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Caruso Will Be Voting (Not Endorsing) Karen Bass + The McRib Is Back! · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD2, Los Angeles, Orange County.
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  Speaker 3: I was working in the lab late one night, when
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  Speaker 3: my eyes beheld an eerie sight, for my monster from
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  Speaker 3: his slab began to rise, and suddenly, to my surprise,
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  Speaker 3: he hit the match!
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  Speaker 2: It's time for your morning wake-up call.
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  Speaker 4: The monster match! It was a graveyard smash.
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  Speaker 5: He did the mash. It caught on in a flash.
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  Speaker 4: He did the mash.
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  Speaker 5: Here's Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning. It is 5 o'clock straight up. This
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  Speaker 1: is your wake-up call for Tuesday, October 27th. I'm Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Only four days to Halloween. got my halloween gear on
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  Speaker 1: again today i know i know it's excessive but what
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  Speaker 1: the heck how often do you get to pick play dress.
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  Speaker 6: Up when you're an adult.
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  Speaker 1: And today's a huge day the mcrib is back that's
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  Speaker 1: today that's today is it worth it i've never had
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  Speaker 1: one i've never had one since high school since high
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  Speaker 1: school but they're big enough that they bring them back
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  Speaker 1: almost every year Yeah, it's like a whole thing now.
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  Speaker 1: It is a whole thing. I would love to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. Like, is it worth it? Should I go
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  Speaker 1: to the drive-thru on my way home? See if I
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  Speaker 1: can get a McRib sandwich. I mean, it's like weird.
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  Speaker 1: It's formed like a rib, but it's just like a
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  Speaker 1: pork hamburger patty or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Barbecue flavor to it unless.
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  Speaker 1: Barbecue flavor okay well we would love to hear from
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  Speaker 1: you on the talk back it's the little microphone it's
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  Speaker 1: in the upper right hand corner if you're listening on
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  Speaker 1: the iheart radio app is the mcrib worth it will
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  Speaker 1: cole schreiber's weighing in and he says an emphatic yes
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  Speaker 1: all right got lots going on today so let's get
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  Speaker 1: right to it thanks for starting your day with us
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  Speaker 1: here's what's ahead on wake up call record high tides
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  Speaker 1: are causing coastal flooding in southern california A reading of
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  Speaker 1: just over eight feet in San Peter yesterday set an
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  Speaker 1: all-time record. Streets are flooded in low-lying areas of Newport Beach,
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  Speaker 1: where even higher tides are expected today. Coastal flood alerts
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  Speaker 1: remain in effect through Thursday afternoon for the L.A. and
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  Speaker 1: Orange County coastlines. Real estate developer Rick Caruso, who lost
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  Speaker 1: the 2022 L.A. mayor's election to Karen Bass, will be
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  Speaker 1: voting for Mayor Bass. He said in a video yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that in his words... After carefully weighing both candidates and
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  Speaker 1: what I believe is best for the future of Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: I've come to a clear decision. For the love of L.A.,
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  Speaker 1: I must put the past behind me because this election
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  Speaker 1: must be about our future and not a referendum on
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  Speaker 1: the past. He did not say that he endorsed Bass,
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  Speaker 1: just that he would be voting for her. Former FBI
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  Speaker 1: Director James Comey is being charged by federal prosecutors for
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  Speaker 1: leaking national defense information. In a new case against him,
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department alleges Comey knowingly communicated information related to
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  Speaker 1: national defense to a person who was not entitled to
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  Speaker 1: get it, with reports indicating that person was a reporter.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Haralambous is going to join us at 520
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  Speaker 1: to tell us more about what they're hoping to get
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  Speaker 1: for going after him this time and also how Comey's
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  Speaker 1: daughter has scored a win against the Trump administration. Our
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections are just one week away, but in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: it is election day, and it's a big one. ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Jordana Miller in Jerusalem is going to let us know
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  Speaker 1: what's at stake and how it affects us. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of the way of the future. You're seeing it more
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  Speaker 1: and more. Digital pricing on grocery store shelves. Neat technology.
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  Speaker 1: Or could something more nefarious be happening in the aisles?
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us before the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hour to let us know what's up.
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  Speaker 1: And here's a hint. It could be prices. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. Flood fears continue in Southern California as
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  Speaker 1: the king tides roll in. Newport Beach and Long Beach
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  Speaker 1: saw water in the streets and in homes and businesses yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Newport Beach PIO Georgia Rios tells KTLA that today's tide
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  Speaker 1: is expected to be even higher. Two inches worse. So
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  Speaker 1: that's we're releasing. That's the peak of all of the
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  Speaker 1: peak high tides.
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  Speaker 2: So we're really asking everyone if they can get more sandbags,
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  Speaker 2: really fortify up those areas just that we don't see
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  Speaker 2: as much flooding onto the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday's high tide in San Pedro, as I mentioned, set
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  Speaker 1: a record just over eight feet high tide this morning.
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  Speaker 1: is it expected at around 945. Skydance is looking to
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  Speaker 1: cut the number of employees following the big merger with
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery.
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  Speaker 7: Some Skydance employees are being offered a one-time buyout offer,
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  Speaker 7: according to the LA Times, which says a memo went
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  Speaker 7: out letting people know that if they want to bail,
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  Speaker 7: that's okay. Skydance leadership reportedly wrote, quote, as we bring
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  Speaker 7: our teams together, we recognize that not everyone will see
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  Speaker 7: their future here, and we respect that. No word how
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  Speaker 7: many people Skydance is looking to lose. The company wants
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  Speaker 7: to cut at least $ 6 billion over the next three years.
