WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:08.519 You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty KFI and 2 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:15.480 KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake 3 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:24.359 up call. Good morning, and happy Black Friday. This is your wake 4 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.359 up call for Friday, November twenty fourth. It is five a m. 5 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:33.240 I'm Heatherbrooker in this morning for Amy King. Hello. It is such a 6 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:38.520 joy to be with you today, even though I got up at two thirty 7 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.359 this morning. Listen. I'm not a morning person, but I'm still happy 8 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:47.240 to be here. Amy is off today, enjoying a much deserved break and 9 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.799 day off, so I hope she's getting lots of fresh We have a lot 10 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.960 of fun things to talk about today. But first of all, I want 11 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:57.000 to tell you guys who I am. As I said, my name is 12 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:02.600 Heather. I am a journalist, a season journalist who has been around for 13 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.280 way too long in the news biz. I used to work here for NBC 14 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:15.040 in Los Angeles as well as Katila, and I now am here happily at 15 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.959 KFI. I also have a daughter. My daughter is ten years old. 16 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.760 I'm a mom. I also am an actor and comedian. So that's just 17 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:29.239 a little bit about me not too many jokes in today's show, though, 18 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.400 I promise I won't torture you this early in the morning with my jokes. 19 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.760 But I'm, like I said, I'm happy to be here, happy to 20 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:41.400 wake up with you guys on this awesome Black Friday. It's almost the weekend, 21 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.920 you guys, yay, looking forward to that. I'll be here all 22 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:49.439 weekend as well. I enjoy doing the news during the Fork Report on the 23 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.480 weekends and then also Home with Dean Sharp on Sunday morning. So if you 24 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.920 haven't tuned in for those shows, definitely do that. They're a lot of 25 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:00.359 fun. So yesterday was Thanksgiving. Let's talk about that a little bit. 26 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.920 I hope you guys are well rested and got lots of turkey. I went 27 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.640 to Flemings with my family. That's sort of our tradition. We go to 28 00:02:07.199 --> 00:02:13.000 Flemings every year. We have a nice turkey dinner there, and then I 29 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.520 went home and properly took a nap, which you know, it's kind of 30 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:20.439 required. It's kind of what you're supposed to do on Thanksgiving. Hope you 31 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.800 guys got lots of turkey as well. Today, though it's Black Friday, 32 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:28.639 I was going to try to venture out maybe and try to get some deals. 33 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.159 But I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to maybe stick 34 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:36.240 more to online shopping this year. We'll see how it goes. How I 35 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:39.759 feel after I after I leave here this morning, I may be too pooped 36 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.439 to go shopping. All right, let's get into it. We have a 37 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.840 lot of fun things to talk about today. Here's what's ahead on wake up 38 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.479 Call. It is Black Friday. As I mentioned, that means we'll be 39 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.240 talking to Joel Larsgard, the host of How the Money, about managing your 40 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.719 money and whenever you go out looking for deals today, we've all seen those 41 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:01.680 appliances that mus you miracles. Will Dean Sharp, the host of Home with 42 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:06.960 Dean Sharp, is going to join me to help demystify some of the appliances 43 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.639 that over promise. And we have a very special guest this morning. I 44 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.199 caught up with him at Universal Studios and you are not going to believe what 45 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.120 he has to say about KFI. Then at six p' oh five, it's 46 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.120 handled on the news. Amazon workers went on strike and we're going to talk 47 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.479 about how that could impact Black Friday here in the US. Let's start with 48 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.159 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The 49 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:35.879 cash rewards are being offered to help catch the person who started that fire under 50 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.199 the ten Freeway in downtown La cal Fire says it'll pay one thousand dollars to 51 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:44.039 anyone with a tip that helps arrest the arsonist. Investigators say they're also trying 52 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.280 to track down and interview the sixteen homeless people who were living near the scene 53 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.719 of the fire but were taken away by first responders. The fire started in 54 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:54.039 the early morning hours of November eleventh and destroyed everything inside the storage lots where 55 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:58.199 the fire started and damaged a part of the freeway. Last week, the 56 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.719 state Fire Marshall released photos of a person of interest. You can see those 57 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:06.159 photos on our website at KFIAM six forty dot com slash Arson Steve Gregory KFI 58 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:12.280 News. Fewer catalytic converters are being stolen. California State Farm says there were 59 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.240 fifty four hundred claims in the first half of twenty twenty three. Triple a's 60 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:19.519 Doug Shoop says despite the drop and claims, California still has the highest number 61 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:24.160 of converter thefts in the country. He says people should check with their insurance 62 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:30.040 companies for coverage options. Goat converters can cost up to three thousand dollars to 63 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:33.199 replace, depending on the vehicle. Shoup says that while they can be spendy, 64 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.759 most insurances do offer coverage. State Farm paid out more than seventeen million 65 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:44.079 dollars for the fifty four hundred claims so far this year. Travelers arriving at 66 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.920 LAX with time to kill can burn off their Thanksgiving meal by walking the terminal 67 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:54.480 track. A recently completed connection between LAX's Terminal three and the Bradley International Terminal 68 00:04:54.879 --> 00:05:00.120 let's travelers roam all nine terminals without going through TSA several times. It's roughly 69 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.399 a two mile stroll. Wow. Someone who did the one way journey says 70 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:10.560 they got an extra eighty nine hundred steps in. Dozens of AID trucks have 71 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:15.480 entered Gaza as a four day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas kicks off. ABC's 72 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.279 Jordana Miller says it's the first time in nearly seven weeks where it's quiet on 73 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:25.720 the streets and skies of Gaza. Hamas expected to release thirteen Israeli hostages, 74 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.319 all women and children Leader today. They are the first of fifty Israelis to 75 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:34.319 be released. Miller says an American girl who turns four today is not on 76 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:40.120 the first list of those who will come home. Israel's government says the hostages 77 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.759 will be taken to five major hospitals and medical centers throughout Israel once they're released. 