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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Friday, October eighteenth.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: We're less than two weeks away from Halloween. Do you
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna dress as yet? I could be
Speaker 1: a Dodger fan. Nope, that's what I'm dressed as today. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a game yesterday Dodgers blow out the Mets ten
Speaker 1: to two. Show Hey He's back. Love it, love it,
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 4: Hate it.
Speaker 1: Hate it that I can't watch it on TV because
Speaker 1: I don't have FS one on my subscription and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to pay a hundred bucks to get it.
Speaker 1: But the good news is you can listen anytime on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. So that's where I was watching TV
Speaker 1: last night and I had my phone and I listened
Speaker 1: to the game and oh my god, it was a
Speaker 1: fun game. So they play again this afternoon. One more
Speaker 1: win and the Dodgers are headed to the World series.
Speaker 1: The Mets are going to try to stop that. We
Speaker 1: know producer Michelle's cheering on the Mets. I am well,
Speaker 1: they're going to have to show up today, and Miracle
Speaker 1: Mets better show up today. If not, it's over. You
Speaker 1: can't complain about it. They didn't show up to play
Speaker 1: last two nights, so it's too bad. Yep. And you're
Speaker 1: hearing Michelle's voice because Anne is taking the day off.
Speaker 1: So we have producer Michelle in and Kono's out because
Speaker 1: it's his birthday. So Robin is in and Nick is
Speaker 1: back and we are ready to go. So here's what's
Speaker 1: ahead on wake Up. A red flag warning goes into
Speaker 1: effect this morning in the mountains and valleys of La
Speaker 1: and Ventura Counties, with low humidity and wind gusts expected
Speaker 1: up to fifty miles per hour. Fire danger will be
Speaker 1: increased until at least tomorrow evening. HESBLA says it is
Speaker 1: beginning a new and escalating phase in its war with Israel.
Speaker 1: Zbola says they've killed fifty five Israeli soldiers since Israel
Speaker 1: started its ground operations in Lebanon. The statement from Hezbollah
Speaker 1: did not mention the death of Hamas leader Yaha Sinhwar,
Speaker 1: who was killed by Israeli forces Wednesday. We're going to
Speaker 1: be talking more about the repercussions and opportunities tied to
Speaker 1: Sinhwar's death with ABC's Jordana Miller. That's coming up at
Speaker 1: five point twenty. Smoking is losing its allure with kids.
Speaker 1: We're going to be finding out more about that with
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan. That's coming up in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Hey, more and more people are done turning
Speaker 1: up and down their thermostats and turning on and off
Speaker 1: their lights and their sprinklers. The home monitoring revolution is coming.
Speaker 1: Is coming up with the House Whisper. We'll be talking
Speaker 1: to Dean Sharp at the bottom of the hour. And then,
Speaker 1: if you want to curl up on your couch this weekend,
Speaker 1: ABC's Willgans has some binge worthy shows to share with
Speaker 1: you that will both warm your heart and scare the
Speaker 1: pants off you. That's coming up at five fifty. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Santa Ana. Winds are
Speaker 1: expected to whip through parts of southern California today, prompting
Speaker 1: the National Weather Service to issue that red flag warning.
Speaker 1: They are for the Santa Clarita and San Fernando Valleys,
Speaker 1: Calabasas and San Gabriel Mountains, as well as the five
Speaker 1: and fourteen freeway corridors and the Inland Empire. Meteorologist John
Speaker 1: Sook says the warnings are issued under certain conditions.
Speaker 5: The reason why we issue these red flag warnings is
Speaker 5: because we have a potentially dangerous combination of strong winds
Speaker 5: and low RHS that can lead to strong fire control concerns.
Speaker 1: He says, it's going to be windy again tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: the winds should taper off by Sunday. La County Supervisor
Speaker 1: Catherine Barger and Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer have asked
Speaker 1: the county's cancer Surveillance program to look into claims that
Speaker 1: Chiquita Canyon landfill and Kistaic has caused a cluster of
Speaker 1: cancer cases. People who live in the area have complained
Speaker 1: of headaches, burning eyes, rashes, and nausea. Landfill officials say
Speaker 1: smells from the facility are due to landfill reaction in
Speaker 1: an older part of the waste area. The Feds have
Speaker 1: charged sixteen people with a billion dollar drug operation that
Speaker 1: moved sixty tons of cocaine from La into Canada. Every
Speaker 1: year they.
