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This is your wake up call for Friday, July twelfth. I'm Amy
King. Good morning. Happy to have you along. We've got lots going
on, of course, the Big press conference, the Big Boy Press Conference,
lots of fallout from that. You know that Bill's going to be talking
about that. We're going to be talking about that with Stephen Portnoy in just
a couple of minutes, and so much more ahead today on wake up call,
I gotta tell you, I'm a little bit depressed today. So I
have my Apple Watch and it tells me, oh, Amy, you reached
your activity goal. Ooh, you moved enough today, you stood enough,
you exercised. I told you I broke my toe while I was on vacation.
I'm not moving a lot right now. And so every day my watch
tells me, oh, you didn't close any rings yesterday. You could still
do it though. A brisk twenty two minute walk will get you there.
And I'm just like, no, I can't I can't walk. My doctor
told me it's going to be six weeks, So I got like five weeks
to go. And in the meantime, I'm being exercise shamed by my watch.
Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. President Biden says, while there
are other people who could beat Trump, it's awfully hard to start from scratch.
His comments in response to a reporter's question about whether he should pass the
torch and get out of the twenty twenty four presidential campaign. We're going to
find out more about what he said at his press conference yesterday and whether it's
enough to quiet the calls for him to get out of the race, with
ABC Stephen Portnoye in about five minutes. Former President Trump's legal team has asked
a judge to throw out the guilty verdict in his New York hush money case.
The team based the request on the Supreme Court's recent ruling that defines when
a former president is immune from prosecution. In Mayor, jury found Trump guilty
of thirty four counts of falsifying business records in making hushpuney money payments to adult
film actress Stormy Daniels. Police in Santa Anna say they have identified the person
seen in a video throwing a live firework at a dog over the Fourth of
July weekend. The firework exploded in the dog's face. That chow chow named
Romeo, was burned and bleeding, but is now doing well. Billy say
they'll ask the DA to charge the guy with animal cruelty and having explosives.
If you're headed to the beach to beat the heat, you might not want
to dig any holes in the sand after you hear this. We're going to
be talking with the guy known as doctor Beach in about twenty minutes and later
this hour, ABC's Jason Nathanson was dead on on Horizon. Also, we're
going to find out if he's to the moon over Scarlett Johanson's new movie.
At six o five, it's handle on the news. The three hundred and
twenty million dollar pier that was built by the US military off the coast of
Gaza to get relief to the Palestinians is being dismantled. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
woman accused of stealing from the same store thirty times is due in court in
Long Beach. Police say she started ripping off of TJ Max last September.
She was on probation for theft during five of the alleged crimes. A local
attorney is facing a state bar hearing over an alleged bribery screen scheme at the
LA Department of Water and Power. The California State Bar alleges attorney Bill Thunderburke
violated rules by asking for free legal service from the owner of a company seeking
a contract from the led WP board. Thunderbirk was on the board at the
time amid a sweeping bribery scandal consuming the utility. The thirty million dollar no
bid contract was sought by attorney Paul Parodis, who was also working both sides
of a class action lawsuit involving rate payers and the city. Thunderbirk's state bar
hearing is set for next month, as attorney says he'll be cleared of the
charges. In downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News, the lead detective in
the fatal shooting of cinematographer Helena Hutchins in New Mexico, is set to testify
in Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial. Prosecutors are trying to cast Baldwin as reckless.
The defense says he was just an actor doing his job. Prosecutors may
also call the film's armorer to the stand, but a lawyer for Hannah Gutierra's
Reid says she'll plead the fifth if she's called to the stand. Gutierra's Reid
is already serving an eighteen month sentence for involuntary manslaughter. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the President held his first press conference
since November, and while his goal may have been to talk about the NATO
summit and accomplishments, everyone else was looking to see if he's fit to run
for another term. How'd he go? Well, look, the bar is
pretty low. So the President last night gave an hour long news conference where
he spoke at length about the contours of foreign policy and relationships with the NATO
leaders and the new Ukraine Compact and China and Gaza and a whole bunch of
other issues. But he also referred to his running mate as vice President Trump.
Yeah, and that happened right out of the gate. Uh huh,
and earlier he referred to his friend Vladimir Zelinski as president putin now now,
look, Joe Biden's been known as a gaff machine for decades, So the
idea that he would say such things, and you know, in the broader
context, it's less big of a deal. But in the immediate moment,
the question about his age and acuity, well, it certainly got a lot
of attention and was eyebrow raising, But the headline is the president stood.
