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Friday, August twenty five. I'm Amy King. We're there. We're almost
to the weekend. I used to like not say that because I worked on
Saturdays. So now that I actually have Saturdays off, I get really excited
on Fridays. Hopefully you are too. Okay, I got my coffee.
We're ready, let's go. Here's what's ahead on the wake up call.
Thousands of Kaiser workers across the US will vote tomorrow on whether to authorize a
strike. Among other things, workers say they're understaffed and it's creating a pay
crisis. Former President Trump's back in New Jersey after flying to Georgia and being
booked at the Fulton County Jail on racketeering and other charges for an alleged attempt
to overturn the twenty twenty election results. In Georgia, a man's been arrested
for leaving what he said was an exploding toilet outside the Americana at Brand in
Glendale turned out to be a duck. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former President Trump,
as I just mentioned, has been arrested in Georgia for allegedly conspiring with eighteen
others to overturn the state's twenty twenty election results. His former attorney, Tim
Parlatore says he doesn't think a mug shot was necessary and feels Fulton County did
it for optics. The way that they're doing it down in Fulton County is
very different from how they did in New York, and they're very different from
how the Feds did it. Georgia is the fourth criminal case against Trump this
year. Fulton County jail officials say he went through the fingerprinting and mug shut
process yesterday before he was released on two hundred thousand dollars bond. Another store
in Sherman Oaks has been hit by flash mob robbers. LAPD says at least
nine people in masks ransacked the Macy's at Westfield Fashion Square yesterday before they took
off in two cars. Police say one was a Honda Accord with a license
plate number ending in eight O nine. The other was a black Ford Fusion
with a license plate ending in six to seven. Police say the Smash and
grabbers were last seen heading toward the one oh one. THEOC Sheriff says the
man who shot nine people at a biker bar, killing three, first shot
his wife and her friend, then started shooting at random well. This happened
within one hundred and twenty seconds. Sheriff Don Barnes says the retired bent to
a police argeant whose wife was divorcing him, then walked outside Cook's Corner in
tribuke O Canyon. When he retreated to his truck, he gained access to
the third either pistol or revolver, and then access the shotgun. That's at
that point the Depty's responded in two minutes. Investigators say deputies Wednesday fired at
least seventy five rounds. Seven deputies fired upon him or countered him while he
was returning firing upon our deputies. The shooter was killed. His wife is
expected to survive at OC Sheriff Headquarters, Corbin Carson. KFI news leaders in
Pasadena say the city has been a hot spot for new business. The city
credits its success with handling local homelessness and investing in security around shopping areas.
The cities at Lisa Dredarian says other cities have been reaching out for advice.
We get calls to our Economic Development department almost on a daily basis asking how
they can mimic what we already have in place or borrowing some of our resources.
Retail space occupants say in the city was up nearly six percent in the
latest quarter. At least ten new businesses are opening in Pasadena in the next
few months. Health officials in La are warning people to take precautions as COVID
nineteen cases continue to rise. About three hundred thirty people have been admitted to
the hospital with COVID. Reports show a steady increase so at the past six
weeks. This week, officials reported eighty eight active outbreaks, fourteen of them
at workplaces. They say another triple demic could be possible, referring to COVID,
the flu and RSV. CDC officials expect to roll out a new COVID
vaccine sometime next month or early October. We're gonna be talking with ABC's Karen
Travers more about this coming up at five twenty mark Your calendars. September eighth
is Star Trek Day, in honor of the fifty seventh anniversary of the first
broadcast of Star Treks. CBS will are the first two episodes of the Paramount
Plus series Star Trek Strange New Worlds in primetime. September eighth, Jerry O'Connell,
who plays Commander Jack Ransom in the animated Star Trek Lower Decks, will
host a special that looks back at memorable moments in the Star Trek universe over
the years. All lifeforms can watch that for free at Paramount's YouTube, Twitch
at Facebook pages, as well as Star Trek dot com slash Day, which
seems logical Mark ronner Kfi News. Let's now say good morning to ABC's legal
analyst, Royal Oaks. Royal, former President Trump has been processed at the
