December 10, 2025 • 38 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan opens the show talking about poisonous fungus. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about the Pebble Index Ring, Slates modular EV concept, and ways to connect with Santa. Denise Pellegrini from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with Amy talking with veterinarian ER visits being extremely expensive.
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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
KFI and kost HB two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Booked morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Wednesday, December tenth, two weeks away
from Christmas Eve, fifteen days from Christmas Day. Every time
I say that, apparently it stresses producer and out. It's
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not meant to stress you out. It's meant to make
you happy and excited. Okay, I'm gonna go down the
list all things I still gotta do. I'm way behind,
way behind. So but I'm not going to stress about
it this year because it's you know what, I got
bigger fish to fry, like a fifteen dollars VET bill yesterday.
I'm going to tell you about that. Here is what
(01:08):
the head on wake up call. Governor Newsom's becoming pretty popular.
A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California
says Newsom's favorability rating is up from forty six points
in June to fifty six points this month, more than
half of those surveyed say California is on the right track.
LA Mayor Bass's office is offered to work with the
(01:30):
man who was arrested for vandalism for putting sidewalks and
not sidewalks, but crosswalks in his neighborhood. Jonathan Hale, says
he and others have been painting the crosswalks to make
intersections in Westwood safer. He was arrested and cited for
vandalism Sunday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has
(01:50):
adopted arrest a resolution opposing oil drilling off the coast
of southern California. Last month, the Trump administration announced it's
going to reopen ocean waters off the Pacific coast to
oil drilling leases, which immediately drew opposition from California officials
and environmentalists. People have been dying for some good fungus.
ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna tell us about why warnings are
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going out to people who've been foraging for mushrooms in California.
A ring to use as an external memory for your brain.
I know I could use that also, A new customizable
ev and how you can teach UH or how you
can use tech to connect with your Santa and your
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child this year. That's coming up with the host of
Rich on Tech, Rich demiro KTLA's Tech Reporter. That's at
five twenty. My favorite Christmas movie that will get you
in the spirit of the season and you may have
never heard of it before. Amy's on it at the
bottom of the hour. Also, Shelby, my cat and I
went out and about yesterday to the veterinary emergency room.
(02:59):
What up into pets being inexpensive additions to your home?
We're going to tell you a little bit more about that.
I might rant a little bit. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. At Netflix is facing a class action
lawsuit over its plans to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. The
case was filed by someone in Las Vegas. They claim
(03:20):
the pending deal risks irreparable anti trust injury to consumers.
The lawsuit warns of a reduction and competition and the
subscription video on demand market if the deal is approved.
Of course, Paramount is also trying to buy Warner Brothers Discovery,
even though a deal with Netflix has already been announced.
An expert witness in the aftermath of the Palisades Viru says,
(03:43):
no one's taking responsibility. Michael Kuret tells kfi's John Cobalt
that that applies to politicians and to agencies.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh of California and not just AVENUSOMB.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's the mayor, it's even our senators. We don't even
have senates here.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We have to get people from out of our state
to help us. That they have an admitted Faull.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Gareth has a website where people can get information on
what has transpired since day one of the fire. It's
fire rebuild dot Com. Workers of John Wayne Airport in
Orange County flipped out a bit when they caught an
airport security guard on video speeding down an airstrip in
(04:24):
a white car. Officials say the guard may have been
experiencing a medical emergency Monday afternoon. The video shows him
speeding past planes and airport workers on the taxiway, apparently
not very far from those planes that were getting ready
to take off. He was later detained. Sheriff's deputies requested
a medical assessment by the Orange County Fire Authority. A
trade lighting ceremony in northeast LA has gone dark.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It was a surprise not just to the guests at
Herman Park, but also to city Councilwoman Isabelle Herado when
the power box was discovered to be burned out. She
says no city department could help her.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
In fact, no.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
One seems to know who's responsible for that box.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Safety begins with the equitable delivery of city services. If
people can't trust us with the small things, how can
they trust us with the big ones.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
The tree was lit on Saturday night using a temporary fix,
but it's dark again while the city tries to figure
it all out. Dorado says this is an example of
bureaucracy in LA that residents frequently have to deal with.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I hated dark Christmas tree. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's Jim Ryan. And Jim let's talk about the
fungus among us and why we need to steer clear
of it.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Well you should, because yes, there are some out there
that can be quite dangerous, can be fatal. In fact,
in the San Francisco Bay and Monterey area, there have
been twenty one people who've gotten sick after eating something
called a death cap that's this specific mushroom that is
pretty widespread across the West coast, also in the Northeast
as well. And yeah, twenty one cases, one person has died.
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But this is a kind of annual problem. Thousands of
people get sick every year from eating poisonos mushrooms, and
about three on average every year died from that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, So I'm looking at the picture of the death
cap mushroom.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It looks very innocent and sweet, looks like an everyday mushroom,
and that's probably part of the problem is it doesn't
look there's nothing menacing looking about it, and it looks
similar to other mushrooms it does.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Yeah, then if you don't have a trained eye, then yeah,
you could find yourself getting into trouble. And don't think that, Okay,
I've found one of these all just cook it. That'll
take out any poison. Or I'll freeze it and then
use it. No, the death cap mushroom, the poison within
is unaffected by extremes in heat, so yeah, I don't
think that that's going to handle it. So, but the
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thing is that mushroom foraging has gotten very popular around the.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Country because we all want to get back to nature.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yes, right, baby, let's get on out there in the
woods forage for mushrooms and whatnot. But no, so with
the growing popular and I looked at a map, a
national map of different clubs around the country that are
popped up around this kind of thing, around foraging, and
they're all over the place, mycological societies, even as far
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east as Kansas City they have one there, but they're
all over the place. So yeah, I don't think that
this is just a California or Northern California problem, something
that people around the country need to be watching out
for as they pick up foraging.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, so if you insist on foraging, are there any
things that you should be looking for or any things
you should do to make sure that you don't pick
up a death cap?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Well, you can try Google images, take a picture of
that mushroom that you found, and then run it through
Google Images on your phone, and it will probably tell
you the type of mushroom it is. But I'm not
sure I would trust that. I think the best thing
to do is to get with an expert. If you
want to get into foraging, then find somebody who's done
it before, who's familiar with it. Maybe knows something about it.
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Otherwise you could end up with them being one of
the seventy four hundred people every year who suffer from mushroom.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't get the whole mushroom thing. They don't have
much flavor the time.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Mushrooms are magnificent.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
They're great if they're sautat in lots and lots of butter.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Yeah, well, they're good raw too.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, So if you insist on eating wild mushrooms, what
can happen and what are some of the things to
watch out for.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Well, first you start getting sick.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
It's like any stomach issue, right, all the things that
just imagine lets your imagination go in terms of what
happened if I ate something that really made me sick.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
That's the first part.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Then comes much more serious for a few from some
small percentage of people. And by the way, most of
the people most of these seventy four hundred mushroom exposure
cases each year involve children under six. They're the ones
finding these things and eating them. So beyond the stomach issues,
then kidney failure and liver failure is the real problem here.
That at least one of the people involved in the
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Northern California cases right now may end up on the
liver transplant transplant list because of severe liver damage from
eating those mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So is it just a bite or is it like
a whole plate of mushrooms to get that?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
And it depends on you.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And that's that's one of the reasons that children are
more susceptible because it doesn't take as much. So small
bite or a medium sized bite, eating the whole thing,
and if you end up with this illness, it really
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, Well, here's what I have to say. Go watch
the Last of Us.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Oh what happened there?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
The fungus takes over. Oh okay, fungus infects everybody and
kills everybody. So yeah, I still like mushrooms. Okay, we'll
get him at the store, gym.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Okay, Well, all right, thank you, sees.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Jim Ryan, see you all right, take care. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. The Federal Reserve is
expected to announce it's third interest rate cut this year.
Investors are expecting the Fed is going to cut interest
rates by a quarter percent today. That would be the
same size as the last two cut. The Central Banks
Board meetings started yesterday and an announcement is expected later
(10:05):
this morning. A Democrat has won the race for mayor
of Miami for the first time in nearly thirty years.
