May 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garett opens the show talking about the two Israeli embassy staff shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC and the NOLA jailbreak was predictable and what it says about the state of the U.S. prison system. KFI national correspondent Rory O’Neil speaks about the happiest places on Earth. Amy talks with Photographer/Graphic Artist Wendy Ellis about the upcoming 64th Annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival happening Memorial Day Weekend May 23-26, 2025. The show closes with retired Los Angeles weathercaster Fritz Coleman talking about his new venture, a live show called ‘Unassisted Residency.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, here's what's left of Amy King. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, May twenty second. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, thanks to Heather Brooker. Now,
I just heard that she was feeling sick too. Yes,
And of course I blame it all completely on Deborah Mark.
(00:46):
She started the whole thing. No, she was sick before me.
She was sick before me. My friend Debbie had this
a few weeks ago, same thing, she like walked me
through and I went, oh my god, that's exactly what
I am. Yeah, and I will tell you that this
cough is relentless. So if during the show there are
long pauses, it's because I've turned off my MIC and I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hacking have a long They're used to it now.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, Okay, the good news is I am caught up
on everything. I spent five days on the couch because
they started to feel really bad last Friday and then
spent the whole weekend, uh, just at home hold up,
and then of course most of this week, so I'm
caught up on all of my shows. All right, let's
get caught up on what's going on in the world.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The House has
(01:34):
passed President Trump's so called Big Beautiful Bill. The vote
this morning came in after an all night session. The
President went to Capitol Hill yesterday to try to get
holdouts to vote in favor of the massive bill. To
vote two fifteen to two fourteen. A stretch of PCH
that's been closed since the Palisades fire in january's about
(01:55):
to reopen. The highway has been restricted to businesses and
residents in the burn zone and repair cruise for the
past four months. It's supposed to reopen to the public tomorrow.
Two hundred and sixty five people have been arrested. Twenty
seven young children have been rescued in a two week
crackdown on internet crimes against children. The LAPD says operations
Spring cleaning last month targeted predators using social media to
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exploit miners across five counties in southern California. Always fascinated
by jail breaks, aren't you. Yeah, How they do it,
how they get away with it. We're going to take
a deeper look into how that group pulled it off
in Louisiana with ABC's Brad Garrett. That's coming up in
just a couple of minutes. The happiest place on Earth
for me Disneyland, of course, but in the real world,
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where are the happiest places on earth? Can't if I's
Rory or O'Neill is going to tell us, he says,
you're going to be surprised by some of them. We're
going to check in with him at five twenty. Here's
something to make you happy. Strawberries the Garden Grove Strawberry
Festival celebrating at sixty fifth anniversary this year getting underway.
We'll be talking about all the deliciousness that's coming up
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th five, and if you're in for a good laugh,
we're going to be talking with longtime TV weatherman Fritz Coleman.
He's such a delight. He's stepped out from behind the
TV camera and stepped onto the stage for his stand
up comedy show called Unassisted Residency. That's coming up before
the top of the hour, and we've got some tickets
for you to go see the show too, so stick
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around for that. See I told you lots coming up
on Wake Up Call. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A small plane has crashed in a neighborhood in San Diego.
The plane went down just before four this morning in
the area of Murphy Canyon near the fifteen and the
eight freeways. There's no word yet on injuries or how
many people were on board. A stretch of PCH that's
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been closed since the start of the fires in Pacific
Palisades set to reopen tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
For the past four months, the highway has only been
open to repair crews, essential businesses, and residents who live
in the burn areas in Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Governor
Gavin Newsom has previously mentioned reopening pieced one lane of
traffic in each direction in May. Hundreds of thousands of
people use the highway, Mark Mayfield KFI News.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Thela City Council's heard its final round of public comment
on the proposed budget for the new fiscal year.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
With the city facing around a billion dollar budget shortfall.
The original proposal from Mayor Bass was to cut around
sixteen hundred jobs, but that's been modified. The Budget Committee
says it's made other cuts, move some money around and
reduce that number closer to five hundred. Firefighter John Harper
says some of the cuts, though, would have put more
EMTs on the street.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Without funding and the constant supply of new firefighters and paramedics,
our current crisis will only get worse and this will
have deadly consequences.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
The full Council is expected to vote on the budget today.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
State Senator Brian Jones says gas prices could go up
by about sixty five cents a gallon this summer because
of Governor Newsom's policies. The minority leader in Sacramento says
he has filed two public records requests for information on
the new low carbon fuel standards that kick in July first.
He says, overregulation is the problem what.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
The Governor's been using it for lately as a hammer
to continuously drive up prices of fuel in California by
overregulating the refineries, overregulating the retailers, overregulating the oil drillers
and extractors.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Joan says the governor and the California Air Resources Board,
or driving oil companies out of the state. Californians with
student loan debt are among those most responsible at paying
it back. A new analysis by the San Jose Mercury
News finds eighteen percent of borrowers in the state were
laid on loan payments. That's lower than the twenty three
percent national rate. California ranked tenth for the percentage of
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borrowers paying back responsibly. Student loan accounts for about five
percent of all debt in California, averaging about forty six
hundred dollars per person. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Brad Garrett.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Hey, Brad, good morning, Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I want to talk about this escape because I'm absolutely
fascinated by jail breaks. I know you and I have
talked about him before. But before that, I do want
to get a quick update on that awful shooting in Washington,
d C. Last night outside the Jewish Museum. Can you
give us the latest information that you have.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Yes, it's called the Capitol Jewish Museum, not to be
confused with the Holocaust Museum. They're both here in d C.
But there are two separate entities. So the museum had
some event last night and a couple walk out and
literally are gunned down or right by the entrance to
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the museum, and the shooter was immediately taken into custody.
He didn't run. In fact, some reporting is he actually
walked into the museum, but either way, he was immediately
handcuffed by DC police and identified as a thirty year
old from Chicago. But the last day I believe in Rodriguez. Now,
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you know, there's always second guessing amy at these like,
you know, should he have been able to be there
with security adequate? I mean, I don't know, how do
you defense against, you know, picking a busy street in
Los Angeles and people walking around and people coming out
of movie theaters, restaurants whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Right, because the shooting happened out on the street, right,
it wasn't inside.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
The building exactly, So you know, gunning people down unless
you know about it, it's pretty difficult to defends against,
no matter what your security might be.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
So to be.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
That what it may, you know, it just sadly maybe
sheds additional light on what's going on in Gaza, And
I think as it gets more and more, particularly humanitarian
side of it gets more and more depleted, you're going
to get people more and more angry, and usually when
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that happens, granted, a small percentage of them will act
out violently.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah. And this guy apparently had said that he did
it for Gaza when he was taken into custody and
then was yelling free, free Palestine. So he's not making
any bones about it. It basically like you said, he
waited around for police to get there, wasn't trying to
get away.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Exactly right, Yeah, exactly right, able to make a statement, yeah,
you know, and so we're fortunate that we don't have
more of versions of this, just based on what's going
on over there.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
And so you know, it's.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Even in a tight security I suspect up even more
at anything that involves Jewish communities, synagogue, you name it.
I mean, this stuff just tightens everybody up and rightly.
Speaker 12 (08:57):
So.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, and what's scary to me, Brad is that this
is happening half a world away. This is a young
couple that had nothing to do with what's going on
in Gaza, I mean except that they're Jewish and Israel's
a Jewish state, so they are the innocence in it,
and that somebody in their warped minds is this is
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going to help fix it.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
So you have to look at it this way that
this couple is probably symbolic. I'd be shocked if he
knows anything about them, but you know, and maybe just
guess because he's standing in front of a Jewish museum
that the people coming out would be Jewish. My guess
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is it's just that simple and sad, of course, but
it's you know, you are right. I mean, they're just
here trying to do their job and apparently we're going
to get married. Yeah, and very.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sad, very sad. Okay, and now we're almost out of time,
but okay, can we talk about this the jail break
really quick, because they sure they got out. There's ten
of them, and I'm fascinated with jail breaks. What where
are we now with the group that got away, Like
ten of them got away and they've got half of
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them back, and let's sten give them back how they
got away and the system failures that enabled them to
get away, because this was not a, like you said,
a Shawshank redemption moment, which, by the way, mister Dufrain
was innocent. This disgust didn't take years and years to do.
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They basically had to break out a wall and off
they went.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Well, yes, but to remove the toilet Saint combo would
not be an easy thing to do, so they had
to have somebody smuggle tools into them. They had to
create the hole that they went through, they had to
have inside help, which they did. And you also have
to have a prison that's understand by almost forty percent,
and maintenance apparently, according to sheriff, is in really bad
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shape of doors that you can break open, they can
slide them off the hinges, whatever it might be. That
so you've got all of the elements in my view,
that lead to escapes, and they'll probably get the other five.
