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up, good morning. This is your wake up call for Friday, January
twenty sixth. I'm Amy King, Happy Friday. I'm super excited. I've
got a girls' weekend planned. My friend Teresa flew in a couple of days
ago, and then I've got Heidi and DEBI are both flying in today.
Just some of my best friends from way back in high school and we're gonna
we're gonna hit Disneyland this weekend. But super excited that everybody's going to be
in town. I hope that you've got some great weekend plans. Oh my
god, the weather's going to be absolutely perfect, sunny, beautiful, maybe
a little windy tomorrow, but really really a nice weekend before another storm rolls
in next week. Here is what's ahead on wake up Call. We're just
now getting this information. In the United Nations Top Court has told Israel that
it must take measures to prevent its forces from committing acts of genocide against Palestinians,
but the court stopped short of using its power to order a full ceasefire
of the Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip. A retired FBI agent says
the six people found dead in the desert in San Bernardino County appear to be
victims of a gangland style killing. That's what the retired special Agent, Bobby
Shicone told KTLA. Says authorities need to figure out who the six were because
more people could be in danger. The bodies were found late Tuesday night and
early Wednesday morning along a road in Mirage. An experimental helicopter that has taken
seventy two flights over the Martians service in the last three years has been permanently
grounded. NASA says the Ingenuity suffered rotor blade damage that will prevent it from
flying again. NASA's still got way more out of the little helicopter than expected.
It was only expected to last for thirty days and five flights. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A man who killed a six year old boy because he was because
he was flipped off on the fifty five Freeway and Orange has been convicted of
second degree murder. Twelve citizens of Orange County agreed that it was murder.
Orange County DA Todd Spitzer says if the jury had given Marcus the Reze manslaughter,
it has sent a dangerous message to gun carrying road rage drivers. Said,
if you get into some kind of exchange and you fire your weapon,
you are only responsible for voluntary manslaughter. This jury said no. Mareze was
also convicted yesterday of shooting at an occupy vehicle in twenty twenty one and two
gun enhancements. The man faces forty years to life. That sentencing set for
April at the OC Superior Court. Corbin Carson KFI News I suspected hit and
run driver who hit a man on a bicycle in Burbank has been arrested.
The collision happened just over a week ago. The man on the bike was
taken to the hospital in critical condition. Police say the twenty three year old
caught yesterday admitted to being the driver of the hit and run. Especially trained
Customs canine has discovered thirty eight pounds of fentanyl inside a spare tire during a
border checkpoint. Inspection in San Clementy. A guy driving a gray car was
headed northbound on the five last week. He was pulled over into a secondary
inspectionery. That's where the dog got a whiff of the drugs. Agents checked
the trunk and noticed the spare tire was heavier than it should be. Agents
say they found fifteen plastic wrapped bags of blue pills with a street value of
one point seven million dollars. California has the most restaurants on yelp's list of
the top one hundred places to eat in twenty twenty four. The state dominates
Eighteen restaurants made the list, but the highest ranked was third place. It
was the Sunnyside Kitchen in Escondido. Menu Rui in Saint Louis came in second,
and to Americo in Tucson took the top spot. Arizona, Florida,
and Texas or other states with the most restaurants on the list. Let's say
good morning now to ABC political director Rick Klein. Rick. I see you
all the time, but this is the first time I've gotten to talk to
you on wake up call. Good morning, Good morning with it. We've
got a busy day or busy week, and you're here to tell us all
about it. So let's start with the New Hampshire primary. And something that
was really interesting that came out of that was that immigration was a very important
issue to New Hampshire voters. Is that the sentiment around the US. Yeah,
I mean New haves for and Iowa are nowhere close to the US field
border, but they feel it, they think it, they're they're you know,
they're very much on the mind of voters as they as they cast their
ballots. And I think that isn't unique. I think that's probably a sentiment
that a lot of people feel watching on television, reading and sending from the
neighbors hope, did we lose you? Or security? But the thing they
may hold it up as presidential politics because Donald Trump is telling Republicans don't do
this. He thinks it's a bad deal and a bad idea. Okay,
so you cut out for just a minute, Rick, What is Trump saying
is a bad idea? He thinks a deal and he kind of a cutting
a deal with for immigration reform for border security is a bad ideal. He's
trying a bad deal. He's trying to think it. He's trying to tell
Republicans do not sign on to a deal, even though a lot of them
feel like they get. Okay, And as the former president and the most
likely candidate, although it's not set in stone yet, does he still wield
that kind of power over Congress. It sure seems like it. I mean,
look, he's not the nominee yet, he certainly the president again yet,
but the way that he is able to kind of show control and show
power over his fellow Republicans remains unmatched. And I've never seen anything like it.
