WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.200 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:12.720 forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You are in the 3 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:18.960 home stretch. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Friday morning wake up call. 4 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:26.679 Doesn't it feel good even when, like every week it's the same mister announcer 5 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:31.480 guy with the homestretch thing, And every week it makes me happy because what 6 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:36.479 happens on the weekend, we get to sleep in. Whoo whoo. I 7 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.640 hope you're a Monday through Friday are And if you're not, you know what 8 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:44.399 I mean. So even if your weekend comes on Saturday or Sunday or whatever, 9 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.520 oh man, knowing that you can sleep in that extra little bit and 10 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.479 that no alarm is going to have to wake you up, that's the best 11 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.840 part. Well it is for me anyway. I hope you guys are doing 12 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:00.240 great this morning. Beautiful weekend. We could see highs today in the eighties, 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.920 near ninety today and tomorrow cool it back down for Sunday again, and 14 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.359 then it looks like we'll be cooler next week. But man, this is 15 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:12.359 a beach weekend if I have ever seen one. Some of the stories we're 16 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:17.239 watching on your wake up call this morning. A former LAPD officer has been 17 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:23.280 arrested for allegedly raping a minor. Three hit and run drivers who killed three 18 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.599 people within four hours in South la or on the loose. Coming up at 19 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.319 five o five, we're going to talk with ABC's Inez de la Kutera. 20 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:38.879 NATO's chief says Ukraine should be a member country. Okay, so that sounds 21 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.519 great, and I know that we've heard the Ukrainian president Zelenski say yeah, 22 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:47.640 they would love to be a member of NATO. However, how likely is 23 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:51.640 that to happen? And what does that do if NATO says all right, 24 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:56.719 you're in Ukraine, what does that do then to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 25 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.640 We'll get into that within in just a few minutes. Let's start with some 26 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.879 of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A former 27 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.960 LAPD officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor. The department says the 28 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:17.639 alleged assault happened before Diego Miranda Lopez actually became an officer. The LAPD says 29 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:23.599 he resigned when he was confronted with the allegations. Steve Gregory is going to 30 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.000 be following up on this story for US later. Three hit and run drivers 31 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.159 who killed three people within four hours in South la are on the loose. 32 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.800 One of the people was hit and killed while being treated by responders from already 33 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.680 being hit by a car. Police say the other two men were hit while 34 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:43.639 crossing the street. LAPD officer Gerald Chavarria says one man was just steps away 35 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.680 from his home when he was hit. It was so violent that it pushed 36 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.879 him almost a block down the street to the LAPD is asking for help to 37 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.879 find the car that hit the man. Police say it's a silver Sedan with 38 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.039 damage to its hood and windshield. All three crashes happened the night before Easter 39 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:01.639 and early Easter morning in La Blake troll Use. Two men who were wrongly 40 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:07.319 convicted of attempted murder and served nearly seventeen years in prison have been declared innocent 41 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:13.479 by a judge in Lancaster. I find that mister Rayford and mister Glass were 42 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:20.360 not shoes nor the aim of the actual shooters. Now, under a new 43 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.680 law in California, the state is required to pay the men one hundred forty 44 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:29.000 dollars for every day they spent in prison. A new trial for the two 45 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.560 started in October, and it included a confession by the actual shooter, who 46 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:38.639 was a gang member serving a life sentence for another case. So the exonerated 47 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.199 men, who had no criminal history, said from the start that they were 48 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:46.439 innocent. Their case was taken up by the Innocence Rights Project at the UC 49 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.560 Irvine School of Law. The families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip 50 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:57.080 massacre in twenty seventeen are receiving shares of almost all of the shooters one point 51 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.000 four million dollars estate. The man killed him before police got to him. 52 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.960 A lawyer who handled the case says, over the next several weeks the money 53 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:10.680 will be divvied up between the families of the sixty one people who were killed 54 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:14.360 in the shooting. Now more than eight hundred and fifty people were hurt in 55 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:16.879 the attack. The lawyer says it took more than five years to a praise, 56 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:21.519 sell, and distribute proceeds from the shooters assets, including his two homes, 57 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:27.959 an investment property in Nevada, and forty nine guns. State money has 58 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.759 been provided for a new desalination project in Torans. The California Department of Water 59 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:36.079 Resources has given five million for construction of a pipeline from an existing water well 60 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:41.120 to an existing desaulting plant and self cleaning filter system. Officials say, when 61 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.079 finished, the new conduit will provide enough water for twenty two hundred households and 62 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.360 reduce the city's reliance on imported water. They say the project will also provide 63 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:53.360 a sustainable, local, safe drinking water supply. Governor Newsom has said he 64 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:58.079 would spend money to build more desalination plants around the state. Steve Gregory Camfine 65 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.759 news and the Supreme Court could suit announce a decision on access to a widely 66 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:06.920 used abortion pill. The Court imposed a deadline on itself to announce a decision 67 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:12.839 by the end of today. ABC's Rachel Scott says the justices have several options. 