Eileen Higgins beat out the Republican candidate yesterday, Emilio Gonzalez,
who was endorsed by President Trump. The city has a
large Latino community, and Higgins often criticized Trump's immigration crackdown.
Two competing proposals to deal with the increasing cost of
(10:27):
health insurance are now in the Senate, but ABC Stephen
Portnois's neither is expected to get the sixty votes needed
to pass.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
The Republican proposal now emerging in the Senate would inject
federal dollars into health savings accounts, but Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer calls it a phony proposal.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The proposals are expected to be voted on tomorrow now.
Moderate House Republicans have introduced legislation to extend Enhanced Affordable
Care Act subsidies.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Bill, which also has support from Democratic lawmakers, would extend
the subst these for two years with new income limits
and anti fraud measures. Without congressional action, The inhanced subsidies
are set to expire on December thirty first. It's not
clear if House leadership will support the latest plan or
any of the bipartisan proposals circulating. However, Republican House Speaker
Mike Johnson said leadership is developing a proposal to unveil
(11:19):
as soon as this week. Tammy Trio KFI News.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The man accused of shooting two students at Kentucky State University,
killing one has been arrested for murder and first degree assault.
Investigators say Jacob Bart is accused of shooting the students
yesterday afternoon. They say Bart isn't a student at the
university and no details on a motive have been released.
Classes at the university have been canceled. School leaders are
(11:44):
making counseling and support services available for students, faculty and staff.
Australia has officially become the first country to ban social media,
all of it for kids under sixteen. Pediatrician doctor Darien
Sutton says the ban comes as a new study shows
that children who spend more time on social media may
have trouble staying focused.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
One of the reasons why scientists believe that social media
is Specifically, a tie to an attention is because it
provides endless, scrollable content. It constantly asks your brain to
shift comments, likes, notifications.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He says. As a result, kids can be easily distracted,
have problems with organization, and trouble managing their school life.
The head of the Nobel Institute says Venezuelan opposition leader
and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado is going
to miss the ceremony to award her the prize in Oslo.
The institute director told public broadcaster NRK Machado's daughter is
(12:39):
going to accept it for her. A news conference Machada
was expected to attend this week was canceled. She last
appeared in public eleven months ago. She is said to
be in hiding and barred from leaving Venezuela, TikTok, Instagram
and Utah YouTube. Speaking of social media are rotting your brain.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
And you, study says more recent showing watching a lot
of short form videos creates problems with focus and self control.
Other psychological studies are saying heavy consumption of short videos
is also linked to depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness. Experts
say the short VIDs can provide opportunities for learning and
community building online, but if it's isolating you from other
people who could rotch your brain like video games and
(13:19):
TV on steroids. Brainrod is the supposed deterioration of a
person's mental or intellectual state, according to Oxer University, which
named brain rot it's word of the Year last year.
Michael Krozer k if I.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Used, I think Krozer likes that word. Brainrot, brain rot.
Brain Roight editor Carla says that mushrooms are nutty and delicious.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I wanted a pepperoni and mushroom pizza right after you
did that story here.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I was like, Mmm, okay, sounds so good. I've not
heard nutty used for mushrooms. Not much of a mushroom
of fishing autum, all right, But like I said, salted
and butter, Okay, we'll take it. Hundreds of law enforcement officers, dignitaries,
relatives and friends gathered in poorjer Porter Ranch to say
a final farewell to a twenty eight year old Alhambra
(14:03):
police officer Alexanders, was killed in a crash with the
driver of a stolen suv last month. Along with the
procession of police and emergency vehicles to Shepherd Church. Two
ladder trucks formed an arch with an American flag drap
from it. Just getting worried that a person's been shot
at a liquor store in South LA. We'll bring more
details as those come. In a new kind of driverless
(14:26):
delivery for Waimo, company, officials say a woman recently gave
birth in one of its robotaxis on the way to
UC San Francisco Medical Center. Officials say the remote rider
support team was alerted to unusual activity in the car.
Mom and her newborn baby arrived safely at the hospital
a short time later. I don't envy the next person
(14:48):
to ride in that way. See does that cost extra?
At six oh five, it's handled on the news, the
head of LA's homeless services program has quit. Let's say
good morning now to the host of on Tech on kfite.
It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, so I have a quick question for you before
we dive into our topics today, and that is that
I got an email that appears to have been from Facebook,
and it basically says, hey, turn on advanced protections. Your
account requires security through advanced protection. And I don't know
if it's like things look so real now. I don't
(15:28):
know if it's real or not. But it did have
a click through, and so I didn't click through. But
is that a real thing?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Good call? It is real.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It's called advanced protection, and basically, congratulations. This is reserved
for accounts that reach or have the potential to reach
a lot of people. And basically Facebook is saying, we
are protecting you from you. So we're going to put
on some advanced protections, which basically involves two factor authentication.
They are automatically going to enable that and when anyone
(15:58):
logs into your account, they are going to rutinize that
log in a little more closely than any other log
in on their site. So it's a good thing, and
they're just basically trying to make sure that no one
uses your account, no one hacks it, no one takes
it over to spread misinformation.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, so that's good. But so if they're going to
do that automatically, again, things look so real now, And
there was a way to there's a click through. It
says turn on, you know, advanced protection, and I was like,
I can't click through to that, So am I going
to get that same thing when I go to Facebook?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, you should get a notification when you go to Facebook.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I agree.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And this is what the hackers and scammers do. They
impersonate all the things that we know. They make these
very convincing emails that look like the stuff that we
actually get, like what you just said. And so yes,
in general, do not click any link inside any email
that comes to you that says, hey, we need help
with your account, or you have to do something, you
have to make this change. Always go to your account
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itself when in question directly there.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, here's something else that I could certainly use, and
that is an external brain and it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Comes This was so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It comes in the size of a ring.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yes, it's a it's a it's called the Pebble Index
O one and it's basically a tiny ring that records
your thoughts and it's super simple. It comes from the
guy who made the Pebble Watch. It's just a very
simple ring with a built in mic and a button.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And when you have an.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Idea that hits your brain, you just use your index
finger your thumb to press the button on your index
finger ring and you record it. It goes right to
your phone, never get sent to the internet, never gets
sent to the cloud, and all of your stuff is
organized on your phone for easy reference later. You can
set reminders. The ring battery lasts for about two years.
It's seventy five dollars right now, and when battery is up,
(17:42):
you can send it back in buy a new one, presumably.
But kind of a cool idea because it's it's less
distracting than some other solutions out there.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well yeah, because I have brilliant ideas a lot rich
but you don't. We all but they're fleeting, you know,
and you go, what was I What was that idea?
Like I have? So I think if you just had
to push the button and it's on your hand already
and go hey da da da da, and then you
can remember it later.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I already do this on my Apple Watch. I've got
an app called Whisper Memos that I love, Love, Love,
Love love. And the thing that this does that's really
cool is not only does it record what you say,
but it transcribes it with like perfect accuracy, Like I'm
not kidding, it's it's insane. Like I went to a
session last night at Amazon studios.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I recorded the.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Whole thing an hour, got back every single thing perfectly
in my email in the morning, and then I can
summarize it and get the notes that I took, you know,
and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, but it emails
it to you. That's the trick. So it's in your
inbox when you get out of your car or wherever
you are when you come back to your computer.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, And that one's the Whisper or that's the Pebble
index ring.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That's the Whisper Memos WHI s P E R Memos
dot com. And that's available for Apple Watch and the iPhone.
But I like it on the Apple Watch. I just
do one tap and boom, I'm recording.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That sounds cool. Okay. So there's some new cars and
they basically are like legos.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, that's one way to describe them.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
This is called a slate ev it's from a startup
that's going to start selling these next year. And you
know how back in the day, when you buy a car,
if you got the base model, it was kind of
junkie bare bones. Well that's their entire business model. They're saying, look,
we're giving you bare bones. So this thing is really cheap.
The price keeps creeping up over the years. It started
at like under twenty now it's like mid twenties. But
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the idea is that there's nothing in this car that
you don't need, including amy, no radio, what, no center console,
so you literally stick your phone in the middle. There's
not even bluetooth you have to These are all add ons.
