WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.879 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.640 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI at kost HD two, Los Angeles, Orange 3 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:24.960 County. How that improved a good band? Your host, Amy Kay, 4 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:36.320 Good morning, it's five o'clock. Straight up. It's Monday, January eighth. 5 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:41.399 I'm Amy King. This is your wake up call. Got a big 6 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:46.719 day planned after a big weekend. I got to go to a Chargers game. 7 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.320 We're going to tell you about that a little bit later. That was 8 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:53.280 my first real just go to the Chargers game, enjoy the show kind of 9 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:57.719 thing. Of course, he lost, but you know that's okay, just 10 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.439 fan appreciation day. We were all happy to be there. And I will 11 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:06.200 tell you though that there was more a lot more red in the stands than 12 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:11.599 there was Chargers Golden Blue, a lot of Kansas City fans. And then 13 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.319 somebody was telling me that at SOFI, that's a very common thing, is 14 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.879 that we see more fans from the other teams than we do for the home 15 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:25.920 team. Hopefully we'll switch that up in the next couple of years. Golden 16 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.159 Globes were last night. Did you watch them? Kno, did not and 17 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.480 watched a little bit of it. I watched some of it. You know. 18 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.719 I just think that the awards ceremonies, I love them, and I 19 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.079 love watching them, and I'm glad that they kind of got away from a 20 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:47.280 lot of the political stuff and they more just talked about being actors and how 21 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.760 fun that is and what an honor it is to work with the people that 22 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.879 they work with, and that kind of stuff. I digged all that part, 23 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.840 but I hadn't heard of half the movies that were nominated, and a 24 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.920 couple that won. I was like, I've never even heard the name of 25 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:06.040 that movie, not even once in my life before that. So that's kind 26 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.039 of a downer. And it'll be interesting to see how many people watched and 27 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:12.080 all of that stuff. But I still do dig them, and we'll take 28 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.080 a little bit deeper dive into some of the winners and stuff. Some of 29 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:20.159 my favorites one and some of my favorites were nominated and did not win. 30 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.319 Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso, Ted Lasho, Here's what's ahead on wake Up 31 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:28.240 Call. The door plug that was blown off in Alaska Airline's flight on a 32 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:32.080 flight from Portland to Ontario has been found. It was discovered in the backyard 33 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:37.280 of a house in Portland by a teacher. The FAA has grounded all seven 34 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:42.479 thirty seven Max nine planes until it is, in its words, satisfied that 35 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.280 they are safe. The Max planes are just added to Alaska's fleet. In 36 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:52.759 October, a Lebanese security official says and Israeli airstrike has killed a senior Hesbula 37 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:58.120 commander in southern Lebanon. The Israel Hamas war hit the three month mark yesterday. 38 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:04.840 The first commercials to the Moon is underway. The uncrewed Peregrin Lunar Lander 39 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.159 lifted off overnight atop United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral. 40 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.439 The payload included the cremated ashens of ashes of dozens of people set to receive 41 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:23.080 so called space funerals, including those of Star Trek's Lieutenant O'Hara. Michelle Nichols. 42 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:25.319 We're gonna be talking more about this with ABC's Jim Ryan at five twenty. 43 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.520 He's got some more details for us. Should be really interesting. Love 44 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.080 the whole heading to the Moon thing. At six oh five, it's handle 45 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:36.400 on the news. Congressional leaders have come up with a spending deal that should 46 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:38.800 stop a government shut down for the rest of this year. Let's get started 47 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.479 with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 48 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:46.560 Winter break is over for kids in the LA School District. They go back 49 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.879 to class today. Superintendent Alberto Carvallo, board of Education members, and others 50 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:53.960 will kick off the start of the second semester with the news conference, classroom 51 00:03:54.039 --> 00:04:00.360 visits, and a chance to watch the superintendent teach. A new state law 52 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:05.639 that bans people from carrying weapons in most public places has again been blocked from 53 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.800 taking effect. The decision on Saturday keeps in place a ruling from December that 54 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.159 blocked the law. A federal judge ruled the law violates the Second Amendment and 55 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:19.399 that gun rights groups would likely prevail in proving it is unconstitutional. Governor Newsom's 56 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.680 office called it a dangerous decision that puts the lives of Californians in danger. 57 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.560 That door plug blown off in Alaska Airline flight from Oregon to southern California has 58 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.319 been found in the backyard of a home in Portland. The plug covers an 59 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:40.199 emergency exit that wasn't in use. Investigators have said finding the part could help 60 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:43.800 them figure out what caused the mid air emergency last week on the new Boeing 61 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:48.879 seven thirty seven to nine MACS and TSB chair Jennifer Hammondy says twelve rows of 62 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:55.319 seats were damaged. The headrests on twenty five A and twenty six A were 63 00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:01.040 gone. The seat back on twenty six A is also missing. The trade 64 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.240 table on the back of twenty six A is also missing. She says it's 65 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:10.160 fortunate the plane was not yet at cruising altitude when a hole was blown in 66 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.040 the side of the fuselage. The plane was at sixteen thousand feet while passengers 67 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.199 were still required to wear seatbelts. The FAA, as I mentioned, has 68 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:21.240 temporarily grounded Boeing seven thirty seven Max nine jets until they've been inspected and are 69 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:27.160 deemed safe. The cockpit voice recorder from that Alaska Airline's flight did not capture 70 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:31.759 the emergency. The NTSB says recorders only capture two hours of communications and then 71 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:38.000 overwrite the audio. Officials are urging the FAA to make airlines upgrade their cockpit 72 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.160 voice recorders to twenty five hours. Hey, the average wedding in twenty twenty 73 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.839 four is going to cost an average of thirty thousand dollars. The Zolar report 74 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:49.360 says the cost of pretty much everything is up, from florists to caterers because 75 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:55.639 of inflation, and of course that thirty thousand dollars does not include the engagement 76 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:00.879 ring. Let's now say good morning to ABC's Stephen Port and Boy Stephen. 