Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1: Okay, good morning. It's five o'clock straight up this Friday morning.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for September sixth I'm
Speaker 1: Amy King. So excited to have you with us this morning.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of stuff going on. As always, I
Speaker 1: got to share with you as we get Our Friday started.
Speaker 1: That Thursday was a little bit wonky, kind of turned
Speaker 1: into a fire drill. So I went to see Beetlejuice
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon at CityWalk and it was let me just
Speaker 1: tell you, it's like one of my favorite movies I've
Speaker 1: seen in a really, really long time. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking with Jason Nathanson and see what he thinks about it,
Speaker 1: but I think it's going to have a big weekend
Speaker 1: and I loved it. Then after the movie got out,
Speaker 1: I went to pick up a friend at the airport
Speaker 1: who's coming into town this weekend because the Disney's doing
Speaker 1: their half marathon, which we're doing, and then we're going
Speaker 1: to go play at the park and you know, just
Speaker 1: she's one of my best friends from Northern California, and
Speaker 1: so she is flying in. So I leave the movie
Speaker 1: theater and I rush over to the Burbank Airport and
Speaker 1: she texts me. She says, I'm landing, and I'm like, yay,
Speaker 1: I'm circling. And then about five minutes later she sends
Speaker 1: me another text and it says, Okay, I'm outside at
Speaker 1: baggage claim twelve. And I'm thinking to myself. Bourbank Airport
Speaker 1: doesn't have a baggage claimed twelve. So I went back
Speaker 1: and I look at her ticket and then I call
Speaker 1: her and I go, hey, where are you. She goes,
Speaker 1: I'm outside, and I go at Santa Anna Airport she
Speaker 1: said yep. So she was an hour and a half away,
Speaker 1: and because it was already like six point thirty, she
Speaker 1: ended up taking an uber ride up from Santa Anna
Speaker 1: Airport to where I am in Los Angeles. So that
Speaker 1: was one hundred dollars uber ride later. But she said
Speaker 1: she had a great time and her driver was great.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, but what a crazy start to the weekend.
Speaker 1: So everything last night was all discombobulated, and I had
Speaker 1: a friend in town and all that stuff. So if
Speaker 1: I'm a little discombobulated, I have an excuse for it today.
Speaker 1: Most days I don't have an excuse. Today I do,
Speaker 1: but looking forward to a really fun weekend and looking
Speaker 1: forward to a really great wake up call. We got
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Here's what's ahead. Hunter Biden has
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to all nine tax charges against him in
Speaker 1: court in la He could face seventeen years in prison
Speaker 1: when he sentenced. Now how the plea came together and
Speaker 1: more from the courtroom with ABC's Peter Haralumbus is coming
Speaker 1: up in less than five minutes. The fourteen year old
Speaker 1: accused of shooting and killing two students and two teachers
Speaker 1: and wounding nine others at his high school in winder Georgia,
Speaker 1: is due in court this morning. His father has been
Speaker 1: arrested and charged in connection with the killings. Students at
Speaker 1: more than a dozen schools in Long Beach are not
Speaker 1: getting a break from this heat. They don't have air conditioning,
Speaker 1: the Long Beach Unified School District says, While eighty four
Speaker 1: percent do have ac the ones that don't have been
Speaker 1: opening windows and doors and using fans to cool off
Speaker 1: during the heat wave. Some teachers and parents say the
Speaker 1: heat makes concentrating hard for the kids at six oh five.
Speaker 1: It's handled on the news, former President Trump is trying
Speaker 1: once again to get his sentencing for his thirty four
Speaker 1: felony convictions delayed. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: So Cowgas is shutting off service to additional fifty four
Speaker 1: homes in Rancho Palace thirties because of the worsening land movements.
Speaker 1: Service will be cut.
Speaker 5: For twenty nine homes in the Seaview neighborhood and twenty
Speaker 5: five homes along Portuguese Bend. This woman says she was
Speaker 5: using gas powered generators when her electricity was cut Monday,
Speaker 5: but now that's out.