78 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.759 Border officials in the US are taking measures to keep pigs in Canada from 79 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:55.959 migrating South. ABC's Chuck Sieverson says super pigs are no joke. An expert 80 00:05:55.959 --> 00:06:00.839 at the University of Saskatchewan calls these fast breeding super pigs an ecological train wreck, 81 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:08.480 crossbreeds with survival skills of wild Eurasian boar. He says wild pigs destroy 82 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:12.759 billions in US crops each year. States like Montana, North Dakota, and 83 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:17.000 Minnesota are taking steps, and the Federal Agriculture Department is using planes and drones 84 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.439 to watch out for those pigs. Black Friday is here, but some retailers 85 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:27.680 worry deals may not be enough. The National Retail Federation says US holiday sales 86 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.160 will rise only three to four percent for November through December, compared with five 87 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.720 point four percent a year ago. The Federation blames growing credit card debt and 88 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:41.920 higher rent. All right, these studios are battling it out at the box 89 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.279 office this weekend. Thanksgiving weekend is traditionally a pretty big for Hollywood and movie 90 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:51.480 going fans. Lions Gates, the Hunger Games. The ballot of Songbirds and 91 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:56.199 Snakes is neck and neck with Disney's Wish for the number one spot, but 92 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.879 Wish is expected to eke out that win over the weekend with at least four 93 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:06.000 five to fifty million dollars. Let's check in right now with Nick Bagliochini and 94 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:09.360 listen, Nick, are you there? Can you hear me? I am 95 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.759 the other day I tried to say your name, and I don't know why 96 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.120 I decided to know you put every possible into it. That was fantastic. 97 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:20.600 I was like, there's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what said 98 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:25.079 olive garden. I don't know why. I don't know why. We can 99 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:28.000 do better than olive gardens. Okay, fair enough, at least give me 100 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.040 like Magiano's like, come on, yeah, fair enough. Although to be 101 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.399 fair, olive garden is the BA I do have olive garden. I'm a 102 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:36.720 no, was never any bread sticks, but yeah, I guess here you 103 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.720 go. Have you seen any of these movies lately? Have you been to 104 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.319 the theater? H yeah, So I just sawt Disney Wish and we did 105 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.560 talk about that with Jason, Jason Nathanson and Amy King. But I loved 106 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:53.839 it. Although if you're looking for something down the Disney path that you're usually 107 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.959 expecting, it's not going to be that. It is going to be a 108 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.040 very unique special conglomeration of the last one hundred years of Walt Disney animation. 109 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.839 So lots of Easter eggs across the board. The music, I walked out, 110 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.360 and this is one thing we all agreed on. I don't remember any 111 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.040 of the lyrics. The musical content. It was great. It was a 112 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.199 bob but I couldn't tell you. It wasn't like walking out of Frozen or 113 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.360 The Lion King or Beating the Beast. I wasn't singing the lyrics, but 114 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.959 I definitely was humming some of the tunes. So that's definitely worth going out 115 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.600 and seeing and make sure to keep an eye out. There's so much going 116 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.120 on, including, just like we've gotten used to with Marble, some post 117 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.080 credit scenes, so that's totally worth checking out and but yeah, that's kind 118 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.720 of it now a Hunger Games. Are you a fan of that or no? 119 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.519 I am. Actually I'm really looking forward to Songbirds and Snakes. I 120 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.639 think that looks like a really interesting prequel. That's definitely on my list. 121 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:46.159 And Trolls Band Together. That's also my daughter is a huge Trolls fan, 122 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:50.039 so we're excited for that one. Plus that's kind of that, you know, 123 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.120 if you've been excited about the in Sync reunion. Yeah, that so 124 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.720 all right. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently released a book, Infinity to Infinity 125 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.919 and Beyond, and our Amy King got a chance to talk to him about 126 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.600 the book and some other fun science stuff. Let's say good morning to Neil 127 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:13.960 deGrasse Tyson. I am absolutely thrilled to say good morning to astrophysicist and best 128 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:18.720 selling author and well all around smart guy Neil deGrasse Tyson. Good morning, 129 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:24.320 Neil, Good good morning, good morning. Thank you so much for coming 130 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.000 on early this morning with us. So Neil's on with us because he has 131 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.799 a new book out about the Cosmos and beyond. It's about real science versus 132 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.639 basically what we see in TV in movies and before we jump in, Neil. 133 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.000 I want to just say that when I hear you talk, I realized 134 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:45.840 how incredibly smart you are and how much you know. But you always talk 135 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:50.559 to us in a way that my brain can understand, and I appreciate that 136 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.200 because you know, you talk to really smart people sometimes and they talk in 137 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.039 these technical terms you don't get, and you have a way of breaking through 138 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:05.639 and talking to meppreciate differ between the difference between lecturing and communicating. I think 139 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.519 that's that's that's all it is. So I can face the talkboard and have 140 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.159 you try to meet me ninety percent of the way of where I am, 141 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:16.759 or I can face you and meet you ninety percent of the way towards you, 142 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.720 and that's that's that's my goal. And if I achieve that, then 143 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:22.440 that's a good day for me as an educator. Well, I think you 144 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.679 have. So you have this new book called Infinity to Infinity and Beyond, 145 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.679 and again in the meeting me on my side, it's illustrated, so there's 146 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.519 there are some