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Jason Middleton. Morning everybody. It is Friday, June sixteen. Driving in
this morning put a little bit like Thursday because it looked and felt the same,
but it is indeed Friday. This hour, we have a slate of
discussion to tee up for our morning and for you know, the weekend.
We have politics. We're gonna talk about ticket fees. Dean Sharpe's gonna be
here, come on, that's a no brainer. Stick around for that one.
And we're gonna have a well here's a fun fact in lieu of the
t's cows can pick up since from six miles away, that's impressive. Not
something I knew about cows. We're gonna learn more about cows later this hour
as well. Importantly, a few headlines before we get into it. Though.
The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified Pentagon documents has been indicted.
Jack Taschera, is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of national
defense information. He was arrested in April for allegedly sharing classified documents on a
gamer social media platform. US Secretary of State Anthony B. Lincoln is traveling
to Beijing this weekend. B Lincoln's trip marks a rare high level meeting between
the US and China. It was postponed earlier this year because of that balloon
thing that happened. Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after being discharged from
Rome's Jamellie Hospital. The eighty six year old Pope was recovering from abdominal surgery,
and he left the hospital in a wheelchair today, reportedly in high spirits.
Let's start with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. At least three people have been killed by a tornado that touched
down in the Texas Panhand Fire Chief Paul Dutcher says a trailer park in Perryton,
just south of the Oklahoma line, was hit hard yesterday. We had
a tornado sat down right on the edge of town. It's taken out probably
twenty five to thirty trailer houses in this area. Dutcher says more than one
hundred people have been treated at hospitals so far. The state Attorney General says
he may investigate the state of Texas over its transport of immigrants to Los Angeles.
Rob Bonta says he'll look into how and why in Texas, Republican Governor
Greg Gabott funded the delivery of migrants by bus to Union Station for nothing more
than a political stunt. Asylum seekers which means they are fleeing conditions where they
are unsafe or they're being persecuted to come here. Banta announced Monday he's requested
documents and communications from the state of Florida after it funded two trips of migrants
from El Paso to Sacramento earlier this month. Officials in Texas and Florida say
the migrants signed travel waivers. Steve Gregory KOFY News. The family of a
woman from Orange County has demanded answers the deaths of the woman and her boyfriend
in Mexico. They were found in their hotel room. State Department spokesman Matthew
Miller says they are working with officials to get to the bottom of things.
We offer our sincereus condolences to the families for their loss. We are closely
monitoring the investigation into the cause of death Corners say the couple from Newport Beach
died of intoxication by a substance not yet determined, but the woman's family said
yesterday they think it was carbon monoxide Poisoning officials say the toxicology report could take
weeks. There's no initial signs of foul play. Dock workers at the Port
of La have reached a tentative labor contract with specific maritime shippers. The deal
covers over twenty two thousand dock workers along the California coast. Long Beach Mayor
Rex Richardson says getting closer to an agreement provides a sense of security to everyone
in the community. It brings peace of mind to businesses to workers to make
sure that they have stability in this port related industry. Across southern California,
workers reached the tentative agreement with shippers when day night, let's say it still
has to be voted on before it's official. In San Pedro, Chris Adler
kf I News, we have ABC's political director Rick Klein on the line.
Want to get right to him. He's got a hard out in a few
minutes. Good morning, Rick, Hey, great to be with you.
Thank you let's start with Donald Trump and his poll numbers. Let's start there.
Any surprise he's still leading for the GUP nomination after all the news last
couple of weeks. Well, he's still leading. And I guess that shouldn't
be surprised anymore because we've seen this before. We saw it over many many
months over the last eight years, but also just since the Manhattandie handed down
hus indict when we saw Donald Trump's lead over Ronda Santis from about twenty points
about thirty points in an average of the poll. So I guess at this
point we shouldn't be surprised. But I still think there's got to be an
element for some shock that there doesn't seem to be anything that permeates that Trump
brand. And these are very serious charges. Most people think they're very serious
charges, but it doesn't seem to be something that is bringing him down politically.
