November 14, 2025 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. The show opens with futurist Kevin Cirelli talking about personal robots coming to homes. The host of ‘Home’ on KFI Dean Sharp joins the show and talks about rain and how to prepare your home for the wet weather. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pelegrini who speaks on what the markets are looking like as the week comes to a close. The show closes with ABC News entertainment correspondent Will Ganss with the ‘Entertainment Report.’
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Speaker 1 (01:00):
This is not good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
This is your wake up call for Friday, November fourteenth.
I'm Amy King. We live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I love that show open and I wanted Cono to
play it today because did you watch did you see
the launch yesterday of the Blue Origin New Glen It
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was spectacular. I'll tell you a little bit more about it,
but wow, it was so cool and it totally reminded
me of our friend Colonel Nick Haig because he got
to be launched in a rocket to space too. Hey,
someone called me cranky pants on the talk back on
the iHeartRadio app, which you are free to weigh in
on anytime apparently I owe Will and Ann and my sister.
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Oh wait, maybe it was kno that I want to
know it was Cono and also my sister in law
and apology, I'll tell you why coming up. Also rain rain.
It was dry on my ride in, but there's heavy
rain fallen and moors on the way. And then our
very own Will Colschreiber's still humming. It's a small world
this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Got stuck on that ride last night.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
But you didn't get rained on it Disneyland, did you?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh good, So a successful day. Here's what's ahead on
wakeup call. Some areas are still dry, but the rain
is falling in a lot of areas of the Southland
this morning. Santa Barbara County has already received two to
three inches of rain. Heavy rains expected in the basin
by later this morning. Thunderstorms, flooding, debris flow, even small
tornadoes are possible. A second wave of winter weather will
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hit tomorrow. Air travels still not back to normal, but
getting better now that the government shut down is ended.
Thirty six flights were canceled and twenty eight were delayed
yesterday at Lax, big improvement from earlier this week. Forty
major airports are at six per percent reduction in air
traffic until further notice. The first group of people in
Altadena who lost their homes in January's wildfires and agree
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not to sue so Cal Edison should be getting their
settlement offers later this month. The CEO of Edison International
says the program to pay victims was created before the
fire investigation was complete so that residents could get money faster.
He also admits that it is more apparent that Edison's
equipment sparked the eat and fire. Robots are heading into
Holmes and I'm not talking about robot vacuum cleaners. Futurist
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Kevin Sirelli's going to join us to tell us more
in just a couple of minutes. Also, the host of
Home on KFI are very own. Dean Sharp's gonna help
you get your home rain ready. I know the rain's
already falling, but you can get ready for the next storm. Okay,
that's coming up at five twenty and with a raining
weekend on the way, it might be a good time
to hunker down on the couch or head into the
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movie theater. ABC's Wilgan's going to join us to tell
us what's on the small and the big screen, and
also a show that may leave you feeling very festive.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A floodwatch is
up for much of southern California as the first of
two storms moves in.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
The worry is going to be the excessive rainfall rates
that may occur over the mountains.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Sebastian wester Rink with the National Weather Service says the
fast moving Pacific storm could cause dangerous conditions in recent
burn areas that has prompted evacuation warnings that will last
until Sunday.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Late Friday, we'll start seeing an increase in the precipitation rates,
and then starting Saturday morning, we could really get widespread
modern rain with some periods of heavier rain.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He says. The intense rainfall is expected to dump up
to an inch per hour in parts of Malibu. In
the Palisades, a second storm system tomorrow could push totals
above five inches in the foothills, raising the risk of mudslides, rockfall,
and debris flows across canyon roads. LA County says it's
investigating state farm over insurance claims related to January's wildfire.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Residents who lost homes or suffered damage in the Palisades
and Eaten fire say the insurance agency has denied them
or del laid their claims, or underpaid them. Consumer Watchdog
Executive director Carmen Bauber says the county's investigation could create change, and.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
What I hope to see is fair and prompt payment
of the claims the survivors have filed.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
The county says the investigation will focus on whether State
Farm has violated California's unfair competition law. State Farm is
the largest insurer across California. Michael Monks KFI News, I wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
To expand to the music publishing company that owns the
Rolling Stones. Early Catalog has sued Bear Paint in LA
for allegedly using the band's nineteen sixty six classic Painted
Black without getting the oka. Abk Co Records says Bear
violated copyright law by using the song in its Instagram account.
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The online ad shows a house being painted while the
song plays. Love that song. It's five oh seven. Let's
say good morning now to the host of Hello Future,
a podcast on iHeartRadio. It's futurist Kevin Sirelli. Good morning, Kevin.
Last week we were going to talk about robots, but
we got off on another subject and ran out of time.
So I wanted to bring you back on so we
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could talk about robots headed into your home. Maybe not
quite Rosie the made from the Jetsons, but home robots
are becoming a thing.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
No, I love this.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I love this.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
For twenty thousand dollars. There's this company called Neo that
you can have a robot essentially come to your home
or you can lease it like a car. And what
it does is you program it with an app. At
this five foot six robot humanoid robot, you program it's
routine in your app, so watering your plants, putting away
your groceries, or emptying your laundry or folding your laundry clothes.
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Now it moves incredibly slow, but the point is this
is where it gets very much a meet the future
moment where if it can't perform a function, you can
activate a human who's in another part of the country
to activate your humanoid using VR goggles and they can
take control of the robot and control the function.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Welcome to the future, Okay, that's really weird. So if
they can't do something, you just call and say, hey,
my robot can't get up the stairs to clean out
the cat box. Can you help them?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (07:19):
And so then this person who's in a warehouse or
an office, it puts on the VR goggles and then
it becomes like in the movie Avatar, your robot to
perform the function. When you think of it. From what
this means though not just from a home robot standpoint,
but from first responders, doctors, nurses, cleaning professionals, you can
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just already envision a world where, for example, cleaning services
are able to activate your robot and clean your house
without having to travel from house to house or apartment
to apartment, provided that the individual has a robot or
in larger facilities, that they're able to perform that function
through the hour of the robot, with the human not
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even having to lift anything, but really just doing it
through a robot. Welcome to the future.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh my gosh, Kevin. That and so I'm like, it
has so many questions in my brain, like what do
they do when they're networking? And do they just lurk
around the house and check in on you while you're sleeping,
they charges.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
It goes right to the charger. No, it's a great question.
They go right to the charger, so it charges. And
I really want this personally. But I think also the
thing that from the pricing standpoint is that it costs
about what a car twenty thousand dollars. But you can
also lease it as well. And so the point is
that in the first iteration of humanoid robots, we have
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to train them because they're all on artificial intelligence. If
you remember the Ferbie if you're a millennial from when
you were a kid, it's kind of like it's like
that on steroids. And so they're going to get continue
to get faster and faster. But you know, listen, I
got to be honest, I really want this product in
my where I live. I think it could be super useful.
We already have, you know, vacuum cleaners. Why not have
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one that can do your laundry or bring you a
cup of coffee every morning. I mean, it's like a
personal assistant that could wake you up instead of an
alarm clock, because something tells me I would get out
of bed much faster if there was a humanoid robot
standing there with a cup of coffee instead of me
consistently telling my Amazon device to snooze or to shut up.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, Okay, well we're gonna have to talk more about
this because I know that you're a busy man and
you need to run. But Kevin Sirelli, thank you so
much for the peek end of the future. All right. Okay,
So on Saturday mornings, when I don't have to get
up and so I don't schedule my coffee maker to start,
I wake up and I like, look at the cats,
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and I go, hey, kids, want to go make the
coffee for me?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Meek?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And wouldn't it be cool if you had a robot
that they would do it for you? I don't know.
It's also very creepy, but sort of exciting to think
that we might all have robots in our house one day.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Federal employees had
are headed back to work now that the record government
(10:04):
shutdown has ended. What they're waiting on is when they're
going to get their back pay. Snap benefits are also
resuming for about forty two million Americans who are waiting
for their full November payments. A federal judge ruled on
Wednesday that the Trump administration can't force states to undo
their delivery of snap benefits that was playing out while
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it was all playing out in court and the government
was still shut down. Three Chinese astronauts have returned to
Earth from their space station after a nine day delay.
