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morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. This is your wake up call
for Wednesday, August ninth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. I dig
that music always gets me going. Have you ever thought that you were prepared
for the day and then at the very last second you remember that you forgot
something. Yeah, I just did that. We were about ready to go
on the air, and I was like, I don't have my headphones.
And if you know anything about radio, and even if you don't, I'll
tell you you have to wear headphones or you can't hear what's going on aside
from your own voice, So you can't hear like I couldn't hear you Kono.
Yeah, headphones are a big prior. I know I wouldn't be able
to hear Anne handle Wayne, anybody wouldn't be able to hear my sound bites.
So I'm a little winded, but I'm centered. I got my coffee,
glad you're breck. Thank you. My oatmeal is stewing. I'll be
eating that soon. And here's what's ahead on the wake up call. More
than eleven thousand la City workers are expected to return to their jobs today,
a day after staging a twenty four hour strike over contract talks that delayed trash
pickups, snarled traffic at Laxton caused some of their service disruptions around the city.
Voters in Ohio have voted down an issue that would have required a sixty
percent majority to pass constitutional amendments in the state. Preduliminary results show fifty seven
percent of voters were against it. There is a Megamillion's jackpot winner, but
it's not you unless you're listening in Florida. Someone in Florida has the winning
ticket, worth one point five eight billion dollars. It's the third largest jackpot
in US history. Let's get started with some of the story is coming out
of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. As I mentioned, thousands of city
workers in la have wrapped up a one day strike demanding a fair labor contract.
More than eleven thousand members with SCIU Local seven twenty one hit the streets,
rallying from lax to city hall. This worker says LA's in the middle
of a labor movement and It's time for the city to step up and make
a real offer. We tired the hassle and you know, playing around with
our money in our livelihood, because we deserved this day for the promises a
contract, and they're just playing with us. Garbage went uncollected and city pools
were shut down yesterday as crowds marched in solidarity. Mayor Bass says the city
is willing to bargain in good faith. Chris Adler KFI News. La County
supervisors have approved an ordinance requiring more protections for hotel workers in unincorporated areas.
The ordinance approved yesterday caps the square footage attendance can clean before the hotels have
to start paying them double time. Supervisor Lindsay Horvat says it also requires hotels
to give room attendance panic buttons. Hotel workers play an important part in the
success of our county's tourism industry, and therefore we must ensure that hotels protect
and honor the work which those employees perform. The rules don't go into effect
just yet. The ordinance does need another vote and then the rules can go
into effect. An eyewitnessed to that mid air collision of two firefighting helicopters in
Riverside County, says he's still processing what he saw. Terrence says he was
driving his eighteen wheeler westbound on the ten just before the Morongo Casino when he
noticed all of the aircraft dropping water and retarded on a brush fire in Cabazon.
But moments later, he says he saw a small helicopter come up under
a larger helicopter. I was waiting for it to pull up. I thought
it was leaving on a pull up or swing out, and I'm watching it.
I'm thinking in my headlight, I think they're going to hit. That's
when the bell four oh seven and the skycrane collided, and that's when Terrence
says he couldn't believe what he'd seen. The bell went into a tailspan in
Jess just dropped. I saw it hit the mountain. I saw the ball
of fire and then the black smoke. He says, that's the first time
you'd ever witnessed anything like that. A few minutes later, he pulled over,
and I'd just had to get out the trucking kind of gather my senses
of what I just watched. Happened pretty sure. I just watch somebody die.
That tanage shook me up. Two CalFire employees and a contract pilot died
that Sunday afternoon. Terrence says he reached out and told his story to the
NTSB. Steve Gregory ca if I knows. Cases of westyle virus have been
confirmed in San Bernardino. The infections mark the first local human cases in the
county of this year. The virus is transmitted through the bite of an infected
mosquito. The CDC says about one in five infected people will develop symptoms like
a fever, headache, body aches, vomiting, rash, or diarrhea.
The owner of a cemetery in Carson have abandoned the property, leaving people unable
to visit grave sites of loved ones. The gates of Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery
have been closed since last month when the owners stopped paying for the properties licenses.
The Cemetery and Funeral Bureau says the city or county will likely take over
and assign a temporary manager. Officials say it's one of the oldest cemeteries in
the US. The soldiers from the Civil War buried there. It's five zero
six on your wake up call, let's say good morning now to ABC's Jay
O'Brien. Jay, ghost guns were front and center for the Supreme Court.
