WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.919 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.439 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:36.880 County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy kig It 4 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:46.600 it not a it's are you hearing me? I'm not hearing me? Okay, 5 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:51.560 Well it's it's five oh one. This is your wake up call for 6 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:57.840 a Thursday, June twentieth. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. But 7 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.320 I can't hear myself in my headphones. Very weird. So today's the first 8 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:11.480 day of summer cool right, you know why? Somebody had switched a button. 9 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.879 I was listening to a pre delay of me, so I just heard 10 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:22.519 me going it it it Okay, we're back. So today, first day 11 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.480 of summer Solstice happens at one fifty this afternoon. It's the longest day of 12 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:32.719 the year, fourteen hours and twenty one minutes of daylight. It's all downhill 13 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.239 from there. It's going to be a great day. I can feel it. 14 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.959 Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. LA City Councilman Kevin de Leon 15 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:47.599 plans to introduce emotion to rename Pershing Square after former slave Bridget Biddy Mason, 16 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.799 who became a prominent LA citizen and landowner. Back in the eighteen fifties. 17 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.719 She was a co founder of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church. The downtown 18 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:01.879 square was dedicated in honor of World Old War One General John J. Pershing 19 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.879 in nineteen eighteen. The threat of a strike is looming for six thousand Food 20 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.000 for Less workers in southern California. No deal has been reached following two days 21 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.080 of negotiations this week, but the union and parent company Kroger say they're still 22 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.000 talking and we'll be back to the bargaining table on Monday. People in Risita 23 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.400 and other parts of the San Fernando Valley have complained to the Department of Water 24 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:29.039 and Power that their tap water smells and tastes moldy or dirty. Yeah. 25 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.960 The LEDWP says it has tested the water and it is safe to use and 26 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:38.560 drink. Officials say the smell is caused by a natural seasonal presence of algae. 27 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.960 Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty 28 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.520 four hour newsroom. A new one hundred and sixty five million dollars tower on 29 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:49.719 skid Row has opened to house the homeless. The Wineguard Tower is on skid 30 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.479 Row with two hundred and seventy eight subsidized units and loads of community amenities. 31 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:57.360 Lamare Bas said at yesterday's ribbon cutting, the taxpayer funded project should be looked 32 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.599 at as an example of how to serve previously home people. Just because you 33 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:07.199 were on housed, that does not mean that you should live in substandard housing, 34 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.400 as though it is a punishment. Bass was joined at the opening by 35 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:14.759 local and federal officials. A second tower is being constructed across the street in 36 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.560 downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News. A standoff with a man who barricaded 37 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.319 himself inside an apartment in Long Beach has ended Pilise. One person was held 38 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.400 hostage overnight. They were let go this morning. The guy police where after 39 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.520 was arrested a short time later. The first named storm of the season is 40 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:36.759 headed toward northeast Mexico, but it's already causing damage along the Gulf Coast. 41 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:40.680 ABC's Jim Ryan says Texas has seen torrential rain and flooding. The forty five 42 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:45.439 mile at hour winds of Tropical Storm Alberto are whipping up high waves in the 43 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.800 Gulf of Mexico, but it's the flooding potential that has homeowners worried from South 44 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:53.280 Padre Island to Galveston, four hundred miles away. Officials in Mexico have already 45 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.000 reported three deaths caused by the storm. They say two kids in the state 46 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:02.360 of Nuevo Leone were riding bicycle in the rain and got electrocuted. The other 47 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:06.599 death was in the city of Monterey. South Korea says it'll reconsider its policy 48 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:11.919 of limiting its support to Ukraine because of an agreement reached between North Korea and 49 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:17.000 Russia. South Korea's presidential office condemned the agreement that vowed mutual defense assistance in 50 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:23.199 the event of war. South Koreas's the agreement threatens its security and warned that 51 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.680 it will negatively affect Soul's relations with Moscow. The Inland Empires getting a Trader 52 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.040 Joe's marking the chain's one hundred and ninety first store in California. An official 53 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.680 ribbon cunning ceremony will be held on June twenty eighth at the New Muria at 54 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:41.079 a location before doors open at nine am. The store is going to participate 55 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:46.519 in the company's Neighborhood Shares program that donates one hundred percent of unsold products still 56 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.120 fit for consumption to local community organizations. I didn't know Trader Joe's did that. 57 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:56.000 I love that. Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, 58 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.680 the Supreme Court has been busy, but they still got a lot of 59 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.879 work to do. Well. There's a lot we're waiting to hear from the 60 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.720 Court. The way it typically works, as we've discussed, the Supreme Court 61 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.920 begins its term in October and winds down by early summer. And here we 62 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.439 are toward the end of June, and we expect that by the end of 63 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:18.279 this month, if not perhaps treading a bit into July, the Supreme Court 64 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:24.199 will release the entirety of its case load and will understand how the justices have 65 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.160 ruled. There are twenty one cases from this term still outstanding, and these 66 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.920 are big, important cases. We don't know when any particular decision is going 67 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.879 to drop. So what we have is a list of twenty one topics. 