It was caused by tiny cracks in the return capsule,
likely from being hit by space debris. The crew left
their Shenzo twenty spacecraft in orbit and used a newly
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arrived Shenzo twenty one to come back. The crew two
hundred and four days stay in space was the longest
for any astronaut at China's space station. Police are looking
for a guy who shot a college athletics director in Oakland.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
We're currently asking the public's help been locating a suspect,
a potential suspect in this case. It's a male onknown
race where an all dark clothing and a black hoodie
that fled the scene.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Assistant Police Chief James Beer says investigators are looking through
surveillance video. The shooting happened yesterday near Laney College in Oakland.
The athletics structure is in the hospital. Arizona Democratic Congresswoman
Adelita Grayalva has gotten right to work in the House
after she was sworn in Wednesday. Hers was the final
signature needed for a petition for the release of the
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Justice Department's files on Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
The timing of the twenty three thousand emails that were
also released right around this time put an exclamation mark
on the need for all of the files to be
out in public.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The House Overside Committee has been releasing Epstein's emails. Toyota
is recalling more than one hundred and twenty five thousand vehicles.
ABC's Alex Stone says certain twenty twenty two to twenty
four Tundra, Lexus, RX and GX models are included.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Debrief from the manufacturer process may contaminate the engen and
cause the main bearings to fail. It could result in
an engine install or a loss of drive power.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Toyota says at higher speeds it could increase the chances
of a crash, and Toyota is working on a remedy.
More students have doubled down on their education.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
New research has concern over jobs in the economy is
causing students to choose two majors. Recent data says twelve
percent of graduates earned more than one credential, compared to.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Half that in prior years.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Graduates who had two majors are fifty six percent less
likely to be laid off, have their pay cut, or
suffer other negative effects during economic downturns. The unemployment rate
for grads is at its highest rate in more than
eleven years. After years of falling. College to wish it
is going up again. But most universities and colleges charge
the same tuition no matter how many courses you take,
so double majoring doesn't typically cost more or take longer.
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Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
A floodwatch is in effect for all of La County
from late tonight through Saturday night as a powerful storm
moves through. Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties are also under
flood watches. Say the heaviest rainfall will be tonight and tomorrow,
but there will be breaks in the rain, sometimes for
several hours. The city of Fullerton investigating multiple bomb threats.
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Saint Jude Medical Center, Troy High School, Fullerton Union High,
Sunny Hills High, and Fern Drive Elementary School all got
bomb threats. Yesterday police checked out all the locations. No
bombs were found. Please say they are determined to find
the source of those threats. Guess who is not only
a back to back World Series champion but also a
back to back MVP as a Dodger. Yeah, Shohey. Otani
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has been named Major League Baseball's National League Most Valuable
Player for the second year in a row. It's his
fourth MVP. The vote was unanimous. Otani hit fifty five
home runs and scored a league high one hundred and
forty six runs this season. Let's say good morning now
to the host of home on KFI. Our Sagi house,
whispered Dean Sharp, good morning. Well is it rainy where
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you are?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, okay, well there there you go. Although I would
imagine that your home is probably already ready for the rain.
But let's talk about rain and your home.
Speaker 12 (14:05):
Yeah, here's the thing. It's raining, the storms are here,
and so as far as getting ready, it's too late.
It's too late to get ready. I mean, there's if
you have any suspicion that you may have some flooding
problems up against the house, then it's not too late.
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Probably to run down to the big box store, the
hardware store and pick up a couple of these great
little products called quick dam okay, bickdam are basically sand
bags without sand in them. They're they're a little packet
of I call them house diapers because that's how they work.
If you can imagine the material inside, these little bags
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are kind of like the material in a you know,
a high tech diaper in that they absorb a tremendous
amount of water and then they get heavy and then
they act like a sand bag and so. But the
cool thing is that they don't weigh one hundred pounds.
They weigh less than a pound when you carry out,
you know, a bag of six. Now they're a little
pricey in the sense that you know it's going to
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set you back thirty or forty dollars, But if it's
the difference between water coming in the kitchen door and not,
then it's well worth the investment. That's about all that
I want you to do at this point, other than
get out a bucket or two if you've got water dropping,
you know, leaking from the ceiling. Because I don't want
you up on the roof. Get off, don't no ladders,
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No up on the roof while it's while we're in
the middle of a rain storm. You are more important
than your house or your floor, and so just stay
safe and then we'll talk about the aftermath when the
rain is cleared.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, Wait, can I ask you one question about this
thick damn thing so quick damn Uh, they don't weigh
very much. What's in them? Is it like those gel things?
Speaker 12 (15:52):
Yeah, it's like those crystal and gels that you would find,
you know, I mean, if you've ever seen a kid's diaper,
you know the they weigh nothing and pretty much. You know,
you could put a gallon of water inside a diaper
and it's still holding. And it's the easiest way to explain. Now,
obviously it's not exactly the same thing, but it's the
easiest way to explain how these quick dam bags work,
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and that is that you just roll them out and
they weigh nothing, and you wait for the water to
come and if the water arrives at them, they will
begin to absorb it, and then they get very heavy
because they hold onto the water.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Very cool and then great, even more of a barrier. Okay,
so nothing to do besides put in a little barrier
there and this is a problem actually at my apartment
that when it rains really really hard, I do get
a leak, and they've tried to fix it and tried
to fix it. So after the rain stops, how do
you find where the leaks are coming in?
Speaker 12 (16:45):
Yeah, that is a tricky thing, even for an experienced professional.
I'll just tell you right now, we should not assume
that the leak in the roof is right above where
the water is coming into the room, okay, because there
are so many places for water to run and move
along wood elements and building elements before it actually drips
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and then eventually finds its way down through the dry
wall and into the room. So it's gonna be near
it ish, but not necessarily right above. So we don't
want to just again, we don't want to make the
mistake of getting up on the roof and saying, well,
I know where the leak is dripping through the house,
so I'm just gonna put a bunch of mastic or
Henry's patching compound right here. Yeah, not a guarantee. Water
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rolls downhill and so anywhere higher on the roof, and
you know, within ten to twenty feet of where the
leak is could be the actual source of the water
coming through the roof. If you can get in the
attic again after the storm, look around, try and see
traces of where the water has moved against elements, framing
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elements and so on. That's one thing probably though after
the fact it's time to all in a roofer and
door a builder and let them try and figure it out.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Okay, See, just a couple of great tips for you
as the rain is falling, and I would imagine you'll
be talking a lot about rain and its aftermath and
how to make your home ready for the next storm
on your show this weekend. You can listen to Dean
It's home right here on KFI with Dean Sharp six
to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday, and
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you can follow him at Home with Dean. Thank you, Dean,
Thanks Amy. All right, Hey, just getting in. Walmart's CEO
Doug McMillian. McMillan has announced that he's going to retire
and the head of US Operations, John Ferner, is going
to take over. McMillan's going to step down in January.
The federal government has joined Republicans in California in suing
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to stop Prop fifty and its new congressional maps. First
Assistant US Attorney Bill A. Saley tells kfi's John Cobalt
Show that organizers violated the law when a new district
was drawn solely with a Tino majority.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
In mind, and there was nothing wrong with the maps
that were drawn by the independent commission to say that
they needed to be remedied, or somehow those maps were
racists in themselves, and therefore we had to remedy that racism.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
With this racism, the Trump administration is asking the court
to ban the use of the map because it accuses
California of racial gerrymandering. Voters overwhelmingly approved Prop fifty last week,
which would likely result in five more Democrats being elected
to Congress from California. Forty three of the state's fifty
two congress members are already Democrats. The South Coast Air
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Quality Management District has approved more than seventy eight million
dollars for dozens of school districts in southern California to
replace high polluting buses with zero emission models. The money
will pay for buses in La Orange, Riverside, and San
Bernardino Counties. The LA School district will get the largest
number of clean buses. The federal governments reopened, but some
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La City Council members say they want to make sure
that residents who fell behind without their SNAP benefits get
the food and services they need. Council Woman Isabelle Herado
says the disruption forced families into difficult situations.