77 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.480 We were all pretty surprised to hear that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in the 78 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:08.319 hospital. Apparently it caught the White House a little off guard to what in 79 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.600 the heck is going on. Not a little off guard, entirely off guard. 80 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.240 And we still don't know why Lloyd Austin remains in the hospital this morning. 81 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.959 We don't know why he's in. No, we don't know why he's 82 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.120 in. All we're told is that on December twenty second, he had a 83 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:26.759 minor elective procedure that had him at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center overnight, 84 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.319 and then on January first, he suffered severe pain and had to be 85 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.639 taken back to Walter Reed where he was brought into the ICU and remains in 86 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:39.800 the ICU. But not for his medical condition per se, it's also for 87 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:45.680 what we're told, our space and privacy considerations, and that is really striking. 88 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.439 And this is a man who's the senior most civilian official at the Department 89 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.199 of Defense, directly in the line of the chain of command. The way 90 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.759 things normally go is the President issues in order to the military. It's communicated 91 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:01.839 through the Defense Secretary and the He's also in the line of succession of course 92 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.720 when it comes to presidential succession. So the idea that his whereabouts would be 93 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:12.319 unknown to the White House for several days last week is just really jaw dropping. 94 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:17.519 The hospitalization began on January first, and the President wasn't informed until Thursday, 95 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:23.000 four days later January fourth, So lots of questions have yet to be 96 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.560 answered, and increasingly the questions are coming from Capitol Hill by partisan leadership of 97 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.639 the House Armed Services Committee issued a statement yesterday calling on Austin to explain why 98 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.680 he went into the hospital in the first place. As I say, we 99 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.680 still don't know. Well in the kind of the catch twenty two and all, 100 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:42.000 this is theoretically hippa rules would like say, no, he doesn't have 101 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:45.839 to say, it's a privacy thing. But like you said, he's in 102 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.720 the line of succession. He's the Secretary of defense and like, if something 103 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:55.800 really big happens and we can't get a hold of him, that's really scary. 104 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:59.480 Well, I don't know if the actual hipp A law would necessarily apply. 105 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.360 I don't know how it's written and whether it applies in this particular circumstans. 106 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.519 What I do know is that he's citing his own right to privacy, 107 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:11.839 and that's the bottom line. That said, the long understood norm here is 108 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:18.600 that you can't serve in a senior most government position and have that privacy right. 109 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:22.279 You just can't, especially when it comes to your health. There might 110 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.399 be a national security argument that, well, we don't want America's enemies to 111 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:28.240 think that the United States is vulnerable because the Defense Secretary is laid up. 112 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:30.759 Well, I think the opposite. It's true. I think that if the 113 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.960 Defense Secretary is hospitalized, you convey publicly to the world that the deputy Defense 114 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.200 Secretary is firmly in command and that there's been no break in the chain of 115 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.519 command. That it's all that the continuity of government is there. That really 116 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.919 helps the world understand that the American government is strong and much stronger than any 117 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:52.720 one person. The opposite conveys weakness, So I think at the moment there 118 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.240 are lots of questions, and the idea that this was really kept from the 119 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.000 President and his senior aides at the White House is a scandal, and the 120 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:05.519 President was said to be exasperated. But also, you know, I guess 121 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:09.639 in some way understanding they go back. Lloyd Austin was a commander in a 122 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:15.519 rock when Bo Biden served under him in Iraq, and so there's some sympathy 123 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.279 and affinity there. And this president just doesn't fire people. I have rarely 124 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.000 seen anyone tossed out of this administration. It's just not something Joe Biden does 125 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.279 well. First of all, I hope he's okay, but I'd really like 126 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.039 to get some answers. And you know, this is such a bizarre, 127 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.720 bizarre story. Yep, you bet, all right. Thank you so much, 128 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.360 Steven Portenon. I appreciate all the information. Let's get back to some 129 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.639 of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And LAPD 130 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.399 officers are covering from an attack where a homeless man broke the officer's leg at 131 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:54.200 a metro station. Sources with the LAPD say the North Hollywood officer was conducting 132 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.559 a search of the train at the end of its route. When the homeless 133 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:58.759 man was told to leave the train. The homeless man refused, and during 134 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.360 a the officer was injured. The attack happened just before midnight last Thursday at 135 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.559 a Metro station on Lancasham Boulevard. Sources also say the same man had an 136 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:13.279 argument with officers earlier that evening. Steve Gregory kf iOS arrangment is expected this 137 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.000 morning for the man accused of killing three homeless men in la and a man 138 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.559 in San Dimas who was killed during a follow home robbery. The murder charges 139 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.600 include the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder during the commission of a 140 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.759 robbery. Jared Powell was ordered held without bail in December. The killings happened 141 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:39.960 in late November. Those who missed out on the viral pink Stanley cups at 142 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:43.360 Starbucks actually they were for sale at Target, maybe out of luck. The 143 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:48.080 coffee chain says it's not going to be restocking the mugs. The limited edition 144 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.120 cup went on sale last week at Starbucks. Inside Target stores, people were 145 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:58.200 lining up as early as one am to get their hands on the forty ounce 146 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.320 stainless steel vacuum scene old Tumblr. It cost fifty bucks. It's been seen 147 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:09.039 up on eBay for two hundred bucks or more. Hey, the Eagles have 148 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.480 landed. The Eagles opened the first of four nights at Kia Forum on