WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:18.199 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 3 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:35.640 I got it, proved a good call yours, Amy Kay, Good 4 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.159 morning. This is your wake up call for Monday, May sixth. We're 5 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.759 live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. I hope you had 6 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:49.320 a great weekend. Ready to get back to it. It was crazy busy 7 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:52.679 for me. I had a friend in town and so we just decided to 8 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:57.799 do everything. Started off with the fall Guy on Thursday night, and then 9 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.960 we went to the La County Fair for opening day on Friday night, and 10 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.400 I spent way too much money. If you remember, I was talking to 11 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.239 the CEO of the fair and we were talking about how my friend and I 12 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.439 liked to shop at the fair. Yeah, we did it upright. Then 13 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:19.200 also went to Netflix is a Joke and got to see Leanne Morgan and I 14 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:25.400 hadn't seen her before, but she is huh hilarious, Oh my gosh, 15 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.840 so funny, so funny in fact that I got up on Sunday morning and 16 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:34.000 watched her Netflix special. But she's really a hoot and very family friendly, 17 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.680 but gosh, she was good. And then this morning we get to talk 18 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.159 to another star of Netflix as a joke. Matt Rife is going to be 19 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:44.760 on with us. He's headlining one of the shows this week. And then 20 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:51.599 of course we wrapped up our extravaganza weekend with the Dodgers who Killed Atlanta Saturday 21 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.040 night eleven to two. That was a super fun game. But now it's 22 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.760 Monday. Time to get back to it, and here is what it's ahead 23 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:02.239 on Wake Up Call. UCLA will resume regular operations today. Classes are also 24 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:07.120 scheduled to be back on at USC now that police have cleared out an encampment. 25 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.719 Over the weekend. Former President Trump will be back in court in his 26 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.639 hush money trial in New York, following Friday's testimony from former top aid Hope 27 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:20.719 Hicks, who testified that Trump was worried about his wife's reaction to paying off 28 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.479 a former play by Playboy playmate, and a whole lot more. We're going 29 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.360 to be talking with ABC's Peter harral Lumbus, who is in the courtroom to 30 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.479 find out what's on tap for today. Our own Steve Gregory's going to take 31 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.840 a look at some of the failures at UCLA and how if plans had been 32 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.400 implemented correctly, the mess and the mass arrests could have been prevented. Also, 33 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:43.919 we're going to be talking to Plastic People director Ben Adelman. He's got 34 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.639 a new documentary out, fascinating. That's all coming up. I told you 35 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.280 it's going to be a big one. At six ZHO five it's handle on 36 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.439 the news. Palestinians have been ordered to evacuate Rafa, another sign that Israel 37 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.080 is about to launch its ground offensive in the South. Let's get started with 38 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.039 some of the stories coming out of the KFI T twenty four hour newsroom. 39 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:07.800 UCLA and USC are set to resume regular campus operations following days of pro Palestinian 40 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:14.120 protests that took police to clear out. Uclas's faculty can continue to hold classes 41 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:19.080 remotely if they want through next Friday. Thelice and public safety officers at USC 42 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:23.560 cleared out a protest camp their early Sunday morning. At least a dozen student 43 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:29.400 protesters received interim or full suspensions from the university, and several who lived in 44 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:34.680 USC housing were given until five tonight to pack their stuff and leave the remains 45 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.599 of two Australian men and an American who disappeared during a surfing trip to Mexico 46 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:43.840 have been found. The men had been missing since late April. ABC's Matt 47 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.840 Rivers's. The remains were found in a well near Ensinata. The state Attorney 48 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:52.439 General's office calling this a case of a robbery gone wrong, saying the culprits 49 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.759 attempted to steal the tires from the group's car and when the men resisted, 50 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.039 they were killed. The Ensinata Medical Examiner's Office had Friday the three were killed 51 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.800 by gunshots to the head. Three people were being questioned by police, including 52 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.000 a woman found with a cell phone that belonged to one of the murdered men. 53 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:14.439 A man from Fountain a Valley has been disqualified as the men's winner of 54 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:19.720 the OC marathon because he took fluids from a spectator. Runners are only allowed 55 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:24.920 to get water from official hydration stations. A runner from San Pedro was then 56 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:28.079 declared the winner yesterday with the time of two hours, twenty five minutes, 57 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:32.079 eleven seconds. A woman from Virginia won the women's race. Well, that's 58 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.480 got to be a bummer. Disqualified for taking a sip I guess you got 59 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.959 to do it because maybe it's going to be a performance enhancing hydration or something 60 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.319 like that. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Harralumbus, who is 61 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:50.279 in the courtroom in New York. It's day twelve of New York versus Trump. 62 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:55.160 So let's turn back and talk about day eleven for a second. Trump's 63 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.360 former aid Hope Hicks was on the stand. Yeah, it was an emotional 64 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.399 day of pest on you. On Friday, Hope Picks testified for about two 65 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:05.519 and a half hours in the prosecution stse against Trump. She offered some really 66 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:12.079 damaging blows to Trump's defense, acknowledging in a way that Donald Trump preferred the 67 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.439 story about Stormy Daniels to come out after the twenty sixteen election rather than before 68 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.560 when it could have hurt his chances of winning the actual election. That's a 69 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:27.160 really major blow to support the prosecution theory that Trump was fundamentally concerned about winning 70 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.040 the election and wanted to height information from voters. Moments after she made that 71 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:34.399 keeal mission, she broke down on the witness stands began to cry. Judge 72 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:39.439 Maschawn called a brief break. She regains her composure just minutes later, she 73 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.240 apologized to the jury, and she did a relatively gentle cross examination from Trump's 74 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:46.800 lawyers. During that time. She gave them some minor wins, suggesting that 75 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.439 Donald Trump fundamentally was concerned about hurting his family and wanted to protect them. 76 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:55.720 That goes towards the major defense points. But in a way, the damage 77 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.639 was already done at that point. Hopepick's really delivering a major point. That 78 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.199 computer's promise when they made their opening statements two weeks ago. Okay, And 79 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:12.399 then how did former President Trump react to Hicks's testimony. It's interesting it was 80 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.160 more of a non reaction in a way. Donald Trump wasn't very alert or 81 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.040 active during most of the testimony. He was closing his eyes a lot of 82 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:23.040 the time. The two appear to avoid eye contact or looking at each other 83 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.360 for a significant period of time. When Hicks, for example, began to 84 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.800 cry and walked off the witness stand, she had to walk past Donald Trump 85 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.319 in the courtroom, no real visible reaction from Donald Trump in that moment. 