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Middleton. You're borning everybody. Friday, July seventh. This is your wake
up call. I know. At the bottom of the hour, promo Man
Clay comes back with the calendar of what happened today, and just in case
it's not included, it might be, But just in case it's not,
I thought it was worth mentioning the first women cadets at West Point were admitted
on this date back in nineteen seventy six and graduated in nineteen eighty. Also
this hour, we have a I was just doing now trending, which we
run on some other sister stations. And well it's kind of a heavy newsday
for Friday, so we have a lot to get into. But in addition
to that, I want to call out Kafis. Steve Gregory has a wonderful
little feature on a graduating police puppy. We'll have that later this hour too.
Let's get into some headlines first. Though the US will be arming Ukraine
with cluster bombs. The Pentagon is expected to announce today that President Biden has
approved Ukraine's request for the weapons, not without some controversy. The FDA is
making a potential breakthrough Alzheimer's drug widely available. It's called Lakenbi. Lakenbi is
the first drug proven too slow the memory loss disease. A decision can make
it more accessible to millions of people with early onset dementia, and Twitter has
filed a cease and desist letter against Threads. Threads is the Twitter competitor from
meta slash Instagram, the meta social platform launched Wednesday night, a little bit
earlier than usual and as approaching fifty million new users from CNBC reporting as of
this morning. Let's start with some of the other stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. We lead local, The attorney for an
LA County sheriff's deputy's seen on video tackling a woman during an arrest in Lancaster,
says there's more to the story. Tommy Yu says his client was sent
co three lights and sirens to the Windco grocery store because of a nine one
one call describing a robbery and assault. Video posted online shows the deputy taking
the woman to the ground after she and her husband were ided by store management.
You can clearly see her left hand making a fist, and that was
going towards the direction of the deputy undisputed. You says his client did everything
by the book, including the level of force. He says he fears his
client will not get a fair investigation because of Sheriff Luna's press conference. Steve
Gregory Canofineos officials in Chino Valley have confiscated more than one thousand pounds of illegal
fireworks. Gino Police issued fifty nine citations for fireworks on the fourth of July,
giving each offender a one thousand dollars fine. Chino Fire says they will
be hosting a safe disposal event on July fourteenth for people to get rid of
fireworks with no penalties. Officials in La say beachgoers should continue to stay away
from six sea lions poisoned by a toxic algal bloom. About ninety nine sea
lions had been taken in by the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro since
the bloom started in June. Veterinarian Lauren Palmer says about ten sea lions are
ready to go back into the ocean, but could get re exposed to jamoic
acid. You know, we can't really fix the ocean right now, so
we need to just give the animals the best second chance we can. Palmer
said yesterday. The center is overwhelmed and is relying on donations to help continue
treating the sick animals in San Pedro. Chris Adler KFI News. Pedestrians and
Boyle Heights have some new safety improvements. LA City Councilman Kevin da leon says
Olympic Boulevard is one of the deadliest streets for pedestrians. No one should have
to risk their life simply to cross a street. The improvements, which included
crosswalk and curb extensions, cost the city more than one million dollars. Daileon
says residents have been asking the city to make safety changes on the street for
more than a decade. Again, Twitter has threatened Meta with a lawsuit following
the release of Threads. An attorney for Twitter sent a letter to CEO Mark
Zuckerberg Wednesday, saying the company stole trade secrets by purposely hiring former Twitter employees.
The letter says Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights. A
Meta spokesperson says, no one on the Threads engineering team used to work at
Twitter. We have a lot more on that coming up a little bit later
this hour. So the first topic for today on wake Up Call is one
that is not typically one that follows up on a Friday, but it has
to do with healthcare costs and junk fees on concert tickets and hotel bills,
maybe some resort bills. ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers is on with us
right now. Good morning, Karen, and welcome on a Friday. Good
morning, Happy Friday. So yesterday was we talked about Bidenomics in South Carolina.
