June 26, 2024 • 45 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. Amy starts the show with a personal message talking about 4 years ago today being diagnosed with cancer. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about NEW foldable phones, Google and Samsung upcoming events, new cellular plans, and his time spent in Time Square NYC. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s On It’ she highlights 'Brats', now streaming on Amazon Prime. This documentary opens the lid on '80s Hollywood directed by actor Andrew McCarthy and features fellow teen stars like Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. The show closes with NASA Astronaut & Space Force Colonel Nick Hague sharing an update on their prep to launch to the International Space Station.
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortywake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app k fI at kost HD two, Los Angeles,
Orange County. How about a podcall your host, Amy Kay.
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It's five o'clock. What is today? It's Wednesday, June twenty sixth.
I'm a couple of days off becauseI had the last couple of days off.
This is your wake up call.I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting
your day started with us today.Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
The Guardina Police Department has made itslargest single seizure of illegal fireworks in recent
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California history. Police found more thanseventy five tons of fireworks in a commercial
warehouse on Vermont of Vermont Avenue onFriday. It had an estimated street value
of seven to ten million dollars.They're going to be talking more about it
in a news conference a little lateron this morning. Food for Less workers
have reached a tentative contract agreement withthe grocery store chain, averting a potential
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strike. The union, representing thethousands of workers in southern California, say
the deal includes substantial wage increases forall workers more guaranteed hours and other contract
improvements. Wiki Leak's founder, JulianAssange has returned to his homeland on a
chartered jet hours after pleading guilty toobtaining and publishing hundreds of thousands of US
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military secrets. Assage pleaded guilty yesterdayin the US territory the Northern Mariana Islands
and was sentenced to times served.We're going to be talking folding phones and
free sales service with KTLA tech reporterRich Demiro. That's coming up in about
twenty minutes. Always fun to talkto Rich. Amy's on it another edition
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of what I'm on today? Isit streaming? Is it movies? We're
streaming today, and we're going totake a look at the brat pack forty
years later and then later this hour. So excited about this. We're going
to be talking with NASA astronaut andSpace Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig. If
you have been listening to Wake UpCall, you know we've talked to him
a couple of times. He's gettingready to go up to the International Space
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Station. And let's see, we'rein the end of June. We think
it's sometime in August that they're goingto be going up, and so really
excited to hear about his training andwhat's in store. And also he's going
to probably have a very unique perspectivefor us, because you know, those
the astronauts that took a ride upwith the star Liner are kind of stuck
in space right now as they continueto look at some issues they're having with
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the Boeing star Liner, and I'mguessing that Nick is going to have some
interesting thoughts on that. You know, he on his first mission they had
to abort it, and he toldus about that one time, and I
remember going, why would you evergo back up in space after having like
an epic fail? But he's anasked or not, that's what he does.
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And then he went up again andhe has spent time on the space
station. So super excited to talkto him about that. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The homeless man arrested for allegedly assaultinga teenage girl and two women in Santa
Monica is also a registered sex offender. The man's accused of going on a
rampage Monday, first attacking the seventeenyear old girl. This woman, who's
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also homeless, tells KTLA she heardthe girl scream and jumped into help.
Pure instinct ran over told the dudeto get off of her. He basically
just ignored my existence till I gotphysical with him. I pushed him off
of her, She says, that'swhen the guy started attacking her. He's
also accused of trying to drown anotherwoman in the ocean. The guy was
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arrested for attempted murder, elder abuse, and assault. The La City Council
has formerly called for an investigation intoan incident involving Burbank police. City Council
President Paul Grekoryan got the rest ofthe council to support his effort to have
the city attorney, the DA's office, and the state Attorney General look into
why two burbank officers dropped off aninjured homeless man in front of Grekoryan's North
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Hollywood Field office. It happened onJune sixth and was caught on surveillance video.
The burbank officer said the man wascausing a scene at a hospital in
that city. They offered him aride and he requested to be dropped off
at the spot. Krekorian doesn't buyit. He says neighboring cities drop homeless
people in LA where services are fundedin downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News.
Most adults say they plan to watchor listen to tomorrow night's presidential debate,
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and according to a new ap NorkCenter for Public Affairs Research poll,
most think the stakes are high forboth President Biden and former President Trump.
The poll also shows both candidates arebroadly unpopular. You can hear the whole
CNN presidential debate tomorrow night at sixo'clock. It's going to be on CNN,
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of course, and simulcast right hereon KFI. You know, I
was off for a couple of daysthis week and want to say thanks to
Heather Brooker for filling in and doingan amazing job on wake up call.
Appreciate that I was off because itwas time for my not annual, but
for my check up. It wastime for a colonoscopy. And the reason
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that I'm on the three year planI get to have them every three years
is because four years ago, itwas actually four years ago Sunday that we
removed a cancerous tumor from my colonmy large intense intestine, so it was
just taking a little journey back.It was in March of twenty twenty,
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right when the lockdown started, sowe were all at home and kind of
freaking out about COVID and scared andall of that, and I started getting
sick, like I would get thesecramping episodes in my stomach for like twelve
hours, and then after that Iwould throw up for twelve hours. It
was really fun, and of coursewe had no idea what it was,
and so we're trying to get todoctors and it's in the middle of the
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COVID and everybody shut down. Andit took about three months to figure out
what was going on. We weretrying to kind of rule out things and
was it pancreatitis, was it diverticulitis? Was it a food allergy? For
a while I thought it was afood allergy because of some foods I would
eat would sort of trigger these weirdattacks. And finally I had a colonoscopy
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in June of twenty twenty, twentytwenty, yeah, twenty twenty, and
my lovely gastroenterologist came back after wehad the colonoscopy and says, oh,
we found something we need to getrid of that. And so that kind
of completed the journey because I said, can we have surgery tomorrow when I
met with a surgeon, and hesaid, no, you can't do it
tomorrow, but let's do it nextweek. And we got it done very
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quickly. And the good news isthat now that I have almost a footless
of my large intestine, I amcancer free. And the colonoscopy yesterday and
a cat scan last month confirmed allthat. So I'm thrilled to be here
telling you about this, even thoughnobody wants to talk about getting a colonoscopy
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because they're no fun, but Iwill tell you they're no big deal and
they literally saved your can save yourlife like they did with mine. Colon
cancer is the number two cancer thatkills people right now, and it's also
starting in people younger. So itused to be that they said, hey,
get your colonoscopy for the first timeto get kind of a baseline at
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fifty and if you're all clear,then you go for ten years. Now
they're saying do it at forty fivebecause it's showing up earlier and Unlike a
lot of cancers that you can't treatand you can't be cured of, this
one you can. And it's aseasy as a test. And I will
also tell you that I didn't getmy initial screening when I was supposed to.
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So I'll just say, listen toyour doctor and when they say,
you know what, you should getthis test done. Go get the test
done. Because I waited, andif I would have done it when I
was supposed to do it, theywould have caught it. It would have
been a polyp, they would haveremoved it, and it would have been
fine, and it probably would havenever had an issue, except that I
would have been on their like fiveyear plan to get colonoscopies. However,
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I waited, and so I hadthis nasty little thing riding around with me.
I asked the doctor, I said, how long has that been there?
And they said it's probably been therefor ten years because it's when it
shows up it's colon cancer. It'svery slow growing. And I said,
how how long has it been bad? And he said it turned bad or
turned cancerous about eighteen months prior tothe diagnosis. So if I would have
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again taken care of it when Ishould have. It wouldn't have turned bad
and I wouldn't have had to gothrough the surgery and the sickness and the
six months of chemotherapy. I'm gladI did. I'm thrilled that I did.
But you know, if you canavoid it, and again, this
is a treatable, preventable form ofcancer and can literally save your life.
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So this is a plea to youto go and get your colonoscopy if you're
putting it off because you don't thinkit's fun, because it's not that fun.
But I tell you, it's nota big deal and it's not that
bad, and it can literally saveyour life. So if you need to
a cautionary tale, use me asthat cautionary tale. And like I said,
I'm thrilled to report to you thatfour years later, at this point,
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I am cancer free and super superexcited. And my gynecologist, different
guy, my on collogist, saidto me last time we did blood work
and he said to you, tome, and you're basically cured. And
he hadn't said those words before,so they're big words. So anyway,
please go get your colonoscopy, andnow let's get back to some of the
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stories coming out at the KMFI twentyfour hour newsroom. I don't want to
belavor it, but I do wantto remind you it's very very important.
Here's something very important for Wikileak's founder, Julian Maasong. He's returned to Australia
hours after pleading guilty to obtaining andpublishing US military secrets. He entered the
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plea in Stai Pond, which isin the Northern Mariana Islands as the US
territory. It was a part ofa deal with Justice Department prosecutors that allowed
him to go free. ABC's PatrickReveal says Assanne had been in confinement in
one form or another for fourteen years, spent five years obviously in Belmarsh Prison
here. He spent before that sevenyears in the Ecuadorian embassy and even before
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that some time under house arrests inthe UK trying to avoid the sexual assault
charges that were eventually dropped. InSweden, Assange had been fighting extradition to
the US, where he initially facedespionage charges and up to one hundred and
seventy five years in prison. Filmand TV crew union members in Hollywood have
reached a tentative contract deal with themajor studios. They'd been negotiating for months,
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and the agreement was reached before thecurrent contract expires. The tentative deal
includes updates on pay, pension andhealth, health benefits, job security,
subcontracting, streaming, residuals, andartificial intelligence. The deal does need to
be approved by members of the InternationalAlliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Some people
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in Coasta, Mesa are not happyabout plans to develop a massive apartment complex
in the city. That complex wouldoffer more than one thousand units, with
one hundred and six designated for thosewith low income. Scott Smith says he's
lived in the city for decades andasked the city council to first consider the
public before moving forward with a majordevelopment. I urge you to do the
right thing and have the citizen's Coastto Mesa vote on this project and determine
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whether they want this project in ourcity. The plans were approved in twenty
twenty one, pending voter approval,but after Measure K was passed a year
later, that vote was no longerneeded. Construction is expected to start next
year. Chris Adler kf I Newsthat's Justin. Timberlake performing his Forget Tomorrow
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World Tour at Madison Square Garden lastnight. It was his first time back
in New York since he was arrestedfor alleged drunk driving on Long Island last
week. Fans shouted we forgive youand everybody makes mistakes during the show.