Fulton County Jail and Georgia. How did it go, Wrail? It went
pretty much as expected. The process of booking was different, of course than
the other indictments other cases, in the sense that there was a mug shot
the president the former president looking very stern, but other than that, no
real excitement there. Next up, of course, is the arraignment, and
that's where the process is that there's a formal charging of the defendants, setting
bail if it hasn't already been negotiated, which it has been in mister Trump's
case, and then of course the inevitable not guilty plea will be entered at
the arraignment the district attorney again once that the week of September five, does
he have to be there for that? You know, President Trump avoided having
to wait in jail before peering in court by negotiating a bail agreement in advance,
so he didn't have to go through that indignity. And it's possible he'll
waive his right to appear at an aarignment at an argy, but he has
the legal right to do that. So the real drama is is he going
to say to himself, every time I appear and my photograph taken, of
course it boosts my fundraising. On the other hand, probably he will skip
it because who wants to have to appear in court and have the judge say
all the bad allegations about you by the prosecution. So I wouldn't bet on
him appearing during that Labor Day week event. Okay, So let's talk about
that mug shot, because in his other indictments he didn't get the mug shot
taken. Why is that something that Georgia requires or was it something that the
DA said I want? Yeah, both. Actually the law says you've got
to have a mug shot, and the district attorney he certainly wanted at The
interesting thing is that Donald Trump was really given special privileges in the other cases
in the sense that the normal process would have required a mug shot. And
we heard comments along the lines of, well, yeah, how many more
pictures that Donald Trump do you really need? But the fact is that it
was just an acknowledgement, sort of a tip of the hat to the fact
that yes, this is not your criminal defendant. We don't need to go
through all of the same hoops and procedures. And some people criticize the DA
up in New York City alfand Bragg on the Stormy Daniels case and the other
matters. But that was just a choice, a discretionary choice by those prosecutors.
Fanny Willis's attitude is helped We're doing this one by the book. Well,
it isn't the purpose of a mug shot one to have a record of
who it is, but because you want to know who the person is.
I mean, everybody knows who Donald Trump is, so is it necessary exactly
exactly, You're right, And that was the common sense approach by the other
prosecutors in the other three cases, putting up with some inevitable criticism by some
people about you. Nobody's above the law, and who cares. If he's
president, Let's treat him exactly the same. Those prosecutors thought, as you
say, we don't really need any first security purposes. For example, another
picture of Donald Trump. If you have a run of the mill criminal defendant,
sometimes you just want as a record a good accurate view of the person.
And of course we have all seen on television where the guy tries to
have a goofy smile or something and the stern photographers, no, you can't
smile. So none of that in this situation, of course. But if
you look at the pictures, and for example or Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump,
it sure looks like it was sort of staged for some sort of campaign
poster, because they didn't look haggard. It wasn't some sort of nick nulty,
you know, torn T shirt kind of ridiculous shot. These guys looked
like they were on a billboard somebody who's looking very stern and saying, you
know what, ladies and gentlemen, they've just weaponized the criminal justice system.
You know what else I thought was interesting about the mug shots is I was
expecting, you know, those the little stripes behind you or the lines,
and it's not. It's a different background. It doesn't even look like a
mug shot or traditional one. Yeah, from a criminal justice a defendant standpoint,
you don't really like stripes, you know, whether they're vertical or horizontal.
But you're right, it was striking when you first looked at the mug
shot. You also see the little insignia for the share deparved with the district
attorney. It's almost like it's some sort of endorsement. That was kind of
odd. That's not something you see in the typical mug shot. But of
course, these folks knew that this shot would be circling around the globe instantly,
many times, and will be in the history books in perpetuity. I
guess they wanted to put their best foot forward. Oh yeah, Trump's already
tweeted it, and there are t shirts city selling for forty seven bucks.
