Cam I Am six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand on the iHeart radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. Morning everybody. It is Friday, June sixteen. Driving in this morning put a little bit like Thursday because it looked and felt the same, but it is indeed Friday. This hour, we have a slate of discussion to tee up for our morning and for you know, the weekend. We have politics. We're gonna talk about ticket fees. Dean Sharpe's gonna be
here, come on, that's a no brainer. Stick around for that one. And we're gonna have a well here's a fun fact in lieu of the t's cows can pick up since from six miles away, that's impressive. Not something I knew about cows. We're gonna learn more about cows later this hour as well. Importantly, a few headlines before we get into it. Though. The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified Pentagon documents has been indicted.
Jack Taschera, is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested in April for allegedly sharing classified documents on a gamer social media platform. US Secretary of State Anthony B. Lincoln is traveling to Beijing this weekend. B Lincoln's trip marks a rare high level meeting between the US and China. It was postponed earlier this year because of that balloon
thing that happened. Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after being discharged from Rome's Jamellie Hospital. The eighty six year old Pope was recovering from abdominal surgery, and he left the hospital in a wheelchair today, reportedly in high spirits. Let's start with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At least three people have been killed by a tornado that touched down in the Texas Panhand Fire Chief Paul Dutcher says a trailer park in Perryton,
just south of the Oklahoma line, was hit hard yesterday. We had a tornado sat down right on the edge of town. It's taken out probably twenty five to thirty trailer houses in this area. Dutcher says more than one hundred people have been treated at hospitals so far. The state Attorney General says he may investigate the state of Texas over its transport of immigrants to Los Angeles.
Rob Bonta says he'll look into how and why in Texas, Republican Governor Greg Gabott funded the delivery of migrants by bus to Union Station for nothing more than a political stunt. Asylum seekers which means they are fleeing conditions where they are unsafe or they're being persecuted to come here. Banta announced Monday he's requested documents and communications from the state of Florida after it funded two trips of migrants
from El Paso to Sacramento earlier this month. Officials in Texas and Florida say the migrants signed travel waivers. Steve Gregory KOFY News. The family of a woman from Orange County has demanded answers the deaths of the woman and her boyfriend in Mexico. They were found in their hotel room. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says they are working with officials to get to the bottom of things.
We offer our sincereus condolences to the families for their loss. We are closely monitoring the investigation into the cause of death Corners say the couple from Newport Beach died of intoxication by a substance not yet determined, but the woman's family said yesterday they think it was carbon monoxide Poisoning officials say the toxicology report could take weeks. There's no initial signs of foul play. Dock workers at the Port
of La have reached a tentative labor contract with specific maritime shippers. The deal covers over twenty two thousand dock workers along the California coast. Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson says getting closer to an agreement provides a sense of security to everyone in the community. It brings peace of mind to businesses to workers to make
sure that they have stability in this port related industry. Across southern California, workers reached the tentative agreement with shippers when day night, let's say it still has to be voted on before it's official. In San Pedro, Chris Adler kf I News, we have ABC's political director Rick Klein on the line. Want to get right to him. He's got a hard out in a few minutes. Good morning, Rick, Hey, great to be with you.
Thank you let's start with Donald Trump and his poll numbers. Let's start there. Any surprise he's still leading for the GUP nomination after all the news last couple of weeks. Well, he's still leading. And I guess that shouldn't be surprised anymore because we've seen this before. We saw it over many many months over the last eight years, but also just since the Manhattandie handed down hus indict when we saw Donald Trump's lead over Ronda Santis from about twenty points
about thirty points in an average of the poll. So I guess at this point we shouldn't be surprised. But I still think there's got to be an element for some shock that there doesn't seem to be anything that permeates that Trump brand. And these are very serious charges. Most people think they're very serious charges, but it doesn't seem to be something that is bringing him down politically.
