WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.240 Camp I AM six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand on 2 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:12.880 the iHeart radio app camp on hand KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange 3 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:22.120 County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. 4 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:37.159 I don't think studio modern post sorry for me in my headphone. That's a 5 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:39.759 great lead in. Thank you everybody. It's wake Up Call. My name 6 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:43.679 is Jason Middleton. It's five am. It's also Wednesday, June fourteenth. 7 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:48.560 A lot of news today. Of course, it's the day after the events 8 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:52.560 in Miami yesterday. We're going to dig into that. I'm gonna check on 9 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.759 FED as well, and we have to do another follow up on the ninety 10 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:00.679 five thing very soon today. The only thing I want to pull out that 11 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.400 today is a quote unquote anniversary of on June fourteenth is back in twenty fourteen, 12 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:11.760 a Ukrainian military airlifter was shot down over Crimea and it killed all forty 13 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:14.680 nine people on board. Just as a context of how long this has been 14 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:19.599 going on back and forth in Ukraine. Some other headlines before we get into 15 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.560 the meet. Former President Trump was in court yesterday afternoon and then he split 16 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.000 for his club in New Jersey to address a crowd of supporters. So we're 17 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.159 gonna get a hot take at the bottom of the hour from ABC political analyst 18 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:37.680 John Cohen on that the FED wraps up its June meeting later today and a 19 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:42.719 pause and interest rate hikes is expected. Almost as important though as that news, 20 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:47.560 is the forecast that the Fed drops after the interest rate announcement. Sometimes 21 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.879 j Powell, the FED chair, talks, sometimes he doesn't after that, 22 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.879 but they still release the minutes from the meeting and the thinking behind it and 23 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:59.519 some of the data that supports it. And so right now at the moment, 24 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:04.079 Wall Street is looking at a mixed open and a July rate hike is 25 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.400 still on the table. But we're expecting a pause today and the collapse of 26 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:12.719 an overpass on that very busy part of ninety five in North Philadelphia. It's 27 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:17.680 not going to just add about forty stoplights for computers and big truck commuters and 28 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:23.120 big trucks along that portion. It's also going to cause higher prices along the 29 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.560 Eastern seaboard, so we'll keep an eye on that as well. Let's start 30 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:29.919 with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, 31 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.000 as always we do lead local. LA's mayor says a majority of the city's 32 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.719 homeless population has been moved inside. During the first six months of her administration, 33 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:42.759 thirteen hundred forty four people have been placed in permitted housing. The number 34 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.199 represents less than ten percent of the more than fourteen thousand people housed in Bassa's 35 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.280 first six months. Bassa's Chief of Housing, Mercedes Marquez, says the city 36 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.919 can't answer how many people have left temporary housing before they were put into permitted 37 00:02:54.919 --> 00:03:00.479 housing. The issue of exits, no matter for what reason, is the 38 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:05.080 hardest core data nationally to receive, the mayor said yesterday, or Insight Safe 39 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:09.120 program alone has moved more than thirteen hundred people out of nineteen campsites in La. 40 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:14.159 Blake Trolley, k if I News parks in La are handing out free 41 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.319 lunches to kids and teens you know school was out for summer vacation. Officials 42 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.919 say anyone younger than eighteen is able to pick up a free lunch at any 43 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:25.599 of the one hundred city parks participating in the program. Lunches include fresh fruit, 44 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:30.159 vegetables, milk, salads, and occasionally Delhi sandwiches. The program runs 45 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:36.280 until August fourth. It's funded by the US Department of Agriculture. The La 46 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:40.919 City Fire Foundation has awarded thousands in competitive scholarships to some children of firefighters. 47 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.759 Each student gets ten thousand dollars per year for four years, provided they stay 48 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.639 in college or university the whole time. Jay Langan's a member of the scholarship 49 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:53.039 board and says it was bitter sweet to see so many qualified kids go through 50 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.439 the interview process, knowing only four or five would be selected. Did you 51 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:00.319 realize with all the sort of negativity in the world, there's some incredible kids 52 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.840 doing things that are amazing in terms of volunteering, being involved with the community, 53 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.039 getting incredible grades where you kind of look back at your own high school 54 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.680 career and go, wasn't that impressive back then? I mean, these are 55 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.759 really amazing kids. And one of those kids is Laurence Sweet. She was 56 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.000 awarded a cash prize. I was extremely happy. I was in the Target 57 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.439 parking lot getting a phone call and I was just I was by myself, 58 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:25.240 and I was just I was so happy, I was almost gonna cry. 59 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.079 My Chief Christine Crowley, was there yesterday to congratulate all the recipients. We're 60 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.639 looking at the future of the next generation coming up, and I tell you 61 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:35.639 it's really inspiring. Don't you secretly want them all to be firefighters? I 62 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:39.680 think I've told every single one of them that we're hiring. And if it's 63 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:44.160 not now, it's later. Steve Gregory k if I News, we have 64 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.079 a couple of consumer recalls. I want to get to real quick before we 65 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.240 go to Nick Polio KENI. More than three hundred and fifty four thousand Jeep 66 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:55.680 vehicles worldwide have been recalled because the rear coil springs can fall off while the 67 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.360 cars are in motion. The company says that springs may have been installed incorrectly 68 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.600 during production, and the recall covers certain twenty one to twenty twenty three grand 69 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:10.759 cherry keys. Stilantis says it's aware of seventeen warranty claims thus far no injuries, 70 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:15.560 though frozen fruit sold at Costco has been recalled because of contaminated strawberries. 