September 28, 2023 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. National Correspondent for ABC News Alex Stone joins the show to recap the republican presidential debate that took place in California and the one big name that was missing. ABC News contributor and former FBI agent Brad Garrett speaks on how the government shutdown will adversely impact national security and law enforcement. Amy features Knotts Scary Farm in her weekly ‘Boo Preview.’ KFI’s Fork Reporter Neil Saavedra wraps the show talking about the Big Green Egg appearance at BBQs Galore.
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You're listening to kf I AM sixforty wake Up Call with me Amy King
on demand on the iHeartRadio apps kFINE and kost HT two Los Angeles,
Orange County. Name you ab King, Good morning, It's five o'clock.
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This is your wake up call forThursday, September twenty eight. Did you
watch the debate last night? Whatdo you think We're gonna be talking about
this a little bit more with AlexStone in just a few minutes. I
want to dig into it. Ijust thought there was there was a lot
of yelling and screaming and talking eachother over each other, and I think
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Dana Perino threatened to turn off theirmicrophones at one point, and I was
like, why don't you just stopit? Act like adults. But I'm
fascinated by debates either side, don'tcare. I love watching them. So
yeah, I was glued to myTV set last night. Here's what's ahead
on wake up Call. As Ijust mentioned, the second presidential debate has
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been held without frontrunner Donald Trump.Two of the seven candidates took shots at
him. Former or Florida Governor RondaSantas said Trump was missing in action,
and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christiesaid Trump would rather hide behind his golf
clubs than defend his record. Twoof the candidates are hanging around to do
fundraisers in SOCl. Former Vice PresidentMike Pence is holding a fireside chat and
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reception at the Lost World of Statein Anaheim, and former South Carolina Governor
Nicky Hayley, also former UN ambassador, is hosting an event in Beverly Hills.
The La City Council's committed thirty milliondollars to adding and replacing bus shelters
in underserved communities. The shelters oroverhangs at bus stops that provide protection from
the sun and the rain. Thefunding improved yesterday will pay for two hundred
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eighty shelters. Hey, we've gotyour BOO preview coming up at five thirty
five. What's spooky place are wevisiting this week? Stick around if I
know. At six oh five,it's handling the news. Gas prices have
taken another huge jump in La County. Bill's going to dig into why and
what's next. Let's get started withsome of the stories coming out of the
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KFI twenty four hour newsroom. SagAftra has announced it will restart the long
stalled negotiations with the Hollywood studios nextweek. The next bargaining session is scheduled
for Monday. The Writers Guild saysit will continue to support actors on picket
lines as a deal between the WGAand studios moves to be finalized. Writers
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called an end to their labor strikethat lasted nearly five months and cost the
economy and estimated three billion dollars.Writer and director Monique store And says she's
elated the strike is over, butwill remain on picket lines in solidarity with
the actors. We didn't get everythingthat we wanted, but we got so
much, and I do think negotiationsare about ultimately compromising. Writers will have
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to ratify their deal with studios ina formal vote in October. Sagafter says
it will continue to strike until anagreement is approved for its members. Chris
Adler KFI News Pelisamiriette have arrested ayouth football coach for attacking a player on
an opposing team. Officers responded Saturdayto reports of a fight at a local
high school involving coaches, players andparents. They say the fifty year old
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coach punched a fourteen year old fromthe other team in the face, causing
an injury to a s eye anda concussion. The boy's mom says he
was unconscious for two minutes and hada seizure. The federal government appears headed
for a shutdown as lawmakers have beenunable to reach agreement on a spending plan.
The two sides are still very farapart. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says
he does plan to bring his proposalto the floor of the House for a
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vote on Friday, but as ofnow, he still does not have the
votes. ABC's Rachel Scott says hardright Republicans in the House want deep cuts
and more border security. The shutdownwill begin Sunday if Congress doesn't come up
with a funding plan. Federal agencieswill stop all actions deemed non essential,
and millions of federal employees won't begetting paid. The Army private who ran
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across the border into North Korea andthen was thrown out has been returned to
Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan says theplane carrying Travis King arrived this morning.
King's fate is unclear. The Armyconsidered him a wall after he darted through
the demilitarized Zone into North Korea onJuly eighteenth. The White House said yesterday
King's return was organized with the helpof Sweden and China. Kitty, a
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ten week old kitten that caused athree car crash on the Coronado Bridge and
San Diego, has been taken toa shelter and will be available for adoption
as soon as tomorrow. Apparently adriver stopped to try to help the kitten
yesterday on the bridge that caused athree car crash and snarled traffic for a
couple hour. One person was takento the hospital, two cars had to
be towed off the bridge, andfirefighters rescued the kitten, who was not
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hurt. I think whoever adopts thekitten should name it Crash. Just a
thought. Let's stay Good morning toABC's Alex Stones. So, Alex,
the goal was to break through gainmomentum because they're all trailing in the polls
by forty points. So during thedebate last night, did any of them
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do it? I mean, didthey? I think everybody The one thing
everybody's talking about today was the onemoment where we all went, oh,
this line my wife isn't a memberof the teachers union, but I gotta
admit I've been sleeping with a teacherfor thirty eight years. We all looked
at each other in the room andwent, no, Mike, you're not
allowed to say that. He's justnot a Mike Pence thing. No,
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out of everybody on stage, you'renot the one that can say that.
No. I mean, it wasa chaotic debate. Is it gonna move
the needle at all and change anything? I don't think so. Yeah.
The thing is that Donald Trump isforty points ahead in our latest pulling to
his closest competitor being Ron De Santist, and he doesn't even have to show
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up. After debate number one,his numbers went up and he wasn't even
there. So it doesn't do himany good to be there. And except
for Ron de Santists and Chris Christie, nobody was really willing to go after
Trump last night. They took himon. I mean, they had a
couple of lines. You know.There was the line about Donald duck because
of Trump ducking the debates came fromChris Christie. That was a stretch though.
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Yeah, I mean, it reallydidn't get in it before I got
it any reaction either in the room. He waited for it, and there's
a little bit like nervous laughter inthe in the room. But most of
what they were doing was going aftereach other. And you know, is
that gonna do anything when the leaderis who they're they're trying to go after.
You know that that's something that that'stactic for debate and whether Yeah,
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they talked about guns, immigration,and abortion, but there were no new
rous sponsores. There was nothing therethat you said, oh wow, that
really stands out now. And Iasked a University of Michigan director of debate,
Aaron call who studies debate, heteaches debate. He's always in the
room with us, and I askedhim, this, give me a grade
on this debate if you were givingit a letter grade A D, this
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D this overall debate, I don'tknow. I thought the moderators let things
get out of hand. Yeah,I mean he says that the candidates want
to take on Trump. They gotto take on Trump. But yes,
it is dangerous because Trump is sopopular among Republican primary voters that if you
go against him, you know,others have seen their polling numbers take a
hit. The people are you knowthat the Trump supporters are appalled that you
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would go after him, and thenhe goes after you as well and starts
calling you names and whatnot. ButAaron Call is saying, going after each
other on that stage, that noneof their numbers are high enough to matter.
And then it's all white noise,and still the leader continues to lead.
So he says, if they wantto be the candidate for the Republican
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Party, they got to take downthe leader. And he said, every
question you need to pivot to kindof attacking him, contrasting him, and
realizing that he's the major enemy thatall the candidates need to deal with,
not those fellow ones on the stageactually showing up to debating. He's still
the one leading by far, andso that those contrasts even more importantly than
the actual candidates and stage have tobe with Trump, who still has a
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runaway leading this racing. He says, just kind of debate one oh one
that you know, you know,the people who aren't leading, don't go
after each other. You go afteryou cut the head off of the snake
on this thing and try to takethat spot. But Trump's team is already
saying Amy that he will not attendthe third GOP debate in November. They're
saying no way, and in factthey're saying, now cancel all future debates.