68 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.480 They could allow the restrictions to go into effect even in states where abortion 69 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.240 is legal. They could take up the case themselves nearly one year after Roversus 70 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:23.680 Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court. Or they could send it back down 71 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.680 to the lower courts to be worked out. The FDA approved the pill in 72 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:32.160 two thousand. A federal judging Texas recently overturned that approval. An appeals court 73 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:38.600 modified the ruling so that method presstone could remain available while the case continues, 74 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:44.000 but with restrictions and that includes in person doctor visits and no pills by mail. 75 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:49.879 Multiple negative audits have prompted the recently formed renewable Energy Provider in Orange County 76 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:55.120 to fire it's CEO. This is a move to make sure if the agency 77 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:59.199 gets a fresh start. Osipower Authority board chair and Fullerton Mayor Fred junk says 78 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:03.040 despite Brian Probolski's great efforts in twenty twenty to grow the OCPA to serve four 79 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.480 cities by twenty twenty two, negative audits from the state, county, a 80 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.879 city, and a grand jury took away from the positive growth. The Orange 81 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:15.319 County Power Authority has been ahead of its projections. The concerns have been from 82 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:21.519 a transparency perspective from best practices concerns. Probolsky was fired Tuesday. His last 83 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.879 day is the end of next month. In Fullerton, Corbin car sink if 84 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.839 I news Well the Border Patrol says so far this year there have been a 85 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:35.639 thirty percent increase in the number of illegal immigrants who have crossed the California Mexico 86 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:41.560 border. Officials say from October twenty twenty two to April of this year, 87 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:46.240 more than one hundred nine thousand migrants were caught at the border. During this 88 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:49.759 same time last fiscal year, it was just over eighty three thousand. Most 89 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:55.000 of these would be on foot climbing the fencer, crossing the border between where 90 00:06:55.000 --> 00:07:00.959 there's gaps in the infrastructure. Agent Dan Anderson says seventy seven percent of those 91 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:04.600 caught are single adults, and most of them come from countries other than Mexico. 92 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:10.360 Anderson says fentnyl seizures are also way up from the same time last year. 93 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.920 He says sixty percent of the fentnyl in the US enters at the US 94 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.480 California Mexico border. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Inez de la Kutera. 95 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:28.160 So and as yesterday we heard the yten Stoltenberg of the NATO Alliance say 96 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:32.600 that Ukraine needs its rightful place in NATO, and I thought to myself, 97 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.959 first off, from where did that come? But secondly, WHOA that would 98 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:42.959 change big time our approach to how we handle Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hey, 99 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.600 good morning. Yeah, that's right. So the NATO Secretary General Yev 100 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:49.439 Stoltenberg was in the Kiev yesterday. He made a surprise visit to Ukraine, 101 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:56.120 his first visit since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and standing alongside the Ukrainian President's 102 00:07:56.199 --> 00:08:01.759 Lenski, he talked about how Ukraine's rightful place was as a member of NATO, 103 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:07.240 how NATO allies had all agreed that Ukraine should eventually be allowed to join, 104 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.879 but that the focus right now should be on helping Ukraine defeat Russia. 105 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:13.279 Now, even though he's he's saying, you know, so, I think 106 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.920 one it'll be interesting to see the reaction coming out of Russia. Russia launched 107 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.600 its invasion in part, you know, arguing that it was worried that Ukraine 108 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.240 could join NATO and that that would pose an existential threat to Russia. And 109 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.920 the Kremlin actually made those same arguments again on a Thursday. So, um, 110 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.559 we're keeping an eye on Russia to see what their reaction is here. 111 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:35.639 Um. But the other thing is that even though Staltenberg is saying that Ukraine 112 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.440 should eventually be allowed to join, that all NATO members have right now agreed 113 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.799 that Ukraine should eventually join. I think in practice it's going to be a 114 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.279 little bit more complicated to get all uh, you know, NATO countries to 115 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.960 agree to Ukraine joining. We saw that the hurdles that needed to be overcome 116 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.559 when when it came to Finland and Sweden, with both Finland and Sweden announcing 117 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.279 they wanted to join close to a year ago now and then Turkey blocking those 118 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:05.840 bids. Turkey had its own demands, and we know when it comes to 119 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.440 Ukraine, you know, a number of countries have their own concerns about Ukraine 120 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:15.279 joining NATO. So, you know, I think in theory Stoltenberg is talking 121 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.840 about how eventually, at a later point in time, Ukraine should be allowed 122 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.360 to join, But in practice, I think it's going to be a little 123 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.519 trickier than that, and it'll probably be a while before Ukraine does take any 124 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.200 concrete steps to join, Okay, And what are or who are some of 125 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:35.200 the countries and why might they want to block Ukraine coming into NATO. So 126 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.559 there's a few things. So one, you know, for instance, they 127 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.639 need to figure out Ukraine's exact borders, and as Ukraine is waging its war 128 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:46.120 on Russia, that's something that's going to be kind of hard to determine right 129 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.200 now, with Russia having illegally annexed or in parts of Ukraine, and Ukraine 130 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.559 for instance, still claiming Crimea as a Ukrainian territory, and so things like 131 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.440 that are going to make the whole process more complicated. There are also those 132 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.759 