May 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan opens the show talking about educators and fire official warning of new TikTok “Chromebook Challenge.” ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers talks about traveling with the president as he wraps up Middle East visit. The House Whisperer Dean Sharp is back on Wake Up Call for another edition of ‘Waking Up with the House Whisperer!’ Today, Dean talks about finding your style. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give insight into business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News entertainment reporter Will Ganss with the ‘Entertainment Report.’ Today Will highlights the SNL season 50 finale, Paul Rudd in ‘Friendship’, and Nonnas on Netflix.
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This is Amy King with kfi's wake up call. How
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It's time for your morning wake up call and landed.
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And his name is Amy k Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is not It is five o'clock straight up, this
Friday morning, May sixteenth, twenty twenty five. In case there
was any doubt what year we were in, this is.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Your wake up call. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and just happy
you're joining us to get your day started. I don't
know how your day's starting, but hopefully it's a little
bit more perky than mine.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Somebody's got a cold.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Somebody's got a cold. I totally blame it on Deborah Mark.
I traveled around the world. I don't think I got
it from the plane. I think I got it from Deborah.
It's a tough one to call. It is tough to
talk about she's a mess right now.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
But you also did.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Travel, and have you ever done this where you know
how you just feel a little punky and like it's
almost like you have extra gravity when you're walking around
you Today everything feels a little heavy and like, you know,
you just don't have that spring in your step. So
I'm like, I'm gonna go to bed early. I'm gonna
get a good night's sleep. And I was in bed
by seven thirty and I get up at two thirty,
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So that's that's that would have been seven hours right, good? Yeah, Yeah.
Then I woke up at nine thirty, and I woke
up at ten thirty, of course. Then I woke up
at eleven thirty, of course. Then I woke up at
twelve thirty, and then I woke up at one thirty
and then got up at my normal two thirty time.
So not exactly well rested. I hate when that happens.
Like I was, like, I was so excited because I
got to bed early. But anyway, that's neither here nor
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there for you. You've got to get ready for your day,
and we're going to help you do that. Here's what's
ahead on wake up call them Menendez Brothers may get
a shot at parole sooner than expected. ABC NEWSS Governor
Newsom's changed a hearing scheduled for June thirteenth from a
clemency to a parole board hearing, which could speed up
the process for release. If a parole board recommends release,
the governor still needs to approve it for the Brothers.
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Community leaders have called for the creation of a two
hundred million dollar fund to help fire survivors now to
Dina stay in their community. At a rally yesterday, officials
said they need the state's help to keep real estate
speculators from swooping in and forcing longtime residents out. A
report shows almost of the ninety four properties sold since
the fire in January, almost half have been bought by
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corporate investors. Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to sit down
for face to face meetings for the first time in
three years to talk about ending the three year old war.
President Putin and President Zelensky are not there for it.
The two countries meeting in Turkey will be represented by
lower levered level delegations. ABC's Karen Travers has been traveling
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around the Middle East with President Trump. We're going to
find out what has been accomplished and what was left
on the table as the President heads back to the US.
That's coming up at five twenty. The latest TikTok challenge
can do more than break your chromebook. It could be dangerous.
ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us in just
a couple of minutes to tell us about the challenge
that has gone viral around the US. What's your Style?
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The host of Home on KFI, our own Dean Sharp's
going to help you find yours. He says it's an
important part of making your house feel more like a home.
Can't wait to talk to him about that. That's at
the bottom of the hour, and then Saturday Night Live
wraps up its fiftieth season. Paul Rudd is cringe worthy.
We'll find out if that's a good thing. And we
all know that grammas can cook, So what happens when
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you fill a kitchen with them. That's all coming up
with ABC's Wielgans at the top of the right before
the top of the hour, right around five fifty, let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County has purchased
and wiped clean around one hundred and eighty three million
dollars in residence medical debt.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The county decided last year that it would buy medical
debt cheaply and forgive it. They say it would stop
residents from falling prey to aggressive debt collectors. Supervisor Jennis
Hahn says the clean slate is clean. It won't be
classified as income, it won't be tax and doesn't have
to be paid back.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
And most importantly, this debt relief comes with no strings attached.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
One hundred and thirty four thousand low income residents will
receive notice of the debt wipeout. County residents oh more
than two billion dollars in medical debt. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The state Assembly has passed to bill that makes it
a felony in California to buy a sixteen or seventeen
year old for sex. Several demic We're against the provision
in AB three seven nine, but Assembly Member Carl Demyo
says public pressure forced them to cave. The bill now
heads to the state Senate. Seventeen family members of Joaquin
El Chapo Guzman's son have been given protection in the US.
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The family crossed into the US at the O Tai
Mesa Port of entry. Recently, El Chapo's son a video,
replaced his father as the head of the Sineloa cartel
before he was captured.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This is definitely a very unique situation.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You know, the son who's in prison. I'll talk, but
you need to protect my family.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Attorney Caesar Luna says Guzman is changing his plea and
will likely testify against other cartel leaders, which is why
his family needed to get out of Mexico. They are
currently in protective custody. A judge in La has denied
a request for a restraining order to keep La Zoo
officials from moving two elephants to Tulsa, Oklahoma. A man
who lives in La had filed for the order, and
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an emergency hearing was held yesterday. The man's lawyer, Melissa Lerner,
says the judge's ruling was largely on the basis that
the issue should be taken up with the city council
and the mayor.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
And frankly, the judge encouraged the public to reach out
to their city council members and to mayribas to tell
them that this is unconscionable and unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The director of the La Zoo has said Billy and
Tina will be moved as soon as they're ready. Activists
don't want them to go to the zoo in Oklahoma.
They say it's not good enough. They say that they
would be better off at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Let's
now check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we
got another TikTok challenge, and this one's not like the
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ice bucket challenge. This one is potentially pretty dangerous.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Yes, there's nothing positive about this one at all. Nobody
knows where it started. Nobody knows when it started or
who's responsible for it. But all over the country, kids
have been putting metal objects into the USB ports of
their laptops. Chromebooks are the ones that so many school
districts are using now issuing to their kids, and that's
why this is called the chrome book challenge.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Jamie.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Yeah, and once you shove a metal object in there,
there's a spark Lithian Yeah, spark fire smoke. Schools evacuated,
you know, and the fire department shows up. Well, yeah,
the kid and very often these kids are posting video
of themselves doing this. This is sort of the point
of the whole thing to get a little bit of
Internet fame. Well, they're also finding themselves in some cases
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facing serious criminal charges. Thirteen year old girl on Long
Beach thirteen was arrested last week after she apparently took
part in this. She's a middle schooler at Lidsey Academy
and it's accused now of setting her laptop on fire.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, this is wrong on so many friends because one,
it's not their top, it's not their own property, that's
school property, right that the chromebooks are issued to the students. Yeah,
so one, you're destroying somebody else's property. And then the
chromebooks have lithium batteries in them, don't they right, Okay,
so that makes a whole other issue very difficult.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
This is why you can't carry a lithium ion battery
and your checked luggage because if that thing catches fire
in the cargo hold of a plane, there are serious problems,
hard to fight very smoky, toxic smoke from this thing.
And yeah, you're looking at your laptop doing the same thing.
So yeah, there are our health consequences potentially, then the
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danger of having a fire sitting there. You know, there's
nothing good about this one.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, and so you said that the thirteen year old
in Long Beach, I do remember we mentioned that. So
do you think they're going to actually charge her? Are
they trying to scare her? Do we know yet?
Speaker 9 (08:37):
I think she might face some charge. I mean they're
juvenile charges, but it is it's serious.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
And the damage in that case out there at Long
Beach was isolated to the chromebook itself. But the parents,
at the very least they're gonna have to pay for
the chromebook that was destroyed. And you're finding this all
over the country. The damage for this is it's the
responsibility to the parents, whether it's the laptop, the desk,
the floor, they you know, the fire department coming out.
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So this is not just a trivial thing. And kids
need to know that.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
How widespread is this? I know it's gone viral, but
I mean.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
I've heard cases in California, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Connecticut. They
had a rash of them, like like fifteen of them
in just a couple of weeks time. So it's not
just one part of the country. It's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All Right, Mom and dad, time to have a little
chat with the kids. Yeah, yeah, shake.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Them, shake them up a bet. I mean, come on,
this is really dumb.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, let's get back to the ice bucket challenge. That's
a much better one. There you go, all right, right,
ABC Jim Ryan thinks is always for the information. Have
a great weekend, you too. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Officials from Russia and Ukraine have
arrived in Turkey for cease fire negotiations. ABC's Ian Pannell
says Russian President Putin was a no show yesterday despite
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Ukrainian President Zelensky's willingness to meet.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Is it positive even sits in the same room, Well, yes,
because that hasn't happened for three years. Is Russia willing
to make any concessions? We just don't know at this point.
