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Happy Halloween from Wake Up Call! · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640. Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King. On demand on the iHeartRadio app. Got my
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  Speaker 1: Halloween attire on, sort of. Not really. I didn't go
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  Speaker 1: full costume today.
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  Speaker 2: It looks great, though.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. And, okay, so here's my funny thing.
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  Speaker 1: I put on my little Halloween Disney shirt. Good to go.
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  Speaker 1: And then I put on my little Minnie Mouse candy
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  Speaker 1: corn ears.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm about to walk out the door and I go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's too much. So I put those took those off
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  Speaker 1: and then I went, oh, but Tigger would be great.
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  Speaker 1: So I have my Tigger ears on.
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  Speaker 4: Because that's much less.
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  Speaker 1: It's much, much more subdued.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not.
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  Speaker 1: Understated. I know it's ridiculous, but it's fun.
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  Speaker 5: It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. Here's what's ahead on
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up Call. The Justice Department has renewed its effort
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  Speaker 1: to block more than 20,000 mail-in ballots from being processed
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  Speaker 1: until it can be determined that the ballots weren't cast
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  Speaker 1: by non-citizens. The DOJ has taken its case to the
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  Speaker 1: Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after federal judge David O.
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  Speaker 1: Carter rejected the request to have the disputed ballots separated
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  Speaker 1: from the rest. A federal judge has granted a preliminary
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  Speaker 1: injunction that blocks the Trump administration from conducting what it
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  Speaker 1: calls suspicionless and racially discriminatory immigration stops across Southern California.
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  Speaker 1: The order specifies that reasonable suspicion must not rely solely
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  Speaker 1: on status as low-income or working-class and Latino, even if
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  Speaker 1: the person is allegedly low-income or working-class and Latino. The
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  Speaker 1: head of California's more than $ 200 billion high-speed rail project
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  Speaker 1: has resigned. CEO Ian Chudry says he's leaving to focus
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  Speaker 1: on personal and family matters. He was arrested on suspicion
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  Speaker 1: of domestic violence a while back, but wasn't charged. An
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  Speaker 1: audit recently found the rail authority spent nearly $ 600, 000 on
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  Speaker 1: improper expenses, things like rideshare trips, entertainment, and first-class flights.
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  Speaker 1: The project was originally estimated to cost $ 1, 000. $ 33 billion
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  Speaker 1: when approved by voters in 2008. So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: play by the rules when it comes to your house.
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  Speaker 6: Or are we?
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  Speaker 1: The host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp, is going
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  Speaker 1: to tell us about the rules and how some rules
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  Speaker 1: are made to be broken. Yeah. That's coming up at 5.20.
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  Speaker 1: Saying goodbye to an amazing actor who had an amazing
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  Speaker 1: long career with our friend ABC's Will Gans. That's coming
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  Speaker 1: up a little later on Wake Up Call. And a
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  Speaker 1: truly spooky story that's perfect for your Halloween. A real-life mummy,
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  Speaker 1: a curse, and the horror that follows. All coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Wake Up Call. Let's get started, though, with some
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  Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom
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  Speaker 1: because we want to make sure that you are up
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  Speaker 1: to date and ready to go when you head out
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  Speaker 1: the door today. We're looking at a wet Halloween weekend
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  Speaker 1: in Southern California today. The National Weather Service says there's
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  Speaker 1: a 90% chance of showers Saturday night in L.A. in
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  Speaker 1: Orange County and a 40% chance of rain Saturday during
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  Speaker 1: the day. Tonight's rain is a possibility as well, depending
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  Speaker 1: on where you are. If it's not too late, pick
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  Speaker 1: a costume that comes with a poncho. Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: Who put that in the story? The candidates for governor
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  Speaker 1: of California are sparring over a so-called mileage tax.
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  Speaker 5: In an interview with KCRA, Democrat Javier Becerra was asked
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  Speaker 5: if he would consider a new fee that would tax
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  Speaker 5: drivers based on the number of miles they drive.
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  Speaker 4: Everything should be on the table.
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  Speaker 5: By the end of the year, California officials will recommend
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  Speaker 5: or not a mileage tax to help pay for roads
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  Speaker 5: and bridges. One concern, the money now comes from a
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  Speaker 5: gas tax and EV drivers don't pay that tax.
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  Speaker 4: Our roads are maintained just fine. Buy some magic wand.
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  Speaker 4: We have to pay for it.
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  Speaker 5: Becerra's opponent, Republican Steve Hilton, tells KFI's John Kobelt the
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  Speaker 5: mileage tax is not the way to go.
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  Speaker 4: Average cost for everyone in California, $ 1, 000 extra a year.
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  Speaker 5: He says that'll hurt lower income taxpayers and small business
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  Speaker 5: owners more as they tend to have longer commutes. Jason Aithenson,
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  Speaker 5: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Three men and a woman have been arrested in connection
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  Speaker 1: with an arson fire that destroyed part of Old Town
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  Speaker 1: New Hall in the Santa Clarita Valley. The fire in
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  Speaker 1: August caused about $ 13 million in property damage. Seven buildings
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  Speaker 1: were destroyed, including the popular Newhall Refinery restaurant and the
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  Speaker 1: main performing arts center. The four suspected arsonists were taken
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  Speaker 1: into custody yesterday after LA County Sheriff's detectives served search
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  Speaker 1: warrants at four locations around the county. They still haven't
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  Speaker 1: said what a motive may have been. California is sending
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  Speaker 1: out teams of election law lawyers and poll watchers statewide
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.
