April 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. Finance expert Jared Dillian opens the show discussing tariffs and market psychology. ABC News crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett explains what ‘prepared citizens’ are and why their numbers are growing. 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 DIY Weekend. Coutrney Donohue from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a stock market update. The show closes with ABC News entertainment reporter Will Ganss with the ‘Entertainment Report.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Az Rafiki once said, it is time. One of my
favorite lines from Yon King.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
This is your wake up call for Friday, April eleventh.
I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with
us today. We've got lots on the agenda for today
and I'm excited because it's a diet coke Friday. What
is a diet coke Friday, you might ask, Well, it's
the day that I celebrate and I have die coke.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I used to drink diet coke all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I was very bill hand the list, and then when
I started doing wake up Call, I was like, you
know what this this caffeine's gonna mess with my schedule
and so I need to cut back. And so I
just kind of stopped drinking diet coke during the week.
So Friday it's like a treat for me, okay, So
not I don't have to get up early on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So you don't like coke zero.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
No, I can't stand coke zero. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Wow, Yeah, I don't like coke. I don't like coke zero.
I don't like coke with splenda. I like regular old
diet coke. And have you watched The Big Bear Eglitz yesterday?
I know we haven't talked about him for a little while,
but I tuned into the YouTube channel. Oh my god,
they're getting ginormous Sonny and Gizmo. I'm still calling the
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little one rocky, Oh my gosh. And they're they're kind
of weird looking now, you know. They go from cute
fluffy and then they start sprouting things. And it reminded
me of that movie. Is it called Black Swan?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Oh, she's the ballerina.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, and who is Gosh, I can't even remember her name.
I'm looking at her face in my brain right now.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The girl from Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, from Star Wars. And she starts sprouting feathers. Well
that's what they're doing. No, no, no, no, nope.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Nope, we'll get it. We'll get it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But anyway, if you haven't looked at him, I mean,
there's still thousands of people watch him. It's hard to
watch him at night because they're they're infrared cameras busted.
But they're so cute and it's so cool to see
him growing and getting bigger and getting their little personalities.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
China has responded to President Trump increasing tariffs to one
hundred and twenty five percent by upping its tariff rates
on US imports from eighty four to one hundred twenty
five percent. The Chinese Commerce Ministry says China is ready
to fight to the end and the tariffs war against
the US. A hearing is being held today in the
case of Lyle and Eric Menendez, who have been asked
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or have asked to be re sentenced for the murder
of their parents. They're serving life sentences. Five deputies and
a dispatcher have been honored for saving a drowning child
in Cerritos.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I love this story.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
A ceremony was held for the guys yesterday at Cerrito
City Hall. Deputies pulled the little boy out of the
lake at Don Canambi Park on the night of March
twenty ninth. He wasn't breathing, so they did CPR and
revived him. He's made a full recovery. There's a growing
trend in the US. It's called prepared citizens. Who are they?
What are they doing? ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Will
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arm us with the information. It's a DIY weekend with
the house Whisper and we'll be talking to the host
of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp. Love a good DIY
and if you're going to head to the theater or
hunker down on the couch, there are a lot of
tales to tell. ABC's Will Gans is gonna tell us
all about him. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
(03:48):
La County DA Nathan Hakman has requested a judge to
withdraw his office's motion to re sentence the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
The request was made by Hawkman's predecessor, George Gascon. Hawkman
will present his arguments to drop the motion to a
judge this morning. He's also come out against a new
trial for the brothers, who were convicted of murdering their
parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Family members
of Eric and Lahmanendez have been pushing for their release.
Hackman says the brothers haven't changed and they haven't taken
full responsibility for their crime. State prole boards will conduct
(04:17):
hearings to determine whether Governor Newsom should grant the brothers
clemency in June. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Some local VIPs have teamed up to rebuild the Pacific
Palisades Recreation Center, even.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Though their political rivals, LA Mayor Karen Bass and developer
Rick Caruso say they plan to help rebuild the center
damaged in January's wildfire. Lakers head coach JJ Reddicks as
his new organization, LA Strong Sports, will help lead the work.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
We have already engaged with local groups and people who
were instrumental in making the rec center so special in
the first place.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
LA Strong Sports has plans to rejuvenate parks across the city,
but will start with the one in the Palisades, which
is where Reddick lives with his family.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
California has been struggling to find enough teachers and aids
for its growing transitional kindergarten programs. A lot of qualified
early childhood educators are discouraged by the state's strict credentialing requirements,
which include a degree, coursework assessments, and up to six
hundred hours of unpaid training. The overall teacher shortage makes
it even harder for districts to hire and retain staff,
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with nearly twelve thousand teachers and over sixteen thousand aids
still needed with.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Easter just over a week away.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Animal rescue groups in LA are asking people not to
buy rabbits and baby chicks as Easter gifts for kids.
They say buying or adopting a live animal on a
whim often leads to abandonment when the novelty wears off
and families realize they can't properly take care of those pets.
Instead of a live animal, rescue groups recommend buying a
stuffed toy bunny or chocolate candy rabbit for kids Easter baskets.
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I'm all for the chocolate candy rabbit for sure. Let's
say good morning now to best selling finances writer Jared Dylan.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good morning, Jared, good morning.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
We're doing great.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We wanted to talk to you because you are not
only a financial writer, you are also an active investor.
You spent part of your career on Wall Street, so
we needed to talk to somebody in the know about
what the heck is going on. The wild ride continues
on Wall Street, probably going to continue today. Do we
have any idea what's in store for this today's trading session?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
You know, looking at my screen right now, stocks are
up a little bit, bonds are down a little bit.
The dollar is down big.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
You know.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
One of the stories that hasn't really been told about
this crisis is that it's not just a stock market
that that's a mess. The bond market is a complete disaster.
The dollar has lost about three or four percent of
its value just in the last two days. The bond
market in particular. You know, usually when stocks are crashing,
bonds go up and interest rates come down. Bonds have
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been getting killed. There's a lot of speculation, and I
believe this that China is actually selling some of their
eight hundred billion worth of treasury bonds as retaliation for
the tariffs. And like I said, I one hundred percent
believe this is true because the price action makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Is there a way to your saying that there's some
speculation and you think that there's probably right, But is
there a way to tell if China's.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Doing that no, there really there really isn't a way
to tell, you know. You can you can just kind
of see how it's trading on the screen, and you
can watch the price action, but there's no like audit
trail that tells you where the cell orders are coming from.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay, and are all these ups and downs that we're seeing?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Did we end up down yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Or I know that stock futures are up a little
bit today, like you just mentioned, But did we end
up down yesterday?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
We were down? We were down about three percent yesterday.
It was yesterday was actually a pretty ugly day. Today's
looking be a little bit better, you know. I actually
I tend to be a little bit negative and pessimistic
all the time. But in spite of that, I do
believe that this crisis is going to be temporary. I
think there is going to be an off ramp uh
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to the tariffs. I think somebody, whether it's Trump or Bessent,
is going to make a comment, and I think stocks
will recover most of the losses sometime in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, certainly hope so.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And China responded again by saying, Okay, well, we're going
to increase our eighty four percent tariffs to one five
percent to match the US ones. So are are all
of these swings on Wall Street? Is everything really tied
to the tariffs? I mean it appears to be, but
are there other factors in play?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
No, it's it's uh, it's it's really just the tariffs.
I mean, first of all, you know China. You know,
China is playing poker, and China is a good poker player.
But the United States has the upper hand here. We
import much much more goods from China than they import
from US. They're tariffs on the US. They already had tariffs.
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Their tariffs are pretty much meaningless. What we're trying to
do is drive China into an economic depression so that
it weakens their ability to spend on their military. There's
geopolitical objective here, and Trump has not communicated that. I
think if he got in front of a podium and
he said, look like, we're going to have to endure
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some volatility, We're going to have to pay higher prices
for goods. But there's there's a purpose behind this, and
I think people could get behind it. But he has
not communicated the vision.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, but I hadn't I hadn't heard that one yet,
so really it's that's the goal of this.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I thought it was still like even the playing field.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
So it's many things, it's even the playing field. And
and the government does want to raise revenue off of
the tariffs. They want to raise about six hundred billion
dollars a year, which by the way, is about the
exact amount which they're cutting taxes, So it's really just
collecting taxes in a different sort of way. So that
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is part of the goal. But no, really, the strategic
goal here is to put China out of business, much
like what Reagan did with the Soviets back in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Ah, that's interesting, Okay, So as we navigate this wild
ride on Wall Street, Jared, what kind of things should
people be thinking about as they look at their investments
and what should they be doing, if.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Anything, Probably the best thing to do pretty much ninety
nine percent of the time is to do nothing. And
there is a time to panic, but that time has passed.