You know, basically, everything's fair game when it comes to T shirts in
these campaigns. It was pretty creative. Folks thought that the former Vice president
Mike Pence telling the march she's got to T shirts. That says too honest,
because of course that's allegedly what Donald Trump said to Mike Pence when Pence
refused because he said, there's no basis for me to send the electoral votes
back to the States, and Donald Trump said, you're too honest. So
have all nineteen people now turned themselves in? Are we still waiting on some
that's a good question. There's so many you need a scorecard, and I've
not seen as a cardcard with all the boxes jack, But I think we're
pretty close. Yeah. I think people, maybe lawyers like to procrastinate on
things. But I would think that the criminal defendants who are paying their bills
would say, let's let's get this thing out of the way, because they
knew that the last day there'd be a lot of focus on it and people
would just as soon stay out of out of the public eye. Defies the
idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Turns out there is yeah,
and Mark Meadows is trying to fight that. But he agreed on bail
yesterday, like one hundred thousand dollars bail, and then so he has already
turned himself in. Yeah, I think so. And the deal about Mark
Meadows, of course, is he's leading the charge to get out of Dodge,
that is, get out of state court. Because you know, we
have two parallel, two part parallel court system. The federal courts are a
totally different system with different judges, different laws, different buildings, and they're
in state court now. Now, the inside baseball angle is if you if
you were a federal employee and you are alleged to have done something bad criminal
while you were a federal employee, if you can demonstrate that it has some
relationship to you carrying out your duties, that it wasn't totally irrelevant to the
presidency, then you have a right to move your case over to federal court
with maybe that friendlier jury pool because it's many more counties than just Fulton County
and different judges and saw it. And so Meadows is the guy that filed
the first motion, and that's still up in the air. Now. You
remember Donald Trump tried to get out of state court up in the New York
City of Stormy Daniels case, and he what federal court said, I'm here,
your honor, I belong here, And the federal judge said, nice,
dry the business of ut paying off Stormy Daniels. That had nothing to
do with you, you know, your presidency, And so back you go
to state court. We don't know what the outcome is going to be of
the many potential federal move motions removal motions. In the next few weeks,
we're going to be getting some decisions. But right now it's possible that Meadows
and others will end up in federal court. But for now they have to
go through the process of the booking and the arrangement. Okay, And the
goal of the DA was to have all nineteen of them tried at the same
time. But it sounds like that's splintering. You know. When this willis
said that several days ago, everybody who's followed you, some of these high
profile cass said no, not going to do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
You cannot get nineteen people in a single game for one thing. You have
to read out the stadium or the braves play. You just don't have gigantic
courtrooms, and it takes forever. It's like tap dancing in molasses to move
toward a trial with nineteen people, and each of them is going to have
two or three lawyers, and each of the lawyers has fancy schedules, and
they've got the motions, and they're going up and down the appellate ladder when
their motions get denied. So the bottom line is that this thing is there's
no way it could have happened that way. And I think what's going to
happen now is that the DA is going to start flipping people, sort of
culling the herd. Probably at the end of the day, she wants the
last man standing to be Donald Trump, because if Donald Trump were in a
trial where there are other criminal defendants, there's a chance the jury would say,
you know what, I think it's Rudy and Sydney and John Eastman.
She'd go to prison, but not the former president. That would not be
a happy day for the Atlanta District Attorney. Okay, Royal Oakes, thank
you so much for your time and your insight this morning, your bet.
Thanks. Eleven people have been arrested in connection with flash Mom robberies at Beverly
Center, the WUSS in Highland Park, the Nords Germ at to Pangamal,
and the Eve Saint Laurent store at the Americana at Brand Two. More insurance
companies say they will no longer offer homeowners policies in California because of skyro kenning
costs from so many big wildfires in the state. It's due or die for
the El Segundo All Stars. They beat Washington State yesterday and have earned a
spot in the US Championship game against Texas tomorrow at six o five. It's
handled on the news, the DJ has sued SpaceX. Bill's going to tell
you why. Right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers.
Karen, there's a new variant of COVID nineteen seems to be taking holds.