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  Speaker 7: and is $ 80 billion in debt after buying WB. Jason Nathanson,
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  Speaker 7: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge in L.A. said to hear the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department's case about non-citizens on the voter rolls in California.
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  Speaker 6: The DOJ wants the state to segregate about 20,000 ballots
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  Speaker 6: it claims without proof are from non-citizens. Loyola Law School
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  Speaker 6: professor Lori Levinson doesn't think it stands much of a chance.
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  Speaker 8: We know from other states, like Nevada, that sometimes they
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  Speaker 8: come up with tens of thousands, even more, and none
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  Speaker 8: of them turn out actually to be illegal voting.
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  Speaker 6: A couple speed bumps, the Constitution, and math.
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  Speaker 8: The feds don't even have authority to interfere in a
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  Speaker 8: state election, let alone when it's not likely to make
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  Speaker 8: a difference.
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  Speaker 6: Mark Rahner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: And hundreds of ballots have been sitting exposed in a
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  Speaker 1: hallway at a homeless mission on L.A. 's Skid Row.
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  Speaker 9: That's according to a California Post report, which says the
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  Speaker 9: ballots were found on October 13th at the Midnight Mission.
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  Speaker 9: Georgia Hawley, chief communications officer at the shelter, told the
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  Speaker 9: Post the election ballots are supposed to be kept under
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  Speaker 9: lock and key and that their standard procedure is to
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  Speaker 9: secure election ballots behind locked doors. She said she personally
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  Speaker 9: confirmed the ballots were being stored securely. but that limited
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  Speaker 9: mailroom space means that deliveries have to be sorted and
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  Speaker 9: distributed throughout the day.
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  Speaker 5: U.S.
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  Speaker 9: Attorney Bill Assele confirmed the feds are investigating, but wouldn't
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  Speaker 9: discuss the midnight mission specifically. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Editor Carla said she loves the McRib. She saw
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  Speaker 1: it on the app yesterday, but it was unavailable. It's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be available today. It's a patty slathered in
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  Speaker 1: barbecue sauce with pickles and onions.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sold on it, but I would love to
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  Speaker 1: hear from you. Like I said on the talkback, is
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  Speaker 1: it worth it? Hit us up. It's that microphone in
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  Speaker 1: the upper right-hand corner on the iHeartRadio app. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: So our midterm elections are now one week away, but
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  Speaker 1: in Israel, it's Election Day and it's a big one.
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  Speaker 11: It is a big one. The polls opened at 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 11: And from what we can see already, given the statistics
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  Speaker 11: that were just put out by the Israel Election Committee,
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  Speaker 11: by noon, Israelis have voted in historic records. Over 31
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  Speaker 11: percent of eligible voters already casting their ballot here in Israel.
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  Speaker 11: And we haven't seen those numbers. Numbers since the 1970s that,
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  Speaker 11: you know, usually bodes well for the opposition. And so,
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  Speaker 11: you know, this may already be an early indicator that
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  Speaker 11: Netanyahu is in trouble. But there were other indicators before
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  Speaker 11: voting even started today that Netanyahu's party, Likud and his bloc,
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  Speaker 11: are going into a very tight race. They were behind
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  Speaker 11: in almost every poll, some as much as six seats.
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  Speaker 11: And this election is turning out to be really framed
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  Speaker 11: by October 7th. Whether you support the prime minister or
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  Speaker 11: you're against him, everything is related to October 7th. So
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  Speaker 11: his critics and say that Netanyahu is responsible for the
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  Speaker 11: security policy that led to the failures of October 7th.
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  Speaker 11: They accuse him of dragging out the war for way
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  Speaker 11: too long, cost tens of thousands of lives, innocent lives
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  Speaker 11: of Palestinians and dozens of lives of the hostages. You know,
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  Speaker 11: over 80 hostages died in Hamas captivity. And they believe
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  Speaker 11: that his wars against Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran have
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  Speaker 11: not been decisive victories. You know, there's still a lot
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  Speaker 11: of threats to Israel. And Netanyahu, while promising complete victory,
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  Speaker 11: he did not deliver that. Now, on the other side
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  Speaker 11: of the aisle, supporters for Netanyahu say even though there
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  Speaker 11: were mistakes on October 7th, they believe he's been an
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  Speaker 11: amazing wartime leader and that he has substantially weakened Israel.
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  Speaker 11: both Hamas and Hezbollah, and that his historic partnership, military
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  Speaker 11: partnership with the United States helped really deal a severe
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  Speaker 11: blow to Iran. And they're putting a lot in his
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  Speaker 11: close relationship with President Trump, who, as you know, Amy,
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  Speaker 11: has endorsed Netanyahu in the last week or so. Having
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  Speaker 11: said all that, it's going to be a tight race
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  Speaker 11: at about 4 p.m.
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  Speaker 10: Eastern.
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  Speaker 11: We'll get the first exit polls, which will give us
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  Speaker 11: good idea of where things are going, but vote counting
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  Speaker 11: will continue likely through the night because the soldiers, you know,
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  Speaker 11: they're voting all in not only in Israel, but in
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  Speaker 11: Gaza and in southern Lebanon and in the West Bank.