Timberlake was arrested last week in SagHarbor for allegedly failing to stop at a
stop sign and also crossing his lane. He claims he only had one martini.
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The Dodgers are in Chicago to takeon the White Sox tonight. First
pitch goes out at five to ten. You can listen to every play of
every Dodgers game on AM five seventyLA Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast
Booth. You can also stream allgames in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword.
AM five seventy LA Sports. ElevenLA City firefighters been hurt in an
explosion at a homeless camp in theSan Fernando Valley. The explosion Monday afternoon
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happened after a grass fire broke outnear the Supulvita Basin. One of the
firefighters' ears was severed and had tobe reattached so as burns to his face.
A grenade was apparently found near theside of the fire. Californians want
term limits for a district attorneys,county supervisors, and sheriffs. A UC
Berkeley poll out shows eighty percent ofvoters across party lines want to see a
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two term limit for das and supervisors, and three out of four say term
limits should be put on sheriffs too. The La City councils expected to vote
on whether to designate the former homeof Marilyn Monroe in Brentwood as an historic
Cultural monument. The vote was delayeda couple of weeks ago to give the
city more time to talk with theowners of the property who got to permit
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and want to tear it down.Let's say good morning now to the host
of Rich on Tech on KFI.It's KTLA's tech reporter, Rich Demro.
Good morning, Rich, Hey,good morning to you. Amy. Okay,
Foldable phones there's a fever for them. Well, I think companies are
trying to make a fever. Imean, look, I've used them.
I've used almost all of them actuallythat have been available here and in the
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US, and they're great. Butthe problem is they've been big, they've
been bulky, and no company sofar has nailed the form factor. What's
that? What's the form factor?Well, the form factor is like,
you know, how it feels inyour hand, like it's just like your
phone is easy, it's simple tomanipulate. But with this, you've got
one screen on the outside, whichhas typically been either too small or too
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big, and then you've got onescreen on the inside, which is nice
and big. It's like having atablet in your pocket at all times.
But the problem is the outside screenhas not been big enough and the inside
screen is just unwieldy. So thesecompanies need to figure out how to make
these phones thinner, lighter, andeasier to fit in your pocket. And
I think that's what we're seeing here. We're seeing a big war between Samsung
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and Google right now. So yesterdaySamsung announced that their Galaxy Unpacked event would
be held in Paris, France onJuly tenth. This is when we're expecting
to see the newest Galaxy Z seriesof phones. Those are the foldables,
a Z fold and the Z Flip, plus their new smart ring, which
is have you heard of the ORRring? No Okay, so these smart
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rings are kind of like the newthing. A lot of people like them.
You wear a ring and it tracksall of your metrics like your sleep
and your fitness and you know you'rebreathing and all that good stuff. Wait
wait, wait, like a likea smart watch but a ring instead.
Exactly those yet, Yeah, andI've tested a bunch. They're really cool.
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They'll drive you nutty because when youdon't sleep well, it tells you
and you're like, ah, nowit literally scores your day, like it
says your day is going to bea seventy four and you're like, oh
no, like what. So that'swhy I stopped wearing that thing. But
with that said, Samsung's event willbe happening in July. And then a
couple hours later, right after Samsungannounced their event in July to unveil their
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foldables, Google announced, Hey,we're going to have an event in August.
Wait what They never have an eventin August, always in May and
in October. And so now whatI'm reading between the leaves here is that
they are doing this earlier because alot of people are going to be wondering,
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do I get the pixel fold thenew one or do I get the
Samsung Fold. And so now we'regoing to see on August thirteenth, new
pixels from Google, new smart watchesfrom Google. And the reality is then
we have Apple in September. Soif you're buying a smartphone, don't do
anything until at least September, becausethen you'll have all the information you need
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to make an informed decision. Okay, And I would think Rich, I
mean, thankfully we have someone likeyou to talk to, because part of
the problem too is you can't compareand contrast them. It's not like you
can go and play with them sideby side. Well maybe you can at
the store, but as you're gatheringinformation, like how do you know which
one is better for you? It'skind of a crapshoot when you buy it.
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Yeah, you got to call therich On Tech radio show on Saturday
mornings on KFI. I mean literally, I'm not. I mean, I'm
joking, But the reality is,you know that's what people do. They
call me and they say, look, Rich, I've narrowed it down to
these two phones, like what's thedeal, Like what's the better one to
get? Because they all have theselittle nuances to them, like Obviously,
Apple's in a league of its own. They have their own thing going.
So if you want Apple and youlove Apple, you got to go with
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that. But you know, whenit comes to the Google Pixels and the
Samsungs of the world, you know, there are some pros and cons,
and you're right when you go tothe store. Even let's be honest,
ninety nine percent of those like displaysare broken or they're non working phones,
and so it is really tough tokind of you know, you hold this
thing that's that's you know, ziptied to a display for like one second
You're like, all right, sure, I'll spend a thousand bucks on that.
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M Yeah, okay, So richon tech on Kfi is going to
help you make that right decision.So here's another question for you about the
foldable phones, because I, likeyou said, they're trying to make them
catch on. They've been around fora few years. But do they now
when they fold out, are theycompletely lee flat like a regular like an
iPhone surface? Are they flat?Well? Now, see that's what Samsung.
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That was Samsung's big innovation last year. They made it completely flat,
which was incredible. Pixel the foldlast year was not completely flat, which
drove me nuts. So this year, you know, like I said,
hopefully we'll see the flatness getting better, but we'll also see the form factor,
like this thing will fit in yourpocket a little bit easier, It'll
be lighter, the screens will bebigger. By the way, I am
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going to Paris for this event,in for Saanfong, my first time ever
going to Paris, and so I'mvery excited. Hey, why are they
doing it in Paris? Do weknow? Well, Samsung, I mean,
look, they said it's because let'ssee, let me see what they
said exactly. They said, it'scultural significance and trend setting status. But
reality is Samsung is the sponsor ofthe Olympics this year in Paris, and
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so I think that's probably why.I think that makes better sense. Okay,
so we're talking about cell phones andyou're doing a segment today on KTLA
talking about a news sell you aplan that's free calling, free texting,
and free messaging. Well yeah,and data, yeah, free essential essential
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data. That's the real you know, catch share. So this is a
company called text Now. You mayhave downloaded their app in the past.
Previously they did a bunch of likeyou know, you would download the app,
they would give you a phone numberthat's virtual and you can use that
to call people and to text peopleover Wi Fi. So it was like
a freeway to call and text,get a second number, or whatever you
wanted to do. Well, nowthey're taking it up a notch. You
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can pay them five dollars. Theywill send you a SIM card that you
pop into your phone, and thenyou will have cellular service from them.
So you still get the free calling, you still get the free texting,
but now when you're out and about, you can get essential data for free
to use your email, your maps, and your ride sharing. So theoretically,
for free, zero dollars a month, you could make phone calls on
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the go. You can text yourfriends, you can check your email,
you can check Google Maps, youcan call a ride share. You couldn't
do anything else unless you find WiFi. So a lot of people just
use this, or I guess theirhope is a lot of people use this
and just find free Wi Fi.I've been testing it. It works.
It's a little annoying sometimes when you'relike, oh, I just want to
like check something else and I can't, But you know, you find that
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free Wi Fi hotspot. You're goodto go. You can also pay them
a little bit extra, either ninetynine cents to forty dollars a month to
get some extra data there. Butkind of an interesting plan. What's the
hitch? Advertising? The whole thingis advertising supported, So when you're using
the app, when you get aphone call, when you're texting, there's
all ads on the screen. Soif you don't mind that, you know,
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hey, free zero dollars and Imean it's really not a bad deal.
The guy started his company in twentyten. It's been doing this for
a long time. This is abrand new plan they're offering, but they've
been doing the free calling and textingfor a long time. Now, Okay,
wow, that sounds pretty amazing.It's saved me one hundred and something
dollars a month. You can findthat Wi Fi. Yeah, there's another
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hitch. Okay, So I wantto hear about you being on a billboard
in New York City. Yes,real quick, I was in New York
City in Times Square. There's abig billboard that said you can be here.
I said, what You download anapp, you upload a picture,
you pay forty dollars and for fifteenseconds, your photo or video or whatever
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you upload it appears on this billboard. And it was incredible. It was
so cool. You can put asocial media handle on there. You can't
put anything else. You can't putlike a QR code, but you know
they approve it. Obviously a humanapproves what you're putting up there, but
what a cool idea. The companyis TSX Entertainment. You download the app
and if you ever go to TimesSquare in New York City, do it.
