September 1, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy hosts this Labor Day Monday morning Wake Up Call. The show starts with Amy revisiting her conversation with documentary, commercial, and editorial photographer Morgan Lieberman about ‘The Age of Incarceration,’ where she captures the testimony and experiences of nine of the last survivors of Japanese American incarceration, 80 years after the war ended and these people were released. Amy talks with CEA Chief Mitigation Officer for the California Earthquake Authority Janiele Maffei about their grant program to brace and bolt older homes to their foundation to protect against earthquakes. The show closes with Amy’s conversation with author Richard Simon and his latest book ‘Unplug: How to break up with your smartphone.’
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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 app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, good morning. It is five o'clock, straight up. This
is your wake up call for Monday, September first, Labor Day.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Did you hear that? You heard right? September first? Four
months left? Man, this year is just buzzing by fast.
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Today is, as I mentioned, Labor Day. What is Labor Day?
It's a day to celebrate the American worker. I was
reading about it. I was like, what are the origins
of Labor Day? It started back in the eighteen hundred
something like that. So I'm wearing my red, white and
blue to celebrate the American worker today. And I'm also
wearing my white pants because you're not supposed to wear
white pants after Labor Day, or shoes or shoes. Yeah right,
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So I had white shoes but they were too high,
so I've put on and plus I had to go red,
white and blue, so I got my blue flipflops, white
pants and a red sequence shirt on. Yeah, it might
be it's a.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Lot little morning, might be a little.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Bit much, but I like to celebrate the American workers.
Very good we've got in spite of it being a holiday.
And thank you by the way for getting up, waking up,
starting your day with us. If you're up at this hour,
you may be working today too, so we'll celebrate you.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. On this Labor Day,
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rallies are being held in La Orange and Riverside County
as part of the nationwide Labor Day effort built by
organizers as a stop the billionaire takeover. The Los Angeles
Long Beach Harbor. Labor Coalition is holding its forty sixth
annual solidarity parade and picnic rally in Wilmington. It starts
at ten ends with a picnic at Banning Park at eleven.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's been seriously interered
in a car crash in New Hampshire. The eighty one
year old has broken vertebrae and injuries to his arm
and leg. Happened late Saturday night. He was hit from
behind Apparently he had stopped to help a domestic violence victim.
He waited for police to get there, then he got
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into his car and that's when he was hit. He's
expected to be in the hospital for a couple days.
Governor Newsom and JD. Vance are leading all other Democrats
and Republicans in the race for the White House in
twenty twenty eight. Seriously, we're already talking about this in
a new National pol Newsom has twenty five percent support,
just over half of Republicans support Vance. Number two for
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the Democrats is former Transportation Secretary Pete boodaj Edge, and
in second place for the Republicans Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
He has nine percent support. Okay, there's a new online
exhibit called The Age of Incarceration, and it chronicles what
happened to Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps
during World War Two. We're gonna be joined by the
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photojournalist behind this powerful exhibit in just a couple of minutes.
Are you ready for the next big earthquake? Is your
home ready? We caught up with the chief Mitigation officer
of the California Earthquake Authority about its brace and Bolt
program and how you can get money to make your
home earthquake ready. That's coming up at five twenty. How
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much do you rely on your smartphone? Do you feel
like you spend too much time with your nose stuck
in your phone? Well, we're gonna be talking with author
Richard Simon about how you can break up with your
phone and get your life back. It's coming up at
five fifty. And if you've listened to like a wake
up Call for a while, you know about my obsession
with the Bald Eagles Jackie and Shadow and their eagletz
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Sonny and Gizmo, and everyone's left the nest. Now where
are they? How are they doing? I have a special
Labor Day edition of Amy's on it where we can
find out, And we have an update from Sandy Sandy
Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley about the possible
whereabouts of our favorite eaglets. Let's get started with some
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of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. La County is facing a Labor Day heat wave.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, you've heard about it, and now you're feeling the heat.
Heat advisory is an effect today. Three Tuesday attempt hitting
one hundred degrees or higher across the valleys and mountain areas.
Experts say the evenings, well, they.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Won't be much cooler.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Meteorologists are urging people to stay cautious, hydrated, and cool
if you can.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Heather Booker finding it. I love playing those hot, hot,
hot songs and the heat is on and all of that,
and then I love to I remember John and Ken
used to go, I hate it when we when people
do that, play those songs, I love it. An laped
vehicle has crashed into a burger restaurant in Southgate, where
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a woman ended up being arrested for grand theft auto so.
The crash happened at Bobo's Burger's on Firestone Boulevard. The
same police suv was involved in an earlier chase of
two burglary suspects in a gray Lexus. It's not clear
if the two things are connected. Police are trying to
figure out whose body was found at the bottom of
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a cliff in Palace Verdi's estates. The body was found
Saturday near Passeo del Mar. Police haven't yet said who
the person was or what caused their death. Police have
arrested a man after finding almost ninety canisters of nitrous
oxide in his Maserati. Justin Police posted a picture on
Instagram Friday showing the cans littered across the driver and
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passenger seats. The cans, known as whippets, are usually pretty
popular among teenagers and young adults. Powerball now has the
eleventh largest lottery jackpot in US history.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Nobody came up with all six winning numbers on Saturday night,
so the jackpot rolls over and will be at least
one point one billion tonight. Take the cash option and
that's just over five hundred and twenty five million out
the door. But the odds of doing that are one
in two hundred and ninety two point two million. That's
according to the Multi State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
(06:21):
Still that two dollars investment could change your life, So
good luck.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Tammy Triheo KFI News. As Han Solo would say, never
tell me the odds. I bought my ticket for Saturday.
Obviously I didn't win, but you know two people in
southern California, Yeah, yeah, got five matches. One was Ontario
and I can't remember where the other one is. But
there's there's two that are worth a million dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Where does producer Michelle by our tickets, just saying, oh,
I didn't think of that.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We might be part of it. We might be millionaires.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We we might of course. I think there's like eighty
people in our pool. Now there's that we one hundred hoars. Okay.
As I mentioned, there is a new you exhibit that
is online and I think you might be interested in it.
Let's say good morning too. The creator of the Age
of Incarceration, LA based photojournalist Morgan Lieberman. Good morning, Morgan,
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good morning.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm great. I would love for you to tell us
about your new project, the Age of Incarceration. Can you
explain what it is a little bit?
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Definitely. Yeah. So a few years ago I was reflecting
on my Jewish identity and how I grew up with
so much awareness and grief associated with the Holocaust, And
around this time I recognized that I had a huge
lack of education about what was happening on American soil,
simultaneously with the Japanese American community, specifically on the West Coast.
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And it became this never ending onion of layers upon
layers of an overwhelming amount of injustice that is really
deeply under presented in a race from the history books
and the media landscape. So what I felt was an
often invisible topic was on how mass incarceration affected one
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hundred and twenty five thousand Japanese American citizens and people
of Japanese descent in America. And I wanted to explore
how the specific kind of trauma impacted the rest of
their lives. So I began documenting and interviewing Japanese American
incarceration camp survivors. And this all started out of exploring
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my own Jewish identity and finding this bridge with this community.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay, so, and you started documenting it, taking photos and videos,
and then you've put it all together, and that's where
we end up with the Age of Incarceration.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
So's it's multi components. It's portraits of the survivors in
their own home and as well as that, there's video
interviews because I felt like hearing their voices is so
humanizing and I feel that I'm very empathy driven in
all of my journalistic endeavors. Also documenting their personal archives
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that have never been published before that I was stopped
to think, Oh, these aren't even in any museums, but
they're just sitting, you know, in their garage. And to
see them at a young age in these pictures and
to watch and grow up in these the three year
process being incorporated in these you know, American born concentration camps,
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I felt was really really powerful for the narrative. And
then I also went to three different and former incarceration
sites across the West in Wyoming, Arizona, and California, and
that included post in man Senar and Heart Mountains. And
I actually I documented and interviewed nine different surviv divers
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that Yeah, we're in camps across the West as well
as Arkansas, so yeah, it's very all encompassing. There's also
an eleven page essay that I wrote alongside Tommy k Nimura,
who was my editor. She was fantastic to work with.
And this is the first time that I was really
challenging myself as a writer because that kind of context
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is so important that you can't always gain in the interviews.
So there's so many details and so much context.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
That you can learn from from the essay as well.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Okay, and where can we go and see this?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah, so you can read Age of incarceration on long
lead dot com. You can also google Age of Incarceration
long lead and yeah, thank you so much for having
me and for helping me spread the word.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Photo journalist Morgan Lieberman, a creator of the Age of Incarceration,
Thank you pretty cool. I always you know, we say it.