Today's a little bit broader healthcare costs for seniors. What's on the agenda
for today? Yeah, so, you know, I think the President's going
to touch on what he's doing to help seniors and families, specifically with allowing
Metacare to negotiate prescription drug prices. But he's also going to announce new plan
to crackdown on surprise medical bills and certain kinds of short term health insurance as
a way to protect consumers. This is a big part of that bidonomics agenda
that you mentioned. Is something he's going to be talking about a lot over
the next year heading into the campaign, because this is something Americans care about
bringing down healthcare cross So these short term insurance plans under the Obama administration,
we're limited just three months as a way to encourage more people to purchase annual
coverage through the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration reversed that rule and said
that you could purchase short term plans that went up to twelve months or even
review though for up to three years. The White House, the Biden White
House, says that these are not great for consumers because it can leave them
vulnerable to major medical debt. Sometimes they offer very little coverage. Sometimes they
don't offer coverage for creeds is in conditions, and people don't know what they're
getting, and then suddenly they get a gigantic bill and realize they didn't have
comprehensive coverage. So the President today is going to say that this is going
to now be limited to just three months, back to what it was in
the Obama years. Require these plans to disclose coverage limitation so people know what
they're getting, and also push providers to disclose extra charges. Kind of make
the sign print a little bit more clear and highlight things like those extrahibbit fees.
So they say this is something that is, you know, trying to
look out for families, people who are you turning to these plans if they
don't have full coverage when they need these short term plans, But at least
make sure people know what they're getting into so they don't get a surprise bin
Buill down the road. Karen, do you read this as kind of a
kind of a long tail coming out of Obamacare, given Biden's participation in building
Obamacare and getting it through Congress. Yeah, certainly, you know, I
think a way for them to say, like, look, it's better.
This is their position. I'm saying, like, it's better for you to
be in a longer term plan because you know what you're getting into as opposed
to one of these short term things where you could have a lot of hidden
cops coming into it. So that is one part of it, and I
think again to drive people, encourage people to purchase the annual coverage through the
Affordable Care Act SURE, But you know, it is also part of that
broader thing for the administration of trying to bring down healthcare costs. It's a
tough thing to do, but this is a big priority for voters. So
this is the administration trying to figure out ways that they can address that to
be able to stay out there on the campaign trail. Look, we hear
you, and we're trying to figure out efforts to do this and go after
what it is that you guys are most interested in. The other thing you
know, I think you had mentioned like junk fees. We're going to hear
that phrase a little bit today too, because some of these plans they'll say,
have junk fees hidden in it. But that's also a big part of
their economic agenda too. When you talk about hotel fees, airline fees,
ticket fees when you're buying concert tickets and things like that, they say that
those are things that really add up, and they're trying to do a crackdown
on companies. So look, they're not necessarily going to bring down the cost
overall of a ticket, but at least people know what they're getting from the
moment they start purchasing. Right. Is there any political backlash against hidden fees?
I can't imagine. That's a vox populi kind of a situation. An
issue, right, I mean everybody would be happy, Yeah, exactly.
I think it's more getting these companies to agree to do these upfront costs,
and I think it's a lot about have a flaming of it. Like again,
it's not bringing it's not telling Ticketmaster to bring down the cost of tickets.
It's not telling hotels or airlines to splash up right at their costs.
It's just saying you need to be upfront with consumers from the start. It
seems to be kind of running parallel with the tipping issues that keep getting coverage
about when you know they turned the screen towards you five fifteen, eighteen twenty
percent kind of things. Just show me what the show me the math and
maybe I'll agree to it. That kind of thing, right, I mean,
it's just transparency. Yeah, yeah. And I think you know the
President's probably once every couple of weeks now is doing in an event related to
these junk fees where you know whether ticket Master and stubhab in those companies that
here at the White House a couple of weeks ago, and talking about trying
to make those processes a little bit more smooth. With anilines a couple of
months ago, hotels before that, you know, in the grand scheme of
things, like, it's not thousands and thousands of dollars for each consumer,
but it's tens of dollars. It's hundreds of dollars that really add up when
you're making a trip or when you're making a big ticket purchase like that.
Absolutely, ABC White House correspondent character ever, is always a pleasure. Thank
you, Hope you have a great weekend. You two things. I haven't
thought about the cure since a college girlfriend. Maybe go to a concert and
they're one of the bands that comes out against these fees. And I'm sure
that you have your own touchstone musical performer who might be calling these out as
well. We'll see how it goes today. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFY twenty four hour news room. A pet
store Giant is in the doghouse with an order to pay more than one million
dollars to settle a lawsuit in La County. Pet Smart is settling the suit
following prosecutors alleging the retailer over charge customers for items that were average lower prices
in La County as well as other counties. In the state. The La
County DA says that pet smart admitted to no wrongdoing, even though it decided
to paw out one point two five million dollars and penalties, one hundred thousand
in restitution to support future enforcement of consumer protection laws, and one hundred ten
thousand dollars in investigative cost. Pet Smart has also been banned from false or
misleading advertising or from charging a price that's higher than the lowest advertised price.