countries that worry that you know, having Ukraine actually begin the process would just 133 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.320 escalate the crisis here and would would bring you know, of course, draw 134 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.360 NATO into the conflict with Russia and kick off World War three essentially, So 135 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:15.200 that's of course a big concern. And then there are things that also Ukraine 136 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.360 just has to you know, when it comes to for instance, Ukraine possibly 137 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.919 joining the European Union as well. Corruption is a big thing that they've been 138 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.480 tasked with rooting out and proving that they've taken concrete steps to route that out. 139 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.120 So the same ghost for NATO, they're going to have to show that, 140 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.519 you know, there are certain things they're going to have to show before 141 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.159 they can actually begin the process. I thought too, it was interesting that 142 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:43.240 yesterday things came out regarding the Olympics in Paris and what it would do if 143 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.679 Russia's invasion of Ukraine is still going on when the Olympics are in Paris in 144 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:52.000 twenty twenty four, that's right. Yeah, So that's been a big point 145 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.879 of debate whether Russian athletes and Belarussian athletes should be allowed to compete. In 146 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.799 the past, when there have been issues with Russia, for instance, doping 147 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.320 scandals, Russian athletes were still allowed to compete, just not under the kind 148 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.639 of national official you know, Russian flag, um. But but there are 149 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:11.480 those you know this time around that are saying that even that shouldn't be allowed, 150 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.159 that that letting any Russian athlete compete um would essentially be an endorsement of 151 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:20.440 the war in Ukraine, and and and it would be the international community giving 152 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:26.399 Russia a pass um. So so we did hear from the Paris mayor yesterday 153 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:30.360 saying that she, you know, is against Russian athletes competing. Um, 154 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:31.399 it's not. It's not up to her though. So even though you know, 155 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.399 she's making headlines and it's certainly some strong rhetoric coming from her, it'll 156 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.639 ultimately be up to the International Olympic Committee to decide whether to let Russian and 157 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.879 fellow Russian athletes compete, all right, And as, Thank you so much 158 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.879 for your time this morning. We'll talk to you again soon. Thank you 159 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.399 all right, see you later. That is abcason As de la Kutera. 160 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:58.679 Man. You know, it seems so you have you have the NATO chief 161 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.840 coming in and saying Ukraine should be here, they are a rightful member. 162 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.600 Blah blah blah. It is so much harder than that guy just saying it. 163 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.360 And so even though you have headlines that come out that say, yes, 164 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.679 absolutely we should see Ukraine in this, it takes an act of Congress 165 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.120 or NATO as the case may be, to make this happen. And the 166 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.679 chances of Ukraine actually becoming a part of NATO are slim to none at least 167 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:33.559 four right now. But it doesn't matter. Russia still sees this as provocation, 168 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:39.480 and so will they retaliate in some fashion more than likely, because that's 169 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:46.000 what Boutin does when that remains to be seen and how that's the scary part. 170 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.399 Did you know that there's talk about AM radio being removed from new cars 171 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:52.919 and trucks. When I heard this, we did a story on it. 172 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:58.440 Actually, I wait, wait, what do you know that THEMA and first 173 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:03.679 responders across the country rely heavily on AM radio to deliver public warnings and emergencies 174 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:11.399 because AM radio has an unmatched reach, it's resilient, and oh it's free. 175 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:13.720 Do we forget about that now? Some people say you don't need radio 176 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:18.039 because you get alerts on your phone, but that is not the same thing. 177 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.320 A text alert on your phone is not a substitute for what AM broadcast 178 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.879 radio provides in your times of need. It's a one line text alert can't 179 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.519 take the place of that voice on the radio me telling you here's what's going 180 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.799 on. You get the twenty four to seven emergency passes, and that is 181 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.960 assuming that the cell networks are even up and running if there was an emergency, 182 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.279 and oftentimes they're not. So when emergencies occur, your local broadcast radio 183 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.360 station is there to provide wall to wall coverage, life saving information and live 184 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:56.240 connections in crisis, and the radio stays there in the aftermath. So here's 185 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.919 what you can do. Make your voice heard on this issue. The AM 186 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.919 radio stay in the new cars and trucks. Text the letters AM to five 187 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.159 to eight eight six. Text the letters AM to five to eight eight six. 188 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:16.840 This is how you can tell Congress to keep AM radio in all cars 189 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:22.080 and trucks. So again, text the letters AM to five to eight eight 190 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:28.200 six, and I mean, it makes absolutely no sense when AM radio has 191 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.799 the reach unlike anything you're going to get on an FM dial, and they 192 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:35.600 wanted to take it out. I was like, whose idea was? This 193 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:43.200 shows you we don't have necessarily all the brightest bulbs in Congress just saying. 194 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:48.399 A former LAPD officer has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor. The department 195 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:54.600 says the alleged assault happened before Diego Miranda Lopez actually became an officer. The 196 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:00.919 LAPD says he resigned when he was confronted with the allegations. The Supreme Court 197 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.200 could soon announce a decision on access to a widely used abortion pill. The 198 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:11.279 Court imposed a deadline on itself to announce a decision by the end of Friday. 