Camp. I am six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand on the iHeart Radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning everyone, Monday, June nineteenth, juneteenth federal holiday markets closed and have more on business and the market's a little bit later this hour. This is your wake up call. My name is Jason Middleton. Got a new dishwasher yesterday for Father's Day. Yeah you did, Yeah,
I did. And my wife installed it because that's that's her jam. She does all that stuff. Nice, Okay, it's outstanding. It was fantastic. I had to check it to make sure it was on. It was so quiet. I'm not even joking. It was. They have an indicator light so that you know that it's actually working, because otherwise you can't hear it. Right. Yeah, No, they've gotten tremendously quiet over the years. For sure. I have not had I've not had a new appliance
honestly in decades. I can't remember the last time I lived with a dishwasher. Yeah. So I've been for you, man, I thank you. I've been doing everything by hand. It's been. It's been that that's kind of cathartic and like mesmerizing. You know, you do a little podcast listening and get you get the dishes done and whatnot. Anyway, kitchen's my domain. But she was very very lovingly put in a new dishwasher. Next up is a fridge hopefully. Um. The US Open was this weekend as well.
Watched a little bit of that. We're gonna have more from the golf pro at Wilshire Country Club later this hour to talk about that. Help us unpack it. And uh boy, I bet, I bet. Golf fever is just sweeping your cross la this week, So everybody's gonna be flooding tea times everywhere you play golf, Tyler, I do. I dabble with golf. Yeah, I actually shot some yesterday. Oh okay, cool, unimpressively, but I still did it. Hey, hey, that's great. I
played twice a year. Okay, that's it. But tobably be on the same wavelength of skill then okay. Cool. But I mean when we have this guy home, we can ask for some pro tips or something. Yeah, you'll take notes you want me to. Let's just roll on it and then we'll revisit it later. Let's get a few headlights out before we get into the show. Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln has been in China for high
level meetings and things are looking a little bit better. A meeting with President Jijn Ping had not been confirmed before Blincoln arrived in Beijing, and now it's confirmed and it's teeing up one possibly later this year in November, when Jijunping is in San Francisco. Dozens of letters with suspicious white powder inside have spurred and FBI investigations. The letters landed in Kansas late last week. Some GOP
congress people are saying that Republicans are being targeted. Everything so far, though, is conjecture. It's pretty early in the investigation. It was a violent weekend across the US. At least five people are dead and dozens injured in several shootings. More than twenty people were shot, one fatally in a shooting
at a gathering near Chicago. Other shooting has claimed victims in Washington State, Saint Louis, Southern California, Baltimore, in Pennsylvania, where a state trooper was killed during an attack on state police bearings, and some war headlines and some other news coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom, where we always do lead local. The Speaker of the House has visited Orange County to protest a visa waiver program that allowed three hundred and fifty thousand Chileans to enter
the US last year with no background checks. I have memories of shattered glass and emptied drawers scattered everywhere. This woman spoke of the gathering that included multiple Republican leaders about being part of the national spike of Chilean gangs burglar rising homes. I feel like I'm living a nightmare. What if we had been home? How Speaker Kevin McCarthy says, if the visa program's not fixed this week, Congress will cut its funding. He recalled one story Friday about Chilean robbers
who actually did get arrested. Two days later, they get a call from a police chief in Washington say, those are the people we were trying to catch because they were robbing us too. They're already out and when they're just provided a date to come back, do you think they show up? No, Because of the criminal friendly laws makes Range County d a tot. Spitzer says, some robbers wearing camouflage Gillie suits to sneak in home still get out
on zero bail. And guess what the Chileans we have filed on in our prosecuting. We have one hundred percent no show at future appearances. Big shocker at the Orange County DA's office, Corbin Carson, kf I News. Ukraine made small advances in its counteroffensive amid heavy fighting along the front line in the
country south. That's according to British intelligence. Russia's defensive operations were relatively effective, it also said, but a Russian appointed official acknowledge that Ukraine had recaptured several villages so far in the counter offensive along the one thousand kilometer six hundred and twenty mile front line, and fighting is very heavy there. We do