Speaker 3: We have headlamps and we have battery operated little lanterns.
Speaker 5: Governor knew Some declared a state of emergency after so
Speaker 5: Cal Edison shut off power to two hundred and forty
Speaker 5: five homes because of the shifting ground. So Cal gasas
Speaker 5: service will be cut indefinitely to the additional homes.
Speaker 1: By three pm today. Chris Adler kf I news Remains
Speaker 1: found under a home at a nudist resort in Redlands
Speaker 1: have been identified as those of a missing elderly couple.
Speaker 1: Their neighbor, Michael Sparks, is charged with their murders. Dan
Speaker 1: and Stephanie Minard were reported missing on August twenty fourth
Speaker 1: when they didn't show up at church. Sparks was arrested
Speaker 1: after a standoff with police in which part of his
Speaker 1: home was torn down. He was found in a concrete
Speaker 1: bunker below the home. The remains were found in plastic bags.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump says if he's real elected in November,
Speaker 1: he'll create a government efficiency commission headed by tech billionaire
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Trump says the government commission would crack down
Speaker 1: on fraud and waste.
Speaker 3: Elon, because he's not very busy, has agreed to have
Speaker 3: that task course be interesting if he has the time.
Speaker 1: Trump says Musk would be charged with finding trillions of
Speaker 1: dollars in federal waste and fraud. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now to ABC's Peter Harralumbus. Crazy days in court. Peter, first,
Speaker 1: in New York, there's Trump's trial for payments made to
Speaker 1: Stormy Daniels. And now on the other side of the country,
Speaker 1: you were in the courtroom for what was supposed to
Speaker 1: be just the first day of hunter Biden's tax trial,
Speaker 1: but thinks things quickly went sideways.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning, Amy. Really a twist yesterday in court.
Speaker 6: We were expecting that to be the first day of
Speaker 6: jury selection. One hundred and twenty Sanelinas had shown up
Speaker 6: that were ready to begin the process of being possibly
Speaker 6: selected as jurors. When hunter Biden's attorney declared to the
Speaker 6: judge and the prosecutor that they actually wanted to change
Speaker 6: their plea during this entire trial into question. It then
Speaker 6: became kind of an hour's long or deal with it,
Speaker 6: tried to figure out the details of the plea. Ultimately,
Speaker 6: hunter Biden pleaded guilty to all nine counts of the indictment,
Speaker 6: including three felonies. He faces up to seventeen years in
Speaker 6: prison and over a million dollars in fines.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Peter, let's back up a little bit, because
Speaker 1: there was some again an hour's long conversation about what
Speaker 1: the plea was going to be. So initially he was
Speaker 1: going to change his plea, but then they were going
Speaker 1: to use something called the Alford plea, And so can
Speaker 1: you explain to us what that is and what was
Speaker 1: said about it?
Speaker 6: Sure, so they initially came out and said that Hunter
Speaker 6: Biden wanted to do what's called an Alford plea, which
Speaker 6: is kind of a rare thing where the defendant, like Hunter,
Speaker 6: would plead guilty to the actual crimes but not necessarily
Speaker 6: admit his innocence. Basically, Hunter was willing to say, you know,
Speaker 6: if this was a trial, i admit that I would
Speaker 6: be found guilty, but I'm not going to say that
Speaker 6: I did every single thing as alleged in the indictment.
