WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.839 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones. Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:11.279 six forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. Tuesdays aren't so 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:19.359 bad when they start with Jennifer Jones Late. Here she is with your morning 4 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:29.160 wake up call. What exactly do I call breaking news that you knew was 5 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:35.759 coming? Because it drives me nuts when I see the cable news networks due 6 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:44.119 breaking news followed by the word soon. If you guys know that breaking news 7 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:49.000 is on the way, it's not breaking news, especially because you've been talking 8 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:54.640 about it, it drives me insane. So I have breaking news that you 9 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:00.840 knew was coming that was announced last week that I'm not gonna say it soon. 10 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:06.400 It's right now. President Biden announced he's running for reelection in twenty twenty 11 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:12.359 four. I know, I know, the shock might have you driving off 12 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:19.239 the road. Drives me crazy. It was like yesterday my favorite part of 13 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:27.560 the whole Tucker Carlson Don Lemon getting fired thing. This is CNN's headline that 14 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:38.560 said this justin CNN parts ways with Don Lemon. What you didn't know you 15 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:44.359 guys were parting ways with Don Lemon? What that might have been a class. 16 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.239 It was one I had to take a screenshot of because in our industry, 17 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.480 I went that that's one of the more embarrassing things I've ever seen. 18 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.040 But I they had to handle it some way, But not this justin like 19 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.680 you guys didn't freaking know. Come on now, some of those stories we're 20 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:05.879 watching on this Tuesday morning, the La County Sheriff's Department may have to release 21 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:12.400 photos and personal information on thousands of deputies, law enforcement leaders in Orange County 22 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:17.159 of slam criminal justice reform efforts and weak punishments for fentyl dealers. Coming up 23 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.719 at five oh five, we're going to talk with ABC's Louie Martinez. All 24 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.960 right, So the good news is we got the embassy in Sudan evacuated. 25 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:30.719 That was a quick clean operation. Those helicopters were on the ground for less 26 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:35.360 than an hour getting those people out of there. What about the thousands of 27 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:40.520 other US American citizens that remain in Sudan? What happens to them? How 28 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:44.280 do they get out? So we'll find out when we talk with Louie in 29 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.080 just a second. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the 30 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:51.360 KFI twenty four hour news room. The La County Sheriff's Department may have to 31 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:57.400 release photos and personal information on thousands of deputies. That's because of media outlet 32 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:01.000 has requested the data under a California public record request. The department wouldn't id 33 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:05.439 the outlet ters say why they needed the information, but did say the request 34 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.360 is similar to the one served on the LAPD. The LAPD recently released unredacted 35 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:14.840 photos of nine thousand officers, including those in undercover assignments. The request with 36 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:20.000 the Sheriff's Department excludes those who are undercover. A union representing deputies says it 37 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:23.360 has spoken with department leadership and thirty five subject matter experts to protect the rights 38 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.520 of the deputies. Steve Gregory King, if I law enforcement leaders in Orange 39 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.840 County of slam criminal justice reform efforts and weak punishments for finnel dealers, you 40 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:37.919 are all just liars. You lie to the public. OC Sheriff Don Barton 41 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.560 says state senators refused the law, warning dealers fatal fentnel overdoses could mean murder 42 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.400 charges, claiming this is going to disproportionately target those who are users, and 43 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.360 the legislation had nothing to do with users, only dealers. OCDA Todd Spitzer 44 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.240 slam the judge who gave a light punishment to a guy who fought to take 45 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:57.240 an officer's gun away. She said, isn't that what you signed up for 46 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.199 when you became a police officer? Literally was flabbergasted. Other speakers at the 47 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.479 annual Crime Victims event yesterday asked how much more should victim suffer? In Santa 48 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.719 Anna Corbin Carson k if I need. An off duty deputy with the Riverside 49 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.319 County Sheriff's Department has been killed in the crash while on his motorcycle. Deputy 50 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.279 Andrew Davidson collided with a car yesterday on Van Buren Boulevard near Garfield Street and 51 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:26.480 Riverside. The car's front passenger side has serious damage. Deputy Davidson, who 52 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.879 joined the department in March of last year, died at the hospital. The 53 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.040 driver of the car was treated for payne. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says 54 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:40.240 the new state report on crime reduction is nothing more than garbage in garbage out. 55 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:44.360 Last week, prison officials released a first ever report on the number of 56 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:48.879 felons re arrested after being released early under Prop fifty seven. The report looked 57 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:54.519 at a three year period from twenty seventeen. Bianco says the report has flawed 58 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:58.079 because it didn't account for those who were never caught, or for those people 59 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:02.120 too frustrated with the judicial system to actually report a crime. Brought fifty seven 60 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.759 past in twenty sixteen to offer early release for those convicted of non violent crimes. 