You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with Me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app this Friday, February twenty third. I'm Amy King,
got my coffee, got yours, jumping up and down, getting the
energy going, getting ready to go. Technical producer Tony is disagreeing with me
completely. At least your eyes are open, Tony, so that's good.
Hey. You know, the SAG Awards are this weekend, and as being
an employee of KFI, we are union members, so we get to screen
the movies. So I had to catch up because the voting deadline is noon,
and I've seen most of them, but there was a couple I hadn't
seen. And the one I hadn't seen, or one of the ones I
hadn't seen, was Poor Things, the Emma Stone movie. It was weird
and I remember people saying it's weird, and I'm not going to tell you
any about it because I had no idea what it was really about, and
uh, I guess that made it more entertaining. She did. She did
an amazing job. But just know that there's a lot of sex and a
lot of nudity. So I'm glad I didn't go like to a movie theater
with a friend and see it because it would have been really uncomfortable. She's
amazing, but uh anyway, and then I also watched The Color Purple because
it's nominated for a couple of things. And I have to tell you,
some of the songs were really good. Some of them kind of fell short.
And I think my expectations were too high because I loved the original movie
The Color Purple. I thought it was just so so iconic and good.
So this one just kind of dragged on and I found myself up and about
doing stuff around the house and then going, oh, wait, I'm watching
a movie. So anyway, That's that's how I spent my day yesterday.
But here's what's ahead. On wake Up Call today, AT and T says
a cell phone outage that affected about seventy five thousand phones across the US is
over. AT and T says it was a technical issue, but the Department
of Homeland Security and the FBI say they are going to look into the outage
to make sure it wasn't part of a cyber attack. Plans to build a
gondola to take fans from Union Station over neighborhoods to Dodger Stadium are a step
closer to becoming reality. The La Metro Board of Directors approved an environmental impact
statement yesterday and also okay plans to address concerns of residents and business owners who
will be impacted by the gondola. Google has put its Gemini AI image generator
on pause. Apparently users had been complaining that it was generating inaccurate historical images
like black founding fathers, a female pope, and also black vikings. Google
says it's working on a fix and will release an updated version of the generator
pretty soon. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. We're
coming up on the two year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
At and T says sell service that affected more than seventy thousand customers yesterday.
Actually an interruption was not caused by a cyber attack. ABC's Josh Marglin's
has the company confirmed it was a coding error. Somebody did something with the
software with the updating moving back and forth. They say it was purely a
software glitch. It was resolved and they are working to make sure that everything
is fixed and doesn't happen again. The outages started at just shortly after midnight
our time yesterday and affected service pretty much all day. Jurors in the murder
trial of Grossman Burne Foundation co founder Rebecca Grossman are do back in court in
Van Nuys for their first full day of deliberations. They got the case yesterday.
Grossman is charged with killing two young brothers in twenty twenty while speeding in
Westlake Village. Her lawyers have argued hers was not the first car that hit
the boys. The judge in former President Trump's civil fraud trial in New York
has denied a request to delay enforcement of penalties. Trump was ordered to pay
three hundred and fifty five million dollars earlier this week and was given a month
to do it. His lawyers asked for a thirty day extension to come up
with the money. The judge found Trump's team failed to explain or justify any
basis for a delay. The first US spacecraft has landed on the Moon's surface
since Apollo seventeen touchdown in nineteen seventy two. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised the
effort it took to get the Odysseus to the Moon yesterday, a new adventure
in science, innovation, an American leadership in space. Well, all of
that aced the landing of a lifetime. The unmanned lander will spend about a
week gathering data before it loses power. NASA is planning to land a crew
near the Moon's south pole in twenty twenty six. Just getting news into the
KFI news room, the President Biden has announced more than five hundred new sanctions
on Russia over its war in Ukraine and the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
The US is also imposing exports export restrictions on about one hundred entities that
support Russia's military efforts, and will also take action to reduce Russia's energy revenues.
