Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI a M six forty
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Orange County. You are in the home stretch. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee
with your Friday morning wake up call. You ever have one of those mornings
where you wake up and you actually feel pretty good, They're like, yeah,
it's Friday. WHOA. Then you have all kinds of technical issues.
And I always feel sort of helpless when there's a technical issue because I like
to fix stuff. I like to I don't like anything being in chaos or
unknown or something like that. So it's just a lot of technical problems before
the show started, and everything's fine now, but it just makes me nervous
and I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed when I can't fix something. You have to
call for help. Hate asking for help. I mean, in my old
age, I've figured out that I have to ask for helping my whold age,
but man, I hate it. But that's here and her there.
I've got kind of a fun wake up call for you this morning because of
some of the business stories that I actually found that every down. And then
when I wake up and I'm trying to find you know, business stories that
happen overnightemly may nothing sounds that great. I've got a story about how you
can make your Mercedes faster. I've got a Southwest story that I think is
gonna completely annoy the pants off you. I've got bedbath and beyond coupon stories.
Oh, it's not just the container's store that wants to take them anymore.
And what is Target doing that might make your shopping experience different at the
store? Target's kind of that one place where I go where I know the
layout of the store and I can go from one side to the other and
get everything from pillows to adville to you a new set of headphones, to
then whatever my pasta or something like that. Now they're screwing it all up.
I'll tell you how. Also, we have a sergeant with the LAPD
recovering after having a portion of his finger bitten off on the platform of Metro's
redline. And then what day would be complete without their mismanagement locally? And
I'll tell you which community says there is complete mismanagement of the bear population.
Five O five we're going to talk about the GDP, the PC and WTH
if you don't know what all that means, right, and we'll see why
the stock market rallied yesterday. All that's coming up in just a few minutes,
but let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A sergeant with the LAPD is recovery after having a portion
of his finger bitten off on a platform of Match Metro's Red Line, and
unfortunately, doctor say they were unable to reattach that portion of his. Sources
in the LAPD say the sergeant and two officers were escorting a writer off the
train yesterday who did not have a TAP card, and while doing that,
they noticed drug paraphernalia, including a meth pipe. During the packdown, the
man attacked officers and bit off part of the sergeant's right pinky. An attack
happened at the Santa Monica Vermont station. The man was booked for mayhem.
An assault on a police officer in downtown LA Steve Gregory King, if I
knew there was a picture floating around on the internet last night of the officer
and he just had like a band aid kind of looking thing on his pinkie.
But I was thinking to myself, how much that must hurt. Think
about when you get your finger caught in the card or we've all done that,
and how bad that pain is. This guy got a portion of his
finger bitten off. A former LAPD officer accused of raping a minor before he
joined the department has been let out of jail. The La County DA's office
says the case has been returned to law enforcement for more investigation. Diego Lopez
was assigned to the LAPD's North Hollywood area. The department says he resigned when
he was confronted with the rape allegations. Samernardino County Sheriff Shanna and Dicas says
people need to pressure lawmakers into amending or removing failed justice reform. Dicas says
Props. Forty seven and fifty seven combined have taken the teeth out of accountability,
but making sense of some felonies, or by making some of the feloniese
misdemeanors and giving early release to thousands of prisoners, you know there's a prison
consequence with a felony hanging over your head. Then you actually see people go
and get drug rehabilitation. Interesting, he says there is a correlation between the
spike and violent crimes and the release of seven thousand parole he's in his county,
six hundred of whom are unaccounted for. He cautions that judicial reforms have
a lot of sway with state lawmakers. Probably a lot of listeners this morning
are going, wth is the GDP and the PC. Well, he's here
to explain it. Caleb Silver, the editor in chief of investopedia dot com,
Good morning, good morning, and I dk if I can do all
this, but I'll give it my best. Ah, well done, well
done. All right, So let's start with the latest GDP numbers, and
are people worried that this could be a recession sort of? I don't know,
like the first sign of oh no, here we go. Yeah.
