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A Netflix Must Watch + An Amazon Scam? · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640 Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Amy King, on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange County.
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  Speaker 3: Now batting for Wake Up Call, your host, Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It's 5 o'clock straight up. This is your
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  Speaker 1: wake-up call for Wednesday, October 14th. I'm Amy King. We're
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  Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's a new day
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  Speaker 1: and a new chance for the Dodgers to get back
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Go Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: Got a game. They'll be in that.
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  Speaker 1: Home stadium vibe. Home stadium. That's a great vibe, especially
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  Speaker 1: during the playoffs. It's so much fun and so crazy rowdy. So, fans,
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  Speaker 1: we need your... We need you to support the team
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  Speaker 1: because they're struggling a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Technical producer Mario is back. He survived his first day
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  Speaker 1: and came back for another one.
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  Speaker 4: I slept on it and I'm here. All right.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad you're representing Dodgers. Loving that sweatshirt. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good one.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I got my Mookie Betts jersey on today.
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  Speaker 6: Nice. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 1: A large crack has opened up. In a coastal bluff
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  Speaker 1: that supports the Pacific Coast Highway near Laguna Beach, prompting
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  Speaker 1: the closure of a southbound lane as officials assess erosion
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  Speaker 1: damage following days of powerful surf. The crack is near
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  Speaker 1: Crystal Cove State Park's lifeguard headquarters just outside Laguna Beach
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  Speaker 1: city limits. Santa Ana winds expected to blow through Southern California,
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  Speaker 1: increasing fire danger. Forecasters say the strongest winds are expected
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow and Friday with gusts of up to 60 to
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  Speaker 1: 70 miles per hour possible in the mountains. Red flag
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  Speaker 1: warnings for high fire danger will be in effect along
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  Speaker 1: the Malibu coast and the mountains of L.A. and Ventura
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  Speaker 1: County from 6 this morning till 10 Friday night. Paramount
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  Speaker 1: Pictures and developer Rick Caruso are planning to restore and
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  Speaker 1: reopen the Bay Theater at Palisades Village. The movie theater
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  Speaker 1: closed after the 2025 wildfire. The luxury cinema chain The
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  Speaker 1: Lot will manage the theater. It'll feature first-run movies, classic films,
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  Speaker 1: and other programming. Plans are to have the theater reopen
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  Speaker 1: before the end of the year. I do love a
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  Speaker 1: good luxury theater. Fun to see a movie in style.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, President Trump is at it again. More like a
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  Speaker 1: business owner than a politician. He decides what he wants
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  Speaker 1: to do, and then he does it and bypasses the
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  Speaker 1: ask first part. ABC's Stephen Portnoy says a judge is
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  Speaker 1: hopping mad about his latest project. Stephen will be joining
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  Speaker 1: us in less than five minutes. If you're fed up
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  Speaker 1: with paying for all those streaming services, the host of
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  Speaker 1: Rich on Tech on KFI, KTLA's tech reporter, Rich DeMuro,
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  Speaker 1: says more and more people are not only cutting cords,
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  Speaker 1: they're cutting the stream and going old school. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you how to do it. Coming up on 520-ish. And
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  Speaker 1: for Amy's on it this week, I think you'll find
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  Speaker 1: this show to be a keeper, a new Netflix series,
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  Speaker 1: a good binge for the weekend. Let's get started with
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  Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 6: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass and City Council Member Nithya Raman have traded jabs.
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  Speaker 1: Discussing a range of topics during a televised debate on
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  Speaker 1: NBC and Univision, Bass went after Rahman last night on
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  Speaker 1: homelessness and public safety.
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  Speaker 8: She has consistently voted against police officers.
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  Speaker 6: She has consistently voted to not remove encampments in front
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  Speaker 6: of schools.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass also criticized Rahman for saying that she wants
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  Speaker 1: to fire the police chief before the 2028 Olympic Games.
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  Speaker 1: And defended her Inside Safe Homeless program, which Rahman criticized.
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  Speaker 9: Which has brought down homelessness a little bit, but at
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  Speaker 9: extraordinary cost. And now we see it ticking up again.
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  Speaker 1: Both argued that they would stand up against ICE and
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  Speaker 1: support immigrants in the city. Members of the L.A. Continuum
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  Speaker 1: of Care have voted to make L.A. County the lead
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  Speaker 1: agency on homelessness.
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  Speaker 10: The move to restructure how homeless services are administered follows
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  Speaker 10: years of scrutiny of LAHSA, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
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  Speaker 10: formed in 1993. Continuum of Care Chair Ben Kay detailed
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  Speaker 10: the background.
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  Speaker 5: HUD, after they suspended LAHSA, then said to the COC,
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  Speaker 5: We actually want to pursue remedial measures where we would
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  Speaker 5: allow entities across the continuum of care to apply directly
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  Speaker 5: to HUD for funding.
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  Speaker 10: The vote had been scheduled for Friday, but was delayed
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  Speaker 10: because of the large number of people who wanted to
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  Speaker 10: weigh in. Mark Rauner, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't felt what a 7.0 earthquake feels like, well,
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  Speaker 1: today's your chance. An earthquake simulator will be at UCLA
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  Speaker 1: as part of a statewide tour leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: Great California Shakeout, which is tomorrow morning. The simulator will
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  Speaker 1: be at Wilson Plaza, south of Kauffman Hall, from 6
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  Speaker 1: until noon. The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services says
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  Speaker 1: the public will be able to experience simulated earthquake shaking
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  Speaker 1: while receiving preparedness information. The Great California Shakeout again happens
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  Speaker 1: at 10.15 tomorrow. That's when millions of Americans will participate
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  Speaker 1: in the drill to drop cover. And hold on. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is at it again. He's doing projects, but
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  Speaker 1: forgetting the ask first part.
