You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with Me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app Friday, February second. I'm Amy King. Thanks
for starting your Friday with us. And it is as I mentioned, February
second, Morning Up to see the Groundhog. Yeah, I think it'll be
an early spring. Didn't we do this yesterday? I don't know what you
mean. No, don't mess with me, poor job. What day is
this? February second? Groundhog day? It is? And Punk Satani film
has come out of his den and did not see his shadow. According to
lore, that means an early spring. That, of course, is if
Phil is right, and Philo is only right thirty nine percent of the time,
of course. The big ceremony in Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania. What a
great name for a town. I was talking to our editor this morning.
I was like, why do we even do this? He doesn't even have
a two out of five accuracy record. Because it's fun and there's not enough
fun right now. Tony doesn't agree. He's like, I don't care,
Just let me go back to sleep. No time to go back to sleep.
It's time to get your day started and here's what's ahead. On wakeup
call. A second atmospheric river is headed for California. This storm is expected
to be even stronger than the one that just rolled through. The storm could
bring three to six inches of rain in the valleys and coastal areas. Yeah,
you heard right, three to six inches, and the rain is expected
to fall Sunday through Tuesday. For this particular storm, six to twelve inches
as possible in the mountains. President Biden and the First Lady will join the
families of three US soldiers killed in a drone attack in Jordan when their remains
are returned to the US today. The remains are expected to arrive at Dover
Air Force Base in Delaware. A bar in San Francisco's gearing up for its
big Super Bowl party, but guess who's not invited forty nine er fans.
Buzzworks is only allowing Kansas City Chiefs fans to watch next weekend. The bar
in the Soma neighborhood has been a chief's bar for years, and the owner
says he wanted this to be an exclusive event. At six oh five,
it's handle on the news. President Biden has signed an executive order to sanction
some Israelis. We'll tell you what that's all about. Let's start with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Heavy rains
have caused some flooding and other damage in southern California, including a mud slide
in Rancho Palas Verdes. It left dirt, water and debris on palas Verdi's
Drive yesterday, forcing it to be closed for a while. Flooding also affected
parts of the McClure Tunner Tunnel in Santa Monica, a railroad underpass in Long
Beach, and part of the seven ten Freeway in Orange County. Streets in
Seal Beach were underwater, and a stretch of PCH was closed in Huntington Beach.
Another stronger storm is expected to move in Sunday. A man allegedly armed
with a machete he's been arrested after barricading himself inside a home in Canyon Country.
The standoff yesterday lasted more than five hours, A school was locked down
and several homes were evacuated as a precaution. The guy was finally arrested shortly
before nine last night. Two men suspected of tagging an unfinished high Rise near
Crypto dot Com Arena in downtown La have been arrested. The LAPED says a
helicopter crew saw more than a dozen people in the building on Tuesday, trespassing
and possibly spray painting. Patrol officers then arrived and arrested two of the people.
They were released a short time later. La City Councilman Kevin de Leone
is expected to introduce a motion today to address the abandoned downtown skyscraper that is
now covered in graffiti. The La County DA's office is asking the public to
help combat organized retail theft. The county's organized retail Theft task forces are asking
people to stop buying stolen goods off the black market. LAPD Deputy Chief Allen
Hamilton says the department's task force has thirty three active cases and will continue investigating
additional criminals. Any involvement in any of these crimes at any level our stage
of the crime will subject you to prosecution. DA George Gascollon says nearly two
hundred cases connected to flash robberies have been filed since the task forces were formed
last year. Officials say if a deal on the street seems too good,
to be true. It probably is, and you should walk away. Chris
Adler KFI News, a former CIA employee, has been sentenced to forty years
in prison for carrying out the largest data leak in the agency's history. Joshua
Shulty was convicted of giving reams of classified data to WikiLeaks in twenty sixteen.
He was also found guilty in twenty twenty three of possessing child porn. The
US Attorney's office, as Shulty betrayed the country and caused untold damage to our
national security, prosecutors were asking for a life sentence. Now, let's say
good morning to ABC's news political director. It's Rick Kline. Oh, two
weeks in a row. What a treat for us. Great, you're with
you, Good morning. Okay. So it looks like lawmakers are kind of
willing to tank any opportunity to get anything done, all in the name of
what in politics. I mean, that's really simple, you know, it's
it's kind of wild. We've got this tax bill that we spend this hout
task credit. You have an integration bill or crack down on on a border
that really is a mess, and it's got bipartisan majorities for both of them.