Well, GDP that's gross domestic product that is really the sum of all the
goods and services we produce and sell in this country. That came in for
the first quarter at one point one percent. That's pretty slow, given that
we were at about two point six percent in the fourth quarter of last year
and twenty twenty two was about two percent. So yeah, the economy slow.
And probably going to slow again this quarter, and that's a telltale sign
of a recession. And when you just have slowing economic growth quarter after quarter,
consumers, though, are still spending. That's keeping the economy propped up.
We know that GDP is really seventy percent consumer spending. So as long
as we keep spending, even though we're running deeper into debt, we're kind
of holding the economy at bay at the moment. But all signs really do
point to a slowdown or some sort of a recession, and you're starting to
feel it in different parts of the market right now. I saw a headline
last night that said the US might be might well be facing stagflation. What
exactly is stagflation? And do you agree with that? Yeah, it is
not one of those crazy bachelor parties that you hear about on the back pages
of the newspaper. Stagflation is slowing growth and rising unemployment. And stagflation could
last for a year, sometimes even decades. Japan went through it for a
very long time. We had a period of it here and in the late
seventies. So stagplation is that period of slowing growth. But when you see
joblessness start to rise, a little bit more. That said, we still
have unemployment below four percent, so we're not quite there yet. This is
a weird time in the economy right now where different parts are working pretty well.
The service is part of the economy's working all right, we're traveling,
we're spending money on those types of things. We're starting to spend a little
bit more out in restaurants, etc. But the goods part of the economy,
where we do a lot of production, that's slowing, and you're seeing
businesses start to cut back both on employees and on the money that they're spending
in terms of building inventories because they think sales are going to slow in the
next two quarters as well. Okay, so I'm teasing out of something that
you just said. You were talking about travel going well. I've got some
numbers from Southwest that I'm going to talk about in the next segment that i
think are annoying me. It's annoying me that Southwest is doing so well.
So I'll get into that in just a few minutes, if you would.
What is the PC now that you want to talk about. PC is the
personal consumption expenditures index. This is another way of measuring inflation. In fact,
this is the way the FED prefers to look at inflation. And that
number comes out and about twenty two minutes. This is the last inflation report
we're going to get before the FED meets next week to raise interest rates,
probably another quarter of a percent. So this is the last data point,
and this is going to come in around four or four point one percent.
Remember the Fed wants that number closer to two percent. So it's a really
good measure of inflation because it's a little bit more dynamic than CPI, the
consumer price index. This is a little bit more dynamic, So the Fed
is going to be looking at this number. I think the decision is already
made in terms of raising interest rates another quarter of a point next week,
but that could be we could be done with interest rate hikes for a while,
and that may be why the stock market perked up a little bit yesterday,
even though corporate earnings reports that are coming in right now are kind of
tampering that enthusiasm down. But this is it. This is the last inflation
report before that big meeting next week. We're going to be keeping a close
eye on it, all right, Caleb, thank you. As always,
I appreciate it. Thank you, have a great weekend. Hey you two,
see you later. That is investopedia dot COM's editor in chief Caleb Silver.
I think you two are going to be annoyed with the Southwest story because
I'll give you even a little bit more of a tease if you are one
of the people who got caught in the holiday meltdown. Oh, this one's
going to be a bee in your bonnet, I promise you. And assemblyman
from Torrance has introduced a bill to boost teacher and school employee pay by fifty
percent. By twenty thirty, teachers earned twenty three point five percent less than
they're similarly educated peers. Democratic Assemblyman Al Mursuchi says college students list low pay
as the number one reason to not go into teaching, and countries like Finland
and Singapore teacher salaries are competitive with jobs and engineering, law and business.