But because it's very hard to stay on the run
and most of these people don't have the means to
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do that in a way that they won't get caught.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And then they also made a couple of arrests of
people who have helped them since they broke out.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Right right, there's at least one guy apparently has admitted
that he was told by i think, for lack of
better terms, the leader of these ten that he was
going to get shanked if he didn't shut the water
off because once they yank the toilet and to think
there would just be a flood, And so he shuts
the water off for them. And now we'll see where
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that is. I think they've suspended some other employees, but
we'll see how far this goes. Corruption can be a
real big issue, and particularly in prisons that are so
understaffed and and the other it's going to be probably underpaid.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah. Well, and hey, I watched the mayor of Kingstown.
Prisons are nothing to be rifled with. It's amazing to
me that that kind of violence and corruption goes on
inside that. Like you said, the guy inside said they
told me that they would kill me if I didn't
turn the water off, and he took that as a
credible threat instead of like cracking down on the guys
who made the threat.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Well, other than he may not have felt comfortable in
going to anybody. We'll have to see. I mean, on
this level, if you have a prison that this has
this number of issues, there may be all sorts of
other corruption involved here. So so we'll have to see.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, absolutely, And then I'm going to be watching for
the movie because it's it's a fascinating story. How it
all comes together.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Yeah, right, Like I said, it's it's not Escape from Alcatraz,
but it does. It does have its elements.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Absolutely, Brad Garrett, ABC's crime and Terror analysts. We appreciate
the information as always. Have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
You shaidn't take care of Amy.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Okay, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The Republican
led houses approved President Trump's Big Beautiful Budget bill after
a second all night session.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
On this vote, the Yaser two hundred and fifteen the
Naser two hundred and fourteen, with one answering present.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
The bill is passed, and more than one thousand page
package includes tax cuts, trims the government's social safety net,
and adds new Washington spending. Democrats were unanimously against it.
The legislation now heads to the Senate, which is expected
to take it up after Memorial Day. House Democratic Leader
Jakim Jeffrey says the bill is anything but beautiful.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
It's reckless, regressive, and reprehensible GOP tax scam.
Speaker 12 (13:59):
This is one big, ugly bill.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Jeffrey says, it's a broken promise from Republicans that will
close hospitals and nursing homes. The bill includes changes to
Medicaid and the food stamp program, largely by imposing work
requirements on many of those who receive benefits. There's also
a rollback of green energy tax breaks. Security has been
increased at sensitive locations connected to New York City's Jewish
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community following the murders of two Israeli staff embassy members
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 13 (14:29):
Suspect's in custody and shout at Free Palestine while being
arrested after the shooting outside the Capitol Jewish Museum Wednesday night.
Authority say two embassy staffers were shot and killed during
a night out and they were about to get engaged.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he's directing the
NYPD to step up security at sensitive places. New York
has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel.
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Adam says anti Semitic violence is no place in our country. Skeppringle,
NBC NewsRadio New York.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
The US militaries accepted a luxury jet from kat to
be used as Air Force One. Eventually, The Defense Department
says the acquisition of the Katari seven forty seven is
in accordance with all federal laws.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
The Air Force now says it's preparing to award a
contract to modify the jet to serve as a presidential aircraft.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
The details of that agreement, a spokesperson says, are classified.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
ABC Stephen Portnoy says the DoD says it will work
to ensure proper security measures are considered. Hey, angel City
FC is hosting racing Louisville FC on Saturday, May twenty fourth.
That's this Saturday at Beimo Stadium. It's an aam HPI
Heritage Night. Get your tickets now at Angelcity dot com
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and you can also listen to every game NHD on
the iHeartRadio app keyword angel City FC. More than one
hundred thousand pounds of illegal fireworks have been seized in commerce.
CalFire in the Office of State Marshall or the State
Fire Marshal say the fireworks found yesterday were loaded onto
about a dozen trucks that have been taken to a
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secure storage facility. Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy
in Washington, a young couple on the verge of becoming engaged,
have been shot and killed while leaving an event at
a Jewish museum Polissa. The shooter apparently said he did
it for Gaza and yelled free, Free Palestine after he
was arrested. Southern California continues to bake under a late
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spring high pressure system. The heat advisory that was in
effect has expired, but higher than normal temperatures they're still
expected today. Parts of the San Fernando Valley, Calabasas, se
Gore Hills, and the Santa Monica Recreational Area still expected
to see tempts in the mid nineties. It's going to
cool down from Memorial Day weekend. Let's say good morning
now to kfi's Rory O'Neil So, Rory, the happiest place
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on Earth is in my humble opinion, Disneyland. But outside that,
there's a new study showing where the actual happiest places
on Earth are.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yes, and the study goes global, right And by the way,
as a person who's based in Orlando alf like you
on that Disney's.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Land, that's fighting words, Rory.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
And we're getting a new Universal theme park today.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But anyway, yeah, so, the happiest place is on Earth
according to this study. Copenhagen Denmark comes in always do well,
all we do it's the bicycles. I think that it's
all on bicycles and they're all very tall. Zurich, Switzerland
is number two. Singapore comes in number three on the
global list. Now, when you want to look at just
the happiest cities in the US, New York City comes
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in at number one, because who doesn't think every New
York City resident is a happy person?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's really Okay, we're gonna have to we're gonna have
to discuss methodology in a second. What else you got
in the US?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, Minneapolis. San Diego comes in at number thirty four
on the list, LA seventy out of the top two hundred.
By the way, Orlando wons seventy six.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
See, so we got you beat there.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Because we're all working hard at the better theme parks
that are oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Okay, course you and me, we're getting in to it. Rory. Okay.
So who determines who's happy?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
This list is actually from a group that looks at
They do this Happiest Person's list every year, and it
is from a group called the Institute for Quality of Life,
and they have a bunch of different metrics including economy, health,
mobility meaning transportation, governance, and citizens are their efforts to
promote equality, get education to every person, inclusivity, things like that.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So does it actually take into effect? How do I
put this? I mean, like whether people are happy. It
says it takes all these factors and says, oh, you know,
there's equality, Oh, transportations easy. But does that actually make
people feel happy or they just should be?
Speaker 12 (18:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I guess you're right. I guess it is more of
a should be since they're taking off all the boxes.
But you know, Copenhagen is also one of the greatest, cloudiest,
gloomiest cities in the world.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Right, but they still ride their bike everywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know, Zurich is just splendid but terribly expensive for
anyone who's living there. And Singapore, yes, well yeah, and
Singapore Nita is a pin You won't find a piece
of litter anywhere.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It's like being in Epcot, but.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Again, hot hot, hot, being essentially right on the equator.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And then like Minneapolis, I think it's beautiful for like
two or three months of the year, but otherwise it's
fricking freezing there.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It is, uh yeah, but yeah, let's see it was
it Columbus, Ohio beat out LA on this survey.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I'm not sure LA residents are all that happy, are they.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I don't know. We're a mostly happy bunch. I mean,
it's gonna be sunny in eighty five here today.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, Baltimore comes in at number eighty four on the list,
Boston one point thirty one.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
We know how lovely and happy.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Bostonians are all the time, just with showing the love country.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What are the unhappiest places?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, all they did was ranked the two hundred top happiest,
so they didn't necessarily say these locations are unhappy. So
they actually break it down into gold, silver, and bronze category.
So even the bottom of the barrel is still a
place that most would consider to be relatively happy. This
is me talking as I scrolled down to Pula, Croatia
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number two hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh, Croatia's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
In Pula though in particular Houston, Texas one ninety eight.
Uh okay, y for Ankara Turkey. All right, I think
that this I think you're right. I think this is
checking boxes. It's not actually people feeling happy. I want
to know where people feel happy. Oh that's okay, I
can go day to day as well, right, okay.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
If i's Rory O'Neil, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Thanks Art you soon all right, by bye.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Two story apartment's been evacuated and one person was seriously
injured in an explosion in the Westlake district. ELI Fire
says the explosion happened yesterday afternoon and there is structural
damage to the apartment building. LA Fire says it may
have been gas related. Sheriff Robert Luna has pushed back
against efforts by the County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to
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turn over confidential deputy personnel files. The commission says a
sheriff isn't being transparent about investigations into what it calls
systemic problems in the department. Lunas is turning over those
confidential files is prohibited by law. President Trump has met
with the President of South Africa at the White House.
During the meeting yesterday, with reporters in the room, Trump
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confronted the South African leader about his government allowing the
killing of white South African farmers.
Speaker 14 (21:31):
We have documentaries, we have news stores, and that is
Natalie here, somebody here to turn that I could show
you a couple of things, and I would I have to.
