April 9, 2025 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. ABC News national reporter Steven Portnoy opens the show talking about a judge ordering AP’s access be restored. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about how the tariffs will effect the tech industry and the latest social security scam. Amy takes us ‘Out and About’ to Disney California Adventure for their annuals Food and Wine Festival. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with author & NBC producer Neil O’Brien talking about his new book, After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America’s Favorite Media Company.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
K f I and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I got a good wake up call your host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is your Wednesday wake up call for April ninth.
Where are those Dodgers today, Oh, that's right, they're still
at the Washington Nationals. Of course they had their visit
to the White House. That was kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So excited but also frustrated because the final season of
Handmaid's Tale is out. Yeah, it dropped yesterday, and of
course you get a little alerts on your phone. Those
are alerts I like, And I was like, oh, cred
I don't have time to watch it because by the
time I got it, it was like seven o'clock. In well,
with these stupid hours, you know, I get up at
two thirty, so I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
So I've got that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But and then speaking of some of the alerts that
are driving me crazy, the ring alerts, Oh still my gosh. Yeah, wait, okay,
now I can't now I can't get them to come up.
But they were going fast and furious. Like, there's a
helicopter overhead. Does anybody know what's going on? I'm like, oh,
come on, who cares? There's a person that yo, crazy
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coyote noises inciting. Oh no, that was three hours ago.
Uh here's another one. Any idea? What's up with all
those sirens?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
You live in the city?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Car keys found? Please respond if you have lost car
keys to a Nissan?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hey did someone else hear that explosion by the freeway?
Oh there's a coyote walking down the street. It peeked
into my front yard. Anyone know what's going on in atwater?
Helicopters circling it wears woman's stealing packages.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm worried about the peeping coyote.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Right, black female puppy found. Super friendly, be careful, super
reckless driver. Young kid maybe his girlfriend almost crashed into me. Hey,
a person jumped over a fence and stole a bike.
I mean serious. Oh wait, guinea pigs. Multiple guinea pigs
dropped off near the lake. Oh no, oh come on, people,
I got to turn these I know, right, Okay. I
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also want to let you know that we confirmed we
get to talk to NASA astronaut and Space Force guardian,
also a friend of Wake Up called Colonel Nick Hag.
That's coming up tomorrow morning during wake Up Call. Mark
your calendar. So maybe you don't normally get up on
early on Thursdays, but if you do, you're gonna want
to be there. It's his first media interview since he
got back to Earth. We're super excited to find out
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how things were up on the International Space Station. Okay,
here's what's a head on wake up call. Arraiment has
been postponed until April thirtieth four. The forty three year
old youth soccer coach charged with murder in the killing
of a thirteen year old boy whose body was found
last week along the side of the road in a
ditch in Oxnard.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Now again his arraignment postponed till the end of the month.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Former Dodgers relief pitcher Octavio Dotel is one of at
least one hundred and thirteen people killed when the roof
of a nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic. It happened
Tuesday night at the jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo.
Dotel pitched for thirteen teams in fifteen seasons in the
major leagues, including for the Dodgers in twenty ten. Looks
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like the trade war is on. China has just announced
it's raising its retaliatory tariff on the US to eighty
four percent, up from thirty four percent announced earlier. China's
increase in response to President Trump announcing yesterday that total
tariffs on China would be one hundred four percent effective Today,
we're gonna be talking with KTLA's tech guy, Rich Demiro.
(03:58):
We've got a social Security scan to wht out for
how you can get a bargain on Apple TV plus.
That's always a good thing, and don't expect to get
any bargains if you're buying a new laptop anytime soon.
We're going out and about to one of my favorite
places on Earth. The Food and Wine Festival at DCA
is on and it is delicious. My favorite person to
hang out with at Disney, someone who you'll remember, Nick
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Paulio'chani's joining us to tell us what it is, how
to navigate it, and some of the fabulous foods you
can taste. And speaking of Disney, we've all heard lots
of stories about how Walt Disney built his empire from
Mickey Mouse to Disneyland. But what happened after Walt Disney died.
It's the subject of a new book called After Disney.
We're going to be talking with the author of that book,
and we have some of those books to give away.
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That's coming up before the top of the hour. All
coming up on wake up calls. So much going on.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's five oh six on your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's check in now with ABC's Stephen portnoy So steven
score one for free speech?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What did the judge in Washington rule yesterday?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, has ruled that the
Resident of the United States and his aids brazenly violated
the First Amendment to the Constitution and the decision a
couple of months ago to ban the Associated Press from
the Oval Office, Air Force, Won, the East Room, and
other spaces where the President holds events open to reporters.
The judge held that once the White House opens the
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doors of those spaces to reporters, it can't exclude an
outlet that the president might disfavor based on the journalistic
decisions of that organization. In the case of the AP,
the President has decided or had decided to exclude that
organization because they made the editorial judgment to continue referring
to the body of water off the southern coast of
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the United States as the Gulf of Mexico rather than
the Gulf of America. And the President decided in mid
February to ban the AP from his office and his
plane and any event that he was holding. Well, the
judge came in yesterday and said that that can't be allowed,
that it violates the First Amendment to the Constitution, and
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the AAP's access must be immediately restored. Now, the judge
has stayed his own order until Sunday to give the
President the opportunity to decide whether to appeal the judge's
decision to the d C Circuit Court. But it's generally
understood here in Washington that the d C Circuit Court
is generally friendly toward reporters, particularly large news organizations, and
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is not likely to favor the President in this way.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But we'll see, okay, So if they appealed it to
the d C courts and didn't get a favorable ruling,
could technically they go all the way up to the
Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Certainly yes, But then the question would be what does
the court agree to take the case? And remember that
the Supreme Court always the circuit courts do not have
this discretion, but the Supreme Court does. And if the
court were interested in hearing the case, and you would
take four justices to decide that, then yes, we could
see oral argument in this high stakes debate over what
it means to a free press. And that may be
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teed up here, but for now, it's a victor at
the district court for the Associated Press.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, So, Steve and I know that we have no
way of knowing for sure, but I like to play
the WEF game.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
If this made it to the Supreme.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Court, I mean, the High Court would surely side on
the side of the Associated Press. I mean, I know
you're careful on giving opinions and stuff, but in this case,
what you know from the court wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Your best guess, but be that yes, they would side
with it.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Well, what's clear is that this isn't a case of
viewpoint discrimination and retaliation. Right for the decisions of an
independent news organization to say, write, make a decision, do
whatever it would. The question becomes, all right, well, where
does the president have his own rights and power? There's
this idea that the president invites reporters into his office,
shouldn't he be able to pick and choose. There's the
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idea that over the last couple of months, the White
House has moved from the historic and traditional role played
by the White House correspond Association, which full disclosure, I
was once the president of. And the issue becomes, you know,
where does the president's right run a foul of the
First Amendment? And ultimately, the judge viewed it through the
prism of what's the purpose of reporters in the Oval office?
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And why does the president invite them? And what's on
what basis are these decisions made? And what the judge
found was, even though this idea that the WHCA is
out of the picture, the truth is that the pool
as it's historically been constituted is still there and its
primary construct. You still have three members of a television
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network crew, a radio reporter, a print journalist in a
rotation that the WHCA has established and they have not
altered it at the White House, and wire service reporters photographers.
The question it becomes how many wire service reporters and
if the AP is not on an equal plane with
Bloomberg and Reuter's, well, then they've been disfavored and excluded,
and that runs a foul of their rights. So, you know,
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I think given that dynamic, and given the fact that
the AP is uniquely been singled out and excluded, it's
an easier analysis to say, well, what's actually happened here
is the APS the only odd man out, and that's
not fair to them, and it is blatantly discriminatory based
on their editorial decisions. And that's exactly what the framers
aim to protect when they wrote the First.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Amendment, Love Constitution.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much for getting
us up to date on that one.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You bet, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom at LA Mayor
Bass will be spending some time in Pacific Palisades this morning.