He spoke it for an hour. He spoke at times haltingly and slowly,
but also fluidly in an area where he feels extremely comfortable, and that's foreign
policy. He called on ten reporters and each one of them asked a variation
on the question of whether he can serve another four years in office, and
he says that he can. He says he's got a long way to go
in the campaign. He's just going to keep moving. He says, he
knows it's important that he allayed fears of Democrats, but let them see me
out there, he says. He goes to Michigan today for a rally.
Why is he's staying in the readies because he says he's got to finish the
job because there's so much at stake. Could Kamala Harris replace him, No,
he says, unless they came back to him and said there's no way
you can win. But he said, nobody's saying that. No poll is
saying that, And he did that with that weird whisper too well right now,
So right, the question was that right exactly? And he asked about
the delegates and he goes, if they show up at the convention and want
somebody else, that's the democratic process. But it's not going to happen right
now. Look, the problem for the president is that he's wrong what he
says, that nobody's saying that he can't win, because increasingly people are saying
that he can't win. And that's the trouble for Biden. As many as
seventeen House Democrats this morning have come out saying that he should step out of
the race. Yeah, a guy from one of the representative from San Diego
added his name to the chorus yesterday. All right, well, there you
have it. And now look the fact is Joe Biden is dugging it,
digging in deeper, and it seems to be we're ending the week where we
began it with a president on Monday put out a two page letter insisting he's
not going to drop out. He went on Mourning Joe and angrily, defiantly
insisted that everyone else should just stay quiet and get over it. Five days
later, on Friday, he is just as defiant, And now he goes
to Michigan for a rally on Monday. He'll sit down with Lester Holt on
NBC, just as the Republican's convene in Milwaukee. And there's a bit of
a stalemate now in the Democratic Party as increasingly members of Congress are urging him
to step aside, key donors are urging him to step aside. Pundits keep
talking about it, and the President says, no, he's not going.
And right after the press conference it also there was rumblings that former President Obama
and former Speaker Pelosi got together and had a little huddle about this. I
think the fact that so far we've not heard from senior Democratic leaders that the
conversation is over and should end and everyone should get behind Biden is telling.
But at the end of the day, and this is the practical reality we've
been talking about all week, even as the drumbeat has gotten a bit louder.
It's up to Joe Biden, and Joe Biden seems to have decided he's
not dropping out all right, And as you just mentioned, we're going to
shift over to the Republican National Convention next week, and we've put in the
request to talk to you. I know you're going to be a man in
demand next week, but hopefully we'll get to check in with you from Milwaukee
a couple of times at least during the convention. More stimulating talk radio.
Yes it is, Yes it is. Thank you so much, Stephen Porteno.
You have a wonderful week and our weekend, and hopefully we'll talk to
you next week in Milwaukee. You've bet you're listening to Wake Up Call on
demand from KFI Am six forty. Got your coffee at your breakfast, Chill
out for just a minute. We've got a really fun conversation coming up in
just a minute that just could save your life. Too very important stuff.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Biden has
defended his decision to stay in the presidential race, saying during his press conference
yesterday that NATO leaders have told him during the NATO summit that he must defeat
former President Trump. He says he's the most qualified person to strengthen NATO to
protect US allies, including Ukraine. Police are looking for a person who's been
shooting projectiles at pedestrians near the Ventura Pire. A woman says she was hit
in the neck last weekend with something that looked like a paintball or a gumball.
A dozen other people have come forward on social media saying it's happened to
them too over the past year. Several of them say they saw a white
pickup drive away after they were shot. A new study from the American Cancer
Society says half of cancer deaths among American adults thirty and over are linked to
bad behavior. The society says these behaviors that people can modify include smoking,
drinking, diet, and not being vaccinated. Thirty percent of cancer deaths are
tied to smoking. At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Biden's gaff Field press conference. Was it enough to quiet the growing course of
calls for him to get out of the presidential race? Right now, let's
say good morning to professor of Coastal Science at Florida International University Stephen Leatherman,
also known as Doctor Beach Hei Stephen Primaire. So we've all done it.
You go to the beach, and this weekend might be a really great weekend
to go to the beach because it's super stupid hot here in southern California,
but it's going to be decentto the beaches. And you get the family together
and you all start digging a big old hole. But Doctor Beach, that
could be a really bad and dangerous thing. So we're we want you to
kind of share with us why digging holes can be dangerous. Well, we
start off of the hole in the ground. You know, the sand is
very loose, but just get down a ways. You can notice this little
moist and you can a vertical hole and it's really cool. You can keep
digging, digging, but as it starts to dry out, you know,
just going over cold. Then as the sand dries out, it don't start
collapse, but it won't do it gradually. It happens all of a sudden,
and that can beary you in deep, deep sand and it's an awful
way to die. Okay, So then let's get into the nitty gritty of
that because the ground collapsing and you can get trapped and buried pretty quickly.