Like if you don't want Bluetooth, you don't get it.
If you don't want speakers, you don't have them. I mean,
it's everything is an add on in this car. I
mean it's pretty wild. So you get the basics, you
(19:49):
get air conditioning and heat, you get roll down windows,
and you get a little tiny dashboard that shows your
speed and things.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But that's it. Everything else than add on.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Okay. I was going to ask about the windows. Can
you imagine if we went back to rolldown.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You know what, how many times do you really put
down your windows?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Think about it. I'm thinking about this the other day. No,
I don't want to hear them the outside.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I want to be in my little cocoon, Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I don't want reality to creep in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I do not blame you at all, Rich Okay, but
speaking of non reality, here's something. I saw your picture
that you posted on your Instagram of you and Santa
and we're going high tech for Christmas this year, and
it's not you and Santa.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
No, this is so wild.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
You got to check out my instagram at rich on Tech.
I posted a picture of a retro mall Santa picture
of me and Santa. I sent it to my family.
I said, oh, remember this to my mom and dad
and sisters and brothers. And then a minute later, I'm like,
this is fake. This never happened. And you basically take
a picture of yourself, you feed it into Google's nano
(20:54):
banana and you say, and I'll give you the prompt.
It's all my website rich on tech dot tv. But
you will not believe people are sending me their pictures
that they've created.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
They are so realistic.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's pretty wild craziness. Okay, so that's your AI Santa photo.
And then there is a live video chat service that
you can have the kids have a little chit chat
with Santa.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, this is very realistic.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It's kind of fun. It's like almost like a FaceTime
with Santa. Santa dot Tavis Tavus dot io. You basically
log on and you can chat with Santa. So I've
got that on my website as well, linked up. That
went viral last year. I think they improved it this
year and so it's just kind of a fun way
for the kids to talk with Santa. I also have
a Santa telephone if you want to spend some money
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on that. The kids can connect with Santa using a telephone.
That's all linked up on the website as well. But
you know, look, I'm finding the techi ways to connect
the old school days of going to the mall. You know,
who's got time for that?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Right? Who wants to wait in that line? And the
video chat thing is that? So that's an Ai Santa.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's an Ai Santa. But it is I mean, it's
Santa's helper, let's be real. But it's it's quite good.
Dana can answer your questions, he remembers things about you.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It's it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Quandary, what do you tell your children? Is that real
Santa or is it memorys Santa? Remember memory?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It depends you know how slick your kids are.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I think I you know, look, I think these are
you know, I've never met the real Santa, so I
feel like these are all Santa's helpers.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Absolutely, I like the way you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Okay, it's kfi's tech guy and KTLA's tech guy too.
Rich Demiro. You can hear him live on rich on
Tech every Saturday from eleven to two. You can watch
him on KTLA. You can follow him on Instagram and
see his Santa picture at rich on Tech. Also his
website with everything that he talks about rich on Tech
dot tv, and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Thank you Rich Demiro, Thank you Amy.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
All Right. Next week, high school bullying in California is
up while attendance is down. A new study from UCLA
and You See Riverside says as ice raids continue, a
lot of immigrant students are being bullied and are absent
at higher rates. Seventy percent of public high school principles
say their students from immigrant families are afraid for themselves
or their families. The last of seven suspects in a
(23:09):
home invasion robbery and Irvine's been arrested in Nevada. He's
a waiting extradition to LA. Police say the group broke
in September twenty third, and tied up one of the
people inside before another called police and the would be
robbers took off. Prosecutors say the family may have been
targeted because they have millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Cal
State Northridge has received millions a sixty three million dollar
(23:33):
donation from Jeff Bezos's ex Mackenzie Scott also gave forty
million dollars to the school in twenty twenty one, making
her total donations among the largest ever received by cal
State Northridge. At six o five at Handle on the News,
could this be a harbinger of things to come? Miami
has elected its first Democratic mayor in thirty years.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Amy's on Itami's honest, Amy's on it.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, this is really weird. We were just talking to
Rich Demiro about this fake Santa photo and I just
looked over at KTLA and there he has it. This
fake Santa ho photo brings Santa home with aid. Right. Well,
we got him first, so that's good. Okay. So what
am I on? I'm on the stream looking for new things,
looking for old things that you might have missed, because
(24:24):
there's so much to look for and look at and
during the holidays. I mean, we do a Christmas story.
Elf is one of my all time favorites, Miracle on
thirty fourth Street. It's a wonderful life, all of the
traditional ones and for some Christmas vacation. I'm not a
huge fan of Christmas vacation, don't tell Shannon. But I'm
always looking for new things, and I found a movie
(24:46):
that I absolutely love. So it takes a look at
a Christmas Carol, but from the perspective of the ghosts,
and they live in a musical after life. It's a musical.
It's called Spirited. Oh it's on Apple TV. So it
starts Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, and then there's
(25:11):
someone else that you're gonna recognize, but I want to
I don't want to tell you who it is because
you'll know it when you hear the voice. But this
story is set in the present, in the past and
the future. You know, Christmas Carolly. Will Ferrell is the
ghost of Christmas past, and he wants to try to
fix one person. So it's like he wants to go
after today's Ebenenitzer Scrooge. Nobody else wants to, but he
(25:33):
fights for it and the one that he wants to
redeem or help out is Ryan Reynolds's character. So the
characters do break out in song quite a bit because,
as I mentioned, this after Life is a musical and
they say that and they go at the very beginning,
they go, oh, yeah, this musical is set. This Afterlife
is set in a musical form or something, and one
of the guys who just died is like, what, But anyway,
(25:55):
when you hear it, you're gonna understand it. It's it's
just really fun. The characters are fun and engaging. The
music is solid, The songs are catchy, they're fun little
toe tappers. My favorite is called good Afternoon. I can't
tell you about it. It's about halfway through, but when
you hear it you'll know what it is. It's a fun,
(26:15):
fun song and who knew Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds
could sing. And the story unfolds. It's well thought out.
All the pieces come together. The story arc is strong.
If you haven't seen this one, I say please do.
I've probably already watched it five or six times because
it's just a fun story. Christmas classic maybe could be.
(26:36):
I'd love to see this show on Broadway. Actually it'd
be just it's really really good and again Ryan Reynolds
and Will Ferrell a fun combination. Didn't expect it. Love
it if you want to get in the merry Christmas
spirit spirited on Apple TV. And then I'd love to
hear what you think about it, because maybe I'm just
being silly, but I just I love the music, I
(26:57):
love the acting, I love the story, loved it all,
loved it, loved it all.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini,
as we do every morning at five point forty. Denise,
it's a big day for the Fed. Yeah, it sure is.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
The Fed is expected amy to cut interest rates today,
but they're going to have a very spirited, you might say,
conversation around this because of continued concerns about inflation. There's
a lot of thinking that we're not going to see
more rate cuts next year because of inflation. And also
there's this big question mark hanging over the FED because
(27:30):
we're really not sure who the next FED chair will be.
President Trump has said so many times he wants to
get rid of.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
FED chair J Powell.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
We know who the front runner is, which is Kevin Hassett,
but it's not a given, and he's interviewing people over
the next few days, so we could.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
See more drama and more headlines on that front. Okay,
So we know that he doesn't like Jerown Powell at all,
but hasn't he said he's not going to fire him, well,
not fire him, but his term ends. Ah, so okay
he can yeah the term okay, great? Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
Oh by the way, yeah, I have somebody else for
the next term, perfect, Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And then we've got the Warner Brothers deal with Netflix.
We've got a class action suit already, we have a
hostile takeover try what is this going to be settled soon?
Or is this going to draw up for a long time?
Speaker 10 (28:22):
No, it go on for a while. And here's why,
could last really well into next year. Warner Brothers board
is not planning to cancel its merger agreement with Netflix
because there's a two point eight billion dollar termination fee.
