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Speaker 1: big day. We got lots going on. Here's what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wake up call. A fire that started around noon
Speaker 1: day in Riverside County has quickly grown to thirty seven
Speaker 1: hundred acres in Iguanga, east of Temecula. Evacuation orders have
Speaker 1: been issued for several neighborhoods, and evacuation center has been
Speaker 1: set up at Temecula Valley High School. South Pasadena has
Speaker 1: become the first city in the US with an all
Speaker 1: ev police fleet. The twenty new teslas were unveiled yesterday,
Speaker 1: along with nearly three dozen charging stations. City officials say
Speaker 1: gas powered police cars produce more harmful emissions than most
Speaker 1: vehicles because of how much they idled during traffic stops
Speaker 1: and while responding to calls. The US men's gymnastics team
Speaker 1: has broken a sixteen year dry spell, winning bronze at
Speaker 1: the Paris Olympics. Japan won gold in the men's final,
Speaker 1: China takes home the silver. Frederick Richard and Paul Judah
Speaker 1: will each compete in the men's all around final four
Speaker 1: Team USA. Later this week, we're going to get the
Speaker 1: latest from Paris on what happened yesterday and what's coming
Speaker 1: up today with ABC's Inez de la Katera. That's at
Speaker 1: five twenty. We also have the Chief Master Sergeant of
Speaker 1: the Space Force in town. He's stopping by wake Up
Speaker 1: Call to talk about Space Force and also our favorite
Speaker 1: astronaut and Space Force Guardian, Colonel mckhaigu, who's we've been
Speaker 1: talking to for a few months about his trip to
Speaker 1: the International Space Station. We'll find out the latest on
Speaker 1: his mission and the mission of Space Force and what
Speaker 1: it does to protect us. So we're also going to
Speaker 1: learn how to money with Joel Larsgard always gives us
Speaker 1: such good advice. Now, if we would just follow it.
Speaker 1: We're going to do that a little later than normal
Speaker 1: normally he's at five twenty. He's going to be at
Speaker 1: five point fifty today, and then right after wake up
Speaker 1: called six o five's handle on the news. Former President
Speaker 1: Trump's going to sit down with the FBI to be
Speaker 1: interviewed about his assassination attempt. Let's get started with some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. So cow Gas has made good on plans
Speaker 1: to shut down or shut off service to more than
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty homes in Rancho Palace Verdies because
Speaker 1: of landslides. Despite protests from residents and city officials.
Speaker 4: People living along Portuguese Bend were notified Friday after new
Speaker 4: that their gas would be turned off so workers could
Speaker 4: relocate more than six hundred feet of pipeline. This woman
Speaker 4: has lived in the area for nearly twenty years and
Speaker 4: says the community has been blindsided.
Speaker 1: And you know the gas supplies the heating, and you
Speaker 1: know your stoves, your washing machines, everything.
Speaker 4: The gas company says continuous land movement has put underground
Speaker 4: infrastructure at risk. Shut off started yesterday morning, and the
Speaker 4: company has not mentioned when or if service will be restored.
Speaker 1: Chris Adler KFI News locals wanted the utility to delay
Speaker 1: the shut offs so they could have some more time
Speaker 1: to set up gas alternatives. An LAPD officer caught on
Speaker 1: camera punching a handcuffed black man and Watts has been
Speaker 1: removed from field duty. Civil rights advocate Nag Ali says
Speaker 1: the video speaks for itself, and he and others have
Speaker 1: called on the DA's office to file charges.
Speaker 5: We have to hold these bad office accountable.
Speaker 1: Ali says the black community is not anti police. They
Speaker 1: just want good police.
Speaker 2: One officers to come in to protect us, not to
Speaker 2: abuse us.
Speaker 1: It's not clear what prompted the arrest of the man Sunday,
Speaker 1: but an investigation is underway. A magnitude four point nine
Speaker 1: earthquake is hit near Barstow, causing some vertigo in southern California.
Speaker 6: It was an adult we kind of we rocked enrolled
Speaker 6: for a good couple of seconds.
Speaker 1: This woman, who lives in the area says she thought
Speaker 1: a semi truck was driving passed yesterday before she realized
Speaker 1: it was actually an earthquake. She says it was more
Speaker 1: like swaying than shaking. The quake was also felt in
Speaker 1: parts of La Burbank and Pasadena. There were also a
Speaker 1: couple of aftershocks. Delta Airlines is looking to recoup some
Speaker 1: of its losses from the recent software issue that left
Speaker 1: travelers stranded for like a week because of flight cancelations
Speaker 1: and delays. Delta has hired a law firm and will
Speaker 1: reportedly seek compensation from both Microsoft and CrowdStrike, which provided
Speaker 1: the faulty software update. The outage could cost Delta hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, this is pretty big news. You
Speaker 1: blood test can detect Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's very accurate. This all comes out of a
Speaker 7: conference of Alzheimer's specialists. They met this past week in
Speaker 7: Philadelphia and talked about advances that have been made, and
Speaker 7: one of the most interesting is this blood test. It's
Speaker 7: being tried out in Sweden. That's where they tried it
Speaker 7: on twelve hundred patients and it showed remarkable accuracy at
Speaker 7: detecting Alzheimer's early early on. It's called a PE talk
Speaker 7: two seventeen. That's what it's looking for. It's looking for
Speaker 7: that particular component in the blood and that could indicate
Speaker 7: plaque build up that somebody has. And the plaque build
Speaker 7: up is of course what we know is the source
Speaker 7: of Alzheimer's. Once it progresses so far on this plaque
Speaker 7: build up the brain, the memory is just it's terrible.
Speaker 7: So yes, now that the job is to ramp up
Speaker 7: production of this particular blood test because some of the
Speaker 7: new and promising treatments for Alzheimer's, the ones that can
Speaker 7: either halt it, maybe prevent it even in the future,
Speaker 7: really slow the progression. They require very early detection of
Speaker 7: Alzheimer's once you start showing symptoms and may be too
Speaker 7: late for these promising treatments. So this blood test is
Speaker 7: crucial in the next step of trying to combat Alzheimer's amy.
