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USPS Whistleblower · 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.
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  Speaker 1: And KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange County.
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  Speaker 2: Early risers, come on down.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the host of your Wake Up Call, Amy King.
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  Speaker 2: Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 1: It's 5 o'clock straight up. Good morning. This is your
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  Speaker 1: wake-up call for Wednesday, September 2nd. I'm Amy King. We're
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  Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We've got a countdown
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  Speaker 1: to start. T-minus 24 days and counting.
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  Speaker 4: And then what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm jumping off a building.
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  Speaker 5: Again!
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're going over the edge with the Union Rescue Mission.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to tell you more about that coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to be asking for your help. Because
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  Speaker 1: we need your help. To go to an organization that
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  Speaker 1: actually helps get people off the streets. It doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: throw money at the problem. It actually helps them. It's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty impressive little organization. That's why Neil Saavedra and
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  Speaker 1: I are supporting it. And we will be going over
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  Speaker 1: the edge, 25 stories, no, 26 stories down from the
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  Speaker 1: Universal City Hilton.
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  Speaker 4: Better you than me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know how you can help, Will?
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  Speaker 2: I will.
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  Speaker 1: You can donate.
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  Speaker 6: I will.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll look from the street below.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So, Ann, did you send me a video of a cat,
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  Speaker 1: a cat shirt?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I made myself a note and said, every crazy cat
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  Speaker 1: lady needs this. And I was, and so maybe it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't you who sent it to me. Somebody sent me
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  Speaker 1: this on Instagram and it's, it's a sweatshirt. It's got
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  Speaker 1: a little hole cut out, like a pocket in the front.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like a hoodie would have the pocket. But
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  Speaker 1: instead of putting your hands in it, it's got just
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  Speaker 1: one hole and you shove your cat in it. And
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  Speaker 1: then your cat sticks his head out and then you
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  Speaker 1: can walk around with your cat.
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  Speaker 9: And I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 10: Only if your cat agrees.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, one of my cats would. Shelby would
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  Speaker 1: totally let me do that. Alex, not so much, but...
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  Speaker 1: And I got to go find it on Instagram because
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  Speaker 1: it was so funny. And I don't know why I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking that Ann sent it to me. Somebody else
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  Speaker 1: who knows that I love cats did it. And I
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  Speaker 1: own up to being the crazy cat lady. The childless
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  Speaker 1: crazy cat lady, no less.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. Firefighters have stopped
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  Speaker 1: a fast-moving brush fire in Palmdale. The fire broke out
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  Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. It quickly spread to about 75 acres, prompting
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  Speaker 1: some evacuation warnings near East Barrel Springs Road and North
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  Speaker 1: 4th Street East. The county is experiencing elevated wildfire conditions
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  Speaker 1: this week because of hot, dry weather and gusty winds.
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  Speaker 1: The USS Abraham Lincoln has arrived in eastern Thailand. Five
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  Speaker 1: thousand sailors have been at sea on the aircraft carrier
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  Speaker 1: with no shore leave for nine months. They'll soon be
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  Speaker 1: motoring back to their home port of San Diego. But first,
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  Speaker 1: they get a couple of days of shore leave. Three
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  Speaker 1: unions representing Southern California entertainment workers have welcomed President Trump's support.
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  Speaker 1: for a federal production incentive aimed at stemming the loss
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  Speaker 1: of film and TV jobs to other countries. The SAG-AFTRA
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  Speaker 1: leaders also credited actor John Voight, whom Trump appointed as
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  Speaker 1: a special ambassador to Hollywood, for advocating for increased production
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  Speaker 1: in the U.S., A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower says putting
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  Speaker 1: voting restrictions on mail-in ballots for the midterms could be catastrophic.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Stephen Portnoy is going to tell us what this
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  Speaker 1: whistleblower is saying and the likelihood that the elections will
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  Speaker 1: be a disaster. OK, you can now turn off ads
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  Speaker 1: on Firefox. That's kind of cool, right? Which Rich DeMuro
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  Speaker 1: is joining us at 520 to tell us about that.
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  Speaker 1: And also he's going to tell us how you can
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  Speaker 1: not only spend $ 500 on a Dyson blow dryer or
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  Speaker 1: curling iron or vacuum. You can also spend it now
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  Speaker 1: on a toothbrush. And as we remember the loss of
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, we're looking back at some
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  Speaker 1: of their work with Amy's on it. I'm hitting the stream.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the movies from the 80s that Dolly and
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  Speaker 1: Tim starred in and whether they're worth a second look now.
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  Speaker 1: Or for anyone under 40, a first look. We'll tell you.
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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. Two months after the massive
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  Speaker 1: warehouse fire in Boyle Heights, a bill has passed... to
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  Speaker 1: raise fines for companies that pose threats to health and safety.
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  Speaker 10: Democratic State Senator Maria Elena Durazo introduced Senate Bill 716
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  Speaker 10: because existing fines seemed ineffective.
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  Speaker 8: Basically what I found that the fines were just too
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  Speaker 8: small to matter. And as a result of that, what
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  Speaker 8: it really means is that the residents of Boyle Heights
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  Speaker 8: and East Los Angeles were expected to endure the conditions
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  Speaker 8: no matter how slow the pace was.
