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Jason Middleton Morning everybody, Wake Up Call. We have lots of wake up
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backing the show. It's crazy driving in and we're gonna talk with Caleb Silver
about the Wall Street situation. We're gonna talk about the FED a little bit
today too. But we also have the Hunter Biden plea deal. We're gonna
unpack that with a little bit of analysis with an ABC commentator. And we
have a research into napping. Okay, And the first thing I do when
I get in is you walk directly. You walk directly to the coffee machine.
And I used to not drink coffee until I started this show, and
then now I do. So I get a cap with a double tap,
I get double espresso put in there, and that's starting to kick in.
So let's get started with some headlines and then we're gonna talk more about that
nap research later this hour. The House has voted to centure Democratic Burbank Congressman
Adam Schiff. Schiff was centured yesterday following comments he made several years ago about
investigations into former President Trump's connections with Russia. Schiff is the twenty fifth House
lawmaker to be centured, and Chiff is of course running for Diane Feinstein's Senate
seat, and he himself has mentioned that the censure, while not great politically
speaking or at least on Capitol Hill, it's doing okay for the campaign fundraising.
At least three people are dead after a tornado ripped through a tiny North
Texas town last night. A tornado warning went out in Matador, Texas around
five o'clock hour time. The twister damaged a dozen buildings and then prompted a
search for people who might be trapped in the wreckage. Texas is under a
heat dome right now as well. Also being reported today is a postal worker
was on his rounds delivering mail in Dallas and died while on the job.
It's one hundred and sixteen feels like in Dallas, or it was yesterday and
expected today. A new poll shows a majority of Americans don't approve of the
Supreme Court's work. A Quinnipiac University poll found just thirty percent of registered voters
approve of the Supreme Court compared to fifty nine percent who disapprove. The Pole
notes it's the lowest approval rating for the Court since the posters started asking this
question in two thousand and four. Now, let's start with some of the
other stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour newsroom and the ongoing
story this morning is set in the North Atlantic Ocean. The submersible missing near
the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic is reaching the ninety six hour
mark for when oxygen inside the vessel is expected to run out. ABC's Andrew
Dimbert says the search for the small sub has been going since Sunday, and
a French ship arrived overnight equipped with a deep sea robot that could free the
sub if it's stuck, but the robot cannot lift the sub to the surface.
Crews have been scouring an area twice the size of Connecticut. The Coastguard
says that robot was being sent out this morning. Dembur says the five people
aboard were locked in from the outside with seventeen bolts and no escape hatch.
Search crews have focused on an area where banging sounds were heard this week,
but so far nothing has been found. Traffic experts say drivers and businesses will
likely be negatively impacted by LA's plan to create open space out of existing roads.
If this could be done on a trial basis, with the people doing
it open to feedback, that's going to be the way to go. Otherwise
you might have some unhappy folks affected by this. Okay, If I and
this guy's will cool. Shriver says the city is already herding when it comes
to having enough roads for drivers officials in LA, and he would know he's
above every morning. Officials in LA say the idea behind the program is to
give people who live with limited access to parks a place to move around.
Officials say the pilot program will be thoughtfully designed for LA. The head count
for America's hat is growing. Canada's population has recently hit the forty million mark,
and the rise is mostly from foreigners. The country's population grew by a
million for the first time in its history last year, with roughly ninety six
percent of that million being immigrants and temporary residents. The government wants more people
there to support its aging population. The plan puts an emphasis on immigrants admitted
based on their work, skills or experience. A lobby group and charity called
the Century Initiative, created in two thousand and nine, has a goal of
increasing Canada's population to one hundred million by the year twenty one hundred. Michael
Crozier KFI News and police into San Fernando Valley say they need help to find
seven smash and grab burglars at LAE say the men carried out several burglaries on
Monday night in Northridge. LAPD says the guy's got into three empty businesses near
Tampa Avenue and receive a boulevard by smashing through the glass doors, then using
tools to get into the ATMs, cash registers and office safes. They grab
deposits and select merchandise before taking off in four vehicles, two white cars,
a black car, and a darkest LAPD says all seven more masks and hoodies.
