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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to kf I Am six forty
wake Up Call on demand on theiHeartRadio app. She likes to call it
Friday. There's Jennifer Jones Lee withyour Thursday morning wake up call. I
would like to change what I callthis Thursday to a freaking mess. Oh
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my gosh. I know we don'tnormally tell you what to do here at
KFI. We let you make yourown decisions. However, if you would
like to take my suggestion work fromhome today, don't get on the roads
until later. Just avoid the commutecompletely. I think I saw at least
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two accidents myself. There were atleast two slowdowns that I couldn't figure out
what in the world were four,but I mean significant, you know,
three four or five minute ones whereyou're kind of sitting there like I don't
I don't know, people are goingin the carpool lane who shouldn't I shall
remain nameless. But it was justa kind of fend for yourself kind of
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a commute this morning. And yeah, if you can avoid it at all
costs, I would highly suggest thatyou do. Nick Paliochini and Jeff ba
are going to have their hands fullthis morning. May the Fourth be with
you both. Oh, come on, it was right there. I had
to do it. In fact,last night I was like, where in
the world or who came up withthe May the Fourth be with you?
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So we'll get into that in justa few minutes. And I don't normally
do birthday shout outs, but thereis a gentleman who he and his wife
have sort of become part of thewake up Call crew, and so we
will be doing a special shout outa little bit later, probably in the
twenty segment this morning. But here'swhat's it had for your wake up call.
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The city manager in Laguna Beach hasordered two hotels in the city shut
down because it's several fights involving armedsecurity guards. State Senator Dave men has
apologized, I'll tell you why.And lawyers for the Menendez brothers, yes,
those Menendez brothers who killed their parentsin nineteen eighty nine, are trying
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to get their clients first degree murderconvictions overturned. I'll tell you what their
plan is. We'll also talk withABC's Karen Travers about the Biden administration reaching
a deal with Mexico to talk aboutthe crisis at the border. And this
is right before Title forty two expires, which is the you know, can't
come over to the US because ofthe pandemic. Well, it's about to
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be game on, according to borderofficials. So we'll get into all that
in just a few minutes, butlet's start with some of these stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room. The city manager in Laguna
Beach has ordered two hotels in thecity shutdown. There have been several fights
involving armed security guards. Police werecalled three times Tuesday to fourteen West and
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Hotel Laguna for trespassing claims and afight between armed security teams. Officials say
it's a civil issue that has resultedin both parties hiring armed security and attempting
to force the other from the business. State Senator David Minn has apologized why
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well because he apparently was driving underthe influence. He posted on Facebook yesterday
that his decision to drive the nightbefore was irresponsible. He says he accepts
the full responsibility and there is noexcuse for his actions. Men represents California's
thirty seventh Senate district, which includesabout a dozen cities in Orange County.
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In January, he announced a runfor Congress. All two hundred and thirty
nine LAPD officers killed in the lineof duty have been remembered at LAPD headquarters.
The officers deaths date back to eighteensixty nine when the department was founded.
Bagpipers played, helicopters flew over thememorial, and a choir band performed.
LA Police Commissioner Steve Sobroff says theofficers should never be forgotten. There's
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a whole lot to be said forwhat our fallen leave behind family, friends,
colleagues, and the promise of whatmight have been loved ones have fallen.
Officers were at attendance yesterday. Theyplaced roses by the officers names at
the LAPD headquarters. Blake Trolley,k if I News. Lawyers for the
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Menendez brothers who killed their parents innineteen eighty nine have fouled papers in LA
to try and get the first degreemurder convictions overturned Eric and law Menendez claimed
they were repeatedly sexually assaulted by theirfather and feared for their lives. Defense
lawyers say two new pieces of evidenceback up the brothers allegations. And one
of them is this recent allegation thatwe've talked about by a former member of
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the boy band Manudo, who sayshe was sexually abused by Jose Menendez as
a teenager. You can only havethis type of story in Hollywood. Seriously,
I'm not I'm saying you can't havetwo brothers who murdered their parents who
claim they were sexually assaulted, andthen years later a member of a boy
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band comes forward and says he wassexually assaulted by the guide. That the
two brothers say they killed because theyfeared for their lives because he sexually assaulted
them. That is sadly a completeHollywood story. Karen Travers, Boy,
do I wish I was in yourneck of the woods this morning for the
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traffic? Oh my gosh, justbecause yes, I'd rather just be walking
taking public transportation. This commune isdumb this morning, all right, let's
does not sound good. It's like, literally, I just saw spin out
after once that hadn't even been addressedby the cops of the fire departments yet.
There was just one of those communities. And in the dark, when
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it's pouring rain and you can't see, it's like, oh, good.
