You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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Can he everybody quiet? Quiet? I've got some bad news, folks.
Christmas is going to be canceled. There's nothing I can do this weather.
Rudolph, Rudolph, please would you tone it down a bit? I mean
that nose of yours, that nose, that beautiful, wonderful nose. Rudolph,
with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight? It
will be an honor, sir. And it's time for your morning wake up
call. The time I jumped the gun, it's five o'clock on your wake
up call. It's Wednesday, December sixth, nineteen days till Christmas. I'm
Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us today. I am
so worried right now that it's going to be one of those days because I
was getting ready doing kind of last minute prep for the show, and producer
Anne and I were talking about why we are both singing All by Myself by
Celine Dion, and it's because George Nori was playing it during Coast to coast
if. Apparently that's one of those earworm songs. So I'm singing that and
getting my oatmeal ready and I go to put it in the microwave and dumped
it all over the place. So it's a mess in the kitchen, so
be careful if you go into the kitchen. I tried to clean it up,
but I was like, I gotta go and start the show. So
and did you know that spilled oatmeal that has not been microwaved looked very much
like vomit. It's not a pretty figure. So let's just hope that today
doesn't go down that road. Is that going to You're here, I'm here,
We're all here getting our day started, and it's someday and it's almost
Christmas. Here's what's ahead on wake up call. The California High Speed Rail
Project's going to be getting more than three billion dollars in federal money to continue
construction in the Central Valley. The Bright Line project that will connect La with
Las Vegas is also getting three billion dollars. Construction on the two hundred and
eighteen mile La to Vegas line is expected to start early next year. Mass
shootings in the US have hit a record high of thirty eight this year,
up from thirty six last year. The Washington Post Gun Violence Database says shootings
in Dallas and Vancouver, Washington last weekend pushed the number of people killed to
just under two hundred, not counting the shooters. Stephen Colbert is taking some
more time off after suffering a ruptured appendix over the Thanksgiving holiday. He says
he's listening to his doctors and continuing to and heel. You won't be taping
any new shows for another week. Reruns will air instead at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. President Biden says he's not sure he'd be
running for reelection if it weren't for Donald Trump. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Actors have
approved the contract that ended the one hundred and eighteen day SAG after strike against
the major studios. Seventy eight percent of members voted for it. ABC's Jason
Nathanson says while it is a clear majority, it's not as overwhelming as the
ninety nine percent approval rate when the Writers Guild voted on their contract. Turnout
from the actors didn't exactly pack the House thirty eight percent of sag After members
ended up voting, But the union is in celebration mode, declaring in their
statement that the deal includes more than a billion dollars in new compensation and benefits.
Sag after A president, Fran Drescher, says the union has never been
more powerful. Redondo Union High School has closed its campus following back to back
arrests of two students who took loaded guns to school. The school was put
on lockdown yesterday morning after police were called on reports that another student was on
campus with a gun. This freshman says the student was reportedly trying to trade
weapons with other students. I'm praying for everybody safety and you know, just
hoping this can like stop ready. Police say they will be taking safety measures
while the school is closed, including a K nine weapons and explosive sweep of
the campus. The school is expected to reopen tomorrow, and police say there's
no evidence of a planned attack. Chris Adler kf I News the fourth Republican
presidential debate for the twenty twenty four elections being held at the University of Alabama
in Tuscaloosa. ABC News political director Rick Clines his four candidates are expected to
be on stage tonight. Nikki Haley getting some elements on Ron DeSantis front to
revive his campaign. Chris Christy trying to show that he deserves to be out
there. It's getting to be crunched on for these Republican candidates. Entrepreneur Viveke
Ramaswami will also be on stage tonight. Other Republican candidates have either dropped out
or didn't get enough poll numbers to make the debate, which Trump has chosen
to skip. The co founder of the Moody Blues and Wings has passed away.
Denny Lane died this week after a battle with lung disease. He helped
form Moody Blues in nineteen sixty four and then joined Paul McCartney informing Wings in
nineteen seventy one. He played with Wings for a decade on hits like Band
on the Run and Jet. He was seventy nine. Okay, now,
let's check in with ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, and Jordana before we start
talking today, I want to I was thinking last night that we talked to
Jordana Miller an awful lot, and I think it's important to hear what's going
on in Israel, because as the news cycle starts to change, I think
we shift our focus to other things. And Israel just had its own nine
to eleven, and I don't want to shift the change away just jet.