Speaker 6: So that was what they first proposed. The judge called
Speaker 6: a break so that the parties could describe this. Prosecutors
Speaker 6: said that this was the first time they ever heard
Speaker 6: of this in the context of the case, so it
Speaker 6: completely caught them by surprise. By the afternoon, though, the
Speaker 6: government was pretty unified in their opposition to this idea,
Speaker 6: saying they're absolutely opposed to this idea. They were planning
Speaker 6: on an arguing White should not be accepted, and kind
Speaker 6: of in a surprise move, after a shortbreak, Hunter Biden's
Speaker 6: team just decided to throw in the towel and forget
Speaker 6: about all that stuff about the Alfred police and just
Speaker 6: enter a standard plea guilty to every single one to
Speaker 6: counts to the indictment and notable because this is, you know,
Speaker 6: entering a guilty plea outside of the context of a
Speaker 6: plea deal in which you know, he could have negotiated,
Speaker 6: for example, leniency or you know, a lighter sentence. Instead,
Speaker 6: Hunter Biden's opening himself up to the worst of the
Speaker 6: worst when it comes to sentencing up to seventeen years
Speaker 6: as he accepted, you know, guilt in front of the
Speaker 6: judge yesterday for every single one.
Speaker 4: Of these counts.
Speaker 1: So Peter had there had there been some talk of
Speaker 1: a plea deal that maybe we just didn't know about.
Speaker 6: You know, it seemed like this case was going very
Speaker 6: much to trial. You know, if you go back a year,
Speaker 6: Hunter Biden was willing to plead guilty to this case,
Speaker 6: to the tax crimes in conjunction with a plea deal
Speaker 6: that basically also covered his gun case that fell apart
Speaker 6: in a Delaware courtroom last year, which really led to
Speaker 6: both indictments in Delaware and Los Angeles. So you know,
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, you know, Hunter Biden
Speaker 6: was willing to plead guilty to these offenses, but when
Speaker 6: it came to this trial, it seems full it seemed
Speaker 6: full steam ahead. And prosecutors themselves were dumbfounded by the
Speaker 6: change in court.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you think that it was just a hail
Speaker 1: mary to try the Alfred thing? That they went in
Speaker 1: and saying, you know what, we're just going to plead guilty.
Speaker 1: Don't want to deal with this, but let's try this
Speaker 1: just in case it works.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in a way, it was a bit surprising how
Speaker 6: quickly they threw in the towel with the Alfred play
Speaker 6: despite the judge entertaining it. Judge Mark Scarzy was willing
Speaker 6: to kind of hear extended arguments on Friday and sends
Speaker 6: home the jury to seriously consider whether to accept this plea.
Speaker 6: Sources close to Hunter Biden suggested that he saw the
Speaker 6: Alfred plea as a way to end this part of
Speaker 6: his life without having to kind of accept all that
Speaker 6: he thinks it was alleged in the case. But you know,
Speaker 6: they just gave up after about thirty minutes and wanted
Speaker 6: to get it over. They clearly didn't want to face
Speaker 6: another likely trial. In a statement after court, Hunter Biden
Speaker 6: said that he wanted to prevent his family from going
Speaker 6: through the trauma and pain of get another trial, especially
Speaker 6: after that gun trial in Delaware a few months ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the plea has been entered and he's got
Speaker 1: sentencings set in December, so we'll wait to see if
Speaker 1: he gets that seventeen years, and there's no indication yet
Speaker 1: on whether he will actually get jail time.
Speaker 6: You know, he's also at this point have as a
Speaker 6: criminal record because of that case in Delaware, so that
Speaker 6: doesn't help this case when it comes to sentencing. Seventeen
Speaker 6: might be a little bit steep, but these are very
Speaker 6: severe penalties, and he also faces twenty five years technically
Speaker 6: in the gun case out in Delaware. So these are
Speaker 6: serious penalties and they raise the specter of a presidential
Speaker 6: pardoner commutation once again, though the White House is continuing
Speaker 6: to deny that that's something that's being discussed.
Speaker 1: We shall see, we shall see. I have some thoughts
Speaker 1: on that, but I'll keep them to myself for right now.
Speaker 1: And for you, Peter, you are going to be in
Speaker 1: the court for days. Now, do you get to go
Speaker 1: and hang out on the beach or something.