Those all coming from a statement released by the White House. President Biden
has met with the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalney, who died in
prison. Biden says Navolney was a man of incredible courage. We're going to
be announcing the sanctions against Putin, who is responsible for his death, and
that the one thing I made that was made clear to me is that Yolana
is She's going to continue to fight. The US is expected to impose more
than five hundred new sanctions, which had just announced this morning. They will
again target Russia's military industrialized complex, energy revenues, and third parties who ass
s MUSCO and assessing or accessing supplies required for the war effort. A fake
doctor from Orange County who served prison time for practicing without a license allegedly tried
to open a new, unlicensed business just two weeks after he got out of
prison. The Orange County DA's Kimberly Eds says Elias Segoviano pleaded guilty to charges
less than a year ago that he targeted mostly Hispanic women and did illegal botox
procedures on them. Many of these women suffered serious disfigurement as a result because
he had no idea what he was doing. Prosecutors say the guy was released
from prison on December twenty second and tried to start the new business on January
fourth. He's facing the same charges he did before. A federal judge in
Orange County says the founder of an alleged white supremacist group will not face charges
related to a fight because of anti fire right bias. The man and others
are accused of attacking rivals at a rally back in twenty seventeen. Well A
judge ruled Wednesday that because the prosecutors chose not to go after charges against Antifa
members from the same rally, he was not going to allow charges against the
far right group, even though he said they deserve to be prosecuted. The
judge said far left groups did much worse. LA County says the food delivery
app grub Hub has been ripping off customers. The suit, filed Wednesday afternoon,
alleges, among other things, grub Hub would promote free food but then
add on hidden fees at the last minute. Scott Coons, an attorney with
the county, and says the companies also misrepresenting driver's fees on the app.
It's sort of like hide the ball, bait and switched tactics that are very
frustrating for consumers and frustrating for drivers. Grubhub disputes the claims and says it's
clarified language on the app to be more transparent. Steve Gregory KFI News,
a former FBI and format accused of lying about bribery allegations against President Biden and
his son Hunter is back in federal custody. ABC's alex Stonesa's The arrest yesterday
came as Alexander Smirnoff was meeting with his lawyers in Vegas. There was a
warrant tell this charges from California, on which he had been previously arrested.
According to his attorney, Smirnavy is charged with making false statements to federal agents.
Smirnov is also charged with having ties to Russia. He was initially set
free Tuesday under certain conditions, like having to wear a GPS monitor and turning
over his passports. Prosecutors argued his foreign ties and access to money would allow
him to flee the country before going to trial. A bachelor's degree from community
college could be free under a new state bill. Assemblyman Miguel Santiago says the
state's education system has enough money to offer the free degrees. In fact,
the community college funding has increased over the last several years. K through twelve
funding has increased. Under a current program, students can get two years of
free community college. Santiago's bill extends the program another two years. Community colleges
across the state offer limited bachelor's degree programs. Blake Trolley, k if I
News. Well, the weekend is upon us. What to do? What
to do? Well, that's where we call in the services of Nick Poliochini,
host of This Weekend with Nick podcast. Morning Nick, Good morning Amy,
Good to see you or hear you, good to see you too.
Okay, So this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna do this every
week now because there's so much to do around La and you always know some
of the really fun things to do. So we're going to take Nick's top
picks for the weekend. What you got for us? So top three are
going to be one in La County, one Orange County, and one in
the Inland Empire starting count Ada for all weekend, cover the whole South Land.
The Firecracker Festival will be going down in Chinatown this weekend in La County,
celebrating the wrap up of Lunar New Year. That's both on Saturday and
Sunday, and there's also kind of a focus on health and that's always been
the case in Chinatown for the special event. The event happens for you both
on Saturday and Sunday, and it has a five k and ten k run,
also a twenty and fifty mile bike ride. There's a kitty fun run
and you can even get your pups in on it because they have a paw
or dog walk that happens through Chinatown, so you can get details about that.
This weekend with Nick dot Com over to Orange County and I'll actually be
hanging out with Darcy Staniforth, who is our own Dean Sharp, the House
Whisper's sister. She's hosting a special ghost tour at the Kellogg House at the
Heritage Museum in Orange County in Santa Ana. So that's taking place actually tonight.
There's a special edition of it that will be happening next week for Leap
Day for Leapier this year, and then there's many other weekends that are coming
up where you can check out some really impressive history about Orange County and the
Kellogg family, who have a beautiful facility in Santa Anna that's kind of a
heritage piece. And then the last thing I got for you is in Herpa
Valley for the Inland Empire. And this is kind of wild to me because
Dickens doesn't necessarily say February, but that was Carles Dickens, correct, exactly.
