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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
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It's time for your morning wake up
call. Here's Amy King. Good

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morning. It's five o'clock. Straight
up. I'm gonna get up, get

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your day started. Got a lot
going on today, so let's get right

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to it. Here's what's ahead on
wake up call. Cruise are making progress.

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Did I say this is your wake
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skipped right over that. Oh okay, it's Wednesday. By the way.

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Cruise are making progress on the nearly
sixteen thousand acre fire burning near Gorma,

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and the fire is now thirty one
percent surrounded. Firefighters are still dealing with

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red flight conditions late yet as of
late yesterday, but the winds have died

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down. They were blowing up to
fifty five miles per hour. President Biden

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has announced he will take executive action
to grant temporary amnesty to more than a

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half million illegal immigrants. The plan
will protect the immigrants who are married to

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US citizens and their kids from deportation. We'll be talking more about the ins

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and outs of the executive Action with
ABC's Karen travers As coming up in less

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than five minutes. Baseball Hall of
Famer Willie Mays has died. He spent

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most of his twenty two season career
with the San Francisco Giants. He racked

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up six hundred and sixty home runs
and a record tying twelve Gold Glove Awards.

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He was elected to the Baseball Hall
of Fame in nineteen seventy nine and

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is regarded as one of the greatest
baseball players of all time. Willy Mays

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was ninety three. At the bottom
of the hour, we're going to be

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talking with the one and only Michael
Richards. You know him best as Kramer

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from Seinfeld. He has a new
book out called Entrances and Exits, and

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we hope you'll stick around for that. That's coming up at five thirty.

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Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four

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hour newsroom. A man suspected of
hurting a woman during a shooting on a

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bus in Baldwin Park has been charged
with attempted murder. CHP officer Joseph de

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Vila says a fight broke out between
two passengers Monday night, one of them

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pulled out a gun. He says
officers canvassed the area after the guy ran

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off. They worked all through the
night and we're able to uncover some leads

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and ultimately we're able to identify the
suspect as Juan Mario Trail, a thirty

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year old out of West Covina,
California. Divilla said the woman Hurd had

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non life threatening injuries and was released
from the hospital. Treo is being held

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on a million dollars bail. The
LAPD chief says he's concerned about a recent

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spike in officer involved shooting nomin Nitoi
didn't say how many of those shootings involved

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fatality. Here to date, there
have been sixteen officer involved shootings compared to

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twenty twenty three, which only had
nine. That's an increase of plus seven.

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Joey told the Police Commission yesterday he
wants to do a deeper dive on

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why that number jumps. He had
trans looking at type of weapons are faced

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with. Andy says that includes the
actions of both the suspects and officers.

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Choi says non shooting use of force
has been pretty stable. Steve Gregory,

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King of I News. Firefighters from
La City County and other public safety agencies

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are set to form a procession to
escort the body of a county firefighter from

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the Medical Examiner's office to Forest Lawn
Covina Hills Cemetery. Veteran firefighter Andrew Ponchus

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was killed last week when a truck
that caught fire at a quarry and Little

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Rock exploded. Anchis also served in
Elmonte, Rosemead, and San Fernando during

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his career. The procession today is
set to begin at eleven am. Russian

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President Putin and North Korean leader Kim
Jong un have signed a partnership deal that

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includes a vow of mutual aid if
either country is attacked. Russia's already getting

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weapons from North Korea to use in
Ukraine. Putin says Russia would not rule

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out developing military technical cooperation with North
Korea as part of the new deal.

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Today is June teenth, and as
a newer national holiday, it's a paid

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day off for the third time four
millions, as the US commemorates the end

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of slavery in the US. It
actually marks the day in eighteen sixty five

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when Major General Gordon Granger and his
two thousand Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay,

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Texas, and proclaimed that more than
two hundred and fifty thousand enslaved black

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people in Texas were free, the
last slaves in Confederate Territory. It's five

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seven on your wake up call.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen

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Travers. Karen, yesterday we talked
about the President getting ready to take executive

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action, and then he did it. So let's dive in a bit to

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what the plan is. Yeah,
he did. You know, two executive

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actions yesterday, the most sweeping protections
for undocumented immigrants since banking the Obama administration.

