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My name is Jason Middleton. I am in for Jennifer Jones Lee.
She will be back on Monday. She's enjoying some livestock and other entertainment at
a rodeo in northern California, visiting some family and friends. Hopefully having a
great week. Today is Friday, Yeah, Friday, May nineteenth. I
was looking at some facts this morning. I cover economics in business, and
twenty five percent is how big the share of the global economy the United States
has. The US economy pumps out twenty five percent of the global output,
as four percent of the world's population not entirely responsible with that output. I
think we play our hand in different ways, for sure. Producer and gives
me a trending note every morning, and this one stood out. Sinkhole in
Porter Ranch on the one eighteen is finally fixed. It took a year of
repairs to get that sinkhole fixed. That was kind of a big I mean,
we're gonna get more and more of these. All that snow has to
melt has to go, someplace has to move, some earth underneath it.
But it's Friday, we're gonna get through the headlines. We have a great
show lined up for you today. We have Jim Ryan talking about AI and
climate change and the kind of skills we need into the twenty first century.
We're looking for jobs or careers. We're gonna look at macroeconomics with Caleb Silver
as well. Dean Sharp is back. It's Friday. We're gonna talk closets
with him, and of course we're gonna tee up the weekend entertainment with Jason
Nathanson for some headlines. Ukraine President Zelenski is expected to personally at the G
seven summit Sunday in Japan, asking four weapons and to share his ten point
piece plan. Disney says changing business conditions are forcing it to cancel plans for
a one billion dollar corporate campus in Florida that was going to be the most
of the imagineering department, and they didn't want to go anyway. And with
the political climate in Florida and the business climate, they s decided not to
do it. The new CEO, or the re CEO, Bob Iger,
is not a huge fan of that move. The Lakers fell short against the
Nuggets last night in the Western Conference Finals. Game three is in La tomorrow.
Enough said about that. In just a few minutes, we'll talk with
ABC senior news correspondent Jim Ryan. Jim is one of the best at what
he does for a job, so we're going to talk to him about which
jobs are the best to prep for in the coming years, years that are
going to be disrupted by artificial intelligence and climate change. So we're gonna talk
about skill sets that we need. Let's start with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some La County Sheriff's deputies could
lose their job if they refuse to be questioned about so called deputy gangs.
The county's inspector general also threatened to decertify the deputies as peace officers that they
do not cooperate. Last week, emails went to thirty five deputies requesting they
submit to an inquiry about their knowledge of the bandidos or executioners and to snitch
about other deputies. The emails weren't made public until this week, and KAFIN
News has seen the email. It also instructs the deputies to provide photos of
any tattoos on their body, especially on their legs. The union representing the
deputies has told their members not to act on the email until consulting them at
Sheriff's headquarters. Steve Gregory k if I News. LA Pride has dropped out
of the tenth annual Dodgers Pride Night celebration over the team uninviting a group called
the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Their invitation was rescinded by the Dodgers this week
because of criticism from Catholic organizations. LA Pride says it's disappointed in the decision.
It says Pride as a fight for equality and inclusion for the entire LGBTQ
plus community. The HP says it wants the public to cool its engines ahead
of the new Fast and Furious movie. HP says it wants the public to
remember that what you see in Hollywood is done by professional stunt drivers. The
HPS Jose Alatorre says it isn't only warning the drivers of street events. Simply
watching a sideshow as a crime, right so as a spectator if you're arrested
or cited you can spend up the ninety days in jail. I have a
five hundred dollars fine. Your car can be impounded, the HP said yesterday.
Street racing is dangerous to not only drivers and spectators, but also to
responding police officers. Chris Adler KFI News on the line with this ABC senior
reporter Jim Ryan. The World Economic Forum has a Jobs of the Future report.