Speaker 4: Would use contract killers to sassinate anyone who they saw
Speaker 4: as a constacle. US attorney La Martine Strada says the
Speaker 4: cruise leader, former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who's a fugitive
Speaker 4: with a fifty thousand dollar reward, ordered to hit on
Speaker 4: a couple from India.
Speaker 5: This was a case of the stake of identity, but
Speaker 5: that had been mad.
Speaker 6: They were killed in cold blood in front of their dogs,
Speaker 6: who had also shot thirteen posts.
Speaker 4: Strata said yesterday as just one example of the billion
Speaker 4: dollar profits from just April to September of this year,
Speaker 4: inves togaters intercepted two hundred and fifty million dollars in crypto.
Speaker 4: Corbin Carson KFI.
Speaker 1: News the Dodgers are now within one win of going
Speaker 1: to the World Series. They beat the Mets ten to
Speaker 1: to last night in Game four of the National League
Speaker 1: Championship Series. Show Hey Otani and Mookie Betts led the
Speaker 1: way with home runs and four runs apiece. Manager Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts says, the players are single minded.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can kind of quantify it, but
Speaker 4: I do believe that, you know, the mindset, the attitude
Speaker 4: you know, is applicable and manifest itself into winning baseball games.
Speaker 1: We sure hope that continues. The Dodgers lead the series
Speaker 1: three games to one. Game five of the best of
Speaker 1: seven will be played this afternoon in New York. First
Speaker 1: pitch goes out at two oh eight. It is five
Speaker 1: oh seven on your Friday morning wake up call. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about kids smoking. But first I want
Speaker 1: to mention the Texas Supreme Court which has halted a
Speaker 1: scheduled execution. And are you back in Texas?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: I am, You are okay, So tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about this case, because we know that Texas is
Speaker 1: known it's got a pretty high execution rate for convicted killers.
Speaker 1: But this case is a first of its kind.
Speaker 7: It is this would have been the first time that
Speaker 7: somebody was put to death in recent years, at least
Speaker 7: for shaking baby conviction. Right, the shaking baby syndrome has
Speaker 7: been largely the debunked by scientists and doctors. Then, some
Speaker 7: three dozen people have been exonerated after they were convicted
Speaker 7: of shaking baby homicides. So Robert Robertson's case was unusual
Speaker 7: in that way. He was still sitting on death row
Speaker 7: waiting for his execution. It was scheduled for yesterday. I
Speaker 7: think a lot of people were expecting that it would
Speaker 7: be followed through, that it would actually be put to death.
Speaker 7: But there is a fascinating gambit played by members of
Speaker 7: the Texas legislature. A lot of people have come to
Speaker 7: his defense, including members of the legislature of both parties,
Speaker 7: Amy to say that they wanted this case re examined.
Speaker 7: Even the original detective on the case said, I think
Speaker 7: he's innocent. We were caught up in trying to convict
Speaker 7: somebody and we made a lot of mistakes, and then
Speaker 7: he probably shouldn't be sitting on death roat well. So
Speaker 7: the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence met Wednesday and
Speaker 7: it's members there were seven of the nine present there.
Speaker 7: They said, Okay, what we're gonna do. We're going to
Speaker 7: hold a hearing here. We're going to schedule another hearing
Speaker 7: for next Monday to talk about shaking baby syndrome, and
Speaker 7: we want Robert Robertson to testify next Monday. So they
Speaker 7: shoot a subpoena for him. So this essentially the legislature
Speaker 7: was saying, yeah, don't put him to death. We want
Speaker 7: him here to testify before us. The case was wrangled
Speaker 7: out yesterday throughout the day. The Texas Court of Criminal
Speaker 7: Appeals said, now we're gonna let the execution to go forward.
Speaker 7: That's a ridiculous argument. The state legislature can't trump the
Speaker 7: will of the people or the Justice Department and have
Speaker 7: somebody not put to death. Well, later in the evening
Speaker 7: then the Texas Supreme Court trumped the lower court and said, no,
Speaker 7: we think he probably should testify next week, so don't
Speaker 7: put him to death. This is crazy. There's the whole story.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's got ten million different angles on it.
Speaker 7: It's going to make a great book someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Jim, a two year old died in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two. Robertson was convicted. So, and you're saying
Speaker 1: that shake and baby syndrome that has been debunked.
Speaker 6: It has.
