WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.199 demand on the iHeartRadio app. Then I traveled to the seven levels of the 3 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:20.600 Candy Cane Forest, past the sea of Swirly Twirly gumdrops, and then I 4 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:27.320 walked through the Lincoln Tunnel KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, 5 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:33.640 Okay. People, Sata's coming up. Oh my god, Sanah's here. 6 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:41.159 I know him, I know him. Say it's time for your morning 7 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:48.719 wake up call. Here's Amy King. That still cracks me up twenty years 8 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.079 later. Do you know it's twenty years of ELF. A little bit later 9 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:55.560 on wake up Call, we're going to tell you some things you might not 10 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:00.840 have known about ELF. And also, uh Nick and I went out and 11 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.640 did a little something something to celebrate the release of EL. We'll share it 12 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.040 with you. That's coming up at five point fifty. Oh. By the 13 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.879 way, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Friday, 14 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:15.519 December twenty second. I'm Amy King. Good morning, Happy Friday before Christmas. 15 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:21.359 This is an early Christmas present for Dodger fans. Did you hear on 16 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.760 the heels of Shohei Otani signing with the Dodgers. The Dodgers just picked up 17 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:32.799 Japanese pitching sensation Yoshi Knubu Yoshiobu Yamamoto. They got him for twelve years. 18 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.159 It's a three hundred and twenty five million dollar deal. So this guy, 19 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:41.400 he's a pretty big time nearly a thousand strikeouts in seven seasons with the Nippin 20 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:47.400 Professional Baseball League in Japan. He's won that league's MVP award three straight times, 21 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:49.840 and we got him. Here's what's the head on wake up call. 22 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:56.560 Dozens of Anaheim police officers with guns drawn surrounded the Disneyland hotel after getting reports 23 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.040 of an active shooter. Officers who responded last night shortly after six determined the 24 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:07.680 reports were a hoax. Gaz's entire population is at imminent risk of famine as 25 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.919 war rages on between Israel and Hamas. The UN says, over a half 26 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.319 million people are starving, a quarter of the people living in the Strip have 27 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.560 exhausted their food supplies, and the situation is worse than recent near famines in 28 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.759 Afghanistan and Yemen. According to the UN, Saturday is expected to be the 29 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:29.240 busiest travel the day of the holidays. At Lax. Airport officials are expecting 30 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.439 about two million people will pass through the airport. This year is on pace 31 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:37.879 to be record breaking, with more than thirty nine million passengers flying around the 32 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.400 US over the next couple of weeks. One reason airfares down twelve percent this 33 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:44.159 year. At six oh five. It's handle on the news. Tens of 34 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.879 thousands of people are given up and getting out of California for the third year 35 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.840 in a row. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of 36 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.400 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of course, the rain parts of Orange 37 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:58.680 and Riverside Counties are under a floodwatch as the storm continues to move east. 38 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.120 The alert is in a effect until this evening. A floodwatch in the LA 39 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.800 area expired late last night, although the rain continues. The National Weather Service 40 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:12.520 says the rain's expected to taper off tonight with dry, warmer weather tomorrow and 41 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:17.520 Sunday. Home and business owners in Ventura County's coastal cities are cleaning up from 42 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:23.840 heavy flooding. A downpour late Wednesday night into Thursday morning affected Ventura, Oxnor, 43 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:30.120 Oxnard, and Port Winimi at one point. The Oxnard Civic Center says 44 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:34.199 it got more than three inches of rain in just an hour. Major flooding 45 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:39.479 hit the Winemi Bay community. Authorities ordered evacuations early yesterday. Another half to 46 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:44.120 two inches of rain is expected to hit the coast and valleys of Ventura County. 47 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:50.039 Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says nine people have been arrested in connection with 48 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.400 the major drug smuggling operation inside county jails. Jianco says the nine arrested are 49 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:58.360 from Menefee, Paris, Riverside, Homeland, Marino Valley, San Jacinto, 50 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.800 and Hemmet. During the serving of warrants on the nineteenth, deputy say they 51 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:05.120 found several hundred rounds of AMMO, a ballistic vest, brass knuckles, fentanyl, 52 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.960 and meth. In fact, Bianco says some of the drugs were being 53 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.280 packaged to be sent by nail into the jail. The sheriff says that the 54 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.960 ten inmates who died this year, five were from fentanyl. Bianco says this 55 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.560 was one of the largest investigations in years. Steve Gregory, King of Finos, 56 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:25.279 Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has filed for bankruptcy days after he 57 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:28.439 was ordered to pay two election workers one hundred and forty eight million dollars for 58 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.279 defamation. Official say the gunman was inspired by a similar shooting in Russia, 59 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.399 was an excellent student with no criminal record, and described the shooting as well 60 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:40.959 thought out. Well, that was weird. Let's go back to Stephen Portnoy. 61 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.839 Giuliani is vowed to appeal that verdict, as well as the judges determination 62 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.920 that he defamed the two women by falsely claiming they were engaged in voter fraud. 63 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.199 We have Gremlins. Gremlins is a Christmas movie, so it works. 64 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.399 ABC. Stephen Portnoy says a jury in d C ordered the damages to be 65 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:00.639 paid for lies Giuliani spread about the women in twenty twenty as he tried to 66 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:05.319 keep then President Trump in power. Juliani filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection yesterday, 67 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:11.120 claiming he has less than ten million dollars in assets. It's five oh 68 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.879 six. