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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
wake Up Call with me Amy King on

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demand on the iHeartRadio Appy. It's
time for your morning wake up call.

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Here's Amy King. It's five o'clock
straight out. This is your wake up

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call for Memorial Day, Monday,
May twenty seventh. We're live everywhere on

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the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. And if you're up because you're working

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today like we are, or you're
just an early riser, We're glad you're

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here with us. Hey, I
was driving in this morning, first morning

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in a really long time that there
hasn't been that thick marine layer. So

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nice to see the moon on the
way in nice change. Here's what's ahead

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on today's wake up call. Memorial
Day remembrances are being held all over southern

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Californi, including five hundred sailors who
will march across the Sixth Street Viaduct.

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The walk begins at noon with the
sailors lining up ten across fifty deep on

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the Boyle Heights side of the viaduct. It's part of La Fleetweek that goes

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on one more day. If you
haven't had a chance to go down there,

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if you were out and about with
this last week we went and got

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to go on to the aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson. So cool

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fire has engulfed a boarded up house
in East LA. The fire started around

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two this morning on Whiteside Street.
LA Fire says flames were coming from the

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house when they arrived. They fought
the fire from outside while protecting the homes

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around it. The fire was out
by about two thirty. One of the

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last of the Tuskegee Airmen has died. Colonel Porcher Taylor, Junior, died

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yesterday. He served in World War
II, Korea and Vietnam. He earned

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the Legion of Merit, the Bronze
Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, and

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the Army Commendation Medal. Colonel Taylor
was ninety nine. A group of about

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twelve hundred bikers has crossed the country
to honor POW's MIAs and kias. We're

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gonna be talking with the organizers of
the annual Run for the Wall that's coming

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up a little bit later this hour. We're also going to take a look

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back with author Chris Epting, who
wrote The Lost Landmarks of Orange County.

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If you've been in Orange County for
any amount of time. I think you're

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going to find this very interesting.
Looking at days gone by, Let's get

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started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

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An actor known for his role on
General Hospital has been shot and killed

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in downtown LA. Police say Johnny
Wacter was killed early Saturday morning when he

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confronted three people who were messing with
his car near Pico and South Hope Street.

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Investigators say the group was trying to
steal the car's catalytic converter. LAPD

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Detective Michael Ventura says the part has
become a common target for thieves. We've

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seen where they quickly, like Nascar, they get the jack them up,

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cut them off, keep an eye
out for security in the cops, walk

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out of here and get these items
three hundred bucks apiece generally and making ten

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or twenty a night. Wector's brother
says the actor had been working as a

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bartender on Saturday, who's walking a
co worker to her car after their shift.

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When he confronted the thieves, one
of them fired. Four cars have

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been set on fire in LA's Chinatown. A fifth was damaged early yesterday morning.

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This man says the sound of it
woke him up. Heard some carl

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arms going off, So I got
outside, and it's like the world's on

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fire, like the apocalypse is happening, like in my front yard. The

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cars destroyed were parked on the street. Investigators say they think the fires were

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a random act of vandalism. A
woman whose minivan was set on fire says

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it was overwhelming. Mulholland Drive has
reopened following a more than three month closure

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caused by a landslide. The roadway
between Skyline and Beaumont Drives has been shut

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down since early February. This Ida
spent nearly five million dollars shoring up the

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hillside. Palestinian health workers in Gaza
say Israeli airstrikes in Rafa have killed at

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least fifty people. The strikes yesterday
were carried out days after the International Court

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of Justice ordered Israel to end its
military offensive in the southern city. Israel's

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army says it hit a Hamas installation
where senior group members were located, and

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that two officials were eliminated. As
Israel put it. Sirens have gone off

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in Tel Aviv during a rocket attack
by Hamas. ABC's Britt Clenan says the

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attack yesterday was the first in almost
four months. At least eight rockets were

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launched from the Rafa area, according
to the IDF. Minor injuries were reported,

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and footage on social media show a
large crater in Kufa Sabah, around

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seventeen miles from Tel Aviv. Israel's
military says Rafa is the last Hamas stronghold,

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and Israel has vowed to destroy its
capabilities. Ever, wonder when Memorial

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Days started. It's been going on
for a while. So producer Ann got

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some cool information for us, and
I thought, you know what, it's

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a good day for us to reflect
and look back at what Memorial Day is

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actually. So it was originally known
as Decoration Day, a federal holiday for

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honoring and mourning US military personnel.
The first one was observed on May thirtieth,

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eighteen sixty eight. Again, it
was known as Decoration Day, and

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the holiday was proclaimed by Commander in
Chief John A. Logan of the Grand

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Army of the Republic to honor Union
soldiers who had died in the Civil War.