Some health officials are standing in the alarm. So what's the real risk of
this new variant is yeah, yeah, So you know, the CBC is
looking at this new variant, but say it's too early to tell if it's
more transmissible or if it causes more serious illnesses. But the big news is
that US Health officials say that the new updated COVID shot should be released in
mid September, so that's good news for people who are waiting to get their
annual shot. The most precise prediction yet on framing for the rollout. CBC
and FDA officials brief reporters on this this week, and vaccine manufacturers have told
ABC that the updated booster has showed significant boost in anybodies against some of these
currently circulating variants. But the big question, probably what you're thinking, is
how many of you are going to actually get it. When you look at
the data from last year with the booster shots that were rolled out, only
fifty six in Americans, seventeen percent of the population have an updated booster according
to the CDC, and compare that to roughly eighty one percent of Americans who
got their primary doses, So there was a big drop off of people who
then got the updated one, which the White House, federal government officials,
health officials experts were saying last year was really good at protecting against the variants
that were going around last fall. So they've got a big task this coming
fall in the next couple of weeks to try and get people out, get
this shot, and they say that vaccination is still going to be very key
because immunity wanes and the virus continues to change, and the vaccine is it
preventing spread of COVID or is it preventing serious complications from COVID like the current
vaccines have been doing. You know, experts will still say it prevents and
remains the best protection against hospitalization and death. And in the case of these
vaccines, it also helps reduce the likelihood of long COVID we've seen over the
last couple of years. They're also recommending you get this at the same time
as your flu shot, and to really think of this in a different mindset.
You know, you had the primary doses that everybody went out and got,
like I said, eighty one percent of Americans, but that slower upcake
for the booster shots. There was a sense of the White House I asked
a lot of questions about this last year when they were trying to get people
to get it. They really thought that they had to work to get people
to change the mindset around COVID shots and to think of them more like slu
shots, that you get them every year, you get them with your flu
shot. If you want just to make it easier and make it a part
of your annual routine. They're going to roll out these new shots in the
fall each year to target what the variants are at this moment, and the
protection will last then until the next ones come out. Okay, ABC's Karen
Travis, thanks so much for the time. We'll be watching for those boosters
to show up at pharmacies near you. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. One of the nation's
largest employers has inched closer to a strike. Kaiser's union says workers face chronic
understaffing and unfair labor practices. This respiratory nurses. The situation forces nurses to
make heartbreaking decisions. Do I check on that ED patient that is suffering from
an asthma attack, or do I go to the person that is an ICU
or do I go to nick you with that micropeamy baby that the mother just
delivered A vote authorized potential strike will start this Saturday. It could run for
a couple of weeks. News brought to you by American Vision Windows. The
LAPD says a fourteen year old boy's been arrested in connection with at least two
murders in East LA, and Lieutenant Ryan Rabbit says the boy may be tied
to four other past murders, and we're going back about six weeks prior from
now. Rabbit says. On August twelve, the boy shot a sixteen year
old who was playing basketball at rec center at Evergreen Park. Chief Moore says
the murders are related to an ongoing gang rivalry. The Homobeck increases twenty eight
homicides this year to date verse nineteen last year. Moore says, overall murders
are down in the city. In East LA. Steve Gregory King, if
I knew, I mean from Burbank, has been arrested for allegedly putting a
toilet outside a movie theater and claiming it had a bomb in it. The
Americana at Brand in Glendale was evacuated last night while the bomb squad checked things
out. The area was declared safe a couple hours later. Russia has rejected
allegations that Kremlin was behind a plane crash presumed to have killed Mercenary leader Yevgeny
Progoshan. He was listed among those aboard the plane Wednesday when it literally fell
out of the sky near Moscow. A US intelligence assessment concluded the plane was
downed by an intentional explosion. Former President Trump has tweeted for the first time
since he was kicked off Twitter in twenty twenty one. He posted his mug
shot on x with a link to his campaign website. Trump's campaign is now
selling t shirts with Trump's mug shot for forty seven dollars with the words never
Surrender underneath. Trump was booked in Georgia yesterday for his alleged efforts to overturn
twenty twenty. He was released on two hundred thousand dollars bond. Here's something
kind of fun coming up this weekend. If you've been thinking you want to
go to the movie, but you really don't want to spend all that money
to go to the movie. National Cinema Day is on Sunday. Theaters are
going to be offering four dollar movie tickets. Last year, it ended up
being the highest attended day of the year for theaters, and lots of them
are participating. More than three thousand theaters will take part, including AMC and
Regal. Again, It's Sunday, four dollars tickets for National Cinema Day.
