September 25, 2023 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. ABC News National Correspondent Steven Portnoy joins the show discuss the new poll showing Trump in command of the GOP primary. ABC News White House Reporter Karen Travers speaks on the new poll showing bad numbers for Biden. Amy interviews Dr. John Delony about how to build a non-anxious life. The show wraps with the Director of the Sleep Disorders Institute at Providence Mission Hospital Dr. Bruce Tammelin.
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You're listening to kf I AM sixforty wake Up Call with me Amy King
on demand on the iHeartRadio f kf FI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
Orange County. Okay, dat dayat Aby King. Good morning.
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This is your wake up call forMonday, September twenty five. I'm ab
King. Thanks for waking up withus this morning. Guess what today is.
It's a day Taylor made for me. It's National Binge Day, so
we're gonna be playing special themes allmorning in honor of National Binge Day.
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But here's what's ahead on the wakeup call. Looks like they've got a
deal. After nearly five months onthe picket lines, WGA writers and Hollywood
Studios have come to a tentative agreementon a new contract. Union members will
apparently remain on picket lines until membersvote to ratify it. You can order
free COVID nineteen tests online once againstarting today. The federal government has started
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its program to provide free COVID testsnow that most insurance companies aren't covering the
cost. Usher is going to headlinethe Super Bowl fifty eight halftime show at
Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas. Itwas announced yesterday. Usher did appear during
the Super Bowl forty five halftime show, but the Black Eyed Peas were the
headliners at six oh five. It'shandled on the news. Something from out
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of this world has come to earth. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. As I just mentioned,
a tentative deal has been reached thatcould end the writer. My phone
is blowing up with joy, peoplethanking each other, people that are so
excited. Bill Walcoff is a strikecaptain for the WGA. The Writers Guild
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and studio representatives met for days startinglast week and announced the agreement yesterday.
The proposed three year contract would reportedlyincrease pay and residual payments for streaming shows
and impose new rules surrounding the useof artificial intelligence. The more than eleven
thousand WGA members who went on strikein May will still need to approve the
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final contract. The WGA says membersare still on strike but will not be
picketing as a contract is finalized.They are encouraged to join the SAG after
picket lines, though, a guyin East Hollywood who allegedly shot two of
his neighbors has managed to give aswat team the slip. The shooting happened
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during an argument yesterday. The peopleshot are expected to be okay. Fully
surrounded the building, but when swatteams went in, they couldn't find the
guy. Republicans in the House havebeen unable to agree on a spending plan,
as the deadline to avert a governmentshutdown is just days away. Those
clothes to Speaker Kevin McCarthy are pushingfor a short term bill that includes deep
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spending cuts, no more funding forUkraine, and immigration policy changes. McCarthy
says he is optimistic. I thinkwe should show we can govern. I
think we're able to work through thisat the end of the day, get
there. A small group of Republicanhardliners has been threatening to vote McCarthy out
of his speakership if they don't gettheir way. Former President Trump appears to
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support a government shutdown. Last night, Trump posted this message to his supporters
in the House quote unless you geteverything, shut it down. ABC's at
faith, Abubai, says. RepublicanCongressman Mike Turner has expressed confidence in Speaker
McCarthy, but admits he's in adifficult position. A space capsule carrying NASA's
first asteroid samples has landed in thedesert in Utah. The capsule was released
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by the Osiris Rex spacecraft yesterday.This was like hinting a hole in one
from sixty three thousand miles above theplanet. The journey took seven years.
ABC's Genus and Sara says. Scientistssay they expect to get at least a
cup of rubble. They're hoping tofind precursors, like little biological material that
will say, hey, this iswhere life came from. And they'll do
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that. In the Moon Rocks Labat the Johnson Space Center, Japan,
collected about a teaspoon of rubble anda pair of asteroids. Missions Holy scoring
machine. The Miami Dolphins have scoredthe most points in a game by an
NFL team since nineteen sixty six.Overwhelming. I think that's an understatement.
The Denver Broncos seventy to twenty missthat one. Don't think it was probably
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a really good game, So nottoo worried about it. It's five or
six on your wake up call.Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen
Portnoy. Stephen there is a Republicandebate on Wednesday happening at the Reagan Library.
Former pros sit in. Trump sayshe's skipping this one too, but
he's still killing it in the polls. The ABC name was Washington Post survey
out yesterday has the former president withfifty four percent support among Republicans and Republican
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leaning independence, about four months beforethe first voting actually begins. And the
next leading contender, Ron De Santis, is down from twenty five percent in
our poll earlier this year to fifteenpercent now, so by a roughly forty
point margin. Donald Trump enjoys majoritysupport among Republicans and Republican leaning independence,
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and he's skipping Wednesday night's debate.He's going to be in Detroit speaking to
what his campaign says will be acrowd of auto workers as the current president,
Joe Biden, heads to Detroit tomorrowto march along the workers and the
picket lines, which is something we'venever seen before for sitting president. So
you know, that's the picture ofthe Republican race, Okay. And Trump's
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support is gaining like you said itto, Santis has dropped off. Is
Trump kind of soaking up all thesupport, or is some of like de
Santis, is going to other candidatesor any of them rising up? Well,
it's no, the answers no,all the other candidates are in the
single digits. But which interesting hereis forty three percent of Republicans and Republican
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leaning independence would prefer another candidate.But that's not enough if the election were
held today. It's not being heldtoday, but if it were being held
a day, Donald Trump would bethe Republican standard bearer. Okay, so
if you added everyone up who wouldn'tsupport Trump, that's more than his support,
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right, But the Republicans no,No, that's not right. So
so that's the point. More Republicanssupport Donald Trump than his rivals all put
together. Oh okay, So evenif everybody consolidated into and everybody dropped out
and just say say Nicky Haley wasthen one, and they all voted for
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nick Trump still has more support thismoment and in theory. But that's because
it's not a binary choice, andbecause you know, the opposition is diverse,
you know, and spread across asmany as eight or nine candidates.
I think the point is not there'snot a single alternate option. But even
if there were, which is whyI think what you're asking, Donald Trump
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would seemingly still enjoy majority support amongRepublicans and Republican leading independence. We should
also note this poll shows that ifthe election were held today, and it's
not being held today, the electionis more than a year from now,
Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden ina national head to head, Which is
why a number of Democrats are areblasting our survey. They're they're noting what
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we're reporting, which is that it'san outlier compared to other polls which have
the race much closer in a headto head in a horse race. But
I caution you and everyone to takethis for what it is, which is
a snapshot in time and a sentimentof the public mood at this point.
Why would Donald Trump be leading JoeBiden and our survey by nine points among
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all adults. Well, you canlook inside the survey and see that there
is tremendous anxiety about the state ofthe economy right now. Nine in ten
voters are unhappy with the price offood and gas, and they believe that
Joe Biden has performed poorly on theeconomy and on immigration, and three quarters
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in the survey say he's too oldto run for another term. So behind
all that you get a sense ofwhy the polls are reflecting their voters,
maybe trying to send a message intheir answers to the survey that they're not
particularly interested in another Biden presidency andmaybe they would prefer Donald Trump. But
again, the elections not being heldtoday, there's a whole another year for
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the candidates to make their argument,plus cut almost in a month and change
for the candidates to make their argumentsand for Americans to weigh the two choices
that they'll be presented with likely twochoices and then make a decision. Is
the longest election season ever? Stephenport Or, thank you so much for
your time and your insight this morning. I appreciate it. Bet. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the Kfight twenty four hour
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newsroom. Smash and grab thieves havetargeted businesses in Silver Lake. They broke
into an Sie place early yesterday andtried to get into a gelato shop Yum,
but employees at a high end sneakerstore say they think that they were
probably the intended target. The storehas been broken into three times before now
and now has metal gates protecting theshop in the front and the back.
