You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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Angeles and Orange County. Your host, Amy, Okay, it is five
o'clock straight up on your wake up call for Friday, January nineteenth. Good
morning, I'm Amy King. You know what that reminds me of? Because
it reminds me of baseball. Baseball's not that far away. Spring training starts
in like a month. Isn't that exciting? Go over here? Oh?
Really? You go to Arizona, Scottsdale or downtown Scottsdale and yeah, we
go to Phoenixville and who do you see? Cone? Well, my wife
is a big Angels fan, Okay and her. Yeah, I haven't been
able to make it to Florida for my astros, so, but we do
go see the Dodgers, even though tickets have gotten expensive and I'm guessing show.
Hey, it's going to be hard to get in this year, except
he's not playing. I don't think it mattered. I don't think people know
that he's going to be sitting in the dugout. He's The autograph is worth
it, you know, we're trying to. We'll see. We'll see.
It's not very baseball like weather this weekend. We've got storms rolling in.
So if you want to do stuff inside, if you have a fireplace,
that would be a good thing this weekend. Curl it by the fireplace as
the rainfalls, or if you except that. We've had those wood burning bands
in effect all week so I think they've run out because hopefully the rain's going
to clear out the air a little bit. But anyway, rain's starting tonight's
gonna last through the weekend, so be prepared for that. Here's what's ahead
on wake Up Call. The Innocence Project has taken up the case of convicted
killer Scott Peterson, who's always said he's innocent of killing his wife, Lacy
and their unborn child. The nonprofit group has filed new motions in court citing
newly discovered evidence. Peterson, who's now fifty one, is serving a life
sentence for the murders twenty two years ago. We're going to be talking with
ABC's Alex Stone at five point twenty to find out what that new evidence might
be and what's going to happen next. Congress has passed a stopgap funding bill
to prevent a partial government shutdown that would have started at midnight. The bill
is now headed to President Biden to sign. The short term spending bill will
keep the government funded into March. This is the third short term stop gap
spending bill passed since September sawmakers struggle to come up with an agreement to fund
the government for you know, a whole year. California will provide an additional
two hundred and fifty million dollars for down payment assistance to first time home buyers
through the California Dream for All Loan program. Home Buyers have until April to
apply. A lottery system will then determine who gets the assistance. At six
oh five, it's handle on the news. A guy in California is in
trouble for giving kids as young as fourteen gang tattoos. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Candidates
looking to replace La County District Attorney George Gascone have taken the stage to argue
why they are right for the job. Many of Gascon's eleven challengers last night
criticized his leadership. I think we should be attacking George Gascone's policies because it's
his policies and his management style that are at fault and that's what needs to
change. Gascone says he'd be honored to be re elected for a second term
and would continue his efforts to move forward the office into a twenty first century
prosecution that curs with the victims for our community and thus so in a thoughtful
and intelligent way. He says crime is down over the past year, but
more reform is needed. The primary election is March fifth. Trial has begun
for the man accused of killing a six year old on the fifty five freeway
in Orange Sean Roadridge. Senior Deputy DA Dan Feldman says, Marcus Airy,
He's confessed to knowing the danger of firing the one shot that killed Aiden Laos.
This is an expression a mister rees of cold indifference of his palous and
total District guard for shooting life OCI Senior Public Defender Randall Bithyune said yesterday the
twenty twenty one shooting was a stupid mistake. He didn't need to kill anybody.
He had no malice and he had no intent. Arry's faces forty years
from second degree murder at the OC Superior Court. KORbin Carson kf I News,
the US has carried out another round of air strikes against Huthi rebels in
Yemen. Penagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh says US fighter jets destroyed at least
fourteen Hoothy missiles at a dozen launch sites. These missiles on launch rails presented
an imminent threat to merchant vessels and US Navy ships in the region. She
says US attacks so far have not stopped the Hoothy missile launches, but that
the US is going to keep hitting back as long as those yemen rebels threatened
commercial ships trying to make their way through the Gulf of Aden and the Red
s berts Bee's set of lip balms that taste like a back basket of chicken
wings has sold out in a day. The company announced its collaboration with Hidden
Valley Ranch on Wednesday, before introducing the four new flavors Buffalo, Sauce,
Crunchy, Celery, Fresh, Carrot, and Ranch, and by yesterday the
site was wiped clean. Reps say the idea started as an April fool's joke
in twenty twenty two. I think it should have stayed that way. That
sounds gross. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Caleb Silver, also the
editor in chief of Investopedia. Caleb, AI is already affecting our lives,
and Google, Amazon, and Discord employees are finding that out the hard way.
Yeah. So sadly there are layofs happening in these big tech companies.