Speaker 13 (20:10):
It will now be able to provide immediate relief to
families affected by the recent Family of Food Assistants cuts,
including expanded food distributions and direct support for essential needs.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Herato and three other council members, Hugo Soto, Martinez, Unices Hernandez,
and Care and Price, have directed funds to agencies in
their districts to support constituents in need. The roughly one
million dollars will fund access to food and other services.
A nonprofit group issued Orange County based carmakers Hyundai and Kia,
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claiming they violated state law against unfair competition by using immigrants, inmates,
and even children as young as thirteen years old to
do labor jobs to move America accuses the companies of
using cheap labor and hiding it to secure contracts from
public agencies. In California, Weight Training may be even better
than running when it comes to losing weight.
Speaker 14 (21:01):
Scientists Virginia Tech conducted an experiment on mice and found
that running and weight lifting both improved blood sugar control,
but weight training was even more effective at reducing body
fat than running. No mention of whether they gave the
mice tiny little dumbbells. Research was published in the Journal
of Sport and Health Science. Lead researcher Xen Yang says
folks should try for both endurance and resistance exercises to
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get the most health benefits. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Little Teeny Tiny dumbbell Sex and the City Star Jessica
Parker Sarah Jessica Parker will receive the Golden Globes Carol
Burnett Award honoring her contributions to television. Parker will get
the award during the televised event Golden Eve on January eighth,
that happens three days before the Golden Globes are awarded.
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Three to six inches of rain could fall across southern
California before this storm system moves out. The first band
of the storm is arriving today. The heaviest rain expected
to fall late tonight and into Sound Saturday, forecaster safe
thunderstorms are possible from Santa Marie at a long beach,
which could include strong winds, hail, heavy rain, and even
small tornadoes. La Mayor bass Is touted what she calls
(22:10):
a milestone in efforts to fast track rebuilding in the
Pacific Palisades. She highlighted the first approvals under a new
pilot program for single family homes. It's called the Standard
Plan Pilot Program. The aim is to provide a library
of pre approved code compliance single family home designs instead
of individual ones that is intended to reduce permitting time
(22:34):
and cost. Mammoth Mountain has delayed the start of its
ski season again because of the big storm moving through California.
Was supposed to open tomorrow. Up to fourteen inches of
snow is expected to fall on the slopes today at
six oh five. Handle on the news, the BBC says
sorry to President Trump, but then says it's misleading. Edit
of his January sixth speech was not defamation, Okay. So
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in all the nastiness that is in our world, sometimes
we get to take a little break from that and
see something super exciting and inspirational. And so I got
home from work yesterday, flipped on the news channel because
that's what I do, and I got to watch the
launch of Blue Origins New Glenn rocket. They're launching NASA
(23:18):
probes to Mars. It's going to take a while to
get there, but they are officially kind of on their way.
The launch was delayed by about a half an hour,
and so I was just kind of watching and not
really paying attention to doing stuff around the house. And
then came the final countdown three to war.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Stuff effected.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Both motions.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And the shears that you could hear were just so cool,
like from inside the control room. And then also they
had people, they had cameras and stuff on the people
out at Cape Canaveral outside watching it. And when those
seven engines fired and that huge plume of white smoke
and they dump water down on the rocket apparently to
(24:08):
keep the engines from I don't know, overheating and blowing up.
But it was just so cool. And then hearing the
excitement of the announcers and the cheers from the crowd,
and then there's that nervous anticipation as the rocket goes
through a series of stages and they're like, ah, we're
coming up on separation, you know, and you're like, Okay,
(24:29):
is it gonna happen? Is gonna happen if something bad
gonna happen, because bad things have happened, and they've been
caught live on you know, I mean the Challenger explosion,
that kind of stuff. And then it goes supersonic about
a minute thirty into the launch, and they just go
crazy again. And I'm thinking, Hey, our friend Colonel Nick Haig,
who we had to talk to on the International Space Station,
launched into space on a rocket like that. And then
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the rocket boosters separate from New Glen and it starts
falling back to Earth. And so they've only tried this.
This was only the second attempt at length the booster
rocket like SpaceX does it all the time, but Blue
Origin hasn't done it. So it's falling and it's like
falling horizontal, just this little white thing in the middle
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of the screen, and then it slowly starts tilting. You're like,
I think they're adjusting it's trajectory, and then it's going
and then it turns vertical and it takes aim at
this little tiny platform in the middle of the ocean,
and then we get a side shot from the rocket
booster down at the ground, and you're like, how'd they
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get the camera on there? And how they get to
get it to stay there? I mean, this thing was supersonic, right,
and then you see this big, huge explosion, and then
the next thing you see is the rocket standing there
upright on the platform, and like, everybody just loses their
minds again. It was just so cool to see. I mean,
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it was like emotional just to see the I don't know,
just the technology and everything that went into it, and
everybody was so excited and it was just so inspiring,
you know. And like I said, with all the nastiness
and the backbiting and all the crud going on in
the world, it's so cool to see something like that.
I'm sure you can go find a replay of it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It was amazing to see a live in person. No,
I accidentally did. I was influidated at just the right time. Well,
it was delayed on to a day that I wasn't
even I wasn't supposed to be there, and yeah, I
got to see Falcon nine and it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's pretty powerful.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, So anyway, I just wanted to share that with you.
It was spectacular. Uh, time to get in your business
now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegriny. Good morning, Denise. Hey, Happy Friday,
Happy Friday. Hey, we just got big news. I'm guessing
you heard it. The Walmart CEO said he's stepping down.
I'm guessing that that might have an effect on Walmart today.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (26:54):
So what's interesting is that this is not exactly a
bad thing. I mean, Doug mcmillan'll not be retiring I
think until February. John Ferner will be replacing of He's
fifty nine, so he's a little bit of a younger
generation McMillan. You remember, started at Walmart as an hourly worker.
He worked his way up, obviously, so he transformed the
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company to the digital powerhouse that we know it as now.
But it's not like there's a scandal. Okay, So it's
not a bad thing. It's just not regression. Yeah, okay,
it's not like he's part of the Epstein Okay, cool, normal.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, there is a Warner Brothers Discovery and apparently several
people want it.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
Paramount, Comcast, Netflix, Amy all preparing bids for Warner Brothers Discovery.
There's a deadline just before Thanksgiving a Warner Brothers Discovery
says it has multiple offers. It's also amended the contract
of the CEO to ensure as stock options remain viable
even if the entertainment and media company is sold. So
there obviously is a lot of preparation underway and a
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lot of companies rush to get their bid in.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, Hey, I had a friend who worked at Nike
and they just used to have so many cool perks.
It's based in Beaverton. I'm from Oregon, but not so
much anymore. And now they're doing away with Wellness Week
for workers.
Speaker 15 (28:12):
Yeah, that was the one that gave employees an extra
week off a year for mental health and wellness. Right
now they're taking that away, one of the perks they're
not offering people anymore. Kind of a reminder though, that
it's always better even if they take the perks away.
It's always better to have a job, or usually better
to have a job than not. Sources tell us Verizon,
for example, as I'm cutting up to twenty thousand jobs
(28:34):
as the new CEO there makes this mark.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay, price of bananas and other food might be coming down,
how come?
Speaker 15 (28:40):
Yeah, bananas, coffee, beef, so you got breakfast and dinner there,
and some apparel and textiles under framework agreements with Argentina, Guatemala,
El Salvador and Ecuador that the Trump administration is working on.
They claim that when they get these trade deals that'll
lower barriers for those countries. I will see a drop now.