Speaker 7: I'd not really heard much about it in the last
Speaker 7: few years, but yeah, apparently it's not really a thing
Speaker 7: according to scientists and researchers now who've been looking at
Speaker 7: it since then. I think that some people still believe
Speaker 7: it's obviously it's not a good idea to shake a
Speaker 7: baby anyway, but in terms of a criminal conviction, it's
Speaker 7: not grounds for a criminal conviction.
Speaker 1: So then how did the baby die?
Speaker 7: He had always insisted, Robertson had insisted that the little girl, Nicky,
Speaker 7: had fallen out of bed. She had a knot on
Speaker 7: the back of her head that the investigators found there.
Speaker 7: That's what he said. And also during his investigations, he
Speaker 7: didn't show much emotion. He wasn't upset his daughter had
Speaker 7: just died. Police were talking to him, and he just
Speaker 7: sort of seemed distant and detached. Cops didn't know at
Speaker 7: the time he is autistic. He really doesn't show much
Speaker 7: emotion ever, and that's part of what the detectives now
Speaker 7: are saying. We didn't realize that, and if we'd known,
Speaker 7: we might have handled the investigation a bit differently. So
Speaker 7: that's one of the things that Sam to death throw
Speaker 7: his own autism and this flat affect, as they call it.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see because I mean, think about that,
Speaker 1: if he's been in prison for twenty years, if he
Speaker 1: didn't kill her, I mean, if she really did fall
Speaker 1: out of it, and I mean, he just the hell
Speaker 1: he's been living through, right, dealing with that, just knowing
Speaker 1: that his child had died. I mean yeah.
Speaker 7: The thinking now is that she had pneumonia there too
Speaker 7: before this, and that she was still recovering. It may
Speaker 7: have been complications from pneumonia. It could have been an
Speaker 7: actual fall out of bed. She also had apnea, serious
Speaker 7: sleep apnea, which might have contributed to this whole thing too.
Speaker 1: So okay, well we'll be watching.
Speaker 7: It came close to execution, they had already transferred him
Speaker 7: from Texas death Row to the execution chamber, which is
Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty miles away, so he barely slipped
Speaker 7: out of that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll be watching to see what happens next. Now,
Speaker 1: let's slip snip over. Let's move over to this one.
Speaker 1: Smoking too cool for school, but not so much anymore.
Speaker 7: No, Yeah, kids are putting it down. I mean, and
Speaker 7: whether it's cigarettes, or it's vate pins, or it's dip
Speaker 7: or chew, you know, kids are doing it less. This
Speaker 7: is a great report coming out of the Centers for
Speaker 7: Disease Control and Prevention. Tobacco use among middle and high
Speaker 7: school students. Believe it or not, middle at high school
Speaker 7: students are still using tobacco, but it's dropped to a
Speaker 7: twenty five year low and really a dramatic decrease in
Speaker 7: just the past year. The National Youth Tobacco Survey, which
Speaker 7: question is almost thirty thousand kids about their tobacco use
Speaker 7: or their their you know, no matter the form, they're
Speaker 7: using it, and found that two point two five million
Speaker 7: middle and high school students reported using a tobacco product
Speaker 7: in the past thirty days. Two point twenty five million.
Speaker 7: That's down from two point eight million in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Okay, so kids experiment, kids break the rules. What is
Speaker 1: turning them away then from these tobacco products? Is it price?
Speaker 1: Are parents doing a better job, or do we have
Speaker 1: any idea or just know that the numbers, well, those.
Speaker 7: Two things certainly, you know, the public awareness campaigns, the
Speaker 7: price certainly is a part of it. That's led to
Speaker 7: an overall decline in tobacco use across the board for
Speaker 7: younger people and older people, you know, in deep deep taxes.
Speaker 7: So what is it that these kids are using?
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to ask you. What are
Speaker 1: they doing if they're not smoking tobacco pouches.
Speaker 7: That's what they're using now.
Speaker 1: I like the little chew packages.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a product called zin Zy inn Zen Smooth,
Speaker 7: and this apparently is the one that more kids are.
Speaker 7: This is the one that has the most popularity among kids.
Speaker 7: And so, yeah, it's still out there and it's not
Speaker 7: safe to use it. It's still tobacco, it's still can
Speaker 7: cause mouth cancer and all sorts of problems for them.
Speaker 7: So but still Zen is the most popular nicotine pouch
Speaker 7: that's out there right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you just reminded me of something because they've
Speaker 1: been watching the Dodgers recently and I've noticed that, you know,
Speaker 1: because it was always a big thing for Dodger for
Speaker 1: baseball players to chew. Oh yeah, and I noticed that
Speaker 1: on other teams and maybe I'm just hyper aware of
Speaker 1: it that I still see them, you know, chewing and spitting.
