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your wake up call for Friday, June twenty first. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. Good Morning. That intro is a
good reminder. The Dodgers are back in town today Freeway Series time. They're
going to play Anaheim at Dodger Stadi. Sure, heyed a great leadoff home
run yesterday against Rockies. Too nice way to start the game, right,
great, And this is the first show Hey is going to be playing against
his old team during the regular season. It'll be fun to watch. And
also, you know what else is fun to watch? The full moon.
It's beautiful. We've had all those low clouds and stuff, and at least
in Burbank, we don't have them this morning, so it was just gorgeous.
And here's something else that's fun today, Producer AND's birthdays today. And
I'm such a knucklehead. I walked out of the door and I was about
halfway to work and I went, oh, I forgot her present. It's
sitting on my dining room table. But that's okay. That just means we
get to celebrate next week too. I'm all for that. Okay, let's
get started with what's ahead on wake up Call. Heat advisories have been issued
for this weekend as temperatures are expected to top one hundred degrees in some areas.
The National Weather Service has put out advisories and heat warnings. They'll be
up from Saturday morning through Sunday evening for the Santa Clarita, San Fernando,
and San Gabriel Valleys, the San Gabriel Mountains, Analote Valley foothills, and
Analote Valley Freeway Corridor. The White House says it will rush delivery of air
defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine by redirecting shipments that had been planned for other Allied
nations. National Security spokesman John Kirby calls it a difficult but necessary decision.
We're going to be talking more about this with ABC's Karen Travers. That's coming
up in just about three or four minutes. State utility regulators have rejected a
bid by AT and T to get rid of its traditional landline service for most
of the Bay Area and for much of California. Critics of AT and t's
plan said it would have cut communication lifelines off for thousands of older people and
rural residents during power outages and natural disasters like wildfires and floods. ABC's Jim
Ryan is coming up in about fifteen twenty minutes. He's going to tell us
about a big, beautiful discovery in the bad Lands, and we're going to
find out later this hour. If ABC's Jason Nathansen is revd up about what's
coming out in theaters this weekend. That was a hint at six oh five.
It's handle on the news right after wakeup call. A flyover that no
one wants to see. A Southwest Airlines flight dropped to just over five hundred
feet off the ground in Oklahoma earlier this week. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A student
at USC who fatally stabbed a homeless man near campus will not face charges.
Ye Gascon says after careful review, he believes the nineteen year old student I
even gayegos, acted in self defense out of fear for his life. The
homeless man was stabbed multiple times after the student confronted him for allegedly trying to
steal a car outside of his frat house. Police say Gayego's remained at the
scene Monday night and told police the homeless man said he had a gun before
stabbing him. Friends of the student who were with Gayegos say he had no
choice but to defend himself. Police said yesterday no gun was found at the
scene. Chris Adler KFI News. The California Supreme Court has removed a measure
from the November ballot that would have required voters to approve any state tax hikes.
It would have also raised the threshold required for voter approval of local government
tax increases to a two thirds public vote instead of a simple majority. Alex
Stone says. Governor Newsom and Democratic lawmakers sued to block the measure. The
California Supreme Court unanimously ruling the measure could not be enacted because it would substantially
alter the basic plan of government. The measure threatened to retroactively reverse most tax
increases approved since January of twenty twenty two. More than a million people signed
a petition to get that measure on the ballot. The US Supreme Courts expected
to deliver more opinions this morning. Seventeen cases still left to come down from
the Supreme Court, more than half of those of major political and social significance.
A lot is going to be packed into the next seven days or so
before the justice has gone their summer break. ABC's Devin Dwyer says the biggest
case is whether or not former President Trump has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution by
Special counsel Jack Smith. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Traver's Karen,
a big shift at the White House. A new plan is out to
divert more missiles to help Ukraine in its war against Russia. But that's going
to come at the cost to some of our other allies. Yeah. The
White House said yesterday that they have made a difficult but necessary decision to reprioritize
near term plan deliveries of some foreign military sales to other countries, particularly Patriot
and Naysam missiles. John Kirby said that this decision. He's the National Security
spokesman. He said that this decision was made because quote more is needed and
it's needed now in Ukraine. So they're going to reprioritize the deliveries so that
missiles, as he put it, rolling off the production line will be provided
to Ukraine right away. The timeline on this is as soon as possible.