He's already won. And you know, we'll see I did. They're
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probably going to have the debate inNovember. We'll see. Maybe he did
get bated into it last night byChris Christie and Ron De Santis. Maybe
we will end up showing up.But the field was so big last night,
and even some were left out becausethe rules. The rules will tighten
going into November, so probably justnaturally there will be fewer people on stage,
but also fundraising is going to startto run out. Money is not
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going to come in to those withextremely poll low polling numbers and on the
fringe of the stage. Last night, the highest polling candidate is in the
middle and then it goes out fromthere. So Mike Pence on one end
and Doug Bergham on the other end, they're polling numbers are not great,
and likely the money is going togo away as well. That donors are
going to say, why am Igiving you money when you're you know,
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not polling very well? So canthey make it to November? You know,
then none of them are showing signsthat they're getting ready to drop out,
but that may be coming. Yeah. Well, so Doug Bergham,
who is the governor of North Dakota, I think he made some good points,
but he's so far back and nobody'sreally listening to him. Like when
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he said stuff, I was like, oh, yeah, that's a good
point. Yeah, and nobody.Yeah, it's just not a known name
for most people. And he complainedafterwards that he wasn't able, and it
did seem like it was a littleunfair. At times. He would try
to jump in and they would say, Nope, we're going to shut off
your mike if you keep talking,and he was like, what the heck,
I'm over here, And he waslike they did want to hear and
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maybe, you know understandably so thatyou want to hear more from those who
are polling better, and that thatpeople want to hear from Ron De Santis,
Niggi Haley, Tim Scott, thevic Ramaswamy and that those on the
fringes. But Mike Pence was ableto speak quite a bit and and Bergham
said he just wasn't able to getit in there. You know. The
other thing in the spin room,the biggest celebrity in the spin room who
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hadn't been up on stage debating wasGovernor Newson last night. And I was
standing there as we were all askingquestions, and you know his take,
and he said that that he thinksthat Ronald Reagan would have been appalled by
what he heard last night. Andyou know, most of what he was
saying, they were the Democrat talkingpoints and talking about Biden and everything,
but talking you know, what ishe doing? Is it a shadow campaign?
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Is it? What? What heis it? Now? We know
he's gonna be debate de Santists maybein November. They've set a date to
do it in Georgia. But hewas It was unusual to see him in
that room last night, in thespin room, in spinning, but he
was there. Yeah. So here'swhat I There were some interesting things,
like Tim Scott surprised me last nightbecause I liked Tim Scott and I'd like
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his story, but but he justkeeps repeating that story and I'm like,
come on, you got to movepast your story of your upbringing, which
is lovely and beautiful yeah, butyou got it, and then he told
it again in the interviews in thespin room afterwards. Yeah, I think,
you know, it's what he's got. It's it's the relatable you heard
de Santists everything was, you know, I met this person and you know
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it's the old political Oh you knowthat three people came up to me this
week and said, wow, gasprices are high, and you know,
one's name was Judy and she toldme, you know, and you wonder
is it really even a Judy likeand like, did that really happen?
Or is this a story that's beingtold not just from him, but from
every candidate who you know, tellsvery personal stories and so there is a
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lot of that. They're kind ofcrutch as everybody goes back to. And
for Tim Scott it seems like it'sthe growing up, you know, in
his childhood, and for Desantists,it's the pre rehearse stories of the person
that he met and what they toldhim, and it's all meant to relate
to us as we're listening to it, But you know, sometimes it's just
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kind of oh, it's, youknow the same thing we've heard over and
over. Yeah, and so youwere talking about how going after Trump is
a dangerous proposition, but I thinkthe VEG is doing it well. He
didn't score a lot of points whenwhen Nicky brought up the some ties to
China. But the vegu doesn't attackTrump, he said, he kind of
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says we need to move on forhim from him. So he doesn't like
tick off Trump supporters. Yeah,but at the same time, he also
seems like the biggest Trump supporter upthere on stage. You know, maybe
is he trying to get a jobmaybe? Look, and I mean there's
a lot of support for the formerpress it in coming from him, and
in most of his views, they'reexactly the same as the former president.
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So if you were going for theformer president, if you support those views,
why would you go for Swamy versusTrump? You know, it seems
like it's the same person, atleast views wise, So that's going to
be a hard distinction to make that. Yeah, you may have the same
supporter who likes both of them,wouldn't they then go with Trump instead of
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him? Yeah? Overall, again, I'm mesmerized by these things. I
love watching them, but it wasdisappointing and all the just the talking over
each of wee. I was like, what you know a lot? Yeah,
it was over and over again andagain that's all just bickering amongst themselves
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and not going anywhere. So here'smy my, my Maldia with my last
thought, Alex, I think thatthey should do brackets, like an NC
double a bracket and like one persondoes one debate, and whoever wins that
one moves on to the next one. Been who votes? How do we
know who won? Well, there'sthat I don't know. I remember a
couple of years ago, they triedto do two debates. It was back
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to back nights, and that didn'treally work because they had the front runners
and then they had the secondary onesand nobody cared about the secondary debate.
And then they tried to do likethree hours. Last time we were at
the Reagan Library and twenty sixteen thatthose were three and a half hours,
and I remember those, Man,your butt hurt at the end of that.
It was like you had been sittingthere for so long. And yeah,
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so they tried to draw them outto give everybody more time, and
so they keep trying to get creative. This time they've gone back to doing
it the old way and you know, maybe that's maybe that's the best way.
I guess. Well, were youto see it again in November?
Right, yep, a couple moremonths. We'll see if Trump shows up.
All right, thanks, remember thatPenn's joke? All right, how
can we forget? All right?Take care. When we come back,
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we're gonna be talking with ABC's Crimeand Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett, not about
crime and terror, but about thepossible government shutdown and the tie in between
the two. Here's what we're followingin the KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
sag After and Hollywood Studios. They'regoing to return to the negotiating table next
week. Actors have been on strikesince July fourteenth. They're demanding better pay
and protections against the use of AI. House Republicans will hold the first public
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hearing in their impeachment investigation of PresidentBiden today. The Oversight Committee chairman claims
to have evidence that Biden abused hispublic office as Vice president and as president
for his family's financial gain. Illegalimmigrants have been taking advantage of some construction
on the border wall near the Oceanand San Diego. Video shows them running
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over a fallen chain link Finch andthrough a construction site right on into the
US at six o five. It'shandled on the news. More Democrats are
piling on for Senator Bob Menendez toquit. Bill's going to tell you what's
next for him. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC Crime
and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, we know that if a spending plan
isn't passed, the government shuts downon October first. Now we think of
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people who won't be working and howthat could affect millions of people potentially.
But Brad, you say a shutdowncould actually pose a threat to our safety
and even national security. So lemy, look at it this way. Let's
just use the FBI for example.Many of them would be essential employees.
They would continue to work as Ihave done in the past for shutdowns with
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no pay, at least temporarily.But it's the underpinning under the agents,
the support employees, the people whodo surveillance, who keep tech support and
cybersecurity up. Some of them maybe affected. So what I'm suggesting is
that ripples across the government, intothe military, into the intelligence community,
and if you think about the numberof contractors the federal government uses at super
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sensitive levels that they may not beconsidered essential by some person's definition, and
they won't be at work. Theyalso won't get paid. You know,
the federal employees will get back paidat some point. Contractors maybe not think
about if you're in the middle ofa sensitive munition systems for the new F
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thirty five, thinking about the militarynational security, maybe have to stop working
on that. I mean, thinkabout the FBI and some of the supersensitive
criminal violent cases they're working, andnational security esmionas slash terrorist cases they're working.
If you start diminishing their capacity throughall these support organizations and entities,
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it's a huge problem. And ofcourse the biggest one is morale. If
you go from days to weeks,people are going to get upsets, They're
going to get angry. I mean, in past shutdowns, the TSA has
had more people call in sick.It's going to slow down potentially your ability
to get on a plane. Itmay slow down the number of air traffic
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controllers to also slow you in gettingonto a plane and leaving. So the
ripple effect of these things and thenthe cost of shutting the government down and
then starting it back up, Imean, the Treasury Department says it costs
about twelve billion dollars for Treasury torestart the fiscal side of the government.
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If you can imagine, why don'tthey just up and work, Well,
you can't just show up and startwork. You have to shut down all
of these systems. If you're goingto shut the government down, you then
have to restart all of them.You have to restart programs, you have
to restart you have to reconnect themoney aspect of the government. I mean,
it is a huge, huge deal, and I don't think people really
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understand that. Yeah, and thenyou also said that it's going to affect
the border patrol. You know,we've got yesterday it was eleven thousand people
across the border and they just dida story about how they're running through a
construction site in San Diego where they'rebuilding border wall and just running across the
border. How does it affect borderpatrol? So border patrol would be considered
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essential. So the border patrol agentsout conducting to rest like the obviously we're
yesterday and every other day, butthe support system behind them, how will
it be affected the places where theyhouse immigrants, where they process immigrants,
where they clean. Can you imaginejust keep it up with a hygiene and
sanitation of dealing with thousands of peopletemporarily. I mean, it's all that
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going to stay in place. Andthose are some of the lowest paying jobs
that probably are in the Border patrolor inn the other agency, and those
folks will live paycheck to paycheck.They may leave and go to another job.