(29:00):
Of course, you know, some of these things went up
because of Trump administration tariffs, so but now they're coming
down all right.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
And a Wicked for Good hits theaters next week. And
of course I just saw a wicked cereal in the
grocery store, and Chili's has a wicked themed item as well.
Speaker 15 (29:19):
Yeah, if the popularity of these new wicked themed items
Margarita's at Chili's, you mentioned they've got the Witch's Brew
marg the Good Witch marg If the popularity of all
these margaritas and all these other wicked things is any
indication this film is going to be a huge hit.
The universal film stars Arion and Grande and others. She's
(29:41):
Glinda comes out around November twenty one. These drinks have
just been out for a week, but if you look
on TikTok, they are very very popular. It's not like
people are just going once for them either, well.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Maybe they're good margaritas. I'm guessing that they're pink and green.
Speaker 15 (29:57):
They are pink and green and green figures dreamly prominently.
And also, you know, we love to talk about food.
It's National Pickle Day today, so a lot of restaurants
have free pickle related items. And of course, if you're
on TikTok at all, you know that glitter pickles is
a huge thing, supposedly made with edible glitter. Okay, Jocky
(30:17):
Junior might have something to say about that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And we'll leave it there, getting in your business like
we do every day with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Thanks Denise,
have a great weekend too. Flooding, debris flows, thunderstorms, hail,
even small tornadoes are all possible as a strong storm
rolls into southern California. Forecast to say it's expected to
dump two rounds of sometimes heavy rain. Residents of recent
burn areas are under evacuation warnings. The Department of Justice
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is joined California State Republicans in a federal lawsuit that
challenges the constitutionality of Prop. Fifty. It was passed by
voters this month. Overwhelmingly. It allows Democrats to redraw voting
districts to favor Democrats. Hearing a set four November twenty
first in LA on the federal government efforts to join
the Case two way Superstar Show. Hey Otani has won
(31:03):
his fourth MVP Award in a unanimous vote. Only Barry
Bonds has won more. Otani had arguably the greatest single
game in Major League history when he pitched six innings,
striking out ten and also hit three home runs in
Game four of the NLCS. He's won back to back
World Series as a Dodger too. Let's say good morning
(31:23):
now to ABC's Will gans Cesar entertainment guru. So, Will,
if you're still feeling more like Halloween than Christmas, you
can watch Frankenstein.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
So this is the Jacob Elordi version of Frankenstein. It
was just in theaters and Netflix has already released it
on its streaming platform, so you can watch it at home.
And this is the movie that Giermo del Toro has said,
you know, for decades is his dream project, adapting Frankenstein
into his version of a feature length film, and he
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has done it in a very Ghermo del Toro way,
and it is pretty stunning. Oscar Isaac plays the scientist,
I said, Jacob Elordi plays the monster, and it is
cinematic and sweeping, and the you know, the vibe is
just appropriately creepy, and it is you know, really really
(32:19):
well told. You know, there are some nods to the
nineteen thirties Frankenstein movie, of course, you know, it's fairly
faithful to the Mary Shelley novel, but he adds a
few little tweaks of his own in there. And so
if you're looking for just a really well acted and
sort of cinematic movie to watch at home, I would
(32:42):
highly recommend Ghermo del Toros Frankenstein. That's streaming now on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Okay, here's what I have to say about it. Because
I knew you were going to talk about it, and
I was like, oh, I should go watch that. I
didn't realize it had gotten the next Netflix so quickly.
So I agree that cinematically it is pretty pretty beautiful.
It's you know, yeah, very big in grandiose, and uh,
Jacob a LORDI by the way, when he's not the
Frankenstein's monster is a hottie. But uh, I didn't love it.
(33:10):
I just thought it felt like it just dragged.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
On, that was just a couple Yeah, yeah, I mean
I feel that, like I think there are a couple
plotlines some characters that he added that like, you know,
you're sort of like, okay, if this character was missing,
I don't think it would really change the trajectory of
the film that much. But you know, when you consider
(33:35):
that this is his passion project, like he has been, Yeah,
I mean I understand why. It's as you know.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It didn't do much in theater, did it.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Not really? No? No, yeah, yeah, I don't think you know,
it has It's it's over two hours, which for a
lot of people is a tough sell.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, it's like two and a half hours, so it
was a lot, but it is. It is a very
i mean, like visually, it's a very stunning movie, and
it's an interesting adaptation of the story and that kind
of stuff. And you know, these straight to or the
streaming movies are great, you know, because you don't have
to pay extra for them, and they're entertaining.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Enough exactly, and if it's as rainy as we as
they say it is in La you know, if you're
going to be stuck at home anyway, it's a cool
way to spend a couple hours.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Okay, now here's something really scary. The Jonas Brothers star
in a brand new holiday movie.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Yes, I mean, somehow we're celebrating two decades of the
Joe Bros. This year, and you know they have been
on tour for a while, they are still on tour
right now, and somehow also managed to film a Christmas
movie this year as well. It's called a Very Jonas
Christmas Movie and hits Disney Plus today and I went
in with very low expectations, all right, I was so
(34:53):
pleasantly surprised. The movie starts with Will Ferrell as a
Joe Bros. Super fan who is like dying to see
them in concert. And then of course you know they're
in Europe and they need to get home for the holidays,
and there's a storm that hits, and so a very
familiar formula for a holiday movie. But they are very funny.
Of course Will Ferrell is great, and the music in it,
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there's a lot of brand new holiday music that they've
recorded and it's wonderful. I was just very pleasantly surprised
by this movie. So if you need a new holiday
movie to jump start this season. A very Jonas Christmas
hits Disney Plus today.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Okay, well, we've been scolding people about one holiday at
a time, so if you must break that rule, a
very Jonas Christmas. And if you don't want to rape,
you know, Thanksgiving's not that far away if you need
to wait, all right, will gans? Thank you so much?
Sounds like a great weekend to sit on the couch.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
There you go, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, you too. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
The rain has moved into southern California, and forecasters say
it's gonna be here through the weekend.
Speaker 16 (35:57):
National Weather Service says a strong Pacific could bring dangerous
flooding and debris flow to recent burn areas. Evacuation warnings
are in place for parts of the Palisades and Franklin
fire zones.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Where we could see the majority of our moderate to
heavy rain will likely be late Friday into throughout the
day Saturday.
Speaker 16 (36:17):
Meteorologists Sebastian Westering says a second system Saturday could push
totals above five inches. Crews have installed k rails and
to Panga Canyon Boulevard is now closed. Residents are urged
to be cautious of flooded street and safety warnings. How
the Rooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Following an Arctic blast that froze parts of the US,
record high temperatures are possible for millions in the eastern US.
Atlanta seeing temps in the low seventies. Cities that saw
freezing temperatures just days ago will be about twenty degrees
above normal, and highs are expected to be in the
seventies for parts of Iowa and Chicago, very unusual for
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this time of year. Starbucks workers in Anaheim and Long
Beach are among those it does of locations that saw
employees walk off the job. In southern California, baristas began
their strike yesterday, demanding what they call a fair union contract.
About one thousand baristas in forty cities in the US
are striking. It's being called the Red Cup Rebellion as
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it started on starbucks annual Red Cup Day. And the
Rams have a huge game Sunday when they host the
Seahawks at SOFI. The winner moves into first place in
the NFC West. Inside linebacker Nate Landman, who's in his
first season with the Rams, tells KFI that despite the
pressure to win, the players will be treating it like
any other game, you.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Know, not making it bigger than it is.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
It's just the next game.
Speaker 13 (37:36):
And I think that we do a good job treating that.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I'm in respect and every opponent, as you know, as
a top tier, top tier team.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
The Rams have won three of their last five against Seattle.
Sunday's game will be their first meeting this season, and look,
it's our last meeting this week, but we'll do it
again next week. Thanks for joining us for wake Up
Call as you do every morning. I hope. This is
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This is not good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
This is your wake up call for Friday, November fourteenth.