68 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:42.240 They include whether cities have the power to find people who sleep in homeless encampments 69 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.959 or whether that violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, whether 70 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.240 a state can prohibit gun ownership by someone who is the target of a domestic 71 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:55.920 violence restraining order, or whether that violates the individual's Second Amendment rights, Whether 72 00:05:55.959 --> 00:06:00.519 the First Amendment was violated by the Biden White Houses pressure that applies to social 73 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:04.680 media companies to take down certain posts, And of course, the most widely 74 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:10.160 watched case of the term, whether Donald Trump enjoys absolute immunity for his official 75 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:14.600 acts as president. There are other cases involving abortion rights, the power of 76 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:19.720 the administrative state, and Purdue Farm of bankruptcy. A lot of really substance 77 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:24.279 of and important stuff that could come out from the Supreme Court, and we 78 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.160 don't know when it's going to happen. The only days that are scheduled are 79 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:31.319 today and tomorrow and perhaps the lat additional days through next week. Okay, 80 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:38.000 So do they have to make decisions on all twenty one or could they hold 81 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.480 any of them over? They would not hold them over. What they could 82 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:45.959 do is seek off ramps, like for example, last week when the issue 83 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.959 was announced on the abortion pilm if for pristone, the justices didn't decide whether 84 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:55.680 the FDA acted appropriately or not they left the merits to some other future case 85 00:06:55.800 --> 00:07:00.560 potentially. Instead, they unanimously agreed that the doctors who brought the case didn't 86 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.120 have standing to sue, and that was one thing all nine justices could get 87 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:10.920 behind. So they didn't really resolve the underlying issue that can happen in any 88 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:15.319 case. Oh okay. And then that you mentioned that the term could end 89 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.639 at the end of June or even July, so there's not an official end 90 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:23.439 date like there's an official start date. There is a tradition, oh okay, 91 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:28.360 that the Supreme Court generally releases all of its opinions by the end of 92 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.639 June, but there has been there have been occasions where with a heavy case 93 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.759 load, additional days are added to the calendar in early July. Okay. 94 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:41.519 And as you mentioned, we could get decisions today. We just don't know, 95 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:43.879 and we have no idea what order or anything. We just know there's 96 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.319 some big ones coming or kind of hanging in in the balance. And we 97 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:50.360 say that because we know along of the list of twenty one there are really 98 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:55.399 significant cases. There are on this list of twenty one some cases that are 99 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.800 not as interesting to the American public. Every case that makes its way to 100 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.759 the Supreme Court is interesting to say and has lasting impact in the law in 101 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.920 some way or another. But the cases that are going to be big news 102 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.480 are on this list, Okay, all right, And then they reconvene the 103 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:15.360 first Monday in October. And I only remember that because there was a movie 104 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.120 about it. You got it, Okay, Stephen Portener, thank you so 105 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.000 much. We'll be watching for those decisions, you bet. All right. 106 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.199 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 107 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.519 hour newsroom. The LAPDS trying to find a parole league considered armed and dangerous 108 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.559 who was allegedly seen loading a rifle in the South La area. Police were 109 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:39.399 called Tuesday night to the area of sixty ninth Street and Avalon Boulevard. Officers 110 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.519 found Ezekiel Garcia, but then he took off. Police lost him after he 111 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.840 ran into a junkyard. Garcia's forty two, about five to seven, one 112 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.000 hundred and fifty seven pounds, with short black hair. He is on active 113 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.559 parole for murder. The price of your avocado toast might be going up. 114 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.799 The FEDSI two employees with the US Department of Agriculture who were inspecting shipments of 115 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.440 avocados had been a so and held captive by guys in the Mexican state of 116 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:07.000 Michua Khan. The inspectors have since been released. US inspectors are stationed in 117 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.320 parts of Mexico to expedite shipments of produce and to prevent the import of diseases 118 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.519 that could ruin crops in the US, but because of the attack, on 119 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.600 Monday, US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said shipments of avocados and mangoes had 120 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:24.360 been stopped until further notice. Steve Gregory Quaya Fineos, a sixteen year old 121 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.960 girl from Lake Forest, and a teen from Chicago, have been killed in 122 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.480 a jet ski crash in Illinois. Officials say a jet ski collided with a 123 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:37.039 boat on Lake Maria Tuesday night. The sixteen year old and the other girl 124 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.519 were on the jet ski when it crashed. The teens were pronounced dead at 125 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:46.039 a nearby hospital. Top advisors to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to 126 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.919 meet with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the White House. ABC News says 127 