WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.879 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:16.120 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI had KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 3 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:27.879 It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy Kid. It's 4 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:32.359 five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Friday, April twenty sixth. 5 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.200 We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. Thanks for 6 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:41.600 getting your day started with us. Today, got another busy one for you. 7 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.079 Never a dull moment, and we're glad you're along for the ride. 8 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:51.560 As they say, do you have next Door? The next Door App? 9 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.439 I have some friends who have had it, and I have resisted the temptation 10 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.920 to get it because I thought it's just something else to be sucked into. 11 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.119 And uh. I got an invitation in my neighborhood and they said, hey, 12 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.079 you know, if you want to join, it's for our neighborhood and 13 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:08.519 so you can know what's going on. And I thought, oh, that's 14 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:12.200 a great idea. So I so I did. I got to get it 15 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:19.239 rid of this thing. Everybody just whins and complains and then there's like some 16 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:25.519 weird men yelling on the street corner, and somebody's taking cats and shaving them, 17 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.519 and somebody else stole a dog, and I mean it's like non stop. 18 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.480 Every once in a while they go, hey, let's get together for 19 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.480 a you know, a little meetup or something like that. But the like 20 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.719 ninety nine percent of it is just weird stop and I kind of think I 21 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:48.040 just don't even want to know. I want to live blissfully ignorant about that. 22 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.879 You thought you had a great neighborhood and then you had I do have 23 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:53.879 a great neighborhood. I guess there's just a bunch of weird people. Yes, 24 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.280 somebody is taking cats and shaving them, and so somebody said, will 25 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.599 you quit shave the cats in the neighborhood. I'm like, what keep your 26 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.439 cats inside their's coyotes. Anyway, I'm getting rid of next door. Here's 27 00:02:07.479 --> 00:02:13.280 what said on Wake Up Call. USC has canceled its main commencement ceremony. 28 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.840 The ceremony was canceled after the valedictorian was told she couldn't speak because of safety 29 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:23.120 concerns over anti Israel social posts and almost one hundred arrest during pro Palestinian protests 30 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:29.439 earlier this week. Graduation ceremonies for USC schools and colleges will go forward as 31 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:34.479 planned. Metro's Board of directors has declared a public safety emergency following the death 32 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.719 of a woman on the Metro B line and a series of violent attacks on 33 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.039 bus drivers. The Lakers are on the brink of being swept out of the 34 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.520 playoffs by the Denver Nuggets for a second straight year. LA is down three 35 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.719 games after losing one twelve one oh five last night. No NBA team has 36 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:53.400 come back from a three to nothing deficit, but the Lakers are going to 37 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:59.120 give it a shot tomorrow night. Does the President have absolute immunity? That's 38 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.800 what was argued before the Supreme Court yesterday. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to tell 39 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.599 us all about it coming up in just a couple of minutes, and what's 40 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:10.080 coming up in theaters and on the stream. We have ABC's Jason Nathanson to 41 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.759 fill us in on that. Later this hour at six oh five, it's 42 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.560 handle on the news. All State may be coming back to California and we'll 43 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:23.240 start offering insurance policies. Again. Let's get started with some of the stories 44 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.479 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As I mentioned, USC 45 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.520 has canceled its main stage commencement ceremony, which traditionally draws more than sixty five 46 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:37.759 thousand people to campus. It was canceled after the school told the valedictorian she 47 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.319 couldn't make her speech because of security threats and opposition from pro Israel groups. 48 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.560 USC schools and colleges will still have those individual ceremonies as scheduled, but the 49 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:51.879 university says anyone attending those events on May eighth through the eleventh have to have 50 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:57.840 a ticket and we'll need to enter campus through specific access points. Pro Palestinian 51 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:02.080 protesters and supporters of Israel have shouted each other down at UCLA. Protesters set 52 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.360 up tents on the campus and solidarity with protests at colleges across the country calling 53 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:13.319 for a ceasefire in Gaza. Demonstrators also want the schools to divest with companies 54 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:16.879 that do business with Israel. A makeshift wooden fence has been set up around 55 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:23.399 the tents at UCLA with handmade signs that say things like UCLA says Free Palestine 56 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:28.720 and blood on the uc Hands. School officials say they're monitoring the situation to 57 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:33.560 support a peaceful campus environment. Thela Metro Board of Directors has approved new safety 58 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.519 barriers to protect bus drivers. The decision to retrofit the bus fleet with strong 59 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.079 barriers follows an increase in assaults on drivers, but the board also requested yesterday 60 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.639 more details on how to better protect riders on Metro trains following the stabbing death 61 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.399 of a woman on the B Line Sunday. Board member in La County, 62 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:55.800 Supervisor Catherine Barger says law enforcement officers receive mixed messages from the board. We 63 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:01.240 asked them to be at one point checkfairs. They wear a lot of different 64 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.079 hats, and then we'll tell them to stand down. The additional security report 65 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:11.399 is due in sixty days. Michael Monks KFI News and Metro has extended it's 66 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.079 Go Pass pilot program through June of next year. The program offers free rides 67 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:19.759 for K through