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  Speaker 10: She says companies will face $ 1, 000 fines for the first violation,
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  Speaker 10: $ 2, 000 for the second, and $ 5, 000 for each additional one.
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  Speaker 10: The bill is effective in January in L.A. County and
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  Speaker 10: the rest of the state 18 months later. Now it
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  Speaker 10: heads to Governor Newsom to sign. Mark Rauner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Angels are getting a new owner and fans are wondering
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  Speaker 1: if the sale is going to help turn the team around.
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  Speaker 2: You got a guy that wants to win now.
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  Speaker 10: And a guy that's not afraid to put his money
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  Speaker 10: where his mouth is.
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  Speaker 4: Fred Rogan of our sister station AM570 thinks Rams owner
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  Speaker 4: Stan Kroenke taking over the Angels is good for the team,
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  Speaker 4: saying Kroenke knows how to be successful in pro sports.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, he owns Arsenal, the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: He owns the Nuggets. He owns the Avalanche.
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  Speaker 4: And he notes Kroenke's success in developing the SoFi Stadium
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  Speaker 4: complex in Inglewood, which he thinks will be replicated in Anaheim.
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  Speaker 10: I think that's the play here in Anaheim, to be
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  Speaker 10: very honest with you.
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  Speaker 4: Jason Aithenson, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: And tickets for the 2027 Rose Bowl game go on
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  Speaker 1: sale today. Prices through Ticketmaster started just over 200 bucks,
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  Speaker 1: including fees. Purchases will be limited to four tickets per
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  Speaker 1: person during the public sale, which starts at 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: a whistleblower with the United States Postal Service has come
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  Speaker 1: forward saying that there could be catastrophic failures because of
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  Speaker 1: new mail-in voting restrictions. What's up with that?
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  Speaker 12: Well, if, if, if.
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  Speaker 6: Let's widen out and zoom out and explain. The Postal
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  Speaker 6: Service hopes to move forward with its plans to implement
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  Speaker 6: changes to the mail-in ballot process. These changes would include
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  Speaker 6: standardized envelopes, barcodes, the states uploading lists of voters to
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  Speaker 6: check against to make sure that only the people on
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  Speaker 6: the list get the ballots. But these rules are being
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  Speaker 6: challenged in court. They have been challenged in court since
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  Speaker 6: the president signed the executive order in March of this
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  Speaker 6: year to get the ball rolling. The whistleblower, whose complaint
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  Speaker 6: has been made public by a Democrat in the Senate
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  Speaker 6: named Richard Blumenthal, the whistleblower says that despite the court
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  Speaker 6: injunctions that have been in place in this, lifted ultimately
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  Speaker 6: by the Supreme Court, but it's still playing out. In fact,
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  Speaker 6: there's another temporary restraining order that's still in place now.
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  Speaker 6: Despite the injunctions, the allegation is that the Postal Service
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  Speaker 6: has been working through the summer to implement this, which
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  Speaker 6: would be against the court order, but.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, that's one concern. The other concern is that it's
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  Speaker 6: been rushed into development without debugging and beta testing. The
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  Speaker 6: other concern beyond that is, according to the whistleblower, if
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  Speaker 6: there's a particular problem with a certain barcode on one envelope,
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  Speaker 6: the whole batch submitted by a state would have to
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  Speaker 6: be sent back to be cured. That's what the whistleblower alleges. Now,
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  Speaker 6: I say if, if, if, because this is not moving
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  Speaker 6: forward at this moment, because it's still the subject of
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  Speaker 6: litigation in federal court. And we are now less than
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  Speaker 6: nine weeks away until the midterm elections. Mail-in ballots are
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  Speaker 6: being finalized and prepared, absentee ballots. And so the idea
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  Speaker 6: that this is going to have an impact on the midterms,
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  Speaker 6: I think we should all be skeptical of that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So if.
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  Speaker 1: If it moved forward, would they basically have to throw
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  Speaker 1: all of the mail-in ballots out and start over?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know that. I think that the concern is
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  Speaker 6: they would have to be sent back to the states
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  Speaker 6: for curing if there's one particular problem with the barcode.
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  Speaker 6: And this, again, is an allegation that's made by a
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  Speaker 6: whistleblower that the Postal Service is not directly addressing. In
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  Speaker 6: their statement, the Postal Service says, well, you know, we're
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  Speaker 6: working on this. And at the moment, they describe it
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  Speaker 6: as voluntary. for states to upload their information to the portal.
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  Speaker 6: And all of this is all, there's a lot here
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  Speaker 6: in the idea that this is going to be implemented
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  Speaker 6: in any way by the midterms. I think we should
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  Speaker 6: all be skeptical of that. I mean, it's just, I
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  Speaker 6: don't see how it's practical.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, with just nine weeks away, I mean, how do
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  Speaker 1: you make new requirements for ballots that are getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to go out in like a week?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: But the Postal Service has said that if they're allowed
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  Speaker 6: to do it by the courts, they'll try to do it.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll watch and see. And thank you for helping
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  Speaker 1: us sort it out. This one's super confusing.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. ABC's Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. The U.S. military has targeted positions in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And in response, Tehran fired missiles and drones at U.S.
