December 2, 2025 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call LIVE from the Anaheim White House for 15th annual KFI Pastathon . The KFI Pastathon is a charity event hosted by KFI radio that benefits Caterina's Club, which helps feed children and families in need and provides them with job training.
ABC News investigative reporter Peter Charalambous opens the show live from Luigi Mangione’s trial in New York. Amy talks with Alondra, a Katarinas club recipient. Managing Partner at Anaheim White House Restaurant Sylvano Ibay joins the show to talk about how they became involved with KFI & Caterina’s Club for the annual Pastathon charity event that helps feed thousands of children. Bloomberg’s Denise Pellegrini updates us on the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with the host of ‘How to Money’ Joel Larsgaard talking about
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hey, it's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Tuesday, December second. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
We're not in studio today. We're live at the Anaheim
White House for the fifteenth annual KFI Pasta.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Than Chef Brunos charity.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Katerina's Club provides more than twenty five thousand meals twenty
five thousand meals every week to kids who need it
in southern California, and we.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Need your help to keep it going.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
And that's why we're here at the Anaheim White House
for pasta. We're gonna be telling you about it all
day long. We'd love for you to come down and
join us. We're here starting right now with wake Up Call.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
We have a small but.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Very active audience. We'd love to have you join us,
whether you come down now or during handle show. He
takes over at six. Gary and Channon'll be here starting
at nine. Then there's John Cobelt and we're gonna wrap
it up then with the one and only Tim Conway
Junior and by then it's a huge party. So if
you have some time today, we would love for you
to come down, make a donation, come out and have
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some bagels for breakfast. We have Coachella Valley Coffee here.
They're serving up coffee to us. And again we're doing
it all to raise money so Bruno can keep feeding
the twenty five thousand children that he feeds every single day.
I wanted to make a little note. We came down
early last night, Producer Anne and I went to Knott's
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Mary Farm. We'll be sharing with that with you on
our Southern California sleigh ride later.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
This week, which it was lovely. I'll just give you
a sneak preview. It was fabulous.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
But then it was driving to the hotel because we
stayed down here in Anaheim and driving around the neighborhoods,
I'm like, everybody's already decorated for Christmas. It was so cool,
so many lights up around Anaheim and Buena Park, and
I was like, oh, I love it because my neighborhood's
like in the city, not a lot of lights. I
think there's one one person has their lights up so far.
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But good Anya, Anaheim and Buena Park. It looks absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Got lots to get to. So we're gonna get you
some news.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
We're going to tell you more about pastathon, but we're
going to have a whole lot of fun. Thanks for
joining us this morning. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
The La County Board of Supervisors is expected to pass
an ordinance today that would ban immigration and other law
enforcement officers from wearing face masks on the job. Federal
law trump's local law, so even if it's passed, the
measure would likely either be ignored or challenged in court.
(02:55):
Two workers have been hurt in a possible electrical room
explosion in downtown. A fire was reported last night on
the twentieth floor of the one Wilshire building on Wilshire
Boulevard near Grand Cruz. Said there was no fire problem
or residual electrical issues. The two injured workers were in
critical condition. President Trump has told Venezuela's President Maduro he
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needs to get out of office. Trump and Maduro talked
on the phone yesterday than Trump's team met about Venezuela
at the val office last night. Here are some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A memorial service has been scheduled for the Burbank Police
K nine shot and killed by a guy running away
from officers after a chase. Spike was a four year
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old Belgian Malinois killed on November twenty second. His memorial
service is going to be held tomorrow at the Burbank
Police Department. Spike's valor will also be remembered aboard the
city's Rose Parade Flate float on New Year's Day. The
floats theme is all Pause on Deck Love that the
only Kenny Board of Supervisor is going to consider a
(03:57):
ban on federal agents wearing masks.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Has taken multiple steps in recent months to offer protections
and support to people affected by immigration enforcement, including illegal immigrants.
Supervisor jenis Han says the latest push to require federal
agents to show their faces is another effort to make
people feel safer.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
They pool people.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
Into unmarked fans at gunpoints and wonder why people are
their regrets.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
The federal government has said agents need to protect themselves
from physical and online harassment. The board voted in July
to commission an ordinance being presented today. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
The captain of a dive boat that caught fire near
Santa Cuse Island in twenty nineteen, killing thirty three passengers,
is expected to appeal his conviction before a federal court panel.
Jerry Boylan is seventy two. He was sentenced last year
to four years in federal prison for the single charge
of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer. He's been
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free on bail pending his appeal today before the three
judge panel in Pasadena. A woman in downtown LA says
the homeless man who assaulted her while she was walking
her dog is still out there. The woman tells Katla
she was out early in the morning last month when
she was attacked in front of a high rise building
across from the La Convention Center.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
He came up behind me, grabbed pushed me up against
the glass, grabbed the back of my neck in my
crotch area, and I was screaming for help.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
A witness finally happened by and thought the man off.
The woman says, the guy then walked away like nothing
happened and that it took place. I took police over
two hours to respond. Okay, let's take a first look
at your morning commute and say good morning to Will
Cole Schreiber. We got a crash in Rancho Cucamonga on
the fifteen.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm a little jell.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Let's a little fomo here at the station.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
We miss you down here, Will.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I want the I well, I'm too technical, apparently too
many screens and stuff. So yeah, next time the westbounds.
I don't know the westbound side of the ninety one.
We've got a little slow down there, and I don't
know why. Frankly, I'm looking at the CHP log. There's
nothing in the books for the westbound side of the
ninety one at the fifty seven, but there is definitely
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a slow down as you approach the fifty seven. So
if you're caught in that and you see what it is,
let us know about it. Pound two fifty on your
cell keyword KFI traffic. We've got some issues as well
in the Rancho Cucamonga areas I mentioned fifteen northbound at
Sierra Avenue. That on ramp is shut down to clear
and earlier crash Lincoln Heights in Los Angeles. The Fire
Freeway northbound before Broadway. We've got a car fire on
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the right shoulder and it involves a trash truck and
in Castick a stall on the five Freeway southbound right
around Castaic breakcheck area, and that is in the left
lane causing some very minor slowing. Over All, the freeways
are in good shape right now. Hopefully we'll keep it
that way with Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I'm Will Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Thank you Will. It is five h seven on your
wake up call. We are live at the.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Anaheim White House, and I just have to tell you
our audiences doubled in the last three minutes.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Would love for you to come down and join us.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Here at pasta than at the Anaheim White House. We'll
be telling you more about that in just a moment.
Right now, we want to say good morning to ABC's
Peter haralamboos So.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Peter, the guy.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Accused of killing the CEO of United Healthcare in cold
blood on a street in Manhattan, was in court for
a pre trial hearing yesterday.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
What did we hear?
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Yeah, this was a high stake hearing from ANGIONI. It's
continuing this morning. We were from five different witnesses as
prosecutors are trying to fight back this attempt to limit
really crucial evidence. Mangoni's defense lawyers are trying to prohibit
prosecutors from using the alleged murder weapon and writings that
prosecutors say amounts a confession when this case goes to trial.
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I'm here in the courthouse at the moment. It's expected
to continue this morning here in New York at nine
thirty am. We're expecting to hear from more witnesses. This
hearing could stretch until the end of the week, as
really the balance of evidence in this case hangs in
the valves.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Okay, and then Peter, I know a big deal was
made about whether he was going to be in jail,
garb or shackled or.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Anything like that, but he was not yesterday, right.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
Yes, this was a more dapper Luis Pimanngoni than we've
ever seen. He was wearing a full suit and a
collared dress shirt. He was kind of sitting there unshackled
that defense table with his lawyers for this entire hearing.
It's kind of a pretty stark change from the last
time we saw him in court, and it was at
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times a really serious thing for him because he's sitting
at this defense table through all of this presentation of evidence,
including one portion in which prosecutors repeatedly played the video
showing him allegedly gunning down Brian Thompson in cold blood.