So like explain to us exactly, like what happens in the sand is so
dangerous because they know, like people get in an avalanche and they can survive
for quite a while, but that's snow, but they're still buried. But
it's a different kind of buried. Well, that's right. Snow barreal can
also kill you, but you can get air pockets, and snow is not
It's pretty light and you can stay there for some time until people can rescue
you. But and it doesn't feel all the way around. You can have
air pockets. That doesn't happen with sand. Sand just flows and once it's
dry, flows and feels in every space and you have no air on whatsoever.
And it's very heavy. I means, you know, snow is light.
Sand one foot of sand above you. You know, one cubic foot
of sand weighs one hundred pounds, so you're gonna be onder a foot of
sand. You just can't get out. And I've tried it. One day,
I did. I was involved in a person who died in a sand
hole and they bury me up, not my head fortunately, and I foot
of sand on top of me laying down. I couldn't get out of it,
so my face was covered. I'd be dead. So it's so dangerous,
but it looks so innocent, and sand is fun and won't people have
fun? But you should never dig a hole deeper than two feet. I'm
sorry. I know people like to dig down the water or whatever, but
it's a very bad idea. And too many people die in sandholes. Something
like thirty one people died in ten years in the United States. And so
more people are don sandhole viarial than sharks by far, see something that we
don't normally think about because shark bites obviously get all the attention. And you
mentioned not deeper than two feet, so you can dig, just don't take
it to the extremes because I've seen people like who have dug holes and it's
practically up to their heads. Ooh no, no, that's scary. Just
me to think about that now, it's just too scary. So again,
sand will dry out, it seems perfectly fine, and suddenly it can collapse
on its own, or somebody walks up to the edge of the whole boom,
the whole thing falls in and once you get in the sand, people
try to dig you out. As people try to dig you out, more
sand falls on top of you. So it's it's just a total trap because
it's not solid like dirt, because the sand moves so much, exactly,
it's not like dirt, which sticks together. The sand is individual grains,
and they fill in all space and people are buried like that. When they
try to breathey're actually breathing the stand in. We found it in their lungs,
you know, when they oh my gosh, this is we're we're going
to try to keep this leave lighter. But it's a serious subject. So
but so say you are at the beach and you see somebody and a hole
has collapsed on them. How do you rescue them? Well, uh,
probably will no more than two or three people, and you lay down with
you you know, so you put don't put all the weight on the edge
and think us move the stand out as quickly as you can because time is
everything. And people behind you move that stand out of the way and try
to uncover the head so you can can get air. But and then of
course some's god called nine one while you're lifeguards get them coming in those lifeguards
are pretty good. They're very good to help you. So uncover the head
obviously, then try to dig further down, but do not cave it in
further because that's the problem is your weight will cave in the whole as well.
Okay, And I thought that was a good tip where you said to
lay down. It's kind of like when you're on thin ice. If you
lay down and spread yourself out, it's not all the weight concentrated in one
space. Perfect analogy, perfect analogy. Okay, So the happy news is
you can go to the beach, you can have fun. You can still
go digging, just don't do too deep. And I heard you mentioned like
up to the knees. Is it kind of a good Yeah, that's a
good that's a good measure. That's a good measure. And just never and
also people like to bury each other. Just don't bury people's heads. Okay,
please don't do that. You'd think that that would be a given,
but you know, I know, but they do and they can be very
tragic. So you know, you can bury someone but not their head and
we'll be fine and everybody have fun. Okay, And doctor Beach, why
did you get interested in sharing the word about this. Oh, we had
a seven year old girl from Indiana came down to Florida with their parents on
vacation. She and her brother digging the holes, and well it collapsed and
he got out and she they couldn't get her out, and a beautiful little
seven year old girl perish. I mean, we just can't have that happening.
So she spread the word. And if you see one people dugging holes,
tell them it's dangerous, and you know, have fun at the beach.
Sand some magical stuff. I love sand, but we got it respect.