No, those moments of blindness notgood at all. Okay, Well,
maybe some clarity actually with the Bidenadministration and this deal with Mexico to talk
about the expiration of a Title fortytwo and what might happen then, So
again, what is Title forty twoand what's their agreement? Yeah, so
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I think that's a good place tostart. You know that this was the
public health order that was used duringthe COVID pandemic to keep people from coming
across the border. This has startedduring the Trump administration, continued during the
Biden administration. But next week,on May eleventh, at the end of
the day, when the public healthemergency for COVID ends by the Biden administration,
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the Title forty two restrictions will end. Where you can't keep saying we're
going to not let migrants come overthe border based on a COVID emergency because
the emergency will have lifted. Sothere's a sharp increase at the border that's
expected once those restrictions expire. Sothe administration has been preparing for this.
They've been pushing Congress to improve morefunding for what they think would be a
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surge at the border that hasn't happenedyet, so they've been taking steps that
they can do on their own.But this agreement with Mexico is not something
new but a continuation of what's beendone already. But they were really trying
to do it up with great sandfare, essentially to say, look, we're
trying to keep things in order inadvance as much as we can. Mexico
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has already been agreeing to accept upto thirty thousand migrants, originally from Venezuela,
Cuba, Haitian, Nicaragua. Theywill continue doing that with this agreement
with the United States, but yesterdayKareem would not say how many they would
continue to accept. Is that numbergoing to go up because of this potential
surge at the border and also whatMexico getting out of this in exchange we're
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continuing to accept migrants or giving themfunding to do this. But you know
that she wouldn't give any details onthat, saying that she wouldn't get into
diplomatic conversations, just saying that theyappreciate Mexico, they welcome their partnership on
this, and they're a sovereign countrythat makes their own decisions. And when
it comes to the fifteen hundred troopsthat we might be sending to the border.
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Is has that become for sure atthis point? I know that it
was just being talked about, Soit's a done deal. Yes, this
was announced this lead by the Pentagon, and the first of the fifteen hundred
active duty troops could arrive as earlyas May tenth, according to the Pentagon.
Of course, this decision was madebecause of the expiration of the Title
forty two decisions. They're going tobe there for ninety days, and the
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Pentagon says will be filling critical capabilitygaps ground based detection and monitoring, data
entry, and warehouse support until Customsand Border Protection can figure out how to
do that themselves, you know,kind of. They're going to be shifting
into other areas and also get contractsupport. The Pentagon is really emphasizing these
troops are not going to participate inlaw enforcement activities. Even whether or not
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they'll be armed is up to theirunit leaders, and that would only be
for self defense. All right,Karen, thanks for explaining that. I'll
talk to you soon. Have agreat day. Yeah. Thanks, We'll
try with this crappy traffic than goodluck, Thank you, see you later.
ABC's Karen travers, it's rare thatI would rather be in Washington,
DC than here. I mean reallyrare. Ukraine's president says Russian President Putin
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will face an international war crimes courtwhen Ukraine wins the war. President's Lenski
made the comment during a visit tothe International Criminal Court in Netherlands, which
is issued and arrest weren't for Putin. I thought this was interesting though this
was not a video he went there. This was an in person interview.
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Now, the chances of standing trialat the Hague are remote because of course
the court does not really have,oh a police force, so I don't
know how it expects to execute awarrant, you know, hire Bob from
down the street to go. Nosymbolic, symbolic and sure anytime you can,
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you know, attack one more thingon Putin. Have at it.
But is it legit or are wegoing to see any action from it?
No? Now, Russia says itwill retaliate against Ukraine for what Russia claims
was a failed assassination attempt on PresidentPutin. Ukraine's president says the country was
not responsible for the attempted drone strike, saying Ukraine does not attack Putin or
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Moscow. ABC's Mick mulroy says anattack by Ukraine could jeopardize its relationship with
the US. If Ukraines are tryingto assassinate President Putin, which could significantly
escalate the conflict, and they didn'teven tell their one backer, that would
be a lot of blowback. Now. Officials in Russia say the attack was
planned to disrupt Victory Day, whichRussia celebrates in its Red Square on May
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ninth to commemorate the defeat of NaziGermany in World War Two. The White
House says the US wasn't able toconfirm the authenticity of Russia's claim. Russia
also questioned why it took the Kremlinhours to report the incident and why videos
of it also surfaced later in theday. One other thing that I thought
was fantastic was that Russia apparently thinkswe came up with it, that it
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was the US's idea, and wesomehow pulled the strings of Ukraine to get
them to do it and then denyit. Or let's think about this.