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It's like the best souvenir I've evergotten. It's on my Instagram at
rich on Tech if you want tocheck out the video of us going,
oh my gosh, we're on abillboard. That is so fun. And
is it on one of the onesthat's on the side of a building or
a free standing one you don't havesome of them are built into the buildings.
Yeah, it's on the side ofa building. It's huge. It
is one of the most prominent billboardsin Times Square. It's brand new,
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so it's like extremely crystal clear eighteendon't quote me on that. I think
it's like eighteen thousand square feet orsomething insane. It's it's huge and it's
really cool. I mean, nowI can say I've been on a billboard.
Hi paidboard. Yes, I canwrite that off forty bucks? Okay?
And where can they see it?On your Instagram at rich on tech
Perfect. You can also listen torich on Tech here on KFI Saturdays from
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eleven to two. It's KTLA's techreporter. You can also follow him as
you mentioned on Instagram. His websiteis richon tech dot TV. Welcome home
and thank you so much. I'mgoing to go look at your picture on
the billboard. That's so fun.Thanks Amy, have a great day.
They're going to make a killing onthat. Yeah, kill I agree,
I agree. Put him everywhere exactly. A man in Pomona has been shot
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and killed by police. It happenedjust before midnight at the intersection of Hamilton
Boulevard and Center Street. Police havenot yet said what led up to the
shooting, but say a gun wasrecovered at the scene. The man died
at the hospital. A marine atCamp Pendleton who asked a thirteen year old
girl for sexual images has been sinceto more than seventeen years in federal prison.
The guy was arrested on base inOctober when the girl's father reported the
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messages to police. The Marine pleadedguilty yesterday to attempted online enticement of a
minor and was immediately sentenced. GenZ is in debt, according to an
analysis by lending Tree. The reportshows that across one hundred of the largest
metro areas in the US, amedian ninety seven percent of gen Zer's have
debt. Many owre more than sixteenthousand dollars in non mortgage debt. The
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report shows they're actually more likely tohave credit card debt than any other type,
including student loans, and gen zErs in Oxnard are most likely to
find themselves in debt compared to othermetro areas. Governor Newsom claims California's way
of life is at risk. Duringhis pre recorded State of the State address
released online yesterday, Newsom said abortion, LGBTQ plus rights, and other things
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are in the crosshairs of extreme politicians. He went on to say Republicans are
the biggest obstacle to addressing problems atthe border. Part of the gag order
against former President Trump in his NewYork hush money case has been lifted ahead
of tomorrow Night's first presidential debate.Judge Wan Marshan says Trump can comment about
jurors, witnesses, and Manhattan DAAlvin Bragg. Some restrictions will stay in
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place until Trump is sentenced. OnJuly eleventh, San Diego's mayor is headed
to China to visit the pandas thatare soon going to be coming to the
San Diego Zoo. Mayor Todd Gloriawill take part in the farewell ceremonies today
in Beijing. He's also traveling tothe panda base. Sounds like a Air
Force base or something. Gloria headshome Sunday. There's no official timeline for
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the panda's arrival. Speaking of USAir Force baces Space Force baces, We're
going to be talking to Colonel NickHaig in about ten minutes, maybe fifteen
minutes, but a little bit laterthis hour, and he's going to give
us an update on his preparations forhis launch into space. He's going to
spend six months on the International SpaceStation. Again. It's Colonel Nickay who
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is a Space Force guardian and alsoNASA astronaut, looking forward to that right
now. Ooops, give me acouple of days off and I can't sound
fire my own Soundersamiami's on Itami's onit? What am I on? I'm
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on entertainment, on streaming shows,TV shows, movies, sometimes books.
There's so much out there to offer. How do you know what to watch
and what to invest your time in? And tell you you can get you
can get sucked in like I do. I've got a couple of shows kind
of waiting in the wings that Idon't even know if I'm going to tell
you about him, because I waslike, this one sucked and I spent
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like ten hours watching it. Soanyway, this one did not suck.
It's Brats. It's on par'm Videoand just was released a week or two
ago, and it's a look backat the Brat Pack and why the Brat
Pack wasn't a great thing. Likethe rat Pack was a cool thing,
but for the Brat Pack, itwas a negative and negatively impacted all those
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actors and actresses who were part ofit. Now you know them, Emilio
Estevez, Molly Ringwald to me,Moore, Ali Sheety, Leah Thompson,
she was kind of adjacent to it. Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, John
Cryer, Timothy Hutton apparently was partof that and of course Andrew McCarthy and
if you remember all those movies sayingAlmost Fire and all of those movies,
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like they were the it group,and it was the first time that Hollywood
had really focused on younger actors andreally highlighting their lives. And they went
and did a few and said,oh, hey, these can make blockbusters.
But being designated as the brat Pack, this show talks about how that
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tapped into all of their doubts andfears about who they were and whether they
were good actors or whether they werejust part of like a Hollywood trend.
And Andrew McCarthy wants to address it. So he calls up a bunch of
people that he literally, at leastaccording to this documentary, had not spoken
to for thirty years. So it'slike, hey, to me, Moore,
it's Andrew McCarthy. I know wehaven't talked for thirty years, but
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let's get together. And so hecalls them. Some of them talk to
them, some of them don't.They were all in their early twenties when
the Brat Pack came to be.Now they're in their mid fifties, and
so taking a look into the documentary, it's fun to see their homes where
they are now kind of sad too. One of my takeaways from this whole
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thing was the men are allowed toage, the women aren't. And you
can tell almost all of them havehad some pretty substantial work done. And
I'll let you watch it and seewhat it is. But it just kind
of makes me mad because Emilio Festive, he's put on a few pounds,
he's got some wrinkles, Andrew McCarthysaying, Andrew McCarthy looks great, but
he's you know, he's aged,and they and Hollywood allows you to age.
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For the women, it's not necessarilythe same thing. So one of
the things you find out right awayis that nobody wanted to be part of
the brat Pack. They all wantedto be actors. And so that article
that came out, I believe ita Variety magazine that named them the brat
Pack, portrays them as not beingserious about their work, that they weren't
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talented actors, and it was likejust a big illusion. It was all
part of Hollywood. Like I said, it was the hype over the genre
and not really that the people couldactually act. A few of them have
had some successes, a lot ofthem haven't. There is a moment where
where Andrew McCarthy orders a burger andthe person inside the food truck says,
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hey, what are you filming Andhe says, well, I'm filming about
the Brat Pack. And she says, well, you know that sounds kind
of familiar. I mean, that'sgot to be hard to go from a
superstar to just kind of obscurity,but I think it happens for a lot
of actors' careers, so you know, you think about it made me think
about the actors who started out youngand they're still acting. You know,
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that's not it's not a given justbecause you're famous at one point that you're
going to be famous for forever.And I think that one of the most
interesting interesting things is during the documentary, Andrew McCarthy goes and talks to the
guy who wrote the article, theone that created the moniker the Brat Pack.
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And I'll tell you I hated thisguy and he's not likable, but
you got to watch it because it'ssuper super interesting. Like his perspective behind
what happened is really interesting, andyou can't blame him because he came up
with this catchphrase that for a writer, like everybody wants to do that.
You know, I invented that,and he invented the Brat pack and it's
stuck and anyway, it's I thoughtit was a really good watch. It's
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like an hour and a half.It again is on Prime video, and
it's fun to take a look backand see who's having success, who's having
not, who's not having success,what they look like now, what their
lives are like. And I thinkit's a fun look back. So I
recommend Brats on Prime video. Nowlet's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom. The Guardina Police Department says
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officers have seized more than seventy fivetons of illegal fireworks and official announcements coming
later this morning. The fireworks werediscovered on Friday inside a warehouse and have
an estimated street value of between sevenand ten million dollars. Two men and
a woman have been arrested. TheShark Lab at cal State Long Beach may
have to shut down because it's runningout of money. The lab received a
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state grant in twenty eighteen with enoughfunding for five years, but the lab
was able to stretch it to six. Lab director doctor Chris Lo says his
team studies white shark behavior along thecoast to help keep people safe. Funny
ends in September, and if wedon't find more, we're gonna stirp,
calling all our equipment out of thewater, and I have to let all
my staff go. Lo says itcosts about nine hundred thousand each year to
keep the program going because the labresearches sharks throughout the state. He says
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California's current budget has no room tokeep the lab open. Chris Adler KFI
News. The espionage trial of Americanjournalist Evan Gershkevich has started in Russia.
The media were briefly shown Evan Gershkovichin the court in Ya Katsarinburg, the
city about one thousand miles from Moscow, where he's been brought for what is
being widely condemned as a show trial. He was in a glass cage and
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his head shaved. ABC's Patrick Revalsays Grishkovitch has been in detention for more
than a year. The US andthe Wall Street Journal have condemned the charges
as fabricated. The Department of HomelandSecurity says arrests for illegal border crossings have
dropped more than forty percent in thethree weeks since President Biden's executive action on
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asylum. The orders set up arule to turn away migrants claiming asylum between
ports of entry when daily arrests areabove twenty five hundred. California Republicans say
Governor Newsom chose the coward's way outin pre recording his State of the State
address. The speech, released onlineyesterday marked the fourth time Newsom has not
delivered his address to lawmakers at thestate capitol. Republican leader James Gallagher says
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Newsom has no respect for the statecapitol. Under the California constitution, Newsom's
not doing anything wrong. He's onlyrequired to give a written State of the
State letter to the legislature. PresidentBiden's going to announce veterans convicted of crimes
by the military because of their sexualorientation or gender identity will be pardoned.
