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Latest in the Middle East, More Cruises in 2027 and Fritz Coleman Joins! · 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: Early risers, come on down.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the host of your Wake Up Call, Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: It is 5 o'clock straight up. This is your wake-up
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  Speaker 1: call for Thursday, October 22nd. I'm Amy King. We're live
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  Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. A little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: soggy morning, so I slowed it down while I was
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  Speaker 1: driving in. I noticed other people were driving a little slower, too.
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  Speaker 5: I did, too.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice.
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  Speaker 5: This is one of those days where people actually kind
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  Speaker 5: of were behaving themselves.
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  Speaker 1: That's because we're scared that we're going to spin out
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  Speaker 1: and crash.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, so that's something to watch out for as
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  Speaker 1: you head out. Maybe head out a couple minutes early today.
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  Speaker 1: The roads weren't horrible by any stretch of the road.
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  Speaker 1: They've been much worse. It's just when they're slick and
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  Speaker 1: we're not used to it, you know, there are problems
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  Speaker 1: afoot sometimes. And guess what? Nine days to Halloween. And
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  Speaker 1: with this cool rainy weather, I got to break out
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  Speaker 1: another Disneyland spirit jersey today. Happy to be wearing sweaters.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: I've forgotten almost to wear a Dodgers sweatshirt today.
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  Speaker 6: You can.
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  Speaker 5: Which is okay.
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  Speaker 1: You can. You know, I hear there's a World Series
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  Speaker 1: coming up this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, not in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: No, not in L.A. I kind of so don't care.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: People have been asking me, are you only a Dodgers fan?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I like baseball. But now that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Dodgers are out and, you know, anybody
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  Speaker 1: near us is out, I'm kind of like, eh, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. A beach hazards
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  Speaker 1: warning remains in effect until 11 tonight with high tides
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  Speaker 1: and surf of 3 to 6 feet expected. Long Beach
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  Speaker 1: officials have put 415,000 cubic yards of dredged sand along
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  Speaker 1: the shoreline, but it's not known if that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be enough to stop further damage from recent storms. The
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  Speaker 1: Alamitos Peninsula is protected from waves that come from the west,
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  Speaker 1: but it's vulnerable to waves from the south. Apparently that's
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  Speaker 1: where the waves are coming from. A printing mistake has
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  Speaker 1: been blamed for almost 8,000 voters in Central Valley receiving
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  Speaker 1: duplicate mail-in voting ballots. The Tulare County Registrar of Voters
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  Speaker 1: says safeguards were in place to keep the extra ballots
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  Speaker 1: from being counted, but some have held off on voting,
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  Speaker 1: saying they were afraid they'd be accused of committing fraud
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  Speaker 1: for trying to vote twice. Debris from an intercepted drone
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  Speaker 1: has killed two people and injured two others at an
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  Speaker 1: A Ramco-operated oil field in southeastern Saudi Arabia. Saudi ministry
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  Speaker 1: says the falling debris also sparked a fire in a
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  Speaker 1: contractor's vehicle at the Shaba oil field. ABC's Jordana Miller
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  Speaker 1: says the U.S. is ordering its diplomats and others out
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  Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia. We'll get the latest from Jordana in
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem in just a couple of minutes. Planning your next
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  Speaker 1: big vacation? ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us
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  Speaker 1: before the bottom of the hour to tell us how
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  Speaker 1: people are turning away from Places like Hawaii or the
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  Speaker 1: mountains or even Europe and are planning to hit the
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  Speaker 1: high seas instead. For decades, he brought you the weather
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  Speaker 1: every night on TV. Now, Fritz Coleman is bringing you laughs.
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  Speaker 1: He's joining us before the top of the hour on
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call to tell us about his long-running stand-up show,
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  Speaker 1: Unassisted Living. Fritz is always a delight. Let's get started
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  Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. Heavy rain expected from the storm moving over
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  Speaker 1: Southern California today. Forecasters say thunderstorms and flooding are possible,
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  Speaker 1: especially in communities along the Malibu Coast and in the
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  Speaker 1: Santa Monica Mountains. Those areas are on a flood watch
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  Speaker 1: through at least late tonight. The storm could also produce
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  Speaker 1: flooding in urban and poorly drained areas, including streets, creeks
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  Speaker 1: and rivers. Areas near steep hillsides and recent wildfire burn
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  Speaker 1: scars could face additional hazards from runoff. mud and debris.
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  Speaker 1: Police in Riverside County say two 15-year-old girls arrested for
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  Speaker 1: allegedly plotting a mass shooting at Corona High School may
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  Speaker 1: have been out for revenge. Lieutenant Robert Montanez tells KTLA
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  Speaker 1: the girls spent months researching other school shootings, looking into
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  Speaker 1: how to get guns and talking about how they would
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  Speaker 1: enter campus to carry out the attack.
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  Speaker 2: Meta, the platform that owns Instagram, shared information with the
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  Speaker 2: FBI regarding a potential threat based on what these two
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  Speaker 2: students were sharing.
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  Speaker 5: With each other.
