October 26, 2025 • 34 mins
Tiffany is covering for Chris Merrill and she has the best places to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos in SoCal, animals trick or treating in Petsmart, and the newest bizarre Netflix documentary. It's all on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tiffany Hobbs here till seven, filling in for Chris Merrill,
who's out looking for unique Halloween costumes. At least that's
what he told me. He might deny it now, but
we had a long conversation. I was giving him some
ideas and I told him, probably don't be the sperm
cell that seems to be a popular one. Don't be
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the sperm cell nothing toilet theme. There are a lot
of manchini costumes. You know what a man keene is.
It's literally one piece of cloth that goes around your
upper end.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You're lower speedo.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's a speedo, but it's connected to like a halter
top loo sexy. And Chris says he's been really working
out and that he wanted to show off the goods.
And I said, well, Chris, it might be cold. It
might be cold. And he said, Tiffany, God got no.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hope for you.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And I said, well, I have a lot of hope
for you. We'll see what he comes up with or
down with. We'll see what he does. But I'm here
at any rate till seven, and we're gonna continue our
Halloween themed show with a scam. We'ren't our Scammer's gonna
scam segment, and we're gonna talk about a scary scam
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that is the newest thing you should look out for.
And I think it actually I think I was a
victim of this, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's called ghost tapping.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ghost tapping, and the quizzical look on your faces lets
me know you don't know what this is, which means
you are ripe for the scamming. Like I said, I
think it got me. And here's why. There's a new
scam targeting those who use contactless payment. That's where you
take your card and you tap it on the machine.
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You have little that little what is that on the
back of your debit card. It's like a little square chip,
thank you, And all you have to do. We even
have one here in our kitchen is tap your card
and it reads all the information. In some cases you
don't even have to put in your past word or
your pass code number. You just tap, it generates the
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payment and off you go with the thing. Well, the
Better Business Bureau is warning people that this sort of
device is a part of this new scam that when
people are making purchases with tap to pay is causing
us to be separated from our money. The scam, dubbed
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ghost tapping, exploits the convenience of tap to pay credit
cards and debit cards and mobile wallets by using wireless
technology to withdraw money from unsuspecting victims like you and I,
often without any direct contact.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You don't even know until it's too late.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Victims may only notice unauthorized transactions after substantial amounts have
been taken from their accounts, as scammers frequently conduct small
and less noticeable withdrawals to evade fraud detection systems. Here's
why I say, I think this happened to me last week,
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or maybe I think it was last week. Early last week,
I got an alert from my bank because I have
that system set up where that if there's like fraud protection,
right there's something awry, my bank will alert me. And
I woke up to a text message I woke up
in the middle of the night, get up, use the restroom,
check my phone. Glad I did, because I got this
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alert at like four o'clock in the morning saying that
there was actually were two unauthorized payments made on my
card around two am.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now I know. I was in shock at two am.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I know I wasn't out of the house at two am,
and no one has my card information, so of course
scam red flag.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So I'm up.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now I'm looking at it, and there's nothing you can
really do at four am, so I was like, I
can put this off until I get up officially, and
I did. I called my bank and we talked, and
they told me that there were a series of charges,
a couple that were really or one that was really
small in quantity and like four dollars, and then two
that were over one hundred dollars and for places that
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aren't even here in California, out of state places, and
they started questioning me about the legitimacy of the charges.
Of course, I'm like no, no, no, and they're like,
we got you fraud. You know, we'll file all the
necessary everything, you'll get it all. They weren't even able
to make the transaction because they didn't have your pin code,
but it was an attempt on it, so we've temporary
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locked your card and now we can unlock it, YadA,
YadA YadA.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I was like, should I get a new card?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And they were like, no, what happened was I have
a digital card. That was all this digitizing and all
this can be very confusing. I like a physical card.
We all want our thing in our hand. We all
want our card in our hand. Okay, kay, let grow up.
I'm sorry the way you said it in your hand
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gesture at the same time, it's just I'm gonna grab
tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We all want our thing in our hand, our card
in our hand. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And if for some reason you misplaced lose your card,
what banks are doing have been doing for a whiles
they issue you a digital card. What that means is
you have all of the information on a physical card
in your phone or basically in the app. And what
you can do is you can use your phone as
the card temporarily until you are issued your physical card.
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That's what happened to me. Six months ago or so,
lost a card, canceled that card. They send me this
digital card through the interwebs, and boom, I have the
ability to pay now when I receive the the physical card,
I stopped using the digital card, didn't need it anymore,
but it was still in my phone. And I don't
know how a scammer. They're very sophisticated these scammers. But
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what's being said here is that even with a digital card,
there's an ability for scammers to more or less walk
past you, tap you, bump into you, and that simple
movement or contact with you that you don't even realize.
You're at the grocery store and you just get bumped
into it's crowded, or you're at a venue, an event,
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whatever it is where it's crowded, that these card readers
that they have can somehow tap into ghost tap into
your digital card as well, and extract payment toward whatever
they have your payment information. Again, it's all above my
pay grade, but it is something to be wary of.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
This is why all of this matters. Ghost threatens the
millions of us who rely on contact list payments for
our daily transactions. Tap to pay became popular during COVID.
None of us wanted to touch anything, so we were just
boop tapping and going. And the rise of this usage
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and the the co what's the word I'm looking for?
The connection to the scam shows that technological advances can
also introduce new risks. Now because the scam can occur
in everyday situations such as being at the grocery store,
being on or around public transportation, being in crowded spaces,
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the potential for financial loss is widespread, and the BBB
has a scam tracker that has gone on to collect
multiple reports of this ghost tapping, including an incident where
a scammer posed as a charity vendor how low can
you go and only accept it from the people who
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were donating out of the goodness of their heart, tapped
to pay, and then this scammer applied unauthorized charges ranging
from just over five hundred dollars to just over one
thousand dollars to the victim's accounts. Victims often discover the
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payments and the fraud days or weeks later because the
initial amounts are kept small initially and slit past bank
security systems. So how can you avoid ghosts tapping? There
are several ways to prevent this type of scam, including
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getting those really hardware esque protective wallets. They are r
FID blocking wallets. You can order them from Amazon. R
f I D blocking wallets. These are like k for
your cards, and they're enshrined in some sort of plastic
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or hardware that prevents these machines from being able to
tap you when you have your card in your in
your pocket or your purse and being able to extract information,
and they're saying that that can help prevent unwarranted wireless transactions.