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And then it's word of it spread
and the States started going, hey,

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we want to do that too.
And by eighteen ninety every Union state

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had adopted Memorial Day. The World
Wars then turned it into a day of

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remembrance for all members of the US
military, not just the Civil War,

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but for everybody who fought and died
in the service, and in nineteen seventy

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one, Congress standardized the holiday as
Memorial Day, the one that we observed.

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And you know, a lot of
people are doing barbecues and getting together

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with family and I and then you
hear that, you know, it's it's

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the somber day that we're not honoring
the living, we're honoring the people who've

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died. So it's not happy Memorial
Day necessarily. But they say, you

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know what, there's so many things
that go on, and you can honor

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the people who've given their lives for
our country and maybe go to a ceremony

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or something like that, and then
go have the barbecue in the afternoon and

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enjoy your time with friends and family
and celebrate, you know, what they

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were fighting for. I thought that
was kind of a cool remembrance. But

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and there are so many things going
on around southern California. So as you

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get up and about and you go, oh, well, maybe I'm just

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going to make breakfast and hang out
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one of these ceremonies, because there
are so many of them and really amazing

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things that they're doing. So I
mentioned this at the very top of the

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show, that Navy sailors are going
to be marching across the Sixth Street Viaduct.

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It's part of Fleet Week. There's
five hundred of them. They're going

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to be walking, of course,
to pay tribute to fallen US military personnel.

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And the march is going to happen
at noon. It's going to start

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on the boil height side of the
viaduct and the sailors are going to be

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lined up ten across and fifty deep. I just think that would be very

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cool. Again, that starts at
noon. There's also the Canoga Park Memorial

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Day Parade that will honor Canoga Park
High School grads who gave their lives in

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military service since World War II.
That starts at ten am and in create

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includes a wreath laying at the Wall
of Honor. Then a parade begins at

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eleven am. And then let's see, there's a bunch more. The Memorial

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Day observance at Green Hills Memorial Park
in Rancho Palace Verdes begins at ten am,

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and if I wish I could go
out to this one, it's getting

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underway in about twenty minutes. The
honoring of our fallen Memorial Day reading of

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names of the seven fifty seven Americans
who've died in combat and training exercises since

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the nine to eleven attacks. It
begins at five thirty this morning at Rosie

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the Riveter Park in Long Beach.
There's going to be a bagpipe tribute and

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the reading, So the ceremony starts
at five thirty. The reading begins at

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five point forty five. They're going
to read all those names. They're expected

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to be completed by about one this
afternoon. There are also Memorial Day ceremonies

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and observances starting at eight at the
Hawaiian Gardens City Hall at nine am at

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Lancaster Cemetery, Lacy Park in San
Marino and Whittier City Hall. Then at

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nine point thirty there's a ceremony at
Acton Community Center, also at Glendale City

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Hall at ten am at Park Lawn
Cemetery in Bell Gardens, at the Cerrito

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Civic Center, the forty second Rainbow
Division Monument in Exposition Park, Forest Law

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Lawn Memorial Park in Cavina Hills in
Hollywood, and in Long Beach, the

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Veterans Park in Lomita. This is
all happening at ten am. The LA

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National Cemetery in Westwood, Eternal Valley
Memorial Park in New Hall, and Mines

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Avenue Veterans Monument in Pico Rivera.
At eleven am, there is a ceremony

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at Inglewood City Hall, at Del
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and the Wilmington Cemetery, and then
at one o'clock also Forest Lawn in

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Glendale. So many observances, and
I mentioned LA National Cemetery, and also

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there's a one at the Riverside National
Cemetery, and also at the Ronald Reagan

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Presidential Library, which is super cool. We've been there a couple of times

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in the last couple of months.
But there's a ceremony from nine to eleven.

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It's being held at the library in
Simi Valley. It's going to include

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live music of Flyover Color Guard and
remarks by gold Star Family member Tony Gordero

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and Robert Kimmich IID the commanding Officer
at Naval Base Ventura County. So so

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many ways that we can honor the
veterans, those who served our country.