And in both cases they may die because you've got Republicans frankly seeing the
quiet part out loud that you don't want to help Joe Biden, you don't
want to help a president wo's approval rating of the authorities, And you know,
it's kind of a sad state of affairs. But you know, that
is where we are. And Donald Trump is the leading candidate for president.
He's against this border bill even though no one's actually seen it yet. He
said it's a bad deal, and Republican team to be listening to him,
taking cues from him and not getting in the way of his political ambition.
Okay, so you just mentioned the border security bill, which we're hearing now
that that a deal is almost imminent. Yeah, we're going to see the
language as any day, but you know, the deal may be imminent,
but it's also got on arrival, if you believe with the House Speaker by
Johnson is saying again a bill that he hasn't seen yet and that was negotiated
by people you know, and by partisonal basis. So that's where we stand
in the politics. I wish I had a better prescription for you or a
better explanation, but right now. People are kind of looking too much in
November to get anything done here at February. Okay. And then back to
the tax the tax package. It expands child tax credits and it restores some
tax breaks for businesses, and that one passed in the House but may not
pass in the Senate. Yeah, and and there, I mean, Chuck
Grassley, the senior Republican member of the Senate, said, you know,
why would we do something that might be good for Joe Biden and help Joe
Biden. So it's the same kind of dynamic. Frankly, it's a bill
that you know, in its substance wouldn't be very different if Joe Biden or
Donald Trump were president. The majorities in the Senate and the House that are
getting it there are kind of the same. But you know, it is
just a kind of another kind of low point where we're looking at all these
shutdowns and all of the standoffs and you know, teaching a trying to teach
a Cabinet secretary but not getting done. You know, what would be important
business taxes, the border, and immigration. These are huge deals, huge
issues for people, and they're going unaddressed because you know, people right now
are just looking at the politics and this is nothing new, really, it's
just gotten worse. I remember seeing Mitch McConnell, for example. I think
it was for so obviously I don't remember so well, but I think it
was during Obama that he basically said, we're not doing anything to help Obama
get anything passed. Yeah, I mean, I think what he said at
the time was, you know, our main mission is to make sure that
Obama's a one term president. And yeah, the dynamic, you get it.
But you know, if you do believe that the border is a crisis,
if you do believe that the test system is a mess, and you
have an opportunity to get something done, even if it's with someone that is
in the party. I mean, that's the to remember when that felt like
the point of governing, that kind of consensus building, coalition building, getting
something like that through would have been something that would be lauded. Right now,
there doesn't seem to be in a sentra structure for that at all.
And that's why we're here, and that's why we're having this conversation for the
uncience time, literally on Groundhog Day. Yeah, ironic, isn't that?
Okay? And before you go everybody loves Taylor Swift except some Republicans. I
mean, we'll figure this one out. I feel like it's crazy that I
have to go on your program and say that Taylor Swift is not a Pentagon
asset, and that she's a successful pop star, and that her boyfriend is
a successful football player, and the fact that one or both or Democrats has
nothing to do with any of that. I don't understand why anyone thinks a
good idea to attack Tyler Swift in this. I think taking on Swift these
is the height of political folly. But I think there's some people that need
to need to get a hobby. We'll get outside more. Is it the
only thing I would say? And I don't think she's a political operative.
But when she comes out if she endorses somebody that will have pulled because her
Swifties are so loyal. You don't what and people can people can react that
way. But to suggest that the super Bowl is fixed and that her success
is engineered by some you know, blob of media that's that's trying to help
the president win re election is just not so okay. Rick Kline, thank
you so much for your time. Thank you, and if you want to
follow Rick, It's at Rick ri ic k Kate l e I N not
I e I N. Thank you so much. Rick. We'll talk to
you again soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Landlords in LA say it may be tough
to collect overdue rent from the pandemic. The Apartment Association of Greater LA's Daniel
Jugelson says the likelihood landlords will collect the background if they win in court is
low. Typically a render doesn't pay rent because they can't afford it, and
so to try to go after that tenant, they don't often have any other
assets to collect from. Overdue ren from October of twenty twenty one to January
of last year was due yesterday. Mayor basays people facing evictions from COVID back
rent should remain in their homes and call the city for help. Blake Trolly
kaf I News. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued a So Cow based
construction company for allegedly violating state labor laws. The lawsuit, fouled yesterday,
claims West Coast Drywall and Paint failed to pay employees proper wages and provide mandated
breaks since at least twenty nineteen. We're committed to enforcing our nation leading labor
laws, to holding employers accountable, and to preventing against overreach and abuse.