86 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.839 When she re entered the courtroom, he barely moved his head to watch him 87 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.519 watch her enter. It was kind of stunning. These two are Hicks was 88 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:45.600 one of Donald Trump's closest advisor's most trusted aid, akin to family in a 89 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.439 way, and the lack of reaction between the two was a kind of surprise, 90 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.399 especially after we saw Trump, for example, and his assistant Ronograss interacting 91 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.759 in person after her testimony in the case. Trump for a Ronographs case, 92 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.920 you know, got up in and shook Graft's hand basically and whish for some 93 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.399 words in his ears. No such interaction with Hicks, okay, And for 94 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:12.639 then day twelve, we know that there's going to be testimony, but we 95 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.240 don't know who's going to be on the stand. Is that right? That's 96 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.040 correct. We still don't know publicly witnesses from the prosecutions in this case who's 97 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.920 going to come next, though it does appear that the prosecutions needs to begin 98 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.279 pivoting their case basically. Over the last two weeks, we've heard plenty of 99 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.439 salicious tales about this catch and kill scheme. Before the twenty sixteen election, 100 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.000 we were testimony from David Pecker of the National Inquirer, Stormy Daniel's former lawyer, 101 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:39.240 but really jurors have not heard anything about the falsification of business records that 102 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.800 comprise the thirty four criminal accounts in this case. So over the next few 103 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:46.000 days, we expect prosecutors to begin following witnesses who can speak to that talking 104 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:51.199 about Michael Cohen submitting fraudulent invoices for legal expenses when in reality he was just 105 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.879 asking for reimbursement for the Stormy Daniels payment and the effort to get Trump to 106 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.120 sign those checks. So that's what we kind of expect over the coming days, 107 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.600 though we don't necessarily know who prosecutors are going to call to make that 108 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.839 point, Okay, and Peter, is it just us who don't know who's 109 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.399 going to be getting in the testimony or does defense? Does the defense team 110 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.160 also not know who it's going to be. It appears that defense team is 111 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.600 largely kept in the dark as well. Oftentimes we understand that they've been getting 112 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.480 kind of an overnight notice of who's coming next, but the element of surprise 113 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.519 has kind of been maintained throughout this entire trial. The main argument from prosecutioncy 114 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.199 to defend that practice is if, for example, they declare the witness on 115 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:33.360 Friday, Trump could spend the entire weekend attacking that witness on social media and 116 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.879 potentially intimidate that intimidate the potential witness. So that appears to be the case. 117 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.120 Rashaan has had no problem with it, and defense attorneys they just had 118 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.360 to work around that constraints and has that been done before, because it seems 119 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:52.759 like the defense team should be able to prepare and they're not able to really 120 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.279 do that if they don't know who's coming next. You know, it varies 121 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.279 in a case by case basis in terms of how much advanced note you have 122 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.399 to give that's your next witness. There's no like formal rule on it. 123 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:05.440 But at the end of the day, you know, defense lawyers have complained 124 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.240 about this on at least two occasions publicly. On each occasion where Shawn has 125 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:15.320 wighed kind of the benefits of advanced notice versus the threat of Donald Trump intimidating 126 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.159 those witnesses, and he's continually sided with prosecutors. Again, Donald Trump at 127 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.519 this point has been held in criminal contempt nine times in this case. That 128 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.360 doesn't really help his case when it comes to making a case for advanced notice 129 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.840 when prosecutors say you might threaten witnesses. Okay, and then one last question 130 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.399 before I let you go, what's happening outside court. Is it just sort 131 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.679 of business as usual or are there are there people gathering outside or is there 132 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.639 anything unusual going on so that the heavy police presence. For sure, there's 133 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.120 metal barricades all over the place. I'm looking out across the park outside of 134 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.840 the courthouse. There have been minimal Trump supporters or protesters. For example, 135 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.480 in the park right now, I see what appears to be five people wearing 136 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:58.759 red Trump hats. But generally speaking, it's been a low presence of support. 137 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.159 Trump is blamness on police presidents. I don't know if that's true at 138 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:07.440 all. Really, there's been a slow trickle of support coming by holding mini 139 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.720 rallies in this park, but nothing too significant. All right, Well, 140 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:11.679 we know you got to get to court, so we're gonna let you go. 141 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:15.960 Peter Hira Alumbus, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. 142 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.360 All Right, we'll talk soon. So interesting to hear what's going on in 143 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.080 the court to me, Like I said, I mean, you don't just 144 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.799 sit and watch it. Well we haven't since you know Oj Simpson, and 145 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:30.320 since there's no cameras. It's Peter My favorite thing still was listening to him. 146 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.600 I think we talked to him last week, and he was talking about 147 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:39.879 some of the only sounds you hear in court are the mad, frantic typing 148 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:45.320 of all the reporters who are in the room because they have to send updates 149 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.480 out to their news organizations, and so they're all just tap tap tap tap 150 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.120 tap tap tap tap. Anyway, let's get back to some of the stories 151 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.360 coming out of the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Early this Monday morning. 