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And here's just a couple of other
things. We said. You can attend

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a ceremony, of course, and
there here's another way. You can decorate

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with your flag. Get your flag
out and fly it, fly it half

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staff from dawn until noon and join
that tradition, show that you're proud of

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of the people who fought for us. Here's another thing you can do,

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and this is so great, Thank
a veteran. Easy right. If you

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don't know a veteran, you can
write a letter to a veteran or a

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soldier. You go to Operation Gratitude
dot com for more information Operation Gratitude dot

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com. And then one other thing
you can do is participate in our national

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Moment of Remembrance. The national monument
or Moment of Remembrance asks us all to

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pause for one minute in an active
national unity. Wouldn't that be nice wherever

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you are at three o'clock this afternoon
on Memorial Day, just take a moment.

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It's important that we remember this.
Let's get back to some of the

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stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. People in La County

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have been worn to continue avoiding several
local beaches because of high bacteria levels.

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The areas include part of will Rogers
State Beach, Mother's Beach in Marina del

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Rey, Malibu Lagoon at Surfrider Beach, the Santa Monica Pier, and Inner

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Cabrio Beach in sam Beach Pedro.
A man who allegedly shot five people in

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San Fernando has been arrested following a
stand off with police. Officers were called

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late Saturday about several people who were
shot at a home. Four people were

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found inside shot, a fifth went
to the hospital on his own. The

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alleged shooter barricaded himself inside his own
house. He reportedly shot at a LAPD

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helicopter during the standoff. The sixty
one year old man was eventually taken into

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custody. Two people have been killed
in a fiery car crash in Wilmington.

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It happened just after two this morning
on Alameda Street near pch Firefighters say they

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put out the fire and discovered the
two people inside. The Memorial Day weekend

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box office is shaping up to be
almost a tie between a cartoon cat and

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an Apocalypse survivor. The Garfield movie
and Furiosa, a Mad Max Saga are

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both currently on track to take in
just thirty one million dollars over the four

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day weekend. Regardless of which film
gets the number one spot, it'll be

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the lowest opening for a number one
Memorial Day release since Casper in nineteen ninety

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five. Industry experts say there are
several factors, including high theater ticket and

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concession prices, more streaming options,
and no new Marvel movie release that are

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keeping people away. Heather Brooker KFI
News, Okay, two thoughts on that,

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Heather, I loved the Casper movie. I thought it was super fun,

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Bill Pullman Q. I mean,
not gonna win any awards, but

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cute. And no new Marvel movie. I'm okay with that. There's just

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been so many Marvels. I think
we need maybe a little break from Marvel

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Marvel movies. That's just my opinion. The Dodgers are taken on the Mets

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this afternoon in New York. The
first pitch goes out at one ten.

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Love a good daytime game. Listen
to every play of every Dodgers game on

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AM five to seventy LA Sports Live
from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and

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you can also stream all the games
in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM

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five seventy LA Sports General Hospital.
Actor Johnny Wacter has been shot and killed

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in downtown La. TMZ says the
actor was killed when he confronted three men

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trying to steal a catalytic converter from
his car. Police haven't made any arrests.

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Johnny Wackter was thirty seven. Twelve
people have been injured on a flight

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from Doha to Dublin when the plane
hit turbulence. Six crew members and six

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passengers were hurt on the Qatar Airways
flight yesterday. Eight had to be taken

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to the hospital. This comes less
than a week after a passenger died and

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dozens were hurt on a Singapore Airline's
flight that hit turbulence. The ninety fifth

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Los Angeles County Fair will close its
sixteen day run today at the Fairplex Inn,

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Pomona. The fair began as a
commercial industrial show, first held along

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the Southern Pacific Railroad siding in downtown
Pomona in nineteen twenty one, and apparently

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it was so successful that the businessman
who produced it held the first LA County

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Fair. The following year, in
October of nineteen twenty two, at six

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oh five, it's handle on the
news. TSA says, this Memorial Day

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weekend is a record breaker. It's
five point twenty one on your wake up

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call. Let's say good morning now
to the author of thirty travel and history

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books, including James Dean Died Here, Roadside Baseball, and a bunch of

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others. Plus you've written for the
La Times, for Travel and Leisure magazine.