Bonta says the company uses what they call a piece rate pay system instead of
a fixed hourly wage. He says his office will continue to prosecute companies that
take advantage of workers. California is getting thirty one million dollars to help find
the opium crisis. It's part of a national settlement with publicists. The healthcare
marketing company is accused of helping Purdue Pharma and others advertise and sell addictive pain
pills. Attorney General Bontes says no amount of money can bring back the lives
lost or reverse the devastating pain caused, but this will give communities more financial
support for treatment and recovery. Defense lawyers claim deputies had already decided Rebecca Grossman
was guilty before properly investigating the fatal crash in Wesley, Westlake Village that killed
two brothers. The defense claims Grossman passed the sobriety test, but the deputy
arrested her anyway because two kids were killed by the twenty twenty crash. The
defense called that malicious prosecution and says that's why the black suv they claim hit
the boys was never examined, but deputy testimony claims only debrief from Grossman's white
SUV was found at the scene. Jurors were told yesterday Grossman blew a point
oh seventy five and hours later a blood draw had it at the legal limit
of point oh eight plus valume was found in her system. Grossman wasn't charged
with the uy, which prosecutors say is unnecessary for a murder conviction. At
Vanni's Courthouse. Corbin Carson KFI News. A small plane is crashed into a
mobile home park in Florida, killing several people. Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ayler's
says the pilot reported an engine failure before the crash last night. The cruise
did a phenomenal job in getting the fire knocked down very quickly, and it
ensued several structures, three definitely that had some fire damage, a fourth to
one with possibility of fire damage. Taylor says it's not clear how many people
were on board the plane. The FFAA and the NTSB are, of course,
investigating. More than one hundred twenty passengers and crew aboard at Queen Victoria
Cruise ship are sick. The CDC reported the stomach bug yesterday. The ship
left Florida on January twenty second. It was set to go to Aruba,
Guatemala, Cabo, San Lucas, San Francisco, and Hawaite. By February
twelfth, there are over eighteen hundred passengers and nine hundred and fifty crew members
on board. Boy, that doesn't sound fun at all. Here's something that
does sound fun. Spots a tiny fil the most famous groundhog from Pennsylvania's come
out of his hole to predict an early spring. The word in Gobbler's knob
is that if Phil sees his shadow this Groundhog Day, it means six more
weeks of chili winter. But there was no shadow. Quad tidings on this
Groundhog Day, and early spring is on the way. But Phil is only
right about forty percent of the time. ABC's Danny News says a town in
New Jersey had its own prognosticator, but Milltown Mel died in two thousand and
two. The town has had some trouble finding another groundhog to assume his throne.
Apparently, groundhogs from the South can't be brought up because of a certain
rabies breakout. Who knew, he says, Milltown, mel or Milltown.
The town could try another animal like the Oregon Zoo has Fufu the hedgehog,
and people in Central Texas get their annual February forecast from b Cave Bob the
armadillo. When we come back. There's been a lot of back and forth,
but lawmakers may be really close to a deal on securing the southern border.
Could it be dead on arrival though. We'll be checking in with ABC's
Stephen Portnoy to get the latest. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Is that your first cup of coffee? Like
the best? And I don't know if you've taken my advice, but I
did put a shmidge of salt in it flavor enhancing. We talked about it,
and then somebody posted on my social media on Instagram at Amy K King
by the way, this don't encourage people to use any more salt. We
already have too much salt. I'm like, it's like four grains. Come
on, here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
first of two atmospheric rivers has moved out of southern California. The second is
expected to roll in late Sunday. The National Weather Services Alex Tarties's another one
to three inches of rain is on the way. Could even be a three
to six inches of rain. With the ground still saturated from recent storms,
flooding is going to be a risk again. A seventeen year old boy from
Lancaster has been arrested in connection with hundreds of so called swatting threats across the
country. The calls draw massive police responses because they're violent in nature. Usually
billy say the guy's a serial swater and is tied to bomb threats and mass
shooting threats all around the US. Americans now have an Obesity Bill of Rights.
The National Consumers League and the National Council on Aging says it establishes eight
essential rights to ensure that people who are obese get screened, diagnosed, counseled,
and treated according to medical guidelines. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news why you may need to be worried if you've been at lax
or Chick fil A in Northridge. Recently, let's say good morning to ABC's
Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, there's been a lot of talk about an immigration bill
as part of the one hundred and six billion dollars in UH international funding.
I guess you could say, but what is the plan? We still don't
know. Well, it's Karen Drivers here. Well, I can talk about
that too, because I can straddle the Capitol hillside of things as well,
or we can talk about the president heading to Dover. But just to give
you a quick update on that, we are anticipating there could be some legislative
text of the bipartisan border negotiations, and Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader,
said they'd like to move forward next week, potentially on a vote.