Speaker 12 (21:43):
It has to be responded to.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Trump showed video during the meeting that included far left
politicians playing an anti apartheid song that includes the lyrics
about killing farmers. The South African government and other observers
say no such genocide exists. He's for accused Idaho college
student killer Brian Koberger have been asked or have asked
(22:06):
the judge to delay the trial. The lawyers say a
story on NBC's Dateline promoted a narrative of guilt, and
that information leaked about the case to Dateline where a
violation of a gag order. They also say a book
by James Patterson about the subject could prejudice the jury.
The trial is set for August. Prosecutors in the Shawn
(22:26):
Combs trial in New York have presented evidence gathered from
a raid on the music Moguls mansion in Miami. ABC's
Aaron Katterski says investigators testified about guns, drugs, and sex
supplies found in the home last year that I.
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Think helps federal prosecutors with a visual representation putting the
guns in the same proximity as the freak off materials.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Katersky says the display helps prosecutors arguments that Combs used
violence and the threat of violence to coerce women into
sexual performances with male escorts, which Combs has denied. Spain
is fighting against Airbnb.
Speaker 15 (23:03):
Spain's consumer rights ministry has ordered Airbnb to remove more
than sixty five thousand listings in the country. Spaniards have
been complaining about over tourism and a growing housing crisis.
Spain says Airbnb was violating short term rental rules, like
using fake license numbers or not saying if a property
was owned by a person or a company. Airbnb says
it's appealing the decision and a shortage of housing is
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not its fault. Many European countries have been dealing with
rising rents, housing shortages, and increasing anti tourism protests as
holiday rental licenses have increased. Michael Krozer KFI News, I.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Love a good Airbnb house. Republicans stayed up all night
and it paid off for them, as lawmakers passed a
multi trillion dollar tax and spending package that President Trump
has called his Big Beautiful Bill. To vote was two
fifteen to two fourteen. It heads to the Senate next
A house that made it through the Palisades fire in
January has been destroyed in a fire. LA Fire says
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the house burned early yesterday afternoon. The cause hasn't been determined,
but LA Fire says the fire started near an electrical panel.
Home prices in California have reached record highs California Association
of Realtors data shows the median price for a single
family home across the state was more than nine hundred
ten thousand dollars for April. San Francisco at the highest
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median prices at nearly one point five million dollars. In
Southern California, the median price is eight hundred eighty seven
thousand dollars. Let's say good morning now to Wendy Ellis
with the sixty fifth annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Morning Wendy,
good morning. Okay, So I have to tell you I
was I'm so bummed because I was planning to do
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my out and About segment for this week at the
Strawberry Festival, and so you and I were going to
meet up yesterday and we were going to show off
all the cool treats that you're gonna have this weekend,
and then this stupid cold came along, so forget that,
but we still get to talk to you and you
can tell us what is going on this weekend and
why people need to include the Strawberry Festival in their
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Memorial Day plants.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Ah, well, thank you for having me on, and of
course we totally missed miss Nut seeing you yesterday. So
but let's get people to come on down. Joy Strawberries
have a fabulous Memorial Day weekend. It's the sixty fifth
annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival, doing it for sixty five years,
raising money for nonprofits all over the region, and we
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wanted people to have people come on down enjoy the rides,
the games, the contests, lots of live music at the
Garden Groves Amphitheater and it's just a really fun time,
a real great family time and a great way to
spend your Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Okay, so it sounds like it's a full on festival.
You're not just going down to eat strawberries, which of
course is a key element of that. So there's a
full on carnival, it was, right, okay. And then there's
music on sound stages and stuff that going on throughout
the day.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
Definitely lots of bands performing.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Okay, and then let's talk about the treats, because I mean,
it's the Strawberry Festival, and fresh strawberries just picked are
like the best thing in the whole wide world. So
what are some of the things that some of the
concoctions people are going to find.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Well, we've got a lot of new ones this year.
We really wanted to amp up the strawberries. You can't
get enough strawberry. So we have food vendors and they're
all nonprofits and so we have some really great companies
come in and work with these nonprofits to help to
help create and showcase a fabulous strawberry item. And some
of the new items we have this year is we
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have a strawberry watermelon aquafresca that actually Wahoos came in
and it's their Aqua Festa. It's fabulously amazing and you
can get that at the Garden Grove Lions Club food booths.
We also have Crema Cafe coming in with a strawberry
hand strawberry and cream handpie, like a glorified pop tart.
You can find that at the Rancho awl Amidos High
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School band food booths, and we also have strawberry frozen
yogurt from yogurt Land and they're coming in with their toppings.
That's a build at the Santiago High School band booths.
So all these food booths are located around the carnival.
Bribes are really convenient, fabulous strawberry items. And we also
have a great partner at the Higatt Regency, Orange County
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and they're featuring strawberry items in their Tusca restaurant all
month long, celebrating and supporting the Garden Grows Strawberry Festival.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
So they'll be out at the Strawberry Festival and then
also at their restaurant they're featuring it.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Yes, and they have a strawberry briushetta and a strawberry
doughnut cheesecake that's just out of the world.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Okay, I love this strawberry broshetta. Whendy, I'm reading what
it is, Grilled ficasha with whipped barata cheese, strawberry brushetta,
and then it's drizzled with aged balsamaic. I bet that
that is a fabulous sweet and savory treat.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
It is amazing. I went and I tried it two
days ago. I needed more.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
I'm already think love how much I need to go
get that.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I love it.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
Okay, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And those are just a few of the things that
you're going to get. And the weather this weekend, I
know it's been a little bit hot at the weather
this weekend is going to be absolutely fabulous. It's going
to be perfect to go hang out and listen to
some music and ride some rides and try some yummy
strawberry treats. And I love too that, Like you just
mentioned it, it's all for nonprofits, so it's raising money
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for organizations in our community. What are the the What
are the hours and times?
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Well, the hours are We kick off on Friday at
one o'clock and it goes until eleven o'clock. But the
rest of the weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday it kicks
off at ten in the morning. But we do have
a special ceremony tomorrow night at six pm on Main Street.
It's the opening ceremony and all we have a huge
strawberry chocolate, a strawberry cheesecake, and strawberry cake and we'll
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be cutting that short cake and two thousand free pieces
of cake for everybody who comes down.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Gotta love it, okay. And then for more information tickets
and all that stuff. Where do they find that information?
Speaker 10 (29:03):
I go to Strawberry Festival dot org. Real easy.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I love that. Wendy Ellis good luck with this sixty
fifth annual Garden Groves Strawberry Festival. It's deliciousness all the
way around.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Thank you. I love you so much, love listening to
every morning.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh thanks for all right, thanks so much. Time to
get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney.
I'm so glad you're backing. Okay, we missed you well,
thank you. I just when things go quiet, I just
have to warn people that I have a relentless cough.
So if it gets quiet for a couple of seconds,
that's why that turned off on my microphone. Okay, So
(29:39):
let's get right in your business. Big retailer is doing
big cuts. Yeah, pink slips are going out of Walmart. Oh,
Walmart really.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
The retail giant is said to be eliminating some of
its corporate staff. We're talking about fifteen hundred workers are affected.
So they're specifically targeting it's global technology team, the group
that handles digital orders. They say it could be a
a lot more efficient and also its advertising business. Now,
Walmart was pretty clear about this because President Trump was
kind of angry at them last week, especially when they
(30:09):
said the price hikes are due to tariffs. They say
the changes reflect the company's future strategy and they are
not related to tariffs. So they were very clear on
making sure that they noted the reason.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Okay, gotcha, I'm surprised that Walmart. That's you know, restructuring
is part of what businesses do, right.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
So yeah, what they say is there was just too
many layers of management and too many people going in
the wrong direction for things. So that's why they said,
you know what, let's make it more efficient and this
is a way that we're going to do It makes sense. Okay, Nike,
you have not been able to purchase them for years
on Amazon, but that's changing. Yeah, since twenty nineteen, you
(30:51):
couldn't purchase any Nike items. But Nike is now running
back into the arms of Amazon. They've been working to revive.
It's really Nike pretty much has been working to revive
its relationship with its retail partners, so they abandon a
lot of them in a bid to boost their own
sales channel with their old management. Now they have new
management that came in because then they realized that when
(31:14):
they got away from retail partners, it completely backfired and
it contributed to a sales slump. So independent merchants have
sole Nike products on Amazon in recent years, but those
goods didn't come directly from Nike. So now they say,
all right, we're going to hook up with Amazon. Hopefully
this is going to boost our sales, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And it makes sense because when I go to go
to buy something online, my go to really is Amazon.
