What's Trending: Los Angeles Wildfires

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The freshshell. This is what's trending, all right. So wildfires
in southern California. I mean the photos are jarring. More
than two thousand homes, businesses, and other buildings have been
damaged or destroyed, and at least five people are dead
in the wildfires scorching communities across Los Angeles County, making

(00:20):
this one of the most destructive firestorms to hit the region.
The bodies were found in different structures in Altadena, where
the Eton fire exploded Tuesday night, giving residents little time
to flee. It's estimated that more than a thousand structures
have been destroyed in the Palisades fire and another thousand
either damaged or destroyed in the Eaten fire, So they

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got two going on. One hundred thousand residents were forced
to evacuate. Red flag warnings remain in effect for La
County and much of Ventura County through today, with officials
warning of life threatening, destructive, and widespread windstorms. Because that's
another thing. You've got winds. You're blowing up to one
hundred miles an hour. The gusts are up to ninety

(01:03):
nine I think it was wins will linger and become
more widespread in the coming days. There's controversy though, because
the LA mayor, Karen Bass is refusing to answer questions
after being pressed on where the hell she was. I
guess she wasn't even around or visible during the beginning
of all of this. I don't know if she was
on vacation or something, but it's like, yeah, you need
to head on back from Cabo or whatever whatever you

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were doing to do your mayor job. But there's controversy
about that. The entertainment industry is being affected, of course
by the wildfires. A lot to unpack about what's going on.
You've got the Chargers donating two hundred thousand dollars at
the relief fund. The team says the money will go
to several LA programs designed to assist evacuees, first responders,

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animal rescue, and clean up cruise. Bethany Frankel's charity be
Strong has partnered with the Global Empowerment Mission to help
distribute aid and critical supplies to those in need. BAFTAM
has canceled its tea party, which is scheduled for Saturday
at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. Yeah, we
can skip them. Production on the Warner Brothers. Latin verbankis
pause because of the fires. This halt of production on

(02:09):
Abbott Elementary all American. Excuse me, Oh yeah, oh you
got to get out there with your hose, yeah, sir,
with somebody firing airfread the Putt Putt plane fired up. Jason,
get a bucket, they need it. This is unbelievable. The
pit and Georgie and Mandy's first marriage all suspended. ABC
has suspend it production on Gray's Anatomy and Doctor Odyssey,

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and canceled yesterday's taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live Hacks. Actress
Gene Smart's calling on networks set to televised upcoming award
shows to skip the telecasts and instead donate the revenue
to victims and firefighters affected by the fires. Former President
Jimmy Carter will be honored today in Washington, DC his
official state funeral. The thirty ninth president of the US
died at age one hundred on December twenty ninth. And

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I don't mean to be morbid, but I guess I've
been amazed lately at I didn't realize you could, like
a body could like hang around that long, Like I
didn't I didn't realize. I thought when somebody passed away,
like you had to like handle it. Oh no, but
that was that was three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's embalmed.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
So then you can just it just chills.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, like embalming will help. Well, he's certainly chilling.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, right, Like I'm not trying to be morbid. But
let me I had a friend passed away a few
months ago, and it was like, you passed away like
three weeks prior, and then we had the funeral where
they had the funeral, and I was like, well, surely
it's you know, we're not gonna Oh no, he was.
He was there. He was very much there.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Remember I told you Lisa Mary Pressley kept her son's
body in her home for like months after he died
because she had him embombed at the house.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
And she was like, didn't want to.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Like, let go, I didn't know that's all you just
did that and then you're just good to go. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
It's essentially what we do with botox too. It's like,
excuse me, sim that's a similar ingredient.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
To that's a great idea. Then let's just let's just
put that in our faces so we look younger temporarily.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, it freezes your face.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, pretty, I'm cancelling my appointment. Actually it's in my
under arms, so I guess my under arms are gonna
look pretty forever. Yeah, it helps with the sweating. It's
a good idea. Yeah, and my under arms have never
looked more supple, honestly and type. You know, it's unbelievable.
People are always commenting, Yeah, why do you think I
cut the I cut the armpits out of all. I
want everyone to see you. That's why I wear a

