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October 6, 2025 39 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. Political Commentator Steve Roberts opens the show talking about the government shutdown entering week 2. KFI White House correspondent Jon Decker speaks on the latest regarding the proposed peace plan in Gaza. Bloomberg Media’s Dan Schwartzman shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with Amy talking with Cassie from St. Francis Catholic High School talking about her school being chosen to partner with NASA and have their experiments sent up to the International Space Station.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Monday, October sixth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. The first Monday

(00:37):
in October, which is when the new Supreme Court session starts,
feels like it never even ended. This year. Supreme Court
has been weighing in on all kinds of stuff. I
wonder if they didn't get as much vacation this year
because things have been so crazy. So it's a beautiful weekend, gorgeous.
And then did you feel it this morning? There's a

(00:58):
little bit of a chill in the air. When I
got up, I was like, oh, maybe followers finally here.
Got a nice week on the way too, weatherwise, And
of course it was a good weekend for me because
the Dodgers won. Headed into Game two today, I'm helping
the boys in Blue continue to shine. It was a

(01:19):
heck of a game on Saturday. Loved it. Here's what's
ahead on wake up Call. A federal judge has blocked
the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard troops to Oregon,
including the California National Guard. The President ordered California troops
to Oregon after the judge Saturday blocked Oregon National Guard
troops from being deployed to Portland. She followed up yesterday

(01:41):
blocking Guard troops from all states. The administration will appeal.
President Trump says he thinks the Israeli hostages will be
freed very soon. He said before leaving the White House yesterday.
The negotiations are underway, he said, is hearing. He's hearing
that the talks are going very well and will probably
last several days. Talks are scheduled today in Egypt, one

(02:03):
of the hawks is come home. One of the two
Harris Hawks stolen from Sofi Stadium more than a week
ago then released, was spotted yesterday and Hasseien Heights. Someone
called police. The hawks owner went and retrieved the hawk.
The second one hasn't been found, but the owner says
she's out there and he'll keep looking. The government shutdown
is into day six. Is there any movement or are

(02:25):
both sides still just dug in and what might get
one side or the other to budge. We'll find out
with ABC Steve Roberts coming up in just a couple
of minutes. Talks are on tap as I mentioned in
Egypt today to try to stop the war and Gaza
will be checking of kfi's White House correspondent John Dekker
on that. And you know that I love all things space.
We have our friend Colonel Nick Haig who was on
the International Space Station. Well, there's a group of students

(02:48):
in California who've been chosen to send their experiment up
to the International Space Station. Isn't that cool? So we're
going to be talking to one of those students a
little bit later on during wake up call. Let's get
started with some of the story he's coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom that federal judge has
temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending any National Guard
troops to Portland. The judge granted a motion yesterday for

(03:10):
a temporary restraining order filed by California, a day after
troops from Oregon were blocked. The motion yesterday stopped the
deployment of up to three hundred members of the California
National Guard. President Trump criticized the ruling the.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Place is burning down, and they pretend like there's nothing happening.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Trump also authorized sending three hundred National Guard members to Chicago.
Illinois Governor JB. Pritsker says the Trump administration is making
the city a war zone as it cracks down on
violent crime, any legal immigration. Former USC and NFL quarterback
Mark Sanchez has been charged in connection with a fight
in Indianapolis that sent him to the hospital. He's accused

(03:49):
of battery, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a vehicle.
A delivery driver told police that he was dropping off
food this weekend when Sanchez told him he needed to
move his car. He claims Sanchez started threatening and following him,
and then attacked him. The guy says he used pepper
spray and a knife in self defense.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
This sounds sort of growing on me. Taylor Swift's the
official release Party of a Showgirl has topped Real Movies
at the box office. It earned thirty three million dollars
in its three day release. The eighty nine minute feature
has behind the scenes footage and the music video for
the fate of Ophelia. Last weekend's number one one. Battle

(04:34):
after Another was number two with eleven million dollars in
ticket sales, and the Rock and Emily blunts new movie
The Smashing Machine opened in third. Thank you, Mike, Mike's
going to help you get to wherever you need to go.
This Monday morning, first Monday in October. Time to say
good morning. Now to ABC's political analyst Steve Roberts. So, Steve,

(04:57):
were into day six of the governm shut down. Have
we seen any movement?

