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Nvidia Scandal Developments, Amy's Out and About, and Hottest Items for XMAS · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD2, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time
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  Speaker 2: for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: What? It's that time already? Yes, it's true. It's 5
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  Speaker 1: o'clock straight up. This is your wake-up call for Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: November 12th. Good morning. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. If you want to weigh in
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  Speaker 1: on the talkback, always love to hear back from you.
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  Speaker 1: Will was telling you yesterday that traffic was kind of
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  Speaker 1: light because of Veterans Day, but not so much in Anaheim.
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  Speaker 1: It's like something's going on at Disneyland. Something's going on
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  Speaker 1: at Disneyland. And then he sent me videos of people
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  Speaker 1: who posted on social media that they're waiting like an
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  Speaker 1: hour to get into the parking structure.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I saw one that was three hours.
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  Speaker 4: No!
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  Speaker 5: They got off the 5 at Harbor, and three hours later,
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  Speaker 5: they were still not at the parking structure.
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  Speaker 3: I would have bailed, so.
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  Speaker 1: Something was weird. I mean, I get that it's a holiday,
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  Speaker 1: the kids weren't in school, so go to the park,
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  Speaker 1: that's great, but.
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  Speaker 3: I think they had some special discounts.
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  Speaker 5: Jason Campadonia said they had.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the first day of Christmas?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: But definitely some Veterans Day discounts going on.
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  Speaker 1: Day of Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: For veterans. Anyway, it was bedlam.
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  Speaker 7: Madness.
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  Speaker 1: No, the official holiday season starts tomorrow. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was crowded yesterday. Oh my gosh, I love Christmas at Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: I know, that's a big shocker. Hey, we've got lots
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  Speaker 1: going on, so let's get right to it. Here's what's
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  Speaker 1: ahead on Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 8: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Councilman Adrian Nazarian. And a community nonprofit have launched
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  Speaker 1: a GoFundMe campaign to help the families of the three
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  Speaker 1: women killed when a minivan plowed into a group near
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  Speaker 1: the metro station in North Hollywood. Organizers say donations will
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  Speaker 1: help ease immediate financial hardships and other urgent needs. The
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  Speaker 1: fundraiser's already raised about $ 8, 000. A motorist has been critically
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  Speaker 1: hurt in what police say was a road rage incident
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  Speaker 1: in Santa Ana. Police say a person got out of
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  Speaker 1: a car at first in Lyon Street just after 1
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  Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon and fired several shots into the victim's car.
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  Speaker 1: Police say the motorist was shot several times. Police still
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who the shooter was and what
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  Speaker 1: kind of car they were driving. Southern California's warm, dry
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  Speaker 1: weather is coming to an end. A cool down and
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  Speaker 1: several rounds of rain are on the way. Forecasters say
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  Speaker 1: showers could begin late tonight with rain possible tomorrow into Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Then a second storm expected to roll in Monday with
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  Speaker 1: a third storm arriving by the middle of next week.
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  Speaker 1: Showing that even the biggest brains in business make stupid decisions.
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  Speaker 1: The head of one of the most successful AI companies ever,
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  Speaker 1: Jensen Wong, had an affair with someone who may be
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  Speaker 1: a really bad actor. ABC's crime and terror analyst Brad
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  Speaker 1: Garrett is going to join us to tell us how
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  Speaker 1: Wong got himself into this mess. And maybe why. Wake
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  Speaker 1: up calls going out and about to the Reagan Presidential
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  Speaker 1: Library to take a look at the life, love and
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  Speaker 1: legacy of a woman who captured our hearts and our
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  Speaker 1: attention forever. And still has an impact on us 40
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  Speaker 1: years after her death. That's coming up at 520. And
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  Speaker 1: the holidays just around the corner. Yep. It's fair game.
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  Speaker 1: I can say it now. It's not too early. Christmas
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  Speaker 1: is like, what, 75 days away? I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: official count. I should keep a ticker.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, they're just around the corner. And the pressure's on
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  Speaker 1: to find that perfect present for the special people in
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  Speaker 1: your life. But what do you get? What do they want?
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  Speaker 1: What will they love? We're going to find out with
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  Speaker 1: Google Trends expert Amy Isinger. She's got the hot 100
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  Speaker 1: for this holiday season.
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  Speaker 3: So much pressure.
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  Speaker 9: I know.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to help. We're going to help. It's
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  Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later on Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A tearful memorial has been
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  Speaker 1: held in North Hollywood for the women who were plowed into, allegedly,
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  Speaker 1: by a driver who's been arrested for DUI.
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  Speaker 5: She was very strong, resilient, independent.
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  Speaker 10: No one could tell her what to do.
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  Speaker 5: Melissa Villalobos, remembering her mom, Teodora, well-known and loved street
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  Speaker 5: vendor outside the NoHo Metro Station.
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  Speaker 11: When she saw it here, if people didn't have money
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  Speaker 11: to pay for the food, she would still give food
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  Speaker 11: to those who don't have anything.
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  Speaker 5: Her mom and two other women were killed Tuesday night
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  Speaker 5: when a guy driving a minivan plowed into a group
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  Speaker 5: of people on a sidewalk. He's been arrested on murder
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  Speaker 5: and DUI charges.