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  Speaker 7: Governor Gavin Newsom says they will monitor federal agents the
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  Speaker 7: Trump administration plans to place at polling locations. Newsom calls
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  Speaker 7: his monitors election integrity teams. Newsom appeared on Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 7: Live on Wednesday night, saying Trump is trying to seed
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  Speaker 7: doubt in the outcome of the election so he can
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  Speaker 7: suggest that it was rigged. Newsom says his office will
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  Speaker 7: not allow federal agents to operate in the state without
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  Speaker 7: guardrails to protect the election. He says more than 1,000
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  Speaker 7: poll workers will serve as election monitors to watch the
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  Speaker 7: monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice. He accuses Trump
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  Speaker 7: of sending his federal monitors to try to steal the election.
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  Speaker 7: Daniel Martindale, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's head of voting at the DOJ says federal
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement officers at polling sites will be there to
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  Speaker 1: observe and take notes.
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  Speaker 8: So it is the day.
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  Speaker 1: Before Halloween and lots and lots of celebrations all around. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes businesses get in on the deal. So
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  Speaker 1: here's a couple of things just to think about if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be heading out. Applebee's has boneless wings
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  Speaker 1: for $ 12.
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  Speaker 9: 99.
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  Speaker 1: No skeleton included. Pizza Hut has several Halloween-themed meal deals.
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  Speaker 1: Pizza on Halloween.
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  Speaker 8: Good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Krispy Kreme is giving out free donuts to customers who
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  Speaker 1: show up in costume.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Chipotle bringing back its annual burrito. It's a $ 6 entree
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  Speaker 1: after 3 p.m. on Halloween for rewards members. Americans are
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  Speaker 1: expected to spend $ 13. 5 billion on Halloween this year. And
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  Speaker 1: part of that money, a little bit of it, might
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  Speaker 1: be on candy corn. Are you a candy corn person?
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  Speaker 4: I'll have a taste. I'm not.
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  Speaker 6: I'm more of a chocolate person.
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  Speaker 1: I have some candy corns right here in my little
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  Speaker 1: bucket of goodies.
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  Speaker 5: Which, of course, is Mickey Mouse with ears on a jack-o'-lantern.
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  Speaker 1: It's really cute. So I open them. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I should try a candy corn. I think it's from
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  Speaker 1: last year because these candy corns are really stale.
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  Speaker 6: But it's just sugar.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm always amazed by candy corns because it's like
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  Speaker 1: people love it or hate it. Oh, do you want
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  Speaker 1: to weigh in on the talk back? Are you a
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  Speaker 1: candy corn lover or hater?
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  Speaker 3: Let us know.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the iHeartRadio app. There's a little microphone in
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  Speaker 1: the upper right-hand corner. I know that Anne is a
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  Speaker 1: big candy corn lover. I hate it, but I love it.
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  Speaker 2: But you've got one in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: So it's one of those love hate things. Like I
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  Speaker 1: eat them and I go, they're so cute. And so
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  Speaker 1: I love them, but they don't taste very good.
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  Speaker 4: Remember as kids sticking them on your teeth and pretending
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  Speaker 4: they're vampire fangs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I never did that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't love candy corn, but it's sort of addicting.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of my mom. One time we were,
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  Speaker 1: I remember this so well from my childhood.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: We're sitting at the beach and we got Cheetos because
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  Speaker 1: it was a special occasion. And I love Cheetos. And
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  Speaker 1: there's my mom eating the Cheetos. And she's like, these
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  Speaker 1: are awful. And then she just keeps eating them. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, mom, what are you doing if they're so bad?
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  Speaker 1: She goes, well, I keep eating them thinking they'll get better.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what I do with candy corn.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So candy corn was invented in the 1880s, created by
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  Speaker 1: Wonderly Candy in Philadelphia, which was a candy-making hub in
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  Speaker 1: the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hershey's was there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So one popular trend among candy companies was nature, and
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  Speaker 1: they wanted treats inspired by the agricultural world, like pumpkins, leaves, chestnuts. Well,
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  Speaker 1: sort of looks like a candy corn. And apparently making
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  Speaker 1: candy corn was very labor-intensive at the time because you
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  Speaker 1: had to separate the colors and stuff.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's why I love candy corn, because the
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  Speaker 1: colors are so cool. And it wasn't originally marketed as
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  Speaker 1: a Halloween goody. It was marketed as a whimsical candy
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  Speaker 1: version of chicken feed.
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  Speaker 10: Nice.
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  Speaker 6: So you're eating chicken feed.
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  Speaker 1: So think about that next time you bite into it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and Brock's apparently this year, I think these are gimmicky,
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  Speaker 1: but it's kind of funny, has a limited edition fragrance
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  Speaker 1: called Ode to Candy Corn. The company says it smells
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  Speaker 1: exactly how candy corn tastes.