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  Speaker 7: Well, look, this is what might seem like a small
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  Speaker 7: parochial local matter here in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 4: If you zoom out, you see perhaps.
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  Speaker 7: An example of the federal government, the Trump administration, sort
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  Speaker 7: of thumbing its nose at the federal courts. We're talking
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  Speaker 7: about a golf course here in Washington, D.C., federal land,
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  Speaker 7: the East Potomac Park Golf Links, which for decades has
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  Speaker 7: been a public golf course where people of all economic
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  Speaker 7: stripes can come in for relatively low greens fees and
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  Speaker 7: come in and enjoy golf right on the Potomac River.
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  Speaker 7: And it's a place of enjoyment for generations of Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 7: residents and maybe even visitors. And what the president wants
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  Speaker 7: to do is he wants to turn it into a
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  Speaker 7: PGA Tour level course. Opponents, a group of local golfers,
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  Speaker 7: fear that this will price them out, that it'll limit
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  Speaker 7: their access and turn something that has been used by
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  Speaker 7: them into something that's only used for elite championship golfers.
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  Speaker 7: or for wealthy elite types. There's also a fear of
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  Speaker 7: privatization and all this. So they filed a lawsuit, and
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  Speaker 7: this litigation's been ongoing for most of the year, and
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  Speaker 7: the judge has said that no renovations on this course,
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  Speaker 7: as the president plans, should take place without notice so
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  Speaker 7: that opponents can go back into court and say, here
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  Speaker 7: are all the reasons why we think the court should
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  Speaker 7: step in and block it because they're violating this rule
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  Speaker 7: or that rule, whatever you have. Well, on Friday of
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  Speaker 7: last week, at about 5 p.m., The federal government came
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  Speaker 7: into court and said, Your Honor, we intend to take
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  Speaker 7: down about 500 trees at this course tomorrow. And that's
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  Speaker 7: exactly what happened. There was no opportunity for the opponents
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  Speaker 7: to get their ducks in a row and issue a
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  Speaker 7: federal court request for the federal court's intervention. And the
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  Speaker 7: judge was furious. At a hearing she hastily arranged on Monday,
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  Speaker 7: she called for the National Park Service's superintendent of the
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  Speaker 7: parks on the National Mall to appear virtually so he
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  Speaker 7: could explain what happened. And she basically said that the
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  Speaker 7: government has lost all credibility in this case. And she
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  Speaker 7: says it's preposterous to argue that the cutting down of
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  Speaker 7: 400 plus trees, which is what they did on Saturday,
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  Speaker 7: is not part of the renovation, that she says it's
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  Speaker 7: completely beyond the pale. The government's position is, Your Honor,
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  Speaker 7: we actually had this plan back in 2019 to take
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  Speaker 7: down some of these old and invasive trees and The
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  Speaker 7: initial plan in 2019, and here's the document, was to
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  Speaker 7: restore the landscape of the course to the way it
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  Speaker 7: was in the 1920s before there were these trees. And
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  Speaker 7: that's all we meant to do. And you'll be able
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  Speaker 7: to see the water better. Well, the judge wasn't having
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  Speaker 7: any of it because she said this is clearly all
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  Speaker 7: part of the same piece of. conducting these renovations, which
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  Speaker 7: was the subject of the lawsuit. And to destroy hundreds
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  Speaker 7: of trees in one fell swoop really angered the judge
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  Speaker 7: because she said she had this order in place. So
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  Speaker 7: she has put in a new order that prohibits any
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  Speaker 7: further destruction of trees, and she now wants to hear
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  Speaker 7: from a senior official in the Department of Interior, which
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  Speaker 7: oversees the Park Service, to hear from him as to
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  Speaker 7: how this all came out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah. And I have so many more questions,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have more time, but interesting. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see this as it plays out. So right now the
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  Speaker 1: judge says you have to stop doing anything.
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  Speaker 7: That's right, at least until next week, and then she'll hear.
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  Speaker 7: But the key thing, again, is this idea that this
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  Speaker 7: is part of a pattern of the Trump administration doing
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  Speaker 7: whatever it's going to do, making permanent choices that opponents
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  Speaker 7: say undercuts their rights to try to block it in
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  Speaker 7: federal court. And the judges are left with very little
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  Speaker 7: ability to prevent it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: ABC Stephen Portnoy, thanks for the information.
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  Speaker 6: You bet.
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  Speaker 1: Again, it seems like, you know, he's acting like he
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  Speaker 1: used to when he was a private citizen. And that is, OK,
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  Speaker 1: I own this company. I'm going to make these changes.
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  Speaker 1: And he doesn't really have to ask anybody. The government
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  Speaker 1: works differently than that. And he has adapted to that.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how this one plays
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  Speaker 1: out as well. Kind of the latest in a long list.
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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. The Vatican says
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  Speaker 1: Pope Leo spent a peaceful night in the hospital after
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  Speaker 1: doctors removed part of his right lung and confirmed he
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  Speaker 1: has cancer.
