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Hour 3 (8.28) A postcard mailed 26 years ago finally landed. Plus the gas pump nozzle still running on your dime, and the four-bedroom house near Taft High that wants to become 71 units. 8:05 — The pump scam worth knowing before your next fill-up: the nozzle can still be live from the last customer, so you swipe and buy their gas. Then the postcard that took 26 years to arrive, mailed during a vacation by parents who are gone now. Conway says he got a sign from his dad last night. 8:20 — Pumpkin spice fatigue has arrived and matcha is taking the season. Starbucks says there are more than 170,000 ways to customize a drink; outside estimates put the total combinations somewhere around 300 billion. What's your order, and more importantly, what name do you give them? Folgers remains the best part of waking up. 8:35 — Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields hits Great Park Saturday with Stevie Nicks as a special guest — Crozier caught her at SoFi. Then Woodland Hills, where Akhilesh and Janet Jah want to turn a four-bedroom, three-bath house on Del Moreno Drive, across from Taft High School, into a 71-unit senior living facility with a cafeteria and medical office. Eight low-income units, no parking, inside an LAFD fire zone. Planning commissioners approved most of the variances and said state housing law ties their hands. Neighbors say they'll fight it the whole way. Which leads to a bigger question about why everyone seems to be throwing down lately. 8:50 — Staying in the Valley: residents fed up with a sidewalk leak that will not stop running. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

