Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Anyway, Okay, so how many people
Speaker 1: tuned in to watch that debate? I was just looking
Speaker 1: this up because I am interested. Complete network viewership numbers
Speaker 1: are expected to be released later in the day, but
Speaker 1: we do have some early overnight figures. According to the
Speaker 1: analyst Michael Muldehill, the debate saw a big increase in
Speaker 1: viewership over the Trump Biden debate. He wrote, last night's
Speaker 1: debate earned an overnight rating of thirty two point eight
Speaker 1: and a seventy share across eight networks. That's twenty eight
Speaker 1: percent higher than the Trump Biden debate earlier in the year.
Speaker 2: So that means that out of all televisions, thirty two
Speaker 2: point eight percent were tuned into the debate, right right,
Speaker 2: and that I have everybody that had televisions on seventy percent.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's huge, a seventy Oh my god.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: Obviously, we are on top of the fires.
Speaker 1: KFI News has been doing a wonderful job of having
Speaker 1: all of our bases covered. We have three fires burning
Speaker 1: right now. They're kind of in a triangle shape. One
Speaker 1: of them we will get to coming up in a
Speaker 1: little bit. This is the one in San Gabriel Canyon
Speaker 1: that blew through rightwood, terrifying the people who live there
Speaker 1: who deal with this all the time. The other big
Speaker 1: one is the one that was caused by crews public
Speaker 1: works crews going in there to remove equipment to make
Speaker 1: another brush and things to make sure that a fire
Speaker 1: did not erupt there and in doing so sparked it.
Speaker 1: Carbon Carson is on this one for KFI News and
Speaker 1: joins us Now, Corbyn, what's the latest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 6: It's burned more than twenty two thousand acres at this point.
Speaker 6: It started Monday afternoon near Tribuco Canyon Road. It's in
Speaker 6: the area of a remote controlled airplane airport. Eight firefighters
Speaker 6: have already been injured since this thing started, and several
Speaker 6: homes have been reported destroyed. I pulled oce FA Division
Speaker 6: Chief Craig kobea side. He's the guy that ran operations
Speaker 6: last night. I talked to him after the morning briefing
Speaker 6: where more than a thousand fire personnel got their marching
Speaker 6: orders this morning.
Speaker 5: He gave me kind of a rundown of the path
Speaker 5: of this thing.
Speaker 4: Started in the bottom of Tribucal Canyon.
Speaker 7: It was a very poor placement for us to go
Speaker 7: because it was immediately on both sides of the canyon road,
Speaker 7: which makes it even more challenging for us. And there
Speaker 7: was no place for us to get ahead of it
Speaker 7: and stop it because it's a large, continuous canyon that
Speaker 7: we immediately start had rock slides and things like that
Speaker 7: that cut us off. We knew right away that this
Speaker 7: was going to be a major incident. There's history of
Speaker 7: it in that area. So it kind of burned up
Speaker 7: Tribucal Canyon into Holy Jim Canyon up to the north
Speaker 7: main divide. Then it got caught into the influence of
Speaker 7: the wind and pushed south southeast toward or take a
Speaker 7: highway corridor, and then that's where we saw this massive,
Speaker 7: just plume of smoke yesterday.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty much everybody probably saw that. There was a
Speaker 6: few of them. As you said, Shannon, there's three fire
Speaker 6: that kind of you could see these plumes of smoke
Speaker 6: beginning the afternoon fire fight yesterday, and that pushed the
Speaker 6: fire to jump or take a highway, and those multiple
Speaker 6: homes were burned and destroyed a damage assessment cruise i'm
Speaker 6: told will be up in that area today to get
Speaker 6: an account. But I'm told all the homes that burned
Speaker 6: are on the Ortega side or the east side of
Speaker 6: that fire. And then again last night there was some
Speaker 6: progress as temperatures dropped and winds calmed down. Air crews
Speaker 6: they continued the attack as hand engine and doser crews
Speaker 6: they worked on the ground to gain some ground. And
Speaker 6: then that fire, I'm also told laid down last night
Speaker 6: thanks to reduce wind and temperatures and also because it
Speaker 6: burned into the burn scar of the Holy Fire that's
Speaker 6: a fire.
