Wake Up Call

Karen Travers at the White House
Jim Ryan Worker Engagement is Waning
Will Ganss "Comnclave" 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
This is your wake up call for Friday, April twenty fifth.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Ready to get your day started, Got my coffee, got
my oatmeal? Ready to go. Here's a Friday fun Fact.

(00:26):
I think I'm gonna start sharing these every once in
a while. Friday Fun Fact. Selfies now cause more deaths
than shark attacks. Twenty eight selfie related deaths happen each year,
the leading cause being heights you've heard of. The people
are like, they want to get that great view of
the ocean behind them standing on a cliff and off

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they go. Yeah, careful people. Also, I feel a Dodger
dog coming on. The Dodgers back in town to take
on the Pirates tonight at Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
We're going.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So iwhere my Dodger blue But it's sort of a hybrid,
so it's a Dodger blue jersey, but it's got Disneyland
on the back. So we might go to Disneyland this
weekend too. My friend Heidi's in town, so also happy
Birthday to my birth Happy birthday to my little baby
brother Rob. I think his wife Casey is listening, so
happy birthday. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. The

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La City Council Budget and Finance Committee is going to
hold the first of a series of meetings today to
talk about and make revisions to La Maerbes has proposed
thirteen point nine billion dollar spending plan for the twenty
twenty five twenty six fiscal year. The meeting will be
the first of two opportunities for the public to have
their say about the budget, with a second coming on Monday.

(01:44):
A man in Long Beach accused of picking his puppy
up by the neck with her leash and then slamming
her onto the pavement, has been charged with felony animal cruelty.
Police say after slamming her onto the ground, the twenty
eight year old was seen on video kicking her and
dragging her. You could get four years in prison if convicted.

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Taking off my news hat, I think he should get fifty.
This is ridiculous and disgusting. More than one hundred and
twenty eight thousand of the faithful have filed past the
open coffin of Pope Francis to pay their last respects
at Saint Peter's Basilica. Francis will lie in state through today.
The Pope's funeral is set for Saturday at one am
our time. After the funeral is conclave, and conclave is

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all the rage. ABC's Will Gans joins us to talk
about that. We'll also be talking murder and anti government groups,
new stuff on the stream. We're going to work, but
apparently we don't really care. ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna explain that.
Coming up at five twenty and just moments away is
the Trump administration talking to China about tariffs and how

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ad talks going between Ukraine and Russia. ABC's Karen Travers
at the White House joins us.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
In just a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news. Sure, dozens of
teenagers on bicycles been caught on cell phone VIDI video
looting a roufs in South LA. They also released pepper
spray in the store Saturday before insulting a gay couple
and throwing rocks at their car. One of the men
tells KTLA he and his husband were terrified and felt

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trapped in their vehicle as things escalated.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I understand that these are children, but they're doing really
scary things and we can't just decide that it's not happening.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Pully say it is possible the teens could be linked
to other similar crimes. The homeless man accused of chopping
down a bunch of trees around LA's been charged with
eight counts of felony vandalism. Gay Ifi's Mark Mayfield says
the guy's accused of causing almost three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in damage.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Most of the destroyed trees were in the downtown area.
The estimated cost is for damage repairs and replacements.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Samuel Groft allegedly used a chainsaw to chop down the
trees earlier this month.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
He pleaded not guilty.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yesterday, LA's mayors kicked off the next phase of renovations
at LAX. Mayor Math says five billion dollars worth of
new contracts in this phase are all about small and
minority owned businesses. Thirty one new contracts have been awarded
as part of an overall thirty billion dollar upgrade scheduled
to be finished before the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympic Games.

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Bass also says the automated people mover project that began
construction in twenty nineteen should be in operation by the
first quarter of twenty twenty six. President Trump's Armenian Remembrance
Day statement has drawn criticism from Armenian.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
The Armenian National Committee, which has an office in Glendale,
says the President has retreated from calling it a genocide.
Senator Adam Schiff tells KFI he agrees.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
I carried legislation to recognize the genocide. We finally got
that legislation passed. President Biden formally recognized the genocide, the
first president to do so as president.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
More than six hundred thousand Armenians have been estimated to
have been killed by the Ottoman Empire during World War One.
Critics say Trump won't use the word genocide because of
pressure from Turkey. Michael Monks KFI news.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Memorial mass for Pope Francis is being held at the
Canee of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown La.
It set to start just afternoon today. LA Archbishop Jose
Gomez says the service will be as he put it
in thanksgiving for the life and Ministry of Pope Francis.
The mass is being held a day before the Pope's
funeral in Rome. Pope Francis died early Monday. He was

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eighty eight. It's five seven on your Friday morning wake
up call. Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers
at the White House. Karen, President Trump says he's got
a deadline to get a peace deal done between Ukraine
and Russia.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
But did he say when it is?

