You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. It's
time for your morning wake up call. This is your wake up call for
Friday, December twenty ninth. I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King for the
last day. Yay, can go back to my normal sleep schedule. Amy
will be back next week and I know you guys will be relieved. I
will hopefully not be scaring away too many of her listeners, but you guys,
Amy will be back next week. I'm so excited about this coming weekend.
It's New Year's Eve. I hope you guys have some fun plans.
I know my family and I are going to go out to an early dinner
and then come home and read in the New Year at home. And before
I head out for this week and get relegated back to the weekends. I
just want to say thank you to everybody who has been listening this week and
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there. Message me if you guys want to get some tickets. All right,
let's get into the news. We've got a lot going on today.
Here's what's the head on wake up call. Israel is urging people to leave
Central Gaza as troops advance their offensive against Tomas. We'll get the latest from
Jerusalem. Next week. Award season will ramp up in Hollywood. We're talking
to Sam Rubin from KTLA about how this award season will look and feel different
due to the ongoing strikes from this past summer. And do you make resolutions
or reflections in the new year. We're gonna give you some options for a
fresh start in twenty twenty four. Then at six' oh five, it's
handle on the news. A rogue waves sent nine people to the hospital in
Ventura. It happened just after residents were warned about a large swell pounding the
coastline. This week, let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police and Irvine are looking for two
thieves who stole a bunch of items from a Sephora store. The man and
woman took more than two thousand dollars worth of items. Last month, investigators
shared a photo of the two on social media, along with their getaway car,
a white SUV with an item attached to it. They alert about the
two thieves came less than a week after the Irvine Police Department posted video of
three guys ransacking a sunglass hut. That group of thieves stole more than fifteen
thousand dollars worth of sunglasses, Blake Trolley k if I News. A female
LAPD officer has sued the city because her husband, who's also a cop,
allegedly sent sexual explicit photos and videos of her to her coworkers and other men.
The lawsuit accuses the department of sexual harassment, whistleblower retaliation, and failure
to take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment and retaliation. The husband,
Brady Lamas, is facing misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct by distributing multiple private intimate
images without consent. A huge wave has slammed into an observation area and into
people and businesses in Ventura County here Point Beach was hit yesterday by what the
National Weather Service called tremendous wave energy. A man who shot the video of
the wave, Colin Hogue, tells KTLA, he thought it was a tsunami.
It was horrific. There was a lot of screening, a lot of
yelling, a lot of cussing. I didn't know how far this was going
to go. The surge of water sent people running. Nine people were taken
to the hospital, Some had broken bones, and at least two were in
critical condition. The off campus house wherefore University of Idaho students were stabbed to
death, has been demolished. The teardown yesterday happened as one of the families
argued the house held key evidence that could help answer import and questions about the
murders. Last November, a PhD student at a nearby university has been charged
with the killings. He's pleaded not guilty and is a waiting trial. Main
Secretary of State has kicked former President Trump off the twenty twenty four presidential primary
ballot. Shnna Bellows says Trump violated the Fourteenth Amendment by engaging in insurrection.
I was duty bound to follow me in law to ensure the candidates. All
the candidates who appear on the primary ballot are qualified for the office they seek.
Bellow's ruling yesterday came a day after Trump's lawyers asked her to disqualify herself
over tweets they say showed bias. Let's take a look at your traffic and
say good morning to Nick Paliochini. Good morning. How they're going to be
a wreck for you? First thing this morning as folks are making the way,
you know what boun along the fifty five as you're getting into the city
of Orange, right around Chapman Avenue. It's wreck involving an overturned car.