The first rule about panicking is if you're going to panic,
you have to panic before everybody else does. So now
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it's too late. It is too late to panic. I
would not sell your stocks down here okay, so.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All right, and as an investor, are you buying now?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
I mean I'm doing I'm doing a lot of things.
I do have. I do have some exposure to the
stock market. It's kind of complicated. I've been like selling
put options on the index, and you know, I am
betting that stocks are going up.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So yes, okay, all right, Well there you have it,
all right. Jared Dillon, best selling financial writer Wall Street alumni,
I guess you would call him and also active investor.
Thank you so much for your time and insight. I
learned something new today.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Cool when that happens. Thank you, Jared. My trying to
kill their economy.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Speaking
of tariffs, Joina said it will allow fewer US films
to be imported.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
In response to tariffs.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
The Chinese Film Administration has announced it will moderately reduce
the number of American films imported. Thirty four foreign films
are permitted to be released in China each year. The
Chinese Film Administration said tariff's imposed by President Trump will
inevitably further reduce the domestic audience's favorability towards American films.
The Marvel film Thunderbolts had reportedly just been approved to
(12:25):
be released on April thirtieth, but it's not clear whether
or not it will go forward. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Financial analysts are watching what happens on Wall Street with
China stepping up. It's part of the trade war with
the US. The Chinese course of race tariffs on American
goods to one hundred and twenty five percent. Tucker Perkins,
President and CEO of the Propane Education and Research Council,
says there are serious concerns when it comes to the
energy market.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The real issue for the energy community is what happens
to the economies. Do the economies reset and maybe we
go into a worldwide recession.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
China's move follows the Trump administration bumping up traffs on
Chinese products to one hundred and forty five percent. Secretary
of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior, says
he has initiated a research effort to uncover the cause
of what he calls the autism epidemic by this fall.
But Stanford Pediatrician pediatrician doctor Alec Patel says he thinks
(13:21):
that's not really doable.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
To come together and say that we're just seeing to
get a bunch of scientists together and get an answer
byt September, that seems a little far fetched.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
In the past, Kennedy has talked about a connection between
vaccines and autism, despite several studies refuting that, the Senate
Commerce Committees hearing yesterday on changing the twice a year
clock switch didn't make any decisions. Those for ditching the
time change say it's outdated, but President of the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety David Harkey says switching the clocks
(13:52):
can actually make driving safer.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Changing the clocks twice a year is relevant to road
safety first and foremost because it affects the amount of
ambient light during peak times for travel.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
In twenty twenty two, the Senate passed a measure that
would lock clocks to daylight saving time, but the House
never took it up. Okay, I told you in my rings,
driving me crazy. I just got another alert. Now what
anybody here a big boom?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Really you can have to adjust that.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
There's a way, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hey, the Dodgers take on the Rockies tonight at Dodgers Stadium. Nope,
that is the wrong one. That's for Monday the fourteenth.
Let me see if I can find today's promo. Hold, please,
Dodgers promos.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Friday.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh it's Freddy Freeman Bobblehead night. I got some stuck
in my throat. The Dodgers are back in LA to
take on the Cubs. First pitch goes out tonight at
seven o'clock. You can listen to every play of every
Dodger's game on a five seventy LA Sports Live from
the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth. You can stream all the
games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword Am five
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seventy LA Sports. The Supreme Court says the Trump administration
must facilitate the release of a man from Maryland swept
up in an ice rate and accidentally sent to a
present prison in El Salvador. In the ruling yesterday, the
High Court didn't say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has to
immediately be returned, but that the administration must work and
(15:21):
show what they're doing to get him back to the US.
The California Assembly has voted down proposed budget amendments to
terminate medical funding for illegal immigrants in California's high speed
rail project. The healthcare program will cost a state nine
and a half billion dollars this year. The high speed
rail projects costs a balloon from an initial eight billion
dollars in two thousand and eight to over one hundred
(15:42):
and thirty billion. GLP one drugs are pushing weight Watchers
into bankruptcy. The weight Loss Company is working with lenders
and is expected to file bankruptcy in the next few months.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terror
analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, there's a growing trend in the
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US called prepared citizens.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
What are they?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
So?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
If you take amy the everyday gun owner, folks that
aren't part of the militia, left right type group, just
everyday folks, pilots, nurses, you name it, who like to
shoot weapons. Some of them want to take a step
further and learn how to shoot from a to combat positions.
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In others you'd need somebody obviously to teach you to
do that. Adding things like learning how to fly drones
for reconnaissance, doing things like homesteady. You know, the list
goes on and on, but it's basically people. I think
if you look amy across the country, there's a lot
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of masurety for people in their own minds and in
reality too, that things aren't like they used to be,
and I think they feel vulnerable and as a result,
they feel like they need to better protect themselves and
their loved ones. So these things are cropping up across
a number of states. It tends to be private companies.
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Former military tend to run them to teach people these
skill sets, and I think it's another example of that.
You know, people believe that the government can't protect them
like they believe the government could in the past. And
it's very complex. I'm sure there are other reasons why
people are doing this.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, you know, you hear the rumblings and the rhetoric
and stuff, and people are like, I think we're getting
ready for a civil war, So some people are taking
that to heart.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
I think that is some of it, that it's civil
UNRESK gets to a point where it's you against them.
Those that are trained, pre pare aired, you know, have
probably a higher survival rate. So you know, it turns
this can turn into sort of a really dark statement.
But I do think that there is a there's a
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mood of that in the country at this point.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay, And is this Brad people who already are like
gun owners not going to think or are more people saying, hey,
I need to do that and then beyond that, need
to get trained.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
I think it tends to be gun owners. I mean,
think about it this way, Amy that in any given month,
they're about a million and a half guns sold in
this country each month. Some months are higher, some of
the lower. It went up quite a bit higher during
the pandemic. But the point being, that's a lot of weapons,
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and I think it tends to be people that either
have recently purchased or just have firearms and they're only
sort of routine outlet was to go to a range. Obviously,
this is a whole different dimension. And obviously it's a
it's a big investment of time to learn all these
other skill sets. I mean, combat shooting. I've done a
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lot of that, and it's, you know, a certain skill
set you have to practice. Can you shoot while you're running?
Can you go behind things? Can you lay on the
ground and shoot? And apparently that's what they're teaching folks.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Okay, and you you mentioned too that again, we've.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Heard of like these little places people go off the
grid and go out into the woods and do all
their military or paramilitary training and that kind of stuff.
But this isn't This isn't that. This isn't fringe groups
or left and right extremist groups.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
This is more mainstream.
Speaker 11 (19:47):
This is more mainstream, and that's and that's how it's presented.
You know, that's not going the gate of the crowd
you just talked about, continuing to do their training for
a whole different sort of philosophy or or maybe some
of us to say, Amy, I mean those those folks
fall into a number of categories, but one is that
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they believe that the world's falling apart and they're going
to have to find a remote place to survive.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
And if it does, they're going to be ready.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And I'm going to be hoping that I have gas
in my tank to get out of town.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
We're just waiting for Starbucks though.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Brad Garrett, thank you so much. This is a very information,
very interesting information. I appreciate you coming on with us
this morning.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
You're welcome to Amy.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I know that there is a.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
There is an area of California that I know of
that is not a fringe group, and they I swear
the whole area is like yep, we're ready in case,
in case the stuff hits the fan, and I'm like, well,
that's where I'm going if I've got a full tank
of guess A helicopters crashed into the Hudson River, killing
all six people on board. This woman's as she saw
(21:00):
the whole thing yesterday, I was a shock.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
I tried to call nine one launch, I couldn't reach anyone.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I just ran towards it.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
It was very fuss.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Video posted online appears to show the helicopter breaking apart
before landing in the water. Please say the helicopter was
carrying a pilot, two adults, and three kids. They were
all tourists from Spain. It's not clear yet what caused
the crash. Two former police officers in Torrents had pleaded
guilty to spray painting a swastika inside a car in
twenty twenty. That led to an investigation into vandalism that
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turned up text messages between officers which used racist and
homophobic slurs. The texts also joked about beating up and
racially profiling people. The two officers will be on probation
for two years. A reusable tote bag is causing a
frenzy in California.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
Rater Joe's has brought back its popular canvas mini toats
this week. The new pastel colors coming baby Blue, Pink, Lavender,
and mind green. The bags cost just two ninety nine,
but some resellers are charging big bucks. The eBay four
mini tooe bags can cost up to ninety dollars, not
including taxes. One Pink Mini tote is currently listed at
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just under one thousand dollars. Some people have been spending
hours lined up outside their local trader Joe's in hopes
of getting a bag. Depor mark Ka a fine news.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
People are silly and the toads are cute. They look
like Easter, but not for one thousand bucks.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The iconic, Speaking of Pink, the iconic Pink's Hot Dogs
will open a spot at the La Zoo today, bringing
its world famous winners to more than one and a
half million annual visitors to the Zoo. The new location
will open inside the Zoo next to the Cape Vulture Plaza,
offering staple menu items like Pink's famous chili Dog.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
The Guadalajara Dog and of course the Betty White Dog.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yesterday, if you were with us on wake Up Call,
we got to talk to NASA astronaut and Space Force
Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who recently returned from the International
Space Station. It has been so much fun getting to
know him and learn about what he's doing. We do
have the full interview up on our website KFI AM
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Up Call page so slash wake Up Call and really
interesting stuff. Just love talking to Colonel Hag and wanted
to give a shout out to our well he's our
liner guy, our promo guy, the creative man Clay Rowe
who put together this really super fun promo.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
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Call weekdays from five to six am.