So the Dickens Fest is their thirty first annual happening in Riverside County,
happens every year. It'll be both Saturday and Sunday, and it's happening at
the Jensen Alvarado Historic Ranch and Museum. Again that's in Horupa Valley. What
do you do at the Dickens They have all those people, so think about
like Christmas. If you ever see like the Carollers that are all decked out
in their finery, it's the same thing, but they're leaning more into like
Oliver Twist and all the other different Charles Dickens books and really having characters from
them that you're able to interact with also learn history of the time and era
of Charles Dickens in Europe. So it's really kind of a fun thing.
But you wouldn't think about heading to the Inland Empire for something like that,
so you know, it's kind of a fun different way. And with it
being a little bit chilly this weekend and maybe even a little bit of drizzle
coming back in on Sunday, it will be, you know, a good
opportunity for you to kind of embrace the days gone by. Okay, and
you mentioned the five and ten k run at the Firecracker Festival. So I'm
going to take this time to tell you guys that Nick and I are doing
something that we've never done before. Indeed. Yeah, so you know that
we're both big Disney fans, and so Nick, he was texting me a
couple of weeks ago and he's like, Hey, want to do the fun
Run with for Disney because the Disney has like these themed runs and they're doing
one for Halloween time or ahead of Halloween time. So Nick and I both
time starts out in August this year, so yeah, oh yeah, Okay,
for Disney, it's not yeah, so for the rest of the world
is yeah, So in September, I think it's on the seventh, Nick
and I are both doing a ten k and neither one of us run,
No, but would need to look really cute in our costumes. Yeah.
And here's what, because it's not a timed event, and here's how we've
justified doing it. It's that when we go to the park. If you
go to Disneyland and you keep track of it on your watch or you have
a fitbit, you walk six, seven, eight, miles in a day,
so we're just going to compress that and walk the six point two miles
in a couple hours. Yeah, and it'll be fun, I know how
Disney characters along for the ride with us and being able to enjoy the you
know, kind of opening weekend of Halloween time at the Disneyland resort. So
that'll be a great opportunity and it gives us something to look forward to and
work on to improve our health as well through two twenty four to get to
that. So we should probably start training now because again I don't run period,
right, I mean unless I'm like running across the street, so I
don't get hit by a truck or something. But that's it, okay.
So those are Nick's top picks for the weekend. And if you want to
check out other really cool fun stuff to do because there is so much going
on around southern California. Where do we find you, Nick? You can
find me on Instagram, Nick pollio'keeini on This Weekend with Nick and also you
can visit This Weekend with Nick dot com. Thank you Nick. When we
come back, we're going somewhere we haven't been for more than fifty years with
ABC's Jim Ryan. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM
six forty. President Biden has just announced more than five hundred new sanctions on
Russia over its war with Ukraine or actually in Ukraine, and the death of
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalni. He died in prison last week. The US
also using some export restrictions on about one hundred entities that support Russia's military efforts.
LAPD is looking for the one that got away. The driver of a
blue Corvette led police on a high speed chase. It speeds up to one
hundred seventy miles per hour for about a half hour. Last night. LAPD
lost the car in downtown LA. The first US lunar lander has touched down
on the Moon since nineteen seventy two. Intuitive machines guided its Odysseus lander onto
a surface yesterday and it's now transmitting data. The lander's mission is to collect
data needed by NASA for about the next month or so. At six ZHO
five, it's handle on the news. He's going to be telling you about
what caused that big outage. Was it a technical glitch or something more sinister?
Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So,
Jim, another step for man. Well, actually it's for a lunar lander,
well for not a person but a machine. And yes, it did
touchdown yesterday. We assume there was a long delay between the moment that we
assumed that the lander touchdown on the lunar surface and some kind of confirmation coming
from Intuitive Machines, the company that is behind this whole project right now.
The company said that it was receiving a week's signal later on, and that
was confirmation enough that the thing had actually settled onto the surface. But there
was kind of touch and go there for a while. I mean, in
fact, they had to do an extra loop around the Moon to solve a
technical glitch related to a navigation system. They weren't sure that they could find
an appropriate spot for the thing to land. It's all being done autonomously.
It's not like back in the days when you had a couple of guys sitting
in this lunar lander, you know, physically guiding the thing to a soft
touchdown. The machine does it by itself and we wait then for confirmation messages
from the machine that the job was done. Well, they got it done.