Looks like it is middle lanes that are blocked and you're seeing a rough go
for the drive leaving the twenty two as you make a toward Chapman Avenue in
the Orange area. Gonna date on this or anything else selling to you down
pounds to fifteen yourself on keyword is KFI traffic otherwise really really quiet for your
drive. Me as you're making a way in and around the south Line this
Friday, final Friday morning of twenty twenty three, as you had westbound along
the ninety one a riverside through Corona into and through Orange County only about twenty
two to twenty five minutes for your drive out of downtown Riverside and to make
me through Anaheim and fulletin to the five. Not saying thing major glory your
drive going down on the north downd side of the four O five as you're
coming out of Orange County leaving Seal Beach too Long Beach and heading all the
way through west to like toward the ten. About twenty five minutes for you
there on the southbound side of the four oh five off the five as you
make way back toward the ten, about eighteen to twenty minutes as you come
through the San Fernando Valley getting into West La kafin the sky helps get to
their faster. I'm Nick Polly o'kiney. All right, thank you, Nick.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Detectives say a man has been arrested in connection with the
fatal beating of a woman on the campus of El Camino College in Torrance.
Investigators say they're trying to figure out why forty year old Jeffrey Davis attacked the
woman with a sledgehad in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve. The woman,
who was in her mid to late sixties, was collecting recyclables on the
campus when she was beaten. Campus police were first on scene and they called
in the La County Sheriff's department. Within a few hours, they identified Davis
and arrested him just a short distance from the campus. Classes were not in
session because of the holidays. The woman died on Christmas Day. Steve Gregory,
King of Fineos, Israel's military is asking more people in parts of central
Gaza to evacuate as troops advance their offensive against Hamas. ABC's Geordanna Miller joins
US Live from Jerusalem with details on Israel's increasing air and ground defensive. Good
morning, Good morning. The Israeli Army is expanding its operations in central and
southern Gaza, and that means the UN estimates about one hundred thousand Gazans have
moved south to the border area, to the Rafa crossing, and they are
you know, this is an area that is already overcrowded. There's already problems
there with the distribution of food and other aid. So this is the humanitarian
situation for Gobsens is getting worse really day by day as Israel's operations in the
South, which initially was the area considered more safe when this war began,
becomes really part of the battlefield. Can we talk a little bit about the
logistics or what you might know about the logistics, because when Israel is telling
people to evacuate, are they providing a path for them to escape? Do
they have somewhere to go and to get there safely? So the Israeli is
often set up corridors, safe passageway areas where they say there won't be any
bombing or strikes. It's usually for a period of two to four hours a
day, and they're also providing these kind of interactive maps that show where the
really operations are expected to become fierce. Uh and therefore you know a warning
to stay out of certain areas. But it has to be said that you
know there's rolling blackouts and gossens, certainly ones who've already been displaced once they
don't necesssarily have access to get on the internet and look at this interactive map.
Really, you know, information spreads word of mouth where the area you
know, for that particular day where that humanitarian pause is or where that safe
passage is. And the problem is that, you know, they may be
able to move around with some degree of safety, but they're getting to areas
that are still there's still dangerous areas because if Hamas operatives move into that area,
they become they become a target, and that's the problem they're you know,
there's one clearly defined stake zone on the southwest of Gaza, an area
called Mawazi, but it's really not big enough to accommodate you know, one
point eight million gossms. So it's you know, it's a terrifying situation and
they can't get out. You know, Egypt's not letting Gossans go into the
Sinai Desert even temporarily to seek refuge for a lot of different reasons, one
of them being they don't want Hamas to set up any kind of headquarters are
based in the Sinai Desert right. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
They've also carried out attacks on Egyptian security officers along the Sinai Desert there
the border between Egypt and Gaza. So it's you know, it's a no
win situation, really for gossens and can you tell us what's the latest from
northern Gaza. So there's still buckets of fighting going on in northern Gaza,
in an area called Tufah, which is not yet really under Israeli controlled.
But Israel has more or less operational control of northern Gaza and most of the
residents there have left, but there's still again there's still you know, civilians
who are dying up there in attacks as well as fighters and Israeli soldiers,
so it's not completely under control. And that is I mean, that's also
by Hamasa's strategy. They're not you know, confronting Israeli soldiers in large groups.
They're coming out in small groups of three to five, popping out of
tunnel shafts, firing RPGs, grenades, anti tank missiles, and then disappearing
underneath the ground. That's part of the reason why, you know, there's
there's no easy way to get rid of those tunnel networks, and yet it's
critical that you know, Israel to do that if they want to reach their
goal of really dismantling Hamas. And it has to be said that even Israeli
experts are shocked by the complexity uh and uh and uh. You know,
sophistication of these underground tunnels that go you know for miles and miles across the
Goza Strip, multi layers with dormitories and bathrooms and areas to eat. Uh.
