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Speaker 1: Vice President aama La Harris has officially accepted her party's
Speaker 1: nomination for president. Harris took to the stage to thunderous
Speaker 1: applause last night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Speaker 1: She says she's used to being underestimated, but that the
Speaker 1: future is always worth fighting for. We're gonna be inside
Speaker 1: and outside the DNC ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna let us
Speaker 1: know if protesters got out of hand. That's coming up
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. Then at five twenty
Speaker 1: we'll be checking in with Gary Hoffman. Of course, he
Speaker 1: and Shannon have been at the DNC all week. Arizona
Speaker 1: law enforcement has arrested a man who they say threatened
Speaker 1: to kill former President Trump. Ronald cyberd was wanted for
Speaker 1: failing to register as a sex offender. Cyverred also has
Speaker 1: outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI and
Speaker 1: in Arizona for a hit and run and failure to
Speaker 1: register as a sex offender. A Metro bus driver's been
Speaker 1: attacked on a bus route in San Pedro. Police say
Speaker 1: a man tried to get on the bus yesterday, shortly
Speaker 1: before noon and ended up choking the driver before getting
Speaker 1: off the boss. The driver was treated at the scene.
Speaker 1: It's going to be okay. The attacker was arrested. We're
Speaker 1: going to be checking in with our house, whispered Dean Sharp.
Speaker 1: At the bottom of the hour, he's going to be
Speaker 1: telling us about something. Everybody loves a big deck and
Speaker 1: before the top of the hour, don't blink or you
Speaker 1: just might miss ABC's Jason Nathanson. He'll let us know
Speaker 1: what's coming to theaters and of the stream this weekend
Speaker 1: at six oho five. It's handled on the News. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Court says Arizona can require voters to provide proof
Speaker 1: of citizenship in order to register to vote. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Vice President Harris has called
Speaker 1: on Americans to join her in charting a new way
Speaker 1: forward as she accepted the Democratic nomination for president at
Speaker 1: the party's national convention in Chicago. She says her personal
Speaker 1: story and prosecutorial background make her uniquely qualified to protect
Speaker 1: people's interests and beat former President Trump in November.
Speaker 7: In many ways, Donald Trump is an unseerious man, but
Speaker 7: the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White
Speaker 7: House are extremely serious.
Speaker 6: She says.
Speaker 1: This election is an opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism,
Speaker 1: and divisive battles of the past. Republicans from southern California
Speaker 1: have bashed a bill that could allow people serving life
Speaker 1: without parole in California to be let out of prison.
Speaker 8: The bill will allow people convicted of special circumstances to
Speaker 8: petition to be resentenced. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco joined
Speaker 8: lawmakers in Sacramento yesterday. Bianco says some criminals will always
Speaker 8: have zero respect for human life.
Speaker 6: They are not wired like you and me.
Speaker 8: Under the bill, of crimes would have to have been
Speaker 8: committed before nineteen ninety and the criminal will have to
Speaker 8: have served twenty five years. The bill's author says the
Speaker 8: bill establishes a tough process that will likely deny most
Speaker 8: petitioners' cases.
Speaker 4: Blake Trolley k if I News.
Speaker 1: Homeless camps at Dackweler State Beach have been cleared out
Speaker 1: following complaints from people who live in the area. Lucy
Speaker 1: Hahn lives beachfront in Plia, del Rey and says the
Speaker 1: homeless were starting fires and leaving needles in restrooms.
Speaker 7: That that's not fared out for all the residents or
Speaker 7: even any visitors, because it's a public space. That means
Speaker 7: it's for everyone, not just certain people certain population.
Speaker 6: She says.
Speaker 1: Some of the homeless people who were removed from camping
Speaker 1: at Dockweler yesterday morning have already returned. Locals are pushing
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom to permanently ban homeless camps from area beaches.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump says he's not behind the AI generated
Speaker 1: images falsely showing Taylor Swift endorsing him. He told Fox
Speaker 1: Business that he has been a victim of deep fakes himself.
Speaker 1: He added that he's not worried about being sued over
Speaker 1: the issue. Swift hasn't publicly backed to candidate yet, but
Speaker 1: she did endorse Joe Biden in twenty twenty. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan, who's been outside
Speaker 1: the Democratic National can Mention all week.
Speaker 6: And morning gym.
Speaker 1: So, there were going to be tens, maybe even hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of protesters descending on Chicago. But was it
Speaker 1: a nothing Burger?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 9: Maybe, you know, I think that the little Burger, Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 9: the Junior Burger from But I think that the police expected,
Speaker 9: or they anticipated or at least were prepared for those
Speaker 9: kind of exaggerated predictions of one hundred thousand protesters coming
Speaker 9: to Chicago during the convention, and so they have been
Speaker 9: training for months. You know, some of these groups that
Speaker 9: protest were protesting over this past week have been holding
Speaker 9: the same demonstration in the same march since last October,
Speaker 9: and so that has provided the police department with a
Speaker 9: good training ground to be ready for the crowds that
Speaker 9: were anticipated this week, but also to build a relationship
Speaker 9: with the protest organizers. And it is a friendly and
Speaker 9: cooperative relationship. You know, the demonstrations, the peaceful groups that
Speaker 9: want to get a message out. They're not interested in
Speaker 9: vandalism or in tearing up the city. They're from here
Speaker 9: and they're interested in chanting and talking and trying to
Speaker 9: change people's minds and then marching and that's it. So,
Speaker 9: you know, I think that there were these over exactly
Speaker 9: was that it was an overblown prediction or was it
Speaker 9: the police response to what they had in front of them.
