August 13, 2024 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan starts the show discussing easing children’s back-to-school anxiety. Amy talks with KFI traffic and entertainment guru Nick Pagliochini about the D23 superfan Disney convention. Associate Vice President of Operations and Planning at California Lutheran University Ryan Van Ommeren joins the show to speak on autonomous robots now painting sports fields lines. The show closes with host of ‘How to Money’ Joel Larsgaard joins Amy to talk about credit card debt rising, half of Americans believing their student loans will be forgiven, and now being able to take money out of your 401K.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Thank you Todd light Pa announcer Extraordinary at Dodger Stadium.
This is your wake up call for Tuesday, August thirteenth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. So happy to have you
with us. As always, so much going on. I want
to start the show one day ago. Well, guys, there's
nothing happening, but today's not that day. Yesterday a little
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shaking going on in the Southland. Did you feel it?
I don't know why. I'm not afraid of big quakes.
Something's wrong with me. That one was a pretty solid jolt.
Did you feel a cono?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We did?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We did a little roller where I live. Yeah, it
was pretty shaky. I had just gone I had just
gone down for my nice winter's nap actually a summer nap,
but I had the cats with me and I was
out because like noon, nish's nappy time for me. And
then it just started shaking, and the cats got up
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and one of them kind of ran off, and yeah,
and then it stopped and I was like, well, I'm
awake now, I guess I'll have a snack. Glad there
wasn't much damage four point four, but anyway, here's what's
ahead on wake up call. That magnitude four point four
earthquake rumbled under Highland Park yesterday shortly afternoon, hit about
twelve twenty. A waterline at Pasadena City Hall was ruptured
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in the quake, and apparently somebody got stuck at an
elevator for a little while, but there are no reports
of any major damage or injuries. The quake was felt
across much of La Orange and Riverside Counties. A judge
has rejected a lawsuit by opponents of the proposed gondola
from Dodger Stadium to Union Station. Opponents question the environmental
impact of the gondola, which would travel right over neighborhoods.
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Backers say the aerial tram will provide the first permanent
mass transit connection, linking Dodger Stadium to the broader La
Transit system. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says Iran
and its proxies could attack Israel anytime, as soon as
this week. Iran has threatened to retaliate against Israel for
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the recent assassinations of Hamas and Hesbola leaders. We're going
to be talking about going back to school and how
that is stressing out a lot of kids. We've got
ABC's Jim Ryan coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Nick Pauli o'chini is back. He's going to give you
all the traffic of course this morning, so you can
get where you need to go. But he's also going
to give us some more juicy details about the D
twenty three of them in Annah and some of the
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really cool new attractions coming to the Disney parks. And
later this hour, Joel Larsgard joins us to talk about
how more of us are putting more stuff on plastic
not good, and whether people can expect that they really
are not going to have to pay back their student loans,
and where you can tap into some cash, but should
you Again, that's coming up before the top of the hour.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. It
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took a while because of some technical issues, but Elon
Musk and former President Trump have had a two hour
sit down live on x Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Caltech says a magnitude four point four quake
that rattled South Pasadena might be a sign that bigger
earthquakes could follow.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The quake was felt throughout LA in parts of Orange County,
trapping one person in an elevator and causing pipes to
burst outside city hall. Seismologist doctor Lucy Jones says getting
forced couldn't mean seeing fives on the Richter scale, and
maybe hard to tell which fault line the quakes are
coming from.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And we need to remember this is only a four
and a half, or associating it with a particular fault
is always going to be problematic.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
She says having smaller earthquakes does not prevent bigger earthquakes,
and there's no way to predict them. Yesterday's quake rolled
in almost a week after a magnitude five point two
hit Bakersfield. Chris Adler ka FI News.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Social media experts say an upcoming ban on cell phones
at schools in the LA district can help prevent depression
and suicide in teens. Cybersecurity cop Clay Cranford says giving
kids phones out of fear of emergencies could create mental
health issues because of harmful social media.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
The chances of your child being involved in a school
shooting are incredibly low. Schools are by far the safest
place for your child to be and has ever always
been that way, it remains to be that way.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
He says. More than a decade of data shows major
depression in teens has gone up by one hundred and
forty five percent for girls and one hundred and sixty
one percent for boys since twenty ten. The LA School
District approve the band in June to reduce learning disruptions
and to improve its students' health. Takes effect in January.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is set to make his first
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solo appearance as Vice President Harris's running mate. It'll happen
at a public service convention at the LA Convention Center.
Walls is also set to speak later today at a
fundraiser in Newport Beach. Tickets are arranging from one thousand
to one hundred thousand dollars. The fundraiser is the first
in a series of five in five states in three
days for Walls. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
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Jim Ryan. Gym four hundred thousand, LA school district. Students
went back to class yesterday, others are going back soon,
and apparently it's stressing a lot of kids out well.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yeah, not too surprisingly. You can almost hear the butterflies
and the stomachs out there. Is the kids go back
to class, and that's normal, right, and the kids are
are bound to feel a little bit too anxious as
they returned to school after a summer off. But at
what point does it become a problem aiming well, the
experts say that if it does continue into the school year,
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if it goes a couple of months, then maybe it's
time to check in with your kid. And in fact,
it's a good idea to check again with them anyway,
see what is happening at school, and then how they're
getting along, because I was surprised at some of the statistics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that nine
point four percent of kids as young as three at
up to seventeen, kids three to seventeen had diagnosed anxiety,
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four point four percent have diagnosed depression. So kids do
feel those things that parents may dismiss as simple back
to school butterflies.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I remember being a little bit nervous to go
back to class, but also we were always really excited
about the you know, the prospect of seeing friends and
sure going back to school and stuff. So what has change?
Why are kids more apprehensive now?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Well maybe they are. Maybe maybe they've always been this way,
but people just didn't notice, you know, they just brushed
it off and our.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Parents did just deal with it.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Get in there, get some grades, would you. And at
the same time, you've got, as you were talking about,
a moment, a moment ago, new things out there that
kids in previous generations didn't have to worry about, including
social media devices, those sorts of things that they have
been dealing with all summer long and now are dealing
with in school online bullying and a lot of that happens.
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You know, you've got the online component, the social media
bullying that kids are facing, and then they're walking into
a classroom to physically face that person who might have
been picking on them. That certainly adds to that anxiety.
So really, the best advice I think that child psychologists
have is to keep tabs on the content and the
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contacts that your kids have online. Who are they reaching
out to, who are they conversing with and what are
the conversations, what's the nature of that. Are they being
picked on and of course whether they're being picked on
at school as well.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Does any of the information that you're digging through say
that parents maybe should work to kind of toughen up
their kids a little bit, or how do they because
you know, when I grew up too, it was a
lot of sticks and stones stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, well, you know, if not the opposite,
then at least being a little more in tune with
what your kids are going through, feeling that, you know,
being empathetic with them and opening keeping that line of
communication open. Parents know their kids better than anybody else,
better than the school psychologist.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A teacher or anyway.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Right, So if you can stay in tune with what
your kids are doing, join in their excitement you talk
about the excitement of going back to school, join in
that excitement, celebrated with them. But also try not to
set an expectation that says, you need to get straight
age this year in order to go to college. Yeah,
you're only in third grade now, but we got to
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look ahead. So yeah, try not to put those expectations
on kids, especially younger kids, but do help them to
enjoy the environment.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I remember going back in and you know, the smell
of the chalkboard and wearing new clothes and all that.
It was exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Did they even have chalkboards anymore?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Boy, did I just dig myself chokboard with a chalkboard.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Right, So as parents just kind of watch out support them.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Yeah, there are resources out there too. Stop Bullying dot
gov a government website that's devoted to addressing this issue.
It talks about federal laws, it talks about cyber bullying.
It offers advice to teachers, to principles to parents and kids.
There are resources out there that can help you to
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confront these issues.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But that's really a good one because.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Stop Bullying dot gov.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know, when when I was growing up, I was
kind of an ugly kid and no serious and so
you kind of you take some of that bullying but
whatever you call it, but it wasn't to the same
magnitude because there was you know, it was there was
no social media.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well true, I mean that's true. And then kids find
that little weakness. I was always really tall, right, and
they do you think, well, that's probably a good thing.
Nobody isn't. It makes it easy target people. Well he's tall,
let's pick on him.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah. Well tall wasn't my problem. But all right, so
take care of your kids, watch out and then I
like that, stop bullying dot gov. If you need to
find some resources.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Stop bullying dot gov.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
All right, thank you, ABC's Jim Ryan, appreciate it. You.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The Olympic flag
has left Paris and arrived in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Sol A Mayor Bass, team USA members and other local
officials returned to lax and wave the flag as the
world now turns its eyes here for the twenty twenty
eight games at the airport. Bass emphasized again that she
wants to see a public transportation heavy Olympics in LA.