152 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.480 Strong winds have caused some problems around southern California. Man, it was blustery 153 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:05.320 yesterday afternoon. Scaffolding at a construction site in Hollywood got blown over yesterday onto 154 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.919 some power lines. A couple of fires in the San Fernando Valley were pushed 155 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.159 by wind gusts, and the wind may have helped push over a large tree 156 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.159 onto a street in mar Vista, hitting two cars. Strong winds also caused 157 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:22.519 organizers of the Beachlife Festival in Redondo Beach to shut down a few hours early. 158 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.360 That's a bummer. A dash bus driver in La has been attacked by 159 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:31.440 a homeless woman, days after transit operators staged a sick out amid ongoing safety 160 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.159 concerns. The woman yesterday went after the female driver after refusing to pay fifty 161 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.799 cents for a ride. Video shows the woman pulling each other and throwing punches. 162 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.720 The driver, who had been behind a partition, was pulled off the 163 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.519 bus. She was eventually able to get back into the vehicle, shout out 164 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.480 the homeless woman and drive off. A college student in the Inland Empires been 165 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:54.919 suspended for having an assault rifle on campus. That's not all police found. 166 00:11:54.960 --> 00:12:01.120 When authorities executed a search warrant at an apartment complex on Friday eight uc Riverside, 167 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.559 they also found AMMO, five high capacity magazines, and hand drawn images 168 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.679 in a journal that depicted a violent act. The content of the images has 169 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.960 not been disclosed, and authorities will submit the case to the Riverside County DA 170 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:18.120 following a hearing at the college. Authorities also say that the student is ordered 171 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.440 not to return a camps pending the outcome of the hearing. Andrew Caravella Kafi 172 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.399 News UCR police say does not appear the incident is related to any recent campus 173 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:31.360 protests. Six people have been hurt in the capsize of a boat near the 174 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.559 Port of Los Angeles, and La County Lifeguard boat picked up the six from 175 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.200 the sinking boat late yesterday afternoon. LA fire boat crews worked to upright the 176 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.440 boat after the rescue. The Fall Guy's number one at the box office, 177 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:50.000 but the Ryan Gosling Emily Blunt movie about stuntmen opened below projections twenty eight and 178 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.799 a half million dollars in ticket sales. I think the last I heard it 179 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.519 was expected to bring in like forty million. A re release of Star Wars 180 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:01.320 The Phantom Menace finished in second place with just over eight million dollars. Zendea's 181 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.200 Tennis Love Triangle movie was third in its second week and release. Laped. 182 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.960 Officers in riot gearv cleared out a pro Palestinian encampment on the campus of USC. 183 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:15.879 Officers formed a perimeter around Alumni Park, where dozens of tenths have been 184 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.519 for the last couple of weeks. Officers reportedly corraled demonstrators outside the main section 185 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.080 of campus and shut the gates. The tent camp is being cleared. No 186 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:30.519 reports of arrest made. The latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks appear to have 187 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.759 broken off, at least for now. Israel and hamaser trading blame for the 188 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.279 impasse in the long running negotiations. Involving Katari, Egyptian and US representatives. 189 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.480 A lot of people partied to celebrate Sinko de Maya. Of course, that 190 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.159 was yesterday, but a new poll shows most people don't know what they're celebrating. 191 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.320 The poll, sponsored by Avocados of Mexico, shows only twenty two percent 192 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:56.679 of people know that it's not Mexican Independence Day. Holiday celebrates the Battle of 193 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:03.080 Puebla in Or eighteen sixty two, when the Mexican army defeated an invading French 194 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.240 occupation force at six o five its handle on the new South Dakota. Governor 195 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.480 Christy Noem's book is about to be released and people are losing their minds over 196 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:15.960 it. We'll tell you about that. Kfi's Steve Gregory says a report from 197 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:22.679 the University of California shows UCLA failed to implement civil unrest protocols during those protests 198 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.360 last week. The Robinson Day Report was compiled in twenty fourteen as a way 199 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.440 for campuses in the UC system to find a universal way of handling various types 200 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.799 of protests, including one to ask for outside help. KFI News acquired a 201 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.360 copy of the one hundred and four page report, which shows recommendations for ten 202 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.919 campuses, including UCLA. Some of the recommendations are specific to a campus and 203 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.919 others are system wide. But according to the president of the union representing police 204 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.080 officers in the uc system, UCLA leadership dropped the ball when it came to 205 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.360 handling the events leading up to and including the night the chpn LPD broke up 206 00:14:54.399 --> 00:15:00.159 an encampment and made dozens of arrests the university itself. I don't know what 207 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.600 they're guided by and how they make those decisions. I think oftentimes they want 208 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:09.200 to try to solve the problems themselves, which is fine most of the times. 209 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.759 But the warning signs were all there right when they started to fortify the 210 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:24.679 encampment, when video from up above showed them gathering fire extinguishers, PPE and 211 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.720 other items. Those are telling signs that they're preparing for something, and so 212 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:33.000 why they chose to wait to go into there, You'll have to ask them. 213 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:37.919 Wade Stern is an officer with the UCU Riverside Police Department and the president 214 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.679 of the Federated University Police Officers Association. He says they use the Robinson Eddy 215 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.240 Report to establish rules of engagement, and one of the priorities on the list 216 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.639 is first, using the university's own system Wide Response Team or sr team, 217 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.399 they're able to respond to civil disobedience and civil unrest on our campuses. That's 218 00:15:54.399 --> 00:16:00.519 what we're trained for. We are guided by the Robinson Eddley Report with our 219 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:04.519 community Safety plan that's been put together by the university itself, the Office of 220 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:11.879 the President. At the time our SRT team prior to had been called police 221 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:17.360 did ask for our officers to respond for an SRT call out and then it 222 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:21.240 was canceled twice. The report also made forty nine recommendations for all ten uc 223 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:26.120 campuses, which includes number fifteen requiring each campus police department to ask for help 224 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.120 from other campus police departments before calling in outside agencies. Or number nineteen, 225 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:34.360 which increases the training of campus police in the areas of crowd management, mediation 