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great lead in. Thank you everybody. It's wake Up Call. My name
is Jason Middleton. It's five am. It's also Wednesday, June fourteenth.
A lot of news today. Of course, it's the day after the events
in Miami yesterday. We're going to dig into that. I'm gonna check on
FED as well, and we have to do another follow up on the ninety
five thing very soon today. The only thing I want to pull out that
today is a quote unquote anniversary of on June fourteenth is back in twenty fourteen,
a Ukrainian military airlifter was shot down over Crimea and it killed all forty
nine people on board. Just as a context of how long this has been
going on back and forth in Ukraine. Some other headlines before we get into
the meet. Former President Trump was in court yesterday afternoon and then he split
for his club in New Jersey to address a crowd of supporters. So we're
gonna get a hot take at the bottom of the hour from ABC political analyst
John Cohen on that the FED wraps up its June meeting later today and a
pause and interest rate hikes is expected. Almost as important though as that news,
is the forecast that the Fed drops after the interest rate announcement. Sometimes
j Powell, the FED chair, talks, sometimes he doesn't after that,
but they still release the minutes from the meeting and the thinking behind it and
some of the data that supports it. And so right now at the moment,
Wall Street is looking at a mixed open and a July rate hike is
still on the table. But we're expecting a pause today and the collapse of
an overpass on that very busy part of ninety five in North Philadelphia. It's
not going to just add about forty stoplights for computers and big truck commuters and
big trucks along that portion. It's also going to cause higher prices along the
Eastern seaboard, so we'll keep an eye on that as well. Let's start
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom,
as always we do lead local. LA's mayor says a majority of the city's
homeless population has been moved inside. During the first six months of her administration,
thirteen hundred forty four people have been placed in permitted housing. The number
represents less than ten percent of the more than fourteen thousand people housed in Bassa's
first six months. Bassa's Chief of Housing, Mercedes Marquez, says the city
can't answer how many people have left temporary housing before they were put into permitted
housing. The issue of exits, no matter for what reason, is the
hardest core data nationally to receive, the mayor said yesterday, or Insight Safe
program alone has moved more than thirteen hundred people out of nineteen campsites in La.
Blake Trolley, k if I News parks in La are handing out free
lunches to kids and teens you know school was out for summer vacation. Officials
say anyone younger than eighteen is able to pick up a free lunch at any
of the one hundred city parks participating in the program. Lunches include fresh fruit,
vegetables, milk, salads, and occasionally Delhi sandwiches. The program runs
until August fourth. It's funded by the US Department of Agriculture. The La
City Fire Foundation has awarded thousands in competitive scholarships to some children of firefighters.
Each student gets ten thousand dollars per year for four years, provided they stay
in college or university the whole time. Jay Langan's a member of the scholarship
board and says it was bitter sweet to see so many qualified kids go through
the interview process, knowing only four or five would be selected. Did you
realize with all the sort of negativity in the world, there's some incredible kids
doing things that are amazing in terms of volunteering, being involved with the community,
getting incredible grades where you kind of look back at your own high school
career and go, wasn't that impressive back then? I mean, these are
really amazing kids. And one of those kids is Laurence Sweet. She was
awarded a cash prize. I was extremely happy. I was in the Target
parking lot getting a phone call and I was just I was by myself,
and I was just I was so happy, I was almost gonna cry.
My Chief Christine Crowley, was there yesterday to congratulate all the recipients. We're
looking at the future of the next generation coming up, and I tell you
it's really inspiring. Don't you secretly want them all to be firefighters? I
think I've told every single one of them that we're hiring. And if it's
not now, it's later. Steve Gregory k if I News, we have
a couple of consumer recalls. I want to get to real quick before we
go to Nick Polio KENI. More than three hundred and fifty four thousand Jeep
vehicles worldwide have been recalled because the rear coil springs can fall off while the
cars are in motion. The company says that springs may have been installed incorrectly
during production, and the recall covers certain twenty one to twenty twenty three grand
cherry keys. Stilantis says it's aware of seventeen warranty claims thus far no injuries,
though frozen fruit sold at Costco has been recalled because of contaminated strawberries.