Anyone with information is being asked to call LAPD or crime stoppers. Amy
King KFI News, I was a north Ridge yesterday, but it was to
play mini golf, not to rob people. The first topic for today on
Wake Up Call with a guest, ABC's Caleb Silver and his main hustle is
over at investopedia dot com. Welcome back, Caleb, it's been a minute.
It's good to be with you. I'm looking at the pre market trading
right now, all down arrows. Is this bull market short lived? I
know we tipped into it very recently. Well, it's faded a little bit,
but don't forget the fact that we've been rolling since October. That's what
the lows were in the stock market, way back in the middle of October
of last year. And the stock market, especially the SMP five hundred and
the NASDACT that's where a lot of the growth stocks are. That those two
indexes have been ralling very strongly. Now about seven to eight stocks have been
powering that rally, and that's what people are worried about. It's the big
megacap stocks, the Apples, the Amazons, the navideos of the world that
are powering the market higher. But you need leadership somewhere. And before we
had this fade, a lot of the other sectors were joining the stock market
rally up until about last week when the FED indicated it would raise rates about
a couple more times this year. Yeah, you're talking about the mega large
stocks there for sure, the large caps. Let's well, I watched the
Russell a little bit too, and you're right, You're you're totally dead on
the midcaps are not quite keeping pace with the big ones. Let's Caleb,
let's talk about this recession and let's put some legs on the stool. Okay,
with interest rates. I think commercial real estate is a is a silent
but deadly kind of killer, and of course inflation. Let's start with interest
rates. What was your take on j PAL this week. Well, the
fact that the Fed paused interest rate hikes to see the effects of all those
rate hikes from the past twelve to thirteen months, see what they've had on
the economy. That's very interesting. But the Fed also indicating it will raise
rates a couple more times, probably another quarter point hike, at least two
more times. If you look at the most boring, at the most important
chart in economics and finance right now, it's called the FEDS dot plot,
and that's the projections of where Fed governors think interest rate should be, and
they think they should be higher than where they are today, around five point
six percent, and then next year they're going to go lower. All of
that, those rate hikes have really slowed the economy if you look at the
housing market, if you look at the new news car market, that has
hurt the economy, but it hasn't hurt hiring. And the Fed is actually
trying to slow hiring and slow wage growth. That's not working, which is
probably why we'll see a couple more rate hikes, which then has the possibility
of putting the economy into a deep breeze. We haven't seen it yet,
but could that happen in the next three to six months. Sure, you
mentioned the plot there, not exactly a buzzword, I dig it, But
wasn't it Fedhare green Span who kind of made that a thing every time he
would talk on a show or even on Capitol Hill. Yeah, and if
you look at again, this is the most boring, geeky part of economics,
but we love it over here because you look at what they call the
Summary of Economic Projections, and that's where members of the Federal Reserve, not
just J. Powell, there's a bunch of governors there, about twelve of
them. I think the economy is the sort they think inflation is going to
go. That's where they think interest rates should be, and that's where they
sort of economic growth out for the next six to twelve months, and they
all buy in large think more rate heights are necessary to curb inflation, which
is stuck around four four and a half percent, depending on how you look
at it. Yeah, you and I have trading cards for the Fed presidents.
But let's pull out of the weeds a little bit. What a chow
we watch for? What's your take from investopedia perspective market wise or even macroeconomically
as we go towards the end of this calendar year. Yeah, let's separate
the two for a second. And the stock market usually rebounds very strongly after
our bear market. And we had a deep bear market last year, down
around twenty seven percent at the lows, finished the year round twenty four percent.
That hurt a lot of people in their four o one ks and iras.