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  Speaker 11: A mass this morning that the Pope had intended to
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  Speaker 11: celebrate is instead being led by a top cardinal. Leo
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  Speaker 11: now recovering after surgery. The lower lobe of his right
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  Speaker 11: lung was removed. The Vatican says the 90-minute procedure was
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  Speaker 11: successful and there were no complications.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Lionel Moise says the Pope's brother is also battling
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  Speaker 1: cancer and is in a clinical trial in Florida. He
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  Speaker 1: has a rare blood cancer known as multiple myeloma. Iran
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  Speaker 1: says a cargo ship has sunk after hitting a naval
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  Speaker 1: mine in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard... says
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  Speaker 1: the ship was traveling on what is called any legal
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  Speaker 1: and dangerous route when it hit the mine this morning.
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  Speaker 1: They say the ship was carrying 2,500 containers when it
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  Speaker 1: first caught fire. It's not clear what happened to the crew.
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  Speaker 1: Cornell University is making major changes because of on-campus gang
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  Speaker 1: rape allegations made by a former student who's known as
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe. ABC's Aaron Katursky says the Ivy League school
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  Speaker 1: is suspending all frat parties for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 4: All seven fraternity brothers named in Jane Doe's lawsuit have
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  Speaker 4: denied wrongdoing and are questioning her claim of being incapacitated
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  Speaker 4: by drugs and alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: Cornell handled Jane Doe's case internally, but going forward, the
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  Speaker 1: university says it will call on the New York State
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  Speaker 1: Police to investigate sex assault allegations independent of the school.
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  Speaker 1: About 3,000 workers are going to be laid off by Kroger,
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  Speaker 1: which operates Ralph's and Food for Less grocery stores in California.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Mike Dabusky says CEO Greg Foran... says the layoffs
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  Speaker 1: come as the company shifts focus to AI.
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  Speaker 7: Last month, he released a new AI strategy for Kroger,
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  Speaker 7: which included a plan to have AI agents handle planning, shopping,
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  Speaker 7: and purchasing decisions for customers.
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  Speaker 1: Kroger employs more than 400,000 people and operates more than
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  Speaker 1: 2,700 stores in the U.S. New data says the richest
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  Speaker 1: group of people in the U.S. are 75 and older.
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  Speaker 12: The Federal Reserve says the wealth for the 75-plus group
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  Speaker 12: increased 37% between 2022 and 2025. Their median net worth
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  Speaker 12: is now $ 505, 000. That's more than $ 104, 000 from three years ago.
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  Speaker 12: The Feds say the rise of the stock market gave older,
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  Speaker 12: wealthier households an even bigger boost, while wealth has decreased
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  Speaker 12: for younger families. The under-35 group saw their wealth go
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  Speaker 12: down 23% over the last three years. As inflation reduces
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  Speaker 12: the spending on the other end of the wealth spectrum,
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  Speaker 12: researchers also say those older Americans with the money are
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  Speaker 12: propping up consumer spending. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Sotheby's is auctioning off a complete dino skeleton. They've named
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  Speaker 1: it Jody. It was once most staken for a young T-Rex,
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  Speaker 1: but the roughly 67-million-year-old dinosaur is actually a different species.
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  Speaker 1: Sotheby's Cassandra Hatton says... Researchers have been able to distinguish
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  Speaker 1: between the king of all dinosaurs and this newly found
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  Speaker 1: prehistoric species.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks to extensive research that was just published last fall,
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  Speaker 8: we now have proof that this is actually a completely
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  Speaker 8: different type of dinosaur known as a nanotyrannus.
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  Speaker 1: A nanotyrannus.
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  Speaker 6: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Jodi's now on public display, the nearly 20 foot long,
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  Speaker 1: six and a half foot tall skeleton with approximately 191
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  Speaker 1: fossil bone elements will go up for auction October 27th.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to buy a dinosaur? I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 4: If you had a lot of money to throw around,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you would, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, if you're fed up with paying
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  Speaker 1: for all the streaming services, Rich DeMuro is going to
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  Speaker 1: join us to tell us how more and more people
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  Speaker 1: are not only cutting the cord, but they're cutting the
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  Speaker 1: stream and going old school. Remember rabbit ears? That's coming
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  Speaker 1: up next.
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  Speaker 4: I use one of these antennas. I love it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh. I do.
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  Speaker 10: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 1: Always love to hear from you on the Talkback. It's
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  Speaker 1: the little microphone in the upper right-hand corner of the
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app where you can listen to Wake Up Call,
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  Speaker 1: if you miss any of it, or listen to it live.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, love to hear from you on the Talkback.
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  Speaker 1: We were just having a discussion with ABC's Stephen Portnoy
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  Speaker 1: about how Trump wants to convert that golf course in D.C.
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  Speaker 1: to a PGA-level course and cut down a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: trees and a judge is furious about it.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Amy K.
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  Speaker 5: King.
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  Speaker 13: This is John from Norco. I love listening to your
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  Speaker 13: show every single morning. And as a golfer. I can
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  Speaker 13: tell you no golfer was harmed or was upset about
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  Speaker 13: removing a hundred trees from a golf course. There's nothing
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  Speaker 13: that a golfer dislikes more than a doggone tree.