The berries were found in fruit blends with peaches, mango, and pineapple.
What woun Up Frozen Foods recalled an organic Daybreak blend due to potential hep A
contamination. The packaging has used by dates of September and October of this year.
ABC's Mike Debuski is on the line to talk about AI, but we're
gonna start with Mike's taste in music a little bit. Good morning, Mike,
good morning. Yes, this is a music segment, but I don't
think that I can do the traffic, so just fair enough, fair enough.
I'll keep you guys in your separate lanes. Paul McCartney, it's his
birthday week. He turns eighty on Sunday. He gave us a gift.
What was it. Yeah, So he told the BBC yesterday that there is
this unheard, unreleased Beatles track that they have kicking around out there and he
plans to release it using the help of artificial intelligence. So the story here
is that there was this old John Lennon demo track that they had kicking around
and using cutting edge artificial intelligence technology, they were able to isolate John Lennon's
voice off of that track and that's what allowed this song to come to fruition.
And honestly, this is pretty much all we know about it. We
don't know what it's going to be called, know what any of the lyrics
are, what it's going to be about what the sound is, but we
do know that McCartney plans to release it before the end of the year.
Okay, well, he's been all over the news this morning with this,
and he pulls out that this is the kind of fun, slash creative part
of AI, and I also mentioned that there are some scary parts of AI
too. Overall creatively speaking, how is AI being meshed into the music industry
if not others? It is being meshed into the music industry in a lot
of ways, and it actually has been for a couple of years now.
Back in twenty twenty, there was this neural network called Jukebox that was able
to sort of replicate Frank Sinatra's voice, and the people behind it actually made
it sing a Britney Spears song. So here's what that sounded like. I
think fair to say not a great rendition of brit Spears is toxic. There
there was some flaws, I understand, but in the years since twenty twenty
things have come up pretty far away. Here's an AI Ariana Grande much better.
That kind of sounds like Ariana Grande, he doesn't it, But maybe
you're not a fan of Ariana Grande or the Weekend. So here's Billie Eilish
he used to call myself again not Billie Eilish. There that is a completely
cute computer generated voice singing Drake's hotline bling and Drake himself has an AI replicant
out there. Here's what that sounds like? That about the fan again face
starts in my soul. So again, there's a lot of AI generated music
out there. This may not be your swing zone, Mike, But what
about royalties around these creations? That's the big question hanging over all of this,
Jason, is is this legal? Right? These are independent creators.
These are little third parties right who you know, don't have any relationship to
music labels or to the music industry. They're just doing this for fun with
readily accessible tools. And to be honest with you, we don't really have
a legal precedent for any of this. No one really knows if this is
legal or not. Earlier this year, there was a song that went viral
on TikTok and Apple Music and Spotify and on YouTube called Heart on My Sleeve.
It was an AI collaboration between an Ai Drake and an Ai The Weekend.
Here's a little clip of that and again, this went pretty viral,
right, It's a pretty good song. People wanted to make it into their
tiktoks and listen to it on Spotify and all that kind of stuff. And
then Universal Music Group actually filed a copyright claim against those various platforms and they
took it down. But that had more to do with a producer tag that
the creator included at the beginning and less to do with the music itself.
And copyright lawyers will tell you that the music industry really doesn't copyright voices.
They copyright things like song titles and lyrics, not vibe or voice or flow
or any of these sort of you know, harder to pin down concepts.
Right, So that's kind of where we exist right now. Nobody really knows
the answer to that question. Yeah, and I was you got me thinking
right there talking about the vibe and the voice as opposed to the titles.