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This guy loves to talk about travel. Good morning, Chris Epting,

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Thank you for having me. Good
to hear you. And we're not even

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talking about far off places for travel. In many cases, it's right in

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our own back, in our own
backyard. And I'm going to tell you,

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Chris that we have actually met before, and you will not remember it

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because it was probably ten years ago, and it was at a day of

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authors at cal State Fullerton. And
I'm going to tell you wake up call

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that when I met Chris, actually
we listened to him talking about one of

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his books, and just he was
so engaging and interesting. I was like,

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oh my god, I have to
buy this book. And the book

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was about like places on the map
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James Dean died, which I drive
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at the Highway forty six and forty
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friend in Pasa Robles, and so
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pass that junction. A great memory, thank you, and I remember that

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event. I love those sorts of
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together and getting us back here today. That's amazing and really flattered. So

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today we're not talking about things that
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because you have a new book out. It's called Lost Landmarks of Orange

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County. So tell us a little
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yeah, again, there are some
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I mean, the cover of the
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Lion Country Safari, which was down
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four. Many of your listeners may
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they weren't there, I think it
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crazy in terms of landmarks, Orange
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so years. And so if you
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Country Safari is gone. You can
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and vinys come to your car.
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lion Frasier the Fraser, the Sensuous
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five cups, is buried under a
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it's not entirely lost, and there
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I really tried to detail all of
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but also, you know, let
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they can connect with the right.
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Frasier is buried, what's there now
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Los of Libos, and it's also
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was, So I traced the legacy
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there. And you know Orange County, you know, starting back really in

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the forties with not Verry farmament into
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and so you've got lots of theme
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the alligator farm, the Japanese Deer
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I also include movie theaters, restaurants, all the sorts of things that people

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may have grown up going to that
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shaping Orange County and what it is
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the past and what shaped or And
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park because I'm not aware of that
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the California Alligator Farm opening about nineteen
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this book in that in the mid
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Verry Farms the block Away, heard
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the brink of going out a business
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He realized each night that it Not's
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of raw chicken from their famous for
Our Chicken restaurant, so he began to

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help them out. He had the
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got them over that hurdle and kept
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looking you have for each other and
realizing that you didn't have to be that

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competitive because if everyone did well,
then the county did well. So you

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had a lot of those kinds of
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That's my favorite of the fact that
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They had baskets on the back of
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they would send alligators hurtling down slides
into the water. I mean it was

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crazy. Well, you could ride
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pictures going back. Yeah, actually, and I don't know how long that

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was in effect, but there ares
of postcard images of kids on the back

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of you know, the snouts are
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thrill of the California Alligator Farm.
I can understand why that one may no

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longer be there. So in your
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people who experienced these locations or are
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or how did you go about getting
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grew up in Westchester County, New
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twenty five years ago. So I
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go back that far. So yes, I absolutely spoke to people from from

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locals who grew up going to see
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like I had a great conversation with
Steve Martin about the Golden Bear, a

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former nightclub in honey To Beach where
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the early seventies. He's from Orange
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to Jackson Brown about the Golden Beer
as well, and a good buddy of

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this was the dishwasher there who Jackson
encouraged to go up to la and ultimately

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landed the audition of Peter Torque and
the Monkeys. So, you know,

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there were some revelations like that that
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to people like that. But plenty
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to grow up here in the forties
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and the great drive in movie theaters
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again, every place has them,
Orange County just had a lot of

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them. Orange County's thirty four cities
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lot of different things, from sports, to agriculture, to oil, to

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music, to movies to everything that
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today. It's a sort of treatment
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County as well. And I'm thinking
about that now because again, these southern

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California places where everybody came to visit
from all over the world, have plenty

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of these lost landmarks. Well,
I was just going to ask you if

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you had any plans to write about
La County, So good to know that

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it's at least in the thinking and
planning stages, definitely. And we've got

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more on the Lost Landmarks of Orange
County coming up in just a couple of

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minutes. And we have some copies
of the book The Lost Landmarks of Orange

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County for you. We're going to
be giving those away in just a few

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minutes, so stick around right now. Let's get back to some of the

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stories coming up coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. Public

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health officials in La County say a
person with measles has traveled through lax while

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infectious. The person does not live
in the country they arrived on lufthansa flight

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LH four point fifty two at the
Tom Bradley International Terminal last Sunday and connected

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to a flight at Terminal seven that
same night. Officials say there were no

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other places where possible exposure to the
traveler might have happened. That's time former

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President Trump has been booed while addressing
the Libertarian Party National Convention in Washington.