61 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:13.519 Louis Martinez, Good morning. So how do we get the remaining Americans 62 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.959 in Sudan safely out of there? Big question? Gen. I think what 63 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:23.519 you're seeing from the administration is that they're favoring this land route out from Khartoum, 64 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.800 a six one hundred miles east to a port city and on the Red 65 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.920 Sea, and then they can make their way out from there. The US 66 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.839 says they're trying to facilitate the exit of Americans, So I think what they're 67 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:39.160 trying to do is put them in contact with other countries that might be flowing 68 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.680 in their own military assets to take people out. But they're trying to get 69 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.120 the word out that the land route is the most feasible way. And right 70 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.480 now what we're seeing is a new seventy two hours ceasefire that was negotiated by 71 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:55.000 Tony blank in our Secretary of State. It seems to be holding. There's 72 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:59.639 reports of isolated gunfire. But if it does hold for the next three days 73 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.680 through third day, then that's a good sign. And I think that's going 74 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:08.680 to afford a possibility for more Americans and maybe even other from other nationality to 75 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.639 get out inside of Sudan. You know, it's fascinating to me how drones 76 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:16.720 are being used to sort of monitor these convoys getting the Americans out, kind 77 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:20.240 of like having you know, a bird's eye view on them as they're traveling 78 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:24.720 out of there. And I think that's wonderful in the sense of it's almost 79 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:29.959 like they have an added protection. But what happens if that drone spots something 80 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.480 that's bad or wrong? Where do we go from there? Well, that's 81 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.560 a really good question, Jen, and I think that was actually posed yesterday 82 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:41.680 to depending on stup spokesman. He was asked are these drones armed? And 83 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.600 he kind of deflected the question, which I think kind of gave you the 84 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.040 answer right there. So I think the US is going to be prepared for 85 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.759 an eventuality. I mean, that's something that's called the rules of engagement, 86 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:58.199 and the US military really doesn't talk about that a lot in terms of specifics, 87 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.279 but they always say the US has the right self defense. So I 88 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.560 think when you see a scenario like that, yeah, it's great to have 89 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:09.480 these drones up there providing that surveillance capability, making sure that there is no 90 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:14.120 threat as these vehicles make their way to Port Sudan. Also worth noting that 91 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:18.399 there were drones flying above the US team over Cartoon as those three helicopters went 92 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:23.160 in order the weekend to take out one hundred or so embassy personnel. Well, 93 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.800 I you know, if I was one of the Americans in Sudan, 94 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:30.399 though, I'd be thinking to myself, any extra protection is wonderful. So 95 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.360 these drones have at it. So when it comes to then once they get 96 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:40.319 these convoys, they get these Americans to safety. I understand that there are 97 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:45.560 ships that have been positioned, US ships that can then take those evacuees somewhere 98 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.759 else. Well, not necessarily US ships. There are ferries there are We 99 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:55.279 know that the Saudi Navy has actually sent some ships to Portstudan. They're along 100 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.959 the red seat to take some people across into Jetta. The US Navy ship 101 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.199 themselves are on standby there was a destroyer that happened to be in the southern 102 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.079 part of the Red Sea, and they were set up north. There's another 103 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.720 vessel that's making its way into the Red Sea, and that's more of a 104 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:15.680 longer term project. If this continues on, that could be involved in potentially 105 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:20.680 involving helicopter since it has that helicopter capability. But for now, those two 106 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.240 us TV ships are just there on the Red Sea. How standby in case 107 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.839 they're needed. All Right, Louie, thank you so much, and you 108 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:33.200 know we're gonna pray for the careful evacuation of these people. And yeah, 109 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.639 I mean it's I love that there's a ceasefire. I love that there are 110 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.679 drones. But anytime that you hear that you're trying to get anybody out, 111 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:45.240 are people out of a war torn area, that's always a scary, scary 112 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.279 thing to think about. So we'll keep our fingers crossed. Louie, thank 113 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.679 you so much. Thanks, I appreciate it. See you later. ABC 114 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:58.519 is Louis Martinez. All Right. Our other big story this morning that no 115 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:05.440 one saw coming. President Biden has announced that he's running for reelection in twenty 116 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:09.159 twenty four. Here is sort of the spoken word part. I guess you 117 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.559 could say of the presidential announcement this morning, it was on video, and 118 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:18.440 so anytime it's on video, of course you're going to have all this wonderful 119 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.639 music and production and whatever. We just want to get down to the nuts 120 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:28.679 and bolts of it. So here we go. Freedom. Personal freedom is 121 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.000 fundamental to who we are as Americans. There's nothing more important, nothing more 122 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.480 sacred. That's been the work of my first turn to fight for our democracy. 123 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.919 This shouldn't be a red or volition protect our rights, to make sure 124 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.360 that everyone in this country is treated equally and that everyone has given a fair 125 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.200 shot at making it. But you know, around the country, magar extremists 126 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.600 are lying enough to take on those bedrock freedoms. Cutting social Security that you 127 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:00.759 paid for your entire life, while cutting taxis from a very wealthy dictating What 128 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:05.759 healthcare just says is women can make Banning books and telling people who they can 129 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.320 love all I'm making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. 