Speaker 5 (05:04):
No? The real reason, amy is because both sides really
think they can profit politically. Now, they're probably both not right,
but here's their calculations. On the one hand, you've got
President Trump. He is by far the most dominating figure
in American politics. He's got the biggest metaphone, the biggest

(05:24):
bully pulpit. Every time you see him or a Republican
on TV, they have big signs behind them saying democratics shutdown,
and they feel that they can drive this messaging home. Problem.
But here's the problem that Donald Trump has exercised enormous
powers in his first months in office. For virtually every

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day he's doing something, he says We're going to send
a government you know, a National Guard troops to Portland,
or We're going to cancel billions of dollars worth of
energy grants to Democratic states. Or I'm going to furlough
and fired government employees, or I'm going to defy a
federal judge, or I'm going to declare war on the

(06:07):
Venezuelan cartels. Every single day, Donald Trump is boasting and
amplifying and exaggerating his power. When you do that, how
do they then turn around and say, oh, by the way,
this government shut down, it's the other guy's fault. It's
a mixed message, right, And so you look at the ADC,
the Washington Post ABC poll, forty seven percent of Americans

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blamed Trump for the shutdown, only thirty percent blame the Democrats.
CBS poll, fifty two percent disapprove of Trump's handling of
the shutdown, only thirty two percent approved. So in the
short term, Democrats seem to be winning the messaging battle.
But that short term there's a long way to go here.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, And then Steve in your experience, because you've been
covering these kinds of things for a while, what is
it that's going to have to make what is it
that's going to make one of the side's budget because
both of them are pretty dug in right now. Is
it appalling?

Speaker 5 (07:06):
You know? You know that that that is part of it.
But Donald Trump hates to lose, you know, and he's
pretty dug in. And and the Democrats here's how here's
their calculation. They've taken a lot of fire because if
you look at it, it is the Democrats in the
Senate who are exercising their their The only lever of

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power Democrats have in Washington is the filibuster in the Senate.
Republicans control the White House, they control both houses of Congress.
Some people would argue they also control the Supreme Court.
So the one real leverage they have is the filibuster
in the Senate, and they've used it now four times
to block the Republican resolution to reopen the government. And

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then that's going to start, you know, causing some problems
because they, at least superficially, they look like the obstructionists
and Republicans have a good argument there and three Democratic
senators that have already broken ranks to vote for bills
that would reopen the government. The Republicans need five more

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to defect, and so you know, there's a lot of
pressure on the Democrats. But on the other hand, they
think that they have a winning issue here and it's
very interesting, insight changing nature of American politics, and they're
wholly very conservative. Republican from Missouri is said to his
own party, Look, you've got to understand we're not the
country club, rich, white country club party of legend. We've

(08:33):
been successful as a Republican party, an electing Democrat Donald
Trump twice in part because we're a much broader base
than we used to be. We have a lot of
working class voters used to be Democrats now vote Republican.
But when you do that, when you broaden your base,
when you attract a wider range of voters, He's pointed out,

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We've got a lot of folks now who depend on Alabamacare,
depend on nutrition programs, depend on all sorts of government
help to get through their lives and balance their budgets.
And we have to understand now that the whole political
base has shifted, and in some ways Republicans are now
victims of their own success. That's because they have a

(09:17):
broader base of their party. You see it in southern California,
and you see it all over the country. And so
the pressure on Republicans can grow because a lot of
their own voters depend on those very subsidies on Obamacare
that the Democrats are trying to preserve.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
All right, well, we'll have to watch and see and
see which one blinks first. Steve Roberts, ABC, thanks so
much for your information, anytime. Sure, all right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Lawyers for Sean Combs say
the judge is treating the music mogul unjustly. He was
sentenced Friday to more than four years in prison for
his two prostitution related convictions. ABC's Aaron Katursky says Combs