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ABC's Mary Alice Parks says it was
sort of a surprise Trump addressed the crowd

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on Saturday night. Libertarian Party members
that I talked to said that fundamentally they

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wanted someone who had been a member
of their own party, and they really

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viewed him as someone who was a
former Democrat. Many shouted insults and criticized

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Trump for running up federal deficits and
enriching pharmaceutical companies during the development of COVID

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nineteen vaccines. Some supporters dressed in
Make America Great hats and T shirts,

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cheered and chanted. USA Independent candidate
rfk Junior was also booed when he spoke

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at the convention, although we got
a warmer reception than Trump. Kennedy was

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eliminated in the first round of voting. Kennedy have responded saying I would have

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accepted the nomination if offered because independence
and third parties need to unite right now

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to reclaim our country from the corrupt
two parts. ABC's Perry Rusham says a

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lot of voters say they are not
excited about either major party candidate, so

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a third party candidate could have a
bigger impact than ever on the presidential race.

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The party chose Chase Oliver, who's
vowing to appeal to younger voters angry

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over the war in the Middle East. Memorial Day remembrances are being held all

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over southern California, including five hundred
sailors who will march across the Sixth Street

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Viaduct at noon today. The walk
has sailors lining up ten across and fifty

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deep on the Boil Heights side of
the viaduct. It's part of La Fleet

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Week. At least eighteen people have
been killed in hundreds more have been injured

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as powerful storms tour through Texas,
Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Homes were flattened

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and a truck stop where dozens sought
shelter in a restroom was destroyed. The

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severe weathers expected to move into North
Carolina and Virginia. Today, someone with

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measles has traveled through lax Public Health
officials say the person arrived Sunday on Luftanza

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flight LF four fifty two in the
Tom Bradley International Terminal and then connected to

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a flight in Terminal seven. Anyone
not immunized who was around that location should

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watch for signs of measles from seven
to twenty one days after exposure. At

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six oh five, it's handle on
the news. Very sad if you're a

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Disney fan guy. A guy who
wrote It's a Small World and wrote songs

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from Mary Poppins has passed away,
ninety five years old. At five point

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fifty. We're going to be talking
to the organizer of the Run for the

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Wall. It's twelve hundred bikers who
have ridden from Ontario all the way to

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Washington, d C. Pretty interesting. Right now, we're talking to the

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author of Lost Landmarks of Orange County
and thirty other travel books. It's Chris

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Epting. Chris, what is the
lost landmark that makes you the most sad

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that it's no longer here? Well? Lying Country definitely is well. I

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went there as a kid visiting from
New York in nineteen seventy four, and

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that one, to me is just
again it serves so many purposes there were

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I talked to people that had like
their junior and senior proms there. It

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wasn't just for tourists, so plenty
of locals used it. I think if

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I could have one back, that
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along with the Golden Bear, because
again from the ninth early sixties to the

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mid eighties, everybody played there was
a lot of music history there. One

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other site this year marks the centennial
of a very famous baseball game out in

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Brea, California, that featured no
less than Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson.

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And it was a little place called
the Brea Bowl, and I wish that

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was still there today. It was
a field that oil companies would use for

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their kind of inter squad baseball games. And the fact that one hundred years

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ago, in October of nineteen twenty
four, Walter Johnson, who went to

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Fullerton High School, staged a game
they're featuring. He played against Babe Ruth

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and it's a very notable game.
I write about it in the book,

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and I think it'd be fun to
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a famous, a legendary baseball island. Yeah, what gave you kind of

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the travel bug? Because you've written
about so many interesting places that a lot

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of people maybe wouldn't have even thought
of, but for whatever reason you go

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ooh, that's cool. What sparks. I can tell you exactly. I

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had a moment when I was about
ten years old. Newspaper in New York,

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the Daily News, had a little
article about marily Monroe, and it

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showed her opposing in the seven year
Itch, the famous scene where the white

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dress billows up over the subway grade, and it said that that actual subway

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grade was in New York City at
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Lexington Avenue. And the next time
we were in the city, I dragged

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my parents over there and I found
that subway grade, and in my head,

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I thought, literally, how many
places are there? All the New

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Yorkers were walking over nobody knew what
had taken place there, And that planted

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the seed of like all these other
places that we walk by every day and

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not know that some sort of cultural
history was made there, from the sublime

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to the ridiculous. And that was
literally what set me off. On this

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idea that there's got to be a
lot of places, whether it's beings Deem

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passed away, or where the Edenburgh
crashed, or where Elvis did his first

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concert, whatever it happens to be. You know, I've spent the last

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twenty five some odd years writing those
books, and you know, I love

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California. I always wanted to live
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have been able to live here and
make a living here, I focus a

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lot of attention on California, especially
southern California in this case with Orange County,

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and I've written a lot about la
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like this really is the cultural crossroads
of the United States in many ways.