Speaker 5: From twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6: Today, air crews will continue to hammer that thing with air,
Speaker 6: you know, and we're expecting the temperatures and wind to
Speaker 6: be lower again.
Speaker 5: But a concerning fuel advisory because there's just.
Speaker 6: So much dry brittle brush up there that can burn,
Speaker 6: especially over the especially over all the years of recent
Speaker 6: reigns as we've been hearing, and even in that burn.
Speaker 5: Scar, there is has been some growth in that area.
Speaker 6: So though it has slowed down, I'm told that there
Speaker 6: could be a concern that it can burn through there.
Speaker 6: And then again the look will be to keep this
Speaker 6: thing out of Lake Elsinore where it's headed and hopefully
Speaker 6: Cruz can get a handle on it.
Speaker 1: Today, they called this thing the airport fire because it's
Speaker 1: in the area of a remote controlled airplane airport. I
Speaker 1: did not know that this was a thing until years
Speaker 1: ago when I saw Bruce Jenner. He was Bruce Jenner
Speaker 1: at the time on keeping up with the Kardashians, and
Speaker 1: he has this like hobby thing where he takes remote
Speaker 1: controlled airplanes out.
Speaker 3: How do you know anything about that, Corbett.
Speaker 1: I'm just just wondering how big this airport, like, how
Speaker 1: many people are into this kind of thing.
Speaker 6: I've been wondering and asking about those same situations. So
Speaker 6: as soon as I get that information, I'll let you know.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's just amazing that that is the
Speaker 6: sort of thing that's up there. But as you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 6: right in that same area, they're also trying to reduce
Speaker 6: the fire, the chances of fire in that area, and
Speaker 6: that is where we had this.
Speaker 5: That's where it all started.
Speaker 6: And quite accidentally, I'm told, and just real quick to
Speaker 6: hear from OCFI Fire Captain Steve Concialdi, he'll explain just
Speaker 6: in that airport area, how this whole thing started.
Speaker 8: Orange County Public Works were using heavy equipment to move
Speaker 8: large boulders. They were trying to limit vehicles going off
Speaker 8: Tribucal Creek by putting these large boulders in place. Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: heavy equipment at times can cause.
Speaker 5: Sparks, and there was some sparks.
Speaker 4: It caught nearby vegetation.
Speaker 5: They tried to quickly put that fire out.
Speaker 8: They called nine one right away, Orange County Fire Center
Speaker 8: robust response as well as the Cleveland National Force from
Speaker 8: the US Forest Service firefighters, and that fire quickly grew.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so basically this crew is trying to prevent
Speaker 6: fires and you know, stopping these awful road vehicles from
Speaker 6: going off the road. And there are those vehicles starting
Speaker 6: sparks and accidentally started one.
Speaker 5: But again the main problem.
Speaker 6: Just the focus for today is as temperatures should be
Speaker 6: a little bit lower and the wind should be a
Speaker 6: little bit lower, but as it pushes into Riverside County,
Speaker 6: the main problem is this wind tunnel.
Speaker 5: I remember this from the Holy Fire.
Speaker 6: I was out there in twenty eighteen watching this fire
Speaker 6: shoot through the canyon in Lake Elsinore as it moved
Speaker 6: into the city, and it's just an unexpected amount of
Speaker 6: fire progression. That it's a wind tunnel known as the
Speaker 6: Elsinor effect. It's like the opposite of Santa Ana wins.
Speaker 6: It happens every day at two and essentially it pull
Speaker 6: pushes the wind through the valley and then like a
Speaker 6: flu on a chimney sort of, it can turn around
Speaker 6: the other direction and fire crews are preparing for that
Speaker 6: to potentially contribute to the fire. And one and there
Speaker 6: they have already said there was I think several fights,
Speaker 6: not a thing, but there have been multiple firefighters that
Speaker 6: have died in that area because of that, so they're
Speaker 6: well aware of how that works. But that will be
Speaker 6: the concern today to try to keep it out of
Speaker 6: Lake Elsinore.