Speaker 6 (05:33):
No, He just said fast. He did not say the deadline.
I mean remember this as a president who when he
was a candidate said that he could end the war
between Russia and Ukraine on day one. Next week, of course,
is one hundred days for this administration. And these attacks
by Russia, especially this week on Ukraine, have been unrelenting.
There was the attack on Kiev earlier this week, two

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days ago, was one of the deadliest attacks on the
capitol in months. It even prompted President on social media
yesterday to say, Vladimir stop. He was asked about that
in the Oval Office yesterday about his level of frustration
at this point with Putin, and the President said, I
didn't like last night. I wasn't happy with it. We're
in the midst of talking peace and missiles were fired, okay.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
And then to reach some sort of a deal, there's
going to be some give. Do we have any idea
or inkling of what the give is and who's going
to have to give more?

Speaker 6 (06:32):
I mean, Ukraine has said we will negotiate, we will
not surrender. And the proposal put on the table about
the Trump administration has them giving up land that Russia
has seized since the invasion, but also giving up Crimea.
They have rejected this current proposal. It's notable because during
Trump's first term, his administration had said that Crimea would

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remain part of Ukraine. Senator or excuse me, Secretary of
State Mark or Rubio back when he was a senator,
I had talked about the Dame injurer of letting Russia
keep Crimea. So it's a notable shift as the administration
now is really pushing hard to get this to a
peace agreement.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
And then before we let you go there, there was
also some talk about China because Trump is saying, hey,
things are going good, We're progressing in China's gone.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, we're not even talking.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, for the second day in a row. China publicly,
on the record, has said there are no negotiations right
now on tariffs, and the statement today was that the
United States should not confuse the public. Yesterday they said
it was fake news when the President said that there
were active negotiations and conversations happening. The President was asked

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about this yesterday. He claimed that there was a meeting
between the US and China yesterday, but he did not
give details. We asked the White House repeatedly about this yesterday.
They also did not give details.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
So it sounds like he's saying that there's some secret
kind of back room talks going on that China's not
acknowledging publicly, and whether that's happening or not, we don't know.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
And China is on the record with government spokesman saying
this is just not true. We are not talking right now.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right, ABC's Karen Travers at the White House. Thank
you so much, have a great weekend.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Thank you great.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. A
federal judge says President Trump's executive order on sanctuary cities
appears to be unconstitutional.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
District Judge William Oric blocked the White House from enforcing
the crackdown on sixteen cities and counties that brought a lawsuit.
The order directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security
Secretary Christine Nome to deny sanctuary cities access to federal funds.
The Obama appointed judge said the order similar to one
issued in Trump's first term, which was also invalidated by Oric.
The ruling bars the administration from enforcing the order against

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various regions in California, King County, Washington, Minneapolis, New Haven, Portland,
Saint Paul, Santa Fe and Seattle. Mark ronnor KFI News.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
And that wasn't the only setback the administration got yesterday
from the courts. A federal judge in New York blocked
the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how
federal elections are run, including adding a proof of citizenship requirement.
The judge yesterday said the Constitution gives the power to
regulate federal elections to states and to Congress, not the president.

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Trump says a proof of citizens citizenship requirement is needed
to restore public confidence in elections. The judge did allow
parts of Trump's election order to stand, including a directive
to Titan mail in ballot deadlines. A judge's ruled prosecutors
can pursue the death penalty against Brian Coburger if he's
convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students that happened

(09:31):
in twenty twenty two. This comes despite Coburger's recent diagnosis
of autism. His attorneys had asked the judge to remove
the death penalty as a possible punishment, saying the autism
reduces Coburger's culpability and exposes him to unacceptable risk that
he'll be wrongfully convicted.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Trial is set to begin in August. Investigators in Florida
saying an ongoing family fight led to a fatal shooting
at a car dealership in Miami Dade.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
During that conference, the subject shot both the victims.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Sheriff Rosy Cordero Stutz says deputies heard gunshots when they
got to the scene yesterday. She says a man killed
was shot by his half brother. The shooter is said
to be in critical condition. The sheriff stress that it
was not a random act of violence. The man accused
of killing United healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York
is doing federal court to answer to murder charges. Luigi

(10:27):
Mangioni was indicted last week by a federal grand jury.
Attorney General Piam Bondi says she plans to pursue the
death penalty. A senior Russian military officer has been killed
by a car bomb. Russia's top criminal investigation agency says
the explosive device was placed in his car in an
area just outside Moscow. The investigative committee did not say

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who is believed to be responsible. Filmmaker Ryan Kugler has
Hollywood executives a little nervous because of his latest hit movie.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
The horror movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan, debuted number
one of the box office last weekend. But it's the
deal Coogler cut with Warner Brothers that some say could
be the beginning of the end of the studio system.
The studio gave Coogler, who wrote and directed Sinner and
was also behind Black Panther in Creed, ownership of Sinners
after twenty five years, meeting no residual money for the
studios at that point. Coogler, who's only made five films,