It's because they have to survive.I mean it. It just goes
on and on about the ripple effect. And I just don't understand why people
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I'm not talking about folks are listeningto us, but politicians would even allow
that to happen. Just get yourjob done, guys and gals. Right,
well, thank you, that's it. I mean, it's it's you're
right. I think people don't realizehow far reaching it could be. And
they've got today, tomorrow and Saturdayto come up with a deal. We'll
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see, all right. Thank youso much, Brad Garrett. Always appreciate
your insight. You're welcome to cureamy you two. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man from la has pleaded guilty inBoston to federal charges of running a large
scale marriage fraud scheme that arranged hundredsof fake marriages for immigration status. He's
the seventh person to plead guilty inthe case. Prosecutors see the guy prepared
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and submitted false petitions, applications,and other documents last year to prove the
marriages were legit. They say theman's business charged clients twenty to thirty thousand
dollars in cash. He faces upto five years in prison and a fine
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Police in Baltimore have arrested the man
they say killed a tech startup CEO. Alex Prochet from ABC says officers found
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the woman dead Monday in an apartment. They say she showed signs of blunt
force trauma. A deputy US Marshallsays Jason Billingsley was caught at a train
station in Maryland. More details atthe arrest are expected to be released later
this morning. Police had said Billingsleywas wanted for first degree murder, assault,
reckless endangerment, and other charges.And a NASA astronaut has broken the
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record for the longest US space flight. Frank Rubio surpassed the record of three
hundred fifty five days at the InternationalSpace Station after his capsule was hit by
a tiny meteoroid. It had acoolant leak that required a replacement craft being
set up. That's what caused thedelay. NASA's Rubio spent three hundred and
seventy one days in orbit, settinga lot of things, including how space
flight affects the human body, bothphysically and psychologically. ABC Sherry Prestons's Rubio
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returned to Earth in Kazakhstan yesterday.He came back with two Russian cosmonauts who
rocketed into space with him last September. Right now, it's time for your
Boo preview. So what we're doingis we're going out to fun, spooky,
haunting places around southern California as wehead into Halloween. This week,
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we got to go to not ScaryFarm. I got to catch up with
event producer Chris Doe, who overseesall of the scariness. So, Chris,
when people come to Notts Scary Farmthis year, what are they going
to find? So not Scary Farm. This year, we are celebrating our
fiftieth Anniverse. We're incredibly excited aboutthat and We have ten mazes that we
have this year, three of thembeing brand new. We have some returning
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favorites are brand new maze that wehave this year. We have Room thirteen
that sounds scary just the name ofits scary. It is a nineteen twenties
Prohibition style of maze and it takesyou through the archive hotel. Is this
beautiful art deco hotel. You've alwaysbeen told don't go to Room thirteen.
So we're gonna do thirteen, youknow it. So that's one of our
brand new mazes. We also haveCinema Slasher, which is another one of
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our brand new mazes. Okay,so I have to tell you this little
inside Baseball. Yeah that Chris justgave us a little mini tour of that
particular maze, and I only saidI would go through lights on. So
it's so cool. I know,you don't want to give away any secrets,
can you tell us just a littlesneak peek of what they're going to
see? Yes, So for CinemaSlash or that one we just walked through,
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uh, you know, it's gonnapay tribute to all of your you
know, classic Cinema Slasher. Youknow, tropes that you have, whether
it be you know you're going throughthe you know, the camp, you're
in the sorority house, or ofcourse you know you're seeing one of your
big slasher films that you have there, all of a sudden you find that
you may be our subjects next oryou maybe our next victim that we have.
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Now, so you know, youthink you're going inside movie, but
the next thing you know, youknow you're part of this adventure. So
that's going to be cinema slasher anotherone of our brand new mazes. Okay,
and the whole park is taken over. This is a separate ticketed event
at night. Yes, so,uh, they're wondering around the park.
Are the rides are still going?The rides are still going. We still
have our attractions and our rides areopen. Uh. And then of course
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we have a couple of our areoverlays that we have on some of our
rides as well. That will begreat. And then as you travel from
locational location, whether it be fromour mazers to our rides, you're going
to of course encounter our scare zonesthat we have. Of course we are
what what is a scare zone scarZone. So as you're traveling, you
know, through ghost Town or boardwalk, you can you may encounter some of
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our wonderful clowns that we have inCarnival. You may see our ghost Town.
They're the happy, smiley kinds ofclowns. I mean, they're happy
to see you. Maybe I don'tknow if you'll be happy to see over
ghost we have some other monsters thatwe have there as well. And then
over in the we have the GoringTwenties uh, and we have this beautiful,
wonderful band you're taking back to thenineteen twenties. Is It's really fun,
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lively kind of area, but alsoscary as well. And then we
have our brand new scare zone aswell, the Gauntlets, which will be
it's a fan favorite that we broughtback for the fiftieth anniversary. That will
be over kind of the Camp Snoopyarea. Okay, perfect, Now you
mentioned Snoopy. So I'm going togo to a something that's maybe a little
more my speed, and that isduring the days starting tomorrow. Yes,
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we have Spooky Farm, Yes,so tell us about that. Starting tomorrow,
we have a spooky Farm, notspooky Farm, and there's a family
friendly event for you know, familieslike everybody, and you know the park's
been taken over. Is this wonderfulkind of Halloween time celebration. You know
you'll see our wonderful Peanuts characters intheir Halloween best. You'll be able to,
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you know, enjoy some of ourshows. We have a wonderful show.
We partner with a Bob Baker MarinetteTheater, a southern California classics,
and they bring their wonderful Halloween showhere on select days. On the weekends,
we have a costume cavalcade. Weencourage our guests of all a just
come dress up. They can tricka treat here. They can walk away
with some great candy and of coursetreat. We'll have locations kind of all
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over the park that our guests cantrick or treat in as well. Okay,
and real quick, we have specialtreats and tasty things during the Halloween
Sea my goodness. Yes, soduring the daytime we have a plenty of
wonderful, sweet, yummy treats.But then and scary farm we want you
to take some chances. We hadthe return of the blood bags, which
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are delicious and good drinks. Yes, bloodbags, no alright. We good.
So we have some wonderful adult beveragesthat are available to purchase. But
of course we want you to takea chance. So we have things like
camel stew that you can have camelstew, that is correct, you heard
me, run all right. Wehave frog, we have ostrich, we
have all these different fun you know, concoctions that our chef has come up
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with for Not Scary Farm. Wewant you to take a chance. Try
it out. It's a it's quitedelicious. I've had a chance to try
some of it and I really likeit. Okay, So Not Scary Farm
going on now. Not Spooky Farmstarts tomorrow, goes through Halloween fun for
the whole family. Christo, thankyou so much, absolutely wonderful chatting with
you. I'm glad you didn't scareme. I didn't, he didn't,
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But so I don't like to bescared. Nick poly o'keany, on the
other hand, loves to be scared. And so you actually have been now
to Not Scary Farm during the nighttime. We went through that maze during
the day and that still was alittle freakish to me. So what's it
like at night? Just real quick, it's really impressive and no in really
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quick. If you're ever been toNot Scary Farm, this was where dark
Ride used to be, and there'ssome homages to that, but it's really
a lot of fun and as Amyreference, there's a lot of scary things
with the lights on. It's evenscary at night. And there's a special
cinema monster that may be tracking youthroughout so as you're pushing through the screen
throughout the through the specific maze.So for a cinema slasher, there are
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some creatures that are tracking you throughoutthe park. And if you've ever been
a ghost town, or if youwant to go I get scared through the
scare zones, ghost Town really doescome alive with some very classic, you
know, ghost town style characters thatare running around. Okay, just real
quick, tell me with the scarezones that Chris was talking about, So
there are certain areas of the parkwhere monsters just jump out at you,
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right, And so that's the wholething. And I think the one thing
that we didn't touch on is boonecklaces. So these are the areas,
especially the no scare zone things,so you cannot go into amaze with these.
