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Friday. This is your wake up call for May third. I'm Amy King.
Added to a really busy weekend. The La County Fair is opening,
going to that. Netflix is a joke is going on all over La.
Actually, we're gonna be going to that too, and then Hey, Derby,
Kentucky Derby is on Saturday. Dodgers are back in town. I got
a lot to do. Hope you mix in a lot of activities with maybe
a little bit of rest. I mean, come on, it is the
weekend. Hey. You know, we didn't get any egltz from our big
bear Eagles, Jackie in Shadow, And if you've been listening to the show,
you know I was devastated and I got ann hooked on it, and
then I felt bad because we didn't get any eggs to hatch. But there
are eglts and you can see them. I got an email from Sherry in
Seattle. She's listening on the iHeartRadio app and she said, there are eagles
on Catalina Island, and there are some other places where you can find eagles.
And then she said and then shortly she's going to start watching bears at
Katmi in Alaska. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right. She said
that their favorite bears come back every year and the moms and the cubs fish
in the fall and they've got video cameras trained on it so you can watch
it, and it's at explore dot org. I went and looked in.
There's some egletz there on Catalina Island, all bundled and they're getting their feathers
and they're getting pretty big. So we don't get to see Jackie in shadow,
but if you want to go see it again, it's at explore dot
org. And I always love watching them. I just think it's fascinating,
Like if you're just chilling out, just watch them, because they're just living
their best life. You know. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
The campus of UCLA is quiet this morning after a showdown between pro Palestinian protesters
and police. Before down yesterday. The encampment at UCLA has been cleared,
but the area is still blocked off because there's graffiti on buildings and sidewalks looks
awful. About three hundred protesters left the encampment on their own. Two hundred
and ten were arrested. A forty nine year old being held hostage by Hamas
in Gaza has died. The hostage Family's forum says Drawer Oors marks the thirty
eighth hostage killed. Hamas is still holding about one hundred hostages and the remains
of thirty others. As It says it is sending a delegation to Cairo to
keep working on a cease fire deal. We're going to be talking with ABC's
Jordana Miller about that in just a few minutes. We're trying to talk to
her. Yesterday and had to switch some stuff around, but we had blake
at UCLA and that kind of I guess Trump did. But we get to
talk to Jordana today. Wake up calls going out and about to the La
County Fair. That's good news for you because we have four pack four packs
of tickets to give away. That's coming up in about twenty minutes and will
you fall for the fall guy. We're going to be talking with ABC's Jason
Nathansen about that and about how you're about to get hacked, and that's a
good thing. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Nearly twenty two hundred people have been arrested during
pro Palestinian protests college campuses across the US. Officials say some police used riot
gear, tactical vehicles, and flash bang devices to clear tens, camps and
occupied buildings. They say one officer even accidentally fired his gun inside and Admit
Ministration building at Columbia University earlier this week. No one was hurt. USC
has updated security procedures ahead of commencement ceremonies. It comes after the university canceled
its valedictorian speech over safety concerns. USC says car and pedestrian access to the
campus is limited to the McCarthy and McClintock entrances, and access is still limited
to students and employees with IDs. Officials say all bags are being searched at
entry. Commencement events start on May eighth and go through the eleventh. A
person accused of driving a car toward a crowd of pro Palestinian protesters at Portland
State University in Oregon has been arrested. The driver sped toward the group,
but stopped before hitting anyone. Police say the driver then ran off while spraying
what appeared to be pepper spray yesterday at protesters who confronted him. Demonstrators damaged
the car by smashing in windows and spray painting graffiti on it. The Portland
Police Bureau says the driver was taken a hospital and is on a mental healthhold.
Police have arrested a guy with a gun who crashed a corvette at Balboa
Boulevard in San Jose Street in Granada Hills this morning after a high speed chase.
Manhattan Beach wants to bypass the La County DA to prosecute its own misdemeanors
like criminal threats, public intoxication, and trespassing. Our intention is to get
them help, Manhattan Beats Mayor Joe Franklin says. The city is sponsoring an
Assembly bill that's currently in committee which would allow smaller cities to not have to
ask the DA for permission to put them into diversion programs for either drugs or
alcohol or mental issues. It's not to put them into prison, but If
you don't have that threat of prosecution, then there's no accountability. He says.