twelve and community college students. Metro's Board of Directors was unanimous 68 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:24.240 yesterday and its decision to extend the program, which is expected to cost more 69 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.480 than twenty three million dollars in the twenty twenty four twenty five fiscal year. 70 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:32.000 It is five seven on your wake up called time to say good morning now 71 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:38.279 to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, yesterday we talked about what could happen, 72 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:43.240 So now the High Court has addressed whether the president has absolute immunity. So 73 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.279 what did happen in court? Well, I think it's important as we talk 74 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:50.000 about immunity to separate out what was really an issue, and that was the 75 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:57.439 question of official acts. And the key exchange with Justice Amy Cony Barrett between 76 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:03.199 the Trump appointed justice and the Trump lawyer John Sower made it clear that even 77 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:09.040 Trump's side acknowledges that some of the conduct that's alleged to have occurred in the 78 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:15.360 leader to January sixth were private acts and therefore there's no immunity to those private 79 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.120 acts. So it seemed to me that justices might be interested in figuring out 80 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:24.319 a way to allow the January sixth case to continue. But where's the line 81 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.199 drawn? What is an official act? What is a private act? You 82 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.000 know, how will it be decided? How long will that take? Could 83 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.720 that then be appealed? So, you know, and setting Trump in the 84 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:43.000 immediate question aside, what are the broader ramifications of the Court's ruling here and 85 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.920 where will the line be drawn? As Neil Gorsich put it for the ages, 86 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:51.240 not just for Donald Trump, but for all future former presidents and their 87 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:57.000 ability to not have to worry about being prosecuted for what they might do officially 88 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:01.480 in office. Yeah, found it interesting that. Yeah, they were saying, 89 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:05.120 this doesn't just affect Trump, this is for everybody. And then kind 90 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:09.319 of and they went back too and said, you know what about this past 91 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:12.920 president, what about what they did? And you know, how would that 92 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:18.199 have been changed if he had complete or she had complete immunity? So do 93 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:25.480 we get any sense of which way the justices are going to rule? Yeah? 94 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.959 I mean I certainly did. I mean, look, I could point 95 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.839 to a clear majority of justices that were interested in figuring out a way to 96 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.639 carve out official acts and say that there should be some immunity for official acts. 97 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:40.279 Okay, but where the line is drawn is not clear, and I 98 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.319 don't know that it will necessarily be specific. In fact, it might be 99 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:48.079 intentionally vague, and it'll be up to the justices to set it, obviously, 100 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.720 But I think one thing it was interesting. You know, the Chief 101 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:59.079 Justice John Roberts said yesterday that he was disappointed by the lower court appeals court 102 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.279 panel that ruled three nothing that you know, former presidents are not above the 103 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.600 law, and Trump can be prosecuted and that's the end of the story. 104 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:13.839 And Justice Chief Justice Roberts said that it was a poorly reasoned opinion that was 105 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:20.920 essentially engaging in double speak. That and the legal term they used was tautology, 106 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.160 which I had to look up, but basically it means saying the same 107 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:28.040 thing twice. You know, he can be prosecuted because he's being prosecuted. 108 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.919 And Justice Roberts to Justice Roberts was not impressed with that legal rationale, and 109 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.159 it seemed to me a really good insight as to why the Supreme Court decided 110 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.879 to take this case. It simply was not impressed with the legal rationale issued 111 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.279 by the lower court. It wants to set its own standard, its own 112 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.600 rule. Exactly what that rule is going to be is not yet clear. 113 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.240 Okay, well, we'll be watching for a decision. Thanks so much, 114 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.000 Steven, have a great weekend, you bet. Let's get back to some 115 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.279 of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A jury 116 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.600 will soon decide if a man murdered four people in southern California over a two 117 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.000 million dollars per year drug operation. Heres were told three of the men were 118 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.480 set on fire in an suv, their skin melting, in front of a 119 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.840 high school in Orange in the middle of the day. One guy was burned 120 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:16.679 alive, prosecutors say. Also in twenty fifteen, Raoul Flores and others recorded 121 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.200 themselves laughing as the fourth man bled to death in Fontana. The defense says 122 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.919 the investigation was sloppy and the other men involved, who also had ties to 123 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.679 the Sinaloa cartel, were never found. Jury deliberations start Monday. In Orange 124 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.879 County, Corbin Carson KFI news fire has damaged part of the ocean side Pier. 125 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.159 It started in a vacant restaurant, the Old Ruby Steiner, yesterday at 126 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.519 the end of the pier. It took fire crews about three hours to stop 127 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:46.679 the fire from spreading, but burning was still detected under the pier. Cruz 128 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.759 are set to assess the damage this morning. Oceansides mayor says the city will 129 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.759 want to repair the peer as soon as possible. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln 130 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:01.480 has met with Chinese President Shijin Ping and senior Chinese officials in He warned of 131 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.799 the dangers of misunderstandings and miscalculations. As the US and China have butted heads 132 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:11.320 over a range of issues, we have an obligation for our people, and 133 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.200 indeed an obligation for the world, to manage the relationship between our two countries 134 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:20.679 responsibly. Blincoln noted yesterday progress has been made in bilateral cooperation, including in 135 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:28.320 military communications, counter narcotics, and artificial intelligence. She spread stressed that China 136 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:33.399 and the US must seek common ground rather than engage in vicious competition. Harvey 137 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:39.840 Weinstein's accusers and their advocates say they're shocked and angered by an appellate court's decision 138 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.600 to overturn Weinstein's twenty twenty rape conviction in New York, but they say the 139 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:50.080 me Too movement has not been derailed. The appeals court yesterday overturned Weinstein's conviction 140 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:54.080 on a four to three vote finding the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony based on 141 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.799 allegations that were not part of that specific case. A high school principle in 142 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.960 Maryland accused of going on a racist and anti Semitic rerant has been cleared. 143 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:09.279 The police chief, Robert mcculli, says the principal was framed by an employee 144 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.000 who allegedly used AI to make the recording that went viral in January. Detectives 145 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.960 alleged mister Darien, who was the athletic director at the high school, made 146 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:24.200 the recording to retaliate against the principal, who had launched an investigation into the 147 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.480 potential mishandling of school funds. Days on, Darien has been arrested for stalking, 148 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:33.279 reckless endangerment, and disrupting school operations in some other crimes as well. 149 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.519 He denies making the recording, which sounds like the principal saying black students were 150 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.279 unable to test their way out of a paper bag and that Jewish people and 151 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:48.039 two teachers at the school should never have been hired. God made Sunday said 152 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:54.120 it was good. It was good cot. Thousands of people have arrived in 153 00:11:54.120 --> 00:12:00.279 the desert for Stage Coach following two weeks weekends of the Coachella Festival. The 154 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.200 country music festival in Indio starts today at noon. It goes through Sunday night. 155 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:09.039 Headliners include Eric Church tonight, Miranda Lambert tomorrow, and then You're listening 156 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:15.159 to Morgan Wallen on Sunday. There have been rumors that beyond site. Beyonce 157 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:16.720 might perform, but we're just confort to wait and see on that one. 158 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.480 The Dodgers play the Blue Jays in Toronto this afternoon, with the first pitch 159 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.159 going out at four to seven. You can listen to every play of every 160 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:30.399 Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA Sports and stream all the games in HD 161 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:35.960 on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA 162 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:41.279 Care for All of LA. Pro Palestinian protests on the campus of UCLA are 163 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.759 continuing. Following protests on the campus of usc several dozen protesters set up camp 164 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:52.879 outside Royce Hall and are demanding that UCLA divest from companies tied to Israel, 165 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:58.279 and they also want an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Israel Hamas War, 166 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:03.559 along with suspension of study brought programs in Israel. The parent company of TikTok 167 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.759 says it has no plans to sell the social media platform. It denied a 168 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.080 report it's looking at options for a possible sale. Just one day after President 169 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.840 Biden signed a bill into law that calls for byte Dance to sell TikTok or 170 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.240 face being banned in the US. Nearly three hundred music artists, including Billie 171 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.440 Eilish, Jason Moraz, Dave Matthews, Cindy Lauper, and Duran Duran, 172 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.279 have sent a letter to Congress. They're asking for concert ticketing reforms. A 173 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:35.440 letter to the lawmakers says the current ticketing system is broken and predatory resellers are 174 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.639 siphoning money from both fans and performers. Yeah, and we're paying way too 175 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.960 much for tickets. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. 176 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:48.200 Cancel culture has hit USC. The university has canceled its main graduation ceremony. 177 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.360 Let's say good morning to the editor in chief at Investopedia. It's ABC's calebs 178 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.240 Silver. Caleb, let's talk about the economy, which did not have a 179 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.639 good quarter. Yeah. According to the first release of the GDP, that's 180 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:03.960 gross domestic product for the first quarter, it rose at one point six percent. 181 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.799 We were expecting something north of two percent. That shows that the economy 182 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.440 slowed in the first quarter as we pulled back on spending on big ticket items. 183 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.559 You just meant mentioned concert tickets. Those are the types of things we 184 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.120 weren't spending as much on in the first quarter as we were last year with 185 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.440 Taylor and Beyonce on tour et cetera. But inflation catching up with consumers, 186 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.840 especially on discretionary items. We're going to get a report here in about seven 187 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:31.320 minutes on the personal consumption expenditures indext that's the FED preferred measure of inflation. 188 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.879 That really measures how much we spend week in week out as consumers. That's 189 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.200 going to show that we're still north of the FEDS target of two percent, 190 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:41.639 and that's why you're seeing this shake up in the stock market and elsewhere. 191 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:43.879 Okay, so wait now, PCEE, which you're going to be getting in 192 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.840 just a couple of minutes. That's how much we just spend in general, 193 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.960 so that that shows us that's a measure of goods and services, how much 194 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.720 we're spending on food, how much we're spending on air travel, et cetera. 