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has asked for mercy, as his lawyers asked for time served.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
But the judge rejected his plea, saying the sentence needed
to send a message to abusers and victims alike that
exploitation and violence against women is met with real accountability.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
The attorneys say their appeal will center on the argument
that the judge unfairly considered charges that Combs was acquitted of.
Comes legal troubles are not over with the sentencing in
that last case, and other lawsuits been filed in LA.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
The lawsuit accuses Didty of hosting a twenty fourteen after
party where a former intern says he was drugged, sexually assaulted,
and later contracted HIV. The man, identified as John Doe,
says he blacked out after drinking at a party following
up Didty music video shoot in Valverde, north of Los Angeles.
Didt He's attorney hasn't responded to the latest filing, but
the rapper already faces multiple civil suits alleging sexual misconduct

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and abuse. Brigida Degasino KAFI.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's announced changes to policies and
standards in the military are being questioned by a retired general,
Peter Carell, who served two tours of duty Interacts, says
he sees it as an attack on women.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
And the fact that there are people who say that
women have been let into different combat fields and cannot
meet the standards.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
I just don't believe that's true.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Eg Seth has issued new directives that make physical standards
the same for everyone in uniform. Civil Rights icon Jesse
Jackson has been taken to the hospital with a lung infection.
He was admitted over the weekend. His family made the
announcement about it during an event celebrating the Reverence eighty
fourth birthday. Jackson was not at that event. General Motors,

(11:34):
Hyundai and Ford say they're going to extend discounts on
certain electric models after a seventy five hundred dollars federal
tax credit expired. Credit rather expired last week. They say
it's to keep the momentum going after a surge in
sales in the third quarter. Sales of evs are expected
to slow down as the Trump administration ends incentives for

(11:55):
them and automaker style back production of electric vehicles. Hundreds
of hikers on Mount Everest have been trapped by heavy snow.
A Chinese news site said the hikers were trapped at
an elevation of more than sixteen thousand feet. Hundreds of
rescuers went up the mountain yesterday to try to clear
paths and get the trapped people down. SNL has returned.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Joys, A gentleman.

Speaker 8 (12:23):
Bad Bunny, hosted the fifty first season of Saturday Night Live.
He addressed the recent controversy over his upcoming Super Bowl
halftime performance and his opening monologue.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
I know that people all around the world who loved
my music all also have be a petilmen te Toro
Latino Update.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
Anchor Colin Joes opened the show with a parody of
Pete Hugsa's speech to military leaders last week.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Our military is gay as Hell.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
The show also featured a performance by Hunters from K
Pop Team and Hunters. Amy Poehler is set to host
next week. Other Worker canfin News.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
How about those Boys in Blue? Game one of the
National League Division Series happened in phil Ladelphia Saturday. Dodgers
were down, there was a lot of hand ringing going
on at my house, and then up stops steps Ki
k Hernandez and the.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Best two out offense in baseball the last two years
show up again.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
On a one zero pitch, Hernandez turns on one.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Down the line fairball into the left field corner. Freddie
Freeman's coming home. Tommy Edmond running through a stop sign,
and he does so smartly. He slides in safely to
score kick. K Hernandez plates a pair with a two out, two.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Run double, and with the Dodger still behind three to two,
here comes ta Oscar Hernandez.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
You're high in the air right center field. Baitter on
the run on the warning track, He's at the wall.

Speaker 8 (13:47):
It's gone.

Speaker 9 (13:51):
Tayo time.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
In Game one, he flips the scoreboard with a three
run bomb.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
The Dodgers went on to win at three two or
five to three. Game two is this afternoon? First pitch
goes out at three oh eight and you can hear
all the action on our sister station, AM five seventy
k LAC. A judge's blocked three hundred California National Guard
troops from going to Portland. President Trump ordered the deployment
after the same judge on Saturday blocked Oregon National Guard

(14:18):
troops from being deployed. In the order yesterday, she blocked
National Guard troops from any state. The administration's appealing. A
thirty five year old man from Winnetka has or is
expected to plead guilty today to cheating Medicare out of
almost sixteen million dollars. Carpus Sraypian is charged with money
laundering and healthcare fraud. He allegedly billed Medicare for hospice

(14:40):
services that were never provided and used the names of
two dead doctors to build Medicare for fake services. More
than sixty five hundred runners have hit the streets for
the Long Beach Marathon, twenty four year old page More
of Rancho Palace Verdes one for the women. It was
her first marathon. Not too shabby, Esteban Prado Ofington Beach,
you got disqualified last year for taking water from a