The city has asked to prosecute quality of life crimes that are hurting businesses
and homeowners four times and been denied. The La County DA has not responded
for comment. Corbin Carson, kf I News, let's say good morning now
to ABC's Jordana Miller in Israel. Jordana, we're just getting word that one
of the hostages who's been held in Gaza has died. Do you have any
more information about that? That's right, the State of Israel and his hometown,
one of the key Buzas that was attacked on October seventh, announcing that
they've determined, based on various pieces of evidence, that this man drawer Or
was killed on October seventh. So this isn't okay, this isn't this isn't
new, this is nope. This is an assessment. But he was believed
to be a hostage alive, and now they believe that he's dead. So
he now becomes the thirty fifth hostage to be declared dead of the one hundred
and twenty nine that Hamas is holding. Okay, I got you, and
then yeah, we think that there are one hundred still alive, but you
just don't know because aside from like we got a video of a couple of
them earlier this week, but from most of them, have they had any
contact, no, Right, So the there's a gap between there's a gap
in our knowledge really between those that are presumed alive and those that have been
declared dead. Right, So there's proof that thirty five are dead, and
that leads about ninety five or so that that could be alive, but we
really don't know how many of those are alive. Hamas has claims that dozens
have been killed by Israel in part of its offenses in Gaza through airstrikes or
other attacks. Of course, we can't rely so much on Hamas's information because
it's proved to be false in the past. So you know, we don't
we don't really know. We got two signs of life over the Rush Holidays
passover. Both of those hostages Americans, which clearly Hamas chose to pick the
Americans, knowing it would increase pressure on Israel to cut a deal instead of
going into Rafa, which is what Hamas is aiming for. They want to
prevent that operation okay, and there may be some movement. We're seeing that
Egyptian and American mediators have said that they're seeing some signs of compromised in recent
days in regards to a ceasefire deal. And now Hamas says they're sending a
delegation to Egypt. Correct. Correct, I mean there is a there's a
seat hire proposal on the table. It all made several confessions and Hamas is
looking at that deal and now it's being continue are looking at that ceasefire,
maybe making some minor changes before they submit. Their official response is this is
the same deal. This is the same deal that tech chair see Anthony Blinkoln
was talking about a couple of days ago. Right, So it's thirty three
hostages in exchange for six weeks of quiet. These Reelly concessions are about redeployments
of its troops where they're going to move. They're going to move off main
quarridors and highways. Uh not only just not only cities. And then some
concessions on the Palestinian prisoners that will be released, giving up veto over all
of the ones convicted of murder. In other words, in other words,
the mus can choose some of the Palestinians that will get out and Israel cannot
say no, and a few other issues. The real question is, you
know, Hama is Hamas really ready to to make a deal. That's the
main question. It's shown, I think in good faith now that it's ready
to cut a deal and put off the operation in Rafa, either temporarily or
you know, forever. And now that Baul really is in Hamasa's court,
We'll have to see. We'll love to see what comes of it. Okay,
I'm curious, Jordana. We've got all these protests going on all over
the US and college campuses. Are they having any kind of effect in Israel
or on Israel pressure. I can tell you that the protests from California to
New York are headlining here and all of the major evening broadcasts, television broadcasts,
they're talking about them on the radio, They're in the print press here.
Visual President just put out a statement yesterday in a video message, you
know, you know, pluging his support for Jewish students across America and condemning
the you know, anti Semitic rhetoric coming out of college campuses. I think
Israelis are stunned, really that this is supposed to be America's brightest students at
top institutions in America somehow justifying Kamas's deadly and ghastly attack and seemingly unable to
distinguish between Hamas, which is a terror group. They don't support peace talks.
