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November 21, 2025 38 mins

Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. The show opens with ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers talking about President Trump’s upcoming meeting with NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani. The host of ‘Home’ on KFI Dean Sharp joins the show and talks about decorating for the holidays. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pelegrini who speaks on what the markets are looking like as the week comes to a close. The show closes with ABC News correspondent Will Ganss delivering the ‘Entertainment Report.’ Today Will highlights the release of Wicked: For Good now showing in theatres.

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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 had kost E HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
This is your wake up call for Friday, November twenty. First,
it's five o'clock.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Straight up. I'm Amy King. Welcome to your wake up
call and your day. It's oh boy.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I thought the worst of the rain had passed, but man,
it was coming down hard this morning. If you're driving
this morning, yeah, slow it down a little bit. I
was driving like a grandma today. I was going about
forty five at semi trucks passing me. And you know
when a semi truck passes you in the kick up
all that water.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, but my.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Car was already wet, so what do I care? But
I just a word to the wise. There was some
hydroplaning going on and I was going slow, so just
be careful.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
It is wicked Friday, not only because of the rain, so.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Because Wicked for Good officially opens today. I got to
see it last night. I'll be telling you about that. Also,
we have some wicked treats since studio this morning. You
can check them out on my Instagram at amy k King.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
They're wicked.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. Heavy rain has
been falling overnight. It rates up to an inch per
hour in some areas. Forecasters say the heaviest of the
rains expected to taper off this morning, but scattered showers
are possible throughout the day before the storm moves out
and leaves us with a mostly sunny weekend. A stubn
fire in a commercial building in the Ramona Gardens area
of Boyle Heights could threaten nearby buildings. Ellie Fire says

(01:54):
it has taken up a defensive posture outside the metal
clad building on Alcazar and Murchison's, meaning it's too dangerous
to go inside to put the flames out.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Fires started shortly after one this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
The Trump administration says it'll reopen ocean waters off the
Pacific coast to oil drilling leases. California officials and environmentalists
immediately came out against the plan to lease thirty four
offshore drilling sites, including six off the coast of California,
between twenty twenty six and twenty thirty one. President Trump's
having a sit down with Democratic Socialist New York City

(02:27):
Mayor elect Zorum Mandamie. We're going to get the latest
on that meeting with ABC's Karen Travers in just a
couple of minutes. Thanksgiving less than a week away now,
a lot of people are turning their attention toward holiday decorating.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Good thing.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
We have the host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp,
to join us and talk about decking the halls in style.
That's coming up at five twenty wild day in the
stock markets yesterday started up like seven hundred points and
then they had like a thousand point swing, ended down
a few hundred points. We're gonna see if that's if
we got another day like that. On Tap four today

(03:01):
with Bloomberg's Denise Pelagrene, we'll get in your business at
five point forty and yes, it is going to be
a wicked weekend at the movies, But is it worth it.
ABC's Willgan's going to weigh in. That's coming up before
the end of the hour. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A flash flood warning is in effect for
parts of La County because of the rain. The National
Weather Services Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across

(03:25):
the warned area. It includes the Palisades, Burned scar to
Panga State Park, Santa Monica, the four or five through
the Supulvita Pass, and parts of the San Fernando Valley.
The warning is in effect until six am. A flash
flood warning for Orange Counties up until five point thirty.
It includes Irvine, Mission Viejo, Laguna Beach, Rancho, Santa Margarita,

(03:47):
Aliso Viejo and the Newport Coast. A large tree has
fallen into the street in Westlake, crushing a car.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
A massive tree do you rooted.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
On top of this was passing by.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
The driver apparently noticed as the tree started falling, but
it slowed down. The tree did smash his roof and windshield,
but he was able to get out of the vehicle.
Several lanes of traffic are closed near Olympic and Alvarado. God,
that's got to be scary sitting there and you're like, oh,
look what's coming down?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Nowhere to go.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Ruterhroo dot com is who's bringing you the news this morning.
A former reality TV star turned Palisades fire rebuilding advocates
his state, county, and city officials had been making excuses
about response to the fire from the get go. Spencer
Pratt tells cafe's John Cobalt it all started with what
he calls lame excuses about winds and why water dropping

(04:41):
helicopters couldn't draw from reservoirs.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
The cover up started instiling hurricane winds.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
We had three deployed.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
We were ready for this.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh, the water was never meant for fires.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Pratt's home and that of his mother, both in the Palisades,
were destroyed in the fire.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
In January, Governor.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Newsom's again criticized President Trump's announcement proposing the opening of
California's coast to offshore oil drilling. A directive from the
Trump administration calls for potential leases of thirty four offshore sites,
including six off California's coast, between twenty twenty six and
thirty one. Newsom calls the plan idiotic.