You know, those who don't remember the past are destined
to repeat it. That's sort of important. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
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twenty four hour news room. A strong earthquake has rocked
eastern Afghanistan.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
The reports of widespread destruction and a spiraling deathole after
a major earthquake in Afghanistan. The magnitude six point zero
earthquake struck in the middle of the night. It was
just five miles deep. Scenes of devastation emerging two hundred
and fifty miles from the app center. One village completely destroyed.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
ABC skuy Davies says. Taliban officials have reported more than
eight hundred people were killed and thousands have been injured.
The Israeli military has continued it's offensive in Gaza City,
which Israel declared a combat zone last week. Loud explosions
and gunfire were heard early this morning The Israeli military
announced yesterday that it had killed the longtime spokesperson for
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Hamas's armed wing. Israel's security cabinet met to talk about
the expanding offensive in some of Gaza's most populated areas.
An officials said there were no plans to discuss negotiations
for a ceasefire at that meeting. A judge in DC
has temporarily blocked the federal government from deporting ten children
from Guatemala who crossed the border illegally without their families.
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Lawyers for the kids say the ten to seventeen year
olds were loaded onto planes in Texas Saturday night to
be flown back to Guatemala, but that violates laws protecting
migrant children. Judge Sparkle Sukanan has ruled the children cannot
be deported for at least two weeks. Government lawyers say
the children were not being deported. They were being reunited
at the request of their parents and guardians. New Mexico
(12:41):
has issued a public health order to ensure access to
COVID nineteen vaccines at pharmacies. CBS announced last week that
access might be limited based on the state of person
lives in and Walgreens says it'll give vaccines in states
where they can. Assistant Professor of Neurology in New York
Duty Leah Krohl says the FDA is causing the confusion.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
They're now saying the vaccine will only be labeled for
people who are over sixty five or who have certain
high risk conditions, and this is confusing because it conflicts
with a lot of the medical guidance that comes from
organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
She says, the science hasn't changed, the vaccine prevents serious
complications from COVID, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Junior
is getting some pushback on his decision to oust the
head of the CDC. Susan minares some of her colleagues
have quit the agency in protest. One of them is
(13:37):
doctor Dimitria Dmitri Dasclakis, who says not having a scientific
leader at CDC is a problem.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
I can't do my job and my sciences can't do
their job.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
When that happens, that's the beginning of harm, and that's
the end of.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What I can do.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
As a physician who said that first, I would do
know her.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
The doctor says, having a connection with health and human
Services is now necessary to be able to provide good
public health. Coffee drinkers can expect their cappuccinos or lattes
to cost more pretty soon because of tariffs shipments of
coffee to the US from Brazil or facing levies of
fifty percent. Retailers say that we'll add to the pressure
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on roasters to pass along higher costs to consumers. Will Smith,
who's normally a catcher so he's behind the plate, was
pinch hitting yesterday and he homered leading off the bottom
of the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a five
to four win over the Diamond Max That prevented a
three games sweet.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thought he's talking about they would walk him intentionally. Smith
drilled blat field. It is gone.
Speaker 12 (14:46):
Will Smith captain clutch with a walk off home run
in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The Dodgers are currently in first place in the National League. Tomorrow,
they'll take on the Pirates in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, with the
first pitch going out at three forty in the afternoon.
You can listen to all the Dodger games all season
long on AM five seventy LA Sports Live from the
Gallpin Motors broadcast booth and stream all games in HD
on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports.
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This is your wake up call for Labor Day. Five
twenty one is the time. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three children hurt in
a crash at the end of a police chase in
Malibu have been released from the hospital. The three were
in their mom's car when it got stolen on Friday afternoon.
The person who stole it led police on a high
speed chase before crashing into crashing in pc Or on
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pch weather. Please say the car was stolen in East
LA when the mom left her kids in the car
with the engine running while she went into the seven eleven.
LA County officials are considering a twenty million dollar settlement
in a lawsuit filed by the family of a boy
from Palmdale who was tortured and murdered by his parents
in twenty nineteen. The suit claims the Department of Children
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and Family Services failed to get the boy out of
the home weeks before he was killed. His parents are
serving long prison sentences. Weapons has recaptured the top spot
at the box office after being knocked out of first
place last weekend, it earned ten million dollars. The fiftieth
anniversary re release of Steven Spielberg's Jaws took second place,
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reeling in more than eight million. Nope, couldn't pay me
to go see that movie again. I'm still traumatized from
seeing it as a child. Are you ready for the
next big quake? Is your home ready? Let's say good
morning now to the Chief Mitigation Officer for the California
Earthquake Authority, Janille Muffie. Good morning, Janiel, Good morning. So
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when the shaking starts, the big question is is your
home brace to make it through the shaking? And that's
where the California Earthquake Authority comes in. You can help
make sure that your home does make it through a quake.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's right. We have a program that provides grants of
up to three thousand dollar dollars to help people who
live in older homes that's pre nineteen eighty, whose houses
are not properly anchored to the foundation embraced. If you
have those short little stud walls that go around the
cross space, they need to have plywood on them.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Let's talk a little bit about the bolting thing, because
I want to kind of paint a picture of what
can happen in the shaking, especially in the older homes.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The problem, of course, is that these homes were designed
and constructed before we knew a lot about how houses
performed in earthquakes, and so they didn't have the same
building codes that we have today. They don't have the
same protections. So they may have some bolts, you know,
they used for construction, but they really don't have sufficient
bolts to keep that house from sliding off the foundation.
And then of course if they do have those short
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stud walls, those studwalls can just topple over. And so
that's where the plywood comes in. And it's a relatively
simple process. It takes about two to three days for
a contractor to do. It's about fifty two hundred dollars.
That's the median statewide for this particular retrofit. And we
also have a supplemental grant for income qualifying house households.
Households who have an income of eighty nine thou forty
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dollars or less will get additional funding. And once again
it is a grant, and we have done over thirty
three thousand retrofits across California.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, and so then, janiell, the difference between having your
house bolted to the foundation and not having your house
bolted to the foundation can mean a difference of total
destruction at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Right, Well, yes, you know, it's interesting because some of
these houses, they are able to lift them back up
and put them on a foundation, but it is hundreds
of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
in a nap earthquake, we found houses that came off
their foundation. On average, we're not reoccupied two and a
half years after the event. So you can imagine, you know,
the people are have to move out of their house,
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all the while still paying that mortgage. So really really
catastrophic disruptive damage. And the retrofit really is a simple process.
We will give you the information on what to do,
and then of course we'll give you some financing to assist.
And then we're very excited that we're introducing rental and
income properties. It used to be that you had to
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be owner occupied. Okay, Now it can be a rental
or income property.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Oh so I would imagine you're going to have a
lot of landlords given you holler. And in this case,
it sounds like it's an ounce of prevention thing like
you can spend a couple thousand now or you can
have your home have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of damage when they're shaking.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, So, Janille, this sounds really cool. How is it
paid for?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So this is paid for. The California Earthquake Authority has
a kind of feed funding for it, and then we
leverage that with FEMA funding. So we're using FEMA funding
and that's a grant to us, and then that money
is going into California homes to make them more resilient.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay, and where do we.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Apply earthquake bracebolt dot com? Very simple to find, even
if you just put in retrofit my house in California,
it's going to pop up to the top and read.
Gistration is open through October first not first come, first served.
Don't panic. Okay, lots of time to go on and
take check it out.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, that's such a great program, and yeah, we all
need to be prepared for the shaking. Janille, again, give
the website if you.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Would earthquake bracebolt dot com.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's Janille Maffi, the Chief Mitigation officer for the California
Earthquake Authority. Quite the title, you know, and it makes
you think about how doing something as simple as that
can save your house. And then you look at what
just happened in Afghanistan where it was it was only
a six point oh quake, but it was shallow and
apparently the shaking is stronger when it's shallow. But those
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houses are, you know, just like blocks of they're not
made to standards like this. They're kind of huts and
that kind of stuff. And just the death toll there
is just so just tragic.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I was amazed when she said it only cost around
fifty two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Right, stuff right, and that grand Yeah, can help you
out a lot. Okay. Several beaches on both coasts are
under advisories and closures this Labor Day because of high
levels of bacteria. Beaches from Florida to New England are
showing elevated levels associated with vehicle contamination. Beaches in southern
California from San Diego to la are also under warnings.