But what it is is it's afifteen dollars purchase and you can actually
go through the scare zones and themonsters will avoid you there, but you
can really I mean, if youhave a fear of clowns. The boardwalk
and Carn't Evil is one of thescariest places because they are just everywhere,
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so your nightmares will come alive.All right, So not Scary Farm Mine
Mine is not Spooky Farm that openstomorrow and then it goes through Halloween.
And remember the Not Scary Farm isa separate, separate Tickett event only at
night. Yes, all right,so but yeah, now go Snoopy and
his friends all in their Halloween costumes. That's the thing that we didn't talk
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about. Super super cute. AbsolutelyAnd next week we're going to be out
and about again. We've got anotherBoo preview for you. We've got some
really cool stuff. We've we've beento Disneyland, now we've been to Not
Scary Farm. We're going to findsome maybe a little maybe off the beaten
path or a little bit smaller kitchyevents and they're really really cool for Halloween.
So you'll want to stick around forthat. Right now, let's get
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back to some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. The mother of a murderedLa Kenny sheriff's deputy, says she was
not pleased with the DA's handling ofcharges against her son's killer. Kim Clinton
Brumer says the first time she andher family heard about George Gascone pursuing life
without parole against Kevin Salazar was whenthey were standing behind Gascon at last week's
press conference. As a taxpayer,it just seems that the district attorney wants
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to spare a life when he didn'tspare my son's life. Gascon said at
the press conference. The death penaltyis not a deterrent to stopping crime,
and going after the death penalty wouldn'thave brought back her son Ryan Steve Gregory
Canfine News. Scientists at UC Irvinehave analyzed smoke particles to uncover what fuels
are contributing to the severity of wildfire. The smoke particles collected during a ninety
(29:57):
acre fire in the Sequoia National Fourshow wildfires are being put out so fast
now that smaller trees and plants areflourishing, causing more fire fuel Uci researcher
Audrey Odwar says the solution is dealingwith the dead trees collected over decades plus
thinning out new plant growth. Oncewe cut the trees down, get them
out of the forest, burned downthe remaining fuels. In theory, that
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creates less potential for more severe wildfires. She says, the smoke particles identify
which plants to target for wildfire fueltreatments. In Orange County, Corbin Carson,
k if I News, and aman is recovering from a vicious attack
by a rabid otter. Please say. The man was feeding ducks in a
pond by his home when the otterbid him forty one times on the legs,
(30:40):
arms, and hands. They saythe otter also attacked a neighbor's dog
That same day. Animal control wasable to catch the otter. It was
euthanized because it had tested positive forrabies. Hey, let's say good morning,
tk ifi's very own fork reporter NeilSavader. We got you up early
today because you had something going onthis weekend. We want to tell you
about Amy King. You old soand so. You called the old thanks
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a lot. No, it's anold it's a term. It's it's it's
fun. It's old timey. Ohgotcha like the cats me out that kind
of thing. I know, Neil, I missed working with you on Saturdays.
Likewise, everybody misses you when you'renot there, and the listeners are
not shy about telling me so.But now they get you to themselves for
(31:26):
an hour every single morning and throughoutthe handle show. Yeah, except now
we're going to share the spotlight withyou because you're going to be out and
about, and I know you.You don't get to get out and about
as much as pre pandemic. SoI'm excited for you for this weekend.
I am too. It's really agreat opportunity. You know, we used
to do the the Thanks grilling.Now this is not that it's not this
(31:51):
massive event, but it is areally cool opportunity to come out and and
check out the Big Green Egg.They've been a new partner, and I'm
to be broadcasting live this Saturday fromBarbecue's Galore in Valencia. There are two
of them, so I want togive the address. Of course, two
to five is going to be theshow. Two five five five zero North
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the Old Road and come enjoy thelife broadcast will be giving away a minimax
Big Green Egg. It is theonly portable Big Green Egg and it's a
thing of beauty. Must be presentto win. We're gonna be grilling,
teaching some grilling and baking tips.There will be eating. We always have
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food going. Yeah, I justwant to make sure doing at least some
try tip and things like that.There. These are beautiful, beautiful cooking
vessels. And the cool thing isthey don't go on sale often, and
when they do you often can't tellanybody. We got permission that there will
be special discounts throughout the day they'rein the store. But all so the
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Big Green Eggs will be on salewith a ten percent discount. Very rare
for that to happen, and whenit does happen, you almost never hear
about it. We got special permissionto tell everybody about it. And if
you've ever thought about getting a BigGreen Egg, or if you have one,
have questions, come out and I'llhave you know, some fork report
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swag and cutting boards and some otherstuff. It'll be good fun. You
gave me one of those cutting boardsfor Christmas. One right, you've got
a personalized one. Now, Ilove it. That's very rare. You
have a big green egg because I'veheard you talking about it. What's your
favorite thing to cook on it?You know? I baked on it recently.
I made corn muffett. Oh,it's fantastic for baking. It is
really insane aiming because it is soversatile. You can roast on I roasted
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an entire chicken on it a fewweeks ago, and I did corn muffins
on it. I've done hot dogsand your day to day. But you
can bake on it, easy,peasy. You can do pizzas on there,
no problem. It's just a it'sa it's a one of the most
fun cooking apparetti I've ever worked on. It looks like so I'm looking at
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pictures of it and it's like yousaid, you did a chicken in there.
It's got a turkey in there.I mean. So it's like an
outdoor oven, which makes cooking morefun. Yeah, it'll do. It'll
do anything, and it holds myfear. That the reason why I never
moved to one. I had twofears. It's going to take too long
to heat up, and it wasgoing to have too big of a learning
(34:30):
curve and both were wrong. Itheats, I can heat it up probably
in the same amount of time Iheat up my gas grill. So it's
just it is super fun to cookon Okay, and you can come out
and you can see Neil doing somecooking and do some tasting. And again,
what's the address in time and stuffon Saturday? Two to five this
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Saturday, And the address is twofive five five zero North the Old Road,
and it's the barbecues Galore there.I think they have two of them,
so make sure you go to theright one. But we'll be given
away stuff. They'll be all kindsof cool things and special discount in store
that I can't even give today.I love secret secrets deal. Yeah,
(35:17):
so it'll be it'll be great fun. I'm only doing two of these,
this one and then i'll do onein October in Torrance. But I'd really
love to meet people, because I, like you said, I haven't been
out in a while. Okay,super and Neil come back again another time.
I know, I would love tohave you come visit us. More
off for Amy King for peace sakes. I appreciate the I appreciate the invitation.
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I really do, my friend,Thanks Neil, thank you. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
news room. The second Republican debate'sbeen held at the Ronald Reagan Library and
Semi Valley. All the candidates fromthe first debate last month were there,
except for former Arkansas govern Or AsaHutchinson, who fell short of qualifying earlier
this week. Former President Trump,of course, wasn't there. He didn't
show up for the first debate either. He gave a speech in Detroit instead.
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The La County Board of Supervisors hasapproved a motion to help support the
entertainment industry. The motion would reducethe county's barriers for developmental space, offer
tax incentives, and provide fee waiversfor low budget productions. Supervisor Katherine Barger
proposed the motion because she says it'svital to keep the film industry in La
We're gonna look at what we cando within the county's bureaucracy, but also
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working with our state representatives where needed. Barger says if productions aren't filmed in
La County, she doesn't want itto be because of financial burdens. The
board unanimously passed the motion Tuesday,Chris Adler ka FI News, and as
we close out wake Up Call,want to leave you with one thing before
we head into handle in the news, and that is too bad, Senator
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John Fennerman. So the Senate unanimouslyyesterday passed a formal dress code requiring business
attire on the chamber floor, includinga coat, tie and slax. Four
men all. Poor John Federman.He can't show up in his hoodie and
shorts like he did when he metthe head of Ukraine last week. So
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they introduced a plan to in toput the formal dress policy in place.
I think it's ridiculous that they hadto do it in the first place.
But Senator Romney, set of senators, we should demonstrate a high level of
reverence for the institution in which weserve, and our attire is one of
the most basic expressions of that respect. I agree. This is KFI and
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kost HD to Los Angeles, OrangeCounty live from the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. I'm Amy King. Thishas been your wakeup call. You've been
listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear
wake Up Call five to six amMonday through Friday, on KFI AM six
forty and anytime on demand on theiHeart Radio app.