Speaker 8 (05:17):
Increasingly, the polluted heart of the climate crisis appears to
be Donald Trump as it relates to offshore all dwelling,
overwhelmingly opposed by members of all political parties in the
state of California.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Newsom says it's a reckless attempt to sell out our
coastline to Trump's big oil donors, and he says the
plan is dead in the water.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Let's check in with Will Coleschreiber and let's.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Talk about the inevitable mess that is going to be
your morning community.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Already already there. Unfortunately, we've got some bad crashes. It's
really wet out there. I was hoping this might be
gone by the morning commute, but no. Ninety one westbound
right there at the seventy one two vehicle crashed there.

Speaker 9 (05:56):
In the middle lanes.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Cosmisom big delays all the way back from IFAI fifteen.
Unfortunately two ten westbound before baseline as you make your
way through the San Gabriel Valley. Yeah, we've got to
crash there as well. And I see some slowing. It is, uh,
it is. Let's see, it's going to be slow all
the way back from It looks like about Euclid Avenue
on that westbound side of the two ten freeway. Also

(06:19):
the one on one southbound right before White Oak two
left lanes blocked by a crash there as well.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
CHP is on the scene.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Those are the big problems, but a lot of solo
spinouts all over the place, So be really careful out
there with Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I'm Will Cole Schreiber. Thank you, Will Well. It's going
to keep you updated all morning long.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Help you get where you're going, because I have a
feeling a little bit of an inkling that is going
to be a tough one for you. It's five oh
seven on your wake up call this Friday morning. Time
to say good morning to Karen Travers with ABC at
the White House. Karen, this could be really interesting. President
Trump's going to welcome New York City Mayor elect Zoram
Mom Donnie to the White House today.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yes, he is.

Speaker 10 (07:03):
It's a meeting that's scheduled to take place at three
o'clock in the Oval Office. Notably, right now, it's closed
to reporters. We'll see if that changes. I think I
will bet that it's going to change, and we'll have
a photo opportunity of that and potentially Q and A
during that meeting. But this will be the first face
to face meeting between the two and they've gone back
and forth over policy issues, a little bit of personal

(07:25):
war of words in recent months. The White House yesterday
wasn't really previewing what the meeting is all about, just
saying it shows the president we'll meet with anyone from
red states, blue states, blue cities. She was asked Caroline
leve at, the pres secretary, about the President's threat to
cut federal funding to New York, which he has said
he would do if mom Donnie was elected. She wouldn't

(07:48):
say if that was something he will follow through on,
just saying we'll see how the meeting goes tomorrow, and
she would let the president speak for himself.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Are there any rumblings, Karen, I mean, you've got your
ear to a pulse or whatever, you know what, you
know what I'm trying.

Speaker 10 (08:02):
To say, what is of it?

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
They're saying no reporters, But like you said, Trump loves
to kind of show things off in the White House.
And are we expecting maybe a little bit of fireworks
Zolenski style.

Speaker 10 (08:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (08:17):
I mean, we'll see, you know, sometimes it happens that
Zolensky thing was certainly a bit of an aberration when
you look at other foreign leader visits. Lundani said yesterday
that he's looking forward to the meeting. He told reporters
he's not concerned about it. He's used it as an
opportunity to make his case. He said yesterday, he has

(08:38):
many disagreements with the President, but he intends to make
it clear he will work with him.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay, and they both they do agree on one thing,
and that's affordability.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that's like mom.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Donnie's big thing was housing affordability, and Trump has talked
about it, especially in the last week or so, so
maybe there is some common grads.

Speaker 10 (08:57):
I mean, I will say that was is big issue
running for the mayor's race. That was the big thing
he talked about. It's a thing that the White House
would like to hear the President talk about more with
something he campaigned on last year. But it's something he's
facing a lot of criticism right now for not talking
about enough, and something he's even getting criticism for not
doing enough on since taking office.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Okay, well, we'll be following it. And are you going
to be there this afternoon.

