WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.879 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.599 demand on the iHeartRadio app k f I at kost HD two, Los Angeles, 3 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:25.839 Orange County. How about a pod call your host, Amy Kay. 4 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:40.240 It's five o'clock. What is today? It's Wednesday, June twenty sixth. 5 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.159 I'm a couple of days off because I had the last couple of days off. 6 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.200 This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting 7 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:50.240 your day started with us today. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. 8 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:56.200 The Guardina Police Department has made its largest single seizure of illegal fireworks in recent 9 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:02.079 California history. Police found more than seventy five tons of fireworks in a commercial 10 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:07.359 warehouse on Vermont of Vermont Avenue on Friday. It had an estimated street value 11 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.120 of seven to ten million dollars. They're going to be talking more about it 12 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.280 in a news conference a little later on this morning. Food for Less workers 13 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.760 have reached a tentative contract agreement with the grocery store chain, averting a potential 14 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.239 strike. The union, representing the thousands of workers in southern California, say 15 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:29.519 the deal includes substantial wage increases for all workers more guaranteed hours and other contract 16 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.680 improvements. Wiki Leak's founder, Julian Assange has returned to his homeland on a 17 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.920 chartered jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing hundreds of thousands of US 18 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:46.040 military secrets. Assage pleaded guilty yesterday in the US territory the Northern Mariana Islands 19 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.319 and was sentenced to times served. We're going to be talking folding phones and 20 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:56.040 free sales service with KTLA tech reporter Rich Demiro. That's coming up in about 21 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.359 twenty minutes. Always fun to talk to Rich. Amy's on it another edition 22 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:04.239 of what I'm on today? Is it streaming? Is it movies? We're 23 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:07.199 streaming today, and we're going to take a look at the brat pack forty 24 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.240 years later and then later this hour. So excited about this. We're going 25 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.319 to be talking with NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig. If 26 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.840 you have been listening to Wake Up Call, you know we've talked to him 27 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:21.800 a couple of times. He's getting ready to go up to the International Space 28 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.639 Station. And let's see, we're in the end of June. We think 29 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:29.360 it's sometime in August that they're going to be going up, and so really 30 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.879 excited to hear about his training and what's in store. And also he's going 31 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.840 to probably have a very unique perspective for us, because you know, those 32 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.280 the astronauts that took a ride up with the star Liner are kind of stuck 33 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:45.000 in space right now as they continue to look at some issues they're having with 34 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:47.639 the Boeing star Liner, and I'm guessing that Nick is going to have some 35 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.199 interesting thoughts on that. You know, he on his first mission they had 36 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:58.639 to abort it, and he told us about that one time, and I 37 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.039 remember going, why would you ever go back up in space after having like 38 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:07.000 an epic fail? But he's an asked or not, that's what he does. 39 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.080 And then he went up again and he has spent time on the space 40 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:13.479 station. So super excited to talk to him about that. Let's get started 41 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:15.439 with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 42 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:20.879 The homeless man arrested for allegedly assaulting a teenage girl and two women in Santa 43 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.120 Monica is also a registered sex offender. The man's accused of going on a 44 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:29.120 rampage Monday, first attacking the seventeen year old girl. This woman, who's 45 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.639 also homeless, tells KTLA she heard the girl scream and jumped into help. 46 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:38.520 Pure instinct ran over told the dude to get off of her. He basically 47 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.240 just ignored my existence till I got physical with him. I pushed him off 48 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.680 of her, She says, that's when the guy started attacking her. He's 49 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.639 also accused of trying to drown another woman in the ocean. The guy was 50 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.240 arrested for attempted murder, elder abuse, and assault. The La City Council 51 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:00.599 has formerly called for an investigation into an incident involving Burbank police. City Council 52 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.879 President Paul Grekoryan got the rest of the council to support his effort to have 53 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.479 the city attorney, the DA's office, and the state Attorney General look into 54 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:12.479 why two burbank officers dropped off an injured homeless man in front of Grekoryan's North 55 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.519 Hollywood Field office. It happened on June sixth and was caught on surveillance video. 56 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:18.879 The burbank officer said the man was causing a scene at a hospital in 57 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:23.040 that city. They offered him a ride and he requested to be dropped off 58 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.920 at the spot. Krekorian doesn't buy it. He says neighboring cities drop homeless 59 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.800 people in LA where services are funded in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News. 60 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.519 Most adults say they plan to watch or listen to tomorrow night's presidential debate, 61 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:41.480 and according to a new ap Nork Center for Public Affairs Research poll, 62 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:46.439 most think the stakes are high for both President Biden and former President Trump. 63 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.439 The poll also shows both candidates are broadly unpopular. You can hear the whole 64 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:56.240 CNN presidential debate tomorrow night at six o'clock. It's going to be on CNN, 65 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:00.959 of course, and simulcast right here on KFI. You know, I 66 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.480 was off for a couple of days this week and want to say thanks to 67 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.920 Heather Brooker for filling in and doing an amazing job on wake up call. 68 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:13.839 Appreciate that I was off because it was time for my not annual, but 69 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:17.560 for my check up. It was time for a colonoscopy. And the reason 70 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.720 that I'm on the three year plan I get to have them every three years 71 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:27.040 is because four years ago, it was actually four years ago Sunday that we 72 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:32.639 removed a cancerous tumor from my colon my large intense intestine, so it was 73 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:40.040 just taking a little journey back. It was in March of twenty twenty, 74 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.160 right when the lockdown started, so we were all at home and kind of 75 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.319 freaking out about COVID and scared and all of that, and I started getting 76 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:53.199 sick, like I would get these cramping episodes in my stomach for like twelve 77 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.040 hours, and then after that I would throw up for twelve hours. It 78 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.199 was really fun, and of course we had no idea what it was, 79 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.040 and so we're trying to get to doctors and