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tank top every single day. I cut off tee. Cases
of respiratory illness COVID nineteen seasonal flu are increasing in
most parts of the US. I feel like I've sounded
like this for about six weeks and there's nothing I
can do about it. According to the CDC, emergency room
visits for the flu and respiratory viruses RSV are very high.
Health Health experts recommend that individuals at a higher risk

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for developing severe disease from COVID nineteen and influenza should
get tested as soon as their symptoms start so that
they can begin prompt anti viral treatment. Netflix is saying,
I guess as is Nielsen that NFL is ruling the
television and Jason bren I know you know that. Yeah,
and you were part of it because as our president
of sports supporting you, my friend, I know, cannot stop

(05:05):
watching the NFL. Yep, I'm the reason I got people
to watch it, me and Taylor Swift. Yeah, well that
there might be something to that. Yeah. I always ask
when I see like a Chiefs fan or I meet
a new Chiefs fan, I'm like, hey, are you are
you happy about the Taylor thing? Or like, are you
welcoming to the mass of people that don't know anything
about this that are now claiming to be Chiefs fans?
Or are you annoyed by it? Because I gotta think

(05:26):
that there are probably people going to Chiefs games now
or maybe try and see Taylor that like don't care,
but then real fans can't get in. Ticket prices are going.
You gotta think that's been happening right, Oh yeah, yeah,
she put them on the map. I didn't even know
who they were. Today you have it. As our president
of sports reporting, he discovered it because of Taylor. He
discovered sports because of Taylor. Netflix recently announced that it
marked to it's most watched Christmas Day ever, thanks to

(05:48):
NFL matchups that day. Neilsen is saying that seventy two
of the one hundred most watched broadcasts of twenty twenty
four are all NFL games. The number one spot going
to last February Super Bowl. And I know that Belahamin
doesn't want to hear about that, but the four nine
Ers and the Kansas City Chiefs number one spot one
hundred and twenty three point seven million views.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
I bet Beyonce had a lot to do with the
Christmas Day Netflix numbers. Yeah right, yeah, I mean she
crossed it.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
That's all I watched.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
If you're a coffee drinker, then you need to drink
it in the morning. We have probably done in the
fourteen years of this show, and like in the twenty
some years I've done morning radio, I've probably done fifty
different versions of this story. This oneed red Wine. It's
coffee gonna kill one day, is gonna kill me the
next day? It's not same with red wine. One day. Yeah,

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I'm gonna live forever. And then and I'm embalmed already,
and then the next day you drink. Now, you're not
supposed to drink like bottles at a time. I'm told,
I guess the serving size is a glass and not
a bottle of right one. I'm just trying to educate
you guys, But don't drink coffee all day. Scientists track
people's health for ten years and split them into three categories,
people who only drink coffee in the morning, people who

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drank it all day, and people who didn't drink it
at all. The morning coffee drinkers had a sixteen percent
lower risk of dying for any reason and a thirty
one percent lower risk of dying from heart disease compared
to the non coffee group, but the benefits disappeared for
people who drank coffee all day, So having your last
cup before noon could save your life. Coffee drinkers saw
the biggest moderate coffee drinkers rather, so the biggest benefits, say,

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defined moderators two to three cups each morning, which this
is a gallon. I don't know how many cups that is.
When I have in my hand right now from Duncan
is a gallon. So I think I'm going to die soon.
Oh lord, yeah, But at least Calein knows she can
just pump me up with botox and I'll just prop
me up like weekend at Bernie's. I'll be fine. Peachey,
Australia's largest adult toy store, has analyzed Google search data.