It'll be for anyone convicted between nineteenfifty one and twenty thirteen. It could
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impact thousands. Consumer confidence has dippedjust a bit. The Conference Board's Consumer
Confidence index slipped nearly a point fromMay to June due to increasing uncertainty about
the future. The survey showed fewerpeople are planning to buy homes and cars
in the next six months, butmore are planning to vacation. We're just
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minutes away from handle on the newsthis morning, fourteen years later, Wiki
Leak's founder, Julian Assange is afree man. Bill's going to tell you
all about that. But right now, let's say good morning too. Space
Force guardian and NASA astronaut our friendColonel Nick Hay, Good morning, Colonel
Haig, Good morning Amy. Howare you doing great? And excited to
talk to you today because you've gotto be getting excited. Colonel HAIGU is
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going to go to the International SpaceStation for six months and you're about two
months ish from liftoff. Yep,we're within two months. So yes,
the excitement is definitely building. Andare you any closer to I know that
you kind of keep things under wrapsas far as when the launch is going
to happen and stuff, and there'salways kind of last minute scheduling and stuff.
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But do we have any kind ofnarrowing in of when your launch date
is? Yeah, so you knowright now we're targeting sometime and toward the
end the last half of August.You know, it's not a state secret
that really it has to do withall the different things that are happening on
this thing. I think everybody's trackingright now that we've got a test mission
going on and they've got to finishthat mission, and then we also have
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cargo vehicles that have to go upthere, and so all of this traffic
has to be synchronized, and sowe're just waiting our turn, although it
gets harder and harder to wait patiently. Okay, And you mentioned some of
the things going on at the InternationalSpace Station. I wanted to talk to
you about that. We know thatthe Boeing star Liner took a couple of
astronauts up and they were supposed tobe up on the space station for a
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week because it was Boeing's first crudemission there, and it was delayed,
and then it was delayed again,and now it's been delayed until next month
for their return from the space station. And I thought that you might have
kind of an interesting perspective on that, being an astronaut yourself. I mean,
when something like that happens, Iknow, you can't get into their
minds, but in your mind,like what goes on when they go,
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hey, by the way, we'renot sure your ride is safe. Yeah,
every mission we do is essentially atest mission, and this one more
than most because this is the firsttime we've put crew inside the star Liner
capsule and symptoms to the station.So you're learning a lot and the teams
have discovered some things and they're workingthrough some analysis to try to figure out,
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Okay, so how is the vehicleresponding? And based off what we've
learned, are we comfortable continuing toproceed with the mission? And so that's
a normal process of any test mission, and that's really a normal process of
any of our space flight missions,because there's the plan you start with when
you're getting ready to launch, andthen there's actually what happens. And there
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are examples throughout the history of thespace program that just proves that point that
space is a difficult business and wemanage a lot of really complex technical things,
and sometimes our predictions don't really matchreality, and we adjust and figure
out how to be successful. Okay, So as you're doing your training,
it sounds like you're saying you're notjust exclusively focused on your mission, but
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you have to be learning all thetime about the other things that are affecting
other astronauts. Yeah, it's allconnected, and we work it's a small
office. There's only about four dozenUS astronauts, and so we know each
other. We talk with each otherabout how everybody's training is going, how
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their jobs are doing, how theirfamilies are doing, and so at the
tight knit group, and so you'reaware of all those other things. And
then you know, when it comesto doing your job, you don't just
do your job in a vacuum.It depends on all those other different teams
and different pieces of equipment and programsthat come together at the station. And
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so, yeah, it's all connected. And you know there're one change in
one program sends a ripple effect throughthe rest of the programs and that's just
the nature of the business. Okay, And tell us then, Colonel Haig,
as you get closer to your mission, what kind of training are you
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doing now at two months out?Yes, yeah, so it's a lot
of the last of type of things. So for almost a year and a
half to two years I've been focusedon training to get ready to go to
the space station. Some of that'sfocused on getting to the space station,
and that's why I'm here in LosAngeles this week is training at SpaceX,
and then some of it's focused onworking and living on the space station.
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And we have these whole training programsthat are stretched out over this year and
a half and we do things three, four or five times. Now we're
finally getting to the last time ofall of these things, and so each
one of those moments is it justkind of sends chills down my neck said,
Hey, this is the last time. The next time I'm going to
do this, I'm going to bein space. Yeah, it's exciting.
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It's spacewalk training, it's robotics trainingto be able to use the robotic arm
on the International Space Station. Herethis week, we're doing some very integrated
simulations where we're going to simulate launchingto the space station and returning from the
space station on the Dragon capsule,and that it's the full team. So
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it's pretty exciting because everybody comes togetherand it's a mission control that's in Hawthorne
here in Los Angeles for SpaceX,but it's also the mission control team in
Houston and then US and the capsuleand all working together to practice what we
do when things don't go to plan, because ninety five percent of the stuff
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we practice are things to what dowe do when something doesn't happen? And
so these simulations have lots of failuresin them, and we figure out how
to face the failure, fix it, and continue the mission. Yeah,
it reminds me of I believe itwas Apollo thirteen with Tom Hanks and there
something goes wrong on their mission tothe moon, and all of a sudden
they're like, uh, oh,we're screwed, basically, and here's what
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we have. Okay, now let'sfigure out how to fix this so we
can get these guys home. Imean, it's just got to be amazing
the contingencies that you guys have tohave in place, and then also planning
for the unexpected. Yeah, itis. It's it's just a true privilege
to be part of this program andand that team, that gigantic team of
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people, and the energy and theinvestment and the the just the sheer intellect
of that group to be able toface those problems figure them out. And
you know, that's that's what givesme the confidence to you know, to
strap onto a rocket and launch intospace. It's because I know I've got
that team supporting me, and we'regoing to tackle whatever gets thrown our way.
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Cool. Okay, So you weretalking about spacewalk training. What does
spacewalk training on Earth look like.It's a mix because really the only place
that you can do it is inspace. Uh So, we do lots
of pieces of it. Some ofthat is virtual reality based, so we
we put on a v our headsetand we practice doing a spacewalk virtually.
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A part that a lot of peopleknow about is our neutral Buoyancy Laboratory,
so Big Pool, Gigantic Pool,where we have a life sized mockup of
the space station underwater under about fortyfeet of water, and we get in
an actual spacewalk spacesuit and go underthe water and practice where we can float
and it stimulates pretty close what it'slike to float around on the outside of
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the space station. And then wego through all the procedures that we would
plan to do on orbit and practicethem and then practice what happens when those
procedures don't work. But I gotto tell you that the underwater training is
as close as you can get onEarth. To what it's like up there.
The first time I went out tohatch on a spacewalk on the space
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station, it was nighttime. Iopened the hatch, started crawling around on
the outside of the space station,and my prevailing thought was, Man,
this feels just like I'm in theneutral buoyantcy laboratory and I was looking the
only thing that was missing was thebubbles coming up from the safety divers that
are on scuba gear around us.Yeah. Okay, So that brings me
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to something. We had asked ourlisteners if they wanted to ask an aster
not something, and here was myfavorite question. So you're doing the space
walk, you're out there outside thespace station, you turn away from it
so you can't see it, andyou're looking at Earth. One what's that
feeling? And two? How bigdoes it look like? Does the planet
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take up your entire field of visionor is it just part of it?
So had this had this really uniquechance. I was on the front of
the space station. We were puttingon one of the docking ports that we
use for our commercial crew vehicles todock, and we were installing it,
and so I had, you know, a split second to catch my breath,
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and you know, it seemed likethree or four minutes. I think
it was only about ten seconds,but I did it. I kind of
turned away from the station and Ilooked out in front of the of the
station towards the Earth with kind ofthe background, and you know, it's
bright enough up there during the daythat you don't see a whole lot of
stars. The sky's pretty black,but the Earth fills about half your view.
And at that point, you're trainedso much in the suit, in
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the spacesuit that it kind of startsto feel like clothes and it just kind
of melts away. So it wasthis feeling of I'm outside working in space,
just just riding on top of thespacecraft and it's hurtling and just seeing
Earth kind of drift below. Andit's a moment like that where you start
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to realize just the you know,it goes back to all those people that
make it possible, because that momentis possible because of the throngs of people
that are part of those teams onthe ground helping us, helping us do
it. It's not just two peopleoutside the space station. It's it's all
of the people at NASA that arethat are supporting the station, uh,
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you know, the space Walk,the station itself, it's all of the
Space Force guardians that are around theglobe that are that are watching out for
us and making sure that you knowwe're safe while we're up there, and
and helping us getting to and fromthere. And so it's that one ten
second moment that just makes you feellike you're part of something so enormous.
You're part of something that only humanitycould do, and you are one of
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the few of humanity who get totake part in that. So I'm so
excited for you, and I knowwe're coming down to crunch time. You're
going to lift off in a coupleof months. I hope we get to
talk to you again. I wantto talk more about the Space Force and
what it does, and of coursekind of the final steps as you get
ready for your launch again, ifwe can make it happen, I would
love to talk to you again.Colonel Haig. Thank you so much for
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your for your information today, andwe're getting excited for you. No,
thank you, Hey, Samy,I really appreciate the opportunity to share.
You know, I am one ofthe few that gets to go up there.
I wish I could take everybody withme in short of that being able
to share that experience, and soI'll definitely take you up on the offer
and chat with you another time beforeI get right to launch. Awesome.
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Thank you so much again. Thisis Space Force Guardian NASA Astronaut Colonel Nick
Haig. Thank you so much fortaking the time today. Thanks Amie,
so fun and with that, ourtime with wake Up Call is over.