Speaker 1: And most of the Dodgers are chewing bubble gum. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is great.
Speaker 7: That's what they've gone to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7: Well, they've been packaging you know, they've had this shredded
Speaker 7: bubblegum for a long time and you know, in a
Speaker 7: pouch that looks exactly like a tobacco pouch, you know,
Speaker 7: and clearly it was marketed toward kids, and I mean
Speaker 7: twenty years ago or so, maybe longer than that. They
Speaker 7: pull it out and they pretend they were chewing at
Speaker 7: like tobacco. They're being groomed to become tobacco users later
Speaker 7: on that you know, adults baseball players chewing gum. And
Speaker 7: maybe they're setting up better standard for these kids.
Speaker 1: I certainly hope so. And it appears to be working
Speaker 1: because the Dodgers are on fire.
Speaker 7: There you go, there, you go, all right, them and gum.
Speaker 1: They're ABC's Jim Ryan. Thanks so much. Have a good weekend, Jamie.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1: All right, now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jordanah
Speaker 1: Miller in Jerusalem, Jordana. Yesterday was a pretty big day
Speaker 1: for Israel.
Speaker 8: It was Israel finally killed Yasha Teymour, the head of
Speaker 8: Hamas the mastermind of the October seventh attack that killed
Speaker 8: nearly twelve hundred Israelis. He ordered his fighters to in
Speaker 8: really the most gruesome and ghastly way, murder and pillage
Speaker 8: and rape and mutilate Jews in Israel really hunt them down,
Speaker 8: hunt them down wherever they were hiding, killing children in
Speaker 8: front of parents and parents in front of children. So
Speaker 8: I think the news that he had finally been killed
Speaker 8: by Israeli forces brought a small measure of relief or
Speaker 8: justice to the families of the hostages. But of course
Speaker 8: it's not the end of the story. There's still ninety
Speaker 8: seven hostages in the Gaza strip. The war still is
Speaker 8: going on. And the big question now, aside from this
Speaker 8: kind of victory for Israel on the battlefield, even though
Speaker 8: it was a kind of coincidental killing by the way Right,
Speaker 8: it wasn't a special of mission based on intel that
Speaker 8: found Sinoir hiding. The general assessment was that Sinwar was
Speaker 8: somewhere underneath Kan Yunis or Rapa in southern Israel, where
Speaker 8: there were miles and miles of tunnels. He devated Israeli
Speaker 8: forces for more than a year. But it appeared that
Speaker 8: he went out late Wednesday night with two other Hamas fighters.
Speaker 8: They were moving between buildings. They were detected by troops,
Speaker 8: combat troops, reservists by the way uh, and they uh,
Speaker 8: you know, per protocol, they aggressively pursued these three hamas
Speaker 8: terrasts they had no idea was Sinoir. They fired on them,
Speaker 8: they killed two. One ran into a building. They sent
Speaker 8: a drone in to see, you know who, what was
Speaker 8: the situation was with that other uh, with that other suspect,
Speaker 8: And they found somebody sitting in a chair with his
Speaker 8: arm wounded, his face covered with a you know, with
Speaker 8: a piece of fabric as is you know, the case
Speaker 8: for moss fighters and the Gossen strip. They didn't identify him,
Speaker 8: but they said, okay, this is a terrorist. They fired
Speaker 8: an RPG, the building collapsed on him. And then only
Speaker 8: many hours later the next morning, when they went to
Speaker 8: go see who was in that building, did they pull
Speaker 8: out someone who they said, wow, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 8: looks like Yakasinoir. And then they started the ID process,
Speaker 8: which took several hours, and we found out, you know,
Speaker 8: late in the afternoon that he was likely dead, and
Speaker 8: then a confirmation in the evening based on DNA and
Speaker 8: teeth and hair. Remember, Yakasinoar served, he was in prison
Speaker 8: here in Israel for more than two decades. They have
Speaker 8: a lot of his records so that it was not
Speaker 8: hard to do a match. And then just a short
Speaker 8: while ago come off for the first time as acknowledged
Speaker 8: that he was killed. One of his deputies just gave
Speaker 8: the statement. So he's gone. But the question is what
Speaker 8: happens next. Are we going to see the Prime minister
Speaker 8: work towards a a you know, well, this expedite and
Speaker 8: brains the end of the war closer and perhaps a
Speaker 8: huse fire and the release of those hostages. Now that
Speaker 8: Jakhasinohar is gone. He was an extremist radical. He had
Speaker 8: very hardline positions. Maybe whoever takes over will show more flexibilities.