Why because they're focusing a lot of their effort, a lot of their investment,
and a lot of their hiring on AI related activities. That's the future
for these companies. So you're seeing some job cuts, not big numbers of
those. Any job cut hurts, especially if you're the one on the other
end of it. But at the margin, you're seeing a couple hundred,
a couple thousand job cuts in certain areas. So they're shifting resources to these
areas of the future, and that's AI. So is the money you said
they're shifting resources, So the money is being redirected to pay for what it's
going to cost to implement the AI. It's not necessarily because those jobs just
aren't needed anymore because of AI or is it a egination? Yeah, the
way tech companies call it. They call it reallocation of resources. So figure
if they don't need as many people in the sales division for a product they're
not supporting, but they want to put more emphasis onto the higher paying,
harder to find jobs in AI and some of the engineering jobs. That's exactly
what they're doing. Don't forget. A lot of these big tech companies,
and I'm talking about Amazon salesforce, even the Duolingos of the world and the
alphabets did a lot of hiring over the past few years. They bulked up
a lot, so they employ hundreds of thousands of people in some cases.
So sometimes they're cutting two thousand jobs, maybe seven hundred jobs, or just
reallocating again to the areas where they want to emphasize the future of their business.
That's AI. It's not as if AI took the jobs. It's just
that these companies want to make sure they are resourced appropriately so they can succeed
in that future. Okay, and can we expect to see a lot more
of this as we head down the road. Yeah. We're in the period
of earnings reports for all public companies. This is the first job for the
last quarter of last year, so you're going to hear that as these companies
come out with their report cards, so to speak, on their financial performance,
they'll probably go to announce some job cuts because that's part of the sort
of the resetting for the year. We're probably going to hear a lot of
that over the next quarter or two, but we're not going to see a
huge spike in unemployment. That could be a back half of the year.
And when I'm talking about a huge spike, I'm talking about maybe four percent
four point one percent as an unemployment rate, which is still relatively healthy.
Yeah, but a new study does say that like forty percent of jobs could
be lost to AI. And I'm curious as to whether we're seeing trends like
right now you're talking about Google and Amazon, and those are the companies making
the AI or supporting it. But when does it start trickling down, And
like what they've said, particularly vulnerable jobs, it would be like insurance people
like work that people aren't going to have to do because the AI will be
able to do it for them. Sure, think about a lot of the
data processing that goes on, a lot of the intake that goes on,
And I'm you just brought up insurance. Insurance is one area. Big sales
companies are another area where they just do a lot of manual work. AI
can replace some of that. But the whole point of a lot of this
is not that AI comes in and robots take your job. You've got to
use AI to enhance the profitability of the company and to enhance what you do
as an employee. So if you can use those skills in what you're doing
to make you more efficient at your job, you're probably going to be Okay.
It's not as if all of a sudden jobs disappear because there's a software
that does it faster and better. It can do a lot of those services
better, and that's why you see these companies reallocating using AI where they were
using human labor and then moving humans to the places where they want to emphasize
the growth of the business. Okay, so AI is here to stay.
I mean, it's when when was the first time that we really heard about
chat GPT. It's been like a year a little bit more than a year.
Yeah, it's been a couple of years, a couple of chat GPT.
It's just the manifestation of what AI can do. Right our official intelligence
has been around forever. This is in the sci fi novels of the nineteen
fifties. But the fact that we can use generative AI, that we can
use learning large language models, the Internet can use that to sort of correlate
data that's been around for the past couple of years in a commercial way through
chet GPT in other areas. It's just going to grow from here. But
this is the very beginning of using big data sets and using computational power to
cut through big data sets to solve problems or get to solutions a lot faster.
Okay, So as consumers just people listening to the radio station right now,
Like, how are we going to benefit from that? Is that investing
in AI? Sure, you can benefit from investing in AI. I think
about anything that you do that requires a lot of data processing or manual labor,
whether that's your own budget or whether it's in your job, and you're
doing a lot of just taking in a lot of data, making data sets,
so you can actually solve some problems. That's going to help you.
But it's not as if all of a sudden it's going to take over the
driving of your car. It's going to make you breakfast in the morning.
It is just a way of using computational power to cut through data to get
to answers right now. And I think a lot of you know, the
media and Guilty as Charged makes a big deal about it. The robots are
coming for your job. They are in some cases and jobs that could probably
use that. That said, this is a technology like the Internet, like
the phone, like the railroad, that enhances productivity, and the companies that
embrace that and use that best are going to succeed, and the employees and
the workers who know how to use it and their jobs are going to succeed
as well. Okay, so you just mentioned something that struck a chord with
me. You said something about budgeting, and I'm so bad at budgeting.