Sand is a different substances. We're not used to how it behaves,
and it can be very dangerous. It's just like you know, you wouldn't
want to get down a quicksand, would you. Okay, this isn't quicksand,
but it can kill you too. Okay, we will take that warning
and we will heat it because, like I mentioned, a lot of people
are probably heading into the beach this weekend, so because it's so darn hot
here. Stephen Leatherman, doctor Beach, thank you so much for the information.
You just might have saved a life today, I hope, so you
too, All right, take care You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand
from KFI Am six forty. Let's say good morning now to the host of
Home on KFI. It's our very own Dean Sharp morning, Dean morning,
Amy, How you doing good? You know what we call your show the
Home on KFI, not House on KFI because there's a big difference. That's
absolutely right. There's a big, big difference in fact, you know what,
To be quite honest with you, I started out my career as a
house designer, a custom house designer, and we made a transition, a
very conscious one along the way to do home design now. I know for
a lot of people that's like, yeah, what's the difference, man,
There actually is a huge difference when it comes to the people who are living
in the place at the end. So that's all we do now is custom
home design. And the difference between the two is really simply this. A
house is a physical shelter. You know, there's a roof over your head,
it keeps you dry when it's wet outside, keeps you warm when it's
cold outside, and vice versa. But a home is all about emotional shelter.
And I mean that in all seriousness. I don't mean for that to
sound overly philosophical, I'll just give you an example that I gave Conway last
night. You know, I can give you a floor and four walls,
and a place to sleep and a place to eat, and you know,
a place to go to the bathroom, and there you go. You have
a shelter that could very well be a prison cell. What I just described,
I mean, it doesn't have to be anything other than a prison cell.
So that's the physical requirements, the bare physical requirements. That's what a
house, just a structure, can provide. But a home everything beyond,
when you imagine something better than a prison cell, everything beyond that is in
a change that is suited towards your emotional structure. In other words, the
pattern on the floor, the color of the walls, the shape and size
of the windows, and so on and so forth. That is all there
to touch our emotions. And that's what makes a home homie. So that
leads us to two questions. One, what is the your story of home?
Which is a question that I absolutely love sitting down with our clients and
figuring out, because everybody's story of home is different. And then okay,
yeah, we're gonna stop at one for a second. So when you ask
that question, I mean, do they stare at you blankly? I mean
because if you said that to me, I mean I'd probably stare at you
blankly as I tried to figure it out. But what kind of answers do
you get? Well, you know what we Here's what we do. I
understand that it's a it's a weird question that most people have never been asked
before. But I asked things like this. I said, when you think
of home, you think of what finished the sentence right now, I'll ask
you when you think of home, what are the first things that come to
your mind? I mean, see again, I'm going to give you that
blank scare stare because it's so many things like it's I mean, is it
It's a place that I want to be. It's a place where I feel
comfortable. It's a place where I feel safe. It's a place where I
want to welcome others in. Gotcha great? So that's kind of I mean,
that's that's not the physical part. But that's no, it's not it's
not. Yeah, and we ask questions like I mean, literally, Tina
and I spend here's the thing when we do a consult a design console for
someone, kind of a vision casting console. It takes about three hours.
We spend the first hour of that console just interviewing our clients about home to
that their life, their lifestyle. I ask questions like, you know,
how do you want this home to be different than the one that you grew
up in? Uh? Some people there you go, you see see what
I'm saying that Now things start to come out. I asked the question,
what does home feel like to you? What does it look like to you?
People say, oh, well, home feels like you kind of answered
that it feels like a place where it's welcoming, It's I just want to
be it's safe. Some people say I just want to be wrapped up.
Some people say I just want these the sense of space, I need my
space and vista. Other people, uh, you know, describe it as
warm, other people describe it as exciting. Create. I mean, just
on and on and on. And what we do is we put together this
emotional picture of what home for you really really should look like, and then
we get to the tough task of then translating that into using the language of
design to build that kind of emotional picture around you. That's the difference between
any old, unremarkable house and a person who is living truly in their home.
Okay, and then I cut you off because I made you stop before
you got to point number two. Did you get to point number two?
Well? Point number two is this how do we get that house to tell
that story of home that you're developing in your head and the way we do
that and this is the fun part. There's language in design styles. You
know, we talk about, oh a style of house, like I love
craftsmen, I love Spanish. Those are kind of pre written stories that have
emotional meanings to people. Fixtures have emotional meanings to people. The difference between
a contemporary tub and a claw put tub, there's an emotional attachment there.
Somehow. Shapes have emotional meanings right square if you take the look at the
language or like the font that I said, they're very blocky and square and
solid because the intention is for you to look at that and say, oh,
this is a solid, strong, safe place to put my money.
