You're listening to KFI Am six forty wake Up Call with Me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning, this is your wake up call
for Wednesday, February twenty eighth. I'm Amy King. Ready to get your
big Wednesday started. I know I am starts off on a happy note.
So one constant through all the years Ray has been Baseball America is ruled by
like an army of steam rulers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt
and erased again. In baseball, it's marked the time, this field,
this game, that's a part of our past. Ray love me some field
of dreams. And in Arizona it was a field of dreams for show.
Hey Otana yesterday his first appearance in spring training with the Dodgers. What did
he do? Hit a home run? And then I was driving around yes
esterday afternoon and got to listen to Tim Conway Junior talking with Steve Garvey.
You know, he's running for the Senate, and they of course talked about
that, but then they also just talked baseball for a while and it was
so it was so great. And you can go go to the iHeartRadio app
and listen to the Tim Conway Junior Show if you want to listen to that
interview so inspiring. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Students at El
Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills have walked out of class to protest what
they say is arise in anti Semitic incidents on campus. The students say just
last week, one of their classmates yelled anti Semitic slurs at a fifteen year
old Jewish student, then assaulted her in a classroom. Wildfires have scorched more
than three hundred thousand acres of the Texas Panhandle, prompting evacuations, cutting off
power to thousands, and forcing at least the temporary shut down of a nuclear
weapons facility. Strong winds, dry grass, and unseasonably warm temperatures are feeding
the fires. Anyone headed to Lake Tahoe is being urged to get there before
tomorrow night or don't go. That's when a blizzard is expected to hit the
northern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Up to twelve feet of snow is expected, along
with fifty mile per hour winds. Also, white out conditions are possible that
could close highways through the weekend. At six oh five, it's handle on
the news. Congressional leaders have had a sit down. Did they accomplish anything?
Or are we going to see a government shutdown on Friday. Bill's going
to dig into that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD Chief morses there have been forty
seven homicides in the city so far this year. That compares to forty by
this time last year. He told the Police Commissioned yesterday. An increase in
gang related and street violence crimes between opposing factions is partly to blame, he
says, added patrols are working in the impacted areas. He also says there's
been a seven point four percent decrease in violent crimes and property crimes. LA
County has ordered an audit of the La Homeless Services Authority. The agency has
a new CEO and is changing other leadership positions, so the Board of Supervisors
says it's an opportune time to look at losses internal fiscal practices. The thirty
year old agency administers federal, state, and local dollars to providers of homeless
services in the county, while also conducting outreach efforts the county once the audit
completed within sixty days, and says all organizations fighting homelesses here must be challenged,
evaluated, and supported to ensure optimal performance. Michael Monks KFI News.
More than a dozen people across southern California have been targeted in an online used
car scheme. Investigators say they believe there are many more cases than those that
have been reported. La County Sheriff's Sergeant Jerry Montenegro says the scammers were selling
rental cars for cash to unsuspecting buyers on Facebook, then following the buyers after
the deal, and the suspects just wait for an opportunity to present itself where
they're able to steal the car back. Usually they know they've parked on the
street or in a public place. People lost up to fifteen thousand dollars.
Three is accused of running the scam. We're arrested earlier this month. Blake
Trolley k if I News. President Biden and former President Trump have won the
Michigan primaries. Trump beat Republican rival Nikki Hailey again last night. She says
despite the outcome, she is staying in the race for President. Biden won
among Democrats, but a lot of voters cast an uncommitted ballot to protest his
handling of the Israel Hamas war. It was the last major primary before Super
Tuesday and a critical swing state in the November election. Twoesday lawmakers have taken
steps to make standard time the only time in California. They're calling the effort
ditch the switch. State Senator Roger Nilo says his proposed bill to make standard
time permanent has gotten a lot of support from the medical community. Standard time
appears to be the preferred time from the standpoint of health organizations and sleep experts
and the like, and we can do that unilaterally with a simple majority vote
of the legislature. Nilos's dead have shown that changing clocks can increase adverse health
effects, including heart attacks and strokes. Assembly Member Tree Ta has introduced an
identical bill. It's five oh six on your wake up call. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, instead of would
you like fries with that? People may soon be hearing would you like surge
pricing with that? I think ANSWER's probably gonna be no. But yeah,
that's what they're trying to history you know, we've seen this with Uber and
Lyft. You leave the football game wherever that might be, Hail and Uber
outside, the price might be really high at that moment because for all the
traffic, because of all the crowds, because of the increase in demand.