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  Speaker 1: He says the girls had a hit list that included
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  Speaker 1: students and staff. Some kids at the school say the
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  Speaker 1: plot may have had to do with bullying. Four Southern
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  Speaker 1: California lawmakers have demanded an independent federal investigation into the
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  Speaker 1: man in Long Beach injured during an ICE arrest.
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  Speaker 7: The lawmakers want to know if ICE agents violated the
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  Speaker 7: man's civil rights when he was reportedly hit by an
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  Speaker 7: unmarked federal vehicle while riding an e-bike in North Long Beach.
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  Speaker 7: Reports show Ricardo Gonzalez, who is a U.S. citizen, was
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  Speaker 7: also repeatedly tasered and left with a broken arm. The
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  Speaker 7: advocacy group StopICE.net has circulated video showing masked federal agents
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  Speaker 7: restraining Gonzalez on the ground as he repeatedly asked for help.
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  Speaker 7: Federal officials have disputed that Gonzalez was hit with a vehicle,
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  Speaker 7: saying he was arrested after damaging a government vehicle. Aileen Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 7: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Chapman University has established a scholarship fund in memory of
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  Speaker 1: Eliana Moreno. She's the NBC4 reporter who was killed in
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  Speaker 1: a news helicopter crash in Chatsworth. Moreno was born in
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  Speaker 1: Orange County. She graduated from Chapman University in 2010. Her
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  Speaker 1: family says scholarships have helped make Eliana's dreams possible and
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  Speaker 1: opened doors to a career in which she would make
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  Speaker 1: history and inspire countless others. Moreno and the pilot were
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  Speaker 1: killed when the news helicopter crashed on September 15th while
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  Speaker 1: covering a deadly car crash into a metro bus. A
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  Speaker 1: person on the ground was also killed. It's time to
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  Speaker 1: say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia has become a hotspot in the conflict between
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. and Iran. What's the latest?
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  Speaker 8: Well, the latest is that the Iranian-backed Houthis and the
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  Speaker 8: Saudis are continuing to exchange fire over the last 24 hours.
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  Speaker 8: The Houthis firing on the city of Medina, which is
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  Speaker 8: supposed to be really off the border. off the list
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  Speaker 8: of potential targets because it is a city with some
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  Speaker 8: very holy sites for Muslims, one of the third most
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  Speaker 8: holy sites. But thankfully, those ballistic missiles were intercepted and
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  Speaker 8: shot down, according to the Saudis. All of this fighting
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  Speaker 8: has contributed to the State Department's decision to evacuate U.S.
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  Speaker 8: personnel from the embassy there in Riyadh, U.S. embassy, given
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  Speaker 8: that this fighting has now gone on for several weeks, really, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just and it's sort of become the,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, the hotspot of the Middle East because
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  Speaker 1: we're not hearing about other places as much. We had
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  Speaker 1: talked earlier this week that I was wondering about what
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  Speaker 1: was going on in the Strait of Hormuz because we
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  Speaker 1: hadn't really heard a whole lot about it. And we're
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  Speaker 1: hearing this morning that there are some oil tankers that
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  Speaker 1: have been damaged. Do you have any new information on that?
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 8: The Iranians are saying that they damaged four tankers in
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  Speaker 8: and around the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours,
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  Speaker 8: which shouldn't surprise us because the Iranians have for the
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  Speaker 8: last two weeks damaged They've been intensifying their strikes on
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  Speaker 8: the tankers. The Iranians are trying to stop the U.S.
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  Speaker 8: military from helping tankers get out of the Strait of
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  Speaker 8: Hormuz and deliver their oil, right? That's the Iranians try
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  Speaker 8: to claim that they are in control of the state
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  Speaker 8: of Hormuz, that it's their territory. But we've seen over
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  Speaker 8: the last couple of months that the U.S. military has
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  Speaker 8: had some considerable success in sharing out those tankers. And
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  Speaker 8: even though we've seen this hike in gas and oil prices,
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  Speaker 8: it might be a lot worse if it were not
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  Speaker 8: for the U.S. military's strategy to help tankers get through
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  Speaker 8: the Strait of Hormuz on that, what we're calling the
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  Speaker 8: southern route, the route that hugs the coast of Oman.
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  Speaker 8: You know, to try to thwart that process, we've seen
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  Speaker 8: the Iranians attacking more and more tankers in and around
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  Speaker 8: the street. And that's what they claim to have done
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  Speaker 8: last night. Now, we're going to have to follow the
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  Speaker 8: reports and see if they're reliable, because often the Iranians
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  Speaker 8: will exaggerate what they're doing or they will lie. But
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  Speaker 8: they are they are increasing their attacks.
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  Speaker 6: OK.
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  Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for the update. We appreciate it, as always, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk soon.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Talk soon, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A retired teacher
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  Speaker 1: from Michigan who was held prisoner in Russia for four
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  Speaker 1: years is back on U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Soil.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Hubbard landed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lachlan last night
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  Speaker 1: and is getting medical care there. President Trump says the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: didn't give Russia anything for Hubbard's release.