Could this all be a false flagfor Russia where they just make all of
this up to further their people tobe pro war against Ukraine, which one
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do you think is more likely?And two students from USC have been arrested
and charged with stealing jerseys. Ithink this is the most bizarre thing from
the twenty twenty three NFL draft inMissouri. Kansas City police say that two
stole a blue Dallas Cowboys jersey anda red San Francisco forty nine Ers jersey
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and a Minnesota Vikings jersey. Thestudents were seen on video leaving their hotel
rooms and entering the backstage area ofthe draft last Friday. Oh to be
a kid again. State Senator DavidMinn, who represents a lot of Orange
County, has apologized to constituents fordriving under the influence, and lawyers for
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the Menendez brothers who killed their parentsin nineteen eighty nine have filed papers in
LA to try and get the firstdegree murder convictions over. Now. Remember
the Menendez brothers say they were sexuallyabused by their dad and that their mom
knew about it, and that theywere fearful for their lives and that's why
they went after their dad. Andthen now you have a former member of
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the boy band Manudo, who hascome forward saying that Jose Menendez also sexually
assaulted him. So anyway, we'llkeep an eye on that. But that's
some of the new information that hascome out that maybe the lawyers for the
Menendez brothers think may give them alittle more credence. And I can see
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why with that information coming out andsomebody who's willing to testify that, they're
thinking, Wow, we've got achance to get this, you know,
or these convictions overturned well. Officialsin Oklahoma say a convicted sex offender who
killed his wife, five teenagers,and himself had been released early from prison
and was facing new charges. Thebodies were found Monday, the same day
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Jesse McFadden was post to stand trialfor soliciting new images from a teen while
in prison. Text messages say hewas determined not to return to prison.
Orange County Transportation Authority drivers for disabledcommuters have gone on strike over a contract
dispute. OCTA officials have toled ridersto expect significant delays and make other ride
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arrangements. The union representing the driverssays they're fighting for regulated shifts, higher
wages, and scheduled lunch breaks.The OCTA contracts the first service for disabled
riders to a third party provider,which is called first transit that the driver's
contract expired. At the end oflast year, LA County has pulled together
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one hundred fourteen million dollars to securenineteen hundred leases and speed up access to
permanent homeless housing. The local,state, and federal dollars will calm landlord
fears by paying for things like damagerepair, vacancy, and maintenance. Only
sixty five percent of people who actuallyhad a voucher to help them get into
a leased unit are able to actuallyuse that vouchery. LA Care Chief Medical
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Officers samere Amin says by pooling funding, the county can also lease entire apartment
buildings for housing. It takes anaverage of one hundred and twenty two days
for those who are lucky enough toactually find a rental location to get in.
The money will also be used tolocate housing for people with higher care
needs, such as seniors and veteransin La Corbin Carson k if I News
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Street vendors in Westminster could soon haveto present a state or federal ID and
commercial insurance to operate. City ManagerChristine Gordon says vendors would also need a
business license and approval from the countyHealth Department. The finds go from about
one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars. If a sidewalk vendor violates a portion
and can't present, you know,the city with proof of a permit,
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then those violations are actually higher.Cordon says the goal is to ensure the
vendors, their customers, and thefood or product they sell are safe.
The city will vote on the ordinancenext week. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's Aaron Katurski, who hasbeen watching the trial of Eejean Carroll,
who was accused former President Trump ofraping her in a department store in the
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nineteen seventy nine Aaron, good morning. So there's a third accuser now,
and what did she say yesterday?And I guess who is she? Natasha
Stoynoff was a writer for People magazinein two thousand and five when she was
sent Tomorrow Lago to write an articleabout Donald and Malanya Trump's first wedding anniversary,
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and during a break in the interviewsand photography, she says that Trump
led her to a room at theclub and she was looking around, heard
the door shut and before she couldturn around. She said Trump's hands were
on her shoulders, he was kissingher and pushing her against the wall,
holding her there. And later on, when this story came out as part
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of the twenty sixteen campaign, Trumpdenied it by saying look at her.
I don't think so. And EjeanCarroll's attorneys have been trying to suggest that
Trump's behavior is part of a pattern, not only a predatory type behavior,
but also denying allegations against him bydisparaging the way women look. When the
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second accuser came forward, So firstyou had Eegeene Carroll, and then you
had the woman who said that heassaulted her on a plane also I guess
in the seventies. And then thiswoman, Natasha Stoynov says he assaulted her
in two thousand and five. Didthe pattern? Also the second woman who
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said on the plane, did formerPresident Trump also say something about like look
at her, I wouldn't or somethinglike that. Did? Yes? He
did? Okay, So that justcontinues that pattern, And that's what the
Eegeene Carroll's attorneys are trying to convincethe jury of here. Because there is
no physical evidence of the alleged rapeof Egeene Carroll at a department store and
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you know, somewhere around the springnineteen ninety six. Instead the e g
And Carroll's account bolstered by two friendswho she said she called immediately after.
