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hear Todd Light say that. I guess you won't be saying that about me
while we're there, but still, it's so great to be at the stadium
and listen to all that stuff. The Dodgers are in action again tonight.
We're gonna tell you about that in just a little bit, but right now
it is five oh one. This is your wake Up Call live on the
iHeart Radio app for Friday, April twelfth. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Did you know that today is grilled cheese sandwich today? I know now
I think I'm gonna celebrate. It's one of my favorite things. I'm a
big grilled cheese fan. Really, all right, I'm gonna tuck that away.
I'm gonna remember that. Thank you. Cono. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call, and it's a lot show. Hey Otani's former interpreter is
expected to self surrender to federal authorities in downtown LA and make his initial court
appearance. Prosecutors say Ipe Misuhura stole more than sixteen million dollars from Otani to
cover his gambling death. That's four times more than we originally heard. Miwsuhara
is not expected to make a plea today. Ron Goldman's father says oj Simpson's
death is no great loss to the world. Simpson was acquitted of murdering Nicole
Brown Simpson along with Goldman in nineteen ninety five. He was later found liable
for their deaths in a civil suit. Fred Goldman says Simpson's death is only
a further reminder of his son's murder. Of course, Simpson, as we
found out, died on Wednesday night in Las Vegas. It's been so interesting
to hear all the stories from so many different voices in LA about Simpson and
the trial on KFI. Of course, Ken came back with John and Ken
yesterday. Bill's got a whole bunch more to tell you about this morning on
his show, and Jason Nathanson with ABC covered the trial. He's going to
be on with us later this hour and also going to let us know what's
new in theaters and on the stream this week. Also, looking to buy
a home cash is king people paying cash for Holmes has driven prices up nine
percent in one year. At six oh five, It's handled on the news.
The US has restricted travel for diplomats in Israel because of a possible attack
by Iran. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The family of Ron Goldman has reacted to the
death of O. J. Simpson. Goldman was found murdered along with Simpson's
ex wife, Nicole Brown at her home in nineteen ninety four. Wison was
acquitted of the murders in nineteen ninety five. After learning of Simpson's death,
Ron's sister Kim and their father Fred released the statement acknowledging that the hope for
true accountability has ended, the news of Ron's killer passing away as a mixed
bag of complicated emotions and reminds us that the journey through grief is not linear.
Simpson's family say he died of prostate cancer Wednesday. Simpson had been released
from prison in twenty seventeen after serving time for armed robbery and kidnapping. Simpson
was seventy six. Steve Gregory King if I News to La County juvenile detention
centers can stay open now that state regulators have reversed in earlier finding and found
that the two county facilities are again suitable to How's youth offenders. The Los
Padrino's Juvenile Hall in Downey and the Barry J. Nidorf Treatment Center in Silmar
were declared unsuitable to house detainees earlier. That could have forced the closure of
the facilities, leaving nowhere for the juveniles to be housed. The fatal bridge
collapse in Baltimore's led to calls for a review of a well known bridge in
La La. City Councilman Tim Mcoscar filed a motion this week asking engineers at
the Port of La to report on the state of the Vincent Thomas Bridge.
The sixty year old span connects San Pedro to Terminal Island. Mcoscar wants to
know whether conditions exist that could lead to a similar tragedy, such as what
happened in Baltimore, where the Francis Scott Key Bridge was struck by a container
ship, collapsed and killed six construction workers. A city Council Committee will take
up the motion first. Michael Monks, KFI News. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, last time we talked, we were
waiting for Congress to talk about THIZA. FBI Director Christopher Ray was on Capitol
Hill. He told lawmakers about threats to the US and why FIZA need to
be extended. But it's apparently hit a snag. Well, it had hit
a snag. The latest develop did to pass the House later this morning.