There's really not any precedent for it. But you know, if you
think about this race is basically two intumbents, maybe it begins to make sense.
Even though with that context, though, it's odd how the stay of
a candidate for president can be as impactful as it seems to be right now.
Maybe it's because they're all scared of him. Okay, that was just
an aside, you think. Okay, So the New Hampshire primary, Trump
wont it this week, pretty decent margin. It was like, did it
turn out to be like eleven or twelve points? But Nicki Hale that's about
right. Yeah, Nicki Haley is sticking with it, She says, she's
staying in the race. Is that realistic? Can she really do that for
much longer? Well, I mean, look, I think she's gonna have
to start showing a path to victory and actually notching from the victories and doing
it fast, because right now, you know, you're not going to beat
Donald Trump by losing the Donald Trump over and over again. And that's what
happened in the first two contests. That's it. It's only the first two
contests, right. Think about how only two out of at the fifty states
have even voted. Yet there's a lot to go. The delegates are still
out there to be to be one and you know, there's certainly that possibility
whether it's good luck or bad luck for her. The next big thing on
the on the docket is her home state of South Carolina. Good luck because
she's won there twice before. Bad luck because she's down thirty points to Donald
Trump there, so she has the opportunity. And if she doesn't win to
South Carolina, then I think the question is becoming from Burger and they may
be origent before then. I mean, she's right now on a fundraising list
trying to make the case the donors that she still has a path when you
know a lot of them are very skeptical as to whether this is even doable.
And does that starts to come into play too. You mentioned donors.
She could say she wants to stay in all day long, but if the
money drives up, there's no way for her to do it. Yeah,
you're at you're at a stage in the campaign where you're burning money at a
crazy cliff just to travel and organize events and just get from point A to
point B. And if you can't convince donors to continue to fund your campaign,
there's just no way that the things can continue for you as the candidate.
Truly. Okay, So this week on ABC is a mussy for me
every Sunday morning, and tell us what's coming up on this week this week,
Well, you'll see you'll see me, which is always fun talking about
fun Rick it is. Yeah, there we go. I love that we're
going to talk to Senator Tim Scott fresh off that enthusiastic endorsement of Donald Trump
the other the other day, as well as Gavin Newsom, governor California.
You know, well, I'm going to be in South Carolina something for the
Biden campaign. So that'll be some fun, Bun. The watch all around
newsom is going to South Carolina. Interesting. Yeah, all right, that'll
be very interesting. Rick, thank you so much for the time. I
hope we get to talk to you more. Thank you anytime. Thanks.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As I mentioned just a couple of minutes ago,
the United Nations Top Court has told Israel it must take measures to prevent
its forces from committing acts of genocide against Palestinians, but it did not order
it to do a full cease fire. South Africa has accused Israel of genocide
and called for an immediate ceasefire. The President of the International Court of Justice
in the Netherlands read the decision today, made by a panel of seventeen judges.
ABC's Matt Gutman says though the ruling is only an interim one, though
any UN resolution that comes as a result of that will likely be vetoed by
the US. Israel rejects the accusation by South Africa and asked the court to
throw out the charges. The court said it would not do that. Construction
of a new terminal at the Burbank Airport has taken fight. The three hundred
and fifty five thousand square foot building is set to be complete in the fall
of twenty twenty six. The airport's executive direct actor, Frank Miller, says
the building could have upgraded security features, including facial recognition. One of the
challenges that we have with the planning and design of this building is how do
we design a building that's flexible to adjust to the technology changes that we know
are coming. The airport currently processes about six million passengers annually. The new
terminal will handle up to ten million. In Burbank. Blake Trolly k if
I News. She's not going to learn from this experience. This is not
going to make her think she just got away with murder. A father has
spoken out against the judge who sentenced a woman from Thousand Oaks to probation for
stabbing his son to death. She was convicted of involuntary manslaughter last month and
sentenced this week to two years probation and one hundred hours of community service.
