WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI Am six forty wake Up Call with Me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:11.599 demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning, this is your wake up call 3 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:16.199 for Wednesday, February twenty eighth. I'm Amy King. Ready to get your 4 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:20.600 big Wednesday started. I know I am starts off on a happy note. 5 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:26.920 So one constant through all the years Ray has been Baseball America is ruled by 6 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:31.920 like an army of steam rulers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt 7 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:40.520 and erased again. In baseball, it's marked the time, this field, 8 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:47.560 this game, that's a part of our past. Ray love me some field 9 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:51.159 of dreams. And in Arizona it was a field of dreams for show. 10 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:56.200 Hey Otana yesterday his first appearance in spring training with the Dodgers. What did 11 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.000 he do? Hit a home run? And then I was driving around yes 12 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:04.400 esterday afternoon and got to listen to Tim Conway Junior talking with Steve Garvey. 13 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.239 You know, he's running for the Senate, and they of course talked about 14 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.159 that, but then they also just talked baseball for a while and it was 15 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.920 so it was so great. And you can go go to the iHeartRadio app 16 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.519 and listen to the Tim Conway Junior Show if you want to listen to that 17 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.760 interview so inspiring. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Students at El 18 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:27.000 Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills have walked out of class to protest what 19 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.920 they say is arise in anti Semitic incidents on campus. The students say just 20 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.400 last week, one of their classmates yelled anti Semitic slurs at a fifteen year 21 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.159 old Jewish student, then assaulted her in a classroom. Wildfires have scorched more 22 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:46.400 than three hundred thousand acres of the Texas Panhandle, prompting evacuations, cutting off 23 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:51.239 power to thousands, and forcing at least the temporary shut down of a nuclear 24 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:57.239 weapons facility. Strong winds, dry grass, and unseasonably warm temperatures are feeding 25 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:01.079 the fires. Anyone headed to Lake Tahoe is being urged to get there before 26 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:06.319 tomorrow night or don't go. That's when a blizzard is expected to hit the 27 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.840 northern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Up to twelve feet of snow is expected, along 28 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:15.240 with fifty mile per hour winds. Also, white out conditions are possible that 29 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.759 could close highways through the weekend. At six oh five, it's handle on 30 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.960 the news. Congressional leaders have had a sit down. Did they accomplish anything? 31 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.400 Or are we going to see a government shutdown on Friday. Bill's going 32 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.199 to dig into that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out 33 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.199 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD Chief morses there have been forty 34 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:38.080 seven homicides in the city so far this year. That compares to forty by 35 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.520 this time last year. He told the Police Commissioned yesterday. An increase in 36 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:47.759 gang related and street violence crimes between opposing factions is partly to blame, he 37 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.879 says, added patrols are working in the impacted areas. He also says there's 38 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:58.240 been a seven point four percent decrease in violent crimes and property crimes. LA 39 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.360 County has ordered an audit of the La Homeless Services Authority. The agency has 40 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:06.120 a new CEO and is changing other leadership positions, so the Board of Supervisors 41 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.960 says it's an opportune time to look at losses internal fiscal practices. The thirty 42 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:14.319 year old agency administers federal, state, and local dollars to providers of homeless 43 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:17.439 services in the county, while also conducting outreach efforts the county once the audit 44 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:23.319 completed within sixty days, and says all organizations fighting homelesses here must be challenged, 45 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.759 evaluated, and supported to ensure optimal performance. Michael Monks KFI News. 46 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.000 More than a dozen people across southern California have been targeted in an online used 47 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:35.919 car scheme. Investigators say they believe there are many more cases than those that 48 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:40.039 have been reported. La County Sheriff's Sergeant Jerry Montenegro says the scammers were selling 49 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:45.919 rental cars for cash to unsuspecting buyers on Facebook, then following the buyers after 50 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.000 the deal, and the suspects just wait for an opportunity to present itself where 51 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.840 they're able to steal the car back. Usually they know they've parked on the 52 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:59.280 street or in a public place. People lost up to fifteen thousand dollars. 53 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.759 Three is accused of running the scam. We're arrested earlier this month. Blake 54 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:09.000 Trolley k if I News. President Biden and former President Trump have won the 55 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:14.680 Michigan primaries. Trump beat Republican rival Nikki Hailey again last night. She says 56 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.839 despite the outcome, she is staying in the race for President. Biden won 57 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:23.040 among Democrats, but a lot of voters cast an uncommitted ballot to protest his 58 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.360 handling of the Israel Hamas war. It was the last major primary before Super 59 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:32.120 Tuesday and a critical swing state in the November election. Twoesday lawmakers have taken 60 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.600 steps to make standard time the only time in California. They're calling the effort 61 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:43.480 ditch the switch. State Senator Roger Nilo says his proposed bill to make standard 62 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.800 time permanent has gotten a lot of support from the medical community. Standard time 63 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:53.800 appears to be the preferred time from the standpoint of health organizations and sleep experts 64 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:57.720 and the like, and we can do that unilaterally with a simple majority vote 65 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:02.240 of the legislature. Nilos's dead have shown that changing clocks can increase adverse health 66 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:08.120 effects, including heart attacks and strokes. Assembly Member Tree Ta has introduced an 67 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.439 identical bill. It's five oh six on your wake up call. Let's say 68 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.079 good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, instead of would 69 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.319 you like fries with that? People may soon be hearing would you like surge 70 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:23.120 pricing with that? I think ANSWER's probably gonna be no. But yeah, 71 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.759 that's what they're trying to history you know, we've seen this with Uber and 72 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:31.040 Lyft. You leave the football game wherever that might be, Hail and Uber 73 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.800 outside, the price might be really high at that moment because for all the 74 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.839 traffic, because of all the crowds, because of the increase in demand. 