71 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.759 The berries were found in fruit blends with peaches, mango, and pineapple. 72 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:24.480 What woun Up Frozen Foods recalled an organic Daybreak blend due to potential hep A 73 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:30.399 contamination. The packaging has used by dates of September and October of this year. 74 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:32.720 ABC's Mike Debuski is on the line to talk about AI, but we're 75 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.519 gonna start with Mike's taste in music a little bit. Good morning, Mike, 76 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:40.839 good morning. Yes, this is a music segment, but I don't 77 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:44.680 think that I can do the traffic, so just fair enough, fair enough. 78 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.560 I'll keep you guys in your separate lanes. Paul McCartney, it's his 79 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.199 birthday week. He turns eighty on Sunday. He gave us a gift. 80 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:54.560 What was it. Yeah, So he told the BBC yesterday that there is 81 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:59.399 this unheard, unreleased Beatles track that they have kicking around out there and he 82 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:03.720 plans to release it using the help of artificial intelligence. So the story here 83 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:09.800 is that there was this old John Lennon demo track that they had kicking around 84 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:15.879 and using cutting edge artificial intelligence technology, they were able to isolate John Lennon's 85 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:19.120 voice off of that track and that's what allowed this song to come to fruition. 86 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.920 And honestly, this is pretty much all we know about it. We 87 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.360 don't know what it's going to be called, know what any of the lyrics 88 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.399 are, what it's going to be about what the sound is, but we 89 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.399 do know that McCartney plans to release it before the end of the year. 90 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.279 Okay, well, he's been all over the news this morning with this, 91 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:38.879 and he pulls out that this is the kind of fun, slash creative part 92 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:43.000 of AI, and I also mentioned that there are some scary parts of AI 93 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:47.199 too. Overall creatively speaking, how is AI being meshed into the music industry 94 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.040 if not others? It is being meshed into the music industry in a lot 95 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.000 of ways, and it actually has been for a couple of years now. 96 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:59.240 Back in twenty twenty, there was this neural network called Jukebox that was able 97 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.680 to sort of replicate Frank Sinatra's voice, and the people behind it actually made 98 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:13.680 it sing a Britney Spears song. So here's what that sounded like. I 99 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.680 think fair to say not a great rendition of brit Spears is toxic. There 100 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.079 there was some flaws, I understand, but in the years since twenty twenty 101 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:31.040 things have come up pretty far away. Here's an AI Ariana Grande much better. 102 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.519 That kind of sounds like Ariana Grande, he doesn't it, But maybe 103 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:38.920 you're not a fan of Ariana Grande or the Weekend. So here's Billie Eilish 104 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:47.040 he used to call myself again not Billie Eilish. There that is a completely 105 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:54.160 cute computer generated voice singing Drake's hotline bling and Drake himself has an AI replicant 106 00:07:54.199 --> 00:08:01.680 out there. Here's what that sounds like? That about the fan again face 107 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.519 starts in my soul. So again, there's a lot of AI generated music 108 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.279 out there. This may not be your swing zone, Mike, But what 109 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.560 about royalties around these creations? That's the big question hanging over all of this, 110 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.360 Jason, is is this legal? Right? These are independent creators. 111 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.759 These are little third parties right who you know, don't have any relationship to 112 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.480 music labels or to the music industry. They're just doing this for fun with 113 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:31.279 readily accessible tools. And to be honest with you, we don't really have 114 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.799 a legal precedent for any of this. No one really knows if this is 115 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.240 legal or not. Earlier this year, there was a song that went viral 116 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.600 on TikTok and Apple Music and Spotify and on YouTube called Heart on My Sleeve. 117 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.360 It was an AI collaboration between an Ai Drake and an Ai The Weekend. 118 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:56.759 Here's a little clip of that and again, this went pretty viral, 119 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.480 right, It's a pretty good song. People wanted to make it into their 120 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.440 tiktoks and listen to it on Spotify and all that kind of stuff. And 121 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:09.120 then Universal Music Group actually filed a copyright claim against those various platforms and they 122 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.919 took it down. But that had more to do with a producer tag that 123 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.519 the creator included at the beginning and less to do with the music itself. 124 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:22.120 And copyright lawyers will tell you that the music industry really doesn't copyright voices. 125 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:28.559 They copyright things like song titles and lyrics, not vibe or voice or flow 126 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.840 or any of these sort of you know, harder to pin down concepts. 127 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.200 Right, So that's kind of where we exist right now. Nobody really knows 128 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.759 the answer to that question. Yeah, and I was you got me thinking 129 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.480 right there talking about the vibe and the voice as opposed to the titles. 130 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:43.919 If the music industry has been dealing with AI for a couple of years now, 131 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.960 a few years now, and then you have the chat GPT founder going 132 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.279 to Capitol Hill saying, hey, please regulate me. There's a moral thing 133 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.240 going on here. Is a music industry maybe a little bit ahead of this 134 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.039 or is to wait and see kind of place. I think it might be 135 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.120 in a wait and see kind of place. Right, So the Universal Music 136 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:07.559 Group AI drake sort of situation that happened earlier this year that wasn't They didn't 137 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.879 take anybody to court. They filed, like you, copyright claims against the 138 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.840 platform through the platform's sort of internal services. So none of that this has 139 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:20.000 really appeared before a judge yet. And in terms of you know what we're 140 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.440 thinking about in the broader context of things, AI can be used for a 141 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.399 whole variety of different things, and some of it really good. Right. 