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Love/Hate Relationship with Negative Campaign Ads · 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. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Monday, October 26th.
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  Speaker 1: Got Tony in today. We started early. I was running
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  Speaker 1: down the hall. I feel like I was running away
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  Speaker 1: from the guy in Halloween. It's five o'clock straight up.
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  Speaker 1: This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for starting your day with us and your
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  Speaker 1: week with us. Hope you had a fabulous weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: you heard the music. Five days till Halloween. I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: following a tradition. Remember old friend Nick Pagliocchini used to
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  Speaker 1: do traffic here?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: Well, his birthday is on Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so he starts celebrating on October 1st and wears
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  Speaker 1: Halloween gear of some sort, hats, t-shirts, you name it,
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  Speaker 1: every day for the whole month. You know, he was
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  Speaker 1: always huge on Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that was why.
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  Speaker 1: That's why. Yeah, so I'm sort of continuing the tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Not all month, but this week and last week, I
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  Speaker 1: got all my Halloween gear out. I got my boo
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  Speaker 1: shirt on today, so. Here's what's ahead on Wake Up
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  Speaker 1: Call this Monday morning. The South Coast continues to prepare
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  Speaker 1: for possible flooding from king tides expected for the next
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  Speaker 1: few days. A coastal flood advisory is in effect until
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  Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. Some of the worst flooding is expected in
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  Speaker 1: Orange County, but Long Beach is also taking precautions after
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  Speaker 1: several homes were damaged by high surf earlier this month.
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  Speaker 1: Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who crashed into
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  Speaker 1: and killed a 66-year-old man in South L.A., Police say
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  Speaker 1: the driver was behind the wheel of a gray four-door
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  Speaker 1: sedan leaving a gas station near Manchester Avenue and South
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  Speaker 1: Broadway on Saturday afternoon. The car hit the man, left
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  Speaker 1: the scene. The driver came back until paramedics arrived and
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  Speaker 1: then took off again before police got there. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: has held a campaign rally near Detroit, Michigan, in support
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  Speaker 1: of Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. Rogers is locked in
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  Speaker 1: a tight race with Democrat Abdul El-Saeed. The president took
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  Speaker 1: aim at al-Sayed at the rally, calling him a jihadist
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  Speaker 1: and a Muslim Brotherhood member, which he has denied. ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Steve Roberts joins us with where the momentum is and
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  Speaker 1: what needs to happen for one side or the other
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  Speaker 1: to come out with wins on Election Day. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be talking to Steve in just a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Just like every election cycle, the nastiness is front and center.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan's going to tell us why, if we
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  Speaker 1: all hate them so much, the candidates keep pumping out
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  Speaker 1: these nasty negative ads. All right, 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 1: SoCal Beach communities are bracing for unusually high tides with
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  Speaker 1: a coastal flood advisory in effect through Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Morning tides could reach eight feet throughout the week. Precautions
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  Speaker 4: are being taken against flooding with crews building sand barriers,
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  Speaker 4: putting out sandbags and preparing pumps in Newport Beach. MetroLink
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  Speaker 4: is suspending service between Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo and Oceanside
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  Speaker 4: through Friday due to the high tide. Officials are urging
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  Speaker 4: people to move cars to higher ground and avoid beaches
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  Speaker 4: during high tides. Eileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Two people have been killed by a car that hit
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  Speaker 1: a group of people on a Halloween bike ride in Montclair.
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  Speaker 1: It happened late Saturday night. About 30 people were on
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  Speaker 1: the ride when a driver hit several of the riders,
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  Speaker 1: dragged one person for about a mile, then ditched the car.
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  Speaker 1: This woman lives in the area.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I just I don't know how you live with
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  Speaker 2: that and how you didn't stop and how you continue going.
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  Speaker 1: Police later arrested Valentin Rodriguez at his home. He's been
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  Speaker 1: booked on suspicion of several crimes, including DUI. Speed cameras
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  Speaker 1: are going live in LA. The city is launching a
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  Speaker 1: new automated enforcement program. About two dozen cameras will be
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  Speaker 1: activated initially, with 125 expected by the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Drivers caught going at least 11 miles an hour over
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  Speaker 1: the speed limit could eventually face fines starting at $ 50.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a 60-day warning period for each new camera,
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  Speaker 1: so drivers will get warnings, not tickets, when the first
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  Speaker 1: cameras go live. Heather Brooker, KFI News. Thank goodness for warnings.
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  Speaker 1: Several groups have teamed up to help free a young
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  Speaker 1: humpback whale off the coast of San Clemente. Its tail
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  Speaker 1: had become entangled in about 100 feet of fishing line.