It's going to predict fourteen million jobs are going to ghost in the next
five years. Good morning, Jim. Yeah, Well, the World Economic
Forum asked eight hundred companies around the world, not just here in this country,
Jason, but around the world, and the Forum then came up with
a three hundred page report which looks at various careers, the ones that will
be hot, the skills that are required for those those positions, the ones
that will be in demand between now and twenty twenty seven, which Trilier isn't
that far away. The word that keeps coming up is thinking. Analytical thinking,
critical thinking, creative thinking. Those are the skills that people will need
for these jobs of the future. And so, yeah, if you get
a kid in college or you're looking at transitioning into a different career. You
need to know that it isn't so much what you can do with your hands,
but what you can do with your mind. It's kind of like having
a brand new toolbox and you want to learn how to use it. Because
artificial intelligence is supposed to lift some of the mundane and routine off of jobs
and job expectations and leave us for more creative thinking. That's what it sounds
like to me. What's what's your take, Well, you're right and funny
you should mention that because the top specialty, the top job going forward,
at least for the next few years, will be AI and machine learning specialists,
so people who design and build the artificial intelligence and then teach them to
be more human I suppose, or to act more like a person. Those
jobs will be growing by thirty nine percent in number over the next four years.
So yeah, yeah, to artificial intelligence, it's not just something that's
theoretical, something that pops up now and then. It's an actual career and
a growth career for a lot of people. Jason. And with a lot
of these disruptions that come into the economy, the workflow, our lives,
society, there are their creations. Other jobs and created through this disruption,
right, So are we prepping for those? Sure? Yeah. The second
most in demand job sustainability specialists. So somebody you're talking about the climate change
as a disruptor, certainly that's going to be one that needs to be addressed
for the next four years, next forty years, I suppose, So sustainability
specialists, people who design and build solar panels or wind turbines that sort of
thing, or or are in hydrosciences, those are the jobs that will also
be in demand. So yeah, you're right ed responding to those disruptions or
those unexpected events in the world, you know, Dutch, in our own
lives, but in the world's history. It's something that has to be dealt
with. Jim, you've read this report. You've read over the report.
I've read some of it. I haven't. I've just read the summary.
But it seems like you're talking about hard skills. We are talking about hard
skills right there, and training. Seems like soft skills are becoming up and
up on the list. Empathy and active listing is one of them. And
I just happy to remember from school that Plato said empathy is the highest form
of knowledge, and so it seems like we need to be a little more,
a little softer in our approach as these hard tech comes at us.
Well, Ryan, yeah, and so it's as white collar jobs, you
know, continue to grow. Blue collar jobs are kind of on the wane,
then those those soft skills, the ones that you develop in interactions with
other people in an office or in a sales position or in a laboratory,
those will be important. So it's analytical thinking, it's a creative thinking good.
It's also dealing with other people. It's also being able to be conversant
about the technology we're dealing with. And I know we're talking a lot about
AI right now and artificial intelligence. Climate change is part of this too,
and it's going to come in with different nomenclature and different definitions. So it
seems like literacy is important to bring it to the work. Oh, absolutely,
yeah, literacy, both the traditional sense and literacy in terms of changing
technologies. I'm surprised to see though, that among this top ten listing of
positions or careers that show growth potential over the coming years. Again according to
the World Economic Forum, in ninth place, agricultural equipment operators. So while
folks are sitting around thinking up and dreaming up robots and artificial intelligence. Somebody
has to feed those people, and that's where you get a thirty percent growth
in the number of agricultural equipment operators. So for the next four years,
you said that wouldn't surprised you as a up question, anything else on that
list that kind of stood out for you. You maybe a job listing you
didn't expect to see there, or a skill set that we might want to
be up skilling for or prepping for, well, robotics engineers. I mean,
that's that goes without saying, I think, and it all kind of
goes into this tech field. I think the most surprising was this farm equipment
operators, but the rest of them have things in common, and that is
this this sense of creativity, the sense of analysis and ability to work within
structures. Fintech engineers are another big career growing out there, and so yeah,
it's sort of like building, operating and then dealing with the consequences of
technology because the information security analysts are we going to be in demand. Those
folks who handle cybersecurity questions very cool. ABC's Jim Ryan always a pleasure to
speak with you. I've got you twice this week. I'm the lucky one.
Thanks a lot, thanks Jason. ABC's Jim Ryan. There, let's
get a couple more headlines before we go to the break out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room. A seven point seven magnitude quake has been detected
in the Far Pacific. The US Geological Survey says the quake yesterday was near
the Loyalty Islands that's southwest of Fiji, north of New Zealand, and east
of Australia. A tsunami was forecast for Vandawatu, which saw a small tsunami
with waves two feet above tide level. Smaller waves were forecast for Fiji and
New Zealand. I live in the eastern part of la and I swear during
the second quarter last night of the Lakers game, I felled an earthquake.