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  Speaker 6: We gave.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing in exchange, which is very rare.
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  Speaker 5: We never give anything in exchange.
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  Speaker 1: Hubbard lived in Ukraine. He was detained in 2022. He
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  Speaker 1: was later convicted in a Russian court of being a
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  Speaker 1: mercenary for Ukraine. Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she's moving
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  Speaker 1: out of her home in Washington, D.C., following a raid
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  Speaker 1: by federal agents. They searched the property last week as
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  Speaker 1: part of an investigation, possibly involving immigration fraud. Omar was
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  Speaker 1: born in Somalia and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. She
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  Speaker 1: said yesterday she is confident in the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong. Another polling firm has been busted
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  Speaker 1: for using fake numbers ahead of the midterms.
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  Speaker 9: Wedgwood Polling was questioned by a polling aggregator about their
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  Speaker 9: methodology after giving sizable leads to Democrats in Texas, Michigan, Georgia, Maine, Ohio,
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  Speaker 9: and Kansas, along with several other states. Wedgwood has now
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  Speaker 9: admitted to the made-up numbers and is calling it a
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  Speaker 9: social experiment to see how many news outlets would use them.
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  Speaker 9: Wedgwood polls were cited by the New York Times and
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  Speaker 9: other outlets. This comes after polling for Media Strategies pulled
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  Speaker 9: a similar stunt in August. FCC Chair Brendan Carr warned
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  Speaker 9: that broadcasters who air the fake data risk losing their licenses.
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  Speaker 9: Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: An election ad in Ohio is causing some big controversy.
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  Speaker 1: The Democratic candidate for governor, Dr. Amy Acton, says the
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  Speaker 1: ad by her Republican opponent Vivek Ramaswamy, which features her
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  Speaker 1: estranged mother, is hideous. ABC's Mary Bruce says Acton's mom
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  Speaker 1: calls her a liar in the ad.
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  Speaker 7: Vice President J.D. Vance praising Ramaswamy for having the, quote,
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  Speaker 7: audacity to run an ad that, quote, calls it out
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  Speaker 7: like it is.
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  Speaker 1: Acton was removed from her mother's custody when she was
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  Speaker 1: 12 years old after her stepfather was charged with sexually
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  Speaker 1: assaulting her. President Trump was back on the campaign trail
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  Speaker 1: for Senator Darlene Graham in South Carolina. Talking to a
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  Speaker 1: crowd at Clemson University last night, Trump touted the first
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  Speaker 1: 20 months of his second term, encouraged voters to act
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  Speaker 1: like he's on the ballot, and lamented the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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  Speaker 3: I should have gotten the Pulitzer for writing, too.
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  Speaker 2: The people that got.
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  Speaker 5: It shouldn't have gotten it.
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  Speaker 1: The Pulitzer Prizes honor excellence in journalism and the arts.
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  Speaker 1: Winners of the 2026 Pulitzer include The Washington Post, The
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  Speaker 1: New York Times, and Reuters for their reporting on the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration. New rules will go into effect for Airbnb
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  Speaker 1: bookings starting next month. ABC's Michelle Franzen says short-term renters
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  Speaker 1: will now get New house rules when they book a room,
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  Speaker 1: actually book a house.
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  Speaker 7: The company says it's streamlining its policies when it comes
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  Speaker 7: to cleaning tasks that hosts can require after their stay
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  Speaker 7: is complete. Airbnb says hosts can no longer require guests
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  Speaker 7: with things like stripping the bed and washing and putting
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  Speaker 7: away dishes.
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb renters say those various tasks are confusing. Yeah, stripping
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  Speaker 1: the beds. That's a tough one. That's a tough one.
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  Speaker 7: And doing the dishes.
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  Speaker 10: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Flying this holiday season is going to cost you a lot.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like the most expensive in 10 years. Hopper's
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  Speaker 4: 2026 Holiday Travel Index says the average flight around Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 4: in the U.S. is up 31% from last year to $ 402,
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  Speaker 4: and Christmas flights are up 23% so far at $ 452.
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  Speaker 4: Jet fuel cost is being blamed the most, but the
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  Speaker 4: big three airlines, American, Delta, and United, are all reporting
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  Speaker 4: record profits in consecutive quarters. Delta says there's been limited
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  Speaker 4: resistance to its price increases. Experts say prices will likely
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  Speaker 4: not get any lower, so now is the time to book.
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  Speaker 4: Thanksgiving travel should be done by basically yesterday, and Christmas
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  Speaker 4: time travel should be booked by next week. Michael Crozier,
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  Speaker 4: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: I'm booked. I'm booked for Christmas. But I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: from when I started looking at prices and points and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff to when I was actually able to book,
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  Speaker 1: prices went up considerably.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, oh, speaking of vacations, if you're
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  Speaker 1: planning your next one, ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join
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  Speaker 1: us to tell us how people are turning away from
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  Speaker 1: places like Hawaii or the mountains or Europe and instead
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  Speaker 1: headed to the high seas. That's coming up next.