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  Speaker 4: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Just eat it up. Let's get back to some of
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  Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
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  Speaker 1: federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to provide a
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  Speaker 1: list of states that were sent election demands ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. The chief judge in Washington gave the administration
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  Speaker 1: until noon today to provide the information. California and Washington
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  Speaker 1: state have been asked by the Justice Department to set
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  Speaker 1: aside ballots. As you know, the department claims may have
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  Speaker 1: been from non-citizens. The states say the voter lists provided
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  Speaker 1: by the department are filled with errors and that the
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  Speaker 1: Constitution gives states and not the federal government the power
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  Speaker 1: to administer elections. President Trump's going to be in Florida today.
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  Speaker 1: To try to rally Republicans ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be at a rally in Daytona Beach
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  Speaker 1: for Republican Senator Ashley Moody, who's running for reelection against
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon, along with Republican Congressman Byron Donalds,
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  Speaker 1: who's running for governor against Democratic nominee David Jolly. Both
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  Speaker 1: races are trending Republican, but the polls have tightened up recently.
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  Speaker 1: Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, has pulled
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  Speaker 1: his controversial campaign ad that features the mother of his
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  Speaker 1: Democratic opponent.
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  Speaker 3: The ad features Donna Arthur, who's the elderly mother of
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Amy Acton. In the ad, Arthur claims Acton is
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  Speaker 3: a liar and has a serious problem. Acton hasn't spoken
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  Speaker 3: to Arthur since she was 12 years old. That's when
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  Speaker 3: Arthur lost custody of her children after their stepfather was
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  Speaker 3: indicted for raping Acton. On Thursday, the Ramaswamy campaign remained.
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  Speaker 3: the ad. Acton's campaign said Ramaswamy should never have run
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  Speaker 3: his despicable ad in the first place. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: The feds want to know how some big companies price
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  Speaker 1: their products. Delta, United, Uber, Lyft, Target, Walmart, and more
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  Speaker 1: are are being investigated by the FTC over concerns the
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  Speaker 1: companies are using personal data to charge customers different prices
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  Speaker 1: for the same products or services. The commission also wants
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  Speaker 1: to know if the companies are using information like browser
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  Speaker 1: history and loyalty program data to manipulate prices. The FTC
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  Speaker 1: hasn't accused the companies of any wrongdoing. Each has 45
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  Speaker 1: days to respond. Well, the dream is officially over. The
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  Speaker 1: luxury cruise ship that was supposed to be permanent home
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  Speaker 1: to some as it traveled to nearly 150 countries kicked
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  Speaker 1: everyone off as of yesterday. After just two years, ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Whit Johnson says the ship stopped in Cambodia yesterday. Cambodia
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  Speaker 1: and dumped its 200 or so passengers.
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  Speaker 2: Randy Cassingham and his wife Kit say they sold their
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  Speaker 2: home in Colorado and paid nearly a million dollars to
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  Speaker 2: permanently live on the Odyssey.
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  Speaker 7: It's like buying a house expecting to live there forever
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  Speaker 7: and then being kicked out after two years.
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  Speaker 2: The Florida-based startup that runs the ship blaming an extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: surge in fuel costs brought on by the war with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: The company said it is working with passengers to figure
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  Speaker 1: out next steps but Some say they've been stranded in
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  Speaker 1: a foreign country now without a home.
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  Speaker 6: Make it so, number one.
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  Speaker 1: Actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died. He died at his
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  Speaker 1: home in Los Angeles Wednesday after a brief battle with
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  Speaker 1: Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia. He was best known as
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  Speaker 1: Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, Next Generation, and Professor Charles
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  Speaker 1: Xavier in the X-Men files, or movies. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: see him again, though, because he's reprising his role as
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  Speaker 1: Professor X in Avengers Doomsday. That hits theaters December 18th.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Stewart was 86. Okay, we were asking you whether
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  Speaker 1: Candy Corn is a hit or a miss with you.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to weigh in on the talkback, we'd
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  Speaker 1: love to hear what you have to say.
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  Speaker 2: Amy, great show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Out in Surprise, Arizona.
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  Speaker 6: Surprise. Your signal is coming in strong.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 10: My whole family loves candy corn.
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  Speaker 6: All of us.
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  Speaker 10: The 11-year-old, the 13-year-old, my wife, especially the autumn mix.
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  Speaker 11: The brown little candy corns and the pumpkins are amazing.
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  Speaker 9: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So we have one in support. Well, two now because
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  Speaker 1: Anna's a big fan.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'll eat the candy corns, but those pumpkins gross me
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  Speaker 1: out for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird thing. I don't know if it's a
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  Speaker 1: texture thing.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, love to hear from you. Candy Corn, is it
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  Speaker 1: a hit or a miss with you for the Halloween time?
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to play by the
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  Speaker 1: rules when it comes to your house. Or are we?