So what's this going to what's it going to do for the next week
or so. Well, it's going to send back data. That's the big
thing here about what it's discovering there on the Moon. A big part of
this project is a NASA experiment. They're trying to find any evidence that there's
water somewhere on the Moon or some kind of water source, right, frozen
water, or that some evidence that water was there. Because the Artemis project
that NASA has on the books is going to send people to the Moon at
some point in the next few years, probably before the end of the decade,
I mean, and then on tomorrow's Well, if we have water already
on the Moon, that means that we don't have to take water with us
to sustain the astronauts. Also, what's water, it's hydrogen, it's oxygen,
oxygen. You can use those elements to create fuel jet fuel. So
we'll be making our own jet fuel on the Moon and then using that to
launch off to Mars and beyond, plus sustaining the lives of our astronauts sitting
there on the Moon. And I would think that that it would be kind
of imperative that they had water because water weighs a whole lot and we have
learned from our yours in my conversations and talking to Neil deGrasse Tyson, like
every ounce counts when you're trying to get something off of Earth and into space.
Sure, I mean, that's why this lunar lander was only about twelve
feet tall something like that. It's a it's a fairly it's about the size
of a phone booth. And you're right, every inch of it is packed
with stuff because it's expensive to do that, and you know, so they
try to put in as much as they can and make it as light weight
as possible. But you're right. Water weighs I think eight pounds a gallon,
and that's that's and to try to sustain people who need about a gallon
a day, it's almost impossible to take that much with you. So this
certainly makes it more convenient, maybe even feasible to do. He doesn't,
doesn't Japan or somebody have another lot lander on the moon. Well, they
remember that last month Japan launched one and put it down on the Moon,
but it was upside down, so it was a cent worthless. Then the
Peregrine lander that was supposed to land the US project last month, you know,
it to malfunction then never made it to the moon. It came oh,
that's right, down right, because it had problems like two hours in
and they went, yeah, we're not making it to the moon this month.
All right, Is there anybody else there? That's it for now?
No? Nobody else. India has projects going in direction too, but you
know, the the US Project right now is the one active, one up
and running. Okay, And then let's search gears and talk to something that
affected us down here on Earth. And that was AT and T had an
outage about seventy thousand plus people affected across the US. Yeah, yeah,
and that's enough to raise concerns that it was some kind of cyber attack or
some kind of hacking from the outside. Well at least Cord and T and
T. The AT and T is based here in Dallas, and they were
putting out notes yesterday about this this widespread outage, you know, And their
final determination was that it was a software problem, in the same way Amy
that you sometimes go to bed and your phone says I needed a software updates,
So just plug me in, leave me alone. You'll get up in
the morning, you'll have the new iOS installed. Great, well, that's
what AT and T was trying to do across its whole system. It does
that occasionally. It's a normal kind of thing. But if there is an
issue and there was yesterday with either the software or with the person in charge
of the software, or combination of the two, there is a glitch and
people weren't able to use their cell service. They could get onto Wi Fi.
But even as early as five o'clock yesterday morning Eastern time, the US
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA was reporting that it had no indication that this
was a hack attack, that it was some kind of glitch that was causing
this internally at AT and T. But still, I mean, the what
ifs are huge, and I'm sure HANDLE will be taking a look at that
today. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. And then the other
thing I think that we need to keep in mind is to keep things in
perspective. It was seventy five thousand phones affected across the whole US, and
AT and T has two hundred and forty million customers. Yes, what's more
those there was an outage in AT and T. I think it was AT
and T in Arkansas earlier in the week and two hundred thousand people were affected
there and we never heard right there. Yeah, it was because it was
Arkansas, because it was isolated, probably both of those things. And again
it was kind of a software issue too. But you know, this was
You're right, it was widespread, It involved a lot of people in the
scope of things. It didn't catch in the end. Okay, so technical
trouble, but the FBI and Homeland Security said we're going to be watching just
in case. Sure, yeah, they're watching it. But at this point,
the indication is that it was There was nothing sinister about this, but
you know, people need to be on guard. I think, is it
time to order another landline for your house when I don't know if they could
even install on anymore. Well, here's the thing in California. It's not
happening in Houston, I don't think, or in Texas where you are.