They want to violently overthrow the state of Israel. I mean, the
irony that Israel gets accused of genocideing Daza, but the real party that's interested
in genocide is actually Hamas. And we see that even in the chance from
the river to the sea, Palestine be free, I mean, that's a
chance that where Israel doesn't exist, right, So, you know, I
think there's a lot of concern that American students can't see the difference between supporting
the Palestinian national cause, which many people in the world do, and here
in Israel as well. Palestinians want their own independent state. This is supposed
to be, you know, ultimately as shared land, and those like those
groups like comea represent you know, a throwback to violent rejectionist terrorism from three
four decades ago, and they have hijacked the agenda, and these students fall
prey to some of their propaganda and their anti Semitism, their demonization of Israel,
their demonization, you know, of the army. It's it's very disturbing,
I think for Israelis, that's for sure. Yeah, Okay, Jordana
Miller, thank you again for your time. Sorr. We didn't get to
touch base yesterday. Have a nice weekend and we'll talk to you soon.
Yes, cooking, all right, take care. The Dodgers take on the
Atlanta Braves tonight at Dodgers Stadium. First pitch goes out at seven o'clock.
You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA
Sports and stream all the games in h on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five
seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of LA. Police have arrested
twenty two hundred people involved in pro Palestinian protests at college campuses across the US
in recent weeks. The protests have spread to all corners of the country with
the nation's eyes. Yesterday focused on the dismantling of the encampment at UCLA,
where more than two hundred people were arrested. The city of Long Beach has
declared a public health emergency because of a tuberculosis outbreak. One person has died,
nine are in the hospital. Fourteen cases are linked to the outbreak.
Health officials say about one hundred and seventy people have been exposed to TB.
The outbreak has been traced to a group of people who stayed together at a
hotel in Long Beach. A lot of sea lions have taken arrest on San
Francisco's Peer thirty nine. Harbormasters says they've counted about one thousand sea lions this
week, the most they've seen in fifteen years. Marine mammal experts say they're
following a big school of anchovy and that is a sign the San Francisco Bay
is doing well. Officials say the sea lions will eventually head south to the
Channel Islands to do a little mating. At six o five at Tandle on
the news, The arrests racking up. As I mentioned, more than twenty
two hundred arrested at campus protests around the US, and a new one has
cropped up at Chapman University. So wake Up Call went out and about to
get a sneak peak of the La County Fair, which opens today in Pomona.
At the fair Plex. We caught up with the Fair Plex CEO Walter
Marquez. Walter, how excited are you for opening day? I am beyond
excited. I love being able to bring community together. We just get to
have a great time celebrating joint rides, but more importantly breaking bread, having
some good food in roaming around. Oh and we're going to break some bread
because we've been tasting some of the food. We just tried some catfish,
we tried some beignets. I had a very at taco was delicious. And
then of course we had to stop by Chicken Charlie's place and he's got a
new menu item that we'll be telling you about in a minute. It's this.
And then also there's cheeto dumplings, I believe, and bacon wrapped pickles.
I mean, how do you go wrong with that? Well, I'm
glad you just got started with our appetizer menu, and I can't wait to
get you through the main course. Me too. So the theme of the
fair this year is what star, Stripes and fun. I think it really
represents the community as a whole, La County, the diversity that exists here
in the nation and within our county. You know, there's a lot going
on in our nation today. There's a lot of county fairs in our nation
as well, so everyone's got a county fair experience there is. It's very
rare that you can talk to anyone that doesn't have a county fair experience.
We want to celebrate all that making new memories here at the fair. Yeah,
in the La County Fair. I have to tell you, it's a
lot different than the fairs that I grew up with in Oregon because this is
Los Angeles County. I mean, this place is massive. We are there's
no doubt about that. There's a lot of programming that exists here. We
still keep the stables, the staples, right, it's agriculture where there's really
where it all stems from. Entrepreneurial spirit is here. We get to program
quite a bit, so you can make I think you can go to the
whole day and not see everything at this county Fair. Yes, I think
you're right. I've been several times. I don't think I've still seen everything.
But there's the traditional stuff For people who love rides, right, the
rides are here. RCS is back. There's great rides. There's a ride
for you. You need to go on. It's called titan. Oh.