Well, now, Amy, we're seeing the same sort of theory or the
same kind of scheme put into place ad Wendy's. Wendy's is the first one
to give this a try. Here's how it would work. Let's say you
go to Wendy's and you walk into the restaurant. You stand in line is
twelve fifteen, twelve thirty, the height of the lunch rush. Look up
at the board and there's the bacon eater up there for I think it's from
Bucks now something like that. I love a baconator. Yeah, better be.
But if you get to the front of the line, though, and
the price has changed to eight dollars because of the long line, because of
the lunch rush. Right, So, this, this surge pricing model is
being tried first at Wendy's. The first thing they need to do is change
those menu boards to the kind they can change the digital menu boards. Are
spending twenty million dollars on that. That's a huge investment. Yeah, mayor
may not work, who knows so, but it was time to update the
boards anyway. Wendy's was kind of behind the times on that. So,
yeah, that's being put into place. Wendy's gives it a try. Certainly,
Burger King and McDonald's and Chick Filey and all they what's the other?
Your one out there? The in and out, in and out, No,
in and out would never do that to us. Yeah, they would
too. Oh you didn't think Wendy's would, Well they will. So we'll
see how this goes over. So far, reception has been pretty cold on
social media. Well, and then here's my question, because you mentioned if
you're standing in line and you see that the Burger's seven dollars by the time
you got up to the front. And I was thinking about this yesterday when
I first heard about it. I mean literally, is it going to change
minute by minute? And you could sure the price? I think that's going
to cause huge problems for customers, Well, it could. You know,
it's likely to either drive them away or push them away from the lunch and
away from the dinner rush into those parts of the day. When things aren't
so busy and Wendy that's part of the strategy here for Wendy's is to get
people away from the lunch rush, you know, and toward the mid afternoon
or the evening or late morning time when things aren't so hecktic and and they
can get things done. So yeah, that's part of the process here.
Yeah, it's an increase in revenue, potentially increasing income and sales for Wendy's,
but also a way to even out the day parts. Well, and
I was thinking about that too. I love the way you think, Jim,
because you're thinking what I am too. But like the whole thing about
the lunch rush, I mean, do they really think they're going to change
people's eating habits? Well, so much of it is dictated by people's schedule,
right, the work schedule, if you get your lunch from eleven to
eleven thirty or noon, and kids' school schedules, those don't change. But
yeah, it may take some getting used to if if you need to change
your schedule to get this done. And people are paying more. This is
the statistic that caught me off guard. Americans are spending eleven percent more than
eleven percent of their disposal income on food that's the highest since nineteen ninety one.
And which category is rising the fastest, dining out, not the grocery
store. Yeah, those prices are going up a bit, but dining out,
those prices are surging, if you will, at a faster rate than
grocery store prices. I wonder if that has like is residual from the pandemic
where we couldn't go out. I mean, I know it's been a few
years now, but I still think that people or just like they had it
taken away and they're like, let's not miss this opportunity. Now like we've
got it back, let's go take advantage of it. Yeah. Well,
during COVID, of course you saw a spike in grocery prices. You know,
those those prices are passed the price shifts in restaurant costs, And now
that's turned upside down. So now restaurant pricing is accelerating faster then grocery store
pricing. If you've tried to buy a dozen eggs, you're seeing that that
price has dropped dramatically for a lot of reasons. Avian flu and you know
the cost of gas to get things to market, and that sort of thing.
But get the egg prices are way down from a year ago, way
down, and some other prices may follow that. Restaurant prices appear to be
going up. And it's like it feels like Wendy's is being the sacrificial lamb
on this, because everybody's going to be watching to see how it. You
know, whether the twenty million dollar upgrade pays off, whether customers revolt or
whether they just go, you know what, that's just the price have to
pay now. Yeah, well you're thinking the way I'm thinking. Yeah,
sacrificial lamb, guinea pig, maybe m hm, experimental, who knows,
But anyway, the others will be watching this. If it works, then
yeah, maybe we'll give it a try too at McDonald's and at Burger King.