I haven't checked this morning, so I'm going to check my quake watch.
The Invisible House has been put up for sale in Joshua Tree. The house
isn't actually invisible, but that's what it's called because it's mirrored, which creates
the illusion. It disappears into the desert landscape from the inside. Those walls
of mirrored glass deliver panoramic views steps away from Joshua Tree National Park. It's
been used as an Airbnb and is now listed as one of Airbnb's most wish
listed homes for twenty twenty three. The fifty five hundred square foot minimal is
home with three bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a one hundred foot indoor pool,
is listed for eighteen million dollars, the most expensive listing ever in Joshua
Tree. Amy King KFI News, the pictures of that house are amazing.
La City Council is officially adopting a thirteen billion dollar budget for the upcoming fiscal
year. The budget is highlighted by an unprecedented one point three billion dollar investment
toward finding homelessness. This is going to be leading bill handle on the news.
In about an hour, a group of drivers for the Orange County Transportation
Authority will end their strike and return to work on Monday. The employees who
drive disabled computers had been on strike since May the third. A motorcycle rider
is behind bars after leading police on a nearly hour long chase through the West
San Fernando Valley. Police say the man was waving a gun from his home
balcony next to Shamanad High School yesterday afternoon, prompting the cancelation of the school's
baseball game. He then took off on his motorcycle and police set up a
perimeter near his home and captured him at five thirty five. Yeah, the
house Whisperer is back. For our Friday Chat, that's Dean Sharpe. This
week's topic is Closets, clutter and concealing our stuff from view. Dean has
some pro tips on not only how and where to closet, but what and
how to toss things out. A couple of quick stories before we get over
to Caleb Silver and talk about the week's economic news. Relatives of the people
in Riverside killed by a cop from Virginia are suing those who initially hired him.
Austin Lee Edwards posed as a seventeen year old when he catfished a fifteen
year old girl online. He was actually a twenty eight year old deputy in
Virginia. In November of last year. Police say Edwards drove from Virginia to
Riverside and kidnapped the girl, then killed her mother and grandparents before setting their
home on fire. Later that day, Edwards killed himself. The Virginia State
Police hired Edwards and admitted they did not properly investigate him during the hiring process,
especially with his unstable mental health history. Steve Gregory Caofine Knows Knotsberry Farm
is updating its Fiesta Village. That part of the park is getting new rides,
food stations, and entertainment this month. It'll also have a more defined
Mexican theme, including mariachi's and folklorico dancers. The parks Montezuma's Revenge Ride,
which has been around since nineteen seventy eight, will become Montezuma the Forbidden Fortress.
Park officials say riders will have to wait a little longer for that unveiling.
Police in Palm Springs say they've seen a rise in pool, pump and
heater thefts. They say they're looking for two men accused of stealing pool equipment
earlier this month. Officials recommend owners install anti theft cages, surveillance cameras,
and GPS tracking devices to protect their property. Just doing some initial research on
these items, they are not cheap by any stretch. The first of its
kind, vertical farm has planted roots in Compton to produce three in fifty times
more leafy greens per acre than a traditional farm. It's like taking the field
and folding it up many many times and swishing it into a room. Plenty
co founder Nate Story says the farm uses five percent of the water of a
normal farm planting them in trays for transplanting them with robots. Plenty ceo ar
Mkukatai says the farm produces four point five million pounds of leafy greens each year,
going from like a little transplant unto a full hit of lettuce and five
to seven dice twenty five times fossil that outside Compton Mayor and Msterif says,
best of all the people, that's hard now comes from them at Plenty Compton
Farm. Corbin Carson ko Fine News, welcome back to your wake up call.