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A report from the conservation group Environment America noted that
more than fifty million cases each year of illnesses resulting
from swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers and ponds. Firefighters of
Rescue Demand step about thirty feet up a tree in
West Hills. They got the call about three thirty yesterday afternoon.
They used a rope and ladder system to get him down.
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He was taken to the hospital to be traded for
a leg injury. Drivers in the San Gabriel Valley will
face major lane closures this week.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It all starts on the ten Freeway in Rosemead Friday night,
September fifth through Monday morning, September eighth. Three lanes, two
HOV lanes, and several on ramps will be shut down
for bridge preservation work. Caltran says more fifty five five
our weekend closures will continue through fall, similar to ongoing
projects on the four oh five of the Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
News brought to you by Simper Solaris. Governor Newsom has
vowed to fight back in response to a new congressional
map in Texas being signed into law.
Speaker 12 (22:16):
Newsom launched a promotional video on his x account Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
The golds are Off. We're gonna fight fire with fire.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is seen in a video on
his x account signing the bill on true social President
Trump wrote quote Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana
and others are looking to do the same thing. Newsom
is proposing a temporary shift in California's redistricting power. I'm
Jim Forbes.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Of that song, and obviously I'm not the only one.
The weekend's Blinding Lights has become the first song on
Spotify to hit five billion streams. The new Spotify record
follows Blinding Lights dominating the Billboard Hot one hundred chart
and becoming the first song to remain in the top
ten for a whole year. Health officials are warning of
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life threatening rip currents and strong surf up to six
feet at La County beaches. Heat advisories remain in place
through tomorrow evening before a really slight cooling trend moves
in later this week. Tempts will drop five to seven
degrees by the weekend. Police are investigating the death of
a man who is found lying in a pool of
blood at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert.
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The man's body was discovered Saturday night during the burning
of the festival's wooden effigy of a man. Today's the
last day of burning man that has been mired by
hot weather and that nasty dust storm last week that
blew through the area. More than a billion dollars is
on the line for tonight's powerball jackpot. No one won
the jackpot in Saturday night's drawing. That pushes the drawing
(23:55):
for tonight up to one point one billion dollars. It's
the fifth largest powerball d in US history. Four tickets
did match five of the numbers, but not the power
ball from Saturday night. Those tickets are worth more than
a million dollars in two of them sold in southern California.
At six oh five, it's Handle on the news, but
Handle's not here, so we have Neil Sevadra filling in
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and that starts in about a half hour.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Aami Audi, Damie's hoes.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Aami's on it, Damie's on it? What am I on?
I'm on the stream, movies, TV shows, documentaries, sometimes books,
sometimes even movies from theaters. And uh today, I'm on
the Big Bear Eagles. Now since the Baby Eagles, Sonny
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and Gizmo left the nest in June. The big question
is where are they, Are they surviving, are they ever
coming home? And what are Jackie in Shadow up to
and what's their story anyway, So the executive director of
Friends of Big Bear Valley, who we've talked to several
times as the eagles have continued their journey, has presentations
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that she gives at the Chirp Nature Center up in
Big Bear and they recorded one and it just dropped
on YouTube and somebody had told me. I can't even
remember who told me about it, but somebody told me
about it was like, oh fun, and so I wanted
to dive in and see how things are going. So
it's if you go onto YouTube and search Chirp Nature Centers,
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you'll get the twenty twenty five Big Bear Bald Eagle Update. Again.
It was posted about a week and a half two
weeks ago, and it is hosted by the executive director
of Friends of Big Bear Valley, our friend, Sandy Steers.
Sandy does a beautiful job telling the story of the
Big Bear Eagles, so that you know that so many
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of us came to know and love and for me
became a little obsessed with while they were tending to
their nest and trying to hatch their babies, and we
saw it all on the Big Bear cam every day.
So their journey started more than twenty years ago when
eagles were first tracked in Big Bear. And then a
few years later, friends of Big Bear Valley put that
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camera one hundred and thirty feet up in a tree
so they could watch the nest twenty four to seven.
And so now we have Jackie in Shadow. But before
Jackie and Shadow, there was Jackie and mister B. And
then Sandy tells the story of how Shadow literally swoops
in and steals Jackie away from mister B, which apparently
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doesn't happen very often because eagles hang out and they
stay together for life. And so that Shadow came in
and took over and mister B, who knows where he went,
but he he flew the coop, okay. And then so
she walks us through that. So she talks about the them.
She talks about the different the different times that they've
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laid eggs, and the successful hatchings and the not successful
hatchings which are heartbreaking. And I'm watching this and again,
if you listen to Wake Up Call, you know that
I'm obsessed with these eagles, and so it's like I
would get like teary thinking about him, going, oh, they're
so beautiful, and then I go, God, Amy, you're an idiot.
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But anyway, it's just it's really cool to see and
to hear how they're doing, and you can tell how
much Sandy loves the eagles just like the rest of
us do. And it's great to hear about their journey
as we patiently wait for the winter and hope that
Jackie in Shadow will return to the nest and bring
us more babies to watch and obsess over and grow
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to love. So it's really it's just a nice little update.
And again, you just search Chirp Nature Centers on YouTube
and it comes right up. Also, I was scrolling through
Facebook because I told you I can go and look
at the nest, but there's never anything there and it
just makes me sad, But it also makes me happy
because it means that they grew up and they took
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off and flew off. So the big question is where
in the heck are Sonny and Gizmo Because they leave
the nest and eagles apparently leave the area Jackie in
Shadow were still around. They spot them, and you see
pictures of them every once in a while. But someone
showed up in the nest last week. Oh and we
were like, okay, who is it? And somebody posted we
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think it's Sunny or we think it's Gizmo, and so
producer and reached out to Sandy to find out, do
you guys know who this is? And so Sandy wrote
us back and she said there was a juvenile that
visited the nest. This was last week. She said, we
can't guarantee that it was one of the girls because
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they changed really quickly because they're still growing and developing.
But the juvenile had several markings that were the same
as what Gizmo had before she left the nest. So
the last time that they were seen in the nest
was like June twenty sixth, she said. The juvenile, when
seen up close in the nest, showed multiple distinguishing signs
that it could be Gizmo. She said. The camera shows
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the juvenile moving around the nest, looking curiously at everything,
moving sticks around like the kids did. It was possible
to see the dark feather pattern, including the back of
the tail and the slightly turned up gape at the
corners of her beak. Those were all things. They were
like markings of Gizmo. And then she flew around like
(29:24):
she knew where she was going. She went out onto
the balcony, went down to the basement, and they have
different nicknames for the different branches and stuff. And she
said it was possible to see the distinguishing feather gap
on the trailing edge of the eagle's left wing. Again,
that matches a marking that Gizmo had. So they can't
tell for sure, but I think the little girl came
(29:45):
back for a visit, which is great news.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yes, I don't know why anyone would think you're obsessed
with this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I don't know, but it's amazing. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Be nice, will I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Officials in northern California say a four alarmed grass fire
that burned along the two to eighty in Redwood City
might have been sparked by a car fire on the freeway.
Resident Dennis Paine says the brush had been trimmed recently,
which probably helped reduce the fuel for the fire.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
This is one of our biggest fears because anything like
the small if it gets up in the canopy.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
It can just go.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
The fire was fully surrounded yesterday, so good news they
got to handle on that one. Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nomes says the Trump administration will soon expand immigration operations
in Chicago. She confirmed it yesterday. President Trump is also
threatened to send National Guard troops to cities, including Chicagogo,
to help fight crime. Illinois Governor j Pritzker says it's
(30:41):
un American locals have mixed feelings.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
It don't make sense because crime has decreased the Chicago.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
It's going to get somebody killed and I just prayed
it as now myself.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
We need it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It has been proven to work in DC.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Governor Pritzker says federal troops don't belong in cities unless
there's an insurrection or a real emergency. The Mayor of
Chicago signed an executive order on Saturday prohibiting city police
officers from working with National Guard troops or federal agents.
At least thirty five people were shot in Chicago over
the weekend. Five were killed. Former New York Mayor and
Rudy Giuliani has been hurt in a car crash.
Speaker 11 (31:15):
We have learned from Mayor Giuliani spokesperson he is quote
recovering tremendously after a car accident in New Hampshire. These
sustained injuries to his leg, to his arm. He also
fractured his vertebrate.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
ABC's Melissa Aiden says Giuliani had pulled over to call
nine to one one after he saw a car on
the side of the road. It ended up being a
domestic violence victim who needed police. Giuliani waited until police
got there, then he got back in his car and
got under the highway. That's when he was rear ended.