199 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:16.279 Let's say good morning now to the editor in chief of investopedia dot com, 200 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.080 Caleb Silver. Caleb, good morning, good morning, and do not 201 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:22.679 touch my AM radio. I just made that text message myself. Can't touch 202 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.840 any radio, especially Claify. Okay, thank you so much for doing that. 203 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.200 Yeah, it just seemed like the dumbest decision. It was like, 204 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.720 whose bright idea was that to take that out of cars? All right, 205 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:39.240 So when it comes to the stock market, when we start talking about talking 206 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.799 about the debt ceiling. Anytime you're going to sort of weigh in on money, 207 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:45.279 or Congress is going to weigh in on money, you know that the 208 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:50.000 stock market is going to react somehow. Yesterday we saw a rebound. Explain 209 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.919 why and how that happens. Yeah, I don't think the debt ceiling is 210 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.120 his first and foremost in the investor's minds. Right now, we're going through 211 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.559 earning season. We want to see how these banks are holding up. So 212 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.200 investors are sort of sizing that up and deciding what's going to happen when the 213 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.720 Fed meets again in early May. But the debt ceiling is going to become 214 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.720 a very serious problem. Although we don't have the exact date, people are 215 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.080 targeting what they call date X. That's the middle of August when we run 216 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.559 out of money. Remember, we have a thirty one point four trillion dollars 217 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.399 deficit, and if we don't vote, if Congress doesn't vote to raise the 218 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.399 debt ceiling, we will default on our debt and we'll probably get a debt 219 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.039 downgrade that will affect the stock market, because when our debt gets downgraded, 220 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:30.240 that has an impact throughout capital markets. Okay, so really, then what 221 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:36.360 you're saying is this is kind of backburner at the moment anyway for stock watchers. 222 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:38.399 Yeah, but it's going to get to be very hot if we get 223 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.919 into the summer and there is no debt ceiling. And right now there's a 224 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:47.200 standoff. Representative of McCarthy, the House leader, just proposed a limit Saved 225 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:49.120 Grow Act. Rolls right off the tongue. This is a way to raise 226 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:52.399 the debts in or at least kick it into twenty twenty four and pull back 227 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.279 about four point five trillion dollars in savings. Most of that is money that 228 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:02.120 President Biden and his administration pledge through the Inflation Reduction Act, but also money 229 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:06.920 for the irs, also ending the proposal that cancel student loans. So there's 230 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.519 a lot of rollback here if it passes. But President Biden is not looking 231 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:12.039 at this at all, and so we'll probably have a stand up that goes 232 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:17.680 into the summer. Okay, what does the stock market want? What's the 233 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.920 victory? I guess, or you know, can you kind of see that 234 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.720 as far as the stock market would look at where it lands when the fight 235 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:29.880 over the debt ceiling finally all shakes out. Yeah, I mean, investors 236 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.440 like government spending. They don't want too much rollback because the government spending produces 237 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:36.279 capital flow into the market. So if we have some sort of a deal 238 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.119 where we can at least punt again, because that's what we do every single 239 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.640 year, put the debt ceiling into the next year. If we can do 240 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.079 that without rolling back spending or without touching too much of the money that's already 241 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.880 flown into the government programs through the Inflation Reduction Act, that might be a 242 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.119 good thing. Or if there's some sort of compromise that shows that our politicians 243 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.000 are actually willing to do what's right for the American people in the economy, 244 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.559 that might be a thing that investors would would take a liking to. But 245 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.319 right now, this is a standoff and it doesn't look like it's going to 246 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:04.680 get any better just given the political environment we're in today. All Right, 247 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.440 thank you so much, Caleb, have a wonderful weekend, and thank you 248 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.880 for sending that text. My pleasure. Okay, see you later. That 249 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:18.359 is the editor in chief of investopedia dot com. Caleb Silver text, the 250 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.359 word am to five two eight eight six. How cool is that that he 251 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.400 did that on the fly for us. I love that guy. He was 252 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:30.799 talking about President Biden. The President is expected to formally announce that he's running 253 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:36.400 again in twenty twenty four. Now, the announcement we're hearing could come as 254 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:41.559 early as next week. ABC's Lindsay Watts says Biden has been hinting that he 255 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.759 will run again. It comes even though Biden is seeing some of the lowest 256 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.200 approval ratings of his presidency. One Reason poll found only thirty nine percent of 257 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:52.920 Americans approve of the job he's doing as president. That's down from forty two 258 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.599 percent last month. Okay, that's so interesting that she brought that up, 259 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.400 because that's the last night when I read that he was probably going to announce 260 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.039 next week. I thought, Man, this is a weird time. Unless 261 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:11.279 that's kind of the Maybe that's going to be their platform is even when he's 262 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.920 down, he can make an announcement and the Democrats rally behind him and they'll 263 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:19.680 bounce back, and his numbers they'll bounce back. Maybe I'm not sure. 264 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:25.400 I'm not sure why at a time when you are, when your approval rating 265 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:30.480 is as low as it is, why then you would make the announcement. 