Speaker 1: So we will find that out in the coming days.
Speaker 1: Now you mentioned that he'd been held in prison for
Speaker 1: like twenty years. How did he get out?
Speaker 8: Yeajissinoir who was in Israeli He was in an Israeli prison,
Speaker 8: not for killing Israelis. He was in prison for killing
Speaker 8: Palestinian quote unquote collaborators, those who worked with the Israelis.
Speaker 8: And he was released in a prisoner exchange deal the
Speaker 8: release of Israeli bodies and related to the release of
Speaker 8: one Israeli soldier back in two thousand and twelve, Pila Chelite.
Speaker 8: He was released right before that as part of that
Speaker 8: deal where another. You know, almost more than a thousand
Speaker 8: other Palestinian prisoners were released. He went back to Gaza
Speaker 8: and in just over a decade built up Hamas and
Speaker 8: launch the ghastly attack on October seventh.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I don't think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: shedding any tears for yeah, ye right now. And it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if it creates opportunities to, like
Speaker 1: you said, if there's somebody who might come in and
Speaker 1: not be quite such a hardliner, maybe get the remaining hostages.
Speaker 8: We can already see the President Biden, you know, is
Speaker 8: going to try to see this moment and put pressure
Speaker 8: on the mediators and on Humma. Israel already says they're
Speaker 8: going to be working on this center of Saint Anthony.
Speaker 8: Blinkin's expected back here in the region. So we're going
Speaker 8: to see a big push. Now let's hope it actually,
Speaker 8: uh you know, yields some results.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, jar Don and Miller
Speaker 1: appreciate the information. As always, we'll talk.
Speaker 6: So in.
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Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning too, the of Home
Speaker 1: on KFI. The House Whisper he always warms our heart.
Speaker 1: It's Dean Sharp, Good morning, Dean Amy King. So I
Speaker 1: remember when this first started being a thing that you
Speaker 1: could like control your lights from your phone, or you
Speaker 1: could turn off your sprinklers from your phone. But this
Speaker 1: is a whole revolution, like everybody's jumping on board now.
Speaker 9: It's true, it's true. We're going to talk about this
Speaker 9: on Sunday, on the Big Show on Sunday. Just the
Speaker 9: benefits actually of living in the connected age. I know,
Speaker 9: you know, we spent a lot of time talking about,
Speaker 9: you know, the detriments of being overly connected, but when
Speaker 9: it comes to your home as far as keeping it
Speaker 9: safe and having control of things, it's really quite convenient
Speaker 9: to have all of this control you know, in your
Speaker 9: pocket eventually, and everything from burglary and security systems to
Speaker 9: safety from floods or fires or freezing temperature. There's irrigation
Speaker 9: like you mentioned, and a whole another part of senior
Speaker 9: care which a lot of people are giving a serious
Speaker 9: nod to, which is these remote medication dispensing systems and
Speaker 9: what we call passive behavior discovery ways of keeping senior
Speaker 9: parents and loved ones in their homes but keeping them
Speaker 9: safe and monitored, not invasively, but monitored all at the
Speaker 9: same time. All of this now is available to us,
Speaker 9: and some of it at a cost that is considerably
Speaker 9: cheaper than nursing care or in home nursing assistance, that
Speaker 9: kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: How does that work?
Speaker 9: Well, okay, so we'll take a system like envoy at home.
Speaker 9: It's just one of a lot of different systems that
Speaker 9: are out there, but it's a good one. And what
Speaker 9: this means is putting in sensors motion sensors in throughout
Speaker 9: a home. Okay, they're discreet, they're not in your face,
Speaker 9: and as a result, connecting these sensors to you know,
Speaker 9: I don't want to say, big brother, what it is.
Speaker 9: It's an algorithm system. It's what's called passive behavior discovery.
Speaker 9: And what it does is just kind of tracks for
Speaker 9: a while what a normal routine is, like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 9: Mom normally gets up at eight thirty in the morning,
Speaker 9: and then she's in the bathroom for about a half
Speaker 9: an hour, and then she's out and about in da
Speaker 9: da da da da, And these things are being recorded
Speaker 9: and patterns are being developed. And then what happens is
Speaker 9: if we know that mom's in bed and she isn't
Speaker 9: up at eight thirty and it's nine o'clock or nine
Speaker 9: p fifteen or nine thirty and mom has not you know,
Speaker 9: kind of gone through her regular schedule.
