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morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning. This is your
wake up call for Friday, July fourteenth. I'm Amy King. Here's what's
coming up. Picket lines go up at nine am. Sag After members are
officially on strike after no new contract deal was reached by a deadline. We're
gonna be talking more about the strike and what it means, not only for
sag After members, but also for you with ABC's Jason Nathanson. In just
a couple of minutes to stick around, another busload of migrants has arrived in
Los Angeles from Texas. Chrispy Kreme is offering a buy one dozen, get
another dozen original glazed donuts for eighty six. It's to celebrate Krispy Kreme's eighty
sixth birthday today at six oh five. It's handled on the news. Disney
CEO Bob Iger says the WGA and sag After his demands are not realistic.
We'll dig into that. Lots of cool stuff planned on your wake up call
this morning. On a Friday. But let's start with some of the stories
coming out of the twenty four hour KFI news room. Record high temperatures are
expected for parts of La County as the heat wave moves into the weekend.
The National Weather Services temperatures could hit a record one thirteen in Palmdale today That
would break a record set in two thousand and seven and also in nineteen sixty
one. Landcaster could see one hundred and fifteen. A severe excessive heat warning
for parts of southern California starts at ten this morning and continues through Monday morning.
In Orange County, in excessive heat warning will be in effect until eight
pm Tuesday. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued an ozone advisory
for parts of the South Coast air Basin and the Coachella Valley because of the
heatwave. It takes effect at ten this morning and goes through Tuesday night.
Officials say ozone levels will be highest in the Lake Arrowhead area and in the
San Bernardino Valley. Meteorologists say temperatures over the weekend, as I mentioned,
are going to reach the one hundreds in the Inland Empire at one tens in
the Coachella Valley. The La Kenny Sheriff's Department says it has arrested two people
who were looting evacuated homes in Rolling Hills Estates. The man and woman were
seeing on a homeowner's ring camera app They called nine one one, and when
deputies arrived, the two had already taken off. That's when torrens Pete put
drones in the air. Put the drones up overhead and they were able to
guide us into the heavy areas of brush. Deputy Air and Myastis says the
two were spotted and when they got to them early yesterday morning, the man
had a bunch of stuff. The property was then positively identified as belonging to
one of the victims. Myasti says the couple looted at least two homes.
Steve Gregory Kafine News LA Mayor Bass's office says a third bus of migrants from
Texas has arrived at Union Station in downtown LA. The last drop off was
two weeks ago. Bass's office says it found out about the latest arrival of
migrants on Wednesday and activated a plan to take care of them when they got
here. Belief they're looking for three people accused of robbing a mail carrier at
gunpoint in North Hollywood. Officials say the three took off with the Postal workers
master key Wednesday and were later seen on security video using it to steal from
mailboxes at an apartment building. The Postal Service has offered a fifty thousand dollar
reward for information leading to the trio's arrests. The Huntington Beach Fire Department says
if a swimmer gets caught in a rip current, it's best to flip,
float and follow Marine Safety. Battalion Chief Trevor McDonald says, flip on your
back, float to conserve energy, and follow the best path to safety by
swimming to the side away from the current. Some of the characteristics of a
rip current is brown choppy water, so all that water comes to shore,
it needs to find a way back out to see because there's too much water
along the shoreline, it's gonna go kind of against the grain and it kicks
up that sand. McDonald says they had three hundred and fifty rip current rescues
last week. He says beachgoers can check with lifeguards or wave conditions before swimming,
and as you can imagine, the beaches are probably going to be kind
of crowded this week because forecasters have said, in spite of the really really
hot temperatures that there may be a bit of a break at the beaches with
the high hovering in the eighties. Lawsuit claims politics, not oil grounded the
twenty twenty one Pacific Air Show in Huntington Beach, but a critic calls it
a distraction from corruption. I don't think there was a dry eye in the
entire place. Specific air show director Kevin Elliot recalls telling the pilots the air
show was shut down because of the oil spill. The Blue Angels, the
Thunderbirds, and the Canadian Snowbirds were all in one location. It was the
biggest gathering of military air power in the history of the planet, he says.
