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Hey, it's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
This is your wake up call for Friday, May seventeen. I'm Amy
King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And whether you're listening on
the iHeart app or you're listening on the radio, We're happy you're here to
get your day started. Kick off to the weekend. It's going to be
a busy, busy day as always. Hey, last night I was watching
Amazing Race. It's actually on Wednesday nights, but I go to bed before
it's on, so I watched it yesterday and one of the things that the
teams had to do in the finale when they were in Philadelphia was they had
to memorize the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. And I was like,
you don't think that I even know that? And I was. I kind
of was getting teared up listening to them like recited, and so I thought,
maybe we'd start our Friday with the Preamble to the Declaration of independence.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect
their safety and happiness. Words we don't hear very often, but it's what
we're I mean, it's what we are thought. It was kind of a
cool reminder and a nice patriotic data. Is a way to start the day.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call. A Metro passenger has been shot
and killed on a bus in Commerce. The shooting yesterday is the fourth violent
attack on the Metro system just this week. La Mayor Bath says it's no
longer safe on Metro and announced plans to add more police to buses, trains,
and stations. Closing arguments could be held on Tuesday. In former President
Trump's trial in Manhattan. The judge says both sides should be ready by then.
Court adjourned for the week after ex Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's testimony wrapped up
yesterday. We're going to be talking with ABC's Peter Hara Lumbus, who's been
in the courtroom in Manhattan. We'll talk to him in just a couple of
minutes. The number one golfer in the world, who's favored to win the
PGA Championship, has been cuffed and put in the back of a cop car.
ESPN Siscottie Scheffler was detained for not following police instruction during traffic delays outside
Valhalla. Okay, that'll be interesting to say. I hope they get the
cuffs off in time for him to tee it up. We'll check in with
Jason Nathanson to find out if Imaginary Friends. We'll make a splash at the
box office and sometime this hour, I've got a four pack of one day,
one park tickets to the Disneyland resort, so you can go check out
Pixar Fest at Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park that's coming up this hour.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A man riding a metro bus and commerce has been fatally shot
by another passenger. La County Sheriff's deputies were called yesterday afternoon to a stretch
of Slawson Avenue between Eastern and Garfield where the bus was stopped. Suspect approached
the victim from behind, pointed a firearm at the victim. The victims sustained
a gunshot wound. Lieutenant Arthur Spencer says the shooter ran off but was caught
a short distance away. The injured man died at the hospital. More police
officers are going to be patrolling the Metro system in La Mayor Bass ordered the
added officers. The mayor and other Metro board members have also ruled out a
motion that would increase police deployments on the system. The mayor says the system
has had a spike of violent crime. When you have a spike, you
respond aggressively to that spike, and that's what we're doing. Two people were
stabbed on the Metro system earlier this week. Officers say they've recently arrested people
for having drugs and weapons on them in downtown La Blake trolley Kafin News.
Airports are expected to be jam packed this summer. TSA officials say they're expecting
six to eight percent more people to travel around the US this year compared to
last. With Memorial Day just around the corner, officials are urging people to
get to airports early, get parked, and be prepared for long lines at
TSA checkpoints. Let's say, good morning now too, Peter Plumboss Peter,
no court today, but a lot happened. Yes, so if you would
tell us what happened. During the cross examination of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen,
yeah so. Over six hours of cross examination, defense lawyers hammered at
Michael Cohen's credibility and suggested that Cohen lied about a major piece of evidence in
the case. So on Tuesday, Cohen told jurors that in the days before
the twenty sixteen election, he called Donald Trump through his security guard to confirm
the plan to go forward with a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. But
yesterday defense lawyer's team was evidence suggesting that at the time, the major issue
on Cohen's mind, and the reason for that phone call was actually the fact
that Cohen was being dealing with an onslaught of prank calls from a fourteen year
old. Or saw text messages between the fourteen year old and Cohen, fourteen
year old saying quote, I didn't do it in all caps, I'm fourteen.