But they're trying to get out of requiring landlines be provided like AT and T
doesn't want to provide landlines anymore. So that's going to be probably a fight
after this. Yeah, well, I think you're right, because I mean
they were telling San Francisco I think was telling people, you know, the
Emergency Opposition Center there saying, look, if you can't get a nine to
one one call to us, find a landline. If you can't get through
to us on your cell phone, we're on Earth. Are you going to
find a landline? I don't know. I don't even have one at my
house. All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for your time
and information. Talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man on a
metro bus who was pepper sprayed by another passenger during an argument in LA's Mid
City area has died. Police were called to Western and Olympic last night about
an assault. They were told two men had been involved in an argument and
the guy with the pepper spray took off. No description of the van was
provided. A registered sex offender accused of indecent exposure at WII Spa in Koreatown
maybe facing a trial. The trans woman allegedly went into the women's side of
the spa, exposing her erect penis to other women, including a minor.
This woman, who goes by the Instagram named Kubana Angel, posted a video
from twenty twenty one of her confronting spa staff who refused to kick the woman
out, and you got a man with his penis count back. He's a
woman. He ain't no woman. Yeah, give her her money back.
The trans woman has been a registered sex offender since two thousand and six and
was in court yesterday for a jury trial hearing. She's also facing five separate
felonies for indecent exposure at a swimming center in twenty eighteen, Chris Sadler Ka
FI News, a federal grand jury is indicted a man accused of attacking another
passenger on a flight from Seattle to Las Vegas. The FBI says Julio Lopez
was acting fidgety last month before he punched a guy sitting across from him and
stabbed the man with pens. Lopez reportedly told agents he had never seen the
guy before but planned to kill him. He also claimed he thought the mafia
was chasing him. Lopez was restrained during the flight and arrested once it landed.
When we come back, if you're trying to keep up with the Joneses,
Dean Sharp has the hottest housing trends for twenty twenty four that's next.
You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. AT
and T says a cell phone outage that affected more than seventy thousand phones across
the US is done with. AT and T says it was a technical issue,
but the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI say they're looking into the
outage to make sure it wasn't part of a cyber attack. The US has
announced more than five hundred new sanctions on Russia. It's a move to punish
Moscow's war machine and those being held responsible for the death of opposition leader Alexey
Navalny. A. Massive landslides expected to keep Highway one fifty just north of
Santa Paula closed for several weeks. Cal Tran says the mud has to dry
out before crews can even start clearing it. Trying to get between OHI and
Santa Paula being advised to use Highways thirty three, one oh one or one
twenty six instead. At six oh five, it's handle on the news that
crime spree around La County that left a total of six people dead. A
seventeen year old has been arrested in connection with that at five point fifty we're
gonna be talking with ABC's Jason Nathanson. We'll be going to the desert and
out of this world. Right now, let's say good morning too the house
Whisper and the host of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. So Dean
trends aren't only in fashion, they're also in housing. So let's talk about
what's hot and what's not this year. Well, I love, you know,
late February, right before I head off to the International Builders Show,
kind of looking back at the early January articles that come out, Like every
magazine, even you know, US World US News and World Report likes to
release these articles about like what's going to be the building trend for twenty twenty
four, And I love looking back thinking, yeah, maybe hit or miss.
This actually is an article based on an article from a US News and
World Report that I was looking at and they've got a few here, and
I thought it would be interesting to kind of take a look at it.
The first one is absolutely one that is here and growing, and it's a
growing biophilic design. Ye like that word biophilic. Biophilia. Biophilia is the
is the love of nature. It's not just that though, it's actually a
theory about human beings and our need to interact with nature. And so in
the last I'm going to say fifteen years or so, biophilic design is a
whole category of architectural design now in which we are very intentionally focused on the
idea of bringing out doors, in bringing indoors out and just kind of sort
of thinning the veil between the structures that we live in and the natural world
around us, not so that we get cold or too hot, but so
that we're really not isolating ourselves from nature. And as a trend, I
would say it's way more than a trend. It is caught on, and
it is simply the new standard that most really good designers are working towards,
and that we've honestly been encouraging our clients to work towards for a long time.