Speaker 10 (09:24):
I will not be in the room if it happens,
but here at the White House of course.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
All right. Karen Travers, ABC, thanks so much. We appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Have a great weekend, You too thinks, all right, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour news room. The clock is
ticking for the Justice Department to release all the Epstein files.
ABC's Mary Bruce says it's a waiting game now.

Speaker 12 (09:43):
Some Republicans are now warning any delay goods bark backlash
from voters. Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina saying if
the administration puts a blanket hold on the files, quote,
they're going to have a lot of people angry.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
President Trump signed the bill Wednesday night to release the files,
has thirty days to do that. Market analysts have been
crunching the numbers from the latest jobs report, which shows
US employers added one hundred nineteen thousand jobs in September.
University of Mission Economics professor Justin Wolfers says the report
also shows an increase in the unemployment figure, meaning that

(10:18):
there's concern for the labor market.

Speaker 13 (10:20):
The labor market has been slowing for quite some time.
In some level, that makes sense. It might have been
moving a bit too fast in the past, and the
question is where it comes down and steadies out at he.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Says, the will they won't they worry about another possible
federal reserve interest rate cut as investors trying to read
the tea leaves the Fed's going to be meeting next
month and a Appeels court has temporarily blocked the release
of several hundred people detained by immigration agents in the
Chicago area while it plays out in court. The ruling
yesterday halts in earlier order calling for the release of

(10:53):
those The group of people in custody includes many arrested
as part of Operation Midway Blitz. A city in New
Mexico's tying paychecks to home.

Speaker 14 (11:03):
Santa Fe, New Mexico, has raised its minimum wage based
on the cost of housing. Normally, a bump in minimum
wage is based only on the consumer price index, but
Santa Fe is apparently the first city in the US
to also include housing. Santa Fes had an automatic increase
in minimum wage since two thousand and three, but that's
worked out to fifty to seventy cents a year. Rent
in the city has seen double digit increases since the pandemic.

(11:24):
There was talk of calling it a living wage now,
but the mayor elect said it's still not high enough
to call it that. New Mexico also became the first
state in the US to provide universal childcare beginning this month.
Michael Krozer KFI News.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Most Americans get a little sleepy at some point during
the day.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
A new survey by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
shows seventy two percent of US adults say sleepiness sometimes, often,
or always gets in the way of activities. More than
four and tens say this affects their work productivity, while
more than six intents say it affects their mood. Nearly
half of those surveyed who struggled with tiredness take a
nap to get through the day. Mark Ronner News.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
I take an up every single day. I think it's
good for you. Of course I get up at two thirty
in the morning, So there's that.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Hey, guess what's coming up quick? It's Pastathon.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Fifteenth annual KFI Pastathon is happening on December second. It's
Giving Tuesday, and we're going to be giving you an
opportunity to come join us at the Anaheim White House
eight eight seven South Anaheim Boulevard. We're going to be
there all day, starting with wake up call at five am.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Handle's going to be there.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Gary and Shannon's going to be there, John's going to
be there, and then Conway's going to be there. So
five am to eight pm. And it's all benefiting Chef
Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, that provides more than twenty five
thousand meals every week to kids in need in southern California.
Here's a couple of things that you can go and
join a couple of the guys this weekend, We've got

(12:56):
Tim Conway is going to be live this afternoon from
four to eight to the Smart and Final in your Belinda.
The first two hundred and fifty of you who show
up we'll get a special gift bag from Smart and Final.
And then tomorrow our Fork reporter Neil Savader is going
to be broadcasting his show live two to five at
Wendy's in Mission Va Ho Again. It is kfi's Postathon

(13:17):
coming up December second. You can donate anytime kfiam six
forty dot com slash Postathon or find pasta and sauce
drop off locations near you. The first home in Altadena
destroyed in the fires more than ten months ago has
been rebuilt. It's an accessory dwelling unit in Altadena. It
got a certificate of occupancy from La County on Monday.