266 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:37.599 Why wouldn't you want to have some policy or something go through that boosts voters 267 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:44.759 confidence in you and wait until that moment. Now, maybe they don't feel 268 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:47.880 they have that moment coming and so now's as good a time as any, 269 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.599 or maybe they're concerned it could go lower. Lindsey Watts says, voters have 270 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.920 expressed concerns about the economy we were just talking about, including inflation, as 271 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:03.240 well as the president's age. He would be eighty two at the start of 272 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.640 his second term. Now you will also have radio host Larry Elder, who 273 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:11.759 failed to replace Governor Newsom in a recall effort in twenty twenty one. He 274 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:17.880 too, has announced that he wants the presidential nomination. This is on the 275 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:21.319 Republican side, though this would also be for twenty twenty four. He made 276 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.799 the announcement last night on Fox News. He says the US can enter a 277 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:30.359 new American Golden Age. He joins former President Trump, former South Carolina Governor 278 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:37.319 NICKI Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, an entrepreneur Vivic Rumaswamy Elder, 279 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.960 who was black, has criticized democrats woke agenda, Black Lives Matter, and 280 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:48.279 the notion of systemic racism. Disney reportedly plans to lay off more people. 281 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:53.400 Disney plans to slash thousands of jobs. Bloomberg says the cuts will impact several 282 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:57.920 areas within the entertainment division like TV, film, theme parks, and corporate 283 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:03.599 teams, though affected will be notified as early as April twenty fourth. Disney 284 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.759 had previously announced an effort to slash seven thousand jobs as it looks to eliminate 285 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.599 five point five billion dollars in costs. The company went through its first round 286 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:15.720 of layoffs at the end of March, with more cuts expected before the start 287 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:21.039 of the summer. Deborah Mark Kfi News, oh And part of the pristine 288 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:26.039 White Sand Beach enjoyed by millions of tourists every year in Waikiki, Oahu, 289 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.400 is off limits because of a seal. Officials of Courden Enough a large part 290 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.119 of Kaimana Beach, where mom monk Seal Kaiwie gave birth April fourteenth. She 291 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:36.440 and her pup are expected to hang out on the beach and in the water 292 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:38.640 off shore for about five to seven weeks while the pup nurses. Starting six 293 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:42.200 years ago, the endangered seals of occasionally given birth on the beach. Last 294 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:47.240 summer, a protective mother seal injured a tourist from California who got too close, 295 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:49.400 so officials are keeping people away. Authorities say it to be best if 296 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:52.319 swimmers went to one of the many other beaches on O Wahoo to give mom 297 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.039 and her pup some space. There are fewer than sixteen hundred Hawaiian monk seals 298 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:00.160 in the wild, and it's a felony to disturb them. Amy Kfi News. 299 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:04.839 The Supreme Court could soon announce a decision on access to the widely used 300 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:10.720 abortion pill. The Court imposed a deadline on itself to announce a decision by 301 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:15.640 the end of today. ABC's Rachel Scott says the justices have several options. 302 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.480 They could allow the restrictions to go into effect even in states where abortion is 303 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:22.359 legal. They could take up the case themselves nearly one year after Roversus Wade 304 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.559 was overturned by the Supreme Court, or they could send it back down to 305 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.119 the lower courts to be worked out. The FDA approved that bill in two 306 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.640 thousand, but a federal judge in Texas recently overturned that approval. At any 307 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.720 point when this happens today, you'll hear it first live here on KFI. 308 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:44.119 Something else you're gonna hear first live here on KFI is happening right now. 309 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:48.960 We have Sacramento County Sheriff's sergeant also the public information officer for the Hold up 310 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.200 Artment, Amar Gandhi, joining us. I got a call from Sheriff Jim 311 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:59.440 Cooper of the Sacramento of Sacramento County, and there's something that happened in twenty 312 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:06.799 sixteen that has had a giant, unintended consequence on miners who are prostitutes in 313 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:11.640 our state. And it's that unintended consequence that the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department is 314 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:17.880 planning on fighting in conjunction with the FBI, and they're announcing how they're doing 315 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:21.039 it today, but they're giving us a sneak peek right here on wake up 316 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:23.599 call this morning. So Sergeant Gandhi, welcome, Thank you for joining me 317 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:27.559 so early. No good money, Thank you for having me. So go 318 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:32.920 back if you would, to twenty sixteen. What happened then by something that 319 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.759 was signed by Governor Brown. That's had this unintended consequence that you guys need 320 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:44.279 to fight now. Sure this really got the wheels and motion that in twenty 321 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:51.119 sixteen Centaville thirteen twenty two it decriminalized prostitution for miners, which sounds crazy, 322 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:56.480 and it's exactly how it sounds. So right now, they cannot be arrested 323 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:02.279 for committing prostitution right now if they're seventeen or younger. Now, going even 324 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:07.559 further, as more laws got passed, you go in twenty twenty, any 325 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:12.000 youth seventeen or younger cannot be spoken to by law enforcement without council present. 