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Speaker 3: Then they'll do something I hate most of all. Every
Speaker 3: who down and who will the tall and the small
Speaker 3: stand close together with Christmas bells. They'll stand hand in hand,
Speaker 3: those wholes will start singing.
Speaker 4: It's time for your morning wake up call, slaves, and
Speaker 4: good morning, Good Christmas morning.
Speaker 5: It is Wednesday, December twenty fifth. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuakah's you.
Speaker 5: I hope that if you're like me and you're at
Speaker 5: work today, you find some peace in that. Maybe some
Speaker 5: co workers you don't like aren't in the office today,
Speaker 5: so you can take full advantage of his lounging around
Speaker 5: and not worrying about that. Or maybe you're already on
Speaker 5: your way out to some festivities, on your way to
Speaker 5: visit some family, travel safely, or maybe you're just enjoying
Speaker 5: the last few moments of peace, or the kids wake
Speaker 5: up for that magic moment to see what Santa has
Speaker 5: brought down. Santa was quite busy yesterday. We tracked it
Speaker 5: all morning long on the NORAD Santa Tracker. He's all
Speaker 5: finished now back for his three hundred and sixty four
Speaker 5: day vacation in the North Pole. He delivered eight point
Speaker 5: one billion presents to good boys and girls all around
Speaker 5: the globe yesterday, according to the Norad Santa Tracker, and
Speaker 5: I hope many of those boys and girls were right
Speaker 5: here in LA and Orange County. We've got a lot
Speaker 5: of head here on wake up call. We're still working,
Speaker 5: We're still bringing you the news and some entertainment as well.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering here on Christmas Day, has your Christmas tree survived?
Speaker 5: Not the elements your cat? Why are cats the way
Speaker 5: they are? Why do they hate Christmas? Or is it
Speaker 5: that they love it? Differently? If you want to know
Speaker 5: why our mysterious furry friends behave the way they do,
Speaker 5: there's actually a college class for that, and we're going
Speaker 5: to hear from the professor and then imagine reaching adulthood
Speaker 5: without being able to read. One man took that journey
Speaker 5: and then taught himself. He's now inspiring others through a
Speaker 5: popular social media account. Going to hear from him as well.
Speaker 5: Then coming up at the top of the hour, no
Speaker 5: handle on the news today, because we've got no bill handle.
Speaker 6: But we do have Jesus. The Jesus Show is.
Speaker 5: Coming up this morning, and what a day to tune
Speaker 5: in for that. We do also want to let you
Speaker 5: know that a transformer failure at a SoCal Edison substation
Speaker 5: in the Norwalk Downy area has led to widespread power
Speaker 5: outage in the area, but the utility says most customers
Speaker 5: had their power back quickly. It's not clear what calls
Speaker 5: that outage yesterday. We know that the Metro Sea Line
Speaker 5: trains were stopped between the Norwalk and Willowbrook Rosa Park
Speaker 5: stations when that power issue began. Buses were used to
Speaker 5: shuttle passengers between those stations, but electrical service on the
Speaker 5: light rail line was restored and trains began running again
Speaker 5: just before five o'clock in the afternoon. But we have
Speaker 5: heard from some listeners that their power may still be off,
Speaker 5: so we're going to monitor that for you throughout the day.
Speaker 5: And thanks again for listening to Wake Up Call. I
Speaker 5: am Michael Monks filling in for Amy King. By the way,
Speaker 5: she will be back next week. Will be splitting duties
Speaker 5: on next week. She's going to be off on New
Speaker 5: Year's in the day after so I'll be keeping you
Speaker 5: company next week as well. I'm wondering if you've ever
Speaker 5: imagined going to college to learn all about cats when
Speaker 5: that had been fun, maybe you would better understand why
Speaker 5: man's other best friend hates Christmas, Christmas trees, ornaments, anything
Speaker 5: dangly and festive. Well, there is such a class and
Speaker 5: kfi's Amy King spoke with Professor Jonathan Loso's earlier this
Speaker 5: year on the science of cats.
Speaker 1: I want to say good morning now to professor Jonathan
Speaker 1: Losses at Washington University at Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Jonathan.
Speaker 8: Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: So wanted to talk to you today because you're teaching
Speaker 1: a course that I've never heard of before, and I
Speaker 1: thought I got to talk to this to this guy.
Speaker 1: And so before we start talking, I want to read
Speaker 1: the part of the description of the course. Okay, so
Speaker 1: listen to what this sounds like. This is a capstone
Speaker 1: style course for upper level biology majors. The course will
Speaker 1: provide biology majors nearing graduation the opportunity to apply what
Speaker 1: they've learned in topics as diverse as speciation, molecular evolution,
Speaker 1: community ecology, and animal behavior to investigate and analyze questions
Speaker 1: concerning the biology of a species near and dear to
Speaker 1: the hearts of many, the Felis catus, also known as
Speaker 1: the domestic cat. The course is called the Science of Cats.
