Kin Jong Un Will Meet With Putin & "How to Money" Joel Larsgaard

Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC National News Correspondent Tom Rivers comes on the show to speak on whether Kim Jong Un will be meeting with Putin this month. Host of ‘How to Money’ Joel Larsgaard joins the program to talk about living paycheck to paycheck, unconscious credit card spending and how to cut it out. Amy talks with ABC News’ Steve Roberts about more than half of Americans preferring someone other than Trump, but there’s a lot of empty space behind him. Amy wraps the show with her Fall streaming preview: What to look for this Fall on all your favorite streaming services.

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to kf I AM sixforty wake Up Call with me Amy King
on demand on the iHeartRadio apps KFIhand KOST HD two, Los Angeles,
Orange County. It's time for yourmorning wake up call. Here's Amy King.

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This is your wake up call forTuesday, September five. I'm Amy
King. Hope you had a greatlabor day. I ate a lot of
food, watched a lot of TV, chilled. I hope you did the
same and had a great weekend andare ready to get back to it.
We're well into September. What isit? Four months and twenty days until

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Christmas? Wait? October November?No, three months and twenty days till
Christmas? Oh gosh. And todayI'm breaking the rules. And the weather
still so nice, and it's goingto be really nice for the rest of
the weekend. Then hot again thisweek can I've got another heatwave coming.
But I'm wearing white. Just wantedto announce it. I'm a rule breaker.
You're not supposed to wear a whiteafter a labor day. Tomorrow,

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I'm gonna wear white shoes. That'llreally put me out there. Here's what's
ahead on the wake up call.Tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees have
begun the exodus out of the BlackRock Desert in Nevada, now that muddy
roads have dried up enough to makethem passable. A US official says North
Korean leader Kim Jong ooon may travelto Russia this month to meet with President

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Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin tries toget military equipment to use in its war
in Ukraine. First Lady Jill Bidenhas tested positive for COVID nineteen. President
Biden tested negative last night, butthe White House says he'll continue testing regularly
and we'll be monitored for symptoms.Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom. Another bus carrying migrants from

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Texas has arrived in La That makestwelve since June fourteenth. La Marabas called
it a political stunt by Texas GovernorGreg Abbott, and I think it's terrible
to use people's lives and put themin danger through these bus trips where they
have limited stops with food and water. The latest bus arrived at Union Station

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over the weekend with forty two asylumseekers aboard, including twenty one children.
The La Welcomes Collective says the familiesare from Columbia, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Russia. Dodgers picture Julio Urias has been arrested
near Bomo Stadium in La on suspicionof felony domestic violence. The arrest late

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Sunday was the second for Urius forthe same charge. He was suspended for
twenty games in twenty nineteen for violatingMajor League Baseball's domestic violence policy. He
did not actually face charges in thatone. Urias posted fifty thousand dollars bail
and was released shortly before five amyesterday. Arias is not out at the

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in Miami with the team as theyface a three game series against the Marlins
starting tonight. Alike, Kenny Sheriff'sdeputies have been involved in two shootings.
The first in Hacienda Heights, aman who may have stabbed his father to
death tried to break into a neighbor'shouse after assaulting his dad early yesterday.
He was shot in front of theneighbor's house. And then a man allegedly
involved in an armed robbery and assaultin East La yesterday afternoon was shot by

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deputies after he apparently pulled out agun. That man is in the hospital.
The owner of a jewelry store inEl Monty says they're worried about a
guy that they chased out of theirstore. They're concerned that the guy could
come back for revenge. The manallegedly told the owners he'd come back and
kill them. The guys accused ofwalking into the store on Saturday, attacking

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four employees with bear spray and breakinga display case with a hammer. This
woman says she was pepper sprayed inthe attack. How scary was this really
scary? Because I was afraid thatmy uncle was bleeding, and then I
was afraid because he had a hammeton his tune. The owners of the
store beat the man with a stickand chased him down the street. They
say they stopped chasing the guy whenhe pulled out a gun. In Almani

