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Speaker 2: until nine o'clock and then it's full retirement for Wayne. Michelle,
Speaker 2: You're not gonna like this, but I've decided, well, you know,
Speaker 2: it's the last day, so I'm working without a net.
Speaker 2: And here's what i mean by that. Some I have
Speaker 2: never been about Mike to whatever extent that I've been
Speaker 2: successful in the sense that three different program directors have
Speaker 2: kept me on the air and I've never been fired
Speaker 2: and whatever. It hasn't been because I'm just so cool
Speaker 2: and have such an awesome personality that people they just
Speaker 2: want to hang out. So I'm assuming it has a
Speaker 2: lot to do with all the work that I put
Speaker 2: into every show to learn as much as I can
Speaker 2: and try to synthesize it in my mind so that
Speaker 2: maybe from time to time I make sense on the
Speaker 2: air about a topic of the day. And so a
Speaker 2: typical prep for a show is to read a tremendous
Speaker 2: amount of material and highlight it and the whole thing. Well,
Speaker 2: I didn't do that today. Uh Oh, I read. I read,
Speaker 2: I mean the things we're gonna talk about. I read
Speaker 2: stuff about the things we're gonna talk about. I didn't
Speaker 2: take any notes. I didn't highlight anything. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: just whatever. Whatever I remember, You'll be fine. I'll see, yeah,
Speaker 2: wall Look, it might be, it might be unbelievably impressive.
Speaker 2: I think it will be. I predict it will be.
Speaker 2: Or at might crash and burn into utter chaos. But
Speaker 2: who cares? Why here are you retiring anyway? Yeah, here's
Speaker 2: another thing. Should you hear I don't think you will,
Speaker 2: But should you hear anybody in the background who is
Speaker 2: not a human being? Because it will be. Because I
Speaker 2: am now coming to you today live from my home
Speaker 2: in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which was part of the
Speaker 2: whole retirement strategy. I bought a house here some time ago,
Speaker 2: remember when I went from full time to part time.
Speaker 2: That was part of the plan. So it's possible you'll
Speaker 2: hear a me ow at some point. Pay no mind.
Speaker 3: I love it is this new mew.
Speaker 2: No no, it's Meadow. It's miss Meadow, and you just
Speaker 2: never know. She's very she's very insistent, all right. So
Speaker 2: that's just the notes that you need in case, in
Speaker 2: case I stop making any sense at all, or you
Speaker 2: hear should you hear a mew or something in the background,
Speaker 2: you will, hopefully you will know, although in two hours
Speaker 2: it'll be different people listening and they won't know because
Speaker 2: I'm not giving this speech at the beginning of every singment.
Speaker 2: But I have, and I did, and it's on the record,
Speaker 2: and nobody can say I didn't say anything to explain
Speaker 2: whatever might happen today. And with that being said, here
Speaker 2: we go with today's handle on the news. Amy King,
Speaker 2: Oh wait, good morning, Michelle, good morning, and Kono Mona. Wayne.
Speaker 2: You're a good guy. You're a better guy. I love
Speaker 2: what you're doing with That's not true. I love what
Speaker 2: you're doing with those bumps. I know I've told you
Speaker 2: many times. I'm not going to be regretting. I will
Speaker 2: not regret that I never told you. But still it
Speaker 2: can't be said enough the way that you pick the
Speaker 2: bumps to match the topic that's coming up, and you're
Speaker 2: very clever about it. Some people might try to do
Speaker 2: it and every time it's the obvious thing or it's dumb,
Speaker 2: but you are smart about it. Thank you and Amo
Speaker 2: King o Waynorezzo, Oh what we have been through on
Speaker 2: that morning show when we were on it. The Morning
Speaker 2: Show is quite an environment, is it not, Michelle? Oh,
Speaker 2: yes it is. It is unlike any other show on KFI.
Speaker 2: You can decide how I mean that for yourself. All right,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, No, that's gonna be so professional from
Speaker 2: here on out. Watch this. It's time for handle On
Speaker 2: the news, it's Amy King and me and our lead story. Well,
Speaker 2: a small plane crashed through the roof of a furniture
Speaker 2: manufacturing building right next to the Fullerton Airport. Two people
Speaker 2: are dead, nineteen injured. Now, eight of those were treated
Speaker 2: at the scene and released. Eleven of those were hospitalized.