But the year after a bear market stocks usually rally anywhere from twenty eight
to thirty four percent the indexes. So the fact that we've had a strong
rally not surprising given where we were. Do we have the momentum to keep
going forward? I kind of think we do? Why because corporate profits are
actually getting better, not worse, and there's a lot of money on the
sidelines, and that's big institutional money. We're talking about several trillion dollars that
move to cash and move to short term money when the stock market was fading
last year. That money needs somewhere to go. And while if you can
get four percent at the bank right now or four to five percent and a
money market fund, big institutions are not paid to do that. They're paid
to deliver big returns for their clients, and those returns are going to be
in the stock market. So I'm bullish for the rest of the year on
that. As far as the economy goes, we haven't really felt the full
effects of those interest rate hikes, but we will pretty soon. I say
we felt it in housing, that's absolutely true. Housing has been asleep for
the past fourteen months. But we're going to probably see it in other sectors.
You're hearing layoffs and the big tech companies, media companies, and finance
that may be a little bit more widespread. The Fed wants unemployment around four
and a half percent, and they know GDPR gross domestic products going to slow.
The key to that, though, is consumer spending. That seventy percent
of GDP consumers keep spending, although we keep pushing our credit card balances higher
and highering to record hize. Taylor, you mentioned short term money right there,
and then you said trillions of dollars. That's a gravitational force economically speaking.
And so how are you looking at parsing stocks and bonds in a portfolio?
Is our bonds still like a nice place for us to be moving some
stuff? Yeah, and especially if you're worried about the stock market. The
bond market is recovered from last year's tailspin. The bond market was terrible last
year, as what's the stock market very rare to have both stocks and bonds
fall in the same year. Usually they balance one another out. Not last
year, and that was because of those aggressive rate hikes. But we're getting
sort up to the end where you can see the horizon after the next two
rate hikes if they happen. And so the bond market has been pretty stable,
even though the yield curve and again them geeking out here. But this
is what we look at. This is the difference between the yield and the
ten year US Treasury bond in the two year is deeply inverted. Not a
yoga move there, just a sign that economists and investors are very pessimistic about
the next few months, but optimistic about the long term. Very cool,
ABC and Investopedias. Caleb Silver, always a pleasure to speak with you.
Caleb, Thanks a lot, Thank you. One more quick story and then
we're going to talk about what's coming up later this hour. We are going
to circle back on the FED. I'll try to stay away a little bit
from the FED interest rate hikes that Caleb and I just talked about, but
he did make Jay Powell did make some other comments about the labor market we
wouldn't get into. Hundreds of writers and their supporters have continued to rally in
LA for higher pay and benefits. Actor Rob Fitzgerald says sag AFTRAUP is supporting
the Writer's Guild because there's is a labor fight for all workers. If you're
a truck driver, you could be replaced soon with driverless trucks, So AI
is coming for us all. So we need set parameters and we need to
be able to make a living so we can have a you a life.
Members of UTLA and the Director's Guild marched with the writers yesterday from Pan Pacific
Park to the Lebrea tar pits and the writers have been on strike for eight
weeks. The desperate search for a missing sub designed to explore the wreckage of
the Titanic continues this morning, as Oxygen is quickly running out a tornado tour
through the small town of Matador, Texas. The deaf count there is up
to four and ten have been injured, and emergency services are reporting that earlier
this morning, the town experienced an unprecedented tornado, bringing damaged damaging wins to
the town. That's according to the Lubbach Fire Rescue Agency. Attorney General Merritt
Garland is pushing back against accusations of bias within the Justice Department following the Hunter
Biden plea agreement. Garland was pressed during a news conference today to address accusations
from Republicans that Hunter Biden received a sweetheart deal while former President Trump has been
criminally indicted. Now at five thirty, we are going to unpack a little
bit more from the FED. FED Chair J. Powell was on Capitol Hill
yesterday. He's on Capitol Hill again today. We do have sound bites from
that. We're going to unpack it because keep in mind that the FED is
federally mandated to pursue two things. That is, an inflation rate of two
percent and full employment. J Powell also likes talk about housing and some other
socialist issues, so we pulled some sound from that too. Now, let's
check some stories coming from the KFI twenty far our newsroom. A vote to
denounce hate flyers targeting Jewish and LGBTQ communities in Huntington Beach has been expanded to
include other groups because funny Timbs welcomes everybody. Mayor Tony Strickland amended the proposal
to add patriot towards Catholics, Christians, African Americans, latinos Asians, Pacific
Islanders, Native Americans, Indians, Persians, Muslims, can Dues, Buddhists,
Mormons, Whites. Councilwoman Natalie Moser was cut off when insisting specific groups
were targeted because it was training. We are voting. We are voting to
denounce that as well as everything else. Councilwoman Ronda Bolton said Tuesday, it's
a game for the mayor to add other groups. In Orange County, Corbin
Carson KOFI News twenty two on your wake up Call and right now on the
line, we have ABC's Brad Garrett, ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst, Brad
Garrett, Good morning, sir, Good morning. Let's unpack some more of
this. We're on like day two or three of this probation deal for misdemeter
tax crimes. Is there anything that stood out about this deal? Let's set
the table with that. Anything standing out with the plea agreement reached with better
with prosecutors. No, it's all fairly routine for anyone who doesn't pay their
taxes and then are confronted by the irs. Yes, you violated the law
because you haven't paid them, but if you pay them, admit your guilt.
