WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.040 Am, I Am six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:14.080 on the iHeartRadio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's 3 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:21.679 Jason Middleton warding everyone. This is your wake up call. It's Thursday, 4 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:27.440 June fifteenth. My name is Jason Middleton. Just heard announcer man's stay is 5 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:32.640 his wake up call, So welcome in June fifteenth. I was doing some 6 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.920 prep for the show today, obviously, and sometimes we look back in history 7 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:40.240 and we say on this date kind of things, and we usually skip over 8 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.159 ninety eight percent of those, but there were two that happened on this date 9 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:48.240 that kind of relate to today's show. So real quick. Back in twelve 10 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:52.240 fifteen, early thirteenth century, King John of England puts his seal on the 11 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.359 magnet Carta. Now that that's the first document that put into writing the principles 12 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.679 that the king and his government not above the law. Later this hour on 13 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.959 wake Up Call, we're going to unpack a modern iteration of political power dynamics. 14 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.200 And in eighteen seventy eight, Edward my Bridge took a series of photographs 15 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.640 to prove that all four feet of a horse actually do leave the ground when 16 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.599 it runs, and that study becomes the basis of motion pictures. So for 17 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:25.200 that when we're gonna update the writers guild strike and when how and if motion 18 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:29.640 pictures and other productions are gonna restart. So both of those are coming up, 19 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:34.640 as well as other things this hour. A few quick headlines. New 20 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.280 polling out shows former President Trump is holding his lead among GOP voters for the 21 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:45.599 Republican nomination despite his arraignment this week. He's got a significant lead still over 22 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.400 Florida. Governor rond De Stantiff. Texas is sending more migrants to La. 23 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:55.120 Governor Greg Abbott there tweeted yesterday that forty two migrants were put on a bus 24 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.879 on their way to Los Angeles. And it's been grace, guys for this 25 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.560 Southland here a topic of discussion in most cafes and dining tables, as I 26 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.719 assume at least at my house. But in the eastern US, hundreds of 27 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:15.159 thousands are without power after severe weather continues to slam the southeast. Let's look 28 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.759 at some more stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. We 29 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:21.840 always lead local La City Council members stay they're looking into the criminal case against 30 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.319 councilman current Price. Price has been accused of a paid a play scheme with 31 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.719 developers. Council President paulker Corey and says officials are now looking at the real 32 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:34.319 estate projects Prices accused of voting in favor of for his own financial interests. 33 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.280 We're going to be looking at all of those to see whether there are any 34 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.960 reasons for concern about those real estate projects themselves. Price was hit with ten 35 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:47.439 criminal charges Tuesday. Yesterday, Emotion was introduced to suspend Price in La Blake 36 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:52.639 trolley k if I News. A former EMT from Long Beach has been sentenced 37 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:54.919 to more than twenty nine years in prison for selling fentonel to two of his 38 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.719 co workers. The co workers thought they were buying cocaine, and one of 39 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.639 them died from an overdose. The former EMT has been in custody since his 40 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.199 arrest in twenty nineteen. Authorities searched the man's house and found more than a 41 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:13.479 dozen illegal fire arms along with the drugs. They say he shipped across the 42 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:17.479 country and had been selling them locally for a long time. Also, pills 43 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:22.319 laced with fentanyl have been found in drug stores in Mexico from coast to coast. 44 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.479 Officials say the problem is bigger than previously thought and is hitting tourist hotspots 45 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:30.680 especially hard. An investigation earlier this year found some of the pills looked like 46 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:36.400 antibiotics and came in sealed bottles, others were unlabeled white tablets, and several 47 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.800 mimicked well known American versions of pills. At least a half a dozen Americans 48 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.840 have overdosed or died from taking those fake pills, but authority state it could 49 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:50.080 be way more because Mexico doesn't do routine toxicology tests. I believe the source 50 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.560 of that investigation was the La Times. The state Attorney General says he demands 51 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:58.599 answers from the state of Florida over the transport of thirty six migrants from Texas 52 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.520 to Sacramento. Rob says he sent a public records request for documents, communications, 53 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:08.120 and unredacted invoices related to the Florida funded travel of illegal immigrants earlier this 54 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.759 month. The migrants traveled in two groups. Both started at a shelter and 55 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.960 El Paso, then went by bus to New Mexico and finally by playing to 56 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.639 Sacramento. Banta said it was a political stunt that's both immoral and deceptive. 57 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:24.160 Florida officials say the migrants voluntarily signed a waiver and were excited to go to 58 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:29.000 California. Steve Gregory can off I knows a lawsuit claims an almost eight million 59 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.120 dollars settlement to save the Pacific Air Show is nefarious, while hunting Debeach as 60 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.959 its routine. Ocean View School District Vice President Gina Clayton Tarvin says the settlement 61 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.639 was made between France and should be made public. That reeks of all pat 62 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.720 your back, you pat mine, what is this? This is not their 63 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:49.360 personal kingdom. City attorney Michael Gates says full details cannot be released yet because 64 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:55.240 of pending litigation. Any accusation that there was some favorable settlement and that we're 65 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.199 hiding something, all of that is completely not true now. Gates says it's 66 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:03.160 a routine settle over the twenty twenty one oil spill which forced the Pacific Air 67 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.560 Show to shut down. ABC's Jim Ryan is on the line with us. 68 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:11.279 Good morning, Jim, Hey Jason. I'm certain this is a subject we'd 69 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.319 rather not have to cover. It's a fact in modern American though, and 70 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.519 that's active shooter situations. And you have a new FBI study in hand. 71 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:24.040 Yes, these shootings, active shooter situations are slightly different from mass shootings, 72 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:28.000 and that they take some time, they give police a chance to respond. 