WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.439 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:15.759 KFI and kost E HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 4 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:29.600 KFI Radio. 5 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:31.160 This is Mission Control Houston. 6 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.119 Please call station for a voice check. 7 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:40.799 Station. This is Amy King with kfi's wake up call. 8 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:41.600 How do you hear me? 9 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:49.200 I can hear you loud and clear. It's time for 10 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:50.399 your morning wake up. 11 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.320 Call Godland, and his name is Amy k. 12 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:58.560 Here's Amy King. 13 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.439 Eight is five o'clock straight up. This is your wake 14 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.879 up call for Tuesday, June seventeenth. I'm Amy King. We're 15 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:12.280 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. Gonna be a big day. 16 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:14.959 I hope you got a good night's sleep because we're 17 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:16.280 raring to go show. 18 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:16.480 Hey. 19 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:20.640 Otani of course pitched his first game in a couple 20 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:24.719 of years. Just one inning, wasn't great, but he's back 21 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.159 on the mound and then went right back out and 22 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.599 hit like immediately came off the mound, put on his 23 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:36.599 batting gear and went to went to home plate. Also, 24 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.719 Sonny and Gizmo both back in the nest this morning. 25 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:42.239 Haven't talked about the Eagles for I don't know twenty 26 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:45.719 four hours, but I turned on the camera because I 27 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.680 still turn it on every day and a lot of times. 28 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:50.319 The nest is empty now, but they're both back there, 29 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.120 and if you want to get a glimpse of glimpse 30 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.159 of them, friends of Big Bear Valley have the link 31 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:00.359 on their website. And they don't stick around. They don't 32 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.599 stick around long. They take off early and leave the 33 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.400 nest for the day. And today we are being visited 34 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:10.199 by an astronaut, Colonel Nick hag Is on his way 35 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.599 into the KFI studios. We're going to be talking with 36 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:14.680 him during wake up call. Find out you know what 37 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.560 he's been up to since he returned to Earth after 38 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:20.520 spending six months floating in waitlessness on the International Space Station. 39 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.639 Can't wait for that. Lots going on around the world, 40 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.240 So here's what's ahead on wake up call, saying the 41 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:30.800 curfew has been successful. La Mayor Bass has eased curfew hours. 42 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.719 The curfew last night went into effect at ten pm, 43 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.560 that's two hours later than the previous day. The Civic Center, Chinatown, 44 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.719 Little Tokyo and nearby areas remain under curfew until six 45 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.879 a m. Mayor Baths says the curfew has protected stores, restaurants, 46 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.719 businesses and communities from bad actors. A doctor in Santa 47 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.479 Monica has agreed to plead guilty to supplying ketamine to 48 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:56.800 friends star Matthew Perry. Prosecutors say doctor Salvador Placentia gave 49 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:00.800 the drug to the actor and taught his assistant who injected. 50 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.599 Of course, Perry suffered a fatal overdose of the drug 51 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.439 at his home in Pacific Palisades last October, shops have closed. 52 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.080 Cars are lined up to get gas in Iran's capital 53 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.759 city following a warning by President Trump that all Iranians 54 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.439 should leave Tehran. ABC's Jordana Miller joins us in just 55 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:21.319 a couple of minutes to give us the latest as 56 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.319 things continue to heat up in the Middle East. How 57 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.560 often do you have your phone out? How often do 58 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.560 you check it? Are you a slave to your phone? 59 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.599 We're going to be talking with Richard Simon. He wrote 60 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.719 a book called Unplugged. He joins us next to tell 61 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:38.360 us how it might be time to break up with 62 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:40.560 your smartphone and how that can make your life a 63 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:42.039 whole lot better. And I can tell you, since I 64 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.680 started reading this book, I notice how much not only 65 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.639 I am in my smartphone, but how much everybody around 66 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:50.719 me is too. And at the bottom of the hour, 67 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.039 of course, we're throwing a bit of a welcome home party. 68 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.719 We're going to be joined by our friend, NASA Astronaut 69 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.599 Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who's back on Earth 70 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.039 after more than six months on the Inner National Space Station. 