The summer movie season has come to a lackluster end.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Liberty Box Office is wrapping up a sluggish summer with
a total take of fraction below last year. Analysts had
hoped for a four billion dollar summer, but the industry
fell short with three point six billion.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
This is a True Story that Happened in My Town.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Warner Brothers Weapons regained the top spot, coming in at
twelve million dollars over four days and in second place
the fiftieth anniversary re release of Jaws, followed by Sony's
Caught Stealing a fifty year old film out performing two
major studio releases highlights just how rocky this summer has
been for Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
You're going to need a bigger poation I find you.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, no, no, no, it is not safe to go
in the water. Two men have been killed at a
park in Cerritos. The shooting happened around two point thirty
yesterday morning in a parking lot at the don Kenobi
Regional Park on Bloomfield Avenue. Sheriff's officials say several vehicles
were parked in the south parking stalls of the park
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when more than two dozen shots were fired. The cars
all took off. The two people killed were taken to
the hospital, where they later died. Desperate Afghans have been
digging through rubble through the nine searching for anyone who
may have survived a strong earthquake that has killed at
least eight hundred people and injured more than twenty five hundred.
The six point zero quake hit overnight Sunday near Jalalabad
(33:11):
in the Kunar Province. The quake has been followed by
several aftershocks. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's
deportations of hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children from the US
to Guatemala. The judge paused the removals. She was told
some of the children were already in the process of
being deported. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said it
(33:35):
was possible that one flight had already left but came back.
All right, are you spending too much time in your phone?
Did you sit there and go why am I doing that?
What can I do about it? We may have found
a solution for you. Let's say good morning now to
Richard Simon, the author of Unplugged, How to Break Up
with your Phone and Reclaim your Life.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Good morning, Richard, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
A great to have you. I saw the press release
on it and I go, oh my gosh, I have
to read this book. And I will tell you that
since reading it, I've noticed even more how pervasive our
phones are. Like I'll find myself sitting on the couch
just playing Solitaire and other word games four hours at
a time, and it's just this time suck and then
(34:20):
like I'll put the phone down and then I'll get
this feeling like I need to pick it up and
play another game. And I was like, oh my gosh,
why is that.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Yeah, the core piece of dopamine. Dopamine is the most powerful,
one of the most powerful molecules in the brain. And
each time you tap your phone, whether it's with Solitaire
or whether it's Internet browser or WhatsApp, whatever it might be,
it releases dopamine. So it just becomes more and more pleasurable.
And the smartphone is literally a shortcut machine. And that's
(34:53):
what's going on behind the scenes in your mind.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, so the premise of the book seems pretty straightforward.
You know that it may be time to break up
with your phone. But I want to ask you kind
of what is the goal of the book, Like, what
gave you the idea to write it?
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Sure, and it all started with me. I was thick of
my smartphone taking up hours of my day. The average
American adult spends more than five hours a day on
their smartphones. We don't get that time back, and as
a father to young kids, in twenty nineteen, I realized this.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I had enough.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
So in twenty twenty, I turned my smartphone off for
an entire year and was one of the most transformative
moments of my life. And what I realized is that
you look at all the various self help articles and books.
Everyone is espousing hacks, noble as they might be, but
deleting social media, putting a rubber band around your phone,
digital status. All these things are great, but paying as
(35:46):
addictive as a phone, as you were just talking about,
it doesn't go far enough. So I ended up interviewing
dozens of people over the course of the last couple
of years and found that the first step to establishing
a more effective relationship with your smartphone is to turn
it off.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Okay, so turn off completely. So no GPS, no texting,
no social media, just done.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
So, there are four different styles that outline the book
in terms of turning it off. The most popular one
I think that will resonate for your listeners is to
switch to a basic phone. And I say basic phone,
I mean basic like calling and texting. There are some
like Kosher phones or wise phones that have more features.
For the sake of recalibrating the reward pathways in your brain,
(36:32):
I highly recommend switching over to a basic phone. You
can have your same phone number, you can switch over
the simcard at your local AT and T Verizon your
T Mobile story and by doing that, by switching over
to a basic phone. You're going to regain the most
precious resource source in life, which is time. You're gonna
get hours back because you're not going to want to
text on this terrible device because it takes forever to
(36:53):
text and it'll completely reset you. So one of the
four breakup styles of recommend is switching to a basic phone.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay, So then Richard, also tell me, like you said
that one of the things you noticed when I was
reading your book, you said you you and your wife
would come sit down on your couch at night and
you wouldn't talk to each other because you just stick
your noses in your phones and you're doing your own thing.
How did that immediately change when you turned your phone off.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
Yeah, my wife and she's a doctor, she's a physician.
She's very very busy in terms of her hours. And
what would end up happening is during the day. I'm
sure many other married couples who are listening go through this.
You text each other throughout the day spousands, I mean,
there's dozens of texts that are happening. You know, this
is happening, This is happening. What do you think of this?
How about this for dinner? This and before you know it,
(37:40):
you get back home and you're already caught up when
everything had happened during the day, there's nothing to catch
up on, and all of a sudden, you know, we
stopped this texting throughout the day and we actually like
sit down and have dinner as a family, and like,
I'm genuinely curious about what happened during the day, and
same for her in terms of what happened for my day.
It completely reset our relationship and tremendously since I went
(38:01):
to this process and with the dozens of people I
interviewed in the book in my profile, it was the
same relationships with family just improved so much.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, and well, we hear a lot about how kids
who have grown up, they've had smartphones since, you know,
since they were very young, that they don't communicate as well,
they don't have those same communication skills because, like you said,
they text and do short little blurbs as opposed to
having full on conversations like we used to when we
were growing up. So I could I can see that correlation.
(38:32):
If somebody wants to dip their toe in, is there
a way to dip their toe in?
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Yeah, I mean, for starters and go for a walk.
Go for a walk around neighborhood for forty five minutes
an hour, and don't bring your phone. You're going to
be going crazy inside the first time you do it.
This is how addictive a smartphone is. But go for
a walk for forty five minutes to an hour and
do it by yourself for the first time. Don't bring
someone else and just have to embrace your own thought.
(39:00):
That's way that they sparkphone has done is that we
are no longer able to embrace solitude. We're no longer
able to truly think. So that's the first step I
would do, and after you do it a few times,
you're going to realize this is really really nice. Start
doing it when you go out to dinner with friends,
leave your phone at home. The first time you're in
the car, you might be completely freaking out.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
That's the withdrawal.
Speaker 8 (39:20):
It's completely natural. Then you're going to realize how special
that is. So before you go through any sort of detox.
In terms of turning your phone off, I have a
whole section in my book about preparation. I think those
are some of the initial things you can do to
start to realize that Okay, I can do.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
This, Okay, Richard Simon, The book is Unplugged, How to
Break Up with your Phone and Reclaim your Life. I
wish we had more time to talk because this is
so interesting and it really opened my eyes to how
much we spend time on our phones and don't spend
our time living our lives. Where can we get the.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Book, Richard, I'm plugged.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
If you found at all major booksellers, Amazon, Targets, Barnes
and Noble, Walmart, your local independent bookstore wherever books are sold.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right, Thank you so much, Richard Simon. Again, the
book is unplug How to Break Up with your Phone
and Reclaim your Life. It's a quick read and it's
really a good read. Richard. Appreciate and have a great day.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Thanks so much. Saving you too.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
And there you have it. And you know, I read
the book and I went, you know what he's He's
got a point, and so I think about it now,
Like there was one thing that he had written in
the book about how when you go to the grocery store,
just standing in line, even you're so uncomfortable now because
we're so used to having our phones open, that just
(40:34):
standing there without looking at your phone is uncomfortable. So
now I try to do that and just go. You
know what, you can stand here for forty five seconds
or two minutes, you're fine, And the same thing. But
every time I walk out the door and if I
forget my phone, I'm like, there's that initial panic. Part
of it's because I think it might be, you know,
I worry that it got stolen or something like, because
(40:56):
I did have a car a phone stolen a couple
of years ago. But still it's it is amazing how
all inclusive and intrusive your smartphones are.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
Yeah, and if you leave it at home, god forbid,
it's it's like, oh my god, what have I done.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I know you get it well, like you said, you
get into this panic mode because it's crazy, but just
something to think about and maybe something to try. I
like the idea of going for a walk and you know,
leaving your phone behind, not worrying.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
Sadly, as I get older, I'm noticing if I don't
have my glasses with me, I use my phone almost completely,
not completely, don't use it because I can't see what
I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Oh okay, so maybe just take off your glasses.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Exactly, all right, Okay, walk without your glasses.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Okay. Hey at six o'clock, this is KFI and kost
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, good morning. It is five o'clock, straight up. This
is your wake up call for Monday, September first, Labor Day.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Did you hear that? You heard right? September first? Four
months left? Man, this year is just buzzing by fast.