Right now. Let's welcome Caleb Silver. He's on the live line,
ABC News contributor, editor in chief at investopedia dot com. Okay, Caleb,
welcome back. Good always have you well, always good, always good
to have you. I guess I should. We're getting macroeconomic with Caleb right
now. Okay. We had some headline numbers this week, Unemployment, some
sticky inflation. Let's start with how though, what are you seeing on the
housing price front? A continued decline in housing prices. We have the biggest
year over year price decline since January of twenty twelve. When you look at
the month of April, medium prices down down six percent across the country to
around three hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars in your area, of course,
a lot more expensive one point one million for the median home price in Los
Angeles. That's one of the few counties in the few areas where we've seen
housing prices increase. That's always the case. In year zone, they're up
to ten point six percent year of here. But across the country you've seen
these rising mortgage rates really create demand destruction. We've had thirteen or fourteen months
with lower housing prices, lower sales, and lower building permits. So you've
seen the effects of the FEDS interest rate heights right in the middle of the
housing market. Okay, you mentioned demand destruction right there. Are we getting
closer to equilibrium with supply and demand with housing? Not really, because think
about the homeowners that are holding onto their homes at very low interest rates,
they're not incentivized to sell right now because they're going to have to go out
and get a new mortgage at these six six and a half percent rate.
So if you're locked into a mortgage at a very low rate and you own
your home, you have equity, you don't really feel like selling right now
to go out in there and look, because supply is super tight and prices,
especially in your area, are very high still, So it's not a
great move to sell if you don't have to. Yeah, that's a good
point. Let's stay with real estate, and I'd like to move to commercial
real estate real quick. I don't think it was on our tip sheet,
but it's globally speaking, by most measurements, it's the largest single asset class,
and it's in kind of its own mini recession within the category. Is
that enough to tip us into a recession later this year as far as American
recessions go? Or are we still looking at a possible soft landing? Yeah?
Potentially. Remember there's a ton of commercial real estate that's still vacant,
that's been vacant since the pandemic. A lot of it hasn't really come back
at all. But think about the loans that underwrite a lot of that commercial
real estate. We talked about the banking issues, the problems the banks were
having because they own a lot of treasury bonds. Well, now they also
own a lot of loans against commercial real estate, so that could impact liquidity
and that could reduce lending among banks. Another thing that could push us into
a recession. But the key thing to watch is consumer spending. If we
stopped spending as consumers, we pull way back. Because we're worried about a
recession that could tip the economy into a recession that could last for quite a
while. On we have twenty seconds with you. What about the unemployment rate
this week? Yeah, we're seeing We're continue to see mounting weekly jobless claims.
This week was a little bit softer than the past few weeks. The
trend has been higher. But we still have a lot of jobs available in
America about one point six for every available worker out there, so there's still
plenty of jobs. They're just in key sectors. But you're seeing mounting layoffs
in tech, mounting layoffs in media, and mounting layouts in retail. So
you want to keep our eyes on those that feed would like to see that
unemployment rate up above four percent. We're down at three point five percent right
now. So Caleb, thanks a lot for the flyover. Macroeconomically speaking,
Thank you. That's Caleb Silver. He's ABC News contributor and editor in chief
at Investopedia. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four our newsroom. An artificial intelligence lab in San Francisco has announced
a new version of chat GPT for the iPhone. Developers say it will allow
users to get instant answers without ads or sifting through results, tailored advice and
professional input like feedback on ideas maybecs. Andrea Fujii says the open AI Chat
Bought app is part of an effort to transform research into tools that empower people.
The app is free for iPhone users, developers say will be available to
Android users very soon. Huntington Beach is planning to crack down on its public
nudity policy. No ifs ands or but so much of this is just common
sense. The settlement will come. So much of this is just common sense.
Hunting to Beat spokeswoman Jennifer Cary says the city has not received any complaints
to prompt changing the existing ordinance. What we are proposing adding is public facilities
such as community centers and libraries, and certain restrictions to other body parts that
weren't currently included, which some call the plumber's crack. Finds rains from one
twenty five to six hundred dollars and a potential misdemeanor for those who continue to
let it all hang out. Breastfeeding is exempted. A vote is planned for
next month in Orange County, Corbin Carson, k if I News Hunday and
Kia have settled a class action lawsuit with customers over the thefts of their vehicles.
The settlement will cover some nine million Hunday and Kia vehicles made between two
eleven and twenty twenty two that lack anti theft controls. ABC's Michelle Franzen says
videos on social media called the Kia Challenge showed people exactly how to use everyday
tools to start the cars and drive away. The automakers agreed to reimburse customers
who had their cars stolen and covered damages not paid by insurance. Unday and
Kia also agreed to pay for anti theft devices like steering wheel locks, alarm
kits, and software. Upgrades. Seven people have been killed in a multi
car crash on the I five in Oregon. Police say others were hurt.