326 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:17.519 And we'll go even further. Most recently in twenty twenty one that at built 327 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:22.720 three fifty seven it repealed six fifty three point two two, which is laitering 328 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:27.480 for the purposes of prostitution. So that means if I, as law enforcement, 329 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:33.119 are just conducting patrol and I see a girl who is to put a 330 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:38.200 moldy, scantily clad wearing broad panties walking down the street, whether it's thirty 331 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:44.039 two degrees upside seventy five degrees outside ten am or ten pm, I can't 332 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:48.119 talk to them. I'm not allowed to go and detain them, not allowed 333 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:53.759 to conduct any type of enforcement action. Now, a lot of these unintended 334 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:59.960 consequences is most of these girls are victims of trafficking in some shape or another, 335 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.319 but we can't go out and even discover them, speak to them and 336 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:10.680 really find out their story legally. So but if I do see a minor 337 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:12.559 out after ten PM, I can talk to about a curfew violation that's still 338 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:18.599 illegal. And this is where we're trying to combat just the legislation, because 339 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.799 we are behind the eight ball and these girls are getting trafficked up and down 340 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:27.960 the state and throughout the country. If you hear the buzzword everywhere from virtually 341 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:33.279 every politician you know, you hear from, and human trafficking is a big 342 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:36.119 issue, but nobody actually wants to go out and do something about it. 343 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.720 So we're going out and doing something about it. So in my mind, 344 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:44.759 I'm picturing a sort of sweep happening. You guys go out and you conduct 345 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:49.319 something and you end up taking let's say twenty six prostitutes off the street, 346 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:52.200 and then you look at it and you say, oh, look we have 347 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:57.160 four of them who are miners. You can't help them. You can't tell 348 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:00.640 these girls, hey, you're in a safe place, tell me that you're 349 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:04.359 being trafficked or something like that. You have to release them, is what 350 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:11.440 you're telling me. Well, what it is is until they identify themselves as 351 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.359 victims to us, our hands are really really tied. Now when they are 352 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.759 minors, we have a few other tools we can use, but really they 353 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:23.759 have to come out and identify themselves as victims, which again none of them 354 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:29.880 are going to do because they are being I mean, quite frankly bullied is 355 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.799 the nicest way I can say. But they are being abused, they are 356 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:37.440 being drugged, they are being threatened, they are not allowed to contact law 357 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.039 enforcement. And right now this legislation has taken the teeth away and these pimps, 358 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.079 and let's not call them, you know, anything nicer than they have 359 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:48.359 to be. These are pimps, and they are abusive, manipulative, conniving 360 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:55.079 vultures that are preying upon the weakest and most vulnerable members in our society. 361 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:00.599 If I were to tell you that I want to introduce legislation to legalized childhood 362 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:04.680 labor and I want to make sweatshops legal, you hang me out to dry. 363 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:08.440 You would call me a crazy person. But now I'm going to take 364 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.799 it one step further and I'm going to tell you that, hey, it's 365 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.519 legal for kids to go out and the prostitutes. But that's perfectly fine. 366 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:22.079 Okay. If you if you find somebody on the street and you're able to 367 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:25.279 get them, like you said, for the curfew violation, and you bring 368 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:30.119 them in for that, what are even the I guess consequences of a curfew 369 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:36.519 violation? But also when you bring them in for that, I'm sure that 370 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:41.200 you had before. Do any of them ever actually tell you I am a 371 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.880 victim of trafficking or are they so scared by what their pimp has told them, 372 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:48.400 you know something that you say something, I'll hurt you, I'll hurt 373 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:53.359 your family, whatever their threat. Maybe it does any child actually say to 374 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.359 you have the guts, I guess, to say to you that they are 375 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:00.720 a victim. How often I guess does that happen? It happens a lot, 376 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:06.960 but it only happens after we contact them, and our inability to contact 377 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:11.200 them is what's hampering these human trafficking investigations, and hampering again is a very 378 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:15.240 mild way thing. They're preventing us from doing what we need to do to 379 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:21.039 save these kids. And like I said, we're talking about decriminalizing and we 380 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:23.680 are not trying to go out and lock these girls up. That is not 381 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:27.920 the intention by any stretch of the imagination. We want to save them. 382 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.680 I have a soon to be seven year old daughter, happy birthday on it, 383 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.000 but I think this is a very near and dear issue to me. 384 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:40.759 I know the sheriff is a girl that he's got four daughters of his own. 385 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.480 This is not something that we take lightly that we just want to revictimize 386 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.880 these girls. We want to take them out of this environment, but they 387 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:56.119 have no method of escape without having an ability to be contacted. And again, 388 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:57.359 you know, people want to say that, oh, the cops are 389 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.319 just going after these girls. That is not the intent. We need to 390 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:07.960 contact these girls, perhaps in an enforcement capacity initially, but that again opens 391 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:12.279 the doors for the rescue and opens the door for the human trafficking investigations to 392 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:18.160 get these pimps in custody and get them to stop victimizing these girls. Now, 393 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.119 coming up today at ten o'clock, I know Sheriff Cooper is going to 394 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.279 make an announcement about the fight against this bill or against this. You know 395 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:32.680 what the legislature has done in this case joined by the FBI today exactly what 396 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:37.200 are you guys doing? What is your where you headed with this? How'd 397 