July 22, 2025 • 43 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to discuss Israel rejecting calls from more than 28 counties to end the war in Gaza. Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe updates us on the latest in business and Wall Street.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
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Thanks to Will Smith Show, Hey, Otani Ready Freeman and
Todd Lights and Todd Lights announcing it all. It's five o'clock,
straight up, good morning. This is your wake up call
for Tuesday.
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What is today? It's July twenty second. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Got to tell
you they get ready to weigh in on the talkback
because I got something I got to talk about. Thanks
to Michael Monks for filling in for me yesterday. I
just got back from a weekend in my hometown and
went home to celebrate the life of a friend, Kimmy
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from high school. She was one of my best friends
after high school, maid of honor in her wedding.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
So it was a sad, sad weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But a wonderful celebration of life, a life that was
cut short but was so well lived. So yeah, anyway,
here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The seven hundred
Marines deployed in Los Angeles since early June are going
to be leaving the city. The Pentagon confirmed the decision yesterday.
They've been in LA along with thousands of California National
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Guard troops to protect federal buildings and officers from anti
Ice Raid protesters. The investigation into an explosion that killed
three La Kenny Sheriff's deputies in East LA has turned
to Marina del Rey, where investigators served a search warrant
at a boat docked in the marina. It's unclear what,
if anything, was recovered.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
More than half of.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Americans say they believe the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill
is going to raise their healthcare costs. A new cbsu
Go poll found six ten disapprove of the megabill that
makes tax cuts permanent and cuts access for Medicaid SNAP
and other safety programs of safety net programs, including to
people in the country illegally. It also adds a work
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requirement for some who get Medicaid well. The countries are
lining up to tell Israel to stop its war in
the Gaza Strip. ABC's Jordana Miller's going to join us
at five point twenty give us the latest on how
the pressure is mounting. At five point fifty, is Congress
going to put the screws on to try to get
more information about the Jeffrey Epstein files. ABC's Stephen Portnoy
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is going to join us again. That's at five point fifty.
You've heard me complain about the prevalence of tipping and
how it's everywhere and you're being expected to tip four everything. Well,
this one took it to a whole new level and
it is, in my humble opinion, over the top and
out of line. I'm gonna be telling you about that
in just a couple of minutes. Let's get started, though,
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with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
The LAPD has.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Increased patrols in Encino following the murders of an American
Idol music supervisor and her husband in their home. DA
Nathan Hawkman says the killer used the couple's own gun
to kill them earlier this month.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Their bodies were found last week, and.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Sinow Neighborhood Council Vice President Roy Noasse says the alleged
killer should not have been on the streets.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
The neighborhood is really upset and scared and nervous about
what happened and why was this person arrested several times
before and then let out again to commit this awful crime.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Da Hawkman says the accused killer was caught because he
used his cell phone to call police and even gave
his name. Charges are expected to be announced today against
the man accused of driving into a crowd of people
outside a club in East Hollywood. At least three dozen
people were hurt in the crash early Saturday morning. Witnesses
pulled the driver out of his car and started beating him,
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then one guy shot him. The driver was taken to
the hospital and later was arrested. He had apparently been
kicked out of the club before the crash. The Pentagon
says seven hundred active duty Marines sent to LA are
being withdrawn. Earlier this month, about half of the four
thousand California National Guard troops sent to the city were
sent home. LA Mayor Bath says she wants all of
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the troops out of LA.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
They were never needed in the first place.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
It was a misuse of our troops.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The military was sent to LA to help with enforcements
for immigration. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued the
Trump administration for the thirty fourth time in twenty six weeks.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's a lot of lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The latest lawsuit is over the administration's decision to restrict
illegal immigrants from accessing public benefit programs. Una says he's
seen this playbook before.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Dropt fier so chaos and confusion, push through unlawful last
minute rules, punish the most.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Vulnerable among us, and leave the states to clean up
the mess. He said.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
The head Start program is at risk as it offers
childcare services for low income people, adult education, and mental
health services, among other safety net programs. Tributes have been
pouring in for actor Malcolm Jamal Warner, including from Jersey City.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Throught fear so kea the Cosby Show.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Actor had many fans in Jersey City because that's where
the future Theodore Huxtable was born. One expressing a universal
feeling simply that Malcolm Jamal Warner made an impact on
how they saw themselves back in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
It was cool to see black figures like that on TV,
especially at a time where everything is very wholesome.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
The fifty four year old reportedly drowned Sunday while vacationing
in Costa Rica. He'd recently been hosting the podcast Not
All Hood.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I'm Sarah le Kess.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So I mentioned to you that I went up to Medford,
Oregon for the weekend. My friend Kimmy passed away about
a month ago, and they just held the celebration of
life service. So I went to that and it was
beautiful and sad, but wow, a life well lived. And
you know, I was really waffling on whether to go
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or not. And you know, because I had just been
up there for my vacation. I took my vacation up
to Oregon for my mom's eighty fifth birthday, and anyway,
I wasn't sure if I should go or you know,
if I had the time to go.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
And luckily, everybody here at I heard, all the.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Bosses and stuff were wonderful and they're like, of course go,
and I'm so glad I went. I mean, nobody wants
to go to these things, and you know, some people
are like, I don't want to go to the funeral
or the celebration of life because I want to remember
them how they were.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well this was part of how they were. You know,
my only regret.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
My sadness in all of this, of course, is losing
a friend, but it was that I wasn't able to
get there before she passed away.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So she but anyway, and.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Then we had, you know, these kinds of things spark conversations.
And I was talking to one of my friends and
he said, you know what, never let a moment pass.
And I think that that's a good reminder, like reach
out to that person who you haven't talked to, who
you've been thinking about and stuff. I got to see
Kimmy a couple months ago and spend time with her,
and I got to steer it at Christmas, and then
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her mom and I were talking after the service and
she said, do you know that Kimmy spent her last
Fourth of July with you? And I was like, wow,
I didn't even think of that because we got together
last summer at this time and so like so many
special moments, So don't put it off.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Reach out.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's that's my takeaway from this again, and all the sadness,
there's also happiness because it was such a life well lived.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Okay, now I'm going to move on to Oh now
let's move on.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So you know how tipping has gotten out of control,
and we've complained about it.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I've complained about it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Like you go to a Dodger's game, which I love,
and you go to get.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
A beer, as you would do with your Dodger dog.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
An hand you.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No, they don't even hand it to you. A can
of beer that you wait in line for, and then
you go and reach into the refrigerator yourself. You pick
out your beer, you carry it up to the counter,
you give it to the person. They charge you for it,
and then ask you if you want a tip, And
I'm like no, because I didn't get any service. I mean,
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you did pop the top because they have to open
it for you, but beyond that, and I'm just seeing
that that's prevalent everywhere. So this weekend I got to
go to lunch with my little brother and we went
to this brewery and you sit down, a waitress does
not come to seat or a server does not come
to help you. They have the QR code where you
look at them in you and then you order on
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your phone and then they tell you to pay for
it on your phone and want you to tip before
they ever bring you anything.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I hate that. I'm like, are you a kidding. I've
never run into that before. It's like in every airport now, sadly,
where you tip before you get served. Sadly. Yes, Lax
has it?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Okay? Are you okay with this? I mean, is it?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And then I thought about it and I hadn't seen
it at LAX because I blew out of Burbank.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
But I was thinking, well, they do that on door
dash and they.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Said that that's actually a problem because if you don't tip,
then the door dash driver might not be quite as
expedient in getting your food, tea or something. But is
this okay? And so I think it's so stupid and
out of line. I can't believe that they're asking you
to pay and tip before they bring you your food.
And this isn't a sit down restaurant. This isn't it
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a walk up and pay like a fast food place
where you pay before you get your food. But it's
a sit down where you actually have somebody who's bringing
your food and then you tip based on that service.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Is this okay? Or is this over the top?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I want to hear which you think you can weigh
in on the talkback if you're on the iHeartRadio app.
It's the microphone up in the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
What do you think? Is it okay?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Are we overreacting to this or is this completely out
of control? Is tipping before you get your food and
you're paying for service?
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Is that okay? Is it okay? I don't think so,
but I want to hear what you think.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Congressional Budget Office has published a final cost estimate for
the One Big Beautiful Bill. The CBO analysis estimates it
will increase the federal deficit by about three point four
trillion dollars and cause more than ten million Americans to
lose health insurance within the next decade. White House Press
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Secretary Caroline Levitt says the government stands by the bill.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
The President wants to see this country get our fiscal
house in order.
Speaker 12 (10:53):
That's why this was a fiscally responsible bill.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
She says, it'll bring good results to the American economy.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies is keeping up his push
for the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein. ABC's
Mary Bruce says Jeffries claims Democrats are not trying to
fan the flames of the controversy.
Speaker 13 (11:13):
The President has ordered the Justice Department to ask the
courts to release grand jury testimony in the case, but
he's stopped short of telling DOJ to release the full
Epstein files as promised.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
She says the president's change of mind on the files
has amped up scrutiny of his own friendship with Epstein.