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  Speaker 1: Laguna Beach-based Pacific Marine Mammal Center says the 29-foot whale
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  Speaker 1: was first spotted by a fisherman about five miles off
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  Speaker 1: the coast October 18th. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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  Speaker 1: Fisheries West Coast Stranding Network, that's a mouthful, huh? Entangled
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  Speaker 1: whale response of Orange County and SeaWorld San Diego all
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  Speaker 1: used drones and underwater cameras to assess the situation. Then
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  Speaker 1: they were able to get to the whale on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: and cut the fishing line off. The Marine Mammal Center
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  Speaker 1: says the whale has a scar near its tail fluke
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  Speaker 1: but appears healthy. The center says whale entanglements on the
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  Speaker 1: West Coast are rising, possibly due to El Nino conditions.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 1: I heard the saying before about the wheels falling off,
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  Speaker 1: but this time it literally happened.
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  Speaker 3: It sure happened.
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  Speaker 1: All right. It's 5.07 on your wake-up call. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: good morning to ABC's political analyst, Steve Roberts. So, Steve,
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  Speaker 1: we're just over a week until Election Day. So can
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  Speaker 1: you break it down a bit for us? You know,
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  Speaker 1: where's the momentum? What needs to happen for one side
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  Speaker 1: or the other to come out with big wins?
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  Speaker 3: Well, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. And the momentum is clearly very strongly on the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic side. The latest New York Times poll out this
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  Speaker 2: week showed Trump's approval rating at 34%. And when voters
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  Speaker 2: were asked, are you going to vote for a Democrat
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  Speaker 2: or a Republican in congressional races, Democrats were 11 points
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  Speaker 2: ahead on that generic ballot. And most analysts think Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have to be ahead by at least three or four
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  Speaker 2: points in that ballot. to win a majority. So they're
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  Speaker 2: way ahead on that measurement. And Donald Trump, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is barnstorming the country. He's going to be in Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: today trying to energize Republican voters. And Trump still has
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  Speaker 2: the ability to turn out his hardcore base of support.
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  Speaker 2: But he also has the ability to turn out Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: And in many ways, his barnstorming could backfire because the
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  Speaker 2: evidence is very clear that Trump generates... more energy on
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic side than the Republican side. And one of
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  Speaker 2: the best tip-offs to this was a study Politico did
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  Speaker 2: in which they tried to analyze how many ads each
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  Speaker 2: side was running featuring Trump. And they said that the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats had run $ 145 million worth of ads featuring Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: whereas Republican candidates had only run $ 8 million worth of
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  Speaker 2: ads featuring the president. That tells you That whatever their
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  Speaker 2: rhetoric is and whatever their speeches are, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to spending money, which is always the best indicate of
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  Speaker 2: what candidates really believe, Republicans are trying to stay away
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  Speaker 2: from Trump as much as possible.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting, too, if you just breaking down what
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  Speaker 1: you said, that the Republicans are focusing on their candidates.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats aren't focusing on the candidate as much as
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  Speaker 1: focusing on the negatives tied to President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And one of the reasons is that the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic brand is still highly unpopular in this country. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: else is happening right now and a week before this election,
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  Speaker 2: what is not happening is that voters are falling in
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  Speaker 2: love with Democrats. That is not the storyline that's accurate.
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  Speaker 2: The wave of support for Democrats is generated almost entirely
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  Speaker 2: by by fear and antagonism and resentment of the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: It's largely negative energy, not positive energy. But that negative
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  Speaker 2: energy is very, very powerful. The New York Times looked
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  Speaker 2: at the history here. And Donald Trump, not only at 34%
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  Speaker 2: is the lowest rating he's ever been in the Times survey,
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  Speaker 2: it's the second lowest rating of any president in the
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  Speaker 2: history of modern polling, which goes back to around 1946.
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  Speaker 2: The only president, And a midterm election that has had
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  Speaker 2: a lower approval rating at this stage was Harry Truman
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  Speaker 2: in 1946. And, of course, Truman had not been elected
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  Speaker 2: at that point. He was only elected on his own
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  Speaker 2: two years later in 1948. He had succeeded this enormously
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  Speaker 2: popular president, Roosevelt, who had died in office. And he
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  Speaker 2: was only one point lower than Trump. Compare Trump just now.
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  Speaker 2: As an example, with Jimmy Carter, who is a wildly
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  Speaker 2: unpopular president, huge inflation. Of course, he was defeated for
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  Speaker 2: re-election two years later by Ronald Reagan. But in 1978,
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  Speaker 2: Carter's rating at the midterm election was 49 percent, 15
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  Speaker 2: points higher than Donald Trump is today. So historically, Trump
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  Speaker 2: is a historically unpopular president at this stage of his administration.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And despite the unpopularity, it's pretty common. In the
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  Speaker 1: midterms for the administration to lose control of Congress. If
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  Speaker 1: it's a Republican Congress.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's true for Democrats, too. In 20 of
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  Speaker 2: the last 22 presidencies, the president's party has lost seats.
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  Speaker 2: And Donald Trump keeps saying, I don't understand why this happens.
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  Speaker 2: but we do understand why this happens. The main thing
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  Speaker 2: is it's a very different electorate in an off-year election.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of marginal voters who came out were energized
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  Speaker 2: by Donald Trump, excited by Donald Trump, are not going
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  Speaker 2: to vote next week. But also, there's always buyer's remorse.