75 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.439 Well, now, Amy, we're seeing the same sort of theory or the 76 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.240 same kind of scheme put into place ad Wendy's. Wendy's is the first one 77 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:48.439 to give this a try. Here's how it would work. Let's say you 78 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:53.920 go to Wendy's and you walk into the restaurant. You stand in line is 79 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:56.959 twelve fifteen, twelve thirty, the height of the lunch rush. Look up 80 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.240 at the board and there's the bacon eater up there for I think it's from 81 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.800 Bucks now something like that. I love a baconator. Yeah, better be. 82 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.040 But if you get to the front of the line, though, and 83 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:10.879 the price has changed to eight dollars because of the long line, because of 84 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.759 the lunch rush. Right, So, this, this surge pricing model is 85 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.600 being tried first at Wendy's. The first thing they need to do is change 86 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:23.839 those menu boards to the kind they can change the digital menu boards. Are 87 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:29.199 spending twenty million dollars on that. That's a huge investment. Yeah, mayor 88 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.639 may not work, who knows so, but it was time to update the 89 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.560 boards anyway. Wendy's was kind of behind the times on that. So, 90 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.759 yeah, that's being put into place. Wendy's gives it a try. Certainly, 91 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:44.079 Burger King and McDonald's and Chick Filey and all they what's the other? 92 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.000 Your one out there? The in and out, in and out, No, 93 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:49.639 in and out would never do that to us. Yeah, they would 94 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.720 too. Oh you didn't think Wendy's would, Well they will. So we'll 95 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.800 see how this goes over. So far, reception has been pretty cold on 96 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.040 social media. Well, and then here's my question, because you mentioned if 97 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:05.360 you're standing in line and you see that the Burger's seven dollars by the time 98 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.839 you got up to the front. And I was thinking about this yesterday when 99 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:11.800 I first heard about it. I mean literally, is it going to change 100 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.519 minute by minute? And you could sure the price? I think that's going 101 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.800 to cause huge problems for customers, Well, it could. You know, 102 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:24.439 it's likely to either drive them away or push them away from the lunch and 103 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.879 away from the dinner rush into those parts of the day. When things aren't 104 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.600 so busy and Wendy that's part of the strategy here for Wendy's is to get 105 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.199 people away from the lunch rush, you know, and toward the mid afternoon 106 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:42.800 or the evening or late morning time when things aren't so hecktic and and they 107 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.199 can get things done. So yeah, that's part of the process here. 108 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.160 Yeah, it's an increase in revenue, potentially increasing income and sales for Wendy's, 109 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:53.839 but also a way to even out the day parts. Well, and 110 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.600 I was thinking about that too. I love the way you think, Jim, 111 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.199 because you're thinking what I am too. But like the whole thing about 112 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.560 the lunch rush, I mean, do they really think they're going to change 113 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:09.680 people's eating habits? Well, so much of it is dictated by people's schedule, 114 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.160 right, the work schedule, if you get your lunch from eleven to 115 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:18.279 eleven thirty or noon, and kids' school schedules, those don't change. But 116 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.360 yeah, it may take some getting used to if if you need to change 117 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.879 your schedule to get this done. And people are paying more. This is 118 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.800 the statistic that caught me off guard. Americans are spending eleven percent more than 119 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.440 eleven percent of their disposal income on food that's the highest since nineteen ninety one. 120 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.799 And which category is rising the fastest, dining out, not the grocery 121 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.600 store. Yeah, those prices are going up a bit, but dining out, 122 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.320 those prices are surging, if you will, at a faster rate than 123 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:54.480 grocery store prices. I wonder if that has like is residual from the pandemic 124 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.039 where we couldn't go out. I mean, I know it's been a few 125 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.960 years now, but I still think that people or just like they had it 126 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.039 taken away and they're like, let's not miss this opportunity. Now like we've 127 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.480 got it back, let's go take advantage of it. Yeah. Well, 128 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.799 during COVID, of course you saw a spike in grocery prices. You know, 129 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:18.159 those those prices are passed the price shifts in restaurant costs, And now 130 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:24.519 that's turned upside down. So now restaurant pricing is accelerating faster then grocery store 131 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.399 pricing. If you've tried to buy a dozen eggs, you're seeing that that 132 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.039 price has dropped dramatically for a lot of reasons. Avian flu and you know 133 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.879 the cost of gas to get things to market, and that sort of thing. 134 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.399 But get the egg prices are way down from a year ago, way 135 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.159 down, and some other prices may follow that. Restaurant prices appear to be 136 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:48.840 going up. And it's like it feels like Wendy's is being the sacrificial lamb 137 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.240 on this, because everybody's going to be watching to see how it. You 138 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.600 know, whether the twenty million dollar upgrade pays off, whether customers revolt or 139 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.320 whether they just go, you know what, that's just the price have to 140 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.480 pay now. Yeah, well you're thinking the way I'm thinking. Yeah, 141 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.799 sacrificial lamb, guinea pig, maybe m hm, experimental, who knows, 142 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.399 But anyway, the others will be watching this. If it works, then 143 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.279 yeah, maybe we'll give it a try too at McDonald's and at Burger King. 144 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.879 If not, they can just not even propose it. They're going to 145 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.960 say, look what Wendy's did to their customers. We would never do that. 146 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:24.600 Yeah, well we'll wait and see. Wendy's I think still has you 147 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:30.360 know, of the major fast food chains, not clown counting in and out. 148 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:31.840 I think Wendy's has the best burgers. That's just me though, And 149 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.600 when's this going to start? I don't think I've ever tried to Wendy's bride. 