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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
wake Up Call with me Amy King on

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demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI at
KOST HD two Los Angeles and Orange County,

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and you as Amy Kay. This
is your wake up call for Thursday,

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March twenty first. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. Thanks for starting

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your Thursday with us. I love
that intro. It's Todd Lights. He's

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the PA announcer at Dodgers Stadium,
which we will be hearing in just one

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week from today. And of course
it's a Dodgers are playing right now against

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the Padres in Seoul, South Korea. It's Game two of the Major League

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Baseball season. I'm not going to
tell you what the score is, but

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I'm gonna tell it's a slugfest.
You can listen to the game. If

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you want to hear the whole game, you can hear the replay at noon

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on AM five seventy LA Sports or
on the iHeartRadio app. Also, yesterday

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I watched the Don Lemon Elon Musk
interview. Remember Musk had said, Hey,

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come on to X and we're gonna
have a whole show and you're gonna

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have a deal. And so then
Lemon said, Okay, great, I'm

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gonna do that. We'll let me
interview you. And so they agreed to

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the interview, and they sat down
and they talked for an hour, and

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then after that interview, Musk said, I don't want to do a deal

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with you anymore. So Don Lemon
says he's still gonna keep doing his show.

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It just won't be on X,
but you can find it on YouTube.

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Really interesting, really interesting. Not
gonna say one way or the other

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how I felt about it, because
they want you to take a look and

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make up your mind about it,
which is a lot of what Elon Musk

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was saying. It's really fascinating his
approach to X and all of that.

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Anyway, it's also so national French
bread day. Oh my god, I

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want spaghetti. I know it's five
o'clock in the morning, but it makes

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me hungry. Maybe that's on the
agenda for it later today. Note to

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self, go get spaghetti. Here's
what's ahead. On wake up call,

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the La School District has introduced a
new AI tool for students. Superintendent Alberto

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Carvallo says the tool, called ED
can give students a wake up call.

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Hey, that's what I'm here for
let them know when their bus arrives,

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remind them of assignments, suggest what
to read, and even tell them what's

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for lunch at school. Carvallo says
it is not meant to replace teachers,

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support staff, counselors or other employees. President Biden is canceling nearly six billion

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dollars in student loan debt for about
seventy eight thousand public service workers. He

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made the announcement yesterday. Church teachers, nurses, and firefighters who qualify will

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be getting an email signed by President
Biden saying they are on track to get

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student loan forgiveness in less than a
year. Shohy Otani's interpreter has apparently and

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fired by the Dodgers allegations of surface
that he stole millions of dollars from Otani

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to place bets with a illegal book
maker. At six oh five, its

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handle on the news, lawmakers are
cutting it close once again as they work

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to avoid a government shutdown Friday at
midnight. Let's get started with some of

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the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Three hundred and

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sixty bus drivers, mechanics and utilitied
workers in La have voted unanimously to go

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on strike. The Teamsters union representing
the workers rejected contractor MV Transportation's best and

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final offer Tuesday night. A recent
report by the LA Department of Transportation shows

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rates for drivers are the least competitive
in the region, resulting in staffing shortages,

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impacted service and delays. A man
who allegedly hijacked a metro bus and

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crashed in downtown LA has been arrested. The guys accused of threatening the driver

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with a gun overnight. There were
no passengers on the bus, but the

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bus did hit several park cars near
the Ritz Carlton. The accused hijacker ran

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off, but was caught a gun
that he had turned out to be a

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replica. Another building has become a
popular spot for taggers, much like the

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Ocean Wide Plaza in downtown LA that's
now covered in graffiti. The five story

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apartment building under construction in East Hollywood
is surrounded by fencing and has signs up

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warning people to stan out of the
area that it's under surveillance, But despite

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those precautions being in place, one
side of the building is still full of

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graffiti. Taggers have been using scaffolding
to climb the upper levels of the building.