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.840 the meeting is supposed to happen today and that Israel's Defense minister will also meet 128 00:09:54.840 --> 00:10:01.279 with Defense Secretary at Defense Secretary Lloyd Osz in the coming days. The US 129 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:07.720 canceled another high level meeting with Israeli delegates on Iran. The administration says the 130 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.200 meeting was never fully finalized on the schedule anyway. Others say it was canceled 131 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.720 over Netanyahu's recent video claiming the US was withholding weapons needed for the Warren Gaza. 132 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.159 Louisiana has become the first state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in 133 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.480 public school classrooms. Opponents questioned the law's constitutionality, warning that lawsuits are likely 134 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:30.879 to follow, but supporters say the purpose of the measure is not only religious, 135 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.080 but that it has historical significance. ABC's Derek Dennis's a poster of the 136 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.080 Ten Commandments in a large, easily readable font will be in all classrooms from 137 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.799 kindergarten all the way through state funded universities by twenty twenty five. The bill 138 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:50.720 signed yesterday includes a context statement describing how the Commandments were a prominent part of 139 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:56.200 the American public education system for almost three centuries. The most seismically active volcano 140 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:01.080 in the Cascade Range has been rumbling three hundred and fifty small quakes that have 141 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:07.519 rattled under Mount Saint Helens since February. Seismologists say magma maybe moving beneath the 142 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:13.679 volcano. The last eruption was in two thousand and eight. The big eruption 143 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.799 was May eighteenth, in nineteen eighty or was it nineteen eighty one? I 144 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.919 got the day right wrong on that Mount Saint Helens is considered the most likely 145 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.120 volcano to erupt in the future in the US. I was. I was 146 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.360 in Oregon when that one blew. It was pretty freaky. I did my 147 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.960 little fact check. Mount Saint Helens did erupt on May eighteenth, nineteen eighty, 148 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.159 so I actually had it right. Who knew. Here's what we're following 149 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.600 in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A Juneteenth celebration in Oakland has turned 150 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:48.399 violent bullysey A fight broke out during the celebration at Lake Merritt last night. 151 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.600 At least four people ended up being shot, several others were injured. At 152 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.639 least one person was arrested for an assaulting and officer. There were about five 153 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.159 thousand people at the event. The first name storm of the Atlantic hurricane season 154 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.840 is churning off the coast of Texas. Drenching the coast with heavy rain. 155 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:11.679 Tropical Storm Alberto could bring fifty mile per hour winds and up to three feet 156 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:16.159 of storm surge from Mexico all the way up to Louisiana. A study of 157 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:20.559 nearly a million people suggests those who feel happy have more career success, make 158 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:26.840 more money, and are just more successful in life. Social scientists and happiness 159 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:31.360 experts. I think it's great that there are happiness experts also say that unless 160 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:37.279 you're using your money to buy experiences, donate, or get extra time, 161 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:43.399 it really doesn't buy you happiness. Okay, classrooms in Louisiana are going to 162 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.960 be required by law to display the Ten Commandments. We're talking about that. 163 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.679 More on handle on the news right now. Though, Let's say good morning 164 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:56.639 to ABC's crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett. Good morning, Brad. Haven't 165 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.960 talked to you for a while, that's true. Good morning, Namy, 166 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:03.879 Good morning. So the LA School Board has voted to ban cell phones and 167 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.360 social media at school. Are the cell phones really that bad for the kids 168 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.440 to have? Yes, okay, good talking to you, Red. Yeah, 169 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.679 that's it. We'll see you later. So the holy issue with cell 170 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.919 phones, obviously, is that they have all these positive aspects. You and 171 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.679 I use them, the world uses them every day. The problem is that 172 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.799 kids become and they're particularly vulnerable to becoming addicted to cell phones. If you 173 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.879 have them in school, you know they're going to constantly want to pull those 174 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.440 phones out, use them in class, use them in the hallway, and 175 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:45.120 so it creates a huge distraction. So it's it's a learning inhibitor, for 176 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:50.000 lack of better terms. But the bigger picture, amy is that the excessive 177 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:56.159 use of cell phones and social media by kids and adolescents are having, by 178 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:01.080 a number of studies I've read, you know, really negative impact on their 179 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:07.360 brains. And in fact, two social psychologists say it actually is rewiring their 180 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:13.960 brains to spend so much time and it results in them feeling or having less 181 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:18.879 empathy, being drawn to you know, some very for some kids, some 182 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.720 very dramatic or violent imagery that they just keep watching and watching and watching, 183 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.879 and it creates a certain amount of meanness where people can say and do whatever 184 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:35.159 they want. I mean, the number of kids that, like when I 185 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.000 was growing up, obviously they weren't cell phones or tablets or computers, and 186 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:45.080 so it was all in person and what many of these experts are saying, 187 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:50.919 is that's what kids are missing, and it creates basically fragility in kids. 188 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:56.879 