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This will, in the first one, I should say, we'll impact

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about five hundred thousand immigrants, mostly
from Mexico, who are married to US

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citizen. They will now be eligible
to apply for permanent residency through their spouses.

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After three years as permanent residents,
they can then apply for US citizenship.

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The President said that this order would
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it's not immediate. They can't start
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process will start getting underway. But
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One, they have to show that
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least a decade as of yesterday,
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Only people who are already married now
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get married in the future or start
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you're eligible, then you would then
have three years to apply for a green

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card. You know, the President
really emphasizing that this is about keeping families

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together because under current law, if
you apply for a green card, you

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would have to leave the country,
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wait out the process. And he
really emphasized this doesn't benefit people who recently

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came to the US. The White
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for this, that universe of about
five hundred thousand that I mentioned, on

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average, these people have been in
the US for twenty three years, Okay,

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And how long does the process normally
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the current law like you just said, where they'd have to leave after applying

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and then stay in their country until
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we were told yesterday or two days
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take up to a decade for you
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you are you leave and it could
take that long. So it's quite a

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process. And you know that's a
process than when you the spouse, husband

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or wife is not there then with
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this, they say, is to
get these people to apply and let them

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stay here because, as the President
put it, these people have been raising

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families, sending their kids to church
and school, and paying taxes and they

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should be able to wait the process
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then there was another executive action that
one was on dreamers. Yeah, that

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was on some dreamers. So this
would help people who have gone to a

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higher education accredited education university and receive
that education and have a work offer from

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an American employer in their field of
study. It helps them more quickly get

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a work visa. This is a
non immigrant visa, so this isn't a

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process towards citizenship, but enables them
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because of their education. So helping
out some subset of the so called dreamers,

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the undocumented migrants who came here as
children who are now adults more easily

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be able to work here legally.
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to citizenship and this when we talked
yesterday, we had said that there wasn't

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one, but there is one.
It just is going to take a little

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while. Yeah, for the first
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for the dreamer part, but yeah, it does. It would take a

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while. So you know, you
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take some time, and then after
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then you can apply for US citizenship, which again still takes some time.

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Okay, Then real quickly before you
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could it be rescinded? Then if
Biden doesn't get re elected. You

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know, I think that's a great
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I would have to look into that. That could not come up in

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any of our background calls with the
White House. I'd have to check.

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Okay, well cool, Then we
get to talk to you again and you'll

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have an answer for me. Adding
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Travers, thank you so much for
your time and information this morning. Thank

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you. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out

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of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA School Board has moved forward

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with plans to ban cell phones on
campuses to support students mental health. That

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ban would make it so students can't
use the phone during class or win at

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lunch or on other breaks. Board
member Nick Melboyne says the phones are getting

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in the way of learning and students
can't stay off of You had a vibration

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and then you start thinking, oh
as an emergency, as a my friend,

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am I missing out? You know, we hear a lot from our

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students about FOMA. Two board members
voted against the ban yesterday, saying we'll

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only create more work for teachers who
are already stressed. The board will have

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one hundred and twenty days to finalize
details of the policy before it goes into

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effect in January. Chris Adler KFI
News LA is asking more landlords to open

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their apartments to people with housing vouchers. Mayor Karen Bass and housing officials from

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the city and county made a pitch
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the California Endowment Offices. Bass said
at the meeting yesterday there are about three

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thousand people in the city who have
vouchers for subsidized rent, but no available

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apartments having the vouchers that not being
able to have an apartment for individuals.

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You can imagine how tough that is. Housing officials set a record. Six

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thousand people with vouchers got apartments last
year, but the need remains for more

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this year. In downtown La Michael
Monks KFI News, a man in Oakland's

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been arrested for allegedly firebombing a UC
Berkeley police car. Police say Casey Gunan

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is also suspected of three other arsons
on campus, possibly in protest of the

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Israel Hamas War. Some students say
they're not surprised. That's exactly what protest

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is supposed to be, supposed to
make people uncomfortable. Groups against the war

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reportedly claimed responsibility online for all the
fires before Gunan was arrested, admitting it

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was retaliation for how other student protesters
have been treated. The US has denied

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claims by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who says the Biden administration is withholding

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weapons deliveries. The White House says
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to Israel, and that was in
May. Since Hamas's vicious attack on October