Speaker 1: All right, Corbin Carson, k FI News thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time.
Speaker 4: Appreciate it much, appreciate it. Thank you guys again.
Speaker 1: KAFI News will be all over all of these fires
Speaker 1: all day long for you as long as they are burning.
Speaker 1: We will get an update on the right Wood situation
Speaker 1: coming up at the bottom of the hour. At ten
Speaker 1: thirty or thereabouts, we'll hold a news conference to provide
Speaker 1: an update on that fire burning in the angels National
Speaker 1: The bridge fight, the Bridge fire, right, San Bernardino County.
Speaker 1: Chris Little would be very upset with you if you
Speaker 1: heard you say that we don't use the name.
Speaker 2: Well, just because there's three different fires going on at
Speaker 2: the same time, so there's want people to differentiate between them.
Speaker 4: Any shot, I.
Speaker 1: Can take it, Chris Little. I'm going to do it
Speaker 1: every time, twice on Sunday. And what's the thinking. There's
Speaker 1: what things about the name. What's the problem with the names? Well,
Speaker 1: the name is nobody knows what that means. The bridge fire,
Speaker 1: airport fire. If you say the fire burning in the sand, Abriel,
Speaker 1: can you can do both?
Speaker 3: You can know? Yeah, sure, right, but that's not the
Speaker 3: rule here.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, I want to follow the rules.
Speaker 1: I'm the new guy, So we will take that live
Speaker 1: when it starts here on KFI to get an update
Speaker 1: for you, because that thing has is a beast.
Speaker 3: It's grown to more than.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lost homes unfortunately on that one.
Speaker 1: Right forty six thousand acres there and uh, it just
Speaker 1: exploded overnight, So we'll get an update. The siglurt we
Speaker 1: were talking about this off the air. Not a lot
Speaker 1: of people probably know the origin of sig alert or
Speaker 1: what that means. In fact, I think this is another
Speaker 1: Chris Little rule. But you know what a SIG alert is. Right,
Speaker 1: If you hear on KFI the traffic report there's a
Speaker 1: SigAlert on the five through Alesion Park, you know what
Speaker 1: that means. It means that the the freeway is closed,
Speaker 1: partially closed. It's going to be a headache, a nightmare.
Speaker 1: It's not a word that you want to hear very often.
Speaker 1: What is the origin of it, Well, it was from
Speaker 1: a broadcaster, right, Lloyd Sigmund.
Speaker 3: That was his namesake.
Speaker 5: Baby.
Speaker 3: Essentially he is dead and.
Speaker 4: Now was killed in a traffic accident.
Speaker 1: Was he really Oh that was a dark humor.
Speaker 4: So it was named after him, essentially.
Speaker 1: I think he was ninety five. I think he died
Speaker 1: of natural cause. It was named after him him. That
Speaker 1: was his last name, Siegmund.
Speaker 2: So they call it a SigAlert and basically means a
Speaker 2: significant traffic delay.
Speaker 4: Right. It goes back to the fifties.
Speaker 1: Sure, and now that we are using all the apps,
Speaker 1: there's no mention of SIG alert.
Speaker 3: A little bit of nostalgia in la leaving us.
Speaker 4: Well, we still do traffic here.
Speaker 2: We don't use that term, right, right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: It's interesting because if you're at home watching or listening,
Speaker 2: traffic is interesting because I'm at home, but unless I'm
Speaker 2: getting ready to leave. But if you're in the car
Speaker 2: on the radio, obviously that's huge. But again, do you
Speaker 2: do you use the app or do you do you
Speaker 2: listen to the radio? I guess if you're here, you're
Speaker 2: going to listen to the radio.
Speaker 4: I do both.
Speaker 2: Actually, and ways of course has the traffic, you know,
Speaker 2: the red lines, the dreaded red lines that you never
Speaker 2: want to see.
Speaker 1: Lloyd Sigmund born in nineteen oh nine, the year that
Speaker 1: Marconi split a Nobel Prize for his contributions to radio.