Speaker 9: I think it was kind of the latter, And they've
Speaker 9: said this was pretty successful.
Speaker 1: In me, yeah, I know, I think that they did
Speaker 1: a good job, and I personally would rather have them
Speaker 1: be over prepared than have it, you know, be something
Speaker 1: that just got.
Speaker 9: Out of funny optics. Of course, you see a thousand demonstrators,
Speaker 9: you know, preparing to step off onto a march, and
Speaker 9: you see almost a thousand police officers lining the little
Speaker 9: march route, the parade or out you know, to keep
Speaker 9: the traffic off of those folks, to keep them guided
Speaker 9: down the street. It's an interesting look to see that,
Speaker 9: to see almost as many police officers as protesters.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So did you get a chance to talk to many
Speaker 1: of the protesters?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: And what was their kind of feeling? Do they think
Speaker 1: that they accomplished what they wanted to? Are they frustrated
Speaker 1: because they didn't get more airtime or well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yesterday I asked the woman about that. I said,
Speaker 9: you know, you've been out here protesting for the last
Speaker 9: four days five I guess if you'd kind of last weekend,
Speaker 9: and yet you didn't hear much about, you know, the
Speaker 9: Palestinian situation from the floor of the convention. The woman said, well,
Speaker 9: at least you know President Biden mentioned it the other night.
Speaker 9: He said that the protesters outside have a point and
Speaker 9: that too many people are dying in the Middle East.
Speaker 9: Then last night, of course, Kamala Harris delved a little
Speaker 9: more deeply into it, being very forceful seeing the United
Speaker 9: States is going to support is Israel, but also he's
Speaker 9: going to look for some kind of solutions so civilians
Speaker 9: in Gaza are no longer being killed. I think both
Speaker 9: sides walk away feeling, yeah, she's on our side in
Speaker 9: that regard. But yeah, I think the protesters they do
Speaker 9: feel that like they had some influence on the conversation
Speaker 9: inside the hall, and you don't talk with another There
Speaker 9: was another one yesterday and I said, are you are
Speaker 9: you pleased or you know that there was no violence
Speaker 9: associated with this, and she said, well, our message is
Speaker 9: about peace in the Middle East, so why would we
Speaker 9: want to be violent and violate our own premise like that?
Speaker 6: What then did she ask why some of the people
Speaker 6: did get violent?
Speaker 9: You know, I think that the violence we saw on
Speaker 9: Tuesday night, this.
Speaker 4: More extreme group this, you know, and that's.
Speaker 9: Their stated goal is to try to gin up, you know,
Speaker 9: some violence that get to get into it with police.
Speaker 9: That's what they were their goal was, and it worked
Speaker 9: and seventy people were taken into custody. The police superintendent
Speaker 9: said the next day that about half of those people
Speaker 9: were from out of town. They weren't locals, and so
Speaker 9: I think a lot of that has come from the outside.
Speaker 6: Okay, so that's it for you. It's all wrapped up.
Speaker 1: They're going to take the fencing down probably starting today,
Speaker 1: So no reason for you to be there anymore.
Speaker 9: Well, except that it's sixty three degrees here right now,
Speaker 9: and I'll get back to Dallas today. Analy I think
Speaker 9: one hundred and eight. I'll stay here.
Speaker 6: No kidding. The weather was pretty ideal for you guys.
Speaker 6: The whole week, wasn't this beautiful?
Speaker 9: Cono says, I'd need a call and my boss say
Speaker 9: the flight got canceled again. Yeah, I know that it's
Speaker 9: November seventeenth, but it keeps getting canceled.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you so much, Jim. We appreciate
Speaker 1: all your information. G glad that there wasn't too many scuffles,
Speaker 1: and hope that you get home and your air conditioners
Speaker 1: still working.
Speaker 6: Me too, all right, we'll talk to you too.
Speaker 9: Thanks Amy, I right appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Fire has damaged,
Speaker 1: pretty much destroyed the Jay Lyttleton Ballpark in Ontario. It
Speaker 1: was built back in the nineteen thirties. The fire was
Speaker 1: reported late last night. Firefighters found heavy smoke and fire
Speaker 1: from the stadium and the dugout. It's not known how
Speaker 1: the fire started. You might recognize the field. It's where
Speaker 1: a league of their own and other movies were filmed.
Speaker 1: San Clementi is working on a plan to hold parents
Speaker 1: responsible for damage and crimes committed by their kids while
Speaker 1: they're writing E bikes. Mayor Victor Cabral says the number
Speaker 1: of emails he's getting about the issue is constantly increasing.
Speaker 10: The issue I hear most about, and I think I
Speaker 10: hear about it every day, is that, you know, sort
Speaker 10: of gangs they call them, of rogue bikers going down
Speaker 10: the street next to next to cars.
Speaker 1: Cabral says, the e bikers do wheelies and ignore traffic signs.
Speaker 1: The city voted Tuesday for an ordinance that would give
Speaker 1: sheriff's deputies more tools to go after the e bikers
Speaker 1: and their parents. It does need a final reading before
Speaker 1: it becomes official.
Speaker 6: People who live.