(13:40):
The ADU replaced a garage that was destroyed in the
Eton fire in January. Several other building projects in Altadena
and Pacific Policies Policies are expected to be completed in
the coming weeks. Paramount has announced its laying off nearly
two hundred workers at its studios in the Hollywood area.
It's part of a larger plan to reduce its work
for by about two hundred jobs following an eight billion

(14:02):
dollar merger with Skydance Media. In August, a senior at
Downey High School getting an audience with the Pope. How
exciting for him is? Equil Ponce is one of five
speakers chosen to ask Pope Leo questions during the digital
Q and A at the second day of the National
Catholic Youth Conference. The conference is being held at Lucas

(14:25):
Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Let's say good morning now to
the host of Home on KFI. It's our house, whisper
Dean Sharp Morning.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Dean morning, Amy.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
So Thanksgiving is less than a week away, but people
are already turning their attention to Christmas and that's where
you come in.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
Uh, yes, yeah, you know what. That's pretty normal these days,
isn't it. It used to be after Thanksgiving is always
when you start decorating. But I you know, I got
to say, I'm okay start early. Who says you have
to wait until after Thanksgiving to start your ho holiday
decor because Thanksgiving is kind of you know, just to

(15:03):
roll it into the Christmas holiday season. So we're all
about it.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
I do have Thanksgiving decorations up, and I still have
some Halloween out but so I'm waiting until after the holidays.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
But I'm planning for it.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
So let's talk about, you know, like what's hip, what's
hot this year?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
What's going to be like all the rage?

Speaker 9 (15:23):
Well, you know me, I'm not one to follow the
fads when it comes to this kind of stuff. But
every year, you know, because people have budgets, that's the
weird thing. Wow, what's that? But every year there is,
of course in the design world, a new thing that's
kind of leading the trend. And if you're asking what's
the decor trend for Christmas this year, it looks like

(15:47):
it's a what I would call kind of adulting Christmas
a little bit. It's a little bit more sophisticated. The
Ralph Lauren aesthetic is what they call it. It's not
being led by Ralph Lauren the company, but it's very
classic vintage dark green blues, plaids, not bright plaids, deep
muted plaids, jewel tone accents, deep satins and velvets as

(16:12):
beautiful and I love this. I've always been a fan
of this monochromatic gift wrapping. In other words, that you're
just picking a single color paper or an understated pattern,
but very very understated, and then a corresponding color ribbon
and bows. What a classy gift, right, What a classy
present that is?

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, so one year, I'm going to tell you what
my mom did, and it actually turned out absolutely beautiful.
But sheep she used paper bags from the grocery store
as the wrapping paper, and so they were all that
just kind of brown and then with the festive bows
on it, and it turned out beautiful. Like you said,
like understated but still very classic.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
And that leads us to one of the important things
that if somebody's looking for real advice on decre and
decorating and they just feel kind of unmoored, like what
do I do?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Where do you start?

Speaker 9 (17:06):
Start with a theme, start with a color palette, and
like your mom did, in other words, say hey, it's
all going to be wrapping paper made out of a
brown paper bag material this year, and we'll go with that,
and then we'll make small deviations from that, but that's
the base, and that's the kind of thing that ends
up really producing a powerful impact that people just absolutely

(17:31):
go bonkers over. And you don't have to do it exclusively.
But in the decore community, we have what we call
the eighty twenty rule, which is that eighty percent of
the decore follows a particular color pattern, and then you
let twenty percent kind of deviate off from it, but
complement it along the way. It's always, always, never fails

(17:51):
to be stunning and wonderful and very very special, but
pick a direction, go with that theme, and then compliment
it along the way. Christmas doesn't always have to be
just a hodgepodge of everything, everything that you've collected through
your entire life, although.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Speaker 9 (18:11):
There's nothing wrong with that either, absolutely nothing wrong with that.
And the amazing thing that a lot of people don't
realize I think is that you can do both at
the same time. Those bobbles, those trinkets, those very special
ornaments that have meant everything to you. I mean, let's
face it, not every ornament on the tree is probably
an absolute keepsake ornament that has a special event behind it.

(18:34):
Some people have that, but there's a few. There's always
a few. And so if you pick your theme, go
with that and then allow all of those special ornaments
to be the accent to that man, the color theme
and the style theme becomes a backdrop kind of a
scaffolding that displays all of those special things. It doesn't

(18:56):
eat it up, it doesn't compete with it. It actually
can elevate.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yes, okay, so let's talk about this because we've talked
about it. You first told me about it, I think
two years ago, and then last year I got one.
And if you're looking, if you're going to have a
real tree this year, oh yeah, this is a I'm
not going to call it a must have, but it's
pretty darn cool it really.