it's in the middle of the 80 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:09.439 COVID and everybody shut down. And it took about three months to figure out 81 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.160 what was going on. We were trying to kind of rule out things and 82 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.639 was it pancreatitis, was it diverticulitis? Was it a food allergy? For 83 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.720 a while I thought it was a food allergy because of some foods I would 84 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:28.120 eat would sort of trigger these weird attacks. And finally I had a colonoscopy 85 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.439 in June of twenty twenty, twenty twenty, yeah, twenty twenty, and 86 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:39.959 my lovely gastroenterologist came back after we had the colonoscopy and says, oh, 87 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:44.160 we found something we need to get rid of that. And so that kind 88 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.800 of completed the journey because I said, can we have surgery tomorrow when I 89 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:47.759 met with a surgeon, and he said, no, you can't do it 90 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:49.959 tomorrow, but let's do it next week. And we got it done very 91 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:57.040 quickly. And the good news is that now that I have almost a footless 92 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.480 of my large intestine, I am cancer free. And the colonoscopy yesterday and 93 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:08.399 a cat scan last month confirmed all that. So I'm thrilled to be here 94 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:12.399 telling you about this, even though nobody wants to talk about getting a colonoscopy 95 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.160 because they're no fun, but I will tell you they're no big deal and 96 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.680 they literally saved your can save your life like they did with mine. Colon 97 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:27.639 cancer is the number two cancer that kills people right now, and it's also 98 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.240 starting in people younger. So it used to be that they said, hey, 99 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.000 get your colonoscopy for the first time to get kind of a baseline at 100 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.600 fifty and if you're all clear, then you go for ten years. Now 101 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:42.199 they're saying do it at forty five because it's showing up earlier and Unlike a 102 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:46.319 lot of cancers that you can't treat and you can't be cured of, this 103 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:51.600 one you can. And it's as easy as a test. And I will 104 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:56.600 also tell you that I didn't get my initial screening when I was supposed to. 105 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.720 So I'll just say, listen to your doctor and when they say, 106 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.199 you know what, you should get this test done. Go get the test 107 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.600 done. Because I waited, and if I would have done it when I 108 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.560 was supposed to do it, they would have caught it. It would have 109 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.879 been a polyp, they would have removed it, and it would have been 110 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.319 fine, and it probably would have never had an issue, except that I 111 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.519 would have been on their like five year plan to get colonoscopies. However, 112 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.800 I waited, and so I had this nasty little thing riding around with me. 113 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.040 I asked the doctor, I said, how long has that been there? 114 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.720 And they said it's probably been there for ten years because it's when it 115 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.039 shows up it's colon cancer. It's very slow growing. And I said, 116 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.320 how how long has it been bad? And he said it turned bad or 117 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:43.039 turned cancerous about eighteen months prior to the diagnosis. So if I would have 118 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.799 again taken care of it when I should have. It wouldn't have turned bad 119 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:52.759 and I wouldn't have had to go through the surgery and the sickness and the 120 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.200 six months of chemotherapy. I'm glad I did. I'm thrilled that I did. 121 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.639 But you know, if you can avoid it, and again, this 122 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.480 is a treatable, preventable form of cancer and can literally save your life. 123 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:09.159 So this is a plea to you to go and get your colonoscopy if you're 124 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.080 putting it off because you don't think it's fun, because it's not that fun. 125 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:15.960 But I tell you, it's not a big deal and it's not that 126 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.480 bad, and it can literally save your life. So if you need to 127 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.000 a cautionary tale, use me as that cautionary tale. And like I said, 128 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:26.159 I'm thrilled to report to you that four years later, at this point, 129 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:31.799 I am cancer free and super super excited. And my gynecologist, different 130 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.559 guy, my on collogist, said to me last time we did blood work 131 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.200 and he said to you, to me, and you're basically cured. And 132 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:45.440 he hadn't said those words before, so they're big words. So anyway, 133 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.759 please go get your colonoscopy, and now let's get back to some of the 134 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.919 stories coming out at the KMFI twenty four hour newsroom. I don't want to 135 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.799 belavor it, but I do want to remind you it's very very important. 136 00:09:54.039 --> 00:10:05.600 Here's something very important for Wikileak's founder, Julian Maasong. He's returned to Australia 137 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.639 hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing US military secrets. He entered the 138 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.279 plea in Stai Pond, which is in the Northern Mariana Islands as the US 139 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.879 territory. It was a part of a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that allowed 140 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.919 him to go free. ABC's Patrick Reveal says Assanne had been in confinement in 141 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.399 one form or another for fourteen years, spent five years obviously in Belmarsh Prison 142 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:31.759 here. He spent before that seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy and even before 143 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.320 that some time under house arrests in the UK trying to avoid the sexual assault 144 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.840 charges that were eventually dropped. In Sweden, Assange had been fighting extradition to 145 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.519 the US, where he initially faced espionage charges and up to one hundred and 146 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:48.039 seventy five years in prison. Film and TV crew union members in Hollywood have 147 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.519 reached a tentative contract deal with the major studios. They'd been negotiating for months, 148 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:56.679 and the agreement was reached before the current contract expires. The tentative deal 149 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.679 includes updates on pay, pension and health, health benefits, job security, 150 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.879 subcontracting, streaming, residuals, and artificial intelligence. The deal does need to 151 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:13.200 be approved by members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Some people 152 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.080 in Coasta, Mesa are not happy about plans to develop a massive apartment complex 153 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.120 in the city. That complex would offer more than one thousand units, with 154 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.879 one hundred and six designated for those with low income. Scott Smith says he's 155 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.360 lived in the city for decades and asked the city council to first consider the 156 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:31.559 public before moving forward with a major development. I urge you to do the 157 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:37.080 right thing and have the citizen's Coast to Mesa vote on this project and determine 158 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.519 whether they want this project in our city. The plans were approved in twenty 159 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.919 twenty one, pending voter approval, but after Measure K was passed a year 160 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.279 later, that vote was no longer needed. Construction is expected to start next 161 00:11:48.360 --> 00:12:03.000 year. Chris Adler kf I News that's Justin. Timberlake performing his Forget Tomorrow 162 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:07.039 World Tour at Madison Square Garden last night. It was his first time back 163 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:11.879 in New York since he was arrested for alleged drunk driving on Long Island last 164 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:16.279 week. Fans shouted we forgive you and everybody makes mistakes during the show. 165 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.360 Timberlake was arrested last week in Sag Harbor for allegedly failing to stop at a 166 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:26.080 stop sign and also crossing his lane. He claims he only had one martini. 