150 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.600 There's square. I know they're square, and that's all I know about 151 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.720 them. Because you have water Burger or something in Texas, right, well, 152 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.639 we know water. I don't really know any that stuff. Really. 153 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.039 Oh well, look at you being all good. We do have in and 154 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.679 Out Burger here now, Oh bonus, another reason to go to Texas. 155 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.200 First I ever heard of the course was in The Big Lebowski. Everybody got 156 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.279 a taste of in and Out with Yeah movie, okay, and I know 157 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.039 we to wrap things up, but real quick, I know you've got a 158 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.399 huge chunk of Texas is on fire. That's not near Dallas. It's in 159 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:09.399 the Panhandle, but in the panant Let's several hundred miles from here. But 160 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:15.919 there was smoke blowing down here yesterday and we're probably four hundred miles from the 161 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.879 panel or this is all going on. I just checked. The biggest of 162 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:24.399 the fires has called the Smokehouse Creek Fire. Ironically, it now is at 163 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.960 half a million acres zero percent contained, so over half a million acres. 164 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.399 Some of the others are growing as well. The wind Reduce Fire forty thousand, 165 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:37.200 so yeah, and fire resources are being sent in there from across the 166 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.559 state and around the region, Oklahoma and New Mexico. All right, well, 167 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:45.600 hope everybody's safe. I know that that fire's in February. Crazy, 168 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.440 Yeah, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for your time. All right, 169 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.679 all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 170 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.320 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A group of military veterans is headed back 171 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.000 to the border wall near San Diego to make repairs to it. It has 172 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.360 to stop. Somebody has to go us as a up. America is tired 173 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.639 of this and go defend your border, Kate Monroe says. The group Border 174 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.960 Vets, which she's a part of, will be out there tomorrow shoring up 175 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.480 sections of the wall with razor wire. Nonprofit in Santa Barbara's helped more than 176 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.799 one hundred and twenty thousand people impacted by the war in Ukraine since twenty fifteen, 177 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:20.440 Shelter Box president Kerry Murray has been boots on the ground in areas of 178 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.679 natural disaster and in war zones. As the war was starting in twenty twenty 179 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:30.960 two, I was part of our first team that went to conduct assessments and 180 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:37.360 what we saw at that point in time was the fastest moving refugee crisis since 181 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.399 World War Two. Murray says what makes Shelter Box so unique is the way 182 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:46.279 it determines the types of assistants provided. We bring emergency shelter and essential supplies 183 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:52.000 to set up a household when you've lost everything. In an instance, she 184 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:56.159 says that could mean people in Ukraine would get more customized aid than someone in 185 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.799 Syria based on their immediate needs. And Shelter Box doesn't take on phis donations. 186 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.320 It raises money to buy customized materials in supply so the quality is consistent 187 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:11.480 and readily available work in the world's worst conflict situations as well as disaster situation. 188 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:15.519 Murray says they have warehouses and volunteers all over the world for rapid deployment. 189 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.320 Steve Gregory, KFI News. When we come back, we're going to 190 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.960 be talking tech with KTLA's Rich Demiro about how AI can help you with your 191 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.600 email and a new watch that you only have to charge every four days. 192 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.559 You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty. Good 193 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.159 morning, I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four 194 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.840 hour newsroom. Northrop Grumman says as many as one thousand people could lose their 195 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:46.759 jobs at its Redondo Beach facility. That cuts the result of US Space Force 196 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:52.120 canceling a multi billion dollar contract it had awarded to Northrop Grumman to develop a 197 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:58.080 military communications satellite. President Biden and former President Trump have won their party's primaries 198 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:03.600 in Michigan. Trump beat Nikki Hayley by more than forty points, but she 199 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:05.200 still got a big chunk of the vote, and for Biden, more than 200 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.360 one hundred thousand people, about twelve percent checked uncommitted on their ballots. Those 201 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:15.919 voters not happy with Biden's support of Israel's war against Tamas in Gaza. We're 202 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.159 going to get some more insight on the primary with ABC's Steven Portnoy. That's 203 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.080 coming up at five point fifty. See another reason you should hang out with 204 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.879 wake Up Call for the next half hour. Elsa, Gundo based Direct TV 205 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:33.080 is working to resolve widespread satellite service issues across the country. The company is 206 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.600 blaming the outages, which started yesterday on a satellite positioning issue. Last week, 207 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:45.600 DirecTV's parent company, AT and T had that cell phone issue It blamed 208 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:50.720 those outages on a software update. At six oh five, is handle on 209 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:52.720 the news? Who wants to go into the water? Probably nobody. A 210 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:58.279 million gallons of sewage is spilled into the ocean again. Right now, let's 211 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.639 say good morning to KTLAS tech reporter and the host of rich on Tech right 212 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.440 here on KFI, it's Rich Demiro. Morning, Rich Hey, good morning 213 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.360 to you. Amy. Okay, so looks like we're not going to be 214 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:13.600 buying an Apple car anytime ever. No, And I feel like we were 215 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:18.080 just talking about some of the details of this car. But Apple is reportedly 216 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.679 canceling its efforts to build an electric car. This was called Project Titan. 