You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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on your missed hour. Actually woke up okay today Yesterday though I like took
three naps. I don't know why weird with that time change thing and how
it really affects you even though it's just one hour. Here's what's ahead on
Wake Up Call. Oppenheimer and Poor Things cleaned up at the Oscars. The
Atomic Bomb drama won Best Picture, Director, Actor and Supporting Actor seven Oscars
in all. At last night's Academy Awards. Emma Stone won Best Actress for
Poor Things. That was her second Academy Award, and Poor Things picked up
a total of four oscars. A fifteen year old boy has been shot and
killed by a sheriff's deputy at his home in Apple Valley. The San Bernardino
County Sheriff's Departments' deputies shop the teen Saturday afternoon after he came at them with
a five foot long bladed gardening tool. His family had call deputies saying the
boy was attacking them and damaging property at the home. Kung fu panned that
chopped up the competition at the box office, taking in more than fifty eight
million dollars in its opening weekend. Dune Part two came in second in its
second week of release, with more than forty six million dollars in ticket sales.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Well, the
military is moving in and embassy personnel are moving out of Haiti as gangs continue
to ravage the island. Nation. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Oppenheimer was the bell
of the ball at the Oscars. The Men of Oppenheimer scored big, Christopher
Nolan winning Best Director at Killian Murphy winning Best Actor, Robert Donney Junior Best
Supporting Actor. I'd like to thank my terrible childhood all three getting the first
Oscars Oppenheimer with the leading seven wins on the night, including Best Picture.
ABC's Jason Nathansen says Emma Stone won Best Actress for Poor Things. The Holdovers
star Divine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress. It was her first nomination and
I loved her acceptance speech as she sat there, teared up and very blessed.
Not many controversies at this year's Oscars. I'm Steve Gregory. Despite two
high profile wars happening overseas, OSCAR winners didn't spend much time talking about it.
Jonathan Blazer won for Best International Film The Zone of Interest. He said,
they finished the film about the Holocaust just as the Warren Gaza began.
Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being
hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,
whether the victims of October the Quite a few in the audience wore red with
hellpins to support a ceasefire and Gaza. Steve Gregory kay if I News.
John Sena took it all off as he and Jimmy Kimmel presented the award for
Best Costume Design. The two were doing a bit about a nude man running
across the stage when Sena appeared behind one of the props. He was wearing
just sandals and holding a card that covered his private parts. As the nominees
were read, Kimmel covered Sena with the toga. The award went to Poor
Things, A stretch of pch has been closed in Malibu because of a rock
slide. It was reported at late last night at Big Rock Drive. The
road was closed in both directions so Caltran's crews could clear the road. The
highway is still closed this morning because debris is still falling. A man in
Wilmington has been fatally shot by three guys who went to his home. Police
say the man in the house went outside last night, there was a confrontation,
and one guy shot him. Police say the shooter and the two others
then got into a car and drove off. The three are said to be
between fifteen and twenty years old. The Wall Street Journal says the Justice Department
has opened a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a giant hole
on an Alaska Airline's plane. ABC's Morgan Norwood says the hole was caused by
a door plug with missing bolts that blew off in January. The agency demanding
Boeing provide any production documents and information on the specific production shifts and the names
of the twenty five employees at Washington plant who worked on those bolts. Telling
a Senate Commerce committee last week, Boeing has yet to comply, She says,
the Justice Department was already investigating Boeing over two deadly seven thirty seven Max
crashes. Okay, we're waiting to hear from Geordana Miller, and while we
do that, let's check in with our very own Steve Gregory. Some some
people in the LA area have graduated from the first ever Native American Leadership Academy
at the LAPD. The rain didn't stop members of various tribes from accepting their
graduation certificates. The special academy is an eight week class geared to members of
the Native American Community Depity. Chief Don Graham's one of the organizers. LAPD
has been doing community academies for years in order to help bring together the community
and police officers from various aspects of the department to give them a realistic view
of what police do. Most people know policing from television. The ceremony last
Thursday night happened on the grass field of the main Police Academy in Alesian Park.
