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day started with us. I'm Amy King. Hey, we got a little
rivalry going. My Dodgers are in action tonight, Down and diego which means
producer and will be cheering on the podres not the Dodgers. I have a
good feeling about it. I think the Boys and Blue are gonna beat them.
I think they're gonna beat the pants off them. Anne's out of earshot
so I can see it. Okay, Hey, look what I discovered,
or listen to what I discovered. I was at the store the other day,
you know, and they have all the gum and everything in the checkout
line, and I saw bubble Yum. I haven't had bubble yum in like
twenty years. I used to chew gum a lot. I don't really anymore.
And I was like, oh my god, bubble Yum. I have
to get it. I haven't had it yet, but it smells so good.
I was gonna say, it looks not even opened. It's not open
because i've been I'm saving it for this weekend when I can chew and chew,
because you know, chewing gum on the air while you're talking and delivering
the news, that would probably be a bad thing. But I'm so excited.
Of course, when I bought it, it was twenty five cents a
pack, because I told you I haven't had it since I was a kid.
Now it's like a dollar fifty. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it,
and hope you're looking forward to wake up call. We got a lot
on the plate for you today. So here's what's ahead. State regulators have
approved changes to the way millions of Californians pay their utility bills. Customers are
going to be charged a monthly flat fee of twenty four dollars fifteen cents and
then exchange for that charge, electricity rates will be reduced by five to seven
cents per kilowatt hour. The new rates will kick in in twenty twenty six.
Israeli forces have bombed a couple neighborhoods in eastern Rafa, following President Biden's
warning that the US would withhold weapons to Israel and if it attacked the city
in southern Gaza. Israel says Hamas militants are hiding in Rafa and among those
killed was a senior commander. We're going to get the latest on that from
ABC's jor Dana Miller in Jerusalem in less than five minutes. USC has hosted
its alternate celebration for graduates at La Memorial Coliseum. By eighteen thy five hundred
people showed up for the Trojan Family Graduate Celebration last night. Traditionally, the
main graduation ceremony USC draws more than sixty thousand. A little bit later this
hour, we're going to be talking with ABC's Jason Nathanson about someone who is
not at all happy about the success of Netflix's new baby Reindeer. We told
you about that earlier this week with Amy's on It. I loved it,
but apparently this person does not. And also why people are going ape at
movie theaters. And also if you have a little time and you have a
car, you could help veterans. It's a really easy way that you can
help the people who've served our country. That's coming up at five twenty.
You don't want to miss it. At six oh five, it's handled on
the news. Hundreds of UC faculty and staff are calling for all charges against
pro Palestinian student protesters to be dropped. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State regulators, as
I mentioned, have approved a controversial proposal that changed which is the way millions
of Californians pay their utility bills. Under the new policy, which goes into
effect in late twenty twenty five or early twenty twenty six, PG and e
SO, cal Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric will charge customers with a
new monthly flat fee of twenty four dollars fifteen cents, and then will reduce
the price of electricity by five to seven cents per kilowatt hour. These impacts
are expected to be very minor, non discount customers see bill increases of one
to three dollars a month, just on average across the board, across the
utilities, so we see that as relatively minimal considering the benefits for low income
households. Turn Energy and Climate analyst Sylvia Ashford says lower income households will also
get discounted electric rates. California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones says the commission is
out of touch with the struggles of ordinary Californians, calling the fixed charge unfair
and unjust. Two LA City councilmen previously removed from committees are back on committees.
Coucil President Paul Krekorian announced Current Price and Kevin Dalleon will return to committee
assignments immediately. Price stepped down on his own after being charged last year with
embezzlement, perjury, and conflict of interest. He says he's not guilty.
Daily On was stripped of his committees for being part of a recorded conversation in
which racist remarks were made. Daily On, who's up for reelection this year,
issued a statement saying he's happy with the decision. Michael Monks KFI News
two miles of the southern California Coast has been closed between Marina del Rey and
Plia Delray because of a sewage spill. The County Department of Public Health is
more than fourteen thousand gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Bologna Creek sometime between Wednesday
and midday yesterday. People are being told to stay off the wet sand and
out of the water from the southern end of Venice Beach to Dockweiler State Beach.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller. And before we get
started on the serious stuff, Jordana, I just wanted to say congratulations because
Jordana Miller just won a Gracie Award, which is a big celebrates women who
create programming for and about women, and Jordan, I know you you want
it for breaking news, so I just wanted to say congratulations. I think
that's so nice. That's so nice. The ceremony is coming up in Los
Angeles, and I actually hope to take a break ringing on the war and
come because I'm also a native of Los Angeles, so it is exciting and
it's you know, I'm part of a team and ABC's amazing with breaking news
and everything else. So it's a win really for the for the whole team.