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim Time is 69 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.680 kind of running out to get Christmas presents, and as people go, I 70 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.160 don't know what to get, they go, oh, maybe a gift card. 71 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:25.680 Isn't that a great idea? Yeah? The temptation is there. Every 72 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.000 hour that passes, yeah, it gets more intense. But the FBI is 73 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.720 saying be careful, be very careful. There is a crime. It's not 74 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.800 a brand new crime, but it's one that certainly is still causing trouble, 75 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:40.199 and the FBI has issued a new warning about it. It's kind of a 76 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:46.399 combination of low tech and high tech crime, combining shoplifting simple as shoplifting, 77 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.079 and then high tech computer crime. So here's how it works. Somebody goes 78 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:53.639 into a grocery store. They walk up to that big display rack with all 79 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.399 the gift cards on it. They take the card, they take it home, 80 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.680 they take it out of there, or whatever they do. They write 81 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.120 down the card number and the pin. They scratch away the little gold over 82 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:09.319 the pin, write down the pin, and then seal the little envelope up 83 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:12.959 again and put it back on the rack, right the cardboard envelope. You 84 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.399 walk in, you purchase the thing, You go over to the counter, 85 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:19.199 You have the clerk activate the card and add on one hundred dollars for example, 86 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:23.800 walk out of the place, give that gift card your friend. Your 87 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.279 recipient gets the card and finds that it has zero balance. Well, here's 88 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:31.480 what happened. That original thief who stole the number information, the card number 89 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:38.480 and the pin that gives that person access to the funds that are put onto 90 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.000 that card. They have their software. There's a computer program they can use 91 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.160 to monitor what happens with the card. And once one hundred dollars is put 92 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.920 out of the card, this person can swipe that away and it's gone. 93 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:53.920 So the person that thief gets a hundred bucks, you're out one hundred dollars 94 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:59.279 and your gift recipient thinks your chief scape. You know. I actually had 95 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:03.480 this happen to me. I had purchased several Visa gift cards for something and 96 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.279 we gave them away and then people were going, oh, I am, 97 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:12.639 there's nothing there. And I will tell you it is almost impossible to get 98 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.160 Visa. Then to reimburse you, there's this whole long process and you have 99 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.399 to fill out forms and then they don't get back to you, and it's 100 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:25.759 just a pain. So my question is are the companies getting better about reimbursing 101 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.480 you or if that money's gone, you're just out of luck. Well, 102 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.480 yes, and no one thing you can do with a lot of these cards 103 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.160 is register them The first thing you do before you even try to use it 104 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:39.199 is to register it. Make sure you give the gift receipt with that card 105 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.800 when you give it to your recipient. That may be a way for them 106 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.920 to be protected in some way. Best thing for you to prevent this in 107 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:48.040 the first place, be very careful about the gift cards you purchase. If 108 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:51.399 you must buy one from a display in a store, look at the little 109 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:55.879 cardboard envelope. Make sure it hasn't been tampered with, cut open or torn 110 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.839 open and reglued, or if it has suspicious looking scratches on it or something 111 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.319 you know, watch for that kind of thing. Or how about this, 112 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.720 Let's say you're buying a gift card for Trader Joe's, for example, might 113 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.519 not go straight to Trader Joe's and purchase the card directly from the store or 114 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.199 from the restaurant that you were buying from. You can go online and make 115 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.920 these purchases too, so it's an electronic funds transfer as opposed to a hard 116 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.079 cash and a physical card. So you know there are ways to get around 117 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.560 this, But getting your money back if you fall victim tough, Okay, 118 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.600 And are the companies doing anything to fix these problems. Well, the retailers 119 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.279 are some of the retailers are putting these cards as opposed to a big display 120 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.759 far away from the where they can be stolen, you know, taken and 121 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.240 tampered with. The put back. Some of the cards are going behind the 122 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:50.039 counter the way that you used to find cigarettes or adult magazines or scratch out 123 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.679 to you know, they're all behind the counter. So fund that you put 124 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.559 them in the same category edge, Yeah, exactly, So yeah, if 125 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:00.919 you have that opportunity, maybe buying the card from the at the count from 126 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.639 behind the counter as opposed to out in the store where it could have been 127 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.559 tampered with. Okay, so let's review if you do buy gift cards, 128 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:09.759 and I love going and like seeing all the different things, and you can 129 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.440 go to like your pavilions and they've got so many different choices you can go. 130 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.519 Okay, that's for my brother, and that's for my sister in law, 131 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:18.960 and that's and you can kind of cover a lot of bases at one 132 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.039 point. Sure, but look at the back. Make sure that there's no 133 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.320 signs that this thing has been tampered with or that the cardboard has been peeled 134 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.639 back and put back in place. Oh, exactly, that's exactly right. 