It goes up high and it comes down quick. Oh no oh no,
no, no, no no, I need like the kiddie roller. Well
we have those two. Okay, yeah, yeah, we have those two.
So maybe we'll do a Ferris Will ride or somewhere, okay. And
then you have other great things like I was telling you earlier, the shopping
pavilion. It's massive too, like you can find so many fun, unique
things. We have over about two hundred square feet of shopping and sorry thousand
thousand, correctly, yes, I'm Jordan Square. I can tell you've done
this shopping here already. You know we have. And so the aspect of
it is what I really enjoy is that we're able to bring in entrepreneurs displaying
new items, and so you have the items that you're familiar with and you
come to of like where are they. But we're also partnering with a firm
called Black on the Block. They're working Promider out of LA. It's focused
on the African American community. We're bringing them out one day. They're bringing
out tons of vendors and we've got these great vendor experiences. I love that,
Okay, and now I'm still used to the fair being in the dead
heat of summer, but we were, We're in May. Now, why
did we make that change again? Well, we've made a lot of changes,
ye, partly because of the weather. That's probably the one everyone always
kind of just draws upon. I don't know if you recall last Septembers one
hundred and five, what would have been the opening day. We're looking at
a cool seventy five opening degree weather here in La. It's perfect. I
love that. And the fair starts on Friday and goes through when it goes
through the twenty seventh May. Yeah, so we close on Memorial Day.
We're open on Thursdays through Sunday. Okay, So Monday, no Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, okay, Thursday through Sunday eleven to eleven except for opening
day. Okay. Perfect. And where do we get tickets? Ali coountyfair
dot Com. That is where you'll get all the deals, get all the
information. It's cheaper to buy online than buy here at the gate, Okay,
so do it online. We also have some other partners o'riley's and a
few others that you can go to superior markets where you can also get tickets
LA County Fair. So happy to be back this year, and thank you
so much for talking to us. We're excited. Oh I'm so glad you're
excited. I'm excited. I think the reality is I need to tell everyone
come out and visit us at the LA County Fair. There's nothing like it.
As you said, ay, there's nothing like any other county Fair than
the LA County Fair. And if you want tickets to the LA County Fair,
we got some and no now is your chance to win some. So
let's take caller number ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen. We've got
a family four pack for you at eight hundred five to two zero one KFI.
That's eight hundred five two zero one five three four. The LA County
Fair opens today. I'm going tonight, so if you don't get a chance
to go this weekend, maybe I'll give you a little review because when we
talked to Walter, what we were there for was just for the food preview,
and oh my gosh, it was delicious and Chicken Charlie. I'm going
to post a video on Instagram at amy k King Chicken Charlie has a new
new dish this year. It's a hot honey funnel cake fried chicken sandwich and
it is delicious. Okay. Tickets one, eight hundred five, two zero
one KFI callers number ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen. Now let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The captain of the dive boat that caught fire near Santa Cruz Island
on Labor Day twenty nineteen has been sentenced to four years in prison in the
deaths of all thirty three passengers and a crew member. Seventy year old Jerry
Boylan was ordered yesterday to surrender and start serving his sentence. July eleventh,
thousands of dollars worth of merchandise stolen by smash and grabbers has been recovered by
the La County Sheriff's Department. The operation happened in different spots all over the
county. Were you looking for the products themselves or the people that are fencing
it, so it's a combination of all of it. Captain Calvin Moss as
the Organized Retail Crime Task Force recovered numerous boxes and pallets of stolen stuff.
I was in South La early yesterday morning when a guy suspected to be a
part of a crew was arrested. Moss says in the last few months,
stolen items from Arizona, Nevada, and California worth more than one hundred thousand
dollars have been delivered to and sold in La County. The operation itself kind
of put a dent in this organization. It's kind of grown into that where
you have people that break into these retail store, steal the products, come
and then defense it. And we've been able to identify some of the locations
where they're storing the products, cleaning the products, and then reselling the products.