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  Speaker 1: The host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp, is going
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  Speaker 1: to tell us about the rules and how some rules
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  Speaker 1: are made to be broken when it comes to your house.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Building
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  Speaker 1: and safety inspectors have been called in to check the
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  Speaker 1: structural integrity of an apartment building in Van Nuys following
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  Speaker 1: an explosion. Three people were hurt in the explosion on
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  Speaker 1: Heartland Avenue just before 10 a.m. yesterday. Work was apparently
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  Speaker 1: being done on a bathroom where the explosion happened. The
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  Speaker 1: risk of dying in U.S. immigration and customs enforcement custody
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  Speaker 1: is higher now than at any time in the past
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  Speaker 1: 15 years, except during the pandemic. That's according to a
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  Speaker 1: UCLA School of Law analysis that found death rates in
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  Speaker 1: immigration detention facilities reached twice the historical average over the
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  Speaker 1: past year. Halloween candy may be a treat for you,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not for your dog. Vets say sugar isn't toxic,
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  Speaker 1: but can contribute to dental disease, acute pancreatitis, diabetes, obesity,
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  Speaker 1: and inflammation. And then there's xylitol, which is toxic to
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  Speaker 1: dogs and can be deadly even in small amounts. So
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  Speaker 1: are chocolate and raisins. Vets say if you're handing out treats,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you have treats especially made for canines in
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  Speaker 1: case trick-or-treaters bring their canine pals along. Let's say good
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  Speaker 1: morning to the host of Home on KFI. It's our
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  Speaker 1: very own Dean Sharp. Dean, we're made to follow the rules,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes we got to break them. So let's go
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  Speaker 1: over the rules and then let's talk about breaking them.
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  Speaker 11: Sometimes we got to break them. We're going to be
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  Speaker 11: talking about that this weekend. Where do the rules of
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  Speaker 11: great design actually come from? Who wrote these things? Who
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  Speaker 11: is responsible for this? I actually get asked that question
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  Speaker 11: from time to time, especially from skeptics who were like,
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  Speaker 11: I don't know, why do I need a designer on
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  Speaker 11: this project? And, you know, who wrote these rules anyway?
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  Speaker 11: Who's telling me what I have to do with my house?
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  Speaker 11: And most of the time, people are very relieved to
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  Speaker 11: hear the answer. Because I say, well, you know, you
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  Speaker 11: wrote the rules. We wrote the rules together. Where did
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  Speaker 11: the rules of design actually come from? They come from
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  Speaker 11: the laws of physics. They come from 2 million years
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  Speaker 11: of human evolution. They come from our biology and the
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  Speaker 11: ergonomics of our bodies. They come from our psychology and
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  Speaker 11: they come from our cultures. Design, great design. is taking
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  Speaker 11: into account all of those things. And it seems like
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  Speaker 11: a lot bearing down on just like, where should I
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  Speaker 11: hang this chandelier? But the fact of the matter is,
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  Speaker 11: it's really, really true. And a chandelier would be a
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  Speaker 11: really good example of this. So for instance, one of
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  Speaker 11: the things that I encounter all the time, I would
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  Speaker 11: probably say right now, and everybody is going to go
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  Speaker 11: and check this out when I'm done saying this, but
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  Speaker 11: if you've got an entryway chandelier or some kind of
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  Speaker 11: entryway pendant, there is an 80% chance it is hanging
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  Speaker 11: too low and too close to the front door. That's
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  Speaker 11: probably where the electricians put it or the builders, but
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  Speaker 11: it's probably too low and too close to the front door. Now,
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  Speaker 11: what gives me the gall to say it's too low
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  Speaker 11: or too close to the front door?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what gives you that gall?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:23
  Speaker 11: Well, too close to the front door is real simple.
• 16:25
  Speaker 11: Once you step in and clear the front door, you
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: open the front door and step beyond it so that
• 16:32
  Speaker 11: somebody could shut it behind you. That chandelier is meant
• 16:34
  Speaker 11: to be seen. If it is hanging up over your
• 16:38
  Speaker 11: head at that moment, then here is where human physiology
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: and biology kicks in. There is an angle at which
• 16:45
  Speaker 11: our necks just don't want to look up any further.
• 16:49
  Speaker 11: And I'm not saying that we can't crane our necks back.
• 16:51
  Speaker 11: I'm just saying who wants to? And so we don't.
• 16:55
  Speaker 11: And there's a gentle angle that we're willing to look up.
• 16:59
  Speaker 11: And there is a point where we're like, no, that's
• 17:01
  Speaker 11: all I'm going to do. And if that chandelier is
• 17:05
  Speaker 11: so close overhead that it is beyond the comfort gaze upwards,
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: guess what? Nobody's going to look at it. Too close
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: to the front door. And then the question of too
• 17:17
  Speaker 11: low is simply this. We're very kind of lazy in
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: our psychology. And when we look at things, when something
• 17:26
  Speaker 11: is hanging down within our normal gaze, we will acknowledge
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: that thing as kind of the artificial ceiling. And so
• 17:36
  Speaker 11: The idea of a chandelier hanging down from a vaulted
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: ceiling is kind of to get your folks looking up
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: so that they say, oh, wow, look at this vaulted
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: ceiling in here. But if you've hung that chandelier down
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: at eight feet, which is like a normal ceiling height,
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: people look up and they're like, oh, lovely chandelier and
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: just move on. No reason to look any higher. So
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: The right combination is far enough from the front door
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: so that it's comfortable to look up at. But make
• 18:05
  Speaker 11: me look up. Make me look up at a comfortable angle.