Speaker 1: I love this, so please tell us about this course, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: and what we can learn.
Speaker 8: Well, you can learn a lot about many different topics.
Speaker 8: I'm a scientist. I've spent my career studying lizards, but
Speaker 8: I've always loved cats, and it never occurred to me
Speaker 8: to do anything scientifically with cats until I realized that
Speaker 8: people are studying cats in the same way that I
Speaker 8: study lizards, and people study elephants and hippos and eagles
Speaker 8: using all the latest techniques radio tracking, DNA analysis and
Speaker 8: so on. And so I had the idea of teaching
Speaker 8: students how we study nature, just using cats as the example.
Speaker 8: And so that's what the class is about.
Speaker 7: I love this.
Speaker 1: And what kind of practical things are people going to
Speaker 1: learn from studying our furly three feline friends.
Speaker 8: Well, there's two things. One is how a lot about cats,
Speaker 8: where they came from, why they do what they do,
Speaker 8: what the future may hold. So there's a lot to
Speaker 8: learn about the biology of cats. We take them for granted,
Speaker 8: but they're fascinating animals, but they're also good examples of
Speaker 8: how we study nature in general, what approaches we can
Speaker 8: take to understand evolution, behavior, ecology, and other broad questions.
Speaker 7: Okay, and how long have you been studying cats Jonathan?
Speaker 8: Well, well, only a couple of years. I'd say about
Speaker 8: four or five years, because, as I said, I've spent
Speaker 8: my career studying lizards, which have their own own qualities.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, and how long has the course been offered? Is
Speaker 1: this the first year?
Speaker 8: No, it's been taught three times. The first year I
Speaker 8: taught first year students freshmen, and then twice I've taught
Speaker 8: it to graduating seniors.
Speaker 1: Okay, and how is it being received? Like are people going, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like basket weaving, or are they going, oh,
Speaker 1: I could really learn some cool stuff. And then how
Speaker 1: are they finding it once they get in?
Speaker 8: Well, I think they're really enjoying it because they've been
Speaker 8: studying biology for their entire college career, but now they
Speaker 8: get to apply their knowledge to an animal they know
Speaker 8: and love to figure out, not about an earthworm or
Speaker 8: some obscure frog, but an animal they really care about.
Speaker 8: And we do a lot of fun things as well,
Speaker 8: we go to cat shows, and we go out to
Speaker 8: watch Beryl cats being fed, and we go to a
Speaker 8: cat shelter. So we supplement the course with some field
Speaker 8: trips that are very enjoyable.
Speaker 7: I love this. And Jonathan, do you have cats?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I do have cats. I'm looking at Winston right now.
Speaker 7: I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: And what are a couple of things that we might
Speaker 1: not know about cats? Because I always think of my
Speaker 1: cat like, we know that they don't really need us
Speaker 1: that much except for food, but there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on in their little brains.
Speaker 8: Well, that is absolutely true. I think perhaps the most
Speaker 8: surprising thing is we think of cats as kind of
Speaker 8: being asocial loaners, solitary animals, but it turns out that
Speaker 8: they're not, at least not always. In some conditions. They
Speaker 8: have a highly social organization where they live in groups,
Speaker 8: just like lions, and these are groups of related females
Speaker 8: that help take care of each other as kittens and
Speaker 8: are very friendly to each other. So sometimes cats can
Speaker 8: be very social. They're the only other cat besides lions
Speaker 8: that do this.
Speaker 1: And so in a group of cats, then would it
Speaker 1: be similar to where there's usually one male and then
Speaker 1: a bunch of females.
Speaker 8: Yes, So the groups are composed of the females because
Speaker 8: the female kittens they grow up and stay with their family,
Speaker 8: whereas the males go off and then males try to
Speaker 8: try to be in control to mate with the females.
Speaker 8: It's not quite like lions because the males move around
Speaker 8: more than male than the male cats move around more
Speaker 8: than the male lions. But it's pretty similar.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what's next for you in your study of cats?
Speaker 7: So what's the next progression?
Speaker 8: Well, I think there are two issues. One is how
Speaker 8: cats have evolved since they became domesticated in Africa just
Speaker 8: three or four thousand years ago. They're very similar and
Speaker 8: that's why we sometimes call cats being only semi domesticated.
Speaker 8: But they have changed a few things, such as their
Speaker 8: meow is more pleasing to our ear and in a
Speaker 8: few other ways. So studying more more precisely how cats
Speaker 8: have changed since their their ancestors. And the other question
Speaker 8: that's very important in where you live in many other places,
Speaker 8: and that's the environmental impact of outdoor cats. We know
Speaker 8: they're great, they're great hunters, but just what effect are
Speaker 8: they having and what we can do about that.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 1: And now, Jonathan, is there a book that you have
Speaker 1: or a website if people want to dig a little
Speaker 1: more into the science of cats since we're not in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis.