Andrew Caravella KFI News, we have another dog story coming up in about fifteen
minutes. Also, NBC News says the bag of cocaine found in the White
House was actually in a cubby near the White House's West Executive entrance. Earlier
reports said it was in the formal West Wing lobby. The Secret Service is
expected to wrap up its investigation early next week. Investigators have been waiting for
the results of DNA or fingerprint analysis and have been reviewing visitor logs and security
camera footage. The California Supreme Court has ruled employers are not legally responsible for
preventing the spread of COVID nineteen from their employees to the employees families. A
woman had sued her husband's employer in late twenty twenty, alleging her husband got
COVID at work, then took it home gave it to her. She said
she was in the hospital for weeks. More than eighty people have been hurt
in a bus crash in New York City. Officials say a double decker tour
bus collided with an MTA bus yesterday. Eighteen people were taken to the hospital.
The Fire Department says dozens more were evaluated, but no one had life
threatening injuries. A former Amazon warehouse manager in Georgia has been sentenced to sixteen
years in prison for a nine million dollar theft scheme. Federal prosecutors say the
woman used some of the stolen money to buy a mansion and multiple luxury cars.
They say she abused her position of trust at Amazon and conspired with at
least six other people. The woman's attorney says he thinks the sentence is greater
than necessary. A co founder of Ben and Jerry's ice Cream has been arrested
in Washington, d C. For blocking the entrance to a Department of Justice
building. Officials say Ben Cohen was protesting the detainment of joy in Asange yesterday.
Who is imprisoned in England and may soon be extradited to the US.
Assange faces charges of leaking classified government information on his Wiki Leak's website. Cohen
says Assange told the truth doesn't deserve to suffer in prison. Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen is defending American industry during her trip to China. A recent battle in
the Lower Key trade war is China's restriction of sharing rare earth minimals, minerals
that are used in battery and supercomputing technology. This simmering trade war is going
to be around for a little bit. A former assistant principle is suing Donda
Academy. That's the former's private school founded by Yea, the artist formerly known
as Kanye West. Britney Spears apparently rolled up on NBA rookie Victor Wemban Yanna
near an elevator in Las Vegas, and a police report alleges one of the
seven Footers security detail slapped Spears. Wemban Yama says he didn't know who she
was or why she wanted a selfie with him. He's from France, so
maybe he hasn't now come on Britney Spears We are going to talk with Eric
Katurski into just a couple of minutes, but first Steve Gregory's story. A
golden Labrador has been released from the Twin Towers Jail in downtown La Gretel was
in for just a little over a year, though she didn't break any laws.
In fact, she was there by accident. Ella County Sheriff's Deputy Diana
Valenzuela, wanted to volunteer to train a puppy for Guide Dogs of America,
with the intent of giving the dog back to the group so it could be
trained up and given to a person in need. But Valenzuela didn't know she
would have to take the dog everywhere with her. Twenty four to seven.
Valenzuela is a custody assistant inside Twin Towers. They need to be used to
the noises, the touching, the grabbing, the anything that would happen in
an environment that would startle a dog. This is all to desensitize the dog.
After getting leaderships blessing, Gretel made her way throughout the facility, including
the jails. If you can get to La County Jail, I'm sure she
should be a solid, confident dog. Yesterday, Gretel was given back to
the group. Chief Marguerite of Alaskaez runs Twin Towers and says the program may
continue proximately A year ago, the Chef's Department embarked with Guy Dogs of America.