Speaker 1: In apartments, condos, and townhomes in Carlsbad will no longer
Speaker 1: be allowed to smoke at home starting in January. The
Speaker 1: city council there is the first in San Diego County
Speaker 1: to band smoking and vaping inside multifamily residential buildings. The
Speaker 1: ordinance also prohibits smoking on private balconies, porches, and common
Speaker 1: areas not designated as smoking locations. A man who authorities
Speaker 1: say posted a threat on social media to kill former
Speaker 1: President Trump has been arrested in Arizona. Law enforcement picked
Speaker 1: him up yesterday as Trump was holding a campaign event
Speaker 1: at the border. The former president says he didn't even
Speaker 1: know about the threat before he went to the border.
Speaker 3: I've heard of stangers, but I also have a job
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: The threat comes just weeks after an assassination attempt on
Speaker 1: Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. A shooting in Orange
Speaker 1: County that killed three people and wounded six others at
Speaker 1: Cook's Corner in Trebuco Canyon has brought one band closer together.
Speaker 6: We're playing Rhianna and by fleetwood Man m Street.
Speaker 11: Vocalist Debbie Johnson says their bass player and guitarists were
Speaker 11: both shot as they played this song one year ago today.
Speaker 6: It took us a.
Speaker 12: While to do that song again, and the first time
Speaker 12: we did it was a little bit emotional for us,
Speaker 12: but I think that's behind us now.
Speaker 11: She says that first the shooting seemed fake until a
Speaker 11: woman got shot.
Speaker 6: I watched him shoot her right in the chest. That's
Speaker 6: when we knew it was real.
Speaker 11: She recalled a feeling of hope once deputy started arriving.
Speaker 7: I can't walk by one of those guys without wanting
Speaker 7: to thank them. I never want to hear anybody say
Speaker 7: again defund the police, because they should have been hiding
Speaker 7: behind that bar with us, hoping somebody would come help.
Speaker 11: Cozy Sheriff's Deputy Jesse Carrasco was first on scene in
Speaker 11: two minutes. Ut Rosco was one of three who killed
Speaker 11: the shooter.
Speaker 3: I've been training for a scenario like this all my life.
Speaker 2: I'm happy I was able to act according to our
Speaker 2: policies and within the law, but I'm still saddened by
Speaker 2: the three people unfortunately did lose their lives, and many
Speaker 2: others were heard.
Speaker 11: The shooter was a former cop, targeting is a stranged
Speaker 11: wife in Orange County, Corbin Carson kf I News.
Speaker 1: A metro bus has been in a crash in Studio City,
Speaker 1: La City Fires is Seven people were hurt this morning,
Speaker 1: but they say the injuries are not life threatening. Protesters
Speaker 1: have demonstrated against the war in Gaza outside the La
Speaker 1: Memorial Coliseum. The protest happened as USC's new student convocation
Speaker 1: was held inside, reviving those anti war gatherings on campus
Speaker 1: earlier this year. Today's or yesterday's protest started around seven
Speaker 1: point thirty continued till eleven am. There were no reports
Speaker 1: of arrests or disturbances. Lawmakers in California have sent a
Speaker 1: bill to Governor Newsom's desk that would allow alcohol to
Speaker 1: be served at the new Into It Dome in Inglewood
Speaker 1: until four am. If the Governor signs it, bartenders at
Speaker 1: a club inside the new home of the La Clippers
Speaker 1: would be allowed to keep serving patrons well past the
Speaker 1: end of games, concerts, and other events. At six o five,
Speaker 1: It's handle on the news. Kamala Harris was on a
Speaker 1: tear for Trump at the DNC, and bet Bill's going
Speaker 1: to have a few things to say about that. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to Gary Hoffman, see what he
Speaker 1: has to say about the DNC in Chicago no longer
Speaker 1: actually at the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 13: Good morning Gary, Good morning Amy Yeap. Just standing along
Speaker 13: Michigan Avenue here thinking about what happened the last few days.
Speaker 5: The It was funny.
Speaker 13: I was just watching CNN or Fox or somebody, and
Speaker 13: they were talking about the bait and switch that happened yesterday,
Speaker 13: where everybody was talking about this blocked out section of
Speaker 13: the schedule for the events last night, and there was
Speaker 13: a section of it that wasn't labeled, and everybody was thinking, Oh,
Speaker 13: that's got to be that's got to be Beyonce, or
Speaker 13: that's got to be Taylor Swift because we saw a
Speaker 13: private jet land at O'Hare, so that must be Taylor
Speaker 13: Swift plane.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was.
Speaker 13: It's not what drove the conversation, but it was funny
Speaker 13: that everybody was talking about that and very little about
Speaker 13: the fact that Kamala Harris was going to have the
Speaker 13: speech of her life last night. At least she was
Speaker 13: going to be required to give the speech of her life.
Speaker 13: See whether or not it actually happened, you know, that's
Speaker 13: for up to other people's interpretation of it.
Speaker 5: But it was a funny.
Speaker 13: It was a funny way to I guess past the
Speaker 13: time was how to postulate who it was that was
Speaker 13: going to be coming in.
Speaker 1: CNN spent an inordinant whatever that word is, amount of time.
Speaker 1: She spent a lot of time talking about Beyonce because
Speaker 1: I was flipping back and forth because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a junkie and I watch all the news channels and
Speaker 1: Fox has Trump at the border, talking about family members
Speaker 1: who've been killed by illegal immigrants and all of that.