We wanted to bring them in and not just introduce them to what the
LAPD does, but introduce them to LAPD and humanized our officers. Despite the
chilly weather, participants showed up in their traditional dress, including Mama Pat I'm
Tiwa Taos Pueblo, New Mexico, born and raised in La on Indian relocation.
I learned about the many departments within the LAPD who have resources we could
tap into. That's what I learned, and I also learn on an individual
basis the kindness of the LAPD toward us and the interest that they have in
learning about us. Deputy Chief Graham said when he put this academy together,
he wanted to highlight transit, which is usually never brought up in citizens academies.
I wanted to make sure that we're focusing on communities that are not normally
seen, that we could bring them together with our partners at La Metro,
tell them about how to access the system, how to navigate the system,
about all the programs that are available to support maybe people with lower income.
And that was a big hit. Jennifer von Seka was one of the graduates.
I come from a hashumnation out of Orange County, out of the San
Juan campus. Rano, tell me something in your eight weeks that just blew
you away, that you learned or found out that you'd never even thought of.
Just something that you were like. You walked out of there shaking your
head, going, I had no idea. Oh gosh, I think that
was a little bit of every class. I didn't even realize that if a
person went missing. I always thought it was the old school rule of twenty
four hours that you had to wait depending on their age, and I didn't
realize that if you know that person's pattern, you could literally it doesn't matter
the age, you can literally report them missing right away. Pity Chief Graham
said there were a lot of aha moments on both sides of the table,
and he says it was one of the most valuable learning experiances of his career.
There are three hundred and thirty thousand Native Americans in the County of Los
Angeles. I was the captain of our North Hollywood division, and I am
ashamed to say I would have no idea where that community is in North Hollywood
area. After Mama Pat got her certificates, she shook hands with the LAPD
leadership and other VIPs, then showed off her certificates, smiling with pride.
The takeaway is that we are now high profile in our trauma, and through
this, hopefully more people will take note of those support systems that we desperately
need in our community. But now we have found this through our partnership with
the LAPD, and we are going forward. We will be silent no more.
We wake up. Call. I'm Steve Gregory, k if I News.
Thank you, Steve, and let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller
in Jerusalem. Jordana. Ramadan begins today and the hope was that there would
be a ceasefire before the Holy month began. But that's not happening. That's
right, it's not happening. To great disappointments and Israel and what can you
hear me? Yeah, we got you back, Okay, there is no
ceasfire. Unfortunately, it appears, according to both US and Israeli officials that
Hamas here is the party that just couldn't show enough flexibility clothes to steal.
They're still demanding the absolute end of the war and the withdrawal of all of
Israel's troops from the Godza Strip. We have to remember, those demands leave
Hamas in power and in control of the Goadza Strip, and that's why they
have put them on the table. And everybody knows that, and that is
those are demands are non starters books for the United States and for Israel,
because obviously the aim of this war and the reason the United States supports it
is because Hamas is a terrorist group that has run the Gaza Strip with an
iron fist and carried out these ghastly attacks on Israel and says they would repeat
them. So there's really no you know that there's no room for an accommodation
at the end of this where Hamas is somehow still in control or governing the
Gaza Strip. So it appears Hamas has chosen instead of giving some relief and
giving up just a small group of the hostages it's holding forty out of one
hundred and thirty, it has been to continue this war even through Ramadan,
the Muslim Hoymand, which starts started last night. Today's the first day,
okay. And I mean from all of our conversations that we've been having and
hearing all of this, I mean, it just sounds like I'm thinking,
there's the talks are going on, but it just sounds like both sides there's
so dug in that, like you just said, Hamas is still saying no
release until Israel stops the fighting and gets out, and Israel's saying the fighting
is not going to stop until the hostages are released. So where how do
they even start to find middle ground? Right? I mean, unfortunately,
I think a lot of people are coming to the conclusion that, you know,
maybe it's going to take more weeks of war and more military pressure on
Hamas to finally make a deal, or perhaps Hamas will go down they perhaps
they prefer to go down in fighting and die as quote unquote martyrs, you
know, and and sadly, you know, in that scenario, it's unclear
how many of those hostages would come out alive. Right, there's one hundred
and thirty two, So that's one hundred other hostages. I think you said
those are still alive. You said there was one hundred and thirty two,
and we know that about thirty are dead. You cut out for a second.