More windows, more open doors, more concentrating on vistas, more plant
material inside your house. Just it's all good things there. You know,
I am a nature boy, and there has always been this tendency of mind
to want to kind of diffuse the middle ground between being inside and outside with
your house. Yeah, And in the article that you shared with us that
highlights the biophilic design. There's a really cool picture and I'm like, i'd
all those plants immediately. But it's like green plants cascading over like a planter
box that's above the tub in the bathroom, and it just looks so cool,
doesn't it look cool? And those happen to be air ferns, and
so they literally and here's the thing, you wouldn't kill them because if they
have enough light and they're getting enough light in that particular room, those plants
there actually just thrive and grow on the moisture of a high humid environment.
So I guess the fact that it's the bathroom. Yeah, they're gonna do
great. They're literally just gonna eat it all up. And they do great
and you barely have to give them any attention. So yeah, they're all
sorts of these new things. So biophilic design, that's a thing. Okay,
sure, cool. I just have a friend who just redid their whole
first floor and it's all in gray towns. Yeah yeah, and you know
what that's problematic? Now? Well no, and see, this is the
thing that I really hate about these articles and the way that the design industry
presents itself, as if, as if we can change directions as quickly as
fashion. You know, it's not just like you know, what plaids are
out people this year. That's not going to be. It's not the case.
Goodbye grays. That's what the article is saying. Nobody's doing grays anymore.
That's not true. We've always done grays. Grays have really replaced earth
tones for a good while. So there was a trend, for sure.
There was a fad even let's go so far, and I use the word
fad as you know, an extreme overreaction to like earth tones and things like
that. The fad part of gray is over. But gray is here to
stay. It really is, because it's such a useful tone in a home.
So everybody who just remodeled their place and said, I really like gray,
why does this article say my house is now out of date. We
just finished three months ago. You don't have to worry. You don't have
to worry. So it's just an overreaction. But yeah, the fad of
everything must be gray. We're well past that now. But that doesn't mean
that gray isn't the right color for your place. That's something that you love,
you know, because I didn't want to break the news to her that
she was outdated. Yeah, yeah, that's just a thing. Okay,
what is a fad? Y g louted cabinets? What's that louted cabinets is
well, this is a cabinet door that has these kind of vertical columns on
it. Okay, that is, without question a fad. So don't feel
like you got to go out and get yourself fluted cabinet doors because if you
don't like it, let it be. Don't touch it, because next year,
I guarantee you we're going to see an article saying, yeah, fluted
cabinets are done. That's over. So you know, that's the kind of
stuff. We just don't want to overreact to some of these predictions. Okay,
what about the one about making room for the in laws? Absolutely,
there is no question. You know, ADUs, the accessory dwelling units you
call them what you will, casitas, guest rooms, mother in law suites,
that extra space in the house, especially in the state of California,
because now ADUs are so easy to add to your home. Is this an
extra structure or is it you're adding have to be? You can be,
You can add on to the house Okay, you can convert your garage into
an adu. Now, in other words, most cities before this said,
listen, no, you can't take the garage because you are required to have
parking. But the state of California said no, no, you can park
outside. So you can use the garage. You can add on to the
house, or you can build a separate structure somewhere on your property if you
have room for that. The point is housing in California. The codes have
changed and they're super encouraging this, and it's just I think, I think
it is the trend of our culture. We've got aging parents to take care
of that we don't want to put and homes. We've got boomeranging children coming
back from college who are waiting for their one big job opening to come about.
All of these things are pointing us towards the idea of having extra communal
space for extended family and friends. Okay, and just real quick, because
we've got about twenty seconds left. But bringing inside outside is a thing,
or bringing outside inside, Oh, for sure, it is a huge thing.
It's a huge thing. Nobody you and I kind of talked about it
last week about Wayfarer's chapel right, I mean a perfect example of bringing outside
in a chapel made of glass, a very very small space, but you
can see right through it to the outside. That's why people love that place.