Please don't Michael Cohen say he was going to refer to the matter to
the Secret Service. And then we saw text messages between Cohen and Donald Trump's
security guard about referring the matter to the Secret Service. The evidence all suggesting
that the reason Michael Cohen placed that phone call on October twenty fourth, twenty
sixteen, the one he said was about the stormy Daniel Toush money payments,
was actually for Cohen to complain about this prank caller. Cohen stood by his
testimony, suggesting that at the end of the day, he was calling for
both to both complain about the prank caller and talk to Donald Trump. But
it remains an open question at this point whether or not the jury is going
to see his entire testimony as credible. Michael Cohen's the only witness in this
case who clearly pins Donald Trump to the underlying criminal conduct in his case.
Even if it's just one minor inconsistency in his testimony, they could have a
wide, raging impact on his credibility with this jury and their ability to trust
everything he said at face value, because the whole thing is about creating reasonable
doubt. Right. Yes, it's one hundred percent right. And that was
completely the aim of these two days of cross examination. Poke holes wherever they
can in Michael Cohen's testimony and hope that they could help create that reasonable doubt
in the mind of this jury so they don't take Michael Cohen word and they
tossed out his testimony basically. Okay, And now, Peter, I'm going
to remind everybody that you're in the courtroom, so you're seeing how they're reacting
and interacting and that kind of thing. And what we've heard is that Michael
Cohen has been very calm on the stand and hasn't really seemed flustered or anything.
Is that how he is? That's fair. I mean, I've seen
Michael Cohen testify before, and he was a flustered, defensive person on the
witness stand. He's very different during this trial. He's composed, he maintains
it's cool. He answers every question with a yes sir or a no,
sir. He hasn't really kind of fell into lines of question that would get
him agitated. But interestingly, yesterday the jury heard a different side of Michael
Cohen through a recording of Michael Cohen's podcast. So while Michael Cohen might become
cool and collected on the witness stand, they heard what Michael Cohen sounds like
when he goes on a podcast. They heard Cohen say, quote, I
want this man to go down and rot inside. That's the most team quote,
by the way, way that I can say on the radio. There
were other quotes that really suggested there was this deep animosity Michael Cohen seeming giddy
about the idea of Donald Trump getting indicted and going to prison. So while
the jury might have heard a common, cool, collected Michael cone on the
witness stand, they also heard an example that Michael coe is not always that
way, and that you know, when you take him out of the context
of a courtroom, he can sound very different about his former boss. Yeah,
and it's that, you know, with the whole personal vendetta thing.
Then saying, you know what, He's willing to go to any length to
see Trump get in trouble or get convicted. So be interesting to see how
they react to that. Is there any indication whether Trump is actually going to
take the stand. He has said before that he would be willing to,
but now they're saying, now we probably won't, or do we have any
update on that? So defense lawyers haven't made a final decision. The judges
asked them that on multiple times this week. One of my colleagues, who
was working in the hallway yesterday to handle I guess the camera for Trump's remarks,
asks Trump whether or not he's going to testify. Trump didn't answer that
question, but yeah, we've known he wants to testify. We know he's
kind of had cold feet with the gag order in the case. But it
remains an open question, and that question will really determine what the timeline of
this trial looks like. If Donald Trump testifies, that's going to take up
a good portion of next week. It's likely going to push closing statements until
after Memorial Day, with deliberations beginning in late May, possibly even early June.
Though if Donald Trump doesn't testify, the judges ready for the closing statements
in this case to happen on Tuesday, meaning the jury could get the case
Tuesday afternoon or begin deliberating on Thursday. That could rapidly speed up the timeline
for this case and possibly have a verdict by the end of next week.
Wow. Okay, then, and is Cohen done or is he back on
the stand Monday? So Cohen's nearly there. He's got about another hour or
so of cross examination on Monday morning, then a redirect examination where prosecutors will
try to rehabilitate some of the damage from that cross examination. After that,
he's the last prosecution witness. The prosecution will rest their case after twenty witnesses
in total, more than four weeks of testimony. And at that point it's
now in the defense's hands to determine how much of a case they want to
present. They've suggested that they might call one defense expert witness and then only
Donald Trump if they decide to make that decision. Okay, And you just
mentioned that the trial's been going on for four weeks already. Are you seeing
anything about people inside the courtroom and getting antsy to get this thing done?