Speaker 8: Well did I did write a book called The Cats
Speaker 8: Meow that came out about a year ago, and I
Speaker 8: think it's a fun read. I hope people will like
Speaker 8: it as well. That would be the best place, I think.
Speaker 1: All right, Professor Jonathan Losses, Washington University at Saint Louis,
Speaker 1: teaching the science of cats and the author of The
Speaker 1: Cats Meal, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Speaker 7: I wish I was in Saint Louis. I would take
Speaker 7: this case.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 8: I always good to talk to a fellow cat lover.
Speaker 8: All right, take care you too, Bye bye.
Speaker 5: And that was our Amy King talking earlier this year
Speaker 5: about the science of cats. I think I heard him
Speaker 5: say their mew has become more pleasing to our ears.
Speaker 5: And I would say that's a qualified statement. You know,
Speaker 5: usually it's usually it's all right, but there are times
Speaker 5: at about yeah, exactly two thirty in the morning, and
Speaker 5: they're hungry for some reason, even though they just ate yeah,
Speaker 5: and it's time to wake up.
Speaker 6: No thanks. Hey, do have a warning to issue about
Speaker 6: some pets.
Speaker 5: Public health officials in La in La County have a
Speaker 5: bird flu warning for pet owners.
Speaker 9: The warning follows the voluntary recall of Northwest Natural's brand
Speaker 9: two pound Feline Turkey recipe raw and frozen pet food
Speaker 9: after the H five bird flu virus was found in
Speaker 9: some samples.
Speaker 5: So that's going on. Another thing to worry about with
Speaker 5: bird flu. So keep your eyes peeled for what's going
Speaker 5: on with that raw food. Again, it's all related to
Speaker 5: raw stuff, whether it's impacting people or the livestock, something
Speaker 5: that we just have to keep.
Speaker 6: Our eyes on.
Speaker 5: Kfi's Tammy Truio says the pet food was sold in
Speaker 5: two pound bags with best buy dates of May and
Speaker 5: June twenty twenty six. People are advised to toss any
Speaker 5: of that pet food if you've got it. We'll have
Speaker 5: the customary masses and shirt services celebrating the Birth of
Speaker 5: Jesus here in La along with the annual events providing
Speaker 5: meals to the homeless and poor. You'll see Archbishop Jose
Speaker 5: Gomez celebrate the twelve thirty pm Mass in Spanish and
Speaker 5: then continue the tradition by celebrating a mass with general
Speaker 5: population inmates at the Men's Central Jail Chapel. Today, Temple
Speaker 5: Israel of Hollywood and Hollywood United Methodist Church will host
Speaker 5: a free Christmas dinner, which will also include giveaways of
Speaker 5: toys and personal care items. The Laugh Factory Hollywood will
Speaker 5: host its forty fifth annual free Christmas feast and comedy
Speaker 5: show for those in need. Tonight is also the first
Speaker 5: night of Hanukah, with public Menora lightings planned for Pasadena
Speaker 5: and Santa Monica.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty.
Speaker 5: I'm Michael Monks sitting in for Amy King this Christmas Day.
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas to you and yours and Happy Honkah as well.
Speaker 5: Coming up at six oh five. Let's see, we don't
Speaker 5: have Amy King, we don't have Handle on the news
Speaker 5: either of the Bill Handle Show, and that whole team
Speaker 5: is out of here. But Jesus Christ is going to
Speaker 5: be filling in. That Jesus Christ Show will be coming
Speaker 5: up this morning at six o'clock. But first, Oliver James
Speaker 5: has been described as functionally illiterate. He has struggled with
Speaker 5: learning disabilities and was placed in special education classes back
Speaker 5: in school. But he has managed to teach himself to read,
Speaker 5: and he took his literacy journey to TikTok, where he
Speaker 5: has amassed a significant following. Ariami King spoke with him
Speaker 5: about that journey.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Oliver James. Good morning Oliver.
Speaker 1: So Oliver, before we talk about what you have now
Speaker 1: done and what you are doing now, I want to
Speaker 1: take a look back at your life and kind of
Speaker 1: to get people up to speed on kind of how
Speaker 1: you got kind of a rough start in life and
Speaker 1: that affected you into adulthood. So let's back up a
Speaker 1: little bit and talk about, you know, what was life
Speaker 1: like as a kid for you.
Speaker 10: I know, life was like everyone else growing up in
Speaker 10: the night vision, no parental you know, guidance. You kind
Speaker 10: of just raised yourself TV a bunch of young food.
Speaker 10: It was. It was just like everyone else.
Speaker 1: But you had some pretty big stumbling blocks starting out
Speaker 1: at a young age. You made a mention of when
Speaker 1: you were in first grade, you got suspended.