So that's right, that's the way they talked to yourself. Well, I
appreciate that. You know. Statistically, I think someone actually crunched the numbers
here in Israel, not surprising, and I think, like, statistically,
it's as if we had fifteen nine elevens for the population, given how many
people were killed in Israel's population, So imagine on you know, nine to
eleven if we lost forty five thousand people instead of three thousands or nearly two
thousands. You know, it is a country that's still traumatized, and you
know, I think one of the headlines today is the mounting evidence of sexual
systematic sexual assaults that AMAS carried out on October seventh, the widespread rate that
was carried out. You know, there are now there were a handful of
survivors who were simply too traumatized, and they don't they're not really talking about
what they saw. But there are forensic experts and others that are collecting and
documenting the evidence, and they say, you know, the bodies that they
found, women and girls, many of them, you know, naked from
the waist down, those signs of sexual assault, even pools of sperm,
boken, pelvic phones, you know, mutilated genitalia. These are things that
are so difficult to talk about and report on, but they are part of
the horror and the savagery of Hamas's attack on October seventh, and you know,
women were assaulted sexually. And now today we're hearing the first reports from
those who are examining the hostages that came out of captivity last week. There
were over one hundred and there were you know, over there were a lot
of women and children that came out and at least ten of them, and
in the group are not just women, but men. Were sexual assaults that
had signed them sexual assaults. And this I'm sure only the beginning of what
we're going to hear about, and it is why Israel is so concerned about
the women that are still in captivity. There's twenty of them, five female
soldiers and fifteen civilians. And weren't those the original releases that were planned were
to get all of the women and children out and then when that fell apart,
it just kind of left them high and dry. So are there any
negotiations going on now or is it still that Amasa has walked away and they're
saying we're not negotiating until the war ends. Well, I think publicly Hamasas
were not negotiating until the war ends. But we understand the contacts with the
mediators Cutter in Egypt and the United States are ongoing for any at the moment
that maybe Hamas will change the mind. But you know, the Israeli Prime
Minister believes that, you know, the closer Hamas you know, reaches,
the closer Israel gets to defeating Hamas or possibly even just killing the Akassinoar or
the top of months leaders, maybe they will change their mind and negotiate and
release the rest of the captives. There's one hundred and thirty eight, eight
of them are Americans, and you know the hostages that were that were kept
for over seven weeks. You know, they describe all kinds of abuse,
emotional, physical abuse, and even with the children. Some children were burned,
you know, kind of like cattle. In case they tried to escape,
they'd be able to you know, be identified. You know, they
were putting children in solitary confinement. There was a woman who had three year
old twins. They took one of the twins away for like weeks and then
brought her back miraculously. I mean, these are horror stories. And obviously
the staged Hamas videos by see you later. It was great hosting you you
know those yeah fall flat. Okay, So that will hope that the talks
continue, even if it's not publicly talking. But we want to talk just
briefly too about that. Israel's troops have now entered Gaz's second largest city.
So where is that in. What's the latest on the fighting there? Yeah,
so Israel has entered the city of Communists. It sits in the southwest
part of the Gaza Strip. It is a Hamas stronghold. Military analysts expect
it'll take the Ausralia Army a couple of weeks at least maybe three, maybe
four weeks to really significantly damage hamasa's military capabilities there. There are tunnels,
it's believed Hamas's leaders are there, possibly some of the hostages as well.
And Israel moved on Communists a little quicker than many of us expected perhaps because
you know, there this cannot be an open ended war and still have American
support, so you know, as will maybe speeding up its war plans.
And it is complicated. This part of the war is complicated by the fact
that there are one point eight million gossms just to the east of Conunists,
a little to the south and a little to the north, and that you
know, Israel says it's working with precision and caution and dropping leaflets and has
an interactive map online to you know, notify civilians where it's coming, et
cetera, et cetera. Having said all that, it's hard to move around
the godless strips when you're terrified they're going to get killed in the process,
right, you know, so you know, and are these true safe zones
where there's no fighting. No, they're really defined as safer zones. So
no, we're bound to see the civilian casualty number five. Okay, Well,
we will be watching and we will be sharing your reports because, like
I said, I think it's important that we keep our focus on this and
what's going on. Thanks so much, Jordana Miller, Thanks, thank you.
Talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County Sheriff Luna has reviewed
his first year in office. The sheriff says he's met or exceeded most of
his goals, including the reduction of in custody uses of force. We've reduced
force in the jail over the last year by thirty one percent, Luna said
yesterday. He's also targeted so called deputy clicks, but still has some work
to do. There has been a challenge here with a very small percentage of
our employees with deputy gain. The shriff says he's also worked on improving relationships
with all the county supervisors, and he says it seems to be working.
His department's budget just got a boost. Steve Gregory k if I knows La
City Council's approved emotion to ban rodeos in the city. Councilman Bob blumenfeld Field
says the restriction is aimed at preventing animals from being tortured. This is not
about the cultural issues this is and it's not about horse riding. It's about
stopping animal cruelty. The city council voted unanimously yesterday in favor of amending city
law to define and prohibit rodeos as well as harmful rodeo related practices. The
Council says there will be some exemptions for certain cultural and traditional events. The
Air Force has identified the eight service members killed when an Ausprey military aircraft crashed
off the coast of Japan. One of those killed last week was thirty four
year old pilot and flight Commander Major Luke Unrath from Riverside. The remains of
just six of the service members have been found. So far, three have
been recovered. The Air Force says the two lost crew members were unlikely to
have survived, and the search for their remains continues. House Speaker Mike Johnson
says Republicans are blurring footage from the January sixth attack at the Capitol before releasing
into the public because they don't want people retaliated against and charged with crimes.
Johnson, who was involved in efforts to overturn the results of the twenty twenty
elections, says people should do their own research into the insurrection. He says
he's releasing the footage to counter the January sixth Committee's presentation of the riot Hollywood
actors have voted to ratify their new three year contract, putting the one hundred
and eighteen day strike to bed. Voting ended last night. Seventy eight percent
of sag after members voted in favor of the contract that includes AI protections and
a seven percent increase in minimum pay in the first year. A second student
at Redondo Union High School has been arrested for bringing a loaded gun onto campus.
The fifteen year old was arrested yesterday police who are going to be searching
the school today to make sure there are no other weapons at the school.
Classes are canceled today. Researchers say today's earthquakes may actually be after shocks from
quakes that hid in the nineteenth century. Researchers with the U. S US
Geological Survey Seismic Or say seismic activity can be traced back to before there were
seismographs, and suggested that understanding quakes from the eighteen hundreds will help us prepare
for large earthquakes to come. At six o five Tandle on the News,
Republican lawmakers walked out of a meeting over aid for Israel and Ukraine after things
became heated yesterday. Right Now let's say good morning to the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI and KTLA tech reporter Rich DeMuro. Rich, we're playing
chicken this morning. Good morning to you, Amy. How are you?
I'm great, but I want to find out about this chicken. You're doing
a segment on this on KTLA. I am yes, and the chicken puns
are a plenty. So this is a startup out of Austin, Texas named
coop Coop and they are creating a smart chicken coop. So it's basically a
backyard chicken coop, you know, wireframe kind of doghouse for chickens, but
it has cameras in it, and those cameras have AI features so that can
detect predators when the eggs are laid, all kinds of things. You can
watch the chickens from your phone. It opens and closes the doors so they
can roost that night. I mean, it's really pretty wild. The startup
is from a guy who previously created a startup he sold that would do on
demand smartphone repairs, so like basically they would come to your house to do
iPhone repairs, like an uber of smartphone repairs. Okay, and one of
my I know, one of my good friends of her ears just perked up
because she's got chickens in her backyard. She's not here in LA, but
is chicken cooping common in the Los Angeles area. Well, that's the whole
point of this startup is they want to make anyone a backyard farmer. And
they believe that with the right equipment and the right tools and the right technology
don't make this process much easier, and people will kind of grow to love
the idea of having you know, fresh eggs and also the you know,
hanyon ship of these chickens in their backyard be more connected to nature. I
interviewed someone in Los Angeles that you know, raises these things the old fashioned
way here in town, and he loves it. He he has nine hens
and just loves hanging out with them and feeding them and everything that comes with
it. And of course the lessons for his kids about nature. I love
that. And so that they're having an app. Is there a price tag
for it? Yeah? The coop is about twenty five hundred dollars plus Yeah,
plus a monthly monitoring fee. This is serious, but you know you're
gonna get free eggs for life, basically, and I did, Amy,
I did try a farm fresh egg for the very first time in my life.
