You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Got a lot going on, of course,
coming off the State of the Union. Whether it's a good one or a
bad one kind of depends on which side of the aisle you're sitting on.
We're gonna be talking with ABC Stephen Portnoy in less than five minutes he was
there, and so I think he's gonna have like a really interesting and different
perspective than those of us who watched us watched it on TV, and of
course you can bet that Bill Handle's going to have lots to say about it
coming up at six oh five on Handle on the News and on a more
important local news story. We are still watching Jackie in Shadow. You know
that I love the bald eagles that are waiting patiently for their eggs to hatch.
And it looks like the window of opportunity for the first egg is probably
over, but there are still two other eggs and they're right in like prime
time for them to start pipping as they call it. That's when they start
to hatch and break out. So we're going to continue to watch that,
and I know, if you're watching it and I'm watching it, and producer
ends watching it, let's see Oscars watching it. Tony might have even turned
it on. We've got a lot of people around the office watching it,
and there's a lot of people around the country watching it. So I'm hoping
that something good happens either way. Jackie and Shadow are fantastic, just so
cool to watch. Here is what is ahead on wake up Call. President
Biden, as you know, delivered a feisty argument for a second term in
his State of the Union speech last night, referencing former President Trump more than
a dozen times but not saying his name. Biden says his predecessor espouses resentment,
revenge, and retribution, and jeopardizes freedom at home and abroad. The
father of a fallen marine from Norco has been arrested for his outburst about the
US's departure from Afghanistan during the State of the Union. Stephen Nikoy shouted,
remember Abby Gate and United States Marines Kareem M Nikoe. I'm not sure if
I'm pronouncing that right before US Capitol police escorted him out of the chamber.
A United Airlines flight on its way from San Francisco to Japan, made an
emergency landing at lax after a wheel fell off during takeoff. The tire crashed
into some cars in at in an employee parking lot. At least one car
was destroyed. No one was hurt. Passengers, about two hundred and thirty
five of them, were put on another plane to Japan. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Of course, President Biden has used his State of the Union address to urge
voters to reelect him for a second term. He says the alternative would be
dangerous. The threat to democracy must be defended. My predecessor on some of
you here seek to bury the truth about January sixth. I will not do
that. Biden says. The simple truth is that you can't love your country
only when you win. Without naming Trump, he slammed his assessor for not
standing by American allies abroad and for embracing anti democratic ideas. In the US,
several US government websites are back up and running after an outage during the
State of the Union. The Department of Homeland Security, ICE, FEMA,
and the Secret Service websites all experienced technical issues last night. The cause isn't
known, but the sites started working again within a few minutes. A woman
at a bus stop has been stabbed in South La. Police say she got
into an argument with another woman yesterday while waiting for a bus near Slawson and
Figueroa. Police say the woman accused of doing the stabbing had a child with
her. She was arrested and arrest has been made in connection with a deadly
shooting in a parking garage at the Redondo Beach Pier. A public works employee
spotted the unconscious person in a stairwell back on February sixteenth. The person had
been shot in the head. Police say the person may have been homeless.
Investigators acting on a tip arrested a man from Inglewood on Wednesday. Mistigation has
found emergency responders didn't know exactly what they were responding to when a truck that
ran on compressed natural gas exploded in Wilmington. The driver of the truck had
seen sparks in her cab, so she pulled over and called nine one one
moments after La City firefighters arrived on the scene February fifteenth. Nine of them
were injured when one of the truck's fuel tanks exploded. In an initial report
released during its ongoing investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board says emergency responders were
unaware of the truck was powered by natural gas. The agency says it doesn't
yet know what caused the explosion, but says it hopes to be able to
release recommendations to avoid similar events when the investigation is finished. Michael Monks KFI
News and a large mountain lion has been spotted prowling around a neighborhood in Sierra
Madre. The big cap was seen early Wednesday near East grand View and Foothill.
It moved through some bushes by one home before it hopped over a retaining
wall and went into a neighbor's driveway. Then it just walked away. Not
clear if the same mountain lion seen in the area a couple of weeks ago
was the same one. Gits five seven on Wake Up Call, Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen was there at the State of
the Union last night. So Stephen, tell us your takeaway from the speech.