Let me before we move on to the next topic, just anecdotally speaking,
do you look get campaign contributions and pull numbers together or do you do
you give more weight to one or the other? Well, I think,
I mean they both have limitations. I think you have to look at both
sets and numbers as well as you know, other ways. The messaging catches
on and recogly that that we're still seven eight months away from the voting starting,
So there's limitations to what we can learn from any of that. There
is some reporting out there that Trump may have been considering a deal or at
least offered a deal from the DOJ Department of Justice. If that would have
played out, would that have been seen his capitulation and that's why he may
have turned that down? Yeah, I mean, I think in one level,
that's a pretty predictable movement from we didn't apologize after actless Hollywood or insulting,
you know, all manner of people over many many years, decades.
Really, I think he would have viewed as a moment of weakness. To
me, it's it's kind of the most the most trumpy answer. You can
imagine that. You can imagine the lawyer that brings that to him and how
he would write their head off. And he does seem to have sought the
advice of people that would tell him what he wanted to hear when it comes
to making a possible deal. He seems to have been genuinely surprised by the
the verity of the charges, he ended up partying ways with the lawyers that
he had previously and now charting a course where the deal that he once might
have considered or would have been offered him is no longer operative. Rick,
what do you think about his legal team? Is it usually attorney's lining up
to represent a former president and is he having trouble choosing one or is he
having trouble fielding a candidate field? Yeah, I mean under normal circumstances,
representing a president or a former president is you know, one of the biggest
honors that a lawyer could receive. But the conditions that you're forced to abide
by if if you're a Trump lawyer are being considered untenable for a long series
of lawyers, going back to Michael Cohen, who broke with him as probably
as he did. So the fact that they are, you know, leaving
as frequently as they have been, the fact that he's been cycling through them,
I guess in one level is top surprising. Okay, Yeah, I
guess that does make sense. And I may have jumped ahead a little bit
on this question, But what's on the horizon for president former president Trump right
now as far as either politics or legal trouble. Well, he's got both
of those. The legal troubles compound. He's got a real problem when it
comes to the district attorney in Fulton County. The Jack Smith investigation continues over
his actions out of the round January sixth. Bottom line is, you know
he's going to be dealing with a whole lot of political and legal stuff all
combined as we have into the political voting season. In the month's ad,
Hey, Rick, what do you have coming up this week? On this
week on Sunday, I'll be on the show talking about the pole out of
this. It's part of our roundtable along with the former Governor Maryland Larry Hogan.
We're all stuck in Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, former
prosecutor, who's among the Republicans who's saying this is a very big deal and
Republicans have to take this seriously. We'll see how much that catches on.
Okay, well let's stay with Asa for a second. I still have you
for a minute. So other Governor Hutchinson, excuse me, I don't know
him personally. Other nominees or would be nominees are maybe far back into polls,
but are they just is it hurry up in wait situation with them,
because if Trump continues to have these obstacles, their opportunity could come. Yeah,
I think a lot of them are waiting to see how the field shapes
up around that. And also we're thinking, you know, rem publican voters
have a long time to start making choices that no one's cast votes yet.
There's a ways to go before that. You want to be the right place
at the right time, and some of that involves right now doing some things
to soft and Trump up, frankly and to make clear that they don't view
him as the right choice outstanding. Thank you for joining us this morning,
Rick Best, Thank you. That's ABC's political director Rick Klein. You can
catch him Sunday on this week, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A person suspected of
setting fires around LA's Fairfax District over the last two months has been arrested.
The LA f d's Arson Unit has been investigating garbage set on fire, the
burning of discarded furniture, and apartment complex gates and doors being set on fire
since last month. A Ford F one fifty pickup was set on fire and
destroyed on South Orange Drive. That was on June seventh. The LAPD has
not said what specific fires the person was arrested for late Wednesday night, but
police are expected to give more information later today. The FEDS have forced a
student loan debt company in Orange County to return more than three point three million
dollars in fees. FTC attorney Richard McKean says a legitimate debt relief company is
not going to ask for upfront fees because that's illegal. A legitimate company is
also not going to make big promises that they can't keep because everybody's situation is
different and there is no one size fits all when it comes to debt issues.
McKeen says since twenty fourteen, nearly thirty eight thousand consumers were duped by
a ready financial group. Total damages resulted in more than forty three million dollar
judgment, which was suspended because the owners could not pay. Bud Lights dropped
from the top of the hops, has been brewing for years. Bud Light
had been the number one selling beer in the US for more than two decades,
but is now second to Modella Especial. Many attribute bud Lights drop on
the boycott by someone. Social media and trans influencer Dillan mulvaney featured a personalized
can of bud Lights sent to her, but bud Light sales had been going
down for more than ten years. Its market share went from nineteen percent and
twenty ten to just ten percent leading up to the mulvany post on April first.