Speaker 2: We don't know anything really about the identities of these
Speaker 2: people yet. But it was ninety seconds after takeoff from
Speaker 2: the Fullerton Airport. The pilot radioed, Hey, I need an
Speaker 2: emergency landing. So there was some obviously serious mechanical something happened.
Speaker 2: I need an emergency landing. They said, okay, you can
Speaker 2: here's where you can land. If you need to land
Speaker 2: on this side of the runway, that's fine. If you
Speaker 2: need to land on that side of the runway, that's
Speaker 2: okay too. Right now, it's an emergency landing, and unfortunately
Speaker 2: the pilot was not able to make it back to
Speaker 2: a runway.
Speaker 3: You know, Will Cole Schreiber was talking about when they
Speaker 3: used to do take off and landing from the Fullerton Airport,
Speaker 3: and he said it was always a very unique and
Speaker 3: a little unsettling because on a lot of airports there's
Speaker 3: a lot of green space around the runway and this one,
Speaker 3: he said, it's like you're you're flying right over warehouses.
Speaker 3: You don't have that kind of I don't know, breathing
Speaker 3: space whatever.
Speaker 2: There's no buffer, there's no buffer area. Buffer. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, it is a tragedy. The only thing maybe
Speaker 2: you shouldn't even say this, but there's kind of like
Speaker 2: there is this sense of at least it wasn't a
Speaker 2: person being evil. That's not very much to take away
Speaker 2: from a tragedy like this, and maybe that says something
Speaker 2: about the state of the world that it's even something
Speaker 2: that it's even an observation to say, well, at least
Speaker 2: this was some kind of accident and not somebody trying
Speaker 2: to hurt people whenever you would like, Amy, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm done. Okay, this one's going to be tight.
Speaker 3: So the new Congress convenes today, they'll be sworn in,
Speaker 3: but before they're even sworn in, they have to elect
Speaker 3: a Speaker of the House. Of course, Mike Johnson wants
Speaker 3: the job, but whether he can hold the gavel is
Speaker 3: going to be uh, it's a little bit up in
Speaker 3: the air because he doesn't have any wiggle room. The
Speaker 3: Republican won the House by a two twenty to two
Speaker 3: fifteen majority in the twenty twenty four elections, but they're
Speaker 3: going to start with two hundred nineteen members because former
Speaker 3: Representative Matt Gates of course resigned. So and they've already
Speaker 3: got one guy who says not voting for him. I
Speaker 3: believe it's Massy, So just one more could unseat him
Speaker 3: or at least make things a lot more difficult.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see if they have a you know, they're
Speaker 2: setting an example right now, even though it's not really
Speaker 2: a first impression, it's a first impression for this term,
Speaker 2: and they can get off on the right foot, or
Speaker 2: they can show us that it's the same chaotic house
Speaker 2: that it's been for the last however many years. As
Speaker 2: of yesterday, there were fourteen Republican House members who said
Speaker 2: they were undecided about voting for Johnson. So it seems
Speaker 2: like he's really got to he's got to have some
Speaker 2: good luck on top of whatever behind the scenes maneuver
Speaker 2: that he's been able to do. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: So I'm doing are we? Are we now? Sorry? I
Speaker 2: think I'm working off something. Are we now? The opposite
Speaker 2: of what the story says? Michelle, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you mean. Well, Amy is doing because we skipped we
Speaker 2: were skipping a story. So it's amas turn again, right, No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I sent you the updated Yeah, I guess what. Guess
Speaker 2: who didn't? Guess who didn't? Guess who didn't? I sent
Speaker 2: you the new numbered Uh yeah, yeah, okay, hold on, wow,
Speaker 2: this is really so it's going to be so professional. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: hold on. Here's what we're gonna do. I'm going to
Speaker 2: try to Yeah, here it is. Story number three is yours? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I got it. I got it, I got it, I