Friday, 149 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.840 and I have to tell you personally, I'm very excited about this because 150 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:20.919 it was one of my kind of bucket listing. I don't know if you 151 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:22.840 call it a bucket listy, but it's one of the shows that I hadn't 152 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:28.399 seen. I'd never seen the Eagles, and so we got tickets to see 153 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:31.080 the Eagles this weekend and I have some friends flying down from Portland and we're 154 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.039 all going to go and it's going to be super fun. But was super 155 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:41.799 excited to hear about the show that happened on Friday that co founder the Eagles, 156 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:45.320 Don Henley came on stage and he said, good evening and welcome to 157 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:50.440 whatever this is. Well, it's the Eagles. They're long goodbye tour. 158 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:56.519 They apparently did twenty one songs in just over two hours, pretty much all 159 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.240 of the Eagles hits that you would ever want. They had Joe Walsh's hits 160 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.639 from outside the band. Don Henley did a solo hit, and then, 161 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.200 of course the Glenn Fry is no longer with us, but in his place 162 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.399 there is son Deacon Fry, who plays in the band and also country singer. 163 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:18.200 I didn't know this. Vince gill is playing with the Eagles, so 164 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.639 that's going to be a super duper treat. And Don Henley apparently said, 165 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:24.480 you know, we could have done one night at the Spaceship next door and 166 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.679 been done with it, And of course he was referring to Sofi Stadium, 167 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.559 and he said, but the sound is so much better here at the Key 168 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:35.799 of Forum. So we decided to work a little harder and give you a 169 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.480 better experience. And so the result of that was four shows. So super 170 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:46.200 excited that the Eagles have landed at the Forum, and personally, I'm super 171 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.200 excited to go to the show this weekend and I'll tell you all about it. 172 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.120 Congressional leaders say they've come to an agreement on a budget that will keep 173 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.919 the government funded through twenty twenty four, sent a majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 174 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:00.519 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson made the joint announcement of the nearly one point 175 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:05.080 seven trillion dollar deal yesterday. The number of reported hate crimes is up in 176 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.440 America's ten largest cities. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extreme Menisimic 177 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.639 Cow State University says hate crimes are up almost thirteen percent, mainly because of 178 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.120 anti Jewish and anti Muslim attacks tied to the Israel Hamas War. Hate crimes 179 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:24.480 in LA jumped forty eight percent. College football's national champion will be crowned tonight, 180 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.159 vying for the title Number one Michigan and number two Washington. Michigan made 181 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.759 it to the championship game with their twenty seven to twenty oh t win over 182 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:37.000 Alabama at the Rose Bowl one week ago. Ooh, Fantasia is going to 183 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.639 perform the national anthem, and Walker Hayes is headlining the All State Championship tailgate. 184 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.440 Sounds like a party. At six oh five, it's handle on the 185 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.080 news. Governor Newsom's getting ready to know let us know what he wants to 186 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:54.360 spend for the next year as the state faces a sixty eight billion dollars shortfall. 187 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:00.360 Now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan Jim weikin see to 188 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.799 the Moon, Alice, To the Moon, to the Moon, Alice and 189 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:09.159 beyond. Really so Yeah, this launched. This is a peagrine peregrine won. 190 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.000 The lander launched early this morning. Amy, it was riding aboard of 191 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:18.720 Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral blasted all stuff from Star Trek. Well it 192 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.720 is, and you know why because the remains of some stars from the original 193 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:28.919 Star Trek are on board that rocket. James Dehan who played Oh Scottie the 194 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:35.159 Forest, Kelly who was doctor doctor McCoy both and Nichelle Nichols of course Lieutenant 195 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:41.759 O'Hara hailing frequency. Please, So the remarks and remains of those three, 196 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:43.759 some of the remains, at least they they're not really clear about that. 197 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.799 Some say ashes, others say just DNA. That could be, you know, 198 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.559 a hair from Michelle Nichols brush or something. I'm not sure. But 199 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.080 Geene Roddenberry also has some remains on board this this trip, this rocket, 200 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:01.879 it's going to the Moon, but they remain will be launched off beyond that, 201 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.559 towards the Sun. They're going to go off into deep space, into 202 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.159 this eternal voyage out into space. Meanwhile, this lander is supposed to touch 203 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.919 down on the Moon on February twenty third. I believe it is This was 204 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.639 interesting. Amy. You know, you've seen the moon chart, the beautiful 205 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:22.440 chart of the moon. It shows where Armstrong and Aldrin landed. Apollo eleven 206 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.120 they landed in the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo seventeen landed kind of on the 207 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:30.559 edge of the Sea of Tranquility and the Sea of Serenities. You've got the 208 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.960 Sea of Rains, the Plato crater there, the Copernicus crater. But the 209 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.759 one that's going to land on February twenty Thirsdy is landing in something called the 210 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:46.639 Bay of Stickiness. It's honest to what it's called the Bay of stickiness? 211 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.679 Why is it? Do we know why it's called the bay stick up? 212 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:52.879 I assume that it looks like it's sticky. It's just dust like the rest 213 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.240 of the the moon out there. But they call it the sea of the 214 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:02.240 Bay of Stickiness. Okay, isn't there? Doesn't China or Korea or somebody 215 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.720 didn't they launch something and they have it on the moon. Or maybe it 216 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.360 was Russia, I can't remember, but not too long ago, somebody launched 217 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.279 something and it went to like the South Pole. Yeah, right, the 218 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.559 China's Changjai. It landed. It was the twenty thirteen to twenty twenty mission. 