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  Speaker 2: There's always broken promises. It happened to Joe Biden, and
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  Speaker 2: it's happening to Donald Trump. He said, no more wars,
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  Speaker 2: and we're in a war. He said, prices were going
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  Speaker 2: to come down, and prices are going up. He made
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  Speaker 2: some very clear, strong, effective promises. In some ways, he's
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  Speaker 2: a victim of his own success as a campaigner. He
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  Speaker 2: was so effective at boiling his promises down to clear, powerful,
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  Speaker 2: popular ideas that that this helped elect him. But people
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  Speaker 2: therefore remember what he said because he was so effective
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  Speaker 2: two years ago. And so it's much easier to measure
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  Speaker 2: his failures against his promises because he was so effective
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  Speaker 2: at making those promises two years ago. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, historically, that's proven to be true
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again. We're never happy. That's
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  Speaker 1: the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's not that we're never happy. It's that there's
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  Speaker 2: always an instinct to check and balance power as well.
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  Speaker 2: Americans are voters and more comfortable, which is good. It
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  Speaker 2: absolutely is good. And that's one of the reasons why,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even in blue states, they elect red governors
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  Speaker 2: in my home state where I live now, Maryland, the
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  Speaker 2: very blue state and with two Democratic senators. But we
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  Speaker 2: elected a popular Republican governor for two terms. You look
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  Speaker 2: at Kansas, which is one of the most red states
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  Speaker 2: in the country, but they have an incumbent Democratic governor.
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  Speaker 2: People want a certain sense of safety and security from
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  Speaker 2: knowing that all power has a certain check and a
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  Speaker 2: certain balance. And Donald Trump's use of his powers and
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  Speaker 2: focusing so much attention on himself is helping Democrats. Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: when Trump says, I want people to vote as if
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the ballot, sure, that helps with some MAGA loyalists.
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  Speaker 2: But there are a whole lot of Democrats who are
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  Speaker 2: curing that, saying, yeah, right. In Iowa, the Democratic candidate
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  Speaker 2: for the Senate is saying, yeah, come on in. I
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  Speaker 2: want Trump in the state because he helps me, and
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  Speaker 2: then he helps more than Republicans. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: longstanding trend in American politics and a healthy one.
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  Speaker 1: All right. ABC News political analyst Steve Roberts, thanks so
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  Speaker 1: much for your insight and information. Hopefully we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again before or directly after the election.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime. I'm happy to do it. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Let's get back to some of the stories
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Nobel Peace Prize
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  Speaker 1: winner Maria Corina Machado is back in Venezuela for the
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  Speaker 1: first time since December. She announced her return on social
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  Speaker 1: media saying, I am here with you. Opposition leader Imando
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez confirmed her arrival and expressed support. He emphasized the
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  Speaker 1: importance of her return for Venezuelans. Machado's homecoming comes amid
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  Speaker 1: growing concerns about Venezuela's democratic future. High-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
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  Speaker 1: and Turkey are in Tehran for talks aimed at preventing
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  Speaker 1: renewed fighting between Iran and Israel and the U.S. They're
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  Speaker 1: meeting today to push for a diplomatic agreement. The discussions
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  Speaker 1: will also address Yemen and attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.
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  Speaker 1: The diplomatic effort comes amid escalating threats ahead of Israel's
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  Speaker 1: election tomorrow and the U.S. midterms next week. Iran says
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  Speaker 1: diplomacy is possible but has so far rejected U.S. demands
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  Speaker 1: for surrender. A person in Germany has been arrested in
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  Speaker 1: connection with a fire that severely damaged Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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  Speaker 1: retreat in Bavaria.
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  Speaker 6: A smoke alarm alerted firefighters with nearly 200 responding to
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  Speaker 6: the remote mountain retreat over the weekend. Hitler used the
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  Speaker 6: guesthouse for Nazi-related meetings, but rarely visited. German police say
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  Speaker 6: no injuries were reported. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: New research shows taking melatonin or Ambien before surgery may
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  Speaker 1: lead to a better recovery. Findings presented in the Anesthesiology
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  Speaker 1: Annual Meeting this month show that improving sleep with one
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  Speaker 1: of the two sleep aids could ease anxiety while at
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  Speaker 1: the same time reduce pain after surgery. Researchers looked at
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  Speaker 1: a number of studies involving all kinds of surgeries between
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  Speaker 1: 2000 and last year to draw their conclusion. Melatonin was
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  Speaker 1: linked to less anxiety, pain, and inflammation in some surgeries,
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  Speaker 1: and less opioid use in some as well. Jennifer Kuiper,
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  Speaker 1: KFI News. Okay, this is perfect for leading up to Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Odds are most of us have slept in a bed.
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  Speaker 1: that someone died in.
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  Speaker 7: The hospitality industry doesn't keep records on death, but it's
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  Speaker 7: pretty likely you've slept in a bed where someone died.