Consumers should also try, sorry, try to limit tap to
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pay usage in crowded or high risk environments and instead
go back to using the swipe method. Okay, we go
from don't use swipe to use swipe, don't use tap
to use tap, whatever the case. Right now, the BBB
is saying, try to avoid tap to pay as much
as possible, and first and foremost, get yourself an RFID
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blocking wallet.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You can go on Amazon for those.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I don't know how much they are, but it will
certainly save you the potential financial landslide that could be
coming if you are scammed. That's been our Scammer's Gonna
Scam segment. When we come back, we're going to talk
about the different ways you can celebrate Dia de los
Morthos in southern California. It's one of my favorite times.
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I can't wait to share with you where you can
go to celebrate Da delos Morthos.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Tiffany Hobbs here till seven.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then doctor Wendy will be here and we'll find out
what's going on on her show a bit later. But
now I think we have a talkback. Did that get to.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You, Ali?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We do, because we were wondering what your spookiest, scariest,
most supernatural real life tales are, whether here in SoCal
or wherever you may have experienced them.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Please share with us and we'd be happy to plan.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
What's up, Hi, Tiffanie, It is so horrible to hear
these type of things about kids not even being able
to form in school these days.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
But also I was thinking, isn't it also doesn't it
also exacerbate the problem in that I've heard that they
no longer even teach a cursive writing in school, so
that would make writing block letter sentences, five of them
at that be even more such a task. Just saying.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The horror that was the scariest one. Yet kids can't write,
kids can't read. I don't know if cursive is the key,
It definitely doesn't hurt, but overall, literacy is down down
in the country and abysmal in La County and LAUSD
and outside of that. But you know, Unfortunately, technology is
the part of the culprits and the fear of not
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having your phone nomophobia is significant. People have that fear
and that anxiety, and they're locked to their devices and
not to their abilities to read. Apparently they're reading their phones.
You go, but you're reading something. There's content there. Why
can't that translate?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't know, but what I do know is thank
you for your talk back. Keep them coming, spooky, scary, supernatural.
Its Halloween coming up. And if you enjoy a very
special celebration commemorating those in your life who have passed on,
then I have ten ways for you to celebrate. Dia
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Day los what athos in Southern California and Dia Day
los what of those translates to Day of the Dead.
It's a time to honor the memory of loved ones
who've passed.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Centuries old.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Holiday root it in Mexico, and each fall, families across
Mexico and beyond gather to celebrate, and we celebrate right
here in Southern California as well.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's a beautiful commemoration, very colorful, very loving.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You've seen these these all you might not have known
what you were looking at, but they're more or less
everywhere around this time of year if you're going to
anything that is from Hispanic culture.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So next time you.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Go to your favorite restaurant, your favorite gathering place, whatever
it may be, kind of look around and you might
see some of these altars. In southern California, that same
spirit of remembrance shines through local festivals and community gatherings,
of which we have many. From celebrations at cemeteries, two
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celebrations at the beach, there are lots of ways to
celebrate Dyade list mortos and here are ten. You ever
go to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, It's one of my favorite places.
I love a good cemetery. I'm one of those people
who finds a lot of peace in cemeteries. Well, Hollywood
Forever isn't necessarily always peaceful, because there's some event there
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at some point during the month, and in this case,
Dia Delo one of those will be there. When Hollywood
Forever transforms into fifty altars, more than fifty altars honoring
loved ones. There will also be Aztec ritual performances, live music,
arts and crafts, and an array of food vendors serving
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traditional Mexican meals. It's the twenty six annual d DA
List Monicos at Hollywood Forever and it will be divided
into three different sessions over Saturday, which will start at
one pm. They're going to go from one pm to
one thirty am, and then here we go one to
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three thirty pm, four thirty to nine pm, and nine
thirty pm to one thirty am, So you have a
midday one to three thirty, later afternoon into evening four
thirty to nine, and then in after hours from nine
thirty to one thirty am, and they're going to be
screening Disney Pixars Coco and having a drone show as
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well in those later sessions. That's at Hollywood Forever Cemetery,
six thousand Santa Monica Boulevard. You can find more information
at La dayofthedead dot com. If you're downtown and you
want to go to Gloria Molina's Grand Park and you're
not there for a protest, you might be there for
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their Dya de Los Martos celebration. It's free and it
started on October twenty fifth. It goes through November second.
There will be altars. These altars are where people take
pictures of their loved ones, flowers, maybe their loved one's
favorite food or beverage.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
It's a way to just honor the person or people
who have passed.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
There will be live music, there'll be dance performances, art installations,
and lots of family friendly activities, all free, concluding with
Noce de Los Martos on November second, which is an
evening filled with beautiful lanterns, music, dance, and a mercado,
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which is a market.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You can get your family out there.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It goes from eleven to four pm from October twenty
fifth through November second. That's at Gloria Molina Grand Park
off of two hundred North Grand. You can go to
event bright dot com for more information for that. If
you are in Downy or nearby, they have their Dade
Loos Morthos Festival on November second from eleven am to
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eight pm. This one gets crowded. It draws more than
twenty five thousand visitors each year. It's family friendly, so
you can take the little ones out there. They're gonna
have seven art exhibits, they're gonna have live entertainment, something
called a chalk walk. Sounds like fun food trucks, a
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beer and wine garden that sounds like fun, and children
can enjoy storytimes, puppet shows, and they can decorate those
sugar skulls.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And you're like, what's a sugar skull.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's a decorative skull, not a real one, but a
decorative one that's painted and people like to paint them.