Well, look, the takeaway from the speech overall, it was an
opportunity for President Biden to speak to not just the Assembly of Congress and the
House and Senate Republicans and Democrats, and the six members active members of the
Supreme Court. It was an opportunity for him to talk to the country,
and he delivered a political speech. Yeah, perhaps one of the more political
speeches we've seen in the House Chamber from a president. Yeah. We were
like thinking, this doesn't sound like a State of the Union. This sounds
like a like a campaign rally or a political speech. Definitely. Look,
they were clearly lines written to appeal to his base. You saw it in
the lopsided applause in the chamber. You saw it in the facial expression of
House Speaker Mike Johnson. Republicans largely sat on their hands when the President spoke
of things such as Ukraine and January sixth and immigration. There was by part
an applause, the standing ovation for across the chamber for the families of hostages
held by Hamas. There were some moments of heckling in the chamber, which
seemed to be now a feature of these events. The one was a gold
Star father who shouted at the President for not mentioning the deaths of service members
during the pullout from Afghanistan. This is a man who I believe lost his
son. He did, and he's from Norco. There you go. There
was also the moment with Marjorie Tayler Green that stood out. She and her
maga hat. As the President was walking into the chamber, Marjorie Teyler Green
handed him a button that had the name LACN. Riley and that's the nursing
student who was killed last month at the University of Georgia. The suspect and
the country illegally. And as the President was talking about the Congress's failure to
pass the bipartisan foreign aid and border bill that was a product of a Senate
compromise, Marjorie Teler Green started heckling the President and goaded him into saying her
name Lake and Riley, which the President slightly mispronounced as Lincoln Riley hoops,
and then he repeated what she said to him. May not have been clear
to viewers, but it was clear to me because I saw it right through
my binocular Staring directly at Marjorie Tayler Green. She said, by any illegal
and he repeated the phrase and yes, an illegal, and then he said
something like yes but what about the thousands who are killed by legals. It
was all a very disappointing moment for progressives and you see that in the reaction
to it, and the White House is going to have to explain or otherwise
answer for it. Oh okay, that helps, because I was like going,
what is he saying? Why is he saying that? Well, the
right And perhaps you didn't see, and I certainly did that he was looking
directly at Marjorie Taylor Green and he was echoing what she was saying. So
hopefully that helps everyone understand how he came up with that phrase and what it
was, where he got it from. Held up the button by the way
that she gave him. So it was a one to one moment right there,
he and her. She and she were having a little bit of a
back and forth. The bottom line is Democrats are overall bolant and very pleased
with the president's performance. Apparently it was a record night of fundraising for the
Biden campaign with donors giving money. But I think the progressive disappointment about that
moment on immigration is something that they're going to have to speak to or answer
for. Yeah, and I know you got to go so real quick he
kind of you went after the Supreme Court? That was weird? Was it
weird where you were? Look? This is not the first time that democratic
presence in particular have tried to in some way scold the justices. Chief Justice
John Roberts appears at these events. He doesn't have to, he chose to,
and he brought with him five of his colleagues and one former colleague,
a senior Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired. So the justices sat stone faced,
stone cold, did not react, did not show any emotion as the
President talked about things such as reproductive rights. And it is an increasingly awkward
thing for the president to be in some way scolding the Supreme Court. But
I believe Barack Obama started after the Citizens United opinion in twenty ten. I
want to check that, but that's my memory. And it's always an awkward
thing for the justices to have to sit there and have everyone, you know,
booing or cheering, what have you. But they do it, and
they don't like it. Yeah, I just know that I used to feel
inspired, no matter which side of the aisle it was coming from. I
used to feel inspired by State of the Union addresses and certainly did not on
this one. All right, Stephen Portner, thank you so much for your
information. It helps a lot and really cool that you got to be in
the room up holding a tradition that began in the late nineteen thirties with radio
correspondents perched up in the gallery above the speaker's roster. All right, thank
you, Steven. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour news from a sudden thunderstorm that moved through southern California
lit up the sky with lightning, thunder, heavy rain, and hail.