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A mistrial's been declared in the case
of a man from San Juan Capistrano

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charged with stabbing his wife to death
in twenty twenty. The jury told the

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judge it couldn't agree on a verdict
for first degree murder, and that caused

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prosecutors to drop the first degree murder
charge so the jury could focus on lesser

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charges. Defense attorney Cameron Tally says
the jury still couldn't agree on a second

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degree murder charge or voluntary manslaughter.
They were tremendously smart. They didn't have

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a single question for readback or about
the facts. They found those on their

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own. Tally says. The jury
deliberated for five days and had insightful questions

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about the law, and the judge
answered those questions correctly. Attorneys are expected

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to meet next month to decide if
there should be a retrial. Chris Adler

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KFI News the Federal Reserve has held
its key interest rate for the fifth consecutive

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meeting. Inflation has eased substantially while
the labor market has remained strong, and

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that is very good news, but
inflation is still too high ongoing progress and

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bringing it down is not assured and
the path forward is uncertain. FED Chair

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Jerome Pali says the Central Bank is
strongly committed to bringing inflation down to two

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percent over time. Federal Reserve official
signal that they still expect to cut their

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key interest rate this year three times. Let's now say good morning to ABC's

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Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed back

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to the Middle East. Where are
we with the proposed cease fire for hostages

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deal? That's right as a state. Anthony Blincoln was in Jedda, Saudi

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Arabia yesterday. Today he is in
Cairo meeting with the president there, Abdul

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fateal Cci. Remember the Egyptians are
playing a major role as mediators in the

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Gaza seasire talks that are underway right
now nearby in cutter You know, Anthony

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Blincoln expressing some optimism and he thinks
a deal is still very possible. You

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know that the gaps are narrowing.
I have to say that's not necessarily what

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we're hearing here at Israel. Hamas
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basically criticizing Israel's first position in the
talks. There's also disputes about which

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issues are going to be discussed first, so there isn't a ton of optimism

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though These talks are going to go
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couple of weeks, and then we'll
know if there's any real movement or not.

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The framework remains the same, a
six week ceasefire in exchange for the

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release of about forty Israeli hostages,
including all the women, including the female

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soldiers, and then Israel will release
in some cases at a rate of fifty

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to one Palestinian prisoners for each one
of those hostages. And Jordana it's such

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it's so lopsided with the release of
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Is there a reason for that?
Is it because a lot of the people

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being held are for low level crimes, so they figure that they're not as

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they're not as I don't know,
valuable of an asset. Right, that's

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a good point. There are hundreds
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minor crimes. One of the disputes
in the hostage deal talks revolves around which

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Palestinian prisoners that have committed murder will
be released, and Hamas wants dozens of

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those high level Palestinian prisoners out and
that's going to you know, that has

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been a point of dispute, but
is willing to release some of them to

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get out the women, especially the
female hostages. That's why the ratio for

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those female hostages is expected to be
the highest. There's only five of them,

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but it could be up to you
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to get out the women, and
dozen to who've committed murder. Okay,

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So as those negotiations continue, the
fighting continues. And are the Israeli forces

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still at that hospital complex trying to
get some of the Humas players. They

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are. Today's day four of that
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from the Israeli Army. They now
say they've killed in gunfights both in the

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facility and outside, one hundred and
forty AMAS fighters and supporters, and they've

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arrested more than three hundred suspected militants
from inside. They've also found three million

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dollars in cash US dollars, there, piles of weapons. It's clear that

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Hamas have had regrouped inside this hospital
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among the arrests are some of high
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On the other side, we're also
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civilians who are sheltering around the hospital
there have been asked to move south to

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evacuate, and that some of those
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and that up to dozens could be
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this operation. Okay, and then
are they still treating patients. I know

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it's not just one hospital building,
it's a big complex, but are they

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still treating patient building? Yes,
there's five or six buildings in this complex.