She'll be outside of property where the owner recently got
a building permit and has started construction to rebuild after
the wildfires. Monday marked three months since the start of
the fires. Mayor Bass has highlighted actions taken in coordination
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with the county, state and federal partners to speed up
disaster recovery. The La City Council has asked what to
do now that it's left Well, let's see. The La
City Council has asked what to do now that it's
been left alone in the La Homeless Services Authority.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
The county has already decided to leave loss up, pulling
hundreds of millions of day, creating its own homeless department
at least city council when Monica Rodriguez says it's time
for the city to do the same.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
For far too long, there has been an enablement of
funding this failure, and it needs to stop.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
The City Council has directed city staff to report on
what the county's decision means for the city's homeless spending.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
The soccer coach from Lancaster accused of killing a thirteen
year old boy from the San Fernando Valley has appeared
in court, but he didn't enter a plea. His arraignment
yesterday was pushed back to the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
D A.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Nathan Hakman says Mario Garcia a Qino is charged with
murder during the commission or attempted commission of a lewd
act with a child.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
We will be evaluating whether or not the death penalty
is appropriate for this particular case.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Garcia Aquino is also facing charges of assaulting two other
teenage boys. A city in northern California has voted in
favor of a curfew for light.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The Palo Alto City Council has voted unanimous in favor
of a dark Sky law for a night curfew on
outdoor lighting. Nearby habitat contains multiple endangered species which would
be helped by less light at night. The initial proposal
would apply to new buildings and would start at ten PM,
or two hours after a business closes, but the city
says it wants to look at applying it to all
outdoor lights. Some people have complained they need the lights
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on to deter crimes, so the council said it would
look at exemptions for areas with high crime rates. Michael
Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
World markets are down as President Trump's latest tariffs take effect.
European markets have extended their losses, and indexes in Germany
and Tokyo are down as Trump is threatened threatened to
add even more import taxes markets in the US and
China have reversed early losses. In a speech last night,
Trump said he is planning tariffs on pharmaceuticals so that
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more medications would be made in the US. Elon Musk
says a key trade advisor to the Trump administration is
a moron.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Peter Navarro claimed Tesla is not a car manufacturer and
instead is a car assembler that puts vehicles together with
parts from other countries. Musk said what Navarro claimed is
demonstrably false. Musk says the trade advisor is dumber that
a sack of bricks, and his company is the most
vertically integrated auto manufacturer in the US. Musk added that
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Tesla has the most American made cars. Deborah mark KFFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The famous house scene in the opening credits and establishing
shots so the nineteen nineties TV sitcom Full House has
been sold. The Victorian era home in San Francisco on
postcard row was purchased for six million dollars. That's a
half million dollars down from its asking price last summer.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
WHOA Whoa.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The house was built in nineteen hundred, previously owned by
Full House creator Jeff Franklin. He sold it in twenty
twenty for just over five million dollars. The La County
Board of Supervisors has its approved a plan to speed
up rebuilding efforts in Altadena. The motion calls for the
county to create a permitting authority. Supervisor Catherine Barker says
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having one point person for permits is going to speed
up the process so homes can get rebuilt. More than
fifteen hundred permit applications have been submitted, none have been approved.
The Trump administration has reinstated a number of emergency food
programs it cut over the weekend. The World Food Program
had warned that the cuts could amount to death sentences
(13:30):
for millions facing hunger and starvation. USAID funding has been
restored for food programs in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Ecuador,
and Somalia.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Still time to ski.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Mammoth has so much snow it says it's going to
stay open through Memorial Day. In Big Bear, snow Stomach
shuts down on Sunday, and Bear Bear Mountain says it's
planning to stay open through at least April twentieth. It
could be longer depending on the weather. Six oh five's
handle on the news the trade wars on China is
hiking its tariffs in response to the tariffs imposed by
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the US. Let's say good morning now to KTLA's tech
guy and the host of Rich on Tech on KFI.
It's Rich de Miro.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Okay, So, Rich, I would love to start today with
this social security email scam because these things look real
and they're not, and they can really mess you up.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
So what's the link?
Speaker 10 (14:23):
Yes, and this one's a doozy because if you go
to it, it actually will. If you go to the website,
you click the link it says download your statement, it
will actually download malware onto your computer. And if you
ran that, like if you double click that file that
it downloads immediately. It is bad news. So I got
this email forwarded to me from a viewer John People.
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By the way, Amy, because I do so many these scams,
Everyone sends me their scamm e mail. So all day long,
I'm literally going through scamm emails and be like, is
this one interesting? Is this one good?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is this one new?
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Is this one different? But this one is going around
because I went to the Social Security website and they
did say yeah, as of April first, this is going around,
so beware. It basically says we've got your social security statement,
it's ready to download. You click the file. It immediately
downloads some uh you know file to your computer. And
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like I said, if you click that, it is really
bad malware. It'll give the hackers full control of your computer,
stealing passwords, reading files, spying on you. It's really wild.
So beware and do not click those links.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And with that one, Rich, it's not one where they
kind of grab control and then say, oh, here pays
some sort of a ransom.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, it's just to go and screw up your computer.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Oh no, there could be some ransomware in there as well,
and they can do whatever they want. Yeah, So we
didn't we didn't get that far. We my son and
I actually kind of like tested the malware in a
sandbox to see like just.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
What it does.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
And it does a lot.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
I mean, it's but we didn't get to a screen
where it's where it kind of like took over our
computer and said, hey, pay this ransom. But that's definitely
in the realm of possibilities for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
And by the way, yeah.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
The best way to get around all that stuff, like,
have a backup, a complete backup of your computer. So
if you ever run into a situation where you have
ransomware take over your computer, the best thing to have
is a complete backup of your computer, and a good
tech person can just wipe your computer clean and reinstall
your stuff and you don't have to pay that ransom.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, And here's my dumb question of the day, because
you know I love dumb questions when it comes to technology.
So to get a backup of your computer, do you
put that? Can you put your whole computer like on
an external hard drive or where do.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You put it?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (16:32):
I mean you can literally just get buy an external
hard drive, plug it into your computer. The first time
you plug in a blank hard drive on Mac and Windows,
it should say, hey, do you want to use this
as a backup?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
If not?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
On Mac, it's called time machine. On Windows it's called
file history or backup. Just search for it, set it
and pull the drive out. By the way, don't leave
it connected to your computer, just connect it every week
or so.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Okay, Okay, that's great, great advice.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, you were talking about laptops and if you're in
the market for a lap top. You might not be
finding any deals anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I don't think.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Well, look, I mean it's funny because I follow this
website slick Deals, and I have a filter with like
the best laptop deals, and every day I check that,
and this is the week. This week is the smallest
amount of deals I've ever seen, like ever. There's a one, two, three, four,
five deals and they're not super cheap. But I mean,
here's the thing. So with these tariffs, we have not
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seen in a big way. No major company has said, hey,
we're raising prices. These prices have gone up. Obviously Apple
is the big one, you know, Lenovo, HP, Dell. Waiting
for something from those companies because that would signal a
real impact from these tariffs.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
We have not seen that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But some smaller.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Companies have kind of changed the way they've done things.
So there's a company called Framework, which makes laptops that
are basically pieces that you can like replace over time,
and so they have temporarily halted sales of their entry
level laptop because they say that the ten percent tariff,
even a ten percent would be too much. And then Razor,
they make really high end gaming computers. Again, they haven't
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said anything publicly, but they took the pre order page
down for their latest Laid sixteen laptop.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Okay, all right, So just so I think these.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Companies are like us Amy.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
They don't know what's happening, right, They just they're just like, hey,
we want to make sure we're not going to sell
these things at a loss, but we also want to
continue selling our goods in America.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Gotcha? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And then here's one place you can find a deal
with Apple TV plus.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
I think I think Apple did this just for some
levity in our world right now, because there is so
many price increases and so many changes. Apple TV plus
three dollars a month for three months, so limited time offer,
and you know this is for now through April twenty fourth,
new and they say quote qualified returning subscribers whatever that means.
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Just you know, try it see if it works for you.
But not a bad deal, right two ninety nine for
the three months they.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Got great rate programming. So I'm wondering, Rich, can I
cancel and then renew or do we.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Know that that? I don't know.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Yeah, I don't know that a lot of people were
asking me that on Instagram last night and I'm like,
don't have the answer to that. I mean, look, they
have I'm sure you can look at their little terms
and conditions at the bottom, but I have not been
able to find like definitive like what does qualifying mean?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Okay, and reading that side, let's see offer expires qualified. Yeah,
redeeming offer not available if you are eligible for a
free Apple TV Plus or your subscription.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
So it's basically like I can't find the answer to that.
But I think if you cancel it, I'm guessing there's
some sort of like timeframe, yeah, where if you have
had it in the past, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, So if you don't have it, Apple TV really does.