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Blake Trolley k IF News officials inNewport Beach the wildfires in Hawaii are a
good reminder to be ready for alldisasters. The city's emergency Management agency says
it wants people to know that Septemberis National Preparedness Month, and they want
people to be aware of Newport Beach'soutdoor warning system. Sirens are located at
West Newport Park, Marina Park,and West Jetty View Park, which can
also broadcast announcements. The sirens areactivated for emergencies like tsunamis, flooding,

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fires, and other disasters. Instructionsand evacuation plans would follow. Officials say
they test the system frequently, withthe next scheduled test on Friday, October
sixth at twelve noon. Steve Gregoryking off I News LA Lakers owner Jeanie
Buss has married comedian Jay Moore inMalibu. TMZ says it was a small
ceremony Sunday, attended by about twentypeople, none of them were Lakers players.

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Bus was once engaged to armer Lakerscoach Phil Jackson, but that one
ended in twenty sixteen. It's fiveor six on your wake up call.
Let's say good morning to ABC's TomRivers. Tom is a face to face
meeting between North Korea's Kim Jong unand Russia's President Putin in the works.
Could be. We're watching it prettyclosely. Two hours ago, we had
the press briefing in Moscow, DimitriPeskov was asked specifically about this and he

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said, I can't lay any moreinformation on it right now. So most
of this comes from from the fromthe administration saying that American officials think that
there could be a meeting in afew weeks, and a lot of people
looking at the calendar. There's aneconomic summit in the far east of Russia
in about ten days, so ifthere is going to be a meeting,
it could well be held there betweenPutin and Kim Jong un and many It

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would be speculating that it would besome kind of a deal that could be
struck. At that point. NorthKorea could supply you know, basic ammunition,
shells, bullets, et cetera,et cetera in exchange or hard needed
money for things like fuel and food. So watch your space. We haven't
connected the doubts on it yet,but it looks like it may well happen.

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We'll find out in the coming days. So is Russia running low on
ammunition and weaponry? Now they're they'redoing pretty well on their own, but
gosh, you know, look atthe US to supply things like cluster munitions
or depleted uranium shells, next week. Yeah, Ukraine is getting a real,

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real short supply from the West aswell. So the longer this thing
grinds on and the ratcheting up witheven more technologically important weaponry in the theater,
this thing becomes more and more explosive. And does Russia, with all
the sanctions and everything that it's gotagainst it, does it have the money
to buy all this stuff? They'redoing better. The recession is hurt Western

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Europe much harder and much stronger thanit is hit Russia, and it's interesting
coming out from a different angle.We did an interview with the First Lady
of Ukraine yesterday. She's worried aboutwhat you call it Ukraine fatigue. Certainly,
you know, on the back doorstepof Russia, and many European economies

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are either in recession Germany, theNetherlands, or they're tottering on it,
and they're getting fed up with awave of migrants that the US isn't dealing
with, and the wave of moneyoutflowing and weaponry outflowing from these various countries.
This thing cannot go on, asthe old adage goes from the administration,
for as long as it takes.Europe is saying nope, there will

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be a line drawn. We're notthere yet, but we're getting pretty fed
up. Yeah. I get thething about the fatigue and being worried about
that because I know that, youknow, we all have such a short
attention span anymore. We're like,Okay, what's the next new shiny thing.
And I could see how Ukraine wouldbe worried that they would kind of
get lost in the shuffle and allof that. Well, again, there's

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all kinds of problem. Is therea new defense secretary it's going to be
put in place in Ukraine. There'sbeen the if you will, resignation of
a lot of local officials, defenseofficials as well. In the country.
Things are not rosy. So yes, when when you dig into this story,
try to find it from a varietyof sources, and you get a

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better picture of what's happening there.Okay, and Kim Jong un from his
perspective, like he wants to bea major player on the world stage.
So is that one of the reasonsthat he would partner up with Putin or
is it just strictly a money thing. Basically strictly a money thing. They
need money for things like food andfuel, and they would certainly get that.