We know we need to have over thirty.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Thirty three hundred buses that come into town because we
don't want to have the congestion with people traveling to
the game.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
So the mayor says, twenty twenty eight will be different
than nineteen eighty four, when LA last hosted the Olympics,
namely because the city has a subway system now.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Michael Monks KFI news.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Bill will soon be considered that would reduce and restrict
items that can be purchased at self checkout lanes. The
bill's sponsor says the self checkout bill will create more jobs.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
It was seen as a way to drastically cut staffing
and too reduce labor costs. The industry itself is reporting
self checkout machines cost food and retailers more than ten
billion dollars in lost profits annually.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
See Senator Lola Smallwood. Quavis says the bill is aimed
at reducing retail thefts, so the bill requires one employee
for every two self checkout stands. California Grocers Association President
and CEO Ron Fong says the bill would just drive
costs up for store owners.
Speaker 11 (11:51):
What we're doing with this bill is going backwards. We're
antiquating people and say, ouh's something that has worked out
for us for fifteen years. We're now going backwards and
say we're limiting the use of this technology.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The bills expected to be debated in the State Assembly
in the next week. Elon Musk's interview with former President
Trump on X got off to a late start. Musk
says technical glitches delayed last night's event by more than
forty minutes.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Well pugs for the late start, we unfortunately had a
massive distributed mail service attack against our servers.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Thousands of users who went on x to watch the
interview got error messages and couldn't log on when it
finally started. It ran for about two hours, covering a
range of issues including immigration, inflation, crime, and Trump's attempted
assassination in Pennsylvania. More than a million people tuned into
the live stream. A new study suggests there's water on Mars,
and tons of it. The findings are based on computer
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modeling and seismic measurements sent back from NASA's Insight Lander,
which shut down on Mars a couple years ago. Sean
Wright from U SEE San Diego's Script's Institute of Oceanography
sas researchers think water seeped underground billions of years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Ours once looked like Earth three billion years ago, and
now it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's dry and it's desolate, and so a big question
is where's the water?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Where did it go?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
He says. The water is roughly twelve miles below the surface,
and there's enough of it to form an ocean. The
Dodgers are in Milwaukee to take on the Brewers tonight.
First pitch goes out at five ten. You can listen
to every play of every Dodger's game on AM five
seventy LA Sports and stream all games in HD on
the iHeartRadio app. The keyword AM five seventy LA Sports
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powered by LA Care for all of LA so then,
California has been rattled by a four point four magnitude quake.
The quake hit at twelve twenty yesterday afternoon. It was
centered near Highland Park. Shaking was felt around much of
the Southland, but no major damage or injuries were reported.
Firefighters have gained ground on the fourth largest fire ever
in California. It's grown to over four hundred and twenty
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nine thousand acres. CalFire says the fire is still threatening
the Mill Creek area and the town of Mineral in
Tehama County, near the edge of Lassen Volcanic Park. The
fire is thirty eight percent surrounded. Governor Newsom's official photographer
costs California two hundred thousand dollars a year the state
Controller's office, as the money goes to celebrity photographer Charles
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o'manny to document the governor. He's also worked with Mark Zuckerberg,
Barack Obama, and George W. Bush. O'manny is one of
the highest paid employees in the administration, making just thirty
four thousand dollars less a year than the governor himself
at six o five. It's handl on the news. Olympic
gymnast Jordan Childs appears to have lost her fight to
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hold onto her bronze medal. Let's say good morning now
to Nick pollo'chini, who's back with us after taking a
couple days off for the D twenty three super Fan Convention.
And since there's so much Disney stuff coming out, who
better to talk about than a superfan himself. Nick, before
we dig in, tell us what D twenty three is.
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We know it's a convention, and who is it for?
Who goes to it?
Speaker 12 (14:58):
So it's specifically four you're the ultimate fan, as you
already described, and Hello, it's gonna be back again, Amy.
But it is for people and started back in two
thousand and nine, and it is where fans have turned
for all the major announcements in all the new films
and television shows and the new theme park attractions that
are coming.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
But D twenty three is that.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
Special additional fan base for those who love things out
of the Walt Disney Company. But it's really expanded now
because you've got Star Wars involved with Lucas Limited. You've
also got Marble Entertainment, and then even you've got the
twentieth Century Fox buyout, so you've got the Simpsons and
everything to that effect, all of those fandoms are coming together.
So if you think about Comic Con in San Diego,
which we talked about every year, D twenty three is
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that for everything under the Walt Disney Company umbrella, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And who goes to it. It's not industry people necessarily,
though industry people do go, but it's really it's for
the fans. So it's like Comic Con in that rega.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, it's just like Comic Con.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
And so the home base is always every other year
at the Anaheim Convention Center just south of Disneyland, and
folks get tickets and just like you and I talked about, regularly,
tickets go on sale and they are gone instantaneously because
you get the most immersive experience possible by meeting you know,
the voice actors behind some of our favorite characters or
favorite TV show personalities. They just celebrated Gray's Anatomy and
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had the entire cast of Gray's Anatomy there. You were
able to do a meet and greet and assigning with them,
which is very very unusual, especially some cast members who
haven't been on the show in years.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh you also have.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
I got to pop in on that, but I had
to take off to a different panel, so I didn't
get to stick around for the meet and greet portion,
but I got to see it. And it's funny to
think that, you know, we what on our twentieth season
or more of Gray's Anatomy right now. I mean, it's
been over twenty years that the show has been around,
and there have been so many incredible actors that I
didn't even remember had you know, short stints or had
you know, these special cameo parts over the year, and
they all were brought in for the special event. So
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it's really unique and special because things that you don't
even remember from some of your favorite TV shows, or
maybe if you're a fan of Disney Channel or if
you're a fan of ABC Television, you don't even remember
that it was there and you get to meet these
folks in and their talent Talent Central area and be
able to get a couple of minutes to talk to celebrities, musicians,
and my favorite thing is always the Disney imagineers who
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are really the heart and soul of what is behind
these projects that we're going to talk about, especially the
attractions that come to the theme parks around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Okay, so let's talk about the attractions and then also
just for the fan experience as we're trying to describe
this to you. So there's panels, sure, and then I've
seen a couple of the videos that you had. There's
like big auditorium Disney Productions. They had a full orchestra
and a giant big screen in the background. And was
that one of the imagineer events when they were announcing
some of the new things coming?
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Right, So this is the first year that every year,
if you think of Comic Con, we always hear about
Hall H and that is the biggest presentation all the
major panels down there, and up until this year, Hall
D at the Anaheim Convention Center was that location. This
year they took it off site to the Honda Center
and twelve thousand Disney fans. So that just that's not
even the attendees because there I don't know the final numbers,
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but we were in the tens of thousands of attendees
to D twenty three, but twelve thousand of those fans
got to see very first hand all the things that
are happening in two special showcases, the Disney Entertainment Showcases,
which focus on music, television, and film, and then the
Disney Experiences Showcase, which happened to focus on the cruise lines,
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on the theme parks, and then other Disney regional entertainment
around the globe.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, so let's dig into some of the things that
you learn now that we know all about is the convention.
What are some of the coolest things that have that
are coming out or that we're going to be seeing
that you learned about at the expo.
Speaker 12 (18:37):
I think the most exciting thing that we've got locally
here is Tiana's is we got a finally opening date.
So even though right exactly so anticipate you and I
will definitely be going to this, but November twelve, field
when it will be coming.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
November twelfth, Okay, Yeah, it's the old Splash Mountain they've
closed it down. The ride essentially the same or the
path of the ride, as I understand it, it is the same,
but it's completely re imagine and now it's Tiana's By
You Adventure based on the Princess and the Frog, right.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
And I've heard so many things from the folks that
have been able to experience the rebranding Magic Kingdom in
Walt Disney World in Orlando and say that we're really
in for a special treat. Also because even though the
attractions are almost identical, Disneyland has its own special accouterment
that there's going to be a few special things that
are just exclusive to our park, which is very exciting.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So that comes up in the pretty soon.
Speaker 12 (19:27):
Would be probably the most unique thing is the very
first Walt Disney audioonomatronic that'll be coming to Disneyland Park
in the near future.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, it would be familiar with Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I was going to say, if you have ever been
to the Mister Lincoln or President Lincoln presentation that's right
there on Main Street. This is going to be in
that same place, correct.
Speaker 12 (19:47):
So the Main Street Opera House will be hosting this
brand news show called Walt Disney a Magical Light. It'll
be the very first ever audio aimatronic figure of Walt Disney.
It will be the ultimate audio ematronic audiono are what
is the skeletal structure for all the different characters that
you see in attractions at Disney Parks, and so this
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will be the top notch, top of the line, and
it will be alternating back and forth between great moments
with mister Lincoln and then also going over to this
new show Walt Disney Magical Life, So you'll be able
to see an experience both of those.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Is that coming soon?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That is coming soon ish? There was no official date
on that.
Speaker 12 (20:25):
When D twenty three announcements are made, they're usually between
the next three and five years out, so that's kind
of the best ballpark for it. But what is coming
sooner than later is going to be a new experiences
to Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure. In fact, we've
always known about a new e ticket ride Gut that's
always been called Avengers Infinity Defense that was coming to
the Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure. But we're actually
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getting two brand new rides. That and Stark Flight Lab.