Oregon State Police say two semi trucks and a passenger van were involved in the
crash last night. A witness says the van was crushed between the trucks.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. The man accused of fatally stabbing
Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco has pleaded not guilty to murder.
The judge yesterday ruled Nima Momeni will remain in custody. We are very pleased
with that, as we did, of course, have a significant public safety
concern regarding the possibility of him being released. DA Brooke Jenkins says Momeni is
a flight risk, but many is accused of fatally stabbing Lee last month after
an argument about Momeni's sister. He's facing twenty six years to life in prison.
Twelve countries are facing financial collapse from being in debt to China. The
list of countries most in debt includes Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, and Mongolia.
The countries collectively owe hundreds of billions of dollars to the world's largest government
lender. The Associated Press says the debt payments are larger than tax revenue needed
to provide basic services. The countries are draining foreign currency reserves to pay the
loans, and some will run out of money within months. The Republican House
Freedom Caucus here in the United States is calling for it no further discussion on
the debt ceiling until the Senate approves a GOP bill that ties any increase to
spending cuts. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, he says the GOP bill
is dead on arrival. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters yesterday that he
sees a path forward toward a deal as negotiators from his staff and from the
White House continue to hold meetings today. Congress needs to raise the limit as
soon as June first to avoid a potential default. Right now, on wake
up call, it's Dean sharp kopis in your house, whisperer. Welcome back,
Dean. Good to hear you and see you on the radio. Doctor
Middleton, how are you doing these segments? Did I hear you quote Plato
earlier today? You did? Yeah? Thank you, Thank you for listening.
By the way, I hope you have a meter at home. Yes,
I did, because it just kind of came up. We're talking about
AI skill sets and stuff like that, and empathy came up, and it
just reminded me of something Plato's wrote about it. I love that quote.
I love it. I love that you pulled it out. Look, these
segments fly by, so I want to get into it with you. The
topic this week is closets. So closets are physical, but they do have
an emotional and mental rep to them. So where do you want to start
with? You want to start with clutter? And do you want to start
with just closets overall? You know, I mean we should always start with
clutter, because clutter is the problem when it comes to closets. It's the
thing that if you skip over it, you're gonna endlessly find yourself trying to,
you know, saying what everybody says, which is I don't have enough
closet space in my house, which is only true of just a few houses
out there. In fact, I would say in Los Angeles, the older
the house that you have, likely the less closet space you have. Houses
that were built in the night twenties, in the nineteen thirties kind of pre
World War Two. Admittedly, by twenty first century standards have very very little
closet space. And that's because people before World War Two had very very little
stuff compared to what we've got today. And that really is the issue.
We have so much stuff. And I don't care what your income level is.
If you live in southern California and you're not homeless, then likely you
experience the same thing that the rest of us experience, which is you just
go out into the world and you come back home and stuff is attached to
you. I mean, you just bring home stuff. We all have too
much stuff. And I don't have any issue with long term storage of stuff.
You know, some people have definitely a problem with that, and we're
going to get into that this weekend some see if we can help. My
issue is this, when it comes to your home, inside your house closets,
and here's the life changing advice I'm going to hand you this morning to
redefine what a closet is. A closet, if it's being used appropriately in
your home, is not not a long term storage area. A closet,
when done properly, is a temporary staging area for frequently accessed items. There
you go. That is a that's a very good rejiggering of the dynamic.
When it comes to thinking about closets, I mean, okay, the pantry
is different, right, a larger We talked about largers a couple of weeks
ago, I think, and that's a different thing. But okay, so
closets in my bedroom, walk ins and things like that, that needs to
be stuff that I'm going to be using on the rag. It really does.