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  Speaker 10: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
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  Speaker 10: AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 6: The L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Council has voted to authorize the installation of up
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  Speaker 1: to 50 cameras on the city's dash buses. Starting November 1st,
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  Speaker 1: the cameras along all downtown dash routes will help catch
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  Speaker 1: people who are parking illegally at bus stops or in
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  Speaker 1: bus lanes. Plans are to expand into Crenshaw, Van Nuys
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  Speaker 1: and Koreatown after the first of the year. City Council
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  Speaker 1: has also delayed a vote on its license plate reading
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  Speaker 1: cameras until next Tuesday. The LAPD wants to mount 30
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  Speaker 1: cameras on streetlights to help identify stolen vehicles, illegal activity,
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  Speaker 1: wanted criminals. But some council members have raised privacy concerns
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  Speaker 1: about the flock cameras and now oppose the project. Kurt
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  Speaker 1: Suzuki is out. As the Angels manager, after one season,
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff's going to change. Some will be offered
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  Speaker 1: new positions with the organization. The team finished the season
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  Speaker 1: with a franchise record 100 losses. The ouster comes as
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  Speaker 1: the Angels prepare for a change in ownership. Stan Kroenke
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  Speaker 1: is expected to take control of the team early next year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim,
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  Speaker 1: forget flying or a weekend away in the mountains. Vacations
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  Speaker 1: are turning to the high seas.
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  Speaker 3: They are, yeah, by the millions. In 2019, Amy, there
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  Speaker 3: were 14.2 million Americans who went on ocean cruises. In 2027,
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  Speaker 3: the number will be 22.4 million. That's 8 million more
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  Speaker 3: than we had just in 2019. Of course, the whole
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  Speaker 3: industry cratered during the pandemic, but it has come roaring back.
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  Speaker 3: And now AAA says that we're going to see sky-high
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  Speaker 3: numbers on the high seas in 2027.
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  Speaker 1: And that's in spite of when, and I love cruising,
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  Speaker 1: but that's in spite of things like, you know, when you, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you hear about, you know, the neurovirus outbreaks or something.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And still people go back. But what's the allure?
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  Speaker 6: They do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. 90% of people who've been on cruises, according to AAA,
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  Speaker 3: say they'd do it again. They had a great time
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  Speaker 3: or a very good time. And they'd recommend that method
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  Speaker 3: of taking time off to other people as well. But
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  Speaker 3: you're right. It could be that since we haven't had
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  Speaker 3: some big outbreak of some terrible disease or infectious kind
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  Speaker 3: of problem on one of these ships in some time
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  Speaker 3: that people are sort of saying, you know what, maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's a good deal again. Of course, the price is
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  Speaker 3: one thing that I think attracts a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was going to ask you about.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sky high fuel prices and and airfares and hotel prices
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  Speaker 3: and everything. According to the U.S. News & World Report,
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  Speaker 3: you can do three to four night sailings for as
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  Speaker 3: little as $ 350 per person, not just per night, but
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  Speaker 3: for the whole cruise. And so I think people do
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  Speaker 3: find it as a bargain, not just retirees anymore, but
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  Speaker 3: people taking their whole families on cruises and saving money
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  Speaker 3: that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that my family, this was a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago, but my family went on an Alaska cruise
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  Speaker 1: and it was like $ 1, 400 per person. I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: considerably higher now, but we're like, we were on the
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  Speaker 1: cruise for a whole week. Pretty much all of your
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  Speaker 1: food is included. You can, there are a couple of
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  Speaker 1: restaurants where you can buy it stuff, but otherwise, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: your food is included. And then of course there's the
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  Speaker 1: drink packages. And does this say why, aside from affordability,
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  Speaker 1: why people are choosing to cruise? I'm curious if it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like why I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, part of it is the weather. I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: depends upon where you're going. If you're going up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to Alaska, that's one thing. But 71% of cruises go
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  Speaker 3: to the Caribbean because of relatively low prices, because the
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  Speaker 3: weather is generally nice out there. And if you have
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  Speaker 3: a port of call in some Caribbean paradise, then, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's very attractive to people. But what do you think
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  Speaker 3: it is?
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I liked it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: So....
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I liked it because you had a home base, so
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you could be gone for a week. I know there
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: are shorter cruises. We took a week long, or maybe
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: we took a 10-day cruise. But we did a cruise
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to the Holy Lands in the Mediterranean. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, we went to so many places during that time,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: but then you had a home base to come back to.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Each night. So you weren't packing and unpacking and moving around.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: That's why I like it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Somebody had rich parents.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: No, you said it. It was affordable. And it actually
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: wasn't stupid expensive. But it was a great cruise.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's pretty good. So how old were you when
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: you did this?
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, it was only like 10, 15 years ago.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: So you were an adult and you still remember all
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: that stuff.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: That's great. That is... Are you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Saying that I was drinking so much on the cruise
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't remember?