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: And where you find the intersection of those two things,
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: that's where the chandelier should be hanging.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you in my house, the chandelier
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: is not too low, but it is too close. Because
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: my entryway, there's like a small landing and the entryway
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: is small.
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: So the chandelier would look stupid if I pushed it
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: out any farther.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: Because it has to hang right there.
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Well.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: So sometimes you're constrained.
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: There's not a lot you can do with it. So
• 18:38
  Speaker 11: I got it half right. Then we have to work
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: with it. But if there was room to move it
• 18:42
  Speaker 11: a little further out into the room, that's the place
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: where the chandelier would have the biggest bang for the buck.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, so for chandeliers, too, I think a lot of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: times I see chandeliers too low in the dining room.
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they can be too low in the dining room
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: as well. And that is a matter of debate because
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: you can break the chandelier rule over a dining room table.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: It does not have to be, you know, up at
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: eight or nine feet for sure. But generally speaking, when
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: a chandelier is too low in the dining room, here's
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: how we perceive it. If you stand up from the
• 19:12
  Speaker 11: dining room table and now the chandelier is between you
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: and everybody else's face, it's too low.
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: It's too low.
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: In other words, it's there. to be beautiful, to hang
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: above the table. But when everybody stands up, you should
• 19:26
  Speaker 11: be able to walk all of your guests to the
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: dining room table standing up and everybody should see each
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: other before they sit down. If you can't, then you
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: have an unwelcome guest hanging in the middle of the room.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I love it. When are some good times to break rules?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Because I know that like as a designer, or I'm
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: guessing that you go through someone's house and go, we're
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: going to do it this way and this is why,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and we're going to do it this way and this
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: is why. I mean, and sometimes you might just say,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm not– that's not for me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: See, that's the interesting thing. There are a couple of
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: times when it's really fun to break rules. Number one,
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: you can always feel free to break a rule if
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: the rule, quote-unquote, is part of a fad or fashion.
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: In other words, it's just like, oh, it's what's in
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: right now. Everybody's doing that. Everybody's painting their houses gray
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: and white and black. So, you know– You don't have
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: to follow that at all. OK, because that is not
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: one of these hard and fast rules that really. are
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: the parameters of good design. So it's always safe to
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: break those quote unquote rules because those rules are going
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: to be thrown out with the newspaper next week anyway.
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: When it comes to the hard and fast rules, here's
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: the thing. What we want to do is we want
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: to break up monotony. So when there's just the same
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: thing happening everywhere and it's very consistent, That's when a
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: real interesting kind of like, well, we're going to turn
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: this thing on its side and a little bit upside down.
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: And it throws a little excitement into the room because
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: it is not blending in with everything else. That's when
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: it's a great time to break a rule and just
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: add a little zhuzh.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: A little zhuzh.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: A little zhuzh.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: So we're going to be talking design rules with the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: host of Home on KFI this weekend. You can hear
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Dean's show online. 6 to 8 a.m. on Saturday, 9
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to noon on Sunday. Of course, you can follow him
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: at House Whisper Design. And you can check out everything
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: that he talks about in his cool new website at www.housewhisperdesign.com.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, thank you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: Thanks, Amy. Oh.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yes. Candy corn fan?
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: There you go. Brock's Candy Corn. Thank you, Dean Sharp.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Candy corn, do you love it or do you hate
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it for the Halloween time? Hit us up on the Talkback.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Let us know.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Amy Scott from Rancho Cucamonga.
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: Candy corn, terrible.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: Did you try your McRib yet?
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: They're great.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I did try my McRib. I did. And I don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: know that I'll get them again, but I did enjoy
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: my McRib.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: It was good.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was weird that I'd never, ever
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: had one. But they're available for a limited time at McDonald's.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: When we come back, saying goodbye to an amazing actor
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: who had an amazing long career with our friend ABC's
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Will Gans. That's coming up next.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: AM 640.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Pasadena Health Department has confirmed two human cases of West
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Nile virus in the city. Public health officials are urging
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: residents to take precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: which can transmit the virus. The state has reported 452
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: human cases of West Nile so far this year.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: L.A.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: County has seen about 250 of them. Drivers in California
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: could eventually have to pay a tax on every mile
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: they drive. Democratic candidate for governor, Javier Becerra, says that
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: could be a good option. He also said during an
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: interview with KRCA that EV owners should help pay for roads,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: even though they don't buy gasoline. But Republican Assemblyman Carl
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: DeMaio warns a mileage tax could cost drivers between six
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and nine cents per mile, potentially $ 900 a year for
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: someone driving 15,000 miles. Polymarket has resumed trading following a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: security breach and outage which forced it to suspend trading.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Some users on social media reported their accounts being drained
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: of their money. The prediction market said it has been
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: reported to law enforcement. Polymarket added that anyone who has
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: been impacted will be made whole. We're saying goodbye to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: an amazing actor. Got word yesterday about this one. Let's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: say good morning to ABC's Will Gans.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Have to begin this week with the news of the
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: passing of Sir Patrick Stewart at 86 years old. His
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: family released a statement saying he died at home, surrounded
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: by his loved ones after a brief but poignant battle
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: with Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia. Perhaps best known for
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: playing Professor X in the X-Men movies. That's a role
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: he first played on the big screen in the year 2000,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: and he will play it again in December 2021. When
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: Avengers Doomsday hits theaters, I know a lot of fans
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: will be celebrating by watching some of those X-Men movies.