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Say good morning to NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian
Colonel Nick Haig, who just returned from the International Space Station.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Here Amy King asked the tough questions.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I've heard that some astronauts come back taller.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
He came back taller, and then I locked it all.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Gravity took it away.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You got a haircut in space? How does that work?
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Essentially you're hooking a vacuum cleaner to the hair tremmer,
but we received no training on how to give a haircut.
The first one is a little you know, dicey wake
Up Call.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
With Amy kadi Am a tripping time on KFI AM
six forty more stimulating talk from space.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So much fun again.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You can listen to the full interview on our website
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Just go to the wake up Call page.
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When we come back, it's a DIY weekend with the
house Whisper and the host of Home on KFI Dean Sharp.
Some projects you can tackle on your own and when
you should call in the professionals. A Russian born woman
from Los Angeles in prison for treason in Russia is
back on American soil Cassinia, Carolina, touchdown at Joint Bass
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Andrews in Maryland yesterday after she was freed in a
prisoner swap with Russia. She thanked President Trump and the
American government for helping her get home. Police are looking
for four men in dark hoodies who pulled off a
smash and grab robbery in Sherman Oaks. Pullyse say the
guys shattered glass counters and stole a bunch of jewelry
from a store in the Westfield Fashion Square shortly after
(24:59):
noon yesterday. Got away in a silver gray Oudi A
six with a yellow covering over its license plates. Hikers beware,
there's snakes in them our hills. A hiker got bit
yesterday around five pm on a remote section of toy
On Trail in Griffith Park. LA Fire says the hiker
was airlifted out of the park and take to the
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hospital and is in fair condition. LA Fire says most
snake bites happen in the springtime, when snakes come out
of their hibernation like state. At six oh five, its
handle on the news, we got a tit for tat
thing going because the US put tariffs on China. Then
China put tariffs on the US, and then we did
(25:40):
it back to them, and now they're doing it back
to us.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
When will it end?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Let's say good morning too. The host of home on
KFI our house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, it's a dy weekend. I love a good DIY.
It's so fun. Yeah, it makes you feel like you
really kind of can accomplish things. And we've got some
big projects, some small projects. But you're going to be
talking about diys on your show this weekend.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah, and we're going to be focusing on sometimes very
little things make the big difference when di wires get
active on a project and they get frustrated because they're like, well, wait,
the instructions never said how much of this or how
little of that, or how to do this. And so
I'm going to be taking and tackling some of those
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those little techniques that make all the difference. And we'll
be taking calls on Saturday and spending most of Sunday
talking about these fix it tips.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Okay, so there's so many here. I'm like, oh, yeah,
need to do that, need to do that. I've tried that,
can't do that. Here's an easy one, hopefully. What if
your toilet runs in the middle of the night. That's
still a problem sometimes.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yes, the haunted toilet.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Why are we laying in bed and all of a
sudden we hear the toilet running. It's usually something super
super simple. It's just usually nine times out of ten,
it's the flapper inside the tank. It's that little flap
that opens up that the chain is connected to from
the handle of the toilet. That flapper sits in water
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constantly in its entire life, and eventually the rubber of
the flapper starts to fail, and so it starts leaking
water a little bit into the tank, a little bit,
a little bit more, and then the tank drops its
water level and the valve wants to refill it, and
that's what we hear in the middle of the night. Fortunately,
a flapper.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Costs like four dollars five dollars at the hardware core
and takes all of you know, thirty seconds to change out,
and suddenly we will not have our haunted toilet being
used by no one in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, so that's a great quick fix. Okay, here's another one.
I've run into this. I bet you have to what
do you do when you bust a light bulb and
you need to get it out and there's all that
sharp glass.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Yeah, and you know what I've I always mentioned two
things here, because there's the right way to do it,
and then there is this.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Kind of mythological story of how to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think if you look online, everybody says, oh, just
get a potato, Get a rusted potato and shove it
up in there and start to turn it. And you
know what, we've tried it before and every once in
a while it works. But don't waste your time with
the potato. There's no reason to get a potato anywhere
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near a broken light bulb. You just make sure that
the power is off and that there is no energy
running to that fixture. And this is where the use
of a pair of needle nosed pliers comes in handy.
You either grab the very center of that broken bulb fixture,
or with needlenose plyers, you can grab the edge of
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the of the brass cup that's still stuck up there
in the fixture, bend it in a little bit and
rotate it clockwise and you'll see that you'll get all
of that out quickly. Don't worry about using a rusted potato.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
But I have used the potato and it did work
one time.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
I know.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
And you know the funny thing is because potatoes are
just firm enough and just moist enough that they form
kind of a vacuum seal around what's left and they
become essentially a wrench for taking it out. It's just
will frustrate somebody if you go all the way to
the store and hit a potato, bring it home, get
up there on your ladder and find out that the
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fixture is stuck in there a little bit too much,
and that the potato just turns and turns, and you're like, Okay,
why did I waste a trip to the store when
I could have just used a pair of plyers?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Exactly, so to just use the plyer.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Dean Sharp is going to be saving you unnecessary trips
to the store all weekend long. I would love to
talk about more of this. Unfortunately we don't have the
time to do it, but you're going to talk about
it this weekend. What to do with mushy light recept
I've got that problem. How do you repair a damaged
window screen, I've got that problem. How do you fix
a jiggling doorknob, I've got that problem. And how do
(30:08):
you reattach loose carpet. I've got all these problems. So
I'm going to be listening to your show this weekend.
Dean sounds great, Okay, great Saturday from six to eight
right here on KFI, and then Sundays nine to noon.
It's a home with Dean Sharp. You can also follow
him at home with Dean. Thank you, Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho. Wow, Courtney, what a week on Wall Street Friday.
You're probably going, oh my god, I get a weekend,
not to deal.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
With it at A'm on vacation next week. So I'm
really looking forward to this.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I bet you never said that.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Oh yeah, you earned it. You earned it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So after all, yesterday we were down like two thousand points,
and then what did we end the day on?
Speaker 15 (30:55):
Well, when we look at the markets, there was like
this huge stampede out of stocks yesterday after that big,
big buying wave, one of the biggest that we've seen
in years, right, so why they're all bay Well still
underneath it all, there is concern growing that the escalation
of the trade war is going to bring lasting damage
to economic growth. The recession word every pro I'm talking to, recession, recession, recession,
(31:20):
that's all what we're hearing. So yesterday the dutfell oney
fifteen points, the S and P five hundred tumbled three
and a half percent, giving back some of the huge gains.
I mean, we were close to three thousand points higher
on Wednesday when it came to the Doubt. But see
what's happening is so many people on Wall Street are
really struggling to figure out what the next move is
(31:41):
in this constantly evolving trade policy. Like this morning, China
coming out raising duties on goods to one hundred and
twenty five percent starting tomorrow. But despite that, stocks are
moving higher. And by the way, this report is sponsored
by Total Wine and more Doubt futures right now they're up.
We're getting a bit of a recovery today, up one
hundred and ninety five points, SESS and P futures gaining
(32:01):
half a percent.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, so you mentioned the possibility of recession Courtney, and
you said, we're seeing we're starting to see the return
of recession.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Hair at salons.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
What is that?
Speaker 15 (32:13):
Yes, Well, in two thousand and eight, everybody was trying
to go a little on the cheap. Some people were
trying to do their own haircuts because of course it
was it was really rough out there during the financial crisis.
But hairstylists that we've been talking to also massage therapists,
to colorists, nail folks, they're witnessing firsthand some of the
(32:34):
earliest possible signs that we may be headed for an
economic downturn. They say that customers are choosing cheaper, more
low maintenance looks so they don't have to go back.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
All that often.
Speaker 15 (32:43):
And clients who previously got color every two to three weeks,
they're now stretching it to about four and five.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
There were seeing more roots people.
Speaker 15 (32:51):
But some of the hair pros they say that they're
seeing lesson tips and that's tough for them.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So yeah, okay, all right, Well that's getting in your
business with Bloomberg Courtney donaho We apparently won't be talking
to you next week where you go on vacation.
Speaker 15 (33:05):
I am going to Florida to visit my brother. My
brother is actually moving back home to New York and
so I have to transport a cat.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
It It should be funny. So we'll see.