(07:43):
I never heard I've never heard of them, but I'm
gonna have to go there. For journalistic purposes, they can
pile a list of the ten most sexually curious states
based on who's searching for spicy items and asking sex
related questions. And according to the study, what would you
guess is the number one? According to that most sexually
curious state of all the states, Utah yep, Yes, I

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know it, yep, yep, scoring a perfect one hundred. The
high ranking might be due to the large population of
people in the state who are part of the Mormon Church.
Seemingly starved for basic sex education, They're hitting up Google
for a lot of private knowledge, especially in states like Utah.
New York is right behind Utah, Sim City, Las Vegas

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after that, Washington is after that. I guess it is
Washington State. Yeah, so Georgia, Yeah, there you go. So
those are all the people are looking for stuff. It's
a National Balloon Ascension Day, commemorates the first balloon flight
in the United States in seventeen ninety three. Oh yeah,

(08:46):
you know that, it's your day, babe. I love a
hotter Biden, you were going to get your license.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's your saying you guys. That was the hardest I've
ever left.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
I have never seen a room of people laugh harder
where we talked about. I don't know what is it
a visual?

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yes, like I did picture you in like a top
hat and like a purple suit, and I think Pauline.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
A photoshopped at it was real.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's a real.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
No, that's a real basket, Like, come on, kids, Why
I gotta be kids?

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Why I had to be can have to be kid?
Why did kids? Why are we saying hello kids? Why
can't it be hello naked women? Like come on, romantic date?
Maybe he's you know, yes, doesn't have to be kids, basket.
I know, Kiki, you were not here for this. It
was many years ago. But I am a pilot and
I it was COVID and I was bored and I
was looking for stuff to do, and I so I

(09:38):
was like, you can get a license to fly a
hot air balloon, like if the FAA gives licenses for them,
and there's a place in the suburbs that will train.
You had to be a hot air balloon pilot, which, again,
pilot is sort of a loose term, you know, because
you don't really have any control over which direction you're going, right,
you just turned the fire on it off, right basically.
I mean, I'm sure there's a balloon pilot right now
that's saying that. It's a little more complicated than that,

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but yeah, yeah, that's what he's saying right now. Come on, kids,
He's also on a list that you don't want to
be on. Please call up here. If you know how
to fly hot air balloon, please call it. I would
love to talk to someone that.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
I'm supposed to go soon. Oh yeah, yeah, And I
was very concerned.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Wait soon, yeah? The reason ninety outside no listen.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
So in March, my friend Monique is having a birthday
weekend in Arizona, and so she's planning out her our
itinerary what to do when she sent back a hot
air ballow ride, and I was concerned about the white
limit because I'm like, hold on nests me to get
up there.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
What kind of balloon is going to carry all?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
It is is not going on?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
So, yes, I was planning to talk to you about
this actually, So.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I mean I have done it. I haven't piloted it.
Actually I actually jumped out of it. Oh like literally
I wore a like I have a sky out of license.
I wore a parachute and there's a video of it,
so I'm a picture. Yeah. But like we went up
to like you know whatever, it is two three thousand
feet and we jumped out the hot air balloon.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
And who brought it back? Like who landed the balloon?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
If you'll jump one of the pilot the balloon pilot
like that, you let yeah, no, he just yeah, he
was just chilling.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't know. Something about a wicker basket and flames
in the sky doesn't feel right.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
No, it doesn't. It doesn't seem like a great idea. No.
But anyway, so I was like it was sporting. I
was like, oh, you can, you can. I can become
a pilot of a balloon. So I was gonna and
you guys, I got roasted for like seventeen weeks on
the roasted Yes. And then then they have gliders out there,
and I wound up doing that instead because I didn't
want to get made fun of anymore. Gliders are gangster.
A blimp was like an option. Yes, right, you can

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get a blimp license. But I don't know how to
do that because I don't know think there are very
many blimps out there. Oh okay, I would. I would
get a blimp license. I want all the licenses. I'm
like a girl scout pilot, girl scout, I want all
the licenses. I don't know, you never know. I mean, look,
that's true. Things may not work out around here, and
I may need to be the balloon Pilo in Arizona.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Getting the spaceship flattest thing.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, that's I'm finding that too. They got to give
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