(11:17):
but is already one of the fifty highest grossing directors
of all time. Says the deal to own Sinners was
for personal reasons and he won't look for ownership of
future stuff. Michael Krozer kf I News.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
A woman in Florida has been accused of pretending to
be an immigration agent so she could kidnap her ex
boyfriend's wife from her job. The Bay County Sheriff's Office
says the woman was wearing a black T shirt with
ice printed on the front when she went to the
wife's work place a couple of weeks ago. She had
a handheld radio, flashed a sheriff's office business card, and

(11:48):
told the woman she had to leave with her. The
woman did, but was eventually able to get away and
called police. When we come back, we're going to work.
But you know what, we don't really care. ABC's Jim
Ryan's going to explain that's coming up in just a
couple of minutes.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
AM six forty Kono.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Is off today. He's sick. Debor Mark was sick. Neil
is sick. I'm getting a little worried because I'm going
on vacation in a week, and I better not get sick.
You know how when it was like COVID and then
like somebody would get it, and then everybody would feel
really bad because they're like, oh my god, I gave
you to COVID. I'm going to make you feel really
bad if you get me sick before I go on vacation.

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It's five point twenty on your Friday morning wake up call.
Thanks for getting your day started with us. We're almost
home for the weekend. Here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Blue Shield of California has
suffered a massive data breach. The healthcare provider is just
now notifying nearly five million members that their private information
may have been shared through a tracking tool between April

(12:55):
of twenty twenty one and January of twenty twenty four.
Blue Shield says it has fixed the issue and no
data has been shared since January of twenty twenty four. Okay,
so it's the end of April twenty twenty five and
we didn't.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Know about this for over a year.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Really, the man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian
Thompson on a New York City street is said to
be arraigned on federal charges this afternoon. Attorney General Pam
Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for
Luigi Mangioni. Heads of state and royalty will start converging
on Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis in the

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Vatican's Saint Peter's Square. It'll be held tomorrow starting at
one am hour time. President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelenski
are among those attending tens of thousands of the faithful
of filed past the Pope, whose body lies in state
through today at Saint Peter's Basilica at six o five
tandle on the news, Presidents must like one word warnings.
First it was Biden saying don't Now it's Trump saying stop.

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Let's not stop the conversation. Let's keep it going and
say good morning too. ABC's Jim Ryan.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
So, Jim, we're all here, we're at work. But you
know what, we don't care.

Speaker 10 (14:06):
That's by and large it. Yeah, that's what Gallup has found.

Speaker 11 (14:09):
What is that?

Speaker 10 (14:11):
Yeah, they're not feeling engaged, and you try to put
something like emotions into something objective like numbers and then
plot that on a map. And that's what Gallup has
tried to do, asking folks around the world, not just
in the US, but around the world, how they feel
about their jobs. Do they feel that what they're doing
is important, that it matters, that they're making a difference,

(14:32):
or do they feel kind of out of it and
you know, checked out, wanted to go home and then
you know, drink their sorrows away. Who knows. But yeah, So,
for only the second time since two thousand and nine,
that's when Gallup started putting this global employee Engagement chart together.
Since only for only the second time, the number has
gone down, So workers are feeling less engaged than they

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did just a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
So, Jim, when you say they feel less engaged, does
that make I mean, is it what I just said?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
It's like people are there, but they don't care.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
They're just sort of like going through the motions but
not really emotionally invested in it or anything exactly.

Speaker 10 (15:11):
And those folks are disengaged. The ones who are actively
disengaged are the ones who vocally can't stand their jobs
or they're looking to get out, they're trying to find
something else, And I mean those are the folks who
are hardcore just upset with their work environmental together. The
others are just sort of blah. They go, they check in,

(15:31):
they do their thing, and they go home. And there
is a price to pay for that.

Speaker 12 (15:35):
You know.

Speaker 10 (15:35):
Some companies might say, fine, I don't know, it really
doesn't matter how you feel, long as you do your
job and get it done and go home. But disengagement,
I mean the sense of not being involved or having
some importance. It's costing the world economy four hundred and
thirty eight billion dollars in lost productivity worldwide according to Gallop.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Wow, you know I was going to ask you, does
it translate to work productivity directly?

Speaker 10 (16:06):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
And they can see.