Speaker 1: You're going to get a notification. Okay, So it's not
Speaker 1: like sitting there just totally watching you. But it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: there's no movement now and there normally is, so maybe
Speaker 1: something's wrong.
Speaker 9: Exactly exactly the nudge that says, hey, you know, give
Speaker 9: a call, find out what's going on. Or if if
Speaker 9: somebody's been in the bathroom way longer than normal.
Speaker 1: Again, it might have just been something they ate last night.
Speaker 1: It could be but my mom would be so mad,
Speaker 1: Dean if I did that, Hey Mom, I noticed you
Speaker 1: were in the bathroom extra launch, she'd go, oh, Amy,
Speaker 1: stop watching me.
Speaker 5: I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 9: And it's you know that the whole subject of senior
Speaker 9: care in those ways gets to be, you know, a
Speaker 9: difficult thing. You know, it's like, oh, no, you're not
Speaker 9: going to put me in the home, or no, I
Speaker 9: don't need a nurse, or no. But at the end
Speaker 9: of the day, you know, the Sandwich generation that we
Speaker 9: are right taking care of kids and taking care of
Speaker 9: aging parents, all at the same time. These can be
Speaker 9: helpful tools in the right situation, they really can't be.
Speaker 1: I like that idea again, if I assisted living very important,
Speaker 1: but if there's just a few things that maybe if
Speaker 1: you just were able to control a few things, they
Speaker 1: could stay in their home. And what's the remote medication dispensing?
Speaker 9: Oh this is now, you know, here's one that not
Speaker 9: a lot of people argue with at all. And these
Speaker 9: are little units there. There are appliances that sit on
Speaker 9: like the countertop in the kitchen, and what we do
Speaker 9: is will load up somebody's medication for the entire month,
Speaker 9: all the pill combinations, everything that's needed. On Thursdays, it's
Speaker 9: got to be this, and on Friday nights it's got
Speaker 9: to be that. But bua ba bah, this little appliance
Speaker 9: knows all that keeps them basically under lock and key
Speaker 9: in its belly and on a daily basis at the
Speaker 9: right time. It basically it dispenses the right medication at
Speaker 9: the right time and it does not allow more medications
Speaker 9: to be dispensed. So if we're talking about dementia or
Speaker 9: Alzheimer's or somebody who may be struggling with their memory,
Speaker 9: Now what we're doing is we're eliminating the possibility of
Speaker 9: double and triple dosing because somebody forgot that they just
Speaker 9: took their medicine a half an hour ago.
Speaker 1: Very cool, Okay, that's cool. And then you're just talking
Speaker 1: about how we can kind of do everything. Now, what
Speaker 1: are some other things that maybe you can do with
Speaker 1: your phone that you don't have to actually move around
Speaker 1: your house to do anymore? Well, we get lazier and lazier.
Speaker 9: Lights are a big thing.
Speaker 1: Lights are lights are a huge thing.
Speaker 9: But I would I would go so far as to
Speaker 9: say that there are some real safety aspects to this,
Speaker 9: the fact that we have I don't know, I would
Speaker 9: say maybe fifty percent of the lights in our home
Speaker 9: are on some kind of app control, smart control, not
Speaker 9: all of them, And it's not from laziness one. From
Speaker 9: an esthetic point of view. It allows us to set scenes,
Speaker 9: and you and I've talked about this before. Set a
Speaker 9: scene like in the family room, and in fact, I
Speaker 9: just added a scene three weeks ago. It's called Autumn.
Speaker 9: And so now I walk in and say, hey, you
Speaker 9: know the name of my personal set the lights to autumn.
Speaker 9: And then all of a sudden, everything goes into a
Speaker 9: particular mood. That's all lovely experiential. But from a safety perspective,
Speaker 9: isn't it cool. Let's say I'm not home, Tina's already
Speaker 9: gone to bed, she hears a bump or a noise
Speaker 9: or a weirdness. Isn't it cool that she can simply
Speaker 9: roll over, grab her phone and say, hey, turn on
Speaker 9: all the lights in the house and suddenly vomp everywhere,
Speaker 9: living room, hallway. You know, things are bright lit up,
Speaker 9: and there's a level of safety and security to that.