fantastic pictures in here. So I read the pictures last night, 147 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.960 and okay, you have some of stuff from like the Hubble Space telescope 148 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.480 or not from Hubble, from the James Webbs telescope. Thank all the latest 149 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.360 stuff is in there. So the book has attempts to take the reader on 150 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:58.639 a journey of mind and spirit from the time when we're just standing on Earth 151 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.919 looking up, wondering how would you ever get to the moon? Just imagine 152 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.639 five hundred years ago looking up? Do you just ascend? Does air continue 153 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.039 from Earth already to the moon if you have a balloon? But balloons were 154 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.080 kind of a ladder day thing, right, so you have to learn that 155 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.679 hot air rises, and so it tracks. So for example, the first 156 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:24.519 aeroonauts was a cheap a duck and a rooster. They were sent up in 157 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:31.440 a balloon was and they just how high did they get? Well? So, 158 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.200 yeah, so it's not safe if you keep going too high up. 159 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.320 And I feel sorry for the sheep because had that experiment failed, the duck 160 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.159 and the rooster still had a chance of surviving coming down back to Earth. 161 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.840 But you get a sense of are certain dreams you have impossible? They're reel 162 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:54.080 in your head, but they can't happen until more science and technology and engineering 163 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.799 arrive. And so we also follow the fits and starts and the mistakes and 164 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:03.320 when we can we analogize that there's scenery that we pass along the way. 165 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:07.879 And these are movies that have attempted to portray some aspect of the science that 166 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.039 we talk about, and then we'll tell you if the movie got it right 167 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:16.480 or wrong. And because movies form part of the pop culture dimension of the 168 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.840 communicating there's science humor in pop culture, which is the three DNA strands of 169 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.240 my podcast, which is called Stark Talk, and this is a book in 170 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.639 the in the Stark Talk tradition. Well, I love that you were talking 171 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.200 about that kind of marriage between art and science because I see a lot of 172 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.200 movies and I go, or you see some science that's coming out and you 173 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.440 go, god, I saw that in a movie like twenty years ago. 174 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.720 How did they know? So, like, what's a good example. I 175 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:48.440 know that you said something about gravity and Sandra Bullock, oh yeah, so 176 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.759 just you know, when we talk about how do you escape gravity? You 177 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.519 know, I referenced the movie the movie Gravity, right, which had Sandra 178 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:01.639 Bullock and handsome man leading man let's say, George Clooney, thank you, 179 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.639 And so I first I think the movie should have been called zero Gravity because 180 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.440 the whole movie is in zero gravity. Yes, and they did some very 181 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.960 good things all right. You know when you burn a candle, a kale 182 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.600 just keeps burning. You know why the hot air rises and it brings in 183 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:24.639 new oxygen. They showed correctly in that movie a flame that extinguished itself because 184 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:30.279 it beats up the oxygen. The warm air doesn't know to rise, and 185 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.320 then the absence of oxygen extinguishes the flame. They got so much right, 186 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.039 but I had to call them out. How is it that sends a bullets? 187 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:43.879 Bangs always knew which way down was? Geez, her hair wasn't floating 188 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.440 in the zero g Their hair knew okay, So, but it's fun to 189 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:50.519 point this out because we all have many people had seen the movie. There 190 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.960 are other movies that talk about Back to the Future. Talk about the movie 191 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.639 The Martian, talk about the Hulk. When we talk about the density of 192 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.159 things and air, it's odd that the Hulk could start out just as a 193 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.759 little person and they become a big person. Did he just sort of swallow 194 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.919 up? And if you did, he would have the density of a beach 195 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:18.480 ball, and August to Win would just blow him around, and right exactly, 196 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.399 I thought of that. So if you If so, if the Hulk 197 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.840 actually has masks, would you get the extra mass from You have to get 198 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:31.759 it from the energy and the environment. He equals mc squared, and then 199 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.559 he would suck all the energy out of his sector of the world, and 200 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:37.679 then there's no no one to fight and there's no battles. But the biggest 201 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.279 question is how can his shorts still fit him when he gets big? I 202 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.320 don't never understood that. I got some questions for you, and one of 203 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:48.960 the big ones that I've always wondered, and you were the perfect person to 204 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.480 ask, this is when we go up into space. Because you have a 205 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.559 whole section on rockets and leaving the atmosphere and that kind of stuff. How 206 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.960 come we can't just go on a plane and just go up to elevation and 207 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.440 break out of the atmosphere. Why do we have to go on a rocket 208 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.000 straight up like that? Oh? Yeah, yeah, Two very important reasons. 209 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:15.879 First, airplanes work because they're combining the oxygen of the air with the 210 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.960 fuel in their fuel tanks to create some form of combustion. Right, so 211 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.240 they're well, they're air breathing, right, they need the air to run 212 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.240 their engines. When you get to very high in the atmosphere, the air 213 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.080 gets thinner and thinner, there's less and less oxygen. You need a whole 214 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.320 different kind of fuel system in order to get around. So in other words, 215 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.279 you have to bring your own oxygen oxidizers. They're called Okay, so 216 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.039 if we were flying in a plane, So if you were in a plane 217 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.759 and you just kept going higher and higher, eventually it wouldn't work anymore because 218 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:54.000 you don't have the oxygen. So not only because you don't have the oxygen, 219 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.559 the air stays aloft because of the buoy. And see the points are 220 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:07.840 because of the there's air pressing up underneath the wings that keeps it flying. 