You're listening to kf I AM sixforty wake Up Call with me Amy King
on demand on the iHeartRadio apps kFINE and kost HT two Los Angeles,
Orange County. Name you ab King, Good morning, It's five o'clock.
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This is your wake up call forThursday, September twenty eight. Did you
watch the debate last night? Whatdo you think We're gonna be talking about
this a little bit more with AlexStone in just a few minutes. I
want to dig into it. Ijust thought there was there was a lot
of yelling and screaming and talking eachother over each other, and I think
(01:02):
Dana Perino threatened to turn off theirmicrophones at one point, and I was
like, why don't you just stopit? Act like adults. But I'm
fascinated by debates either side, don'tcare. I love watching them. So
yeah, I was glued to myTV set last night. Here's what's ahead
on wake up Call. As Ijust mentioned, the second presidential debate has
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been held without frontrunner Donald Trump.Two of the seven candidates took shots at
him. Former or Florida Governor RondaSantas said Trump was missing in action,
and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christiesaid Trump would rather hide behind his golf
clubs than defend his record. Twoof the candidates are hanging around to do
fundraisers in SOCl. Former Vice PresidentMike Pence is holding a fireside chat and
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reception at the Lost World of Statein Anaheim, and former South Carolina Governor
Nicky Hayley, also former UN ambassador, is hosting an event in Beverly Hills.
The La City Council's committed thirty milliondollars to adding and replacing bus shelters
in underserved communities. The shelters oroverhangs at bus stops that provide protection from
the sun and the rain. Thefunding improved yesterday will pay for two hundred
(02:10):
eighty shelters. Hey, we've gotyour BOO preview coming up at five thirty
five. What's spooky place are wevisiting this week? Stick around if I
know. At six oh five,it's handling the news. Gas prices have
taken another huge jump in La County. Bill's going to dig into why and
what's next. Let's get started withsome of the stories coming out of the
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KFI twenty four hour newsroom. SagAftra has announced it will restart the long
stalled negotiations with the Hollywood studios nextweek. The next bargaining session is scheduled
for Monday. The Writers Guild saysit will continue to support actors on picket
lines as a deal between the WGAand studios moves to be finalized. Writers
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called an end to their labor strikethat lasted nearly five months and cost the
economy and estimated three billion dollars.Writer and director Monique store And says she's
elated the strike is over, butwill remain on picket lines in solidarity with
the actors. We didn't get everythingthat we wanted, but we got so
much, and I do think negotiationsare about ultimately compromising. Writers will have
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to ratify their deal with studios ina formal vote in October. Sagafter says
it will continue to strike until anagreement is approved for its members. Chris
Adler KFI News Pelisamiriette have arrested ayouth football coach for attacking a player on
an opposing team. Officers responded Saturdayto reports of a fight at a local
high school involving coaches, players andparents. They say the fifty year old
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coach punched a fourteen year old fromthe other team in the face, causing
an injury to a s eye anda concussion. The boy's mom says he
was unconscious for two minutes and hada seizure. The federal government appears headed
for a shutdown as lawmakers have beenunable to reach agreement on a spending plan.
The two sides are still very farapart. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says
he does plan to bring his proposalto the floor of the House for a
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vote on Friday, but as ofnow, he still does not have the
votes. ABC's Rachel Scott says hardright Republicans in the House want deep cuts
and more border security. The shutdownwill begin Sunday if Congress doesn't come up
with a funding plan. Federal agencieswill stop all actions deemed non essential,
and millions of federal employees won't begetting paid. The Army private who ran
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across the border into North Korea andthen was thrown out has been returned to
Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan says theplane carrying Travis King arrived this morning.
King's fate is unclear. The Armyconsidered him a wall after he darted through
the demilitarized Zone into North Korea onJuly eighteenth. The White House said yesterday
King's return was organized with the helpof Sweden and China. Kitty, a
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ten week old kitten that caused athree car crash on the Coronado Bridge and
San Diego, has been taken toa shelter and will be available for adoption
as soon as tomorrow. Apparently adriver stopped to try to help the kitten
yesterday on the bridge that caused athree car crash and snarled traffic for a
couple hour. One person was takento the hospital, two cars had to
be towed off the bridge, andfirefighters rescued the kitten, who was not
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hurt. I think whoever adopts thekitten should name it Crash. Just a
thought. Let's stay Good morning toABC's Alex Stones. So, Alex,
the goal was to break through gainmomentum because they're all trailing in the polls
by forty points. So during thedebate last night, did any of them
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do it? I mean, didthey? I think everybody The one thing
everybody's talking about today was the onemoment where we all went, oh,
this line my wife isn't a memberof the teachers union, but I gotta
admit I've been sleeping with a teacherfor thirty eight years. We all looked
at each other in the room andwent, no, Mike, you're not
allowed to say that. He's justnot a Mike Pence thing. No,
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out of everybody on stage, you'renot the one that can say that.
No. I mean, it wasa chaotic debate. Is it gonna move
the needle at all and change anything? I don't think so. Yeah.
The thing is that Donald Trump isforty points ahead in our latest pulling to
his closest competitor being Ron De Santist, and he doesn't even have to show
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up. After debate number one,his numbers went up and he wasn't even
there. So it doesn't do himany good to be there. And except
for Ron de Santists and Chris Christie, nobody was really willing to go after
Trump last night. They took himon. I mean, they had a
couple of lines. You know.There was the line about Donald duck because
of Trump ducking the debates came fromChris Christie. That was a stretch though.
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Yeah, I mean, it reallydidn't get in it before I got
it any reaction either in the room. He waited for it, and there's
a little bit like nervous laughter inthe in the room. But most of
what they were doing was going aftereach other. And you know, is
that gonna do anything when the leaderis who they're they're trying to go after.
You know that that's something that that'stactic for debate and whether Yeah,
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they talked about guns, immigration,and abortion, but there were no new
rous sponsores. There was nothing therethat you said, oh wow, that
really stands out now. And Iasked a University of Michigan director of debate,
Aaron call who studies debate, heteaches debate. He's always in the
room with us, and I askedhim, this, give me a grade
on this debate if you were givingit a letter grade A D, this
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D this overall debate, I don'tknow. I thought the moderators let things
get out of hand. Yeah,I mean he says that the candidates want
to take on Trump. They gotto take on Trump. But yes,
it is dangerous because Trump is sopopular among Republican primary voters that if you
go against him, you know,others have seen their polling numbers take a
hit. The people are you knowthat the Trump supporters are appalled that you
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would go after him, and thenhe goes after you as well and starts
calling you names and whatnot. ButAaron Call is saying, going after each
other on that stage, that noneof their numbers are high enough to matter.
And then it's all white noise,and still the leader continues to lead.
So he says, if they wantto be the candidate for the Republican
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Party, they got to take downthe leader. And he said, every
question you need to pivot to kindof attacking him, contrasting him, and
realizing that he's the major enemy thatall the candidates need to deal with,
not those fellow ones on the stageactually showing up to debating. He's still
the one leading by far, andso that those contrasts even more importantly than
the actual candidates and stage have tobe with Trump, who still has a
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runaway leading this racing. He says, just kind of debate one oh one
that you know, you know,the people who aren't leading, don't go
after each other. You go afteryou cut the head off of the snake
on this thing and try to takethat spot. But Trump's team is already
saying Amy that he will not attendthe third GOP debate in November. They're
saying no way, and in factthey're saying, now cancel all future debates.