Speaker 10 (16:07):
That absolutely, and it's I'm sure. There are all sorts
of formulas that Gallup uses to quantify this. Take something
touchy feelia like I don't feel great about my job
into how much is it costing the company? But the
suffice to say that employers are managers or a company heads.
The CEOs who are interested in the productivity of the

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company should also be interested in the engagement of their workers.
And a lot of it comes down to managers According
to Gallup, people don't feel you know, the managers are
caught in the middle, and they have been for at
least the last few years. They're supervisors are kind of disengaged,
their workers are disengaged, and the managers are right there

(16:50):
in the middle.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, and you know how they say, it kind of
trickles down too. I mean, if you have a great
manager and they're able to fire you up and get
you go in, I think that that has, you know,
goes a long way one.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
Hundred percent, and training managers in that direction, getting them
to to not just know how to do the job
that their workers are doing, but also how to manage
those people. That's the thing that, according to Gallup, is
going to help to turn these numbers around in the future.
And as sorrow, you know, as bad as things are
in this country with only thirty two percent of the

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population really engage in their jobs, it's worse in other
parts of the world, much worse in other probably. I mean,
look at France. You know we talk about how you know,
French people get all sorts of time off. Well, eight
percent of those folks are engaged.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Eight percent, yeah.

Speaker 10 (17:41):
Eight percent, compared to our thirty two percent. So, while
one in three of us are feeling engaged and good
about our work, under one in ten in France feel
good about their work.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Okay, and our employers doing anything to try to get
workers to re engage or do they just kind of
not care?

Speaker 10 (17:56):
No, Some are, especially in the United States and in
Europe come andanies are taking on this challenge and they're
trying to put best practices into place to ensure that
managers are well trained there, that they have the tools
and the assets they need to to help their work
without And it doesn't have to cost a lot of money.
It's as simple as training your managers to help recognize

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performance of their workers. You know, managers who who make
their employees feel good about their jobs will themselves feel
good about their jobs.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
All right, Well, I'm going to continue to care. I'm
the one, I'm the thirty two percent.

Speaker 10 (18:32):
I used there was a photographer worked for a channel
for a TV station here in Dallas for worth and
you had a sticker on the side of his camera
back in the day, and it said give them quality
whether they want it or not.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Right exactly, Well, it's always quality time that you and
I get to spend together.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the info.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
You have a nice weekend.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Thanks you too.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Despite us dry start to the winter, California has caught
up and now has above average snowfall for the third
year in a row. That's for the first time in
twenty five years. Officials are calling it a snowpacked trifecta.
Southern California still short on rainfall, and work is being
done to secure water from northern California and from the
Colorado River. Governor Newsham, along with cal Fire, have announced

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plans to beef up the state's airborne fire fighting.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Fleet ahead of peak fire seasons.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
Not another state in the country that is resourced as
the state of California.

Speaker 12 (19:26):
As it relates to its aerial fighting fleet.

Speaker 10 (19:29):
It's fact the largest in the world, the largest civilian
aerial fighting fleet.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
The state now has seven sy whin thirty water dropping planes.
They're not all in service. Two are in service, a
third is being retrofitted and will be ready to fly
by late summer. The rest of the fleet's going to
be retrofitted and is expected to be ready by the
end of twenty twenty six. CalFire says it has also
doubled its use of drones and is using AI tools
to help detect fires faster.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Three people suspected.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Of posing as food food delivery workers have been arrested
in Alhambra for allegedly trying to burglarize burglarize a home.
You did what, police A One woman pretended to be
a driver to see if anyone was home and then
signaled her partners to break in. Officers arrived mid burglary

(20:23):
and with the help of K nine Doggo, caught all three.
The son of former NBA player Gilbert Arenas, has been
seriously hurt in a car crash in LA.

Speaker 12 (20:35):
That's what higher quid fire, That's.

Speaker 9 (20:39):
Your life for.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Eighteen year old Elijah Arenas is in a medically induced colma.
The crash happened early yesterday in the San Fernando Valley.
Arenas is a five star basketball prospect and committed to
play at USC La Metro. CEO has received a big
raise and a contract extension.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Stephanie Wiggins will see a pay bump on June first
of one hundred thousand dollars and four more years as
CEO of the transit agency shall make five hundred ten
thousand dollars each year. Metro chair and LA County Supervisor
Jennis Han says it's deserved.

Speaker 13 (21:09):
For the excellent job she's done leading this agency during
very chout look.

Speaker 12 (21:13):
At that.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Metro is in the midst of a large expansion of
its rail service, the creation of its own internal police department,
and preparation for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. Michael Monks
KFI News.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Former New York Congressman George Santos says he expects to
get the maximum today when he sentenced for wire fraud
and identity theft. Kfi's Mark Mayfield says Santos pleaded guilty
to crimes.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
And admitted that he sole from campaign donors and lined
about it to Congress. On Thursday, Santos told reporters that
he expects the maximum eighty seven month prison sentence to
be handed down, adding he's totally resigned to being in
prison for over seven years.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Defense lawyers say they are hoping for a lighter two
year sentence. A renowned stunt pilot has been killed in
a plane crash in Virginia. Officials say Rob Holland died
during a landing at Langley Air Force Base near Hampton yesterday.
A post on his Facebook page describes Holland as one
of the most respected and inspiring aerobatic pilots in aviation history.

