You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Almost to the weekend. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call. Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalney has died in prison. Russia's
state media says he wasn't feeling well earlier and then became unconscious. Navalney was
an outspoken critic of President Putin's and has survived several poisoning attempts. His cause
of death has not been released. Navalney was forty seven. A verdict is
expected today in New York in the civil fraud trial involving former President Trump's business.
State Attorney General Letitia James has asked for a three hundred and seventy million
dollar fine and a lifetime ban of Trump's company operating in New York state.
A judge has already ruled that Trump engaged in fraud, and he is the
one who's going to decide the penalty. A three point eight earthquake has rumbled
under Ontario. The quake shook the area at eleven thirty eight last night.
People reported feelings shaking in Riverside. Sam Bernardino and Laverne at six oh five
at handle on the news. A former FBI informant's been charged with lying about
President Biden's role in a Ukrainian business. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Russia says imprisoned opposition
leader and critic of President Putin, Alexey Navalney is dead. The Russian Prison
Service says Navalney got sick during a walk today, fainted and then died.
It said the reason for the death is being investigated. Russian media says preliminary
information points to a blood clot. Navalney was serving a nineteen year jail sentence
for offenses considered politically motivated. ABC's Maggie Ruley says he collapsed during a flight
in twenty twenty and then spent time in a hospital in a coma. His
TAM claims he was poisoned. He made the decision to return to Russia,
where he was later in Despite being in jail, he has remained one of
the most prominent Russian opposition leaders. Navalni has moved to an Arctic penal colony
last year, which is considered one of the toughest prisons in Russia. It's
a like thing I've go pursued before. LA City Councilman Kevin de Leon is
one of the city officials who toured the so called tagged towers in downtown LA
that have been covered in graffiti in recent weeks. Laped Sergeant Gordon Helper says
the building was abandoned when the developer ran out of money to finish it in
twenty nineteen, and it looks it It just looks like it's been vacant for
a lot long time. There's a lot of vandalism in the stairwells, there's
a lot of in vandalism inside the rooms, and there's it's destroyed. The
owners of Ocean Wide Plaza have until tomorrow to clean up and secure the site,
and if they don't do it, the city's going to do it and
then charge him for it. Prosecutors in La have filed murder charges, which
include special circumstance allegations against two gang members accused of going on a shooting spreeing
claim the lives of four people, including a fourteen year old boy. LA
County DA George Gascone says both shooters are facing life without parole. We will
not waiver in our commitment to justice and ensuring the safety or public. We
will continue to work tirelessly when gun violence and hold those accountable for such egregious
act. The two Allaed shooters are accused of randomly targeting everybody they shot.
Both guys were arrested on Monday. Blake Trolly k if I News, Nickelodeon's
preschool platform Noggin, has been gutted as part of Paramount's layoffs. About eight
hundred staffers were let go this week, including the entire team that ran Noggin.
The programming included thousands of shorts, as well as episodes of Paw Patrol,
Pepa Pig, Dora the Explorer, and Blues Clues. Variety. CIS
layoffs are happening across all divisions, including at CBS, Paramount Pictures, Paramount
Plus, Showtime, Comedy Central, Nick and MTV. Medicaid would cover anti
obesity medications under a proposal in the Nebraska legislature. The author of the bill
says it would help people deal with serious problems like cancer, diabetes, heart
disease, and blood pressure or high blood pressure. He estimates it would cost
about four million dollars a year if passed. Southern California is about to get
more rain. The National Weather Services the leading edge of the storm system will
begin to affect the central coast by late Saturday. The brunt of the storms
expected to hit the LA area Sunday night and continue until Wednesday, with a
potential for several rounds of heavy rain, maybe some thunderstorms. Initial predictions call
for a total of two to three inches of rain, could be even more
in the valleys and coastal areas. Four to eight inches expected in the foothills
and mountains. But right now, let's check in with ABC's Jim Ryan.
Jim, it's only February, but a lot of people are starting to plan
for summer vacation, right, Yeah, this is the time you start doing
that. You start looking ahead to your spring break, your summer vacation.