219 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:21.600 India also has had a successful moonlander landed an object on the Moon. 220 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:25.120 This will be the first US soft landing on the Moon if it all goes 221 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:29.600 to plan in fifty years. So yeah, it's going to be it'll be 222 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.000 momentous. But at the same time, you see the space race that pits 223 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:38.360 the US against China and against Indian against Russia to some degree. But really 224 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:44.480 the space race these days is pitting US corporations against each other, the companies 225 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:47.879 that make the rocket and make the landers, and they're all kind of being 226 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:52.080 whipsawed by NASA, which is looking for the best price on contracts to take 227 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:57.279 its stuff out into space. The goal of this mission, besides sending members 228 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:03.720 of the Star Trek cast out in space, is to learn more about the 229 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:08.319 Moon itself. Devices are going to measure the magnetism of the Moon, measure 230 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:14.599 the radiation levels, look for any sources or signs of water, all of 231 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.680 of course laying the groundwork for the return of people to the Moon at some 232 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.079 point, maybe the next decade. Oh that's what I was just going to 233 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.680 ask you. When are people heading back? There should be before the end 234 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.839 of I mean before twenty thirty arrives. It's really the best. Yes, 235 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.319 so that's only sixty years to go before NASA's plan at least, or the 236 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.480 intention of NASA and it's private partners to put somebody back on the Moon. 237 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.720 This is all smacking of for all mankind. Have you watched that show on 238 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:42.599 Apple TV? Yes, very cool. I have too. So the premise 239 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.000 of the show, We've talked about it before here on wake Up Call, 240 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.880 is that, you know, there's the race to get into space back in 241 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:53.640 the sixties, but that Russia got there first, and so the race to 242 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.960 space never stopped, like you know, when we got there, it was 243 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:02.440 kind of like, okay, we went, but this time in this scenario, 244 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.720 it kind of never stops and it keeps going. And there's a lot 245 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:10.599 of commercial companies who are involved in going, and NASA is there. So 246 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:15.039 it's interesting that now that's kind of you know, art imitating life or life 247 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.359 imitating art. Actually well sure, yeah, I mean, yeah, you 248 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.759 saw a signed to that even in two thousand and one of Space Odyssey, 249 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:26.880 you know, the I think Boeing had its name showing up in parts of 250 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.599 the movie. Yeah. But also I mean, and again, reality imitating 251 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:36.720 art. Here Boeing built the rocket. This United Launch Alliance, which is 252 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:41.039 backed by Boeing and Lockheed built the rocket that is sending this thing off into 253 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:45.480 space to it at the Vulcan Centaur. So yeah, it's definitely life imitating 254 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.519 art. When was the last time that we were on the moon fifty years 255 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.559 ago? It's been fifty years since we had a soft landing on the moon, 256 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.559 so this is a momentous ocation. Yeah, we've kind of track and 257 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:02.960 trail behind the USSR. It had this back in its missions, the lunar 258 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.400 missions in sixty six and seventy six, then China and India. So yeah, 259 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.799 the US will be headed back there at some point of the future. 260 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:15.240 People, this will be the latest object US object landing on the moon. 261 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.119 Okay, in China and Russia have all had people on the moon. No, 262 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:23.880 no, we're the only ones. Yeah, we're the ones curious er 263 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:30.759 and curiously as far as we know. Well, there's that too, Okay, 264 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:33.680 Jim Ryan will be watching. What's the next you said, February twenty 265 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:36.960 third is when it's supposed to land. Why is it going to take so 266 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:38.359 long to get there? Well, they're doing different things. Yeah, it 267 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.960 took a couple of days for Aldron, and you know, for Armstrong and 268 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:47.200 Aldron to get their butt. They're doing other things on the They're doing different 269 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:52.559 testing and different maneuvers and different orbits, and so it'll take longer to get 270 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.720 there just by. It's not just the it's not just getting there, it's 271 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.720 the trip as well. Oh okay, and there's no people on board, 272 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:02.559 so there's not a big rush to get there. Well, there's DNA of 273 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:04.720 people, but not actual people, right, okay, Jim Ryan, thank 274 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.400 you so much, Dean. I love all this space stuff. It's so 275 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.319 cool. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI 276 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.240 twenty four hour newsroom. LA City councilman Kieran Price is due in court to 277 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:19.599 face corruption charges. Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California, 278 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:25.680 Experienced Christian Ministries, South Central United and other groups are expected to be at 279 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:30.200 the Criminal Courts building this afternoon to support him. Price is charged with theft 280 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.079 by embezzlement, perjury, and conflict of interest. A Lebanese security official says 281 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:38.880 a senior Hesbelah commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. 282 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.079 The strike was carried out nearly a week after another Israeli strike killed a top 283 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.519 official with the militant group Hamas in Beirut, and two days after Hesbolah launched 284 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.960 a wide ranging missile attack on an Israeli military base in northern Israel. In 285 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:59.799 retaliation, Hesbolah has been attacking Israeli military posts along the border since Hamas attacked 286 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:03.440 is On October seventh, Top Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate have 287 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.160 announced an agreement on spending for the whole year. ABC's Mike Debuski says the 288 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:12.400 agreement sets spending at one point five to nine trillion dollars, which is the 289 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:18.160 same amount originally agreed to by President Biden and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last 290 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:22.279 year during debt limit talks. The deal keeps in place the eight hundred and 291 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:29.079 eighty six billion dollars in defense funding stipulated by Republicans and also maintains the level 292 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.920 of non defense spending that Democrats pushed for during negotiations over the debt limit. 