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  Speaker 11: And those votes will take some time to count. And
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  Speaker 11: they usually favor the right. So we won't know really
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  Speaker 11: the full picture until probably tomorrow on Wednesday. And from there,
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  Speaker 11: the winning party has to form a coalition of 61 seats.
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  Speaker 11: It's not like in America. In Israel, everyone's voting for parties,
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  Speaker 11: not specific leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Jordani, in Israel, it has to be in-person voting.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 11: That is correct. You cannot, there is no, there is
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  Speaker 11: no send in your ballot for Israelis. In fact, even
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  Speaker 11: Israelis that live abroad in New York, let's say, they
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  Speaker 11: cannot cast their ballot at the Israeli embassy. They have
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  Speaker 11: to come back Israel and cast a ballot here. And
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  Speaker 11: that has led an estimated 100,000 Israelis to get on
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  Speaker 11: planes and come back to Israel because many believe this
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  Speaker 11: is such a critical election.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be watching it. And I'm sure we'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: to you again very soon. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much. Let's get back to some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom, a United Airlines
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  Speaker 1: flight to New Jersey. was diverted back to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend because of a passenger's alleged terrorist threat.
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  Speaker 12: The flight attendant saw him texting that he was going
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  Speaker 12: to hijack the aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Gio Benitez says the flight attendant notified the crew
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 13: The pilot's telling air traffic control the cockpit is locked down.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, and the passenger does not know anything is going on.
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  Speaker 1: Police detained the 25-year-old passenger when they landed. He was
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  Speaker 1: arrested on charges of making a threat or providing false
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  Speaker 1: information regarding an act of terrorism. He's already out on bail.
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  Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine have begun a ceasefire, but only in
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  Speaker 1: a southern Ukrainian city. It's an agreement brokered by First
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  Speaker 1: Lady Melania Trump. The truce is to allow the delivery
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  Speaker 1: of much-needed humanitarian aid this week to the city of Oleshky.
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  Speaker 1: But Russia's attacks on other cities in Ukraine continue. Finland's
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  Speaker 1: president and Norway's prime minister have spoken with Russian President
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  Speaker 1: Putin and with Ukrainian President Zelensky. They're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: war and upcoming trilateral talks, including Russia, Ukraine and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft has offered 60,000 workers some cash to leave the company.
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  Speaker 14: This is due to Microsoft's spending on artificial intelligence. The
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  Speaker 14: chief people officer said in a blog post yesterday that
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  Speaker 14: the company's voluntary exit offer was available to eligible employees
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  Speaker 14: in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and India. The company,
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  Speaker 14: which releases its quarterly financial performance tomorrow, had approximately 223,000
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  Speaker 14: full-time employees at the end of June. Debra Mark, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: A judge has extended the court-ordered block on President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: renovation plans for the historic public golf course near the
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  Speaker 1: Potomac River in Washington, D.C. That's the one where crews
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  Speaker 1: cut down about 400 trees. President Trump says reporting voter
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  Speaker 1: fraud could lead to a $ 1 million reward. That goes
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  Speaker 1: for the midterms or past elections. Trump talked about it
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  Speaker 1: yesterday on his way to a rally in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 15: A million dollar bonus or reward or whatever you want
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  Speaker 15: to call it for anybody that reports voter fraud leading
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  Speaker 15: to the arrest and conviction of somebody.
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  Speaker 1: No word on where the money would come from. A
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  Speaker 1: woman originally from California has pleaded guilty to felony charges
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  Speaker 1: of pregnancy fraud. Who knew there was such a thing?
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  Speaker 1: Laura Owens now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prosecutors say she
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  Speaker 1: falsified ultrasound images, fabricated medical records, and gave false testimony.
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  Speaker 1: Former bachelor Clayton Eckhart and another man in Arizona were
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  Speaker 1: two of her targets. Owens filed a fraternity lawsuit against
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  Speaker 1: Eckhart in 2023, claiming that she was pregnant with his
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  Speaker 1: twins and that she wanted child support. She later dropped
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit. She's been given probation but could face a
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  Speaker 1: decade in prison if she violates those terms of probation.
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  Speaker 1: And he may be gone, but the Mariah Carey of
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  Speaker 1: Halloween still rakes in the royalties.
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  Speaker 3: They did the Monster Mash.
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  Speaker 16: Bobby Boris Pickett said he'd been paying the rent for
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  Speaker 16: 36 years with this one song. Pickett died in 2007,
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  Speaker 16: but he said that in 1998 after co-writing and performing
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  Speaker 16: Monster Mash in 1962. The royalties go to family members now,
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  Speaker 16: but Billboard says streaming, film usage, and other licensing could
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  Speaker 16: make it a million dollars annually. Pickett's grandson recently said,
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  Speaker 16: aside from that nice check, for every single year of
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  Speaker 16: his entire life, he gets to hear his grandfather's voice
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  Speaker 16: for one month.
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  Speaker 6: Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I've got to write a hit song.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's all.
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  Speaker 1: Pays the rent for 36 years. I love it. When
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  Speaker 1: we come back, the Trump administration is taking another shot
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  Speaker 1: at James Comey. ABC's Peter Haralambos joins us next to
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  Speaker 1: tell us what the new charges are and how Comey's
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  Speaker 1: daughter just won one against the Justice Department in court. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the big question for today as the McRib returns to
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's is... Is it worth it? Is it any good?