Modello, on the other hand, has had double digit growth in its
beer sales and at least thirty five of the past forty years. Michael Crozer
KFI News. Spotify is ending its podcast deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Marko.
A joint statement from Harry and Meghan's company says they have mutually agreed to
part ways. Twelve episodes ran in the podcast, called Archetypes, which began
last August, and a deal estimated to be worth twenty five million dollars.
In December, Archetypes was voted Best Podcast at the People's Choice Awards. The
BBC reports the Royal couple reportedly failed to meet productivity benchmark required by Spotify,
but that Marco was continuing to develop more content on another platform. Disney Plus
will begin debuting newly restored classical Disney shorts that starts next month as part of
Disney's centennial celebration. More than two dozen shorts are being restored, dating as
far back as nineteen twenty seven, and featuring classic characters of course, like
Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and original studio star Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Haven't
seen Oswald in a minute. The first six shorts will hit the streaming service
on July seventh, with a new batch released each month through October. And
the dog Father has teamed up with Petco for a line of toys, treats,
and grooming supplies. It's called Petco Picked by Snoop. The items are
already available online, but we'll be in stores nationwide by August. Snoop is
promoting the line in a thirty second ad called dog Walks starring Snoop, but
as a Doberman pincher. You'll see Snoop walking around his home talking about how
great he feels thanks to Petco. He adds up on Petco's Instagram. Snoop
fans may recognize it's the same dog he transforms into for his hit who Am
I? What's My Name? The debut thirty years ago this year, Amy
King KFI news hit legitim Now. Multiple roots emergency teams do continue to respond
to a tornado strike in the Texas Panhandle. Texas Governor Greg Abbot has deployed
state emergency resources following a tornado that devastated the town of Perryton. The storm
killed at least three people and has injured at least seventy five. There's a
new TikTok bill on Capitol Hill that aims to protect user information. Six senators
and two members of the House of Representatives say the Chinese owned app poses serious
security risk to the data of Americans. Senators say the bill introduced Wednesday would
stop the app from sending personal information to China. Nuclear facility concerns continue in
Ukraine. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the situation at ukraine
Zapperitza nuclear power plant is serious but stabilizing. Russian forces forces have occupied the
plants since last year and the IAEA has a team of experts on the site
at all times. At five thirty three, Yeah, that's right. Kfi's
Dean Sharp will be with us for some house whispering. Dean is taking us
slightly off of our front entrances and moving us too closer to the roads.
We can chat about curb appeal, a couple more stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom, and then we're gonna talk with Ike from ABC
about these ticket fees. But first, LAPD Chief Moore says he's concerned about
the continued rise of street takeovers. Moore says the approach could no longer be
just enforcement. It also has to be more holistic to change some of the
roadway designs. We have to also look to the role of social media.
We have to look to the entertainment industry that glorifies and amplifies this. More
told the Police Commission this week, sixteen people died last year from street takeovers,
and peer influence for this activity is a big problem, the chief says.
More cameras are being installed in popular spots, and there's a bigger effort
to cite not only the drivers, but also the bystanders. Steve Gregory,
King of Fine News at the bottom of the hour as a reminder, the
kfi's house whisper Dean Sharp is going to be with us, but right now,
ABC correspondent Ikejaci is on the line prepping for this chat with you about
I was prepping last night about these ticket fees. I noticed that companies are
already telling some reporters and news agencies that these ticket prices that they mentioned are
total prices. Is this cultural change already coming in? Are we already seeing
some transparency? Well, yeah, there have been efforts in the past to
try to rain in these junk sees that these ticket vendors are doing. As
a matter of fact, in the state of New York, last year,
it became the first state to ban hidden costs for live events. That forced
companies like Live Nation and sea Geek to transition to what's being called upfront pricing
for live entertainment there in that state. And yesterday we saw President Biden essentially
called the executives from all these vendors, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, even Airbnb
to use the power of the bully pulpits per se to tackle these junk fees.
So this announcement of this meeting, he had this important part to know.