I was a little hesitant, and I will say it was absolutely delicious.
You're worried about a farm fresh egg. I don't know. I'm Why
would I be concerned about a fresh egg? I don't know, but I
was. And city boy, yep, exactly. I've never gotten my eggs
anywhere except the grocery store, and so it seemed weird to get it out
of a chicken. Okay, well, that actually sounds kind of cool.
So it's cool. It's like I was tempted, Amy, I'm tempted to
get this, I really am. And I thought my wife would be totally
against it. And she's like, that looks really cool. Would you get
that? I was like, oh my gosh, I thought you'd say no.
But I at the end of the day, I don't know if I
want to have this. Well, I would tell you my friend who has
chickens. She is like the people you're describing. She loves them. She
loves plays with them, The dogs chase them, they do their thing.
She loves it. Yeah, I could I see the appeal. Let's put
it that way. Okay, Uh, talk to us about Beeper bringing I
Message to Android. Okay, this is pretty much the biggest story in the
tech world right now. It is wild A company, a startup named Beeper
has come up with an Android app that pretty much brings I message to Android.
What does that mean? Different than what we talked about a couple of
weeks ago. It's the same company, Okay, but now they came up
with a new app called Beeper Mini, and it's a lot easier, it's
a lot simpler, and it only does I message. The other one did
everything you know, your LinkedIn your Twitter messages. It was like an all
in one message app. This is they reverse engineered how Apple's I message works.
And so the thing is, it works exactly the way I message does.
Like you send a message to an iPhone from an Android, it looks
just like an I message, It acts just like an I message. They're
not doing anything sneaky or nefarious. They're literally just interfacing the way Apple does.
But of course, amy as you might expect, Apple probably doesn't like
this. But from what I understand, all the technical capabilities, they're not
really doing anything differently than what Apple's doing. So it would be really tough
for them to shut this down, and so this is like in the tech
world, we're just kind of watching this like, wow, this company is
really like they're like, this is David versus Goliath, right, Yeah,
they are charging two dollars a month for this though, So and I tried
it and it's it really does work as advertised, okay, And you can
find it at Beeper Yeah, Beeper Mini, that's what it's called. Okay.
And then before we run and I hate that we run out of time
so quickly. We can now watch Jimmy Stewart reading a new bedtime story or
listen to him reading a bedtime story. I know you have some experience with
you know, voiceover work and all that stuff, so I thought this was
a good one for you. But you know, Jimmy Stewart has not been
around for a while, and everyone knows his voice and of course his likeness
from It's a Wonderful Life, Well he has uh they've used AI to recreate
his voice with his family's permission, and he's now reading a bedtime story and
of course it's in that warm Jimmy Stewart voice. And I listened to the
intro to this and I literally got chills because it's so realistic and it's so
wild to think that this person is no longer in our world, but there
is new content from this person and this is just the beginning amy with all
this AI stuff. And I know you probably have some strong feelings on that,
but it is it is pretty wild that this is a thing. Yeah,
And is the story available? I mean, can you go find it
now or is it ending release? It's through this app called Calm. I
don't know if you've heard of that, but you know, it's like that
relaxation app. So it's a sleep story. You know, they have a
bunch of them, and a lot of celebrities read these things. But you
know, to have a celebrity that's passed read a story that's new is pretty
unique. Wow, so cool. So it's one of the things that like
I'm excited about AI but then also still trependacious about the whole thing. Yeah,
I mean, you know, yeah, it's pretty wild. I mean,
you could regular people can recreate their own voices to say forever at this
point, I mean, it's pretty wild. Yeah. Okay, rich Demiro,
thank you so much for your information. Of course you can hear rich
on rich on Tech here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. He's got
all the good things and it is so good at explaining it to so my
head doesn't hurt, which I appreciate a lot. Also, you can follow
Rich on Instagram at rich on tech is website, rich on tech Dot TV.