Speaker 15 (33:18):
We're taking oscar back to New York.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, good luck with that, and we will still get
in your business on Monday morning. It will just be
with someone else. Thank you, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, See you later.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Two laped officers have been hurt in a fight with
a person in the Florence neighborhood of South la. It
happened about two forty five yesterday afternoon. The officers were
taken to the hospital with minor injuries. One person was arrested.
Not clear what started the fight. Twelve pro Palestinian protesters
are facing felony charges for allegedly breaking into and vandalizing
and building at Stanford. Prosecutors say the group then barricaded
(33:52):
themselves inside the president's office last June and demanded the
university divest from investments with Israel.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
They were arrested to the next day.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Prosecutors say the group did between three hundred and fifty
thousand and a million dollars in damage. San Francisco Mayor
Daniel Lurie says WEIMO driverless vehicles can enter car free
zones in the city, not pedestrian zones. The zones were
previously restricted for public transit, emergency vehicles, and commercial delivery trucks.
Now opening up to WEMO, WEIMO is starting to map
(34:23):
out the area, hopes to be operating in the city
by this summer. Let's say good morning to ABC's Will
Gans Will if you're going to theaters, is Robbie Malick
the guy to watch.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
He is the guy to watch, and he has the
oscar to prove it. You know. After Bohemian Rhapsody and
his turn as Spready Mercury, he's now changing genres and
he stars in a spy thriller. It's called The Amateur,
and he plays a character who is sort of like
a computer geek who works for the government, but his
wife is killed by a small group of terrorists and
(34:56):
he decides that he personally is going to get revenge
on all of them, so he sort of goes rogue
when his bosses aren't doing enough in his opinion, and
he's trained by Lawrence Fishburne, and he goes on a
personal mission to hunt these people down one by one,
and it's kind of a fun take.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
On the genre.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
You know. He's an unlikely hero, a little bit of
a geek, but he uses his tech savvy to do
some cool stuff in the movie. So it's a good
one that's in theaters this weekend.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Spies going rogue.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Never heard of that before, imagine yeah.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But Robbie Mallock, he's fun because, like you said, even
though he kind of plays like a geek guy, he
kind of looks that I mean and you're I'm just surprised.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
He's such a great actor. I love watching him.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
He's so good. And you know, there are some like
really touching moments, you know, where he's exploring his grief.
And Katrina balf who was in Belfast a couple of
years ago, is in this too, and yeah, so it
is like, of course it's a good action packed spy thriller,
but it also has some really great acting moments in
it as well.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Okay, speak of movies in theaters, I still haven't seen
the Penguin Lessons, have you no?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
And I'm glad to hear you say you haven't either.
That means I'm in good company because I told you
I would, and I haven't kept my end of the bargain.
But I said I was too.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, I think I haven't heard anything about it from
anybody same.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
But maybe the world is waiting on us, Amy. Maybe
we're the ones that are going to really turn the
page for these penguins.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
All right, well it I mean, it looks like it's
just like this lovely thing that you need to bring
tissues to. And it's Steve Coogan, who I think he's
just a fun actor. So I'm going to check it
out eventually, but let's go back to the stream.
Speaker 9 (36:34):
So Hacks is back, Oh and thank god. I just
it is like one of my all time favorite shows.
And if you'll believe it, everyone is saying that season
four is somehow their best yet and that they're really
hitting their stride in season four, and I'm like, what
do you mean they're hitting their stride? Like the stride
has been going strong since season one. But yeah, episodes
(36:56):
one and two of the brand new season dropped last
night on and of course, Jeane Smart is back as
Deborah Vance, and Hannah Einbinder is back as her sort
of frenemy best frenemy writer, you know, extraordinary. So it's
they're picking up right where season three left off, which is,
(37:17):
you know, her character just was named the host of
a late night show and that's sort of the direction
that we're headed in this season. But it's just it's
so great.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
The episodes are about half an hour each and they're
hilarious and they're brilliantly acted, and yeah, I'm just so
glad Hacks is back.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Yeah, and you mentioned front of Me.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I'm like that that even that is going to be
tested this season after what Little Hannah pulled in the
last episode of last year.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
If you haven't watched it, I don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
Yeah, yeah, a taste of her own medicine though, but
it's fun to see that sort of power dynamic shift
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Absolutely okay, and what will happen to June Osborne the
final season of Handmaid's Tale?
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Exactly?
Speaker 9 (37:58):
The first three episodes of the last season of Handmaid's
Tailor out on Hulu now, and then from here it'll
be a brand new episode every Tuesday till the end
of May, and then we're we're saying goodbye to that
series for good. So this is of course based on
the Margaret Atwood novel and then some and it is
(38:19):
you know, right from the jump, action packed Serena and
June bump into each other on a train and yeah,
it's we're off to the races already. And you know,
this is a little bit of a heavier watch, longer episodes,
but you know, Elizabeth Moss has won an Emmy for
playing this as well, so really well acted and the
(38:40):
final chapter, so I think a lot of folks will
be tuning in to see how all of this wraps up.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, and well, I'm going to tell you I did
watch it the first three episodes, and I'm I'm a
little hesitant because, like you were saying, it's based on
the book, and then some it's kind of like they've
got to find some story and it's makes sense what
they're trying to do, but I'm like, it's feeling a
little drawn out to me in.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Some of the situations. I'm like, yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Like it's just I don't know, I feel like it's
it's getting close to jumping the sharp.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
So it's probably good that this is the last season.
Speaker 9 (39:13):
Yeah, I'm with you. Like some sometimes it's like this
character can't survive this long, Like we can't, you know
what I mean, Like how many times is it going
to be a narrow myths or you know, a quick
escape at the last moment. I'm with you there, but
I do think that, you know, hopefully they'll land the
plane and you know, there are only a few more
(39:33):
episodes left to go, so.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I'm still watching it, still watching it, all right. Yeah,
ABC's well, Gans, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Have a great weekend, you too, Amy, Take care all right.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Rising tariffs are weighing on local businesses. Michelle Lomaline owns
Sweet Petite Confections in San Diego. She says her costs
have been going up for a while with rising prices
for chocolate, and now she says prices for things like
her packaging, which comes from China, are headed up.
Speaker 15 (39:57):
I have bond on ons that are three dollars of online,
and my competitors are all for four four fifty five
dollars of online.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I'm going to go up to maybe three seventy five.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Some business owners say, as well as costs going up,
they've seen a significant drop in sales. Recently, news brought
to you by Simper Solaris the California Assemblies voted down
proposed budget amendments to terminate medical funding or for illegal
immigrants and also California's high speed rail project. State Assembly
Wman Carl Demyo says the bill would have done a
lot to help California.
Speaker 16 (40:27):
Eliminate funding for illegal immigrant free healthcare at taxpayer expense,
as well as direct the elimination the suspension the cancelation
of the high speed rail project, which has become a
multi billion dollar boon.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Doggle Demio says The vote prioritizes illegal immigrants and a
train over taxpayers to keep taxpayer funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Healthcare for illegal immigrants is going to cost US state
nine and a half billion dollars this year. The high
speed rail project's costs a balloon from an initial eight
billion dollars in two thousand and eight to over one
(41:02):
hundred thirty billion dollars. LA Kenny fire Station one sixty
four and Huntington Beach is reopening today. It's been closed
for the last month eleven months because it was heavily
damaged by an early morning fire. The fire tore through
the two story fire station around four a m.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Last May.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Fire crew has been working out of a temporary facility
for almost a year. Probably going to be good to
go home and the fiftieth Long Beach Grand Prix opens
today with qualifying for all races. There will also be
the start of the drifting competition and a concert tonight
by the Canadian DJ Dubs DJ Duo Dubs. You can
(41:41):
tell I'm familiar with who they are, Okay. The Long
Beach Grand Prix was first run in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Is a Formula five thousand race. Is that right? A
Formula five thousand, a Formula five hundred.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
I would think five hundred, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Okay, Editor Brian, Let's check that it was a race
for open wheel cars with maximum five point leader engine capacity.
It was a Formula one race from nineteen seventy six
to eighty three before it became an indie car event.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southland weather from kffive got some areas of low
(42:15):
clouds in fog. Otherwise mostly sunny with some clouds rolling through.
Highs in the low seventies at the beaches, seventies and
eighties for Metro La Inlando, c and the Anlope Valley,
uprating to low nineties for the valleys and Inland Empire
fifty seven and Fuller ten, fifty one in San Clemente,
sixty in Pasadena, and fifty eight in Santa Monica. Live
from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and
(42:37):
and technical producer Cono along with traffic specialist Will I'm
Amy King. This has been your wake up call. If
you missed in a wake up call, you can listen
anytime on the iHeart Radio app. You've been listening to
Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Az Rafiki once said, it is time. One of my
favorite lines from Yon King.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
This is your wake up call for Friday, April eleventh.