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San Francisco's Union Squares losing another high end shop, Sacks
fifth Avenue, has announced its plans to close the location
for good on May tenth.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
This woman who lives in the area says that's not good.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
Sacks fifth Avenue has been a staple Genions Square for
many years now, and it's kind of sad as local
to see it go.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Sacks laid off dozens of employees at the store less
than a year ago and went to appointment only operations.
It becomes the latest major retailer to close its Union
Square location in the last few years, joining Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom. Tonight,
the Dodgers are back in LA. They're going to be
at Chavez Ravine.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
I'm going to be there.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
They're taking on the Pirates with the first pitch going
out at seven o'clock. You can listen to all Dodger
games all season long on AM five seven LA Sports,
and stream all the Dodgers games in HD on the
iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five to seventy. La Sports
Zenschi handcrafted sushi made fresh daily and it's delicious. It's
at raups near the deli counter when we come back.

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Are you fun and engaging and filled with fun facts
about your favorite theme park and also obsessed with Hollywood,
Well we may have found the perfect job for you.
That's coming up next. Southland Weather from KFI morning, low
clouds and drizzle, then some sun breaking through for the afternoon,
hies in the load to mid sixties. Clouds tonight, chance

(23:34):
of ring tomorrow morning and then rain is likely for
the afternoon. Could be heavy at times, not going to
be long lived though. Highs will be in the upper
fifties to mid sixties. And then for Sunday, partly cloudy
with highs in the loadamid's sixties. Not quite spring like,
is it.

Speaker 9 (23:49):
You're listening to a wake up call on demand from
KFI Am six forty.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The man charged with felony vandals and for cutting down
trees around downtown La with a chainsaw. It's going to
cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars. The La
County DA's office said it'll cost the city three hundred
and forty seven thousand dollars to replace the at least
eight trees Samuel Groft cut down between April fourteenth and nineteenth.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
It was all caught on.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Video Catholics around La Not all of it was caught
on videos. Some of it was caught on video. Catholics
around La will gather to honor the late Pope Francis
at a memorial mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady
of the Angels. Archbishop Jose Gomez will lead the mass
around noontime today to bid a final farewell to the
Pope from Los Angeles. Fewer than eighteen percent of Californians

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earned enough last year to buy a median priced home
in the state. The Census Bureau shows the twenty twenty
three home ownership rate for Californians was just under fifty
six percent. The median price for a home in the
state eight hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. In La County,
it's nine hundred nineteen thousand. It's one point two million.

(25:05):
That's the median price in Orange County at six oh five.
It's handle on the news just about a half hour
away now. Trump says his people are talking with China.
China says that's fake news. We'll see what Bill has
to say about that.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
So if you're looking for a job, you know how
Jim Ryan and I were just talking about how people
are like kind of phoning it in.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
They're going to the jobs, but they just don't care.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
But if you're like passionate about Hollywood and you like people,
we might have found the perfect job for you. And
that's at Universal Studios. They're looking for tour guides. And
I will tell you when I first moved to to La,
like everybody I met had been a Universal Studios tour guide.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
At some point they're.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Like, oh yeah, I used to do that and then
and they had these lifelong friendships from people that they
met doing it and stuff, And I was like, that
sounds like really fun. People have lots of like industrial
knowledge and like to share fun facts in trivia. When
we went on our Warner Brothers Studio tour, Producer ran
and I went, I don't know about a month or
two ago, and it was the same thing, like the

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guy who was taking us around just had all these
facts about all these movies and TV shows and how
things are made and who did what and where they
were And as a kind of a fan of Hollywood
and movies and TV, I thought it was just fascinating.
So if that's you, this might be your chance. They're
doing open auditions. They're already underway, but they're going all

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the way through May fourteenth. Open call auditions for new
guides for the Studio Tour. Stay from a statement from
Universal says Studio Tour guides roles are desirable positions. They
require many adaptable skills and are teaming with a host
of opportunities. This is how you apply. You put together
a self taped audition, introduce yourself if you have any

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relevant experience, whether you know public speaking, customer engagement. Basically,
if you're a ham, it's a good thing. Also read
a passage from the official tour script so they can
hear what you sound like. When you're doing your Universal
Studios pitch, you can get the details at USh jobs,
Universal Studios Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's what the USh is. USh jobs dot Com.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
A casting team will then review the online submissions and
then reach out to you if you make it to
the next step in the hiring process. I think it
would be fun. I know a couple people who I
think should be tour guides.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
It'd be nice. It'd be a fun job, though, and
you get to ride around on the trams all day.
Gotta love that. Do we have Courtney with us? We do?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Then let's get into our business. Let's get in your
business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, Morning, Courtney.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Happy Friday. We made it. We did always a while
week here in the markets. Well we almost made it.
Not quite yet, all right.

Speaker 14 (27:55):
Oh, I'm stay positive. I'm staying positive. Okay, Well, then
you're the markets.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Aren't talk about the markets first, because we had another
pretty strong day yesterday, three days of games on Wall Street.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
But today's not looking so good.

