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Good morning. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Thursday,
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King. So glad you're getting your day started with us today. We got
lots coming up for you. Urus big daycause is the big debate. We'll
be talking about that. That's a whole lot more. Wanted to remind you
to that. Yesterday we talked to Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut Colonel Nick
Kay about his upcoming trip to the International Space Station, and if you missed
that interview, it's so worth a listen. So we talk about some of
his training because his missions about two months away right now. He's actually in
Los Angeles this week doing some training. And we also got to talk about
the astronauts who are stuck up on the Space station because they can't catch a
ride home on the Starliner because there's some issues with that so we talked about
that a whole lot more, and you can listen to it on the iHeartRadio
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We've got a web page with that interview and all of the other interviews we've
had with Colonel Haig, and again we're hoping to talk to him one more
time before he launches for the International Space Station a little bit later this summer.
But again, a really interesting interview and such a nice man and so
informative. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The first debate of the
twenty twenty four presidential election is just hours away. The debate's going to last
ninety minutes, no audience, and Biden and Trump's microphones will be u when
it's not their turn to speak. We're going to be talking with ABC's Karen
Travers about how the candidates are preparing and what we can expect tonight from Atlanta.
The state of California has followed the lead of the La School District in
efforts to ban cell phones and schools. The Senate Education Committee unanimously passed to
bill yesterday that would require school districts to limit or ban students from using cell
phones during the school day. Governor Newsom came out in support of that plan
last week. NBC is going to be using artificial intelligence of Al Michaels for
the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics. It's using generative AI software to recreate the
sportscaster's voice to provide Olympic recaps. For Peacock. Michaels did approve of the
plan. He said he was astonished after hearing a sample broadcast. At the
bottom of the hour, we're going to find out, actually, we're going
out and about to find out about one of the best stakes, not in
Los Angeles, not in the country, but in the whole world, and
it's right here in La I'm going to give you a hint. We got
to catch up with the one and only world renowned chef Curtis Stone, so
be listening for that again. Coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Metro's board of directors is meeting to discuss an in house Police
Department after another fatal stabbing of a Metro rider. The person was attacked in
South La on Tuesday afternoon just after getting off the bus. Police say two
riders got into a fight. One of them pulled out a knife and stabbed
the other one several times. Metro says violence in the communities it serves spilling
over onto the public transit system continues to be an issue. In Greater LA.
Police have cut the fuse on an illegal fireworks stash in Guardina. It's
seventy five tons of illegal fireworks. The rate of a warehouse by Guardina police
investigators marked the largest bus in California history. Guardia Police Lieutenant Chris Cuff says
five trailers and one big rigor used to remove the fireworks. The fireworks,
as can tained, were very stable and able to be transported without any issues
of that so there was no detonation. Please say they believe the illegal fireworks
found last week were valued between seven to ten million dollars. Three people were
arrested in Guardina Blake Trolley k if I News. Somehow, I think that
that's going to fail to make a huge dent in the amount of fireworks that
are going off on July fourth around Los Angeles. I remember last year was
sitting there and it's just it's like a war zone from about eight o'clock at
night until about midnight. Just crazy. A pair of giant pandas are on
their way from China to the San Diego Zoo. A farewell ceremony was held
in Beijing yesterday before the pandas, yun Chuan and Zinbao, began their trip
to Southern California. They're going to need a few weeks to get used to
their new home before they are going to be viewable to the public. They'll
be living in San Diego for the next five years as part of a nearly
thirty year partnership between China and the San Diego Wildlife Alliance. Let's take a
first look at your morning commute with Russell Ford. We've got a crash in
Santa Anna on the five and it's a bad one. Yeah. Unfortunately,
that's on the southbound side of the five, right before seventeenth Street. That
crash has the four right lanes blocked. Looks like there might be about eight
lanes there, so try to stay up to the left hand side, including
the car poolane. Looks like CCHP is opening that one up for you.