(15:03):
family member. One on the men's side. Let's say good
morning now to kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. So, John,
we had quite a significant development in that possible peace
deal on Friday when Hamas said, Okay, we'll release the hostages.
So bring us up to speed on the developments over
the weekend.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Well before you get.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
Your hopes up, before anybody gets their hopes up, they
said we'll release the hostages. But then they add a butt,
and the butt is a pretty big butt, and that's
the reason why those hostages haven't been released. Tomorrow, mark's
exactly two years since those hostages were taken into captivity
when Amas took part in that terrorist attack on Israel.

(15:46):
As it relates to peace talks, they're happening this week
in Hiro, Egypt. A representative from Hamas is there. Representative
from Israel, Ron Dermer is there. He was actually at
the White House exactly one week ago with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin t Yahu and two representatives representing the Trump administration,
one Steve Wikoff, he's the Special Envoy, and also Jared Kushner.

(16:08):
He is the author of that twenty point peace proposal,
and that twenty point piece proposal calls for an end
to the fighting but also return of the hostages. And
there are a lot of butts there, and that's the problem.
Hamas doesn't want to give up its arms, they don't
want to leave Gaza, and those are two intractable problems
that I think lead one to believe that this peace

(16:31):
deal is going to be difficult to achieve.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Okay, So, John, were there any other things that Hamas
said that they would do or was it just releasing
the hostages, because we know that, as you just mentioned,
it's a twenty point plan and Trump said you got
to take it all.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
Yeah, that's right, and so first and foremost I think
on that twenty point plan is to release the hostages.
But that has been their leverage, their leverage over the
course of the past two years, and they realized that
they give up their leverage they don't have much to
bargain with, and so that I think is one of
the biggest issues here. Also the idea that Hamas, once

(17:11):
they potentially give up those hostages, they have to give
up their arms and they have to leave Gaza entirely.
That is also proving to be problematic. So the devils
and the details, and that's what these peace talks in Cairo,
Egypt this week are all about.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay and John, do you think that Hamas said Okay,
we'll release the hostages as sort of a stall tactic
because Trump had set that six pm deadline for yesterday.

Speaker 7 (17:36):
Yeah, I think we do see a lot of stall tactics.
When the President released this peace proposal last Monday, they
immediately said we need time to evaluate, to study this proposal.
And they had been saying that all of last week,
going past the president's three to four deadline, three to
four day deadline that he initially set. So there is
an extension of that deadline, and yeah, they're buying time here. Now.

(17:59):
There are obviously in Cairo trying to work out a
peace deal. But you know, the cynic in me finds
it hard to believe that Hamas all of a sudden
two years later, is going to say, Okay, today, this week,
we're going to give up all of our ambitions, all
of the territory that we have governed for decades. Stranger

(18:20):
things have happened, but you know, I just think it's
unlikely at this point, at this point that we're going
to see a peace deal announced, but you never know.
Hopefully that does happen, and those hostages come home to
their families and.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
We'll be watching kyfi's White House correspondent, John Decker, Thanks
so much, John, we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
A man from Long Beach has been arrested on suspicion
of murder and attempted murder for allegedly stabbing two of
his roommates. Police were called late Saturday morning about a fire.
When they got there, they found two men with stab wounds.
One died at the scene, the other was taken to
the hospital. The alleged stabber has been arrested. Studies by
UC Riverside show that levels of well being in the

(18:59):
Inland Empire are below national averages. Only forty one percent
of people in the IE say they feel they're doing well,
compared to fifty three percent nationally uce Our Center for
Community Solutions Executive director Justine rostelskfi the studies looked at
many aspects of people's lives.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
Your day to day life might be okay, but at
the end of the day, at adverse life event could
substantially knock things off balance and it hurt kind of
their long term ability to thrive.