So there'll be two new rides inside of Disney California
Adventure in the very near future. Both are already under
development and allegedly ground has already been broken somewhere stage
at Disney California Adventure for those two brand new attraction.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Which is great because when you walk through Adventures Campus,
I mean you and I have done it, and I
do it with almost everybody that I go to Disneyland,
we go there's a lot of wasted space in here,
and we go it's probably not it's just they're going
to roll something out eventually, so good to see that
they're going to do that, and then tell us about
the Cocoa Ride.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Real quick, Cocoa Ride is going to be coming up.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
That's a little bit further out, but that will be
in actually a new land that is coming to the
Disneyland resort and will be part of the Disneyland Forward
project and expansion. And then really two quick things to
throw in their avatar Land officially confirmed that they have
broken granted that at Disney California Adventure, so you'll be
able to experience and it will be based on the
new movies, So we don't even know what's going to
be there quite yet because we have not met the
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characters from the new Avatar films. And the additional thing
that will be happening is a rebranding or an additional
show to the Smugglers run on the Milayim Falcon.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Grogu and the Mandalorian.
Speaker 12 (21:56):
Will be showing up there in the very new future
to be helping out to defend the Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Oh that'll be fun, okay. And then this way, well
there's a lot coming. We got to run because we're
out of time. Course, you icket talk Disney all day long. Indeed,
at the Magic Kingdom in Florida, they have a new
Monster's Ink ride and I am so psyched. I gotta
go to this because if you remember Monsters, Inc. Remember
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they have the closet doors that they go to do
the scaring of the kids and they go through this
wild ride and I remember seeing the movie ten twenty
years ago, going that could be a ride at Disneyland.
They're making it a ride.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
Yeah, So it's going to be coming to Disney's Hollywood
Studios at Walt Disney World in Orlando. It'll be the
very first suspended coaster ever in a Disney Park, which
means you'll be kicking your legs freely underneath it, and
it will be zooming through the door vault in the
Monster's Ink Factory the Scare Factory, just like Mike and Sooli,
and you'll be able to see Boo and a whole
bunch of characters from the Monsters Inc.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Universe.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
See.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I knew Nick was the perfect person to talk to
you about all this because we we've heard what's coming,
but it's fun to like listen to find out a
little bit more about it and looking forward to our
next adventure at the park. Thanks Nick, Pauli Jochini.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You got it. No worries.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A magnitude four point four earthquake rumbled under Highland Park
yesterday shortly afternoon. A water line at Pasadena City Hall
was ruptured in the quake, but there are no reports
of major damage or in injuries. The quake was felt
across much of La Orange and Riverside Counties. A man
who tried to intervene in a couple's fight ended up
being stabbed outside a convenience store in North Hollywood. The
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man stabbed late last night near Laurel Canyon Boulevard and
van Owen Street has been taken to the hospital with
critical injuries. Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim
Walls will make his first solo appearance as Kamala Harris's
running mate today at the LA Convention Center. Later this afternoon,
Walls is attending a fundraiser in Newport Beach. Tickets cost
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between one thousand and one hundred thousand dollars. At six
pozho five, it's handle on the news. Israel is bracing
for what it calls an imminent attack from Iran. At
five poin fifty, Joel Largsguard says, there's a place you
can tap into some extra cash, But the bigger question
is should you. Joel's going to tell us all about that.
Right now, Let's say good morning to the Associate vice
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president of Operations and Planning at California Lutheran University, Ryan
van Omereran oh Omrin? Is that did I say that? Right? Ryan?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Yes? That's crap.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Thank you, okay, Ran, Thanks so much for taking up
a few minutes to talk to us this morning. We
wanted to talk to you because you've got some robots
buzzing around sports fields at cal Lutheran and want to
know what they're doing. And so if you could tell
us about that, that'd be great.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Yeah, how fun. I don't want to make the story
too long, but I'll say it all started with the
Los Angeles Rams locating for our campus a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Right, oh, for training camper.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Well, no, their practice home has been at Cal Lutheran
for years. All right, So that led to angel City
Football Club are you familiar?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Okay, the premier women's soccer team, And for them, we
did the maintenance okay, okay, And so they had very
strict rules for striping and such, and so we bought
this robot, okay, and so so the robots save time
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of course, and maybe these nice crisp lights for us.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, so you've you've taken the people out of the
equation and now the robots do all the striping for you.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
No, well, that's a kind of a misconception, right, Okay, Yes,
somebody's got to control it, and somebody's got to fill
the paint of course.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
And uh, and so so we have the robot, right,
So then time goes on and we're replacing the turf
in our artificial turf stadium, right, and uh, then we realize, right,
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you've seen the artificial urf stadium, right, typically they have
lines of all different types.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And oh did we lose Ryan? Oh no, you're there. Okay,
they have all kinds of different lines and and then
what did you what did you find because of that?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Right? So we said let's not do any lines, right okay,
and uh and use a robots paintful lines. And so
then we bought another robot. Are able to do customs
and setups for different teams.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Okay, So then Ryan, you're saying, you can do custom
setups for different teams, different sports. So can they write
words like they could put la galaxy and they could
put rams and stuff on the field.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Yes, it can do virtually anything, right, if we wanted
to say welcome graduates or something like that, it can
do something like that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And how much more efficient are they than people? You're saying,
it's not replacing people's but they sure make the fields
look good. And are they a lot faster than if
with people were outstrets?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Yes? Yes, thank you, great question. Yeah, it's typically a
good four to six times faster. Soccer in particular would
take about four hours. Football takes them most time, but
soccer would take about four hours. That can now be
done in about twenty minutes because the lines are relatively simple.
(27:59):
Wow okay, and on top of that much less paint,
So he was about twenty percent the amount of paint
as a traditional sprayer.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay. And then could they eventually be used for more
like permanent paint jobs on campus or so they could
do other stuff around the campus as well, not just
on the fields.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's another great question. So we switched the
field now from soccer to football or whatever, and football
in particular has a lot of lines, as you can imagine, right,
and so right now it's a manual process to get
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the old lines off. It's a special paint that's easier,
but it still takes effort and time and scrubbing. And
so we're all waiting for the field or the stripe
removed a robot to be next.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Oh that'd be things a lot yeah okay.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yeah, right, And then we still have two very nice
natural terf fields on campus, one of those where Angel
City plays, And so right, we do the stripeed and
that's great, but we're looking forward to a time where
we can do the mowing too.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It would be like a room of for lawns, right exactly,
very cool.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Okay, for right now.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
We've got we've got the robots out making the lines,
making them pretty, doing it quickly, saving paint. And I'm
guessing that we're going to see a lot more of
these in the future. But California Lutheran kind of jumping
on the bandwagon early on this one. Thanks so much,
Ryan for taking some time to talk to you, talk
to us about this new technology. Always fun to see
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new innovations. Thanks so much. Try and have a great day.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man accused
of punching, pushing onto the tracks, and dragging a woman
onto a freeway at a Metro station in Pasadena's due
in court today. Thirty three year old Jan Flores is
facing attempted murder and other charges. He could get life
in prison if convicted of the attack last week. Investigators
say the attack was completely unprovoked. A man who shot
(30:25):
and killed a woman during an argument on a Metro
b red Line train as it approached the Hollywood and
Vine station in twenty twenty one has been since to
sixty one years to life in prison. The man had
previously been convicted of assaulting a passenger on a metro
train in twenty eighteen and attempted robbery in twenty nineteen.
Ukraine's surprise offensive into Russia has expanded into another region.
(30:46):
ABC's Ian Pannell says it's the biggest occupation of Russian
territory by a foreign army since the Second World War.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Pus firefights have been reported as Russia urgently sends in
defensive units, attacking with drones, and over one hundred thousand
residents forced to flee their homes.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He says Russian President Putin has ordered his defense ministry
to kick the enemy out of the territory. American gymnast
Jordan Childs may not be able to keep her Olympic
bronze medal, even though USA Gymnastics says it has evidence
showing the appeal that bumped her up to third place
was made in time. The Court of Arbitration for Sport
ruled the appeal from Child's coach was four seconds too late,
(31:26):
and the decision was upheld by the International Olympic Committee.
USA Gymnastics said yesterday it was notified by the Court
of Arbitration for Sport that their rules do not allow
for an arbitral award to be reconsidered even when conclusive
new evidence is presented. A doctor in Newport Beach says
some Olympic spectators took home ankle, shoulder, or wrist injuries
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instead of a gold medal.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Don't try to do it in your living room.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
Hogue Orthopedic Institute medical director doctor Alan Bayer says the
increase in injuries are typically young people trying a Simone
Biles backflip into some couch cushions.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
But remember this.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Is their full time job, with professional coaches, with on
site medical people.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
They're not just going out for a casual five minute
matt routine or a skateboard run.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
They're doing this every single day to hone their talents.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
Bear says some injuries came from tipsy adults trying a
handspring or those thinking they get still somersault like they
did in gymnastics as a kid. In Orange County, Corbin
Carson KFI News.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, not even going to try that. Southern California has
been rattled by a four point four magnitude quake. It
hit at twelve twenty yesterday afternoon, woke me up during
my nap. It was centered in Highland Park. Shaking was
felt around much of the Southland. No major damage or
injuries were reported. LA County Sheriff Luna and other officials
are expected to announce what they says a major breakthrough
(32:47):
in the murder of a woman found in South Pasadena
nearly forty years ago. Kathyn's small body was found in
nineteen eighty six. Her murder's been linked to a convicted
serial killer. More information is expected later this morning. Despite
some technical issues, Elon Musk has had a live sit
down with former President Trump on X that went on
(33:07):
for over two hours. It was delayed for almost an
hour because of what Musk claimed was a distributed denial
of service attack or a DDS on the platform. More
than one point three million people were listening to the
discussion at times. We're just minutes away from a handle
on the news this morning, gondola backers in La have
won around in court. Right now, let's say good morning
(33:29):
to the host of How to Money. Right here on KFI,
It's Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Morning Joel, Morning, Amy, So right out.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Of the bat or right out of the box. Credit
card debt is rising.