(00:50):
Today is, as I mentioned, Labor Day. What is Labor Day?
It's a day to celebrate the American worker. I was
reading about it. I was like, what are the origins
of Labor Day? It started back in the eighteen hundred
something like that. So I'm wearing my red, white and
blue to celebrate the American worker today. And I'm also
wearing my white pants because you're not supposed to wear
white pants after Labor Day, or shoes or shoes. Yeah right,
(01:12):
So I had white shoes but they were too high,
so I've put on and plus I had to go red,
white and blue, so I got my blue flipflops, white
pants and a red sequence shirt on. Yeah, it might
be it's a.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Lot little morning, might be a little.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Bit much, but I like to celebrate the American workers.
Very good we've got in spite of it being a holiday.
And thank you by the way for getting up, waking up,
starting your day with us. If you're up at this hour,
you may be working today too, so we'll celebrate you.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. On this Labor Day,
(01:47):
rallies are being held in La Orange and Riverside County
as part of the nationwide Labor Day effort built by
organizers as a stop the billionaire takeover. The Los Angeles
Long Beach Harbor. Labor Coalition is holding its forty sixth
annual solidarity parade and picnic rally in Wilmington. It starts
at ten ends with a picnic at Banning Park at eleven.
(02:10):
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's been seriously interered
in a car crash in New Hampshire. The eighty one
year old has broken vertebrae and injuries to his arm
and leg. Happened late Saturday night. He was hit from
behind Apparently he had stopped to help a domestic violence victim.
He waited for police to get there, then he got
(02:30):
into his car and that's when he was hit. He's
expected to be in the hospital for a couple days.
Governor Newsom and JD. Vance are leading all other Democrats
and Republicans in the race for the White House in
twenty twenty eight. Seriously, we're already talking about this in
a new National pol Newsom has twenty five percent support,
just over half of Republicans support Vance. Number two for
(02:51):
the Democrats is former Transportation Secretary Pete boodaj Edge, and
in second place for the Republicans Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
He has nine percent support. Okay, there's a new online
exhibit called The Age of Incarceration, and it chronicles what
happened to Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps
during World War Two. We're gonna be joined by the
(03:13):
photojournalist behind this powerful exhibit in just a couple of minutes.
Are you ready for the next big earthquake? Is your
home ready? We caught up with the chief Mitigation officer
of the California Earthquake Authority about its brace and Bolt
program and how you can get money to make your
home earthquake ready. That's coming up at five twenty. How
(03:36):
much do you rely on your smartphone? Do you feel
like you spend too much time with your nose stuck
in your phone? Well, we're gonna be talking with author
Richard Simon about how you can break up with your
phone and get your life back. It's coming up at
five fifty. And if you've listened to like a wake
up Call for a while, you know about my obsession
with the Bald Eagles Jackie and Shadow and their eagletz
(03:58):
Sonny and Gizmo, and everyone's left the nest. Now where
are they? How are they doing? I have a special
Labor Day edition of Amy's on it where we can
find out, And we have an update from Sandy Sandy
Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley about the possible
whereabouts of our favorite eaglets. Let's get started with some
(04:19):
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. La County is facing a Labor Day heat wave.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, you've heard about it, and now you're feeling the heat.
Heat advisory is an effect today. Three Tuesday attempt hitting
one hundred degrees or higher across the valleys and mountain areas.
Experts say the evenings, well, they.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Won't be much cooler.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Meteorologists are urging people to stay cautious, hydrated, and cool
if you can.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Heather Booker finding it. I love playing those hot, hot,
hot songs and the heat is on and all of that,
and then I love to I remember John and Ken
used to go, I hate it when we when people
do that, play those songs, I love it. An laped
vehicle has crashed into a burger restaurant in Southgate, where
(05:08):
a woman ended up being arrested for grand theft auto so.
The crash happened at Bobo's Burger's on Firestone Boulevard. The
same police suv was involved in an earlier chase of
two burglary suspects in a gray Lexus. It's not clear
if the two things are connected. Police are trying to
figure out whose body was found at the bottom of
(05:29):
a cliff in Palace Verdi's estates. The body was found
Saturday near Passeo del Mar. Police haven't yet said who
the person was or what caused their death. Police have
arrested a man after finding almost ninety canisters of nitrous
oxide in his Maserati. Justin Police posted a picture on
Instagram Friday showing the cans littered across the driver and
(05:50):
passenger seats. The cans, known as whippets, are usually pretty
popular among teenagers and young adults. Powerball now has the
eleventh largest lottery jackpot in US history.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Nobody came up with all six winning numbers on Saturday night,
so the jackpot rolls over and will be at least
one point one billion tonight. Take the cash option and
that's just over five hundred and twenty five million out
the door. But the odds of doing that are one
in two hundred and ninety two point two million. That's
according to the Multi State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
(06:21):
Still that two dollars investment could change your life, So
good luck.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Tammy Triheo KFI News. As Han Solo would say, never
tell me the odds. I bought my ticket for Saturday.
Obviously I didn't win, but you know two people in
southern California, Yeah, yeah, got five matches. One was Ontario
and I can't remember where the other one is. But
there's there's two that are worth a million dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Where does producer Michelle by our tickets, just saying, oh,
I didn't think of that.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
We might be part of it. We might be millionaires.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We we might of course. I think there's like eighty
people in our pool. Now there's that we one hundred hoars. Okay.
As I mentioned, there is a new you exhibit that
is online and I think you might be interested in it.
Let's say good morning too. The creator of the Age
of Incarceration, LA based photojournalist Morgan Lieberman. Good morning, Morgan,
(07:13):
good morning.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm great. I would love for you to tell us
about your new project, the Age of Incarceration. Can you
explain what it is a little bit?
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Definitely. Yeah. So a few years ago I was reflecting
on my Jewish identity and how I grew up with
so much awareness and grief associated with the Holocaust, And
around this time I recognized that I had a huge
lack of education about what was happening on American soil,
simultaneously with the Japanese American community, specifically on the West Coast.
(07:50):
And it became this never ending onion of layers upon
layers of an overwhelming amount of injustice that is really
deeply under presented in a race from the history books
and the media landscape. So what I felt was an
often invisible topic was on how mass incarceration affected one
(08:11):
hundred and twenty five thousand Japanese American citizens and people
of Japanese descent in America. And I wanted to explore
how the specific kind of trauma impacted the rest of
their lives. So I began documenting and interviewing Japanese American
incarceration camp survivors. And this all started out of exploring
(08:34):
my own Jewish identity and finding this bridge with this community.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay, so, and you started documenting it, taking photos and videos,
and then you've put it all together, and that's where
we end up with the Age of Incarceration.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
So's it's multi components. It's portraits of the survivors in
their own home and as well as that, there's video
interviews because I felt like hearing their voices is so
humanizing and I feel that I'm very empathy driven in
all of my journalistic endeavors. Also documenting their personal archives
(09:16):
that have never been published before that I was stopped
to think, Oh, these aren't even in any museums, but
they're just sitting, you know, in their garage. And to
see them at a young age in these pictures and
to watch and grow up in these the three year
process being incorporated in these you know, American born concentration camps,
(09:39):
I felt was really really powerful for the narrative. And
then I also went to three different and former incarceration
sites across the West in Wyoming, Arizona, and California, and
that included post in man Senar and Heart Mountains. And
I actually I documented and interviewed nine different surviv divers
(10:01):
that Yeah, we're in camps across the West as well
as Arkansas, so yeah, it's very all encompassing. There's also
an eleven page essay that I wrote alongside Tommy k Nimura,
who was my editor. She was fantastic to work with.
And this is the first time that I was really
challenging myself as a writer because that kind of context
(10:23):
is so important that you can't always gain in the interviews.
So there's so many details and so much context.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
That you can learn from from the essay as well.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Okay, and where can we go and see this?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah, so you can read Age of incarceration on long
lead dot com. You can also google Age of Incarceration
long lead and yeah, thank you so much for having
me and for helping me spread the word.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Photo journalist Morgan Lieberman, a creator of the Age of Incarceration,
Thank you pretty cool. I always you know, we say it.