Where we would go to a playground, go to wherever, we'd have to 189 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.440 deal with people in person. Well, you know, what you say and 190 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:05.639 how you act are going to be different in person than they are via social 191 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:07.879 media. And so it's a combination of all those things. And then if 192 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:13.840 you add to this, when smartphones basically sort of came into the picture or 193 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.559 in the twenty tens, you see this dramatic drop or increase i should say, 194 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:24.480 in depression, anxiety and other stuff in kids, and they believe and 195 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.639 I think this is probably right. It's directly link to excess it cell phone 196 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:35.000 use. You know when you talk about being addicted to cell phones and you 197 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:37.799 think about it, that, oh, that can't happen because it's not a 198 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.200 physical substance like with nicotine, with smoking it's addictive, or with alcohol drinking 199 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:46.559 it's addictive. But as you mentioned, it rewires your brain. And I 200 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.639 think about some days that I sit and I play my little solitaire game and 201 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:52.399 I'll just sit there and play it and play it and play it and play 202 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:54.320 it. Like why I'm watching TV or whatever, and I'll go, you 203 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.639 know, I should put this down and go do something else, and you're 204 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.480 just like mindlessly playing it, and it's like you feel like you can't stop. 205 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:07.440 It's they're called dopamine hits. You know, you get DoPT dopamine through 206 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:12.399 all sorts of the pleasure things you do in life. But if you get 207 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:18.279 constantly get hits of it, then you you don't want to leave it. 208 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.559 And and and social media knows that. And that's why you know, through 209 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:27.320 algorithms, if you pull up whatever you pull up, they're going to send 210 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.960 you more and more information. If you get into you know, dark phonography, 211 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:37.200 they're going to send you links to more of that. And and so 212 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:41.720 that's the big concern. And because kids and adolescent's brains are not developed, 213 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.440 they're just so vulnerable. So all of this stuff. So now you're throwing 214 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:52.480 in mega dopamine hits. You're you're making them to be more cynical and more 215 00:16:52.600 --> 00:17:00.159 judgmental, which obviously is a huge problem across this country right now. And 216 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:04.359 you're teeing them up for I think having some mental disabilities or lack of better 217 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:11.960 terms as adults in their ability to handle themselves and handle other people. Yeah, 218 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:17.200 and then then going back to the anonymity thing or that you're not dealing 219 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.200 with people in persons so you can make a snarky comment. I mean you 220 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:25.119 see it on social media all the time because people don't have to take responsibility. 221 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.200 And it made me think, yeah, when you confront somebody on the 222 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:32.400 playground, you've got one or two bullies in the school, but now everybody 223 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.880 can be bullies. Well that's that's exactly right. And if you take kids 224 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.160 that get into really dark violence that I'm going to the stuff I talk about 225 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:45.160 all the time, like mass shooters, you know, the social media you 226 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.720 know, just sort of helps facilitate. You know, you already have to 227 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.839 be driven that direction, but it sort of adds gas to the fire. 228 00:17:53.279 --> 00:18:00.279 And then they take social media together their phones with them to shootings. They 229 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:04.519 have an audience. So basically they have replaced and maybe on a less extreme, 230 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:11.279 the kids have replaced the interaction on the playground, the interaction and whatever 231 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:18.039 to interacting in the anonymity of your bedroom on a phone. Okay, and 232 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:23.240 then Brad, what good what's the danger to Will it be amplified as we 233 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:29.599 start using AI more? Oh? I don't even want to think about that. 234 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:33.960 Yes, of course it's going to encourage kids maybe to cheat because it's 235 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:40.920 going to be easy to do, and the school systems the universities are going 236 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.359 to have to get up to speed the best they can to figure out. 237 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.279 You know, is this these words come out of this kid's mouth or was 238 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:53.519 it pulled together by AI? But it's you can also see how AI can 239 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:59.920 alter your reality based on what it creates. So again I'm going to be 240 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.640 dark about this subject. I mean, AILE is doing and will continue to 241 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:08.119 do, some unbelievably wonderful and maybe even life saving things, but like so 242 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.799 many things else else, I mean, in this whole world of technology, 243 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:17.400 it can have a really dark side. Yeah, And I just wanted to 244 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:22.720 mention in your show notes that you mentioned that in the future an entire generation 245 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:27.559 of adults that grew up not having to solve problems on their own because they 246 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.720 have AI that could really impact things. It already impacts it. I know 247 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:36.759 that. Like with people that I've hired to work for me at other places, 248 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:38.359 I'm like, here, you need to learn how to problem solve. 