More extreme heat is on the way this week in
many parts of the US as we move into the
hottest time of the year, but meteorologist Gingerzy says southern
California is not one of them.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
The extreme heat warning for day two or three focused
in on Memphis, Little Rock, Kansas City, right down the
Mississippi River. Some of the fields likes could go up
to one hundred and eleven yikes.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Most of southern California can expect hies in the lot
mid eighties for the next couple of days, very nice weather.
The Sheriff's office in Jacksonville, Florida, says it's investigating video
of a black man being beaten by deputies.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
The viral video shows.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Twenty two year old William McNeil, Junior pulled over and
arrested during a traffic stop back in February.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Sheriff T. K. Water says he found out about it
while he was in church on Sunday.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
These administrative reviews are ongoing, but the state Attorney's office
has determined that none of the involved officers violated criminal law.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
McNeil's attorneys say he was beaten for asking why he
was being arrested. Hunter Biden has walked back comments he
made on a YouTube interview about his father taking ambion
before last year's presidential debate. ABC's Nicole Antonio says the
younger Biden now claims he wasn't saying his father took
the sleep aiit immediately before the debate.
Speaker 14 (12:43):
Adding I have no idea whether or not he used
ambient while traveling through multiple time zones in the weeks
leading up to the debate. My point was that his
debate performance was completely out of character, then and now.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Hunter Biden gave the interview a year after his father
ended his re election campaign under pressure with in his
own party and Paris's people can now swim in the
river for the first time in more than a century.
Speaker 15 (13:07):
A two point three billion dollar cleanup campaign for the
River Senn began after Paris was awarded last year's Summer Olympics.
It had been shut down for swimming since nineteen twenty
three because of pollution levels. By the time the Games
came around last year, the sin was clean enough for
the Mayor of Paris to swim in and hold some
swim competitions, including the triathlon. Some swimmers did apparently get sick,
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but one year later, three locations have opened up with
lifeguards and changing facilities for the general public to wade
around in the water, just like their great grandparents did
more than a century ago. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No thanks, I think I go to stay out of it.
Which just floated by me?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, okay, you know what. Will Smith homered twice last
night show. Hey Otani showed off his power both on
the mound and at the plates.
Speaker 16 (13:53):
The two to one and Otani bless it tosses are bad.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That ball is wak.
Speaker 16 (14:00):
Toll the batter's eye.
Speaker 17 (14:04):
We got our unicorns siding in Los Angeles. Two strikeouts
in the top of the first and they go ahead
blast in the bottom of the first the two one Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Sorry about that. The Dodgers went on to win at
five to two.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
They remain at the top of the National League West,
in front of the Padres by three and a half
games and the Giants by seven. Tonight, the Dodgers take
on the Twins at Dodgers Stadium. First pitch goes out
at seven o'clock. You can listen to all the Dodger
games on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from
the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream all Dodgers games
in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five to
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seventy LA Sports. Charges expected to be filed today against
the driver who allegedly intentionally plowed into a crowd outside
a nightclub in East Hollywood. Fully say Fernando Ramirez drove
into the crowd after he got kicked out of the
club early Saturday morning. Three dozen people were injured. One
is in still critical but stable condition. Federal prosecutors and
(15:03):
defense attorneys of greed former OC supervisor Andrew Doe should
have to pay between eight hundred and just over eight
hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars in restitution for his
bribery scheme. A restitution hearing is set for August eleventh.
He's expected to start serving a five year sentence in
that case in mid August. A new Tesla diner and
supercharger station is open in Hollywood. It features eighty fast
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charging stations and a restaurant with robots serving food which
comes in cyber shaped or cyber truck shaped boxes. The
restaurant also has a rooftop dining area with a bar
and movie screens. I wonder if you have to tip
the robots. Hey, getting some great responses on the talkback.
If you want to weigh in on whether it's asking
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to tip and pay before you ever get food at
a sit down restaurant, not a fast food restaurant necessarily,
but a sit down restaurant. Is that okay?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Or is that just over the top?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
All right, Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller
in Jerusalem. Jordana, Israel's feeling a lot of pressure. What
was the latest strike that or was the latest strike
that killed the Catholics?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
And impetus for that renewed pressure that they're feeling.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Well, Israel's under pressure because the last few days have
we've seen strikes that did not target a Catholic church
in Gaza, but it looks like some air and fire
hit this church, damaged the church. It was something that
upset not only President Trump, but the Pope and the
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Israelly Prime minister put out a statement, you know, and
even spoke with the Pope personally.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
On the phone.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
But that was just the beginning. Then we saw the Israelis, well,
the Israeli Prime Minister, you know, ordering strikes in Damascus
and in southern Syria because of some tribal fighting going
on there that were that ended up killing dozens of
(17:07):
Drus that's an ethnic minority in Syria. But on the
other side of the border in Israel, there's a very
large Jruis community. There are citizens of Israel, and the
Israelis had pledged to protect their cousins and family members
on the other side of the border. But the Prime
Minister here didn't really loop in President Trump about that.
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So he was very upset about about that issue. And
then we saw on Sunday dozens of Palestinians killed once
again as they tried to get food, this time from
a convoy of un AID trucks. You know, the Israeli army.
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It seems now almost every day is opening fire when
they say some of the thousands of hungary and desperate
Palestinians are a threatening their troops or going out of
this corridor, you know, to go approach these aid points,
and they're turning you know into what I think justifiably
(18:12):
people are calling killing fields, and it's you know, it
is outrageous really that this is going on day after
day for more than six weeks now that the Israeli
Army has not figured out a way to make this
a safer system. And you know, there's now almost a
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thousand people, a thousand gossins that have been killed over
the last seven weeks trying to get aid, whether it's
from UN Sights or from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which
is that new system which is really not up to
scale even though it is delivering food, and there's it's
really chaos at those stations as well.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, and it just like.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You just said, you would think after that long of
a time they would figure something out, because if they're
feeling threatened and they're firing on the people who are
desperate to get food, I mean, there's got to be
a way to get this done, because it's not Hamas,
that's attacking, I mean the Israelis. It's the Palestinians who
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are trying to get food, right.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Right, Well, so the Israeli army is opening fire what
appears to be a kind of way to do crowd control,
but it's also turning very deadly. And they say they're
firing warning shots and some people humas you know, they're
likely also firing. You know, the Israeli Army is not
the only actor in Gaza with deadly weapons, right. But
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the point here is that this system is proving day
after day to be a bad system, a dangerous system,
and in humane system, and a deadly system, and it
really should be shut down and there needs to be
an alternate system for getting aid in where people aren't
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dying every day going to get aid. It's great to
put out a press release and say we've we you know,
we disseminated a million meals today. That's fantastic. But for
the fifty sixty or seventy families who lose, who lose
a mother or a brother or a dad who went
out to get food. You know, how does how do
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those two pictures, you know, how do they line up
one next to the other, right, so you know this
is this is a bad system first and foremost there's
outrage about it. But you know, I think as a
reporter covering this war, this is really one of the
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darkest parts of this war, is this system that is
clearly very dangerous, and it's all happening on the backdrop
of Gods the ceasefire talks which are stalled, and I
think many people here are really looking to President Trump
again and his team to come to the region and
put pressure on the Israeli Prime Minister and Hamas to
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finally cut a deal. There's major disputes about where the
Israeli armies going to withdraw to their redeployment during the ceasefire,
and you know, the size of God to come out
up with a compromise. You know, if they don't, I
think pressure is just going to increase on the Israeli
Prime Minister, who looks like he's just stalling for time
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until his government, until there's a recess and his coalition
survives until the fall, right because Israel's parliament is going
to go on break in just a few days.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Okay, Well, we will be watching to see if there's
any movement, and hope that there is ABC's Jordana Miller
in Jerusalem. Thanks as always for the information.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Thanks all right.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
The CEO of the LA Homeless Services Authority, Alicia Adams Keller,
we'll officially step down on Friday. It comes three months
after she said she'd be quitting. Adams Kellum announced her
resignation in April when the La County Board of Supervisors
voted to strip LASA of more than three hundred million
dollars and set up a new county Department of Homelessness
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on its own. Mayor Bass credits adams Kellum with setting
up inside Safe, a program to resolve street caps and
to get people into temporary housing. The Trump administration has
released more than two hundred and forty thousand pages of
records related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior.
King's family opposed the release. Reverend Al Sharpton called it
(22:38):
a desperate attempt to distract from the Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
We're chasing something from decades ago while they're avoiding talking
about releasing files from today. I think this is as
absolutely outrageous as one can can imagine. To do this
to doctor King's family, who've suffered so much.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The director of National and Teens Elligence. Chelsea Gabbard says
the documents detail the FBI's investigation, discussion of potential leads,
information about assassin James Earl Ray's former cellmate, and more.