Former Mayor Kim Carr canceled the air show as part of an agenda Beacific
Air Show was collateral damage as a result of somebody's political aspirations and animosity towards
the year show and myself. Former Mayor Kim Carr says a group made the
decision, including the police, chief, health department in Coast Guard. The
city's priorities were to protect the health and safety of the Huntington Beach community and
mitigate the impacts of thousands of gallons of oil car says Elliot's lawsuits just a
distraction from a different lawsuit claiming corruption, which is four newly elected city council
members in Huntington Beach were quick to give their political ally donor and friend a
four point nine million dollars settlement in Huntington Beach. Corbin Carson kaf I News
former President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner, and former aide Hope Hicks have
testified before a federal grand jury. ABC's Jonathan carl says the panel is hearing
an evidence about the January sixth riot at the Capitol and efforts to overturn the
results of the twenty twenty presidential election. The special Council is specifically trying to
establish whether Trump knew that he had lost the election and therefore knowingly committed illegal
acts to try to overturn an election that he knew he lost. Carlos says
several people close to Trump told him at the time that Trump knew full well
Biden had won the election. Some airline prices have dropped two pre pandemic numbers,
and officials say they'll be even lower this fall. Ooh, maybe a
good time to travel. Hopper economist Hayley Bergs is now would be a good
time to add a vacation to your post summer plans. Prices are still coming
down from that post pandemic high, but in part because of seasonality, fewer
people are taking vacations in September and October. We're back to school or back
to word. Burgs says international flights are still at an all time high because
of high fuel costs, but she says domestic flights in the US and to
Mexico and Canada are cheaper than normal. An India's space agency says it's launched
a lander and rover to explore the Moon's south pole. It's the country's second
attempt. Since twenty nineteen, only the US and two other countries have landed
a spacecraft on the Moon. Coming up twenty we're gonna be talking with Chicken
Charlie, who you're gonna find at the Orange County Fair, which gets underway
today. But right now it's time to say good morning to Nick polio Keine.
We've got a crash and choes on the sixty. Yeah, good morning,
any king checking the drive, It's gonna be pretty rough. First thing
this morning, any eastbound before your drive as you're making away before Central,
now it looks like it's only the far leftling that's open. Everything else is
shut down right now due to this wreck. And you're seeing a pacton type
drive westbound sixty as you're coming away from the seventy one, the westbound or
rather the eastbound side of the sixty seeing delays for you from the seventy one
and you make your way towards Central westbound. No. Six is going to
be busy for you from Mountain. As you're making a way back toward almost
Ramona Avenue east and westbound along the ten same rut denal freeways, you're alternate
into the sixty east and westbound. Looks great for your drive so far this
morning, even though there are problems being reported on the westbound side of the
ten or before Central that have been cleared to the senator divider a motorcycle wreck
there, but it's still going to definitely be your better alternate the ten to
the sixty. Got an update on this issue on the sixty or anything else
on you down pound to fifteen yourself on the word is kfy traffic westbound side
of the ninety one before Magnolian Riverside got a flare pattern from an earlier a
wreck. It looks like the wreck itself has long since been cleared, but
right lane is still taking away for some cleanup work. And that's why you're
seeing an especially heavy drive through Riverside right now, ninety one westbound from Tyler.
As you make way towards McKinley, kay I find the sky helps get
you there faster. I'm Nick Paul o'keiny. It's five h eight on your
wake up call. We're saying good morning to lots of people packed with lots
of information today. Right now, let's turn our attention to Jason Nathanson.
Jason, you've got one hundred and sixty thousand sag After members officially on strike.
Yeah, that's the you know, it's like a sequel in Hollywood.
Hollywood loves a sequel. Right, So, you had the writer's strike,
which is still on glowing. Now you have the actor's strike, which is
strike two, and they're going to hit the picket lines today. Although a
lot of the shag After members have already been on the picket lines and solidarity
with the Writer's Guild, but those lines are gonna get much more crowded.
Studying at nine today is where they're going to be. You know, they're
gonna hit Warner Brothers, Disney, Netflix, so you can expect a lot
of extra traffic in those areas of those studios. You can expect lots of
extra honking in those areas of those studios. And also you'll see the sag
after leadership out there as well, including fran Drescher, who really put on
a show yesterday at the news conference announcing that the strike was going to happen.
We saw some fiery language from her, including she knows. She talked
about knowing how this strike is a hardship. It's a really big deal,
especially for a lot of those people who are going to be out of work,
who aren't just actors but the crew as well. She's heavy on us,
but at some point you have to say, no, we're not going
to take this anymore. You people are crazy. What are you doing?
Why are you doing this? She was really really emotional, and there was
the first sign that we had seen that these talks were really far apart between
the studios and the actors Union. We didn't know that they were, that
there was this level of animosity there, which was really not great, because
it's not it doesn't seem like this is gonna end in a couple of days.
It seems like this is going to go on for a while. So
I was curious when they brought in the Federal mediator to say, hey,
this is kind of a last ditch thing, which made me think, obviously
incorrectly, that maybe they were kind of close and just had a few sticking
points that thought maybe that the mediator could kind of get get over that.