That's great, Yes, we know that thirty are dead. Okay.
And now with Ramadan getting underway, there are some new risks. We're hearing
some rumbling that Jerusalem could become a target. Well, security here in Jerusalem
is sky high because during Ramadan, the Alaksa compound, which is Islam's third
Holy a site. It is the place of worship where tens of thousands of
Muslims come over this holiday, especially on Fridays. And unfortunately, in the
past we've seen very violent clashes on the Temple Mount compound a young people who
attack Israeli security forces that are there. Sometimes they turn very deadly these attack
and sometimes they even spark wider conflicts. A few years ago, it actually
sparked a short war in Gaza. Now this year, the fears of you
know, violence are sky high because we have the war in Gaza raging and
according to the and we have hamas calling on militants to come to Alaksa and
attack Israelis, and not only in Jerusalem, but across the country and even
outside of Israel. And then we also have from the Israeli security forces reports
that online incitement has skyrocketed in the last few days and they're getting more and
more warnings of attacks. So it's a very very tense situation here. And
you know, there were some scuttles last night on the first night of Ramadan.
There are no major restrictions in place, though Palestinians regularly complain that youngsters,
young men in their twenties are usually not allowed on even though there's no
policy that they they should be kept out, so they are, you know,
pulling people out to check them. A kind of security profiling that's happening
to try to prevent any unrest or attacks. And everyone's really, you know,
everyone's very worried. And we'll see what happens on Friday, which is
really when up to you know, eighty thousand Palestinians and Israeli Arabs can come
and pray this year. The Israeli government may impose some restrictions even the night
before, for we may hear something on Thursday, so we'll have to wait
and see and report, and that probably isn't going to go over Grady.
They're so gosh, just cra no quick solutions, and I just I'm just
going to continue to pray for peace. We'll just say that, Yeah,
we have to pray for peace exactly. All right, Thank you so much,
Jordana Miller. Appreciate your time and your insights today. Talk soon,
all right, when we come back, we're going to be talking oscars,
highlights, low lights and more. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand
from KFI AM six forty. You didn't oversleep today because of the missed our
daylight saving time. I woke up yesterday and all my clocks reset themselves,
so it was kind of like, no big deal. I'm like, oh,
okay, well, it's it's an hour later than it feels, but
I don't even have to go around and set on my clocks. Here's what
we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hollywood's biggest night is in
the books. Oppenheimer was the evening's top winner seven Oscars, including first Oscar
wins for actors Killian Murphy and Robert Downey Junior, and also director Christopher Nolan.
Emma Stone won Best Actress for Poor Things Divine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting
Actress for The Holdovers. Hundreds of protesters showed up at the oscars or before
them. The LAPD broke the group up at about two forty five. Organizers
say they wanted to disrupt the Academy Awards and expose retaliation against anyone in the
industry who speaks out against Israel. They called for a ceasefire and announced what
they call Hollywood's active supportive genocide. Special counsel Robert hur Is said to testify
before a Republican led House panel. He investigated President Biden's handling of classified documents,
but ultimately declined to bring criminal charges and said the facts stopped short of
finding he willfully retained classified material. The hearings tomorrow at six oh five.