195 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.360 The FED likes to look at this measure of inflation. It's going to 196 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.519 meet next week on interest rates, it's not touching them because it does measure 197 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:07.600 that economy more dynamically. We're a consumer spending driven economy and we've been spending, 198 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.720 which has propelled the economy so far. We slowed down in the first 199 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.519 quarter. The question is these high prices because of inflation that are going to 200 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.799 be with us for a while. Is that going to cause the economy to 201 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.559 go even slower and potentially give us what we call stagflation, a slowing economy 202 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.600 with rising prices. Okay, and then if the economy does finally start to 203 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:30.200 slow down as it is in the first quarter, will it be more likely 204 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:35.559 that interest rates would finally be reduced. Then yeah, the Fed would probably 205 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.080 then have to cut interest rates to jumpstart the economy. The Fed has been 206 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.480 loath to do that because on employments been low, consumers have been spending. 207 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.159 We have seen economic growth up until that first quarter. We're still growing just 208 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.440 a lot slower than people thoughts with a soft landing. The FED has been 209 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.960 trying to engineer by raising rates so aggressively a couple of years ago and in 210 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.080 all the way up until July of last year. That worked in bringing inflation 211 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.639 down from nine percent, but it's still stuck around three especially for food and 212 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.159 shelter, and that hurts lower income folks the most. So we're in this 213 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.360 weird predicament right now where prices are still high and now the economy is slowing 214 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.200 it's not what the FED wanted, right, And we're talking about the inflation 215 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.840 not being as high as it was, but prices are still way up there. 216 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.919 How much have prices gone up, say, in the last couple of 217 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:23.080 years. Yeah, they're at a three and a half percent annual rate, 218 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.360 so especially for food prices, which really haven't come down. So the rate 219 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.879 of inflation continues to grow, albeit at a slower rate than in July of 220 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.399 twenty twenty three when it was at nine percent, or twenty twenty two and 221 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.039 it was at nine percent. We all remember those days. Well, a 222 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.399 lot of prices have stopped increasing as much. That doesn't mean they're going down. 223 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:45.480 We're not having deflation. We're just having sort of the sticky inflation around 224 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.879 the things we spend on every single week, the grocery store, the gas 225 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.720 station and rent and is it. I always we talk about this and I'm 226 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.919 like, okay, yeah, it's sewing, but it still doesn't mean it's 227 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:57.840 going down. Like you said, there's no deflation. So it was nine 228 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:03.000 percent in twenty twenty two, then it's another three percent and another three percent, 229 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:08.039 so it's overall prices are up twenty thirty percent. Yeah, some pre 230 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.519 pandemic prices are up over twenty percent, especially in some areas. Look at 231 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.920 car insurance, Look at home insurance, right, look at rent prices. 232 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.680 All of these prices are up significantly from pre pandemic days and they're not coming 233 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.799 down. They're just growing at a much slower rate. Yeah, and if 234 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.880 there were to be deflation, I mean, is there even a possibility of 235 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.440 deflation or does that just not happen? Yeah? No, it happens when 236 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:34.519 consumers are tapped out and don't want to spend anymore. But we continue to 237 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:38.079 spend, even though we're racking up record high credit card debt. Consumers continue 238 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.920 to spend month in, month out. Sometimes we can't avoid it because we 239 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.200 need the necessities. But at that discretionary spending, the travel spending, the 240 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:49.200 concert tickets, a new peloton, that's what we're spending a lot less on, 241 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.880 and that takes a lot out of gross domestic product because consumer discretionary spending 242 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:57.680 does power a lot of our economy. Okay, Well, I just know 243 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.319 that I get mad every time I go to the grocery store. So I'm 244 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.680 like, didn't that used to cost like twenty bucks and now it's like thirty 245 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.960 or forty dollars. It's crazy. Yeah, it costs more and you get 246 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.160 less. Yeah, I know. And everybody's doing that thing with the smaller 247 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:17.519 packaging. I'm noticing it everywhere. Even my Cheetos shrinkflation. They're shrinkflacing your 248 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.640 Cheetos and that's just not right. It's not Caleb Silver, thank you so 249 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.799 much for the information today. If you want to follow Caleb who's got all 250 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.640 kinds of great information about the economy at Caleb Silver. Thanks again, thank 251 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:34.759 you. A man from Indio is accused of stalking two girls in Morino Valley 252 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.240 and trying to kidnap one of them. The girls were near Cactus Avenue and 253 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.920 Paris Boulevard on Wednesday morning on their way to school when the man drove up 254 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.359 next to them and tried to pull one of the girls into his car. 255 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.759 She was able to break free and run away. The girls gave police a 256 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.160 description of the car, and the kidnapper was caught about an hour later. 257 00:18:52.319 --> 00:19:00.000 The alleged kidnapper. The FBI says it investigated ninety six in flight sexual assault 258 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.039 cases last year, and agents say the offenders are typically men, with women 259 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.279 and unaccompanied miners being the majority of victims. The FBI Field office in LA 260 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:11.079 has a special task force that handles these types of cases, and investigators say 261 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.160 attacks generally happen on long haul flights when the cabin's dark and people are usually 262 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.480 in middle or window seats, sleeping and covered with a blanket or jacket. 263 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.680 Agents say passengers should be aware of their surroundings, especially if they plan to 264 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.240 sleep on a plane, and don't be afraid to speak up if you see 265 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:32.680 something or experience unwanted touching. Steve Gregory kaya Finos. So we're getting closer 266 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:38.279 to the cicada invasion of twenty twenty four. I know we've been talking about 267 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:41.920 this, and the beauty of living in California is we don't get the cicadas. 