And if this year is like last year and the year before, we're going
to see record numbers of people traveling right in the air, on the train,
taking cruises. Well, one thing you need to be careful is you
start making those arrangements to be careful that you've secured those websites, secured the
apps that hardly anybody uses travel agents anymore, Amy, They just book these
things themselves, their hotels, their flights, their rental cars, whatever.
But in doing so, you're opening yourself up to a potential hacking. A
few weeks ago, Booking dot Com was broken into was hacked by criminals who
were able to get ahold of passwords that were on an internal messaging system there
with it within Booking dot Com. So if you use Booking dot Com or
expeedy or any of them, really you just need to be very careful with
how you handle your own data. Okay, So when you say you need
to be careful with how you handle your own data, I mean you have
to input information into the system. So how do you be careful with it?
You're right, yeah, I mean with the with the travel sites,
you have to put in your known traveler number, your passport number. With
the airlines, you have to enter those things. You really can't get around
it. But that's a treasure trove of stuff that hackers have, the information
that can be used to build a doppelganger. Amy, for example, to
go out and apply for credit cards in your name, and it hurts you
financially for a long time. Come big headache. So what you need to
do is secure those sites. Use two factor authentication. You know, set
up the system so that your travel related accounts you have to receive a text
or receive a message or somehow secure it with two factor authentication. That should
help to protect those accounts. Get sign a notification. So for example,
your Southwest Airlines account, if somebody tries to use it, then you get
a notification. Just turn that notification on. Then the passwords. This goes
for all sorts of websites and apps, not just travel sites or apps.
Make sure you're using unique passwords, not the same one for all of you
your airlines, all of your hotels. She used different passwords. Difficult to
remember passwords, or better yet, use the biometric method you know that your
phone has in it. Now look at your phone. You try to open
the American Airlines and it asks you to use your facial recognition to get into
that set. You don't have to remember all those particular passwords. Yeah,
I like the facial recognition one because great. Quite honestly, Jim and tell
me if you're the same as me on this the password thing. Don't write
your passwords down. Use a really weird one use a unique one. Well,
how am I supposed to remember it? I can't even remember the basic
ones, let alone ones that have the characters and the numbers and the symbols.
It's difficult and you shouldn't write that down, don't put it on a
post it on your laptop and then you know because it's just right for hackers.
The other thing if you send and this is unique to travel and of
course a lot of the folks who will be traveling the next few months are
not frequent flyers. These are people traveling for pleasure on vacation, so they
may not be up to all on all other stuff. If you're sitting at
the airport, you side to log on, take a look at stuff on
your phone or your laptop. Best to use your own personal hotspot, right,
don't use the airport WiFi. Sure it's free and it can be a
nice deal and it's quick and convenient, but at the same time, it's
just it's a hunting ground for hackers. Better yet, leave your laptop at
home. You're on vacation for havent's sake, I know, right, So
I was curious about that though too. So they don't even have to be
nearby. They just know that there is a public network and they can jump
on and watch what you're doing. They're very wily. I mean, I
couldn't figure out how to do it, but certainly hackers know they have the
savvy and the expertise and the criminal mind to get through the safety net and
to get at your personal information and stuff that you're clicking on your keyboard.
So yeah, just be very careful about that stuff. Plugging into the powerport
at the airport or at the train station, it can be a problem too.
It can expose the data on your phone to hackers too, So still
be very aware. You know, treat your lap chop, treat your passwords
and your personal data like you do your wallet. Keep it close to you
at all times, don't show it to people, take it out only when
it's needed, and then put it back. Okay, and you mentioned the
plugging in at the power stations. I actually Rich Demiro are tech guy and
I were going to talk about it. We ran out of time this week.
But that's the thing too, because if you plug into the public charging
stations, that makes you vulnerable to hackers. Apparently doesn't happen that often,
but it does happen sure well, because when you're plugging in a physical you
know, USB cable, not only are you drawing power from whatever that source
is, but you're also sharing your data with whatever source that is, right,
It's it does more than just power your phone. It also can be
a conduit for personal information coming off your phone and exposed to people who would
do harm with that information. So don't be suspicious, don't be paranoid,
just be very very careful. Well, that's the thing you say, don't
be suspicious and don't be paranoid, But you're making us just suspicious and paranoid.