Speaker 1: I just think so it's it's going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit tricky, I would think, because, like you said,
Speaker 1: you have to catch it early, yes, or you can't.
Speaker 1: And they don't have a cure for Alzheimer's, so they're
Speaker 1: still obviously working on that. But what what do.
Speaker 7: They have, Well, they do have any these promising drugs
Speaker 7: that can either slow the progression of Alzheimer's, may do
Speaker 7: more than that, I think they're a little hesitant to
Speaker 7: make too many promises about it, but they are showing
Speaker 7: progress and promise in combating Alzheimer's. So your kids, your grandkids,
Speaker 7: I think, you know, they're going to be in a
Speaker 7: much better environment in terms of Alzheimer's prevention and care.
Speaker 7: And so, yeah, these new drugs are showing remarkable prom
Speaker 7: but unless you can catch it early, catch the disease early,
Speaker 7: then they're worthless. So that's really been the key here.
Speaker 7: And also, okay, so let's say the blood the blood
Speaker 7: test is totally you know, it's effective in actually predicting Alzheimer's,
Speaker 7: and this test is about ninety one percent effective in
Speaker 7: catching Alzheimer's according to the specialists who've looked at it.
Speaker 7: And so once that's done, then the test can be
Speaker 7: distributed to your general care physician, your primary care physician.
Speaker 7: Right now, they don't have it available. So if you
Speaker 7: go to your regular doctor, they do a blood draw,
Speaker 7: they're looking at the lipids and they're looking at components
Speaker 7: of the drug of the blood that they can now
Speaker 7: this PETAH two seventeen test. Once it's in the hands
Speaker 7: of general practitioners, they can give this test to people
Speaker 7: who suspect they might be vulnerable if they have a
Speaker 7: family history of Alzheimer's. Right right now, it's just not available.
Speaker 7: And so yeah, I think that it's that there's real
Speaker 7: promise out there that more people. I mean, there are
Speaker 7: what is six million Americans who have Alzhemer's just terrible,
Speaker 7: and millions and millions more around the world. This could
Speaker 7: be a real breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's going to be interesting because the other
Speaker 1: big news from yesterday was that they've got a blood
Speaker 1: test that can detect colon cancer. Now it's just rolling
Speaker 1: out or about to roll out. I think the FDA
Speaker 1: just approved it. It'll be interesting to see what other
Speaker 1: blood tests are going to eventually be able to diagnose
Speaker 1: these diseases and make it easier to catch them early
Speaker 1: without doing colonoscopies and mammograms and all you know things
Speaker 1: that prostate exams, things that people are they put off
Speaker 1: because they're uncomfortable.
Speaker 7: Sure, and in the most the most accurate way of
Speaker 7: diagnosing Alzheimer's is through either a spinal tap or a
Speaker 7: PET scan. I spinal tap is uncompany, it's really it's
Speaker 7: tough to do. The pet scan is extremely expensive, so
Speaker 7: specialists are hesitant. So if it can take it just
Speaker 7: a simple blood test in the future. Yeah, it's amazing
Speaker 7: what we're learning about this stuff running through our veins
Speaker 7: after all these centuries. That may make life better here
Speaker 7: on Earth.
Speaker 1: Okay, and do we know when it's going to be
Speaker 1: available or is it already out unavailable?
Speaker 7: It's not yet. But there are companies now that are
Speaker 7: I guess speculating or they're banking quite literally on the
Speaker 7: approval of this at the FDA level. So companies like Elight, Lily, Roach,
Speaker 7: CN two Diagnostics, there are companies that are working on
Speaker 7: this already ramping up production of it, and it'll be
Speaker 7: ready to go once it gets approval.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much. We
Speaker 1: love big, good news like this absolutely. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A dozen more beaches
Speaker 1: are off limits because of high bacteria levels in the water.
Speaker 1: The Ellie County Department of Public Health is warning people
Speaker 1: to avoid swimming, surfing, and playing in the water at
Speaker 1: beaches that include Paradise Cove, Las Flora State Beach, surf
Speaker 1: Wrider Lagoon, and Malibu Mother's Beach and the Santa Monica
Speaker 1: peer signs are posted, and the complete list is on
Speaker 1: the Department of Public Health's website. La Kenny Sheriff's investigators
Speaker 1: are trying to identify a woman whose body was found
Speaker 1: floating in a canal and Carson.
Speaker 8: Lieutenant Mike Modica says the woman's body suffered severe trauma.
Speaker 8: The body was found Sunday night by someone walking by.
Speaker 5: A preas at the Carson station had an informant come
Speaker 5: into their station.
Speaker 9: Lobby who said he saw a body floating in the
Speaker 9: Domingus Channel.
Speaker 8: Modica says because the Domingus channels nearly sixteen miles long,
Speaker 8: it's not clear where along the way the body was dumped.
Speaker 8: And Modica says, because of the condition of the body,
Speaker 8: was impossible to identify the woman's race on scene. Steve
Speaker 8: Gregor tay if I knows.
Speaker 1: A man who tried to set a fire in a
Speaker 1: mid City house has been shot and killed by LAPD officers.
Speaker 1: Plise said the guy was part of a group that
Speaker 1: broke into a home yesterday. Three of the people were arrested.
Speaker 1: The LAPED says the fourth guy barricaded himself inside and
Speaker 1: tried to set the home on fire. He eventually came
Speaker 1: out and was allegedly holding a large knife when he
Speaker 1: was shot. A fire is damaged the Big Air trampoline
Speaker 1: in a venture park in Buena Park, Orange County. Fire
Speaker 1: thirty Captain Robert Reid says the fire appears to have
Speaker 1: started in a six foot deep ball pit at the
Speaker 1: trampoline park shortly before noon yesterday. Several businesses in the
Speaker 1: city's downtown area had to be evacuated as firefighters worked
Speaker 1: to put the flames out. No one was hurt. A
Speaker 1: study shows wildfire smoke could be worse for brain health
Speaker 1: than other forms of air pollution. The findings were reported
Speaker 1: at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Philadelphia, which got
Speaker 1: underway Sunday.