268 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.839 But so they're like locusty kind of things. They come out like every 269 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:52.839 thirteen years or every fifteen years. And they're saying that the reason it's a 270 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:59.519 big deal this year is because two different they call them broods, two different 271 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.480 groups of cicadas are going to come out at the same time, and that 272 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:07.680 hasn't happened until like or since like the early eighteen hundreds, So they're usually 273 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:12.640 staggered, and we're getting reports that the first of them have come out, 274 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:18.359 but they they're not in full not bloom full force yet, but they're going 275 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:23.119 to be in more than a dozen states and in some of the big cities, 276 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:29.640 including Chicago and Nashville and Saint Louis, and bug watchers say that they 277 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:34.119 literally blanket the cities. I'm interested to see the video of all of this 278 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:37.799 once they're kind of out in full force. And again, thankful that we 279 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.599 are in southern California and we don't have to deal with the fi of flying 280 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:47.519 bugs. They're saying that they're going to be billions or even trillions of the 281 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:51.319 flying bugs. And how can you tell when they're about to come out. 282 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:55.960 Well, there's little little holes in the ground that look like little tiny chimneys 283 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.000 and they pop up near tree roots and that's the signal that the periodautical cicadas 284 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:04.880 will soon emerge from their underground layer. And the ground temperature has to hit 285 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:08.680 sixty four degrees and that's ideal for them to come out. And then that's 286 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:14.160 when the circada babies or their little nymphs is what they're called, they start 287 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.200 to come out. And then once they come out, they go find a 288 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:22.119 tree trunk, they shed their little ex their outer skeletons, spread their wings, 289 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.720 and then they spend the next four to six weeks in a noisy frenzy 290 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:29.519 of eating, mating, and egg laying. And I was looking around, 291 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:33.599 just doing a little quick Google search this morning of it, and in South 292 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:38.000 Carolina, apparently the cicadas are so noisy that residents in this one city are 293 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:45.839 calling police. They're supposed to be not harmful to humans, just very very 294 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:52.839 annoying. So beware. The circada cicada invasion of twenty twenty four is almost 295 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.880 upon us. Former President Trump says the Supreme Court heard a monumental case about 296 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:02.319 presidential immunity. On his way out of court yesterday in his hush money trial 297 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.119 in New York, Trump said it is clear a president needs to have immunity 298 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:08.039 to perform his job. Of course, that is up to the Supreme Court 299 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:14.079 to decide. A fire has damaged the ocean side pier. Thick smoke was 300 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.759 billowing up from the pier yesterday afternoon. City fire officials say in addition to 301 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:21.359 the peer, the now closed Ruby's Diner was damaged in the fire. The 302 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.799 nineteen hundred and fifty foot long wooden sea pier is billed as the longest on 303 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.400 the West Coast. USC quarterback Caleb Williams is number one. The Chicago Bears 304 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:36.319 chose the twenty twenty two Heisman Trophy winner first in the NFL Draft. Former 305 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:42.279 UCLA defensive n Leatu Latu was selected fifteenth overall by the Colts. LA two 306 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:47.480 was the first defensive player taken in the Shar's Draft at six oh five. 307 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.200 It's handle on the news byte Dance says, it doesn't matter what Congress says, 308 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:55.480 it's not selling TikTok at five point fifty, Tigers tennis, and John 309 00:22:55.519 --> 00:23:00.839 bon Jovi. ABC's entertainment guru Jason Nathanson has the scoop on all three. 310 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.160 Right now, let's get the scoop from the host of Home on KFI, 311 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:11.119 Dean Sharp, on how we can do makeovers without breaking the bank. Good 312 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:14.880 morning, Amy, Hi, I'm here, I hear them here, pregnant 313 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.519 pause. I love that. So it's it's do it yourself. We've talked 314 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:22.000 about di wires a lot, and you want to share with us some of 315 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:26.759 the things that we can do to make our house a better, more lovely, 316 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:32.240 newer, updated place. That's true, It's true. And spring just 317 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:34.640 seems to bring out DIY season. I don't know what it is. I 318 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:40.680 think just people have been cooped up through the winter thinking, oh, you 319 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:42.319 know, when the weather changes, I'm going to get out there and do 320 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:47.440 this and that. And a lot of times people are planning things with big 321 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:51.640 budgets and that's great and fine, but for the rest of us, we 322 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:56.160 would rather see large changes for you know, small change. Yeah, when 323 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.359 it comes to money, right, and we were just talking with Caleb Silver 324 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:04.559 from ABC about how you know that the economy is slowing down and that prices 325 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:08.200 are so far up that people are kind of changing the way they use their 326 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:12.079 discretionary incomes. So this might been a better time to talk about ways that 327 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:17.240 you can do some stuff around your house and not spend a ton of money 328 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.720 exactly. So when you're talking about you know, there are different levels of 329 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:25.559 approaching your home remodels, renovations. That's when you know, you really dig 330 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:30.920 into the walls and you may completely replace fixtures and bathrooms and rooms. But 331 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:36.920 I love a makeover. I love a good makeover, and a makeover it 332 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.839 just so everybody knows it falls into it kind