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  Speaker 7: Hospitals report over 700,000 deaths per year. Las Vegas resorts
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  Speaker 7: report multiple deaths per month. And airlines report up to
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  Speaker 7: 72 natural or medical deaths on U.S. flights annually. Psychologists
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  Speaker 7: say there's no scientific evidence of echo energy from death,
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  Speaker 7: so any creep level you feel is on you. Bree Tennis,
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  Speaker 7: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: That's freaky. I don't think I've ever thought that before
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  Speaker 1: at a hotel room. Now that you think of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now I will.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Brie Tennis. When we come back, just
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  Speaker 1: like with everything else in the election cycle, the nastiness
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  Speaker 1: is just full force ahead. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to
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  Speaker 1: tell us why, if we all hate these ads so much,
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  Speaker 1: the candidates keep pumping out the negative ads.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
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  Speaker 3: AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Just over a week until Election Day. Have you filled
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  Speaker 1: out your ballots? Here's what we're following in the KFI
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  Speaker 1: 24-hour news. Your MetroLink has suspended service along the Orange
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  Speaker 1: County line between Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, and Oceanside. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that starts today because of the king tides expected along
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  Speaker 1: the southern coastline. Trains won't be running again until at
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  Speaker 1: least Saturday. Metrolink will not provide replacement bus service along
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  Speaker 1: the affected portion of the route. Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown
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  Speaker 1: is not going to spend any time in prison in
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  Speaker 1: connection with a fight in London at a nightclub in 2023.
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  Speaker 1: We're just getting word in that he avoided jail time.
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  Speaker 1: He was to be sentenced today. He pleaded guilty in
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  Speaker 1: July to a count of affray. whatever that is, for
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  Speaker 1: attacking a music producer with a bottle on the head.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the fight was caught on security camera in
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  Speaker 1: front of a club full of people. Brown's friend and
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  Speaker 1: vocal coach also pleaded guilty and is being sentenced today.
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  Speaker 2: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: And San Francisco are tied for the third riskiest place
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  Speaker 1: to drive in America. LendingTree data says San Diego came
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  Speaker 1: in second with 38 crashes per 1,000 drivers. Actually, it's
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  Speaker 1: 28 crashes per 1,000 drivers. It's 27 per 1,000 in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: and in San Francisco. Long Beach comes in at number
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  Speaker 1: 23 among the 50 largest cities. The national average is
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  Speaker 1: 18 crashes per 1,000. At 6.05, it's handled on the news.
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  Speaker 1: The Ninth Circuit Court is apparently questioning the basis for
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  Speaker 1: the federal government's request to block 20,000 ballots in California.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the ones that U.S. Assistant Attorney Bill Assele
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  Speaker 1: says are from non-citizens or believed to be from non-citizens
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  Speaker 1: who registered to vote. Bill's going to have the latest
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  Speaker 1: on that. So we're just a week and a day
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  Speaker 1: until election day. Although elections start now, we've got voting
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  Speaker 1: centers open all over L.A. County, so you can go
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  Speaker 1: and vote in person early. I like the in-person thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love the mail-in. I like that. I like
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  Speaker 1: the idea of Going to the location, casting that ballot, getting.
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  Speaker 8: A little button.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like lines, though, if it's busy, if you
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  Speaker 1: wait too long. That is true. That is true. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we're being bombarded. I mean, I don't know. How's
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  Speaker 1: your mailbox?
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  Speaker 3: Stuffed with crap.
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  Speaker 1: Stuffed with crap. No on this. Yes on this. What
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  Speaker 1: do we do? We got one the other day from
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  Speaker 1: the support public safety from the cops voter guide. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought, ooh, that might be a good one to
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  Speaker 1: kind of really take a look at. Handel is going
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about this today. Bill Handel on his show,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to break down some of the propositions because
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that you'll notice when you start
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  Speaker 1: getting into it is you look at the title of
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  Speaker 1: it and it might look good on the surface, but
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  Speaker 1: then you start digging around and you go, what? That's included?