Oh wait, wait, you dropped out for a second. The latest development
is what the latest development is. It's expected to pass the House later this
morning. But let's see what happens. There was a five year extension that
was on the table that was blocked earlier this week in the House, and
that's that snag you were talking about. But last night there was word of
an agreement to get a two year extension through the House. And some of
the Republicans who voted to block the five year extension have not come around and
said, all right, two years is fine. This section of the Faisal
law authorizes warrantless surveillance. This is a seven oh two part right, that's
right, okay, warrantless surveillance of overseas communications, and the Biden administration supports
its extension. But the House, as it debates seven oh two today,
is expected to vote on and we're not sure it'll pass, but it'll be
a vote on an amendment that would add a warrant requirement before the FBI conducts
searches in this vast ada trope regarding Americans. Remember, this is a program
that was authorized after nine to eleven to ensure that the the National Security apparatus,
including the FBI, had eyes and ears on overseas communications. And it's
been used, we're told, to some tremendous extent to allow the US government
to surveil bad actors all over the world, not just terrorists, but also
you know Vladimir Putin and you know Shijin Ping and Iran. And if seven
h two is allowed to expire, well, the concern is that the US
would lose its visibility on this. I don't want to get too deep in
the weeds, but earlier this month, in secret, we only learned about
it. The other day, the Biden administration asked the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court to reauthorize its warrantless surveillance for another year, and the court authorized it,
which is provided for in the law. Even though we've talked a lot
about this expiration day a week from today, if the law were to expire,
the surveillance would still continue for another year. So a lot of attention
is focused on this more and the stakes are high, of course, but
it's not as though any kind of imminent harm to the country is upon us.
If this doesn't pass today, well that's good, right, or over
the course of the next week. Now the argument has been yes, well
the court has reauthorized the surveillance. But there's you know, the way this
all works is the United States government goes to, for example, the major
telecommunications companies Verizon, you know, AT and T, and they say,
all right, we have this law. You've got to provide us with all
of this information, and here's the order from the Secret fis a court.
And the telecommunications companies are like, well, all right, we've got a
court order. I guess we have to do it. If this law expires,
as it's set to a week from today, the argument is these telecommunications
companies might drag their feet and say we no longer have to comply because the
underlying statutory framework is gone. And yes, you have this court authorization,
but we're going to fight it. And that's something that the administration has been
warning against. Okay, And then the vote on the amendment that you said
is going to happen today that they want to say, no, you have
to have a warrant before you do a search. Is that only pertaining to
Americans or do yes? Okay, that's right, So it would require see
the FBI's argument is, you know, on to the Fourth Amendment, search
and seizure, you have to get a warrant before you do the search.
Well, this is information that's already been collected by the US government, and
the US government already has access to it, and only the US government has
access to it. Why does the FBI need to get a warrant from a
judge before it uses information it already has well, and by the way,
it wouldn't be used in court necessarily, And then you could have an argument
about that. But nevertheless, what you don't want is you don't want the
FBI to be able to eavesdrop on Americans. And so there's a framework here,
and the question is whether lawmakers who wrote this law would expand it to
require warrants on the FBI when they search this trope for Americans. Okay,
well, thank you for helping us sort it out. And we'll be watching
for the vote. And I'm glad to hear that. Regardless of the vote,
it sounds like we're safe for at least another year. Thank you.
Yes, sure, have a good weekend. All right, thank you,
Steve. We'll get back to some of the stories now coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The one to one in Agra Hills is going
to be closing overnights starting next week. Those cow trans crews can enter the
next phase of construction for the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. National Wildlife Federation Director
Beth Prat says the crossing is going to give mountain lions and other animals their
own highway. When this bridge is completed, you're going to have all these
people commuting and while they're driving in the morning or evening or whenever, a
mountain line could be walking over it, a fox, a coyote. Starting
Monday at midnight and for the next several weeks, the freeway is going to
be closed from midnight to five am traffic will be diverted around onto side streets.
The man convicted of killing college student Kristen Smart in San Luis Obispo almost
years ago has been attacked in prison again. The Department of Correction says Paul
Flores was stabbed while in the recreation yard on Wednesday. He was treated at
a hospital and returned to custody in fair condition. The attack comes months after
another inmate attempted to slash Flora's throat. Convicted child predators in California may soon
be stripped of sanctuary state protections Suddenlyman Bill assalely says, of his upcoming bill
passes, local law enforcement agencies will be required to assist ice when dealing with
convicted predators. Right now, there's a complete bar on recognizing any ice detainers.
Doesn't matter what the crime is. My bill is a simple it's a
carve out as Sally says, he's confident the bill will ultimately pass that the
bill will likely head to the Public Safety Committee before the full Assembly will vote
on it. In San Bernardino County, Blake Trolley k if I News,
the California Department of Education is ordering Marietta Valley Unified School district to stop enforcing
its policy that mandates parental notification for students who tell the school that they are
identifying as transgender. The directive follows a complaint filed by two district teachers.