California now shares the highest unemployment rate in the US
with Nevada at almost five and a half percent. That's
above the national average of just over four percent.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Numbers aren't showing an increase.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
So much in layoffs, but we are seeing that employers
are putting in advance or freezing hiring decisions.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Michael Verdick is a former head of California's labor department.
He says things like hiring costs, tariff uncertainties, immigration, and
AI might be influencing the job market. Despite some job
growth in private education and health services, California lost sixty
one hundred jobs overall in June. More people might lose
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jobs if they keep asking to tip before you pay.
I don't know is that going to lead to job losses?
Who knows, but we have had several people weigh in
about going to a sit down restaurant and being asked
to one order yourself on an iPad or on your
phone and then pay for it. And tip before you
get any service.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Is this okay? Or is this just over the top
and out of line? We want to hear what you
have to say.
Speaker 18 (24:20):
Funny and brought this topic up because yesterday I was
at a fast food place that has touch pads for
ordering and they ask you right away how.
Speaker 19 (24:31):
Much do you want to tip?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Right right?
Speaker 16 (24:34):
I mean, you haven't even paid for.
Speaker 20 (24:35):
Your food and they're wanting to tip.
Speaker 18 (24:37):
I know, maybe it's different with fast food.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Good morning. I don't tip at the counter after I've
had my meal.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
I leave a cash tip on the table if I'm
very satisfied with their service.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Okay, But here's the thing with this place. They wouldn't
start bringing your food until after you'd pay and either
left a tip or didn't, so you didn't have the
you didn't have the option. I guess you could leave
more at the end, but they wouldn't even serve you
until then.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is this over the top or is this just the
way that we're going to be doing business now? We'd
love to hear from you on the talk back, just
on the iHeartRadio app, just that little microphone in the
upper right hand corner and way in we'd love to hear.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We're getting in your Business with Courtney Donahoe and more
of today's news.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Get you up to date before you start your day
and head out the door.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Lots of people have lots to say about tipping, want
to say that, and so we asked you. You know,
is it okay to ask for a tip at a
sit down restaurant before you ever get served? Want to
hear what you have to say. You can weigh in
on the iHeartRadio app. Just click on that little microphone
in the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Hit us up, let us know what you think.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Good morning, Gabe King.
Speaker 19 (25:59):
In my family as high doesn't hike.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yes, tipping is absolutely out of control.
Speaker 19 (26:06):
There's no reason for it.
Speaker 20 (26:08):
They want too much for absolutely nothing that they do.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Ree did fill it up.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
To get.
Speaker 20 (26:17):
Yo.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
I think it's an airport and people are gonna leave
to catch their plane, and they could leave before paying
and or tipping. Okay, so if they pay first, what
makes you think that they're gonna leave a tip if
they're running out to catch a plane.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, So I'll give you that one. I'll give you
that one. That does make sense because a lot of
people would just take off if they have to. But yeah,
we ran into this where we ordered and then we
had to order ourselves on our phones, and then we
had to pay, and then we had to tip before
they ever.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Brought anything out, and then after that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I will say the service wasn't great, but we'd love
to hear what you have to say as well.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Here's what we're.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Following in the Cave twenty four Hour Newsroom. Governor Newsom
says he'll make a decision on whether he thinks Eric
and Lyle Menendez should get out of prison by Labor Day.
The Menendez brothers' attorneys are asking Newsom to commute their
client's life without parole sentences to fifty years to life
in prison. That would pretty much make him eligible for parole.
State Parole Board hearing for the brothers is scheduled next month.
(27:20):
The Pomota Freeway seventh Avenue interchange in Hacienda Heights has
been dedicated as the Deputy Michael Richard Aaruda Memorial Interchange
in memory of the Industry Sheriff's station deputy who was
accidentally killed by a colleague during a shootout at the
Motel six in Hacienda Heights. The man best known as
theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show has died. Malcolm Jamal
(27:43):
Warner drown while swimming in Costa Rica Sunday afternoon. Officials
say he was swimming at Playa Cochlis in Lemon Province
when he got caught in what appears to have been
a rip current. Malcolm Jamal Warner was fifty four. Let's
get back to some of the stories come out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Coalition for Humane
(28:03):
Immigrant Rights in La or CHURLA says federal Immigration Enforcement
agents have done four hundred and seventy operations in the
LA area and focused on neighborhoods with a high population
of Latinos and people of color. TURLA says the stats
are based on its analysis of ice raids it started
in early June. It says it used a heat map
to break down raids reported to the LA Rapid Response
(28:26):
Network and it shows that Trump administration is racially profiling.
The owner of the La Times says he is taking
the paper public. Doctor Patrick schun Chung made the announcement
on The Daily Show with John Stewart yesterday. Says it's
going to happen in the next year. Earlier this year,
more than twenty percent of the La Times newsroom staff
was laid off, and the White House has escalated its
(28:48):
battle with the Wall Street Journal over a story last
week regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
A Journal reporter has been banished from Air Force One
for President Trump's upcoming trip to Scotland because of what
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called the paper's faith and defamatory conduct.
Frump sued the Journal for libel over its story reporting
he wrote a sexually suggestive note to his former friend,
child sex offender and alleged trafficker Epstein for his birthday
more than two decades ago. Trump denis writing the letter.
(29:12):
A CBS News poll shows eighty nine percent of Americans
believe the Justice Department should release all Epstein documents. Mark
Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We're going to be talking to ABC Stephen Portnoy about
those Epstein documents and whether there's going to be more
pressure to release them. Right now, though, it's time to
get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Good morning, busy morning here on Wall Street.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
It's always a busy morning. So let's jump right in.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And what do you got with a British pharmaceutical company
planning to invest a lot of money in the US.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Oh yes, A lot of European drug makers have been
rushing to highlight how much they're investing in America. Had
a potential tariffs on imported medicines. Now Astrazenica stepping up
with plans to plow fifty billion dollars into the US
before twenty thirty. The money will go toward MENA manufacturing
as well as research and development. But earlier this year,
Nevaradas announced twenty three billion dollars in US spending, Roche
(30:07):
said it would add fifty billion dollars to our economy,
and French drugmaker's son A Fee said it will spend
twenty billion dollars in the US. While President Trump, as
we have talked about, has proposed various timelines for tariff's
on pharmaceuticals, most recently floating duties that would start as
soon as August first.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Oh boy.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, So that's why a lot of these companies are saying, hey,
look at how much we're spending in the US.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Please don't terrify, don't please don't tariff US.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes, okay, uh Coca Cola, Oh we heard this was
coming out. The President announced it that Coca Cola is
going to start making coke with sugar instead of hi
fruit toast corn syrup.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Now this morning they're actually giving us a date, so
this is real.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
So Coca Cola says it.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Plans to launch a new coke product made with American
cane sugar this coming fall. So some people were saying,
are they going to replace the old coke or are
they going to come up with the brand new product.
Seems like they're coming up with this brand new product.
But this comes less than a week after President Trump
posted on truth Social that he spoke with the company
(31:11):
about this and the company agreed to this. Coca Cola
has always used hyproctose corn syrup, well not always, but
for many years has used that and that's been cheaper
than cane sugar. But one thing that Coca Cola did
notice is Mexican coke, which is made with cane sugar,
and that has gained a cult following here in the US.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
So I wonder if they're gonna call it, because you know,
when they came out with coke before it was like
new Coke and Coke zero or are they going to.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Remember that travesty?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, I wonder if.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Maybe they should call it Mexico coke or is it
Australia or New Zealand also uses the cane sugar, so
maybe they'll call it New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Whatever.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
But it still seems that people, no matter what, our
drinking coke. Along with this announcement, they did announce that
they post a quarterly sales that beat Wall Street expectations.
People are still drinking coke. Even though it's gotten a
little more expensive. People are still paying these higher prices
for the companies. You're right, a lot more expensive. People
are still paying these high prices for the company's soft drinks.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Right, And it'll be interesting to see what happens to
coke too now that costco is switching from pepsi over
to coke.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
That's happening because that's a big driver anywhere Costco is
is always a big driver.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay, And speaking of coke, actually it's coco coca. Cocoa
prices are crushing the chocolate maker Lint.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Yes, so the Swiss company they raise prices this year,
but they worked in a different way because customers actually
bought less traits as a result, a lind push through
more than fifteen percent price increase in the first half
of the year, but it did see a four point
six percent drop in volume in the first half of
the year, which one analyst noted was worse for the
(32:49):
company than the wake of the two thousand and eight
financial crisis and the COVID outbreak. So Coco futures, to
put it all in perspective, have more than doubled over
the past two years. We did see some poor harvest
and that's one of the reasons why. But it has
definitely been upending the chocolate industry. We've been seeing that
with Nesli and other rivals too well.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And I wonder if that's all tied into and this
is just speculation, will go VI and ozempic too, Oh yes, yes,
it kills you things for stuff, right.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Yeah, not that interested in chocolate, But I don't know
even if I had it, I'll probably figure out a
way to still like chocolate no matter what.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Yeah, because lint chocolate is so good, all right, getting.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
In your business, getting in your business every day like
we do with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. We'll do it again
tomorrow at the same time. Thanks Courtney, have a fabulous day,
Talk to you later. The LAPD has beefed up patrols
in Encino following the shooting deaths of an American Idol
music supervisor and her husband in their home. At a
community meeting last night, a couple hundred residents demanded to
(33:50):
know why the guy who is accused of the shooting
was out of custody after he was arrested last year
on threat, weapons and battery charges.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Those were later dismissed.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Some civil rights activists have criticized the release of Martin
Luther King Junior's assassination files. Reverend Al Sharpton called it
a desperate attempt to distract the firestorm over Trump for
not unseiling files over Jeffrey Epstein's death. Atlanta's King Center
called it ill timed. The Trump administration released thousands of
(34:23):
pages yesterday, all related to King's death in nineteen sixty eight.