I'm Amy King. We live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I love that show open and I wanted Cono to
play it today because did you watch did you see
the launch yesterday of the Blue Origin New Glen It
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was spectacular. I'll tell you a little bit more about it,
but wow, it was so cool and it totally reminded
me of our friend Colonel Nick Haig because he got
to be launched in a rocket to space too. Hey,
someone called me cranky pants on the talk back on
the iHeartRadio app, which you are free to weigh in
on anytime apparently I owe Will and Ann and my sister.
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Oh wait, maybe it was kno that I want to
know it was Cono and also my sister in law
and apology, I'll tell you why coming up. Also rain rain.
It was dry on my ride in, but there's heavy
rain fallen and moors on the way. And then our
very own Will Colschreiber's still humming. It's a small world
this morning.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Got stuck on that ride last night.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
But you didn't get rained on it Disneyland, did you?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
We didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh good, So a successful day. Here's what's ahead on
wakeup call. Some areas are still dry, but the rain
is falling in a lot of areas of the Southland
this morning. Santa Barbara County has already received two to
three inches of rain. Heavy rains expected in the basin
by later this morning. Thunderstorms, flooding, debris flow, even small
tornadoes are possible. A second wave of winter weather will
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hit tomorrow. Air travels still not back to normal, but
getting better now that the government shut down is ended.
Thirty six flights were canceled and twenty eight were delayed
yesterday at Lax, big improvement from earlier this week. Forty
major airports are at six per percent reduction in air
traffic until further notice. The first group of people in
Altadena who lost their homes in January's wildfires and agree
(03:00):
not to sue so Cal Edison should be getting their
settlement offers later this month. The CEO of Edison International
says the program to pay victims was created before the
fire investigation was complete so that residents could get money faster.
He also admits that it is more apparent that Edison's
equipment sparked the eat and fire. Robots are heading into
Holmes and I'm not talking about robot vacuum cleaners. Futurist
(03:23):
Kevin Sirelli's going to join us to tell us more
in just a couple of minutes. Also, the host of
Home on KFI are very own. Dean Sharp's gonna help
you get your home rain ready. I know the rain's
already falling, but you can get ready for the next storm. Okay,
that's coming up at five twenty and with a raining
weekend on the way, it might be a good time
to hunker down on the couch or head into the
(03:44):
movie theater. ABC's Wilgan's going to join us to tell
us what's on the small and the big screen, and
also a show that may leave you feeling very festive.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A floodwatch is
up for much of southern California as the first of
two storms moves in.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
The worry is going to be the excessive rainfall rates
that may occur over the mountains.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Sebastian wester Rink with the National Weather Service says the
fast moving Pacific storm could cause dangerous conditions in recent
burn areas that has prompted evacuation warnings that will last
until Sunday.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Late Friday, we'll start seeing an increase in the precipitation rates,
and then starting Saturday morning, we could really get widespread
modern rain with some periods of heavier rain.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He says. The intense rainfall is expected to dump up
to an inch per hour in parts of Malibu. In
the Palisades, a second storm system tomorrow could push totals
above five inches in the foothills, raising the risk of mudslides, rockfall,
and debris flows across canyon roads. LA County says it's
investigating state farm over insurance claims related to January's wildfire.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Residents who lost homes or suffered damage in the Palisades
and Eaten fire say the insurance agency has denied them
or del laid their claims, or underpaid them. Consumer Watchdog
Executive director Carmen Bauber says the county's investigation could create change, and.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
What I hope to see is fair and prompt payment
of the claims the survivors have filed.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
The county says the investigation will focus on whether State
Farm has violated California's unfair competition law. State Farm is
the largest insurer across California. Michael Monks KFI News, I wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
To expand to the music publishing company that owns the
Rolling Stones. Early Catalog has sued Bear Paint in LA
for allegedly using the band's nineteen sixty six classic Painted
Black without getting the oka. Abk Co Records says Bear
violated copyright law by using the song in its Instagram account.
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The online ad shows a house being painted while the
song plays. Love that song. It's five oh seven. Let's
say good morning now to the host of Hello Future,
a podcast on iHeartRadio. It's futurist Kevin Sirelli. Good morning, Kevin.
Last week we were going to talk about robots, but
we got off on another subject and ran out of time.
So I wanted to bring you back on so we
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could talk about robots headed into your home. Maybe not
quite Rosie the made from the Jetsons, but home robots
are becoming a thing.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
No, I love this.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I love this.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
For twenty thousand dollars. There's this company called Neo that
you can have a robot essentially come to your home
or you can lease it like a car. And what
it does is you program it with an app. At
this five foot six robot humanoid robot, you program it's
routine in your app, so watering your plants, putting away
your groceries, or emptying your laundry or folding your laundry clothes.
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Now it moves incredibly slow, but the point is this
is where it gets very much a meet the future
moment where if it can't perform a function, you can
activate a human who's in another part of the country
to activate your humanoid using VR goggles and they can
take control of the robot and control the function.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Welcome to the future, Okay, that's really weird. So if
they can't do something, you just call and say, hey,
my robot can't get up the stairs to clean out
the cat box. Can you help them?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (07:19):
And so then this person who's in a warehouse or
an office, it puts on the VR goggles and then
it becomes like in the movie Avatar, your robot to
perform the function. When you think of it. From what
this means though not just from a home robot standpoint,
but from first responders, doctors, nurses, cleaning professionals, you can
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just already envision a world where, for example, cleaning services
are able to activate your robot and clean your house
without having to travel from house to house or apartment
to apartment, provided that the individual has a robot or
in larger facilities, that they're able to perform that function
through the hour of the robot, with the human not
(08:02):
even having to lift anything, but really just doing it
through a robot. Welcome to the future.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh my gosh, Kevin. That and so I'm like, it
has so many questions in my brain, like what do
they do when they're networking? And do they just lurk
around the house and check in on you while you're sleeping,
they charges.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
It goes right to the charger. No, it's a great question.
They go right to the charger, so it charges. And
I really want this personally. But I think also the
thing that from the pricing standpoint is that it costs
about what a car twenty thousand dollars. But you can
also lease it as well. And so the point is
that in the first iteration of humanoid robots, we have
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to train them because they're all on artificial intelligence. If
you remember the Ferbie if you're a millennial from when
you were a kid, it's kind of like it's like
that on steroids. And so they're going to get continue
to get faster and faster. But you know, listen, I
got to be honest, I really want this product in
my where I live. I think it could be super useful.
We already have, you know, vacuum cleaners. Why not have
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one that can do your laundry or bring you a
cup of coffee every morning. I mean, it's like a
personal assistant that could wake you up instead of an
alarm clock, because something tells me I would get out
of bed much faster if there was a humanoid robot
standing there with a cup of coffee instead of me
consistently telling my Amazon device to snooze or to shut up.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, Okay, well we're gonna have to talk more about
this because I know that you're a busy man and
you need to run. But Kevin Sirelli, thank you so
much for the peek end of the future. All right. Okay,
So on Saturday mornings, when I don't have to get
up and so I don't schedule my coffee maker to start,
I wake up and I like, look at the cats,
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and I go, hey, kids, want to go make the
coffee for me?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Meek?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And wouldn't it be cool if you had a robot
that they would do it for you? I don't know.
It's also very creepy, but sort of exciting to think
that we might all have robots in our house one day.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Federal employees had
are headed back to work now that the record government
(10:04):
shutdown has ended. What they're waiting on is when they're
going to get their back pay. Snap benefits are also
resuming for about forty two million Americans who are waiting
for their full November payments. A federal judge ruled on
Wednesday that the Trump administration can't force states to undo
their delivery of snap benefits that was playing out while
(10:24):
it was all playing out in court and the government
was still shut down. Three Chinese astronauts have returned to
Earth from their space station after a nine day delay.