I don't necessarily go to the company website because I'm like, oh,
maybe I'll get a better deal. Whether you do or not,
that's just sort of my mentality. Because a lot of
it is just so easy. You already have it set
up in your phone. You don't have to enter in
your own information or enter in so a lot of
(31:53):
people are doing exactly the way that you're doing just
because of the efficiency and knowing that they could get
it maybe within two days. Yeah, So okay, let's move
on to the really important stuff. People who make toilet
paper and toothpaste, are saying that they need to figure
out a new way to sell their products.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Yes, they have to innovate, innovate, innovate, because in past
economic downturns, these companies, these consumer product companies, either lower
their prices to get folks to buy more, or they
raise their prices to make up for the lower volume.
This time around, it's a completely different story because consumer
goods companies who're talking the Procters and Gambles of the
world Chlorox, they've been squeezed by a double whammy of
(32:32):
the weak consumer demand, plus they have the high cost
of tariffs.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
So the sector is trying new things.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
First of all, they're trying new packaging sizes to appeal
to shoppers. So this is likely going to mean smaller
packs that lower the upfront cost or expanded bundles that
decrease the cost for each item. But this is interesting.
Mentions of innovation by top consumer goods companies on their
earnings calls so far this year that has more than
doubled compared to a year ago.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Saying they know to make some changes, and they exactly
because it's not the old playbook anymore, all right, Getting
in your business every day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
We'll talk to you tomorrow, See you later. A small
plane is crashed into a neighborhood in San Diego. Authority
say the plane made a direct hit to multiple homes.
There is a fire. It's in the Murphy Canyon area
(33:21):
near the fifteen and eight freeways. A miner has been
arrested in connection with hundreds of fireworks explosions in Santa Clarita.
Residents say fireworks have been going off at a house
during all hours of the night for the last five years.
The La Zoo's two Asian elephants are settling into their
new home at the Tulsa Zou Zoo. Officials say the
zoo in Tulsa has more space, more staff, and more
(33:42):
elephants for Billy and Tina to interact with. Let's say
good morning too, Fritz Coleman. Good morning, mister Coleman, doing fabulous.
Thanks for getting up early with us today.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Hard here.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
So, Fritz, you did TV weather for years and now
you make people laugh while I'm.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Trying to That's true.
Speaker 16 (34:04):
I started my career in stand up and I got
my job doing the weather from doing stand up at
the Comedy Store.
Speaker 12 (34:10):
So it's full circle for me.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Wait, that's how you got discovered.
Speaker 16 (34:13):
Yes, I was working at the Comedy Store in nineteen
eighty two and the news director from NBC was in them.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Was in the audience.
Speaker 16 (34:23):
And then I had mentioned during my show that I
had done the weather when I worked for Armed Forces
Radio and Television in the Navy, but I didn't know
anything about it, and I had some many notes to
tell about not knowing.
Speaker 12 (34:34):
Anything about the weather and doing it, and this is
an absolutely true story. When my show was over, I went.
Speaker 16 (34:41):
Backstage to meet these people, and this man, Steve Antonetti,
god rest his soul, said to me, this is a
weird question, but do you have any desire to come
to Channel four and do some vacation relief fill in
weather for me? And I said, you did hear me
say on stage that I don't know anything about the weather.
He's perfect, there's no weather in California. This will work
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out great. So I auditioned. I got the job doing
fill in for a couple of years. Then my predecessor
left and I got bumped up to the main job
and I was there for forty years.
Speaker 12 (35:15):
It's an honest to god miracle.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Isn't that fun? So now did the You said that
the stand up gig gave you some fodder for the
weather gig? Did it work in reverse? Two?
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Yes, it is. It was. They were mutually beneficial experiences.
Speaker 16 (35:35):
From playing to drunks at one o'clock in the morning
and comedy clubs. There was no emergency situation on TV
that I couldn't react well and not lose my cool.
And the reverse of that was true. Being on television
doing the weather helped me to get booked around in
shows in southern California.
Speaker 12 (35:53):
So it was, it was. It was a mutually beneficial experience.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
And now you're just doing this. This is your job.
Now you've left my job. The weather is gone. And
I know we've talked before and you said you don't
miss it at or lick.
Speaker 16 (36:08):
Well, no, I mean I tell people, even if you
love what you do, forty years is long enough.
Speaker 12 (36:15):
And I'm glad to be retired.
Speaker 16 (36:18):
I get to do this show at the elports Ole Theater,
which has been going on for a year and a half.
It's called Unassisted Living. It's a show for people of
a certain age. So I get to go on stage
and wine for an hour and twenty minutes about the
joys the euphoria of being old and people who are
in that similar circumstance have a good time. I say,
(36:41):
if you have a Medicare card and you appreciate being
home by dark, you need to come and see this
show because it was.
Speaker 12 (36:47):
Built for you.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Okay, So then let me ask you this, Fris because
I remember I used to have a friend who was
several years older than me, and I'd go, oh, I
don't feel that way yet, or and she kept saying,
just you wait, just you wait, you'll get there soon enough.
Is there some of that in your show? Because there
are certain things.
Speaker 16 (37:07):
That's the whole thing. That's the whole thing. It's the
common experience. Some of the topics we talk about are
having grandchildren during the pandemic, what happens to your body,
men and women, how you perceive the world, your lack
of energy, how you assess how you were as a parent,
all the common experiences of being old, and not all
(37:29):
of it is bad. I closed the show out with
a whole block on being grateful. The one thing that's
happened to me since I got older is I find
myself being more grateful for everything I have and everything
I've experienced, and I sort of close out on a
positive note, and it's fun. I have found that a
comedy these days, with the darkness and the division in
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the world, is really very therapeutic. I don't do any politics.
It's a relatively clean show. So my job is to
just take people's heads out of the rest of the
weirdness in the world and allow them to understand what's
common among us instead of what divides us.
Speaker 12 (38:13):
It's what's common among us.
Speaker 16 (38:15):
And if you're given the gift of being able to
get to a certain age, then these are all the
typical experiences. And there are people who have been back
two and three times to see this show, and so
I think it's working okay.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
And then, Fritz, all of your shows at the El
Portal Theater are matinees.
Speaker 16 (38:34):
How come well because people in my particular demographic, which
is old people and their parents, like to be home
by dark. So we start the show at three in
the afternoon on a Sunday. It's usually the last Sunday
of every month, and we just find that that's a
good fit for the people that come to see this show.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I love it. And then there's a special for the
summer to two for one.
Speaker 16 (38:59):
That's true, and we're really excited to announce this. If
you buy a ticket at Elportthaltheater dot com anytime between
June first and June fifteenth, it's two for one. You'll
buy one ticket, you'll get one free, and those tickets
are good for any show in the summer all the
way through September. So we'd love to see you. It's
(39:19):
the Marilyn Monroe Farm is part of the Elportal Theater
and it's just small enough for me to come and
hug everybody after the show.
Speaker 12 (39:26):
I would love to meet you. Come on out and
see us.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I love that, And so we've got when's your next?
Is the next one?
Speaker 12 (39:32):
This Sunday? Were this Sunday?
Speaker 16 (39:34):
If you want to come to Sunday, I'm not sure
where there are any tickets left, but you can try
Sunday the twenty fifth at three o'clock Elportsoaltheater dot com.
And it's a Memorial Day weekend, so you may or
may not be able to fit us into your schedule,
but if not, come and get a two for one
deal and come and see you sometime this summer.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I love that Fritz Coleman Unassisted Living. It's such a
fun show. I actually I got to watch the special
that you recorded. It's a lot of fun. And in fact, Fritz,
we're going to make it fun for a couple of
week up call listeners because we have two pair of
tickets to give away, so we're going to do that
right now. Fritz Coleman, thank you so much, and we
look forward to seeing the show. It sounds like a
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lot of a great time.
Speaker 12 (40:13):
Thank you enough, Amy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
All right, take care, all right. As I mentioned, we
have two pair of tickets to give away to go
see Unassisted Living. It's Fritz Coleman, a lot of fun
and I love no politics, not a nasty one, just
a feel good comedy show. I love it before dark
and you and you're home before dark. It's lovely. Okay.
Here are the numbers to call. One eight hundred five
(40:37):
to zero one k F. I again, one eight hundred
five to two zero one k FI. And we'll take
callers number eight and nine because you're going to be
home before eight or nine when you go see this show.
One eight hundred five to zero one KFI again callers
number eight and nine to see Fritz Coleman's unassisted living
(41:00):
Such a delight, loves that. Okay, this is KFI and
KOST HD two and that means our time with wake
Up Call this morning is up. Thanks again to Heather
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for your patients. I made it through the first hour.
Now I got a face handle and he's coming up next.