Um. You know, many times it goes on or if there's some
aspect to it, they will charge you, which they have done in his
case. The plea deal is who get probation, which would be completely and
totally routine in a case like this. The gun charge is basically, he
purchased a weapon and didn't tell them that he was using drugs, and it
does ask you that on the phone on the forum, so we lied on
the forum. They're really not at this point prosecuting. They're gonna do what
they called deferred prosecution, which means if he abides by certain rules like I
assume a rehab and some other things that the government will require after a year
or so, the charge will be dismissed. That's also a matter of routine
deferred prosecution on non violent crimes happen every day. So to your point,
neither one of those charges, it seems, are outside the norm. If
you or I, for example, we're charged with him. Yeah, but
our last names aren't Biden too, So that's going to and that's the only
reason we were even having this conversation. Yeah, that's good, all right,
No, No, I know you're you're absolutely right, But we're also
having the conversation because the GOP pushback on this seems to be is it proportionally
in step with what's going on? Well, I think the short answer is
no. I mean, Jason looked at it this way. The US attorney,
the political appointing through the president for Delaware is a Republican president. Biden
left him in place. He's a Trump appointee to carry through this investigation.
So for five years, he and a team of FBI agents and I'm assumed
season prosecutors have looked at all of these angles from the laptop, the business
dealings in Ukraine, business dealings in China. You know, there's all sorts
of allegations about you know, payoffs and favoritism, and the President was involved
in some of that, and the hunter did a number of things that perhaps
violated a number of US laws. Well, I don't know if any of
that's true. All I can tell you is that in five years he hasn't
been charged. And obviously the President hasn't been charged with anything. But the
GOOP, to your point, seems to want to keep a firelit under this,
and so they're demanding all sorts of documents from the FBI. One is
very concerning. There's a there's a form that we fill out is when we
get raw unverified intelligence. So let's say you or I called in and said
X or Y about the president. Well, an agent or an analyst would
write it down. Another agent or a team of agents would look at it,
saying well, this absolutely makes no sense. You can't even investigate it.
Or there's pieces of it that we can at least look at, And
that's what they do. Congress. Apparently, once a bunch of those,
you can see how one could twist and turn with some raw intelligence report says,
because they hear stuff every day and again, if it has the name
Biden in it, they're going to get more of those because it happens every
time high profile people the spotlight falls on them. There's more, there's more
intel that comes in. Again, most of it is garbage, to be
quite blunt. We're speaking with the ABC's Brad Garrett. He's an ABC News
crime and terrorism analyst. I guess my last question for you, Brad,
is has this moved completely into political discourse? Is out of the legal discussion?
I mean, Anthony, I'm sorry. Attorney General Mary Garland did have
to make some comments about this recently. Yeah, I don't. It clearly
has moved into in a heated format, into the house. That's true.
Whether the US Attorney and the agents in Delaware are still looking like I mean,
I think the US Attorney made a comment that the case is still open.