It's handled On the news. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's moving forward in
spite of a warning from President Biden. Here are some more of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State Wildlife officials and the
US Coast Guard continue to monitor the coast of Huntington Beach after the discovery of
an oil schine. About eighty five gallons of oil has been recovered from the
water and about eight hundred pounds of oily waste and tar balls have been recovered
from the shoreline. I love if I see that kind of thing happening.
It's like, why do we keep having this problem? The approximately two and
a half mile long oil sheen was first spotted on Thursday. Offshore recovery assets
are now being demobilized after a crew flew over the area yesterday and didn't see
any oil machine. The cause of the shechine still not known. The LEDWP
says it captured more than thirteen and a half billion gallons of water from the
storm last month. That's enough to serve about one hundred and sixty five thousand
households per year, or equal to filling more than twenty thousand Olympic sized swimming
pools. The city captured eight point four billion gallons of rainwater in February of
last year. Officials in Almonte say the city's guaranteed income pilot program has been
a success. One hundred and twenty five single female heads of household have received
five hundred dollars per month since July. To mitigate the economic strain caused by
COVID nineteen. The Rand Corporation and USC soul Price School of Public Policies studied
the family's progress over the last eight months. Preliminary findings released last week's show
reduced stress, anxiety, and economic strain, plus improved housing stability. Participants
reported spending the money on food, rent, and school supplies. The final
payments go out in May. Corbin Carson KFI News officials in Florida are trying
to help a sperm whale that beached itself on a sandbar off the Gulf Coast,
but conditions in the water have prevented crews from getting near it. Venice
police say the whale was alive yesterday afternoon when it became stranded about seventy five
miles south of Tampa. They say hopes of helping the whale are dwindling.
Let's talk oscars. So overall, I think that the show last night was
really good. And if you've been listening to Wake Up Call, you know
that I'm kind of a junkie when it comes to the awards shows. I
do like to watch them, but over the last few years they've just got
they drag and they've become kind of mundane, and when they get political,
I'd get really grumpy. But I thought that overall the show was really good.
I really liked and tell me if you think the same thing that for
the acting categories, they had their friends and colleagues come up and say something
about each of the nominees. I thought that was a really kind of cool
and personalized way to shake it up just a little bit. I mean,
not earthshaking, but it was something new and different, and I think it
was I like that. I think that one of the first awards given out
for the evening was Divine, who won for the Holdovers, and I just
loved her acceptance speech. She was up there and she was crying and she
said thank you for seeing me, and she said, I pray that I
get to do this more than once. And I just thought it was really
really sweet. And speaking of once, it was the first award. Didn't
realize this for Robert Downey Junior, his first Academy award, Killy Murphy's first
Academy Award, and director Christopher Nolan's first Academy Award. Of course for Oppenheimer,
along with Best Picture. I just want to say, Chris Hemsworth,
thank you for participating. My goodness, he is a good looking man.
He was on early in the show, presenting in a word Billy Eilish's performance
of what was I Made for? Oh Sad Friends. I just think Billie
Eilish more than powerful, so much emotion in her voice, so beautiful and
so perfect for the message of this movie. It was really just a fun,
happy movie, but had so many more layers, and I think it
was just she was just exquisite. And a world also where everyone's looking to
be more contemporary and they're like going to DJs and mixers. I love that
the Oscar still has their full orchestra. Thought that was very cool. Thought
the john Sena moment when he gave out the award for costume design and almost
went full Monty was kind of fun. That guy is ripped. Now Tony's
just looking at me because you didn't watch the Oscars. Came in and he
said, I saw one movie last year, Amy, I'm not watching the
Oscars. Okay, fine, poor things won for costume design it and it
kind of reminded you of how long it takes to make a movie because they're
up there doing their acceptance speeches and talking about how they were all in hungry
and it was at the height of the pandemic when they were filming and everyone
had to wear masks. That was four whole years ago and it's now just
coming to fruition. So very cool. Also, Robert Downey Junior, I
thought was another really kind of fun moment. And he thanked his wife and
said she loved me. Back to life. I thought that was kind of
cool. Godzilla won an Oscar. That was the one movie that Tony saw.