Honestly, I hear a lot of amptiness from some members of the media in
terms of their plans for the long weekends, and you know, this thing
not getting in the way of the summer. But there hasn't been any indication
from the jury that they're tired or they're falling asleep. They seem as attentive
as they were on day one of this trial, to be honest. So
it doesn't seem like anyone's exhausted yet. So this thing has been going on
for a while when you consider jury selection, that one week of jury selection,
this trial has been going on in New York five weeks now, four
weeks of testimony in front of a jury. Well all right, well,
thank you for your information and your insight, because again, you've got eyes
on it and most people don't. And it's been really interesting to watch all
the recaps on the on the cable channels of how they're trying to portray what's
going on in the courtroom because they can't see it and they can't hear it
to share it with us. So I love that you're in there for us.
It's absolutely my pleasure to talk it through every day whenever the opportunity comes
up, happy to do so. All right, Well, let's plan to
talk next week then, Peter Hire Olumbus, thank you so much for your
time. Have a great weekend, Have a great weekend. All right,
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Classes that you see Irvine are returning to in person instruction.
Days after police and riot gear cleared out pro Palestinian protesters. Demonstrators had occupied
a lecture hall Wednesday, in what Chancellor Howard Gilman called a sad day for
our university. Nearly fifty people were in arrest, including some who said they
are UCI faculty members. Sonoma State University President Mike Lee has been placed on
administrative leave after without approval from the cal State system. He sent out a
campus wide email talking about an agreement made between the school and pro Palestinian protesters.
I think the administrative leave doesn't go far enough that particular university leader has
no place leading a university in our state. California Congressman Kevin Kyleie says universities
that have elevated the voices and cave to the demands of protesters have silenced pro
Israelian Jewish groups. CSU says Lee has been put on leave because of insubordination
and consequences it has brought upon the system. Lee says he takes full ownership
of his actions. Leaders in LA have spoken out against a statewide ballot measure.
The business groups behind the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Acts say it would
give control over future taxes and tax increases to voters. LA Mayor Karen Bass
opposes it and was joined at a city hall rally yesterday by labor leaders and
city Council President Paul Grekorian, who says voters should say no. This is
another cynical, deceitful, dishonest attack on government. The opponents of the measure
argue it threatens billions of dollars in existing fees and charges and already approved ballot
measures. Michael monks KFI News there is a chase going on. Normally these
happened a little later in the day, but there's somebody in a white van.
Apparently it's a woman, and police have been following her trying to get
her to pull over. They've rammed the van that she's in several times.
She was in neighborhoods. Then she's back on the four or five, but
now she's speeding the wrong way on the four h five and like into oncoming
traffic. It's just crazy. They've got the police helicopters over her, and
it looks like they've shut down the freeway because now the freeway, the freeway
north bound is clear. Oh my goodness, so they've stopped traffic, and
now she's coming up to that line of where the traffic has stopped, so
there's a ton of cars waiting to get through, and she just plowed straight
into several of them, including confiding came to a stop when it hit a
semi and now the feed's breaking up, but it looks like she's gotten out
and is running off and just left a trail of destruction. Oh my goodness.
That is just scary. And now somebody's crawling climbing up onto the top
of a white van. Don't know if that's the person that they're going after,
if it's somebody else, but there's four or five wrecked cars and this
person just went head on and now police are going after them with it,
going after the person with a taser. We thought it was a woman.
It looks like a man can't tell, but was driving erratically and just now
she's got her hands over her head and she's surrounded by police again. This
is on the four h five at exit fifty five at Wiltshire Boulevard. Traffic
at a standstill, several officers around this person and now they're grabbing that person
and taking him into custody. Wow, that is a crazy way to start
the day. So if you're stuck on the four h five, that is
why. Hopefully they'll figure out what was going on. This person was driving
like erratically and then they it would get hit by a police car and then
would spin around and keep on going and then would get rammed by a police
cars they do those pit maneuvers and then would keep going and just very very
crazy. Okay, did we get Jim Ryan back on the phone. Okay,
Well, let's get back to what we're following in the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Looks like they have taken this person into custody. The county
supervisors have voted to approve funding for the legal bills of pro Palestinian protesters who
were arrested at UCLA. Republican Supervisor Catherine Barger was the sole vote against the
motion. The Biden administration is moving forward with a proposal to reclassify marijuana from
a Schedule one to a Schedule three drug. In a video posted on ex
President Biden called the proposal an important move toward reversing long standing inequities. Gaza
is getting aid thanks to that floating pier the US built in the Mediterranean Sea.