Traffic right now completely locked up from the twenty two. If you can,
you might want to try to find an alternate route around that. You might
be able to take the twenty two down to the fifty five. If you're
heading down into Irvine in mid city on the ten eastbound, right before Crunshaw
Boulevard, there's a crash block in the right lane. Looks like a detached
trailer is over there in the right and in Castaic. Looks like that earlier
crash has now been actually cleared out of the way. Just now on the
five northbound at Demplin Highway. Some great news. It does look like your
drive time is now starting to recover with Southern California's only airborne traffic reports.
I'm Russell fully oh, I love good news when it comes to traffic.
Thank you, Russell. It's a five seven and let's say good morning now
to ABC's Karen Travers. Well, it's a big night tonight and Karen has
her finger on the pulse of debate, debate prep and what to expect.
So Karen tell us what we can expect. Yeah, it is finally debate
night it's we've been talking about it for years. Yeah, it was joking.
It's like that two weeks before the Super Bowl, where like you're just
anticipating it and now finally it is here. But it's gonna be a long
day and a lot of anticipation before nine o'clock Eastern time tonight when the two
candidates finally take that stage. But you know, the President is still waking
up at Camp David today after nearly a week with his campaign advisors, white
House advisors doing policy sessions, mock debates. He'll travel down to Atlanta tonight,
of course for the debate, and then you know, notably after he's
going to do an event after the debate, stop by a watch party in
Atlanta and meet with some people who had gathered together to tune into the debate.
Supporters of his in Atlanta. Campaign is touting the fact that they're doing
parties like this in all fifty states. Twelve thousand people are gathering just in
the battlegrounds alone, and they're trying to use that to support and enthusiasm for
their side. Tonight. It's like the finale of Bachelor. Watch parties all
over the country are the same dramas don't know. Yeah, So on Trump's
side, is he doing watch parties too or is It's not that I have
seen in an organized way, but I'm sure in some sort of organic way
they'll be happening. Okay, So what are the polls saying as we head
into this debate? You know, there was a poll yesterday from Quinnipiac that
showed Donald Trump with a slight lead of Joe Biden among registered voters, all
within the margin of error. I thought it was also interesting that showed that
a majority of registered voters seventy three percent, say they're going to tune in
tonight to the debate. So there's heavy interest and that's exactly what both campaigns
would like to see. They want to have a big audience for this evening.
We had a new survey out today with our partners at five point thirty
eight. When you look at the average of polls showing that it's a dead
heat, I mean, it is very close. And this is where tonight
becomes so important because for the Biden campaign, they say they are really hoping
that this is a big opportunity for the president to make his case to that
critical group of undecided voters. It might not be a large group of undecided
voters because people seem to know what they want to do in November, but
they're going to be the ones that decide this race in those critical battleground states,
and we're looking at handful of voters in maybe just a handful of states.
Well, and you had mentioned that seventy five percent people are saying they're
going to watch it, which I think is great because I think people should
be watching these things and listen to what the candidates have to say. We
had our social media gown. Nihaw was out and she went and asked a
bunch of people and asked them basically what we're talking about. Do you have
your mind made up? Are you undecided? Several were undecided. Everyone said
they weren't watching the debate. Couple didn't know that it was happening. Of
course, it's Los Angeles, and I'm like, how do you not know
there's a debate? And then most of them that she asked, I mean
was small sampling, but most of the people she asked basically said the debate's
not going to sway their vote. Interesting, I know, so I think
maybe everybody's looking for just to see the show. You know, yeah,
you know, And you're not the first person this morning that's told me that
that. You know, there are a lot of people tuning in just to
see what these the dynamics between the two of them are like, and to
see whether it evolves into the shouting matches that we saw frequently in their twenty
twenty showdowns. You know, remember that famous line that we heard from the
President where he finally after they're going back and forth and Donald Trump was interrupting
him, and he just said, will you shut up? Man? Like
that got so much play back then, And you know, the campaigns don't
necessarily want it to be like that, but the rules will be a little
different this year and maybe preventing that. Their microphones will only be turned on
when it is their turn to answer, so in theory, even if the
other is trying to jump in, you won't necessarily hear them loud and clear.