This is KFI and KOST HD twoLos Angeles, Orange County. We lead
local live from the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom for producer and and technical producer
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Kno and traffic special specialist Nick.I'm Amy King. This has been your
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It's five o'clock. What is today? It's Wednesday, June twenty sixth.
I'm a couple of days off becauseI had the last couple of days off.
This is your wake up call.I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting
your day started with us today.Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
The Guardina Police Department has made itslargest single seizure of illegal fireworks in recent
(00:56):
California history. Police found more thanseventy five tons of fireworks in a commercial
warehouse on Vermont of Vermont Avenue onFriday. It had an estimated street value
of seven to ten million dollars.They're going to be talking more about it
in a news conference a little lateron this morning. Food for Less workers
have reached a tentative contract agreement withthe grocery store chain, averting a potential
(01:18):
strike. The union, representing thethousands of workers in southern California, say
the deal includes substantial wage increases forall workers more guaranteed hours and other contract
improvements. Wiki Leak's founder, JulianAssange has returned to his homeland on a
chartered jet hours after pleading guilty toobtaining and publishing hundreds of thousands of US
(01:38):
military secrets. Assage pleaded guilty yesterdayin the US territory the Northern Mariana Islands
and was sentenced to times served.We're going to be talking folding phones and
free sales service with KTLA tech reporterRich Demiro. That's coming up in about
twenty minutes. Always fun to talkto Rich. Amy's on it another edition
(02:00):
of what I'm on today? Isit streaming? Is it movies? We're
streaming today, and we're going totake a look at the brat pack forty
years later and then later this hour. So excited about this. We're going
to be talking with NASA astronaut andSpace Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig. If
you have been listening to Wake UpCall, you know we've talked to him
a couple of times. He's gettingready to go up to the International Space
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Station. And let's see, we'rein the end of June. We think
it's sometime in August that they're goingto be going up, and so really
excited to hear about his training andwhat's in store. And also he's going
to probably have a very unique perspectivefor us, because you know, those
the astronauts that took a ride upwith the star Liner are kind of stuck
in space right now as they continueto look at some issues they're having with
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the Boeing star Liner, and I'mguessing that Nick is going to have some
interesting thoughts on that. You know, he on his first mission they had
to abort it, and he toldus about that one time, and I
remember going, why would you evergo back up in space after having like
an epic fail? But he's anasked or not, that's what he does.
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And then he went up again andhe has spent time on the space
station. So super excited to talkto him about that. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The homeless man arrested for allegedly assaultinga teenage girl and two women in Santa
Monica is also a registered sex offender. The man's accused of going on a
rampage Monday, first attacking the seventeenyear old girl. This woman, who's
(03:29):
also homeless, tells KTLA she heardthe girl scream and jumped into help.
Pure instinct ran over told the dudeto get off of her. He basically
just ignored my existence till I gotphysical with him. I pushed him off
of her, She says, that'swhen the guy started attacking her. He's
also accused of trying to drown anotherwoman in the ocean. The guy was
(03:50):
arrested for attempted murder, elder abuse, and assault. The La City Council
has formerly called for an investigation intoan incident involving Burbank police. City Council
President Paul Grekoryan got the rest ofthe council to support his effort to have
the city attorney, the DA's office, and the state Attorney General look into
why two burbank officers dropped off aninjured homeless man in front of Grekoryan's North
(04:12):
Hollywood Field office. It happened onJune sixth and was caught on surveillance video.
The burbank officer said the man wascausing a scene at a hospital in
that city. They offered him aride and he requested to be dropped off
at the spot. Krekorian doesn't buyit. He says neighboring cities drop homeless
people in LA where services are fundedin downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News.
Most adults say they plan to watchor listen to tomorrow night's presidential debate,
(04:35):
and according to a new ap NorkCenter for Public Affairs Research poll,
most think the stakes are high forboth President Biden and former President Trump.
The poll also shows both candidates arebroadly unpopular. You can hear the whole
CNN presidential debate tomorrow night at sixo'clock. It's going to be on CNN,
(04:56):
of course, and simulcast right hereon KFI. You know, I
was off for a couple of daysthis week and want to say thanks to
Heather Brooker for filling in and doingan amazing job on wake up call.
Appreciate that I was off because itwas time for my not annual, but
for my check up. It wastime for a colonoscopy. And the reason
(05:17):
that I'm on the three year planI get to have them every three years
is because four years ago, itwas actually four years ago Sunday that we
removed a cancerous tumor from my colonmy large intense intestine, so it was
just taking a little journey back.It was in March of twenty twenty,
(05:40):
right when the lockdown started, sowe were all at home and kind of
freaking out about COVID and scared andall of that, and I started getting
sick, like I would get thesecramping episodes in my stomach for like twelve
hours, and then after that Iwould throw up for twelve hours. It
was really fun, and of coursewe had no idea what it was,
and so we're trying to get todoctors and it's in the middle of the
(06:02):
COVID and everybody shut down. Andit took about three months to figure out
what was going on. We weretrying to kind of rule out things and
was it pancreatitis, was it diverticulitis? Was it a food allergy? For
a while I thought it was afood allergy because of some foods I would
eat would sort of trigger these weirdattacks. And finally I had a colonoscopy
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in June of twenty twenty, twentytwenty, yeah, twenty twenty, and
my lovely gastroenterologist came back after wehad the colonoscopy and says, oh,
we found something we need to getrid of that. And so that kind
of completed the journey because I said, can we have surgery tomorrow when I
met with a surgeon, and hesaid, no, you can't do it
tomorrow, but let's do it nextweek. And we got it done very
(06:50):
quickly. And the good news isthat now that I have almost a footless
of my large intestine, I amcancer free. And the colonoscopy yesterday and
a cat scan last month confirmed allthat. So I'm thrilled to be here
telling you about this, even thoughnobody wants to talk about getting a colonoscopy
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because they're no fun, but Iwill tell you they're no big deal and
they literally saved your can save yourlife like they did with mine. Colon
cancer is the number two cancer thatkills people right now, and it's also
starting in people younger. So itused to be that they said, hey,
get your colonoscopy for the first timeto get kind of a baseline at
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fifty and if you're all clear,then you go for ten years. Now
they're saying do it at forty fivebecause it's showing up earlier and Unlike a
lot of cancers that you can't treatand you can't be cured of, this
one you can. And it's aseasy as a test. And I will
also tell you that I didn't getmy initial screening when I was supposed to.
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So I'll just say, listen toyour doctor and when they say,
you know what, you should getthis test done. Go get the test
done. Because I waited, andif I would have done it when I
was supposed to do it, theywould have caught it. It would have
been a polyp, they would haveremoved it, and it would have been
fine, and it probably would havenever had an issue, except that I
would have been on their like fiveyear plan to get colonoscopies. However,
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I waited, and so I hadthis nasty little thing riding around with me.
I asked the doctor, I said, how long has that been there?
And they said it's probably been therefor ten years because it's when it
shows up it's colon cancer. It'svery slow growing. And I said,
how how long has it been bad? And he said it turned bad or
turned cancerous about eighteen months prior tothe diagnosis. So if I would have
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again taken care of it when Ishould have. It wouldn't have turned bad
and I wouldn't have had to gothrough the surgery and the sickness and the
six months of chemotherapy. I'm gladI did. I'm thrilled that I did.
But you know, if you canavoid it, and again, this
is a treatable, preventable form ofcancer and can literally save your life.
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So this is a plea to youto go and get your colonoscopy if you're
putting it off because you don't thinkit's fun, because it's not that fun.
But I tell you, it's nota big deal and it's not that
bad, and it can literally saveyour life. So if you need to
a cautionary tale, use me asthat cautionary tale. And like I said,
I'm thrilled to report to you thatfour years later, at this point,
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I am cancer free and super superexcited. And my gynecologist, different
guy, my on collogist, saidto me last time we did blood work
and he said to you, tome, and you're basically cured. And
he hadn't said those words before,so they're big words. So anyway,
please go get your colonoscopy, andnow let's get back to some of the
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stories coming out at the KMFI twentyfour hour newsroom. I don't want to
belavor it, but I do wantto remind you it's very very important.
Here's something very important for Wikileak's founder, Julian Maasong. He's returned to Australia
hours after pleading guilty to obtaining andpublishing US military secrets. He entered the
(10:09):
plea in Stai Pond, which isin the Northern Mariana Islands as the US
territory. It was a part ofa deal with Justice Department prosecutors that allowed
him to go free. ABC's PatrickReveal says Assanne had been in confinement in
one form or another for fourteen years, spent five years obviously in Belmarsh Prison
here. He spent before that sevenyears in the Ecuadorian embassy and even before
(10:31):
that some time under house arrests inthe UK trying to avoid the sexual assault
charges that were eventually dropped. InSweden, Assange had been fighting extradition to
the US, where he initially facedespionage charges and up to one hundred and
seventy five years in prison. Filmand TV crew union members in Hollywood have
reached a tentative contract deal with themajor studios. They'd been negotiating for months,
(10:52):
and the agreement was reached before thecurrent contract expires. The tentative deal
includes updates on pay, pension andhealth, health benefits, job security,
subcontracting, streaming, residuals, andartificial intelligence. The deal does need to
be approved by members of the InternationalAlliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Some people
(11:13):
in Coasta, Mesa are not happyabout plans to develop a massive apartment complex
in the city. That complex wouldoffer more than one thousand units, with
one hundred and six designated for thosewith low income. Scott Smith says he's
lived in the city for decades andasked the city council to first consider the
public before moving forward with a majordevelopment. I urge you to do the
right thing and have the citizen's Coastto Mesa vote on this project and determine
(11:37):
whether they want this project in ourcity. The plans were approved in twenty
twenty one, pending voter approval,but after Measure K was passed a year
later, that vote was no longerneeded. Construction is expected to start next
year. Chris Adler kf I Newsthat's Justin. Timberlake performing his Forget Tomorrow
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World Tour at Madison Square Garden lastnight. It was his first time back
in New York since he was arrestedfor alleged drunk driving on Long Island last
week. Fans shouted we forgive youand everybody makes mistakes during the show.