226 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.480 and de escalation. And how about number twenty two, which requires formal training 227 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.039 of administrators at the state and local levels in the areas of crowd management, 228 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:47.440 mediation and de escalation, the federal incident command structure, and police force options, 229 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:51.360 all of which are to be refreshed annually. Stern says there's been no 230 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:55.000 new training since twenty twenty because of lack of funding. The report also includes 231 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.080 a letter from UCLA Chancellor Gene Block dated October twenty third, twenty thirteen, 232 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.079 certify the recommendations and the commitment to implement them. During my interview with Stern 233 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:07.000 news Broke, the Chancellor Jean Bloc created a new Office of Campus Safety, 234 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.680 which will be led by a former Sacramento Police chief with thirty years of public 235 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.839 safety experience. So this is now trying to take police out of the direct 236 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:22.519 hands of the vice chancellor, which is executive leadership at the campus. And 237 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.680 so now what you're going to have is is you're going to have a chief 238 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:33.240 that is going to report to this guy who was going to report to a 239 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.799 vice chancellor who's going to report to the chancellor. More bureaucracy, more bureaucracy. 240 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.559 What you're going to have is you have a chief that you've been trusted, 241 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.240 right, that has over a thirty years experience in law enforcement, that 242 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:51.440 you hire to handle law enforcement on campus and safety on campus. And now 243 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:56.319 you're bringing in another person with the same amount of experience. Because the chief 244 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:02.640 over at UCLA oversees the police department and emergency management. So you're bringing in 245 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:08.759 somebody else with thirty year years of experience to oversee the chief and emergency services. 246 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.079 I don't understand. I'm trying to make sense of that. Does it 247 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:17.440 sound more like an ass covering move than more of a tactical move. Yeah, 248 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:19.319 I mean the timing of this doesn't look good right, students. Is 249 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:23.319 a good example of just how UCLA's police department was restrained by campus leadership can 250 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.720 be illustrated by this phone call between a UCLA police dispatcher and the mother of 251 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:32.759 a Jewish student who claims her son had been refused entry to the campus library 252 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:37.240 by pro Palestinian protesters. Unfortunately, the police are not interveaning with that right 253 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.160 now. And this is coming from the university. So if you had any 254 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:48.200 concessions to concern you with taking with the university itself. So the university has 255 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:55.079 taken a stance that they will not in fact allow or help Jewish students get 256 00:18:55.160 --> 00:19:03.440 to their classes. That this is going to be tolerated as the directive cannot 257 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.359 entertain at this time year. In the statement last Thursday, Chancellor Jeene Block 258 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.400 said the university's approach to the encampment that was established on Royce Quad had been 259 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.720 guided by several equally important principles, the need to support the safety and well 260 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.559 being of bruins, the need to support the free expression rights of the community, 261 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:22.480 and the need to minimize disruption to the teaching and learning mission. Locke 262 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.720 said they'll continue to investigate the violent incidents, especially that horrific attack by a 263 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:32.200 mob of instigators. When physical violence broke out that night, leadership immediately directed 264 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:36.240 the university's police chief to call for the support of outside law enforcement. Leadership 265 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:40.599 is carefully examining the security processes that night. Wade Stern says he hopes the 266 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.160 investigation will reveal all of the events leading up to the moment the HP and 267 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.160 LAPD went in. He says, it's a lot like the scene of a 268 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.640 plane crash. Investigators don't focus solely on the crash itself, but the chain 269 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:55.240 of events that led up to the event. The theory being all crashes have 270 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.240 a chain of events, long or short, that lead to a crash. 271 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:02.960 A crash doesn't happen without warning, and if the sequence of events is recognized 272 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:06.839 and acted upon, the chain of events is broken and the crash avoided. 273 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.119 For wake up call, I'm Steve Gregory. Kay if I news pretty interesting 274 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:17.079 stuff. Huh. Hopefully they'll get their acts together. I'm watching American Idol. 275 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:21.519 Are you watching American Idol? They're down to the top five, and 276 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.519 I think that I finally got a little vindication for my Abby Carter, who 277 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:29.440 I told to you about it last week and said, I think she's fabulous. 278 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:30.599 I thought she was gonna win. Then I didn't think she was going 279 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.599 to win because I didn't think the judges were with her. But they might 280 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:38.880 be back in her quarter corner. She did Hello by Adele last night, 281 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:53.160 and here's just just a piece of it. He's so true and so it 282 00:20:53.359 --> 00:21:14.599 so for good Jenny go Home. She practically brings me to tears every time 283 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:18.680 she sings. And the judges even said that that was angelic and beautiful and 284 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:22.279 they really liked it last night. So and she's still in it. So 285 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:29.519 oh, if you haven't watched it, sorry, Okay. About twenty UCLA 286 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:34.279 faculty members have called for amnesty for pro Palestinian student protesters who were arrested at 287 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:38.759 the university at a protest Saturday night. In addition to amnesty for the students, 288 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:44.359 they called for Chancellor Jene block to resign. Two bodies have been found 289 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.440 in a makeshift cave in Northridge. LA Fire says it found the bodies along 290 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:53.319 with a white powder in the cave yesterday morning near North Lindley Avenue. Willy 291 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:59.119 say the two people found were transients. Former President Trump will be back in 292 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.279 court in his high money trial in New York following Friday's testimony from former top 293 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.759 aid Hope Hicks. She testified that Trump was worried about his wife's reaction to 294 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.319 paying off a former playboy playmate, but also said that the story coming out 295 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.480 before the election wasn't a good thing. At six oh five, it's handle 296 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:21.240 on the news. Another bus driver in LA has been attacked. At five 297 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:25.079 point fifty, we're talking to the director of a new documentary called Plastic People. 