Speaker 1: And then I kept flipping back to CNN because there's
Speaker 1: a death threat against President or former President Trump, and
Speaker 1: I was wondering if CNN was covering it, and they
Speaker 1: just kept talking about Beyonce. So when she didn't come out,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what that You're right, it
Speaker 1: was a bait and switch. It was like, let's see
Speaker 1: if we can get people to tune into the DNC
Speaker 1: because Beyonce, I Beyonce might be there.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And the understanding that I have is she was
Speaker 13: never part of I didn't even ask her to show up.
Speaker 13: It was just a rumor that started or they propagated it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, it doesn't matter. It was
Speaker 5: such a non issue.
Speaker 13: It was kind of funny, and that Eva Longoria was
Speaker 13: supposed to be their main That was the big surprise.
Speaker 5: It was. It fell flat for everybody else that was
Speaker 5: watching it.
Speaker 13: But I gotta tell you, Kamala Harris gave, like I
Speaker 13: referred to earlier, the speech of her life last night.
Speaker 13: She does well when she speaks, she's she's smart, she's adamant.
Speaker 13: She was sort of arguing her case before the American people.
Speaker 5: And that's but it's over.
Speaker 13: I mean, you think about what the four days that
Speaker 13: have these previous four days led up to what was
Speaker 13: for her and for the campaign, a really great night.
Speaker 13: But now is when it starts to get real. I mean,
Speaker 13: and I don't it's I mean it in this way,
Speaker 13: they've been able to ride the pent up enthusiasm.
Speaker 12: The.
Speaker 13: Now extinguished frustration, Joe Biden's out of the race. They
Speaker 13: have a young, energetic, or I should say younger, energetic,
Speaker 13: exciting candidate that is, you know, history making potentially. That
Speaker 13: is what is driving them right now. Not the policies,
Speaker 13: not the excitement about the economy, not the excitement about
Speaker 13: the immigration problem that exists along the border. Democrats, right,
Speaker 13: I mean, And that's the thing is they did what
Speaker 13: they should have done. They rode this wave of joy,
Speaker 13: of enthusiasm. And now it's going to get down to
Speaker 13: the navy gritty. Now it's going to be important for
Speaker 13: them to be able to define what it is that
Speaker 13: they want to do, to explain what the successes of
Speaker 13: the Biden administration are, to sell that to the American people.
Speaker 13: And this bump that everybody gets every candidate gets after
Speaker 13: a convention like this, it's going to be a handful
Speaker 13: of points, you know, three four five points in the
Speaker 13: polls probably. But is that immediately extinguished by the fact
Speaker 13: that RFK is expected to endorse Donald Trump later today?
Speaker 13: I mean, and that's going to be an issue that
Speaker 13: the Harris campaign has to deal with immediately. This is
Speaker 13: not a there's no honeymoon for them right now. They
Speaker 13: have to get back to work right away.
Speaker 6: Well, here's my question though, Gary.
Speaker 1: And because you're at the convention and you've been talking
Speaker 1: to everybody, she does so well on prompter, I think
Speaker 1: we've all agreed, and I agree that was her speech
Speaker 1: last night was amazing. I was like, I'm on board,
Speaker 1: you know, And then everybody's saying, well, that's over.
Speaker 6: That's over. Now she's going to have to start talking,
Speaker 6: well does she?
Speaker 1: Because most people aren't involved in it, Like people who
Speaker 1: are listening to KFI and you and me. Most people
Speaker 1: aren't that involved in politics. And if they just watched
Speaker 1: last night, they're going to go, she's mine, I'm going
Speaker 1: for Harris.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean, that's the that's the ultimate problem in
Speaker 13: American elections is the low information voter. It's the people
Speaker 13: who either don't get the information that they need or
Speaker 13: they don't even bother to look for the information they
Speaker 13: need to make an educated choice about who they want
Speaker 13: to be their elected representatives. It's president, it's members of Congress,
Speaker 13: it's the Senate.
Speaker 5: It's governor.
Speaker 13: I mean, we are all busy people, and like you said,
Speaker 13: we pay attention to you and I we pay attention
Speaker 13: to it in a way that is different than everybody else.
Speaker 13: What's interesting is that in a time like now, I
Speaker 13: mean in a place like Chicago, for this convention, I'm
Speaker 13: surrounded by.
Speaker 5: People who eat this stuff up every.
Speaker 13: Single day and they live and die by this policy stuff.
Speaker 13: So it's almost like I've become the low information voter,
Speaker 13: you know, in a town like this for an event
Speaker 13: like this. So it's an interesting sort of a switch,
Speaker 13: where a switch of positions, where now I have to
Speaker 13: be the one who's asking the questions about, Okay, who
Speaker 13: is she, what does she stand for?
Speaker 5: What are the policies that she's going to bring to
Speaker 5: the White House.
Speaker 13: I do think it is incumbent. I do think it's
Speaker 13: important and the campaign should put pressure on her. I mean,
Speaker 13: she's the one who's in charge of the campaign.
Speaker 5: So I don't know. If they put pressure on her,
Speaker 5: she does it on them.
Speaker 13: She's got to sit down and do that interview, because
Speaker 13: that drum beat, that conversation about long form interview, When
Speaker 13: is she going to do it?
Speaker 5: They need to at least get one of those.
Speaker 13: Things out of the way, one of those interviews out
Speaker 13: of the way, to stop the questions from continuously being asked.