249 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:44.119 Don't just do the task, learn how to solve the problem, anticipate the 250 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:48.200 problems, and they like, they have no concept of that. Absolutely not. 251 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.960 You're totally right, and so how is that kid going to overcome that 252 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.359 as an adult. That's why I use the word disability. I mean that's 253 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.359 a disability in my view. I mean the ability to figure out people, 254 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:06.319 to read them and can confront them in a you know, in a rational, 255 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:10.680 non violent way, is a skill set that everyone needs. Some are 256 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.200 obviously better than others. But my goodness, and I see it every day 257 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:21.839 around here. I see it around my son's kids or friends that it's like, 258 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:25.440 you know, they just don't really get it, and you know, 259 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:32.599 really boils down to a certain extent to parents basically being the sheriff taking away 260 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.160 phones, taking away tablets, whatever it might be. I don't mean permanently, 261 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.920 but limit the amount of time because it's all going to be an uphill 262 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:45.880 battle because everybody around them has technology. Okay, Well, then so the 263 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.880 LA school district deciding to ban them at least during school hours. That forces 264 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.160 them out of the phone and back into the real world. Hopefully we'll see 265 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.519 some positive results. Bred Garrett, thank you so much as always for your 266 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.720 information and your insight. We appreciate it. You're welcome here. Amy talk 267 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:04.400 too soon. So called poison pills have been added to ten crime bills in 268 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:08.200 California. Both the state Senate and Assembly will now vote to finalize the bills 269 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:12.680 on the floor. During an Assembly committee hearing yesterday, Republican assembly Woman Kate 270 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:18.880 Sanchez said the poison pill amendments will deny Californians a fair vote on an initiative 271 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.480 to repeal Prop forty seven. It's anti democratic, it's unfair and tippy flank, 272 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.279 it's borderline corrupt. State Senator Scott Wiener, who accepted the amendments to 273 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.359 his bill, said he doesn't see how the poison pills would affect the ballot 274 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.920 measure. The poison pill amendments would make it so that if a ballot initiative 275 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.359 to repeal Prop forty seven passes, the crime bills would be nullified. Blake 276 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:42.720 Charlie kay if I News Robert F. Kennedy Junior's campaign has raised about three 277 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:47.039 million dollars for the month of May. That's a sharp drop from April, 278 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.920 when it took in nearly eleven million. The number nowhere close to the Biden 279 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:55.720 or Trump campaigns. Biden reportedly took in an additional eight million dollars from one 280 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.720 fund verser earlier this week. Kennedy's been trying to get on enough ballots to 281 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.960 qualify for the first presidential debate. He hasn't met that threshold, so for 282 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:10.359 now, it'll be President Biden and former President Trump debating one week from today 283 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:12.359 on CNN. Don't know about you, but that is going to be must 284 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:17.400 see TV for me. The Dodgers take on the Rockies in Colorado today. 285 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:19.920 The first pitch is going out at twelve ten. Oh I love a daytime 286 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.440 game. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on AM five 287 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:29.599 seventy LA Sports and stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword 288 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.519 AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of LA. More 289 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.480 than six hundred Smart and Final warehouse workers in southern California are going to walk 290 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.200 the picket lines today their warehouses are closing. The workers have been told they 291 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:47.039 can reapply for jobs at a warehouse in Rancho Cucamonga, but they say they'll 292 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:49.359 be making ten to twelve dollars an hour less, which they call an unfair 293 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:56.119 labor practice. Residents in Venice say a homeless RV camp is growing and police 294 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:00.599 aren't enforcing a law that prohibits overnight camping, say Abbott. Kenney Boulevard is 295 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:06.880 littered with broken down r vs, trash, personal belongings, litter and human 296 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.640 waste. Justin Timberlake's attorney says he's looking forward to defending the pop star against 297 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:15.519 his drunk driving charges, but least say Timberlake was pulled over Tuesday night on 298 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:19.359 Long Island for running a stop sign after leaving a hotel in the Hamptons. 299 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:26.759 He refused a breathalyzer and failed field sobriety tests at five point fifty World Rainforest 300 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.559 Day is coming up on Saturday. We're going to find out how our rainforests 301 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:33.359 are doing and what we can do to help save them. Close to the 302 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:34.960 home, it's not a forest, but it's a big old piece of land 303 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:40.279 that's going to be getting a facelift. It's two thousand acres in the Sepulvit 304 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.720 a basin. So let's say good morning now to the founder and director of 305 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:48.480 the River Project, Melanie Winter. Good morning, Melanie, good morning. 306 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:55.480 So we've got a vision for the Sepulvita basin called La Vision. And I 307 00:23:55.519 --> 00:24:03.119 know this story came out on Monday because Low County state and city leaders unveiled 308 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:07.279 the plan for the restoration, and I wanted to get some more information about 309 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.119 it, like what all is going to happen and where is this piece of 310 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:15.640 land? Yes, this is well. If you've ever driven north over the 311 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:22.680 Supulvida Path into the San Fernando Valley up the four h five, you can't 312 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.559 help but notice this big, huge chunk of open space just to your left 313 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:32.759 at the bottom of the hill and right there at the base of it to 314 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:37.359 one oh one four five interchange is a huge dam that you often see in 315 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:42.880 car commercials. So behind all of that is two thousand acres of open space. 