course,
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and we're going to talk about it in our Deeper
Dives segment, what those dorms are looking like, how much
these dorms are costing, and why all of this is happening,
and what unfortunately some of you parents may be in
store for or already paying for. Then after three o'clock
we're going to get into our scammers Gonna Scam segment.
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Have a pair of stories that are frustrating, to say
the least. One about a man who thought a chat
bot was real and something that happened to him. And
another story about a woman who took advantage of your
love of avocados. She knows you love avocados and she
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took advantage of that, and there's a scam that she ran,
and fortunately I have the details that result in her
getting caught. But I'll tell you the rest of the story.
And then at the end of the show, you ever
find yourself watching TV, but you turn the subtitles on
because you can't quite understand.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Eileen is shaking her head.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yes, Eileen all the time, all the time, there's something
going on going on with the audio.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The audio, and then sometimes just the way people talk.
They just have much mouth, they do. And I don't
know why.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's a problem more so now than ever, but more
of us are admittedly using subtitles proudly. I raise my
hand proudly. I can't watch things comfortably without them. So
I'll tell you a bit more about why we're all
watching TV with the little words at the bottom of
the screen. We also have some big stories, Like I
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said that we're watching. Let's kind of get into that.
As you've been hearing in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
Eric and Lyle Menindez will both remain in prison for
at least the next three years, to the chagrin of
family members who have been speaking out on social media
in front of the press, saying that they are extremely
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disappointed in the judge's ruling both of those rulings coming
down for Eric and Lyle respectively Friday and Saturday evenings,
saying that based on their conduct in jail and the
little fact that they murdered their parents in cold blood,
that seemingly.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Forgettable fact for a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
They will remain in jail for at least the next
three years as their.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Parole was denied. They were denied.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Eric's stepdaughter from a relationship that he developed in prison,
actually spoke out and said that she is extremely angry.
She took to her social media, her Instagram and said
that the family's been let down time and time again
and that this is really unfair. So the family is
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rallying around the Menindez brothers, but the court of law said, no,
no freedom for you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You stay in jail.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Another pair of people who will be getting very acquainted
with jail and rightfully so once all comes out, are
the parents of that baby, that seven month old baby,
Emmanuel Horrow, who were both arrested, both parents, Jake and
Rebecca Harrow on Friday at their home in Cabazon, on
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suspicion of murder. You remember this story, they've been saying
for the last week and a half. The parents' family
members that the baby was kidnapped. That mom, Rebecca Harrow,
was hit over the head and knocked unconscious and when
she came to her baby was gone. All of this
taking place in a parking lot as she was supposedly
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changing the diaper of seven month old Emmanuel Horrow out
there in u Kaipa, in this parking lot. This entire
elaborate story now found to be fake, and authorities are
saying that because of all the details that are emerging, Unfortunately,
baby Emmanuel is feared dead. So this has turned from
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a finding emmanual mission to a recovering of his remains,
and so details are continuing to come out on that.
But both parents, Jake and Rebecca Harrow, are in jail. Then,
moving into the administration a bit President Trump's administration, US
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseith is a little busy this weekend.
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He fired the Pentagons until Intelligence Agency chief Jeffrey Cruz
amid drama with President Trump pushing back on a leaked
report that was critical of the attack on Iran. They
were critical President Trump specifically because the report says that
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the attack on Iran actually caused delays to the US's
nuclear program and President Trump didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
So there's been this drama.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Between the Pentagon between Agency chief Jeffrey Cruz, President Trump,
and Defense Secretary Hegsith stepped up and said, well, let's
fire him. So Jeffrey Cruz is out and no replacement
has been named yet. Sticking with President Trump and some
stories we're watching, President Trump said that the National Guard
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is heading to Chicago. You know, he is looking to
expand the National Guard's place and presence around the country
and in cities that he feels require more law enforcement
supervision and interactions, Chicago now being in his crosshairs. And
President Trump went on to say, quote that the National
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Guard is going to head to Chicago to straighten it out.