So now it's balls really in paramounts card. It can
follow through on its tender offer, right, or it can
(28:43):
extend the bid, or it can sue as you know
you were talking about, to stop the Netflix deal, or
it can increase the terms. Some are expecting in the
end the purchase price will move up another five to
ten billion dollars. That'll forgive the sin of that two
point eight billion dollar termination fee that Netflix would.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Have to pay if it dumps the Warner Brothers deal.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
So basically, everybody's angling to get the best deal as
long as the lawyers are making money, and they continue
to dicker about it, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So we'll go on and all I see is higher
streaming prices. Yep, all right, that's fun. Okay, Let's let's
talk about the swag gap. I haven't heard of this, Okay, Okay,
I love this story.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
People are apparently ending relationships because of what they call
the swag gap.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Swag is, of.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
Course, you know your style, your vibe, year fashion, and
the problem is if your date's casual outfit doesn't match
the vibe you know of yours. If you're dressed up
and you go out on a date and your date comes,
you know, schlumping along in jeans with holes in them.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I mean, we've seen this before.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
You remember a couple of years ago, Hayley Bieber photographed,
you know, for her skincare thing with the strapless dress,
heels and a purse to match, and then you see
Justin Bieber tagging along in that hoodie with the shorts
and the pink cap. We've seen it with Selena Gomez
and Betty Blanco as well, you know, her wearing heels
and him showing up on the Jimmy Fallon thing with
(30:08):
rip jeans and an unbuttoned shirt.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So maybe that works for those couples.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
Yeah right, Apparently, Yeah, apparently a lot of people are
getting really upset with this, and they're breaking off their
situationships before they become actual romances because you know, whoever
it is, their partner just isn't matching their vibe and
they see it as kind of an.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Affront and almost an insult. Okay, well, I will just say, ladies,
you can change that. What do you do. I'm just
going to say that's all. That's all. Time to get
in your business like we do every day. Thank you.
Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, have a wonderful day.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Apparently, you know, clothing stores, they're the ones who are
going to benefit from this swag gap.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Because the girls will go buy their boys new clothes.
There you go, all right. Singer David's record label general
managers testified before grand jury in the investigation into fourteen
year old Celeste Reevas's death. TMZ says Robert Morgenroth told
his lawyer the Deputy DA was being pushy. He also
(31:19):
said that it wasn't his responsibility to call police. A
Ukrainian woman has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging
that she took part in a Russian state sponsored computer
breach on US companies, including a cyber attack on a
Vernon meat processor that shut down the refrigeration systems that
caused more than two thousand pounds of meat to spoil.
(31:41):
It also triggered an ammonia leak. Sophie Kinsella, the author
of the million selling Choppaholic novels, has died. Her books
were adapted into the movie Confessions of Choppaholics. She was
diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in twenty
twenty two. Her family says she died peacefully at home.
Sophie Cansello was fifty five. We're just minutes away from
(32:05):
Handle on the news this morning, big beer businesses coming
up for the World Cup. Apparently soccer fans love their beer,
and Anne Heuser Bush is getting ready for it okay.
So I wanted to share with you that we had
an Amy and Shelby. Shelby's my cat went out and
about yesterday, but not some more fun. We went to
the vet R. So my cat, she's just the biggest
(32:30):
love bug, but she's just like she's always kind of
like you know, the little sickly kid. She's kind of
like that, but she's just she's a great cat. But
she's been having some issues, like respiratory issues. So she
went to the vet last week. Blah blah blah. Yesterday,
I came home and she was wheezing, I mean like
really heavy, and I was like, well, that's just not good.
(32:51):
I don't think we can wait two days to get
her to a vet. My vet's closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
So we went to the vet eer and I will
tell you, you walk in and it's very nice and
everybody's nice, and then they start examining her and then
they're like, well, let's do x rays. I'm like, why
would we do x rays? Why can't she sounds like
(33:11):
she has a head cold. My vet told me before
that it wasn't in her chest, so can we do anything? Well,
and they kind of him and ha a lot and
all that stuff. And then she said, well, let's do
X rays to rule out asthma. And I said, okay, Well,
why don't we just give her an inhaler and see
(33:31):
if that helps, and then we would know as opposed
to spending eight hundred dollars on X rays, it was
four hundred for the X ray and then four hundred
to have the radiologist look at it. Yeah. So, and
while we waited for the radiologist, it was like an
hour and a half. So we were just sitting there
and sitting there wheezing. Right, So they come back they said, okay,
(33:55):
she's got asthma, and I'm like, okay, great. So then
they bring some asthma and medicine. She takes a and
she starts breathing better. And I'm like, could have just
saved us eight hundred bucks, couldn't we. I like, I
I used to have animals. I had two cats and
a dog. I used to get a discount if you
took all three of them at the same time. I
think that they gave you a discount because it was
funny to watch you try to take three animals into
(34:15):
the ved at the same time. But it was really inexpensive,
and like a checkup was like, you know, twenty five
forty dollars. I mean it was and it wasn't a
big deal. But now they all want to do tests here,
let's test this here, let's do blood work. Why do
you want to do blood work? I ask, and they go, well,
we want to get a baseline. Let's do a urine test. Why, oh,
just so we have it. Let's do X rays why?
(34:36):
And they just it's I think it's sort of a racket.
And then I didn't do one of the tests because
they're like, well, we know she has asthma, so we're
going to get her on inhaler. And that's great because
I would just love it if my little lovebug can
breathe esier and all that stuff. And I'm gonna take
care of her. She's older and she's just the she's great,
(34:57):
love her. But I I'm just like, why not try
to say what it is as opposed to trying to
rule out what it isn't by running all these tests.
I just I don't know. I think the thinking is
kind of backwards. Oh and by the way, she also
has to get a special contraption and arrow kitty inhaler
(35:18):
because you can't just put like the abuterol or whatever
it's called. You can't just have her open her mouth
and take in a whiff of that stuff. So there's
this whole little cat contraction that they don't have that
you have to go get on Amazon. Oh it's sixty dollars. Ugh,
and the and the the Inhaler's is they're they're not covered.
(35:39):
So because you know, it's not people insurance unless you
got pet insurance and mine is too old to get
pet insurance. So the one Inhaler was only like thirty one.
The other one was two hundred and fifty dollars for
an inhaler yoicks right. So but I will also tell
you if you don't have this app yet, go get
it good RX, because it'll tell you like if you
if there are other discounts, and that saved me like
one hundred and twenty five, so good RX. It's really
(36:01):
for people, but if you have pets and they need medications,
that might be good for you to at least try that.
So anyway, they still don't have an answer as to
why she's got this head cold. They're like, oh, it
might just be her and I'm like, really, oh, but here,
let's do some more tests, and then they make you
feel guilty if you don't do the test, Like I'm like,
exactly can I put off the PCR test? And they're like, well,
(36:22):
of course you can.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
If you want your animal to suffer.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
And then you feel bad because everything's so stupid expensive.
But hopefully we're on the road, so after the show,
well after handle, I'm not going to leave right now,
I'm going to run home and when my kitty and Haler,
my sixty dollars kiddy and Haler tool arrives, we're gonna
take another couple puffs and hope for the best. But golly,
(36:49):
it's infuriating. I don't know if you guys have had
this experience, but I was talking to producer and and
she said, you know her, she actually got her her
dogs when they were puffs. So she got the pet
insurance and it covers things like X rays and stuff,
but you can't get it when you get an animal
when they're ten or eleven, so you're kind of you're
kind of screwed that way. But it used to be that,
like people doctors were expensive, that doctors weren't so expensive,
(37:12):
they were affordable and you're but now it's like people
are spending thousands of dollars and it's just I don't
know how we change it. But I'm gonna still love
her up, and I guess I'm gonna go bankrupt because
I love my cat. Okay, Well, just like that, our
time is up. There goes the show, There goes the show.
We got handle on the news coming up next, lots
of good stuff for you. This is KFI and KOSTHD
(37:34):
two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
wake up call, and if you missed any wake up call,
you can listen anytime. It's on the iHeartRadio app. You've
been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King.