135 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.759 That's the best way to protect yourself when you purchase these things, you know, 136 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:37.120 in the alternative, just go straight to that olive garden or whatever restaurant 137 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.519 it is, go straight online to the retailer, purchase it. That way 138 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.039 that we avoid the whole grocery store display rock phassle. Okay, let's hope 139 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.679 for a no Grinch gift card this year. Thank you so much, Jim, 140 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.639 appreciate it, and Merry Christmas. Ry Christmas. Have a good one, 141 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:54.840 all right, take care. Yeah, let's get back to some of 142 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.720 the stories of the coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police 143 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:01.879 in the Czech Republic say they believe the student who killed fourteen people in a 144 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.039 shooting at Charles University in Prague killed his father earlier in the day. ABC's 145 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:11.799 Andrew Dimbert says the shooter killed himself on a balcony yesterday as officers approach. 146 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:16.519 Official say the gunman was inspired by a similar shooting in Russia, was an 147 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.799 excellent student with no criminal record, and described the shooting as well thought out. 148 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.879 Police of increased security at schools and other soft targets. University officials say 149 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:31.519 they'll work with police experts on more preventative measures to increase security around campus. 150 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.159 The state of Idaho as asked for a trial date next summer for the man 151 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:39.440 accused of killing four people at a house near the University of Idaho. Prosecutors 152 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.080 say high schools and universities in Moscow, Idaho, will be out of session 153 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.559 at that time. They say parking near the courthouse is limited and the trial 154 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:50.759 is expected to get a lot of attention. The trials should last around six 155 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.320 weeks. A well known Mexican mafia chief in Orange County's been cleared of a 156 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:00.919 nineteen ninety four murder in Placentia. Johnny Martinez was charged with second degree murder 157 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.519 when multiple people were stabbed in a fight among friends. Martinez attorney Earlier Roni 158 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.200 says the trial testimony showed her client was off to the side when a separate 159 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:16.399 person started stabbing people, and most importantly and absolutely no knowledge that his so 160 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:22.519 called friend, the perpetrator had a knife and was going to use it that 161 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.039 day. A'rony says. The judge tossed the case Monday, following a change 162 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:31.200 in the law that redefines murder Chrisadler kf I News. The FDA has issued 163 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.600 a warning about fake versions of ozempic. The agency announced yesterday the knockoff versions 164 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.559 of the drug popularly used for weight loss, have made their way into the 165 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:46.360 supply chain. Thousands of units have been seized to be inspected. Officials say 166 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:52.080 people should look carefully at their prescriptions and not use units with this lot number 167 00:11:52.519 --> 00:12:03.840 NAAR zero zero seven four. Remember that the guy who was the naked baby 168 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:09.159 on the cover of Nirvana's Albin never Mind is getting another chance in court. 169 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.879 An appeals court yesterday decided to revive the case and send it to a lower 170 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.480 court in California. Spencer Elden claims he was a victim of child pornography when 171 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.159 he was photographed as a baby for the album cover more than thirty years ago. 172 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.919 A lawyer for Nirvana called the ruling a procedural setback that says the case 173 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.600 is meritless and he expects to prevail. Mother Nature is making it tough for 174 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.759 fifteen million Californians who are planning to travel for Christmas. The storm that's been 175 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:43.080 dumping rain on the region is expected to move out by tonight. Oxnard in 176 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.039 Ventura County got slammed yesterday with a month's worth of rain falling in just forty 177 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.840 minutes. People were trapped in their cars, roads were watched out. It 178 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:56.120 was a mess rain. We have flood watches in effect for Ventura, for 179 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.360 the Inland Empire right now. The flood watch or LA expired last night, 180 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:07.120 but we're expecting rain today. A twenty four year old student at Charles University 181 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.720 has shot and killed fourteen people and wounded two dozen more in Prague. Authority 182 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.840 say they believe the man shot and killed his father earlier in the day. 183 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.879 The shooter then killed himself. The number of people living on the streets of 184 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.840 La could be about to increase dramatically. La Mayor Bas says the city expects 185 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:28.320 the number of homeless people will increase for several reasons, including evictions and the 186 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:33.919 end of pandemic aid for low income households. At six oh five, it's 187 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:37.639 handled on the news. Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy right after he was 188 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.080 ordered to pay one hundred and forty eight million dollars in damages to to election 189 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:46.799 workers. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Mike Debuski. Mike, 190 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:54.000 it's been a huge year in tech. Yeah, it absolutely has been, 191 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.879 Amy, And I think it's impossible to talk about tech in twenty twenty 192 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.080 three without talking about artificial intelligence, of course, like it's cropped up in 193 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.720 all different aspects of our technology lives, and we're talking about official intelligence, 194 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.759 we have to talk about open Ai there. Of course, the company behind 195 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.159 chat GPT, that consumer facing chatbot that launched in late twenty twenty two, 196 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:18.879 really powered this company's rise. Throughout twenty twenty three, we saw that the 197 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.519 company received major investments from huge tech companies like Microsoft. Open ai technology is 198 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:31.159 what underpinned a lot of Microsoft AI focused tools, things like bing and their 199 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:37.039 new copilot tool in the office software. But it almost came crashing down in 200 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.440 November when the board of OpenAI moved to oust Sam Altman, the company's CEO 201 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:46.360 