He has set a precedent in California where it appears to be okay to smoke
marijuana and commit a violent crime and you're only going to get probation. The
defense claimed brin Spetcher was suffering from cannabis induced psychosis when she stabbed her boyfriend
more than one hundred times and also herself several times. Alabama has executed a
convicted killer with nitrogen gas, marking the first time that method has been used
in the US. Myth was pronounced deceased by physicians at eight twenty five pm
Central Standard time. Alabama Corrections Commissioner John ham says Kenneth Smith was holding his
breath for as long as he could last night and struggled against his restraints.
But there's some involuntary movement and some agnial breathing, so that was all expected.
Smith was sentenced to death over a nineteen eighty eight murder for hire in
which he stabbed a pastor's wife. He survived a first attempt at a execution
through lethal by lethal injection in twenty twenty two. Sentencing is expected in LA
for formal former councilman Jose Wezar, who pleaded guilty to bribery and other corruption
charges. Federal prosecutors say he used his office to give favorable treatment to real
estate developers who financed and facilitated bribes, campaign donations, and other benefits.
They won a thirteen year prison sentence and more than a million dollars in restitution
to be ordered. City Wesar's lawyer says nine years in prison would be enough.
Closing arguments are set to begin in New York in the defamation case against
former President Trump. Aaron Katirsky says Trump took the stand yesterday to defend himself,
but was only up there for about three minutes. The judge spent more
time telling him what he couldn't say. He had already been found liable for
sexual assault and defamation, and the judge told Trump there would be no do
overs. Trump complained on the way out, this is not America. The
jury will decide how much Trump owes against e. Gene Carroll for defaming her
when he denied her sexual abuse allegations. Carroll once at least thirteen or ten
million dollars. King Charles the Third has been admitted to a private hospital in
London for a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate. Buckingham Palace says it's a
pre planned treatment. Charles is having the procedure at the same hospital where the
Princess of Wales, is recovering from abdominal surgery. The King visited Kate at
the hospital when he arrived. Alaska Airlines in United have been cleared to allow
their fleets of Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine planes take off once they've been
thoroughly inspected. Alaska's Max nine's could be back in the air today. United
is expected to start flying him this weekend. The state of Alabama has put
Kenneth Eugene Smith to death by nitrogen hypoxia. This is the first time that
method has been used for an execution. He was sentenced to death for a
nineteen eighty eight murder and lived through a botched twenty two to twenty twenty two
execution attempt. The Budweiser Clydesdale's are going to be back for Super Bowl.
Anheuser Busch has put out a fifteen second teaser of the Budweiser Draft Horses commercial
that will air during Super Bowl this year. The company stopped airing Clydesdale commercials
for Super Bowl three years ago during the pandemic. It was the first time
in nearly forty years the Clydesdales skipped the Super Bowl at six oh five Tandle
on the news, the top United Nations Court has stopped short of ordering a
ceasefire in Gaza, but is demanding that Israel try to contain death and damage
and allow more aid into the strip. Let's say good morning now to the
regional director of the National Wildlife Federation, Beth Pratt. Beth, it's a
sad week for mountain lions and mountain lion lovers, and especially tragic because one
of the mountain lions killed around southern California this week was pregnant. Yeah,
no, thanks for having me, Amy, And it has been a heartbreaking
week for those of us who who do this work in trying to ensure these
populations of mountain lions in southern California sustain You know, there's a really scientific
angle to this, but these are also animals that we love, and to
loose three in a week to our roadways has just been heartbreaking. And yes,
one of the animals was pregnant. Uno, who was you know,
a cat that was beloved by a lot and was named you know, almost
as famous as P twenty two, at least in the area. And you
know, especially these cats are just trying to survive on this urban landscape.