Speaker 1: At a military school in Missouri, the other boys nicknamed
Speaker 1: Lloyd Sigmund radio Bug. He took Sigg as his amateur
Speaker 1: radio handle. One Christmas, he made his father a crystal
Speaker 1: radio receiver, said that the folks at home said was
Speaker 1: at least as good as anything that was on the
Speaker 1: market at the time. In the twenties, he was working
Speaker 1: as an engineer in Kansas City at a station, and
Speaker 1: he wanted to work in la He rented a convertible
Speaker 1: and took off, and the rest his history right. He's
Speaker 1: the first sing alert nineteen fifty five on Labor Day. Well,
Speaker 1: a train at derailed at Union Station and doctors and
Speaker 1: nurses were needed. So many people showed up that crowds
Speaker 1: created their own minor hazard.
Speaker 3: How funny. I love stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Well, today's traffic reporters are carrying on like a long legacy.
Speaker 2: I mean remember Kelly Lang, our friend from KNBC. Yeah,
Speaker 2: her first job was as a helicopter traffic reporter and
Speaker 2: her nickname, did you know this was was Dawn O'Day
Speaker 2: no in a several Lama jumpsuit. Oh yeah, Bruce Wayne
Speaker 2: KFI in the sky forever.
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan, Yeah, I remember one time I was anchoring
Speaker 1: and for John and Ken and Mike Nolan was a
Speaker 1: traffic reporter at the time in his in his plane
Speaker 1: and the i FB wasn't working, so I.
Speaker 3: Was hearing the off air. Yes, I was hearing Mike Nolan.
Speaker 1: He's in one ear as I'm trying to read the news,
Speaker 1: and I during the traffic break or no, it was
Speaker 1: during a commercial or something, and I hit the IFB
Speaker 1: and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, Mike, I got you gotta stop talking to me.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to read the news. My my, headsets broke.
Speaker 4: That was on the air. No, no, it wasn't on.
Speaker 3: The air, but it was. He he heard.
Speaker 1: Me say that, and then we lost contact with Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan and I'm like, and Clay, who's running the board,
Speaker 1: He's like, I can't get a hold of Mike Nolan.
Speaker 1: The signal's not coming in, and I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 1: And then we find out that he had to make
Speaker 1: an emergency landing and I felt awful and he got
Speaker 1: injured in the whole thing. But for a month there
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, I I what did I do?
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just it's kind of hectic.
Speaker 3: It could be hectic.
Speaker 1: Sometimes to communicate with the traffic reporter and the way
Speaker 1: they communicate with each other and everything. It's not as
Speaker 1: easy and silky as it sounds.
Speaker 2: So we're on the air, we usually can hear the
Speaker 2: program audio it's called What's on the air. We can
Speaker 2: hear that in our ears, and then the IFB, which
Speaker 2: is a rating and a TV term interrupted feedback.
Speaker 4: So in the control room, the.
Speaker 2: Producer or the director has the ability to push a
Speaker 2: button and interrupt that audio stream and add their you know,
Speaker 2: go to commercial or he's not there or there's a fire,
Speaker 2: or you made a mistake, or whatever the instructions might be.
Speaker 2: And it's always a bit of a challenge not to
Speaker 2: lose your train of thought while they're like talking in
Speaker 2: your ear right, Yes, you see the earpieces that everybody
Speaker 2: wears their headphones. So oh man futtle insight info there.
Speaker 1: All right, We're going to shut in here and take
Speaker 1: you live to this press conference Catherine Barger right now,
Speaker 1: LA County Board of Supervisors and update on the fire
Speaker 1: burning in the San Gabriel Canyon in Rightwood.
Speaker 9: Asked to go squandering even a few minutes may be
Speaker 9: the difference between life and death. I also want to
Speaker 9: acknowledge those who've tragically lost their homes and properties during
Speaker 9: this fire. My heart is heavy for you, and please
Speaker 9: know our county is here to offer you our support.
Speaker 9: The county's emergency managers are currently standing up assistance centers
Speaker 9: to get you connected to the help that you will
Speaker 9: need moving forward. More information will be available soon, so
Speaker 9: stay updated on the latest at Lacounty dot gov backslash emergency.