If the music industry has been dealing with AI for a couple of years now,
a few years now, and then you have the chat GPT founder going
to Capitol Hill saying, hey, please regulate me. There's a moral thing
going on here. Is a music industry maybe a little bit ahead of this
or is to wait and see kind of place. I think it might be
in a wait and see kind of place. Right, So the Universal Music
Group AI drake sort of situation that happened earlier this year that wasn't They didn't
take anybody to court. They filed, like you, copyright claims against the
platform through the platform's sort of internal services. So none of that this has
really appeared before a judge yet. And in terms of you know what we're
thinking about in the broader context of things, AI can be used for a
whole variety of different things, and some of it really good. Right.
You can imagine why, you know, like Google allowing you to sort of
draft emails using AI and nobody really likes writing emails, so that that's a
good application of that. But really who owns that text? And what if
it says something wrong? And that also gets into this other part of the
music question where I don't want to get too far out over the skis and
say it's better than it actually is, because it still does make some mistakes.
Here's another clip of that AI Ariana Grande song from earlier kind of sounds
like frog there, right, it's just not not not great and there are
flaws there, but that also gets into this kind of other idea that I
think is fascinating, where you know, in the nineteen eighties we looked at
since and in the two thousands we looked at auto tune as kind of like
the death of music, right, like this is technology coming for an art
form when it shouldn't be. But I was reading this article recently that was
saying that this sort of artifacting this, these flaws in these AI generated songs,
that's what twenty twenty is all about, right, What is more twenty
twenty three than a YouTube video buffering or a zoom call kind of drop exactly,
And that's kind of what the sound is. So yeah, it's an
interesting thought. I thought, Yeah, the heuristic here is an iterator die,
So this is only going to get cleaner and cleaner as we move forward.
So I think getting our arms around it makes a lot of sense.
ABC's Mike Dbusky on the line with us this morning. Thanks so much,
Mike. Always a pleasure, of course, Jason, take care. Yeah,
we gotta keep buy on that for sure, And I think we're all
kind of eager to hear what this Beatles drop is going to sound like later
this year as well. They found an old track of John Lennon. Thousands
of Southland hotel workers are threatening to strike ahead of the busy summer travel season.
More than sixty hotels in La County could see their contracts with unionized hotel
workers expire at the end of the month unless a deal is reached. FED
watchers are expecting the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates for the first time
in eleven policy meetings. That's following today's conclusion of their two day meeting that
started yesterday. There's a roughly seventy one percent probability of a pause. That's
according to FED Watch, which usually gets these right. AMD, by the
way, is challenging and Video with what it calls its most advanced artificial intelligence
chip to date. We were just talking AI with ABC's Mike Dubuski and in
video. By the way, is a trillion dollar market cap company as of
this morning. Marketcap. If you want to get a market cap, what
you do is you take the public shares that are available that have already been
issued, and you multiply them. But how much an individual share costs?
And for context, Apple is almost or sometimes three trillion dollars is right at
that break even line, depending on how its share price does that day.
At five thirty three, we're gonna get a day after indictment take, day
after arrangement. Take from ABC's political analyst Stephen John Cohen, a former President.
Trump was in court yesterday and then he was in New Jersey to address
a coterie of supporters, So we're gonna get a political heat check at the
bottom of the hour. First, a couple of stories from the newsroom.
A Laguna Beach has plans to protect a sand burn, preventing contaminated runoff from
seeping into a protected marine habitat. If you dig out the berm, then
you get this rush of water to the ocean. Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whyland
says, skim boarders love the superwave created by also creek runoff. We've got
signage that we're putting up. The city's also considering surveillance cameras. We've also
asked staff to look at bringing back an ordinance see if we need it.
We hope we don't to levisum administrative fines if we've got some repeat offenders out
there. But he says, first, lifeguards we'll try to explain the downsides
to the berm destroyers in Laguna Beach. Corbin Carson, k if I News.