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up on the talkback. Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
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  Speaker 2: AM 640.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Amy.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, KFI family. The McRib. Well, is it worth it?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 17: For a quick go-to after it hasn't.
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  Speaker 5: Been around a while. Yeah, it's not too bad.
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  Speaker 17: I prefer it without pickles, though.
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  Speaker 5: Anyways, have a good day. Amy, love your show.
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  Speaker 1: I do love a good pickle. Okay, the McRib. Hit
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  Speaker 1: us up on the talkback.
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  Speaker 11: Let us know.
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  Speaker 1: Is it worth it or should you just pass it?
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  Speaker 1: I've never had one. Here's what we're following in the
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  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. The LADWP Board of Commissioners is going
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  Speaker 1: to be discussing proposals today to help people struggling with
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  Speaker 1: sky-high utility bills over the summer.
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  Speaker 15: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass called for an independent audit of DWP rights
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  Speaker 1: yesterday and urged the commissioners to deliver immediate comprehensive relief
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  Speaker 1: on energy bills for ratepayers facing sharply higher charges. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people posting their bills online. of over $ 2, 000.
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  Speaker 1: The Long Beach Peninsula, Malibu, and several cities in Orange County,
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  Speaker 1: including Newport Beach, which has declared a state of emergency,
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  Speaker 1: are bracing for potentially record-high king tides this morning. In
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  Speaker 1: Long Beach, several homes are already red-tagged after getting slammed
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  Speaker 1: by several rounds of pounding surf from the remnants of
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  Speaker 1: tropical storms in recent weeks. Funeral services are pending for
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  Speaker 1: Walter Koenig, best known for playing Ensign Chekhov on the
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  Speaker 1: original Star Trek series and in the first round of
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  Speaker 1: Star Trek movies. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry has said
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  Speaker 1: that Koenig got the role because he looked a lot
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  Speaker 1: like monkey star Davy Jones, and it was an effort
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  Speaker 1: to give the show more appeal to younger viewers. Koenig
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  Speaker 1: died at his home in North Hollywood on Sunday. Walter
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  Speaker 1: Koenig was 90. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Peter Harlambus. So, Peter, the Trump administration taking another shot
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  Speaker 1: at James Comey.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 18: The third time in 13 months yesterday we learned about
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  Speaker 18: this new criminal case out of Washington, D.C., allegedly mishandled.
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  Speaker 18: Right now, this case is a little unique in terms
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  Speaker 18: of its weird legal posture. The Department of Justice filed
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  Speaker 18: what's known as a criminal information. That is something that
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  Speaker 18: does not involve a grand jury. Basically, it's just the
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  Speaker 18: signature of a prosecutor. They use that in an effort
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  Speaker 18: that appears to be an attempt to basically stop the
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  Speaker 18: clock on the.
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  Speaker 5: Statute of limitations.
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  Speaker 18: This is a 10-year statute of limitations for this kind
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  Speaker 18: of case. They allege this crime took place October 2016,
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  Speaker 18: related to a New York Times story about the FISA courts.
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  Speaker 5: And basically, the way the.
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  Speaker 18: DOJ has defended this action, they say they're trying to
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  Speaker 18: basically pause the clock, get an extension so they can
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  Speaker 18: go to a grand jury and bring proper charges. Though
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  Speaker 18: at this point, it's unclear whether these allegations are viable. Again,
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  Speaker 18: the third case in 13 months, this time related to
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  Speaker 18: a New York Times article in 2016 about the FISA
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  Speaker 18: courts alleging that Comey authorized the leak of information to
• 18:04
  Speaker 18: the York Times.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I kind of remember this. I mean, it was 10
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: years ago, but I do remember and there was they
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: interviewed him and he said, yeah, I. I gave these notes.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I took a bunch of notes and I gave them
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to my friend or something to that effect, right?
• 18:18
  Speaker 18: That's what I thought this case was at first, because
• 18:20
  Speaker 18: that's what the first criminal indictment against James Comey centered on.
• 18:24
  Speaker 18: These notes that Comey kept, these memos that he gave
• 18:28
  Speaker 18: to his lawyer, his lawyer then releasing part of that
• 18:32
  Speaker 18: information in a controlled manner to New York Times reporter.
• 18:35
  Speaker 18: And that's I guess when we saw the unsealed charges,
• 18:40
  Speaker 18: we thought this case was about until the judge released
• 18:43
  Speaker 18: some more documents. And oddly enough, this all appears to
• 18:48
  Speaker 18: center around a story published on October 5th, 2016, titled Yahoo.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Said to have aided U.S.
• 18:54
  Speaker 18: Email surveillance by adapting spam filter. Kind of a particularly
• 18:59
  Speaker 18: non-political story. It basically goes through in this story how
• 19:02
  Speaker 18: the FBI got an order from the surveillance court to
• 19:08
  Speaker 18: basically go through Yahoo emails to look for communications between
• 19:13
  Speaker 18: members of.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: A foreign terrorist organization.
• 19:16
  Speaker 18: So unrelated to Trump, unrelated to political stuff. And according
• 19:20
  Speaker 18: to the Department of Justice, this is their own claims.