And then this whole notion of aof an alleged pattern, which Trump of
course denies, and the defense isnot going to put on a case.
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Defense attorney Joe Tacopina said he wouldbe calling no witnesses, so it will
be, you know, left tojust eg And Carrol's side and whatever holes
the defense can poke, you know, as part of cross examination. As
more and more of these accusers comeforward to show this pattern that they claim
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that the former president has, doesit become more difficult for Tacopino two poke
holes in that if person after personcomes forward and says the exact same thing
essentially, well, it may althoughhe you know, suggests that some of
this is political because a number ofthese women, um, you know,
first surfaced their allegations during the twentysixteen campaign. Natasha Stoynos said she was
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just angry that Trump told Anderson Cooperhe had never laid a hand on a
woman without consent. She saw theaccess Hollywood tape where he's bragging to Billy
Bush about what he does with womenwithout their consent. He dismissed at his
locker room talk, but Ejean Carol'sside says, this wasn't locker room talk.
This is exactly what he did toher and to these other women.
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All right, Aaron, thank youfor the Oh what happens today? Are
they back in court today? Yeah, they're back in court today. The
final witnesses are expected to testify,including Carol Martin, who's a former television
newswoman. She's one of the friends. But Carol says she told of the
attack in real time and witness testimonyshould end today. Summations on Monday,
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and the judge told the jury tobe prepared to get the case for deliberations
early next week. Oh fascinating.Okay, we'll be watching that. Aaron,
thank you so much. Thanks donall right, see you later.
ABC's Aaron Katersky. This trial hasbeen kind of a fun one to watch
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in the sense of even if youthink it's a you know, witch hunt,
as the former president has said,the actual trial itself, to me,
has been fascinating. How do youpoke holes in the story of a
woman who claims she was raped?How do you go about that, especially
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your male attorney, which makes it, I think, just on the surface
more difficult. But how do youpoke holes in her story without coming off
sexist, without coming off as thoughyou don't believe a woman who says she
was raped? How do you dothat? Because you're gonna have women on
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the jury, or you're gonna havemen who have daughters and wives and sisters
and whatnot, how do you delicatelydo that? I don't know. I'm
sated by the angles sometimes that prosecutorsand defense attorneys have to take, especially
the defense, when you're like,man, this evidence is stacking up against
this person. How do they dothat tactfully and make their case without looking
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like as Shannon would say, appleson the stand. Hey, I want
to give a shout out to RonaldNessman. He's a guy in the High
Desert who's being called a hero.He stopped a runaway baby stroller before it
went into a busy street. Hesaid, he just finished his job interview
on Tuesday, and all of asudden he sees the stroller rolling backwards and
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the woman watching the baby based intoher car, so she didn't see it.
Then when she does, she tripsand falls when she realized what happened,
and that is when Ronald Nessman steppedin and saved the baby. Ronald
Nesman, you are the KFI WakeUp Crew, wake Up Call Crew,
hero of the morning. There wego. That's Jason Middleton and I and
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Tyler giving you the applause. Allright. I don't normally do birthday shout
outs, but there is a gentlemanwho he and his wife have become part
of our wake up call crew.They're my neighbors. You hear me talk
about Cupcake and pink cheeks. Theygo out with us to ball games and
whatnot. Anyway, it is aspecial day today. I want to give
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a big shout out and thank youtoo my six forty am crew, Tea
Money, Adventurous Amy, Nicky Mouse, and Jenny from our block for always
thinking of myself and Pink Cheeks.But I'd like to give a special shout
out to my wife today for herbirthday. The most beautiful woman in the
world, and I'm grateful and thankfulto have her in my life and I
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just wish her many more to come. Love you, baby, Happy birthday
to Stephanie also known as Pink Cheeks. But I love that he has given
the entire wake up call family andAmy so t money is Tyler Nicky mouse
one. That's what I was like, Okay, they came up with a
good one for you, Nick adventurousAmy because she's on all of your Instagram
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videos with the oh hi, whichI love. And then Jenny from our
block. How cute is that?I'm in anyway, happy birthday staff.