But think of that, like you could say, hey, I need you
to create me a budget, and the AI could do that for you.
Absolutely, you'll do right now. I ask CHEFGBT that it'll put plug in
some variables and they can do that for you. And that's just a personal
budget. But yeah, think about it. If you've ever worked with a
financial advisor, the intake form just that intake of how much do you have,
how much do you want? How much do you think you'll need the
retirement do you have kids? That takes several hours. AI can do that
and provide product solutions right away right now. That's how it's being used in
the financial services industry. Then you look at major data sets that the government
looks at, like the Labored Department when they're trying to find out where the
hiring is and where the strength is in the economy. That takes days to
compute. With AI, you can do that a lot faster. Those are
just two examples, But just think about those types of industries where we're taking
in a lot of information and we need to process it and look at in
ways and help us make better decisions. Great use of AI. Super exciting
and still a little bit scary. Caleb Silver, thank you so terrifying.
Yes, thank you so much. You can follow Caleb at Caleb Silver.
Thanks so much for the information today. You've got to thank you. Let's
get started with or let's continue some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The city of Los Angeles is adding more streets on
the west side to its overnight RV parking ban Venice Church pastor John Palka says
he backs the ban. We routinely have to clean up human waste and toilet
paper. There's the stench of urine. This Venice resident says the updated ban
approved this week really doesn't get rid of the problem though. So what's going
to happen is that the areas where they now have bands, those people are
going to leave there and they're going to come to our neighborhood where they know
that they can be. Backers of the updated band say it will lead more
people who live in our v's to move into traditional housing. Opponents say housing
is too expensive for a lot of people who live in our v's. Sunday
marks the one year anniversary of the shooting in Monterey Park that left eleven people
dead. Monterey Park Police Chief Scott we says he in the department learned a
lot from that tragic night for us. It was a growing experience for the
department. We says the shooting on January twenty first was a wake up call.
Everybody kind of took a step back and said, well, can really
happen here. At around ten twenty two pm, police say seventy two year
old who can try and walked into the Star Ballroom dance studio and opened fire
with no apparent target. Moments after the shooting, tray And drove to Alhambra,
where he tried to kill people in another dance studio, but an employee
was able to stop him. Tran killed himself the next day. In addition
to the eleven dead, nine others were injured and countless people will forever be
scarred by what they saw that night. So it was really a sobering experience
for everybody, besides wrapping our arms kind of around the officers that were there
that night and helping that they get through it because it was pretty stressful for
all of us. I have to say I had some young officers, I
had older officers, and it was pretty stressful. We says the department and
the city have grown a lot closer. Steve Gregory King, if I news
best day ever. That's the theme for the twenty twenty five Tournament of Roses
Parade in Pasadena. I know. We went and talked to the organizers of
the parade and they said, as soon as twenty twenty four is over,
they start work on twenty five, and boy did they. Incoming President and
Morales made the announcement of the next year's theme last night. It could be
the day you learned to ride a bike, a favorite family vacation, the
birth of your first branchild. These are the moments that make life worth living.
Morales says. As we look back at the events that inspired us and
look forward to opportunities the new year will bring, we celebrate all the precious
moments in between. Agreed. US forces have conducted a fifth strike against Iranian
Backhouthi rebel military sites in Yemen US Central Commands as the latest strikes destroyed two
hoo the anti ship missiles that were aimed into the Southern Red Sea and prepared
to launch. The freezing cold has killed at least fifty five people across the
US, at least ten of them in Oregon, where ice storms left parts
of the state covered in a sheet of ice that still hasn't thought out,
according to some of my friends who live there. The first astronaut from Turkey
is head to the International Space Station. The crew of Axium Mission IREI lifted
off yesterday afternoon from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon nine rocket, which also included
astronauts from Italy, Spain, and Sweden at six o five. It's handled
on the news. Hunter Biden has agreed to talk privately with lawmakers after initially
ignoring their subpoena. Let's say good morning to ABC's Alex Stone. Alex.