That was a weird one, wasn't it. The storm yesterday caused authorities to
close beaches from will Rogers State Beach south to Hermosa Beach. The Weather Services
temperatures should gradly gradually warm back to norm levels today. I know, we
were driving around. I was listening to Tim Conway Junior and he was like,
there's a storm coming it. But yeah, he sure kept you up
to date on it, so that was very much appreciated. Two men who
were wrongfully convicted of a shooting in two thousand and four are suing the La
County Sheriff's Department. Both men were seventeen when they were accused of firing shots
into an occupied home in Lancaster. Attorney Eric Dubin says the lawsuit alleges investigators
fabricated reports and hit evidence to frame his clients. It's heartbreaking. These are
two wonderful men that were literally shot shank redemption innocence. An appellate court overturned
their convictions in twenty twenty. Both men have been paid about nine hundred thousand
dollars from the state, and the lawsuit filed last Friday as an attempt to
go after the county. Chris Adler kea FI News Renters facing eviction in La
now have more time to get square with their landlords following a unanimous boat by
the city Council. The decision means tenants waiting for city funding to help them
with back rent be kicked out just yet. The Apartment Association of Greater Las
David Goishan says the barrage of retroactive changes is confusing to property owners. Item
fifty three expands on the already restrictive prior ordinance prohibiting evictions by owners who participate
in the emergency rental assistance program and were subsequently forced to give up their right
to evict for non payment of rent. The city is slowly working to distribute
more than thirty million dollars in its latest rent relief effort. Time for Nick's
top picks for the weekend. Because it's Friday morning, Nick Poliochini. Nick
covers kind of like everything going on in southern California with this weekend with Nick
his podcast and also on his social media Instagram stuff. But he's just going
to give us a little sneak peek. So what are a couple of the
top picks for this weekend. Well, the number one topic that's going to
be in our own backyard is something you and I are going to be experiencing
the HR. It's going to be the Boisonberry Festival that opens today and Not's
Berry Farm in Buena Park. Now, Boys of Berry is something that pretty
much the Knots family Walter not made well, I wouldn't say their fortune,
but their famous existence off of root sixty six off of So the berry Festival
is a celebration of all things boison berry, which is pretty much where the
Knots family really got their notoriety, and so it's food. It's an incredible
show that's called Preserved that actually celebrates the one hundred years of the Walter Nott
family and notts Berry Farm that actually premiered back in twenty twenty two and that
still goes today and it's a really cool show. Also there's fireworks at night
and so many things going on all over the farm and food, lots of
food, and we will have so much of that on our socials. Everything
has a little bit of a little bit of a boisonberry slant to it,
so either as sweet or savory or color wise. After that though, another
really sweet smelling thing is sakuras out of Japan or cherry blossoms, and it's
the cherry blossom Festival down in a San Diego this weekend starting from well actually
it started yesterday and it runs through Sunday, and that will be going on
in partnership with the Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum in San Diego. And so
sakuas are in season right now in Japan. It's a very very popular time
for a lot of folks to visit Japan, but right now they'll be celebrating
pretty much our own version of that and so there'll be a lot of different
programs that started out yesterday through Sunday and it's a really worthwhile time. I
know the weather's been a little bit sketching the thunderstorm last night, correct,
so it should be fantastic for you. And then your favorite thing, Amy
it's the Oscars on Sunday, the ninety six annual Oscars, and if you're
looking for a really fun way to celebrate, you can head over to the
Academy Museum in the mid Wiltshire area. It's Oscars Night at the Museum from
three until eight pm. You can enjoy a one of a kind evening experience,
including the meal there at the event is being catered by Wolfgang Puck,
the same that they'll be joining at the Governor's Ball for the Oscar, So
if you really want to get that behind the scenes experience, no swag bag
unfortunately, but you will be able to enjoy all the things at the beautiful
Academy Museum, which opened a few years back. If you haven't been,
it's well worth a trip anyway, and a lot of times they participate in
free museum Sunday, so that's another opportunity. Not this Sunday but other Sunday
it's a great time to head over there. And for that, I'm guessing
you need reservations. You do need reservations and to get details and links to
get admission to that or anything else, you can visit this weekend with Nick
dot com or as Amy said Nick Pouliochini, or this week go with Nick
on Instagram. Check out the Lincoln bio perfect Thank you Nick, you got
when we come back, summer's not far away. That means vacations, but
this year, along with deciding what resort to stay at and the best beaches,
you need to decide if the trip is worth your life. ABC Shannon
Crawford has some tips on what to do to stay safe. You're listening to
Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty. President Biden used the
opportunity of the state of the Union to draw a sharp contrast that could rally
Democrats to the polls as he tries to make the campaign a referendum on his
predecessor rather than on him. The President's pull numbers are low, and a
lot of people have been questioning whether he can still be effective because of his
age. Authorities in Orange County believe they have a serial ATM thief on their
hands. The person's been using a toast strap tied to a white pickup truck
to rip ATMs out of businesses and drag them away. And that's what happened
at a barbershop in Orange early Monday morning. It also happened at a nail
salon in Anaheim Hills in February and at a laundromat in Orange in December.