Thousands of Kaiser workers across the US will vote starting tomorrow on whether to authorize
a strike. Among other things, workers say they are understaffed and it's creating
a patient crisis. Former President Trump's back in New Jersey after flying down to
Georgia and being booked at the Fulton County Jail on racketeering and other charges for
an alleged attempt to overturn the twenty twenty election results. In Georgia, a
man it's been arrested for leaving what he said wasn't explo toilet outside the Americana
at Brand in Glendale. It turned out to be a due. At six
oh five, it's handled on the news. The Supreme Court's taking up the
idea of right to camp in the face of the homeless crisis. At five
fifty, we're gonna be talking with ABC's Chase and Nathanson about what's new in
theaters and what's streaming and how you can see a movie really cheap on Sunday.
But right now, let's say good morning to the host of Home with
Dean Sharp on CAFI, the House Whisperer Dean Sharp, Good morning, Amy
good morning, So Dean Walls, Spence's hedges. What do these three things
have in common? They define boundaries. Boundaries are good. Boundaries are good.
They shape spaces, They contour our yards if we use them creatively in
all three dimensions, which is really important when you're doing a you know,
when you're trying to create dramatic effects in a yard or garden area. And
I say three dimensions because so often, so many people think about their yards
just in terms of left, right, forwards and backwards. There it is
kind of this flat space. But walls and fences and hedges, they rise
up out of the ground. They create that element of a third dimension to
our yard and really essentially other than just property line. When when I when
I bring up this topic, people all always just jump to, oh,
you know, the wall in between me and my neighbor, and that's super
important. We're gonna be talking about that this weekend as well. But they
can be so much more than just that. I'm asked all the time,
what is landscape design? Essentially? How do you do it? And I
say, you do it just like you do interior design in a house.
Great space outside the back of your house is composed of the same things.
There are destinations, there are you know, in quotes, rooms, hallways,
ceilings, boundaries. It's just that we don't make them out of the
same materials. We don't make them out of two by fours and drywall.
We make hallways out of pathways of stone and walls and fences, hedges.
They create some of those walls and determiner boundaries to create some really romantic,
beautiful spaces in our yard. So it's sort of like, like I always
am of the opinion that you keep the furniture off the walls inside, like
I put my couch is kind of in the center of the room, and
it creates a space. And I have that same thing not at my place
here, but I have a house up in Portland where on the back patio
you have the fence around the exterior, but then I have some hedges that
are more around the patio, and it creates that space in the backyard and
just sort of separates it and makes it a little more intimate. Absolutely,
And that's something that gets overlooked by so many folks, is that you know,
you don't need to utterly separate a space with some hardline boundary where you
know, you can't see from one place to the other, that's not what
separates a space. What separates a space in most of our minds is any
kind of a line that rises up out of the ground. It literally is
the difference between here and over there. If you take that away, you
take like one of your short hedges away, then you're basically sitting in the
exact same space as what's on the was on the other side of that hedge.
It's all one space, right. But if we put that little defining
hedgerow in there, now, even though you can still see that other space,
it's suddenly over there. You're here and it is over there. So
what we're doing is we're actually creating a greater expansiveness in the yard psychologically.
And that's what architecture is essentially at the end, it's all about how we
feel about a space. Okay, and then but let's go to the perimeter
for a second. Talk about fences, because as you mentioned, good fences
make good neighbors. And what's important when you start thinking about what you're going
to do with your fence. Okay, so you know, good fences make
good neighbors. That was Robert Frost from the Mending Wall his really famous poem.
But the most important thing about getting your fence right on the edge of
your property is being a good neighbor. Because if anything, if there's anything
about your property that you cannot trust to be accurate, it is that your
fence between you and your neighbor is actually sitting on your property line. And
there are so many disputes and unnecessary squabbles that occur as a result of somebody
wanting to repair the fence, replace the fence, build a new wall.