Timberlake was arrested last week in SagHarbor for allegedly failing to stop at a
stop sign and also crossing his lane. He claims he only had one martini.
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The Dodgers are in Chicago to takeon the White Sox tonight. First
pitch goes out at five to ten. You can listen to every play of
every Dodgers game on AM five seventyLA Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast
Booth. You can also stream allgames in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword.
AM five seventy LA Sports. ElevenLA City firefighters been hurt in an
explosion at a homeless camp in theSan Fernando Valley. The explosion Monday afternoon
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happened after a grass fire broke outnear the Supulvita Basin. One of the
firefighters' ears was severed and had tobe reattached so as burns to his face.
A grenade was apparently found near theside of the fire. Californians want
term limits for a district attorneys,county supervisors, and sheriffs. A UC
Berkeley poll out shows eighty percent ofvoters across party lines want to see a
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two term limit for das and supervisors, and three out of four say term
limits should be put on sheriffs too. The La City councils expected to vote
on whether to designate the former homeof Marilyn Monroe in Brentwood as an historic
Cultural monument. The vote was delayeda couple of weeks ago to give the
city more time to talk with theowners of the property who got to permit
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and want to tear it down.Let's say good morning now to the host
of Rich on Tech on KFI.It's KTLA's tech reporter, Rich Demro.
Good morning, Rich, Hey,good morning to you. Amy. Okay,
Foldable phones there's a fever for them. Well, I think companies are
trying to make a fever. Imean, look, I've used them.
I've used almost all of them actuallythat have been available here and in the
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US, and they're great. Butthe problem is they've been big, they've
been bulky, and no company sofar has nailed the form factor. What's
that? What's the form factor?Well, the form factor is like,
you know, how it feels inyour hand, like it's just like your
phone is easy, it's simple tomanipulate. But with this, you've got
one screen on the outside, whichhas typically been either too small or too
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big, and then you've got onescreen on the inside, which is nice
and big. It's like having atablet in your pocket at all times.
But the problem is the outside screenhas not been big enough and the inside
screen is just unwieldy. So thesecompanies need to figure out how to make
these phones thinner, lighter, andeasier to fit in your pocket. And
I think that's what we're seeing here. We're seeing a big war between Samsung
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and Google right now. So yesterdaySamsung announced that their Galaxy Unpacked event would
be held in Paris, France onJuly tenth. This is when we're expecting
to see the newest Galaxy Z seriesof phones. Those are the foldables,
a Z fold and the Z Flip, plus their new smart ring, which
is have you heard of the ORRring? No Okay, so these smart
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rings are kind of like the newthing. A lot of people like them.
You wear a ring and it tracksall of your metrics like your sleep
and your fitness and you know you'rebreathing and all that good stuff. Wait
wait, wait, like a likea smart watch but a ring instead.
Exactly those yet, Yeah, andI've tested a bunch. They're really cool.
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They'll drive you nutty because when youdon't sleep well, it tells you
and you're like, ah, nowit literally scores your day, like it
says your day is going to bea seventy four and you're like, oh
no, like what. So that'swhy I stopped wearing that thing. But
with that said, Samsung's event willbe happening in July. And then a
couple hours later, right after Samsungannounced their event in July to unveil their
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foldables, Google announced, Hey,we're going to have an event in August.
Wait what They never have an eventin August, always in May and
in October. And so now whatI'm reading between the leaves here is that
they are doing this earlier because alot of people are going to be wondering,
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do I get the pixel fold thenew one or do I get the
Samsung Fold. And so now we'regoing to see on August thirteenth, new
pixels from Google, new smart watchesfrom Google. And the reality is then
we have Apple in September. Soif you're buying a smartphone, don't do
anything until at least September, becausethen you'll have all the information you need
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to make an informed decision. Okay, And I would think Rich, I
mean, thankfully we have someone likeyou to talk to, because part of
the problem too is you can't compareand contrast them. It's not like you
can go and play with them sideby side. Well maybe you can at
the store, but as you're gatheringinformation, like how do you know which
one is better for you? It'skind of a crapshoot when you buy it.
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Yeah, you got to call therich On Tech radio show on Saturday
mornings on KFI. I mean literally, I'm not. I mean, I'm
joking, But the reality is,you know that's what people do. They
call me and they say, look, Rich, I've narrowed it down to
these two phones, like what's thedeal, Like what's the better one to
get? Because they all have theselittle nuances to them, like Obviously,
Apple's in a league of its own. They have their own thing going.
So if you want Apple and youlove Apple, you got to go with
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that. But you know, whenit comes to the Google Pixels and the
Samsungs of the world, you know, there are some pros and cons,
and you're right when you go tothe store. Even let's be honest,
ninety nine percent of those like displaysare broken or they're non working phones,
and so it is really tough tokind of you know, you hold this
thing that's that's you know, ziptied to a display for like one second
You're like, all right, sure, I'll spend a thousand bucks on that.
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M Yeah, okay, So richon tech on Kfi is going to
help you make that right decision.So here's another question for you about the
foldable phones, because I, likeyou said, they're trying to make them
catch on. They've been around fora few years. But do they now
when they fold out, are theycompletely lee flat like a regular like an
iPhone surface? Are they flat?Well? Now, see that's what Samsung.
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That was Samsung's big innovation last year. They made it completely flat,
which was incredible. Pixel the foldlast year was not completely flat, which
drove me nuts. So this year, you know, like I said,
hopefully we'll see the flatness getting better, but we'll also see the form factor,
like this thing will fit in yourpocket a little bit easier, It'll
be lighter, the screens will bebigger. By the way, I am
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going to Paris for this event,in for Saanfong, my first time ever
going to Paris, and so I'mvery excited. Hey, why are they
doing it in Paris? Do weknow? Well, Samsung, I mean,
look, they said it's because let'ssee, let me see what they
said exactly. They said, it'scultural significance and trend setting status. But
reality is Samsung is the sponsor ofthe Olympics this year in Paris, and
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so I think that's probably why.I think that makes better sense. Okay,
so we're talking about cell phones andyou're doing a segment today on KTLA
talking about a news sell you aplan that's free calling, free texting,
and free messaging. Well yeah,and data, yeah, free essential essential
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data. That's the real you know, catch share. So this is a
company called text Now. You mayhave downloaded their app in the past.
Previously they did a bunch of likeyou know, you would download the app,
they would give you a phone numberthat's virtual and you can use that
to call people and to text peopleover Wi Fi. So it was like
a freeway to call and text,get a second number, or whatever you
wanted to do. Well, nowthey're taking it up a notch. You
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can pay them five dollars. Theywill send you a SIM card that you
pop into your phone, and thenyou will have cellular service from them.
So you still get the free calling, you still get the free texting,
but now when you're out and about, you can get essential data for free
to use your email, your maps, and your ride sharing. So theoretically,
for free, zero dollars a month, you could make phone calls on
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the go. You can text yourfriends, you can check your email,
you can check Google Maps, youcan call a ride share. You couldn't
do anything else unless you find WiFi. So a lot of people just
use this, or I guess theirhope is a lot of people use this
and just find free Wi Fi.I've been testing it. It works.
It's a little annoying sometimes when you'relike, oh, I just want to
like check something else and I can't, But you know, you find that
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free Wi Fi hotspot. You're goodto go. You can also pay them
a little bit extra, either ninetynine cents to forty dollars a month to
get some extra data there. Butkind of an interesting plan. What's the
hitch? Advertising? The whole thingis advertising supported, So when you're using
the app, when you get aphone call, when you're texting, there's
all ads on the screen. Soif you don't mind that, you know,
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hey, free zero dollars and Imean it's really not a bad deal.
The guy started his company in twentyten. It's been doing this for
a long time. This is abrand new plan they're offering, but they've
been doing the free calling and textingfor a long time. Now, Okay,
wow, that sounds pretty amazing.It's saved me one hundred and something
dollars a month. You can findthat Wi Fi. Yeah, there's another
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hitch. Okay, So I wantto hear about you being on a billboard
in New York City. Yes,real quick, I was in New York
City in Times Square. There's abig billboard that said you can be here.
I said, what You download anapp, you upload a picture,
you pay forty dollars and for fifteenseconds, your photo or video or whatever
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you upload it appears on this billboard. And it was incredible. It was
so cool. You can put asocial media handle on there. You can't
put anything else. You can't putlike a QR code, but you know
they approve it. Obviously a humanapproves what you're putting up there, but
what a cool idea. The companyis TSX Entertainment. You download the app
and if you ever go to TimesSquare in New York City, do it.
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It's like the best souvenir I've evergotten. It's on my Instagram at
rich on Tech if you want tocheck out the video of us going,
oh my gosh, we're on abillboard. That is so fun. And
is it on one of the onesthat's on the side of a building or
a free standing one you don't havesome of them are built into the buildings.