of its own category. It's 333 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.839 a lot of change in a room. It may be a full visual change 334 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:48.039 in a space, but we're not moving walls, we're not cutting into stuff, 335 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.480 and so as a result, we can get if we do it right, 336 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.759 we can get a lot of change out of it with a minimal amount 337 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:02.400 of financial investment. And it really is one of those areas where creativity is 338 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:06.519 better than a big budget when it comes to a makeover. You just take 339 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:10.880 the time, you get as creative as possible, and there's just so much 340 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.519 that you can do in every single room. A makeover could be something like 341 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:17.359 in a bathroom, it could be, you know what, we're going to 342 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:21.000 replace the toilet. We're going to replace it, or maybe we keep the 343 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.799 toilet base and we update it. Maybe it's time to get a new seat 344 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:27.599 on the toilet, Maybe it's time to add a bidet attachment to the toilet. 345 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:32.880 Mirrors that used to be over the vanity. A lot of folks still 346 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:37.839 living in houses where you know, in the nineteen seventies or eighties, the 347 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:42.400 whole wall over the vanity was just one big mirror. Now and that's you 348 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:45.920 know, it's fine if that's your thing, if that's what you love, 349 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:52.079 but if you really want to spruce the house. You start minimizing areas like 350 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:55.160 that. I kind of approach mirrors. I tend to the same way that 351 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:59.480 I approach hardscape on the outside, which is I come in and I remove 352 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:03.400 as much as possible. I want to keep what's necessary. So when you 353 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.200 stand in front of your mirror, when you stand in front of your sink, 354 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:07.960 you think about, well, how much of me do I see in 355 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.599 this mirror? And how about the rest of the mirror. It's just reflecting 356 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.799 the rest of the bathroom. So you can take that mirror off the wall 357 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.319 if it's been clamped on. Sometimes it's been masticked on, and that could 358 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.240 be difficult. But that mirror could come off the wall. You could have 359 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:27.680 it recut into a frame and replace it in front of the vanity. Now 360 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:33.279 it's this beautiful framed piece as if it's hanging there, but it's still getting 361 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.880 all the mirror work done. And then when you look at yourself, you're 362 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:41.480 a beautiful framed picture exactly. You're just like a beautiful person in a portrait. 363 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:48.240 Okay, can I ask you a question about the bathroom. You said 364 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:53.200 something about replacing the seat. Sure, Why do residential bathrooms have round seats, 365 00:26:53.279 --> 00:27:00.880 and why do commercial ones have horseshoe shaped seats? Seriously, I was 366 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.079 thinking about it. I think about weird things sometimes and that was one of 367 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:07.480 them. And I was like, Dean Sharp would know. Yeah, well, 368 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.000 I mean it's not a pretty image, but you know, uh okay, 369 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:19.160 So those horseshoe shaped seats are in order to eliminate the amount of pe 370 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:23.240 that gets on the front of the seat for those individuals who don't lift it 371 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:27.759 when they're standing up and we're talking men, men, thanks, But that's 372 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:32.039 really the reason for it. It really comes down to that. Yeah. 373 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:36.240 Yeah, and at home, I guess you just deal with it, yeah, 374 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:40.119 because you know, if you get too much moisture on the front of 375 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:41.680 that seat, then they're going to be replacing it all the time. So 376 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.559 that's what you know. Yeah, all right, let's get out of the 377 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.000 bathroom. Let's go to the battle. Let's do that. Let's go to 378 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:49.880 the bedroom. What are some fun little things you can do to make your 379 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:56.759 bedroom more updated. Well, here's something that that I always recommend and people 380 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.279 are always shocked by this, but you know, changing there's like a fifty 381 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.200 to fifty chance if you're living in southern California in a tract home, you 382 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:08.400 have your windows in your home, the drywall just comes along, turns the 383 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:12.240 corner and goes right into the window. There's no trim. Okay, in 384 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:17.400 about half the homes, there's no trim at all. Adding trim to a 385 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:23.039 window in a bedroom or any room is such a way of elevating the room, 386 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:26.839 and you don't have to tear into the wall at all, and you 387 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.319 don't have to replace the window. We're talking about adding a wood jam around 388 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:34.720 the inside of that window where the drywall turns the corner and heads towards the 389 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:40.400 window, and then some casing on the outside, maybe a sill and an 390 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:44.759 apron with little ears on it. In other words, you can transform a 391 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:51.119 very very boring, mundane window into something that's really a lovely piece as if 392 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:55.039 it's an old world window without tearing up the wall, and with just a 393 00:28:55.039 --> 00:29:00.480 few dollars worth of casing in trim boards and a little bit of carpentry nohow 394 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:07.160 measure twice cut once. Okay, what about I like this one creating a 395 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:12.200 feature wall. Feature walls are great. I always suggest this to people when 396 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.519 they think about Listen, Dean, I've heard you and I want to go 397 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.839 bold. I'll be gonna go bold, and me I love the color purple. 398 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.039 I'm thinking about painting my room purple, and I'm like, no, 399 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:30.440 don't paint your whole room purple. But a feature wall. You pick a 400 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.480 wall in a bedroom, quite often it's gonna be the wall that's behind the 401 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.480 headboard of the bed, because the bed's kind of the star of the bedroom. 