167 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:30.360 The Dodgers are in Chicago to take on the White Sox tonight. First 168 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.279 pitch goes out at five to ten. You can listen to every play of 169 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:37.399 every Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast 170 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.960 Booth. You can also stream all games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword. 171 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.399 AM five seventy LA Sports. Eleven LA City firefighters been hurt in an 172 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:52.279 explosion at a homeless camp in the San Fernando Valley. The explosion Monday afternoon 173 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.320 happened after a grass fire broke out near the Supulvita Basin. One of the 174 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:01.200 firefighters' ears was severed and had to be reattached so as burns to his face. 175 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.840 A grenade was apparently found near the side of the fire. Californians want 176 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.679 term limits for a district attorneys, county supervisors, and sheriffs. A UC 177 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:16.080 Berkeley poll out shows eighty percent of voters across party lines want to see a 178 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.279 two term limit for das and supervisors, and three out of four say term 179 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.919 limits should be put on sheriffs too. The La City councils expected to vote 180 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.879 on whether to designate the former home of Marilyn Monroe in Brentwood as an historic 181 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.919 Cultural monument. The vote was delayed a couple of weeks ago to give the 182 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.600 city more time to talk with the owners of the property who got to permit 183 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:39.840 and want to tear it down. Let's say good morning now to the host 184 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.039 of Rich on Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter, Rich Demro. 185 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:46.919 Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Amy. Okay, 186 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:52.960 Foldable phones there's a fever for them. Well, I think companies are 187 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.879 trying to make a fever. I mean, look, I've used them. 188 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.279 I've used almost all of them actually that have been available here and in the 189 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:05.240 US, and they're great. But the problem is they've been big, they've 190 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:11.279 been bulky, and no company so far has nailed the form factor. What's 191 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.320 that? What's the form factor? Well, the form factor is like, 192 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.759 you know, how it feels in your hand, like it's just like your 193 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.200 phone is easy, it's simple to manipulate. But with this, you've got 194 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.559 one screen on the outside, which has typically been either too small or too 195 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.120 big, and then you've got one screen on the inside, which is nice 196 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.879 and big. It's like having a tablet in your pocket at all times. 197 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.759 But the problem is the outside screen has not been big enough and the inside 198 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.960 screen is just unwieldy. So these companies need to figure out how to make 199 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.200 these phones thinner, lighter, and easier to fit in your pocket. And 200 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.919 I think that's what we're seeing here. We're seeing a big war between Samsung 201 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.159 and Google right now. So yesterday Samsung announced that their Galaxy Unpacked event would 202 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.039 be held in Paris, France on July tenth. This is when we're expecting 203 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.639 to see the newest Galaxy Z series of phones. Those are the foldables, 204 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.799 a Z fold and the Z Flip, plus their new smart ring, which 205 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.720 is have you heard of the ORR ring? No Okay, so these smart 206 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.679 rings are kind of like the new thing. A lot of people like them. 207 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.159 You wear a ring and it tracks all of your metrics like your sleep 208 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.320 and your fitness and you know you're breathing and all that good stuff. Wait 209 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.720 wait, wait, like a like a smart watch but a ring instead. 210 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.440 Exactly those yet, Yeah, and I've tested a bunch. They're really cool. 211 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.440 They'll drive you nutty because when you don't sleep well, it tells you 212 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:33.679 and you're like, ah, now it literally scores your day, like it 213 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.679 says your day is going to be a seventy four and you're like, oh 214 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.639 no, like what. So that's why I stopped wearing that thing. But 215 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.960 with that said, Samsung's event will be happening in July. And then a 216 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.639 couple hours later, right after Samsung announced their event in July to unveil their 217 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:56.399 foldables, Google announced, Hey, we're going to have an event in August. 218 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.559 Wait what They never have an event in August, always in May and 219 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:06.000 in October. And so now what I'm reading between the leaves here is that 220 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.399 they are doing this earlier because a lot of people are going to be wondering, 221 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.879 do I get the pixel fold the new one or do I get the 222 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:18.279 Samsung Fold. And so now we're going to see on August thirteenth, new 223 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:23.759 pixels from Google, new smart watches from Google. And the reality is then 224 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.559 we have Apple in September. So if you're buying a smartphone, don't do 225 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.480 anything until at least September, because then you'll have all the information you need 226 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:34.840 to make an informed decision. Okay, And I would think Rich, I 227 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.799 mean, thankfully we have someone like you to talk to, because part of 228 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:42.240 the problem too is you can't compare and contrast them. It's not like you 229 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:48.320 can go and play with them side by side. Well maybe you can at 230 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.080 the store, but as you're gathering information, like how do you know which 231 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.360 one is better for you? It's kind of a crapshoot when you buy it. 232 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:57.320 Yeah, you got to call the rich On Tech radio show on Saturday 233 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.720 mornings on KFI. I mean literally, I'm not. I mean, I'm 234 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.359 joking, But the reality is, you know that's what people do. They 235 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.240 call me and they say, look, Rich, I've narrowed it down to 236 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.279 these two phones, like what's the deal, Like what's the better one to 237 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.640 get? Because they all have these little nuances to them, like Obviously, 238 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.559 Apple's in a league of its own. They have their own thing going. 