Speaker 9 (19:19):
I mean, here's the thing. I'll call it a must
have if you have a real tree every year, for certain,
for certain, it costs about ninety eight dollars on Amazon
right now, and it is the Ho Ho ho h
two oh Automatic Christmas Tree watering Reservoir. I introduced it
last year. You got really excited about it, you went

(19:40):
out and got one. I'm going to have one with
me at the our live audience show, which is just
this Sunday, our Holiday Live Audience Show, which I believe
Amy King may be making an appearance.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
I am. I'm going to come join you for a
while so we.

Speaker 9 (19:53):
Can talk about it then and you can tell everybody
how thrilled you are. But basically this, the brilliance of
this is that it is a very large watering reservoir,
automatic pump inside a sensor inside the tree bowl that
knows when the water gets low, so it refills the
tree bowl. You don't have to be reaching all the

(20:14):
way into the bowl knocking ornaments off, because the reservoir sits,
you know, very easily accessible out on the edge of
the tree. But instead of being an ugly component there,
it's disguised as a present and so it just blends
right in with everything else that's sitting under the tree.
It is brilliant, one of the most brilliant pieces of

(20:36):
decortech that's coming along a long time.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
I agree, And there's all kinds of other things that
are helpful for you. We've got that you're going to
talk about on your show this weekend, so let's plug
that now. It's your live show right here at the
iHeartRadio Studios.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (20:53):
It's just going to be a special show, same time
for everybody who's listening, from nine to noon. We do
it every year, but we're going to have a live
audience in front of us up in the helpful Honda
Lounge on the fifth floor. It's going to be fantastic.
Just the energy is great. You're going to be coming
by to join me, which is going to be fantastic.

(21:13):
We're going to have the people from Aldick Home there
decorating one of their unbelievable world changing Christmas trees, and
then by the end of the show, we're giving that
tree away to one of the participants.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Super fun.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
So that's Sunday nine to noon, and you're also on
Tomorrow from six to eight am. You can follow Dean
at Home with Dean and I would imagine over the
holidays on Instagram you might see some fun little decorating things.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Pop up on your ig. You just might just might
thank you, Dean Sharp.

Speaker 9 (21:45):
Thanks Amy.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
All right, Yet.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Another Democrat has joined the race for governor in California.
Congressman Eric Swalwell used in appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live
last night to announce he is running. He says the
state needs a fighter and a protector, someone who will
bring prices down and lift wages up. He joins a
long list of others who want to succeed Governor Newsom,
who turns out another Democrat has joined.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Whoops. I already said that with the.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Mortgage fraud investigation into California, Democratic Senator Adam Schiff is
being investigated.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Federal grand jury is looking into the handling of the
Justice Department's investigation into Shift. There's a subpoena asking for
information on anyone who claimed to be the head, honcho
or employees of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The subpoena
goes on to say that they're looking for communications from
anyone claiming to be acting at the direction or request
of the Justice Department's self described weaponizations are Shift denies

(22:40):
any wrongdoing, and some reports say that the investigation against
him stalled out Jason Campedonia KFI News.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
A man accused of driving under the influence and killing
a thirteen year old boy in Dana Point has been
charged with second degree murder. Bradley Funk is also charged
with hit and run for the crash Tuesday morning. The
Orange County DA's office says he has two prior to
UIs and was on probation when he killed Louis Morales Pacheco.
The boy was walking to school with his brother when

(23:08):
Funks pickup truck jumped a curb and hit him. A
man accused of shooting at an LAPD helicopter in South
LA has been arrested. He's also accused of threatening family members.
Police shot at the man yesterday before he ran into
a home.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
He wasn't hit.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
He walked out of the house hours later and was
taken down by a police dog. Changes to the CDC
website have autism advocates up in arms.