Speaker 6: I get one day in Los Angeles and then I'm
Speaker 6: back in New York. So I'm enjoying my day here,
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much. I'm sorry you don't get
Speaker 1: to spend some more time in our beautiful city, but
Speaker 1: appreciate the insight and I was always the information. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you.
Speaker 4: Soon, Thanks so much.
Speaker 6: Having take care.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: father of the fourteen year old accused of killing four
Speaker 1: people at his high school in Georgia has also been arrested.
Speaker 1: Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey says Colin Gray
Speaker 1: was taken into custody yesterday for second degree murder and
Speaker 1: involuntary manslaughter.
Speaker 3: He's charge of stem from mister Gray knowingly allowing his
Speaker 3: son Coke to possess a weapon.
Speaker 1: Two students and two teachers were killed Wednesday at Appalachi
Speaker 1: High School. The alleged shooter is due in court this morning.
Speaker 1: He is charged with four counts of felony murder and
Speaker 1: will be tried as an adult. Two people have been
Speaker 1: critically hurt in the crash of a single engine plane
Speaker 1: in Hawthorne, La Kenny. Firefighters were called to the area
Speaker 1: of Hawthorne Boulevard and one hundred and twenty sixth Street overnight.
Speaker 1: The injured were taken to the hospital. Officials say no
Speaker 1: one on the ground was hurt and no property was damaged.
Speaker 1: News brought to you by ruderhro dot com. A woman
Speaker 1: has turned herself in in connection with a hit and
Speaker 1: run crash in Anaheim that killed an eighty four year
Speaker 1: old man. He was knocked down and killed early Monday
Speaker 1: morning by someone driving an SUV while crossing Anaheim Boulevard.
Speaker 1: Police say the woman arrested was booked on on suspicion
Speaker 1: of felony hit and run. Supporters of a sales tax
Speaker 1: in LA to fight homelessness have started campaigning.
Speaker 7: Measure A would raise the current point twenty five cent
Speaker 7: sales tax to half a cent for housing and other services.
Speaker 7: LA Family Housing CEO Stephanie Klaski Gamer says the measure
Speaker 7: will improve the ratio of people becoming homeless versus people
Speaker 7: coming off the streets.
Speaker 8: In twenty twenty three, for every one hundred individuals who
Speaker 8: transitioned out of homelessness, one hundred and twenty five new
Speaker 8: people fell into homelessness.
Speaker 7: The measures projected to raise about one point two billion
Speaker 7: dollars every year in La. Blake Trolly K if I.
Speaker 1: News evacuation warnings have been issued in Highland for homes
Speaker 1: near a brushfire that's burned more than one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy acres. The fire started last night near Baseline and
Speaker 1: Alpine and was burning into the San Bernardino National Forest.
Speaker 1: The evacuation warnings are for neighborhoods east of Church Street
Speaker 1: and north of Highland Avenue, and also for the neighborhood
Speaker 1: east of Weaver north of Greenspot to the Iron Bridge.
Speaker 1: So then, California's Quick Reaction Force has dropped more than
Speaker 1: a million gallons of water and fire retardant on eighty
Speaker 1: five fires this year.
Speaker 2: The fleet includes three forty seven Shinoks and an S
Speaker 2: seventy six intelligence copter. OC Fire Authority Chief Brian Finnisi
Speaker 2: says there's also a mobile fire retarded mixing station.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four is turning into one of the busiest
Speaker 3: fire seasons.
Speaker 4: I think we've experienced it in.
Speaker 3: A long time, and that's saying something when you look
Speaker 3: at the fires we've had over the last decade.
Speaker 2: Vntur County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner says each coptor can
Speaker 2: drop thousands of.
Speaker 6: Gallons when all three combined, they continually dropped three thousand
Speaker 6: gallons by three thousand gallons by three thousand gallons followed
Speaker 6: in unisons, creating a true synergy in our firefighting effort.