130 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.240 When I ran for Present of four years ago, i said, we're in 131 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:18.240 a battle for the soul of America, and we still are. The question 132 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:22.039 we're facing is whether in the years ahead, we have more freedom or less 133 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:26.240 freedom, More rights are fewer. I know what I want the answer to 134 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:30.720 be, and I think you do too. This is not a time to 135 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:43.639 be complacent. That's why I'm running for reelection because I know America. I 136 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.600 know we're good at decent people. I know we're still a country to believes 137 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:52.360 in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity. That we're a nation 138 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.320 where we give hate no safe hard work. We believe that everyone is equal, 139 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.879 that everyone should be given a fair shout to succeed this country. Every 140 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:03.879 generation Americas that faced the moment when they have to defend baccercy, stand up 141 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:07.279 for a personal freedom, stand up for the right to vote, in our 142 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:18.360 civil rights, and this is our moment. All right, what do you 143 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:28.480 What do you think? Cheesy good? Anything in there that you didn't expect? 144 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.240 I love the part about the banning books and the freedom to love. 145 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.679 You might as well have just said, Rohnda Santist, this is for you. 146 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.399 But yeah, I mean it's it's what you expected with all the you 147 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.320 know, hoop law that would go behind it for a produced video like that. 148 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.600 So there you go. He's officially in I'm sorry, Vince Scully, 149 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:54.679 what is that bitch? Time for Dodger faceball? Oh, best play plans. 150 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.440 It is time for Dodger baseball, and today the Dodgers take on the 151 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:03.799 Pirate Saint Pittsburgh. You got first pitch at three thirty five. Listening to 152 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:09.159 the game NHD on the free iHeartRadio app live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. 153 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.679 Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports, this is your wake up calls. 154 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:18.600 State Assemblyman Mike Fong has gone to Monterey Park to announce new gun legislation. 155 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.720 A mass shooting in a dance studio in Monterey Park three months ago took the 156 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.919 lives of eleven people. Fong says one of the three new bills would help 157 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.879 remove guns from those who shouldn't have them. Our current system for removing firearms 158 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:37.840 at a time of conviction lacks enforcement mechanisms. As a result, as of 159 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.679 January twenty twenty three, there was a backlog of nearly twenty four thousand cases. 160 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.519 The other two bills would prevent the government from selling weapons back to the 161 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:52.159 public and require emergency information be given in other languages and A hit to Fox 162 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:58.279 News's stock shows the decision to part ways with Tucker Carlson has cost Fox hundreds 163 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.720 of millions of dollars in value. He has said nothing about the decision to 164 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.720 part ways, but we're told that decision came from Lachlan Murdoch, the News 165 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.600 Corps co chairman, along with the CEO of Fox News, Susanne Scott. 166 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.639 Aaron Katurski says Fox's stock closed down about three percent yesterday after the announcement. 167 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.240 Fox thanked Carlson for his service and said his last program was this past Friday 168 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:26.559 night. Katursky says Carlson will be replaced by a series of substitute hosts. 169 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.399 Let's see how that goes over. Jim Ryan, good morning to you. 170 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.480 So I think there were a lot of people that worked from home during the 171 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.080 pandemic. It's funny. I don't think you did. I certainly didn't. 172 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.960 We were all in at the workplace, but a lot of people got used 173 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.759 to working from home and they figured out ways to be productive at home. 174 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.000 You know, they just kind of had to change their mindset. But during 175 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:52.360 that time, you had bosses going, how productive are my people? And 176 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.799 now there's a thing called productivity paranoia, and our bosses have it. I 177 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.559 feel like I should go check the forehead of Chris Little he gets here, 178 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:03.440 Well, Chris has it. Probably a lot of folks do it. It's 179 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:09.840 just a statement. It says something about the mindset of employers in twenty twenty 180 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.000 three, given what happened in twenty twenty and everybody was working from home, 181 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:18.120 and concerns among managers and bosses that their folks were sitting at home doing nothing 182 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.720 or we're not being as productive as they were before. So you saw this 183 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:28.840 sudden surge in purchases and searches for software that would monitor employee seventy five percent 184 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.200 increase between March of nineteen nineteen or twenty nineteen and March of twenty seventy five 185 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.600 percent rise in searches for employee monitoring software. A lot of those companies went 186 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.759 ahead and bought that software. That has continued into twenty twenty one, twenty 187 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.399 twenty two. So it seems as though, even as the pandemic may be 188 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.200 in our rearview mirror, the idea, the thought of monitoring employees is not 189 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:56.240 okay. So it was the keystrokes. I remember that at first that was 190 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.799 the thing that your boss is going to know how many keystrokes and when you'd 191 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.320 say them and when you make them. But now has that transferred more into 192 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:09.240 and almost almost like a big brother kind of thing where not only am I 193 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.440 going to maybe monitor your keystrokes still, but I need to have proof of 194 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:18.559 your productivity. Well, yes, and monitoring keystrokes is one thing. Figure 195 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.919 out what those keystrokes say, right. They want to know what you're working 196 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.679 on out there or not working on the emails that you're sending. And by 197 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:28.279 the way, if you're working on a company and computer or a laptop or 198 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.039 a tablet or a phone, your employee has the right to go ahead and 199 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.279 put that software in there and keep tabs of what's happening with its equipment. 