WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.199 demand on the iHeartRadio app k f I and kost HT two Los Angeles and 3 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:35.799 Orange County and you Amy Kay, good morning. It's by the clock straight 4 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.719 up. This is your wake up call for Thursday, July eleventh. Ooh, 5 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:44.039 it's seven eleven day. You know what that means. Free sir, 6 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:47.439 slurpees at seven eleven. I haven't had a slurpe for years. I might 7 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.719 have to stop buying. Get one. I'm Amy King. Thanks so much 8 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:54.079 for getting your day started with us today. We've got so much going on 9 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.679 as always, and don't worry, We've got you covered. We're gonna get 10 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.000 you all the latest news. We're gonna get you the traffic to help you 11 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.760 get there, and we're going to have some really interesting talks with some really 12 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:08.000 smart people. We'll be telling you about that as we move through the hour. 13 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:12.200 Here's what's ahead on your Thursday wake up call. President Biden is said 14 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:18.079 to hold his first press conference since the debate with former President Trump, which 15 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:22.519 has led to calls for Biden to quit the presidential race. Biden's going to 16 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.359 close out the NATO summit in Washington, d C. This afternoon. He's 17 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:30.560 expected to try to prove that he is capable of serving another four years. 18 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.920 We're going to be talking more about the growing pressure for Biden to step aside 19 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.319 with ABC's Steven Portnoy. In less than five minutes, more than twenty five 20 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:44.120 people have applied to be LA's top cop. The police commissions his candidates from 21 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.120 across the country have applied for the job. Mayor Karen Bass is going to 22 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:52.560 hire the new chief, possibly by this fall. Interim police Chief Dominic Choi 23 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.560 not allowed to apply for the permanent position. Border patrol agents have seized a 24 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.599 million dollars worth of met at the Coleexic Port of Entry. Agents say more 25 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:05.680 than five hundred pounds of meth was found hidden in a shipment of furniture. 26 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.120 A twenty nine year old man's been arrested. The guy who has a visa 27 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:13.719 was applying for admission into the US. Also, a little bit later this 28 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.199 hour, on wake Up Call, we're going to find out how Beaver's Just 29 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:24.319 may save California from wildfires. I know it sounds weird, but it's gonna 30 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:30.639 be a really interesting conversation. I love how nature can help us after we 31 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.639 screw up nature. We're gonna find out more about that again before the top 32 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:37.400 of the hour. I six, so five, it's handle on the news. 33 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:42.800 Some takeaways from the first day of Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial in New 34 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.159 Mexico. Bill's going to share his thoughts on that. Let's get started with 35 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.520 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The 36 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.479 new La Metro board chair says safety is her top priority. Ellie Mayor Karen 37 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.199 Bass has passed the gabble to La County Supervisor Janis Hahn, who for the 38 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.960 next twelve months will preside over meetings of the transit agency's board. Han says 39 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.199 one of the first things she'll start doing is riding the buses and trains, 40 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:08.120 and on our board meetings, I'm going to talk about what I experience as 41 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.639 a Metro rider. That will mean calling out problems I see as well as 42 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:17.000 praising the things that go right. Han also says protecting riders and employees is 43 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:22.319 Metro's top priority, and she'll also focus on helping homeless people leave the transit 44 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:28.120 system in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News authorities in Orange County say an 45 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:32.719 elderly couple allegedly murdered by their own son in San Juan Capistrano died in a 46 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:38.919 very gruesome way. Investigators with the OC Sheriff's Department say Joseph Gerdville was arrested 47 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.759 in connection with the alleged decapitation of his seventy year old parents and their dog. 48 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:49.000 Deputies were responding to a domestic disturbance call about the murders Tuesday morning when 49 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:53.439 another caller reported a very bloody man had chased a maintenance worker and stolen the 50 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.919 golf cart. The OC Sheriff says the guy was found along a bike trail 51 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:00.840 a bit later and ended up shot multiple times by a debut but the guy 52 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.520 is expected to survive. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI news, a 53 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:11.400 man who owned a nonprofit animal rescue in Compton has pleaded guilty to four counts 54 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:15.720 of animal cruelty. Prosecutors say nearly one hundred and fifty live animals were found 55 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:20.959 at two locations linked to the man, and many were severely underweight and suffering 56 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:27.319 from various illnesses. They say the man knew the animals were distressed and didn't 57 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:31.680 do anything about it. Thanks Scott's Surfing. Now everybody's learning. How comes 58 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:38.759 the far with me? La County Health officials say surfers can't hang ten at 59 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:44.519 sixteen local beaches because of high bacteria levels. People have been urged to avoid 60 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.920 swimming and playing at the beaches all the way from Malibu to Marina del Rey. 61 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:53.079 A full list of the contaminated beaches is available on the county website. 