Hum well, we really thought when they ended the first deadline, which was
at the end of June, and they went for an extension, a twelve
day extension, a lot of us thought that, Okay, well, they're
close there, because if you're gonna have an extension, you know, if
they're far apart at that point, why not just go on strike. But
if you ask for an extension, maybe they were close and they just needed
a little more time to you know, dot some eyes and cross some teas
and get get a few little things ironed out. That clearly wasn't the case
at the news conference yesterday, Frank Drescher talked about how the fact that during
those twelve days they basically got nothing done and then the mediator was a last
ditch effort and also too little, too late, that they were so far
apart by that time when Wednesday rolled around, that there was nothing a mediator
was going to do before that deadline. And so as we were sitting there
on Wednesday night going into Thursday morning, waiting for something to happen, and
it hits midnight and we get no statement, and it's twelve thirty, twelve
forty five, and then we finally get a statement around twelve twelve fifty.
We weren't sure if maybe they actually did talk up until the very end,
but apparently that wasn't the case. And again these sides seemed to be very,
very far apart, which means, you know, at this point a
lot of things are going to be threatened. We already have Comic Con which
is next week, which the studios were already preparing for the fact that the
actors be on strike. But Comic Con is usually a big event with all
sorts of big people, and they announce big things and they fly in all
the stars from all around the world. That's not going to happen. They're
going to be almost no stars there. The studios aren't going to be represented
to the extreme that they usually are. So that's the first thing that's going
to go down. Many people think that the Emmys are going to be affected
as well, and that's September, so that's a couple of months away.
But you know, with the nominations announced this week, one of the things
that Hollywood is doing right now, usually at this time of year is now
the campaigning starts, and there's all these events and the people are out there
trying to, you know, get their name out there and their projects out
there. But none of that's going to happen. They're doing interviews and all
that stuff. None of that's going to happen. All these interviews you saw
last night, there was a premiere for and this is probably the last premiere
you're going to see for a while. In London, there's a premiere for
Oppenheimer, which opens next weekend, and the stars they moved it up an
hour early because they knew this deadline was coming, so so the stars could
actually hit the red carpet. They did Matt Damon and Christopher Nolan and Emily
Blunt, they're all out there on the red carpet and then they got word
that the strike Okay, it's official, it's happening. They all left before
the screening even started, and that was probably the last red carpet you're gonna
see for a while. Yikes. Okay, So we're gonna see these striking
members just at the same places where all the w WGA people are striking.
Yeah, all the same studios. Um, you know, they they're putting
out lists every day so you can kind of track it. Today they're striking
from nine to one, which I guess maybe they're ending at one because it's
gonna be hot and that's yeah, it's not gonna be fun to be out
there striking in this heat over the next few weeks for sure, but yeah,
today is gonna be the first day. And um, you know,
I know on their list is Warner Brothers, Disney, Netflix, Sony,
I believe Paramount as well, and maybe a couple other places. Okay,
and real quick before we let you go, So what does this mean for
us? Because there's still a lot of TV shows out there, and I
do a little feature on streaming and there's a ton of things to watch.
So I mean, can the can the actors wait it out until the content
runs out? Well, yeah, but the content is we're we're seeing it
at this point. Um, you know there, there's it's starting to slow
down. They got in a bunch of the you know, the studios knew
that this was coming, so they got in a bunch of interviews and stuff.
So I've you know, I've been banking interviews now for stuff that's coming
out in August. And there's still movies and TV shows that are going to
be coming out, but the fall season for broadcast television, that's all screwed
up at this point. Um. A lot of this stuff was already screwed
up from the writers strike. Uh and you know, Disney already moved stuff
some some movies years out because of how screwed up everything is going to be.
Um, So that's going to continue, and it's just it's a matter
of time. The longer this continues, the more screwed up things are going
to be. There are still some things filming. House of the Dragon,
which is on HBO. That's the Game of Thrones prequel, that is the
season two of that is still going to film because that's uh, that's most
of the actors there are in equity or which is the British version, and
they cannot actually strike in solidarity. It's against the British law for them to
do that. So they're going to keep filming. But they're one of the
few productions that is actually still going. That's just crazy. Okay, well,
hunker down. Sounds like we're in for the long haul for this one.
Yeah, that that's unfortunately that seems to be the case. I mean,
but also fran Drescher said last night that they'll come back to the table,
you know, at any point, including if they wanted to go back
to the table last night to negotiate, they would. It just doesn't seem
we thought that with the writer strike as well, but they hadn't been negotiating
at all over the past two months. So is there any movement in the
writers strike at all? No, because they've been focusing on first dad to
get the Director's Guild deal done, So the negotiators for the MPTP, we're
focusing on that, and then they jumped right into the actors negotiations as well.
So those two sides I don't believe they've even been talking when it comes
to the writers strike. So now they have these two guilds that they have
to deal with and come up with some solution. They're ganging up on him,
all right. Jason Nathanson, thanks so much for spending some time and
sharing the information this morning. Sure thing, take care, you got it.