They're called sugar skulls of which kids and others can
decorate their own, and you can explore altars. There will
also be a classic car display pets as well, Dodger
theme tributes to community celebration and they want you to
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come down there from eleven am to eight pm on Sunday,
November second. That is Downy Theater eighty four thirty five
Firestone in Downey. When we come back, I'll give you
a few more and then we are going to get
into what your pets can do this Halloween as well,
because we don't want to leave our furry friends out
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of the celebrations.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Tiffany Hobbs Infra maryl.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Tiffany Hobbs here, and we're talking about ten ways to
celebrate DA Day List Morthos the Day of the Dead
celebration and honoring your deceased loved ones, your loved ones
who've passed on this holiday season. The last day of
Dada list mottos is November second, and a lot of
these events culminate on that day but have already started. Specifically,
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there's a few. We talked about Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which
will be Saturday, November first. We talked about Downey's Festival,
which is Sunday, but Gloria Molina's Grand Park Celebration started
on October twenty fifth and goes through November second. Now
there's also the San Diego Celebration Diadelos Deaftones at pet
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Co Park in San Diego that's next Saturday from three
forty five pm to eleven pm. This one's built as
having an edgier twist on normal or I guess to
dade los morthos celebrations. This one's deaf Tones Festival is
now returning for its sixth year at Petco Park, and
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it's hosted by the Grammy Award winning band deaf Tones.
Single day event, it's a musical event featuring the Clips, Reco, Nasty,
Deaf Heaven, and more. Fans can catch performances both on
the field and in Gallagher Square. You can go on
ticketmaster dot com for the Dade Los Deaf Tones celebration
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in San Diego at Petco Park. If you want to
go to the Santa Monica Peer because you're brave and
you're able to find parking, then you can go down
there on Saturday and Sunday from three to ten pm
for their free Dade Los Martos by the c festival,
where they transform the Peer into a two day art installation.
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The carousel will also be decorated and there are lots
of festivities including religious festivities, cultural festivities, food, ballet, folklor
ego performances, life, live music, olfrendas which are the altars
and more. You go on Santa Monica dot Santa Monica
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Peer dot org, Backslash, DA Day Lotos, or just go
to Santa Monica Peer dot org and I'm sure there
will be a tab that directs you to the festival if.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You are in Upland.
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Because these these these commemorations are all across southern California.
If you're in Upland and you go to the historic
downtown Upland, you'll come upon their DA Day Los Martos
festival where they celebrate life, culture and tradition. This one
is free, family friendly and we'll have entertainment, food, rich
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cultural experiences. It is Saturday from noon to ten p m.
You can go to Upland chain Burr dot org for that.
That's in historic downtown Upland. If you are in Santa Ana,
sore right, they're still in Orange County. Is at Orange County,
Santa Anna, Brigitta, you're the traffic person and the person
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who knows all the stuff is Upland or Santa Anna
considered Orange County.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I always thought it was.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Let me see, I think so right, there's someone's screaming
right now.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It's Orange County. You know it doesn't? Yes, it is.
It is Orange County. I thought it was too. But
for some reason when you asked it, I'm like, I
don't know. Let me just check it, right. I kind
of blink too.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I want to hang out. I will get talkbacks galore
over wrong. So if you're in thank you, Brigita. If
you're in Orange County, you can go to the Bowers Museum.
They're hosting a family friendly celebration at their key courtyard.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
There will be Madiaci.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Performances, food, music, dance, lots of celebratory activities and not
only can you celebrate your human loved ones, but you
can celebrate pett who are no longer with us as well.
Riverside I'm Sorry. That is on Sunday out there at
the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana from eleven am to
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three pm. Bowers Museum, go to Bowers dot org. It's free.
Riverside Day of the Dead Saturday and Sunday Saturday one
to ten pm. Sunday eleven am to seven pm at
White Park thirty nine thirty six Chestnuts Street and Riverside,
you can go to Riverside Riverside, CA dot gov.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's free and this.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is their first time ever hosting a Day of the
Dead celebration in Riverside. That will happen for two days
in a row. They'll have all the fixed sins. They
have lucha libre, car altars, live music, a pageant, as,
tech dancers, art, food, it's free, it's family friendly. You
need to be there. Alvera Street is always the pinnacle.
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Alvera Street right there across from Union State in downtown LA.
They've been doing this for nearly forty years, and they
will continue from October twenty fifth, which was already passed
through November second. Starts six pm during the week and
eleven am on the weekend. So this weekend coming well
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start at eleven am, but throughout the week at six pm.
You can see everything that they have to offer. And
it is a bet beautiful And I tell you Alvera
Street that is the not that the others aren't, but
Alvera Street is the one I've been to year after
year and it is breathtaking. You can go to Alvera
ol v e r A events dot com for that.
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That is through November second. And if you want to
celebrate with your pets, pets Smart is allowing pets to
come in and trick or treat this Halloween. All stores
nationwide will host a Halloween celebration on Sunday, October two,
twenty six, from ten am to six p m. There
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will be treat stations, there will be a sprits station
that will help keep pets smelling fresh, and plenty of
photo worthy moments. Costumes are encouraged for pets and they're
humans alike. You can get out there and dress alike
if you like, and this is You can access more
information on PetSmart dot com, in stores and online. Pet
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parents can also browse pet smart seasonal collection of Halloween costumes, toys, treats,
and accessories. And if you want to celebrate your pet
who has passed on, they also, I believe, will have
an alter there for you to take a picture and
be able to display that there. Check with your local
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pet Smart for more information. Don't know, my dogs don't
like to dress up. I try to put anything on them,
whether it's a rain coat or anything, and they freeze.
They literally just stop moving. I'm like, you were just moving,
you were just running, you're just jumping, you're doing all
the dog things. You're dogging like crazy. And as soon
as I put something on you it's raining outside, let's
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put this cute little doggy raincoat on, they literally go
stone on me.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So I don't get.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The fun of being able to do the doggy costumes
during Halloween, but I really enjoy seeing them, especially the
new crop of costumes where it looks like, uh, it
looks like like there's a miniature person like writing the
dog or something.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's they're really cute.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You can go on PetSmart dot com for more information
and costumes. When we come back, we're going to continue
kind of our interesting tails, our spooky tails, and we're
going to talk about how an entire island got addicted
to co caine. There's a Netflix documentary about how an
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entire island got addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It is bizarre.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And I'll tell you what happened on the other side
of the break, and we'll talk to Doctor Wendy and
see what's going on on her big show.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Keep you talkbacks coming.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Any spooky, scary supernatural tales, get them in before the
show's over.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You want to play them. It's Halloween.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Evvvvvv eve. We want to share in the delight with you.
I'm here till seven for Chris Meryl, Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Tiffany Hobbs here for one final segment, filling in for Meryl.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
He'll be back.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Hopefully he found his majorly offensive costume by now. If not,
you can certainly send him some ideas that you have.