More than a billion people have now visited Disneyland and
California Adventure Park. Disney doesn't announce attendance numbers, but trade
magazines estimate the billionth visitor passed through the main gate
sometime in February of this year. Ah could have been me.
(34:43):
Theme park industry experts say, what have happened earlier? But
COVID shut down the parks for more than a year,
coming at six oh five its handle on the news.
Malcolm Jamal Warner has died. Remember he was Bill Cosby's
son in The Cosby Show fifty four years old. We've
been asking you whether you think it's okay to be
(35:04):
asked to tip before you get service at a sit
down restaurant. This is not will coal driver is yelling
no in the background, and we want to hear what
you have to say, So if you'd like to weigh
in on the talkback, we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Here's just a couple of things that people have had
to say.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Hey, and tip before you even freaking eat.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
That's just completely uncalled for and rude.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Good morning.
Speaker 20 (35:28):
This is Scott from Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Thanks Scott. I miss it when you're not there.
Speaker 11 (35:33):
I think that tipping is terrible.
Speaker 19 (35:35):
I think they should do more likelyft than.
Speaker 11 (35:39):
Uber.
Speaker 17 (35:41):
They tell you how much it's going to cost, then
they give you a chance to tip if you want.
Speaker 11 (35:45):
Have a great day. Hey, good morning. Absolutely not.
Speaker 17 (35:51):
I mean the reasoning behind.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Tipping is if you get great service.
Speaker 20 (35:57):
So what if you tip and pay before you get
your food and.
Speaker 11 (36:01):
The service is bad?
Speaker 21 (36:02):
Yeah, I mean, come on, this is getting out of hand.
Speaker 22 (36:07):
So no, no, I would never pay a tip before
service was rendered. In fact, I rarely tip anymore period.
It's out of control, out of control.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
One more for you, good.
Speaker 22 (36:22):
Morning, Amy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I think this tipping is getting out of hand, right.
Everybody has their hand out for just grabbing your food
in a fast food place. Next thing you know, we
will be tipping our bagger at the State of Brothers
for bagging our food. I definitely don't tip my guy
at gif Loop for changing my oil and he's doing
(36:46):
the same kind.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Of service, right, I don't disagree with that. I don't
disagree with that, but yeah, I just had this experience.
If you're just joining us, had this experience. So we
went to a brewery over the weekend with my brother
and we sat down and we had to do the
QR code and order ourself, and then we had to pay,
and we had to tip before they brought anything out.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
See, and they didn't even come by to ask you
what you wanted. You had to do the QR code right, so.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
They're serving less and then it took I mean the
food was good, but it was like, yeah, won't be
going there ever.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Again.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Pentagon is
pulling the Marines out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
They were deployed there in response to anti immigration enforcement
protests across the region. The announcement comes a week after
the Defense Department said half of nearly four thousand National
Guard troops deployed to the LA area would be recalled
as well. They had been deployed to protect a federal
buildings and personnel.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Mark Mayfield KOFI news ATF and FBI investigators have searched
a second location, possibly tied to the explosion that killed
three La Keunty Sheriff's deputies in East LA. They searched
a boat and a car yesterday in Marina del Rey.
They were at an apartment complex in Santa Monica last
(38:05):
week where some hand grenades were found. One of them
exploded Friday at the Sheriff's training facility where explosives experts
plan to safely detonate them. The remains of a US
Army private killed in the Korean War, which had been
buried among unknown soldiers, are being returned to the Inland Empire.
Jack McWilliam Cash was killed in nineteen fifty during the
(38:26):
Second Battle of Nocton Bulge. Inland Empire residents are invited
to pay a tribute to him by lining the route
that the hearst will take this afternoon from the Ontario
International Airport to the funeral home in Kalamsa. Investors are
buying up homes in California.
Speaker 19 (38:44):
New research shows that about nineteen percent of homes in
the state are owned by investors. That puts California at
number thirty six among the nation. Meantime, nearly half of
the people in California rent. That number suggests that that's
because single family homes come with an average price tag
around eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Jason Campadonia KFI
(39:05):
News under sixty okay.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
President Trump has weighed in on the case of.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
The man who pleaded guilty to killing four University of
Idaho students in twenty twenty two. Brian Coburger, said to
be sentenced tomorrow. ABC's Alex Stones's. President Trump has asked
the judge to force Coburger to explain why.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
He did it.
Speaker 16 (39:23):
Prosecutors say it cannot be forced because that was not
part of the deal. The family of murder victim Kayley
can solve as his thanking President Trump saying a confession
without clarity does not bring peace.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
As part of his plea deal, Coburger is expected to
get four life terms in prison for murder, plus ten
additional years for burglary. More than half of Americans say
they believe the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill will raise
their health care costs.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
A new cbsug of poll shows fifty seven percent of
respondents a Republicans sweeping bill will increase their health care
costs will, thirteen percent said it'll lower them, and thirty
three percent said there'll be no impact. Polling also found
six point ten disapprove of the Megabill, which permanently extends
many temporary tax cuts while making deep cuts to MEDICAIDS,
SNAP and other safety net programs. Fifty six percent of
(40:10):
those surveyed say they tie issues regarding the Megabills significantly
to how they evaluate President Trump's second term. Mark Roner
KFI News a.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
New study shows more Americans are changing how they deal
with their money.
Speaker 23 (40:23):
New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money
from checking in savings accounts into other things that pay
an investment income. The analysis by the JP Morgan Chase
Institute examine the accounts of four point seven million households.
It found that people's total cash reserves are increasing after
including brokerage accounts, money market funds, and certificates of deposit
(40:45):
to assess people's well being. Officials say that this helps
explain the strong consumer spending even though checking in savings
account balances were below historical trends. Deborah Mark KFI News.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Swimming is off limits at four beaches in La County
because of high bacteria levels in the ocean water. People
are being advised to stay out of the water at
the Santa Monica Pier, Walnut Creek, at Paradise Cove, Mother's
Beach in Marina del Rey, in the area near the
Castle Rock Storm Drain at Tapanga County Beach. A previous
warning for Topanga Canyon Beach in Malibu has been lifted.
(41:21):
A new Tesla diner and supercharger station is opened in Hollywood.
Speaker 21 (41:25):
The two story facility officially opened on Monday. It features
eighty fast charging stations, two movie screens, and a restaurant
with robots serving food which comes in cyber truck shaped boxes.
The restaurant also has a rooftop dining area with a
bar in theater style seating. This could serve as a
prototype for future Tesla diners and other cities. Daniel Martindale
(41:45):
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, we got one more person weighing in on the talkback.
Thank you for you know, letting us know what you're thinking.
We appreciate that. About whether tipping should be expected before
you ever get service again, This happened to my brother
and I at a restaurant was like a brewery over
the weekend, and we had to order our own food
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on our phone by using the QR code to get
a menu, and then we had to pay, and we
had to tip before they even brought a drink out.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
So what do you think of.
Speaker 20 (42:17):
That, Hi, Amy? I know the theme of the day
is tipping, but there's this one restaurant that really ticks
me off because at the end of the meal, when
they bring your check, they add three percent to your bill.
Just boom. I asked them why, and they said, oh,
it's so we can afford to pay our employees a
living wage. And my response is, raise your prices and
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reprint your menus. I expected to pay a certain amount
of money, not a certain amount of money plus three percent.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
I don't disagree with that at all.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I've had that happen and it was at a lovely
little restaurant that I never went back to because I'm like,
it's not is that my job?
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Like, yeah, I agree with him.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Raise your prices, make them reflect, but don't tell me
that I should pay more than what I need to
pay because I need to pay for their living Raise
pay your own employee.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Take care of your people.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, take care of your people. I'm not, but let
that be the lesson of the day. Take care of
your people. And with that wake up call is we're done.
We're done, but handle on. The news is coming up next.