Yeah, it's on the side ofa building. It's huge. It
is one of the most prominent billboardsin Times Square. It's brand new,
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so it's like extremely crystal clear eighteendon't quote me on that. I think
it's like eighteen thousand square feet orsomething insane. It's it's huge and it's
really cool. I mean, nowI can say I've been on a billboard.
Hi paidboard. Yes, I canwrite that off forty bucks? Okay?
And where can they see it?On your Instagram at rich on tech
Perfect. You can also listen torich on Tech here on KFI Saturdays from
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eleven to two. It's KTLA's techreporter. You can also follow him as
you mentioned on Instagram. His websiteis richon tech dot TV. Welcome home
and thank you so much. I'mgoing to go look at your picture on
the billboard. That's so fun.Thanks Amy, have a great day.
They're going to make a killing onthat. Yeah, kill I agree,
I agree. Put him everywhere exactly. A man in Pomona has been shot
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and killed by police. It happenedjust before midnight at the intersection of Hamilton
Boulevard and Center Street. Police havenot yet said what led up to the
shooting, but say a gun wasrecovered at the scene. The man died
at the hospital. A marine atCamp Pendleton who asked a thirteen year old
girl for sexual images has been sinceto more than seventeen years in federal prison.
The guy was arrested on base inOctober when the girl's father reported the
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messages to police. The Marine pleadedguilty yesterday to attempted online enticement of a
minor and was immediately sentenced. GenZ is in debt, according to an
analysis by lending Tree. The reportshows that across one hundred of the largest
metro areas in the US, amedian ninety seven percent of gen Zer's have
debt. Many owre more than sixteenthousand dollars in non mortgage debt. The
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report shows they're actually more likely tohave credit card debt than any other type,
including student loans, and gen zErs in Oxnard are most likely to
find themselves in debt compared to othermetro areas. Governor Newsom claims California's way
of life is at risk. Duringhis pre recorded State of the State address
released online yesterday, Newsom said abortion, LGBTQ plus rights, and other things
(24:00):
are in the crosshairs of extreme politicians. He went on to say Republicans are
the biggest obstacle to addressing problems atthe border. Part of the gag order
against former President Trump in his NewYork hush money case has been lifted ahead
of tomorrow Night's first presidential debate.Judge Wan Marshan says Trump can comment about
jurors, witnesses, and Manhattan DAAlvin Bragg. Some restrictions will stay in
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place until Trump is sentenced. OnJuly eleventh, San Diego's mayor is headed
to China to visit the pandas thatare soon going to be coming to the
San Diego Zoo. Mayor Todd Gloriawill take part in the farewell ceremonies today
in Beijing. He's also traveling tothe panda base. Sounds like a Air
Force base or something. Gloria headshome Sunday. There's no official timeline for
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the panda's arrival. Speaking of USAir Force baces Space Force baces, We're
going to be talking to Colonel NickHaig in about ten minutes, maybe fifteen
minutes, but a little bit laterthis hour, and he's going to give
us an update on his preparations forhis launch into space. He's going to
spend six months on the International SpaceStation. Again. It's Colonel Nickay who
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is a Space Force guardian and alsoNASA astronaut, looking forward to that right
now. Ooops, give me acouple of days off and I can't sound
fire my own Soundersamiami's on Itami's onit? What am I on? I'm
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on entertainment, on streaming shows,TV shows, movies, sometimes books.
There's so much out there to offer. How do you know what to watch
and what to invest your time in? And tell you you can get you
can get sucked in like I do. I've got a couple of shows kind
of waiting in the wings that Idon't even know if I'm going to tell
you about him, because I waslike, this one sucked and I spent
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like ten hours watching it. Soanyway, this one did not suck.
It's Brats. It's on par'm Videoand just was released a week or two
ago, and it's a look backat the Brat Pack and why the Brat
Pack wasn't a great thing. Likethe rat Pack was a cool thing,
but for the Brat Pack, itwas a negative and negatively impacted all those
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actors and actresses who were part ofit. Now you know them, Emilio
Estevez, Molly Ringwald to me,Moore, Ali Sheety, Leah Thompson,
she was kind of adjacent to it. Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, John
Cryer, Timothy Hutton apparently was partof that and of course Andrew McCarthy and
if you remember all those movies sayingAlmost Fire and all of those movies,
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like they were the it group,and it was the first time that Hollywood
had really focused on younger actors andreally highlighting their lives. And they went
and did a few and said,oh, hey, these can make blockbusters.
But being designated as the brat Pack, this show talks about how that
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tapped into all of their doubts andfears about who they were and whether they
were good actors or whether they werejust part of like a Hollywood trend.
And Andrew McCarthy wants to address it. So he calls up a bunch of
people that he literally, at leastaccording to this documentary, had not spoken
to for thirty years. So it'slike, hey, to me, Moore,
it's Andrew McCarthy. I know wehaven't talked for thirty years, but
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let's get together. And so hecalls them. Some of them talk to
them, some of them don't.They were all in their early twenties when
the Brat Pack came to be.Now they're in their mid fifties, and
so taking a look into the documentary, it's fun to see their homes where
they are now kind of sad too. One of my takeaways from this whole
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thing was the men are allowed toage, the women aren't. And you
can tell almost all of them havehad some pretty substantial work done. And
I'll let you watch it and seewhat it is. But it just kind
of makes me mad because Emilio Festive, he's put on a few pounds,
he's got some wrinkles, Andrew McCarthysaying, Andrew McCarthy looks great, but
he's you know, he's aged,and they and Hollywood allows you to age.
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For the women, it's not necessarilythe same thing. So one of
the things you find out right awayis that nobody wanted to be part of
the brat Pack. They all wantedto be actors. And so that article
that came out, I believe ita Variety magazine that named them the brat
Pack, portrays them as not beingserious about their work, that they weren't
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talented actors, and it was likejust a big illusion. It was all
part of Hollywood. Like I said, it was the hype over the genre
and not really that the people couldactually act. A few of them have
had some successes, a lot ofthem haven't. There is a moment where
where Andrew McCarthy orders a burger andthe person inside the food truck says,
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hey, what are you filming Andhe says, well, I'm filming about
the Brat Pack. And she says, well, you know that sounds kind
of familiar. I mean, that'sgot to be hard to go from a
superstar to just kind of obscurity,but I think it happens for a lot
of actors' careers, so you know, you think about it made me think
about the actors who started out youngand they're still acting. You know,
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that's not it's not a given justbecause you're famous at one point that you're
going to be famous for forever.And I think that one of the most
interesting interesting things is during the documentary, Andrew McCarthy goes and talks to the
guy who wrote the article, theone that created the moniker the Brat Pack.
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And I'll tell you I hated thisguy and he's not likable, but
you got to watch it because it'ssuper super interesting. Like his perspective behind
what happened is really interesting, andyou can't blame him because he came up
with this catchphrase that for a writer, like everybody wants to do that.
You know, I invented that,and he invented the Brat pack and it's
stuck and anyway, it's I thoughtit was a really good watch. It's
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like an hour and a half.It again is on Prime video, and
it's fun to take a look backand see who's having success, who's having
not, who's not having success,what they look like now, what their
lives are like. And I thinkit's a fun look back. So I
recommend Brats on Prime video. Nowlet's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom. The Guardina Police Department says
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officers have seized more than seventy fivetons of illegal fireworks and official announcements coming
later this morning. The fireworks werediscovered on Friday inside a warehouse and have
an estimated street value of between sevenand ten million dollars. Two men and
a woman have been arrested. TheShark Lab at cal State Long Beach may
have to shut down because it's runningout of money. The lab received a
(30:45):
state grant in twenty eighteen with enoughfunding for five years, but the lab
was able to stretch it to six. Lab director doctor Chris Lo says his
team studies white shark behavior along thecoast to help keep people safe. Funny
ends in September, and if wedon't find more, we're gonna stirp,
calling all our equipment out of thewater, and I have to let all
my staff go. Lo says itcosts about nine hundred thousand each year to
keep the program going because the labresearches sharks throughout the state. He says
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California's current budget has no room tokeep the lab open. Chris Adler KFI
News. The espionage trial of Americanjournalist Evan Gershkevich has started in Russia.
The media were briefly shown Evan Gershkovichin the court in Ya Katsarinburg, the
city about one thousand miles from Moscow, where he's been brought for what is
being widely condemned as a show trial. He was in a glass cage and
(31:30):
his head shaved. ABC's Patrick Revalsays Grishkovitch has been in detention for more
than a year. The US andthe Wall Street Journal have condemned the charges
as fabricated. The Department of HomelandSecurity says arrests for illegal border crossings have
dropped more than forty percent in thethree weeks since President Biden's executive action on
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asylum. The orders set up arule to turn away migrants claiming asylum between
ports of entry when daily arrests areabove twenty five hundred. California Republicans say
Governor Newsom chose the coward's way outin pre recording his State of the State
address. The speech, released onlineyesterday marked the fourth time Newsom has not
delivered his address to lawmakers at thestate capitol. Republican leader James Gallagher says
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Newsom has no respect for the statecapitol. Under the California constitution, Newsom's
not doing anything wrong. He's onlyrequired to give a written State of the
State letter to the legislature. PresidentBiden's going to announce veterans convicted of crimes
by the military because of their sexualorientation or gender identity will be pardoned.