Is Ukraine, Well, Ukraine's been far more open about what
it's willing to say, what it's willing to do.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Zelensky invited Putin for a face to face meeting, but
even mid level Russian representatives have not met with the
Ukrainians yet. If they do meet today, as they are
scheduled to do, it'd be the first time they sat
down since the war started. President Trump has wrapped up
his Mid East tour in the United Arab Emirates with
a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an
inter faith place of worship. Is visit to Saudi Arabia,
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Qatar and the United Arab Emirates outlined a vision for
restoring global stability. Trump also signed some economic deals and
pledged to continue the US's partnership with the UAE. Former
FBI director James Komy is facing an investigation after a
social media post that appears to have threatened the president.
Komy posted a picture of some seashells on a beach
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ranged to spell out eighty six forty seven. Komy later
posted that he wasn't aware that there was anything threatening
in the post and took it down. Two of the
biggest cable companies in the US are looking to merge.
The deal between Charter and Coxcommunications would be worth more
than thirty four billion dollars and a better cable Prices
(11:20):
would go up because there'd be less choice. Yeay, an
ingredient found in many energy drinks, has been linked to
a higher risk of blood cancers. Tourine is an amino acid.
It occurs naturally in parts of the human body. It's
also found in energy, drinks, protein powers, and foods like meat, fish,
and eggs.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Researchers from the University of Rochester have found that those
leukemia cells can use additional tourine to grow and spread,
kind of like a booster. What's the difference between red
and black? Apparently not much. Gingers are black.
Speaker 11 (11:53):
A viral video with more than sixty four million views
claims all white redheads or gingers are basically black people,
which has opened to floodgate for white people to tell
their story. People with no Soul have talked about everything
from educational bias to bullying. Black supporters also posted in support,
with one saying I never thought I'd hear a white
person say they wish they were black.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
Scientific explanations say red hair comes from a mutation in
the MC one R gene that also plays a major
role in the production of melanin. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
A mutation thanks grow all right, The Dodgers take on
the Angels. First pitch goes out tonight at seven o'clock.
You can listen to all the games all season long
on AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all
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Some trees that were chopped down by a guy with
a chainsaw in downtown La are being replaced. A tree
planning event is being held this morning. A man's been
arrested for an unprovoked attack on woman in Culver City.
Police say a woman was grabbed by the head Tuesday morning.
(13:02):
The guy pulled her to the ground and repeatedly punched her.
Police found him nearby and arrested him. Metro is closing
its d Or Purple Line for the next seventy days
starting tomorrow. There will be no train service to the Wilshire, Vermont, Wilshire,
Normandy and Wilshire Western stations during the closure. It's expected
to reopen at the end of July. Let's say good
morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Karen.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
President Trump wrapped up his four day World Wind Tour
of the Middle East was welcomed in a big way.
At the United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
Oh, I mean, the red carpets were rolled out in
every country. There was even a purple one in the
Saudi Arabia for the president. But you know, at every
stop there was a similar theme where it was pomp
and circumstance of state dinner in every country for the president,
and the focus was on business and economic ties and
opportunity for investment in the United States. There were a
lot of American CEOs who were here at each stop
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doing these business and investment forums with the president, so
he was meeting with them. He was meeting with business
leaders from the region and the countries that he was visiting.
All were making massive commitments to invest in the United States,
to work with states, to work with American companies. We
now have to see how all that plays out and
whether or not they live up to those commitments. Here
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in the UAE, it's a one point four trillion dollar
investment commitment over the next decade. They signed an agreement
yesterday specifically about a two hundred billion dollars in deals
in partnerships, including a data center here in the UAE
that would be powered by American made semiconductor chips. So
that's something specific and tangible. But again for the President,
(14:37):
this is all about growth, jobs, investment, creating all of
that back in the US.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, So Karen, there, what I've heard is that, like
you just said, there's a lot of investment in the US,
what are they getting from US in exchange for this?
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Yeah, I mean that's a big question too, Like they
will be investing there. They say that they're growing their
businesses by investing in the United States, getting favorable opportunities
to do that, and you know there are investments in
return here. You're going to have American companies that are
working here. The CEOs of many tech companies. We're in
Saudi Arabia and cutter this week with the President because
(15:14):
they're talking about what they want to do here. The
President highlighted riod as an emerging technology capital, and you
can see that some of those companies want to see
what they can do here. There are many Warner Brothers,
Disney who are doing business in Abu Dhabi right now
because they see this as a big place where there
is opportunity.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, and you mentioned all the fanfair and stuff, I
will tell you, and the UAE seeing that the tallest
building in the world lit up with the starsn stripes,
that was pretty cool looking at Yeah, kind of empire shame, uh,
empire state building the shame, not to shame, but it
was pretty impressive.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
Well but you know, yeah, they certainly have done a
lot of pomp circumstances. I mean they're camels and two
of the countries that did kind of a big welcome
for the president. And he loves this stuff. He loves
it and they know he loves it, and that's why
they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, so you're headed home. Now, how long a flight
is it?
Speaker 12 (16:03):
Ooh, fourteen and a half hours. We leave in about
fifteen hours after we've finish our full.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Day of work.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
The president's already actually heading back. He'll do a refueling stuff,
but he's already on Air Force one to head back
to the US.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
But we'll work.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Another day here to wrap up and then head back.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
All right, we'll have a safe trip back. I hope
you get to see lots of good movies on your flight.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Thanks.
Speaker 13 (16:22):
I have a great day, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Take care. ABC's Karen Travers from the Middle East. Health
officials say the bird flu outbreak that started last year
could be finally slowing down. In California, the.
Speaker 14 (16:33):
State was the epicenter, with seventy percent of cases in
dairy cattle and thirty eight out of seventy confirmed human
cases nationwide. Human cases mostly affected dairy and poultry workers.
California has recorded seven hundred and sixty six infected dairy
herds across twelve counties. Concerns do remain about a potential resurgence.
Wild Birds, the primary source of bird flu, move north
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to Alaska and northern Canada in the spring and return
back south in the fall.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Dina Kodiak KFI News. Phillips sixty six has pleaded not
guilty to federal charges of violating the Clean Water Act.
The government accuses the energy company of dumping hundreds of
thousands of gallons of wastewater, including oil and grease, into
the La County sewer system. The company is facing five
years probation and fines of about two point four million dollars.
(17:20):
Phillips sixty six announced last year that it plans to
close its refinery operations in La in October. The company
operates the crude oil processing facility in Carson and a
finishing plant in Wilmington. The country's first no cost surgery
center has opened in Orange County. Volunteer surgeons will do
operations and other procedures for free for low income and
(17:42):
uninsured patients at the new state of the art medical facility.
Surgeries are expected to start in a few weeks. The
goal is to start with about thirty free surgeries every month.
A judge has refused to dismiss charges related to the
murder of acting actor Johnny Whacter in downtown La.
Speaker 15 (17:58):
La County Superior Court judge there is sufficient evidence to
allow the case against two nineteen year old men to
move forward. The thirty seven year old whactor, who appeared
on General Hospital, was shot to death last May after
approaching a group of people trying to steal the catalytic
converter from his car. Both suspects have pleaded not guilty
to one count teacher of murder and attempted second degree robbery.
(18:19):
Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
A former assistant city manager in Lacanata, Flintridge, is facing
dozens of charges for allegedly stealing about two hundred thousand
dollars from the City, La County Prosecutor say Carl Alameda
sent demand letters to insurance companies over a six year
period claiming their insured drivers had crashed into city property.
The insurance money was sent to an account controlled by Alameda.
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Vice President JD. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
are not headed home from the Middle East with President
Trump just yet. They're heading instead to the Vatican to
attend the inaugural Mass of Popelo the fourteenth that happens
on Sunday. Leo is the first American Pope. He was
a cardinal in Chicago before he was elected this month.