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and
(37:54):
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app
KFI and kost HB two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Booked morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Wednesday, December tenth, two weeks away
from Christmas Eve, fifteen days from Christmas Day. Every time
I say that, apparently it stresses producer and out. It's
(00:47):
not meant to stress you out. It's meant to make
you happy and excited. Okay, I'm gonna go down the
list all things I still gotta do. I'm way behind,
way behind. So but I'm not going to stress about
it this year because it's you know what, I got
bigger fish to fry, like a fifteen dollars VET bill yesterday.
I'm going to tell you about that. Here is what
(01:08):
the head on wake up call. Governor Newsom's becoming pretty popular.
A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California
says Newsom's favorability rating is up from forty six points
in June to fifty six points this month, more than
half of those surveyed say California is on the right track.
LA Mayor Bass's office is offered to work with the
(01:30):
man who was arrested for vandalism for putting sidewalks and
not sidewalks, but crosswalks in his neighborhood. Jonathan Hale, says
he and others have been painting the crosswalks to make
intersections in Westwood safer. He was arrested and cited for
vandalism Sunday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has
(01:50):
adopted arrest a resolution opposing oil drilling off the coast
of southern California. Last month, the Trump administration announced it's
going to reopen ocean waters off the Pacific coast to
oil drilling leases, which immediately drew opposition from California officials
and environmentalists. People have been dying for some good fungus.
ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna tell us about why warnings are
(02:13):
going out to people who've been foraging for mushrooms in California.
A ring to use as an external memory for your brain.
I know I could use that also, A new customizable
ev and how you can teach UH or how you
can use tech to connect with your Santa and your
(02:33):
child this year. That's coming up with the host of
Rich on Tech, Rich demiro KTLA's Tech Reporter. That's at
five twenty. My favorite Christmas movie that will get you
in the spirit of the season and you may have
never heard of it before. Amy's on it at the
bottom of the hour. Also, Shelby, my cat and I
went out and about yesterday to the veterinary emergency room.
(02:59):
What up into pets being inexpensive additions to your home?
We're going to tell you a little bit more about that.
I might rant a little bit. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. At Netflix is facing a class action
lawsuit over its plans to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. The
case was filed by someone in Las Vegas. They claim
(03:20):
the pending deal risks irreparable anti trust injury to consumers.
The lawsuit warns of a reduction and competition and the
subscription video on demand market if the deal is approved.
Of course, Paramount is also trying to buy Warner Brothers Discovery,
even though a deal with Netflix has already been announced.
An expert witness in the aftermath of the Palisades Viru says,
(03:43):
no one's taking responsibility. Michael Kuret tells kfi's John Cobalt
that that applies to politicians and to agencies.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh of California and not just AVENUSOMB.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's the mayor, it's even our senators. We don't even
have senates here.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
We have to get people from out of our state
to help us. That they have an admitted Faull.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Gareth has a website where people can get information on
what has transpired since day one of the fire. It's
fire rebuild dot Com. Workers of John Wayne Airport in
Orange County flipped out a bit when they caught an
airport security guard on video speeding down an airstrip in
(04:24):
a white car. Officials say the guard may have been
experiencing a medical emergency Monday afternoon. The video shows him
speeding past planes and airport workers on the taxiway, apparently
not very far from those planes that were getting ready
to take off. He was later detained. Sheriff's deputies requested
a medical assessment by the Orange County Fire Authority. A
trade lighting ceremony in northeast LA has gone dark.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
It was a surprise not just to the guests at
Herman Park, but also to city Councilwoman Isabelle Herado when
the power box was discovered to be burned out. She
says no city department could help her.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
In fact, no.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
One seems to know who's responsible for that box.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Safety begins with the equitable delivery of city services. If
people can't trust us with the small things, how can
they trust us with the big ones.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
The tree was lit on Saturday night using a temporary fix,
but it's dark again while the city tries to figure
it all out. Dorado says this is an example of
bureaucracy in LA that residents frequently have to deal with.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I hated dark Christmas tree. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's Jim Ryan. And Jim let's talk about the
fungus among us and why we need to steer clear
of it.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Well you should, because yes, there are some out there
that can be quite dangerous, can be fatal. In fact,
in the San Francisco Bay and Monterey area, there have
been twenty one people who've gotten sick after eating something
called a death cap that's this specific mushroom that is
pretty widespread across the West coast, also in the Northeast
as well. And yeah, twenty one cases, one person has died.
(05:55):
But this is a kind of annual problem. Thousands of
people get sick every year from eating poisonos mushrooms, and
about three on average every year died from that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Okay, So I'm looking at the picture of the death
cap mushroom.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It looks very innocent and sweet, looks like an everyday mushroom,
and that's probably part of the problem is it doesn't
look there's nothing menacing looking about it, and it looks
similar to other mushrooms it does.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Yeah, then if you don't have a trained eye, then yeah,
you could find yourself getting into trouble. And don't think that, Okay,
I've found one of these all just cook it. That'll
take out any poison. Or I'll freeze it and then
use it. No, the death cap mushroom, the poison within
is unaffected by extremes in heat, so yeah, I don't
think that that's going to handle it. So, but the
(06:41):
thing is that mushroom foraging has gotten very popular around the.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Country because we all want to get back to nature.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Yes, right, baby, let's get on out there in the
woods forage for mushrooms and whatnot. But no, so with
the growing popular and I looked at a map, a
national map of different clubs around the country that are
popped up around this kind of thing, around foraging, and
they're all over the place, mycological societies, even as far
(07:09):
east as Kansas City they have one there, but they're
all over the place. So yeah, I don't think that
this is just a California or Northern California problem, something
that people around the country need to be watching out
for as they pick up foraging.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Okay, so if you insist on foraging, are there any
things that you should be looking for or any things
you should do to make sure that you don't pick
up a death cap?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Well, you can try Google images, take a picture of
that mushroom that you found, and then run it through
Google Images on your phone, and it will probably tell
you the type of mushroom it is. But I'm not
sure I would trust that. I think the best thing
to do is to get with an expert. If you
want to get into foraging, then find somebody who's done
it before, who's familiar with it. Maybe knows something about it.
(07:53):
Otherwise you could end up with them being one of
the seventy four hundred people every year who suffer from mushroom.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't get the whole mushroom thing. They don't have
much flavor the time.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Mushrooms are magnificent.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
They're great if they're sautat in lots and lots of butter.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Yeah, well, they're good raw too.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, So if you insist on eating wild mushrooms, what
can happen and what are some of the things to
watch out for.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Well, first you start getting sick.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
It's like any stomach issue, right, all the things that
just imagine lets your imagination go in terms of what
happened if I ate something that really made me sick.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
That's the first part.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Then comes much more serious for a few from some
small percentage of people. And by the way, most of
the people most of these seventy four hundred mushroom exposure
cases each year involve children under six. They're the ones
finding these things and eating them. So beyond the stomach issues,
then kidney failure and liver failure is the real problem here.
That at least one of the people involved in the
(08:55):
Northern California cases right now may end up on the
liver transplant transplant list because of severe liver damage from
eating those mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So is it just a bite or is it like
a whole plate of mushrooms to get that?
Speaker 7 (09:07):
And it depends on you.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
And that's that's one of the reasons that children are
more susceptible because it doesn't take as much. So small
bite or a medium sized bite, eating the whole thing,
and if you end up with this illness, it really
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Okay, Well, here's what I have to say. Go watch
the Last of Us.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Oh what happened there?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
The fungus takes over. Oh okay, fungus infects everybody and
kills everybody. So yeah, I still like mushrooms. Okay, we'll
get him at the store, gym.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Okay, Well, all right, thank you, sees.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Jim Ryan, see you all right, take care. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. The Federal Reserve is
expected to announce it's third interest rate cut this year.
Investors are expecting the Fed is going to cut interest
rates by a quarter percent today. That would be the
same size as the last two cut. The Central Banks
Board meetings started yesterday and an announcement is expected later
(10:05):
this morning. A Democrat has won the race for mayor
of Miami for the first time in nearly thirty years.
Eileen Higgins beat out the Republican candidate yesterday, Emilio Gonzalez,
who was endorsed by President Trump. The city has a
large Latino community, and Higgins often criticized Trump's immigration crackdown.
