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Well, this ongoing discussion about our response to the search for peace I suppose between the United States, Ukraine and Russia, NATO and everybody that's involved with that is getting even a little bit more confusing. Some new comments that came in today from President Trump. We heard from the National Security Advisor, Mike Walls about what's going on and these
ongoing discussions. One of the issues that's going on right now is a discussion about a minerals agreement with the United States, and according to Mike Walls, he says that he expects to see the signature of Ukraine on this minerals deal very soon.
Here's the bottom line. President Selenski is going to sign that deal and you will.
See that in the very short term. And that is good for Ukraine.
What better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States. Now, we have an obligation to you, all, the American taxpayer, to recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars that had been invested in this war. Europe's contributions are in the form of loans.
Now this proposed partnership again, this minerals deal that they're talking about, and it is basically, if you want the United States to guarantee security, we're going to need some of our money back. And the way you can do that is give us access to some of your deposits of aluminum and gallium and tritium materials that are going to be essential for tech manufacturing, nuclear research, semiconductors, all that sort of thing. And this agreement, if you want
to call it. That is also being positioned in a way for us to get back some of the investment that USA to Ukraine. Is somewhere above one hundred and seventy five billion. I've seen an estimate as high as three hundred and fifty billion, but that we would basically recoup about fifty percent of all of the minerals that exist that Ukraine would put on the market.
We'd get some of that back.
It goes a little bit further than that, because Donald Trump continues to say that Vladimir Zelensky used the term dictator the other day to suggest that that Vladimir Zelensky is a dictator, not that Vladimir Putin is. He did this morning acknowledge on Brian Kilmead's show on Fox Radio.
He did acknowledge that it was Putin that started the war in Ukraine, but then went on to say that it is still Vladimir's Lensky who is responsible for a lot of what's happened since that, But that's Russia's fault though.
Russia two thousand year old home.
He's talking about the destruction now in the Ukrainian cities, and Brian Kilney was trying to tell him. Yeah, but that was the Russian Army controlled by Putin that did.
That, and everything's demolished. It was like a demolition site, though it's sort of like Gaza. In fact, it's more to at least Gaza has a couple of buildings standing here this place. You take a look at the demolition of so many of those cities and all those those people are killed, never to come back again.
But mister president, that's that's Vladimir Putin's fault.
I get tired of listening to it. I'll tell you what I've seen it enough. And then he complains that he's not at a meeting that we're having with sort of Arabia trying to intermediate at piece. Well, he's been at meetings for three years with a very with a president who didn't know what ally was doing. He's been at the meetings for three years and nothing got done.
So okay.
This has gotten a lot of pushback from conservatives from republicans. Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who happens to be the Special Envoy for the situation in Ukraine and Russia, was just over in Kiev and spoke with Zelensky and said that he is an embattled, courageous leader of a nation at war and his talented national security team. That's not
calling him a dictator at all. Mark Levin, the commentator on Fox News, also rebuked the president and talked about this and said, I don't know why there are people that not only oppose Zelensky but seemed to support Putin. He said again, Mark Levin, I understand there needs to be peace between these two countries, but I think Donald Trump is uniquely able to do that. But there cannot be peace at any cost. And the New York Post front page New York Post a giant picture of Donald Trump,
I'm sorry, a giant picture of Vladimir Putin. Apologies, A giant picture of Putin with the bold headline this is a dictator. So he's not getting a lot of support from some people in the conservative movement his description of Zelenski as the dictator in all of this. Also in d C, President Trump is apparently preparing to dissolve the leadership of the Postal Service and absorb the independent agency into the administration that would put it under the control
of the Commerce Department. Board is planning to fight the order. Three of those people told the Washington Post that they had an emergency meeting last night. The board did retain outside council and gave instructions to sue the White House if the President signs an executive order to remove members of the Board or attempt to alter the independent status
in any way. And then, finally, in the Senate last night, the Republican controlled Senate spent all night into this morning to put together a three hundred and forty billion dollar budget blueprint designed to boost funding for the Trump's immigration enforcement efforts, energy production, the military. This was a mostly party line vote that came up just before would be five in the morning DC time, following a bunch of
votes throughout the course of the night. Senators cast votes on thirty three different amendments over the course of ten hours, So the final vote on this Republican controlled Senate budget plan fifty two to forty eight. The only Republican who voted against it would have been Rand Paul out of Kentucky. All right, quick, wellness segment, you got some exercises coming up this weekend.