200 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:41.679 The best policy, say the companies that produce this software, this's monitoring software, 201 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.200 is to let the employees know that you are keeping tabs on what they're 202 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:50.919 up to, you know, trying to maintain the company quality and maintain the 203 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.120 bar that those employees set before the pandemic, just to ensure that things are 204 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.120 where they should be. So, you know, letting them know that honesty 205 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.960 and you know, maybe the best policy here. Some employees aren't going to 206 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.679 like it, but at least they'll know that their boss was honest and said, 207 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.000 yeah, we're keeping an eye. I'm reading your emails, your company 208 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.519 emails, and I'm keeping tabs on that company phone that we issued you. 209 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.559 Well, yeah, and I think that, Yeah, I'd be annoyed by 210 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.559 it. I'd be I'd be thinking to myself, Hey, this sucks. 211 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:21.320 You don't think that I'm being productive or whatever. At the same time, 212 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:25.960 I would much rather them tell me I was being monitored than to do it 213 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.519 covertly, right, And that's part of, you know, the backfire effect 214 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.440 of all of this janus that employees who find out later that I think we 215 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:34.919 were being moder What do you mean I was being watched? Are you kidding 216 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:40.120 me? And there's that anger that can come from that, and then then 217 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.559 you will have people bailing out at some point. Other employees are taking their 218 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:48.559 own approach. They're fighting fire with fire. There is a subscription I found 219 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:53.440 this morning, a subscription service called lazy Work whose slogan is whose slogan is 220 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:59.200 go ahead and take a break for six bucks a month that you'll have this 221 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.600 this software on there, and what it does if it notices that you're away 222 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:06.839 from your computer for a couple of minutes, it'll start moving the cursor around. 223 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:10.880 It'll it'll do a random Google search for something or other. It'll, 224 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.440 you know, just it'll look as though you're sitting there at your computer doing 225 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.599 something, not necessarily getting anything done, but at least doing something. So 226 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.200 the boss is monitoring and oh, yeah, yeah, Jennifer is sitting at 227 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.039 her desk and she's doing some I mean she's looking for something or she's scrolling 228 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:29.680 up and down, so yeah, she's she's gotta be there. Meanwhile, 229 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:33.720 you're out blasting huge clouds of vape smoke and you know, on the patio 230 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.279 or something exactly, hanging out with the dogs day and fetch whatever. I 231 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:44.400 was looking last night on strategies to improve your productivity at home or at least 232 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.839 make your boss think that they are. These were the four that came up. 233 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:49.319 I guess on this one. I don't even know what the website was 234 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:56.079 that I got this from. From Let's see Well and good dot com. 235 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:02.079 Seek guidance from your boss on how to prioritize. Ask them how often they'd 236 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:06.839 like to be updated on your progress. Ensure that you're reachable within me hours 237 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:10.359 that you've agreed to work and lend a hand others on your team when you 238 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.079 can. I feel like all this is is just tapping the boss on the 239 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.200 shoulder every now and then and saying, hey, I'm still doing something, 240 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.480 or hey, you know, like I haven't gone away completely, I'm still 241 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:23.400 engaged, or something like that. But I also felt like, if you 242 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.880 do these four things, you can run off and go do whatever you want, 243 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.440 just come back and make sure you ask one of these questions. Always 244 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:34.079 looking for a way to game the system. March no, listen. But 245 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:38.079 the point here is that even if you're going back into the office to work, 246 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.240 you're back in the in the cubicle, or you're back there in the 247 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.279 at your desk in front of the boss, a lot of this software has 248 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.599 followed you into the office. So that's kind of the mindset. The habit 249 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.559 that employers have gotten into that was born out of the out of the pandemic 250 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.400 is that, you know what, I'm just going to keep that on there 251 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:57.680 and keep tabs on this person even though he or she is working in the 252 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:03.119 office, and and just make sure the productivity remains was before all right, 253 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.000 Jim, thank you so much, and I'm sorry. Well, by the 254 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:10.319 way, you know me too well. We've worked together way too long. 255 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:15.240 By Jim, have a good one. Maybe sees Jim Ryan who's outing me 256 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.119 hey. Sentencing is set in la for the mother and boyfriend of ten year 257 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:26.160 old Anthony Avelos, who was murdered in Lancaster in twenty eighteen. Heather Baron 258 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.400 and Kareem Leva were convicted in March of torturing and killing Avelos. They chose 259 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.640 not to have a jury trial, and the judge did not buy their claims 260 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:41.559 that the boy hurt was hurting himself throwing himself to the ground, and said 261 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:47.920 that the parents' statements were intended to deceive authorities about what actually happened. You 262 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:52.880 know what's interesting about the Anthony Avelos case is that, um, I don't 263 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:57.160 feel like I probably shouldn't say this out loud, but I try not to 264 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:03.759 get too deep in the leads in my mind about stories like this. Because 265 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:07.079 I've talked to you guys about this before. People will ask me like, 266 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:11.920 how do you get up every day and read stories like the Anthony Avelo's case, 267 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:15.480 And I said, I just say the words. I can't. I 268 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:21.599 can't let it sink into my head otherwise I can't imagine what a depressed state 269 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.839 I would be in. And in this case, though, there's something about 270 