As you know, today is the opening day of the Orange County Fair
and it wouldn't be fair in Southern California if we didn't have Chicken Charlie.
We'd like to welcome Chicken Charlie to the show. Thanks for joining us early
this morning. Thank you so much for having me. I'm honored. Thank
you. Okay, So, Chicken Charlie, A lot of people may not
know your face, but I don't know anybody in Southern California who does not
know the name Chicken Charlie. I mean, you just become infamous at fairs
because of the lovely and really weird, bizarre fun food combinations that you offer
at the fairs every year. So I would love to find out if we
have anything new for the Orange County Ferret this year. Yeah, you know,
of course, we have to have something new every year. We try
to outdo the year before. I'm so blessed. I love what I do,
and I love people's reactions to all the crazy new concoctions. This year,
we have deep fried s'mores on a stick. Okay, I'm in so
okay, let me run this down. So I take jumbo marshmallows, three
of them, put them on a stick, and then I put a bunch
of chocolate fudge chopped roll that into chopped up Graham crackers. Then I dipped
that in batter, a sweet batter, and then fry it. And then
I top it with chocolate syrup, more Graham crackers and powdered sugar. Oh
my god. Okay, so let me tell you the first time. The
first time I ever did that and took a bite of it, my brain
stopped working for about three seconds. It took about two or three seconds to
get back to work and realize where I was standing. Oh my gosh,
that sounds so good. And so it comes out like in a big ball
on a stick. It's like a big ball. It's like a humongous corn
dog if you will. Oh, it looks like corn duck, but like
double triple the sides. Yeah, because it's three marshmallows, so it's it's
it's crazy good, Okay, And then you continue to offer some of the
favorites of different concoctions that you've come up with over the years. Yeah.
Absolutely, I mean we're bringing back a lot of favors. So last year
we did a flame and hot Cheetos pot stickers were bringing that back. Of
course, the fried Oreos I invented that. That's going to be there.
Um. We also sell bacon wrap pickles. I also invented that, and
along with many many of it, we got about thirty it. The Crispy
Cream Chicken sandwich. I've had that, because I've had that, Charlie,
it is to die for. So if you haven't, if you haven't tried
it yet, Charlie, tell us about the Crispy Cream Chicken sandwich, Well,
yere's the two thousand and six I think it was. I took a
jelly filled donut and just sliced it in half and put a crispy fried chicken
breast in the middle of it and just playing like that and just tried that
and it was so good that since then we just can't get enough of them
at the Krispy cream shop every day. Behind those donuts, we also sell
it with a burger that's the triple Decker. That's three hamburger patties with three
slices of cheese and two fold donuts. But we're bringing back a lot of
stuff, and we also have a lot of healthy options. We also have
the Pineapple Bowl that you could get chicken or shrimp. That's actually our number
one cellar, and it's grilled. The chicken is grilled. We also added
another healthier item, which is kind of weird coming from me, a Mediterranean
salad that comes with pickled turnups, avocado of person, cucumbers, tomatoes,
lettuce, um, hummus. And it's gonna be served with a garlic a
garlic key yogurt sauce, a hole plain a whole yogurt with garlic. Okay,
So that's that's really good. That's awesome because if I get the chicken
pineapple bowl, then I can also get the deep Fried's Moore, and I
can justify it because I had something healthy first. That's right, that's exactly
right, or vice versa. That's exactly I think it's hilarious to come to
the fair and get something grilled and a salad m But but people do it
all the time. But but I think you know the fried the crazy fried
concoctions, you know, fried twinkie, a fried oreo cookie, fried cookie
though, those are my favorite stuff at the fair, so delicious. I
can't wait. And I know our own Nick Poliochini's gonna be visiting you.
I think he's gonna grab some goodies and bring him in for Mo Kelly's show
later today because he's he's a big fan too. Um So, how many
fairs do you do in a year? I do four fairs LA in Fresno,
four right now? Yeah, about four months worth. Yeah, and
um, I have a restaurant in San Diego, Chicken Charlie's Table. It
keeps me pretty busy. I love my restaurant. I love the fairs.
And yeah, and at Chicken Charlies in San Diego, do you offer these
same things or is it more kind of mainstream restaurant. It's it's the mainstream
restaurant. But we do offer the fried oreoles, the bacon wrap pickles,
the fried avocados. Um. And we have specials, daily specials. Um.
You can see them on Instagram or TikTok. The Chicken Charlie's um,
but we have specials. Sometimes I'll do like some of the fair stuff,
but I try not to do too much. Like the Krispy Clean triple decker.