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The driver of a blue corvette,the police say might have been racing another
driver has killed a pedestrian at Sunsetand Labreya. The driver took off.
The collision happened around one thirty thismorning. USC has received almost twenty seven
million dollars from the Department of Defenseto help reduce the country's resilient or reliance
rather on foreign microelectronics. Microelectronics aretiny components such as transistors, diodes,
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and conductors. The Department of Defensewants USC's Innovation Hub to focus on microelectronic
element in areas such as artificial intelligence, hardware, cybersecurity, five G and
six G wireless, and quantum technology, but also electromagnetic warfare to secure computing
at the tactical edge. USC's InnovationHub is one of eight designed to help
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safeguard the supply chain of microchips forAmerican troops and national defense in Orange County.
Corbin Carson k if I News,a Russian official, says Ukraine has
launched another missile attack on Sevastopol onthe occupied Crimean peninsula. Ukraine has increasingly
target targeted naval facilities in Crimea.An attack Friday on the headquarters of Russia's
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Black Sea Fleet damaged the main buildingand one service man is missing. Ukraine's
intelligence chief says at least nine peoplewere killed and sixteen others were wounded in
that attack. People on Maui arebeing escorted back into their burned out neighborhoods
in Lahina seeing their properties, maybecollect the information photographs for insurance purposes,
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the first time they've been allowed backsince the wildfires. Emergency Management head Darryl
Olivera says urging families not to startdigging into the ash for things like wedding
rings just yet, because it's stillnot safe. It's been a month and
a half since the wildfire that killedat least ninety seven ninety seven people.
As I mentioned a couple of minutesago, it is National Binge Day,
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and if you love to binge likeI love to binge, here's something just
for you. Online Casinos dot Comis celebrating National Binge Day with a contest
to determine which Netflix series is themost binge worthy on the line. Squid
Game, saw That, Stranger Things, Saw That Wednesday, saw That love
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that. The winner's going to geta month to watch all three series in
their entireties, so it's about fiftyhours of viewing. And then they get
a budget of two thousand dollars.They also get five hundred dollars to cover
snacks and a Netflix subscription if theydon't already have one. Come on,
who doesn't have a Netflix subscription?Anyway? The deadline to make your submission
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is midnight tonight, which as Imentioned, is National binge Day and Kono,
I got a new Bene show foryou. It's I Don't it's not
a brand new show, but it'sgot a new season. It's called Invasion.
Ah, you haven't seen it.He's given me the funny act.
So it came out. This wasjust the second season, so we're about
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halfway through the season. I thinkthere's like four or five six episodes out.
And so I watched season two.First season. I didn't like it,
but I watched it because I likethese kinds of movies, like what
was the show with the movie withAmy Adams wasn't called Contact? That was
that was Jody I can't remember,but those kinds of shows and interactions with
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aliens are always fascinating to me.And of course the Aliens are bad guys
and they're coming and they're destroying theearth. But the second season they're trying
to make contact with the aliens asopposed to the Aliens just going and ravaging
and scaring everybody and killing people.So it's getting a little more interesting.
So if you are looking for anew binge and that's on Apple, got
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it? Okay, dook National BingeDay. In fact, maybe I'm gonna
head it home and do a littlebinging after work. What a great idea
instead of going for a walk ona beautiful fall day. You know,
when we come back, we're gonnabe talking with ABC's Karen Travers about a
new poll out that has to havethe president nervous. WGA and Hollywood Studio
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negotiators have come to a tentative agreementto end the nearly five month long writers
strike SAG after officials say they'll bewatching closely to see how they will move
forward. Actors have been on strikesince late July. Several students have been
injured in a campus shooting at TuskegeeUniversity in Alabama. University officials say the
shooting happened yesterday at an unauthorized partyat a student housing complex. Gas prices
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on the eyes up one and ahalf cents in Alley County to an average
of almost six twelve a gallon.Prices are up seventy two cents a gallon
in the last three weeks. OrangeCounty gas up to an average of six
o nine a gallon. In myhood this morning it was six o nine,
and across the street it was sixsixty nine a gallon at six oh
five. It's handled on the news. With a government shutdown looming, lawmakers
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are pushing ideas to end government shutdownsforever. Would that'd be nice? Right
now, let's say good morning toABC's Karen Travers. Karen, the President
the White House keep telling us howgreat everyone's doing, how things are getting
better, inflation's coming down. Butthe latest ABC Washington Post poll shows the
American people are not buying this.Yeah, yeah, that was exactly what
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I was going to say, thatthey're really not buying what the President is
selling at this point, especially onthe economy, which you know we talked
about this by dynamics is such akey focus for the president right now.
In his official events at White Houseand on the road, and it will
be a big part of the reelectioncampaign message. But just thirty percent of
Americans approve of his handling of theeconomy. And this ABC News Washington Post
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poll found forty four percent of peoplesay they're not as well off as they
were when the president took office.If you look at that, immigration,
other issues, it all adds upto a very rough approval rating for the
president thirty seven percent approval, fiftysix percent disapprove. That's nineteen points underwater,
which is really tough at this timegoing into the election season. Is
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this the lowest approval rating? Iknow that everything fluctuates, but has it
been lower before? Is this kindof bottomed out right now? I don't
know if there's enough, Like Ihave to look and see the historic trend
of other presidents at this point,but you know, the president, this
president has hovered around a point likethis. But you know, the White
House is downplaying this. And Iwill see how Korean Jean Pierre talks about
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this today. She's always so carefulnot to talk about campaign related issues.
I think this is beyond the campaign. You know, it's not just about
the re election, It's about whathe is doing right now, and when
they talk about Bynomics at official events, then it's part of the White House
portfolio. The other big thing,of course, is the president's age,
and that continues to be a realpolitical liability. Seventy four percent of Americans
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in this quote said he is tooold to effectively serve a second term.
A majority of Democrats sixty two percentsay someone else should be the nominee.
Well, and I think signs ofhis age. I mean, he's obviously
incredibly smart, but you see thingsthat happen, like when he was on
stage with the leader of Brazil lastweek and he kind of ran into a
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flag and then he didn't shake theleader's hand before he left the stage.
I mean, it was just likeawkward little things that you go, Wow,
is something going on here? AndI think people are seeing that more.
Yeah, the White House. Anytimeany questions come up about this,
the White House will say, youknow, just watch him, watch the
schedule he keeps, watch the paceof events that he does, and watch
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what he is doing in office.But critics and even some allies will say
the pace is not what it couldbe of a president. You know,
he doesn't have as many events asmaybe he could be doing. And you
know, it's a different type ofschedule than we've seen from his predecessors,
so that is something that you know, they say, watch him, and
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people say, well, we areand we're still having concerns. Yeah,
okay, And before I let yougo, just real quick, if there's
a shutdown, is that going tobode well or bad for the White House?
According to your new poll, youknow, yeah, this was interesting
and we'll see how this plays out. This poll found that forty percent would
blame the president and Democrats in Congressversus thirty three percent who put it on
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Republicans, even though it right nowis Republican infighting that is leading to this
brinksmanship, So we'll see. Imean, also could be that people just
haven't been paying attention to what's goingon and they're not happy with the president,
so that's being reflected in polls.All right, all right, ABC's
Karen Travor, thank you so muchfor your time and all of the information
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you always provide for us. Thankyou. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour news room. The powerball
jackpots up to seven hundred eighty fivemillion dollars. It's the ninth largest lottery
jackpot in US history. The lastpowerball jackpot was one July nineteenth, when
a ticket worth over a billion dollarswas sold in downtown LA. The next
powerball drawing is tonight. Hundreds ofstore owners in Oakland say they're going on
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strike to protest the rise in crimein their neighborhoods, even if the crime
is not hidden my store, butin other businesses is bad. You know,
Oakland is beautiful and we have tokeep it safe. You know,
police have to do something. Theymayor have to do something. Two hundred
businesses have pledged to close tomorrow.Mayor Shentao has urged them not to strike.