So cal Edison says it's preparing forwildfire season by consulting with weather experts and
scientists. The company says it hasseven meteorologists and two scientists to help anticipate
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whin these heavy wins could pick up. One of so cal Edison's meteorologists says
the company is developing its own toolsand computer models so it can help predict
where thresholds are that could cause usspark. I'm down with this. I
like this. And Jamie fox Man, we finally heard from him yesterday because
I think he'd been in the hospitalfor lake three weeks or something like that,
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and he says he's feeling blessed followinga medical complication that happened a couple
of weeks ago, Jason, Idon't know if you've been following this story
too, but like what happened,his daughter, I think was saying,
you know, prayers from my dad. But it was quiet. It was
silent, like radio silence as faras any details. But then you had
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what he says, He appreciates allthe love. Cherry Shepherd, Ludacris,
other celebrities were re applied in thecomments showing support. But all he says
is he's feeling blessed after a medicalcomplication. I don't mean to point out
the Lifetime movie in this. Yeah, it was a post on Instagram.
How do we know he posted it? I'm just sure saying, well,
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he's got a team of people,right, it's Hollywood. Well it is
Hollywood. And I'm not saying thatthere's anything to fairies or that like he's
not, you know, I don'tknow, not feeling blessed and whatever.
But we still don't know what's goingon, right, But I I guess
we're we should be happy to hearfrom his team, sure, absolutely,
I mean other than the NBA adsthat I see him all, yeah,
we haven't seen him in a while. No, so I don't know.
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Let's keep our fingers crossed. Hey, Jason Middleton the host of Macro on
Sundays from two until four. Alsohe is on Oh my, you're on
all the time. Oh no,no no, I feel like yeah on
Saturdays, and I get to joinyou and Bill on Thursday mornings and then
I fill here and there whatever Ican help. And I haven't talked about
it, but I'm going on vacationthe week after next what next Friday,
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and then the week after that.Jason's in for me that whole time,
looking forward to it as always,Well, thank you and I appreciate you
letting me go to the reading rodeos. This cruise just a ton of fun.
So it's it's it's a it's funto be here. Well, we're
glad you're here. I don't knowif I was a Google employee, if
I'd be like, hey, I'mso happy to go to work, mister
CEO, when you just got afattle pay raise and you're cutting costs across
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the board. Yeah. The contagionthat's going through the tech sector with the
layoffs that started in January continues,and it's just not a good look when
you're CEO makes two hundred and twentysix million dollars. And this before I
knew we were going to talk aboutthis today. I was driving yesterday,
stuck in traffic, and because it'sLos Angeles, and so I was thinking,
like a ten percent cut, evena five percent cut at that level
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could fund several employees and their benefitsevery year. And then so I saw
the sun Dark Pachai, the CEOof Google, two hundred and twenty six
million dollars, and they're gonna doa stock buy back this year. So
a stock buyback. First of all, you do those in order to keep
the investors happy. Right, youtake, you take, you you're minimizing
the supply of stock that's out there, which keeps the prices elevated. Okay,
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so it's it's basically its own inflationcontrol win away as far as it's
share price. But you can't dostock buybacks when everything's in a trough.
You don't buy stock buybacks, andso people take losses, right, so
stock must be doing just fine.So then you have that. And then
I looked at Satianda Dallas fifty fivemillion dollars annual salary. He's the CEO
and Microsoft, and he's the onewho started all this AI discussion earlier this
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year with open ai, chat,GPT and bing, which by the way,
has doubled its search volume since thatannouncement. So he makes fifty five
and took a pay cut, soyou can see. So now, charity,
Now think about all of the workersdo you have in the tech sector
that are slashing around the labor marketright now. A lot of those are
auto automatically hired out. They neverhit the unemployment payrolls, so then they've
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had a file. But at thisvolume, I'm sure that there are yeah
that are having to file. Soit's it's it's not virtue signaling so much
as it's good good economics. I'dbe surprised if Google doesn't do something about
this pretty quick. They need todo the virtual virtue signaling, even if
it is in a hindsight Kenneth Way, absolutely, because if you're one of
the employees who it has had theirjob cut or has had their department cut,
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or whatever it is, and you'redoing more for either less or the
same, you're thinking to yourself,wait a minute, just exactly what you
are What could even a drop inthe bucket of his big old pay raise
due for the company and for moraleexactly. That's what I mean. That's
why I think in a hindsight kindof way, there will be a headline
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in the next quarter, maybe beforetheir next earnings, which just happened a
lot of tech sectors rolling through itsearnings last weekend this week, So we'll
see by the time it comes aroundnext time how things go when it comes
to the stock buyback, and ifhe's going to keep his salary that elevated
during these times. Also, don'tforget when tech companies hire people, they
often don't have work for them rightaway. If they do that to basically
elbow out other tech companies from hiringthat talent. So you might be hired
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I didn't know that, hired ata big tech firm, and maybe not
have much to do for a while, and then all of a sudden,
you'll have everything to do. You'llbe working eighty hours a week all of
a sudden because a project that fitsyour skill set is coming in the door
or something they want to get outthe door. So a lot of hoarding
of employees happens within tech. Sowe've seen a little bit of that,
but a lot of this goes backto zuck and zucker Burke's saying this is
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the year of efficiency, and whenhe does it at Meta, that means
other companies are looking at it too, all right, And speaking of Meta,
the FTC says Meta should be barredfrom monetizing data from younger users.