He's already won. And you know, we'll see I did. They're
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probably going to have the debate inNovember. We'll see. Maybe he did
get bated into it last night byChris Christie and Ron De Santis. Maybe
we will end up showing up.But the field was so big last night,
and even some were left out becausethe rules. The rules will tighten
going into November, so probably justnaturally there will be fewer people on stage,
but also fundraising is going to startto run out. Money is not
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going to come in to those withextremely poll low polling numbers and on the
fringe of the stage. Last night, the highest polling candidate is in the
middle and then it goes out fromthere. So Mike Pence on one end
and Doug Bergham on the other end, they're polling numbers are not great,
and likely the money is going togo away as well. That donors are
going to say, why am Igiving you money when you're you know,
(09:28):
not polling very well? So canthey make it to November? You know,
then none of them are showing signsthat they're getting ready to drop out,
but that may be coming. Yeah. Well, so Doug Bergham,
who is the governor of North Dakota, I think he made some good points,
but he's so far back and nobody'sreally listening to him. Like when
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he said stuff, I was like, oh, yeah, that's a good
point. Yeah, and nobody.Yeah, it's just not a known name
for most people. And he complainedafterwards that he wasn't able, and it
did seem like it was a littleunfair. At times. He would try
to jump in and they would say, Nope, we're going to shut off
your mike if you keep talking,and he was like, what the heck,
I'm over here, And he waslike they did want to hear and
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maybe, you know understandably so thatyou want to hear more from those who
are polling better, and that thatpeople want to hear from Ron De Santis,
Niggi Haley, Tim Scott, thevic Ramaswamy and that those on the
fringes. But Mike Pence was ableto speak quite a bit and and Bergham
said he just wasn't able to getit in there. You know. The
other thing in the spin room,the biggest celebrity in the spin room who
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hadn't been up on stage debating wasGovernor Newson last night. And I was
standing there as we were all askingquestions, and you know his take,
and he said that that he thinksthat Ronald Reagan would have been appalled by
what he heard last night. Andyou know, most of what he was
saying, they were the Democrat talkingpoints and talking about Biden and everything,
but talking you know, what ishe doing? Is it a shadow campaign?
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Is it? What? What heis it? Now? We know
he's gonna be debate de Santists maybein November. They've set a date to
do it in Georgia. But hewas It was unusual to see him in
that room last night, in thespin room, in spinning, but he
was there. Yeah. So here'swhat I There were some interesting things,
like Tim Scott surprised me last nightbecause I liked Tim Scott and I'd like
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his story, but but he justkeeps repeating that story and I'm like,
come on, you got to movepast your story of your upbringing, which
is lovely and beautiful yeah, butyou got it, and then he told
it again in the interviews in thespin room afterwards. Yeah, I think,
you know, it's what he's got. It's it's the relatable you heard
de Santists everything was, you know, I met this person and you know
(11:41):
it's the old political Oh you knowthat three people came up to me this
week and said, wow, gasprices are high, and you know,
one's name was Judy and she toldme, you know, and you wonder
is it really even a Judy likeand like, did that really happen?
Or is this a story that's beingtold not just from him, but from
every candidate who you know, tellsvery personal stories and so there is a
(12:01):
lot of that. They're kind ofcrutch as everybody goes back to. And
for Tim Scott it seems like it'sthe growing up, you know, in
his childhood, and for Desantists,it's the pre rehearse stories of the person
that he met and what they toldhim, and it's all meant to relate
to us as we're listening to it, But you know, sometimes it's just
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kind of oh, it's, youknow the same thing we've heard over and
over. Yeah, and so youwere talking about how going after Trump is
a dangerous proposition, but I thinkthe VEG is doing it well. He
didn't score a lot of points whenwhen Nicky brought up the some ties to
China. But the vegu doesn't attackTrump, he said, he kind of
(12:43):
says we need to move on forhim from him. So he doesn't like
tick off Trump supporters. Yeah,but at the same time, he also
seems like the biggest Trump supporter upthere on stage. You know, maybe
is he trying to get a jobmaybe? Look, and I mean there's
a lot of support for the formerpress it in coming from him, and
in most of his views, they'reexactly the same as the former president.
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So if you were going for theformer president, if you support those views,
why would you go for Swamy versusTrump? You know, it seems
like it's the same person, atleast views wise, So that's going to
be a hard distinction to make that. Yeah, you may have the same
supporter who likes both of them,wouldn't they then go with Trump instead of
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him? Yeah? Overall, again, I'm mesmerized by these things. I
love watching them, but it wasdisappointing and all the just the talking over
each of wee. I was like, what you know a lot? Yeah,
it was over and over again andagain that's all just bickering amongst themselves
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and not going anywhere. So here'smy my, my Maldia with my last
thought, Alex, I think thatthey should do brackets, like an NC
double a bracket and like one persondoes one debate, and whoever wins that
one moves on to the next one. Been who votes? How do we
know who won? Well, there'sthat I don't know. I remember a
couple of years ago, they triedto do two debates. It was back
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to back nights, and that didn'treally work because they had the front runners
and then they had the secondary onesand nobody cared about the secondary debate.
And then they tried to do likethree hours. Last time we were at
the Reagan Library and twenty sixteen thatthose were three and a half hours,
and I remember those, Man,your butt hurt at the end of that.
It was like you had been sittingthere for so long. And yeah,
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so they tried to draw them outto give everybody more time, and
so they keep trying to get creative. This time they've gone back to doing
it the old way and you know, maybe that's maybe that's the best way.
I guess. Well, were youto see it again in November?
Right, yep, a couple moremonths. We'll see if Trump shows up.
All right, thanks, remember thatPenn's joke? All right, how
can we forget? All right?Take care. When we come back,
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we're gonna be talking with ABC's Crimeand Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett, not about
crime and terror, but about thepossible government shutdown and the tie in between
the two. Here's what we're followingin the KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
sag After and Hollywood Studios. They'regoing to return to the negotiating table next
week. Actors have been on strikesince July fourteenth. They're demanding better pay
and protections against the use of AI. House Republicans will hold the first public
(15:18):
hearing in their impeachment investigation of PresidentBiden today. The Oversight Committee chairman claims
to have evidence that Biden abused hispublic office as Vice president and as president
for his family's financial gain. Illegalimmigrants have been taking advantage of some construction
on the border wall near the Oceanand San Diego. Video shows them running
(15:39):
over a fallen chain link Finch andthrough a construction site right on into the
US at six o five. It'shandled on the news. More Democrats are
piling on for Senator Bob Menendez toquit. Bill's going to tell you what's
next for him. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC Crime
and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, we know that if a spending plan
isn't passed, the government shuts downon October first. Now we think of
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people who won't be working and howthat could affect millions of people potentially.
But Brad, you say a shutdowncould actually pose a threat to our safety
and even national security. So lemy, look at it this way. Let's
just use the FBI for example.Many of them would be essential employees.
They would continue to work as Ihave done in the past for shutdowns with
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no pay, at least temporarily.But it's the underpinning under the agents,
the support employees, the people whodo surveillance, who keep tech support and
cybersecurity up. Some of them maybe affected. So what I'm suggesting is
that ripples across the government, intothe military, into the intelligence community,
and if you think about the numberof contractors the federal government uses at super
(16:51):
sensitive levels that they may not beconsidered essential by some person's definition, and
they won't be at work. Theyalso won't get paid. You know,
the federal employees will get back paidat some point. Contractors maybe not think
about if you're in the middle ofa sensitive munition systems for the new F
(17:12):
thirty five, thinking about the militarynational security, maybe have to stop working
on that. I mean, thinkabout the FBI and some of the supersensitive
criminal violent cases they're working, andnational security esmionas slash terrorist cases they're working.
If you start diminishing their capacity throughall these support organizations and entities,
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it's a huge problem. And ofcourse the biggest one is morale. If
you go from days to weeks,people are going to get upsets, They're
going to get angry. I mean, in past shutdowns, the TSA has
had more people call in sick.It's going to slow down potentially your ability
to get on a plane. Itmay slow down the number of air traffic
(17:59):
controllers to also slow you in gettingonto a plane and leaving. So the
ripple effect of these things and thenthe cost of shutting the government down and
then starting it back up, Imean, the Treasury Department says it costs
about twelve billion dollars for Treasury torestart the fiscal side of the government.
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If you can imagine, why don'tthey just up and work, Well,
you can't just show up and startwork. You have to shut down all
of these systems. If you're goingto shut the government down, you then
have to restart all of them.You have to restart programs, you have
to restart you have to reconnect themoney aspect of the government. I mean,
it is a huge, huge deal, and I don't think people really
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understand that. Yeah, and thenyou also said that it's going to affect
the border patrol. You know,we've got yesterday it was eleven thousand people
across the border and they just dida story about how they're running through a
construction site in San Diego where they'rebuilding border wall and just running across the
border. How does it affect borderpatrol? So border patrol would be considered
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essential. So the border patrol agentsout conducting to rest like the obviously we're
yesterday and every other day, butthe support system behind them, how will
it be affected the places where theyhouse immigrants, where they process immigrants,
where they clean. Can you imaginejust keep it up with a hygiene and
sanitation of dealing with thousands of peopletemporarily. I mean, it's all that
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going to stay in place. Andthose are some of the lowest paying jobs
that probably are in the Border patrolor inn the other agency, and those
folks will live paycheck to paycheck.They may leave and go to another job.