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: He also was very charitable and known for taking up
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: a lot of humanitarian causes as well. He recently recorded
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: the audiobook for Shakespeare's Sonnets. So if you're looking for
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: something perhaps slightly more heady, you can listen to that
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: on audiobook with his incredible voice reading all of those
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: iconic poems. He also recently released his own memoir. So
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: lots of ways to celebrate the late, great Patrick Stewart
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: and a career 60 plus years. It's remarkable and such
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: an achievement.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Agreed.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Will Ganz. I love Patrick Stewart's voice.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Such a great voice.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Make it so, number one. Here's what's coming out of
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Calls to scrap California's high-speed rail
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: project have been renewed. Following the resignation of the rail
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: authority's CEO, Ian Chudry, bailed this week after a term
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: marked by several scandals, the latest involving pricey perks for
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: consultants paid for by taxpayers. Republican State Senator Tony Strickland
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: from Huntington Beach says it's time to pull the plug.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: This project is now projected to almost cost the equivalent
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: of the entire state budget.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: One project going from Merced to Bakersfield is not worth
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: the money that we spent for the entire state budget
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: of California.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: The project is billions of dollars over budget, and since
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: being approved by voters in 2008, not a single track
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: has been put down. A dive bar that could be
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: closing after more than 50 years is getting a lot
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of love from neighbors and a potential mayor.
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: The Rustic Inn in Los Feliz has made national bar
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: lists since it opened in 1971, but the landlord says
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: the tavern's outdoor space has to be closed by Monday.
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: Manager Michael Kanin told KTLA the landlord's been mostly quiet
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: about renewing the lease before the new year.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: We are all willing to do what it takes.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: To make the landlord happy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: L.A.
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: Mayor candidate Nithya Raman says some of her staff have
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: met their partners at Ye Rustic Inn and showed up
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: to support the bar.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: What I want to create is a city hall that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: shows up for small businesses.
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: The bar has not announced a closing date. Michael Crozier,
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: KFI News.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: weekday morning with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Morning, Denise.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Morning. You were talking about Brock's.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Candy corn.
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: Candy corn.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: When I was a little kid in the Chicago area,
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: my next door neighbor worked for Brock's Candy. Did they
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: bring you a lot?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: Every day at what was then the largest candy plant
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: in the world.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So that was my childhood. So you're a candy corn fan.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Pretty sweet.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: I was.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: I'm reformed now.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. So we're asking that question today. Is candy
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: corn a big... Yes, or a big hard pass for you.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: You can hit us up on the talkback. Let us know.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: It's the little microphone in the upper right-hand corner. Not you, Denise.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: We're talking to you. Okay, let's talk to you about business.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Investors are facing a one, two, three punch.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: Three punch. Yeah, tech stocks are really getting slammed. Intel plunging.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: One analyst calls their outlook pretty horrible. You don't hear
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: language like that much from Wall Street, but you're hearing
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: it today. Amazon shares are under pressure. E-commerce slowed there.
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: And the biggest ever crypto hack not helping either. Binance,
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: as many have been talking about, suspending all withdrawals after
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: the $ 6. 3 billion attack. And right now, Nasdaq futures are
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: plunging more than 2.5% down 761 points.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Yikes. And Polymarket also had a security breach yesterday. Yes.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: Yes. Yes.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Scary stuff.
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: With AI, with the prevalence of AI, you're just going
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: to see more and more of that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: McDonald's is testing out a new value meal. What is it?
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: Well, it's actually a set of new value deals. It's
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: these bundles. They're offering these new mix-and-match deals. You pick
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: two items, right, from a lineup, things like the McDouble Burger,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: the McChicken Sandwich, six pieces of chicken nuggets and fries
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: for between $ 3. 50 and $ 4, depending on which store you're in.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a good deal. I paid more than that
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: for my McRib the other day. Exactly.
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: I was just going to ask what you thought about
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: the McRib.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was delicious. I don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: know that I'll go get another one, but it was good.
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: Legendary.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Starbucks is turning to AI for drive-thru.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they're talking about having AI to help baristas take orders.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: They're preparing to test the models to get their baristas
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: to be more efficient. Burger King, interestingly, has no plans
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: for A bigger rollout of the AI ordering system it's got.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: McDonald's is testing a version. It says that could free
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: up dozens of labor hours per restaurant each week.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And I have not heard of this yet. It's Seven Brew.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Apparently it's big with Gen Z.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: It is.
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: There are more than 900 stores in 38 states. And
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: considering they just opened... It's more like a stand. I mean,
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: a lot of these seven brews that are these McDonald's competitors,
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: they're really like no bigger than a two-car garage. But
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: they're really popular among Gen Z. They've got all these
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: like wild drinks. They say they have 20,000 possible drink combinations.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: They're serving more than a million a day. And the
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: other thing, you know, things like the Pink Mermaid Fizz
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: or whatever, really popular on social media. And also, uh
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: the other thing is that they entertain you while you
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: wait so waiting in line is you know part of
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: the fun.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: They're just copying disneyland trying to make waiting in line fun.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: They have these giveaways that are so popular that in
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: some places, local police departments are being called in to
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: keep the traffic from being so horrible. They're coming to
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: Coachella and Indio soon as part of their Southern California expansion. Also,
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: one more thing. I wanted to ask you to please
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: ask Mario to play you a Halloween-ish song called I
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: Put a Spell on You.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: We just did.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: By Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: You did?