And here's where the quote takes a bit of a turn.
He went on to say, President Trump that while in Chicago,
he spoke to African American ladies, beautiful ladies who are saying, please,
President Trump, please come to Chicago. Interesting, because I am
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an African American lady. If you did not know, and
I can say, are you saying wow, Robin, like you
didn't know that either. I feel like you just said wow,
you didn't know. She's giving me the quizzical eyes. It's okay, Robin,
We're just doing a little radio here.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah my bead. Okay.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
But you know, as a person of the African American community,
I have not heard many African American women say that.
And I can't say I've spoken to all within the constituency,
and nor can President Donald Trump. But he is alleging
that people in Chicago, specifically African American women, beautiful women,
he says, of which I say, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I do appreciate that compliment. I will take that on
behalf of the people.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
But otherwise I cannot say that he should be making
blanketed statements. But this is President Trump, and he speaks
in a hyperbolic term sometimes, and he has his sight
set on Chicago and the beautiful African American ladies within Chicago.
So hopefully they will return the sentiment and speak out
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about whether or not they are being represented in the
correct light.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
More to come.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
On the other side of the break, We're going to
get into some big local stories that I cannot wait
to share with you, starting with that high speed chase
that happened on Friday night. The guy bailed, but not
before doing something really interesting, and all of it was
caught on tape for all of us to see. I'll
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tell you more about that and other things on the
other side of the break.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Tiffany Hobbs here filling in for the Andy Reismeyer's show
today from two to four pm. Some good news just
came down the wire. You might have heard about it
late last week. There were two young boys.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
A kid.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I don't think the ages aren't right here, but I
think one was around like eight or seven, and then
another one who was a toddler, young toddler one or two. Well,
they disappeared from a foster home in La in South
LA and they were presumed to be with their mother
or looking for their mother. The story was convoluted and
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really interesting. Well, the update is that both brothers have
been found. They have been found safe, So that's some
good news on a Sunday US really interesting thing happened
Friday night. I'm at home, I believe I just wrapped
filling in for the later with Mokelly's show. As I'm
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at home, I'm looking at social media and scanning for
news and what I can share with you today, and
no shortage there. And what I saw was a car
chase and I'm looking at this chase and what's happening
was so strange and so bombastic in my opinion that
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I thought it was not ai or fake. But I
was like, this has to be from another country, this
has to be something that has happened in the past.
This is certainly not going on right now. But alerts
started going off on different crime reporting apps that I
also follow and it showed that this was in fact
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happening in real time. And what I'm talking about is
a high speed chase that quickly went viral. We give
you a little bit about the chase and that we're
going to hear the reporting from ABC seven and who
was I believe, the only helicopter on the scene. So
what happened was around ten pm in the Wiltshire area
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of LA kind of the mid Wiltshire district, a blue
Infinity Sedan, a Blue Infinity Sedan was stolen. The driver
ends up weaving it out of traffic for miles, exceeding
one hundred miles per hour on surface streets, on freeways, reckless,
driving like crazy, and the helicopters are following, the police
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are following, and then all of a sudden, this car,
this Infinity, pulls into a gas station right around Lynwood,
a shell gas station, and you're watching and you're going,
oh no, because my first instinct was this guy's or
this driver is going to get out of the car.
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They're going to jack someone, They're going to take another car.
We've seen this befo, but that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I want you to.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Listen to the audio so you can hear the play
by play from ABC seven, which will tell you why
this was so unusual.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
This driver nervously getting gas after feeling some degree of
relief here, although you could tell he's still very animated.
He's got his shirt covering his face, clearly aware of
the helicopters, but pretty unaware of the fact that he's
pretty much on his southbound Long Beach now making another
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westbound turn here finding another gas station might be the
same one. He must be long gas.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
This driver pulls into a gas station as you hear there,
does not fortunately jack someone else or you know, exhibit
any sort of violence towards anyone that we can see.