Thanks, you're welome, just like to make you feel uncomfortable, but
it's good because now you've kind of practiced your acceptance speech, so you know
that's great. Right. Wow, we do be fun, Yes, yes,
absolutely, we have a lot of We do have serious stuff to talk
about going on here. Yes, Sonny, I thought you were going to
mention. I thought you were going to mention Eurovision because just bye, thousands
of protesters and Mountain Mow, Sweden, pro Palestinian protesters chanting for days against
and really some organ I'm trying to convince your vision to ban the Israeli singer
from competing. She killed it last night and made it into the finals and
everyone hears thrilled and rooting for her on Saturday night. I thought that's what
you were going to mention. See you. No, it was all about
you, Jordana. Oh thanks, all right, So let's get to it.
President Biden says the US is not going to provide weapons for the IDF
to use in Rafa, which is considered like the last stronghold for Hamas and
then Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yah who came out and said, fine,
we'll do it on our own. That's right. He struck a very defiant
tone, you know, saying we will, we will go. We need
to go to Rafa. We have to go alone. We'll fight alone,
We'll fight tooth and nail. We don't have a choice. And we heard
that echoed, you know, in remarks from the Defense Minister and the books
into the Israeli Army said we have enough munitions for Rafa. You know,
we don't necessarily need the heavy payloads bombs from the United States for this,
but it's worth saying, you know, pointing out that you know, this
is classic Nataniel, who of course he's going to come out and say,
you know, we're going to do whatever we need to do, and we're
an independent, strong country, which is all true, and that's good for
and it's good for as far right partners, it's good for his image.
But behind closed doors, we do know that Israel is looking at their plans
for assaulting and going after Hamath in Rafa, in Rafa city, it has
to be said, and we may see Israel revive some of its plans move
more slowly through until it gets to rapa city. Perhaps take the corridor where
there's lots of tunnel from you just into Gaza, feel that border, so
to speak, destroy those tunnels. There are ways that there are choices that
Carol has besides a major assault on Rafa City. And Nataniell even seemed to
hint that he will be trying to work through this issue of Rafa with the
President in an interview last night in the United States, saying, I've known
Joe Biden for a long time. You know, we've had disagreements. We've
overcome them, and he said, I hope will overcome this one as well.
Absolutely, okay. And you mentioned about Rafa City and maybe slow kind
of slowing the role to move in, and we know that last week Israel
started telling people to move out. The Palestinians who've been staying in Rafa are
they are they migrating? So I'll asked dozands to evacuate from Rafa. The
eastern section of the of Rafa, which includes the crossing that they took in
a surprise raid. And according to both the UN and the Israli Army estimates,
over one hundred thousand people which is ult are estimated to be in this
area have moved out. They've gone north to Communis. They've gone north west
to an expanded humanitarian safer zone. I don't want to call it a safe
zone because there's been fighting and civilians killed there, but a safer zone,
and going north to you know, Communis, a major city, and the
safer zone Israel. The army says they had stop tiled already anticipating their operation
to take the Rapa crossing. They've stockpiled extra food and water and tents and
supplies for these civilians. While to see what people on the ground are actually
saying about those supplies, if they're adequate or not. But clearly people have
moved. They're afraid. There's some airstrikes going on, and you know,
for dozens, it's another it's another traumatic move. It's just got to be
just a nightmare waking up every day and just knowing that there's bombs going off
and you don't know if where you're staying is going to be safe. I
just can't even imagine it. So yeah, I mean dozens are trapped.
They're trapped right now right because Egypt, also for its own reasons, doesn't
want to open the border to let them in, right okay, well,
we will be watching it and thank you as always for the information and congratulations
on you're Gracie. Thank you so much. Tick Soon, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Homelessness in Orange County has surged twenty eight percent over the last two years,
with about seventy three hundred people now homeless. About sixty percent of those homeless
people were not in shelters, which is a thirty seven percent increase. OHS.