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  Speaker 11: The only thing that's helping me stay strong is knowing
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  Speaker 11: that she is in peace and she will no longer
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  Speaker 11: suffer anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Jason Aithenson, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: The South Coast Air Quality Management District has extended a
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  Speaker 1: particle pollution advisory through midnight.
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  Speaker 10: The poor air quality is due to an ongoing warehouse
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  Speaker 10: fire in the central Alameda area of L.A. The fire
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  Speaker 10: at a big commercial building within a complex of buildings
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  Speaker 10: reignited a day after it was initially put out. Air
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  Speaker 10: quality sensors downwind have measured unhealthy levels of fine particle
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  Speaker 10: pollution north of the fire.
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  Speaker 2: The L.A.
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  Speaker 10: Fire Department says since smoke is still blowing, residents in
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  Speaker 10: nearby areas should close their windows and doors. A voluntary
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  Speaker 10: evacuation center has been set up for people being affected
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  Speaker 10: by the air quality. Aileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Southern California Edison is holding its last town hall meeting
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  Speaker 1: today for Eaton fire victims.
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  Speaker 3: SCE equipment was found to have caused the massive Eaton
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  Speaker 3: fire in January 2025, and spokesman Joel Kennedy says they've
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  Speaker 3: received 6,000 claims from more than 18,000 community members and
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  Speaker 3: paid out more than $ 1. 1 billion.
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  Speaker 12: We're coming up on the submission deadline at the end
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  Speaker 12: of this month.
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  Speaker 3: And the 6 p.m. meeting at the Westminster Presbyterian Church,
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  Speaker 3: he says, is really.
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  Speaker 12: The last chance to connect in person, to get questions
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  Speaker 12: answered and hear from our panel of experts on some
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  Speaker 12: tips that might help people as they're still considering their
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  Speaker 12: recovery options.
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  Speaker 3: A final virtual meeting will be November 19th. Mark Rohner,
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  Speaker 3: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Time to say good morning to ABC's crime and terror analyst,
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  Speaker 1: Brad Garrett. Brad, showing that even the biggest brains in
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  Speaker 1: the business make stupid decisions. The head of the most
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  Speaker 1: successful AI company, or at least one of them, NVIDIA,
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  Speaker 1: Jensen Wong, had an affair with someone who might be
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  Speaker 1: a really bad actor. What do we know?
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  Speaker 13: So, again, unfortunately, we don't know a lot.
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  Speaker 7: But the pieces are the following, that the CEO of
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  Speaker 7: NVIDIA said, has admitted having an intimate relationship with a
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  Speaker 7: Chinese national. And apparently he's been told, others around him
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  Speaker 7: have been told, that our government believes that she's an asset, i.e.
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  Speaker 7: a Chinese spy. You look at her background quickly, Amy,
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  Speaker 7: and apparently she worked for an agency inside China that's
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  Speaker 7: known for spies. So you start with that. She then develops...
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  Speaker 7: or creates, or the Chinese create.
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  Speaker 13: A company that ultimately ends up being based in Malaysia.
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  Speaker 7: It's, I think, a data center type of company. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: they need AI chips. So, they built this bona fides
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  Speaker 7: for her, being a successful business person running.
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  Speaker 13: This company in Malaysia.
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  Speaker 7: And then she ends up in Jensen Wong's sphere some way.
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  Speaker 7: That we don't actually know, but I think she's really
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  Speaker 7: good at what she does. That business relationship gets turned
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  Speaker 7: into a romantic, personal, intimate relationship, which we could talk
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  Speaker 7: forever about people who fall into that. And it sort
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  Speaker 7: of shuts off their rational button as to how they
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  Speaker 7: function day in and day out. She ultimately convinces him
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  Speaker 7: or he agrees jointly to sell his high AI chips
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  Speaker 7: to her company in Malaysia.
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  Speaker 13: They get shipped there. I think the big concern.
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  Speaker 7: After the fact is did those then ultimately get shipped
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  Speaker 7: on to China?
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  Speaker 13: It needs to be seen. Maybe our government knows that.
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  Speaker 13: We'll have to see. But the point of the.
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  Speaker 7: Story is if this honeypot, as they are called, scheme
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  Speaker 7: is actually what it is, I mean, she's done a
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  Speaker 7: pretty impressive job.
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  Speaker 13: And what else did she steal?
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  Speaker 7: Think about all the proprietary information that NVIDIA would have that.
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  Speaker 13: The Chinese would love to have. And, you know, so
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  Speaker 13: we'll see. Did she get inside his phone, his tablets?
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  Speaker 13: I have no idea. If she's well-trained, of course she did, right?
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  Speaker 13: So we'll have to see. But there's so many loose.