They're like one of my favorites because I think about
who I'm going to cancel if I need to cancel
some I'm like, you can't be Apple TV.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
They have too much good programming on there.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
They don't do a ton, but what they do is
very high quality.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Absolutely Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You can get more great tech advice when you listen
to Rich on Tech every Saturday from eleven am to
two pm.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You can also, of course see him on KTLA.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Follow him on Instagram at Rich on tech and if
you want to know about the things that we just
talked about and other stuff that he talks about, he
puts it all up on his website.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It's Rich on tech dot TV. Thank you so much,
Rich Demiro.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
All right, I'm going on KTLA right now to talk
about my radio show on CAFI.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I love that.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Yeah, my whole piece today.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Okay, cool?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Thanks Rich, all right later by.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
A wild series of events has unfolded an Eagle Rock
following a three vehicle crash on the one thirty four
that tied up traffic for hours. Police say after the
track crash yesterday, one of the drivers ran off, ran
down a freeway off ramp and into the Eagle Rock
Recreation Center while carrying a guitar of all things, please say.
The guy then ran into a backyard stripped down to
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his underwear, and then you can see him on helicopter
video watering plants. The homeowner confronted the man with a gun.
The guy eventually surrendered. The homeowner ended up getting shot
in the shoulder by police after she apparently refused several
police commands to drop the gun. Police are still looking
for two other people, the irs has agreed to help
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ICE track down illegal immigrants. Court documents show the IRS
will provide the Department of Homeland Security with information for
migrants who are either under federal investigation or are already
facing deportation. The IRS had warned the Trump administration the
plan to use it for information could be illegal. Movie
theaters around the world are warning young moviegoers not to
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be disruptive at a Minecraft movie.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Viral videos on social media have shown teens shouting, spilling drinks,
and thrung popcorn during key scenes of a Minecraft movie.
One movie theater in northern New Jersey has banned unaccompanied
children from seeing the movie following vandalism in the theater,
and England movie theaters have warned viewers they could be
ejected if they cause a disruption. Minecraft is far exceeded
expectation by raking in more than three hundred and thirteen
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million dollars at the global box office in its first
four days. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
News State Farmers argued that without a rate increase, a
lot of homeowners could lose their insurance. During a hearing yesterday,
State farm says it plans to pay out over seven
billion dollars in claims from the La Fires. In January,
the Department of Homeland Security speeding up construction of three
border wall projects in San Diego County. Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noam has issued a waiver for environmental regulations which
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will allow its construction of more than two miles of
border wall in San Diego to proceed. A man in
La County suddenly has a whole lot of cash. The
California Lottery says Fernando Diego bought a Super Lotto Plus
ticket as a seafood market in Artesia back in December.
He pulled an instant winner worth forty seven million dollars.
See he's taken the lump sum twenty two million dollars
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in cash before taxes. We're going out and about to
one of my favorite places on earth, the Food and
Wine Festival at DCA Disney California Adventure, going on through
April twenty first, and one of my favorite people to
go to my favorite place is is our friend Nick Paulaochini.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Morning Nick, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I'm great?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So I always when we talk about our knowledge of Disney,
I always describe you as the play by play guy
and I'm the color commentary. So Nick's got all the
ins and outs, the industrial knowledge, and I go, oh,
look pretty colors.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So yeah, well that's what you need in every combination,
especially when you're going to a theme park like Disney
Californy Adventures.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Absolutely, so Nick, let's do the nuts and bolts really quick.
So how does the Food and Wine Festival at Disney
California Adventure work.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Pretty much, you are able to go to anything inside
of Disney California Adventure Parks. So there's two parts of
the Disneyland resort in Anaheim, and this is going to
give you different marketplaces with food from around southern California
and the state of California. All the food is inspired
by different vendors and different beer providers, breweries, wineries, everything
you name it, because it's not just about the food,
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it's about the beverages, even some fun tails. And then
one of the ultimate things to get through as much
as you can is they have a sip and saver passes,
which you and I take a huge advantage of. This year.
They've got a four pack and an eight pack, and
so the four pack is thirty two dollars and the
eight pack is sixty three dollars. Both of those are
available for you to sip and save around and if
you have it to be a magic key holder like
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you and I are, you also have an opportunity to
save a few bucks, and that is a fifty eight
dollars Sip and Saver pass from as a keyholders that
has eight sip and saver options you to try any
of the food options, the alcoholic options, those are additional costs.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Okay, so the sip and savers, Just to clarify a
little bit, you can get a four or an eight pack.
And basically what it does is you buy your coupons
ahead of time and then you use those to purchase
your different entrees.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
They're actually there's more like snacks.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Right exactly, but some of them are sizeable snacks, and
there's definitely that opportunity for you to save a few bucks.
And that's something we always like to make sure that
we're helping the people out with here on wake up Calls. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Absolutely, And one of the things that I love about
this is that you're right that there were a couple
of plates that were kind of substantial, but they're more
like I think they're made for sharing. So like when
Nick and I go, we go and we'll go get
this one and that one, and this one and that one.
We got like four or five things, and then we
can taste them all and then if we're not two stuffed,
we go back for more, or we go and ride
some rides and then come back later. So it's really
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kind of a great way to graze through the park
and get to try a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yes exactly. And the other thing too, This is a
great option. Even if you're not going into Disney California
Adventure you're able to try some of these things at
the restaurants and the shops at Downtown Disney as well
as the Disneyland resort hotels because they have the Friends
of the Festival items. So not just inside of the
Disneyland Disney California Adventure Park can you get these items.
But there are also special items at a vast majority
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of the three resort hotels and then several of the
restaurants at Downtown Disney, as well as the vendors that
are out on the street.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Great option to know and what are a couple of
your favorites. There's like the thirty forty fifty items.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
But we do have favorites, No, we do.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I think we both really loved I love the mini
street Dog, which if you saw on social media, mine
actually ended up on the ground, but that's another story.
But also we had the Ca Sabilia egg rolls, and
we've also had one of the cooler ones, at least
for me, is the Massubi fried rice which Alani resort
out in Hawaii. It's actually a recipe from their kitchens.
(26:21):
So it's kind of cool to bring things that are
not just here in Southern California, but also people that
are just off of the mainland and are able to
bring some of those fun foods to and flavors to
Southern California.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, and again it's a great option because you know,
it's not like a big, heavy meal, so you can
grab a snack and go, or grab three or four
and go. And then of course, as Nick mentions, there's
the food and the wine and the beer offerings. It's
a great way to add to an already magical day.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And it's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Through It's gone on through April twenty first, so coming up,
So got about a week and a half on a
little bit more that you're able to enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Okay, can we go one more time before it's done?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Oh, definitely, I have no doubt in mine. In fact,
I'm sure if you follow Amy K. King on Instagram,
Nick Polio here this weekend when Nick, you'll probably see
a bit of our food adventures there.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
In fact, I did put a little teaser up on
my Instagram at Amy K King and at KFI Am
six forty that you can take a look at the
La Street Dog and a couple of the other offerings
that they have. Nick Pouliochanne, always a pleasure. Can't wait
to go to Disney with you again. Thanks looking for it.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Thank you all.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Right, now time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donahoe. Courtney, I'm sorry we're a little bit late,
but we had to talk about Disney and food.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Of course, I always love that.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
And by the way, this report is sponsored by Fidelity
Wealth Management. We always have to talk about food, and
I always love talking about Disney too asolute. By the way, yeah,
they're actually rolling out big discounts in some of its
Florida parks in case anybody wants to go take a
trip there too.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They are I didn't know about that.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Yeah, they're offering half price tickets for kids ages three
to nine this summer. At least that covers one of
my children. But that's a first for Disney and hotel
guests are going to get free water park tickets on
the first day of their stay, while guests who book
rooms or four days or more, we'll be able to
eat for free. But it may be Disney's way of
distracting from Universal opening Epic Universe. That theme park is
(28:08):
opening next month.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I don't think we have any new theme parks, so
I doubt Disneyland's gonna do it. But if you're going
to Disney World, what a great opportunity.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Oh, it'd be great.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
I'm already starting to plan my trip, okay, and my
kids would like that.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This is a much more fun thing to talk about
than what happened in the markets yesterday because things started
so good.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah, And what's happening in the markets today too, or
we're having another rough day. Well, we had the wild
swings lashing Wall Street yesterday. We had back and forth
trade threats between the US and China that Knox stocks
even lower. We erased that early rally that you were
just talking about the Dow drop three hundred and twenty
points now this morning, we are seeing more volatility. President
(28:48):
Trump's reciprocal tariffs they kicked in this morning, China retaliating.