Live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
(41:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, here's what's left of Amy King. This is your
wake up call for Thursday, May twenty second. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, thanks to Heather Brooker. Now,
I just heard that she was feeling sick too. Yes,
And of course I blame it all completely on Deborah Mark.
(00:46):
She started the whole thing. No, she was sick before me.
She was sick before me. My friend Debbie had this
a few weeks ago, same thing, she like walked me
through and I went, oh my god, that's exactly what
I am. Yeah, and I will tell you that this
cough is relentless. So if during the show there are
long pauses, it's because I've turned off my MIC and I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Hacking have a long They're used to it now.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, Okay, the good news is I am caught up
on everything. I spent five days on the couch because
they started to feel really bad last Friday and then
spent the whole weekend, uh, just at home hold up,
and then of course most of this week, so I'm
caught up on all of my shows. All right, let's
get caught up on what's going on in the world.
Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The House has
(01:34):
passed President Trump's so called Big Beautiful Bill. The vote
this morning came in after an all night session. The
President went to Capitol Hill yesterday to try to get
holdouts to vote in favor of the massive bill. To
vote two fifteen to two fourteen. A stretch of PCH
that's been closed since the Palisades fire in january's about
(01:55):
to reopen. The highway has been restricted to businesses and
residents in the burn zone and repair cruise for the
past four months. It's supposed to reopen to the public tomorrow.
Two hundred and sixty five people have been arrested. Twenty
seven young children have been rescued in a two week
crackdown on internet crimes against children. The LAPD says operations
Spring cleaning last month targeted predators using social media to
(02:18):
exploit miners across five counties in southern California. Always fascinated
by jail breaks, aren't you. Yeah, How they do it,
how they get away with it. We're going to take
a deeper look into how that group pulled it off
in Louisiana with ABC's Brad Garrett. That's coming up in
just a couple of minutes. The happiest place on Earth
for me Disneyland, of course, but in the real world,
(02:39):
where are the happiest places on earth? Can't if I's
Rory or O'Neill is going to tell us, he says,
you're going to be surprised by some of them. We're
going to check in with him at five twenty. Here's
something to make you happy. Strawberries the Garden Grove Strawberry
Festival celebrating at sixty fifth anniversary this year getting underway.
We'll be talking about all the deliciousness that's coming up
(03:00):
th five, and if you're in for a good laugh,
we're going to be talking with longtime TV weatherman Fritz Coleman.
He's such a delight. He's stepped out from behind the
TV camera and stepped onto the stage for his stand
up comedy show called Unassisted Residency. That's coming up before
the top of the hour, and we've got some tickets
for you to go see the show too, so stick
(03:20):
around for that. See I told you lots coming up
on Wake Up Call. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A small plane has crashed in a neighborhood in San Diego.
The plane went down just before four this morning in
the area of Murphy Canyon near the fifteen and the
eight freeways. There's no word yet on injuries or how
many people were on board. A stretch of PCH that's
(03:43):
been closed since the start of the fires in Pacific
Palisades set to reopen tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
For the past four months, the highway has only been
open to repair crews, essential businesses, and residents who live
in the burn areas in Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Governor
Gavin Newsom has previously mentioned reopening pieced one lane of
traffic in each direction in May. Hundreds of thousands of
people use the highway, Mark Mayfield KFI News.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Thela City Council's heard its final round of public comment
on the proposed budget for the new fiscal year.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
With the city facing around a billion dollar budget shortfall.
The original proposal from Mayor Bass was to cut around
sixteen hundred jobs, but that's been modified. The Budget Committee
says it's made other cuts, move some money around and
reduce that number closer to five hundred. Firefighter John Harper
says some of the cuts, though, would have put more
EMTs on the street.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Without funding and the constant supply of new firefighters and paramedics,
our current crisis will only get worse and this will
have deadly consequences.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
The full Council is expected to vote on the budget today.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
State Senator Brian Jones says gas prices could go up
by about sixty five cents a gallon this summer because
of Governor Newsom's policies. The minority leader in Sacramento says
he has filed two public records requests for information on
the new low carbon fuel standards that kick in July first.
He says, overregulation is the problem what.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
The Governor's been using it for lately as a hammer
to continuously drive up prices of fuel in California by
overregulating the refineries, overregulating the retailers, overregulating the oil drillers
and extractors.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Joan says the governor and the California Air Resources Board,
or driving oil companies out of the state. Californians with
student loan debt are among those most responsible at paying
it back. A new analysis by the San Jose Mercury
News finds eighteen percent of borrowers in the state were
laid on loan payments. That's lower than the twenty three
percent national rate. California ranked tenth for the percentage of
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borrowers paying back responsibly. Student loan accounts for about five
percent of all debt in California, averaging about forty six
hundred dollars per person. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Brad Garrett.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
Hey, Brad, good morning, Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I want to talk about this escape because I'm absolutely
fascinated by jail breaks. I know you and I have
talked about him before. But before that, I do want
to get a quick update on that awful shooting in Washington,
d C. Last night outside the Jewish Museum. Can you
give us the latest information that you have.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Yes, it's called the Capitol Jewish Museum, not to be
confused with the Holocaust Museum. They're both here in d C.
But there are two separate entities. So the museum had
some event last night and a couple walk out and
literally are gunned down or right by the entrance to
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the museum, and the shooter was immediately taken into custody.
He didn't run. In fact, some reporting is he actually
walked into the museum, but either way, he was immediately
handcuffed by DC police and identified as a thirty year
old from Chicago. But the last day I believe in Rodriguez. Now,
(07:04):
you know, there's always second guessing amy at these like,
you know, should he have been able to be there
with security adequate? I mean, I don't know, how do
you defense against, you know, picking a busy street in
Los Angeles and people walking around and people coming out
of movie theaters, restaurants whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Right, because the shooting happened out on the street, right,
it wasn't inside.
Speaker 9 (07:29):
The building exactly, So you know, gunning people down unless
you know about it, it's pretty difficult to defends against,
no matter what your security might be.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
So to be.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
That what it may, you know, it just sadly maybe
sheds additional light on what's going on in Gaza, And
I think as it gets more and more, particularly humanitarian
side of it gets more and more depleted, you're going
to get people more and more angry, and usually when
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that happens, granted, a small percentage of them will act
out violently.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah. And this guy apparently had said that he did
it for Gaza when he was taken into custody and
then was yelling free, free Palestine. So he's not making
any bones about it. It basically like you said, he
waited around for police to get there, wasn't trying to
get away.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Exactly right, Yeah, exactly right, able to make a statement, yeah,
you know, and so we're fortunate that we don't have
more of versions of this, just based on what's going
on over there.
Speaker 11 (08:42):
And so you know, it's.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Even in a tight security I suspect up even more
at anything that involves Jewish communities, synagogue, you name it.
I mean, this stuff just tightens everybody up and rightly.
Speaker 12 (08:57):
So.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, and what's scary to me, Brad is that this
is happening half a world away. This is a young
couple that had nothing to do with what's going on
in Gaza, I mean except that they're Jewish and Israel's
a Jewish state, so they are the innocence in it,
and that somebody in their warped minds is this is
(09:17):
going to help fix it.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
So you have to look at it this way that
this couple is probably symbolic. I'd be shocked if he
knows anything about them, but you know, and maybe just
guess because he's standing in front of a Jewish museum
that the people coming out would be Jewish. My guess
(09:41):
is it's just that simple and sad, of course, but
it's you know, you are right. I mean, they're just
here trying to do their job and apparently we're going
to get married. Yeah, and very.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Sad, very sad. Okay, and now we're almost out of time,
but okay, can we talk about this the jail break
really quick, because they sure they got out. There's ten
of them, and I'm fascinated with jail breaks. What where
are we now with the group that got away, Like
ten of them got away and they've got half of
(10:17):
them back, and let's sten give them back how they
got away and the system failures that enabled them to
get away, because this was not a, like you said,
a Shawshank redemption moment, which, by the way, mister Dufrain
was innocent. This disgust didn't take years and years to do.
(10:39):
They basically had to break out a wall and off
they went.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Well, yes, but to remove the toilet Saint combo would
not be an easy thing to do, so they had
to have somebody smuggle tools into them. They had to
create the hole that they went through, they had to
have inside help, which they did. And you also have
to have a prison that's understand by almost forty percent,
and maintenance apparently, according to sheriff, is in really bad
(11:07):
shape of doors that you can break open, they can
slide them off the hinges, whatever it might be. That
so you've got all of the elements in my view,
that lead to escapes, and they'll probably get the other five.