Max is the latest streaming company to crack down on password sharing. Warner Brothers
Discovery says yesterday it's going to restrict users sharing their accounts outside of their household
starting later this year. If users on Max do share their account with people
outside the home, they risk having the account suspended or maybe even terminated.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The US is going
to put in a temporary port on the coast of Gaza to get more aid
into Palestinians. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's State Department Corps
respondent Shannon Crawford. Shannon, travel season right around the corner, and unfortunately,
because the world has become such a dangerous place, we need to factor
safety into our travel plans. That's right. Well, we're headed into what
travel experts project maybe the busiest international spring break travel season ever, and as
you mentioned, there are several top destinations, but the State's Department has issued
new travel advisories for like Mexico, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and with twenty
percent more Americans booking international flights this year compared to last according to TRIPAA,
and thirty eight percent more booking hotels abroad, they're really looking to get information
out so these travelers can avoid trouble in paradise. Okay, in Shannon,
you mentioned Mexico, which I know is a very popular place because it's relatively
inexpensive and it's easy to get there. Is it all of Mexico or just
certain areas in Mexico. Absolutely not, And that's why it's so important to
do your research on your specific destination, because the State Department actually breaks down
Mexico into each state, giving a travel advisory for every particular area. Now,
many of those popular destinations are still very safe compared to the rest of
the country, but the State's Department also advises that violent crime can impact tourist
areas. So even if you think that you know, hey, you're going
to a popular resort or you've had great experiences there in the past, that's
good. The State's Department doesn't want you to cancel your travel necessarily, but
just be aware of all the risks so you can make informed decisions while you're
on your vacation. Okay, does I know the State Department puts out recommendations.
Does it issue and like do not travel orders that you just can't go
there or is it all recommendation? So what can't go there is not necessarily
something the US government will tell you, right, So it's not necessarily going
to be a travel ban. But what the State Department does is break down
virtually every country in the world, and like I said, even some regions
with the countries from a level one, which means you can go and just
exercise normal caution, to a level four, which means Americans should not travel
there. We were talking countries like Afghanistan, Russia, North Korea, parts
of Mexico are considered to be a level four, but the vast majority are
going to be in that two to three range. Okay, So say you
decide that you're going to take the risk, you're going to go to a
two to three range country. How do you keep yourself safe and keep yourself
updated while you're there, because you're probably in a country where you might not
speak the language, you're not familiar with the territory, but you can kind
of keep track of what's going on right absolutely well. The State Department encourages
travelers to sign up for the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program or STEP as they call
it, and that's a free service for Americans during abroad that provides frequent updates
about conditions in the foreign country you happen to be visiting. And the top
official also told me that a travelers should jot down just the closest consulate or
embassy to where they're going to be because there the State Department has the staff
twenty four to seven. They're always on hand to offer help to Americans and
it's to resource that in case of emergency it might not be top of mind.
Okay, those are such good good things to remember, because like I
said, it's become a dangerous place and you don't want to end up in
somewhere that you don't feel safe, because that's not the whole goal of a
vacation. So State Department there's a website that people can go to and just
kind of do the investigation themselves. Yep, travel dot state dot govs that's
where you want to get started, and other things that State Department is pointed
out to make sure you can get to where you're going. Check your passport
expiration date because a lot of countries require three months to six months validity.
So even if you're not quite at that deadline, you could still run into
trouble. So it's going to make it relaxing as possible. Okay, Shannon
Crawford, thank you so much for that information this morning. Thank you.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour news room. President Biden is pledged to bring some American hostages home.