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  Speaker 1: And so what I would encourage and implore people to do,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's so important to vote, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also important to educate yourself before you vote. And we're
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  Speaker 1: talking beyond the D's and the R's. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the property tax measures and propositions and fund this health
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  Speaker 1: care and pay for this education and do this and
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. And, hey, charge those billionaires, which apparently
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  Speaker 1: there's some hidden stuff in there that they can extend
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  Speaker 1: those taxes to beyond just the billionaires. So know what
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you're voting on when you vote. And like I said,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Handel's going to help break that down. on some of
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the big ballot initiatives. I'm calling it Handle on the Ballot.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: All that information is easy.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Just do a quick Google and you can really dive
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: in really easily.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And I think one of the other things is that
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: if you just look at the wording on the ballot,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that doesn't give you enough information. You really got to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: dig a little bit.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: And look at who paid for what.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Look at who paid for what. Absolutely. And just know
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: what you're voting for. I mean, is it going to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: create a new tax? Is it going to create a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: new level of bureaucracy? How's it going to be paid for?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And is the money actually going to go where it's
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: supposed to? Because I know that in years past, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen this, they go, oh, we're going
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to fund, and I'm just saying this as an example,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: we're going to fund public transportation. OK, great. But the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: money isn't actually dedicated to that. It's like general fund money.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And they go and our goal is to use it
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: for education. But really, if they want to siphon it
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: off and use it somewhere else, they can. So make
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: sure that if there's money that's going to a thing
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: that you believe in, that it's allocated to the thing
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that you believe in. So that's all. That's my little
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: rant on Election Day. I think it's like I said,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: it's so important to vote, but know what you're voting for.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The CHP has
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: activated an Amber Alert to help the Westminster Police Department
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: find a six-year-old boy believed to have been taken by
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: his grandfather. The boy's name is Joseph Garcia. He was
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: last seen yesterday afternoon at West Collins Avenue and North
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Lemon Street in Orange. He's 3'7, 65 pounds, brown hair,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: brown eyes. His grandfather is 47-year-old Frank Ramirez. He's 5'6,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: 180 pounds. and has black hair and hazel eyes. He
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: drives a blue 1995 GMC Sonoma pickup with California plates
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that end in 127. A federal appeals court has ruled
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: President Trump's deployment of the California National Guard to Los
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Angeles last year was unlawful.
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: The two-to-one ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: Appeals follows precedents set by the Supreme Court last year,
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: holding that the administration didn't meet the legal criteria to
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: deploy troops to Chicago. The ruling Friday in San Francisco
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: reverses an earlier decision in favor of the Trump administration,
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: with the court saying the administration has not carried their burden.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: Governor Gavin Newsom called the ruling a crucial day for
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: the rule of law. Rich Cassone, KFI News.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass is talking about crime stats today. She and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the city's public safety leaders are expected to highlight what
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: they say are significant decreases in crime, including a 47
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: percent drop in homicides. and a 50% drop in shootings
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: across the city compared to before Bass took office. The
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: announcements are expected later this morning. A couple from Orange
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: County has admitted to trafficking wildlife.
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: An Anaheim husband and wife have pleaded guilty to trafficking
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: protected wildlife between Oregon and Vietnam. Lin Liu and Kevin
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: Lay have each been sentenced to three years probation and
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: fined $ 10, 000. According to court documents, the couple processed over
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: $ 50, 000 over two years.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: To help someone in Vietnam bring wildlife items to and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: from Oregon, including American black bear gallbladders, lion teeth, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: cougar bones. Jennifer Kuiper, KFI News. What is wrong with people?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has returned to the state of California to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: hit the campaign trail here.
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: At what organizers called the Take It Back rally, Newsom
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: was one of the headliners.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Our founding fathers did not live and die to see
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: this republic go the way that Donald Trump wants it
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: to go.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: He, alongside Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, fired shots at President Trump.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: This guy's not screwing around. The right is ruthless. You
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: know that. These guys are ruthless.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: It is all on the line this November.
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: The election is just one week away on Tuesday, November 3rd.
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, we got one of the Wake Up Call listeners
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: hit us up on the talkback. Of course, we love
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: it when you weigh in on the talkback, as long
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: as you're nice. It's on the iHeartRadio app. It's the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: upper right-hand corner. There's a little microphone. You can just
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: hit that and you can leave a message for us.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: But we were talking about election and making sure that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you cast your ballots, whether you do it in person
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: or do it by mail-in. And this guy says he's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: got an issue now with his mail-in voting.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Oops.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This guy has an
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: issue with his mail-in voting.
• 23:55
  Speaker 12: No, I didn't fill out my ballot.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: You know why?
• 23:57
  Speaker 12: Because I have one of those stupid French bulldogs that
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: gets into everything and shredded it to shreds. Must be
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: a liberal. Doesn't want me to vote. But now I
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: got to go vote in person, which is no big deal.
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: But those dang dogs, I swear, don't ever get one.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think the dogs take sides.