He says many teachers and school employees can't afford to live in the area where
they work. The bill introduced this week would be paid for through a state
grant funding formula. Corbin Carson k if I News, a state Senator from
Riverside, is pushing a bill to make an opioid overdose reversal drug available for
many institutions. State Senator Richard Roth says nilock zone would be available at no
cost for schools, local health agencies, law enforcement, first responders, and
community organizations. The bill cleared its first committee this week on its way to
the Senate Appropriations Committee. Sierra Madre says rare it's mad at the state's mismanagement
of the local bear population, and the city claims it's a threat to public
safety. Officials have called on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to take
action. The impetus is to put on the agencies responsible for this to find
a better solution than what they are currently employing. Er pro Tem Kelly Creep
says the department is not paying enough attention to the problem. Three people in
Sierra Madre been seriously injured by a bear in the last six years. The
Department of Fici and Wildlife says it's been very active in Sierra Madre. It
says it's updating its statewide bear management plan in cr. Madre, Blake Trolley
k if I news well, from bears to deer, there's a blacktailed mule
deer that has become the first wild animal in California to get COVID nineteen.
State wildlife officials say the deer was found in El Dorado County by rangers who
thought the deer had chronic wasting disease. I don't even know what that is.
It's not known how the deer got the virus, but officials say state
veterinarians and medical professionals are working to better understand how the virus might move between
animals and people. Officials say there is no evidence the virus is transmitted from
infected meat. The US Census Bureau says about one in four households that got
extra help during the pandemic have reported not having enough to eat. That's because
an emergency program through the federal government SNAP program was discontinued March first. ABC's
Anne Flaherty says a survey estimates monthly SNAP payments have declined for about thirty two
million people. The survey says a household of four with a net monthly income
of two thousand dollars got nearly nine hundred dollars more in SNAP benefits in early
twenty twenty three than they did before the pandemic started. Now, the end
of the program means the households get six hundred dollars less each month. The
exact reduction in benefit amount varies, but the Census says households get at least
ninety five dollars less per month. Tourist attraction in California is being closed because
of possible flooding. Member We talked about this yesterday, how the snow melt.
Because of the warm temperatures that we're getting this weekend nineties near one hundred
in the central Valley area, it's going to melt all the snow, and
they're supposed to be winds that go through there as well, so we're going
to get sort of that hair dryer effect on top of the melting snow,
just from the temperatures. The National Park Service says most of Yosemite Valley will
be closed from ten o'clock this morning through at least next Wednesday because of the
expected flooding. The mer Said River in Yosemite National Park is expected to reach
floodstage this weekend, and there's a Park Service alert that says flooded roads and
infrastructure will make it unsafe for you to visit Yosemite Valley and here's one.
I've never seen this one before, although I would have loved to have been
in the courtroom for this one. Pop star Ed Sheeran was singing on the
witness stand to defend himself in this copyright infringement trial, so he had.
He's accused of copying parts of Marvin Gay's nineteen seventy three hit Let's Get It
On for his ballad from twenty fourteen, thinking out loud, Oh, Tyler
says he's actually got it. Okay, let me hear it, Tyler,
Well be loving you too seventy Okay, Tyler, you say you've got the
mixed down of the two songs. Let's hear it two seventy. I mean,
okay, maybe they have kind of the same I don't know, beat,
and maybe they're kind of in the same key, although if you told
me Ed Shearon's was in like a whatever key. This is something sharp.
I don't know, Tyler, what do you think? I think that our
Michelle and Anne in there. But I will say that while they sound similar,
they're different enough yes where I don't think that this is something that should
be setting the precedent for music making going forward. I think that there should
be you should be able as an artist to make callbacks. Yes, because
all artists nowadays are influenced by artists from the past. Well, that's what
exactly what I was gonna say. I wonder if ed Shearon ever has a
little Marvin Gay kind of going on in his background, because anybody, I
mean, I'm a very I'm a crappy songwriter. I am no Taylor Swift,
but there are times when I'm putting together a song and there's something in
the back that reminds me of, oh, hey, you know what.