The Innocence Project has taken up the case of Scott Peterson, convicted of killing
his wife Lacy and their unborn child in Modesto. I was kind of surprised
by this one, but keV, give us, give us the information that
you got on this. Hey there, Amy. I think a lot of
people were surprised by it. The Peterson case was the first thing I ever
covered for ABC back in two thousand and four when I joined ABC, and
immediately my first WEEKND flew up to Redwood City and started covering it. And
there hasn't been a lot of thought about Scott Peterson and in twenty years,
and there have been appeals and you know, little things here and there,
and he's tried over over again, and even the California Supreme Court got involved
and said, well, yeah, there was a juror issue, so they
took away the death penaltygue gave him life in prison without parole a couple of
years ago. But they said no, you don't get a new trial,
No you don't get out, which he has tried. And so the courts
over and over have said you got a fair trial. Move on. And
now for the Innocence Project of LA, which is the LA chapter from the
Innocence Network, not the Northern California chapter, but the LA chapter, saying
that they're going to take up the case. You know, they've got a
strong reputation. They have a strong history of overturning cases, typically taking cases
that we've never heard of before from you know, like forty years ago of
somebody who is wrongly convicted by corrupt cops, that sort of thing. So
to take a case like this one that captivated the country twenty years ago,
and I mean he was so vilified back in two thousand and four. Is
you had this guy who didn't want his pregnant wife and got rid of her
so he could be with his massage therapist girl friend, Amber Fry, and
that he but it was all circumstantial. There was never any evidence really pointing
to that he absolutely did it. But it was this just overwhelming load of
circumstantial evidence that they created an image that very much made it look like that
he committed the murder. But we talked to one of the jurors yesterday.
He said, one hundred percent Scott Peterson is guilty. Police one hundred percent
still believed Scott Peterson is guilty. Prosecutors do as well. But the Innocence
Project is saying, look that they've got new evidence that showing that police focused
in on him, made it look like him, ignored other evidence, ignored
witness statements and went after him, but that somebody else didn't. Yeah,
and you were saying that there was all this circumstantial evidence, including things like
that he had said he had gone fishing and then her body was found in
the way are not far from where he had gone fishing, which wasn't really
near their house, correct, And that he had bought concrete, and you
know that she was tied to ky at least the theory was that he had
tied her down with concrete, even though when her body was found she was
washed ashore and had no limbs and had no head. So there wasn't a
lot of evidence there at that point, but there were a lot of things
where they said because he did this, that this probably went on, that
he was found in La Joya, appearing to run, changing his hair color,
living out of his car. He said, well, he was running
away from the media. If you remember back then, it was during the
Michael Jackson trial in Santa Maria, Kobe Bryant in Eagle, Colorado, and
Scott Peterson. It was like a trifecta. We were jumping from trial to
trial every day and this was the big one, and media were following him
everywhere. So was he really just getting away from the media. Was he
running to Mexico? Well, they claimed he was running to Mexico. His
side claimed he was just freaking out and trying to get away from media.
So what they're focused on here, though, is all stuff that we knew
about in two thousand and four. But police had said over and over again,
well, that was all coincidental, had nothing to do with Lacy Peterson.
A burglary across the street from their home the same day she went missing.
That now, the Innocence Project says that they believe that was involved in
her disappearance. That they want DNA, they want fingerprints, they want statements
from the suspects who arrested. Two of the four two got away, two
were arrested. They want to know what police did to investigate that and why
they ruled that out being involved. Then the day after that Christmas Day two
thousand and two, there was a burned out van with blood in it,
found down the street from their home near the Modesto Airport. And now the
Innocence Project says they want to know was their DNA done on the blood in
the van? What was that? If not? They want to run now
you know what did they do to rule out that band give Modesto police they
always said, well, nah, it just happened that this all happened in
their neighborhood at the exact same time, and that there was nothing involving the
Peterson case. The Innocence Project seemed to feel differently. But again all of
those at least from the law enforcement and jury side, they say, no,
that the evidence was there and that he's a guilty. Man was Scott
Peterson And since you covered it, Alex, he was kind of had.
He's very charming and charismatic, is that correct? Charming? But I would
say, at least during the the police investigation and the trial, arrogant.
You know, he always you would think if you murdered your wife that you
would be standing on the hilltop yelling I didn't do it. And he was
not always all that cooperative in court. He always kind of had, you
know, a walk, you know, the smirk on his face. Not
that that means that they're guilty. Everybody handles everything differently, But that didn't
do him any favors in the public eye. And then when it came out
he had had numerous or you know, several mistresses. And then with Amber
Fry, they had the recordings, if you remember, Gloria Alread represented Amber
Fry. Mark Geragos represented Scott Peterson, and they had these recordings of him
lying about being not having a wife or being a widower and not wanting children,
and again that that created this image of a guy who did not want
his pregnant wife and acted like she didn't exist. But yes, in away
from police and the courtroom, everybody who knew him said, you know,
very very charming, could win you over, very salesmanlike in everyday life.