He sat there stoically. He was emotionless as he watched
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that video being played over and over again. A prosecutor say,
the evidence of guilt here is overwhelming, even though defense
lawyers are trying to prevent them from being able to
use a good portion of it.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see because, like
you said, even if they say, oh, you know what,
you couldn't you couldn't get into the backpack because you know,
something was done wrong procedurally or something. They have the
video of him shooting on a street in Manhattan. I mean,
it just seems sort of unsurmountable, but or insurmountable.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
And then do we know, like how long it's going to.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Take for the judge to make a ruling, or how
long these this pretrial hearing's going to last.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
We know that there could be as many as two
dozen witnesses, so this could stretch through the end of
the week. We're about to start day two, and we're
expecting to hear from the same or more witnesses. So
we're talking about five witnesses thus far. I'm expecting to
hear just as many today, Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And this is all pre trial, so it's not even
the trial, so it's just on whether evidence can be
presented or not.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
That's exactly right. And I'll note that the alleged assassination
happened one year ago this week. In neither the state
nor the federal case is there actually a trial date,
So you know, this is still the pre trial phase.
This is still a question of what evidence can come in.
We don't even know when Manngoni will actually stand trial.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
ABC's Peter Harlamus, thanks so much for the information. I'm
sure we'll talk to you again later this week as
this unfolds.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Have a great day.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Pentagons facing
accusations of war crimes for a second strike on an
alleged drug boat off Venezuela. ABC's Martha Rattit says the
Washington Post is reported a second strike in September targeted
two survivors who were holding onto the wreckage.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
The Post reporting that at the outset of the operation,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered his team to kill
everybody on board the boat.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Heg Seth calls the report fabricated. The White House says
the second strike was lawful. Maryland Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin
says the second strike amounts to a war crime.
Speaker 13 (10:59):
International law, American law, and the rules of the Department
Defense forbid attacking essentially helpless people who are just desperate
and struggling to survive.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
He says, no one in the administration has the right
to declare war. Only Congress can do that. The State
Department says Americans should be careful if they're headed to
Mexico this winter.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
The advisory follows a recent drone attack in Tijuana that
damaged six cars of an anti kidnapping unit. Popular tourist
areas near the US border carry Level three warnings, while
many other regions are under Level two advisories, meaning visitors
should remain cautious. Some states carry Level four warnings and
travel is strongly discouraged. The Department reminds travelers of entry requirements.
(11:44):
Local laws on weapons and drugs and recommends enrolling in
the Smart Traveler enrollment program for updates and emergency assistants.
I'm Chris Powers.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Russian President Putin claims his forces have taken control of
two cities in eastern Ukraine. ABC's Ian Pannell says the
claim was made ahead of Putin's meeting today with US
Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff to talk about a peace deal
to end the war.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Witkoff is heading to Moscow to see if Vladimir Putin's
willing to make not just demands but concessions and finally
accept the US plan to end his war in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
The meeting follows high level talks between the US and
Ukraine in Miami over the weekend. The rankings are in
for the most fun cities in the country.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
A new wallet Hub study compared more than one hundred
eighty cities in the US across sixty five key metrics,
including fitness centers per capita, movie costs, and the average
business hours of breweries. The study comes as the average
American spends more than thirty six hundred dollars a year
on entertainment. Los Angeles ranked seventeenth most fun city in
the US, scoring thirteenth in entertainment and recreation, sixteenth in
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nightlife and parties, and one hundred and forty eighth in costs.
The top five spots went to Las Vegas and Orlando, Miami, Atlanta,
and New Orleans. Mark Ronner KFI Knew.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
God always in for fun in the city.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
We are broadcasting live at the Anaheim Whitehouse because the
fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We'd love for you to come down and join us.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
We're gonna be broadcasting all day long, and I tell
you our little audience is growing.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
I love it, and we have so many ways for
you to help us out today.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
If you can't make it down, we'll miss you. But
there are still ways that you can donate.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You can go to kfiam six forty dot com slash
Pastathon anytime and know that one percent of your donation
goes to Katerina's Club Defeed the Kids. Here's another way
you can do. Go to any smart and final donate
any amount when you check out. And that's in California, Arizona,
and in Nevada. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
good morning and uh, if you want to, like you know,
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maybe put a little bit in the machine, you can
go to Yamava Resort and Casino just off the two
ten and Highland and when you cast your winning ticket
at the kiosk, it'll ask if you want to donate
your change, Just say yes and then pick Katerina's Club.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
So easy. And of course there's the auction items.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
There's some spectacular auction items this year, and they're the
amounts are getting up there, Like there's the private backyard
barbecue with our very own Bill Handle and Neil Sevadra.
He'll be broadcasting the Fork Report live on a Saturday
from two to five and you'll get to go to
Bill's house and they're gonna have food, You're gonna have
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all kinds of goodies. Will be telling you more about that.
You can get information on that on the KFI website. Again,
just go to KFI AM six forty dot com slash pastathon.
You'll find all the information on donating, on the auction items.
And let's see there's Dodgers games with Gary and Shannon.
That bit starting to get up there. You could maybe
even be a radio host for a day and spend
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an hour with John Cobelt and say whatever the heck
you want on KFI AM six forty. So many ways
to donate, and again it all goes to the kids.
KFI AM six forty dot com slash Pastathon, and of
course the best would be if you wanted to come
down and hang out with us, because we'd love to
see you here. We are live at the Anaheim White
House for Pastathon twenty twenty five. As expected, a man
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and woman from South la have pleaded guilty to a
federal charge of interfering with immigration officers by blocking their
vehicle and chasing them as they performed immigration enforcement duties.
They could each get a year in prison when they're
sentenced in March. A woman who was found dead down
an embankment in the Crestline area has been identified as
a fifty eight year old woman from Newport Beach, sim
Bernadino County Sheriff's Department says she was found November eighteenth,
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about seventy five feet down the embankment off Highway one
thirty eight.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Her injuries are consistent with a fall.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
A snowstorm that started and the Rockies continues to spread
into the midwest.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Chicago Saint Louis.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
They're expecting more snow after they got dumped down over
the Thanksgiving holiday. The mid Atlantic is also expected to
be hit by the brunt of the storm today, with
a wintery mix of snow and rain and even ice
at higher elevations.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
At six oh five, it's Handle on the news Bill,
Handle's going to be here.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
President Trump's goal of three dollars a gallon gas has
been achieved. Except if you live here in southern California.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
It's like a dollar eighty more than that.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Let's say good morning now to the man who's been
with Chef Bruno from the start and has continued along
this journey to feed children in southern California. It's the
fabulous manager of the Anaheim White House, Silvano. Good morning, Silvano.
When you came here and sat down next to me
a couple of minutes ago, you looked over and you said,
I love this day.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Yes, tell us why you love this day?
Speaker 10 (16:34):
It puts my faith back in humanity.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yeah, doesn't it though?
Speaker 10 (16:37):
It really does to see the love, to see just
the emotion and the care that all the camp My
listeners do, especially for Catteris Club. It's amazing. It really
is something special to see.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, so come down, come down, yes now, Well, if
you can't make it out, Handle takes over at six
and then we've got Gary and Shannon, So if you
can stop by, because whether you're coming to donate pasta
or cash or just coming down to hang out and
say hi, we would love to see you here. So
Sylvannie is like, how like in awe are you of
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how this started and where we've come to.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
It's pretty amazing. Just I remember the very first day
that we did this, we were just cooking pasta in
the kitchen. We brought up down to the local Boys
and Girls Club over here. We served about seventy five
eighty kids that first day. And to see what we've
become now not just feeding the kids, but the two
other program programs that we do, the Welcome Home where
we move the families at the hotels and into kind
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of a stable living environment, and then also how we
were teaching the whole the Hospitality Acabinet where we teach
the high school kids' skills so they can join the
work for workforce and supply and be there for their
families as well. To see everything that we've done it's
it's amazing. It's something that I never would have realized
back then. I'm very proud to be a part of
it and very happy that we've come this far and
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can't wait to see what the future brings to because
it's amazing. It really is a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
So let's talk about the hospitality program for just a minute.
So is that for the kids who are are benefiting
from Katerina's Club, like it's at risk kids?
