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President Trump & Gulf Leaders · 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.
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  Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange.
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  Speaker 3: County.
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  Speaker 4: Now batting for Wake Up Call, your host, Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: It is 5 o'clock Friday morning, September 18th. I'm Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Appropriately
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  Speaker 1: play that show opener because the Dodgers just clinched the
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  Speaker 1: division for the fifth straight year on their quest for
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  Speaker 1: a World Series three-peat. Sorry, Ann. I know that makes
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  Speaker 1: you not so happy. I'm going to the game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Very excited. And I'm very excited that it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be 100 degrees when we go to the game
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  Speaker 1: because it's a day game. And it can be very
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  Speaker 1: hot and sweaty sitting in the stadium on those nice
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  Speaker 1: plastic seats. Even the ones that have the padding on
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  Speaker 1: the seats. It's still a very sweaty time. But looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to that and very excited for the boys in blue.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get started. Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 3: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County D.A. Nathan Hockman has charged a 36-year-old woman of
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  Speaker 1: being high on drugs when she T-boned a Metro bus
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  Speaker 1: in Chatsworth, killing two people, allegedly. She's facing second-degree murder charges, DUI,
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  Speaker 1: and reckless driving. That crash led to the crash of
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  Speaker 1: an NBC4 news helicopter that killed three people. The woman
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  Speaker 1: could get life in prison if she's convicted. Small businesses
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  Speaker 1: affected by the massive fire at a coal storage warehouse
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  Speaker 1: in Boyle Heights can apply for up to $ 3, 000 grants.
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  Speaker 5: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County says applications for the grants offered by the county
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  Speaker 1: will be accepted through October 1st. So not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time to get that taken care of. A wildfire
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  Speaker 1: in Yosemite National Park has grown to nearly 1,200 acres
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  Speaker 1: and prompted trail closures around it. The fire has blanketed
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  Speaker 1: parts of the park with smoke. Cooler weather is expected today.
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  Speaker 1: It's currently zero percent surrounded. President Trump's going to be
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  Speaker 1: meeting with Middle East leaders next week on the sidelines
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  Speaker 1: of the U.N. General Assembly. What's expected from those meetings
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  Speaker 1: and the latest on the U.S.-Iran conflict coming up with
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  Speaker 1: KFI's national correspondent, Rory O'Neill. We'll be talking to him
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  Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. Also, you've heard of
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  Speaker 1: childproofing your home. Well, KFI's house whisperer, Dean Sharp, says
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  Speaker 1: it may be time to think about age proofing your home.
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  Speaker 3: He'll explain.
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  Speaker 1: I am gently jumping off a 26-story building a week
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  Speaker 1: from today. I need your help to do it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you about that coming up a little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on Wake Up Call. Also, Traders and Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Will Gans will take a look at what's next
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  Speaker 1: for both coming up this morning before 6 o'clock. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A candlelight vigil's been held in
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  Speaker 1: Chatsworth to remember the three people killed in the crash
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  Speaker 1: of the NBC4 news helicopter and the two killed in
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  Speaker 1: a crash involving a Metro bus. We mourn the loss
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  Speaker 1: of Eliana, George, Eddie, Gage.
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  Speaker 6: And Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: That's L.A. Mayor Bass, reporter Eliana Moreno, and pilot George Marcineau.
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  Speaker 1: We're covering the bus crash on Tuesday evening when the
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  Speaker 1: helicopter went down. A man visiting from Guatemala was killed
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. Two people on the bus were killed.
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  Speaker 1: The vigil last night was held at St. John Eudes Church,
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  Speaker 1: which is about eight blocks away from the helicopter crash.
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  Speaker 1: A water main break in Pacific Palisades has led to
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  Speaker 1: a call for water conservation in Malibu as repairs are
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  Speaker 1: being done. The leak yesterday was on the waterline serving
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  Speaker 1: Malibu and Topanga Canyon near PCH and Temescal Canyon Road.
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  Speaker 1: Officials in Malibu urging residents to limit water use, avoid
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  Speaker 1: outdoor watering, and turn off automatic sprinklers.
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  Speaker 3: The L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County Planning Director has ordered an immediate stop to the
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  Speaker 1: development of large-scale data centers that power AI in unincorporated
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  Speaker 1: areas of the county. Director Amy Bodek says it's an
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  Speaker 1: interim guidance for planning staff while the county moves to
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  Speaker 1: codify the prohibition in its zoning regulations. Supervisor Hilda Salee
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  Speaker 1: says she plans to bring additional actions before the Board
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  Speaker 1: of Supervisors to amend the county's zoning code and prohibit
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  Speaker 1: data centers in unincorporated areas. Paramount is threatening to leave
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  Speaker 1: California amid its fight with the state over the Warner
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  Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery merger.