• 24:20
  Speaker 13: The dog ate his homework.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: The dog ate his homework. I love that. Again, you
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: can weigh in anytime on the iHeartRadio app. We love
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to hear from our Wake Up Call listeners.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: AM 640.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: coastal flood advisory and warning is in effect until Thursday afternoon.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: From Orange County and south, it's a warning. North of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Orange County, it's an advisory. The National Weather Service says
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: significant coastal flooding is expected this week. It warns that
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: low-lying property, including homes... businesses and some critical infrastructure will
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: be inundated and some shoreline erosion will happen in the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: morning hours senator adam schiff has called for secretary of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: war pete hegseth to testify before the senate on the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: starlink restrictions for ukraine ukraine has said that its starlink
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: satellite system and its military star shield system are now
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: fully functional again Ukrainian officials said Saturday the country was
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: physically unable to use Starlink for long- and medium-range attack
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: drone operations in its war against Russia during the restrictions.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: The game must go on, and it did. The Pittsburgh
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Steelers beat the New Orleans Saints 16-10 at Stade de France.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Even as protests raged around the country, while there were
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: about 1,000 protesters arrested over the weekend, No problems were
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: reported as thousands of football fans packed the stadium in Paris.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Following a bye week, the Chargers are going to take
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans at SoFi Stadium this Sunday. Kickoff
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is at 1 o'clock, and guess what? You can listen
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to the game right here on KFI AM 640. Here's
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: what's coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. A woman
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: from South L.A. has agreed to plead guilty to charges
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that she falsely claimed she was kidnapped by ICE agents.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say 42-year-old Yuriana Calderon made up a story about
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: being kidnapped by ICE back in July of last year
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to try to make the administration's illegal immigration enforcement look bad,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and they say to try to get people to donate
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: money to her. She was spotted on video surveillance leaving
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the Jack in the Box where her lawyer had said
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that she was taken into custody. She could get up
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to five years in prison for her guilty plea.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: The L.A.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: County Fire Department and the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: have announced the death of a search dog named Deacon.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: They say he died during surgery to remove a tumor
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: on his spleen. The black lab was about a year
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: old when he was donated to the SDF just after
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Christmas in 2016. His handlers say he was a natural
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: at disaster search work and an easygoing boy adored by
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: his trainers. The tumor was discovered just days after his
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: 11th birthday. Fresh off the release of its first ever
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: foldable phone, Apple is getting ready for yet another product launch.
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: This one is set for Wednesday in Los Angeles. The
• 27:15
  Speaker 14: Pro Intel event is expected to feature new touchscreen MacBooks,
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: a new iPad mini, and Macs with M6 chips. Tammy Trujillo,
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: KFI News.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing that our tech guy, Rich DeMuro, is going
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to be there for that. So hopefully he'll check in
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: from there when we talk to him because we talk
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to him every Wednesday morning. Both multi-state lotto jackpots are
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: getting pretty high. No one won the Powerball jackpot Saturday,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: so that jackpot is up to $ 687 million for tonight's drawing.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: The Mega Millions jackpot is up to $ 443 million for
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: tomorrow night's drawing. Time to get in your business now,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: as we do each weekday morning. Say good morning to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Matt Piper.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Morning, Matt.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Hi, Matt.
• 28:01
  Speaker 13: Hi, can you hear me?
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, we can hear you now. We can hear you now.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, was that Verizon's thing? Can you hear me now?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: That was Verizon, wasn't it? Oh my gosh, this is perfect.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: It is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 13: Wow, you are all about a good tease, and here
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: we are.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Here we are. Verizon apparently doing pretty well right now.
• 28:19
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so it's raising its forecasts after a big jump
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: in phone customers. Verizon reported its strongest third quarter performance
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: in wireless customer additions for five years. It added 406,000
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: monthly phone lines. It raised full-year guidance for several key metrics,
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: including monthly phone net additions, profit, cash flow, and mobile
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: and broadband service revenue growth. Verizon's total operating revenue rose 1.5%
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: to $ 34. 3 billion.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: That makes me wonder why so many people are jumping
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: over to Verizon. Did they just have a really great
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: deal or something? Because, you know, they're not necessarily new customers.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: They're probably jumping over from AT & T and T-Mobile.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: And then they get excited when they hear about a
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: new iPhone. And then it says, hey, get a new
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: phone with a new plan. And then, you know, the
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: ball rolls.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, good news from Verizon. Bad news if
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you love bananas.
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I know. This is going to wake people up.
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: So the CEO of Chiquita Brands says the industry is
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: facing extreme weather conditions and geopolitical disruptions. making it more
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: expensive to produce tropical fruit. Now, the CEO predicts the
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: industry will sell fewer bananas next year and likely at
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: a higher cost, which could mean higher prices for consumers. Now,
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: this industry has faced slim margins for years, and companies
• 29:36
  Speaker 13: have had to absorb increased costs for fuel, fertilizer, of course,
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: as we've been talking about for months, as well as
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: packaging without passing them on to customers so far. But
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: they say next year is a different story.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And here's a fun fact. Most of the bananas consumed
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: in the U.S. are imported from Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and Honduras.
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: I'm applying for Jeopardy right now for you.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I only know that because of the Google. Elvis is
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: speaking of high tech stuff. Elvis is suing AI. Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 13: So the owners of his music sued Anthropic, alleging the
• 30:13
  Speaker 13: AI giant used his songs to train its models without permission.
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: We've heard this done with other ones. This is one
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: of the biggest, though. So the lawsuit claims that Anthropic,
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: the tech behemoth behind Clawed, infringed 274 of the rock
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: legends copyrighted songs, including hits like can't help falling in
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: love a little less conversation and don't be cruel. So
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: that's what Elvis is. People are saying, Hey, AI don't
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: be cruel. But then AI is like, Hey, I'm a computer.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: I don't care.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Okay. Uh, dominoes and Minecraft are teaming up.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: So Minecraft pizza boxes are dropping today along with certain
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: items like stuffed bread and wings and, There are six
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: Minecraft boxes, including Soul Creeper, Pig, and Zombie. They'll all
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: be available while supplies last and have a QR code
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: for in-game skins as well.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I hope people don't start collecting those boxes. That's going
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to be weird.