Vice President Vance is Catholic, and it also met with
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Polpe Francis shortly before Francis died. Actor Don Joe Baker,
Actually sorry, Joe Don Baker has died.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Joe Don Baker was a big, tough look a actor
who got his start in sixties and seventies TV, mostly
playing heavies. He stood out in supporting roles in crime
classics Charlie Verick with Walter Mathow in The Outfit with
Robert Duvall. Then he graduated to lead in Mitchell, which
became a mystery science theater three thousand classic and Walking Tall,
which became a drive in classic. He went on to
star in Fletch and three James Bond films. Baker died
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May seventh, and his family hasn't given a cause of death.
Funeral services will be next week in Mission Hills. Baker
was eighty nine, Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So many older actors are passing away. I know that
when I looked at this story, it was like, who
is Joe Don Baker? But when you look at his picture,
it's one of those actors where he might not have
known his name, but you definitely know who he was.
Sad to lose him. The popular video game Fortnite has
been blocked on iOS platforms. At Games made the announcement
today after Apple blocked an effort to get the game
back on the app Star. The game was pulled from
(20:06):
the app store back in twenty twenty after Epic Games
updated its software in an effort to get around Apple's
thirty percent commission to say. A federal judge in LA's
threatened to throw out a lawsuit filed by Taylor Swift
fans against Ticketmaster. The fans have accused the Beverly Hills
based company of breach of contract and other charges from
(20:27):
when ticketmasters servers crashed in twenty twenty three, who didn't
remember that during a Taylor swift presale event, millions claimed
they couldn't get tickets because of it. Swifties flocked to
the courthouse yesterday, where the judge decided instead of tossing
the suit, the fans can have a chance to amend
their complaints. Don't mess with Swifties. Ne Li Kenny. Sheriff's
(20:48):
Department has confirmed it has begun a criminal investigation into
music legend Smokey Robinson. Four former employees have sued the
eighty five year old singer, claiming rape, false imprisonment, illegal
withheld hold of pay and creating a hostele work environment.
Singer Chris Brown has been ordered by a judge to
remain in custody after his arrest in UK. He was
(21:08):
picked up for allegedly attacking a producer with a tequila
bottle that happened in twenty twenty three. He was arrested
yesterday during his first trip back to Great Britain since
the attack at a British nightclub. The two remaining elephants
at the La Zoo still appear headed to a zoo
in Oklahoma. A judge denied at emergency request yesterday to
stop the transfer of the Asian elephants Billy and Tina.
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The zoo says they'll have more room to roam and
can live with other elephants in Oklahoma. Activists say that's
not good enough, and they want the elephants transferred to
a sanctuary in Tennessee. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to sit
down for face to face talks. Of course, President Putin
and President Zelensky aren't there. Let's say good morning now
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to the host of Home. You can listen to it
every Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. It's Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Let's talk about style, shall we. Okay, Okay, So you
say to make your house your home, you got to
figure out what your style is so it feels homey,
so it reflects who you are. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, I mean you know when we're when we're transforming
a home into something that is more you. The trouble
with that is we got to find out who you are.
In fact, the one of the biggest challenges for most
people when it comes to remodeling or redecorating or redesigning
their home is they run up against this idea of like, oh, no,
(22:36):
I know something's missing from my life, but I'm not
exactly sure what it is. And so there's a bit
of U. There's a bit of style psychology that we
have to go through a little style therapy, as it were,
for a lot of homeowners in order to start getting
a handle of their style. In fact, most people don't
even really understand what the word style means. They just
(22:58):
know that they don't have it, or I think that
they don't have it, and they find out that's that's
not actually the case.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Okay, So what are some things that you can do
as you start pondering you're thinking about redecorating or building
or something. What are some things you should start looking at,
like to discover what your style is?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, I mean, if you understand what the word style
really means when we say it right, when we say
somebody's got style, it means that they have a way
about them. They have a way about them. And if
you break that down even further, what it comes down
to is that U style is repetition in your life.
Style is routine, it's whatever you keep coming back to.
(23:38):
It's whatever you keep finding yourself attracted to or you know,
kind of magnetically drawn to. Style is the are the
things that you like. And on a really simple basis,
style are the things that you like and the things
and basically how you like to live. It can be
as simple as and I ask clients to start doing this,
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start telling me, you know, what are the things that
you do? What happens every single week? And I just
don't mean, you know, I get up and I go
to work, and then I come home and I go
to sleep. I mean the kinds of things along the
way that you keep moving towards a style is in
fact kind of the grooves that you wear into your
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life by traveling those paths again and again. And if
you want to start keeping a style journal, it's and
I and this is not therapy for everybody. It's just
for people who are looking to change the way their
home looks. Then you set something aside, some notes aside,
maybe some notes on your phone, and you start taking
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a look at what are the things I keep coming
back to, the things that I just love more than
anything else. That's the beginning. It's the roots of your style.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You know what I think is so interesting you talking
about that. I definitely have that. I mean, I don't
know how you guys are deal with it, but I
keep going back to the same kinds of things. I mean,
whether it's from a car to the color of the car,
to the kind of clothes I wear, Like I wear
block more block color, yeah, block colors rather than flower stuff.
(25:11):
And if you look around my apartment or not really
anything flowery around where I live. Nothing so cool that.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You bring that up, Because that's one of the cues
I think is your own sense of fashion is usually
a representation of your own style in one way or another.
So we do a lot of fashion translating. Not that
people are like, listen, now, you want me to be
fashionable in the way that I dress. See, that's the thing.
There's not this expectation that you've got some high fancy style.
(25:42):
It's just a question of how do you dress. And
you've pointed out a really important one. Amy you've noticed
that you don't wear a lot of pattern stuff in
your clothing.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Even though I want to. But I never even if
I try to, I always go back to the other thing,
because I think it's better for me.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Okay, and then and then as a result, as you
look around your place, there aren't a lot of patterns
as well, right, they just tend to work itself out
that way.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Isn't that interesting? You're going to be talking about this
all week right our weekend.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, we're going to be taking calls tomorrow. Of course.
We're wide open to take calls on style and then
finding your style. The big show on Sunday, all.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Right, six to eight am Saturday and nine to noon
on Sunday. It's called Home with the House, whispered Dean Sharp.
Thanks Dean, thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho, Courtney Ah my team, the Niners. They're selling, yes.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Selling just a stake in the team. But this is huge.
Good morning.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
First of all, Happy Friday. So the forty nine ers
struck a deal to sell about six percent of the team.
But this is the interesting part. This would value the
franchise at a record breaking eight and a half billion
dollars more than the Eagles. Three different families are splitting
the steak. Valuations have boomed in recent years because a
lot of pro teams have maintained their television ratings better
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than a lot of other entertainment out there. But it
speaks volumes about the current state of sports investing, private equity, money,
tech wealth increasingly elbowing their way into the luxury suite,
and this is one of the reasons why we are
seeing these valuations of teams all across the board soaring.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
People have too much money. That's all I can do.
Speaker 13 (27:22):
Yeah, all right, but the forty nine ers deal, by
the way, still needs to clear the NFL owners meeting,
so it's still not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay. One of the most influential companies in the crypto space,
this is not good news has been hacked.
Speaker 13 (27:37):
Yes, crypto exchange Coinbase revealed that hackers bribed workers to
steal customer data that's the unbelievable part of this, and
demanded a twenty million dollar ransom. Coinbase is refusing to
pay it. But the breach may cost a company four
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But what makes this so.
Speaker 13 (27:55):
Outstanding for a lot of people, really interesting is that
this company led the whole entire digital asset revolution and
the march into the mainstream financial system, and this revelation
of the hack actually comes days before it joins the
S and P five hundred on Monday, it's joining the
S and P five hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Okay, all right, if you were on the hunt for
a job, things could be a little dicey for you.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (28:21):
So all of these ever changing tariffs is causing a
lot of companies to slow their role. The folks at
the Atlanta Fed surveyed some executives around the country and
they found that businesses planned to scale back their hiring
by about thirteen percent an investment by sixteen percent.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Tariffs overwhelmingly the top.
Speaker 13 (28:37):
Source of uncertainty when it comes to future plans. The
Atlanta Fed actually added that businesses are in wait and
see mode at the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Okay, so be patient if you're out looking. Yeah, okay
about it. We were talking about this a little bit earlier,
that the couple of the two biggest cable companies want
to do a merger, and I said, well, nothing good
is going to come from that. But what what is
going to come from that?