Speaker 13: It's going to get louder today. It's going to get
Speaker 13: louder over the weekend. And I know she said she
Speaker 13: promised that she was going to do something before the
Speaker 13: end of August, but I mean it's the twenty third,
Speaker 13: that's next week. Yeah, and she's got to get on
Speaker 13: that if nothing else, just to just to stop the
Speaker 13: questions from being asked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So before we let you go, what was
Speaker 1: your highlight from the dance. I've so enjoyed listening to
Speaker 1: the show and all the people that you've interviewed. I
Speaker 1: have an interviewed or listen to your interview with Via
Speaker 1: Ragosi yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I liked him a lot more than I did when
Speaker 1: he was in office.
Speaker 13: There were two things that I that I liked. One
Speaker 13: of them one it was the interview that we did
Speaker 13: with Congressman Dean Phillips. Here's a guy who eighteen months
Speaker 13: ago was saying, Joe Biden is too old, Joe Biden
Speaker 13: is not the same person he should he was a
Speaker 13: few years ago. We've got to replace him at the
Speaker 13: top of the ticket. And Dean Phillips was adamantly, you know,
Speaker 13: arguing that the Democrats not to abandon him, but to
Speaker 13: improve the party, they had to get rid of Joe Biden.
Speaker 13: And that was a long time ago. He was a
Speaker 13: really nice guy, very thoughtful. He came by a couple
Speaker 13: of times and said hi to us. The other thing,
Speaker 13: and I'm not going to name names, but we talk
Speaker 13: a lot about Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 5: And when we get to meet these, you.
Speaker 13: Know, these politicians that come walking through and we get
Speaker 13: to interview some of them, almost all of them said
Speaker 13: to us off the air when we would.
Speaker 5: Ask, hey, what about this guy, what's he like, what's
Speaker 5: he really like?
Speaker 13: They all said that he is a kind of a
Speaker 13: smarmy guy.
Speaker 5: I mean, I won't use the words that they used.
Speaker 5: I'll just classify the way that nobody.
Speaker 13: Nobody is a really big fan of Gavin Newsom, even
Speaker 13: within the Democratic.
Speaker 6: Party, which is interesting.
Speaker 5: On him there last night, by the way, he was.
Speaker 13: He was in the crowd last night with a gritted
Speaker 13: teeth smiling at Kamala Eiras.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I think that your comment is interesting because remember
Speaker 1: when they were talking about Biden getting out and who
Speaker 1: would replace him in Kamala wasn't even in the conversation, right,
Speaker 1: Neither was Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 13: No, Well, I'm and I think that's because they understand
Speaker 13: that there needs to be a likability factor. You have
Speaker 13: to have somebody who can, you know, just on their
Speaker 13: face again, for the low information voter, draw them in
Speaker 13: right away.
Speaker 5: And those two are not. They're not at the top
Speaker 5: of the list.
Speaker 13: They have an uphill battle in terms of improving your
Speaker 13: likability or proving it to the people who could potentially
Speaker 13: vote for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Gary Hoffin, I know that you are
Speaker 1: going to have so much more to say about this
Speaker 1: because you're still doing your show in Chicago before you
Speaker 1: head back to the West Coast this weekend, So we'll
Speaker 1: be tuning in nine to one.
Speaker 6: It's Gary and Shannon Show. Gary Hoffman thanks so much.
Speaker 6: Appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have seen this, but
Speaker 1: the state has its first pizza vending machine.
Speaker 6: It's called Pizza Furno.
Speaker 1: It's installed in late June at a shopping mall in
Speaker 1: Sacramento County, and it has frozen pizzas in it, and
Speaker 1: you order it, put in your money, choose what you want,
Speaker 1: and then the pizza gets put through a conduction oven
Speaker 1: and the owner says, the robotic arms then lift it
Speaker 1: up from the pizza box.
Speaker 6: They cook it, they put it back in. I don't
Speaker 6: know if it slices it.
Speaker 1: It must slice it, and then it spits out your
Speaker 1: pizza there you Oh, and you can get six different flavors.
Speaker 1: I gotta try this. I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 6: Is it a good idea, a bad idea? It's the
Speaker 6: vending machines.
Speaker 4: Great idea.
Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately there's not one here. There are several around
Speaker 1: the country, but I think this is the first one
Speaker 1: in California, and it's up in Sacramento, and that would
Speaker 1: be my only reason to go to Sacramento, just for
Speaker 1: the vending machine. Yes, I love the people in Sacramento,
Speaker 1: the place not so much.
Speaker 6: But so it was just wondering.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, is this a really cool idea or
Speaker 1: is this a bad idea? I think what We're gonna
Speaker 1: put it up on Instagram. We'll ask you, so when
Speaker 1: you get a chance, go to my Instagram at Ammy K.
Speaker 1: King and we'll do a little poll. Or if you
Speaker 1: have anything to say, let me know at Amy K.
Speaker 1: King will also put it on KFI am six forty
Speaker 1: pizza vending machines who Knew? Vice President Kamala Harris has
Speaker 1: officially accepted her party's nomination for president. She took to
Speaker 1: the stage to thunderous applause last night at the Democratic
Speaker 1: Now Convention in Chicago. She ended her speech by urging
Speaker 1: everyone to vote and write the next great chapter in
Speaker 1: the most extraordinary story ever told.
Speaker 6: A bill that would allow.