Speaker 14 (33:41):
That's not good, right, No, of course, no, I don't
do I even have to provide any more analysis. Just
the answer is no, right, And yeah, there's some new
stats revealed by TransUnion, and we see the collective amount
of credit card debt that American ZOE just continued to
tick up. We passed a trillion dollars I don't know,
maybe like nine months ago, and now we're up to
(34:01):
one point one four trillion. And it's not just the
overall headline number. It's that more Americans overall are in
recurring credit card debts, so they're not paying off their
balance on time and unfull at the end of the month.
Half of Americans fall into that category now, and so
it's just and the average amount of debt ode is
over six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
That continues to go up as well. And we all
know with interest rates.
Speaker 14 (34:22):
Credit card debt interest rates aren't great right now, which
means that you're just you're treading water and in fact
you're actually slowly but surely sinking if you continue to
hold onto that credit card debt.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Do they have to notify you if they're raising rates
or do they just do it?
Speaker 14 (34:37):
It usually happens in the statement, right, But this is
one of those simple debt right exactly do most people
look at their statements?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
And that's been true.
Speaker 14 (34:44):
Let's say you have a home equity line of credit,
like as rates have gone up, that interest rate has
gone up, and so it's becoming more expensive to carry
that debt.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
It's so important to pay this off.
Speaker 14 (34:55):
And so I see this, and I see we're also
seeing more people falling behind on their payments as well.
This is not ridiculously overwhelmingly alarming. This is kind of
patently American in so many ways. But the patent American
lifestyle isn't getting us to the places we want to
go financially. And so I think that when you're in
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credit card debt like this, Let's say you are one
of these people have thousands and thousands of dollars worth
of credit card debt, it is it's really hard to
meet those financial goals that you have. It's stressful from
a day to day and week to week basis, And
so I want you to form a plan to get
out of credit card debt. The thing is, it's really
easy to keep doing what you're doing. And continue to
pay the credit card company's massive interest over time and
(35:37):
just pay that minimum payment or whatever. But that's not
the way ultimately to make progress. And so there's a
free tool called undebt dot. It literally you type that
into your browser, you'll be at a website and it's
a free toll to help you create a get out
of debt plan. So whether you're doing the debt snowball
or the debt avalanche approach, you can kind of choose,
or you can even choose like a hybrid payoff plan.
(35:58):
But the key is when I see these stats, I
want to help people formulate a plan to get out
of it.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
And it might have taken you years and years and
years to get into this credit card debt.
Speaker 14 (36:06):
Even if it let's say it is four or five
six thousand dollars, it might take a year or eighteen
months to get out of it. You're not going to
get out of it overnight, but having the plan, having
a timeline to get rid of the debt is crucial.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
That's where I think that we as instant gratification people,
and I guess I'm pointing at myself, like I want
to be able to pay the whole thing off and
if I can't, I get discouraged about it. Like the
whole planning for it is harder than just taking a
chunk of money. But then, and I know that that's
not smart, but I think that that's the way that
we are both in purchasing things that get us in
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the debt and then also trying to pay them off.
Speaker 14 (36:43):
Yeah, it's like the status quo just becomes okay. And
I think we just again you meant you refer to
people not looking at the bills, and I think when
you don't look at the numbers, and there is this
place on your statement where you can see, if I
only pay the minimum payment, it's going to take me
twelve fifteen years to get out of this debt.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And we just choose to kind.
Speaker 14 (37:01):
Of plug our ears, cover our eyes and not realize
or not engage with that reality. And that if you
are proactive and you're thoughtful about okay, cool, where can
I cut back and maybe cut back even and there's
so many resources this how can I cut back even
in ways that aren't going to impact my lifestyle? I
think lots of people are like budget or save, well,
(37:23):
then that's going to like cramp my style, and I'm
not going to be able to live the life I want.
There's so many ways to cut back in areas that
aren't going to impact or you have a negative effect
on your current lifestyle, but it's so crucial. And then
funnel that extra money through this payoff plan towards the
credit card debt so you can be free of it,
because truly, not only is it a great thing for
(37:44):
your finances, it's a great thing for your stress and
anxiety levels too.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Okay, And if you're looking for tips undebt it or undebt.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Dot it, that's right, yep.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Okay, So let's move on from credit card debt to
student debt. A lot of people think that they're not
going to have to it.
Speaker 14 (38:01):
Yeah, So this was a new new numbers that came
from a Sally made report and so it apparently half
of student loan bars with student loan debt are saying,
I'm expecting that I'm not going to have to pay
this back. And we have created kind of a culture
at this point with multiple attempts at student loan forgiveness
that have been struck down at this point. Even the
(38:23):
just Generous Save plan right now is in limbo, and
that was just a reduced timeline for forgiveness, and it
remains to be seen whether or not that's going to
be fully implemented. I guess it's just scary to me
that people are counting their chickens before they hatch. Is
there a potential for student loan forgiveness? Sure, and could
Congress potentially act. I mean maybe I'm not really used
(38:44):
to Congress doing productive things, but if they do, it's possible.
But the way it's been attempted so far, these attempts
a student loan forgiveness have been found to be unconstitutional.
And so while I think there are things you can
do in when it comes to paying off your student
lif loans to where you're not necessarily getting them, making
that your top priority, and getting rid of those student debt,
(39:05):
that student loan debt as quickly as possible in case
there is some sort of forgiveness that comes down the pike,
I just don't love the idea that people are assuming
that their student loans will be forgiven because it just
doesn't look like right now, given the current trajectory, that
that is likely to happen.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Okay, So if it happens it's a great thing, but
don't count on it.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Okay, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And if you are strapped for cash, you can take
some money out of your four oh one k.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Right, don't say it, Amy, don't say that out loud.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You started it, you gave me the topic.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. Okay, let's talk about this.
Speaker 14 (39:38):
So there were new rules that allow for people this
year to take money out of their four oh one
k pretty much, no questions ask and they're all penalty
right without paying ten percent penalty.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Right.
Speaker 14 (39:51):
And so the penalty is there for a reason. It's
the slap on the hand when you're getting the cookie
out of the cookie jar and your mom's like, I said,
no cookies, right, And the whole point of the penalty
is to incentivize us to keep our money inside of
those tax advantage retirement accounts for longer and think about
our future selves ten twenty thirty years down the road,
(40:14):
depending on how close we are to retirement. But these
new rules allow us to take use our four o
on and k or iras as a glorified emergency fund.
And there's this USA Today headline it said need some
quick cash. You're allowed to raid your four oh one K,
and I read stuff like that, and I know that
people are maybe reading the paper or skimming the headlines
(40:35):
and they they're saying, Oh, goodie, I've got a vacation
I want to take, or you know, my car is
feeling a little long in the tooth. I think, like
i'd like to upgrade that I'm going to tap my
four oh one K for money. And so I think
the way that this is getting framed is, at least
to some people, at least the way they're interpreting it
is like, great, I can start to take money out
of my retirement account before I reach retirement age. There's
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a little bit small truth to that, because you can
take a thoud dollars out for pretty much any reason.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
They're saying it's for.
Speaker 14 (41:03):
They're calling it a hardship withdrawal, but you don't really
have to prove any sort of hardship. And so, yes,
it's possible to take a little bit of money out
of your form and K do I want you to
do that? No, because you're impacting the compounding returns that
those dollars are going to experience. And that's the whole
point of stocking that money into those accounts. It's for
decades down the road. And the key here to avoiding
tapping your retirement accounts is to not invest until you
(41:27):
have a decent emergency fund in place. We've got something
at how tomoney dot com if you click the start
here button, it's called the Money Gears and it tells
you exactly what order you should handle things, and the
emergency fund is one of those first things, because if
you start investing, you're like, well, I want to grow
my wealth.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
That's great.
Speaker 14 (41:42):
I want you to do that, but make sure you
have liquid cash on hand first, so you don't have
to pull money out at a disadvantageous time from a
retirement account to meet current needs.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
All right, Joe Larscard. Just because you can does mean
you should. And that's just one brilliant piece of advice
that you're going to here when you listen to how
to Money with Joel right here on KFI Sunday's noon
to two. You can also follow Joel at how to Money. Joel,
thanks as always for the great advice.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
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Thank you Todd light Pa announcer Extraordinary at Dodger Stadium.