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:42.319 your fight begin? So we've actually conducted a seven day operation over this three 398 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:48.319 week span and have gone around throughout Sacramento County. We hope this idea kind 399 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.039 of spreads about throughout the state and hopefully even further. But we went out 400 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.720 and quite crazy to contact a lot of these girls in the most legal capacity 401 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.000 we could. Took a lot of surveillance, a lot of manpower to do 402 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:07.799 this, but we again contacted these folks that were really engaging in these activities 403 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:14.559 and went out for rescues. And in that time, we have three girls 404 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:18.680 that we rescued that are that were juveniles, I mean as young as thirteen 405 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:22.839 years old, fifteen years old, and sixteen years old. I'm going to 406 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:27.319 tell you right now. We went out and I went out with the parents 407 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:32.559 of the sixteen year old girl that we rescued the night before, and these 408 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:37.640 folks were torn. This is not the traditional broken home or whatever you might 409 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.440 think it is. These are working parents, live in a middle class neighborhood, 410 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:49.039 have siblings to everybody play sports. They described her as this rambunctious fireball 411 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:55.319 of a kid who used to wrestle, played soccer, and then got involved 412 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.359 with some friends, got a new boyfriend who was charming, good looking, 413 00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.960 kind iving, but when into the family, had dinner with them, played 414 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.279 you know with them, they described, and then they started seeing the pattern. 415 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.759 He took her to a mall and they started shoplifting. He introduces her 416 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.119 to drugs, He introduces her to his friends, and then they started engaging 417 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:22.359 in some you know, other illicit activities and its evolved into being sex trafficked 418 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:27.160 throughout the state. They have gone down as far as La San Francisco, 419 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:32.519 Oakland, all over the state trying to chase her to rescue at different points. 420 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:37.200 Mom talks about having almost lost her jobs several times over for just missing 421 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.400 time. So this isn't just affecting, you know. We hear a lot 422 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:42.759 of the oh, it could happen there, or oh it's a bad there. 423 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.759 He could never happened to me. It's happening everywhere, and it's happening 424 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:51.039 on social media. It's happening when these kids are going to the malls, 425 00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:55.359 they're being recruited by other girls. You know, you'd get the oh you're 426 00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:56.960 so pretty, you should come model, you should come hang out with us, 427 00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.839 and you know, and this, and they have. They're very creative. 428 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:05.279 I don't want to ever call these hims or anything stupid, because they 429 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:08.319 are not. They are crafty, and they are smart, and they are 430 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:13.839 master manipulators. I'm so glad you guys are going after this. We're going 431 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.440 to be following up today on the news conference that happens at ten o'clock. 432 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.599 Sergeant Gandhi, thank you so much. Thanks Sheriff Cooper for me and I. 433 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:23.160 We'll be talking to you guys again soon because I want to follow up 434 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.519 on this absolutely. Thank you very much for having us then that. Yeah, 435 00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.000 we'll be back, all right, sounds good. Thank you, take 436 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.319 care, good luck today. Thank you too. Thank you for that. 437 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:38.319 Is Sacramento County Sheriff spokesperson, Sergeant Amar Gandhi. I've known Sheriff Cooper for 438 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:45.839 I don't even know now, twenty five twenty seven years. This is a 439 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:52.720 guy who was in the State Assembly, bailed from the state Assembly to run 440 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:58.920 for sheriff because he wanted to make sure that the things he saw weren't happening 441 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:05.240 in the state Assembly started happening. So who quits their state assembly gig to 442 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:09.759 go be sheriff because you can't get enough done as an assembly person. If 443 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:16.039 that does not show you how screwed up our estate legislature is, I don't 444 00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:20.920 know what does. But anyway, Coopa is the best guy, and I'm 445 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.599 just thrilled to hear that he is sheriff in Sacramento because he's gonna do good 446 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:30.319 things. I think like this where he's inspiring other law enforcement agencies across the 447 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:36.160 state to do good I like this sort of he saw what happened, He's 448 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.519 gonna fix it and do something else. It's it's just nice to see somebody 449 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:44.640 who gets out of politics goes back in law enforcement just because they want to 450 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.279 get more done. I don't know anyway, big fan, I want to 451 00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:52.720 say good morning now to my friend Pastor Karen Davis in Glendora. This morning, 452 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:58.039 Pastor Davis, welcome back to wake Up Call. And when you offered 453 00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:02.519 a few months ago when you saw my wild sweet puppy Betty White all over 454 00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.960 Instagram, when you said, hey, I would love to bless that dog, 455 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:08.639 I thought, oh my gosh, she's even get me the help of 456 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:13.679 you know, the higher up to help me with this dog who's insane. 