Speaker 9: That's also the website for residents who can find the
Speaker 9: latest information regarding evacuation orders and our shelter locations. Please
Speaker 9: please continue to stay safe and heed the direction of
Speaker 9: our first responders. For every resident impacted by the Bridge fire,
Speaker 9: Los Angeles County is here to help. We are all
Speaker 9: in this together. Thank you.
Speaker 10: Good morning. I'm Supervisor hilde Sale and I want to
Speaker 10: also join my colleague, Supervisor Barger and also send my
Speaker 10: condolences to those individuals that have lost their property as
Speaker 10: well as in many ways sometimes their livelihood. But I
Speaker 10: want to thank also our chief LA County Fire Department,
Speaker 10: Chief Maroney, and also Robert Luna, and all of our
Speaker 10: partners here, especially the Los Angeles National Forests and everyone
Speaker 10: OEM everyone that's been working on this to.
Speaker 3: Help mitigate the Bridge friar.
Speaker 10: I want to say also that I want to thank
Speaker 10: Governor Gavin Newsom for working to help us secure a
Speaker 10: fire management grant assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
Speaker 10: to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress
Speaker 10: the Britain.
Speaker 1: It's always one of the most frustrating things about these
Speaker 1: press conferences is all the politicians like to take the
Speaker 1: first bank and then the thanking, like, just give us
Speaker 1: the facts.
Speaker 10: To remain as we stated to be vigilant and to
Speaker 10: take all necessary plan.
Speaker 2: If you're in the fire right you're not watching TV. No,
Speaker 2: you're not listening to elected officials.
Speaker 3: But if you are, you want the information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough one. I mean, I appreciate them
Speaker 2: being out there. I do appreciate them being out there. Again,
Speaker 2: more facts and less thanking would be better, easy for
Speaker 2: us to say we're saving a nice, you know, comfortable studio.
Speaker 3: Board of supervisors.
Speaker 1: If you and I have both sat through those meetings,
Speaker 1: they are bloated boobs for the most part that just
Speaker 1: love to hear themselves talk. I mean it's been years,
Speaker 1: it's probably been fifteen years since I've been to one.
Speaker 3: But oh that that's that has changed.
Speaker 4: Worse, except they have better electronics now.
Speaker 3: Oh do they that's graphics.
Speaker 4: That's nice. Yeah. But there are services available.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's money, there's resources, there's help not just
Speaker 2: from the county but from the Red Cross, Salvation Army
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 4: So that that's important for me. Where the shelters are sure,
Speaker 4: but lead.
Speaker 1: With the firefighters giving us an update on the progress
Speaker 1: and the forward motion of this thing.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, that's not the way it works.
Speaker 10: Fair Plex, located at six to Oho one West McKinley
Speaker 10: Avenue and Pomona. Seeking refuge there are advised to enter
Speaker 10: through Gate three on the corner of McKinley and White.
Speaker 10: This evacuation center will be a refuge for both people
Speaker 10: and animals. In fact, last night, I understand Pomona Fairplex
Speaker 10: got a call to take four people as well as
Speaker 10: forty two horses and donkeys.
Speaker 3: Are they eating the horses and the donkeys.
Speaker 10: Are working to kuwait water, food, diapers, and other resources,
Speaker 10: including bringing in our Los Angeles County departments to provide
Speaker 10: health and wellness checks. Stay connected through our official channels.
Speaker 10: As we said earlier, we actively are updating the Ola
Speaker 10: County dot gov, slash emergency website, social media platforms, and
Speaker 10: local news outlets with the latest information on the fire status.
Speaker 4: In addition to a b GOSH.
Speaker 10: Respond efforts, we're planning for a long term recovery and
Speaker 10: that includes support for rebuilding efforts and addressing any environmental
Speaker 10: and health impacts from this fire. We understand it is
Speaker 10: a challenging time for everyone, and please know that La
Speaker 10: County stands with all of you and Espanola.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll pull awave here for a moment Mountain High
Speaker 1: by the way, there were some conflicting reports that Mountain
Speaker 1: High the was just leveled. Mountain High is tweeted within
Speaker 1: moments that the fire raced through the area yesterday.