73 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.439 You hear police reports of active shootings and immediately they go rushing to a scene. 74 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.680 In many cases, mass shootings happen in just a few seconds. It's 75 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.120 over and people are dead and wounded. If you look back at twenty twenty 76 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:43.800 two, the FBI says that there were fifty active shooter situations in twenty five 77 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.480 states in the District of Columbia. That's fewer than we had in twenty twenty 78 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.959 one the year before, when there were sixty one of them. But at 79 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.079 the same time, you had more casualties last year than the year before. 80 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.439 One hundred people were killed, two hundred thirteen were wounded. Last year in 81 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.800 twenty twenty one, you had one hundred three people killed one hundred forty undred. 82 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.160 So last year three hundred and thirteen casualties, the year before that two 83 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:11.199 hundred forty three. Fewer active shooter situations, more casualties. Jason, Now 84 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.240 you did define active shooter or differentiate active shooter from mass shooter there and FBI 85 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.519 obviously it's harder to predict mass shootings. How precise is this toy though, 86 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.600 when it comes to active shooters, well, it's quite accurate. I mean, 87 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:26.680 it's based on police statistics and so, and it lays out just raw 88 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.600 details the when, the where, the who was involved, how many people 89 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.519 were heard are killed. And the difference here is that an active shooter situation 90 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.199 happens in a public place, first of all, and they sometimes happen at 91 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.000 more than one location. A person fires on someone here in one location, 92 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.480 moves to a different location, and the shooters actions weren't the result of another 93 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:50.800 criminal act. But very often you have mass shootings that fall into the active 94 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:57.639 shooters categories as well. You know, the situation that the outlan ball here 95 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.680 in Texas is a perfect example of shooting situation. Well, also was an 96 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:05.680 active shooter situation because it did happen in a public place, the victims were 97 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:12.079 kind of random in that situation, and that the shooter appeared to be hunting 98 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.720 for specific people. Man, the dynamics of this are fascinating and tragic at 99 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:20.680 the same time. One thing that was in the report that I think that 100 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:25.480 we can talk about is the FBI feels confident. It can it can estimate 101 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.439 the month in time of a likely shooter. How did they do that? 102 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.279 Well, they're an estimating. I mean these are based on raw statistics. 103 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:35.439 So the police report says that the incident happened on j June fourteenth at three 104 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:41.079 thirty in the afternoon, and so they can compile those statistics into one big 105 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.439 report. And doing that, the FBI has found that the greatest number of 106 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.720 active shooter situations happened in May of last year, when there were nine of 107 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:53.680 them. January, in September of last year, each month had only one 108 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.240 I say only one, only one, but each one had one active shooter 109 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.879 situation. By day of the week, Sunday appears to be the day that 110 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.000 you had the most active shootings last year. Thursday and Friday had the fewest. 111 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.120 Can I lean into your experience for a second, because active shooter situation 112 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.920 if you go back in time, I go to back to the University of 113 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.279 Texas. Yeah, Um, were there ones before that? Or was that 114 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:18.959 kind of like a popular culture Bell Weather moment? Well that you know, 115 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.519 you've seen film of that, You've seen video of that happening, and I 116 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.439 think that maybe how that one is slightly different. There were certainly situations like 117 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.240 this before, but you didn't have somebody with in that case. I believe 118 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:35.159 it was an eight millimeter camera capturing images. The local TV station ran out 119 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:39.320 there and had pictures of Charles Whitman up there in the in the bell tower, 120 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.440 the clock tower. Ut So I think that one may be different. 121 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.960 It absolutely was an active shooter situation happened in the public place as students were 122 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:52.440 being targeted. There were there incidents like that before, Yeah, absolutely, 123 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.679 but that one, I think you're right. That was probably the kind of 124 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.519 they mark and the calendar that one in Kent State. To mind, I 125 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.320 worked with somebody in Pittsburgh who was at Kent State during that active shooter situation. 126 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.960 Last question, kind of a logistics thing. Was the FBI doing this 127 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.360 internally? Was this coming out of Congress or request from the White House. 