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  Speaker 7: Economist Kevin Clowden says the bigger concern is whether film
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  Speaker 7: and television production leaves with it.
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  Speaker 8: Those job losses in the core can absolutely become permanent,
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  Speaker 8: and that could be a devastating issue.
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  Speaker 7: He says the impact would spread well beyond studio workers.
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  Speaker 8: It's the accountants that get hit. It is the truckers
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  Speaker 8: who get hit. It is the catering services who get hit.
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  Speaker 8: It is the camera rental people. It's very important for
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  Speaker 8: Paramount Skydance to get this closed.
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  Speaker 7: And there is no confirmation on if or when they
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  Speaker 7: will return to the negotiating table before the October 1st deadline.
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  Speaker 7: Heather Brooker, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, let's talk with KFI's national correspondent, Rory O'Neill.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Rory.
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  Speaker 2: Hey there, Amy.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, so President Trump, he's going to be meeting with leaders,
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  Speaker 1: foreign ministers from several Middle Eastern countries next week. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about it.
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  Speaker 3: He is.
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  Speaker 10: And this is all with the U.N.
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  Speaker 2: General Assembly as a backdrop. And the fact that he's
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  Speaker 2: meeting with these nations, the leaders from countries so closely
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  Speaker 2: involved with this conference with Iran, certainly is significant, as
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these countries are likely to put some
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  Speaker 2: pressure on President Trump to say, hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: We thought this was going to last for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks. Here we are now six months plus into this.
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  Speaker 2: Our oil economies have been hit hard and we've been
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  Speaker 2: getting attacked by Iran, either using Missiles, sometimes ballistic missiles,
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  Speaker 2: oftentimes drones. And some very close key American allies like
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia have been getting the worst of these attacks
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  Speaker 2: from Iran and its proxies.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so I was watching a report yesterday and they
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  Speaker 1: were talking about how there are some people who are
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  Speaker 1: in the military and they're sending pictures of some of
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  Speaker 1: the damage that's been done to the U.S. military bases
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  Speaker 1: and in the strikes. One of the guys said that
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  Speaker 1: they're getting hit daily.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And CBS News, I think, was first to publish a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these images that, as you said, were taken
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  Speaker 2: by service members deployed in that area. And the strikes
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  Speaker 2: by Iran are getting underreported. There's very little American media
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  Speaker 2: presence in a lot of these countries. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: on military bases, it's tough to get an accurate accounting
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  Speaker 2: of what's been happening. We've been seeing when Secretary Hegseth
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  Speaker 2: or others in the defense community go before Congress in
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  Speaker 2: these oversight hearings, they'll say some damage is out there,
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  Speaker 2: but they won't give dollar estimates or give specific details
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  Speaker 2: about what has been damaged. Some say that when this
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  Speaker 2: is over, the American footprint may be greatly reduced in
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  Speaker 2: these countries across the Gulf states.
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  Speaker 1: OK, and then here's another question. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you have an answer, but is there any risk in
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  Speaker 1: the service members sharing those photos? Because remember that one,
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  Speaker 1: the one guy who took a picture on a submarine
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  Speaker 1: and was like court-martialed for it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So there's significant there's significant potential for information getting out
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  Speaker 2: that's unintended. You know, there was one even some guys
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  Speaker 2: working out of a essentially a trailer. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was in Kuwait. They were saying, hey, stop posting those pictures.
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  Speaker 2: You're giving away information that you may not think is important.
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  Speaker 2: But when it's pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. It
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  Speaker 2: suddenly gives a pretty good picture of exactly what our
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  Speaker 2: defense position is. So, yeah, there's a reason we're not
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  Speaker 2: seeing the names of the soldiers involved with releasing some
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  Speaker 2: of these images.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: OK. And then it'll be interesting to see, too, how
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  Speaker 1: things are between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they were thick as thieves right now. But then with
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia saying that they're running low on ballistic or
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  Speaker 1: not ballistic missiles, but the missile interceptors.
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  Speaker 2: The Interceptors.
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  Speaker 1: And basically the U.S. kind of being hands off about it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And this is after their pipeline system was essentially knocked out.
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  Speaker 2: And look, we can't separate the fact that President Trump
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  Speaker 2: will be meeting with President Xi, hosting him at the
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  Speaker 2: White House next week. China certainly has a lot to
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  Speaker 2: do with, we believe, providing Iran with the satellite intel
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  Speaker 2: that to show them where to target those locations of U.S.
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  Speaker 2: military operations across the Middle East. So this this is
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  Speaker 2: all coming together with the U.N. and President Xi arriving
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  Speaker 2: at the White House next week.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, we will keep an eye on it.
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  Speaker 1: Rory O'Neill, thanks so much for checking in. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: 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. Hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: Iranians have joined a rally in Tehran in the biggest
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  Speaker 1: government organized show of defiance since the war with the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: and Israel began. Those marching pledged readiness to take up arms.