Thanks Rich, Thanks Amy Amy It What am I on? I'm on
all things streaming movies, books, documentaries, TV shows, series and the
reason I'm on it is because there's so much content out there you just don't
even it's hard to choose what to watch. Sometimes it's new stuff, sometimes
it's old stuff that you missed. This time it's something new. It's Candy
Cane Lane just in time for the holidays. It's the new movie with Eddie
Murphy. You can see it on Prime Video. It also stars Tracy Ellis
from Blackish. So Eddie Murphy's character lives in a neighborhood that goes all out
for Christmas. Sound interesting so far, And this year Eddie Murphy really wants
to win, and for reasons you learn very early on in the movie.
He needs to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas home decorating contest. So you add
in a little magic, and he finds himself face to face with a mischievous
little Elf that can give him the goods to do it. Of course,
there's a hitch, there's a price to pay if he doesn't live up to
the conditions. And I had really high hopes for this movie. I thought
it would be just a fun, cool Christmas movie. It's cute at times.
Overall it's forgettable. And I'm very sad to say that because I love
all things Christmas, and I love Christmas movies, and I'm waiting for the
next great Elf movie or something like that. But I'm glad it was streaming
as opposed to one that I would have paid for in the theater. Eddie's
great. He's always fun to watch, but I don't find myself cheering him
on in this movie, and I don't really care what happens. Although it's
a Christmas movie, so you kind of know how it's going to end,
I can. I'm just gonna guess that this one won't be a holiday classic.
It may not even be available on streaming after the Christmas season. It
was just kind of forgettable. Some fun special effects, just not great.
So Candy Cane Lane if you don't have anything else to do, or maybe
you just need a little distraction. Okay, it's some prime video, but
it's not a must watch for me at all. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Faculty members
at cal State la are set to hold their one day strike in a fight
for a new contract. The strike's been going on all week at different cal
State campuses, including at there'll be at cal State Sacramento tomorrow. The FBI
says some scammers in Romania have been busted for skimming ATMs in southern California.
Officials here say agents in Romania went to eighty four locations and arrested forty eight
people and seized eleven vehicles along with a million dollars worth of various currencies.
During the three year investigation, the FBI said it also seized eight thousand stolen
credit card numbers that belonged to US citizens and at least a million in cash
and cryptocurrency. The people arrested in Romania are said to be working for the
Riviera My, a gang based out of Cancun, Mexico, and had been
part of a global skimming operation Steve Gregory, King of News News brought to
you by American Vision Windows. Redondo Union High School has closed its campus for
the day following arrests of two students caught with loaded guns on two different days.
This freshman says, school officials have been very quiet about what happened,
so for I note that this was the second attempt. Someone came onto campus
with a firearm, and I guess they were trading firearms with another student.
Police arrested the first student Monday, the second student yesterday morning after the student
ran away. Police say the school is going to reopen tomorrow following a K
nine Weapons and explosives sweep of the campus. An annual report on the health
of Kids in Orange County shows progress in health insurance access and a reduction in
child poverty, but it also poses some other concerns. Officials say for the
past three years, the reports focused on effects of the pandemic, but the
next step is to access the longer term impacts and underlying inequities that were exposed.
They say. The report raised issues related to declining English and math skills,
rising suicide and depression rates, and school non attendance. The owners of
a funeral home in Colorado accused of abusing corpses, laundering money, and foregoing
or forging documents, have appeared in court for the first time. Investigators discovered
one hundred and ninety bodies stacked up in October. Some of them had death
dates as far back as twenty nineteen. Family members were falsely told their loved
ones were cremated and given materials that were not human ashes. Relatives who knew
or feared their loved ones were among the abandoned bodies. Watched in person yesterday
as the funeral homeowners stood in front of a judge at the hearing. Police
in Texas have arrested a man in connection with a series of murders in two
cities. Bear County Sheriff hobbi Ar Salazars's two bodies were found yesterday at a
home in San Antonio, ridged inside a very small room and it's a pretty
goods the cime seine in. The police say the killer then headed seventy five
miles north to Austin, where he shot and killed four people and wounded three
others, including two police officers. Austin's interim police chief says it's not clear
how all of this is connected. The killings happened at several different homes.