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  Speaker 7: Ends, tentacles about him, about her, and obviously her relationship
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  Speaker 7: with the Chinese, because I think the belief is she's
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  Speaker 7: back in China someplace, which would make total sense based
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  Speaker 7: on the scenario.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And it's interesting, like, when you talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: this is a long time in the making. This wasn't a, hey,
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  Speaker 1: go get him. I mean, it sounds like, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: they have to set up the whole scenario of what
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  Speaker 1: she does, and then she has to kind of worm
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  Speaker 1: her way into his life and then get him to
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  Speaker 1: share things. And why don't red flags go off when
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  Speaker 1: she's like, you know, maybe I should buy some chips
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  Speaker 1: from you, you know?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And, you know, the whole stereotype of pillow talk, That's
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  Speaker 7: really what you're talking about here.
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  Speaker 13: So yes, it's a big investment to pull this off,
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  Speaker 13: but it's got huge gains for the Chinese if you
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  Speaker 13: can pull it off. And so the multi-millions.
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  Speaker 7: They spent setting this up and so forth and so
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  Speaker 7: on is like a drop in the bucket for them
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  Speaker 7: based on what they could get with his advanced AI
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  Speaker 7: chips and whatever else information she was able to glean.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And this, and like you said, it's a honeypot scheme
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  Speaker 1: or it appears to be, and this isn't the first time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you think back to like when Eric Swalwell
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  Speaker 1: had that affair with fang fang or somebody who was
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  Speaker 1: connected you're like is that what that was too or
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  Speaker 1: was that just an innocent something or not innocent you know.
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  Speaker 7: What i mean well it could be and obviously some
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  Speaker 7: of these aren't sophisticated i mean you.
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  Speaker 13: Hear about these lower level military.
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  Speaker 7: People you know getting compromised because of relationship they have
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  Speaker 7: with the chinese or russian or fill in the blank
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  Speaker 7: And that's usually just romance driven. And then they convince
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  Speaker 7: the person to steal stuff for them. And then when
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  Speaker 7: they box, they blackmail them and say, I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: turn you in unless you keep stealing stuff. And so
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  Speaker 7: that take a little planning.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, but nothing compared to what you and I are
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  Speaker 13: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's the stuff that movies are made of.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll be following this. I'm sure we'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you again about this. ABC's crime and terror analyst, Brad Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the information. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 13: Take care, Amy.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Scores of firefighters and police
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  Speaker 1: officers with pickaxes and power saws have continued to dig
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  Speaker 1: through the rubble overnight of an apartment complex that collapsed
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  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, New York. At least eight people have now
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  Speaker 1: been confirmed killed. Seventeen have been taken to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: some of them in critical condition. New York Fire Department
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Lillian Bonsignor says rescuers have had to move methodically
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  Speaker 1: for everyone's safety.
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  Speaker 9: Every move is choreographed and critically important to patient outcomes
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  Speaker 9: and members' safety.
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  Speaker 1: The building fell into a hole next to it where
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  Speaker 1: another building is under construction. One of the closest races
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  Speaker 1: from last week's election has finally been called. ABC's Hannah
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  Speaker 1: Batassa's history has been made in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 14: For the first time in 150 years, the state will
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  Speaker 14: be represented by a black U.S.
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  Speaker 13: Senator.
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  Speaker 14: Scott Colom narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. She conceded
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  Speaker 14: late yesterday, despite previous threats of a legal battle.
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  Speaker 1: In Colom's speech last night, he pledged to represent everyone
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  Speaker 1: in Mississippi. The Trump administration's warned House Democrats overcoming investigations.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Devin Dwyer says the White House counsel has told
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  Speaker 1: California Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia that Democrats could be criminally
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  Speaker 1: prosecuted if they move forward with their plans.
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  Speaker 15: The threats portion of this letter is sort of a
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  Speaker 15: bit of a distraction. It's really hard in any court
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  Speaker 15: of law to prove a statement, especially by a lawmaker,
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  Speaker 15: is a criminal thing.
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  Speaker 1: Garcia is currently the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
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  Speaker 1: He says it appears President Trump has something to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Former President Biden says he wouldn't have run for a
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  Speaker 1: second term in 2024 if he knew he had cancer.
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  Speaker 16: Biden's comments came in an interview with People magazine before
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  Speaker 16: the release of his White House memoir earlier this week. Biden,
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  Speaker 16: who turns 84 on November 20th, was diagnosed with metastatic
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  Speaker 16: prostate cancer months after leaving office in 2025. He tells
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  Speaker 16: people that if he had known that he was feeling
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  Speaker 16: lousy because he had cancer, he would not have gone
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  Speaker 16: ahead with the 2024 re-election bid.
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  Speaker 10: Debra Mark, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Pope Leo's in Peru for the final leg of his
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  Speaker 1: three-country South American trip. ABC's Melissa Adon says it's also
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  Speaker 1: a sort of homecoming for the pontiff.
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  Speaker 16: The country unveiling a 46-foot tall statue of the pontiff
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  Speaker 16: to mark his official visit to the country as pope.
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  Speaker 1: Before he was pope, then Robert Prevost. Prevost spent 20
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  Speaker 1: years in Peru as a missionary priest and later a bishop.
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  Speaker 17: Frontier Flight 3566 may like to declare an emergency.
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  Speaker 1: And the emergency on that flight that Frontier Airlines was
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  Speaker 1: taking from Denver to Detroit, or actually from Detroit to Denver?