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  Speaker 1: targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, and Bahrain. Iran is claiming
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  Speaker 1: that one U.S. strike hit a home hosting a wedding.
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  Speaker 14: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Suncom says it never targets civilians. Late last night, Central
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  Speaker 1: Command said in a statement that it had now completed
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  Speaker 1: the latest barrage against Iranian military targets, including air defense sites,
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  Speaker 1: radar sites. and maritime assets.
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  Speaker 10: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Strikes followed others on Sunday that ended a month without
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  Speaker 1: military action. A judge in Utah has ruled the man
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  Speaker 1: accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk will stand trial.
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  Speaker 1: The judge also said yesterday at a preliminary hearing that
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson Jr., could face the death penalty. Prosecutors spent
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  Speaker 1: five days in July presenting what they said was overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: evidence of aggravated murder. Kirk was killed last September during
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  Speaker 1: a speaking event at Utah Valley University. Jurors in the
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Clancy trial are due back in court for their
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  Speaker 1: fifth day of deliberations. They told the judge yesterday they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't reach a unanimous decision, but the judge sent them
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  Speaker 1: back to keep trying. Clancy admits to strangling her three
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  Speaker 1: young children in 2023, but pleaded not guilty by reason
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  Speaker 1: of insanity. Her lawyers claim she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors allege the killings were premeditated. A woman in Massachusetts
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested for allegedly trying to intimidate one of
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  Speaker 1: the jurors in the Clancy trial. 56-year-old Dawn Light was
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  Speaker 1: arrested outside the courthouse yesterday and after the jurors were excused.
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  Speaker 1: She was booked on one count of intimidation of a
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  Speaker 1: witness or a juror in a criminal proceeding. Light is
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  Speaker 1: expected to be arraigned today. Progressive Senator Ed Markey has
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  Speaker 1: won the Democratic Senate primary in Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 15: In a speech on election night, Markey called for the
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  Speaker 15: impeachment of President Trump.
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  Speaker 14: We will not sit by while you try to destroy
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  Speaker 14: this democracy. We will not sit by as you terrorize
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  Speaker 14: and detain and deport our immigrant neighbors.
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  Speaker 15: The 80-year-old incumbent defeated 47-year-old U.S. Representative Seth Moulton. Mark,
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  Speaker 15: you will now face Republican John Deaton in November. Tammy Trujillo,
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  Speaker 15: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there is one thing in American politics that most
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  Speaker 1: people agree on.
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  Speaker 5: A record high 89% of Americans agree corruption in the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: is widespread. That number is up 10 percentage points over
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  Speaker 5: last year's Gallup survey. 91% of Democrats and 90% of
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  Speaker 5: independents say corruption is widespread. 83% of Republicans say the same.
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  Speaker 5: In other advanced economies, on average, about 60% of people
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  Speaker 5: say their country has widespread corruption. I'm Rory O'Neill.
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  Speaker 1: Immigration advocates in Ohio say a young Haitian man who
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  Speaker 1: had just graduated high school had also recently lost his
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  Speaker 1: temporary protected status. According to a post on a social
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  Speaker 1: media site, Pierre Damas Bell had recently been fitted with
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  Speaker 1: a GPS ankle monitor by the Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Carl Ruby, a pastor in Springfield, Ohio, says Damas
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  Speaker 1: Bell killed himself.
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  Speaker 12: It's our immigration policy.
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  Speaker 2: That took his life.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Patrol says Damas Bell had parked his car
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  Speaker 1: on an interstate and walked into traffic. People in Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: being asked to report any so-called cat in hat videos
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  Speaker 1: on social media that have scary images that include threats
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  Speaker 1: targeting schools or children. The state's deputy commissioner of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 1: Gregory Mays, says it's a growing problem across the country.
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  Speaker 16: I think there may be an accompanying belief or underlying
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  Speaker 16: thought that, hey, since it's cat in the hat, since
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  Speaker 16: it's popular, since everyone's doing it, there's no consequences for this.
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  Speaker 1: He says an online threat or an online joke may
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  Speaker 1: that some think Maybe a prank or a joke can
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  Speaker 1: quickly turn into an offline law enforcement investigation. Police are
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  Speaker 1: looking for a half dozen people who attacked and robbed
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  Speaker 1: a man and his girlfriend in Culver City. The man
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  Speaker 1: and woman had their two young children with them when
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  Speaker 1: they were attacked Monday afternoon at the Westfield Mall. Police
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  Speaker 1: say the group had been harassing people in the area
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  Speaker 1: before the attack. Dolly Parton's star on the Hollywood Walk
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  Speaker 1: of Fame is being repaired. Someone vandalized it, scratched over
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  Speaker 1: her name. The star became the site of a very
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  Speaker 1: large memorial after Dolly Parton died last week. Officials say
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  Speaker 1: after the star was cleared to make way for previously
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  Speaker 1: planned maintenance work, somebody went ahead and vandalized it. So
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  Speaker 1: they pulled it out. They're fixing it. They're replacing it.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be back on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
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  Speaker 1: on Tech on KFI every Saturday from 11 to 2.