You don't need to strike to getthe city's attention, she says.
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The city will install three hundred camerasby next month, and new measures passed
recently include having the FBI help withinvestigations. A man from Cerritos is expected
to plead guilty to federal charges forhis role in allegedly stealing more than twenty
thousand pills known as skittles that containedfentanyl. The multicolored pills are made to
resemble oxycodone pills. Christopher Hampton wasnamed in an eleven count indictment last year,
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charging him with various drug and weaponsoffenses that could get him a life
sentence if convicted. A teenager kidnappedfrom the Inland Empire has been rescued by
police in central California. On Septembereighteenth, The DJ says three men allegedly
caused a traffic accident in Highland,which resulted in a seventeen year old boy
crashing into the men's suv. Whenthe boy got out of his vehicle,
the three men forcibly took him.Later that afternoon, the boy's mom received
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a phone call. The speaker demandedhalf a million dollars in ransom be sent
to an unspecified location in Mexico,otherwise her son's body parts would be cut
off. On Friday morning, policetracked the three men to a motel in
Santa Maria, where the boy wasbeing held. The three men are scheduled
in court this afternoon. If convicted, they could face life in prison.
Andrew Caravella KFI News, as youmay or may not know, I'm a
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Disneyland fan and I love to goto the park. I have a pass.
I go, not as much asa lot of people, but I
know who have passes, But Igo, you know, like once a
month, and I dig Disneyland.And my brother knows this, so he
sent me an article over the weekendand I was like, Ah, this
makes sense. It talks about whyDisneyland is so darn addicting. I wish
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I knew how to qurt you.You can't. Wish I knew how to
quurt you. You can't. Youcan't because it has to do with several
factors. But sense is one ofthem. Fomo fear of missing out is
another one, and nostalgia. Sowhen you go to the sense category,
Disney's pretty famous for like when youwalk down Main Street, you smell cinnamon
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rolls, and in different parts ofthe park you smell things, and smells
are high on the list of creatinglike a yearning for things because they trigger
memories and positive emotions. So whenyou smell things, you go, oh,
yeah, I like that or Iremember that, and like sometimes you
might get like the aroma of thewoodsy pines when you're walking over in Disney
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California, Adventure by the Grizzly Peak, or you get the fresh baked goods
as they mentioned along Main Street.But all of those things, you're all
factory sensors. Is that right,That has to do with it. Here's
another thing with everybody so into socialmedia. People are influenced by images their
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friends and families post on social media, like family vacations at Disneyland, and
Disney knows this, and so theyhave cool photo ops, like there are
photo spots all around the park.There are there are photographers around the park
who can help you out. There'sthere's backdrops and like step and repeat kind
of opportunities to take all these coolpictures. You get that fear of missing
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out. You see somebody do thatand you go, oh, I want
to do that too. So that'sanother thing. And then the other thing
that apparently contributes to the reason thatwe love Disneyland so much is because it
kind of allows you to indulge inyour nostalgia because you're going back to like
if you first went to Disneyland whenyou were a kid. You have those
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memories and you want to relive thosememories and it has you know, feelings
of happiness and security. And Iknow when I go to Disneyland, I
always go. You know, I'ma grown woman, but I can act
like a kid again. So I'mdoing exactly what they're kind of getting me
to do. It's working for me. I hope it works for you.
I think it's a great place tobe. There, you go. The
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world has gotten crazy. We're overbusy, we're overworked, we're cut off
from friends, struggling to make endsmeet, and it's got us feeling over
anxious. Doctor John Deloney wants tohelp you get your life back in balance.
So let's get stay Good morning nowtoo, Doctor John Deloney, author
of a brand new book called Buildingan Anxious Life. Good morning, Amy,
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thank you so much for having me. We are becoming more and more
anxious, and I think that decreasesour level of happiness and satisfaction, and
we need a way to fix that. That's right. I think we have
to start by reframing what anxiety is. Anxiety is just an alarm. It's
just the gas gage on your carsaying hey, you need to address something,
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and we have turned that into theproblem. It's like we've created an
entire culture of fancy duct tapes tocover up our dashboard so that we don't
have to see the signals telling us, hey, you need to pull a
car over. And so if youthink of anxiety as not the enemy,
not the problem, but just simplya smoke detector in your kitchen, then
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quickly you have to look around andsee what in your house is on fire.
Are there physical manifestations of this anxietythat should go off as an alarm
in our heads. Yeah, whenyou're talking about clinical anxiety, you're talking
about ruminating thoughts that just lou andloop and loup. You're talking about snapping
awake at two thirty every morning,night at night after night. You're talking
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about that pervasive feeling of loneliness,that racing heart, that warmth that you're
in your stomach when you see thatthing. You know, your kid slams
ther door, you see the stockmarket, the red arrow pointing down,
your husband flips his phone over upwhen you walk in, and you just
get that warmth in your stomach.Those are some of the classic signs.
I don't think they're fully instructive.Here's a couple of others. If somebody
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cuts you off in traffic and yougret grip the steering wheels so tight you
can snap it in half and yourneck. You know, your arteries in
your neck look like extension chords,and you just get enraged. Or if
you find yourself yelling at a highschool kid who's refing your kid's te ball
game, or if you find yourselfskipping work and just staying in bed,
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you find yourself spending thirty minutes inthe shower just having imaginary conversations with your
boss that you will never have inreal life. Those are all all signs
that your body's trying to get yourattention. So what do we do.
I think it's important to be honest. And I'm a mental health guide.
That's my tribe, that's my gang, and I think it's important for that
conversation to start with us, andso I'll start it. I have to
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look in the mirror and say,I have to begin to look at the
fires, not the anxiety. Whatdoes that mean? That means I have
to be really honest with myself.I have to choose reality. I got
to choose to be honest about what'sthe state of my marriage, my job,
my finances, my relationship with mykids, my health, my spiritual
life, where am I in space? We also have to be honest about
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how lonely. We all are.We've created the loneliest generation in human history.
We have to choose connection. Okay, and you say that in your
book. Are you say that choosinglove is a key component to helping to
build a non anxious life. Whatdo you mean by that? Yeah,
it's it's choosing connection, right.So our bodies are wired to be in
proximity to other people. I knowwho I am and space because of the
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people in my space. And whenyou take that out, when you replace
communication with connection with communication, Itext my wife all day, a hundred
times a day, I love you, I love you, I love you.
And so when I walk in thefront door, I never say it.
I said it a hundred times today, except her body doesn't feel safe
because her husband walks in it takesit right in the house and goes upstairs
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and turns the game on instead ofplugging into it because I've plugged in all
day. It's different. So wehave to choose to be awkward and weird.
And there's no roadmap for forty yearolds to make friends. I wish
that roadmap exists. That it doesn't. When I was a kid, they
stuck us all on the same kickballteam and said, y'all go figure it
out. That's all gone. NowI have to choose to go make friends
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people that are going to be inmy space, okay. And so it
sounds like what your book is goingto teach people is how to make better
choices. And you do say thatit's not going to be easy. And
what I want to do is empowerpeople, give them the steering wheel to
their life back. And yes,that means we have to make some hard
choices. And by the way,there's two hard paths. We can crash
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and burn or which is going tobe hard, or we can do the
hard things and make sacrifices and makehard choices and change everything. The path
isn't easy. It's which hard arewe going to choose? Okay? And
well, you can choose to startmaking that change now by getting yourself a
copy of Building a Non Anxious Life, Doctor Deloney, Where can we find
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it? You can go to JohnDeloney dot com right now. It's in
pre sale. We've got some bribesthere to encourage you to buy the pre
sale early. It releases on Octoberthird, and it will be in every
bookstore everywhere, at Amazon everywhere,fabulous, Doctor John Deloney. I feel
better already. I think I lovesome of the things that you said about
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just taking basically taking a chill pilland really look at things as they are,
not as you're it's supposed to havethem, but as they are,
and then you can really, youknow, decide what you're going to do
about it. That's right and sometimes taking a hard look at things as
scary and things get worse before theyget better. I want all of your
listeners to know they're worth that trip, even when it's hard. Thanks again
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to doctor John Deloney. You canpre order his book at doctor John Deloney
dot com and then it goes onsale October three. Now let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour news room.