You know, there were pictures a few weeks ago of one of the
main Hamas meeting rooms and this tunnel had like marble floors in their meeting room.
I mean, it's it is become a city underground, and that is
one of the real challenges of this war for Israel. There's no way to
really get to that network without being on the ground. With it's on the
ground, and it's it's dangerous for everybody. Erdna Miller live in Jerusalem.
Thank you so much for talking with us this morning. Thank you. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The Sacramento Fire Department is changing the way it responds to nine to
one one calls. Captain Justin Sylvia says a two person paramedic squad will now
handle lower priority medical calls. It keeps that suppression unit ready and available to
respond to more critical incidents, including vehicle accidents or fires. Or the higher
priority medical calls. Sylvia says until now, a fire engine, ambulance and
six firefighters would be dispatched to every single call. He says they get more
than one hundred and ten thousand calls a year and the change will make more
resources available. The department has been testing the pilot program for about two weeks.
It's scheduled to continue through March. A teenager on an ATV has been
arrested in Riverside for writing recklessly on city streets. Police say officer spotted the
ATV writer Wednesday on Las Aira Avenue near the ninety one Freeway. Photos show
him standing on the seat, doing wheelies and making hands at police. He
led officers on a chase, but was arrested when he ran out of gas.
A huge wave has slammed into an observation area and into people in businesses
in Venturek County. Pierrepont Beach was hit yesterday by what the National Weather Service
called tremendous wave energy. A man who shot video of the wave tells KTLA
he thought it was a tsunami. It was horrific. There was a lot
of screaming, a lot of yelling, a lot of cussing, I didn't
know how far this was going to go. The surge of water sent people
running. Nine people were taken to the hospital, some had broken bones.
Investigators with the Ellie County Sheriff's Apartments say they're trying to figure out why a
man beat a woman to death with a sledgehammer on the campus of El Camino
College in Torrance. The attack happened at the early morning hours of Christmas Eve.
The US Supreme Court is expected to make a final decision early next year
on whether Trump can still run for president, and the world's population has grown
by seventy five million people over the past last year, bringing a total to
more than eight billion and at six Z five. It's handled on the news.
Donald Trump's campaign campaign team says they plan to appeal main decision to remove
him from the ballot. They say, we are witnessing an attempted theft of
an election. And as you know, the new year is just a few
days away. Are you all about resolutions or reflections? ABC's Jim Ryan joins
us now, in some ways you can get a fresh start in twenty twenty
four. Good morning, Jim, Good morning. Some people are about both
Heather about looking back on the old year, looking ahead to the new year,
and deciding how to make things better or to make themselves better. Forbes
Health does this survey every year. Last year, and maybe it's because we
were in the shadow of the pandemic, more people were interested in making mental
health improvements in twenty twenty three than in making physical improvements. Well, this
year it's different. For twenty twenty four, the same survey shows that forty
eight percent of us or forty eight percent of the people in the survey want
to improve their fitness. Improving mental health comes in at thirty six percent.
Except for one demographic group, And this was really interesting. Older people,
people seventy eight and older are more interested in their mental health than their physical
health. So let me ask you this. Every year I sort of have
this discussion and debate with some friends about resolutions. Is that sort of an
old term that we use for goal setting? Are people just goal setting?
Are we making resolutions? Well? I can the two being interchangeable. Maybe
in a way. If you sit down you say, be it resolved that
I will lose thirty pounds next year? You know you're making a resolution or
something like my goal is to lose thirty. I guess they're interchangeable, but
I mean there may be subtle differences as well. Then, by the way,
being that specific is a sure fireway to fail, right right, You
could say just generally, I want to move around more, I want to
get more exercise. Yeah, losing some weight would be nice, but pegging
it to a specific number is essentially is going to doom it. And by
the way, the same survey shows that the average resolution lasts about four months
or so. Percent are you know, are still around after one month,
twenty two or twenty three percent are still around after three or four months.