Now, we've kind of heard some timelines of this before. We're very close
or a whisper away from getting this out. We'll see if that actually plays
out today. The big thing, too, is that House Republicans are saying
it's dead on arrival over there. It's a non starter for them, which
of course means that's complicating things. It has to pass in the House,
of course, to get to the President. There are a lot of politics
at play here, but we don't know what's in it. That's been the
big thing for weeks now. They've been having these negotiations behind closed doors,
keeping it very, very tight. And we will see what it ends up
looking like if they do release this today. And it's been notable that House
Republicans have been trashing it when they don't even apparently know what's in it either.
It's so ridiculous. Okay, So we might get a look at it
today and then we're going to shift over and I'm going to say, Karen,
we were expecting Stephen, but always thrilled to have you. And so
President Biden today is going to Dover Air Force Base for a very solemn ceremony,
very very somber day for the President and the First Lady and also the
Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General C. Q. Brown. They're joining them to have to attend
the dignified transfer of remains of the three service members who were killed in the
drone attack in Jordan on Sunday. The President and First Lady will meet privately
with the families of those service members beforehand and this is going to be a
tough day. You know, these are days that obviously no president ever wants
to see. The President spoke to the families earlier this week, and the
White House says he asked them, would you like me to be there?
Would it be helpful and comforting for me to be there? And all of
them said yes. We heard the phone call that the President had with the
parents of twenty four year old Kennedy Sanders of Georgia, one of the US
members killed, and he talked about his own personal experiences with loss and grieving,
and you know, he obviously uses his story a lot to try to
bring comfort to people, and he said, there's nothing that anybody can say
or do to ease your pain right now. But Sanders's mother told the President
that she appreciated hearing from him and hearing his story as a parent who's experienced
such loss, and she told him, if you've made it through, I
know that we can make it through as well. Okay. Yeah, that
I think is such an important thing for the President to do, to be
there. And of course this all comes as we're waiting to see what the
retaliation is going to be, because it's been almost a week now, almost
a week, and the White House says, you know, don't read into
that as that there won't be a response, because there is going to be.
They've made that very clear that there will be retaliatory action and that it's
going to come in the time and manner of the President's choosing, likely sooner
rather than later. But they just won't say exactly when it is, though
notable that it's not just one thing. It's going to be over the course
of several days, multiple countries, multiple targets within countries to try to strike
these militant groups where they are and take out their ability to carry out these
attacks. So this looking at likely as targets in Iraq, Syria, possibly
Yemen, and as I say, over the course of several days. Okay,
Karen Travers, thank you so much for your time this morning. An
unexpected surprise. Have a great day, all right too. Hey, yesterday
we were talking about the Griffith part of the Griffith Observatory. I went out
and about and checked it out. It's literally in our own backyard. And
then after throughout the day I was talking to people and they were posting on
social media saying, oh yeah, I haven't been up there forever either,
and oh, yeah, it's been like ten years. And oh I used
to take the kids there all the time. That kind of thing. I
think we really do forget about some of the really cool things that we have
here in LA because we just take them for granted. So also, I
got a post on my Instagram at amis caking about all the movies that have
been filmed up there, and so we went and looked it up. Because
everybody knows Rebel without a Cause that was in nineteen fifty five. There's a
bust of James Dean up there, but there's a ton of movies that have
been filmed, and why wouldn't you because it's such a cool, iconic looking
place. The first movie that was filmed and had scenes from the Griffith Observatory
was The Phantom Empire back in nineteen thirty five, and then The Terminator.
It's featured in The Terminator. It's also featured in Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genesis.
Apparently Terminator really likes the Observatory. It's featured in Back to the Future.
In Dragnet from nineteen eighty seven, not the TV show, but the
movie. The Tunnel entrance to the Observatory on Mount Hollywood Drive is the entrance
to Toontown in the movie Who Framed Roger Rebbit? Who Knew It was featured
in Earth Girls Are Easy, Back to the Future Part two, The Rocketeer.
That was such a fun movie. Bofinger, Queen of the Damned.