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Yeah, and Chris, you write
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of Orange County, places that aren't
actually no longer there, but parts of

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them that are no longer there.
And I'm a huge disney fan, So

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you have a section about things at
Disneyland and not Berry Farm that are no

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longer there exactly. And that's the
key point, because you said, but

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I've got chapters in the book on
both places for the many attractions no longer

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there, including in Disneyland's case,
the Tomorrowland Stage, which was a very

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famous performance space where Space Mountain is
located today. I write about how in

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the early seventies a Linda rons Back
got book there. Needing a band to

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play behind her, she gathered up
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They came down to back her,
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Eagles who first got together playing at
their backup Bahl stage. And you can

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also see in Newport on MacArthur Boulevard
the original Disneyland and stand sits up by

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Rogers Garden, up on a hill
with a plaque by it. So again

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that's an example of being able to
locate an actual artist sat out in the

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open connected to Disneyland. I love
that there's so much history in all of

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this. Chris, what do you
hope that people get out of this book?

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I hope they just get a sense
that we can always learn from the

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past, and it's good to go
back and rekindle memories again, whether you

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grew up here or not. I
wanted this to be a book that anybody

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can get something out of because of
rich storytelling, great images, and just

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an appreciation of the fact that even
though places change over the decades, you

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can never erase the memories. You
can never erase the effects that those places

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had in helping to shape a community. All right, Chris Epting, Thank

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you so much for sharing just a
few of the stories, and of course

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you can read all of the stories
of the Lost Landmarks of Orange County.

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Chris. Where can we get the
book? It's available on Amazon, all

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major bookstores, independent bookstore, wherever
books are sold, you can find it,

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and I hope people enjoy it.
The response so far has been wonderful,

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beyond my imagination, and so I'm
really appreciative for this time to chat

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about it. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. I think a lot of

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people are nostalgic, and you know, the world moving so fast sometimes it's

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nice to just stop and take a
look back. I think you nailed it.

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I think that's really the key point
with a lot of these kinds of

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books are doing what you just said
right now. All right, Chris Epting,

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thank you so much for your time
today, and hopefully we can talk

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to you when we have the Lost
Landmarks of La County anytime. Thank you,

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take care, Thanks so much.
You knowwhere else you can get the

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book? You can get it right
here on wake up call. We have

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we've got like three copies of it, and so we want to give it

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away to you. Really really interesting
and like we were talking about, just

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sort of a fun look back.
So let's say you be caller number ten,

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eleven and twelve right now at one
eight hundred five to two zero one

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KFI. That's one eight hundred five
to two zero, one five three four

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for your copy of Lost Landmarks of
Orange County by our friend Chris Epting.

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It's sort of a little reward for
you for getting up early on this Memorial

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Day. One eight hundred five to
two zero one KFI. That's one eight

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hundred five two zero one five three
four colors, ten eleven and twelve.

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Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four

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hour newsroom. Actor Johnny Whacter has
been shot and killed during a run in

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with three people allegedly trying to steal
his car's catalytic converter near downtown LA.

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The shooting happened early Saturday morning near
Pico and South Helpe Street. The actor's

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brother says wactor had been working as
a bartender and was walking a co worker

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to her car after their shift when
he noticed three people around his car.

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Police say one of them fired.
Wactor worked on several TV shows and appeared

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on nearly two hundred episodes of General
Hospital between twenty twenty and twenty two.

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He was thirty seven. A man
in LA's Jefferson Park area has been shot

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during a fight with two guys who
allegedly stole his car. Police say the

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man found his car yesterday morning on
Arlington Avenue near thirty sixth Place and confronted

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the men who had it. That's
when one of them fired at him.

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The injured man was taken to the
hospital. A person has been killed by

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a Metrolink train in Elmonte. The
collision happened just before ten thirty last night

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along Garvey Avenue near Valley Boulevard.
Norway has handed over diplomatic papers to the

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Palestinian Prime Minister during a meeting in
Brussels in the latest step toward recognizing a

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Palestinian state. Ireland and Spain have
also pledged to recognize a Palestinian state.

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Norway's Foreign Minister, espen Bartheidy says
the time to do it is now.