Let me before we move on to the next topic, just anecdotally speaking, do you look get campaign contributions and pull numbers together or do you do you give more weight to one or the other? Well, I think, I mean they both have limitations. I think you have to look at both sets and numbers as well as you know, other ways. The messaging catches on and recogly that that we're still seven eight months away from the voting starting,
So there's limitations to what we can learn from any of that. There is some reporting out there that Trump may have been considering a deal or at least offered a deal from the DOJ Department of Justice. If that would have played out, would that have been seen his capitulation and that's why he may
have turned that down? Yeah, I mean, I think in one level, that's a pretty predictable movement from we didn't apologize after actless Hollywood or insulting, you know, all manner of people over many many years, decades. Really, I think he would have viewed as a moment of weakness. To me, it's it's kind of the most the most trumpy answer. You can imagine that. You can imagine the lawyer that brings that to him and how
he would write their head off. And he does seem to have sought the advice of people that would tell him what he wanted to hear when it comes to making a possible deal. He seems to have been genuinely surprised by the the verity of the charges, he ended up partying ways with the lawyers that he had previously and now charting a course where the deal that he once might have considered or would have been offered him is no longer operative. Rick,
what do you think about his legal team? Is it usually attorney's lining up to represent a former president and is he having trouble choosing one or is he having trouble fielding a candidate field? Yeah, I mean under normal circumstances, representing a president or a former president is you know, one of the biggest
honors that a lawyer could receive. But the conditions that you're forced to abide by if if you're a Trump lawyer are being considered untenable for a long series of lawyers, going back to Michael Cohen, who broke with him as probably as he did. So the fact that they are, you know, leaving as frequently as they have been, the fact that he's been cycling through them, I guess in one level is top surprising. Okay, Yeah, I
guess that does make sense. And I may have jumped ahead a little bit on this question, But what's on the horizon for president former president Trump right now as far as either politics or legal trouble. Well, he's got both of those. The legal troubles compound. He's got a real problem when it comes to the district attorney in Fulton County. The Jack Smith investigation continues over
his actions out of the round January sixth. Bottom line is, you know he's going to be dealing with a whole lot of political and legal stuff all combined as we have into the political voting season. In the month's ad, Hey, Rick, what do you have coming up this week? On this week on Sunday, I'll be on the show talking about the pole out of this. It's part of our roundtable along with the former Governor Maryland Larry Hogan.
We're all stuck in Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, former prosecutor, who's among the Republicans who's saying this is a very big deal and Republicans have to take this seriously. We'll see how much that catches on. Okay, well let's stay with Asa for a second. I still have you for a minute. So other Governor Hutchinson, excuse me, I don't know
him personally. Other nominees or would be nominees are maybe far back into polls, but are they just is it hurry up in wait situation with them, because if Trump continues to have these obstacles, their opportunity could come. Yeah, I think a lot of them are waiting to see how the field shapes up around that. And also we're thinking, you know, rem publican voters have a long time to start making choices that no one's cast votes yet.
There's a ways to go before that. You want to be the right place at the right time, and some of that involves right now doing some things to soft and Trump up, frankly and to make clear that they don't view him as the right choice outstanding. Thank you for joining us this morning, Rick Best, Thank you. That's ABC's political director Rick Klein. You can catch him Sunday on this week, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A person suspected of setting fires around LA's Fairfax District over the last two months has been arrested. The LA f d's Arson Unit has been investigating garbage set on fire, the burning of discarded furniture, and apartment complex gates and doors being set on fire since last month. A Ford F one fifty pickup was set on fire and
destroyed on South Orange Drive. That was on June seventh. The LAPD has not said what specific fires the person was arrested for late Wednesday night, but police are expected to give more information later today. The FEDS have forced a student loan debt company in Orange County to return more than three point three million dollars in fees. FTC attorney Richard McKean says a legitimate debt relief company is
not going to ask for upfront fees because that's illegal. A legitimate company is also not going to make big promises that they can't keep because everybody's situation is different and there is no one size fits all when it comes to debt issues. McKeen says since twenty fourteen, nearly thirty eight thousand consumers were duped by a ready financial group. Total damages resulted in more than forty three million dollar
judgment, which was suspended because the owners could not pay. Bud Lights dropped from the top of the hops, has been brewing for years. Bud Light had been the number one selling beer in the US for more than two decades, but is now second to Modella Especial. Many attribute bud Lights drop on the boycott by someone. Social media and trans influencer Dillan mulvaney featured a personalized can of bud Lights sent to her, but bud Light sales had been going
down for more than ten years. Its market share went from nineteen percent and twenty ten to just ten percent leading up to the mulvany post on April first. Modello, on the other hand, has had double digit growth in its beer sales and at least thirty five of the past forty years. Michael Crozer KFI News. Spotify is ending its podcast deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Marko. A joint statement from Harry and Meghan's company says they have mutually agreed to