What did they rule and what does it do? So this all ties back
to that regulation that you heard President buying and called for a while back,
which says that he wants ghost guns to have serial numbers and background checks from
people who buy them in things of that nature. So that all gets instituted
that rule by the ATF in twenty twenty two, and then gun manufacturers and
gun rights groups sue and a several judge in Texas agrees with what they have
to say, and the judge in Texas eventually says, okay, but the
parts of a gun are not a gun, And so that case gets sent
all the way through the appeals court process, it goes all the way to
the Supreme Court on an emergency basis, and the government says, okay,
while this broader case plays out, can we still enforce the rule. All
of that is a long explanation to stay with the Supreme Court yesterday did and
said, yes, Government, you can enforce this rule requiring these regulations around
ghost guns while this broader lawsuit of whether or not the government can't even have
this rule plays out. Okay, so the issue isn't settled, but until
it is, the rules will be enforced exactly until it is. If you
buy a ghost gun, that part of a ghost gun, because a ghost
gun is various parts of a firearm that are purchased, sent through the mail,
and assembled at home. Those parts have to have serial numbers, they
have to have background checks for you to buy them. Just like if you
were to walk into a gun store and buyer a firearm, A lot of
the regulations around that would now apply to ghost guns. Now, the argument
again is that the parts of a gun are not a gun. That's the
argument that the gun manufacturers did. But the government has said, look,
these are being used to assemble real guns. They started statistics saying about nineteen
thousand had been recovered from crime scenes across the country in twenty twenty one.
So they say this is a real problem that needs to be addressed. And
while the debate rages us whether or not the government can have this rule,
they can still enforce it while that case plays out. Okay, and you
mentioned the nineteen thousand. That's a huge increase in the number of ghost guns
from just a couple of years before. So it's not a little issue.
I mean, it's becoming a bigger and bigger issue. No one having this
regulation is a centerpiece of the president's gun violence policy. This is one of
the biggest swings he took, and so if he were to lose at the
Supreme Court and not be able to enforce this, that would be a significant
blow to the administration. So what happens next is this goes to the appeals
court, the broader case does the Supreme Court, The Appeals Court hears it,
and once it comes to from the Appeals Court, no matter what the
decision is, you can expect either side here to appeal to the Supreme Court.
So there's a very high likelihood that this broader case lands on the steps
of the Supreme Court, not just the emergency part of it. Okay,
And is there any kind of a timeline you set now it goes back to
a lower court and they'll fight it out. Do we know when that case
gets started or is that just sort of in limbo right now? Yeah,
they hear arguments on it in September. Again, how long it takes to
them the rule is still very much unclear. This is a pretty complex case.
And then of course that after that happens, it's expected to either side
is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court. It's going to be up to
the Supreme Court whether or not they want to take it. And this is
a court that you really don't know where they're going to go with this stuff
because they granted this emergency order. But in the past, this is a
court controlled by conservative justices that have gutted other gun laws in the past.
New York's gun law is a good example. So very much unclear where we
go from there. Okay, so you mentioned the justices in the makeup of
the Supreme Court. Any surprises in how the justices voted because you had to.
It was a five four ruling, so you had to get a couple
of conservatives to side with you. Yeah, you knew where I was going
with this. So there are the Chief Justice John Roberts, who's a conservative.
He sided with the three liberals to put this over the goal line.
But the other person who's side at the three liberals is Amy Coney Barrett,
who's a Trump appointed justice. She sided with the liberals on the court as
well to again grant this emergency order that lets the government enforce this rule while
the broader case plays out. The other four conservative justices Kavanaugh, Thomas,
etc. They opposed this. Nobody gave their reasoning, which is pretty common
when it's this emergency kind of petition. They don't write it out in the
whole opinion like we're used to seeing. But if this case does land on
their doorstep, they will have the opportunity to write their whole opinions and we'll
see what they think of this law from a legal perspective. Okay, So
for now, the rules are back in place while they fight it out in
the lower courts, and we'll be watching. Thanks so much for your time,
Jay, appreciate your insight into what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Thank you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A Mega Millions lottery tickets
sold in Florida has hit a nearly one point six billion dollar jackpot. The
cash payout option would be in estimated seven hundred eighty three million dollars, not
too shabby. Tickets matching five of the six winning numbers worth a million dollars
or more were sold in Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, North
Carolina, and Central California. Nothing in southern California. The last time anyone
won the Mega Millions top prize was April eighteenth. Judges in la and San
Diego have ordered two US Navy sailors accused of spying for China to remain in
jail as their court cases begin. The active duty sailors appeared in court yesterday.