Speaker 8: The study finding the odds of dementia increased by twenty
Speaker 8: one percent for every one microgram increase in wildfire particles.
Speaker 1: ABC's Alex Stone says researchers tracked health records from one
Speaker 1: point two million older adults in southern California between two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine and twenty nineteen. A Republican congresswoman from
Speaker 1: Orange County says her office may have been vandalized a
Speaker 1: second time by pro Palestinian protesters.
Speaker 2: Erk Republican Congresswoman Michelle Steele says her office was vandalized
Speaker 2: with pro Hamas literature in January, then a rock thrown
Speaker 2: through her office window on Friday. Steele also claims she's
Speaker 2: received dozens of calls from protesters recently demanding she not
Speaker 2: attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who's addressed to Congress.
Speaker 2: Steele says violence has no place in society and no
Speaker 2: amount of it will stop her from doing what she
Speaker 2: believes is right for families in southern California.
Speaker 1: In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News text messages between
Speaker 1: law enforcement before former President Trump's assassination attempt in Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: show officers raised concerns ninety minutes before the shooting. The
Speaker 1: documents released by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley's office show one
Speaker 1: officer saying he saw a kid looking toward the stage
Speaker 1: with a rangefinder. He also sent a photo of the
Speaker 1: guy telling snipers to look out because he lost sight
Speaker 1: of him. It ended up being the shooter. A team
Speaker 1: of doctors is working in Paris to keep Team USAY
Speaker 1: in good shape for the Olympics. Texas Children's Hospital surgeon
Speaker 1: doctor Jeffrey Schultz says, it's always busy in the Olympic village.
Speaker 5: Illness overwhelmingly is what keeps athletes out, just general viral
Speaker 5: illnesses and colds and so forth.
Speaker 1: Shild says prep for the Summer Games starts way in advance.
Speaker 3: We make sure each athlete has all they need to
Speaker 3: be the top.
Speaker 1: Level, he says. They're also there to support the athletes mentally.
Speaker 1: Texas Children's Hospital is one of four national partners joining
Speaker 1: the teams this year. Shild has worked with Olympic athletes
Speaker 1: since the twenty sixteen Games in Rio. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to Paris to talk with and As de
Speaker 1: la Getera about all the metals Team USA is racking
Speaker 1: up and what's in store for today at the Summer
Speaker 1: Olympic Games. The Dodgers are in San Diego to take
Speaker 1: on the Padres tonight, with first pitch going out at
Speaker 1: six forty. You can listen to every play of every
Speaker 1: Dodgers game on AM five to seventy LA Sports Live
Speaker 1: from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and stream all the
Speaker 1: games NHD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports. President Biden has called for eighteen year term
Speaker 1: limits for Supreme Court justices and for putting in place
Speaker 1: a code of ethics for the justices. At a speech
Speaker 1: at the LG LBJ Presidential Library yesterday, the President also
Speaker 1: proposed a constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents that
Speaker 1: was just granted by the Supreme Court. Members of the
Speaker 1: three unions representing about fourteen thousand Disneyland employees have voted
Speaker 1: to ratify a new contract, which means the threat of
Speaker 1: a strike at the happiest place on Earth is over ride. Operators,
Speaker 1: store clerks, custodians and more will get pay in seniority
Speaker 1: increases and also new attendance and sick leave policies. Southern
Speaker 1: California has been rattled by a four point nine magnitude earthquake.
Speaker 1: It was followed by a couple of after shocks. The
Speaker 1: strongest was a three point five The quake, shortly after
Speaker 1: one pm yesterday, was centered near Barstow. It was felt
Speaker 1: as far away as Pasadena and Burbank, more than one
Speaker 1: hundred miles away. At six oh five at s Handle.
Speaker 1: On the news, VP Harris and soon to be presidential candidate.
Speaker 1: Harris has one less person to choose from in her
Speaker 1: potential pool of running mates. Right now, it's time to
Speaker 1: say good morning to ABC's in ESD look at Terra
Speaker 1: in Paris Boure. We had a pretty big day yesterday
Speaker 1: for Team USA, he did, Yeah, you want to tell
Speaker 1: us about it?
Speaker 6: I see, I'm waiting for the question. Yes, we did.
Speaker 6: The men's gymnastics team getting the bronze, which is the
Speaker 6: first time they want to meddle in sixteen years. So
Speaker 6: that was very exciting because I feel like anytime we
Speaker 6: talk about gymnastics, we're usually talking about the women's team
Speaker 6: and Simone Files and so it was cool to see
Speaker 6: the men getting their time to shine. So they hadn't
Speaker 6: done so well in qualification, so this is really a
Speaker 6: massive comeback for them. You had Brody Malone who had
Speaker 6: fallen during qualifications. He redeemed himself on high bar and
Speaker 6: pummelled Freddie Richards was on fire. And then it all
Speaker 6: came down to Stephen Nederoschik, who had won event the
Speaker 6: pummel routine. He was actually specifically chosen to be on
Speaker 6: Team USA for that routine, and he absolutely nailed it,
Speaker 6: so they did take home the bronze.
Speaker 1: They're calling him Superman today because Stephen he stayed off
Speaker 1: by himself before he took to the to the pommel horse,
Speaker 1: and he had his kind of Clark Kent looking sunglass
Speaker 1: or not sunglasses on, but glasses on, and he only
Speaker 1: takes them off when he goes and competes.
Speaker 7: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I love what what the crowd picks up on that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, you're right.
Speaker 6: That's a great that's a great analogy.
Speaker 1: That was. That was a lot of fun. And then
Speaker 1: today we shift back to the women and it's time
Speaker 1: for Team USA to go win gold in gymnastics at least.
Speaker 6: Oh great, So, yes, that's right. Simone Biles is, you know,
Speaker 6: all eyes on her. She's going to be competing in
Speaker 6: all four events, even with her lower leg injury, so
Speaker 6: we were, you know, kind of worried about that over
Speaker 6: the weekend. When she made her first Paris twenty twenty
Speaker 6: four appearance, she was seen kind of struggling at times, limping.