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It's kind of rich from an Americanofficial spokeswoman for the National Security Council
saying we urge in North Korea notto do this. There is no good
blood between Pyongyang and Washing. Pyongyangmight be the strangest country on the lineup,
but they're gonna do what they're gonnado. Yeah. Ever, regardless
if somebody either arrogantly or naively saysthat in the Beltway, Trump took a

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lot of heat for meeting with Kim, but at least they were talking.
Is there any plans for any kindof dialogue with North Korea on our side?
No, you always here, allthe doors always open, and the
door closes normally after there's yet anotherrocket launch from North Korea and you know,
feathers are ruffled in Washington. Theysaid, well, we were willing

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to talk if you are, andnothing ever happens, nothing at all.
So that's kind of where we arenow, all right, So we'll be
watching that and if it does happen, it's expected to happen in the next
few weeks. Yep, you gotit all right, Tom Rivers, Thanks
so much for your time and insightthis morning. Take care let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour news room.
More than two dozen people have beenarrested in Los VELAs, where an

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unlawful assembly was declared during a LaborDay march and demonstration by healthcare workers.
The coalition of their Permanente unions,which represents more than eighty five thousand workers
in seven states, is negotiating itsfirst contract renewals since twenty nineteen. The
LAPD arrested twenty five people yesterday whenthey refused to leave the area. Santa

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Monica High Schools canceled in person classestoday because of a power outage. Officials
with the Santa Monica Malibull School Districtssay there was a major blown fuse that's
not going to be repaired in timefor campus to reopen today. Afternoon sporting
events will go on as scheduled.Nearly two dozen people have been hurt by
a car that crashed into a Denny'srestaurant in Texas. Police near Houston say

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the injuries yesterday ranged from minor tosirius, but all appeared to be non
life threatening. The driver was notinjured. A new trash rule in New
York City has expanded, requiring allchain stores with five or more locations to
use containers with secure lids or garbagecans. The move comes a month after
all food related businesses were ordered todo the same when leaving trash out on

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the curb. City and its Departmentof Sanitations say they're working together in the
fight against rats. Fish will sayfine start going out to violators. Last
week, the man who wrote thenineteen eighty nine movie Weekend at Bernie's has
died. Screenplay writer Robert Klain diedlast week of kidney failure at his home

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in Woodland Hills. Clain also wroteand directed the sequel wen Weekend at Bernie's
two, and worked on other filmsincluding National Lampoon's European Vacation, The Man
with One Red Shoe, and ThankGod It's Friday. Klain was eighty one,
So actually, I guess that's afourth. But I was going to
say this earlier this morning before findingout about the Weekend at Bernie's writer that

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they do come in threes, andin the music world they did come in
threes. First it was Jimmy Buffett, and then yesterday we found out that
Steve Harwell, the former lead singerfor smash Mouth, died. The band's

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biggest hits included All Star that appearedin the movie Shrek, alongside the band's
cover of Monkeys I'm a Believer.And then later yesterday we found out that
Gary Wright passed away. He wasthe guy behind Dream Can't Say It,

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Dream Weaver and Love is Alive.You can get Me. You know that
song Kono? I do know thatsong I think from movie Montages could be
love that music Rip Carrie Right whenwe come back, we are going to

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be talking with Joel lars Guard andfind out how to money. He's really
good at it. Lots of helpfulhints. Here's what we're following in the
Cafe twenty four hour newsroom about twodozen protesters. They've been arrested outside the
Kaiser Permanente in Hollywood. The groupwas part of a Labor Day rally over
what healthcare workers say is understaffing,long patient wait times, and other issues.