have ABC's Jim Ryan on the line with us. Good morning, Jim, Hey Jason, Let's talk about this online shopping phenomenon known as friendly fraud. I've not heard it turned that way. Why is it coming up now? Yeah? I haven't either, But it's just really a matter of proportion. More people since the endemic, It even before the pandemic, more people were
shopping online. You know, they've they've kind of trended away from the brick and mortars and moved to doing their shopping through services that they can reach out to other computers. So they order stuff, the stuff is delivered to them, or sometimes it's not delivered to them. People are satisfied with what they
bought and what came delivered, or they weren't satisfied. But it's what happens next that really has concern among merchants because a lot of customers decide that, you know what, I'm just going to go ahead and contact my credit card company instead of reaching out to the merchant. About seventy two percent of consumers say that the bank chargeback is just an alternative to asking for a refund from the merchant. Well, the merchant ends up paying anyway, right, I
mean, the chargeback goes back to that company. If you, for example, order an item and it doesn't come for a week or so, and you say, you know what, this thing's not coming at all. So you contact your credit card company and say, hey, this item didn't get delivered. To take the charge off my credit card. So they do, and then the next day the item comes. Right do you contact the credit card company and say, hey, it came, go ahead and reinstate the
charge. Probably not. Do you reach out to the merchant? Probably not the merchant though, is you know it loses the sale and loses the merchandise. Well, okay, I understand this phenomenon, and I'm going to assume the best in humanity and say that it's an oversight on the consumer's part sometimes most of the time. How do retailers combat this though? I mean, it seems like it would be really easy to manipulate the system in favor of the recipient. Well, and it is so a lot of retailers now they're
requiring signatures. So you order an item and they require a signature before it's delivered to you. That way, you can't contact the credit card company and say, hey, it never came. Merchant reaches out and says, yes, it did come, and here's the proof right here. It's also VISA is stepping up and also trying to step in and help the merchants in this process as well, to ensure that people aren't ripping off the company's intentional like
sometimes it happens as an honest mistake. Other times, you know, the consumer is unwitting as to what the what they're doing. They don't realize that this is costing merchants a lot of money. So I think it's it's kind of public education as well to let you know, if you are a customer of a company and you like that company and you want them to stay in business, you want to make sure that they're paid for the services or goods
that they render. It makes sense to me. And now in my personal experience, I know that I've gotten something's delivered and I've said, hey, this isn't really working, Um, how do I send it back because I didn't get one of the autoprint labels that often come with those purchases or U and the vendor said, you know what, just just keep it. Yeah, you know, And is that another practice that maybe VISA would want to look at, because that's if that's it's not okay, no, because you're
dealing with the merchant directly, and that's what merchants want. They want you to deal with the seller, the retailer, the merchant one on one and say and let's work this out between the two of us, you consumer, me merchant, or the other way around, as opposed to going to the credit card company. The credit card company just sees a charge thing it off
they charge it back to the company and they're done with it. Then you know, the company can the merchant can challenge that, but then you're talking about a long drawn out process there and more fees. So that's that's the preference of any merchandise that you deal with them directly as opposed to going to the credit card company. Yeah, you mentioned fees right there, So Visa
and other credit card companies. You know, there's there's a there's a bit of vig on every transaction, and so I would imagine that chargebacks are gonna maybe force all everybody's fees to go up for these well including the consumers and fig I like that in nineteen forties Gangs com movie. But yeah, chargebacks, according to a company that watches these things in a company called Chargebacks nine one one says that that that process, so that practice, chargebacks are costing
e commerce one hundred and seventeen billion dollars this year alone. So that's in lost merchandise, that's in lost sales, and that's in the fees that are paid to the companies. It looks like I did a story over the weekend on my other show, Online Sales and Inflation Online inflation is down when you compare it to the CPI, the Consumer Price index, which is more, you know, bigger, higher level, top of the funnel kind of stuff. Online sales and inflation, I mean, inflation down, sales up.