128 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.519 Well, it's part of the FBI statistical gathering, numbers gathering of every year. 129 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:22.320 So this report will be made available to police departments around the country, 130 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.480 and those departments then can do what they want with it. Then numbers only 131 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:30.320 go back to twenty eighteen. That's how fairly recent this whole phenomenon really is 132 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.639 I mean, I don't think I had heard the term active shooter before about 133 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:39.440 well Columbine really the late nineteen nineties, and then after that. It seems 134 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.159 to be kind of a flood of information. ABC's Jim Ryan always a pleasure 135 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.399 to speak with you, even about tough topics. Thank you very much. 136 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.440 Thanks Jason, get back to some of those stories coming out of the KFI 137 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.679 twenty four hour newsroom. Want to highlight this when supervisors in Orange County have 138 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:56.039 unanimously voted to make June Pride month, but it was not without some bickering 139 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.759 to celebrate and promote men who dresses women and who want me to lie and 140 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.039 call them women. Critics made similar arguments to last week when supervisors appeared to 141 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:11.279 ban the Pride flag. The hateful mean words by those of you who came 142 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.960 up to this podium and lectured us and told us to be kind. Are 143 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.039 you kidding me? Supervisor Katrina fully said, in response to someone asking for 144 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.639 stats, I'll tell you the stats. Eighty three percent increase in hate crimes 145 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:31.120 towards our LGBTQ plus community here in Orange County in the last year. Supervisor 146 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.879 Andrew do said, this week. The county has always supported Pride Month, 147 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.279 which he says, it's supposed to be about acceptance and tolerance, but Pride 148 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.600 Month and a pride community has been hijacked by a few with a political agenda. 149 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.960 Just because they disagree with all a volt, they twisted around and make 150 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.240 it a political statement. In Orange County, Corbin Carson k if I News, 151 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.080 the LA archbishop says he will hold a special mask for healing because of 152 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.480 the Dodgers honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The team chose to honor the 153 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:03.240 self described drag nuns for their service to the community. Equality. California's Jorge 154 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.279 Selina says by holding a prayer session the same night the sisters are set to 155 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.480 be recognized, the archbishop is further dividing the community. I was raised a 156 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.600 Catholic and understood the word of the Catholic Church, and I still consider myself 157 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:22.519 a strong Catholic while being a proud gay man. The archdiocese says Friday's mass 158 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:28.279 will focus on community healing and renewed respect for religious beliefs. Chris Adler KFI 159 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:33.720 News. Quinnipiac University poll is showing that former President Trump leads Florida Governor Roda 160 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.440 Santis by thirty percent, with fifty three percent of respondent saying they'd vote for 161 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:43.200 the former president. President Biden holds a slight lead over Trump, forty eight 162 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.639 percent of support over Trump's forty four percent from that poll. While the Supreme 163 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:52.720 Court decides if President Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is constitutional, Republicans are rolling 164 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.879 out a plan of their own. The GOP has introduced the Lowering Education Costs 165 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:00.600 and Debt Act in the Senate. It's a package of bills aimed keeping down 166 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:05.960 the apparently ever increasing costs of higher education and right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones 167 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.679 could face two more defamation trials over school shooting lies. The trials would set 168 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.600 the value of defamation claims if no settlement is reached now. The claimants include 169 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.559 parents of a child killed in the twenty twelve Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, 170 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:26.120 Connecticut. At five thirty three ish, we're gonna get my take on the 171 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:28.200 FED and the pause and interest rate hikes that we got yesterday. We pulled 172 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.679 some sound from the news conference with FED Chair J. Powell. Those can 173 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:37.039 sometimes sound kind of business ee jargon. Ee Powell is better than past fed 174 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.399 chairs when it comes to speaking plainly. But still, we're going to try 175 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.960 to unpack a little bit more of that right now. When public figures make 176 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.759 questionable decisions while seemingly having it all from the outside at least when it comes 177 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.960 to stability, fame, or social standing, money, any combination, those 178 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.519 are head scratching moments for the rest of us. So through that lens. 179 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.600 ABC's Brad Garrett is on the line to talk with us about former President Trump 180 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.039 and a disclaimer, again, this discussion is not about guilt or innocence. 181 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:07.360 It's about character and personality. Welcome in ABC's Brad Garrett. Good morning, 182 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.240 Jason, Good morning, sir. So Trump held the single most identifiable job 183 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:18.919 on the planet. Basically, why does he seemingly behave so recklessly because I 184 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.759 think you know, wherever you go there you are right, And this is 185 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.759 how he's sort of functioned before he became a president. I mean, if 186 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:33.559 you believe Mary Trump niece, who has written this book that she's a psychologist, 187 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:39.000 it's a pretty detailed profile at which she thinks of why the president thinks 188 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.840 the way he does. And I mean one important point is that she claims, 189 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.919 and there's other people I think they have supported this, that he was 190 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:52.679 raising in a pretty sort of verbally or emotionally abusive household between his father and 191 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.360 his mother, and that you know, kids, they grow up in those 192 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:00.440 environments, now I'm generalizing, tend to go a couple of different ways. 193 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:05.080 They either get loving, caring empathy from other adults, or they sort of 194 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:11.440 become hardened and that they see that life is there for them to manipulate and 195 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:16.399 control. And maybe in his case, he's his father become quite wealthy by 196 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:22.159 maybe acting that way, and so some believe that's what he has sort of 197 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.960 picked up as a way of functioning. In other words, it's like ingrained 198 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.480 in this personality. And so the idea that just because you may have the 199 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:35.200 most powerful job may even give you more of a license in your mind to 200 