Speaker 10 (19:26):
She says.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Their studies show that having a good paying job is
not the only thing that affects people's well being Well duh.
Marking forty years of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign,
and oncologist is reminded women that dense breasts matter for
cancer detection and prevention. Doctor Elizabeth Coman of Langune Health

(19:48):
at NYU says all women are now required to be
informed on their mammogram if they have dense breasts.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
If you have dense breasts, you really need to talk
to your doctor about whether you need additional imaging such
as a breast ultra sound or breast MRI to detect
an early cancer.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
She says. Newer technologies like artificial intelligence may eventually be
able to help detect cancers even earlier. That'd be amazing.
A busy month of stargazing starts tonight with a super
harvest moon. It'll be the first of three consecutive supermoons.
Supermoons look bigger and brighter than other full moons because
they're closer than normal to Earth. Tonight's is called a

(20:26):
harvest moon because it's the full moon closest to the
autumn equinox. That's when the sun is exactly above the equator.
House Democrats are set to meet virtually today to discuss
the ongoing government shutdown. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries claims
people will die if Obamacare subsidies are not renewed. President
Trump and Republican leaders have promised not to cave to

(20:49):
democrats demands for healthcare funding. The government's shutdown is into
day six. The City of Los Angeles has joined a
coalition of cities, counties, and local agencies ensuing the Trump
administration over FEMA funding. The lawsuit claims the government has
threatened to withhold over three hundred and fifty million dollars
in grants if they don't assist in ice deportation efforts.

(21:11):
LA apparently stands to lose about fifty six million dollars
in DHS grants. The Dodgers are looking to take a
two to nothing lead in the best of five series
against the Phillies this afternoon. The Dodgers beat Philadelphia Saturday
five to three, things to a three run shot from
tay Oscar Harnendez. Sho hey Otani earned his first postseason wins,
striking out nine and six innings. LA leads a series

(21:33):
one nothing. First pitch goes out at three oh eight,
and you can listen on our sister station AM five
seventy k LAC six oh five. It's Handle on the news.
And you can bet that Trump Handle will have something
to say about that judge blocking the President from deploying
California National Guards or any National Guard troops in Oregon.

(21:55):
Here's what's coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The Senates due to reconvene today and the federal government
shutdown is top of the agenda. Democrats want cuts to
Medicare to be reversed and Obamacare's subsidies to be restored.
Republicans are demanding a clean bill funding the government into November.
New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker says the White House

(22:17):
needs to bring both sides together.

Speaker 11 (22:18):
This is a tsunami of Donald Trump's creation, the pain,
the hurt, the fear that's going to rise amongst millions
of Americans who are going to lose health insurance.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Booker says people can expect to start getting notices about
rising healthcare premiums within days. Sentencing is set for this
afternoon for former La Deputy Mayor Brian Williams, who was
convicted of making a bogus bomb threat at city Hall.
He was charged in federal court in plea to guilty
in June. Williams was the Deputy mayor of Public Safety
under Karen Bass last year when he made the threat.

(22:50):
He's looking it up to ten years in federal prison.
Homeless people are not the only ones being annoyed by
loud music that's playing outside of shopping center in Hollywood.

Speaker 11 (23:04):
Hollywood resident Troy Bridges tells KTLA the classical music can
make it hard to sleep. He says volume level sometimes
suddenly increase in the middle of the night. The landlord
who owns the Strip mall at Hollywood and Guwer says
blasting music is the only thing that keeps homeless people away.
He insists that the volume is within legal limits, but
he'll turn it down if police insist. Mark Mayfield Kofive News.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
State officials are warning ballots mailed on election day could
miss the deadline because of postal delays.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
Delays with the US Postal Service meet November fourth. Ballots
from cities like Los Angeles, Richmond, San Diego, and Santa
Clarita might not be picked up until the next day,
and without an election day postmark, they won't count. The
state Attorney general says voters more than fifty miles from
key mail centers could be most affected. On the ballad
is Proposition fifty, a measure to redraw congressional districts to

(23:55):
favor Democrats, mirroring a similar redistricting pushed by Republicans in Texas.
Presida guest, you know, okay if I.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
News holiday shopping season is still a couple months away,
well speak for yourself. I already started mine, But anyway,
some big box stores are rolling out some early sales.
Shopping expert Treya Bodge says, even if you don't take
advantage of these pre Halloween deals, it should be a
reminder that it's never too early to start planning ahead.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
I always recommend making a list of the holiday gifts
you intend to buy, and then maybe any household essentials
and then kind of tackle it in an organized manner.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Organized manner, she says, well, Mart, Target, and Amazon are
all offering early deals. I don't make a list, but
through the years they go and I don't know how
you guys do this. Do if you procrastinate and buy
everything at the last minute in December. But as I
go through the year, if I see something, I go, Wow,
that would make a great gift, and so I just
kind of buy it as I go, and then I