He said that they hope to have these reprioritized missiles heading to Ukraine, the
first shipment in the coming weeks, he said, certainly before the end of
the summer. In terms of the delays, though that the countries who were
expecting weapons, he couldn't give guidance on how long of a delay that will
be. You know, when will they get their now delayed shipments, He
couldn't say. He also wouldn't say who is impacted by this. That was
my next question, and that was all of our questions yesterday. You know,
tell us who isn't getting their stuff. He just said that there's a
range of countries impacted and that those countries have been notified, but that it
wasn't up to the United States to now identify everybody. They could if they
wanted to, but you know, for sensitivity of course and security, they
perhaps don't want to be known as the country is getting this stuff. He
did notably say that Taiwan was not on the list of countries that now would
have a delay, and that there would be no impact felt by Israel.
So that was something that was a bit of a headline. Okay, So
they did say that it didn't have to do with Israel, because that was
the first thing that popped into my brain because of the little the spat that
Israel in the US seemed to be happening right with the timing right now exactly.
So those two things Taiwan not on this list of countries impacted and no
impact felt by Israel. Okay, Now I have a housekeeping question. So
the Patriot missiles, those are the defensive missiles, and what are Naysam missiles?
These are another short term, short and medium range missiles that we've I
guess have been sending and they need more of them now. Okay, but
no one else is in active conflict, right or are they that we just
don't hear about it? Yeah? I guess not. I mean I don't
know, And that's you know, why everybody was kind of pushing of like
who else has been getting these you know, who else gets these air defense
systems? You know, whether it's Eastern European countries, you know, kind
of on that eastern flank of NATO. I just don't know the answer to
that, Okay. And then do we know, Karen, if these missiles
are in addition to the sixty one billion dollars in aid or is it part
of that package. They're just getting pushed to the front of the line.
This is getting pushed to the front of the line. I think that this
just kind of shifts what. You know, They've got the things that would
be going, They've got the stuff that is coming from the stockpiles, and
now this is putting them on the higher priority list for other things that would
be coming their way. Okay, and I know we have just about a
minute left, so we want to shift gears. President Biden's in full debate
prep mode. Yeah, he was heading to Camp David last night. Reporters
were asking him, you know, how he feels it's going. He gave
a thumbs up. But now he's expected to spend really, you know,
the next week, anticipated to be in debate prep ahead of that showdown with
Donald Trump. No official events on his schedule over the next couple of days.
It's going to be huddling with senior advisors at Camp David. That's the
presidential retreat out in Maryland. Beautiful place out in the mountains of Maryland.
Maybe it's a little cooler for him out there, but he's really, you
know, spending a lot of time going over the briefing books and actually doing
debates, like doing mock debates with senior advisors. Very different policy or approach
than what Donald Trump is doing. We're told he's not doing mock debates.
Instead, he's doing like policy discussions with former and current advisors and even some
Senators JD. Vans and Marco Rubio. Okay, do other presidents or have
they spent this much time? It just seems like a whole week, did
not have anything else on your schedule? Is a lot, you know,
I think because of the way this debate is, like there's one now and
then there's one in September. There's so much focus on this when you know,
I covered the George W. Bush re election campaign seven hundred years ago.
Back then, you know, there were three of them, so they
would take a couple days before each one leading into it and drop off the
campaign trail for several days. So it was a kind of a weird time
to be covering the campaign because you just they went down and went dark for
days leading up to it. Okay, well we know the big debate is
next week. We're going to be watching Karen Travis. Thank you so much
for the information this morning. Thank you have a good weekend. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The LAPD is offering a twenty five thousand dollars reward to find the person
who shot a man from the back seat of a car in downtown LA.