Speaker 1: Illegal immigrants to qualify for first time home buying loans
Speaker 1: is advancing in the California Senate. It's headed for a
Speaker 1: floor vote after passing the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill
Speaker 1: would expand eligibility requirements for the California Dream for All
Speaker 1: Shared Appreciation Program. That's the state's first time home buyer
Speaker 1: loan program. Why don't they just call it the state's
Speaker 1: first time home buyer loan program be easier. Campers at
Speaker 1: Joshua Tree National Park have had to cut their vacation
Speaker 1: short because of bees. Park rangers have closed the campground.
Speaker 1: The closure includes the visitor center, parking area, bathrooms, and
Speaker 1: the sixty two campsites. It seems officials will let the
Speaker 1: bees leave in their own time. There's no word on
Speaker 1: when the campground will reopen. At six Poho five's handle
Speaker 1: on the news, former President Trump says he'd be honored
Speaker 1: if RFK Junior endorsed him. That could happen today at
Speaker 1: five point fifty. ABC's Jason Nathanson will let us know
Speaker 1: if we should blink twice or not. But right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to the host of Home on KFI,
Speaker 1: our house whisperer, Dean Sharp.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Normally we talk about stuff inside the home, but today
Speaker 1: we're going outside. And outside and inside have some same same.
Speaker 4: Factors, same same samness to them.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're talking about decks on Sunday. It's a good
Speaker 12: time to do it, because you know, we're here in
Speaker 12: the height of summer. People have been using their outside
Speaker 12: spaces a lot. I love deck, I know, right, it's
Speaker 12: just it's just fantastic. It's one of my favorite elements
Speaker 12: for the outside of the house. So for the people
Speaker 12: who have them, we need to talk about getting them
Speaker 12: ready for fall and winter, just to make sure that
Speaker 12: as we go into the cooler moister seasons that they're
Speaker 12: ready to go and then they're going to suffer. And
Speaker 12: for those who haven't had one, we're going to talk about,
Speaker 12: you know what, they're all good for. The ke to
Speaker 12: outside architecture really is to understand that it's not very
Speaker 12: different really at its heart than how we design inside
Speaker 12: outside in your yard, space, in your garden, whatever you've
Speaker 12: got available. It's all about creating rooms and hallways and
Speaker 12: walls and ceilings and windows and doors and floors. Now
Speaker 12: you use totally different materials to do that. We're not
Speaker 12: using studs and dry wall and that kind of thing.
Speaker 12: We're using other kinds of materials to achieve that, but
Speaker 12: it's still at its root the same concept. And a deck,
Speaker 12: a really beautiful deck is a beautiful wood floor, and
Speaker 12: it also creates a room a destination. And I know
Speaker 12: of no one who has a beautiful deck that doesn't
Speaker 12: spend a tremendous amount of time on it. They're simply
Speaker 12: one of the most popular and one of the most
Speaker 12: favorite elements outside of house.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Dean, let's let's just chat real quick because
Speaker 1: I know you're going to get into this a lot
Speaker 1: this weekend. So let's just do dip our toes in
Speaker 1: right now. Wood or composite.
Speaker 12: Uh, that's a tough one. I mean, it really is
Speaker 12: a tough one. That's why we're going to spend some time.
Speaker 12: I am a huge fan of wood decks, and and
Speaker 12: if more people understood how many options there are available
Speaker 12: other than what you just kind of assume. Most people think, oh,
Speaker 12: redwood or cedar, or I've got to spend you know,
Speaker 12: an arm and a leg on tropical hardwoods like teak
Speaker 12: or epe, you know, which are just I mean, they're
Speaker 12: all just gorgeous. But red wooden cedar just really aren't
Speaker 12: measuring up to what most people think. They think, Well,
Speaker 12: you use red wooden cedar because, you know, because they're
Speaker 12: rot and termite resistant. Well resistant is the keyword there.
Speaker 12: They're not rot and termite proof and redwood and cedar,
Speaker 12: you know, not a lot of old growth redwood and
Speaker 12: cedar remains in the US, and so there are techniques
Speaker 12: that the Europeans have been using for quite a while
Speaker 12: now that are really coming on strong in the US
Speaker 12: where pretty much any kind of wood, any kind of
Speaker 12: wood that you want to put on your deck, you
Speaker 12: can find in what we call a thermally treated form,
Speaker 12: which means that it has gone through a process of
Speaker 12: being superheated and so the lignins and the cellulose inside
Speaker 12: has collapsed in such a way that bugs won't eat
Speaker 12: it and moisture doesn't affect it. So literally, you name
Speaker 12: the wood and we can make a deck out of
Speaker 12: it if you want so. I am a huge fan
Speaker 12: of wood decks, love them, always, will always have. On
Speaker 12: the composite side of things, not so much. I am
Speaker 12: famously not a fan of composite decks. And I'll tell
Speaker 12: you one reason why. It has nothing to do with
Speaker 12: the fact that, yeah, they last forever, and you know,
Speaker 12: some of them are very kind of greenish in the
Speaker 12: sense of their using recycled materials. But at the end
Speaker 12: of the day, as a designer, for me, it's got
Speaker 12: to feel and look like wood. It just has to.
Speaker 12: And I don't like walking out on plastic and it
Speaker 12: just doesn't. Most of them, the vast majority don't. Now
Speaker 12: there is one exception. The only composite deck that I
Speaker 12: have ever ever recommended in my entire career. I'm rebuilding
Speaker 12: my main deck out of it right now as we speak.