A fire at a homeless camp in Highland Park has spread to at least
one business us in a strip mall. It took seventy five firefighters about forty
minutes this morning to put out the fire. People who live in the Barrington
Plaza apartments in West la have filed a lawsuit claiming they are being wrongfully evicted
for renovations. This tenant says he has not joined others suing because he thinks
the building does not need safety repairs. I think the safeteam measures and the
installation of the firefighting abilities of the building needs to be de Vamptine upgraded.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges the landlord is using a loophole in a
renter's law to justify the evictions. Residents would have to vacate their apartments by
September the fifth. A trial date for the man accused of breaking into then
house speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and attacking her eighty two year old husband
with a hammer could be set today. Lawyers will be back in court to
set a date for David de pap who's pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted
murder, burglary, elder abuse, and assault. Popelosi was knocked unconscious in
the October attack and suffer to skull fracture and other serious injuries. A dock
worker in Long Beach has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months
of home confinement for healthcare fraud. The US Attorney's Office says the man submitted
claims to his labor union's health plan for chiropractic services, but actually used the
benefits to pay for prostitutes. Seven other dock workers at the Port of Long
Beach who were also charged last year was submitting millions in claims for sexual services
or for physical therapy that never was provided. Mentioned at the top and a
little bit of sound with this. When the Fed is expected to leave interest
rates alone after its June meeting ends later today, the Central Bank is expected
to pause for the first time in ten months to determine how much of an
effect the policy's had on bringing inflation to its two percent target rate, and
since that still aways away, that pause could be a one time thing.
ABC's Daria Albinger says another rate hike is likely as soon as the fed's next
meeting, and next comes in late July, and I'd have to agree that
a point two five percent rate hike is on the table. Now. Rich
mur is on the line for some tech talk and some takes. Rich is
a veteran tech sector journalists shows on KTLA and here on KFI each Saturday.
I'll give you the deats on that in just a second. Rich, welcome
back in. Hey, good morning too, Jason, Good morning, sir.
Let's talk about Reddit. The blackout started earlier this week. Can you
give us an update on what's happening with the seventy seven hundred subreddits. Yeah,
well, a lot of them are still dark, so they are planning
to lift their ban today. We'll see if that happens. But like you
said, over seven thousand subreddits, these are topic pages on the popular website
Reddit are all protesting, and they're protesting these new charges that Reddit wants to
get from apps, third party apps that use their service. And two of
the biggest apps have already said peace out. We are going to close down
by June thirtieth, and there's a lot at stake here because this is a
website that is user driven and right now the users are not very happy.
And by the way, this CEO yesterday did not make things any better.
He said, this is there's a lot of noise, but like all blow
ups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. And he also told
employees not to really wear their Reddit gear in public. Right now. It's
not a good idea. Oh man, Okay, that's not great. I
mean it's not also great when a CEO comes out and says sit ubu sit
So that's not a thing. But Reddit is going to go public and I
mean it's going to start trading shares, and don't they have to get ready
for that. I mean, isn't this part of like getting ready to go
public and be able to start taking on more investors. Well, yeah,
it's all about making money. And so far these third party apps have had
free access to Reddit, and Reddit wants to start charging for that. There's
a lot of you know, there's a lot of speculation why that's they want
that to happen. A lot of people say this is because of AI,
because a lot of this information is written by humans and it's really good and
so It's going to be very valuable to other companies that are trying to build
these large language models and write. It's a good place to do that.
Absolutely, let me reintroduce you real quick, and then we're gonna move on
to another topic. We're talking with KTLA tech reporter Richter Murrow. He's host
of rich on Tech right here on KFI on Saturdays from eleven to two and
I'm usually anchoring during that time, so I get to listen every week.
And you can follow rich on Instagram at rich on Tech and his website is
rich on tech dot tv. Let's transfer it over to YouTube. YouTube has
two point one billion monthly active users. You have almost as many on rich
on tech dot tv. And now YouTube is making it easier for creators on
the platform to make more money. But how so, basically, if you
have five hundred subscribers and three uploads in the last ninety days, you can
now unlock certain fan funding features. And this is really a trend that we're
seeing with a lot of creators to go to something like Patreon. There's a
lot of ways that creators can now charge for their work even without ad revenue,
and you can have channel memberships, super chat, which is you know,
someone can pay to get their chat comment up higher, so you see
it. Super stickers and super thanks those are just another way for viewers to
pay to thank you for what you're doing. And then of course you can
promote your own products with YouTube shopping. Now again, this is a new
program. This is the YouTube Partner program, but it's a different level.