The man was closing up his business on Alvarado Street back in April when he
noticed two women arguing near a car double park next to a car with his
wife and three kids waiting inside. Afraid for his children's safety, he begins
to walk towards his vehicle from the rear side to move his vehicle or check
on his children. Officer Chris motta Ken says as the man approached the car,
the rear window went down and a gun appeared. As the man walked
away, he was shot in the back, paralyzing him. The silver four
door Toyo to Camri sped away in downtown La Steve greg ri kaa Fine News.
A man suspected of trying to kidnap two young girls from the Mission Valley
Mall and San Diego has been arrested. The Lice Lieutenant Daniel Meyer says they
were able to catch the guy with the help of automated license plate readers.
There are some features that are built into the system that allow for us to
actively search for vehicles. In this case, we were very fortunate to have
a full license plate for the suspect vehicle. Meyer says. The system automatically
alerts all officers in the city when the car is spotted. They got the
suspect in custody, who was later positively identified by the witness. In the
first case, the man tried to run away with the first girl on Tuesday
before she screamed and he put her down. His second attempt yesterday was just
hours before his arrest. A lifeguard tower in Malibu painted with Pride colors has
been vandalized. The tower at will Rogers State Beach was spray painted with homophobic,
racist, anti Semitic slurs and symbols earlier this week. Local officials say
the lifeguard tower will be repainted. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hesbolag group,
says it has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical
positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all out war. Tensions in the
region have been increasing since the war with Hamas began in Israel. Israeli's Defense
Forces Lieutenant Colonel Doughton Razili says they are ready to take action. We know
what we're doing, we're planned, we're ready, and we've been booing the
plan for the last months. Ill if the government tells us to do it,
we'll do it very decisively. The Biden administration says it wants to prevent
a second war in Israel and has been pursuing a diplomatic resolution. A federal
appeals court has rejected a bid by longtime Trump allies Steve Bannon to stay out
of prison while he fights his conviction related to the January sixth attack on the
capital. Bannon is supposed to report to prison by July first to start serving
a four month sentence for contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena from the
House committee investigating the capital of riot. Bannon is expected to ask the Supreme
Court to prevent or delay his sentence. LA wants to expand the Convention Center
downtown before the Olympics. The city Council's Travel and Tourism Committee approved fifty four
million dollars in pre construction design work on the expansion. Union leader Antonio Sanchez
says it would be a boost of the downtown economy and construction workers. We're
seeing a lot of restaurants close in dout Town, empty hotel rooles. We're
also seeing a lot of unemployed electricians, too many for my comfort. The
Convention Center is slated to host multiple Olympics events in twenty twenty eight. The
full project, if approved, would cost close to five billion dollars in downtown
La. Michael Monks KFI News. A USC student accused of fatally stabbing a
homeless man on Greek Row who was breaking into his car won't face any charges.
LA County da George Gascone says the nineteen year old student was driven by
a genuine fear for his life and the lives of others. The student says
the man he stabbed told him he had a gun. The US Supreme Courts
expected to issue more opinions today The court has not yet ruled on Donald Trump's
claim that as president, he's immune from prosecution. The court upheld a Trump
air attacks on Foreign Investments yesterday that was meant to stop Americans shielding their foreign
earnings from US taxes. Carol Burnett has placed her handprints and footprints in cement
in front of the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Dick Van Dyke, Jimmy
Kimmel, Urin Dern and Bob Odenkirk were all there for the so menting yesterday.