• 19:23
  Speaker 18: Comey basically saw a story in Reuters the day prior
• 19:27
  Speaker 18: that described incorrectly Trump. This this kind of surveillance system
• 19:33
  Speaker 18: that they used against this foreign terrorist organization and thought
• 19:38
  Speaker 18: the story was misinformation, went to his chief of staff,
• 19:42
  Speaker 18: authorized him to go to The New York Times and
• 19:45
  Speaker 18: to basically correct the record. So The Times doesn't publish
• 19:48
  Speaker 18: the same story.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: And now the DNR.
• 19:50
  Speaker 18: Is alleging that that release of information, this attempt to
• 19:53
  Speaker 18: correct the record about this surveillance issue, was an unauthorized
• 19:58
  Speaker 18: release of classified.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Information.
• 20:00
  Speaker 18: Kind of a surprise in terms of why this article,
• 20:02
  Speaker 18: why this story. Of course, Comey's lawyers are saying that
• 20:05
  Speaker 18: this is the latest in a series of malicious prosecutions,
• 20:09
  Speaker 18: that they're effectively searching anywhere and everything for something they.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Could charge James Comey with.
• 20:14
  Speaker 18: Of course, the first case against James Comey, the one
• 20:16
  Speaker 18: about those memos that you mentioned, that one got dismissed.
• 20:19
  Speaker 18: for reasons related to the authority of the prosecutor. He's
• 20:22
  Speaker 18: facing also charges in North Carolina related to those seashell
• 20:26
  Speaker 18: posts about him allegedly threatening the life of President Trump
• 20:31
  Speaker 18: by posting 8647 on Instagram.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: And now, of course, this is the third case in
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: just 13 months.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: OK, well, we'll watch this one. But it sounds like
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: correcting the record wouldn't be a breach of national security
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to me. But that's just me. And then just real quick,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: because we got about 30 seconds left, James Comey's daughter
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: was fired and a judge says, no, you can't do that.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 20:56
  Speaker 18: A judge ordering she get reinstated and also get back pay.
• 21:00
  Speaker 18: This came after she was fired as her job as
• 21:02
  Speaker 18: an assistant U.S. attorney in New York. She was effectively
• 21:05
  Speaker 18: a line prosecutor, a nonpolitical position prosecutor. She had been
• 21:09
  Speaker 18: getting rave reviews for about a decade, no kind of
• 21:12
  Speaker 18: performance issues, and she was fired abruptly last year with
• 21:15
  Speaker 18: no real cause given. This judge saying that that firing
• 21:18
  Speaker 18: was improper and also rejecting the Trump administration's broad argument
• 21:22
  Speaker 18: where they basically said they could fire any prosecutor they
• 21:25
  Speaker 18: wanted with no reason given because that's the authority of
• 21:27
  Speaker 18: the president. The judge in this case in New York
• 21:30
  Speaker 18: shooting down that argument, saying that there are decades of
• 21:33
  Speaker 18: Supreme Court cases and also just our entire constitutional system
• 21:37
  Speaker 18: that builds in protections for civil servants, life assistant U.S.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Attorneys.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: OK.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Harlamus. Thanks so much for the info. We'll
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: talk to you again soon.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Amy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Despite the feeling from a lot of people around the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: city that crime is on the rise, new numbers on L.A.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: show that's not the case.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Fewer people are being killed in L.A.
• 21:56
  Speaker 19: Year-to-date homicides in 2026 are down 9% compared to the
• 22:00
  Speaker 19: same period last year.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: LAPD Assistant Chief Microm Kunis sharing the new crime stance
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: at a news conference.
• 22:05
  Speaker 19: That's 18 fewer lives lost to violence.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: And it's not just murder. Property crime down 12%. Violent
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: crime down 4%. Some of the reasons?
• 22:13
  Speaker 19: Intelligence-led policing... Comstat-driven deployment and technology to identify crime patterns.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: He says these are levels we haven't seen since the 60s.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Jason Adelson, KFI News.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: A woman from South L.A. has pleaded guilty in federal
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: court to lying about being kidnapped by ICE agents. The
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: feds say the story was made up last year to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: generate sympathy and solicit donations. Yuriana Calderon was charged with
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: conspiracy to impede and several other charges. She could get
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: up to five years in prison when she's sentenced in February.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Nithya Raman's campaign for mayor has filed complaints to a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: political action committee backing her opponent, Mayor Bass, for using
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: AI to impersonate Raman. And to see voters.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: The Thrive LA PAC signs have a phone number answered
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: by an AI ramen sound alike. I gave it a
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: call and a voice answers, Nithya Realty.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: We're bringing tent communities to your block.
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: Would you prefer them outside your children's school, the.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Library, or right outside your home?
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Outside my home.
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: Excellent.
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: Your front walk can absorb the compassion so my hillside
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: gate doesn't have to. What were you expecting your property
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: taxes to cover?
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Drugs for them.
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: Very efficient then.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Is this an AI?