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  Speaker 4: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 7: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: You know, John, as a sometimes golfer, you're right. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just, I think it's more the question of how
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  Speaker 1: he did it. You know, like shoot first, ask questions later,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: And really good golfers don't worry about trees. Oh, sure
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  Speaker 4: they do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why PGA golf courses don't have a lot of them.
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  Speaker 13: There's that.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 6: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Has started accepting applications for $ 466 million in affordable housing funds.
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  Speaker 1: The money's part of the city's Homes for L.A. program
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  Speaker 1: to create and preserve affordable housing across the city. Applications
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  Speaker 1: will be accepted through December 4th. Funding is expected to
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  Speaker 1: be released early next year. Several homes on the Dana
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  Speaker 1: Point shoreline have been red-tagged after being damaged by pounding surf.
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  Speaker 1: Seven homes on Capistrano Beach are now considered uninhabitable. Thirteen
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  Speaker 1: homes are yellow-tagged. Two homes on the Capistrano Bay District
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  Speaker 1: have already been demolished and one is scheduled to be
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  Speaker 1: taken down because of the damage caused by what was
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  Speaker 1: once Hurricane Rachel. Police are looking for a man who
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  Speaker 1: opened fire at a TV station in Bakersfield for a
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  Speaker 1: second time in less than a week. Several shots were
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  Speaker 1: fired at the KBAK-KBFX news building early yesterday morning. Shots
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  Speaker 1: were also fired at the station last Friday night. Surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video shows a black vehicle pulling up to the station.
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  Speaker 1: Several flashes could then be seen coming from the driver's
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  Speaker 1: side window before the car took off. Let's say good
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  Speaker 1: morning now to the host of Rich on Tech on
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  Speaker 1: KFI every Saturday from 11 to 2. It's KTLA's tech reporter,
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  Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro. Morning, Rich.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning to you, Amy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so for those of us who want to cut
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  Speaker 1: the cord, maybe we already cut the cord and switched
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  Speaker 1: over to the stream, and now our streaming bills are
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  Speaker 1: through the roof. I know mine are because they add
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  Speaker 1: up each and every month. There is a more old-school
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  Speaker 1: way to watch that TV now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. And it's a $ 15 antenna and call me and
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  Speaker 6: consider me impressed. We did the segment on my radio
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  Speaker 6: show over the weekend, 11 a.m. KFI on Saturdays. And
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  Speaker 6: I interviewed a guy called the antenna man on YouTube.
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  Speaker 6: And he talked about all these antennas and things like this.
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  Speaker 6: You can get all this free programming, your local news,
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  Speaker 6: plus a bunch of sports. And he gave a couple
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  Speaker 6: of recommendations. I ended up ordering two of them, a
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  Speaker 6: $ 15 Phillips rabbit ears antenna and then a $ 35 Channelmaster
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  Speaker 6: flat tenna. I set them both up at my house.
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  Speaker 6: I set them both up at KTLA. And they received
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  Speaker 6: hundreds of TV channels, not all of them I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to watch offensively. obviously, but it was pretty impressive and
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  Speaker 6: kind of a reminder that in a world of streaming
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  Speaker 6: services where everything just keeps getting more and more expensive
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  Speaker 6: and the monthly cost, you can still watch a lot
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  Speaker 6: of this stuff, especially local sports, right over the air
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  Speaker 6: and for $ 15. And that was the antenna I liked,
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: by the way. I couldn't believe how many channels it
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: brought in, how clear they were. And some people are
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: the channels actually look better on antenna because they're not
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: as compressed as they are when they're sent over streaming
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: or through cable. So the website to know is rabbit ears.info.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: You can go there, pop in your address. It'll tell
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: you where to aim the antenna. You can use the
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: compass app on your phone to help, but also what
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: channels you can expect to receive.
• 18:09
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: You said that there's hundreds of channels. I mean, we
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: used to have, you know, three, but so now... You
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: get the networks, so you can get the local news
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff. Do you get shows like
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: HTV or Food Network, or are those all.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the cable channels you typically don't get. Now, there
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: may be some version of them on a sub channel
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: or there may be something like a QVC. I mean,
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: there's just a lot like I got 98 channels at home.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: And so a lot of them, you know, they're in
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: different languages. They're very specialized. Some are religious programming. But
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: the bottom line is there is a bunch to choose from.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: And each channel, like channel two, four, five channels. seven, nine, 13,
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: they all have these sub channels. So like for instance,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: channel five, the one I work for, they have like 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: And all those channels have different types of programming on them.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Some are older sitcoms, some is court programming. So, I mean,
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: there's a lot to choose from that. The main caveat
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: is that obviously you're not going to get like an
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: HBO show over the air for free. The other thing
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: is if you want to record these shows, you would
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: need some way to do that. And there's systems like
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Zapper Box or Tableau or HD Home Run, which can
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: do that. But obviously that takes a little bit of setup.