part ways. Twelve episodes ran in the podcast, called Archetypes, which began last August, and a deal estimated to be worth twenty five million dollars. In December, Archetypes was voted Best Podcast at the People's Choice Awards. The BBC reports the Royal couple reportedly failed to meet productivity benchmark required by Spotify,
but that Marco was continuing to develop more content on another platform. Disney Plus will begin debuting newly restored classical Disney shorts that starts next month as part of Disney's centennial celebration. More than two dozen shorts are being restored, dating as far back as nineteen twenty seven, and featuring classic characters of course, like Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and original studio star Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Haven't
seen Oswald in a minute. The first six shorts will hit the streaming service on July seventh, with a new batch released each month through October. And the dog Father has teamed up with Petco for a line of toys, treats, and grooming supplies. It's called Petco Picked by Snoop. The items are already available online, but we'll be in stores nationwide by August. Snoop is promoting the line in a thirty second ad called dog Walks starring Snoop, but
as a Doberman pincher. You'll see Snoop walking around his home talking about how great he feels thanks to Petco. He adds up on Petco's Instagram. Snoop fans may recognize it's the same dog he transforms into for his hit who Am I? What's My Name? The debut thirty years ago this year, Amy King KFI news hit legitim Now. Multiple roots emergency teams do continue to respond to a tornado strike in the Texas Panhandle. Texas Governor Greg Abbot has deployed
state emergency resources following a tornado that devastated the town of Perryton. The storm killed at least three people and has injured at least seventy five. There's a new TikTok bill on Capitol Hill that aims to protect user information. Six senators and two members of the House of Representatives say the Chinese owned app poses serious security risk to the data of Americans. Senators say the bill introduced Wednesday would
stop the app from sending personal information to China. Nuclear facility concerns continue in Ukraine. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says the situation at ukraine Zapperitza nuclear power plant is serious but stabilizing. Russian forces forces have occupied the plants since last year and the IAEA has a team of experts on the site at all times. At five thirty three, Yeah, that's right. Kfi's
Dean Sharp will be with us for some house whispering. Dean is taking us slightly off of our front entrances and moving us too closer to the roads. We can chat about curb appeal, a couple more stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, and then we're gonna talk with Ike from ABC about these ticket fees. But first, LAPD Chief Moore says he's concerned about the continued rise of street takeovers. Moore says the approach could no longer be
just enforcement. It also has to be more holistic to change some of the roadway designs. We have to also look to the role of social media. We have to look to the entertainment industry that glorifies and amplifies this. More told the Police Commission this week, sixteen people died last year from street takeovers, and peer influence for this activity is a big problem, the chief says. More cameras are being installed in popular spots, and there's a bigger effort
to cite not only the drivers, but also the bystanders. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News at the bottom of the hour as a reminder, the kfi's house whisper Dean Sharp is going to be with us, but right now, ABC correspondent Ikejaci is on the line prepping for this chat with you about I was prepping last night about these ticket fees. I noticed that companies are already telling some reporters and news agencies that these ticket prices that they mentioned are
total prices. Is this cultural change already coming in? Are we already seeing some transparency? Well, yeah, there have been efforts in the past to try to rain in these junk sees that these ticket vendors are doing. As a matter of fact, in the state of New York, last year, it became the first state to ban hidden costs for live events. That forced companies like Live Nation and sea Geek to transition to what's being called upfront pricing
for live entertainment there in that state. And yesterday we saw President Biden essentially called the executives from all these vendors, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, even Airbnb to use the power of the bully pulpits per se to tackle these junk fees. So this announcement of this meeting, he had this important part to know. It doesn't necessarily make an effort to reduce the junk fees. It just takes them out of the dark and put them and put them front and center
for the consumer. Bidens still called this upfront pricing as a victory. So as a partisan Live Nation, Ticketmaster seakeeek, they're all going to roll up this upfront all in pricing in September, so Biden these columnessive victories also calling on their competitors to do the same along the same timeline. You know, Live Nation and Ticketmaster have same corporate parents, so if you know, if it walks like oligarchy and smells like oligarchy from the stage, artists from the
Cura to Taylor Swift have called out Ticketmaster. How long has this been going on and why so long to get some kind of resolution to it. Well, it's been going on for quite some time now. These companies Ticketmaster and so on and so forth. They've been able to actually just essentially tack on exorbitant prices for a while. And obviously the performer or the show that you're
going to has really no say on what these vendors can actually do. And we saw that last year when a Ticketmaster site essentially melted down when the demand for those Taylor Swift tickets were so high and in many cases, these fees that are added on by these vendors there's sometimes even more money than the ticket itself. That's been a major complaint to this administration. That's why you're seeing them essentially tackle this right now. But it's also importantly this has been a
long history from the buy the administration of essentially tackling junk fees. If you remember last September of the Department of Transportation, they propose the role requiring airlines and online booking services to show full prices upfront with baggage and other fees.