It doesn't necessarily make an effort to reduce the junk fees. It just
takes them out of the dark and put them and put them front and center
for the consumer. Bidens still called this upfront pricing as a victory. So
as a partisan Live Nation, Ticketmaster seakeeek, they're all going to roll up
this upfront all in pricing in September, so Biden these columnessive victories also calling
on their competitors to do the same along the same timeline. You know,
Live Nation and Ticketmaster have same corporate parents, so if you know, if
it walks like oligarchy and smells like oligarchy from the stage, artists from the
Cura to Taylor Swift have called out Ticketmaster. How long has this been going
on and why so long to get some kind of resolution to it. Well,
it's been going on for quite some time now. These companies Ticketmaster and
so on and so forth. They've been able to actually just essentially tack on
exorbitant prices for a while. And obviously the performer or the show that you're
going to has really no say on what these vendors can actually do. And
we saw that last year when a Ticketmaster site essentially melted down when the demand
for those Taylor Swift tickets were so high and in many cases, these fees
that are added on by these vendors there's sometimes even more money than the ticket
itself. That's been a major complaint to this administration. That's why you're seeing
them essentially tackle this right now. But it's also importantly this has been a
long history from the buy the administration of essentially tackling junk fees. If you
remember last September of the Department of Transportation, they propose the role requiring airlines
and online booking services to show full prices upfront with baggage and other fees.
And also if they inconvenience inconvenience you when for rebooking and things of that nature,
they now have to pay you in cash or some or give you some
kind of concessions just that they're straining you at airports and things of that nature.
So it's just just the next thing inline to this administration in terms of
their efforts to tackle these junk fees from several sectors across the economy. Yeah,
you're right, you mentioned that, because it's not just concert tickets,
it's airport tickets. And you mentioned Airbnb there too. I've covered Airbnb for
for a long time since actually their their IPO and they there's is not virtue
signaling, so much. They were trying to be in front of this,
but it sounds like they got kind of swept up in it. And so
the White House is spinning. This is kind of a kind of a middle
class bottom line, monthly household budget ticket transparency deal, right exactly. You
know, President Biden said that this is going to help people who grew up
in areas in which way he grew up. Essentially, you know, my
family would have benefited from, you know, these kinds of policies and things
of that agre and he tried to really tie that his upbringing as really a
beacon, a beacon light for middle class America unless in his whole effort,
this entire administration, or at least the policies in which he hoped to enact,
was to help tackle these issues that are really pounding the middle class and
that have been for quite some time now. And another thing he did too,
we got a look at the credit cards. Actually, you know,
back in March, the Consumer Financial Protection Date actually proposed a new rule to
slash credit card late fees from roughly thirty bucks on average to eight dollars.
I would save a estivating nine billion dollars a year. So I got just
another in line of this administration trying to tackle these junk fees. I understand
supply demand, that's fine. Taylor Swift's tickets for Miami are going at twenty
six hundred and twenty five dollars. But I noticed last night that Messi's first
match in Miami FC is twenty six hundred bucks a seat. He's not even
confirmed he's going to go yet. I look, you know, it's funny.
He's actually coming to DC here in July. And I looked for the
tickets and they're playing Philadelphia the week before at about twenty six dollars the same
seat eight hundred and fifty dollars. So that's the Messi effect in full force,
right on, right on. It's a halo effect. So any next
official steps that have to happen with this, I know there's an event and
everything, and you mentioned that the Biden administration has been working on this four
months, if not years. Anything official coming up or is today? Pretty
much? This is a done deal. This is what we're going to see
moving forward. Well, this is what we're going to see moving forward essentially,
you know, we're going to see these companies all come together and agree
to eliminate the surprise factor of these fees per se. But Biden administration they
actually want to do more, you know. So essentially, you know,
Biden's proposed these new rules targeting a credit card lay fees, airline lodging,
and it was an aim to get rid of these extra charges that aren't publicized
clearly. But he's going to step further. He's asking Congress to eliminate hidden
fees altogether, and that's through the Junk Seed Prevention app And that would essentially
really put the pressure on these private companies to either rein it in or have
Congress federally pay to action and help eliminate these seeds, which would directly help
the consumer in terms of what is actually what they're actually being in their pocket.