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But you're saying it can be done if you don't
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: want to spend $ 200 on streaming services every month. And
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I will tell you, older sitcoms, you mentioned it. I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: love older sitcoms. I'm watching Hot in Cleveland right now.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's hysterical.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: It is historical. And there's a certain innocence to older
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: sitcoms that we just don't have nowadays.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Agreed. Absolutely. Okay, let's talk about Amazon's new tablets. that
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: just might give the iPad a run for its money.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: I am very excited for these. These are called the
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Alexa tablets. They're replacing the Fire branding. So there's three models.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: There's the 8-inch, 11-inch, and 12-inch. Sounds like we're ordering
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: a Subway here. But the thing that's different about these
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: tablets that I'm very excited about is for many years,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: I only recommended the iPad. And that was because it
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: always had the best access to apps and accessories and software.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: But now, Amazon, they've got a new guy in charge
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: of all their hardware, Panos Panay. He came from Microsoft,
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: and he is cleaning things up there. He is making
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: gadgets that are really good, much more polished. And the
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: main change he made here is he added access to
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Google Play, which means when you bought a Fire tablet
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: a couple of years ago, you'd go into the app
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: store and half the apps you wanted were not available
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: because Amazon used their own app store. Now he's using
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Google Play, which means pretty much if an app is
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: available on an Android phone, which are all the streaming apps,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Google Play, Gmail, YouTube, all those apps are finally available
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: on this new tablet. The prices, they're still expensive, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: they're way cheaper than what you would get with the iPad,
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: which I like, and also Amazon stuff typically goes on sale.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: And these are going to be available very soon, October– well, today, actually.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: So I'm still waiting for my review units, but I'm
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: very excited to kind of put them through their paces
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: and check them out.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And Black Friday is coming up, so it'll be interesting
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to see if there are any more big deals on
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that or Cyber Monday, whatever.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: I think there will be.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: And then I.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Have a question for you, and I can't remember if
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: we talked about this. Like, I have a memory of it,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure if it's real. Did we talk
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: about a scam out there where you get a package
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: from Amazon– and it's addressed to you, but it's somehow
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a scam? Does that sound familiar at all?
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: This has been going around for a while. Yeah, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: believe that there's, I mean, there's various aspects or angles
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: of this. There's one called the Quishing Scam, which basically
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: you get this package and there's like a QR code
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: in there they want you to scan because you're like, wait,
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: this isn't mine. And you scan the QR code and
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: they try to steal your information. What's the scam that
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: you've heard about here? Is that the one?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I received a package with something I didn't order
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: from Amazon this week.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, and do you have anything inside?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I'll have to look.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: I wanted you to take action.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to go look at it because
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I just pulled it out and I went, I didn't
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: order this. And I looked, I checked my order history
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to see if I by mistake did it, or maybe
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it had three glasses of wine and ordered some stuff
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't me. So, and I thought.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: That's the best time to order Amazon. Takes the edge off.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I'll take a look. I'll let you know because
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I was concerned about it. And I was like, what
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: do I do with this? Do I call Amazon or
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to look and see if there's a QR
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: code in there somewhere.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I'll check.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let me know.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: All right, I will. And Rich on tech, on KFI,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: every Saturday from 11 to 2, where you get all
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: kinds of great tech information. And he's got a lot
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to talk about this weekend. Apple's new HomeView, new Android laptop,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: strange developments in the world of AI, all kinds of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: great stuff. You can follow him on Instagram. Instagram at
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. You can watch him on KTLA all
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the time. And of course, you can listen to him
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Saturdays from 11 to 2 on Rich on Tech right
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: here on KFI. Oh, and his newsletter. Sign up for it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: It's really good.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Rich.
• 23:14
  Speaker 14: Wow.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what? I love his newsletter because you
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: get it once a week. It's not every day.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I read it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And it's good stuff, like usable stuff. So we appreciate it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Rich DeMuro.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Amy. Appreciate it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: OK, let's see. Let's get a couple more news stories in.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: 40 years to life. That's what Dwayne Kiffedy Davis has
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: been sentenced to in a courtroom in Las Vegas for
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: his role. In the death of rapper Tupac Shakur, ABC's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Alex Stone says prosecutors say it was Davis' own words
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that got him convicted.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: The case hinged on Davis' own words over the last
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: 30 years. He told police over many years that he
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: was involved in the murder as part of a 90s
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: gang conflict.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Davis will be eligible for parole when he's 103 years old.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: A woman's charred body has been found on a dirt
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: embankment next to the eastbound 105 freeway in South L.A.,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The body was found Monday afternoon west of Broadway. The
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: medical examiner hasn't identified her. She was black, 5'9, 18
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to 30 years old, and had long black hair and braids.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: She was wearing a pink shirt, a pink Victoria's Secret bra,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: black and white bottoms, and size 8 1⁄2 white Nike
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: tennis shoes with an orange swoosh. Voters in California should
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: feel safe to cast their ballots despite what President Trump says.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: At least that's according to the state's attorney general.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: President Trump often makes the claim that California elections are
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: full of fraud. I would have won California. If that
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: weren't on a system, I would have won. But California
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Attorney General Rob Bonta is again pushing back.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: He's the gaslighter-in-chief.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: He is the conspiracy theorist-in-chief. At a news conference, Bonta
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: said that mail-in voting is perfectly safe in California. Just
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: get your balance in a week early to make sure
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: they count. And if Trump tries to pull anything, Bonta's ready.