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:32.559 this one in particular the heinousness of it, what that little boy had to 271 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:37.880 go through, that this is This is one I can say when I'm, 272 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.640 you know, have hung up the headphones. This is one I will never 273 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:47.119 forget. And so I and I know a lot of other people who maybe 274 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:52.960 don't always ingest the news that we have to deliver. This is one sentencing 275 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:57.640 that we will all be watching very closely. A mail carrier from South la 276 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:03.119 who stole unemployment money for more than sixty people has been sentenced to fifteen months 277 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:04.839 in federal prison. Joy A. Hunter has also been ordered to pay more 278 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:10.000 than two hundred thousand dollars in restitution. Hunter worked with another woman to steal 279 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:14.279 more than one hundred forty thousand dollars in benefit money. Prosecutors say from twenty 280 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.119 nineteen to twenty twenty hundred stole debit cards out of the mail from the California 281 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.920 Employment Development Department. She would then give those cards to the other woman, 282 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.680 who would make pins for the cards, and the two would withdraw the money 283 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:27.400 from an ATM. The other woman has also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced 284 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:32.559 in July. Like Trolley k if I News, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco 285 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:37.039 says a new state report on crime reduction is nothing more than garbage in, 286 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.440 garbage out. Last week, prison officials released a first ever report on the 287 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.480 number of felons re arrested after being released early under Prop. Fifty seven, 288 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.440 and the report looked at a three year period. Bianco says that report is 289 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:53.839 flawed because it didn't account for those who were never caught or people too frustrated 290 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:59.759 with a judicial system to even report a crime. And President Biden has announced 291 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.200 that is running for reelection in twenty twenty four. Question your fason is whether 292 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.440 in the years ahead we have more freedom or less fretive. He says in 293 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.200 a video that it will be a choice between the more rights or fewer. 294 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:17.119 Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There's nothing more important, 295 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:21.240 nothing more shaker now. Biden would be eighty six at the end of 296 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:25.000 a second term. The announcement comes on the four year anniversary of when he 297 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:29.799 declared his run in twenty nineteen. Well, let's say good morning now to 298 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:36.440 Jess Starwood, who is taking a look at mushrooms around all of southern California. 299 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:41.319 Jess is the author of Mushroom Wanderland, a Forger's guide defining, identifying, 300 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:45.839 and using more than twenty five wild fun guide Just good morning. I've 301 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:49.880 seen mushrooms around and I've always thought, I wonder if that's a safe one. 302 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:53.000 How in the world do we know if the ones that we see around 303 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.720 a maybe the base of a tree or you know, out in a field 304 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.319 kind of thing. How do we know if those are okay to eat or 305 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:07.119 not? Well, you know, actually there is no one particular way to 306 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.400 know, you know, a widespread fact that you know it's edible, So 307 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:18.000 you really have to know that that particular one isn't edible. So that's what 308 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:23.160 really makes it challenging for people to just hop into mushroom hunting. There's there's 309 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:30.200 no easy way to identify one. How big is the I guess draw or 310 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:36.559 mushroom hunting. It is bigger than I've ever seen. With all of the 311 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:42.160 new media out there right now, there's a lot of attention to mushrooms. 312 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:47.480 People are really into them, but um, yeah, we really have to 313 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:49.960 be careful, well, yeah, because with all the rain that we've had, 314 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.279 you know, we keep hearing about the shroom boom that we're having in 315 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:57.839 southern California. But even though you may see them, doesn't mean you should 316 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:03.400 just run out and eat um exactly. Yeah, it's best to go out 317 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.920 with somebody who knows what's what to look for, and you know what you 318 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.839 can eat, what you can't eat. And really like for myself, it 319 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:17.039 took me many years until I felt sick enough to eat what I found out 320 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:21.759 in the wild. And so when you do you take people out? First 321 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:26.119 off? I do. Yeah, that's that's what I do for a living. 322 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.759 Um. I educate both adults and children about the outdoors. Um, 323 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:37.440 especially about edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms. Um. So I have a 324 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:42.960 couple of programs. I do a lot of weekends events. But yeah, 325 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:48.720 the education around wild edibles is it's super important, you know, especially if 326 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:53.839 you're interested in actually eating anything you find outside. Where do you take people 327 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.960 when you're going, you know, foraging. Where are some of the places 328 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.359 that you go that you know that the mushrooms are plentiful? Uh? Yeah, 329 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:08.079 so for mushrooms, it's going to be anywhere where water is going to 330 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:14.599 be or wet areas, shady areas. You know, you're not going to 331 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:18.720 find stuff way out in the open works, hot, windy, and dry. 332 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.839 But there are definitely areas around Lau that you can find these kind of 333 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:29.359 a little tucked away little spots that are going to be conducive for mushrooms. 