It's fifteen hundred calories there, that's a whole days. It's like it's
it's like it's fun at the fair because you come to the fairs that one
cheap day, if you will. Ye. The calorie counter doesn't work at
the fairs, So I don't know. At the restaurant, I feel like
I got to be a little bit more real with it. Okay. Now,
if if you had to pick one of your things that you've had been
and what's your favorite, your favorite tasting thing of all of it, fried
orioles. It's my original invention and it's my favorite inventions. Okay, then
there has to have been an epic fail somewhere down the line. Yeah,
is there anything that you've tried? The latch went that. There's no way
we were not serving that. Um. You know, frying is an art
and you could make anything good. I don't know. I've been asked that
question before. I can't think you I don't know. I think I could
take I think I could make anything taste good. I'll try your wallet.
Okay. So I'm going to leave you with that because and say that.
Chicken Charlie says, frying is an art. You can make anything good.
And you're going to find Chicken Charlie at the Orange County Fair, which opens
today. Chicken Charlie, thank you so much for taking the time. Can't
wait to come down and try some of your goodies. And I am so
in for that deep Fried smore this year. Thank you so much for having
me. I'm honored and I'm a big fan. Thank you. Thanks again,
Chicken Charlie. And I will tell you it's my responsibility to try this.
I mean, don't you think wouldn't be again? It wouldn't be fair
if we didn't try it. Okay. So the Orange kind of Fair again
opens today and then runs through August thirteenth. I didn't know he only did
four fares. I thought he did that like all year long. So cool.
Let's say good morning to our house whisper Dean Sharp. Good morning,
Dean, Good morning, buddy. How you doing doing great? I'm cool,
man, You're cool. That makes one of you. Yeah, Well,
I'm gonna be cool for about another two or three hours. There you
go. So the heat's here and you can help us stay cool during it.
Yeah, you know, I feel like I'm the opposite of the chicken
guy, right. I don't want you to fry today. I don't want
to fry anybody today. Oh it's a punny day. Have you tried any
of chicken Charlie stuff? You know, I'm not sure. I'm not your
guy. Well, thank you, but that doesn't mean that I don't like
some good fried food. I've spent some time in the Midwest, so you
know, I actually have had a fried stick of butter before. I regret
it, but I tried it. Gross, you're good a fair in the
Midwest deep fried stick of butter. So you know, it's a thing,
and we're gonna probably melt like butter if we don't figure out a way to
keep our Yeah, so let's do let's dive in. What do you what
should we do? Well, here's a thing. There's a lot. There's
so many misconceptions about how to keep your home cool, and people do all
sorts of crazy things. So I think I would rather I'm going to be
spending time this weekend telling people what not to do. First thing, The
one thing you should do for sure as we ramp into some hotter temperatures now
this summer, is please please change the filter on your HVAC. Change the
filter. You have basically one job to do as a homeowner with your air
conditioner, one job, and that is to keep the filter changed out.
Do you do that every year? How often do you do it? You
do it? If you're doing it right, you're doing it every three months
every season. Okay, yeah, four times a year. And a lot
of misconceptions about the filter. It's not there for you. It's not there
for your comfort. You know, there are some really fancy filters out there.
You know, you can spend upwards of thirty forty dollars on an AC
filter because they're heppa and they pull out pollen out of the I And that's
all well and good, but you got to understand the primary purpose of a
filter is to protect the air conditioner unit. And if it hasn't been changed
out in a while, then your AC is not breathing the way it should
and you're just about to ask it to do some heavy lifting and without being
able to take a full breadth. So change the filter, and if you
if you are terrible at remembering it, there are some really cool ways these
I mean, set a reminder in your calendar, or better yet, get
on a filter subscription service. There are places like filter buy dot com filter
buy dot com where you can put in the details of the filter that you
need, put in the regularity with which you want it changed out four times
a year please, and then boom magically, right on your doorstep your filter
shows up. And as soon as it does, then just change it out
and there you go. Okay, So even if you're not using it,
like because I don't use the air conditioner in the fall and winter, well
maybe late fall, but generally for the winter you don't, but still do
it every three months. Yeah, Well again it counts for the heater as
well. It's the same filter for the same unit. So yeah, if
you're not running the heater for an extended period of time during the winter,
then don't worry about it. But under regular use, if the acs running
and the heater, if air is passing through the ducts in your home,
change the filter out every three months. Bottom line. The other thing though,
is to understand how to drive the air conditioner the right way, and
this is the thing that I think most people get wrong. They decide,
well, okay, I'm leaving for the day, so I'm just going to
turn the whole thing off because I want to save energy during a heat wave.
Moderate temperature that's fine, But during a heat wave it's not a great
idea to do. Okay, turn your thermostat up, get it up into
the upper seventies, even set it at eighty degrees if you want, but
don't turn it off completely because asking your AC to do again the heavy lift
of starting from zero again once you get home, that's a big pull.