If not, they can just not even propose it. They're going to
say, look what Wendy's did to their customers. We would never do that.
Yeah, well we'll wait and see. Wendy's I think still has you
know, of the major fast food chains, not clown counting in and out.
I think Wendy's has the best burgers. That's just me though, And
when's this going to start? I don't think I've ever tried to Wendy's bride.
There's square. I know they're square, and that's all I know about
them. Because you have water Burger or something in Texas, right, well,
we know water. I don't really know any that stuff. Really.
Oh well, look at you being all good. We do have in and
Out Burger here now, Oh bonus, another reason to go to Texas.
First I ever heard of the course was in The Big Lebowski. Everybody got
a taste of in and Out with Yeah movie, okay, and I know
we to wrap things up, but real quick, I know you've got a
huge chunk of Texas is on fire. That's not near Dallas. It's in
the Panhandle, but in the panant Let's several hundred miles from here. But
there was smoke blowing down here yesterday and we're probably four hundred miles from the
panel or this is all going on. I just checked. The biggest of
the fires has called the Smokehouse Creek Fire. Ironically, it now is at
half a million acres zero percent contained, so over half a million acres.
Some of the others are growing as well. The wind Reduce Fire forty thousand,
so yeah, and fire resources are being sent in there from across the
state and around the region, Oklahoma and New Mexico. All right, well,
hope everybody's safe. I know that that fire's in February. Crazy,
Yeah, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for your time. All right,
all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A group of military veterans is headed back
to the border wall near San Diego to make repairs to it. It has
to stop. Somebody has to go us as a up. America is tired
of this and go defend your border, Kate Monroe says. The group Border
Vets, which she's a part of, will be out there tomorrow shoring up
sections of the wall with razor wire. Nonprofit in Santa Barbara's helped more than
one hundred and twenty thousand people impacted by the war in Ukraine since twenty fifteen,
Shelter Box president Kerry Murray has been boots on the ground in areas of
natural disaster and in war zones. As the war was starting in twenty twenty
two, I was part of our first team that went to conduct assessments and
what we saw at that point in time was the fastest moving refugee crisis since
World War Two. Murray says what makes Shelter Box so unique is the way
it determines the types of assistants provided. We bring emergency shelter and essential supplies
to set up a household when you've lost everything. In an instance, she
says that could mean people in Ukraine would get more customized aid than someone in
Syria based on their immediate needs. And Shelter Box doesn't take on phis donations.
It raises money to buy customized materials in supply so the quality is consistent
and readily available work in the world's worst conflict situations as well as disaster situation.
Murray says they have warehouses and volunteers all over the world for rapid deployment.
Steve Gregory, KFI News. When we come back, we're going to
be talking tech with KTLA's Rich Demiro about how AI can help you with your
email and a new watch that you only have to charge every four days.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty. Good
morning, I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Northrop Grumman says as many as one thousand people could lose their
jobs at its Redondo Beach facility. That cuts the result of US Space Force
canceling a multi billion dollar contract it had awarded to Northrop Grumman to develop a
military communications satellite. President Biden and former President Trump have won their party's primaries
in Michigan. Trump beat Nikki Hayley by more than forty points, but she
still got a big chunk of the vote, and for Biden, more than
one hundred thousand people, about twelve percent checked uncommitted on their ballots. Those
voters not happy with Biden's support of Israel's war against Tamas in Gaza. We're
going to get some more insight on the primary with ABC's Steven Portnoy. That's
coming up at five point fifty. See another reason you should hang out with
wake Up Call for the next half hour. Elsa, Gundo based Direct TV
is working to resolve widespread satellite service issues across the country. The company is
blaming the outages, which started yesterday on a satellite positioning issue. Last week,
DirecTV's parent company, AT and T had that cell phone issue It blamed
those outages on a software update. At six oh five, is handle on
the news? Who wants to go into the water? Probably nobody. A
million gallons of sewage is spilled into the ocean again. Right now, let's
say good morning to KTLAS tech reporter and the host of rich on Tech right
here on KFI, it's Rich Demiro. Morning, Rich Hey, good morning
to you. Amy. Okay, so looks like we're not going to be
buying an Apple car anytime ever. No, And I feel like we were
just talking about some of the details of this car. But Apple is reportedly
canceling its efforts to build an electric car. This was called Project Titan.