Both judges found the men are flight risks and dangerous to the community for
allegedly selling military secrets to China. In one case, a defense lawyer says
his client thought he was dealing with in investment operative and not an agent of
China. The judge hearing the case against former President Trump in Washington, DC's
ordered lawyers from both sides to meet in court Friday to talk about proposed restrictions
on what Trump can and cannot publicly disclose. Trump has promised to talk about
the criminal charges he faces over efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election. Federal
prosecutors want him borrowed from revealing certain evidence gathered in the Special Council's investigation.
A former Chapman University professor and ex lawyer for former President Trump, wants his
disbarment hearings put on pause. John Eastman's lawyer claims Eastman was called an unnamed
co conspirator and Trump's latest indictment not an unindicted co conspirator. The motion filed
Friday, claims that omission could mean Eastman will soon be indicted and therefore disbarment
hearing set for later this month can wait. Eastman defended his theory to overturn
the twenty twenty election results because of voter fraud in recent interviews with Tom Klingenstein.
In each of the swing states, the number of ballots that are provably
illegal or circumstantially illegal exceeds the margin in each of those sis. He says
that plus similar irregularities in other swing states resulted in thousands of mail in and
absentee ballots being counted with weak signature verification. As for claims, these are
just conspiracy theories. Trying to stop an illegal election is not a coup,
but trying to a thwart a coup, but the fact that that true narrative
is being censored and shut down so that the false narrative can prevail because I
think part of the existential threat. Multiple state recounts in Supreme Court lawsuits have
all debunked those claims. Corbin Carson kf I News. Okay, if you
heard of the movie Sound of Freedom. It has been sort of a surprise
box office success. It's over one hundred million dollars now, and somebody wants
you to see it. The organization, co founded by In and Out Burger's
owner and president, is hosting free screenings of the Sound of Freedom. The
free screening is at seven tonight at these theaters at the AMC Montebello in Montebello,
at AMC Tustin in Tustin, and AMC San Diego. To get tickets,
you can register at slave the number two nothing dot org slash movie dash
tickets. They're available on a first come, first serve basis that you didn't
get that address, I think we can put that on the wake up call
page. You could probably also google it. But free screenings for Sound of
Freedom. I've heard the movie is really great, supposed to be based on
a true story. Haven't seen it yet. It starts Jim Kavazol and always
really love him. Right now, it's time for tech Talk with KTLA tech
reporter Rich DeMuro and the host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI.
Rich starting off with some welcome news. Lift may stop the surge. Yeah,
and anyone who's been to the Taylor Swift concert in the last couple of
days probably has experienced that surge pricing, or any time you leave somewhere where
there's a lot of people. It's not fun because you check the price before
you go and it totally changes. But Lifts says they don't like it,
which is surprising because drivers love it. They make a lot more money when
it's surge pricing. Uber does it as well. They sort of invented the
genre of surge pricing, but Lift says they want to get rid of it.
They have enough drivers to do it, and they think that it would
be a differentiator over Uber if they can say, look, our prices kind
of stay the same all the time, so you can trust us and know
that you can go somewhere and take a lift and say, I almost said
Uber, and you could take lift back knowing that you're not going to be
surged on the way home. That might bump me over to Lift you know,
I took Lift exclusively for about three years, and I recently switched back
to Uber. And you know, I switched to Lift because I thought that
they kind of treated drivers a little bit differently. Drivers were a little bit
more you know, interested in the company, like they kind of stuck to
them, and you know, drive taking both, I really don't know if
there's a huge difference. I think that's the problem here. They need a
differentiator because these two brands are almost interchangeable. Do we know what the markets
market share is like the split between them. That's a good question. I
don't have that information in front of me, but I can tell you how
many riders if I can figure out how many writers Uber had versus Lift.
So Lift had in the last quarter looked about two million riders, so you
know, Uber probably more than that. I'm guessing. I was just curious
because I I don't really even think of Lift except when I see their little
signs in the windows. Well let's be okay. So according to some notes,
I have Uber about seventy percent, Lift about thirty percent. And here's
the thing. I think a lot of people, depending on the credit card
they have, the you know, the perks they get choose one versus the
other. Like I know that, for instance, the Chase visas have a
deal with Lift while the American Expresses have a deal with Uber, and so
that makes a big difference. Obviously, it's habit, and I think just
you know, what people have been using over the time, and you know,
I think price comparison is a little bit to do with it. I
think some people will compare the prices of both and go with what's cheaper.