What we really, really really need to do is don't assume that the developer
put the fence right on the property line where it's either straddled. You may
own the fence completely yourself. It may be completely on your neighbor's side,
or it may be nowhere near the property line, or it could be sitting
dead center. So it's always a good idea to figure out exactly where the
property line is and then have a conversation with your neighbor about, Hey,
this is what we were hoping to do. You know this thing in between
us here, it's starting to fall down. How do we do this so
that you're happy and so on? That's step one okay, So if it's
right on the property line, say it, just assume that it is.
For a second, are both parties responsible to pay for it? And conversely,
if it's on my property, am I responsible for all of it?
Or should the neighbors still split the cost? Yeah? Well, see that's
the thing. It's the difference between the real world and the should's okay,
Because here's the thing. Let's say you and I are neighbors, and let's
say we discovered that the fence is sitting right on the property line, so
half of it's on my property, half of it's on yours, and you
are just so tired of this broken down fence. It is such a need
of repair, and so you come to me and say, well, you
know, it's half your fence and half mine, and I'm starting to take
bids to get it fixed up, and I'm wondering if we could split the
cost, and I'm like, yeah, it's just really not in my budget
right now, Amy, you know, so you know, like, am
I responsible for half the cost? Maybe? Are you gonna be able to
make me pay for half of that fence? No, No, you really
aren't. And so that's where the reality of figuring out what are we gonna
do. So maybe the fence comes down and if you're gonna front the whole
cost, you just put it all on your property and assume control of it
from that point forward. Okay, then real quick, in La, a
lot of people have masonry instead of like a wood fence they've got Yeah,
what what is the benefit of that of a masonry you know? I masonry
walls are they they promise this sense of privacy. They really in the end
end up becoming for a lot of people more of a hassle than there are
worth. But yeah, it's it's a wall that true. It doesn't you
don't have to worry about termites or it breaking down or drawing out in the
sun. But masonry walls, they aren't usually very attractive. There's usually two
types. There's either just straight what we call uh cinder block walls, which
is just the flat gray concrete, or these walls that have texture to them,
we call them slump stone walls. Either way, keeping your side of
the wall up is about making sure that too much moisture isn't getting into it,
and then you know, keeping it painted. Okay, So here's a
quick question then, because we're talking about. You just mentioned cinder block walls,
and then of course I immediately think earthquakes. In our conversation from last
week, we were talking about do you which of the three little pigs do
you use? And you said build your house with sticks? So are does
it matter when it comes to a wall or for earthquake stuff? Is it
better to have a wood fence. Honestly, it is better to have a
wood fence than a cinder block wall because those walls are not retaining walls,
okay, And that's another point of confusion that will explain. In other words,
inside those bricks, it's just hollow. It's hollow in there. There's
no concrete or rebar up above the ground level if it's not holding back soil,
So that is a hollow wall. And no, it doesn't have any
flex to it, like we were talking about last week. It doesn't have
any flexibility to it. So if the earth starts moving in just the right
direction, it'll crumble, it'll crack, it'll fall over. Whereas a wood
fence. For all of the reasons that people are like, no, I
don't want them maintenance, the fact is a wood fence can take all of
that and more when the ground starts moving, okay, and we're gonna be
You're gonna be talking more about walls, fences and hedges nine to noon on
Sunday, and then on Saturday six to eight am you can join Dean.
He's going to be telling you about the secret life of wood. Speaking since
we were just talking about wood. Now before I let you go, since
you're all about the home, I have a special song board. It's about
porches still, and it is about porches because I know you love them,
but I do. Tomorrow is international Play Music on the Porch day. Oh,
the last Saturday, no idea, I know, right, So and
so it's a day if you have a porch and you have a guitar,
take it on out there, play some music on the front porch. I
love that my son is a musician. I am not. My son's a
musician. So I think we'll just have them over. We'll sit on the
front porch. We'll play a little music for the neighbors. Sounds great.