If you really want to make the ad revenue, which is kind of like
the real way people make money on YouTube, you have to have a thousand
subscribers and four thousand hours in the last twelve months, or Jason, you
can have ten million shorts views in the last three months, but that unlocks
the actual ad revenue sharing, so when they show ads on your videos,
you'll get a little piece of that action. So let me go back to
the commenting thing that that intrigues me because if you're a commenter and following somebody
on YouTube, but you want to see your your comment move up, you
could kind of pay to play when it comes to becoming your own influencer,
couldn't you. Yeah, I mean, look, this is this is really
aimed at people who are watching their favorite creator and they want to make sure
when they're in some sort of live stream or just in general, your comment
is up at the top, and so it's a way of getting noticed.
And that's really what it comes down to them. By the way. You
know, if it's ninety nine cents to get your comment up at the top,
it's not that big of a deal to someone who's you know, paying
that. But for the creator ninety nine cents times you know, thousand comments
people leave, that's pretty good. That's a thousand bucks right on, Right
on, Let's talk about cheese, because I love cheese. It makes everything
a little bit better. Not everyone jams with animal based dairy, though.
You tried some of the alternative to this. Yeah, this is really interesting.
I went to Petrea Motza, very famous Pietria here in Los Angeles to
try something from a company called New Culture. This is a startup that is
trying to make animal free dairy cheese. So it's not made out of nuts,
it's not made out of you know, plants. It is literally they
have figured out a way to recreate casin, which is an animal protein,
but they made it in a lab, so they deconstructed it and then reconstructed
it and now they can produce it. I tried it on pizza, Jason.
I'll be honest, you know it's it's almost there, but not completely
there. But if I think you didn't know, you would just think it
was a little bit more of a bland tasting cheese. I think it needs
a little bit more salt, but it had a lot of the consistency and
of course the stretchability of regular cheese. This is going to be on the
menu at Moza in twenty twenty four. They're gonna be the first restaurant in
the nation to serve this new non I guess animal free dairy cheese. Oh
Rich, We also eat with our eyes. How did it look? It
looks exactly the way you would think regular cheese looks. That's the big difference
here. It melts, you know, if you ever had the fake cheese,
it doesn't melt. So I've been known to get like a Beyond Burger
with regular cheese and they look at me like, oh, I thought this
was like a vegan thing. I'm like, no, it's just like a
taste thing. Like I just rather have a better tasting cheese. So we'll
see, it looks an axe, and that's the other thing. And you
can shred it. What you can't do with the you know, the plant
based cheeses. It's not gritty, it doesn't have that nutty flavor. So
they're onto something. It's just, you know, this is the beginning stages
of it. Okay, cool, Well thanks for that, Rich, appreciate
it, and we'll catch you Saturday, all right, Jason, thanks a
lot. That's KTLA tech reporter Rich Dumorrow. He's the host of rich on
Tech right here on KFI Saturday's eleven A to two p. You can follow
Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech, and his website is rich on Tech
dot tv. Orange County is turning to drones to help control it's growing mosquito
population. The drones can carry up to twenty pounds of a naturally occurring chemical
that's dropped overstanding water. OC Vector Control officials say it kills mosquito larvae without
harming other aquatic life. If it smells like the one I have to use
in my backyard, that's but it's it beats this horde of mosquitos we're going
to get this year. Transportation Secretary Pete Budda Jedge is warning a pressure on
the supply chain after a major interstate collapsed in Pennsylvania over the weekend. Buddha
Jedge was in Philadelphia yesterday to see that damage that happened on ninety five.