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Got to tell
you they get ready to weigh in on the talkback
because I got something I got to talk about. Thanks
to Michael Monks for filling in for me yesterday. I
just got back from a weekend in my hometown and
went home to celebrate the life of a friend, Kimmy
(01:17):
from high school. She was one of my best friends
after high school, maid of honor in her wedding.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
So it was a sad, sad weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But a wonderful celebration of life, a life that was
cut short but was so well lived. So yeah, anyway,
here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The seven hundred
Marines deployed in Los Angeles since early June are going
to be leaving the city. The Pentagon confirmed the decision yesterday.
They've been in LA along with thousands of California National
(01:46):
Guard troops to protect federal buildings and officers from anti
Ice Raid protesters. The investigation into an explosion that killed
three La Kenny Sheriff's deputies in East LA has turned
to Marina del Rey, where investigators served a search warrant
at a boat docked in the marina. It's unclear what,
if anything, was recovered.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
More than half of.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Americans say they believe the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill
is going to raise their healthcare costs. A new cbsu
Go poll found six ten disapprove of the megabill that
makes tax cuts permanent and cuts access for Medicaid SNAP
and other safety programs of safety net programs, including to
people in the country illegally. It also adds a work
(02:29):
requirement for some who get Medicaid well. The countries are
lining up to tell Israel to stop its war in
the Gaza Strip. ABC's Jordana Miller's going to join us
at five point twenty give us the latest on how
the pressure is mounting. At five point fifty, is Congress
going to put the screws on to try to get
more information about the Jeffrey Epstein files. ABC's Stephen Portnoy
(02:50):
is going to join us again. That's at five point fifty.
You've heard me complain about the prevalence of tipping and
how it's everywhere and you're being expected to tip four everything. Well,
this one took it to a whole new level and
it is, in my humble opinion, over the top and
out of line. I'm gonna be telling you about that
in just a couple of minutes. Let's get started, though,
(03:12):
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
The LAPD has.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Increased patrols in Encino following the murders of an American
Idol music supervisor and her husband in their home. DA
Nathan Hawkman says the killer used the couple's own gun
to kill them earlier this month.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Their bodies were found last week, and.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Sinow Neighborhood Council Vice President Roy Noasse says the alleged
killer should not have been on the streets.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
The neighborhood is really upset and scared and nervous about
what happened and why was this person arrested several times
before and then let out again to commit this awful crime.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Da Hawkman says the accused killer was caught because he
used his cell phone to call police and even gave
his name. Charges are expected to be announced today against
the man accused of driving into a crowd of people
outside a club in East Hollywood. At least three dozen
people were hurt in the crash early Saturday morning. Witnesses
pulled the driver out of his car and started beating him,
(04:11):
then one guy shot him. The driver was taken to
the hospital and later was arrested. He had apparently been
kicked out of the club before the crash. The Pentagon
says seven hundred active duty Marines sent to LA are
being withdrawn. Earlier this month, about half of the four
thousand California National Guard troops sent to the city were
sent home. LA Mayor Bath says she wants all of
(04:31):
the troops out of LA.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
They were never needed in the first place.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
It was a misuse of our troops.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The military was sent to LA to help with enforcements
for immigration. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued the
Trump administration for the thirty fourth time in twenty six weeks.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's a lot of lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The latest lawsuit is over the administration's decision to restrict
illegal immigrants from accessing public benefit programs. Una says he's
seen this playbook before.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Dropt fier so chaos and confusion, push through unlawful last
minute rules, punish the most.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Vulnerable among us, and leave the states to clean up
the mess. He said.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
The head Start program is at risk as it offers
childcare services for low income people, adult education, and mental
health services, among other safety net programs. Tributes have been
pouring in for actor Malcolm Jamal Warner, including from Jersey City.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Throught fear so kea the Cosby Show.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Actor had many fans in Jersey City because that's where
the future Theodore Huxtable was born. One expressing a universal
feeling simply that Malcolm Jamal Warner made an impact on
how they saw themselves back in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
It was cool to see black figures like that on TV,
especially at a time where everything is very wholesome.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
The fifty four year old reportedly drowned Sunday while vacationing
in Costa Rica. He'd recently been hosting the podcast Not
All Hood.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I'm Sarah le Kess.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So I mentioned to you that I went up to Medford,
Oregon for the weekend. My friend Kimmy passed away about
a month ago, and they just held the celebration of
life service. So I went to that and it was
beautiful and sad, but wow, a life well lived. And
you know, I was really waffling on whether to go
(06:22):
or not. And you know, because I had just been
up there for my vacation. I took my vacation up
to Oregon for my mom's eighty fifth birthday, and anyway,
I wasn't sure if I should go or you know,
if I had the time to go.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
And luckily, everybody here at I heard, all the.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Bosses and stuff were wonderful and they're like, of course go,
and I'm so glad I went. I mean, nobody wants
to go to these things, and you know, some people
are like, I don't want to go to the funeral
or the celebration of life because I want to remember
them how they were.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Well this was part of how they were. You know,
my only regret.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
My sadness in all of this, of course, is losing
a friend, but it was that I wasn't able to
get there before she passed away.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So she but anyway, and.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Then we had, you know, these kinds of things spark conversations.
And I was talking to one of my friends and
he said, you know what, never let a moment pass.
And I think that that's a good reminder, like reach
out to that person who you haven't talked to, who
you've been thinking about and stuff. I got to see
Kimmy a couple months ago and spend time with her,
and I got to steer it at Christmas, and then
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her mom and I were talking after the service and
she said, do you know that Kimmy spent her last
Fourth of July with you? And I was like, wow,
I didn't even think of that because we got together
last summer at this time and so like so many
special moments, So don't put it off.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Reach out.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's that's my takeaway from this again, and all the sadness,
there's also happiness because it was such a life well lived.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Okay, now I'm going to move on to Oh now
let's move on.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So you know how tipping has gotten out of control,
and we've complained about it.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I've complained about it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Like you go to a Dodger's game, which I love,
and you go to get.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
A beer, as you would do with your Dodger dog.
Speaker 11 (08:09):
An hand you.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No, they don't even hand it to you. A can
of beer that you wait in line for, and then
you go and reach into the refrigerator yourself. You pick
out your beer, you carry it up to the counter,
you give it to the person. They charge you for it,
and then ask you if you want a tip, And
I'm like no, because I didn't get any service. I mean,
(08:32):
you did pop the top because they have to open
it for you, but beyond that, and I'm just seeing
that that's prevalent everywhere. So this weekend I got to
go to lunch with my little brother and we went
to this brewery and you sit down, a waitress does
not come to seat or a server does not come
to help you. They have the QR code where you
look at them in you and then you order on
(08:55):
your phone and then they tell you to pay for
it on your phone and want you to tip before
they ever bring you anything.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I hate that. I'm like, are you a kidding. I've
never run into that before. It's like in every airport now, sadly,
where you tip before you get served. Sadly. Yes, Lax
has it?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Okay? Are you okay with this? I mean, is it?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And then I thought about it and I hadn't seen
it at LAX because I blew out of Burbank.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
But I was thinking, well, they do that on door
dash and they.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Said that that's actually a problem because if you don't tip,
then the door dash driver might not be quite as
expedient in getting your food, tea or something. But is
this okay? And so I think it's so stupid and
out of line. I can't believe that they're asking you
to pay and tip before they bring you your food.
And this isn't a sit down restaurant. This isn't it
(09:48):
a walk up and pay like a fast food place
where you pay before you get your food. But it's
a sit down where you actually have somebody who's bringing
your food and then you tip based on that service.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Is this okay? Or is this over the top?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I want to hear which you think you can weigh
in on the talkback if you're on the iHeartRadio app.
It's the microphone up in the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
What do you think? Is it okay?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Are we overreacting to this or is this completely out
of control? Is tipping before you get your food and
you're paying for service?
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Is that okay? Is it okay? I don't think so,
but I want to hear what you think.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Congressional Budget Office has published a final cost estimate for
the One Big Beautiful Bill. The CBO analysis estimates it
will increase the federal deficit by about three point four
trillion dollars and cause more than ten million Americans to
lose health insurance within the next decade. White House Press
(10:47):
Secretary Caroline Levitt says the government stands by the bill.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
The President wants to see this country get our fiscal
house in order.
Speaker 12 (10:53):
That's why this was a fiscally responsible bill.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
She says, it'll bring good results to the American economy.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies is keeping up his push
for the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein. ABC's
Mary Bruce says Jeffries claims Democrats are not trying to
fan the flames of the controversy.
Speaker 13 (11:13):
The President has ordered the Justice Department to ask the
courts to release grand jury testimony in the case, but
he's stopped short of telling DOJ to release the full
Epstein files as promised.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
She says the president's change of mind on the files
has amped up scrutiny of his own friendship with Epstein.
More extreme heat is on the way this week in
many parts of the US as we move into the
hottest time of the year, but meteorologist Gingerzy says southern
California is not one of them.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
The extreme heat warning for day two or three focused
in on Memphis, Little Rock, Kansas City, right down the
Mississippi River. Some of the fields likes could go up
to one hundred and eleven yikes.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Most of southern California can expect hies in the lot
mid eighties for the next couple of days, very nice weather.