Speaker 2: got it. I got a lot, I got a lot
Speaker 2: of I got a lot on my mind. Yes you
Speaker 2: might imagine, all right, So just so people know, So
Speaker 2: what happens is, for a handle on the news, the
Speaker 2: producer in this case, Michelle picks a bunch of stories
Speaker 2: and puts them in an order that makes sense. And
Speaker 2: then we have a stack of these stories, and as
Speaker 2: you can tell, we alternate presenting the story so they're
Speaker 2: marked up with who's supposed to do it. And then
Speaker 2: we did make a change, and then stupid me didn't
Speaker 2: download the change one. But guess what all is well,
Speaker 2: A family led coalition who want Eric and Lyle Menendez
Speaker 2: to be re sentenced and released immediately. Our meeting today
Speaker 2: with New La County District Attorney Nathan Hakman over twenty
Speaker 2: members of Jose and Kitty Menendez's family. They all these,
Speaker 2: I mean not every member of the family supports this,
Speaker 2: but obviously all the people who are showing up today
Speaker 2: fully support some kind of a resentencing process that will
Speaker 2: take into account the abuse and that trauma that Eric
Speaker 2: and Leilemanendez suffered at the hands of their father, and
Speaker 2: also what they say is substantial rehabilitation over the last
Speaker 2: thirty five years. Let me end with this, I feel
Speaker 2: like you can't have both. If they deserve great leniency
Speaker 2: because of what they suffered at the hands of their father,
Speaker 2: then that would mean they're not criminally minded, they're not
Speaker 2: vicious killers, they're not anti social. So what would there
Speaker 2: have been to rehabilitate now if they just mean they
Speaker 2: behaved themselves in prison, I guess that's a different thing. Hi,
Speaker 2: Nathan hakman Man, I don't know. He's no George Gascon.
Speaker 2: I think we can agree on that. But they're having
Speaker 2: a meeting today. I don't know when we'll hear anything
Speaker 2: about what might actually happen.
Speaker 3: Well, if you don't make a lot, you're gonna get
Speaker 3: a little more. Workers are less than sixty three thousand
Speaker 3: dollars a year in California can now receive up to
Speaker 3: ninety percent of their regular pay while they're out on
Speaker 3: family leave, caring for a new child or maybe a
Speaker 3: sick family member. If you earn more than that sixty
Speaker 3: three thousand dollars threshold, you'll get seventy percent of your wages.
Speaker 3: The increase applies to new claims filed on or after
Speaker 3: January first of this year. Claims from twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: do not qualify for the new rates.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't have a calculator in front of me,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't want to try to use it any
Speaker 2: way to figure this out. But assuming this really is
Speaker 2: a bright line rule, where if you make sixty two thousand,
Speaker 2: nine hundred ninety nine dollars you get ninety percent of that,
Speaker 2: and if you make sixty three thousand dollars you get
Speaker 2: seventy percent of that, there are going to be people
Speaker 2: in a band of income that are worse off even
Speaker 2: though their salary is more, which doesn't seem. That seems
Speaker 2: weird to me. Like I understand if you low income
Speaker 2: people should should be able to have more money when
Speaker 2: they're on family or sick leave, But should they take
Speaker 2: home now more money on leave than somebody whose regular
Speaker 2: pays more. It doesn't see. Maybe they do have a
Speaker 2: ramping down of the percentages. So that's somebody whose salary
Speaker 2: is actually higher than yours. You both go on family leave,
Speaker 2: and you, as the higher salary person, you're actually now
Speaker 2: getting less than that person. It's like getting a bonus.
Speaker 2: Oh okay. Now, San Francisco and West Hollywood have had
Speaker 2: cannabis lounges for some time, but all you could do
Speaker 2: there is go and sit there and use weed. Hey,
Speaker 2: could I get a casadiya?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Hey, maybe a band is going to come play while
Speaker 2: I consume my weed. No, well, now the answer is yes.