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LAPD says the group was arrested forcivil disobedience. Basically, they refused
to leave the area when asked to. Dodgers picture Julio Urius has been arrested
on a felony domestic violence charge.Urius was suspended for twenty games for violating
Major Leagues Baseball domestic violence policy intwenty nineteen. He is not with the

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team on its current six game roadtrip. Grocery stores in Paris are going
to have to replace candy and othersugary food and drinks near the register with
healthy snacks under a new city law. They have until the start of next
year to do it. Paris isthe second city in the US to pass
a law like this. Berkeley wasthe first at six oh five. It's
handled on the news. The RollingStones are doing something they haven't done in

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eighteen years. Bill will tell youall about that. Right now, let's
say a morning to Joel lars Guard, host of How to Money. Right
here on KFI. Joel, wegot to disturbing report about how people are
living paycheck to paycheck, more ofthem than ever. Yeah. Yeah,
it's it feels like it's this wash, rents and repeat thing cycle where every

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single year these numbers come out andthey look just as depressing as ever.
Sixty one percent of people say theycan't afford a four hundred dollars unexpected Bill,
and I think it was like fiftynine percent last year. So it's
it's like ticks up every year,and it's just every year I see this
and I'm like, as someone whotries to help people with their money every

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single week, every day, reallyit just bums me out. Okay,
So on your best how to moneyon this what we're having is people are
just coming up short. Like we'vetalked about how people were sort of stockpiling
money during the pandemic because there wasno where to spend it. They were

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getting stimulus money and other things likethat, but there was nowhere to go
and that kind of stuff, andso we were actually saving money, but
now we're spending it and using moreof it on credit cards, yeah,
and not able to pay it off. How do we break this cycle?
Well, it's kind of easy tosave when we were stuck at home and
the government was funneling money into ourbank accounts, right, So it's like
this forced method of savings on bothfronts. But it's become as life is

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getting more back to normal and we'respending like normal, and then inflation is
spiraling out of control. It's alot of that excess savings that was stuck
thrust into our accounts has kind ofbeen spent down, and so I get
for a lot of people, nowprices are higher, the money that came
from some of those stimmy checks isgone, and so they feel like they're

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in a tight spot. I alsothink when you look at the numbers,
when you dig a little deeper,it's sometimes sometimes for some people, it
is an income problem, right.Some people don't have enough money to be
able to pay for the more expensivereality of living in the United States right
now. But there's also a lotof people, some of like fifty one
percent of people who make more thanone hundred thousand dollars. This is not

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just in southern California, this isacross the United States say that they also
can't afford a four hundred dollar unexpectedexpense. And I think when you zoom
out and you see that it's notthat everyone has a spending problem, but
there is a significant spending problem inthe United States of America too. We
don't have the culture of savings thatsome other countries have, and so even

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when the income goes up, spendinggoes up commensurately. Okay, which is
I want to get into that ina second, because I'm having an issue
with that myself, but so,but tell us, like if we are,
if you are cutting it short orcoming up short, or really just
barely making it, what are somethings that you can do to help improve

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that situation, aside from going outand getting a new job. Are there
little areas that you can save hereand there or places you can cut Yeah,
yeah, I mean that's a greatquestion, and I think there are
a few. Specifically, I've gottwo specific things I want people to do
if they find themselves in this situation. If they're like, listen, you
know, my transmission failed or evenjust got a flat tire and boom,

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that's going to completely mess me upfinancially, I want you to have save
up an emergency fund, which twentyfour hundred and sixty seven dollars is the
amount I want people to have insavings, because that is going to be
enough to cover most emergencies. Thisis, like, it's a very specific
number because that's what economists found thatpeople would would get most people through whatever
emergency might come along. Let's sayyour air conditioner goes out or something like

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that. Repairing that certainly it's notgonna you know, it's not gonna fund
a full replacement. But man,that that amount of money stashed aside in
a high yield savings account is goingto be enough to relieve the stress that
a lot of people face and toactually pay for an emergency that might come
along. So save up that amountof money. And part of what that's
going to take is tracking your expenses. So those are the two big things.