62 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:57.480 Also, there should be warnings posted at the beaches, so be sure to 63 00:04:57.480 --> 00:05:00.000 look for those as you had to the beach to get out of the heat. 64 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.959 Costco members are going to have to pay more starting this fall. The 65 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:09.079 company says it's increasing annual membership fees by five or ten dollars a year, 66 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:13.240 depending on the plan. It's the first fee increase in seven years. It'll 67 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.160 take effect in September. The price of Costco stock rows two percent after the 68 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:21.399 announcement. Over the last year and a half, Costco shares have nearly doubled 69 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.839 in value. I think that's important because of Bill Handle, who goes there 70 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:29.560 like every day. Get six oh seven on your wake up call for this 71 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.240 Thursday morning. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, 72 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:39.560 when we talked earlier this week, it seemed like maybe the calls for Biden 73 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.800 to step down had quieted a bit, But that was two days ago. 74 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:48.360 So what's going on now, Well, what's going on now is the drum 75 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:54.839 beat has continued, and in part it's because Nancy Pelosi yesterday declined to say 76 00:05:54.839 --> 00:06:00.240 directly that the president should stay in the running, and that has led to 77 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:05.360 a whole another round of speculation that maybe more Democrats will come out and say 78 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:09.839 that he should step down. And we have an ABC News Washington Post IPSOS 79 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.120 survey this morning that shows that two thirds of Americans that the president should drop 80 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.480 out. Now weighing in Biden's favor. In addition to the fact that he 81 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:23.160 won all the primaries and has the delegates, there is the fact that this 82 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.360 survey, two weeks after the debate, shows the race is still effectively tied. 83 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.319 That the debate did not have the kind of impact that naysayers. This 84 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.600 is the argument to Biden people would make the debate didn't have the impact on 85 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.439 naysayers that people think it would have. That half the country still supports Trump 86 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.759 and half the country still supports Biden and that when more people hear the argument 87 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.360 against Trump, they're going to come on board for Biden. And by the 88 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.959 way, don't believe the polls, because the Poles have always been wrong, 89 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:49.800 is their argument? Well, that was Trump's argument for the last uh huh, 90 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.519 the last one. So it's turn about his fair play on this one. 91 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:57.279 Huh. Fair enough? Okay. So louder than Pelosi's voice, though, 92 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.199 was when George Clooney came out yesterday and said he doesn't think Biden should 93 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.399 run either. I think you're right, and I think it's highly significant that 94 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.160 George Clooney had an op ed in the New York Times that his Southern California 95 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:13.160 fundraiser within the last month, which is the largest fundraiser in Democratic history. 96 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.839 Yeah, it was like thirty million dollars or something, right, had Joe 97 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.360 Biden on the stage. And George Clooney says that he simply did not see 98 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:24.240 in Biden the man that he knew as Joe Biden, and that the Democrats 99 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.439 risk losing the House and the Senate with Biden at the top of the ticket, 100 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.439 and so it's the right move Clooney believes for Biden to step aside and 101 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:35.160 have someone else take over and help save democracy. These are Clooney's words. 102 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:41.319 Look, I think what will happen today is incredibly significant for the president. 103 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.839 He's standing at the conclusion of the three day NATO summit here in Washington to 104 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.879 take reporters questions. This is a rare I have to underscore it because I 105 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.560 think people take it for granted how often the president stands for questions. He 106 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.639 does not very often, this president in particular, this president in particular, 107 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:59.920 okay, and it's a shame. And those of us who cover the white 108 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.879 and have been here a long time have been disappointed, frankly by the fact 109 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.040 that this president has refused our entreaties to engage. Because we ask for answers 110 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.720 for two reasons. One so the public has a sense of where the president 111 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.319 is on various issues. That's obviously the main reason. And the other reason 112 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.800 is for history, because as we write the story of a presidency, it's 113 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:24.399 often told in responses to reporters questions, and when we're all deprived of that, 114 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.319 history is deprived of an opportunity to really get a sense of what is 115 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:31.399 motivating this man and his decision making and the record of Donald Trump's presidency is 116 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.519 pretty full as a result of his exchanges with reporters. The same would be 117 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.759 true for Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, 118 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.840 going all the way back to Joe Biden's youth, when Dwight Eisenhower used 119 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:50.000 to have news conferences every two weeks. And so today is a good example 120 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.320 of the president's standing for questions. Let's see how many he takes. Let's 121 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.440 see how well he performs. The President has said, and this is news. 122 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:58.399 He's going to be sending for an interview with NBC on Monday night. 