Then you get back down to twelve months. The following December, only one
percent of those resolutions are still active. Okay, so what are some of
the top resolutions you're seeing? You mentioned physical goals and mental health goals?
Any anybody else inone who has topped drinking? You know, Yeah that's list.
Yeah. Improving finances, actually improving your finances is in second place,
but not too far above mental health issues. So I think that inflation and
you know, the teating you on the brink of a recession all year long
has people looking at their finances and saying you know what, maybe I better
start saving some money, losing some weight, saving some money, improving my
mental health. But sure those things are down the list. The few people
who are still smoking the country. Twelve percent of them say maybe I better
quit this year learning a new skill. Nine percent of us way down at
the bottom. Three percent of people in this Forbes Health survey say they want
to drink class alcohol, the exact same percentage as those who say they want
to perform better at work. Okay, that's not mine. I'm already killing
it over here. Nu'mber skiddy. There you go. All right, So
what happens if we get off track with our goals for the new year?
How do we get back on track? Don't be too tough on yourself,
you know, give yourself a break and reward yourself in small ways for successes.
Let's say that you managed to, you know, to walk three miles
in a day. Why not buy yourself a pair of ear buds to enjoy
on your walk. There's a little reward new shoes. Maybe just give yourself
those small rewards. And if you do slip, if you miss a day
of that long walk, give yourself a break and say, look, I'll
get back on it next year and that's and you know, the day after
that. And that's part of this, not setting a specific goal, but
setting kind of a general goal to be better in whatever way that might be.
All right, So do you want to share your resolutions for the new
I haven't made any Well, I feel pretty good. You know, this
year was better than last and maybe next year will be better than this one,
just by but out of the way that it goes, you know,
writing, I get more exercise every week. I'm happier generally. What about
you, Well, I want yeah, I know, and I put you
on the spot. It's only fair that you can. You put me on
the spot, I would say, you know, I also do. I'm
a comedy person. I'm a comedian, so I want to focus more on
my writing for my comedy. That's my goal is to do more stand up
shows and do more comedy. So yeah, well, that's that's cool.
That's also kind of generally on the list, not necessarily writing comedy or performing,
but learning a new skill. Nine percent of us want to do that
making time for our hobbies. Oh yes, if that's kind of your side
hustle, then more power to you. Yes, absolutely, well, and
more power to you as well in twenty twenty four. Thank you so much
for your time this morning. Thanks Heather. All right, let's give back
to some of the stories coming out of the CAMFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Detectives say a man has been arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a
woman on the campus of El Camino College in Torrance. Investigators say they're trying
to figure out why forty year old Jeffrey Davis attacked the woman with a sledgehammer
in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve. The woman, who was in
her mid to late sixties, was collecting recyclables on the campus when she was
beaten. Campus police were first on scene, and they called in the La
County Sheriff's department. Within a few hours, they identified Davis and arrested him
just a short distance from the campus. Classes were not in session because of
the holidays. The woman died on Christmas Day. Steve Gregory King of Fine
News News is brought to you by American Vision Windows. Migrant crossings at the
US Mexico border have reached a record monthly high. The Department of Homeland Security
found that during the first twenty seven days of December, more than two hundred
and twenty five thousand migrants were taken into custody by US Border Patrol agents.
The number does not include legal entries. Illegal entry. Excuse me data also
shows more than half of all migrants crossed into the US illegally in Del Rio,
Texas and Tucson, Arizona. Former President Trump has been booted from Main's
twenty twenty four presidential primary ballot. ABC's Royal Oaks says the move yesterday comes
after Colorado removed Trump from its ballots last week. If there was any doubt
the US Supreme Court would agree to settle the question of whether individual states may
bump Trump from the ballot. Based on January sixth events, this Main decision
by the Secretary of State pretty much guarantees the High Court will get involved.