293 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.200 Many House Republicans have called for deeper cuts. The White House says it rejects 294 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:42.839 deep cuts to programs, hard working families count on. So it was perusing 295 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:47.720 Instagram because we were talking earlier. The Golden Globes were last night, and 296 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:53.480 Greg and Tom from Succession had a Greg and Tom moment backstage after Succession won 297 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:57.400 one of its awards. It won for Best Drama Series, and you know 298 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:00.759 it, just like goes Oh, I can't believe that series isn't coming back. 299 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:06.160 And trust me, I hated all the characters on Succession. There was 300 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:10.160 no one to root for because they were all so nasty, just which means 301 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:15.880 the actors were amazing and they were paid for that. Last night, they 302 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:19.079 almost all won the series one. Sarah snook one. Kieran Kolkin won Big 303 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:23.799 Night for Succession. The door plug that was blown off and Alaska Airline's flight 304 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:29.799 on its way from Portland to Ontario has been found discovered in the backyard of 305 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.079 a house in Portland by a teacher. The FAA has grounded all seven thirty 306 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:38.279 seven Max nine planes until it is, in its words, satisfied that they 307 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:41.880 are safe. The plug the blew out Friday, opening up a large hole 308 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.279 in the side of the plane, was covering an unused exit door. A 309 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:52.960 Lebanese security official says an Israeli airstrike has killed a senior Husbola commander in southern 310 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:57.400 Lebanon. The Israel Hamas War hit the three year mark yesterday. Christopher Nolan 311 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:03.599 is this year's Golden Globes I never Best Director for Motion Picture. Nolan accepted 312 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.559 the award on behalf of the cast and crew of Oppenheimer. It's a sixth 313 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:12.079 nomination, first win. Oppenheimer also won Best Movie Drama, Poor Things one 314 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:18.119 Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture, and Emma Stone also won Best Actress for 315 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:21.920 Poor Things And I had never heard the name of that movie until the Golden 316 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:23.960 Gloves. Last night at six oh five, it's handle on the news, 317 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:29.000 COVID, cold flu, RSV. They're all out there, and everybody seems 318 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:30.519 to get in be getting them, and some are getting more than one at 319 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:36.400 once. Right now, we know that there are a lot of very serious 320 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.680 and scary and consequential things going on in the world, and a wake up 321 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:41.960 call. We want to make sure that you get all that information you know 322 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.039 to get your day started, so you know what's going on in the world. 323 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:47.920 But guess what, there are good, positive things happening in the world, 324 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:51.240 and there are people who are making a change for good, for themselves 325 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:53.160 and for others, and we want to share those stories too. Like last 326 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:56.039 week we talked to CNN's Hero of the Year, remember the street vet, 327 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:00.039 doctor Kwan Stewart out of San Diego. And by the way, you can 328 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.319 go listen to that interview. It was really really interesting. It's on the 329 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.880 wake Up Call podcast on the iHeartRadio app. But here's another story I really 330 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.920 wanted to share. So let's say good morning now to Oliver James. Good 331 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:17.480 morning, Oliver. Good So Oliver, before we talk about what you have 332 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:19.480 now done and what you are doing now, I want to take a look 333 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:25.880 back at your life and kind of to get people up to speed on kind 334 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.359 of how you got kind of a rough start in life and that affected you 335 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.119 into adulthood. So let's back up a little bit and talk about, you 336 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.680 know, what was life like as a kid for you. I know, 337 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.880 life was like everyone else growing up in the nineties and no parental you know, 338 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:45.000 guidance. You kind of just raised yourself TV a bunch of junk food. 339 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:49.480 It was. It was just like everyone else, but you had some 340 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:53.960 pretty big stumbling blocks starting out at a young age. You made a mention 341 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:59.480 of when you were in first grade you got suspended. Yeah, you got 342 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:03.759 suspended and around first second grade. I don't know why, but apparently I 343 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.799 was the bad kid. But how they chose to handle the situation, they 344 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:10.039 decided to take me out of school more. I don't know why, but 345 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:14.119 that's how they handle things, okay, And that affects your learning and your 346 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.880 ability to learn, and that it sort of snowballed as you grew up. 347 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:23.480 So did you end up? Did you get your high school diploma? Yeah? 348 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:27.680 I got my high school diploma. School was definitely a rough journey, 349 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:33.519 like after getting suspended around like first second grade. It was literally just fighting 350 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.079 with teachers, arguing all the time, suspension. Yeah, and then one 351 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:38.480 day I woke up and I was graduating. That's literally how it was. 352 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:41.519 Okay, So now that's going to bring us a little closer to today, 353 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.000 So you're not to you know, you had a lot of kids had had 354 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:49.079 tough goes, but for you it was pretty profound because you got your high 355 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:56.920 school diploma and you couldn't read yep, yep, yep. You know. 356 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:00.240 I've done a lot of interviews and I'm trying to make sense of it, 357 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.000 and I'm trying to give people an answer so they can make sense of it 358 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.680 themselves. But let's just sit and think about it. I was a child, 359 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:08.680 Now i'm an adult, and I'm looking at at their children. I'm 360 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:12.720 like, why would they leave the responsibility to a child to learn anything like 361 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:17.440 reading? You know, all these things? Why the child wouldn't learn that. 362 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.759 Now I'm sitting here realizing that no one took responsibility for leaving me illiterate. 363 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:26.680 Yeah, well, and I think that we see that in schools now 364 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:29.119 they keep just dumbing it down, and they're like, oh, well, 365 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.200 we want to have We don't want to hold kids back because that might hurt 366 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:36.400 their self esteem. So let's just let them move on without teaching them the 367 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:40.440 skills that they're going to need to survive and thrive in life. And so 368 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:45.119 you got your diploma, and then holding a job was kind of tough because 369 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:52.440 you said you're functionally illiterate. Yeah not then now you know I'm on welfare. 