They're citing discrimination concerns. The state's intervention comes during a broader debate over parental
involvement and student privacy rights. People paying cash for homes have driven prices up
nine percent in a single year. A new report from Zillo shows, with
interest rates so high, homes are priced to attract cash buyers because buyers who
use traditional loans are having a harder time making those payments. Experts at Zillo
say it's not unusual to see a home listed for nine hundred thousand to sell
for a million dollars. We missed one of Nick's top picks yesterday. You
know, we did previews of what's coming up this weekend, and so we
wanted to circle back with Nick because I think that this show sounds so cool
if you're looking for something to do this weekend. So Nick, tell us
about the one we missed real quick. Wanted to remind you or tell you
about a leamer mom. One of Mother's leader, so Leam her mom is
Megan Dolan is a one woman show or what Megan Dolan is the Leamer Mom,
and she has a one woman show that's coming up this Sunday in Bray
at the Curtis Theater. It's part of their Amplify initiative. And it was
our honorable mention for Nick's Top Picks because she's a listener to Kifi and wake
Up Call, but also she's really a dynamic individual and she represents a lot
of people women mothers, specifically in southern California, who are doing things to
get the word out about those that are a slightly different or what we call
a neurodiverse. So autism correct exactly. So her child has autism. Her
child has autism. So she's doing a show about it, right, She's
doing a show about it. And this isn't the first time she did a
TED talk about it if you're familiar with what that is. And then also
she again will be a part of a special presentation the Curtis Theater on Sunday
and Brea. You can get more details about it at this week Onmanick dot
com and you can also get tickets fifteen dollars really inexpensive. Back in the
day, we would call this a last call, not quite free ninety nine
from Later with Mokelly, but definitely well worth your time at five pm on
Sunday, April fourteen. Okay, I hear. She's a hoot too.
She's hilarious, She's so much fun. You do really want to miss this
opportunity. Okay, great, and you can find out again more with this
weekend with Nick on the website and on Instagram. Correct. Okay, So
here's something else the fun that is coming up. It's just over a week
away. It's the Wiggle wag a walk to prove benefit the Pasadena Humane and
all the money raised is going to help them care for thousands of animals they
take in every year. So I would love it if you would join the
wake Up Call crew on Sunday, April twenty first at Brookside Park in Pasadena.
It's right by the Rose Bowl and we're going to be walking to raise
money for the pups. So you can come out, get your exclusive KFI
swag. You can visit the Wiggle Waggle Wagon. That's a mouthful to see
adoptable pups. There's gonna be booths and costume contests and games and demonstrations by
a canine unit. There's gonna be food and a whole lot more. And
we would love for you to join our team the wake up Call wigglers and
come walk with us. Police just joined the team. We'd love for you
to do that as well. Come out walk. It's a great way to
start your today. It's like at eight o'clock. It's a five k walk
or run. If you really want to run, I don't run. I'll
be walking. And if you can't join us, you can still donate to
help us reach our goal. Chris made a donation yesterday. Thanks so much,
Chris. You can get all the information on how to join the team
or how to make a donation at KFI AM six forty dot com slash wiggle
for all the information. The final snowpack measurement of the season has measured one
hundred and three percent above normal. The Eastern Sierra snowpack provides seventy percent of
LA's water. Snow surveyors say the total means ample water will be supplied to
the DWP. With LA's reservoirs full. The aqueduct that delivers water from the
snow melt is expected to keep it that way. A man from New York's
been arrested in Marino Valley for allegedly posing as a priest and stealing from churches.
The Riverside County Sheriff's department says the guy called himself Father Martin. Law
enforcement agencies from around the US. We're looking for him. Marino Valley Sheriff's
officials say they believe he may have also hit other churches in the area.
In and Out Burger owner Lindsay Snyder says she fought with other company executives to
resist raising prices in the face of the state's new twenty dollars minimum wage law
for fast food restaurant workers. She says she felt an obligation to keep prices
low. Since April first, at least one In and Out in LA has
raised its burger prices by a quarter and its drink prices by a nickel.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Bill has a lot
to say about the death of oj Simpson, and you're not going to want
to miss it. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim
Ryan. Jim, I've gotten these calls the one where someone who you don't
know says, can you hear me? Okay? Why should why should we
be aware of it? What did you do? What did I do?