I mean, it really should be, because otherwise you're wasting space inside
your house. It's that useful area. It's that staging area for stuff that
you're onto a lot. And that's why a lot of people should go through
their closets and you know, do the various tests, right say, you
know, I am I wearily wearing these clothes? Should I hang on to
the what if? Clothes inside my closet? And one of the piece of
advice I always give about closets is finish that sentence. Finish the what if
sentence. Don't just stop at whoa whoa what if? No? No,
no, finish that out. Well, what if there is a blizzard here
in La Okay, all right right, finish it out, let yourself hear
what you're saying, and then either go put that thing out in the garage
or donate it to goodwill. Some of the things you have cleared out,
some of the things you have can find an aftermarket use, right, Like
I have, I have built inns. I have nieces in their mid teens,
and so some of the older clothes I have in my closets are like
this is cool again. I'm like, okay, well there you go have
it. Well, oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah. If we were
to transform ourselves into kind of a you know, see ourselves not just as
people who need to cling on to things. And I get that, by
the way, that's built into our DNA, you know, I mean,
our hunter gatherer ancestors survived on hanging onto things. But it's just the fact
that you know, we're not hanging onto life essential. So if we were
to transition ourselves as to into you know, a giving culture, a donating
culture, then things would be a lot easier. At home. We've trimmed
down our material load, we still need some closets, right, Let's say
we do need some extra storage. We've we've delineated, we prioritized what are
the next steps now? Now, the next step is taking a stock of
the size of your home and figuring out, Okay, what's the closet that
is best for me, and understanding this. Yeah, yeah, everybody wants
the big walking closet. And if you've got a big enough home to accommodate
a walk in closet, I mean a real walking closet, hey, go
for it. It's a luxury, it's lovely, it's it's fun. The
problem is that everybody so wants a walking closet, and a walking closet just
like a walk in pantry, just like the larder that we were talking about.
The least efficient use of space because the majority of the square foe inside
a walk in closet has nothing to do with its storage capacity, has to
do with the fact that your body is going to be inside the closet.
Okay, that's the majority of the square footage is the walk in part.
And so the most efficient kind of closet is what everybody knows as the reach
in closets, only twenty four inches deep. It's got doors across the front,
whether they're sliders or bifolds or trifolds. Or whatever, and it's the
closet that only holds the clothes and not you. And so to maximize the
design, if you're remodeling your house and you've already if you are already square
foot challenged, then you know what, let go of the walk in idea
and give yourself the kind of closet space that your house can accommodate. Okay,
maximize efficiency and utility within the closet. I am a little jealous of
something you have on the prep sheet here, and that's the top hanging Can
you describe what that is? That system? Yeah, you shouldn't be jealous
of that at all, because it's actually one of the more economical ways to
build a clout, my personal favorite, and regardless again of the economic level
of the house. A top hanging closet system is what we call a modular
closet system. Imagine just a closet space empty. And now what we're gonna
do is we're gonna take this metal bracket. It's got a hook on the
bottom of it, a long running standing seam hook, and we're gonna mount
that metal bracket all the way up at the top right at the ceiling line.
By doing that you know what's also up there right at the ceiling line,
right behind the drywall, the top plate of the wall. In other
words, continuous wood. It means that when we put a screw in that
top plate, every fourteen inches or so, we hit wood every time.
That makes that top hanging bracket incredibly strong. I mean literally can hold a
ton. And then off of that top bracket, these stanchions come down that
hook into it and they just free hang. And it's the stanchions that hold
everything from brackets for shelves, brackets for poles for hanging clothes, shoe shelves,
drawers, everything imaginable now. Quite a few years ago, when these
first came out, I was an early adopter. We had to kind of
work with the wire the you know, the the rubber covered wire stuff,
because Rubber makes these. Kitchen Maide makes these. But nowadays you can go
down to the container store and take a look at the Alpha system ELFA and
you will find the evolution of these systems. They're sexy. Uh. They
can install d Y in less than a day. I mean really, you
can install these no matter what your level of competency. And the nice thing
is they can also so easily modulate and adjust, meaning that you know your
home evolved, your closet should evolve with you. So you can go two
years down the road and say, you know what we really need double hanging
here, and you know, just for a few more bucks, one more
bracket or two, you can get in there and change it up and give
yourself whatever else or whatever new that you need outstanding stuff. Look forward to
this weekend show, Dean Will you're going to dive deeper into this, I
assume over the week. Absolutely, we're talking closets and laundry rooms this weekend.
These back behind the scene rooms that make a house work. Must listen
radio. Thanks a lot for your time this morning, Dean. I'll be
tuning in Saturday. Thank you. Jason. That's kfi's house wish. We're
Dean sharp Man. That guys man learned so much every week. The House
Freedom Caucus is calling for no further discussion on raising the federal debt ceiling until
the Senate approves a bill passed by Republicans that ties any increase to spending cuts.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls the bill d o A. Texas has
found a new destination for illegal immigrants who have been processed and released by the
Border Patrol. Yesterday, a busload of asylum seekers was dropped off in Denver.