123 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:03.759 So there's that. And let's see how many calls continue to come for the 124 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.559 presidents for the president to step aside. Yep. And I think people are 125 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.679 watching him still like they have not watched him for years. So it'll be 126 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.399 interesting to see. Steven Portnoy, thank you so much for your time and 127 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.159 information this morning. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 128 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.120 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom says he will actively campaign against 129 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.919 Proposition thirty six, the measure that voters are deciding on in November, would 130 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:35.240 reverse elements of the voter approved proposition forty seven. That one reclassified felonies as 131 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:41.039 misdemeanors. Newsom said Prop thirty six is being promoted as a tough on retail 132 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.120 crime measure, but more of a drug policy build than anything else. We'll 133 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.679 cost the taxpayers billions and billions of dollars over the next decade. That well, 134 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.320 have we found impact on programs across the state. I reject the premise 135 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.399 that it foundationally a retail bill. It's it's a lot more, and I 136 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.919 will not be supporting. Last week, Newsom pulled a compete measure from the 137 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:05.080 ballot that would have shored up the law from Proposition forty seven. A proposed 138 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.159 merger could put sixty three grocery stores in California under new ownership. The stores 139 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:13.159 would be sold off of the proposed merger between Kroger and Albertson's goes through. 140 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:18.440 Under the deal, the stores would be sold to CNS wholesale grocers. Stores 141 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.320 that would be offloaded include Vaughn stores in La, Manhattan Beach, and Coasta 142 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.279 Mesa. Albertson's locations would also be affected in Dana Point, Northridge and LA. 143 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.080 The proposed merger, announced in twenty twenty one, is currently being challenged 144 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.440 by the Federal Trade Commission over concerns that the merger would lead to higher prices. 145 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.919 Kroger has disputed the claim, saying that customers will see lower prices if 146 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.480 the deal goes through. Blake Trolly k if I News San Diego Grocer's union 147 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.320 president Todd Walters's Kroger appears to be stacking the deck when it says customers would 148 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.639 benefit from lower prices if there's a merger. There's nothing from Kroger in the 149 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:58.480 state of California that's being divested, which I'm very surprised at Walters's overall. 150 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.879 He's not panicking about the potential merger. The company was communicating to our members 151 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.840 that the ones in these affected stores, there's eleven in San Diego County. 152 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.960 The unions are going to do effects bargaining over this. If the merger gets 153 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.679 approved, it still has to go through the court system to get approved by 154 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:18.960 the FTC. A man in Long Beach has been arrested for the deadly shooting 155 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.679 of a neighbor. The shooting yesterday happened on East First Street near Alamedas Avenue. 156 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.519 The murdered man had been shot several times the reason for the shooting not 157 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.679 yet known. A federal judge is ruled schools in Moreno Valley must change their 158 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:41.320 policing policies and hire an outside party to implement new policies. The decision follows 159 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:46.000 a complaint filed in twenty twenty that claimed campus resource officers at a middle school 160 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:52.080 discriminated against a black disabled student when they handcuffed him four times. The family's 161 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.440 attorney said Monday, the district's practices have allowed for the disproportionate suffering of black 162 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.720 disabled students. Two and who went up to space and board the Boeing Starliners 163 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:07.000 say they're comfortable staying up there a while longer as issues on the Starliner have 164 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.080 delayed their trip home. I'm not complaining, Butch isn't complaining that we're here 165 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:13.480 for a couple of weeks. Sudi Williams says she and co pilot Butch Wilmore 166 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.000 have spent some of their time photographing Hurricane Beryl in Houston, where they both 167 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.200 live. Powers lost trees are down, but we're a big team. Everybody 168 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.960 pulls together in Texas. She says they're not worried about the star Liner's ability 169 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.559 to get them back to Earth. Testing is underway to ensure glitches with a 170 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:35.639 thruster are fixed before they head back, likely later this summer. And as 171 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.840 you know, we've been talking with astronaut Colonel Nick Hagu who's going up to 172 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.639 the space station, supposed to be later this summer, and we're not sure 173 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:50.679 if those two astronauts who can't get home will delay the next mission. Right 174 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.360 now, they're saying it's still going to go off, but hopefully we're going 175 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.759 to be talking to Colonel Hag again in the next week or two before he 176 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.200 goes up. But I'm interested to hear how that all affects, because I'm 177 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.720 thinking if they're there and then the next mission goes up, it's going to 178 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.480 get a little crowded on the space station. When we come back. We'll 179 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.039 be talking with ABC's crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett about the use of weapons 180 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:18.639 on movie sets, which is nothing new, and whether Alec Baldwin is really 181 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.639 at fault for the shooting on the set of the movie Rust. Of course, 182 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.759 his trial is now underway in New Mexico. You're listening to Wake Up 183 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:30.639 Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Let's say good morning, now 184 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:35.519 to ABC's Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett. So, Brad, big shootouts 185 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.200 in movies are nothing new. They're kind of a staple in action movies. 