The second Republican presidential debate is happeningthis week at the Reaga National Library
in Simi Valley. It's actually onWednesday. It'll be live streamed on Rumbull.
The chairwoman of the National Committee forthe Republicans said earlier this year that
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the decision was aimed toward getting awayfrom big tech. Some Republican candidates have
started posting campaign videos on the site, including former President Trump, Florida Governor
Ronda Santis, and entrepreneur veveik Ramaswamy. President Trump is skipping the debate.
News brought to you by Semper Solaris. Some Democrats in Congress say Democratic Senator
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Bob Menendez should resign following an indictmentin a bribery case. His wife is
also charged. Aaron Katurski says Menendezhas responded by saying he's not going anywhere.
He is casting this as a persecutionby a justice department that's controlled by
his own party, and he saysthat he's intending any way to fight the
charges. Menendez and his wife aredue in federal court this week. The
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Voice season twenty four premiers tonight.It'll be without Blake Shelton, who had
been with the show since the start. In his place, Country star Reba
McIntyre joins the coaching panel, alongwith returning champion Nil Horn, John Legend,
and Gwen Stefani, who's now marriedto Blake Shelton. The show is
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hosted by Carson Daily. Right now, let's say good morning to the director
of the Sleep Disorders Institute at ProvidenceMission Hospital in Orange County. Doctor Bruce
Tamilin. Good morning, doctor,Bruce Tamilin here, good morning, Hey.
We wanted to get your insight ona new study that suggests that night
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owls have a nearly twenty percent increasedchance of getting diabetes compared to early birds.
Yeah, this was an interesting study. It came out a couple of
weeks ago out of Harvard and theylooked at sixty four thousand nurses they've been
studying for like thirty years, andover the last eight years, they looked
at their risk of diabetes relative towhether they were a night owl or a
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metal ark or a morning lark,and they found that off the top,
right off the top, seventy twopercent of the night owls were more likely
to develop diabetes compared to the earlybirds for the regular sleepers when they corrected
for these risk factors. Because oneof the key things in the article was
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that night owls have a much worselikelihood of living a normal life expectancy because
when they looked at them, theyhad they were heavier, higher body mass
index, drank more alcohol, poordiet, and smokers, and of course
they got less sleep as a consequenceof being night owls. So when they
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corrected for that, the likely droppedto nineteen percent of developing diabetes. Just
being a night owl alone likely tolikely attribute it to obtaining less sleep,
and less sleep makes you less healthyand apparent, and that's tied to less
healthy habits. I mean, itmakes sense to me when you're when you're
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talking about you you eat worse,because I know that when I'm sitting around
and it's eleven o'clock at night,I'm like, hmm, might sure like
a snack. Or if you havea cocktail at seven or eight, you
go, oh, maybe I'll haveanother one, whereas if you're going to
bed at eight or nine, you'reless probably less likely to drink. Yeah,
there was an earlier paper that showedthat if you obtain less than five
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hours sleep, you're two and ahalf times more likely to develop diabetes,
and less than six hours you're oneand a half times likely to develop diabetes.
So that and again, as youmentioned, night owls are fifty percent
more likely to have an unhealthy lifestylewhen you look at all those other factors,
and so you being a sleep disorderguy, this plays right into to
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what we need to talk to youabout. Like, so if you're not
getting enough sleep. How do yougo about getting the recommended amount of sleep?
Because we need how much do weneed? Seven to eight depending on
age. Teenagers need nine hours,but seven to eight for adults is recommended.
And this is it's about going tosleep at a regular scheduled bedtime and
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waking up at a regular scheduled bedtime. And the most difficult challenge is the
teenage boys. But they outgrow it. But there are some people who are
night owls genetically, and it's hardto it's hard to cure that. If
you will, they just need toget a job that allows them to come
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to work later, okay, sothat they can get the acquired sleep.
So when people say they're night oils, I mean like they're genetically predisposed.
She's just staying up late and otherpeople just get up early. I know
my mom was a late riser anddad was an early riser. Yeah,
it's genetic. They have found anarea in the brain that actually controls that
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genetically. But it's not everybody.It's maybe only twenty percent are genetic.
The rest of them are just byhabit. Their circadian rhythm is like a
gyroscope. It's set in that direction, and it's hard to move it,
but it can be moved in themajority of people. Okay, it's ye
discipline. Here's a quick question foryou. Sometimes we had Dana and I
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were talking about this producer Dana.She was saying that sometimes when she gets
more than eight hours asleep, she'sexhausted for the whole day. So is
there such thing as getting too muchsleep? Yes? There is. I
mean nine hours or so is arisk factor two for decreased life expectancy and
development of diabetes. So you don'twant to get nine hours asleep, Okay,
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you want to get seven or eight? Seven or eight that's her target.
And one last question for you,because it has happened to me this
morning. My alarm is set fortwo thirty in the morning. How is
it that I can wake up aminute before my alarm? How does my
body tell time? Again? Yourcircadian rhythm is like a gyroscope. Once
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you're set in that time. Likepeople who move from New York to Los
Angeles, they remain on the NewYork timeline for a long long time unless
they make a conscious effort, andit takes longer. The older people are,
the longer it is the more difficultit is to move your circadian rhythm,
which again is like the gyroscope tokeep showing your biological sleep pattern.
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All right, doctor Bruce Tamilin,thank you so much for your time this
morning. Thank you for getting upearly for us this morning. I hope
it didn't knock off your circadian rhythm. No, that's the way it is,
all right, Thanks, take careby again. That's doctor Bruce Tamilin,
the director of Sleep Disorders Institute atProvidence Mission Hospital in Orange County.
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I think I've got my circadian rhythmset because i actually woke up without my
alarm. Good to know. Let'sget back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room. A baby and Lancaster who
suffered serious burn injuries has been airliftedto Children's Hospital Los Angeles. It's not
clear how the one year old wasburned. Yesterday, so arrests have been
made in victor Ville during a protestover a sheriff's deputy body slamming a sixteen
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year old girl. Her mom tellsKTLA the teen has multiple injuries. She
has back injuries where he threw herforcefully on the asphalt and she has a
fractured shoulder. The deputy was tobreak up a fight Friday night when the
girl allegedly lunged for the deputy's pepperball gun. A boy who punched the
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deputy was arrested. Dozens of protestersmarched near the Victorville Sheriff's A substation yesterday.
Several people were detained an activist fromLA who helped lead the protests as
four people were arrested, including hisgirlfriend. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's departments
it supports the public's right to peacefulprotests, but violating California penal codes and
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vehicle codes are not protected by theFirst Amendment. The Biden administrations awarded one
point four billion dollars to projects improvingrailway safety and increasing rail capacity. The
money will pay for seventy projects inthirty five states and Washington. DC.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge says theprojects will make American rails safer, more
reliable, and more resilient. Anddid you know this farm aid is still
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going on every year. It's beengoing since nineteen eighty five. Fans at
this year show in Noblesville and Indianagot a surprise performance Saturday. Look baas
Yeah, that's Bob Dylan. Hewasn't listed among the scheduled performers for the
concert, but he showed up andjoined the Heartbreakers for three songs. The
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first Farm Aid to benefit American farmerswas organized again in nineteen eighty five by
Willie Nelson, Neil Young, andJohn Mellencamp. This is KFI and KOSTHD
to Los Angeles, Orange County.We lead local live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wakeup call.