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Theseraeli Armies says no patients or medical
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They may be terrified, they may
be trapped inside, but they have not

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been hurt, and the Israeli Army
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They say there has not been any
disruption of the care for patients. Remember

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this is these are special forces that
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They haven't gone in and taken over
the entire place, so they're not

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going in with tanks and just bombing
it. They have like it would be

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like the equivalent of our Navy seals
going in something like that, going in

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exactly, going after it. Yeah, and among correct, correct, And

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among them are medics, Arabic speakers, doctors. They've sent in, you

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know, plenty of people to try
to take care of the patients. But

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it turns out that you know,
these early army told reporters a few days

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ago that they'd been monitoring Al Shifa
for a while and they had noticed and

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they were tracking that some of the
Hamas leaders had regrouped in there, and

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that turned out to be the case
after they got in. Okay, all

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right, Well, thank you so
much for the update, Jordana a As.

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As always, your information is now
invaluable and we'll talk to you soon.

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Thanks so much, so take care. Let's get back to some of

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the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Voters in California

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have passed a six billion dollar ballot
measure requiring counties to spend more on housing

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and drug treatment programs as a way
to tackle the homelessness crisis. Prop one

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marks the first update to the state's
mental health system in twenty years. Governor

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Newsom, who largely campaigned the measure
and raised more than thirteen million dollars to

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promote it. Says it's a huge
victory for doing things radically different. The

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US Attorney in LA says a new
initiative will assist local law enforcement with prosecuting

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gun related crimes. Martinis Strata says
they've always helped local agencies when needed,

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but now he's dedicating four attorneys to
do nothing but meet with local police and

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sheriff's investigators every month to help them
identify and build federal cases. Those who

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think that gun crimes are good business
will need to think again. The potential

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federal sentences for violent gun crime are
severe. The FBI and ATF are also

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on board, providing resources where needed. Astrata says the initiative should help put

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a dent in violent crime. Steve
Gregor Kfine News officials in the UK are

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investigating a reported breach at the hospital
that treated Princess Kate. ABC's Maggie Ruley

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says staff attempted to access Kate's private
medical records. The London Clinics thing if

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a breach is found, appropriate disciplinary
action will be taken. The Princess of

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Wales had what the Palace called a
planned abdominal surgery in January. They said

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the surgery was successful and Kate's condition
was not cancerous. Another airline stowaway has

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been busted. ABC's Alex Stones says
this time the person allegedly took photos of

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other passengers boarding passes so he could
hop on a Delta flight to Salt Lake

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City on Sunday. He boarded the
flight and hit in the airplane bathroom,

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they say, until a plane pushed
back from the gate. Then claimed he

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was in seat twenty one AF,
but that seat was occupied. The plane

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returned to the gate and he was
met by police. The guy allegedly told

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investigators he used a friend's Southwest Airlines
buddy pass to get through TSA and boarded

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the Delta plane when the flight he
wanted was full. He's now in a

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jail on a federal detainer. Join
me and wake up call on Sunday,

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April twenty first, So excited about
this. We're going to be at Brookside

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Park in Pasadena for the Wiggle Waggle
Walk to benefit a benefit Pasadena Humane and

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that's going to help care for thousands
of animals that they take in every year.

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As you'll remember, Jennifer Jones,
Lee used to spearhead this cause,

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and since she has headed back to
Northern California, she's passed the leash on

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to me. Get it. Okay, Yeah, so come out. You

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can see adoptable pups, you can
check out the booths. There's going to

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be a costume contest, games,
demonstrations, food and more. And you

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can join our team, the wake
Up Call Wigglers and come out to walk

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with us and visit with the KFI
booth. There's going to be an exclusive

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KFI swag bag really cool stuff inside
for your pooch. That's while supplies last.

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And if you can't join us at
the walk, you can still donate

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to help us reach our goal at
KFI AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle

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that's where you're going to find all
the information. You can sign up for

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the walk, you can join our
team, or you can just make a

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donation or find out more about the
Humane Society. But hopefully you will be

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joining us on Sunday, April twenty
first for this year's Wiggle Waggle Walk benefiting

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Pasadena Humane. You're listening to Wake
Up Call on demand from KFI AM six

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forty. I got my coffee all
ready to go. Hope it's a nice

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relaxing day. Isn't always better when
you start your day and you're not like

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crazy stressed out. I hope your
day is like that. Here's what we're

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following in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The La City Council is voted

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to move forward with several police reform
measures, including giving the Chief of Police

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the power to fire officers. Currently
that's up to the city's Board of Rights.