Two competing proposals to deal with the increasing cost of
(10:27):
health insurance are now in the Senate, but ABC Stephen
Portnois's neither is expected to get the sixty votes needed
to pass.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
The Republican proposal now emerging in the Senate would inject
federal dollars into health savings accounts, but Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer calls it a phony proposal.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The proposals are expected to be voted on tomorrow now.
Moderate House Republicans have introduced legislation to extend Enhanced Affordable
Care Act subsidies.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Bill, which also has support from Democratic lawmakers, would extend
the subst these for two years with new income limits
and anti fraud measures. Without congressional action, The inhanced subsidies
are set to expire on December thirty first. It's not
clear if House leadership will support the latest plan or
any of the bipartisan proposals circulating. However, Republican House Speaker
Mike Johnson said leadership is developing a proposal to unveil
(11:19):
as soon as this week. Tammy Trio KFI News.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The man accused of shooting two students at Kentucky State University,
killing one has been arrested for murder and first degree assault.
Investigators say Jacob Bart is accused of shooting the students
yesterday afternoon. They say Bart isn't a student at the
university and no details on a motive have been released.
Classes at the university have been canceled. School leaders are
(11:44):
making counseling and support services available for students, faculty and staff.
Australia has officially become the first country to ban social media,
all of it for kids under sixteen. Pediatrician doctor Darien
Sutton says the ban comes as a new study shows
that children who spend more time on social media may
have trouble staying focused.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
One of the reasons why scientists believe that social media
is Specifically, a tie to an attention is because it
provides endless, scrollable content. It constantly asks your brain to
shift comments, likes, notifications.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
He says. As a result, kids can be easily distracted,
have problems with organization, and trouble managing their school life.
The head of the Nobel Institute says Venezuelan opposition leader
and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado is going
to miss the ceremony to award her the prize in Oslo.
The institute director told public broadcaster NRK Machado's daughter is
(12:39):
going to accept it for her. A news conference Machada
was expected to attend this week was canceled. She last
appeared in public eleven months ago. She is said to
be in hiding and barred from leaving Venezuela, TikTok, Instagram
and Utah YouTube. Speaking of social media are rotting your brain.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
And you, study says more recent showing watching a lot
of short form videos creates problems with focus and self control.
Other psychological studies are saying heavy consumption of short videos
is also linked to depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness. Experts
say the short VIDs can provide opportunities for learning and
community building online, but if it's isolating you from other
people who could rotch your brain like video games and
(13:19):
TV on steroids. Brainrod is the supposed deterioration of a
person's mental or intellectual state, according to Oxer University, which
named brain rot it's word of the Year last year.
Michael Krozer k if I.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Used, I think Krozer likes that word. Brainrot, brain rot.
Brain Roight editor Carla says that mushrooms are nutty and delicious.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I wanted a pepperoni and mushroom pizza right after you
did that story here.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I was like, Mmm, okay, sounds so good. I've not
heard nutty used for mushrooms. Not much of a mushroom
of fishing autum, all right, But like I said, salted
and butter, Okay, we'll take it. Hundreds of law enforcement officers, dignitaries,
relatives and friends gathered in poorjer Porter Ranch to say
a final farewell to a twenty eight year old Alhambra
(14:03):
police officer Alexanders, was killed in a crash with the
driver of a stolen suv last month. Along with the
procession of police and emergency vehicles to Shepherd Church. Two
ladder trucks formed an arch with an American flag drap
from it. Just getting worried that a person's been shot
at a liquor store in South LA. We'll bring more
details as those come. In a new kind of driverless
(14:26):
delivery for Waimo, company, officials say a woman recently gave
birth in one of its robotaxis on the way to
UC San Francisco Medical Center. Officials say the remote rider
support team was alerted to unusual activity in the car.
Mom and her newborn baby arrived safely at the hospital
a short time later. I don't envy the next person
(14:48):
to ride in that way. See does that cost extra?
At six oh five, it's handled on the news, the
head of LA's homeless services program has quit. Let's say
good morning now to the host of on Tech on kfite.
It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Okay, so I have a quick question for you before
we dive into our topics today, and that is that
I got an email that appears to have been from Facebook,
and it basically says, hey, turn on advanced protections. Your
account requires security through advanced protection. And I don't know
if it's like things look so real now. I don't
(15:28):
know if it's real or not. But it did have
a click through, and so I didn't click through. But
is that a real thing?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Good call? It is real.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It's called advanced protection, and basically, congratulations. This is reserved
for accounts that reach or have the potential to reach
a lot of people. And basically Facebook is saying, we
are protecting you from you. So we're going to put
on some advanced protections, which basically involves two factor authentication.
They are automatically going to enable that and when anyone
(15:58):
logs into your account, they are going to rutinize that
log in a little more closely than any other log
in on their site. So it's a good thing, and
they're just basically trying to make sure that no one
uses your account, no one hacks it, no one takes
it over to spread misinformation.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, so that's good. But so if they're going to
do that automatically, again, things look so real now, And
there was a way to there's a click through. It
says turn on, you know, advanced protection, and I was like,
I can't click through to that, So am I going
to get that same thing when I go to Facebook?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Yeah, you should get a notification when you go to Facebook.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But I agree.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And this is what the hackers and scammers do. They
impersonate all the things that we know. They make these
very convincing emails that look like the stuff that we
actually get, like what you just said. And so yes,
in general, do not click any link inside any email
that comes to you that says, hey, we need help
with your account, or you have to do something, you
have to make this change. Always go to your account
(16:52):
itself when in question directly there.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, here's something else that I could certainly use, and
that is an external brain and it.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Comes This was so cool.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
It comes in the size of a ring.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yes, it's a it's a it's called the Pebble Index
O one and it's basically a tiny ring that records
your thoughts and it's super simple. It comes from the
guy who made the Pebble Watch. It's just a very
simple ring with a built in mic and a button.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And when you have an.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Idea that hits your brain, you just use your index
finger your thumb to press the button on your index
finger ring and you record it. It goes right to
your phone, never get sent to the internet, never gets
sent to the cloud, and all of your stuff is
organized on your phone for easy reference later. You can
set reminders. The ring battery lasts for about two years.
It's seventy five dollars right now, and when battery is up,
(17:42):
you can send it back in buy a new one, presumably.
But kind of a cool idea because it's it's less
distracting than some other solutions out there.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Well yeah, because I have brilliant ideas a lot rich
but you don't. We all but they're fleeting, you know,
and you go, what was I What was that idea?
Like I have? So I think if you just had
to push the button and it's on your hand already
and go hey da da da da, and then you
can remember it later.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I already do this on my Apple Watch. I've got
an app called Whisper Memos that I love, Love, Love,
Love love. And the thing that this does that's really
cool is not only does it record what you say,
but it transcribes it with like perfect accuracy, Like I'm
not kidding, it's it's insane. Like I went to a
session last night at Amazon studios.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I recorded the.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Whole thing an hour, got back every single thing perfectly
in my email in the morning, and then I can
summarize it and get the notes that I took, you know,
and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, but it emails
it to you. That's the trick. So it's in your
inbox when you get out of your car or wherever
you are when you come back to your computer.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, And that one's the Whisper or that's the Pebble
index ring.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
That's the Whisper Memos WHI s P E R Memos
dot com. And that's available for Apple Watch and the iPhone.
But I like it on the Apple Watch. I just
do one tap and boom, I'm recording.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That sounds cool. Okay. So there's some new cars and
they basically are like legos.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, that's one way to describe them.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
This is called a slate ev it's from a startup
that's going to start selling these next year. And you
know how back in the day, when you buy a car,
if you got the base model, it was kind of
junkie bare bones. Well that's their entire business model. They're saying, look,
we're giving you bare bones. So this thing is really cheap.
The price keeps creeping up over the years. It started
at like under twenty now it's like mid twenties. But
(19:28):
the idea is that there's nothing in this car that
you don't need, including amy, no radio, what, no center console,
so you literally stick your phone in the middle. There's
not even bluetooth you have to These are all add ons.