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Save up the e fund and trackyour expenses. And Benjamin Franklin,
he said, beware of little expenses. A small league will sink a great
ship. And it's true, rightlike the Titanic, Yeah, hits this
iceberg, and even though it's asmall league going in, the unsinkable ship
goes down. And so if weare able to and can pay attention to
the small leagues, but most ofus we're not tracking our spending. We
don't know where it's going, andso we don't know what leaks we need

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to be plugged. And because ofthat, we continue to find ourselves in
this situation at the end of themonth where we're breaking even at best.
Okay, So that brings me towhat you and I had talked about,
and we had discussed wanting to talkabout this is I've noticed that I'm doing
a lot of unconscious spending, LikeI don't even I'm not tracking it because

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I'm putting it on my credit cardand I go to like Amazon and spend.
I go, oh, it's onlyfifteen dollars, or it's only thirty
dollars, or it's only fifty dollarsor whatever, and it just becomes unconscious.
And then I get my credit cardbill at the end of the month,
I go, holy crap, howdid I charge three thousand dollars worth
of stuff? Yeah? How doI stop that? Okay, couple thoughts.

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I think. One, when wehave apps on our phone, it
makes it easy for us to scrolland to shop, right, So I'm
not sure if you're doing it mostlyon your laptop or your phone, But
okay, so take take the Amazonapp off your phone? Maybe that really
just one yeah, one extra step, right, is going to make it
easier for you to not do youknow, a little window shopping via via

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your cell phone. So I wouldsay, maybe consider removing that or at
least like move it to a differentspot on the screen one page over or
something like that, so you're notit's part of It's this muscle memory where
we're just like tap the app,we start scrolling, and then we're like,
wait, why am Why am Ishopping? I didn't, I wasn't
planning on shopping, And I alsoreally want I think it's a good idea
to institute like a twenty four ora forty eight hour rule. So if
there's something where you're like, oh, man, I found myself scrolling and

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this is the thing I've decided thatI want to buy, we'll put it
in like a word doc or somethinglike that of things that you're considering purchasing,
and just that one act I thinkwill help you feel like, oh
I did something. I took somesort of action on this front, but
I did actually make the purchase ona whim, a knee jerk decision.
So put it in that, inthat document, and then you're it's it's

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things to potentially purchase later. You'llprobably find the next time you look at
that document the next day, twodays later that in the moment, that
sounded pretty exciting, pretty awesome,But now that I've thought about it for
just a little while longer, Idon't think I'm gonna follow through. Okay,
And then the other thing I've noticedis I used to track everything in
my checkbook register, but I'm notwriting checks anymore, so I'm not tracking

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it you and everybody else. Soshe would get a spreadsheet or something and
like literally write down everything you spend. Is that feasible or so There's definitely
different ways to do this and differentstructure, different folks, whatever, whatever
floats your boat. I think likeone of my friends, she literally writes
down everything she purchases with a penand paper. And my best buddy,

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he has been keeping Excel spreadsheets backto two thousand and six or seven,
and so he has he can tellyou how much he spent on groceries back
in No. Seven, which iskind of cool. And then other people
love digital software like I use Mint. I've used Mint for a long time.
I think that's a great software andeven better software if you're looking for
kind of the behavioral change that softwarecan help you create is winnab You need

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a budget, and so I reallylove that one. If people are this
one costs money, but it's worththe money. And actually I think the
average winnab user saves finds themselves savingsomething like six thousand extra dollars a month.
Because of the behavioral aids that winnabinstitutes. They're really trying to help
you become a better saver. Andso I'm sold on winnab. And if

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people are like, I'm better withdigital stuff and having all my accounts populated
automatically, and then I think winnabis a slam dunk win for a lot
of people. And how much doesthat cost? You know? I think
it's eighty four dollars a year.I want to say, I think it's
free for students. But you know, when you think about it, when
you have a little bit of skinof the game, when you're paying for
the software, you're more likely touse it. You're more likely to follow

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through. When we sign up forsomething it's free, oftentimes we're like that
and work out we don't give itmuch much of a go. And so
I think sometimes actually the act ofpaying for the thing gives us enough buy
in for ourselves to actually follow through. Okay, so you need a budget
win nab. Yeah, Okay,thanks so much, Joel. I think
you're helping me. I'm going tostart writing stuff down. All Right,

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you got this, you can doit. I believe in you. Okay,
you can get more tips on howto Money with Joel lars Guard on
Sundays from noon to two right hereon KFI. You can also follow Joel
on Instagram at how to Money Joel. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Steve Roberts. So,good morning, Steve. More than half
of Americans want someone other than formerPresident Trump to be their candidate. But