Speaker 14 (28:09):
Yeah, it looks like we're on shaky ground this morning.
And one of the reasons is Intel. So Intel says
it's bureaucratic culture needs a shakeup, so job cuts are
on the way, layers of management will be removed, and
they're forcing everyone back to the office. Intel's also warning
that a terra fuel recession could torpedo Chip demand. So
this grim outlook is sending shares sliding this Friday, and

(28:31):
that's put this three day rebound for stocks out of
the picture today, but we have seen over the past
three days some optimism on Wall Street. It was driven
by the prospect of trade deals we've been hearing headlines
about that. Also hopes that the Federal Reserve will cut
interest rates to prevent a recession. But Intel seems to
be overshadowing.

Speaker 10 (28:50):
All of that.

Speaker 14 (28:51):
Today dal features are down one hundred and thirty points.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
But yesterday he said it was a good day.

Speaker 14 (28:56):
The Dow rose four hundred and eighty seven points, with
the markets expecting a quarter point interest rate cut from
the Federal Reserve in June to try to prevent this recession.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Okay, so then here's my question for you, Courtney, because
yesterday when we talked, the futures were pretty they were
down a couple hundred points, but then we ended up
having a really good day.

Speaker 10 (29:11):
What happened?

Speaker 14 (29:12):
Yeah, So what was happening is traders were actually saying, well,
all of this bad news that we're getting is kind
of good news because that means the Federal Reserve will
have to step in at some point to try to
stop what's going on right now. So anytime we see
bad news, bad headlines, bad economic data, sometimes that moves

(29:34):
the market in the opposite direction of what you think,
because that's the point where the Federal Reserve is going
to say, well, maybe we should take a look at
this a little bit further and see what we can
do to try to prevent any more of an economic
downturn from happening.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Okay, we'll be watching. Okay, so let's get in McDonald's business.
They're adding something to the menu for the first time
in four years.

Speaker 14 (29:58):
So McDonald says they've been listening to us and diners
have been asking for more chickens, so they're rolling out
this chicken mccrispy strips next month. So this is the
first new permanent menu item in four years.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
But this is important.

Speaker 14 (30:13):
This can mean that the snack wrap, which is a
huge fan favorite. I love this jack, well, that may
be it could be coming back soon. And we know
it was discontinued close to a decade ago. But McDonald's
dropped a clue at the end of the press release
for the strips, saying, quote and that's a wrap at
least for now. So everybody's going, yeah, this might happen,

(30:34):
but we're going to find the mccrispy strips and all
of the restaurants coming up on May fifth. And I
also want to quickly mention because this is a California
fast food story and this has.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Crossed this week.

Speaker 14 (30:45):
Jack in the Box is possibly looking to sell Del Taco,
so it acquired the chain in twenty twenty two, and
sources are telling us Del Taco could be valued at
as much as two hundred million dollars in a sale.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
I love a good Del Taco, Okay. So then we
go from chicken. Which came first? Chicken or the egg?
Who knows, but let's talk about egg prices, and it's
what people are doing.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, this is funny.

Speaker 14 (31:09):
The surgeon egg prices is pushing so many folks to
try their hands at raising a chicken flock of their own.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
I don't know if I could do that.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I has one, she's got a bunch of them, and
they crank out the eggs.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Wow, that's awesome.

Speaker 14 (31:22):
But we were talking to animal feed and farm equipment
retailer Tractor Supply. They're very big in the rural communities
and they said that they expect to sell a record
amount of chicks this year, So around a million households
own backyard chickens. That's up twenty eight percent from just
two years ago. But Tractor Supply says one chicken can

(31:42):
eat over seventy five pounds of feet a year.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
So this is a big warning.

Speaker 14 (31:45):
If you're going out there and you're gonna buy one.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
You're cost of buying the feed, your cost benefit analysis,
You need to check that out.

Speaker 14 (31:55):
Yeah, but Tractor Supply says that's good because it keeps
bringing customers right back in to the store.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Absolutely. Okay, So why are parents mad at Costco?

Speaker 14 (32:04):
Well, they switched the company that manufactures their Kirkland signature diapers.
So parents say the new diapers are paper thin and
that's leading to leaks. So Costco's out there they say,
we don't plan to change suppliers. But they did suggest
as a solution that parents let the diapers sit out
overnight so they can expand.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
But I'm not sure how much that's gonna work as
a parent of two kids.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
And that's not only parents, it's new parents who are
dealing with diapers and they're already stressed out because they
have a little one not sleeping through the night exactly.

Speaker 14 (32:37):
Bringing back the pins and the old way of doing things.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Hey, when I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
I got to fold diapers every day because my baby
brother I was like seven and we had cloth diapersow.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's hard. It's really hard. All right, Thanks
for getting in your business. It's Bloomberg's Courtney.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Donaho.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday. You too,
enjoy yourself.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Thirty
one year old former Orange County residents been sends to
seven years in prison for taking a half million dollars
in illegal kick packs from sober living homes in exchange
for finding new patients. It's known as body brokering. Darius
Moore received payoffs after the facilities build patients private health

(33:23):
insurance plans. A grieving family wants a new pedestrian safety
upgrades in Torrance.