Whereas an investment company will usually use angles and triangles because they're like shooting off
into the distance and its growth and it's dynamic and its movements, so all
of these kinds of things are the tools of a designer's trade, where we
take the emotional state that you're looking for in a room or space or the
house as a whole, and we start applying this kind of language to it,
and in the end, if we do it right, we end up
with something where the house is telling your story of home. Okay, now,
knowing that for everybody who's listening to you right now, all of their
stories are going to be a little bit different, but yes, I'm going
to say that when you first get to a place or there's some houses that
you go into and like even a lot of the really modern, super beautiful
homes don't feel like home to me because they're not personal. You know.
So if somebody is looking to maybe tweak their house a little bit and make
it a little more like a home, are there a couple of like surefire
trips or tricks that you can you know, start that journey. Yes,
yeah there are. So you know, again, when you walk into a
house like that and you feel like it's cold or impersonal, what really what
your brain is telling you is you don't see yourself overlaying onto that space,
right You don't see your stuff in there, it just doesn't for something about
it isn't speaking to you. So when you start with your own home,
the big question is how do we move it from where it is to something
that is more you? And probably the easiest part is to move through the
house and start looking at things that you just don't feel comfortable with or that
you've never liked, and then getting to the point of asking the question,
why why don't I like this thing? That usually is the first clue towards
the thing that you're actually trying to get at with your house. Okay,
And I need to do that because you know how I said less clutter,
because my mom is she has more stuff than anybody. I know. It's
all meticulously organized, but she has so much stuff that I have to make
conscious decisions not to put that much stuff out. And I tend to do
it because I'm her daughter exactly. So yeah, I need to cull the
stuff. Tina has the same feeling. She has had kind of the opposite
reaction for herself. Her mom has so much stuff that it really is kind
of cluttery. It feels that way to her. Tina just wants to constantly
purge, purge, purge, purge, we have too many things, and
maybe she should come over to my house exactly. We'll get you guys together.
Yeah, I'll make it happen. But yeah, but see there is
the first clue. There is the definition of like how you want your home
to look different than the home that you grew up in. Okay, And
you can find out more about how to make your house into a home with
Home with Dean Sharp. And it's coming up this weekend six to eight tomorrow
morning and then nine to noon on Saturday. You're going to be talking about
this all weekend. Yeah, we're going to be talking about the psychology of
how your home matches up with your brain and your emotions. And then also
you know what all these tools mean, the textures, the landscapes, the
materials, and what emotional meaning we assign to them, so that you can
start looking at some of those things and say, hey, maybe I need
a little bit more of this in my house. All right, Dean Sharp,
thank you so much. Thanks Amy, we'll talk to you next week.
All right, you're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jason Nathanson, Jason,
looks like you were dead on in not being excited about Kevin Costner's new movies.
Uh yeah, nobody really was, and the box office certainly was not.
And when it opened This is Horizon in American Saga Part one, it
opened to eleven million dollars I think opening weekend, which is not great given
it's ae hundred million dollar movie that he put thirty eight million dollars reportedly of
his own money into and trying to finance this whole thing. So now we
had Part two that was supposed to be out August sixteenth. That is not
the case. They have delayed that while they put this movie on paid video
on demand next week to try to get some of that older audience that didn't
turn out in the theaters to go see it, to maybe rent it on
streaming and watch it the three hour movie at home because they didn't want to
go to the theater to see the three hour movie. But also the three
hour movie just was not that good. So we'll see what happens. Part
two. You'll see eventually at some point if it's in theaters, I don't
know, it might be straight to streaming. Parts three and four that's a
little more up in the air. Have they been made yet? Know they
haven't. Oh, okay, so one and two are made. The other
ones are just kind of correct. They were. I think they had started
on part three. I don't know how far they got. I know that
they were due to get back into production on that sometime soon. So I
don't know how much of part three has been done already, but whether or
not we see parts three and four not looking likely at this point, but
we'll see. It's like a series. It gets canceled, yeah, exactly
in the middle. So and you said it's three hours. It's long,
but refresh my memory on why it just like why it's not a really good
movie? Three hours in one minute, by the way, over three hours?