Did you just say embarked? Yeah, really embarked. No. I
thought you were making a joke with Dogs Partnership. Well, you get the
idea. Steve Gregory, k if I News that was great at five thirty
embarked at five thirty kfi's House whisper Dean Sharp is going to be on with
us. Yeah, it's Friday, so we're gonna get a tease on Dean's
weekend show topic and little spoiler alert, it has to do with prepping for
El Nino. Right now, ABC's Aaron Katurski is on the line to talk
about some some market dynamics, some legally's some Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg,
and thank goodness, it's not about some stupid cage match. Good morning,
Eron. I mean, but it sounds like a legal cage match in the
Battle of the Billionaires, doesn't it. And Elon Musk is thrown the first
legal punch. He is whiled a cease and desist letter that accuses Mark Zuckerberg's
Meta of stealing Twitter's technology to make threadge, which just launched and by all
indications is so far a success. Look, I covered Silicon Valley for a
long time. This is soop. Engineers change jobs. Why does Twitter think
that it has some kind of legal standing or is this just a kind of
a season desist to get a headline? I mean, there may be some
of that, but the way that Elon must sees it, competition is one
thing, stealing, he says, as another, and he has accused Meta
stealing Twitter's technology to make threads work, and if you look at it,
it functions the same way, it looks largely the same. But Meta denies
stealing any technology from Twitter and says that any Twitter employees that have been hired
by Meta are not working on the threads team. So just for context too,
there's a one in beta testing right now called blue Sky, and it
was dog fooded within Twitter before Elon Musk bought it. He has not filed
a season desist against blue Sky, which started under that umbrella and branding.
Has any pushback come from Meta yet? Uh? Well, this um that
that we've heard of. No, and I think this is you know,
more Elon Musk's priority, because Threads is meant to be the Twitter killer,
isn't it. Uh? And Uh. Where Twitter has started to change its
model, things that used to be free are no longer, here comes Zuckerberg
with with an app that he believes consumers want, so it is an immediate
threat. Uh And and certainly in the you know, I guess, in
the pantheon of social media entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg's the you know, the the giant
killer that that Musk has this eyeon. Have you poured it over your Instagram
yet? To Threads, Aaron, I haven't yet. I have to confess,
but I war time. Okay, no, no, it's it's it's
almost too easy, by the way. I did it on Wednesday night,
just for a laugh, and because I saw some other I saw some other
friends were doing it, well, some other journalists. And you know,
Twitter used to be like pretty much the journalist assignment desk, like it was
the managing editor for a lot of journalists as well, and that has gone
away, and maybe people are poring over there for that. Any other use
cases you can think of for Threads versus Twitter. No, I mean I
think the you know, one of the the issues is going to be emergency
services that are you know, relying at this point on Twitter, as you
say, more than an assignment manager to get get critical information out, And
I think they're now going to have to be deplicative at least, if not
move over entirely. So it's a lot for consumers and agencies to think about.
But eventually you think this probably winds up in the courts because it's hard
to see either Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg backing down Eron Katurski from ABC,
thank you so much for your time this morning. I hope you have a
great weekend, Darren, you too, Thank you. A couple of quick
follows to this. First of all, Meta is not above shooting itself in
the foot. Apparently if you want to get rid of threads, you have
to kill your Instagram account too. Also, it seems that the National Weather
Service in Colorado was unable to view critical data as a storm system moved through
Colorado because of the Twitter limitations that Musk set over the weekend. So my
third point about this would have to be, is there a state sponsored social
media platform in the future that where this information can get shared faster, because
obviously it's proven to be useful, especially during weather events in like aaronson and
other emergency situations. Let's get some more news coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The Food and Drug Administration has fully approved a new Alzheimer's
drug, despite concerns about its safety, cost, and accessibility. Leakembi is
meant to slow the progression of the disease. The Alzheimer's Association says the disease
affects nearly seven million people in the US. A homeless man in Orange County
has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for stabbing a homeless woman in Anaheim.
Adrian Vargas pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon,
both felonies, and to a misdemeanor account of resisting arrest. He has a
history of burglary and assault crimes. Pet Smart has agreed to pay nearly one
and a half million dollars to settle a false advertising lawsuit in southern California.
The La County DA's office says the pet store overcharged customers for items that were
advertised at lower prices. It says the company will have to implement more audit
and price accuracy procedures in stores for the next three years. More than one
million dollars in safety improvements have been completed on Olympic Boulevard in Boil Heights.
The improvements include a traffic signal and two flashing crosswalks. This may sound very
simple crosswalks, new curve extensions, but for the Boil Heights residents it is
crucial and protecting our pedestrians. LA City Councilman Kevin d Leone says the street
is one of the deadliest in the city for pedestrians. More than three hundred
people were killed in car crashes across LA last year. Officials say seventy percent
of all major accidents happen on six percent of streets in LA. In boil
Heights, Blake Trolley k if I Knew the Marine Mammal Center Care Center in
San Pedro says toxic algae is causing seizures and aggression in poisoned sea lions.