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  Speaker 1: State-run media had encouraged Iranians to join the effort. Tehran's
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard chief says over 600,000 signed up. The event
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  Speaker 1: suggests hardliners in Iran's leadership President Trump says he's at
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  Speaker 1: a major crossroads when it comes to the Iran war.
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  Speaker 1: He spoke to Axios ahead of the meeting next week
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  Speaker 1: that we were just talking about with Rory. Trump says
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  Speaker 1: he's deciding whether. to restart attacks or bring the conflict
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  Speaker 1: to a close. Trump said he wants to use the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming meeting to hear directly from regional allies. Twin brothers
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  Speaker 1: accused in a plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan
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  Speaker 1: are suing.
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  Speaker 11: Michael and William Knoll were given state charges of providing
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  Speaker 11: material support for terrorist acts and felony firearm. The Knolls
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  Speaker 11: were arrested in 2020 and acquitted in 2023. The lawsuit
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  Speaker 11: against the FBI, state police, and others claims they haven't
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  Speaker 11: been able to restore their lives and businesses. And all
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  Speaker 11: 14 people were charged, six in federal court, eight in
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  Speaker 11: state court. Five, including the Knolls, were acquitted, four pleaded guilty,
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  Speaker 11: and five were convicted. including Adam Fox, who was considered
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  Speaker 11: the mastermind behind the plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer
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  Speaker 11: in part over her COVID restrictions. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Early voting has begun for the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 8: Already?
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  Speaker 1: In-person voting has begun in Virginia. Voters in a handful
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  Speaker 1: of states, including Idaho, Minnesota, and South Dakota, are able
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  Speaker 1: to cast absentee ballots in person, typically at a local
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  Speaker 1: election office or voting center. More expansive early voting is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to begin in those and other states in the
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  Speaker 1: coming weeks. The Postal Service says it has stopped working
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  Speaker 1: on a computer system tied to President Trump's effort to
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  Speaker 1: limit mail voting. The Supreme Court rejected Trump's executive order
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  Speaker 1: this week. Postmaster General David Steiner confirmed the stop yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: A memo to postal employees stated that the agency will
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  Speaker 1: not enforce new rules for the 2026 midterms. Steiner emphasized
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  Speaker 1: the agency's independence and operational focus and urged voters to
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  Speaker 1: submit their ballots early. Anthropic says its AI model, Claude,
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  Speaker 1: is significantly helping in the development of its successor. Claude
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  Speaker 1: is handling 26% of the model research and development for Anthropic,
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  Speaker 1: completing tasks under human supervision. Although Claude isn't fully autonomous,
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  Speaker 1: it collaborates on about 90% of the company's research and
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  Speaker 1: development work. Your back-to-back world champion Dodgers are on their
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  Speaker 1: way to a three-peat. The Dodgers beat the Reds yesterday
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  Speaker 1: 8-2 in Cincinnati to clinch the National League West division
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  Speaker 1: for the fifth year in a row. Tonight, the boys
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  Speaker 1: in blue are back at home to take on the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: First pitch goes out just after 7. And you can
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  Speaker 1: to say, of the LA Dodgers. Discover Nikaido, discover shochu. There,
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  Speaker 1: we got it. Governor Newsom has launched a program for
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  Speaker 1: survivors of the Palisades and Eaton fires and other disasters
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  Speaker 1: to get access to more money to rebuild. The Disaster
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  Speaker 1: Rebuilding Assistance Program will offer financing tools that are aimed
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  Speaker 1: at lowering rebuilding costs, connecting homeowners with lenders that are
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  Speaker 1: trusted lenders, and also improving loan options for lower-income households.
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  Speaker 1: An F-16 pilot has survived a plane crash in northern Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: The crash happened yesterday afternoon during a training mission about
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  Speaker 1: two hours north of Grand Rapids. A township official says
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  Speaker 1: the pilot was able to parachute out of the plane
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  Speaker 1: before it went down. The other pilot on the mission
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  Speaker 1: says the F-16 may have struck a bird. The Torrance
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  Speaker 1: City Councils voted unanimously to move forward with plans to
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  Speaker 1: create a monument at Columbia Park honoring Japanese Americans who
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  Speaker 1: were incarcerated during World War II. It authorizes an extension
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  Speaker 1: of a $ 5 million grant for the project and approves
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  Speaker 1: recognition of donations and donors for the other $ 15 million
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  Speaker 1: needed to complete the project. Let's say good morning now
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  Speaker 1: to the host of Home on KFI, Saturdays 6 to
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  Speaker 1: 8 a.m., Sundays 9 to noon. It's the not horse whisperer,
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  Speaker 1: but the house whisperer, Dean Sharp. One of these years,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get it right. I've only been doing this show
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  Speaker 1: three years, Dean.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, you know, it's all good.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Amy.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome back. OK, so we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: childproofing homes. It's something that everything does. Everybody does. But
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  Speaker 1: then on the other end of the spectrum, maybe people
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  Speaker 1: need to start thinking about, you know, age proofing their homes.