And also if they inconvenience inconvenience you when for rebooking and things of that nature, they now have to pay you in cash or some or give you some kind of concessions just that they're straining you at airports and things of that nature. So it's just just the next thing inline to this administration in terms of their efforts to tackle these junk fees from several sectors across the economy. Yeah, you're right, you mentioned that, because it's not just concert tickets,
it's airport tickets. And you mentioned Airbnb there too. I've covered Airbnb for for a long time since actually their their IPO and they there's is not virtue signaling, so much. They were trying to be in front of this, but it sounds like they got kind of swept up in it. And so the White House is spinning. This is kind of a kind of a middle
class bottom line, monthly household budget ticket transparency deal, right exactly. You know, President Biden said that this is going to help people who grew up
in areas in which way he grew up. Essentially, you know, my family would have benefited from, you know, these kinds of policies and things of that agre and he tried to really tie that his upbringing as really a beacon, a beacon light for middle class America unless in his whole effort, this entire administration, or at least the policies in which he hoped to enact, was to help tackle these issues that are really pounding the middle class and
that have been for quite some time now. And another thing he did too, we got a look at the credit cards. Actually, you know, back in March, the Consumer Financial Protection Date actually proposed a new rule to slash credit card late fees from roughly thirty bucks on average to eight dollars. I would save a estivating nine billion dollars a year. So I got just another in line of this administration trying to tackle these junk fees. I understand
supply demand, that's fine. Taylor Swift's tickets for Miami are going at twenty six hundred and twenty five dollars. But I noticed last night that Messi's first match in Miami FC is twenty six hundred bucks a seat. He's not even confirmed he's going to go yet. I look, you know, it's funny. He's actually coming to DC here in July. And I looked for the tickets and they're playing Philadelphia the week before at about twenty six dollars the same
seat eight hundred and fifty dollars. So that's the Messi effect in full force, right on, right on. It's a halo effect. So any next official steps that have to happen with this, I know there's an event and everything, and you mentioned that the Biden administration has been working on this four months, if not years. Anything official coming up or is today? Pretty much? This is a done deal. This is what we're going to see
moving forward. Well, this is what we're going to see moving forward essentially, you know, we're going to see these companies all come together and agree to eliminate the surprise factor of these fees per se. But Biden administration they actually want to do more, you know. So essentially, you know, Biden's proposed these new rules targeting a credit card lay fees, airline lodging, and it was an aim to get rid of these extra charges that aren't publicized
clearly. But he's going to step further. He's asking Congress to eliminate hidden fees altogether, and that's through the Junk Seed Prevention app And that would essentially really put the pressure on these private companies to either rein it in or have Congress federally pay to action and help eliminate these seeds, which would directly help the consumer in terms of what is actually what they're actually being in their pocket. Thank you so much, ABC correspondent Ika Josh. You hope you have
a great weekend. You two take care. One quick story before we get to weather in traffic, California Attorney General Rob Bonta says he wants the public to be aware of heightened scams targeting the elderly. He says scammers can cheat older people through call centers, Ponzi schemes, or romantic poise They can be big operations or as small as slipping cash out of our nurses out of our nursing home residence wallet. We've seen it all. Wanta says his own mother
has been fooled by scammers who defrauded her. Officials say if anyone asks for money, don't send it and contact a trusted loved one first. California lawmakers are approving a state budget bill. They voted for the legislature's version ahead of last night's deadline. The bill includes a bailout for transit systems and more money for childcare providers that was not in the original proposal from the governor. Paradise, California, is still the state's deadliest fire. It was in twenty eighteen.