Veterinarian Lauren Palmer says people should stay away from the sick animals. We treat
them with anticonvulsant drugs. That has been the most effective treatment that we've come
up with to try and get them through this. Palmer said yesterday. The
center has taken in ninety nine sea lions since the algae bloom started last month.
She says the center is at capacity and some animals cannot be taken in.
The attorney for an La County Sheriff's deputy seen on video arresting a husband
and wife in Lancaster says his client did everything by the book. Tom U
says policies and training were followed when his client detained the couple at the Windco
grocery store. You says on June twenty fourth, his client drove Code three
lights and sire into the scene because nine caller said there was an assault in
robbery in progress. Once they were identified as the subject of the radio call,
they're decayed. They're not free to leave, they can't go home.
Debree have to conduct an investor person into dot call. You says the incident's
been blown out of proportion in Sheriff Luna's judgmental comments don't help. Steve Gregory,
King of Fine News. Police in Houston, Texas say the man reported
missing as a teenager eight years ago, was not missing. They say.
Rudy Farias returned home the day after he was reported missing back in twenty fifteen,
but police were not told. Lieutenant Christopher Zamora says Phereus and his mom
had interactions with police for years and used different names. The mother, Janey,
continued to deceive police by remaining adamant that Rudy was still missing. She
alleged her nephew was as a person. Friends and family were seen coming and
going. However, we disputed that. So far, the DA has declined
to file charges. Police say there were no reports of sexual abuse that has
been alleged. The FTC and FDA have asked companies that sell marijuana edibles to
stop making packaging similar to kids snacks and candies. A letter issued Wednesday says
the products could violate the FTC Act, which bands deceptive acts. As one
seller, Doctor Smoke, sells Cheeto edibles in a bag identical to the real
snack, including the Chester Cheetah mascot. The FED say the misleading packaging presents
health and safety risks. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has been meeting with business leaders
and Chinese government officials. In China, she raised concerns during a roundtable meeting,
including about what she called punitive actions taking against US firms and barriers to
market excess. I'm also concerned to that new export controls recently announced by China
on two critical minerals used in technologies like semiconductors. Yellen is in China trying
to improved strained relations with the United States. A man who went on a
dump truck rampage in South la has been sentenced to two years in prison.
Back in January, the man smashed into his estranged wife's home in Westmont and
hit several other parked cars. The US will begin sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
after all. The Pentagon is expected to announce today that President Biden has proved
Kiev's request for the controversial weapons. The shipment will bypass a US law prohibiting
the production, use, or transfer of cluster munitions, which have been banned
in more than one hundred and twenty countries. Now coming up at five fifty,
we have ABC's Jason Nathanson for the entertainment report going into the weekend.
Not a lot of headline cinema, but we are going to preview the Mission
Impossible flick that's getting a ton of really good reviews. But right now,
of course, it's time for Dean Sharp Kfi's house whisperer. Welcome, Endean.
Hey, Jason, how you do, good buddy. So where do
you want to start, because let's start with El Nino because I've been working
on some economic angles for California later this year. I'd like to know what
your take is on El Nino and getting us ready for it. Well,
el Nino is here. That's the first thing that everybody has to realize.
So you know, last winter, this last long, very very wet winter
that we had is essentially the result of what we call the atmospheric river,
which is a byproduct of climate change and global warming and so on. An
unusual winter for us. But what is normal for us is this cycle that
we're in, and that is the Elnino La Nina cycle. And El Nino
is here. And traditionally when El Nino shows up, by the way,
el Nino is a warm water flowing from the southeast Pacific our southwest Pacific,
flowing our way, and it changes the jet stream, and it lowers a
jet stream onto southern California, which typically brings us incredibly wet winter. So
the lesson here is there is a high likelihood, not an absolute guarantee,
because you know weather cycles these days, they're a little screwed up. But
there's a high likelihood that we are staring down the pipeline of yet another very
very wet, long winter coming our way. And as a result, it's
time right now, not in the fall when everybody's making a mad dash at
the last minute, but right now to figure out what's going on with the
roof, what's going on with yard drainage, take advantage of the warmth of
summer to get everything fixed up, tuned up so that when the water does
start coming again, we're all ready for it. Okay, so you said,
you know, the roofing thing, to get to get ready for it.
What's typically one of the problems that we should look for when it comes
to the roof, because I mean, I'm el Nino's coming, Like you
said, another winter we had fourteen I believe fourteen storms moved through last winter.