Wondering if the Innison's project bought the salesmanship, I mean, I just you
don't know, because and it'll be interesting to see what they actually come up
with and if they have anything, because I know that they have done amazing
work to free people who have been wrongly convicted. We talked to the lawyer
from the Innocence Project to just recently got someone out who had been serving like
more than twenty years in prison because they got him on circumstantial evidence and then
were able to prove that he wasn't the guy. You know, So they
do good work. I'm just I'm so leery of this one. Yeah,
this one for them to take up a well known case, and they put
out a statement, yeah, yesterday saying that evidence has been discovered the points
to mister Peterson's innocence and points to the actual perpetrators of the crimes against Lacy
and Connor Peterson. At least that's what the court document said. And then
they said that they are investigating what he claims to be his innocence. So
some of this is still them investigating it and you know, looking into it,
and that's why they want this evidence from the court. But the court
could say, sorry, no, we've gone through this. Even the California
Supreme Court has said no new trial. He's not getting out, but there's
a strong likelihood with this filing, the court is going to say okay,
prosecutors, you tell us your side. They'll look at both and say,
hey, we at least have to have a hearing, and then we see
where it goes. It could be a new trial, or the court could
say no, that this is over. Well, we'll be watching. And
thank you so much for your insight. I didn't realize that was your first
big case. So I've been around for a long time. Maybe all right,
take care, Alex, appreciate it, good Bucke, have a good
readod you two. California will provide an additional two hundred and fifty million dollars
for down payment assistance to first time home buyers through the California Dream for All
Loan program. Home Buyers have until April to apply. A lottery system will
determine who gets the assistance. Electric car chargers could soon become more affordable.
The Biden administration has announced the Treasury Department is proposing a tax credit that we
give a thirty percent discount on the purchase of electric car chargers to about two
thirds of consumers in the US. At six oh five, it's handled on
the news. Congress has again waited until the very last second, but did
pass a stopgap bill to keep the government funded until March. Let's say good
morning now to the home whisperer and the host of Home on KFI, Dean
Sharp Dean. Last week we talked about basically establishing the parameters to find out
what you can and cannot do to your property before you build. So so
now we've set the parameters before you build, what must you do? Well
before we build? We have to get into the mode of understanding how important
it is to design. We have got to set up our design team.
We have you yeh, design matters most, it really really does. If
there is one thing that our show has done, has attempted to do over
the last seven years that we've been on here on KFI, it is to
really underscore for the average homeowner. And this is something that has just typically
been an afterthought for the average homeowner, how important it is, how utterly
important it is to design, to work through the design. And I mean
that in all serious I'm not saying that that homeowners don't do any design work.
Of course they're They're like, of course I want my place to look
nice, But I mean serious about it. Everybody thinks about picking up the
phone and calling a contractor, but most middle class homeowners don't still in their
minds think what you know, first thing we got to do, We got
to find ourselves a designer. But it is so so very critical. It's
eighty percent of the result of everything that you're doing to your home. So
that is the next step along the path. Design matters most Okay, And
when you're talking about that, is that, like you said, call a
designer. Do you call a designer right away or do you sit down and
say these are the things I want and kind of start hashing it out and
really thinking through the elements that you want in your home before you get somebody
from the outside involved. Well, that's a good question, and it can
be some it's simultaneous because you want to get the process rolling of having a
designer, building a design team, a creative team for yourself. But yeah,
there is one hugely important role in this process that you, as the
homeowner, have to step up into. And it's not so much as the
designer. Your job is not to necessarily figure out what it's going to look
like or what it needs to look like, but what it is that you
want. And I always say this most importantly, why what it is that
you want and why I got you. Well, like in my first house,
I wanted a certain things, and then my second house, say said,
you know what, on my next house, I want a porch and
I want a fireplace, and then on my next house, I want you
know. I mean, you want different things at different times, but you
figure out, like you said, you figure out what you want, and
you figure out why, and then have somebody come and help you figure out
how exactly exactly and the reason. And I say, figuring out why is
this? You know, design is a language, and it's a language that
you may not know how to speak. And that is perfectly okay. It's
not your job to know how the space should change, but rather to know
why you want the change. And really, most importantly, I always tell
my clients don't let's not rush ahead. I understand you might have a preference.
Oh I want this light kind of countertop, dean er, I want
this thing to Okay, that's all well and good. Just tell me the
kind of experience you want to have in the space, because it might surprise
you how we get there. I was just on a consult earlier this week
and a lovely couple and they were explaining to us, hey, we need
to expand our kitchen, and I agreed for what they needed. They wanted
a bigger kitchen, but there were two directions that kitchen could have gone in.
One was to remove some structural walls, and half of their budget,
that's what they were thinking. Half of their budget would have been sucked up
in just removing the walls, because that's a big involved thing. As I
took a look at the larger house, I noticed that they weren't living in
the living room. They were cramped into the family room area, and then
there was another little weird table shoved in there. And strangely enough, instead
of staring at the kitchen, as I wandered through the house, I said,
you know, I think the solution to your problem takes place over here
in the living room. And they're like, what are you talking about?