and co founder. We're still trying to piece together exactly what happened here, 202 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.200 Amy, but it seems like there was a division within the company and within 203 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.919 the board over the direction that the company should take going into twenty twenty four 204 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:58.879 and the years ahead, some saying that they should hit the gas, they 205 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:03.840 should accelerate the rate the pace of development of these AI tools, others saying 206 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.480 they should let off, that they should pause and consider some of the risks 207 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:11.519 surrounded with AI. Things like misinformation continue to be a lingering concern around these 208 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:16.000 AI powered tools. Well, it seems like that first camp one out. 209 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:22.200 Sam Altman is back as CEO of the company he co founded as Stronger ever 210 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.919 before. But going into the new year, I think it's going to be 211 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:30.200 interesting to look at potential competitors to open AI. Google just launched Gemini, 212 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:35.639 which is their sort of flagship AI technology really seen as a refresh of their 213 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:41.879 AI efforts and one of the big legitimate competitors to open AI going into twenty 214 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.120 twenty four. Let's not forget a lot of people have Google accounts, a 215 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.039 lot of people use Google technology, and this AI powered tool is going to 216 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:54.759 get in front of a lot of eyeballs, eyeballs that open AI potentially doesn't 217 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.320 have access to. So it's going to be really interesting to track going into 218 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.399 the new year. So, Mike, with all of these different ais out 219 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.039 there, you're right, they mean they've just come out of nowhere and all 220 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:07.240 of a sudden, everybody's got one. Which one is a open AI? 221 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.759 The best or do they are they all kind of on the same level. 222 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.279 It depends on really what you're talking about when you ask best. I mean, 223 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:17.919 they are good at certain things. What we're really talking about here when 224 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.000 we talk about things like you know, open ais core technology, which is 225 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:26.120 called GPT four, Google, Gemini, there several others out there, but 226 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:30.039 these are what are known as generalize large language models, right. They are 227 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:33.919 designed to be good at a whole range of different things. And you talk 228 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.519 to experts in the AI field and they say that what we might see in 229 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:42.080 the future is more specific AI models, models that are trained on just very 230 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:47.960 specific, narrow topics. Let's say you want an AI model that can index 231 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:53.360 a library for you and answer questions you know about the books in that library. 232 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:57.600 That is kind of one of the potential futures for this technology as opposed 233 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:03.080 to one generalized system that can answer any question that you can think of, 234 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.960 and all the sort of problems around misinformation and hallucination that come alongside that. 235 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.519 So I think that's going to be interesting to look at going into twenty twenty 236 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.160 four. Is one going to win out over the other? I think it's 237 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:21.160 an open question. Google says that Gemini does beat open AI's GPT four technology 238 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:23.799 when it comes to certain benchmark tests, but in the real world that could 239 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:29.839 end up being a sort of different consideration. These things are different every time 240 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.640 you interact with them, so it's going to be interesting. Another point on 241 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.240 the AI conversation Amy that I'll mention is something that I think we're going to 242 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.880 pay a little bit more attention to going into the new year and as we 243 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:45.440 consider the future of this technology. These systems require a lot of computing power, 244 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.759 and that means two things. One the companies that make the chips and 245 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:55.039 the sort of hardware that underpin AI models. Companies like Nvidia are going to 246 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.400 get a lot of attention going into the new year because they've seen huge valuations 247 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:03.759 related to their relationship to the AI industry, So that's going to be something 248 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.839 interesting to track, the sort of tech companies behind the tech companies, and 249 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:14.200 also the environmental concerns. Right, this huge amount of computing power requires a 250 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.839 lot of raw materials, requires a lot of cooling technology, and a lot 251 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:22.079 of sort of cheap computing power. What does the knock on effect there? 252 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:27.400 What are the third and fourth order ramifications of this technology when it comes to 253 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.240 its environmental impact. I think it's going to be an open question and something 254 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.279 that you know, the tech community is going to have to grapple with as 255 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.960 we consider the future of AI, and it's going to be evolving and scaring 256 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.240 the pants off a lot of us like me. Okay, And then another 257 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:48.240 thing. Another big development from twenty twenty three was x which used to be 258 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:52.359 worth forty four billion dollars. Well, I mean, at least that's what 259 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.440 Elon Musk paid for it. That was seen as a sort of overvaluation at 260 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.480 the time when he closed the deal in late twenty twenty two. So this 261 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:06.400 is his first full year as head of Twitter really making some interesting, controversial 262 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:10.119 decisions at that platform which would seem for a long time, you know, 263 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.839 rightfully or wrongfully, as sort of the center of the news conversation. It's 264 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:19.599 where discourse started. It's where famous people, journalists and people in business all 265 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:23.880 hung out and had conversations. And there were a lot of problems with that, 266 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:29.839 of course. But the rollback of certain content moderation guidelines in twenty twenty 267 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:34.799 three prompted the return of a number of previously banned accounts. The platform filled 268 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:41.039 with a number of you know accounts that had previously been banned, most recently 269 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:47.920 Alex Jones, so controversial personalities, the you know surge and hate speech and 270 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:52.960 misinformation, rise in anti Semitism on the platform also you know, prompted a 271 00:19:52.960 --> 00:20:00.319 lot of raised eyebrows and led to the sort of explosion of Twitter competitor that 272 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.720 we saw in twenty twenty three. Max Todon has been around for a few 273 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.920 years, but got a lot of attention this past year. Blue Sky debuted 274 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.680 as a potential Twitter alternative, and the one that sort of stood above them 275 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:17.359 all was Threads, which was the Twitter competitor that launched in July of this 276 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:21.599 past year from Meta, of course, the company that makes Facebook and Instagram. 