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it'll start to smell real soon.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And is this true? Americans just don't have as much
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of a sweet tooth this year?
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: I mean, at least when it comes to higher priced candy.
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: So candy sales for Halloween are off this slow start
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: because of, of course, the high cost of everything, right?
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: Because they're stupid expensive. Yeah, everything is expensive. Go to Costco,
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: get a whole thing of candy. It's crazy expensive. So
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: candy sales fell 6.7% in the month ending October 17th.
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: That's compared to the same period last year. And it's
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: according to Nielsen IQ. That's a market research firm. It
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: says high gas prices have worsened Americans' concerns about affordability.
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: And that's, of course, dampening demand for Halloween treats. So
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: it looks like the kids might be getting Doritos this year.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what I've noticed at the grocery store, too,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: is that it used to be like you get candy
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: on sale for like $ 3. 99 for a little bag. Now
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: it's $ 5. 99, $ 6. 99. And that's just for the individual candy bars.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Those mixed bags are like $ 25 now. They're crazy expensive.
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: It's true.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: If you want the variety, you got to spend a lot.
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: You know, just the Reese's, the Almond Joy, all of
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: it in one pack. It's a lot.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Reese's.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Matt Piper, thanks so much for getting in your
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: business with us this morning. We'll talk to you soon.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: I'll see you soon.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Just like with every other election cycle, the nastiness comes out.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan's going to tell us why, if we
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: all hate these ads so much, why the candidates keep
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: pumping them out. Jim's going to join us next to explain.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: You're listening to Wake Up Call On Demand from KFI
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: AM 640.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Two
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: people in Montclair have been killed and two others were
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: hurt when a suspected drunk driver crashed into a group
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of around 30 bicyclists who were out on a Halloween ride.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: It happened late Saturday night at the intersection of Kingsley
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Street and Tudor Avenue. Maria Karina Machado's return to Venezuela
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: after months in exile. The Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Peace Prize recipient announced her arrival on X, posting, I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: am here with you. Machado left the country last December
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: under the protection of a U.S. rescue team. She has
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: tried unsuccessfully to return to the country several other times.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Clayface looking pretty good at the box office. The new film,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: based on the DC Comics character, opened in first place
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: with $ 24 million in ticket sales. Nathan Fielder's documentary about
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was in second in its second
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: week of release. You Can See Everything earned $ 19 million.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: That tops the almost $ 16 million it earned in its
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: first weekend in theaters, probably because of all the buzz.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: And I succumbed to the buzz and went and saw
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it this weekend.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that more this week. Let's say good
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim... Just like
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: with every other election cycle, the nastiness is front and center.
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and maybe because it's only eight days or 192
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: hours until the midterm election. Yeah, it's getting late. And
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: so the candidates know that they need to shake things
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: up if they haven't gotten the voters' attention. If their
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: supporters don't seem motivated to get to the polls, then, yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: out comes the negative campaigning. We saw maybe the most
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: notable example this past week. when Ohio Senate candidate Vivek
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: Ramaswamy posted the ad against his opponent, in which Amy
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Acton's mother says that she is a liar.
• 34:48
  Speaker 15: And she can't help you if she needs help herself.
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there was a backlash almost immediately. President Trump has
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: jumped in and said that Ramaswamy should keep that ad up.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think that that That controversy came out
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: last week. I think the interesting thing about it, too,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: is that Ramaswamy is now saying, well, I didn't start it,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that she started it with an ad against his mom.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: When you start bringing families into it and relatives and parents,
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: you know.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: Well, who's going to make the rules, though? Who's going
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: to say, well, that's off limits. You can't post that ad.
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: You shouldn't be putting that together about your opponent's family.
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: There's nobody there really to govern that except the voters.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: So if they're that turned off by it, if the
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: voters are, then they'll cast their ballots for the other candidate.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: But so why do we keep seeing it if we're
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: so turned off, Amy, by negative ads? Well, political scientist
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: Matt Wilson of SMU has a theory.
• 35:49
  Speaker 16: If people didn't respond to them, candidates would stop running them.
• 35:53
  Speaker 16: But the reality is blasting your opponent often pays more
• 35:57
  Speaker 16: dividends than talking about what a great guy you And
• 36:01
  Speaker 16: candidates aren't dumb. They respond to the incentives that are
• 36:04
  Speaker 16: out there in the electorate.
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: But a lot of times, it's not just a matter
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: of trying to get people to vote for you. It's
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: a matter of at least attracting attention, getting voters to
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: do a little research on the opponent and say, is
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: that really true in.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: This case?