That was sort of a surprise to me. Charlie's Angels, Full Throtter,
Full Throttle, Transformers, Yes Man, that was the movie with Jim Carrey
where he had to say yes to everything, and that was actually there was
filming along the trails and at the Observatory itself, and I remember specifically because
a lot of that movie was filmed around Silver Lake, so I was like,
oh, I know that place. I know that place. And then
in Valentine's Day, that was a fun movie, Friends with Benefits and La
La Land, of course, and then also lots and lots of TV shows
like twenty four. The very first episode of the Adventures of Superman. The
Amazing Race had it as its starting line in for the twenty twenty second twenty
second season. It was featured in Chips. It was on Dancing with the
Stars, mcguyvor Melrose Place mission impossible back in nineteen sixty six, and this
is my favorite, the monkeys. So Griffith Park is you know, it's
an iconic place, and the Observatory is an iconic thing. So, as
I mentioned, probably not today or tomorrow because the weather's going to be really
crappy, but once it clears off again, I highly recommend a trip to
the observatory. When we come back, we're going to be talking with the
house whisper Dean Sharp about building your dream house. But where do you begin?
Dean knows, and he's going to let us know. Coming up.
Next baseball season is here. Don't miss live coverage from FanFest. It's happening
tomorrow with insider David Veasey. It's Saturday from noon to three. Check out
another winning season at Broadway in Hollywood dot Com. Southland weather from KFI morning
clouds. We still have a slight chance of showers, then sunny for the
afternoon. I will be in the low sixties at the beaches, upper fifties
to low sixties Inland, just forties and fifties in the Antelope Valley. Partly
cloudy tomorrow, then a second big storm rolls in late Saturday night. With
rain possible overnight heavy rain at times on Sunday and into next week, and
as I mentioned, up to six inches of rain is expected before this second
move storm moves out. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
Am six forty. So did you hear that it's Anne Rhine or ain rhynd
day? Did you have you ever read at La Shrugged? If you haven't
and you have a I don't know a month or two, it's an interesting
book. And I know I just said her name wrong twice, Ain Rand,
But yeah, it's a fascinating book if you can get through the first
part. Like I talk to my mom, she said, I can't read
it. It was too hard to get into. And for me it was
just like it's page turner and kind of interesting to see parallels of things that
she wrote about, like I don't know, dozens and dozens of years ago
that are kind of playing out today. Here's what we're following today in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A second atmospheric river is headed for California.
This storm is expected to be even stronger than the one that just rolled through
the storm could bring three to six inches of rain to the valleys and coastal
areas Sunday through Tuesday, with six to twelve inches possible in the mountains.
The union representing deputy district attorneys has filed a legal action against La County DA
George Gascon, alleging he deliberately failed to comply with the California Public Records Act.
The union claims Gascone's failure to comply with law and handover documents contradicts Gascone's
promise of transparency. Punk Satani. Phil has come out of his den.
He did not see his shadow in Gobbler's knob, Pennsylvania this morning. That
means an early spring. If Phil is right, and he's only right about
forty percent of the time. At six oh five. It's handled on the
news as Secretary of Defenses. He didn't handle the prostate cancer surger and secret
hospital stay correctly, you think right Now, Let's say good morning to the
house whisper. It's the host of Home on KFI. It's a very own
Dean Sharp, Good morning, Dean, Good morning Gamy. It's iin Rand,
by the way, I Rand. I know I got it right the
third time, didn't I I know right? You've got it right, and
then just then you walked away and then you came back. So I'm just
saying, and I actually liked Fountainhead better than Atlas Shrug because it had to
do with architecture text. Yeah, that was a fascinating and fascinating book.
Yeah, I'm confessing, and I had a very very boring childhood. No,
it was a really interesting book. Okay, So architects designers, we're
we're in the process of building a dream home and we know from the last
few weeks that we've set up the parameters of what we can and can't do.
Then we started putting together a plan, got a design team, and
then we plan for what not to do so we didn't screw it up.
And now we're going to go into step four. What's that step forward is
what I call the chicken or the egg paradox. It's basically the point at
which you know, we're starting to really get into the design. And this
is where the typical homeowner gets really confused because they don't know where to start.
You know, you kind of look at and let's just take an example.
Let's say let's say it's a kitchen that we're going to design, and
I almost always get this question from people perplexed, like, I'm really confused.
I don't what do we do. Do we pick out the countertops first?
Did we pick out the floor? Should I be looking at tile?
Should I look at the cabinets? I don't know where to start. We've
just started the project and I'm already confused, and so it's a big question.
Fortunately, there is a very very simple answer to it, and it's
this that there is no one place to start. We start where you want
to start. We start with what's already on your minds, and that should
come as a big relief to everybody. In other words, in most cases,
when somebody's thinking about a room and you know they've hired a designer and
you're working with your design team, because you don't know every in and out
of how it should turn out and what colors should be put together, per
se, and you know there's all sorts of stuff you don't know, but
there is almost always something you do know, like I've always wanted these oak
cabinets to have this color, or I've always wanted this style of door on
my cabin or I've always wanted a floor like this, or I've always wanted
this kind of tile. Well, then if that's what you know, then
that is where you start. And the cool thing is we can begin anywhere.