A judge has given Huntington Beach one hundred and twenty days to come up
with a plan that zones for more than thirteen thousand affordable housing units. Huntington
Beach is not above the law. State ag Rob Bonta says his office will
not stop fighting to solve the housing crisis, working with cities and counties that
genuinely want to be part of the solution, and holding accountable those that do
not. Huntington b City Attorney Michael Gates says he will appeal Tuesday's rule on
the year long lawsuit. The environmental protections under State Lark completely being trampled,
ignored, and set aside in favor of heighthensity development. The housing mandate requires
cities to zone for affordable housing, which developers can then decide to build by
twenty thirty in Orange County. Corbin Carson kf I news. A fifteen year
old boy attacked by three other teens in South la is in grave condition.
Police a two teens were eating at a restaurant on Tuesday night when they were
approached from behind and brutally beaten. The fifteen year old sister says her brother
did not know the people who are attacked her attacked him. One guy was
arrested Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder. Investigators are trying to find the two
others. A ups driver has been fatally shot in Irvine. Police Sergeant Carrie
Davies says the driver was on lunch break yesterday in his van when a pickup
truck pulled up and the driver fired a shot. The driver of the suspect
vehicle never got out of the car, just reached across the passenger seat and
shot the driver through the window. Davy says it does not appear to have
been a robbery. The suspected shooter was arrested a few hours later in Orange
following a standoff with SWAT. The FBI, says former La City Attorney Mike
Feuer lied to investigators looking into how the city handled litigation over the botched rollout
of a DWP billing system. It led to a lot of customers being wildly
overcharged. The court documents were released this week. Fewer was never charged with
a crime and has denied he knew anything about any collusion in the handling of
the litigation over the flawed billing system. Country singer Zach Bryan and his girlfriend
have walked away from what they call a traumatizing car crash while headed to Arkansas.
Podcaster Brianna chicken Fry says their car flipped several times Tuesday and there was
glass everywhere. Thank god, we had our seatbelts on, but there was
a lot of blood and we thought like we were like saying goodbye to each
other. She says. Brian needed stitches, but they're doing well and are
happy to be alive. Brian is currently on his Quitton Time tour and played
a show in Arkansas the day after the crash. He'll be heading to la
soon, where he'll do three nights at Crypto dot Com Arena starting on June's
second. A woman in a white van's been taken into custody after a wild
chase around West LA this morning. The chase ended when the drivers, speeding
southbound in northbound lanes crashed into several vehicles that police had stopped on the freeway
for the chase. At least two officers were hurt. The carpool lane appears
to be getting through on the four or five, but that's about it for
now. Russell's going to get an update for us on that. In just
a couple of minutes, a Metro passenger has been shot and killed on a
bus in Commerce. The shooting yesterday afternoon is the fourth violent attack on the
Metro system this week. LA Mayor Baths says it's no longer safe on Metro
and announced plans to add more police to buses, trains, and train stations.
And La Metro Committee has approved a new budget for the agency that is
larger than the budgets of eleven states in the US. The committee says the
nearly nine billion dollar spending plan will be used to finalize infrastructure projects, boost
ridership, and increase safety. Five Handle on the News. Something apparently happened
four years ago at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house, and it's causing a
big stink. Now, I'll tell you about what it is at five point
fifty. Nothing imaginary about this friend. ABC's Jason Nathanson will join us with
if in Theaters. I've been waiting this for this one for a long time
too, Season three, one of my favorite shows on the stream. Let's
say good morning now to the host of Home on KFI. It's the house
whisper, Dean Sharp. Good morning Dean, Good morning Amy. You know
we're going to talk about all of us being biophiliacs in just a second.
But also I know that you are a bee guy and World b Day is
Monday. Did you know that? I did not know that it is.
Do you have a Do you have a hive? I? Do you have
a well? I went out to the Valley Hive in Chatsworth. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, And so we're going to take you on a little journey
to discover bees for World b Day on Monday. So I thought i'd let
you know about because I know you're a big b fan. That's perfect That
Vallei Hive is the best place in town to do that too, So great.
Okay, so let's talk about being biophilias biofiliate. Is it well?
We're talking about outdoor living this weekend, and I'm taking a slightly different approach.