The LA Kings have tied the NHL record for the most consecutive wins on the
road to start a season. The Kings beat Columbus four to three in overtime
last night. That's ten straight wins for the Kings. They'll go for win
number eleven and try to stay undefeated tomorrow night in Montreal. Tonight, the
Clippers take on the Denver Nuggets at Crypto dot Com Arena, with tip off
at six o'clock. You can listen to the game on AM five seventy LA
Sports, Hollywood Park Casino Elevate Your Game. Hollywood actors have voted to ratify
their new three year contract. Voting ended last night. Seventy eight percent of
SAG after members voted in favor of the contract that includes AI protections and a
seven percent increase in minimum pay for the first year. The one hundred and
eighteen long strike was the longest labor fight in Hollywood history. A second student
at Redando Union High School has been arrested for bringing a loaded gun onto campus.
The fifteen year old was arrested yesterday. Police are going to be searching
the school today to make sure there are no other weapons. Classes are canceled
for today. The La City councils moving forward in its efforts to ban rodeos
in the city, claiming they are inherently cruel to animals. Ban would stop
harmful practices, techniques and devices, or rodeo related events. There would be
exemptions for some cultural and traditional activities. We're just minutes away from handle on
the news this morning, seven million, twenty three and meters users have had
their information compromised in a hack. We'll tell you about that right now.
Let's say good morning to the President and CEO of the Inland Valley Humane Society
and SPCA, Nicole Bresciani. Good morning, Nicole, Good morning. Wanted
to have you on this morning, Nicole, because we've got a big problem
in our shelters. They're full, yes, yes, and we feel it
every day. So tell us about what's going on at animal shelters, not
only in the Inland Empire, but also across the country. Yeah. I
mean, we've just hit this perfect storm where we came out of COVID and
there were you know, diversion of veterinary supplies, span neuter was not considered
essential, and so you have this population explosion. We're seeing an increase in
kit popultters, an increase in intake overall, a decrease in our transport to
our adoption partners because they're also full. So the pipeline is stuck. And
when you have pets sitting in a shelter for longer, you know, we're
averaging a length of stay of thirty five days per animal, and the national
average was at twenty. There's no doubt that the shelters are full and we're
feeling it. Okay, I want to back up for a second because I'm
just hearing about this for the first time. When actually, when I read
the article about about what you guys are dealing with during the pandemic, spaying
and neutering was considered non essential. And that's like one of the first things
that happened before you adopt is you get the spade and neutered pets. So
the explosion stops. But that stopped during the pandemic, correct, So there
were shelters that were still doing minimal amounts, but you were supposed to divert
your veterinary supplies towards human medicine, which is understandable. But the problem is
is that now we have this backlog and so people were shelters were adopting out
animals during the pandemic on waivers, which is still what some of them are
doing because either they don't have a veterinary team or they don't have the capacity
and they have a backlog. So it's just created this dynamic where we're seeing
more animals and maybe we aren't at pre pandemic levels, but the quantity of
the animals coming in in a very short amount of time is putting a lot
of strain on shelter systems. Okay, and then I'm going to go down
that road that nobody wants to go down. When the shelters are full and
over full, you guys are forced into making some really crappy decisions. So
yeah, and you know there are some shelters that have to make decisions based
on space. What we do is that we make decisions based on public safety
and behavior issues or illness. So but if we have capacity issues, then
a dog or a cat that maybe we have given time to so much time
and now we have to say, okay, that particular pet is in decline
in the kennel. We're not seeing positive outcomes through the foster system or through
behavior enrichment, and now, yeah, you have to make a difficult decision
because now you have to worry about spread of disease. And so it's a
multifaceted issue that we're dealing with. And so nobody wants to go to work
every day and have to decide on dogs and cats to euthanize. That's not
something that we get into this profession to do. But it's a side effect
of overpopulation. And so you know, we're so focused and I know the
article focused a lot on the euthanasia issue, but that's not helping the shelters
because the public trust is saying, well, don't take your animal to the
shelter because they're just going to kill it, and that's a horrible position to
put the shelters in. The reality is that we're doing so much more for
each and every animal that comes into our care. And if all of us
were just uthanizing for space, I wouldn't have just adopted out a dog that
had been in our care for over two hundred days. That's not happening.