We can start with the counter. Do you tell me what kind of
countertop is your dream kitchen countertop? And then we'll start mixing and matching and
looking at cabinet faces and can the colors that blend with it and that go
with it, And then one by one the dominoes begin to fall and the
next thing you know, we got it all figured out. We've got all
the whole color scheme, the floor, everything, they're all. There may
also be constraints and you know, with the with the room, the space,
whatever that may be, and we have to take those into account as
well. But the good news is all we have to do is start with,
you know, sort of your heart's desire and build from there. And
it can change right as it goes. Like you might think you want one
thing, but then once you start piecing it together, before you start building,
of course, you can go, oh wait, maybe I don't want
that, Maybe I'm shifting. And you know, it's a fluid thing until
you start breaking ground, right exactly, it's a fluid thing, and You're
absolutely right, it might change. I've seen it change. I've had clients
come to me and say, listen, for twenty five years, all I've
ever wanted are these bright marble countertops, and that's where we start. You
know, I don't fight them on it. What's the point of doing that.
So we start working it through and they come to realize, wow,
you know, what I actually wanted was a brighter kitchen, and white countertops
are probably not the answer for me. And I'm like, all right,
it's fine, it's great. This is part of the process of figuring out
your dream home. I gotta you know, draw this point of emphasis again.
It is so easy to do an attractive room. It's so easy to
build or to design something that looks great, looks great in photos, looks
great on the internet, looks great on a magazine spread. But that is
very, very different than building a space that is your space. And so
there is a process of self discovery here, and a lot of people find
out that they've been expressing a certain emotion or a certain need a particular way,
and they realized, well, that's not exactly I guess what I meant.
I guess what I really meant. What I really discovered about myself was
I just needed it brighter and lighter in here. But and I just always
assumed the countertops were the way to do it. But as long as we
get to where your mind and emotions are, then we've arrived at the right
place. Cool. And it's always helpful to have somebody who is a professional
designer, which is why you got your designer involved earlier on, to help
guide you through these things. And then step five we're hitting two this week.
Step five is designing for your five senses. What's that? Well,
Step five is we're going to cover that on Sunday. And this is the
beginning of kind of my theory of architectural fundamentals for everybody. I had to
kind of boil down the entire field of architecture for what a homeowner needs to
be aware of. And this, by the way, is not to turn
you into a designer. This is to give you the stuff you need to
know so that you can captain your design team so that you know you are
hitting all of the pillars that need to go. And I have reduced architecture
down essentially the fundamentals at least into its relationship to our five senses, because
that's what really comes down to. You know, I say it all the
time that human architecture is for human beings. It's not just architecture. You
know, if we were blind mole people crawling around on all fours, living
underground, then we would have architecture just like we do up here, but
it would look very different, it would feel very different, it would have
a very different character to it. So the point is architecture is really rooted
in our human physiology, our psychology, and so I use the five senses
as the checkpoints for everybody as to okay, are we hitting all the points
possible for this space? And the first one, the king of all the
senses, is site. Absolutely, without questions, studies after study after study.
If you ask the average person, all right, think about it,
if you could only have one of your five senses, what would it be,
eighty plus percent of people say, oh, my vision, I gotta
have site. I want site. You know, I could do without if
I had to the hearing and the other things, but I want to see
the world around me. And humans are primarily visual people, and so architecture,
no surprise, primarily a visual medium. And so we use that as
a jumping off place to say, Okay, what are we looking for?
What are we looking at and how is it that the shapes and the contours
of a space are communicating to us? And that's what we're going to talk
about on Sunday. So ultimately, what you want to plan for, what
you want to see every day for the rest of your life, for as
long as you own the house. Yeah, and in different ways that most
people don't think about. You know, we tend to think about like a
room, we kind of get in our heads up above it, or we're
looking at a plan view of a room. I want people to evaluate the
room every angle. They look at it as if it was a piece of
installation art. So if it's the living room, what does it look like?
What are we seeing first when we come in the front door, But
also how does it look when we're coming down the hallway or coming into it
from the kitchen. These are all important vistas and we should be thinking through
exactly where everything is and what it looks like from all of those angles.
That's what makes for a good comprehensive design fabulous, And we're going to dig
deeper into that this weekend, steps four and five with Home with Dean Sharp.