If you missed any of wake UpCall, you can listen anytime on the
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iHeartRadio app. You've been listening towake Up Call with me Amy King.
You can always hear wake Up Callfive to six am Monday through Friday on
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You're listening to kf I AM sixforty wake Up Call with me Amy King
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Orange County. Okay, dat dayat Aby King. Good morning.
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This is your wake up call forMonday, September twenty five. I'm ab
King. Thanks for waking up withus this morning. Guess what today is.
It's a day Taylor made for me. It's National Binge Day, so
we're gonna be playing special themes allmorning in honor of National Binge Day.
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But here's what's ahead on the wakeup call. Looks like they've got a
deal. After nearly five months onthe picket lines, WGA writers and Hollywood
Studios have come to a tentative agreementon a new contract. Union members will
apparently remain on picket lines until membersvote to ratify it. You can order
free COVID nineteen tests online once againstarting today. The federal government has started
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its program to provide free COVID testsnow that most insurance companies aren't covering the
cost. Usher is going to headlinethe Super Bowl fifty eight halftime show at
Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas. Itwas announced yesterday. Usher did appear during
the Super Bowl forty five halftime show, but the Black Eyed Peas were the
headliners at six oh five. It'shandled on the news. Something from out
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of this world has come to earth. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. As I just mentioned,
a tentative deal has been reached thatcould end the writer. My phone
is blowing up with joy, peoplethanking each other, people that are so
excited. Bill Walcoff is a strikecaptain for the WGA. The Writers Guild
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and studio representatives met for days startinglast week and announced the agreement yesterday.
The proposed three year contract would reportedlyincrease pay and residual payments for streaming shows
and impose new rules surrounding the useof artificial intelligence. The more than eleven
thousand WGA members who went on strikein May will still need to approve the
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final contract. The WGA says membersare still on strike but will not be
picketing as a contract is finalized.They are encouraged to join the SAG after
picket lines, though, a guyin East Hollywood who allegedly shot two of
his neighbors has managed to give aswat team the slip. The shooting happened
(02:50):
during an argument yesterday. The peopleshot are expected to be okay. Fully
surrounded the building, but when swatteams went in, they couldn't find the
guy. Republicans in the House havebeen unable to agree on a spending plan,
as the deadline to avert a governmentshutdown is just days away. Those
clothes to Speaker Kevin McCarthy are pushingfor a short term bill that includes deep
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spending cuts, no more funding forUkraine, and immigration policy changes. McCarthy
says he is optimistic. I thinkwe should show we can govern. I
think we're able to work through thisat the end of the day, get
there. A small group of Republicanhardliners has been threatening to vote McCarthy out
of his speakership if they don't gettheir way. Former President Trump appears to
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support a government shutdown. Last night, Trump posted this message to his supporters
in the House quote unless you geteverything, shut it down. ABC's at
faith, Abubai, says. RepublicanCongressman Mike Turner has expressed confidence in Speaker
McCarthy, but admits he's in adifficult position. A space capsule carrying NASA's
first asteroid samples has landed in thedesert in Utah. The capsule was released
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by the Osiris Rex spacecraft yesterday.This was like hinting a hole in one
from sixty three thousand miles above theplanet. The journey took seven years.
ABC's Genus and Sara says. Scientistssay they expect to get at least a
cup of rubble. They're hoping tofind precursors, like little biological material that
will say, hey, this iswhere life came from. And they'll do
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that. In the Moon Rocks Labat the Johnson Space Center, Japan,
collected about a teaspoon of rubble anda pair of asteroids. Missions Holy scoring
machine. The Miami Dolphins have scoredthe most points in a game by an
NFL team since nineteen sixty six.Overwhelming. I think that's an understatement.
The Denver Broncos seventy to twenty missthat one. Don't think it was probably
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a really good game, So nottoo worried about it. It's five or
six on your wake up call.Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen
Portnoy. Stephen there is a Republicandebate on Wednesday happening at the Reagan Library.
Former pros sit in. Trump sayshe's skipping this one too, but
he's still killing it in the polls. The ABC name was Washington Post survey
out yesterday has the former president withfifty four percent support among Republicans and Republican
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leaning independence, about four months beforethe first voting actually begins. And the
next leading contender, Ron De Santis, is down from twenty five percent in
our poll earlier this year to fifteenpercent now, so by a roughly forty
point margin. Donald Trump enjoys majoritysupport among Republicans and Republican leaning independence,
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and he's skipping Wednesday night's debate.He's going to be in Detroit speaking to
what his campaign says will be acrowd of auto workers as the current president,
Joe Biden, heads to Detroit tomorrowto march along the workers and the
picket lines, which is something we'venever seen before for sitting president. So
you know, that's the picture ofthe Republican race, Okay. And Trump's
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support is gaining like you said itto, Santis has dropped off. Is
Trump kind of soaking up all thesupport, or is some of like de
Santis, is going to other candidatesor any of them rising up? Well,
it's no, the answers no,all the other candidates are in the
single digits. But which interesting hereis forty three percent of Republicans and Republican
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leaning independence would prefer another candidate.But that's not enough if the election were
held today. It's not being heldtoday, but if it were being held
a day, Donald Trump would bethe Republican standard bearer. Okay, so
if you added everyone up who wouldn'tsupport Trump, that's more than his support,
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right, But the Republicans no,No, that's not right. So
so that's the point. More Republicanssupport Donald Trump than his rivals all put
together. Oh okay, So evenif everybody consolidated into and everybody dropped out
and just say say Nicky Haley wasthen one, and they all voted for
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nick Trump still has more support thismoment and in theory. But that's because
it's not a binary choice, andbecause you know, the opposition is diverse,
you know, and spread across asmany as eight or nine candidates.
I think the point is not there'snot a single alternate option. But even
if there were, which is whyI think what you're asking, Donald Trump
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would seemingly still enjoy majority support amongRepublicans and Republican leading independence. We should
also note this poll shows that ifthe election were held today, and it's
not being held today, the electionis more than a year from now,
Donald Trump would beat Joe Biden ina national head to head, Which is
why a number of Democrats are areblasting our survey. They're they're noting what
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we're reporting, which is that it'san outlier compared to other polls which have
the race much closer in a headto head in a horse race. But
I caution you and everyone to takethis for what it is, which is
a snapshot in time and a sentimentof the public mood at this point.
Why would Donald Trump be leading JoeBiden and our survey by nine points among
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all adults. Well, you canlook inside the survey and see that there
is tremendous anxiety about the state ofthe economy right now. Nine in ten
voters are unhappy with the price offood and gas, and they believe that
Joe Biden has performed poorly on theeconomy and on immigration, and three quarters
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in the survey say he's too oldto run for another term. So behind
all that you get a sense ofwhy the polls are reflecting their voters,
maybe trying to send a message intheir answers to the survey that they're not
particularly interested in another Biden presidency andmaybe they would prefer Donald Trump. But
again, the elections not being heldtoday, there's a whole another year for
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the candidates to make their argument,plus cut almost in a month and change
for the candidates to make their argumentsand for Americans to weigh the two choices
that they'll be presented with likely twochoices and then make a decision. Is
the longest election season ever? Stephenport Or, thank you so much for
your time and your insight this morning. I appreciate it. Bet. Let's
get back to some of the storiescoming out of the Kfight twenty four hour
(09:07):
newsroom. Smash and grab thieves havetargeted businesses in Silver Lake. They broke
into an Sie place early yesterday andtried to get into a gelato shop Yum,
but employees at a high end sneakerstore say they think that they were
probably the intended target. The storehas been broken into three times before now
and now has metal gates protecting theshop in the front and the back.
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The driver of a blue corvette,the police say might have been racing another
driver has killed a pedestrian at Sunsetand Labreya. The driver took off.