Well better suspicious than you know, bankrupt i'spous or chasing your own passwords
for the next few years because somebody stole them and opened up a bunch of
credit cards in your name. Just be just be cautious, be circumspect,
Okay. And then is another way that you could just like do a blanket
protection of yourself just to freeze your like freeze your accounts with the credit reporting
agencies so no one could open anything. Well, that's certainly that's one way
to protect your credit, right to do that, But then it makes it
a little more difficult for you to use those particular options, you know,
especially if you're dealing with your credit. But here I think we're talking more
about your ability to conveniently, quickly and easy go into Hurts rent a car,
for example, and rent your car and your hotel and book your flights.
And if you're using the same password for it Hurts and for holiday inn
and for American airlines. Yeah, I mean, you're just you're opening yourselfself
up to a real potential problem. What's more, by the way, with
the booking sites, with Expedia and with booking dot Com, those sites,
by their very nature have to share your information with other sites, with the
rental car and with the hotel and with the airlines, So you know,
just be extra cautious. I mean, we may all have to go back
to using booking or using travel agents some day, but even they are susceptible
to this kind of thing. I wish we would. I love it when
somebody plans it for me and I don't have to do it. And you
can still do that, all right, So as you're making your plans,
be alert. Don't be alarmed, but be alert, be careful, amy
be alert. The world needs more alerts. Okay, thank you, Jim
Ryan, have a wonderful weekend. Ye. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Nine firefighters are recovering from burn injuries caused by a big rig explosion in Wilmington.
Two of the firefighters responding to the initial truck fire were critically injured and
rushed to the Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Trauma surgeon Molly Dean says it was
crucial to stabilize the firefighters airways, especially with inhalational injuries. Beneed that not
only had they been burned, but that there had been an explosion and a
blast. They had potentially been on top of a truck and then thrown back.
One of those critically injured firefighters was airlifted to LA General's Burn Unit yesterday
for continued treatment. LA Fires has one of the trucks, one hundred gallon
pressurized natural gas tanks, injured the firefighters when it exploded. Chris Adler KFI
News. A state regulatory board has found two juvenile detention centers in La County
are unsuitable to house detainees. The board yesterday found the Barry j Nidorf Facility
in Silmar and the Los Padrino's Juvenile Holland Downey are out of compliance with regulations
on staff, on training, use of force, disciplinary procedures, safety plans,
and access to recreation. The county has sixty days to fix the issues
or the facilities could be shut down. Special Council Robert Hurr is set to
testify next month before a Republican led House committee. Her recently declined to prosecute
President Biden over his handling of classified documents. The House panel, led by
Jim Jordan, is expected to press her on Biden's mental fitness. They've requested
transcripts and recordings of his interview with the president. Public testimony will be held
March twelve. The White House says Russia has obtained what it calls a troubling
emerging anti satellite weapon, but the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says it
cannot be used to attack people or cause physical destruction on Earth. This is
not an active capability that's been deployed, and though Russia's pursuit of this particular
capability is troubling, there is no immediate threat to anyone's safety. Russia has
downplayed the US concern about the capability. Officials say the claims are a ruse
intended to make Congress support more aid for Ukraine. When we come back,
we're going to be talking with former counter terrorism coordinator for the Department of Homeland
Security about the threat that Russia poses to US, whether it's with a anti
satellite weapon in space or not, and also the death of Putin critic Alexei
Navalny. Just finding that information out this morning, and we're going to get
some more information from John Cohen on that in just a moment. You're listening
to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're
following in the KFI twenty four hour news room. A storm headed towards southern
California could bring several rain rounds of heavy rain, even thunderstorms. Forecasters say
the brunt of the storm will hit the area late Sunday through Tuesday, with
two to five inches in valley and coastal areas, four to eight inches possible
in the foothills mountains. Egypt appears to be setting up a refugee shelter near
the Gaza border in case Israel invades the southern city of Rafa. Egypt has
denied preparing for refugees, but an area is being set up that would have
basic facilities for Palestinians in case and Israeli offensive drives them over the border.