And the San Francisco Giants and Saint Louis Cardinals will be meeting in the next
Field of Dreams game that's really popular on television. The San Francisco Samtusco Chronicles
says the game is expected to plea be played in twenty twenty four at Rickwood
Field in Birmingham, Alabama. News is brought to you by American Vision Windows.
The US Open coming to town this week. We have a tea time
for five fifty with Wilshire Country Clubs golf pro Trevor Rathoff. It's been a
minute since the US Open was in LA, so we're going to check in
on that right now. Some political analysis on the day after former President Trump
was arraigned on federal charges yesterday in Miami, ABC's John Cohen is on the
line with US. Good morning, John Housekeeping. I've seen a couple of
different reports. Did he plead not guilty or did he delay that plea?
The President I entered a plea of not guilty through his lawyer. Okay,
you arrangement, all right. I just want to make sure he was lawyered
up in time. I saw I saw a conflicting report. I thought that
was the case. I want to talk about rhetoric for a second before I
ask you the question. I want to play a piece of sound that's been
moving around since last night when he was in Bedminster. Yet another attempt to
rig and steal a presidential election. More importantly, it's a political persecution,
like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. Now, the indictment
is divisive enough. Is there a bridge too far with political rhetoric? Yeah,
I mean, you're anything a really interesting question. So we're in the
midst of a multi year threat environment right now in which we are actually seeing
acts of violence directed at government officials, law enforcement personnel, other other individuals
in our society who are targeted because of their faith, their sexual orientation,
their gender identity, their political beliefs. And a lot of this violence is
being fueled by content we are seeing online, mainly on extremist forms. And
what your question in the clip that you just played points out is there's another
factor that has law enforcement concerned, which is increasingly, we have seen public
figures, whether they're running for office, in government or in the media,
quite frankly, mimic the language, mimic the narratives that we're seeing on these
extremist fringe forms, and the concern is that by doing so, they will
validate in the minds of some those narratives. And when you have individuals who
are predisposed of violence, who are looking for the justification to use violence as
a way to express their angert society, it's a very powerful force. Okay,
John, we're speaking with ABC's political analyst John Cohen, And you've been
doing this a long time. Are you seeing any I don't know, but
hopefully precursor kind of things and not necessarily active things that can be comparable to
January six and the run up to January six. Yeah. So, you
know, I've been involved in law enforcement and homeland security, working for both
Republicans and Democrat administrations. I mean as a police officer out in southern California
in the early stages of my career. We are seeing some similarities in some
dissimilarities. Book prior to January six, we're seeing considerable amount of activity online,
particularly on anti government and white supremacist forums where there are calls for violence
directed at elected officials, there's calls for violence directed at law enforcement. There's
calls for violence in the form of an insurrection or civil war. There are
calls amongst militia communities to begin organ as annizing themselves to combat the schedial government,
which, as you pointed out in the clip, as being framed by
some as corrupt. So that's the similarities. What we have seen posts the
indictment in New York and the indictment and arrangement in Florida was fewer calls for
violence associated at those locations. In fact, on these fringe forums, they
view law enforcement preparations as a deterrent to their showing up and engaging in violent
activities, similar to that on January sixth. So I think where a law
enforcement has sort of come out at this point in time is they can prepare
for these major types of events and deter violent activity by being prepared. So
they're more concerned about the loan offender or small group seeing this content online,
hearing this content from elected officials, and acting a loan and conducting a mass
casually attack. You kind of answered by a follow up question, which was
leaning into your security experience. How they monitor these things. I imagine just
as a quick follows it's a sweep and a keyword search and other programs online
and watching for any kind of uptaken certain types of rhetoric and maybe verbiage being
used. Yeah, I mean you raise a really important point. I mean,
you know, if you looked at our security protocols post September, post
nine eleven, it was really looking for secretive conversations, right, it's understanding
how terrorists communicate with each other and using covert intelligence mechanisms to gather this intelligence.