And for me, it's just really difficult to see them, you know,
laying by the side of the road mangled by cars. They are magnificent wild
creatures. Yeah. And and so Luno was killed trying to cross Santiago Canyon
Road. That's an Orange County And then where were the other two killed this
week? Yeah, so we had you know, Uno unfortunately. And then
in the Santa Monica Mountains, we had a young female juvenile was hit by
a call on Las Virginis Road and that actually I actually during my annual P
twenty two track walk down that road. And it's a really terrible road for
being a two lane. People just go really fast. It's windy, no
sidewalks in areas. I'm surprised I sometimes make it so that young juvenile was
killed there. And then another cat was killed on sixty or sixteen near Diamond
Bar, and the news picked up some aerial footage of that cat. I
do not know where. I'm still awaiting details on that cat, the sex
and approximate age. But yeah, three three in one week. Yeah,
and there's not that many there. I know that. Recently a study came
out and said what the actual mountain lion population is probably between thirty five hundred
and forty five hundred, and you guys had expected that it was higher than
that. Yeah, you know, it was great to finally have that study
because estimates of mount lions prior for the state of California were really kind of
just mathematic mathematical calculations. Okay, we know mount lions need this much territory,
and here's how much Mountalin habitat is in California, so let's do the
math, right, So it was great. This is a multi year study,
but yeah, it was at least a little less than by some estimates
what we had thought, or what the prior estimates were, thirty five hundred
to four or five hundred and overall that, you know, that's at least
stay what we think are healthy or at least you know, we don't know
population for California. But when you start looking at these regions that are isolated
and have become islands because of the freeways, which is the Santa Monica Mountains,
which is Orange County, these populations are small and isolated, and it's
also they are cut off from other mountline populations, so genetically they are not
very diverse, and that's why you have the situation you have in the Santa
Monica Mountains where they're inbreeding themselves out of existence. So yeah, you lose
like one male breeding male or a pregnant female in these areas that are cut
off by our roadways or development, and those populations really start becoming vulnerable.
Okay, Beth, why is it important for us to have a thriving mountain
lion population? I mean, like circle of life stuff. We go,
oh, cool, big cats, but they're really important to the whole circle
of life stuff. Yeah, I mean, you know there's to me,
there's a few reasons. I mean one is, obviously I can go into
the biological and ecological significance, which is we know from scientific evidence what happens
when you start pulling out the top predators from any landscape. You look at
the studies that have been done when wolves were reintroduced back to to Yellowstone,
right, just look at the east coast where there's an overpopulation of deer and
what happened. Yeah, the eastern panther, which is just another name for
mountainline, was hunted to extinction. So you know, we don't even know
all the effects of what would happen, but we know from scientific study the
ones we do know are not good, so and they affect our own health.
I mean, I come back to the situation of you know that is
cited often by scientists saying, hey, bring back the mountainline to the east
coast. Look at what they also have there that impacts human health. Higher
incidences of lime disease, which is tied to deer populations, right, so
it you know, I mean, there's a really even if you don't love
mountain lions on the landscape esthetically or as part of our native wildlife heritage,
which to me are good arguments for why they should be there, there's a
tie to our human health as well. We are part of these natural ecosystems
and they need to be healthy. Yeah, yeah, Okay, help is
sort of on the way. It's a little ways off, but it's one
of my I'm so excited about this project, and that's the wallas Annenberg Wildlife
Crossing that we've talked about, So just really quickly remind me of what that
is and when it's going to be open. Yeah, I'm excited as well.
I mean, I just keep coming back to you know these mountain lines,
I wish help had been there for them. I hate losing any of
them. But the Wallace Animburg Wildlife Crossing is a project of hope. It
is underway. It is on the one oh one freeway in the Gora Hills
and it is under construction. You can look at one on one Wildlife Crossing
dot org for the live construction camp. The horizontal structure will likely start being
laid out in mid March, which is really exciting. The support SORR up
right now. But this will allow safe passage for mountain lions over the one
on one in all wildlife. So I'm excited that we are going to solve
the biggest road problem probably in the state. But we need to do more.