Speaker 15 (23:28):
The update to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
web page has upset public health and autism experts. The
Autism Science Foundation said the changes were anti vaccine rhetoric.
Decades of studies have shown no link between vaccines and autism.
Former CDC officials have expressed concern saying the agency's information
on vaccine safety can no longer be trusted. The change

(23:51):
is the latest move by President Trump's Department of Health
and Human Services to revisit the safety of vaccines.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Deborah mark Koffi News.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
More rain as I mentioned on the way today as
a storm moves through southern California, three quarters of an
inch as possible in the basin, up to two inches
possible in the mountains and foothills before the storm moves out.
Snow's been falling above the sixty five hundred foot level.
Heard Bree Tennis mentioned that there was snow up in
Big Bear earlier this morning. A communist is come into
the White House. Well, that's what White House Press Secretary

(24:21):
Caroline Levitt said about today's meeting between President Trump and
Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor elect Zoran mom Donnie.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Mom Donnie requested the meeting, Trump accepted.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Mom Donnie says he wants to talk to President Trump
about the affordability crisis in New York City. About eight
hundred air traffic controllers and techs who showed up for
work every day during the government's shutdown. We'll be getting
a ten thousand dollars bonus. The Department of Transportation and
FAA say the bonuses are for their patriotic work insuring
sky safety. They should get their checks by the second

(24:57):
week of December.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
At six o five.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
It's handle on the news. President Trump' says the Democrats,
a group of them anyway, are traders. Bill's going to
tell you about that. Here's what's coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Officials in La County have
confirmed the presence of dengay and a mosquito found in
the region. The bug was collected from surveillance traps in
Sun Valley in the San Fernando Valley. It's the first

(25:23):
confirmed detection of dengay in both the county and the state.
La County has set a rather noble goal of ending
homelessness among military veterans by twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
The county estimates there are just over three thousand vets
without a home here, a number of the Board of
supervisors has now said should be zero in a few years.
County Department of Military and Veteran Affairs Director Jim Zenner
says the task won't be easy, but he means it.
I haven't heard anybody laugh me off the stage yet,
so we're going to get it done. The supervisors approved
a plan that includes breaking barriers to shelters, like allowing

(25:54):
vets to self refer and avoid the current reams of paperwork.
More housing and jobs are also part of the plan.
Michael Monks KFI News.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
A federal judge is considering a final ruling on the
deportation of Salvadorian national Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Oral arguments in
the case were heard yesterday. The judge expressed concerns about
the testimony of an ICE official who admitted he had
no specific knowledge about Garcia's case. Garcia's attorneys also criticized

(26:23):
the government for pushing to have him deported to Liberia
when he had already agreed to be sent to Costa Rica.
White House pres Secretary of Caroline Levitt told reporters this
September jobs report, which shows the US economy added more
than one hundred nineteen thousand jobs, more than double expected,
is proof the economy is strong. She said, Trump's entire
economic agenda is about putting more money in the pockets

(26:45):
of Americans. Eh, good time to switch over and talk
about money. Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Denise Pallegrini. Good morning, Denise. Okay, before we get started,
I want to ask you about this wild ride. The
stock market was crazy yesterday. It was like up seven
hundred than down four hundred. That's a huge swing.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
What happened.

Speaker 16 (27:03):
Yeah, that's because everybody who wanted to be paranoid about
anything could find something to worry about in that job's report, which,
as we were talking about yesterday, had that rise in unemployment,
also some growth in jobs more than expected. But at
the same time, when you looked at the industries that
that growth came in, it was weak.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
And then we had this whole parade of Fed officials.

Speaker 16 (27:25):
We do have a FED governor, John Williams, Fed President
rather of the New York Fed this morning saying he
sees room for the Fed to cut interest.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Rates next month.

Speaker 16 (27:33):
So that's giving us a little bit of positivity this
morning in stock futures.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Okay, I'm a question or hire at going into the Friday.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Oh good, okay, So I have a question for you
about the unemployment rate ticking higher. Isn't that in part
because more people are getting back into the workforce.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, it can be.

Speaker 16 (27:51):
And you know these are monthly surveys, right, and it
all depends on who answers. It's not just about you know,
are they in the work for us, It's about the
actually fill out the survey. So when you look at
these things, it's really important to not just look at,
you know, a tickup of a tenth of a percent
in the jobless market. You should look at how it
compared to previous months, whether you get the feeling that

(28:14):
this is accurate or not. And we've just had tons
and tons of headlines about companies cutting jobs in October,
so we know that even if it just looks a
little bit bad in September.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
That October could be worse. Okay, we haven't gotten that
data yet.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, And you said worse, and crypto got worse yesterday.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Ouch.