Speaker 2: And also this will spread across the whole state. It's
Speaker 2: Assembly Bills seventeen seventy five and it legalizes these they
Speaker 2: call them Amsterdam style cannabis cafes, So you can go in,
Speaker 2: you can buy cannabis, you can use it there, and
Speaker 2: also you'll be able to get food, non alcoholic drinks,
Speaker 2: and see live entertainment. The American Cancer Society does not
Speaker 2: like this one little bit because of the public health
Speaker 2: hazard with smoking, and also because some people invariably will
Speaker 2: leave there high as a kite and get behind the
Speaker 2: wheel of a car, just as they do with alcohol
Speaker 2: at bars. But that's what's happening. That's going to be
Speaker 2: I think, big business for a certain kind of clientele.
Speaker 2: And there's at least one of these places that's that said,
Speaker 2: we're going to have two vip rooms. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see the TMZ stories that come
Speaker 2: out of the celebrity cannabis lounge VIP rooms. Holly, if
Speaker 2: I may say, holy smokes, the goat gets another honor.
Speaker 2: Eleven time Olympic medalist Simone Biles.
Speaker 3: Has been named as Sports Illustrated's twenty twenty four Sportsperson
Speaker 3: of the Year. Of course, she gets the award after
Speaker 3: taking the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics by storm. She
Speaker 3: added four new medals to her collection in the team,
Speaker 3: the all around, the vault and floor exercises.
Speaker 2: Good for her, She's awesome. She is sit taculate. You
Speaker 2: know what. I don't know if there's something about gymnastics,
Speaker 2: but can anybody name a prominent gymnast who's like a
Speaker 2: jerk or isn't delightful? I can't think of one that's
Speaker 2: the job? No are It seems like they're all delightful.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's even true, but certainly the
Speaker 2: big names over the years, they all seem to have
Speaker 2: been very delightful people and also just so oh sorry.
Speaker 4: She She gave an interview yesterday where she said she
Speaker 4: does not plan to compete in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I know some people were thinking that she might, she said,
Speaker 2: because there's nothing left for her to do. Yeah, she
Speaker 2: has to prove nothing. Why risk an injury You've already
Speaker 2: accomplished everything, and I suspect there's plenty of money to
Speaker 2: be legitimately made now with endorsements, probably see her anchoring.
Speaker 2: Maybe anchory is not the right word, but you know,
Speaker 2: commentating on coverage of the very natural progression for her.
Speaker 2: She's great. Yeah, she'd be great.
Speaker 3: Although you know what, there, I'm surprised that we didn't.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen more endorsements from her. I think there
Speaker 3: were a couple during the Olympics, but since then, I
Speaker 3: haven't seen her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we just will see her move into
Speaker 2: more of a media facing profile. Or maybe she's decided
Speaker 2: I just want to live my life with my man
Speaker 2: and I'm not I don't need to be in the
Speaker 2: public eye in any fashion.
Speaker 4: She's got her gym in Texas where they train, you know,
Speaker 4: so she's very into that. That's her focus right now
Speaker 4: is to make sure that the situation that she went
Speaker 4: through in coming up and training, you know.
Speaker 2: Doesn't happen to other gymnasts. She wants them to be
Speaker 2: a positive experience, good for her, bad for Apple, who's
Speaker 2: agreed to pay ninety five million dollars in a settlement
Speaker 2: accusing them of using Siri their voice activated AI assistant
Speaker 2: to eavesdrop on people, shocking activating it. These are the allegations.
Speaker 2: They've admitted no wrongdoing, so these are merely allegations activating
Speaker 2: it when you didn't want it to be activated, listening
Speaker 2: to you, and then selling some of that stuff to advertisers.
Speaker 2: They will always try to steal every piece of not
Speaker 2: just Apple, this is a general thing now, every website,
Speaker 2: every tech company wants to steal as much information as possible,
Speaker 2: specifically to sell it to advertisers. Now, since they have
Speaker 2: admitted no wrongdoing, we'll never know for sure how bad
Speaker 2: the truth really is. And also, Apple agreeing to pay
Speaker 2: ninety five million dollars is like me agreeing to pay
Speaker 2: less than one penny for something. So and also the
Speaker 2: fact that the settlement is being accepted by the plaintiffs
Speaker 2: to me suggests there may not be as much there
Speaker 2: as the headline would lead you to belief. But if
Speaker 2: you owned an Apple Syria equipped device starting in September
Speaker 2: seventeenth of twenty fourteen through the end of last year,
Speaker 2: you will be eligible to file acclaim and you could
Speaker 2: get up to twenty dollars per device covered by the settlement,
Speaker 2: depending on how many people file I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you're like me, where you're just constantly
Speaker 2: buying new My problem is iPads. I decided sometime I
Speaker 2: want to have an iPad in every room. I don't
Speaker 2: want to carry an iPad from one room to the other.