The ninety one year old Barnette told the crowd how she and her grandmother
would often visit the Chinese Theater when she was growing up in La and that,
in her words, this is quite a trip. I love. Carol
Burnett at six oh five. It's handled on the news. It's no three
percent, but buying a house is a little more affordable. Now right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, it's big,
it's beautiful, and it's a billion years old. Okay, maybe not a
billion, but quite a billion, no, but it's old anyway. Yeah,
and it's pretty amazing stuff. Do you know that you live in Laramidia
lara media. No, what's that? That was the big island continent that
extended from Washington State down through Mexico, divided from the rest of what is
now the United States by a big ocean. Appalachia was the other side of
that ocean. Well, somewhere in the middle, up in what is now
in northern Montana, there was a monster living Locas Sarah TUFs range of formus
lived about seventy eight million years ago. Well wait, wait say it again,
do I have to uh huh Locu Serratops range of formis okay? So
is it related to the Triceratops. It is, ah good, a cousin
the big three horn Triceratops. This was a cousin, you know, the
Triceratopsis. Besides those big horns that it has, has that big flare,
you know, that shield up the back of its head, right it kind
of sticks up. This one had that too, But it also had horns
on top of that thing on top of that flare atop its head, so
it looked different. And it had more horns on its body and different spikes
down its back. So, and it is thought to be at least by
some scientists, a completely separate species from any other dinosaur that has been found.
So it's a pretty remarkable discovery up there in northern Montana, the bad
lands near the US Canada border. Okay, and you're saying it's a separate
species. So this is the first time they've found one of these guys.
It is first time ever. And to the people who've discovered it and who
have been working on this project since nineteen it says that there may be animals
and creatures dinosaurs that we have no idea about that are still left to be
discovered. I wonder why dinosaurs were so big. Uh they just had a
random thought, Yeah, like because they don't have you know, we have
elephants now, But I mean, dinosaurs were so ginormous. There must have
been some benefit to that. And of course obviously you know, they had
plenty of ee, especially herbivores like this one. They could they had plans
to eat all over the place swamps. You know that that part of Montana
which is kind of desert now, it used to be a big swamp and
it's the big section of Leeramidia was Okay, did they find like the whole
thing or did they find pieces of it. They found piece and you know,
hundreds of pieces of fossils. That great quote here from one of the
palaeontologists who've been working on this said that they spread their stuff out on a
table down in Utah. They carried it all down there to a lab and
started finding that these pieces kind of clicked together, sort of like legos.
Once it was all put together, they had this big skull sitting in front
of They stood back and looked at it and said, this is brand new.
We've never seen anything like this before, and so yeah, there it
is. They I'm sure they'll be looking for any other parts of this animal,
but so far they do have a skull. Are they still finding a
lot of dinosaurs up in Montana? They are, Yeah, Montana, Wyoming,
California is a hotbed of discovery of dinosaurs and fossils and whatnot around.
You know, You've got stuff around the Labrett Harpeads and elsewhere in the state
that are yet to be discovered. This you can see this skull, the
skull of this animal that was discovered. You're going to have to go to
Denmark though, to do it. It sits at the Museum of Evolution in
Marabau, Denmark. Why Why Because the scientist who found it is a professional
and paleontologist working under contract with the Museum of Evolution in Marabo. So essentially,
the Museum of Evolution in Marabo, Denmark owns that skull. Okay,
and I'm not going to Denmark for this one, but I'd like to see
it. Do you check it out? Where? Do I google it?
Because I can't remember that name? Big story on abcnews dot Go. Abcnews
dot Co is our website and there is a big picture of it as well
as an artist depiction of what the thing looks like. And it's pretty fascinating.
Okay, perfect, Thank you, Jim Ryan. Yeah, good week,
I have a good weekend. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. People in La can trade
in their illegal fireworks this weekend. The LAPD is encouraging folks to go to
professional fireworks or drone shows this Fourth of July holiday. Chief Dominic Choice says
he understands there's a tradition of lighting off one's own supply. However, in
the city of Los Angeles, they are illegal and they have a significant impact
on certain parts of our community. This Saturday at Brand Park in Mission Hills
from nine to noon, illegal fireworks can be traded in for gift cards and
event tech. It's anonymous with no questions asked. Michael Monks KFI News accord
in LA has ordered a judge from Orange County to stand trial for shooting his
wife in the chest during a drunken argument. Prosecutors allege Jeffrey Ferguson shot his
wife in August, then admitted to it in text messages and slurred comments caught
on bodycam video. Ferguson lawyers say the shooting was an accident. The judge
yesterday ordered the trial court resumes next month. The DOJ could request the Adelanto
Detention Center in the High Desert start taking in illegal immigrants again. Around eighty
five million dollars is currently being spent to house five people at the facility.