Like if you don't want Bluetooth, you don't get it.
If you don't want speakers, you don't have them. I mean,
it's everything is an add on in this car. I
mean it's pretty wild. So you get the basics, you
(19:49):
get air conditioning and heat, you get roll down windows,
and you get a little tiny dashboard that shows your
speed and things.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
But that's it. Everything else than add on.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Okay. I was going to ask about the windows. Can
you imagine if we went back to rolldown.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You know what, how many times do you really put
down your windows?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Think about it. I'm thinking about this the other day. No,
I don't want to hear them the outside.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I want to be in my little cocoon, Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I don't want reality to creep in.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I do not blame you at all, Rich Okay, but
speaking of non reality, here's something. I saw your picture
that you posted on your Instagram of you and Santa
and we're going high tech for Christmas this year, and
it's not you and Santa.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
No, this is so wild.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
You got to check out my instagram at rich on Tech.
I posted a picture of a retro mall Santa picture
of me and Santa. I sent it to my family.
I said, oh, remember this to my mom and dad
and sisters and brothers. And then a minute later, I'm like,
this is fake. This never happened. And you basically take
a picture of yourself, you feed it into Google's nano
(20:54):
banana and you say, and I'll give you the prompt.
It's all my website rich on tech dot tv. But
you will not believe people are sending me their pictures
that they've created.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
They are so realistic.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
It's pretty wild craziness. Okay, so that's your AI Santa photo.
And then there is a live video chat service that
you can have the kids have a little chit chat
with Santa.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, this is very realistic.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It's kind of fun. It's like almost like a FaceTime
with Santa. Santa dot Tavis Tavus dot io. You basically
log on and you can chat with Santa. So I've
got that on my website as well, linked up. That
went viral last year. I think they improved it this
year and so it's just kind of a fun way
for the kids to talk with Santa. I also have
a Santa telephone if you want to spend some money
(21:38):
on that. The kids can connect with Santa using a telephone.
That's all linked up on the website as well. But
you know, look, I'm finding the techi ways to connect
the old school days of going to the mall. You know,
who's got time for that?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Right? Who wants to wait in that line? And the
video chat thing is that? So that's an Ai Santa.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's an Ai Santa. But it is I mean, it's
Santa's helper, let's be real. But it's it's quite good.
Dana can answer your questions, he remembers things about you.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It's it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Quandary, what do you tell your children? Is that real
Santa or is it memorys Santa? Remember memory?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It depends you know how slick your kids are.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I think I you know, look, I think these are
you know, I've never met the real Santa, so I
feel like these are all Santa's helpers.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Absolutely, I like the way you're thinking.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Okay, it's kfi's tech guy and KTLA's tech guy too.
Rich Demiro. You can hear him live on rich on
Tech every Saturday from eleven to two. You can watch
him on KTLA. You can follow him on Instagram and
see his Santa picture at rich on Tech. Also his
website with everything that he talks about rich on Tech
dot tv, and don't forget to sign up for the newsletter.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Thank you Rich Demiro, Thank you Amy.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
All Right. Next week, high school bullying in California is
up while attendance is down. A new study from UCLA
and You See Riverside says as ice raids continue, a
lot of immigrant students are being bullied and are absent
at higher rates. Seventy percent of public high school principles
say their students from immigrant families are afraid for themselves
or their families. The last of seven suspects in a
(23:09):
home invasion robbery and Irvine's been arrested in Nevada. He's
a waiting extradition to LA. Police say the group broke
in September twenty third, and tied up one of the
people inside before another called police and the would be
robbers took off. Prosecutors say the family may have been
targeted because they have millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Cal
State Northridge has received millions a sixty three million dollar
(23:33):
donation from Jeff Bezos's ex Mackenzie Scott also gave forty
million dollars to the school in twenty twenty one, making
her total donations among the largest ever received by cal
State Northridge. At six o five at Handle on the News,
could this be a harbinger of things to come? Miami
has elected its first Democratic mayor in thirty years.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Amy's on Itami's honest, Amy's on it.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, this is really weird. We were just talking to
Rich Demiro about this fake Santa photo and I just
looked over at KTLA and there he has it. This
fake Santa ho photo brings Santa home with aid. Right. Well,
we got him first, so that's good. Okay. So what
am I on? I'm on the stream looking for new things,
looking for old things that you might have missed, because
(24:24):
there's so much to look for and look at and
during the holidays. I mean, we do a Christmas story.
Elf is one of my all time favorites, Miracle on
thirty fourth Street. It's a wonderful life, all of the
traditional ones and for some Christmas vacation. I'm not a
huge fan of Christmas vacation, don't tell Shannon. But I'm
always looking for new things, and I found a movie
(24:46):
that I absolutely love. So it takes a look at
a Christmas Carol, but from the perspective of the ghosts,
and they live in a musical after life. It's a musical.
It's called Spirited. Oh it's on Apple TV. So it
starts Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, and then there's
(25:11):
someone else that you're gonna recognize, but I want to
I don't want to tell you who it is because
you'll know it when you hear the voice. But this
story is set in the present, in the past and
the future. You know, Christmas Carolly. Will Ferrell is the
ghost of Christmas past, and he wants to try to
fix one person. So it's like he wants to go
after today's Ebenenitzer Scrooge. Nobody else wants to, but he
(25:33):
fights for it and the one that he wants to
redeem or help out is Ryan Reynolds's character. So the
characters do break out in song quite a bit because,
as I mentioned, this after Life is a musical and
they say that and they go at the very beginning,
they go, oh, yeah, this musical is set. This Afterlife
is set in a musical form or something, and one
of the guys who just died is like, what, But anyway,
(25:55):
when you hear it, you're gonna understand it. It's it's
just really fun. The characters are fun and engaging. The
music is solid, The songs are catchy, they're fun little
toe tappers. My favorite is called good Afternoon. I can't
tell you about it. It's about halfway through, but when
you hear it you'll know what it is. It's a fun,
(26:15):
fun song and who knew Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds
could sing. And the story unfolds. It's well thought out.
All the pieces come together. The story arc is strong.
If you haven't seen this one, I say please do.
I've probably already watched it five or six times because
it's just a fun story. Christmas classic maybe could be.
(26:36):
I'd love to see this show on Broadway. Actually it'd
be just it's really really good and again Ryan Reynolds
and Will Ferrell a fun combination. Didn't expect it. Love
it if you want to get in the merry Christmas
spirit spirited on Apple TV. And then I'd love to
hear what you think about it, because maybe I'm just
being silly, but I just I love the music, I
(26:57):
love the acting, I love the story, loved it all,
loved it, loved it all.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini,
as we do every morning at five point forty. Denise,
it's a big day for the Fed. Yeah, it sure is.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
The Fed is expected amy to cut interest rates today,
but they're going to have a very spirited, you might say,
conversation around this because of continued concerns about inflation. There's
a lot of thinking that we're not going to see
more rate cuts next year because of inflation. And also
there's this big question mark hanging over the FED because
(27:30):
we're really not sure who the next FED chair will be.
President Trump has said so many times he wants to
get rid of.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
FED chair J Powell.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
We know who the front runner is, which is Kevin Hassett,
but it's not a given, and he's interviewing people over
the next few days, so we could.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
See more drama and more headlines on that front. Okay,
So we know that he doesn't like Jerown Powell at all,
but hasn't he said he's not going to fire him, well,
not fire him, but his term ends. Ah, so okay
he can yeah the term okay, great? Yeah.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
Oh by the way, yeah, I have somebody else for
the next term, perfect, Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And then we've got the Warner Brothers deal with Netflix.
We've got a class action suit already, we have a
hostile takeover try what is this going to be settled soon?
Or is this going to draw up for a long time?
Speaker 10 (28:22):
No, it go on for a while. And here's why,
could last really well into next year. Warner Brothers board
is not planning to cancel its merger agreement with Netflix
because there's a two point eight billion dollar termination fee.