239 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.759 So if you want Apple and you love Apple, you got to go with 240 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:21.599 that. But you know, when it comes to the Google Pixels and the 241 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:23.599 Samsungs of the world, you know, there are some pros and cons, 242 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:26.440 and you're right when you go to the store. Even let's be honest, 243 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.359 ninety nine percent of those like displays are broken or they're non working phones, 244 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.640 and so it is really tough to kind of you know, you hold this 245 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.799 thing that's that's you know, zip tied to a display for like one second 246 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.720 You're like, all right, sure, I'll spend a thousand bucks on that. 247 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.400 M Yeah, okay, So rich on tech on Kfi is going to 248 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.960 help you make that right decision. So here's another question for you about the 249 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 foldable phones, because I, like you said, they're trying to make them 250 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:57.039 catch on. They've been around for a few years. But do they now 251 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.440 when they fold out, are they completely lee flat like a regular like an 252 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.160 iPhone surface? Are they flat? Well? Now, see that's what Samsung. 253 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.839 That was Samsung's big innovation last year. They made it completely flat, 254 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:12.519 which was incredible. Pixel the fold last year was not completely flat, which 255 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.839 drove me nuts. So this year, you know, like I said, 256 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:21.160 hopefully we'll see the flatness getting better, but we'll also see the form factor, 257 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:22.920 like this thing will fit in your pocket a little bit easier, It'll 258 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.000 be lighter, the screens will be bigger. By the way, I am 259 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.240 going to Paris for this event, in for Saanfong, my first time ever 260 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.720 going to Paris, and so I'm very excited. Hey, why are they 261 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.480 doing it in Paris? Do we know? Well, Samsung, I mean, 262 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.160 look, they said it's because let's see, let me see what they 263 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:45.200 said exactly. They said, it's cultural significance and trend setting status. But 264 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.440 reality is Samsung is the sponsor of the Olympics this year in Paris, and 265 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.559 so I think that's probably why. I think that makes better sense. Okay, 266 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.799 so we're talking about cell phones and you're doing a segment today on KTLA 267 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:03.920 talking about a news sell you a plan that's free calling, free texting, 268 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:11.440 and free messaging. Well yeah, and data, yeah, free essential essential 269 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.720 data. That's the real you know, catch share. So this is a 270 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.880 company called text Now. You may have downloaded their app in the past. 271 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:21.039 Previously they did a bunch of like you know, you would download the app, 272 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:22.799 they would give you a phone number that's virtual and you can use that 273 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.000 to call people and to text people over Wi Fi. So it was like 274 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:29.640 a freeway to call and text, get a second number, or whatever you 275 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:32.480 wanted to do. Well, now they're taking it up a notch. You 276 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:34.880 can pay them five dollars. They will send you a SIM card that you 277 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:40.839 pop into your phone, and then you will have cellular service from them. 278 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:42.720 So you still get the free calling, you still get the free texting, 279 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:47.599 but now when you're out and about, you can get essential data for free 280 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.359 to use your email, your maps, and your ride sharing. So theoretically, 281 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.559 for free, zero dollars a month, you could make phone calls on 282 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.319 the go. You can text your friends, you can check your email, 283 00:19:56.359 --> 00:20:00.480 you can check Google Maps, you can call a ride share. You couldn't 284 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:03.359 do anything else unless you find Wi Fi. So a lot of people just 285 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.079 use this, or I guess their hope is a lot of people use this 286 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:08.160 and just find free Wi Fi. I've been testing it. It works. 287 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.400 It's a little annoying sometimes when you're like, oh, I just want to 288 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.920 like check something else and I can't, But you know, you find that 289 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.759 free Wi Fi hotspot. You're good to go. You can also pay them 290 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:22.000 a little bit extra, either ninety nine cents to forty dollars a month to 291 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.079 get some extra data there. But kind of an interesting plan. What's the 292 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:32.519 hitch? Advertising? The whole thing is advertising supported, So when you're using 293 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:33.799 the app, when you get a phone call, when you're texting, there's 294 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.160 all ads on the screen. So if you don't mind that, you know, 295 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.359 hey, free zero dollars and I mean it's really not a bad deal. 296 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.319 The guy started his company in twenty ten. It's been doing this for 297 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.440 a long time. This is a brand new plan they're offering, but they've 298 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.839 been doing the free calling and texting for a long time. Now, Okay, 299 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.799 wow, that sounds pretty amazing. It's saved me one hundred and something 300 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:00.119 dollars a month. You can find that Wi Fi. Yeah, there's another 301 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:04.079 hitch. Okay, So I want to hear about you being on a billboard 302 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:08.079 in New York City. Yes, real quick, I was in New York 303 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.759 City in Times Square. There's a big billboard that said you can be here. 304 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.599 I said, what You download an app, you upload a picture, 305 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:21.599 you pay forty dollars and for fifteen seconds, your photo or video or whatever 306 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:25.039 you upload it appears on this billboard. And it was incredible. It was 307 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:29.279 so cool. You can put a social media handle on there. You can't 308 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:32.200 put anything else. You can't put like a QR code, but you know 309 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:34.079 they approve it. Obviously a human approves what you're putting up there, but 310 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:40.240 what a cool idea. The company is TSX Entertainment. You download the app 311 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:42.119 and if you ever go to Times Square in New York City, do it. 312 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.799 It's like the best souvenir I've ever gotten. It's on my Instagram at 313 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:48.640 rich on Tech if you want to check out the video of us going, 314 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.799 oh my gosh, we're on a billboard. That is so fun. And 315 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.599 is it on one of the ones that's on the side of a building or 316 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.799 a free standing one you don't have some of them are built into the buildings. 317 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:00.720 Yeah, it's on the side of a building. It's huge. It 318 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:03.599 is one of the most prominent billboards in Times Square. It's brand new, 319 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:07.759 so it's like extremely crystal clear eighteen don't quote me on that. I think 320 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:12.240 it's like eighteen thousand square feet or something insane. It's it's huge and it's 321 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:15.319 really cool. I mean, now I can say I've been on a billboard. 