Loved that they all had little toys. Godzilla's when they went up on
stage. That was kind of fun and I was very pleased to see that
twenty days in Mariopul wins in Oscar. I definitely recommend that you see it
because Ukraine has really fallen out of the headlines. So much of the focus
is on Israel and Amask but people are being been being slaughtered in Ukraine for
two years now, and where is the outrage for Ukraine. It was a
political speech, which again I said, I kind of don't like, but
it had to be on this one, and I think that what the filmmaker
said was we cannot change the past. We can make sure the history record
is set straight and the truth will prevail. I thought that was really really
cool. Loved Ryan Gosling. I'm just can he's in my destiny life for
that was a fun moment and he kind of kind of laughed his way onto
stage, almost realizing the ridiculousness of this whole thing. And while Ryan is
not the best vocalist, he still is solid and it's such a fun song.
I mean, and everyone in the audience was on their feet. So
loved Billie Eilish's thank you speech. She was just giddy and it was so
fun to see her show such a because this kind of seems like she's kind
of a subdued person overall. Thought it was like I said, I thought
it was fabulous. Loved when Emma Stone came up and said my dress is
broken. I think it happened during I'm just ken so but man, she
looked fabulous last night. And wow, I didn't know her second well I
did know, but I forgot her second Academy Award not too shabby. And
of course Oppenheimer Best Picture deserved it. I saw eight of the ten and
I think it was it was best Picture and very deserving. So we're going
to be talking more actually with Aaron Benmosch, who was in the room.
She's our news editor here at KFI, but she got to go with Steve
Gregory and go behind the scenes, and so I'm excited to talk to her
because she's the total just movie junkie, and I think she's going to have
some fun perspective for us from what it's like at the Oscars. You're listening
to a wake up call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Here's what
we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Offshore recovery efforts to deal
with an oil sheine off the coast of Huntington Beach are being demobilized. The
gine wasn't seen during a flyover of the area yesterday, but shoreline cleanup tree
teams continue to see tar balls along the beaches. Two birds have died.
About eight hundred pounds of tar balls and oil have been recovered from the shore.
The US Embassy is evacuating non essential staff members from Haiti because of out
of control gang violence. Families of diplomats and others were reportedly being airlifted out
of the capital city of Porta Prince. A post on the Embassy's website yesterday
calls the security situation in Haiti unpredictable and dangerous. The Last Repair Shop has
won Best Documentary Short at the Oscars. It's a movie about four people who
repair and maintain musical instruments used by La School District students. In celebration of
the win, the filmmakers are announcing a fundraising effort to help boost the LAUSD's
music programs. Such a cool program. I gotta go see that. I
did not see that one at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Hundreds of people showed up before the Oscars, not for the glitz and
glamour, but to protest for a ceasefire in Gozip. And if I fifty,
our very own news editor Aaron ben Mosch was at her very first Oscars.
We're gonna see the Oscars through Aaron's eyes. But right now, let's
say good morning to Innovate Realties Suzanne Send, Good morning, Suzanne, Hi,
good morning. Thank you for getting up early with us today because it
is Women's History Month in March and women are making history when it comes to
buying homes. What's going on? Absolutely? Yes, yeah, so it
does show. So data does show that now women have surpassed single women have
surpassed single men in home ownership. So it's it's exciting. It's definitely something
that has changed over the past ten years. But now we're seeing more single
women owning homes all across the US in forty seven out of fifty states.
Okay, and so what is it what's changing? And why is so it's
single women? So there are they just saying I'm not going to wait until
I get married, or or are they just better at save it money?
Why are the women kind of surging in the whole ownership. Yeah, good
question. I mean, there's some data to suggest the women are are saving
a little more and taking life a little a little more seriously. But you
know, I can't we can't say that on a that's not my firm answer.