But because it's very hard to stay on the run
and most of these people don't have the means to
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do that in a way that they won't get caught.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And then they also made a couple of arrests of
people who have helped them since they broke out.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Right right, there's at least one guy apparently has admitted
that he was told by i think, for lack of
better terms, the leader of these ten that he was
going to get shanked if he didn't shut the water
off because once they yank the toilet and to think
there would just be a flood, And so he shuts
the water off for them. And now we'll see where
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that is. I think they've suspended some other employees, but
we'll see how far this goes. Corruption can be a
real big issue, and particularly in prisons that are so
understaffed and and the other it's going to be probably underpaid.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah. Well, and hey, I watched the mayor of Kingstown.
Prisons are nothing to be rifled with. It's amazing to
me that that kind of violence and corruption goes on
inside that. Like you said, the guy inside said they
told me that they would kill me if I didn't
turn the water off, and he took that as a
credible threat instead of like cracking down on the guys
who made the threat.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Well, other than he may not have felt comfortable in
going to anybody. We'll have to see. I mean, on
this level, if you have a prison that this has
this number of issues, there may be all sorts of
other corruption involved here. So so we'll have to see.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, absolutely, And then I'm going to be watching for
the movie because it's it's a fascinating story. How it
all comes together.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
Yeah, right, Like I said, it's it's not Escape from Alcatraz,
but it does. It does have its elements.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Absolutely, Brad Garrett, ABC's crime and Terror analysts. We appreciate
the information as always. Have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
You shaidn't take care of Amy.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Okay, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The Republican
led houses approved President Trump's Big Beautiful Budget bill after
a second all night session.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
On this vote, the Yaser two hundred and fifteen the
Naser two hundred and fourteen, with one answering present.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
The bill is passed, and more than one thousand page
package includes tax cuts, trims the government's social safety net,
and adds new Washington spending. Democrats were unanimously against it.
The legislation now heads to the Senate, which is expected
to take it up after Memorial Day. House Democratic Leader
Jakim Jeffrey says the bill is anything but beautiful.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
It's reckless, regressive, and reprehensible GOP tax scam.
Speaker 12 (13:59):
This is one big, ugly bill.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Jeffrey says, it's a broken promise from Republicans that will
close hospitals and nursing homes. The bill includes changes to
Medicaid and the food stamp program, largely by imposing work
requirements on many of those who receive benefits. There's also
a rollback of green energy tax breaks. Security has been
increased at sensitive locations connected to New York City's Jewish
(14:23):
community following the murders of two Israeli staff embassy members
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 13 (14:29):
Suspect's in custody and shout at Free Palestine while being
arrested after the shooting outside the Capitol Jewish Museum Wednesday night.
Authority say two embassy staffers were shot and killed during
a night out and they were about to get engaged.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he's directing the
NYPD to step up security at sensitive places. New York
has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel.
(14:51):
Adam says anti Semitic violence is no place in our country. Skeppringle,
NBC NewsRadio New York.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
The US militaries accepted a luxury jet from kat to
be used as Air Force One. Eventually, The Defense Department
says the acquisition of the Katari seven forty seven is
in accordance with all federal laws.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
The Air Force now says it's preparing to award a
contract to modify the jet to serve as a presidential aircraft.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
The details of that agreement, a spokesperson says, are classified.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
ABC Stephen Portnoy says the DoD says it will work
to ensure proper security measures are considered. Hey, angel City
FC is hosting racing Louisville FC on Saturday, May twenty fourth.
That's this Saturday at Beimo Stadium. It's an aam HPI
Heritage Night. Get your tickets now at Angelcity dot com
(15:40):
and you can also listen to every game NHD on
the iHeartRadio app keyword angel City FC. More than one
hundred thousand pounds of illegal fireworks have been seized in commerce.
CalFire in the Office of State Marshall or the State
Fire Marshal say the fireworks found yesterday were loaded onto
about a dozen trucks that have been taken to a
(16:01):
secure storage facility. Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy
in Washington, a young couple on the verge of becoming engaged,
have been shot and killed while leaving an event at
a Jewish museum Polissa. The shooter apparently said he did
it for Gaza and yelled free, Free Palestine after he
was arrested. Southern California continues to bake under a late
(16:22):
spring high pressure system. The heat advisory that was in
effect has expired, but higher than normal temperatures they're still
expected today. Parts of the San Fernando Valley, Calabasas, se
Gore Hills, and the Santa Monica Recreational Area still expected
to see tempts in the mid nineties. It's going to
cool down from Memorial Day weekend. Let's say good morning
now to kfi's Rory O'Neil So, Rory, the happiest place
(16:45):
on Earth is in my humble opinion, Disneyland. But outside that,
there's a new study showing where the actual happiest places
on Earth are.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yes, and the study goes global, right And by the way,
as a person who's based in Orlando alf like you
on that Disney's.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Land, that's fighting words, Rory.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
And we're getting a new Universal theme park today.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But anyway, yeah, so, the happiest place is on Earth
according to this study. Copenhagen Denmark comes in always do well,
all we do it's the bicycles. I think that it's
all on bicycles and they're all very tall. Zurich, Switzerland
is number two. Singapore comes in number three on the
global list. Now, when you want to look at just
the happiest cities in the US, New York City comes
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in at number one, because who doesn't think every New
York City resident is a happy person?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
That's really Okay, we're gonna have to we're gonna have
to discuss methodology in a second. What else you got
in the US?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, Minneapolis. San Diego comes in at number thirty four
on the list, LA seventy out of the top two hundred.
By the way, Orlando wons seventy six.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
See, so we got you beat there.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Because we're all working hard at the better theme parks
that are oh my god.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Okay, course you and me, we're getting in to it. Rory. Okay.
So who determines who's happy?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
This list is actually from a group that looks at
They do this Happiest Person's list every year, and it
is from a group called the Institute for Quality of Life,
and they have a bunch of different metrics including economy, health,
mobility meaning transportation, governance, and citizens are their efforts to
promote equality, get education to every person, inclusivity, things like that.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So does it actually take into effect? How do I
put this? I mean, like whether people are happy. It
says it takes all these factors and says, oh, you know,
there's equality, Oh, transportations easy. But does that actually make
people feel happy or they just should be?
Speaker 12 (18:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I guess you're right. I guess it is more of
a should be since they're taking off all the boxes.
But you know, Copenhagen is also one of the greatest, cloudiest,
gloomiest cities in the world.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Right, but they still ride their bike everywhere.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know, Zurich is just splendid but terribly expensive for
anyone who's living there. And Singapore, yes, well yeah, and
Singapore Nita is a pin You won't find a piece
of litter anywhere.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
It's like being in Epcot, but.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Again, hot hot, hot, being essentially right on the equator.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And then like Minneapolis, I think it's beautiful for like
two or three months of the year, but otherwise it's
fricking freezing there.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
It is, uh yeah, but yeah, let's see it was
it Columbus, Ohio beat out LA on this survey.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I'm not sure LA residents are all that happy, are they.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I don't know. We're a mostly happy bunch. I mean,
it's gonna be sunny in eighty five here today.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, Baltimore comes in at number eighty four on the list,
Boston one point thirty one.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
We know how lovely and happy.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Bostonians are all the time, just with showing the love country.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What are the unhappiest places?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Well, all they did was ranked the two hundred top happiest,
so they didn't necessarily say these locations are unhappy. So
they actually break it down into gold, silver, and bronze category.
So even the bottom of the barrel is still a
place that most would consider to be relatively happy. This
is me talking as I scrolled down to Pula, Croatia
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number two hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh, Croatia's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
In Pula though in particular Houston, Texas one ninety eight.
Uh okay, y for Ankara Turkey. All right, I think
that this I think you're right. I think this is
checking boxes. It's not actually people feeling happy. I want
to know where people feel happy. Oh that's okay, I
can go day to day as well, right, okay.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
If i's Rory O'Neil, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Thanks Art you soon all right, by bye.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Two story apartment's been evacuated and one person was seriously
injured in an explosion in the Westlake district. ELI Fire
says the explosion happened yesterday afternoon and there is structural
damage to the apartment building. LA Fire says it may
have been gas related. Sheriff Robert Luna has pushed back
against efforts by the County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission to
(21:05):
turn over confidential deputy personnel files. The commission says a
sheriff isn't being transparent about investigations into what it calls
systemic problems in the department. Lunas is turning over those
confidential files is prohibited by law. President Trump has met
with the President of South Africa at the White House.
During the meeting yesterday, with reporters in the room, Trump
(21:26):
confronted the South African leader about his government allowing the
killing of white South African farmers.
Speaker 14 (21:31):
We have documentaries, we have news stores, and that is
Natalie here, somebody here to turn that I could show
you a couple of things, and I would I have to.