I'm actually good with this only becausedo they have younger users? Well,
they that's a great well, Imean they not on Facebook, but yeah,
with the metaverse they probably definitely do. Sure, And then but from
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those younger users kind of just likeanything, you need parental permission until eighteen.
Why is it that I guess thetech world should be any difference.
This is kind of a leopard inspots thing. Does Zuckerberg change the culture
of his companies? We only haveto go back to Cambridge Analytica to see
how Facebook handles data and privacy.Doesn't really have a concern until it's called
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out. And so if they're callingit out now, that's that's that's at
least we learned our lesson last time, right, all right? When it
comes to Elon mus oh yeah,yeah, he says he wants to slash
Twitter down to about a thousand employees. I don't know how many people are
left a Twitter. But don't youfeel like that's all he's been doing,
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is slashing employees at Twitter? Andwasn't there Also, I want to say
that Elon Musk was saying that hewas close to having the Twitter finances like
back to normal or something like that, and I thought, I don't know
what graphs you're looking at, butI haven't seen those specifically. It's not
just that we don't have to lookat the books. We just have to
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look at what Twitter is trying todo, the blue check mark thing that's
not making any money for them,which is which is another problem. We
don't see any monetization. I reallythink that Elon is just now figuring out
the Twitter as an advertising platform.Remember he didn't want to buy it in
the first ways. He sued nothave to go through with that forty four
billion dollar purchase and they were like, too bad, you said it,
you did it. You know yougotta be signed. That's right, So
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it's yours good luck and that hasn'tbeen working out great. And also this
week with Elon and I'm about torecord this for my show for the weekend,
is he wants to change the handlefor NPR News. You saw that.
They said they weren't going to doit because he had put on their
a label said state sponsored. Yeah, right, right, right, Well,
it's a it's a Class C felonyto change that. It's it's an
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identity claim and identity theft. Ifhe changes that in Oregon, that is
a class felony. So great.I've got eyes on that too, because
I don't think he'll do it.I think he just does it to rattle
a cage here and there and tostay in the news. But it'd be
nice to see Eline in the newsfor a different reason, a non negative
reason. Absolutely all right, Jasonis going to join Bill coming up at
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eight o'clock this morning. Then alsohe like he like he said, he
anchors on Saturday. He's got hisshow Macro from two to four on Sunday,
and then he is going to beat the helm of this show starting
next Friday through the whole following week. Because like I said, it is,
here's here's the thing. I toldmy mom, She goes, You're
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coming home for the rodeo. Yeah, And I said yeah, I said,
First Cottonwood Rodeo is on Saturday duringthe day. I mean then the
steak feed and dance downtown in Readingis Saturday night, so my cousins and
I are I'll go in. Doyou get like a cool feedbag that's emblazoned
with the logo for the event?That would be kind of cool, right
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that's Mom says, you're coming homefor a steak feed and dance And I
said, Mom, you know what, this will be the first time that
I've gone that I'm legal, andshe goes, oh, you've never been
there since you were twenty one.I said, no, I just used
to sneak in, right. Ohsorry mom, Sorry mom. Yeah,
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that's what you have to look forwardto with a teenage daughter. ABC is
Mike Debusky. Good morning to you. I'm going to throw it to you
with the line that you wrote inyour email last night. Yes, we
still suck at coming up with goodpasswords, but there could be a solution
on the horizon. Tell me aboutWorld Password Day, right, yeah,
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Jenn, So it's not looking particularlygreat when it comes to our password habits
here in the United States. NordPass, which is a digital security firm
out there, They put out anannual report on World Password Day looking at
what the most common passwords in thecountry and globally are. Well. Globally,
the most common password is the wordpassword, which is not a very
secure password at all. Domestically,it's a little bit different. The most
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popular password is the word guest,which I thought was kind of interesting,
followed by one, two, three, four, or five six, followed
by password. So we're not doingparticularly well what it comes to keeping our
passwords secure. But according to anannouncement from Google yesterday, that might be
about to change. All right,tell me about that. What's Google doing?