Yes? I usually sit there because I don't know what to say, because
I'm nervous about saying anything. Yes, well, people instinctively say. And
when somebody you pick up the phone and they say and you hear me okay,
people almost instinctively say yes, and then they go on, maybe it's
a person on the other end. Maybe it's a robo call that I've gotten
that called can you hear me? And I say yes, and then it
says, oh, great, listen, we'd like to tell you about this
great travel opportunity vacation. And I'll say, wait a minute, are you
a robot or a person? Then the voice stops and says, oh,
I'm a person, and then continues with the pitch. And if you ask
it again, are you a robot or a person? The same voice as
oh I'm a person, exactly the same, And you know it's clearly a
robo call. Now, maybe it's a legitimate sales pitch they're offering up.
Maybe not. The BBB has to send alert out. The better Business Bureau
advising people that if they get that phone call, then can you hear me?
Call? Just hang up? Okay, better yet, use your color
idea and don't answer it at all, even if it comes from your own
area code, because of phone spoofing and using your area code to make it
look like a convincing call is as much more common. What can happen if
you do is say yeah after the person says do you hear me? Well?
The best case scenario is that it tells the robo caller or the sales
caller that you have an active phone number, that this is a good phone.
They can keep calling you and making pitches or doing whatever they're doing.
The worst case scenario, according to the BBB, is that your voice was
recorded saying yes, and so then they go out they make purchases in your
name using your voice because it is your voice. It's not an AI generator
thing, it's your voice saying yes. So you need to keep track of
your credit card bills because they may have charged something using your voice and your
credentials. That is just so annoying. I hate that we even have to
worry about this, but and especially like you mentioned, the calls that appear
to come from your area code, because for example, I generally I don't
know how you guys are, but I generally won't pick up a phone if
I don't recognize the number. Good idea, But then it also becomes a
problem because there are legitimate people calling you, like if you have a doctor's
appointment or maybe an appointment at the spa. I mean, you know it
just but there are things that you do that you do have to communicate with
people you don't necessarily know. Yeah, well right, right, and so
check that you use your caller idea. If it says you know, just
a phone number, forget it. But if it says Librea Beauty Spa,
then sure pick it up, or your doctor's office pick it up. But
if not, maybe best just to leave it alone. Let it go to
voicemail, I mean even the or they may text you. If it's a
legitimate person, they'll probably text you and say, hey, Amy, this
is so and so. But I get I got one this morning. I
got a text from some unknown number. Hey, whose phone is this?
Tell me who you? I'm not going to engage. I just delete the
message. It's none of your business who I am. Because they once they
pull you in, once you start responding, either saying yes to the to
the question or answering that text message. The goal, the goal of the
scammer is to pull you in and Daniel Troze and me. Takes some time,
and eventually you're giving up personal financial information and boom, it's out there
on the dark wold. I don't have the time or patience for that.
Yeah, you know what Bill Handle does. He's told the story a bunch
of times. He'll answer the calls and get the people talking and then say
hold on a second, and then he'll just put the phone in. I've
tried that before too. It's fun. So it's just another case of let
the buyer are actually the person who answers. Where you know, it's just
throw out the phone and live like a hermit. I love the idea of
throwing out the phone every once in a while. ABC's Jim Ryan, thank
you so much. Have a wonderful weekend. See you later. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The man who was show Hey Otani's interpreter has been charged
in LA with bank fraud for allegedly stealing more than sixteen million dollars from the
Dodgers player. The number was previously said to be about four million. Mister
Otani is considered a victim in this case. US attorney Martin Estrada says Ibe
Mitsujara acted as de facto manager for Otani for years and help him set up
a bank account in Arizona. He then allegedly lied to get access to that
account, obtained recordings of telephone calls in which was Zuhara spoke with bank employees,
lied to them about being mister Otani, gave personal biographical information for mister
Otani in order to impersonate him. Estrada says Misahara then convinced the bank to
transfer large amounts of money to bookies. Misahara is doing court this afternoon.
An Iraq war veteran killed while doing yard work outside his home in Long Beach
may not have been the intended target. Police say they believe the deadly shooting
of Mario Morales Moreno last week was gang related. Reno was apparently hit by
a stray bullet. Fernanda Sandoval says her father's death should result in policy change.
The residents of Los Angeles County are living in fear. We no longer
feel safe in our homes. Four men were charged this week with murder and
attempted murder. A bill's been introduced in California to increased penalties for corporate crimes.