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  Speaker 17: Our forward lab sink has sprung a leak and it's
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  Speaker 17: spraying so much water, it's flooding the cabin area in
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  Speaker 17: the back. We're worried about electronics. We'd like to divert
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  Speaker 17: to Chicago air.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's never a good thing, a blown-up bathroom. The
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  Speaker 1: flight yesterday landed safely in Chicago, so that's good news.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, Wake Up Call is going out
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  Speaker 1: and about to the Reagan Presidential Library to take a
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  Speaker 1: look at the life, love, and legacy of a woman
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  Speaker 1: who captured our attention and captured our hearts and still
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  Speaker 1: has an impact like 40 years after her death. That
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  Speaker 1: is coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: 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. The
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  Speaker 1: team defending the man charged with starting a fire on
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  Speaker 1: New Year's morning that erupted into the deadly Palisades fire
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  Speaker 1: a week later says it has been contacted by a
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  Speaker 1: retired Cal Fire agent now looking into the fire as
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  Speaker 1: a private insurance investigator. He claims to have evidence of
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  Speaker 1: fireworks going off in the area where the Lachman fire
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  Speaker 1: started six days before the Palisades fire. This is the
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  Speaker 1: second trial for Jonathan Rinderknecht. His first trial ended in
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  Speaker 1: a mistrial. Santa Ana Democratic Representative Lou Correa is recovering
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  Speaker 1: from emergency open-heart surgery after he suffered a heart attack.
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  Speaker 1: Correa says the surgery on Tuesday went well. He'll return
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  Speaker 1: to Washington, D.C. when he's given the okay from his doctors.
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  Speaker 1: He says until then, he'll be working from his district office.
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  Speaker 1: Southern California Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia has demanded public hearings
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  Speaker 1: on the Epstein investigation. He says there have been no
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  Speaker 1: hearings under Republicans, but vows that'll change once Democrats take
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  Speaker 1: control of Congress. Garcia calls it the largest White House
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  Speaker 1: cover-up in history. Garcia will become the chair of the
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  Speaker 1: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform when the new
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  Speaker 1: Congress convenes in January. Hey, it's Amy King with Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up Call. This week, we're going out and about to
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  Speaker 1: one of our favorite places, to the Reagan Presidential Library.
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  Speaker 1: With us, we have Melissa Giller, who is the chief
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  Speaker 1: marketing officer for the Reagan Foundation. Why are we here? Well,
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  Speaker 1: because this is one of the things being featured during
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  Speaker 1: a very special exhibit, and it's something that you probably recognize.
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  Speaker 1: So Melissa, tell us what this is and what the
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  Speaker 1: exhibit is.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, so the Reagan Library is opening Diana, Love, Life, Legacy,
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  Speaker 18: A Life of Giving here at the Reagan Library, an
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  Speaker 18: exhibition that's 10,000 square feet with over 750 original objects.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 18: Worn and owned by Princess Diana. 740 of those objects
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  Speaker 18: have never been seen publicly before.
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  Speaker 13: Very cool.
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  Speaker 18: But this dress starts it because she wore it over
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  Speaker 18: 11 times. It's known as the caring dress. Because of
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  Speaker 18: its bright color, she always wore it when she was
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  Speaker 18: meeting with children, children's charities, children who might have been
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  Speaker 18: sick and were at hospitals. And she wore it because
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  Speaker 18: she was told that the colors would make the children
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  Speaker 18: feel better. So the entire exhibition is designed around this dress.
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  Speaker 18: As we walk through it, you'll see the vibrant colors
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  Speaker 18: on the walls, in the details. And you'll learn about
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  Speaker 18: Princess Diana, who truly was an amazing humanitarian.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was interesting when we first walked into
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  Speaker 1: the exhibit, I went, I know that dress.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's so recognizable.
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  Speaker 18: And there are a handful of items you will see
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  Speaker 18: in here that is recognizable. You know, we'll see it later.
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  Speaker 18: We joke I'm wearing the black sheep sweater. This is
• 17:04
  Speaker 18: one of the iconic clothing items she wore. She wore
• 17:06
  Speaker 18: it to a polo match. We've made a replica of it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 18: We're selling it in our museum store. So you'll see
• 17:11
  Speaker 18: a handful of items as you go through here where
• 17:13
  Speaker 18: you remember either where she wore it or you just
• 17:15
  Speaker 18: remember that she.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Did wear it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's walk around a little bit and take
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a look and talk about it. what the exhibit, what
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: kind of is the journey that you go on in
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the exhibit?
• 17:25
  Speaker 18: Yeah, it's chronological. It starts with her as a baby.
• 17:27
  Speaker 18: These are actually the items she wore when she was
• 17:30
  Speaker 18: a baby, the shoes she wore, the little dresses she wears.
• 17:33
  Speaker 18: You walk around the corner and you see her toddler nightgowns,
• 17:35
  Speaker 18: her toys, her stuffed bear, because they really want to
• 17:38
  Speaker 18: bring you into Diana Spencer, who she was as a
• 17:41
  Speaker 18: little girl, how she became who she was. But even
• 17:44
  Speaker 18: as young as 10, 11, 12, She had already begun
• 17:47
  Speaker 18: her life of giving. That didn't start when she was
• 17:49
  Speaker 18: the princess.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: That's so cool.