And what I did was I redirected them to use three different rooms differently.
And what it enabled us to do was then take the kitchen and expand it
in the other direction and put all of their budget into the kitchen. So
that's what I'm saying, don't expect yourself to anticipate how we're going to get
there. Just tell me the experience you want to have and then let the
creative team go to work. I love that. Okay, So not everybody
can get Dean Sharp because Dean Sharp is only one person. So when you're
looking to get a designer, what kind of things are you looking for?
Well, of course you're looking for the same kind of thing that you would
look for in a contractor. You want referrals, you want recent referrals.
You want to talk to their clients that they have right now, just so
you can get a sense of how things are going. You want to see
their work. You want to find out if this is just a one trick
pony. Right, You're like, why why does everything look like a modern
farmhouse that you design? Or are you capable of designing the kind of stuff
that we want to have done? Like Chippy Joanna Gains. They make beautiful
things, but they all kind of look the same. It is? It
all kind of looks the same. And maybe that works for you, Maybe
that's what you want, or maybe you need something completely different and you need
to vet somebody that they're capable of doing exactly that. And then on a
personality level, you really want to find out if your designer is a good
listener, because again, we need to get right underneath your skin and find
out what's going on with you. Are they passionate enough to give you pushback
along the way, all right, a little creative pushback like no, Amy,
no, no, no, no, no, no no, we're
not going to do that. Or are they just gonna let kind of the
tail wag the dog, as it were, and are they willing to save
you from your less than perfect ideas? But still, even with that,
it's a fine balance because at the end of the day, you are the
boss, and so you know, I've had designers sometimes say I can't work
with these people for us, Tina and I we like to give pushback where
necessary, but at the end of the day, like over our objections,
listen, if this is what you want, you know, you're you're the
one laying out the money for this. We're going to give you what you
want always. Okay. I love that and I like that you know that
a good designer is going to make those suggestions and like you were talking about
with that one home design, not just say yeah, let's do this,
but kind of reimagine the space exactly exactly So you really want somebody whose personality
really vibe with and who has got enough passion for the project that they're willing
to give you a pushback, that it means something to them as much as
it means something to you. Okay, perfect, And you're going to be
talking a lot more about this this weekend on Home with Dean Sharp Saturday six
to eight am, Sunday nine to noon. Building your Dream exactly. How
part two? Is there going to be a part three next week? Yes,
ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Now, I'm not promising, I'm not
promising that we're going to do this series uninterrupted, but that is our goal
here at the beginning of twenty twenty four to actually take a step by step
guide through building your dream home. There may be little breaks in between for
more relevant to temporary issues, but we're going to do it. We're going
to get it done. I love it. Thank you so much, Dean
for your time. You can always follow Dean at Home with Dean so easy.
Have a wonderful weekend. Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A mistrial has been declared in Riverside County in the trial of a former LAPD
officer who fatally shot a developmentally disabled man at a costco in Corona. The
man's parents were also severely injured in the shooting. Lawyers for salvad Or Sanchez
say the shooting was done in self defense. Jurors yesterday said they were deadlocked
couldn't come up with a verdict. The process for a new trial is set
to begin February thirteenth. A man from Florida is expected to plead guilty in
Orange County for his part in the fire bombing of a planned parenthood in Costa
Mesa. Another guy charged in the case pleated guilty in November. A third
man is awaiting trial. The bombing happened in twenty twenty two. A man
from Koreatown who was illegally selling guns with another guy has been hit with a
more than three year prison sentence. From twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two,
William Penia sent photos and prices of guns to his partner so that his
partner could sell them. Evidence presented a trial indicated that Pania was obtaining firearms
from sources in other states, primarily Arizona. US attorney's spokesman Karen McAvoy says
Peneous partner admitted to aid illegal gun transactions last year. He's set to be
sentenced next month. An undercover agent bought both guns and AMMO from Painous partner
Blake Trolley kaf I News, Got Your One to Day, Got Your Centrum.
Three new studies that involved more than five thousand people show that taking a
daily multivitamin may protect older adults against memory loss. Researchers say the daily multivitamin
benefited healthy adults in things like reasoning, attention and planning, and the ability
to recall memories from day to day life. US forces have conducted a fifth
strike against Iranian backed Hoothi rebel military sites in Yemen. The air strikes gum
as President Biden acknowledged that the American and British bombardment has not yet stopped the
Hoothies from attacking ships traveling through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
Those attacks have disrupted global shipping. The freezing cold has killed at least fifty
five people across the US, at least ten of them in Oregon, where
ice storms left parts of the state covered in a sheet of ice that still
hasn't thought out. Pre sale passes go on sale today for eleven or today
at eleven for the twenty twenty four Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals can be
headlined by Lana Del Rey, Doja, Cat, No Doubt, and Tyler
the Creator. The festival is happening the weekends of April twelfth through the fourteenth,
and nineteenth through the twenty first at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.