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  Speaker 1: It's KTLA's tech reporter, Rich DeMuro. Morning, Rich.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Amy. All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start off with something that I just
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  Speaker 1: don't see as necessary in this life. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's a market for it. It's a $ 500 toothbrush.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we don't know if there's a market just yet.
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  Speaker 7: This is brand new and it's completely outside the realm
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  Speaker 7: of anything we've seen with a toothbrush, but it's from Dyson,
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  Speaker 7: which obviously, you know, their stuff is not cheap.
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  Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. A $ 500 toothbrush with a camera.
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  Speaker 7: That basically finds the gaps between your teeth and then
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  Speaker 7: sprays them clean. So it's an electric toothbrush that also
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  Speaker 7: has a camera that also looks for the gaps to
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  Speaker 7: floss your teeth with. And they spent a lot of
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  Speaker 7: time and energy engineering this thing, over-engineering it, as you.
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  Speaker 13: Might say, with Dyson. Trained it on 470,000 images of teeth.
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  Speaker 7: And came up with this device that I'm actually very
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  Speaker 7: excited to try out.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. Maybe you don't get cavities.
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  Speaker 16: I do.
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  Speaker 7: And $ 500 seems to be a small price to pay
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  Speaker 7: to not have that drill in my mouth.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So it's interesting what you said, though. It just sounds
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  Speaker 1: like it's instead of having a toothbrush and a water pick,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's an all in one.
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  Speaker 15: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But also hyped up.
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  Speaker 7: They say that the, and they didn't mention Waterpik by name,
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  Speaker 7: but they say that really directed spray of Waterpik doesn't
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  Speaker 7: actually get rid of all the plaque. So what they
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  Speaker 7: do is it's a more, almost like a wider spray.
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  Speaker 7: And so think about it as like power washing your sidewalk,
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  Speaker 7: except your teeth, but with a wider brush area.
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  Speaker 2: So it kind of.
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  Speaker 7: Like sweeps the plaque off your teeth.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I'm really.
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  Speaker 13: Excited to try this out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm going to get my.
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  Speaker 7: Hands on it or if I'm just going to buy
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  Speaker 7: this thing myself, maybe when it goes on sale, but
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  Speaker 7: I'm like kind of digging it. It's a little big though.
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  Speaker 7: That's the thing that holds like the water in the
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  Speaker 7: brush itself. So I'm curious how that works. Like it
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  Speaker 7: seems heavy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I got to Google this. Dyson toothbrush.
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  Speaker 2: And while I Google it, camera jets.
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  Speaker 7: My wife has the Dyson hairdryer and I got that
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  Speaker 7: for her a couple of years ago and she absolutely
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  Speaker 7: loves that thing.
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  Speaker 13: So it does work.
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  Speaker 1: My hairdresser uses it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my friend's got one, a couple of friends
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  Speaker 1: have them. So Dyson makes good products. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Um, this is kind of exciting. Firefox can now block
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  Speaker 1: ads on your iPhone.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, so, you know, look, and I talk about this
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  Speaker 13: on my radio show. Obviously, there's a push and a
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  Speaker 13: pull here. You know, we all work for media companies.
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  Speaker 7: That, you know, got to make money in the websites
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  Speaker 7: or how they do it and all this stuff and advertising.
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  Speaker 13: But at some point, there is malicious.
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  Speaker 7: Ads that try to get you on the web. And
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: when you're surfing, when you're trying to download an app,
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: a lot of times the button you see will basically
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: take you to an ad instead of the actual program.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: So a lot of these ads are not.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: They're not intended to do things that are good for us, right?
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: And so Mozilla knows that Firefox has always been a
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: little bit different than the other browsers out there. And
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: now basically, if you have their browser on your iPhone,
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: no third party extension is necessary. You can just toggle
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: a switch in the settings and it will block a
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: lot of the ads that you encounter as you surf
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: the web, making your life just a little bit easier.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I love that idea, but you have to go turn.
• 17:50
  Speaker 15: It on, right?
• 17:52
  Speaker 13: You have to turn it on in the settings.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: And if you're not ready to switch your browser entirely,
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: there is an app called AdGuard. And there's lots of
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: extensions you can get on the iPhone to help you
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: block ads. But again, they are a little bit more
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: work because it's an extension. You have to go seek
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: it out. But AdBlock is one of my favorites. And
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: I definitely use an ad blocker, but the good ones
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: let in some of the more appropriate ads that are
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: kind of first party served up by the website instead
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: of all the tracker.