Speaker 13 (18:12):
Is that really?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Is it the hotel kids?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
It's it can't meet the hotel kids. And it's also
for any high school kids too, Okay. So we open
it up to the to the school district, and so
any students that want to get involved, they can contact
our office over at Caterina's Club over you're in Anaheim,
and we can put them on the list. And I
have a group of eight students right now doing it.
We've graduated I think over one hundred so far, and
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I've got another another four or five or and then
the list to start up as soon as we get
done with the stuff semester, okay.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And then the let's talk about the Welcome Home program,
because that one.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
That's that's something that really is.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I'm gonna cry, it's only five to twenty.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
But like, so you're feeding these kids who are living
in hotels because their parents can't afford to have a
an apartment or whatever, and so and then you were like, well,
we can do more than feed them, we can help
rehouse them. And so tell us how that program came
to be.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Well, once we realized what the issue was why they
were living in the motels, we sat back at you
and Bruno found this out that the parents they couldn't
afford first and last month's rent because they have a job.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yep, they're stable, but who has an extra five thousand.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Dollars right here in Orange County? Are you kidding me?
So they just need they just need a hand they
need to hand up. They don't need to hand out,
they just need to help us. So all about that, yeah,
and that's what we provide. So we provied supply first
and last month's rent for qualifying families to move into
a permanent place out of a motel, whether it be
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an apartment in a condo, whatever, maybe something that they
qualify and they can afford obviously, and we just helped
them out. And it's been one hundred percent successful. Every
single family we moved out is still there. It has
not fallen back into the motel system.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Look, yes, I love that. See it's I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Actually it's good that the audience is small because everybody
doesn't need to see me crying at five o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
But that that is so cool. So what what can
you appeal to people to say?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
You know, because everybody's got a lot of stress, everybody's
got their budgets are tight right now, what can you
say to appeal to a person who might be thinking
about donating, Well, just.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Know that you're you're not helping just just one one
person or one thing. These are families that we're helping. Yeah,
it's the future. It's the future of all of us.
I mean the children that we're that we're providing for.
There are future, there are kids, there's our kids, there
are kids kids, and so the future of what we
want in our world. If that's what we're providing for,
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and that's what we're trying to help out. And if anybody,
if everyone can just give that whatever they can. What
if it's a dollar, if it's a.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Dollar, five, if it's five thousand. We don't care. We'll
take it all absolutely.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, whatever it is, and whether I've had I
remember a few years ago I had a little kid
coming with his pee bank and that brought me to tears. Yeah,
just to see that, just to see the love and
the care, and that's that's all we ask. Just a
little bit, because a little bit goes a long way. Yeah,
everyone goes a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We're good.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And like you said, it creates a ripple too, you know,
like when one person does something nice, then another person
does something nice, and don't we all need a little
bit of niceness now, especially right now? All right, Solvano,
thank you so much for us hopping by. A memorial
service for a beloved police dog shot and killed by
a man trying to elude police in bird Bank's going
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to be held tomorrow. The canine named Spike will also
be remembered on the city's Rose Parade float on New
Year's Day, the theme of the city's twenty twenty six
floaties all pause on deck. A tree trimmer has been
killed when he fell from a palm tree onto an
iron fence in Canoga Park ally fire, says a man
died at the scene yesterday afternoon on North Kenoga.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No information about what caused the man to fall.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Several hospitals in southern California are not making the grade.
According to a nonprofit The group leapfrog says Norwalk Community
Hospital is the worst hospital in the region based on
safety and quality of care.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Coming at six oh.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Five, It's handle on the news and build. Handle is
in the building.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You're not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
He's dressed as a Hanukah elf.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
You gotta come down and see it.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
We're gonna be talking a lot today at pasta than
about the people who have been helped by Chef Bruno
and Katerina's club, and for a lot of these people,
a good meal from Bruno continues to affect their lives
years later. One of those people is Alandra Matteo. Alandra,
tell us how you first came to know about Chef Bruno.
Speaker 14 (22:51):
I was about six or seven years old when I
started going to the Boys and Girls club and Bruno
Uh people come bring passa to the club that I
would participate at, so he will give us pasta before
we will go home every day. And then he went
to our mobile home park where I used to live
at come bring his pasta and then during like the
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month of November, he will come with the Chapman students
to come deliver turkeys and all the stuff that you
know it's needed for Thanksgiving dinner. And yeah, that's how
I got to know him.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
So you were involved in the Boys and Girls Club?
So did you go there every day after school? Yes?
And about how many kids were in your Boys and
Girls clubs?
Speaker 14 (23:32):
Oh, well, we got a lot of kids from my
mobile home park. It was a good ten of us
every day, ten of us from Monday through Friday. But
overall the Boys and Girls Club, I would say a
good two hundred to fifty kids a day.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
That's great, okay, And I would imagine when you're seven
years old, you don't really realize what's going on. I
know that Chef Bruno is bringing you guys food and
them that lovely. But did you as you grew older,
did you start to realize that one he was helping
out your family by maybe taking some of the food
burden off of them and really helping tons and tons
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of people.
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Yes, it was actually a funny story. Like one time
I had my shoes off for some reason. There was
a skate park there and I was changing my shoes
and there was holes on my socks, and Bruno saw that.
The next day he had someone buy me socks from
the store, making sure that I have what I needed
because back then, like it was kind of hard on
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my family, especially with the rent that my parents had
to pay.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Were just him.
Speaker 14 (24:42):
Buying socks or even him coming to our mobile home
parking give us food to low income families, like it
benefited a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
That's so cool. So that was when you were seven years.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Old, and now you're twenty two, twenty one, twenty one.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh, she's still kind of like, Okay, what.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Are you doing with yourself these days?
Speaker 14 (25:00):
Right now, I am a for Fear a calcafe bullet.
I'll be finishing up my degree in the sociology in May,
so I'm hoping that I work with children.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
I do want to give back to my community.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
Right now, I'm actually working as a free college advisor.
So the students that I serve are low income, first
generation students trying to get to higher education, and hopefully
I get to my master's so I could become a
school counselor.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Look at you along here that is so great, and
I think it's just testament to what this program does.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
It changes lives.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
It doesn't only fill up their bellies, and fills up
their hearts and their minds too.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
So thank you so much, and that's love to you. Congratulations,
thank you appreciate it. That's awesome. Is that so great?
I mean, what is great success story?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
So when you make a donation, you are literally helping
to change someone's life. And that's why we want you
to help us out for postathon. Of course, we couldn't
do it without your generosity. And you can go to
kfiam six forty dot com slash pastathon and make a donation.
You can go to any smart and final and donate
whatever you want at checkout. You go to Yamavan when
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you're cashing out your ticket just to click that you
want to donate your change, say yes and then pick
Katerina's Club. What a great way to wrap up your
day at the casino.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Anyway, we'll take any donation, whatever you can do, we
want it, We'll take it.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
It all goes to feeding the kids.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Twenty five thousand children are fed by Chef Bruno's charity,
Katerina's club every single week, and of course we'd love
to see.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Here if you want to come down and visit us.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
We are here all day at the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
We got the cattlebells out. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Let's check in now with Bloomberg's Denise PELOGRENI let's get
in your business, Denise.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Car buyers are bocking.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
Huh yeah, I mean, there are just a lot of
signs that the car market is decelerating. Amy buyers are downsizing,
they're going for a lot more U used vehicles, stretching
out car loans, holding out for deals. Also, cars are
sitting longer on dealer lots. Dealers are offering extra discounts,
so there's some good news there. Lower income borrowers have
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been defaulting on car loans, so there's just a fair
amount of car alarms going off, you might say, with
the US auto industry experiencing little growth. Tariffs is one
of the reasons inflation, tighter job market, and those interest rates,
you know, on the car loans, they're not helping either.
I mean a few years ago there were those zero
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percent offers everywhere for just about any kind of vehicle.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Now those are really hard to find, and.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
They're usually only for cars that, sorry to say, people
don't want, so used cars are looking pretty good right now.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Okay, Samsung, we've heard of the bifold smartphones, the ones
that you know you fold in half. But now they're
going for more because you always got to get bigger
and better.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
So Sam's failing a trifold phone.
Speaker 15 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. This is its first trifled smartphone.