Thanks so much, Dean. We'll catch you this weekend on Home with Dean
Sharp. Thanks Amy. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
News room. Eleven people have been arrested in connection with flash mob robberies at
Beverly Center, the WUSS in Highland Park, the nordstroom at To Pangamal,
and the Eve Saint Laurent store at the Americana at Brand. Two more insurance
companies say they're not going to offer homeowners policies in California because of skyrocketing costs
from so many big wildfires in the state, and it's due or dive for
the El Segundo All Stars. They beat Washington yesterday. Yay. That earns
them a spot in the US Championship game against Texas tomorrow. Of course Texas
beat them earlier this week. Go El Segundo. We're just minutes away from
Handle. On the news this morning, Fox scores a big win in the
first Republican debates. We'll talk about that, but right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's entertainment guru Jason Nathanson. Jason Barbie was unseated by Blue
beat the last week. Is she gonna be back on top this weekend?
It's possible because Blue Beetle's gonna fall significantly, as all those comic book movies
do so and then there's one new movie. I mean, there are a
couple of new movies at the box office, but Grand Thereismo is the kind
of biggest one, although the tracking has that ten to fifteen million dollars.
Yeah, not great, not a really huge opening, although it is a
good movie. So maybe if there's a word of mouth that's positive, more
people will go see it. But given that, it's possible that Barbie if
if Grand Thereismo is low and Barbie kind of overperforms, and then we have
this kind of wrench in the works called National Cinema Day on Sunday yea,
which could change things significantly. We don't know. Tickets are four dollars at
almost every movie theater for all the showings, and last year they did this
was the first time they did this. It was three dollars. This year's
four dollars inflation, but it was the it was the most attended day of
the year last year when they did this. Okay, but the problem is
if you're basing it on ticket sales, even if a ton of people go,
the ticket sales are going to be a lot lower. They are,
But even if it brings out more people, it'll still for I think that
that'll boost numbers for a movie like Barbie or Oppenheimer, which have been around
for a while, but people might want to go again and see and stuff.
Also, this year it's on a Sunday. Last year is on a
Saturday, so I'm not sure how that's going to change things as well.
So we could see high attendance but lower ticket prices. But you know,
when we're talking about movies, you know, these aren't first run movies anyway,
so people are going to see them, you know, at cheaper prices.
So it's not for Grand Thereismo. It's for movies that have already been
out. No, no, no, it's for everything. Every Yeah,
it's for everything. So so right, so that could depress something like Grand
Thereismo, which is new, which might have more people going, which would
have possibly bigger box office. But you know, the rising tide lifts all
boats. So if if the bigger audience is there, we're going to see
more turnout, I think, so it should level out whatever the case.
Though Grand Treismo I really really like, Oh, I was just gonna ask
you, I don't even know what it's about. I've seen the I keep
thinking Grand Toreno, and that makes me think of Clint Eastwood. Sure,
so is not that this is not that this is based There's a video game
called Grand Thereismo, which is a car racing video game, one of those
realistic car racing video games. Right, it's not about shooting people and all
that kind of stuff. It's about actually racing cars. And there was a
contest at some point that was held for players of Grand Thereismo which was basically,
if you're really good and you win this contest, you you'll have the
chance to actually race cars in the physical, real world. This is something
that actually exists, and this is based on a true story of a guy
named Jan Martin Borow who was he was really good at Grand Treismo and he
really wanted to be a race car driver. But he's a poor kid from
the wrong side of the tracks in Cardiff Whales, so racing through conventional means
was never really going to be an option for him. He gets in there,
he goes through this contest and he becomes an actual race car driver,
and this follows his story, which is inspiring and also interesting. Archie Midwaucky
stars with David Harbor from Stranger Things You Might Know, who's also he plays
one of the racing coaches Orlando Bloom in there as well. And you know,
it follows some of the same beats that a lot of racing movies have
followed before in the past, Ford versus Ferrari and others. You know,
there's cars zooming by, there's pit crews and things like that. But this
is, this is It brings enough of a new spin to the story,
uh that it doesn't feel like it's not fresh. And it's also directed by
Neil Blumcamp who's best known for directing District nine, a fantastic film. He
brings some new energy and flair to a story like this that was a weird
movie turned into the alien. Yeah, District nine, I love that movie.