Speaker 13 (29:02):
Well, good for them because they've been under a lot
of pressure from wireless providers such as AT and T
and T Mobile, which have their own Internet offerings, and
we all know that streaming has been to paidv but
it is official. Charter Communications has a great to merge
with Cox Communications. The deal is valued at about thirty
five billion dollars, So this is a pretty big deal. Charter,
(29:22):
by the way, that's the top cable company in the country.
It operates under the Spectrum brand.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Just in case you need to know, that's what we
have here.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
Yeah, and Cox is the largest private broadband company in
the US.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, So Courtney, I have a question for you. It's
a thirty four billion dollar deal. Who gets that money?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Investors them?
Speaker 13 (29:43):
There's a whole host lawyers just lining up failures all
the money that these people are going to get. But
the thing about the Cox family, which will be getting
a lot of the money.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
It's a privately held company.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
So the Cox family has held onto it for many,
many years, and and they've tried. There's been a lot
of speculation over time, actually over the past decade that
they wanted to sell. Even Charter talk to them about
ten years ago and it didn't quite work out. So
now they're like, all right, time to time to give
(30:16):
it up. So it's mostly going to go to the
Cox family.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
All right, and that's getting in your business for this
Friday morning with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thank you so much
Courtney before we let you go stocks today up down,
We know.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, it's looking good so far.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
It's actually looking a lot better than a lot of
New Jersey transit commuters this morning. So it's better on
Wall Street than there I especially if you're trying to
get to the office today.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Oh, it's so.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Ugly for so many folks.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Luckily we don't have a great transit system, so not
that many people rely on it here.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Ay, but it's looking good.
Speaker 13 (30:46):
It's actually one of the best weeks this year so
far for the S and P five hundred.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
So I'm leaving you on and up note.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I love that, and we will talk to you again
Monday morning. Have a great weekend you too, talk to
you later. All right. Nearly one hundred and thirty five
thousand people who live in La County you are going
to be getting their medical debt for given it's being
paid for by taxpayer and philanthropic money. Eligible residents are
going to get a letter letting them know that their
medical debt has been erased Americans credit card balances have
(31:11):
dropped in the first quarter of this year by twenty
nine billion dollars. The Federal Reserve Bank says Auto loan
debt also fell by thirteen billion dollars from the previous quarter,
but student loan balances hit a record of one point
sixty three trillion dollars. Because pandemic pauses and student loan
payments have ended, delinquencies are also spiking. Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande,
(31:32):
Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamara have each scored a leading
four nominations for the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards. The awards
will be presented June twenty first, in a traditionally green
slime filled ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Willgans. Will we
got fiftieth season wrapping up tomorrow night.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
So, while that in and of itself is sort of
a headline after this incredible season that they've had, star
studded season that they've had, the big question that everyone
is asking is which cast members are going to announce
that they are leaving? So, you know, there's plenty of
options out there. Of course, Colin Jost his wife, Scarlett Johansson,
(32:15):
is hosting the episode tomorrow night, so I think there
are a lot of people that are thinking, Okay, maybe
this is his way of leaving the show. He's going
to you know, celebrate with his wife hosting the show
one last time, and his Weekend Update co anchor Michael
Jay is also sort of leading the odds on some
of the cast members who may be announcing that they're leaving.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's my favorite segment on the whole show is Weekend
Update with I love those guys.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, and they've been there actually for a really long time,
so you know, it would make sense. I think people
some cast members may be stuck around. They said, you know,
it's the fiftieth season, we don't want to bail before this,
and now that that's over, I do think that there
might be a little bit of an exodus maybe from
the cast. You know, they have seventeen cast members. Normally
it's around I'm fifteen. So we'll have to watch tomorrow
(33:02):
night to find out who's leaving, and they.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Make an announcement during the show.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Yeah, So it sort of depends like if there are
people who have had this in the works for a
long time. Those two in particular, I would think would
have you know, worked this out with NBC a long
time ago. They do typically do some sort of send off,
you know, and being that Scar Joe is going to
be there, you know, maybe she would be involved in that.
Other minor cast members if they're maybe you know, they've
(33:29):
been there for one or two years and they're maybe
they're being let go as opposed to leaving the show
of their own volition. They might not get a big announcement,
but when it's a big name and it's somebody that
has had this in the works for a while, there
is usually some sort of nice goodbye that they have planned.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Okay, before we move on. Have you heard this that
when they do weekend Update, Colin writes for Michael and
Michael writes for Colin and they're not allowed to read
it before they go in the air.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
I mean that, yes, and they do that. They do
that the joke swap sometimes like once. I don't think
every episode that that's the case, but they do do
this recurring bit where that happens, and I do think
sometimes there are like other liners that are snuck in
some of the jokes they write themselves. But then the
other times, yes, they are writing for each other, and
(34:13):
that's when it gets insane.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You can kind of tell when they you know, when
they get cracked up. Yeah, they're like, oh crap, I
got to read this. Okay, right, right.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Paul Rudd, Love Paul Rudd. He's in a new you're
calling it a cringe comedy friendship.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Yes, that's that's exactly what it is. So I have
not had to watch a movie from behind my own hands,
you know what I mean. I'm sitting in the chair
just covering my face being like, oh my god, this
is so uncomfortable. It's hilarious. But if you are easily
embarrassed by other people's embarrassments, this might not be the
movie for you. This is in theaters now, and it's
about a middle aged guy who is trying to become
(34:52):
good friends with Paul Rudd's character, who's like the local
weather man, who's like a cool guy, you know, and
this man just keeps on embarrassing himsel And it's one
of these things that has you asking, like our men okay,
are grown men? Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Like water?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
They so, you know, uncomfortable and awkward, and it's a
very funny movie. But it is a cringe comedy for sure.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay. So it's a good, uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay, And then I everybody loves grandma's cooking. It's comfort food.
And but what happens when you put a whole kitchen
full of nanas together?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (35:28):
So this is Vince Vaughan. He plays a guy who
opens up a restaurant on Staten Island and this is
all based on a true story. I've been to this
restaurant and instead of chefs in the kitchen, it's real
life grandma's making their family recipes for people. So the
menu changes every day. And it's a very sweet story.
This guy loses his mother and decides he's going to
honor her by opening up this restaurant on Staten Island
(35:48):
that employs real life grandma's and Susan Sarandon is in it.
And you know, it's funny because a lot of the
humor comes from these grandmas who are like beefing with
each other because one's from Sicily and from Bologna, and
they disagree about how to make certain pastas and things
like that. So it's very sweet, very funny, feel good
movie that's streaming on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I was going to ask you where can we find
that Netflix so I can watch that one this weekend
because I'm sick and I'm going to be on the couch.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
There you go, all right. It will make you. It
will make you hungry, though, so have some pasta ready
to go for yourself.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I've got some spaghetti in the cupboard. I'm ready to go.
All right. ABC's will gans. Thanks for all the recommendations.
Can't wait to watch them. Have a great weekend, Oki Doki,
you do take care. All right, Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four our newsroom. A parole hearing date has been set
for the Menandez brothers.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
June thirteenth was originally scheduled for the convicted killers to
go before the parole board as part of their attempt
to get clemency from the governor. Now that they've been
re sentenced to fifty years to life and are now
immediately eligible for parole, that day will be used for
the traditional parole hearing instead. They murdered their parents in
Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine, and were sentenced to
life without parole, but that change Tuesday at the re
(37:01):
sentencing in van NY's. If the parole board says Eric
and lauman Indez can go free, Governor Newso would have
ninety days to go along with it or deny it.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
A federal judge in la has thrown out a lawsuit
by former county sheriff Alex Vinaeva. He sued for being
placed on a do not rehire list. The judge yesterday
found the former sheriff could show no evidence that his
political or employment ambitions suffered as a result of his
placement on the list, or that a potential job with
the county hung in the balance. The judge wrote, it
is hard to imagine how being placed on a do
(37:33):
not rehire list could serve as an injury if the
plaintiff does not desire to be rehired. Two men have
been arrested for trying to smuggle parrots, parakeets, and even
chickens into the US. Border Patrol agents found a man
from Mexico last month with parrots stuffed in his boots
and hidden under a seat in a separate stop. On
May fourth, agents noticed that a blanket was moving and
(37:54):
found sixteen parakeets and three chickens. The men were arrested
for smuggling. The birds being cared for and checked to
make sure that they're not carrying any diseases. We'll quit laughing.