It's called the Galaxy Z trifold. It has two hinges
and can transform into a larger tablet sized device. They're
launching this in South Korea this month. It will eventually
be available in the US, and it'll sell for around
twenty five hundred dollars. So I guess every time they
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add a hinge the price concern.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh okay, and then one more thing.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
We got more holiday drinks and merch at Starbucks and
Baskin Robbins is offering eighty cent ice cream.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
What the heck?
Speaker 15 (28:34):
Yeah, I mean Starbucks really, they are just pulling out
all the stops and trying to get more people in Stars.
You know those other drinks that they offered earlier this month,
the peppermint one and last month, I should say We're
just a huge hit. And of course there was that
barrista bear that's a hot item even on eBay right now.
So now they've got more holiday drinks, the chestnut preleine
(28:55):
and eggnog latte. Those are two different ones. That sounds chestnuting,
I thought to I mean, I can. I'd love any
kind of egno anything, so I admit I'll probably try it.
And also they've got some holiday themed tumblers, water bottles, mugs.
These are all inspired by the clothing brand Roller Rabbit.
They make all those nice pajamas, so they're you know,
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they're kind of building on that. But if you want
something a little bit less expensive, Best and Robbins is
celebrating eighty years in business with eighty cent scoops of
ice cream.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
That'll be this Sunday.
Speaker 15 (29:29):
If you can wait, you can get you know, two
scoops for the price of one.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Lovely Okay, getting in your business like we do every
day with Bloomberg's Denise Pelgriny.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks Denise.
Speaker 15 (29:38):
Sounds so fun out there today. I love listening to
what you guys are doing today.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Well, thank you, Denise.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
And you know you can make a donation anytime by
going to the KFI website KFI Am six forty dot
com slash Pastathon. I want to say a big thank
you to the Anaheim Hilton for our pastathon accommodations. The
KFI crew, the ones us that had to get here
really early, stayed there last night, and this legendary So
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Cal hotel is better than ever, fresh from a multi
million dollar renovation.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
It's gorgeous. There's new dining. I partook of that last night.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
There's reimagined rooms with views of the Disneyland fireworks, a
rooftop terrace.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It's your perfect Orange County getaway.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
It starts at Hilton Anaheimhotel dot com and it was
The rooms are beautiful, the hotel was beautiful. It was
a great place to stay. So highly recommend that. We
mentioned that today is Giving Tuesday, and I think that
we all want to help in some way, right, Well,
we know that with Katerina's Club, one hundred percent of
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what you donate goes directly to the kids, which is
even better because even with the best charities, you know,
there's administration fees. They do have to pay for what
they do in some form. But with Katerina's Club. It's
your donations that go directly.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
To the kids.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
So great, so great, right, But if you have other
donate other charities that you want to participate in and
give two and help, you know, there are good ones
out there and there are bad ones out there. And
that's why we wanted to talk with the host of
How to Money on KFI, Joel lars Guard this morning.
You can hear them Sundays from noon to two, and
Joel tell us about like how we can make sure
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that what we donate is going to the place intended.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, that's a great question, Amy, And this is the
day in particular, and this is the time of year
where you're going to get requests for donations and a
lot of those requests are going to pullet your heartstrings,
understandably so, and I'm all for generosity, right while you're
trying to build wealth and be smart with your money,
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like giving money away as you have done well with
your own money is such a beautiful thing. But this
time of year you will find people trying to take
advantage of your generosity, of your desire to help people
in your community or to give to causes that resonate
with you, and and so it's really important to make
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sure that you have vetted charities that you're considering giving
to before you just I mean, I'm gonna say, write
a check. Nobody writes a check anymore, but before you
click the donut, right, So before you do that, make
sure you've taken a look behind, you know, peep behind
the curtain to see what's going on with that charity.
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And so there are websites that can help you do that.
There's charity navigator dot org is one of my favorites.
There's charity watch. Those are great websites, so you can
like search by charity name and you can look to see, Okay,
what are the financial metrics of this charity? How much
of the money that they're raising is going to the
cause that I care about? Because there are some charities
(32:50):
where the overhead is insane and you're like, wait a second,
this a lot of the money that they're raising is
actually going just to pay staff members or something like that.
And let's be honest, the smaller the charity, oftentimes that
is more the case. And so you want to judge
on metrics like impact as well. But it's really important
to look under the hood to make sure one that
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the organization is legitimate and then two that your money
is actually going to have an impact.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah, and I love that they have like charity Navigator,
because I know that I was considering donating to it.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
It was a firefighters fund.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
They had called and they were telling us about what
they do, and I was like, oh, that sounds great.
You know, of course we want to help the firefighters.
And we looked at it and like eighty percent of
the money did not go to the firefighters. It was
crazy how little actually went to the people it was
supposed to go to.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
And you'll find that is the case. I won't say
more often than not, but more often than you'd like
to like to think. And there was a couple of
years ago there was I saw one from a football player, quarterback,
very prominent person, and you're like, well, that's charity has
got to be legitimate. And you know, it turns out
he had his friends on the payroll and so much
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of the money they were raising was going to pay
exorbitant salaries. And you can find that stuff out by
looking at those websites. It's really important.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I think.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
The other thing I want to stress is that You're
going to see more like in person request, whether it's
a knock at your door, whether it's shopping at the
grocery store. People are going to say, hey, will you
donate to this cause I don't want to seem scrooge
like this holiday season. But my answer is essentially always, hey,
do you have some literature? Can you give me something
sick so that I can I'm not going to give today.
I like to pre plan my giving and so that
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I know where I'm giving and when I'm giving and
how much I'm giving, And so it doesn't mean that
I'm not willing to give impulsively at times like I am.
I have some money set aside even for that. But
I think there is that sort of pull sometimes in
person where you give maybe because you're you feel guilted
into it, and if you really love that cause you
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know that, cause you're happy to give, go for it.
I just want people to be able to say, actually,
you know, let me think about that. Can you tell
me more about your charity? Where can I look up
more information so you don't feel like you have to
give in the moment and that you can actually like
do your due diligence to give effectively.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yep, okay, And then I want to touch on really
quick donor advised funds.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I don't know this term. What is this? You know
that it's one of your favorites.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yes, oh, I love donor advice funds and for multiple reasons.
So donor advice funds are and they used to kind
of be for the ultra wealthy, and they used to
be have higher expenses, and so for the average Joe
who wanted to give money away, it just didn't make sense.
But costs have gone down precipitously. My favorite donor advice
fund provider is one called Daffy. Daffy dot org is
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the website to check it them out. But what you
can do is essentially funnel all your charitable giving through
one account. And so one of the biggest pain in
the butts is at the beginning of next year when
all your giving data starts to come in or the
end of this year and you have to compile. Let's
say you've given to ten or twelve of your favorite charities,
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you have to keep up with all the paperwork. Well,
if you give to those charities through your donor advice funds,
it's one piece of paper like it. It is one
thing because all your giving has been funneled through that
one account. The other cool thing about donor advised funds
is that you can, similar to how you're growing money
in your four one K or your roth Ira, you
can invest those dollars to give in the future as
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those dollars grow. So that's one of my other the
other coolest things about donor advice funds. If you are
into kind of optimizing your money and you want to
be able to give even more down the road, donor
advice funds are a really cool way to do that.
And again, Daffy is my favorite because it has the
lowest costs, it's got a great interface. But if you're
keen on giving and growing kind of like a giving
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nest egg, donor advice funds are an awesome choice.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
All right.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
That's Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money on
KFI Sundays from noon to two. You can also follow
Joel at how to Money.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Jewel. Thanks so much, Joel, Thanks Amy. Have a great
Giving Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
And it is Giving Tuesday, and we are at the
fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon live at the Anaheim White House, and.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
That does it for wake Up Call.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Thanks to everybody who came out early. I know the
crowd's going to grow. If you're thinking about coming down,
please do. We would love to see you and we
would love to have you donate to help feed the kids.