142 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:28.720 You can imagine why, you know, like Google allowing you to sort of 143 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.759 draft emails using AI and nobody really likes writing emails, so that that's a 144 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:35.960 good application of that. But really who owns that text? And what if 145 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.519 it says something wrong? And that also gets into this other part of the 146 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.240 music question where I don't want to get too far out over the skis and 147 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.559 say it's better than it actually is, because it still does make some mistakes. 148 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:56.200 Here's another clip of that AI Ariana Grande song from earlier kind of sounds 149 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.360 like frog there, right, it's just not not not great and there are 150 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.759 flaws there, but that also gets into this kind of other idea that I 151 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.799 think is fascinating, where you know, in the nineteen eighties we looked at 152 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:07.759 since and in the two thousands we looked at auto tune as kind of like 153 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.039 the death of music, right, like this is technology coming for an art 154 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.919 form when it shouldn't be. But I was reading this article recently that was 155 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.559 saying that this sort of artifacting this, these flaws in these AI generated songs, 156 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.559 that's what twenty twenty is all about, right, What is more twenty 157 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:28.279 twenty three than a YouTube video buffering or a zoom call kind of drop exactly, 158 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.039 And that's kind of what the sound is. So yeah, it's an 159 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:35.159 interesting thought. I thought, Yeah, the heuristic here is an iterator die, 160 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:39.000 So this is only going to get cleaner and cleaner as we move forward. 161 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.360 So I think getting our arms around it makes a lot of sense. 162 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.080 ABC's Mike Dbusky on the line with us this morning. Thanks so much, 163 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.000 Mike. Always a pleasure, of course, Jason, take care. Yeah, 164 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.320 we gotta keep buy on that for sure, And I think we're all 165 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.080 kind of eager to hear what this Beatles drop is going to sound like later 166 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.200 this year as well. They found an old track of John Lennon. Thousands 167 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.720 of Southland hotel workers are threatening to strike ahead of the busy summer travel season. 168 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:03.120 More than sixty hotels in La County could see their contracts with unionized hotel 169 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.600 workers expire at the end of the month unless a deal is reached. FED 170 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:13.159 watchers are expecting the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates for the first time 171 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:18.360 in eleven policy meetings. That's following today's conclusion of their two day meeting that 172 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.440 started yesterday. There's a roughly seventy one percent probability of a pause. That's 173 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:28.879 according to FED Watch, which usually gets these right. AMD, by the 174 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.679 way, is challenging and Video with what it calls its most advanced artificial intelligence 175 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.679 chip to date. We were just talking AI with ABC's Mike Dubuski and in 176 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.679 video. By the way, is a trillion dollar market cap company as of 177 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.639 this morning. Marketcap. If you want to get a market cap, what 178 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.559 you do is you take the public shares that are available that have already been 179 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.480 issued, and you multiply them. But how much an individual share costs? 180 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.039 And for context, Apple is almost or sometimes three trillion dollars is right at 181 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.120 that break even line, depending on how its share price does that day. 182 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.519 At five thirty three, we're gonna get a day after indictment take, day 183 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:09.639 after arrangement. Take from ABC's political analyst Stephen John Cohen, a former President. 184 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.679 Trump was in court yesterday and then he was in New Jersey to address 185 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.159 a coterie of supporters, So we're gonna get a political heat check at the 186 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.120 bottom of the hour. First, a couple of stories from the newsroom. 187 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:22.600 A Laguna Beach has plans to protect a sand burn, preventing contaminated runoff from 188 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.480 seeping into a protected marine habitat. If you dig out the berm, then 189 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.799 you get this rush of water to the ocean. Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whyland 190 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:35.080 says, skim boarders love the superwave created by also creek runoff. We've got 191 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.919 signage that we're putting up. The city's also considering surveillance cameras. We've also 192 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:43.480 asked staff to look at bringing back an ordinance see if we need it. 193 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.799 We hope we don't to levisum administrative fines if we've got some repeat offenders out 194 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.080 there. But he says, first, lifeguards we'll try to explain the downsides 195 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.440 to the berm destroyers in Laguna Beach. Corbin Carson, k if I News. 196 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.440 A fire at a homeless camp in Highland Park has spread to at least 197 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:03.000 one business us in a strip mall. It took seventy five firefighters about forty 198 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.399 minutes this morning to put out the fire. People who live in the Barrington 199 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:11.600 Plaza apartments in West la have filed a lawsuit claiming they are being wrongfully evicted 200 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.679 for renovations. This tenant says he has not joined others suing because he thinks 201 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:20.279 the building does not need safety repairs. I think the safeteam measures and the 202 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:26.519 installation of the firefighting abilities of the building needs to be de Vamptine upgraded. 203 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.840 The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges the landlord is using a loophole in a 204 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:35.360 renter's law to justify the evictions. Residents would have to vacate their apartments by 205 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.000 September the fifth. A trial date for the man accused of breaking into then 206 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.799 house speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and attacking her eighty two year old husband 207 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.320 with a hammer could be set today. Lawyers will be back in court to 208 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:52.799 set a date for David de pap who's pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted 209 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.679 murder, burglary, elder abuse, and assault. Popelosi was knocked unconscious in 210 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:03.000 the October attack and suffer to skull fracture and other serious injuries. A dock 211 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.639 worker in Long Beach has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months 212 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.360 of home confinement for healthcare fraud. The US Attorney's Office says the man submitted 213 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:16.080 claims to his labor union's health plan for chiropractic services, but actually used the 214 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.519 benefits to pay for prostitutes. Seven other dock workers at the Port of Long 215 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.879 Beach who were also charged last year was submitting millions in claims for sexual services 216 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:30.759 or for physical therapy that never was provided. Mentioned at the top and a 217 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.559 little bit of sound with this. When the Fed is expected to leave interest 218 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.120 rates alone after its June meeting ends later today, the Central Bank is expected 219 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.320 to pause for the first time in ten months to determine how much of an 220 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.320 effect the policy's had on bringing inflation to its two percent target rate, and 221 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.759 since that still aways away, that pause could be a one time thing. 