Since September of twenty twenty three, the Organized Retail Crime Task Force has
recovered eleven and a half million in stolen merchandise in downtown La Steve Gregory,
King of Fine News, thousands of fans came and went and left a lot
of stuff behind at Stagecoach Country Music Festival following the show last weekend, and
estimated twenty four tons of trash and usable items and usable items were left strewn
across the nearly six hundred and fifty acre Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. Charitable
groups are scooping it all up say. They found everything from camping gear to
tables and chairs, to clothes, food, and even a portable swimming pool.
Everything collected is going to be repurposed to benefit the needy. Wanted to
tell you that coming up on Monday, we're going to be talking to one
of the stars of the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy festival, which is now
going on all over southern California. He's got third thirty three million social media
followers. He just signed on for two more Netflix specials, and he's headlining
the Netflix Is a Joke Show next week at the Hollywood Bowl. We're going
to be talking on Monday morning to comedian Matt Rich. So we hope you'll
get your week started with wake up call. The campus of UCLA quiet this
morning after a showdown between pro Palestinian protesters and police before dawn yesterday. Boy,
that was crazy. The encampment at UCLA has been cleared out. The
area remains blocked off because of all the graffiti on the buildings and sidewalks.
About three hundred protesters left the encampment on their own. Two hundred and ten
were arrested. The second week of testimony and former President Trump's hush money trial
in New York will wrap up today. A forensic analyst will be back on
the stand testifying about former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen after court. Yesterday, Trump
went and took some pizza to firefighters at a fire station in the city.
Researchers at uc San Diego have created plastic that can recycle itself. How cool
is this? Two UCSD researchers found that adding microbial spores to traditional plastic allows
it to just break down in about five months. The process would add ten
percent to the cost of a plastic item, but would allow the plastic to
break down a whole lot faster, no matter where it winds up. At
six oh five, it's handled on the news. After being very quiet,
UCLA's chancellor is speaking out about the protests in the and the aftermath. I
want to say congratulations to the winners of our four pack of tickets to the
La County Fair which opens today at the Fairplex and Pomona Garland and Jason and
Mike and Doreen, congratulations, enjoy the fair. Let's say good morning too
the house whisper and the host of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp,
who is a very tired boy. Because remember we mentioned the Netflix is a
joke is going on all over La, and you went last night. I
went, and we got home late. I mean we got home late.
It was the kickoff, well it was the second night, but it's the
official kickoff of this two week festival that's happening all over La. Get this
all right? Four guys, no warm ups. Nate Bargatzi, Sebastian Maniscalco,
Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld all in one show. That sounds pretty impressive.
It was great. You know I went saw Seinfeld one time and fell
asleep during the show. Did you really? I did? But I was
very tired. Okay, it was what I was doing brilliant. Yeah,
I wasn't very good with my sleep patterns and all of that stuff. No,
I love Jerry Steinfeld. All right. Well it was a really,
really good show. It's going to be a great festival. It's happening.
I mean, there's a multiple locations all over there. People playing at the
Bowl like your guest on Monday, and there are other clubs and venues all
over LA for the next two weeks. Oh, it's crazy. Like the
Egyptian and we're going to The Pantagious tomorrow afternoon for one of the shows.
I mean, it's everywhere, So it's everywhere. It's like every every great
comic on the planet is in Los Angeles for the next two weeks. It's
just fantastic. Yeah, but you know what, we digress, Actually we
didn't. We're not digressing because we never really got started. But let's get
started on what you're going to be talking about this weekend on Home with Dean
Sharp here on KFI. There are several things about your home that you might
not know. So you're gonna be going through this twenty five list of twenty
five things, right. Yeah. I thought it was an interesting topic for
the weekend, just because there are so many things that come up in conversations
with clients and consults. I get asked these questions all the time, and
I'm like, really, you didn't. You weren't aware that this was the
thing, And it's so some of them are really really enlightening, and so
Tina, you know, was suggesting, you know, you should throw together
at least a small list, and believe me, twenty five is a small
list of important things that people don't know and yeah, we're to be covering
them this weekend, so it should be fascinate. Okay, So I went
through the list, and I know that we can't go through them all,
so let's just pick out a few of them. One, garbage disposals are
not that great of an idea. That is true. I know, you
know, most people who have grown up on garbage disposals really like them.