186 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:46.559 What went so wrong on the set of Rest? So it appears amy two 187 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:54.279 things went wrong. One is safety protocols, both for the armorer that's the 188 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.919 person that's in charge of the weapons on a movie set, and the act 189 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:03.559 in this case, Alec Baldwin. So, I mean, according to the 190 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:09.159 prosecutor, he acted in a reckless way in reference to point in a weapon 191 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.320 at somebody, maybe having his finger on the trigger when he shouldn't have, 192 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:20.240 and some other things she cited inter opening the statement yesterday. So we'll see. 193 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:28.720 But clearly this is the case of I think mistakes, clearly huge mistakes 194 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.919 made by the armor who's already been convicted and got the maximum sentence you and 195 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.600 get into Mexico eighteen months. So we'll see if it holds true for mister 196 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:46.440 Baldwin despite the fact that he may have violated some safety protocols in handling the 197 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:52.960 weapon. But is that enough to actually convict him of involuntary manslaughter? Well, 198 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.759 that remains to be seen, and that he maintains that he didn't pull 199 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.679 the trigger. But the prosecution and is saying, and analysts have said it 200 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.480 would be impossible for that gun to have gone off if someone didn't pull the 201 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:11.159 trigger. Well, that's certainly what the FBI analysts, the firearms analysts are 202 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:18.720 saying that that test fired the weapon. So, you know, is that 203 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.240 you know, disagreement, Obviously it is. But I guess the question, 204 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:28.519 aby is is that enough one way or the other? Because clearly in movies 205 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:35.840 people are pulling the trigger of the weapon. Now they're shooting blanks in most 206 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:37.879 of these movies because you've really got to use a blife to get the most 207 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:46.159 realistic you know, smoke, fire, ejection, all that stuff to make 208 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:52.240 it look like you're literally shooting like rounds. You clearly aren't, you know, 209 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.799 so does We'll have to see the whole thing on the trigger. I 210 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.799 know they're making the big deal out of I don't know how much weight that 211 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:06.879 would really carry with the jury since he believes Alec Baldon believes that despite the 212 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:10.639 fact he is the figure and maybe pulled the trigger, that nothing was supposed 213 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:14.399 to come out the end of the gun. Well, and then yeah, 214 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.120 I mean, that's the biggest question for me is why was there live ammunition 215 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:25.720 on that set? Because you've got an incompetent armor. I mean, I 216 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.399 can't say anything else but that, I mean the idea. I mean, 217 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:37.080 could they conceivably amy have live ammo on a set to go to a not 218 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.200 on the set, but go to a separate range to help train actors in 219 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:45.399 what it feels like to shoot actual live rounds. The answer quite well, 220 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:51.639 yes, However, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to be able 221 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:57.519 to separate the two. And how she intermixed or somebody intermixed live rounds with 222 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.759 blanks or dummy rounds. You know, it's just beyond me, and clearly 223 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:10.279 it doesn't happen from the standpoint I think about all of these shootings that you 224 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:15.160 mentioned. I mean's thousands of shootings that happen in movies every year that people 225 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.559 don't get hurt. So I know you people are following protocols. Despite the 226 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:26.519 fact there's no mandatory universal protocols, by a large these movie makers are following 227 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:29.000 safety protocols. Well, that's what I was going to say. Like, 228 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:33.279 I'm watching The Mayor of Kingstown right now, and there's a lot of shooting 229 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:38.359 in that show every single week, and I mean this is just so unheard 230 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.759 of. So overall, I would say that movie sets are pretty safe. 231 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:47.000 So what kinds of precautions do they take. They have the armor on set, 232 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.759 they only have the you know, they only have blanks on set. 233 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.839 But what other things do they do to make sure that everybody stays safe? 234 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.960 Well, first of all, they train the actor. They have professional fire 235 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.319 arms experts, which is actually is not uncommon. I mean it's my understanding. 236 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:11.200 Like in the movie Heat that Michael Mann hired former sas officers, they 237 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:15.559 actually trained Pacino de Naro and everybody else who had a gun. How do 238 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.440 you shoot it, how you hold it so you look professional, you know, 239 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.200 you know what you're doing. And then all the safety protocols you don't 240 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:26.640 put point the weapon in anybody despite the fact that you're shooting blanks, and 241 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:33.160 all of the safety protocols that you would have in place that you respect a 242 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.200 weapon. This like a law enforcement as supposed to respect their weapons that clearly 243 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.759 do have live rouds of them. Yeah, So do we know if Alec 244 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:47.319 Baldwin was actually trained like other actors have been in on other sides, I 245 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:51.440 don't know. And you two questions will come out. A did that occur? 