Bill handle the Hanukah Elf is here A that's a
great outfit.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County live from the Anaheim white House for kfi's Pastathon
twenty twenty five for producer and here at the White
House and technical producer Kno and traffic specialist Will back
at the KFI studios. I am Amy King. This has
been your wake up Call and if you missed it
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Ay and wake Up Call you can listen anytime on
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Speaker 1 (37:55):
You've been listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hey, it's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Tuesday, December second. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
We're not in studio today. We're live at the Anaheim
White House for the fifteenth annual KFI Pasta.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Than Chef Brunos charity.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Katerina's Club provides more than twenty five thousand meals twenty
five thousand meals every week to kids who need it
in southern California, and we.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Need your help to keep it going.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
And that's why we're here at the Anaheim White House
for pasta. We're gonna be telling you about it all
day long. We'd love for you to come down and
join us. We're here starting right now with wake Up Call.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
We have a small but.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Very active audience. We'd love to have you join us,
whether you come down now or during handle show. He
takes over at six. Gary and Channon'll be here starting
at nine. Then there's John Cobelt and we're gonna wrap
it up then with the one and only Tim Conway
Junior and by then it's a huge party. So if
you have some time today, we would love for you
to come down, make a donation, come out and have
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some bagels for breakfast. We have Coachella Valley Coffee here.
They're serving up coffee to us. And again we're doing
it all to raise money so Bruno can keep feeding
the twenty five thousand children that he feeds every single day.
I wanted to make a little note. We came down
early last night, Producer Anne and I went to Knott's
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Mary Farm. We'll be sharing with that with you on
our Southern California sleigh ride later.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
This week, which it was lovely. I'll just give you
a sneak preview. It was fabulous.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
But then it was driving to the hotel because we
stayed down here in Anaheim and driving around the neighborhoods,
I'm like, everybody's already decorated for Christmas. It was so cool,
so many lights up around Anaheim and Buena Park, and
I was like, oh, I love it because my neighborhood's
like in the city, not a lot of lights. I
think there's one one person has their lights up so far.
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But good Anya, Anaheim and Buena Park. It looks absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Got lots to get to. So we're gonna get you
some news.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
We're going to tell you more about pastathon, but we're
going to have a whole lot of fun. Thanks for
joining us this morning. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
The La County Board of Supervisors is expected to pass
an ordinance today that would ban immigration and other law
enforcement officers from wearing face masks on the job. Federal
law trump's local law, so even if it's passed, the
measure would likely either be ignored or challenged in court.
(02:55):
Two workers have been hurt in a possible electrical room
explosion in downtown. A fire was reported last night on
the twentieth floor of the one Wilshire building on Wilshire
Boulevard near Grand Cruz. Said there was no fire problem
or residual electrical issues. The two injured workers were in
critical condition. President Trump has told Venezuela's President Maduro he
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needs to get out of office. Trump and Maduro talked
on the phone yesterday than Trump's team met about Venezuela
at the val office last night. Here are some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A memorial service has been scheduled for the Burbank Police
K nine shot and killed by a guy running away
from officers after a chase. Spike was a four year
(03:37):
old Belgian Malinois killed on November twenty second. His memorial
service is going to be held tomorrow at the Burbank
Police Department. Spike's valor will also be remembered aboard the
city's Rose Parade Flate float on New Year's Day. The
floats theme is all Pause on Deck Love that the
only Kenny Board of Supervisor is going to consider a
(03:57):
ban on federal agents wearing masks.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Has taken multiple steps in recent months to offer protections
and support to people affected by immigration enforcement, including illegal immigrants.
Supervisor jenis Han says the latest push to require federal
agents to show their faces is another effort to make
people feel safer.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
They pool people.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
Into unmarked fans at gunpoints and wonder why people are
their regrets.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
The federal government has said agents need to protect themselves
from physical and online harassment. The board voted in July
to commission an ordinance being presented today. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
The captain of a dive boat that caught fire near
Santa Cuse Island in twenty nineteen, killing thirty three passengers,
is expected to appeal his conviction before a federal court panel.
Jerry Boylan is seventy two. He was sentenced last year
to four years in federal prison for the single charge
of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer. He's been
(04:50):
free on bail pending his appeal today before the three
judge panel in Pasadena. A woman in downtown LA says
the homeless man who assaulted her while she was walking
her dog is still out there. The woman tells Katla
she was out early in the morning last month when
she was attacked in front of a high rise building
across from the La Convention Center.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
He came up behind me, grabbed pushed me up against
the glass, grabbed the back of my neck in my
crotch area, and I was screaming for help.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
A witness finally happened by and thought the man off.
The woman says, the guy then walked away like nothing
happened and that it took place. I took police over
two hours to respond. Okay, let's take a first look
at your morning commute and say good morning to Will
Cole Schreiber. We got a crash in Rancho Cucamonga on
the fifteen.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'm a little jell.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Let's a little fomo here at the station.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
We miss you down here, Will.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I want the I well, I'm too technical, apparently too
many screens and stuff. So yeah, next time the westbounds.
I don't know the westbound side of the ninety one.
We've got a little slow down there, and I don't
know why. Frankly, I'm looking at the CHP log. There's
nothing in the books for the westbound side of the
ninety one at the fifty seven, but there is definitely
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a slow down as you approach the fifty seven. So
if you're caught in that and you see what it is,
let us know about it. Pound two fifty on your
cell keyword KFI traffic. We've got some issues as well
in the Rancho Cucamonga areas I mentioned fifteen northbound at
Sierra Avenue. That on ramp is shut down to clear
and earlier crash Lincoln Heights in Los Angeles. The Fire
Freeway northbound before Broadway. We've got a car fire on
(06:30):
the right shoulder and it involves a trash truck and
in Castick a stall on the five Freeway southbound right
around Castaic breakcheck area, and that is in the left
lane causing some very minor slowing. Over All, the freeways
are in good shape right now. Hopefully we'll keep it
that way with Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I'm Will Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Thank you Will. It is five h seven on your
wake up call. We are live at the.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Anaheim White House, and I just have to tell you
our audiences doubled in the last three minutes.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Would love for you to come down and join us.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Here at pasta than at the Anaheim White House. We'll
be telling you more about that in just a moment.
Right now, we want to say good morning to ABC's
Peter haralamboos So.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Peter, the guy.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Accused of killing the CEO of United Healthcare in cold
blood on a street in Manhattan, was in court for
a pre trial hearing yesterday.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
What did we hear?
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Yeah, this was a high stake hearing from ANGIONI. It's
continuing this morning. We were from five different witnesses as
prosecutors are trying to fight back this attempt to limit
really crucial evidence. Mangoni's defense lawyers are trying to prohibit
prosecutors from using the alleged murder weapon and writings that
prosecutors say amounts a confession when this case goes to trial.
(07:46):
I'm here in the courthouse at the moment. It's expected
to continue this morning here in New York at nine
thirty am. We're expecting to hear from more witnesses. This
hearing could stretch until the end of the week, as
really the balance of evidence in this case hangs in
the valves.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Okay, and then Peter, I know a big deal was
made about whether he was going to be in jail,
garb or shackled or.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Anything like that, but he was not yesterday, right.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
Yes, this was a more dapper Luis Pimanngoni than we've
ever seen. He was wearing a full suit and a
collared dress shirt. He was kind of sitting there unshackled
that defense table with his lawyers for this entire hearing.
It's kind of a pretty stark change from the last
time we saw him in court, and it was at
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times a really serious thing for him because he's sitting
at this defense table through all of this presentation of evidence,
including one portion in which prosecutors repeatedly played the video
showing him allegedly gunning down Brian Thompson in cold blood.
He sat there stoically. He was emotionless as he watched
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that video being played over and over again. A prosecutor say,
the evidence of guilt here is overwhelming, even though defense
lawyers are trying to prevent them from being able to
use a good portion of it.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see because, like
you said, even if they say, oh, you know what,
you couldn't you couldn't get into the backpack because you know,
something was done wrong procedurally or something. They have the
video of him shooting on a street in Manhattan. I mean,
it just seems sort of unsurmountable, but or insurmountable.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
And then do we know, like how long it's going to.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Take for the judge to make a ruling, or how
long these this pretrial hearing's going to last.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
We know that there could be as many as two
dozen witnesses, so this could stretch through the end of
the week. We're about to start day two, and we're
expecting to hear from the same or more witnesses. So
we're talking about five witnesses thus far. I'm expecting to
hear just as many today, Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
And this is all pre trial, so it's not even
the trial, so it's just on whether evidence can be
presented or not.