Main's Secretary of State Shennabellos says Trump engaged in insurrection after swearing an oath to
defend the Constitution. The US Supreme Court is expected to make a final decision
early next year on whether Trump can still run for president a federal secretary excuse
me. A federal judge in New York has rejected an attempt by New Jersey
Senator Bob Mendez to delay his corruption trial. His lawyers had asked to move
the trial from May to July, saying the case is complicated and they need
more time to prepare. The judge yesterday agreed with prosecutors who argues there is
no justification for a delay. Mendez and his wife have been charged with accepting
bribes in exchange for political favors. When we come back, January marks the
state of start of award season in Hollywood, will find out why things will
look a little different this year. A federal judge in New York has rejected
an attempt by New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez to delay his corruption trial. His
lawyers had asked to move the trial from May to July, saying the case
is complicated and they need more time to prepare. Former Congresswoman Katie Hill has
settled a revenge born lawsuit against her ex husband. In twenty twenty, the
Democrat from Santa Clarita accused Kenneth Heslip and multiple media outlets of publishing nude photos
of her without her permission. Ukraine's president says Russia launched about one hundred and
ten missiles overnight in one of the biggest barrages of the year. Then at
six oh five, it's Handle on the news despite spending billions of dollars to
help almost a third of the nation's homeless population live here in California. And
if I point fifty, there are a lot of new movies coming out in
twenty twenty four. We'll tell you which ones will be the biggest hits and
which ones are worth your time and money. This has been an unprecedented year
in the entertainment business, from the months long writers and actors strikes to the
struggling streamers. Now Hollywood is about to go full force into award season.
Joining me now to talk about how this unusual year will impact the big award
shows and beyond is KTLA Entertainment anchor Sam Rubin. Thanks for joining me,
Sam, Hey, Heather, how are you. I'm doing great. Thank
you so much for making time to talk with me. So this upcoming January
feels like award season is going to be shot out of a cannon. Everything's
going to be moving so fast, so quickly. What is going to be
different about this upcoming award season after this unprecedented year that we've had. Well,
I tell you what, I think we've gone from an incredibly dormant period
six months where nobody was working, nobody was talking to the press, nobody
was promoting their projects, and I think January is really going to be catch
up time to a large degree. And the other thing is all of the
shreosing and campaigning that's required. Particularly if people are happy with and proud of
what they've done, they want to do it and they're looking forward to doing
it. So I think you're going to see very sort of buoyant red carpets,
potentially really good acceptance speeches, and something that is increasingly rare. I
think you're going to see some nominated projects that people have actually seen and experience.
So obviously Barbie with eighteen Critics Choice nominations, Oppenheimer was widely seen.
There's still a lot of these sort of award darlings that they are getting a
lot of attention but nobody has really seen. So that's the interesting thing.
But I think for the most part, people are happy, you know what,
would be very happy to sort of resume their place on the red carpet,
and it should be an interesting awards season, not a jaded one,
but I think one with actual excitement amongst the participants and potentially amongst fans.
You know, haven't seen some of these people in a long time. With
the massive laps in production this year between films and television programs, when will
fans start noticing a difference and seeing that there are fewer films and shows to
watch? Why? I think you will see the various lulls will sort of
hit at different times, and you're a TV fan and there are fewer and
far between a network TV span. Effectively, there were no new shows in
the fall, so the fall season really will start in February, and you
know you'll see after the Super Bowl a new episode of Avid Elementary will premiere,
and then there's several new episodes. But the new seasons for broadcast network
shows will be shorter ten episodes thirteen episodes as opposed to twenty. In terms
of movies for twenty twenty four, twenty twenty three was down compared to pre
pandemic levels. I think twenty twenty four will also be that way, and
numerically, I think there'll be fewer films than we've seen it in a while.
There's a lot of buzz between Barbie and Oppenheimer going into award season,
and I know you've seen every movie. What were your favorites and what do
you think is going to come out on top going into award season. You
know a movie that I think did not get the love that it should have,
and I thought was just tremendously satisfying and may get a little more attention
during the award season. I thought the Ben Affleck movie Air was terrific.