222 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.320 ABC's Daria Albinger says another rate hike is likely as soon as the fed's next 223 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:56.399 meeting, and next comes in late July, and I'd have to agree that 224 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.559 a point two five percent rate hike is on the table. Now. Rich 225 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:02.759 mur is on the line for some tech talk and some takes. Rich is 226 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:07.840 a veteran tech sector journalists shows on KTLA and here on KFI each Saturday. 227 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.279 I'll give you the deats on that in just a second. Rich, welcome 228 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:12.399 back in. Hey, good morning too, Jason, Good morning, sir. 229 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:15.799 Let's talk about Reddit. The blackout started earlier this week. Can you 230 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:22.159 give us an update on what's happening with the seventy seven hundred subreddits. Yeah, 231 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.480 well, a lot of them are still dark, so they are planning 232 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:30.559 to lift their ban today. We'll see if that happens. But like you 233 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:34.679 said, over seven thousand subreddits, these are topic pages on the popular website 234 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:41.240 Reddit are all protesting, and they're protesting these new charges that Reddit wants to 235 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:45.440 get from apps, third party apps that use their service. And two of 236 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.600 the biggest apps have already said peace out. We are going to close down 237 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.399 by June thirtieth, and there's a lot at stake here because this is a 238 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:57.399 website that is user driven and right now the users are not very happy. 239 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:02.320 And by the way, this CEO yesterday did not make things any better. 240 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:04.720 He said, this is there's a lot of noise, but like all blow 241 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.359 ups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. And he also told 242 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.759 employees not to really wear their Reddit gear in public. Right now. It's 243 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.359 not a good idea. Oh man, Okay, that's not great. I 244 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.079 mean it's not also great when a CEO comes out and says sit ubu sit 245 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.960 So that's not a thing. But Reddit is going to go public and I 246 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:29.960 mean it's going to start trading shares, and don't they have to get ready 247 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.799 for that. I mean, isn't this part of like getting ready to go 248 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:37.480 public and be able to start taking on more investors. Well, yeah, 249 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.599 it's all about making money. And so far these third party apps have had 250 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.240 free access to Reddit, and Reddit wants to start charging for that. There's 251 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.799 a lot of you know, there's a lot of speculation why that's they want 252 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.079 that to happen. A lot of people say this is because of AI, 253 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.960 because a lot of this information is written by humans and it's really good and 254 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.359 so It's going to be very valuable to other companies that are trying to build 255 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.480 these large language models and write. It's a good place to do that. 256 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.160 Absolutely, let me reintroduce you real quick, and then we're gonna move on 257 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.000 to another topic. We're talking with KTLA tech reporter Richter Murrow. He's host 258 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:15.839 of rich on Tech right here on KFI on Saturdays from eleven to two and 259 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.200 I'm usually anchoring during that time, so I get to listen every week. 260 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.680 And you can follow rich on Instagram at rich on Tech and his website is 261 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:26.160 rich on tech dot tv. Let's transfer it over to YouTube. YouTube has 262 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.559 two point one billion monthly active users. You have almost as many on rich 263 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.200 on tech dot tv. And now YouTube is making it easier for creators on 264 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:38.440 the platform to make more money. But how so, basically, if you 265 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:45.799 have five hundred subscribers and three uploads in the last ninety days, you can 266 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:51.079 now unlock certain fan funding features. And this is really a trend that we're 267 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:53.519 seeing with a lot of creators to go to something like Patreon. There's a 268 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:59.359 lot of ways that creators can now charge for their work even without ad revenue, 269 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.599 and you can have channel memberships, super chat, which is you know, 270 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:07.000 someone can pay to get their chat comment up higher, so you see 271 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.400 it. Super stickers and super thanks those are just another way for viewers to 272 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.400 pay to thank you for what you're doing. And then of course you can 273 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.559 promote your own products with YouTube shopping. Now again, this is a new 274 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:22.319 program. This is the YouTube Partner program, but it's a different level. 275 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.960 If you really want to make the ad revenue, which is kind of like 276 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:30.720 the real way people make money on YouTube, you have to have a thousand 277 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:34.759 subscribers and four thousand hours in the last twelve months, or Jason, you 278 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:41.039 can have ten million shorts views in the last three months, but that unlocks 279 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.279 the actual ad revenue sharing, so when they show ads on your videos, 280 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:47.880 you'll get a little piece of that action. So let me go back to 281 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:52.039 the commenting thing that that intrigues me because if you're a commenter and following somebody 282 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:55.799 on YouTube, but you want to see your your comment move up, you 283 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:59.079 could kind of pay to play when it comes to becoming your own influencer, 284 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.440 couldn't you. Yeah, I mean, look, this is this is really 285 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:07.119 aimed at people who are watching their favorite creator and they want to make sure 286 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:10.960 when they're in some sort of live stream or just in general, your comment 287 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.400 is up at the top, and so it's a way of getting noticed. 