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This is not It is five o'clock straight up, this
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was any doubt what year we were in, this is.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Your wake up call. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and just happy
you're joining us to get your day started. I don't
know how your day's starting, but hopefully it's a little
bit more perky than mine.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Somebody's got a cold.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Somebody's got a cold. I totally blame it on Deborah Mark.
I traveled around the world. I don't think I got
it from the plane. I think I got it from Deborah.
It's a tough one to call. It is tough to
talk about she's a mess right now.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
But you also did.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Travel, and have you ever done this where you know
how you just feel a little punky and like it's
almost like you have extra gravity when you're walking around
you Today everything feels a little heavy and like, you know,
you just don't have that spring in your step. So
I'm like, I'm gonna go to bed early. I'm gonna
get a good night's sleep. And I was in bed
by seven thirty and I get up at two thirty,
(01:54):
So that's that's that would have been seven hours right, good? Yeah, Yeah.
Then I woke up at nine thirty, and I woke
up at ten thirty, of course. Then I woke up
at eleven thirty, of course. Then I woke up at
twelve thirty, and then I woke up at one thirty
and then got up at my normal two thirty time.
So not exactly well rested. I hate when that happens.
Like I was, like, I was so excited because I
got to bed early. But anyway, that's neither here nor
(02:15):
there for you. You've got to get ready for your day,
and we're going to help you do that. Here's what's
ahead on wake up call them Menendez Brothers may get
a shot at parole sooner than expected. ABC NEWSS Governor
Newsom's changed a hearing scheduled for June thirteenth from a
clemency to a parole board hearing, which could speed up
the process for release. If a parole board recommends release,
the governor still needs to approve it for the Brothers.
(02:37):
Community leaders have called for the creation of a two
hundred million dollar fund to help fire survivors now to
Dina stay in their community. At a rally yesterday, officials
said they need the state's help to keep real estate
speculators from swooping in and forcing longtime residents out. A
report shows almost of the ninety four properties sold since
the fire in January, almost half have been bought by
(03:00):
corporate investors. Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to sit down
for face to face meetings for the first time in
three years to talk about ending the three year old war.
President Putin and President Zelensky are not there for it.
The two countries meeting in Turkey will be represented by
lower levered level delegations. ABC's Karen Travers has been traveling
(03:21):
around the Middle East with President Trump. We're going to
find out what has been accomplished and what was left
on the table as the President heads back to the US.
That's coming up at five twenty. The latest TikTok challenge
can do more than break your chromebook. It could be dangerous.
ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us in just
a couple of minutes to tell us about the challenge
that has gone viral around the US. What's your Style?
(03:42):
The host of Home on KFI, our own Dean Sharp's
going to help you find yours. He says it's an
important part of making your house feel more like a home.
Can't wait to talk to him about that. That's at
the bottom of the hour, and then Saturday Night Live
wraps up its fiftieth season. Paul Rudd is cringe worthy.
We'll find out if that's a good thing. And we
all know that grammas can cook, So what happens when
(04:03):
you fill a kitchen with them. That's all coming up
with ABC's Wielgans at the top of the right before
the top of the hour, right around five fifty, let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County has purchased
and wiped clean around one hundred and eighty three million
dollars in residence medical debt.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The county decided last year that it would buy medical
debt cheaply and forgive it. They say it would stop
residents from falling prey to aggressive debt collectors. Supervisor Jennis
Hahn says the clean slate is clean. It won't be
classified as income, it won't be tax and doesn't have
to be paid back.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
And most importantly, this debt relief comes with no strings attached.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
One hundred and thirty four thousand low income residents will
receive notice of the debt wipeout. County residents oh more
than two billion dollars in medical debt. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The state Assembly has passed to bill that makes it
a felony in California to buy a sixteen or seventeen
year old for sex. Several demic We're against the provision
in AB three seven nine, but Assembly Member Carl Demyo
says public pressure forced them to cave. The bill now
heads to the state Senate. Seventeen family members of Joaquin
El Chapo Guzman's son have been given protection in the US.
(05:16):
The family crossed into the US at the O Tai
Mesa Port of entry. Recently, El Chapo's son a video,
replaced his father as the head of the Sineloa cartel
before he was captured.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This is definitely a very unique situation.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
You know, the son who's in prison. I'll talk, but
you need to protect my family.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Attorney Caesar Luna says Guzman is changing his plea and
will likely testify against other cartel leaders, which is why
his family needed to get out of Mexico. They are
currently in protective custody. A judge in La has denied
a request for a restraining order to keep La Zoo
officials from moving two elephants to Tulsa, Oklahoma. A man
who lives in La had filed for the order, and
(05:52):
an emergency hearing was held yesterday. The man's lawyer, Melissa Lerner,
says the judge's ruling was largely on the basis that
the issue should be taken up with the city council
and the mayor.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
And frankly, the judge encouraged the public to reach out
to their city council members and to mayribas to tell
them that this is unconscionable and unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
The director of the La Zoo has said Billy and
Tina will be moved as soon as they're ready. Activists
don't want them to go to the zoo in Oklahoma.
They say it's not good enough. They say that they
would be better off at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Let's
now check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we
got another TikTok challenge, and this one's not like the
(06:33):
ice bucket challenge. This one is potentially pretty dangerous.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Yes, there's nothing positive about this one at all. Nobody
knows where it started. Nobody knows when it started or
who's responsible for it. But all over the country, kids
have been putting metal objects into the USB ports of
their laptops. Chromebooks are the ones that so many school
districts are using now issuing to their kids, and that's
why this is called the chrome book challenge.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Jamie.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Yeah, and once you shove a metal object in there,
there's a spark Lithian Yeah, spark fire smoke. Schools evacuated,
you know, and the fire department shows up. Well, yeah,
the kid and very often these kids are posting video
of themselves doing this. This is sort of the point
of the whole thing to get a little bit of
Internet fame. Well, they're also finding themselves in some cases
(07:23):
facing serious criminal charges. Thirteen year old girl on Long
Beach thirteen was arrested last week after she apparently took
part in this. She's a middle schooler at Lidsey Academy
and it's accused now of setting her laptop on fire.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, this is wrong on so many friends because one,
it's not their top, it's not their own property, that's
school property, right that the chromebooks are issued to the students. Yeah,
so one, you're destroying somebody else's property. And then the
chromebooks have lithium batteries in them, don't they right, Okay,
so that makes a whole other issue very difficult.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
This is why you can't carry a lithium ion battery
and your checked luggage because if that thing catches fire
in the cargo hold of a plane, there are serious problems,
hard to fight very smoky, toxic smoke from this thing.
And yeah, you're looking at your laptop doing the same thing.
So yeah, there are our health consequences potentially, then the
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danger of having a fire sitting there. You know, there's
nothing good about this one.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, and so you said that the thirteen year old
in Long Beach, I do remember we mentioned that. So
do you think they're going to actually charge her? Are
they trying to scare her? Do we know yet?
Speaker 9 (08:37):
I think she might face some charge. I mean they're
juvenile charges, but it is it's serious.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
You know.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
And the damage in that case out there at Long
Beach was isolated to the chromebook itself. But the parents,
at the very least they're gonna have to pay for
the chromebook that was destroyed. And you're finding this all
over the country. The damage for this is it's the
responsibility to the parents, whether it's the laptop, the desk,
the floor, they you know, the fire department coming out.
(09:06):
So this is not just a trivial thing. And kids
need to know that.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
How widespread is this? I know it's gone viral, but
I mean.
Speaker 9 (09:12):
I've heard cases in California, Arizona, Florida, Texas, Connecticut. They
had a rash of them, like like fifteen of them
in just a couple of weeks time. So it's not
just one part of the country. It's all over the place.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All Right, Mom and dad, time to have a little
chat with the kids. Yeah, yeah, shake.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Them, shake them up a bet. I mean, come on,
this is really dumb.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, let's get back to the ice bucket challenge. That's
a much better one. There you go, all right, right,
ABC Jim Ryan thinks is always for the information. Have
a great weekend, you too. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Officials from Russia and Ukraine have
arrived in Turkey for cease fire negotiations. ABC's Ian Pannell
says Russian President Putin was a no show yesterday despite
(09:56):
Ukrainian President Zelensky's willingness to meet.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Is it positive even sits in the same room, Well, yes,
because that hasn't happened for three years. Is Russia willing
to make any concessions? We just don't know at this point.