It's because they have to survive.I mean it. It just goes
on and on about the ripple effect. And I just don't understand why people
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I'm not talking about folks are listeningto us, but politicians would even allow
that to happen. Just get yourjob done, guys and gals. Right,
well, thank you, that's it. I mean, it's it's you're
right. I think people don't realizehow far reaching it could be. And
they've got today, tomorrow and Saturdayto come up with a deal. We'll
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see, all right. Thank youso much, Brad Garrett. Always appreciate
your insight. You're welcome to cureamy you two. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man from la has pleaded guilty inBoston to federal charges of running a large
scale marriage fraud scheme that arranged hundredsof fake marriages for immigration status. He's
the seventh person to plead guilty inthe case. Prosecutors see the guy prepared
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and submitted false petitions, applications,and other documents last year to prove the
marriages were legit. They say theman's business charged clients twenty to thirty thousand
dollars in cash. He faces upto five years in prison and a fine
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Police in Baltimore have arrested the man
they say killed a tech startup CEO. Alex Prochet from ABC says officers found
(21:03):
the woman dead Monday in an apartment. They say she showed signs of blunt
force trauma. A deputy US Marshallsays Jason Billingsley was caught at a train
station in Maryland. More details atthe arrest are expected to be released later
this morning. Police had said Billingsleywas wanted for first degree murder, assault,
reckless endangerment, and other charges.And a NASA astronaut has broken the
(21:25):
record for the longest US space flight. Frank Rubio surpassed the record of three
hundred fifty five days at the InternationalSpace Station after his capsule was hit by
a tiny meteoroid. It had acoolant leak that required a replacement craft being
set up. That's what caused thedelay. NASA's Rubio spent three hundred and
seventy one days in orbit, settinga lot of things, including how space
flight affects the human body, bothphysically and psychologically. ABC Sherry Prestons's Rubio
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returned to Earth in Kazakhstan yesterday.He came back with two Russian cosmonauts who
rocketed into space with him last September. Right now, it's time for your
Boo preview. So what we're doingis we're going out to fun, spooky,
haunting places around southern California as wehead into Halloween. This week,
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we got to go to not ScaryFarm. I got to catch up with
event producer Chris Doe, who overseesall of the scariness. So, Chris,
when people come to Notts Scary Farmthis year, what are they going
to find? So not Scary Farm. This year, we are celebrating our
fiftieth Anniverse. We're incredibly excited aboutthat and We have ten mazes that we
have this year, three of thembeing brand new. We have some returning
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favorites are brand new maze that wehave this year. We have Room thirteen
that sounds scary just the name ofits scary. It is a nineteen twenties
Prohibition style of maze and it takesyou through the archive hotel. Is this
beautiful art deco hotel. You've alwaysbeen told don't go to Room thirteen.
So we're gonna do thirteen, youknow it. So that's one of our
brand new mazes. We also haveCinema Slasher, which is another one of
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our brand new mazes. Okay,so I have to tell you this little
inside Baseball. Yeah that Chris justgave us a little mini tour of that
particular maze, and I only saidI would go through lights on. So
it's so cool. I know,you don't want to give away any secrets,
can you tell us just a littlesneak peek of what they're going to
see? Yes, So for CinemaSlash or that one we just walked through,
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uh, you know, it's gonnapay tribute to all of your you
know, classic Cinema Slasher. Youknow, tropes that you have, whether
it be you know you're going throughthe you know, the camp, you're
in the sorority house, or ofcourse you know you're seeing one of your
big slasher films that you have there, all of a sudden you find that
you may be our subjects next oryou maybe our next victim that we have.
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Now, so you know, youthink you're going inside movie, but
the next thing you know, youknow you're part of this adventure. So
that's going to be cinema slasher anotherone of our brand new mazes. Okay,
and the whole park is taken over. This is a separate ticketed event
at night. Yes, so,uh, they're wondering around the park.
Are the rides are still going?The rides are still going. We still
have our attractions and our rides areopen. Uh. And then of course
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we have a couple of our areoverlays that we have on some of our
rides as well. That will begreat. And then as you travel from
locational location, whether it be fromour mazers to our rides, you're going
to of course encounter our scare zonesthat we have. Of course we are
what what is a scare zone scarZone. So as you're traveling, you
know, through ghost Town or boardwalk, you can you may encounter some of
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our wonderful clowns that we have inCarnival. You may see our ghost Town.
They're the happy, smiley kinds ofclowns. I mean, they're happy
to see you. Maybe I don'tknow if you'll be happy to see over
ghost we have some other monsters thatwe have there as well. And then
over in the we have the GoringTwenties uh, and we have this beautiful,
wonderful band you're taking back to thenineteen twenties. Is It's really fun,
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lively kind of area, but alsoscary as well. And then we
have our brand new scare zone aswell, the Gauntlets, which will be
it's a fan favorite that we broughtback for the fiftieth anniversary. That will
be over kind of the Camp Snoopyarea. Okay, perfect, Now you
mentioned Snoopy. So I'm going togo to a something that's maybe a little
more my speed, and that isduring the days starting tomorrow. Yes,
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we have Spooky Farm, Yes,so tell us about that. Starting tomorrow,
we have a spooky Farm, notspooky Farm, and there's a family
friendly event for you know, familieslike everybody, and you know the park's
been taken over. Is this wonderfulkind of Halloween time celebration. You know
you'll see our wonderful Peanuts characters intheir Halloween best. You'll be able to,
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you know, enjoy some of ourshows. We have a wonderful show.
We partner with a Bob Baker MarinetteTheater, a southern California classics,
and they bring their wonderful Halloween showhere on select days. On the weekends,
we have a costume cavalcade. Weencourage our guests of all a just
come dress up. They can tricka treat here. They can walk away
with some great candy and of coursetreat. We'll have locations kind of all
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over the park that our guests cantrick or treat in as well. Okay,
and real quick, we have specialtreats and tasty things during the Halloween
Sea my goodness. Yes, soduring the daytime we have a plenty of
wonderful, sweet, yummy treats.But then and scary farm we want you
to take some chances. We hadthe return of the blood bags, which
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are delicious and good drinks. Yes, bloodbags, no alright. We good.
So we have some wonderful adult beveragesthat are available to purchase. But
of course we want you to takea chance. So we have things like
camel stew that you can have camelstew, that is correct, you heard
me, run all right. Wehave frog, we have ostrich, we
have all these different fun you know, concoctions that our chef has come up
(26:37):
with for Not Scary Farm. Wewant you to take a chance. Try
it out. It's a it's quitedelicious. I've had a chance to try
some of it and I really likeit. Okay, So Not Scary Farm
going on now. Not Spooky Farmstarts tomorrow, goes through Halloween fun for
the whole family. Christo, thankyou so much, absolutely wonderful chatting with
you. I'm glad you didn't scareme. I didn't, he didn't,
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But so I don't like to bescared. Nick poly o'keany, on the
other hand, loves to be scared. And so you actually have been now
to Not Scary Farm during the nighttime. We went through that maze during
the day and that still was alittle freakish to me. So what's it
like at night? Just real quick, it's really impressive and no in really
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quick. If you're ever been toNot Scary Farm, this was where dark
Ride used to be, and there'ssome homages to that, but it's really
a lot of fun and as Amyreference, there's a lot of scary things
with the lights on. It's evenscary at night. And there's a special
cinema monster that may be tracking youthroughout so as you're pushing through the screen
throughout the through the specific maze.So for a cinema slasher, there are
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some creatures that are tracking you throughoutthe park. And if you've ever been
a ghost town, or if youwant to go I get scared through the
scare zones, ghost Town really doescome alive with some very classic, you
know, ghost town style characters thatare running around. Okay, just real
quick, tell me with the scarezones that Chris was talking about, So
there are certain areas of the parkwhere monsters just jump out at you,
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right, And so that's the wholething. And I think the one thing
that we didn't touch on is boonecklaces. So these are the areas,
especially the no scare zone things,so you cannot go into amaze with these.