322 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.640 Hi paidboard. Yes, I can write that off forty bucks? Okay? 323 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.920 And where can they see it? On your Instagram at rich on tech 324 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:27.599 Perfect. You can also listen to rich on Tech here on KFI Saturdays from 325 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:32.480 eleven to two. It's KTLA's tech reporter. You can also follow him as 326 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:37.279 you mentioned on Instagram. His website is richon tech dot TV. Welcome home 327 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:38.440 and thank you so much. I'm going to go look at your picture on 328 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:41.400 the billboard. That's so fun. Thanks Amy, have a great day. 329 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.359 They're going to make a killing on that. Yeah, kill I agree, 330 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:49.039 I agree. Put him everywhere exactly. A man in Pomona has been shot 331 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:53.279 and killed by police. It happened just before midnight at the intersection of Hamilton 332 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:56.279 Boulevard and Center Street. Police have not yet said what led up to the 333 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.599 shooting, but say a gun was recovered at the scene. The man died 334 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.039 at the hospital. A marine at Camp Pendleton who asked a thirteen year old 335 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.440 girl for sexual images has been since to more than seventeen years in federal prison. 336 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.279 The guy was arrested on base in October when the girl's father reported the 337 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:17.720 messages to police. The Marine pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted online enticement of a 338 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.359 minor and was immediately sentenced. Gen Z is in debt, according to an 339 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.400 analysis by lending Tree. The report shows that across one hundred of the largest 340 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:30.039 metro areas in the US, a median ninety seven percent of gen Zer's have 341 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:34.680 debt. Many owre more than sixteen thousand dollars in non mortgage debt. The 342 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.680 report shows they're actually more likely to have credit card debt than any other type, 343 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:44.240 including student loans, and gen z Ers in Oxnard are most likely to 344 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:49.599 find themselves in debt compared to other metro areas. Governor Newsom claims California's way 345 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:53.559 of life is at risk. During his pre recorded State of the State address 346 00:23:53.799 --> 00:24:00.720 released online yesterday, Newsom said abortion, LGBTQ plus rights, and other things 347 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.480 are in the crosshairs of extreme politicians. He went on to say Republicans are 348 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:10.119 the biggest obstacle to addressing problems at the border. Part of the gag order 349 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:14.200 against former President Trump in his New York hush money case has been lifted ahead 350 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:19.240 of tomorrow Night's first presidential debate. Judge Wan Marshan says Trump can comment about 351 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:25.480 jurors, witnesses, and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Some restrictions will stay in 352 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:29.559 place until Trump is sentenced. On July eleventh, San Diego's mayor is headed 353 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.240 to China to visit the pandas that are soon going to be coming to the 354 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.279 San Diego Zoo. Mayor Todd Gloria will take part in the farewell ceremonies today 355 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:41.880 in Beijing. He's also traveling to the panda base. Sounds like a Air 356 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.880 Force base or something. Gloria heads home Sunday. There's no official timeline for 357 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:52.000 the panda's arrival. Speaking of US Air Force baces Space Force baces, We're 358 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.799 going to be talking to Colonel Nick Haig in about ten minutes, maybe fifteen 359 00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:59.480 minutes, but a little bit later this hour, and he's going to give 360 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:03.480 us an update on his preparations for his launch into space. He's going to 361 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:07.960 spend six months on the International Space Station. Again. It's Colonel Nickay who 362 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:14.880 is a Space Force guardian and also NASA astronaut, looking forward to that right 363 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:18.440 now. Ooops, give me a couple of days off and I can't sound 364 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:32.079 fire my own Soundersamiami's on Itami's on it? What am I on? I'm 365 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:36.759 on entertainment, on streaming shows, TV shows, movies, sometimes books. 366 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:40.599 There's so much out there to offer. How do you know what to watch 367 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:44.400 and what to invest your time in? And tell you you can get you 368 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.640 can get sucked in like I do. I've got a couple of shows kind 369 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:49.799 of waiting in the wings that I don't even know if I'm going to tell 370 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:52.680 you about him, because I was like, this one sucked and I spent 371 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.400 like ten hours watching it. So anyway, this one did not suck. 372 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:03.559 It's Brats. It's on par'm Video and just was released a week or two 373 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.200 ago, and it's a look back at the Brat Pack and why the Brat 374 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.279 Pack wasn't a great thing. Like the rat Pack was a cool thing, 375 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:18.160 but for the Brat Pack, it was a negative and negatively impacted all those 376 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:22.039 actors and actresses who were part of it. Now you know them, Emilio 377 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.160 Estevez, Molly Ringwald to me, Moore, Ali Sheety, Leah Thompson, 378 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.720 she was kind of adjacent to it. Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, John 379 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:37.319 Cryer, Timothy Hutton apparently was part of that and of course Andrew McCarthy and 380 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.839 if you remember all those movies saying Almost Fire and all of those movies, 381 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.440 like they were the it group, and it was the first time that Hollywood 382 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:51.359 had really focused on younger actors and really highlighting their lives. And they went 383 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:55.119 and did a few and said, oh, hey, these can make blockbusters. 384 00:26:55.559 --> 00:27:03.440 But being designated as the brat Pack, this show talks about how that 385 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:07.200 tapped into all of their doubts and fears about who they were and whether they 386 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.079 were good actors or whether they were just part of like a Hollywood trend. 387 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:17.200 And Andrew McCarthy wants to address it. So he calls up a bunch of 388 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:19.680 people that he literally, at least according to this documentary, had not spoken 389 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:22.480 to for thirty years. So it's like, hey, to me, Moore, 390 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:25.880 it's Andrew McCarthy. I know we haven't talked for thirty years, but 391 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:29.759 let's get together. And so he calls them. Some of them talk to 392 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.759 them, some of them don't. They were all in their early twenties when 393 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.240 the Brat Pack came to be. Now they're in their mid fifties, and 394 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.839 so taking a look into the documentary, it's fun to see their homes where 395 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:47.480 they are now kind of sad too. One of my takeaways from this whole 396 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.160 thing was the men are allowed to age, the women aren't. And you 397 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:56.279 can tell almost all of them have had some pretty substantial work done. And 398 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:57.400 I'll let you watch it and see what it is. But it just kind 399 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:02.640 of makes me mad because Emilio Festive, he's put on a few pounds, 400 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:06.480 he's got some wrinkles, Andrew McCarthy saying, Andrew McCarthy looks great, but 401 00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:10.039 