They're the ones still being held by Hamas. He said during his State of
the Union speech last night. Israel has a right to go after Hamas,
but added innocent Palestinians are still being caught in the crossfire. He says Hamas
could end the war if they released the hostages and surrendered. The European Commission
president says a charity ship is leaving for Gaza as part of an operation to
test a new humanitarian sea corridor that will deliver aid directly from Cyprus. The
corridor could open as early as Sunday, that's the start of the Muslim holy
month of Ramadan. Ten illegal immigrants have been injured climbing over the border wall
near San Diego. Border officials say the rain may have made the wall slippery.
Last Saturday afternoon, San Diego Fire and Rescue was sent to Imperial Beach,
where officials say they found migrants with various injuries, including broken bones.
These patients were treated as they could here and then transfer and Battalion Chief Oscar
Rodriguez told CBS they had to use six ambulances to transport the injured. A
report from UC San Diego said there has been an unprecedented increase in the number
of falls at the border, and officials say at least two migrants have died
this year crossing into California. Steve Gregory ka Fine News. Five students have
been expelled from a middle school in Beverly Hills for using AI to generate nude
photos of classmates. The school district says the pictures discovered last month targeted sixteen
eighth grade students. Police are still investigating it. Pip watch maybe over for
one of the three eagles in Big Bear. The group Friends of Big Bear
Valley says the egg laid in January is past the usual thirty five day incubation
period with no signs of a little eaglet yet, so that first dag is
probably not viable, but the other two are still in the window of plusity.
The group's executive director, Sandy Steers, who we've talked to a couple
of times on wake Up Call, tells KTLA that nature doesn't announce ahead of
time what it's going to do. The live nest cam is set up above
the nest. You can and see at any time on the Big Bear Valley
website or Friends of Big Bear Valley website. When we come back, we're
going to be sounding off with Dean Sharp our house whisper. You're listening to
a wake up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're
following in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. President Biden delivered a feisty argument
for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night. He
referenced former President Trump more than a dozen times, but didn't say his name.
Biden called him his predecessor and said that he espouses resentment, revenge and
retribution and jeopardize his freedom at home and abroad. A United flight on its
way from San Francisco to Japan has made an emergency landing at LAX after a
wheel fell off during takeoff yesterday. The tire crashed into some cars in an
employee parking lot, destroying at least one of them. No one got hurt.
About two hundred and thirty passengers were taken off the plane at LAX and
put onto another plane to Japan. California is getting its first AI Associates degree.
The AS degree in Artificial Intelligence will be the first of its kind in
the state when it's offered this fall at Miracosta College in Oceanside. Careers in
AI are projected to pay between one hundred and two hundred thousand dollars a year.
At six oh five, it's handle all the news, and you can
bet Bill's gonna have a lot to say about last night's State of the Union
address. At five point fifty, we're going to be checking in with Jason
Nathanson. He's got a lot to tell us about. As the last finishing
touches are put on the big Oscar ceremony coming up this weekend. Right now,
let's say good morning to the house whisper and the host of Home on
KFI. It's Dean Sharp. Good morning, Dean, Good morning, Amy.
Oh you sound good today. I sound a little strange, a little
strange because I'm not actually in our regular studio. I'm sitting in a hotel
lobby in Palm Springs where we're doing some design work today. Nice and speaking
of design and speaking of sound, we're talking about designing for or sound designing
it this weekend. That's right, that's right, And it's something that a
lot of people overlook, to be honest, when they're working on their renovations
or remodels or new builds, and you really shouldn't. Sound is one of
those fundamental areas of design. And one of the reasons it's so important to
get sound right in your home is that, you know, unlike your eyes,
you can't close your ears. You just can't shut them off. You
can't decide to look elsewhere. So the sound that you have is the sound
that is constant coming at you. And I always say this, you know,
every good theater takes relentless control of sound, right, you think about
that first. The first thing it does is it insulates you from everything that's
going on in the outside world, so that there's no intrusion there. And
then it delivers only what it wants you to hear, so that you won't
be taken out of the monument and distracted from the story that you're being told.