246 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.519 And B did he follow what they trained him? Now, according to 247 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:59.960 the prosecutor, he clearly didn't follow some of the safety protocols if in fact 248 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.160 what she's saying is accurate. So some of that's going to come out and 249 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.359 testimony. I guarantee you, if she's going to put she be in the 250 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.839 prosecutor, he's going to put somebody on saying I did train him, I 251 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.359 didn't train him. I'm going to ask to train him whatever the correct answer 252 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:15.720 is. I do think that that's going to come out in this trial. 253 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:19.960 And the armorer is gonna who's already been convicted, she's going to testify. 254 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:26.079 Isn't that correct? Yeah? But my understanding is she may plead the fifth 255 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:32.160 because she's probably concerned about additional liability in some former fashion and maybe civil liability. 256 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.880 Who knows, But yes, she is. Apparently they moved her to 257 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:41.279 from whatever prison she's in to someplace close that if she is called, they 258 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:45.000 could bring her to the courthouse. We'll be we'll be watching. It's an 259 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.200 interesting case, and thankfully it doesn't you know, it's not a common case, 260 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:52.599 so ABC for sure. Yeah, Brad Garrett, always a pleasure to 261 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.880 talk to you. Thanks so much for your information and insight this morning. 262 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.640 Take care Amy. All right, let's get back to some of the stories 263 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.519 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A study from Northeastern University 264 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:10.000 has found President Biden's debate performance has had almost no impact on voters preferences, 265 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:15.039 despite reports claiming otherwise and calls from lawmakers for Biden to drop out of the 266 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.079 race. The study shows ninety four percent of Biden's supporters say they'll continue to 267 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.880 support him, which is one percent switching to Trump and three percent of Trump 268 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:27.400 supporters switched to Biden. Northeastern's David Laser says he hopes the report shows the 269 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:32.160 dangers of making a mountain out of a mole hill when it comes to the 270 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:37.519 media interpreting data. Biden says the pressure on him and to end his reelection 271 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.559 campaign is coming from Democratic Party elites. He says they're the same kind of 272 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:45.119 people who have doubted him throughout his time in public life. But Biden says 273 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:49.160 the voters will still have his back in the end. One of three men 274 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:53.759 charged with killing a tourist at Fashion Island in Newport Beach was on probation for 275 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:59.480 a similar armed robbery before Leroy McCrary and two others allegedly dragged a woman to 276 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.079 death under getaway car. Santa Monica Police Union president Cody Green says McCrary got 277 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.759 probation for holding a gun to someone else's head for their watch in twenty twenty 278 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.279 two. It's on video. We have DNA evidence, but La County DA 279 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:15.039 Gascon said the case lacked evidence. If the DA's office has a policy to 280 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.400 let people who commit armed robberies go, then own up to it. But 281 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:22.160 the idea that the Santa Monica detectives didn't have enough to move forward is absolute 282 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.799 fantasy. The charges for last week's robbery murder could carry the death penalty in 283 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.759 Orange County. Corbin Carson kf I news, the IRS is it's collected a 284 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:36.039 billion dollars in back taxes from wealthy tax cheats. The agency got more money 285 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:41.680 for staffing last fall from the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act to collect from wealthy 286 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.720 people who hadn't paid what they owed. The IRS identified at about sixteen hundred 287 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.960 taxpayers with more than a million dollars in income and more than two hundred and 288 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:55.119 fifty thousand dollars in tax debt. And speaking of big money, a Mega 289 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.279 Million's lottery ticket sold in southern California isn't worth the jackpot, but it is 290 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.160 where two hundred eighty thousand dollars. The ticket sold at a gas station in 291 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:07.640 Redlands hit five of the six winning numbers from Tuesday nights, drawing No. 292 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.160 One hit the one hundred and eighty one million dollar jackpot. Dang, and 293 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.440 I had a ticket for that one too. When we come back, when 294 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.519 it comes to safety, ABC's Jim Ryan is going to tell us about the 295 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:23.079 best and the worst places to be driving around the US. You're listening to 296 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:27.400 Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty right now. I can't 297 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:32.920 wait to talk to ABC's Jim Ryan. Good morning, Jim. Why Hi. 298 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:34.960 So it's always a risk when you head out on the highway, but 299 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:40.839 it's more of a risk in some areas of the US than others. Yeah, 300 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:42.960 And folks on the West Coast, for example, tend to handle their 301 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.519 phones while they're driving a lot more than people in the rest of the country. 