Okay. So like small screened in patios, small backyard patios, front
porches, those things are all trending right now, all in Okay. Dean
Sharp the host of home right here on KFI from six to eight am on
Saturday and nine to noon on Sunday, and can't wait to hear once you
check in after the International Builders Show. Yeah, we'll have lots of fun
to talk about. Thanks Amy, Thankstein. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our news room of State Assembly
bill being introduced would make it easier to remove potential jurors with a bias against
police if it were to become law. The legislation would overturn Governor Newsom's twenty
twenty policy, which says jurors could not be the subject of peremptory challenge on
the basis of their negative views of police. Riverside. Republican Bill as Sale
says his bill would allow attorneys to ask for the dismissal of a potential juror
if it was determined that person was anti cop law experts have said the bill
would hit a lot of hurdles, especially because of the strong support for criminal
justice reform in the state legislature. Steve Gregory Kafi News Lawyers for former President
Trump had filed multiple motions in Florida asking a judge to dismiss the criminal case
that charges Trump with illegally retaining classified documents. The motion includes a claim that
presidential immunity protects Trump from prosecution. The Supreme Court has heard arguments on the
immunity claim. Trump is facing dozens of felony accounts in federal court in Florida.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One hundred nineteen
vote centers will open across La County for early voting ahead of California's March fifth
primary, starting tomorrow. The vote centers will be opened daily from ten am
to seven pm. Six hundred more locations open across the county on March second.
You can find the list of in person voting locations at locator dot la,
vote dot gov. President Biden has announced more than five hundred new sanctions
on Russia, the aim to punish Moscow's war machine and those being held responsible
for the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. A Girl Scout troop in Sacramento
has made radio contact with the International Space Station. Love this story. The
troop spent months making a ham radio and then yesterday made contact with astronaut Jasmine
Mogbelli on the space station. They talked for about ten minutes about NASA,
her mission, experiments she's working on, and even how she spends her free
time. The girls then got special merit badges, well deserved. We're just
minutes away from a handle on the news this morning. The three to one
oh and the three two three are getting some company. LA's getting a new
area code right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment guru. Are
Jason Nathanson? Jason, how are you a new area code? Yeah?
I'm still not about the Like, what four to two four is that one
of them? Do we have four two four here? I've never dialed a
four two four. There's there's there's some others. My brother's mad about being
a three one. Oh, why that's that's always been the best one.
I don't that's the one you want. When I grew up, there was
eight one eight, there's three two three, and there's three one oh,
and that was it. No need all these others. Okay, Well,
so, uh, Jason, we've got not much going on but a couple
movies coming out. Yeah, it's it's slow. It continues to be a
slow year at the box office. Is this normal, although for this time
of year it isn't. It isn't. Usually by now there's at least something
that's broken through, and we really haven't had that. And we've had some
really bad movies a few weeks, so that'll change. Next week we're gonna
have Dune two, which was delayed from last November because of the strikes,
So that's going to kind of break things open, and people are excited and
waiting for that, and I'll have my review of that next week. I
did see it this week, and I can tell you that it is very
good. Okay, So that's exciting at least. And that's not untill next
weekend, though, correct, So we have one more week in theaters right
now. One movie that's actually getting a lot of really good reviews which I
haven't seen, is Ordinary Angels. This is Hillary Swank who stars in this
kind of faith based drama. It's based on a true story from the nineties.
She plays a woman, a struggling hair hairdresser in a small town who
discovers she's been kind of looking for her purpose. There are some alcohol problems
and things like that. Yeah, and she meets a guy and who has
two daughters, the youngest daughters waiting for a liver transplant, and she kind
of discovers, oh, maybe my purpose is to help to help these people,
and then it kind of turns into what the community did and faith and
miracles and everyday Ordinary Angels. It's eighty percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes from critics,
one hundred percent from people who saw it early, which I guess is
the last night's screenings. So that is if you're, you know, looking
for something like that, the kind of heartwarming, inspiring story that's getting really
good reviews out there this weekend, So that's one possibility. Another that that
is in theaters this weekend is Driveaway Dolls, which has a lot of good
people involved Ethan Cohen from the Coen Brothers. He co wrote this, he
directs it. You have Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Vishnawathon starring as two women on
a kind of comedy caper road trip action. This is an R rated film.
Is it a modern day Selma and Louise? Yeah, I mean not
exactly, but you know there's there's some of that in there. You got
Beanie Feldstein, you got Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal. So you got a
really great cast in there. Not getting overwhelmingly great reviews, but it's getting
decent reviews, okay. And then if we're gonna hunker down, sit on
the couch and want to stream something, yeah, well, I mean I
can tell you what's out, I cannot tell you not necessarily. That doesn't
mean it's good. So you have and that's okay. We need your advice
anyway. Your girl scouts there who contacted the Space station might be interested in
Constellation, which is about a astronaut played by new Mira Pace who goes she
survives a disaster in space. She's on the ISS and some things go wrong
and she returns to Earth to discover that key pieces of her life seem to
be missed. This is it seemed to be what missing missing? Yeah,
okay, it's dark. There's a lot of questions and mysteries going on here.