And since we're all about story in our homes, good home design is
theater and that means controlling sound. Okay, so what are some what are
some of the things that you can do? And does it have to cost
a gazillion dollars? It doesn't. It doesn't have to cost a gazillion dollars,
especially if you are already working on your home in terms of a remodel
or renovation and something like that. One of the easiest things is that and
this is this is this is something that applies to maybe now about ninety percent
of tracked home owners across all of southern California, and that is consider taking
out those old hollow core doors that you have in your house and replacing them
with solid core doors. It is just such a classic builder move and it
has been over the last decades to put in cheap hollow doors interior doors,
and those doors you know visually that I mean, they block light. And
that's about it. Tina and I joke all the time that you know,
as far as sound control, you might as well just you know, tack
a sheet up in the doorway, you know, because you'll get a little
visual privacy, but sound wise, they don't do anything. And you know
the cost of a simple solid core door is not that much more than a
hollow core door, and the difference it makes by way of sound transmission is
huge. Yeah, I didn't even think about that, but yeah, that
that solid block of wood would sure stops sound better than something that's hollow exactly.
So it's one of those insulating factors now that you can do if you're
not doing anything else to your house, because you don't have to tear into
the walls, you don't have to mess up with anything. You're simply swapping
out door for door and making the you know, your home quieter. The
other thing, though, if you are doing a renovation or remodel, undoubtedly
you're taking drywall off some walls in some places because you're fiddling with electrical or
plumbing or what have you. And even if you're not, even if your
goal is just soundproofing the house. One sheet of drywall off one side of
a wall, and then we insulate, insulate with rock wol sound insulation.
Insulate the interior walls of your home. Again, that's something that is never
done when it comes to the actual initial construction of your home. The code
requires builders to insulate the exterior walls the shell of your house in order to
oh spect it from energy. So you're saying, like, between the walls
between two bedrooms, you should insulate those, not just the wall that's on
the side of the house exactly. We're not insulating it for energy r well,
not that kind of energy. We're not insulating it to keep it warm
or to keep it cool. That's what the exterior wall insulation is during We're
insulating those walls for sound transmission. And there is this used to be kind
of a rare thing. You're like, where in the world do I find
that? Nowadays, though, you can go down to your local big box
store. You can go to Low's or home depot and find rock wool sound
insulation sitting right on the shelf where you can pack that into the wall before
you close it back up. Since you're already renovating and remodeling and messing with
the wall, it makes a massive, massive difference. You think most rooms
in your house, you may have one or two rooms worth of walls in
between you and the outside of the home, and every wall of insulation that
sound has to pass through. It struggles and it weakens, and it dampens
as it gets there, and it will quiet your entire house down significantly.
Okay, and you have a on your show notes you're saying tuning for every
room. So do you go room to room and say what do I need
to do for this room? Yeah, exactly, And that is that's about
the sound inside the room. Just like at the studio, we not only
want to soundproof the studio so that outside sounds aren't getting in, but once
we're inside the room itself, we want to think about, well, what
a sound, how does it act in here? I might have a lot
of hard surfaces, like you know, hardwood flooring and solid surface flooring is
very very popular these days as opposed to carpet. One good thing about carpet,
and it's probably the only good thing about carpet is that it does a
great job of not reflecting sounds, so it kind of deadens the sound in
the room, doesn't have as much reverb or echo. If you've got hard
surface flooring, you think about things like, well, could I put an
area rug down in here? What other kind of soft elements can I put
on the walls so that sound doesn't bounce around inside a room and hollow and
reverby probably like a little bit how I do on the phone right now.
So we've got control of those things. That's kind of tuning, and we
go so far as to say, you know, you can even affect the
sound outside your home, outside the walls of the house. When it comes
to that. Now, you can't control the sound that's coming from the rest
of the city around you, but you can mask it quite often. That's
why I'm really big on like water features of flowing water in a backyard,
something as simple as a fountain, because it just so happens. If you've
ever noticed this, But the sound of running water is very, very similar.