Is Ukraine, Well, Ukraine's been far more open about what
it's willing to say, what it's willing to do.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Zelensky invited Putin for a face to face meeting, but
even mid level Russian representatives have not met with the
Ukrainians yet. If they do meet today, as they are
scheduled to do, it'd be the first time they sat
down since the war started. President Trump has wrapped up
his Mid East tour in the United Arab Emirates with
a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an
inter faith place of worship. Is visit to Saudi Arabia,
(10:37):
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates outlined a vision for
restoring global stability. Trump also signed some economic deals and
pledged to continue the US's partnership with the UAE. Former
FBI director James Komy is facing an investigation after a
social media post that appears to have threatened the president.
Komy posted a picture of some seashells on a beach
(11:00):
ranged to spell out eighty six forty seven. Komy later
posted that he wasn't aware that there was anything threatening
in the post and took it down. Two of the
biggest cable companies in the US are looking to merge.
The deal between Charter and Coxcommunications would be worth more
than thirty four billion dollars and a better cable Prices
(11:20):
would go up because there'd be less choice. Yeay, an
ingredient found in many energy drinks, has been linked to
a higher risk of blood cancers. Tourine is an amino acid.
It occurs naturally in parts of the human body. It's
also found in energy, drinks, protein powers, and foods like meat, fish,
and eggs.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Researchers from the University of Rochester have found that those
leukemia cells can use additional tourine to grow and spread,
kind of like a booster. What's the difference between red
and black? Apparently not much. Gingers are black.
Speaker 11 (11:53):
A viral video with more than sixty four million views
claims all white redheads or gingers are basically black people,
which has opened to floodgate for white people to tell
their story. People with no Soul have talked about everything
from educational bias to bullying. Black supporters also posted in support,
with one saying I never thought I'd hear a white
person say they wish they were black.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
Scientific explanations say red hair comes from a mutation in
the MC one R gene that also plays a major
role in the production of melanin. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
A mutation thanks grow all right, The Dodgers take on
the Angels. First pitch goes out tonight at seven o'clock.
You can listen to all the games all season long
on AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all
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is AM five to seventy LA Sports and be sure
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your chance to win a baseball Sweet Life experience to
a game in may Zen she handcrafted sushi made fresh daily.
Some trees that were chopped down by a guy with
a chainsaw in downtown La are being replaced. A tree
planning event is being held this morning. A man's been
arrested for an unprovoked attack on woman in Culver City.
Police say a woman was grabbed by the head Tuesday morning.
(13:02):
The guy pulled her to the ground and repeatedly punched her.
Police found him nearby and arrested him. Metro is closing
its d Or Purple Line for the next seventy days
starting tomorrow. There will be no train service to the Wilshire, Vermont, Wilshire,
Normandy and Wilshire Western stations during the closure. It's expected
to reopen at the end of July. Let's say good
morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Karen.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
President Trump wrapped up his four day World Wind Tour
of the Middle East was welcomed in a big way.
At the United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 12 (13:33):
Oh, I mean, the red carpets were rolled out in
every country. There was even a purple one in the
Saudi Arabia for the president. But you know, at every
stop there was a similar theme where it was pomp
and circumstance of state dinner in every country for the president,
and the focus was on business and economic ties and
opportunity for investment in the United States. There were a
lot of American CEOs who were here at each stop
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doing these business and investment forums with the president, so
he was meeting with them. He was meeting with business
leaders from the region and the countries that he was visiting.
All were making massive commitments to invest in the United States,
to work with states, to work with American companies. We
now have to see how all that plays out and
whether or not they live up to those commitments. Here
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in the UAE, it's a one point four trillion dollar
investment commitment over the next decade. They signed an agreement
yesterday specifically about a two hundred billion dollars in deals
in partnerships, including a data center here in the UAE
that would be powered by American made semiconductor chips. So
that's something specific and tangible. But again for the President,
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this is all about growth, jobs, investment, creating all of
that back in the US.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Okay, So Karen, there, what I've heard is that, like
you just said, there's a lot of investment in the US,
what are they getting from US in exchange for this?
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Yeah, I mean that's a big question too, Like they
will be investing there. They say that they're growing their
businesses by investing in the United States, getting favorable opportunities
to do that, and you know there are investments in
return here. You're going to have American companies that are
working here. The CEOs of many tech companies. We're in
Saudi Arabia and cutter this week with the President because
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they're talking about what they want to do here. The
President highlighted riod as an emerging technology capital, and you
can see that some of those companies want to see
what they can do here. There are many Warner Brothers,
Disney who are doing business in Abu Dhabi right now
because they see this as a big place where there
is opportunity.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, and you mentioned all the fanfair and stuff, I
will tell you, and the UAE seeing that the tallest
building in the world lit up with the starsn stripes,
that was pretty cool looking at Yeah, kind of empire shame, uh,
empire state building the shame, not to shame, but it
was pretty impressive.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
Well but you know, yeah, they certainly have done a
lot of pomp circumstances. I mean they're camels and two
of the countries that did kind of a big welcome
for the president. And he loves this stuff. He loves
it and they know he loves it, and that's why
they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Okay, so you're headed home. Now, how long a flight
is it?
Speaker 12 (16:03):
Ooh, fourteen and a half hours. We leave in about
fifteen hours after we've finish our full.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Day of work.
Speaker 12 (16:08):
The president's already actually heading back. He'll do a refueling stuff,
but he's already on Air Force one to head back
to the US.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
But we'll work.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Another day here to wrap up and then head back.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
All right, we'll have a safe trip back. I hope
you get to see lots of good movies on your flight.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Thanks.
Speaker 13 (16:22):
I have a great day, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Take care. ABC's Karen Travers from the Middle East. Health
officials say the bird flu outbreak that started last year
could be finally slowing down. In California, the.
Speaker 14 (16:33):
State was the epicenter, with seventy percent of cases in
dairy cattle and thirty eight out of seventy confirmed human
cases nationwide. Human cases mostly affected dairy and poultry workers.
California has recorded seven hundred and sixty six infected dairy
herds across twelve counties. Concerns do remain about a potential resurgence.
Wild Birds, the primary source of bird flu, move north
(16:55):
to Alaska and northern Canada in the spring and return
back south in the fall.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Dina Kodiak KFI News. Phillips sixty six has pleaded not
guilty to federal charges of violating the Clean Water Act.
The government accuses the energy company of dumping hundreds of
thousands of gallons of wastewater, including oil and grease, into
the La County sewer system. The company is facing five
years probation and fines of about two point four million dollars.
(17:20):
Phillips sixty six announced last year that it plans to
close its refinery operations in La in October. The company
operates the crude oil processing facility in Carson and a
finishing plant in Wilmington. The country's first no cost surgery
center has opened in Orange County. Volunteer surgeons will do
operations and other procedures for free for low income and
(17:42):
uninsured patients at the new state of the art medical facility.
Surgeries are expected to start in a few weeks. The
goal is to start with about thirty free surgeries every month.
A judge has refused to dismiss charges related to the
murder of acting actor Johnny Whacter in downtown La.
Speaker 15 (17:58):
La County Superior Court judge there is sufficient evidence to
allow the case against two nineteen year old men to
move forward. The thirty seven year old whactor, who appeared
on General Hospital, was shot to death last May after
approaching a group of people trying to steal the catalytic
converter from his car. Both suspects have pleaded not guilty
to one count teacher of murder and attempted second degree robbery.
(18:19):
Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
A former assistant city manager in Lacanata, Flintridge, is facing
dozens of charges for allegedly stealing about two hundred thousand
dollars from the City, La County Prosecutor say Carl Alameda
sent demand letters to insurance companies over a six year
period claiming their insured drivers had crashed into city property.
The insurance money was sent to an account controlled by Alameda.
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Vice President JD. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
are not headed home from the Middle East with President
Trump just yet. They're heading instead to the Vatican to
attend the inaugural Mass of Popelo the fourteenth that happens
on Sunday. Leo is the first American Pope. He was
a cardinal in Chicago before he was elected this month.
Vice President Vance is Catholic, and it also met with
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Polpe Francis shortly before Francis died. Actor Don Joe Baker,
Actually sorry, Joe Don Baker has died.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Joe Don Baker was a big, tough look a actor
who got his start in sixties and seventies TV, mostly
playing heavies. He stood out in supporting roles in crime
classics Charlie Verick with Walter Mathow in The Outfit with
Robert Duvall. Then he graduated to lead in Mitchell, which
became a mystery science theater three thousand classic and Walking Tall,
which became a drive in classic. He went on to
star in Fletch and three James Bond films. Baker died
(19:34):
May seventh, and his family hasn't given a cause of death.