This is your wake up call for Tuesday, August thirteenth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. So happy to have you
with us. As always, so much going on. I want
to start the show one day ago. Well, guys, there's
nothing happening, but today's not that day. Yesterday a little
(00:59):
shaking going on in the Southland. Did you feel it?
I don't know why. I'm not afraid of big quakes.
Something's wrong with me. That one was a pretty solid jolt.
Did you feel a cono?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We did?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We did a little roller where I live. Yeah, it
was pretty shaky. I had just gone I had just
gone down for my nice winter's nap actually a summer nap,
but I had the cats with me and I was
out because like noon, nish's nappy time for me. And
then it just started shaking, and the cats got up
(01:33):
and one of them kind of ran off, and yeah,
and then it stopped and I was like, well, I'm
awake now, I guess I'll have a snack. Glad there
wasn't much damage four point four, but anyway, here's what's
ahead on wake up call. That magnitude four point four
earthquake rumbled under Highland Park yesterday shortly afternoon, hit about
twelve twenty. A waterline at Pasadena City Hall was ruptured
(01:56):
in the quake, and apparently somebody got stuck at an
elevator for a little while, but there are no reports
of any major damage or injuries. The quake was felt
across much of La Orange and Riverside Counties. A judge
has rejected a lawsuit by opponents of the proposed gondola
from Dodger Stadium to Union Station. Opponents question the environmental
impact of the gondola, which would travel right over neighborhoods.
(02:19):
Backers say the aerial tram will provide the first permanent
mass transit connection, linking Dodger Stadium to the broader La
Transit system. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says Iran
and its proxies could attack Israel anytime, as soon as
this week. Iran has threatened to retaliate against Israel for
(02:39):
the recent assassinations of Hamas and Hesbola leaders. We're going
to be talking about going back to school and how
that is stressing out a lot of kids. We've got
ABC's Jim Ryan coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Nick Pauli o'chini is back. He's going to give you
all the traffic of course this morning, so you can
get where you need to go. But he's also going
to give us some more juicy details about the D
twenty three of them in Annah and some of the
(03:00):
really cool new attractions coming to the Disney parks. And
later this hour, Joel Larsgard joins us to talk about
how more of us are putting more stuff on plastic
not good, and whether people can expect that they really
are not going to have to pay back their student loans,
and where you can tap into some cash, but should
you Again, that's coming up before the top of the hour.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. It
(03:23):
took a while because of some technical issues, but Elon
Musk and former President Trump have had a two hour
sit down live on x Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Caltech says a magnitude four point four quake
that rattled South Pasadena might be a sign that bigger
earthquakes could follow.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
The quake was felt throughout LA in parts of Orange County,
trapping one person in an elevator and causing pipes to
burst outside city hall. Seismologist doctor Lucy Jones says getting
forced couldn't mean seeing fives on the Richter scale, and
maybe hard to tell which fault line the quakes are
coming from.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And we need to remember this is only a four
and a half, or associating it with a particular fault
is always going to be problematic.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
She says having smaller earthquakes does not prevent bigger earthquakes,
and there's no way to predict them. Yesterday's quake rolled
in almost a week after a magnitude five point two
hit Bakersfield. Chris Adler ka FI News.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Social media experts say an upcoming ban on cell phones
at schools in the LA district can help prevent depression
and suicide in teens. Cybersecurity cop Clay Cranford says giving
kids phones out of fear of emergencies could create mental
health issues because of harmful social media.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
The chances of your child being involved in a school
shooting are incredibly low. Schools are by far the safest
place for your child to be and has ever always
been that way, it remains to be that way.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
He says. More than a decade of data shows major
depression in teens has gone up by one hundred and
forty five percent for girls and one hundred and sixty
one percent for boys since twenty ten. The LA School
District approve the band in June to reduce learning disruptions
and to improve its students' health. Takes effect in January.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is set to make his first
(05:07):
solo appearance as Vice President Harris's running mate. It'll happen
at a public service convention at the LA Convention Center.
Walls is also set to speak later today at a
fundraiser in Newport Beach. Tickets are arranging from one thousand
to one hundred thousand dollars. The fundraiser is the first
in a series of five in five states in three
days for Walls. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
(05:31):
Jim Ryan. Gym four hundred thousand, LA school district. Students
went back to class yesterday, others are going back soon,
and apparently it's stressing a lot of kids out well.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yeah, not too surprisingly. You can almost hear the butterflies
and the stomachs out there. Is the kids go back
to class, and that's normal, right, and the kids are
are bound to feel a little bit too anxious as
they returned to school after a summer off. But at
what point does it become a problem aiming well, the
experts say that if it does continue into the school year,
(06:03):
if it goes a couple of months, then maybe it's
time to check in with your kid. And in fact,
it's a good idea to check again with them anyway,
see what is happening at school, and then how they're
getting along, because I was surprised at some of the statistics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that nine
point four percent of kids as young as three at
up to seventeen, kids three to seventeen had diagnosed anxiety,
(06:27):
four point four percent have diagnosed depression. So kids do
feel those things that parents may dismiss as simple back
to school butterflies.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I remember being a little bit nervous to go
back to class, but also we were always really excited
about the you know, the prospect of seeing friends and
sure going back to school and stuff. So what has change?
Why are kids more apprehensive now?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Well maybe they are. Maybe maybe they've always been this way,
but people just didn't notice, you know, they just brushed
it off and our.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Parents did just deal with it.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Get in there, get some grades, would you. And at
the same time, you've got, as you were talking about,
a moment, a moment ago, new things out there that
kids in previous generations didn't have to worry about, including
social media devices, those sorts of things that they have
been dealing with all summer long and now are dealing
with in school online bullying and a lot of that happens.
(07:24):
You know, you've got the online component, the social media
bullying that kids are facing, and then they're walking into
a classroom to physically face that person who might have
been picking on them. That certainly adds to that anxiety.
So really, the best advice I think that child psychologists
have is to keep tabs on the content and the
(07:46):
contacts that your kids have online. Who are they reaching
out to, who are they conversing with and what are
the conversations, what's the nature of that. Are they being
picked on and of course whether they're being picked on
at school as well.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Does any of the information that you're digging through say
that parents maybe should work to kind of toughen up
their kids a little bit, or how do they because
you know, when I grew up too, it was a
lot of sticks and stones stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, well, you know, if not the opposite,
then at least being a little more in tune with
what your kids are going through, feeling that, you know,
being empathetic with them and opening keeping that line of
communication open. Parents know their kids better than anybody else,
better than the school psychologist.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
A teacher or anyway.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Right, So if you can stay in tune with what
your kids are doing, join in their excitement you talk
about the excitement of going back to school, join in
that excitement, celebrated with them. But also try not to
set an expectation that says, you need to get straight
age this year in order to go to college. Yeah,
you're only in third grade now, but we got to
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look ahead. So yeah, try not to put those expectations
on kids, especially younger kids, but do help them to
enjoy the environment.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I remember going back in and you know, the smell
of the chalkboard and wearing new clothes and all that.
It was exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Did they even have chalkboards anymore?
Speaker 8 (09:13):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Boy, did I just dig myself chokboard with a chalkboard.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Right, So as parents just kind of watch out support them.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Yeah, there are resources out there too. Stop Bullying dot
gov a government website that's devoted to addressing this issue.
It talks about federal laws, it talks about cyber bullying.
It offers advice to teachers, to principles to parents and kids.
There are resources out there that can help you to
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confront these issues.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But that's really a good one because.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Stop Bullying dot gov.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know, when when I was growing up, I was
kind of an ugly kid and no serious and so
you kind of you take some of that bullying but
whatever you call it, but it wasn't to the same
magnitude because there was you know, it was there was
no social media.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well true, I mean that's true. And then kids find
that little weakness. I was always really tall, right, and
they do you think, well, that's probably a good thing.
Nobody isn't. It makes it easy target people. Well he's tall,
let's pick on him.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah. Well tall wasn't my problem. But all right, so
take care of your kids, watch out and then I
like that, stop bullying dot gov. If you need to
find some resources.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Stop bullying dot gov.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
All right, thank you, ABC's Jim Ryan, appreciate it. You.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The Olympic flag
has left Paris and arrived in Los Angeles.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Sol A Mayor Bass, team USA members and other local
officials returned to lax and wave the flag as the
world now turns its eyes here for the twenty twenty
eight games at the airport. Bass emphasized again that she
wants to see a public transportation heavy Olympics in LA.
We know we need to have over thirty.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Thirty three hundred buses that come into town because we
don't want to have the congestion with people traveling to
the game.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
So the mayor says, twenty twenty eight will be different
than nineteen eighty four, when LA last hosted the Olympics,
namely because the city has a subway system now.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Michael Monks KFI news.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Bill will soon be considered that would reduce and restrict
items that can be purchased at self checkout lanes. The
bill's sponsor says the self checkout bill will create more jobs.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
It was seen as a way to drastically cut staffing
and too reduce labor costs. The industry itself is reporting
self checkout machines cost food and retailers more than ten
billion dollars in lost profits annually.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
See Senator Lola Smallwood. Quavis says the bill is aimed
at reducing retail thefts, so the bill requires one employee
for every two self checkout stands. California Grocers Association President
and CEO Ron Fong says the bill would just drive
costs up for store owners.