Well, I think that's the right thing to say. He may or
may not have any more evidence to investigate, but you know, somebody else
may come forward with corroborated information. Of that would be the case, then
they would follow through and make a decision about whether someone should be prosecuted or
not. But I really see this more driven by politics that I do anything
else at this point. So if you're on probation, is don't you leave
that case open until the probation requirements have been met? I mean, isn't
that just a technicality that you leave it open? Well, now, perhaps,
no, the case is closed. As far as prosecution. What has
left open? Jason I was a federal probation officer for ten years. So
what happens is he has a probation officer. If during that time period he
violates the conditions of his probation. Looks like he's supposed to go to rehab
and he didn't, and he's tested positive, he has to go then back
in front of the judge that sentenced him, and then that judge could send
it to jail. So that part clearly is still open. As far as
does that mean that the US Attorney's Office still has a case open, I'm
going to for sure on the taxes and the gun the answer is no,
but that remains to be seen if they're still looking at other things, some
of which you and I have talked about. Okay, all right, well,
Brad, thanks for this for thanks for the context, and I kind
of knew your work history. That's why I wanted to get you back into
that swing zone of you know, probation officer. Sure, Brad Garrett,
thank you so much for you time this morning. Welcome, take care of
Jason absolutely. ABC News Crime and Terrorism Analyst Brad Garrett. Let's check a
couple of stories before we get to the bottom of the hour. LA City
councilman Current Price has asked his colleagues to let him stay on the council while
he fights the corruption charges against him. He says he has committed his life
to honorably serving the public and fields the court and any fair observers will see
he's innocent. Price has represented most of South LA and the western part of
downtown since twenty thirteen. The council is reviewing a motion to suspend Price.
The Huntington Beach City Council has voted to create a plan restricting kids access to
books the city says are too obscene. Councilwoman Gracie Vandermark says books about orgasms
are in children's sections. I just don't understand why anybody has a problem with
warning parents that some of this material is in these books. Critics say a
city attorney should not decide which books are read. If England had a point
to some British city attorney as head librarian and Frank Klint's place, that the
history of America might be very different. The Council voted four to three this
week in favor of creating a plan to regulate books. Oxygen is running out
in a sub carrying five people that's been missing since Sunday. Rescue efforts are
focused on an area where Canadian aircraft recently detected underwater noises. More on that
throughout the morning. Nearly a hundred people are injured after golf ball sized hail
showered an outdoor concert in Colorado. Fans were gathering in the stands at the
Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver last night tire pop star Louie Tomlinson when a severe
storm rolled in and began you know the pelting. Elon Musk might be fighting
Mark Zuckerberg in a Battle of the billionaires. The challenge was issued Tuesday night
when one of Musk's Twitter followers posted a warning to the CEO saying he better
be careful because Zuckerberg does jiu jitsu. Now, you may have seen that
video. Musk responded, I'm up for a cage match if he is.
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Windows. Coming up at five fifty. When in doubt, nap it out.
ABC's Jim Ryan will join us to unpack some new research and data that
shows how napping is not only refreshing, it's also good for the brain,
as in naps may keep our brains from hardening as we get older. Right
now, I wanted to talk a little bit about Fed Chair J Powell.
He's on Capitol Hill this week yesterday and later this morning. Better said,
we have clips from Powell's appearance yesterday. Of course, the FED did pause
interest rate hikes for the first time in eleven meetings. So here's the one
that's making the rounds this morning because it's a distillation of what's coming when it
comes to interest rates and their continued rise. Inflation remains well above our longer
run goal of two percent. Over the twelve months ending in April, total
personal consumption expenditures prices rose four point four percent. Excluding the volatile food and
energy categories, core PC prices rose four point seven percent in the twelve months
change in the CPI came in at four point zero percent, and the change
in the core CPI was five point three percent. Inflation has moderated somewhat since
the middle of last year. Nonetheless, inflation pressures continue to run high,
and the process of getting inflation back down to two percent has a long way
to go. Okay, right there. The Fed is mandated to do two
things, keep inflation at two percent and full employment. He just mentioned there.
If you just look at the main data point he gives you at four
percent, that's one hundred percent increase of to where they're supposed to be.
So of course there's a long way to go as far as the Fed sees
it when it comes to fighting inflation. So more rate hikes later this year
probably going to happen. We got in a surprise rate hike in Europe.