And in a moment we're gonna talk to doctor Wendy.
But not before I let you know about a strange
documentary that's gonna segue into something I want to ask
doctor Wendy. Actually, there's this new documentary on Netflix. It
is all about a very bizarre story of how an
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entire island got addicted to cocaine after drugs smuggling went
extremely wrong. And that's what happened to this village of
people on an island just west of Portugo back in
June of two thousand and one. And we're not talking
a few bags of cocaine. No, we're talking the entire
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island having or ending up being flooded with so much
cocaine that many people on the island who had never
even touched drugs got addicted to cocaine, even its youngest inhabitants. Now,
most of the population of the island were so removed
from drug use that they mistook the cocaine for powder
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and they started breading their fish thinking it was flour.
Kids even stumbled upon massive book, massive book size bags
of cocaine, and we're using it as chalk, drawing outlines
for their football games. Now, the documentary Turn of the Tie,
the Surreal Story of Rabo de Pex, is now of
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available on Netflix and details exactly how this bizarre set
of events occurred. The drugs smuggler responsible was already known
to authorities, and he had all this cocaine.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Things went really, really.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Wrong, so he diverted his entire load to this island.
He thought he was caught, so he decided to stash
the cocaine, hiding it, weighing it down with weights in
the bay there, tried to hide it in a cave,
and of course these bundles washed up and people took them. Now,
some people turned them in, but out of the one
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hundred and forty thousand inhabitants at the time, many of
them kept it, which led to this strange series of
events for the rest of the islanders. Again, that's Turn
of the Tide, the surreal story of Robo de Pechs.
Don't know if I'm pronouncing that last one right, and
it's available right there on Netflix. I'm going to go
home and watch it because I've been looking at it.
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Something I did watch was or has been talked about
a lot. It's called The Perfect Neighbor. Doctor Wendy, and
I want to kind of bring you into this one.
You don't need to know the story. You are two
shows I have to put on my watch. Yeah, okay,
both Netflix. You don't have to know the story. But
what The Perfect Neighbor seems to have in common with
a lot of what I seem to be consuming are
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people going through extreme trauma, and in this case, these
people getting addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Did anyone die the Perfect Neighbor.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know about the cocaine story, but The Perfect
Neighbor does chronicle a Florida stand your Ground case in
which a woman did die, killed by a neighbor after
complaints of the kids in the neighborhood being too loud
and boisterous, and the mom confronted the neighbor and the
neighbor killed the mom. Now, this story was all in
the news and now it's on Netflix. And I found
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myself watching that after spending the weekend binge watching people's
stories of surviving nine to eleven, and that was on YouTube.
So I've just been down this rabbit hole of anecdotal
evidence about surviving traumas. And my question to you, doctor Wendy,
before you get into what's going on your show, what
is that doing to me psychologically?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
You know, I always tell my students I teach hell
psychology that thoughts are things. Thoughts become our emotions. Everything
begins with the thoughts. They become our emotions. Our emotions
turn into our behaviors. Our behaviors impact the world, and
then the environment throws it right back out. So, for instance,
if you watched a lot of stuff that brought up
a lot of fear for you, So your thoughts are, oh,
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my goodness, bad things can happen. Your emotions are I'm
scared of this, I'm scared of that, I'm scared of that.
Then you start to mistrust your neighbors, maybe even your coworkers.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Then you start life and then you worry like they
might have.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Ulterior motives, and it can get into paranoia. And guess what,
when you start mistrusting people, they start acting untrustworthy. Oh
and then you're a proved right. So it's a weird cycle.
Now let me take the opposite. If you just used
your remote control and found stories not just of survival
and tragedy, but amazing perseverance, stories of people who recovered
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from illness, stories of people who you know have done
great good works in the world.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
I don't know if you saw Senator to Corey.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Booker had a thing on his Instagram today about the
female truck driver that went over the edge of the bridge.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Did you see that video? I did. Oh my God.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
And the firefighter she made his way down and kept her.
She was dang out water and almost died. I love
those stories, like they have some trauma in them, but
they're like wow, yeah, they're really powerful. So if you
if you fed, you know, feeding your body and feeding
your brain are the same thing. Okay, we all have
a natural survival mechanism that is based in fear. But
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I have been noticing lately too many Americans are living
in the fear centers of their brains.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
We are we are, Yeah, I can definitely agree with that, and.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
I think media we're all I fault too.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
We know how to get eyeballs and ear lobes is
we We know to scare people a little bit, and.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
So politicians for sure.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
And so as a result, we need to as individuals
work hard to let light and love come into.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Our thoughts on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh, how beautifully said, Yeah, what else are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Our show? Well?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Interesting enough? With the new news on Prince Andrew and Virginia,
Guffrey Guffrey, thank you. No book coming out. I thought
i'd do a deep dive into the age of consent
and that has been going up and all the reasons
why it's been going up clearly not fast enough for
Prince Andrew. I want to talk about that. I also
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want to talk about something that's happened to I think
all of us. The research I found said only forty
five percent of us, but I think the other fifty
five lied. When you get ghosted by a friend, like
someone you just know and liked, and all of a
sudden they just cut you out of their life and
you don't know why. It gets happened to me three
times in my life, and the pain I felt was
off And now I'm learning it's the same as a
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physical pain on your brain.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I believe it. So I want to talk about.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Ghosted by a friend and they're also I'm not gonna
give them away yet. I'm all about honesty, openness. Don't
ever tell a lie, especially in your romantic relationships. There
are two lies I'm gonna give you full hall pass
to have with your partner.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Two things you should never tell your partner.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I will be listening, oh Man, Doctor Wendy is always
great to see you.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I don't see you nearly enough.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Why are you not in the studio morow?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You know I'm here and time, yeah, the wrong times.
I've just pop by when you're on.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
It's good to see you. Have a great show.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I will be here next Friday from seven to ten
filling in on Halloween. So hopefully we'll have a fun
show and I won't inject too much fear into you.