It was a movie that I think either went directly to streaming and that very
little life in the theaters. It was just wonderfully satisfying with a lot of
you know, Matt David is always reliable. Chris Sina was really good,
So maybe that'll get a little bit of Academy attention. The Barbie the or
Barbie Heeimer thing that I think is a try is that Barbie was far from
terrible, and so I think Margo Robbie has a reputation for quality. But
the idea, oh there's a Barbie movie, I think the expectation was,
Keith, this is not necessarily going to be very good. Although with a
pedigree like Noah Burbaum and Credit Gerwig on one level, you know, you
would hope would be good. But here's the thing with Barbie is I think
expectations were mid and execution was a plus. So it was much much better
than people anticipated it would be. And that you know, sort of famous
America Ferrera's speech where she talks about the juxtaposition of women and the various expectations
on women. That was a wonderful, wonderful, memorable speech. So Barbie
was was way better than I thought it would be. And I think we'll
win a lot of awards, Appenheimer. I think we'll get an award for
Chris Nolan's direction because he's sort of do and I think the fact that he
has this, you know, extraordinary reputation is well deserved, and this is
sort of a career achievement award. I thought alpen Iimer was gooled but not
great. It is great that you could take a serious subject like that without
a major star. Keilly Murphy was very good, but he's not a huge
box office draw and make this long movie that people went in droves to see.
I think even included the Batman movies. It's arguably Christopher Millan's not most
widely seem the most prosperable movie. Ever, it was an enormous success.
So those two are obviously and the movies people have seen to have a rooting
interest in. Then there's all these little movies that nobody saw. Past Lives
is on many people's list as the best movie of the year. It is
excellent. All right, we'll talk to Sam a little bit more in just
a minute and find out what he recommends you watch in twenty twenty four.
But for now, let's get back to some of this news stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. This Sacramento Fire Department is changing the
way it responds to nine to one one calls. Captain Justin Sylvia says a
two person paramedic squad will now handle lower priority medical calls. It keeps that
suppression unit ready and available to respond to more critical incidents, including vehicle accidents
or fires, or the higher priority medical calls. Sylvia says, until now,
a fire engine, ambulance and six firefighters would be dispatched to every single
call. He says they get more than one hundred and ten thousand calls a
year, and the changes will make more resources available. The attack on Israel
by Hamas on October seventh has been named the worst global anti Semitic incident by
the Simon Weisenthal Center in LA. The center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper says the first
list was scrapped once the center saw how the attack disrupted the Jewish community.
What happened in October seventh was the worst po grum against the Jewish people since
Nazi Germany was deceited at the end of World War two. Cooper says many
people have moved on from the war in Gaza or only have empathy for the
Jewish people. Apathy for the Jewish people. He says many Jews in LA
have faced more anti Semitism at temple, on campuses and in the community because
of the war. A huge wave has slammed into an observation area and into
people and businesses in Ventura County. Pierpont Beach was hit yesterday by what the
National Weather Service called tremendous wave energy. A man who shot video of the
wave, Colin Hogue, tells KTLA he thought it was a tsunami. It
was horrific. There was a lot of screaming, a lot of yelling,
a lot of cussing. I didn't know how far this was going to go.
The surge of water sent people running. Nine people were taken to the
hospital, some had broken bones. At least two were in critical condition.
The Navy says a guided missile destroyer was shot down and has down a drone
and an anti ship ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.
The attack yesterday happened two days after US fighter jets and the guided missile destroyer
fought off a dozen drones, three anti ship ballistic missiles, and two land
attack cruise missiles. The USS Lagoon shot down the drones that were headed from
areas controlled by Iranian backed Hoofy rebels and Yemen. The same vessel responding to
attacks on at least two commercial tankers in the Red Sea, one reporting a
near miss and the other was struck by a drone. ABC's aerial chef says
that fight Tuesday lasted about ten hours. Two French chefs and a cheesemaker have
broken the Guinness World Record by creating a pizza with over one thousand different types
of cheese. I hope Wayne is listening to this because of our discussion the
other day about world Records. Pizza chef Benoi Bruel of Lyon was behind the
culinary creation. After setting a world record in twenty twenty by making a pizza
with over two hundred varieties of cheese. Brull told Guinness World Records his only
dream is to make pizza with the whitest variety of cheeses and a man after
my own heart. I can totally appreciate that a female LPED officer has sued
the city because her husband, who's also a cop, allegedly sent sexually explicit
photos and videos of her to co workers and other men. Former President Trump
has been booted from Maine's twenty twenty four presidential primary ballot. To US Supreme
Court is expected to make a final decision early next year on whether Trump can
still run for president. And two French chefs and a cheesemaker have broken a
Guinness World record by creating a pizza with over a thousand different types of cheese.