Funeral services will be next week in Mission Hills. Baker
was eighty nine, Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So many older actors are passing away. I know that
when I looked at this story, it was like, who
is Joe Don Baker? But when you look at his picture,
it's one of those actors where he might not have
known his name, but you definitely know who he was.
Sad to lose him. The popular video game Fortnite has
been blocked on iOS platforms. At Games made the announcement
today after Apple blocked an effort to get the game
back on the app Star. The game was pulled from
(20:06):
the app store back in twenty twenty after Epic Games
updated its software in an effort to get around Apple's
thirty percent commission to say. A federal judge in LA's
threatened to throw out a lawsuit filed by Taylor Swift
fans against Ticketmaster. The fans have accused the Beverly Hills
based company of breach of contract and other charges from
(20:27):
when ticketmasters servers crashed in twenty twenty three, who didn't
remember that during a Taylor swift presale event, millions claimed
they couldn't get tickets because of it. Swifties flocked to
the courthouse yesterday, where the judge decided instead of tossing
the suit, the fans can have a chance to amend
their complaints. Don't mess with Swifties. Ne Li Kenny. Sheriff's
(20:48):
Department has confirmed it has begun a criminal investigation into
music legend Smokey Robinson. Four former employees have sued the
eighty five year old singer, claiming rape, false imprisonment, illegal
withheld hold of pay and creating a hostele work environment.
Singer Chris Brown has been ordered by a judge to
remain in custody after his arrest in UK. He was
(21:08):
picked up for allegedly attacking a producer with a tequila
bottle that happened in twenty twenty three. He was arrested
yesterday during his first trip back to Great Britain since
the attack at a British nightclub. The two remaining elephants
at the La Zoo still appear headed to a zoo
in Oklahoma. A judge denied at emergency request yesterday to
stop the transfer of the Asian elephants Billy and Tina.
(21:31):
The zoo says they'll have more room to roam and
can live with other elephants in Oklahoma. Activists say that's
not good enough, and they want the elephants transferred to
a sanctuary in Tennessee. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. Russia and Ukraine are scheduled to sit
down for face to face talks. Of course, President Putin
and President Zelensky aren't there. Let's say good morning now
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to the host of Home. You can listen to it
every Saturday and Sunday right here on KFI. It's Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Let's talk about style, shall we. Okay, Okay, So you
say to make your house your home, you got to
figure out what your style is so it feels homey,
so it reflects who you are. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, I mean you know when we're when we're transforming
a home into something that is more you. The trouble
with that is we got to find out who you are.
In fact, the one of the biggest challenges for most
people when it comes to remodeling or redecorating or redesigning
their home is they run up against this idea of like, oh, no,
(22:36):
I know something's missing from my life, but I'm not
exactly sure what it is. And so there's a bit
of U. There's a bit of style psychology that we
have to go through a little style therapy, as it were,
for a lot of homeowners in order to start getting
a handle of their style. In fact, most people don't
even really understand what the word style means. They just
(22:58):
know that they don't have it, or I think that
they don't have it, and they find out that's that's
not actually the case.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Okay, So what are some things that you can do
as you start pondering you're thinking about redecorating or building
or something. What are some things you should start looking at,
like to discover what your style is?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well, I mean, if you understand what the word style
really means when we say it right, when we say
somebody's got style, it means that they have a way
about them. They have a way about them. And if
you break that down even further, what it comes down
to is that U style is repetition in your life.
Style is routine, it's whatever you keep coming back to.
(23:38):
It's whatever you keep finding yourself attracted to or you know,
kind of magnetically drawn to. Style is the are the
things that you like. And on a really simple basis,
style are the things that you like and the things
and basically how you like to live. It can be
as simple as and I ask clients to start doing this,
(24:00):
start telling me, you know, what are the things that
you do? What happens every single week? And I just
don't mean, you know, I get up and I go
to work, and then I come home and I go
to sleep. I mean the kinds of things along the
way that you keep moving towards a style is in
fact kind of the grooves that you wear into your
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life by traveling those paths again and again. And if
you want to start keeping a style journal, it's and
I and this is not therapy for everybody. It's just
for people who are looking to change the way their
home looks. Then you set something aside, some notes aside,
maybe some notes on your phone, and you start taking
(24:41):
a look at what are the things I keep coming
back to, the things that I just love more than
anything else. That's the beginning. It's the roots of your style.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You know what I think is so interesting you talking
about that. I definitely have that. I mean, I don't
know how you guys are deal with it, but I
keep going back to the same kinds of things. I mean,
whether it's from a car to the color of the car,
to the kind of clothes I wear, Like I wear
block more block color, yeah, block colors rather than flower stuff.
(25:11):
And if you look around my apartment or not really
anything flowery around where I live. Nothing so cool that.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
You bring that up, Because that's one of the cues
I think is your own sense of fashion is usually
a representation of your own style in one way or another.
So we do a lot of fashion translating. Not that
people are like, listen, now, you want me to be
fashionable in the way that I dress. See, that's the thing.
There's not this expectation that you've got some high fancy style.
(25:42):
It's just a question of how do you dress. And
you've pointed out a really important one. Amy you've noticed
that you don't wear a lot of pattern stuff in
your clothing.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Even though I want to. But I never even if
I try to, I always go back to the other thing,
because I think it's better for me.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Okay, and then and then as a result, as you
look around your place, there aren't a lot of patterns
as well, right, they just tend to work itself out
that way.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Isn't that interesting? You're going to be talking about this
all week right our weekend.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, we're going to be taking calls tomorrow. Of course.
We're wide open to take calls on style and then
finding your style. The big show on Sunday, all.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Right, six to eight am Saturday and nine to noon
on Sunday. It's called Home with the House, whispered Dean Sharp.
Thanks Dean, thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho, Courtney Ah my team, the Niners. They're selling, yes.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Selling just a stake in the team. But this is huge.
Good morning.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
First of all, Happy Friday. So the forty nine ers
struck a deal to sell about six percent of the team.
But this is the interesting part. This would value the
franchise at a record breaking eight and a half billion
dollars more than the Eagles. Three different families are splitting
the steak. Valuations have boomed in recent years because a
lot of pro teams have maintained their television ratings better
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than a lot of other entertainment out there. But it
speaks volumes about the current state of sports investing, private equity, money,
tech wealth increasingly elbowing their way into the luxury suite,
and this is one of the reasons why we are
seeing these valuations of teams all across the board soaring.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
People have too much money. That's all I can do.
Speaker 13 (27:22):
Yeah, all right, but the forty nine ers deal, by
the way, still needs to clear the NFL owners meeting,
so it's still not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Okay. One of the most influential companies in the crypto space,
this is not good news has been hacked.
Speaker 13 (27:37):
Yes, crypto exchange Coinbase revealed that hackers bribed workers to
steal customer data that's the unbelievable part of this, and
demanded a twenty million dollar ransom. Coinbase is refusing to
pay it. But the breach may cost a company four
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
But what makes this so.
Speaker 13 (27:55):
Outstanding for a lot of people, really interesting is that
this company led the whole entire digital asset revolution and
the march into the mainstream financial system, and this revelation
of the hack actually comes days before it joins the
S and P five hundred on Monday, it's joining the
S and P five hundred.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Okay, all right, if you were on the hunt for
a job, things could be a little dicey for you.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (28:21):
So all of these ever changing tariffs is causing a
lot of companies to slow their role. The folks at
the Atlanta Fed surveyed some executives around the country and
they found that businesses planned to scale back their hiring
by about thirteen percent an investment by sixteen percent.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Tariffs overwhelmingly the top.
Speaker 13 (28:37):
Source of uncertainty when it comes to future plans. The
Atlanta Fed actually added that businesses are in wait and
see mode at the moment.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Okay, so be patient if you're out looking. Yeah, okay
about it. We were talking about this a little bit earlier,
that the couple of the two biggest cable companies want
to do a merger, and I said, well, nothing good
is going to come from that. But what what is
going to come from that?