Speaker 6: We initially thought it was because of a weird landing
Speaker 6: during warm ups. She had to have her ankle kind
Speaker 6: of taped up. We later found out from her coach
Speaker 6: that it was a lower leg injury that you've been
Speaker 6: kind of dealing with for the last few weeks. But
Speaker 6: they really downplated and they said there was never any
Speaker 6: discussion of having her not compete, and clearly over the
Speaker 6: weekend she did amazingly well, landed two of her signature moves,
Speaker 6: got an incredible score on vault, so it doesn't appear
Speaker 6: to be affecting her. So even with that, she will
Speaker 6: be competing in all four events. Some sad news for
Speaker 6: the team's youngest athlete, Heslie Rivera. She will not be
Speaker 6: competing in any of the events today, but still high
Speaker 6: hopes for the rest of the team. We'll see how
Speaker 6: they do. They are favored to win a medal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hesley's just sixteen. And Okay, so I want to
Speaker 1: talk about Simone for just a second, because I was
Speaker 1: watching the women's qualifying again yesterday, and when you watch
Speaker 1: a performance and you see one of the athletes do
Speaker 1: like what appears to be an almost perfect performance, and
Speaker 1: then you see Simone Biles do a performance, and she
Speaker 1: she did a couple of major missteps. She stepped out
Speaker 1: of the of off the mat in the floor and
Speaker 1: she took a huge step back in her vault, but
Speaker 1: it didn't matter.
Speaker 6: Why she lands these incredible moves that no one can
Speaker 6: really pull off, her signature moves, and you know, I
Speaker 6: think that that has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 6: She you know, and and and and and just see
Speaker 6: the strength that she has. She's she's she's incredible. I
Speaker 6: think it was all the more incredible considering you know
Speaker 6: that that injury we're a little bit worried about. But
Speaker 6: but yeah, so we'll see how she does today and
Speaker 6: for the rest of the week. But certainly all eyes
Speaker 6: on her.
Speaker 1: Because she's the only one doing those So even if
Speaker 1: she gets deductions when she does them, that's right, no
Speaker 1: one else can do them. Okay. Uh. Swimming is also
Speaker 1: moving along fast and furious, and Team USA is racking
Speaker 1: up some metals in the.
Speaker 8: Pool, that's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there were lots of swimming events yesterday. We
Speaker 6: spoke to Nick Fink, who is the silver medalist in
Speaker 6: the men's one hundred meters brustros. It was really cool
Speaker 6: to talk to him. He's on the older side for athletes.
Speaker 6: He's just thirty one, but considered to be a little
Speaker 6: bit older. There and he came very close to winning
Speaker 6: a medal in Tokyo, but he didn't and then did
Speaker 6: get the silver this time around, so very exciting for him.
Speaker 6: We were chatting about what he thinks got him over
Speaker 6: the edge, was what the difference was between Tokyo and Paris.
Speaker 6: And interestingly, he says his life has kind of changed
Speaker 6: in recent years. He is married, he is a baby
Speaker 6: on the way, he's got a nine to five engineering job,
Speaker 6: and he feels like having that balance is really what
Speaker 6: just has put him in the right mindset and has
Speaker 6: made all the difference. So kind of interesting to learn
Speaker 6: about that. And just on the swimming front, knew this
Speaker 6: morning is that they've had to cancel the men's triumph
Speaker 6: on events that was said to be held in the Said.
Speaker 6: We were talking about this yesterday. There were training session
Speaker 6: in the triathlon, training sessions that were meant to be
Speaker 6: held in the Said on Sunday and Monday that have
Speaker 6: be canceled due to poor water quality because of heavy
Speaker 6: rains recently. Olympics organizers were insisting that by today everything
Speaker 6: would be fine, but it wasn't and so they did
Speaker 6: have to postpone that event. It will now be held
Speaker 6: tomorrow along with the women's triathlon. It is going to
Speaker 6: rain later today those so it seems highly unlikely to
Speaker 6: sty'll be able to hold those events in the sud.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll just have to watch and wait for that.
Speaker 1: We know gymnastics is happening, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: most eyes are going to be on today, and I
Speaker 1: know you have to run. Thank you so much, and
Speaker 1: as de la Katerra, we'll talk to you tomorrow to
Speaker 1: get the latest from Paris. Thank you. Okay, all revol
Speaker 1: Now let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The first
Speaker 1: all electric police fleet is now rolling around the streets
Speaker 1: of South Pasadena.
Speaker 3: The fleet consists of twenty Tesla's, ten of which are
Speaker 3: model wise to be used as patrol cars.
Speaker 5: They're the safest vehicles made with the lowest probability of injury,
Speaker 5: so we're really happy, happy to be able to put
Speaker 5: our officers and cars that are the safest out there.
Speaker 3: South Pasadena Police Sergeant Tony Abdallas says the cars also
Speaker 3: have better acceleration in breaking than the city's old fleet.
Speaker 3: The Teslas were rolled out in a ceremony yesterday. The
Speaker 3: cars were not purchased, but rather least over a five
Speaker 3: year term in South Pasadena Blake Trolly k if I News.
Speaker 1: The federal judges ordered UCLA to create a plan to
Speaker 1: protect Jewish students months after pro Palestinian protests broke out
Speaker 1: on campus. Three Jewish students sued the university in June,
Speaker 1: alleging they experienced discrimination during the demonstrations against the Israel
Speaker 1: Hamas War. The university has until next month to put
Speaker 1: together its plan on how to make students feel safe, welcome,
Speaker 1: and free from intimidation, discrimination and harassment. Lawmakers in Texas
Speaker 1: have grilled utility executives over the slow response to Hurricane Beryl.
Speaker 1: State Senator Paul Bettencourt was at the hearing in Austin
Speaker 1: yesterday and says it took Center Point Energy more than
Speaker 1: a week to restore power to more than two million
Speaker 1: people who love during the storm.