Now, they're only eight feet apart, and they have pretty good microphones,
the kind of they're called goose neck microphones that come really high up,
so it's likely you'll pick them up when they're talking, but it won't be
in theory that same shotting match that we saw last time around. Yeah,
and I think that's going to be an interesting factor too, because how much
are you going to hear one of them going, oh, shut up,
you're wrong, you know, just off mic, right or exactly? Or
are they going to be really directional because they can do that with microphones and
make them, you know, more directional where you can't hear anything that's really
off mic. Yeah, and awkward to be. You could hear the moderators
telling the candidate to stay out of it, but you don't actually hear the
candidate. So that's going to be interesting. A lot of things to be
paying attention to tonight, and we will be paying attention. Karen Travers,
thank you so much for your information. We'll join you tonight. Thank you,
all right, talk soon. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the Case four hour newsroom. The LA Police Commission wants to
know when patrols at that abandoned graffiti tower in downtown LA will end. The
answer is unclear, Interim LAPED Chief Dominic Choi told the Commission on Tuesday.
Ocean Wide Plaza is taking resources from the department, but isn't safe enough to
be left alone. There has to be an end in sight, because,
as you alluded to, we can't continue to police a private entity. The
multi billion dollar project was abandoned by its developer and left unfinished. It was
covered in graffiti from top to bottom by vandals earlier this year. The property
is now in bankruptcy court and set to go to auction later this year in
downtown La Michael Monks KFI News Officials in the Santa Clarita Valley are looking for
man they say tried to kidnap a child outside of swimming pool. Ellie Kenny
Sheriff's Department says a guy went up to the kid on June thirteenth outside the
Valencia Hills Homeowners Association community pool. Officials say the eight year old boy was
able to get away on his bike. A father has filed a sixty five
million dollar claim against the La County Department of Child Services for not protecting his
infant son from the boy's mom and grandfather in Lancaster. The baby died in
February at his mom's house from fentanyl consumption. The dad says the agency should
have known the child was in an unsafe environment. His lawyers say the mom
and her father were on a drug drug binge at the time of the death,
and that their drug history was well documented. The lawsuit claims the boy's
father wanted custody, but the system placed his son with his mother, only
giving him visitation rights. The head of Homeland Security says the screening process used
by the FEDS cannot predict whether migrants will commit crimes once they're released. He
was referring to the killing of a twelve year old girl in Texas last week
by two illegal immigrants. Secretary Alejandro Majorcis says the killers have been caught in
charge. The individual who's responsible for a heinous criminal act is the criminal,
and we need to bring the full force of the law to bear on that
criminal. He says, the murder of a twelve year old girl is tragic.
The US State Department says Russia is holding a show trial for detained American
reporter Evan Gershkovich. It started yesterday. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says Gerskovich
should not be in prison for doing his job. Journalism is not a crime,
and that Evan should never have been detained in the first place. Gerskovich
was arrested in March of last year, accused of spying for the US.
Amazon's Prime Day sale this year will be held July sixteenth and seventeen, so
just a couple of weeks away. Tech product review website ng gadget reports that
early sales are going to include a four pack of air tags for twenty dollars
off, as well as deals on the MacBook Pro ooh, might have to
look at that one, Apple Watch Series nine and the Apple Pencil pro.
It says. Amazon is also offering five months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free.