Do we have an idea and can you can you recap that number, that cumulative number you gave us a little bit earlier. Yeah, So one hundred and seventeen billion, one hundred and seventeen point four seven billion dollars this year alone. That's according again to chargebacks nine one, So you know, looking
through their lens, that's what they see happening out there. Friendly fraud constitutes about eighty six percent of all charge box and it's it's called friendly fraud because you know, richards don't want to make customers too mad by call and by accusing them are fraud. But at the same time, some people are doing this intentionally. Okay, Jim, thanks a lot for this. Thanks Jason, didn't know about it. ABC's Jim Ryan right there talking with us about
friendly fraud aka chargebacks. Um I mentioned the prices though online prices online and May twenty twenty three fell two point three percent year every year, so that's the biggest decrease in inflation and in price increases since the pandemic started. And it's the ninth straight month of year. Every year price decreases for online and we get that from Adobe Analytics. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the kf I twenty four hour news room. The Small Business Administration says more than forty five businesses have applied for help following the fatal mass shooting in Monterey Park. It's one of the only times the SBA's made special natural disaster money available to businesses. Lawmakers pushed the SBA to offer low interest, long term loans to businesses and nonprofits impacted following the attack that killed eleven.
The SBA says as of last week, it received forty seven applications at a special service center in Monterey Park. So far, two loans have been approved, totally five hundred ninety five three hundred dollars. The money can be used for payroll, supplies and upgrades. Loan applications will be available through January if next year. Steve Gregory taf I news. Firefighters in Riverside County are planning a controlled burn to clear one hundred and ten acres of vegetation at Lakes
Skinner. The Fire Department says drift smoke may be visible from nearby communities, but that it will disperse quickly and is not expected to be a health hazard. States along the Gulf Coast hit by recent storms and tornadoes are preparing for more severe weather. Thirty million Americans already under heat alerts from Texas to Mississippi, with record heat possible in Dallas, New Orleans, and Houston. It could feel like one hundred and twenty two degrees in some areas. ABC's rhiannon
Ally says more storms are also expected. The extreme heat and humidity have fueled severe thunderstorms in North Texas, Oklahoma, the Lower Mississippi Valley, and parts of the Deep South. Self described outsider Vivic Ramaswami is not lacking confidence as he rolls out his run for presidents in twenty twenty four. The thirty seven year old businessman said on Fox News yesterday he not only expects to win the Republican primary and the presidential election, expects to win in a landslide. He
compared his poll numbers to where former President Trump's were in twenty fifteen. At this time golfer Wyndham Clark is celebrating his first major championship. Clark finished a top the leaderboard yesterday at LA country Club ten under par to win the US Open, second PGA Tour victory for the twenty nine year old. His previous best in a major was seventy fifth place, so this is a major upgrade for him. We're going to have more on that later this hour with the
golf pro from Willshare Country Club to help us break that down. And The Flash is the winner of the weekend box office race despite rather disappointing performance. I saw the flick. It's rather disappointing flick two. The DC film made fifty five million dollars this weekend, much lower than the expectations of seventy million dollars. More on movies too. We're going to get ABC's political editor Steve
Roberts at the bottom of the hour. He's going to be with us to recap the weekend news, slash yak shows and how the indictment of former President Trump is playing. After a week in the news, Let's get some more stories before we get to the business time. LA is offering a free summer lunch program for kids at city parks. The LA Department of Recreation Parks will serve lunches to kids ages one to eighteen at about one hundred different parks throughout
the city. The city's Bertha Calderon says the program was created to make sure kids get at least one free meal when they're out of school. The lunches indeed to be eaten at the park and its first come, first serve, but they usually serve usually like eleven thirty to twelve. Calderon says lunches will be served Monday through Friday through August fourth. Chris Adler ka FI News. Secretary of State Antony Blinkett has met with Chinese President jij And Ping following a
two day visit to Beijing. Before the visit, Blincoln emphasized the importance of diplomacy. Intense competition requires sustained diplomacy to ensure that competition does not beer into confrontation or confidence. President ge said the two sides made progress and reached agreements on some specific issues, but he did not elaborate. Disagreements between the two
countries range from Taiwan to human rights and Russia's war in Ukraine. Blincoln's visit was originally scheduled for February, but you might remember that balloon that floated a of the United States that kind of delayed things. A car company is adding a completely useless feature, and it's not autonomous driving. Toyota engineers are working on an electric car with a fake manual transmission. The engineers say it'll serve no purpose and would just be for people who like shifting gears for fun,