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  Speaker 4: Aging in place is Sunday's show topic, and it's something
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  Speaker 4: that is so, so very important because, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: Our culture is changing. We are living longer. 75% of
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  Speaker 4: adults 50 plus have reported that they want to stay
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  Speaker 4: in their current home for good. But the problem is.
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  Speaker 4: Most homes still built for 30 and 40 year olds,
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  Speaker 4: not 80 year olds. And and that presents a problem
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  Speaker 4: with aging in place. And so it's it's something that
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  Speaker 4: has moved from a kind of a side issue in
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  Speaker 4: home design to right up front. In fact, it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of shocking. National Association of Realtors. are reporting that most
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  Speaker 4: 40 plus year old homebuyers are looking for homes with
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  Speaker 4: aging in place designs already in place for them.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so let's talk about some of those, because I
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  Speaker 1: know that like my mom is one of those people
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  Speaker 1: who wants to be in her house forever. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's I'm staying. I'll die here. And so she in
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  Speaker 1: the last few years, she's done a few things like
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  Speaker 1: put bars in the in the shower and done the
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  Speaker 1: Comfort level toilet, those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Important things that can be really important.
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  Speaker 4: Probably the number one thing. issue of danger in a
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  Speaker 4: house that if it hasn't been touched, 80% of senior
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  Speaker 4: falls happen in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, the grab bars in the shower. And here's
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  Speaker 4: the thing that I recommend. If you're going to do
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  Speaker 4: a remodel, a bathroom remodel or major remodel of the house,
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  Speaker 4: and you've got access to the walls of the bathroom,
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  Speaker 4: But you're not actually at the place where you want
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  Speaker 4: or need the grab bars yet. A very, very simple
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  Speaker 4: step that can be taken, an incredibly inexpensive step, is
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  Speaker 4: while you have access to those shower walls, to actually
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  Speaker 4: put in wood blocking through the studs in the shower
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  Speaker 4: wall before you close them back up and cover them
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  Speaker 4: with tile again. And and put it all over the
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  Speaker 4: place so that when the day comes to install the
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  Speaker 4: grab bars, we've got solid wood back behind the tile
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  Speaker 4: and those grab bars can go in anywhere. And these days,
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  Speaker 4: aging in place design has become such a uniform thing
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  Speaker 4: that when you go shopping for your very really nice
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  Speaker 4: designer fixtures, your shower heads and the mixer and your,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the faucets at the sink. And you're getting
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  Speaker 4: them all in the design and the finish that you like. Well,
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  Speaker 4: guess what? Most major fixture manufacturers now are making their
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  Speaker 4: own version of grab bars that essentially look like their
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  Speaker 4: towel bars and they match the decor. So no longer
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  Speaker 4: do we have to put up with the big, you know,
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  Speaker 4: stainless steel curvy thing that looks like it's out of
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  Speaker 4: an institution or a hospital somewhere. And so what you
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  Speaker 4: do is just go ahead and buy the whole package
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  Speaker 4: and just store those grab bars in the garage or
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  Speaker 4: somewhere in the house. For a rainy day. And if
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  Speaker 4: the rainy day comes and you find out that you
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  Speaker 4: need them, then the blocking is in place and you're
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  Speaker 4: ready to have them quickly installed. And even then they
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  Speaker 4: look like part of the, you know, the chic design
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  Speaker 4: of the shower.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really interesting because I remember the last time
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for a house, you'd go into a
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  Speaker 1: house and if it had bars on it, you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's going to affect the sale price. But
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  Speaker 1: now if you incorporate it in the design, it's not
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  Speaker 1: a detraction, but an addition.
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  Speaker 10: It really isn't.
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  Speaker 4: And still, my recommendation is to hold out, not because
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  Speaker 4: of the look, but on a practical level. You never
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  Speaker 4: know exactly what your particular need for the grab bar is.