CSA officials trying to figure out how a woman was able to fly from Nashville
to lax without an ID or a ticket. Authority says she was spotted going
through security in Nashville, but apparently wasn't asked for an ID or a boarding
pass at security or at the American Airlines gate at six oh five. It's
handle on the news. The city official says the tagged towers in downtown LA
remind him of Chernobyl. Let's say good morning to former counter terrorism coordinator at
the Department of Homeland Security. It's ABC's John Cohen, John the Big News
this morning. We're just hearing that Alexei Navalny is dead. The good morning
to be with you. Yeah. Alex Davone was a forty seven year old
lawyer. He is best known for being essentially the face of political opposition to
Vladimir Putin. He opposed Putin in large part because he viewed him as being
absolutely corrupt and a threat to democratic processes, not only within Russia but also
around the world and throughout his career as he has sought to expose the corruption
of Vladimir Putin, He's been jailed, he was poisoned, and targeted for
assassination. So, you know, when I heard the news, the sad
news this morning of his death, I have to say I really wasn't surprised.
There's always been a part of me that's wondered when this would actually occur.
Yeah, I think that you and I am probably a lot of people
who are listening right now have that same feeling. They're like, oh,
yeah, it was just sort of a matter of time. Yeah, absolutely,
And I think, you know, it's another and a growing list of
sort of real time events involving Russia, NATO, and the political debate here
in the United States. I mean, if you could be stepped back a
little bit and look at, you know, how Vladimir Putin maintains political control
in Russia. You know, he jails journalists, he jails those who oppose
him, or he assassinates them. He holds onto power through the triangulated usage
of the intelligence apparatus, the oligarchs, the wealthy businessman who possess most of
the wealth in Russia, and organized crime. And we should also not forget
what his overall objectives are because they're very clear, and you only have to
understand the history of Ladimir Putin to know what they are, which is,
he wants to maintain a grasp on power regardless in Russia, regardless of how
he does so. He wants to restore the territorial boundaries and geopolitical influence of
the Soviet Union, So he wants to reclaim territories that for decades have been
free democracies. UH. And he wants to expand the reach of Russia across
the globe. And in order to accomplish that, he has to undermine NATO,
and he has to undermine he has to weaken the United States. So
he's been engaged in essentially a years long hybrid or asymmetric war using cyber information
operations, proxy conflicts UH and even direct provocative or military interactions with the US
using the Wagner Group and another assets. So it's he's a dangerous man.
He's a ruthless man internally, but he represents a significant national security threat to
the United States. Yeah, you mentioned the Wagner Group, and I am
I'm at a loss for his name right now. But there was the guy
who said, you know, Putin, you we got to stop this war.
This is wrong. And then he died in a plane crash. Well,
right, but again this was Putin's cook, right. This was an
oligarch who was one of Putin's closest allies. He ran the Wagner Group.
He was he was in direct command of the forces that were promoting Russia's will,
not just Ukraine, but in parts of Africa and in the Middle East.