Thank you so much, ABC correspondent Ika Josh. You hope you have
a great weekend. You two take care. One quick story before we get
to weather in traffic, California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he wants the public
to be aware of heightened scams targeting the elderly. He says scammers can cheat
older people through call centers, Ponzi schemes, or romantic poise They can be
big operations or as small as slipping cash out of our nurses out of our
nursing home residence wallet. We've seen it all. Wanta says his own mother
has been fooled by scammers who defrauded her. Officials say if anyone asks for
money, don't send it and contact a trusted loved one first. California lawmakers
are approving a state budget bill. They voted for the legislature's version ahead of
last night's deadline. The bill includes a bailout for transit systems and more money
for childcare providers that was not in the original proposal from the governor. Paradise,
California, is still the state's deadliest fire. It was in twenty eighteen.
Sixteen people were killed. Paradise is now testing new sirens. The tower
system has five sirens built so far, sixteen more are needed. The federal
government is giving states nine hundred million dollars to beef up the nation's broadband.
Thirty five states and Puerto Rico are part of the program to bring high speed
internet to unserved and underserved communities, military bases, and tribal lands, and
coming up at five fifty we will raise up some cow positivity. Cows can
help fight climate change, and they can help fight wildfires. We're gonna get
into that now, but right now, let's welcome in Dean Sharp. Good
morning, Dan. I'm just trying to imagine a cow fighting a wildfire.
Just yeah, trying to get that picture in my head. So you're sticking
around for this one too, aren't you? Oh yeah, oh yeah,
yeah, you got me hooked. Kfi's house, whispered Dean Sharp right there
at the inevitable voice. Let's get a working definition of curb appeal, because
I think that's going to be pretty much what we chat about the next few
minutes. Curb appeal that is the story that your house starts telling the minute,
the moment anybody catches its first glimpse of it. You know, that's
curb appeal. That is what the vibe that your house is sending off.
And in terms of Southern California homes as a whole, I would say that
we fall into probably well, you know, see, I don't want to
say the worst category, because the worst category would sort of be kind of
like a rust belt, everything's run down, it's all falling apart kind of
a thing. But from a design perspective, certainly my worst category, and
that is this, you get three reactions from people typically when they see a
home. Emotional reactions. Either they are moved in a very positive way that's
what we're after, or they WinCE like oh jeez, no right. But
the by far for a tract home city, which we are, by far,
the biggest reaction that people have is no reaction at all, and that
for me unacceptable. You know, nobody should look at your home and just
fly like yeah, yeah whatever. Mah, And that's what we're trying to
get past. A hard man from Dr Mah. All right, well,
let's start fixing the problem. Let's addressed the problem practically speaking. What are
one of the first steps anybody can take to up their game when it comes
to curb appeal. Well, you know, there are so many things,
but the very first thing that everybody needs to do is to learn how to
see their house again. And I don't mean just you know, oh yeah,
Dean, there it is okay, I see it. No, No,
no, I mean I mean really see your house. We all are
house blind to a certain degree to the houses that we live in. In
other words, we just get so used to it. They're just part of
our flow. We stop really looking and noticing what's going on with them.
That's something as a designer, when I come out to your house to consult,
I sometimes will spend an inner noor amount of time just kind of staring
at things until I really start to see and understand what are all the components
that are playing into for instance, curb appeal. For instance, you know,
most people kind of ignore their roofs. They're like, yeah, the
roof is the roof, and there it is. Roofs take up a good
third of the visual span of anybody's home. That's a lot. That's a
good head of hair or the absence of a good head of hair on top
of a person's head. So it's those kinds of things. Now when it
comes to things that you know are affordable, things that to make a lot
of bang for the buck. Now we're talking about things like, for instance,
most tracked home owners live in what we call a garage forward house,
meaning you know, the garage is closer to the street than anything else.
The garage door just this big old surface sticking out there, and yet a
lot of people are just like, you know, yeah, I just got
the white garage door with the little windows at the top and those little weird
yellowing frames, and you know, there it is. It's my garage door.
What are you gonna do, Well, what you're gonna do is come
to a realization that if you really want to transform the front of that home,
you got to understand that your garage door in that situation is really your
primary door, not the front door that you are more tempted to spend eight
or ten thousand dollars on. Spend money on a gorgeous special garage door because
it's three times larger than the front door, and it's twice as close to
the street, and so it is a much much larger component of curb appeal.
Okay, fine, button so old a couple of houses in Houston.
The realtor there told me you don't want any front loaders. That's all.