The one, the one major thing is that women, historically, we
live a little bit longer than men. So you do see kind of an
increase there with women long term. You know, maybe that we're married at
one time, but yeah, but then you know now they're single, so
you see a little bit of that. But I think the interesting data,
the really interesting data come from women who are under thirty. So women under
thirty are actually you know, we can talk about the the income gap a
little bit. Okay, women under thirty don't see that income gap as much
as women over thirty. So women under thirty are actually making just as much,
if not more money than men under thirty. So so women over thirty
are still making less. That is what research does. So so yeah,
yeah, but but you know, it kind of shows that women coming into
the workforce force now at least have you know, a little bit of a
more equal start, and so you do see actually some of this data coming
through in home ownership as well. Okay, so Susan, we know that
home prices are super high, interest rates are high, and so for a
lot of people, the dream of owning a home has kind of gone out
of reach. But what are some things that people can do to help them
sort of get on that path to home ownership. You've got some tips for
us. Yeah, it's a great question. So thankfully there are programs like
the Dream Program in California where specifically we're looking at, you know, brand
new homeowners have never owned a home before, have an opportunity where they don't
need to put up as much in down payment. The government will help them
out with that. That is a really exciting program that launched last year.
It was all the funding for that program was out in just nine days.
But that program is coming back. It's anticipated to be at the end of
April. So we're really excited at least for first time homeowners to give them
a little boost and hopefully get them into their first home. With that as
well, we do and anticipate that rates are coming down this year, so
you know, they're they're they're not at the level we want them right now.
I think the national average is six point eight percent, but we do
expect over the next year that those are going to go down and should help
relieve that pain a little bit there as well well. And I think the
rates were so low, I mean, down at three percent, which were
historically low. I remember my parents had a house in California, I don't
know how many years ago, and they had like seventeen percent interest or something
crazy. So even though they're really high right now, they're still below seven
percent. Isn't horrific? And the chances of us getting back to three percent
is I mean, have you seen any indications that it might get back that
low? It's you know, it got to three percent because of COVID,
right, so we don't we don't need that, we don't want that,
right, Yeah, no kidding. I think think, yeah, you know,
if there is a you know, something something crazy happening in the world,
we might get there. But that's not what anyone wants. I think
the market even at that point was a little bit unstable just because there were
so many people buying, so the cost was you know, on homes were
driven up so high that that's not a great balance either, right, So
you know, we we need something that's reasonable affordable with where home values are
right now. But but you know, we don't see them going back down
a three percent anytime there. Okay. And then Suzanne as a as a
real estate expert, if someone's thinking about like they're like, Okay, I'm
going to start really focusing on getting into a home, what's like the number
one thing they can start doing? The number one thing. I mean,
we talk about saving, but I think that people don't know what they need
to save until they talk to a lender. So that is the most important
thing that anyone can do. Talk to an expert, because you know,
if you're just putting money in the bank, you don't want to be disappointed
when you do end up, you know, start start looking at homes and
connect with the lender eventually and then realize it's not enough, or you know,
maybe I need to strategize in a different way, or I mean a
lot of times your lender's telling you, hey, if you pay off these
three debts, you don't have to have as much down payment and you've actually
qualify for a lot more. So it's just really important to talk to the
people that know what they're talking about so that way when these types of programs
like the Dream program that's coming back, I mean, you want to be
in the know in those situations. So if you're looking for a home,
you want to buy a home this year, stay in contact with your lender.
Okay, Susan Sen, thank you so much for your information. And
it's so good to see that girls are real. Yes, love it all
right, thank you so much for your time this morning. Appreciate it.
That is innovative realties. Susanne Sen. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A fifteen year old
boy has been shot and killed by sam Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies. Where he
came into the house or yes, he broke the window and now he's into
the house. A woman called nine to one one to report a family member
attacking others at their home on Saturday, just before five pm. The first
deputy arrived and was confronted by the fifteen year old, who was armed with
a five foot long garden tool that had a sharp blade on the end.