217 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.519 They've been working on it for over a decade. It's the car that was 218 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:33.039 talked about forever. We never saw any evidence of this whatsoever, but apparently 219 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:37.200 two thousand people were working on the project. Apple spent billions. The car 220 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.159 was just too expensive. They never got it to the place they wanted it 221 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.399 to be. And now they're going to shift a lot of their focus to 222 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.840 artificial intelligence. Have you heard of that term yet? Mmm? Just once 223 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:48.799 or twice? Okay, So it sounds a little buzzy to me, but 224 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.799 that's what sounds like a good answer for Apple to put into this, this 225 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.159 kind of narrative they're weaving here. Okay, so the Apple car was I'm 226 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:02.440 guessing that they had I'm sort of a protot. But did they ever get 227 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.240 closer? Was it all just always in development and kept getting delayed and pushed 228 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:10.679 back and they finally said it's time to pull the plug on it. There 229 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.720 was never There was never a picture of any sort of prototype that I've seen 230 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.320 circulated, but there was various levels of testing that I saw. So they 231 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:22.559 had some I think it was like a Lexus outfitted with their special software that 232 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.879 was going to drive the car by itself. So we did see pictures of 233 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:30.399 that, but we never saw an actual prototype. Of course, there are 234 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.159 many online if you search Apple car, and you know, I've been to 235 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.960 all the Apple events for the past, you know, thirteen years or so, 236 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.559 and every single event people would expect them to give just a little hint 237 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:44.960 about the car. They never actually did. So this makes a lot of 238 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.519 sense. Look, cars are highly regulated. Tesla's doing a good job, 239 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.639 The traditional car makers are doing a good job. Some are saying evs are 240 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.320 not as hot as they used to be, although that's debatable, so you 241 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:57.440 know, and plus this was going to be one hundred thousand dollars. They 242 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:02.240 already had kind of a loss with this Apple Vision Pro being so expensive, 243 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:04.920 so you know, and Lucid, by the way, I've said this before, 244 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.240 they should just buy that company if they want to make cars, because 245 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:12.519 they're already making what Apple wants to do. Lucid is making. Yeah, 246 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:18.359 Lucid is an electric car company that makes super luxurious electric cars, and a 247 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.039 lot of the team is from Apple. But you know, all they'd have 248 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.160 to do is slap on their software and they'd have pretty much the Apple car. 249 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.000 Okay, you were talking about the Vision Pro, which we've talked about 250 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:33.200 a few times here, and they're just not selling that's what it seems like. 251 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.119 I mean, you can walk into a story, you can buy one, 252 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:40.240 people are returning them, the glasses breaking on them. I don't think 253 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:44.640 that that area is dead. I think virtual reality mixed reality does have a 254 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.920 future. It is just way too expensive right now for the average person. 255 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:51.319 And also the use case scenario, people don't want to sit and watch movies 256 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.799 by themselves, and that's pretty much the best use of those VR headsets right 257 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.440 now. Okay, then moving on, let's talk about AI some more. 258 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:03.279 We've got to email and AI can help us. Yeah, so there's an 259 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.279 app out there called Superhuman, which is an email program. It's thirty dollars 260 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.839 a month, so it is quite expensive, which definitely limits its appeal. 261 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.519 But their idea is that you should be able to reach inbox zero every day, 262 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.359 which means, you know, no messages lingering in your inbox and with 263 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:25.880 the box zero, I haven't seen that for I don't know how many years. 264 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.279 Oh I try, but it's it's honestly, I'll be quite honest. 265 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:33.839 Ever since I started the radio show on KFI, I am flooded with emails. 266 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.400 Amy, you have no idea. I mean, it's it's pretty wild 267 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.960 actually, just because we've got a lot of smart people and they need a 268 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.000 lot of help, yes, and a lot of questions and a lot of 269 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.000 comments too. So anyway, it's been great and obviously I love that, 270 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:49.119 but it's like I am, I am just swimming in emails all week long 271 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:56.039 anyway, So Superhuman tries to help you get through your inbox with AI, 272 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.480 so it will look at your emails and help you compose replies. Now, 273 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.200 let's always done that before, but now when you go to your inbox, 274 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.559 it'll give you three sort of options at the bottom. Let's say someone asks 275 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:10.279 you a question and you tap one of those options, and it will draft 276 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.880 the email for you based on the context of your other emails. By the 277 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:17.640 way, so it is pretty smart. It's just a matter of I've tried 278 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:21.200 this technology before. You know. When I've used AI to write emails, 279 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.079 it kind of like, you know, it's not really my voice per se, 280 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.920 and so you can kind of tell well, and the other thing that 281 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.640 I would be concerned about with starting to rely on that is that you could 282 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.559 go, Okay, it's this one, this one, or this one, 283 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:37.400 I'll take that one, but do you really You're not spending the time composing 284 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.440 it, so you might say stuff that you don't realize you're saying and send 285 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.599 it off and then people are like, well you said that, and you're 286 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:45.599 like, no, I didn't, and then you go, oh, yeah, 287 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:49.160 the AI generated that I did. Yeah, exactly. When it starts 288 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.559 replying for you, that's when you really have to worry about it. I 289 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:55.960 think this is good for emails that just have like a yes or no answer, 290 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:57.319 or like do you have an update kind of thing, you know, 291 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.559 like like last night you sent me an email said, hey, Rich, 292 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.319 you know you're going to have this stuff, you know, the topic soon. 293 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:04.960 You know this might say like yeah, I'll have them for you asap, 294 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:08.240 or sorry that's delayed, or you know, no, I'm not sending 295 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:11.359 those you know what I mean, like simple things like that, which, 296 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.720 by the way, Gmail does a level of that already, so does Outlook 297 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.960 you didn't mention the other option, Amy, quit nagging me to send me 298 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.759 your topics. Yes, you have to especially program the AI to be like 299 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:26.400 please tell these people to get off my back. Okay, one more thing. 