I feel like I have over the years here warmed up our listeners enough
to hit them with the hard stuff. And that is basically biophilic design.
And it's not anything radically new. Architecture has been addressing it for a while,
but it's important to understand, I think more and more important these days.
Biophilia simply means a love of nature, or maybe the better way to
express it or translated is a partnership with nature. I love nature. I
know you do. We all do. And here's the thing. Here's the
thing. We all love nature more then even a lot of people realize they
love nature, because there are folks out there these days, lots who are
like, no, I'm kind of an inside person, I'm kind of an
urban person. I'm not a nature lover. Well you may think that,
but it's actually not true. At least it's not true for your body.
And that's what biophilic design is all about. It addresses the fact that we're
starting to realize now in a major way, so much of the stress,
anxiety, and learning disability issues that we have contributed to our inexperiencing our generation
like never before. That a lot of it comes from the fact that we
have cut ourselves off more and more from the natural world around us when our
bodies are programmed to be a part of it. I mean, we're talking
about two million years of experience with the surroundings and the sensorial experience of outdoors.
And now, more than ever, especially like in the last seventeen years,
we're indoors. We're glued to screens all day long, and it's having
its effect on us. And so even our solutions get ahead in the wrong
direction. And what I mean by that is, well, let me ask
you this. I'll give you a little quiz. Okay, are you ready?
All right? So you know, we all know that noise at some
level is stressful, right, Urban noise is stressful. In fact, we
found that studies have shown every five decibel increase in background noise correspondingly decreases reading
comprehension in children by two months. Right. Well, constant background noise,
yeah, all right, you raise the level of that noise five decibels,
you will decrease reading comprehension levels by two months of progress. And the more
you go, the more it decreases. Okay, it's attention deficit issues,
it's learning comprehension issue, and so on. So we all know that noise
is stressful to us. It raises cortisol levels in us, whether we are
paying attention to it or not. So we naturally these days try to escape
at times from the noise and get quiet. So here's the quiz. When
you're getting away from urban noise, what do scientific studies revealed to be the
sound environment most relaxing to the human mind. Is it meditative music, quiet,
meditative music like we put in our headphones. Is it total silence like
you put your headphones on noise canceling mode and you just sit in silence.
Or bird song? Which is it? Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna guess
based on what you've just been telling us, that it's going to be bird
song. It is absolutely one hundred percent bird song, without question, without
question. Noise is stressful to us, but we're beginning to find out that
total silence is also when we're awake, is also stressful to the human mind.
And the reason is this. We have cohabitated outdoors in nature with birds,
like I said, for two million years and birds are amazing. They're
hyper aware of their environment, and so when there are predators nearby, or
when there are dangers nearby, guess what the birds do. Sinking silent,
they stop singing. Okay, So absolute silence to a human mind on a
deeply subconscious level, is actually more stressful than hearing birds song, because when
we get up in the morning and the birds are chirping and singing and going
about their business, whether we realize it or not, it is a message
to us to our brains, hey, everything's okay, business is usual,
it's safe out here. Enjoy your day. And that's literally what it communicates
to our minds because we have been ingrained to understand it that way. And
that is just one example of what we're talking about when we say biophilic design,
and we're not talking about stuff like, oh, sure, Dean,
if you have ten million dollars, you can build a house like a nautilus
shell and have you No, no, no, no, it's not that
this weekend. We're talking about very simple things like, hey, for your
backyard, buy a bird feeder, bring birds into your yard. You you
will have less stress and be more relaxed when you spend time outdoors. Oh
I love that. Okay, well, I'm going to look forward to that
because it sounds so nice and relaxing. It is, And I bet you
have a relative. I bet you have other tips and tricks to make your
outdoor space relaxing and inviting and biophilic. Exactly. It's just the tip of
the iceberg. We have a whole list of things that people real things,
real world things that people can do with their own homes to change the way
they experience nature around their home. Yes, I think we do need to
reconnect with nature. It's going to be so interesting. Okay, So you
can listen to Dean Sharp. He has a show called at Home with Dean.