This reminds me of the Rascal Flat song whatever, or it reminds me of
the Edwin McCain's song whatever. It's also music we're all trained to. When
you're putting something together, and say you're in the key of G or something
like that, you have certain chords that you're gonna play. Right, You're
gonna play a C and an F and a G and an E minor because
that's the way that it goes. So could a song that I'm writing sound
similar to god forbid a Taylor Swift song, Yes, because there are only
so many notes in that key. And then on top of that, you've
got a certain beat. So what if you're in the same key with the
same beat as somebody else. That is probable when you're putting a song together.
Anyway, I just thought it was fascinating that there's Ed Shearon on the
witness stand playing thinking out loud to himself essentially. He also played some chords
on his acoustic guitar to show how his song differed from the Marvin Gay hit.
Now he's actually going to testify again when the trial resumes on Monday.
But I bet the fact that we didn't know that he was going to be
on the stand singing and playing yesterday, I bet that had a big thing
to do with the popularity of this. Like I'm saying, if there were
five reporters in the courtroom on Friday, they're going to be twenty five on
Monday, hoping that they get to see something like this. All right,
let's get into your biz bites this morning that I've got a little am radio
alert for you when we wrap it up. Do you have a Mercedes Benz
and do you want to increase its horsepower by sixty You could for sixty dollars
a month or go for eighty horsepower. Increase for ninety dollars a month.
Hey about a second. Yeah, the map doesn't d up there for the
eighty, for the ninety sixty, for twenty more horsepower, But I gotta
pay sixty bucks for sixty horse power. Yeah, I know it's not right,
it's not right right. However, I don't know if you, if
you have out there anybody, If you have a Mercedes, they go plenty
fast. You don't need this extra month, although I guess if you've got
sixty bucks or nine bucks to throw at it, have at it all day
long. You don't have to visit a Mercedes dealer to get the upgrade either,
even you can even leave it in your driveway. It's the added power
which will provide a nearly one second decrease from zero to sixty acceleration that'll be
available on an over the air software patch. Shame on you, Mercedes.
Shame well, it's a really you're going to pay sixty bucks a month,
seven hundred bucks a year, seven twenty a year to have a one second
decrease in your zero to sixty acceleration so that you can get the additional horsepower.
Dumb, dumb, spend your sixty dollars somewhere else. That's what I
say. It's not just the Container Store that's going to take those expired bed
bathroom Beyond coupons, the you know, twenty percent off one item or twenty
percent off your whole purchase kind of thing. Now Big Lots is saying that
it is assisting shoppers nationwide. Is the way it put it by accepting the
bed Bathroom Beyond coupons until May seventh. Big Lots says our mission is to
help people live big and save lives, and the Container's store says you can
bring your coupons in through May thirty. First, all right, here's the
story that I have a feeling if you were one of the people who was
stuck at the airport during the Southwest holiday meltdown, and you were one of
the people who couldn't get out on Christmas Day, maybe I had to work.
I have a friend who's a firefighter. He just couldn't get out any
sooner than Christmas Day, got stuck at the airport, totally missed Christmas Day.
Now, Southwest says it's booking in March were strong, allowing revenue to
soar twenty two percent to five point seven billion. Dollars. That was up
from a year ago, and that included the effects that were still on the
airline from the COVID cases. I mean, the strong demand. I guess
we don't care. I guess if you're you're trying to get to point A,
you know, or eight from point A two point b, you don't
care. If you're helping Southwest make money, you're going to be pissed if
your plane doesn't go out on time, which I don't know if you fly
south It's really the only airline I fly, because I usually only go from
here to either the Bay Area or to Sacramento. It sucks. I just
plan on delays. That's that's more the you know SP the standard operating procedure,
it seems of Southwest. And I mean there have been times where I've
got to the airport found out my flight was going to be like two hours
delayed, and I end up just going and I forget it and I drive
instead. I know it's a sucky drive to Reading it's like nine hours,
but still so anyway, it's just annoyed the pants off me last night that
Southwest had record revenues, even though every holiday traveler during that meltdown got screwed
over. One of the strategies that Target is using during its efforts to curb
shoplifting. Remember the story we were talking about about certain stores locking things up.