And this is somebody who was considered one of Putin's closest advisors, and
when Putin viewed him as being in opposition to what he wanted to do,
he mysteriously died. Yeah, And the reason that we were going to talk
today, John, was and then the Navalde thing happened, or we just
found out about it, was because of the revelation that Russia has designs on
launching some sort of a nuclear weapon to take out our satellites. There is
no imminent threat, but as you were just saying, Russia does pose a
threat to the US. What are some of the other things that they may
be trying to do to undermine US. So the satellite in which you were
referencing what the intelligence community has discovered and what they were briefing Congress on is
a program by Russia to introduce into orbit nuclear enabled satellites hunter and killer satellites,
and they're what we've learned thus far is that their objective would be to
take out US satellites, whether they be spy satellites, weather satellites, GPS
satellites, communication satellites. So you can imagine the impact that that would have
when everything from our banking infrastructure to our military capabilities. This seems to be
from my perspective, you know, just one in a continuing thing number of
things that we're seeing Russia doing, which looks like a preparation in case there
is a greater military conflict with NATO and with the US in particular. We
know that they you know, we just heard, yes, they also about
Department of Justice taking down a cyber operation by Russian military intelligence which was focusing
on US based critical infrastructure companies. We know that Russia has conducted for years
cyber attacks directed at penetrating not only our election infrastructure, but our banking,
our power, our water infrastructure. We know that from conversations you and I
have had that for years. Russia has been engaged in any operation or information
warfare against the United States where they've sought to disrupt our elections. They've sought
to so discord across the populace. They've sought to influence elections so that politicians
friendlier to their causes could be put into power. They've sought to inspire violence,
undermine faith and confidence in the US government, disrupt our relationship with our
NATO allies. They're targeting our NATO allies in a similar manner. Again,
their goals. Russia's goal is not just to annoy US, it's not to
compete with us on an equal footing, but it's to weaken us so that
they can achieve their geopolitical objectives. So this debate in Washington that's going on
right now, it's important for people to listen to the debate. You can
have different views, but you need to look at the debate that's going on
in Washington within the context of the national security threat that Russia poses to the
United States. Okay, and we will be watching John Cohen, Thank you,
so much for the information. Boy, we got a lot to watch
out for with Russia on. Yeah, and I hate to sound depressing on
a Friday morning, but you know, we just need to stay on top
of this absolutely. John Cohen, thank you so much for your time this
morning. Nice talking to you. All right, take care. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Gone on, the jam gone again, Well maybe not. At the
popular Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palace, Birdies. It's been close for an unknown
amount of time because of accelerated land movement in the area. The church says
there's no public access. The one hundred seat glass chapel opened in nineteen fifty
one and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in twenty twenty three. Couples
with confirmed wedding reservations will be given refunds. News brought to you by Simper
Solaris. A man from Santa Ana's been charged with leaving his eighty two year
old mother in such horrible hoarder conditions she died of septic shock. This was
in no way an accident. This is a murder. Orange County DA spokeswoman
Kimberly Ed says Richard Towers's mother was left with hundreds of roaches scurrying around the
feces and urencrusted floors. This woman was found in horder like conditions. She
was covered in dried feces and multiple bedstores, including a sore that had left
bone exposed on her head. It says Towers refused a welfare check in December,
and his mother died of septic shock last month. She says, despite
prosecutor objections, a judge gave the guy just a five thousand dollars bail In
Orange County, Corbin Carson CAFI News. The FDA has approved the first ever
medication to treat severe frostbite. Officials say aurelium will reduce the risk of amputation
by dilating blood vessels so the blood can flow easily. The injection also prevents
clotting. Official say in extreme cases of frostbite, tissues can freeze, causing
the blood flow to stop. When we come back, we're getting spaced out
with our house whisper dean sharp stick around for that. Southline. Weather from
KFI becoming partly Sunday with highs in the mid sixties at the beaches around seventy
inland, fifties to low sixties for the high desert. Partly cloudy with highs
in the sixties Tomorrow, More cloud Sunday, with a chance of rain by
late Sunday than the rain's really expected to come down Monday and Tuesday could be
heavy at times, will dry out on Wednesday. It's fifty six in Irvine,
fifty six in Lahabra. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from
KFI AM six forty. Alexey Navalney, one of the biggest critics of Russian
President Ladimir Putin, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti Kremlin protests,
has died in prison. He was forty seven. Nine firefighters have been
hurt in an explosion of a big rigs fuel tank that sent a fireball into
the air. One was critically injured taken to a burn unit. Another was
critically injured. The tractor was fueled by compressed natural gas in two one hundred
gallon tanks. One of them exploded about six minutes after firefighters arrived on the
scene in Wilmington early yesterday. Tiger Woods is one of eleven golfers tied for
forty ninth place, eight strokes off the lead heading into today's second round of
the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club. It's Wood's first official PGA Tour
event since having his ankle fused last April. Woods withdrew from the Masters a
couple weeks ago. At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Another person has managed to get on a plane to Lax without a ticket or
id if I poin fifty, We're going to be talking with our entertainment GURUIX
Jason Nathanson about a sticky new movie and what high fashion has to do with
the Nazis. Let's say good morning now to the house whisper and the host
of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. Good morning Dean, Good morning
Amy. So we're going to get spaced out a little bit today, a
little bit, just a little bit. This weekend on the show, we're
continuing our series on how to Build Your Dream Home step by step guide,
and we're really going to be focusing on some really high concepts in design.