298 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:29.640 And it's not about plastic surgery. It's very scary, very disturbing, 299 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:32.599 and you're gonna want to be listening for that one. All right. Now, 300 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:37.599 let's say good morning to the star of Natural Selection on Netflix. And 301 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:42.200 one of the stars of the Netflix is a joke festival comedian Matt Rife. 302 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:47.519 Now, Matt, Natural Selection got ten million views in its first week of 303 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:49.920 release. That's pretty impressive. You know, I think it did okay. 304 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:52.839 Thank you for having me, good morning. It did do okay, And 305 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:59.160 I will tell you that I had not seen it until just recently. Dang, 306 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.119 you're funny, but you kind of leave no stone unturned and it's not 307 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.240 for the faint of heart. Oh well, thank you. I think that's 308 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.319 a compliment. It is. I mean, it's comedian. It's a comedian's 309 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.720 job to push boundaries, right, And if we have a unique comedic perspective 310 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.079 on something, why not talk about it exactly? And in your special you 311 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:21.160 say that at the very beginning, you kind of say, yeah, I'm 312 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:25.000 kind of testing the waters with the audience. I'm wondering, do you really 313 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.799 test the waters or is it kind of damn the torpedoes full speed ahead. 314 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.079 Now, every comedian does that. That's why you usually choose which couple of 315 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:34.480 jokes you're going to start a show with to like just kind of test the 316 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:40.039 tone of an audience, because every audience at every show, at every city 317 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:42.160 across the country is completely different. Right. Yeah, you might do a 318 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:45.160 joke in one city and it could crush, and you go try the exact 319 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.319 same joke in another city and nobody likes it at all, So you do 320 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.400 have to theoretically just test the water and see what the tone of the audience 321 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.359 is and figure out what they're going to be into and the kinds of things 322 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.400 that you might be able to even steer them in a direction they didn't think 323 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:02.160 they were going to be comfortable going, and then you show them that there's 324 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:04.599 actually a very funny way to talk about the thing that makes them feel uncomfortable, 325 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.440 and now you have a great show. Yeah. I'm wondering, Matt 326 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:14.359 if you've found or had to change anything in any way because everything is so 327 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:19.200 PC. Comedy seems to sort of be the last bastion of political incorrectness. 328 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:29.279 Does it play into your performances? No, I do not care the things 329 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:33.319 that the things that upset you and offends you comedically are not my problem. 330 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:37.160 I'm sorry. I don't pander to the audience that doesn't like my comedy. 331 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.079 I perform to the people who do like what I have to say and the 332 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.240 kind of jokes I do like to tell. You can't sit around and base 333 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:47.680 your whole life off of the things that people don't like about you, and 334 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:49.920 there's so many things that people do like about you. And I don't believe 335 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:55.200 there's any limit for comedy whatsoever. There's nothing you can't make a joke about 336 00:24:55.440 --> 00:25:00.799 if it's all done creatively and with the right intentions, which are just to 337 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:04.960 make people laugh. Do you think that being a good observer helps make you 338 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:10.599 be a better comic? Oh, yes, ma'am. You're happy to have 339 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:14.440 to take in your surrounding, especially especially if you're gonna do some crowd work. 340 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.119 I mean, that's what I've found to be the most effective is so 341 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.160 simply just be present, listen to what they have to say, really observe 342 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.079 the story they're telling you, and ask inquisitive questions that are going to lead 343 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.160 to unique, funny answers, not just not just where you're from, how 344 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.720 long you've been dating, you have kids, you know what I mean, 345 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:37.880 Like the basic setups, being present and being informed is definitely a comedian's best 346 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:41.839 tools. Yeah. And I watched some clips of you on YouTube. You 347 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:48.440 were just completely off the cuff and interacting with some people who had disabilities in 348 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.920 the audience, and it was no holds barred, and I was like, 349 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:57.920 Wow, you did that in a way that was funny, a little bit 350 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.640 uncomfortable, but made sense and wasn't like nasty, rude or anything like that. 351 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.920 It wasn't demeaning or anything like that. I was really impressed by it, 352 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.839 and it was darned funny. Well, thank you. I mean, 353 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:15.559 that's the purpose of comedy is it's supposed it's with the intention for everybody to 354 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:18.240 laugh. You're obviously not going to appeal to everybody. That's an impossible task. 355 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:22.319 There's eight billion people on the planet not anything to like you. You've 356 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.519 got thirty three million of them following you though, So thank you. And 357 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:29.960 I'm even more happy that a few of them are handicapped. When these people 358 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.839 come to shows, they're also there to have a good time, like they 359 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.839 they are aware of the conscious decision being made to come laugh at a comedy 360 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:41.279 show tonight. And so many comedians, and not just comedians, by the 361 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.440 way, normal human beings greet people so different, like they're not just normal 362 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.480 human beings who happen to have a slight disability. You know, so many 363 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:56.200 people are so uncomfortable or afraid to laugh about the same things that these people 364 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.000 also might want to laugh at. Like nobody even takes the time to ask 365 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.720 than what they find funnier or their perspective on things. So when these people 366 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:06.480 get to come and I get to just have a normal interaction with them, 367 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:10.759 it stuns more people than it should. Honestly, I'm just so happy they 368 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:14.079 get to come and have fun. Absolutely, I think, especially today, 369 00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:17.359 we all need a good laugh, and I think a lot of people are 370 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:21.960 going to be laughing a lot because you're headlining for the Netflix is a joke 371 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:27.720 comedy series, and that's happening May e that the Hollywood Bowl go Mad May 372 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:30.440 eight. I'm so excited about it. I've wanted to play this venue since 373 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.440 the first time I ever visited LA when I was sixteen. The Beatles played 374 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:37.920 there in nineteen sixty four. I mean, it's it's the most iconic venue 375 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:41.880 in LA And the fact that I get to now play it and headline it 376 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.640 as the youngest comedian to ever get to play the Hollywood Bowl, It's a 377 