In Britain this morning, it was a point five percent rate hike. So
inflation across the globe is still sticky. Another aspect to this and housing and
housing supply, something comes up with Bill Handle a lot. He likes this
topic because we have such a lack of housing supply here in California. So
housing lack of housing. J. Powell yesterday. What do you see as
the biggest remaining upward pressure on housing services and what can we do in Congress
to incentivize new home starts to hopefully moderate the imbalance between supply and demand in
the housing market. I think you're talking about longer run largely longer run factors
here, and I think there has been for some time a shortage of housing.
It's harder to get lots, it's harder to get workers, and in
the pandemic it had been harder to get materials and things like that. So
there's certainly a need for more housing. I think during the pandemic you had
people wanting to live in houses rather than downtown in apartments because of COVID,
you had low rates, and so you had two or three years of very
very high price increases for housing. And now that it is flattened out a
lot as we've raised rates. So it's funny, how, you know,
Chair J. Powell and every FED chair that I've ever covered, it's having
to state the obvious over and over again. But it is important, and
so you know, and some of the Congress people are just looking for a
little bit of camera time, so they ask the same question slightly differently,
but FED chair J. Powell right, there is addressing a massive part of
what they have to keep an eye on, not federally mandated eye, but
they do have to keep an on that's housing supply. J. Powell also
in a little bit different take from other FED chairs. He's not unique when
it comes to publicly discussing income disparity and some other social things, but he
and other chairs are not inherently political. Pal however, likes to lean in
more when it comes to things like race and poverty. We do consider inequality
in the economy as part of our thinking about decisions, but ultimately, and
those are those are certainly highly valuable social goals to pursue. I would say
our ability to take part in addressing those issues is fairly limited. We have
one federal interest rate that we set. We do try to keep in mind,
as you know, not just the aggregate national level of unemployment or employment,
but also that for different ethnic groups. So we take that into account.
But I would think, and I think that's just part of making sure
that we feel like we have all Americans in the room with us when we're
making decisions on monetary policy. So he says all the time that inflation is
basically a pay cut for the lower end of the wage earner scale, and
he is relatively unique when it comes to calling that out. And if you
think about it, something else he said right there too, is he has
one interest rate, So he has one tool in his toolbox, and it's
a blunt instrument. Sount force trauma to the economy basically is what the FED
is in charge of. Now, there's a lot of stuff going on below
the water line when it comes to the data and everything they have to process,
but really the two inch headline is warranted because every time they raise interest
rates, that's pretty much all they can do. The rest of it's just
reading and writing and data analysis. Back to those two mandates. Inflation,
full employment, last one jobs market. Though the labor market remains very tight.
Over the first five months of the year, job gains average a robust
three hundred and fourteen thousand jobs per months. The unemployment rate moved up but
remained low in May at three point seven percent. There are some signs that
supply and demand in the labor market are coming into better balance. The labor
force participation rate has moved up in recent months, particularly for individuals aged twenty
five to fifty four. Nominal wage growth has shown some signs of easing,
and job vacancies have declined so far this year. While the jobs two workers
gap has narrowed, labor demand still substantially exceeds the supply of available workers.
So basically, every one person looking for a job, there's one point five
openings for that. That's just ballpark figure. But it has come down a
little bit. And also an inflationary pressure that you got to keep an eye
on our wage which is something that bugs me because when wages go up,
you know, it kind of helps fight against the inflation, you know,
prices going up at the grocery store. But it also shows that workers on
the lower end of the scale are coming up a little bit too. And
too many economists like to come out and say, well, wages are rising
too high. We got to get this back in equilibrium. What that means
is equilibrium is not equal. It just tips it to the top of that
scale. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room. The La County Health Department has issued an alert
from medications from Mexican pharmacies that include illicit drugs like fentanyl, meth and ecstasy.
Officials say those meds were bought at twenty nine legitimate pharmacies throughout eight cities,
including Tijuana, Los Cabos and Puerto Varta. Reported in The Times noted
that more than fifty percent of the pills tested were found to be counterfeit.