• 17:50
  Speaker 18: She was constantly taking the clothes off her back or
• 17:52
  Speaker 18: going through her room to give to the needy and
• 17:54
  Speaker 18: the less fortunate. So that's the story we tell in
• 17:57
  Speaker 18: this section.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Okay. And so we go from when she's a child
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and then to when she goes to a teenager and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: then she grows up. And then, of course. When we
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: got to know her was when she met Prince Charles.
• 18:09
  Speaker 18: One of the famous sweaters she wore in that time
• 18:11
  Speaker 18: period is known as the alpaca sweater, which we are
• 18:13
  Speaker 18: also selling in our store. It's this pink sweater, and
• 18:15
  Speaker 18: you can see the photograph of her with the wellies.
• 18:18
  Speaker 18: And so whenever we can showcase a photograph of her
• 18:21
  Speaker 18: wearing the item alongside the item and put it in context,
• 18:24
  Speaker 18: that's something we try to do.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, and then we go to the wedding... There's a whole,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we're going to see her wedding dress, which is actually
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a replica.
• 18:33
  Speaker 18: A replica of the spare wedding dress they made her
• 18:35
  Speaker 18: because they were nervous something would happen to the first.
• 18:37
  Speaker 18: They made a spare. You learn about the wedding. You
• 18:40
  Speaker 18: see a piece of wedding cake. You see the shoes
• 18:41
  Speaker 18: she wore at the rehearsal day. You see all these
• 18:44
  Speaker 18: different items. You see the dress Mrs. Reagan wore to
• 18:46
  Speaker 18: their wedding because she was one of their guests. And
• 18:48
  Speaker 18: you also learn about the White House state dinner between
• 18:51
  Speaker 18: President and Mrs. Reagan and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, I want to talk about that for a little
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: bit because these pictures are so iconic. And, of course,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the ones that you said... The most requested picture is
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of Diana.
• 19:02
  Speaker 18: Dancing with John Travolta at the White House State Dinner
• 19:04
  Speaker 18: in November of 1985. So it is one of our
• 19:08
  Speaker 18: most iconic photos in our collection. And it's all because Mrs.
• 19:11
  Speaker 18: Reagan really wanted John Travolta to dance with the princess.
• 19:14
  Speaker 18: So they had the Marine Band practice the music from
• 19:17
  Speaker 18: Saturday Night Fever. And then during the dinner, Mrs. Reagan's
• 19:20
  Speaker 18: social secretary tapped John Travolta on the shoulder and encouraged
• 19:23
  Speaker 18: him to go ask Princess Diana to dance.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: And he was nervous and didn't want to?
• 19:27
  Speaker 18: He was super nervous, didn't want to do it. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 18: the social secretary said, no, no, Mr. Travolta, Mrs. Reagan
• 19:32
  Speaker 18: wants you to dance with the princess. And they began
• 19:35
  Speaker 18: to dance. They danced for 15 minutes while the Marine
• 19:37
  Speaker 18: band played a medley from Saturday Night Fever. And we
• 19:40
  Speaker 18: have the photos of that on the wall. And again...
• 19:42
  Speaker 18: probably the most requested photograph in our entire collection.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: It's so amazing to see all of this and so
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: many pieces in a collection and there's so much more
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that we didn't get a chance to talk about. But
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that hopefully will encourage people to come out and see
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: it because they're really spectacular, including there's a dress that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you have on display that is a drop dead gorgeous stunner.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And she never got to wear it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 18: Yeah, we call it the goodbye dress. A handful of
• 20:07
  Speaker 18: weeks before her passing, a designer started to make a
• 20:10
  Speaker 18: dress for her that she was going to wear to
• 20:11
  Speaker 18: a charity auction. They did six separate fittings at Kensington Palace.
• 20:15
  Speaker 18: The last fitting just one week before she passed. And
• 20:17
  Speaker 18: in fact, in that last sitting, they put the final
• 20:20
  Speaker 18: hemming pins in the strap to fix it. And the
• 20:22
  Speaker 18: designer said, go have a nice vacation. When you come back,
• 20:25
  Speaker 18: we'll do the final fitting. We'll tie it all up
• 20:27
  Speaker 18: and you can wear it to the event. Of course,
• 20:29
  Speaker 18: she never wore it. She passed away. No one even
• 20:31
  Speaker 18: knew it existed. And when the collector, Renee Plant, who
• 20:34
  Speaker 18: owns these 750 objects, was interviewing the designer, she said
• 20:38
  Speaker 18: to him, is there anything you've never told in your story?
• 20:41
  Speaker 18: And he said, well, yes, I have a dress that's
• 20:42
  Speaker 18: never been seen. So this is the first time this
• 20:44
  Speaker 18: dress has ever been seen publicly. And we have it
• 20:47
  Speaker 18: rotating on a platform so that you can see the
• 20:50
  Speaker 18: beauty of the dress. But you can also see the
• 20:52
  Speaker 18: hemming pins in the back.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: So, Melissa, I know that I remember where I was
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: when I found out she died.