The collision happened around one thirty thismorning. USC has received almost twenty seven
million dollars from the Department of Defenseto help reduce the country's resilient or reliance
rather on foreign microelectronics. Microelectronics aretiny components such as transistors, diodes,
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and conductors. The Department of Defensewants USC's Innovation Hub to focus on microelectronic
element in areas such as artificial intelligence, hardware, cybersecurity, five G and
six G wireless, and quantum technology, but also electromagnetic warfare to secure computing
at the tactical edge. USC's InnovationHub is one of eight designed to help
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safeguard the supply chain of microchips forAmerican troops and national defense in Orange County.
Corbin Carson k if I News,a Russian official, says Ukraine has
launched another missile attack on Sevastopol onthe occupied Crimean peninsula. Ukraine has increasingly
target targeted naval facilities in Crimea.An attack Friday on the headquarters of Russia's
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Black Sea Fleet damaged the main buildingand one service man is missing. Ukraine's
intelligence chief says at least nine peoplewere killed and sixteen others were wounded in
that attack. People on Maui arebeing escorted back into their burned out neighborhoods
in Lahina seeing their properties, maybecollect the information photographs for insurance purposes,
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the first time they've been allowed backsince the wildfires. Emergency Management head Darryl
Olivera says urging families not to startdigging into the ash for things like wedding
rings just yet, because it's stillnot safe. It's been a month and
a half since the wildfire that killedat least ninety seven ninety seven people.
As I mentioned a couple of minutesago, it is National Binge Day,
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and if you love to binge likeI love to binge, here's something just
for you. Online Casinos dot Comis celebrating National Binge Day with a contest
to determine which Netflix series is themost binge worthy on the line. Squid
Game, saw That, Stranger Things, Saw That Wednesday, saw That love
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that. The winner's going to geta month to watch all three series in
their entireties, so it's about fiftyhours of viewing. And then they get
a budget of two thousand dollars.They also get five hundred dollars to cover
snacks and a Netflix subscription if theydon't already have one. Come on,
who doesn't have a Netflix subscription?Anyway? The deadline to make your submission
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is midnight tonight, which as Imentioned, is National binge Day and Kono,
I got a new Bene show foryou. It's I Don't it's not
a brand new show, but it'sgot a new season. It's called Invasion.
Ah, you haven't seen it.He's given me the funny act.
So it came out. This wasjust the second season, so we're about
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halfway through the season. I thinkthere's like four or five six episodes out.
And so I watched season two.First season. I didn't like it,
but I watched it because I likethese kinds of movies, like what
was the show with the movie withAmy Adams wasn't called Contact? That was
that was Jody I can't remember,but those kinds of shows and interactions with
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aliens are always fascinating to me.And of course the Aliens are bad guys
and they're coming and they're destroying theearth. But the second season they're trying
to make contact with the aliens asopposed to the Aliens just going and ravaging
and scaring everybody and killing people.So it's getting a little more interesting.
So if you are looking for anew binge and that's on Apple, got
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it? Okay, dook National BingeDay. In fact, maybe I'm gonna
head it home and do a littlebinging after work. What a great idea
instead of going for a walk ona beautiful fall day. You know,
when we come back, we're gonnabe talking with ABC's Karen Travers about a
new poll out that has to havethe president nervous. WGA and Hollywood Studio
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negotiators have come to a tentative agreementto end the nearly five month long writers
strike SAG after officials say they'll bewatching closely to see how they will move
forward. Actors have been on strikesince late July. Several students have been
injured in a campus shooting at TuskegeeUniversity in Alabama. University officials say the
shooting happened yesterday at an unauthorized partyat a student housing complex. Gas prices
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on the eyes up one and ahalf cents in Alley County to an average
of almost six twelve a gallon.Prices are up seventy two cents a gallon
in the last three weeks. OrangeCounty gas up to an average of six
o nine a gallon. In myhood this morning it was six o nine,
and across the street it was sixsixty nine a gallon at six oh
five. It's handled on the news. With a government shutdown looming, lawmakers
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are pushing ideas to end government shutdownsforever. Would that'd be nice? Right
now, let's say good morning toABC's Karen Travers. Karen, the President
the White House keep telling us howgreat everyone's doing, how things are getting
better, inflation's coming down. Butthe latest ABC Washington Post poll shows the
American people are not buying this.Yeah, yeah, that was exactly what
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I was going to say, thatthey're really not buying what the President is
selling at this point, especially onthe economy, which you know we talked
about this by dynamics is such akey focus for the president right now.
In his official events at White Houseand on the road, and it will
be a big part of the reelectioncampaign message. But just thirty percent of
Americans approve of his handling of theeconomy. And this ABC News Washington Post
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poll found forty four percent of peoplesay they're not as well off as they
were when the president took office.If you look at that, immigration,
other issues, it all adds upto a very rough approval rating for the
president thirty seven percent approval, fiftysix percent disapprove. That's nineteen points underwater,
which is really tough at this timegoing into the election season. Is
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this the lowest approval rating? Iknow that everything fluctuates, but has it
been lower before? Is this kindof bottomed out right now? I don't
know if there's enough, Like Ihave to look and see the historic trend
of other presidents at this point,but you know, the president, this
president has hovered around a point likethis. But you know, the White
House is downplaying this. And Iwill see how Korean Jean Pierre talks about
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this today. She's always so carefulnot to talk about campaign related issues.
I think this is beyond the campaign. You know, it's not just about
the re election, It's about whathe is doing right now, and when
they talk about Bynomics at official events, then it's part of the White House
portfolio. The other big thing,of course, is the president's age,
and that continues to be a realpolitical liability. Seventy four percent of Americans
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in this quote said he is tooold to effectively serve a second term.
A majority of Democrats sixty two percentsay someone else should be the nominee.
Well, and I think signs ofhis age. I mean, he's obviously
incredibly smart, but you see thingsthat happen, like when he was on
stage with the leader of Brazil lastweek and he kind of ran into a
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flag and then he didn't shake theleader's hand before he left the stage.
I mean, it was just likeawkward little things that you go, Wow,
is something going on here? AndI think people are seeing that more.
Yeah, the White House. Anytimeany questions come up about this,
the White House will say, youknow, just watch him, watch the
schedule he keeps, watch the paceof events that he does, and watch
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what he is doing in office.But critics and even some allies will say
the pace is not what it couldbe of a president. You know,
he doesn't have as many events asmaybe he could be doing. And you
know, it's a different type ofschedule than we've seen from his predecessors,
so that is something that you know, they say, watch him, and
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people say, well, we areand we're still having concerns. Yeah,
okay, And before I let yougo, just real quick, if there's
a shutdown, is that going tobode well or bad for the White House?
According to your new poll, youknow, yeah, this was interesting
and we'll see how this plays out. This poll found that forty percent would
blame the president and Democrats in Congressversus thirty three percent who put it on
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Republicans, even though it right nowis Republican infighting that is leading to this
brinksmanship, So we'll see. Imean, also could be that people just
haven't been paying attention to what's goingon and they're not happy with the president,
so that's being reflected in polls.All right, all right, ABC's
Karen Travor, thank you so muchfor your time and all of the information
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you always provide for us. Thankyou. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour news room. The powerball
jackpots up to seven hundred eighty fivemillion dollars. It's the ninth largest lottery
jackpot in US history. The lastpowerball jackpot was one July nineteenth, when
a ticket worth over a billion dollarswas sold in downtown LA. The next
powerball drawing is tonight. Hundreds ofstore owners in Oakland say they're going on
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strike to protest the rise in crimein their neighborhoods, even if the crime
is not hidden my store, butin other businesses is bad. You know,
Oakland is beautiful and we have tokeep it safe. You know,
police have to do something. Theymayor have to do something. Two hundred
businesses have pledged to close tomorrow.Mayor Shentao has urged them not to strike.