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:39.759 do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it. And 201 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.440 it struck me Jason looking at this most recent indictment in Florida, is that 202 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:52.519 his own words, in his words to and direction of people around him that 203 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.480 work for him, that are loyal to him, including one lawyer who's now 204 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:03.159 got major issues, has become a government witness because of things that Trump said 205 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:07.799 to him. And then he turns around, of course, bashes the government 206 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:13.879 for saying this as a witch hunt, of which which is fascinating because it's 207 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.440 really of his own creation, right, and some of that has passed his 208 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:24.240 prologue. I get that absolute power corrupting, absolutely, but modern you know, 209 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.960 modern dynamics of somebody like this, What about confirmation bias is where I'm 210 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.000 going to confirmation bias. He's got close people, his coterie of yes people, 211 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.320 if you will further, does that further enable such behavior as this well, 212 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:39.320 of course, and I think in his case, or people like him, 213 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.279 they tend to get rid of the people who like disagree or are not 214 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.039 willing to carry out whatever you know that you and I and others may look 215 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.759 at it as pretty irrational or could be illegal, but certainly irrational way of 216 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:58.759 thinking, because they can't tolerate that. They can only really tolerate you doing 217 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.480 exactly what I tell you to do, whether it gives the law or not, 218 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.600 or ethically or royally maybe not a good thing to do, but you 219 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:14.600 do it anyway because if not, you won't keep your job. And people 220 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.039 who'd grow up and don't have any empathy and really are sort of driven by 221 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:26.399 their own immediate needs and desires. You know, can they don't see people 222 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.519 as that I need to take care of them, I need to help them. 223 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.120 Do they see the rest of us as a sort of tools to manipulate 224 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.519 and use? And then you know, if if they the person doing it, 225 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:44.960 becomes more wealthy, then that is a success. The rest of us 226 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.759 are losers because we're not with them and we didn't do what they directed us 227 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.879 to do. This may be an obvious question. You mentioned empathy there, 228 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.759 the E word, But does that come from is the manifestation of lack of 229 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:04.160 empathy dehumanizing others? Yes, that's exactly right. Basically, you don't see 230 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:10.839 people in a loving carrying way you use. You see people as tools to 231 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.079 use. And I mean there's a lot of examples of him doing that. 232 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.960 And you know, it's it's okay for you and I have this conversation, 233 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.559 but I think it's just important for you know, folks listen to this, 234 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.720 like President Trump don't like it, that's totally their call, of course, 235 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.599 but that you know, you need to think about if the people who do 236 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.279 think this way, how do you pull the country together. How do you 237 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:38.079 get us how do we get things done? If everything is a fight? 238 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:42.839 Right, and clearly there's no shortage of that going on today. Before you 239 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:47.160 jumped on the line, I was using some poll numbers out this morning from 240 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:51.880 Quinnipiac and they show that he's got a significant lead over Florida Governor Ronda Stantis. 241 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:53.599 But given the conversation that you and I are having right now, I 242 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:59.079 guess my last question has to be is Trump his own worst enemy or is 243 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:03.079 he just able to keep floating? Well, he is his own worst enemy, 244 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.440 but he also may be able to keep floating only because Jason, he's 245 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.599 continued to float right through all of this. I mean, he's even said 246 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:17.599 it at rallies that his poll numbers and you just quoted them have gone up. 247 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:22.839 And so that's really incentive to keep acting the way he acts, and 248 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:29.359 so do I an he's not going to change in his seventies away from that, 249 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:33.480 because that's how he's apparently been since he was a kid. I feel 250 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:37.039 to have another question because you use the word incentive there, what about disincentives? 251 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.359 Are there any of those in play that could change his behavior or change 252 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:47.680 the way he thinks about his next decision. No, because people who have 253 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.640 sort of this grandiosity about who they are and what they can do, and 254 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.200 who they can manipulate and who they can use. I mean that's powerful stuff. 255 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:00.559 You can see why placing a person who thinks that way in the most 256 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.799 powerful job in the world, it would be beyond intoxicating for them, right, 257 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:12.160 Yeah, because they literally could do anything they want and above right. 258 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:17.559 I mean it really goes down to these I think this document case, I 259 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.160 mean, it's obviously not the most important case of the world, but it 260 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:26.400 does give you a lot of insight as to his way of thinking that you 261 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.440 know, he turns it in that it's a witch hunt in the FBI and 262 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:33.680 dj have you know, been weaponized against him. Well, these are all 263 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:38.119 professional prosecutors. They just spent their life for prosecuting people. And they may 264 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:42.200 like or don't like President Trump, but that's not relevant. They have to 265 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.039 follow the facts. They have to get up in court and say the following 266 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:49.079 or witnesses say he said this, he did this, he directed me to 267 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:53.200 do that. All that stuff I think is probably pretty clear in this case, 268 00:19:55.359 --> 00:20:00.240 but he will continue to turn that into it. It's us against them 269 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:04.200 because I think that's just how he you know, that's how he views life 270 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:11.000 and that I don't think there's not one thing that will change that. Thank 271 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.640 you so much for your time this morning. This has been a fascinating conversation. 