And yet these are the things that I love so much because they have the
potential to save so many people so much money. And wait, starting money.
I like that idea exactly exactly, and it's starting off with this idea
of the difference between space and spaciousness. Okay, space and spaciousness. Now,
space is a mathematical absolute. It is how much room is in your
house. Period. You measure the walls, you do the math. You're
like, well, I have x amount of square foot, I have fifteen
hundred square feet, I've got two thousand square feet, I've got twelve hundred
square That's it. That is the math, that is the hard reality.
Spacious Ness has nothing to do with that. Spaciousness has to do with the
design, the layout of that space and whether it feels like there is room.
Spaciousness is a very emotional kind of psychological concept. And the reason why
that is so important is that most people who are feeling like, uh,
I just I don't feel like I have enough room around here, they think,
all right, I'm going to have to add on. And let me
tell you, it's not that that's the wrong move. It's just you got
to know, adding on to your home is expensive. It is expensive.
You pour a lot of money literally into the ground, into the foundation and
up on the roof where you never these are is that you don't on a
daily basis live and breathe and experience all of the investment that you've made.
And so when we go into a design project, when it is a remodel
and not a new build, one of the things that I challenge our clients
on is, hey, let's do our best to rework and tune up everything
that you've already got create as much spacious ness as possible so that and you
know this happens maybe eight times out of ten, we don't have to expand
the envelope of the house, and the money that you spend all goes towards
that esthetic experience that you're actually looking for in your home. Okay, so
Dane, what are a few things that we can do, just real quick,
maybe bullet point a couple of things that you can make your home more
spacious. Well, one of the things you do is you evaluate the way
you move and flow through the space. What's in the way do you find
yourself stepping out of the way of things in order to get from point A
to point B. If that's the case, we want to try and rectify
that. Another thing that's so critical, and this is mostly important, the
smaller a house gets and that is where do we have our vistas, Where
do we have our windows, Where do we have our openings to the outside
world, Because the more we can see of the outside world, the more
spacious the space that we're standing in fields And you know what, you brought
up the story of Wayfarer's Chapel. That is one of my favorite structures in
all of southern California. I don't know if you know, but the famous
architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It's his son that designed Wayfarer's Chapel, Lloyd Wright,
Frank Junior. And it's been there since the nineteen fifties. And it
is a relatively small space. Yeah, it's only one hundred seater exactly.
It sets one hundred people, which makes it just a little larger than our
performance theater on the fifth floor of the station here. And yet all of
that glass, all of the view, all of the trees just outside that
basically are visually brought inside. No one ever walks into that space and doesn't
feel as if it's spacious. And those are the kinds of tricks that we're
talking about. Okay, so here's here's another one. Because I have a
relatively small. Okay, it's really small. I have a very small living
space, but it does have it has higher ceilings and it's got windows.
And then on the but on the backside, it doesn't have windows because it's
on the side of a hill. So I got this big piece of art
that looks like it's a wide open space and it makes the space feel bigger.
There you go. You also mentioned high ceilings, the higher we can
get a ceiling even in a small room. What we're doing is we're creating
volume. We're not increasing square footage, but we're increasing the volume of the
room, and the room just feels room me or so. Yeah, there
are all of these steps, and there are a one hundred more that we're
going to be talking about this weekend of things that we can really analyze.
Now, you can't get them all done in every house, but if you
know what the list is, you can apply at least a few of them
to your space and hopefully not have to expand it out and spend your money
inside the envelope that you're already working in. See, I told you we
were going to get spaced out with Dean and you can continue this conversation six
to eight Saturday nine to noon Sunday, It's Home with Dean Sharp right here
on KFI. You're also going to be talking about the International Building Show,
our Builders Show in Vegas at the end of the month, and some of
the really cool new things that they have available for you do it yourselfers.
Yes, little teases from IBS and yeah, I know those are terrible initials.