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: Me too.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I was at a friend's house. It was Labor Day weekend.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And like, it was just one of those things that
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: hit you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 13: Like a rock.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Why is that with her?
• 21:07
  Speaker 18: She was so iconic and beloved. She was so young.
• 21:12
  Speaker 18: She was 37 years old. She was just coming into
• 21:15
  Speaker 18: her own. She was finally happy in her life, happy
• 21:19
  Speaker 18: with her boys, really making a difference in the world
• 21:21
  Speaker 18: and just taken way too soon at 37 years old.
• 21:23
  Speaker 18: And I think That is such a tragedy that really
• 21:27
  Speaker 18: ingrains itself into our brain and still so beloved today,
• 21:31
  Speaker 18: which is why we're honored to be able to share
• 21:33
  Speaker 18: her story and her legacy in this exhibition.
• 21:35
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And we followed her life. I remember we got up
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night and watched her wedding.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was crazy. So when can people come
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: see this?
• 21:42
  Speaker 18: It opens Saturday, November 7th. We do expect sellout crowds,
• 21:46
  Speaker 18: especially in the first couple of weeks and over the holidays.
• 21:48
  Speaker 18: We always recommend people purchase their tickets in advance at reaganlibrary.com.
• 21:52
  Speaker 18: That way you don't show up and we're sold out,
• 21:56
  Speaker 18: but you don't have to if you don't choose to.
• 21:57
  Speaker 18: It is here six months through May 31st. We welcome
• 22:01
  Speaker 18: everyone to come and learn from Princess Diana and maybe
• 22:04
  Speaker 18: take that bit of kindness from Diana and extend it
• 22:07
  Speaker 18: in your life after you see this.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: We can always use a little kindness. Melissa Giller with
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the Reagan Foundation. Thank you so much. We're out and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: about at the Reagan Presidential Library. Very cool exhibit. If
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you haven't been up to and the Reagan Library is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: spectacular anyway. I just love going in. Checking out the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Oval Office.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I've still got to go.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I've never been.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You can walk through Air Force One. It's really impressive.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Really impressive. You can get a sneak peek on my Instagram.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I posted the interview or I'm about to post the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: interview with Melissa. And we show you some of the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: pieces that are on display. It's a big display, too.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: 750 items. And I don't know about you, but like
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I mentioned, I know exactly where I was when I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: found out that Princess Diana had been killed. We got
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. We watched her wedding.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: We were so obsessed with her for some reason. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: don't know if it was because she was not royal
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and she married a royal. So it was sort of
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that fairy tale wedding, or at least we thought it
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: was at the time.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Anyway.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Anyway. You can check out the interview and see some
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: of the exhibit on my Instagram at Amy K.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: King.
• 23:08
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• 23:13
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• 23:14
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• 23:16
  Speaker 13: King.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Three storms are approaching Southern California. The first storm is
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: expected to arrive this weekend.
• 23:22
  Speaker 19: Forecasters say its impact is unclear except for below average temperatures.
• 23:26
  Speaker 19: The region won't take a direct hit, but light rain
• 23:28
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• 23:31
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• 23:34
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  Speaker 10: Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: The California Teachers Union wants Governor Newsom to keep it
• 23:50
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• 23:52
  Speaker 9: The California Federation of Teachers sent a letter to the
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: governor calling for an executive order banning AI in kindergarten schools.
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: through eighth grade classrooms for three years. The union says
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: AI tools are being rolled out without clear safety or
• 24:06
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• 24:11
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• 24:15
  Speaker 9: from the governor. Phil Farrar, KFI News.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Here's something else that's cool to go see. The Natural
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: History Museum of L.A. County opens its new Night Tales
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: After Dark Experience tonight. The experience will be offered on
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: select nights through January 10th at the museum. Museum officials
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: say Night Tales will use light, sound, and projected imagery
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to reimagine and illuminate familiar museum pieces like giant dinosaurs
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: throughout selected indoor galleries and outdoor garden spaces. What I've
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: seen of that so far, it looks really cool. And again,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that's at the Natural History Museum. When we come back,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the holidays just around the corner, the pressure's on to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: find that perfect present for the special people in your life.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But what do they want? What are they really going
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to love? Well, we're going to find out because we're
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: talking to Google Trends expert Amy Isinger. She's got the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Hot 100 for this holiday season. That's coming up in
• 25:13
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• 25:26
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• 25:56
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• 26:06
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• 26:17
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• 26:22
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• 26:25
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  Speaker 15: He's meeting with international leaders at the United Nations Climate
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• 26:56
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• 27:06
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• 27:10
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  Speaker 1: Eleven people have been arrested in a suspected illegal gambling
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• 27:37
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• 27:50
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• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 28:03
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• 28:04
  Speaker 1: It's a great ride. I took it up to San
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Luis Obispo, and it was just beautiful.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Although I did take it to San Diego last time
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: a couple months ago, and the water was hitting the windows.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Splashing on the windows.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: That's a little freaky. Travel experts say this year might
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be a good time to have a holiday staycation. Travel
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: price tracker Hopper shows domestic fares for Thanksgiving are averaging
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: about $ 400 per ticket. And Christmas is even worse with
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: fares around $ 450 on average. This guy in Miami says
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: his daughter's visiting in February because the holidays are a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: tough time to travel.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: We're not expecting anybody during the Christmas holiday. Just my
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: wife and our dog that's turning 17.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Other people say they're going to stay at home, too,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: because it's too expensive to travel right now. Hey, speaking
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: of the holidays, we're going to be talking with Google's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: search trend expert about the hot 100 list of what
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: everyone wants to find in their stockings or under their
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: tree this Christmas. That's coming up in just a few minutes.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Right now, though, it's time to get in your business
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Denise, of course, the big story,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: NVIDIA and whether the CEO is about to be out
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of a job.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: So the board is meeting, and I.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Was looking at the board members trying to figure out
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: how they might go on this. Because as you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Huang has really been the face of the tech darling world.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: A wildly popular stock has increased, what, 700,000%? Made some
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: people just hugely rich. Remember, Stephen Neal, he has a
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: legal background. Tench Cox, a billionaire, longtime Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: Then there's John DeBury. I was trying to figure out
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: how he might look at all this.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: He's an academic funding from the MacArthur Foundation as an
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: undergrad at Princeton. He used videos of jellyfish taken at
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: an aquarium to write mathematical models that.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Describe their movement. I wasn't sure which way.