Speaker 11 (09:54):
That's exactly right. And I'll note that the alleged assassination
happened one year ago this week. In neither the state
nor the federal case is there actually a trial date,
So you know, this is still the pre trial phase.
This is still a question of what evidence can come in.
We don't even know when Manngoni will actually stand trial.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
ABC's Peter Harlamus, thanks so much for the information. I'm
sure we'll talk to you again later this week as
this unfolds.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Have a great day.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Pentagons facing
accusations of war crimes for a second strike on an
alleged drug boat off Venezuela. ABC's Martha Rattit says the
Washington Post is reported a second strike in September targeted
two survivors who were holding onto the wreckage.
Speaker 12 (10:39):
The Post reporting that at the outset of the operation,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered his team to kill
everybody on board the boat.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Heg Seth calls the report fabricated. The White House says
the second strike was lawful. Maryland Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin
says the second strike amounts to a war crime.
Speaker 13 (10:59):
International law, American law, and the rules of the Department
Defense forbid attacking essentially helpless people who are just desperate
and struggling to survive.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
He says, no one in the administration has the right
to declare war. Only Congress can do that. The State
Department says Americans should be careful if they're headed to
Mexico this winter.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
The advisory follows a recent drone attack in Tijuana that
damaged six cars of an anti kidnapping unit. Popular tourist
areas near the US border carry Level three warnings, while
many other regions are under Level two advisories, meaning visitors
should remain cautious. Some states carry Level four warnings and
travel is strongly discouraged. The Department reminds travelers of entry requirements.
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Local laws on weapons and drugs and recommends enrolling in
the Smart Traveler enrollment program for updates and emergency assistants.
I'm Chris Powers.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Russian President Putin claims his forces have taken control of
two cities in eastern Ukraine. ABC's Ian Pannell says the
claim was made ahead of Putin's meeting today with US
Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff to talk about a peace deal
to end the war.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Witkoff is heading to Moscow to see if Vladimir Putin's
willing to make not just demands but concessions and finally
accept the US plan to end his war in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
The meeting follows high level talks between the US and
Ukraine in Miami over the weekend. The rankings are in
for the most fun cities in the country.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
A new wallet Hub study compared more than one hundred
eighty cities in the US across sixty five key metrics,
including fitness centers per capita, movie costs, and the average
business hours of breweries. The study comes as the average
American spends more than thirty six hundred dollars a year
on entertainment. Los Angeles ranked seventeenth most fun city in
the US, scoring thirteenth in entertainment and recreation, sixteenth in
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nightlife and parties, and one hundred and forty eighth in costs.
The top five spots went to Las Vegas and Orlando, Miami, Atlanta,
and New Orleans. Mark Ronner KFI Knew.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
God always in for fun in the city.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
We are broadcasting live at the Anaheim Whitehouse because the
fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is here.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
We'd love for you to come down and join us.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
We're gonna be broadcasting all day long, and I tell
you our little audience is growing.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
I love it, and we have so many ways for
you to help us out today.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
If you can't make it down, we'll miss you. But
there are still ways that you can donate.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You can go to kfiam six forty dot com slash
Pastathon anytime and know that one percent of your donation
goes to Katerina's Club Defeed the Kids. Here's another way
you can do. Go to any smart and final donate
any amount when you check out. And that's in California, Arizona,
and in Nevada. If you're listening on the iHeartRadio app,
good morning and uh, if you want to, like you know,
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maybe put a little bit in the machine, you can
go to Yamava Resort and Casino just off the two
ten and Highland and when you cast your winning ticket
at the kiosk, it'll ask if you want to donate
your change, Just say yes and then pick Katerina's Club.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
So easy. And of course there's the auction items.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
There's some spectacular auction items this year, and they're the
amounts are getting up there, Like there's the private backyard
barbecue with our very own Bill Handle and Neil Sevadra.
He'll be broadcasting the Fork Report live on a Saturday
from two to five and you'll get to go to
Bill's house and they're gonna have food, You're gonna have
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all kinds of goodies. Will be telling you more about that.
You can get information on that on the KFI website. Again,
just go to KFI AM six forty dot com slash pastathon.
You'll find all the information on donating, on the auction items.
And let's see there's Dodgers games with Gary and Shannon.
That bit starting to get up there. You could maybe
even be a radio host for a day and spend
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an hour with John Cobelt and say whatever the heck
you want on KFI AM six forty. So many ways
to donate, and again it all goes to the kids.
KFI AM six forty dot com slash Pastathon, and of
course the best would be if you wanted to come
down and hang out with us, because we'd love to
see you here. We are live at the Anaheim White
House for Pastathon twenty twenty five. As expected, a man
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and woman from South la have pleaded guilty to a
federal charge of interfering with immigration officers by blocking their
vehicle and chasing them as they performed immigration enforcement duties.
They could each get a year in prison when they're
sentenced in March. A woman who was found dead down
an embankment in the Crestline area has been identified as
a fifty eight year old woman from Newport Beach, sim
Bernadino County Sheriff's Department says she was found November eighteenth,
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about seventy five feet down the embankment off Highway one
thirty eight.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Her injuries are consistent with a fall.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
A snowstorm that started and the Rockies continues to spread
into the midwest.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Chicago Saint Louis.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
They're expecting more snow after they got dumped down over
the Thanksgiving holiday. The mid Atlantic is also expected to
be hit by the brunt of the storm today, with
a wintery mix of snow and rain and even ice
at higher elevations.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
At six oh five, it's Handle on the news Bill,
Handle's going to be here.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
President Trump's goal of three dollars a gallon gas has
been achieved. Except if you live here in southern California.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
It's like a dollar eighty more than that.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Let's say good morning now to the man who's been
with Chef Bruno from the start and has continued along
this journey to feed children in southern California. It's the
fabulous manager of the Anaheim White House, Silvano. Good morning, Silvano.
When you came here and sat down next to me
a couple of minutes ago, you looked over and you said,
I love this day.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Yes, tell us why you love this day?
Speaker 10 (16:34):
It puts my faith back in humanity.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yeah, doesn't it though?
Speaker 10 (16:37):
It really does to see the love, to see just
the emotion and the care that all the camp My
listeners do, especially for Catteris Club. It's amazing. It really
is something special to see.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, so come down, come down, yes now, Well, if
you can't make it out, Handle takes over at six
and then we've got Gary and Shannon, So if you
can stop by, because whether you're coming to donate pasta
or cash or just coming down to hang out and
say hi, we would love to see you here. So
Sylvannie is like, how like in awe are you of
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how this started and where we've come to.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
It's pretty amazing. Just I remember the very first day
that we did this, we were just cooking pasta in
the kitchen. We brought up down to the local Boys
and Girls Club over here. We served about seventy five
eighty kids that first day. And to see what we've
become now not just feeding the kids, but the two
other program programs that we do, the Welcome Home where
we move the families at the hotels and into kind
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of a stable living environment, and then also how we
were teaching the whole the Hospitality Acabinet where we teach
the high school kids' skills so they can join the
work for workforce and supply and be there for their
families as well. To see everything that we've done it's
it's amazing. It's something that I never would have realized
back then. I'm very proud to be a part of
it and very happy that we've come this far and
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can't wait to see what the future brings to because
it's amazing. It really is a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
So let's talk about the hospitality program for just a minute.
So is that for the kids who are are benefiting
from Katerina's Club, like it's at risk kids?
Speaker 13 (18:12):
Is that really?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Is it the hotel kids?
Speaker 10 (18:13):
It's it can't meet the hotel kids. And it's also
for any high school kids too, Okay. So we open
it up to the to the school district, and so
any students that want to get involved, they can contact
our office over at Caterina's Club over you're in Anaheim,
and we can put them on the list. And I
have a group of eight students right now doing it.