So? Google is pushing this newconcept known as a pass key,
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and a good way to think aboutit is just a lock and a key
system. Your phone will create avery long string of code, a very
secure password, and then the websitethat you're trying to get into, the
account that you're trying to log into, creates a separate string of code,
a very strong password, and onlythose two pieces of code can talk to
each other. It's a lock anda key system. And you might be
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wondering, how is that different froma normal password. Well, the difference
is that you don't have to rememberit your phone, just do it on
its own, which is pretty interesting. Plus it's stored locally, which means
that if hackers were to breach Amazondot Com or Facebook and steal all the
passwords, they wouldn't get anything ofvalue because Facebook doesn't have my password.
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I have my password stored locally onmy smartphone. The other thing that it
is particularly very good at is itcutting down on phishing accounts. Phishing attacks
are where hackers set up a realisticlooking version of the login screen for Gmail.
Well, if I type in mypass key into that, they're not
getting anything of value because the lockis wrong. They don't have the special
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lock that the actual Gmail has thatI'm trying to get into. So they
say it's a much more secure system. Apple has a version of this that
they rolled out on iOS sixteen lastyear. Microsoft's been doing this for a
few years, and they say it'sa term that we're going to be learning
a lot more about in the comingyears. It does it cost you anything?
Does it cost anymore? Does notcost you anything. I set it
up on my Google Pixel last night, and I logged into my Google account.
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I did it within the span oftime. I set the whole system
up within the span of time.It took a commercial break during Jeopardy to
happen, So it's pretty easy.It's actually, you know, I was
surprised by how you know, seamlessthe technology was. But the trade off
is that not a lot of websitessupport this right now. Shopify supports it,
Best Buy supports its, CVS Health, a few others. But you
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try to log in with a passkey to a website that doesn't support it,
it's not going to go anywhere,right, you have to log in
with traditional credentials. Okay, Howor what does this do to the two
factor authentication which drives me baddy becauseit's always like my cell phone is not
in the same room and now I'mrunning around the house. What a mess?
Yeah, it is. It operatessimilarly to two factor authentication in the
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sense that if I'm trying to,for example, log into my Shopify account
I will have on my desktop,I will have to pull out my phone
and get into that using biometrics,right, but I don't have to,
you know, receive the code andthen type it back in, right Like
it's it kind of cuts out outone of the steps there, So yeah,
it does. It's similar to twofactor authentication. But it's it's a
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little bit simpler, all right.Can we go back to the list that
you gave us of passwords because Isort of want to smack society that literally
Handle talks about one two three fourfive six. He jokes about that,
right that. He says, it'slike Bill one two three or Bill you
know whatever. He jokes about that. And I thought to myself one time
when he was joking about that,like, please, it's not like most
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people have that. I was Iapparently was way wrong. Yeah, no,
they say this again. According tonord pass one two three, four
five six. They found one hundredand nine thousand, three hundred and twenty
two instances of this according to theirreport. And what's more is the most
common passwords, the one hundred mostcommon passwords that they surveyed, eighty three
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percent of them can be hacked inless than a second gen SOB it's really
really bad. But then again,you think passwords the way the way we
you know, operate our digital securitylives at the moment, it's actually pretty
insecure. Passwords aren't that great.They are good, ones are very long
and complicated and hard to remember.They're also vulnerable to data weeks, as
we discussed, and we also havea lot of them. According to Nord
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pass we have between eighty and onehundred different accounts that we have to log
into. That's a lot of passwordsto remember. So of course we're going
to make them a little bit simpler, and we're going to double up,
which is a bad habit as well. So, oh my gosh, yes,
I can't tell you how many timesthat yeah, I've used the same
one. Or usually it'll be thedog of the week, either the dog
that I'm most proud of that weekor the dog that I am most annoyed
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with that week, and then Itry and change it up, but then
I forget what week it was,so which dog is it? And oh
yeah, it's kind of a mess. Oh absolutely, thank you so much.
May the fourth be with you whenit comes to be with you.
Yes, these good passwords. Allright, You're awesome. I'll talk to
you soon. Take care, JimPike, all right, see you later.
ABC's Mike Dabuskie. I was lookingat Jason, who's still sitting in
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here with me this morning, like, are you freaking kidding me? So?
What what are your dog's names?Again? And should we join you
every week to find out which dogno. Because you know what, if
you look at my Instagram from lastnight, Betty was being awesome and in
fact I videoed her. That's achange of pace for Betty, right,
and I was like, oh mygod, I have to document this.