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: I'm a fictional AI. I'm as imaginary as my campaign promises.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Rahman's campaign claims this violates California election laws against deceptive
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: election media. Mark Groner, KFI News.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting. Very interesting. Lots more to come on
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. And also, don't forget to join Bill
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Handel this morning. He's breaking down some of the big
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: propositions that are on the ballot for the November 3rd election.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Some of them could be wolves in sheep's clothing.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: AM 640.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Amy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: Calling to weigh in on the McRib. Not a fan
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: of the chopped and formed aspect of the food. I'll
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: be listening to see if you try it and what
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: you think. Have a great day.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Amy Scott from Playa del Carmen. I'm coming back to
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Rancho Cucamonga, California on Wednesday to get a McRib sandwich. Yes,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: they're worth it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:24
  Speaker 20: All right.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Another
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: street has flooded because of a water main break. This
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: one in the Westlake District. Water is continuing to pour
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: out onto the street this morning. Third and Columbia is closed.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It's not clear if LADWP crews are on site yet
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and whether any customers around the break have lost water service.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: The cuts are about to begin. Skydance Corporation has offered
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: voluntary buyouts to some employees nearly three weeks after completing
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: its massive merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery. The
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: company notified employees yesterday about the one-time buyout program as
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it begins integrating the two businesses and looks for billions
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of dollars in cost reductions. Well, it's not quite a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: billion dollars, but it's getting up there. The Powerball jackpot,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: no one matched all six winning numbers from last night's drawing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That pushes the Big prize up for the next drawing
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: tomorrow to $ 716 million. The jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: game stands at $ 443. At 6.05, it's Handel on the news.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: It's a big day in Israel. It's election day. Handel's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: going to weigh in on the chances of Netanyahu remaining
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: in power. Big changes could be coming. Here's what's coming
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Billionaire real estate mogul
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Rick Caruso says he's voting for Karen Bass for mayor
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: over council member Nithya Raman.
• 25:48
  Speaker 21: I have serious concerns about councilwoman Raman.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: In a video posted on social media, Rick Caruso says
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: it's about competence and Raman's lack of executive experience.
• 25:56
  Speaker 21: I don't believe she is prepared for this very tough job.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: He called Raman's comments about firing LAPD chief Jim McDonald
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: reckless and dangerous.
• 26:03
  Speaker 21: This is no time to turn the LAPD into a
• 26:06
  Speaker 21: laboratory for risky DSA social activity. experimentation.
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: And he says Bass, who beat him in the 2022
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: mayor's race, has worked with him to rebuild after the
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Palisades fire, and he's watched her learn from her mistakes.
• 26:17
  Speaker 21: Given the choices we have, she is the best to
• 26:20
  Speaker 21: lead our city forward.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: Jason Nathanson, KFI News.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: 2026 has been the most expensive ballot measure election cycle
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: ever in California.
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: According to the most recent campaign finance filing submitted October 22nd,
• 26:32
  Speaker 14: 44 committees reported $ 798. 9 million in contributions, That's the most
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: on record. Campaigns surrounding Prop 40, the wealth tax, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 14: the two competing measures, Prop 41 and 42, account for
• 26:46
  Speaker 14: about 45% of that total. The next most expensive year
• 26:50
  Speaker 14: was 2020, which saw $ 763. 7 million. Debra Mark, KFI News.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Jay-Z's stepping off the sideline and into one of the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: biggest spotlights. He'll be headlining Super Bowl 61's halftime show.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: It's at SoFi Stadium, February 14th. His entertainment company, Roc Nation,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: has been producing the halftime show since 2020. NFL Commissioner
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell said when the league reached a production agreement
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: with Roc Nation in 2019, he had just one request,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and that was that Jay-Z take the stage himself one day,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: whenever the moment felt right to him. Now's the moment
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to get in your business with Bloomberg's... Oh, we're speaking
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to Mr. Tucker this morning. John Tucker, hello.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Surprise, surprise.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: We get to talk to you.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. So GM has... Actually,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it's sort of like you're not your father's Oldsmobile issue
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: going on.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: Is there.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: GM's trying to revamp their branding a bit.
• 27:51
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I've been trying to revamp my branding for a while.
• 27:53
  Speaker 17: It ain't working, but John Mulder has been... They've been
• 27:57
  Speaker 17: listed on the New York Stock Exchange for over 100 years,
• 28:00
  Speaker 17: and that is about to change. They're trying to change
• 28:03
  Speaker 17: their image to more tech-focused. So the old-school automaker is
• 28:07
  Speaker 17: shifting its stock listing to the more hip NASDAQ. The
• 28:11
  Speaker 17: company is going to retain the GM ticker symbol. It's
• 28:13
  Speaker 17: going to start trading on the NASDAQ November 17th. They
• 28:16
  Speaker 17: say this underscores its embrace of automated driving. as well
• 28:20
  Speaker 17: as electric vehicles. It's a big deal in these parts
• 28:24
  Speaker 17: when you change your listing. And the New York Stock Exchange,
• 28:27
  Speaker 17: none too happy about this one this morning.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Why is it a big deal to change it?
• 28:32
  Speaker 17: Because it means a lot of money for when you
• 28:35
  Speaker 17: list it on a different exchange. You lose that, you
• 28:39
  Speaker 17: lose the trading volume.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: So, no.
• 28:43
  Speaker 17: They're crying in their beer this morning.
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: Gotcha.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I heard this story earlier. Apple's getting complaints
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: about the new iPhone. $ 2, 000 and the screens are breaking.
• 28:54
  Speaker 17: Yeah, customers who bought the iPhone 2, the foldable display,
• 28:58
  Speaker 17: cracked after just a few hours or days of use.
• 29:02
  Speaker 17: Imagine that when you fold a piece of glass, it cracks.
• 29:04
  Speaker 17: Never would have thought so. Apple acknowledged it in a
• 29:07
  Speaker 17: statement saying it was aware of an issue impacting the
• 29:11
  Speaker 17: inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units.