It rides on almost all the same frequencies as the sound of let's say,
auto traffic, car traffic, or freeway noise. One of the most
wonderful examples of this is near my house. There is the Four Seasons hotel
in Westlake that has out and back in its open courtyard massive waterfall. And
you know, it's beautiful to look at and it's lovely and all of that,
But the real secret of why that's there is that right on the other
side of that wall is the one oh one Freeway. And you would think
this luxury resort hotel, if it didn't have this waterfall, you would be
hearing the sounds of the freeway. And the truth is you are hearing the
sounds of the freeway, but you can't distinguish them between the sounds of the
cars and the sounds of the water. And everybody is relaxing and just enjoying
what they think is mostly the sound of the waterfall, so you're just hiding
it. Very interesting. So Dean's going to have tons more tips and tricks
and other things that you can do to effectively sound design your home. And
that's going to be up this weekend exactly, and it's six to eight am
on Saturday and the nine to noon on Sunday. It's Home with Dean Sharp
right here on KFI. You can also follow him home with Dean. Thank
you, demon enjoy palm springs. Thanks Amy. All right, when we
come back, we're going to be talking oscars with our very own Jason Nathanson.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty.
There's so much more coming up. You don't want to leave because Handle on
the News is coming up at six oh five. The FDA has given the
ok to use LSD in some circumstances to treat people suffering from anxiety. Here's
what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The house is packed
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favor of the bill. It requires the detention of any immigrant who commits burglary
or theft, like the man suspected of killing college student lacan Rylan Riley.
Rather in Georgia, the Anaheim Planning Commission plans to vote Monday on a roughly
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add more rides, hotels, shopping, dining, and entertainment. The Anaheim
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this year. And also if users on Max do share accounts with people outside
their home, they risk having the accounts suspended or even terminated. Right now,
let's say good morning too, ABC's entertainment Guru and the man who knows
all things Oscars, Jason Nathanson, Good morning, Jason, Hey, good
morning. So Oscars are Sunday. Yes. Do we think there's going to
be any surprises? There's a couple categories that there's a potential for some surprise.
For the most part, Oppenheimer's going to win pretty much everything. It's
up for thirteen awards. I have it leading in at least eight categories,
so I think it's gonna be the one that we're talking about Monday morning.
Is this is the movie. It swept everything, and I'm fine with that,
especially Best Picture. It's pretty much a Locke to win Best Picture.
But in one of the categories where it has no nominations, actress in a
leading role, that's probably going to go to Lily Gladstone for Killers of the
Flower Moon. But Emma Stone has been winning some things this awards season for
poor things as well, so I think her performance. I think Emma Stone's
performance. They were both good, but I think Emma's was really good,
even though I didn't love the movie, but she just did an amazing job
becoming that person. Her performance is fantastic in that. But Lily Gladstone has
a chance to make history here as the first Native American I think actor or
actress to ever win in that category. And I think the Oscars, for
the voters, it's too much for them to pass up the chance at making
that history. Yeah. Also while awarding a good performance or a great performance
that deserves it, not to say she doesn't deserve it, she absolutely does.
So I think that we're going to see her on the stage and that's
gonna be one of those great moments of the night, giving a very emotional
acceptance speech. Then you know, you know, actor in the leading role,
Killian Murphy is pretty much a lock there, but Paul Giamoni has won
some stuff for the Holdovers. I vote for Paul on this one. Okay,
great, I think you know, Killian Murphy leads a three and a
half hour movie and and does it superbly. So I think that's really the
shot there, and I think that's what's going to happen. But there's a
lot of love for Paul Giamonti, so you know that that's possible as well.
And then actor in a supporting role. Robert Downey Junior pretty much has
a lock on that one as well. But Mark Ruffalo from Poor Things has
won a couple of things so far this season as well, in a role
I don't think he deserves to win there. His performance of that film,
I just didn't warm to it. So I really hope to see Robert Downey
Junior on that stage. And then actress in a leading role, that's pretty
much a foregone conclusion. It's going to be Davine Joey Randolph from The Holdovers
is good. Yeah, and she's won everything so far leading up to this
season. Yeah. Okay, So I've been trying to and I don't know
if you guys have been trying to do this, but I've been trying to
see as many of the movies that I can before the Oscars. So sure,
if you haven't seen Oppenheimer obviously because I was a holdout on that.