Speaker 16 (28:33):
Bitcoin this morning about eighty three thousand and seven hundred.
That's about a twenty five percent drop from the peak.
So if you bought at the peak, or if you
were planning on spending that money that you had in
crypto assets bitcoin at that peak, which was just last month,
you are really hurting now. I mean, there are a
lot of people who are planning on using bitcoin proceeds
to pay their student loans or fund their holiday. Now

(28:56):
they're looking at some tough times. Down again, this morning
keeps going down. But we do have this one guy,
Tom Lee of funstrat. He says bitcoin hold on to
it will be as high as two hundred thousand by
the end of January.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
That would be quite a holiday present. Okay the believers,
I should say, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, So Americans are probably are maybe laying off the
wine this holiday.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
What are they planning to do instead? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (29:24):
If Grandma seems to be laughing a lot more than
usual at the dinner table this Thanksgiving, this could be
why more Americans are opting for cannabis infused foods and
drinks this Thanksgiving, things like amy infused Seltzer's stuffing and
turkey as all the regulation around cannabis eases you. Now,
it's kind of interesting because there's this whole class of

(29:45):
people who call themselves California sober, right, they abstained from booze,
but they like cannabis, psychedelic mushians, things like that, and
dispensary say Green Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, is one
of the biggest sales days of the year for them,
so that Thanksgiving green Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
I have not heard of that.

Speaker 16 (30:03):
Yep, all right, it's not blackout Wednesday anymore. It's like
before you black out, you got to go run and
get your cannabis for Thanksgiving first.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
So here comes the.

Speaker 16 (30:12):
Cousin walk as they call it, right when all the
young people disappear from the table and.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Go out for a little walk the dog before they
come back laughing and really hungry.

Speaker 16 (30:20):
Yeah, better make a lot of food this year because
it's gonna have a lot of people with Munchiese all right,
with the tile.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
And in your business every morning like we do with
Bloomberg's Dennis Pella Greene, have a good weekend, Green Wednesday,
all right. California Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell has used in
appearance on Jimmy Kimmelive to announce he's running for governor.
Swalwell is the ninth person to join the race. Billionaire
Tom Steyer announced earlier this week that he is running.

(30:46):
Two the mother and paternal grandmother of a boy found
dead inside a cooler in Linwood have pleaded not guilty
to murder, torture and child abuse charges. The boy's father
is facing the same charges he's doing court next week.
US automakers will soon be required to use female crash
test dummies for vehicle safety. Most safety systems currently only

(31:08):
use male dummies, even though women face higher injury rates
in certain types of crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration has unveiled the female dummy that has more than
one hundred and fifty censors and can collect three times
more injury data than current models. We're just minutes away
from handle on the news this morning, President Trump is
calling some Democratic lawmakers traders.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Bill will tell you why.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's multi platform
reporter Willgans, and my question.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Will popular, You're gonna be popular? Is Wicked for Good
going to be popular?

Speaker 5 (31:45):
I mean, if the one hundred and fifty million dollars
box office totals from weekend one don't indicate that it's popular,
I don't know what might. Yeah, I think this thing
is going to be the biggest movie opening of the year,
and with good reason, right like this. For a year
we've been waiting for the follow up to Part one

(32:06):
and at long last, and many many press appearances and
red carpets and movie premieres all over the world and
People's Sexiest Man Alive titles, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
We can finally get into the theater this weekend and
see Wicked for good so popular, yes, I think?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
So Okay, have you had a chance to see it?

Speaker 5 (32:27):
You know what I actually have not? Which are going? Yes, Yes,
I'm going today. And sometimes with movies like this, like
with Barbie or you know, the ones that like people
remember as like a cultural phenomenon when we look back
on the year that it came out, like sometimes I
prefer to see it with a big, big crowd of
people as opposed to going to like an early screening

(32:47):
or whatever. So I'm very excited to see this.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, Well, I saw it yesterday, So I'm going to
share just a couple of thoughts. One, you know, it's
the movie is so beautiful, like the first one. It's
just beautiful. And the huge fields of tulips than the
Emerald City, it's all just beautiful. There were moments in
that movie that I thought were spectacular. Overall, I don't