Might have the same or more this time. Yeah, exactly. Well,
first of all, the big deal is, of course, if there's
anything maintenance wise, that has to be done upon the roof. If there's
a recurring leak, now is the time to get it fixed. If your
roof needs replacing, now is the time to address that. And we'll be
going into detail exactly how that works over the weekend. We're talking roofing,
all roofing and drainage all weekend long Saturday and Sunday. But how do you
know your roof needs replacing If there are multiple leaks, you know, the
leak that springs up here and or there in the course of twenty years.
Fine, get it dealt with and you're good to go. But if you've
had multiple leaks on your roof, that's a big sign. Curled up shingles.
If you have an asphalt composite roof, which about eighty percent of people
in southern California do, when those shingles start curling up, that is a
sign that they have started to fit. They've reached the end. When over
the course of this last winter, when it rains, if you end up
with rock granules on the ground around the edge of the home. In other
words, those granules which were supposed to be stuck to those shingles end up
on the ground they're letting go, and things like rusted flashings, and just
the idea that, hey, if your roof is already twenty twenty five years
old, time to start taking a look at it. Okay, So what
I heard was when it curls up, tear it down. There you go,
all right, cool. I understand that you're also not an enthusiast when
it comes to hardscaping. What do you have against hardscaping? I have nothing
against herdscaping, and I get a bad rep for this all the time.
I love heartscaping. In other words, you know hard x around the house,
here, there, and everywhere. I'm simply as a designer. The
truth is, and this is just an absolute fact, that people hardscape way
more than they should. A hardscape patio or an area to sit down enjoy
a fire pit or a barbecue area or what have you. Those are fantastic.
Let's do them, but let's keep them limited to those areas. In
other word, let's have enough hardscape, but not too much hardscape. The
idea of just you know, concreting out an entire backyard and the side yards
of a house, and you know, half of the stuff in front way
way way too much, and not only from a design perspective. Is it
just way too much tarmac around your house, but it crowds out stuff that
should be their plants, greenery, all sorts of opportunities, making those a
hardscape areas destination. But most importantly in relationship to what we're talking about today,
it prevents a property from absorbing water instead of forcing it to completely run
off. And that's one of the big conversations. If you remember that we
had this last winter, it is time for southern California to start absorbing and
retaining water, and that starts at the home for home level. So what
is better than a really really well orchestrated storm drain system in your home that
is a property that can absorb as much water as possible without having to push
it into the drains and send it out into the street and out into the
ocean without being used. Okay, you're off the hook when it comes to
herdscaping and being a hater I digh. Okay, cool, all right,
but my follow up has to be about landscaping. So are we talking about
artificial grass or a meadow approach? If we're going to replace the hardscaping around.
Yeah, no artificial grass. Sorry, now that one. You can
quote me on across the board. I am okay with artificial grass for one
thing and one thing only, and that is if you want a putting green
in your backyard. Otherwise lose the plastic It is not good for the vironment.
It is not good. It's not a good look. And we want
more plant material. Roots into the soil. That is what controls erosion.
Okay, Roots in the soil, feeding the soil, plus just creating habitat
in your backyard, in your front yard, so that you know, nature,
that little thing that we actually limon can return to your home. So
that's what I'm all about. No plastic grass. Let's go with the plants.
Okay, fine, you want to talk nature real quick? Okay,
what about roots? How deep do those roots need to be? Are you
okay with like the one inch kind of top soil roots and then just move
on from there. You want something a little bit more certain, Well,
you know, it's a it's a mixed question. I mean, ninety percent
of the plants on the planet grow in the top twelve inches of soil on
the planet. So you know, I've got no problem with shallow roots as
far as that goes. But when it comes to shrubs and other plants that
can grow deeper, especially trees, we don't want to superficially water them on
the surface. That's why we want that water are soaking in deep. The
deeper the roots, the more drought resistant the plant. You know, we
push a form of a lawn cover that's not grass. I'm talking about it
all the time. It's called carapia. It sends down six foot deep roots.
So we're talking about tapping into moisture sources that are far below you know,
just regular sprinkling needs. And that's what makes something like that green lush
all year long, holds out through the through the drought times, but also
a fantastic way of channeling water and holding onto soil when the rain comes down.