277 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.279 They're getting into this space as well, the sort of short form text 278 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:30.519 based post and that was seem as the real success story of twenty twenty three 279 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.079 when we're talking about social media. It quickly rocketed to one hundred million signups 280 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:38.200 in just four or five days, which is really crazy. Interests has leveled 281 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:42.720 off somewhat since then. It is still a smaller platform significantly than X, 282 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:47.839 but it is growing and people are flocking to this platform to get their news, 283 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:52.240 to have conversations as advertisers are pulling out of X and that, and 284 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.839 users as well are pulling out of that platform over concerns about the content that 285 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.039 is allowed to kind of run rampant there. So that's going to be something 286 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.759 to keep an eye on in twenty twenty three. I don't think we've seen 287 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.319 the end of that. Two major questions that I'm looking to answer in twenty 288 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:11.279 twenty four, or looking to at least learn a little bit more about it 289 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.880 in twenty twenty four is will the company file for bankruptcy? We mentioned the 290 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.400 advertiser pull out. Major companies like Disney and Apple have pulled out of that 291 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:23.480 company as well. And we'll let Linda Yakarino, the CEO brought in from 292 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:27.960 the world of advertising, will she remain at the top of that company at 293 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:32.519 the end of next year. I think they're both open questions. Damien's going 294 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:34.039 to be something really interesting to look at in twenty twenty four. I think 295 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:37.680 they're both open questions because you just never know what Elon Musk is going to 296 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.599 do. Absolutely, it's brilliant and unpredictable. All right, Mike Dobuski, 297 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.720 thanks so much for the look back at twenty three and the look forward at 298 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.079 twenty twenty four. We will look forward to talking to you next year. 299 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:52.799 Likewising the happy holidays and happy New Year. I'll bok you in twenty thirty 300 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:57.880 four, you too. Gaza's entire population is at imminent risk of famine as 301 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:03.720 war rages on between Israel and Hamas. The UN says over half million people 302 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:07.640 are starving. A quarter of the people living in the strip have exhausted their 303 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.880 food supplies, and the UN says the situation is worse than recent near famines 304 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:17.240 in Afghanistan and Yemen. On the heels of signing two way player Shohei Otani, 305 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:25.240 the Dodgers have pickup Japanese pitching sensation Yoshiobu Yamamoto for twelve years in a 306 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:29.759 three hundred and twenty five million dollar deal, the largest contract for a pitcher 307 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:34.359 in MLB history. Yamamoto's nearly a thousand strikeouts in his seven seasons in the 308 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:40.640 Nippin Professional Baseball League in Japan. At six oh five, your flight might 309 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:42.079 not be canceled, but there's a better chance now that it's going to be 310 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:45.680 delayed and you're going to be stuck waiting for hours to take off. We'll 311 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.240 tell you why. At five point fifty we're going to be celebrating Elf twenty 312 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:52.039 years of Elf in fact, and also my dilemma when it comes to sending 313 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.400 Christmas cards this year, we'll be talking about that. But right now we're 314 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.319 going to bring Nick Poliochini in because Nick and I did something that we think 315 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:06.599 is a really great idea to give as a present, That is your presence. 316 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.960 So we've been telling you some non traditional gift ideas. Like a couple 317 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:12.400 of weeks ago, we went and did cookie decorating and thought, you know 318 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:18.559 what, spending time with people and giving that as a gift is a really 319 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:21.519 great alternative to a traditional gift. And I think that part of that is 320 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:25.400 because during the pandemic, you know, when we were all isolated, when 321 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:27.400 you know what I want experiences, I don't want things so much. And 322 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:30.599 also when you get to a certain point, you're like, I have enough 323 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:33.680 things, so maybe do something fun. I know when you're my friend. 324 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.799 Actually, my friend Amy and I've been doing this for several years, Like 325 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:41.680 we I gave her horseback riding, so we were going to go horseback writing, 326 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:42.799 and then the pandemic hits, so we didn't actually get to do it. 327 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:48.880 But we've done several things like that. And this week Nick and I 328 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.720 went to an I Pick theater and we're thinking, that's a really fun thing 329 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.519 because it's different than a regular movie theater and it's a much more like, 330 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.559 you know, you and a friend or you and a love one kind of 331 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.880 experience. And I was surprised because, as you know, if you've listened 332 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.279 to the show that Nick goes out and does about everything, you're a very 333 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.839 very busy person. But you had never been to an ipic. So I 334 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.960 want you to kind of share what the experience was like for you and how 335 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:17.480 how it might be different than a regular movie. Yeah, this is one 336 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:19.200 of those opportunities for you to really get out. And we even talked about 337 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:23.000 this before Amy came and started hosting Wake Up Call. We talked about it 338 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:27.279 on later with mo Kelly about going out to theaters that have that special premium 339 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:30.839 offering. And I had never been, like Amy said, to an ipick. 