71 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:03.879 He's coming here. He'll be in studio, live with us, 72 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:08.039 a couple of little fun things, decorations. It's a party. 73 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:10.759 Let's get started with some of the stories coming out 74 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:13.199 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal appeals 75 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:16.040 court is set to hold a hearing today on whether 76 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:20.000 President Trump can continue to control California National Guard troops. 77 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:23.199 Trump federalized the Guard and sent them to LA to 78 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:27.839 protect federal buildings and agents doing ice raids. Governor Newsom sued, 79 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:32.120 challenging the president's authority to do so. Newsom says Trump 80 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.839 only sent the troops to instill fear in the community. 81 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:37.560 President Trump says he has the right to federalize the 82 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.959 troops and they were needed to protect law enforcement. LA 83 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.079 Mayor Bass has adjusted the curfew for downtown LA, pushing 84 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.120 it back from eight to ten pm. 85 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.600 The downtown La Residents Association says the ongoing curfew has 86 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.480 hurt the neighborhood. Group co founder Cassie Horton says, it's 87 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.079 time for the curfew to come to an end. 88 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.279 Our businesses cannot afford this. They're already kind of hanging 89 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.240 on by a shoestring after the fires. 90 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.560 COVID did the writers. 91 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:01.920 Strike all of that. 92 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.319 A survey put out by the group on Sunday showed 93 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:07.199 that a combined eighty percent of hundreds of members either 94 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.000 want the curfew gone immediately or phased out over the 95 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.600 coming days. Michael Monks KFI News. 96 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:16.160 SpaceX has completed another launch of a Falcon nine rocket 97 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.079 from the coast of Santa Barbara County. 98 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.040 The launch from Vendenburg Space Force Base happened just after 99 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.240 eight thirty Monday night. The rocket took twenty six Starlink 100 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.279 Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. It was the third 101 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.040 flight for the first stage rocket booster supporting the mission. 102 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.879 Daniel Martindale, KFI News, Let's. 103 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:37.839 Say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. So, Jordana, 104 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.439 Israel's not letting up continuing to attack Tehran, and of 105 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.680 course the goal is to take out its nuclear capability. 106 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.199 What are the latest developments. 107 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:53.800 That's right, Israeli air Force, with air superiority, it must 108 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:58.040 be said, has a flight path now in over western 109 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.959 Ran into to the capital Tehran, where they're carrying out 110 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.560 a series of strikes. Really, the air force has been 111 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:14.120 active and carrying out bombings since Israel's opening attack back 112 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.120 on Friday morning or Thursday night in the United States. 113 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.720 One target that the Israeli Army says they succeeded in 114 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:28.000 hitting was the new Joint chiefs of Staff, the new 115 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:32.480 head of Iran's army. This was a close confidante of 116 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:36.240 the Supreme Leader, Ayatola Jomene. He was just put in 117 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.839 the position maybe three days ago, and overnight they targeted 118 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.079 a place in Tehran where he was with an air 119 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.360 strike and he was killed. There's also a lot of 120 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:52.680 i would say, growing threats against the Supreme Leader coming 121 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:57.360 from coming from Israeli leaders, the latest being the Defense 122 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:03.199 Minister ystral Katz, who said today that Homiani could turn 123 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:09.160 out have the same fate as Sodom Hussein. You know, 124 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:15.120 this is a war that is not explicitly to bring 125 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.800 down the regime. That's what the Israelis have said, but 126 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.639 you know, on the ground, everything that they're doing seems 127 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.879 to be pushing the regime to the brink, right, assassinating 128 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:34.839 military leaders, scientists, going after their headquarters, political and military headquarters, 129 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:40.800 and now yesterday as well hitting one of the national broadcasters, 130 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:45.879 the TV that is aligned with the regime. We am 131 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.800 sure many people saw the clip that was circulating online 132 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.040 of an Iranian female anchor in the middle of her 133 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.839 in the middle of her newscast, you know, with an 134 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:02.720 explosion in the back and star and leaving the cameras right. 