Speaker 2: LA County Fire Chief Anthony Moroni says the resource is critical.
Speaker 7: In the past couple of years, our department has dispatched
Speaker 7: the QRF on numerous wildfires.
Speaker 2: Local leaders want permanent county and state funding to follow,
Speaker 2: so cal Edison's one hundred million dollar investment to start
Speaker 2: the program in twenty twenty one in Orange County, Corbin
Speaker 2: Carson kf I News.
Speaker 1: An excessive heat warning for most of southern California has
Speaker 1: been extended until Monday night the National Weather Services. Today
Speaker 1: is going to be the hottest day of this heat
Speaker 1: wave and of the year, with woodland hills expected to
Speaker 1: hit one hundred and eighteen. Overnight temperatures will only get
Speaker 1: to about eighty It's eighty three in Burbank right now.
Speaker 1: It was eighty three when I came in at three
Speaker 1: thirty this morning. Firefighters in northern California have a new
Speaker 1: AI powered tool to help quickly detect and locate fires.
Speaker 1: Fifty new N five sensors have been installed that can
Speaker 1: detect gas, chemicals and smoke particles. If there's unusual activity,
Speaker 1: the sensor calls the fire department out. Officials say the
Speaker 1: sensors can also tell the difference between smoke from a
Speaker 1: wildfire and smoke from a barbecue. A SpaceX rocket has
Speaker 1: lit up the California sky. The Falcon nine rocket launched
Speaker 1: from Vandenberg Space Force Space around eight twenty last night,
Speaker 1: carrying spy satellites at the government's request. The live video
Speaker 1: feed was cut off before the satellites were deployed. Six
Speaker 1: its handle on the news, JD Vance is calling for
Speaker 1: schools to beef up security in the wake of the
Speaker 1: latest deadly school shooting. Let's say, now, good morning to
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we don't have any money.
Speaker 1: Inflation's killing us, but that's not getting in the way Halloween.
Speaker 9: Huh No, not at all. Last year, we shelled out
Speaker 9: twelve point two billion dollars, not million, twelve point two
Speaker 9: billion dollars on Halloween candy and costumes, decorations, food, party favors,
Speaker 9: all the stuff that comes with Halloween. Twelve point two billion,
Speaker 9: big record, and that was the most ever and the expectation.
Speaker 9: According to the National Retail Federation. Amy is that that
Speaker 9: will be exceeded this year. You know why because the
Speaker 9: stuff is already out there in the stores. Home, Deep, Lows,
Speaker 9: cost Co all have their Halloween decorations and merchandise on
Speaker 9: the shelves and standing in displays. And now Target also
Speaker 9: they're the last one to join in the in the fray.
Speaker 9: I suppose they're sending up their stuff, setting up the
Speaker 9: decorations and offering all sorts of new items. Thirteen hundred
Speaker 9: new items just for Halloween at Target.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. And it's not only in the big box stores.
Speaker 1: Because we were out doing some shopping over Labor Day weekend,
Speaker 1: and every single little store that we went, until we
Speaker 1: were going into boutiqui stores because we were in a
Speaker 1: small town, all of them had Halloween stuff out already.
Speaker 9: Sure, yeah, I was at a home depot the other day,
Speaker 9: and and and it's fun to look at that stuff
Speaker 9: at the front store with all the but and if
Speaker 9: you're right about places that people are choosing, and if
Speaker 9: you look at candy, specifically the candy sales, that's going
Speaker 9: to be the number one expense this year. And what
Speaker 9: kind of candy chocolate despite the rising costs of cocoa
Speaker 9: and all that. You know, eighty one percent of people
Speaker 9: who buy candy will be buying chocolate and candy.
Speaker 1: Prices are way.