They came out around seven o'clock Eastern time with the
duties of their own. And now Jamie Diamond of JP Morgan,
he's weighing in and he's as probably a recession is
a likely outcome. So we are seeing the Dow right
now down seven hundred and forty points. The S and
P five hundred is also tumbling one point six percent.
(29:10):
And I want to point this out. The S and
P five hundred is down nineteen percent from its February record,
and if we continue to see the big losses that
we're seeing right now at the close of training, we
could be in a bear market now, a bear market
for people who are not familiar. That's a twenty percent
drop from a recent peak. And we had that peak
back in February. So the S and P five hundred
(29:31):
we need to close about one percent lower to reach
that twenty percent plunge from the all time high.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, and speaking of bad news, Apple shares their worst
four day stretch in twenty five years.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
And it's looking ugly again today too. As soon as
those China headlines cross, we saw that stock drop in
the pre market. But it's complicating. The tarff situation is
really complicating things for Apple. Investors are worried about its
ability to navigate the tar off sun China, Vietnam, and
India because they're all critical to its supply They create the.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
iPhones in China.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Shares have dropped so far twenty three percent in the
week of last week's tariff announcement, but the decline has
been so steep that Apple is no longer the most
valuable company in the S and P five hundred.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Microsoft has now taken over the top spot.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, Bloomberg's Courtney donaho getting in your business like we
do every day.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Let's do it again tomorrow, shall we?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I will.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I'll see you there, all right, thank you, Courtney. Renovating
the La Convention Center is back on the table. An
LA City Council committee says they'll look at the billion
dollar project, but it won't be done before the twenty
twenty eight Olympics. Events are scheduled to be held at
the convention Center for the summer Games. Plans were set
aside following the wildfires in January and LA's big budget gap.
(30:45):
Orange County will pay nine and a half million dollars
to settle claims related to the wildfire that burned more
than twenty three thousand acres in Orange and Riverside Counties.
Twenty one people were hurt during the airport fire last September,
including eight firefighters. Teens shoving, spilling drinks, and throwing popcorn
in theaters showing a Minecraft movie have prompted movie theaters
(31:05):
around the world to warren moviegoers to behave themselves. Unaccompanied
kids in northern New Jersey have been banned. In England
theater say disruptive teens will be thrown out. Let's say
good morning now to the author of Life After Disney.
It's NBC producer Neil O'Brien. Good morning, Neil.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
Hey, Neil Hi, Amy Hory.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm great, Thanks so much for coming on with us today.
We wanted to talk to you because, as I was
mentioning earlier, there's so many stories and books about Walt Disney,
how he started the Disney Company, the origination of Mickey Mouse,
the creation of snow White, and how he built Disneyland.
But this book is different because this one starts with
(31:52):
the death of Walt Disney shortly before Christmas, I believe,
in nineteen sixty six. And in the first chapter you
said that, but Walt's death was the end of something
that will never be seen again, and it was now
up to Ron. Is that that's not Ron Disney, that's.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Wrong Ron Miller, Ron Miller, Ron Miller, his son in law.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Now up to them and others to carry on as
best they could without Walt. There was a tremendous void
and emptiness, said Ron. It's life after Disney. So tell
us about the company and what happened, Like when Walt
Disney died, did everybody think, oh gosh, the Disney Company
might just go away.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
So there's a lot of uncertainty. And so what my
book After Disney tried to chart is how the company
carries on without its visionary leader. And upon his death,
there was not a clear succession plan. He died rather
suddenly from terminal cancer that was discovered only a few
weeks before his death, and so the company had to
(32:57):
figure out, how do we keep going? Who will be
our new leaders? And you know Wall Street for a moment,
wasn't sure what to do. The investors are concerned at first,
and then his brother Roy assures him they're going to
keep going as Walt had led the company. But they
almost shut down animation thinking that how can we make
(33:18):
Disney animated movies without Walt. So Ron Miller, his son
in law, becomes a key figure in this period of
time after his death, and so my book charts the
years after as the company tries to keep going through
a lot of uncertainty both at the company but also
in the country.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And did Disney actually kind of lose its way or
was it able to sort of stay on track in
spite of the death.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Of Walt Disney.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
So for a few years they sort of just keep
going with blinders on and try to stay the course
with project that Walt had been working on, you know,
right up until the time of his death. And that
gets them pretty far until about the mid seventies, and
then they need to find a new way. Hollywood changes.
(34:04):
The new Hollywood comes in with Spielberg and Star Wars,
and all of a sudden, Disney feels a little bit
out of place in the marketplace, and they it takes
them a little bit of time to figure out how
to win back an audience that has largely abandoned gen
rated family films.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, and Neil, I think just from reading the book,
I haven't finished the whole thing, but I'm deep into it.
I think it's really interesting because you basically go back
and you explain the players and how you were talking
about one of the animators in his name is Skipping
is out of my mind right now, but you know
that he was such a great animator that he was
kind of able to continue on with a project even
(34:43):
you know, like, well did such a great job finding
these people that, yeah, some of the projects they were
able to continue even without him. And it's fun how
you you kind of bring those characters into the story
of what happened.
Speaker 11 (34:55):
Yeah, I wanted to create a tapestry, you know, of people,
not just executives, but film animators, to really paint a
portrait of the company. And you know, a lot of
those veteran animators had been with Walt from the beginning.
As he moved on to other projects like Disneyland, they
largely carried on without him, with sometimes him coming in
and you know, engaging in stories, but other times, you know,
(35:17):
days at a time having to carry on on their own.
So you know, when somebody dies, there's you know, sometimes
you still feel the spirit around, and you know they
carried on with knowing what you know, how Disney movies
were made. What sort of was the ethos of a
Disney movie, And they had this talent and this sort
of shorthand that allowed just like a few dozen people
(35:40):
to carry on without Walt.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, and Neil, why why write this book? What drew
you to it?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
So?
Speaker 11 (35:48):
I knew it would be an interesting story. I knew
would be a rich story. And upstairs downstairs, if you
know the Disney Animation building at the time, top floor
was executives, bottom forward animators, And so I knew that
there was this major generational ships happening both on both levels,
and there are a lot of dynamics, a lot of conflicts,
but everybody trying their best to carry on walk legacy.
(36:11):
And so I knew it could make a very rich,
interesting story. And I knew that it hadn't really been
told in depth before. So I started this project seventeen
years ago. Wow, and it's finally out in the world now.
So and the reception has been great. So after Disney.
I'm very proud of state, and I'm glad it's find
me out in the world.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
That's great, Neil O'Brien, Where can we get the book.
Speaker 11 (36:33):
It's available in a lot of bookstores where you are, Amazon, Barnes,
and Noble online, so it should be basically available rever
you buy books.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It's called After Disney, Toil, Trouble and the Transformation of
America's Favorite media Company, written by NBC producer Neil O'Brien. Neil,
thank you so much for your time. I wish we
had more time because I got a lot more questions,
but duty.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
Cold, I appreciate your time, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
In fact, let's give away a couple of copies of
the book right now. Anybody who's a Disney enthusiast. I
think you're going to really enjoy this again because it's
the story of After He Dies, so it's really kind
of interesting to see what happens next.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Let's do colors five, six, and seven.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
We've got three copies of the book eight hundred five
two zero one KFI eight hundred five two zero one
five three four. Again, if you would like a copy
of After Disney toil Trouble, and the transformation of America's
favorite media company. Eight hundred five to zero one KFI
eight hundred five to zero one, five, three four. Let's
take Colors five, six, and seven right now, and with
(37:35):
that wake Up Call is done, We're out of time.
I hate when that happens. Don't forget Tomorrow morning on
wake Up Call, we'll be talking to Space Force Guardian
NASA astronaut Colonel Nick Hay, also a friend of wake
Up Call, his first big media interview since he returned
to Earth after six months on the space station.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
We hope you'll join us.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
Southland from KFI.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Fog this morning mainly at the coast.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Otherwise sunny and warmer, with highs in the seventies at
the beaches, upper seventies to mid eighties for Metro LA
and INLANDOCE mid eighties to mid nineties in the valleys,
and Inland Empire seventies to mid eighties in the Analog Valley.