But what it is is it's afifteen dollars purchase and you can actually
go through the scare zones and themonsters will avoid you there, but you
can really I mean, if youhave a fear of clowns. The boardwalk
and Carn't Evil is one of thescariest places because they are just everywhere,
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so your nightmares will come alive.All right, So not Scary Farm Mine
Mine is not Spooky Farm that openstomorrow and then it goes through Halloween.
And remember the Not Scary Farm isa separate, separate Tickett event only at
night. Yes, all right,so but yeah, now go Snoopy and
his friends all in their Halloween costumes. That's the thing that we didn't talk
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about. Super super cute. AbsolutelyAnd next week we're going to be out
and about again. We've got anotherBoo preview for you. We've got some
really cool stuff. We've we've beento Disneyland, now we've been to Not
Scary Farm. We're going to findsome maybe a little maybe off the beaten
path or a little bit smaller kitchyevents and they're really really cool for Halloween.
So you'll want to stick around forthat. Right now, let's get
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back to some of the stories comingout of the KFI twenty four hour news
room. The mother of a murderedLa Kenny sheriff's deputy, says she was
not pleased with the DA's handling ofcharges against her son's killer. Kim Clinton
Brumer says the first time she andher family heard about George Gascone pursuing life
without parole against Kevin Salazar was whenthey were standing behind Gascon at last week's
press conference. As a taxpayer,it just seems that the district attorney wants
(29:33):
to spare a life when he didn'tspare my son's life. Gascon said at
the press conference. The death penaltyis not a deterrent to stopping crime,
and going after the death penalty wouldn'thave brought back her son Ryan Steve Gregory
Canfine News. Scientists at UC Irvinehave analyzed smoke particles to uncover what fuels
are contributing to the severity of wildfire. The smoke particles collected during a ninety
(29:57):
acre fire in the Sequoia National Fourshow wildfires are being put out so fast
now that smaller trees and plants areflourishing, causing more fire fuel Uci researcher
Audrey Odwar says the solution is dealingwith the dead trees collected over decades plus
thinning out new plant growth. Oncewe cut the trees down, get them
out of the forest, burned downthe remaining fuels. In theory, that
(30:18):
creates less potential for more severe wildfires. She says, the smoke particles identify
which plants to target for wildfire fueltreatments. In Orange County, Corbin Carson,
k if I News, and aman is recovering from a vicious attack
by a rabid otter. Please say. The man was feeding ducks in a
pond by his home when the otterbid him forty one times on the legs,
(30:40):
arms, and hands. They saythe otter also attacked a neighbor's dog
That same day. Animal control wasable to catch the otter. It was
euthanized because it had tested positive forrabies. Hey, let's say good morning,
tk ifi's very own fork reporter NeilSavader. We got you up early
today because you had something going onthis weekend. We want to tell you
about Amy King. You old soand so. You called the old thanks
(31:04):
a lot. No, it's anold it's a term. It's it's it's
fun. It's old timey. Ohgotcha like the cats me out that kind
of thing. I know, Neil, I missed working with you on Saturdays.
Likewise, everybody misses you when you'renot there, and the listeners are
not shy about telling me so.But now they get you to themselves for
(31:26):
an hour every single morning and throughoutthe handle show. Yeah, except now
we're going to share the spotlight withyou because you're going to be out and
about, and I know you.You don't get to get out and about
as much as pre pandemic. SoI'm excited for you for this weekend.
I am too. It's really agreat opportunity. You know, we used
to do the the Thanks grilling.Now this is not that it's not this
(31:51):
massive event, but it is areally cool opportunity to come out and and
check out the Big Green Egg.They've been a new partner, and I'm
to be broadcasting live this Saturday fromBarbecue's Galore in Valencia. There are two
of them, so I want togive the address. Of course, two
to five is going to be theshow. Two five five five zero North
(32:15):
the Old Road and come enjoy thelife broadcast will be giving away a minimax
Big Green Egg. It is theonly portable Big Green Egg and it's a
thing of beauty. Must be presentto win. We're gonna be grilling,
teaching some grilling and baking tips.There will be eating. We always have
(32:35):
food going. Yeah, I justwant to make sure doing at least some
try tip and things like that.There. These are beautiful, beautiful cooking
vessels. And the cool thing isthey don't go on sale often, and
when they do you often can't tellanybody. We got permission that there will
be special discounts throughout the day they'rein the store. But all so the
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Big Green Eggs will be on salewith a ten percent discount. Very rare
for that to happen, and whenit does happen, you almost never hear
about it. We got special permissionto tell everybody about it. And if
you've ever thought about getting a BigGreen Egg, or if you have one,
have questions, come out and I'llhave you know, some fork report
(33:21):
swag and cutting boards and some otherstuff. It'll be good fun. You
gave me one of those cutting boardsfor Christmas. One right, you've got
a personalized one. Now, Ilove it. That's very rare. You
have a big green egg because I'veheard you talking about it. What's your
favorite thing to cook on it?You know? I baked on it recently.
I made corn muffett. Oh,it's fantastic for baking. It is
really insane aiming because it is soversatile. You can roast on I roasted
(33:47):
an entire chicken on it a fewweeks ago, and I did corn muffins
on it. I've done hot dogsand your day to day. But you
can bake on it, easy,peasy. You can do pizzas on there,
no problem. It's just a it'sa it's a one of the most
fun cooking apparetti I've ever worked on. It looks like so I'm looking at
(34:10):
pictures of it and it's like yousaid, you did a chicken in there.
It's got a turkey in there.I mean. So it's like an
outdoor oven, which makes cooking morefun. Yeah, it'll do. It'll
do anything, and it holds myfear. That the reason why I never
moved to one. I had twofears. It's going to take too long
to heat up, and it wasgoing to have too big of a learning
(34:30):
curve and both were wrong. Itheats, I can heat it up probably
in the same amount of time Iheat up my gas grill. So it's
just it is super fun to cookon Okay, and you can come out
and you can see Neil doing somecooking and do some tasting. And again,
what's the address in time and stuffon Saturday? Two to five this
(34:53):
Saturday, And the address is twofive five five zero North the Old Road,
and it's the barbecues Galore there.I think they have two of them,
so make sure you go to theright one. But we'll be given
away stuff. They'll be all kindsof cool things and special discount in store
that I can't even give today.I love secret secrets deal. Yeah,
(35:17):
so it'll be it'll be great fun. I'm only doing two of these,
this one and then i'll do onein October in Torrance. But I'd really
love to meet people, because I, like you said, I haven't been
out in a while. Okay,super and Neil come back again another time.
I know, I would love tohave you come visit us. More
off for Amy King for peace sakes. I appreciate the I appreciate the invitation.
(35:39):
I really do, my friend,Thanks Neil, thank you. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
news room. The second Republican debate'sbeen held at the Ronald Reagan Library and
Semi Valley. All the candidates fromthe first debate last month were there,
except for former Arkansas govern Or AsaHutchinson, who fell short of qualifying earlier
this week. Former President Trump,of course, wasn't there. He didn't
show up for the first debate either. He gave a speech in Detroit instead.
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The La County Board of Supervisors hasapproved a motion to help support the
entertainment industry. The motion would reducethe county's barriers for developmental space, offer
tax incentives, and provide fee waiversfor low budget productions. Supervisor Katherine Barger
proposed the motion because she says it'svital to keep the film industry in La
We're gonna look at what we cando within the county's bureaucracy, but also
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working with our state representatives where needed. Barger says if productions aren't filmed in
La County, she doesn't want itto be because of financial burdens. The
board unanimously passed the motion Tuesday,Chris Adler ka FI News, and as
we close out wake Up Call,want to leave you with one thing before
we head into handle in the news, and that is too bad, Senator
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John Fennerman. So the Senate unanimouslyyesterday passed a formal dress code requiring business
attire on the chamber floor, includinga coat, tie and slax. Four
men all. Poor John Federman.He can't show up in his hoodie and
shorts like he did when he metthe head of Ukraine last week. So
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they introduced a plan to in toput the formal dress policy in place.
I think it's ridiculous that they hadto do it in the first place.
But Senator Romney, set of senators, we should demonstrate a high level of
reverence for the institution in which weserve, and our attire is one of
the most basic expressions of that respect. I agree. This is KFI and
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kost HD to Los Angeles, OrangeCounty live from the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. I'm Amy King. Thishas been your wakeup call. You've been
listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear
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