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: For any scenario that involves the Trump administration, interfering with Californians'
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: fundamental right to vote.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Jason Nathanson, KFI News.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Still to come on Wake Up Call, Amy's on it
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: this week. I'm not ready to cut the stream just yet.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: There's so many great shows on the stream, and I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: think you're going to find this show will be a keeper.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: It's a new Netflix series, and I'll tell you about
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that coming up.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. Thanks so much for starting your day
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: with us. Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: A couple at the center of a surrogacy and child
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: abuse scandal in Arcadia is asking to be released from jail.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: The man and woman are facing child abuse and witness
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: intimidation charges for keeping and allegedly abusing at least 14
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: surrogate-born children in their mansion. Both of them are being
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: held on $ 20 million bail. The couple is due in
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: court on Friday, and that's when their attorneys are expected
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to ask for them to be released. An SUV driver
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: has been arrested for shooting at a police officer who
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: was out on a call in Downey. It happened around
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: 8.30 yesterday morning south of Downey and Florence Avenue. The
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: officer was in his squad car when a passing motorist
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: fired several shots at the officer. He wasn't hurt and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was able to go after and then arrest the driver.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: New research says glaciers are disappearing in the U.S. with
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the most severe melting happening in the Sierra Nevada and
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: parts of the Rockies. The research says a quarter of
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the glaciers have disappeared since the mid-20th century. 6.05, it's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Handle on the News. Mayor Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Raman went toe-to-toe last night. A little debate three weeks
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: before the election. Bill's going to tell you what they
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: were sparring about. It is time for Dodger Playoff Baseball. Tonight,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: your back-to-back world champion Dodgers take on the Brewers at
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. It's Game 3 of the National League Championship Series.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: First pitch goes out just after 5. You can listen
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: on AM570 LA Sports and stream it on the iHeartRadio
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: app live from the Galpin Ford broadcast booth. So I
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: was asking Rich about that Prime package that I got
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: delivered to me this week. It was something that I
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: didn't order and I was trying to think... Was that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a scam of some sort?
• 27:11
  Speaker 15: The wrong packages from like, even people in another city,
• 27:14
  Speaker 15: like it was just an accidental drop off. And Amazon
• 27:18
  Speaker 15: advises you to just keep it. They don't, it's more
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: hassle for them to try to get it to the.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Woohoo!
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I wish it was a million bucks.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Does it have your name on it?
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: It does.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: See, that's why I'm wondering. It doesn't look like it
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: was mistakenly dropped off. It had my address on it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: And it's something that I've never ordered before.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: It's a surge protector.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Like a, you know, a power supply. Maybe it's God's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: way of.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Saying you need one.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I do need one. And apparently, according to this lovely listener,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: it's mine now. Here's what's coming out of the KFI
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. Victims of a sex predator. are suing LAUSD,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: saying the school district should have done more to protect them.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Silmar High School soccer coach Eduardo Colocho was convicted in
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: 2006 of molesting several students on and off campus. Essentially,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: he checked these kids out like library books. Sean Reardon
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: represents victims and accusers who are now suing Colocho and
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: the LAUSD in civil court, saying the district.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Ignored red flags.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: And allowed Colocho to take kids back to his house
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: during school hours. Their own systems for trying to protect students.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: He says.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: His clients deserve compensation for two decades of mental anguish,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: but hasn't specified a number. LAUSD hasn't responded to a
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: request for comment on the lawsuit. Jason Ethenson, KFI News.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: LA Archbishop Jose Gomez is encouraging Catholics to pray for
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Pope Leo. He had surgery in Rome yesterday that confirmed
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: he has lung cancer. The LA Archdiocese is also collecting
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: prayers for the pontiff as part of what's called a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: spiritual bouquet. The church webpage includes a prayer for the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Pope's recovery and a message he delivered on Sunday when
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: he announced doctors had found a small nodule in his lung.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: A stretch of Huntington Beach is closed until 3 this
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: afternoon following reports of a 10 to 12 foot great
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: white shark circling in the water, which apparently is a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: sign of aggression. The beach is closed from Seapoint to
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the Huntington Beach Pier. Beachgoers are being advised to be
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: vigilant of posted signs. and follow instructions from lifeguards. Yeah,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that's enough to keep me out of the water for
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a while. Time to get in your business. And this morning,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: we're talking to Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman. Good morning, Dan.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Good morning. A surge protector of all things you can
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: get for free, huh?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I have a new surge protector. It's very exciting. Is
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it exciting that we got inflation numbers this morning?
• 29:38
  Speaker 16: I wouldn't say it's exciting. They did come out just
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: a little bit ago, actually. And well, consumer prices were, again,
• 29:47
  Speaker 16: advancing at the fastest pace in five months due to
• 29:49
  Speaker 16: rising fuel costs. And a gauge of underlying price pressures
• 29:53
  Speaker 16: rose by more than expected. Now, the consumer price index
• 29:55
  Speaker 16: rose Six-tenths of a percent in September for a month earlier.
• 29:58
  Speaker 16: That's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data. On
• 30:01
  Speaker 16: an annual basis, it went up 3.7%. That was actually
• 30:05
  Speaker 16: a bit more than estimated. A key measure of underlying
• 30:08
  Speaker 16: price pressures, excluding food and energy, that rose three-tenths of
• 30:11
  Speaker 16: a percent from the prior month, also a bit more
• 30:14
  Speaker 16: than estimated. And 2.6% from a year earlier, also more
• 30:18
  Speaker 16: than estimated. All this means is we're probably going to
• 30:20
  Speaker 16: get another rate hike coming up soon.
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: Oh, goody.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, really exciting news, right?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Speaking of rate hikes, mortgage rates continue heading in the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: wrong direction.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Why not keep up the good news here, right?