272 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.640 Was I really loved it when we saw an opportunity to speak with you 273 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:19.839 today. So thank you. You're welcome. Have a good day, Sea. 274 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.839 Thanks. It's ABC's Brad Garrett joining us there. A man accused of 275 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:27.319 a chokeold death on a New York subway is being indicted by a grand Jerry 276 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:33.000 Daniel Penny was indicted Wednesday on a second degree manslaughter charge in the death of 277 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:37.480 Jordan Neely. Veterans suffering from PTSD would have access to experimental drug treatment under 278 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:44.599 legislation promoted by Congressman Dan Crenshaw, The Texas Republican, is a veteran serving 279 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.559 as a Navy seal in Afghanistan. His bill would create a seventy five million 280 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:53.920 dollar federal grant program to support research into both magic mushrooms and MDMA, which 281 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.759 is also known as ecstasy. I believe ketamine is also on that schedule. 282 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:04.039 Washington law makers are introducing a new bill to protect TikTok user information. Six 283 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:07.799 Senators and two members of the House of Representatives say the Chinese zonned app poses 284 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:12.680 serious security risks to the data of Americans. News is brought to you by 285 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:17.960 American Vision Windows. Now coming up at five fifty. The Writers Guild picket 286 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:22.319 lines started about six weeks ago, almost exactly six weeks ago. Projects underway 287 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:26.519 have halted production of course streaming and linear shows, stop shooting Golden Rod versions 288 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.880 of scripts, not landing and trailers. We're going to talk with a veteran 289 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:37.160 and accomplished writer about where things are today between the Guild and the studios and 290 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:40.640 what any possible negotiations or nuance might look like. That's coming up out around 291 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.480 five to fifty this morning. Yesterday, you may have noticed the headlines about 292 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.759 the Federal Reserve announcing it is not going to increase interest rates. The reason 293 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.240 not doing something becomes news is because they've been on a tear when it comes 294 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:57.680 to raising interest rates. This is the first meeting of eleven. They had 295 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:03.240 ten straight rate height. This is the first pause. Chairman J. Powell 296 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:07.400 does a news conference about once a quarter. He has to go on to 297 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:12.279 Capitol Hill to testify, but he doesn't always do public speaking after these votes. 298 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:15.000 They usually just let the minutes of the meeting speak. And then there 299 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.279 are analysts who have full time jobs to read the minutes that come out of 300 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:22.559 the FED just to kind of parse the language. Now. J. Powell 301 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:29.359 is a little more transparent with his language than past FED chairs. Janet Yellen, 302 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:34.119 who is now the Treasury Secretary, she was FED chair before J Powell. 303 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.559 They all get ten year terms, by the way, And and if 304 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:41.720 you go back to Alan Greenspan, they used to call him he was like 305 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.799 the He was like cryptic. I think it's the word that was used very 306 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.119 often with him. J Powell a little bit different. So we pulled some 307 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.960 sound yesterday from the news conference that Powell held. So I'm going to play 308 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.480 a bit of sound and then we're gonna unpack it. What are the rest 309 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:59.480 associated with commercial real estate as well as non bank financials and could you further 310 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:04.839 elevation those risks with higher still rates possibly for longer. We're trying to think 311 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.119 where to start. I'll start with commercial real estate. We of course we're 312 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:12.720 watching that situation very carefully. Uh, there's a substantial amount of commercial real 313 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:18.319 estate in the banking system. A large part of it is in smaller banks. 314 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.440 It's well distributed. To the extent it's well distributed than the system could 315 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.599 could take losses. We do expect that there'll be losses, but there'll be 316 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:30.839 there'll be banks that have concentrations and those banks will experience larger losses. So 317 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.680 we're well aware of that. We're monitoring and carefully. You know, it 318 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:40.559 feels like it feels like something that will be around for some time as opposed 319 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.720 to, you know, something that will suddenly hit and and you know, 320 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:48.720 work its way in a systemic risk. A couple of things to unpack there. 321 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:52.000 For sure. Commercial real estate is the silent but deadly killer when it 322 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:57.000 comes to the economy. Is specifically for this looming recession. I do a 323 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.079 show on the weekends called Macrowth on Sundays too, by the way, but 324 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.000 we've been looking at this for a while, and we talk about inflation a 325 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:07.440 lot, and that's what the FED is mandated to control. We talk about 326 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.000 the labor market, the other thing that the FED is mandated to control. 327 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:14.519 They're trying to get us to full employment at all times and keep inflation at 328 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.200 two percent at all times. But commercial real estate is a huge factor when 329 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:22.079 it comes to the macroeconomy in the United States, and it's in I won't 330 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.240 say crisis just yet, but if even if you look at the vacancy rates 331 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.720 in downtown Los Angeles, that is causing a crater in the economy downtown. 332 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:37.279 When it comes to companies that own those towers and all those office space units, 333 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.480 they're either not paying their bills, they're not looking to re up on 334 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.960 their loans, they're not looking to get more money to loan to grow because 335 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.920 well, the interest rates are so high that it's really expensive to borrow money 336 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.599 right now. So for j Powell to call that out, and the question, 337 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:55.640 by the way, was from friend of the show, Mark Hamrick. 