They refer to those with the garage forwards. Exactly. Yes, let's not
sleep on the front door though, before we jump to another one. I
mean, the front door can't have an impact, right because I know there's
Instagram feeds dedicated to front doorways. Oh yeah, yeah, front doors are
great. I mean, you know, front doors should have a certain drama
to them. The job of a front door also not only to be that
first portal that people enter through, but also from the street, to really
kind of set a hierarchy of attention, like look at me, this is
where you're going. It should direct you in, call you in. Tim
Conway asked me last night should we all paint our front door some funky,
loud color, And the answer is no, we shouldn't all do that.
But if you have the kind of house style, if the architectural DNA of
your home would allow for such, I'm all for it. I'm all for
going bold with the front door so that you know, it really pops and
becomes a focal point of people's attention. By the way, here's a little
quiz, doctor Middleton. You know what the you know where the tradition of
painting the front door, you know bright red actually comes from Ireland? Uh
and meaning what, Dean, I don't know, I just know it was
Ireland. Well, actually it was Scotland, but your cart okay, it's
Celtic. But we we brought it to the States, and you know what
it was in the in the early colonies, painting your front door red was
a symbol that you had paid off your mortgage, that you owned your home
free and clear. It was. It was loud and proud declaration that I
own this house. And uh and I think that's just really cool. Yeah,
that is cool. Uh. And also, speaking of Conway, it's
not the first time he and I disagreed on something important. Like the front
door. Um, mine's international orange. By the way, what's what's the
landmark that's international orange? Dean sharp the landmark. Yeah, there's a landmark
in the United States. It's international orange. Oh, I know, you
got me Golden gate Bridge. Oh okay, Yeah, let's go to softscaping,
herdscaping and landscaping. Okay, yes, because those are things that are
within usually a household budget, and you can those are attainable goals. Yeah,
most people have too much hardscape in their front yard. In other words,
people get a little crazy with the paving and the driveways and so on.
Our own beloved boss here at KFI, Robin Bertolucci, she had me
out a few years ago. Is that had me staring at the front of
her house. She's like, what's wrong with this place? And I'm like,
your driveways too big? And she said, well, I got a
three car garage right there. I said, yeah, you need a three
car garage at the garage doors, but you don't need three car widths at
the street way way too much pavement, and so we actually trimmed it back
one car entry, spreading out into what, you know, whatever she needed
as far as access in That allowed us to move more landscaping, more color,
more beauty, more softscape into the scenario. And you know, everybody's
home, no matter what size it is, could use a critical eye like
that. More landscape and more up and down landscape. Everybody thinks, you
know, two dimensionally when it comes to their landscape, and they think law
and they're like forward backwards, left, right, But more contours, more
three dimensionality in the front yard creates better space and destination to the house.
Dean, let's remind everybody. I have one more question, but let's remind
everybody when and where they can hear you this weekend. This weekend, Saturday
mornings from six to eight and Sunday nine to noon, we're doing curb Appeal
both days and we're taking time for extra calls this weekend. Very cool.
At the top of this interview, you mentioned reassess your curb appeal. But
that doesn't mean just necessarily during the daytime right absolutely. In fact, if
you have a super limited budget, the one thing you can do to make
a radical change to your home for at least half the time that it's sitting
there in the dark is lighting. Low voltage. Lighting is incredibly inexpensive.
It's low voltage, which means you can do it yourself totally. You're not
going to get shocked. And at nighttime, when there is no sun out,
you have complete theatrical control of your home. Even an ugly home can
look great at night depending on what you choose to light. You don't have
that same option in the day when the sun is exposing everything. But at
night, just like in a theater on a stage, you're the director,
and most people in southern California miss out on the opportunity to dramatically light their
homes at night. Very cool, Dean Sharp, This is always a pleasure.
I'll be listening this weekend, so the rest of us. Thanks,
Buddy house Whist. We're a Dean Sharp right there. Always with some pro
tips and you don't have to pay, you know. Robin Bertolucci prices to
have Dean, you can just listen in on KFI. Secretary of State Antony
B. Lincoln heads to Beijing this weekend for a high level diplomatic trip.
It could pave the way for a meeting later this year for a President Biden
and President Jijin Ping. Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after being discharged
from Rome's Jamelle Hospital. The eighty six year old Pope was recovering from abdominal
surgery and he left the hospital in a wheelchair. Or today on the line
with this is mister Frank Fitzpatrick. Welcome in, Frank, good morning.