Bodycam footage shows the boy raising the tool and charging toward the deputy, who
attempted to retreat where's the yeh bye, good bye good back to his side.
The boy was shot by deputies and died at the hospital. Andrew Caravella
KFI News. Saudi oil giant Aramco says it made one hundred and twenty one
billion dollars in profit last year. That's down from one hundred and sixty one
billion in profit report in twenty twenty two. The company said in a filing
that the decrease mainly reflects the impact of lower crude oil prices and lower volumes
sold, also weakening refining and chemicals margins. A new study by the Pentagon
has examined reported UFO sidings from the last seven decades. The Defence Department's All
Domain Anomaly Resolution Office found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence. The study
analyzed US government investigations this is nineteen forty five of reported sightings of unidentified anomalist
phenomena or popularly known as UFOs. It found no evidence that any of those
claims were actually signs of alien life or the The US government in private companies
that reverse engineered extraterrestrial technology and we're hiding it. Sandy Wells KFI News.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Good
Monday morning to you. I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hollywood's biggest night is in the Books. Oppenheimer
was the evening's top winner seven Oscars, including first Oscar wins for actors Killian
Murphy, Robert Downey Junior, and for director Christopher Nolan. Emma Stone won
Best Actress for Poor Things and Divine Joy Randolph one Best Supporting Actress for The
Holdovers. Hundreds of protesters showed up at the Oscars. The LAPD broke the
group up around two forty five. Organizers say they wanted to disrupt the Academy
awards and expose retaliation against anyone in the industry who speaks out against Israel.
Sweden's flag has been raised outside NATO headquarters, cementing the country's place as the
thirty second member of the Alliance. Sweden never wanted to be part of NATO,
but that changed after Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago. We're just minutes
away from handling the news this morning. The Princess of Wales has apologized for
doctoring the first picture of her released since her abdominal surgery a couple months ago.
Right now, let's say good morning to our very own news editor turned
OSCARS reporter Aaron ben moschfrest off her first trip to the Oscars. Good morning,
good morning. Okay, so take us to the Oscars because we know
you were super excited to go. Yes, it was so exciting. We
were met with protesters. It was very hard for them to get to Hollywood
Boulevard, where the red carpet actually was, so they met us at the
press parking lot. There were I would say at least one hundred people there
from what we saw, and we got there around a little after one.
Our bus had to shuttle us through the back roads because everything was shut down.
A lot of them were calling for a ceasefire, and so that really
kicked off the afternoon, which surprisingly I found interesting because there were so many
artists who were on the red carpet wearing red pins, who were showing their
support for a ceasefire. I'm not sure if that message was translated to the
protesters, but that was like, well, probably not, because they didn't
get anywhere really near the red carpet. No, and so that was kind
of like the first exposure we had to the morning we were like all dressed
up and realizing that this big protest was happening. And so when we finally
got to the Dolby, we were working our way through. You could hear
the cheers from the background that people were starting to show up, which was
very exciting. We had been to the walkthrough a few days earlier where people
were wearing like pretend Killian Murphy and like this is where he's going to be,
this is where they were going to be, and so you know,
we were pretend waving to the people who were pretending to be these people.
So did you You weren't on the red carpet though, now and you were
with Steve Gregory. Yes, we've been covering the oscars for years, decades.
Yeah, so it kind of is twenty second year of covering it,
so he kind of knows his way around. So where did you go?
So we were in the press room, which is located in the hotel next
to the Dolby. There was a long stretch hidden pathways, like if you've
ever been to the Dolby, where you see that mall near the Dave and
Busters, like the entire complex was shut down to the public right so that
everything could be converted to walkways for different people whenever they won. So we
were in the hotel press room with ten different monitors so and headsets so we
could tune in to the show as it's happening. And then also whenever a
winner comes through, they shut off the main show so we can interview the
winners. And it's it's very difficult to juggle both because people get into the
show. I was so surprised how into the show the press room was.