338 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:59.759 He's the chief economist over at banquet dot com. For them to call out 339 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:06.960 it's a commercial real estate m is important. We talk about personal real estate, 340 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:08.559 housing and mortgage rates all the time, but we don't really look at 341 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:11.720 the CRI. And I think that was definitely pulling it out there. And 342 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.039 here's here's another clip, and we're going to talk about you'll probably be able 343 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.359 to hear, but we'll talk about why this one matters. You know, 344 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:21.720 if you look two and three years out with the forecast. First of all, 345 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:25.920 I wouldn't I wouldn't put too much weight on forecasts even one year out, 346 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.960 because they're so highly uncertain. But what they're showing is that as inflation 347 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.960 comes down in the forecast, if you don't lower interest rates, then real 348 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:38.839 rates are actually going up. Right, So it just to maintain a real 349 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:42.559 rate, the nominal rate at that point two years out, let's say, 350 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:47.400 should come down just to maintain real rates. And if and actually you know, 351 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:52.200 since we're probably going to we're having real rates that are going to have 352 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:57.119 to be meaningfully positive and significantly so for us to get inflation down, that 353 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:02.839 probably means that certainly means that it will be appropriate to cut rates at such 354 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:07.400 time as inflation is coming down really significantly. And again we're talking about a 355 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.759 couple of years out. I think, as anyone can see, not a 356 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:14.240 single person on the committee wrote down a rate cut this year, nor do 357 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:18.400 I think it is at all likely to be appropriate. If you think about 358 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:23.079 it, inflation has not really moved down, It is not so far reacted 359 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:27.400 much to our existing rate hikes, and so we're gonna have to keep at 360 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:30.839 it. We're gonna have to keep at it. He ended right there. 361 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.559 I left that one run a little bit because I wanted to show that j. 362 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.960 Powell can talk Turkey. He did that there as a donut though, 363 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.240 right at the beginning and right at the end, and in the middle again 364 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:41.599 us a little bit in the weeds, but in the middle he did talk 365 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.720 about. Nobody else on the Fed voted for a rate reduction this year. 366 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:49.880 Some analysts had been calling for that later this year. As a matter of 367 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:55.279 fact, we might even get another point two five percent rate hike in July, 368 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:57.599 and now September is on the table. So this is what they're calling 369 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:02.160 a hawkish pause, which means we're just going to wait, get some more 370 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.079 data. In it's summertime, things seem to lull except for the home market, 371 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.160 homesale market, so they're going to watch for that. But I think 372 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:12.920 July is definitely on the table. In September is about a fifty fifty shot 373 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.400 right now. One more quick one, and this one has to do with 374 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:19.519 the other mandate that the FAT has. Remember it's inflation two percent and full 375 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:23.359 employment, so wages will continue to increase, so we you know, what 376 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:27.480 we're talking about is having wage increases still at a very strong level, but 377 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:33.119 at a level that's consistent with two percent inflation over time. And so I 378 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.079 think we've seen some progress. All of the major measures of wages have moved 379 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:42.079 down from extremely elevating, highly elevated levels a year or so ago, and 380 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:47.279 they're they're moving back down, but quite gradually. And you know, we 381 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:52.000 want to see that that process continue gradually. Of course, it's great to 382 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:56.240 see wage increases, particularly for people at the lower end of the income spectrum, 383 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.839 but we want that as part of the process of getting inflation back down 384 00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:03.000 to two percent, which benefits everyone. I mean, inflation hurts those same 385 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.599 people more than anyone else. People on a fixed income are or hurt the 386 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.400 worst and the fastest by high inflation. It's good for j. Powell as 387 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:14.519 a FED chair to notice that I pulled that one, because other FED chairs 388 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:18.519 don't normally pull this out. But it's true, and high inflation is basically 389 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.119 a paycut. You are having your buying power reduced by higher prices. You 390 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.240 still make the same wage. Now, he did mention that they are going 391 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:29.960 up, but they're not keeping pace with inflation. For the FED chair to 392 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:32.519 do this, and I've been covering the FED for about fifteen years. For 393 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:37.720 the FED to pull this out like this is heartening to see at the very 394 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:42.119 least. So just be braced for a little bit more volatility, if you 395 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:45.359 will, using a business word, for the rest of this year. Still 396 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:51.839 think a short, shallow recession is coming up sometime. The American consumers very 397 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:53.839 resilient, and it keeps pushing out that goal post. So it's either going 398 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:57.839 to be Q four this year or Q one next year. New polling shows 399 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:03.279 former President Trump is whole his lead among Republican voters for the GOP nomination despite 400 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:06.079 his arraignment this week. He's got about a thirty point lead according to this 401 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:11.640 poll on Florida. Governor Ron de Santis, Texas is sending more migrants to 402 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.880 Los Angeles. The governor there, we did yesterday that forty two migrants are 403 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.960 on their way and it's been gray in LA. But back east, hundreds 404 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.920 of thousands are without power after severe weather slammed the southeast and continues to roll 405 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.279 through the area. So now on wake up call, we have David Weddell 406 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:33.160 with us. Good morning, David, Good morning to you. Jason. 