But make sure you keep it right here and I'll
be back on Saturday from five to seven pm for
my normal show. Saturday is with Tiffany. It's a lot
of Tiffany from Friday to Saturday. Doctor Wendy's next. Make
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sure you keep it tune if you missed anything, it's
under featured segments. I'll see you next week. Have a
safe and happy Halloween Day and i'll talk to you
Halloween night.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Tiffany Hobbs here till seven, filling in for Chris Merrill,
who's out looking for unique Halloween costumes. At least that's
what he told me. He might deny it now, but
we had a long conversation. I was giving him some
ideas and I told him, probably don't be the sperm
cell that seems to be a popular one. Don't be
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the sperm cell nothing toilet theme. There are a lot
of manchini costumes. You know what a man keene is.
It's literally one piece of cloth that goes around your
upper end.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You're lower speedo.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's a speedo, but it's connected to like a halter
top loo sexy. And Chris says he's been really working
out and that he wanted to show off the goods.
And I said, well, Chris, it might be cold. It
might be cold. And he said, Tiffany, God got no.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hope for you.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And I said, well, I have a lot of hope
for you. We'll see what he comes up with or
down with. We'll see what he does. But I'm here
at any rate till seven, and we're gonna continue our
Halloween themed show with a scam. We'ren't our Scammer's gonna
scam segment, and we're gonna talk about a scary scam
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that is the newest thing you should look out for.
And I think it actually I think I was a
victim of this, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's called ghost tapping.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ghost tapping, and the quizzical look on your faces lets
me know you don't know what this is, which means
you are ripe for the scamming. Like I said, I
think it got me. And here's why. There's a new
scam targeting those who use contactless payment. That's where you
take your card and you tap it on the machine.
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You have little that little what is that on the
back of your debit card. It's like a little square chip,
thank you, And all you have to do. We even
have one here in our kitchen is tap your card
and it reads all the information. In some cases you
don't even have to put in your past word or
your pass code number. You just tap, it generates the
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payment and off you go with the thing. Well, the
Better Business Bureau is warning people that this sort of
device is a part of this new scam that when
people are making purchases with tap to pay is causing
us to be separated from our money. The scam, dubbed
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ghost tapping, exploits the convenience of tap to pay credit
cards and debit cards and mobile wallets by using wireless
technology to withdraw money from unsuspecting victims like you and I,
often without any direct contact.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You don't even know until it's too late.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Victims may only notice unauthorized transactions after substantial amounts have
been taken from their accounts, as scammers frequently conduct small
and less noticeable withdrawals to evade fraud detection systems. Here's
why I say, I think this happened to me last week,
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or maybe I think it was last week. Early last week,
I got an alert from my bank because I have
that system set up where that if there's like fraud protection,
right there's something awry, my bank will alert me. And
I woke up to a text message I woke up
in the middle of the night, get up, use the restroom,
check my phone. Glad I did, because I got this
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alert at like four o'clock in the morning saying that
there was actually were two unauthorized payments made on my
card around two am.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now I know. I was in shock at two am.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I know I wasn't out of the house at two am,
and no one has my card information, so of course
scam red flag.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So I'm up.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now I'm looking at it, and there's nothing you can
really do at four am, so I was like, I
can put this off until I get up officially, and
I did. I called my bank and we talked, and
they told me that there were a series of charges,
a couple that were really or one that was really
small in quantity and like four dollars, and then two
that were over one hundred dollars and for places that
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aren't even here in California, out of state places, and
they started questioning me about the legitimacy of the charges.
Of course, I'm like no, no, no, and they're like,
we got you fraud. You know, we'll file all the
necessary everything, you'll get it all. They weren't even able
to make the transaction because they didn't have your pin code,
but it was an attempt on it, so we've temporary
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locked your card and now we can unlock it, YadA,
YadA YadA.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I was like, should I get a new card?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And they were like, no, what happened was I have
a digital card. That was all this digitizing and all
this can be very confusing. I like a physical card.
We all want our thing in our hand. We all
want our card in our hand. Okay, kay, let grow up.
I'm sorry the way you said it in your hand
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gesture at the same time, it's just I'm gonna grab
tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We all want our thing in our hand, our card
in our hand. Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And if for some reason you misplaced lose your card,
what banks are doing have been doing for a whiles
they issue you a digital card. What that means is
you have all of the information on a physical card
in your phone or basically in the app. And what
you can do is you can use your phone as
the card temporarily until you are issued your physical card.
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That's what happened to me. Six months ago or so,
lost a card, canceled that card. They send me this
digital card through the interwebs, and boom, I have the
ability to pay now when I receive the the physical card,
I stopped using the digital card, didn't need it anymore,
but it was still in my phone. And I don't
know how a scammer. They're very sophisticated these scammers. But
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what's being said here is that even with a digital card,
there's an ability for scammers to more or less walk
past you, tap you, bump into you, and that simple
movement or contact with you that you don't even realize.
You're at the grocery store and you just get bumped
into it's crowded, or you're at a venue, an event,
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whatever it is where it's crowded, that these card readers
that they have can somehow tap into ghost tap into
your digital card as well, and extract payment toward whatever
they have your payment information. Again, it's all above my
pay grade, but it is something to be wary of.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
This is why all of this matters. Ghost threatens the
millions of us who rely on contact list payments for
our daily transactions. Tap to pay became popular during COVID.
None of us wanted to touch anything, so we were just
boop tapping and going. And the rise of this usage
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and the the co what's the word I'm looking for?
The connection to the scam shows that technological advances can
also introduce new risks. Now because the scam can occur
in everyday situations such as being at the grocery store,
being on or around public transportation, being in crowded spaces,
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the potential for financial loss is widespread, and the BBB
has a scam tracker that has gone on to collect
multiple reports of this ghost tapping, including an incident where
a scammer posed as a charity vendor how low can
you go and only accept it from the people who
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were donating out of the goodness of their heart, tapped
to pay, and then this scammer applied unauthorized charges ranging
from just over five hundred dollars to just over one
thousand dollars to the victim's accounts. Victims often discover the
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payments and the fraud days or weeks later because the
initial amounts are kept small initially and slit past bank
security systems. So how can you avoid ghosts tapping? There
are several ways to prevent this type of scam, including
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getting those really hardware esque protective wallets. They are r
FID blocking wallets. You can order them from Amazon. R
f I D blocking wallets. These are like k for
your cards, and they're enshrined in some sort of plastic
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or hardware that prevents these machines from being able to
tap you when you have your card in your in
your pocket or your purse and being able to extract information,
and they're saying that that can help prevent unwarranted wireless transactions.