334 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.640 When you know, we've done stories before about people who go out and they 335 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.319 eat mushrooms and either they get very very sick or it kills them. Honestly, 336 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.839 we've had to do some of those stories as well. Are there any 337 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:47.400 that you know one hundred percent that you can tell people do not eat that 338 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:52.240 that one is poisonous? Is there one in particular that grows in southern California 339 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:56.440 a lot that people might be seeing on a daily basis where you're like, 340 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:04.720 stay away from that one. Yeah, there's actually two species that are extremely 341 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:11.279 deadly. They're in the top one percent of mushrooms that you actually should not 342 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.680 eat, and those you grow here pretty often. Those are they're called the 343 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:26.599 death cap and the Destroying Angel. Both of those yeah, uh, and 344 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:32.400 they look just like they look very similar to the mushrooms you would buy at 345 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:37.440 the store. Which makes it even more confusing for people. Um, you 346 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.880 know, they're white, they're they have guilds. They you know, they 347 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.720 look like a very unassuming little mushroom. How would you know which ones are 348 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.039 unassuming? And I guess, I mean, I know that's so hard, 349 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.160 I know, especially on the radio. Can you please paint is the picture 350 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.240 of I guess what? I know that they are the ones that sort of 351 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:03.160 almost look cartoony. Did I feel like you used to see um in like 352 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.880 around redwood trees and stuff like that with the very they're sort of a long 353 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:11.000 top on them. They're a little bit skinnier, a little taller. I 354 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:19.039 guess, um, let's take hurt to me almost like something about like the 355 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:26.079 Super Mario Brothers kind of yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, um they 356 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:30.319 are the deadly ones are related to those, um they called an ammane the 357 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:37.279 mushroom. So but they're completely white, and especially the Destroying Angel is an 358 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:42.720 all white mushroom. It's going to have a cap and a stem um and 359 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:47.759 some guilds underneath the cap, same with the death cap, but it's going 360 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:52.160 to have kind of a greenish, maybe yellowish sort of of hue to it. 361 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.680 Would you tell them. Yeah, would you tell people probably the best 362 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:02.200 idea is to stay away and not eat it unless you are with someone like 363 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:10.279 you who knows. Yeah, yeah, I mean yes. Um. Absolutely, 364 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:14.480 do not eat anything, especially in mushrooms you find in the wild, 365 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:18.319 unless you are one hundred percent sure um, or be out with an expert 366 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.079 or somebody you know. There are people who you know they grew up mushroom 367 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:27.480 hunting. They they know what to eat. Their family is you know, 368 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:34.920 involved in in those traditions. Um, But definitely not just grab anything you 369 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.519 see and be like, oh, this is growing in my lawn or down 370 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:42.559 the street, let's have it for dinner. That's that's a recipe for disaster. 371 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.400 All right, Jess, thank you so much. If people want more 372 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:51.799 information or they would like to go with you foraging for mushrooms, where can 373 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:57.599 they go? You can find me at Jay Starwood dot com or the wild 374 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:03.880 path dot org and I'm also on Instagram you can find it, Jest Starwood. 375 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.559 Awesome, Thank you so much, and what a fun life you have. 376 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.720 I love this. I'd love to go out with you sometime. Yeah, 377 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.640 let's do it. Okay, sounds good, I'm in Jess. Thank 378 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:21.000 you so much. All right, Thanks, see you later. Okay, 379 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:27.039 that is fun. Jess Starwood with the Wild Path. Also she is the 380 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:33.200 author of Mushroom Wanderland. That would be a fun job. You get to 381 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:37.119 go out in the wild and find things that you can eat not eat. 382 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.960 Did you guys ever go out This is a really bizarre thing, but it 383 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.960 reminds me of this. Did you ever go out at maybe like a sixth 384 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.839 grade ecology camp or something like that, And did they have you lick the 385 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:56.440 banana slug? Tyler's looking at me like, I'm crazy, intar nation are 386 00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:59.519 you talking about? Well, maybe that's a writting thing. We would go 387 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:04.039 out the banana slug. It makes your tongue no numb. Apparently it has 388 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:10.200 like the same effect as cocaine. It makes your tongue numb. Okay, 389 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:14.920 Well, anyway, at my ecology camp in reading, hi to everybody from 390 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:18.559 reading who's listening. And in sixth grade, you would go out to ecology 391 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.160 camp and one of the cool things that we did, cool things, I 392 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:26.440 don't know. One of the cool things that we did was you'd go out 393 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.759 looking for banana slugs. And banana slugs are the grossest. They're just yellow, 394 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:37.359 fat, little slugs I don't know that are a three four inches long 395 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:44.599 usually and maybe like an inch wide, and they're usually on trees and in 396 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:49.160 the camp counselor would take them off the tree and let every kid lick the 397 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.440 slug. I know it sounds very like in covid Land. Now that I'm 398 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:56.200 saying that out loud, that sounds like a great idea, but it would 399 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.519 make your tongue numb. Okay, nobody else did that. No, We're 400 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:06.000 gonna let you sit here with that one all by yourself, totally embarrassed. 401 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:10.319 Now that that was my one forage into the forest and see what you can 402 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:15.119 eat or in this case lick God. I love writing, And as you 403 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:21.599 might know, eight automakers have announced that they plan to remove AM radio from 404 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:23.799 the dashboard of some of their models. And you may have noticed that we 405 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:30.400 are now running national promos on this and starting we want to have this additional 406 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.759 push that we need your help with. So please, if you can, 407 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:40.400 can you do this remove access to the very AM radio stations that millions of 408 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:44.359 Americans count on. 