Though it was it was, it was, it was fantastic. So
if you haven't seen that, that when you might want to check out this
weekend as well. Hey, gold is also going to be out in theaters.
Probably won't be a blockbuster, but it could be an important movie for
Helen Mirren. Yeah, and we'll see what happens with this. Golda is
as it's not a biopic of Golden my year, the former Israeli Prime minister.
It is a snapshot of this very specific moment in time, the Young
Kapora War of nineteen seventy three. She's under a lot of stress. She's
battling with her generals, she's battling with the US, she's battling with Egypt,
and she's trying to persue the US through then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
who's played by Lee of Schreiber, to provide support and Helen Mirren in
this role. She stars as Golda went through three and a half hours of
makeup every day in order to transform herself into this character. And when you
do something like that, oftentimes you're trying to win an Oscar and her performance
in this is Oscar worthy. The film itself not quite there. So so
she's great, but the film, you know, the movie. The movie
doesn't suck, but it's not quite Oscar. I don't think it's going to
get a lot of attention outside of her performance. Also, it's coming in
August, which isn't not a normal time to release Oscar caliber movies, but
this year is all screwed up because of the strike and everything. Anyway,
so we'll see what happens. Miran is fantastic. She she's definitely lost in
this and Gold in my Ear, who you know, some people might not
know. Uh. Even though she was the Prime Minister of Israel, she
was actually raised in Milwaukee. She was born in the Ukraine and then her
family moved to Milwaukee and then eventually she ended up in Israel as a as
a younger woman. So she does not have an Israeli accent. And so
when you when you hear her speak, it doesn't seem to make sense.
But that's mirn doing. You know what, how Golda actually sounded like?
Uh? So again she's fantastic chain smoking throughout the whole thing, because Gold
of my Ear was a was a massive smoker and as a cigarette in her
hand every scene, and a cup of coffee as well. Okay, and
if you real quick, I know we're about at a time. But if
you want to hunker down on the couch, which is one of my favorite
things to do. What's new on the stream this weekend? Uh, if
you haven't checked out asca the new Star Wars series that's out on Disney Plus
that which I know and I actually did not get a chance to see it.
Oh okay, so I like it, but it's it's kind of it's
a little bit of a slow start, but it's a classic Star Wars story
and I'm going to give it more time. It's good. These Star Wars
series have been tough, you know, the quality has been up and down
on a lot of them. And I'm not a big enough fan where it
for me I care either way, But I know for fans it's it's been
a tough road with some of these series. So and but I do know
people are liking this one more than some of the others, so okay.
And then but then there's an adapt standler one out, yes, and then
uh, moviewise Uh it's called you are so not Invited to buy him up?
My bot Mitzvah, which is actually the title of little book. It's
based on its coming age story. Adam Sandlers stars is the father and he
produces it, but his real life daughters are also in it and the stars
of the film. It's a you know, tween story about kids, you
know, and all the drama that comes with the girls and Bot Mitzvah's and
you know, liking boys and things like that. It's funny and it's fun
uh, And I think for families it's it's it's a good pick this weekend
for for families with tweens. Okay, I'm supposed to ask you if if
your bar mitzvah was anything like what you're going to see in the Adam Sandler
movie. Not quite, because here in middle class Los Angeles, you're in
the movie. You're looking at like, you know, the kids want Dualipa
to perform at their bot mitzcas. I mine was not quite that. But
I did have a nice party with a nice theme. It was saved saved
the world. Look at you. This was nineteen nine and the ozone layer
was a really big thing. My bar mitzva did not save the world.
In fact, I some would argue that it's much worse. Well, but
maybe it contributed to save me. Maybe it could have been worse if you
hadn't had that theme. Yeah, I don't know. Environmentally, things are
looking pretty bad. I mean, we just had a hurricane in Los Angeles.
We had her a quake, we had her a quake, so,
you know, not looking great. So but I don't want to necessarily blame
my bar mitzvah for you know, I don't. I don't think that was
the cause of it. Okay, I still think I've tried. Thank you
Jason Nathansons. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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