you know, like children. Drivers will even be able to experience the shake and buck feeling if they select the wrong gear. Engineers say the car's computer will limit how far the shaking will go to avoid damage on the battery. Toyota hasn't announced when the fake shifting electric car will be sold or how much
real money they'll charge for that feature. Mark Ronner KFI News, Well, Mark touched on something I'm going to follow up with a Mercedes Ben's announcement they're going to integrate chat GPT into the voice control system in the vehicles, and the idea is that this is going to improve the existing voice assistance ability to
understand natural language and provide richer responses to commands. US owners and Mercedes vehicles equipped with the Mbux infotainment system, which I believe originated on The Simpsons back in the day, the word infotainment. Anyway, it's going to be available to opt into a three month trial program by the app or by saying, Hay, Mercedes, I want to join the beta program. If you're in
your car right now, I apologize. I will say that Mercedes could use a lot of help when it gets When it comes to its voice control system, not good. I'm hoping it'll help with a navigation system as well. Also not great when you have to rely on your phone being plugged into using Google instead of wanted built into your dashboard. Box Office Elemental Pixar's latest release
suffered the worst opening weekend in that studio's twenty eight year history. Despite favorable reviews, that animated Flick brought in only thirty million dollars in ticket sales in North America. Pixar's last release, Light Year, was also a flop, and the results heat more pressure on Disney this year, and Pixar's beleaguered parent company, Disney is also looking at trimming costs. So heads up in Emeryville, up stories that I want to get to. As far as the Wall
Street situation goes now. Stocks fell a little bit on Friday, but for the week, pretty strong gains across the board. Of course, the Federal Reserve did pause its interest rate hike for the first time. Ten straight hikes and now we get a pause. FED Chair J. Powell said skip during a talk, and a nomenclature matters. Jargon matters because a skip implies a finality. So a skip means that at least implies that July is going to see another interest rate hike of probably a quarter of a point. But he
corrected himself, but it was too late. It was already out of his mouth. The reason that you know that matters is because when J. Powell said, well, we just did a skip, markets immediately dropped. Wall Street reacts very quickly, and it's very emotional. And then he said, well it's going to be I shouldn't stay skip, I should say pause.
That's a quote, and it looks like the likelihood of a July rate hike of a quarter point or maybe even a half a point, although that's that's less likely, but a point is just above fifty percent expected for next month. And then you have to look at the credit card debt too. So this is an update to a story we did last week on this because this mountainous credit card debt is something that's going to have to be addressed at some
point. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, there are twelve different Federal Reserve banks, the one in New York did this research and consumers now owe a record of nine hundred and ninety billion dollars on their cards. That's up seventeen percent from a year earlier. And when you're up seventeen percent and the interest rate is north of seventeen percent, that number is definitely going
to increase over the next two to three quarters. The steadily rising feature did take a little bit of a break when it comes to credit card debt, but now it's getting back to one trillion dollars and that's causing a little bit of a jittery zeitgeist on Wall Street and throughout the economy. Now this coming week, Chair Jay Powell is going to be on Capitol Hill. I think he has to do that twice a year. I think that's mandated. It has to do that twice a year. So he's on Capital Hill to face
questions from the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee. Regional banks are not necessarily out of the woods from the rattling of that market we had earlier this year, Silicon Valley banks, think at your bank first. Republic investors are also going to be watching a momentum for highly shorted stocks as well this week. I won't get into what shorting and all that stuff is. It doesn't really matter, but there are some earnings reports this week that can
be indicative of where the economy is headed and what we feel like. And so you gotta watch FedEx that comes out tomorrow, FedEx and Lazy Boys. So FedEx obviously delivery if it comes in okay, that means online shopping is still doing okay, etc. And then Lazy Boy that's discretionary spending usually and so you kind of keep an eye on that to see how people are using
those credit cards. Maybe maybe a little bit too often. Just saying we do have a volatility watch again this week too, and some investor conferences, but that's really not too much, but I will have to add that. Of course, we talked about the Mercedes thing, and I try to watch what Elon Musk does every week because he moves market sometimes and headlines. He
was in Paris to talk about artificial intelligence with French President mat Kron. Macron took when he took office five years ago, he built an entire park in the northeastern part of Paris at just outside off the river, and he wanted to become a tech hub, kind of Silicon Valley for the EU, for