Yeah. I was like, hey, I don't want to talk about
IBS. Yeah, we going to IBS this month. I don't know.
Yeh, how's your diet? I'm not sure, but yeah, that's true.
Okay, thank you so much, Dean. Have a wonderful day and
we'll be looking forward to listening to you Saturday and Sunday morning. Thanks Amy.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Seven hundred and twenty thousand fentanyl pills have been seized from
a car near the border in San Diego County. Attorney General Rob Bonta called
the bus last week massive, saying he's grateful for the work of the special
agents and law enforcement partners who worked together to get these dangerous drugs off the
street. The guy driving the car was arrested. Bonta says the California Department
of Justice will prosecute the case. News brought to you by Semper Solaris.
A sixty year old woman has been arrested for a fatal hit and run crash
in Canoga Park. Detectives say a silver Toyota Camry and a dark colored Sedan
were speeding on Tipega Canyon Boulevard January thirty first, when the cars collided and
one of them slammed into a light pole. Investigators are trying to figure out
if the crash involved street racing or possibly road rage. And The Pacific Air
Show has plans to build a runway on the sand in Huntington Beach to bring
planes even closer to fans. The Pacific Air Show has become the number one
air show by attendants in the United States. Pacific Air Show director Kevin Elliott
says the beach runway will be a world's first for air shows. While the
temporary runway will add a lot of value for ticket holders, it will leave
no impact on the beach or the surrounding environment. Elliott landed on the beach
in one of the planes yesterday to preview this year's lineup. We will have
fan favorites back the US Air Force Thunderbirds, the F twenty two Raptor Demo
Team, the A ten Demo team. The show runs the first weekend of
October in Huntington Beach, Corbin Carson, KFI News. You're listening to Wake
Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A storm headed towards southern California could bring
several rounds of heavy rain, even thunderstorms. Forecasters say the brunt of the
storm's gonna hit the area late Sunday through Tuesday, with two to five inches
of rain possible in the valleys and coastal areas, four to eight inches in
the foothills and mountain areas. Ellie County is being given sixty days to fix
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to make it happen. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment
guru, our friend Jason Nathanson. Jason Madam Webb is out. It's the
latest superhero movie to get horrible reviews. Uh yeah, and this one getting
more bad reviews than any I think I've ever seen in history. Right now,
it's thirteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes with the critic reviews fifty four percent from
the audience, which is that's a real terrible score. Because usually even if
the critics savage something, there are enough people who go like it and they
see it and they enough that they like it. But this is this is
pretty bad. And I can tell you that when I saw it, I
came out of it going, was that as bad as I thought it was?
And then I started to see, you know, there's an embargo on
the review, so I didn't see reviews for another week or so, and
the reviews were as bad as I thought it was. So we're all in
agreement. This movie is pretty terrible. Okay, but tell us what because
I saw a preview for it, and I was like, what is this?
Is she Spider Man but Spider Girl? Who what she is? Not?
No, so this is a completely different character. This is this is
just a different character. It's in the Spider Man universe. Okay, this
is a Sony Marvel Spider So like think Morbius in some of those other spin
offs that we've seen that don't have Spider Man in them, and Spider Man
is not in this one. But it is very clear that this does take
place in the same universe in which Spider Man exists. But does she get
bit by a radioactive spider? She does not get bit by a radioactor.
I mean, you know, some things, I can't give away everything.
You know, you got to go see it. There's got to be some
mystery to it, all, right. But Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra Webb,
who is a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future,
and she realizes she can use that power to then change the future.
She ends up teaming up with three teens, including one played by Sidney Sweeney.
And you know, Dakota Johnson is fine here. She's not the issue.
Sidney Sweeney is fine, and the acting for the most part, is
fine. There's a villain here, though, perhaps the one of the worst
ever put on film, just in terms of his motivations are completely unclear.
The dialogue is so bad, there's so much exposition, and then they still
don't explain the things that need to be explained properly. The action scenes are
pretty terrible, and you know, if you're going for something like this,
at least the action should be, you know, on a somewhat decent level.