Speaker 10: Yeah, got suspended around first second grade. I don't know why,
Speaker 10: but apparently I was the bad kid. But how they
Speaker 10: chose to handle the situation. They decided to take me
Speaker 10: out of school more. I don't know why, but that's
Speaker 10: how they.
Speaker 1: Handle things, okay, and that affects your learning and your
Speaker 1: ability to learn, and that it sort of snowballed as
Speaker 1: you grew up.
Speaker 7: So did you end up? Did you get your high
Speaker 7: school diploma?
Speaker 10: Yeah? I got my high school diploma. School was definitely
Speaker 10: a rough journey, like after getting suspended around like first
Speaker 10: second grade. It was literally just fighting with teachers, arguing
Speaker 10: all the time, suspension. Yeah, and then one day I
Speaker 10: woke up and I was graduating. That's literally how it was.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: So now that's going to bring us a little closer
Speaker 1: to today, so you're not to you know, you had
Speaker 1: a lot of kids had had tough goes, but for
Speaker 1: you it was pretty profound because you got your high
Speaker 1: school diploma and you couldn't read.
Speaker 10: Yep, yep, yep. You know. I've done a lot of
Speaker 10: interviews and I'm trying to make sense of it, and
Speaker 10: I'm trying to give people an answer so they can
Speaker 10: make sense of it themselves. But let's just sit and
Speaker 10: think about it. I was a child, now I'm an adult,
Speaker 10: and I'm looking at at their children and I'm like,
Speaker 10: why would they leave the responsibility to a child to
Speaker 10: learn anything like reading, you know, all these things, why
Speaker 10: the child wouldn't learn that. Now I'm sitting here realizing
Speaker 10: that no one took responsibility for leaving me. Literally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I think that we see that in
Speaker 1: schools now. They keep just dumbing it down and they're like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we want to have We don't want to hold kids
Speaker 1: back because that might hurt their self esteem. So let's
Speaker 1: just let them move on without teaching them the skills
Speaker 1: that they're going to need to survive and thrive in life.
Speaker 1: And so you got your diploma, and then holding a
Speaker 1: job was kind of tough because you said you're functionally illiterate.
Speaker 10: Yeah not then now you know I'm on welfare. Now
Speaker 10: it will always be over your head. The world was
Speaker 10: designed for you to know how to read. They made
Speaker 10: this world up like that. If you don't know how
Speaker 10: to read, you are in a world that you cannot operate.
Speaker 10: And this is a made up world works all these
Speaker 10: things you can't read, you miss all the opportunities in life,
Speaker 10: and it continues into your adulthood.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, and you gave some examples of like you
Speaker 1: would get a job, but then as like a bartender
Speaker 1: or a server.
Speaker 7: But then you couldn't hold the job. And I hadn't even.
Speaker 1: Thought about this, but like, what were some of the
Speaker 1: challenges you face once you got the job, Because it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're a pretty a charismatic, friendly guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get the job, but keeping it was the hard part.
Speaker 10: See, that's the strength of a person who does want
Speaker 10: to read. I learned how to do interviews and talk
Speaker 10: and do things that you know, mask that other people
Speaker 10: probably can't do. But once I get the job and
Speaker 10: they can see the two colors, they can see like, Okay,
Speaker 10: I was a bartender and I'm dating the person who
Speaker 10: hired me as a bartender at the restaurant that I
Speaker 10: was at, and she had to bar or demote me
Speaker 10: to a bus or a server, and she couldn't understand
Speaker 10: why you think of that? She couldn't understand why does
Speaker 10: this guy I had the look, I had the charm,
Speaker 10: I had everything you would ask for, but I couldn't
Speaker 10: do the job. And she could not understand why I
Speaker 10: was not able to do the job. And I wouldn't
Speaker 10: tell anybody either.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when it came to like if you were
Speaker 1: sitting there helping somebody and they said, well, what's good
Speaker 1: on the menu?
Speaker 10: You're like, uh, you tell me. I was a charmer.
Speaker 10: I would just literally be like you tell me. I'm like,
Speaker 10: you know what, that looks good?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: I would definitely try that and it'd be like, well,
Speaker 10: what's in it? I'm like, well this it's a surprise.
Speaker 10: And I would just lie or make up anything. I
Speaker 10: had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, then in twenty twenty, Oliver, something changed for you.
Speaker 1: Some switch got flipped on you.
Speaker 7: What happened?
Speaker 10: Uh, you know COVID. Let's just say that, you know,
Speaker 10: everybody got a little taste of what it feels like
Speaker 10: when the world and ended. You know, you're like, what
Speaker 10: should I do with my life?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 10: Should I change? And when I realized, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 10: the world ain't ending. Your life just kind of ended
Speaker 10: for a little bit. What would you do with it?