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: If you were a little kid, you know, like four
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: or five years old.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: You probably wouldn't remember.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: No, this was an adult. My mom and I were.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Did you buy the drink package?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Of course we bought the drink package.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: You know, I think.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: But those other things.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that are tacked on, you know, according to the
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: industry sources that it's the taxes, the fees, the port expenses.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Wi-Fi can be up to $ 25 per day. And, yeah,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: the drink package, $ 60, $ 70, $ 80 per person for a
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: drink package.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: And worth every penny. And the other thing that I love,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: you said the Wi-Fi package. When we went on it, again,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: this was like 15 years ago. There was no Wi-Fi.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I think it was so limited and it was so
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: expensive that nobody did it. And it was so cool
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: because you had to disconnect. And so you just enjoyed
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the vacation and you didn't have your nose stuck in
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: your technology all day. So, yeah, I think it's a
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: great alternative. ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the info.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: You might have people rethinking their vacations.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: You never know.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: All right. Residents say they are concerned about a flop
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: camera pointed at some homes in Santa Clarita. The license
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: plate reading cameras, usually placed in high traffic areas, are
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: used to find stolen cars and track vehicles used in crimes.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: This one is on a small residential street. Brett Haddock,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: who's running for Santa Clarita City Council, says it's not
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a problem. in a high crime area, but it is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: an area with a higher Latino population. He's demanding to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: know the city's justification for putting a camera there, especially
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: since it's not in a high traffic area. Flock says
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: it does not share specifics about its contracts with individual agencies.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: A pilot program is underway to test soil in areas
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: affected by the Eaton Fire.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: Officials in L.A. County have started a $ 1 million program
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: to test for and remove lead-contaminated soil from residential properties.
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: The New Roots Eaton Canyon Pilot Program is intended to
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: help homeowners in Altadena and unincorporated areas of Pasadena address
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: lead contamination in bare soil following the January 2025 wildfire.
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: The program aims to provide soil testing and remediation services
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: for about 20 properties with funding drawn from the County
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: Board of Supervisors' climate equity account. Debra Mark, KFI News.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: An audit has revealed the L.A. Department of Animal Services
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't have enough staff or resources to provide humane or
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: adequate care to shelter animals.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: City Comptroller Kenneth Mejia's office released an audit of the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: capacity of the department to care for the volume of
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: animals entering its shelters relative to current resources. A representative
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: for the mayor's office did not immediately respond to a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: request for comment. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: California's vote-by-mail program has been found to discriminate against some voters.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: A federal court says the program violates the Americans with
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: Disabilities Act because it forces voters with print disabilities to
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: rely on others to return their ballots. While voters with
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: print disabilities can fill out ballots online, they still have
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: to print, sign, and mail or deliver them. The court
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: hasn't decided yet how the state should fix the problem.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is going to be receiving the American Film
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Institute's 52nd Life Achievement Award, recognizing a career that includes
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: four Academy Award nominations. In making the announcement, AFI said
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is a global icon with movies that have
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: earned nearly $ 13 billion at the worldwide box office. The
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: award's going to be presented to Cruise at a gala
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: on April 24th. of next year at the Dolby Theater
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood with proceeds benefiting AFI's arts and education programs.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Past recipients include John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Davis, Steven Spielberg,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Francis Ford Coppola,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and this year's Lifetime Achievement Award went to Eddie Murphy.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: The Chargers hit the field at SoFi Stadium this Sunday
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: against the Houston Texans. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. You
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: can hear all the action right here. on KFI AM 640.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Still to come on Wake Up Call, Southern California legend
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Fritz Coleman joins us to talk about life after being
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a weatherman. For Fritz, it's on the stage.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: AM 640.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: We're almost to the weekend and we're going to get
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it wet again today, but that's okay because it's going
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to be sunny by the weekend. So that's fabulous as well.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24 hour newsroom.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: The founder of a Culver City based nonprofit who allegedly
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: misappropriated more than seven and a half million dollars in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: homeless program funding and used it instead for real estate
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: at nightclub and a bingo call. Bingo Hall, not call,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: is expected to be arraigned today on federal charges. Prosecutors
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: say Michael Young of Baldwin Hills County. ran the non-profit
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Home at Last, defrauding taxpayers and public entities for years.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: He could get 20 years in prison if convicted. On-location
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: filming in L.A. has continued to decline. Despite a sharp
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: increase in support for California's expanded film and TV tax
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: credit program, production from July through September fell almost 5%
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: from the same period last year and was down 11%
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: from the first quarter. Long Beach Police Chief Wally Habeish
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: has announced... his retirement. He's led the second largest police
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: department in L.A. County for five years and has been
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: with the department for more than 30 years. Habesh says
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it's been his honor to lead the department. He thanked officers,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: city leaders and the community for their support. His last
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: day is December 31st. Here's some more stories coming out
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A student who allegedly took
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a gun to Bell Gardens High School has been arrested.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Police were called to the school yesterday morning and the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: campus was locked down while a search was done. Bell
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Gardens PD says officers detained and arrested a student who
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was in possession of a handgun. No shots were fired.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Nobody got hurt. A Glendale firefighter has been ordered to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: stand trial for the brutal murder of his wife at
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: their home in North Hollywood. Court filings show the woman
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: had about 32 chop wounds, including 25 to the head,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: face and neck. A detective noted that a bloody axe
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: was found at the scene in January. Investigators say Andrew
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Jimenez believed that his wife was cheating on him. New
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Mexico has won $ 25 billion in a lawsuit against Facebook's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: parent company, Meta.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: This comes after a jury found the tech giant liable
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: for misleading users in the state about how it collects
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: user data as well as stopping potentially harmful information on Facebook.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: The penalty includes a stipulation of 15% added interest each
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: year until it's paid in full. Meta plans to appeal.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Researchers at UCLA are using AI to help treat cancer.