Speaker 11 (11:51):
What we're doing with this bill is going backwards. We're
antiquating people and say, ouh's something that has worked out
for us for fifteen years. We're now going backwards and
say we're limiting the use of this technology.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
The bills expected to be debated in the State Assembly
in the next week. Elon Musk's interview with former President
Trump on X got off to a late start. Musk
says technical glitches delayed last night's event by more than
forty minutes.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Well pugs for the late start, we unfortunately had a
massive distributed mail service attack against our servers.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Thousands of users who went on x to watch the
interview got error messages and couldn't log on when it
finally started. It ran for about two hours, covering a
range of issues including immigration, inflation, crime, and Trump's attempted
assassination in Pennsylvania. More than a million people tuned into
the live stream. A new study suggests there's water on Mars,
and tons of it. The findings are based on computer
(12:46):
modeling and seismic measurements sent back from NASA's Insight Lander,
which shut down on Mars a couple years ago. Sean
Wright from U SEE San Diego's Script's Institute of Oceanography
sas researchers think water seeped underground billions of years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Ours once looked like Earth three billion years ago, and
now it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's dry and it's desolate, and so a big question
is where's the water?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Where did it go?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
He says. The water is roughly twelve miles below the surface,
and there's enough of it to form an ocean. The
Dodgers are in Milwaukee to take on the Brewers tonight.
First pitch goes out at five ten. You can listen
to every play of every Dodger's game on AM five
seventy LA Sports and stream all games in HD on
the iHeartRadio app. The keyword AM five seventy LA Sports
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powered by LA Care for all of LA so then,
California has been rattled by a four point four magnitude quake.
The quake hit at twelve twenty yesterday afternoon. It was
centered near Highland Park. Shaking was felt around much of
the Southland, but no major damage or injuries were reported.
Firefighters have gained ground on the fourth largest fire ever
in California. It's grown to over four hundred and twenty
(13:52):
nine thousand acres. CalFire says the fire is still threatening
the Mill Creek area and the town of Mineral in
Tehama County, near the edge of Lassen Volcanic Park. The
fire is thirty eight percent surrounded. Governor Newsom's official photographer
costs California two hundred thousand dollars a year the state
Controller's office, as the money goes to celebrity photographer Charles
(14:13):
o'manny to document the governor. He's also worked with Mark Zuckerberg,
Barack Obama, and George W. Bush. O'manny is one of
the highest paid employees in the administration, making just thirty
four thousand dollars less a year than the governor himself
at six o five. It's handl on the news. Olympic
gymnast Jordan Childs appears to have lost her fight to
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hold onto her bronze medal. Let's say good morning now
to Nick pollo'chini, who's back with us after taking a
couple days off for the D twenty three super Fan Convention.
And since there's so much Disney stuff coming out, who
better to talk about than a superfan himself. Nick, before
we dig in, tell us what D twenty three is.
(14:56):
We know it's a convention, and who is it for?
Who goes to it?
Speaker 12 (14:58):
So it's specifically four you're the ultimate fan, as you
already described, and Hello, it's gonna be back again, Amy.
But it is for people and started back in two
thousand and nine, and it is where fans have turned
for all the major announcements in all the new films
and television shows and the new theme park attractions that
are coming.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
But D twenty three is that.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
Special additional fan base for those who love things out
of the Walt Disney Company. But it's really expanded now
because you've got Star Wars involved with Lucas Limited. You've
also got Marble Entertainment, and then even you've got the
twentieth Century Fox buyout, so you've got the Simpsons and
everything to that effect, all of those fandoms are coming together.
So if you think about Comic Con in San Diego,
which we talked about every year, D twenty three is
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that for everything under the Walt Disney Company umbrella, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And who goes to it. It's not industry people necessarily,
though industry people do go, but it's really it's for
the fans. So it's like Comic Con in that rega.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, it's just like Comic Con.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
And so the home base is always every other year
at the Anaheim Convention Center just south of Disneyland, and
folks get tickets and just like you and I talked about, regularly,
tickets go on sale and they are gone instantaneously because
you get the most immersive experience possible by meeting you know,
the voice actors behind some of our favorite characters or
favorite TV show personalities. They just celebrated Gray's Anatomy and
(16:14):
had the entire cast of Gray's Anatomy there. You were
able to do a meet and greet and assigning with them,
which is very very unusual, especially some cast members who
haven't been on the show in years.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh you also have.
Speaker 12 (16:25):
I got to pop in on that, but I had
to take off to a different panel, so I didn't
get to stick around for the meet and greet portion,
but I got to see it. And it's funny to
think that, you know, we what on our twentieth season
or more of Gray's Anatomy right now. I mean, it's
been over twenty years that the show has been around,
and there have been so many incredible actors that I
didn't even remember had you know, short stints or had
you know, these special cameo parts over the year, and
they all were brought in for the special event. So
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it's really unique and special because things that you don't
even remember from some of your favorite TV shows, or
maybe if you're a fan of Disney Channel or if
you're a fan of ABC Television, you don't even remember
that it was there and you get to meet these
folks in and their talent Talent Central area and be
able to get a couple of minutes to talk to celebrities, musicians,
and my favorite thing is always the Disney imagineers who
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are really the heart and soul of what is behind
these projects that we're going to talk about, especially the
attractions that come to the theme parks around the world.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Okay, so let's talk about the attractions and then also
just for the fan experience as we're trying to describe
this to you. So there's panels, sure, and then I've
seen a couple of the videos that you had. There's
like big auditorium Disney Productions. They had a full orchestra
and a giant big screen in the background. And was
that one of the imagineer events when they were announcing
some of the new things coming?
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Right, So this is the first year that every year,
if you think of Comic Con, we always hear about
Hall H and that is the biggest presentation all the
major panels down there, and up until this year, Hall
D at the Anaheim Convention Center was that location. This
year they took it off site to the Honda Center
and twelve thousand Disney fans. So that just that's not
even the attendees because there I don't know the final numbers,
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but we were in the tens of thousands of attendees
to D twenty three, but twelve thousand of those fans
got to see very first hand all the things that
are happening in two special showcases, the Disney Entertainment Showcases,
which focus on music, television, and film, and then the
Disney Experiences Showcase, which happened to focus on the cruise lines,
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on the theme parks, and then other Disney regional entertainment
around the globe.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, so let's dig into some of the things that
you learn now that we know all about is the convention.
What are some of the coolest things that have that
are coming out or that we're going to be seeing
that you learned about at the expo.
Speaker 12 (18:37):
I think the most exciting thing that we've got locally
here is Tiana's is we got a finally opening date.
So even though right exactly so anticipate you and I
will definitely be going to this, but November twelve, field
when it will be coming.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
November twelfth, Okay, Yeah, it's the old Splash Mountain they've
closed it down. The ride essentially the same or the
path of the ride, as I understand it, it is the same,
but it's completely re imagine and now it's Tiana's By
You Adventure based on the Princess and the Frog, right.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
And I've heard so many things from the folks that
have been able to experience the rebranding Magic Kingdom in
Walt Disney World in Orlando and say that we're really
in for a special treat. Also because even though the
attractions are almost identical, Disneyland has its own special accouterment
that there's going to be a few special things that
are just exclusive to our park, which is very exciting.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So that comes up in the pretty soon.
Speaker 12 (19:27):
Would be probably the most unique thing is the very
first Walt Disney audioonomatronic that'll be coming to Disneyland Park
in the near future.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, it would be familiar with Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I was going to say, if you have ever been
to the Mister Lincoln or President Lincoln presentation that's right
there on Main Street. This is going to be in
that same place, correct.
Speaker 12 (19:47):
So the Main Street Opera House will be hosting this
brand news show called Walt Disney a Magical Light. It'll
be the very first ever audio aimatronic figure of Walt Disney.
It will be the ultimate audio ematronic audiono are what
is the skeletal structure for all the different characters that
you see in attractions at Disney Parks, and so this
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will be the top notch, top of the line, and
it will be alternating back and forth between great moments
with mister Lincoln and then also going over to this
new show Walt Disney Magical Life, So you'll be able
to see an experience both of those.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Is that coming soon?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That is coming soon ish? There was no official date
on that.
Speaker 12 (20:25):
When D twenty three announcements are made, they're usually between
the next three and five years out, so that's kind
of the best ballpark for it. But what is coming
sooner than later is going to be a new experiences
to Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure. In fact, we've
always known about a new e ticket ride Gut that's
always been called Avengers Infinity Defense that was coming to
the Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure. But we're actually
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getting two brand new rides. That and Stark Flight Lab.