I mean, obviously there are many more roads these wildlife mountain lines and
all wild life need to navigate, and you know my work has been to
get more of these done. Let's make the world a safer place for both
wildlife and people. Absolutely well, we thank you for your work, best
Pratt, and also for sharing the information. And yeah, sad week,
I hate to lose the mountain lions as such majestic creatures, but I'm so
thrilled to hear that work is progressing on that wildlife crossing and can't wait for
it to open. Me too. I can't wait, I was saying,
to see that first mountain lion calls. Feel good. Thank you so much
for your time. All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news newsroom. A dry weekend is
going to be followed by another round of rain that's expected to roll in by
the middle of next week. The large storm in the whole state's going to
get rained. It's going to be a lot like the storm we just had
where it first affects northern California, flies down the coast. The entire state
is a risk of at least moderate rain and some local heavy rain early early
February. The National Weather Services Alex Tarti says, even if next week's storm
isn't as strong as the last one, there could be issues because the ground
is already saturated. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter has been grounded. VISA Administrator Bill
Nelson says on January eighteenth, they received a distress call assorts from the specially
designed helicopter during a landing. Apparently a carbon fiber rotor blade hit the surface
of the planet in broke, and what started as a technology demonstration with plans
for only up to five flights, has now completed a remarkable seventy two flights
on Mars. Ingenuity traveled to the Red planet under the belly of the Mars
Rover Perseverance and landed February of twenty twenty one. The drone like helicopter became
the first aircraft ever to make a powered controlled flight on another planet. Steve
I knew. The United Nations Top Court has told Israel it must take measures
to prevent its forces from committing acts of genocide against Palestinians, but it stop
short of using its power to order a full cease fire of the Israeli military
campaign in the Gaza Strip. It was four years ago today that Kobe Bryant,
his daughter, and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.
Kobe was forty one, his daughter, Gianna was just thirteen. The
Lakers will unveil a Kobe Bryant statue at Crypto dot Com Arena next month.
Cruz will begin moving the Space Shuttle Endeavor across Exposition Park to a new exhibit
at the California Science Center. It will then be lifted up and attached to
an external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters that have already been put in
place in launch position. The lifting is expected to happen next week, but
the new exhibit won't actually be open until it's complete in a couple of years.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. A first of
its kind execution has been carried out out in Alabama. It's one of Bill's
favorite things to talk about, so I'm sure I'll have a lot to say.
At five point fifty, we're going to be checking in with ABC's entertainment
guru, Jason Nathansen. But right now it's time to head home. We've
got the house whister. A whisperer is Dean Sharp. Good morning Dean,
Good morning Amy. Okay, so Dean, we've been talking for the last
couple of weeks about how to build your dream home and we're still in the
planning stages. First we kind of set up the parameters for what you can
and can't do, and then you said, get a great designer and design
what you can and can't do. And right now you want to talk about.
The next step is to make sure you don't do a couple of things.
That's true, and that's true, there are probably, as you start
your design process three mistakes that are most commonly made in any home plan,
and they're worth sitting down and having a talk about because as they happen so
often, and they are such the wrong things to do, especially at the
beginning. The first one is doing anything to the house that makes things worse.
I know most people are gonna yeah, well, most people will sit
there and say, well, duh, yeah, we're trying to fix things,
we're trying to improve it. But but I but what I mean by
that is that there are things going on with the home that probably very very
likely this kind of leans towards number two actually, that very likely need some
correcting first before we go on. What we don't want to do is find
ourselves just adding on to the wrong that's already been done. I'll give you
an example. You know, what's most common is that, like at a
California ranch house, quite often we'll walk and we'll find that somebody has added
on a room edition onto the back because somebody thought at some point we need
more space. We've got to have you. And you know, that's all
well and good the idea, but so often that room edition has made the
previous room, which used to have windows and light coming into it, now
it's in the center of the house. It's got no more natural light in
it, and it's a cave. Yeah. And instead of people taking standing
back and taking a look at the problem of the edition, they just figure
a way of like, well, well, how do we make this addition?