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who in the field could possibly beathim? Well, here's the problem.
Maybe, yes, a whole lotof Republicans would prefer someone else, but
every Republican who's running against Trump facesa crucial problem, and none of them
have been able to solve it.And here's the problem. How do you
run against Trump? How do youseparate yourself from Trump? How do you

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criticize Trump without alienating his core baseof support. It's a very very difficult
problem, and I don't think anybodyhave solved it. You look at run
DeSantis, Governor Florida. Well,his attempt was to run to the right
of Trump. Remember it the debate, He said, but I would have

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fired Anthony Fauci and Trump didn't dothat. He talks about being much tough
run abortion than Trump. Well,I do not think there is a lane
to the right of Donald Trump inRepublican politics. I think De Santis is
way over on the shoulder here.He's not even on the freeway. Mike
Pence think about his problem. Hetalks all the time about the Trump Pence
administration, how wonderful it was,particularly in terms of economic record, and

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then he says, but, bythe way, even no matter how wonderful
it was, vote for me insteadof Trump. Well, he does say
Trump violated the Constitution on January sixth, but basically he's also caught saying two
things at the same time. VividRamaswami says, well, Trump is the

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best president of the twenty first century, but vote for me, a thirty
eight year old guy with no politicalexperience instead. So the only person I
think that's found even a plausible argumentis Nicky Haley, former governor of South
Carolina, because she's not separating herselffrom Trump's policies. After all, she
was his un ambassador and part ofhis administration too. What she's doing is

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saying, I'm different in tone,I'm different in character, I'm more compassionate.
When she says, don't demonize womenwho are facing abortions, even though
I'm pro life. That's a that'sa distinction. When she says, as
a woman, I'm a more practicaldecision maker than Trump, he's trying to
say, you know, I'm steadier, I'm more reliable, I'm more compassionate.

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And when she says, you know, Trump is the most disliked man
in America, she doesn't say Ilike him. He says others dislike him
so much that we have to bepractical again, be practical and nominate someone
who is more electable. So buteven so, I don't think any of
them have found the right narrative,the right storyline, Amy, that's really

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going to challenge Trump, at leastso far. What about Tim Scott?
I was I'm impressed with Tim Scott, but I think he's not garnering the
attention. He hasn't figured it outeither. Obviously none of them have.
But I've been surprised, Amy.I agree with you. I thought Tim
Scott had the potential on paper tobe a much more significant candidate. He

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stuck stuck a two percent in thepolls. He barely registered during the debate.
You know, as the only blackRepublican in the US Senate, as
someone with an inspiring story coming upfrom poverty. On paper, he seemed
like a good candidate. But youknow, politics is like is like athletic.
You don't play the game on paper, you play the game on the

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field. And he simply has notperformed up to the back of his baseball
card, at least so far.Yeah. And I think the other thing
that is this quandary that they're stuckin is that, like you said,
if they're running on as a conservative, as a Republican, they can't really
criticize Trump too much because there's somany people who do support him, even

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though so many people don't support them. And when you don't go after Trump,
then you get criticized by the liberalsand you've got to get some of
them and independence to vote. Yeah, and you look at that. There
are two people in the race whohave directly criticized Trump, former Governor Christie
of New Jersey, former Governor Hutchinsonof Arkansas, and they've gotten booed.

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I mean they you know, theyhaven't found a formula either. Getting Trump
directly hasn't worked for them. Infact, it's worked less well then for
the others. I think there's oneart well, there are a couple of
things. One is things can change. I mean we're a long way before
the election, long way before thenomination. So in terms of Trump,
there are two possibilities. One ofcourse, is he's facing four criminal cases

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ninety one counts. If he wouldto face a trial and be convicted,
would that change things? Possibly,don't know for sure. Possibly everybody focuses
on Biden self, no one focuseson Trump self. But the fact is
he's seventy seven years old, he'soverweight, he seems to his diet seems
to consist mainly of diet cokes inbig Max. I mean, this guy