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.759 dream come true. And I'm planning on it being the best show of the 378 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:53.640 entire five hundred show tour that we're on right now. So I think people 379 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:56.599 have they come out expect to see me for an hour. I have a 380 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.279 lineup of a bunch of my hilarious friends. We have some prize guests popping 381 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:04.880 in, as well as a musical performance by rapper performer Core Day as well 382 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:07.799 one of my very good friends. It's a jam pack show, okay, 383 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.559 and Matt Rife, Where can people follow you? Because I know, like 384 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.400 I said, thirty three million are following you. But if you know you're 385 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.200 one of the people who hasn't followed him yet, where do they do that? 386 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:22.359 Pretty much? Everything is just my name, just Matt Rife, m 387 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.359 Att rif e TikTok. I think has an underscore in between my first and 388 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.880 last name. But other than that, just my name. Go search it 389 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:32.200 see if I'm funny or not. All right, Netflix is a joke and 390 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:36.279 Matt Rife is a star, and we appreciate your time. Knock him dead, 391 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:37.359 Matt, have a great time, and thanks so much for taking time 392 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.680 to talk to us on wake up call. Thank you so much. I'll 393 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:45.200 see you, sir. I hope so very funny guy. Netflix is a 394 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.480 joke, is going on through May twelfth, and it's everywhere and if you 395 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:52.039 go down I hadn't been down to Hollywood, so when we went down there 396 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.440 on Saturday to the Pantagious, there's just signage everywhere, and it's like at 397 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.640 all the theaters. It's at the Egyptian and the Welter and and the Pantagious, 398 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:03.480 and the and the Bowl and the Kia Forum and several other locations. 399 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.799 And if you are looking for a good belly laugh, the shows are going 400 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:10.440 on again, as I mentioned, through May twelfth, and you can just 401 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:14.559 go to the Netflix is a Joke website and see all the shows. They're 402 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:17.799 still even adding shows and there are some that are sold out, some that 403 00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:22.319 are getting close to being sold out. But I was literally crying at Leanne 404 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.759 Morgan on Saturday, and I haven't been to a comedy show for a while, 405 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.559 so that was a lot of fun. Highly recommend it. Let's get 406 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.519 back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 407 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:37.359 You CLA and USC are set to resume regular campus operations following days of 408 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.200 pro Palestinian protests on campus. Of course, police had to come in to 409 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:48.039 clear those out. UCLA says faculty can continue to hold classes remotely if they 410 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:53.279 want through Friday. Police and public safety officers at USA cleared USC rather cleared 411 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:59.559 out of protest camps yesterday early early in the morning At least a dozen student 412 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:04.640 protests received interim or full suspensions from the university, and several who lived in 413 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.720 USC housing were given until five tonight to pack their stuff and get out. 414 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:14.759 The La County Youth Climate Commission has submitted its report to the Board of Supervisors. 415 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.119 After ten months of work, including surveying and meeting with young people under 416 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.839 the age of eighteen, The county's first youth Climate Commission has found their top 417 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:26.599 priorities cleaner air, green spaces, and green buildings. Commission member Isaac Michael 418 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.599 Lebara says he learned how younger people feel the impact of climate change differently, 419 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.240 like during a power outage, air conditioners don't work, and then when that 420 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.200 happens, you know, students can't sleep at home and they're expected to sit 421 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.079 in classrooms that are just as hot, if not worse. The commission is 422 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.960 made up of young people from around the county and is believed by the Board 423 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.480 of Supervisors to be the first of its kind in the nation. Michael Monks 424 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.799 KFI News Attention shoppers, there's a new push to get rid of self checkouts 425 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:59.000 in California. A bill making its way through the legislature would change regulations in 426 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:03.440 hopes of cutting down on theft. The bill says it would also boost employment 427 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.440 by increasing the number of employees monitoring the stations at the checkouts. The California 428 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.680 Chamber of Commerce is against the move, saying it could hurt business. The 429 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:18.039 Dodgers take on the Marlins tonight at seven o'clock. Listen to every play of 430 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.519 every Dodgers game on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors 431 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.200 Broadcast booth. You can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app 432 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.880 Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. And as I mentioned, I was a 433 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:34.680 game Saturday night, eleven to two win over Atlanta. It was fabulous Love 434 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:40.359 the Dodgers. A UC Riverside student has been suspended and ordered to stay away 435 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:45.240 from campus after an assault rifle was discovered in the Students on Campus apartment Please 436 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:49.559 Say A rifle, ammunition, and a journal with drawings depicting violence were found 437 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.680 in the apartment when a search warrant was issued at North District apartments. The 438 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.440 Riverside County DA is going to decide if charges will be filed. The latest 439 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:01.680 round of GAZA CSP talks appear to have broken off, at least for now. 440 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:07.000 Israel and Humas are trading blame for the impasse in the long running negotiations 441 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:12.119 involving Katari, Egyptian and US representatives, and California's tourism is at an all 442 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:15.920 time high. In a social media video recorded from the top of the Golden 443 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:22.160 Gate Bridge yesterday, Governor Newsom says visitors are coming to experience the wonders of 444 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.440 this state, from a world renowned coastline to the world's tallest trees, to 445 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.920 iconic cities and theme parks. New data shows last year's spending topped a record 446 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:35.480 breaking one hundred and fifty billion dollars. We're just minutes away from handle on 447 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.480 the news this morning, Boeing is about to go out of this world. 448 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:44.200 But right now we're going to say good morning to Ben Adelman. He makes 449 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:50.920 documentary films, TV shows, commercials. He's made several award winning feature documentaries 450 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.240 that have been featured at film festivals including sun Dance. Also, you can 451 00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:59.519 see some of his work on Apple TV, Disney Plus, Netflix and others. 