You know, maybe we're going to add something onto it. And so
we got to be really really careful not to make what already has gone wrong
worse. Well, and I could see where that would go onto all kinds
of things, like I know that I've seen additions where you can see it
as an addition too. You go, oh, look they added onto their
house as opposed to like fixing the roof to make a contiguous roofline. You
see the new little bump out of the roof that makes it very apparent that
it was an afterthought. Exactly exactly. And by the way, one of
our number one rules for Tina and I when we are designing anything new onto
a house, we tell our clients listen, if we cannot create this addition
so that in the end somebody drives by the house and doesn't know that it's
there. Then we don't want to do it. You don't want to go
that direction. When I say it doesn't know that it's there, it's not
that you don't notice that part of the house that we've added on. But
nobody, nobody should ever look at a room edition and say, hey,
I see you've added onto the house. It simply you should simply look at
the house, and the house looks like the house. The house looks like
it was built that way intended from the beginning. Otherwise something about that addition
has gone wrong. Okay, and then, and what's the other big mistake?
Not holding the new design accountable to the fundamentals. And I know I
haven't told anybody what the fundamentals are yet. Well, there are a series
of design fundamentals that we are actually going to be going into in the next
few weeks. Okay, things like light and flow and lighting, and you
know, there are some basic basic rules that everybody needs to know when it
comes to designing a space. And again, this would this harkens back to
the to that room edition that got just tacked onto the back of the house.
That violates three or four major fundamentals, and that's why it's a bad
ad, okay, And so not holding the new design ideas accountable to the
fundamentals, somebody's like, well, listen, I need more. I really
want to island in my kitchen. That's what I've always wanted in my entire
life. I get it. I so get it. But by putting the
island in, you're putting less than let's say, three feet of walk space
in between the island and the cabinet tree around it. It's a violation of
the fundamentals. You don't want to do that. A bad idea is one
thing, but when it comes to life in the real world, now you
have a problem. And that's why design step two becomes so important. Absolutely,
that's why we sign matters most. And so you're going to be talking
about this all weekend and I'm looking forward to it. And because you always
have such great advice and make all these really sometimes abstract things make sense and
we appreciate that a ton. So that's happening. I know it. Yeah,
go ahead, no, I said, I know some of these things
are a little bit tricky to get through. Our head. But that's what
we do. We spend time on the show and we make them as concrete
and as tangible and usable for you as possible. Perfect. And you can
hear Dean on Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI. It's Saturday from
six to eight am and then Sunday from nine to noon, and you can
also follow Dean at Home with Dean. Thank you so much for your time
and your smarts today. Thanks Amy talk sit all right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Zag After has given its support to Alec Baldwin, who was indicted again on
charges of involuntary manslaughter for the onset shooting that killed a cinematographer. The union
says an actor's job is not to be a firearms or weapons expert, and
the charges are based on an incorrect assessment of the actor's duties. Prosecutors argue
new tests show the gun had to have been fired by the pull of a
trigger, though Baldwin's lawyers say he didn't pull the trigger. A gang member
in la has been charged with fatally shooting three people in the Harbor area and
hurting five others allegedly killed two people while sitting in their car in Harbor City
last October. Their baby, strapped in his car seat, was also shot
but survived. LA County Deputy DA Bobby Gray says the DA's office is looking
forward to prosecuting the case with respect to this suspect. In this case,
we filed three counts of murder and we also filed five counts of attempt at
murder. Police eight weeks after the first shooting, the gang member shot several
people in San Pedro, killing a seventeen year old, and then in October
attempted to kill a man in Wilmington. Detective said yesterday they believe the motive
was gang related. Chris Sadler kf I News tickets for the forty nine Ers
NFC Championship game this Sunday are going for a premium. The cheapest tickets in
the nosebleed section of Levi Stadium and Santa Clara are going for four to five
hundred dollars, and that's before all the fees, the parking, and the
food. Julio Morales will be there, he says, the price tag is
worth it. I just want to see some SAgs some defense. I want
the defense to kill them, and man, Jared Goff, you're from the
bank, hey, but I want Buzza to get you really bad. Tickets
for lower level seats are selling on reseller sites for between seven hundred and twenty
five hundred dollars. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahu says Israel will continue to
do what is necessary to defend itself. His comments come after a ruling from
the top UN court that criticized Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The International Court of Justice stopped short of ordering a cease fire in Gaza,
but instead said it must do everything it can to reduce the number of deaths
and let aid in. Alaska Airlines and United have been cleared to allow their
fleets of Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine planes to take off once they've been
fully inspected. Alaska Max nine's could be back in the air today. United
is expected to start flying them this weekend. The Budweiser Clydesdale's are coming back
to the Super Bowl. Anheuser Busch has put out a fifteen second teaser video
of the Budweiser Draft Wars commercial the beer company stopped running ads during the Super
Bowl because of the pandemic. That was the first time in nearly forty years
that we didn't see the Clydesdales for the Big Game. I personally am very
excited to see them back. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the
news this morning, a guy who shot and killed a six year old boy
in the backseat of car in Orange County has been convicted of second degree murder.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jason Nathanson. Jason, so many
things are coming out, and I know, as always, we're never going
to have time to get to all of them. So I have an idea.