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So Betty said good night to everybody. Right. It was adorable, super
cute, little two second video jjlkfI. I was so proud then on
that one. Then I literally tookthe video, walked into the bathroom where
I had a bubble bath running,which I take almost every night before bet
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and night hear that freaking dog jumpedin a full bubble bath. It's on
there. JJLKFI. I don't knowif she's the good dog today or if
she's the bad dog, or ifI'm gonna leave her in the rain,
or if she's the past she couldyou never know. May the Fourth be
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with Betty, because Lord knows thatdog needs some What are the origins of
May the Fourth be with you?So it actually is a celebration of all
things Star Wars. Nick Paliochini,I'm gonna bring you in because I know
that you and Amy King went toDisneyland and you are. Oh my gosh,
you were following the Mandalorian. Itwas amazing. We saw grogu Amy
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lost her issue. She just hadthe most amazing time with Mando on Batu,
which is at Galaxy's Edge. Sowe did that on Tuesday, and
there's actually another event happening tonight.Hopefully the rain doesn't affected too much,
but Star Wars Day will be celebratedwith a very special edition in Disneyland after
Dark Star Wars Night tonight. Idid not know that the slogan was originally
Flit flopped in nineteen seventy eight togreet people on the fourth of July.
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This is according to Lucas Film,who says Carrie Fisher described playing Princess Leia
and working with George Lucas in thisrare interview in Night Or nineteen seventy seven.
The next year, May the fourthbecame the fandom's unofficial holiday. After
Margaret Thatcher I know this is areach won the election to become Britain's first
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female prime minister, so to celebrateher victory, her party took out this
half page advertisement on May the fourthof nineteen seventy nine in the London Evening
news that read May the Fourth bewith you, Maggie. Congratulations. Did
you guys know that I had noidea? Yeah, no idea? Was
the Iron Lady a fan of StarWars? But I don't know where the
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original Jason, We're gonna go aheadand say yes, yeah, yeah,
yes exactly. So Nick, nowthere is a special offer that a friend
of yours has in Long Beach thatactually you have been kind enough to give
us here that we are about totry this morning. But a special May
the Fourth offer in Long Beach today, Yes, exactly, and that is
going to be at the Pie Bar, which is at four fifty Pine Avenue
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between fourth and fifth in Long BeachDowntown Long Beach. There is a special
offering today that is blue Milk cutiePie, which cutie pie for them is
kind of a layered pie that comesin a mason jar. But if you're
not familiar with blue milk, itis from the Bantha that are on tattooing
from the Star Wars galaxy. Andit is a delicious offering that is made
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with vanilla pudding and blueberries and freshblueberry compote on top. But a lot
of people around the country and aroundthe world will be celebrating with special offerings.
You can get that exclusive thing todayopens at eleven am and runs until
nine o'clock tonight until it's sold out. There will also be some additional fun
things maybe oh something from the darkSide. If you're a Star Wars fan,
you might be able to go withyour allegiances there. And also definitely
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The Resistance will be available too.So there's a lot of things going on.
If you check out This Weekend withNick. You can tune into me
on Friday's Here with Later with moKelly at eight pm, but you can
go to This Weekend with Nick onInstagram and I've got all the details about
this also the stories that Gen talkedabout, the origin story of with Margaret
Thatcher, and also from Star Warsdot Com some additional things so maybe where
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it came from. So there's somelittle easter eggs if you will that they're
there, if you want to checkme out on Instagram. I love it
all right, and where can theygo? Nick? Where on instan me?
This Weekend with Nick? This Weekendwith Nick on Instagram? Okay,
perfect, Nick, thank you andplease thank your friend for us. Tyler
just showed me the little Mason jarsadorable. It looks so good. They're
like layers, right, so itlooks like a high crust on the bottom,
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maybe the pudding in the middle,and then the blueberry compote on top.
Oh my gosh. And because Ilove you, I threw in a
banana cream also a white chocolate raspberryand third one was I can't remember what
the third one was. There's anotherpineer anyway for all these treats to start
us out. And again that's thepie bar in Long Beach today eleven to
nine and that's at four fifty aPine Avenue between fourth and fifth and downtown
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Long Beach. All right, thankyou so much. Nick, thank you
all right, I'll talk to yousoon. And Laurie, thank you very
much. It's KAFI and KOST HDtwo Los Angeles, Orange County. Your
so cowweather from KFI is disastrous todayas far as the drive goes. So
we've got rain today. But ifyou can stay home, my suggestion,
not telling you what to do,I'll boston you around. I would stay
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home because it's ridiculous out there.Jason almost got into an accident. It
took me like at least twenty minutesextra to get here this morning really difficult
to see. Yeah, it justreally really is, so please slow down.
Yeah, absolutely, And the trucksthat are out there, it's not
their fault, but they're spraying theheck out of anything that's behind them.
Standing water everywhere. So the forecasttoday is more of that. Unfortunately,
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it looks like it probably won't reallytaper off until tomorrow, but then by
the weekend are we rewarded? Iguess sunshine and warmer temperatures. We lead
local live from the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee.
This has been your wake up call. You've been listening to your wake up
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