More than a third of the forty opioid pain meds tested positive for illicit fentyl
rather than the prescription opioid medication it was supposed to be. Health officials say
people should only buy medications from an FDA licensed pharmacy, including those online,
or get the meds directly from a licensed doctor. Steve Gregory, King of
Fine News, House Republicans have failed to overturn President Biden's veto of the Congressional
Review Act. The Congressional Review Act would have ended Biden's student loan forgiveness plan,
and it passed the House and Senate earlier this year, and then of
course got vetoed. It is fifty almost five fifty on your wake up call,
our morning attention is gonna going to turn to afternoon inactivity, naps,
napping, ABC correspot at Jim Ryan is on the line. He's not only
wide awake. Got some fresh research. Good morning, Jim. Yeah,
inactivity might not be a good way to put because taking a nap is an
active thing. You have to plan for it, or should plan for at
least according to researchers who say that getting a nap in the afternoon, it's
let's about too long, can help to rejuvenate you, and I also can
have long term impacts that can benefit you. In other words, one thing,
one process that happens to everybody has to get older. Your brain kind
of shrinks. Now the amount to agree to which it shrinks is up for
debate. But people who do suffer this kind of thing, or who do
experience brain shrinking, they it's accelerated. And people who have cognitive problems like
dementia, like Alzheimer's disease, they have a greater degree of brain shrinking.
In One way that researchers say that to prevent this, or to at least
slow it down perhaps is to get a little nap in the afternoon. Another
one of the benefits of getting enough sleep every day. Jason, Okay,
can you nap too much? Though? Any research about that you can okay,
well sure, yeah, And I talked yesterday with a sleep research or
in a clinical psychology she said that, yeah, getting twenty or thirty minutes
in the afternoon is a great thing to do. Can rejuvenate, You can
rest your brain when you know, put you down for a while for a
short time, and then get up and you're ready to finish out your day.
Sleep too long, though, and you get into a deep ram sleep.
You get into that kind of sleep that's heavy and and that your brain
needs for a long period. That's why you five six, seven, eight
hours at night, or at least you should to get into that deep sleep.
If you get into that sleep in the afternoon, you wake up.
First of all, you're groggy. In second, you're kind of disrupting that
important sleep that you need at night. So you've been a reporter for a
while, GYM forty years okay, and you've probably had different, you know,
day parts that you have to cover. Right, do you have any
tips on like what helps for you to fall asleep faster if you have to
get a nap in. Well, it's easy for me because I'm I'm chronically
exhausted anyway, Right, I get up at two forty five every morning.
You yeah, so if you can get a nap in the afternoon, and
generally I try to sleep too long. But I asked, that's why I
brought this up yesterday to the psychologist. What if you get four hours at
night and then four hours the next afternoon or three hours in the afternoon,
is that the same as getting seven or eight hours at night? She says,
well, kind of. If you can get into a pattern like that,
if you can make that your daily habit, it should be okay.
But sleep, she says, it is not necessarily cumulative, so you know,
it's trying to catch up. It's almost impossible to catch up. If
you get too little sleep during the week and then you sleep late on Saturday
and Sunday, that's just not going to help you much. Jason, So,
okay, napping is an opting out of say, stimulus and things like
that. If we were in the less modern state, if we weren't surrounded
by screens and radio broadcast and things like that, is napping a more natural
thing? What I'm saying is, fifteen thousand years ago, were people napping
in the afternoon, Well, I bet they were, and perhaps doing so
napping in that more traditional short burst kind of thing had to be on alert.