the European Union, and so he's courting Elon Musk pretty hard. But here in the States, Elon Musk has not been paying all of the bills for Twitter, and so the office building in Boulder, Colorado has asked Twitter to vacate the premises because they didn't pay their bills on time. So I haven't
seen that happen. Maybe ever, when it comes to this, granted, commercial real estate is in a bit of a crater situation, but not paying the bills with something that Elon telegraphed on Twitter and then followed through with it, and the landlord said, thanks for the heads up. Now you're out a couple of more. No, let's one more quick story here, because
the trial has started in Russia for the jailed opposition leader Alexey Nivalny. It's being held at a maximum Security Prison about one hundred and fifty miles east of Moscow, where Navalni is serving a nine year sentence for fraud and contempt of court. He exposed official corruption, of course, and organized major anti Kremlin protests before his arrest in January of twenty twenty one. He says, the new charges, of course, are absurd, just choosing the right word there.
Former US Attorney General Bill Barr says former President Trump engages in reckless conduct that puts his followers and the GOP agenda at risk. Not going to go any farther into that one just now, because we have somebody on the line who is much better at this than I am. More Severe weather is hitting parts of the US to begin the week. Storms that devastated areas in Texas and Oklahoma late last week moved into the lower Mississippi Valley and the central Gulf
Coast states yesterday. Hundreds of thousands of customers still without power this morning. Wes Anderson's Asteroid City is notching the strongest limited release opening weekend in years. The film made seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars over the weekend, estimated to make eight hundred and ninety thousand whenever they count today's box office as well. Coming up at five fifty, Trevor Rathoff will be on the line with us.
He's the golf pro at Wilshire Country Club. I'm guessing he has some hot takes on the US Open that happened over the weekend at the LA Country Club. I was rooting for Rory, but happy to see mister Clark winn. Right now, we have ABC's political editor Steve Roberts on the line. It's a Monday morning quarterbacking of the weekend news shows kind of as well as a fresh look at the post indictment world for former President Trump. Welcome back
in Steve, Thank you Jason, and yes, look you may. You quoted an important phrase that Bill Barr, the former attorney general, is Donald Trump's hand picked attorney general, and he looked at the indictment, the thirty seven count indictment, and described Trump's behaviors reckless. Now that is not a legal term, you know, reckless is not a crime being reckless, but
it is a political crime. And that's one of the reasons why I think the most important takeaway from this indictment is not Trump's legal vulnerability, it's his political vulnerability. Because if there's one word that sums up the Trump's vulnerability, it is reckless. Because that's why he lost in twenty twenty in many ways after winning a twenty sixteen, because a certain number of voters like his policies, voted for him before found his behavior, his temperament, his judgment Jason
reckless, or in the words of his Mark Esper. Mark Esper was Trump's own defense secretary, and on TV yesterday he called Trump irresponsible again. Irresponsible, like reckless is not a legal crime, but it's a political vulnerability. And that's why I think the real problem for Trump is not that he's going to be found guilty in a court of law, but that he's going to be rejected by the voters. That's a much bigger fear and a much more
realistic. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. I mean, when you think about president of the United States, you don't want to think about reckless and irresponsible in the same sentence or paragraph. So it seems like ten days ago Steve bill Barr was thrown shade at President Trump or former president Trump, and now it looks like he's rattling a cage it kind of seemed like
the rhetoric from at least Barr went up this weekend. Is that happening more and more, well, very tentatively by Republicans because they know that Donald Trump's hand, you know, stranglehold on the Republican primary voters is still pretty strong. You know, you look at all the national polls average together fifty three percent of Republicans right now favorite Trump's for the nomination, and his closest competitor, round Des Angeles, is down at twenty. But that still means that
close to half of Republicans would like somebody else. But if you step away from the primaries and look at the larger picture, you know, Governor Sanuno is very popularly young Republican. Governor Hampshire has said over and over again he looks at the numbers. It says Donald Trump cannot be Joe Biden. And in fact, he says, if Trump's at the top of the ticket, He's going to drag down Republicans who are running through the Senate, running for
governor in key states. And that's a growing a small small Jason, but growing number of Republicans are willing to say this publicly. But the dominant feeling, and the Republican Party is still getting in line behind Trump because he has the ability, he's a very powerful figure, and he's so prone to violent outbursts. No one wants to cross him. And that's still largely true.