About the same four tomorrow live from the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
wake up call. If you missed any of wake Up Call,
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with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
K f I and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I got a good wake up call your host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
This is your Wednesday wake up call for April ninth.
Where are those Dodgers today, Oh, that's right, they're still
at the Washington Nationals. Of course they had their visit
to the White House. That was kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So excited but also frustrated because the final season of
Handmaid's Tale is out. Yeah, it dropped yesterday, and of
course you get a little alerts on your phone. Those
are alerts I like, And I was like, oh, cred
I don't have time to watch it because by the
time I got it, it was like seven o'clock. In well,
with these stupid hours, you know, I get up at
two thirty, so I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
So I've got that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But and then speaking of some of the alerts that
are driving me crazy, the ring alerts, Oh still my gosh. Yeah, wait, okay,
now I can't now I can't get them to come up.
But they were going fast and furious. Like, there's a
helicopter overhead. Does anybody know what's going on? I'm like, oh,
come on, who cares? There's a person that yo, crazy
(01:30):
coyote noises inciting. Oh no, that was three hours ago.
Uh here's another one. Any idea? What's up with all
those sirens?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
You live in the city?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Car keys found? Please respond if you have lost car
keys to a Nissan?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Hey did someone else hear that explosion by the freeway?
Oh there's a coyote walking down the street. It peeked
into my front yard. Anyone know what's going on in atwater?
Helicopters circling it wears woman's stealing packages.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm worried about the peeping coyote.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Right, black female puppy found. Super friendly, be careful, super
reckless driver. Young kid maybe his girlfriend almost crashed into me. Hey,
a person jumped over a fence and stole a bike.
I mean serious. Oh wait, guinea pigs. Multiple guinea pigs
dropped off near the lake. Oh no, oh come on, people,
I got to turn these I know, right, Okay. I
(02:30):
also want to let you know that we confirmed we
get to talk to NASA astronaut and Space Force guardian,
also a friend of Wake Up called Colonel Nick Hag.
That's coming up tomorrow morning during wake Up Call. Mark
your calendar. So maybe you don't normally get up on
early on Thursdays, but if you do, you're gonna want
to be there. It's his first media interview since he
got back to Earth. We're super excited to find out
(02:52):
how things were up on the International Space Station. Okay,
here's what's a head on wake up call. Arraiment has
been postponed until April thirtieth four. The forty three year
old youth soccer coach charged with murder in the killing
of a thirteen year old boy whose body was found
last week along the side of the road in a
ditch in Oxnard.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Now again his arraignment postponed till the end of the month.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Former Dodgers relief pitcher Octavio Dotel is one of at
least one hundred and thirteen people killed when the roof
of a nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic. It happened
Tuesday night at the jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo.
Dotel pitched for thirteen teams in fifteen seasons in the
major leagues, including for the Dodgers in twenty ten. Looks
(03:36):
like the trade war is on. China has just announced
it's raising its retaliatory tariff on the US to eighty
four percent, up from thirty four percent announced earlier. China's
increase in response to President Trump announcing yesterday that total
tariffs on China would be one hundred four percent effective Today,
we're gonna be talking with KTLA's tech guy, Rich Demiro.
(03:58):
We've got a social Security scan to wht out for
how you can get a bargain on Apple TV plus.
That's always a good thing, and don't expect to get
any bargains if you're buying a new laptop anytime soon.
We're going out and about to one of my favorite
places on Earth. The Food and Wine Festival at DCA
is on and it is delicious. My favorite person to
hang out with at Disney, someone who you'll remember, Nick
(04:19):
Paulio'chani's joining us to tell us what it is, how
to navigate it, and some of the fabulous foods you
can taste. And speaking of Disney, we've all heard lots
of stories about how Walt Disney built his empire from
Mickey Mouse to Disneyland. But what happened after Walt Disney died.
It's the subject of a new book called After Disney.
We're going to be talking with the author of that book,
and we have some of those books to give away.
(04:41):
That's coming up before the top of the hour. All
coming up on wake up calls. So much going on.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
It's five oh six on your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's check in now with ABC's Stephen portnoy So steven
score one for free speech?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What did the judge in Washington rule yesterday?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, has ruled that the
Resident of the United States and his aids brazenly violated
the First Amendment to the Constitution and the decision a
couple of months ago to ban the Associated Press from
the Oval Office, Air Force, Won, the East Room, and
other spaces where the President holds events open to reporters.
The judge held that once the White House opens the
(05:17):
doors of those spaces to reporters, it can't exclude an
outlet that the president might disfavor based on the journalistic
decisions of that organization. In the case of the AP,
the President has decided or had decided to exclude that
organization because they made the editorial judgment to continue referring
to the body of water off the southern coast of
(05:38):
the United States as the Gulf of Mexico rather than
the Gulf of America. And the President decided in mid
February to ban the AP from his office and his
plane and any event that he was holding. Well, the
judge came in yesterday and said that that can't be allowed,
that it violates the First Amendment to the Constitution, and
(05:58):
the AAP's access must be immediately restored. Now, the judge
has stayed his own order until Sunday to give the
President the opportunity to decide whether to appeal the judge's
decision to the d C Circuit Court. But it's generally
understood here in Washington that the d C Circuit Court
is generally friendly toward reporters, particularly large news organizations, and
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is not likely to favor the President in this way.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But we'll see, okay, So if they appealed it to
the d C courts and didn't get a favorable ruling,
could technically they go all the way up to the
Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Certainly yes, But then the question would be what does
the court agree to take the case? And remember that
the Supreme Court always the circuit courts do not have
this discretion, but the Supreme Court does. And if the
court were interested in hearing the case, and you would
take four justices to decide that, then yes, we could
see oral argument in this high stakes debate over what
it means to a free press. And that may be
(06:57):
teed up here, but for now, it's a victor at
the district court for the Associated Press.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, So, Steve and I know that we have no
way of knowing for sure, but I like to play
the WEF game.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
If this made it to the Supreme.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Court, I mean, the High Court would surely side on
the side of the Associated Press. I mean, I know
you're careful on giving opinions and stuff, but in this case,
what you know from the court wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Your best guess, but be that yes, they would side
with it.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Well, what's clear is that this isn't a case of
viewpoint discrimination and retaliation. Right for the decisions of an
independent news organization to say, write, make a decision, do
whatever it would. The question becomes, all right, well, where
does the president have his own rights and power? There's
this idea that the president invites reporters into his office,
shouldn't he be able to pick and choose. There's the
(07:48):
idea that over the last couple of months, the White
House has moved from the historic and traditional role played
by the White House correspond Association, which full disclosure, I
was once the president of. And the issue becomes, you know,
where does the president's right run a foul of the
First Amendment? And ultimately, the judge viewed it through the
prism of what's the purpose of reporters in the Oval office?
(08:10):
And why does the president invite them? And what's on
what basis are these decisions made? And what the judge
found was, even though this idea that the WHCA is
out of the picture, the truth is that the pool
as it's historically been constituted is still there and its
primary construct. You still have three members of a television
(08:30):
network crew, a radio reporter, a print journalist in a
rotation that the WHCA has established and they have not
altered it at the White House, and wire service reporters photographers.
The question it becomes how many wire service reporters and
if the AP is not on an equal plane with
Bloomberg and Reuter's, well, then they've been disfavored and excluded,
and that runs a foul of their rights. So, you know,
(08:52):
I think given that dynamic, and given the fact that
the AP is uniquely been singled out and excluded, it's
an easier analysis to say, well, what's actually happened here
is the APS the only odd man out, and that's
not fair to them, and it is blatantly discriminatory based
on their editorial decisions. And that's exactly what the framers
aim to protect when they wrote the First.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Amendment, Love Constitution.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much for getting
us up to date on that one.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You bet, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom at LA Mayor
Bass will be spending some time in Pacific Palisades this morning.