So there'll be two new rides inside of Disney California
Adventure in the very near future. Both are already under
development and allegedly ground has already been broken somewhere stage
at Disney California Adventure for those two brand new attraction.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Which is great because when you walk through Adventures Campus,
I mean you and I have done it, and I
do it with almost everybody that I go to Disneyland,
we go there's a lot of wasted space in here,
and we go it's probably not it's just they're going
to roll something out eventually, so good to see that
they're going to do that, and then tell us about
the Cocoa Ride.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Real quick, Cocoa Ride is going to be coming up.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
That's a little bit further out, but that will be
in actually a new land that is coming to the
Disneyland resort and will be part of the Disneyland Forward
project and expansion. And then really two quick things to
throw in their avatar Land officially confirmed that they have
broken granted that at Disney California Adventure, so you'll be
able to experience and it will be based on the
new movies, So we don't even know what's going to
be there quite yet because we have not met the
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characters from the new Avatar films. And the additional thing
that will be happening is a rebranding or an additional
show to the Smugglers run on the Milayim Falcon.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Grogu and the Mandalorian.
Speaker 12 (21:56):
Will be showing up there in the very new future
to be helping out to defend the Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Oh that'll be fun, okay. And then this way, well
there's a lot coming. We got to run because we're
out of time. Course, you icket talk Disney all day long. Indeed,
at the Magic Kingdom in Florida, they have a new
Monster's Ink ride and I am so psyched. I gotta
go to this because if you remember Monsters, Inc. Remember
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they have the closet doors that they go to do
the scaring of the kids and they go through this
wild ride and I remember seeing the movie ten twenty
years ago, going that could be a ride at Disneyland.
They're making it a ride.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
Yeah, So it's going to be coming to Disney's Hollywood
Studios at Walt Disney World in Orlando. It'll be the
very first suspended coaster ever in a Disney Park, which
means you'll be kicking your legs freely underneath it, and
it will be zooming through the door vault in the
Monster's Ink Factory the Scare Factory, just like Mike and Sooli,
and you'll be able to see Boo and a whole
bunch of characters from the Monsters Inc.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Universe.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
See.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I knew Nick was the perfect person to talk to
you about all this because we we've heard what's coming,
but it's fun to like listen to find out a
little bit more about it and looking forward to our
next adventure at the park. Thanks Nick, Pauli Jochini.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
You got it. No worries.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A magnitude four point four earthquake rumbled under Highland Park
yesterday shortly afternoon. A water line at Pasadena City Hall
was ruptured in the quake, but there are no reports
of major damage or in injuries. The quake was felt
across much of La Orange and Riverside Counties. A man
who tried to intervene in a couple's fight ended up
being stabbed outside a convenience store in North Hollywood. The
(23:33):
man stabbed late last night near Laurel Canyon Boulevard and
van Owen Street has been taken to the hospital with
critical injuries. Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim
Walls will make his first solo appearance as Kamala Harris's
running mate today at the LA Convention Center. Later this afternoon,
Walls is attending a fundraiser in Newport Beach. Tickets cost
(23:54):
between one thousand and one hundred thousand dollars. At six
pozho five, it's handle on the news. Israel is bracing
for what it calls an imminent attack from Iran. At
five poin fifty, Joel Largsguard says, there's a place you
can tap into some extra cash, But the bigger question
is should you. Joel's going to tell us all about that.
Right now, Let's say good morning to the Associate vice
(24:15):
president of Operations and Planning at California Lutheran University, Ryan
van Omereran oh Omrin? Is that did I say that? Right? Ryan?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Yes? That's crap.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Thank you, okay, Ran, Thanks so much for taking up
a few minutes to talk to us this morning. We
wanted to talk to you because you've got some robots
buzzing around sports fields at cal Lutheran and want to
know what they're doing. And so if you could tell
us about that, that'd be great.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Yeah, how fun. I don't want to make the story
too long, but I'll say it all started with the
Los Angeles Rams locating for our campus a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Right, oh, for training camper.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Well, no, their practice home has been at Cal Lutheran
for years. All right, So that led to angel City
Football Club are you familiar?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Okay, the premier women's soccer team, And for them, we
did the maintenance okay, okay, And so they had very
strict rules for striping and such, and so we bought
this robot, okay, and so so the robots save time
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of course, and maybe these nice crisp lights for us.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, so you've you've taken the people out of the
equation and now the robots do all the striping for you.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
No, well, that's a kind of a misconception, right, Okay, Yes,
somebody's got to control it, and somebody's got to fill
the paint of course.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
And uh, and so so we have the robot, right,
So then time goes on and we're replacing the turf
in our artificial turf stadium, right, and uh, then we realize, right,
(26:22):
you've seen the artificial urf stadium, right, typically they have
lines of all different types.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And oh did we lose Ryan? Oh no, you're there. Okay,
they have all kinds of different lines and and then
what did you what did you find because of that?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Right? So we said let's not do any lines, right okay,
and uh and use a robots paintful lines. And so
then we bought another robot. Are able to do customs
and setups for different teams.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Okay, So then Ryan, you're saying, you can do custom
setups for different teams, different sports. So can they write
words like they could put la galaxy and they could
put rams and stuff on the field.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Yes, it can do virtually anything, right, if we wanted
to say welcome graduates or something like that, it can
do something like that.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And how much more efficient are they than people? You're saying,
it's not replacing people's but they sure make the fields
look good. And are they a lot faster than if
with people were outstrets?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Yes? Yes, thank you, great question. Yeah, it's typically a
good four to six times faster. Soccer in particular would
take about four hours. Football takes them most time, but
soccer would take about four hours. That can now be
done in about twenty minutes because the lines are relatively simple.
(27:59):
Wow okay, and on top of that much less paint,
So he was about twenty percent the amount of paint
as a traditional sprayer.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Okay. And then could they eventually be used for more
like permanent paint jobs on campus or so they could
do other stuff around the campus as well, not just
on the fields.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's another great question. So we switched the
field now from soccer to football or whatever, and football
in particular has a lot of lines, as you can imagine, right,
and so right now it's a manual process to get
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the old lines off. It's a special paint that's easier,
but it still takes effort and time and scrubbing. And
so we're all waiting for the field or the stripe
removed a robot to be next.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Oh that'd be things a lot yeah okay.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Yeah, right, And then we still have two very nice
natural terf fields on campus, one of those where Angel
City plays, And so right, we do the stripeed and
that's great, but we're looking forward to a time where
we can do the mowing too.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It would be like a room of for lawns, right exactly,
very cool.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Okay, for right now.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
We've got we've got the robots out making the lines,
making them pretty, doing it quickly, saving paint. And I'm
guessing that we're going to see a lot more of
these in the future. But California Lutheran kind of jumping
on the bandwagon early on this one. Thanks so much,
Ryan for taking some time to talk to you, talk
to us about this new technology. Always fun to see
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new innovations. Thanks so much. Try and have a great day.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man accused
of punching, pushing onto the tracks, and dragging a woman
onto a freeway at a Metro station in Pasadena's due
in court today. Thirty three year old Jan Flores is
facing attempted murder and other charges. He could get life
in prison if convicted of the attack last week. Investigators
say the attack was completely unprovoked. A man who shot
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and killed a woman during an argument on a Metro
b red Line train as it approached the Hollywood and
Vine station in twenty twenty one has been since to
sixty one years to life in prison. The man had
previously been convicted of assaulting a passenger on a metro
train in twenty eighteen and attempted robbery in twenty nineteen.
Ukraine's surprise offensive into Russia has expanded into another region.
(30:46):
ABC's Ian Pannell says it's the biggest occupation of Russian
territory by a foreign army since the Second World War.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Pus firefights have been reported as Russia urgently sends in
defensive units, attacking with drones, and over one hundred thousand
residents forced to flee their homes.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He says Russian President Putin has ordered his defense ministry
to kick the enemy out of the territory. American gymnast
Jordan Childs may not be able to keep her Olympic
bronze medal, even though USA Gymnastics says it has evidence
showing the appeal that bumped her up to third place
was made in time. The Court of Arbitration for Sport
ruled the appeal from Child's coach was four seconds too late,
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and the decision was upheld by the International Olympic Committee.
USA Gymnastics said yesterday it was notified by the Court
of Arbitration for Sport that their rules do not allow
for an arbitral award to be reconsidered even when conclusive
new evidence is presented. A doctor in Newport Beach says
some Olympic spectators took home ankle, shoulder, or wrist injuries
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instead of a gold medal.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Don't try to do it in your living room.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
Hogue Orthopedic Institute medical director doctor Alan Bayer says the
increase in injuries are typically young people trying a Simone
Biles backflip into some couch cushions.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
But remember this.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Is their full time job, with professional coaches, with on
site medical people.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
They're not just going out for a casual five minute
matt routine or a skateboard run.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
They're doing this every single day to hone their talents.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
Bear says some injuries came from tipsy adults trying a
handspring or those thinking they get still somersault like they
did in gymnastics as a kid. In Orange County, Corbin
Carson KFI News.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, not even going to try that. Southern California has
been rattled by a four point four magnitude quake. It
hit at twelve twenty yesterday afternoon, woke me up during
my nap. It was centered in Highland Park. Shaking was
felt around much of the Southland. No major damage or
injuries were reported. LA County Sheriff Luna and other officials
are expected to announce what they says a major breakthrough
(32:47):
in the murder of a woman found in South Pasadena
nearly forty years ago. Kathyn's small body was found in
nineteen eighty six. Her murder's been linked to a convicted
serial killer. More information is expected later this morning. Despite
some technical issues, Elon Musk has had a live sit
down with former President Trump on X that went on
(33:07):
for over two hours. It was delayed for almost an
hour because of what Musk claimed was a distributed denial
of service attack or a DDS on the platform. More
than one point three million people were listening to the
discussion at times. We're just minutes away from a handle
on the news this morning, gondola backers in La have
won around in court. Right now, let's say good morning
(33:29):
to the host of How to Money. Right here on KFI,
It's Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Morning Joel, Morning, Amy, So right out.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Of the bat or right out of the box. Credit
card debt is rising.