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: No, not that one. Screaming Jay Hawkins, I put a
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: spell on you.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: We'll see what we can do.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: He's totally unhinged in this version.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, great.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: And there's a whole story behind how he got that way.
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: Screaming Jay Hawkins, I put a spell on you.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: We'll see what we can do, Denise.
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: I'll be listening.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Get in your business as we do each weekday morning
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Happy Halloween.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: Same to you, boo.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: When we come back, a truly spooky story. Perfect for Halloween.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: A real-life mummy, a curse, and the horror that follows.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: You're listening to Wake Up Call, on demand, from KFI AM640.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Amy King. Thanks so much for starting
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: your day with us. The big question today, candy corn,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: do you love it or hate it? Hey, Amy, candy
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: corn is a hard no, but I'll take any kind
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of Halloween peeps out of those little trick-or-treater bags.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Have a good day. Happy Halloween.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Halloween peeps? Peeps are for Easter.
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-Hour Newsroom. King
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: tides could cause flooding in Southern California coastal communities for
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a fifth straight day. National Weather Service says a flood
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: advisory is in effect until 2 this afternoon with high
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: tide peaking around noon. PCH has been closed for hours
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: at a time this week because of flooding.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: L.A.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: General Medical Center has announced a safety initiative in response
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to an uptick in injuries involving electric bicycles. The 100
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Helmets for a Safer Community initiative grew out of concerns
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: raised because e-bikes can go so much faster than regular bicycles,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: which leads to the potential for serious injuries when they crash.
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: The L.A.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Department of Transportation is going to begin mailing warning notices
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to the owners of cars spotted on cameras mounted on
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: dash buses parked in bus lanes or at bus stops.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: That's going to start Monday. The warnings will be issued
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: for 60 days and then citations requiring payment will start
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: being handed out We're just minutes away from Handel on
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the News this morning. The world's largest crypto exchange has
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: been hit by hackers. What does that mean? And now
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: for Halloween, a story of haunting and horror and a
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  Speaker 1: fateful journey. It's the curse of Princess Amun-Ra. The Princess
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  Speaker 1: of Amun-Ra lived around 1500 B.C. When she died, she
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  Speaker 1: was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep
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  Speaker 1: in a vault at Luxor on the banks of the
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  Speaker 1: River Nile. In the late 1890s, four rich young Englishmen
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  Speaker 1: visiting the excavations at Luxor were invited to buy an
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  Speaker 1: exquisitely fashioned mummy case containing the remains of Princess Amun-Ra.
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  Speaker 1: They drew lots. The man who won paid several thousand
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  Speaker 1: pounds and had the coffin taken to his hotel. A
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  Speaker 1: few hours later, He was seen walking out toward the desert.
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  Speaker 1: He never returned. The next day, one of the remaining
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  Speaker 1: three men was accidentally shot by an Egyptian servant. His
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  Speaker 1: arm so severely wounded, it had to be amputated. The
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  Speaker 1: third man in the foursome found on his return home
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  Speaker 1: that the bank holding his entire life savings had failed.
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  Speaker 1: He lost everything. The fourth suffered a severe illness, lost
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  Speaker 1: his job, and was reduced to selling matches in the street. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the coffin eventually reached England, causing other misfortunes along the way,
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  Speaker 1: and a London businessman bought it. After three of his
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  Speaker 1: family members had been injured in a car accident and
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  Speaker 1: his house damaged by fire, the businessman donated it to
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  Speaker 1: the British Museum. As the coffin was being unloaded from
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  Speaker 1: a truck in the museum courtyard, the truck suddenly went
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  Speaker 1: into reverse and trapped a passerby. As two workmen were
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  Speaker 1: lifting the casket up the stairs, one fell and broke
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  Speaker 1: his leg. The other, apparently in perfect health, died unaccountably
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  Speaker 1: two days later. Once the princess was installed in the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian room at the museum, trouble really began. The museum's
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  Speaker 1: night watchmen frequently heard frantic hammering and sobbing coming from
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  Speaker 1: the coffin. Other exhibits in the room were often hurled
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  Speaker 1: about at night. One watchman died on duty. Another watchman died.
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  Speaker 1: wanted to quit. Cleaners refused to go near the princess, too.
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  Speaker 1: When a visitor derisively flicked a dust cloth at the
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  Speaker 1: face painted on the coffin, his child died of measles
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  Speaker 1: soon afterward. Officials at the British Museum had the mummy
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  Speaker 1: carried down to the basement, thinking that the mummy couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do any harm down there. Within a week, one of
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  Speaker 1: the helpers was seriously ill, and the supervisor of the
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  Speaker 1: move was found dead, slumped over his desk. Newspapers obtained
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  Speaker 1: the story. A journalist photographer took a picture of the
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  Speaker 1: mummy case, and when he developed it, the painting on
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  Speaker 1: the coffin was of a horrifying human face. The photographer
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  Speaker 1: was said to have gone home, locked himself in his bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: and shot and killed himself. Soon after that, the museum
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  Speaker 1: sold the mummy to a private collector, and after continual
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  Speaker 1: misfortune and deaths, the owner banished it to the attic.