316 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:48.319 It's a flood management facility that the US Army Corps owns, and the 317 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:55.599 dam itself was built in gosh, sorry, nineteen forty or so, it's 318 00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:03.000 too early for me, but still on that, but it's and it's got 319 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:10.160 eight miles of living waterways, just three miles of the Los Angeles River, 320 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:15.640 half of which has no concrete on the sides or the bottom. It does 321 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:22.960 concrete, no, not in the subpulsitive basin. It's our wonderful, amazing 322 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:29.079 treasure. And then the tributaries. Tributaries are channelized in various ways, but 323 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:34.160 they don't have concrete on the bottom. So the potential here is to do 324 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:41.640 what we call floodplain restoration and allow the rivers, the river and the tributaries 325 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:47.759 here to be living, uh, you know, rivers which have all these 326 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:52.559 benefits for us. That opens up water supply and more flood risk reduction and 327 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:57.680 habitat and biodiversity and kayaking and canoeing and fishing and you know it's just and 328 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:04.000 shade and community and so yeah, and if you go there, the crazy 329 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:10.559 thing is there's this land for lots of land the city leases for recreational purposes. 330 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:15.200 So they over the years they sort of did this ad hoc design, 331 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:18.599 you know, peace reread piece. Oh let's do some baseball field here, 332 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.759 Oh, soccer field here. Oh this there, But it's not it doesn't. 333 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.680 It kind of ignores this amazing resource of all these waterways, and it's 334 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:33.880 all very hodgepodge. So we have this opportunity to redo the basin in a 335 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:38.640 way that makes it more accessible for everybody, that makes it more twenty first 336 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:42.400 century for everybody, and it's the kind of things that it offers and also 337 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:49.400 provides all this climate adaptation for us local water supply, public safety, habitat 338 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:56.960 or diversity, you know, community going. So it's a rethink on this 339 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:00.240 incredible resource that so many people don't know anything about. Well that's what I 340 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.680 was going to say, I don't know anything will yeah exactly. And it's 341 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.480 like, like you said, two thousand acres, it's two and a half 342 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:11.440 times the size of the Central Park. Okay, so what we have in 343 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:15.680 the valley, which is crazy. So we have all this land to work 344 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:21.160 with, and so the vision then is to reconfigure and fix some of the 345 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:26.160 issues that are with it. Like there's a couple of things that we learned 346 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:30.480 about and that was like there's a there is a kayak launch spot, but 347 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:36.599 there's an issue with it. Yeah. So the river itself right now has 348 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.839 these what they're called drop structures that make it difficult to kind of do what 349 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.680 you would naturally do, which is start upstream and go all the way downstream 350 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.559 and then back up. So to avoid those little couple of drop three drop 351 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:53.720 structures, they start by the dam and it's not that easy to set up. 352 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:00.799 So we did the technical feasibility study for this work a few years back, 353 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:03.200 and you know, looked at where it was the best place to do 354 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.559 a kayak launch and how could you make that work easily and not have to 355 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:12.559 be so you know, making things up with spit and polish. Okay, 356 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:17.119 So you're going to just improve some of the stuff that is planned, like 357 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:21.680 we had. There's bike paths that aren't connected, so maybe work to fix 358 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:26.319 those issues. And then who is going to be paying for this, Melanie, 359 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:33.119 right, there's always that question. Yeah, Well, I think there's 360 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.680 so many different things that this project can do. But there's a lot of 361 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:42.839 different funding sources. There's federal funding that's available through the Inflation Reduction Acts currently, 362 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:45.880 and I'm sure there be other sources of funding down the road as well. 363 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.640 This is not going to happen overnight. There's also state funding that's available 364 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.559 currently, and hopefully if we pass the climate bond at the state in the 365 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:00.400 coming year, there'll be funds for that as well from the state. You 366 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:04.640 know, there could be we don't they haven't shared with us yet what exactly 367 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:10.839 exactly what the Olympic events they're going to be staged there, But if there 368 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:15.480 are some then there's the potential for private philanthropic dollars to contribute to that of 369 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:21.279 this as well. Okay, and then when as this project continues, is 370 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:25.680 all of this area currently open to the public or are just parts of it 371 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:30.119 open? Oh? No, everything's open to the public now, Okay. 372 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.519 So if you want to go hiking around, you can go there. Yeah. 373 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.279 Yeah, there's a wildlife area. The wildlife reserve over on the east 374 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:42.519 end of the basin is really phenomenal to visit because you can see the pulsed 375 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:45.480 The basin is one of the hot spots for birders in Los Angeles. Three 376 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:51.519 hundred species of birds you can discover by walking through the wildlife reserve, and 377 00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:56.519 there's people do guided tours there as well. Or you can go play any 378 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.400 sport you want, from cricket to soft all the best skiple to baseball to 379 