I didn't see it toill really late in the game. But are there any
that people might have like kind of said, oh wait on that one that
you think, Jason, they should they should go see before Sunday? Well,
I mean it's tough because Oppenheimer's gonna win a bout. If you've seen
that, you know, then you know that and that's one that you probably
you don't need to see. Barbie also might win a couple, but you
yeah, but everybody's seen that already. Yeah, you know, I think
The Holdovers has, like we talked about, has a shot at winning a
couple, So you might want to check out that one. And it's it's
an easy watch. It is of all of them. I mean, not
that it's not serious at parts, but it is. It's got comedy and
humor, you know, as opposed to something like Anatomy of a Fall,
which a lot of people love. That one. I don't love as much
as a lot of people did. But it's a very serious movie and it's
kind of a heavy movie. And if you want to watch that, you
can on streaming, but you're gonna have to pay for it, you know.
The Holdovers is available on Peacock, so if you have that, you
can watch that for free. Is Past Lives? Past Lives is nominated,
isn't that? Yeah, that's that's the next one. I was gonna mention.
I loved Past Lives. I don't know that it's going to win anything
on Sunday, but it is a beautiful you know, maybe a little slow
for some people, but it's just a beautifully done film, you know.
It's it's just a kind of a meditation on the choices that we make and
how things can go one of two ways in life, or three ways or
four a way. And I couldn't remember who the actress was, Like you
watch, you know when you see a show and you're like, who is
that? And she was She's on the Morning Show readily. Yeah, she
was great and I really love because I don't like her character so much on
the Morning Show, I'm not I'm not a huge fan, but in Past
Lives she's fantastic. Completely turned me around on the actress herself, which is,
you know, it's great to see somebody do something different, and I
think that this role is a little different for her. So that's Past Lives
is streaming on Paramount Plus, so I would say check that out. I
would also say Poor Things has a chance at winning couple and I loved it.
It's the satirical edgy sister to Barbie, which with a lot of nudity
and with a lot of nudity and sex. It's not for kids, but
that's streaming on Hulu right now. And I would say, you know,
if you just want to see something different visually, it's so interesting, it's
singular, it's unique, yorgo slanthemost who's the director and also co writer,
is he does things on his own and he's got a vision and I really
respect that his films are not always easy to watch. One of his past
films that I really loved, The Favorite, which got a bunch of OSCAR
nominations as well, is really really good. But Poor Things is also very
good as well. All right, Jason Nathanson, and you're going to be
at this ceremony on Sunday, right, I will be there Sundays for you
backstage eating the shrimp. Oh all right, thank you, Jason, have
a great time you too. Take it all right, Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Governor
Newsom has announced a faster timeline for a mixed use and affordable housing project in
downtown LA by offering judicial streamlining to the plan development. Newsom says any legal
challenges would have to be heard within two hundred and seventy days. He says
the usual timeline is three to five years. The fourth and Central project is
expected to create up to ten thousand construction jobs more than fifteen hundred residential units,
including over two hundred affordable ones. Newsom's authority for the project was granted
through infrastructure legislation adopted last year. The plan includes ten buildings, hotel,
rooms, office and retail space at the site. It's between Little Tokyo skid
Row and the Arts District in DTLA. Michael Monks KFI news A House committee
is voted unanimously to advance bipartisan legislation that would force TikTok's Chinese parent company to
divest its ownership of the app within one hundred and sixty five days. Wisconsin
Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher says he supports it. It is TikTok's choice whether to
continue and not be host on app stores or just to divast and separate from
ByteDance and TikTok and then people can continue to enjoy the app. TikTok's in
and notice yesterday warning users of a total ban. Users were asked to enter
their zip code and then were directed to call their representative to let them know
what TikTok means to them and tell them to vote no. And The latest
Diversity in Hollywood report from UCLA shows a decline in the number of women in
key roles, but women and people of color were among the largest group of
people to go see a movie last year. The eleventh annual report also shows
the number of women behind the camera and in front of the camera has been
going down despite the success of female driven films like Barbie. We focus on
the directors and the writers, and behind the camera and in front of the
camera, we focus on the lead actor. Doctor Anna Christina Ramones's overall diversity
is getting better in Hollywood, she says, the industry is still trying to
find its groove following the pandemic. Steve Gregory KFI News, This is KFI
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