Speaker 9: They are, and yet most shoppers will be making their
Speaker 9: candy purchases at mass retailers, grocery stores, club stores. Online
Speaker 9: retailers only get about a third of that business. So
Speaker 9: while people are buying their clothes and and you know,
Speaker 9: their bottle parts and whether they're detergent, whatever they want,
Speaker 9: they're buying it online, not their candy. They still like
Speaker 9: to go to the store and purchase candy that they
Speaker 9: physically pulled off the shelf.
Speaker 1: I have to wait till the last second to buy
Speaker 1: the candy. Why because otherwise I eat it all? Ah.
Speaker 9: You know what, that's a great point here in the
Speaker 9: National Retail Federation says that seven to ten consumers like
Speaker 9: you wait until the week of Halloween to buy candy.
Speaker 9: And you know, my thinking was that, well, it's going
Speaker 9: to be stale if you buy it before that. But
Speaker 9: I think you're right. If you have it around the house,
Speaker 9: you can eat it. Riche's peanut butter cups, Oh my favorite,
Speaker 9: Nirvana love that stuff.
Speaker 1: What about butterfingers. Those are my other favorite. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: is there are there some must have things for this year?
Speaker 9: Well yeah, I mean if certainly the chocolate is going
Speaker 9: to be one thing that everybody's looking for. This company
Speaker 9: that helps retailers to stock their shelves with stuff people
Speaker 9: will be interested in. Advantage Solutions says that that costumes,
Speaker 9: they haven't decided which costumes will be popular this year,
Speaker 9: which ones will be the top sellers, but the ones
Speaker 9: that are being offered are from Frozen two el the
Speaker 9: Elsa costume right, the Anna basic costume from I think
Speaker 9: that's Frozen, right yep, bal And Rapunzel and Toddler Mickey
Speaker 9: Mouse costume is now available too.
Speaker 1: So Disney's always big, yeah.
Speaker 9: And you know the bigger the better too. I mean,
Speaker 9: if you look at the Home Depot skeleton that was
Speaker 9: sold a few years ago, that was it twelve to
Speaker 9: fifteen feet tall, and Target now is offering an eight
Speaker 9: foot tall Bruce the skeleton goul And when I was
Speaker 9: at Home Depot the other day, they've got some It
Speaker 9: seems they're getting taller and bigger every year and more
Speaker 9: dramatic and creative. So somebody is is really putting thought
Speaker 9: into this stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are the big blow up things still kind of
Speaker 1: all the rage.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but that's mainly a Christmas thing. Halloween is its
Speaker 9: own entity and people love it. You know, some of
Speaker 9: these spirit store or that you see in the strip
Speaker 9: shopping centers, some stores like that are staying open year
Speaker 9: round because the business is there. People love their Halloween.
Speaker 9: So despite inflation, people want to have that experience with
Speaker 9: their kids, the experience they had as a child and
Speaker 9: that they remember, and they're willing to pay for it.
Speaker 1: And if you do need a bit of a bargain,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Target is adding a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: that starts at fifteen dollars.
Speaker 9: Yeah, costumes as little as fifteen dollars. And what was
Speaker 9: your favorite costume when you were little? Oh gosh, come on, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know. I can't you know which one? I remember
Speaker 1: what was When I moved to a new town. I
Speaker 1: was in eighth grade and my mom let me go
Speaker 1: out as a hooker. Oh geez, I was adorable. I'd
Speaker 1: fishnet stockings and red silk oh for heaven shorts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I met a lot of new class I bet you did.
Speaker 1: I was like, mom, what were you thinking? Why did
Speaker 1: you let me do that? You know what I think
Speaker 1: is going to be popular this year is Beetlejuice because
Speaker 1: that movie just hits theaters today technically week.
Speaker 9: Give the coincidence?
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, no. And I think that we're going
Speaker 1: to see a lot of Bob if you haven't when
Speaker 1: you probably haven't seen the movie yet, but look for Bob,
Speaker 1: and I bet we're going to see a lot of Bobs.