But when Republicans look at the larger picture of what it would be like having Trump at the top of the ticket, there's a growing sense of worry about that. You look at it. NPR poll out this week, fifty six percent of Americans said the Trump should drop out of the race cost of the indictment, and that's fifty eight percent of independence. Those are the numbers that keep Republicans up at night. Yeah, I would imagine. So let me
reintroduce you real quick. ABC's political editor Steve Roberts is on the line with us this morning. Steve, if if the focus first of all, this new new name is a political blue blood family name from and that I imagine that might have some attraction eventually, depending on how long this conversation goes. That goes to my next question, which is, if the focus is on the GOP nomination right now, are the Dems getting a free ride to some
extent, Yes, but they will that free ride will not continue. And we're talking about Trump's vulnerabilities, We're talking about phrases like reckless and irresponsible. But there are Democrats who are equally worried about about Biden. It's no secret here Jason's he keeps giving ammunition to his opponents who say he's losing his mental faculties, that he's increasingly frail and feeble. Joe Biden is four months older
than me, Jason. I know what it's like to be eighty years old, and I know that with that age comes a lot of disabilities and a lot of distractions. And so for all the talk about Trump's recklessness and irresponsibility, the flip side of that is talk about Biden's feebleness and frailty and growing lack of comprehension. So the big guns on the Republican ranks have a lot of ammunition to throw with Joe Biden in the same way that their Democrats have
a lot of ammunition to throw a Trump. Which means that if you look at the national averages, both Trump and Biden, the two likely nominees,
are stuck in the low forties in terms of unfavorable ratings. Neither one of them comes close to commanding a positive feeling among the majority of Americans, which means as you head into this election, there are a lot of voters in both parties unhappy with their choices, but they're going to wind up with two guys, one who's almost eighty, one who's over eighty, with a lot of drawbacks and a lot of negatives. Hasty, We appreciate your experience and
context here. Okay, you called yourself out on the age thing, but just so you know, I can't. Hey, you know I was. I was the Los Angeles correspondent to the New York Times in the early seventies. So that tells you how long they're going around right on. Um, Well, that's for another conversation another time. Let me ask you one quick follow before I have to let you go. You probably saw Vivy Ramaswamy on Fox News over the weekend. Do you have any hot takes on Vivy Ramaswamy.
He seems very confident in his abilities. Well, I think he's a fresh voice and a fresh face, and it's it's it's striking that in Republican ranks you have two candidates who have Indian ancestry. You also have Nicki Hanley, the former governor of South Carolina. You have the only black Senator,
Tim Scott, a Republican black Senator, also running for president. And that's good news for the Republican Party. You know that they they're branded often as the party of White America, but those three candidates show that the Republican Party has a growing appeal beyond their white base. Good take, Steve, always good to talk to you. Maybe we'll talk again later this week, sure,
anytime. ABC's political editor Steve Roberts joining us this morning. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room this morning. LA County and the acl you have agreed to settle a lawsuit over in humane conditions and overcrowding at the Central Jail Downtown. The agreement prevents the country the county from holding anyone at the inmate reception center for more than twenty four hours and from chaining people to benches and other objects for more
than four hours. The county also has to provide clean and sanitary seals, access to medical and mental health services to inmates, and increase staff. At least five people have been killed and more than two dozen others injured in shootings in multiple states over the Father's Day weekend. At least twenty three people were shot, one fatally during a Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, and a seventeen year old boy was killed during a party in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Merit to Shara Jones appealed to parents for help. We must do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of our babies. Kyl Foreman with the Grant County Sheriff's Office in Washington State, says two people there were killed at a music festival. The shooter continued to shoot randomly into the crowd, and the suspect was eventually taken end to custody. A state trooper was killed
in central Pennsylvania when a shooter attacked a state police barracks there. At least four Palestinians have been killed in fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the West Bank. A fifteen year old boy was among those killed when Israeli helicopter gunships hit targets in the region. The Israeli military says troops took on a massive exchange of fire during an arrest raid and shot back at Palestinian gunman.