Congressman Jay Olbernulty says the facility was barred from taking in immigrants because of a
lawsuit filed in twenty twenty over COVID concerns. The President ended the official state
of emergency for COVID over a year ago, and it's completely nonsensical that we
haven't been able to get that facility back online. The facility has four courtrooms
on it to hear asylum cases. The DOJ is expected file court papers next
month requesting the center be reopened. Like Charlie k if I Knews, greeting
through these things quite top guys might happy hold slip card. Yes you know
that that's from the Haunted Mansion. Disneyland's Haunted Mansion has been closed for refurbishment
since January. Disney says it's going to be open again in time for Halloween
time. Crews have been wrapping up work on the extended refurbishment that includes an
accessibility elevator for wheelchair users, a new retail shop at the attraction's exit,
like most of the big rides have. Park officials say the mansion's dining room
scene is also going to feature a new ghoulish gingerbread house. And that's just
one of the things happening at Disneyland. They did put out a big release
of what's coming up for Halloween Time. I know, we just started summer,
but Disney likes to do things up big and they get started early.
So Halloween Time is coming to Disneyland starting in August, and they're going to
have lots and lots and lots of things to do and see. So I
know that Nick Polly Okanie isn't here right now. You know, Halloween's his
favorite time of year, so he's excited about this. But it starts August
twenty third, runs through October thirty first, So they're going to have,
of course the reopening of the Haunted Mansion, which is going to be very
cool, and then they'll have the overlay, I believe for Christmas time at
that the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay, and there also are going to have like
new outfits for the characters, and they're going to have some new family fun
entertainment. And then Disneyland has done such an amazing job with their fireworks shows.
They're not just fireworks. They call them Nighttime spectaculars now because they have
the fireworks, but then they also throw these projections onto Sleeping Beauty's Castle and
the it's a small world and along Main Street, so it's just like this
total surround experience. It's a three sixty experience. So that's happening. And
then if you are a big Ugie Boogie Bash fan, or if you haven't
been yet you know that it sells out. You might have tried to get
there. They've got more days I think than ever, and those start in
late August and they go all the way through the through October thirty first,
and they're going to go on sales starting next week. And again, if
you want to go, it does sell out, we'll see if it does
this year. But for Magic keyholders, it starts on June twenty fifth and
twenty sixth, and then for everybody, if you don't have a pass or
anything like that, I'll guess the Magic or the Oogie Boogie Bash tickets are
available starting on June twenty seventh, giving you a heads up because they are
highly sought after and it's a lot of fun and you can do trick or
treating all night around Disney California Adventure Park, so and you know, be
an adult and dressed like a kid and have a great time. The California
Supreme Court has removed a measure from the November ballot that would have made it
harder for state and local governments to raise taxes. The Taxpayer Protection and Government
Accountability Act would have, among other things, allowed voters to approve future taxes
and fees imposed by state and local governments. More than a million people signed
the measure to get that one on the ballot, and the Supreme Court took
it off. Almost all the protesters at Columbia University last month are having charges
against them dropped. The Manhattan DA's office is thirty one of the forty six
people charged with trespassing had those charges dismissed. Prosecutors said the remaining fourteen cases
would be dropped if the people involved don't get arrested within the next six months.