And ABC seven's coverage is right on him. This guy
gets out, proceeds to pump gas. Don't know how much
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he put in. It's an infinity. Don't know how much
an infinity can hold. If he was on e what
was going on, But he stood there for maybe three
minutes or so, so he put a few bucks in
that tank. Okay, he had a few bucks on him.
Put a few bucks in the tank. And while he's
waiting for this gas to pump through, he takes his
shirt and he puts the shirt up over his nose,
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pulls a hat that he has on down low. So
if you've ever seen Beavis and butt Head, kind of
look like Cornholio, Yes, kind of like corn Holy.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What are you gonna say, Robin, I was gonna say,
why didn't no one arrest him?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So this is what he's just standing around as well.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is what makes it so weird.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
He's pumping gas, and the cameras from the helicopter pan
out a bit, and there's no law enforcement anywhere. There's
no cops, there's no sirens, you hear nothing. There's a
guy on a Harley like right across from him at
another pump on his phone. This guy in the heart,
he's like on his phone just sending a text. You
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can almost practically see the text like being sent. And
he's oblivious to what's happening. The guy at the car
and the Infinity has his shirt has the corn holy. Oh,
look he's pumping the gas.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
It finishes.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
This is what pissed me off most. He drops the
pump and just leaves it on the ground. I was
like you, I.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Would just go over there and just pump my guess
in there, right, he.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Just put it on his cart on the ground.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
People who do that or don't put it back right,
and people don't return shopping carts. Big ich of mine.
So he yes, so he did this. He leaves it
on the ground. He gets back in the car. Wait,
I got another question. Sure, why didn't the other person
called nineber one one?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
What other person the harley?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
When you're watching, this guy's no oblivious because there's only
one helicopter.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's La.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
There's helicopters all the time, so he's probably like whatever.
He leaves the harley, leaves the guy in the car,
and then the stolen car he takes off. We were
out of the parking lot here, and he proceeds and
drives all the way to downtown LA. So he goes
from he started the Wilshire district. He ended up in
Lynnwood pumping gas at the shell distance. He needed some gas,
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and he came back to downtown LA. Here's what really
really got me. Cops started pursuing him once he came
back into LA, but he drove out of that shell
station without any sort of accompaniment.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He just was on his own.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
And it's funny because the ABC seven helicopter and the
newscaster are narrating all of this and they're saying, too,
how come there are no police? We're the police, and
they don't show up until he ends up back in
downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Now here's the thing. This guy or it's a guy.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
He goes under and overpassed at overpass at Alameda near
the Fashion District in downtown LA, same exact overpass where
that recent chase happened with that tanker, the tanker that
was jack. A couple of guys jacking big rigs and
tankers and they ditched the trucks under this overpass and fled.
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They were never found. This guy took the same play
from the same book, ditches the infinity under the overpass,
gets away.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
None of them have been found. This is where your
tax dollars are going. None of them have been found.
And the questions, like you're asking, Robin, and the sentiment
that I share with you, Richie, crazy is how could
this happen, How could this happen? And then what precedence
does this set for future carjackings, thefts, things like that.
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Now we know this overpass is an easy way out
for one, but two, what does that say about pursuits?
I know there are reasons and logistics and safety and
all these things, but you literally have consecutive high speed,
very dangerous pursuits and all of the suspects to get away.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Not okay when we come back.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Someone who was captured, put away, let back out and
has reoffended again only to be captured and jailed again
is back in the news.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And why is he in the news? He likes your butt.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I'll tell you what he wants, what he wants to
do with your button, what he's been doing with the
butts of other people on the other side of the
break and more.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Tippy Hobbs here till four. Do you enjoy going to
the Empire Center in Burbank, I know I do. That's
where the closest, biggest, probably safest Walmart is to me
living in LA There are other things that I enjoy
doing there at the Empire there's an in and out
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not far and that area, that area of Bourbonk is
just really nice. It's really nice, really busy, really full
of life. And one of the people who has repeatedly
found himself at that their empire center, way too full
of life, I would say, is a man named Kalise Crowder.