288 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:15.759 And that's really what it comes down to them. By the way. You 289 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:19.480 know, if it's ninety nine cents to get your comment up at the top, 290 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.200 it's not that big of a deal to someone who's you know, paying 291 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.119 that. But for the creator ninety nine cents times you know, thousand comments 292 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:30.640 people leave, that's pretty good. That's a thousand bucks right on, Right 293 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.240 on, Let's talk about cheese, because I love cheese. It makes everything 294 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.880 a little bit better. Not everyone jams with animal based dairy, though. 295 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.640 You tried some of the alternative to this. Yeah, this is really interesting. 296 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.000 I went to Petrea Motza, very famous Pietria here in Los Angeles to 297 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:48.279 try something from a company called New Culture. This is a startup that is 298 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.759 trying to make animal free dairy cheese. So it's not made out of nuts, 299 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.279 it's not made out of you know, plants. It is literally they 300 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.440 have figured out a way to recreate casin, which is an animal protein, 301 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.279 but they made it in a lab, so they deconstructed it and then reconstructed 302 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.079 it and now they can produce it. I tried it on pizza, Jason. 303 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:12.200 I'll be honest, you know it's it's almost there, but not completely 304 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.920 there. But if I think you didn't know, you would just think it 305 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.839 was a little bit more of a bland tasting cheese. I think it needs 306 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.519 a little bit more salt, but it had a lot of the consistency and 307 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.279 of course the stretchability of regular cheese. This is going to be on the 308 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.000 menu at Moza in twenty twenty four. They're gonna be the first restaurant in 309 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:36.720 the nation to serve this new non I guess animal free dairy cheese. Oh 310 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.440 Rich, We also eat with our eyes. How did it look? It 311 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.440 looks exactly the way you would think regular cheese looks. That's the big difference 312 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.799 here. It melts, you know, if you ever had the fake cheese, 313 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.400 it doesn't melt. So I've been known to get like a Beyond Burger 314 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.599 with regular cheese and they look at me like, oh, I thought this 315 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:52.359 was like a vegan thing. I'm like, no, it's just like a 316 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:57.160 taste thing. Like I just rather have a better tasting cheese. So we'll 317 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:00.160 see, it looks an axe, and that's the other thing. And you 318 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.039 can shred it. What you can't do with the you know, the plant 319 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:06.880 based cheeses. It's not gritty, it doesn't have that nutty flavor. So 320 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.359 they're onto something. It's just, you know, this is the beginning stages 321 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:11.480 of it. Okay, cool, Well thanks for that, Rich, appreciate 322 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.559 it, and we'll catch you Saturday, all right, Jason, thanks a 323 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.079 lot. That's KTLA tech reporter Rich Dumorrow. He's the host of rich on 324 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:22.359 Tech right here on KFI Saturday's eleven A to two p. You can follow 325 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.000 Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech, and his website is rich on Tech 326 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:32.119 dot tv. Orange County is turning to drones to help control it's growing mosquito 327 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:36.480 population. The drones can carry up to twenty pounds of a naturally occurring chemical 328 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:41.799 that's dropped overstanding water. OC Vector Control officials say it kills mosquito larvae without 329 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:45.039 harming other aquatic life. If it smells like the one I have to use 330 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:49.079 in my backyard, that's but it's it beats this horde of mosquitos we're going 331 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:53.079 to get this year. Transportation Secretary Pete Budda Jedge is warning a pressure on 332 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:57.400 the supply chain after a major interstate collapsed in Pennsylvania over the weekend. Buddha 333 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:02.680 Jedge was in Philadelphia yesterday to see that damage that happened on ninety five. 334 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:06.920 And the San Francisco Giants and Saint Louis Cardinals will be meeting in the next 335 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.799 Field of Dreams game that's really popular on television. The San Francisco Samtusco Chronicles 336 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:15.160 says the game is expected to plea be played in twenty twenty four at Rickwood 337 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:19.000 Field in Birmingham, Alabama. News is brought to you by American Vision Windows. 338 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:22.119 The US Open coming to town this week. We have a tea time 339 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.680 for five fifty with Wilshire Country Clubs golf pro Trevor Rathoff. It's been a 340 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.920 minute since the US Open was in LA, so we're going to check in 341 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:33.079 on that right now. Some political analysis on the day after former President Trump 342 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:38.440 was arraigned on federal charges yesterday in Miami, ABC's John Cohen is on the 343 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:45.480 line with US. Good morning, John Housekeeping. I've seen a couple of 344 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:49.319 different reports. Did he plead not guilty or did he delay that plea? 345 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:53.519 The President I entered a plea of not guilty through his lawyer. Okay, 346 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.640 you arrangement, all right. I just want to make sure he was lawyered 347 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.640 up in time. I saw I saw a conflicting report. I thought that 348 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:03.079 was the case. I want to talk about rhetoric for a second before I 349 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:04.240 ask you the question. I want to play a piece of sound that's been 350 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:08.200 moving around since last night when he was in Bedminster. Yet another attempt to 351 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:15.960 rig and steal a presidential election. More importantly, it's a political persecution, 352 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:19.880 like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. Now, the indictment 353 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:25.839 is divisive enough. Is there a bridge too far with political rhetoric? Yeah, 354 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:27.640 I mean, you're anything a really interesting question. So we're in the 355 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:32.920 midst of a multi year threat environment right now in which we are actually seeing 356 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:38.480 acts of violence directed at government officials, law enforcement personnel, other other individuals 357 