Target is the most recent one. The company says it's keeping all items
in the personal care aisle at a location on San Francisco's Folsom Street in the
lockshelves. So now if you need to go get I don't know, toothpaste,
toothbrush, deodorant, that kind of stuff, it's all gonna be behind
plastic at certain Target locations where the shoplifting has been prevalent. Folsom Street,
right there in the financial district San Francisco, not far from the tender Loin,
which is the district where all the homeless people live. And it's I
mean, it's just drugs down the street. You walk down the street,
there are needles. I don't know that I've ever been in the tender Loin
and not seen needles, and this isn't far from that area locked up.
A lawmaker from Torrance has introduced a bill that would hike teacher pay in the
state by fifty percent over the next seven years. A decision has been delayed
on whether the Massachusetts Air National guardsmen suspected of leaking that classified military documents or
all of those should remain in jail until his trial. And there's a memorial
mass for LA Mayor Richard Reardon, who is being held or that is being
held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown LA. Dozens
of local officials passed and present are expected at the service this afternoon, including
current LA Mayor Karen Back. Reardon died at his home last week in Brentwood.
He was ninety two. Hey, there's talk about AM radio being removed
from new cars and trucks. That would remove access to the very AM radio
stations that millions of Americans count on for local emergency information, especially when your
cell phone is dead. You're not going to get one a little one line
text alert because the cell towers are down in an emergency, right, So
when emergencies do occur, it's your local broadcast radio station that is there for
you, providing wall to wall coverage, life saving information and a live connection
to the crisis. So make your voice heard on this issue. Text the
letters AM to five two, eight, eight six and tell Congress to keep
AM radio in all cars and trucks. Standard messaging rates apply ab season as
de la Kutera joins us. Now this morning, Oh, let's talk about
the coronation for King Charles and what the pomp and circumstance is expected to be.
Good morning in z Hey, good morning, yet just over a week
ago until the King's coronation, and we are learning more about how this will
all unfold. So the Palace overnight releasing a document essentially explaining who's going to
be doing what, and they're saying that there's going to be a diverse range
of players involved here. So there's going to be members of the armed forces,
descendants from the country's oldest families, but also people from public life,
so for instance, an actor from Queen Camilo's favorite radio show, as well
as a former TV host and racial equality champion. All major faiths in the
UK will be represented, and the Palace is saying that the coronation will reflect
the fact that we are in the twenty first century, that times have changed,
so that's part of the reason we'll be seeing such a diverse range of
players. The ceremonies themselves have also been adapted, so these are very ancient
rituals that have been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, and the Palace
says they have now been freshly interpreted for the modern day. So, you
know, I think the coronation in and of itself will be an exciting time
because rarely see events like a coordination happening, but this one will be all
the more exciting because we're gonna have to you know, I think it'll be
interesting to see how the Palace will have reimagined some of these ancient rituals.
Who's going and who got snubbed? So the big that's a big question here.
The big name that the one, you know person they think everybody was
looking forward to or to see what she would decide, is of course Megan
Marcole. She's going to be staying behind in California with her children, and
Prince Harry though for his part, will be attending. So that's gonna be
significant, you know, with this Prince Harry and Megan marco making all sorts
of allegations damning claims about the royal family in recent weeks and months, with
you know, in that That Place documentary, in TV interviews of course,
in Harry's book Spare and so um, this will be the first time we
see him, you know, publicly interacting with his brother with the King,
so all eyes are going to be on those interactions. Okay, Megan Markle,
did she get invited or is she just staying back as a sort of
I don't know show of I don't want to be a part of this.