But I'm not sure that's a huge, huge growth area for these companies.
Yeah, do we have a timeline for when they might make this final decision.
It seems like they want to do it pretty quickly because I think the
pandemic is sort of wearing off, and I think, you know, they
said it was down. The share of rides affected by surge pricing was down
thirty five percent from the first quarter, So you're talking that's a pretty sizeable
drop, And it seems like they can get this eliminated pretty quickly. But
I don't know. The drivers might not like it because they of course make
more money. Well, we'll have to wait and see. So Google is
making Android phones more like the iPhone. Yeah, this is This is a
big thing because you know, obviously here in the US, I message is
king. It is the number you know, maybe not the number one way,
but it is the way that people communicate over text, and so there's
a lot of benefits to it. It's very private. You could send big
video files and big pictures and high resolution and people think of Android, you
know, when you get that green bubble, it doesn't work as well.
Now, Google has been making strides between Android to Android phones with something called
RCS, which is pretty much, very very similar to I Message except for
Androids. And so now they announced that number one, this is going to
be unable to buy default for all users. So this was something that you
previously had to turn on, which is kind of a pain. And now
it's going to be end to end encrypted, and so that means that it's
just as secure as I Message, which means nobody else, not even Google
themselves or your cell phone company, would be able to read your texts.
So why is this all important? Well, this is all great, but
here's a thing. This only matters if you're going Android to Android, iPhone
to iPhone. What we truly need here in the US is a way for
these two systems to work across iPhone and Android, and I'll be honest,
it's Apple that's holding that up. They do not want to. RCS standard
is the standard that is across the world. Apple has so far not implemented
it in its iPhone. Why not because they know if they do a cross
messaging solution that works really well, people would be more apt to drop the
iPhone and maybe check out Android. And traditionally Apple kind of doesn't like to
play in the sandbox with others. Oh you, how do you? Oh
wow, maybe you should be a tech reporter because I'm glad that you know
that, just you know, from yeah, casually observing. So absolutely,
one hundred percent. Apple likes to do their own thing. And the reason
why it works is because Apple's been very very successful in making their own proprietary
stuff and having lots of customers to use it, and so far it's not
been a problem, whereas other companies like Samsung and Google are very much working
on open source standards or at least open standards that work across all devices across
a variety of manufacturers. Okay, so this is good news if you already
have an Android, but if you are just working on regular communication between the
two doesn't really make a difference. Yeah, we're still waiting for that.
That will be a big turning point. Okay, I'm excited about this thing
because I just saw that there. LG is coming out with a wireless TV.
Yeah, which is nice, but when you hear the price, you
might put your card back in your pocket. Ninety seven inch OLED TV.
This is called zero Connect technology. So this is a TV we first saw
at CS earlier this year. It's a signature Old M which means and LG
is known for having the best o led TVs in the world, so these
are really really nice ninety seven inch TV. This is going to cost a
whopping thirty thousand dollars. Okay, never mind. So here's how it works.
You put the TV, you hang it anywhere. Now there is a
plug, which I find comical about all this. So it's a wireless TV,
but you still have to plug it in obviously. But you put this
little box anywhere in your living room, so you can put it in the
corner, you can put it in a closet whatever you want, and then
you can put all your cable box and stuff there and then it wirelessly transmits
the video and audio to the screen at a pretty high quality four K one
hundred and twenty hurts, which is very high end. And so that means
that you know, you don't have cables hanging off the back of the TV,
and you don't need to you know, put him through the back of
the wall whatever. But again you still need to plug this thing in.
Well that sort of defeats the purpose. But I was excited about it because
I just recently I'd be very proud of me rich, because tech is not
my thing. I got a bigger TV and mounted it on the wall yourself.
Well I had help? Oh okay, well, like I mean like
professional or did you like actually help hang it? Oh? I helped hang
it. Oh very good. I love that. My brother came over.