135 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:07.319 So we're still seeing a lot of activity on this side. 136 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.000 I can tell you. The Iranians overnight launched four different 137 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:16.680 waves of ballistic missile strikes in total about thirty missiles, 138 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.800 so a lower number than we saw the previous days, 139 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.959 but they spread them out, keeping Israelis up all night 140 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:27.519 and in their shelters, especially those living in Tel Aviv 141 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.000 and in central Israel. For me, I'm in Jerusalem. I 142 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.639 was up twice, but most of the country was up 143 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:34.759 four times. 144 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.600 And when you luckily, when you get to when you 145 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:42.600 get awakened, you have to go into the shelters. Is 146 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:44.919 that correct that you hear those sirens and then off 147 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.639 you go into the shelters for how long? 148 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.519 Right, So, Israel thankfully has developed a very sophisticated early 149 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:57.840 warning system. So because these ballistic missiles are so deadly, 150 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.440 and we've seen that over the last several days, right, 151 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.360 twenty four Israelis have been killed and they've brought down 152 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:08.360 a part sides of entire apartment buildings. The Israelis now 153 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:12.960 give their citizens usually about fifteen minutes of lead time, 154 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:18.120 sometimes twenty minutes, and they first send out a warning saying, 155 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:23.120 we have detected a launch of Iranian missiles coming towards us. 156 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.320 We you know, everyone now needs to get close to 157 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:32.879 their bomb shelter, right, and then you get another warning 158 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.879 that is a loud beeping sound on your phone in 159 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.720 case you didn't see the other one. The first message 160 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:42.600 that says you now need to go into the bomb shelter. 161 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:45.799 And then usually once you're already inside, then you hear 162 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:53.559 the sirens there, yeah, which is still frightening. Well yeah, anyway, yeah, yeah, 163 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.759 and you hear the interceptions. I mean a lot of 164 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:01.799 the you know, there's every time Iran fires on Israel, 165 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.960 you know, there's always a number of missiles that are 166 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.960 shot down over Jerusalem because Jerusalem situated in the center 167 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:15.080 of the country, a little center east, So anything trying 168 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.440 to hit the Tel Aviv comes over Jerusalem. When they're 169 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:21.799 trying to hit military bases a little bit further south, 170 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:25.320 sometimes they go over Jerusalem, right, So the sound of 171 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.320 the explosions and the booms are often, you know, there's 172 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.279 often many of them that we can hear from the shelter. 173 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.440 Yeah, that's I just can't even imagine. But thank you 174 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.080 for sharing kind of the what it's like to get 175 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.679 those warnings. I wanted to go back real quick before 176 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:41.320 we let you go and ask you just a couple 177 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.919 of questions. One you mentioned Israel says it has air superiority. 178 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.320 What does that mean. Does that mean that Iran is 179 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:53.080 it's little, Not it's little, but its defenses are so 180 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:57.000 badly degraded that Israel can just go wherever they want 181 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.600 and they're not worried about getting shot down exactly. 182 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:05.320 It means that when it comes to a corridor from 183 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:10.559 western Iran into Tehran, Israel has managed to wipe out 184 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.480 Iran's ability to shoot down their aircraft by taking out 185 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:21.399 air defense systems radar systems, and also by taking out 186 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:27.480 missile launchers and weapons depots and the ballistic missiles themselves 187 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.720 that would be shot at aircraft. So they are operating 188 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.559 freely in the skies of Tehran, right, They're even carrying 189 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.840 out air strikes in daylight, which I mean generals behind 190 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.960 the scenes will tell us, you know that it all 191 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.480 happened faster than they thought, right. 