But I gotta let you know that as far as the planet is concerned,
I'm just talking percentages. In the Western world. The US has the most
garbage disposals of any country. Any country, about forty eight percent of US
households have garbage disposals. If we go up north to our Canadian friends,
six percent of households have garbage disposals. They've been outlawed by the EU in
most of Europe. So why why why are garbage disposals not that great of
a thing. Well, the problem is that they turn food into a mush
and then they flush it down our sewer lines, where it then proceeds to
build up in your drain lines and your home and in the infrastructure. In
most towns, this film that builds up on the inside of sewer line pipes
and eventually causes them to clog and or prematurely age. So the point is
this, in an age of recycling and of composting, it is far far
better if you're remodeling your kitchen or you're thinking, you know, I'm going
to get a new garbage disposal, Just get used to scraping off food scraps
off your plates into a little compost container or compost trash can, and then
rinsing the plate with as minimal amount of stuff on it as possible in the
sink and not just macerrating every little bit of food and sending it down the
drain. And that's really the problem. Do not be surprised if in the
next decade we find that garbage disposal laws or bands are happening across the country
because there are just more more cities who are like, you know what,
we just don't need that additional problem to our infrastructure. I love chewing up,
I love turning on the garbage disposal churn and all that. It's fun,
I know, fun, but it's not the best thing for our plumbing.
Okay, here's another thing that you might not know. Most bedroom windows
should be doors. What well, this is purely from a design perspective,
and it really has to do with the classic California ranch style house here in
southern California, which so many people live in. But here's the thing.
That bedroom window that is on the single story bedroom that has a chance of
looking out over the backyard right which most bedrooms in single story ranch style houses
do. That bedroom window, the sill and the window could be taken out
so quickly because the header that supports the wall up above doesn't change and move.
And what a great thing for a bedroom, especially master bedrooms, but
definitely any bedroom that can to have its own sliding glass door, access to
the rear yard, its own little patio, its own little bit of the
garden. Double the amount of light that's coming into that room just by the
sake of adding that much more glass from where the sill was down to the
floor. So yeah, most windows, probably in bedrooms should be doors.
Okay, here's a couple more quick ones. Your patio furniture is probably in
the wrong place. Absolutely, What do you mean by that? I would
say ninety eight percent of the patio furniture that I've seen on Southern California patios
is when you walk right outside the patio door where most builders have poured the
patiocondre. There's the furniture right there, sitting right there next to the house,
against the heat of the stucco wall of the house. Honestly, if
you were to walk through your yard amy and actually decide, forget about furniture,
just walk around your yard and decide where is the place I like to
stand in my yard the most. Almost always, it's not right up next
to the house. It's somewhere out in the yard. And my argument as
a designer is that's where we should set up your sitting area. Okay there,
it's kind of like furniture inside the house. It shouldn't all be pushed
up against the walls. It should be absolutely and it should be a destination.
We can create a destination space out away from the home and then you
get to spend time in the most pleasant part of the yard. Okay,
and real quick, because mosquito season is upon us. Bug zappers don't work
on mosquitoes. They don't. They just don't. So you know, they
kill just about every other insect that's out there, most of which you don't
necessarily one a half killed, but mosquitoes are not attracted to UV light.
They are attracted to CO two. Now they are attracted to you exactly.