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  Speaker 8: So it's not so much that you're trying to get
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  Speaker 8: votes as attention and hope then that attention and a
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  Speaker 8: little research leads to a vote for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we were talking with Steve Roberts earlier
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  Speaker 1: about The campaigns and what's at stake and and how
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  Speaker 1: the ads are presented and stuff. And he was saying
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the ads for the Senate and
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  Speaker 1: House Democrats are just not even about their opponent. They're
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  Speaker 1: all about Trump. And obviously negative ads, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: even against the person that they're running against.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 8: And increasingly, I mean, as Trump's poll numbers have dropped,
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  Speaker 8: you see a lot of Republican candidates who are not
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  Speaker 8: mentioning Trump the way that they were before, right? Before
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  Speaker 8: they were kind of writing his coattails and featuring him
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  Speaker 8: prominently in their ads and images of them shaking hands
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  Speaker 8: with Trump. Now you really don't see that so much
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  Speaker 8: in some of these races. In places where he's very
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  Speaker 8: popular still here in Texas, for example, Ken Paxton's ads
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  Speaker 8: do still mention Trump. And in other places that are
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  Speaker 8: maybe more on the bubble, you don't see that happening.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well- I wish we could all learn to play nice
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  Speaker 1: in the sandbox, but that doesn't look like that's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen anytime soon.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, good luck.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Let me be Pollyannian. 192 hours.
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  Speaker 2: 192, right?
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  Speaker 1: I know we've got people weighing in on the talk
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  Speaker 1: back seven days till Election Day. Yeah, it's the countdown
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  Speaker 1: because we're sick of the ads and all the mailboxes
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  Speaker 1: being inundated with the materials and all that. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much, Jim Ryan. We'll talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: See you, Amy.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The first 20 speed enforcement
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  Speaker 1: cameras around Los Angeles will start catching drivers going 11
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  Speaker 1: mph or more over the speed limit starting today. Warnings
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  Speaker 1: will be sent out for the first 60 days of
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  Speaker 1: the program. After that, fines will start at $ 50 for
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  Speaker 1: 11 to 15 miles over the speed limit. They'll go
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  Speaker 1: up to $ 500 for drivers who are going 100 mph
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  Speaker 1: or more. The city plans to eventually install 125 cameras
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  Speaker 1: around the city. California is getting sued over its new
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  Speaker 1: social media label.
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  Speaker 15: NetChoice, which represents social media giants Meta and Google, is
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  Speaker 15: suing to stop warning labels about mental health risks for
• 38:30
  Speaker 15: users under 18. They argue that the law that starts
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: January 1st violates free speech by forcing platforms to share
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  Speaker 15: the state's message when the science is still debated. The
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  Speaker 15: law requires warnings telling young users that social media may
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  Speaker 15: harm their mental health and isn't proven safe. Lisa Carton,
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  Speaker 15: KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown has avoided prison time in London
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  Speaker 1: for a fight at a nightclub in 2023. He got
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: an eight-month sentence today, and it was suspended for a year.
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  Speaker 1: Brown pleaded guilty in July to hitting a music producer
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  Speaker 1: on the head with a bottle of tequila. Prosecutors say
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  Speaker 1: the fight was caught on security video in front of
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  Speaker 1: a club full of people. Brown's friend and vocal coach
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  Speaker 1: also pleaded guilty and is being sentenced today. Cal State
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  Speaker 1: is offering a new bachelor's degree... At San Quentin.
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  Speaker 9: Governor Gavin Newsom welcomed the first group of 34 students
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: to seek bachelor degrees through Cal State Los Angeles at
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The program is supported by San Quentin.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: new Learning Center, which opened this year. The California Department
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: of Corrections and Rehabilitation offers programs from high school equivalency
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: through master's degrees. A recent report from the Public Policy
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  Speaker 9: Institute of California found that prisoners who took college courses
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: were over 30 percent more likely to have jobs after release.
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  Speaker 9: In his welcome statement, Governor Newsom said it's important that
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: those individuals leave better prepared to contribute to their community.
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  Speaker 9: Rich Cassone, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: Newly released files from the Pentagon detail UFO or UAP
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  Speaker 1: sightings over Catalina Island in the 40s and 50s.
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  Speaker 6: A report from three Boy Scouts in August of 1952
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  Speaker 6: says that the group claimed to see a silver object
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  Speaker 6: fly faster than a typical jet at an unknown altitude.
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  Speaker 6: A report from 1953 says that a man says he
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: saw a round purplish-white object over the island remaining stationary
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  Speaker 6: before moving towards Los Angeles. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
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  Speaker 1: This is not news. I mean, didn't you all see
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Disclosure Day? Hello. Okay, so we were talking about the
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: high cost of candy and how people just aren't buying
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: as much. And why is that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Amy, it seems people are not spending that much
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: on Halloween this year. Yeah. I bought a bag of
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: 100 grand, about 10 or 11 ounces, candy bars, mini
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: fun bars, $ 7. The big bags of mixed chocolate bars
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: that do not have those candy bars in there anymore
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: in the mix, $ 25 for those bags. Decorations at a
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: big box store, usually the latest, greatest decorations you have
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: to scoop up in August. And I went there a
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: week ago, half price.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we noticed that too, that Halloween decorations were at
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: half price because they've already moved on to Christmas. And
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to move on now because it's time for
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Handle on the News. Thanks for joining us for Wake
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• 41:20
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• 41:23
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