She'll be outside of property where the owner recently got
a building permit and has started construction to rebuild after
the wildfires. Monday marked three months since the start of
the fires. Mayor Bass has highlighted actions taken in coordination
(09:41):
with the county, state and federal partners to speed up
disaster recovery. The La City Council has asked what to
do now that it's left Well, let's see. The La
City Council has asked what to do now that it's
been left alone in the La Homeless Services Authority.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
The county has already decided to leave loss up, pulling
hundreds of millions of day, creating its own homeless department
at least city council when Monica Rodriguez says it's time
for the city to do the same.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
For far too long, there has been an enablement of
funding this failure, and it needs to stop.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
The City Council has directed city staff to report on
what the county's decision means for the city's homeless spending.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
The soccer coach from Lancaster accused of killing a thirteen
year old boy from the San Fernando Valley has appeared
in court, but he didn't enter a plea. His arraignment
yesterday was pushed back to the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
D A.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Nathan Hakman says Mario Garcia a Qino is charged with
murder during the commission or attempted commission of a lewd
act with a child.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
We will be evaluating whether or not the death penalty
is appropriate for this particular case.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Garcia Aquino is also facing charges of assaulting two other
teenage boys. A city in northern California has voted in
favor of a curfew for light.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
The Palo Alto City Council has voted unanimous in favor
of a dark Sky law for a night curfew on
outdoor lighting. Nearby habitat contains multiple endangered species which would
be helped by less light at night. The initial proposal
would apply to new buildings and would start at ten PM,
or two hours after a business closes, but the city
says it wants to look at applying it to all
outdoor lights. Some people have complained they need the lights
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on to deter crimes, so the council said it would
look at exemptions for areas with high crime rates. Michael
Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
World markets are down as President Trump's latest tariffs take effect.
European markets have extended their losses, and indexes in Germany
and Tokyo are down as Trump is threatened threatened to
add even more import taxes markets in the US and
China have reversed early losses. In a speech last night,
Trump said he is planning tariffs on pharmaceuticals so that
(11:48):
more medications would be made in the US. Elon Musk
says a key trade advisor to the Trump administration is
a moron.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Peter Navarro claimed Tesla is not a car manufacturer and
instead is a car assembler that puts vehicles together with
parts from other countries. Musk said what Navarro claimed is
demonstrably false. Musk says the trade advisor is dumber that
a sack of bricks, and his company is the most
vertically integrated auto manufacturer in the US. Musk added that
(12:18):
Tesla has the most American made cars. Deborah mark KFFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The famous house scene in the opening credits and establishing
shots so the nineteen nineties TV sitcom Full House has
been sold. The Victorian era home in San Francisco on
postcard row was purchased for six million dollars. That's a
half million dollars down from its asking price last summer.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
WHOA Whoa.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
The house was built in nineteen hundred, previously owned by
Full House creator Jeff Franklin. He sold it in twenty
twenty for just over five million dollars. The La County
Board of Supervisors has its approved a plan to speed
up rebuilding efforts in Altadena. The motion calls for the
county to create a permitting authority. Supervisor Catherine Barker says
(13:10):
having one point person for permits is going to speed
up the process so homes can get rebuilt. More than
fifteen hundred permit applications have been submitted, none have been approved.
The Trump administration has reinstated a number of emergency food
programs it cut over the weekend. The World Food Program
had warned that the cuts could amount to death sentences
(13:30):
for millions facing hunger and starvation. USAID funding has been
restored for food programs in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Ecuador,
and Somalia.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Still time to ski.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Mammoth has so much snow it says it's going to
stay open through Memorial Day. In Big Bear, snow Stomach
shuts down on Sunday, and Bear Bear Mountain says it's
planning to stay open through at least April twentieth. It
could be longer depending on the weather. Six oh five's
handle on the news the trade wars on China is
hiking its tariffs in response to the tariffs imposed by
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the US. Let's say good morning now to KTLA's tech
guy and the host of Rich on Tech on KFI.
It's Rich de Miro.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Amy.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Okay, So, Rich, I would love to start today with
this social security email scam because these things look real
and they're not, and they can really mess you up.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
So what's the link?
Speaker 10 (14:23):
Yes, and this one's a doozy because if you go
to it, it actually will. If you go to the website,
you click the link it says download your statement, it
will actually download malware onto your computer. And if you
ran that, like if you double click that file that
it downloads immediately. It is bad news. So I got
this email forwarded to me from a viewer John People.
(14:44):
By the way, Amy, because I do so many these scams,
Everyone sends me their scamm e mail. So all day long,
I'm literally going through scamm emails and be like, is
this one interesting? Is this one good?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is this one new?
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Is this one different? But this one is going around
because I went to the Social Security website and they
did say yeah, as of April first, this is going around,
so beware. It basically says we've got your social security statement,
it's ready to download. You click the file. It immediately
downloads some uh you know file to your computer. And
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like I said, if you click that, it is really
bad malware. It'll give the hackers full control of your computer,
stealing passwords, reading files, spying on you. It's really wild.
So beware and do not click those links.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And with that one, Rich, it's not one where they
kind of grab control and then say, oh, here pays
some sort of a ransom.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I mean, it's just to go and screw up your computer.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Oh no, there could be some ransomware in there as well,
and they can do whatever they want. Yeah, So we
didn't we didn't get that far. We my son and
I actually kind of like tested the malware in a
sandbox to see like just.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
What it does.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
And it does a lot.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
I mean, it's but we didn't get to a screen
where it's where it kind of like took over our
computer and said, hey, pay this ransom. But that's definitely
in the realm of possibilities for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
And by the way, yeah.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
The best way to get around all that stuff, like,
have a backup, a complete backup of your computer. So
if you ever run into a situation where you have
ransomware take over your computer, the best thing to have
is a complete backup of your computer, and a good
tech person can just wipe your computer clean and reinstall
your stuff and you don't have to pay that ransom.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, And here's my dumb question of the day, because
you know I love dumb questions when it comes to technology.
So to get a backup of your computer, do you
put that? Can you put your whole computer like on
an external hard drive or where do.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You put it?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (16:32):
I mean you can literally just get buy an external
hard drive, plug it into your computer. The first time
you plug in a blank hard drive on Mac and Windows,
it should say, hey, do you want to use this
as a backup?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
If not?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
On Mac, it's called time machine. On Windows it's called
file history or backup. Just search for it, set it
and pull the drive out. By the way, don't leave
it connected to your computer, just connect it every week
or so.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Okay, Okay, that's great, great advice.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, you were talking about laptops and if you're in
the market for a lap top. You might not be
finding any deals anytime soon.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I don't think.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Well, look, I mean it's funny because I follow this
website slick Deals, and I have a filter with like
the best laptop deals, and every day I check that,
and this is the week. This week is the smallest
amount of deals I've ever seen, like ever. There's a one, two, three, four,
five deals and they're not super cheap. But I mean,
here's the thing. So with these tariffs, we have not
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seen in a big way. No major company has said, hey,
we're raising prices. These prices have gone up. Obviously Apple
is the big one, you know, Lenovo, HP, Dell. Waiting
for something from those companies because that would signal a
real impact from these tariffs.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
We have not seen that.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But some smaller.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Companies have kind of changed the way they've done things.
So there's a company called Framework, which makes laptops that
are basically pieces that you can like replace over time,
and so they have temporarily halted sales of their entry
level laptop because they say that the ten percent tariff,
even a ten percent would be too much. And then Razor,
they make really high end gaming computers. Again, they haven't
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said anything publicly, but they took the pre order page
down for their latest Laid sixteen laptop.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Okay, all right, So just so I think these.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Companies are like us Amy.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
They don't know what's happening, right, They just they're just like, hey,
we want to make sure we're not going to sell
these things at a loss, but we also want to
continue selling our goods in America.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Gotcha? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And then here's one place you can find a deal
with Apple TV plus.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
I think I think Apple did this just for some
levity in our world right now, because there is so
many price increases and so many changes. Apple TV plus
three dollars a month for three months, so limited time offer,
and you know this is for now through April twenty fourth,
new and they say quote qualified returning subscribers whatever that means.
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Just you know, try it see if it works for you.
But not a bad deal, right two ninety nine for
the three months they.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Got great rate programming. So I'm wondering, Rich, can I
cancel and then renew or do we.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Know that that? I don't know.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Yeah, I don't know that a lot of people were
asking me that on Instagram last night and I'm like,
don't have the answer to that. I mean, look, they
have I'm sure you can look at their little terms
and conditions at the bottom, but I have not been
able to find like definitive like what does qualifying mean?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Okay, and reading that side, let's see offer expires qualified. Yeah,
redeeming offer not available if you are eligible for a
free Apple TV Plus or your subscription.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
So it's basically like I can't find the answer to that.