It is the carbon dioxide that's actually coming off of us, Okay, that
the plumes that they can see that they are attracted to. So the only
real way to get mosquitoes away from you, other than wearing repellent on your
skin, is to actually put a CO two attractor somewhere further away in the
yard, so it makes a bigger plume of CO two than you, and
they go there instead of towards you. Okay, there are twenty five important
things that you need to know, and Dean's going to be talking about all
of them this weekend on Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI six to
eight am on Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday. You can also follow
them at Home with Dean. Thank you, Dean Sharp, Thank you,
Amy, Go get some sleep. I will. Police have arrested more than
two thousand people involved in a pro Palestinian protest at college campuses across the US
in recent weeks. The protest has spread to all corners of the country,
with the nation's eyes yesterday focused right here and and the dismantling of the encampment
at UCLA. Two hundred ten people were arrested. The city of Long Beach
is declared a public health emergency because of tuberculosis. One person has died niner
in the hospital. Fourteen cases have been linked to the outbreak. Health officials
say about one hundred and seventy people have been exposed to TB and they are
reaching out to let them know. The first of the Triple Crown Races happens
tomorrow at Churchill Down's Post. Time for the one hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby
is three fifty seven hour time in the afternoon. Fierceness is the favorite at
five and two odds, followed by Seria Leone at three to one, and
catching Freedom Love that Name with eight to one odds. We're just minutes away
from a handle on the news this morning. Secret audio tapes of former President
Trump and Michael Cohen were played in the courtroom yesterday during the hush money trial.
Apparently Cohen recorded everything let's say good morning now to ABC's entered Haymond Guru.
It's Jason Nathanson. Jason is the fall guy, the sexy Bacon you've
seen the movie. Apparently. I saw the movie last night. Yes,
I This is based on the nineteen eighties TV series starring Lee Majors and which
you know, again, it's one of these things. I don't know that
anybody's necessarily looking for a reboot. And it seems like a weird vehicle for
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, who are arguably two of the biggest stars of
right now. Right He was nominated for an Oscar for Barbie from last year,
she was nominated for Oppenheimer, and the two of them now coming together
in this film, and they are true movie stars in the truest sense of
the word. I think, you know, you would watch them do just
about anything, even if a movie isn't necessarily great, and I don't know
that this movie is necessarily great. But when they are on screen together,
I think it's magic. I think the two of them are really good together.
I think there are some really funny stuff going on here. Unfortunately,
and this is he plays a stuntman who is he's injured on the job and
kind of retreats from the industry, and then he gets pulled back in on
a movie that she is directing. But then it turns into this action movie,
which I didn't necessarily really need. It's so much better, I think
as a Hollywood satire because when it's really leaning into that, I think it's
really really funny, and I think the two of them are funny and fun
together. The action stuff, though it gets a little boring, and action
stuff does for me. It's really hard to do this stuff and make it
interesting. But it's also a love letter to stunt people. Yeah, and
I really I do appreciate that often the unsung heroes of the industry who don't
get enough credit, so I know they feel they have to lean into that
stunt stuff as well. But when the writing is good, it's really funny.
There's an end credit scene that's also kind of fun if you want to
stick around for the end, as you should, because so many movies are
doing those little funny little things at the end. Yeah, so I like
that, you know. So overall a little uneven, but the parts that
I liked, I really really did like, and I did like watching at
the theater. So I'm a seven point three out of ten for me on
this film. Well that's a little bit conservative, don't you think. No,
I'm just kidding. I agree with you. I think it was really
it was an entertaining movie. Yeah, but it wasn't like I mean,
there was I agree with you kind of on everything you said. I thought
there was too much action. Yeah, I think there could have been a
little more story. Yeah. The first hour is really really good. Yeah.
Yeah, and then and then it kind of yeah, when it starts
to get into this action story where he's hunting for the bad guys and stuff
like that, then I cared a little bit less. And that also took
the two of them away from each other. Yea, right, Emily Blunt
and Ryan Gossling. In the first hour or so, there's a lot of
them interacting and when they're when they're there's a you know, there's a great
scene where she's directing him in the movie in Australia, and they're really really
good together. I loved all that kind of stuff. So, you know,
I hope to see I think we're gonna see more from them in the
future, the two of them together there. They're a lot of fun,
are they the new Carrie Grant and Catherine Hepburn. They've got that feel,
they've got that feeld you know when that that feel of an old Hollywood couple
who you're watching them and you just you love the banter, you love the
two of them together and you and it feels like they're not reading lines,
right, it feels like they're just talking like they like this is a conversation.