It's gonna be a beautiful weekend.
The difference between body weight exercises and weight weight exercises you know, actual throwing the plates around. I have some breaking news. LA Mayor Karen Bass today met with and fired the chief of the LA Fire Department. She met with and fired Kristin Crowley as the fire chief. She has appointed former Chief Deputy Ronnie Vianueva, forty one year old LA Fire Department veteran, as the interim fire chief. There is expected to be a news conference about twenty
minutes from now, so we'll get into this. She did put out a statement set acting in the best interests of LA public safety and for the operations of the LA Fire Department, I have removed Kristin Crowley as fire chief. We know that a thousand firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the January seventh were instead
sent home on Chief Crowley's watch. Furthermore necessary step to an investigation was the president of the Fire Commission telling Chief Crowley to do an after action report on the fires, and that the chief refused. Pardon the pun, but it's starting to heat up our trending stories, which are now being overtaken by a bunch of developing stories.
Again. The big story right.
Now is that Mayor Karen Bass of LA has fired the chief of the LA Fire Department.
She has fired.
Krista Crowley will take that news conference, we hope when it comes along at about eleven forty five. So a lot of people believe that if you're going to build up strength, you're going to build up your muscles, you need to set a weights or a gym membership. But that is not the case. That's where we start our little wellness segment. I feel terrible.
He spends most of his day at the office city the Nation in Doro, a variety of activities. I'm preferably some exercise late in the afternoon. I never exercised a day.
In my line.
You just got to sit here and wait to die.
Every morning.
That smoke a cigarette, and for lunch, I eat a bacon sandwich and I usually drink my dinner.
It's time for Gary and Shannon's Periodic Guide for Wellness and Personal Improvement for your health. So the research suggests that for most people, you do not need to have weights. You don't have to go through a GM gym membership to pack on some muscle, and that's good for all of us, no matter what age you are, no matter how in shape or out of shape, you happen to be.
Your body doesn't care.
Your body doesn't care if you're doing a push up or you're laying on your back and you're doing bench press. The muscle itself is agnostic. All it recognizes is the tension on the muscle. The secret to the success, however,
appears to be failure. Exercise scientist a guy named James Steele, is the head of research at Kaiser Australia, a chain of exercise clinics health clinics, and said, no matter how you do it, whether it's weights, body weight, whatever, training fundamentally requires you to exercise your muscle until it's almost exhausted. In order to get stronger, you got to get to the point where you almost can't go on, and then that's when you see the progress.
If your goal is just to get stronger.
A bunch of different studies that show you can get similar results from bodyweight exercises or actually lifting weights. There was a stuf, for example, in Minnesota, where doctor Steele asked regular exercisers there in Minnesota to switch from their weight room routine to a body weight routine that they could do at their own home, and they said the change in strength at least over those three weeks.
Was similar.
In Japan, they did an experiment as well that compared push ups to bench press and they resulted in the same strength gain, the same muscle gain, and then a smaller study. This is what probably is what you're thinking about, is well, how do you get better? How once you can do ten pushups, how do you get to fifteen or twenty or make yourself stronger once you hit that plateau. If you increase the weight and still do your ten bench presses and just increase the weight, keep the reps
the same, you're going to increase strength. But they said the same thing happens when you increase the reps at the same weight, which would be what you do, and you're doing your push ups and outther word, it's the effort that counts. It is not what you're lifting. And then as you get stronger, the exercises you do naturally get easier. You may have to find some ways to make them a little bit, you know, bump up the
effort level. For push ups, it's probably relatively easy. You can put your feet up on a chair or something like that, or a bench behind you, and that will slightly change the angle which how you hit the pectoral but also makes it a little bit harder for you to do that, to do that exercise. And in terms of weights, there's a little bit higher risk of injury. I mean, you can drop a weight on your foot, Jacob, You ever done that? You ever drop a forty five pound plate on your foot?