Yeah, they're saying that she's staying back to just be with her children in
California. There was all sorts of speculation recently, with the British press reporting
that she actually wasn't going to be attending because of a letter she had sent
to King Charles about unconscious bias in the royal family and that they had kind
of had a falling falling out over that and that that was the reason she
wasn't coming. She slammed down, you know, she shut down those rumors,
slammed the British press port for reporting that and said that that was absolutely
ridiculous, that that has nothing to do with why she's not going. So
um, you know, still still some questions there. She's we're not really
getting a whole lot of insight into her thinking, but they are framing it
as she's staying in California with her children. All Right, I guess we
have to take it at that at this point, how long does a coronation
last. She's gonna be several days, three days, and you know,
lots of pomp and pageantry and and lots of processions and ancient rituals probably you
know, similar to to some of the stuff we saw during the jubilee last
year. Um, but the public is also being encouraged to celebrate it and
to kind of join in here. So there's going to be, for instance,
on one of the days, the public is being encouraged to hold what
they're calling at coronation big lunch events, so they they're encouraging people around the
country to hold their own lunches with members of their community to celebrate the king's
coronation. So, um, it's it's gonna be. I think there's gonna
be, yeah, a variety of different events, and it's really just going
to be one big party and then and and the mood is just is meant
to be fessive and fun. I was reading up on one of like one
of the menu items. I guess that is, uh, that is Charles
and Camilla's favorite, and it's like a Keish dish, but it's a Keish
dish that had like shredded chicken and butter beans in it. And I was
thinking, you know, that's quiche that I've ever had is like cheese and
bacon, or cheese and broccoli or something like that. But I'm not sure
I'm okay with a bean and chicken keiche. That sounds horrible. That's just
kind of strange. And I live in France, so I think the average
French person would probably tell you that that does not qualify as a keishy,
you know, so I think, yeah, yeah, keep an eye on
the French criticism on that. I had not seen that headline. That's funny.
Yeah, details are going to be coming out. We're starting to see
reports also what people are going to be wearing and all of that. So
Slatsa and I saw there was also they just moved a big stone that's a
very ancient historic stone that has been used for coronations for hundreds and hundreds of
years, and that was just moved this morning from Scotland to London. So
we're gonna be learning more and more about these kind of fun, quirky details
over the next few days, all right, thank you so much, and
as how fun, thank you all right, see you later. That is
ABC's Inez Dela Kuta. I'm trying to pull up the the recipe on this
and let's see. So the recipe has tarragon chicken broad beans as they call
it, which is kind of like a butterbean. Here, those big fat
white beans that you might get in like a I don't know I've seen him
in like you know, a cowboy beans or something like that. That sounds
terrible, in like a kiche so with eggs. Oh god, Wayne,
if he's listening, he hates eggs periods though I can't even imagine his gag
reflex hearing that. Finally, Conservative Dad's Ultra Right Beer, which launched immediately
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An Ultra Right beer is expected to surpass a million dollars in sales by
Sunday, gaining over ten thousand customers and selling twenty thousand six packs since it
launched in April. Now, the Ultra Right CEO Seth Weathers told Fox Business
this is more than a beer company. We are a movement of people speaking
up and saying no, we're done. This is our line in the sand,
or your bubbles in the beer, as the case may be. Any
So, there you go. So that's the big flipping of the bird,
shall we say, from Ultra Right Conservatives to bud Light, using Dylan mulvaney
as a spokesperson. You just can't make this stuff up. Jason Nathanson,
Good morning to you, ABC's entertainment correspondent. So I remember as a kid.
I think this was like standard reading for every kid in the seventies and
eighties, or every girl anyway, Judy Bloom smash Hit. Are you there?
God, it's me Margaret, And now it's coming to a movie theater
near you. However, it always makes me nervous when kind of a I
don't know what, a tween classic or something like that hits the big screen,
because you wonder is it gonna be as good as the book and does
the author like it? Sure? And with this and I was trying to
remember, I know I read it. I don't remember if it was a
part of school that I read it or if it was outside of school.