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: They've developed a new artificial intelligence-based platform that could help
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: scientists identify promising drug combinations to overcome treatment resistance in cancer.
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: The platform uses large language models to analyze scientific knowledge
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: about how drugs work and the biological pathways cancer cells
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: use to beat treatment. Researchers say the system evaluates potential
• 25:48
  Speaker 11: drug combinations, ranks the most promising candidates, and generates biological
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: explanations that researchers can test in the lab. Debra Mark,
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: KFI News.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Just getting numbers that unemployment claims fell to 194,000 last week,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: another sign that layoffs remain low and most Americans apparently
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: have job security. Time to get in your business as
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: we do each weekday morning. This morning we are talking
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: to Bloomberg's... Who are we talking to? Matt Piper did it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Piper's here.
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: Piper, Piper.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Matt Piper.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: That's Peter Piper, whatever you want to say.
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Hi, Matt. How are you?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we just got those unemployment numbers, and then
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the stock futures, and they're tanking. Is
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that tied together?
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it could be.
• 26:38
  Speaker 12: Look, it's all we've been talking tech for months and
• 26:41
  Speaker 12: weeks and days, and it's the same now. Stock futures,
• 26:44
  Speaker 12: you're right, are falling, led by the tech sector. Now,
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: this is as investors digested earnings from Tesla and Meta,
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: all while oil prices are surging to five months highs.
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: Investors weighed Meta's quarterly results. They were just released yesterday
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: after the close. where the company announced this two for
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: one stock split. And speaking of Meta, it's giving Mark
• 27:03
  Speaker 12: Zuckerberg non-voting shares that he can sell to cover a
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: tax bill without relinquishing control of Meta. Now, in return,
• 27:11
  Speaker 12: Zuckerberg has committed to stay in your state of California
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: or wherever Meta keeps its headquarters for the next eight
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: years while he remains its full time leader. Now, that
• 27:21
  Speaker 12: comes after he warned that a proposed California wealth tax
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: could push him to leave the state. So the company
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: struck this unusual bargain with its billionaire CEO just in
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: the last, I don't know, 12 or so hours.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: OK, so then if the billionaire's tax is imposed, then
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: he could sell off his shares to pay it. Is
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that what you basically just said?
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Funny how they find a way, right? Yeah.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: And bring it. And bring the company with them and
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: everything else.
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: So they're trying to say, look, we want you to stay.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: We're going to do this. We want to be here, maybe.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: We will be watching it. Very interesting. Comcast is the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: latest company eyeing some job cuts.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 12: So it's after it lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: the third quarter. Now, that was more than the 133,000
• 28:13
  Speaker 12: losses that were predicted by Wall Street. Comcast shares are
• 28:19
  Speaker 12: down 21 percent this year. However, its media operations at
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: NBCUniversal are still on the upswing, with Peacock reporting a
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: 17 percent increase in paid subscribers, possibly thanks to all
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: those housewives.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I was just watching a Peacock show this week. Health
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: care plans for families are costing more now than ever before.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the annual cost of a U.S.
• 28:43
  Speaker 12: Family's employer-provided health care plan has reached an average $ 28, 303
• 28:46
  Speaker 12: this year. That is 5% more from last year. Workers
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: are contributing 9% more than last year as well, or
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: an average of $ 7, 470, with those at smaller firms having
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: a bigger burden. And about 157 million Americans under the
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: age of 65 rely on employer-sponsored coverage.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate that news. Child care costs also going
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: up a lot fast.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, everything's going up. I know.
• 29:16
  Speaker 12: So about 8% of families are spending more than $ 2, 000
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: a month on child care services. That includes daycare, nannies,
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: other programs. That is more than double the share of
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: households that spent that much just three years ago, according
• 29:31
  Speaker 12: to new research from the Bank of America Institute. So
• 29:34
  Speaker 12: everything's going up.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Matt Piper, this has been really depressing. We're going to go.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: In that case, I won't show up tomorrow. Someone else
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: is here.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, fine. We'd still love it if you were here. Okay.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Matt Piper with Bloomberg, thanks so much for getting in
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: your business. We'll do it again tomorrow. When we come back,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: for decades, he brought you the weather every night on TV,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and now Fritz Coleman is bringing you the laughs. He's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: joined us before. And he's joining us at the top
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of the hour to tell us about his long-running stand-up
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: show called Unassisted Living. That is coming up next on
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call.