• 30:31
  Speaker 16: Mortgage rates, Amy, continue to rise as a contract rate
• 30:35
  Speaker 16: on a 30-year fixed mortgage ticked up to 7.5% in
• 30:39
  Speaker 16: the week ended October 9th, still the highest level since
• 30:41
  Speaker 16: November of 2023. Meanwhile, the Mortgage Bankers Association's Purchase Index,
• 30:46
  Speaker 16: which measures loan applications, that dropped 4%, marking the sixth
• 30:50
  Speaker 16: straight weekly decline and the longest such stretch since July
• 30:54
  Speaker 16: to August of 2023. The gauge stands at the lowest
• 30:57
  Speaker 16: level since early 2025. So a lot of happy news
• 31:00
  Speaker 16: with you this morning, Amy.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks a lot. I think we're going to end
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: it there. Dan Schwartzman with Bloomberg getting in your business
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: as we do each weekday morning. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Sounds good, Amy.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: When we come back. Amy's on it. This week, I'm
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: on the stream and I found one. I think you
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: will find this show to be a keeper. That's your hint.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You're going to find it to be a keeper. Any guesses?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Any guesses? It's a new series on Netflix. Coming up next.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we've almost made it through wake up call, but
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: we got a little bit more to get to. OK,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: so we were talking about this prime package that I
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: got this week and whether it was mistakenly dropped off
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to me, but it had my name on it and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: whether it might have been a scam.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Regarding the package received by accident, that is actually a
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: known scam for you to be to get money. items
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: you did not order. That's so you'll reach out to
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: them as a seller, try to return it, they get
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: your information. So just keep it. Don't give any information
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: to anybody. So congratulations on your search protector.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm going to keep it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: But how did they get your address?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but apparently they send it to you
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and then you reach out to the seller. They get
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: your information. And then they can scam you. So Rich
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: says I'm supposed to be looking for a QR code.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to check that out when I got home,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you know, with my new surge protector.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: This is Scott from Playa del Carmen.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Hi, Scott.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Hey, that surge protector, I ordered it. I don't know
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: how the heck they gave it to you, but can
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: you please send it to me?
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Enjoy your show.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Scott, that sounds like a scam. Here's what we're following
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Ellie Mayer Bass and Councilwoman
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Nithya Raman have faced each other In a debate three
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: weeks before the mayor's race is decided in L.A., the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: candidates sparred over public safety, homelessness, and economic development, among
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: other issues. In Handle on the News, Bill's going to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: tell you more about that. Three racehorses have died from injuries,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: suffered during races at Los Alamitos and Santa Anita racetracks.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just since Saturday. Twelve horses have died at
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  Speaker 1: Los Alamitos so far this year. Fifteen have died at
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  Speaker 1: Santa Anita in 2026. Forecasters say strong rip currents and
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  Speaker 1: big waves along with coastal flooding continue. A beach hazard
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  Speaker 1: statement remains in effect. In the mountains, a strong Santa
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  Speaker 1: Ana wind event is coming. Expected to bring 60 to
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  Speaker 1: 70 mile per hour winds tomorrow and Friday, which will
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  Speaker 1: have increased fire danger. What am I on? I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the stream, which is costing a fortune. But boy, they've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of great shows. They've got some real
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  Speaker 1: awful shows, too. So I'll do my best to steer
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  Speaker 1: you clear of those. But here's one that I found
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  Speaker 1: that I think you might find interesting. It's called I
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  Speaker 1: Will Find You. It's on Netflix. It's based on a
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  Speaker 1: novel by Harlan Coben. And I've seen his name around
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So I might have to dig a little
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  Speaker 1: deeper into Harlan Coben books. He's an amazingly good storyteller.
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  Speaker 1: And I just ran across another limited series based on
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  Speaker 1: one of his novels. So that's on my list. David
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  Speaker 1: Worthington is played by, oh, maybe is his last name
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  Speaker 1: David Worthington? Maybe I wrote that. Oh, no, I wrote
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  Speaker 1: it down wrong. Okay, so it's David Burroughs as the
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  Speaker 1: character's name. It's played by Sam Worthington. And how do
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you remember Sam Worthington? He was on Avatar. He's got
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  Speaker 1: this amazingly intense, gentle and desperate way about him. And
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  Speaker 1: I could listen to him all day. I love, love,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: love Sam Worthington's voice. So David Burroughs is serving a
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  Speaker 1: life sentence for murdering his son. And when the story starts,
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  Speaker 1: he has served five years of that sentence. Enter his
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  Speaker 1: former sister-in-law, Rachel, who's played by Britt Lauer, who you'll
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  Speaker 1: recognize from Severance. And she has this picture. And in
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  Speaker 1: the background of the picture is a little boy who
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  Speaker 1: has the same birthmark on his face as the little
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  Speaker 1: murdered boy. But a boy was murdered. So if it
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  Speaker 1: isn't David's son, who is it? And where is his
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  Speaker 1: little boy? And this revelation starts a whole chain of
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  Speaker 1: events as David tries to find out what's happened, whether
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  Speaker 1: his son is still alive, who's behind it all. It's
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: a pretty impressive cast of characters. They all have their
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  Speaker 1: own story. And they're kind of all potentially in on
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  Speaker 1: what happened or didn't happen, as the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mystery, so we don't know what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: which I love. We find out as the story goes on,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: as opposed to a suspense where we already know and
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  Speaker 1: we just kind of follow the journey, but we're discovering
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  Speaker 1: things as we go. And there are some really good
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  Speaker 1: twists and turns in this story. A couple surprises. It's engaging.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll keep you guessing until the last episode. And
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  Speaker 1: what I love about a limited streaming series is is
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  Speaker 1: it lets the creators really take a story and let
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  Speaker 1: it breathe as opposed to a movie where you have
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  Speaker 1: to cram everything into two hours. So it's like a book,
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  Speaker 1: but they made it into a movie or not a movie,
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  Speaker 1: but a TV series. And it's a really great watch.