We're spending a lot of time we're not euthanizing healthy, adoptable animals, but
we are having to make difficult decisions on dogs that maybe we would have wanted
to try to give even more time, but we just can't do it if
we're not seeing that improvement. Yep, Okay, well, I think you
guys are all heroes. So, like I said, I just brought it
up because it's that really awful reality that you are forced into. Like you
said, you just you don't have the capacity for this. But how can
how can we make things better? Well, I think we need to focus
on what's the issue in a community, and let's be neighborly and let's try
to help the people that we see that are struggling. You know, the
cost of food, pet food is an issue. When we adopt out animals
at our shelter, they're fixed, they have everything, they have post care
for veterinary care. We also send them home with their starter food, so
there's things that we can do. We have a pet pantry at our shelter.
You know, you leave what you can, you take what you need.
We don't ask, we don't monitor it. So I think if we
look at the fact that shelters are supposed to be a resource center. We
want to help our community members, but we didn't create the population explosion.
It's happening in our communities and it's just ending up that the shelters are taking
the heat for it. The reality is that you know, if you can
adopt, if you can foster, if you can volunteer, if you can
donate, all of those things are so important. Okay, So and it's
not just adoption, So that's good to know too. If you if you
can take one temporarily in foster them, or make a donation, or like
you said, just volunteer and come down and take dogs for walks during the
day. Absolutely, we run vacations if you want to take a dog out
for the day and hang out with it at you know, your your local
park, or take it to Low's or home depot. We have people do
that all the time. It's great, great for the dog, great for
you, a doggie dacation. That's so adoring. Okay, but let's let's
let us not be remiss talking about adopting. And I know that the holidays
are sometimes a good time something to think about. So if you're what do
you say if you're in the market possibly thinking about adopting. What's your message
to people? So I would say do your research, and you know,
don't just say hey, i'd like that cute puppy in the window, because
that cute puppy grows up to be you know, one hundred pounds German shepherd.
And so find a dog or a cat that works for your lifestyle.
And you know, we're running free adoptions right now. We have our Mark
after Dark with our Happy the Hour on Wednesday, December thirteenth from six to
eight pm. I love that the adoptions are free. We're running a veterans
event to focus on resources and adoptions on Saturday, December sixteenth for our veterans,
and so we're doing a lot of free adoptions. So if there's no
reason to spend money on a pet this holiday season, if you're really in
the market for a pet, okay, and they bring lots of love and
life into your home. I have two cats, and I just I can't
imagine not having a pet in the house. So thank you so much,
Nicole. We hope you know that lots of animals get adopted and some foster
people step up and they volunteer. We got to get these We got to
make space for these animals. Absolutely, thank you so much for your time
today, Amy, all right, you got it. Thanks again, Nicole.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four our newsroom. We're just getting news that TV pioneer Norman Lear has died.
He was one hundred one. WOW. Trial has started in Riverside County
for a man who claims he heard voices threatening him when he killed two people
at a movie theater in Corona. The man reported hearing voices coming from the
rows in front of him where the two people were sitting. He says the
voices he heard were saying, We're coming to get you guys. The man
then went to his car to get a gun, and while the credits were
rolling, he shot the teens in the back of the head. The man
initially pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder from the shooting in twenty twenty
one, but then withdrew those please and is now testifying in an insanity trial.
Chris Adler kaf FIE News, the former pilot kee of trying to cut
the engines on a Horizon Air flight, has been indicted in Oregon on eighty
four charges of endangerment. He's no longer charged with attempted murder. Lawyers for
Joseph Emerson say they welcome the grand jury's decision. They say attempted murder charges
weren't appropriate because Emerson never intended to hurt anyone or put anyone at risk.
They say he thought he was in a dream after taking psychedelic mushrooms and staying
awake for more than forty hours. President Biden has told supporters if former President
Trump wasn't running in twenty twenty four, he's not sure he'd be running.
ABC's Andrea Fujii says Biden spoke last night at a private fundraiser in Boston.
The statement came as he portrayed Trump as a threat to democracy. Biden says
he cannot let Trump win. Hey, Postathon is over, you can still
donate and Wendy's is one of the places that you can do at. Wendy's
is taking donations up until this Sunday through December tenth, So if you'd like
to add to our totals, we would love that. Pastathon dot com is
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