Are you talking about the Marvels now? Because that's how I felt about
the Marvels. No, I like the Marvels. See, I didn't like
it at all. I had no problem with the Marvels. The Marvels.
The Marvels was fine, and any issues with that I think has to do
more with superhero fatigue and the universes and having to know too much about this
series and that series and this movie and combining here. You don't have to
know anything going in about any of it because there's no connection here for this
movie to any of the other movies that you might have seen or are going
to see. And they clearly set this up for hopefully they wanted this to
be a franchise. From what we've seen so far of the numbers, this
is not going to get a sequel, and nobody should green light this.
But the real crazy thing here to me is the fact that this had to
go through so many levels of bureaucracy to get made. This is a major
studio film from Sony, so that means exactly katives were involved in the scripts,
in the dailies. So many people had eyes on this before it got
to the screen, and so for something to get to the screen, which
is this kind of poorly made is pretty shocking in this day and age.
Yeah, I feel that way about several things. You think about, like
you just said, all the eyes that have to go, all the gates
that it has to you know that it has to go through. That is
somebody at some point has to go. We need to either change this or
not do it, you know, because there's so many talented people out there,
right And you know, I've felt this way now about a couple movies
the past couple of weeks. Argyle was one of them, Lisa Frankenstein last
week, which I give a little bit of a more grace to, even
though it ultimately didn't work for me. You had people trying things out for
the first time, and sometimes that just doesn't work. This is a studio
superhero movie. They should know the formula by now, and unfortunately they it
just does not work. Okay, let's shift over to streaming. I just
recently started watching Life and Death, which is the show about Amy Schumer on
Hulu, and great news for me because I just found out season two is
dropping. Yes, Season two is all out today. So if you like
that, you can go you can go watch that. I mean, there's
not a whole lot to say about it. You know, it's not I
don't know that it's a show that needs a whole lot of explanation. It's
loosely based on her life. It's comedy, it's drama, it's kind of
all the things. It's kind of a slow moving just kind of hang out
and watch it. But it's really interesting. And do you think I think
Amy Schumer does a really good job not being funny. Yeah, she does.
And she does a very good job of being self effacing and really putting
a lot of her life out there and not shying away from the messy parts,
which continues in season two. Okay, and then shoot, we're running
out of time. I hate when this happens. Jason. The new look
on Apple TV Plus, is it worth a look? Yeah? I love
the new Look on Apple TV Plus. This is a great series. This
is It's a World War two story told, but a story that you don't
know a lot of the times we know the beats of these these shows.
This is the story of Christian Dior, the fashion designer, and Coco Chanel
during World War Two in Paris, during Nazi occupied Paris. The true story,
Yes, okay, what they had to go through, the allegiances that
they had to, the sides they had to pick it. You know,
we've seen so many World War two things to get something new is pretty rare,
and this is so well done and the cast is fantastic. Ben Mendelton,
Juliette Binoche, Mayzie Williams, John Malkovich, Emily Mortimer, Glenn Close
in a guest role. You know, I thought, like fashion and World
War two? Is that going to work? And it does beautifully? And
is z Apple doing what they normally do? Dropping two and then you have
to wait? Wee can three loads out now and then one new one weekly?
I know what I'm doing this weekend. Thank you, Jason Nathanson,
have a wonderful weekend. You two take it all right before we get out
of here and wrap up wake up call for this week. First, thank
you so much for spending part of your day with us. Second, for
the faithful, there's a fishy option. So it's Lent, so no me,
right or is it just on Fridays. I'm not sure because I'm not
Catholic, I'm a Lutheran. But the filet of fish is back at McDonald's.
So from now today until the end of March, southern California, McDonald's
restaurants are offering two ninety nine filet of fish sandwiches every Friday in the spirit
of Lent and the Year of the Dragon. The Lunar New Year Celebration is
happening this weekend in San Bernardino and it's happening Saturday from eleven to five the
Court Street Square Park and you can expect cultural music performances, food vendors,
art galleries, and much much more. There's other You're the Dragon Lunar New
Year celebrations. There's one in Alhambra on Sunday. Also check one out at
the Santa Monica Place. So if you want to do Lunar New Year,
we got lots for you. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me
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