he's you know, he's aged, and they and Hollywood allows you to age. 402 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:15.640 For the women, it's not necessarily the same thing. So one of 403 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.799 the things you find out right away is that nobody wanted to be part of 404 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:25.319 the brat Pack. They all wanted to be actors. And so that article 405 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:29.480 that came out, I believe it a Variety magazine that named them the brat 406 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:32.359 Pack, portrays them as not being serious about their work, that they weren't 407 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.599 talented actors, and it was like just a big illusion. It was all 408 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:40.079 part of Hollywood. Like I said, it was the hype over the genre 409 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:45.119 and not really that the people could actually act. A few of them have 410 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:49.440 had some successes, a lot of them haven't. There is a moment where 411 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:53.960 where Andrew McCarthy orders a burger and the person inside the food truck says, 412 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.039 hey, what are you filming And he says, well, I'm filming about 413 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:00.240 the Brat Pack. And she says, well, you know that sounds kind 414 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.960 of familiar. I mean, that's got to be hard to go from a 415 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.880 superstar to just kind of obscurity, but I think it happens for a lot 416 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.640 of actors' careers, so you know, you think about it made me think 417 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.200 about the actors who started out young and they're still acting. You know, 418 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.960 that's not it's not a given just because you're famous at one point that you're 419 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:26.720 going to be famous for forever. And I think that one of the most 420 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:32.160 interesting interesting things is during the documentary, Andrew McCarthy goes and talks to the 421 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:36.400 guy who wrote the article, the one that created the moniker the Brat Pack. 422 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.720 And I'll tell you I hated this guy and he's not likable, but 423 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:45.640 you got to watch it because it's super super interesting. Like his perspective behind 424 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.279 what happened is really interesting, and you can't blame him because he came up 425 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.759 with this catchphrase that for a writer, like everybody wants to do that. 426 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.240 You know, I invented that, and he invented the Brat pack and it's 427 00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:00.240 stuck and anyway, it's I thought it was a really good watch. It's 428 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.759 like an hour and a half. It again is on Prime video, and 429 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.279 it's fun to take a look back and see who's having success, who's having 430 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.799 not, who's not having success, what they look like now, what their 431 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.960 lives are like. And I think it's a fun look back. So I 432 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:18.079 recommend Brats on Prime video. Now let's get back to some of the stories 433 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.880 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Guardina Police Department says 434 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:27.000 officers have seized more than seventy five tons of illegal fireworks and official announcements coming 435 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:32.880 later this morning. The fireworks were discovered on Friday inside a warehouse and have 436 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:37.279 an estimated street value of between seven and ten million dollars. Two men and 437 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.279 a woman have been arrested. The Shark Lab at cal State Long Beach may 438 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.119 have to shut down because it's running out of money. The lab received a 439 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.759 state grant in twenty eighteen with enough funding for five years, but the lab 440 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.559 was able to stretch it to six. Lab director doctor Chris Lo says his 441 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.759 team studies white shark behavior along the coast to help keep people safe. Funny 442 00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.880 ends in September, and if we don't find more, we're gonna stirp, 443 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.559 calling all our equipment out of the water, and I have to let all 444 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:04.880 my staff go. Lo says it costs about nine hundred thousand each year to 445 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:10.160 keep the program going because the lab researches sharks throughout the state. He says 446 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:14.599 California's current budget has no room to keep the lab open. Chris Adler KFI 447 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:19.160 News. The espionage trial of American journalist Evan Gershkevich has started in Russia. 448 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:23.519 The media were briefly shown Evan Gershkovich in the court in Ya Katsarinburg, the 449 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.960 city about one thousand miles from Moscow, where he's been brought for what is 450 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.799 being widely condemned as a show trial. He was in a glass cage and 451 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:37.039 his head shaved. ABC's Patrick Reval says Grishkovitch has been in detention for more 452 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:40.799 than a year. The US and the Wall Street Journal have condemned the charges 453 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.559 as fabricated. The Department of Homeland Security says arrests for illegal border crossings have 454 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:51.039 dropped more than forty percent in the three weeks since President Biden's executive action on 455 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:55.440 asylum. The orders set up a rule to turn away migrants claiming asylum between 456 00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:00.279 ports of entry when daily arrests are above twenty five hundred. California Republicans say 457 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.480 Governor Newsom chose the coward's way out in pre recording his State of the State 458 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.279 address. The speech, released online yesterday marked the fourth time Newsom has not 459 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:14.240 delivered his address to lawmakers at the state capitol. Republican leader James Gallagher says 460 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:17.559 Newsom has no respect for the state capitol. Under the California constitution, Newsom's 461 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:21.599 not doing anything wrong. He's only required to give a written State of the 462 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:25.960 State letter to the legislature. President Biden's going to announce veterans convicted of crimes 463 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.519 by the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity will be pardoned. 464 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.720 It'll be for anyone convicted between nineteen fifty one and twenty thirteen. It could 465 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:42.000 impact thousands. Consumer confidence has dipped just a bit. The Conference Board's Consumer 466 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:47.640 Confidence index slipped nearly a point from May to June due to increasing uncertainty about 467 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.920 the future. The survey showed fewer people are planning to buy homes and cars 468 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.519 in the next six months, but more are planning to vacation. We're just 469 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:00.400 minutes away from handle on the news this morning, fourteen years later, Wiki 470 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.240 Leak's founder, Julian Assange is a free man. Bill's going to tell you 471 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:07.839 all about that. But right now, let's say good morning too. Space 472 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:13.400 Force guardian and NASA astronaut our friend Colonel Nick Hay, Good morning, Colonel 473 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:17.200 Haig, Good morning Amy. How are you doing great? And excited to 474 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.359 talk to you today because you've got to be getting excited. Colonel HAIGU is 475 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.799 going to go to the International Space Station for six months and you're about two 476 00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:30.440 months ish from liftoff. Yep, we're within two months. So yes, 477 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:36.400 the excitement is definitely building. And are you any closer to I know that 478 00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:39.319 you kind of keep things under wraps as far as when the launch is going 479 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:44.079 to happen and stuff, and there's always kind of last minute scheduling and stuff. 