340 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:36.400 It is so incredibly unique and special. So it is a theater that 341 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:38.480 is a little bit smaller than most but has all the state of the art 342 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:42.440 trappings for you to and really enjoy one of those first run movies or even 343 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:45.839 here at Ipick they were doing you know, twentieth anniversary of Elf and other 344 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.960 screenings that were happening. But you get these pods and it's you know, 345 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.079 they're set up in set pairs. So Amy and I were able to head 346 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:56.519 in there, and you'll be able to check out on Instagram a little tease 347 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:02.039 of what it looks like inside on Amy k kan or kfiam six forty on 348 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.839 Instagram. But they're little, really comfortable recliners and they give you a blanket 349 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:12.559 and there's a table and you have table service and you can order food and 350 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.119 Amy loves a nice cocktail, and it really is something special. And I 351 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:23.079 think even having we had we had Jack Ryan on earlier. No no, 352 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:26.480 no, not Jack Ryan. But anyway, we're talking about the gift cards. 353 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:30.200 This is something you can do. You just go go together and get 354 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.319 that movie experience in because you're able to go in there and it's fun because 355 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:37.799 you show up, they have a pool table, you can go early, 356 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:40.880 They have a bar there, they have a beautiful lounge that you can hang 357 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.920 out in, so it can becomes more of like that experience that's not just 358 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.640 hey, let's rush to the movie. Let's get our popcorn, let's get 359 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:51.319 our drinks, and head in. You really can get in there and enjoy 360 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:53.039 yourself and make an entire event of And again, like I said, it's 361 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:57.359 not just first run movies at a lot of these what do you call it 362 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:03.359 movie houses? I guess right. But we went to Ian right. If 363 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:06.519 I would have known you, if I would have known you guys had never 364 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.079 been there, I would have taken you because my husband and I've been going 365 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.119 this place for years. Oh I have too, and I was just shocked 366 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:15.640 that Nick hasn't been before. And you feel like you're going, like you're 367 00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:18.960 going, you go down into like a basement type place. It's just so 368 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:23.480 very feeling. And yeah, you feel like a rich person in your own 369 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:27.559 theater exactly. But that's a good point, Michelle. You feel like a 370 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:30.799 rich person. But the tickets are no more expensive than going to an AMC. 371 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:34.880 So I think that's a better thing. There a few dollars more, 372 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.759 but it's worth it, yeah, because it's again you're not sitting in a 373 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.599 crowded theater. It's it's a non crowded theater. And as Nick mentioned, 374 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:48.839 there's they are like set in pairs, so you have you can sit and 375 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.279 you can kind of huddle and chit chat with your person, and they have 376 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.240 like little semi walls. It almost feels like being in business class on an 377 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.079 airplane exactly. No, not only, I mean, it feels exactly like 378 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:02.960 those little pods that when you're getting on an airplane and you walk through business 379 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:04.319 class. If you're not so lucky to be able to get one of those 380 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:07.599 seats, it's exactly what it looks like, and it's so nice and just 381 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:12.200 really really enjoyable experience wise. And then you know, again, there also 382 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:15.279 are in each of the theaters a handful of single seats as well, so 383 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:19.279 this isn't just something that you need to do with someone else. If you 384 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.039 are one of those people that enjoys going in the movie solo and aren't looking 385 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:25.759 for that you know, experience, you can, you know, put a 386 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:29.319 couple of those pods together for four or more if you want to make it 387 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.319 a real event out of it. But there are a handful of seats in 388 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.799 each theater that are just for single loungers as well, so it's kind of 389 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.960 nice even just for you if you want to treat yourself and take yourself out 390 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.839 for a special you know, holiday you do that exactly the time. Well, 391 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.880 next time you do it, will you call me, Michelle? I 392 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:48.319 will. Yeah. The best thing about it too, if you need something, 393 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.400 you just push your button and they come to you. They really do. 394 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.559 Yeah. They have like table service. So during the movie if you 395 00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:59.440 go, oh my wine glass is getting empty, or I need dessert, 396 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:02.720 now, I'll come and they'll get it for you. It's really just a 397 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:06.160 cool way to experience a movie. We don't go for like every movie. 398 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.559 We kind of wait for epic movies because it is a little more expensive because 399 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:12.160 they have full food menus and that kind of stuff. But a really fun 400 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:15.960 way to spend an evening. I'm glad that we got to share that, 401 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:18.680 Nick. It was so much fun, and thank you. It's a great 402 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.200 way to kind of wrap up the holiday season just ahead of Christmas, before 403 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.640 somebody takes off the Oregon. Absolutely, we're doing an ipic party. I 404 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.920 down Michelle anytime. Let's do it all right deal, And like Nick said, 405 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.920 if you want to check it out, we did a little sneak preview 406 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.960 that you can take a little look at what it looks like inside the theater. 