The Office of Care Coordination Director Doug Beck says contributing factors include inflation and
the end of several pandemic programs. In twenty twenty two, the Emergency Rental
Assistance program had just distributed over three hundred million dollars two households here in Orange
County. Additionally, there was an eviction wartorium going on. Beck says over
the last five years, the county saw just a seven percent increase compared to
a twenty nine percent growth rate in the four surrounding counties. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson kf I news disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will stay in jail
in New York while the courts decide whether he should be moved to California while
awaiting retrial. His rape conviction was overturned last month, but prosecutors planned to
retry him. The courts are deciding whether to send Weinstein West to begin serving
a sixteen year prison sentence for a rape in Beverly Hills. Weinstein's next court
date in New York is May twenty ninth. He has a court date in
La in August. Time to start gathering your foods, your non perishables boxes
Aposta cans. Tomorrow is the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. You're encouraged
to leave a bag of non perishable food items next to your mailbox. As
postal carriers drop off the mail Saturday, they'll be picking up your bag of
donations. The donations will then be delivered to local charities. The event started
in nineteen ninety three. It's touted as the largest single day food drive in
the country. More than eight hundred University of California faculty and staff have called
for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block to resign immediately in the wake of how UCLA handled
pro Palestinian protesters on campus last week. They're also calling for all charges to
be dropped against students who participated in the protests. Former President Trump's hush money
trial reaches day fifteen. Today. The judge denied a motion by Trump's attorneys
for a mistrial following Stormy Daniel's dicey testimony, which wrapped up yesterday. Trump's
former executive assistant at the White House, scheduled to be back on the stand
today. If you have an extra six and a half million dollars, you
could buy a town in San Diego County. The town of Campo has been
on the market since twenty nineteen, but apparently the price was just recently dropped.
The town, on six acres of land, has twenty eight buildings,
including commercial properties, some single family homes, and an army barracks that's been
turned into apartments. Population one hundred at six oh five. It's handle on
the news. Apple has apologized for its new iPad pro ad. Bill's going
to tell you why. Right now. Let's say good morning to the director
for the VA Center for Development and Civic Engagement, doctor Sabrina Clark. Good
morning, doctor Clark, Good morning. So a lot of veterans. The
reason we're talking to you today is because a lot of veterans don't get the
health care they need that is available to them for one big reason, and
that's because they can't get a ride to the doctor. That's right, That's
right, and not just for you know, for veterans, but transportation is
such a need everywhere. And I'm sure that you know that out in your
market, that there's awesome opportunities there. But there's also a lot of challenges
with transportation, yes, and we're dealing with a lot of those with our
public transportation system right now. But how is the VA working to help fix
this problem and get vets to the doctor? Yeah, And so I'm glad
you asked the question because I'm excited to tell you about DA Volunteer Transportation Network
And this is a network of volunteer drivers coordinated by the VA, and it's
largely supported by the Disabled American Veterans the DAV to provide cost free transportation to
veterans to medical appointments at VA facilities. And how many people do you have
as drivers and how many people are helped through the program currently? Well,
currently we have what we have one hundred and twenty eight facilities that actually have
the program in place right now, we have more than three hundred to three
thousand and seven hundred volunteers who are actually working as volunteers for the Thriving program.
And we have more than two hundred and twenty two thousand veterans over our
last year that we have counted and actually have been transported over eight point four
million miles of travel. Wow, that's amazing. So tell us because I
know you're looking for volunteers because there's there's always a need. So for our
week up call listeners, if they're interested, what can they do to help?
What they can do to help is, first of all, let me
give the website of Volunteer dot v A dot gov. That's v O l
U N T e e R dot v A dot gov. And going to
that website will allow individuals to see what VA facility is near them. We
need individuals who will first of all, have a clean driving record, have
a driver's life, and well undergo the background checks, training and physical examinations
that are required in order to safely transport veterans. So we're looking for people
who have a little bit of extra time and it's their time. So the
beauty of volunteer work is that you can decide when you're available, but our
facilities need drivers at any time. Individuals are available to assist, okay.
So like if you have five hours a week or you have twenty hours a
week, both would work absolutely, absolutely okay. And who would be a
good candidate to be a driver. Well, a good candidate is an individual,
as you mentioned with the time, that is a good driver that is
comfortable driving. And they're not driving their own vehicles by the way, they're
driving. They're driving vans, okay, smaller vans yes, okay, So
they're driving government vehicles yes, yes, and that is really important to know.