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seventh, we've rushed billions of dollars
of security assistance to Israel to enable them

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to defend themselves, and we're going
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assistance they need again for defense.
Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder says

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the US government remains committed to Israel's
right to defend itself. Kevin Costa says

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he hasn't shut the door on returning
to Yellowstone, despite earlier news that he

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wouldn't be back. Costner told The
Today Show he would return under the right

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circumstances. Say there's a chance.
There's always a chance. I love the

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thing. That follows reports of a
scheduling conflict as Costner worked on his Western

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movie Horizon last year. Costner says
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five because there was no script.
We lost an entire year at one point,

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and I thought, well, that
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strikes also put things on pause,
but part two of the fifth and final

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season is on track to premiere in
November. Can't wait. We'll see if

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John Dutton makes his way back to
the ranch. Hey, did you know

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that it's casual Friday at the Olympics. A Naboo Jean Ze naboomboojee Ze.

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Ruff Loren has come out with the
design for Team Usay's opening Olympic ceremony uniforms.

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They'll be wearing snappy blue blazers and
blue jeans from Ralph Florin just regular

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everyday denim blue jeans. Ralph Lauren
said it's unexpected yet classic. For the

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closing ceremonies, they'll be wearing sharp
white Moto style denim jeans with matching jackets

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designed in red, white and blue
jeans. Really, come on, maybe

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you dress up a little bit.
No, that's America. That's Murka right

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there. Jeans Okay. The La
School Board District has passed a plan to

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ban cell phones and social media at
school. The board passed it yesterday five

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to two. It'll take a few
months to finalize the policies, and the

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band's expected to go into effect early
next year. Governor Newsom is apparently refusing

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to negotiate new crime bills unless a
ballot measure to repeal parts of Prop forty

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seven is dropped from the November ballot. CBS News California says the ultimatum is

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in a leaked email. Prop forty
sive passed by voters reduces thefts of nine

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hundred and fifty dollars or less to
misdemeanors. The California State Fair will be

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the first in the nation to allow
the sale and consumption of cannabis, and

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exhibition hall will also be dedicated to
cannabis. I just heard Cono cheer.

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Their visitors will be able to learn
more about California's history with cannabis and speak

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with farmers from the state's top brands
and farms. The California State Fair runs

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from July twelfth through the twenty eighth
at cal Expo at six oh five.

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Is handle on the news. Israel's
Prime Minister is calling foul on the US,

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claiming it is withholding weapons which is
slowing down. It's offensive in rafa.

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Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Michael Dubuski. Good morning,

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Michael, Good morning, Amy.
How are you good. The US

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Surgeon General wants to put warning labels
on social media apps. Yeah, that's

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right. So this has been a
big topic in the tech world all this

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week since Vivek Murphy, the US
Surgeon General, published this big op ed

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in The New York Times on Monday, calling for essentially tobacco style warning labels

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to appear on certain social media platforms, and he lays out a pretty frightening

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portrait of what specifically young people are
going through in the United States with regards

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to social media. He lays out
a few statistics here. He says adolescents

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who spend more than three hours a
day on social media face double the risk

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of anxiety and depression, and the
average amount of time that this age group

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spends on social media every day four
point eight hours, just under five hours

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a day, so obviously a big
concern there. He also said almost half

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of adolescents say that social media makes
them feel worse about their bodies. That's

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why he is now calling for these
warning labels, which again he sees kind

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of acting like the warning labels you
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of obscuring part of the branding,
part of the packaging. These would appear

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either in front of certain content or
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on certain social media platforms. Adolescens
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the technology they're using. So it
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hearing about this and you're like,
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because it's literally a physical thing with
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their friends are on them, and
so they're like, of course I'm going

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to go on the social media apps. But maybe I don't know, Maybe

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it does have an effect because it
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Absolutely, it's a very different animal, no doubt. But you're absolutely

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right that these warning labels had a
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after they were introduced about fifty years
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forty percent of American adults smoked every
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figure was just under twelve percent,
so a very dramatic decline after these warning

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labels were introduced. Now, of
course, other policies and the federal government

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made other efforts to curb American smoking
habits during that time, and similarly,