We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, some fans
are suing Madonna for being late to her own concert. Can't wait to hear
more about that. Police in LA and Orange County are looking for more elderly
people whose homes may have been burglarized by a man posing as a Brinx Home
security worker. The man was arrested in Riverside County for a burglary in Harbor
City last month, where detectives found evidence linking the man to several other cases
in Anaheim last summer. O CDA Todd Spitzer says his office has charged the
man with five felonies and five misdemeanors. It's unequivocally clear you come to Orange
County. When we catch you, we're gonna hammer you, and we're not
shy about going to court and protecting our victims, police say. In the
Harbor City burglary last month, the man told an elderly woman he was at
her house to install censors for her security cameras, and once inside, took
her jewelry and credit cards. Chris Adler, KA, fine news. Now
let's say good morning too, ABC's entertainment guru. It's Jason Nathanson. Jason
Iss hits theaters this weekend. Yes, tell us all about it. This
is the new way. It's It's so we're kind of in a slow time
at the box office. We're not getting in a lot of big, huge
studio movies. This is not a studio movie, and we're gonna see Mean
Girls top the box office once again this weekend. Even though you said it's
not very good, I said it was okay. I said there's okay,
there was there was no point in in in versus the original. I think,
you know, like there's still just go watch the original. I think
it's it's still better, okay. But it was, you know, it
was okay. I didn't dislike it. Okay, but iss is about the
International Space Station. That's where you get the the initials there. Ariana debots
from West Side story she wanted to Oscar a couple of years ago. She
starts as a scientist who travels to the International Space Station. She's going for
the first time. But she gets there and there there are several other Americans
who have been there before, some Russians who've been there for a little while,
and then tensions start to flare as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth.
So did you see Leave the World Behind on Netflix idea? So this
is kind of that's happening on Earth. This is happening in the in the
space station in space right. It's kind of like the spiritual cousin to that
film. It's really really tense. It's a slow burning thriller that really.
It starts out and you can feel the tension and then it just gets more
and more tense as things go along. Now, I got to see this
at home. This is only in theaters this weekend. If you were able
to see it at home, if you want to wait till it's done streaming,
you know, that would be fine. I don't know that you need
to necessarily rush out to the theater to see it. It's okay, it's
not a bad watch, but it's not one of those I think you need
to necessarily go pay a bunch of money, you know, and take time
out of your weekend to go see. But I did enjoy it, and
the kind of the I think I like a little bit more, the premise
behind it, a little bit more than the actual execution. Okay. And
so you mentioned Leave the World Behind, which I did see on your recommendation
or I don't know if it was a recommendation, but after you talked about
it, I did recommend and I personally didn't like it at all. Sure,
but so does it have that sort of same feel because when we were
talking about it, I was talking to Wake Up Call about it, and
we were saying that it did move very slow, and it like things kind
of happened, but you weren't really sure. What is that the same vibe
that you get from ISS? I mean a little bit. They're different,
very different movies, very different tones. Leave the World Behind, you know,
had some strange stuff going on, some I thought some you know,
really funny stuff. When it came to you know, their incorporation of pop
culture like friends and things like that. You know, this is a completely
different tone. It's just really all about tension from from the first second basically
that the film starts and building this tension between these six characters. So it's
you know, if you like that sort of thing. I know a lot
of people don't like that sort of thing. It's one of the criticisms of
the show, The Bear right and some other The Bear is a very tense,
anxiety inducing the show. But it's so good. It's good. But
it's definitely not a comedy in my opinion, which is kind of incredible since
it just ran the table at the I mean comedy. But you know,
so some people do like that kind of stuff. I personally don't like to
live in that world. I think the real world is tense enough. I
don't like it in my entertainment, but it didn't necessarily bother me in this
film. Okay, So then let's shift gears because there's another movie coming out
called Origin, and it's about the origins of racism in America. Yeah,
and this is a real treat in terms of what I get to do as
part of my job, because this is a movie that's been flying under the
radar. It should have gotten a lot more awards attention than it did.
And you know, and one of the reasons is my fault as well,
because I was late to this film, didn't get a chance to see it
until this week. I saw it yesterday and it absolutely blew me away.