It's usually fifty dollars. I listened to Joel's advice. I wasn't using
my Amazon Music service, so I canceled it. Maybe i'll get it back
free. Joel Larsgard has such great information for us to save money. A
new poll out just before the presidential debate tonight says former President Trump has taken
the lead over President Biden nationally. The Quinnipiac poll finds Trump now leads President
Biden forty nine to forty five percent. You can hear the CNN presidential debate
tonight at six on CNN and simulcast right here on KFI Marilyn Monroe's home in
La is now an historical landmark. The La City Council voted unanimously to give
the home in Brentwood the designation after lots of talking with the owners of the
property who wanted to tear it down. The twenty nine hundred square foot home
was the only one ever owned by Monroe, and it is where she died
in nineteen sixty two. Loneliness could be a factor in whether you have a
stroke. A new study shows that older Americans who reported being chronically lonely at
a fifty six percent higher stroke risk than those who rated their loneliness level as
low at six oh five. It's handled on the news. LA's school district
and the state col ad ban cell phones at school. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana, what we have here is
a failure to communicate. Both the US and Israel are working to fix it,
though right his team, saying that he has worked through some of the
snags and bottleneck on armed shipments and that he's hopeful that things will improve.
Having said that the United States made it clear behind closed doors that they are
still holding up that one shipment of heavy munitions, those two thousand pound bombs
that the President was so worried would be used, you know, in areas
where there were a lot of civilians shelter in Rafa, that central Goalsen city,
which Israel says that its operations they're about to actually wrap up. So
you know, this is a good sign. I think you saw the Defense
Minister during his several days in Washington really trying to put any dispute between the
allies back behind closed doors, you know, taking the absolute opposite attack of
the Israeli Prime Minister who seemed to be picking a fight last week. And
that of course has tied to what's happening on the northern border here in Israel
of fighting has intensified with hasbel Lah over the last several weeks, peaking with
about six hundred and fifty cross border attacks about ten days ago, which really
alarmed everybody and signaled that Israel and Haswollah are both, you know, really
just creeping up to the line where they could cross over into an all out
war. And now it seems that the United States is working very hard to
try to see if they can carve out some kind of diplomatic solution to the
north, and Israel says it is giving that time, but it is also
preparing for war. We just got a notice from the Israeli Army that they
finished a whole series of exercises in the north along the northern border, simulating,
you know, fighting with Hezbollah. Okay, so when you're talking about
these these cross border attacks, so they're both firing Hesbola started at Israel's retaliating,
I'm guessing and I'm wondering are they hitting anything or are they just kind
of firing off just to say, hey, we're here and we're attacking.
Or are they I mean, are they hitting buildings? Are the bombs falling
or the missiles falling in fields? What's being hit? All Right, that's
a great question. I think the intensity of the fighting in Gaza overshadowed what
has been going on along the northern border for many, many months, and
we've seen Israel carry out attacks on southern Lebanon, targeted attacks, killing They've
killed over four hundred Husbolla fighters, some of them commanders, and Husboa has
fired thousands of missiles and rockets and anti tank missiles and even suicide drone attacks.
Over the last several months, there's been incredible damage done to the communities
up that the Israeli communities along the north, the northern border with southern Lebanon
and on the been a lot of damage to homes there. They're about eighty
thousand Lebanese that have fled norths and about sixty five thousand Israelis that have fled
south. So that area is largely right now emptied out of civilians. But
we saw during that escalation just ten days ago that has Bulah started to fire
even deeper into Israeli territory where people are not evacuated, and Israel also started
to fire deeper into Lebanese territory. So you know, this is a very
Again, there are these very critical moments we've had in the war, and
I think this is another one of them coming up where we're going to see
active, fierce, intense combat come to a close in the Gaza Strip probably
in the next two to three weeks, and then there's going to be a
window, certainly where the US is going to push for a renewed Gazza seasfire
and at the same time to try to solve the problem in the north.