Speaker 12: Is a relatively new material coming out of Mississippi, made
Speaker 12: out of upcycled rice hulls, and it looks and feels
Speaker 12: and sounds and stains and paints like teak. It is
Speaker 12: just an amazing material. But it's a composite that lasts forever.
Speaker 12: And I'm actually going to have the West Coast representative
Speaker 12: of that company on the show on Sunday.
Speaker 6: And it's made out of rice holes, rice holes, which okay,
Speaker 6: so if you get hungry, you can just gnaw on it.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's the hull, it's not the colonel.
Speaker 6: That sounds really interesting. I've never heard of that. Okay.
Speaker 6: So that's all coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's all about decks with Dean Sharp Saturday from nine
Speaker 1: to noon. Nope, Saturday from six to eight, and then
Speaker 1: Sunday from nine to noon.
Speaker 6: Nope.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, you got it, you got it.
Speaker 6: I'll get it all straight. Okay.
Speaker 1: That's a home with Dean Sharp again Saturday from six
Speaker 1: to eight Sunday from nine to noon right here on
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Dean.
Speaker 4: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: The Taliban tightening its hold on women in Afghanistan. It's
Speaker 1: banned the sound of women's voices. Here's what we're following
Speaker 1: in the KFI twenty four hour news room. Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has urged Americans to seize a precious, fleeting
Speaker 1: opportunity to move beyond political divisions and what she calls
Speaker 1: the threat of Donald Trump. She took lots of shots
Speaker 1: at Trump as she accepted the Democratic nomination for president
Speaker 1: at the DNC last night. A large homeless camp at
Speaker 1: Darckweler State Beach has been cleared out. People who live
Speaker 1: in the area say the camp was growing. Tents had
Speaker 1: surrounded the public restrooms and needles littered the ground. Park
Speaker 1: rangers posted signs on Wednesday, and the tents were cleared yesterday.
Speaker 6: A principle has.
Speaker 1: Been put on leave because of a controversial dance at
Speaker 1: a school PEP rally in Merced County. In a video
Speaker 1: that's gone viral. Buhock Colony High School Principal Robert Nunyaz
Speaker 1: is sitting in a chair as the school mascot appears
Speaker 1: to give him a lap dance. Several parents say they
Speaker 1: want Nunya's fired. Others say he's a good man, he
Speaker 1: just had a lapse of judgment. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now to ABC's Jason Nathanson. Jason, don't blink or you
Speaker 1: might miss this one.
Speaker 3: Bahaha, I Yes.
Speaker 2: Blink Twice is the new movie that we're talking about
Speaker 2: that's going to be in theaters this weekend and could
Speaker 2: top the new releases, although it's going to be a
Speaker 2: little bit of a slow as we get into the
Speaker 2: typical August time and then next week also it will
Speaker 2: be a little slow until we get Beetle Juice in
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Blink Twice is the directorial debut of Zoe Kravitz, the
Speaker 2: actress uh This is the first time she also co
Speaker 2: wrote this. The story basically is you have tech billionaire
Speaker 2: Slater King who's played by Channing Tatum. He meets a
Speaker 2: cocktail waitress at a gala. She's played by Naomi Aki
Speaker 2: sparks Fly. She goes with him to his.
Speaker 3: Island. You know, he is a billionaire, so he has
Speaker 3: his own island.
Speaker 6: So on their first night, they fly off to the island.
Speaker 2: First night, and she brings a friend for sake, judgment, judgment,
Speaker 2: but there is a friend there. So there's there's two
Speaker 2: of them, and there's a whole group of people, guys
Speaker 2: and girls, and they're going and they're partying, they're having fun.
Speaker 3: They're you know, eating.
Speaker 2: Fancy meals and doing a lot of drugs and having
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. And then things start to get
Speaker 2: a little weird, and then they get weirder, and then
Speaker 2: they get even weirder and things kind of devolved from there.
Speaker 2: This is a really stylish and smart debut from Zoe Kravitz.
Speaker 2: The editing is fantastic, lots of quick cuts and very
Speaker 2: interesting and something that you don't normally notice, and when
Speaker 2: you do, it's usually in a bad way. But I
Speaker 2: really liked the editing here, and she does a really
Speaker 2: good job with kind of making it pops. From the beginning,
Speaker 2: it's cool, like this is a cool movie. These are
Speaker 2: the cool kids in school, and I think everybody wanted
Speaker 2: to be a part of it, and they do a
Speaker 2: great job mixing older iconic actors like Christian Slater and
Speaker 2: Gena Davis with the new stars like Naomi Aki and
Speaker 2: Adrea Arhona who was from Hitman.
Speaker 3: With Glenn Powell earlier this year on Netflix.
Speaker 2: And overall it's you know, look, it's gonna be compared
Speaker 2: to Get Out.
Speaker 3: That's it's just whether that's fair or not.
Speaker 2: It's going to Is it as an instant classic as
Speaker 2: ed I was, No, but it's close.
Speaker 3: It's very very close.
Speaker 2: The only issue I would have probably maybe it's a
Speaker 2: little too much style over substance, but it's very very
Speaker 2: close to instant classic status.
Speaker 3: I really really liked it a lot. This is an
Speaker 3: eight point two out of ten for.