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A city attorney will now put together
an ordinance to change the city charter.

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Then it will be up to voters
to decide whether to make those changes.

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The US may offer a plea deal
to Julian Assange. The Justice Department

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is apparently looking at ways to allow
him to admit to misdemeanor charges and settle

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the year's long extradition battle with the
WikiLeaks founder. Massange is accused of espionage

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for publishing thousands of classified documents related
to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The La Dodgers and San Diego Padres
are playing their second of two season starting

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games in Seoul, South Korea.
The Dodgers won it five to two yesterday.

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Former Japanese superstar Yashinobu Yamamoto is making
his pitching debut for the Dodgers.

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going to tell you the score because
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Interest rates aren't coming down just yet
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okay with that. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.

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Jim, darn it, we missed
International Happiness Day. Well you didn't

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miss it. You know you made
it through, right, but you just

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didn't know his International Happiness DA.
A lot of people don't know that,

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and maybe that's a reflection of their
own happiness level. But Gallup has been

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asking people since twenty twelve, going
around to one hundred and forty countries in

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the world and asking people amy to
imagine a ladder wrongs the lowest wrong,

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being unhappy, the top wrong being
very happy, and asking people to put

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themselves somewhere on that ladder. And
that's how they come up with it.

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It's pretty straightforward kind of survey,
and the results now are being released on

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the International Happiness Day, Okay,
and apparently it's not that big of a

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deal that we missed International Happy Day
because we're not that happy in the US.

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Well, yeah, when it kind
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for the first time this survey has
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the respondent. So yeah, you're
right. The United States has fallen off

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the top twenty list for the first
time since this question was being asked.

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Right now, we're down at number
twenty three, but it's largely being pulled

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down by the happiness or the sense
of well being of people under thirty.

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So people thirty five and under just
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People sixteen up are pretty happy.
And in fact, those sixteen up if

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they were the ones, the only
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number ten around the world. If
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their happiness were being engaged, we'd
be down around sixty five, sixty six

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something like that. So a lot
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by people under thirty five. Kids
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okay, so what are these happiness
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have a one to ten scale,
but what kinds of things are they looking

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at? Well, that's it.
I mean, it's a self assessment and

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that's it. Just are you happy? Right? Okay? How happy do

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you feel? So it's not based
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that you have in your own mind. Right, what makes me happy?

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And how do I feel about where
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would I put myself a lot,
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It doesn't lay out complicated you know, matrices or vectors on where you

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fall. It just says, how
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this ladder? Okay, So we
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or at least the young people aren't. Where is everybody super happy?

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Finland? Finland? Those people by
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is cold there, and so it's
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of happiness. It's followed by Denmark, Iceland, Sweden. So those top

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four are pretty they're cold, right, those are cold weather countries. Then

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Israel hits the list. Then the
Netherlands. So for some reason, those

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folks in Scandinavian that part of the
world are pretty darn happy. And you

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know, for I don't know how
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but those are the folks who are
happy and have been for the last

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decade or so. Maybe it's from
all the electronic rays coming off of the

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northern lights, right or maybe Buyork. Maybe it's the music of Byorks happy

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scan. Yeah, okay, so
real quick. Israel is on the list

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as what did you say, number
six, number five? Yes, okay,

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number six, And things in Israel
right now are not very happy.

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So it's not just based on this
year, right, isn't it a three

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year average or something? It is
that's how Israel stayed in there, right

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right before Hamas and all of that
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they if the survey were done today, the things might look a little different

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in terms of Israel's happiness. Maybe
maybe the US too, given you know,

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you just mentioned the stock market.
They're all three major indexes are record

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highs, and investors at least appear
to be fairly happy. Interest rates maybe

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coming down. And by the way, folks, hundred thirty five. They

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have they remember nine to eleven,
right, that was they were nineteen years

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old when that happened. They're thirty
five, thirty four or something. Yeah,

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they were young, but they should
be able to remember it. They

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know the economic crisis of two thousand
and eight, two thousand and they know

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the pandemic. They know right now
if they go out and try to buy,

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they're gonna have to pay three or
four hundred thousand dollars. First of

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all, they've got to pay off
their student loans. So they're under they're

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under stressors that people over sixty really
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And that may be part of it
here. Okay, so note to self,

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wait for the rolling average. Maybe
things will get better next year.