The US wants to carve out an agreement that will push Hasbollah further north off
of Israel's northern border and declare it again a demilitarized zone. Remember back in
two thousand and six when these two went to war. After that war,
there was a UN resolution passed seventeen oh one where the area about twenty miles
off of Israel's border was supposed to be demilitarized. Well, has Bola over
the years came in and turned it into you know, a very active military
zone with fighters and storing weapons and everything else. So you know, the
aim here by the you know, the United States wants a diplomatic solution that
of course would then avoid a larger war. And is there any motivation for
Hesbola to comply with any kind of resolution that would create that or recreate the
de militarized zone. I mean, it just seems like they're just well,
going and going, and yeah, they're not really paying attention to what we
want. Right. Well, has Bola operates, right, they're an Iranian
back terror group, but they also have a very strong political presence in Lebanon,
and they've lost a lot of their what was once their hefty political influence
in parliament in Lebanon. They're under a lot of criticism for various other issues.
Remember that huge blast that happened at the Berout coort Hasbala who is keeping
chemicals stored unsafely there? And so the pressure that can be put on Husbala
is really by the Lebanese government the other factions, because if Husbala decides that
it wants war with Israel, and right now I think both Hasbala and Israel
would prefer not to have a war. But if it comes to that,
Hasbala will be blamed by Lebanon for dragging it into an even more dire economic
and political situation, because you know, Israel will not just keep its fighting
to southern Lebanon against Cosbola, they will go after infrastructure and other parts of
Beirute, knowing that Hesbela will be blamed for that. So the states for
Hesbalala actually are high. I mean, they don't want to be destroyed or
kicked out of Lebanon. This is Iran's influence in Lebanon, and so they're
not so keen to go to war and either as the United States, I
would say, of the three parties, Israel is probably the party that would
favor war more than the others because they have, you know, many of
their residents are evacuated. And on top of that, they have a lot
of troops already called up, they're trained from Gaza. They're in kind of
war mode. The countries in war mode. The Americans, you know,
the warships are here for backing. We've had a dry run already with the
attack from Iran. So you know, for Israel, though, the Prime
Minister and the Defense Minister say they're going to get to plant and safe champ.
If you look at any of the three parties, Israel's kind of the
strongest motive to go to war, all right, and the not bright spot.
But maybe the positive thing that I'm going to have as my takeaway from
today is that you said that it sounds like the operation in Rafa is going
to wind down in the next couple of weeks and we'll see what happens after
that. Yes, absolutely, I mean we heard it first from the military
leaders and then the Prime minister. It is it should wrap up in the
next two or three weeks, and by the way, without a major assault
on the city and with most of the civilians having fled, and that horrible
scenario of the world was worried about with tens of thousands of civilians killed did
not happen. Well, that is another positive thing then, Jordanna Miller,
thank you so much for the information, and we'll check in with you again
very soon, because we know you're following this very closely and we need to
keep learning about it. Talk too. All right, take care, Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the CAMFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Three Jewish students at UCLA have asked a judge to make the university
ban pro Palestinian camps on campus. So students first filed a lawsuit in May
accusing the university of allowing anti Semitic activities on school grounds. Attorney Jordan Varberg
says his clients and other Jewish students were blocked from entering certain parts of the
campus for up to a week. The UCLA is aware of the lawsuit.
They filed an appearance in the case. We have not heard their substantive response
to the allegations yet, he says. A motion filed Monday asked the court
to make sure Jewish students have equal access to the school. A judge is
expected to hear from both the university and the Jewish students next month. Chris
Adler KFI News, the homeless man accused of attacking a teenage girl and two
women near the pier and Santa Monica has been charged with attempted murder, assault
and other crimes. He is doing court today. Juwan Garnett allegedly beat the
teen girl Monday morning, attacked a homeless woman who jumped in to try to
stop him, and then tried to drown an elderly woman in the ocean.
Barnette is a convicted sex offender, too Sure Bird. In a rather cruel
twist of fate, Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress Gena Rowlands, known for
her performance in The Notebook, is living with Alzheimer's. Her son, Nick
Cassavetti's, who directed his mom in the movie twenty years ago, says it's
crazy because they lived it, she acted, and now it's on them.