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Kalis Crowder is thirty eight years old, and he has
a very interesting hobby. This hobby has gotten him arrested
numerous times, and he does not seem to be able
to let it go. You know, he's not goffing. He's
not like me playing solitaire on his phone, exercising things
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that might be a bit more understandable. No, what is
Kalise's Crowder thirty eight like to do. He likes to
sniff your butt, not just any but though the butts
of women. So Richie, you're exempt in this case. You're
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the only one here exempt. But Robin Eileen, myself, we
would potentially fall in his desirable category.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No, I think I could bass for a guy.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You know, I think his sniffer could detect whether or
not you can. He's gotten pretty good at what he did.
Here's the problem with this guy. By the time he
probably wouldn't by the time. That's probably one of his
old special That might be what he's looking for. Might
be looking for all of you in all of your forms, Robin,
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especially after pizza and cheesy things that we know you enjoy, right, Yes,
she's nodding. The thing about Chalice Crowder is that again
he has been arrested for this infraction, for this crime.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It's a crime.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Laughing about it, but it is sexual assault, and he's
been arrested for it numerous times, but most recently, after
an arrest from an incident stemming from July.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He did it again. He did it again, and here's
the recent incident.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Details are limited and police haven't yet identified the store
or released more information about exactly what happened, but we
do know that the latest butt sniffing incident inside a
store in Burbank that's his stopping ground, happened on Wednesday night.
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He was last taken into custody back in July, just
a few weeks ago, for sniffing butts in public at
the Empire Center.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
There we go, there's the.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Tie in footage showed him police Crowder following a female
shopper in the women's section of a store in the
Empire Center, crouching behind her and quote unquote inappropriately sniffing
her buttocks, which in the quote there inappropriately sniffing her
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buttocks leads me to believe that somewhere, somehow there's an
appropriate way.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
To sniff a buttocks in public. I don't think so.
Don't think you should do that, Robin.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Maybe maybe they had a dog that did it. Dogs.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's like such a dog thing to do. It's very
much that.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
In that particular case from July, prosecutors filed one count
of loitering with intent to commit a crime, and he
was set given a bail of one hundred thousand dollars.
That's according to the Burbank Police Department. In July, police
noted that Crowder is already on the registered sex offender list,
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and on that time in July, he was on active
parole after a dit documented history of similar arrests in
Glendale and Burbank that date back to twenty twenty one.
He's been doing this for years, four years now. Of course,
Burbank PD is saying anyone who believes they were targeted
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by this guy in any similar way should contact Burbank
PD to let them know. And again, the details about
this recent incident from Wednesday night not clear, but he
was attempting to or successfully did sniff someone's button.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Should even admit that. I wouldn't even admit that. I'd
be like, you know what, I'm good, that's not a crime.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You want to go into jail having committed There are
other things that might earn you some clout, get you
some protection. I feel like sniffing butts when you go
in and you tell the other guys what you're in for,
is not necessarily going to go over that.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Well, he'll have a lot of space in the shower.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
He's gonna have a lot of space in the shower.
Here's the other question I have, and it's bear with me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Here.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
You're in the store, you see this guy. You think
you look nice that day, you know you're a woman,
You think you look nice and you smell good, and
he skips you to sniff the butt of someone else.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Does that hurt the feelings?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Does that give us some sort of you know, do
you feel a little less than that you weren't chosen
to be a butt sniffing recipient?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Absolutely not. You're relieved by that, not want to be
in that club. You don't want to. Okay, that's not
a measurement necessarily. Oh okay, okay, not going to you know, Robin.
It's you and and another person and he's kind of
sizing you up and he's like, nah, not that one,
and he goes to the other one. You feel any
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sort of way, No, how about you, Tiffany.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I mean you're gonna turn this on me, you know,
I you know, I feel like it might validate me
a little bit, just a teensy bit, you know, Why
not me?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Why you turn around?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Why sir?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I'm here? Why not me? You know what, You're here
right here?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
He's like, no, you get rejected by that type of person.
Does that just do something for your self esteem? You know?