Never? Twenty five pound plate? Nope? Fifteen pound, no, ten? No, five no.
But I have hurt myself squatting. I'm not hurt, but I still rack the weight though. You still got it all the way up to the road. Yeah, okay, good for you. I only will they able to do it twice? And from our wellness segment, we'll go to our dog wellness segment in just a couple of minutes. How the dog's sleeping pattern tells us how wild they actually are. Of course, the breaking news is that La Mayor Karen Bass has fired the head of the LA Fire Department.
We'll be talking about that coming up in just a couple minutes and go to a news conference that we expect Mayor Bass to have about this decision. The La Mayor Karen Bass has removed LAFD Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, effective immediately.
That word just came down a short time ago.
The expectation is that the mayor is going to hold a news conference here in about ten minutes or so.
We'll bring it to you live.
Mayor Bass met with and removed Kristin Crowley as fire chief, effective immediately. This is a statement from the Mayor's office. Mayor Bass announced that she has appointed former Chief Deputy Ronnie Viennaweva, forty one year LAFD veteran, as the interim fire chief.
Again.
The news conference scheduled about ten minutes from now. As she goes into the details, yesterday was not a She did an interview, like we said, with Elix Michaelson from Channel eleven and seemed to point the finger at Kristen Crowley for not telling her that there was a giant wind event that could potentially give give her the heads up to stay in the country. Remember, she was in Ghana, attacked attending an inauguration when the firestorm broke out. On
January seventh. Another developed couple developing stories Number one. In Louisville, Kentucky, three people were killed in the shooting outside a driver licensing center the Louisville Metro police said they were called around noon today Louisville time for a shooting at the driver License Regional office in Valley Station, Kentucky, and one man was dead and apparently two women died at the hospital.
And then an.
Explosion also at a resort on Maui right around sunset last night, injured several people smoking debris clouded. The clouded this setting up the Whaler Resort on the Connopoly Parkway.
They're on the Connopoli side of Maui.
So dogs look great when they're sleeping, right, they're always the Sometimes you're lucky, you get them to fall on their back and they fall asleep and it's just their adorbs. And domestic dogs have largely diurnal sleeping habits, which means they're awake during the day.
They sleep at night like us.
And that's because over the course of many deck centuries millennia of domestication, they adapt it to our schedule and most of their sleep happens during the night. But obviously they have frequent bouts of sleeping during the daytime, particularly in the afternoon. Sometimes it's a little bit misleading because dogs will simply relax with their eyes closed, and you think that they're sleeping, they're just they're just hanging out. The dog's ancestor, the gray wolf, tends to show more
nocturnal activity or crepuscular sleep patterns. In the wild, wolves can show high variability in their activity with human disturbance. Of course, food availability, weather conditions all influence their sleep cycles. Captive wolves, like dogs, typically have that circadian rhythm that's like ours or like a domesticated dog, where they sleep at night, they get up and walk around during the day.