Rowlands played the older version of Ali in The Notebook. The two thousand and
four film grows to one hundred and seventeen million dollars at the worldwide box office.
It's known as one of the most popular romantic films. GENA. Rowlands
is ninety four and it's one of my worst cry movies, ugly cry movies
of all time. I love that movie, but I cannot watch it again
because I know that it just makes me ball like a baby. The La
County Department of Public Health has warned people to stay out of the water at
eighteen Beach Is because of high bacteria levels. People are being told not to
swim, surf, or play in the water citing those high bacteria levels.
Beaches include Santa Monica Beach, Dockwhiler, the Malibu and Santa Monica Piers,
and Mother's Beach in Marina del Rey. The Supreme Court is reportedly going to
allow emergency abortions based on a document accidentally posted online. Bloomberg got the document
when it was, according to a Supreme Court spokeswoman, inadvertently uploaded. The
spokesperson says the ruling has not been released, but it could be released when
several other decisions are handed down later this week. WNBA rookie superstar Caitlin Clark,
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and Dodger sluggers shohe Otani are among the top
nominees for this year's sb Awards. The SPS will be hosted by Serena Williams,
happening July eleventh in La. Of course, the presidential debate is just
a few hours away, coming up on Handle in the news, Bill's Gonna
Wait and on that World's Best Steaks dot com has come out with its twenty
twenty four list of the best steaks in the whole wide world. We checked
out the list and found that one of those is not only in La,
not only in the USA, but it's one of the best in the country.
But it's here in La. It's world renowned chef curtistone Gwen on Sunset
Boulevard. We got to catch up with Curtis Stone, and I have to
tell you we did get to talk to Curtis, but it was in the
kitchen at his restaurant and there are big old industrial fans going because all of
his steaks are cooked on an open flame. So the fans are going because
of course safety first, so there are some background noise. But ladies and
gentlemen, Curtis Stone and thanks for letting us come out to check out Gwen
and your fabulous steaks. Oh you're so welcome. How you know I am
great? So I want to hear about this fabulous restaurant of yours. Tell
us about what makes Gwen so great that it got ranked one of the best
in the whole world. Well, look, I think when it comes to
eating steak, there's everything that happens before it gets to the chef, and
that's really important. That goes right back to the farmer, a rancher,
right, Like what breed of cattle is it? What feed does that feed
on? At what point is the animal harvested? How long is it aged
for? Because we dry age all of our meats, so that's all farmer
and butcher work. And then we get a wonderful quality steak given to us
in the kitchen. Look at this beauty, isn't that great? So what
you want to see here is a nice layer of fat over the top of
it and then beautiful marbling throughout all of that it does. Yeah, so
that gives it all of its richness. So this is preakstone is the ranch
that we get it from. Where's that the middle of the country. So
it's it's a beautiful quality beef. And we love cooking bridge absolutely, going
and you're a stickler for this kind of thing, like making sure that you're
sourcing it and getting it from good places so that it's sustainably done. That's
a big thing we do right, and we get the best. It doesn't
matter where it comes from. We buy grass fed out of Australia. I
bring in the best wag you. This is grain fed from the United States.
So I just you know, it's all about the quality, okay.
And then of course, once you get a good piece of steak, it's
about how you cook it. So here, when we cook everything over like
fire, okay, so it's not done in ovens or on hand suit or
anything. It's grilled and an oven being straight over, so very primal way
of cooking. We've been cooking over fire for a long period of time.
We burn apple wood here at at the restaurant, and that gives you a
really hot hot, cold, well even the cold smell. Bit, Yeah,
they do. And you don't want it too smoking something like hickory or
mesquite might be too rich in terms of the flavor of that smoke. So
I'll show you. I'll tell you more about the fire when you get there.