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We cannot let down the Palestinian people. We cannot let down the Palestinian authority.

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They are really trying to deliver on
the promise of a peaceful path to

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a two state solution. The EU, the United States, and Britain have

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said they support a two state solution, but say it should come as part

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of a negotiated settlement. The City
of Los Angeles has asked a judge to

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deny injunctive relief to the owners of
Marilyn Monroe's former home in Brentwood. They

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want to block the city from making
the residence and historical cultural monument. The

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owners want to tear the house down. The owners, whose home is next

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to the Monroe home, bought it
last July for eight point three five million

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dollars and have obtained a permit from
the city to demolish it. Police are

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looking for four people who robbed as
many as six seven eleven stores around La

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County early yesterday morning. Police responded
to reports that three convenience stored had been

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robbed within an hour in South La
County. A thirty say, three more

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seven elevens were robbed in Long Beach
since Saturday night. Police are investigating whether

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all six are connected Palestinian health workers
say Israeli attacks in Rafa have killed at

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least thirty five people and hit tents
for people who were seeking refuge. Gaza's

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population has been seeking shelter before Israel
went in. Israel's army says it hit

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a Hamas installation where senior Hamas members
were located. Could Lebron James leave the

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Lakers? The Phoenix Suns are reportedly
interested in NBA insider Evans. Sidery says

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the Sons are hoping to pursue him
in the off season. He said that

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the Sons appear to believe they can
convince Lebron to team up with Kevin Durant,

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Devin Booker, and Bradley Beale to
create an historic super team. That'll

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be kind of interesting. Huh.
Let's say good morning now to Ted Kaepner,

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who hails from southern California currently living
in Prescott, Arizona. But Ted,

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you're not in Southern California or Prescott
right now because you're making a Run

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for the Wall. Ted, please
tell us what you're doing. Well,

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Thank you very much. It's good
to be on. Yes, I am

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on Run for the Wall, which
is an annual motorcycle ride from Ontario,

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California, to Washington, d C. It occurs every May. We take

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ten days across the country and we
are riding to raise awareness for those veterans

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I'm sorry for servicemen and women who
are prisoners of war or MIA missing in

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action. For those MIA POWs from
all wars. We want to raise awareness

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and just honor their memory, and
also those who are killed in action or

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wounded in action. Okay, so
how many of your friends on motorcycles do

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you have with you for this year's
Run for the Wall. Well, we

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have four routes and one mission,
and in all four routes are about twelve

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hundred motorcycle riders. You can hear
some bikes start behind me right now.

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I'll keep talking about on this route. This route is called the Central Route,

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and we have about three hundred and
eighty on the Central Route with us

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this year. Okay, So when
you say there's three hundred and eighty of

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you, are you guys all like
a motorcycle convoy riding together? Do you

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kind of take off whenever you want? No, it's very well organized.

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We split the bikes up into what
we call platoons, and so we have

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about nine platoons and there are we
divide the bikes up into those platoons,

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and then we have a group of
riders called the road Guards that keeps everybody

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safe. And so from head to
toe, we're about a mile and a

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half of motorcycles lined up side by
side and tight in parade formation from coast

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to coast. And I wanted to
mention that this was started in nineteen eighty

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nine by a group of Vietnam veterans
and this was sort of the welcome home

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parade that our Vietnam veterans never got. And that's one of the reasons why

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we ride. We say that we
ride for those who can't and it's just

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a mission across the United States,
and we're greeted by patriots all across the

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country as we cross so under overpasses, they're aligned with people with flags that

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say welcome home and the stars and
stripes, and it's really an amazing journey.

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Okay, Ted, you're making me
cry. That's really really wonderful because

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I know, like you said,
the guys in Vietnam, they didn't get

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welcomed home because of you know,
it's political and all of that stuff.