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That's how you can tell Congress 417 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:28.839 to keep AM radio in all cars and trucks, and standard messaging rates apply. 418 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.359 Let's say good morning now to ABC's Derek Dennis. Derek, what in 419 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:37.400 the world happened with cable news yesterday? Let's start with Tucker Carlson. We 420 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.640 were all sitting here just mining our own business, and it was wait, 421 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:45.480 what Tucker Carlson is out at Fox? First? Let's go into that one. 422 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:51.680 What happened certainly a surprise. He was the highest rated host on all 423 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.359 of cable, not just on Fox News, averaging three million viewers a night. 424 00:32:54.440 --> 00:33:00.039 But Fox News Media announcing yesterday that it had parted way with Tucker Carlson, 425 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:05.039 not really giving a reason why. But we know Tucker Carlson has been 426 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:12.240 a lightning rod for years with his commentary on Fox News in his primetime show. 427 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:16.200 Also, he was heavily mentioned in that Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit that was 428 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:22.720 settled last week for nearly eight hundred million dollars, alleging Fox News to fame 429 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:28.440 the company spread misinformation and falsees, claiming it played a role in the outcome 430 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:35.079 of the twenty twenty election that former President Trump lost. Text messages and emails 431 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:39.279 were revealed, noting that a number of Fox hosts, including Tucker Carlson, 432 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.960 said one thing on the air but believes something totally different behind the scenes. 433 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:50.599 But we don't know that case was settled before it was actually on trial, 434 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.680 so we don't know oh fully what the outcome of that case would have been, 435 00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.000 but we know that once it was settled within days. Tucker Carlson appeared 436 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.400 on Friday, his last day on air, and he said at the end 437 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.639 of his show he'd be back on Monday. Oh well, something happened between 438 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:15.280 Friday nights and Monday morning for Tucker Carlson to be let go from Fox News. 439 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.440 I just don't know. He hasn't spoken at all. That's what I'm 440 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:21.440 dying to hear from him. I want to hear what his side of the 441 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.960 story is. I want to know how he found out a Fox's stock, 442 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:29.760 I know, closed down about three percent yesterday after the announcement about Tucker Carlson. 443 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:35.760 That's probably hundreds of millions of dollars for them, it certainly is. 444 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:40.159 And you know, it was widely reported that even before this announcement, a 445 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:46.559 number of advertisers either were refusing to advertise on Tucker Carlson's show or we're pulling 446 00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:52.000 out one by one. And so that was a financial hit as well for 447 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:57.000 the network, Fox News. So this big payout eight hundred million dollars, 448 00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:01.440 the loss of advertising, and then you know the revelations in court filings and 449 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:08.280 that dominion lawsuit that Tucker Carlson was spreading misinformation and even disparaging some executives at 450 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.639 Fox News, all of it seemed to be playing a role in his ouster 451 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:15.920 from the network. All right, let's switch over now to CNN and Don 452 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:21.760 Lemon. I have to say, the funniest thing I saw yesterday was the 453 00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:27.360 headline that was on CNN that literally said on CNN, this just in, 454 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.480 CNN fires Don Lemon, and I was like, you've got to be kidding 455 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.639 me. I mean, it's bad enough when the cable news networks but breaking 456 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:38.199 news soon, but this just in, Oh, come on now, Well 457 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:43.639 that was a pretty mild headline compared to the number of the newspaper headlines around 458 00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:47.519 the country. I mean the New York Post head Lemon drop. Another outlet 459 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:54.480 said Lemon squeeze, listen, this is another of firing, big name firing 460 00:35:54.559 --> 00:36:00.519 on cable news, and again we don't know the exact reason, but became 461 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:05.239 a bit of a war of words between Don Lemon and the network. First, 462 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:08.519 Don Lemon tweeted that he had been terminated from the network after seventeen years, 463 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.719 and then he made a very curious statement within a statement, saying, 464 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.400 I would have thought someone in management would have had the decency to tell me 465 00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:21.559 directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not 466 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:23.119 be able to continue to do the work I've loved at the network. And 467 00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:27.719 then he added, it is clear there are some larger issues at play. 468 00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.719 He didn't elaborate on that, but then CNN followed up with its own statement 469 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:38.760 basically refuting Don Lemon's claim, saying his words were inaccurate. He was offered 470 00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:43.760 an opportunity to meet with management, but instead released a statement on Twitter. 471 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:49.360 So no love lost between the two, it seemed. But the party after 472 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:54.599 seventeen years was certainly curious. But it came after a series of conflict that 473 00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:59.920 Don Lemon has had on the air, most notably the not in her prime 474 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.559 time statement he made about former US Ambassador to the UN Nicki Haley. Yeah, 475 00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:07.679 that comment with Nicki Haley. I think there was a variety article that 476 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:13.960 came out about him that where maybe he wasn't very respectful of women on the 477 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.480 set. I'm sort of paraphrasing, you know, his colleagues that sort of 478 00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:21.239 thing. And I just found yesterday, though it was such a shock, 479 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:25.079 I think for both of these big name men to be let go or we 480 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.519 find out on the same day that was The timing was curious, certainly, 481 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:37.159 And a lot of talk now is about how there seems to be a correction 482 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.679 going on in the media where you know, we saw the Me Too movement 483 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:47.880 finally ousting some men who have been accused of sexual misconduct. Now it's getting 484 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:53.639 down to the point of any misbehavior, any bad behavior, especially among men, 485 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:00.079 it seems, you know, brings a sort of consequence here. I 486 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.239 mean, we're certainly seeing it was Rucker, Carlson, we're seeing what was 487 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:08.320 Don Lemon. That may be the connection here, cable news deciding that it's 488 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:15.119 no longer worth it to keep a high profile. Yes, but lightning Rod 489 00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:21.039 hosts on air when it comes at the destriment of lawsuits and advertisers pulling out, 490 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.840 and then just public outcry in general, that may be the correction we're 491 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:27.760 seeing. All Right, Derek, thank you so much. You're awesome. 