370 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.920 Now it will always be over your head. The world was designed for 371 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.079 you to know how to read. They made this world up like that. 372 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:00.279 If you don't know how to read, you are in a world that you 373 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.799 cannot operate and this is a made up world work school. All these things 374 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.640 you can't read. You missed all the opportunities in life, and it continues 375 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.200 into adulthood. Okay, So, and you gave some examples of like you 376 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.480 would get a job but then as like a bartender or a server, but 377 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:19.000 then you couldn't hold the job. And I hadn't even thought about this, 378 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.759 but like, what were some of the challenges did you face once you got 379 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.839 the job, because it sounds like you're a pretty a charismatic, friendly guy. 380 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:27.319 I mean, you get the job, but keeping it was the hard 381 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:30.920 part. See, that's the strength of a person who does not to read. 382 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.440 I learned how to do interviews and talk and do things that you know, 383 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:37.960 mask that other people probably can't do. But once I get the job 384 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.160 and they can see the true colors, they can see like, Okay, 385 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.960 I was a bartender and I'm dating the person who hired me as a bartender 386 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.559 at the restaurant that I was at, and she had to bar or demote 387 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:51.960 me to a bus or a server, and she couldn't understand why you think 388 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:53.680 of that? She could not understand why does this guy I had the look 389 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.200 I had the charm. I had everything you would ask for, but I 390 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.680 couldn't do the job. And she could not understand why I was not able 391 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.440 to do the job. And I wouldn't tell anybody either. Okay, So 392 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.720 when it came to like if you were sitting there helping somebody and they said, 393 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.839 well, what's good on the menu, You're like, uh, you 394 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:14.960 tell me. I was a charmer. I would just literally be like you 395 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:15.480 tell me. I'm like, you know what, that looks good? You 396 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.200 know. I would definitely try that, and it'd be like, well, 397 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:19.039 what's in it? I'm like, well, listen, it's a surprise. 398 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:22.640 And I would just lie or make up anything. I had no idea what 399 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.079 I was doing. Okay. Well, then in twenty twenty, Oliver, 400 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.000 something changed for you. Some switch got flipped on you. What happened, 401 00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:34.400 uh, you know COVID. Let's just say that, you know, everybody 402 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.440 got a little taste of what it feels like when the world and ended. 403 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.400 You know, you're like, what should I do with my life? Like? 404 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.039 Should I change? And when I realized, I'm like, okay, 405 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:44.880 the world ain't ending. Your life just kind of ended for a little bit. 406 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:45.680 What would you do with it? Right, And I thought, I'm 407 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.440 like, I want to be a father one day, I want to do 408 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:49.079 things. I want to grow. And I was like, you don't know 409 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.480 how to do none of that. You can't even read. So I just 410 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.559 decided to pick up a book. And you literally picked up a book, 411 00:28:56.599 --> 00:28:59.480 and how did you start reading? Then? If you don't know, how 412 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:02.799 do you know what? It's just this is the best way to put it. 413 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:03.920 There's a lot of people who go on health journeys, right, it's 414 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.680 a new at the end of the year. How do you do it? 415 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:10.839 Social media starts throwing up a bunch of people doing push ups on a stair 416 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:14.119 mast or you know, running up and down some or jumping off a building. 417 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:15.799 Who knows what they'll show, you know, just so you can see 418 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.519 the hype of how athletic they are. And then you might go follow it. 419 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:19.400 You might go out there and be like, I'm gonna go climb this 420 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:22.839 tree and run around and lift this weight. Why, because you're just trying 421 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.519 to learn. You're trying to figure out how does that person do it? 422 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:29.920 So what I did was I just followed everybody else who used to sit under 423 00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:32.680 a tree a movie or at a restaurant. I'm like, they always sat 424 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.559 down and just opened the book and it looks so calming and you know, 425 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:37.640 entertaining. But to me, that was the first step. Open it and 426 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.599 just stare at it. Does it? And then you go further because you'll 427 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.200 ask like, what's this word? Or a movie might say something you just 428 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.519 looked at on the book and you're like, oh, that's the same word 429 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.759 from the movie. You know, that's how you start to connect it because 430 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.160 you're emerging yourself into a book. You can't if you Once you're emerged into 431 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.039 it, you're gonna start learning what's in there, which is amazing. It's 432 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:57.640 a whole discovery. Yeah. And then did you have somebody kind of helping 433 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:02.119 you along the way, because I would imagine and as you're learning these words 434 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.319 and learning how they go together, and you know, all the things that 435 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:08.400 you've got going on in your head translated to paper, you would have to 436 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:12.799 have somebody to kind of give you a helping hand to teach help issue. 437 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:17.359 Yeah. My lady, she was the one that helped me the most in 438 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:19.119 this journey with the reading. She's the one that read to me in the 439 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:22.119 beginning. So she brought me a book in the beginning on Christmas Day one 440 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.759 day, a three hundred and sixty five quote books. Because I was really 441 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:30.160 big into inspirational stuff and I didn't know inspiration could be in a book, 442 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.359 so that was a shock to me. I was like, oh my god, 443 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:34.160 this is like you already just said. And she's like, yeah, 444 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:37.240 that's a quote. I'm like a quote. I'm like what you know I'm 445 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:40.079 going in And I'm like, well, I need more of this. Give 446 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:41.240 me more of these quotes, and she would read them to me. And 447 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.880 then I got addicted to the quotes and I just started reading quotes every single 448 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.200 day while I exercise. I love it. And I think that that probably 449 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.759 was really smart, whether you realized it at the time or not, because 450 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:55.240 then you you kind of have bite sized chunks too. Yes, you don't 451 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:57.680 have this huge story that's super involved like you can. You can take a 452 00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.599 bite and go, oh, I