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  Speaker 4: People get injured in different ways or they have different needs.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you need them lower. Maybe you need them up higher.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you need them at an angle. And so wait
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  Speaker 4: until you need them to install them so they're exactly
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  Speaker 4: where you need them to be.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And we're going to find out more about it's
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  Speaker 1: more than just the bars in the bathroom. There's a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of things that you can do to get
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: your house ready if you're going to stay in it
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: for the rest of your life.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: So much more.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So you can listen to Dean on six to eight
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, nine to noon on Sunday right here at KFI.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: And you can also follow him at House Whisperer Design.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's a new handle for him on Instagram. And you
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: can check out his new website, too. It's very nice.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It's HouseWhispererDesign.com. If you go to HouseWhispererDesign, you might come
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: up with a whole different thing.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a whole different thing, but it's not us.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, thank you so much. Welcome back.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: Thanks, Amy.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the driver of an SUV was under the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: influence of drugs when she swerved into opposing traffic, blew
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a red light, and slammed into a Metro bus in Chatsworth,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: killing two people. Bailey Rios of Simi Valley is charged
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: with second-degree murder. Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins says the crash
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday was clearly avoidable. This was an absolute tragedy
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: that has impacted all of us, and none of us
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: want something like this ever to happen again. Rios is
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: due in court today. Investigators say they have clear evidence
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that Southern California car influencer James Weir was driving his
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: 2019 McLaren at dangerous speeds when it crashed in Irvine,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: killing him and a young woman from Florida. The car
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: was split in two and caught fire last weekend when
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: we apparently lost control at Culver Drive and Deerfield Avenue.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Investigators say the McLaren was at a complete stop moments
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: before the crash.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: L.A.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: County's announced a grant program to provide financial assistance to
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: small businesses affected by a water main break in West
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Hollywood this summer. The Small Business Recovery Grant Program will
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: provide help to businesses within a designated commercial impact area.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The pipe break in July flooded cars, homes and businesses
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and created a sinkhole that shut down part of Sunset
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Boulevard for over a week. A new synthetic opioid stronger
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: than fentanyl has been linked to the death of a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: teenager in San Francisco. ABC's Alex Stone says four suspected
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: drug dealers have been arrested in connection with the death
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: of the 16-year-old boy.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: Police say he's a first known victim linked to a
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: new synthetic opioid so new that drug test kids cannot
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: pick it up.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Health officials say Narcan should still work to reverse an
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: overdose if it's caught in time. Orange County Board Chairman
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Doug Chafee has signed a proclamation declaring a state of
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: emergency from damage by Hurricane Marie, which battered the coast
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in South Orange County. Initially, he was hesitant to declare
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: an emergency, but says an accounting of the damage to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: government property has come in above FEMA's $ 15 million threshold,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and that's what changed his mind. Waves from the storm
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: lashed the shore in several cities, damaging homes, beaches, barriers,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and affecting rail traffic along the coast.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: And a U.S.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Senator from California is fighting back against a plan to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: sell part of Yosemite to a developer.
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: The Trump administration wants to sell off a corner of
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: Yosemite for a hotel developer to build an access road,
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: but Senator Alex Padilla from Los Angeles has got a
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: problem with it.
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  Speaker 9: The proposal flies in the face of everything that the
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: National Park Service and Systems stand for.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: He says Californians don't like the idea.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Not supported by the people of California.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: In fact, we find it pretty offensive.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Padilla submitted a letter saying that he's got bipartisan support
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: to toss out the proposal and keep the park the
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: way it is today. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marcineau will be honored
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: at the Fallen Journalist Memorial in Washington, D.C. Moreno and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Marcineau were killed when their helicopter crashed in Chatsworth Tuesday
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: while covering a deadly Metro bus crash. Congress approved the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: privately funded memorial for construction on the National Mall. Completion
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: date is scheduled for the end of 2028. An employee
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of a service provider at LAX and another guy from
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Lenox in the South Bay have pleaded not guilty to
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: charges that they were trying to smuggle over 24 pounds
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: of fentanyl through LAX on a flight to Minnesota. A
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: tentative trial date has been set for November 3rd. The
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Archdiocese of Los Angeles will be celebrating its annual mass
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in recognition of all immigrants on Sunday at the Cathedral
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of Our Lady of the Angels. It's part of a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: special ribbons of prayer established to commemorate the International Day
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: of Migrants and Refugees. OK, this story I love. It's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: probably not about the guard dog of the year, but
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: there is a beautiful little golden retriever named Nash. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Nash was at home when his pet parents were away.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: And this happened down in the San Diego area. And
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: they have video of it because it's on their ring camera.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: So they they watch as this guy climbs over a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: fence to get into their yard, then gets out a ladder,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: climbs up two stories and goes into a window at
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the house. Once he gets in the house, it's very bizarre.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: He gets in the house. He takes off his shirt.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: He raids the fridge. He's eating stuff. And there's dogs
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: in the house at the time. And there's four year
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: old Nash, the golden retriever, you know, the guard dog.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: But instead of like, you know, doing anything to stop
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the burglar, Nash brings a toy up to him. Dude,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: let's play. And then and he comes up to him
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: several times as the man is wandering around the house.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And then the people are watching this all on their
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: ring camera from the plane. So once the plane lands,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they're able to call police and say, there's a guy
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: in our house. He's broken in. And so the police
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: have a huge response. They've got like a dozen police
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: cars or something. They're like, police coming. We're coming in.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: The dog greets the police and wants to play with
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a toy in his mouth. It's adorable. And there's a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: video of it. It's gone viral, but it's really cute.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: But guard dog, not so much. Don't know if he
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: was hired to be a guard dog, but he didn't
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: really pass that test. Here's what's coming out of the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. Help could be on the way for
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: small businesses in L.A. affected by some local disasters.