452 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.039 Let's say now good morning to the director of a new documentary called Plastic 453 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.440 People, Ben Adlman. Good morning, Ben, Hi there, good morning, 454 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:12.279 nice to be here. Well, I appreciate you getting up to talk 455 00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.720 to us this morning. I just watched Plastic People yesterday. I wanted to 456 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:20.920 have it fresh in my mind, and I tell you, it's a pretty 457 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.759 stark reality that we're facing. And right out of the gate, this documentary 458 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:30.519 says, you know what, we're in trouble. We're basically becoming plastic people. 459 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:35.359 So tell us what the documentary is about, Ben, sure, Well, 460 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:42.200 it's basically about the human health impacts of microplastics and microplastics if it's a 461 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.559 new term to some people. They're just basically very small, tiny pieces of 462 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:51.480 plastics, so that would be like five millimeters or smaller. And they're here 463 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:55.400 because one of the things we're sort of learning about plastic now is that it's 464 00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:01.319 basically an indestructible material. That's why it's such a useful material. It never 465 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:07.640 really disappears or bio degrades. It just keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller 466 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:12.920 and smaller until it becomes essentially microplastics or microscopic, I should say, which 467 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.920 is sort of the same thing. So you could say, we say in 468 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:21.079 our film that you know, basically every single piece of plastic that's ever been 469 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.159 made, you know, over like you know, the you know, one 470 00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:29.039 hundred year history of making plastic still exists here on earth, like in some 471 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:34.039 form, just as smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller form. And of 472 00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:36.960 course, you know, I'm sure people know that we've made a lot, 473 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.519 a lot, a lot a lot of plastics, and we're just making more 474 00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:44.000 and more and more and more of us. So basically it's everywhere. It's 475 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.760 in the air, in the water, in the dust, in the food, 476 00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.719 you know, everywhere on Earth, like the top of the Arctic, 477 00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.519 in the bottom of the ocean, and the latest frontier. And this basically 478 00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.480 what our film looks at is that it's getting into our into our bodies. 479 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:08.519 So essentially everywhere you look for microplastics, they find them everywhere. You say, 480 00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:13.960 was there anywhere that you said that you didn't test it? Because I 481 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:15.199 was watching the documentary. I don't want to give it all away, because 482 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:19.320 I want you to watch it. This is it was fascinating, But like 483 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:24.199 all the tests, it was like everything everywhere in your food, in your 484 00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:30.360 blood system, in the air, I mean everywhere. Yeah, I mean 485 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:36.599 it's essentially a new but growing field of sort of study and science. But 486 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:42.880 I don't know one hundred percent, but I in all the research I did 487 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:45.800 for more than a year, and other people working in the film, they 488 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:52.920 didn't look anywhere and not find it, including all all over the human body. 489 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:57.119 So you know, obviously it's hard to sort of look in the human 490 00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:02.079 body, but you know, they found it in lung blood, people's species, 491 00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:09.159 you know, more disturbing in like placentas of pregnant women, and then 492 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:15.880 our sort of film climaxes with fighting it in the human brain for the first 493 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:22.440 time. Yeah, so that's it. And you know, they really are 494 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:27.039 everywhere in the sense that like you're breathing them in right now. I'm breathing 495 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:31.440 them in right now, and I'm sure everybody listening also is okay. And 496 00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:37.480 then bed you also go into in the documentary a little bit about how plastic 497 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.559 became so popular and whether it was like, oh, we could use this 498 00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:45.960 and it's sort of a natural evolution that it became so popular, or was 499 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:50.480 it kind of pushed on us. Yeah, it's definitely pushed us. I 500 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:54.280 mean, especially you know, these sort of miracle materials were invented, you 501 00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.920 know, in the twenties and thirties, and it became super useful and got 502 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:01.280 more and more in youth, and you know, not to go too far 503 00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:05.840 back in history, but in World War Two is when they really really really 504 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:09.039 ramped up production, especially in the US, kind of like, you know, 505 00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:14.199 make this useful material and sort of push it out. And it was 506 00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:17.199 extremely useful. But then at a certain point, you know, they reached 507 00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:24.039 the limits of how much plastic they could sell, and this concept of single 508 00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:30.760 use or disposable throwaway material, with classic being a big part of it, 509 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.159 came into use. And you know, as you say that, people didn't 510 00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:38.760 take to that super easily at first, because you know, our grandparents are 511 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:45.079 great grandparents, you know, they weren't you know, accustomed to just using 512 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:50.679 things once and then throwing them away. So there were literally campaigns to teach 513 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:53.039 people, yeah, you should throw it away. It's good to throw it 514 00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:59.800 away. There was an article in Time magazine or is it Life magazine, 515 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:05.920 Life magazine called Throwaway Living, and it was sort of like advertising this concept 516 00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:08.840 of just like this entire meal, this entire sort of picnic, that this 517 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.159 nice family's having everything here could just be thrown away. You don't have to 518 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:16.760 bother cleaning anything out. So we were trained to be a throwaway society. 519 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.480 We were basically trying to do it. Yeah, yes, and advertising played 520 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:28.119 a big role in it, and people resisted for a while until, you 521 00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:30.119 know, we get some sort of the point where we are now, where 522 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.719 fifty percent of the plastic made, you know, which is a huge amount, 523 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:42.159 is made for single use applications. So this indestructable material is used designed 524 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:45.800 to be used once and then thrown away and then it essentially lives forever. 