Speaker 9: Makes my blood boil is the fact that we're having
Speaker 9: to have a hearing to hear about a whole bunch
Speaker 9: of people that did their job right, but the biggest,
Speaker 9: multi billion dollar corporation, we're having to tell them how
Speaker 9: to do your job.
Speaker 1: Officials say fourteen of the thirty eight people who died
Speaker 1: died specifically because of the power outage. Lawmakers in Turkey
Speaker 1: have approved a law to remove millions of stray dogs
Speaker 1: from the streets. Animal lovers say they fear the law
Speaker 1: will lead to many stray dogs being killed or ending
Speaker 1: up in neglected, overcrowded shelters. Demonstrators across Turkey have called
Speaker 1: for the scrapping of the so called massacre law, which
Speaker 1: would allow some stray animals to be euthanized. The opposition
Speaker 1: says it will seek its cancelation in court. I hope
Speaker 1: they get something to figure something out on that millions
Speaker 1: of stray dogs. We think we have it bad here.
Speaker 1: Target has announced a denim trade in program just in
Speaker 1: time for back to school shopping. Starting on Sunday. Customers
Speaker 1: can take a U used denim item of any brand
Speaker 1: in any condition to a Target store and trade it
Speaker 1: for a twenty percent off coupon for any new denim purchase.
Speaker 1: The company says it will recycle the used denim into
Speaker 1: new products. The offer runs through August ten. Evacuation warnings
Speaker 1: have been lifted for the town of Paradise that they
Speaker 1: are relieved the town was wiped out in a fire
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen and has been threatened in the fire
Speaker 1: that's burning in northern California. That fire has burned three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand acres. Evacuation warnings were also lifted
Speaker 1: in Chico and Megalia. The fire that started less than
Speaker 1: a week ago is twelve percent surrounded. The La City
Speaker 1: Council may take a look at overriding Mayor Karen Bass's
Speaker 1: recent veto of a proposed ballot measure that would allow
Speaker 1: the police chief to fire officers for misconduct directly instead
Speaker 1: of having to go through a panel. Bass vetoed the
Speaker 1: council's decision to let voters decide the issue in November.
Speaker 1: City council returns from a month long recess today. O. J.
Speaker 1: Simpson's Heisman trophy, his golf club, ubs, and his high
Speaker 1: end SUV are among the items that are being auctioned
Speaker 1: off to raise money to pay civil claims. The auction
Speaker 1: announcement came a day after Fred Goldman filed a one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen million dollar creditor claim against Simpson's estate.
Speaker 1: Simpson died in April. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman's
Speaker 1: families were awarded more than thirty three million dollars in
Speaker 1: a wrongful death lawsuit back in nineteen ninety seven. The
Speaker 1: families have yet to collect the money. Right now, we'd
Speaker 1: like to welcome to wake Up Call, chief Master Sergeant
Speaker 1: of the Space Force, John Bent Tavana. Good morning, So
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in to see us
Speaker 1: this morning, Chief Master Sergeant op. Now I got to
Speaker 1: do my job and turn on your microphone. Okay, now
Speaker 1: we can say good morning.
Speaker 5: Well, good morning again. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to have you in today because we've
Speaker 1: been talking to Colonel Haig and if you're a regular
Speaker 1: wake Up Call listener, you may recognize that name. He
Speaker 1: is a colonel the Space Force. He's a Space Force
Speaker 1: guardian and now he's kind of on loan to NASA
Speaker 1: because he is an astronaut and we'll be going up
Speaker 1: to the International Space Station and so we know he's
Speaker 1: with Space Force, and we know that Space Force was
Speaker 1: introduced five years ago, and in fact, this is the
Speaker 1: fifth year.
Speaker 5: In December is our fifth birthday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when everybody when it first came out, it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, We've got Air Force, and we've got
Speaker 1: the Marines, and we've got the Army, but now we
Speaker 1: have Space Force, and I want to know more about
Speaker 1: what exactly Space Force does for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks to the opportunity to talk about it. So,
Speaker 5: you know, how we explain a lot of times is
Speaker 5: think about how we live our daily lives, whether it
Speaker 5: be through GPS that we use on our phones. We
Speaker 5: use GPS to get her this morning as we were
Speaker 5: driving through downtown LA.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness because I didn't have very good directions for
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get lost without it. I've become so dependent
Speaker 5: right on technology. The financial sector, they use timing that
Speaker 5: comes from space, from the globe positioning system that the
Speaker 5: Space Force manage and runs. Think about the agricultural industry
Speaker 5: and whether they use not only for the weather satellites,
Speaker 5: but they use GPS as well to make sure that
Speaker 5: harvests are more effective and efficient. So not only is
Speaker 5: space critical to how we live our daily lives, but
Speaker 5: it's also critical to how we fight owars as well.
Speaker 5: So you know, in that context and thinking how congested
Speaker 5: and contested the domain has come of the last five
Speaker 5: to ten years, the decision was made we have to
Speaker 5: have subject matter experts that understand a domain, and like
Speaker 5: our mission statement says, can secure our nation's interests in
Speaker 5: from and to space because it's so vital to not
Speaker 5: only how we live our lives, but how we fight
Speaker 5: a wars as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then specifically, like you're basically, if I'm understanding
Speaker 1: it correctly, you're protecting those things. You're protecting the GPS
Speaker 1: satellites and making sure that nobody messes with them.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, you know, space superiority is afraid that we use.
Speaker 5: So it's not only to protect the assets that we
Speaker 5: have in space that allows us to live the way
Speaker 5: we do and fight that the way we do, but
Speaker 5: also other nations are investing in their space capabilities to
Speaker 5: use in targeting and use in military functions. So in
Speaker 5: addition to protecting our own, it's to deny our adversaries
Speaker 5: or you know, potential people want to harm us from
Speaker 5: using their systems, So retaining our ability to maximize what
Speaker 5: we have, but also taking away any any any opportunity
Speaker 5: that the adversary has.
Speaker 1: To use theirs as well, So we have the capability
Speaker 1: then of like blocking their systems from communicating with back
Speaker 1: on Earth.