And so those individuals need to be comfortable operating that vehicle. There is
training available and additionally, just comfortable transporting other people. So just liking to
drive is one thing, but being able to transport others, to be able
to spend time going to pick up those veterans bringing them back to the facilities,
that may be the same driver that takes the veteran home, but maybe
not. It really depends on the scheduling. The more drivers that we have,
the more we can we can spread out the work. Because I'd like
to say you know, many hands make for light work, so the more
drivers we have, we can really be more flexible with that time and provide
that that maximum support to the volunteer and to the veterans. Okay, and
we know that the veterans need us. I mean, they served us and
so now it's it's our turn to serve them. Yeah. That's we see
here from a lot of volunteers that the reason that they volunteer at VA is
to give back to veterans. And that's yeah, a number one reason to
come serve at VA. Okay, So doctor Clark again, what is the
website where they can find out more information and start the process of becoming a
driver. Yes, to learn more about that process, go to volunteer dot
VA dot gov. Or if you know where your local VA medical center is,
stop in and talk to the volunteer program manager. Likely the first person
that you will see when you walk into a volunteer to a VA hospital is
a volunteer at that front desk, and they'll be able to direct you as
well. All right, Doctor Sabrina Clark, thank you so much. Hope
we get a lot more drivers for you, So thanks so much for your
help. All right, take care again. That's a volunteer transportation network.
Know somebody has some time on their hands, likes to drive, probably meet
new people and help our veterans. Like I said, they've served us.
Now it's our turn. The La City Council budget the committee is wrapped up
its public hearings on Mayor Bass's proposed spending plan. Departments across the city would
see significant cuts to their funding and vacant job list if Bass's new fiscal year
budget is unchanged, but the City Council Budget Committee will entertain proposed changes next
Thursday, and City council Woman Unses Hernandez says the LAPD budget should be scaled
back. We must break away from the budgeting culture that has left our city
in a state of disarray. This is a crisis of our own making.
The LAPD takes up the biggest chunk of the city's budget, and Hernandez says
redirecting some funds from new police cars, for example, could help in other
areas. Michael Monks KFI News a man from Burbank has been charged with killing
his mom during a fight at their home. Police say they responded to a
house on North Avon Street Tuesday night where the twenty five year old lived with
his parents. Elementary school teacher Karen Lombardo was pronounced dead at the house.
The son was taken in the custody. The father was in Lake Arrowhead at
the time and says he's devastated. He says his son was diagnosed as a
child with Asperger syndrome and didn't want to kill his mom. The Senate has
passed a reauthorization of the FAA that will provide a boost to air traffic controller
staffing, among other things. Lawmakers voted eighty eight to four on the measure
yesterday. I want to know who the four are voted against it, which
will also increase funding to stop runway close call incidents and fast track refunds for
canceled flights. Five daily round trip flights at Ronald Reagan Washington Airport will be
added, with airlines now required to accept vouchers and credits for at least five
years. Yeah, still want to know who the four are that voted against
it. State regulators have approved changes to the way millions of Californians are going
to pay their utility bills. Customers are going to be charged a monthly flat
fee of twenty four dollars fifteen cents. The other part of the bill,
or the changes, are that electricity rates will be reduced by five to seven
cents per kilowatt hour. The new rates will start in late twenty twenty five
for SoCal, Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric customers, early twenty twenty
six for PG and E customers. Ladies making a pit stop in LA to
bring in some money for her husband's presidential campaign. Jill Biden will fly into
the Hollywood Burbank Airport at about one this afternoon. She'll be speaking at a
fundraiser at an undisclosed location, and then it's off to Phoenix for a political
event. She'll be in LA for about three hours. The Bear's Coming Back
yay FX says the multiple award winning show about life in a Restaurant is almost
here. In a season three trailer, Jeremy Allen White's Krmi is alone at
the restaurant as the camera zooms out to the Chicago skyline. Hulu's going to
release the entire season on June twenty seventh. Can't Wait Love That Show?