It's a big pull, and it's a big pull during a time of day
when energy is being used by everybody in the same way, and it's more
likely to cause brownouts and all those kinds of problems. So the whole key
with an AC system is moderate, gentle, incremental moves. So turn the
temperature up on the thermo step, but not off completely. The other reason
is amy one of the things that an AC unit does that a lot of
people don't realize. One of its most important functions is it's a dehumidifier.
It pulls moisture out of the air, but it needs time to do that
it's not just about cooling the air, it's about pulling moisture out because human
beings cool off as moisture evaporates from our skin. So the drier the air
is inside your home, the cooler you will feel, even at higher temperatures.
And we all know this sort of anecdotally because we're like, yeah,
you know, down in the Deep South, when it's like eighty five degrees
and ninety percent humidity, it's just awful. It feels offul when you step
out of the shower and you dry off, and then you feel you're all
wet again, exactly. So, just as a point of example, here,
a seventy two degree room with thirty percent humidity feels like a seventy two
degree room, but a seventy two degree room at eighty percent humidity feels like
a seventy nine degree room. Okay, So drying the air, and that's
why I would rather have your air conditioner running longer at a higher temperature,
so that it gets a jump start on drawing out the air, because inevitably
you'll be more comfortable in your place with the thermostat set a little higher,
and that means a lot of reduction in cooling and energy costs in the end.
Okay, And I'm going to give you my analogy. Are you ready
all right? So when it comes to you, so think of your house
as you and like a doctor will always tell you to take the aspirin like
before your headache hits full bore, because then you keep it under control.
So if you can absolute kind of the same thing, that's a perfect analogy.
You just don't want to be running behind on it. You want to
get ahead of it, okay. And by the way, getting ahead of
it activity in your house at night that is so critical. In other words,
I want you to think of your home as like a you know,
a cooler that you've got, right, an igloo cooler or whatever. What
we want to be doing at night is charging our homes with the cool air
and cool temperatures, and then come the morning, lock it all down,
seal it all up, and let that charge roll as long as possible into
the day before the ac has to start to working hard to you know,
to augment and supplement that as the heat of the day rolls on. That's
why installation is such an important component in making your house cooler. Whether you
have an air conditioner or not. Okay, So are you saying that,
like, once the heat of the day is done and it's a nice cool
evening, do you go and open up all the windows. You can open
up all the windows. If there's cooler air outside then there is in the
house, then by all means open up all the windows. A lot of
people think of about having a whole house fan installed, which you can do
for just for a few hundred dollars, and its whole job is to basically
run at night with the windows open, sucking in intentionally that cooler air.
You run that all night, suck in the cool air, shut those windows
down in the morning, keep it locked in, and let it roll for
as long as possible. Okay. And then also you say to keep the
heat out during the heat of the day. Keep Yeah, keeping the heat
out during the heat of the day means shutting down windows, pull the blinds,
close the shades, especially if these are rooms that you're not in.
I don't want you turning off closing the doors on those rooms, or shutting
the AC register. That actually causes problems. But from the outside, what
we want to do, in addition to we're really not trying to block visible
light. But with the visible light comes the infrared, and that is what
heats up the house. So draw those shades, keep the rooms dark so
that infrared light is not pen of trading inside the room and heating things up.
Okay, with just a a minute left. Final tip, Final tip
I just mentioned it, don't shut down unused rooms thinking that this is going
to maximize your air conditioning situation. I was talking to Conway about this last
night. He's got an entire room where the doors are shut and he's taped
over the register. I'm like, take that tape off, dude. And
here's the problem. He's got the right idea. Everybody's got the right idea.
They're like, listen, why do I want it? Okay? The
problem is this, though, that change of airflow needs to happen back up
inside the attic at the duct. Okay, So if it's an ongoing issue,
you can have your HVAC person install a damper up there. But if
we stop it at the register, air flows down that duct, it gets
backed up, it backs up into the system, and it causes back pressure
in the system that will reduce the efficiency of the airflow for the entire house.
So as much as you don't like it as counter and two of it
as it may feel. Open up all the registers in the house, open
up all the interior doors of the house, and let the air flow.
Let the airflow, all right, let it flow. Fabulous, We'll do
it. We'll stay cool. Thanks Dean, appreciate it. Thanks Amy.
Okay, there's all ways so much going on around the Southland, and our
very own Nick Poliochini knows what's up, when and where and shares that with
you every Friday night on Later with Mo Kelly. So we're gonna give you
a little sneak peek of weekends with Nick and share a couple not to miss
events. Nick, what's you got for us? Well, let's start out
in Cyprus, actually at Los Alamnos Racetracks. So it's gonna be the twenty
sixth Annual Nationals, which is yeah dog races, Weiner dog races sponsored by
Wiener Snis And earlier this year I went to Wienerfest in Huytington Beach with Sandy
Stack from Coast and then Mono and I went over to Sanito Racetrack to check
out of the quirky Nationals. This is the Wiener nationals. I'm going to
kind of call this the granddaddy of them all, if you will, for
our animal events here in southern California. It takes place tomorrow evening at a
Los aal Medos Racetrack insiders and you can see well pretty much they're competing for
brigging rights and a title to be the top dog, if you will.