Speaker 14 (33:41):
That's not good, right, No, of course, no, I don't
do I even have to provide any more analysis. Just
the answer is no, right, And yeah, there's some new
stats revealed by TransUnion, and we see the collective amount
of credit card debt that American ZOE just continued to
tick up. We passed a trillion dollars I don't know,
maybe like nine months ago, and now we're up to
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one point one four trillion. And it's not just the
overall headline number. It's that more Americans overall are in
recurring credit card debts, so they're not paying off their
balance on time and unfull at the end of the month.
Half of Americans fall into that category now, and so
it's just and the average amount of debt ode is
over six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
That continues to go up as well. And we all
know with interest rates.
Speaker 14 (34:22):
Credit card debt interest rates aren't great right now, which
means that you're just you're treading water and in fact
you're actually slowly but surely sinking if you continue to
hold onto that credit card debt.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Do they have to notify you if they're raising rates
or do they just do it?
Speaker 14 (34:37):
It usually happens in the statement, right, But this is
one of those simple debt right exactly do most people
look at their statements?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
And that's been true.
Speaker 14 (34:44):
Let's say you have a home equity line of credit,
like as rates have gone up, that interest rate has
gone up, and so it's becoming more expensive to carry
that debt.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
It's so important to pay this off.
Speaker 14 (34:55):
And so I see this, and I see we're also
seeing more people falling behind on their payments as well.
This is not ridiculously overwhelmingly alarming. This is kind of
patently American in so many ways. But the patent American
lifestyle isn't getting us to the places we want to
go financially. And so I think that when you're in
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credit card debt like this, Let's say you are one
of these people have thousands and thousands of dollars worth
of credit card debt, it is it's really hard to
meet those financial goals that you have. It's stressful from
a day to day and week to week basis, And
so I want you to form a plan to get
out of credit card debt. The thing is, it's really
easy to keep doing what you're doing. And continue to
pay the credit card company's massive interest over time and
(35:37):
just pay that minimum payment or whatever. But that's not
the way ultimately to make progress. And so there's a
free tool called undebt dot. It literally you type that
into your browser, you'll be at a website and it's
a free toll to help you create a get out
of debt plan. So whether you're doing the debt snowball
or the debt avalanche approach, you can kind of choose,
or you can even choose like a hybrid payoff plan.
(35:58):
But the key is when I see these stats, I
want to help people formulate a plan to get out
of it.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
And it might have taken you years and years and
years to get into this credit card debt.
Speaker 14 (36:06):
Even if it let's say it is four or five
six thousand dollars, it might take a year or eighteen
months to get out of it. You're not going to
get out of it overnight, but having the plan, having
a timeline to get rid of the debt is crucial.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
That's where I think that we as instant gratification people,
and I guess I'm pointing at myself, like I want
to be able to pay the whole thing off and
if I can't, I get discouraged about it. Like the
whole planning for it is harder than just taking a
chunk of money. But then, and I know that that's
not smart, but I think that that's the way that
we are both in purchasing things that get us in
(36:40):
the debt and then also trying to pay them off.
Speaker 14 (36:43):
Yeah, it's like the status quo just becomes okay. And
I think we just again you meant you refer to
people not looking at the bills, and I think when
you don't look at the numbers, and there is this
place on your statement where you can see, if I
only pay the minimum payment, it's going to take me
twelve fifteen years to get out of this debt.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And we just choose to kind.
Speaker 14 (37:01):
Of plug our ears, cover our eyes and not realize
or not engage with that reality. And that if you
are proactive and you're thoughtful about okay, cool, where can
I cut back and maybe cut back even and there's
so many resources this how can I cut back even
in ways that aren't going to impact my lifestyle? I
think lots of people are like budget or save, well,
(37:23):
then that's going to like cramp my style, and I'm
not going to be able to live the life I want.
There's so many ways to cut back in areas that
aren't going to impact or you have a negative effect
on your current lifestyle, but it's so crucial. And then
funnel that extra money through this payoff plan towards the
credit card debt so you can be free of it,
because truly, not only is it a great thing for
(37:44):
your finances, it's a great thing for your stress and
anxiety levels too.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Okay, And if you're looking for tips undebt it or undebt.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Dot it, that's right, yep.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Okay, So let's move on from credit card debt to
student debt. A lot of people think that they're not
going to have to it.
Speaker 14 (38:01):
Yeah, So this was a new new numbers that came
from a Sally made report and so it apparently half
of student loan bars with student loan debt are saying,
I'm expecting that I'm not going to have to pay
this back. And we have created kind of a culture
at this point with multiple attempts at student loan forgiveness
that have been struck down at this point. Even the
(38:23):
just Generous Save plan right now is in limbo, and
that was just a reduced timeline for forgiveness, and it
remains to be seen whether or not that's going to
be fully implemented. I guess it's just scary to me
that people are counting their chickens before they hatch. Is
there a potential for student loan forgiveness? Sure, and could
Congress potentially act. I mean maybe I'm not really used
(38:44):
to Congress doing productive things, but if they do, it's possible.
But the way it's been attempted so far, these attempts
a student loan forgiveness have been found to be unconstitutional.
And so while I think there are things you can
do in when it comes to paying off your student
lif loans to where you're not necessarily getting them, making
that your top priority, and getting rid of those student debt,
(39:05):
that student loan debt as quickly as possible in case
there is some sort of forgiveness that comes down the pike,
I just don't love the idea that people are assuming
that their student loans will be forgiven because it just
doesn't look like right now, given the current trajectory, that
that is likely to happen.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Okay, So if it happens it's a great thing, but
don't count on it.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Okay, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And if you are strapped for cash, you can take
some money out of your four oh one k.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Right, don't say it, Amy, don't say that out loud.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You started it, you gave me the topic.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. Okay, let's talk about this.
Speaker 14 (39:38):
So there were new rules that allow for people this
year to take money out of their four oh one
k pretty much, no questions ask and they're all penalty
right without paying ten percent penalty.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Right.
Speaker 14 (39:51):
And so the penalty is there for a reason. It's
the slap on the hand when you're getting the cookie
out of the cookie jar and your mom's like, I said,
no cookies, right, And the whole point of the penalty
is to incentivize us to keep our money inside of
those tax advantage retirement accounts for longer and think about
our future selves ten twenty thirty years down the road,
(40:14):
depending on how close we are to retirement. But these
new rules allow us to take use our four o
on and k or iras as a glorified emergency fund.
And there's this USA Today headline it said need some
quick cash. You're allowed to raid your four oh one K,
and I read stuff like that, and I know that
people are maybe reading the paper or skimming the headlines
(40:35):
and they they're saying, Oh, goodie, I've got a vacation
I want to take, or you know, my car is
feeling a little long in the tooth. I think, like
i'd like to upgrade that I'm going to tap my
four oh one K for money. And so I think
the way that this is getting framed is, at least
to some people, at least the way they're interpreting it
is like, great, I can start to take money out
of my retirement account before I reach retirement age. There's
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a little bit small truth to that, because you can
take a thoud dollars out for pretty much any reason.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
They're saying it's for.
Speaker 14 (41:03):
They're calling it a hardship withdrawal, but you don't really
have to prove any sort of hardship. And so, yes,
it's possible to take a little bit of money out
of your form and K do I want you to
do that? No, because you're impacting the compounding returns that
those dollars are going to experience. And that's the whole
point of stocking that money into those accounts. It's for
decades down the road. And the key here to avoiding
tapping your retirement accounts is to not invest until you
(41:27):
have a decent emergency fund in place. We've got something
at how tomoney dot com if you click the start
here button, it's called the Money Gears and it tells
you exactly what order you should handle things, and the
emergency fund is one of those first things, because if
you start investing, you're like, well, I want to grow
my wealth.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
That's great.
Speaker 14 (41:42):
I want you to do that, but make sure you
have liquid cash on hand first, so you don't have
to pull money out at a disadvantageous time from a
retirement account to meet current needs.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
All right, Joe Larscard. Just because you can does mean
you should. And that's just one brilliant piece of advice
that you're going to here when you listen to how
to Money with Joel right here on KFI Sunday's noon
to two. You can also follow Joel at how to Money. Joel,
thanks as always for the great advice.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
All Right, this is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
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