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So it's good that we're recognizing them
now and so important. Is there a

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fundraising arm to this? Are you
just just doing it for awareness or are

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you raising money? What are you
doing? Oh well, I'm glad you

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brought that up, and yes there
is a fundraising aspect to this. Run

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for the Wall is a five oh
one C three and you can find out

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more information on our website which is
our FTW dot us. And then Ted

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tell us where everything wraps up,
we will make the last push into Washington,

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d C. We will go to
the Lincoln Memorial line up for a

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group picture, and then we will
walk across the mall over to the Vietnam

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Veterans Memorial Wall, where we will
conclude our mission at the apex of the

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wall. I think it's so great
what you do. And wow, twelve

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hundred people involved, and you know, showing support and awareness for POW's mis

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people killed in action, the real
heroes. Yes, absolutely, and that

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is why we ride. And you
don't have to be a veteran though to

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participate, right, absolutely not.
I am not a veteran. I am

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a patriot. I'm the son of
an Air Force veteran, But I'm out

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here doing my part to make sure
that these veterans from all wars, and

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especially the young generation now who are
fighting the global war on terror, know

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that we will never forget about them. We will never forget about their service,

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and we truly appreciate what they've done
for our country so that we can

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enjoy the freedoms that we enjoy every
single day. I love that. And

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Ted again, if people who are
listening now want to get involved for next

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year, it's too late for this
year. But if they want to start

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planning for next year, is that
also on your website. Yes, all

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the information is on the website.
You can look up all four of our

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routes. You can join for one
day, you know, or you can

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go all the way. We have
most of the writers who go all the

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way. But you know, I
just met somebody who joined us this morning

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and all he could do was ride
one day with us. And that's great.

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Now he's got the flavor of this
and he says he's going to come

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back next year and start with us
in Ontario. Awesome, Ted Kaepner,

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run for the wall. I hope
that you have a wonderful, inspiring journey.

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Thank you very much. Have a
great very very cool. Isn't that

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great? I wish I knew how
to ride motorcycles and wasn't scared of them,

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because that would be a fun ride. Let's get back to some of

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the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Events are being

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held all over southern California to honor
the fallen members of the US military.

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They include the thirty second Canoga Park
Memorial Day Parade in West Valley, a

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walk in Boyle Heights held in conjunction
with LA Fleet Week, and a Memorial

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to Day observance at Green Hills Memorial
Park in Rancho Palace. Thirties, people

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in Riverside County can see the West
Coast Thunder roll out from Riverside to Murietta

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and Lake Elsinore. Some of the
seventy five hundred riders will be stopping at

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Riverside National Cemetery to pay their respects. The home of LA's first black mayor

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is getting some historical recognition. The
Tom and Ethel Bradley House in Baldwin Hills

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is one of four properties to win
the approval of a council committee to become

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a historic Cultural Monument in LA.
Bradley was mayor from nineteen seventy three today

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nineteen ninety three, the first black
mayor and the one who served the longest.

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The committee also advanced the historic designations
of three other properties, the Mountain

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State's Life Building, Yuccavine Tower,
often thought of as Hollywood's first skyscraper,

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the California Eagle Publishing offices, home
of a newspaper catering to black readers,

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and the Basin residents, a contemporary
ranch style home in Studio City. Michael

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Monks KFI News. A government official
farm Papua New Guinea has told the UN

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it is now believed more than two
thousand people may have been buried alive by

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a landslide. That's about three times
the un estimate of how many people were

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killed in the slide Friday. The
official said in a formal request for international

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help that the slides caused major destruction
in the mountainous village in the Enga province.

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More than a dozen people have been
killed by powerful storms that hit Texas,

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Oklahoma, and Arkansas over the weekend. Hundreds were hurt during the storms

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that caused widespread destruction. Texas Governor
Greg Abbott says a tornado that hit his

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state Saturday, killed at least seven. More than two hundred homes and structures

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were listed as destroyed. Another more
than one hundred and twenty were listed as

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damaged. Two people in Oklahoma were
killed during the severe weather, along with

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eight in Arkansas and two in Kentucky. Tens of thousands of people across the

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region were left without power. President
Biden has sent his condolences for those killed

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in the storms. He said in
a statement he is praying for those who

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lost their lives. Biden says federal
emergency officials are doing damage assessments and stand

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ready to provide any support needed.
La County health officials continue to warn beachgoers

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that the ocean water is not safe
in some areas because of high bacteria levels.

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Part of Will Rogers State Beach is
on that list, along with Mother's

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Beach in Marina del Rey, Malibu
Lagoon at Surfrider Beach, the Santa Monica

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Pier, and Inner Cabrio Beach in
San Pedro. This is KFI and kost

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HD two Los Angeles Orange Camp.
We lead local live from the KFI twenty

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four hour newsroom for producer and and
technical producer Kono. I'm Amy King.

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This has been your wake up call, and if you missed any wake up

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call, you can listen anytime on
the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to

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wake Up Call with me, Amy
King. You can always hear wake Up

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Call five to six am Monday through
Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime

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