You don't need to strike to getthe city's attention, she says.
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The city will install three hundred camerasby next month, and new measures passed
recently include having the FBI help withinvestigations. A man from Cerritos is expected
to plead guilty to federal charges forhis role in allegedly stealing more than twenty
thousand pills known as skittles that containedfentanyl. The multicolored pills are made to
resemble oxycodone pills. Christopher Hampton wasnamed in an eleven count indictment last year,
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charging him with various drug and weaponsoffenses that could get him a life
sentence if convicted. A teenager kidnappedfrom the Inland Empire has been rescued by
police in central California. On Septembereighteenth, The DJ says three men allegedly
caused a traffic accident in Highland,which resulted in a seventeen year old boy
crashing into the men's suv. Whenthe boy got out of his vehicle,
the three men forcibly took him.Later that afternoon, the boy's mom received
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a phone call. The speaker demandedhalf a million dollars in ransom be sent
to an unspecified location in Mexico,otherwise her son's body parts would be cut
off. On Friday morning, policetracked the three men to a motel in
Santa Maria, where the boy wasbeing held. The three men are scheduled
in court this afternoon. If convicted, they could face life in prison.
Andrew Caravella KFI News, as youmay or may not know, I'm a
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Disneyland fan and I love to goto the park. I have a pass.
I go, not as much asa lot of people, but I
know who have passes, But Igo, you know, like once a
month, and I dig Disneyland.And my brother knows this, so he
sent me an article over the weekendand I was like, Ah, this
makes sense. It talks about whyDisneyland is so darn addicting. I wish
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I knew how to qurt you.You can't. Wish I knew how to
quurt you. You can't. Youcan't because it has to do with several
factors. But sense is one ofthem. Fomo fear of missing out is
another one, and nostalgia. Sowhen you go to the sense category,
Disney's pretty famous for like when youwalk down Main Street, you smell cinnamon
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rolls, and in different parts ofthe park you smell things, and smells
are high on the list of creatinglike a yearning for things because they trigger
memories and positive emotions. So whenyou smell things, you go, oh,
yeah, I like that or Iremember that, and like sometimes you
might get like the aroma of thewoodsy pines when you're walking over in Disney
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California, Adventure by the Grizzly Peak, or you get the fresh baked goods
as they mentioned along Main Street.But all of those things, you're all
factory sensors. Is that right,That has to do with it. Here's
another thing with everybody so into socialmedia. People are influenced by images their
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friends and families post on social media, like family vacations at Disneyland, and
Disney knows this, and so theyhave cool photo ops, like there are
photo spots all around the park.There are there are photographers around the park
who can help you out. There'sthere's backdrops and like step and repeat kind
of opportunities to take all these coolpictures. You get that fear of missing
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out. You see somebody do thatand you go, oh, I want
to do that too. So that'sanother thing. And then the other thing
that apparently contributes to the reason thatwe love Disneyland so much is because it
kind of allows you to indulge inyour nostalgia because you're going back to like
if you first went to Disneyland whenyou were a kid. You have those
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memories and you want to relive thosememories and it has you know, feelings
of happiness and security. And Iknow when I go to Disneyland, I
always go. You know, I'ma grown woman, but I can act
like a kid again. So I'mdoing exactly what they're kind of getting me
to do. It's working for me. I hope it works for you.
I think it's a great place tobe. There, you go. The
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world has gotten crazy. We're overbusy, we're overworked, we're cut off
from friends, struggling to make endsmeet, and it's got us feeling over
anxious. Doctor John Deloney wants tohelp you get your life back in balance.
So let's get stay Good morning nowtoo, Doctor John Deloney, author
of a brand new book called Buildingan Anxious Life. Good morning, Amy,
(23:02):
thank you so much for having me. We are becoming more and more
anxious, and I think that decreasesour level of happiness and satisfaction, and
we need a way to fix that. That's right. I think we have
to start by reframing what anxiety is. Anxiety is just an alarm. It's
just the gas gage on your carsaying hey, you need to address something,
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and we have turned that into theproblem. It's like we've created an
entire culture of fancy duct tapes tocover up our dashboard so that we don't
have to see the signals telling us, hey, you need to pull a
car over. And so if youthink of anxiety as not the enemy,
not the problem, but just simplya smoke detector in your kitchen, then
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quickly you have to look around andsee what in your house is on fire.
Are there physical manifestations of this anxietythat should go off as an alarm
in our heads. Yeah, whenyou're talking about clinical anxiety, you're talking
about ruminating thoughts that just lou andloop and loup. You're talking about snapping
awake at two thirty every morning,night at night after night. You're talking
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about that pervasive feeling of loneliness,that racing heart, that warmth that you're
in your stomach when you see thatthing. You know, your kid slams
ther door, you see the stockmarket, the red arrow pointing down,
your husband flips his phone over upwhen you walk in, and you just
get that warmth in your stomach.Those are some of the classic signs.
I don't think they're fully instructive.Here's a couple of others. If somebody
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cuts you off in traffic and yougret grip the steering wheels so tight you
can snap it in half and yourneck. You know, your arteries in
your neck look like extension chords,and you just get enraged. Or if
you find yourself yelling at a highschool kid who's refing your kid's te ball
game, or if you find yourselfskipping work and just staying in bed,
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you find yourself spending thirty minutes inthe shower just having imaginary conversations with your
boss that you will never have inreal life. Those are all all signs
that your body's trying to get yourattention. So what do we do.
I think it's important to be honest. And I'm a mental health guide.
That's my tribe, that's my gang, and I think it's important for that
conversation to start with us, andso I'll start it. I have to
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look in the mirror and say,I have to begin to look at the
fires, not the anxiety. Whatdoes that mean? That means I have
to be really honest with myself.I have to choose reality. I got
to choose to be honest about what'sthe state of my marriage, my job,
my finances, my relationship with mykids, my health, my spiritual
life, where am I in space? We also have to be honest about
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how lonely. We all are.We've created the loneliest generation in human history.
We have to choose connection. Okay, and you say that in your
book. Are you say that choosinglove is a key component to helping to
build a non anxious life. Whatdo you mean by that? Yeah,
it's it's choosing connection, right.So our bodies are wired to be in
proximity to other people. I knowwho I am and space because of the
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people in my space. And whenyou take that out, when you replace
communication with connection with communication, Itext my wife all day, a hundred
times a day, I love you, I love you, I love you.
And so when I walk in thefront door, I never say it.
I said it a hundred times today, except her body doesn't feel safe
because her husband walks in it takesit right in the house and goes upstairs
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and turns the game on instead ofplugging into it because I've plugged in all
day. It's different. So wehave to choose to be awkward and weird.
And there's no roadmap for forty yearolds to make friends. I wish
that roadmap exists. That it doesn't. When I was a kid, they
stuck us all on the same kickballteam and said, y'all go figure it
out. That's all gone. NowI have to choose to go make friends
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people that are going to be inmy space, okay. And so it
sounds like what your book is goingto teach people is how to make better
choices. And you do say thatit's not going to be easy. And
what I want to do is empowerpeople, give them the steering wheel to
their life back. And yes,that means we have to make some hard
choices. And by the way,there's two hard paths. We can crash
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and burn or which is going tobe hard, or we can do the
hard things and make sacrifices and makehard choices and change everything. The path
isn't easy. It's which hard arewe going to choose? Okay? And
well, you can choose to startmaking that change now by getting yourself a
copy of Building a Non Anxious Life, Doctor Deloney, Where can we find
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it? You can go to JohnDeloney dot com right now. It's in
pre sale. We've got some bribesthere to encourage you to buy the pre
sale early. It releases on Octoberthird, and it will be in every
bookstore everywhere, at Amazon everywhere,fabulous, Doctor John Deloney. I feel
better already. I think I lovesome of the things that you said about
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just taking basically taking a chill pilland really look at things as they are,
not as you're it's supposed to havethem, but as they are,
and then you can really, youknow, decide what you're going to do
about it. That's right and sometimes taking a hard look at things as
scary and things get worse before theyget better. I want all of your
listeners to know they're worth that trip, even when it's hard. Thanks again
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to doctor John Deloney. You canpre order his book at doctor John Deloney
dot com and then it goes onsale October three. Now let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour news room.