Speaker 5: So there's a variety, variety of ways to get after
Speaker 5: the problem set. But now that we have such a
Speaker 5: commander experts who can look at the systems that other
Speaker 5: nations have, I mean, it could be it could be
Speaker 5: something as you know, could be cyber, it could be Connecticut,
Speaker 5: it could be a myriad of ways. When we talk
Speaker 5: about space superiority doesn't necessarily mean that it's actions that
Speaker 5: happen in space. It's just now you have a service
Speaker 5: dedicated to understanding what is happening there. Space demain awareness
Speaker 5: is one of the phrases one of the missions that
Speaker 5: we have that includes not only you know, tracking debris
Speaker 5: or things that are flying around the Earth like for example,
Speaker 5: I think this year alone, you know, we partner with NASA.
Speaker 5: I'll getting back to the Colonel Haig. I think we've
Speaker 5: notified NASA probably about four hundred times already this year
Speaker 5: of objects that may be coming in close proximity that
Speaker 5: could you know, connect or hit with the International Space Station.
Speaker 5: So we you know, notify NASA and they take whatever
Speaker 5: actions they need to do to make sure that human
Speaker 5: spaceflight is safe.
Speaker 1: Which is great because we want we want those astronauts
Speaker 1: safe up there.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Then Space Force real quick when it was announced, there's
Speaker 1: suddenly there's a new branch, Yes, of the military. How
Speaker 1: do you staff that up? Where'd you get everybody? Are
Speaker 1: they all new recruits or did they move over from
Speaker 1: different branches?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So myself, you know, I was in the United
Speaker 5: States Air Force for many years, twenty six years about,
Speaker 5: and I did space work for a preponderance of my
Speaker 5: career as an airman. So the law art's the initial seat,
Speaker 5: if you will. Were airmen who were in the Air
Speaker 5: Force doing space business that transitioned, We asked them everyone's
Speaker 5: volunteer was a volunteer, and no one was made to
Speaker 5: do this to come into the Space Force. But then
Speaker 5: to continue to fill the ranks, we offered individuals who
Speaker 5: were in the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps if
Speaker 5: they wanted to join, and they came over in hundreds.
Speaker 5: Now I say hundreds sounds like a small number, but
Speaker 5: you know, by the end of this year this year,
Speaker 5: in twenty four the Space Force, from a uniform guardian perspective,
Speaker 5: we're gonna have a little less than ten thousand nice
Speaker 5: so not a very large force, and about five thousand
Speaker 5: civilians that work.
Speaker 1: With US Okay. And then also when we think of
Speaker 1: the different bases, like we know that Vandenborg Vandenberg Air
Speaker 1: Force Base where a lot of the SpaceX rockets are
Speaker 1: launching from with the Starlink satellites and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: that is now Vandenberg Space for space it is. And
Speaker 1: then there's other bases around California that have converted to
Speaker 1: right here in.
Speaker 5: La So, La right now is called La Air Force
Speaker 5: Base still, but it's primarily run and occupied by Space
Speaker 5: Force because that's where we do a lot of our
Speaker 5: engineering and acquisition work. Here in La So. Space System's
Speaker 5: Command is one of our major commands, run by a
Speaker 5: three star general, General Garrant, is right here in La Okay.
Speaker 1: So fascinating. I love all of this stuff then, and
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated with space, which is why it's been such
Speaker 1: a treat to talk to Colonel Haig. So we know
Speaker 1: that he is scheduled to lift off and head to
Speaker 1: the International Space Station sometime next month at least that's
Speaker 1: the window that we have. Have they narrowed down a
Speaker 1: date on that yet or is that still under wraps?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So I think the targets still, you know, I
Speaker 5: think towards the middle of the end of August is
Speaker 5: still what we're hearing from Colonel Hag and from NASA
Speaker 5: as they work through all the logistics. I think in
Speaker 5: the interview that you had on with last week, I
Speaker 5: think maybe he was on there's a lot of work, right,
Speaker 5: this is rocket.
Speaker 1: Science, literally, this is rocket science.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's a lot of logistics, a lot of
Speaker 5: planning and coordination has to happen, So it's really hard
Speaker 5: to kind of have the pinpoints of specific date and time.
Speaker 5: But that window is still what we're shooting for.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then last time Colonel Haig and I talked,
Speaker 1: we had talked about the two astronauts who went up
Speaker 1: to the space station and we're supposed to go it
Speaker 1: for a week. They went up on the Boeing star Liner,
Speaker 1: and there's some issues with the star Liner, and so
Speaker 1: they are still up there. And now it's been has
Speaker 1: it been two months now? Almost two months? I think
Speaker 1: they went up on June six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a little more of extended stay than
Speaker 5: I think. There was a new plan. But I think
Speaker 5: even you know, a Colonel Haig had mentioned, you know,
Speaker 5: in this business, I mean, everything really is a test right, right,
Speaker 5: And they were testing the Starliner and testing the capability,
Speaker 5: testing how it docked with the International Space Station. And
Speaker 5: we got to make sure that as they go through
Speaker 5: figure everything works perfectly. So they're taking their time to
Speaker 5: figure out, you know, how that how that went, make
Speaker 5: sure the procedures to undock. But that's all you know,
Speaker 5: Boeing business. But the thing is, you know, we talk
Speaker 5: about space. It isn't like there's a test chamber here
Speaker 5: on Earth like you know, Colonel Haig talked about, you know,
Speaker 5: practicing space walks in a pool, but it's really not
Speaker 5: the same as any environment. So they're just taking precautionary
Speaker 5: measures to make sure the astronauts will be safe and
Speaker 5: they'll undock when they're ready to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then just a quick question about that. If
Speaker 1: they're still up there, can Colonel Haig and his team
Speaker 1: go up as well or do they would that be
Speaker 1: too crowded?
Speaker 5: Yes, that would be a question for NASA that I
Speaker 5: wouldn't be able to answer because it all depends on
Speaker 5: the logistics. And you know, I mean if they've had
Speaker 5: a number of people on the International Space Station before.