Okay, let's hit your top two because I also want to talk a
little Oscars with you. Sure. Well, look, I can only tell
you what's coming out. I can't tell you, you know, I have
no control over whether or not it's good. So oh wait, oh,
so you haven't seen you haven't seen some of these No, No, I've
seen them all. I'm just telling you, Well, Okay, you said
top two. There's not necessarily going to be a top two because they're not.
There aren't two good ones here, but there is one So I'll tell
you about the one that's good. That's Masters of the Air on Apple TV
Plus. If you remember Band of Brothers and the Pacific, Uh, those
World War two miniseries on HBO a few years ago, produced by Tom Hanks
and Steven Spielberg. This is the third now, so you know, I
don't know if they were it was their intention necessarily to make a trilogy,
but and this was going to be on HBO, and then it took so
long to make. Eventually it just ended up on Apple TV Plus. And
they spent a lot of money on it, and you can tell because it
looks really good. And the other two they all focus on different sects of
the armed forces. And this one focuses on the Air Force, which was
flying missions from the UK over Germany during World War Two and at the beginning
when they first started their bombing runs. This focus is on the the one
hundred Air Force, which became known as the Bloody hundredth because seventy seven percent
of these guys were either killed, shot down or became POW's. Oh my
god, Yeah, the numbers were not on their side. So going up,
these guys knew that, you know, every mission could have been their
last and they had to fly twenty five missions in order to be able to
go home, and the you know, the odds against flying twenty five missions
successfully were astronomical, So it focuses on them and it really puts you in
the cockpit with these guys. One of the reasons I think the last one,
the Pacific, came out in twenty ten maybe, and it's been you
know, fourteen years at this point. One of the reasons is they wanted
to make sure they had the technology right in order to get this to make
it look really good, because doing the Air Force stuff and making it feel
like it's not cgi is tough, and they really did do a good job
of that. You do feel like you're in there. One of the problems
with it, though, is the fact that, you know, they focus
on this big sprawl and cast and when you're in a plane and everybody has
masks on, it's kind of tough to tell who's who. You know,
yeah, and there's so many people that you have to keep track of it,
and then you have to learn their names real quick, so that's a
little bit tough. But overall I found it really compelling. This stars Austin
Butler and Barry Kyogan and Callum Turner three actors who have become pretty big names
over the past couple of years. And I think they made this before,
like Austin Butler, I think made this before Elvis, so he wasn't.
They weren't big names yet when they were making this, and they're all very
good. So I like this. I watched all nine episodes. As we've
talked before, I don't have to watch all nine, and I usually don't.
I don't have time to watch every episode of everything that they give us.
But this was good enough that I wanted to binge the whole thing.
Okay, well that's I think that's a glowing recommendation from you. And yes,
so you. Tom Hanks is involved, and then I started thinking.
I was like, gosh, she's war movies just must be a passion project
for him because he's done so many of them. Yeah, telling these stories
of these guys is really something that he and Steven Spielberg, the two of
them have really put a lot of their weight behind over the past twenty years
or so. It's something that they feel is really important. And also,
as we get to you know, the last of the guys and women who
were a part of this war. You know, we're losing that generation and
you know their stories. I was talking to Gary Getzman, who's one of
the producers with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks on this, and he said some
of the studios he went to, the younger people there weren't sure what war
Hitler was from that he had to tell them, Yeah, it's World War
Two, you know. So a lot of the history is being lost.