402 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.400 You know what, Keep the room mellow, mild, calm, and 403 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:45.440 then take a wall, go crazy, have a ball, have a party. 404 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.839 You want a purple wall back there, go for it, and then 405 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.799 decorate the things right in front of it, in this case, the bed 406 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:57.079 or so on, with things that correspond with that wall color. That way, 407 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:03.079 you get this really contrasty top of color in a room without having to 408 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.880 commit the room to turn into a strange colored cave. Okay. See, 409 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.279 and those are just a couple of the things that Dean's going to be talking 410 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.079 about as he discusses makeovers this week on Home with Dean Sharp right here on 411 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:21.519 KFI. And I'm looking at my list. See there's a lot of stuff 412 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:23.480 that he has to go through, so you it's a big list. We're 413 00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.200 taking both days Saturday and Sunday. We probably still won't get through it all. 414 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.759 So if you're looking for an abundance side of ideas, this is the 415 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.599 weekend to tune. Yeah, and the ones you gave us just now were 416 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.880 great, So thank you Dean. And you can listen to Dean from six 417 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.839 to eight am tomorrow morning and nine to noon on Sunday. He's talking makeovers 418 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:48.279 on home. Thank you Dean. Thanks Amy. USC has canceled its main 419 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.319 graduation ceremony. It's because of pro Palestinian protests on campus and the controversy over 420 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:59.240 not allowing valedictorian Osna Tabasom to speak at graduation because of her social media posts 421 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:03.680 that apparently supported anti Israel views. Buying a home is more expensive than ever. 422 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.079 A Redfin report says the median home price in the United States is now 423 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.480 over three hundred eighty three thousand dollars. That's a record high. Of course, 424 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.119 it's a bargain in California because in LA, the median price for a 425 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.640 home is more than nine hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Southern California has 426 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:23.480 a couple of great bars. A recent report from North America's fifty Best Bars, 427 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:29.799 ranked Thunderbolt in Los Angeles number eight on their list. Also in La 428 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.720 Is Moraate it placed forty six. Two bars in San Francisco True Laurel and 429 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:38.559 Pacific Cocktail Haven ranked thirtieth and thirty eighth, respectively. We're just minutes away 430 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.880 from Handle. On the news this morning, drivers are being attacked at a 431 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:47.119 pretty alarming rate. So what is Metro going to do about it? Bill's 432 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:51.480 going to tell you right now, Let's say good morning to ABC's Jason Nathansen. 433 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:56.440 Jason. New in theaters this weekend is Zndaya's new tennis movie. Yeah, 434 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:01.839 Challengers is the new movie from Zendeia, And I thought it was any 435 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:07.240 No, it's Zendia. Notice and director Luca Guadoninho, who's known for twenty 436 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:13.000 seventeen's Oscar nominated film Call Me by Your Name and some others. This is 437 00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:15.160 one of or was one of my most anticipated films of the year. Is 438 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.200 actually supposed to come out last year but didn't because of strikes and other things 439 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.440 like that. So really been looking forward to this and Zendea is now in 440 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:25.880 two of my favorite films of the year. She was one of the stars 441 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:30.680 of Dune, which was Dune two, which was fantastic, and now Challengers, 442 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.680 which is up there is one of my favorite films of the year. 443 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:37.839 So Jason to Corn a tennis phrase, did you love it? Yes? 444 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:43.559 I clearly loved it. Yes. So she stars here as Tashi Duncan, 445 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.240 who is a tennis player who's going to rule the tennis world. She's got 446 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.359 all the she's got the whole package, right, She's got the attitude, 447 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:53.759 she's got the skills, she's got the drive, and she's gorgeous and she's 448 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:57.839 gorgeous. And as a junior tennis player, she meets the characters played by 449 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:00.039 Mike Feist, who's one of the standouts of West Side Store, and Josh 450 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:04.759 O'Connor, who you might remember from The Crown. He played an early teen 451 00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:09.279 early twenties version of Prince Charles. In that Josh and Mike's characters. They're 452 00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:13.839 best friends. They have this really strong bond and a really great relationship and 453 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.440 really great chemistry in the movie. And then Tashi enters the picture and things 454 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.880 get a little bit complicated. The film jumps around in time from their early 455 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.079 tennis days to about ten years or so in the future, when they're all 456 00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:30.119 at various stages of their careers, professional and maybe not so professional. And 457 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.720 tennis here is the backdrop for this film, but the movie itself is really 458 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:39.240 it's all about love, ambition, sacrifice. It's really really funny, like 459 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:43.480 laugh out loud for really, I didn't get that all show. It gets 460 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:46.720 a little uncomfortable at times, and I really like that. Also, the 461 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:52.000 score here is fantastic, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doing this kind of eighties 462 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:55.960 tinged eedm thing, which I you know, I I'll notice the score if 463 00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.960 it's good, but I'm not one who's particularly their years on the score in 464 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:06.960 every movie. This score is absolutely fantastic. I loved this film nine point 465 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:08.880 two out of ten for me, like I said, one of my favorites 466 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:13.960 of the year so far. Okay, that is a glowing review. Now 467 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:17.079 I want to go see it on the stream. I'm living on a prayer 468 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.039 hoping you're gonna say that you like the John bon Jovi documentary. Uh, 469 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.719 well, let's see. Here's the thing. It's not that I didn't like 470 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.320 it. And I know Michelle's gonna kill me because I know she's a huge 471 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.519 bon Jovi fan. But yeah, stay out of Michelle's way for a while. 