They said that free ranging domestic dogs are more inclined to resemble wild canines in their sleep cycles, a greater propensity towards crepuscular nocturnal activity. In urban areas, feral dogs may align their sleeping habits with human activity, even though they're technically wild and just like us. Dogs have a bunch of different sleep stages. They have the drowsiness, they have lighter non rapid eye movement n REM sleep they call it, and then the deeper REM sleep where most
of the dreams happen just like ours. I mean, dogs dreaming is one of the funniest videos that you could ever watch because they go out, they go nuts, and they kind of half bark, some of them get up and run. Dogs devote more of their total sleep time to that REM sleep than do humans. They get about three hours a day. We only get about two hours
a day if we're lucky. A study in twenty twenty two that involved researchers cuddling with dogs and socialized wolves to sleep found that dogs spend less time in wren's sleep than even wolves do, but they said both species spend a similar amount of time in the other stages of sleep. So the question is whether REM sleep is related to that domestication. How in the species which are at high risk of being attacked while asleep spend less
time in REM sleep. Think about it, it's because the domesticated dogs can relax they're not going to be attacked by some other predator. Dogs engage in their deepest sleep during the night. Their daytime naps are relatively light, and like other animals rats, hedgehogs, dogs, et cetera, they wake up after a period of REMS sleep, usually an adaptation that's designed to force them out of their sleep in order to wake up and look around, basically, wake up
and check their environment. The frequent brief sleep awake cycles allow dogs to adjust the changes in their routine more readily than humans do. Drug detection dogs, for example, they cope remarkably well with changes to their work schedule. It doesn't disrupt their sleep patterns at all. Some of the more well trained dogs that you know, whether it's an actual working dog or somebody who just trains their dog well,
those dogs sleep great. They sleep wherever whenever. As with people, the duration the quality of sleeping dogs can fluctuate from day to day and over their life span. As the dogs get older, sleep becomes more fragmented, they get fewer rems sleep hours at night. Other factors including the canine sex, the daytime activity, their welfare, the environmental conditions, even social interactions can affect their sleep quality.
It's just like us.
Deprivation in daytime napping usually leads to quicker sleep onset and then longer rem sleep at night, both for dogs and for other animals like us. Now, this is a funny thing, but scientists still say they don't agree on why dogs or other animals sleep. We do know it's a lot about physically rebuilding, physical restoration, even memory consolidation, which we've talked about.
We talked about earlier this week.
The memory consolidation, the brainwashing that your head goes through when you're asleep, sort of getting rid of all the junk, filing away some of these memories for the future, all of that stuff. They said, it's the most studied function of sleep. Most of this work points to sleep's important role in facilitating learning. In fact, in twenty seventeen, researchers and Hungary found the dog's memory recall significantly improved when the animals were taught unfamiliar words and then.
Allowed to take a three hour nap. Man. That sounds great. That sounds awesome.
One of the big stories that we're following today was a couple of drivers were hit with rocks overnight on freeways here in LA just before midnight. Somebody was injured when his vehicle was hit by a rock. He was driving right near the westbound ten and then the southbound one ten when a rock or a piece of stone crack through the windshield hit him right before midnight.
Had to go to the hospital.
Another driver reported a similar incident on the northbound one ten freeway right near the Adams Boulevard.
Canada. Canadia.
Canada's men's hockey team defeated the USA three to two and overtime last night in what started out as an amazing Four Nations face off championship game between the USA and Canada. No fights, at least none like we saw the first time they met earlier in the tournament, when there were three fights in nine seconds. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to trash talking right away and said, you can't take our country and you can't take our game.
Yankees are playing right now.
They're taking on Tampa Bay and that Yankees have made the stunning decision to allow their players to grow beards after forty nine years of banning all facial hair. They put out a memo that said, you can now have a clean cut beard when you're playing for the New York Yankees. Well, what else is going on?
Oh? I'm sorry, that was my fault. Did I tell you the thing? Yeah, there is time four. What's happened? Sorry?
I was probably sitting on the button that I apologize. Internal Revenue Service has begun laying off more than six thousand new and newly promoted employees around the country. This is all part of the administration's campaign to shrink the federal workforce could have potential consequences for the current tax filing system the season. I should say the layoffs are about six or maybe seven percent of the workforce for the IRS. Most of them began outside the DC area.