But it's also an opportunity to raise money for the Seal Beach Animal Care Center.
So last time around it it was a three hundred thousand dollars that was
raised through the ticket sales and T shirt sales for the event, So this
is kind of returning. A lot of these things are returning from the pandemic,
so it's been a little bit of an unusual situation. They did do
this as a virtual event, but now it's in person and a great opportunity
if you've never been over to Los aal Medos Racetrack, not too far off
of the six or five on Katella. It's really easy to get to and
you can do anything from just going and you know, standing on a tra
side to be able to see the competition underway. They also have some really
cool VIP experiences that you can check out at kf I am six forty dot
com forward slash Snake for all the details on how you can attend for that.
Okay, quick question, Yeah, can you bet on the dogs?
Hypothetically? No, but yes, having been to this many times before,
there is betting that happens on it. So usually what's happening is either quarter
horse races at Los Almos Racetrack or greyhounds. Those are illegally, you know,
opportunities for you to place bets, but for a Wiener dog racing,
it's not because it's more of a charity event, so they don't really allow
for it. But I have been there several times and let me tell you,
I see plenty of side bets that are going down a track side little
sneaky, sneaky. Yeah, that's exactly the case. Okay, so you
got dogs, what else we got? We got dinosaurs. So actually coming
to two locations this weekend at Haunter Center in Anaheim and then next weekend it'll
be Crypto dot Com Arena in downtown LA. It will be Jurassic Worldlive that
is coming. And this is something you and I did a really cool eventum
in Montabello area, right, and so we got to experience some really amazing
installs of dinosaurs. This is actually taking that to the nth level and taking
that to the next level where you'll actually be partnering with you know, paleontologists
as well as scientists in an arena show with the dinosaurs coming to life.
So okay, so we would the one we went to and it's like Dino's
Alive. If you've been to that, right, and it's been it was
out in Montabello, and it's been at a couple other places where it's like
static displays, but they have like ginormous, ginormous brontosauruses and then of course
the t rex, which are huge and is super really interesting to see them.
But this then takes it and becomes a live show as opposed to just
going and looking standing next to the big guys exactly. So you're going to
be actually like, if you're a fan of the Drastic Park franchise, this
is your opportunity to come nose to snout with Blew the raptor. You can
meet Stegosaurus's Trisatops and then of course two of the most terrifying dinosaurs would be
the Indominus Rex and then the Trantosaurus Rex. All of them are in the
show, and so that is really cool. And it comes down to the
fact that you're able to see these creatures. Granted, okay, you know,
pull back the curtain. They're not, you know, back from the
dead, but they are as close as you possibly can get to. That
being the case, it's a great opportunity for you to come out and enjoy
with your friends and family. I mean, look at it. We're two
adults and when granted we're you know, we love Disneyland, but this was
such a cool event in Montabello and this is taking that again to that next
level where it's an actual show. You're you'll be actually experiencing those animals freely
walking around the arena. What's really impressive is some of the dinosaurs are just
absolutely massive, so you'll be able to see even like a Brontosaurus that is
just towering in the arena to you know, really just get a concept of
what it will is like to be around during that time period. But you
know, think about if you were walking around, if you were walking around
at the dinosaurs, you probably wouldn't been around long well during that Yeah,
I mean that's true. I mean, but I don't know. I feel
like landon Lost, we've got some homework from a you know, old TV
series. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying like, I think
we've got that homework that we've done, even though it may have been absolutely
ridiculous, I got a good feeling about it. So I think we've survived.
And when that When is that on? That's gonna be this weekend at
the Honda Center in Anaheim, and then next weekend will be in downtown LA
at Crypto dot com Arena. You can get details for that again KFI am
six forty dot com Forward Slash Nike is where you can find out information on
tickets and also a lot of things including one more thing to throw your way
is going to be the forty second annual Lotus Festival happening in Echo Park.