Okay. The first thing you need to do is season your steak really
well generously. Okay. Watch all the cooking shows and they say you've got
to salt stuff, you gotta smelt it. Well, I'm a good support
for cooking shows. I like that given me in business. So then you
season all corners and as well with pepper, and just salt and pepper.
I don't see anything else here being prepped, no other dry rub, and
you season all of that steak. If you were to feel it, you'd
feel it's at room temperature. So that's important. So it's called tempering the
beef because you want the inside to get beautifully pink. You don't want to
be gray on the outside, red in the middle. And you know,
so medium rere can mean lots of different things, but for us, tempering
the meat is important. If you let it come up to room temperature,
it'll take much more even then, okay, okay for cooking on your ground.
So let's go out to the fire. So you take that. We're
going to put fat side down first, okay, And you see the little
basket next to it, that's called a brassiro Okay. And it's gonna get
really loud here for a second because we're under the fans. Do neither fans
or we'd start a befoire. So we heard you did that one time.
Oh yeah, it's happened. It's happened a couple of times. That's with
drag some of that col over, and then we pop the steak straight on,
fat side down. We're gonna let that fat just render and caramelize,
okay, and then we'll turn it so we're gonna get all of that delicious
flavor from the smoke, just whispering up and tickling the steak and giving it
a wonderful seat tickling, and then to get that steak to the perfection that
it will be about how long does it take to cook a steak like that?
Will probably take us about thirty five minutes to call wow, and what's
that cut? Now that's a New York strip. It shouldn't take that long.
But let me explain it. We cook it over a hot fire,
so we want that rich caramelization. But then we take it off and let
it rest, then we put it back on. Let me take it off
and let it rest a second time, and then we put it back on.
So we literally cook it in three stages. I haven't heard of that
check. The people always talk about resting protein at the end of the cooking
process, but you should rest it in between during the cooking process as well.
Okay, so we're gonna let that cook yep, and then we're going
to talk a little more about when, because you have something special going on.
I know that you used to have a lunch service and then COVID hit
and wrecked everything. That's right, and so you're still not open for lunch,
but you're reintroducing something that I think people are going to really like and
tell us what that is. So we were making sandwiches at one point here
at when for the lunch hours and everybody loved them. Oh why that?
Well, we were doing over one hundred a day, so it's not really
hard to manage. So what we've done is we've developed three new sandwiches.
They're all braised meat, so braised beef, braised duck, and braised chicken.
So they're hot, they're warm, and like absolutely delicious. We make
homemade, we make the bread, we make the salami that goes into them,
we literally make it all and they're just so delicious. Okay, And
so that is being reintroduced and it's just for takeaway only. It's not for
Dina. That's right. You can come and pick one up. And it's
starting today, so those yeah, and for the first fifty customers, we're
going to give them a free sandwich. So today, tomorrow and Saturday,
Okay, fifty guests they get to eat for free. So we just want
to party with these new seventh They're going to be really cool. And then
are you going to be doing the sandwich service daily or is it weekdays or
how's that going to move forward? Tuesday through Saturday. Tuesday, I'm from
eleven AM and Silk Suit q A. We are out and about with world
renowned chef Curtis Stone at his restaurant Gwen in Hollywood, and the fourth of
July is coming up. Oh yeah, And so for people who are trying
to cook the perfect steak at home, you've given us some great tips.
So are there any things that people really just need to remember as they're doing
their steaks over the fourth of July? First, well, listen, we
have a great butcher shop here at Gwen too, so you literally enter the
restaurant through the butcher shop, so you can come and pick up steaks from
us, or if you're too far, that's fine, but do start with
a good quality cut of beef hot grill. That's the first really important part.
Let your steak temper season it before you put it on the grill.