192 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.720 And then one last question for you. You mentioned that 193 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.799 there was a string of missiles that came in. There 194 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.200 were like thirty of them, and they came in sort 195 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.159 of at regular intervals to kind of keep everybody on 196 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.759 their you know, yeah, keep every everybody shared and anxious 197 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.159 and awake. Is there a reason that there's a lower 198 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.759 number that we know of. They're not running out of 199 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:13.200 missiles or or are they. 200 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.279 Well, that's a great question. First of all, the Israelis 201 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.039 say they have taken out one third of Iran's total 202 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.440 missile launcher pads. No matter how many missiles you have, 203 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.440 even if you have five thousand, if you don't have 204 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:31.559 a means to deploy them, they're useless. So Israel has 205 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.080 focused in the first days of this attack on taking 206 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:40.519 out the launch pads and the Israeli Army does claim 207 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.840 that it has crippled and reduced Iran's ability to fire 208 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:48.679 missiles on Israel. I mean, thirty is not an impressive number, 209 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:54.200 quote unquote in a state of war. So you know so, 210 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.320 but we'll have to wait and see that. No one 211 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:00.879 denies that Iran still has they still have capabilities, and 212 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.600 even the damage that's been done to the nuclear facilities, 213 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:10.440 it is significant, but not it is not consequential in 214 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.600 terms of you know, ending the nuclear threat. As you know, 215 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.799 again as a general who does background briefings with the 216 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:20.519 press here, you know we've been told there's there's still 217 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.440 a lot of targets in the bank, and there's still 218 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.279 a lot of work to do. And remember Israel has 219 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:30.519 not yet attacked the four Dow nuclear facility, which is 220 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:35.120 buried in a mountain near Tehran. That is the most 221 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:40.240 difficult nuclear target. But it has to be touched one 222 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:44.000 way or the other, or in a sense, this entire 223 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:48.039 attack on Iran will be a failure because that facility 224 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:49.879 is crude, crucial. 225 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:50.960 All right, and that's where we're going to have to 226 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.679 leave it for today. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, stay safe, 227 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.000 Thanks so much for the information. We'll talk soon texting. 228 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:58.919 All right, let's get back to some of the stories 229 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:02.759 coming out of the KFI twenty Forever newsroom. Federal prosecutors 230 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:05.519 say the man in custody for allegedly shooting and killing 231 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.320 a state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota stalked his targets, 232 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.919 like prey ABC's Faith Abu Bay says Vance Bolter also 233 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.480 allegedly wounded a Democratic state senator and his wife in 234 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:18.559 Saturday's attacks. 235 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:22.039 Investigators believe this was a complex and chilling plant to 236 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.279 kill public officials. Forty five lawmakers on that alleged target list, 237 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:27.960 mostly or all Democrats. 238 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:32.759 Billy say they have found assault style rifles, several rounds 239 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.120 of ammunition, and a medical kit in Bolter's car. News 240 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:39.879 brought to you by Simper Solaris. The Trump family has 241 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.399 announced its latest business venture. 242 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.159 Eric Trump, one of President Trump's sons, who will run 243 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.440 the mobile phone company, says it will build its own 244 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.519 phones and maintain a call center in the US. The 245 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.960 new business follows several real estate deals for towers and 246 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.879 resorts in the Middle East, including a golf development in 247 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.679 Guitar and a one and a half billion dollar partnership 248 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:03.360 to build golf courses, hotels, and real estate projects in Vietnam. 249 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:06.639 Deborah Mark kff I News and Tropical Storm Eric is 250 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.559 formed near southern Mexico. The US National Hurricane Center in 251 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.440 Miami says it is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow. 252 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.639 Hurricane watches have been issued for parts of Mexico. Heavy 253 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.279 rainfall is in the forecast for parts of the states 254 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:23.120 of Oajaca and Guerrero. Well show, Hey did it. He 255 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.519 was back on the mound, pitched one inning. Wasn't the 256 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:29.200 greatest performance, but he was throwing like one hundred mile 257 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.879 in our fastballs. The Dodgers won the game last night, 258 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.679 six to three. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Padres 259 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:37.759 at Dodgers Stadium. The first pitch goes out at seven o'clock. 