Speaker 3: But great news.
Speaker 1: All the main lifts and the buildings there survived with
Speaker 1: little to no damage. Of course, they're thanking the firefighters
Speaker 1: and everyone there, but just harrowing times last night.
Speaker 3: For people in Rightwood who have, you know, experience with this.
Speaker 1: They're not this isn't their first rodeo, but some of
Speaker 1: them said it was the scaredest they've ever been, just
Speaker 1: grabbing their stuff and going is so quick.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: You can't say enough about the firefighters though, really, I mean,
Speaker 2: we're here talking about the politicians and how but the
Speaker 2: firefighters are the ones who are just so incredible out
Speaker 2: there on the scene. I have to say, it just
Speaker 2: bears repeating. I mean, it sounds obvious, right, but it
Speaker 2: bears repeating.
Speaker 1: People who were there said they saw the sky turn
Speaker 1: from a cherry red to black in about ninety minutes
Speaker 1: as that thing raced towards right Wood, and that it
Speaker 1: was just hellish.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, this is one of the unfortunate realities of southern California.
Speaker 2: We spent a lot of time talking about the pros
Speaker 2: and cons of living here, right, and this is definitely
Speaker 2: one of the challenges. I mean, I can't imagine what
Speaker 2: these people who lose.
Speaker 4: Their homes go through.
Speaker 2: You know, when the news we move on like next week,
Speaker 2: there'll be a whole other story and the people have
Speaker 2: lost their homes are left to deal with insurance and rebuilding.
Speaker 1: And it burned through seventy five square miles quickly.
Speaker 3: About that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously the largest of the three major wildfires, endangering
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of homes and other structures.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about like largely like north and east
Speaker 2: of say, like the two ten the San Gabriel Valley
Speaker 2: up into the mountains, That's what we're talking about, right.
Speaker 1: Big Bear Lake as well was another issue with these fires.
Speaker 3: So are they back fire with actual firefighters yet or no?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: Still are we still in espanol ah? Okay see Siecomono
Speaker 1: see I could do this. We are getting an update
Speaker 1: on the fire that started in the San Gabriel Canyon
Speaker 1: and had moved through right Wood. It is currently at
Speaker 1: about forty eight thousand acres zero percent containment. It is
Speaker 1: the largest active fire in the state right now. The
Speaker 1: destruction is vast, thirty nine homes lost so far in
Speaker 1: Mount Baldy, right Wood Wilderness areas. You've got more eleven
Speaker 1: hundred people under evacuation orders, not just warnings, but orders.
Speaker 1: Officials talking about being out of crews and resources because
Speaker 1: of the three major fires burning in southern California. So
Speaker 1: we have an update on the Airport fire as well.
Speaker 1: This is the one that started in Orange County's Tribuco
Speaker 1: Canyon when public works crews went in to remove some
Speaker 1: boulders for the very reason of protecting that area from fire,
Speaker 1: and ironically, as Chris Adler put it, yesterday, started that fire.
Speaker 1: They say it has crossed the Ortega Highway, is actively
Speaker 1: impinging upon structures in the area. No containment on that
Speaker 1: one as well. That one has grown to about twenty
Speaker 1: two thousand acres. So we will stay on top of
Speaker 1: this and bring you all the details throughout the day
Speaker 1: here on KFI.
Speaker 2: This is why we donate to the Red Cross generously
Speaker 2: every year, right right, because they're out there helping people
Speaker 2: in situations like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a rough go. I mean, we've all covered
Speaker 1: those fires where neighborhoods are just wiped out, and you
Speaker 1: see the people go back to see what's left.
Speaker 4: Nothing. Terrible, unbelieve terrible.
Speaker 3: Well, there was a report.
Speaker 1: Out this morning about attorney generals from forty two states
Speaker 1: agreeing on something that says something. Sure, when forty two
Speaker 1: states can agree on one thing, right, they're calling on
Speaker 1: the US Surgeon General to continue his fight against social media.