They've been working on it for over a decade. It's the car that was
talked about forever. We never saw any evidence of this whatsoever, but apparently
two thousand people were working on the project. Apple spent billions. The car
was just too expensive. They never got it to the place they wanted it
to be. And now they're going to shift a lot of their focus to
artificial intelligence. Have you heard of that term yet? Mmm? Just once
or twice? Okay, So it sounds a little buzzy to me, but
that's what sounds like a good answer for Apple to put into this, this
kind of narrative they're weaving here. Okay, so the Apple car was I'm
guessing that they had I'm sort of a protot. But did they ever get
closer? Was it all just always in development and kept getting delayed and pushed
back and they finally said it's time to pull the plug on it. There
was never There was never a picture of any sort of prototype that I've seen
circulated, but there was various levels of testing that I saw. So they
had some I think it was like a Lexus outfitted with their special software that
was going to drive the car by itself. So we did see pictures of
that, but we never saw an actual prototype. Of course, there are
many online if you search Apple car, and you know, I've been to
all the Apple events for the past, you know, thirteen years or so,
and every single event people would expect them to give just a little hint
about the car. They never actually did. So this makes a lot of
sense. Look, cars are highly regulated. Tesla's doing a good job,
The traditional car makers are doing a good job. Some are saying evs are
not as hot as they used to be, although that's debatable, so you
know, and plus this was going to be one hundred thousand dollars. They
already had kind of a loss with this Apple Vision Pro being so expensive,
so you know, and Lucid, by the way, I've said this before,
they should just buy that company if they want to make cars, because
they're already making what Apple wants to do. Lucid is making. Yeah,
Lucid is an electric car company that makes super luxurious electric cars, and a
lot of the team is from Apple. But you know, all they'd have
to do is slap on their software and they'd have pretty much the Apple car.
Okay, you were talking about the Vision Pro, which we've talked about
a few times here, and they're just not selling that's what it seems like.
I mean, you can walk into a story, you can buy one,
people are returning them, the glasses breaking on them. I don't think
that that area is dead. I think virtual reality mixed reality does have a
future. It is just way too expensive right now for the average person.
And also the use case scenario, people don't want to sit and watch movies
by themselves, and that's pretty much the best use of those VR headsets right
now. Okay, then moving on, let's talk about AI some more.
We've got to email and AI can help us. Yeah, so there's an
app out there called Superhuman, which is an email program. It's thirty dollars
a month, so it is quite expensive, which definitely limits its appeal.
But their idea is that you should be able to reach inbox zero every day,
which means, you know, no messages lingering in your inbox and with
the box zero, I haven't seen that for I don't know how many years.
Oh I try, but it's it's honestly, I'll be quite honest.
Ever since I started the radio show on KFI, I am flooded with emails.
Amy, you have no idea. I mean, it's it's pretty wild
actually, just because we've got a lot of smart people and they need a
lot of help, yes, and a lot of questions and a lot of
comments too. So anyway, it's been great and obviously I love that,
but it's like I am, I am just swimming in emails all week long
anyway, So Superhuman tries to help you get through your inbox with AI,
so it will look at your emails and help you compose replies. Now,
let's always done that before, but now when you go to your inbox,
it'll give you three sort of options at the bottom. Let's say someone asks
you a question and you tap one of those options, and it will draft
the email for you based on the context of your other emails. By the
way, so it is pretty smart. It's just a matter of I've tried
this technology before. You know. When I've used AI to write emails,
it kind of like, you know, it's not really my voice per se,
and so you can kind of tell well, and the other thing that
I would be concerned about with starting to rely on that is that you could
go, Okay, it's this one, this one, or this one,
I'll take that one, but do you really You're not spending the time composing
it, so you might say stuff that you don't realize you're saying and send
it off and then people are like, well you said that, and you're
like, no, I didn't, and then you go, oh, yeah,
the AI generated that I did. Yeah, exactly. When it starts
replying for you, that's when you really have to worry about it. I
think this is good for emails that just have like a yes or no answer,
or like do you have an update kind of thing, you know,
like like last night you sent me an email said, hey, Rich,
you know you're going to have this stuff, you know, the topic soon.