The Sheriff's office in Jacksonville, Florida, says it's investigating video
of a black man being beaten by deputies.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
The viral video shows.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Twenty two year old William McNeil, Junior pulled over and
arrested during a traffic stop back in February.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Sheriff T. K. Water says he found out about it
while he was in church on Sunday.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
These administrative reviews are ongoing, but the state Attorney's office
has determined that none of the involved officers violated criminal law.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
McNeil's attorneys say he was beaten for asking why he
was being arrested. Hunter Biden has walked back comments he
made on a YouTube interview about his father taking ambion
before last year's presidential debate. ABC's Nicole Antonio says the
younger Biden now claims he wasn't saying his father took
the sleep aiit immediately before the debate.
Speaker 14 (12:43):
Adding I have no idea whether or not he used
ambient while traveling through multiple time zones in the weeks
leading up to the debate. My point was that his
debate performance was completely out of character, then and now.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Hunter Biden gave the interview a year after his father
ended his re election campaign under pressure with in his
own party and Paris's people can now swim in the
river for the first time in more than a century.
Speaker 15 (13:07):
A two point three billion dollar cleanup campaign for the
River Senn began after Paris was awarded last year's Summer Olympics.
It had been shut down for swimming since nineteen twenty
three because of pollution levels. By the time the Games
came around last year, the sin was clean enough for
the Mayor of Paris to swim in and hold some
swim competitions, including the triathlon. Some swimmers did apparently get sick,
(13:28):
but one year later, three locations have opened up with
lifeguards and changing facilities for the general public to wade
around in the water, just like their great grandparents did
more than a century ago. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No thanks, I think I go to stay out of it.
Which just floated by me?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, okay, you know what. Will Smith homered twice last
night show. Hey Otani showed off his power both on
the mound and at the plates.
Speaker 16 (13:53):
The two to one and Otani bless it tosses are bad.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That ball is wak.
Speaker 16 (14:00):
Toll the batter's eye.
Speaker 17 (14:04):
We got our unicorns siding in Los Angeles. Two strikeouts
in the top of the first and they go ahead
blast in the bottom of the first the two one Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Sorry about that. The Dodgers went on to win at
five to two.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
They remain at the top of the National League West,
in front of the Padres by three and a half
games and the Giants by seven. Tonight, the Dodgers take
on the Twins at Dodgers Stadium. First pitch goes out
at seven o'clock. You can listen to all the Dodger
games on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from
the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream all Dodgers games
in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five to
(14:40):
seventy LA Sports. Charges expected to be filed today against
the driver who allegedly intentionally plowed into a crowd outside
a nightclub in East Hollywood. Fully say Fernando Ramirez drove
into the crowd after he got kicked out of the
club early Saturday morning. Three dozen people were injured. One
is in still critical but stable condition. Federal prosecutors and
(15:03):
defense attorneys of greed former OC supervisor Andrew Doe should
have to pay between eight hundred and just over eight
hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars in restitution for his
bribery scheme. A restitution hearing is set for August eleventh.
He's expected to start serving a five year sentence in
that case in mid August. A new Tesla diner and
supercharger station is open in Hollywood. It features eighty fast
(15:27):
charging stations and a restaurant with robots serving food which
comes in cyber shaped or cyber truck shaped boxes. The
restaurant also has a rooftop dining area with a bar
and movie screens. I wonder if you have to tip
the robots. Hey, getting some great responses on the talkback.
If you want to weigh in on whether it's asking
(15:49):
to tip and pay before you ever get food at
a sit down restaurant, not a fast food restaurant necessarily,
but a sit down restaurant. Is that okay?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Or is that just over the top?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
All right, Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller
in Jerusalem. Jordana, Israel's feeling a lot of pressure. What
was the latest strike that or was the latest strike
that killed the Catholics?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
And impetus for that renewed pressure that they're feeling.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Well, Israel's under pressure because the last few days have
we've seen strikes that did not target a Catholic church
in Gaza, but it looks like some air and fire
hit this church, damaged the church. It was something that
upset not only President Trump, but the Pope and the
(16:39):
Israelly Prime minister put out a statement, you know, and
even spoke with the Pope personally.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
On the phone.
Speaker 11 (16:47):
But that was just the beginning. Then we saw the Israelis, well,
the Israeli Prime Minister, you know, ordering strikes in Damascus
and in southern Syria because of some tribal fighting going
on there that were that ended up killing dozens of
(17:07):
Drus that's an ethnic minority in Syria. But on the
other side of the border in Israel, there's a very
large Jruis community. There are citizens of Israel, and the
Israelis had pledged to protect their cousins and family members
on the other side of the border. But the Prime
Minister here didn't really loop in President Trump about that.
(17:30):
So he was very upset about about that issue. And
then we saw on Sunday dozens of Palestinians killed once
again as they tried to get food, this time from
a convoy of un AID trucks. You know, the Israeli army.
(17:51):
It seems now almost every day is opening fire when
they say some of the thousands of hungary and desperate
Palestinians are a threatening their troops or going out of
this corridor, you know, to go approach these aid points,
and they're turning you know into what I think justifiably
(18:12):
people are calling killing fields, and it's you know, it
is outrageous really that this is going on day after
day for more than six weeks now that the Israeli
Army has not figured out a way to make this
a safer system. And you know, there's now almost a
(18:33):
thousand people, a thousand gossins that have been killed over
the last seven weeks trying to get aid, whether it's
from UN Sights or from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which
is that new system which is really not up to
scale even though it is delivering food, and there's it's
really chaos at those stations as well.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, and it just like.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You just said, you would think after that long of
a time they would figure something out, because if they're
feeling threatened and they're firing on the people who are
desperate to get food, I mean, there's got to be
a way to get this done, because it's not Hamas,
that's attacking, I mean the Israelis. It's the Palestinians who
(19:15):
are trying to get food, right.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Right, Well, so the Israeli army is opening fire what
appears to be a kind of way to do crowd control,
but it's also turning very deadly. And they say they're
firing warning shots and some people humas you know, they're
likely also firing. You know, the Israeli Army is not
the only actor in Gaza with deadly weapons, right. But
(19:46):
the point here is that this system is proving day
after day to be a bad system, a dangerous system,
and in humane system, and a deadly system, and it
really should be shut down and there needs to be
an alternate system for getting aid in where people aren't
(20:07):
dying every day going to get aid. It's great to
put out a press release and say we've we you know,
we disseminated a million meals today. That's fantastic. But for
the fifty sixty or seventy families who lose, who lose
a mother or a brother or a dad who went
out to get food. You know, how does how do
(20:27):
those two pictures, you know, how do they line up
one next to the other, right, so you know this
is this is a bad system first and foremost there's
outrage about it. But you know, I think as a
reporter covering this war, this is really one of the
(20:48):
darkest parts of this war, is this system that is
clearly very dangerous, and it's all happening on the backdrop
of Gods the ceasefire talks which are stalled, and I
think many people here are really looking to President Trump
again and his team to come to the region and
put pressure on the Israeli Prime Minister and Hamas to
(21:10):
finally cut a deal. There's major disputes about where the
Israeli armies going to withdraw to their redeployment during the ceasefire,
and you know, the size of God to come out
up with a compromise. You know, if they don't, I
think pressure is just going to increase on the Israeli
Prime Minister, who looks like he's just stalling for time
(21:31):
until his government, until there's a recess and his coalition
survives until the fall, right because Israel's parliament is going
to go on break in just a few days.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Okay, Well, we will be watching to see if there's
any movement, and hope that there is ABC's Jordana Miller
in Jerusalem. Thanks as always for the information.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Thanks all right.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
The CEO of the LA Homeless Services Authority, Alicia Adams Keller,
we'll officially step down on Friday. It comes three months
after she said she'd be quitting. Adams Kellum announced her
resignation in April when the La County Board of Supervisors
voted to strip LASA of more than three hundred million
dollars and set up a new county Department of Homelessness
(22:15):
on its own. Mayor Bass credits adams Kellum with setting
up inside Safe, a program to resolve street caps and
to get people into temporary housing. The Trump administration has
released more than two hundred and forty thousand pages of
records related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior.
King's family opposed the release. Reverend Al Sharpton called it
(22:38):
a desperate attempt to distract from the Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
We're chasing something from decades ago while they're avoiding talking
about releasing files from today. I think this is as
absolutely outrageous as one can can imagine. To do this
to doctor King's family, who've suffered so much.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The director of National and Teens Elligence. Chelsea Gabbard says
the documents detail the FBI's investigation, discussion of potential leads,
information about assassin James Earl Ray's former cellmate, and more.