Attorney General Rob Bonte says it would create a fund to provide services and
assistance to people affected by raising fines for convicted corporations to twice the amount of
a loss. Currently, the maximum criminal finds are around ten thousand dollars per
felony. Part of the restitution fees would also go to the DA's office that
filed the prosecution. Officials in Oakland have voted in favor of changing the name
of the city's airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, despite San Francisco
threatening to sue over what it says as a trademark violation. Critics say the
new name would also cause confusion with San Francisco International Airport or SFO. The
Board of Commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to move forward with the name change and schedule
to second vote for a final approval on May ninth. They say the airport's
three letter code oak will not change. The Dodgers take on the Padres tonight
at seven at Dodgers Stadium, not going no problem. You can listen to
the action on AM five seventy LA Sports. You can also stream every game
in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA
Care for all of LA. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom show. Hey Otani's former interpreter is expected to self surrender to federal
authorities in downtown LA and make his first court appearance. Prosecutors say ebey Miuzuhara
stole more than sixteen million dollars from Motani to cover gambling debt. Mizohara is
not expected to make a plea today. Ron Goldman's father says O. J.
Simpson's death is no great loss to the world. Simpson was acquitted of
murdering Nicole Brown Simpson along with Goldman in nineteen nine, but was found liable
for their deaths later in a civil suit. Fred Goldman says Simpson's death is
only a further reminder of his son's murder. More than fifteen hundred guns have
been intercepted at airport security checkpoints in the US so far this year, the
TSA says if the trend continues, it'll be on track to be just slightly
lower than last year's record setting number of interceptions. The TSA's reminding travelers to
keep any firearm in a hard sighted case and declare it to the airline when
checking a bag. At six oh five, it's handle on the news,
Fresh salmon from California. Not getting it this year, We'll tell you why.
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home on KFI. It's
Dean Sharp, the house whisperer. Hi, Dean, good morning Amy.
So it's springtime and that means a lot of people are probably doing some projects
around their house, getting things ready for the summer. And that's why we
have you here. You're going to be talking about this this weekend on how
to do those DIY projects like pro That's right, there are. There are
so many benefits to tackling a project yourself if you're willing to. Mostly,
of course, in addition to the satisfaction of feeling competent about taking care of
your house, the cost right. You and I were talking earlier this week
about renovation and remodeling costs being up by sixty percent all across southern California.
One of the ways to tackle that, and there's another reason why that's the
case, but one of the reason ways to tackle that is to do a
little more DIY. DIY intimidates a lot of people. It's a little confusing
for some folks because they think, wow, these projects seem so complex.
But here's the thing. It's a very interesting reality that we've noticed over the
years. Some of the simplest, some of the simplest as far as steps
go, projects are some of them more difficult ones. But the ones that
involve multiple steps, I generally find that if you take your time and you
work it through, you can get them done. And what I mean by
that is by way of encouragement. Let's say you've got a project of you
know, kind of putting well, you know, let's use a classic example
of like putting an ikea piece of furniture together, right, which will take
you three or four hours. Yeah, it can take some time. But
here's the thing. If if you're willing to step through it, follow the
instruction step by step, step by step, you can put that together as
well as any pro could put together that kind of thing. And there are
a lot of processes around your house, even things like setting tile, laying
tile that you can take your time and do. Lot of steps, lots
of steps. Okay, I want to just mention the tile thing, because
I did. I didn't do like a whole floor. But I had an
old fireplace in my my first house in Portland, and it was this beautiful
old keystone with the rounded top, and it was ugly and one hundred years
old. So I got the paint and I painted the fireplace and made it
beautiful. Didn't do it white like did it so it mel you know,
went in with the house and but I needed to redo the hearth. So
I went and I did exactly like you said. I took my time,
I knew what the steps were and it turned out so good. It was
like and then you get to look at it every day and go I did
that exactly exactly, And a lot of people would be like, oh my
gosh, no, I can't do that. You got to call it to
set the time you can because each of those individual steps, even there's those
there's a lot of them. They're quite mechanical, and they're and they're and
if they can be done very very easily, each individual step, Whereas in
contrast to this, and I'll tell you my story. Yeah you know,
I've been doing this for almost forty years now, I still walk away from
finishing drywall. I'm like, nope, bring in the drywall, guys.