I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with
us today. We've got lots on the agenda for today
and I'm excited because it's a diet coke Friday. What
is a diet coke Friday, you might ask, Well, it's
the day that I celebrate and I have die coke.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I used to drink diet coke all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I was very bill hand the list, and then when
I started doing wake up Call, I was like, you
know what this this caffeine's gonna mess with my schedule
and so I need to cut back. And so I
just kind of stopped drinking diet coke during the week.
So Friday it's like a treat for me, okay, So
not I don't have to get up early on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So you don't like coke zero.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
No, I can't stand coke zero. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Wow, Yeah, I don't like coke. I don't like coke zero.
I don't like coke with splenda. I like regular old
diet coke. And have you watched The Big Bear Eglitz yesterday?
I know we haven't talked about him for a little while,
but I tuned into the YouTube channel. Oh my god,
they're getting ginormous Sonny and Gizmo. I'm still calling the
(01:41):
little one rocky, Oh my gosh. And they're they're kind
of weird looking now, you know. They go from cute
fluffy and then they start sprouting things. And it reminded
me of that movie. Is it called Black Swan?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Oh, she's the ballerina.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, and who is Gosh, I can't even remember her name.
I'm looking at her face in my brain right now.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The girl from Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, from Star Wars. And she starts sprouting feathers. Well
that's what they're doing. No, no, no, no, nope.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Nope, we'll get it. We'll get it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But anyway, if you haven't looked at him, I mean,
there's still thousands of people watch him. It's hard to
watch him at night because they're they're infrared cameras busted.
But they're so cute and it's so cool to see
him growing and getting bigger and getting their little personalities.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
China has responded to President Trump increasing tariffs to one
hundred and twenty five percent by upping its tariff rates
on US imports from eighty four to one hundred twenty
five percent. The Chinese Commerce Ministry says China is ready
to fight to the end and the tariffs war against
the US. A hearing is being held today in the
case of Lyle and Eric Menendez, who have been asked
(02:51):
or have asked to be re sentenced for the murder
of their parents. They're serving life sentences. Five deputies and
a dispatcher have been honored for saving a drowning child
in Cerritos.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I love this story.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
A ceremony was held for the guys yesterday at Cerrito
City Hall. Deputies pulled the little boy out of the
lake at Don Canambi Park on the night of March
twenty ninth. He wasn't breathing, so they did CPR and
revived him. He's made a full recovery. There's a growing
trend in the US. It's called prepared citizens. Who are they?
What are they doing? ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Will
(03:26):
arm us with the information. It's a DIY weekend with
the house Whisper and we'll be talking to the host
of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp. Love a good DIY
and if you're going to head to the theater or
hunker down on the couch, there are a lot of
tales to tell. ABC's Will Gans is gonna tell us
all about him. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
(03:48):
La County DA Nathan Hakman has requested a judge to
withdraw his office's motion to re sentence the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
The request was made by Hawkman's predecessor, George Gascon. Hawkman
will present his arguments to drop the motion to a
judge this morning. He's also come out against a new
trial for the brothers, who were convicted of murdering their
parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Family members
of Eric and Lahmanendez have been pushing for their release.
Hackman says the brothers haven't changed and they haven't taken
full responsibility for their crime. State prole boards will conduct
(04:17):
hearings to determine whether Governor Newsom should grant the brothers
clemency in June. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Some local VIPs have teamed up to rebuild the Pacific
Palisades Recreation Center, even.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Though their political rivals, LA Mayor Karen Bass and developer
Rick Caruso say they plan to help rebuild the center
damaged in January's wildfire. Lakers head coach JJ Reddicks as
his new organization, LA Strong Sports, will help lead the work.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
We have already engaged with local groups and people who
were instrumental in making the rec center so special in
the first place.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
LA Strong Sports has plans to rejuvenate parks across the city,
but will start with the one in the Palisades, which
is where Reddick lives with his family.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
California has been struggling to find enough teachers and aids
for its growing transitional kindergarten programs. A lot of qualified
early childhood educators are discouraged by the state's strict credentialing requirements,
which include a degree, coursework assessments, and up to six
hundred hours of unpaid training. The overall teacher shortage makes
it even harder for districts to hire and retain staff,
(05:22):
with nearly twelve thousand teachers and over sixteen thousand aids
still needed with.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Easter just over a week away.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Animal rescue groups in LA are asking people not to
buy rabbits and baby chicks as Easter gifts for kids.
They say buying or adopting a live animal on a
whim often leads to abandonment when the novelty wears off
and families realize they can't properly take care of those pets.
Instead of a live animal, rescue groups recommend buying a
stuffed toy bunny or chocolate candy rabbit for kids Easter baskets.
(05:53):
I'm all for the chocolate candy rabbit for sure. Let's
say good morning now to best selling finances writer Jared Dylan.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good morning, Jared, good morning.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
We're doing great.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We wanted to talk to you because you are not
only a financial writer, you are also an active investor.
You spent part of your career on Wall Street, so
we needed to talk to somebody in the know about
what the heck is going on. The wild ride continues
on Wall Street, probably going to continue today. Do we
have any idea what's in store for this today's trading session?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
You know, looking at my screen right now, stocks are
up a little bit, bonds are down a little bit.
The dollar is down big.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
You know.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
One of the stories that hasn't really been told about
this crisis is that it's not just a stock market
that that's a mess. The bond market is a complete disaster.
The dollar has lost about three or four percent of
its value just in the last two days. The bond
market in particular. You know, usually when stocks are crashing,
bonds go up and interest rates come down. Bonds have
(07:01):
been getting killed. There's a lot of speculation, and I
believe this that China is actually selling some of their
eight hundred billion worth of treasury bonds as retaliation for
the tariffs. And like I said, I one hundred percent
believe this is true because the price action makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Is there a way to your saying that there's some
speculation and you think that there's probably right, But is
there a way to tell if China's.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Doing that no, there really there really isn't a way
to tell, you know. You can you can just kind
of see how it's trading on the screen, and you
can watch the price action, but there's no like audit
trail that tells you where the cell orders are coming from.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay, and are all these ups and downs that we're seeing?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Did we end up down yesterday?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Or I know that stock futures are up a little
bit today, like you just mentioned, But did we end
up down yesterday?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
We were down? We were down about three percent yesterday.
It was yesterday was actually a pretty ugly day. Today's
looking be a little bit better, you know. I actually
I tend to be a little bit negative and pessimistic
all the time. But in spite of that, I do
believe that this crisis is going to be temporary. I
think there is going to be an off ramp uh
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to the tariffs. I think somebody, whether it's Trump or Bessent,
is going to make a comment, and I think stocks
will recover most of the losses sometime in the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, certainly hope so.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And China responded again by saying, Okay, well, we're going
to increase our eighty four percent tariffs to one five
percent to match the US ones. So are are all
of these swings on Wall Street? Is everything really tied
to the tariffs? I mean it appears to be, but
are there other factors in play?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
No, it's it's uh, it's it's really just the tariffs.
I mean, first of all, you know China. You know,
China is playing poker, and China is a good poker player.
But the United States has the upper hand here. We
import much much more goods from China than they import
from US. They're tariffs on the US. They already had tariffs.
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Their tariffs are pretty much meaningless. What we're trying to
do is drive China into an economic depression so that
it weakens their ability to spend on their military. There's
geopolitical objective here, and Trump has not communicated that. I
think if he got in front of a podium and
he said, look like, we're going to have to endure
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some volatility, We're going to have to pay higher prices
for goods. But there's there's a purpose behind this, and
I think people could get behind it. But he has
not communicated the vision.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, but I hadn't I hadn't heard that one yet,
so really it's that's the goal of this.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I thought it was still like even the playing field.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
So it's many things, it's even the playing field. And
and the government does want to raise revenue off of
the tariffs. They want to raise about six hundred billion
dollars a year, which by the way, is about the
exact amount which they're cutting taxes, So it's really just
collecting taxes in a different sort of way. So that
(10:16):
is part of the goal. But no, really, the strategic
goal here is to put China out of business, much
like what Reagan did with the Soviets back in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Ah, that's interesting, Okay, So as we navigate this wild
ride on Wall Street, Jared, what kind of things should
people be thinking about as they look at their investments
and what should they be doing, if.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Anything, Probably the best thing to do pretty much ninety
nine percent of the time is to do nothing. And
there is a time to panic, but that time has passed.
The first rule about panicking is if you're going to panic,
you have to panic before everybody else does. So now
(11:03):
it's too late. It is too late to panic. I
would not sell your stocks down here okay, so.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
All right, and as an investor, are you buying now?
Speaker 8 (11:15):
I mean I'm doing I'm doing a lot of things.