California now shares the highest unemployment rate in the US
with Nevada at almost five and a half percent. That's
above the national average of just over four percent.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Numbers aren't showing an increase.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
So much in layoffs, but we are seeing that employers
are putting in advance or freezing hiring decisions.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Michael Verdick is a former head of California's labor department.
He says things like hiring costs, tariff uncertainties, immigration, and
AI might be influencing the job market. Despite some job
growth in private education and health services, California lost sixty
one hundred jobs overall in June. More people might lose
(23:51):
jobs if they keep asking to tip before you pay.
I don't know is that going to lead to job losses?
Who knows, but we have had several people weigh in
about going to a sit down restaurant and being asked
to one order yourself on an iPad or on your
phone and then pay for it. And tip before you
get any service.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Is this okay? Or is this just over the top
and out of line? We want to hear what you
have to say.
Speaker 18 (24:20):
Funny and brought this topic up because yesterday I was
at a fast food place that has touch pads for
ordering and they ask you right away how.
Speaker 19 (24:31):
Much do you want to tip?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Right right?
Speaker 16 (24:34):
I mean, you haven't even paid for.
Speaker 20 (24:35):
Your food and they're wanting to tip.
Speaker 18 (24:37):
I know, maybe it's different with fast food.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Good morning. I don't tip at the counter after I've
had my meal.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
I leave a cash tip on the table if I'm
very satisfied with their service.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Okay, But here's the thing with this place. They wouldn't
start bringing your food until after you'd pay and either
left a tip or didn't, so you didn't have the
you didn't have the option. I guess you could leave
more at the end, but they wouldn't even serve you
until then.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is this over the top or is this just the
way that we're going to be doing business now? We'd
love to hear from you on the talk back, just
on the iHeartRadio app, just that little microphone in the
upper right hand corner and way in we'd love to hear.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
We're getting in your Business with Courtney Donahoe and more
of today's news.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Get you up to date before you start your day
and head out the door.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Lots of people have lots to say about tipping, want
to say that, and so we asked you. You know,
is it okay to ask for a tip at a
sit down restaurant before you ever get served? Want to
hear what you have to say. You can weigh in
on the iHeartRadio app. Just click on that little microphone
in the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Hit us up, let us know what you think.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Good morning, Gabe King.
Speaker 19 (25:59):
In my family as high doesn't hike.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yes, tipping is absolutely out of control.
Speaker 19 (26:06):
There's no reason for it.
Speaker 20 (26:08):
They want too much for absolutely nothing that they do.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Ree did fill it up.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
To get.
Speaker 20 (26:17):
Yo.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
I think it's an airport and people are gonna leave
to catch their plane, and they could leave before paying
and or tipping. Okay, so if they pay first, what
makes you think that they're gonna leave a tip if
they're running out to catch a plane.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, So I'll give you that one. I'll give you
that one. That does make sense because a lot of
people would just take off if they have to. But yeah,
we ran into this where we ordered and then we
had to order ourselves on our phones, and then we
had to pay, and then we had to tip before
they ever.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Brought anything out, and then after that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I will say the service wasn't great, but we'd love
to hear what you have to say as well.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Here's what we're.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Following in the Cave twenty four Hour Newsroom. Governor Newsom
says he'll make a decision on whether he thinks Eric
and Lyle Menendez should get out of prison by Labor Day.
The Menendez brothers' attorneys are asking Newsom to commute their
client's life without parole sentences to fifty years to life
in prison. That would pretty much make him eligible for parole.
State Parole Board hearing for the brothers is scheduled next month.
(27:20):
The Pomota Freeway seventh Avenue interchange in Hacienda Heights has
been dedicated as the Deputy Michael Richard Aaruda Memorial Interchange
in memory of the Industry Sheriff's station deputy who was
accidentally killed by a colleague during a shootout at the
Motel six in Hacienda Heights. The man best known as
theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show has died. Malcolm Jamal
(27:43):
Warner drown while swimming in Costa Rica Sunday afternoon. Officials
say he was swimming at Playa Cochlis in Lemon Province
when he got caught in what appears to have been
a rip current. Malcolm Jamal Warner was fifty four. Let's
get back to some of the stories come out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Coalition for Humane
(28:03):
Immigrant Rights in La or CHURLA says federal Immigration Enforcement
agents have done four hundred and seventy operations in the
LA area and focused on neighborhoods with a high population
of Latinos and people of color. TURLA says the stats
are based on its analysis of ice raids it started
in early June. It says it used a heat map
to break down raids reported to the LA Rapid Response
(28:26):
Network and it shows that Trump administration is racially profiling.
The owner of the La Times says he is taking
the paper public. Doctor Patrick schun Chung made the announcement
on The Daily Show with John Stewart yesterday. Says it's
going to happen in the next year. Earlier this year,
more than twenty percent of the La Times newsroom staff
was laid off, and the White House has escalated its
(28:48):
battle with the Wall Street Journal over a story last
week regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
A Journal reporter has been banished from Air Force One
for President Trump's upcoming trip to Scotland because of what
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt called the paper's faith and defamatory conduct.
Frump sued the Journal for libel over its story reporting
he wrote a sexually suggestive note to his former friend,
child sex offender and alleged trafficker Epstein for his birthday
more than two decades ago. Trump denis writing the letter.
(29:12):
A CBS News poll shows eighty nine percent of Americans
believe the Justice Department should release all Epstein documents. Mark
Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We're going to be talking to ABC Stephen Portnoy about
those Epstein documents and whether there's going to be more
pressure to release them. Right now, though, it's time to
get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Good morning, busy morning here on Wall Street.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
It's always a busy morning. So let's jump right in.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And what do you got with a British pharmaceutical company
planning to invest a lot of money in the US.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Oh yes, A lot of European drug makers have been
rushing to highlight how much they're investing in America. Had
a potential tariffs on imported medicines. Now Astrazenica stepping up
with plans to plow fifty billion dollars into the US
before twenty thirty. The money will go toward MENA manufacturing
as well as research and development. But earlier this year,
Nevaradas announced twenty three billion dollars in US spending, Roche
(30:07):
said it would add fifty billion dollars to our economy,
and French drugmaker's son A Fee said it will spend
twenty billion dollars in the US. While President Trump, as
we have talked about, has proposed various timelines for tariff's
on pharmaceuticals, most recently floating duties that would start as
soon as August first.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Oh boy.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, So that's why a lot of these companies are saying, hey,
look at how much we're spending in the US.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Please don't terrify, don't please don't tariff US.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yes, okay, uh Coca Cola, Oh we heard this was
coming out. The President announced it that Coca Cola is
going to start making coke with sugar instead of hi
fruit toast corn syrup.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Now this morning they're actually giving us a date, so
this is real.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
So Coca Cola says it.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Plans to launch a new coke product made with American
cane sugar this coming fall. So some people were saying,
are they going to replace the old coke or are
they going to come up with the brand new product.
Seems like they're coming up with this brand new product.
But this comes less than a week after President Trump
posted on truth Social that he spoke with the company
(31:11):
about this and the company agreed to this. Coca Cola
has always used hyproctose corn syrup, well not always, but
for many years has used that and that's been cheaper
than cane sugar. But one thing that Coca Cola did
notice is Mexican coke, which is made with cane sugar,
and that has gained a cult following here in the US.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
So I wonder if they're gonna call it, because you know,
when they came out with coke before it was like
new Coke and Coke zero or are they going to.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Remember that travesty?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, I wonder if.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Maybe they should call it Mexico coke or is it
Australia or New Zealand also uses the cane sugar, so
maybe they'll call it New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Whatever.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
But it still seems that people, no matter what, our
drinking coke. Along with this announcement, they did announce that
they post a quarterly sales that beat Wall Street expectations.
People are still drinking coke. Even though it's gotten a
little more expensive. People are still paying these higher prices
for the companies. You're right, a lot more expensive. People
are still paying these high prices for the company's soft drinks.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Right, And it'll be interesting to see what happens to
coke too now that costco is switching from pepsi over
to coke.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
That's happening because that's a big driver anywhere Costco is
is always a big driver.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay, And speaking of coke, actually it's coco coca. Cocoa
prices are crushing the chocolate maker Lint.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Yes, so the Swiss company they raise prices this year,
but they worked in a different way because customers actually
bought less traits as a result, a lind push through
more than fifteen percent price increase in the first half
of the year, but it did see a four point
six percent drop in volume in the first half of
the year, which one analyst noted was worse for the
(32:49):
company than the wake of the two thousand and eight
financial crisis and the COVID outbreak. So Coco futures, to
put it all in perspective, have more than doubled over
the past two years. We did see some poor harvest
and that's one of the reasons why. But it has
definitely been upending the chocolate industry. We've been seeing that
with Nesli and other rivals too well.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
And I wonder if that's all tied into and this
is just speculation, will go VI and ozempic too, Oh yes, yes,
it kills you things for stuff, right.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Yeah, not that interested in chocolate, But I don't know
even if I had it, I'll probably figure out a
way to still like chocolate no matter what.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Yeah, because lint chocolate is so good, all right, getting.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
In your business, getting in your business every day like
we do with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. We'll do it again
tomorrow at the same time. Thanks Courtney, have a fabulous day,
Talk to you later. The LAPD has beefed up patrols
in Encino following the shooting deaths of an American Idol
music supervisor and her husband in their home. At a
community meeting last night, a couple hundred residents demanded to
(33:50):
know why the guy who is accused of the shooting
was out of custody after he was arrested last year
on threat, weapons and battery charges.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Those were later dismissed.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Some civil rights activists have criticized the release of Martin
Luther King Junior's assassination files. Reverend Al Sharpton called it
a desperate attempt to distract the firestorm over Trump for
not unseiling files over Jeffrey Epstein's death. Atlanta's King Center
called it ill timed. The Trump administration released thousands of
(34:23):
pages yesterday, all related to King's death in nineteen sixty eight.