You know, those who don't remember the past are destined
to repeat it. That's sort of important. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
(11:12):
twenty four hour news room. A strong earthquake has rocked
eastern Afghanistan.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
The reports of widespread destruction and a spiraling deathole after
a major earthquake in Afghanistan. The magnitude six point zero
earthquake struck in the middle of the night. It was
just five miles deep. Scenes of devastation emerging two hundred
and fifty miles from the app center. One village completely destroyed.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
ABC skuy Davies says. Taliban officials have reported more than
eight hundred people were killed and thousands have been injured.
The Israeli military has continued it's offensive in Gaza City,
which Israel declared a combat zone last week. Loud explosions
and gunfire were heard early this morning The Israeli military
announced yesterday that it had killed the longtime spokesperson for
(11:55):
Hamas's armed wing. Israel's security cabinet met to talk about
the expanding offensive in some of Gaza's most populated areas.
An officials said there were no plans to discuss negotiations
for a ceasefire at that meeting. A judge in DC
has temporarily blocked the federal government from deporting ten children
from Guatemala who crossed the border illegally without their families.
(12:18):
Lawyers for the kids say the ten to seventeen year
olds were loaded onto planes in Texas Saturday night to
be flown back to Guatemala, but that violates laws protecting
migrant children. Judge Sparkle Sukanan has ruled the children cannot
be deported for at least two weeks. Government lawyers say
the children were not being deported. They were being reunited
at the request of their parents and guardians. New Mexico
(12:41):
has issued a public health order to ensure access to
COVID nineteen vaccines at pharmacies. CBS announced last week that
access might be limited based on the state of person
lives in and Walgreens says it'll give vaccines in states
where they can. Assistant Professor of Neurology in New York
Duty Leah Krohl says the FDA is causing the confusion.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
They're now saying the vaccine will only be labeled for
people who are over sixty five or who have certain
high risk conditions, and this is confusing because it conflicts
with a lot of the medical guidance that comes from
organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
She says, the science hasn't changed, the vaccine prevents serious
complications from COVID, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Junior
is getting some pushback on his decision to oust the
head of the CDC. Susan minares some of her colleagues
have quit the agency in protest. One of them is
(13:37):
doctor Dimitria Dmitri Dasclakis, who says not having a scientific
leader at CDC is a problem.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
I can't do my job and my sciences can't do
their job.
Speaker 11 (13:49):
When that happens, that's the beginning of harm, and that's
the end of.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What I can do.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
As a physician who said that first, I would do
know her.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
The doctor says, having a connection with health and human
Services is now necessary to be able to provide good
public health. Coffee drinkers can expect their cappuccinos or lattes
to cost more pretty soon because of tariffs shipments of
coffee to the US from Brazil or facing levies of
fifty percent. Retailers say that we'll add to the pressure
(14:17):
on roasters to pass along higher costs to consumers. Will Smith,
who's normally a catcher so he's behind the plate, was
pinch hitting yesterday and he homered leading off the bottom
of the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a five
to four win over the Diamond Max That prevented a
three games sweet.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thought he's talking about they would walk him intentionally. Smith
drilled blat field. It is gone.
Speaker 12 (14:46):
Will Smith captain clutch with a walk off home run
in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The Dodgers are currently in first place in the National League. Tomorrow,
they'll take on the Pirates in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, with the
first pitch going out at three forty in the afternoon.
You can listen to all the Dodger games all season
long on AM five seventy LA Sports Live from the
Gallpin Motors broadcast booth and stream all games in HD
on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports.
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This is your wake up call for Labor Day. Five
twenty one is the time. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three children hurt in
a crash at the end of a police chase in
Malibu have been released from the hospital. The three were
in their mom's car when it got stolen on Friday afternoon.
The person who stole it led police on a high
speed chase before crashing into crashing in pc Or on
(15:38):
pch weather. Please say the car was stolen in East
LA when the mom left her kids in the car
with the engine running while she went into the seven eleven.
LA County officials are considering a twenty million dollar settlement
in a lawsuit filed by the family of a boy
from Palmdale who was tortured and murdered by his parents
in twenty nineteen. The suit claims the Department of Children
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and Family Services failed to get the boy out of
the home weeks before he was killed. His parents are
serving long prison sentences. Weapons has recaptured the top spot
at the box office after being knocked out of first
place last weekend, it earned ten million dollars. The fiftieth
anniversary re release of Steven Spielberg's Jaws took second place,
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reeling in more than eight million. Nope, couldn't pay me
to go see that movie again. I'm still traumatized from
seeing it as a child. Are you ready for the
next big quake? Is your home ready? Let's say good
morning now to the Chief Mitigation Officer for the California
Earthquake Authority, Janille Muffie. Good morning, Janiel, Good morning. So
(16:43):
when the shaking starts, the big question is is your
home brace to make it through the shaking? And that's
where the California Earthquake Authority comes in. You can help
make sure that your home does make it through a quake.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's right. We have a program that provides grants of
up to three thousand dollar dollars to help people who
live in older homes that's pre nineteen eighty, whose houses
are not properly anchored to the foundation embraced. If you
have those short little stud walls that go around the
cross space, they need to have plywood on them.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Let's talk a little bit about the bolting thing, because
I want to kind of paint a picture of what
can happen in the shaking, especially in the older homes.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The problem, of course, is that these homes were designed
and constructed before we knew a lot about how houses
performed in earthquakes, and so they didn't have the same
building codes that we have today. They don't have the
same protections. So they may have some bolts, you know,
they used for construction, but they really don't have sufficient
bolts to keep that house from sliding off the foundation.
And then of course if they do have those short
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stud walls, those studwalls can just topple over. And so
that's where the plywood comes in. And it's a relatively
simple process. It takes about two to three days for
a contractor to do. It's about fifty two hundred dollars.
That's the median statewide for this particular retrofit. And we
also have a supplemental grant for income qualifying house households.
Households who have an income of eighty nine thou forty
(18:04):
dollars or less will get additional funding. And once again
it is a grant, and we have done over thirty
three thousand retrofits across California.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, and so then, janiell, the difference between having your
house bolted to the foundation and not having your house
bolted to the foundation can mean a difference of total
destruction at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Right, Well, yes, you know, it's interesting because some of
these houses, they are able to lift them back up
and put them on a foundation, but it is hundreds
of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
in a nap earthquake, we found houses that came off
their foundation. On average, we're not reoccupied two and a
half years after the event. So you can imagine, you know,
the people are have to move out of their house,
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all the while still paying that mortgage. So really really
catastrophic disruptive damage. And the retrofit really is a simple process.
We will give you the information on what to do,
and then of course we'll give you some financing to assist.
And then we're very excited that we're introducing rental and
income properties. It used to be that you had to
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be owner occupied. Okay, Now it can be a rental
or income property.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Oh so I would imagine you're going to have a
lot of landlords given you holler. And in this case,
it sounds like it's an ounce of prevention thing like
you can spend a couple thousand now or you can
have your home have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of damage when they're shaking.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, So, Janille, this sounds really cool. How is it
paid for?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So this is paid for. The California Earthquake Authority has
a kind of feed funding for it, and then we
leverage that with FEMA funding. So we're using FEMA funding
and that's a grant to us, and then that money
is going into California homes to make them more resilient.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Okay, and where do we.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Apply earthquake bracebolt dot com? Very simple to find, even
if you just put in retrofit my house in California,
it's going to pop up to the top and read.
Gistration is open through October first not first come, first served.
Don't panic. Okay, lots of time to go on and
take check it out.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Okay, that's such a great program, and yeah, we all
need to be prepared for the shaking. Janille, again, give
the website if you.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Would earthquake bracebolt dot com.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's Janille Maffi, the Chief Mitigation officer for the California
Earthquake Authority. Quite the title, you know, and it makes
you think about how doing something as simple as that
can save your house. And then you look at what
just happened in Afghanistan where it was it was only
a six point oh quake, but it was shallow and
apparently the shaking is stronger when it's shallow. But those
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houses are, you know, just like blocks of they're not
made to standards like this. They're kind of huts and
that kind of stuff. And just the death toll there
is just so just tragic.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I was amazed when she said it only cost around
fifty two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Right, stuff right, and that grand Yeah, can help you
out a lot. Okay. Several beaches on both coasts are
under advisories and closures this Labor Day because of high
levels of bacteria. Beaches from Florida to New England are
showing elevated levels associated with vehicle contamination. Beaches in southern
California from San Diego to la are also under warnings.
(21:18):
A report from the conservation group Environment America noted that
more than fifty million cases each year of illnesses resulting
from swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers and ponds. Firefighters of
Rescue Demand step about thirty feet up a tree in
West Hills. They got the call about three thirty yesterday afternoon.
They used a rope and ladder system to get him down.