Officials say palest Palestinian militants also set off a roadside bomb next to an Israeli military vehicle. There's a new push making it easier than ever to get a higher education. California Senator Alex Padilla hope to reinduce the Reintroduce the College for All Act. The bill would allow working class students to attend community colleges, trade schools, for year colleges, all for free. And in the time it takes me to read this sentence, a new world record was set.
A twenty one year old California man is celebrating his tenth Guinness World Record. Actually that was about a tenth of a second too long. Max Park solved a Rubik's cube in the fastest time ever three point one three seconds. It was a three by three Rubik's cube. I've seen the video. I was going to talk about it last week and I just didn't know if it would relate. But I just that's fascinating stuff. It's five fifty two on your
wake up Call. On the line is Wilshire Country Club golf pro Trevor Rathoff Welcome back, Trevor, Good morning, Good morning. Okay, so I watched a Saturday and Sunday at least a little bit. First think, the sun came out this weekend. That was nice to see. And then on Saturday the marine layer moved back in towards the end of the round. First of all, thanks to the golfers for bringing some sunshine to southern California for the first time in a while. Other than that, what really went down
yesterday? Yeah, I mean we saw a golf course that you know, really bounced back and got the best of players yesterday. You know, Wyndham Clark, not so familiar name outside of his first victory about a month ago, was able to hold on and claim his first US Open title. Rory McIlroy, who was in contention all day just you know, couldn't get it done. He fought hard, and you know, at the end of the day, golf a tough game and you're gonna have winners and losers, and
this week Windham Clark was our winner. Yeah, Wyndham Clark was. I saw him walking up some fair ways Jack Nicholas style, like he was storming some of those. He doesn't lack for confidence does he no? And he know he mentioned that a lot that his mental game has been the biggest kind of crutch and the thing that's been holding him back. But you know, since he's gone to a new mental coach, he's really bounced back and been
a different player. So he said he was going to go into this weekend playing cocky and still maintaining his aggressive play style, and it looks like it paid off just grape for him. So when you say it the course kind of fought back a little bit, what do you mean by that? Were the fairways you know, narrowed or did they move the cup placement? Yeah? So, I mean the biggest thing was the course ride out that sunshine, the heat that we got, the course is gonna dry out, so
it's gonna play firmer and faster. The other thing we saw from the USGA they put a lot more whole locations on some a little bit more severe slopes, so you know, usually they kind of put him in some flat areas. I know onund we had some pins that were in spots that were you know, three to four percent graded slope, which is a lot when you're trying to roll a put. So it's something you have to be a little
bit careful. You want to be below the hole, so placements everything, and you know, if you get a little pin high or above it, you know you're gonna have a slippery put coming back where you know you don't make it. You look at another eight ten peacome back the other way. So it creates a lot of pressure on these players to really put the ball in a good position to be able to attack and be aggressive. Let's pull back a little bit, get away from the play just for a second.