492 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.480 I appreciate it. All right, take care of see you later. ABC 493 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:36.599 is Derek Dennis. I don't know, is there more to come? So 494 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:39.800 you have the guy on the far right, yeah, the guy on the 495 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:45.679 far left. I'm just saying, with the Fox and CNN affiliations here, 496 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:54.199 who's the middle, who's next? And is it all men? Because I 497 00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.960 oh, I'm sure in my time, in my thirty years, I've probably 498 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:06.719 said or done inappropriate things in the workplace. We all have. But it 499 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:15.840 can't just be men, you know, because it takes a special kind of 500 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:20.119 woman to work in this industry. And I don't know if I'm giving myself 501 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:28.000 kudos or if I'm knocking myself on this, but you you have to how 502 00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:32.719 do I put this? Not? You have to in many ways you kind 503 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:38.079 of get into a newsroom is a culture in and of itself. It is 504 00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:46.039 dark, it is off color, it is it's what I assume on some 505 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:52.519 levels that it would be like in a I don't know, law enforcement or 506 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:57.320 something like that, where you see and you hear such awful things that your 507 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:02.480 humor becomes some thing that is not good for anywhere other than the newsroom, 508 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.360 let me put it that way. But sometimes they can go too far, 509 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.400 and we all know that, and we've all had to say sorry at times 510 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.239 in a newsroom for something that we said or something that was too soon to 511 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:21.000 joke about. But as these men get nailed, the Tucker Carlson's, the 512 00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:25.559 Don Lemons for whatever reason, when do we start to see the fall of 513 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:30.360 some of these women. That'll be interesting to me. I don't know. 514 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:37.519 Maybe women are better at hiding some of the things than men are in newsrooms. 515 00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:42.679 I don't know. I got nothing. Cal State, Domingus Hills is 516 00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:47.440 creating an esports academy on campus for students wanting to learn to design video games. 517 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.760 The program would also allow students the opportunity to engage in game theory, 518 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:57.960 which is necessary in designing outcomes of video games. Director for the Esports Center, 519 00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.639 Kevin buck Miller says, at the moment, the programs don't count for 520 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:05.719 college credit. That's the next goal is the academics portion. We are working 521 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.840 towards building out that what that credit track would look like, but right now 522 00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:13.079 it is a little bit more on the extracurricular side. The program is open 523 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.920 to all students in good academics standing, and the center is expected to open 524 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:21.760 this upcoming fall semester. In Carson, Chris Adler ka FI news and in 525 00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:25.039 other news that no one saw coming, she said with tongue in cheek. 526 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:30.280 The Green Bay Packers have agreed to trade quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the New York 527 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.679 Jets. Rogers has spent his entire NFL career with the Packers. I think 528 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.519 it's eighteen years. They want the Super Bowl and twenty eleven. The Packers 529 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:42.280 will get the Jets overall thirteenth pick at the draft this month as part of 530 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:50.280 the trade, and Tom Hanks is just doing that thing he does. The 531 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.880 actors known to collect and gift typewriters to people around the world. The most 532 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:58.840 recent recipient is typewriter shop owner Tom Furrier in Arlington, Massachusetts, who opened 533 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.079 a big box the other day and Greenhower with the Playtone logo on it. 534 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:05.360 Playtone was the fictitious record label and Hanks, is that thing you do? 535 00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:08.239 In nineteen sixty, Olympia SM forty five from West Germany was signed by Hanks 536 00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:12.519 and included a personal note. Furrier says he's going to fix this one up 537 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:17.639 and then one day like Hanks, pass it on Amy King KFI News. 538 00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:22.719 So Amy King, thank you for that earworm this morning. I actually loved 539 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:29.159 that song You're So Cowweather from KFI looks like it's gonna be a partly cloudy 540 00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:32.320 day ahead. Maybe not as much sunshine in the afternoon as we saw yesterday, 541 00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:36.480 but heys are very similar, just a couple of degrees cooler. So 542 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.880 we'll be in the upper sixties at the beaches, load of mid seventies for 543 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:44.000 Orange County and Metro La. Most of the valleys in the IE will be 544 00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:46.559 in the upper seventies, but we will see a couple of low eighties and 545 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:52.360 we could see some nineties by the weekend. We lead local live from the 546 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.280 KFI twenty four hour news room. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This has been 547 00:42:55.320 --> 00:42:59.920 your wake up call. You've been listening to your wake up call with me, 548 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:02.519 Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always hear wake Up Call five to 549 00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:07.880 six am Monday through Friday at kf I Am six forty and anytime on demand 550 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:09.400 on the iHeartRadio app.