But this is definitely it's one of the and it's been banned at some schools
over the years. Uh. There, you know, there's a lot of
history with this book. Also, it's from nineteen seventy so it's been a
classic for fifty three years and nobody's made it a movie until now, which
is a little bit strange, right because you would think Hollywood wants to adapt
everything, you know, everything, every book that it can get its hands
on, and this has not happened yet. So you know, a lot
of things to wonder about this. Uh, this was done with Judy Bloom's
consent and with her you know, she she was part of the process.
She even has a little cameo in there, so if you know what she
looks like, you look to spot her. Um. It's very very quick
though, I'll just tell you that. And it's if you don't remember the
school. I Again, like I said, I read it, I don't
remember the story at all, so um, and I think a lot of
people going into it it will feel the same way. So it's not like
even that I could say, oh, it didn't stick to the book,
or it did. I don't really remember, and I think that's going to
be the case for a lot of people. It starts Abby Ryder Forston,
who plays Margaret. She you might remember her. She was the original young
daughter in the ant Man movies opposite Paul Rudd. She's growing up down becoming
a fantastic actress. She's a sixth grader, she's just on the edge of
hitting puberty, right, So things are changing, bodies changing, her family's
changing. This is also, by the way, set still in nineteen seventy.
They didn't bring it up, they didn't modernize anything. Yeah. I
think I think that was a good touch there. Yeah. So she is
also as all these changes are going on around her and within her, she's
also thinking about religion because her dad is Jewish, her mom, who's played
by Rachel McAdams, who's very good as well. Her mom was well was
kind of was formally Christian, and they decided not to raise their daughter with
any religion and told her she could figure it out for herself and you know,
choose whatever religion she wants. And so she's kind of going through different
religions and exploring them and looking at them, which is also very I think,
an interesting storyline. The film itself, it's charming, it's sweet.
It has this old school feel to it, which we I think, I
feel like we don't get movies like this a lot these days. I feel
like Meg Ryan could have been in a version of this from the nineties and
maybe even Tom Hanks. Uh. It's I really enjoyed it. I think
for families, especially with kids at this age, I think it's gonna be
great. Open up some great conversations as well, and it'll be Kathy Bates
also is in it. She plays with the grandmother. She's She's She's fantastic.
There's a lot to like for this movie, and I enjoyed it.
Okay, that's awesome, all right, what about a small light? I
had not heard about this. Yeah, this is a mini series coming to
nat Geo starting on Monday. First two episodes will be on there and then
the next day on disney p Us. This is about the It's it's the
Anne Frank's story, but kind of with a twist. We I think a
lot of people know the Anne Frank story. Again, that's a book definitely
had to read in school, and I think a lot of people know that
story and are very familiar with that story, and that's been told on the
screen a couple of times. This is from the viewpoint of Meep Geese,
who was She was a young woman who worked for Otto Frank and Frank's father
and she helped hide them and the other family in the attic. And she
was also a you know, young woman living in Amsterdam going through the Nazi
occupation and also how she got involved with the resistance and her husband gets involved
with the resistance. This is a fantastic mini series, which you know,
it's not Geo not necessarily known for their great mini series, although they have
had a couple of really good ones, but not to this level of quality.
This is like HBO level quality mini series. It's gonna be Emmy nominated
and competing. And Bell Polly who who stars and plays me pikis alongside Lee
Schreiber who plays Otto Frank. Leaf Schreiber is very good in this. I
you know, I think sometimes we forget how good of an actor he is.
But bell poly who is the star. It does a very very good
job, and again we'll see her nominated for stuff. I interviewed Leev Schreiber
one time. Yeah, he was kind of a twit, I gotta be
honest. Interesting. Yeah, I'm glad he's a good actor because I did
not have a good ten minutes with him or whatever. I think a lot
of people expect that he's going to be uh maybe rude or abrasive or kind
of short with his answers. I've had nothing but fantastic experiences with him.
Okay, maybe I just got him on a bad day, or maybe it's
just you, or maybe it's just Jason for going straight there. I don't
appreciate that. Okay, So I like that. You like that one though.