Usually I assumed that they'd be very critical, and they're caught like whenever I'm
watching at home, I'm seeing on Twitter all these people criticize the host or
criticize the content, and they were ooing and eyeing and laughing, and you
know, in the middle of someone accepting their award and answering questions, they're
laughing not at what this person said, but at the show. They're still
watching the show. So I found that interesting. Yeah, well, I
think, you know, we're all movie fans, and it is you know,
Hollywood's a town and there is this aura about celebrities. They are just
regular people, but still we get this sort of fanboy thing going. So
it's kind of fun though, just not see them all jaded in the in
the press room and celebrities. They are just like us. They do have
outfit malfunctions, just like us. Emma Stone when she won, not only
was she stunned because she won, her dress was broken. The back of
her dress so cute when she came up on stage and she turns around,
she goes, my dress is broken. Yeah. Yeah, And so by
the time she came backstage, someone had ask like, are you okay,
Like is your dress fixed? Are you still you know, broken in the
back, And she was like, no, no, I was sewn in.
I'm okay now, but I mean it was just so I mean,
we talked to her about a half hour after the show wrapped, so you
know they're coming in at anytime, and most of the time they keep people
back in the Dolby because it is a walk to get to us, so
that way they can see best picture and everything. And she was still stunned
when when she came back, And the same with Killian Murphy, very stoic
when he walked in, kind of like deer in headlights. I think they
were not expecting to win. I was thrilled that I'm a stone one.
Me too, but I was sort of hoping for Paul Giamati for the holdovers
for Best After, but killya. Murphy did a great job too. He's
cuter in person. I will say. Usually he's like kind of creepy or
scary looking on picture and in screen, but when he came up, I
was like, oh, it might be that I just want an Oscar glow,
but yeah, he was cute. Okay, So what was the best
moment of the night for you? Okay, the best moment night fangirl moment,
because I know your sheet. Aaron is a huge, huge, huge
movie fan I am. And it was kind of funny because there were times
where people would start the show was about to start, and people started bringing
out ballots, like empty ballots, and they were like, oh, do
you want one? And I looked at Steve and I laughed because I already
had one marked up that I had been using for like weeks already. But
oh, how man, did you get right? I got more bright than
you did. Well that makes sense because there's some that I I say.
There's like I do like a double Mark there's somewhere I'm like, Okay,
this is what I want to win, and then this is what I think
is going to win. And actually the same way. Sometimes the things I
think will win actually won. And one of the things I was in the
middle of interviewing the sound team for the Zone of Interest, I got a
question in which is very exciting, and it was a very dark question.
The film shot in Auschwitz, which is the Holocaust camp and now a museum,
and I was asking what it was like to actually roll sound there and
what that was like, what that was like emotionally, very intense question.
Suddenly everyone everyone goes and I was like what. And I realized that the
three of us were having our own conversation in our own little world, because
Emma Stone had just won Best Actress and nobody was paying attention to these four
winners, and so that was kind of crazy. But when Chris Nolan walked
in for the first time with an oscar in his hand, I was pretty
shocked. I was like, oh my god, I'm in a room with
Christopher Nolan. Like I had been watching his movies for years and I had
always hoped he would win for my or prestige or something. So that was
very cool when he walked in, and it was very excited. Who seemed
the most tickled to you know, after they got their win that you guys
saw backstage, I would say when Devine Joy Randolph finally came in, I
mean there was a gush of applause for her. I think she was very
proud and excited and over and very emotional. But she had a great energy
when she walked in. People were waiting for her. She did, and
she said she felt blessed and she hoped that this wasn't going to be the
only time that she gets to do this. I thought she was so sweet.
Any big surprises before we wrap up? Uh, the food was good,
okay, Aaron Van Mosch, news editor, extraordinary, just experiencing her
first Oscars. Thank you for showing it to us through your eyes. Appreciate
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