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: County officials have announced the start of a grant program
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: offering up to $ 3, 000 to small businesses affected by the
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: Lineage Logistics Fire in Boyle Heights and the oil spill
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: in East L.A. The small business recovery grants are available
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: to eligible businesses in county-designated impact areas associated with the
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: June 17th fire and May 22nd oil spills. Applications will
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: be accepted through October 1st. Debra Mark, KFI News.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: San Diego County's issued a warning to a federal detention
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: center for failing to report communicable diseases.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: The county issued the ICE-controlled Otay Mesa detention facility a
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: notice of noncompliance. One disease they are looking at is tuberculosis.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: California law mandates all suspected TB cases be reported within
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: 24 hours. County officials revealed the facility waited three weeks.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: to report a recent infection. San Diego County has already
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: filed a lawsuit after elected officials were denied entry earlier
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: this year. They say regular inspections will allow county health
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: to verify conditions and act before problems spread. Phil Farrar,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: KFI News.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: weekday morning. This morning we're talking to Bloomberg's John Tucker. Morning, John.
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: Happy Friday, Amy.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Warren Buffett. He's like 500 years old. He's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: finally stepping down.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: He's not 500.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: How old is he? He's like 90, isn't he?
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: He's 96. You'd figure he'd retire with all those billions
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: by now and go enjoy himself. One of the best
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: known investors in the world, 10th richest person on the globe,
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: Buffett stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the company
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: that he founded. the so-called Oracle of Omaha. He's been
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: at the helm of the company for 60 years. Now, Amy,
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: if you had invested $ 10, 000 in Berkshire Hathaway in 1965,
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: I know you weren't born yet, but when Buffett stepped in,
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: by the end of 2024, you would have had about
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: $ 550 million. That's what kind of an investor he was.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: Berkshire Hathaway was once an aging textile mill owner. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: remember buying a shirt, a Buffett, a Berkshire Hathaway shirt.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: Buffett later turned the company into a trillion dollar conglomerate.
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: He'll be chairman emeritus of the company now.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: It's probably why he didn't retire. He probably just had
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: so much fun making all that money. This is fun
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: for him.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's his reason for being, I suppose. And,
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: you know, it's the way a lot of.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: OK, let's talk about let's talk about beef. The prices
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: of beef are soaring. The prices of restaurant items are
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: soaring because of these rising costs. So restaurants are having
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to do a little reconfiguring.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: I remember when beef prices got high when I was
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: a kid, my mom used Hamburger Helper.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I love Hamburger Helper.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: Restaurants, I don't even know they still made it, but
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: I guess so. Restaurants contending with surging beef prices, re-engineering
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: the menus, experimenting with smaller portions and less expensive cuts
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: of meat. More than 80% of operators say their food
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: costs are up with labor and insurance costs also adding
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: to the pressure. This according to the most recent survey
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: from the National Restaurant Association. So ground beef prices did
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: hit historic levels over the summer. Cattle herds at the
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: smallest in decades. Ranchers are facing drought and high production costs.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: And the restaurants moving beyond the usual ribeyes, the usual
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: filet mignons in New York strips into alternatives that tend
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: to be less costly like flank steak. No, thank you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: You know, if you if you marinate it right, flank
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: steak could be very good. OK, let's talk about.
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: I actually switched to pork.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, OK.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: So we're going to go back to beef because we're
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: talking about McDonald's, although they do have McRibs from time
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to time. But McDonald's shaking things up.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, McDonald's switching up its value playbook. This follows the
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: slowest U.S. growth in more than a year. The company's
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: going to work with franchisees now in the coming weeks
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: on what they call a longer-term approach that appeals to
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: value-conscious diners. This is according to a message to operators
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: that Bloomberg News saw. In the meantime, McDonald's building a
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: near-term bridge plan.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Sounds very official.
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: Temporary items and digital offers focused on what's currently selling well.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: On its app, you can get a $ 2 breakfast sandwich
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: or free fries with a dollar minimum purchase.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, that always makes me hungry.