(21:39):
He was taken to the hospital to be traded for
a leg injury. Drivers in the San Gabriel Valley will
face major lane closures this week.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
It all starts on the ten Freeway in Rosemead Friday night,
September fifth through Monday morning, September eighth. Three lanes, two
HOV lanes, and several on ramps will be shut down
for bridge preservation work. Caltran says more fifty five five
our weekend closures will continue through fall, similar to ongoing
projects on the four oh five of the Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
News brought to you by Simper Solaris. Governor Newsom has
vowed to fight back in response to a new congressional
map in Texas being signed into law.
Speaker 12 (22:16):
Newsom launched a promotional video on his x account Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
The golds are Off. We're gonna fight fire with fire.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is seen in a video on
his x account signing the bill on true social President
Trump wrote quote Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana
and others are looking to do the same thing. Newsom
is proposing a temporary shift in California's redistricting power. I'm
Jim Forbes.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Of that song, and obviously I'm not the only one.
The weekend's Blinding Lights has become the first song on
Spotify to hit five billion streams. The new Spotify record
follows Blinding Lights dominating the Billboard Hot one hundred chart
and becoming the first song to remain in the top
ten for a whole year. Health officials are warning of
(23:13):
life threatening rip currents and strong surf up to six
feet at La County beaches. Heat advisories remain in place
through tomorrow evening before a really slight cooling trend moves
in later this week. Tempts will drop five to seven
degrees by the weekend. Police are investigating the death of
a man who is found lying in a pool of
blood at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert.
(23:35):
The man's body was discovered Saturday night during the burning
of the festival's wooden effigy of a man. Today's the
last day of burning man that has been mired by
hot weather and that nasty dust storm last week that
blew through the area. More than a billion dollars is
on the line for tonight's powerball jackpot. No one won
the jackpot in Saturday night's drawing. That pushes the drawing
(23:55):
for tonight up to one point one billion dollars. It's
the fifth largest powerball d in US history. Four tickets
did match five of the numbers, but not the power
ball from Saturday night. Those tickets are worth more than
a million dollars in two of them sold in southern California.
At six oh five, it's Handle on the news, but
Handle's not here, so we have Neil Sevadra filling in
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and that starts in about a half hour.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Aami Audi, Damie's hoes.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Aami's on it, Damie's on it? What am I on?
I'm on the stream, movies, TV shows, documentaries, sometimes books,
sometimes even movies from theaters. And uh today, I'm on
the Big Bear Eagles. Now since the Baby Eagles, Sonny
(24:46):
and Gizmo left the nest in June. The big question
is where are they, Are they surviving, are they ever
coming home? And what are Jackie in Shadow up to
and what's their story anyway, So the executive director of
Friends of Big Bear Valley, who we've talked to several
times as the eagles have continued their journey, has presentations
(25:07):
that she gives at the Chirp Nature Center up in
Big Bear and they recorded one and it just dropped
on YouTube and somebody had told me. I can't even
remember who told me about it, but somebody told me
about it was like, oh fun, and so I wanted
to dive in and see how things are going. So
it's if you go onto YouTube and search Chirp Nature Centers,
(25:29):
you'll get the twenty twenty five Big Bear Bald Eagle Update. Again.
It was posted about a week and a half two
weeks ago, and it is hosted by the executive director
of Friends of Big Bear Valley, our friend, Sandy Steers.
Sandy does a beautiful job telling the story of the
Big Bear Eagles, so that you know that so many
(25:50):
of us came to know and love and for me
became a little obsessed with while they were tending to
their nest and trying to hatch their babies, and we
saw it all on the Big Bear cam every day.
So their journey started more than twenty years ago when
eagles were first tracked in Big Bear. And then a
few years later, friends of Big Bear Valley put that
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camera one hundred and thirty feet up in a tree
so they could watch the nest twenty four to seven.
And so now we have Jackie in Shadow. But before
Jackie and Shadow, there was Jackie and mister B. And
then Sandy tells the story of how Shadow literally swoops
in and steals Jackie away from mister B, which apparently
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doesn't happen very often because eagles hang out and they
stay together for life. And so that Shadow came in
and took over and mister B, who knows where he went,
but he he flew the coop, okay. And then so
she walks us through that. So she talks about the them.
She talks about the different the different times that they've
(26:54):
laid eggs, and the successful hatchings and the not successful
hatchings which are heartbreaking. And I'm watching this and again,
if you listen to Wake Up Call, you know that
I'm obsessed with these eagles, and so it's like I
would get like teary thinking about him, going, oh, they're
so beautiful, and then I go, God, Amy, you're an idiot.
(27:17):
But anyway, it's just it's really cool to see and
to hear how they're doing, and you can tell how
much Sandy loves the eagles just like the rest of
us do. And it's great to hear about their journey
as we patiently wait for the winter and hope that
Jackie in Shadow will return to the nest and bring
us more babies to watch and obsess over and grow
(27:38):
to love. So it's really it's just a nice little update.
And again, you just search Chirp Nature Centers on YouTube
and it comes right up. Also, I was scrolling through
Facebook because I told you I can go and look
at the nest, but there's never anything there and it
just makes me sad, But it also makes me happy
because it means that they grew up and they took
(27:58):
off and flew off. So the big question is where
in the heck are Sonny and Gizmo Because they leave
the nest and eagles apparently leave the area Jackie in
Shadow were still around. They spot them, and you see
pictures of them every once in a while. But someone
showed up in the nest last week. Oh and we
were like, okay, who is it? And somebody posted we
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think it's Sunny or we think it's Gizmo, and so
producer and reached out to Sandy to find out, do
you guys know who this is? And so Sandy wrote
us back and she said there was a juvenile that
visited the nest. This was last week. She said, we
can't guarantee that it was one of the girls because
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they changed really quickly because they're still growing and developing.
But the juvenile had several markings that were the same
as what Gizmo had before she left the nest. So
the last time that they were seen in the nest
was like June twenty sixth, she said. The juvenile, when
seen up close in the nest, showed multiple distinguishing signs
that it could be Gizmo. She said. The camera shows
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the juvenile moving around the nest, looking curiously at everything,
moving sticks around like the kids did. It was possible
to see the dark feather pattern, including the back of
the tail and the slightly turned up gape at the
corners of her beak. Those were all things. They were
like markings of Gizmo. And then she flew around like
(29:24):
she knew where she was going. She went out onto
the balcony, went down to the basement, and they have
different nicknames for the different branches and stuff. And she
said it was possible to see the distinguishing feather gap
on the trailing edge of the eagle's left wing. Again,
that matches a marking that Gizmo had. So they can't
tell for sure, but I think the little girl came
(29:45):
back for a visit, which is great news.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yes, I don't know why anyone would think you're obsessed
with this.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I don't know, but it's amazing. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Be nice, will I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Officials in northern California say a four alarmed grass fire
that burned along the two to eighty in Redwood City
might have been sparked by a car fire on the freeway.
Resident Dennis Paine says the brush had been trimmed recently,
which probably helped reduce the fuel for the fire.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
This is one of our biggest fears because anything like
the small if it gets up in the canopy.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
It can just go.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
The fire was fully surrounded yesterday, so good news they
got to handle on that one. Homeland Security Secretary Christy
Nomes says the Trump administration will soon expand immigration operations
in Chicago. She confirmed it yesterday. President Trump is also
threatened to send National Guard troops to cities, including Chicagogo,
to help fight crime. Illinois Governor j Pritzker says it's
(30:41):
un American locals have mixed feelings.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
It don't make sense because crime has decreased the Chicago.
Speaker 11 (30:47):
It's going to get somebody killed and I just prayed
it as now myself.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
We need it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It has been proven to work in DC.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Governor Pritzker says federal troops don't belong in cities unless
there's an insurrection or a real emergency. The Mayor of
Chicago signed an executive order on Saturday prohibiting city police
officers from working with National Guard troops or federal agents.
At least thirty five people were shot in Chicago over
the weekend. Five were killed. Former New York Mayor and
Rudy Giuliani has been hurt in a car crash.
Speaker 11 (31:15):
We have learned from Mayor Giuliani spokesperson he is quote
recovering tremendously after a car accident in New Hampshire. These
sustained injuries to his leg, to his arm. He also
fractured his vertebrate.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
ABC's Melissa Aiden says Giuliani had pulled over to call
nine to one one after he saw a car on
the side of the road. It ended up being a
domestic violence victim who needed police. Giuliani waited until police
got there, then he got back in his car and
got under the highway. That's when he was rear ended.