302 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.319 Really bad idea, yes, But people in the Midwest, though, 303 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.920 are less inclined to slam on the brakes, and people in the Pacific Northwest 304 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.599 drive at safer speeds than to the rest of the country. This all comes 305 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:06.920 from the latest report on the Safest and Riskiest places to drive, based on 306 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.920 data to from all State. All State, the insurance company, and this 307 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.039 year is a little different amy and a little more precise, potentially because the 308 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:19.799 numbers are not based on insurance claims that all State has processed related to accidents. 309 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.880 And you know it's based on data coming out of your phone and out 310 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:27.839 of your car. Wait a second, yeah, I know, I know. 311 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:33.240 There's a company. All State in twenty sixteen purchased a company which compiles 312 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:38.039 data based on what your smartphone is doing. Right, it's getting them jostled 313 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:41.200 around, or if you're looking at it, if you're speeding in your car, 314 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:45.440 if you're breaking fast, that that all can be picked up by your 315 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.200 devices. Okay, I got to interrupt you for just a second, because 316 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.880 we're talking about cars spying on us exactly. I had to rent a car 317 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.359 a couple of weeks ago because my car was in the shop because I got 318 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:57.119 rear ended at Disneyland. But that's a whole other story. Okay, So 319 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:03.039 I rent this car and on the dashboard it says how much. Basically, 320 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:07.000 it gives you a meter of how much attention you're paying, So it says 321 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.519 attention level is high or attention level not high. But most of the time 322 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:14.440 it was at high. But there was one time when and I didn't notice 323 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:17.759 it at first, but I looked down at my phone just for a second, 324 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.240 and then I glanced back up and it like the meter had gone all 325 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:25.039 the way down to low. I was like, it's watching me and where 326 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.640 my eyes are looking. Yes, your car knows what you're doing. I 327 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:32.519 don't like that. Well, yeah, I mean, and in a rental 328 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:33.759 car you probably have no choice. But in your own car, if you 329 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.480 don't want your car keeping tabs on you, if it's a newer car and 330 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.599 it's connected saying with your phone, you can turn those things off. You 331 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:44.799 have to opt out. It's not a matter of opting into those features. 332 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:48.400 You have to opt out. Otherwise. Companies like this one called Arity, 333 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:53.079 which is the subsidiary of All State, can monitor your data and can sell 334 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.480 it to other companies. And that's what they do with this, with all 335 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.359 this data, and so I mean there is an upside to this. If 336 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:03.839 you have the All State app, for example, and it includes all those 337 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.359 features that we're talking about here, and you can prove that you're a safe 338 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.000 driver by not exceeding the speed limit, by keeping your eyes off off the 339 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.880 screen, by not slamming on the rags, then you'll get a lower insurance 340 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:19.480 rate. That's the carrot in this carrot and stick equation. Yeah. I 341 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:23.559 think Progressive Insurance has something like that. They've advertised that. Yeah. Okay, 342 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:27.519 So anyway back to the study about where it's safest to drive, where's 343 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:32.640 the safest place first, or at least risky, that's the best way to 344 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:36.279 put it. Honolulu, Hawaii is the best place or the risk of the 345 00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:41.839 most risk free. I suppose has the safest drivers in the whole country. 346 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:47.119 The other safe cities include Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Portland, Oregon. 347 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:51.039 That is Portland. Yeah, that's because the traffic is gridlocked. Like you 348 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.839 said, it's gridlocked here, but there it's gridlocked because they only have two 349 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:59.039 lanes on the freeway. Oh right, so you can't get up to get 350 00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:00.039 up to speed. But at the same time, if you're a gridlock, 351 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.319 you're probably playing with your phone or looking down and you know, looking at 352 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:08.000 emails and text messages, which you shouldn't do right right at the other end 353 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:14.480 of the of the scale, Albuquerque in Mexico is considered the least, say 354 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:17.880 for the riskiest place to drive. And why did they they have the kind 355 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:21.839 of the list of factors. Yes, yeah, they show you exactly what 356 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:26.759 this is about. Honolulu has the overall best rating, and they have the 357 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:32.680 people are least inclined to slam on the brakes. They're also driving at high 358 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:36.400 speeds the least in Honolulu, so they scored you know those two, those 359 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:40.799 two categories quite well. That makes sense because you're you're in Hawaii, you're 360 00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:42.640 on island tournaments, like, yeah, I'm on just like chill out, 361 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:47.720 chill. I know that sounded like a Jamaican accent, but it meant it 362 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:49.400 was meant to be, like everybody's just more chill on Hawaii. I wasn't 363 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:53.960 gonna say anything about it. The people handling their phones to the least though 364 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:59.839 in San Jose. But if you look at the riskiest drivers by category, 365 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:03.359 the overall riskiest drivers are in Albuquerque. The people who slam on the breaks 366 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:07.680 the most are in Bakersfield. California. Okay, people driving at high speed 367 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:11.799 the most are in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, and the ones handling their 368 