(33:12):
think the whole thing was. I would still see it,
and I'm probably gonna go see it again.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
But there was.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Something, there was something that was just a little bit off,
And then I would love to hear once people start
seeing it if they think the same thing. I don't
know if it was the performances or what it was,
but it was still great. And like I said, there
were some moments like were edge of the seat for me,
and some of it was spectacular, but not the whole
thing was spectacular.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
I think I actually liked the first one better.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
So I mean, obviously, I've seen the musical itself on
stage like a lot of times being a New Yorker.
You know, fabulous, But the second act is clunkier than
the first act, you know, and the first act has
all of the best songs for the show, and it
moves at a quicker pace and all of those things.
And so I do think, like inarently, just based on

(34:01):
the source material, it was going to be harder to
pull the second movie off. But you know that said,
if anyone's going to be able to pull it off,
I do think Cynthia and Arianna and the rest of
the gang are well suited to the task. So I
will be interested. You know, I'm not surprised to hear
that's how you felt. But I'm also excited to see,
you know, for myself.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, and the same thing you mentioned the songs there,
there wasn't as you know, there wasn't a popular and
there wasn't a defying gravity. There was the one about
the friends, which I really liked, and there was recurring
music from the first one that just like in a
Broadway musical, kind of replays throughout. So that was familiar,
but it didn't have that powerful punch song I don't think.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yeah, yeah, but and that's you know, that's how it's
been since the musical came out, you know, two decades
plus ago.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
So yeah, and that being said, it's still it's a phenomenon.
And I'm I'm guessing that you will not be alone
when you see the movie this weekend.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
I don't think I will be either. I might be
the only one not in costume, but you know, I
can maybe I can scrouch together something just in time.
I'll bring up room or something.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Yep, I'm wearing my pink and my green today. Just
it's not full on costume, but I am I'm themed today. Okay,
So if you don't want to fight the crowds and
want to stay home and curl up on the couch.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
There is something that is a real beast.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Yes, the beast in me on Netflix. So this is
an eight episode mini series. It stars Claire Danes as
a writer who she is still grieving the death of
her son, so she hasn't been writing, she hasn't been
going out much or seeing anybody, and she sort of like,
you know, is working on a book, but she's not
inspired by it. And then this like mysterious millionaire moves

(35:53):
in down the street with his new wife because his
first wife went missing. And so now Claire Danes is thinking, Okay,
maybe this should be the subject of my next book.
This guy who did he kill his ex wife? And
why is he so rich and so spooky? And they
sort of like, you know, their contentious neighbors at the beginning,
and then they sort of start getting closer to one another,

(36:14):
but you don't know is he playing her or is
she playing him. It's really really fun to watch and
really thrilling, and you know almost immediately the action starts
right from the jump of episode one and all, yeah,
eight episodes they're streaming now, and you know it's Claire
Dames and Matthew Reeves, both of whom are incredible actors,
so highly recommend The Beast in Me on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right, ABC's Willgans, thanks so much for the recommendations.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Enjoy Wicked.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
All right, I'll talk to you next week. Take care, Take.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Care, I say.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Judge is thrown out a lawsuit by former La County
Sheriff Alex vien Aweva, alleging the county defamed him, violated
his rights, and unfairly flagged his personnel file with a
do not re hire tag. The judge ruled the Vienna
Wave's claims back minimal merit. It's the third time a
court has dismissed the former sheriff's claims. A former La

(37:05):
County Sheriff's employee is doing court on charges of taking
and tampering with a blood sample from his own DUI arrest.
Sixty year old Tommy Trimble is facing several felonies. The
La County DA's office says he worked as an evidence
and property custodian at the Sheriff's crime lab in Downy
last year when he was arrested for DUI. He's accused
of accessing a vaul where evidence was stored removing his

(37:28):
own blood sample and heating it up in a microwave.
The proposed gondola project for Dodger Stadium U scored a
big win.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
BLI Metro Boards Executive Management Committee has given the ok
to the LA Aerial Rapid Transit Project's environmental review. County
supervisor and board member Hildasalise says it's not the last time,
by a long shot, the gondola will face government review.

Speaker 12 (37:49):
Because each at each step there are different agencies that
are required to have public meetings outreached.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
The one point two mile proposal would transport five thousand
passengers an hour between Union In Station and Dodgers Stadium,
with trips taking about seven minutes. Michael monks KFI News.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
It is six o'clock straight up. That means our time
on wake up call is done. Handle on the news
is coming up next. This is KFI and KOSTHD two
Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer Kno along
with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King. This has been
your wake up call, and if you missed any of
wakeup call, you can listen anytime. On the iHeartRadio app.

(38:29):
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