like that one, and learn different ones 453 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.799 as you go. Maybe yes, I didn't know that, but the comprehension, 454 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:07.920 you know, you got to realize. And I can tell you this 455 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.759 now, so even some people can know. Comprehension is scary. You know, 456 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:12.640 internal monologue is scary. I went to the emergency room. I thought 457 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:15.160 I was going crazy. When you see images in your head and you start 458 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.319 seeing movies in your own mind because you're reading, I thought I was losing 459 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.839 my mind. I had no idea what was going on, because my brain 460 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.279 has never been activated in that way in thirty five years. It just turned 461 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.839 on out of nowhere. Yeah, like Frankenstein gaining a brain. Oliver, 462 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:36.920 do you have a favorite quote? You know what I do. And if 463 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:38.799 you want to hide something from people, put it in a book. Okay, 464 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:42.599 if you want to, that's one of my put in bo Yeah. 465 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:45.920 If you want to hide something, and the quote is deeper than that, 466 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.119 if you want to hide something from African American people, put it in a 467 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:48.920 book, you know. But you know, sometimes I like to give it 468 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.519 to everybody because it is for everybody. If you want to hide something from 469 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:55.039 somebody, the knowledge is in a book. So if you're looking for something 470 00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:56.640 that's hidden, go look in a book. You'll find it. Wow, 471 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:01.039 that's like you said, there's a lot more meaning to that just than just 472 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.920 what's on the surface. So now, Oliver, you've taught yourself how to 473 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.680 read, and now you are kind of paying it forward. What are you 474 00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:13.359 doing now well, I'm actually just showing it all on social media. You 475 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:15.440 know, I've learned now that I suffer from mental illnesses. You start learning 476 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.920 how to read, you start learning about yourself. I got O CEPTSD, 477 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.160 I got the whole alphabet, you know, I got all types of letters. 478 00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:22.599 I don't even know about them, and I'm sitting here learning about them, 479 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.319 Like, what is all this? I didn't even know I had this. 480 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:28.079 But as you learn, you start to learn yourself, you start to 481 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.119 figure things out. You start to learn that there's more to you than you 482 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.839 even knew. So reading, there's a never ending door. With reading, 483 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.559 you can literally just go through it for the rest of eternity. That's amazing. 484 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.599 So where do people follow you? You'll follow me at Oliver speaks with 485 00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:46.799 the number one on Instagram. I think it's x now and TikTok is my 486 00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.400 main place. That's where I do all my stuff. I read live pretty 487 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.319 much every morning. When I get off of here, I'm gonna read live 488 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.480 on TikTok. I love that. And the best way to learn and is 489 00:32:55.559 --> 00:32:59.200 just by doing it. So good for you, and I hope that you 490 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:04.440 will continue to inspire people. I love you that you just basically said I'm 491 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.039 going to do this, and you did it. You know, I mean, 492 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:09.799 you can overcome a lot. So so much luck and success to you, 493 00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:13.599 Oliver. Thank you so much. I loved hearing your story and it's 494 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.519 such an inspiration and something I think we need today. Thank you. Thank 495 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:21.599 you for having me. All right, take care, take care. Oh 496 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:23.720 my gosh, I just love Oliver James. How exciting. I'm going to 497 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:28.599 go watch him read on TikTok. Winds, snow and ice could force the 498 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.440 closure the five Freeway through the Gravevine is cool. Breezy weather continues to loom 499 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:37.200 over southern California. A thirty five car pile up, including eighteen big rigs, 500 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.920 caused by fog, killed two people and injured nine others in the Bakersfield 501 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:45.400 area over the weekend. The number of reported hate crimes is up in America's 502 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:51.200 ten largest cities. The Center for Study of Hate and Extremism at California State 503 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:57.359 University says hate crimes in LA jumped forty eight percent. Anti Muslim crimes in 504 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:02.839 Chicago are up three hundred percent. College football's national champion will be crowned later 505 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:08.639 today, vying for the title Number one Michigan against number two Washington. Michigan 506 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:15.159 made it to the championship game with the twenty seven twenty OT win over Alabama 507 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:19.400 at the Rose Bowl a week ago. Fantasia is going to be performing the 508 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.599 national anthem at the game. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the 509 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.199 news this morning, the law blocking people from carrying guns in California, even 510 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:30.679 those who have concealed carry permits, has been blocked again. So Nick and 511 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.480 I got to go to a Chargers game yesterday. It was my first real 512 00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:38.760 time to just go to Sofi Stadium and hang out and enjoy the game, 513 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:44.840 kind of wander around. So we we had true nosebleed seats section five to 514 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:47.360 twelve, which were still great. By the way, they look really good. 515 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.039 Yeah, like you had really were like, yeah, you can kind 516 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.320 of see all the action, and then of course they have the jumbo tron, 517 00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.719 so you can see everything going on around you, and aside for the 518 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:06.199 blustery winds that we're freezing, it was fabulous. Okay, but then we 519 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:09.599 went down. We decided we can't just stay up here, so we went 520 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:15.159 down to ground zero to the playing field and caught up with our favorite sideline 521 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:19.360 reporter for the LA Chargers, our own Shannon Farren, who gets the best 522 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.480 view in the house every single week. I know, it's ridiculous. It 523 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.760 is a wonderful stadium. It's a lot of fun. I can't believe that 524 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.119 I get paid to do this. But here I am so tell us because 525 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:31.639 people don't know. We hear the hits with you. But like on a 526 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:35.559 typical day, what do you do when you get here? Okay? So 527 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.440 I get here about an hour before pregame starts today with about ten thirty. 