• 18:20
  Speaker 13: Ones that are served up third party.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. So Apple, after 15 years, has a new person
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: at the helm because Tim Cook stepped down.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Tim Cook, after 15 years, is done. And now
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: John Ternes, that's the name to know. He is officially
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Apple's new CEO as of yesterday, and he is replacing
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: Tim Cook. So Tim Cook is not going anywhere. Obviously,
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: he's still got a good thing going with Apple. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: think he's still making a lot of money as executive chairman.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: He's going to help them with their government. relationships and
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: policy and stuff like that. The new guy, a little
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: bit younger, 51 years old, but he's worked for Apple
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: for a long time. He ran hardware engineering. So I
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: think that's the interesting thing here. Tim Cook was more
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: of a logistics guy. He knew how to get products
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: into stores. He knew how to work with China. This
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: new guy is all about actually making products. So we
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: could see some different things come out of Apple now
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: because we've got a guy who's all about the hardware.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: He still needs to run logistics because it's a multibillion-dollar company,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: or trillion-dollar company. But, you know, he could come to
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: the table with some new ideas on how to do
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: things differently, maybe in ways that Tim Cook did not
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: think they could do.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And his first real test is next week when they
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: do the next iPhone launch?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yes. Let's see.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Is it September 9th? Yeah, Wednesday of next week. New
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: iPhones and the new.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: foldable phone. So, I mean, that's a big shift.
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: That's a big shift in Apple.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: I predict the foldable phone will be sold out. You're
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: not going to be able to get one. It's going
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: to be very expensive, but people are going to love
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: it because it is new and different and from Apple.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So it's going to have great software and great accessories.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Hey, and if you can afford a $ 500 brush, you
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: can afford a $ 2, 000 phone, right?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Uh, not all in the same month. I don't know.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Might have to spread it out, but think of all
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the reward points you're going to get on your credit cards.
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: Uh, okay.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And then you went to a Sonos event in New
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: York city. Tell us about that. And what did you discover?
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: Yeah, this is Sonos Open House in New York City yesterday.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And basically, Sonos doesn't.
• 20:32
  Speaker 13: Just want to be a speaker company anymore. They introduced an.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: Entire platform called Sonos 27. And the bottom line is, look,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: they understand that they've made great speakers for a long time.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: If you're not from You can put them in different
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: rooms of your home.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: They are wireless.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Obviously, you have to plug them into the wall, but
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: they can all work together to play the same music
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: in sync, or you can have each speaker playing things individually.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: And they work with just about every single music service
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: you've ever heard of. Well, what's new is that they're saying, okay,
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: we're going to move past that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: We're going to.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Make it really easy to use voice controls with these speakers,
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: just like you would with AI. So that's going to
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: be much easier. I got a demo, way easier to
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: call up your music. And they're also adding AI to
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: their platform. So if you want to connect this to
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini, you can do that. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: what I love about Sonos is they've always been sort
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: of the Switzerland of speakers. So no matter what hardware,
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: whatever software you want to use, you know, you want
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: to use iHeartRadio, you want to use Spotify, you want
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: to use Audible, you want some obscure music service, they
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: support everything.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Which I love.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool. So maybe go check that out. And if
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you would like to check out any of the things
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: that Rich has just been telling us about, you can
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: go to richontech.tv. He puts all of his topics up
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: there and can walk you through some of the things
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: you need to do if it takes steps like turning
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: off ads. Also, you can watch him on KTLA. He's
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: on all the time. You can follow him at Rich
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: on Tech, and you can listen to him every Saturday
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: from 11 to 2 right here on KFI. Thank you,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro.
• 22:09
  Speaker 13: Thank you, Amy.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Have a great day.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: You too. It appears another water main has broken in L.A.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Video from the scene shows water flowing up from below
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Rampart Boulevard just north of 7th Street in Westlake. We'll
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: get you more information as more comes in. Tropical Storm
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Marie could bring significant rain to Southern California this weekend.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The storm is developing in the eastern Pacific, south of Baja, California.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: It is expected to become a hurricane. The National Weather
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Service says the most likely scenario... will take Marie West
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: away from Southern California, but there's still a chance it'll
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: move north. Forecasters expect Marie will weaken to below tropical
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: storm strength before it makes landfall, but it could still
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: cause heavy rain, thunderstorms, gusty winds, dangerous waves. Tropical storm
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Edward has been downgraded to a tropical depression.
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: Edward is expected to bring more rain than wind to
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: southeast Texas through today after making landfall on Tuesday in
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Forecasters say the storm should weaken as
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: it moves inland, tracking away from the Houston area. As
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: of last check, the storm is packing maximum sustained winds
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: of approximately 35 miles per hour. Over 70,000 customers across
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: Texas are without power. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Some tourists reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says... Five Australians were confirmed
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: safe overnight. That reduces the number of missing Australians to 38.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Officials also say two Spanish nationals, two Americans and a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Belgian national have contacted authorities. Search efforts continue after last
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: week's flash floods, which killed at least 1118 people. Nearly
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: 4000 are still missing. And September 25th will be Dolly
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Parton Day in California. My coat of.
• 23:59
  Speaker 17: Lawmakers have designated the date of 9-2-5 in honor of
• 24:02
  Speaker 17: the entertainer, philanthropist, amusement park owner, vaccine advocate, and so
• 24:06
  Speaker 17: much more. Lawmakers had part and expanded her imagination library
• 24:09
  Speaker 17: to California, providing free books to children, which became one
• 24:12
  Speaker 17: of the first states to offer a bilingual English-Spanish book option.