(24:52):
tuck it away in a closet, and then about mid
November early December, I dig everything out and see what
I've bought because I've forgotten it throughout the year. So
I don't have a list. A list might be a
good idea at this point. Time to get in your
business with the Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman, Good morning, Dan.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Good morning, And you are a responsible shopper. Apparently I
just heard that part about tucking away the gifts. I
am last minute beyond last night?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Are you really?

Speaker 10 (25:18):
Yeah? It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I end up doing last minute too. But as I
see something and I've got three or four things, just
well for people at work that have already taken care
of and checked them off my list, because I'm like,
that would be perfect for that person. So you're a
good student, were you?

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I guess. So, okay, let's get in your business and
let's talk about the business of brain implants.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
That's correct, Amy Neuralink elon Musk's brain implant company submitting
a scientific paper to a medical journal describing some of
the results. Now, this would be Neuralink's first peer reviewed
publication with human data, Neuralink's president said last month, from
hopes to put its device in a healthy person by
twenty thirty. So far, amy brained devices that are used
to control computers have only been experimentally implanted in patients

(26:04):
with severe medical conditions. Now, Neuralink is also working on
chips to restore vision read speech from the brain, as
well as treating Parkinson. So some impressive work by neural
Lincoln and a lot of people waiting to see what
this peer review will look like.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Interesting that they want to put it in a healthy person.
It's not just to fix an ailment, but like we
could all be walking around with brain implants, and.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
That's probably that's I think the idea that they have,
and the the question is like, what's the benefit to
a healthy person because you can see, you can you know,
your brain can obviously function properly, and we don't have
Parkinson's as a healthy person. So what is the I guess,
the the advantage of having this being healthy. So that's
something they have to prove to us or tell us.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
It's just to take over humanity. No big bad maps,
no big deal.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
We saw a terminator, I know.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I keep saying that when we're doing all this AI stuff.
I'm like, didn't anybody watch terminator?

Speaker 7 (26:59):
Apparently not?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I agree, I say the same line to everybody.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, okay, So if you were flying on big airlines,
you may have more luxury choices. Oh good, more money
to spend.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
That's correct. Some major American airlines investing heavily into luxury
travel now United Delta American Airlines are amongst those overhauling
their cabins, including adding private suites on some larger international flights,
along with gourmet foods such as caviare with champagne. Now,
if you fly economy, though, which I do, you may
notice fewer options as a push into luxury has come
at the expense of more affordable seats that most Americans

(27:34):
are used to buying now. We like to pay less
for our tickets obviously, and this would change the equation
with more luxury less affordability.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
It reminds me of like, you know, the Titanic, where
there was people who were in the luxury areas and
there were people down in the bowels of the ship
and steerage.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well, I'll tell you my grandmother's sister was supposed to
be on the Titanic and did not go on it,
and she would have been in the very very bottom,
very bottom of the ship.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Okay, So Taylor Swift, we've been talking about it. She
just dropped her album, her twelfth studio album, and apparently
it made quite a splash.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
That is correct, No surprise really, the new album, The
Life of a Show Girl, dominating music streaming charts since
being released Friday morning. Swift's new material accounted for nine
of the top ten most listened to tracks on Apple Music.
One of the songs, The Fate of Ophelia, was also
among Amazon Music's top ten. Meanwhile, Spotify says The Life
of a Show Girl became their most streamed album in