Speaker 5: But it's all about the supplies there logistics like what's
Speaker 5: the what's the condition of the space station?
Speaker 1: So that's a question for NASA, okay, And what what's
Speaker 1: your hope for Space Force?
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, I had a chance. In fact, I
Speaker 5: talked to Colonel Haige a few weeks ago. I asked
Speaker 5: them for some pointers because I was going to talk
Speaker 5: to some elementary school students about STEM and about you know,
Speaker 5: staying in school and kind of dreaming big and being explorers,
Speaker 5: and I was talking about space. You know, I'm a
Speaker 5: uniform member of the of the Profession of Arms, but
Speaker 5: when I think about space and all the unlimited potential
Speaker 5: that we have, you know, really, what what I want
Speaker 5: for space is for the nation to continue to dream
Speaker 5: and explore and take full advantage of where we are
Speaker 5: in space. I mean, you already have space tourism, space transit.
Speaker 5: I mean it, it's exciting to think about the possibilities
Speaker 5: where we're going to future and from a Space Force
Speaker 5: Guardian perspective, with our mission to secure our nation's interests
Speaker 5: in from or to space, it's to allow those dreamers
Speaker 5: you dream big, and those explorers to explore right and
Speaker 5: for industry to continue to invest and see where we
Speaker 5: go and make sure that we secure our nations stake
Speaker 5: in that.
Speaker 1: Okay, And since it's still sort of a new thing
Speaker 1: to people, if people are interested in finding out more
Speaker 1: about Space Force, maybe they even want to join up.
Speaker 1: Where can people find out more information.
Speaker 5: So you know, space Force dot com and you can
Speaker 5: figure out more about the jobs and roles that we
Speaker 5: have within the Space Force and you'll be able to
Speaker 5: connect with the recruiter if you have some questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, Chief Masters Sergeant. You know your call sign
Speaker 1: is B nine because you're our last name is ben Avania.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a mouthful.
Speaker 1: It's a mouthful, but I did okay with it.
Speaker 5: I guess you did.
Speaker 1: Okay, Chief Master Surgeon, thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: in and spending some time with us. And again, if
Speaker 1: people want information at space force dot com dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much for Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: say good morning to the host of How to Money.
Speaker 1: I'm KFI. It's Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Joel, morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're talking to you a little bit later than
Speaker 1: we normally do because of your children.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, blame them.
Speaker 1: Well, so Joel's got kids in school, and school is
Speaker 1: starting up again for your kids. So we had to
Speaker 1: adjust a little bit, so moving forward, we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking to you on Tuesdays at five point fifty
Speaker 1: instead of five to twenty.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 10: I'm just glad you're going to continue having me.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm thrilled that you continue to bring us good
Speaker 1: information about how to money. God knows a lot of
Speaker 1: us need it, including me. Let's talk about social security
Speaker 1: and how worries about whether it's even going to be
Speaker 1: there are prompting some young kids to start saving more
Speaker 1: and start saving sooner.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is a story that I've been following closely,
Speaker 10: just kind of what's going on with social Security and
Speaker 10: then also just the vibes around social security specifically for
Speaker 10: young people, so gen Z, younger millennials even really like
Speaker 10: all millennials, there is an extreme worry that, you know,
Speaker 10: based on the rhetoric and based on the reality of
Speaker 10: what's going on with the Social Security Trust Fund, that hey,
Speaker 10: maybe when I get to my parents' age, there's not
Speaker 10: going to be anything left for me. And so it
Speaker 10: was like good and bad. Seeing there's a Wall Street
Speaker 10: Journal article about this, and it was they were talking
Speaker 10: about detailing how a lot of young people are planning
Speaker 10: for retirement with zero social security in mind, which means
Speaker 10: a lot of them are saving a whole lot more
Speaker 10: than they'd otherwise need to, and oversaving is better than
Speaker 10: undersaving in my opinion. But still, I guess it's not
Speaker 10: that those fears are completely unfounded, because there are issues
Speaker 10: with social security that need to be addressed in our
Speaker 10: politicians really aren't doing anything. They're not really even talking
Speaker 10: about it, even though there are The longer we kick
Speaker 10: the can down the road, the harder the more severe
Speaker 10: the way we have to approach fixing social security becomes.
Speaker 10: But it's at least good to see young people saying
Speaker 10: I've got to take more of this into my own hands.
Speaker 1: And I think probably young people are probably better prepared
Speaker 1: than kind of people in the middle, because you know,
Speaker 1: I've always just assumed that social security is going to
Speaker 1: still be there. But that I mean initially they were saying, what,
Speaker 1: twenty thirty five, it could run out of money. Well,
Speaker 1: that's only eleven years away.
Speaker 10: So here's the thing that is that I think that
Speaker 10: is part of the reason young people in particular are
Speaker 10: saying there isn't going to be any money there for me.
Speaker 10: But that's not when you read that headline, there's a
Speaker 10: lot of deeper truth to that, because it turns out
Speaker 10: people who are working you and me are still paying
Speaker 10: into the Social Security program. And so even though the
Speaker 10: Social Security Trust Fund essentially runs out of money, it
Speaker 10: doesn't mean that Social Security can't pay its bills. And
Speaker 10: the worst thing that's going to happen, based on everything
Speaker 10: I've read and seen, is that what happens is diminished
Speaker 10: payouts for people and probably like at most a twenty
Speaker 10: five percent haircut, and even at that twenty five percent haircut.
Speaker 10: So let's say you log onto social Security dot gov,
Speaker 10: you sign up for my social Security, and you get
Speaker 10: that projection of what you're likely to get in Social
Speaker 10: Security payments when you retire. You might find that, hey,
Speaker 10: guess what, that was a lofty goal that Social Security
Speaker 10: is saying that I'm going to have. Ultimately, if you
Speaker 10: factor into I think a wise thing to do, factor
Speaker 10: into having seventy to seventy five percent of the money
Speaker 10: that Social Security projects instead of the full amount that
Speaker 10: they're projecting, because that's, in my opinion, the worst case
Speaker 10: scenario of what's going to happen. Because even if that's
Speaker 10: the case, the social Security has enough to make those
Speaker 10: those lower payment amounts for many many decades.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what is a good plan of action now
Speaker 1: to plan for that now?