But I think if you cancel it, I'm guessing there's
some sort of like timeframe, yeah, where if you have
had it in the past, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, So if you don't have it, Apple TV really does.
They're like one of my favorites because I think about
who I'm going to cancel if I need to cancel
some I'm like, you can't be Apple TV.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
They have too much good programming on there.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
They don't do a ton, but what they do is
very high quality.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Absolutely Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You can get more great tech advice when you listen
to Rich on Tech every Saturday from eleven am to
two pm.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You can also, of course see him on KTLA.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Follow him on Instagram at Rich on tech and if
you want to know about the things that we just
talked about and other stuff that he talks about, he
puts it all up on his website.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
It's Rich on tech dot TV. Thank you so much,
Rich Demiro.
Speaker 10 (20:21):
All right, I'm going on KTLA right now to talk
about my radio show on CAFI.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I love that.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Yeah, my whole piece today.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Okay, cool?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Thanks Rich, all right later by.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
A wild series of events has unfolded an Eagle Rock
following a three vehicle crash on the one thirty four
that tied up traffic for hours. Police say after the
track crash yesterday, one of the drivers ran off, ran
down a freeway off ramp and into the Eagle Rock
Recreation Center while carrying a guitar of all things, please say.
The guy then ran into a backyard stripped down to
(20:56):
his underwear, and then you can see him on helicopter
video watering plants. The homeowner confronted the man with a gun.
The guy eventually surrendered. The homeowner ended up getting shot
in the shoulder by police after she apparently refused several
police commands to drop the gun. Police are still looking
for two other people, the irs has agreed to help
(21:18):
ICE track down illegal immigrants. Court documents show the IRS
will provide the Department of Homeland Security with information for
migrants who are either under federal investigation or are already
facing deportation. The IRS had warned the Trump administration the
plan to use it for information could be illegal. Movie
theaters around the world are warning young moviegoers not to
(21:38):
be disruptive at a Minecraft movie.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Viral videos on social media have shown teens shouting, spilling drinks,
and thrung popcorn during key scenes of a Minecraft movie.
One movie theater in northern New Jersey has banned unaccompanied
children from seeing the movie following vandalism in the theater,
and England movie theaters have warned viewers they could be
ejected if they cause a disruption. Minecraft is far exceeded
expectation by raking in more than three hundred and thirteen
(22:01):
million dollars at the global box office in its first
four days. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
News State Farmers argued that without a rate increase, a
lot of homeowners could lose their insurance. During a hearing yesterday,
State farm says it plans to pay out over seven
billion dollars in claims from the La Fires. In January,
the Department of Homeland Security speeding up construction of three
border wall projects in San Diego County. Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noam has issued a waiver for environmental regulations which
(22:28):
will allow its construction of more than two miles of
border wall in San Diego to proceed. A man in
La County suddenly has a whole lot of cash. The
California Lottery says Fernando Diego bought a Super Lotto Plus
ticket as a seafood market in Artesia back in December.
He pulled an instant winner worth forty seven million dollars.
See he's taken the lump sum twenty two million dollars
(22:49):
in cash before taxes. We're going out and about to
one of my favorite places on earth, the Food and
Wine Festival at DCA Disney California Adventure, going on through
April twenty first, and one of my favorite people to
go to my favorite place is is our friend Nick Paulaochini.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Morning Nick, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
I'm great?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So I always when we talk about our knowledge of Disney,
I always describe you as the play by play guy
and I'm the color commentary. So Nick's got all the
ins and outs, the industrial knowledge, and I go, oh,
look pretty colors.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So yeah, well that's what you need in every combination,
especially when you're going to a theme park like Disney
Californy Adventures.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Absolutely, so Nick, let's do the nuts and bolts really quick.
So how does the Food and Wine Festival at Disney
California Adventure work.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Pretty much, you are able to go to anything inside
of Disney California Adventure Parks. So there's two parts of
the Disneyland resort in Anaheim, and this is going to
give you different marketplaces with food from around southern California
and the state of California. All the food is inspired
by different vendors and different beer providers, breweries, wineries, everything
you name it, because it's not just about the food,
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it's about the beverages, even some fun tails. And then
one of the ultimate things to get through as much
as you can is they have a sip and saver passes,
which you and I take a huge advantage of. This year.
They've got a four pack and an eight pack, and
so the four pack is thirty two dollars and the
eight pack is sixty three dollars. Both of those are
available for you to sip and save around and if
you have it to be a magic key holder like
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you and I are, you also have an opportunity to
save a few bucks, and that is a fifty eight
dollars Sip and Saver pass from as a keyholders that
has eight sip and saver options you to try any
of the food options, the alcoholic options, those are additional costs.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Okay, so the sip and savers, Just to clarify a
little bit, you can get a four or an eight pack.
And basically what it does is you buy your coupons
ahead of time and then you use those to purchase
your different entrees.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
They're actually there's more like snacks.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Right exactly, but some of them are sizeable snacks, and
there's definitely that opportunity for you to save a few bucks.
And that's something we always like to make sure that
we're helping the people out with here on wake up Calls. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Absolutely, And one of the things that I love about
this is that you're right that there were a couple
of plates that were kind of substantial, but they're more
like I think they're made for sharing. So like when
Nick and I go, we go and we'll go get
this one and that one, and this one and that one.
We got like four or five things, and then we
can taste them all and then if we're not two stuffed,
we go back for more, or we go and ride
some rides and then come back later. So it's really
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kind of a great way to graze through the park
and get to try a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yes exactly. And the other thing too, This is a
great option. Even if you're not going into Disney California
Adventure you're able to try some of these things at
the restaurants and the shops at Downtown Disney as well
as the Disneyland resort hotels because they have the Friends
of the Festival items. So not just inside of the
Disneyland Disney California Adventure Park can you get these items.
But there are also special items at a vast majority
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of the three resort hotels and then several of the
restaurants at Downtown Disney, as well as the vendors that
are out on the street.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Great option to know and what are a couple of
your favorites. There's like the thirty forty fifty items.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
But we do have favorites, No, we do.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I think we both really loved I love the mini
street Dog, which if you saw on social media, mine
actually ended up on the ground, but that's another story.
But also we had the Ca Sabilia egg rolls, and
we've also had one of the cooler ones, at least
for me, is the Massubi fried rice which Alani resort
out in Hawaii. It's actually a recipe from their kitchens.
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So it's kind of cool to bring things that are
not just here in Southern California, but also people that
are just off of the mainland and are able to
bring some of those fun foods to and flavors to
Southern California.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, and again it's a great option because you know,
it's not like a big, heavy meal, so you can
grab a snack and go, or grab three or four
and go. And then of course, as Nick mentions, there's
the food and the wine and the beer offerings. It's
a great way to add to an already magical day.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And it's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Through It's gone on through April twenty first, so coming up,
So got about a week and a half on a
little bit more that you're able to enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Okay, can we go one more time before it's done?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Oh, definitely, I have no doubt in mine. In fact,
I'm sure if you follow Amy K. King on Instagram,
Nick Polio here this weekend when Nick, you'll probably see
a bit of our food adventures there.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
In fact, I did put a little teaser up on
my Instagram at Amy K King and at KFI Am
six forty that you can take a look at the
La Street Dog and a couple of the other offerings
that they have. Nick Pouliochanne, always a pleasure. Can't wait
to go to Disney with you again. Thanks looking for it.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Thank you all.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Right, now time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donahoe. Courtney, I'm sorry we're a little bit late,
but we had to talk about Disney and food.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Of course, I always love that.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
And by the way, this report is sponsored by Fidelity
Wealth Management. We always have to talk about food, and
I always love talking about Disney too asolute. By the way, yeah,
they're actually rolling out big discounts in some of its
Florida parks in case anybody wants to go take a
trip there too.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They are I didn't know about that.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Yeah, they're offering half price tickets for kids ages three
to nine this summer. At least that covers one of
my children. But that's a first for Disney and hotel
guests are going to get free water park tickets on
the first day of their stay, while guests who book
rooms or four days or more, we'll be able to
eat for free. But it may be Disney's way of
distracting from Universal opening Epic Universe. That theme park is
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opening next month.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I don't think we have any new theme parks, so
I doubt Disneyland's gonna do it. But if you're going
to Disney World, what a great opportunity.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Oh, it'd be great.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
I'm already starting to plan my trip, okay, and my
kids would like that.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This is a much more fun thing to talk about
than what happened in the markets yesterday because things started
so good.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah, And what's happening in the markets today too, or
we're having another rough day. Well, we had the wild
swings lashing Wall Street yesterday. We had back and forth
trade threats between the US and China that Knox stocks
even lower. We erased that early rally that you were
just talking about the Dow drop three hundred and twenty
points now this morning, we are seeing more volatility. President
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Trump's reciprocal tariffs they kicked in this morning, China retaliating.