In the current threat environment, you don't have to do that because much
of the content that's inspiring action, much of the planning relating to these types
of events, are happening on public sites. The goal for foreign intelligence services,
foreign terrorist groups, domestic extremists who are trying to inspire attacks in the
US is to put information into the online ecosystem so it's consumed by as many
people as possible, and this content is meant to inspire attacks, and it's
instructional material on how to conduct an attack. So law enforcement does not have
to go undercover oftentimes to understand and to see what's going on. From a
planning perspective, it's out in the open. John, Thank you so much
for your time this morning, an important perspective up on this one. Nice
to be with you. ABC's security analyst John Cohen there joining us on the
day after the arrayment yesterday in Miami, a Southern California doctor accused of driving
his family over a cliff is banned from practicing medicine. A judge issued that
ruling yesterday. Prosecutors claim he tried to kill his wife and their two children,
ages four and seven, the day after New Year's That cliff is a
three hundred foot drop off the PCA off PCH. Organizers of the Coachella Music
Festival just revealed the first weekend for next year's jam will start April twelfth.
Tickets for that go on sale Friday, and the lineup comes out in January.
So thinking ahead, trying to give you a heads up in case you
wanted to get to Coachella next year right now. The US Open for Professional
Golf starts tomorrow at the La Country Club. On the line with US is
the Golf Pro at the Wilshire Country Club. Trevor Rathoff is going to help
us prep for the Open. Good morning, Trevor, good morning. Thank
you for having me. Absolutely, I'm glad you could join us. For
anyone who has not played LACC, what are some cool takeaways, obstacles etc.
From that course? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean la is a great
course that sits on a couple of ridges that's bisected by a barranca, So
there's a lot of give and take with the course. A lot you need
to navigate. The biggest takeaway is you have to find the fairway this week.
Really six four inch perm you to rough out there. And the opening
holes are going to be interesting. I mean it's we've got a really easy
part five followed by an extremely difficult Part four. The six holes going to
be potentially drivable for a lot of players at three hundred and thirty yards,
and then it's followed by a two hundred and eighty four yard Part three,
so there's gonna be some easy holes followed by some really difficult holes. And
then fifteen, which is another just amazing car three out there. It's listed
at one hundred and twenty four yards, but we're most likely going to see
it play as short at seventy eight yards. It's gonna be fun watching these
players hit finesse wedges where they may not be able to attack the pin because
of how fern the greens are. So you'll see a lot of players either
laying up or actually take going a little left just to hold the green.
So it's the setup there's gonna be great. It's gonna be a lot of
fun for people to watch. So nobody's gonna try to put it in the
clown's mouth from the tea on that part three. I mean you're gonna get
some people that are you know that may attempt it, but you know you
land that ball pin high, they're gonna take a hop and be in that
back bunker. You know a lot of socks out there, so you know
they're gonna be bringing some bigger numbers. So it's it's gonna be an interesting
risk reward hole. And you know playing down wind is not what you want
for that short wedge shot when you need it to spin. So we'll see.
We're talking to Wilshire country Club golf bro Trevor Rathoff. The US opened
has not been in LA for a while. Am I right on that one?
Yeah, it's correct. You know, it's hasn't been in Los Angeles
since nineteen forty eight and uh that was last held at Riviera Country Club and
one by none other than Ben Hogan. So it's really special to get it
back in Los Angeles this year after you know, seventy five years. I'm
gonna go back for some pro tips on how to actually play in just a
second, but let's talk about some logistics on the West side. How tougher
tickets to get a ticket to Imagine are sold out and it's all after market
activity at this point. Yeah, it is. I mean, you know,
for anyone who wants to go to a practice round today or check out
tomorrow. I know there are still some tickets available on the USCA website everything
else, you know. Yeah, you again to go through a um you
know, Vivid sees the StubHub and you know, any third party company,
so it is gonna be difficult. The price points higher, but you know,
they're only allowing twenty two thousand people a day, so it's it's gonna
be special for anyone who is able to get on the property, and I
highly recommend it, but yeah, tickets are definitely tough. The low attendance
and you know, so it's a special US Open this year, Trevor,
do you know why they limited attendance for the La Los Angeles eleven million people
plus in LA County only twenty two thousand a day for this US Open.