Consumers should also try, sorry, try to limit tap to
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pay usage in crowded or high risk environments and instead
go back to using the swipe method. Okay, we go
from don't use swipe to use swipe, don't use tap
to use tap, whatever the case. Right now, the BBB
is saying, try to avoid tap to pay as much
as possible, and first and foremost, get yourself an RFID
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blocking wallet.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You can go on Amazon for those.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I don't know how much they are, but it will
certainly save you the potential financial landslide that could be
coming if you are scammed. That's been our Scammer's Gonna
Scam segment. When we come back, we're going to talk
about the different ways you can celebrate Dia de los
Morthos in southern California. It's one of my favorite times.
(10:15):
I can't wait to share with you where you can
go to celebrate Da delos Morthos.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Tiffany Hobbs here till seven.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then doctor Wendy will be here and we'll find out
what's going on on her show a bit later. But
now I think we have a talkback. Did that get to.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You, Ali?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We do, because we were wondering what your spookiest, scariest,
most supernatural real life tales are, whether here in SoCal
or wherever you may have experienced them.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Please share with us and we'd be happy to plan.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
What's up, Hi, Tiffanie, It is so horrible to hear
these type of things about kids not even being able
to form in school these days.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
But also I was thinking, isn't it also doesn't it
also exacerbate the problem in that I've heard that they
no longer even teach a cursive writing in school, so
that would make writing block letter sentences, five of them
at that be even more such a task. Just saying.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
The horror that was the scariest one. Yet kids can't write,
kids can't read. I don't know if cursive is the key,
It definitely doesn't hurt, but overall, literacy is down down
in the country and abysmal in La County and LAUSD
and outside of that. But you know, Unfortunately, technology is
the part of the culprits and the fear of not
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having your phone nomophobia is significant. People have that fear
and that anxiety, and they're locked to their devices and
not to their abilities to read. Apparently they're reading their phones.
You go, but you're reading something. There's content there. Why
can't that translate?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't know, but what I do know is thank
you for your talk back. Keep them coming, spooky, scary, supernatural.
Its Halloween coming up. And if you enjoy a very
special celebration commemorating those in your life who have passed on,
then I have ten ways for you to celebrate. Dia
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Day los what athos in Southern California and Dia Day
los what of those translates to Day of the Dead.
It's a time to honor the memory of loved ones
who've passed.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Centuries old.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Holiday root it in Mexico, and each fall, families across
Mexico and beyond gather to celebrate, and we celebrate right
here in Southern California as well.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's a beautiful commemoration, very colorful, very loving.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You've seen these these all you might not have known
what you were looking at, but they're more or less
everywhere around this time of year if you're going to
anything that is from Hispanic culture.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So next time you.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Go to your favorite restaurant, your favorite gathering place, whatever
it may be, kind of look around and you might
see some of these altars. In southern California, that same
spirit of remembrance shines through local festivals and community gatherings,
of which we have many. From celebrations at cemeteries, two
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celebrations at the beach, there are lots of ways to
celebrate Dyade list mortos and here are ten. You ever
go to Hollywood Forever Cemetery, It's one of my favorite places.
I love a good cemetery. I'm one of those people
who finds a lot of peace in cemeteries. Well, Hollywood
Forever isn't necessarily always peaceful, because there's some event there
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at some point during the month, and in this case,
Dia Delo one of those will be there. When Hollywood
Forever transforms into fifty altars, more than fifty altars honoring
loved ones. There will also be Aztec ritual performances, live music,
arts and crafts, and an array of food vendors serving
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traditional Mexican meals. It's the twenty six annual d DA
List Monicos at Hollywood Forever and it will be divided
into three different sessions over Saturday, which will start at
one pm. They're going to go from one pm to
one thirty am, and then here we go one to
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three thirty pm, four thirty to nine pm, and nine
thirty pm to one thirty am, So you have a
midday one to three thirty, later afternoon into evening four
thirty to nine, and then in after hours from nine
thirty to one thirty am, and they're going to be
screening Disney Pixars Coco and having a drone show as
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well in those later sessions. That's at Hollywood Forever Cemetery,
six thousand Santa Monica Boulevard. You can find more information
at La dayofthedead dot com. If you're downtown and you
want to go to Gloria Molina's Grand Park and you're
not there for a protest, you might be there for
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their Dya de Los Martos celebration. It's free and it
started on October twenty fifth. It goes through November second.
There will be altars. These altars are where people take
pictures of their loved ones, flowers, maybe their loved one's
favorite food or beverage.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
It's a way to just honor the person or people
who have passed.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
There will be live music, there'll be dance performances, art installations,
and lots of family friendly activities, all free, concluding with
Noce de Los Martos on November second, which is an
evening filled with beautiful lanterns, music, dance, and a mercado,
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which is a market.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You can get your family out there.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It goes from eleven to four pm from October twenty
fifth through November second. That's at Gloria Molina Grand Park
off of two hundred North Grand. You can go to
event bright dot com for more information for that. If
you are in Downy or nearby, they have their Dade
Loos Morthos Festival on November second from eleven am to
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eight pm. This one gets crowded. It draws more than
twenty five thousand visitors each year. It's family friendly, so
you can take the little ones out there. They're gonna
have seven art exhibits, they're gonna have live entertainment, something
called a chalk walk. Sounds like fun food trucks, a
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beer and wine garden that sounds like fun, and children
can enjoy storytimes, puppet shows, and they can decorate those
sugar skulls.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And you're like, what's a sugar skull.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's a decorative skull, not a real one, but a
decorative one that's painted and people like to paint them.
They're called sugar skulls of which kids and others can
decorate their own, and you can explore altars. There will
also be a classic car display pets as well, Dodger
theme tributes to community celebration and they want you to
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come down there from eleven am to eight pm on Sunday,
November second. That is Downy Theater eighty four thirty five
Firestone in Downey. When we come back, I'll give you
a few more and then we are going to get
into what your pets can do this Halloween as well,
because we don't want to leave our furry friends out
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of the celebrations.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Tiffany Hobbs Infra maryl.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Tiffany Hobbs here, and we're talking about ten ways to
celebrate DA Day List Morthos the Day of the Dead
celebration and honoring your deceased loved ones, your loved ones
who've passed on this holiday season. The last day of
Dada list mottos is November second, and a lot of
these events culminate on that day but have already started. Specifically,
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there's a few. We talked about Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which
will be Saturday, November first. We talked about Downey's Festival,
which is Sunday, but Gloria Molina's Grand Park Celebration started
on October twenty fifth and goes through November second. Now
there's also the San Diego Celebration Diadelos Deaftones at pet
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Co Park in San Diego that's next Saturday from three
forty five pm to eleven pm. This one's built as
having an edgier twist on normal or I guess to
dade los morthos celebrations. This one's deaf Tones Festival is
now returning for its sixth year at Petco Park, and
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it's hosted by the Grammy Award winning band deaf Tones.