Sixteen people were killed. Paradise is now testing new sirens. The tower system has five sirens built so far, sixteen more are needed. The federal government is giving states nine hundred million dollars to beef up the nation's broadband. Thirty five states and Puerto Rico are part of the program to bring high speed internet to unserved and underserved communities, military bases, and tribal lands, and coming up at five fifty we will raise up some cow positivity. Cows can
help fight climate change, and they can help fight wildfires. We're gonna get into that now, but right now, let's welcome in Dean Sharp. Good morning, Dan. I'm just trying to imagine a cow fighting a wildfire. Just yeah, trying to get that picture in my head. So you're sticking around for this one too, aren't you? Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you got me hooked. Kfi's house, whispered Dean Sharp right there
at the inevitable voice. Let's get a working definition of curb appeal, because I think that's going to be pretty much what we chat about the next few minutes. Curb appeal that is the story that your house starts telling the minute, the moment anybody catches its first glimpse of it. You know, that's curb appeal. That is what the vibe that your house is sending off.
And in terms of Southern California homes as a whole, I would say that we fall into probably well, you know, see, I don't want to say the worst category, because the worst category would sort of be kind of like a rust belt, everything's run down, it's all falling apart kind of a thing. But from a design perspective, certainly my worst category, and that is this, you get three reactions from people typically when they see a
home. Emotional reactions. Either they are moved in a very positive way that's what we're after, or they WinCE like oh jeez, no right. But the by far for a tract home city, which we are, by far, the biggest reaction that people have is no reaction at all, and that for me unacceptable. You know, nobody should look at your home and just fly like yeah, yeah whatever. Mah, And that's what we're trying to get past. A hard man from Dr Mah. All right, well,
let's start fixing the problem. Let's addressed the problem practically speaking. What are one of the first steps anybody can take to up their game when it comes to curb appeal. Well, you know, there are so many things, but the very first thing that everybody needs to do is to learn how to see their house again. And I don't mean just you know, oh yeah, Dean, there it is okay, I see it. No, No, no, I mean I mean really see your house. We all are
house blind to a certain degree to the houses that we live in. In other words, we just get so used to it. They're just part of our flow. We stop really looking and noticing what's going on with them. That's something as a designer, when I come out to your house to consult, I sometimes will spend an inner noor amount of time just kind of staring at things until I really start to see and understand what are all the components that are playing into for instance, curb appeal. For instance, you know,
most people kind of ignore their roofs. They're like, yeah, the roof is the roof, and there it is. Roofs take up a good third of the visual span of anybody's home. That's a lot. That's a good head of hair or the absence of a good head of hair on top of a person's head. So it's those kinds of things. Now when it comes to things that you know are affordable, things that to make a lot
of bang for the buck. Now we're talking about things like, for instance, most tracked home owners live in what we call a garage forward house, meaning you know, the garage is closer to the street than anything else. The garage door just this big old surface sticking out there, and yet a lot of people are just like, you know, yeah, I just got the white garage door with the little windows at the top and those little weird yellowing frames, and you know, there it is. It's my garage door.
What are you gonna do, Well, what you're gonna do is come to a realization that if you really want to transform the front of that home, you got to understand that your garage door in that situation is really your primary door, not the front door that you are more tempted to spend eight
or ten thousand dollars on. Spend money on a gorgeous special garage door because it's three times larger than the front door, and it's twice as close to the street, and so it is a much much larger component of curb appeal. Okay, fine, button so old a couple of houses in Houston. The realtor there told me you don't want any front loaders. That's all. They refer to those with the garage forwards. Exactly. Yes, let's not
sleep on the front door though, before we jump to another one. I mean, the front door can't have an impact, right because I know there's Instagram feeds dedicated to front doorways. Oh yeah, yeah, front doors are great. I mean, you know, front doors should have a certain drama to them. The job of a front door also not only to be that first portal that people enter through, but also from the street, to really kind of set a hierarchy of attention, like look at me, this is
where you're going. It should direct you in, call you in. Tim Conway asked me last night should we all paint our front door some funky, loud color, And the answer is no, we shouldn't all do that. But if you have the kind of house style, if the architectural DNA of your home would allow for such, I'm all for it. I'm all for going bold with the front door so that you know, it really pops and becomes a focal point of people's attention. By the way, here's a little
quiz, doctor Middleton. You know what the you know where the tradition of painting the front door, you know bright red actually comes from Ireland? Uh and meaning what, Dean, I don't know, I just know it was Ireland. Well, actually it was Scotland, but your cart okay, it's Celtic. But we we brought it to the States, and you know what it was in the in the early colonies, painting your front door red was a symbol that you had paid off your mortgage, that you owned your home