I've seen you referred to as the last cowboy of Orange County. That's great
branding, first of all, but how would you refer to yourself? What
what title do you give yourself. I'm a cowman right on. I raised
the sail grass fed beef and we do holistic plant grazing and we try to
sell it and get kettle out on ground in Orange County like the ghat people
do. Right on. I've seen the goat people when I lived in the
Bay Area. I saw them often on the side of the roads. Let's
go back to the holistic grazing. What does that exactly mean? Be in
a nutshell, you're trying to run cows like god round buffalo. What the
human element does is you're replacing pack predator for a human and you jail them
up. What you're doing is you're putting them in a small area of a
ranch for a very short period of time and then moving them. Do you
ever see dances with wolves? Okay, the morning after the buffalo hunt,
when they walked out and looked at the ground was all turned up. Yeah,
I went back. Okay. And that's how you plant new grass,
and that's how you get an even start so that your native at plants have
as good a chance to go as your non natives. Oh okay, all
right, cool natural cycle, just urge. What happens is cows are selective
grazers. Okay, they're trying to keep a nine point two percent protein level
in the room, and and they will eat that selectively until you run out
of it. So they will eat your very best plants until it eats them
out. So by making them stay in one spot for a small time,
you get a larger coverage of grass and browsed plants eaten, and then you
move on. Hey, Frank, you mentioned the words small, which is
a relative term, and you're a rancher. What is small when it comes
to ranching, Well, it depends if you've got nine hundred acres something around
twelve. Okay, if you have fourteen thousand acres, probably twenty five.
I live in southern California. Fourteen thousand acres seems like an entire state's worth
of land. But let's move on. To go ahead, lady, three
thousand acres in the airline ranch that's not built upon in Orange County? What
about? What about they've got two hundred and thirty thousand ungraced acres. Oh,
it sounds like a market opportunity for someone like yourself. What about these
fires? What about the firefighting angle of this eating up fuel? Cows eating
up fuel that could be used later on when it gets dryer this year in
the first year, Oh okay, what happened? Second year? You put?
Okay, if you put if you started greeting program like I did with
the twelve roads, we started in February, and we ate turn them out.
And that was a joke on that piece because the whole thing was ten
to twelve foot hot mustard when I got there, So the February grazing,
which should have been green grass, was mostly dry sticks and stuff, and
I actually had to feed the cattle on that piece just to maintain the nutrition
there. The second one after then, we were on there for less than
thirteen days. We moved cattle off, ran them on my rants, came
back in April and grazes again. This time with all the big sticks and
stocks down. We were able to get the catgory will eat some green feed,
and then we got off of it. And then we come back at
the end of the year in the dry season and eat it off down,
which that's the grazing that reduces the fire hazard. We're speaking with Frank Fitzpatrick.
He's a rancher and in Orange County. A Frank just this morning from
our newsroom, I want to read you a couple of sentences of a story
that I haven't been able to read just yet. California has seen a lot
of wild mustard growth following all the rain. We've had. Officials say the
plant is super flammable, so as temperatures start to warm up, it could
be a problem. How would you address that problem? Number One, cows
will eat the flour and the late to leave, they leave the stem and
the only way you get the stems down is animal impact. You trample it.
I see, okay, all right, fair enough. Any are some
cows better at this kind of work? Or is this it's just natural for
every undulate you have? Well, I have a specific breed of highly adaptable,
environmentally adapted cattle. I gotta hurd of Barzona's. Okay are you okay?
Yeah? Go ahead, Please describe what that what it is like.
Well, they're a medium red cow colways about nine to fifty outside bulls around
twelve to fifty. Now, they got horns, they got sloped and groups.
They have an ancestor an africaner that came from the old board cow in
South Africa, and they were indigenous to the Transveld, which is just exactly
like our great basin. Sounds perfect, Frank, take thank you so much
for your time this morning. Great work. We'll check in with you when
it gets closer to fire season. Thank you very much. Absolutely, good
morning, Frank Fitzpatrick from Orange County. Right there, here's some whiplash news.
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This morning, Google is asking its own employees to curb their use of
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have reported this in different agencies. Actually, Alphabet is the parent company of
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climate change and the developing El Nino event, and last year's underwater volcanic eruption
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