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vivecmurthy says that this warning label idea
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a larger puzzle. It's not going
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solution. But given the nature of
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Even still, though, we have
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precludes is congressional approval. This is
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He also says that more action is
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going to require action from lawmakers.
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any federal level legislation aimed at addressing
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to social media. But a few
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out here. Despite the fact that
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of social media on teens and how
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companies appear before congress answering questions about
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there is not a firm scientific link
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these negative health symptoms in young people. At the end of last year,

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the National Academies of Sciences and Medicine
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the results of many studies, and
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and mental health are small and weak
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but the role of social media in
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in the air. Okay, And
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the owners of the platforms aren't too
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they have not specifically addressed this warning
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if this were to move forward in
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so. Both Richard Blumenthal and Marsha
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have thrown their support behind this idea. You can imagine that they would

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mount a respeech argument, as they
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that has cropped up on the state
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saying that by limiting the reach of
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of communication that can happen between young
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that would otherwise not be able to
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The TikTok argument exactly the TikTok argument
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many times when they've confronted the sort
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But in addition to that, even
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argument that hey, you know,
if I'm an LGBTQ team that has grown

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up in a community that does not
accept me, Well, then I can

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find that community on social media and
that has been you know, a net

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good for society is platforms, would
argue, so very thorny issue, no

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doubt, obviously. Yeah, and
we'll be watching it. But before we

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let you go, there is a
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if you're a speed dem at this
speed demon, this one might not be

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for you, but tell us about
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I got a chance to have a
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earlier this week. Wait, wait
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I sure did. It is an
electric scooter, so you think EV,

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you think car, but this is
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Amy, I want you to picture
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because that's kind of the size and
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white, and the handlebars sort of
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unfold it within the space of a
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when you know what you're doing.
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sit down. There's a little seat
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put it there. It's got little
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set up and you sit down on
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so not very fast, but I
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know. We got a chance to
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the river Promenade here in New York
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office, and yeah, it gets
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the wind. It was not so
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people take the train into work,
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to work, right, they have
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the office, or vice versa.
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take you all the way home.
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fifty thousand dollars new car to take
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you buy this one thousand dollars a
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you there, and once you get
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up, bring it in, plug
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the ride home. The range is
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start around nine hundred and ninety five
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an E bike, a little bit
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great, that sounds kind of fun. I don't know that it works

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in LA definitely like New York's,
but you know, we'll be watching it,

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and I can't wait to see HM
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right, Mike Debuski, thank you
so much. I have a good one,

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all right, you two. Tonight
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ten impossibly unaffordable cities. A new
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San Diego, and San Jose on
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President Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong
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other if either is attacked. AMI
on it Aami's on it's on Itami's on

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it. What am I on?
I'm generally on the couch watching TV or

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reading, and I check out streaming
movies or movies in theaters, and sometimes

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I check out books, and this
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let's say good morning now to one
of the stars of Seinfeld, three time

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Emmy Award winner and now author of
the new book Entrances and Exits. It's

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Michael Richards. Oh, thank you, Amy. It's a pleasure to be

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here. Truly, I am thrilled
to talk to you because I have I

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don't speed read, but I binged
your book, so I've read it pretty

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much cover to cover, and I
think it gave me such an interesting insight

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into you, because when you see
an actor on stage or on screen,

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you think that's who the person is. And I think this book shows that

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there's so much more than that.
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So there's the actor that profession of
mine, which I put aside for

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a while, and there's the person
or the face behind the mask. Yes,

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yes, indeed, and I certainly
got into the face and yes,

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yes, yes. Jerry Seinfeld did
a foreword of your book and he said

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that all of the ingredients that went
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But for him, he said,
Michael will always be the bubbles that made

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the drink so tickley and tingly.
I think that after reading the book,

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I see why he said that.
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Jerry. Ye yes, I certainly
had a place in the show,

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didn't I. You did. And
the book is not only about the show.

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It's about your life obviously. So
for people who are first learning that

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you have a book out, tell
them what they can expect when they read

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Entrances and Exits. Well, we
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person behind the television show Seinfeld,
actually behind the whole body of work.

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An actor. You had so much
more than I didn't know about you.