Speaker 2: Me, and it's a fun even though it's not a
Speaker 2: big movie. There's not a lot of special effects and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. I think it's a very fun movie
Speaker 2: to go see you in the theater as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so eight point two on the jsonometer, like yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So then moving over, because Hollywood can't leave anything alone.
Speaker 1: There's a remake of The Crow.
Speaker 2: Yes there is, which I did not get a chance
Speaker 2: to see, and I apparently that's not a bad thing
Speaker 2: because it is currently twenty one percent rated on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 6: And gived your time and your money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which you know I think you probably will too.
Speaker 2: Unless you're a big fan of The Crow out there,
Speaker 2: you know you're probably going to want to check it
Speaker 2: out just out of curiosity to see how they change
Speaker 2: this from the graphic novel or from the nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: four movie, which of course starred Brandon Lee, who was
Speaker 2: killed on the set of that film infamously, And so
Speaker 2: this is a new take on that Bill Scarsguard stars
Speaker 2: and the title character. You have FK Twigs as well,
Speaker 2: but again not getting great reviews and not going to
Speaker 2: make a whole lot of money this weekend. So it's
Speaker 2: going to be between Blink Twice and The Crow for
Speaker 2: the new releases at the box office. But it looks
Speaker 2: like Alien Romulus is going to hold up for another
Speaker 2: week at number one, or it's possible we could get
Speaker 2: Deadpool and Wolverine back up to the number one slot.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're not going to go to the theater,
Speaker 1: you're home sitting on the couch like I might be.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of new shows incoming and the documentary
Speaker 1: Untold the murder of Air McNair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Incoming is a it's a movie. It's a raunchy
Speaker 2: rated comedy on Netflix. Really, when I say r rated
Speaker 2: and raunchy, I really really mean that, So just know
Speaker 2: that the kid. Yeah, it's a high school comedy about
Speaker 2: the beginning of a new school year. It focuses on
Speaker 2: a couple freshmen just entering into high school. There's a party,
Speaker 2: of course, and it centers around the party, and it's
Speaker 2: wanting to go to the party and make a name
Speaker 2: for themselves. You know, there's a lot of it that's
Speaker 2: kind of cliche there, but it's from a couple of
Speaker 2: writers from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dave and John Chernan.
Speaker 3: They'll say did the Fox Sitcome The Mick.
Speaker 2: Which I really really liked and got I think very
Speaker 2: little attention when it was on a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: starring Kaitlyn Olsen who's also in this, and a bunch
Speaker 2: of people from The Mick are also in this movie
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: That said, this really goes for the gross out stuff.
Speaker 2: There's one scene or kind of plot point in particular
Speaker 2: that I personally found so disgusting that I had to
Speaker 2: put my hand in front of my face because it
Speaker 2: was so gross and I'm not easily grossed out, and I.
Speaker 1: Would have been vomiting then, because yeah, because I'm kind
Speaker 1: of weak stomached on all of that.
Speaker 2: And it is a little funny, but it is really
Speaker 2: really disgusting. Bobby Cannavali has a really really funny but
Speaker 2: small role as a teacher who's stays too long at
Speaker 2: the party. There's some really funny older actors here. The
Speaker 2: younger actors there, there's a mix. Some of them are good.
Speaker 2: Some of them I think are a little too green.
Speaker 2: You know, this is their some their first thing, or
Speaker 2: you know, I think they're trying too hard. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of stuff is really cliche. But
Speaker 2: I could see if I were in high school, I
Speaker 2: probably love this. I can see teens really really digging it.
Speaker 2: I do have to point out I think there's one
Speaker 2: instance of very irresponsible drug use, which I was a
Speaker 2: little surprised by and I feel went a little too far.
Speaker 3: So just know that going in as well.
Speaker 2: Again, I'm not apprude, I don't think, but I think
Speaker 2: there should be some kind of responsibility, especially when you're
Speaker 2: depicting teens on screen. But other than that, you know, funny, yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of cliche for the most part, doesn't really get there,
Speaker 2: but there's some good stuff.
Speaker 3: This is a five point four out of ten for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then real quick because we are out of time,
Speaker 1: but they untold the murder of air McNair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good for the first hour.
Speaker 2: I thought by the end of it, when they pose
Speaker 2: some new theories on the murder of this NFL quarterback that.
Speaker 6: They were like, who's air McNair.
Speaker 2: Yes, Steve air McNair, who's a Tennessee Titans quarterback.
Speaker 6: He was Oh no, it just gave me the nastiest
Speaker 6: think guy ever.
Speaker 3: He was killed in two thousand and nine. It was
Speaker 3: a murder of suicide.
Speaker 2: They get into exactly what's going on, but then I think,
Speaker 2: very irresponsibly, at the end of this they bring up
Speaker 2: a bunch of new theories and then just leave it
Speaker 2: at that. I thought, actually there was going to be
Speaker 2: a second episode that they were going to lead into,
Speaker 2: but no, it's just this one. And they build this
Speaker 2: whole case the whole time and then drop this stuff
Speaker 2: on you, which I think is very irresponsible. And your
Speaker 2: left is the viewer googling all this stuff at the
Speaker 2: end of it, which they either shouldn't have gotten into
Speaker 2: because it's too thin or they should have explored even
Speaker 2: more so, that's a four point six.
Speaker 3: Out of ten for me.
Speaker 6: All right, Jason Nathanson, thank you so much. All right, Tacker,
Speaker 6: all right, have a great week.
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