Speaker 1: And safety and security is all a good thing. So
Speaker 1: you know what I here's what I want. And tell
Speaker 1: me you guys, if you agree, If you want something
Speaker 1: to really impress me, get something that actually gets up
Speaker 1: and makes the coffee for me.
Speaker 9: See there you go. Well, you know, I mean you
Speaker 9: can make you still have to make it. I guess
Speaker 9: we make our coffee the night before and set the
Speaker 9: machine to do its thing.
Speaker 1: I do too, except on the weekends, and I just go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: who's going to make the coffee?
Speaker 9: And how disappointing is it that you didn't remember to
Speaker 9: do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well I did. I actually I do, but
Speaker 1: I can't set the timer because on weekends. I don't
Speaker 1: get up at two thirty in the morning.
Speaker 9: Oh, you're right, you're right. We have that same issue
Speaker 9: where our schedule shifts. Yep, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to talk more about home monitoring. Actually
Speaker 1: I'm not going to, but Dean Sharp, the House Whisperer
Speaker 1: is six to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Right here on KFI, it's Home with Dean Sharp. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Dean Sharp, Thank you.
Speaker 9: Amy.
Speaker 1: Have a lovely weekend. You too.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 2: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning too, ABC's Will gans Will.
Speaker 1: This is a good weekend to curl up on the
Speaker 1: couch and binge away.
Speaker 6: That's exactly right. I've got some wonderful movie recommendations for you, Amy,
Speaker 6: and for all your listeners here. And let me preface
Speaker 6: it by saying that each of these has a ninety
Speaker 6: five percent rating or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, so they're
Speaker 6: all good options.
Speaker 1: Ohneive percent and it broughten tomatoes. Is that from viewers
Speaker 1: or critics? That's viewers, right.
Speaker 2: It's both.
Speaker 6: It's both. So they'll have a critic score and audience
Speaker 6: score and all of the scores for each of these
Speaker 6: films is very, very high.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're going to start with We're going to
Speaker 1: start with The Wild Robot, which is still.
Speaker 3: In theaters exactly.
Speaker 6: But the good news is if you don't want to
Speaker 6: take a trip to the theaters, you can also buy
Speaker 6: it on Amazon Crime Video. You can stream it at
Speaker 6: home as well, So whichever one. If you're looking to
Speaker 6: make a little trip to the theater, you can do that,
Speaker 6: or if you want to watch it at home, you
Speaker 6: can too. But The Wild Robot is an animated film.
Speaker 6: This is great for kids and parents alike. It's about
Speaker 6: the robot who falls off of a cargo ship and
Speaker 6: washes up on an island that's only inhabited by animals.
Speaker 6: And she was the robot that was designed to sort
Speaker 6: of help humans complete tasks. So she's looking for a
Speaker 6: task to complete, and what she ends up stumbling upon
Speaker 6: is a gobbling an orphaned gosling that needs a mother basically,
Speaker 6: And the story that follows is so beautiful and so heartwarming,
Speaker 6: and there's tons of adventure that the kids will love,
Speaker 6: but there are tons of like beautiful life lessons in
Speaker 6: there too. I was peering up when I was watching it,
Speaker 6: so I think it's a winner for the whole family.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was crying during the trailers for that one.
Speaker 6: Yes, it'll get you. So if you're gonna watch it,
Speaker 6: bring your clean.
Speaker 1: Up for sure, okay, and you can do it in
Speaker 1: the in the comfort of your own home, So if
Speaker 1: you do have an ugly cry, then nobody has to
Speaker 1: see you.
Speaker 6: If the mascara is running all over the place, it's
Speaker 6: totally fine because you'll be on your couch and there's
Speaker 6: no one around you and see yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so will Why put it on the stream so
Speaker 1: quickly when it's still in theaters?
Speaker 6: I think because you know that these production companies realize that,
Speaker 6: you know, as our viewing habits are changing, they're going
Speaker 6: to sort of meet people where they're at and right now.
Speaker 6: I think with a movie like this in particular, there's
Speaker 6: not a real sense that you have to be one
Speaker 6: of the first people to see it, and you know
Speaker 6: that you might with a Marvel movie to avoid spoilers
Speaker 6: or something like that. So I think they're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 6: you know, we can release this at home and people
Speaker 6: will watch it there, or they can go to the
Speaker 6: theater if they want to watch it there too.