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I thought it was really fascinating.
There was so much more before Seinfeld and

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so much after. Well. Of
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course of my life unfolding lots of
entrances and exits, not just pertaining to

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stage work, the actor's entrance and
the actor's exit. Although, as Shakespeare

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put it, all the world is
a stage and we're all playing parts,

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so to speak. So the task
is to understand your part or the character

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you're playing and the nature of your
story. So it's a course that I'm

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certainly on to this day, nearly
seventy five, where I'm looking at the

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story that I am. And that
was my task in putting the book together,

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is to bring about my story so
that other could other people could see

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this guy that has become so famous
through a television character, Well, here's

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some more to being the story that
I am. Yeah, and when you

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wrote that the book, lines from
the show come up in the book,

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not as quotes, but just as
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is and it just happens very naturally, And I really like that because it

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then brings you back to the fabulousness
that is Seinfeld. And so it's fun

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how you just kind of weave that
in and out of the story like it's

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just part of the vernacular, you
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weave in and out of my life, I'll never ever be able to get

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rid of that weaving in view of
what Seinfeld was and is still all about.

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It's running very strong on Netflix,
as you know, and as a

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whole following that's coming up a new
generation of a view. Yeah, So

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I'll always be continuing to weave myself
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it's fun too, because when you
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just about you, you start getting
this great visual, which I think is

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what you did so well with writing
the book that when you're talking about the

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show Man, it takes me right
back there and I'm like, yep,

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I remember that, I remember that
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then when you were explaining other situations
with other people in your life as you

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were growing up that I was like, Okay, so was he like Kramer

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then or was he a different form
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And because you weaved the two together, yeah, I do. Yet there

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are other parts where we see I'm
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effort to make people laugh, to
bring about laugh the great haha, there

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are times where I'm I'm more reflective
and looking very very closely at why things

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are the way they are and what
do I what do I do with it?

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How do I make sense out of
this and that to understand the course

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I'm on ultimately striving for understanding well. And you also learned from this book

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that you you like to read and
you like to do something thinking and diving,

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which again was a surprise because what
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So it's really fun to get to
see more sides of you. Oh

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I'm I'm I'm touched by that.
Uh yeah, yeah, I probe okay,

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ask why. I'll seeking for the
meaning of one's I know this sounds huge,

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but one's existence. How what's the
point of being on this planet and

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all that sort of thing. It's
and that's seventy five you know, I

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mean a reflective period of my life, particularly when I got the cancer,

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you know, to understand, well, I live in a field that's full

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of life and death and so the
two go hand in hand. So I

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got deeply involved in in philosophy and
religion and psychology to understand the way of

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my humanity. Ye yeah, I
didn't know about the cancer until I read

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the book. So and you're doing
good now, yeah? Oh yeah,

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yeah I am, yes indeed,
yeah, yeah, I got through through

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it. Yeah, yeah, I
know it's Garry. I'm a fellow cancer

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survivor, so I get you.
I understand that, but yeah, you

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deal with it. You face a
lot of stuff and then you move on

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with your life. So we all
know that there's an event that dramatically changed

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the trajectory of your career and your
life. Michael, on November seventeenth,

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two thousand and six, you got
into it with a heckler at a comedy

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club. There was a lot going
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and the guy said, of all
things, you're not funny, which

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led to an escalation. We know
the words you said. What we don't

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know is the story behind it or
what happens next. So is there anything

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you feel like saying about it,
because otherwise I'll say, you know what,

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read the book and learn about it. Yeah, yeah, it's all

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in the book. Yeah. Indeed, the before, in the midst of,

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and after, it's quite a course
to attend to in seeking understanding and

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moving on. But not until I
get understanding, can I even go to

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a place of forgiveness in the forgiving
of myself. First comes understanding, then

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you can let it go. Then
you can move on. And I also

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feel too that career, career that's
a big word, and we also have

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a career in living, so it's
not like, well, I'm not working

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in Hollywood, so I'm done.
There's also the bigger, the bigger career

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of just attending to one's life,
you know, so stepping back from vocation

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and seeing well, who I am
I as a person, as a person

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before I go to work and take
on that kind of activity. There's also

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the activity of knowing who the person
is, really getting into the what that

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reminded me of what you're talking about, getting to know the person is on

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part of the book you talked about
when going back to Seinfield. When it

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first started, you were on the
show, you weren't a huge part of

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it. You didn't know the backstory
of who this Kramer character was. And

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what you said is I'm not the
main character and that's going to be okay

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because I want some time with Kramer. I don't want the focus on this

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show. I want to be under
the radar while I get to know who

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Kramer is. So what did you
do to find out who Kramer is?