472 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:35.719 No, I'm not gonna say anything bad about it because I don't want 473 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.159 to incur her wrath. But this is a lot of bon Jovi. So 474 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:42.800 if you are a bon Jovi fan, you're gonna be in heaven. Oh 475 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:46.280 okay, you're gonna love it. It's a the docu series on Hulu, 476 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:51.159 Thank You good Night, The bon Jovi Story. It's broken up into four 477 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.800 parts and it clocks in at about five hours or so of bon Jovi. 478 00:34:55.320 --> 00:35:00.000 So you really got to like the band in order to sit through that much 479 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:05.599 bon Jovi. The It starts with an older John bon Jovi as he's getting 480 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.639 ready for the bands. This was in twenty twenty two and they were doing 481 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:14.440 a fortieth anniversary tour. Twenty twenty three was their fortieth anniversary. His voice 482 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:16.880 is not so good and he wants to As he says in the film, 483 00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:20.599 he never wants to be fat Elvis. He wants to know when to leave 484 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.719 the stage right. He doesn't want to stay on too long, and he 485 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.039 wants to He wants to give the fans what they want, and if he 486 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.400 can't do that, he doesn't want to be on that stage. So he's 487 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.960 going through some issues of that. That part is interesting, but a little 488 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.960 bit slow to me. What I really liked is the stuff that when you 489 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.800 know, they go back and they talk to everybody and they look at the 490 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.320 band's history and career. I really found that interesting. There's a great story 491 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:52.079 about how they first got on the radio and how that helped them. So 492 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.000 love those kind of stories, the older stuff, those stories. Although at 493 00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:59.559 one point John bon Jovi says, you know, we did all the things 494 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.880 the other band did times to the sex and the drugs and all that kind 495 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:06.559 of stuff, but I won't get into the details. I'm like, well, 496 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:09.000 why not talk about it? That's the whole point. So I wanted 497 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.119 a little bit. I wanted I wanted to get into some of that, 498 00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:15.199 and then they get into you know, the friction and the band and all 499 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:20.000 that kind of stuff as well. So again, if you are a big 500 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:22.559 bon Jovi fan, you're you're gonna be in heaven. If you are a 501 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.679 casual bon Jovi fan like me, you know, like I know slippery when 502 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:29.119 wet, and I know the big songs on that and I can sing them 503 00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:34.320 when they come on. But otherwise it was a little excessive bon Jovi for 504 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.199 me, okay. And then there's Baby Reindeer, which producer and has been 505 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.599 telling me that I've got to watch what is it? I need to watch 506 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:44.559 it. Baby Reindeer was one of those shows that came out on Netflix two 507 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:46.360 weeks ago on April eleventh, that we didn't talk about at the time because 508 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:49.679 I didn't know about it at the time and nobody else did as well. 509 00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:52.280 It wasn't one of those shows that had names that you were looking at that 510 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:59.119 they were pushing necessarily, and it's become this phenom strictly by word of mouth. 511 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:02.880 Basically, it's the truth. It's based on true story of Richard Gadd, 512 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.760 who is the star and creator of the series, based on the true 513 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:12.159 story of his own experience with a stalker. So he's a comedian and he 514 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:15.800 quickly, pretty quickly in the show, finds himself the victim of a stalker 515 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.440 and how he deals with that and just how weird things get. If you're 516 00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:25.599 a fan of shows like The Beef or Beef and the Bear, which are 517 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.000 kind of like really tense and have you on the edge of your seat the 518 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:34.480 whole time, this might be for you. It has to me that same 519 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.159 kind of tension in it, which I don't personally enjoy. I don't like 520 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.880 too much tension and things. There's enough tension in real life. I watch 521 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:46.119 TV to relax. But it really it is a really interesting series and it's 522 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:52.400 the number one series on Netflix again from Obscurity two weeks ago to the thing 523 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:55.079 everybody's talking about. Isn't that kind of what happened with the Blair Witch Project, 524 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.800 Like it was just this weird little movie and then all of a sudden 525 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.480 people started talking about it and then it became ginormous. Yeah, sure, 526 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:06.679 absolutely, That's definitely one example of that over the years, and we've seen 527 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:08.000 that happen, you know, a bunch of times with a bunch of these 528 00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:12.840 years, but specifically on Netflix, like movies like bird Box, which you 529 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:16.199 know that had it did have Sandra Bull look in it, but it dropped 530 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:21.360 out of nowhere and nobody really knew. A Stranger Things also is one of 531 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.039 those shows, you know, not a huge gust, didn't really know most 532 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:27.039 of the people that are in it, and became a huge phenomenon. We 533 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:30.599 just went to the Egyptian and saw in their gift shop they have all kinds 534 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.159 of Stranger Things stuff. Oh cool, I'm looking forward to It's got one 535 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.719 more season, right it does. They're working on that right now. Cool. 536 00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:38.280 All right, Jason Nathanson, thank you so much. Sure, thank 537 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:40.800 you. Take it a great weekend, all right. But this is KFI 538 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.960 and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from 539 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:51.480 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer Kno. I'm 540 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:53.880 Amy King. 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