Speaker 13 (33:28):
You took him from a family. You know we're hurting
the family of thirty eight year old Carls Gonzalez wants
change after he was killed in a hit and run
accident over Easter weekend. Gonzalez was hit by multiple cars
while crossing Pacific Coast Highway near Ocean Avenue, an area
with no crosswalk.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
One driver stayed, the other fled and.

Speaker 13 (33:45):
Has yet to be found.

Speaker 11 (33:46):
You got to come forward.

Speaker 13 (33:47):
Loved ones gathered for a vigil this week, remembering Gonzalez
as a kind, hardworking man with dreams of starting a family.
His girlfriend says, you just got a new job certification
before his death. Fully say, video footage is too blurry
to offer any solid leads. Heatherbrooker, KFI News.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
When we come back, conclave is all the ray. ABC's
Willgans is going to join us to talk about that,
and we'll also be talking about murder and anti government
groups on the stream.

Speaker 9 (34:12):
You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (34:16):
Forty and we're almost out of here. Wake Up Call
almost history for the week. That means that we're just
minutes away from Handle on the news this morning. A
Handle's going to talk about beefing up our firefighting forces
in California ahead of the peak fire season. Here's what
we're following in the KFI twenty four hour news room.
A federal judge has blocked the White House from cutting
off federal funding for sixteen sanctuary cities and counties. District

(34:39):
Judge William Oric in San Francisco says Trump's executive order
appears to be unconstitutional. More than fourteen thousand cases of
theft have been referred for prosecution in the first year
of Governor Newsom's initiative to crack down on theft in California.
The program costs two hundred and sixty seven million dollars.
Nearly eleven thousand of the cases were for organized to

(35:00):
retail theft, just over three thousand and four vehicle theft.
John Cheu, the filmmaker behind the screen adaptation of Wicked,
Love That Movie and Crazy Rich Americans Love That Movie Too,
will receive an honorary degree at USC's commencement ceremony at
the LA Memorial Coliseum. Chew will also deliver the keynote
address at the ceremony on May fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Let's say good morning too. Our multi platform reporter from
ABC willgans morning Will.

Speaker 12 (35:31):
Good morning to you. Amy.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Okay, So we actually had this tuned on last night
because Conclave is all the rage.

Speaker 12 (35:40):
It is all the rage, and it's available to stream
for free for the first time since it hit theaters.
It's streaming for free on Amazon Prime Video. And just
like you, I think a lot of people are tuning
into Conclave. It's been streams like upwards of twenty million
minutes this week, which is, you know, a ton of viewership,

(36:01):
but for a good reason. I mean, obviously it's a
good movie. It was nominated for Best Picture this year
at the Academy Awards, Ray Fines was nominated for Best Actor,
and it won for Best Adapted Screenplay, So it's won
a very good movie. And two, you know, a lot
of experts, you know, people who have spent time in
the Vatican and work for the church, have said, yeah,
this is actually kind of what it's like whenever the

(36:24):
College of Cardinals convenes to try and find and elect
a new pope. You know, it's it's political to some extent.
It's you know, the cardinals from each of these different
places in the world, the continents and stuff, sort of
backing people that suit their own interests. And yeah, it's
I mean, it's a good movie. And you know there's
a couple of twists along the way that you're like, oh, wow,

(36:44):
didn't see that coming, which of course that's probably where
the fictionalized aspect comes in. But you know, given the
death of the pope and the fact that these cardinals
are all convening right now. Yeah, seems like a good
time to check out conflict.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Well, think there's a.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Lot of palace intrigue because it is fascinating the whole
process and how they go behind closed doors and they
have to it's all very secretive, and then when they
don't come to an agreement, they put out black smoke
and then you know, in the white smoke thing. I mean,
it is all pretty interesting, especially if you're well, I
mean for Catholics because they have a vested interest, but
also for non Catholics because it's like this whole world

(37:21):
that we don't really know.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
So it's kind of a cool insight.

Speaker 12 (37:25):
Exactly exactly, and it is, you know, for something that
is happening in twenty twenty five, like the fact that
it's no cell phones, cut off from the rest of
the world, no watching TV. It does feel very like
other time, other place, you know, fly on the wall.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, although I thought it was funny because we again
I told you we were watching it last night that
now it's it all it feels like going back in
time because it's in this in the Vatican in Rome
and it's all very historic and then they're going through
metal detectors.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Thought that was kind of funny.

Speaker 12 (37:56):
Yeah, yeah, uh huh yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
And I love Stanley Tucci is in it. John Lisko
of course finds is in it. It's just it's an
amazing cast. And is it Isabella.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Rosselini No, yeah, yeah, I mean it's.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Just it's a great cast. So if you haven't seen it,
I highly recommend that one. Okay, let's move over to
Netflix and talk about You.