More than a billion people have now visited Disneyland and
California Adventure Park. Disney doesn't announce attendance numbers, but trade
magazines estimate the billionth visitor passed through the main gate
sometime in February of this year. Ah could have been me.
(34:43):
Theme park industry experts say, what have happened earlier? But
COVID shut down the parks for more than a year,
coming at six oh five its handle on the news.
Malcolm Jamal Warner has died. Remember he was Bill Cosby's
son in The Cosby Show fifty four years old. We've
been asking you whether you think it's okay to be
(35:04):
asked to tip before you get service at a sit
down restaurant. This is not will coal driver is yelling
no in the background, and we want to hear what
you have to say, So if you'd like to weigh
in on the talkback, we'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Here's just a couple of things that people have had
to say.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Hey, and tip before you even freaking eat.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
That's just completely uncalled for and rude.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Good morning.
Speaker 20 (35:28):
This is Scott from Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Thanks Scott. I miss it when you're not there.
Speaker 11 (35:33):
I think that tipping is terrible.
Speaker 19 (35:35):
I think they should do more likelyft than.
Speaker 11 (35:39):
Uber.
Speaker 17 (35:41):
They tell you how much it's going to cost, then
they give you a chance to tip if you want.
Speaker 11 (35:45):
Have a great day. Hey, good morning. Absolutely not.
Speaker 17 (35:51):
I mean the reasoning behind.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Tipping is if you get great service.
Speaker 20 (35:57):
So what if you tip and pay before you get
your food and.
Speaker 11 (36:01):
The service is bad?
Speaker 21 (36:02):
Yeah, I mean, come on, this is getting out of hand.
Speaker 22 (36:07):
So no, no, I would never pay a tip before
service was rendered. In fact, I rarely tip anymore period.
It's out of control, out of control.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
One more for you, good.
Speaker 22 (36:22):
Morning, Amy.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I think this tipping is getting out of hand, right.
Everybody has their hand out for just grabbing your food
in a fast food place. Next thing you know, we
will be tipping our bagger at the State of Brothers
for bagging our food. I definitely don't tip my guy
at gif Loop for changing my oil and he's doing
(36:46):
the same kind.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Of service, right, I don't disagree with that. I don't
disagree with that, but yeah, I just had this experience.
If you're just joining us, had this experience. So we
went to a brewery over the weekend with my brother
and we sat down and we had to do the
QR code and order ourself, and then we had to pay,
and we had to tip before they brought anything out.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
See, and they didn't even come by to ask you
what you wanted. You had to do the QR code right, so.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
They're serving less and then it took I mean the
food was good, but it was like, yeah, won't be
going there ever.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Again.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Pentagon is
pulling the Marines out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
They were deployed there in response to anti immigration enforcement
protests across the region. The announcement comes a week after
the Defense Department said half of nearly four thousand National
Guard troops deployed to the LA area would be recalled
as well. They had been deployed to protect a federal
buildings and personnel.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Mark Mayfield KOFI news ATF and FBI investigators have searched
a second location, possibly tied to the explosion that killed
three La Keunty Sheriff's deputies in East LA. They searched
a boat and a car yesterday in Marina del Rey.
They were at an apartment complex in Santa Monica last
(38:05):
week where some hand grenades were found. One of them
exploded Friday at the Sheriff's training facility where explosives experts
plan to safely detonate them. The remains of a US
Army private killed in the Korean War, which had been
buried among unknown soldiers, are being returned to the Inland Empire.
Jack McWilliam Cash was killed in nineteen fifty during the
(38:26):
Second Battle of Nocton Bulge. Inland Empire residents are invited
to pay a tribute to him by lining the route
that the hearst will take this afternoon from the Ontario
International Airport to the funeral home in Kalamsa. Investors are
buying up homes in California.
Speaker 19 (38:44):
New research shows that about nineteen percent of homes in
the state are owned by investors. That puts California at
number thirty six among the nation. Meantime, nearly half of
the people in California rent. That number suggests that that's
because single family homes come with an average price tag
around eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Jason Campadonia KFI
(39:05):
News under sixty okay.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
President Trump has weighed in on the case of.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
The man who pleaded guilty to killing four University of
Idaho students in twenty twenty two. Brian Coburger, said to
be sentenced tomorrow. ABC's Alex Stones's. President Trump has asked
the judge to force Coburger to explain why.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
He did it.
Speaker 16 (39:23):
Prosecutors say it cannot be forced because that was not
part of the deal. The family of murder victim Kayley
can solve as his thanking President Trump saying a confession
without clarity does not bring peace.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
As part of his plea deal, Coburger is expected to
get four life terms in prison for murder, plus ten
additional years for burglary. More than half of Americans say
they believe the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill will raise
their health care costs.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
A new cbsug of poll shows fifty seven percent of
respondents a Republicans sweeping bill will increase their health care
costs will, thirteen percent said it'll lower them, and thirty
three percent said there'll be no impact. Polling also found
six point ten disapprove of the Megabill, which permanently extends
many temporary tax cuts while making deep cuts to MEDICAIDS,
SNAP and other safety net programs. Fifty six percent of
(40:10):
those surveyed say they tie issues regarding the Megabills significantly
to how they evaluate President Trump's second term. Mark Roner
KFI News a.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
New study shows more Americans are changing how they deal
with their money.
Speaker 23 (40:23):
New research finds that more Americans are shifting their money
from checking in savings accounts into other things that pay
an investment income. The analysis by the JP Morgan Chase
Institute examine the accounts of four point seven million households.
It found that people's total cash reserves are increasing after
including brokerage accounts, money market funds, and certificates of deposit
(40:45):
to assess people's well being. Officials say that this helps
explain the strong consumer spending even though checking in savings
account balances were below historical trends. Deborah Mark KFI News.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Swimming is off limits at four beaches in La County
because of high bacteria levels in the ocean water. People
are being advised to stay out of the water at
the Santa Monica Pier, Walnut Creek, at Paradise Cove, Mother's
Beach in Marina del Rey, in the area near the
Castle Rock Storm Drain at Tapanga County Beach. A previous
warning for Topanga Canyon Beach in Malibu has been lifted.
(41:21):
A new Tesla diner and supercharger station is opened in Hollywood.
Speaker 21 (41:25):
The two story facility officially opened on Monday. It features
eighty fast charging stations, two movie screens, and a restaurant
with robots serving food which comes in cyber truck shaped boxes.
The restaurant also has a rooftop dining area with a
bar in theater style seating. This could serve as a
prototype for future Tesla diners and other cities. Daniel Martindale
(41:45):
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, we got one more person weighing in on the talkback.
Thank you for you know, letting us know what you're thinking.
We appreciate that. About whether tipping should be expected before
you ever get service again, This happened to my brother
and I at a restaurant was like a brewery over
the weekend, and we had to order our own food
(42:07):
on our phone by using the QR code to get
a menu, and then we had to pay, and we
had to tip before they even brought a drink out.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
So what do you think of.
Speaker 20 (42:17):
That, Hi, Amy? I know the theme of the day
is tipping, but there's this one restaurant that really ticks
me off because at the end of the meal, when
they bring your check, they add three percent to your bill.
Just boom. I asked them why, and they said, oh,
it's so we can afford to pay our employees a
living wage. And my response is, raise your prices and
(42:40):
reprint your menus. I expected to pay a certain amount
of money, not a certain amount of money plus three percent.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
I don't disagree with that at all.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
I've had that happen and it was at a lovely
little restaurant that I never went back to because I'm like,
it's not is that my job?
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Like, yeah, I agree with him.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Raise your prices, make them reflect, but don't tell me
that I should pay more than what I need to
pay because I need to pay for their living Raise
pay your own employee.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Take care of your people.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, take care of your people. I'm not, but let
that be the lesson of the day. Take care of
your people. And with that wake up call is we're done.
We're done, but handle on. The news is coming up next.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County live from the KFI twenty four hour news room
for producer Ann and technical producer Kno, also traffic specialist Will.
(43:28):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,
and if you missed any wake Up Call. You can
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