221 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:12.480 Okay, So that's the weird thing. Like in Apollo eleven that the munder 222 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:17.600 modules called the Eagle, right, and it shows this egle landing. Well, 223 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.080 an ego on the Moon would fall like a brick because the ego has 224 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:26.240 wings that need air, right, So you need the air to hold you 225 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.639 up, and you need the oxygen in the air to burn your engines, 226 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.679 and you have neither of that in the very highest altitude, so you need 227 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.519 what you call a rocket and there it is. Okay, all right, 228 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.759 here's another one because you have a section on Mars and terraforming Mars, and 229 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:47.559 you have these fabulous photos and so it made me think of again a movie 230 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:52.200 Total Recall where they're on Mars and they're trying to keep the people from getting 231 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:57.080 the oxygen. So could Mars become habitable with the release of water if they 232 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:00.799 found it. Yeah, so we think of that's a great question. We 233 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.480 think that there is water on Mars. Well, we have evidence that there 234 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.920 was once liquid running water on the Martian surface if you look at it and 235 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:15.359 everything's dry, but they're mehandering river beds, river deltas, floodplains, all 236 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:22.759 the all the telltale evidence that that Mars was once a liquid planet and it's 237 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.799 all gone today. So we should try to figure out how it lost all 238 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:32.079 of us water in case there's some knob we're turning here on Earth that could 239 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:36.200 give us the same fate. We think maybe it went down into permafrost. 240 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.599 So, and the Martian atmosphere is very very thin, one percent that of 241 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.880 Earth. So we had to reference the movie The Martian where there's a dust 242 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.880 storm, it's rocking near spaceship and they give up Mark Wotney for dead because 243 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.400 they have to take off because if they don't, they all die. But 244 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:57.200 what they don't tell you is the adversary is so thin that one hundred miles 245 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:02.440 an hour winds would be like a gentle bree. It would not have rocked 246 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:06.480 that, It would not have rocked the ship. So Holley Andy Weardy author, 247 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.359 Yeah, yeah, I told him. He said, well, yeah, 248 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.200 and I'll give him a hall pass on that because you've got so much 249 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.720 other science. Correct. So yeah, if you want to TeleForm it, 250 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:22.400 you have to put microbes in the soils that can naturally produce some oxygen, 251 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.799 so you have to work that. But if you TeleForm Mars, you can 252 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.599 fly to walk off your spaceship without a space suit, and then we'd have 253 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.480 two planets to live on. That could be cool. Wouldn't that be cool? 254 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:36.079 Okay? Then my last question, because and I could ask you one 255 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.400 hundreds of them, but you also have this really cool picture. It's a 256 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:45.039 conceptual picture of a ship that's outfitted with everything you would need to take a 257 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:51.839 deep trek into space. So is long term space travel actually something that we 258 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.640 could eventually do? Is it realistic? Okay? The image you're referring to 259 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.480 as the one I'm thinking of that's a generational ship, because to get to 260 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.519 the nearest star on our fastest rockets would take fifty thousand years, so you'll 261 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.400 be dead. So what you need to do in a generational ships get a 262 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:12.720 bunch of very fertile people, put them on, they make babies, they 263 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:17.079 get old and die, The babies get old and and everybody's making babies are 264 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.920 for a thousand generations and then you arrive at your destination. But I'd rather 265 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.440 wait around for like warp drivers. I know right, this is doing me 266 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.160 okay, so we'll wait until star pre destined. Yeah, I don't want 267 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:34.680 to predestine the next generation to follow my dreams. When in a free society, 268 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:37.960 they should be able to choose not to go on a generational ship, 269 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:41.839 okay. And wouldn't you be mad if you went on a generational ship and 270 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.240 then they discovered warp speeds so you're out in the middle of space somewhere, 271 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.640 and then if a ship goes and passes you. Oh yeah, I would 272 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:55.279 be so pissed off exactly. Oh my gosh. It's part of what it 273 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:57.440 is to make the future real. Like you were saying, you see things 274 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:02.599 in a sci fi movie. It gives you ideas to try to reach for. 275 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:06.359 They reach for the stars in new and innovative ways, and that's what 276 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.920 the entire book is about. Thank you so much for your time. You 277 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:12.599 can get to infinity and beyond, I would imagine about everywhere. Well, 278 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.960 you can get the book everywhere, except for space. You have to get 279 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.000 it on Earth. Oh okay, good clarification. Thank you again for your 280 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:23.720 time this morning. Oh my gosh, thanks for having me. All right, 281 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.680 let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty 282 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.599 four hour newsroom. Firefighters in Orange County are searching for a car believed to 283 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.960 have driven into Lake Irvine. Officials say the car may have fallen into a 284 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.000 man made lake last night. The lake is said to be only about six 285 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:42.119 feet deep. Stores eager for Black Friday shoppers say they're worried about the uptick 286 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:48.079 in retail theft. ABC's Allison Cossick says even though the number of insore customers 287 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.519 has decreased, stores are still taking extra precautions. In twenty twenty two, 288 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:57.680 retailers facing more than one hundred and twelve billion dollars in losses due to organized 289 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:03.000 retail crime, nineteen percent jump from the year before. The news is brought 290 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:08.880 to you by Ruder Hero. W Amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has granted been 291 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:14.400 granted parole ten years after shooting his girlfriend at his home in South Africa. 292 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:19.359 The Department of Corrections says Pistorius will be released January fifth. 