Speaker 2: And then of course, you know you got to replace
Speaker 2: them from time to time. So assuming I can remember
Speaker 2: them all, I might walk away with like one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty bucks or one hundred, Dad would be one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty or one hundred and sixty multiples of twenty.
Speaker 3: You might need that in your retirement. Oh give definitely,
Speaker 3: this is the best streets. And not to go to
Speaker 3: summer camp. There's an eighty acre campground, has a river, lake,
Speaker 3: boat ramps, docks, cabins. It's in northern Minnesota and it's
Speaker 3: available now because they had to close it. And here's why,
Speaker 3: because it is a camp for HIV positive kids. And
Speaker 3: guess what, there aren't any anymore. The rates are down
Speaker 3: so low, down to below one percent, that they don't
Speaker 3: need the camp anymore.
Speaker 2: I love this story. I know right it.
Speaker 3: They can repurpose it for absolutely. We always need a
Speaker 3: good summer, though we always need a good summer camp,
Speaker 3: but I love that this one isn't needed.
Speaker 2: Yes, maybe it can just be a regular summer camp. Now, well,
Speaker 2: those of you people with those clean air vehicle decals
Speaker 2: on your tesla's gloating as you drive all by yourself
Speaker 2: in the carpool A. Sorry, Charlie's it's going to expire.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing I don't understand. Is this a
Speaker 2: money thing or is this I think this is a
Speaker 2: permission from the feds thing. The Clean Air Vehicle Decal
Speaker 2: program allowed people who had favored cars, meaning low emission cars,
Speaker 2: to drive by themselves in the carpool lines, and Governor
Speaker 2: Knewsom signed an extension to have this thing going until
Speaker 2: January twenty twenty seven. However, it only works because we
Speaker 2: had permission from the federal government to do it. Well,
Speaker 2: guess who's coming into office. Guess who doesn't like California
Speaker 2: too much. Guess what administration's not as concerned about things
Speaker 2: like emissions as the current administration. And so if they
Speaker 2: do not extend the permission, than the state law that
Speaker 2: Newsom signed is moot and the program will shut down
Speaker 2: and all the people you know, you don't think about
Speaker 2: when you're on the freeway, you don't think about I
Speaker 2: never did. You don't think about I guess traffic's not
Speaker 2: as bad as it could be because some of the
Speaker 2: people that would normally be here with me in the
Speaker 2: regular lanes are over there in the HOV lane. But
Speaker 2: that's been the case. So nobody's sure exactly what will happen,
Speaker 2: But it could mean regular lanes get more congested. But
Speaker 2: it also could mean the regular lanes and the carpool
Speaker 2: lanes go slower. Because if you've ever driven, if you've
Speaker 2: ever had the rare privilege of driving in a carpool lane,
Speaker 2: you know that you can only get in and out
Speaker 2: of that lane as fast or as slow as the
Speaker 2: regular traffic is going. So if all the people that
Speaker 2: used to be in the carpool lane by themselves have
Speaker 2: to go on the road and it clogs up the
Speaker 2: regular lanes, I should say, clogs up more. Now the
Speaker 2: traffic is slower, so you people on the HOV lanes,
Speaker 2: you may be having to go slower too as people
Speaker 2: in the HOV lanes get in and get out of
Speaker 2: those lanes. It could be a real disaster.
Speaker 4: But part of this has to be about money too,
Speaker 4: because a lot of people bought these cars because they
Speaker 4: got that federal tax credit, and they don't get that
Speaker 4: they're not going to get that anymore.