We've graduated I think over one hundred so far, and
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I've got another another four or five or and then
the list to start up as soon as we get
done with the stuff semester, okay.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
And then the let's talk about the Welcome Home program,
because that one.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
That's that's something that really is.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
I'm gonna cry, it's only five to twenty.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
But like, so you're feeding these kids who are living
in hotels because their parents can't afford to have a
an apartment or whatever, and so and then you were like, well,
we can do more than feed them, we can help
rehouse them. And so tell us how that program came
to be.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Well, once we realized what the issue was why they
were living in the motels, we sat back at you
and Bruno found this out that the parents they couldn't
afford first and last month's rent because they have a job.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yep, they're stable, but who has an extra five thousand.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Dollars right here in Orange County? Are you kidding me?
So they just need they just need a hand they
need to hand up. They don't need to hand out,
they just need to help us. So all about that, yeah,
and that's what we provide. So we provied supply first
and last month's rent for qualifying families to move into
a permanent place out of a motel, whether it be
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an apartment in a condo, whatever, maybe something that they
qualify and they can afford obviously, and we just helped
them out. And it's been one hundred percent successful. Every
single family we moved out is still there. It has
not fallen back into the motel system.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Look, yes, I love that. See it's I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Actually it's good that the audience is small because everybody
doesn't need to see me crying at five o'clock in
the morning.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
But that that is so cool. So what what can
you appeal to people to say?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
You know, because everybody's got a lot of stress, everybody's
got their budgets are tight right now, what can you
say to appeal to a person who might be thinking
about donating, Well, just.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Know that you're you're not helping just just one one
person or one thing. These are families that we're helping. Yeah,
it's the future. It's the future of all of us.
I mean the children that we're that we're providing for.
There are future, there are kids, there's our kids, there
are kids kids, and so the future of what we
want in our world. If that's what we're providing for,
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and that's what we're trying to help out. And if anybody,
if everyone can just give that whatever they can. What
if it's a dollar, if it's a.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Dollar, five, if it's five thousand. We don't care. We'll
take it all absolutely.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, whatever it is, and whether I've had I
remember a few years ago I had a little kid
coming with his pee bank and that brought me to tears. Yeah,
just to see that, just to see the love and
the care, and that's that's all we ask. Just a
little bit, because a little bit goes a long way. Yeah,
everyone goes a little bit.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We're good.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
And like you said, it creates a ripple too, you know,
like when one person does something nice, then another person
does something nice, and don't we all need a little
bit of niceness now, especially right now? All right, Solvano,
thank you so much for us hopping by. A memorial
service for a beloved police dog shot and killed by
a man trying to elude police in bird Bank's going
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to be held tomorrow. The canine named Spike will also
be remembered on the city's Rose Parade float on New
Year's Day, the theme of the city's twenty twenty six
floaties all pause on deck. A tree trimmer has been
killed when he fell from a palm tree onto an
iron fence in Canoga Park ally fire, says a man
died at the scene yesterday afternoon on North Kenoga.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No information about what caused the man to fall.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Several hospitals in southern California are not making the grade.
According to a nonprofit The group leapfrog says Norwalk Community
Hospital is the worst hospital in the region based on
safety and quality of care.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Coming at six oh.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Five, It's handle on the news and build. Handle is
in the building.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You're not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
He's dressed as a Hanukah elf.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
You gotta come down and see it.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
We're gonna be talking a lot today at pasta than
about the people who have been helped by Chef Bruno
and Katerina's club, and for a lot of these people,
a good meal from Bruno continues to affect their lives
years later. One of those people is Alandra Matteo. Alandra,
tell us how you first came to know about Chef Bruno.
Speaker 14 (22:51):
I was about six or seven years old when I
started going to the Boys and Girls club and Bruno
Uh people come bring passa to the club that I
would participate at, so he will give us pasta before
we will go home every day. And then he went
to our mobile home park where I used to live
at come bring his pasta and then during like the
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month of November, he will come with the Chapman students
to come deliver turkeys and all the stuff that you
know it's needed for Thanksgiving dinner. And yeah, that's how
I got to know him.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
So you were involved in the Boys and Girls Club?
So did you go there every day after school? Yes?
And about how many kids were in your Boys and
Girls clubs?
Speaker 14 (23:32):
Oh, well, we got a lot of kids from my
mobile home park. It was a good ten of us
every day, ten of us from Monday through Friday. But
overall the Boys and Girls Club, I would say a
good two hundred to fifty kids a day.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
That's great, okay, And I would imagine when you're seven
years old, you don't really realize what's going on. I
know that Chef Bruno is bringing you guys food and
them that lovely. But did you as you grew older,
did you start to realize that one he was helping
out your family by maybe taking some of the food
burden off of them and really helping tons and tons
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of people.
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Yes, it was actually a funny story. Like one time
I had my shoes off for some reason. There was
a skate park there and I was changing my shoes
and there was holes on my socks, and Bruno saw that.
The next day he had someone buy me socks from
the store, making sure that I have what I needed
because back then, like it was kind of hard on
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my family, especially with the rent that my parents had
to pay.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Were just him.
Speaker 14 (24:42):
Buying socks or even him coming to our mobile home
parking give us food to low income families, like it
benefited a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
That's so cool. So that was when you were seven years.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Old, and now you're twenty two, twenty one, twenty one.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh, she's still kind of like, Okay, what.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Are you doing with yourself these days?
Speaker 14 (25:00):
Right now, I am a for Fear a calcafe bullet.
I'll be finishing up my degree in the sociology in May,
so I'm hoping that I work with children.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
I do want to give back to my community.
Speaker 14 (25:14):
Right now, I'm actually working as a free college advisor.
So the students that I serve are low income, first
generation students trying to get to higher education, and hopefully
I get to my master's so I could become a
school counselor.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Look at you along here that is so great, and
I think it's just testament to what this program does.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
It changes lives.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
It doesn't only fill up their bellies, and fills up
their hearts and their minds too.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
So thank you so much, and that's love to you. Congratulations,
thank you appreciate it. That's awesome. Is that so great?
I mean, what is great success story?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
So when you make a donation, you are literally helping
to change someone's life. And that's why we want you
to help us out for postathon. Of course, we couldn't
do it without your generosity. And you can go to
kfiam six forty dot com slash pastathon and make a donation.
You can go to any smart and final and donate
whatever you want at checkout. You go to Yamavan when
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you're cashing out your ticket just to click that you
want to donate your change, say yes and then pick
Katerina's Club. What a great way to wrap up your
day at the casino.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Anyway, we'll take any donation, whatever you can do, we
want it, We'll take it.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
It all goes to feeding the kids.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Twenty five thousand children are fed by Chef Bruno's charity,
Katerina's club every single week, and of course we'd love
to see.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
Here if you want to come down and visit us.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
We are here all day at the Anaheim White House.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
We got the cattlebells out. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Let's check in now with Bloomberg's Denise PELOGRENI let's get
in your business, Denise.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Car buyers are bocking.
Speaker 15 (26:50):
Huh yeah, I mean, there are just a lot of
signs that the car market is decelerating. Amy buyers are downsizing,
they're going for a lot more U used vehicles, stretching
out car loans, holding out for deals. Also, cars are
sitting longer on dealer lots. Dealers are offering extra discounts,
so there's some good news there. Lower income borrowers have
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been defaulting on car loans, so there's just a fair
amount of car alarms going off, you might say, with
the US auto industry experiencing little growth. Tariffs is one
of the reasons inflation, tighter job market, and those interest rates,
you know, on the car loans, they're not helping either.
I mean a few years ago there were those zero
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percent offers everywhere for just about any kind of vehicle.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Now those are really hard to find, and.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
They're usually only for cars that, sorry to say, people
don't want, so used cars are looking pretty good right now.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Okay, Samsung, we've heard of the bifold smartphones, the ones
that you know you fold in half. But now they're
going for more because you always got to get bigger
and better.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
So Sam's failing a trifold phone.
Speaker 15 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, you're right. This is its first trifled smartphone.