Former NBA shooting guard JJ Reddick has been named the new head coach of
the LA Lakers. It'll be his first coaching job. Reddick has agreed to
a four year deal. The Lakers have seventeen NBA titles, one of the
biggest brand names in world sports, and Lebron James, the top scorer in
league history at six POZHO five. It's handle on the news. It's all
in the family. A whole family is accused of dozens of robberies around southern
California. At ive point fifty. We're going to take a ride with ABC's
Jason Nathanson and Julia Louis Dravis Dreyfus takes flight. It'll make more sense in
just a few minutes. Right now, let's say good morning to the host
of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. Good morning Bean, Good morning
Amy. Okay, So, sometimes you can do stuff yourself. Sometimes it's
not such a great idea, and sometimes you really need to bring in a
specialist. That is very very true. This weekend, we are talking about
specialty vendors, our specialty venders. I get so many requests on a weekly
basis. Sometimes who do you and Tina turn to to get this stuff that
you always come up with? So this is Dean Sharp approved, it is,
this is our list. This is our list of vendors. It's going
to be a very very kind of fun, so cal centric show this weekend.
Even though we've got listeners from all over the country, they're just going
to have to Grin and Barrett because we're talking about all of our local favorites
that we go to for various things, but specialized things, great great vendors
all over southern California, and we're going to be celebrating them this weekend.
Okay, So, do you want to give us a couple of highlights?
Sure? I'll give you one of my favorites when it comes to doing a
period home. I think you would really appreciate this. A period home meaning
that we're trying to get some old vintage stuff in play, at least that
look. Pasadena Architectural Salvage. Pasadena Architectural Salvage. They're on Foothill, they're
on East Pasaden, East Pasadena. They've been out there forever in a day.
And Pasadena is a good place to have it because they got a lot
of a lot of old, old historic homes there exactly, and that's why
they're based there, because this is what they do, what a unique business
right, and it's always been fantastic. Whenever they get win that there is
a century home, something that's one hundred years plus that is being major remodeled
or maybe torn down or a major renovation, they want to get in there
and they want all the hinges, all the hardware, all the door handles,
all the accessories, anything worth taking away from that place that the owners
are not going to reuse or what have you. They will hang on to
it, recondition it when necessary, and then sell it at their location on
Foothill boulevards. So I have a question for you bits and pieces, because
I've been to the replacement hardware stores. They have them all over in Portland
because they have a lot of old houses there too. Is it like you
can go in and get a hinge or a door knob or is it bigger
things or it's all of it, all of it? So yeah, So
I'll call my buddy over there and we'll I'll say, heykay, we just
we're redoing this one hundred and twenty year old craftsman home. It's got a
tub, one hundred and twenty year old cast iron tub in it, but
this one is all messed up and I need a new one. I need
a new one hundred and twenty year old tub. And they're like, all
right, we gotoy. Let me check what color do you need? Oh?
I don't know. Baby blue would be nice, pink would be great,
but off white is fine too. They're like, all right, we
got like eight of them in here right now. You got to come down
and just see what you like. Okay. So that's the kind of place
that this is. They are just just fantastic people to work with too.
I love that, and they probably have fun because it's all little treasure hunts
for them and for customers, then in return give us a couple more.
Okay, so here's not a vintage one if you live in Well, I
would say, if you live anywhere in southern California, this is worth the
trip down, but definitely if you live in oc light Styles. Light Styles
is a lighting store, okay, And yet I hesitate to just call it
that, because yeah, you can just go in and oh they have lovely
lighting fixtures, and oh you can buy replacement bulbs here especially. They have
two locations, one in Santa Ana, one in Coasta Mesa down by the
well down on. Okay, I'm blanking out now, but anyway, in
Coasta Mesa, down near Newport. And here's what I love about light Styles.
Light Styles in the back room, okay, they have an entire staff
of lighting designers. This is a lamp store essentially that you can go to
and have a serious conversation, not just about oh I would like to buy
this or that, but how do I light my home? In fact,
if you could take a set of prints for your home and go down there,
or photographs of a particular room and get professional, I mean full on
professional lighting design advice, about how to light this room properly. And you
know what, that is just so few and far between these days. They
are an intensely amazing resource. They understand all things lighting, color correction,
dimming, all of it. And they're just the just they're the best.