300 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.720 We've got the one plus watch. This is very interesting to me because 301 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.000 you don't have to charge it. You can wait for like four days before 302 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.039 you have to charge it again. Yeah, it's called the one plus watch 303 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.799 too. This is a new Android smart watch, so it's got interesting the 304 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:45.200 interesting features. That has two processors inside, one that sort of runs the 305 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.880 day to day like time and Fitness, which doesn't use a lot of power, 306 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.720 and the other one that is used just for battery intensive apps, so 307 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.839 you can get up to one hundred hours of battery life. I will tell 308 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.519 you I've been wearing it for the past week or so, I'm averaging about 309 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:03.480 four days of use between charges. Just pretty good. This is going to 310 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.160 be three hundred dollars. It launches on March fourth. I'll have a full 311 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.799 review soon. But again, it's the one plus watch too. I think 312 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:15.640 that'll be one two watch because again, my Apple Watch only lasts during the 313 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:18.160 day. I have to charge it. Yeah every night. Yeah, pretty 314 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:21.160 much Apple Watches, even the Ultra. I mean, it may last a 315 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.839 little bit longer, but they're pretty much a charge every every night kind of 316 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.319 device. And it's been that way since the launch. By the way, 317 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.279 Okay, lots more to talk about with tech, and your chance to do 318 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:34.680 that is this Saturday from eleven to two. It's the host of rich on 319 00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:41.400 Tech right here on KFI and also you can follow rich KTLA's tech reporter on 320 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:45.839 Instagram at rich on Tech, his website rich on tech dot tv. Thanks 321 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.640 Rick, all right, thanks, Ay, I just called you Rick instead 322 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.519 of Rich. It happens. I don't mind, all right, I'll touch 323 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.000 you next week. All right, Really, let's get back to some of 324 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.000 the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man and 325 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:02.160 his mom have been mauled by four pitbulls. They were dogs sitting at a 326 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:07.039 house near Azusa. The man was attacked in the backyard just before noon yesterday. 327 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.039 Police tried to hold the dogs back with a pole and a shovel. 328 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:15.680 Animal control officers eventually got control and took the dogs away. The man was 329 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.000 taken to the hospital in serious condition. He's expected to survive. His mother 330 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:22.880 was treated for less serious injuries. Prosecutors in LA say they're being pressured by 331 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:27.359 the DA not to file charges against reckless drivers. Prosecutors were urged in an 332 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:32.559 email from Gascon to strongly considered declining charges in cases where there's no injuries. 333 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.200 Deputy DA Tatiana Johoyan says the DA is basically telling criminals they have free reign 334 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:40.480 in the county and telling people of the community they're not safe. And what 335 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:42.720 he's telling law enforcement is that you can try as hard as you want. 336 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:45.759 I'm going to make sure you don't get anywhere. I'm going to make sure 337 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:48.880 that I'm standing by the side of the criminals. She says, the DA 338 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:52.680 instead wants to put these drivers through drivers safety courses that won't reflect on their 339 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:57.119 record. Gascoyne's Office says for decades, the office has pursued pre filing diversion 340 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:03.640 for low level offenders. Chris Kfi News President Biden's expected issue executive order to 341 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:08.160 protect Americans' personal data. The order will authorize the Attorney General to prevent the 342 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:14.480 large scale transfer of americans personal data by so called countries of concern. It 343 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:21.799 also provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans sensitive 344 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:27.680 information. So George Michael died in twenty sixteen at the age of fifty three, 345 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:33.640 still very much loved in the UK, and in fact so much so 346 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:40.359 that they've issued a commemorative coin. Several of them. They just were started 347 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:42.920 rolled out on Monday, and there's a couple of different versions of it. 348 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:49.279 There's a silver colored version that goes for like our equivalent of twenty dollars, 349 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:55.240 all the way up to a limited edition two ounce gold coin that'll go for 350 00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:02.599 in US dollars more than sixty seven hundred dollar. It's a coin that has 351 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:10.200 Michael's likeness in his trademark aviator style sunglasses, complete with his blow dried hair 352 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:15.400 and razor stubble that he sported in the video for Faith and well pretty much 353 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:22.119 every other video that they did. And this is coming four decades after Wam's 354 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.039 Last Christmas was released, and it just this is this is actually in a 355 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:29.880 Wham documentary that I'm going to talk about in a minute. It just hit 356 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.480 number one in the UK for the first time this last December. When we 357 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:38.359 come back, Amy's on It and I Am on Wham. I've got two 358 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:42.480 for you today. That's one of them and the other one not going to 359 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.880 make you smile quite so much. It's really it well, it's a mess. 360 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.839 And it's even titled It's a Mess. You're listening to Wake Up Call 361 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.039 on demand from KFI Am six forty. You know you're gonna be hearing Bill 362 00:24:55.079 --> 00:25:00.000 Handle say It's Home Day a lot starting in about twenty five minutes. Here's 363 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.440 that's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man and 364 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:06.799 his mom have been mauled by a pack of pit bulls at a home near 365 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:10.839 Azusa. It happened yesterday just before noon. The man's in serious condition in 366 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:14.839 the hospital. Officials say the man and his mom were dogs sitting. The 367 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:18.960 dogs have been removed by animal control. Hunter Biden's going to be meeting privately 368 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:25.599 with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Today's Republicans continue their impeachment inquiry into President Biden. 