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And in the meantime, let's go
to Finland. Don't worry, be happy.

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Oh yes, I love that song. Thank you, Jim Ryan.

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of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man in Orange County's been charged

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Vision Windows. A Tustin police officer
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ill homeless man holding a broomstick.
We got out your hands up, I

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know you. Officer of Stella Silva
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concluded Silva acted in self defense,
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camera policies and de escalation training.
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environmental protection agencies announced new vehicle emissions
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they will go into effect in three
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twenty twenty seven through twenty thirty two
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AM six forty. Here's what we're following

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in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California is Proposition one has passed by

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a narrow margin. Prop one's going
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bond funding to build housing and treatment
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President Biden is canceling nearly six billion
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seventy eight thousand public service workers.
Teachers, nurses, and firefighters who qualify

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to get student loan forgiveness in less
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to testify in his impeachment in At
five point fifty, it's kitten season because

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it's springtime, which is adorable,
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lady about what you can do,
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don't want to adopt. It is
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to celebrate food. Lots of food
festivals going on, and one of them

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is happening at Knots Berry Farm.
So we went out and about to the

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Boysoberry Festival and I got a chance
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who we last talked to for Nots
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So this is a much more friendly
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Festival before, so it was kind
of a real treat. So Chris,

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what are we going to find at
this year's Boisonberry Festival? Yeah? So

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Boys and Berry Festival is happening right
now through all the way through April twenty

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Aphlus selectate. So we're tyler sides
everybody here. There's food, there is

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entertainments, there's merchandiser, so much
fun. But this beauty of it is

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a boisonberry festival and that all started
with Walter or Not as a boisonberry farmer.

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We created the boisonberry. So what
better way is Patrini than the whole

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festival? Okay, so we all
know there, let's take a lok.

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Yeah, we all know that there
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did not realize that the Boys and
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so did he create it? It's
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first one to discover any picking.
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couple of different berries that we have, and Walter Not created it and it

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took off and here we are,
you know, years later, celebrating it

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here at the Boisberry Festival. There's
so much food, so there's so much

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beverage and all, of course all
Boysonberry inspired and themed. Yes, okay,

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So I'm gonna tell you that we've
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tasting, okay, and I am
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and then infusing the boisonberry into it. Like we had the sliced pork okay,

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with mashed potatoes, and then it
had a boisonberry gravy. Oh my

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goodness, that sound was a delist
so delicious, right, and then traditional

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stuff like we had a boisonberry combler, and then we just had the funnel

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cake with a boisonberry ice cream.
Oh so good. So you think of

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boisonberry has dessert, but it's not. It's main courses too. Yes,

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it's main courses too. And what
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We have such a rich, diverse
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so to take that Southern California cuisine
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it, you get the best of
both worlds. You know. One of

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my favorite things here is the low
there. I love a lodate and all

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of a sudden day, yet you
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personal favorites. So you take that, you have some boisonberry to it,

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and it tastes completely different. It
is such a tread here. Yeah.

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And one of the things we tried
on the charcooterie board it was a boison

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berry mustard and you think of that
and you go, well, that's a

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weird combination. And then you try
and you go, well, that's just

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delicious. So it's like surprising flavors. Yes, you take what you think

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would be a dessert flavor and you
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and your savory dishes. Oh,
it as a whole nother word doing Okay,

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and tons of food, and I
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food offerings, and I do want
to say that you guys have some vegan

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options and some gluten free options.
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vegan options that we had as well
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top of that a wonderful beverage program
too. We have you know, drinks

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that are inspired by the Boys and
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know, over twenty one and likes
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do have, you know, beers
and cocktails that are boys and Berry inspired

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as well. I had a boison
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was so good and again surprising flavors. That sounds deficious, Yes, it

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does. I'm going to have a
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I need to try that pretty soon. We'll be done with this interview quickly

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and then maybe you and I will
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Okay. So here's the other thing
that's really cool about the Boys and Berry

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Festival. It's not just food,
it's entertainment. It's entertainment, okay.