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: He might go.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Then there's John Hudson. She has experience with the NFL
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: and Pepsi-Cola. Harvey Jones, he's a chip design software maker company.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: There's the former president of Taco Bell, Melissa Lora, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: so on. So all these people will be getting together
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: or are getting together talking about Huang's future because he
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: is so well-liked in the industry. This is really problematic
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: since none of the issues.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: That they're facing have anything to do, at least as far.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: As they can tell, with the performance of the company
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: except for the image and the problems.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: And then, of course, the spy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Allegations related to one of the people he had an
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: affair with. So it's really anybody's guess. But given the
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: fact that this second affair has come up and that
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: was with somebody who reported to him, that is the
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: kind of thing that at least the legal experts on
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: the board are not going to like.
• 30:53
  Speaker 13: I'm sure.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Here's something else that Mexico is not going to like.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: President Trump is threatening to double tariffs.
• 31:00
  Speaker 13: Yes, he is.
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: He's threatening to double tariffs on goods from Mexico immediately.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Amy, if the country doesn't stop, what he claims are
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: those migrant caravans preparing to head.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: To the U.S.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: He's not giving a timeline for all this, although he
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: did say he would act immediately. But he's not giving
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: a timeline in terms of Mexico's deadline yet. to fix
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: the problem as far as he sees it. Also, it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: not clear what legal authority the president actually has for this.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: After you remember that Supreme court decision earlier this year,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: that kind of curtailed his tariff powers.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And then, um, Polly market, that's one of the betting sites, right? It's,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: might not be doing quite as good as first thought,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: or maybe it's just doing really good, but using more AI.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: It's doing well, but the prediction market pioneers lost its
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: lead to rival Kalshi.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: And so that's the problem. And it's also faced a
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: whole bunch of legal challenges about what legal betting is
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: or isn't. So it's cutting jobs and shedding contractors. It
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: might be that it's leaning a little bit more on AI.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: They're not saying how many jobs are being cut, but
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: definitely these cuts are seen as a cost-cutting effort after
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: they kind of lost more ground to Kalshi.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: All right. Get in your business as we do each
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: weekday morning with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: Talk to you tomorrow.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And when we come back, the holiday's just around the corner.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Pressure to find the perfect president for that special someone.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: is on. Well, what are you going to get? What
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: do they want? We're going to find out with Google
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  Speaker 1: Trends expert Amy Isinger. She's got the Hot 100 for
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  Speaker 1: the holiday season. That's coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: 100 is out. What is it? Let's find out. What
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  Speaker 1: the hottest items are for this Christmas season and say
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  Speaker 1: good morning to Google search trends expert Amy Isinger. Good morning, Amy.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
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  Speaker 13: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Doing great. And I know it's it's not yet Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: We're not through Thanksgiving, but we got to start thinking
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  Speaker 1: about presents because we got to get that special someone
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  Speaker 1: the perfect gift. So how are we going to find it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I totally think it's a great idea to start
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  Speaker 6: shopping early. And Google's annual Holiday 100 is our gift
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  Speaker 6: guide that is based on the year's top search trends
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  Speaker 6: across tech, home, style, beauty, basically everything. We get over
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  Speaker 6: a billion searches related to shopping every single day. So
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  Speaker 6: we like to say that we really know what people want,
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  Speaker 6: what they've got on their list.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go through a few of the items
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  Speaker 1: on the list. What are some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: are going to be really hot that people really want
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. So one of the cool things that I think
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  Speaker 6: we've seen is, you know, we know that people love
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  Speaker 6: their home. They love being at home. And we have seen,
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  Speaker 6: for example, cozy gifts like women's jogger sweatpants. Those jumped
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  Speaker 6: 60 percent year over year. We've also seen searches for
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  Speaker 6: things like an electric kettle. Those rose 200 percent in
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  Speaker 6: the year 2026. And we've also seen a spike, I
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  Speaker 6: love this one, in turntable record players. So maybe you
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  Speaker 6: want to go out and buy some vinyl and then
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  Speaker 6: get a turntable record player. That was a breakout search
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  Speaker 6: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of old school stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I love that. And to go with the old
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  Speaker 6: school home trends, we've also seen some retro footwear come
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  Speaker 6: back in style this year. So, for example, Nike V5
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  Speaker 6: R & R sneakers, those spike 150% in 2026.