407 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.680 David. You are a WGA member. You were also a strike Captain, 408 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.480 some of your bonafide's here. According to IMDb, Battlestar galacticus CSI, Crime 409 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:45.880 Scene Investigation, Falling Skies, and I guess you're one that was in production 410 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.359 up until about six weeks ago was for All Mankind? Am I right on 411 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:55.920 that correct? So we finished production, we were post production, and we 412 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:00.519 were getting ready to convene the writing room for season five when the stri happened. 413 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:04.119 Very cool. We're about six weeks into this uh WGA strike. I 414 00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.960 know, I think you were piketting just yesterday and you are a strike captain, 415 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.519 M industry veterans every day you do. So okay, Well give us 416 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:17.960 a review. What's what's your take take of the past six weeks? Um, 417 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.200 Well, we're negotiating, and we're negotiating with our feet. We're negotiating 418 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:29.799 by we're refusing to provide services to or justly compensated and morales very high. 419 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:34.960 We're very determined and we're going to win. Now speaking officially, are there 420 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:41.720 negotiations scheduled at this point? No, there's no negotiations scheduled at this point, 421 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:44.400 but but they'll come back to the table. It's just a matter of 422 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:48.960 when they calculate it is the right time for them. A lot of talking 423 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:53.079 about the studios, the streamers, the content companies. Yeah, I'm glad. 424 00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:56.680 Okay, let's go right there. What are some of your concerns. 425 00:30:56.759 --> 00:30:59.440 Let's pull those up to the top for people who may not be aware of 426 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.920 what the WA is worried about and what they'd like to negotiate around. You 427 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.359 mentioned streaming right there. You want to start with that. Well, we're 428 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.720 in the streaming area. We're moving to a place where everything will be streamed 429 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.799 and almost nothing will be broadcast in the next couple decades. And that's what 430 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:21.720 this battle is about. It's about the Future's about the economic changes and in 431 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:27.079 the industry. And to put it in a simple terms, I've written a 432 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.319 couple of books. Okay, So when you're the author of a book, 433 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:36.359 you own the copyright to that material for the rest of your life. You 434 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.640 see, anytime that book is sold anywhere in the world, you get a 435 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:45.480 percentage of the profits in the form of royalties because you own the copyright. 436 00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.200 In the film and television and the streaming era, writers for those mediums, 437 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:59.559 we give up our copyright, We forfeit it in exchange for what are called 438 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:05.599 residual rules. So we create the content, but we also then participate in 439 00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:08.759 the profits from the content we created in exchange for giving up our copyright. 440 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.079 As we moved into the streaming era, these big companies have found ways to 441 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:22.000 diminish those residuals. They're trickle compared to what we used to have a healthy 442 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:27.480 flow of residuals. And that keeps writers going because we go from show to 443 00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.880 show to show and you have gaps and employment. And then during those times 444 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:35.920 when you have those gaps, those residuals and they enable you to stay afloat, 445 00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.799 to keep a home, to keep a family, you know, economy 446 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:45.079 stable. And that's what this fight is about. It's about how the company 447 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:51.599 is gradually put a tourniquet to those residuals, reducing them and reducing them and 448 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:54.880 keeping more profits for themselves when we create the content, when we give up 449 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.640 our copyright, why should we do that? So that that's a big part 450 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:01.920 of it. Well, streaming didn't sneak up on as it's been around for 451 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:06.440 a while. When was the last contract and was any of this negotiated back 452 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:12.960 then? Well, when this was originally negotiated was in two thousand and seven. 453 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.720 So that was the last strike, and that that was the infancy of 454 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:22.240 streaming and we saw this coming even then. And so the strike then was 455 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:28.119 about they didn't want to give us any residuals, any form of profit participation 456 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.880 on the content that we created for streaming. And what the company said then 457 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:36.839 was, we don't know if this streaming thing will ever make money. Hey, 458 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.519 it's an experiment. We're losing money on it. Therefore we can't give 459 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.720 you any percentage. And it was kind of an absurd position because if you're 460 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.960 not making any money, why not give us a percentage of it? Yet, 461 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.319 so we won an important battle. Then, I work on a streaming 462 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:59.920 show for Apple. I get residuals, but they are they are a fract 463 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.400 on what I would have gotten when I started in this business twenty eight years 464 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:08.159 ago, writing for a syndicated show. So, but it was an important 465 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:14.000 precedent that we set. And then after that strike, we had other priorities 466 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:17.199 such as stabilizing our health fund and our pension fund, and then we had 467 00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:22.280 to go through COVID and so we know we have been dealt with, you 468 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.559 know, in an unfair manner, and that we're not getting the profits that 469 00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:30.039 we deserved, but we had to choose our time to go to go to 470 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:35.119 make a stand on this, and now we're making that stand. David, 471 00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:38.400 you mentioned a little bit. Let me reintroduce you WGA strike captain and a 472 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:43.840 veteran writer here in the industry, David Weddle. Do you you mentioned earlier? 