(28:31):
a single day.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
This year.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
My fourteen year old Swifty not so impressed with this album.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I have to tell you, you know what. We were
talking to a courtney on Friday, and I think her
her kids were saying the same thing, that's not that great.
I'm finding Life of a Showgirl to be a pretty
catchy little tune though, but you know what the expectations.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
So I took my daughter to the Eras tour, so
I became someone of a swift. I like her music,
but I've yet to really kind of dissect this one.
But when you set the barsow high the way she
has over a career, whatever you put out me not
just it just may not top the next thing. That's
the problem. Anybody else puts this outum out, it's probably great,
But when she puts it out, eh, you know it
could be better.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Oh well, she's still raking in the cash for it,
all right, getting in your business as we do every
weekday morning with Bloomberg. Thank you, Dan Schwartzman, appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Thank you. Amy.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
A former USC quarterback Mark Sanchez is in the hospital
and under arrest after he got stabbed by Amanda and
a confrontation in Indianapolis. The Fox commentator was in Indy
for the Raiders Colts game. Police A Sanchez started the
fight that may have been over a parking spot. Sanchez
was stabbed in the chest. He's facing charges of battery

(29:42):
and public drunkenness, also breaking into a car. One person
has been taken into custody after a car crashed into
an apartment complex in North Hollywood. ELI Fire says crash
happened just after nine am yesterday near Oxnard Avenue and
Clump Street. Two people had to be taken to the hospital.
It's not clear if the driver was one of those people.
A series of small earthquakes has rattled Big Bear. The

(30:05):
shaking started Saturday night continued into yesterday morning. The largest
of the quakes was a magnitude three point five, so
not very big. The last big earthquake to hit the
Big Bear area was a magnitude six point three That
was back in nineteen ninety two. We're just minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, a one to
two punch against the president over the weekend as a

(30:25):
judge blocks President Trump's order to send any National Guard
troops into Portland. Okay, so you know that I love
space and anything about the space program, and we found
out that some students from California get to be part
of it. So let's say good morning to Cassie from
Saint Francis Catholic High School in the Sacramento area. Good morning, Cassie, Hi,

(30:51):
good morning.

Speaker 10 (30:52):
I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm so happy that you're awake and conscious this morning
at five point fifty. So tell tell us what you
and your group of students are getting the opportunity to do.

Speaker 10 (31:06):
Yeah, so we're part of something called the International Space
Station Program or the ISSP, which is a program for
high school students to work with NASA on an experiment
that'll be sent into space. So here at Saint Francis
and Sacramento, our team is going to be designing and
building and testing a bio experiment that'll be conducted while

(31:28):
in orbit on the International Space Station.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Okay, so it's did you guys come up with the
experiment on your own or do they tell you what
you're going to do? How does that work?

Speaker 10 (31:39):
We actually get to design our experiment ourselves. They give
us a small box. It's something called a nanocube. It's
basically a three D printed box the size of a
Minnesota can and as long as our experiment is small
enough to sit in it, we can build whatever we want.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Okay, And you say it's a bio experiment, So what
are you going to what are you going to do
some testing on? What are you going to experiment?

Speaker 10 (32:04):
So we are studying how yeast it's a very special
strength called sachrimiced ses vsi, which is a very tongue twister.
But we're studying how it's going to grow in space
without gravity, and how that will affect its nutrient uptake
and how we can use this knowledge for future applications.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Okay. And is it for to learn how we will
be able to produce food on long missions or is
this for use back on Earth.

Speaker 10 (32:37):
Really, one of our future applications is something called space farming.
Since in space we obviously don't have any water or
air or nutrients. We're trying to find a way to
grow plants in space and we believe that seeing how
yeast cells grow will help us to further that information. Okay.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
And Cassie, whose idea was this?

Speaker 11 (33:01):
It was a.

Speaker 10 (33:02):
Collective idea from our team and our mentors, And yeah,
we kind of all had to say in what we
were going to do.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
How exciting? Okay, and then tell me, like, how did
you guys get picked? Did they randomly pick different schools
or did you have to submit what you wanted to do?
And then they chose the ten schools around the country.

Speaker 10 (33:22):
Well, San Francis got chosen because our president, doctor Moran,
was involved in this program at his old schools and
he was very successful with it. So when he came
here to Saint Francis and Sacramento, he brought this opportunity
with him. He has a relationship with the Quest Research
Institute in the Bay Area, so he had enough connections

(33:44):
to be able to become one of those ten schools
in the nation to work with NASA.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
How excited? How excited are you for this opportunity.