Speaker 10: And I thought, I'm like, I want to be a
Speaker 10: father one day, I want to do things. I want
Speaker 10: to grow. And I was like, you don't know how
Speaker 10: to do none of that. You can't even read. So
Speaker 10: I just decided to pick up a book.
Speaker 1: And you literally picked up a book and how did
Speaker 1: you start reading.
Speaker 7: Then if you don't know how.
Speaker 10: You know what it's just this is the best way
Speaker 10: to put it. There's a lot of people who go
Speaker 10: on health journeys, right, it's a new at the end
Speaker 10: of the year. How do you do it? Social media
Speaker 10: starts throwing up a bunch of people doing push ups
Speaker 10: on a stair master or you know, running up and
Speaker 10: down some jumping off a building. Who knows what they'll show,
Speaker 10: you know, just so you can see the hype of
Speaker 10: how athletic they are, and then you might go follow it.
Speaker 10: You might go out there and be like, I'm gonna
Speaker 10: go climb this tree and run around and lift this weight. Why,
Speaker 10: because you're just trying to learn. You're trying to figure
Speaker 10: out how does that person do it? So what I
Speaker 10: did was I just followed everybody else who used to
Speaker 10: sit under a tree a movie or at a restaurant.
Speaker 10: I'm like, they always sat down and just opened the
Speaker 10: book and it looks so calming and you know, entertaining.
Speaker 10: But to me, that's the first step. Open it and
Speaker 10: just stare at it, and then you go further because
Speaker 10: you'll ask like, what's this word? Or a movie might
Speaker 10: say something you just looked at on the book and
Speaker 10: you're like, oh, that's the same word from the movie.
Speaker 10: You know, that's how you start to connect it because
Speaker 10: you're emerging yourself into a book. You can't if you
Speaker 10: Once you're emerged into it, you're gonna start learning what's
Speaker 10: in there, which is amazing. It's a whole discovery.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then did you have somebody kind of helping you
Speaker 1: along the way, Because I would imagine as you're you're
Speaker 1: learning these words and learning how they go together, and
Speaker 1: you know, all the things that you've got going on
Speaker 1: in your head translated to paper, you would have to
Speaker 1: have somebody to kind of give you a helping hand
Speaker 1: to help me.
Speaker 10: Yeah, my lady, she was the one that helped me
Speaker 10: the most in this journey with the reading. She's the
Speaker 10: one that read to me in the beginning. So she
Speaker 10: brought me a book in the beginning on Christmas Day
Speaker 10: one day, a three hundred and sixty five quote book
Speaker 10: because I was really big into inspirational stuff and I
Speaker 10: didn't know inspiration could be in a book. So that
Speaker 10: was a shock to me. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 10: this is like you already just said, and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 10: that's a quote. I'm like a quote. I'm like, what's
Speaker 10: you know I'm going in and I'm like, well, I
Speaker 10: need more this. Give me more of these quotes, and
Speaker 10: she would read them to me. And then I got
Speaker 10: addicted to the quotes and I just started reading quotes
Speaker 10: every single day while I exercise.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 1: And I think that that probably was really smart, whether
Speaker 1: you realized it at the time or not, because then
Speaker 1: you kind of have bite sized chunks too. Yes, you
Speaker 1: don't have this huge story that's super involved like you can.
Speaker 1: You can take a bite and go, oh, I like
Speaker 1: that one, and learn different ones as you go.
Speaker 10: Maybe yes, I didn't know that. But the comprehension, you know,
Speaker 10: you got to realize. And I can tell you this now,
Speaker 10: so even some people can know. Comprehension is scary. You know,
Speaker 10: internal monologue is scary. I went to the emergency room.
Speaker 10: I thought I was going crazy. When you see images
Speaker 10: in your head and you start seeing movies in your
Speaker 10: own mind because you're reading, I thought I was losing
Speaker 10: my mind. I have no idea what was going on,
Speaker 10: because my brain has never been activated in that way
Speaker 10: in thirty five years. It just turned on out of nowhere. Yeah,
Speaker 10: like Frankenstein gaining a brain.
Speaker 7: Oliver, do you have a favorite quote?
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 10: And if you want to hide something from people, put
Speaker 10: it in a book. If you want to hih, that's
Speaker 10: one of my put Yeah. If you want to hide
Speaker 10: something and the quote is deeper than that, If you
Speaker 10: want to hide something from African American people, put in
Speaker 10: the book.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: But you know, sometimes I like to give it to
Speaker 10: everybody because it is for everybody. If you want to
Speaker 10: hide something from somebody, the knowledge is in a book.
Speaker 10: So if you're looking for something that's hidden, go look
Speaker 10: in a book. You'll find it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: And you can follow Oliver James on TikTok At Oliver
Speaker 5: Speaks one And that was our Amy King talking with
Speaker 5: Oliver James earlier this year. When we come back, our
Speaker 5: very own Will Coleschreiber's weekend watch out is here the
Speaker 5: details on what's happening around the region.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty this morning.