• 30:10
  Speaker 10: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: A quick amendment. The Chargers are not hitting the field
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: at SoFi Stadium this Sunday. I mentioned it earlier that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: there was a game against the Houston Texans. Producer Ann
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: came in and said, what did you say? They're actually
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: off this week. They are going to be at SoFi
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Stadium and they are going to be playing the Houston, Texas.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And you will be able to listen to it right
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: here on KFI AM 640. But the game is not
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: till November 8th. Not sure why we're promoting it now.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Just in case. There we go. Got the mention. Sorry
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: for any confusion that may have caused you. Here are
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: some stories we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Another
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: day of rain is in the forecast with widespread minor
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: flooding and even debris flows possible in L.A. and Ventura counties.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: The greatest concern for flooding is in the Santa Monica
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Mountains and recent burn scar areas. About an inch and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a half of rain is expected before this storm moves out.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Federal authorities have suggested they have identified a separate batch
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: of 17,000 non-citizen voters in California. That would be in addition...
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to the 20,000 recently identified by the U.S. Department of Justice.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: L.A.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: County Registrar, Recorder, and County Clerk Dean Logan says a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: sampling suggests that 40% of the people on that list
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: were actually born in the U.S. Now we're just getting
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: word a federal judge in California has ordered the Department
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security to stop certain investigations into suspected non-voters.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: The ruling.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: says the department's efforts rely on faulty data that includes U.S. citizens.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to a guy who used
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to tell us about the weather, would have been telling
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: us about the rain that's on the way today, but
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: he's moved on to bigger and better things. It's a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: former TV weatherman for NBC, now stand-up comedian who's running
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: his long-running comedy show, at the El Porto Theater. It's
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Fritz Coleman. Good morning, Fritz.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Miss Amy. How are you today?
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: I'm good.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Thanks for getting up early. When you were doing the weather,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: did you have to get up this early or did
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: you do the late shift?
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: No. I did the... My shift was noon to 6.30
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: and then nine to midnight because I did the four, five, six,
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: and 11 o'clock news and And I was fully responsible
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: for all of the content. So I worked by myself
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: and I would come in and prepare the maps and
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: then go to the National Weather Service and see what
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: was happening. And then if it was a tranquil day,
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: not like today, I would get off at 6.30 and
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: then I would go have dinner. And then I would
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: go maybe to the improv or the comedy store and
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: do a little 15-minute set and go back to work.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: If it was a day like today where there's actual
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: weather occurring, And I would hang around work.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: You'd have to miss out on dinner and the comedy club.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: No, I would eat, but I'd have to make up
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: something because real weather is such an anomaly out here.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: I'd have to come up with something. I know.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: So, Will Kohlschreiber, our traffic guy, was just telling us
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: about when you were doing the weather, they gave out
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: sunshades years ago.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Fritz said it would be like this. I remember that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Fritz said it would be like this, and he said
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: everybody had those sunshades.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: Do you remember that? Wow. Well, you know, if you
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: still have one of those, they're worth a fortune on eBay. Yeah. No,
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: that's not true.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: That's not true. All right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: So you did.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: They used to spend all that. We had hats and shirts.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: And it was actually quite frightening because the sunshades I had,
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: I had these big blue glasses that looked like they
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: were two lenses from the Hubble telescope. And they and
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: they and they put those on the front of the screen.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: And so you would see these giant glasses sticking out
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: of your windshield. But it kept the heat up.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, back in the day when TV
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and radio stations used to do promotional items. The good
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: old days, right?
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: So, Fritz, I have a question for you.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they spent a fortune.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Question for you. So you did weather for like
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: 37 years, right? Was it 37 on NBC?
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: It was 40. Oh, it was 40. I retired two
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: weeks shy of my 40th anniversary.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: OK, so after you do that for 40 years and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you're working those really wonky hours and work until midnight
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  Speaker 1: every night, what's one of the first things that you did?
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  Speaker 1: Like or I mean, obviously, aside from staying up way
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  Speaker 1: too late, maybe. But what are what are some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that you did that you weren't able to
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  Speaker 1: do when you were working those hours?
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  Speaker 6: Well, my biorhythms went into a serious shift. So now
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  Speaker 6: I go to bed at eight o'clock and I get
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  Speaker 6: up at four o'clock in the morning. And I promised
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  Speaker 6: I would never do that because that's what my father
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  Speaker 6: used to do. He used to drive me nuts. He
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  Speaker 6: would get up at four o'clock in the morning and
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  Speaker 6: make a giant pot of coffee. And, you know, he
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  Speaker 6: would have been functional for four or five hours before
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  Speaker 6: the rest of the family got up. And I said,
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  Speaker 6: I'm never going to do that. But now I'm exactly
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  Speaker 6: doing that now that I'm older.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you that pot of coffee and
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  Speaker 1: the smell of coffee first thing when you get up
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, that's my favorite thing about getting up
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Come on.
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  Speaker 6: That's the best.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so– And then, you know what? Truthfully, to answer
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  Speaker 6: your question, I never slowed– I am busier– I know
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  Speaker 6: lots of people say this. I am busier now than
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  Speaker 6: I was when I was working. I'm on the board
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  Speaker 6: of two nonprofits now. Stand-up is expanding. I'm going down
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  Speaker 6: to Laguna Woods at Orange County and do a show today.