• 24:16
  Speaker 17: More than 182,000 children are enrolled in the program in
• 24:18
  Speaker 17: 45 out of 58 counties in California. Lawmakers also praised
• 24:23
  Speaker 17: Parton's support for the LGBTQ plus community, saying she emphasized
• 24:26
  Speaker 17: that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Michael Crozier, KFI News. Malibu will hold weekly disaster notification
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: drills and offer emergency response training. in anticipation of this
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: year's peak wildfire season. The activities start tomorrow with a
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: test of the city's Everbridge disaster notification system and then
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: will be followed by additional tests each Thursday during Disaster
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Preparedness Month. A judge has ruled the man accused of
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk will be tried for capital murder.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Capital murder allows the prosecution to pursue the death penalty.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson is accused of shooting and killing Kirk last
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: September at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: The man from Hawthorne who sent a fake ransom note
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: linked to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy, has
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: been sentenced to two five-year probation terms. Derek Kaya admitted
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to two felony charges of sending a ransom note across
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: state lines. Yesterday marked seven months since Nancy Guthrie was
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: kidnapped from her home in New Mexico. There's been no
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: sign of her since. Your official home for Dodger baseball,
• 25:42
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• 25:47
  Speaker 1: boys in blue took a pounding, but hopefully they'll get
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: back on the winning track when your back-to-back world champion
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Dodgers take on the Cardinals tonight. First pitch goes out
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: at 7. Listen on AM 570 LA Sports and stream
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app live from the Galpin Ford broadcast booth.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, we're going over the edge to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: get people off the streets. We're fighting homelessness with our
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: friends over at the Union Rescue Mission. So Neola Saavedra
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and I have done this before. We are both afraid
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: of heights. We went and did a walkthrough yesterday. And
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: just looking over the edge of that building is just
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: dizzying to me.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: But there's a pool in case something goes wrong.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: But there's a pool. Although we were talking about there
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is a pool at the bottom 26 stories down. But
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: we were figuring if you were rappelling down the building,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: you'd probably have to really get a good shove off
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the building because it's about at least 50 feet out
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: from the side of the building. Anyway, we're doing this
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: on September 25th and 26th. And so over the next
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I'm going to ask you to.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Dig into your pockets a little bit and help out
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: because this is an organization that does not get federal
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: funding this is an organization that actually helps people get
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: off the streets so it's not going and forcing people
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it's getting the people who want to get off the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: streets and it gets them first it gets them a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: bed then it gets them a meal and then they
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: get into counseling and job training they just had some
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: people graduate from college that they helped them and now
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: they're you know, back on track and in permanent housing.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And it's really life changing, which is why we are
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: behind it. And so we would love for you to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: participate in whatever way you can. And if you want
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to go over the edge with me, I'd love to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: have you go. Just takes a thousand dollar donation, but
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: we'll accept any donation. We'll tell you where to donate
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and we're getting our pages all set because we're going to,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I got another challenge to throw down to Mr. Saavedra.
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: He chickened out and didn't go yesterday. I think he
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: was scared to look over the edge because last year
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: he kind of had a little panic attack.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But anyway, we're going to do it. We're raising monies
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: for a really good cause. And it's something, again, that
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: we've talked about so many times that they're they're just
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: throwing money at this problem in this city and in
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the state and in the county. And the people at
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission are actually helping people get off the streets.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: So.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It's a good cause and we hope you'll support us.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: We'll tell you more about it as we get closer.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: But right now we're T minus 24 days and counting.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Here's what's coming out of the KFI 24 hour newsroom.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: LA County DA Nathan Hockman may be walking back. His
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: plans for a Labor Day family picnic in MacArthur Park.
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: Local law enforcement and federal agents have been at MacArthur
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: Park conducting drug sweeps and removing criminals that make the
• 28:39
  Speaker 12: park unsafe.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Labor Day, I'm going to be here with my family.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: L.A.
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: County D.A. Nathan Hockman says the picnic is for office personnel,
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: their families, and some invited guests, including his grandson. It's
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: a year and a half old.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: He's going to enjoy this park as well as he should.
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: When it comes to the grandkid joining the picnic at
• 28:57
  Speaker 12: the park, his office now says no comment. Jason Campadonia,
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: KFI News.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: Two L.A.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies and a third person have been hurt
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in a crash in Lancaster. The sheriff's patrol car was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: headed east on Avenue K yesterday when it collided with
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: a silver Nissan Altima crossing at 6th Street East. The
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: deputies were not using their sirens at the time. A
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: meteorologist with the National Weather Service told yesterday's county supervisors
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: meeting that this year's storm season could be worse than normal.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: For this upcoming winter, this is significantly tilting the regional
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: odds toward a wetter than normal winter.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: County officials are getting ready for possible evacuations, emergency shelters. operations,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and assistance for homeless people, older adults, and others who
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: may need some extra help during severe weather. Time to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: get in your business now, as we do each weekday
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: morning at this time with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman. Good morning, Dan.
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Amy.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we hear about how great Uber is doing,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: but Maybe not so much.
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: Well, they may show more profit now, sadly. It's because
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: they're announcing they'll be cutting about 3,300 roles or 10%
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: of its staff globally in a restructuring aimed at reducing
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: management layers and reallocating spending into its ride-sharing, delivery, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: robo-taxi businesses. The layoffs will reduce the number of managers
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: in the company by 20%. Uber, by the way, also
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: mandating that only about 1% of its employees can work
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: remotely going forward as part of an effort to make Uber, quote,
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: simpler and faster.