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: And I got to tell you, when it came out,
• 29:16
  Speaker 17: what was it, last week it went on sale? It
• 29:18
  Speaker 17: was the first time in a long time that I've
• 29:20
  Speaker 17: seen long lines at some of the Apple stores. There
• 29:25
  Speaker 17: was one just down the street here. They're lined up overnight.
• 29:28
  Speaker 17: And most of the people said they were not buying
• 29:31
  Speaker 17: it for themselves, that we're just going to resell it
• 29:33
  Speaker 17: and try to make some money. So, you know, there
• 29:35
  Speaker 17: you go.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Our tech guy, Rich DeMuro, loves it mostly.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: But.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: it does look cool. Yeah, there's a few things about it.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Coke is it with no sugar.
• 29:45
  Speaker 17: Coca-Cola sings strong demand for soda, especially the zero sugar drinks.
• 29:50
  Speaker 17: I mean, I love Coke, especially when it's mixed with rum.
• 29:53
  Speaker 17: But they're raising their full year outlook. The stock has
• 29:59
  Speaker 17: gained almost 33% this year. Coca-Cola has this widening portfolio
• 30:04
  Speaker 17: of beverages. They're reaching more shoppers with zero sugar soda,
• 30:10
  Speaker 17: higher protein, fair life milk, and water. I mean, zero
• 30:14
  Speaker 17: sugar Coca-Cola.
• 30:16
  Speaker 18: I don't know.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It's a big thing. People like that Coke Zero. I'm
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: not a fan. I'm a Diet Coke person. But, you know, whatever.
• 30:21
  Speaker 17: It's like drinking alcohol-free beer.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Okay. And then we have time for one more. You
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: want to talk about Lysol or Burger King?
• 30:27
  Speaker 17: Let's do Burger King.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:29
  Speaker 17: They've won back the title as America's number two burger
• 30:31
  Speaker 17: chain from Wendy's. The CEO there, Tom Curtis, credits his
• 30:35
  Speaker 17: listening to customers. He takes personal calls and complaints from customers.
• 30:41
  Speaker 17: Curtis and his team, they say they've received $ 100. thousand
• 30:44
  Speaker 17: calls so far he personally returns about 40 a week
• 30:49
  Speaker 17: so you can complain right to the ceo how.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: About that that sounds sounds great we've been talking about
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: uh mcdonald's all day because the mcbrib is back.
• 30:58
  Speaker 17: I heard some of those calls yeah kind of creepy
• 31:02
  Speaker 17: all right we'd.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Like to hear from you if you uh do you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: think we should go try the mcrib i've never had
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: one uh But I might go get one today. And
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: thank you, John, getting in your business. We'll do it
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: again soon.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: All right. Talk to you soon, Amy.
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: Thanks.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: When we come back, it's the way of the future.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: You've seen digital pricing on store shelves. It's kind of
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: a neat technology. But could something nefarious be happening in
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the aisles? ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: next to let us know what's up. And here's a hint.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: It might be the prices.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: We have been talking about the McRib, which is back
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: at McDonald's starting today for a limited time. And the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: big question is, you know, is it worth it?
• 31:46
  Speaker 20: About 10 years ago, I got brave and ordered a McRib.
• 31:50
  Speaker 20: And you know the gel when you open a canned ham?
• 31:55
  Speaker 20: That gel that covers the ham? That's what I bit into.
• 31:58
  Speaker 20: Never again.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's a definite no.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Hi, Amy. Bob from Lake Arrowhead here.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Hi, Bob.
• 32:06
  Speaker 20: I love your KFI Monster Mash wake-up call theme.
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: Like the McRib, its limited time availability makes it special.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Very sweet. We're going to be playing special intros to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the show all week long. I do like that Monster
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Mash one. Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass is celebrating a nearly 50% decrease in homicides
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: in L.A. over the last four years while she's been mayor.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: City leaders also released numbers yesterday showing a 50 percent
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: drop in the number of people shot in the city.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: The figures released also show significant drops in reported burglaries,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: robberies and car thefts in the San Fernando Valley. Researchers
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography say cliffs
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: along California's coast are eroding at an alarming rate. In
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: some places, cliffs eroded over 70 feet per year. Many
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: well-known spots lost over 10 feet of cliffs per year. Overall, 65%
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of California's coastal cliffs showed measurable erosion during the study.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Pope Leo has been medically cleared to travel to South
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: America next month. The 71-year-old underwent lung cancer surgery two
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. He doesn't have to have any further treatment.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: And in a statement, the Vatican said there's nothing medically
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: that would prevent him from going ahead with his 12-day trip.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: He's set to visit Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru during the visit.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: The American-born pontiff spent more than two decades as a
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: missionary and a bishop in Peru. Let's take a good
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, it's the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: wave of the future. We're seeing digital pricing on more
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: shelves and on stores, and it's kind of a cool
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: little technology, but could something... nefarious be going on?
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: That's the big question, isn't it? Yeah, the digital price
• 33:48
  Speaker 13: tags that you see if you walk in, especially Walmart,
• 33:50
  Speaker 13: they were an early adopter of this technology. So instead
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: of paper price tags, that's real old school, or printed
• 33:58
  Speaker 13: tags on the shelves, you see these digital price tags.