There are employees facing layoffs at IRS offices in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Tennessee, New York, and beyond. As of the this morning, about five hundred jobs were expected to be lost in Texas. The layoffs could continue today some more IRS offices around the country because weather conditions might prevent managers and employees from getting to work, according to an email that was sent to managers of those pro probationary employees that was
obtained by ABC. We've been following this story as well the Menendez brothers resentencing case. Nathan Hockman is going to hold a news conference later today. It's supposed to be about one o'clock. Of course, this is the Menendez brother's case. They'd been scheduled to appear in court in the resentencing case from January thirtieth because their bid for freedom after being sentenced to life from prison for the murder of
those parents. That hearing will now take place towards the end of March because they canceled everything and pushed it back simply because of the wild wildfires preparations. Apparently I had an impact on the attorneys that were involved when that. With that, Nathan Hockman said he has met with the Menendaz brother relatives. Said he's still reviewing the facts in the case and has not yet decided in support of the brother's bid for freedom.
But we will see what he says today.
Orange County DA Todd Spitzer says that Chilean crime rings continue to terrorize people in the United States and is calling for the country of Chile to be removed from a US visa waiver program. He said, this is the biggest secret in Washington that no one seems to want to do anything about.
It's tourism burglary.
There was an indictment of seven Chilean nationals accused of burglarizing homes of professional athletes, including Kansas City Chief star Patrick Mahomes and Traffis Kelsey. Several basketball players were also targeted.
Spitzer said there's a twenty one dollars online application, there's no background check, and every other South American country that has participated in the last in the past, I'm sorry has been kicked out of the program for sending their criminals to the United States, as he's briefed the FBI on the threat of these gangs back when Kevin McCarthy was still the House Speaker, but nothing came of it. A study suggests that the real estate losses from our
Palisades and Eaten fires could exceed thirty billion dollars. The newspaper compared La Times compared estimated property values from the assessor's office with the assessments from CalFire of structures that were damaged or destroyed. Fifty six percent of all structures in the Palisades fire, more than half of the Palisades completely leveled by the fire. And they said about half of the properties in the city of Altadena destroyed during
the Eton fire. And that includes hundreds of commercial buildings, but the buildings obviously, but the vast majority of them were private homes, single family homes, condos, apartment units, things like that. So the property loss at about twenty two billion in the Palisades and another seven point eight billion dollars in Altadena. Speaking of there are some sales that have materialized. People have given up on their properties in
some of those places. In the aftermath of the Palisades fire, there was a plot of land where obviously a home once stood and had been burned down. It sold for one point two million dollars. The realtors who were selling it tried to put a spin on it and say that it is a blank canvas. This was a long Avenida de la Heradura, previously home to one of the previously home to a home that was consumed by the fire.
Now still uncertain in terms of what they're going to do with it.
The lot itself has garnered a lot of attention because it's a prime piece of real estate. But how long does it take, even with a blank slate like that, how long does it take before you could actually have a home on that thing. There was a story out of San Diego. The Sheriff's office down there identified a fifty three year old woman as the suspect in the killing of Rebecca Morodi, a thirty year firefighter veteran CalFire captain who has found stab to death in her home.
The wife apparently is the one that did it.
They had been married for a little over two years. No suspected motive has been released. The fire captain was suffering from multiple stab wounds on Monday night when deputies responded to that home. And then finally, a judge has denied nor Walk's request to dismiss a lawsuit that the State of California filed against the city over its proposed
ban on emergency homeless shelters. Now the La County Superior Court in this case also dismissed the city council as a defendant in the lawsuit state officials filed last year while accusing the city of violating several California laws. City report detailed the proposed ban on said that such establishments may have detrimental effects on the local community. During a meeting back in September, several people spoke both in opposition
and support of the ban. A man who set a shelter near his restaurant drew a disaster scene of people loitering. There was a woman who words council membli to repeal the measure, as she said many of them are just one paycheck away from sleeping in their cars. When the state's lawsuit can move forward, the judge said an intentative decision this week, who was later finalized. The state officials have not alleged any imminent or significant hardship stemming from
the ban. We are expecting a news conference. La Mayor Karen Bass has apparently fired the chief of the La City Fire Department and then named an interim chief, all of this stemming from the aftermath of the Palisades fire. When that news conference starts, we will jump in. But in the meantime, comedian TJ Miller scheduled to come in. We'll talk about that. We'll talk with TJ coming up and and in on that. We also have some tickets to his show at the Irvine improv that we're going
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