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: I'm starting to salivate.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's John Tucker getting in your business as we do
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: each weekday morning. Have a great weekend.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: You too, Amy. Thank you.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: The woman accused of causing a deadly Metro bus crash
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: in Chatsworth could make a court appearance today to face
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: second-degree murder charges. Her court date scheduled for yesterday was
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: postponed because of a medical issue. The NBC4 news crew
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: covering the bus crash crashed, killing reporter Eliana Moreno, pilot
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: George Marcineau, and a man on the ground who was
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: visiting from Guatemala. Patrick Clancy has talked. publicly for the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: first time since he took the stand in his ex-wife's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: murder trial, which was declared a mistrial. His interview will
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: air on 60 Minutes this Sunday. His wife, Lindsay, has
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: admitted that she killed their three young children, but says
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: The Kennedy Center has been ordered to give at least
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: 30 days notice before any major renovations or demolition. The
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: judge's order yesterday came after President Trump threatened the National
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Cultural Center could be torn down because it's in such
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: bad shape. He says his name should be displayed on
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it if he works to restore it. Fencing and guards
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: have been seen surrounding the center after its board voted
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to temporarily close it for renovations. That's a good morning
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: now to ABC's multi-platform reporter. It's Will Gans. Morning, Will.
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: Good morning.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Happy Friday.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Okay, so the Traders just won an Emmy,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and apparently that was enough to say, okay, let's do
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: more of that.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: So typically the American version of The Traitors, we have
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: like C and D list celebrities that are in the
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: castle trying to win the competition. But this is the
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: first season of all civilians, they're calling them, or normal people, non-celebrities.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: So the first two episodes aired last night, and this
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: is a reality competition show. So everyone is living in
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: this like Gothic Castle in Scotland. It's hosted by Alan Cumming,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: who is absolutely incredible as a host of a show
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: like this. He's just dramatic and over the top, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: it's amazing. And a few of them are traitors, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: it's up to the rest of the group to figure
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: out who before the traitors murder them. And if there
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: are any traitors left at the end of the season,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: they win all the jackpot money, which is like a
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: quarter of a million dollars. But if they vote all
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: of the traitors out, then the rest of the group,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: the faithfuls they're called, will win the jackpot. So If
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: you've never seen the show, I can't recommend it enough.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: It is just like somehow it sucks you in and
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: you talk about it with your friends and your partners.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: And it is just it's just such a fun watch.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: And obviously, like there's something there. It's one back to
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: back Emmys last year and this year. So it's just
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: really fun. First two episodes aired on NBC last night.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: You can stream them on Peacock today.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: OK, I'm going to take your recommendation and try it
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: because I I think I tried to watch one episode
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and maybe I was doing something else because I was like,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. So maybe I need to go
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: back and give it another try.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: And there's something to be said when it's normal people,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: not celebrities. The money means a lot more to them.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: So they take it a little bit more seriously, too.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: So the stakes feel even higher. So that's another thing
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that makes it kind of fun when it's, you know, non-celebs.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: OK, so then my question to you, because you've watched
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: it and you've seen the first two episodes with the civilians.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Do you like it better than the ones with the
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: celebrities or is it just different dynamics? So they're kind
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of apples and oranges.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: It's kind of apples and oranges because when it is
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: like housewives and people from Survivor and stuff like sometimes
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: it's fun knowing the big personalities going in. But this
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: this other version with civilians, you get to know the
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: personalities going in and you start to pick your favorites
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: based on, you know. Nothing meeting them for the first time.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: So it's just like a different viewing experience.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: OK. And speaking of Survivor, Survivor is coming back.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: It is.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: Wednesday.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like we're finally getting back into the swing
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: of like our favorite shows coming back. Summer is like
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a weird time where you're just
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: sort of. poking around through all the different streamers but
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: these big shows survivor being one of them um yeah
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: dancing with the stars being another one like finally coming
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: back and and kicking off their big seasons yeah.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Speaking of cnd lists the liberties dancing with the stars
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: is coming.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Back cnd is generous sometimes when it comes to that show.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Have they said who the cast is yet Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: So the show premiered this week. So we've met all
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: of the, yeah, the people. And there is, there are
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: a little bit of C and D and E, but
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: you know, they do a good job of making it
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: sort of like intergenerational, right? Like we have one of
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: the Hanson brothers from the nineties is in this season,
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Julia Stiles, who of course was major movie star, late nineties,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: early two thousands. And then there are like a few
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: TikTokers and stuff who are in the mix. So it
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: really does pick, you know, someone that, like, each generation
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: will recognize at least a little bit. So, yeah. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the season premiere this week, like, bigger numbers than the
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: show's ever gotten.