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And look at all these booths there
are, I mean, how many boos?

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Thanks? Do you guys have their
little small vendor booths and really cool,

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fun, unique things. Yeah,
we partner with with a large amount

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of local crafters. They come in
and you're seeing right now a wonderful tea

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vendor that we have. But of
course we say it's a boys and Berry

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festival, how do you infuse that
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all the crafters come up with something
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Berry bulwa it's real good. Oh. I saw the boys on a Verry

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goobag oh and I said, there's
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they all smell so delishus like,
yeah, so much to check out.

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So again, it's going now through
the April twenty eighth. Yes, right

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now, it's pretty much every day, and then it's going to go to

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weekends and selectings and how some people
find more information before they buy their tickets.

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Yeah, they can go to dot
notts dot com. They'll be able

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to get all of our operating dates
as well of the days that we offer

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the Bois and Berry Festival. We'll
have food, we'll have beverages, walk

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crafters of course, will entertainment.
Will be a great time, delicious and

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entertaining. Yea, you can ask
for much more. Thank you so much,

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wonderful. I'll see you again.
All right. That's out and about

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for this week at the Boys and
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it was deliciousness. I must tell
you if you want to find out dates,

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because like I said, it's going
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it'll switch to weekends after spring break
and select dates, so you can find

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all the information at knots dot com. I think my favorite thing, and

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Nick, I'm not sure what your
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favorite thing was the corn chowder with
boisonberry syrup. Sounds so weird, but

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it was such a cool mix of
savory and sweet. It was so tasty.

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What did I like? There's just
so much there. Barbara the barber

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coo over the mac and cheese with
the boisonberry drizzle was also incredible, which

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lovely, And then there's a lot
It's really there's a lot of sweet that's

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been added to the savory options,
and that's what I kind of enjoy is

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that mashup of the two flavors.
But yeah, I was gonna say,

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you know what really good was that
slushy that I had in the cute little

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boysonberry container. Oh yeah, you
can also get there, but it's the

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only place you can get boisonberry flavored
icy anywhere in the country. Pretty much

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anywhere in the world is it nots
Verry Farm for the Boisonberry Festival. So

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that's one of the specially unique treats
that is available right now through April and

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I love the boys and berries were
created right here at knots Very Farm.

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Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four

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hour News. We're one of the
largest meth busts at the California Mexico border

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included carrots. During the routine inspection
of a semi truck at the O ti

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Mesa commercial port of entry, customs
officers say they found five hundred and seventy

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four packages of meth weighing nearly three
thousand pounds. Officers say while they were

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opening produce boxes Sunday morning, they
noticed orange packages underneath clear banks of carrots.

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The orange packages, along with the
crushed ice, were meant to blend

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in with the orange vegetables. Officials
say the meth has a street value worth

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millions of dollars. Steve Gregory kaf
I News. Prosecutors in ventur Counties,

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a corrections officer from Fullerton has been
charged with nine felonies for having sex with

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a fifteen year old girl. Court
papers show from December of twenty twenty two

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to February of twenty three, a
Zan Santu engaged in sexual activity with the

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teen while working at the Ventura Youth
Correctional Facility in Camerio. Special enhancements were

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also filed because Sandu took advantage of
a position of trust or confidence. Allegedly,

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Sandu pleaded not guilty yesterday and remains
in jail on a million dollars bail.