They had to be watching out for that saber tooth tiger that might be
stalking them fifteen thousand years ago. Today we just got traffic, noise and
lights and the rest of it to deal with. And of course, yeah,
devices that are keeping us away, turn off and notifications. Put in
the other room, close the drapes. I have blackout shades on my bedroom
to just doing sure that it is darker, not completely dark, but certainly
darker. To get that little nap in the afternoon feels good. Right,
Well, you did talk to the clinical psychologist yesterday, and so you probably
had better prepared questions for that interview. Did I miss anything that you wanted
to touch on that maybe it was surfaced by the psychologists. No, I
don't think so, But that was that was the one thing that's always been
nagging me, was is sleep cumulative? In other words, can you kind
of catch up? And she says not really, It's just your body wasn't
meant to do that. I mean, human beings have sort of built their
day into three parts. Right, It's just eight hours to work, eight
hours to relax, eight hours to sleep, and you know, and that
sort of works. It works for people. So six hours in the is
really your minimum for a good night's sleep. Seven is better, eight is
maximum and and really the best, the optimum. But you know, if
you can get a little nap in the afternoon, you can kind of make
up for some of that at least. All Right, Well, this is
a really fascinating story. I'm really glad you did that interview yesterday, Jim,
and thanks for joining us and sharing it with us. Yeah, sleep
was something we all do and that a lot of us don't do it.
That's very true, and research shows that ABC's Jim Ryan thinks a lot.
Thanks Jason. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom before we transition into handle on the News. The
House is voted to censure California Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff for pursuing allegations that former
President Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign colluded with Russia. Republican congress Member Harriet Hageman
says Schiff intentionally deceived Congress and the public. There must be a serious consequence
for that. Being censored. Is the least of what he should be subjected
to. Schiff called to move petty political payback and says he will stand strong
as the Republican led House tries to destroy him. But I will not yield,
not one inch. He says, he will wear the formal disapproval as
a badge of honor. The search is on for the dog that helps search
for four missing children in the Amazon jungle. Wilson the Dog became a national
hero in Columbia when he helped the military find four indigenous kids who survived a
plane crash and were lost in the Amazon jungle for forty pawprints from the military
trained search dog led trackers to the kids, but Wilson is nowhere to be
found. The Belgian shepherd is now himself the target of a rescue operation that
started soon after the four survivors were flown by helicopter to Bogata. The Colombian
military says it has left seventy soldiers in the dense jungle around the crash site
to look for Wilson. Amy King KFI News Huntington Beach has voted to create
a plan to empower city staff to regulate which books are too obscene for kids
to read. Councilwoman Gracy Vandermark read from books currently available in city libraries Children's
section, a person may have a warm, good tingly exciting feeling all through
his or her body while masturbating. Says she's not trying to ban books,
just increase adult supervision. That book gender career before they moved it out.
I only learned about that book because a ten year old handed it to me.
By the time these books get to the complaints, by then, a
child has already seen the book. Critics say parents should be in charge of
what kids read, not government. The proposed changes suggest that we as parents
are not smart enough or strong enough to walk into a library and make decisions
for ourselves, our talk to our children. Where your so called porno books
we have used to teach our grandson's sex education instead of them going to YouTube.
A four three vote this week direct staff to return in September with a
plan to restrict kids from books the city deems up scene in Orange County Corbin
Carson k if I news. At least thirty one people have been killed in
an explosion at a barbecue restaurant in China. Several others were hurt yesterday.
The fire department says two employees reported smelling gas about an hour before the explosion,
noticed that a gas tank valve was broken and sent for a replacement.
Local media says the explosion happened while the valve was being replaced. Prosecutors in
Idaho say DNA from a knife knife sheaf found at the home where for University
of Idaho students were murdered is a statistical match to accused killer Brian Coburger.
The DNA was matched to a cheek swab collected from the twenty eight year old
A motion for a protective order filed last week looks to protect some of the
investigation, including raw DNA data, lab notes, the names and personal information
of coden Burgher's relatives and names that were matched against the DNA from Genealogy Services.
Southern California. Weather from kfive for this morning, mostly cloudy today,
later patchie drizzle is possible. This morning. High in the upper sixties to
mid seventies for inland LA and Orange Counties. For OC beaches, highs in
the mid sixties, upper sixties for LA beaches. Tonight, cloudy, loads
in the mid fifties to around sixty tomorrow, mostly cloudy again, highs in
the upper sixties to the mid seventies as you move inland, and right now
we have Fountain Valley at sixty degrees, Newport Beach at sixty degrees, Long
Beaches at sixty degrees, and Hollywood's coming in at sixty one. We lead
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