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  Speaker 13: And I love this.
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  Speaker 6: This is like that like chunky dad shoe kind of
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  Speaker 6: that like almost like ugly sneaker trend that we've seen
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  Speaker 6: that's not going anywhere. And we've also seen a lot
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  Speaker 6: of searches for, you know, bean boots and for sort
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  Speaker 6: of suede slip on shoes as well.
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  Speaker 1: I love a good suede slip on. What was the
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  Speaker 1: other one? Bean boots?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Bean boots.
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  Speaker 6: So these are like the classic kind of like duck
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  Speaker 6: shoes that are like L.L. Bean, for example.
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  Speaker 13: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Yes. Like the classic bean boot that was, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that also trended this past year.
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  Speaker 1: I had those when I lived in Oregon. You don't
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  Speaker 1: really have a whole lot of use for them in
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  Speaker 1: Southern California, but they're fun. OK, let's talk toys, because,
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  Speaker 1: of course, toys are always a big thing for the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of the big ones?
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  Speaker 13: I love this.
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  Speaker 6: We're seeing so many cool analog toy trends this year.
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  Speaker 6: For example, squishies, you know, like any type of those
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  Speaker 6: like really squishy, you know, like balls or I feel
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  Speaker 6: like there were squishy butter sticks that were. all over
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  Speaker 6: TikTok for a while. Those reached an all-time high this year.
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  Speaker 6: We've also seen some really classic searches. A classic kids
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  Speaker 6: train set went up 240% this year. Kids spelling blocks
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  Speaker 6: went up 50% this year. And adjustable roller skates. I
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  Speaker 6: love this one. So not roller blades. And I did
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  Speaker 6: look into this. Roller blades, pretty flat. But roller skates
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  Speaker 6: are up 180% this year.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that people are doing throwback stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like we have all this great technology, but
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  Speaker 1: we're like, you know what? Things were easier when we
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  Speaker 1: had roller skates and could just like throw them on
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  Speaker 1: and head out the door. Okay, so... I love it.
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  Speaker 6: It's such a fun family trend. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So then you also, Amy... Kind of have some advice
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  Speaker 1: on when might be the best time to shop. Should
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  Speaker 1: you wait till Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Should you
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  Speaker 1: do it now?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's some really interesting things that we found.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Google released the annual when to buy guide
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  Speaker 6: this year, which has a lot of great advice on when.
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  Speaker 6: you can actually find the lowest prices on things. When
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  Speaker 6: you're shopping on Google also, there's price tracking. So when
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  Speaker 6: you find an item that you like, you can add
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  Speaker 6: it to your cart and you can kind of see
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  Speaker 6: there if you're getting it at the best price or
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  Speaker 6: if maybe the best price might be coming down the road.
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  Speaker 6: So As an example, when it comes to travel accessories,
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  Speaker 6: and a lot of people do invest in like luggage
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  Speaker 6: and travel accessories around the holidays, those travel accessories like
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  Speaker 6: packing cubes and things will actually hit their lowest prices
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  Speaker 6: on Black Friday. But if you're in the market for
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  Speaker 6: new luggage, you might be better off waiting until clearance
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  Speaker 6: sales in late December.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the when to buy guide, where do we find that?
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  Speaker 1: Do we Google it?
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  Speaker 13: You can go to blog.com.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you could.
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  Speaker 15: You could.
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  Speaker 6: You could totally Google it. Or you can go to
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  Speaker 6: blog.google and you can find our when to buy guide there.
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  Speaker 6: And you can also find our complete list of the
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  Speaker 6: Holiday 100 gift guide, like all 100 of those trending gifts.
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  Speaker 14: Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: That was going to be my next question.
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  Speaker 20: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So, and what, where do we look for it again?
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  Speaker 6: Blog.google.
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  Speaker 1: Blog.google. Okay. Amy Isinger, Google search trends expert. I think
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be very helpful because sometimes there's
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  Speaker 1: just some people that are really hard to buy for,
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  Speaker 1: and this'll be good to maybe give you some great ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time and good luck searching.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: That's fun. Okay. I like some of these ideas. I
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  Speaker 1: like some, although I think it would be hard to
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  Speaker 1: give somebody shoes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe I've I've given like really cozy slippers before.
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  Speaker 1: That's always a fun gift. And then but they always
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  Speaker 1: look at you funny when you ask them what their
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  Speaker 1: shoe size is. Like in October, you go, what's your
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  Speaker 1: shoe size? Random question. Let's get back to some of
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