Because he seems kind of indiscriminate with it. I've seen
some pictures of the unfortunate victims, and uh, they're all.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
They're all beautiful. So perhaps you let's move on, let's
just leave this.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Some standards have some standards, And I'm like, if you
measure yourself against the standards and he decides to not
sniff you and go to the next person, Robin, I'd
still be like, who, Thank god, Dodge a bullet. Dodge
of dodge a bullet. Okay, all right, just me, all right,
I'll be I'll be honest here.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's fine. You guys don't want to be honest about it.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Job interviews a big part of growing up, learning how
to interview, learning how to exhibit the skills that will
land you a job and help you transition into the workforce.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well coaching happens.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
You might consult someone for advice about how to sit
in front of a potential employer and do the best
interview you can. You might take a class, you might
do whatever. Now you can watch YouTube or social media
to figure out tips about how to interview, and then
you might bypass that all together and say instead, you know,
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I don't really want to do this. I'm not feeling
that confident. I got to bring my mom or my
dad into do the interview for me. I'll go with them,
but they're gonna do the talking, and I'm gonna sit
back and have mom or dad land me the job.
That apparently is all the rage with Generation Z. And
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there's a study that's come out that tells the specifics
of what's happening in these interviews, and you might be
shocked parents.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Gotta cut the cord.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Gotta cut the cord because this is an example of
not just helicopter parenting. But I don't know what's beyond that,
but it's definitely taken on new legs and we're gonna
talk about it. On the other side of the break.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Tiffany Hobbs here, and we just wrapped up a fun
little segment on butt sniffing.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm gonna milk this.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
It's probably not the right words to use in conjunction
with butt sniffing. We're gonna keep this story going for
as long as we can. I'm seeing your reactions on
social media. I actually just posted on my Instagram at
tiff hobbs On here tiff hobbs On all one word
a post in my stories.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's public. You don't have to follow me.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
You can just go see the post and I'm asking
you to respond there. If you don't want to, you
can use the talkback app or talkback feature on the
iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Let me know, let us know.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Have you ever had something like that happen to you
where you know, you're in a store, wherever, you're out
in public and someone is literally sniffing around or not
necessarily touching, but doing something that is extremely inappropriate toward
you in hopes that you see whatever the case, let
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me know. I'm curious. Is this something that's common but
sniffing and other sorts of things hit the talkback.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Let us know.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
And I'm pretty sure it doesn't only happen to women.
By the way, I'm pretty sure men might be more
oblivious or might meet it with a swift reaction. I'm
a swift reactions person, but I'm curious. Have you ever
had something like that happen? Do you think you might
have been victimized by this guy? Caalise Crowder all right,
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shifting gears. Thankfully so. Generations Z are bringing their parents
to interviews. Yes, it's not enough that parents are, you know,
a bit more overreaching, a bit more involved, probably more
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than in previous generations. I'm of the generation where no,
my mother is listening and this is no indictment.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
This is nothing negative. I loved it.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Or my mother could say go outside, go play, and
I would be gone for you know, thirteen fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen years old and up four hours for hours and
you could go and just enjoy your childhood and be
with your friends and check in periodically, be home before
the street lights are on, that type of stuff. And
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there wasn't this helicoptering. I went to school. My mom
didn't come to the school to complain about, you know,
a grade that might have been lower than I wanted.
She talked to me about that grade. There was the
onus was on me to learn how to be responsible
and independent through her teaching, through her example, and because
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of that, it made a much more independent adult out
of me. I didn't look to my mom to fix everything.
I can go to my mom and ask for support.
I can ask for advice and she has, you know,
an endless well of both. And I also seek and
use my independence to navigate the world.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Unfortunately, Generation Z apparently are not being equipped with the
same skills. A new study from Resume Templates did a
survey of eight hundred and thirty one Generation Z workers,
so these are those early twenty workers, and they found
in many cases parents did more than just drive the
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kid to an interview, not totally unusual. The survey found
that nearly half of these eight hundred and thirty one
Generation Z potential workers said that their parents were present
during interviews. Some of those parents answered questions, others asked
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questions during the interview. Twenty seven percent of these young
people said that their parents even help them negotiate salary
or benefits. They're doing the talking and saying, hey, my
kids should make more. Can you pay a little bit more?