So we're two for two on this Yes, what do you think about
now? What's the next one? Citadel? What do you think about Citadel?
Oh? We were two for two. No, we're not going to
be three for three on Citadel. Citadel is coming to It's on Prime Video
today. Um. I think there might be a couple of episodes. Um,
it's already renewed for a second season. This is from Joe and Anthony
Rutho Russo who made the Avengers movie Avengers Endgame, UM and uh Captain America
as well. The stuff that they've done outside of Marvel has been far less
well reviewed than the stuff that they did inside of Marvel. This is an
action series from what I understand, a very expensive action series for Prime video.
It stars Prianka Chopra jonas Richard Madden. The two of them are spies
or X spies. They're part of this Citadel spy group that was taken down
by Manticore, which is a shadow shadowy group. And Stanley Tucci is also
in it as when this sties doing action stuff which you don't normally see from
Stanley Tucci. That's fun to watch him kind of be a bad guy or
not not a bad guy, but like you know, a guy who's thrown
his weight around and you know, beating people up and doing stuff like that.
Um, but you know it's just kind of it looks good. I
see where the money is spent, and this cast is wonderful, and the
cast and the cast is certainly good. It's just kind of running the mill
generic for me, Like I didn't find anything. There's nothing special or necessarily
I felt like I've seen every beat before. Um oh, I see,
okay, So it wasn't it wasn't necessarily bad. I didn't have a bad
time watching it, just you know, it's not something I think, Yeah,
I'm just not going to continue with it. You know, in this
day and age, something really has to grab you in order to keep you
watching. And it just it didn't grab me. All right, So I
don't know that I could be grabbed by yet another Peter Pan. Are you
serious? Yes, there's another Peter Pan. There seems like there's been a
lot of Peter Pan, right, I mean it seems like we've we've seen
this story over and over and over. Yeah, there's a musical version on
NBC, right that they did a couple of years ago. Um um,
and then just all the all the others. Uh, this is Peter Pan
and Wendy. It is on Disney Plus. This is the latest Disney version
of a live action taking one of their animated classics and making it live action.
Right. They didn't done that with various success. I think Beauty and
the Beast was the was the high point a few years ago, like six
years ago, or so um and did really well at the box office,
and I think they've been trying to recapture that magic ever since. Uh,
the most recent Pinocchio was not good. There was a there was a Dumbo
that was, you know, not good. So they've been a really up
and down. This one is okay, So it's not It's not as bad
as you know, some of the worst ones. It's not Beauty and the
Beast quality um. But again it begs the question, do we need another
Peter Pan and Wendy Um. This is pretty faithful to the anim made a
nineteen fifty three film and the novel if Jude law Yara Shihiti, Jim Gaffigan
as Molly Parker. You have a really good cast here and the guy the
interesting. The director of it is David Lowry, who directed The Green Night,
which it was kind of a cult classic a couple of years ago.
A lot of people loved it. I was baffled by it, did not
understand it. It was the strangest movie. He's an interesting choice to direct
here. But again, and also one of the things I actually like about
it is the music is there a little bit, but it's not a full
blown musical. Oh good, Yeah, yeah, so, because I'm not
really a full blown musical kind of guy. Unless it's I'm going to see
a musical, I don't want it to like break out in music in the
middle of it. Well, and the original was you know it was it
was. The animated film was a musical. I believe it was based off
a play originally, which I believe is where some of the music came from.
So this is known as a musical property. But they just have,
you know, snippets of the songs here and there, which I appreciate it.
Jason, You're so much fun. I love Friday's chatting with you.
We'll do it again next week. Can't wait. Looking forward to it.
All right, Thanks to you later. Leef Schreiber. By the way,
if you're listening this morning, which I'm sure you are, I think we
should try it again. You know, this was like twenty years ago.
You were kind of just making a name for yourself. Maybe Jason's right,
Maybe somehow I was annoying to you, like I'm ever annoying. Please kf
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