They're just the best. Okay. And then here's another one. I always
I love like the big pots and fountains and stuff that people are putting in
their house, in and around their houses. What's a good one for that?
Oh, receided Discount Pottery and Fountains. Just one of the most amazing
places in southern California. And again, never discount in its name. That
makes me like it. It does. That's one of the reasons I haven't
been able to get them to be a sponsor on the show, by the
way. But the point is, these guys are amazing fountains. This is
just it's on receipta boulevard in the valley and you walk in and what you're
going to experience is a thousand I kid you not, I am not exaggerating.
A thousand fountains of every shape and size, all running, all working.
You'll walk underneath these arched water fountains of dolphins shooting water across the room.
I mean, it is a fountain playland. And so when it comes
to oh I need a f I need an Italian wall fountain. In fact,
I'm going to say that we came up with a fountain for Robin our
program. Dur At, the boss from Recita discount fountains and pottery, and
it is just an amazing place. They have pottery, yes, but man,
when it comes to fountains, if you're looking for any kind whatsoever,
you have to start there. I love a good water feature, Okay,
And you're going to be featuring lots more of these stores and shops that are
your go to Dean Sharp, tested and approved, and that's happening this weekend
on Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI six to eight am Saturday and
nine to noon on Sunday. Thanks so much, Dean that I'm going to
be listening. I love all this stuff. Thanks Amy. All right,
take care. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsrooms. So cal is heating up again. Forecasters say,
building high pressure system is going to push temperatures up starting today, and
that's going to continue into early next week. Some areas are going to see
triple digits. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory that will be
in effect from ten am Tomorrow until eight pm Sunday for Santa Clarita, San
Fernando, and San Gabriel Valleys, and an excessive heat watch will be in
place for the San Gabriel Mountains, the Annealote Valley Foothills, and the Analote
Valley Freeway Corridor. More than six hundred workers at Smart and Final stores in
southern California have walked off the job, alleging unfair labor practices. The union
says Warehouses and Commerce and Riverside are being shut down because the company wants to
cut pay and benefits for tenured employees. Warehouse worker Hector Montes says hundreds of
employees are going to be fired in this facility in the city of Commerce,
is affecting roughly about three hundred plus workers. There's about three hundred warehouse workers
plus office personnel. The whole building is going to get shut down. Workers
say smartin Final has offered employees the option to reapply at the new location,
but would be cutting pay by ten to twelve dollars an hour. Smartin Finals
said yesterday the union isn't being truthful and their new facility would create about one
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morning, We're going to find out why Donald Trump will get the last word
at next week's debate. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jason
Nathanson. So, Jason, Hollywood finally had a big weekend with Inside Out
two. I think you you said that Hollywood had projected about maybe one hundred
million, but it took in one hundred and fifty five million, So that's
kind of cool. Yeah, expectations were actually eighty to ninety million, and
I thought it had a chance of hitting one hundred million, but one hundred
and fifty five million was definitely not in the cards. Just to kind of
just goes to show just how weird this year has been, how unreliable tracking
is right now, and we just really don't know what's going to happen.