407 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.599 And that's at Amy K. King or at KFI AM six forty dot 408 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.200 com. Now, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 409 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:48.079 the KFI twenty for our newsroom. LA County is giving out one thousand free 410 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.119 laptops this weekend to military veterans of all ages and from all branches of service. 411 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.839 We giveaways part of an overall plan to close the county's digital divide in 412 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.799 underserved populations the counties. Sellwyn Hollins says veterans officials identified some of those in 413 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:06.240 needs. They drew to our attention some of the challenges in particular that military 414 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:11.039 veterans are experiencing and getting access to services and programs, and most of this 415 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.400 is of the internet. Fllins says there are more than four hundred thousand people 416 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.880 in the county without internet service and so far they've handed out more than twenty 417 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:23.279 five hundred laptops to people from various backgrounds. Steve Gregory kain News, a 418 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:29.160 former assistant for actor Vin Diesel, has accused him of sexual assault. A 419 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.519 lawsuit filed in La Yesterday claims the assault happened in twenty ten at a hotel 420 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:38.480 in Atlanta. Asta Jonason's lawsuit also alleges violations including a hostile work environment, 421 00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:45.160 retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination, and wrongful termination. Diesel's attorney says the 422 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:55.519 actor categorically denies the claim in its entirety that demonstrators have gathered in Washington State 423 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:59.799 to protest three police officers being acquitted in the death of a black man who 424 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.200 took told them he couldn't breathe. Prosecutors say the unarmed man was restrained in 425 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.759 twenty twenty, beaten, tased, and put in a spitmask. Defense attorneys 426 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:12.079 say while the death was unfortunate, it wasn't unlawful. They say the guy 427 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.480 had a lethal amount of meth in his system and had heart complications. Trial 428 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:22.920 ended yesterday when the officers were found not guilty. Huntington Beach has canceled cultural 429 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.559 celebrations, including Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Pride Month. 430 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:33.119 Counselman Pat Burns says it's about honoring the Constitution. Hearying about those things make 431 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.519 us great. We got city culture, we got state culture, and we 432 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:41.759 got federal American culture. Period. Councilman Dankalmick says this is not the role 433 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.200 of local government. We have a lot of big issues, and this is 434 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.319 the number one thing we count with, which is coming up with the calendar 435 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:52.200 that my four year old just did in her kindergarten class. The motion calls 436 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:57.599 for celebrations free of identity politics and passed this week along party lines. Mother 437 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:03.119 Nature is making a little tough for the fifteen million Californians traveling for Christmas. 438 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.240 That storm that has moved through and is headed east has been dumping a lot 439 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.680 of rain on the region. Should move out by tonight. Oxnard in Ventura 440 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.680 County got slammed yesterday with a month's worth of rain falling in just forty minutes. 441 00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:21.440 A twenty four year old student at Charles University in Prague has shot and 442 00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:27.119 killed fourteen people and wounded two dozen more. Will you say the shooter may 443 00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:32.960 have killed his father earlier in the day before he killed himself. A large 444 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:37.400 section of the sixth Street Bridge in downtown La called the Ribbon of Light, 445 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.400 doesn't have any light right now. About a third of the bridge's lights are 446 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.640 out after thieves stole copper wire. City officials say they're not sure exactly when 447 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:48.759 the wiring was stolen, but it might have happened during a theft that was 448 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.119 noticed a couple of weeks ago. We're just minutes away from handle. On 449 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:56.799 the news this morning, Americans are spending more this holiday season, but analysts 450 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:04.759 say it's not on gifts. Hmmm. Did you know that Elf first debuted 451 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:08.160 twenty years ago? Conor are you an ELF fan? I'm a massive ELF 452 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:13.400 fan. I am as well. I am a massive ELF fan. Nick 453 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.079 Poliochini hasn't seen it or did you finally see it? I have seen it 454 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:19.759 now. I have seen it, and I've done a lot of homework. 455 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.799 Yes, Oh my gosh, no, I've had a little bit, you 456 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.599 know me, if we're going to talk about it, I can't not not 457 00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:28.559 see it anymore. But I had not seen it in twenty years, So 458 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:31.359 I mean, that's you know where it is there. So I'm singing, 459 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.920 I'm in a store. I'm singing. I'm in a store. I'm singing. 460 00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:44.400 There are so many classic lines from that movie. I absolutely love it 461 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:46.039 and we watch it every day. My mother even likes it, and she 462 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:51.599 generally doesn't do a lot of like goofy kinds of Christmas music. But you 463 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:53.440 know, it's a great thing for Christmas. Christmas is the greatest thing in 464 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.359 the whole white world. I know. Right, So here are a couple 465 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:02.319 of fun facts about Elf that you might not have known. Any idea on 466 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:07.000 who originally was slated to play Buddy the Elf because it wasn't Will Ferrell. 467 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:14.359 I know, so I can't answer. Thank you for not being a spoiler. 