At six oh five, It's handle on the news. Bb nettan Yah who
says, if it has to, Israel will stand alone. At five five
point fifty, people are kind of going eight at the movie. ABC's Jason
Nathanson is going to tell us why. But right now, let's say good
morning to the host of Home on KFI. It's the house whisper, Dean
Sharp Dean. Last week we were talking about some things you don't know about
your house that you don't even know. You don't know, but now we
know, and now I want to know more. Well, there are so
many things right there you should know that you don't know. Right you have
a list of like twenty five and we got to like four or five,
and then I was looking at the list on I want to get to some
more of these. So if it's okay with you, fireway, all right,
you can now have a three way switch without calling an electrician, thank
you? Yes, right, Yeah. You know a lot of people would
love to have a room in their house so that they can control the light
from you know, more than one doorway, whether it's a dining room or
whatever. And you know you've heard, and you've heard rightly that to do
that a three way switch setup, that's a lot of wiring and it's a
lot of expense from Electrician, So yes, you can. You can thanks
to the company Loutron. Lutron has a system which they call their Cassetta system,
and it basically you would place the switch that you have, which a
homeowner with a little bit of DIY you know, know how can do pretty
easily replace the switch you have with the Leutron what they would call it kind
of the master switch, and then that switch wirelessly communicates with these other switches
that are very very incredibly thin, and those switches can be mounted without cutting
into the dry wall, without putting wires. It can be put anywhere,
so you can have a three way, four way, you could have a
six way switch if you wanted to. You can buy as many of the
slave switches, the responder switches, the remotes as you want. And yeah
they're battery operated, but the batteries last forever, so it's really nothing that
you're going to notice any different. And it's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
You could literally three way up a room, you know, in a couple
of hours. That's so cool. So we're probably going to be seeing a
lot more of that kind of thing, aren't we. Yes, and Also,
the cool thing about these is that they also apply to areas where it's
difficult to put a regular switch, like on the pocket side of a pocket
door, or a weird position in a bathroom, or just you know,
just wherever it is difficult or impossible to run a traditional wire and box.
These guys, they're capable. In fact, you can even keep them as
a as kind of a free remote control. Just lay it on the table
if you want to control switches from once you're sitting down in the living room,
just reach out to the coffee table and hit the switch for your lights
even there. Oh nice, Okay, so you mentioned pocket doors. So
one of your twenty five things you might not know is that not all pocket
doors suck, just yours, just yours. Why do you say that I
like my little pocket doors. Well, I'm glad, I'm glad you are
happy with your pocket doors, but most Southern Californians are not, just because
they are living in a house, a tract house that was built for them
and the classic Southern California tracked house pocket door. Usually it's a door like
to the laundry room or something like that. It has been open for as
long as they've lived there. It's kind of painted open now. They don't
even dare to close it. They hate closing it. It squeaks, it
jumps the track. It's all sorts of trouble. And when we do new
builds for people, I so often hear a client say no, no,
no, no pocket doors. Those are terrible, and I always have to
correct them and say, no, your pocket door growing up was terrible.
Pocket doors can be a beautiful, wonderful thing. And again they're kind of
like the neutron switch. Pocket doors are problem solvers, especially for space challenged
room because you don't have to have the door swinging into the space. The
key is you got to buy the right hardware. And if you run down
to the big bar store, which I love the big box store, but
if you go down to the big box store and just grab that forty dollars
set of pocket door hardware off the shelf, you are buying the wrong thing
and you're going to have this kind of trouble. A good pocket door pocket
should be costing you about one hundred dollars or more, and with that you
get really great rollers that cannot jump the track. You get soft clothes and
soft open doors, which means you can throw that door open, just swing,
you know, just slap it open, and then the last inch it
slows down and just eases right into the pocket. Right. I don't like
that at all. You don't like that at all, And I'm going to
tell you why, because sometimes you just need to slam a door and if
it's got the soft no, it's just like with the phone. Remember you
used to be able to slam down the phone when you were mad. Now
you can't do it because all you do is you go boop and push the
button. All right, I think it's I think it's I think you should.
You should, you should introduce a new product aim these angry doors.
Okay, let's move on to a water heater. So here's another thing you
might not know. Your old water heater did not work better than the new
tankless heaters. That's true, it did not work better. A lot of
people think, oh, it gave us hot water faster. Well maybe technically,
maybe technically it did, and I'll tell you why, only for one
reason. Because that old water heater was sitting there all day long, heating
up that fifty gallons or seventy five gallons of water and some of that heat
crept down the pipe on its way towards the sink, okay, on its
way toward the faucet. So when you turn the faucet on, yes,
you get the cold water, but the hot water gets there a little sooner
because it was a little bit closer. And a tankless water heater, that's
not going to happen because a tankless water heater is not heating the water at
all until you demand it, until you call for it, so it has
to travel a little bit further. And some people interpret that as, oh,
this just doesn't do as good a job. No, it does a
way way better job. It's not instant hot water, but it is constant,
endless hot water. How expensive are the tankless heaters? You know what?