You know this might say like yeah, I'll have them for you asap,
or sorry that's delayed, or you know, no, I'm not sending
those you know what I mean, like simple things like that, which,
by the way, Gmail does a level of that already, so does Outlook
you didn't mention the other option, Amy, quit nagging me to send me
your topics. Yes, you have to especially program the AI to be like
please tell these people to get off my back. Okay, one more thing.
We've got the one plus watch. This is very interesting to me because
you don't have to charge it. You can wait for like four days before
you have to charge it again. Yeah, it's called the one plus watch
too. This is a new Android smart watch, so it's got interesting the
interesting features. That has two processors inside, one that sort of runs the
day to day like time and Fitness, which doesn't use a lot of power,
and the other one that is used just for battery intensive apps, so
you can get up to one hundred hours of battery life. I will tell
you I've been wearing it for the past week or so, I'm averaging about
four days of use between charges. Just pretty good. This is going to
be three hundred dollars. It launches on March fourth. I'll have a full
review soon. But again, it's the one plus watch too. I think
that'll be one two watch because again, my Apple Watch only lasts during the
day. I have to charge it. Yeah every night. Yeah, pretty
much Apple Watches, even the Ultra. I mean, it may last a
little bit longer, but they're pretty much a charge every every night kind of
device. And it's been that way since the launch. By the way,
Okay, lots more to talk about with tech, and your chance to do
that is this Saturday from eleven to two. It's the host of rich on
Tech right here on KFI and also you can follow rich KTLA's tech reporter on
Instagram at rich on Tech, his website rich on tech dot tv. Thanks
Rick, all right, thanks, Ay, I just called you Rick instead
of Rich. It happens. I don't mind, all right, I'll touch
you next week. All right, Really, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man and
his mom have been mauled by four pitbulls. They were dogs sitting at a
house near Azusa. The man was attacked in the backyard just before noon yesterday.
Police tried to hold the dogs back with a pole and a shovel.
Animal control officers eventually got control and took the dogs away. The man was
taken to the hospital in serious condition. He's expected to survive. His mother
was treated for less serious injuries. Prosecutors in LA say they're being pressured by
the DA not to file charges against reckless drivers. Prosecutors were urged in an
email from Gascon to strongly considered declining charges in cases where there's no injuries.
Deputy DA Tatiana Johoyan says the DA is basically telling criminals they have free reign
in the county and telling people of the community they're not safe. And what
he's telling law enforcement is that you can try as hard as you want.
I'm going to make sure you don't get anywhere. I'm going to make sure
that I'm standing by the side of the criminals. She says, the DA
instead wants to put these drivers through drivers safety courses that won't reflect on their
record. Gascoyne's Office says for decades, the office has pursued pre filing diversion
for low level offenders. Chris Kfi News President Biden's expected issue executive order to
protect Americans' personal data. The order will authorize the Attorney General to prevent the
large scale transfer of americans personal data by so called countries of concern. It
also provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans sensitive
information. So George Michael died in twenty sixteen at the age of fifty three,
still very much loved in the UK, and in fact so much so
that they've issued a commemorative coin. Several of them. They just were started
rolled out on Monday, and there's a couple of different versions of it.
There's a silver colored version that goes for like our equivalent of twenty dollars,
all the way up to a limited edition two ounce gold coin that'll go for
in US dollars more than sixty seven hundred dollar. It's a coin that has
Michael's likeness in his trademark aviator style sunglasses, complete with his blow dried hair
and razor stubble that he sported in the video for Faith and well pretty much
every other video that they did. And this is coming four decades after Wam's
Last Christmas was released, and it just this is this is actually in a
Wham documentary that I'm going to talk about in a minute. It just hit
number one in the UK for the first time this last December. When we
come back, Amy's on It and I Am on Wham. I've got two
for you today. That's one of them and the other one not going to
make you smile quite so much. It's really it well, it's a mess.