We got the we got that swinging arm so it can swing out into the
room and stuff and it hasn't fallen yet. Yes, that's I did this
in my now. The TV I installed was only like a thirty two inch
or something. I started small. It was for like an office. But
I was so I mean, I'm sure you had the same experience where you
probably woke up in the morning and you check the TV to make sure it
was still on the wall. Oh, I still check it because I didn't
do a thirty two Rich, I did a fifty five inch TV. Nice.
Well, once you get it in the stud you know, once it's
drilled in there, it's like it's pretty much like. I was impressed that
I was able to do this. But yes, I've had other ones professionally
hung and it is a nice feeling if you could do it yourself. But
the beauty and congratulations for doing it. The beauty of this wireless TV.
I know it's expensive, it will be coming down in price and wireless TVs
will be a thing in the future, which will be nice for all of
us. Absolutely, thank you so much, Rich, appreciate all your information.
And I'm gonna wait till the prices come down just a little bit,
all right, trapping me amy? Okay, that's uh KTLA's tech reporter Rich
DeMuro, host of Rich on Tech here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two.
You can follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech. His website is
rich on tech dot. TV has come into the economy because of her concerts,
you know, and before she does she do anything wrong, I mean,
she's giving her truck drivers all this one hundred thousand dollars easion they're going
on or whatever it is, and her millions being spent for her backup dancers
and the crew. She's sharing the wealth. Does she do well? I
wouldn't want to be her boyfriend because I wouldn't want to date her. No,
No, but she's amazing, absolutely absolutely so. Jane Wells, thank
you so much for your time this morning. A If you want to check
out Jane Wells, she has a substack, it's Jane Wells dot substack dot
com and we'll talk to you next week. Great, all right, take
care, all right, thank you. Let's say good morning now to a
VC's Mike Debuski. Cadillac is unveiling a brand new electric escalade MIC that may
not be able to leave New York City. Yeah, that's right, Amy.
So Cadillac, yes, as you mentioned, is unveiling it's brand new,
an all electric version of the Escalade here in Manhattan later today, in
just about an hour or so, I'm going to head down there. And
this is an escalade and if you know what that means, you mean,
it means it's big, it's full of luxury, appointments and features, and
it's kind of brash. It stands out from a styling perspective. And the
all electric version, again, it hasn't debuted yet, but we can kind
of make some assumptions based on GM's strategy with electric vehicles in the past.
We expect this to run on GM's ultium battery technology, which is their branding
for their modular electric vehicle architecture. Essentially, they can make small versions of
this platform to underpin entry level electric vehicles like the Chevy Equinox and the Chevy
Blazer. If you saw Barbie, there's a Chevy Blazer in that movie,
and it could also underpin bigger things like this escalade, the three hundred thousand
dollars Cadillac limousine called the Celeste, and the GMC Hummer EV. GMC resurrected
the Hummer name a few years ago, and that truck, amy I think
is actually kind of the closest analog we have to this new electric escalade.
The thing about the Hummer EV it runs on an eight hundred volt charging architecture,
which is a very big battery. That means we are expecting this thing
to have a pretty big range. North of four hundred miles possibly, and
that does come at a cost though. Nine thousand pounds is how much the
Hummer EV ways you can imagine with this Cadillac and all its luxury features and
appointments and that sort of thing, it's going to come in somewhere around there.
And a fun fact, just to kind of New York City local history
fact, the Brooklyn Bridge which connects Brooklyn to Lower Manhattan where this truck is
being unveiled. The max weight limit per car on that bridge three tons six
thousand pounds. So technically speaking, if you live in Brooklyn and you work
in Lower Manhattan, you can't take an escalade over the Brooklyn Bridge. It
doesn't work. Nobody has a car in New York anyway. Well, you'd
be surprised, I would say, as a cyclist there are more people with
cars than you would expect. But yeah, no, you're right, and
to be fair to g and there are other bridges in other ways to get
into work. But I think it does kind of underscore something that we're learning
about this new kind of Cambrian explosion of evs for manufacturers is that these things
are pretty heavy. We're trying to figure out exactly how these things fit into
our lives. One of those things is is the weight, and that affects
things like efficiency. It also affects things like our infrastructure, our roads.