They came out around seven o'clock Eastern time with the
duties of their own. And now Jamie Diamond of JP Morgan,
he's weighing in and he's as probably a recession is
a likely outcome. So we are seeing the Dow right
now down seven hundred and forty points. The S and
P five hundred is also tumbling one point six percent.
(29:10):
And I want to point this out. The S and
P five hundred is down nineteen percent from its February record,
and if we continue to see the big losses that
we're seeing right now at the close of training, we
could be in a bear market now, a bear market
for people who are not familiar. That's a twenty percent
drop from a recent peak. And we had that peak
back in February. So the S and P five hundred
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we need to close about one percent lower to reach
that twenty percent plunge from the all time high.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, and speaking of bad news, Apple shares their worst
four day stretch in twenty five years.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
And it's looking ugly again today too. As soon as
those China headlines cross, we saw that stock drop in
the pre market. But it's complicating. The tarff situation is
really complicating things for Apple. Investors are worried about its
ability to navigate the tar off sun China, Vietnam, and
India because they're all critical to its supply They create the.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
iPhones in China.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Shares have dropped so far twenty three percent in the
week of last week's tariff announcement, but the decline has
been so steep that Apple is no longer the most
valuable company in the S and P five hundred.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Microsoft has now taken over the top spot.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, Bloomberg's Courtney donaho getting in your business like we
do every day.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Let's do it again tomorrow, shall we?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I will.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I'll see you there, all right, thank you, Courtney. Renovating
the La Convention Center is back on the table. An
LA City Council committee says they'll look at the billion
dollar project, but it won't be done before the twenty
twenty eight Olympics. Events are scheduled to be held at
the convention Center for the summer Games. Plans were set
aside following the wildfires in January and LA's big budget gap.
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Orange County will pay nine and a half million dollars
to settle claims related to the wildfire that burned more
than twenty three thousand acres in Orange and Riverside Counties.
Twenty one people were hurt during the airport fire last September,
including eight firefighters. Teens shoving, spilling drinks, and throwing popcorn
in theaters showing a Minecraft movie have prompted movie theaters
(31:05):
around the world to warren moviegoers to behave themselves. Unaccompanied
kids in northern New Jersey have been banned. In England
theater say disruptive teens will be thrown out. Let's say
good morning now to the author of Life After Disney.
It's NBC producer Neil O'Brien. Good morning, Neil.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
Hey, Neil Hi, Amy Hory.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm great, Thanks so much for coming on with us today.
We wanted to talk to you because, as I was
mentioning earlier, there's so many stories and books about Walt Disney,
how he started the Disney Company, the origination of Mickey Mouse,
the creation of snow White, and how he built Disneyland.
But this book is different because this one starts with
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the death of Walt Disney shortly before Christmas, I believe,
in nineteen sixty six. And in the first chapter you
said that, but Walt's death was the end of something
that will never be seen again, and it was now
up to Ron. Is that that's not Ron Disney, that's.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Wrong Ron Miller, Ron Miller, Ron Miller, his son in law.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Now up to them and others to carry on as
best they could without Walt. There was a tremendous void
and emptiness, said Ron. It's life after Disney. So tell
us about the company and what happened, Like when Walt
Disney died, did everybody think, oh gosh, the Disney Company
might just go away.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
So there's a lot of uncertainty. And so what my
book After Disney tried to chart is how the company
carries on without its visionary leader. And upon his death,
there was not a clear succession plan. He died rather
suddenly from terminal cancer that was discovered only a few
weeks before his death, and so the company had to
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figure out, how do we keep going? Who will be
our new leaders? And you know Wall Street for a moment,
wasn't sure what to do. The investors are concerned at first,
and then his brother Roy assures him they're going to
keep going as Walt had led the company. But they
almost shut down animation thinking that how can we make
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Disney animated movies without Walt. So Ron Miller, his son
in law, becomes a key figure in this period of
time after his death, and so my book charts the
years after as the company tries to keep going through
a lot of uncertainty both at the company but also
in the country.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And did Disney actually kind of lose its way or
was it able to sort of stay on track in
spite of the death.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Of Walt Disney.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
So for a few years they sort of just keep
going with blinders on and try to stay the course
with project that Walt had been working on, you know,
right up until the time of his death. And that
gets them pretty far until about the mid seventies, and
then they need to find a new way. Hollywood changes.
(34:04):
The new Hollywood comes in with Spielberg and Star Wars,
and all of a sudden, Disney feels a little bit
out of place in the marketplace, and they it takes
them a little bit of time to figure out how
to win back an audience that has largely abandoned gen
rated family films.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, and Neil, I think just from reading the book,
I haven't finished the whole thing, but I'm deep into it.
I think it's really interesting because you basically go back
and you explain the players and how you were talking
about one of the animators in his name is Skipping
is out of my mind right now, but you know
that he was such a great animator that he was
kind of able to continue on with a project even
(34:43):
you know, like, well did such a great job finding
these people that, yeah, some of the projects they were
able to continue even without him. And it's fun how
you you kind of bring those characters into the story
of what happened.
Speaker 11 (34:55):
Yeah, I wanted to create a tapestry, you know, of people,
not just executives, but film animators, to really paint a
portrait of the company. And you know, a lot of
those veteran animators had been with Walt from the beginning.
As he moved on to other projects like Disneyland, they
largely carried on without him, with sometimes him coming in
and you know, engaging in stories, but other times, you know,
(35:17):
days at a time having to carry on on their own.
So you know, when somebody dies, there's you know, sometimes
you still feel the spirit around, and you know they
carried on with knowing what you know, how Disney movies
were made. What sort of was the ethos of a
Disney movie, And they had this talent and this sort
of shorthand that allowed just like a few dozen people
(35:40):
to carry on without Walt.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, and Neil, why why write this book? What drew
you to it?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
So?
Speaker 11 (35:48):
I knew it would be an interesting story. I knew
would be a rich story. And upstairs downstairs, if you
know the Disney Animation building at the time, top floor
was executives, bottom forward animators, And so I knew that
there was this major generational ships happening both on both levels,
and there are a lot of dynamics, a lot of conflicts,
but everybody trying their best to carry on walk legacy.
(36:11):
And so I knew it could make a very rich,
interesting story. And I knew that it hadn't really been
told in depth before. So I started this project seventeen
years ago. Wow, and it's finally out in the world now.
So and the reception has been great. So after Disney.
I'm very proud of state, and I'm glad it's find
me out in the world.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
That's great, Neil O'Brien, Where can we get the book.
Speaker 11 (36:33):
It's available in a lot of bookstores where you are, Amazon, Barnes,
and Noble online, so it should be basically available rever
you buy books.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It's called After Disney, Toil, Trouble and the Transformation of
America's Favorite media Company, written by NBC producer Neil O'Brien. Neil,
thank you so much for your time. I wish we
had more time because I got a lot more questions,
but duty.
Speaker 11 (36:56):
Cold, I appreciate your time, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
In fact, let's give away a couple of copies of
the book right now. Anybody who's a Disney enthusiast. I
think you're going to really enjoy this again because it's
the story of After He Dies, so it's really kind
of interesting to see what happens next.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Let's do colors five, six, and seven.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
We've got three copies of the book eight hundred five
two zero one KFI eight hundred five two zero one
five three four. Again, if you would like a copy
of After Disney toil Trouble, and the transformation of America's
favorite media company. Eight hundred five to zero one KFI
eight hundred five to zero one, five, three four. Let's
take Colors five, six, and seven right now, and with
(37:35):
that wake Up Call is done, We're out of time.
I hate when that happens. Don't forget Tomorrow morning on
wake Up Call, we'll be talking to Space Force Guardian
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Up Call, his first big media interview since he returned
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Speaker 4 (37:54):
We hope you'll join us.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
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Southland from KFI.
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