457 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.440 Faster Davis, first off, thank you so much and good morning to you. 458 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.159 Good morning. Thanks for inviting me on absolutely so I know that this 459 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:29.239 weekend you are blessing animals at Earth Day in the city of Glendora's Earth Day 460 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.480 Festival, which I've been to before, and Glendora puts on a really good, 461 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:39.760 extremely interactive earth Day festival. Yes, starts brighton or early at eight 462 00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:45.079 thirty with the community bike ride and then throughout the time from nine to one. 463 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:51.360 We have all types of booths, all types of activities. If you're 464 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:58.000 not the four legged free animal lover. We also have reptiles, so cal 465 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:01.760 Jungle will be there with the reptile I'll show. We have a scavenger hunt 466 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:08.280 for kids, earth Day Arts and crafts for those of us that maybe have 467 00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:13.320 too many boxes of papers we want to get rid of. There's a confidential 468 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:21.480 document destruction free collection of used motor oil, and they're collecting shoes where a 469 00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.760 shoe drive by the Boy Scouts. The list goes on and on. Also 470 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:31.440 safe drug drop off, so all kinds of things to help make our environment 471 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:37.079 and our earth and better shape for all of us. And I think that 472 00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:42.360 that is important to have all of those different types of things in one place 473 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.840 because somebody might be thinking to themselves, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 474 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:47.800 I want to go drop off my papers or whatever, and oh yeah I 475 00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:52.119 have that used motor oil and whatever. Now you can take it all to 476 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:54.760 one spot, so you're not having to go fifteen different places to do the 477 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:59.239 right thing by the earth. This way, you're just doing it all in 478 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:01.159 one drop off spots, so you can load up your car one time and 479 00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.800 knock it all out right. And then you know, even though we've had 480 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:10.320 all of this fabulous rain, still we need to be good stewards of our 481 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:17.719 water. So our water Department's going to have information on efficient irrigation and also 482 00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:24.360 have things to give out to folks and water wise plants, a demonstration on 483 00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:30.880 that. So trying to get us to be good stewards of each and everything. 484 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:36.559 And now you are the pastor of First Christian Church in Glendora, so 485 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:39.400 you guys will be out there tomorrow. But when it comes to the animal 486 00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:43.039 blessings, you're going to be out there. I think from nine to one 487 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.880 if I'm right, on that. What is an animal blessing and why is 488 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:51.360 it so important to get an animal blessed? Well, I won't make any 489 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:59.480 judgments on anyone's free companions, but no, we will be there. We 490 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:04.920 all have a booth there to talk about our art academy and to have information 491 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.800 on the church. But I will be there blessing animals from nine to one, 492 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.239 and I'll also be doing it Sunday morning. But for us, we're 493 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:17.880 just following in the tradition that is not only a Christian tradition but for many 494 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:25.920 faith communities and culturally, animals have been blessed throughout the centuries for a variety 495 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:34.920 of reasons, whether it's the animals that were working animals and blessing was sought 496 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:39.599 for that and for good crops as the animals helped work in the fields, 497 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:46.800 or and this is the end, maybe not as pleasant thought, but blessing 498 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:55.679 for animals before they were used for meat, when they went to the packing 499 00:37:55.719 --> 00:38:00.880 houses. It was thought that that's an important to do that, But for 500 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:07.760 most of us, blessing those animals that are companions and part of our family 501 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:15.920 to celebrate the role they play in our lives, so that for the Christian 502 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:22.920 community, usually either in spring or in October on the feast day of Saint 503 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:29.960 Francis, because he is seen as a patron saint of creation and animals, 504 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.519 that those have been times when animal blessings have taken place, I believe at 505 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:39.400 all various street they have a very big animal blessing festival every Holy Saturday, 506 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:44.519 the Saturday prior to Eastern Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize that. 507 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:49.400 And yeah, I know, I have a cousin who was Greek Orthodox, 508 00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:53.559 and I know she had the pastor. I'm not sure if that's what you 509 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:58.159 call from the Greek Orthodox Church. But anyway, come out and bless all 510 00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:00.719 of our donkeys. And I didn't know that until I recently told. I 511 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:05.159 mentioned my dad that Betty was going to get blessed this weekend, and he 512 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.440 said, did you know Anne used to bless the donkeys. I said, 513 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:09.320 I had no idea. So I guess it does vary. I mean it 514 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:14.719 goes across the board when it comes to which animal you're gonna bless, right 515 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:20.519 exactly, And for all of those variety of reasons that animals have been part 516 00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:27.880 of our lives, that people have sought that divine interaction because people have valued 517 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:32.840 that blessing as part of their life and the role that the animals play in 518 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:38.079 their life. So yes, and I've blessed a wide variety of animals, 519 00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:45.840 from ladybugs to horses. Oh my gosh, it's very large. It has 520 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:52.119 always been interesting to see which pets or animals that people have brought. All 521 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.079 right, well, it'll be interesting to see what comes out Earth Day in 522 00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:01.280 Glendora's nine to one on Saturday, and then so Pastor Davis will be blessing 523 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:06.639 other animals at her first Christian church on Sunday morning. But Pastor Davis, 524 00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:08.440 thank you so much, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. And 525 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:14.800 let's just hope that Betty for Lake five minutes behaves. Thank you. I 526 00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:19.480 look forward to meeting her and I'm sure she will will be an angel because 527 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:24.800 of her namesake. Definitely, yeah, I hope. So all right, 528 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:28.719 I'll see you tomorrow. Thank you again. All right, thank you, 529 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:32.199 have a great day. But hey you too. This is KFI and KOSTHD 530 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:37.119 two Los Angeles. 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