Actually, it's just Home with Dean Sharp, isn't it. What's the
it's home? Yeah, home, It's just home. So come on home
to KFI Saturday from six to eight am, and then also on Sunday from
nine to noon with Dean. Sorry, Dean, I'm I'm discombobulated because I'm
excited because we're giving away Disneyland tickets. In a second. Oh my gosh,
can I can I participate? No? No, sorry, it's for
week up call listeners only, So thank you. So much. Looking forward
to finding out more about biophiliac. Is it philiac or philic? Uh?
Biophilia? Okay, Pha, love it? Thank you, Dan Jay,
thank you. Have a good day. Uh. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A volunteer
who offered medical aide protesters at UCLA says it was like a battlefield when police
moved in to clear the camp. Elaine Chan went to UCLA and says she
was treating broken bones, head injuries, and bleeding wounds without water and power.
She told Kaiser Health News the injuries were from rubber bullets and other less
lethal weapons, but a tipity chief from LAPD and a source with CHP both
say they don't even own rubber bullets, and the primary less lethal weapon of
choice as a forty millimeters foam projectile. Pepper spray, aerial flash bangs and
batons are also used. A bean background is used for targeted tactical situations and
typically not in large crowds. All weapons are deployed only when directed to do
so. Steve Gregory Kaphie News Israeli protesters have attacked a truck in the West
Bank after an apparent effort to block AID into Gaza. The Israeli military says
the protesters beat the driver and set the truck on fire. Israeli soldiers were
also attacked as they tried to separate the attackers from the driver and provide medical
treatment. Israeli media says the truck was carrying ordinary commercial goods, not AID
for Gaza. The third annual Women's Lifeguard Prep Academy is taking over Venice Beach
this weekend. The two day academy, hosted by the La County Fire Department,
is open to anyone sixteen and older interested in training for a career as
an ocean lifeguard. Participants will be led by professional lifeguards and firefighters. They'll
swim in the ocean, run in the sand, and do a series of
physical fitness exercises. We're following that wild chase this morning on the four or
five. It is over after several pit maneuvers by LAPD officers. A female
suspect in a white van who had evaded police during a high speed chase has
been detained near the Wilshire Boulevard exit of the northbound four or five Freeway.
She was speeding southbound in lanes and crashed into several cars. That's when the
chase finally ended. Almost half the protesters arrested at UC Irvine this week were
not students. Twenty six were students, two were faculty, nineteen had no
affiliation with the school. You see, Irvine will resume in person classes today
following the protests earlier this week, the House is passed the Ticket Act,
which will make ticket sellers disclose all hidden fees before you actually purchase the tickets.
It also bans sales of tickets that sellers don't actually have, and guarantees
refunds for events that get canceled. It now moves over to the Senate.
We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, the Biden
administration says it's going to speed up the process for people crossing the border claiming
asylum. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jason Nathansen.
Jason, what if we all went to the movies this weekend? What would
we see? We would see if Imaginary Friends. Although I think this chase
this morning was quite more captivating than any of the movies. It was wild.
I haven't seen something like that, especially live in a long time.
I hope the people in those cars are okay, But that was that's a
wild, wild chase anyway, if is it stands for an imaginary friend?
Right? If always would I didn't even make that case, So there you
go. It's from writing director John Krasinski. It's about a girl who discover
she can see everyone's imaginary friends, and she embarks on a magical adventure to
reconnect forgotten imaginary friends with their kids. Right, because when you have an
imaginary friend is a kid. When you're a kid, then you grow up
and you forget about that imaginary friend, but the imaginary friends still there.
It's just in limbo. What does it do? Where does it go?
How does it? You know? So that's kind of what that's about.
Ryan Reynolds Stars. This is live action and animation, So like Roger Rabbit,
right, think about that, Like, so you have actual actors walking
around in the world with animated beings. Ryan Reynolds Stars, he's a real
life person in this. Kayleie Fleming is the girl in this. And then
you have the voices of the imaginary friends voiced by Steve Carell, Phoebe waller
Bridge, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt of course, because that's John Krasinski's wife,
and a bunch of others. But unfortunately, if just didn't work for
me. I really wanted. I love the premise and I love the thought
of it and the Roger Rabbit comparison. Just no that that's the style that
you're kind of going into, but the movie's nothing like that, So don't
expect that kind of energy. Don't like, get that out of your mind.