Speaker 6: She'll be back a little bit next week.
Speaker 5: She'll be on break again on New Year's Day in
Speaker 5: the day after, and I will be in for her
Speaker 5: next week as well. Here's what we're following in the
Speaker 5: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State officials in say the
Speaker 5: latest crackdown on retail theft in California has resulted in
Speaker 5: one hundred and seventeen people being arrested. The CHP led
Speaker 5: the day long operation Friday that included ten law enforcement agencies,
Speaker 5: some from LA and Riverside Counties. They say officers recovered
Speaker 5: seven hundred and sixty seven stolen items worth over thirty
Speaker 5: eight thousand bucks. They also found three stolen cars and
Speaker 5: two illegal guns. King Charles the Third is expected to
Speaker 5: use his annual Christmas message to highlight health workers. At
Speaker 5: the end of a year in Wish, both he and
Speaker 5: the Princes of Wales were diagnosed with cancer. His King's
Speaker 5: speech will be broadcast in the UK in the afternoon
Speaker 5: around ten am our time. The King was diagnosed with
Speaker 5: an undisclosed form of cancer in February. Coming up at
Speaker 5: the top of the hour, No handle on the news today,
Speaker 5: No bill handles show at all. The whole crew is out.
Speaker 5: The Jesus Christ Show is coming up at the top
Speaker 5: of the hour, but first wake up calls regular host
Speaker 5: is Amy King. Of course she's taken some deserved time
Speaker 5: off for the holiday week, but she did leave us
Speaker 5: a little gift. It's a poem, A politically correct night
Speaker 5: before Christmas, twas the.
Speaker 1: Night before christ Smiths and Santa's a wreck. How to
Speaker 1: live in a world that's politically correct. His workers no
Speaker 1: longer would answer to elves vertically challenged, they were calling themselves,
Speaker 1: and labor conditions at the North Pole were alleged by
Speaker 1: the union to stifle the soul. Four reindeer had vanished
Speaker 1: without much propriety, released to the wilds by the Humane Society,
Speaker 1: and Equal employment had made it quite clear that Santa
Speaker 1: had better not use just reindeer. So Dancer and Donner,
Speaker 1: Comet and Cupid were replaced with four pigs, and you
Speaker 1: know that looked stupid. The runners had been removed from
Speaker 1: his sleigh. The rets were termed dangerous by the EPA,
Speaker 1: and people had started to call for the cops when
Speaker 1: they heard sled noises on their rooftops. Secondhand smoke from
Speaker 1: his pipe had his workers quite frightened. His fur trimmed
Speaker 1: red suit was called unenlightened. And to show you the
Speaker 1: strangeness of life's e and flows, Rudolph was suing over
Speaker 1: unauthorized use of his nose, and had gone on Kelly
Speaker 1: Clarkson in front of the nation, demanding millions in overdue compensation.
Speaker 1: So half of the reindeer were gone, and his wife,
Speaker 1: who suddenly said she'd enough of this life joined a
Speaker 1: self help group, packed and left in a whiz, demanding
Speaker 1: from now on her title was miz. And as for
Speaker 1: the gifts, why he'd never had a notion that making
Speaker 1: a choice could cause so much commotion. Nothing of leather,
Speaker 1: nothing of fur, which meant nothing for him and nothing
Speaker 1: for her. Nothing that might be construed to pollute, nothing
Speaker 1: to aim, nothing to shoot, Nothing that clamored or made
Speaker 1: lots of noise. Nothing for just girls or just for
Speaker 1: the boys. Nothing that claimed to be gender specific. Nothing
Speaker 1: that's warlike or non pacific. No candy or sweets. They
Speaker 1: were bad for the tooth. Nothing that seemed to embellish truth.
Speaker 1: And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden, were kind of
Speaker 1: like yeezies, better off hidden, for they raised the hackles
Speaker 1: of those psychological who claimed the only good gift was
Speaker 1: one ecological. No baseball, no football, someone could get hurt. Besides,
Speaker 1: playing sports exposes kids to dirt, dolls were said to
Speaker 1: be sexist and should be passe, and Xbox would wrote
Speaker 1: your poor brain away. So Santa just stood there, disheveled, perplexed.
Speaker 1: He just could not figure out what to do next.
Speaker 1: He tried to be merry, he tried to be gay,
Speaker 1: but you've got to be careful with that word. Today,
Speaker 1: his sack was quite empty, limped to the ground, nothing
Speaker 1: fully acceptable was to be found. Something special was needed,
Speaker 1: a gift that he might give to all without angering
Speaker 1: the left or the right, A gift that would satisfy
Speaker 1: with no indecision, each group of people, every religion, every ethnicity,
Speaker 1: every hue, everyone everywhere, even you.