And it's even titled It's a Mess. You're listening to Wake Up Call
on demand from KFI Am six forty. You know you're gonna be hearing Bill
Handle say It's Home Day a lot starting in about twenty five minutes. Here's
that's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man and
his mom have been mauled by a pack of pit bulls at a home near
Azusa. It happened yesterday just before noon. The man's in serious condition in
the hospital. Officials say the man and his mom were dogs sitting. The
dogs have been removed by animal control. Hunter Biden's going to be meeting privately
with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Today's Republicans continue their impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
The fourteen month long investigation is looking into whether Hunter Biden's business dealings with
Ukraine, China and other countries involved corruption and influence peddling by then Vice President
Biden. Anyone headed to Lake Tahoes being urged to get there before Tomorrow night
or cancel your trip. That's when a blizzard is expected to hit the northern
Sierra Nevada Mountains. Up to twelve feet of snow and fifty mile per hour
winds or in the forecast, expected whiteout conditions could close highways through the weekend.
At six o five, it's handled on the news. The mayor of
New York is rethinking the old sanctuary city thing because of the flood of illegal
immigrants in the Big Apple. If I've fifty, ABC's Stephen Portnoy's gonna help
us dig into the Michigan primary election results and what the numbers mean for both
President Biden and former President Trump. Aami's on it, Aami's on it,
Amy's on it, Gami's on it. What am I on? I'm on
streaming shows all kinds of them. There are movies, there are series,
there are documentaries, there are docuseries, and there's so much content out there
it's really hard to pick something. I know. You can sit there and
scroll through and go on to Netflix and then you see like five thousand different
shows, and then you go over to Apple TV and you see five thousand
different shows, and it's kind of hit or miss on whether you're going to
find a good one. So a lot of times I take recommendations on what
to watch from friends and co workers and family members, and uh then I
watch them and then pass along my recomd to you. So here's a couple
that I'm looking at right now. Wendy Williams docuseries is a four part series
is out, and of course she's been in the news this week because she's
been diagnosed with a form of dementia, the same kind that Bruce Willis apparently
has, and that news is coming out as this documentary is coming out,
and it's called Wendy Williams, What a Mess? And Deborah Mark is the
one who recommended this to me, you know, the news anchor on the
John I just almost said John and Ken's show. I guess I haven't said
John and Ken for a while on the John Cobalt Show. But anyway,
she said it's really good and interesting, and so I started to watch it.
It's four episodes, but I can only find one of them, like
I think I have to pay to unlock the other ones. But then so
I can't even remember where I was watching it yesterday. I think I watched
it on Hulu, and then Shannon Farrin told me that she watched it on
Apples, so I'm going to go try to find it there. But anyway,
I've only seen one episode. And you know, the name of the
documentary is What a Mess? And oh my gosh, what a Mess.
It's painful to watch it because and I didn't even know this that Wendy Williams.
I only know her as a TV talk show host, but she she's
been a radio talk show host kind of they compared her to like she's the
Howard Stern for women. She's like a Howard Stern of radio, kind of
a shock jock and that kind of stuff. I wasn't that familiar with it.
So it is very interesting to see how her career started and all of
that stuff, and that's really cool, in inspiring and inspiring, especially for
somebody who's in radio, and you go, oh, that's really cool.
But she is a mess, I mean literally, and it's like I said,
it's hard to watch because you just look at her. It's like she's
falling apart on camera. And the people who made the documentary said they might
not have done it if they had known about her diagnosis. But I don't
know that that's related to what's going on in the documentary. It's very very
interesting. Like I said, it's hard to watch because it's very sad to
watch somebody just emotionally be in so much pain, and you can tell that
she is. But there's I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the rest
of them. The first episode was good, but it's highly recommended by Deborah
Mark, so you can take her recommendation. Here's the other one. So
the other one is Wham and I was reminded of it because of the story
I was just telling you about that they're coming out with those commemorative coins for
George Michael. And there is a documentary on Netflix. It's called Wham and
it features of course George Michael and Andrew Widge originally and how they met when
they were kids. And then the kind of surprising twist to their story is
that Andrew was really the more popular one and George was really the more shy
one, and of course he's the driving force behind Wham and it shows how
they kind of got their first deal, how they catapulted to start them and
it was in a very short period of time. Like you see some artists
who it just takes them a really, really long time to really get to
that superstar status. They did it in like four years. And it's interesting,
it's fun, it's insightful, it's very touching because you know, George
Michael's no longer with us after he passed away in twenty sixteen. But it's
a really cool trip down memory lane. And it's fun because there's all these
different songs that you go, oh, I forgot they did that one.