480 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.000 But do we have any kind of narrowing in of when your launch date 481 00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:52.480 is? Yeah, so you know right now we're targeting sometime and toward the 482 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.640 end the last half of August. You know, it's not a state secret 483 00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:59.720 that really it has to do with all the different things that are happening on 484 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.440 this thing. I think everybody's tracking right now that we've got a test mission 485 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.519 going on and they've got to finish that mission, and then we also have 486 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.000 cargo vehicles that have to go up there, and so all of this traffic 487 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:13.519 has to be synchronized, and so we're just waiting our turn, although it 488 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.639 gets harder and harder to wait patiently. Okay, And you mentioned some of 489 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.960 the things going on at the International Space Station. I wanted to talk to 490 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.679 you about that. We know that the Boeing star Liner took a couple of 491 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.360 astronauts up and they were supposed to be up on the space station for a 492 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:32.480 week because it was Boeing's first crude mission there, and it was delayed, 493 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.840 and then it was delayed again, and now it's been delayed until next month 494 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:40.239 for their return from the space station. And I thought that you might have 495 00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:44.440 kind of an interesting perspective on that, being an astronaut yourself. I mean, 496 00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:46.800 when something like that happens, I know, you can't get into their 497 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:51.320 minds, but in your mind, like what goes on when they go, 498 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.719 hey, by the way, we're not sure your ride is safe. Yeah, 499 00:34:55.719 --> 00:35:00.079 every mission we do is essentially a test mission, and this one more 500 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:05.400 than most because this is the first time we've put crew inside the star Liner 501 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:09.880 capsule and symptoms to the station. So you're learning a lot and the teams 502 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:14.360 have discovered some things and they're working through some analysis to try to figure out, 503 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.760 Okay, so how is the vehicle responding? And based off what we've 504 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:22.599 learned, are we comfortable continuing to proceed with the mission? And so that's 505 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.079 a normal process of any test mission, and that's really a normal process of 506 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:31.559 any of our space flight missions, because there's the plan you start with when 507 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:37.280 you're getting ready to launch, and then there's actually what happens. And there 508 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.599 are examples throughout the history of the space program that just proves that point that 509 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:47.280 space is a difficult business and we manage a lot of really complex technical things, 510 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:52.199 and sometimes our predictions don't really match reality, and we adjust and figure 511 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.079 out how to be successful. Okay, So as you're doing your training, 512 00:35:55.119 --> 00:36:01.719 it sounds like you're saying you're not just exclusively focused on your mission, but 513 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:07.440 you have to be learning all the time about the other things that are affecting 514 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:14.320 other astronauts. Yeah, it's all connected, and we work it's a small 515 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:19.519 office. There's only about four dozen US astronauts, and so we know each 516 00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.360 other. We talk with each other about how everybody's training is going, how 517 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.559 their jobs are doing, how their families are doing, and so at the 518 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:29.880 tight knit group, and so you're aware of all those other things. And 519 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.599 then you know, when it comes to doing your job, you don't just 520 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:38.119 do your job in a vacuum. It depends on all those other different teams 521 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:44.719 and different pieces of equipment and programs that come together at the station. And 522 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:50.599 so, yeah, it's all connected. And you know there're one change in 523 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:54.159 one program sends a ripple effect through the rest of the programs and that's just 524 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:59.840 the nature of the business. Okay, And tell us then, Colonel Haig, 525 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:05.880 as you get closer to your mission, what kind of training are you 526 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.719 doing now at two months out? Yes, yeah, so it's a lot 527 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:15.079 of the last of type of things. So for almost a year and a 528 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.679 half to two years I've been focused on training to get ready to go to 529 00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.400 the space station. Some of that's focused on getting to the space station, 530 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.599 and that's why I'm here in Los Angeles this week is training at SpaceX, 531 00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:30.079 and then some of it's focused on working and living on the space station. 532 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.760 And we have these whole training programs that are stretched out over this year and 533 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:39.760 a half and we do things three, four or five times. Now we're 534 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:43.559 finally getting to the last time of all of these things, and so each 535 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.760 one of those moments is it just kind of sends chills down my neck said, 536 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.480 Hey, this is the last time. The next time I'm going to 537 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.519 do this, I'm going to be in space. Yeah, it's exciting. 538 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:58.079 It's spacewalk training, it's robotics training to be able to use the robotic arm 539 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:02.519 on the International Space Station. Here this week, we're doing some very integrated 540 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.960 simulations where we're going to simulate launching to the space station and returning from the 541 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:13.719 space station on the Dragon capsule, and that it's the full team. So 542 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:19.079 it's pretty exciting because everybody comes together and it's a mission control that's in Hawthorne 543 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:22.119 here in Los Angeles for SpaceX, but it's also the mission control team in 544 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:29.360 Houston and then US and the capsule and all working together to practice what we 545 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:34.079 do when things don't go to plan, because ninety five percent of the stuff 546 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.039 we practice are things to what do we do when something doesn't happen? And 547 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:40.880 so these simulations have lots of failures in them, and we figure out how 548 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.840 to face the failure, fix it, and continue the mission. Yeah, 549 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.920 it reminds me of I believe it was Apollo thirteen with Tom Hanks and there 550 00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:52.119 something goes wrong on their mission to the moon, and all of a sudden 551 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:57.519 they're like, uh, oh, we're screwed, basically, and here's what 552 00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.239 we have. Okay, now let's figure out how to fix this so we 553 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.760 can get these guys home. I mean, it's just got to be amazing 554 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:07.360 the contingencies that you guys have to have in place, and then also planning 555 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:13.400 for the unexpected. Yeah, it is. It's it's just a true privilege 556 00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:19.760 to be part of this program and and that team, that gigantic team of 557 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:24.199 people, and the energy and the investment and the the just the sheer intellect 558 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:29.079 of that group to be able to face those problems figure them out. And 559 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:32.960 you know, that's that's what gives me the confidence to you know, to 560 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.360 strap onto a rocket and launch into space. It's because I know I've got 561 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.840 that team supporting me, and we're going to tackle whatever gets thrown our way. 562 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.920 Cool. Okay, So you were talking about spacewalk training. What does 563 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:49.639 spacewalk training on Earth look like. It's a mix because really the only place 564 00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:52.639 that you can do it is in space. Uh So, we do lots 565 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:58.519 of pieces of it. Some of that is virtual reality based, so we 566 00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:02.440 we put on a v our headset and we practice doing a spacewalk virtually. 