It was caused by tiny cracks in the return capsule,
likely from being hit by space debris. The crew left
their Shenzo twenty spacecraft in orbit and used a newly
(10:44):
arrived Shenzo twenty one to come back. The crew two
hundred and four days stay in space was the longest
for any astronaut at China's space station. Police are looking
for a guy who shot a college athletics director in Oakland.
Speaker 9 (10:58):
We're currently asking the public's help been locating a suspect,
a potential suspect in this case. It's a male onknown
race where an all dark clothing and a black hoodie
that fled the scene.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Assistant Police Chief James Beer says investigators are looking through
surveillance video. The shooting happened yesterday near Laney College in Oakland.
The athletics structure is in the hospital. Arizona Democratic Congresswoman
Adelita Grayalva has gotten right to work in the House
after she was sworn in Wednesday. Hers was the final
signature needed for a petition for the release of the
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Justice Department's files on Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
The timing of the twenty three thousand emails that were
also released right around this time put an exclamation mark
on the need for all of the files to be
out in public.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The House Overside Committee has been releasing Epstein's emails. Toyota
is recalling more than one hundred and twenty five thousand vehicles.
ABC's Alex Stone says certain twenty twenty two to twenty
four Tundra, Lexus, RX and GX models are included.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Debrief from the manufacturer process may contaminate the engen and
cause the main bearings to fail. It could result in
an engine install or a loss of drive power.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Toyota says at higher speeds it could increase the chances
of a crash, and Toyota is working on a remedy.
More students have doubled down on their education.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
New research has concern over jobs in the economy is
causing students to choose two majors. Recent data says twelve
percent of graduates earned more than one credential, compared to.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Half that in prior years.
Speaker 11 (12:25):
Graduates who had two majors are fifty six percent less
likely to be laid off, have their pay cut, or
suffer other negative effects during economic downturns. The unemployment rate
for grads is at its highest rate in more than
eleven years. After years of falling. College to wish it
is going up again. But most universities and colleges charge
the same tuition no matter how many courses you take,
so double majoring doesn't typically cost more or take longer.
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Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
A floodwatch is in effect for all of La County
from late tonight through Saturday night as a powerful storm
moves through. Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties are also under
flood watches. Say the heaviest rainfall will be tonight and tomorrow,
but there will be breaks in the rain, sometimes for
several hours. The city of Fullerton investigating multiple bomb threats.
(13:10):
Saint Jude Medical Center, Troy High School, Fullerton Union High,
Sunny Hills High, and Fern Drive Elementary School all got
bomb threats. Yesterday police checked out all the locations. No
bombs were found. Please say they are determined to find
the source of those threats. Guess who is not only
a back to back World Series champion but also a
back to back MVP as a Dodger. Yeah, Shohey. Otani
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has been named Major League Baseball's National League Most Valuable
Player for the second year in a row. It's his
fourth MVP. The vote was unanimous. Otani hit fifty five
home runs and scored a league high one hundred and
forty six runs this season. Let's say good morning now
to the host of home on KFI. Our Sagi house,
whispered Dean Sharp, good morning. Well is it rainy where
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you are?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, okay, well there there you go. Although I would
imagine that your home is probably already ready for the rain.
But let's talk about rain and your home.
Speaker 12 (14:05):
Yeah, here's the thing. It's raining, the storms are here,
and so as far as getting ready, it's too late.
It's too late to get ready. I mean, there's if
you have any suspicion that you may have some flooding
problems up against the house, then it's not too late.
(14:26):
Probably to run down to the big box store, the
hardware store and pick up a couple of these great
little products called quick dam okay, bickdam are basically sand
bags without sand in them. They're they're a little packet
of I call them house diapers because that's how they work.
If you can imagine the material inside, these little bags
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are kind of like the material in a you know,
a high tech diaper in that they absorb a tremendous
amount of water and then they get heavy and then
they act like a sand bag and so. But the
cool thing is that they don't weigh one hundred pounds.
They weigh less than a pound when you carry out,
you know, a bag of six. Now they're a little
pricey in the sense that you know it's going to
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set you back thirty or forty dollars, But if it's
the difference between water coming in the kitchen door and not,
then it's well worth the investment. That's about all that
I want you to do at this point, other than
get out a bucket or two if you've got water dropping,
you know, leaking from the ceiling. Because I don't want
you up on the roof. Get off, don't no ladders,
(15:31):
No up on the roof while it's while we're in
the middle of a rain storm. You are more important
than your house or your floor, and so just stay
safe and then we'll talk about the aftermath when the
rain is cleared.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, Wait, can I ask you one question about this
thick damn thing so quick damn Uh, they don't weigh
very much. What's in them? Is it like those gel things?
Speaker 12 (15:52):
Yeah, it's like those crystal and gels that you would find,
you know, I mean, if you've ever seen a kid's diaper,
you know the they weigh nothing and pretty much. You know,
you could put a gallon of water inside a diaper
and it's still holding. And it's the easiest way to explain. Now,
obviously it's not exactly the same thing, but it's the
easiest way to explain how these quick dam bags work,
(16:14):
and that is that you just roll them out and
they weigh nothing, and you wait for the water to
come and if the water arrives at them, they will
begin to absorb it, and then they get very heavy
because they hold onto the water.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Very cool and then great, even more of a barrier. Okay,
so nothing to do besides put in a little barrier
there and this is a problem actually at my apartment
that when it rains really really hard, I do get
a leak, and they've tried to fix it and tried
to fix it. So after the rain stops, how do
you find where the leaks are coming in?
Speaker 12 (16:45):
Yeah, that is a tricky thing, even for an experienced professional.
I'll just tell you right now, we should not assume
that the leak in the roof is right above where
the water is coming into the room, okay, because there
are so many places for water to run and move
along wood elements and building elements before it actually drips
(17:07):
and then eventually finds its way down through the dry
wall and into the room. So it's gonna be near
it ish, but not necessarily right above. So we don't
want to just again, we don't want to make the
mistake of getting up on the roof and saying, well,
I know where the leak is dripping through the house,
so I'm just gonna put a bunch of mastic or
Henry's patching compound right here. Yeah, not a guarantee. Water
(17:30):
rolls downhill and so anywhere higher on the roof, and
you know, within ten to twenty feet of where the
leak is could be the actual source of the water
coming through the roof. If you can get in the
attic again after the storm, look around, try and see
traces of where the water has moved against elements, framing
(17:54):
elements and so on. That's one thing probably though after
the fact it's time to all in a roofer and
door a builder and let them try and figure it out.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Okay, See, just a couple of great tips for you
as the rain is falling, and I would imagine you'll
be talking a lot about rain and its aftermath and
how to make your home ready for the next storm
on your show this weekend. You can listen to Dean
It's home right here on KFI with Dean Sharp six
to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday, and
(18:25):
you can follow him at Home with Dean. Thank you, Dean,
Thanks Amy. All right, Hey, just getting in. Walmart's CEO
Doug McMillian. McMillan has announced that he's going to retire
and the head of US Operations, John Ferner, is going
to take over. McMillan's going to step down in January.
The federal government has joined Republicans in California in suing
(18:46):
to stop Prop fifty and its new congressional maps. First
Assistant US Attorney Bill A. Saley tells kfi's John Cobalt
Show that organizers violated the law when a new district
was drawn solely with a Tino majority.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
In mind, and there was nothing wrong with the maps
that were drawn by the independent commission to say that
they needed to be remedied, or somehow those maps were
racists in themselves, and therefore we had to remedy that racism.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
With this racism, the Trump administration is asking the court
to ban the use of the map because it accuses
California of racial gerrymandering. Voters overwhelmingly approved Prop fifty last week,
which would likely result in five more Democrats being elected
to Congress from California. Forty three of the state's fifty
two congress members are already Democrats. The South Coast Air
(19:36):
Quality Management District has approved more than seventy eight million
dollars for dozens of school districts in southern California to
replace high polluting buses with zero emission models. The money
will pay for buses in La Orange, Riverside, and San
Bernardino Counties. The LA School district will get the largest
number of clean buses. The federal governments reopened, but some
(19:56):
La City Council members say they want to make sure
that residents who fell behind without their SNAP benefits get
the food and services they need. Council Woman Isabelle Herado
says the disruption forced families into difficult situations.