And usually during the summer, when there is a big movie like or this
has been historically, there's something to follow it up. There's going to be
another one. Every weekend is another big one. But that's not the case
this year unfortunately, just because of the strike, in production delays and things
like that, we just don't have the inventory we once did, so we
have to make do. Although Inside Out two is going to roll the roost
again this weekend. There are a few things out there that are new that
you can go watch, and one of them is The Bike Riders, which
if you've gone to the movies anytime in the last couple of months, I
don't know about you, but I've seen this trailer every single time I've gone
to the movies. Oh yeah, in the last three months. I'm sick
of this trailer and I'm glad it's no longer going to be shown ahead of
the movies because I've seen it too many times. The Bike Riders is a
story about a Midwestern motorcycle gang called the Vandals in the nineteen sixties. It
is very loosely based on a true story, and it is about a guy
named Benny who joins the gang, played by Austin Butler, the guy who
played all this, Yes, Jody Comer who plays his wife, who is
absolutely fantastic in this, and you have Tom Hardy who plays Johnny, who's
the leader of the gang, and when the whole thing starts out and again
going into this, I'd seen the trailer too many times. But also I'm
not nostalgic or romantic for this kind of setting for the sixties motorcycle clubs,
like that's not really my thing. Like I'm more romanticized probably mobster movies and
things like that. And when this started, I actually got a good fella's
feeling to it because it's the sixties, because it's these two younger people going
into this underworld type thing and exploring it, and it's well directed in the
acting is really good. I kind of got this goodfella's thing, and I
was excited for that because it kind of won me over. But then it
just didn't really go anywhere with the story. You have great performances here by
everybody involved. I think everybody's doing a really strong job, especially Jody Comer,
who is just she's great and I hope they find some kind of movie
vehicle for her in the future because she is doing Oscar caliber stuff. But
overall, this story just didn't really go anywhere for me. I didn't really
find any emotion of why these guys are so drawn to this motorcycle gang lifestyle
and what they love about it so much. Michael Shannon is in this for
like two seconds and completely wasted, which if you're wasting Michael Shannon, that's
not a great sign. But despite its flaws. The film was ultimately watchable,
just hollow for me. So this was a six point eight out of
ten. That's not a great score on the Jaysonometer. It's not okay,
So what about the it's not a follow up, it's because it's completely different.
But Emma Stone's got a new movie and it's you know, her latest
since Poor Things, which was a freakishly good movie. Yes, a freaky,
freaky movie in a freaky movie and a weird movie. And this is
the latest from her and director Yorgos Lanthemos who did Poor Things and wrote that,
and this is there. Yeah, you're correct, it's not a follow
up. This is not a sequel. It's just the next movie that they
made together, which they they were making. Is it gonna be weird?
Well, okay, so Poor Things was probably of the Yorgos Lanthemois movies a
little more accessible. His movies do tend towards the weird and strange, and
his previous movies were even weirder. Poor Things actually was was his most crowd
one of his most crowd pleasing. And that's you know, saying something because
that was still a very weird movie. So I think people who saw that
are gonna go see this one and expect to maybe similar storyline or something like
that, and be very very surprised, because this is even weirder, one
of the weirder movies that he's ever made. And I'll forgive you for watching
the trailer and thinking it's more accessible. You got em a stone, she's
dancing around, it's in modern day. She's driving a sports car around really
fast, and you know, it looks like fun. But this is a
deeply strange movie. I don't want to get into too much of the plot
and everything, because it's the kind of thing that I think you're just best
seeing without knowing too much going in, kind of like Poor Things. I
didn't know anything about it, sure, and so I was pleasantly surprised by
it in a weird way. Sure. I just think with that film and
this one as well, you just have to know going in expecting A it's
going to be very very adult, and B you're about to see something that
you've not never really seen before and you don't know where it's going and it's
surprising, which I like you have. William Dafoe is also back, who
was in Poor Things as well, and fantastic in that, and I think
he's fantastic in this. I don't think em Astone is gonna win any Oscars
for this one. Not to say that she's bad or anything like that.
I just think, giving the nature of it and everything, but she's good.
And Jesse Plemons also stars in this as well, who I really like,
although doesn't really excite me too much in this again weird, disturbed,
uncomfortable. I want to be in people's cars as they're driving home discussing this
film, because that's going to be a very interesting place to be, or
maybe just hanging outside a theater, you know, like at the Grove and
then listening as they eat dinner afterwards, something like that they can't eat afterwards,
if they can eat afterwards. Seven point seven out of ten for me,
I liked the weirdness, but it is not going to be for everybody.
And it is two hours and forty five minutes long. Oh my,
okay that thank you for that warning. Appreciate it all right, Jason Nathanson,
thank you so much. We've got some weird, interesting things to go
watch at the movie taters, all right, take care, all right.
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