525 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:51.079 That's that's encouraging. So I think it's been The way that you chose to 526 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:54.079 film the documentary was very interesting. It's in the present day, but it 527 00:38:54.800 --> 00:39:00.239 looks and sounds more like it was made in the seventies. Just so the 528 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:01.960 way that the film presents itself. Why did you choose to do it that 529 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.079 way? Well, yeah, well yeah, I mean that's as you to 530 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.559 say. It was sort of I guess it was sort of style, a 531 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:15.280 style choice to give it a bit of that, you know, it's a 532 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.920 bit of a dark subject. We wanted it also to sort of have a 533 00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:23.559 fun element and a watchable elements, so that sort of you know, that 534 00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:30.880 retro futuristic plastic world. You know that was sort of promised to people in 535 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:35.039 like the sixties, seventies and a little bit the eighties. We were using 536 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.719 a lot of footage from that era, so we kind of incorporated that style 537 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.519 into the film in general. It makes it really a little bit ironic, 538 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.440 a little bit fun to watch. Yeah, Okay. What I appreciated about 539 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:50.239 the documentary too, Ben, is that you don't just show us the sobering 540 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:53.480 reality of what the current situation is and kind of push us off the cliff 541 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:58.239 and walk away. There is a glimmer of hope in there too, which 542 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:04.760 I appreciate. Sure, yeah, thanks. I mean one of the easiest 543 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.920 things to sort of address is all this sort of single use plastic. And 544 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:09.800 you know, most of us remember time. I mean I don't remember time 545 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:14.679 without plastic, and I'm sure most people don't really, but a time when 546 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:17.039 you know, most of the time you went to the seven eleven, you 547 00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:22.800 know it was glass, not plastic that you bought your like iced tea in, 548 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:28.559 or you know, apply that to like almost everything. You know, 549 00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:31.320 pickle jars would always would have been glass. So I mean, we know 550 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:35.880 how to do it in a lot of ways. And could take a big, 551 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:38.920 big chunk out of the extra plastic that we make pretty easily without you 552 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:44.400 know, affecting people's lives too much. So yeah, that's where I would 553 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.400 start. And then there's all kinds of other things being worked on, technological 554 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:52.960 solutions and other things. Yeah. You know, I've got my reusable shopping 555 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:58.239 bags, and I've not been a huge prop proponent of getting rid of them 556 00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:00.960 because, you know, like you said, they they've taught us that they're 557 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:05.960 very convenient, and like they're now looking at getting rid of the plastic vegetable 558 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.199 bags and plastic bottles. But after seeing this, I'm really kind of rethinking 559 00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:12.920 it. And then also, like when I was getting ready for bed last 560 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.719 night, I'm like, Okay, I'm brushing my teeth. It's plastic. 561 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.480 My toothpaste is in plastic. Oh but that container over there is plastic. 562 00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.840 It is everywhere. It's so pervasive. It's like, how do you get 563 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:29.559 away with it? Get away from it? Yeah, it's pretty overwhelming to 564 00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:31.559 me. I Mean what I've done in my sort of personal life is just 565 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.199 tried to just focus on the single use. Yeah, you know, I 566 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:42.559 work in like on film crewise and they men it's about as bad as it 567 00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:45.159 gets. You know what. People just the first thing that the you know, 568 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:51.280 production saysiness do is buy like a case of bottled water, and we 569 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:55.760 do. We do do a lot less of that now And it just happened 570 00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:02.079 kind of instinctively. But yeah, it does feel like in a big problem. 571 00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:06.440 But you know, there are people working on it. There are people 572 00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:13.760 trying to regulate these things, make less toxic plastic, plastic that actually biodegrades, 573 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.039 which is early doesn't really happen. There's a study you see you see 574 00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:21.519 San Diego. They're working on it, and they're saying that they've discovered some 575 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:24.679 way that makes the plastic biodegrade. So it'll be interesting to see if they 576 00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:30.920 actually can pull that off. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people are 577 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.000 working on it. I mean, the promise of biodegradable plastic was a little 578 00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:40.920 you know, ahead of itself because it turns out that biodegradable plastic or you 579 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:47.039 know, still created these microplastics and still was pretty toxic. But people are 580 00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:51.639 working on the non toxic version of it now, you know, as we 581 00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:53.960 speak. Well, I think in the meantime, the easiest thing for people 582 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:57.639 to do is just sort of reduce a little bit of there's the single use 583 00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:01.440 plastic. You know, it's all often unnecessary, and I'm not saying every 584 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:07.280 single use obviously there's there's very useful uses. And also people should be aware 585 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:12.800 that you might get the impression that we're using less plastic because like you said, 586 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.079 of usable you know bags that we take the grocery stores. But we're 587 00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:20.800 actually making more and more and more and more plastic, and if you look 588 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.639 closely, you'll see it in places you don't expect. Yeah, it's it's 589 00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:30.639 everywhere. Yeah, Okay, Ben, thank you so much. How how 590 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:37.320 can we see this video this documentary? Well, well, we're on Canadian 591 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:39.199 and it was a Canadian production, so right now it's going to be broadcast 592 00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:45.920 in Canada, but we we're working on the American distribution. There's a distributor 593 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:51.280 working to like get it onto streamers and it'll definitely be in you know, 594 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:55.519 theaters all over the US and like community screenings and university screenings and things like 595 00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:01.119 that. So there's a website, plastic People doc dot com that people could 596 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:07.480 look at and soon enough there will be US screenings and streaming. Okay, 597 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:13.760 for now, plastic people dot dot com. The movie or the movie documentary 598 00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:16.920 is called Plastic People, and Ben Adelman, one of the people interviewed, 599 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.119 says, we didn't get there in a day. We're not going to get 600 00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.599 out of it in a day. But it's a really fascinating documentary and on 601 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:27.480 this day, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us about Plastic 602 00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.519 People. Thanks Ben, oh, thank you very much, my pleasure. 603 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.400 Bye. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 604 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.199 We lead local live from the KFI twenty four our newsroom. I'm Amy King. 605 00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:42.079 This has been your wake up call. 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