Speaker 13 (29:02):
Well, good for them because they've been under a lot
of pressure from wireless providers such as AT and T
and T Mobile, which have their own Internet offerings, and
we all know that streaming has been to paidv but
it is official. Charter Communications has a great to merge
with Cox Communications. The deal is valued at about thirty
five billion dollars, So this is a pretty big deal. Charter,
(29:22):
by the way, that's the top cable company in the country.
It operates under the Spectrum brand.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Just in case you need to know, that's what we
have here.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
Yeah, and Cox is the largest private broadband company in
the US.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, So Courtney, I have a question for you. It's
a thirty four billion dollar deal. Who gets that money?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Investors them?
Speaker 13 (29:43):
There's a whole host lawyers just lining up failures all
the money that these people are going to get. But
the thing about the Cox family, which will be getting
a lot of the money.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
It's a privately held company.
Speaker 13 (29:56):
So the Cox family has held onto it for many,
many years, and and they've tried. There's been a lot
of speculation over time, actually over the past decade that
they wanted to sell. Even Charter talk to them about
ten years ago and it didn't quite work out. So
now they're like, all right, time to time to give
(30:16):
it up. So it's mostly going to go to the
Cox family.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
All right, and that's getting in your business for this
Friday morning with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thank you so much
Courtney before we let you go stocks today up down,
We know.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, it's looking good so far.
Speaker 13 (30:29):
It's actually looking a lot better than a lot of
New Jersey transit commuters this morning. So it's better on
Wall Street than there I especially if you're trying to
get to the office today.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Oh, it's so.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Ugly for so many folks.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Luckily we don't have a great transit system, so not
that many people rely on it here.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Ay, but it's looking good.
Speaker 13 (30:46):
It's actually one of the best weeks this year so
far for the S and P five hundred.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
So I'm leaving you on and up note.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I love that, and we will talk to you again
Monday morning. Have a great weekend you too, talk to
you later. All right. Nearly one hundred and thirty five
thousand people who live in La County you are going
to be getting their medical debt for given it's being
paid for by taxpayer and philanthropic money. Eligible residents are
going to get a letter letting them know that their
medical debt has been erased Americans credit card balances have
(31:11):
dropped in the first quarter of this year by twenty
nine billion dollars. The Federal Reserve Bank says Auto loan
debt also fell by thirteen billion dollars from the previous quarter,
but student loan balances hit a record of one point
sixty three trillion dollars. Because pandemic pauses and student loan
payments have ended, delinquencies are also spiking. Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande,
(31:32):
Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamara have each scored a leading
four nominations for the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards. The awards
will be presented June twenty first, in a traditionally green
slime filled ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Willgans. Will we
got fiftieth season wrapping up tomorrow night.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
So, while that in and of itself is sort of
a headline after this incredible season that they've had, star
studded season that they've had, the big question that everyone
is asking is which cast members are going to announce
that they are leaving? So, you know, there's plenty of
options out there. Of course, Colin Jost his wife, Scarlett Johansson,
(32:15):
is hosting the episode tomorrow night, so I think there
are a lot of people that are thinking, Okay, maybe
this is his way of leaving the show. He's going
to you know, celebrate with his wife hosting the show
one last time, and his Weekend Update co anchor Michael
Jay is also sort of leading the odds on some
of the cast members who may be announcing that they're leaving.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's my favorite segment on the whole show is Weekend
Update with I love those guys.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, and they've been there actually for a really long time,
so you know, it would make sense. I think people
some cast members may be stuck around. They said, you know,
it's the fiftieth season, we don't want to bail before this,
and now that that's over, I do think that there
might be a little bit of an exodus maybe from
the cast. You know, they have seventeen cast members. Normally
it's around I'm fifteen. So we'll have to watch tomorrow
(33:02):
night to find out who's leaving, and they.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Make an announcement during the show.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Yeah, So it sort of depends like if there are
people who have had this in the works for a
long time. Those two in particular, I would think would
have you know, worked this out with NBC a long
time ago. They do typically do some sort of send off,
you know, and being that Scar Joe is going to
be there, you know, maybe she would be involved in that.
Other minor cast members if they're maybe you know, they've
(33:29):
been there for one or two years and they're maybe
they're being let go as opposed to leaving the show
of their own volition. They might not get a big announcement,
but when it's a big name and it's somebody that
has had this in the works for a while, there
is usually some sort of nice goodbye that they have planned.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Okay, before we move on. Have you heard this that
when they do weekend Update, Colin writes for Michael and
Michael writes for Colin and they're not allowed to read
it before they go in the air.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
I mean that, yes, and they do that. They do
that the joke swap sometimes like once. I don't think
every episode that that's the case, but they do do
this recurring bit where that happens, and I do think
sometimes there are like other liners that are snuck in
some of the jokes they write themselves. But then the
other times, yes, they are writing for each other, and
(34:13):
that's when it gets insane.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You can kind of tell when they you know, when
they get cracked up. Yeah, they're like, oh crap, I
got to read this. Okay, right, right.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Let's move on.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Paul Rudd, Love Paul Rudd. He's in a new you're
calling it a cringe comedy friendship.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Yes, that's that's exactly what it is. So I have
not had to watch a movie from behind my own hands,
you know what I mean. I'm sitting in the chair
just covering my face being like, oh my god, this
is so uncomfortable. It's hilarious. But if you are easily
embarrassed by other people's embarrassments, this might not be the
movie for you. This is in theaters now, and it's
about a middle aged guy who is trying to become
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good friends with Paul Rudd's character, who's like the local
weather man, who's like a cool guy, you know, and
this man just keeps on embarrassing himsel And it's one
of these things that has you asking, like our men okay,
are grown men? Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Like water?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
They so, you know, uncomfortable and awkward, and it's a
very funny movie. But it is a cringe comedy for sure.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Okay. So it's a good, uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay, And then I everybody loves grandma's cooking. It's comfort food.
And but what happens when you put a whole kitchen
full of nanas together?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (35:28):
So this is Vince Vaughan. He plays a guy who
opens up a restaurant on Staten Island and this is
all based on a true story. I've been to this
restaurant and instead of chefs in the kitchen, it's real
life grandma's making their family recipes for people. So the
menu changes every day. And it's a very sweet story.
This guy loses his mother and decides he's going to
honor her by opening up this restaurant on Staten Island
(35:48):
that employs real life grandma's and Susan Sarandon is in it.
And you know, it's funny because a lot of the
humor comes from these grandmas who are like beefing with
each other because one's from Sicily and from Bologna, and
they disagree about how to make certain pastas and things
like that. So it's very sweet, very funny, feel good
movie that's streaming on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I was going to ask you where can we find
that Netflix so I can watch that one this weekend
because I'm sick and I'm going to be on the couch.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
There you go, all right. It will make you. It
will make you hungry, though, so have some pasta ready
to go for yourself.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I've got some spaghetti in the cupboard. I'm ready to go.
All right. ABC's will gans. Thanks for all the recommendations.
Can't wait to watch them. Have a great weekend, Oki Doki,
you do take care. All right, Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four our newsroom. A parole hearing date has been set
for the Menandez brothers.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
June thirteenth was originally scheduled for the convicted killers to
go before the parole board as part of their attempt
to get clemency from the governor. Now that they've been
re sentenced to fifty years to life and are now
immediately eligible for parole, that day will be used for
the traditional parole hearing instead. They murdered their parents in
Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine, and were sentenced to
life without parole, but that change Tuesday at the re
(37:01):
sentencing in van NY's. If the parole board says Eric
and lauman Indez can go free, Governor Newso would have
ninety days to go along with it or deny it.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
A federal judge in la has thrown out a lawsuit
by former county sheriff Alex Vinaeva. He sued for being
placed on a do not rehire list. The judge yesterday
found the former sheriff could show no evidence that his
political or employment ambitions suffered as a result of his
placement on the list, or that a potential job with
the county hung in the balance. The judge wrote, it
is hard to imagine how being placed on a do
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not rehire list could serve as an injury if the
plaintiff does not desire to be rehired. Two men have
been arrested for trying to smuggle parrots, parakeets, and even
chickens into the US. Border Patrol agents found a man
from Mexico last month with parrots stuffed in his boots
and hidden under a seat in a separate stop. On
May fourth, agents noticed that a blanket was moving and
(37:54):
found sixteen parakeets and three chickens. The men were arrested
for smuggling. The birds being cared for and checked to
make sure that they're not carrying any diseases. We'll quit laughing.
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