free and clear. It was. It was loud and proud declaration that I own this house. And uh and I think that's just really cool. Yeah, that is cool. Uh. And also, speaking of Conway, it's not the first time he and I disagreed on something important. Like the front door. Um, mine's international orange. By the way, what's what's the landmark that's international orange? Dean sharp the landmark. Yeah, there's a landmark in the United States. It's international orange. Oh, I know, you
got me Golden gate Bridge. Oh okay, Yeah, let's go to softscaping, herdscaping and landscaping. Okay, yes, because those are things that are within usually a household budget, and you can those are attainable goals. Yeah, most people have too much hardscape in their front yard. In other words, people get a little crazy with the paving and the driveways and so on. Our own beloved boss here at KFI, Robin Bertolucci, she had me out a few years ago. Is that had me staring at the front of
her house. She's like, what's wrong with this place? And I'm like, your driveways too big? And she said, well, I got a three car garage right there. I said, yeah, you need a three car garage at the garage doors, but you don't need three car widths at the street way way too much pavement, and so we actually trimmed it back one car entry, spreading out into what, you know, whatever she needed as far as access in That allowed us to move more landscaping, more color,
more beauty, more softscape into the scenario. And you know, everybody's home, no matter what size it is, could use a critical eye like that. More landscape and more up and down landscape. Everybody thinks, you know, two dimensionally when it comes to their landscape, and they think law and they're like forward backwards, left, right, But more contours, more three dimensionality in the front yard creates better space and destination to the house.
Dean, let's remind everybody. I have one more question, but let's remind everybody when and where they can hear you this weekend. This weekend, Saturday mornings from six to eight and Sunday nine to noon, we're doing curb Appeal both days and we're taking time for extra calls this weekend. Very cool. At the top of this interview, you mentioned reassess your curb appeal. But
that doesn't mean just necessarily during the daytime right absolutely. In fact, if you have a super limited budget, the one thing you can do to make a radical change to your home for at least half the time that it's sitting there in the dark is lighting. Low voltage. Lighting is incredibly inexpensive. It's low voltage, which means you can do it yourself totally. You're not going to get shocked. And at nighttime, when there is no sun out,
you have complete theatrical control of your home. Even an ugly home can look great at night depending on what you choose to light. You don't have that same option in the day when the sun is exposing everything. But at night, just like in a theater on a stage, you're the director, and most people in southern California miss out on the opportunity to dramatically light their homes at night. Very cool, Dean Sharp, This is always a pleasure.
I'll be listening this weekend, so the rest of us. Thanks, Buddy house Whist. We're a Dean Sharp right there. Always with some pro tips and you don't have to pay, you know. Robin Bertolucci prices to have Dean, you can just listen in on KFI. Secretary of State Antony B. Lincoln heads to Beijing this weekend for a high level diplomatic trip. It could pave the way for a meeting later this year for a President Biden
and President Jijin Ping. Pope Francis has returned to the Vatican after being discharged from Rome's Jamelle Hospital. The eighty six year old Pope was recovering from abdominal surgery and he left the hospital in a wheelchair. Or today on the line with this is mister Frank Fitzpatrick. Welcome in, Frank, good morning. I've seen you referred to as the last cowboy of Orange County. That's great branding, first of all, but how would you refer to yourself? What
what title do you give yourself. I'm a cowman right on. I raised the sail grass fed beef and we do holistic plant grazing and we try to sell it and get kettle out on ground in Orange County like the ghat people do. Right on. I've seen the goat people when I lived in the Bay Area. I saw them often on the side of the roads. Let's go back to the holistic grazing. What does that exactly mean? Be in
a nutshell, you're trying to run cows like god round buffalo. What the human element does is you're replacing pack predator for a human and you jail them up. What you're doing is you're putting them in a small area of a ranch for a very short period of time and then moving them. Do you ever see dances with wolves? Okay, the morning after the buffalo hunt, when they walked out and looked at the ground was all turned up. Yeah,
I went back. Okay. And that's how you plant new grass, and that's how you get an even start so that your native at plants have as good a chance to go as your non natives. Oh okay, all right, cool natural cycle, just urge. What happens is cows are selective grazers. Okay, they're trying to keep a nine point two percent protein level in the room, and and they will eat that selectively until you run out of it. So they will eat your very best plants until it eats them
out. So by making them stay in one spot for a small time, you get a larger coverage of grass and browsed plants eaten, and then you move on. Hey, Frank, you mentioned the words small, which is a relative term, and you're a rancher. What is small when it comes to ranching, Well, it depends if you've got nine hundred acres something around twelve. Okay, if you have fourteen thousand acres, probably twenty five.