Okay, last one, non sequitor flat curveball across the plate, dry
rot. What should we watch it for there? Because I have a feeling
that that is probably a little more typical for most homeowners moving into the fall
and getting ready for Alnino. Yeah. I think if you've got wood around
your house and your house is old enough, then you're going to experience set
some point a little bit of dry rot. Dry rot is not simply water
touching wood. It's water that's been there long enough to encourage a fungus.
Dry rot is a fungus. It's a fungus that eats cellulose and that makes
up about fifty percent of wood. That's the soft part of the wood.
That's why it feels dry to us. It's actually caused by moisture damage,
but it feels dry to us. But you walk up to the wood and
you're like, oh, it's a little soft, and then all of a
sudden, you just poke your fingers straight through it because you know the guts
are gone. We don't want that. So you keep your paint in good
shape. If you find any dry rot, you clear out those areas that
have been damaged. If it's limited in scope, you can fill it with
a really good wood filler and then repaint and you should be good to go.
But you got to keep your eye on it because it'll keep eating and
eating and eating, and you don't want it to get to a point where
it is structural in nature and large pieces of framing members have to be replaced.
That nine data point you gave me earlier was a teachable moment. Thanks
a lot, I didn't I had no idea about that. You are welcome,
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on your wake up call. Friday, July seventh. Friday, of course,
begins the weekend and that means we get to talk to ABC's Jason They
Good morning, Jason, Hey, good morning. Let's start with joy Ride.
I'm kind of intrigued by this flick. What do you think? Yeah,
this is a raunchy rrated comedy, kind of in the way that we
had no hard feelings from Jennifer Lawrence a couple of weeks ago, which I
was really looking forward to that love R rated raunchy comedies, and that one
didn't quite live up to expectations. On the comedy side. It also tried
to get really a little bit too emotional, and it's just the whole thing
didn't work. This one, joy Ride, it gets to comedy right,
and it gets the emotion part right. It just kind of gets everything right,
which is absolutely great. The basic premise here is you have four friends
who go on a once in a lifetime international adventure to China. You have
Ashley Park from Emily Paris is kind of the star. She's a lawyer who
needs to go to China to close a big business deal, ends up trying
to find her birth mother she's adopted from China, and her best friend Lolo
tags along. Lolo's cousin Dead Eye which is that's just a great funny name,
and they made up with their friend Kat in China. She's a soap
o star played by everything everywhere all at once. Autnominee Stephanie Shoe, so
really good cast here, but just really really funny jokes, surprising, raunchy,
really funny humor, very r rated. This is not for you kids,
but then also very emotional as well. You're gonna laugh and you're gonna
cry, and you're gonna do all of it, hopefully in a theater setting
where these comedies are our best scene around hopefully a packed group of people.
Yeah, I have to agree about That's why I'm kind of intrigued by joy
right, and also just from the production aspect of it too. Not a
huge production cost, but I think box office expectations are fairly reasonable for this
one. Yeah, you know, I don't know it's gonna have a huge
opening weekend, but hopefully it can have some legs because there isn't really a
whole lot of There's a lot of action stuff. There's a lot of big
movies coming in the next couple of weeks, but not really from the from
the comedy side of things, and there's not really a whole lot going on
this weekend right now. Now coming up next week, you're gonna have Mission
Impossible, and then you're gonna have Barbie, and you're gonna have a lot
of things for it to compete with. But in the common R rated comedy
Realm No Hard Feelings was already you know, that's that's here and gone.
That's not going to be making really much more money, So it has the
decks kind of cleared for to to do some decent box office You mentioned the
upcoming m I chapter. Let's keep our powder dry on that with just for
a second we talked about comedy. What about Insidious Red Door? Because the
horror movie seem to be doing okay this year. Uh yeah, okay,
there there's a lot of them. They're cheap, they're easy to produce,
um and they usually get a good return on their money, which is why
Hollywood does like them. Uh Insidious, the Red Door is. I didn't
get a chance to see it, but it is uh thirty six percent positive
ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, which is not great. Horror movies usually don't do
well with the critics, though it's doing a little better with audiences who saw
it last night. I think it's somewhere around seventy two per positive reviews.