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Hundreds of public safety cameras are being
installed throughout San Francisco. Mayor London

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Breeds says the goal is to help
fight organized retail and motor theft and make

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the city safer for people who live
there, also businesses and visitors. She

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says four hundred licensed plate readers are
also being added on a rolling basis at

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more than one hundred locations around the
city. You're listening to a wake up

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Call on demand from KFI Am six
forty My How time flies when you're having

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fun and hope you're enjoying the show
this morning. We have a handle on

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the News coming up in just a
few moments, So if you're not enjoying

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00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:10.799
wake up Call, you're definitely going
to enjoy Handle on the News. Actually,

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we have some we still have some
really great stuff coming up, so

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stick around. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

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A sixteen year old girl has died
more than a week after she got into

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a fight with two other girls at
school in South la. The girl's mother

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says her daughter and the girls fought
in the bathroom at Manual Arts High School

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on March fifth. The girl died
March fifteenth of a brain hemorrhage. The

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mom says school officials and campus police
didn't do enough to stop the bullies from

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going after her daughter, who had
come home from school with injuries in the

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past. The US may be offering
a plea deal to Julian Assage. The

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Justice Department is apparently looking at ways
to allow him to admit to misdemeanor charges

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and settle the year's long extradition battle
with the Wikileak's co founder. Assage was

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accused of espionage for publishing thousands of
classified doctors comments related to the wars in

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Iraq and Afghanistan. The Dodgers and
Padres playing their second of two season starting

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games in Seoul, South Korea.
The Dodgers won the first one five to

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two yesterday. You can hear a
full replay of the whole game at noon

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today on AM five, seventy LA
sports and HD on the iHeartRadio app.

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We're just minutes away from Handle on
the news. Getting close to retirement.

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Not so fast. Some House Republicans
are calling for hiking the retirement age.

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Let's say good morning now to the
Kitten Lady, Hannah Shaw. Good morning,

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Hannah, Hi, thanks for having
me. Okay, before we get

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started, because we're going to be
talking about kitten season and stuff. How

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did you come to be known as
the Kitten Lady? Well, I started

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rescuing kittens about fifteen years ago after
finding a kitten in a tree, and

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kittens just started finding me, and
I started rescuing them, and the rest

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is history. I think that this
is my theory that when you go into

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a shelter to find a pet,
I think they find you. Sounds like

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that's what happened with you. I
agree with that completely. Yeah, And

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a lot of foster parents start out
the way that I do. A lot

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of people don't realize how many kittens
are in our shelter system, but they

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find kittens outside, realize what's going
on and want to help. Okay,

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So it is kitten season, Hannah, which is exciting because kittens are adorable,

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but it's also scary because there's so
many of them, and as you

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just mentioned, a lot of them
just get dumped. A lot of them

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end up in shelters thankfully, so
at least they have a chance. But

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tell us about the event that you're
going to be speaking out this weekend that

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specifically deals with kittens and what the
situation is now. Sure, So on

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Sunday the twenty fourth at Pasadena Humane
Society, there's going to be a really

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wonderful kitten shower event that's just like
a baby shower, but for kittens.

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Because kitten season is here, there's
a lot of kittens that are going to

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be coming through the shelter doors.
So we're asking people to come with donations

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to provide, you know, a
lot of the supplies that these kittens are

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going to need, but also to
come and learn about what kittens need.

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So I'll be doing a number of
workshops covering everything from introduction to what is

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fostering, what should you do if
you find a kitten outside this spring or

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summer, and then of course covering
kitten care from you know, everything from

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bottle feeding through weaning and getting them
adopted. Okay, so if you if

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you just got a kitten would be
good to go. If you're thinking about

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it, would be good to go, or if you're not ready to adopt,

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fostering may be a good way to
go because you can help. But

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if you don't have the long term
commitment. Yeah, and you know,

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fostering is something a lot of people
don't realize they actually do have the ability

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to do. It's such a short
term commitment with such a huge impact that

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can be made on these animals.
Even fostering for one to two weeks,

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Even if you foster just one litter
of kittens every year in the spring or

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summer, that makes such a big
difference for the Humane Society. You know,

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there are so so many kittens entering
doors and we really just need the

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community all hands on deck to help
out and make a difference. And this

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is the event where you can learn
how to do that and find where you

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fit in. Okay, And the
idea behind fostering is because the kittens need

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extra care because they're babies. They
don't have their mamas with them, and

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so you need extra people and they're
just start enough people at the shelter all

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the time to take care of all
of them. Is that right? Yeah?