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Are they fabulous or fad? 302 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.759 We're going to talk to Dean Sharp and find out and we have a 303 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.559 very special guest dropping by KFI and he guesses who that might be. Well, 304 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.039 we're going to find out in just a minute. At six five. 305 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.440 It's Handle on the news Doctors and Dennis Nelly County could be going on strike. 306 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:19.200 All right. I am very excited because joining me this morning is the 307 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:23.599 host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp. Good morning, Dean, Hey, 308 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:27.200 Heather, how you doing. I'm good. Did you get lots of 309 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:33.759 turkey yesterday? No? Zero turkey yesterday? Are you anti turkey? Well, 310 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:40.039 I'm not anti turkey, but we did prime rib instead. Oh well 311 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:44.559 that sounds very luxurious. Actually, I think that sounds really good. I 312 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:48.279 just got tired of, you know, putting like three or four days of 313 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:52.440 effort into making a brilliant turkey. And the very best thing that anybody says 314 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:57.119 that the dinner table is oh it's moist. It's like they're surprised. But 315 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.960 you lay out a slab of prime rib, which takes virtually no effort whatsoever, 316 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.920 and you are the hero of somebody's life. They're like, oh, 317 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:07.759 so there you go. So you know what, I'm just catering to the 318 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.960 applause. That's it, all right, me too. That's the story of 319 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.640 my life, to be honest. Okay, I'm very excited about this. 320 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:19.839 Let's talk about, first of all, what is a wonder appliance. Wonder 321 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:26.519 appliances are not real, they're things. They're the kinds of things that these 322 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.400 days, you know, used to be Back in the day, we would 323 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:33.599 call them an as seen on TV ad right, one of those things like 324 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:40.079 a Ginsu knife or something. Nowadays it's clickbait and TikTok videos that are trying 325 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:44.480 to push this new amazing whatever the thing may be. And I get this 326 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:48.000 question all the time from people like, wow, are these really as amazing 327 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.839 as people say they are? They seem like they're selling like hotcakes. Should 328 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:59.839 I get one of these for my loved one for Christmas as a Christmas gift? 329 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.079 How do we even know if this is a real thing? And so 330 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.039 that's what I thought we could talk about today. Absolutely. Okay, So 331 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.519 let's talk about falling into those wonder appliance traps because they do look too good 332 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:15.960 to be true. How can we avoid buying these things? Well, probably 333 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.039 the most important thing that you can do to stay out of that trap is 334 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:25.519 don't buy anything on a subject matter which you know very little. If you're 335 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:27.319 not the cook, for instance, in the kitchen, if you're like, 336 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:30.319 I don't really cook, I don't really know anything about cooking, but my 337 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:36.279 wife does or my husband does, so I thought i'd get them a George 338 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:41.599 Foreman grill or something like that. Then you know, don't buy anything you 339 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.640 know in a subject area that you have not seriously done the research in. 340 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:51.079 Because here's the thing that nobody, nobody who knows, for instance, anything 341 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:56.359 about cooking, is going to be believe that there is a knife out there 342 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.759 that is a miracle knife that never needs to be sharpened, only last knife 343 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.839 you'll ever need to buy. You know, that kind of stuff. You're 344 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.359 like, no, that's not true at all. You know, you go 345 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.880 to a culinary shop and you can ask the people buying the counter like, 346 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.119 wow, you guys sell a lot of knives, why don't you just sell 347 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:18.599 the miracle knife? And you'll get a really quick explanation of why, because 348 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:22.759 it's not a miracle knife. And so that's the big tip. Don't buy 349 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.759 anything in a subject area where you know very very little. If you're curious, 350 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:30.599 do the research. All right, So, what are some of the 351 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.000 fads that you notice when it comes to these types of appliances. Oh, 352 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:40.160 you know, I mean the same things we've all seen that we've seen food 353 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:44.279 dehydrators, which and then this is you know, it's tricky because these aren't 354 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:48.160 necessarily there's nothing wrong with any of these categories, right. There are some 355 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:51.680 really nice food dehydrators out there, but not the kinds that you've seen on 356 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:56.640 TV or you know, in TikTok or in clickbait. They would not be 357 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:03.599 selling themselves in that way. Rotisserie overans nothing wrong with the retisserie, but 358 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.880 an oven that sits on the countertop and promises you'll never see chickens seared this 359 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.599 way. Ever. You know, a lot of it is just the fact 360 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.799 that if you put a heating element in a really really tiny space, like 361 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:21.640 you can fit one and a half chickens in this thing, then sure, 362 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:25.359 sure it gets super hot in there, but still not worth the time of 363 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:29.480 day. I've already gotten so much grief for saying that the George Foreman grill 364 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:33.359 is not a serious piece of cooking equipment, because if they stay I know 365 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.839 they do, I know they do, and they're like, Dean, come 366 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.000 on, this is revolutionary. And all I'm saying is, you know what, 367 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:47.920 Ask any major appliance manufacturer if they've ever been tempted to put a nonstick 368 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.759 surface on the bottom of their grill and slant it so that the juices run 369 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.279 off into a little cup, and they will say, no, you don't 370 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.160 need to do that. So I you know, hey, if if that's 371 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.319 what you know, rows your boat, go for it. I'm just saying 372 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.319 it is not that there are as many George Foreman grills in thrift stores right 373 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.200 now as there are being sold online. All right, So give us the 374 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.799 good news. What are some fabulous products, because I have to say I 375 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:19.400 