It's been eighty years or so since we had one of these opens in Los Angeles. Is it gonna be another eighty years before we get another one? No, So you know the next one, you know, oddly enough, for the first time in the US Open history, Elle Country Club is actually signed for two US Opens, not just one. So we'll actually see it
back here in twenty thirty nine, another fifteen years. I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of changes between now and then, but something they can plan for, you know, ahead of time, kind of learned from this first one and make improvements to really make the fan experience better, the player experience better. And now they have an idea of how the players can perform on this course and kind of cater it to their liking this so they can have
that final score be what they wanted to be. So when you're watching on television, and I guess I don't play very often so, but but when when somebody but you hear, you hear the crowd go getting a hole? Right? Come on? Is there anything else that we can say right there? Are there anything that I'm missing that people are saying on the course. It might be a little more fun and a little lest you know, thirty five years old than getting the whole? I mean, it's definitely the most
common one. Another one you hear. You don't hear them telecasts as much, but you know Howard Stern when we heard the Bob the booie, we hear that a lot still on golf courses. Or you hear Ripper magoo, you hear a little bit, you know, depends on the trendy, the trend of the crowd that's walking through there getting the whole? I mean, that was good when you hear them out there. But hey, as long as they're keeping it appropriate for you know, all the families to attend.
I'm happy, hey have you know, get the crowd into it, get people yelling. I think it's, you know, just a great environment, create some you know, great energy for not just the players, but everyone else around them. All Right, this question might be about golf, but I think it could be applied broadly. It's more of a philosophical thing. We saw yesterday eighteenth Green Royal mac Rory McIlroy got a lot closer on that
forty one foot put than any of us would unless you're a pro. But what happens when you miss a shot that is like supposed to be an easy shot and give me a six footer, let's say, five or six footer? M how do you shake that off and get moving again as a golfer? And then I think that's why it can spill over into other things. When you stub your toe. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's probably one of the toughest things in golf. You know, So we're
watching on TV, it looks a lot closer than it really is. Then when you're there, you're you look and you're like, wow, these guys make all these puts that I miss every day. You know, that's what makes these guys so great is that they're able to have a short term memory
when it comes to bad shots. They can miss a short put, you know, hit a bad shot, maybe not recover from you know, a chip shot or getting up and down, but they're able to bounce back on that next toll or that next shot and really kind of capitalize and put it behind them. So what they do best better than anyone outside of their short
games is they don't compound their errors like your everyday golfer. So mentally, you know, their strength and fortitude is just incredible that they can, you know, just be far and beyond above everyone else and just you know, like I said, take advantage of the moment, put the bad shots behind them, move forward, and just try and keep playing better on you know, each each and every shot moving forward. Trevor, thanks again for the time this morning. I personally, I am playing a golf one of my
two times a year. I'm playing it a famous course called De Bells in Griffith. Part of you hear to that one, it's a part three ebody. Hey, thanks for your time, have a great week. Hope you have a great round later this week. Thank you very much, thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Wilshire Country Club golf pro Trevor Ralfoff. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom before we get to handle on the news. Four people are recovering from injuries caused by a suspected drunk driver during a chase that ended in a crash in South Pasadena. The HP says officers were trying to stop a driver on the North One ten early yesterday, but he sped up. The guy rear ended two other cars where the freeway ends at Glenarm. The CHP says the man was not wearing a seatbelt and was killed in the crash.
A hit and run driver who allegedly killed a woman while doing street stunts in Long Beach has been arrested. The guy walked into Long Beach police headquarters over the weekend and gave himself up. The fatal crash happened Friday night. The driver was doing donuts at Willow Street and Caspian Avenue when he hit an oncoming car, causing that driver to lose control and smash into a tree. The woman was ejected. Celebrations are being held across the country do you commemorate Juneteenth,
which marks the end of slavery in the US. It was designated a federal holiday in twenty twenty one. Festivities here in southern California include festivals in Lymert Park, Hollywood, and Elsa Gundo, which include food, music, arts and crafts, and cultural exhibitions. There's also a parade in Inglewood and a concert at the Greek Theater this afternoon, and I believe Vice President Kamala
Harris is expected at that Greek later today. Officials in India sa a sweltering heatwave is killed about one hundred and seventy people in two of the country's most populous states in recent days. Hospitals have been overwhelmed, and routine power outages add to these challenges. Northern regions of India are known for sweltering heat during the summer months, but the Indian Meteorological Department says temperatures have been consistently above
normal. Heighs have been one hundred and ten or above. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four our newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening to wake up call, you know You can always listen live on KIM six forty weekdays from five to six am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app