Single day event, it's a musical event featuring the Clips, Reco, Nasty,
Deaf Heaven, and more. Fans can catch performances both on
the field and in Gallagher Square. You can go on
ticketmaster dot com for the Dade Los Deaf Tones celebration
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in San Diego at Petco Park. If you want to
go to the Santa Monica Peer because you're brave and
you're able to find parking, then you can go down
there on Saturday and Sunday from three to ten pm
for their free Dade Los Martos by the c festival,
where they transform the Peer into a two day art installation.
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The carousel will also be decorated and there are lots
of festivities including religious festivities, cultural festivities, food, ballet, folklor
ego performances, life, live music, olfrendas which are the altars
and more. You go on Santa Monica dot Santa Monica
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Peer dot org, Backslash, DA Day Lotos, or just go
to Santa Monica Peer dot org and I'm sure there
will be a tab that directs you to the festival if.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You are in Upland.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Because these these these commemorations are all across southern California.
If you're in Upland and you go to the historic
downtown Upland, you'll come upon their DA Day Los Martos
festival where they celebrate life, culture and tradition. This one
is free, family friendly and we'll have entertainment, food, rich
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cultural experiences. It is Saturday from noon to ten p m.
You can go to Upland chain Burr dot org for that.
That's in historic downtown Upland. If you are in Santa Ana,
sore right, they're still in Orange County. Is at Orange County,
Santa Anna, Brigitta, you're the traffic person and the person
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who knows all the stuff is Upland or Santa Anna
considered Orange County.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I always thought it was.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Let me see, I think so right, there's someone's screaming
right now.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It's Orange County. You know it doesn't? Yes, it is.
It is Orange County. I thought it was too. But
for some reason when you asked it, I'm like, I
don't know. Let me just check it, right. I kind
of blink too.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I want to hang out. I will get talkbacks galore
over wrong. So if you're in thank you, Brigita. If
you're in Orange County, you can go to the Bowers Museum.
They're hosting a family friendly celebration at their key courtyard.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
There will be Madiaci.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Performances, food, music, dance, lots of celebratory activities and not
only can you celebrate your human loved ones, but you
can celebrate pett who are no longer with us as well.
Riverside I'm Sorry. That is on Sunday out there at
the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana from eleven am to
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three pm. Bowers Museum, go to Bowers dot org. It's free.
Riverside Day of the Dead Saturday and Sunday Saturday one
to ten pm. Sunday eleven am to seven pm at
White Park thirty nine thirty six Chestnuts Street and Riverside,
you can go to Riverside Riverside, CA dot gov.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It's free and this.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is their first time ever hosting a Day of the
Dead celebration in Riverside. That will happen for two days
in a row. They'll have all the fixed sins. They
have lucha libre, car altars, live music, a pageant, as,
tech dancers, art, food, it's free, it's family friendly. You
need to be there. Alvera Street is always the pinnacle.
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Alvera Street right there across from Union State in downtown LA.
They've been doing this for nearly forty years, and they
will continue from October twenty fifth, which was already passed
through November second. Starts six pm during the week and
eleven am on the weekend. So this weekend coming well
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start at eleven am, but throughout the week at six pm.
You can see everything that they have to offer. And
it is a bet beautiful And I tell you Alvera
Street that is the not that the others aren't, but
Alvera Street is the one I've been to year after
year and it is breathtaking. You can go to Alvera
ol v e r A events dot com for that.
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That is through November second. And if you want to
celebrate with your pets, pets Smart is allowing pets to
come in and trick or treat this Halloween. All stores
nationwide will host a Halloween celebration on Sunday, October two,
twenty six, from ten am to six p m. There
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will be treat stations, there will be a sprits station
that will help keep pets smelling fresh, and plenty of
photo worthy moments. Costumes are encouraged for pets and they're
humans alike. You can get out there and dress alike
if you like, and this is You can access more
information on PetSmart dot com, in stores and online. Pet
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parents can also browse pet smart seasonal collection of Halloween costumes, toys, treats,
and accessories. And if you want to celebrate your pet
who has passed on, they also, I believe, will have
an alter there for you to take a picture and
be able to display that there. Check with your local
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pet Smart for more information. Don't know, my dogs don't
like to dress up. I try to put anything on them,
whether it's a rain coat or anything, and they freeze.
They literally just stop moving. I'm like, you were just moving,
you were just running, you're just jumping, you're doing all
the dog things. You're dogging like crazy. And as soon
as I put something on you it's raining outside, let's
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put this cute little doggy raincoat on, they literally go
stone on me.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So I don't get.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
The fun of being able to do the doggy costumes
during Halloween, but I really enjoy seeing them, especially the
new crop of costumes where it looks like, uh, it
looks like like there's a miniature person like writing the
dog or something.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
It's they're really cute.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
You can go on PetSmart dot com for more information
and costumes. When we come back, we're going to continue
kind of our interesting tails, our spooky tails, and we're
going to talk about how an entire island got addicted
to co caine. There's a Netflix documentary about how an
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entire island got addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It is bizarre.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And I'll tell you what happened on the other side
of the break, and we'll talk to Doctor Wendy and
see what's going on on her big show.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Keep you talkbacks coming.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Any spooky, scary supernatural tales, get them in before the
show's over.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You want to play them. It's Halloween.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Evvvvvv eve. We want to share in the delight with you.
I'm here till seven for Chris Meryl, Tiffany Hobbs.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Tiffany Hobbs here for one final segment, filling in for Meryl.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
He'll be back.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Hopefully he found his majorly offensive costume by now. If not,
you can certainly send him some ideas that you have.
And in a moment we're gonna talk to doctor Wendy.