When they first came out, they were like three or four times as
expensive as a traditional tanked heater. Now they're about a third more expensive than
a tanked heater. But but they are going to last at least twice as
long and save a heck of a lot more energy along the way, so
overall value, no comparison. Now, Okay, So Dean, what are
you gonna be talking about on home this weekend? Well, we are.
You know, I'll be talking about these things in between callers. We're doing
an all calls weekend. We've got all calls tomorrow and on Sunday show.
Conway accused me of being sexist about this, but I think if I am,
it's in the best way. Sunday show, it's an all calls show
for Mother's Day, but calls from the ladies. Ah, I think that's
sweet. There you go. Okay. You can listen to Home on KFI
six to eight am Saturday, nine to noon Sunday. You can also follow
Dean at Home with Dean. Thank you so much, Dean Sharp, Thank
you. Amy. All right, we'll talk to you next week. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. A lawsuit claims Orange County and Anaheim ignored reports of the torture of
three girls. The torturers were sentenced to fourteen and fifteen years, respectively.
Lawyer Roger Booth says the mother's reports were likely ignored because she was in a
custody dispute with the abusive father. They were forced to kneel on canned food
for hours at a time, especially the youngest girl was severely malnourished. By
the time she was finally rescued, she was chained to her bed. Prosecutors
say the girls once described the horrific abuse to a social worker, but the
girls will put back in the home anyway. Orange County and Anaheim declined to
comment in Anaheim. Corbin Carson KF. Hunter Biden's efforts to have gun charges
against him tossed out have been rejected by a federal appeals court in Delaware.
ABC's Stephen Portnoy says the three judge panel found it's too soon to dismiss the
case. Plea agreement between prosecutors and the president's son unraveled last year and now.
In addition to the gun case, which is set to begin next month
in Delaware, Hunter Biden also faces federal tax charges in California. Prosecutor say
Biden lied about his drug use when he filed or filled out a federal form
and got a gun in twenty eighteen. He acknowledged in his memoir that he
was addicted to drugs about that time. Biden's attorney says the president's son owned
the gun for eleven days and never fired it. Valentino's Costume shop in North
Hollywood is closing its doors because of unaffordable rent. Shop owner Sean LeBlanc says
the death of his co owner last month and made it difficult to keep the
doors open. The shop has also been hit hard financially during the pandemic and
the Hollywood strikes. A GoFundMe was started last fall to help cover the rent,
but LeBlanc says it's just still too much. The store is having a
sale on all items before it shuts down May twenty second. Well, this
is about to get good. Former President Trump's ex lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen
is expected to take the stand Monday and be on the stand for several days
in Trump's hush money trial. In New York, Governor Newsom will unveil his
updated state spending plan today. It'll apparently reflect his plan to fill a gaping
thirty eight to seventy three billion dollar deficit. That's quite arrange. Lawmakers have
to come up with a balanced budget by the new fiscal year, which starts
July first. Taylor Swift is kicked off the European leg of her era's tour
in Paris. She added new songs to her set list for last night's show,
including her number one song Fortnite from her new The Tortured Poets Department album.
Swift has three more shows in Paris. We're just minutes away from Handle.
On the news this morning, hundreds of UC faculty and staff are calling
for all charges against pro Palestinian student protesters to be dropped. Right now,
let's say good morning too, ABC and Entertainment Guru Asia. I was going
to say something really clever, but it left my brain. It's Jason Nathanson.
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, that just got weird. I know,
right, it's fun. It does well. You know, the show's
go into the monkeys be sad. Did you go to see Plant of the
Apes last night? I know you like a Thursday night movie. I did
not, Okay, so I thought maybe you were out too late and you
saw the movie and you get so excited. That would have been a good
excuse. Kingdom of the Plane of the Its is the big one in theaters
this weekend, kind of getting into as we're slowly easing into the summer movie
season, but it's going to be a slow summer, so we're gently getting
into that pool. This is the tenth movie in the franchise that dates back
to nineteen sixty eight. This is a reboot of the recent ones. So
if you saw those ones, the last one was in twenty seventeen, wasn't
that with Mark Wahlberg? Was the last one with Mark Wahlberg. I don't
remember if the last one it was like the first one on the Spaceship that
was twenty that was two thousand and two. I believe if we go back
all then then it was James Franco, which was in the first one of
the most recent ones and last one. I honestly, there's like a hundred
of them. Yeah, this is the tenth one, and this one takes
place three hundred years after all that, so you don't have to remember any
of that. Okay, good, you don't remember. It's all new characters.