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  Speaker 1: A well-known authority on the occult, Madame Helena Blavatsky, visited
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  Speaker 1: the premises. And upon entry, she was seized with a
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  Speaker 1: shivering fit and searched the house for the source of
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  Speaker 1: the evil influence of incredible intensity. She finally came to
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  Speaker 1: the attic and found the mummy case. The owner asked,
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  Speaker 1: can you exorcise this evil spirit? She said, there is
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as exorcism. Evil remains forever. Nothing can
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  Speaker 1: be done about it. I implore you, get rid of
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  Speaker 1: this evil as soon as you can. But no British
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  Speaker 1: museum would take the mummy. The fact that almost 20
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  Speaker 1: people had met with misfortune, disaster, or death from handling
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  Speaker 1: the casket in barely 10 years was now well known. Eventually,
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  Speaker 1: a hard-headed American archaeologist who dismissed the happenings as quirks
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  Speaker 1: of circumstance paid a handsome price for the mummy and
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  Speaker 1: arranged for its removal to New York. In April 1912,
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  Speaker 1: the new owner escorted the treasure on board a sparkling
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  Speaker 1: new white star liner about to embark on its maiden
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  Speaker 1: voyage to New York. On the night of April 14th,
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  Speaker 1: amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the Princess of Amun-Ra accompanied
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  Speaker 1: 1,500 passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the Atlantic.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the ship? Of course, the Titanic.
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  Speaker 6: That ending wasn't cheery at all.
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  Speaker 1: I told you it was the curse of a mummy.
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  Speaker 3: Jeez.
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  Speaker 1: I love that story. I mean, I don't love that story.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's get back to more stories coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The scariest thing this Halloween
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  Speaker 1: could be the weather.
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  Speaker 5: Not sure it'll be a red rain, but that would
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  Speaker 5: fit with the vibe. There's a 40% chance of rain
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  Speaker 5: during the day Halloween Saturday, and a 90% chance of
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  Speaker 5: rain Halloween night, according to the National Weather Service. That's
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  Speaker 5: for L.A. and Orange County. If you're getting the wild
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  Speaker 5: weekend started tonight, there's a 30% to 50% chance of showers,
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  Speaker 5: depending on where you are. And if you need costume inspo,
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  Speaker 5: the Penguin from Batman, Mary Poppins, Harry Hart from Kingsman,
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  Speaker 5: The Secret Service, and Pinocchio's Jiminy Cricket all carry umbrellas.
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  Speaker 3: See?
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  Speaker 5: Or you can be Gene Kelly. Jason Aithenson, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: A woman and her teenage son have been found critically
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  Speaker 1: hurt inside an apartment in Hawthorne.
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  Speaker 11: The L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department says the woman is not expected to survive.
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  Speaker 1: The boy's in critical condition. Police were called to the
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  Speaker 1: apartment yesterday afternoon. A lieutenant says the two victims were
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  Speaker 1: found unconscious with traumatic injuries, both taken to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: A no water contact advisory for Upper Castaic Lake has
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  Speaker 1: been issued by the L.A. County Department of Parks and
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  Speaker 1: Recreation because of harmful algae in the water. The algae
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  Speaker 1: is believed to contain toxins that may pose health risks
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  Speaker 1: to humans and animals. Exposure could cause skin rashes, eye irritation,
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  Speaker 1: diarrhea and vomiting. A federal judge in L.A. has granted
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  Speaker 1: a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from doing suspicionless activities.
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  Speaker 1: and racially discriminatory immigration stops surround L.A.
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  Speaker 4: The order, issued Friday but just unsealed, prohibits detention stops
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  Speaker 4: in the Central District of California based on racial stereotyping,
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  Speaker 4: except at a port of entry, checkpoint, or other functional
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  Speaker 4: equivalent of the border. Evidence showed federal agents' ongoing campaign
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  Speaker 4: of warrantless discriminatory immigration enforcement stops since summer 2025. The
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  Speaker 4: injunction request came from a lawsuit by residents, Latino workers,
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  Speaker 4: and immigration advocacy groups against the Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 4: claiming unconstitutional detention practices. The ACLU of Southern California representing
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  Speaker 4: them said the administration was targeting people who appear Latino
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  Speaker 4: and low-income or working class. Mark Rahner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, one final note to end our pre-Halloween show, and
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  Speaker 1: that is about the question of candy corn. We had
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  Speaker 1: a wake up call listener weighed in and said, I
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  Speaker 1: do like candy corn, but here's a trick. Mix equal
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  Speaker 1: parts of candy corn, peanuts and milk chocolate chips in
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  Speaker 1: a bowl. Mix them together. And then with each scoop,
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  Speaker 1: you get a basically a baby Ruth bar.
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  Speaker 11: That sounds good, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Might have to try that. Thanks so much for starting
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  Speaker 1: your day with us. Have a wonderful Halloween. We'll talk
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