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:42.079 in our society who are targeted because of their faith, their sexual orientation, 358 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:48.359 their gender identity, their political beliefs. And a lot of this violence is 359 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:55.079 being fueled by content we are seeing online, mainly on extremist forms. And 360 00:24:55.519 --> 00:25:00.519 what your question in the clip that you just played points out is there's another 361 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.720 factor that has law enforcement concerned, which is increasingly, we have seen public 362 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:10.599 figures, whether they're running for office, in government or in the media, 363 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:15.880 quite frankly, mimic the language, mimic the narratives that we're seeing on these 364 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:21.359 extremist fringe forms, and the concern is that by doing so, they will 365 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:26.799 validate in the minds of some those narratives. And when you have individuals who 366 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:32.000 are predisposed of violence, who are looking for the justification to use violence as 367 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:36.759 a way to express their angert society, it's a very powerful force. Okay, 368 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.240 John, we're speaking with ABC's political analyst John Cohen, And you've been 369 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:41.960 doing this a long time. Are you seeing any I don't know, but 370 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:47.519 hopefully precursor kind of things and not necessarily active things that can be comparable to 371 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:51.440 January six and the run up to January six. Yeah. So, you 372 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.319 know, I've been involved in law enforcement and homeland security, working for both 373 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.960 Republicans and Democrat administrations. I mean as a police officer out in southern California 374 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:04.440 in the early stages of my career. We are seeing some similarities in some 375 00:26:04.759 --> 00:26:11.359 dissimilarities. Book prior to January six, we're seeing considerable amount of activity online, 376 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:18.200 particularly on anti government and white supremacist forums where there are calls for violence 377 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.039 directed at elected officials, there's calls for violence directed at law enforcement. There's 378 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:27.319 calls for violence in the form of an insurrection or civil war. There are 379 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:34.119 calls amongst militia communities to begin organ as annizing themselves to combat the schedial government, 380 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:37.440 which, as you pointed out in the clip, as being framed by 381 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:47.039 some as corrupt. So that's the similarities. What we have seen posts the 382 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:52.960 indictment in New York and the indictment and arrangement in Florida was fewer calls for 383 00:26:53.680 --> 00:27:00.599 violence associated at those locations. In fact, on these fringe forums, they 384 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:07.880 view law enforcement preparations as a deterrent to their showing up and engaging in violent 385 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:10.960 activities, similar to that on January sixth. So I think where a law 386 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:15.599 enforcement has sort of come out at this point in time is they can prepare 387 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:21.119 for these major types of events and deter violent activity by being prepared. So 388 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:26.839 they're more concerned about the loan offender or small group seeing this content online, 389 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:32.119 hearing this content from elected officials, and acting a loan and conducting a mass 390 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.759 casually attack. You kind of answered by a follow up question, which was 391 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:40.799 leaning into your security experience. How they monitor these things. I imagine just 392 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:45.400 as a quick follows it's a sweep and a keyword search and other programs online 393 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:49.559 and watching for any kind of uptaken certain types of rhetoric and maybe verbiage being 394 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.359 used. Yeah, I mean you raise a really important point. I mean, 395 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:59.920 you know, if you looked at our security protocols post September, post 396 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.519 nine eleven, it was really looking for secretive conversations, right, it's understanding 397 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:14.200 how terrorists communicate with each other and using covert intelligence mechanisms to gather this intelligence. 398 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.960 In the current threat environment, you don't have to do that because much 399 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.880 of the content that's inspiring action, much of the planning relating to these types 400 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:29.279 of events, are happening on public sites. The goal for foreign intelligence services, 401 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:33.680 foreign terrorist groups, domestic extremists who are trying to inspire attacks in the 402 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:40.200 US is to put information into the online ecosystem so it's consumed by as many 403 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:44.440 people as possible, and this content is meant to inspire attacks, and it's 404 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:48.680 instructional material on how to conduct an attack. So law enforcement does not have 405 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:53.440 to go undercover oftentimes to understand and to see what's going on. From a 406 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.880 planning perspective, it's out in the open. John, Thank you so much 407 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:00.720 for your time this morning, an important perspective up on this one. Nice 408 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:04.839 to be with you. ABC's security analyst John Cohen there joining us on the 409 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:10.920 day after the arrayment yesterday in Miami, a Southern California doctor accused of driving 410 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.960 his family over a cliff is banned from practicing medicine. A judge issued that 411 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.319 ruling yesterday. Prosecutors claim he tried to kill his wife and their two children, 412 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.119 ages four and seven, the day after New Year's That cliff is a 413 00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:26.839 three hundred foot drop off the PCA off PCH. Organizers of the Coachella Music 414 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:32.920 Festival just revealed the first weekend for next year's jam will start April twelfth. 415 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.759 Tickets for that go on sale Friday, and the lineup comes out in January. 416 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.440 So thinking ahead, trying to give you a heads up in case you 417 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.599 wanted to get to Coachella next year right now. The US Open for Professional 418 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.680 Golf starts tomorrow at the La Country Club. On the line with US is 419 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.000 the Golf Pro at the Wilshire Country Club. Trevor Rathoff is going to help 420 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.960 us prep for the Open. Good morning, Trevor, good morning. Thank 421 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.480 you for having me. Absolutely, I'm glad you could join us. For 422 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.640 anyone who has not played LACC, what are some cool takeaways, obstacles etc. 423 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:08.839 From that course? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean la is a great 424 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:15.279 course that sits on a couple of ridges that's bisected by a barranca, So 425 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.559 there's a lot of give and take with the course. A lot you need 426 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.200 to navigate. The biggest takeaway is you have to find the fairway this week. 427 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:29.519 Really six four inch perm you to rough out there. And the opening 428 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:30.880 holes are going to be interesting. I mean it's we've got a really easy 429 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:37.240 part five followed by an extremely difficult Part four. The six holes going to 430 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.519 be potentially drivable for a lot of players at three hundred and thirty yards, 431 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.000 and then it's followed by a two hundred and eighty four yard Part three, 432 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:49.519 so there's gonna be some easy holes followed by some really difficult holes. And 433 00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:55.079 then fifteen, which is another just amazing car three out there. It's listed 434 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.319 at one hundred and twenty four yards, but we're most likely going to see 435 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:00.039 it play as short at seventy eight yards. It's gonna be fun watching these 436 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.680 players hit finesse wedges where they may not be able to attack the pin because 437 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:07.960 of how fern the greens are. So you'll see a lot of players either 438 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.920 laying up or actually take going a little left just to hold the green. 439 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.359 So it's the setup there's gonna be great. It's gonna be a lot of 440 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.599 fun for people to watch. So nobody's gonna try to put it in the 441 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:22.160 clown's mouth from the tea on that part three. I mean you're gonna get 442 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.480 some people that are you know that may attempt it, but you know you 443 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.160 land that ball pin high, they're gonna take a hop and be in that 444 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.680 back bunker. You know a lot of socks out there, so you know 445 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.160 they're gonna be bringing some bigger numbers. So it's it's gonna be an interesting 446 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.279 risk reward hole. And you know playing down wind is not what you want 447 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.119 for that short wedge shot when you need it to spin. So we'll see. 448 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:49.400 We're talking to Wilshire country Club golf bro Trevor Rathoff. The US opened 449 00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.119 has not been in LA for a while. Am I right on that one? 450 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:57.000 Yeah, it's correct. You know, it's hasn't been in Los Angeles 451 00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:01.839 since nineteen forty eight and uh that was last held at Riviera Country Club and 452 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:07.559 one by none other than Ben Hogan. So it's really special to get it 453 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:13.160 back in Los Angeles this year after you know, seventy five years. I'm 454 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.160 gonna go back for some pro tips on how to actually play in just a 455 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.759 second, but let's talk about some logistics on the West side. How tougher 456 00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:22.359 tickets to get a ticket to Imagine are sold out and it's all after market 457 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.240 activity at this point. Yeah, it is. I mean, you know, 458 00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.599 for anyone who wants to go to a practice round today or check out 459 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:36.480 tomorrow. I know there are still some tickets available on the USCA website everything 460 00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.559 else, you know. Yeah, you again to go through a um you 461 00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:44.160 know, Vivid sees the StubHub and you know, any third party company, 462 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.440 so it is gonna be difficult. The price points higher, but you know, 463 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:52.079 they're only allowing twenty two thousand people a day, so it's it's gonna 464 00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:55.039 be special for anyone who is able to get on the property, and I 465 00:32:55.160 --> 00:33:00.880 highly recommend it, but yeah, tickets are definitely tough. The low attendance 466 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:05.079 and you know, so it's a special US Open this year, Trevor, 467 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.640 do you know why they limited attendance for the La Los Angeles eleven million people 468 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:13.559 plus in LA County only twenty two thousand a day for this US Open. 469 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.920 Yeah, So, you know, with all the sponsorships they brought in, 470 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:24.079 and then just the logistics playout of the course itself, LCC has a lot 471 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:30.720 of pinch points and with that Baranco that runs through the golf course, it's 472 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.160 you know, for anyone that went there during the twenty seventeen Walker Cup walking, 473 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.599 it's great, but you'll notice there's a lot of greens and tea boxes 474 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:43.759 that start to kind of intersect and get close to each other. So for 475 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:46.799 the crowd experience, there's areas where you kind of get pinched off. So 476 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.559 you have to limit the amount of people. One just to make the viewing 477 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.880 experience better, but two really for the safety and the overcrowding of you know, 478 00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:59.400 the golf course and the players. It seems like when you watch on 479 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.839 television and most of us apparently are going to be watching on television this weekend, 480 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:06.279 when you look at the T box camera, it seems like the crowd 481 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.239 is like right there, like the swing zone and the exit zone is so 482 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:13.719 narrow. It's even more narrow. I guess at LACC is what it sounds 483 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:15.519 like. Um, what are you going to be watching for when you watch 484 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.199 on television? What do you look for? You like certain camera angles or 485 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.760 anything. Yeah, I mean, you know the angles. You know, 486 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.000 they're going to be introducing a new rail cam this year, which is gonna 487 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.800 be fun on the part three kind of get a little bit more immersive experience 488 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:34.920 with the players, you know, and then everything else. You know, 489 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:38.159 I love watching you know, the shot from directly behind where you can see 490 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:44.840 the ball flight. It's gonna be fun because for a lot of people, 491 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.960 you know, Los Angeles Country Country Club is extremely exclusive, so it's gonna 492 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.960 be really fun for a lot of people to you know, not just watch 493 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.239 it on TV, but the fans that gets to attend it, to walk 494 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:59.360 that property because it's not a place that everyone gets to go to every day. 495 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:01.360 So it's gonna be special for a lot of people to see this, 496 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:06.039 you know, this beautiful club presented the way it will be this week. 497 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:08.920 Very cool. Let's go back real quick to that easy quote unquote air quote 498 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:14.440 radio air quote par five that you mentioned my okay off the team, my 499 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.760 tea shot is usually more like everybody else's five iron. What is easy about 500 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.639 this part five? So you know, for the for the PGA Tour player, 501 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:27.239 it's a it's a shorter part five with a wider fair way, so 502 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.159 they're gonna be able to get that ball out there pretty far off the tea 503 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:31.760 and they're gonna be able to attack the flag. You know, when they 504 00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:36.840 held the Walker Cup there, Like I said in twenty seventeen, the scoring 505 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:42.559 averages below par all week, so I tend to see that happening again. 