Now, again, these are those events that are returning, and what I
love about them is their outdoors. Anyway. Now, granted, it will
be warm this weekend, so maybe statement yes and make sure to put on
the suns green and travel light and make sure that you dress light. But
this is a celebration of the wonderful people and culture of Indonesia, and so
it will have food, it will have music performances, and if you've never
been to Echo Park lake, that's where this goes down. There's quite a
few different events. Also. There will be dragon boat races that'll be happening
out on the water, which is really cool. You'll be able to see
those boats beforehand on the land on the dock, and then you'll be able
to see them competing in the lake there. Okay, and Echo Park if
you're not super familiar what you probably are, but that's where that big homeless
camp was set up a couple of years ago, and then they tore it
down and they put fencing up and stuff. The fencing is down now,
the lake is beautiful and it's just such an iconic spot around La. So
that sounds like it's really cool. Yeah, it's really cool because this is
also one of those unique places that has those swan boats that you can go
into, the paddle boats. So yes, they will be there. They
may not be working because of the festival taking place in that dragon boat race
that will be underway, but this is a great opportunity. Just like Amy
said, it's a really fun place in the Heart of LA that you can
visit anytime, and that is going to be put on by LA Parks and
Wreck so it is being sponsored locally. And yeah, and there's like I
know, kids area of food court. They'll have music performances. It really
is a lot of fun. I have been to this in year's pass.
It is well worth your time. And this event is free ninety nine,
which is one of our favorites on Later with Mokelly. So there is no
admission costs for you here. Granted, obviously the food and everything else will
be a purchase price, but that goes down both tomorrow and Sunday. Tomorrow
from noon until eight and then a Sunday from noon until seven. So it
will be in the middle of the day. Again, pack your sunscreen and
dress light. But as the day goes on it will cool off, as
you know, the sun kind of goes down a little bit. Okay,
So those are some sneak peaks at things that are going on this weekend,
right, I want to give you guys a couple of sneak peaks of things
that are coming up that you probably don't want admit. It's a year away,
but Stagecoach tickets go on sale today. So the Stagecoach Country Music Festival
returns to the Empire Po Polo Club in Indio April twenty sixth through the twenty
eighth. Tickets go on sale at eleven am at Stagecoach Festival dot com and
they're only going to be available for like forty eight hours at the discounted prices.
So general admission passes start at three ninety nine and then they have like
more vipsh kind of. They have rhinestone saloon passes for seven ninety nine and
then reserve seating goes four between oh yikes, between nine hundred forty nine and
nineteen hundred ninety nine dollars, So there are several different levels. And the
kicker on this, it's just like Coachella. We don't know who's going to
be there. Sure, they haven't announced the lineup. This year's, which
happened a couple months ago, had Luke, Brian, Kane Brown, oh
my god love Kane Brown and Chris Stapleton. What a lineup. So we
have no idea who's going to be there next year. But if you want
to get your tickets again on sale at eleven o'clock to this this morning and
then one other one Stranger Things. Yea, the Netflix show Yes is coming
to Halloween Horror Nights. Oh, I'm so excited. I already bought my
tickets. You have no idea. I was totally stoved to hear that.
So go ahead, Stranger Things running up that hill. So this year's House
is going to take guests into the mind bending twists and supernatural terror of season
four of Netflix's Stranger Things. So they say that the petrifying Haunted House will
transport guests to Hawkins, Indiana. Of course that's where the show takes place.
They'll encounter the newest supernatural villain, Vechna, who's hell bent on obliterating
the volatile barrier between the eerie upside down and the real world in an attempt
to reign Supreme and Halloween Horror Nights. I have not been to this because
I don't love the super scary, but Nick, you do. Oh I
do, And as I said, I already have tickets for that event.
I will be going on opening night, which will be September seventh. Also
a little pet tease for this weekend with Nick. For next weekend, it'll
be Midsummer's Scream in Long Beach and John Murdy, the creative director from Universal
Studios, will be holding a panel to talk about this as well as the
other mazes that will be happening. That will be on Sunday night, not
this weekend, but the following weekend. And if you've not been to Universal
Halloween Horror Nights, it is absolutely epic, whether you are a fan of
being scared or why, Like, I love the people watching. You can't
miss it, and I would love to take you along with me on the
mazes. I would totally take care of you, but I would probably snicker
a little bit as well, just exactly. And it's it's an amazing experience.
And Universal does it right because this will actually be taking place on sound
Stage fifteen, which is where film movies are filmed, so like it is
literally to that level where you'll be able to really you know, it's Universal
Studios. You immerse yourself in the movie, is there? So yeah,
And Halloween Horror Knights is going to be held if you if you're worried about
getting in forty eight nights this year starting as Nick the weekends of September first
through third, and oh no, that's Universal in Orlando for here. It's
the seventh through the tenth is the first week of it, and it goes
right through Halloween. So and tickets are just they start at seventy nine ninety
nine. So yeah, it's a great opportunity. I mean, really,
if you haven't been to Universal in a while, it's worth checking out because
there's also a little bit of a mix in and to begin the event,
So if you want to catch any of those attractions, you'll be able to
pop into, you know, you know, all sorts of different rides and
attractions even before the Halloween events starts. Fabulous. Okay. You can catch
more on this weekend with Nick on later with mo Kelly tonight at eight.
Thanks so much. Nick. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
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