Can we squeeze a little bit out of you? What
about the benefits? Did depict this plan? So on and
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so forth?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
They might as well have gotten the job. Get seriously,
and I bet you too.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
It's like the parent then becomes the candidate, right, the
kid takes the credit for it, and you get one
salary or one wage.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
You better not expect to get too.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Bring your mom or dad to the job when you
actually do start if you get it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Dude, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
The report.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
This report from Resume Templates. This survey also found that
sixty three percent of these responders had a parent submit
a job application on their behalf. So parents are filling
out these applications and sending them in. Nearly one in
three had a parent right their entire resume.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
You have chat GPT for that.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Now, don't go to mom and dad forty eight then
think for yourself. Think for yourself first and foremost. Forty
eight percent had a parent complete a test assignment for them,
and forty one percent had one of the parents. At
least one of the parents handle the initial HR call,
so they were actually giving the phone over and saying, here, mom,
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you talked to my boss, talked to HR. Fifty seven
percent said they've brought a parent into the office to
help with work. Okay, I can understand that that's not
too crazy. You know, you're swamp, you have a lot
to get through. Maybe it's after hours. You want some support.
Not the best practice because it's your job. But eighty
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three percent set that parents still pack their lunch, and
nearly seventy five percent admit that their parents help complete
work assignments. There's a chief career strategist at Resume Templates
who put on this survey. The person's name is Julia Toothacre.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
What a name.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
It's probably tooth Acerb, but it's literally spelled Toothacre and
I was like, that's interesting. Never heard they're making up
names out here. Julia Toothacre said, I support parents helping
with resumes or reviewing evaluations, but they shouldn't participate direct
it undermines the child's credibility and stunts their professional growth.
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She added, Early career workers need to learn how to
handle difficult conversations on their own, but that message apparently
is being missed because the survey also found that forty
five percent of generations the employees said that their parents
still speak to their current managers. Some even ask for
promotions or paid time off on their behalf.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Isn't that special?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I got a story before you go go all right,
So I'm millennial. Yes, When I was sixteen, my mom
drove me and went in to the store with me
to my first very interview, and anytime I said something
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like not quite correct, my mom would make a sound
and she was behind me.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
What not ripe hyby, but.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Enough for that person to actually hear it.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
No, what was the sound? You have to do it now?
Like what?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah, this is during an interview. You said, Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna ask an interview question that your
mom would not like, and I want you to do
the sound.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Okay, what was the job for again? It was cold stones,
Cold stones.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Uh, Robin, we're looking at your resume here, have you
ever worked in food services at this level where you'll
be dealing with our clientele who have very particular tastes
about ice cream.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
You're supposed to make the sound.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Oh, I thought you were going to answer it, and
then I make the sound.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
What the kind of interview is this?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Your mom?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
I mean the person was asking the question and then
you're answering. And what was your mom critical of?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Quickly the answer? I would say, oh, so you're supposed
to answer and then you're gonna.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Make this, I would answer, Okay, she's just like if
I like, she's criticizing you. Yeah, oh I thought she
was mad at the interview.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Wait did you get the job? Not even closed honestly,
not even wait wait, I was gonna do that whenever
you do something.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Like like, they're just like if we give tips, you
know what they have to sing at cold stones at
cold stones?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, And I was like no, yeah, I was just.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Like like I was trying to think of what I
was going to say. Because I'm such an introvert. I
would not do it. Your mom was giving you tools
right there. She said, don't speak, just yeah, just you know,
make sounds.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
You do that now.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
In fact, I do Robin, you're you're you know, you're,
you're great at this job.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I was waiting for this.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
Deeper Dives segment. We're going to talk about costly extreme
dorm makeovers and how they and other extremely expensive expenditures
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the face of what back to school is actually like
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