The Mile High City now joins Washington, d C, New York,
Chicago, and Philadelphia as Texas migrant drop off points. Space X is launching
more satellites into orbit. A Falcon nine rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral around
eleven twenty hour time last night. The rocket was carrying twenty two second generation
Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit five fifty one and a half. On your
wake up Call, ABC entertainment reporter Racontour cultural expert Jason Nathanson is with us
to tee up our options for the weekend. Good morning, Jason, Hey,
good morning, Fast and Furious ten filmed in Rome. Okay, we
talked about this briefly last week. Did it pass up a chance for a
mashup with that Jane Fonda film in Rome? Or can it stand on its
own? Well, there's gonna be an eleventh and a twelfth film coming,
so it's possible that we could see some kind of mashup coming in the future,
although it didn't happen in this one. So if you were hoping to
see Jane Fonda and Mary Stein virgin and Kandice Bergen and Diane Keaton show up
in this Fast ten film, that's not going to happen. So sorry,
we all were we all were looking forward to. Okay, so it can
stand on its own. Is it fast? Is it furious? Uh?
Sure? It is the tenth film in the franchise. After you know,
I feel like we've seen them do everything that the last movie they went to
space in a car. I mean, I don't know, really know how
you top that? They try here by you know, they're blowing up Rome,
They're back in Brazil. They're all over the place doing all the things
that they you know, they are known to do with cars and things like
that. You have Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlie's Tharren all back,
Jason Momoa. He joins the franchise as the new bad guy. Easily my
favorite part of the film. He's having a lot of fun, while on
the other hand, you have Vin Diesel, who just takes things way too
seriously. He's not having any fun at all. Bree Larson also joins as
a new special agent. She's just kind of on the edge of being interesting.
She's almost there. They just don't give her quite enough to do the
film itself. As we've come to expect from these movies, it's wildly silly.
There are huge plot holes that doesn't seem to matter. It's all about
kind of having fun and blowing stuff up, and they do that. You
know, if you go and see this on a Friday night in a packed
theater, I think you're gonna have fun. The audience is gonna, you
know, go crazy and laugh at things that are just really stupid that happened.
If you saw this on a Wednesday afternoon by yourself, I think you
would be less. You would enjoy it a lot less. I'm gonna come
back to that seeing stuff by yourself into just a second, real quick though,
Jason, how would you categorize films like this? Is this just?
Is this popcorn theater? Is exploit Asian films that kind of thing. Yeah,
it's It's just it's popcorn action movie. And you know, I think
at this point nobody's going into this expecting an Oscar Worthy uh plot or performance
or you know, screenwriting or anything like that. Um, So, as
long as you keep your expectations in check. I think there's enough here to
actually have fun with. Um. You know, I saw it in the
theater packed full of people, and people were were you know, screaming when
it was appropriate and you know, and also just laughing at the sheer stupidity
of some of it, which is fine, that's fun as well, right,
Um. And so I think again, you can have a good time
here if you're going to throw a production value against stupidity and have it a
scene by scene. Yeah, okay, I can I can follow that,
Yeah, sure absolutely. Um. You know, there's just it comes to
a point though, where things get so silly that it actually it works against
it. There's there's a whole thing here where Vin Diesel's kid is kidnapped and
they're trying to get him back, and he's in of the cars and he's
actually firing the rockets that are blowing up the cars behind him. And when
you stop down, like it's kind of a cool action sequence, but when
you stopped down and think about it, this kid is actively killing people in
the cars behind him. Yeah, and he's very young, and that kind
of didn't sit well with me that when you really think about it, it
just doesn't feel right, but you know again, it's it's the sheer silliness
of the of the franchise that people have come to love and expect. I
think back to Bend so I think he saves his pathos for the grout character
and guardians. If we stay home and stream, Apple Plus and Hulu both
have headlines, which one do you want to start with? We could start
with Apple TV Plus because that's the one I've seen. I haven't seen White
Man Can't Jump, which is on Hulu. But High Desert, which is
a new series on Apple TV Plus starring Patricia Kett as a recovering addict too
somehow kind of improbably she just forces her way into becoming a private investor getter
u which she has this knack. Her character has this knack for figuring things
out, and she's pretty funny in this alongside Brad Garrett. The two of
them are good together. Uh, you have other Matt Dillon is in this
as well, Brenadette, Peter Peter. So you have a pretty good cast
here. But the the it's just kind of all over the place. And
she doesn't really she's she's just she's doing a lot here. Patrici Arquette,
which sometimes I like, sometimes I don't like. UM. And so the
series itself. After watching a couple episodes, it's okay, but it just
didn't really speak to me. I've not said I've not seen it. You
said, she the character figures things out. It sounds like a conceit out
of poker Face, similar kind of story thread. Um, not quite as
far. Not it doesn't go as far as Natasha Leon's character. Okay,
very cool. I wanted to ask you about these monthly passes to theaters.