I mean, if you do, know, they're definitely gonna be references
to some of the other movies. But this is a clean slate so that
you can go into own tigue Stars. Is a chimp named Noah. Remember
this is all motion capture, so the actors are actually on set walking and
moving like these binobo's and chimps and gorillas, so they're not just voicing these
CGI characters. They're actually moving like them and you can kind of see them
in their faces if you know who these people are, because this cast is
pretty much they're not household names. So o antique stars as Noah and the
special effects here, I'll just I'll start there because that's the best part of
the movie. They're really good, especially compared to Godzilla Kong. If you
remember, for like a month or so ago, I did not like and
those special effects were really cheesy and took me out of the movie. These
are really good, really immersive, especially when you kind of combine the humans
in and you get everybody in together and you don't at least for me,
I wasn't taken out of it at any point. Like those are fake apes
good. That's what I was going to ask you about because that happens so
often. So that's cool, But maybe it's different because because don't they they
wear the suits and they've got little electrodes all over the place, and they
do and that you know, it's very expensive technology that they really perfected with
Andy serkis doing a lot of that Monk the Ape stuff in the previous films,
but that he also really perfected in the Lord of the Rings movies when
he was gollm right. So he's been doing that and they've been doing this
for a long time, so they really know what they're doing. So that
looks great rate Okay. Problem for me here though, is that main character
played by O and tgue chimp named Noah, who's on a mission to save
his family of chimps who got kidnapped. He goes on a journey. He's
just a real buzzkill. He suffers from this thing that I there's no real
term for it, but I kind of call it sour lead character affliction.
He's just down and put upon. There's no charm, there's no spark there,
there was no connection for me or reason to root for him. So
I just wasn't invested. So if you're not invested in the main character in
the story, then really it's not gonna do it for you. And also,
at two hours and twenty five minutes, a little too long. So
this is a six point two out of ten for me on the Jasonometer,
on the Jsonometer, on Rotten Tomatoes, it's eighty two percent fresh, So
people are digging it. Again, I say that the special effects are almost
worth the price of admission. And if you're looking for something that's just like
kind of big and loud, you know, then this could satisfy that itch.
Okay, move over to the stream real quick. Who's Doctor Who?
Doctor Who is the longest running sci fi show on television. That's Who,
Doctor Who? That's Who? Doctor Who is ok It's mostly a British show,
but there's a huge fan base here in the US, and for this
is the first time that Doctor Who's going to be on Disney Plus and the
first time it's going to air around the world at the same time. Usually
it's on the BBC, and then it takes a couple of months for the
episodes to come over here because they put him on a boat or something.
I don't know why it takes so long, okay, but it does.
So this is the first time everybody's going to get to watch him at the
same time, which is great. Doctor Who, the character itself is a
time traveling time lord who goes through time and does has different adventures, and
every couple seasons they regenerate and it's a new character. It's played by a
new actor and this time it's Shooty Gottwa from Sex Education, who is just
He's I want to hang out with him. He is just so fun.
Talk about a lack of personality and plan of the apes Ye shooting got saves
what could be a cheesy series with sheerly alone with his personality here. Okay,
I really really enjoyed and this is my first time to the show.
I've never really watched it before. It's absurd, it's great for the family,
it's fun sci fi. Seven point six out of ten on the Jasson
Nomandr Okay, and then of course we're out of time because I've got so
much to ask you. Sure, but baby Reindeer, there's at least one
person who is not at all happy about it. I personally loved it and
you can understand why you've seen it. Fiona Harvey is apparently the real life
Martha, the woman who sucks Richard God in this series. She did an
interview with Piers Morgan last night. This is the first time we've heard from
her. She denies absolutely everything, including going to prison, sending forty one
thousand emails, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. She didn't really come off as
believable, but if there's if she went to prison. That seems pretty easy
to figure out if that actually happened or not. Okay, and she did
an interview with Pierce Morgan. Did it it aired last night? Ye?
It aired last night. It's an hour. It's on YouTube. Oh I
so note to self, I know I have something to do. Check it
out. Okay, it's bizarre. Okay, and love the show, Baby
Reindeer Netflix, amazing. Jason Nathanson amazing as always. Thank you, all
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