Speaker 10 (33:53):
I'm very excited. We were invited by NASA to watch
the law lunch in April, and so we'll be able
to watch our experiment as it's launched to the International
Space Station. And I'm really excited to experience those of
my friends because we've worked so hard on this.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, and I will tell you, Cassie that getting to
go and see a launch it's a bucket list thing
for me. I mean there are not that many people
who've actually seen the launches in person, so that's a
really really special thing that that's going to be happening.
And then tell me, once your project is up on
the International Space Station, how do you keep track of it?

(34:35):
Will you be talking to the astronauts, will you be
emailing with them? Or do you have scientific gear here
on Earth? How does that all work?

Speaker 10 (34:43):
Yeah, so once it's up on the International Space Station,
we won't be communicating directly. Once a week, they'll be
sending our data down via our computer processors, and so
we'll be able to get our data back at that
time in order to look at it. And that will
happen for as leave four weeks. It's up there for

(35:03):
a month, so once a week we'll be getting the
data back and be able to use that for a
hearback on us.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Okay, and Cassie, are you you know science scientifically? Incline?
Do you look to have some sort of a career
in STEM.

Speaker 7 (35:20):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 10 (35:22):
I'm actually looking at major in a field called zoology,
so not quite the same sort of science. This is
more biochemical and mine is more as animal sciences, but
I am learning a ton from this experience anyways, and.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Going to work with animals is a lovely thing, so
I hope that you are wildly successful with this, Cassie.
We'd love to talk to you again after your experiments done,
find out what you learned and how it went for you. Yes, okay,
and it goes up in it goes up in April.
Yes okay, perfect. Well, we will be keeping tabs on you, Cassie.
Congratulations to you and the gang at Saint Frands Catholic

(36:01):
and hope it all goes great and we'll look forward
to hearing back from you once the experiment is complete
on the International Space Station. Thank you such all right,
take care. How fun is that? Isn't that cool? I
love hearing stuff like that because you hear so many
bad stories all the time. But to hear something like
that where they get an opportunity to, you know, touch

(36:23):
the edge of space and work with the International Space
Station and the astronauts and get to learn all about
their program, I think it's just amazing. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. One of the two hawks stolen
from SOFI Stadium has been found. Bubba was spotted in
Hussey and the Heights yesterday by a person who called police.

(36:44):
They then alerted the owner, Charles Kager, who retrieved the bird.
He says the other hawk, Alice, is still out there
and he's hopeful she'll show up. The Harris Hawks were
taken last week. They were in their carriers in the
back of a utility vehicle that was stolen. The cart
was found in South LA. A federal judge has temporarily
blocked the Trump administration from sending any National Guard troops

(37:07):
to Portland, Oregon.

Speaker 12 (37:08):
That district judge, who Trump himself had actually appointed, said
that the administration's descriptions of chaos in the city is
quote simply untethered to the facts, saying that the protests
in Portland have not been significantly violent or disruptive, and
it's not sufficient to justify federalizing the National Guard in
this state.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
ABC's Selina Waning says the ruling yesterday blocks the deployment
of National Guard troops from California and Texas. The judge
had blocked troops from Oregon on Saturday. A new round
of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas is set to
start in Egypt. Today, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
says he's hopeful the release of the remaining hostages can

(37:49):
be finalized within days.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
We cannot be here three weeks from now still discussing,
you know, the logistics of how hostages are going to
be released. That has to happen very quickly.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Rubio says, it'll be much harder to work out the
second phase of the plan, which includes disarming humas. The
latest research shows payrolls dropped in September in the US.
ADP research says it's data showed there's an underlying softening
trend in the workplace. The data shows workers who changed
jobs saw about a six and a half in a

(38:21):
percent increase in pay, which is the lowest in a year.
People who stayed put saw a four and a half
percent game. The Dodgers one Game one of the National
League Division Series in Philadelphia, beating the Phillies Saturday, five
to three. The Dodgers Teoscar Hernandez hit a three run
homer in the seventh to give LA the win. Game

(38:42):
two of the series happens this afternoon, also in Philadelphia.
You can hear all the action, all the Dodgers games
on our sister station, KLA C AM five seventy. This
is KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm a
me King. This has been your wake up call, and

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