369 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:30.720 The fourteen month long investigation is looking into whether Hunter Biden's business dealings with 370 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:36.759 Ukraine, China and other countries involved corruption and influence peddling by then Vice President 371 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:41.839 Biden. Anyone headed to Lake Tahoes being urged to get there before Tomorrow night 372 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:45.920 or cancel your trip. That's when a blizzard is expected to hit the northern 373 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:48.519 Sierra Nevada Mountains. Up to twelve feet of snow and fifty mile per hour 374 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:53.279 winds or in the forecast, expected whiteout conditions could close highways through the weekend. 375 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.839 At six o five, it's handled on the news. The mayor of 376 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.920 New York is rethinking the old sanctuary city thing because of the flood of illegal 377 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:06.519 immigrants in the Big Apple. If I've fifty, ABC's Stephen Portnoy's gonna help 378 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:10.720 us dig into the Michigan primary election results and what the numbers mean for both 379 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:17.880 President Biden and former President Trump. Aami's on it, Aami's on it, 380 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:25.279 Amy's on it, Gami's on it. What am I on? I'm on 381 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.920 streaming shows all kinds of them. There are movies, there are series, 382 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.319 there are documentaries, there are docuseries, and there's so much content out there 383 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.319 it's really hard to pick something. I know. You can sit there and 384 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.759 scroll through and go on to Netflix and then you see like five thousand different 385 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.920 shows, and then you go over to Apple TV and you see five thousand 386 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:48.680 different shows, and it's kind of hit or miss on whether you're going to 387 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.319 find a good one. So a lot of times I take recommendations on what 388 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.799 to watch from friends and co workers and family members, and uh then I 389 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.799 watch them and then pass along my recomd to you. So here's a couple 390 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:07.880 that I'm looking at right now. Wendy Williams docuseries is a four part series 391 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.279 is out, and of course she's been in the news this week because she's 392 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:18.440 been diagnosed with a form of dementia, the same kind that Bruce Willis apparently 393 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:22.039 has, and that news is coming out as this documentary is coming out, 394 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.160 and it's called Wendy Williams, What a Mess? And Deborah Mark is the 395 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.839 one who recommended this to me, you know, the news anchor on the 396 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.759 John I just almost said John and Ken's show. I guess I haven't said 397 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:38.359 John and Ken for a while on the John Cobalt Show. But anyway, 398 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:42.640 she said it's really good and interesting, and so I started to watch it. 399 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:47.920 It's four episodes, but I can only find one of them, like 400 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.839 I think I have to pay to unlock the other ones. But then so 401 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:53.759 I can't even remember where I was watching it yesterday. I think I watched 402 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:59.519 it on Hulu, and then Shannon Farrin told me that she watched it on 403 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:00.839 Apples, so I'm going to go try to find it there. But anyway, 404 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:03.920 I've only seen one episode. And you know, the name of the 405 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:10.079 documentary is What a Mess? And oh my gosh, what a Mess. 406 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:15.720 It's painful to watch it because and I didn't even know this that Wendy Williams. 407 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.519 I only know her as a TV talk show host, but she she's 408 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:25.279 been a radio talk show host kind of they compared her to like she's the 409 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:30.759 Howard Stern for women. She's like a Howard Stern of radio, kind of 410 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.680 a shock jock and that kind of stuff. I wasn't that familiar with it. 411 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.640 So it is very interesting to see how her career started and all of 412 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:40.640 that stuff, and that's really cool, in inspiring and inspiring, especially for 413 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:41.960 somebody who's in radio, and you go, oh, that's really cool. 414 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:48.559 But she is a mess, I mean literally, and it's like I said, 415 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.519 it's hard to watch because you just look at her. It's like she's 416 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:59.519 falling apart on camera. And the people who made the documentary said they might 417 00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:06.160 not have done it if they had known about her diagnosis. But I don't 418 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:11.279 know that that's related to what's going on in the documentary. It's very very 419 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.240 interesting. Like I said, it's hard to watch because it's very sad to 420 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.720 watch somebody just emotionally be in so much pain, and you can tell that 421 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:23.039 she is. But there's I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the rest 422 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:29.240 of them. The first episode was good, but it's highly recommended by Deborah 423 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.000 Mark, so you can take her recommendation. Here's the other one. So 424 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:36.240 the other one is Wham and I was reminded of it because of the story 425 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.920 I was just telling you about that they're coming out with those commemorative coins for 426 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:47.160 George Michael. And there is a documentary on Netflix. It's called Wham and 427 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:52.039 it features of course George Michael and Andrew Widge originally and how they met when 428 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.119 they were kids. And then the kind of surprising twist to their story is 429 00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:03.160 that Andrew was really the more popular one and George was really the more shy 430 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:10.200 one, and of course he's the driving force behind Wham and it shows how 431 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:15.279 they kind of got their first deal, how they catapulted to start them and 432 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.319 it was in a very short period of time. Like you see some artists 433 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:21.559 who it just takes them a really, really long time to really get to 434 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:26.000 that superstar status. They did it in like four years. And it's interesting, 435 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.759 it's fun, it's insightful, it's very touching because you know, George 436 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.920 Michael's no longer with us after he passed away in twenty sixteen. But it's 437 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:40.119 a really cool trip down memory lane. And it's fun because there's all these 438 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.640 different songs that you go, oh, I forgot they did that one. 439 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.599 I forgot that that one, like I'm Your Man of course, Careless Whisper 440 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:49.920 George Michael was part of We Are the World. And then they talked about 441 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:56.000 Last Christmas, which I mentioned just hit number one for the very first time 442 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.319 forty years after it was released, but really kind of at Wham It's on 443 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:04.359 Netflix. Definitely recommend that one. Let's get back to some of the stories 444 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.039 coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Another storm is headed towards 445 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:12.960 southern California. Light rains expected to start, possibly as early as tomorrow night. 