260 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.039 You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM 261 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.720 five to seventy LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors 262 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:45.960 Broadcast booth and stream all the Dodgers games in HD, 263 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.639 just like I did last night listening to show Hay's 264 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.320 first outing on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy 265 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.600 LA Sports. Anti ice protests have cost the city of 266 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:59.679 La nearly twenty million dollars so far. City administrative officer 267 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.559 stay Bo says most of that is tied to the 268 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.159 cost of police, about seventeen million dollars of it. Murder 269 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:08.120 and stocking charges have been filed against the man in 270 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.240 Minnesota accused of shooting and killing a Minnesota state senator 271 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.159 and her husband, and attempting to kill a senator and 272 00:16:14.279 --> 00:16:17.320 his wife. Official save Vnce Bolter will be charged with 273 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.200 first degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted. 274 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:22.559 Police are looking for the person who shot a mail 275 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.399 carrier in South la The LAPD says a shooting happened 276 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.080 late yesterday morning near Century Boulevard in Central Avenue. The 277 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:31.600 mail carrier was hit in the arm. The person who 278 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.679 shot him was last seen running east on Century Boulevard. 279 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.919 Let's say good morning now to Richard Simon, the author 280 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.600 of Unplug, How to Break Up with your Phone and 281 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.399 Reclaim your Life. Good morning, Richard, Good morning Amy. Great 282 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:47.480 to be here, Great to have you. Thanks for getting 283 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.960 up early with this. So you wrote this book, and 284 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:51.799 I saw the press release on it and I go, 285 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:53.960 oh my gosh, I have to read this book. And 286 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.200 I will tell you that since reading it, I've noticed 287 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:01.759 even more how perve our phones are. Like I'll find 288 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.920 myself sitting on the couch just playing Solitaire and other 289 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.240 word games four hours at a time, and it's just 290 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:10.759 this time suck and then like I'll put the phone 291 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.319 down and then I'll get this feeling like I need 292 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:15.160 to pick it up and play another game. And I 293 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:17.240 was like, oh my gosh, why is that? 294 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.480 Yeah, the core piece of dopamine. Dopamine is the most powerful, 295 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.519 one of the most powerful molecules in the brain. And 296 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.079 each time you tap your phone, whether it's with Solitaire 297 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:34.240 or whether it's Internet browser or WhatsApp, whatever it might be, 298 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:38.720 it releases dopamine. So it just becomes more and more pleasurable. 299 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.279 And the smartphone is literally a shortcut machine. And that's 300 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.200 what's going on behind the scenes in your mind. 301 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:49.319 Okay, So the premise of the book seems pretty straightforward. 302 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.000 You know that it may be time to break up 303 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:53.240 with your phone. But I want to ask you kind 304 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.799 of what is the goal of the book, Like what 305 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:57.440 gave you the idea to write it? 306 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:03.000 Sure, with me, I was thick of my smartphone taking 307 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.559 up hours of my day. The average American adult spends 308 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.440 more than five hours a day on their smartphones. We 309 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.319 don't get that time back. And I was a father 310 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.279 to young kids in twenty nineteen, I realized this. 311 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:14.960 I had enough. 312 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.440 So in twenty twenty, I turned my smartphone off for 313 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.839 an entire year and was one of the most transformative 314 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:23.000 moments of my life. And what I realized is that 315 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:24.960 you look at all the various self help articles and 316 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.720 books everyone is espousing hacks noble as they might be, 317 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:32.839 but deleting social media, putting a rubber band around your phone, 318 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.680 digital status. All these things are great, but presenting as 319 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.000 addictive as a phone as you were just talking about 320 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:41.359 it doesn't go far enough. So I ended up interviewing 321 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:43.119 dozens of people over the course of the last couple 322 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.240 of years and found that the first step to establishing 323 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:48.880 a more effective relationship with your smartphone is to turn 324 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:49.279 it off. 325 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:54.359 Okay, so turn off completely, So no GPS, no texting, 326 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.680 no social media, just done. 327 00:18:58.640 --> 00:18:58.880 Yeah. 328 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:02.039 So therefore to diferent styles that outline the book in 329 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.000 terms of turning it off. The most popular one I 330 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.079 think that will resonate for your listeners is to switch 331 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.079 to a basic phone. And I say basic phone, I 332 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.720 mean basic like calling and texting. There are some like 333 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.240 Kosher phones or Wise phones that have more features. For 334 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.200 the sake of