Speaker 2: And they may not get permission to drive in the
Speaker 2: carpool lane by themselves. And then, now, why did you
Speaker 2: do it? A lot of people only did that so
Speaker 2: they could play Minecraft while the car drives itself exactly. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll see. Look, maybe it'll slip through the cracks, except
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a matter of slipping through the cracks.
Speaker 2: The federal government will have to take affirmative steps to
Speaker 2: lengthen it. So we can't count on the Trump administration
Speaker 2: just not really realizing and not getting around to stop it.
Speaker 2: Somebody in the Trump administration would have to make a
Speaker 2: point of extending permission for it.
Speaker 3: He's got a buddy now in Elon Musk, who has
Speaker 3: a lot of those cars on the road.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: You know what, this is a good point, Amy King.
Speaker 2: You are really able to see all the chess pieces
Speaker 2: and how they fit together. Maybe Elon Musk has a
Speaker 2: vested interest in this program continuing, and he certainly seems
Speaker 2: to have the presidenc here well.
Speaker 3: The Ralphs in Pacific Balisades says it has had enough.
Speaker 3: There's a grocery store that is suing seven food vendors
Speaker 3: because they've set up streets. They've set up on the
Speaker 3: streets and sidewalks around the store, and Ralph's is saying,
Speaker 3: you know what, you guys are trespassing, creating a public nuisance,
Speaker 3: being negligent.
Speaker 2: They say.
Speaker 3: The trucks and their clients illegally park, obstruct the view
Speaker 3: of traffic for Ralph's customers and employees, obstruct pedestrian walkways,
Speaker 3: draw crowds, and sometimes there are fights, and they litter
Speaker 3: in the Ralph's parking lots.
Speaker 2: They wanted to stop. You know, that's if it's as
Speaker 2: bad as Ralph says it is. If it's half as
Speaker 2: bad as Ralph says it is, they have a point.
Speaker 2: And I think the reason the food trucks want to
Speaker 2: set up there is because, of course you've got a
Speaker 2: lot of people coming to the rause, but also I
Speaker 2: think the key is probably and that's where there's a
Speaker 2: parking lot for the food truck customers. And where else
Speaker 2: would they be able to set up in Pacific Palisades
Speaker 2: to accommodate that kind of traffic. So they are perhaps
Speaker 2: glombing off of Ralph's infrastructure. And if those people are
Speaker 2: not behaving themselves and they're not shopping at Ralph's, get
Speaker 2: the hook. Randy's Donuts, long times in California favorite Randy's
Speaker 2: Donuts has a new location in Orange County. It opens today.
Speaker 2: It's at four forty South Anaheim Boulevard, and if you
Speaker 2: go there, it's in the Anaheim Packing District. In case
Speaker 2: the street address doesn't ring a bell, if you're in
Speaker 2: Orange County, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Free glazed donut. Just show up, be nice. They're giving
Speaker 2: you a free donut. Just one, be polite. And this is,
Speaker 2: of course now they don't have the giant donut obviously
Speaker 2: on the roof at the Anaheim Packing District like they
Speaker 2: do in Inglewood. But they're expanding. Randy's Donuts is expanding,
Speaker 2: because didn't they just open in not too long ago
Speaker 2: in North Hollywood they opened one. And also there's one
Speaker 2: in Culver City, and there's one in Vegas, isn't there
Speaker 2: Michelle Cube, you obviously know the answer to this question,
Speaker 2: you degenerate gambler. And this one, by the way, is
Speaker 2: not that far from the Anaheim Whitehouse. It's just up
Speaker 2: the street. Oh, so go have a fancy, a fancy,
Speaker 2: fancy elevated cuisine from Chef Bruno. But then skip the
Speaker 2: dessert menu at the Anaheim white House and go get
Speaker 2: a donut. Yep. Well, so let's do one more before
Speaker 2: the before we get some news.
Speaker 3: Amy Catwoman's ninth life is up. Oh, Jocelyn wild and
Speaker 3: Steam has died at the age of eighty four. You
Speaker 3: may not know that name, because I certainly didn't, but
Speaker 3: you know the face. She's best known as Catwoman because
Speaker 3: she's had extensive extreme plastic surgeries to look more catlike.