468 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.880 Oh so, Nick, you really did do your homework? Did your 469 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.599 homework a comedian? Yeah? Yeah, yep, you have three seconds, 470 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:23.039 and I'm going to tell you because we don't have a lot of time. 471 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:30.200 That would be a great sequel though, That would be That would be fun. 472 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:37.119 Yeah, no, it was. It was Jim Carrey. I don't 473 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:40.200 know if I could have seen him as Buddy though now he's a little too. 474 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.079 I don't know, he's a little too maybe, I don't know. 475 00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:47.319 And then here's the other thing about Elf is originally was going to be more 476 00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:52.559 of a dark comedy, but then John Favreau, who was the director, 477 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.079 said, you know what, I don't want it to be a dark comedy, 478 00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:00.599 and so he rewrote the script and kind of used influences from Rudolph the 479 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:07.640 Red Nose Reinder, including the Elf costume or actually uniform or whatever you call 480 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.280 it. That Buddy war it's inspired by Rudolph the Red Nose Reinder. And 481 00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:15.920 if you didn't know, John Pevrou was the director, and he makes a 482 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.559 cameo he's the doctor when Buddy finds out how who his dad is and he 483 00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:22.760 goes to get a paternity test. That's one of the funniest scenes in the 484 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:29.119 whole movie. Did you know about the other cameo? It's on a yes, 485 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.639 I had no idea. I didn't either, But till this morning, 486 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:35.559 I did not know that. Okay, So when you watch Elf this next 487 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:40.440 time and you see the elf ming Ming who's the head of Santa's workshop, 488 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:45.000 and he's like, oh no, you're not a cottonheaded nanny Muggins and all 489 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.480 of that stuff, and he tries to console Buddy. The elf that was 490 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:53.079 Peter Billingsley. You know who that is, Ralphie from a Christmas story. 491 00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:58.519 I had no idea. I didn't know either. And also, in case 492 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.079 you were wondering if there was going to be an ELF's sequel, eventually there 493 00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:06.719 was actually going to be one at one point, but then Will Ferrell backed 494 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:08.880 out of the project. The Elf went back on the shelf in twenty twenty 495 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:12.599 one, he backed out of it because he said that he just couldn't get 496 00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:15.239 behind it, and then there were rumblings from like James concept. Oh you 497 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.039 know, it's because Jon Favreau and Will Ferrell had some creative differences. So 498 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:24.719 whatever really happened, there are no plans to have an Elf sequel, which 499 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:30.559 I'm good with because I think that movie was about Christmas perfection. That's just 500 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:35.320 me, okay. So then Nick and I did do something fun in celebration 501 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:38.440 of the twentieth anniversary of Elf, and as you know, spaghetti plays a 502 00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:44.079 huge part in it. So we went out and about and made Elf spaghetti 503 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:46.239 and thought we would share that with you right now. Does this sound familiar 504 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:51.480 to you, buddy the Elf? What's your favorite color? Santa? I 505 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:55.679 know him? Don't be a cottonheaded in Ninny Muggins. Yep. They're all 506 00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:00.320 lines from Elf and Elf is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Thought why not celebrate 507 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.239 in style? So we went to the store and we found some really cool 508 00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:10.880 Elf products. There's sugar cookie pancake mix, of course, syrup ELF, 509 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:17.159 goldfish, Elf fudgstripes, and Elf wouldn't be complete without gumdrops. Remember when 510 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:21.880 we went through the gumdrop Forest. But then we thought we need to elevate 511 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:24.400 this a little bit, and since spaghetti was so integral to the movie, 512 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:29.639 we thought we needed to make our own. So, ladies and gentlemen Elf, 513 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:36.719 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary, we are making Elf spaghetti. Ooh, 514 00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:39.760 do we have the keyfour ingredients candy, candy, corn, candy, cane, 515 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:45.079 and syrup. Yes we do, okay, so we're going to take 516 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:54.199 our spaghetti generously applies suh oh. And then these are the original ingredients from 517 00:36:54.239 --> 00:37:05.000 the movie, of course, chocolate, cereal, marshmallow, candy, oh, 518 00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:10.119 and chocolate pop tarts yum yum, yum, yum yum. And then 519 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:17.320 for color sprinkles. Isn't it pretty? And we'll top it off with chocolate 520 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:32.280 syrup. Okay, Elf, this is for you, big bite mm hmm, 521 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:47.280 a jell fulishers yum. Nick nick Can attested that, uh, it 522 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:52.679 really wasn't very good. It was a lot. It was. It's one 523 00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.079 of those moments when you're like, this looks great in theory, and then 524 00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:00.440 you tasted and that you can taste everything from the maple syrup, so the 525 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.360 chocolates, everything's there. Plus that's all It's like sugar on top of carbs, 526 00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.719 so kids would love it. I totally understand that, and I having 527 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.519 seen the movie, now, hey that's perfect. But hey also real quick 528 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.880 motto just texted me from Gary and Shannon. John Fabreau was the voice of 529 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:21.920 the Narwal. Hey, buddy, hope you find You're dead. I love 530 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:25.800 it. Oh, hope you find your dead? Thanks mister Narwal. Oh 531 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.159 my gosh, I love that movie. I can't wait to watch it on 532 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:32.840 Christmas with the family. Thanks so much for helping out with a little Elf 533 00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:38.679 segment this week. Oh and also it is now posted on my Instagram at 534 00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:44.679 Amy K King. Also on my Facebook page and at KFI AM six forty 535 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.280 if you want to see our little creation of elf spaghetti. It looks just 536 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:50.159 like it did in the movie. I think we did a good job. 537 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:55.400 This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead 538 00:38:55.480 --> 00:39:00.519 local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy. 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