Where just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, a rare
discovery in the lapd A stolen maserati was found in a homeless encampment in downtown
LA. We're talking with entertainment anchor Sam Ruben from KTLA about what movies he
recommends we watch in twenty twenty four talking now with Sam Ruben, KTLA entertain
team and anchor Sam. With this upcoming award season, do you think that
Barbie and Oppenheimer are going to walk away the big winners or will some of
the other films, the more lesser known films get some love as well.
A cliche phrase that I use every year, but it's true every year,
for the most part, the nomination is the win. I do this for
a living together, you ever entertainment for a long time. This period of
attention that surrounds the Oscar nominations until the Oscars, which are in March,
is you know, sort of a golden time for all of these stars.
And you know, sometimes they have the big follow up. Brendon Fraser,
I don't think I had a big follow up year, but you know,
we'll hopefully have other stuff coming up. I know he's a presenter of the
Critics' Choice Awards. But you know, this is a celebratory time, and
I think again with this endless, endless strike, people are really happy that
all the stuff, you know, that the show will go on and maybe
it's superficial, as these awards can be. I think you were happy to
see them. With the ongoing strikes, a lot of project release dates got
pushed back, many of them into next year. So what should we have
on our must watch list for twenty twenty four? All right, that's a
very good question. I'll give you a couple that have been pushed that I
don't care about. I don't care about too at all, and I don't
know I don't know anybody whom times I really like Zendayaa. She's in a
tennis movie as well that may have the title of Champions, and that was
pushed because they felt she wasn't around her available to promoted during the strike.
You know that's her real but have it's a really interest your question. I
think it's going to be a fairly solow period until after the Oscars, and
then we'll see. There's a Tom Hanks movie that's about Paul Revere. I
don't know what the title is, but that's supposed to be terrific. Again,
you know, Big Star vehicles. There's a George Cleaning Brad movie coming
out in September called Wolves that has gotten some good buzz on that maybe based
on those stars, but it's funny. I think what happens. You know,
people have written articles. Certainly you know what to watch out for in
twenty twenty four, but I think right now we're sort of trying to get
our on the year that has passed handicap a woman season a little bit,
so I can't answer that question as adequately as I should. And then the
other thing, increasingly one, you know, the massive entertainment story to me
or among them, is this phenomenal success of Suits this summer on Netflix.
And so now everybody has decided that what people really like are multiple seasons with
multiple episodes. We're back to binge watching. We're back to binge watching.
And as far as what to watch in the theater, I'm looking forward to
Beatlejuice to Mean Girls, to Inside Out to and Wicked. One thing that
I I think, you know people complain about this all the time, is,
you know, Beatle Juice seems singular to me, So do you really
want to Beatle Juice to? I mean, I think just for nostalgia,
I don't. We don't need it, We don't need any of these sequels.
But I'm any insight out. And then mean girls, mean girls who
looks horrible? It does it looks so bad and generally and again these are
other, uh, you know, sort of stereotypes. There's always something that
breaks the rule. But you know, quote unquote, January releases are usually
January burials. There. January is the worst month to release anything. And
so the facts, yeah, it's not a good thing, maybe particularly out
themist Sam Rubin. It is always such a pleasure to talk with you.
You can catch Sam every weekday morning on kt LA. Sam, thank you
so much for taking the time to talk with us. Oh my pleasure.
Other thank you a lot of good movies coming out next year that as you
just heard of, say we're looking for to I always love talking with Sam.
Used to work with him many years ago at KTLA in the entertainment department.
So all right, so we've mentioned several times this is New Year's Eve
weekend. If you don't have any plans yet, I want to mention a
couple of things for you guys, to put on your radar maybe hopefully inspire
you to get out and enjoy the weekend. So over at the Santa Monica
play House, they're doing Drunk Theater, the New Year's Eve edition with some
improvised comedy that sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. Miracle,
a Christmas theme pop up bar will also be happening in ply of vis
stuff. You can't let go of those Christmas vibes just yet. And then
they're also having New Year's Eve fireworks and glow party and Marina del Rey.