I mean, is the story bad? Is the acting bad? Well,
the story's kind of all over the place. It's this it's described as
an epic Western, and that's what it is. It's about the expansion of
the US into the into the West during the Civil War, and it tells
all these different stories. There's like five six different stories. So Kevin Costner
is one of the stars, but he has one story and then you know,
he's kind of an outlawed kind of guy, and then you have a
story of a wagon train and the families on that train, and then a
story of another family, and so there's a bunch of different stories. It
just it does not it does not feel cohesive as of right now, which
it's not supposed to because again, it was supposed to be four parts,
so the whole thing isn't coming together yet. And that's why when I did
rate it, I didn't give it a number at the time because I wanted
to see it as a whole. I thought that was the most fair way
to give it a rating. But it also feels like maybe it should have
been a series, because if part one is three hours, you figure the
other parts so that you're looking at twelve total hours. That's a series.
And that's what it sounds like to me. Yeah, and maybe that's how
it should have been conceived. But you know, Kevin Costner is an old
school movie star and director. He makes movies for the big screen, and
you wanted to put it up there, and you know, I had no
problem with that. Just maybe it was a little too ambitious and the story
itself, it just didn't feel like anything new, you know, Yellowstone which
of course he was a huge part of, and he kind of left basically
in order to do this. Yellowstone reinvigorated the American Western, which is a
genre I think it's I don't know that it's dying, but it's going out
of fashion for sure, and here and there I think it works. But
we've seen a lot of these stories before, so it's kind of been done
to death. Yeah, so if you're gonna do this, you got to
do something new, and Horizon just wasn't something new. Huh. Well,
I maybe I'll rent it, sure, because you have you have forty eight
hours once you rent it, right, so I don't You wouldn't even have
to sit and watch the whole thing all at once. Yeah. Okay,
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum have a new movie out today. Did it Send
You Over the Moon? Yeah? This is called Flymate of the movie.
It is a kind of traditional throwback romantic comedy, the kind we don't see
a whole lot of these days, and if we do see them, they
tend to go straight to streaming. And this is an Apple TV Plus movie,
so eventually it will be streaming there. And the basic premise is it's
set against the backdrop of the Apollo eleven moon landing mission. So this is
set in the sixties. Channing Tatum plays the launch director for NASA, and
Scarlett Johansson's character is brought in. She's an advertising executive and she's brought in
to help get public sentiment back on the side of NASA and also get funding
in Congress for it, and also kind of put a little pizzazz and wow
in there. And Woody Harrelson's character, he plays a kind of political fixer
for Nixon who comes in and says, look, Okay, this has to
work because we're in a we're in a war with the Russians on getting to
the moon. So whether it works or not, it's gonna work. So
they film a secret moon landing that they can put in in case the mission
doesn't work. So kind of giving credit to all those conspiracy theories about fake
moon landings and stuff like that, which I think is interesting. Although the
story gets a little bit off the rails said several turns, but Scarlett Johansson
and Channing Tatum prove once again why they are movie stars and not just actors.
They are movie stars. Their chemistry is great. You love watching them,
especially her, and I really liked them together. They elevate this movie,
I think above what it might have normally been. It's a seven point
one out of ten for me. I liked it. You could wait for
streaming, you don't have to rush out to the theater to see it.
But if you don't go to the theater to see it, we're gonna get
less and less of these movies in theaters. So you know, be careful,
Jason, Well, yeah it is, you know, because I love
a good rom com, right, and the problem here is now and this
was a pretty expensive one to mate. This was also reported one hundred million
dollars not gonna make its budget back. But that's okay because Apple TV plus
their business model is not necessarily about making money in theaters. They want to
get you to subscribe and watch their service, so I don't think they're as
they don't care as much about the bottom line, but to get these movies
in theaters. These are kind of like the usually the middle budget movies,
and they don't do as well, and we're gonna lose less. We're gonna
get fewer and fewer of these in theaters if you don't go see them,
so go see them in the theater, especially if it's a good one.
Because I did you see Space Cadet. I did not see Space Cadet.
Now, it's a cute, it's a wrong com it's a cute little one.
But I was like, I'm glad this one was streaming because I don't
think it's worth a trip to the theater. Sure, it's worth me sitting
on the couch watching it, But like you're saying, if you don't go
see the good ones, right, they're not going to be there anymore and
we're gonna get more bad. Yeah, And that's the thing overall, whether
you look at you know, Kevin Costner's movie or something like Inside Out too,
the good ones, you know, are still good and people are going
to turn out in the theaters to see them, and so that theater going
is not dead by any stretch of the imagination. But people are a lot
more discerning and a lot less quick to physically leave their house and go spend
their money unless it's something that's really good. Absolutely, ABC's Jason Nathanson,
thank you so much. Sure, thank tanks. All right, we'll talk
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