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Oh? Boy, it's a again. I go into this rather deeply in

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the book. In the creation of
a character, there's a lot to it,

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and back to understanding, getting to
the way I can understand Kramer as

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a character, as an identity that
everybody else can identify with everybody getting into

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Kramer. There has to be a
certain life in the character that I think

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people can resonate with, even if
it's so unconscious as to why do I

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like this Kramer character? Why does
he make me laugh? Attending to all

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the mannerisms and the movements of this
character, it's all manufactured from the standpoint

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of creating a character. The way
he looks, the way he dresses,

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the way he stands around. You
know, I really had to get into

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these shoes literally finding the right shoes
for this character. It was a deep

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process, and I think it's well
said in the book for actors who are

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interested in character building and so forth, I think I'm making a contribute to

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the actor's process in performance through through
character. Yeah. Well yeah, I

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think if somebody is looking to be
an actor or learning about it, I

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think that you do such a great
job just kind of breaking it down and

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talking about about again how you meld
the two. And then you mentioned the

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shoes, and there's a whole section
in the in the book about shoes not

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only for this character, but for
so many others. What was the importance

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of shoes. Yes, for me, it's a certain tick of mine.

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It's just the way in which I
go about feeling comfortable in how the character

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stands within his shoes or slides into
a room through the shoes. Yeah,

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you know. I worked extensively with
Stella, who was a remarkable acting teacher,

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and Joanne Lynnville look along the way. You know. It's taking a

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great deal experience to come to know
myself as an actor, my process and

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what I go through in order to
bring about a character, whether it's on

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stage, TV or motion pictures.
So I'm an actor and I discovered that

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at a very young age. And
I talk about how I discovered this,

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how I stepped into the complexity of
being an actor, which of course is

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the complexity of myself as an artist
being touched by a talent. I discovered

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this and it just opened up my
way for entering the world. I think

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that began when I was thirteen years
old. Up to that point, I

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had no real interest in attending school. And when I found drama, oh

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my god, I took to it
like, as they say, a duck

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to water. It's fun when you
find your calling, Like it's like,

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oh, that's what I'm supposed to
do. Yeah, And we all have

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a calling and we're all supposed to
find it where it comes about, in

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what we notice that we're good at
or or super interested in. Yeah,

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and then the task of unfolding as
an individual comes through these callings. I'm

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fascinated with that, Amy just fascinated
with being human and what a calling is

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and how it provokes interest or inspiration
or grace or yeah. Yeah, all

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right, So Michael, what do
you hope people are going to get out

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of this book? Because I'm sure
after hearing this a lot of people are

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going to go get it. What
do we hope they'll get out of it?

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Yeah? Oh, it's just just
the recognition that we're we're all in

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this together. Okay, Well,
I'm going to tell you, like I

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said, I binge read it.
Here's what I got that one. You're

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immntally talented, thoughtful, you see
your struggles. I think you're obviously very

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well read and insightful and reflective,
and I think you're funny. And I

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thank you because I'm I'm I'm deeply
touched by everyone's interest in knowing a little

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bit about Kramer and about the guy
behind it all. Thank you, thank

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you well, and thank you because
like I said, we all love Kramer.

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Everybody knows that. But learning more
about what inspired you, you know

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what happened when you were thirteen,
about your time in the army and your

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life, and you know your entrances
and your exits. It's really a good

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good read. Oh thank you,
yeah, thank you so much. It

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was four years putting it together and
always hoping that I'm I'm saying what I

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mean. I think you did.
I think you did. Michael Richards,

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thank you so much for your time
today. I appreciate it a time.

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And Amy, thank you, thank
you. Amy. The book is Entrances

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and Exits, It's Michael Richards,
and as I just told him, it's

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really an interesting, fun book to
read. And if you are a fan

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of Seinfeld, a big chunk of
it is Seinfeld and it takes you right

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back. I want to go watch
the series again. This is KFI and

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