You can listen right here on KFI six to eight Saturday morning, nine
to noon on Sunday. And if they would like to follow you, Dean,
where is that on Instagram? Is at Home with Dean on all of
our social media? Sure? At Home with Dean on across all social media
platform well not all of them, but you know the big three. At
Home with Dean. You're saying you're not a TikToker. Uh, you know,
we do lot TikTok here and there you do. I am not a
TikToker at all. You know, we don't have an at Home with Dean
on tender Grinder anything like that, So you know, just the I don't
think those are social media websites. So those are dating sites? Oh yeah,
okay, well that's probably why. That's probably why Tina hasn't put us
up on those. Dean Sharp, thanks so much, looking forward to your
show this weekend. Thanks Amy. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand
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We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, premi
baby berths are up pretty substantially. They're not sure why, though. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's entertainment guru. It's Jason Nathanson. Jason caught
a slim pickens for new movies and streaming this weekend. But we got a
couple of things. Yeah, we're in this really slow period and there hasn't
been. Last week there were no new releases in theaters. So at least
this week there's one, So that's better than none, although when you actually
go watch the movie, I don't know if it actually is better. Argyle
is the movie that is out in theaters this weekend. It's not about socks,
is it. It is not about socks. No, don't worry in
case do you have a phobia of socks. That not be something I would
watch a movie about if it's good. I would watch a movie about if
it's good. I'd watch almost anything, but this one not so much.
That is true. This one stars Bryce Dallas Howard. She plays Ellie Conway,
and she's an author who writes spy novels. But her spine novels are
so good there actually seem to be predicting the future of what actual spies are
doing. So this spy organization wants to get her because of some convoluted reason
or other. It doesn't really matter. It's a spy comedy, and unfortunately
it's not funny and the action is not great. So those are two things
he kind of got to hit if you're gonna make a action comedy. It
just did not work for me at all. And you know, look,
I often say I don't think anybody goes into a movie with the intention of
making a bad movie. I think everybody is you know, they want to
be there and do good stuff. Unfortunately it just doesn't work out for whatever
reason. And this one, to me, just did not work on a
major level. So you got Bryce Stylis Howard, who I think is possibly
miscast, Sam Rockwell, who's great and just about everything that he does,
and he's really good here. He is trying hard. You really have a
really good cast. Brian Cranston, Henry Cavill, Samuel L. Jackson,
Dua Lipa, the singer is even in it for a little bit. And
so they really went all out. And this is from Matthew Vaughan who does
the Kingsman movies, so it kind of has a little bit of that feel.
And I think I read somewhere that he said that it is tangentially set
in the Kingsman universe, although kind of but the CGI. First of all,
there's a cat that's involved. Bryce styles Howard's character as a cat,
and the cat ends up going with them on these crazy adventures. The CGI
involved with the cat is just shameful. I hate when they do CGI cats.
It's not right. I mean, like, we all know what a
real cat looks like, like you could do it with a rhinoceros. When
you can't, we do well. The problem is to get the cat to
do some of the things the cat needs to do. You can't get a
cat to do that in real life, you know, as well as you
train a cat, having them do stunts is just not going to work.
And so they've tried though, and it was fun to watch them trying.
I'm sure they have, but it just it does not work here. And
I'm usually not I'm not one to criticize CGI. There's CGI that doesn't work
in a film. You know, some people complain over some of the Marvel
films or stuff like that. I don't. It passes right by me.
I don't really care. Here it is so noticeable that it is just terrible
from the beginning. And you're in a make believe universe, yeah, and
you are here. I mean, you have to really suspend disbelief to make
any of this work. Here and then and but the CGI is even the
non cat CGI is bad from the beginning, and then towards the end of
this movie it devolves in such a fantastical way that is so absurd it's cringe
worthy that I just like, I'm happy to go along for the ride if
it works, and I'm happy I like when things get weird. This towards
the end just gets laughably, uncomfortably weird. Okay, So now I want
to see it because it sounds so bad, Please do. I love to
have to share in the misery, but I would not recommend spending money on
this film this weekend. Okay. I have a side question, because you
talked to these people. Do you think that actors get into like they sign
a deal, they go, Okay, I'm going to do this movie,
and then like halfway through, they go, oh my god, what have
I done. I wonder about that all the time because I talk to people,
and look, when I do the interviews with them, it's not about
whether the movie is good or bad. So we just talk and I will
never tell somebody that I liked something that I didn't. I just won't say
anything. But I'm sitting there across from them, thinking, you know this
is bad, right, we both know. Let's not pretend we know this
is bad. But that never happens in the present. Right. You can
talk to somebody, and I have talked to people about and they'll admit something
from ten years ago as a stinker, but they'll never admit the current project.