Speaker 1: Okay, the Wild Robot, I'm putting that on my list
Speaker 1: of two watches. Okay, so Halloween is just less than
Speaker 1: two weeks away, so we need some good and spooky
Speaker 1: and scary.
Speaker 6: Oh oh yeah, okay. So Strange Darling is a thriller
Speaker 6: that you can watch again on Prime. I think it's
Speaker 6: also on Apple TV plut. So this is definitely not
Speaker 6: for the kids in your house. It's about a spree
Speaker 6: that a serial killer goes on after a one night stand.
Speaker 6: So the crazy thing with this movie is that it's
Speaker 6: sort of told out of order, so and but it
Speaker 6: will tell you as you're watching, like, okay, chapter three,
Speaker 6: so you know you're smashedab in the middle of a
Speaker 6: sixth chapter story, and then it'll cut back to chapter one,
Speaker 6: and so you're sort of puzzling this thing together as
Speaker 6: you're watching it. And it is unlike any thriller I've
Speaker 6: seen before. It is really original, really fresh storytelling, and
Speaker 6: it'll keep you guessing up until the very end. Really
Speaker 6: fun watch.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you say it's a fun watch, is
Speaker 1: it is there funny in it? Or is it just
Speaker 1: slash and gore?
Speaker 6: It's suspenseful, it's not super gory. There is a little
Speaker 6: bit of blood in there, So if that makes you squeamish,
Speaker 6: maybe this isn't the movie for you, but it's it's
Speaker 6: a very suspenseful and original watch. So when I say fun,
Speaker 6: I just mean like, it's not one of those that
Speaker 6: you're going to be like I saw this coming a
Speaker 6: mile away.
Speaker 1: Well, our buddy Nick Pauliochanne's gonna love that one. Then
Speaker 1: he the thrillers in the you know, death and destruction, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: for something a little bit lighter, maybe a little heartwarming,
Speaker 1: you have Thelma, what's that? Okay?
Speaker 6: So this is a great, great movie that it's it's
Speaker 6: think Mission Impossible, but instead of Tom Cruise, the hero
Speaker 6: is a ninety three year old grandmother. So this is
Speaker 6: based it's based on a true story about a woman
Speaker 6: who was conned out of ten thousand dollars and when
Speaker 6: she realizes that she sent you know, ten thousand dollars
Speaker 6: cash to someone who is claiming to be her grandson.
Speaker 6: And she realizes, you know, I have the address of
Speaker 6: where this po box is. It's not that far from
Speaker 6: where I live. She this ninety three year old woman
Speaker 6: goes on a mission to get it back, and it's
Speaker 6: just there's a little bit of action, of course, on
Speaker 6: the scale of what a ninety three year old would
Speaker 6: be able to handle. It's funny and it's also heartwarming,
Speaker 6: and there's some really beautiful lessons in there about aging
Speaker 6: and about what caring for our elderly, you know, parents
Speaker 6: and grandparents kind of looks like. And it's just checks
Speaker 6: a lot of boxes for a lot of different people.
Speaker 6: And Selma, I just can't recommend it enough. And that
Speaker 6: is streaming as well, so you can watch that one
Speaker 6: at home as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, And will I have a question for you
Speaker 1: about that because that sounds so familiar. Was this a
Speaker 1: movie that was supposed to come out like a year god.
Speaker 5: Get so yet exactly?
Speaker 6: So it did come out, but I think it was
Speaker 6: a limited release, so you might have seen trailers for
Speaker 6: it and then been like, wait a minute, how come
Speaker 6: I never saw this in theaters? How come I never
Speaker 6: It never gained so much traction, So that's exactly what happened. Yes,
Speaker 6: and it is streaming now and it's you know, it's
Speaker 6: definitely worth the watch.
Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, I'm actually kind of excited about that because
Speaker 1: I remember seeing the trailer and going, oh, that looks
Speaker 1: kind of cute. That'd be fun, but it wasn't one
Speaker 1: that really spurred me to make that trip down to
Speaker 1: the movie theater. So good to know we can watch it.
Speaker 6: At home exactly. And it has a really fun cast
Speaker 6: as well. James Squid plays the lead, and then Parker
Speaker 6: Posey is in it, so lots of good performances.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, okay, you've convinced me, Will, I'm going
Speaker 1: to camp out on my couch this weekend. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 6: I'm glad I could be the person to convince you
Speaker 6: to do it. Enjoy, enjoyed. They're all great movies.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you next week. Thanks Will.
Speaker 5: All right, take care.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King.
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