Speaker 12 (21:43):
It has to be responded to.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Trump showed video during the meeting that included far left
politicians playing an anti apartheid song that includes the lyrics
about killing farmers. The South African government and other observers
say no such genocide exists. He's for accused Idaho college
student killer Brian Koberger have been asked or have asked
(22:06):
the judge to delay the trial. The lawyers say a
story on NBC's Dateline promoted a narrative of guilt, and
that information leaked about the case to Dateline where a
violation of a gag order. They also say a book
by James Patterson about the subject could prejudice the jury.
The trial is set for August. Prosecutors in the Shawn
(22:26):
Combs trial in New York have presented evidence gathered from
a raid on the music Moguls mansion in Miami. ABC's
Aaron Katterski says investigators testified about guns, drugs, and sex
supplies found in the home last year that I.
Speaker 15 (22:39):
Think helps federal prosecutors with a visual representation putting the
guns in the same proximity as the freak off materials.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Katersky says the display helps prosecutors arguments that Combs used
violence and the threat of violence to coerce women into
sexual performances with male escorts, which Combs has denied. Spain
is fighting against Airbnb.
Speaker 15 (23:03):
Spain's consumer rights ministry has ordered Airbnb to remove more
than sixty five thousand listings in the country. Spaniards have
been complaining about over tourism and a growing housing crisis.
Spain says Airbnb was violating short term rental rules, like
using fake license numbers or not saying if a property
was owned by a person or a company. Airbnb says
it's appealing the decision and a shortage of housing is
(23:24):
not its fault. Many European countries have been dealing with
rising rents, housing shortages, and increasing anti tourism protests as
holiday rental licenses have increased. Michael Krozer KFI News, I.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Love a good Airbnb house. Republicans stayed up all night
and it paid off for them, as lawmakers passed a
multi trillion dollar tax and spending package that President Trump
has called his Big Beautiful Bill. To vote was two
fifteen to two fourteen. It heads to the Senate next
A house that made it through the Palisades fire in
January has been destroyed in a fire. LA Fire says
(23:58):
the house burned early yesterday afternoon. The cause hasn't been determined,
but LA Fire says the fire started near an electrical panel.
Home prices in California have reached record highs California Association
of Realtors data shows the median price for a single
family home across the state was more than nine hundred
ten thousand dollars for April. San Francisco at the highest
(24:20):
median prices at nearly one point five million dollars. In
Southern California, the median price is eight hundred eighty seven
thousand dollars. Let's say good morning now to Wendy Ellis
with the sixty fifth annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Morning Wendy,
good morning. Okay, So I have to tell you I
was I'm so bummed because I was planning to do
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my out and About segment for this week at the
Strawberry Festival, and so you and I were going to
meet up yesterday and we were going to show off
all the cool treats that you're gonna have this weekend,
and then this stupid cold came along, so forget that,
but we still get to talk to you and you
can tell us what is going on this weekend and
why people need to include the Strawberry Festival in their
(25:05):
Memorial Day plants.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Ah, well, thank you for having me on, and of
course we totally missed miss Nut seeing you yesterday. So
but let's get people to come on down. Joy Strawberries
have a fabulous Memorial Day weekend. It's the sixty fifth
annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival, doing it for sixty five years,
raising money for nonprofits all over the region, and we
(25:29):
wanted people to have people come on down enjoy the rides,
the games, the contests, lots of live music at the
Garden Groves Amphitheater and it's just a really fun time,
a real great family time and a great way to
spend your Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Okay, so it sounds like it's a full on festival.
You're not just going down to eat strawberries, which of
course is a key element of that. So there's a
full on carnival, it was, right, okay. And then there's
music on sound stages and stuff that going on throughout
the day.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
Definitely lots of bands performing.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Okay, and then let's talk about the treats, because I mean,
it's the Strawberry Festival, and fresh strawberries just picked are
like the best thing in the whole wide world. So
what are some of the things that some of the
concoctions people are going to find.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
Well, we've got a lot of new ones this year.
We really wanted to amp up the strawberries. You can't
get enough strawberry. So we have food vendors and they're
all nonprofits and so we have some really great companies
come in and work with these nonprofits to help to
help create and showcase a fabulous strawberry item. And some
of the new items we have this year is we
(26:39):
have a strawberry watermelon aquafresca that actually Wahoos came in
and it's their Aqua Festa. It's fabulously amazing and you
can get that at the Garden Grove Lions Club food booths.
We also have Crema Cafe coming in with a strawberry
hand strawberry and cream handpie, like a glorified pop tart.
You can find that at the Rancho awl Amidos High
(27:00):
School band food booths, and we also have strawberry frozen
yogurt from yogurt Land and they're coming in with their toppings.
That's a build at the Santiago High School band booths.
So all these food booths are located around the carnival.
Bribes are really convenient, fabulous strawberry items. And we also
have a great partner at the Higatt Regency, Orange County
(27:23):
and they're featuring strawberry items in their Tusca restaurant all
month long, celebrating and supporting the Garden Grows Strawberry Festival.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
So they'll be out at the Strawberry Festival and then
also at their restaurant they're featuring it.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
Yes, and they have a strawberry briushetta and a strawberry
doughnut cheesecake that's just out of the world.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Okay, I love this strawberry broshetta. Whendy, I'm reading what
it is, Grilled ficasha with whipped barata cheese, strawberry brushetta,
and then it's drizzled with aged balsamaic. I bet that
that is a fabulous sweet and savory treat.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
It is amazing. I went and I tried it two
days ago. I needed more.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
I'm already think love how much I need to go
get that.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I love it.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
Okay, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And those are just a few of the things that
you're going to get. And the weather this weekend, I
know it's been a little bit hot at the weather
this weekend is going to be absolutely fabulous. It's going
to be perfect to go hang out and listen to
some music and ride some rides and try some yummy
strawberry treats. And I love too that, Like you just
mentioned it, it's all for nonprofits, so it's raising money
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for organizations in our community. What are the the What
are the hours and times?
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Well, the hours are We kick off on Friday at
one o'clock and it goes until eleven o'clock. But the
rest of the weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday it kicks
off at ten in the morning. But we do have
a special ceremony tomorrow night at six pm on Main Street.
It's the opening ceremony and all we have a huge
strawberry chocolate, a strawberry cheesecake, and strawberry cake and we'll
(28:53):
be cutting that short cake and two thousand free pieces
of cake for everybody who comes down.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Gotta love it, okay. And then for more information tickets
and all that stuff. Where do they find that information?
Speaker 10 (29:03):
I go to Strawberry Festival dot org. Real easy.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I love that. Wendy Ellis good luck with this sixty
fifth annual Garden Groves Strawberry Festival. It's deliciousness all the
way around.
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Thank you. I love you so much, love listening to
every morning.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh thanks for all right, thanks so much. Time to
get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney.
I'm so glad you're backing. Okay, we missed you well,
thank you. I just when things go quiet, I just
have to warn people that I have a relentless cough.
So if it gets quiet for a couple of seconds,
that's why that turned off on my microphone. Okay, So
(29:39):
let's get right in your business. Big retailer is doing
big cuts. Yeah, pink slips are going out of Walmart. Oh,
Walmart really.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
The retail giant is said to be eliminating some of
its corporate staff. We're talking about fifteen hundred workers are affected.
So they're specifically targeting it's global technology team, the group
that handles digital orders. They say it could be a
a lot more efficient and also its advertising business. Now,
Walmart was pretty clear about this because President Trump was
kind of angry at them last week, especially when they
(30:09):
said the price hikes are due to tariffs. They say
the changes reflect the company's future strategy and they are
not related to tariffs. So they were very clear on
making sure that they noted the reason.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Okay, gotcha, I'm surprised that Walmart. That's you know, restructuring
is part of what businesses do, right.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
So yeah, what they say is there was just too
many layers of management and too many people going in
the wrong direction for things. So that's why they said,
you know what, let's make it more efficient and this
is a way that we're going to do It makes sense. Okay, Nike,
you have not been able to purchase them for years
on Amazon, but that's changing. Yeah, since twenty nineteen, you
(30:51):
couldn't purchase any Nike items. But Nike is now running
back into the arms of Amazon. They've been working to revive.
It's really Nike pretty much has been working to revive
its relationship with its retail partners, so they abandon a
lot of them in a bid to boost their own
sales channel with their old management. Now they have new
management that came in because then they realized that when
(31:14):
they got away from retail partners, it completely backfired and
it contributed to a sales slump. So independent merchants have
sole Nike products on Amazon in recent years, but those
goods didn't come directly from Nike. So now they say,
all right, we're going to hook up with Amazon. Hopefully
this is going to boost our sales, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And it makes sense because when I go to go
to buy something online, my go to really is Amazon.