Speaker 10: So again, what people are doing is kind of the
Speaker 10: right thing. I think it's maybe overkilled to say I'm
Speaker 10: not going to I'm going to assume that there's zero
Speaker 10: social Security for me. That puts a lot of bonus
Speaker 10: on you, and I think for a lot of people,
Speaker 10: actually that's pretty demoralizing. It's like saying, uh, I guess
Speaker 10: I could see people taking one of two tacts. If
Speaker 10: that's the case, it's either whow, I'm gonna save a
Speaker 10: ton or oh my gosh, I'm gonna save nothing, because
Speaker 10: it's a doom and gloom from the.
Speaker 5: From the get go.
Speaker 10: So realize that there is going to be social Security there,
Speaker 10: and guess what, it's a really popular program. And politicians
Speaker 10: at some point are going to wise up and they're
Speaker 10: not just going to let it go to pot because
Speaker 10: this is something that Americans have relied on now for many, many,
Speaker 10: many decades, and they're they're they're going to shore it up.
Speaker 6: At some point.
Speaker 10: When and who and how that's going to happen, I
Speaker 10: don't know. But this is a this is a program
Speaker 10: that's going to be there for the long term. But
Speaker 10: it's also incumbent on you, especially in today's age, to
Speaker 10: be investing for your future from an early age. Dollar
Speaker 10: costs averaging regularly into your four oh one K, into
Speaker 10: your wroth IRA, hopefully in increasing one to two percentage
Speaker 10: points a year what you're investing. I love for people
Speaker 10: ideally to have some sort of minimum savings rate, minimum
Speaker 10: investment amount of fifteen percent fifteen percent.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's move on now to spending and
Speaker 1: credit cards. And we know that it's it's important to
Speaker 1: have a strong credit score, But how do you help
Speaker 1: your kid get a head start on getting a good
Speaker 1: credit score?
Speaker 10: So parents everywhere want their kids to do better than
Speaker 10: they did, right, That's that's the goal, Right, You're like,
Speaker 10: how can I allow my kid to have a better
Speaker 10: life than I had, hopefully without becoming entitled in the process.
Speaker 10: And that's the problem I face right now with my children.
Speaker 10: But one thing that you can do that doesn't lead
Speaker 10: to entitlement, but that does help them get started on
Speaker 10: the right foot when it comes to their finances is
Speaker 10: kind of gifting them a higher credit score. And we're
Speaker 10: finding that more and more parents are doing this. There's
Speaker 10: some new data from TransUnion that came out this week
Speaker 10: and it found that young people are being granted authorized
Speaker 10: user access in much bigger numbers than they were just
Speaker 10: ten years ago. It's more than doubled and what authorized
Speaker 10: user access is. And I was talking to Kno about
Speaker 10: this before I came on. He's done it for his kids,
Speaker 10: so he's ahead of the curve like usual, right, Yeah,
Speaker 10: give him a pedal of the back for me. It's
Speaker 10: what you can do is essentially put your kid on
Speaker 10: your credit card account as an authorized user, not hand
Speaker 10: over a credit card to them, because that might be
Speaker 10: a mistake. And you can do it as young you
Speaker 10: can do it as soon as they come out of
Speaker 10: the womb, essentially. On some credit card issuers like Capital One,
Speaker 10: there is no age limit to add your child as
Speaker 10: an authorized user. Other credit card companies say not until
Speaker 10: they're thirteen. So take a look at the fine print
Speaker 10: on your particular credit card. But if you handle credit
Speaker 10: card well, credit well, and you handle your credit cards
Speaker 10: incredibly well, paying them off on time and in full,
Speaker 10: if you are a diligent user of your credit and
Speaker 10: you have a high score and believe you will continue
Speaker 10: to do that. You can set your kid up for
Speaker 10: future success by essentially allowing them when they turn eighteen
Speaker 10: to have a high seven hundreds, low eight hundreds credit
Speaker 10: score from the get go. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So they can get your score just by piggybacking on
Speaker 1: your account.
Speaker 10: That's exactly I mean, that's the term piggybacking. That's exactly
Speaker 10: what they're doing. Is they're kind of jumping on you
Speaker 10: and then how well you have handled.
Speaker 5: Or how poorly.
Speaker 10: By the way, so if you don't handle credit, you
Speaker 10: don't get right. So if like your kids really annoying
Speaker 10: you and you handle credit porly, then add them as
Speaker 10: an authorized user and set them up for not success
Speaker 10: I guess. But yeah, this is a great tool for
Speaker 10: people who do handle their credit card well and want
Speaker 10: to get their kids started off on the right foot.
Speaker 10: It's like, oh, I can't give you tens of thousands
Speaker 10: of dollars. I don't have some sort of massive inheritance,
Speaker 10: but at least this is going to get you started
Speaker 10: off on the right leg from a credit perspective. When
Speaker 10: we all know how wide ranging and impactful your credit
Speaker 10: score is in your financial life. We're talking about whether
Speaker 10: or not you can rent the apartment. We're talking about
Speaker 10: the rates you get when you're borrowing to buy a
Speaker 10: car or to buy a home. And so this is
Speaker 10: a really big one for you to be able to
Speaker 10: help your kiddo. And yeah, again, you might be able
Speaker 10: to do it from the age of one, or you
Speaker 10: can do it from the age of thirteen, depends what
Speaker 10: credit card issue you're with.
Speaker 1: Helping your kids lead to a successful future. What a
Speaker 1: wonderful gift. Okyes, we're going to find out many more
Speaker 1: tips on how to manage your money, on how to
Speaker 1: Money coming up Sunday noon to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 1: You can also follow Joel Larsgard at how to Money.
Speaker 1: Joel get lots of great financial tips. Thank you so much, Joel.
Speaker 1: Go take your kids to school now, Okay, thank you,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll talk to you next week. This is
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