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.599 phones the most are in Providence, Rhode Island. Does La top the list 369 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.680 anywhere? It doesn't, which is good, right, look at how good 370 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:21.160 we are any of the list. But it does show up on some the 371 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.960 list. People are slamming on their brakes there in Los Angeles. You show 372 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.799 up at number ninety four, in the place where people are slamming on their 373 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:32.599 breaks the most. All right, okay, So Honolulu, if you want 374 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:37.640 to be face the least risk and stay away from Albuquerque in Mexico. Yeah, 375 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:40.519 okay, we'll do. Jim Ryan, thank you so much. All 376 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:44.960 right, all right, Tucson, right carefully. You're listening to Wake Up 377 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.079 Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Okay, remember that song you 378 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.319 used to sing at camp Bear with me the other day? The other day, 379 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.240 I met a bear. I met a bear out in the woods, 380 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.960 out in the woods, A great big bear, A great big bear. 381 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.880 Yeah, well it came true for an ultrarunner at Yosemite. Pretty scary stuff. 382 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.680 But the guy's okay, Bill's going to tell you about that right now, 383 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.640 let's say good morning to the Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of 384 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.160 Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, Emily Fairfax. Hi, 385 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.680 Emily, Hi, good morning. So we wanted to talk to you 386 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:29.599 because beavers just may save us all. Yeah, I would say that. 387 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.160 Okay. So the answer to and when it comes to wildfires is what I'm 388 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.640 talking about. So the answer to the risk of wildfires in California may not 389 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:41.079 be more water storage or more firefighters, better defensible spaces around homes, but 390 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:47.000 it might be beaver's. Can you tell us why? Yeah, So it 391 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.880 is more water storage and more defensible spaces, but it doesn't necessarily have to 392 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:56.000 be us building them. It can be the beavers. So beavers are ecosystem 393 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.000 engineers, and when they go around and represent streams, their number one goal 394 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:03.240 is to build a great, big, wetland and to make sure it stays 395 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:07.799 wet and full of water, even during droughts, even during floods, and 396 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:12.319 even during wildfires. And so they're constantly out there maintaining these super soggy patches 397 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.839 and lines across the landscape. And what I've seen over and over in my 398 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:21.240 research is that when you have a big wildfire comes through, these beaver wetlands 399 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:26.480 are too wet to burn. Okay, And so now the problem now in 400 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:32.640 California at one of the problems in California is that they were hunted to almost 401 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:37.240 extinction in California. But they're trying to reintroduce them now, right, Yeah, 402 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.559 there used to be a lot of beavers in California. The Central Valley 403 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.039 was full of them, The Sacramento area was full of them. They were 404 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.799 from the mountains to the coasts, the north end of the South end, 405 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.720 and during the seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, we trapped them basically to 406 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.119 local extinction. There were very very few left in the state of California, 407 00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.640 and it stayed that way for a long time. For about one hundred plus 408 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.799 years, just weren't very many beavers. And slowly they're coming back, but 409 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:08.759 it doesn't feel fast enough. So the state CDFW is helping to conserve beavers, 410 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:12.599 bring back beavers, and even reintroduce beavers to places that they used to 411 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:15.759 live a while ago but haven't been back to quite a long time. So 412 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.759 how do you do that? Do you pull a beaver from somewhere else and 413 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.079 then just put them in a new house. Or do you take beavers that 414 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.599 are like in zoos? I mean, how is that process done? Definitely 415 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.240 easier said than done, for sure. The beavers are pretty fussy when it 416 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:36.000 comes to relocating them. You have to get the whole family and move them 417 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:37.519 all at once, and a family could be up to eight, nine, 418 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:42.039 even ten beavers that live together. You do take them from the wild, 419 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:45.720 not from zoos. Usually they're sourced from a place where they're in conflict with 420 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.920 landowners. Maybe they're chewing on trees or flooding the field that we don't want 421 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:55.519 flooded. And so those beavers get trapped and alive, trapping and round it 422 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.400 up and checked for their health, and then as a family unit, you 423 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:00.559 bring them to a new place where more wanted and where they have a better 424 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:07.480 chance at survival. Where are there a lot of beavers. The highest beaver 425 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.920 populations in California right now are mostly up by Tahoe and Truckee and then through 426 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:18.039 Sacramento down towards the Bay. Sacramento River has a pretty decent population on it, 427 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.160 Okay, And you mentioned that they were hunted to near extinction they were 428 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:25.240 trapped, and for like one hundred years we haven't had a lot of wild 429 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:29.880 beavers in the in California. Why is it because? Was it because of 430 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:33.200 their fur? Or is it because like farmers and ranchers didn't