446 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.039 The heaviest rain would fall on Saturday, and we should clear out them 447 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.000 by Sunday. Plenty of snow is expected in the higher mountain elevations. Dozens 448 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.480 of students at El Caminoreal High School in Woodland Hills have walked out a class. 449 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:32.200 They're protesting what they call anti Semitic incidents at school. One girl says 450 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:37.079 a classmate recently saw or called her a dirty Jew and then attacked her. 451 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:42.319 Students say they've also seen hateful notes passed between classmates referencing Hitler, and have 452 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:47.920 shared concerns about the insensitive teaching of World War II lessons. Many of the 453 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:52.000 students who walked out yesterday had Israeli flags enchanted stop the Hate. A school 454 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:56.960 official says the school does stress an anti hate message to its students. Two 455 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:02.920 state agencies say the Spacific Air Show in Huntington Beach is not authorized to privatize 456 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.920 the Beach. I think it's getting a little different attention for different reasons. 457 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.240 Huntington be City attorney Michael Gates says the letters from the State, Lands and 458 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:14.680 Coastal Commissions are blown out of proportion because of unrelated political issues. With the 459 00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:17.640 air show having an event, pulling a permit, occupying public spaces for a 460 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:21.640 limited period of time. Is that a takeover? No. Gate says the 461 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:24.039 city will work with the promoter to follow all laws. The letter sent last 462 00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:28.920 week's say last year's air show was not even compliant with the city's coastal program 463 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:34.400 and violates public access protection policies. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News 464 00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:38.359 California says ten pot shops in la ohe the state more than fourteen million dollars. 465 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:43.799 Officials say nine of the dispensaries we're operating illegally, and the legal one 466 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.759 owes back taxes. They say law enforcement rated the locations in an attempt to 467 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:53.000 smoke out business assets. A public auction auction was held to sell the seized 468 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:58.720 property, but only apparently brought in about two thousand dollars to go toward the 469 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:07.319 taxes owed. Here's something that I'm not super surprised in today, in the 470 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:13.119 day and age that we live in. Sugar helps the medicine go down, 471 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.640 the medicine go down. Yes, that's from Mary Poppins. And guess what 472 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:22.880 Mary Poppins is racist? Sugar helps the medicine. So the movie's being reintroduced 473 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:30.279 in theaters because it's the sixtieth anniversary of Mary Poppins. It's it's coming back 474 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:35.319 to theaters in the UK. And uh so they took another look at it 475 00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:39.039 and the British Board of Film Classification has changed its rating on it, like 476 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:44.240 we have G and PG and R. Well, theirs has been changed from 477 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.279 YOU which means universal, to PG, which is parental guidance because of a 478 00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:53.119 racial slur that's used in the movie. So apparently in one scene there's Admiral 479 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.319 Boom he remember he's got the guy, he's the guy with the cannon, 480 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.319 and he asks one of the bank's children if he is going on an adventure 481 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:07.079 to defeat the hottent Tots. And apparently the hot and tot is a derogatory 482 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:14.039 you, a term used by European settlers to refer to people in South Africa 483 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.519 and Namibia. So they said, well, it's got this racial slur in 484 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.719 it, and so we need to change the rating. I didn't know what 485 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:30.400 it was. I never thought, oh, there's something racist in Mary Poppins. 486 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:35.440 People a little sanity. Let's do it together. You're listening to Wake 487 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.679 Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty. I'm Amy King. Thanks 488 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.639 for getting your day started with us today. Here's what we're following in the 489 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:46.159 KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County Board of Supervisors has offered twenty 490 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:52.400 thousand dollars rewards in hopes of catching the people who vandalized cemeteries in Carson and 491 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:57.760 Compton. Memorial markers and bronze plaques were stolen from the cemeteries in January. 492 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.400 The thieves did more than two million dollars in damage to the cemetery in Carson. 493 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:06.440 Northrup Grumman says as many as a thousand people could lose their jobs at 494 00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.559 its Redondo Beach facility. The cuts are the result of US Space Force canceling 495 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:15.679 a multi billion dollar contract it had awarded the company to develop a military communications 496 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:21.320 satellite. There were no tickets sold with all six winning numbers in last night's 497 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.880 Mega Million's drawing that pushes the jackpot for the next drawing up to six hundred 498 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:30.519 seven million dollars. Tonight's powerball jackpot is worth four hundred twelve million dollars. 499 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:34.960 We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning. It's just February, 500 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:39.599 and there's already more than three hundred thousand acres burning in a wildfire in 501 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:45.480 Texas. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, 502 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:51.119 the Michigan primary is done and the winners are well. The winners are 503 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:54.559 Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Okay, break it down for us, all 504 00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:59.199 right, So I think you know, Look, one of the key takeaways 505 00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:02.440 obviously if you tuning into any political reporting today, is the number of people 506 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:07.960 who voted uncommitted in the Democratic primary, and it was roughly one hundred thousand 507 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:13.920 people who chose the option other than Joe Biden to register their disappointment with the 508 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:17.679 President's stance toward Israel and its war on amaz. The president's campaign issued a 509 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.440 statement last night saying the President shares the goal of many who cast a protest 510 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.079 vote, that he's working towards a just and lasting peace. Now, these 511 00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:30.719 primary results may be worrisome for the president, because as you know, I'm 512 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:34.880 sure you know that in twenty twenty, Joe Biden won the state of Michigan 513 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.920 by one hundred and fifty thousand votes, and in twenty sixteen Donald Trump won 514 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:39.280 the state of Michigan by roughly ten thousand votes. So if you have one 515 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:45.079 hundred thousand people yesterday who came out in a Democratic primary to register their disappointment 516 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.599 with the president, perhaps that indicates that those people won't be there for him 517 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:51.800 in November. He could lose the state and perhaps lose the White House, 518 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.880 and woe are the Democrats. But as you look at the other side of 519 00:36:54.920 --> 00:37:00.880 the ledger, the Republican side, three hundred and fifty thousand Publicans in Michigan 520 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.840 yesterday voted for an option other than Donald Trump. They either voted for Nicki 521 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.519 Hayley, or they voted for another candidate who's already dropped out, or they 522 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:14.119 said they were uncommitted. Thirty three thousand Michigan Republicans yesterday chose the uncommitted option. 