love my air fryer exactly. Airfryers are one of those things that came and 376 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:22.720 we were all, you know, well, those of us in the industry, 377 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.240 we all step back and we're like, all right, let's see what 378 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.839 happens with this h But airfrying is legit. And air fryer, by the 379 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:34.640 way, is just a convection of It's a it's a smaller space with a 380 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:40.200 bigger fan, but it's a heating element with a fan that moves the air 381 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.680 around really fast, and therefore it crisps up the outside. It's technically it's 382 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:48.000 not frying, but it's but its crists up the outside of the food. 383 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:55.359 So here's one of those things. If major manufacturers begin to adopt into their 384 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:59.480 manufacturing lines, which takes them a lot to retool to do that, then 385 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:03.400 you know you onto something. And right now, Heather, you cannot buy 386 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:08.000 a brand new oven out there from any manufacturer, from Viking and Wolf, 387 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:14.680 ge, Sam, you name it. They all have air fryer functions now. 388 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.200 And that's simply because they've taken their existing convection ovens, given them a 389 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:22.839 turbo charge and guess what there they are, So airfrying is legit. It's 390 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:27.440 one of the victories that has come out as a relatively new innovation. You 391 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:32.519 can still buy a really good countertop model, or you can buy it built 392 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:37.640 into your brand new double oven that you're putting in your new kitchen. I 393 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.720 love that. Always, such great information, Dean, Thank you so much, 394 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.759 and I'm looking forward to talking with you again on Sunday during your show. 395 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.359 Sounds great. We're so glad you're a bored Heather. Thank you, 396 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.960 have a wonderful weekend. We'll talk soon you too. All right, let's 397 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:57.079 move on. You guys, we have to get into what's coming up next 398 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:00.119 weekend. We're going to geek out together a little bit. La Comic Con 399 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.160 is coming back next weekend. My family and I go every year, always 400 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.200 such a good time, and I sat down with Christa Mulin from the La 401 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.640 Comic Con to get all the details. It is such a thrill to be 402 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.519 here talking with Christa Mullin, who is all about Los Angeles Comic Con. 403 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.799 He does many things with La Comic Con, and truly this is one of 404 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:25.279 my favorite events every year that my family and I go to. And Chris, 405 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:27.680 You've always been so gracious to talk to me and tell me more about 406 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:32.640 Comic Con. So let's just dive right in. Absolutely, that is what 407 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.920 is Los Angeles Comic Con all about? Well, I think first and foremost, 408 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:41.079 we are a show that is all about the fans. So we start 409 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:42.839 every year by asking the fans what they thought of the show that we just 410 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.079 did, what they'd like to see next year, and then we our team 411 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:51.079 spends the whole year trying to get those guests and expand into those areas. 412 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:53.839 So we very much the core of everything we do is that we're all of 413 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.720 us here are fans, and we run the show for the fans, so 414 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:02.200 it's by fans and for fans. And so when you see us expand into 415 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:03.960 you know, video games and anime, as we did a couple of years 416 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.880 ago, and by opening up into the West Hall, that was all because 417 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:10.319 the fans said, we love that stuff, we'd like to see more of 418 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:12.440 that, and in order to have the room to do it properly, we 419 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:18.119 needed more space than we expanded. So I think our goal is, you 420 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.759 know, La is such a unique, such unique culture as a city. 421 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.160 It's the center of the creative universe for so many industries, not just movies 422 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:32.680 and television, but music and video games and anime and streaming, and so 423 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:37.240 we want to have this really eclectic show that's the ultimate mashup of all of 424 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.440 that. You know. So often when people hear about like a comic con 425 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.680 or a con, they think of San Diego comic Con. But La Comic 426 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.920 Con is its own unique event. I think part of what makes it unique 427 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.960 is, you know, ironically, and we love San Diego. San Diego 428 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:59.119 is the og con, but this con was actually started by a sister and 429 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:03.640 a couple of brothers, two friends of theirs, who got frustrated the second 430 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.680 year in a row that they couldn't get tickets to go to San Diego, 431 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:08.599 and so they're like, well, let's, you know, let's let's put 432 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.160 on a show in the backyard. Let's do our own shows. And they 433 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.519 were super fortunate to get stan Lee to come the first year, and he 434 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:19.160 loved it and he became a partner in the company. More and more we've 435 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.680 tried to bring in sort of big name guests. So this year we have 436 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.640 a you know, Lord of the Rings panel with all four of the Hobbits, 437 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:27.599 and thankfully, now that the strike is settled, we can call them 438 00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.920 Hobbits and say a Lord of the Rings. It's been a very interesting marketing 439 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.200 challenge this year to talk about who we had coming but not be able to 440 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:38.400 talk about the properties they were in, or a Matt Smith who was doctor 441 00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:42.839 who in his House of the Dragon, and a Soca panel and the boys. 442 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.559 We have that stuff, but we also have sort of the you know, 443 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:51.759 the still the voice actors from from cartoon shows and TV shows that maybe 444 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.680 you know me as a dad, grew up with my kids and and and 445 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.400 so we tried to do it at all of those levels. The big stuff 446 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.079 on the main stage, the expansion into game Now we have a couple of 447 00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.640 video game tournaments this year, a Street Fighter tournament and a Mortal Kombat tournament 448 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.319 where player people are fans are coming in and actually playing in a tournament for 449 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:14.799 prizes on site. But to mix that up with a huge artist alle hundreds 450 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:20.000 of local artists that you won't see anywhere else, six hundred exhibitors who are 451 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.319 really here, you know, for the pre Christmas shopping of it all. 452 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.480 And we think of it as nerd Black Friday. Right, if you have 453 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:28.640 a nerd anywhere in your life that loves this stuff, come here. You 454 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:30.200 will find all the gifts for them you'll you'll ever need to find. When 455 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:35.079 I go with my family every year, we always find some kind of piece 456 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.640 of art that we love. We find like some clothes. My daughter is 457 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:44.599 now ten, so she's really getting into her own fandom and her own you 458 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.640 know, things that she's looking for and likes. This feels so inviting to 459 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:52.200 everybody. Is that intentional on your part? Is that something you guys really 460 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.920 want to do? Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think that's why. 461 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:58.319 You know, on Saturday every year we have the Cosplay National Championship. 462 00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.480 But every year on Sunday, we sort of think of that as family Day 463 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.720 and we do a kid's costume contest, and you know, that kind of 464 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.119 started originally because we were around Halloween and so it's like, hey, this 465 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.960 is one more opportunity to use your costume. But even when we moved to 466 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:15.359 December a couple of years ago post COVID, the fans said, no, 467 00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:16.880 no, keep that because my kids, they love to come, They love 468 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:20.559 to dress up, they love to get up on the stage and see themselves 469 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:24.480 on the JumboTron. And between thirty and thirty five percent of our attendees bring 470 00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:28.160 their kids with them, and we love that. We want to make sure 471 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.799 that that's accessible. Kids six and under are free, kids seven to twelve 472 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:36.119 are only twenty dollars. So for a couple of parents to bring a couple 473 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.160 of kids and their friends and really turn it into it a fun day. 474 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:45.880 We really we feel like in a way we don't compete with other cons. 475 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.839 We're competing with a day at knots Berry Farm or Disneyland, and you can, 476 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:54.279 as a parent, you can bring your kids here and have an experience 477 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:59.200 over the course of the day that will create memories for a lifetime. I 478 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.759 love that. I love and also shout out to you guys for having more 479 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:06.519 food options. I know last year we loved all the food trucks. The 480 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.440 food trucks are awesome. It's not like the other cons that we've been to 481 00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:13.960 where you're sitting on the floor eating like, you know, chicken fingers and 482 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.840 French fries. Like there was like delicious local LA food trucks there and it's 483 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.400 honestly just so much fun. It's nice that we have this here in LA. 484 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.320 It makes sense that we have something like this here in LA. Like 485 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:30.599 you said, with you know, entertainment being in our DNA, and we 486 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.639 look forward to it every year. So tell people really quickly, are their 487 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:37.280 tickets still available? How can they get passed? Absolutely, there are tickets 488 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.599 available. There's tickets for Friday, for Saturday, for Sunday, there are 489 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:45.639 weekend tickets. So I look forward to seeing you on site and hopefully you'll 490 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:50.920 have a good time and discover some fun new things. Absolutely. Los Angeles 491 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:55.440 Comic Con coming to the LA Convention Center December first, second third. December 492 00:34:55.480 --> 00:35:00.559 first, second third. It's comic ONLA dot com. Sounds like it's going 493 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.039 to be a lot of fun. We're looking forward to it, all right. 494 00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:07.199 The Clippers are taking on the Pelicans in New Orleans with tip off at 495 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.400 seven thirty. You can listen to the game on AM five to seventy LA 496 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:15.400 Sports. Right now, Amy King wanted to talk to Joel Larsgard, the 497 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:19.360 host of How To Money, because it's going to be important to manage our 498 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.079 money today on Black Friday. Let's talk Black Friday and what people are going 499 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:29.480 to expect to see today. This is the coming on the aftermath of the 500 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:30.559 day in which we are grateful. We are thankful for what we have. 501 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:35.400 Now it's time to buy as much crap as we can right and hopefully for 502 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.960 hopefully for as little money possible. And so I will say the deals are 503 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:44.639 pretty good this year. There are a lot of good deals out there. 504 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:47.840 You just have to be careful. You've had to parse pars through to see 505 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:52.679 what actually is a deal versus what's not. There was a reason to that 506 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.239 something. So some like twelve or thirteen percent of items on Black Friday that 507 00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.119 are purported to be a deal or actually more expensive than they were with in 508 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:01.519 the last week or so. So you've got to know. Okay, cool, 509 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:07.079 what is what the retailer is saying here is the big fifty percent off 510 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.079 red numbers? Is that marketing or is that actually a better deal than it 511 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.039 normally is? So do your due diligence. Look at the price history on 512 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:17.639 a site like be a site like Honey or Cambel, Camel Camell that'll help 513 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.800 you see, Oh wait a second, this was cheaper like just six weeks 514 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.000 ago. I thought this was an actual deal, but maybe it's not. 515 00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:29.159 But that being said, there are a lot of great deals and if you've 516 00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:32.320 budgeted appropriately, this is a great time to be buying those presents for Christmas. 517 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:37.719 Okay, And can you do the same kind of research on whether you're 518 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.199 getting a deal for brick and mortar stores, Yeah, it can be difficult. 519 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:46.400 There are site called brick seek dot com that can help you kind of 520 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:51.559 see the best deals that are available in stores. And so it's all about 521 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.519 like, hey, these deals are actually we've seen them, the users have 522 00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:59.559 spotted them on store shelves. But you've got to go in and actually make 523 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.800 the purchase in order to get the deal. Because like specific retailers will mark 524 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.679 things down individually, a whole lot more than maybe an online retailer might. 