567 00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:07.599 A part that a lot of people know about is our neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, 568 00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.559 so Big Pool, Gigantic Pool, where we have a life sized mockup of 569 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:16.800 the space station underwater under about forty feet of water, and we get in 570 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:24.320 an actual spacewalk spacesuit and go under the water and practice where we can float 571 00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:29.000 and it stimulates pretty close what it's like to float around on the outside of 572 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:32.960 the space station. And then we go through all the procedures that we would 573 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.239 plan to do on orbit and practice them and then practice what happens when those 574 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:42.599 procedures don't work. But I got to tell you that the underwater training is 575 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.960 as close as you can get on Earth. To what it's like up there. 576 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.480 The first time I went out to hatch on a spacewalk on the space 577 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:53.119 station, it was nighttime. I opened the hatch, started crawling around on 578 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:58.079 the outside of the space station, and my prevailing thought was, Man, 579 00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:01.920 this feels just like I'm in the neutral buoyantcy laboratory and I was looking the 580 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.880 only thing that was missing was the bubbles coming up from the safety divers that 581 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.920 are on scuba gear around us. Yeah. Okay, So that brings me 582 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.559 to something. We had asked our listeners if they wanted to ask an aster 583 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:20.639 not something, and here was my favorite question. So you're doing the space 584 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:23.679 walk, you're out there outside the space station, you turn away from it 585 00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:29.320 so you can't see it, and you're looking at Earth. One what's that 586 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:32.159 feeling? And two? How big does it look like? Does the planet 587 00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:36.119 take up your entire field of vision or is it just part of it? 588 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:44.320 So had this had this really unique chance. I was on the front of 589 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:47.679 the space station. We were putting on one of the docking ports that we 590 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.119 use for our commercial crew vehicles to dock, and we were installing it, 591 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.880 and so I had, you know, a split second to catch my breath, 592 00:41:57.239 --> 00:41:59.760 and you know, it seemed like three or four minutes. I think 593 00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:01.239 it was only about ten seconds, but I did it. I kind of 594 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:05.880 turned away from the station and I looked out in front of the of the 595 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.880 station towards the Earth with kind of the background, and you know, it's 596 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:12.519 bright enough up there during the day that you don't see a whole lot of 597 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:16.159 stars. The sky's pretty black, but the Earth fills about half your view. 598 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:22.280 And at that point, you're trained so much in the suit, in 599 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.639 the spacesuit that it kind of starts to feel like clothes and it just kind 600 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:30.639 of melts away. So it was this feeling of I'm outside working in space, 601 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:37.519 just just riding on top of the spacecraft and it's hurtling and just seeing 602 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.800 Earth kind of drift below. And it's a moment like that where you start 603 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:46.679 to realize just the you know, it goes back to all those people that 604 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:52.599 make it possible, because that moment is possible because of the throngs of people 605 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:57.960 that are part of those teams on the ground helping us, helping us do 606 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:00.840 it. It's not just two people outside the space station. It's it's all 607 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.519 of the people at NASA that are that are supporting the station, uh, 608 00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:07.880 you know, the space Walk, the station itself, it's all of the 609 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:13.199 Space Force guardians that are around the globe that are that are watching out for 610 00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:15.360 us and making sure that you know we're safe while we're up there, and 611 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:20.360 and helping us getting to and from there. And so it's that one ten 612 00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:23.920 second moment that just makes you feel like you're part of something so enormous. 613 00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:29.039 You're part of something that only humanity could do, and you are one of 614 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.800 the few of humanity who get to take part in that. So I'm so 615 00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:35.679 excited for you, and I know we're coming down to crunch time. You're 616 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.800 going to lift off in a couple of months. I hope we get to 617 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:42.199 talk to you again. I want to talk more about the Space Force and 618 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.599 what it does, and of course kind of the final steps as you get 619 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:47.920 ready for your launch again, if we can make it happen, I would 620 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:51.480 love to talk to you again. Colonel Haig. Thank you so much for 621 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:55.360 your for your information today, and we're getting excited for you. No, 622 00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:59.000 thank you, Hey, Samy, I really appreciate the opportunity to share. 623 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:00.440 You know, I am one of the few that gets to go up there. 624 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:05.559 I wish I could take everybody with me in short of that being able 625 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:07.639 to share that experience, and so I'll definitely take you up on the offer 626 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:12.920 and chat with you another time before I get right to launch. Awesome. 627 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:16.880 Thank you so much again. This is Space Force Guardian NASA Astronaut Colonel Nick 628 00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:21.519 Haig. Thank you so much for taking the time today. Thanks Amie, 629 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.599 so fun and with that, our time with wake Up Call is over. 630 00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:30.679 This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead 631 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:36.239 local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer 632 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:39.880 Kno and traffic special specialist Nick. I'm Amy King. This has been your 633 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:42.920 wake up call. If you missed any of wake Up Call, you can 634 00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:46.239 listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake Up Call with 635 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:50.760 me, Amy King. You can always hear wake Up Call five to six 636 00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:55.079 am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the 637 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:57.440 iHeartRadio app.