Speaker 1: He called for a warning label on social media apps
Speaker 1: back in June, and now attorney generals from forty two
Speaker 1: states are supporting that and saying let's do more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's tough to be against this.
Speaker 2: Basically, they're trying to put what they say is is
Speaker 2: protect future generations of Americans. I mean the thinking is,
Speaker 2: and there's not like definitive studies on this, but that
Speaker 2: younger people, adolescents, teenagers who spent significant time on social
Speaker 2: media are more anxious, more depressed, they have issues about
Speaker 2: body image. Of course, we've talked about this before, subject
Speaker 2: to crimes, bullying, harassment, pornography, drug sales. I mean, the
Speaker 2: list goes on and on, and there's there's nothing good
Speaker 2: about it. Yeah, you can, you can, you know, find
Speaker 2: out what you're you know, what Taylor Swift is wearing,
Speaker 2: but the downside is much more significant.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so it's a warning label.
Speaker 2: Not quite clear how the mechanics of that would work,
Speaker 2: but there seems to be almost universal consensus that it's
Speaker 2: a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's easy when you talk about putting labels on cigarettes, right,
Speaker 1: you just smack it right on there on the package.
Speaker 1: But how would that work? What would that look like?
Speaker 1: And would it deter people? Maybe it would do enough?
Speaker 1: Mind sure enough people and maybe not everybody, but enough
Speaker 1: people may stop and think, oh, this could be harmful
Speaker 1: to my health.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's one of these few things in this
Speaker 2: day and age that has bi partisan support. That would
Speaker 2: have been a good question to ask the candidates in
Speaker 2: the debate last line if they'd supported that. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't imagine why they wouldn't, But yeah.
Speaker 1: It's all about the algorithm, right, Yes, speaking of mental
Speaker 1: health issues coming up in the next hour. Wow, I
Speaker 1: was listening to the John Cobalt Show yesterday and I
Speaker 1: think it was a first, all the years listening to
Speaker 1: John and Ken, I think it was definitely a first
Speaker 1: that I started crying listening to that show and it
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with John. Deborah Mark has put
Speaker 1: together a report on or for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month,
Speaker 1: and it is a story near and dear to her heart,
Speaker 1: and it is the most powerful radio I've heard in
Speaker 1: a very long time. And so she's been gracious enough
Speaker 1: to allow us to go ahead and play her story
Speaker 1: for you coming up this hour. If you haven't heard it,
Speaker 1: it is something you are not going to want to miss.
Speaker 1: It is so powerful and I think that not only
Speaker 1: is it going to legitimately save lives, but it's going
Speaker 1: to help people who have been touched or if you
Speaker 1: know somebody who has been touched by suicide in your life.
Speaker 3: It is it is very it's important. Radio is what
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 1: So Deborah, thank you so much for allowing us to
Speaker 1: play that back as thank.
Speaker 4: You, Shannon. I appreciate, I appreciate that you're playing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very important.
Speaker 1: Phil and I both were talking about it, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's very brave to be so honest
Speaker 1: and to put stories out there that can help other
Speaker 1: people no matter, you.
Speaker 2: Know, And it's great to be able to use the
Speaker 2: power of mass media radio television.
Speaker 3: It's really our purpose honestly help.
Speaker 2: People rather than just talk mindlessly about things.
Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
Speaker 1: We're not just genital's jokes, you know, We're not just
Speaker 1: fire coverage. But helping each other I think is key
Speaker 1: and we're happy to do that, all right. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we will talk to a reporter from Axios. Of course,
Speaker 1: the debates still fresh on everyone's minds, and what are
Speaker 1: we going to see come of this? How are the
Speaker 1: campaigns going to use what happened last night to further
Speaker 1: their causes? Already the attack ads are going to be
Speaker 1: incredible for the Harris campaign. How much juice will they
Speaker 1: get out of this? We'll do that next. Coming up
Speaker 1: on Gary and Shannon, Phil Schuman in from Fox eleven.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate you hanging out with me. It's so
Speaker 1: much more.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's my pleasure. I love it.
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