It's called the Galaxy Z trifold. It has two hinges
and can transform into a larger tablet sized device. They're
launching this in South Korea this month. It will eventually
be available in the US, and it'll sell for around
twenty five hundred dollars. So I guess every time they
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add a hinge the price concern.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh okay, and then one more thing.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
We got more holiday drinks and merch at Starbucks and
Baskin Robbins is offering eighty cent ice cream.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
What the heck?
Speaker 15 (28:34):
Yeah, I mean Starbucks really, they are just pulling out
all the stops and trying to get more people in Stars.
You know those other drinks that they offered earlier this month,
the peppermint one and last month, I should say We're
just a huge hit. And of course there was that
barrista bear that's a hot item even on eBay right now.
So now they've got more holiday drinks, the chestnut preleine
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and eggnog latte. Those are two different ones. That sounds chestnuting,
I thought to I mean, I can. I'd love any
kind of egno anything, so I admit I'll probably try it.
And also they've got some holiday themed tumblers, water bottles, mugs.
These are all inspired by the clothing brand Roller Rabbit.
They make all those nice pajamas, so they're you know,
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they're kind of building on that. But if you want
something a little bit less expensive, Best and Robbins is
celebrating eighty years in business with eighty cent scoops of
ice cream.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
That'll be this Sunday.
Speaker 15 (29:29):
If you can wait, you can get you know, two
scoops for the price of one.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Lovely Okay, getting in your business like we do every
day with Bloomberg's Denise Pelgriny.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks Denise.
Speaker 15 (29:38):
Sounds so fun out there today. I love listening to
what you guys are doing today.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Well, thank you, Denise.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
And you know you can make a donation anytime by
going to the KFI website KFI Am six forty dot
com slash Pastathon. I want to say a big thank
you to the Anaheim Hilton for our pastathon accommodations. The
KFI crew, the ones us that had to get here
really early, stayed there last night, and this legendary So
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Cal hotel is better than ever, fresh from a multi
million dollar renovation.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
It's gorgeous. There's new dining. I partook of that last night.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
There's reimagined rooms with views of the Disneyland fireworks, a
rooftop terrace.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
It's your perfect Orange County getaway.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
It starts at Hilton Anaheimhotel dot com and it was
The rooms are beautiful, the hotel was beautiful. It was
a great place to stay. So highly recommend that. We
mentioned that today is Giving Tuesday, and I think that
we all want to help in some way, right, Well,
we know that with Katerina's Club, one hundred percent of
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what you donate goes directly to the kids, which is
even better because even with the best charities, you know,
there's administration fees. They do have to pay for what
they do in some form. But with Katerina's Club. It's
your donations that go directly.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
To the kids.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
So great, so great, right, But if you have other
donate other charities that you want to participate in and
give two and help, you know, there are good ones
out there and there are bad ones out there. And
that's why we wanted to talk with the host of
How to Money on KFI, Joel lars Guard this morning.
You can hear them Sundays from noon to two, and
Joel tell us about like how we can make sure
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that what we donate is going to the place intended.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, that's a great question, Amy, And this is the
day in particular, and this is the time of year
where you're going to get requests for donations and a
lot of those requests are going to pullet your heartstrings,
understandably so, and I'm all for generosity, right while you're
trying to build wealth and be smart with your money,
(31:46):
like giving money away as you have done well with
your own money is such a beautiful thing. But this
time of year you will find people trying to take
advantage of your generosity, of your desire to help people
in your community or to give to causes that resonate
with you, and and so it's really important to make
(32:08):
sure that you have vetted charities that you're considering giving
to before you just I mean, I'm gonna say, write
a check. Nobody writes a check anymore, but before you
click the donut, right, So before you do that, make
sure you've taken a look behind, you know, peep behind
the curtain to see what's going on with that charity.
(32:28):
And so there are websites that can help you do that.
There's charity navigator dot org is one of my favorites.
There's charity watch. Those are great websites, so you can
like search by charity name and you can look to see, Okay,
what are the financial metrics of this charity? How much
of the money that they're raising is going to the
cause that I care about? Because there are some charities
(32:50):
where the overhead is insane and you're like, wait a second,
this a lot of the money that they're raising is
actually going just to pay staff members or something like that.
And let's be honest, the smaller the charity, oftentimes that
is more the case. And so you want to judge
on metrics like impact as well. But it's really important
to look under the hood to make sure one that
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the organization is legitimate and then two that your money
is actually going to have an impact.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah, and I love that they have like charity Navigator,
because I know that I was considering donating to it.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
It was a firefighters fund.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
They had called and they were telling us about what
they do, and I was like, oh, that sounds great.
You know, of course we want to help the firefighters.
And we looked at it and like eighty percent of
the money did not go to the firefighters. It was
crazy how little actually went to the people it was
supposed to go to.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
And you'll find that is the case. I won't say
more often than not, but more often than you'd like
to like to think. And there was a couple of
years ago there was I saw one from a football player, quarterback,
very prominent person, and you're like, well, that's charity has
got to be legitimate. And you know, it turns out
he had his friends on the payroll and so much
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of the money they were raising was going to pay
exorbitant salaries. And you can find that stuff out by
looking at those websites. It's really important.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I think.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
The other thing I want to stress is that You're
going to see more like in person request, whether it's
a knock at your door, whether it's shopping at the
grocery store. People are going to say, hey, will you
donate to this cause I don't want to seem scrooge
like this holiday season. But my answer is essentially always, hey,
do you have some literature? Can you give me something
sick so that I can I'm not going to give today.
I like to pre plan my giving and so that
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I know where I'm giving and when I'm giving and
how much I'm giving, And so it doesn't mean that
I'm not willing to give impulsively at times like I am.
I have some money set aside even for that. But
I think there is that sort of pull sometimes in
person where you give maybe because you're you feel guilted
into it, and if you really love that cause you
(34:55):
know that, cause you're happy to give, go for it.
I just want people to be able to say, actually,
you know, let me think about that. Can you tell
me more about your charity? Where can I look up
more information so you don't feel like you have to
give in the moment and that you can actually like
do your due diligence to give effectively.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yep, okay, And then I want to touch on really
quick donor advised funds.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I don't know this term. What is this? You know
that it's one of your favorites.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yes, oh, I love donor advice funds and for multiple reasons.
So donor advice funds are and they used to kind
of be for the ultra wealthy, and they used to
be have higher expenses, and so for the average Joe
who wanted to give money away, it just didn't make sense.
But costs have gone down precipitously. My favorite donor advice
fund provider is one called Daffy. Daffy dot org is
(35:41):
the website to check it them out. But what you
can do is essentially funnel all your charitable giving through
one account. And so one of the biggest pain in
the butts is at the beginning of next year when
all your giving data starts to come in or the
end of this year and you have to compile. Let's
say you've given to ten or twelve of your favorite charities,
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you have to keep up with all the paperwork. Well,
if you give to those charities through your donor advice funds,
it's one piece of paper like it. It is one
thing because all your giving has been funneled through that
one account. The other cool thing about donor advised funds
is that you can, similar to how you're growing money
in your four one K or your roth Ira, you
can invest those dollars to give in the future as
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those dollars grow. So that's one of my other the
other coolest things about donor advice funds. If you are
into kind of optimizing your money and you want to
be able to give even more down the road, donor
advice funds are a really cool way to do that.
And again, Daffy is my favorite because it has the
lowest costs, it's got a great interface. But if you're
keen on giving and growing kind of like a giving
(36:45):
nest egg, donor advice funds are an awesome choice.
Speaker 9 (36:49):
All right.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
That's Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money on
KFI Sundays from noon to two. You can also follow
Joel at how to Money.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
Jewel. Thanks so much, Joel, Thanks Amy. Have a great
Giving Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
And it is Giving Tuesday, and we are at the
fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon live at the Anaheim White House, and.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
That does it for wake Up Call.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Thanks to everybody who came out early. I know the
crowd's going to grow. If you're thinking about coming down,
please do. We would love to see you and we
would love to have you donate to help feed the kids.
Bill handle the Hanukah Elf is here A that's a
great outfit.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County live from the Anaheim white House for kfi's Pastathon
twenty twenty five for producer and here at the White
House and technical producer Kno and traffic specialist Will back
at the KFI studios. I am Amy King. This has
been your wake up Call and if you missed it
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