like that they 431 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:38.240 liked to build dams. It was for a few reasons. Fur was definitely 432 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:42.759 the earlier trappings. When the seventeen hundreds or so, they were trapped mostly 433 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.559 for fur that could be traded back to Europe. After that, they were 434 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:51.839 also trapped for castrium, which is an oil that comes out of glands inside 435 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:56.680 the beaver that is used in perfumes. Then they've also been trapped pretty heavily 436 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.960 since then for nuisance reasons. So when we do have conflict with beaver and 437 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:05.720 to it was a decision to try to control westward expansion through beaver trapping to 438 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:07.759 stop there from being for more people to come out. So they were a 439 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.680 political tool, they were a resource, they were a lot of different things, 440 00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:15.400 and we just really took it a bit too far, as we tend 441 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:20.799 to do. Okay, So now the effort is to get them back. 442 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:25.039 What kind of successes have we had. We've had a lot of successes. 443 00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:30.400 One of the biggest successes that I think is out there that maybe doesn't get 444 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.839 the attention it deserves is just the public attitude towards beavers in California is shifting. 445 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.920 There's more people that understand what they do, what they don't do. 446 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:42.359 Some of the myths about beavers are slowly being dispelled, like beavers don't deep 447 00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:45.279 fish, Beavers are not massive disease vectors. They do a lot of really 448 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:52.240 good things. Other big successes were the state reintroduced beavers up in the Mountain 449 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.480 Meido Consortium lands back last fall, and then they just reintroduced beavers to the 450 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:01.079 Tuley River Tribe the spring. And so these are really big movements to not 451 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:04.920 just bring beavers back, but to bring them back to the indigenous people that 452 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:08.519 have lived alongside them successfully for thousands of years and who do know how to 453 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:12.920 manage the species correctly. Okay, and the places that you mentioned where are 454 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:16.799 those? One of them is up in northern California, it's within the Dixie 455 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:22.240 fires car and the other one is in south central California by the giant sequoias. 456 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.880 Oh, we got to keep the lands near the giants. Sequoia is 457 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.799 nice and wet i think that's important. Yeah, we don't want those to 458 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.640 burn. Okay, And Emily, you say that even after a wildfire, 459 00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.359 which we've had, our share are more than our share, the ecosystem could 460 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:43.039 benefit from beaver's How is that. Yeah, So when the beavers prevent these 461 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:46.880 wetlands from burning during wildfire, after wildfire, the areas around them that did 462 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:52.519 burn, they do need to recover, and that requires there to be mature 463 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.519 plants and mature animals to help repopulate the rest of the landscape. So these 464 00:33:55.559 --> 00:34:00.519 beaver wetlands, they're like a great big storage bank of adult trees that can 465 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:05.839 flower and that can feed, and grasses and reeds and native plants and fish 466 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.679 and frogs and turtles and all the things that normally can't really outrun a wildfire. 467 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.480 They're there and they're alive, and they're able to reproduce after fire as 468 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.159 long as they were able to sort of hunker down for that brief moment in 469 00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:21.199 the beaver wetland. And we've seen this multiple times, lots of expansion of 470 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:25.320 greenness and recovery that really does center at these beaver ponds. So the beavers 471 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:30.519 are saving everybody. I love it. They're doing their best. I mean, 472 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.280 they just want to protect themselves and it's sort of a secondary thing for 473 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.920 them, but they do a good job at it. Like there's definitely a 474 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:43.280 keystone species and support a whole host of other organisms besides themselves. I think 475 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.599 it's so interesting because you don't think of like, you know that beavers make 476 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:49.920 dams and that kind of stuff, but like to hear that they are, 477 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:53.360 you know that they're so key to the whole ecosystem, the whole circle of 478 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:58.360 life thing. You know, each species plays a key part, and if 479 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:01.000 we would just get out of the way, maybe nature would act a little 480 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:05.559 better. Yeah, I mean, I get it. They are like sixty 481 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.840 five seventy pound rodents. People have issues with normal sized raps. I can 482 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:13.079 imagine a beaver being difficult for some folks to want to like. But the 483 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.719 more you learn about them, the more they grow on you. Okay, 484 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.159 Emily Fairfax, thank you so much for the information. I love that the 485 00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:21.800 beavers are saving the day, and I hope that we get more of them 486 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.800 in California. All right, thank you, thank you, thank you so 487 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:29.199 much. Isn't that cool? And you know, I went to Oregon State, 488 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.800 so I'm a big beaver believer anyway. But I love this and I 489 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.880 love watching how each Like I said, each species plays a key role in 490 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.920 the whole circle of life. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me, 491 00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:45.599 Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am 492 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:52.920 Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.