I recently signed up for one. I believe it's regal UM, and I
sometimes they do see movies because I had this odd working schedule, right these
odd hours I can go to matinee's and so I'm getting my value out of
it. Is this working for exhibitors as a recurring revenue model? Um?
Look, they're throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks. UM.
They've and they've tried the various passes and stuff before. UM, and it's
worked with varying degrees of success. UM. There was one of a movie
pass that the completely shut down because it was just not a profitable business model
for movie pass itself. UM. They were they were selling an unlimited pass
to all a bunch of different theaters. The ones that are doing it on
their own, whether it's the AMC program or it's the regal program. Um,
they do see some some value in those, um, you know,
because they're getting you in the door, right. Um. And then the
real money is, you know, in the concessions and things like that.
UM. So they're getting you in the door for that and hopefully then up
selling you on some of the other things. UM. As far as a
breakdown of profitability, I'm not sure. UM. And I honestly, I
don't think enough people have them to really make a big difference either way.
Okay, all right, I just knew that, you know, investors and
shareholders when they see recurring revenue monthly recurring revenue models, they tend to like
that a little bit. You know, they they can bet against it.
I was just wondering if it's catching any any traction at all. ABC's Jason
Nathanson, right. There, always a pleasure to speak with you every Friday.
I wish I could do it more, but I'm just gonna listen next
Friday because Jennifer's back. All Right. It sounds good take care. Thanks
Jason. Get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom before we get to handle on the news. The National Labor
Relations Board has certified a unionization vote for strippers at a club in North Hollywood.
The dancers are now the only unionized group of strippers in the US.
The Actors Equity Association labor union withdrew its opposition of the Star Garden topless dive
bar and agreed to recognize the Strippers union for fifteen months. Dancers at the
club have demanded safer work conditions, pay increases, and health insurance. A
twelve year old boy has become the youngest community graduate in California. Clovis hung
in Roll old at Fullerton College when he was nine. He says he was
inspired by a thirteen year old who graduated in twenty twenty Adulate. Clovis graduated
with five associate degrees and he has a sixth plan for next year. He
says he was able to accomplish his goals because of support from his family,
professors, and classmates. President of Ukraine Vladimir Zleinski will appear at the G
seven summit in Japan in person reported this warning. He is expected to attend
meetings on Sunday, when he is likely to redouble his efforts to secure military
support, including F sixteen fighter jets, and promote his ten point piece plan
for ending the war. The leaders of the G seven as a reminders a
club of rich democracies. They're also expected to unveil new sanctions and export controls
against Russia, including a ban on that country's diamonds and diamond exports. Southern
California weather from KFI a mile day temp wise across the Southland, a seasonal
morning fog and low clouds as the stunt comes up. Mostly sunny from mid
morning and the rest of today is at La and Oc beaches up to about
seventy. Clouds are gonna stick around longer at the coastline and for near inland
spots, highs are going to be in the mid seventies, mostly sonny for
the inland valleys, high school range between eighty in the eastern San Fernando Valley
to mid eighties in the San Gabriel Valley. Tonight partly cloudy in the evening,
than areas of low clouds in fog right now. Manhattan Beach is fifty
eight, Orange is fifty eight, Towards is fifty seven, and so is
Altadenam. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four our newsroom. I'm
Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up Call, been my pleasure all
week. You've been listening to your wake Up Call with me Jennifer Jones Lee,
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