I do have. I do have some exposure to the
stock market. It's kind of complicated. I've been like selling
put options on the index, and you know, I am
betting that stocks are going up.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So yes, okay, all right, Well there you have it,
all right. Jared Dillon, best selling financial writer Wall Street alumni,
I guess you would call him and also active investor.
Thank you so much for your time and insight. I
learned something new today.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Cool when that happens. Thank you, Jared. My trying to
kill their economy.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Speaking
of tariffs, Joina said it will allow fewer US films
to be imported.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
In response to tariffs.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
The Chinese Film Administration has announced it will moderately reduce
the number of American films imported. Thirty four foreign films
are permitted to be released in China each year. The
Chinese Film Administration said tariff's imposed by President Trump will
inevitably further reduce the domestic audience's favorability towards American films.
The Marvel film Thunderbolts had reportedly just been approved to
(12:25):
be released on April thirtieth, but it's not clear whether
or not it will go forward. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Financial analysts are watching what happens on Wall Street with
China stepping up. It's part of the trade war with
the US. The Chinese course of race tariffs on American
goods to one hundred and twenty five percent. Tucker Perkins,
President and CEO of the Propane Education and Research Council,
says there are serious concerns when it comes to the
energy market.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The real issue for the energy community is what happens
to the economies. Do the economies reset and maybe we
go into a worldwide recession.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
China's move follows the Trump administration bumping up traffs on
Chinese products to one hundred and forty five percent. Secretary
of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior, says
he has initiated a research effort to uncover the cause
of what he calls the autism epidemic by this fall.
But Stanford Pediatrician pediatrician doctor Alec Patel says he thinks
(13:21):
that's not really doable.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
To come together and say that we're just seeing to
get a bunch of scientists together and get an answer
byt September, that seems a little far fetched.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
In the past, Kennedy has talked about a connection between
vaccines and autism, despite several studies refuting that, the Senate
Commerce Committees hearing yesterday on changing the twice a year
clock switch didn't make any decisions. Those for ditching the
time change say it's outdated, but President of the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety David Harkey says switching the clocks
(13:52):
can actually make driving safer.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Changing the clocks twice a year is relevant to road
safety first and foremost because it affects the amount of
ambient light during peak times for travel.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
In twenty twenty two, the Senate passed a measure that
would lock clocks to daylight saving time, but the House
never took it up. Okay, I told you in my rings,
driving me crazy. I just got another alert. Now what
anybody here a big boom?
Speaker 10 (14:17):
Really you can have to adjust that.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
There's a way, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hey, the Dodgers take on the Rockies tonight at Dodgers Stadium. Nope,
that is the wrong one. That's for Monday the fourteenth.
Let me see if I can find today's promo. Hold, please,
Dodgers promos.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Friday.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh it's Freddy Freeman Bobblehead night. I got some stuck
in my throat. The Dodgers are back in LA to
take on the Cubs. First pitch goes out tonight at
seven o'clock. You can listen to every play of every
Dodger's game on a five seventy LA Sports Live from
the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth. You can stream all the
games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword Am five
(15:00):
seventy LA Sports. The Supreme Court says the Trump administration
must facilitate the release of a man from Maryland swept
up in an ice rate and accidentally sent to a
present prison in El Salvador. In the ruling yesterday, the
High Court didn't say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has to
immediately be returned, but that the administration must work and
(15:21):
show what they're doing to get him back to the US.
The California Assembly has voted down proposed budget amendments to
terminate medical funding for illegal immigrants in California's high speed
rail project. The healthcare program will cost a state nine
and a half billion dollars this year. The high speed
rail projects costs a balloon from an initial eight billion
dollars in two thousand and eight to over one hundred
(15:42):
and thirty billion. GLP one drugs are pushing weight Watchers
into bankruptcy. The weight Loss Company is working with lenders
and is expected to file bankruptcy in the next few months.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and Terror
analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, there's a growing trend in the
(16:04):
US called prepared citizens.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
What are they?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
So?
Speaker 11 (16:10):
If you take amy the everyday gun owner, folks that
aren't part of the militia, left right type group, just
everyday folks, pilots, nurses, you name it, who like to
shoot weapons. Some of them want to take a step
further and learn how to shoot from a to combat positions.
(16:35):
In others you'd need somebody obviously to teach you to
do that. Adding things like learning how to fly drones
for reconnaissance, doing things like homesteady. You know, the list
goes on and on, but it's basically people. I think
if you look amy across the country, there's a lot
(16:56):
of masurety for people in their own minds and in
reality too, that things aren't like they used to be,
and I think they feel vulnerable and as a result,
they feel like they need to better protect themselves and
their loved ones. So these things are cropping up across
a number of states. It tends to be private companies.
(17:19):
Former military tend to run them to teach people these
skill sets, and I think it's another example of that.
You know, people believe that the government can't protect them
like they believe the government could in the past. And
it's very complex. I'm sure there are other reasons why
people are doing this.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, you know, you hear the rumblings and the rhetoric
and stuff, and people are like, I think we're getting
ready for a civil war, So some people are taking
that to heart.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
I think that is some of it, that it's civil
UNRESK gets to a point where it's you against them.
Those that are trained, pre pare aired, you know, have
probably a higher survival rate. So you know, it turns
this can turn into sort of a really dark statement.
But I do think that there is a there's a
(18:13):
mood of that in the country at this point.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay, And is this Brad people who already are like
gun owners not going to think or are more people saying, hey,
I need to do that and then beyond that, need
to get trained.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
I think it tends to be gun owners. I mean,
think about it this way, Amy that in any given month,
they're about a million and a half guns sold in
this country each month. Some months are higher, some of
the lower. It went up quite a bit higher during
the pandemic. But the point being, that's a lot of weapons,
(18:51):
and I think it tends to be people that either
have recently purchased or just have firearms and they're only
sort of routine outlet was to go to a range. Obviously,
this is a whole different dimension. And obviously it's a
it's a big investment of time to learn all these
other skill sets. I mean, combat shooting. I've done a
(19:12):
lot of that, and it's, you know, a certain skill
set you have to practice. Can you shoot while you're running?
Can you go behind things? Can you lay on the
ground and shoot? And apparently that's what they're teaching folks.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Okay, and you you mentioned too that again, we've.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Heard of like these little places people go off the
grid and go out into the woods and do all
their military or paramilitary training and that kind of stuff.
But this isn't This isn't that. This isn't fringe groups
or left and right extremist groups.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
This is more mainstream.
Speaker 11 (19:47):
This is more mainstream, and that's and that's how it's presented.
You know, that's not going the gate of the crowd
you just talked about, continuing to do their training for
a whole different sort of philosophy or or maybe some
of us to say, Amy, I mean those those folks
fall into a number of categories, but one is that
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they believe that the world's falling apart and they're going
to have to find a remote place to survive.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
And if it does, they're going to be ready.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And I'm going to be hoping that I have gas
in my tank to get out of town.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
We're just waiting for Starbucks though.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
That's fun.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Brad Garrett, thank you so much. This is a very information,
very interesting information. I appreciate you coming on with us
this morning.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
You're welcome to Amy.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I know that there is a.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
There is an area of California that I know of
that is not a fringe group, and they I swear
the whole area is like yep, we're ready in case,
in case the stuff hits the fan, and I'm like, well,
that's where I'm going if I've got a full tank
of guess A helicopters crashed into the Hudson River, killing
all six people on board. This woman's as she saw
(21:00):
the whole thing yesterday, I was a shock.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
I tried to call nine one launch, I couldn't reach anyone.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I just ran towards it.
Speaker 11 (21:07):
It was very fuss.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Video posted online appears to show the helicopter breaking apart
before landing in the water. Please say the helicopter was
carrying a pilot, two adults, and three kids. They were
all tourists from Spain. It's not clear yet what caused
the crash. Two former police officers in Torrents had pleaded
guilty to spray painting a swastika inside a car in
twenty twenty. That led to an investigation into vandalism that
(21:29):
turned up text messages between officers which used racist and
homophobic slurs. The texts also joked about beating up and
racially profiling people. The two officers will be on probation
for two years. A reusable tote bag is causing a
frenzy in California.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
Rater Joe's has brought back its popular canvas mini toats
this week. The new pastel colors coming baby Blue, Pink, Lavender,
and mind green. The bags cost just two ninety nine,
but some resellers are charging big bucks. The eBay four
mini tooe bags can cost up to ninety dollars, not
including taxes. One Pink Mini tote is currently listed at
(22:07):
just under one thousand dollars. Some people have been spending
hours lined up outside their local trader Joe's in hopes
of getting a bag. Depor mark Ka a fine news.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
People are silly and the toads are cute. They look
like Easter, but not for one thousand bucks.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The iconic, Speaking of Pink, the iconic Pink's Hot Dogs
will open a spot at the La Zoo today, bringing
its world famous winners to more than one and a
half million annual visitors to the Zoo. The new location
will open inside the Zoo next to the Cape Vulture Plaza,
offering staple menu items like Pink's famous chili Dog.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
The Guadalajara Dog and of course the Betty White Dog.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yesterday, if you were with us on wake Up Call,
we got to talk to NASA astronaut and Space Force
Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who recently returned from the International
Space Station. It has been so much fun getting to
know him and learn about what he's doing. We do
have the full interview up on our website KFI AM
(23:07):
six forty dot com and just go to the wake
Up Call page so slash wake Up Call and really
interesting stuff. Just love talking to Colonel Hag and wanted
to give a shout out to our well he's our
liner guy, our promo guy, the creative man Clay Rowe
who put together this really super fun promo.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
People of Earth sets your alarm clock for wake Up
Call weekdays from five to six am.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Say good morning to NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian
Colonel Nick Haig, who just returned from the International Space Station.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Here Amy King asked the tough questions.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I've heard that some astronauts come back taller.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
He came back taller, and then I locked it all.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Gravity took it away.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You got a haircut in space? How does that work?