Speaker 3: People Magazine says she died in her sleep, taking a catnap.
Speaker 4: She and she said the only reason she had so
Speaker 4: many surgeries was because the man she was married to
Speaker 4: at the time didn't like to look at an old person,
Speaker 4: so she kept talking to It's.
Speaker 2: Kind of a sad story. It's a really very sad story.
Speaker 2: It is. It is actually a sad story.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: Let's just do this one quickly and then Amy Glison
Speaker 2: is because Wayne Osmond I think the fourth, fourth oldest
Speaker 2: of the nine Osmonds around there. Second, I thought he
Speaker 2: was the second uh, fourth, fourth oldest of the nine
Speaker 2: children raised by the Osmond family. He has passed away.
Speaker 2: Second old We're both right, yes, you know what. That's right.
Speaker 2: We were saying two different things. I was ranking him
Speaker 2: in terms of only the Osmond brothers, and you were
Speaker 2: ranking him in terms of all the children.
Speaker 3: No, I was doing it of the ones in the
Speaker 3: the group, and you were doing it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was doing it of all the children. Yeah, okay. Well,
Speaker 2: in any event, after the Osmond brothers lost some of
Speaker 2: their luster, Donnie and Marie of course went on to
Speaker 2: be very popular, but more recently. I mean it was
Speaker 2: in the eighties, but that's still more recently than when
Speaker 2: they were The Osman brothers. Four of them got together
Speaker 2: as a country act and did have some hits. There's
Speaker 2: a song called I Think About Your lovin that country
Speaker 2: fans may recognize. And they had a brain tumor. He
Speaker 2: lost a lot of his hearing from the from the
Speaker 2: surgery to treat the brain tumor. And you know, I
Speaker 2: had some health problems there at the end. Uh, this
Speaker 2: hasn't happened until today. Okay, nothing like this, There was
Speaker 2: no but all of a sudden today there are quite
Speaker 2: a lot of people being very nice to me an email,
Speaker 2: and I just want you to know how appreciated it is.
Speaker 2: Is it the procrastination thing? You just wait till the
Speaker 2: last day? They all put ticklers in their calendars. I
Speaker 2: think I.
Speaker 4: Reminded everybody because I promoted it was your last day
Speaker 4: on our steps.
Speaker 2: I did all right, Well, thank you every I'm not
Speaker 2: going to name everybody's name because we don't have time
Speaker 2: for that, but it is very very much appreciated. You
Speaker 2: are distracting me. This is not a complaint. You're distracting
Speaker 2: me from the show as these nice emails come in,
Speaker 2: because I want to read them right away. But we
Speaker 2: do have some handle on the news to finish up here.
Speaker 2: And it's Amy King and it's me and two interesting
Speaker 2: stories that are connected by at least one factor.
Speaker 3: I would say, uh so, first of all, I wonder
Speaker 3: where this guy was headed. They have found some prehistoric footprints.
Speaker 3: There's seven of them in a mud hole on the
Speaker 3: Arabian Peninsula. Scientists say that the seven footprints were found
Speaker 3: amidst a clutter of hundreds of prehistoric animal prints. They're
Speaker 3: estimated to be about one hundred fifteen thousand years old.
Speaker 3: I bet the guy was running from the hundreds of
Speaker 3: prehistoric animal prints.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, So this is not something that you come
Speaker 2: across constantly. This is a pretty big discovery. And they
Speaker 2: did a study of I mean, there's no way to
Speaker 2: recreate people from that time one hundred and fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: years ago. I think they were a little different than us.
Speaker 2: They probably weren't as distracted on their cell phones as
Speaker 2: we are. But they did a study using modern human
Speaker 2: footprints in mudflats and they say that if you now
Speaker 2: walk in a mudflat, the details, the fine details of
Speaker 2: your footprint only last about two days, and within four
Speaker 2: days you can't recognize them as human footprints anymore. Four days.