recalibrating the reward pathways in your brain, 335 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:23.640 I highly recommend switching over to a basic phone. You 336 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.599 can have your same phone number, you can switch over 337 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:28.000 the simcard at your local AT and T Verizon your 338 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.319 T Mobile story. And by doing that, by switching over 339 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:33.880 to a basic phone, you're going to regain the most 340 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.759 precious resource source in life, which is time. You're going 341 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:39.039 to get hours back because you're not going to want 342 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.160 to text on this terrible device because it takes forever 343 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:46.559 to text and it'll completely reset you. So one of 344 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.440 the four breakup styles of recommend is switching to a 345 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:49.039 basic phone. 346 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:53.680 Okay, So then Richard, also tell me, like you said 347 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:55.480 that one of the things you noticed when I was 348 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.039 reading your book, you said you you and your wife 349 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.799 would come sit down on your couch at night and 350 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.559 you wouldn't talk to each other because you just stick 351 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:03.880 your noses in your phones and you're doing your own thing. 352 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.240 How did that immediately change when you turned your phone off. 353 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:12.519 Yeah, my wife and she's a doctor, she's a physician. 354 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:14.559 She's very very busy in terms of her hours and 355 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:17.000 what would end up happening is during the day. I'm 356 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:20.319 sure many other married couples who are listening go through this. 357 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.640 You text each other throughout the day, spouses, and there's 358 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.119 dozens of texts that are happening. You know, this is happening, 359 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:26.680 This is happening. 360 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:27.200 What do you think of this? 361 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:29.960 How about this for dinner? This? And before you know it, 362 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:31.839 you get back home and you're already caught up. When 363 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:33.880 everything had happened during the day, it's nothing to catch 364 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:35.880 up on. And all of a sudden, you know, we 365 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:38.480 stopped this texting throughout the day and we actually like 366 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:40.920 sit down and have dinner as a family, and like, 367 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:43.880 I'm genuinely curious about what happened during the day, and 368 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:45.880 same for her in terms of what happened for my day. 369 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:50.559 It completely reset our relationship and it grew tremendously since 370 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:52.160 I went through this process, and with the dozens of 371 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.000 people I interviewed in the book in my profile, it 372 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.279 was the same. Relationships with family just improved so much. 373 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:02.599 Yeah, well, we hear a lot about how like kids 374 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:06.480 who have grown up, they've had smartphones since, you know, 375 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:10.759 since they were very young. That they don't communicate as well. 376 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:13.440 They don't have those same communication skills because, like you said, 377 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:16.000 they text and do short little blurbs as opposed to 378 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.200 having full on conversations like we used to when we 379 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:21.559 were growing up. So I could I can see that correlation. 380 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:24.880 If somebody wants to dip their toe in, is there 381 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:26.319 a way to dip their toe in? 382 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:28.759 Yeah? 383 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:32.359 I mean for starters, go for a walk. Go for 384 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:34.640 a walk around the neighborhood for forty five minutes an hour, 385 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:37.319 and don't bring your phone. You're going to be going 386 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.279 crazy inside the first time you do it, because this 387 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:41.799 is how addictive a smartphone is. But go for a 388 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:43.559 walk for forty five minutes to an hour and do 389 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:46.160 it by yourself for the first time. Don't bring someone 390 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:49.640 else and just have to embrace your own thoughts. That's 391 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:51.440 way to say a smartphone has done is that we 392 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:54.839 are no longer able to embrace solitude, We're no longer able. 393 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:55.319 To truly think. 394 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:57.799 So that's the first step I would do, And after 395 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.640 you do it a few times, you're going to realize 396 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:03.359 this is really really nice. Start tonight when you go 397 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:05.839 out to dinner with friends, leave your phone at home. 398 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:07.640 The first time you're in the car, you might be 399 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.359 completely freaking out. That's the withdrawal, It's completely natural. Then 400 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:13.799 you're going to realize how special that is. So before 401 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.039