Right, you would think, Okay, there's one step you put the mud
on a trowel and you scrape it across the wall. But the fact of
the matter is that simple step to get it just like mm hmm, that
is something that takes you know, it's one of those ten thousand hours of
mastery kind of things to just do it beautifully and smoothly. I am fiddling
around with that for way, way, way, way too long at the
end of the day. See, that's one step, but it requires a
level of artistic mastery to get it done really beautifully. Whereas setting tile,
that's so many steps, and yet if you take the time, you can
do it. And so that's why I'm encouraging people. There are so many
DIY projects around your house that you can tackle yourself if you're just willing to
take the time and time. By the way, that's the first thing that
we're going to talk about this weekend. I'm going to remind everybody about what
we call in the construction business the iron triangle. What's that? The iron
triangle is just a truth about construction in general. Imagine a triangle, and
we've got three sides to it. Here are the three sides. The three
sides are time, cost, and quality. Okay. Now here's the rule.
That's why we call it the iron triangle because it cannot be violated.
This cannot be broken, this truth. Okay. You get two sides,
any two sides you want of that triangle, and you pay for them with
the third side. Okay. So basically it means this, if you want
it done fast and that's time, and you want it done cheap, okay,
all you have to sacrifice is quality okay okay. And if you want
it done fast and really really great, then all you have to sacrifice is
cost. Get ready to write a big check to somebody. But most of
us in the category where we would like the best quality and the best value.
And guess what that means. It means it's going to take more time.
Take your time. Oh, take your time, okay, Yeah,
take your time with it. Okay. You've got several tips that you've got
bullet pointed for us, but I got I want to hit. I want
to hit one of them, and it's the one that you never hit your
thumb with a hammer again. Yeah, so we're going to be talking about
using simple tool procedures with shockingly a lot of your dummies. Well, you
know, it's not really that, it's just that a lot of people just
don't realize how pros actually, you know, pick up a tool like a
hammer and use it. And it's a very very simple truth, and that
is this. Your first tap on the nail is with your hammer is a
very very soft tap to set the nails so that it is standing up on
its own, and then you move your other hand away. Okay. It
is the fact that people take a an enthusiastic first swing and a nail while
they are still holding it in between their forefinger and their thumb. That's how
black and blue thumbs end up in the world. So you never have to
hit your thumb again. You just tap the nail, set it so that
it's standing on its own, and move that other hand out of the way,
okay, And then just running down the list, there are things that
are catching my eyes. Pilot holes. Pilot holes are critical. There's so
many people get frustrated because I need to nail this piece of wood to that
piece of wood, or screw this piece of wood to another piece of wood,
and they find out that they end up cracking the wood because they put
the screw in too close to the edge. Pilot Holes are key. You
drill a tiny hole the size of the shaft of the nail or the shaft
of the screw, not the threads of the screw, just the shaft and
the inside, and then that nail or screw will not act as a wedge
and force the wood apart and split it. So again, a little extra
f an electrac time, you can get these beautiful connections done without destroying the
material that you're working on. Okay, And then here's another one that I
think a lot of times when we're trying to save time, we skip this
one. And it's never a good idea to skip it. But it's a
measure twice cut once. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that is just one
of the standing you know, proverbs of construction. You can't stretch wood.
That was the very first thing that my mentor taught me when I was a
young carpenter. He said, there is no such thing as a wood stretcher.
So you make sure before you cut that thing short that you've measured it
at least twice. Measure twice, cut once, always all. And I
do it to this very day. I mean, this is what the pros
do. We double and triple check ourselves before we commit to something like cutting
something so that we know that we're not going to end up with another trip
back to the lumberyard to replace the material we screwed up. Okay, And
then this is another little one that kind of goes in line with this one.
These are such good tipstein. I can't wait to hear all of them
this weekend. But when you go to cut something, you gotta know where
you're cutting, and it's yeah, you gotta know what's you got to realize
here are some physical realities. The pencil or the pen that you're using to
mark the material. It's not laying down a microscopically thin line. If you're
using a pencil, which most people do, that line can be a sixteenth
of an inch wide. Where did you put that pencil mark on the next
to the ruler? When you made the mark, and then understanding that the
blade of your saw is probably going to eat up about an eighth of an
inch of wood. It doesn't just separate the two pieces, It actually choose
through a section. So where you made your mark, what side of the
line that you're going to be cutting on, and understanding that the blade itself
actually removes material is critical. And that's why people when you don't think about
this, you make a mark, you cut it, and you're like,
why is it short? Why does it not fit? You gotta track where
exactly you intend to cut on that line. And we use these phrases in
the trade. I'll make a mark on something, I'll hand it to somebody
who's cutting for me and say, you know, I'll say leave the line,
okay, And that's how they know exactly where I want them to cut
it. All say take the line or whatever. You gotta know. You
gotta know where on that line you're planning to make your cut. See a
lot of little things that are going to make a big difference to a successful
DIY project. Exactly all right, And you can hear all about this and
more coming up this weekend with Home with Dean Sharp it is the house whisperer,
and that's Saturdays from six to eight and then Sundays from nine to noon.