523 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.360 Not many political reporters will be talking about that today with this exception, 524 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.639 So I think that the overall takeaway really is that there's voter discontent on both 525 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:27.760 sides. In fact, it was outweighed by voter discontent on the Republican side. 526 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.960 If you ask me, many more people yesterday, despite what you'll hear 527 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:35.760 about on a political news coverage in the main, many more people yesterday came 528 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.840 out to register their opposition to Donald Trump on the Republican side than they did 529 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:43.760 to register their disappointment with Joe Biden on the Democratic side. Okay, so, 530 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:49.360 and you're throwing out numbers. Was voter turnout good or do we know 531 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.519 yet? Well? Look, I have not spent the time that would be 532 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:57.480 necessary to answer your question, which would be to register, to research the 533 00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.000 number of people who voted in past primaries, and do a heints of analysis. 534 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.320 I can tell you that the fact that it was not a contested race 535 00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:07.360 on the Democratic side, and yet you had one hundred thousand people come out 536 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.800 to voice their opposition to Joe Biden roughly thirteen percent of the overall turnout on 537 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.800 the Democratic side. That's significant and it's out of the norm when there is 538 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.719 not a contested primary, when for all intets of purpose. I mean, 539 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:22.960 look, Dean Phillips was on the ballot, but it really wasn't much of 540 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.480 a contest and uncommitted did a lot better than Dean Phillips. Yeah, he 541 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.960 got like two point eight percent of the vote or something. That's right. 542 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.760 So look, all this means anyone is really able to do is take away 543 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.719 what they can from this and say, okay, well, what could it 544 00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.440 possibly mean for November. What it illustrates is there are a number of progressive 545 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:43.280 voters Democrats in a state where there's a large Arab American population that are inclined 546 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.000 to sit on the sidelines and not vote for Joe Biden in the fall. 547 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.639 We know that Trump enthusiasm is high on the Republican side, and yet what 548 00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:54.599 we see from this poll from this election also is that there are a number 549 00:38:54.639 --> 00:39:00.199 of Republicans who are not interested in Donald Trump as their nominee. The question 550 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.199 really is where do those people go. Will they be for him for tax 551 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:06.920 policy, for voter policy, for foreign policy, even if they voted for 552 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.920 Nikki Haley or even uncommitted yesterday, or will they sit on the sidelines? 553 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.920 We don't know. Yeah, and I think both sides say when they have 554 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.920 low voter turnouts, would people just say I'm done, I'm not voting. 555 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.960 That does not bode well for their party. Well, but it's sort of 556 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:25.679 a wash though when it happens on both sides, and the extent that there 557 00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:30.519 is voter discontent on both sides, I think it is sort of emblematic of 558 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.800 where we are as a country. Look in an average political average general election 559 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:39.320 year where there's a presidential election, a voter turnout roughly hovers in the know 560 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:44.320 in the average about sixty percent, which indicates in an average presidential election year 561 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:49.000 as many as forty percent of the population doesn't even participate. So how much 562 00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:52.000 higher or lower will it be this go around? We don't know, all 563 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.000 right, Stephen Bortenoy, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate it, 564 00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:57.199 you bet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 565 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.480 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says a judge's 566 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:06.400 decision to overturn a ban on billy clubs defies logic. The judge had recently 567 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:10.639 ruled billy clubs and expandable batons are protected under the Second Amendment. Two military 568 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:15.480 veterans in San Diego had sued Bontas, saying they wanted to own less lethal 569 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:19.079 protection for their homes and family, but the law forced them to buy lethal 570 00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.119 force. The band's been in place for about one hundred years, with the 571 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:25.440 exception of police officers and security guards. Bonta says he's filed an appeal with 572 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:31.239 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Steve Gregor TAFI news Hunter. Biden is 573 00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:36.920 set to answer questions in private by members of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees. 574 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:42.119 Republicans are looking for information that could justify moving forward with their impeachment inquiry 575 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:45.519 against President Biden. An ex FBI source that was once a central part of 576 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:52.159 the case is now accused of falsifying allegations of bribery involving both President Biden and 577 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.280 his son and A Taco Bell in Orange County has partnered with Taheen to test 578 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.840 out three new menu items. The location in Irvine is off during a Taheen 579 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:06.400 Crunchy Taco Taheen Twists, and Taheen Strawberry Freeze. Taco Bell says it's a 580 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.480 collaboration that celebrates bold flavors and innovative pairings. The items featuring the Mexican Spice 581 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:15.840 Blend will be available for a limited time starting next week. You've been listening 582 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:19.400 to Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up 583 00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.679 Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six forty, and 584 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.960 anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app