The summer movie season has come to a lackluster end.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Liberty Box Office is wrapping up a sluggish summer with
a total take of fraction below last year. Analysts had
hoped for a four billion dollar summer, but the industry
fell short with three point six billion.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
This is a True Story that Happened in My Town.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Warner Brothers Weapons regained the top spot, coming in at
twelve million dollars over four days and in second place
the fiftieth anniversary re release of Jaws, followed by Sony's
Caught Stealing a fifty year old film out performing two
major studio releases highlights just how rocky this summer has
been for Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
You're going to need a bigger poation I find you.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, no, no, no, it is not safe to go
in the water. Two men have been killed at a
park in Cerritos. The shooting happened around two point thirty
yesterday morning in a parking lot at the don Kenobi
Regional Park on Bloomfield Avenue. Sheriff's officials say several vehicles
were parked in the south parking stalls of the park
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when more than two dozen shots were fired. The cars
all took off. The two people killed were taken to
the hospital, where they later died. Desperate Afghans have been
digging through rubble through the nine searching for anyone who
may have survived a strong earthquake that has killed at
least eight hundred people and injured more than twenty five hundred.
The six point zero quake hit overnight Sunday near Jalalabad
(33:11):
in the Kunar Province. The quake has been followed by
several aftershocks. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's
deportations of hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children from the US
to Guatemala. The judge paused the removals. She was told
some of the children were already in the process of
being deported. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign said it
(33:35):
was possible that one flight had already left but came back.
All right, are you spending too much time in your phone?
Did you sit there and go why am I doing that?
What can I do about it? We may have found
a solution for you. Let's say good morning now to
Richard Simon, the author of Unplugged, How to Break Up
with your Phone and Reclaim your Life.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Good morning, Richard, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
A great to have you. I saw the press release
on it and I go, oh my gosh, I have
to read this book. And I will tell you that
since reading it, I've noticed even more how pervasive our
phones are. Like I'll find myself sitting on the couch
just playing Solitaire and other word games four hours at
a time, and it's just this time suck and then
(34:20):
like I'll put the phone down and then I'll get
this feeling like I need to pick it up and
play another game. And I was like, oh my gosh,
why is that.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Yeah, the core piece of dopamine. Dopamine is the most powerful,
one of the most powerful molecules in the brain. And
each time you tap your phone, whether it's with Solitaire
or whether it's Internet browser or WhatsApp, whatever it might be,
it releases dopamine. So it just becomes more and more pleasurable.
And the smartphone is literally a shortcut machine. And that's
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what's going on behind the scenes in your mind.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, so the premise of the book seems pretty straightforward.
You know that it may be time to break up
with your phone. But I want to ask you kind
of what is the goal of the book, Like, what
gave you the idea to write it?
Speaker 8 (35:09):
Sure, and it all started with me. I was thick of
my smartphone taking up hours of my day. The average
American adult spends more than five hours a day on
their smartphones. We don't get that time back, and as
a father to young kids, in twenty nineteen, I realized this.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I had enough.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
So in twenty twenty, I turned my smartphone off for
an entire year and was one of the most transformative
moments of my life. And what I realized is that
you look at all the various self help articles and books.
Everyone is espousing hacks, noble as they might be, but
deleting social media, putting a rubber band around your phone,
digital status. All these things are great, but paying as
(35:46):
addictive as a phone, as you were just talking about,
it doesn't go far enough. So I ended up interviewing
dozens of people over the course of the last couple
of years and found that the first step to establishing
a more effective relationship with your smartphone is to turn
it off.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Okay, so turn off completely. So no GPS, no texting,
no social media, just done.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
So, there are four different styles that outline the book
in terms of turning it off. The most popular one
I think that will resonate for your listeners is to
switch to a basic phone. And I say basic phone,
I mean basic like calling and texting. There are some
like Kosher phones or wise phones that have more features.
For the sake of recalibrating the reward pathways in your brain,
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I highly recommend switching over to a basic phone. You
can have your same phone number, you can switch over
the simcard at your local AT and T Verizon your
T Mobile story and by doing that, by switching over
to a basic phone. You're going to regain the most
precious resource source in life, which is time. You're gonna
get hours back because you're not going to want to
text on this terrible device because it takes forever to
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text and it'll completely reset you. So one of the
four breakup styles of recommend is switching to a basic phone.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay, So then Richard, also tell me, like you said
that one of the things you noticed when I was
reading your book, you said you you and your wife
would come sit down on your couch at night and
you wouldn't talk to each other because you just stick
your noses in your phones and you're doing your own thing.
How did that immediately change when you turned your phone off.
Speaker 8 (37:19):
Yeah, my wife and she's a doctor, she's a physician.
She's very very busy in terms of her hours. And
what would end up happening is during the day. I'm
sure many other married couples who are listening go through this.
You text each other throughout the day spousands, I mean,
there's dozens of texts that are happening. You know, this
is happening, This is happening. What do you think of this?
How about this for dinner? This and before you know it,
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you get back home and you're already caught up when
everything had happened during the day, there's nothing to catch
up on, and all of a sudden, you know, we
stopped this texting throughout the day and we actually like
sit down and have dinner as a family, and like,
I'm genuinely curious about what happened during the day, and
same for her in terms of what happened for my day.
It completely reset our relationship and tremendously since I went
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to this process and with the dozens of people I
interviewed in the book in my profile, it was the
same relationships with family just improved so much.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, and well, we hear a lot about how kids
who have grown up, they've had smartphones since, you know,
since they were very young, that they don't communicate as well,
they don't have those same communication skills because, like you said,
they text and do short little blurbs as opposed to
having full on conversations like we used to when we
were growing up. So I could I can see that correlation.
(38:32):
If somebody wants to dip their toe in, is there
a way to dip their toe in?
Speaker 8 (38:39):
Yeah, I mean, for starters and go for a walk.
Go for a walk around neighborhood for forty five minutes
an hour, and don't bring your phone. You're going to
be going crazy inside the first time you do it.
This is how addictive a smartphone is. But go for
a walk for forty five minutes to an hour and
do it by yourself for the first time. Don't bring
someone else and just have to embrace your own thought.
(39:00):
That's way that they sparkphone has done is that we
are no longer able to embrace solitude. We're no longer
able to truly think. So that's the first step I
would do, and after you do it a few times,
you're going to realize this is really really nice. Start
doing it when you go out to dinner with friends,
leave your phone at home. The first time you're in
the car, you might be completely freaking out.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
That's the withdrawal.
Speaker 8 (39:20):
It's completely natural. Then you're going to realize how special
that is. So before you go through any sort of detox.
In terms of turning your phone off, I have a
whole section in my book about preparation. I think those
are some of the initial things you can do to
start to realize that Okay, I can do.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
This, Okay, Richard Simon, The book is Unplugged, How to
Break Up with your Phone and Reclaim your Life. I
wish we had more time to talk because this is
so interesting and it really opened my eyes to how
much we spend time on our phones and don't spend
our time living our lives. Where can we get the.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Book, Richard, I'm plugged.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
If you found at all major booksellers, Amazon, Targets, Barnes
and Noble, Walmart, your local independent bookstore wherever books are sold.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right, Thank you so much, Richard Simon. Again, the
book is unplug How to Break Up with your Phone
and Reclaim your Life. It's a quick read and it's
really a good read. Richard. Appreciate and have a great day.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Thanks so much. Saving you too.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
And there you have it. And you know, I read
the book and I went, you know what he's He's
got a point, and so I think about it now,
Like there was one thing that he had written in
the book about how when you go to the grocery store,
just standing in line, even you're so uncomfortable now because
we're so used to having our phones open, that just
(40:34):
standing there without looking at your phone is uncomfortable. So
now I try to do that and just go. You
know what, you can stand here for forty five seconds
or two minutes, you're fine, And the same thing. But
every time I walk out the door and if I
forget my phone, I'm like, there's that initial panic. Part
of it's because I think it might be, you know,
I worry that it got stolen or something like, because
(40:56):
I did have a car a phone stolen a couple
of years ago. But still it's it is amazing how
all inclusive and intrusive your smartphones are.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
Yeah, and if you leave it at home, god forbid,
it's it's like, oh my god, what have I done.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I know you get it well, like you said, you
get into this panic mode because it's crazy, but just
something to think about and maybe something to try. I
like the idea of going for a walk and you know,
leaving your phone behind, not worrying.
Speaker 6 (41:23):
Sadly, as I get older, I'm noticing if I don't
have my glasses with me, I use my phone almost completely,
not completely, don't use it because I can't see what
I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Oh okay, so maybe just take off your glasses.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Exactly, all right, Okay, walk without your glasses.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
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