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:07.960 model airplane flying, to lawn bowling to paddle balls. Oh and there's a 380 00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:12.440 great dog park. There's a paddle boat on one of the lakes. And 381 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:17.400 then there's the canoe and kayak program that's happening over the summer. Okay, 382 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:19.960 so you and the bike paths are there. Now a couple of big issues 383 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:26.519 are. We really want to increase the number of bike and walking paths throughout 384 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.359 the basin, and we want to connect better transit to it. Okay. 385 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.519 So there's already a lot of cool stuff and this is just going to make 386 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:34.839 it better. Okay, this is great. I'm going to go check this. 387 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:40.440 It's going to take a while because this is a big project, but 388 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:44.960 you know, yeah, gotta start summer the basin. Okay, the Basin 389 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.519 Explore. It's amazing. Okay. So Melodie Winter is the founder and director 390 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.480 of the River Project. Thank you so much for sharing that information. This 391 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.759 morning. I got to go check this place out. Have a great day 392 00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.519 you too. All right. It was justin Timberlake Tuesday night. But now 393 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:07.319 rapper Travis Scott has been arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly and also 394 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:11.519 for trespassing in Miami. He has posted bond. It's not clear if he's 395 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.839 been released yet. A pro Palestinian protest banner has been taken down from Yosemite's 396 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:22.119 El Capitan. Climbers scaled the rock face earlier this week and hung the banner 397 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.160 fifteen hundred feet off the ground. The banner read stop the Genocide on ice 398 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.920 cream shop in San Diego has been named the best ice cream in the US. 399 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:36.839 OS dry Cleaning on Adams Avenue in North Park has been was named after 400 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:41.160 the dry cleaning business it replaced in twenty eighteen, and to celebrate being named 401 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.680 number one by USA today, OS is going to be selling one dollar Gelatto's 402 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.200 July first until they sell out. We're just minutes away from handle on the 403 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.759 news this morning, women are going to have to register for the draft for 404 00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:56.680 the first time. Let's say good morning now to the founder and CEO of 405 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:02.160 Rainforest Partnership, Neanta Spelman. Good morning, Neonte, good morning, How 406 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.640 are you? I am wonderful. We have a Rainforest Day coming up on 407 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:12.000 Saturday, so tell us what is Rainforest Day and what do we do on 408 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:19.480 this day? So World Rainforest Day is a day that we globally come together 409 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:28.480 and locally to celebrate these amazing, incredible, magical ecosystems that are vital to 410 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:32.759 life on our planet. And it's June twenty second. June twenty second. 411 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:36.839 How many rainforests are there in the world, Neanta? Do we know? 412 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:45.440 So? You know rainforests are around the tropics, right, we have them 413 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:52.079 in four of our continents, and we have lost about fifty percent of them, 414 00:32:52.480 --> 00:33:00.240 but we still have a wonderful amount of them in the Amazon, in 415 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:05.319 in Africa, in Southeast Asia greatly, and a little bit in Australia. 416 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.240 Okay, So I was going to ask you how they're doing, and you 417 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:14.960 just said we've lost fifty percent. But is the rate that we're losing going 418 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.359 down or are we increasing them? How is that going? I know, 419 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:23.319 there's it's kind of fallen out of the you know, the our spotlight that 420 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:27.759 we don't hear about the rainforest as much. But I'm guessing that they're still 421 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:32.920 trying to cut them down. Yes, So defas station rates have actually gone 422 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:39.680 down in the Amazon, it's it's literally a multiyear low, finally in Brazil 423 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.720 in particular, after some very alarming rates that occurred. In fact, if 424 00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.400 you think about it, even now, we lose like in twenty twenty two, 425 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:58.400 we were losing about a football field every five seconds. Oh my god. 426 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:02.160 So yes, pretty incredible. And then now we lose them a great 427 00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:09.519 deal to other things like fires, and not just for agriculture and cattle ranching. 428 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:19.079 But you know, there is good news because yes, because we are 429 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:24.480 paying more attention and the world is really trying to rally and say, how 430 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:31.000 do we stop deforestation by twenty thirty And so for me there is optimism. 431 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:37.199 I love optimism. And now I had heard and I don't know if this 432 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:39.960 is correct, because you said where the rainforests are when we went up. 433 00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:45.920 I went on a cruise to Alaska a couple of years ago, and you 434 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:51.039 take your breath in and I swear you can feel the air like it's just 435 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.639 richer and more vibrant because of all the trees all over the place. And 436 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:58.960 somebody said that that was a rainforest too, Is that technically a rainfores? 437 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.800 It is? In fact, you are talking about our beautiful, incredible temperate 438 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:10.880 rainforests. And I am being silly because I am focused on tropical rainforests. 