I forgot that that one, like I'm Your Man of course, Careless Whisper
George Michael was part of We Are the World. And then they talked about
Last Christmas, which I mentioned just hit number one for the very first time
forty years after it was released, but really kind of at Wham It's on
Netflix. Definitely recommend that one. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Another storm is headed towards
southern California. Light rains expected to start, possibly as early as tomorrow night.
The heaviest rain would fall on Saturday, and we should clear out them
by Sunday. Plenty of snow is expected in the higher mountain elevations. Dozens
of students at El Caminoreal High School in Woodland Hills have walked out a class.
They're protesting what they call anti Semitic incidents at school. One girl says
a classmate recently saw or called her a dirty Jew and then attacked her.
Students say they've also seen hateful notes passed between classmates referencing Hitler, and have
shared concerns about the insensitive teaching of World War II lessons. Many of the
students who walked out yesterday had Israeli flags enchanted stop the Hate. A school
official says the school does stress an anti hate message to its students. Two
state agencies say the Spacific Air Show in Huntington Beach is not authorized to privatize
the Beach. I think it's getting a little different attention for different reasons.
Huntington be City attorney Michael Gates says the letters from the State, Lands and
Coastal Commissions are blown out of proportion because of unrelated political issues. With the
air show having an event, pulling a permit, occupying public spaces for a
limited period of time. Is that a takeover? No. Gate says the
city will work with the promoter to follow all laws. The letter sent last
week's say last year's air show was not even compliant with the city's coastal program
and violates public access protection policies. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News
California says ten pot shops in la ohe the state more than fourteen million dollars.
Officials say nine of the dispensaries we're operating illegally, and the legal one
owes back taxes. They say law enforcement rated the locations in an attempt to
smoke out business assets. A public auction auction was held to sell the seized
property, but only apparently brought in about two thousand dollars to go toward the
taxes owed. Here's something that I'm not super surprised in today, in the
day and age that we live in. Sugar helps the medicine go down,
the medicine go down. Yes, that's from Mary Poppins. And guess what
Mary Poppins is racist? Sugar helps the medicine. So the movie's being reintroduced
in theaters because it's the sixtieth anniversary of Mary Poppins. It's it's coming back
to theaters in the UK. And uh so they took another look at it
and the British Board of Film Classification has changed its rating on it, like
we have G and PG and R. Well, theirs has been changed from
YOU which means universal, to PG, which is parental guidance because of a
racial slur that's used in the movie. So apparently in one scene there's Admiral
Boom he remember he's got the guy, he's the guy with the cannon,
and he asks one of the bank's children if he is going on an adventure
to defeat the hottent Tots. And apparently the hot and tot is a derogatory
you, a term used by European settlers to refer to people in South Africa
and Namibia. So they said, well, it's got this racial slur in
it, and so we need to change the rating. I didn't know what
it was. I never thought, oh, there's something racist in Mary Poppins.
People a little sanity. Let's do it together. You're listening to Wake
Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty. I'm Amy King. Thanks
for getting your day started with us today. Here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County Board of Supervisors has offered twenty
thousand dollars rewards in hopes of catching the people who vandalized cemeteries in Carson and
Compton. Memorial markers and bronze plaques were stolen from the cemeteries in January.
The thieves did more than two million dollars in damage to the cemetery in Carson.
Northrup Grumman says as many as a thousand people could lose their jobs at
its Redondo Beach facility. The cuts are the result of US Space Force canceling
a multi billion dollar contract it had awarded the company to develop a military communications
satellite. There were no tickets sold with all six winning numbers in last night's
Mega Million's drawing that pushes the jackpot for the next drawing up to six hundred
seven million dollars. Tonight's powerball jackpot is worth four hundred twelve million dollars.