Yeah, So, you know, with all the sponsorships they brought in,
and then just the logistics playout of the course itself, LCC has a lot
of pinch points and with that Baranco that runs through the golf course, it's
you know, for anyone that went there during the twenty seventeen Walker Cup walking,
it's great, but you'll notice there's a lot of greens and tea boxes
that start to kind of intersect and get close to each other. So for
the crowd experience, there's areas where you kind of get pinched off. So
you have to limit the amount of people. One just to make the viewing
experience better, but two really for the safety and the overcrowding of you know,
the golf course and the players. It seems like when you watch on
television and most of us apparently are going to be watching on television this weekend,
when you look at the T box camera, it seems like the crowd
is like right there, like the swing zone and the exit zone is so
narrow. It's even more narrow. I guess at LACC is what it sounds
like. Um, what are you going to be watching for when you watch
on television? What do you look for? You like certain camera angles or
anything. Yeah, I mean, you know the angles. You know,
they're going to be introducing a new rail cam this year, which is gonna
be fun on the part three kind of get a little bit more immersive experience
with the players, you know, and then everything else. You know,
I love watching you know, the shot from directly behind where you can see
the ball flight. It's gonna be fun because for a lot of people,
you know, Los Angeles Country Country Club is extremely exclusive, so it's gonna
be really fun for a lot of people to you know, not just watch
it on TV, but the fans that gets to attend it, to walk
that property because it's not a place that everyone gets to go to every day.
So it's gonna be special for a lot of people to see this,
you know, this beautiful club presented the way it will be this week.
Very cool. Let's go back real quick to that easy quote unquote air quote
radio air quote par five that you mentioned my okay off the team, my
tea shot is usually more like everybody else's five iron. What is easy about
this part five? So you know, for the for the PGA Tour player,
it's a it's a shorter part five with a wider fair way, so
they're gonna be able to get that ball out there pretty far off the tea
and they're gonna be able to attack the flag. You know, when they
held the Walker Cup there, Like I said in twenty seventeen, the scoring
averages below par all week, so I tend to see that happening again.
But you know, par part just the numbers, it doesn't it really doesn't
mean anything. You know, everyone's gonna go out there and play the same
golf course. Um, and when they get to that part four, that's
gonna be playing excuse me, the second hole, that's gonna be playing more
like a part five. So that's the extremely long part four followed by a
short part five. So you know, if you can get out of those
two holes, you know, with you know two fours or four and five,
I think you're gonna be level with the playing field. So it's uh,
that's why I say about the risk reward of Los Angeles Country Club is
do you have some easy holes that are going to reward a lot of people,
So then you're gonna have a lot of difficulty coming right back at you.
And the really fun finish we're gonna have this year after that fifteenth hole
is the final three holes are gonna be playing fifteen hundred yards, which is
the greatest total for three yards and the finishing whole stretch in US Open history.
So that's gonna be a lot of fun. Come you know, Saturday
Sunday, when someone's in contention, they got to hit some you know,
long irons into these greens right on. I gotta finish strong, all right,
cool, We've been speaking with PGA. I'm sorry, golf pro at
Wilshire Country Club, Trevor Rathoff. Trevor, do you want anybody follow you
on social? Tell us where that is? Or you want to follow the
club will Shore Country Club on social? Yeah? So yeah, Wilster Country
Club. You'll find them on Instagram myself Trevor Rathoff at Instagram. That's sorry,
f auf, but yeah, check me out and not a lot of
activity and see, you know, some picks of my son and my wife,
my beautiful family and the occasional golf nature. So very cool. It's
good to have a balance in that. That's very cool. Maybe we could
talk again on Friday and get an update as we go through, We'll see
how your weekend shakes up. Absolutely, thanks a lot, Trevor. Get
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