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: How about that?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: All right. We like a fast Uber. So I was
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: driving around yesterday and I saw for regular gas, actually
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it was the premium gas, $ 7. 29 a gallon. No way.
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: Way.
• 30:44
  Speaker 10: That's what you're paying for?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it's $ 5. 99 in my neighborhood, but I was
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: driving around yesterday and I saw it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: It's still terrible.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I know, it's still terrible, but to us it seems
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: like a bargain, Dan. But diesel fuel is even higher.
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, the price of a gallon of diesel right now
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: is at its highest level since hitting a peak in April.
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: The nationwide average retail price reaching $ 5. 69 a gallon. On Tuesday,
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: that's according to AAA. Don't forget, Amy, diesel is the
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: lifeblood of the global economy. It powers trucks, agriculture, and construction,
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: and spikes at the retail level affect industries as well
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: as consumers.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Right now, I.
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: Think a gallon of gas here in New York, I've
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: seen it here in Jersey and New York at like $ 4.
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: $ 4?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: Took your breath away.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I heard it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: It did.
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: And we complain.
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, so they used to teach this in school. I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: remember personal finance classes, and I think California just passed
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: something where they're going to put personal finance classes back.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: But more parents are now teaching their kids about finance,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: which is, how can that.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: Be a bad thing?
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: It's a great thing because we never learned any of
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: that thing, you know, how to balance a checkbook, things
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: like that.
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: We never learned that in school.
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: But parents are giving their teens an early start on
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: Wall Street, opening joint investment accounts to teach them about finance.
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: A Schwab survey finds that 73% of parents consider it
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: very important to For teens to learn about investing, financial
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: firms also taking notice. They're rolling out products designed to
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: appeal to parents while locking in a new, younger generation
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: of customers. So, you know what?
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: Teach them about credit cards.
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: Teach them about all that kind of stuff because, frankly,
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: my generation, I'm 48, we didn't really learn a lot
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: about that. We signed up for credit cards to get
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: free T-shirts at baseball games.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: That's how I got my first card. I want a
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: Yankee shirt, so I signed up.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: I love that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman, thank you so much. Getting in your business
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: with Bloomberg every weekday morning. We'll talk to you again.
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: Sounds good, Amy.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Tropical storm Edouard has made landfall along the Gulf Coast.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: The storm has brought heavy rain and flooding to Texas
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: and Louisiana. The storm is weakening as it moves inland.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: It's now a tropical depression. About 70,000 customers in Texas
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: have lost power because of the storm. A Netflix documentary
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: on President Trump's secret departure on an alternate military aircraft
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: as he left Turkey drops on Friday. It's called Instadocs,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the decoy plane. It will look into how Trump ducked
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: out of Air Force One into a catering truck and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: then boarded a smaller Air Force plane because of threats
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: from Iran. In a preview clip from the doc, a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: photojournalist says 40 years doing presidents. Never seen that before.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: What am I on? I'm on the stream. And here's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: something that you probably have seen before. They're really old
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: movies starring a couple of people that we lost last week.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, of course. We were talking
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  Speaker 1: about it and on my, as I'm going around the
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  Speaker 1: stream and looking for things, nine to five is popping
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  Speaker 1: up as a night now trending. And it was the
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  Speaker 1: most popular streaming show. I think on all of the
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  Speaker 1: stream right after Dolly passed away. So I thought I
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  Speaker 1: need to go watch that because I remember liking the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't seen it for years. And then I went, well,
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  Speaker 1: when did it come out anyway? It came out in 1980.
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  Speaker 1: It's 46 years old.
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  Speaker 10: It's so fun because it's so 80s.
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  Speaker 1: It is so 80s.
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  Speaker 8: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: That is exactly what first came to mind is it
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  Speaker 1: feels it feels 80s like other movies from that decade
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  Speaker 1: that it had the same feel to me right when
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  Speaker 1: I saw it was like Trading Places, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's
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  Speaker 1: Day Off, Private Benjamin, Working Girl. They all have that
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  Speaker 1: same kind of feel. The comedy is a little bit similar.
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  Speaker 1: That You know it's about three working women dealing with
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  Speaker 1: an incorrigible, backstabbing, nasty, misogynistic, yet lovable bad guy. And
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  Speaker 1: that would be Dabney Coleman. He plays Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Hart.
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  Speaker 1: It stars Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a fun, campy movie. But it still holds up,
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  Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I think it was still a
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  Speaker 1: good movie. And I did come away thinking, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Jane Fonda really is a good actress.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I think Dolly and Lily, they did.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody did great. But you just like go, Jane Fonda's
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  Speaker 1: a really good actress. Those are my my takeaways. It's
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  Speaker 1: on Prime Video so you can watch it. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it's back in the spotlight because of Dolly's passing. But
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to watch her and just a fun movie. Now,
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  Speaker 1: then there's Tim Curry. He starred in several movies, of course,
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  Speaker 1: most famously for Rocky Horror Picture Show. But he's been
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  Speaker 1: in a ton of things. And one of the ones
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  Speaker 1: that he starred in was Clue, which also came out
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  Speaker 1: in the 80s. I don't think this one holds up
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  Speaker 1: quite as well. So producer Michelle said it was one
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  Speaker 1: of her favorites, but she hadn't seen it for years.