It'll be for anyone convicted between nineteenfifty one and twenty thirteen. It could
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impact thousands. Consumer confidence has dippedjust a bit. The Conference Board's Consumer
Confidence index slipped nearly a point fromMay to June due to increasing uncertainty about
the future. The survey showed fewerpeople are planning to buy homes and cars
in the next six months, butmore are planning to vacation. We're just
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minutes away from handle on the newsthis morning, fourteen years later, Wiki
Leak's founder, Julian Assange is afree man. Bill's going to tell you
all about that. But right now, let's say good morning too. Space
Force guardian and NASA astronaut our friendColonel Nick Hay, Good morning, Colonel
Haig, Good morning Amy. Howare you doing great? And excited to
talk to you today because you've gotto be getting excited. Colonel HAIGU is
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going to go to the International SpaceStation for six months and you're about two
months ish from liftoff. Yep,we're within two months. So yes,
the excitement is definitely building. Andare you any closer to I know that
you kind of keep things under wrapsas far as when the launch is going
to happen and stuff, and there'salways kind of last minute scheduling and stuff.
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But do we have any kind ofnarrowing in of when your launch date
is? Yeah, so you knowright now we're targeting sometime and toward the
end the last half of August.You know, it's not a state secret
that really it has to do withall the different things that are happening on
this thing. I think everybody's trackingright now that we've got a test mission
going on and they've got to finishthat mission, and then we also have
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cargo vehicles that have to go upthere, and so all of this traffic
has to be synchronized, and sowe're just waiting our turn, although it
gets harder and harder to wait patiently. Okay, And you mentioned some of
the things going on at the InternationalSpace Station. I wanted to talk to
you about that. We know thatthe Boeing star Liner took a couple of
astronauts up and they were supposed tobe up on the space station for a
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week because it was Boeing's first crudemission there, and it was delayed,
and then it was delayed again,and now it's been delayed until next month
for their return from the space station. And I thought that you might have
kind of an interesting perspective on that, being an astronaut yourself. I mean,
when something like that happens, Iknow, you can't get into their
minds, but in your mind,like what goes on when they go,
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hey, by the way, we'renot sure your ride is safe. Yeah,
every mission we do is essentially atest mission, and this one more
than most because this is the firsttime we've put crew inside the star Liner
capsule and symptoms to the station.So you're learning a lot and the teams
have discovered some things and they're workingthrough some analysis to try to figure out,
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Okay, so how is the vehicleresponding? And based off what we've
learned, are we comfortable continuing toproceed with the mission? And so that's
a normal process of any test mission, and that's really a normal process of
any of our space flight missions,because there's the plan you start with when
you're getting ready to launch, andthen there's actually what happens. And there
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are examples throughout the history of thespace program that just proves that point that
space is a difficult business and wemanage a lot of really complex technical things,
and sometimes our predictions don't really matchreality, and we adjust and figure
out how to be successful. Okay, So as you're doing your training,
it sounds like you're saying you're notjust exclusively focused on your mission, but
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you have to be learning all thetime about the other things that are affecting
other astronauts. Yeah, it's allconnected, and we work it's a small
office. There's only about four dozenUS astronauts, and so we know each
other. We talk with each otherabout how everybody's training is going, how
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their jobs are doing, how theirfamilies are doing, and so at the
tight knit group, and so you'reaware of all those other things. And
then you know, when it comesto doing your job, you don't just
do your job in a vacuum.It depends on all those other different teams
and different pieces of equipment and programsthat come together at the station. And
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so, yeah, it's all connected. And you know there're one change in
one program sends a ripple effect throughthe rest of the programs and that's just
the nature of the business. Okay, And tell us then, Colonel Haig,
as you get closer to your mission, what kind of training are you
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doing now at two months out?Yes, yeah, so it's a lot
of the last of type of things. So for almost a year and a
half to two years I've been focusedon training to get ready to go to
the space station. Some of that'sfocused on getting to the space station,
and that's why I'm here in LosAngeles this week is training at SpaceX,
and then some of it's focused onworking and living on the space station.
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And we have these whole training programsthat are stretched out over this year and
a half and we do things three, four or five times. Now we're
finally getting to the last time ofall of these things, and so each
one of those moments is it justkind of sends chills down my neck said,
Hey, this is the last time. The next time I'm going to
do this, I'm going to bein space. Yeah, it's exciting.
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It's spacewalk training, it's robotics trainingto be able to use the robotic arm
on the International Space Station. Herethis week, we're doing some very integrated
simulations where we're going to simulate launchingto the space station and returning from the
space station on the Dragon capsule,and that it's the full team. So
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it's pretty exciting because everybody comes togetherand it's a mission control that's in Hawthorne
here in Los Angeles for SpaceX,but it's also the mission control team in
Houston and then US and the capsuleand all working together to practice what we
do when things don't go to plan, because ninety five percent of the stuff
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we practice are things to what dowe do when something doesn't happen? And
so these simulations have lots of failuresin them, and we figure out how
to face the failure, fix it, and continue the mission. Yeah,
it reminds me of I believe itwas Apollo thirteen with Tom Hanks and there
something goes wrong on their mission tothe moon, and all of a sudden
they're like, uh, oh,we're screwed, basically, and here's what
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we have. Okay, now let'sfigure out how to fix this so we
can get these guys home. Imean, it's just got to be amazing
the contingencies that you guys have tohave in place, and then also planning
for the unexpected. Yeah, itis. It's it's just a true privilege
to be part of this program andand that team, that gigantic team of
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people, and the energy and theinvestment and the the just the sheer intellect
of that group to be able toface those problems figure them out. And
you know, that's that's what givesme the confidence to you know, to
strap onto a rocket and launch intospace. It's because I know I've got
that team supporting me, and we'regoing to tackle whatever gets thrown our way.
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Cool. Okay, So you weretalking about spacewalk training. What does
spacewalk training on Earth look like.It's a mix because really the only place
that you can do it is inspace. Uh So, we do lots
of pieces of it. Some ofthat is virtual reality based, so we
we put on a v our headsetand we practice doing a spacewalk virtually.
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A part that a lot of peopleknow about is our neutral Buoyancy Laboratory,
so Big Pool, Gigantic Pool,where we have a life sized mockup of
the space station underwater under about fortyfeet of water, and we get in
an actual spacewalk spacesuit and go underthe water and practice where we can float
and it stimulates pretty close what it'slike to float around on the outside of
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the space station. And then wego through all the procedures that we would
plan to do on orbit and practicethem and then practice what happens when those
procedures don't work. But I gotto tell you that the underwater training is
as close as you can get onEarth. To what it's like up there.
The first time I went out tohatch on a spacewalk on the space
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station, it was nighttime. Iopened the hatch, started crawling around on
the outside of the space station,and my prevailing thought was, Man,
this feels just like I'm in theneutral buoyantcy laboratory and I was looking the
only thing that was missing was thebubbles coming up from the safety divers that
are on scuba gear around us.Yeah. Okay, So that brings me
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to something. We had asked ourlisteners if they wanted to ask an aster
not something, and here was myfavorite question. So you're doing the space
walk, you're out there outside thespace station, you turn away from it
so you can't see it, andyou're looking at Earth. One what's that
feeling? And two? How bigdoes it look like? Does the planet
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take up your entire field of visionor is it just part of it?
So had this had this really uniquechance. I was on the front of
the space station. We were puttingon one of the docking ports that we
use for our commercial crew vehicles todock, and we were installing it,
and so I had, you know, a split second to catch my breath,
(41:57):
and you know, it seemed likethree or four minutes. I think
it was only about ten seconds,but I did it. I kind of
turned away from the station and Ilooked out in front of the of the
station towards the Earth with kind ofthe background, and you know, it's
bright enough up there during the daythat you don't see a whole lot of
stars. The sky's pretty black,but the Earth fills about half your view.
And at that point, you're trainedso much in the suit, in
(42:22):
the spacesuit that it kind of startsto feel like clothes and it just kind
of melts away. So it wasthis feeling of I'm outside working in space,
just just riding on top of thespacecraft and it's hurtling and just seeing
Earth kind of drift below. Andit's a moment like that where you start
(42:43):
to realize just the you know,it goes back to all those people that
make it possible, because that momentis possible because of the throngs of people
that are part of those teams onthe ground helping us, helping us do
it. It's not just two peopleoutside the space station. It's it's all
of the people at NASA that arethat are supporting the station, uh,
(43:05):
you know, the space Walk,the station itself, it's all of the
Space Force guardians that are around theglobe that are that are watching out for
us and making sure that you knowwe're safe while we're up there, and
and helping us getting to and fromthere. And so it's that one ten
second moment that just makes you feellike you're part of something so enormous.
You're part of something that only humanitycould do, and you are one of
(43:29):
the few of humanity who get totake part in that. So I'm so
excited for you, and I knowwe're coming down to crunch time. You're
going to lift off in a coupleof months. I hope we get to
talk to you again. I wantto talk more about the Space Force and
what it does, and of coursekind of the final steps as you get
ready for your launch again, ifwe can make it happen, I would
love to talk to you again.Colonel Haig. Thank you so much for
(43:51):
your for your information today, andwe're getting excited for you. No,
thank you, Hey, Samy,I really appreciate the opportunity to share.
You know, I am one ofthe few that gets to go up there.
I wish I could take everybody withme in short of that being able
to share that experience, and soI'll definitely take you up on the offer
and chat with you another time beforeI get right to launch. Awesome.
(44:12):
Thank you so much again. Thisis Space Force Guardian NASA Astronaut Colonel Nick
Haig. Thank you so much fortaking the time today. Thanks Amie,
so fun and with that, ourtime with wake Up Call is over.
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(44:36):
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