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  Speaker 6: And then I have a show Saturday and Sunday nights.
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  Speaker 6: So my life is full and busy and I've never
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  Speaker 6: been happier.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. And I think that's so important because
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  Speaker 1: I know so many people whose parents retired or their
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  Speaker 1: grandparents retired and they just kind of withered away because
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  Speaker 1: they just didn't have anything to do and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do. And I love that you're like.
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  Speaker 6: No, that's a really good point. And I watched that
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  Speaker 6: happen to my father. My father was the classic... post-World
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  Speaker 6: War II businessman whose entire identity was his job. And
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  Speaker 6: he didn't go to movies or read books or anything.
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  Speaker 6: He worked himself to death, went home, go to bed,
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  Speaker 6: and get up and do it again. So when he retired,
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  Speaker 6: I just slowly over about a 15-year period watched this
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  Speaker 6: man implode. And I thought, oh, man, I don't want
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  Speaker 6: to do that. My life has been so different than that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so thankful to say I have to be busy.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a type A person, and I'm just having the
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  Speaker 6: best time. I have two grandchildren and another one on
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  Speaker 6: the way, and so my life is good.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things you're having the best time
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  Speaker 1: with is your stand-up comedy show called that you've got
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  Speaker 1: a show coming up this weekend at the El Porto Theater.
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  Speaker 1: For people who don't know about it, tell us the
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  Speaker 1: name of it and what it's about.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, it's the El Portal Theater. I know it's spelled
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  Speaker 6: like portal and it should be portal, but it's El Portal. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 6: And it doesn't matter. It still shows up in the
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  Speaker 6: same spot on the website. We're in our fourth year now. Well,
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  Speaker 6: once a month I do a show. The last Sunday
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  Speaker 6: of the month, 3 o'clock in the afternoon, it's a
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  Speaker 6: show called Unassisted Living. It's for people of a certain age,
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  Speaker 6: old people and their parents. That's who my demographic is. And,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it starts at 3 in the afternoon because
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  Speaker 6: I found that my demographic likes to be home by dark.
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  Speaker 6: So it's an easy afternoon. I have a wonderful show.
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  Speaker 6: My opening act is Lawrence Zuber, who from 1978. to
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  Speaker 6: 1981 was the lead guitarist from Paul McCartney and Wings.
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  Speaker 6: He's also a world-renowned finger-style guitar player. He opens the show.
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  Speaker 6: Then I have Wendy Liebman, this wonderful comic that I've
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  Speaker 6: worked with. She's been with me since the beginning. And
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  Speaker 6: it's a great hour and a half show. And there
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  Speaker 6: are no politics. Everything about this show is just... designed
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  Speaker 6: to take you out of your head for an hour
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  Speaker 6: and a half and make you forget the darkness in
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  Speaker 6: the outside world. And we just like to talk about
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  Speaker 6: what people have in common in the aging process. AA,
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  Speaker 6: if you have a Medicare card, you need to do
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  Speaker 6: yourself a favor and come and see this show.
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  Speaker 1: This is a show for you. What's the most fun
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  Speaker 1: thing about getting older, Fritz?
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  Speaker 6: The most fun thing is there's a secret that you
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  Speaker 6: don't realize until you get older, and that is that
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  Speaker 6: you get more grateful. I am more grateful every day
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  Speaker 6: than I was when I was a young person because
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  Speaker 6: you realize that it's all just a gift. And so
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  Speaker 6: that's a serious answer. But the best part about getting
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  Speaker 6: old is you get to the point where you don't care.
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  Speaker 6: For most of my life, I was a stage four
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  Speaker 6: people pleaser. And that's exhausting. And then when you get old,
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  Speaker 6: you just don't care. You don't have the ability to
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: worry about things too much. You know, AI is going
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: to destroy humanity in 10 years. I wish I could
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  Speaker 6: get involved in that, but I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't care.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Fritz, how do we get tickets to the
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  Speaker 1: El Portal Theater?
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  Speaker 6: It's the elportaltheater.com. Go on the website. You can get
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  Speaker 6: my name pops up in this little visual that goes by.
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  Speaker 6: And I would love to see you. We're in the
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  Speaker 6: Marilyn Monroe Forum at the El Portal Theater. It's a
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  Speaker 6: great historic old theater in Southern California. I promise you'll
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  Speaker 6: have a great time. You will not be offended. You
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  Speaker 6: will not be politically or intellectually challenged. You'll just relax
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  Speaker 6: and have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. This Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., our
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  Speaker 1: friend Fritz Coleman, thanks so much. We hope to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you again soon.
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  Speaker 6: You're always so nice, Amy, and I appreciate it. See you, Will.
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  Speaker 6: Have a great day, you guys. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: All right, take care. Fritz said it would be like this.
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  Speaker 6: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. And just like that, our time on
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call is done. We will hope that you
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• 40:22
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• 40:29
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