Okay, turn it once, and then take it off and let it rest
for about five to ten minutes. Put it back on the grill for another
two or three minutes, and turn it again, and that's it. Serve
it very simply, and that's that trick. You got to let it rest
in the middle, and then you're going to have a steak that is curdised,
stoneworthy, awesome. See how it's gotten beautiful and golden brown on the
top. So that's the fact that we've rendered and caramelized. So that's going
to be absolutely delicious. And then you stick it down. The one thing
that we tend to do with meat we put on the grill is we poke
it and prod it, and we touch it and we turn it. Just
leave it. Don't do that. Nothing's going to happen to it, right
Give it that minute to two minutes without touching it, because what's happening is
you're making contact with a really hot grill and that smoke that's coming up that
leeds time for the caramelization to set, so don't mess with it. Just
give it a minute or two and then turn it. Okay. It sounds
so easy, and I also love that you can hear your excitement. You've
been doing this for a really long time and you're so excited about it and
it's infectious. Thank you again, Curtis Stone. We went out and about
to gwen La. It's on Sunset Boulevard. You can see the steak that
Curtis cooked for me and see the interview that we just did on my Instagram
at Amy K King and of course I would love for you to follow me.
You can also find it at a KFI AM six forty, or you
can follow Curtis at Curtis Stone or follow the restaurant at gwen La. And
remember just a reminder today, tomorrow and Saturday, the first fifty people who
show up at gwen for their takeaway will get a free sandwich between eleven am
and two pm. And I've got one of them on my hot little hands
and I'm sharing with the crew this morning and it looks absolutely delicious. Thanks
so much, Curtis Stone. Love that we have like one of the world's
best right here in our own backyard. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new poll says
we can expect high TV ratings for the first debate between President Biden and former
President Trump. ABC's actually it's the first one in four years. ABC's Mary
Bruce says the latest national poll from Quinnipiac University predicts more than seventy percent of
voters are going to be watching tonight. This race continues to be neck and
neck. This new poll shows Donald Trump, though with a slight lead,
up four points nationally. The CNN presidential debate happens at six pm on CNN
and is simulcast right here on KFI. Two Romanian nationals have been charged with
hate crimes for allegedly posing as ICE agents to rob Hispanic people in Orange County.
DA's office spokeswoman Kimberly Eds says the most disturbing part is how brazen the
nineteen year old Robert's behave. They would drive up to people on the street
and their vehicle, identify themselves as immigration agents and demand to see their identification
as well as any cash ed says. The guys claim they were investigating counterfeit
money and would threaten to deport people if they didn't hand over their money and
debit cards. The men also suspected of similar crimes in Contracoster County, Santa
Clara County, and possibly two other states. Well, it has a name
now. A rare white buffalo born in Yellowstone National Park earlier this month,
has been introduced to the world for the first time, as Joaquin Glee,
Lakota Chief Arville Looking Horse says, the white buffalo is very significant to Native
Americans. It's a warning because you know that right now is mother is sick
and has a fever, and the direction that we're going is not good.
But it's a blessing because we can do something about it. The name means
return sacred in Lakota if you would like to return, maybe to your hometown
or maybe just go on vacation. I just came across this thought I would
share. Denver based Frontier Airlines is celebrating thirty years in business. It's one
of those low cost carriers, of course, so they're offering customers twenty nine
dollars one way air airfares on one hundred different routes, and the promotional fares
are going to be available starting at It says ten o'clock mountain time ten pms,
so that's nine pm hour time starting today for travel through November thirteenth.
So the promotional fair is twenty nine dollars starting tonight at nine and it's for
travel for between now and November thirteenth. And the cities with discounted airfares out
of Denver include Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Kansas City,
and a whole bunch of others. Santa Anas one of them. So
if you're looking for a low cost airfare, check that out. Of course,
now that I'm looking at this, I'm not sure if it's just out
of that you have to originate in Denver, but for twenty nine bucks one
way, it's worth a look. See an age old rivalry is on tomorrow,
the Dodgers take on the Giants in San Francisco. The first pitch is
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