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Essentially you're hooking a vacuum cleaner to the hair tremmer,
but we received no training on how to give a haircut.
The first one is a little you know, dicey wake
Up Call.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
With Amy kadi Am a tripping time on KFI AM
six forty more stimulating talk from space.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So much fun again.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You can listen to the full interview on our website
KFIAM six forty dot com.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Just go to the wake up Call page.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
When we come back, it's a DIY weekend with the
house Whisper and the host of Home on KFI Dean Sharp.
Some projects you can tackle on your own and when
you should call in the professionals. A Russian born woman
from Los Angeles in prison for treason in Russia is
back on American soil Cassinia, Carolina, touchdown at Joint Bass
(24:37):
Andrews in Maryland yesterday after she was freed in a
prisoner swap with Russia. She thanked President Trump and the
American government for helping her get home. Police are looking
for four men in dark hoodies who pulled off a
smash and grab robbery in Sherman Oaks. Pullyse say the
guys shattered glass counters and stole a bunch of jewelry
from a store in the Westfield Fashion Square shortly after
(24:59):
noon yesterday. Got away in a silver gray Oudi A
six with a yellow covering over its license plates. Hikers beware,
there's snakes in them our hills. A hiker got bit
yesterday around five pm on a remote section of toy
On Trail in Griffith Park. LA Fire says the hiker
was airlifted out of the park and take to the
(25:19):
hospital and is in fair condition. LA Fire says most
snake bites happen in the springtime, when snakes come out
of their hibernation like state. At six oh five, its
handle on the news, we got a tit for tat
thing going because the US put tariffs on China. Then
China put tariffs on the US, and then we did
(25:40):
it back to them, and now they're doing it back
to us.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
When will it end?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Let's say good morning too. The host of home on
KFI our house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, it's a dy weekend. I love a good DIY.
It's so fun. Yeah, it makes you feel like you
really kind of can accomplish things. And we've got some
big projects, some small projects. But you're going to be
talking about diys on your show this weekend.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Yeah, and we're going to be focusing on sometimes very
little things make the big difference when di wires get
active on a project and they get frustrated because they're like, well, wait,
the instructions never said how much of this or how
little of that, or how to do this. And so
I'm going to be taking and tackling some of those
(26:26):
those little techniques that make all the difference. And we'll
be taking calls on Saturday and spending most of Sunday
talking about these fix it tips.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Okay, so there's so many here. I'm like, oh, yeah,
need to do that, need to do that. I've tried that,
can't do that. Here's an easy one, hopefully. What if
your toilet runs in the middle of the night. That's
still a problem sometimes.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yes, the haunted toilet.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Why are we laying in bed and all of a
sudden we hear the toilet running. It's usually something super
super simple. It's just usually nine times out of ten,
it's the flapper inside the tank. It's that little flap
that opens up that the chain is connected to from
the handle of the toilet. That flapper sits in water
(27:12):
constantly in its entire life, and eventually the rubber of
the flapper starts to fail, and so it starts leaking
water a little bit into the tank, a little bit,
a little bit more, and then the tank drops its
water level and the valve wants to refill it, and
that's what we hear in the middle of the night. Fortunately,
a flapper.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Costs like four dollars five dollars at the hardware core
and takes all of you know, thirty seconds to change out,
and suddenly we will not have our haunted toilet being
used by no one in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, so that's a great quick fix. Okay, here's another one.
I've run into this. I bet you have to what
do you do when you bust a light bulb and
you need to get it out and there's all that
sharp glass.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Yeah, and you know what I've I always mentioned two
things here, because there's the right way to do it,
and then there is this.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Kind of mythological story of how to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think if you look online, everybody says, oh, just
get a potato, Get a rusted potato and shove it
up in there and start to turn it. And you
know what, we've tried it before and every once in
a while it works. But don't waste your time with
the potato. There's no reason to get a potato anywhere
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near a broken light bulb. You just make sure that
the power is off and that there is no energy
running to that fixture. And this is where the use
of a pair of needle nosed pliers comes in handy.
You either grab the very center of that broken bulb fixture,
or with needlenose plyers, you can grab the edge of
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the of the brass cup that's still stuck up there
in the fixture, bend it in a little bit and
rotate it clockwise and you'll see that you'll get all
of that out quickly. Don't worry about using a rusted potato.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
But I have used the potato and it did work
one time.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
I know.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
And you know the funny thing is because potatoes are
just firm enough and just moist enough that they form
kind of a vacuum seal around what's left and they
become essentially a wrench for taking it out. It's just
will frustrate somebody if you go all the way to
the store and hit a potato, bring it home, get
up there on your ladder and find out that the
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fixture is stuck in there a little bit too much,
and that the potato just turns and turns, and you're like, Okay,
why did I waste a trip to the store when
I could have just used a pair of plyers?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Exactly, so to just use the plyer.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Dean Sharp is going to be saving you unnecessary trips
to the store all weekend long. I would love to
talk about more of this. Unfortunately we don't have the
time to do it, but you're going to talk about
it this weekend. What to do with mushy light recept
I've got that problem. How do you repair a damaged
window screen, I've got that problem. How do you fix
a jiggling doorknob, I've got that problem. And how do
(30:08):
you reattach loose carpet. I've got all these problems. So
I'm going to be listening to your show this weekend.
Dean sounds great, Okay, great Saturday from six to eight
right here on KFI, and then Sundays nine to noon.
It's a home with Dean Sharp. You can also follow
him at home with Dean. Thank you, Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho. Wow, Courtney, what a week on Wall Street Friday.
You're probably going, oh my god, I get a weekend,
not to deal.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
With it at A'm on vacation next week. So I'm
really looking forward to this.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I bet you never said that.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Oh yeah, you earned it. You earned it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So after all, yesterday we were down like two thousand points,
and then what did we end the day on?
Speaker 15 (30:55):
Well, when we look at the markets, there was like
this huge stampede out of stocks yesterday after that big,
big buying wave, one of the biggest that we've seen
in years, right, so why they're all bay Well still
underneath it all, there is concern growing that the escalation
of the trade war is going to bring lasting damage
to economic growth. The recession word every pro I'm talking to, recession, recession, recession,
(31:20):
that's all what we're hearing. So yesterday the dutfell oney
fifteen points, the S and P five hundred tumbled three
and a half percent, giving back some of the huge gains.
I mean, we were close to three thousand points higher
on Wednesday when it came to the Doubt. But see
what's happening is so many people on Wall Street are
really struggling to figure out what the next move is
(31:41):
in this constantly evolving trade policy. Like this morning, China
coming out raising duties on goods to one hundred and
twenty five percent starting tomorrow. But despite that, stocks are
moving higher. And by the way, this report is sponsored
by Total Wine and more Doubt futures right now they're up.
We're getting a bit of a recovery today, up one
hundred and ninety five points, SESS and P futures gaining
(32:01):
half a percent.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Okay, so you mentioned the possibility of recession Courtney, and
you said, we're seeing we're starting to see the return
of recession.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Hair at salons.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
What is that?
Speaker 15 (32:13):
Yes, Well, in two thousand and eight, everybody was trying
to go a little on the cheap. Some people were
trying to do their own haircuts because of course it
was it was really rough out there during the financial crisis.
But hairstylists that we've been talking to also massage therapists,
to colorists, nail folks, they're witnessing firsthand some of the
(32:34):
earliest possible signs that we may be headed for an
economic downturn. They say that customers are choosing cheaper, more
low maintenance looks so they don't have to go back.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
All that often.
Speaker 15 (32:43):
And clients who previously got color every two to three weeks,
they're now stretching it to about four and five.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
There were seeing more roots people.
Speaker 15 (32:51):
But some of the hair pros they say that they're
seeing lesson tips and that's tough for them.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So yeah, okay, all right, Well that's getting in your
business with Bloomberg Courtney donaho We apparently won't be talking
to you next week where you go on vacation.