439 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:15.800 But we do have temperate rainforests. And you know, from Washington all the 440 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:25.599 way into British Columbia and further north, these temperate rainforests are incredible with these 441 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:31.159 giants. And you're right when you're in the rainforest and you take a breath 442 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:37.679 and you just quiet down and you listen, and you feel like you're in 443 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:45.760 a different, magical place, and there's incredible biodiversity in the tropical rainforests, 444 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:53.480 but in temperate rainforests as well. There's so much life and it does feel 445 00:35:53.760 --> 00:36:00.679 very different different, It's really weird. It's the endergy is different, the 446 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.559 air is different. And I think if we all experience that, I think 447 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:08.639 we would revere and protect them in a very different way. Yeah. I 448 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:15.719 didn't realize we had rainforests in Africa. Yes, In fact, the second 449 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:24.679 largest tropical rainforests fit in in Africa, the Congo Basin. Yeah. Yes, 450 00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:34.159 and Southeast Asia is just as incredible. And these tropical rainforests, they 451 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:38.039 hold fifty percent of our biodiversity, and they make up you know, they 452 00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:45.280 make up about six percent of our surface area of our planet and they're less 453 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:51.679 than three percent of the land area, so not a lot. And they're 454 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:59.960 so important because they regulate our climate and our water cycle. They're so connect 455 00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.960 to us. And so you're in California. All the listeners are in California. 456 00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:09.199 And here's the incredible thing. The waters that you have in the ocean 457 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:15.320 they have they have chemical markers from the Amazon. Just think about it. 458 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:24.079 It's not just the you know, the water uh up in the air, 459 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:29.840 in the atmosphere, that's been circulated by these forests. It's not just the 460 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:36.320 air and the oxygen that's been circulated, but even our you know, oceans 461 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:44.239 connected it. We're very, very connected on our planet, and these forests 462 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:51.559 are so important. Are we replanting of the any like where there's been deforestation? 463 00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:57.840 Are there projects now to replant that? Neanta, there are projects for 464 00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:00.199 replanting. But here's the thing. The best we can do for our planet 465 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:07.440 is to keep the forest standing that are already there. These are complex ecosystems, 466 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.719 and so whereas in the temperate rainforest you were talking about, there are 467 00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:16.320 a few species of trees in in the in the Amazon or some of the 468 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:22.719 other tropical rainforests, the hundreds of species of trees alone, and so that 469 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:28.880 complex ecosystem, you know, it takes a long time for that to be 470 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:37.280 restored, and so replanting is not the same as actually protecting the standing forests. 471 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.599 And so this is what we celebrate. Why we celebrate them, it's 472 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:46.199 to say we're interconnected. Why you know, they're they're important to our life 473 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:52.440 on our planet. They're important for you know, safeguarding our climate. We 474 00:38:52.679 --> 00:39:00.880 have heatwaves around the world, and how do we take advantage of these beautiful 475 00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:09.440 ecosystems that evolved over millions of years on our planet. Trees, greened up 476 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.480 planet, made life possible. So how do we celebrate them? How do 477 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:19.360 we pay more attention to them? And for those of us who work like 478 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:23.480 Rainforest Partnership is the organization. I found it and we run and we're based 479 00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:30.800 in Austin, Texas, so we're US based, but this day is celebrated 480 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.119 around the world and we invite the world and not just people in southern California 481 00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:40.440 and California and the US, around the world. And that's what we've seen 482 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:47.800 that people love to come together and it's protect them right and protect the rainforest. 483 00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:52.519 Don't only replant them, but stop knocking them down. So World Rainforest 484 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:57.199 Day is June twenty second, NANTA or nanta. Where can we get more 485 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.639 information about the rainforests and how they're doing and what we can do to help 486 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:07.559 save them. So the first thing World Rainforest Day dot org is the website 487 00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:14.760 to go and make a pledge and get a digital toolkit to share why you 488 00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:19.079 care, go find you know. Of course, we would love you to 489 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:23.199 donate to Rainforest Partnership. We do work on the ground, but really find 490 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:31.719 any rainforest organization to support and really do something for the environment for our planet. 491 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:37.079 On World Rainforest Day in your backyard. Connect you know, look at 492 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:43.840 the birds, take a breath, Thank a rainforest. I love that. 493 00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:49.280 Okay, yes, we will do that this Saturday. Neanta Spellman, founder 494 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.960 and CEO of Rainforest Partnership, thank you so much for your time and again, 495 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:57.119 if you want more information, World Rainforest Day dot org, and we're 496 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.559 all going to take a collective deep breath and thank the reinforest. Thanks Nanta, 497 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:06.440 thank you so much. All right, take care, okay. Good 498 00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:10.599 thing to celebrate on this first day of summer. Right, sunshine, trees, 499 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.119 birds, all that stuff. It is six o'clock. This is KFI 500 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:21.000 and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty 501 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.239 four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call. 502 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:27.039 If you missed a NA wake up call, you can listen anytime on 503 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:31.599 the iHeartRadio app. Taking a deep breath in honor of world rains for US 504 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:35.719 day. You've been listening to wake up Call with me, Amy King. 505 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:38.559 You can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday. 506 00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:44.880 On KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.