These things are pretty heavy. You know what else it affects is the tires,
because they're so heavy. You can't just go buy a seventy five or
hundred dollars tire. I have a friend who had who has a Tesla,
and he was like, oh, yeah, I've just spent eight hundred dollars
a tire or something crazy. I don't remember the exact amount, but the
tires are really expensive because you need like industrial strength tires because those batteries weigh
them down so much. Absolutely. I think that's that's one of the costs
that we're going to have to take into consideration as we make this transition over
to electric power. Another one I think that is interesting to talk about is
efficiency. We kind of just maybe think of electric vehicles as like, oh,
they're electric, they're good for the environment, they're efficient. You know,
they go so and so amount of range, and that's enough. But
if you think about the size of the battery versus how far you can go,
well, this is an eight hundred volt battery that goes we're thinking four
hundred miles, maybe a little bit more. That's maybe not as much as
it could go if it wasn't so heavy. If this thing was lighter,
it would not have as much stuff to propel, and therefore it could be
be a little bit more efficient on range. Again, another one of those
considerations as we make this huge shift and propulsion in the automotive world, how
long does it take to charge that monster battery? Again, we don't know
specifically, but you know, electric vehicle batteries they're not like gas tanks.
I think that's maybe not the greatest comparison because when you fill up a gas
tank, it's linear, right, you know, you go from empty to
full and then you move on. With batteries, it takes like longer to
fill up the edges of the tank, if you will. In other words,
it's much faster to charge your car from ten or twenty percent charge up
to eighty percent charge than it is to charge it from eighty percent to one
hundred percent charge. So there's that middle section that is kind of where you
get the vast majority of your charging done. At the top end. You
know, some of the most sophisticated evs on the market can do that ten
to twenty to eighty percent charge in something like twenty to twenty five minutes,
which is very good. It's still longer than it would take you to fill
up at a gas tank, but you know, even still like that,
time has come down pretty significantly in recent years, and you can expect it
to get better in the years to come. But again, it's just one
of the many different ways that we're changing our relationship to the car as we
make this transition. Yeah, and with the with the batteries being so heavy
and you are they working on technology to make them lighter. Now, that's
that's another kind of interesting question. We haven't really seen a lightweight EV out
there, with one exception. So there's a fish automaker called Caterum, and
they're a niche automaker. They make very small sports cars, kind of lightweight
weight, track focused vehicles, and they're they're kind of neat looking. They
look like they're straight out of the nineteen sixties and they have like, you
know, roundel numbers on them and they look like stripes and all this kind
of stuff. It's very interesting from a you know, car guy perspective to
look at that company recently showed off a lightweight EV. It's just a concept
car, it's just a prototype at this point, but that's kind of the
first time we've seen an automaker, albeit a small one, really experiment with
sort of the lighter end of EV propulsion. And you know, again,
I just think it's a really interesting time to be into cars because on the
one hand, you know, the automakers that you are putting out gas powered
cars now, they're kind of the last generation of gas powered cars, given
how long it takes to develop new vehicles, so their runout specials we're seeing,
you know, on the other end of GM's you know, Cadillac portfolio,
there's the Escalade V, which is a six hundred and eighty two power
supercharged V eight, you know, full size suv, this huge, kind
of crazy muscle truck of an suv that is not particularly great on guests,
and it's very loud, and it's very fast and all this, you know,
kind of exciting stuff. But on the other side, we're making this
huge transition over to an entirely new form of propulsion. So yeah, it's
really just interesting to see what people are doing with it again. Lightweight is
I think going to be one of the next big conversations we have, you
know as we do this. Okay, two quick questions because I know we
got to run. Uh. You said that this new ev, the new
escalator is going to be nine thousand pounds. What's a normal car? Wait,
depends on what we're talking about. I don't have the gas powered escalate
in front of me. But you know, again this is just to be
fair to general motors. There are plenty of cars that don't that are not
technically able to cross the Brooklyn Bridge with its three son weight limit. But
we're talking like full size trucks and pickup trucks and SUVs and that sort of
thing. Nine thousand pounds is very heavy, right, That's on the top
end of kind of what we've seen in the past. Mostly, you know,
if you're talking about your your Toyota Camrays, you know, your your
Honda Chords, maybe your Honda Pilots trucks, that sort of thing. We're
talking you know, two tons, you know, four thousand pounds if not
a little bit more than that. So you know, just as a point
of comparison, But again, you know, I don't want to directly compare
like a camera to an escalade, because it's kind of a different thing,
but you know it just as a point of sort of reference there. Okay,
cool, Well, you I know you gotta run because you gotta go
and see that brand new sparkly car. So have fun at the unveiling and
hopefully we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks so much. Mike Dubusky from
ABC. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
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