Speaker 7: So here is that gift. It's price beyond worth. May
Speaker 7: you and your loved ones enjoy peace on earth.
Speaker 5: And that was our amy King with a politically correct
Speaker 5: night before Christmas, on this day of Christmas. And if
Speaker 5: we're lucky, there will also be a day after Christmas.
Speaker 5: And you may have had a busy holiday schedule, and
Speaker 5: your busiest day is just now getting started this morning.
Speaker 5: Hollywood has excuse me, the holiday has come midweek, but
Speaker 5: you're gonna have to find some strength to enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 5: Two and our friend Will Cole Schreiber is here to
Speaker 5: talk about what's going on this weekend and beyond Will.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at this lineup and it's a lot of
Speaker 5: sports and music so far this weekend.
Speaker 6: A lot of sports, a lot of music. So you're
Speaker 6: cooped up.
Speaker 11: With your family, maybe more than you're used to, and
Speaker 11: you're looking for places to go to get out of
Speaker 11: the house, get some fresh air, maybe sneak away a
Speaker 11: little bit.
Speaker 6: We've got a lot of sports.
Speaker 11: First of all, we've got let's see, well, if you
Speaker 11: are in the house, you can watch the Lakers play
Speaker 11: Golden State today. That's a special thing. But also Golden
Speaker 11: State plays the Clippers on Friday. There's the Kings, the
Speaker 11: hockey kind. There's the Kings playing the Lakers, the basketball
Speaker 11: kind that happens on Saturday. Rams and Cardinals face off
Speaker 11: at SOFI. Ducks and the Flyers there at Honda Center.
Speaker 11: Morrissey are one of our favorite Brits rockers from across
Speaker 11: the Pond. He's playing the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, So
Speaker 11: there's that. If you are really really into hockey, there's
Speaker 11: a King's fan fest on Sunday at the LA Convention Center.
Speaker 11: Also there's all kinds of skating. If you want to
Speaker 11: go out and break something, there are plenty of places
Speaker 11: to do it. La Live downtown Pershing Square, that's right
Speaker 11: near where you live. You could hop out there right now.
Speaker 5: I did it last year. I haven't gotten a chance yet.
Speaker 5: I hope they're open a little bit longer so I
Speaker 5: can go check them out. And you survived, Universal Hilton,
Speaker 5: Santa Monica, Irvine Spectrum. All those places have ice rinks,
Speaker 5: slee is down at the Santa Monica Pier.
Speaker 6: All always really fun.
Speaker 11: And if you can't get enough Christmas, there's the Festival
Speaker 11: of Lights in Riverside at the Mission Inn, and of
Speaker 11: course Santa's Village up in Lake Arrowhead off the eighteen
Speaker 11: pack those chains just in case.
Speaker 6: I don't think it's snowing, but you never know. And movies,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of stuff out there.
Speaker 11: There's a Timothy Chalomey in a Complete Unknown not Sferratu.
Speaker 11: And of course if you haven't gotten your wicked fix yet,
Speaker 11: there's always that.
Speaker 6: It's everywhere, so there's lots to do. Get out and
Speaker 6: get some mayor and.
Speaker 10: Have some fun.
Speaker 5: Lots to do, indeed, and if you're entertaining family in
Speaker 5: LA this weekend. Lots of stuff to show off to them,
Speaker 5: or if you just want to slip away from the
Speaker 5: family all on your own.
Speaker 6: Plenty of options out there as well.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Hey, President Joe Biden has made it official. The bald
Speaker 5: eagle is now the national bird of the United States.
Speaker 5: Biden signed a bill into law this week correct what
Speaker 5: had long gone unnoticed and designate the bald eagle as
Speaker 5: the national bird. Eagle has been a symbol of the
Speaker 5: US for more than two hundred and forty years, appearing
Speaker 5: on the nation's Great Seal since the design was finalized
Speaker 5: way back in seventeen eighty two. That year, Congress also
Speaker 5: designated the bald eagle as the national emblem, but the
Speaker 5: honor of becoming the national bird had remained elusive until now.
Speaker 5: So don't you feel better knowing that we have a
Speaker 5: national bird? Netflix will have one of its biggest days
Speaker 5: since the site launched back in nineteen ninety eight when
Speaker 5: it carries two NFL games for the first time. Today,
Speaker 5: NFL Christmas Game Day on Netflix kicks off with a
Speaker 5: two hour pregame show at eleven o'clock before because it's
Speaker 5: a little earlier here our time eight o'clock in California
Speaker 5: time before Pittsburgh will host Kansas City. Baltimore faces Houston
Speaker 5: in the second game, so we'll just see how that
Speaker 5: streaming does. You might remember a certain boxing match that
Speaker 5: had people questioning whether or this was going to be
Speaker 5: worth anything.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: Am six forty.