That's going to be a lot of fun. That's happening at Burton Chase Park.
And then Dynasty Typewriter is happening. They're having a New Year's Eve comedy
show and party there with Little Champagne Toast. Check that out. There's a
lot of fun things happening in and around La also, please come see me.
I'm going to just keep talking about it. I get the chance.
January twelfth, at the Ice House in Pasadena. Okay, guys, what
are you doing? Kono Michelle Nick? What do you guys have plans for
New Year's Eve? Are you staying home? Are you going out? This
is a big stay home because I work the next day. Ooh okay,
yeah, you have to be here on New Year's Day. I do.
Ooh okay, so that's okay, But I don't know if I can stay
up till twelve and then wake up, I live. I have to leave
my house at by three am to get here by four, so my gosh,
no, no, no, just stay home. I'm thinking about taking
a midday nap and then nap at rally, yeah, and then treat it
like that's the start of my day. Okay, fair enough. Yeah,
I'm gonna do the same thing. I got to work on New Year's Day
two and we generally, my husband and I, I mean, we were
not going anywhere this year because he was still recovering from his car accident.
But we don't generally go out because we consider New Year's Eve kind of like
amateur night. People have idiots. So yeah, but I think I'll do
what Kono does, is like I'll probably take a nap and then wake up
at like eleven, and then just start my day at eleven, celebrate New
Year's and then come to work. And then there you go, come to
work, Nick, what do you have planned? I too, am working
on Monday, so I will probably be doing what everybody else is doing here.
But also, there's so much going on in around southern California on Sunday
night that you can do to enjoy New Year's Eve before midnight, so there's
a lot of nine pm ringing in with the East Coast, so that's probably
what I'll be doing. You can also tune in tonight at eight pm here
on KFI for this weekend with Nick Polliochani during later with Mo Kelly and I
will have all sorts of ideas for you to do this weekend and into New
Year's Day for things around the Southland. I love that. Well, not
to rub it in you guys, but I will be not working on New
Year's Day, hate you, but to be fair because of this week of
getting up so early filling in for Amy. I will probably go to bed
still around like seven or eight because I am gonna be tired. But I
will be here tomorrow worro Now, all right, now we have everyone's work
schedule sorted, Let's talk about a couple of New Year's Eve traditions. This
is so cool. So apparently these are some of the best traditions to celebrate
twenty twenty four. Clean your house before midnight. Who's doing that? No,
who's doing that? Though? No, thank you, No one's doing
that. All right, watch the New Year's Day parade. I will.
Well, what I'm hoping to do is leave early so I could watch the
flyover, ye, and then you know, watch the parade. We usually
my husband, I usually watch it just to make fun of stuff, all
right, And what about write a letter to yourself for next year? I
kind of like that, dear Heather. No, no, no, no,
no no no, no hard paths. Oh here's something that you guys
will do. Watch the sunrise because you will all be here. Ah.
Wait, you have windows in your studio. I don't they do. I
don't know none of it. We could walk right over to those studios.
Yeah. What about eating lentils? Anybody do that? That's the thing my
mom does. Yeah, this feels like a very southern thing to me.
Yeah. I don't know why my mom does it, but she doesn't.
Yeah, some people do the great thing the resolutions we talked about jump seven
waves. No, no, I'm not doing I've never heard h not driving
to the beach. Apparently that's a tradition that they do in Brazil doing.
Not doing that. Well, that beautiful place. Uh huh. Well,
I have to say, you guys, this has been such a pleasure filling
in this week for Amy. This is truly a wonderful team. Kno,
Michelle Nick. You guys have made me all feel so welcome this week and
helped me through my many mistakes as I stumbled my way through this wake up
Call. So grateful for everybody who has listened, everyone who's reached out and
said that they're listening. We appreciate you all so much, and we appreciate
Amy King, who will be back next week. Thank the Baby Jesus.
I hope you all have a wonderful and happy New Year as well. Thanks
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