It was a little too dark and a little too weird for my taste.
Okay. Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad and Better Call So also co stars,
and you've got a bunch of other people as well. Not really for
me these days, just really not into the dark weird stuff. But you
know, maybe there might be an audience. There's three episodes out now on
Apple TV plus. There's an eight total. It's one of those ones where
you're wondering, am I gonna get answers by the end of this or am
I going to be left wondering with a lot of questions? Okay? All
right? And then the Sag Awards are being awarded tomorrow night. Yes,
do they carry any real weight for the big one? The answer, Oh
yeah, no, absolutely. The Guild Awards are the ones that are the
most when it comes to the Oscars. They're the most predictive in terms of
who's going to get what. Because the Saga Awards actually has the biggest they
share the biggest voting body with the Oscars. Because it's the Screen Actors Guild.
I think there's there's more actors in the in the Academy Acting branch than
any other branch. So whoever wins at the Acting awards at the Screen Actors
Guild Awards usually ends up going on to win the Oscars. Okay, do
you have any predictions you want to watch that? You want to watch the
Producer's Guild Awards, right, you want to watch the Writers Guild Awards,
to watch those if you're filling out your poll and things like that. On
the movie side, Oppenheimer is, you know, probably going to do pretty
well. Do you think it'll get Best Cast? They don't have a best
movie category they have a best cast they don't and that that's the only category
that does not translate to Oscar success because that is different than the Best Picture
Oscar thing. So I think it's possible. I think I think it could
do very well. It's interesting to see it'll be on Netflix. Yes,
on Netflix, so live streaming award show on Netflix, the first time that
they've ever done that, So you know, that's that's something new. But
most usually most people don't pay ten into the Sagwarts. They don't watch Oh
well, I'm going to be watching. Well you were not most people.
Oh well, there you have it. That is true. Okay, Well,
and with that, let's just end our little conversation. Jason. All
right, thank you so much, Jason, have a great weekend. All
right, talk to you soon. But let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I will be watching.
By the way, The La Metro Board of Directors has moved forward with
a proposed gondola project to Dodger Stadium. Supporters of the proposed gondola connecting Union
Station at Dodger Stadium say it would take some cars off the street and attract
development to the area. Metro's board yesterday accepted the three hundred million dollar private
project's environmental impact report with conditions. Chinatown resident Phyllis Ling says she's not happy
an over priced steam park ride that rips into our beloved park in our neighborhood.
Don Luis Camacho says the project would be good for his family's restaurant,
and we think it would help draw new guests to Albera Street. The board's
conditions include job development and beautification initiatives. Michael Monks KFI News. Health Ministry
in Gaza says more than one hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in
the past twenty four hours. Hamas says its top political leader has held talks
with Egyptian officials about a possible cease fire and an exchange of hostages. About
two hundred and fifty people were taken when Hamas attacked Israel in October. About
one hundred are still thought to be alive. The US has imposed more than
five hundred new sanctions on Russia. ABC's Karen Travers says President Biden calls them
punishment for Russia's war against Ukraine and the death of Putin critic Alexey Navalney.
The President says in a statement the sanctions will target individuals connected to Navalney's imprisonment,
as well as Russia's financial sector, defense industrial base, and sanctions of
vaders across multiple continents. The US is imposing export restrictions on nearly one hundred
entities that support Russia's military efforts and target energy revenues. Biden says the sanctions
will ensure Putin pays an even steeper price for his aggression abroad and repression at
home. And a magician from New Orleans says a Democratic consultant paid him one
hundred and fifty dollars to use AI to impersonate President Biden in a robo call.
That call last month told voters in New Hampshire not to vote in the
state's presidential primary and just save it for November. We leave your help and
electing Democrats up and down the ticket. Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans
in their quest to elect Donald Trump again. Paul Carpenter says he was hired
by a consultant who worked on ballot access for Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips.
Carpenter says he didn't know how the recording was going to be distributed and that
he regrets that he was involved. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with
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