We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning. It's just February,
and there's already more than three hundred thousand acres burning in a wildfire in
Texas. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
the Michigan primary is done and the winners are well. The winners are
Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Okay, break it down for us, all
right, So I think you know, Look, one of the key takeaways
obviously if you tuning into any political reporting today, is the number of people
who voted uncommitted in the Democratic primary, and it was roughly one hundred thousand
people who chose the option other than Joe Biden to register their disappointment with the
President's stance toward Israel and its war on amaz. The president's campaign issued a
statement last night saying the President shares the goal of many who cast a protest
vote, that he's working towards a just and lasting peace. Now, these
primary results may be worrisome for the president, because as you know, I'm
sure you know that in twenty twenty, Joe Biden won the state of Michigan
by one hundred and fifty thousand votes, and in twenty sixteen Donald Trump won
the state of Michigan by roughly ten thousand votes. So if you have one
hundred thousand people yesterday who came out in a Democratic primary to register their disappointment
with the president, perhaps that indicates that those people won't be there for him
in November. He could lose the state and perhaps lose the White House,
and woe are the Democrats. But as you look at the other side of
the ledger, the Republican side, three hundred and fifty thousand Publicans in Michigan
yesterday voted for an option other than Donald Trump. They either voted for Nicki
Hayley, or they voted for another candidate who's already dropped out, or they
said they were uncommitted. Thirty three thousand Michigan Republicans yesterday chose the uncommitted option.
Not many political reporters will be talking about that today with this exception,
So I think that the overall takeaway really is that there's voter discontent on both
sides. In fact, it was outweighed by voter discontent on the Republican side.
If you ask me, many more people yesterday, despite what you'll hear
about on a political news coverage in the main, many more people yesterday came
out to register their opposition to Donald Trump on the Republican side than they did
to register their disappointment with Joe Biden on the Democratic side. Okay, so,
and you're throwing out numbers. Was voter turnout good or do we know
yet? Well? Look, I have not spent the time that would be
necessary to answer your question, which would be to register, to research the
number of people who voted in past primaries, and do a heints of analysis.
I can tell you that the fact that it was not a contested race
on the Democratic side, and yet you had one hundred thousand people come out
to voice their opposition to Joe Biden roughly thirteen percent of the overall turnout on
the Democratic side. That's significant and it's out of the norm when there is
not a contested primary, when for all intets of purpose. I mean,
look, Dean Phillips was on the ballot, but it really wasn't much of
a contest and uncommitted did a lot better than Dean Phillips. Yeah, he
got like two point eight percent of the vote or something. That's right.
So look, all this means anyone is really able to do is take away
what they can from this and say, okay, well, what could it
possibly mean for November. What it illustrates is there are a number of progressive
voters Democrats in a state where there's a large Arab American population that are inclined
to sit on the sidelines and not vote for Joe Biden in the fall.
We know that Trump enthusiasm is high on the Republican side, and yet what
we see from this poll from this election also is that there are a number
of Republicans who are not interested in Donald Trump as their nominee. The question
really is where do those people go. Will they be for him for tax
policy, for voter policy, for foreign policy, even if they voted for
Nikki Haley or even uncommitted yesterday, or will they sit on the sidelines?
We don't know. Yeah, and I think both sides say when they have
low voter turnouts, would people just say I'm done, I'm not voting.
That does not bode well for their party. Well, but it's sort of
a wash though when it happens on both sides, and the extent that there
is voter discontent on both sides, I think it is sort of emblematic of
where we are as a country. Look in an average political average general election
year where there's a presidential election, a voter turnout roughly hovers in the know
in the average about sixty percent, which indicates in an average presidential election year
as many as forty percent of the population doesn't even participate. So how much
higher or lower will it be this go around? We don't know, all
right, Stephen Bortenoy, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate it,
you bet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says a judge's
decision to overturn a ban on billy clubs defies logic. The judge had recently
ruled billy clubs and expandable batons are protected under the Second Amendment. Two military
veterans in San Diego had sued Bontas, saying they wanted to own less lethal
protection for their homes and family, but the law forced them to buy lethal
force. The band's been in place for about one hundred years, with the
exception of police officers and security guards. Bonta says he's filed an appeal with
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Steve Gregor TAFI news Hunter. Biden is
set to answer questions in private by members of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees.
Republicans are looking for information that could justify moving forward with their impeachment inquiry
against President Biden. An ex FBI source that was once a central part of
the case is now accused of falsifying allegations of bribery involving both President Biden and
his son and A Taco Bell in Orange County has partnered with Taheen to test
out three new menu items. The location in Irvine is off during a Taheen
Crunchy Taco Taheen Twists, and Taheen Strawberry Freeze. Taco Bell says it's a
collaboration that celebrates bold flavors and innovative pairings. The items featuring the Mexican Spice
Blend will be available for a limited time starting next week. You've been listening
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