And if you've watched an they've been all over the place over the past
couple of months doing press for this and when you watch them together you get
that feeling too. They are good together. So it's not just for the
movie. Yeah, okay, so now doesn't switch into the stream. Jason
has been slaving away over a hot TV I have. There's a lot coming
out. There's been so much at all. Right, there's so much out
this week, and I've watched at least a little bit of all of it,
starting with the movie Unfrosted, which is on Netflix right now. What's
that I haven't even heard of that. This is Jerry Seinfeld's ode to the
pop Tart. It's a movie about the breakfast Wars of the nineteen sixties.
It's all fake, it's all fiction, it's all made up. But you
know Kellogg's and Post we're going at it. Then he's got like the heads
of the breakfast families. Quaker Oats is in there, and he's a Quaker
man. And you know, there's some really funny stuff in there, some
really sharp writing in here from Jerry Seinfeld, who's the co writer, he's
the director, and he's also the star. Jerry Seinfeld is an actor.
You know, I don't know his acting was never the best of what he
did. No, but he's still darned funny. But he but he is
funny. He's great stand up comedian. He's doing some shows this week over
the I don't know the exact days, but part last night at the Netflix
is a joke right launched the whole thing. And that was at the Hollywood
Bowl, I believe, And so you can you can if you if you've
never seen his stand up I saw I got. I got to see him
just a couple of years ago, so you're not not like in the height
of the stand up days, he was one of the best stand ups I'd
ever seen. But this film is very specific, I think for a specific
audience. The humor in it is it's weird in a way that I appreciated.
There's a little bit of airplane sensibility, mixed with Peewee's Playhouse, which
and if you don't like a joke, don't worry, there's another one right
around the corner. This is like a jokingm in it type thing. They
don't lean into the bits necessarily. And you have a great cast here,
including Melissa McCarthy. Hugh Grant plays Tony the Tiger. He's very, very
funny in that. Christian Slater, Jim Gaffigan, Red Armisen, like Bill
Burr, Amy Schumer, all the like. You know, so many big
comedy names in this. It's not going to be for everybody. I have.
I try not to read other reviews. I was told this morning that
there's a review I think in the Chicago Tribune maybe that called it one of
the worst movies ever made. I don't believe that myself. I'm a seven
point four out of ten on this one. But it's not gonna be for
everybody, Okay, And you keep giving the numbers, so I'm gonna call
it the Jasonometer moving forward. Sure, let's do that, Okay, and
then what what is the Jasonometer rate the new season of Hacks. This is
a high one, this is I'll start with the rating nine point six.
Whoa this is maybe this is a the best season of Hacks that there's been
has been this show, there's been three. We've waited a long time for
it. It's been two years. Various things happened in that time. Jeane
Smart, who's the star, she had health scare. Also then these strikes
happened. That's one of the delays. And I don't know if they took
that time and sharpened things, or if it was just that good to begin
with, whatever the case. And I think, you know, unfortunately,
we're just used to waiting at this point, right, so it's not the
biggest deal in the world, and there's so much stuff that you're like,
Okay, this thing is going to come back, and it'll come back eventually.
I would like to see two seasons of Hacks a year, right,
that would be great, but maybe it wouldn't be as good this. It
comes back firing on all cylinders. And in this season they get into the
late night wars and it really doubles down on the kind of parody of show
show business that it is and the satire where it is really sharp and doing
that kind of stuff, and the relationship between Geen Smart and Hannah Einbinder.
Right, Jean Smart plays a kind of agent comedian Hannah Einbinder, the gen
Z writer who's trying to help her and refresh her material. Their chemistry together
is fantastic, and the jokes in this are just really funny, really fresh,
firing on all cylinders. I don't know what's going to beat it this
year, Okay, Jason Nathanson. I wish we had more time because there
are more things coming out. But thank you so much. And hey,
I know what, maybe they can follow you at ABC News Jason to find
out more. Sure they can. There you have it, Jason, thanks
so much. Having a great weekend. Okay, I'm very excited about hacks.
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