The second Republican presidential debate is happeningthis week at the Reaga National Library
in Simi Valley. It's actually onWednesday. It'll be live streamed on Rumbull.
The chairwoman of the National Committee forthe Republicans said earlier this year that
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the decision was aimed toward getting awayfrom big tech. Some Republican candidates have
started posting campaign videos on the site, including former President Trump, Florida Governor
Ronda Santis, and entrepreneur veveik Ramaswamy. President Trump is skipping the debate.
News brought to you by Semper Solaris. Some Democrats in Congress say Democratic Senator
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Bob Menendez should resign following an indictmentin a bribery case. His wife is
also charged. Aaron Katurski says Menendezhas responded by saying he's not going anywhere.
He is casting this as a persecutionby a justice department that's controlled by
his own party, and he saysthat he's intending any way to fight the
charges. Menendez and his wife aredue in federal court this week. The
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Voice season twenty four premiers tonight.It'll be without Blake Shelton, who had
been with the show since the start. In his place, Country star Reba
McIntyre joins the coaching panel, alongwith returning champion Nil Horn, John Legend,
and Gwen Stefani, who's now marriedto Blake Shelton. The show is
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hosted by Carson Daily. Right now, let's say good morning to the director
of the Sleep Disorders Institute at ProvidenceMission Hospital in Orange County. Doctor Bruce
Tamilin. Good morning, doctor,Bruce Tamilin here, good morning, Hey.
We wanted to get your insight ona new study that suggests that night
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owls have a nearly twenty percent increasedchance of getting diabetes compared to early birds.
Yeah, this was an interesting study. It came out a couple of
weeks ago out of Harvard and theylooked at sixty four thousand nurses they've been
studying for like thirty years, andover the last eight years, they looked
at their risk of diabetes relative towhether they were a night owl or a
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metal ark or a morning lark,and they found that off the top,
right off the top, seventy twopercent of the night owls were more likely
to develop diabetes compared to the earlybirds for the regular sleepers when they corrected
for these risk factors. Because oneof the key things in the article was
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that night owls have a much worselikelihood of living a normal life expectancy because
when they looked at them, theyhad they were heavier, higher body mass
index, drank more alcohol, poordiet, and smokers, and of course
they got less sleep as a consequenceof being night owls. So when they
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corrected for that, the likely droppedto nineteen percent of developing diabetes. Just
being a night owl alone likely tolikely attribute it to obtaining less sleep,
and less sleep makes you less healthyand apparent, and that's tied to less
healthy habits. I mean, itmakes sense to me when you're when you're
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talking about you you eat worse,because I know that when I'm sitting around
and it's eleven o'clock at night,I'm like, hmm, might sure like
a snack. Or if you havea cocktail at seven or eight, you
go, oh, maybe I'll haveanother one, whereas if you're going to
bed at eight or nine, you'reless probably less likely to drink. Yeah,
there was an earlier paper that showedthat if you obtain less than five
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hours sleep, you're two and ahalf times more likely to develop diabetes,
and less than six hours you're oneand a half times likely to develop diabetes.
So that and again, as youmentioned, night owls are fifty percent
more likely to have an unhealthy lifestylewhen you look at all those other factors,
and so you being a sleep disorderguy, this plays right into to
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what we need to talk to youabout. Like, so if you're not
getting enough sleep. How do yougo about getting the recommended amount of sleep?
Because we need how much do weneed? Seven to eight depending on
age. Teenagers need nine hours,but seven to eight for adults is recommended.
And this is it's about going tosleep at a regular scheduled bedtime and
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waking up at a regular scheduled bedtime. And the most difficult challenge is the
teenage boys. But they outgrow it. But there are some people who are
night owls genetically, and it's hardto it's hard to cure that. If
you will, they just need toget a job that allows them to come
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to work later, okay, sothat they can get the acquired sleep.
So when people say they're night oils, I mean like they're genetically predisposed.
She's just staying up late and otherpeople just get up early. I know
my mom was a late riser anddad was an early riser. Yeah,
it's genetic. They have found anarea in the brain that actually controls that
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genetically. But it's not everybody.It's maybe only twenty percent are genetic.
The rest of them are just byhabit. Their circadian rhythm is like a
gyroscope. It's set in that direction, and it's hard to move it,
but it can be moved in themajority of people. Okay, it's ye
discipline. Here's a quick question foryou. Sometimes we had Dana and I
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were talking about this producer Dana.She was saying that sometimes when she gets
more than eight hours asleep, she'sexhausted for the whole day. So is
there such thing as getting too muchsleep? Yes? There is. I
mean nine hours or so is arisk factor two for decreased life expectancy and
development of diabetes. So you don'twant to get nine hours asleep, Okay,
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you want to get seven or eight? Seven or eight that's her target.
And one last question for you,because it has happened to me this
morning. My alarm is set fortwo thirty in the morning. How is
it that I can wake up aminute before my alarm? How does my
body tell time? Again? Yourcircadian rhythm is like a gyroscope. Once
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you're set in that time. Likepeople who move from New York to Los
Angeles, they remain on the NewYork timeline for a long long time unless
they make a conscious effort, andit takes longer. The older people are,
the longer it is the more difficultit is to move your circadian rhythm,
which again is like the gyroscope tokeep showing your biological sleep pattern.
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All right, doctor Bruce Tamilin,thank you so much for your time this
morning. Thank you for getting upearly for us this morning. I hope
it didn't knock off your circadian rhythm. No, that's the way it is,
all right, Thanks, take careby again. That's doctor Bruce Tamilin,
the director of Sleep Disorders Institute atProvidence Mission Hospital in Orange County.
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I think I've got my circadian rhythmset because i actually woke up without my
alarm. Good to know. Let'sget back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room. A baby and Lancaster who
suffered serious burn injuries has been airliftedto Children's Hospital Los Angeles. It's not
clear how the one year old wasburned. Yesterday, so arrests have been
made in victor Ville during a protestover a sheriff's deputy body slamming a sixteen
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year old girl. Her mom tellsKTLA the teen has multiple injuries. She
has back injuries where he threw herforcefully on the asphalt and she has a
fractured shoulder. The deputy was tobreak up a fight Friday night when the
girl allegedly lunged for the deputy's pepperball gun. A boy who punched the
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deputy was arrested. Dozens of protestersmarched near the Victorville Sheriff's A substation yesterday.
Several people were detained an activist fromLA who helped lead the protests as
four people were arrested, including hisgirlfriend. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's departments
it supports the public's right to peacefulprotests, but violating California penal codes and
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vehicle codes are not protected by theFirst Amendment. The Biden administrations awarded one
point four billion dollars to projects improvingrailway safety and increasing rail capacity. The
money will pay for seventy projects inthirty five states and Washington. DC.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge says theprojects will make American rails safer, more
reliable, and more resilient. Anddid you know this farm aid is still
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going on every year. It's beengoing since nineteen eighty five. Fans at
this year show in Noblesville and Indianagot a surprise performance Saturday. Look baas
Yeah, that's Bob Dylan. Hewasn't listed among the scheduled performers for the
concert, but he showed up andjoined the Heartbreakers for three songs. The
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first Farm Aid to benefit American farmerswas organized again in nineteen eighty five by
Willie Nelson, Neil Young, andJohn Mellencamp. This is KFI and KOSTHD
to Los Angeles, Orange County.We lead local live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wakeup call.
If you missed any of wake UpCall, you can listen anytime on the
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