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: Really?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: So many people were, yeah, voting that the website crashed.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: So it's like... I don't know how they've done it,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: but the show continues to just get bigger and bigger.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I think the social media of it all has really,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: really helped because the TikTok generation is like obsessed with
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: the show. So if you want to be in the
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: know when people are talking about Dancing with the Stars
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: at work or on your algorithm or whatever, the first
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: two episodes are available to stream now on Disney Plus
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: if you missed them on ABC.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, Gianna's on it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Yes, Giada De Laurentiis. Yeah. And did great. Really emotional,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: like talking about why she's there and what she wants
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: to prove to her daughter by being there. It's, yeah,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: compelling stuff.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: All right. Maybe I'll have to give that one a try, too.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: ABC's Will Gans. Well, I haven't watched Dancing with the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Stars for years.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Just because I don't watch broadcast TV much anymore.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. But if you have Disney Plus, then you
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: can watch it there. So, you know. Yeah.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: ABC's Will Gans. Thank you so much. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you again next week.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good. Have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's get back to some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Sam Clemente has
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  Speaker 1: declared a local emergency over ongoing beach erosion. The declaration
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  Speaker 1: will allow the city to spend a million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: put more sand at North Beach to protect the shoreline
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  Speaker 1: as they pursue larger long-term solutions. The move comes as
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  Speaker 1: communities along the coast are trying to protect their beaches
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  Speaker 1: and nearby rail line that's used by Amtrak, Metrolink, and
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  Speaker 1: coaster trains.
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  Speaker 6: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass has given herself a B-plus for how she
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  Speaker 1: handled the city's homeless crisis. She spoke yesterday at a
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  Speaker 1: forum hosted by KTLA and the nonprofit Hope the Mission.
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  Speaker 1: She defended her million-dollar Inside Safe program, which temporarily puts
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  Speaker 1: homeless people in motels and other shelters, but admitted it
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  Speaker 1: costs too much. A recent L.A. Times report found 40
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  Speaker 1: percent of Inside Safe participants returned to the streets.
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  Speaker 3: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who's running for mayor against Bass,
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  Speaker 1: was at the forum on Wednesday, and so was Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidate for governor Steve Hilton. Democrat Javier Becerra declined the invitation.
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  Speaker 5: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Councilwoman Nithya Raman has released a new video in
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  Speaker 1: her campaign to be the next mayor of L.A.
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  Speaker 5: City Councilmember Raman sits down with real estate broker Jason Oppenheim,
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  Speaker 5: star of the Netflix reality show Selling Sunset, for a
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  Speaker 5: bit called Housing Sunset.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's talk about the obvious, which is
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  Speaker 3: why we're sitting together. Yes.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think too many people would be expecting that.
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  Speaker 5: Oppenheim says they first met over an online argument about
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  Speaker 5: a policy issue, but he's impressed with her record on homelessness.
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  Speaker 3: I will address tents and encampments in the city. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to cut them in half by the Olympics, and
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  Speaker 3: then by the end of my first term, I will
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  Speaker 3: address all tents and encampments across the entire city.
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  Speaker 5: And if she can do that... You're going to come
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  Speaker 5: in and you're.
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  Speaker 8: Going to ring that bell.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a goal to look forward to.
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  Speaker 5: Mark Rauner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of homeless issues, we are working with an
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  Speaker 1: organization called the Union Rescue Mission, which actually works to
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  Speaker 1: get people permanently off the streets and back into life.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why Neil Saavedra and I are going
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  Speaker 1: over the edge. We're doing it a week from today.
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  Speaker 1: Next Friday, we're going to be, okay, not jumping, but
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  Speaker 1: gently going down the side of the Universal City Hilton.
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  Speaker 1: along the 101. It's 26 stories. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: rappelling down and we're doing it to raise money for
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  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission to actually fix the problem, get people
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  Speaker 1: off the streets, get them into housing, get them counseling,
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  Speaker 1: get them education, not just give them a meal and
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  Speaker 1: a temporary room in a hotel, but get their life
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  Speaker 1: back on track. And Union Rescue Mission actually does that
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  Speaker 1: like public money's not doing. So that's why we support them.
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  Speaker 1: And we hope that you will support us to any
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  Speaker 1: donation you can make. We would certainly appreciate it. If
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  Speaker 1: it's five bucks, 50 bucks, 500 bucks.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to go over the edge with us,
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  Speaker 1: a thousand dollar donation, you can do it. Either you
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  Speaker 1: donate it or get your friends to help you put
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  Speaker 1: together a pool and and over you go. We're doing
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  Speaker 1: it a week from Friday, a week from today. And
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  Speaker 1: here's where you can donate. Again, anything you can donate.
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  Speaker 1: We certainly appreciate it. We're getting closer to our goal,
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  Speaker 1: but we're still a ways off. So we need some help.
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  Speaker 1: URM.org slash OTE. URM.org slash OTE. And there's even a
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  Speaker 1: little Team KFI button. And you can donate to me
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  Speaker 1: or to Neil or just to the team in general.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you can spare, we certainly appreciate it. This is
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  Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your wake-up call. If
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