And I get it because so many people work on it and they are
trying hard, but I think they know. And in this one, I
would have loved to have been a at the premiere and just kind of looked
around, and because at the premiere especially, you can't tell somebody the movie
is bad, right, everybody's there, you kinda kind of kiss up and
do that thing. But also I would have loved to have been in some
of those meetings when the studio saw it, or you know, when when
some of the other people saw it for the first time, and did they
really know, because I think you had to have known with this one that
it just was not working. Okay, Then I want to talk about a
couple of docuseriies real quick, because one of them really has peaked my interest.
And that's the greatest night in pop. Yeah, that one. I've
not seen it. It's out on Netflix. The greatest night in pop being
January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty five, which if that specific date doesn't ring
a bell for you, that is the night that they did We Are the
World, right, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Richie and so many
more got together to make that song for charity. And this is about the
making of that night, how it came together, how it happened, and
with interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Lonel Richie, Huey Lewis, Cindy Lapper,
Kenny Loggins and some of the others as well. It looks really really good.
I know some people who have seen it and really loved it. So
it does work. And I'm fascinated by that as a child of the eighties,
and you know, somebody who remembers that song and that time, h
and what that meant and how big it was, and just all the people
that were there. Everybody was there, which just won't happen again. Yeah,
I don't think ever. This is how big it was. Jason.
We went as We Are the World for my sorority. A bunch of us
got together and we all were different Halloween. Yeah for Halloween. Wow,
that's that's that's a fantastic awesome that that sounds like a lot of fun.
Uh. So, yeah, this so and I love I love documentaries about
especially music stuff stuff like that. And there's apparently some revealing stuff in there
as well. So I'll be watching that one this weekend. Okay, And
speaking of music and something you'll be watching this weekend the Grammys. Yes,
the Grammys. I will be watching it. I will be there in downtown
at the Crypto dot Com Arena. Still can't get used to that name,
but well, uh it'll be uh you know. Look, I don't think
the ratings for the Grammy. It's like all award shows have gone down and
down and down. Last year was pretty bad. I don't feel like there's
any awareness this year that the Grammys are actually happening this weekend. I think
that might be You're right, I think that might be a surprise to a
lot of people, unless you know, maybe you happen to be watching football
last weekend on CBS and you caught a bunch of commercials. Otherwise, I
just don't know there doesn't seem to be that that feeling. I think a
lot of people watch the Grammys for the performances rather than the awards themselves.
And there's gonna be some big ones in the pop world. Billy Eilish,
Oliviy Rodrigo, Dua Lipa arguing and perform Siza, who's the leading nominee.
She'll be performing as well, and then you're gonna have Grammy Legend Award or
would be at Billy Joel will be there. Is he going to be singing
his new song. I don't know if he's gonna be singing the new song
or not, which just came out this week. I might watch just for
Billy Joel just to hear the new song or to hear just to hear Billy
Joel. Okay, just to hear Billy Joel. I get that. I
like him just the way he is. And Joni Mitchell will also be performing
for her. She's never performed with the Grammys before, surprisingly, and she
just announced she's going to be playing at the Hollywood Bowl this year. I
think her first Alley concert in decades, maybe Yeah, and they just added
a second show. Yeah, So I know some people will be excited about
that, you too is going to make quote unquote history with the first ever
broadcast performance from the Sphere live in Las Vegas. I don't really love when
they go to other locations. You know, it's hard. I think it's
hard to translate music over to television like the performances. Yeah, yeah,
because you're just watching it on a TV. When you're there, it's pretty
cool and rocking and it's a lot of fun. I think for anything,
whether for me that's the Super Bowl halftime show, to any performance that you
watch on television, it loses eighty percent of the magic, I think right
by watching it on TV. So just forget the whole Grammys thing and go
to the Sphere. Maybe I need more fun. Although the Sphere looks like
the kind of place that would make me nauseous, so I'm fascinated by it.
But when you see the seats and the pitch, the extreme angle of
the seats and how they're pitched, that to me just I feel like I
would get vertigo. So I don't know if that's for me or not,
but I like the outside. The screens on it looked really it's very cool
and a little bit freaky. Yeah, have you been inside? Not yet?
Okay, not yet, Jason Nathan Nathanson. At least I didn't call
you Nathan jasonson this day. I appreciate that that's called Jonathan in a bunch
of interviews yesterday. So do you correct him or do you just go with
it? I just let it go. I love that. All right,
going with the flow. It's Jason Nathans And thank you so much for your
time today. All right, take care. You've been listening to Wake Up
Call with me Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to
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