Um, so you know that that's not bad. But um, you know,
I think if you're an insidious fan and you want to see this is
the final chapter of the Lambert Families terrifying saga, you're gonna want to go
check it out. Okay, that's cool, I mean that's that's also a
fair jump, scares, flash cuts, lots of audio. You're right for
easy prediction to expect. Let's move forward to Mission impossible. Because you mentioned
Rotten Tomatoes. I saw a ninety eight percent rating for am I yeah last
night. Why it's still it's still there, so, um, you know,
the reviews have not moved down at least, and we'll see as we
get closer, there'll be a couple more reviews and the audience score will start
to come out. That opens next Wednesday, by the way, so it
gets a little bit of a jump on the weekend. Um, and I'll
have my review for it next Friday. But so far people are seeming to
love it. You know. You have the action stuff which we saw last
week with Indiana Jones. Um, and the final movie in that chapter which
for me, the action was just we've seen it all before. But um,
you know what one of the things Tom Cruise likes to do in his
movie is with the stunts, is give you something you've never seen before.
So if you've seen at least the trailer, you know there are some really
intense stunts that happen. There's also some of the cliche stuff, like they're
fighting on top of a train. Indiana Jones had fighting on top of a
train. I don't know what it is with fighting on top of a train
that, like, it seems to be this cliche thing we've seen before.
We got it, Okay, you're fighting on top of it seems it seems
so implausible, but they like to do it. So they're going to do
that a little bit more. But again, like I said, Tom Cruiz
is going to come up with some stunts that you've never seen before. And
that's really what Mission Bossible Dead Reckoning is all about. It all. It's
all about that action and those stunts, right, So I'm interested to see
how it's going to break out of the stuff that we've already seen, because
again that was my problem with Indiana Jones. Well, one of the things
is that you know, you have Harrison Ford at eighty years old, you're
being an action star. Which look, I love Harrison Ford, but a
lot of the action in that movie was just implausible knowing how old he is,
right, Um, this one, Tom Cruise, you know, is
getting a little older too, but he can still pull off those stunts.
So I'll be very interested to see just how different the action is in this
film. Yeah. I hadn't thought about it, but you're right about the
fighting on top of a train. It's like it's like an assistant director just
nailed the setup about fifteen years ago, and it's like just rinse, repeat
when it comes to setting those and and speaking of Tom Cruise, I mean
bird Khalifa. I'll never forget that scene from from Mission A Possible when he
was outside the sky scraper. Yeah, and and and expect more of that,
you know kind of stuff. They just they really push the envelope with
it, um and and they know that the audience expects that at this point,
so they have to keep coming up with more and more stuff, which
is pretty interesting that they're able to do that because, um, you know,
like I said, with Indian and Jones, the action got so predictable.
It was chase after chase after chase, and to me, that gets
really really boring. Um. So again, I'm looking forward to dead reckoning
and seeing what they can pull off case And I made a promise on your
behalf without your knowledge. Do you have anything in your pocket when it comes
to streaming if we don't want to hit the box office this weekend? Anything
at home? We might want to pull up on the Apple Plus or something
like that. You know, It's it's been really tough the past a couple
of weeks. There hasn't been a whole lot of stuff that they've been putting
out. And I don't know exactly why that is. It's not necessarily a
writer strike thing because we're going to see the effects of that down the line.
So there's really not Okay, I wish I could give you, you
know, something that I've been waiting to see. Your loving I'm struggling to
find stuff streaming at home. I'm just catching up on things now or going
back to some old stuff that I really like. Yeah, that's fair,
don't have that great thing I wish I did. Okay, Well, that's
cool. And again, it was a curveball and I apologize for it,
but I was just kind of shipped. I'm just kind of just shopping for
myself too, because I'm sure I get it. The new Star Trek on
Paramount Plus is pretty cool. I've been jamming on that. But if you're
not into sci fi, I don't know what else to say. Yeah,
exactly, just start checking out stuff that you haven't seen. You know,
the second season of The Bear I really liked, but you know, I
think a lot of people have blown through that at this point. You know,
there's a show Beef on Netflix. If you haven't seen that, check
that out. That's pretty good. But a lot of the stuff at this
point is just old recommendations. I think a lot of people have seen all
right. Jason Nathanson, thank you so much for your time this weekend.
Hope you have a good weekend too, you too, take out Maybe see's
Jason Nathanson right there with that typical anchor curveball. I threw at the end
there, but he was able to pull it out because he's a pro.
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Billy Eilish has revealed her new single what Was I Made For will be featured
in the New Barbie movie. She says the song will drop next week on
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in an Instagram post, the song means the world to her and the movie,
and hopefully this song will change lives. We lead local life the KFI
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