So now it's balls really in paramounts card. It can
follow through on its tender offer, right, or it can
(28:43):
extend the bid, or it can sue as you know
you were talking about, to stop the Netflix deal, or
it can increase the terms. Some are expecting in the
end the purchase price will move up another five to
ten billion dollars. That'll forgive the sin of that two
point eight billion dollar termination fee that Netflix would.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Have to pay if it dumps the Warner Brothers deal.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
So basically, everybody's angling to get the best deal as
long as the lawyers are making money, and they continue
to dicker about it, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
So we'll go on and all I see is higher
streaming prices. Yep, all right, that's fun. Okay, Let's let's
talk about the swag gap. I haven't heard of this, Okay, Okay,
I love this story.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
People are apparently ending relationships because of what they call
the swag gap.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Swag is, of.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
Course, you know your style, your vibe, year fashion, and
the problem is if your date's casual outfit doesn't match
the vibe you know of yours. If you're dressed up
and you go out on a date and your date comes,
you know, schlumping along in jeans with holes in them.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I mean, we've seen this before.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
You remember a couple of years ago, Hayley Bieber photographed,
you know, for her skincare thing with the strapless dress,
heels and a purse to match, and then you see
Justin Bieber tagging along in that hoodie with the shorts
and the pink cap. We've seen it with Selena Gomez
and Betty Blanco as well, you know, her wearing heels
and him showing up on the Jimmy Fallon thing with
(30:08):
rip jeans and an unbuttoned shirt.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So maybe that works for those couples.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
Yeah right, Apparently, Yeah, apparently a lot of people are
getting really upset with this, and they're breaking off their
situationships before they become actual romances because you know, whoever
it is, their partner just isn't matching their vibe and
they see it as kind of an.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Affront and almost an insult. Okay, well, I will just say, ladies,
you can change that. What do you do. I'm just
going to say that's all. That's all. Time to get
in your business like we do every day. Thank you.
Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, have a wonderful day.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Apparently, you know, clothing stores, they're the ones who are
going to benefit from this swag gap.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Because the girls will go buy their boys new clothes.
There you go, all right. Singer David's record label general
managers testified before grand jury in the investigation into fourteen
year old Celeste Reevas's death. TMZ says Robert Morgenroth told
his lawyer the Deputy DA was being pushy. He also
(31:19):
said that it wasn't his responsibility to call police. A
Ukrainian woman has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging
that she took part in a Russian state sponsored computer
breach on US companies, including a cyber attack on a
Vernon meat processor that shut down the refrigeration systems that
caused more than two thousand pounds of meat to spoil.
(31:41):
It also triggered an ammonia leak. Sophie Kinsella, the author
of the million selling Choppaholic novels, has died. Her books
were adapted into the movie Confessions of Choppaholics. She was
diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in twenty
twenty two. Her family says she died peacefully at home.
Sophie Cansello was fifty five. We're just minutes away from
(32:05):
Handle on the news this morning, big beer businesses coming
up for the World Cup. Apparently soccer fans love their beer,
and Anne Heuser Bush is getting ready for it okay.
So I wanted to share with you that we had
an Amy and Shelby. Shelby's my cat went out and
about yesterday, but not some more fun. We went to
the vet R. So my cat, she's just the biggest
(32:30):
love bug, but she's just like she's always kind of
like you know, the little sickly kid. She's kind of
like that, but she's just she's a great cat. But
she's been having some issues, like respiratory issues. So she
went to the vet last week. Blah blah blah. Yesterday,
I came home and she was wheezing, I mean like
really heavy, and I was like, well, that's just not good.
(32:51):
I don't think we can wait two days to get
her to a vet. My vet's closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
So we went to the vet eer and I will
tell you, you walk in and it's very nice and
everybody's nice, and then they start examining her and then
they're like, well, let's do x rays. I'm like, why
would we do x rays? Why can't she sounds like
(33:11):
she has a head cold. My vet told me before
that it wasn't in her chest, so can we do anything? Well,
and they kind of him and ha a lot and
all that stuff. And then she said, well, let's do
X rays to rule out asthma. And I said, okay, Well,
why don't we just give her an inhaler and see
(33:31):
if that helps, and then we would know as opposed
to spending eight hundred dollars on X rays, it was
four hundred for the X ray and then four hundred
to have the radiologist look at it. Yeah. So, and
while we waited for the radiologist, it was like an
hour and a half. So we were just sitting there
and sitting there wheezing. Right, So they come back they said, okay,
(33:55):
she's got asthma, and I'm like, okay, great. So then
they bring some asthma and medicine. She takes a and
she starts breathing better. And I'm like, could have just
saved us eight hundred bucks, couldn't we. I like, I
I used to have animals. I had two cats and
a dog. I used to get a discount if you
took all three of them at the same time. I
think that they gave you a discount because it was
funny to watch you try to take three animals into
(34:15):
the ved at the same time. But it was really inexpensive,
and like a checkup was like, you know, twenty five
forty dollars. I mean it was and it wasn't a
big deal. But now they all want to do tests here,
let's test this here, let's do blood work. Why do
you want to do blood work? I ask, and they go, well,
we want to get a baseline. Let's do a urine test. Why, oh,
just so we have it. Let's do X rays why?
(34:36):
And they just it's I think it's sort of a racket.
And then I didn't do one of the tests because
they're like, well, we know she has asthma, so we're
going to get her on inhaler. And that's great because
I would just love it if my little lovebug can
breathe esier and all that stuff. And I'm gonna take
care of her. She's older and she's just the she's great,
(34:57):
love her. But I I'm just like, why not try
to say what it is as opposed to trying to
rule out what it isn't by running all these tests.
I just I don't know. I think the thinking is
kind of backwards. Oh and by the way, she also
has to get a special contraption and arrow kitty inhaler
(35:18):
because you can't just put like the abuterol or whatever
it's called. You can't just have her open her mouth
and take in a whiff of that stuff. So there's
this whole little cat contraction that they don't have that
you have to go get on Amazon. Oh it's sixty dollars. Ugh,
and the and the the Inhaler's is they're they're not covered.
(35:39):
So because you know, it's not people insurance unless you
got pet insurance and mine is too old to get
pet insurance. So the one Inhaler was only like thirty one.
The other one was two hundred and fifty dollars for
an inhaler yoicks right. So but I will also tell
you if you don't have this app yet, go get
it good RX, because it'll tell you like if you
if there are other discounts, and that saved me like
one hundred and twenty five, so good RX. It's really
(36:01):
for people, but if you have pets and they need medications,
that might be good for you to at least try that.
So anyway, they still don't have an answer as to
why she's got this head cold. They're like, oh, it
might just be her and I'm like, really, oh, but here,
let's do some more tests, and then they make you
feel guilty if you don't do the test, Like I'm like,
exactly can I put off the PCR test? And they're like, well,
(36:22):
of course you can.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
If you want your animal to suffer.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
And then you feel bad because everything's so stupid expensive.
But hopefully we're on the road, so after the show,
well after handle, I'm not going to leave right now,
I'm going to run home and when my kitty and Haler,
my sixty dollars kiddy and Haler tool arrives, we're gonna
take another couple puffs and hope for the best. But golly,
(36:49):
it's infuriating. I don't know if you guys have had
this experience, but I was talking to producer and and
she said, you know her, she actually got her her
dogs when they were puffs. So she got the pet
insurance and it covers things like X rays and stuff,
but you can't get it when you get an animal
when they're ten or eleven, so you're kind of you're
kind of screwed that way. But it used to be that,
like people doctors were expensive, that doctors weren't so expensive,
(37:12):
they were affordable and you're but now it's like people
are spending thousands of dollars and it's just I don't
know how we change it. But I'm gonna still love
her up, and I guess I'm gonna go bankrupt because
I love my cat. Okay, Well, just like that, our
time is up. There goes the show, There goes the show.
We got handle on the news coming up next, lots
of good stuff for you. This is KFI and KOSTHD
(37:34):
two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
wake up call, and if you missed any wake up call,
you can listen anytime. It's on the iHeartRadio app. You've
been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King.
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
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Betrayal Weekly is back for a brand new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack. And make sure to check out Seasons 1-4 of Betrayal, along with Betrayal Weekly Season 1.