Speaker 12 (38:19):
Yeah. So this is the final season of the series You,
that was of course inspired by that best selling novel
by Caroline Ketnis and it's it's told from the perspective
of a guy who is a stalker, and he's the
main character. And in the series, he's played by Penn Badgeley,
who some people may remember from Gossip Girl. Uh and

(38:39):
you know, he's a creep for lack of a better word,
but our he's our creep. And like it's one of
those ones where you know, like people are watching the
show and they're like, am I allowed to be having
a crush on this guy? I mean, he's horrible. But anyway,
so this is the fifth and final season. All the
episodes just dropped on Netflix yesterday, So if you're looking
for something to binge this weekend. You know, it's twisted.

(39:02):
He's creepy, he's a killer, and he's caught up sort
of in this world of like elites. You know. He
has a very like rich and powerful wife who is
sort of you know, provided him some sort of protection,
you know, with all of the resources she has. And
so we get to finally wrap up his story. Joe

(39:22):
Goldberg is his name in the show. And yeah, it's
it has its devoted following for sure.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Okay, you know, I've never even heard of it, so
I might have to add that to my list. Okay,
And then Jude Law is back in the order and
this is a movie.

Speaker 12 (39:40):
Yeah, so this I actually like. It was such a
fun surprise to find. It was a limited theatrical release
in December, but now it's finally on Hulu streaming for
the first time for free since it was in theaters.
And it's a true story and Jude Law plays an
FBI agent in the nineteen eighties who is trying to
bring down a group of like white supremacist terrorists, essentially

(40:04):
domestic terrorists who they start off, you know, just by
robbing banks and armored cars. And you can tell that
they're working towards something bigger, and he is Jude Law's
character is on their tail the whole time and trying
to make sure that, you know, they don't pull off
what they're trying to do. And it's fascinating. Like I
didn't really know this story, and you know, watching the movie,
it was you know, pretty gripping from start to finish.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
And based on a true story.

Speaker 12 (40:28):
Yeah, oh, I liked.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
I love stuff that's based on a true story, even
though you know, I mean, they take some creative license
with it, but it's fun to like go, wow, that
kind of.

Speaker 12 (40:35):
Really happened exactly exactly and just like a peak behind
the curtain of some of the you know, really really
nastier parts of American history. So yeah, it's it's a
good movie. All right.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
ABC's Willgans, thanks for the info.

Speaker 12 (40:48):
All right, thanks, Amy, has a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
You too.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California's economy maybe
the fourth largest in the world, but some people aren't
feeling it.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
The latest GDP report shows Kellia moving ahead of Japan.
Senator Adam Schiff tells KFI one of the reasons residents
may not feel that growth is because of a need
for better housing policy.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
You can have the best programs in the world and
can spend a fortune on them to move people off
the street and into housing, but if you're not building
new housing and bringing down the cost of housing, there's
simply going to be new people taking their place on
the street.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
California's economy is only smaller than the entire United States, China,
and Germany. Michael monks KFI News.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
A documentary on the Eton and Palisades fires is now
available on YouTube.

Speaker 11 (41:33):
Resilience then Told Stories of La County first Responders was
made by unions representing Los Angeles County Fire Department, firefighters,
La County Sheriff's Department deputies, and County lifeguards. The nearly
thirty five minute documentary, release Thursday, combines footage from body
worn cameras, social media videos, news coverage, and interviews with
first responders.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Kafi's Tammy Tree Truehio says the documentary focuses on challenges
faced by the first responders in January. It also highlights
how wildfire seasons are longer and more destructive. I think
I might have to add that to my list of
things to watch as well. The Stagecoach Country Music Festival
getting underway in Indio. Camper started showing up yesterday. The

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event starts this afternoon. The lineup featuring a lot of
stars Alana Springs, Springsteen, Carter Faith, Dylan Scott, Sammy Hagar,
and the Bacon Brothers which also includes Kevin Bacon. The
festival runs through Sunday. I love a good country show.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange

(42:39):
County South End. Weather from KFI. Some areas of low
clouds and drizzle possible this morning, then partly cloudy for
the afternoon. Ees in the low sixties at the beaches,
mid sixties for Metro LA and Inlando c mid sixties
in the Valley's fifties to mid sixties for the Annelote Valley.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
And this is new.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
This was not in the forecast yesterday, but now we
have a chance of rain tomorrow morning and rain likely
in the afternoon. It's going to be cool heis in
the upper fifties to mid sixties. Should dry out by Sunday.
Partly cloudy, sky's on the way with highs in the
low to mid sixties. It's fifty nine in Irvine, fifty
four in Pasadena, fifty two in Santa Clarita, fifty eight
in Huntington Beach. Live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.

(43:18):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up Call.
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