Really. Yeah. This is Eva du Verna, who she directed Selma Thirteenth,
you know, a bunch of some really great stuff. She wrote and
directed this. It's the story of a woman played by angeu Ellis Taylor who
she is dealing with tremendous person tragedy and she does so by throwing herself into
her work as a writer. And this is kind of based on the true
story of how this book from a couple of years ago was written. And
her character is she's kind of a sociologist examining social systems in the US,
and she starts to get into how the treatment of black people in America is
tied to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, is tied to the caste
system in India. And she's pulling on all these connective threads and putting them
together. And the film itself, the way the story is told it's about
this one woman's journey, so it's very much kind of a narrative story in
that way, but it also feels like it's partially a documentary and a little
bit of a history lesson as well. It's absolutely excellent filmmaking from Aver Duvernet
and an outstanding performance from Andrea Ellis Taylor. Had I seen it last year,
it would have been on my list of the most impactful films of twenty
twenty three. For sure. This film should heavily be in the awards conversation.
And we'll see if it gets any Oscar love next week. I don't
think it will. I just don't think people have seen it. I don't
think they've taken the time to see it. Indeed, you never heard of
it until you put it into your this is what I'm going to talk about
tomorrow notes. Yeah, and that's one of the issues, and that also
comes to marketing and the Oscars campaign. You know, it's one of those
movies. It was in theaters in New York and Los Angeles for a week
or so to qualify for the awards is in December, but now just now
it's coming out in wide release. Maybe if it had been out in wide
release a little earlier and people were talking about it, it would have gotten
more people to see it. But whatever happened, it's a shame and a
crime as far as I'm concerned. But the fact is that you can go
see it this weekend, and I would highly encourage everybody to do so a
glowing endorsement. Okay, so we've got the Oscars. Speaking of the Oscars,
the nominations are coming out next week and anything that we should be looking
forward to, Yeah, I mean we'll see I think some of the stuff
that we've continued to see so far of the you know, when it comes
to Best Picture, of course, I think we're gonna see, you know,
a lot of nominations for Oppenheimer that's going to get it because that's one
of those films that has a lot of the acting spots best Picture also a
lot of the technical stuff as well, and director for Christopher Nolan. So
look for that to do very very well. And then a lot of the
stuff that we've seen so far this season, and we're talking about Best Picture,
you know, I think Barbie is probably going to get in there.
American Fiction, the Holdovers. I like American fiction at all. Okay,
I liked American Fiction. I thought it was I wanted it to be.
I love I love the premise of it. It didn't get me one hundred
percent, and I don't know if I would put it on Best Picture,
but it's definitely it's gotten that buzz and it's going to continue. Yeah,
and I like it. Is it Jeffrey Wright? Is it the name Jeffrey
Wright? Yes? I love him as an actor. I think started.
Yeah, I think it was good. It just it fell flat. It
didn't live up to what I expected it to be, gotcha. And you
know, again, at the end of the day, all these things are
subjective, right, and so you know, I think we look at you
know, I vote on the Critics' Chorte Awards. We talked about that last
week, and I of my votes, fourteen of them more different than what
actually won. So you know, everybody has different opinions, and you know,
we all see things very differently. Again, one of the reasons why
it's a shame of film like Origin, which I think should be in this
conversation and should definitely get the Best Picture nomination, probably isn't going to get
it, might not even get anything. Well, we're going to go see
it anyway based on what you said, because now I'm excited to go see
the thing. You know, I think it's one of those things. Check
out the trailer. If it speaks to you, then I think you will
definitely enjoy it. If it doesn't, it's not going to be for everybody,
and I certainly that's fine, So hold your angry emails and tweets and
things like that. But you know, again, these things are subjective.
But I thought it's what can't be denied for me at least, is that
it's fantastic filmmaking. Okay, great, Jason Nathanson, thank you so much.
All Right, take it all right, I'll talk to you next week.
But let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Prosecutors say the man who allegedly killed a six year
old boy in a road raid shooting an orange confessed when he was arrested.
Senior Deputy da Dan Feldman told jurors yesterday Marcus Ayres also admitted to knowing his
action could kill someone. In the interview, he explains why he decided to
shoot at a car with people in it on a freeway during rush sh Howork
because someone gave him a finger. The defenses. Aries had no way of
knowing Aiden Leos was in the car in twenty twenty one and had no malice
or intent to kill the boy. Aries is facing forty years in prison for
second degree murder and other charges if convicted. Taylor Swift has received nine nominations
for the twenty twenty four iHeart Music Awards. She's followed closely by Jelly Roll,
Sizza and twenty one Savage, they each got eight. Olivia Rodrigo got
seven nominations. The awards honor the most played artists of the year on iHeart
stations and app. Fans can vote online at iHeartRadio dot com Slash Awards from
now until March twenty five. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles,
Orange County. We leave local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and if you
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