• 34:01
  Speaker 13: I think Best Buy uses them too. And the benefit
• 34:05
  Speaker 13: to the store owner, the grocery store, is that they
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: can be changed fairly easily. So somebody with a tablet
• 34:11
  Speaker 13: can walk up, some employee can walk up and scan
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: the QR code on there and change the price based
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: on market conditions, you know, supply and demand and all
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: sorts of variables that go into everyday shopping market decisions.
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: But yeah, you're right there. I mean, the concern is
• 34:28
  Speaker 13: that the prices might be manipulated based upon who the
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: shopper is, right? How much money that person makes or
• 34:34
  Speaker 13: the kind of car that person drives or even something
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: like race, maybe. So, yeah, it's a deep question, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: I think a lot of people are asking it now.
• 34:43
  Speaker 13: Elizabeth Warren, the senator, is likewise. The Senate Judiciary Committee
• 34:47
  Speaker 13: held a hearing on this last month. Some states are
• 34:50
  Speaker 13: trying to ban this surveillance pricing.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, is it like when you mention Home Depot,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you start getting stuff on feeds,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: like it's tracking where you are? I mean, how is
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: that even done?
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: But that could tie into it. So here's how it works.
• 35:08
  Speaker 13: You log on, you look at stuff online, you do
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: shopping online. Everyone does. Then your history as to what
• 35:14
  Speaker 13: you shop for or what you bought, that's stored up
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: and can be used as data by some retailer, a
• 35:20
  Speaker 13: different retailer, not even Home Depot.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 13: And more sinister, I think, is the thinking that you
• 35:25
  Speaker 13: walk into a store and they have facial recognition readers
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  Speaker 13: there as you step in.
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: Your face is red.
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  Speaker 13: And based on that, they know who you are. They
• 35:32
  Speaker 13: know what your shopping habits are, what you've bought at
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  Speaker 13: that store before, what you've bought at other stores. You know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 13: so yeah, I think it all, since it's driven by AI,
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  Speaker 13: there is this suspicion that this is happening now. But
• 35:45
  Speaker 13: the CEO at Walmart, John Furman, he said in a
• 35:49
  Speaker 13: blog post last month, we price the product, not the person.
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: So yeah, is it happening? Maybe, maybe not. Could it happen?
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  Speaker 17: Probably.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's interesting to think about how that technology would work.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you walk into a store and they go, oh,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: there's Amy, she's heading to Ralph's and she's going to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: go get Her cottage cheese and her cherry tomatoes and
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: her four-piece chicken, which I kind of do every week.
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: And she makes $ 750, 000 a year. And so we can
• 36:17
  Speaker 13: boost the price of the chicken, the roasted chicken, whatever
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: she's buying, because we know that she's a high-income shopper.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the AI is incorrect on that one.
• 36:28
  Speaker 13: Wrong Amy, sorry.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I get it for 50 cents. Get it for 50
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: cents based on my income. So that's interesting. So right
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: now it's just kind of they're just doing it. They
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: say they're not doing anything nefarious. Is there any way
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: for us to check?
• 36:41
  Speaker 13: I thought about that very thing. How could you see
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: if you're being priced based on who you are?
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: How about this? Okay.
• 36:49
  Speaker 13: Two people who live a few miles apart in the
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: same community. They could go to the store. They could
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: arrange to go to the store at the same time, right?
• 36:58
  Speaker 13: And so they walk in separately and they take their
• 37:01
  Speaker 13: shopping carts. They do their shopping. Maybe they buy some
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: of the same items and then they finish up and
• 37:05
  Speaker 13: go out to the parking lot and compare receipts and
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: see if they're the same. That might be a good experiment.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Seems like it's a lot of effort. All right. ABC's
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Jim Ryan. Thanks. I know that it's another thing that
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I have to worry about. Appreciate it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: No, don't worry about it.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. Just don't worry about it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Here's something to worry about. I just heard this. There's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a call for Liberty Mutual to ditch their new mascot,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Liberty Bibberty. You know Liberty Bibberty?
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:34
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: So it's that little guy. They've been doing this campaign
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: for a couple of years with the good looking guy
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: who's really stupid.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: He says, Liberty, Bibberty.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Liberty, Bibberty. And now there's the little mascot. He looks
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: like a Tribble kind of, but he's yellow.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: A Tribble.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And has really kind of creepy teeth. And at first
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I was totally creeped out by him, but now I
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: like him. Producer Anne is like, I love Liberty, Bibberty.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: I'm actually obsessed with him.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Oh my God.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You're obsessed with him.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: I love him.
• 37:59
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Well, there are people who disagree with you and want
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the mascot retired. They find the ad campaign annoying, repetitive.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: And it's an oversaturated extension of an old joke, they say.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: But it's also— Well, you know what?
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: Go away. Because you're idiots.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, they've accomplished, though, what, like, all advertisers are.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Trying to do.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: You're bringing more attention to it.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, you know Liberty Bibberty. I can't say it,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: but Liberty Bibberty. And who has the time to do this?
• 38:28
  Speaker 15: Who cares?
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: I was going to say, these people have a lot
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: of free time.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: No, this is funny. They even had protests outside Liberty
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Mutual's headquarters in Boston. Get a life, losers. Liberty Bibberty.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I think he's kind of cute. What do you think?
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: The mascot or the guy?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Well, the guy's cute.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: Cute.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the little mascot's kind of adorable, right?
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: You can actually get one.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: There's actually a shop.
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: There's actually a Liberty Bibberty plushie that you can buy.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Christmas is coming.
• 39:01
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• 39:04
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