Speaker 13 (20:10):
It will now be able to provide immediate relief to
families affected by the recent Family of Food Assistants cuts,
including expanded food distributions and direct support for essential needs.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Herato and three other council members, Hugo Soto, Martinez, Unices Hernandez,
and Care and Price, have directed funds to agencies in
their districts to support constituents in need. The roughly one
million dollars will fund access to food and other services.
A nonprofit group issued Orange County based carmakers Hyundai and Kia,
(20:41):
claiming they violated state law against unfair competition by using immigrants, inmates,
and even children as young as thirteen years old to
do labor jobs to move America accuses the companies of
using cheap labor and hiding it to secure contracts from
public agencies. In California, Weight Training may be even better
than running when it comes to losing weight.
Speaker 14 (21:01):
Scientists Virginia Tech conducted an experiment on mice and found
that running and weight lifting both improved blood sugar control,
but weight training was even more effective at reducing body
fat than running. No mention of whether they gave the
mice tiny little dumbbells. Research was published in the Journal
of Sport and Health Science. Lead researcher Xen Yang says
folks should try for both endurance and resistance exercises to
(21:23):
get the most health benefits. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Little Teeny Tiny dumbbell Sex and the City Star Jessica
Parker Sarah Jessica Parker will receive the Golden Globes Carol
Burnett Award honoring her contributions to television. Parker will get
the award during the televised event Golden Eve on January eighth,
that happens three days before the Golden Globes are awarded.
(21:49):
Three to six inches of rain could fall across southern
California before this storm system moves out. The first band
of the storm is arriving today. The heaviest rain expected
to fall late tonight and into Sound Saturday, forecaster safe
thunderstorms are possible from Santa Marie at a long beach,
which could include strong winds, hail, heavy rain, and even
small tornadoes. La Mayor bass Is touted what she calls
(22:10):
a milestone in efforts to fast track rebuilding in the
Pacific Palisades. She highlighted the first approvals under a new
pilot program for single family homes. It's called the Standard
Plan Pilot Program. The aim is to provide a library
of pre approved code compliance single family home designs instead
of individual ones that is intended to reduce permitting time
(22:34):
and cost. Mammoth Mountain has delayed the start of its
ski season again because of the big storm moving through California.
Was supposed to open tomorrow. Up to fourteen inches of
snow is expected to fall on the slopes today at
six oh five. Handle on the news, the BBC says
sorry to President Trump, but then says it's misleading. Edit
of his January sixth speech was not defamation, Okay. So
(22:57):
in all the nastiness that is in our world, sometimes
we get to take a little break from that and
see something super exciting and inspirational. And so I got
home from work yesterday, flipped on the news channel because
that's what I do, and I got to watch the
launch of Blue Origins New Glenn rocket. They're launching NASA
(23:18):
probes to Mars. It's going to take a while to
get there, but they are officially kind of on their way.
The launch was delayed by about a half an hour,
and so I was just kind of watching and not
really paying attention to doing stuff around the house. And
then came the final countdown three to war.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Stuff effected.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Both motions.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And the shears that you could hear were just so cool,
like from inside the control room. And then also they
had people, they had cameras and stuff on the people
out at Cape Canaveral outside watching it. And when those
seven engines fired and that huge plume of white smoke
and they dump water down on the rocket apparently to
(24:08):
keep the engines from I don't know, overheating and blowing up.
But it was just so cool. And then hearing the
excitement of the announcers and the cheers from the crowd,
and then there's that nervous anticipation as the rocket goes
through a series of stages and they're like, ah, we're
coming up on separation, you know, and you're like, Okay,
(24:29):
is it gonna happen? Is gonna happen if something bad
gonna happen, because bad things have happened, and they've been
caught live on you know, I mean the Challenger explosion,
that kind of stuff. And then it goes supersonic about
a minute thirty into the launch, and they just go
crazy again. And I'm thinking, Hey, our friend Colonel Nick Haig,
who we had to talk to on the International Space Station,
launched into space on a rocket like that. And then
(24:51):
the rocket boosters separate from New Glen and it starts
falling back to Earth. And so they've only tried this.
This was only the second attempt at length the booster
rocket like SpaceX does it all the time, but Blue
Origin hasn't done it. So it's falling and it's like
falling horizontal, just this little white thing in the middle
(25:11):
of the screen, and then it slowly starts tilting. You're like,
I think they're adjusting it's trajectory, and then it's going
and then it turns vertical and it takes aim at
this little tiny platform in the middle of the ocean,
and then we get a side shot from the rocket
booster down at the ground, and you're like, how'd they
(25:32):
get the camera on there? And how they get to
get it to stay there? I mean, this thing was supersonic, right,
and then you see this big, huge explosion, and then
the next thing you see is the rocket standing there
upright on the platform, and like, everybody just loses their
minds again. It was just so cool to see. I mean,
(25:54):
it was like emotional just to see the I don't know,
just the technology and everything that went into it, and
everybody was so excited and it was just so inspiring,
you know. And like I said, with all the nastiness
and the backbiting and all the crud going on in
the world, it's so cool to see something like that.
I'm sure you can go find a replay of it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It was amazing to see a live in person. No,
I accidentally did. I was influidated at just the right time. Well,
it was delayed on to a day that I wasn't
even I wasn't supposed to be there, and yeah, I
got to see Falcon nine and it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's pretty powerful.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, So anyway, I just wanted to share that with you.
It was spectacular. Uh, time to get in your business
now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegriny. Good morning, Denise. Hey, Happy Friday,
Happy Friday. Hey, we just got big news. I'm guessing
you heard it. The Walmart CEO said he's stepping down.
I'm guessing that that might have an effect on Walmart today.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (26:54):
So what's interesting is that this is not exactly a
bad thing. I mean, Doug mcmillan'll not be retiring I
think until February. John Ferner will be replacing of He's
fifty nine, so he's a little bit of a younger
generation McMillan. You remember, started at Walmart as an hourly worker.
He worked his way up, obviously, so he transformed the
(27:17):
company to the digital powerhouse that we know it as now.
But it's not like there's a scandal. Okay, So it's
not a bad thing. It's just not regression. Yeah, okay,
it's not like he's part of the Epstein Okay, cool, normal.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, there is a Warner Brothers Discovery and apparently several
people want it.
Speaker 15 (27:38):
Paramount, Comcast, Netflix, Amy all preparing bids for Warner Brothers Discovery.
There's a deadline just before Thanksgiving a Warner Brothers Discovery
says it has multiple offers. It's also amended the contract
of the CEO to ensure as stock options remain viable
even if the entertainment and media company is sold. So
there obviously is a lot of preparation underway and a
(27:59):
lot of companies rush to get their bid in.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, Hey, I had a friend who worked at Nike
and they just used to have so many cool perks.
It's based in Beaverton. I'm from Oregon, but not so
much anymore. And now they're doing away with Wellness Week
for workers.
Speaker 15 (28:12):
Yeah, that was the one that gave employees an extra
week off a year for mental health and wellness. Right
now they're taking that away, one of the perks they're
not offering people anymore. Kind of a reminder though, that
it's always better even if they take the perks away.
It's always better to have a job, or usually better
to have a job than not. Sources tell us Verizon,
for example, as I'm cutting up to twenty thousand jobs
(28:34):
as the new CEO there makes this mark.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay, price of bananas and other food might be coming down,
how come?
Speaker 15 (28:40):
Yeah, bananas, coffee, beef, so you got breakfast and dinner there,
and some apparel and textiles under framework agreements with Argentina, Guatemala,
El Salvador and Ecuador that the Trump administration is working on.
They claim that when they get these trade deals that'll
lower barriers for those countries. I will see a drop now.