Speaker 2: This is one hundred and fifteen thousand years They held up,
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. And then I said, we had two
Speaker 2: stories that are related. Has to do with footprints, because
Speaker 2: a bunch of workers were excavating a limestone quarry in
Speaker 2: England and they found a bunch of dinosaur tracks that
Speaker 2: make it look like that area was a dinosaur highway
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty. The human princes we were talking
Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifteen thousand years old, These dinosaur
Speaker 2: tracks one hundred and sixty six million years old, and
Speaker 2: it's a little window into the lives of these dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: There's four actually there's more than four sets of tracks.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of tracks. Four of them make up
Speaker 2: this highway path. It shows where these sorrow pods. Is
Speaker 2: that the giant thing with the long neck? Yeah, like
Speaker 2: we used to call them bronosauruses and now oh I see,
Speaker 2: but they've just been rebranded as soropods. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know why would why? Who was I want to know
Speaker 2: what the complaint was that you that you should change
Speaker 2: the name because it's offensive. Maybe the estate of the Bronte.
Speaker 4: Sisters could be I gotta wonder what this dinosaur highway.
Speaker 4: Did they know how to merge or did they get
Speaker 4: caught up like we did?
Speaker 2: Well, some of them, some of them that didn't fart
Speaker 2: as much had special stickers, yes, and they could go
Speaker 2: in the carpool lane. So anyway, four of these sets
Speaker 2: of tracks are these souropods, which I think are herbivores.
Speaker 2: So they're only they're just eating plants. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 2: want to chop off Wayne Knight's head or anything like that.
Speaker 2: But then there's another set, uh, Megalosaurus, which apparently is
Speaker 2: what's nine yards twenty seven feet? Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: about twenty seven feet long. No tall, I don't know.
Speaker 2: They're big, they're giant. I'm confusing right now. Told you
Speaker 2: I'm working from memory here. I'm confusing the stats between
Speaker 2: the sauropods and this megalosaurus. I think the souropods are
Speaker 2: super like long, and this meglosaurus that's a nickname for
Speaker 2: one of the hosts here by the way, that we
Speaker 2: have Megalosaurus, I think is tall and Meglisaurus will eat
Speaker 2: you up with gusto. So that's all great from history.
Speaker 2: Do we want to I think we should end with
Speaker 2: this story Amy about this woman in Costa Mesa who
Speaker 2: got a bit of a surprise. Yep, surprise, you're dead.
Speaker 2: But she wasn't.
Speaker 3: Barbara Smith did not die in Boise, Idaho, on September twentieth.
Speaker 3: In fact, she says she's never been there, so she
Speaker 3: was a little bit more than shocked when she found
Speaker 3: out that her Medicare had been discontinued, her bank account
Speaker 3: was frozen, and the Social Security Administration wanted to claw
Speaker 3: back several months of benefits because she was dead. She's
Speaker 3: eighty one very much alive, and she said that.
Speaker 5: After hours on hold with Social Security and a trip
Speaker 5: to the Social Security office, they had her write a
Speaker 5: paper to say I'm alive and made her take a
Speaker 5: picture of her driver's license to prove it.
Speaker 2: My god, So they don't know if this was the
Speaker 2: result of some kind of fraud or if somebody at
Speaker 2: the Social Security Administration was entering death information for a
Speaker 2: different person and got one of the numbers wrong, typed
Speaker 2: in one of the wrong numbers accidentally typed in, so
Speaker 2: it ended up being her social Security number. And we
Speaker 2: will never know because Social Security Administration says we can't
Speaker 2: discuss it because of privacy laws. Let's put an exception
Speaker 2: into those privacy laws. When you falsely declare somebody dead,
Speaker 2: maybe you're allowed to tell the person. Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: they can't tell her, you know.
Speaker 3: And this happens to say, like ten thousand people a year.
Speaker 2: That's just crazy. Oh gee, I didn't need to hear that.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, there's nothing you can do. Every day.
Speaker 2: Here's what ladies and gentlemen, here's a little advice from
Speaker 2: weighing to you. Every day, take a photo of yourself
Speaker 2: with that day's newspaper and email it to SSA dot gov,
Speaker 2: and that way there will be a running proof that
Speaker 2: you are still alive. It's the only answer I can
Speaker 2: think of. This is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
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