But not before I let you know about a strange
documentary that's gonna segue into something I want to ask
doctor Wendy. Actually, there's this new documentary on Netflix. It
is all about a very bizarre story of how an
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entire island got addicted to cocaine after drugs smuggling went
extremely wrong. And that's what happened to this village of
people on an island just west of Portugo back in
June of two thousand and one. And we're not talking
a few bags of cocaine. No, we're talking the entire
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island having or ending up being flooded with so much
cocaine that many people on the island who had never
even touched drugs got addicted to cocaine, even its youngest inhabitants. Now,
most of the population of the island were so removed
from drug use that they mistook the cocaine for powder
(27:39):
and they started breading their fish thinking it was flour.
Kids even stumbled upon massive book, massive book size bags
of cocaine, and we're using it as chalk, drawing outlines
for their football games. Now, the documentary Turn of the Tie,
the Surreal Story of Rabo de Pex, is now of
(28:00):
available on Netflix and details exactly how this bizarre set
of events occurred. The drugs smuggler responsible was already known
to authorities, and he had all this cocaine.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Things went really, really.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Wrong, so he diverted his entire load to this island.
He thought he was caught, so he decided to stash
the cocaine, hiding it, weighing it down with weights in
the bay there, tried to hide it in a cave,
and of course these bundles washed up and people took them. Now,
some people turned them in, but out of the one
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hundred and forty thousand inhabitants at the time, many of
them kept it, which led to this strange series of
events for the rest of the islanders. Again, that's Turn
of the Tide, the surreal story of Robo de Pechs.
Don't know if I'm pronouncing that last one right, and
it's available right there on Netflix. I'm going to go
home and watch it because I've been looking at it.
(28:54):
Something I did watch was or has been talked about
a lot. It's called The Perfect Neighbor. Doctor Wendy, and
I want to kind of bring you into this one.
You don't need to know the story. You are two
shows I have to put on my watch. Yeah, okay,
both Netflix. You don't have to know the story. But
what The Perfect Neighbor seems to have in common with
a lot of what I seem to be consuming are
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people going through extreme trauma, and in this case, these
people getting addicted to cocaine.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Did anyone die the Perfect Neighbor.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I don't know about the cocaine story, but The Perfect
Neighbor does chronicle a Florida stand your Ground case in
which a woman did die, killed by a neighbor after
complaints of the kids in the neighborhood being too loud
and boisterous, and the mom confronted the neighbor and the
neighbor killed the mom. Now, this story was all in
the news and now it's on Netflix. And I found
(29:46):
myself watching that after spending the weekend binge watching people's
stories of surviving nine to eleven, and that was on YouTube.
So I've just been down this rabbit hole of anecdotal
evidence about surviving traumas. And my question to you, doctor Wendy,
before you get into what's going on your show, what
is that doing to me psychologically?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
You know, I always tell my students I teach hell
psychology that thoughts are things. Thoughts become our emotions. Everything
begins with the thoughts. They become our emotions. Our emotions
turn into our behaviors. Our behaviors impact the world, and
then the environment throws it right back out. So, for instance,
if you watched a lot of stuff that brought up
a lot of fear for you, So your thoughts are, oh,
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my goodness, bad things can happen. Your emotions are I'm
scared of this, I'm scared of that, I'm scared of that.
Then you start to mistrust your neighbors, maybe even your coworkers.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Then you start life and then you worry like they
might have.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Ulterior motives, and it can get into paranoia. And guess what,
when you start mistrusting people, they start acting untrustworthy. Oh
and then you're a proved right. So it's a weird cycle.
Now let me take the opposite. If you just used
your remote control and found stories not just of survival
and tragedy, but amazing perseverance, stories of people who recovered
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from illness, stories of people who you know have done
great good works in the world.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
I don't know if you saw Senator to Corey.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Booker had a thing on his Instagram today about the
female truck driver that went over the edge of the bridge.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Did you see that video? I did. Oh my God.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
And the firefighter she made his way down and kept her.
She was dang out water and almost died. I love
those stories, like they have some trauma in them, but
they're like wow, yeah, they're really powerful. So if you
if you fed, you know, feeding your body and feeding
your brain are the same thing. Okay, we all have
a natural survival mechanism that is based in fear. But
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I have been noticing lately too many Americans are living
in the fear centers of their brains.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
We are we are, Yeah, I can definitely agree with that, and.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
I think media we're all I fault too.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
We know how to get eyeballs and ear lobes is
we We know to scare people a little bit, and.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
So politicians for sure.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
And so as a result, we need to as individuals
work hard to let light and love come into.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Our thoughts on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh, how beautifully said, Yeah, what else are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Our show? Well?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Interesting enough? With the new news on Prince Andrew and Virginia,
Guffrey Guffrey, thank you. No book coming out. I thought
i'd do a deep dive into the age of consent
and that has been going up and all the reasons
why it's been going up clearly not fast enough for
Prince Andrew. I want to talk about that. I also
(32:39):
want to talk about something that's happened to I think
all of us. The research I found said only forty
five percent of us, but I think the other fifty
five lied. When you get ghosted by a friend, like
someone you just know and liked, and all of a
sudden they just cut you out of their life and
you don't know why. It gets happened to me three
times in my life, and the pain I felt was
off And now I'm learning it's the same as a
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physical pain on your brain.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I believe it. So I want to talk about.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Ghosted by a friend and they're also I'm not gonna
give them away yet. I'm all about honesty, openness. Don't
ever tell a lie, especially in your romantic relationships. There
are two lies I'm gonna give you full hall pass
to have with your partner.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Two things you should never tell your partner.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I will be listening, oh Man, Doctor Wendy is always
great to see you.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I don't see you nearly enough.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Why are you not in the studio morow?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You know I'm here and time, yeah, the wrong times.
I've just pop by when you're on.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
It's good to see you. Have a great show.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I will be here next Friday from seven to ten
filling in on Halloween. So hopefully we'll have a fun
show and I won't inject too much fear into you.
But make sure you keep it right here and I'll
be back on Saturday from five to seven pm for
my normal show. Saturday is with Tiffany. It's a lot
of Tiffany from Friday to Saturday. Doctor Wendy's next. Make
(33:55):
sure you keep it tune if you missed anything, it's
under featured segments. I'll see you next week. Have a
safe and happy Halloween Day and i'll talk to you
Halloween night.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
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