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  Speaker 1: And then a wake up call listener mentioned on the
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  Speaker 1: talkback that he loved the movie when it came out.
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  Speaker 1: But then he went and watched it again and he said,
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  Speaker 1: it's not so good. It's a little bit funky. So
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what I thought, too. Like, it just
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  Speaker 1: didn't hold up as well. But it stars Tim Curry,
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  Speaker 1: Madeline Kahn, Leslie Ann Warren, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan,
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  Speaker 1: Michael McKean, forever Lenny in my heart. All pretty big
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  Speaker 1: names back in the mid 80s. And it is a
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  Speaker 1: fun watch, but it's kind of stupid. And if I
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  Speaker 1: was going to choose, I would definitely do nine to
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  Speaker 1: five and pass on Clue. But just for the nostalgia
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  Speaker 1: of it, I do think it's fun to go back
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  Speaker 1: and watch old movies and see, you know, what they
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  Speaker 1: looked like then, what they acted like then. And also
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: as a connoisseur of movies, like how the acting is
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  Speaker 1: different now.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like.
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  Speaker 10: It's just different.
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  Speaker 5: It's more subtle now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you knew that they were acting then. Now
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  Speaker 1: you don't know that they're acting.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and really old movies when they just came
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  Speaker 4: straight off the stage. You know, things were really big
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  Speaker 4: and over the top.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is an interesting evolution. So nine to five
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  Speaker 1: is on Prime Video. Clue is on Paramount Plus. Both
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  Speaker 1: fun watches. But again, if you had a one or
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the other, definitely nine to five. Let's get back to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 1: The USS Abraham Lincoln has arrived in Thailand on its
• 37:32
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  Speaker 3: The Navy says the crew will be banned from aquatic
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  Speaker 3: sports and no cannabis use while in port through September 6th.
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  Speaker 3: bars and the city of Pattaya's red light district.
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  Speaker 4: This is the.
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  Speaker 3: First time this year crew members aboard the San Diego-based
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  Speaker 3: USS Abraham Lincoln have put their boots on ground. The
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  Speaker 3: crew was recently relieved in the Middle East by the
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  Speaker 3: USS George Washington following disturbing reports of a deteriorating ship,
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  Speaker 3: mental health concerns, and meal rationing. Phil Farrar, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has nominated Hung Cao for Navy Secretary. Cao's
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  Speaker 1: been serving as the acting Navy Secretary since businessman John
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Phelan resigned in April. Trump announced his decision yesterday on
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  Speaker 1: social media and wrote the Senate needs to confirm this
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  Speaker 2: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County supervisors have approved a $ 12. 5 million settlement with the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: relatives of a man who was killed by sheriff's deputies
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  Speaker 1: in East L.A. One of the deputies pleaded no contest
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  Speaker 1: to two felony charges in connection with the shooting. David
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Ordaz was shot in March of 2021 in front of
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  Speaker 1: his relatives, who said he was having a mental health crisis.
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  Speaker 12: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: City Council member Nithya Raman has picked up an endorsement
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  Speaker 1: from a key union in her run for mayor and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: posted a video on X about it. I am so
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: excited to announce that I have the support of Unite
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  Speaker 1: Here Local 11, one of our most incredible unions representing
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: hospitality workers across the country and across the city.
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: Unite Here president Kurt Peterson says the group believes in
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  Speaker 10: Rahman's commitment to fighting L.A. 's housing crisis, supporting the
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: minimum wage hike successfully pushed by the union last year,
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: and her opposition of short-term rental giant Airbnb, which is
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  Speaker 10: a rival of Unite Here. Airbnb backs Rahman's opponent, Mayor
• 39:26
  Speaker 10: Karen Bass. Mark Rahner, KFI News. The man who wrote
• 39:20
  Speaker 10: the screenplay for Friday the 13th has died. Victor Miller
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: wrote several screenplays for director Sean Cunningham, both though the 1980.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Horror classic, speaking of the 80s, Friday the 13th is
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: what he is most remembered for. He also wrote for
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: TV and won several daytime Emmys during the 80s for
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: his work on All My Children. Miller died Monday near
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. He was 86. OK, got hit up on
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the talkback because even though Clue might not be the
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  Speaker 1: best movie, apparently there's another one that we should check
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  Speaker 1: out if we want to see Tim Curry.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Amy. Love the show, as always.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wait, that's the wrong one. Here, let's try this one.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, Amy. If you get a chance, definitely watch the
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: Criminal Mind episodes with Tim Curry.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe it's a two part episodes. He was
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: fantastic in them. He's fun. He's a he's a good actor.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: But like I said, it was the movie overall that
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't love.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 40:40
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: But Tim Curry, he's been so much so Criminal Minds.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put that on my list. This is KFI and
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  Speaker 1: Live from the KFI 24-hour newsroom, I'm Amy King. This
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