Okay. I wanted it to have a little bit more of that energy,
but it did not. It was just a bit too serious. It
was trying too hard to be emotional. I didn't cry once, although it
really wanted me to, like really bad at wanted me, and I just
it's it's a little slow and a little too kind of cloying there. I
can't see little kids liking it because it's a little too slow and not wacky
enough, like there's a sweet spot in there maybe for an eleven or twelve
year old, And that's kind of it. And I have to say,
I went to a theater where a bunch of kids were watching it. There
are kids on their iPads in the theater with the sound on in the iPad,
So parents, please do a better job. That's really annoying. Yeah,
the hearts were in the right place in the making of this movie,
just didn't work for me six point four out of ten, So on the
Jason on them. But it's going to win the weekend and pretty well because
we haven't had a family type friendly film in a while. And that big
furry one is so cute. Yeah it is. Some of the characters are
cute, but yeah, just a miss okay, not cute enough, Okay,
So then let's move on. We've got Amy Winehouse in theaters thirteen years
after she died. Why, Yeah, this is a biopic about her.
We haven't had that, and her life is certainly warranted of that and her
voice and everything about her, and I think a lot of people there are
a lot of questions about exactly what happened. Why did a twenty seven year
old woman basically drink herself to death when she was on top of the world,
and you know, she had a voice that was just so unique and
so wonderful. So that's what this story is about. Back to black,
the story of Amy Winehouse played by Marisa Abella, who when first clips of
this came out. She was savaged on the internet, particularly on TikTok because
said she didn't look enough like Amy No her voice people were they thought that
the singing was very affected and Marissa Abela is doing I don't know if it's
all the singing, but she does a lot of the singing in this,
and they felt that her voice just didn't stand up to Amy Winehouse's, that
it was too affected with the runs, and Ammy Winehouse had a very affected
voice. I would say put that aside. It's not a train wreck.
It's not a disaster. Some people were worried about or had you believe.
But the film itself, I don't know that it does Amy Winehouse justice because
a film like this could be an Oscar winning film, right. We've seen
him before, certainly when it comes to music biopics. If done right,
they do win Oscars. This is not there. It's not terrible, so
maybe wait and watch it on the stream. Possibly Mauricy Abella brings a nice
humanity to it, but we just don't learn enough. I feel about the
demons that drove this woman to basically drink herself to death, and maybe she
didn't have those demons. Some people are just their their chemistry is like that.
You know, they don't necessarily need trauma to then turn into the trad
But too many unanswered questions here six point six out of ten for me.
Okay, and then finally, let's move over to the stream because I've been
waiting for this one for a while. Now, are you talking about Bridgerton?
Yes, I assume season three at Bridgerton, which is out, and
yes, people have been waiting for a while fans of Bridgerton, of which
I am not. I really I like it's more of a chick flicky kind
of thing. Yeah, but that's fine. I like chicklicks like I have
no problem with that. And I did watch the first season and enjoy it.
Second season I just dropped off. Didn't do anything for me, and
I didn't go back to it, and I don't know that I'm going to
go back to it. But this season is getting mostly positive reviews. People
seem to really be liking it, and you know, it's more of the
same kind of stuff you can expect. Covers, you know, classical style
covers of Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish and things like that. That's one of
my favorite things about Bridgerton. Is the music. I know people love the
soundtrack and score for those reasons, so you can expect a lot more of
that. The costumes, the Regency era drama, all of that is back.
And they're splitting this season into two parts, so you get a bunch
of episodes now and then you're gonna get the second half of it next month
June thirteenth. Oh and speaking of that, yes, you got me all
excited for Hacks. And they did the same thing with Hacks. They only
let out four episodes and then they just released two more. Well, no,
they did two at the beginning and then two. They're doing a weekly
drop for Hacks, and that they're doing two episodes a week. I believe
that that's the case, and that's been the case. That's how Max releases
stuff. They're usually not an all at once type, but all of these
streaming services they're playing around with different things because at the end of the day,
what's most important for them is that you stay watching on the service.
So if you release it, I'm just going to give all of you guys
a message right now, Netflix, Max, release it all at once,
and I promise you I will sit by my television set all weekend and binge
it. Yeah, but then once you're done, you're done, and then
you don't turn it on again. Yes, I do. I go look
for more stuff. Okay, well there you go. All right. Jason
Nathanson, thank you so much for all the information. You're very welcome.
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