Speaker 5: I am Michael Monks sitting in for Amy King on
Speaker 5: this Christmas morning. Merry Christmas to you and yours Happy
Speaker 5: Honikah as well as the two holidays fall on the
Speaker 5: same day this year. Here's what we're following in the
Speaker 5: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County DA's office
Speaker 5: says a high school teacher in West Covina is scheduled
Speaker 5: to be arraigned next month on charges of committing sex
Speaker 5: acts on two girls. Joshua McGinn teaches in the Charteroke
Speaker 5: Unified School District. The DA's office says he was arrested
Speaker 5: December eighteenth and is being held without bail. A body
Speaker 5: has been found in the wheel well of a United
Speaker 5: Airlines plane that landed in Maui. It was discovered yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 5: Police only said the flight had arrived from the mainland.
Speaker 5: In twenty fourteen, a teenager survived a similar trip in
Speaker 5: the undercarriage of a Boeing seven sixty seven that arrived
Speaker 5: in Maui from San Jose. Police and Fullerton have been
Speaker 5: giving some drivers gift cards instead of citations for Christmas.
Speaker 5: People stop yesterday for minor infractions like expired tags. We're
Speaker 5: given ten dollars Starbucks gift cards instead of a ticket.
Speaker 5: Police say they believe they handed out over one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty cards to a donation from the Fullerton Police
Speaker 5: and Community Foundation. And we are minutes away from the
Speaker 5: top of the hour where we would typically have handle
Speaker 5: on the money and then the bill handles show.
Speaker 6: Not today, they're all off. Today.
Speaker 5: We've got the Jesus Christ Show coming up at six o'clock.
Speaker 5: A passenger plane has crashed in Kazakhstan. The Auserbaijani airliner
Speaker 5: had sixty seven people on board when it went down.
Speaker 5: At least thirty two people have survived the crash, though,
Speaker 5: but thirty others are believed to have died. The plane
Speaker 5: had made an emergency landing after what the Russian Civil
Speaker 5: Aviation Authority says was a bird strike. Masses and church
Speaker 5: services are being held in LA to celebrate Christmas. Archbishop
Speaker 5: Jose Gomez will host a twelve thirty pm Mass in
Speaker 5: Spanish and then a mass with the general population in
Speaker 5: mates at the Men's Central Jail Temple. Israel of Hollywood
Speaker 5: and Hollywood United Methodist Church will host a free Christmas dinner,
Speaker 5: and the Laugh Factory in Hollywood will host its forty
Speaker 5: fifth annual free Christmas feast and comedy show. Tonight is
Speaker 5: also the first night of the Jewish Festival of Hanuka.
Speaker 5: Public Menora lightings are planned in Pasadena and in Santa Monica,
Speaker 5: and there were no tickets sold with all six numbers
Speaker 5: and Tuesdays Mega millions draw, boosting Friday's jackpot to one
Speaker 5: point one five billion dollars, the ninth largest lottery jackpot
Speaker 5: in US history. The numbers drawn on Tuesday were eleven, fourteen,
Speaker 5: thirty eight, forty five, forty six and the mega number
Speaker 5: was three. A ticket with five numbers but missing that
Speaker 5: mega number was sold in Lamour in Central California. It's
Speaker 5: worth one point seven seven million dollars. We'll let you
Speaker 5: know that striking Starbucks workers expected return to the coffee
Speaker 5: counter today, ending what amounted to a five day strike
Speaker 5: over wages and collective bargaining issues. Ukrainian officials say Russia
Speaker 5: has launched a missile barrage targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Ukraine's
Speaker 5: Air Force says the attack included seventy eight air, ground,
Speaker 5: and sea launched missiles, as well as drones. Five hundred
Speaker 5: thousand people in the Kharkiv region are reportedly without heat
Speaker 5: and starting January first, new laws in California will expand
Speaker 5: alcohol and cannabis sales to help revitalize downtown areas across
Speaker 5: the state affected by the pandemic. One of the new
Speaker 5: laws allows cities to create entertainment zones where bars and
Speaker 5: restaurants can serve drinks for consumption on public sidewalks. Maybe
Speaker 5: some of you living in certain parts of la or
Speaker 5: wondering when was that out lawed?
Speaker 6: See it every day.
Speaker 5: And then another one permits cannabis cafes to serve cannabis
Speaker 5: along with food and drinks. Doesn't that make sense for
Speaker 5: anyone who's ever consumed cannabis before, And you wonder why
Speaker 5: was that never allowed? They seem to go quite hand
Speaker 5: in hand. Coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 5: No handle on the news today, no Bill handle at all.
Speaker 5: The whole crew is off. It's just me and Will
Speaker 5: and Robin here at KFI and Burbank. But we do
Speaker 5: have Jesus Christ joining us at six o'clock, so you're
Speaker 5: not going to want to miss the Jesus Christ Show.
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