And you know, I've ran into that recently with David o'yello, who did
another series and he played Martin Luther King, and he said the kids were
telling it they didn't know who Martin Luther King was. So you know that
that's one of the reasons it's important to keep telling these stories. And it
seems like a lot of these guys go back to this over and over again,
but you know it's been a while. There's a new generation and they
haven't seen or heard these stories. All right, So then we'll keep our
eye out for Masters of the Year. I was just looking for a good
binge, So thank you, Jason. I'll be diving in with so out
today. Oh okay, oh, and then they'll do one a week and
then they'll do one a week. Correct. Okay, so I want to
switch gears over to Oscars real quick. So any big surprise nominations surprise nominations,
I mean there was more surprise in the lack of nominations for certain things
for sure. When it came to the actual nominations, it went pretty much
as expected. I would say, probably Anette Benning getting a nomination for Naiad
for Best Actress. I haven't seen that yet, and I haven't seen it
either. Jody Foster also getting a nomination for Naiad as well. That movie
was you know, it wasn't one of those that was getting a whole lot
of nominations or buzz or talk. So you know, again, a lot
of this is about how good your campaign is. And so a movie like
say Anatomy of a Fall, they've got a really good campaign because they got
a lot of OSCA nominations for a you know, a foreign film that is
really kind of a quiet courtroom drama. I don't know that that necessarily deserves
all the stuff that it's getting, but it's part of the conversation. So,
you know, good for them. And then when you have some of
those that do get in. Some people aren't going to get in because they're
just limited amount of slots. And that's what happened with Barbie and Margot Robbie
not getting in for Best Actress. Do you think that Margot Robbie deserved a
nomination for Best Actress? Watching the show I showed so here, here's the
thing. I hate the word snub and I don't think anybody deserves anything right.
This is all subjective, So this is all just what group of people
say should happen. So I don't like those words that said. I feel
like if she were given a nomination, I would have absolutely no problem with
that. Oh okay, I mean I think she did a good job.
I don't know that. I think it was here. And here's the thing
with that, and it's a tricky thing. And that's why I think she
does so well is because you don't notice how well she does because a lot
of other people in that role, I think it would not have worked.
It worked I think because of her, and she's an executive producer on it
and Greta Gerwig, who's the director, didn't get a nomination for Best Director,
and I would have been happy had she gotten it because you know,
a this was the highest grossing film of last year. It was critically acclaimed,
it got people into the movies. This is what the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences should be celebrating. Now, the case could be made,
but they did celebrate it with eight nominations, including one for Best Picture.
And you know, there was a lot of talk about, oh,
Ryan Gosling got the nomination, that got Ken got the nomination, and Barbie
didn't. That's what the movie's about, is the women not being recognized.
And I get that that's a narrative that people want to say, but then
you also have to look at the fact that America Ferrera got a nomination.
I thought she did a good job, though. I mean I think,
like, if you've compared the just looking at it, I think she really
kind of encapsulated or whatever the role that she had. I think she was
more powerful to me. And I would say she was the least interesting part
of that movie, except for the one monologue that she had ye that got
her the nomination, And I understand that, but the rest of it,
you know, when her, when her character was on screen, it was
more interested in the Barbie of it all. And the ken of it all.
So you know, again this is all subjective stuff, but I understand
where some of the outrage coming from. But also, you know, like
I talked about last week, this movie Origin from Avid DuVernay and Angreen new
Ellison's performance should have been in the conversation and she should have been nominated.
Greta Lee from Past Lives should have been nominated. So you know, a
lot of people and a lot of movies missed out. I'll still be watching
the Oscars though, sure. All right, Jason Nathanson, I love that
we can disagree. Yes, absolutely, Thank you so much, and I
look forward to talking to you again next week. Take it okay. Before
we head out, I gotta tell you yesterday we talked to ABC's Tom Rivers
about that big controversy over whether to put salt in your tea. It's a
big thing in the UK apparently, Well, we're not really tea people,
so a lot of us do drink coffee. So I thought, oh,
let's try that, and knowing from Neil Sevader that salt is a flavor enhancer,
not a flavor changer, a bunch of us put a little salt in
our coffee. And I think the consensus of it was it was good.
It did it took a little bit of the bitter edge away and just enhanced
the flavor a little bit. So just a schmidge, but maybe give it
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