I don't necessarily go to the company website because I'm like, oh,
maybe I'll get a better deal. Whether you do or not,
that's just sort of my mentality. Because a lot of
it is just so easy. You already have it set
up in your phone. You don't have to enter in
your own information or enter in so a lot of
(31:53):
people are doing exactly the way that you're doing just
because of the efficiency and knowing that they could get
it maybe within two days. Yeah, So okay, let's move
on to the really important stuff. People who make toilet
paper and toothpaste, are saying that they need to figure
out a new way to sell their products.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Yes, they have to innovate, innovate, innovate, because in past
economic downturns, these companies, these consumer product companies, either lower
their prices to get folks to buy more, or they
raise their prices to make up for the lower volume.
This time around, it's a completely different story because consumer
goods companies who're talking the Procters and Gambles of the
world Chlorox, they've been squeezed by a double whammy of
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the weak consumer demand, plus they have the high cost
of tariffs.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
So the sector is trying new things.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
First of all, they're trying new packaging sizes to appeal
to shoppers. So this is likely going to mean smaller
packs that lower the upfront cost or expanded bundles that
decrease the cost for each item. But this is interesting.
Mentions of innovation by top consumer goods companies on their
earnings calls so far this year that has more than
doubled compared to a year ago.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Saying they know to make some changes, and they exactly
because it's not the old playbook anymore, all right, Getting
in your business every day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
We'll talk to you tomorrow, See you later. A small
plane is crashed into a neighborhood in San Diego. Authority
say the plane made a direct hit to multiple homes.
There is a fire. It's in the Murphy Canyon area
(33:21):
near the fifteen and eight freeways. A miner has been
arrested in connection with hundreds of fireworks explosions in Santa Clarita.
Residents say fireworks have been going off at a house
during all hours of the night for the last five years.
The La Zoo's two Asian elephants are settling into their
new home at the Tulsa Zou Zoo. Officials say the
zoo in Tulsa has more space, more staff, and more
(33:42):
elephants for Billy and Tina to interact with. Let's say
good morning too, Fritz Coleman. Good morning, mister Coleman, doing fabulous.
Thanks for getting up early with us today.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Hard here.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
So, Fritz, you did TV weather for years and now
you make people laugh while I'm.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Trying to That's true.
Speaker 16 (34:04):
I started my career in stand up and I got
my job doing the weather from doing stand up at
the Comedy Store.
Speaker 12 (34:10):
So it's full circle for me.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Wait, that's how you got discovered.
Speaker 16 (34:13):
Yes, I was working at the Comedy Store in nineteen
eighty two and the news director from NBC was in them.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Was in the audience.
Speaker 16 (34:23):
And then I had mentioned during my show that I
had done the weather when I worked for Armed Forces
Radio and Television in the Navy, but I didn't know
anything about it, and I had some many notes to
tell about not knowing.
Speaker 12 (34:34):
Anything about the weather and doing it, and this is
an absolutely true story. When my show was over, I went.
Speaker 16 (34:41):
Backstage to meet these people, and this man, Steve Antonetti,
god rest his soul, said to me, this is a
weird question, but do you have any desire to come
to Channel four and do some vacation relief fill in
weather for me? And I said, you did hear me
say on stage that I don't know anything about the weather.
He's perfect, there's no weather in California. This will work
(35:04):
out great. So I auditioned. I got the job doing
fill in for a couple of years. Then my predecessor
left and I got bumped up to the main job
and I was there for forty years.
Speaker 12 (35:15):
It's an honest to god miracle.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Isn't that fun? So now did the You said that
the stand up gig gave you some fodder for the
weather gig? Did it work in reverse? Two?
Speaker 12 (35:28):
Yes, it is. It was. They were mutually beneficial experiences.
Speaker 16 (35:35):
From playing to drunks at one o'clock in the morning
and comedy clubs. There was no emergency situation on TV
that I couldn't react well and not lose my cool.
And the reverse of that was true. Being on television
doing the weather helped me to get booked around in
shows in southern California.
Speaker 12 (35:53):
So it was, it was. It was a mutually beneficial experience.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
And now you're just doing this. This is your job.
Now you've left my job. The weather is gone. And
I know we've talked before and you said you don't
miss it at or lick.
Speaker 16 (36:08):
Well, no, I mean I tell people, even if you
love what you do, forty years is long enough.
Speaker 12 (36:15):
And I'm glad to be retired.
Speaker 16 (36:18):
I get to do this show at the elports Ole Theater,
which has been going on for a year and a half.
It's called Unassisted Living. It's a show for people of
a certain age. So I get to go on stage
and wine for an hour and twenty minutes about the
joys the euphoria of being old and people who are
in that similar circumstance have a good time. I say,
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if you have a Medicare card and you appreciate being
home by dark, you need to come and see this
show because it was.
Speaker 12 (36:47):
Built for you.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Okay, So then let me ask you this, Fris because
I remember I used to have a friend who was
several years older than me, and I'd go, oh, I
don't feel that way yet, or and she kept saying,
just you wait, just you wait, you'll get there soon enough.
Is there some of that in your show? Because there
are certain things.
Speaker 16 (37:07):
That's the whole thing. That's the whole thing. It's the
common experience. Some of the topics we talk about are
having grandchildren during the pandemic, what happens to your body,
men and women, how you perceive the world, your lack
of energy, how you assess how you were as a parent,
all the common experiences of being old, and not all
(37:29):
of it is bad. I closed the show out with
a whole block on being grateful. The one thing that's
happened to me since I got older is I find
myself being more grateful for everything I have and everything
I've experienced, and I sort of close out on a
positive note, and it's fun. I have found that a
comedy these days, with the darkness and the division in
(37:52):
the world, is really very therapeutic. I don't do any politics.
It's a relatively clean show. So my job is to
just take people's heads out of the rest of the
weirdness in the world and allow them to understand what's
common among us instead of what divides us.
Speaker 12 (38:13):
It's what's common among us.
Speaker 16 (38:15):
And if you're given the gift of being able to
get to a certain age, then these are all the
typical experiences. And there are people who have been back
two and three times to see this show, and so
I think it's working okay.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
And then, Fritz, all of your shows at the El
Portal Theater are matinees.
Speaker 16 (38:34):
How come well because people in my particular demographic, which
is old people and their parents, like to be home
by dark. So we start the show at three in
the afternoon on a Sunday. It's usually the last Sunday
of every month, and we just find that that's a
good fit for the people that come to see this show.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I love it. And then there's a special for the
summer to two for one.
Speaker 16 (38:59):
That's true, and we're really excited to announce this. If
you buy a ticket at Elportthaltheater dot com anytime between
June first and June fifteenth, it's two for one. You'll
buy one ticket, you'll get one free, and those tickets
are good for any show in the summer all the
way through September. So we'd love to see you. It's
(39:19):
the Marilyn Monroe Farm is part of the Elportal Theater
and it's just small enough for me to come and
hug everybody after the show.
Speaker 12 (39:26):
I would love to meet you. Come on out and
see us.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
I love that, And so we've got when's your next?
Is the next one?
Speaker 12 (39:32):
This Sunday? Were this Sunday?
Speaker 16 (39:34):
If you want to come to Sunday, I'm not sure
where there are any tickets left, but you can try
Sunday the twenty fifth at three o'clock Elportsoaltheater dot com.
And it's a Memorial Day weekend, so you may or
may not be able to fit us into your schedule,
but if not, come and get a two for one
deal and come and see you sometime this summer.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I love that Fritz Coleman Unassisted Living. It's such a
fun show. I actually I got to watch the special
that you recorded. It's a lot of fun. And in fact, Fritz,
we're going to make it fun for a couple of
week up call listeners because we have two pair of
tickets to give away, so we're going to do that
right now. Fritz Coleman, thank you so much, and we
look forward to seeing the show. It sounds like a
(40:12):
lot of a great time.
Speaker 12 (40:13):
Thank you enough, Amy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
All right, take care, all right. As I mentioned, we
have two pair of tickets to give away to go
see Unassisted Living. It's Fritz Coleman, a lot of fun
and I love no politics, not a nasty one, just
a feel good comedy show. I love it before dark
and you and you're home before dark. It's lovely. Okay.
Here are the numbers to call. One eight hundred five
(40:37):
to zero one k F. I again, one eight hundred
five to two zero one k FI. And we'll take
callers number eight and nine because you're going to be
home before eight or nine when you go see this show.
One eight hundred five to zero one KFI again callers
number eight and nine to see Fritz Coleman's unassisted living
(41:00):
Such a delight, loves that. Okay, this is KFI and
KOST HD two and that means our time with wake
Up Call this morning is up. Thanks again to Heather
Brooker for filling in for me this week, and thanks
for your patients. I made it through the first hour.
Now I got a face handle and he's coming up next.
Live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
(41:22):
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Speaker 1 (41:28):
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