Speaker 15 (33:05):
I am going to Florida to visit my brother. My
brother is actually moving back home to New York and
so I have to transport a cat.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
It It should be funny. So we'll see.
Speaker 15 (33:18):
We're taking oscar back to New York.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, good luck with that, and we will still get
in your business on Monday morning. It will just be
with someone else. Thank you, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, See you later.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Two laped officers have been hurt in a fight with
a person in the Florence neighborhood of South la. It
happened about two forty five yesterday afternoon. The officers were
taken to the hospital with minor injuries. One person was arrested.
Not clear what started the fight. Twelve pro Palestinian protesters
are facing felony charges for allegedly breaking into and vandalizing
and building at Stanford. Prosecutors say the group then barricaded
(33:52):
themselves inside the president's office last June and demanded the
university divest from investments with Israel.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
They were arrested to the next day.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Prosecutors say the group did between three hundred and fifty
thousand and a million dollars in damage. San Francisco Mayor
Daniel Lurie says WEIMO driverless vehicles can enter car free
zones in the city, not pedestrian zones. The zones were
previously restricted for public transit, emergency vehicles, and commercial delivery trucks.
Now opening up to WEMO, WEIMO is starting to map
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out the area, hopes to be operating in the city
by this summer. Let's say good morning to ABC's Will
Gans Will if you're going to theaters, is Robbie Malick
the guy to watch.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
He is the guy to watch, and he has the
oscar to prove it. You know. After Bohemian Rhapsody and
his turn as Spready Mercury, he's now changing genres and
he stars in a spy thriller. It's called The Amateur,
and he plays a character who is sort of like
a computer geek who works for the government, but his
wife is killed by a small group of terrorists and
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he decides that he personally is going to get revenge
on all of them, so he sort of goes rogue
when his bosses aren't doing enough in his opinion, and
he's trained by Lawrence Fishburne, and he goes on a
personal mission to hunt these people down one by one,
and it's kind of a fun take.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
On the genre.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
You know. He's an unlikely hero, a little bit of
a geek, but he uses his tech savvy to do
some cool stuff in the movie. So it's a good
one that's in theaters this weekend.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Spies going rogue.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Never heard of that before, imagine yeah.
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But Robbie Mallock, he's fun because, like you said, even
though he kind of plays like a geek guy, he
kind of looks that I mean and you're I'm just surprised.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
He's such a great actor. I love watching him.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
He's so good. And you know, there are some like
really touching moments, you know, where he's exploring his grief.
And Katrina balf who was in Belfast a couple of
years ago, is in this too, and yeah, so it
is like, of course it's a good action packed spy thriller,
but it also has some really great acting moments in
it as well.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Okay, speak of movies in theaters, I still haven't seen
the Penguin Lessons, have you no?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
And I'm glad to hear you say you haven't either.
That means I'm in good company because I told you
I would, and I haven't kept my end of the bargain.
But I said I was too.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, I think I haven't heard anything about it from
anybody same.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
But maybe the world is waiting on us, Amy. Maybe
we're the ones that are going to really turn the
page for these penguins.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
All right, well it I mean, it looks like it's
just like this lovely thing that you need to bring
tissues to. And it's Steve Coogan, who I think he's
just a fun actor. So I'm going to check it
out eventually, but let's go back to the stream.
Speaker 9 (36:34):
So Hacks is back, Oh and thank god. I just
it is like one of my all time favorite shows.
And if you'll believe it, everyone is saying that season
four is somehow their best yet and that they're really
hitting their stride in season four, and I'm like, what
do you mean they're hitting their stride? Like the stride
has been going strong since season one. But yeah, episodes
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one and two of the brand new season dropped last
night on and of course, Jeane Smart is back as
Deborah Vance, and Hannah Einbinder is back as her sort
of frenemy best frenemy writer, you know, extraordinary. So it's
they're picking up right where season three left off, which is,
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you know, her character just was named the host of
a late night show and that's sort of the direction
that we're headed in this season. But it's just it's
so great.
Speaker 10 (37:26):
You know.
Speaker 9 (37:26):
The episodes are about half an hour each and they're
hilarious and they're brilliantly acted, and yeah, I'm just so
glad Hacks is back.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Yeah, and you mentioned front of Me.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I'm like that that even that is going to be
tested this season after what Little Hannah pulled in the
last episode of last year.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
If you haven't watched it, I don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
Yeah, yeah, a taste of her own medicine though, but
it's fun to see that sort of power dynamic shift
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Absolutely okay, and what will happen to June Osborne the
final season of Handmaid's Tale?
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Exactly?
Speaker 9 (37:58):
The first three episodes of the last season of Handmaid's
Tailor out on Hulu now, and then from here it'll
be a brand new episode every Tuesday till the end
of May, and then we're we're saying goodbye to that
series for good. So this is of course based on
the Margaret Atwood novel and then some and it is
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you know, right from the jump, action packed Serena and
June bump into each other on a train and yeah,
it's we're off to the races already. And you know,
this is a little bit of a heavier watch, longer episodes,
but you know, Elizabeth Moss has won an Emmy for
playing this as well, so really well acted and the
(38:40):
final chapter, so I think a lot of folks will
be tuning in to see how all of this wraps up.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, and well, I'm going to tell you I did
watch it the first three episodes, and I'm I'm a
little hesitant because, like you were saying, it's based on
the book, and then some it's kind of like they've
got to find some story and it's makes sense what
they're trying to do, but I'm like, it's feeling a
little drawn out to me in.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Some of the situations. I'm like, yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Like it's just I don't know, I feel like it's
it's getting close to jumping the sharp.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
So it's probably good that this is the last season.
Speaker 9 (39:13):
Yeah, I'm with you. Like some sometimes it's like this
character can't survive this long, Like we can't, you know
what I mean, Like how many times is it going
to be a narrow myths or you know, a quick
escape at the last moment. I'm with you there, but
I do think that, you know, hopefully they'll land the
plane and you know, there are only a few more
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episodes left to go, so.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I'm still watching it, still watching it, all right. Yeah,
ABC's well, Gans, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Have a great weekend, you too, Amy, Take care all right.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Rising tariffs are weighing on local businesses. Michelle Lomaline owns
Sweet Petite Confections in San Diego. She says her costs
have been going up for a while with rising prices
for chocolate, and now she says prices for things like
her packaging, which comes from China, are headed up.
Speaker 15 (39:57):
I have bond on ons that are three dollars of online,
and my competitors are all for four four fifty five
dollars of online.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I'm going to go up to maybe three seventy five.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Some business owners say, as well as costs going up,
they've seen a significant drop in sales. Recently, news brought
to you by Simper Solaris the California Assemblies voted down
proposed budget amendments to terminate medical funding or for illegal
immigrants and also California's high speed rail project. State Assembly
Wman Carl Demyo says the bill would have done a
lot to help California.
Speaker 16 (40:27):
Eliminate funding for illegal immigrant free healthcare at taxpayer expense,
as well as direct the elimination the suspension the cancelation
of the high speed rail project, which has become a
multi billion dollar boon.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Doggle Demio says The vote prioritizes illegal immigrants and a
train over taxpayers to keep taxpayer funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Healthcare for illegal immigrants is going to cost US state
nine and a half billion dollars this year. The high
speed rail project's costs a balloon from an initial eight
billion dollars in two thousand and eight to over one
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hundred thirty billion dollars. LA Kenny fire Station one sixty
four and Huntington Beach is reopening today. It's been closed
for the last month eleven months because it was heavily
damaged by an early morning fire. The fire tore through
the two story fire station around four a m.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
Last May.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Fire crew has been working out of a temporary facility
for almost a year. Probably going to be good to
go home and the fiftieth Long Beach Grand Prix opens
today with qualifying for all races. There will also be
the start of the drifting competition and a concert tonight
by the Canadian DJ Dubs DJ Duo Dubs. You can
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tell I'm familiar with who they are, Okay. The Long
Beach Grand Prix was first run in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Is a Formula five thousand race. Is that right? A
Formula five thousand, a Formula five hundred.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
I would think five hundred, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Okay, Editor Brian, Let's check that it was a race
for open wheel cars with maximum five point leader engine capacity.
It was a Formula one race from nineteen seventy six
to eighty three before it became an indie car event.
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southland weather from kffive got some areas of low
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clouds in fog. Otherwise mostly sunny with some clouds rolling through.
Highs in the low seventies at the beaches, seventies and
eighties for Metro La Inlando, c and the Anlope Valley,
uprating to low nineties for the valleys and Inland Empire
fifty seven and Fuller ten, fifty one in San Clemente,
sixty in Pasadena, and fifty eight in Santa Monica. Live
from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and
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and technical producer Cono along with traffic specialist Will I'm
Amy King. This has been your wake up call. If
you missed in a wake up call, you can listen
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