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  Speaker 1: So it's eight episodes. It's called I Will Find You.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a show that's worth your time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: on it. And I think you probably should be too.
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  Speaker 1: And it's on Netflix. I Will Find You starring Sam Worthington.
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  Speaker 1: And as you know, I always am asking for your
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  Speaker 1: input on some shows that might be good that I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: might not have heard of or might have missed because,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you know, that's how we kind of figure out what
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: we're going to watch is we get recommendations from.
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  Speaker 4: Friends, right?
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  Speaker 14: On my way to work and always listening to you.
• 36:55
  Speaker 14: I just happened to finish a show in some old
• 36:59
  Speaker 14: school stuff. If you remember Carrie from way back in
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  Speaker 14: the day. Well, Prime has just redid it as a series,
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  Speaker 14: and I basically binged the whole series. It's actually pretty cool. So,
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  Speaker 14: got a chance? Take a look. And again, that's Carrie
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  Speaker 14: on Prime. Have a wonderful day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You know, I've seen that, and I saw a
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  Speaker 1: trailer for it, but I haven't watched it. So, I
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  Speaker 1: think maybe I'll put that on my list as my
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  Speaker 1: next thing, and then I'll let you know after I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: finish watching it. And if he sat and binged it
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: all in one sitting, that's always a good sign, right?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 11: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Has started accepting applications for $ 466 million in affordable housing money.
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  Speaker 9: Applications will be accepted through December 4th. Funding will be
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: released in February or March of 2027 with the goal
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  Speaker 9: of having the city council give final approval in April.
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  Speaker 9: The dollars are part of the Homes for L.A. program,
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  Speaker 9: which aims to create and preserve affordable housing, prevent homelessness
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  Speaker 9: and support a range of households across the city. In
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  Speaker 9: late September, the L.A. City Council and L.A. Mayor Bass
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  Speaker 9: approved the second notice of funding availability for the program.
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  Speaker 9: Debra Mark, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Existing home sales rose unexpectedly for September. The National Association
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  Speaker 1: of Realtors. says sales were up 1.5% last month to
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: an annual rate of nearly 4 million units. Sales increased
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  Speaker 1: in the South and the West, but declined in the Northeast,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: and the Midwest held steady. The group's chief economist, Lawrence Yoon,
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  Speaker 1: says that August and September marked the two slowest months
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: for home sales in 2026. Year over year, sales have
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: dropped 2.2% as mortgage rates continue to climb. A red
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: flag warning has been issued for the Malibu coast and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the mountains of L.A. and Ventura counties, including the Santa
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Monica Mountains. As the weather heats up, strong Santa Ana
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: winds and low humidity are in the forecast. The National
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Weather Service says 40 to 50 mile gusts are expected
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  Speaker 1: with isolated gusts of 60 miles an hour or higher.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Officials in Malibu have told residents to be ready for
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: potential wildfires, evacuations, power outages, downed trees and power lines.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Also for hazardous driving conditions. The red flag warning kicks
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: in in about two minutes at 6 a.m. and lasts
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: until 10 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: Friday.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: As the heat in Santa Ana winds return to the Southland,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: severe storms stretching from the Texas Panhandle to the northwest
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: are moving east. Meteorologist Melissa Griffin says one system is
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: going to park itself across the Central Plains for the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: next few days. Anywhere from Kansas City, Missouri, Wichita, all
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the way down to the Texas Panhandle, damaging winds, large hail,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: brief tornadoes can't be ruled out, and flash flooding, a
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: major threat. She says a lot of those same areas
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: are going to see more rounds of heavy rain into tomorrow.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: A large crack has opened up in a coastal bluff
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: that supports Pacific Coast Highway near Laguna Beach that has
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: prompted the closure of A southbound traffic lane as officials
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: assess erosion damage following days of powerful surf. The crack
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: is near Crystal Cove State Park's lifeguard headquarters just outside
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Laguna Beach city limits. Recognize that? Universal Pictures has unveiled
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the first official look at Miami Vice 85 as filming
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  Speaker 1: officially gets underway. Instead of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the big screen reboot features Austin Butler as Sonny Crockett
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: and Michael B. Jordan as Rico Tubbs. And it's not
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: a modern day remake. It's set in the 1980s. And
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: it's set for a May 19th, 2028 release.
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  Speaker 4: Sounds fun.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: It's an awful long time to wait.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 1: Does sound fun. Just like that, our time on Wake
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Up Call is done for the day. Thanks so much
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: for starting your day with us. We'll be back starting
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: at 5 tomorrow morning, hopefully with good news about the Dodgers, right?
• 40:58
  Speaker 14: Yes.
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