528 00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:42.519 I go up to the booth, I pick up all of my equipment and 529 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.400 make sure it worked all throughout the stadium, come down and do a mic 530 00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:50.400 check, and then I start the pre game show. I've got about four 531 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.519 different hits on the pre game show, and then we get ready for kid 532 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:55.159 goff okay, and then we hear you periodically through the game. So are 533 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.159 you just kind of roaming around looking for people and go yeah, I want 534 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:02.559 to talk to him or that all planned out During the game, it's essentially 535 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:07.320 focusing on the Chargers sideline and what's going on there, and you know with 536 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:13.639 injuries or who's talking to who is justin Herbert talking to Keenan Allen about a 537 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:17.440 misconnection or a touchdown path are they celebrating? It's essentially just being a reporter. 538 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.079 You know, what do you see? I tell everybody this in the 539 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.840 news department when they start reporting for KFI News is just tell me what you 540 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:27.960 see, Like if you called, if my husband called me, what would 541 00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:30.039 I tell him what I saw on the sideline? Kind of a thing. 542 00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:32.000 So I try to do that for the radio broadcast. Okay, And what 543 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.559 is your favorite thing about doing this aside for being Shannon Farren on the sideline 544 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.000 at a Charger game. I just love you know me. I love doing 545 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.079 MOLL. It's my whole life has been in the stands, and so the 546 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:49.480 idea that I get to be a close and personal to a game is amazing. 547 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:53.800 I am giddy every single Sunday or Thursday or Monday that we play. 548 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.199 I never take it for granted. I love it and every second of it. 549 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:00.800 And I got to tell you I see it almost every day. She's 550 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:05.639 not smiling like this. I love that you love what you're doing and you're 551 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:07.840 so good at it. So my question is when are you making the jump 552 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:12.199 tubrit nod TV? Because I mean, come on You're beautiful, No no, 553 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.639 and you're smart and you knows lacaul I was just talking to one of 554 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:19.039 the TV reporters who's here today. She goes, how were you last week? 555 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:21.960 And I was like, I was so thankful that I was on radio 556 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.400 last week because we were at radio. Yeah, it was raining. I 557 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:29.480 look like the marshmallow man, like a drown in a crat, and I'm 558 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.719 like, I don't know how you do it because they have so much maintenance 559 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:36.199 to do and radio is just going to go, all right, perfect, 560 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:37.679 Shanna, param We're gonna let you get back to see you back in the 561 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.840 studio. There you have it, a little inside book. It's no fit 562 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.519 tedium. Apologies for yelling. It was very loud inside Sofi Stadium, but 563 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.000 really fun to see Shannon down on the on the sidelines. And like I 564 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.760 said when I was talking to her, I mean, she's just giddy and 565 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:54.840 it's so fun to see. I mean she's giddy around the office at times 566 00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:59.880 too, but just seeing her smile and seeing that she loves what she's doing. 567 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:02.679 And of course he's done for the year or for the season anyway, 568 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:08.519 since the Charges didn't make the playoffs, but there's always next season. And 569 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:12.559 for those who didn't win the Golden Globes too, I guess there's not always 570 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.559 next season because it's a whole new list of nominees. But I caught some 571 00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:17.159 of the Golden Globes last night. Don't know if you got to chance to 572 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:22.440 watch it. Here's a couple of my takeaways real quick. One Oppenheimer, 573 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:27.480 which I have not seen, won five awards, including Best Motion Picture in 574 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:31.400 a Drama, and Christopher Nolan got his first Golden Globe as the director. 575 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:37.079 And then also Killy and gosh, what's his name? Killy and Murphy won 576 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:42.280 Best Actor for Oppenheimer and as an actor, I love him, remember from 577 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:45.239 the Batman movies. I just think he's a really a really interesting actor. 578 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:50.800 And then this was my big surprise, so Best Motion Picture in a Musical 579 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:53.920 or Comedy went to a movie called Poor Things, and Emma Stone also won 580 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.480 Best Actress for that. I had never heard of the movie. Love Emma 581 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.440 Stone as an actress, but never I've even heard of that movie before, 582 00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:07.800 and I don't get how it gets to win. And like Maestro, which 583 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:10.480 just was released like two weeks ago, was nominated for a bunch of stuff. 584 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.480 I kind of feel like they should give give the movies a chance to 585 00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:17.679 breathe and give people a chance to see them before they get nominated. That 586 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:23.719 might just be me. In the TV category, ted Lasso was robbed. 587 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.800 I don't care what. I loved the Bear. I thought the Bear was 588 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:35.119 great, and the Bear got a couple of awards well deserved. But ted 589 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.519 Lasso, to me is just still the best show on TV. And Kono 590 00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:42.199 shaking his head, And I don't care what you think, Kono, because 591 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.719 I think we need ted Lasso more than anything right now. But anyway, 592 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:49.880 it was interesting and I love seeing everybody all dressed up and all of that 593 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:52.360 stuff. And again, like I said at the start of the hour, 594 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:55.360 it wasn't a bunch of political stuff last night, which I love. Just 595 00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:02.119 enjoy the the art and enjoy the shows and enjoy the excitement that you see 596 00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:07.039 the actors and the producers and the directors when they win and stuff. That's 597 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:12.800 to me what the fun stuff is. This is KFI and KOST HD two 598 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:16.360 Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm 599 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:19.880 Amy King. This has been your wake up calling. If you missed any 600 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.719 wake Up Calling. There was a lot today. We talked about the Mission 601 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:25.760 to the Moon, Oliver James, a man who at thirty five years old 602 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.840 taught himself how to read and is now paying it forward, So lots of 603 00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:34.400 good stuff. You can listen to Wake Up Call anytime if you missed it 604 00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:38.079 on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy 605 00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:42.800 King. You can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through 606 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:47.559 Friday on KFI Am six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.