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I like to think of foster parents
kind of like a bridge, you

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know, or like a bridge between
the kittens, like being in really a

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hopeless situation where if they're not with
their moms, they are not able to

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take care of themselves. They're not
you know, kittens are born even with

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their eyes closed, ears folded,
they can't regulate their own temperature. You

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know, they need overnight care.
We're a bridge that just gets them,

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you know, across the line to
where they are old enough to be you

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know, a bit independent, able
to eat on their own, able to

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go to their forever home. So
it's like babysitting. You know, it's

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a short term commitment makes a really
big difference for them, and you know,

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it's such a joyful thing for foster
parents like me to get to be

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part of that journey for them.
Okay and Hannah, what is the ideal

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kitchen kitchen kitten foster parent. What
does that look like? Oh, there's

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so many different ways to foster.
There are people who just do like overnight

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relief fostering. There are people who
do fostering for full eight weeks from the

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time the kitten comes in at two
days old, so you can work with

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you know, little bottle babies,
especially if you work from home. If

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you work from home, taking care
of those little guys is something that we

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need a lot of people to do, and it's just a couple of minutes

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every few hours of care for them. But even if you don't work from

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home or you don't feel like waking
up in the middle of the night,

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you can foster a mom with babies. You can foster weaned kittens where you

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know, if you have thumbs that
can open up a can of food a

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couple times a day, you can
foster older kittens. So really you kind

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of adapt it to whatever your lifestyle
is. You know, whatever time and

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skills you have to give, the
Humane Society will for sure find some way

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to fit you into that program.
Okay. And you can find out so

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much more this Sunday from ten to
three thirty at Pasadena Humane where Hannah is

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holding a kitten shower. And where
do they go to find more information and

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do they need to register or do
they just show up so they can go

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to my website. It's Kittenlady dot
org slash events. I have a link

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there that will give you all the
information and it's happening from ten to three

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point thirty on Sunday, and you
can register on the website and find out

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more. All right, Hannah,
Hannah Shaw, the Kitten Lady, thank

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you so much. I hope you
find lots of foster parents over the weekend

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and also get some kiddies adopted.
Thank you very much. All right,

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Thanks, Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI

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twenty four our newsroom. The interpreter
for Dodgers player Shohei Otani has been fired

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over allegations of theft and illegal gambling. Andrew Dimbert says the interpreter allegedly stole

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00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.719
more than four million dollars from Otani
to pay off gambling debts. Zuhara allegedly

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00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:43.360
placed wagers within the legal sports book
in California. ESPN reviewed bank information,

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it says shows Otani's name on two
five hundred thousand dollars payments made last year.

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A spokesman for Otani says the baseball
star has been the victim of a

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00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:55.760
massive theft and they were turning the
matter over to authorities. Misahara worked with

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00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:00.000
Otani for years during his time with
the Angels and now with the Dodge.

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Major League Baseball confirmed he was fired
yesterday. Prosecutors in Riverside County say the

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alleged shooter in a murder for higher
plot tied to a church leader maybe hiding

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00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:14.559
out in Mexico. A Zeus Felies
Garcia is charged with attempted murder, assault

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00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.400
with a firearm, and conspiracy.
He and another guy were allegedly played paid

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00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.440
forty thousand dollars last year by a
church pastor from Victorville to kill a man

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who was dating the pastor's daughter.
They shot the guy in October, but

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he survived. Three two lift off
rocket Lab has successfully sent a spy satellite

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00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:43.199
into orbit for the US National Reconnaissance
Office and Electron rocket carrying the payload lifted

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off early this morning from Wallops,
Virginia. The mission is called Live and

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00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:52.559
Let Fly Get It. Rocket Lab
says the National Reconnaissance Office missions provide critical

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information to more than a half million
government users, including every member of the

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intelligence community, the military lawmakers.
You've been listening to Wake Up Call with

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me, Amy King. You can
always hear Wake Up Call five to six

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am Monday through Friday on KFI AM
six forty and anytime on demand on the

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