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is a heart attack waiting to happen. So if he hit a health event,
it could change the trajectory. Here'sthe other factor that I think has
the one possibility I think that Trumprivals have of peeling away some Trump votes
is simply the argument of electability.I think there are a fair number of
Republicans who think Trump was a goodpresident, would like to see Trump president

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again, but don't think he canwin. And that's the argument that I
think has the most promise for Trump'sfoes not to attack Trump record, not
to attack him, even that partiallypersonally. But as Hailey says, let's
be practical, and the practical judgmentis, we know that Trump has already

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lost to Biden once. We knowthat in two races for the presidency,
he's never broken forty seven percent.We know that the abortion issue alienates a
lot of suburban women. We knowthat the electoral map favors the Democrats right
now. And so if we haveany chance of defeating Biden and avoiding President

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Kem o'harris somewhere down the road,we have to nominate someone who's more electable.
That's the one argument I think thathas the potential for pealing away some
of those Trump overs. And we'regoing to hear lots of arguments as we
head into the election. Only fivemonths until Iowa, right, something like
that. It seems like a longtime, but it ain't very long in

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politics, I know. It seemslike these political seasons are starting earlier and
earlier. Steve Roberts, thank youso much for your analysis. Appreciated a
ton anytime. Maybe all right,you got it. Nearly two dozen protesters
have been arrested outside the Kaiser PermanenteHospital in Hollywood. The group was part
of a Labor Day rally over whathealthcare workers say is understaffing, long patient

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wait times, and other issues.LAPD says the group was arrested for civil
disobedience. Dodgers picture Julio Urius hasbeen arrested on a felony domestic violence charge.
He was suspended for twenty games forviolating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy
in twenty nineteen. He is notwith the team on its current six game
road trip. A woman's okay afterfighting off a naked man who broke into

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her apartment in Santa Monica. Thewoman says she woke up to the man
standing next to her bed on Saturday. The same guy was apparently seen at
her apartment complex twice the before.He has been arrested. We're just minutes
away from handle on the news thismorning. Bill is back, the leader
of North Korea may soon be meetingwith the leader of Russia. It's all
about weapons and cash. Well,now that Labor Day is done, kids

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are back in school. Falls justaround the corner, and as I mentioned,
Halloween's coming. Well, normally thatwould really mean a full slate of
new fall shows, but this yearthings are different because the writers are on
strike and the actors are on strike, but there are still amazingly some shows
that are coming out, so Iwanted to share with you some of them
that you might want to take alook at. They were, by the

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way side, note five hundred ninetynine original scripted series that aired in twenty
twenty two. We're going to havea few for twenty twenty three, but
not that many. I did seethough, that Survivor is going to be
coming back, and I think thatI saw somewhere that it's going to be
ninety minute episodes. I guess theygot to fill the space, and Survivor

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can do it because it's not scripted, So maybe we're I think I've seen
a couple of promos for someome reallyquestionable reality shows that you know, I
think they just got to fill thespace, right, So we'll have to
wait and see. But one showthat's coming back on Apple TV plus I'm
super excited about this is The MorningShow season three. So it's Jennifer Aniston

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and Reese Witherspoon and it had SteveCarrell until they killed off his character.
But that's season three, and youknow, it's it's all about Morning TV
and kind of followed the whole thingwith the storyline of Matt Lower if you
haven't watched it, when he hadto leave The Today Show and Steve Carrell
kind of stepped into that position.But I have loved this show and so

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I'm looking forward to it again.USA Today is saying to keep your eyes
on American Horror Story Delicate, whichis its season twelve. Lots of people
going to be on this show notknown. Not much as known about the
season yet except that it's going tobe rather insane, because apparently that's how
American Horror Story is. And onone of the episodes, I just saw

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that Kim Kardashian's going to be onit. It premiers September twentieth on FX
and then streams on Hulu starting Septembertwenty one. Oh and the Morning Show
premieres September thirteenth on Apple TV.I don't know, maybe you want to
write it down on your calendar.The Continental from the World of John Wick.
So it's from the world of It'sa three part series. It's an

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origin story not of John Wick,but of Winston, who runs the hotel
of the title, which apparently isthe Continental. And if you're a John
Wick fan. Apparently it's along thissame line. It's going to be streaming
starting September twenty second on Peacock LokiMarvel Fans. Low Key season two is
coming back that starts October sixth onDisney Plus with Tom Hittleston as Lowke.