Right, that's right, Thanks Amy, thank you so much. You
can also follow Dean at at Home with Dean thank you. Rains on the
way for the weekend, with snow possible in the mountains. The rains expected
to hit La County tomorrow. A half inch of rain could fall in the
basin, with an inch or more possible in the mountains. Snow levels could
also fall to about thirty five hundred feet by Sunday, with light snow expected
through the Grapevine. A woman from La has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more
than two million dollars in COVID loans and line to the irs in an attempt
to secure nearly one point three million dollars in tax credits. Prosecutors say thirty
seven year old Casey Hines submitted eighty bonus, bogus applications for Paycheck Protection Program
and Economic Injury Disaster loans. She's facing up to twenty years in prison when
she's sentenced in January. SpaceX has successfully launched another rocket from Vandenberg Space four
Space the launch yesterday carried a high tech weather satellite into orbit. The satellite's
going to send back information about the oceans, ice, snow, and soil
moisture. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the News This Morning show,
hey Otani's interpreter may have stolen more than four times more than we originally
found out sixteen million bucks. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Jason Nathanson. Jason, of course, the big story right now is oj
Simpson's death. And you were in LA during the murders. I was,
And did you cover the trial? No, I was in high school.
Oh it was a little, a little too young, although I know Alex
Stone started working when he was a teen in radio. But no, I
was working at Red Robin actually in the Tapanga mall, nice and that's where
I remember watching the Bronco Chase. Everything stopped there. We have TV's in
the bar, and everybody stopped eating and serving and doing everything to watch that
chase. And then during the trial, I was here in Los Angeles.
And then when Rick was read though, I was actually in Santa Cruz.
I had just gone to college, so I was up in Santa Cruz for
that but to be here during that time, you know, just after the
earthquake and the riots and that cup of years for Los Angeles was crazy.
I mean, that was just a really nutty time to be here and everything
was so in flux, so to be here during and during the Bronco Chase
and the trial and everything just a very strange time for Los Angeles. Yeah,
we were hearing stories because KFI, you know, was obviously on that
twenty four to seven it was happening. But we heard so many stories yesterday
and talking to people around the office saying, oh, I know where I
was. It was one of those moments where you know where you were when
you watched the Bronco Chase. I don't remember it because I was up in
Oregon. We watched the Bronco Chase, but I don't, you know,
we weren't tied as closely to it as everybody who was here. Sure,
I mean, it was definitely something. You know, there are a couple
of moments that I can remember, like that the North Hollywood shootout where they
were with the bank robbery, which was a couple of years after that was
something you really remembered about that time because that was just a really crazy event
as well, but that Bronco Chase, for sure, it was something that
just stopped everybody. And I remember it was there was there was basketball playoffs
on and hockey playoffs on as well, and both of those they broke into
and everybody it was. It was the thing that you know, everybody was
talking about. Yeah, all right, well, let's let's move on from
talking about that. You know, Bill Handle's going to be talking about this
a lot today because of course he was on the air when this happened.
But let's go over to uh movies. I started watching man Hunt, uh,
and then saw an ad for Franklin on Apple TV. We're digging into
our history, So what's uh? What's Franklin? Is it any any good?
Yeah? Franklin is a new series from Apple TV, which they've been
really digging into these historical dramas as of late. That's been their thing,
and they do them really well, and they spend a lot of money on
them, which I really appreciate. They're not doing these things with kind of
like a small budget. Franklin is about Ben Franklin during the time where the
Revolutionary War is happening, the US is losing or The States are losing and
they need money, they need ships, they need ammunition. So Ben Franklin
goes to France to try to get That's on an unofficial mission to try to
get that stuff, and they really need they need that really badly. So
this is about the diplomacy that he went through in France to try to get
help for the fledgling United States. It stars Michael Douglas as Ben Franklin.
And this is another series from Apple which does I mean, you can see
where they spent the money on the whigs and the costumes and the palaces.