(29:00):
Of course, you know, some of these things went up
because of Trump administration tariffs, so but now they're coming
down all right.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
And a Wicked for Good hits theaters next week. And
of course I just saw a wicked cereal in the
grocery store, and Chili's has a wicked themed item as well.
Speaker 15 (29:19):
Yeah, if the popularity of these new wicked themed items
Margarita's at Chili's, you mentioned they've got the Witch's Brew
marg the Good Witch marg If the popularity of all
these margaritas and all these other wicked things is any
indication this film is going to be a huge hit.
The universal film stars Arion and Grande and others. She's
(29:41):
Glinda comes out around November twenty one. These drinks have
just been out for a week, but if you look
on TikTok, they are very very popular. It's not like
people are just going once for them either, well.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Maybe they're good margaritas. I'm guessing that they're pink and green.
Speaker 15 (29:57):
They are pink and green and green figures dreamly prominently.
And also, you know, we love to talk about food.
It's National Pickle Day today, so a lot of restaurants
have free pickle related items. And of course, if you're
on TikTok at all, you know that glitter pickles is
a huge thing, supposedly made with edible glitter. Okay, Jocky
(30:17):
Junior might have something to say about that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And we'll leave it there, getting in your business like
we do every day with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Thanks Denise,
have a great weekend too. Flooding, debris flows, thunderstorms, hail,
even small tornadoes are all possible as a strong storm
rolls into southern California. Forecast to say it's expected to
dump two rounds of sometimes heavy rain. Residents of recent
burn areas are under evacuation warnings. The Department of Justice
(30:42):
is joined California State Republicans in a federal lawsuit that
challenges the constitutionality of Prop. Fifty. It was passed by
voters this month. Overwhelmingly. It allows Democrats to redraw voting
districts to favor Democrats. Hearing a set four November twenty
first in LA on the federal government efforts to join
the Case two way Superstar Show. Hey Otani has won
(31:03):
his fourth MVP Award in a unanimous vote. Only Barry
Bonds has won more. Otani had arguably the greatest single
game in Major League history when he pitched six innings,
striking out ten and also hit three home runs in
Game four of the NLCS. He's won back to back
World Series as a Dodger too. Let's say good morning
(31:23):
now to ABC's Will gans Cesar entertainment guru. So, Will,
if you're still feeling more like Halloween than Christmas, you
can watch Frankenstein.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
So this is the Jacob Elordi version of Frankenstein. It
was just in theaters and Netflix has already released it
on its streaming platform, so you can watch it at home.
And this is the movie that Giermo del Toro has said,
you know, for decades is his dream project, adapting Frankenstein
into his version of a feature length film, and he
(31:58):
has done it in a very Ghermo del Toro way,
and it is pretty stunning. Oscar Isaac plays the scientist,
I said, Jacob Elordi plays the monster, and it is
cinematic and sweeping, and the you know, the vibe is
just appropriately creepy, and it is you know, really really
(32:19):
well told. You know, there are some nods to the
nineteen thirties Frankenstein movie, of course, you know, it's fairly
faithful to the Mary Shelley novel, but he adds a
few little tweaks of his own in there. And so
if you're looking for just a really well acted and
sort of cinematic movie to watch at home, I would
(32:42):
highly recommend Ghermo del Toros Frankenstein. That's streaming now on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Okay, here's what I have to say about it. Because
I knew you were going to talk about it, and
I was like, oh, I should go watch that. I
didn't realize it had gotten the next Netflix so quickly.
So I agree that cinematically it is pretty pretty beautiful.
It's you know, yeah, very big in grandiose, and uh,
Jacob a LORDI by the way, when he's not the
Frankenstein's monster is a hottie. But uh, I didn't love it.
(33:10):
I just thought it felt like it just dragged.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
On, that was just a couple Yeah, yeah, I mean
I feel that, like I think there are a couple
plotlines some characters that he added that like, you know,
you're sort of like, okay, if this character was missing,
I don't think it would really change the trajectory of
the film that much. But you know, when you consider
(33:35):
that this is his passion project, like he has been, Yeah,
I mean I understand why. It's as you know.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It didn't do much in theater, did it.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Not really? No? No, yeah, yeah, I don't think you know,
it has It's it's over two hours, which for a
lot of people is a tough sell.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, it's like two and a half hours, so it
was a lot, but it is. It is a very
i mean, like visually, it's a very stunning movie, and
it's an interesting adaptation of the story and that kind
of stuff. And you know, these straight to or the
streaming movies are great, you know, because you don't have
to pay extra for them, and they're entertaining.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Enough exactly, and if it's as rainy as we as
they say it is in La you know, if you're
going to be stuck at home anyway, it's a cool
way to spend a couple hours.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Okay, now here's something really scary. The Jonas Brothers star
in a brand new holiday movie.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Yes, I mean, somehow we're celebrating two decades of the
Joe Bros. This year, and you know they have been
on tour for a while, they are still on tour
right now, and somehow also managed to film a Christmas
movie this year as well. It's called a Very Jonas
Christmas Movie and hits Disney Plus today and I went
in with very low expectations, all right, I was so
(34:53):
pleasantly surprised. The movie starts with Will Ferrell as a
Joe Bros. Super fan who is like dying to see
them in concert. And then of course you know they're
in Europe and they need to get home for the holidays,
and there's a storm that hits, and so a very
familiar formula for a holiday movie. But they are very funny.
Of course Will Ferrell is great, and the music in it,
(35:15):
there's a lot of brand new holiday music that they've
recorded and it's wonderful. I was just very pleasantly surprised
by this movie. So if you need a new holiday
movie to jump start this season. A very Jonas Christmas
hits Disney Plus today.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Okay, well, we've been scolding people about one holiday at
a time, so if you must break that rule, a
very Jonas Christmas. And if you don't want to rape,
you know, Thanksgiving's not that far away if you need
to wait, all right, will gans? Thank you so much?
Sounds like a great weekend to sit on the couch.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
There you go, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, you too. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
The rain has moved into southern California, and forecasters say
it's gonna be here through the weekend.
Speaker 16 (35:57):
National Weather Service says a strong Pacific could bring dangerous
flooding and debris flow to recent burn areas. Evacuation warnings
are in place for parts of the Palisades and Franklin
fire zones.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Where we could see the majority of our moderate to
heavy rain will likely be late Friday into throughout the
day Saturday.
Speaker 16 (36:17):
Meteorologists Sebastian Westering says a second system Saturday could push
totals above five inches. Crews have installed k rails and
to Panga Canyon Boulevard is now closed. Residents are urged
to be cautious of flooded street and safety warnings. How
the Rooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Following an Arctic blast that froze parts of the US,
record high temperatures are possible for millions in the eastern US.
Atlanta seeing temps in the low seventies. Cities that saw
freezing temperatures just days ago will be about twenty degrees
above normal, and highs are expected to be in the
seventies for parts of Iowa and Chicago, very unusual for
(36:54):
this time of year. Starbucks workers in Anaheim and Long
Beach are among those it does of locations that saw
employees walk off the job. In southern California, baristas began
their strike yesterday, demanding what they call a fair union contract.
About one thousand baristas in forty cities in the US
are striking. It's being called the Red Cup Rebellion as
(37:15):
it started on starbucks annual Red Cup Day. And the
Rams have a huge game Sunday when they host the
Seahawks at SOFI. The winner moves into first place in
the NFC West. Inside linebacker Nate Landman, who's in his
first season with the Rams, tells KFI that despite the
pressure to win, the players will be treating it like
any other game, you.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Know, not making it bigger than it is.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
It's just the next game.
Speaker 13 (37:36):
And I think that we do a good job treating that.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I'm in respect and every opponent, as you know, as
a top tier, top tier team.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
The Rams have won three of their last five against Seattle.
Sunday's game will be their first meeting this season, and look,
it's our last meeting this week, but we'll do it
again next week. Thanks for joining us for wake Up
Call as you do every morning. I hope. This is
KFI and KOSHD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. This has
(38:03):
been your wake up call. If you missed any of
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