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He's about time traveling, the wholemulti universal thing, and it was a
fun show, I think the firstseason, So maybe you want to check
that one out if you like horrorseries. There's a limited horror series coming
to Netflix called The Fall of theHouse of Usher. It reworks the classic
Edgar Allen post story. Apparently theUshers have built a pharmaceutical empire, but

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then family members start dying. Doesn'tthat sound like fun? So that's October
twelfth on Netflix. And then thisone's really kind of interesting to me.
I just found out that Frasier iscoming back. So Kelsey Grammer returns as
doctor Frasier Crane. He moves backto Boston from Seattle because he was in
Boston for Cheers and then he movedto Seattle and was a radio show host.

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But there's no David Hyde Pierce.His brother Jane leaves Levy's not returning,
and of course John Maloney, whoplayed his dad, has since died.
I don't know, but it's goingto be on Paramount Plus. I'll
be streaming it that starts October,October twelfth on Paramount Plus. So just
a few of the shows that youmight want to check out, and then

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don't forget. I'm marking my calendarfor this because I'm a total Hallmark movie
aficionado. I guess. But thecountdown to Christmass is almost starting, and
they're going to officially start it inOctober. It's the last weekend of October
until January one, and it's allHallmark Christmas movies. But they're getting a

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warm up for that, so thisFriday is the Coyote Creek Christmas and then
after that they've got more Christmas moviesevery Friday. I know it's ridiculous,
but I love to curl up andwatch me a little Hallmark movie. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The information for a strikeauthorization vote targeting video game production companies has

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been sent out to eligible SAG aftermembers. Some of SAG is already on
strike against the Hollywood Studio, butthe video game contract has also expired.
Union negotiators say the companies have failedto address their needs. Voting on a
strike authorization closes September twenty five,and I was just talking about the actor's

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strike. Late night host Jimmy Kimmelsays actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have
offered to pay his staff, whois out on strike, out of their
own pockets, but he said thanks, but no thanks. Kimmel said on
the Strike Force five A podcast thathe was flattered by the offer to cover
two weeks of their pay, buthe declined it because he felt it wasn't

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their responsibility. The writers have beenout on strike since May. Second Police
and Fontana say there has been anincrease in bank jugging, which is where
thieves target people who withdraw cash.Investigators say a person pulled out one sixty
dollars, then went to Walgreens,but left the cash in an envelope in
the car. Surveillance video shows atruck pull up in July, a thief

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got out, smashed the window,took the cash, all within the eight
minutes the person was in the store. Fontana PD says people should ditch earphones
while at the bank or atm andpay attention to suspicious people or cars following
them. Transfer the cast from thebank envelope to something that isn't obviously holding
cash. Keep car doors locked inmaybe don't leave cash in the car.
Corbin Carson kof I News never leavecash in the car. Since I moved

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to La, I don't leave anythingin the car. Ever. Researchers at
UCLA say little red ants may holdthe key to better traffic. They spent
eighteen months studying data on thirty onespecies of ants. Really, what I'm
hoping to understand is the way thatthe space the ants create affects the way
that their society works Channel Fallons andants scientists, Yep, it's legit anyway.

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Oh. Fallon says, ants haveto move food in information within a
densely populated space, much like largercity. The larger your society gets,
the harder it is to make itwell connected. And I think that just
understanding this sort of fundamental until constrainthopefully will helpe us design better systems.
One of the things that popped upon the study was how ants use designated

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express lanes move things like food anddirt. And when I asked how many
ants were studying, maybe I amabout four million ants and mill ants were
harmed well. Fallon says he hopesto get the study in front of some
city planners. Steve Gregory, kif I News, I love that express
lanes for ants. This is KFIand KOSTHD two, Los Angeles, Orange

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