I live in southern California. Fourteen thousand acres seems like an entire state's worth of land. But let's move on. To go ahead, lady, three thousand acres in the airline ranch that's not built upon in Orange County? What about? What about they've got two hundred and thirty thousand ungraced acres. Oh, it sounds like a market opportunity for someone like yourself. What about these
fires? What about the firefighting angle of this eating up fuel? Cows eating up fuel that could be used later on when it gets dryer this year in the first year, Oh okay, what happened? Second year? You put? Okay, if you put if you started greeting program like I did with the twelve roads, we started in February, and we ate turn them out.
And that was a joke on that piece because the whole thing was ten to twelve foot hot mustard when I got there, So the February grazing, which should have been green grass, was mostly dry sticks and stuff, and I actually had to feed the cattle on that piece just to maintain the nutrition there. The second one after then, we were on there for less than thirteen days. We moved cattle off, ran them on my rants, came back in April and grazes again. This time with all the big sticks and
stocks down. We were able to get the catgory will eat some green feed, and then we got off of it. And then we come back at the end of the year in the dry season and eat it off down, which that's the grazing that reduces the fire hazard. We're speaking with Frank Fitzpatrick. He's a rancher and in Orange County. A Frank just this morning from our newsroom, I want to read you a couple of sentences of a story that I haven't been able to read just yet. California has seen a lot
of wild mustard growth following all the rain. We've had. Officials say the plant is super flammable, so as temperatures start to warm up, it could be a problem. How would you address that problem? Number One, cows will eat the flour and the late to leave, they leave the stem and the only way you get the stems down is animal impact. You trample it. I see, okay, all right, fair enough. Any are some cows better at this kind of work? Or is this it's just natural for
every undulate you have? Well, I have a specific breed of highly adaptable, environmentally adapted cattle. I gotta hurd of Barzona's. Okay are you okay? Yeah? Go ahead, Please describe what that what it is like. Well, they're a medium red cow colways about nine to fifty outside bulls around twelve to fifty. Now, they got horns, they got sloped and groups.
They have an ancestor an africaner that came from the old board cow in South Africa, and they were indigenous to the Transveld, which is just exactly like our great basin. Sounds perfect, Frank, take thank you so much for your time this morning. Great work. We'll check in with you when it gets closer to fire season. Thank you very much. Absolutely, good morning, Frank Fitzpatrick from Orange County. Right there, here's some whiplash news.
Artificial intelligence generates real and clickbait headlines for news shows social media feeds, but Google is taking a stand on AI for its daily work in the office. This morning, Google is asking its own employees to curb their use of generative AI chat bots, even as it continues to further promote its own called Bard that's its competitor to the other one you've heard of, chat GPT, the tech giant. Google has asked its own employees to not enter confidential information
into the chat bots. This according to Reuters for People familiar with the matter have reported this in different agencies. Actually, Alphabet is the parent company of Google and has also asked engineers to not use compute code that is generated by the chat bots, which is one of the features that they sold us on at the beginning of the year. With this keeping an eye on that,
it's also going to come up and handle on the news. Federal authorities say last month's ocean temperatures were the highest ever recorded for the month of May. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric administ made the announcement Thursday yesterday and said some regions we're experiencing ocean surface temperatures up to seven degrees higher than average for this time
of year. Scientists attribute the ocean warming to several factors, including human caused climate change and the developing El Nino event, and last year's underwater volcanic eruption that was in the South Pacific. The US has sent a nuclear powered submarine to South Korea, a day after North Korea resumed missile tests in protest of US South Korean drills. The USS Michigan is one of the biggest submarines in
the world and can carry about one hundred and fifty Tomahawk missiles. Military official state they are trying to boost their special operations and ability to deal with the growing nuclear threats from the North Korea. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up
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