473 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.920 Morale is up on the pickets and within the guild itself? Is there 474 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:51.440 any word around the campfire about how things are playing out getting ready for the 475 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:57.840 next negotiating session? What I mean is, are you talking online or on 476 00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.960 the picket line about shifting your positions? Are you guys firm as you move 477 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:07.519 into the next yet to be scheduled negotiation session. We have complete faith in 478 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.360 our negotiating committee and are that that lead this effort for the guild and participate 479 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:17.639 in the negotiations. Those those those members of that committee. Uh, they 480 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.000 they're on the picket lines with us, and they make a point of showing 481 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.519 up everywhere that we're picketing to explain you know, the situation. What the 482 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.000 situation is now is there's there's they just made a they just made a deal 483 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:37.679 the studios and the streaming content providers with the Director's Guild. Uh, it's 484 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:45.119 always in the Director's guild always negotiates uh behind or ahead of us, and 485 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:47.920 makes a deal ahead of us, and that's used by the studios as of 486 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.440 course sort of bludget. Look the DJA made a deal, why can't you 487 00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:57.199 what's your problem? Uh now? But now they're facing SAG, which had 488 00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:02.119 a very strong Screen Actors Guild strike authorization, but almost as strong as ours. 489 00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:09.840 So I think what the studios are content providers are are banking on is 490 00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:14.639 making a deal with SAG if they can before June thirtieth, which I believe 491 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:19.360 is the date that the contract expires with SAG. If they can make a 492 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.800 deal with them in averse strike, then they'll come back to us and they'll 493 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.440 say, look, here's the pattern or what the other guilds negotiated. Why 494 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:29.840 you know, why don't you adhere to that? And so we'll go along 495 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:31.719 those lives. They'll come back to us at some point. Right now, 496 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:38.800 they've offered no meaningful compromises, so there's nothing to negotiate until they, you 497 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:44.679 know, show some flexibility in their positions, which they will somewhere in the 498 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:46.559 next couple of months. Full disclosure. I am a member of SAG after 499 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.039 it, and we have and will continue to reach out to the Producers Association. 500 00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:52.239 This is a new show, so we're going to get that side too. 501 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.239 A couple of quick ones before I have to let you go. One 502 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.000 actually one quick one. Disney announced this week that it has pushed back about 503 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:02.280 a year that really of Avengers, Star Wars and Avatar, although Disney CEO 504 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.320 Bob Iger also says this is a year of profitability. Is this internal business 505 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:13.320 or is this a strike response? It's I I you know, I would 506 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:16.199 guess it's a strike response, but I don't want I don't know all the 507 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:21.360 inner workings of Disney, so i'd be I can't. I can't act like 508 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:25.800 I know exactly the reasons for those decisions. But I do think the strikes 509 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:31.199 a huge factor. And what's going to happen where the squeeze on these content 510 00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:37.719 providers is I know lots of young people and what they do is they join 511 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:42.519 a streaming service to watch a particular show, and then once they watch that 512 00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:45.880 show, if there's nothing new on the platform that interests them, they cancel. 513 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:49.760 They cancel the app, Uh, they can't, and they go and 514 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.760 they go on to another well, if there's not going to be any new 515 00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.320 content, it doesn't take a genius to see what it's going to happen. 516 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.800 They'll start canceling those apps right left, So the offitability of these streaming companies 517 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.519 will be in jeopardy. David Weddle, thank you for your time this morning, 518 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.199 and until last night I didn't realize this. You mentioned you've written two 519 00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:09.840 books. One of them is a biography of Sam Peck and Paul. I've 520 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.840 paid for that and I've read it twice, so I bought once, read 521 00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:19.119 twice. I guess I got one of these because of you. David. 522 00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:23.000 Thanks for joining us necessarily. If you watch on my TV shows, which 523 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:25.880 by the way, the most reason ones for all mankind, and I have 524 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:29.760 seen it, it's really good. Um well, well you know what I 525 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:31.880 mean. So, David, thank you very much for your time this morning. 526 00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:36.320 Maybe we could talk again with some better news later this summer, okay, 527 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:42.159 will be my pleasure. Couples absolutely a couple of quick more stories before 528 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.000 we get to the top of the hour and handle on the news. The 529 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:49.400 Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control Agency is using drones to control the mosquito population. 530 00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:52.159 The county could be seeing its worst mosquito season yet with heavy rain from 531 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:58.119 winter storms. The OC Mosquito and Vector Controls Brian Brannon says the drones carry 532 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:01.719 about twenty pounds of natural mosquito pesticide that isn't harmful to animals. One way 533 00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:08.079 to prevent the transmission of disease and keep mosquitoes at bay keep their populations down 534 00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:12.800 is by using drones, Brandon said yesterday. The drones will be used in 535 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.920 non residential areas that are hard to access with traditional treatments. In Garden Grove. 536 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:22.559 Chris Adler KFI News we lead local live from the KFI twenty four our 537 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:24.440 news room on Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up call. You've 538 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:28.719 been listening to wake up call. You know you can always listen live on 539 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.880 KFI AM six forty weekdays from five to six am, and anytime on demand 540 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:35.480 on the iHeartRadio app