506 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.599 But you know, par part just the numbers, it doesn't it really doesn't 507 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:50.039 mean anything. You know, everyone's gonna go out there and play the same 508 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.440 golf course. Um, and when they get to that part four, that's 509 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:57.599 gonna be playing excuse me, the second hole, that's gonna be playing more 510 00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:01.159 like a part five. So that's the extremely long part four followed by a 511 00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.920 short part five. So you know, if you can get out of those 512 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:09.480 two holes, you know, with you know two fours or four and five, 513 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:14.199 I think you're gonna be level with the playing field. So it's uh, 514 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:17.719 that's why I say about the risk reward of Los Angeles Country Club is 515 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:22.559 do you have some easy holes that are going to reward a lot of people, 516 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.159 So then you're gonna have a lot of difficulty coming right back at you. 517 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.519 And the really fun finish we're gonna have this year after that fifteenth hole 518 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:36.079 is the final three holes are gonna be playing fifteen hundred yards, which is 519 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:39.440 the greatest total for three yards and the finishing whole stretch in US Open history. 520 00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:44.159 So that's gonna be a lot of fun. Come you know, Saturday 521 00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:46.039 Sunday, when someone's in contention, they got to hit some you know, 522 00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:50.119 long irons into these greens right on. I gotta finish strong, all right, 523 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.400 cool, We've been speaking with PGA. I'm sorry, golf pro at 524 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.679 Wilshire Country Club, Trevor Rathoff. Trevor, do you want anybody follow you 525 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:59.159 on social? Tell us where that is? Or you want to follow the 526 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:04.320 club will Shore Country Club on social? Yeah? So yeah, Wilster Country 527 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:10.199 Club. You'll find them on Instagram myself Trevor Rathoff at Instagram. That's sorry, 528 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:15.119 f auf, but yeah, check me out and not a lot of 529 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:19.760 activity and see, you know, some picks of my son and my wife, 530 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.639 my beautiful family and the occasional golf nature. So very cool. It's 531 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:25.440 good to have a balance in that. That's very cool. Maybe we could 532 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:29.840 talk again on Friday and get an update as we go through, We'll see 533 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:34.079 how your weekend shakes up. Absolutely, thanks a lot, Trevor. Get 534 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:36.199 back to some of the stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour 535 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:38.920 news room, and orthopedic surgeon and Newport Beach says a little meth is good 536 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.639 for sports injuries instead of rice, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. 537 00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:49.079 So not meth meth but whole. Orthopedic Institute medical director doctor Alan Bayer 538 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:52.679 says the acronym meth move elevation, traction, and heat. The name of 539 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:54.400 the game is motion. That's what we want. We want motion, So 540 00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:58.320 if possible, get that ankle, knee, or solder moving. Ask for 541 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:02.679 ice, especially when it's over us can actually decrease healing because it shuts down 542 00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:07.559 blood supply. Unsure. What's the best. See your orthopedic doctor, even 543 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:09.440 your primary care doctor. He'll get you into the right hands. But Bear 544 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.559 says, no need to rush to the er or urgent care unless it's an 545 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.599 obvious emergency in Newport Beach, Corbin Carson caf I News, Transportation Secretary Pete 546 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:22.199 Boudajesh says there's no substitute for the ninety five in Pennsylvania working in full condition. 547 00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:25.719 His comments were in response to the collapse of a section of the highway 548 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.519 Sunday when a tanker crashed into an overpass and caught fire. We're going to 549 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.760 continue to be here every step of the way for as long as it takes, 550 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.480 with both financial backing and any other technical support that's needed. Budjes says. 551 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.119 The goal is to get the highway up and running again. The governor 552 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:45.599 has said rebuilding is expected to take months. Let us be very clear, 553 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:52.000 Black history is American history. Vice President Harris says Juneteenth represents the ongoing fight 554 00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:55.840 to realize the American promise of freedom, liberty, and justice. She made 555 00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:59.880 the comments during a concert celebration at the White House. Ninety six year old 556 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.880 activist Opal Lee was one of the attendees last night. She is known as 557 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.079 the Grandmother of Juneteenth because of her successful fight to make it a federal holiday. 558 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:10.960 If people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love, 559 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.679 and it's up to you to do it. The country's newest holiday will 560 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:22.199 be celebrated nationwide next Monday. Fort Polk in Louisiana is no more. The 561 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.360 army post has been renamed for a Black War hero, William Henry Johnson SARZN 562 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:30.079 Johnson was a North Carolina native later of New York, who posthumously received the 563 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:35.039 Medal of Honor for his actions in France during World War One. Fort Johnson 564 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:39.760 was formerly named for Leonidas Polk, an Episcopalian bishop and Confederate general. The 565 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.320 name changes the latest in the military's efforts to rename bases that honor Confederate leaders. 566 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.280 We lead local live from the KFI twenty fire Newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton. 567 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.119 This has been your wake up call. You've been listening to wake up 568 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.719 call. You know you can always listen live on kf I Am six forty 569 00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:00.840 weekdays from five to six am d anytime on to on the iHeartRadio app.