I mean, it really looks good and the story is interesting. When I
was watching it, I'm like, I don't remember who played Ben Franklin in
the movie. And then I went to look, and there hasn't been a
Ben Franklin movie. Hollywood's not really explored the story of Ben Franklin, which
is kind of strange given that we've seen. You know, HBO did to
John Adams miniseries that was really well received with Paul Giamatti a couple of years
ago, and Ben Franklin was a small character in that. And then of
course he had Hamilton, which was a huge success. But Ben Franklin's story
has never really been explored. There was a Ken Burns a documentary a couple
of years ago, but that was about it. So this is the first
time we've really seen something like this in a series, and I think the
story is very interesting. My only small bone to pick is Michael Douglas as
Ben Franklin is a little rough because it's hard to lose Michael Douglass, Right,
He's one of those guys when you hear just hearing his voice, you
know it's Michael Douglas, and watching him, you know it's Michael Douglas.
So I think if it would have been some lesser known character actor, they
would have disappeared into the role and it might have been a little less distracting.
Yeah. We were talking about that earlier this week because after on your
recommendation, I watched Ripley. Yeah, and I liked that there weren't many
super recognizable characters because you don't think about the character, You don't think about
the actor. You just get into the character. Yeah, and that you
know, and some do it better than others. Right, George Clooney is
always going to be George Clooney and whatever he's in Yeah, pretty much.
Tom Hanks does a really good job of kind of disappearing. You know,
he can do that, and you know, and it's not to say that
Michael Douglass is a bad actor. He's not a bad actor by any starch
of the imagination. But it's a little distracting when you're watching this and you
go okay, that is when you can see the actor playing the character.
It takes you out of it absolutely okay. So you say it's good but
not spectacular, Yes, okay. And then there's a new movie out speaking
of history, about civil war, but it's not a movie about the past.
This one's right now. Yeah, it's about what could possibly happen if
this country heads in the state and the keeps going in the direction that it's
going. This is a warning. It talks so much about how the Civil
War and by the way, this is from Alex Scarland, fantastic filmmaker behind
ex Machina twenty eight Days Later and other things, and it envisions a civil
war in the United States, maybe a couple of years into the future.
And it's not so much about my expectations where I was going to see a
movie about how the Civil War happened, how the two sides got into it,
what they were fighting over, things like that. This movie is not
about that, sod just your expectations a little bit, because this is really
a movie about journalism at the end of the day. It's about Kirsten Dunn's
character. She plays a journalist who is traveling across the country to try to
get to the White House before the rebel forces take over the White House,
and about how the carnage that when you cover something like that as a journalist,
the toll it can take on you, but also why it's important for
people to be there to document those moments. And it's also a little bit
of a warning to say, hey, you think this happens in other countries,
across oceans and in other far flung places, but no, this could
actually happen here. So again, it's not about how the forces in the
movie of California and Texas and flo joined together, because in reality that would
probably never actually happen. California and Texas don't join together. But it's about
the effects this has and the kind of the broken conversation that we have in
this country right now. Okay, and then before we let you go,
Robert Downey Junior has a new movie and he's not an Avenger. He is
not an Avenger. And this is the first thing that he's done since he
won the Oscar for Oppenheimer, which kind of started a new chapter in his
He was very good in that, and he's very good in this show called
The Sympathizer on HBO, which is about Robert Downiel Jus is not the main
character. It's about a half Vietnamese half French Communist spy during the Fall of
Saigon in Vietnam and the Vietnam War and this guy who's doing kind of double
duty spying for the US but also for the Communists. And Robert Downey Junior
plays a CIA agent and talking about being lost in the character. He is
fantastic in this. I mean he and he plays many different because he's a
spy, he's kind of in a bunch of different costumes and wigs and things
like that. Really really good stuff, really interesting. And what I love
about this story is I've never seen this before. I have no idea where
it's going. It's completely original. Wait, it's new. Yeah, it's
waiting all the remakes and stuff. I'm so excited to hear about this.
It doesn't follow the same beats over and over. I like that about Civil
War, and I like that about the Sympathizer as well. Okay, and
that's on HBO. Is it going to be on Max? Yeah? Streaming
streaming on Max, airing on HBO. So one episode at a time,
starting Sunday night. Okay, Jason Nathanson, thank you so much. Happy
Coachello weekend. Oh yeah? Are you going? No me either? All
right, I have a good one. Take it. This is KFI and
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