525 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:12.000 But it can be spotty. It can be stored a store, Okay, 526 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:14.760 And if you are venturing out on Black Friday, because I know it's still 527 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.079 a lot of people shop online because that's super easy, but it's still fun 528 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:20.679 sometimes to go and fight the crowds and go and do your shopping. Is 529 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.480 it a good idea to take your phone with you because you could check on 530 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:27.840 your phone and do price comparisons that way, Oh for sure, Yeah, 531 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.599 most definitely. And the thing is, there is a lot of competition if 532 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.559 you're one of the major electronics retailers or at one of like if you're a 533 00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:39.440 Walmart, Target, Best Buy, those kinds of places, they're typically going 534 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:45.360 to be in the same ballpark as each other, and so it's important to 535 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:50.400 note like where you shop matters. But then yeah, it's a good idea. 536 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:52.199 You can pull up and you can look at a site like deal News 537 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.559 or slick Deals and you can kind of say, wait a second, this 538 00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:58.599 Apple watch is two hundred and eighty nine dollars. Is that a good deal 539 00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:01.159 or not? And you can compare that exact model to other deals that might 540 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:05.320 be happening to other retailers, and it's a good idea to know that. 541 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:07.800 It's also a good idea to know where you're shopping what the return policy is. 542 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.519 So if you buy that Apple Watch at Costco, you've got ninety days 543 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:16.440 to return it, and you might not have the same abilities to return, 544 00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.679 especially electronics items, or there might be a restocking fee or something like that. 545 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:24.119 Is that coming up more and more? Joel, Like, I've seen 546 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.760 that a couple of times. It used to be free to make returns and 547 00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:30.679 now it's not. Yeah, No, that's definitely kind of over the last 548 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:35.079 two years creeping in and it's gotten significantly worse this year. So there's a 549 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:37.360 stat that said that's forty percent of retailers are charging for returns this year. 550 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:44.280 All Right, it's officially Grinch Miss Universal Studios, Hollywood today. You're a 551 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:52.639 mean one, mister Grinch you all right? And I couldn't let this moment 552 00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:57.920 pass without tracking down the Green Mimi himself to get the scoop on Grinch Miss, 553 00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:01.079 and he had some very strong opinions out KFI. I hate hate, 554 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:07.760 hate, hate hate double hete entirely. I'm just sading. I love KFI. 555 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:12.119 That's right. They pay me an onion. That's up vibration. No, 556 00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.280 that's that's not that's just a treat right to reach. Don't count. 557 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.000 All right, let's talk about Listen, we are here right now with the 558 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:23.320 one who stole Christmas, the Grinch himself. Let's talk about what does Christmas 559 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:27.480 mean to you this year? What does Christmas I mean this year? I've 560 00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:32.480 learned a valuable lesson to do and feel for this time review and also to 561 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:36.320 get lots of onions from heaven. That's right, we are gonna give you 562 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:38.760 lots of onions? Are we gonna if we come here to universal form? 563 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:44.000 What are we going to get to see? See? All right? Well, 564 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:46.039 to get to see me number one, and then you can go home. 565 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:50.320 I'm just kidding. We got me, We have mac she you get 566 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:54.360 to see my girlfriend Moth and me. Whoier, let's see you can Also 567 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:59.039 there's a tree lot over there. Oh, there's lots of goodies. Get 568 00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:00.800 over with my face on it. Don't get the regular donut, Get the 569 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:06.920 donut with my face. All right, it's face so much better, and 570 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.920 lots of singing and damn shaking. What are you going to be doing the 571 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:15.199 day after Christmas? Does the Grinch go Black Friday shopping. I go Black 572 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.480 Friday five a discount. I'm I'm just kidding. What do I do on 573 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:22.920 Friday? Lots of sleeping. I have Maxico on the other side of the 574 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.719 cave of the cave. You know, he likes to cuddle all the time, 575 00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:30.559 and I just like to meantime a bit of a little cluche introvert. 576 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:32.360 You know, are you going to be doing anything special with the Who's this 577 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.199 year? Are we on good terms with the Who's? Yet? Are we 578 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.039 bad terms with the Who's? We've settled a peace treaty. Yeah, lots 579 00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:43.119 of onions and then we're gonna get along a little bit. But you know, 580 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.760 don't have so this time of year, a lot of people come to 581 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:51.280 Universal Studios Hollywood to visit you. How does that make you feel? It 582 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:55.440 makes me feel sheen and important? But I don't care. No, I 583 00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:58.440 don't get it at all, not at all. So what do you want 584 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.559 people to know when they come to see you Universal? Do you want them 585 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.960 to come right to see you first? What should they do me the whole 586 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.239 time? Just look at me the whole time. There's nothing else you should 587 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.519 do here. I'm just kidding. You will go see the shows, go 588 00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:16.719 on some ride and have just a title time on me the Great Green Fish 589 00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:22.400 to me Mary Grinchmiss Indeed. That means you can head out to also see 590 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:27.519 the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios and interact with who's in Whoville 591 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:31.320 Now through January First, we lead local life from the KFI twenty four hour 592 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:35.320 newsroom. I'm Heather Brooker. This has been your wake up Call. If 593 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.960 you missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio 594 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.800 app. You've been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King. You 595 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.920 can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI 596 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:51.599 AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.