Speaker 9: I'll bet you're right. I had when I was a child,
Speaker 9: little child, Batman was on TV the Color you know,
Speaker 9: and it's already getting old that TV show was, but
Speaker 9: I had a Batman costume. Loved that thing. When trick
Speaker 9: or treating in the snow one year, it was.
Speaker 1: Fantastic trick or treating in the snow, how novel? It
Speaker 1: was all right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much. All right,
Speaker 1: don't spend it all in one place.
Speaker 9: Don't eat all it candy either.
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I'm going to wait until like
Speaker 1: two days before Halloween to get it.
Speaker 4: Good for you.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you soon. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: See yeah.
Speaker 1: The City of la has extended the operation of its
Speaker 1: cooling centers because of the heat wave the six cooling
Speaker 1: centers open Tuesday, They're now going to stay open through Monday.
Speaker 1: Nearly four hundred people have made use of them so far.
Speaker 1: La City Public Libraries are also available cooling centers during
Speaker 1: regular library hours. A barber in Placentia has been charged
Speaker 1: with murder for allegedly beating a first grader with a
Speaker 1: piece of wood for wetting his pants.
Speaker 10: Most of the little boy's flesh was missing from his buttocks.
Speaker 2: Orange County dapokeswoman Kimberly Ed says Ernest Love was supposed
Speaker 2: to be caring for six year old Chance Crawford while
Speaker 2: his mother worked.
Speaker 10: Video surveillance shows Love carrying a piece of lumber into
Speaker 10: his barbershop, with Chance following reluctantly behind him.
Speaker 1: Three hours later, Love is seen.
Speaker 10: Carrying an unconscious Chance into the hospital.
Speaker 1: The little boy was struggling.
Speaker 2: To breathe just as the boy died Tuesday following several
Speaker 2: brain injuries, including trauma consistent with violent shaking in Orange County.
Speaker 4: Corbin Carson KEAFI.
Speaker 1: News climate scientists say we've just seen the hottest summer
Speaker 1: on record on Earth. The European Climate Service Copernicus as
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four will most likely end up being the
Speaker 1: warmest year humanity has ever measured. Copernicus says the Northern
Speaker 1: meteorologe Chicole summer June, July and August average sixty two
Speaker 1: point twenty four degrees. That's point zero five degrees warmer
Speaker 1: than the old record set in twenty twenty three. Scientists
Speaker 1: say it shows how climate change keeps dialing up temperatures
Speaker 1: in extreme weather.
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: A guy visiting Disneyland over Labor Day has called out
Speaker 1: a person who's stuck their head in the water while
Speaker 1: on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Jeremy Sunkin posted
Speaker 1: a video on TikTok saying he saw an arm go
Speaker 1: in and then the rest of the person.
Speaker 4: Not considerate, not mindful, and definitely not to mirror.
Speaker 1: It's not clear why the writer went overboard. The video
Speaker 1: has hundreds of thousands of us. Don't go overboard at
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Speaker 1: dot com. Okay, so Jim Ryan caught me off guard
Speaker 1: when he asked me what my favorite costume was, and
Speaker 1: the only one I could come up with was Hooker.
Speaker 1: That was like an eighth grade. Okay, So here are
Speaker 1: a couple of my favorites from over the years. One year,
Speaker 1: a group of friends and I went as the Flynnstones
Speaker 1: and of course red Hair. I was Wilma Flynnstone. So
Speaker 1: we had Wilma and Fred and then we had Pebbles
Speaker 1: and Bambam. It was adorable and we want a bunch
Speaker 1: of money. One year we went as the whole Peanuts Gang.
Speaker 1: We had everybody. We had Charlie Brown and Snoopy and Peppermint,
Speaker 1: Patty and Lucy, the whole gang. That was really fun.
Speaker 1: And then one of my other favorites was I went
Speaker 1: as an eminem a couple of times. That was fun. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 1: News from CEE not only a hooker Hunter. Biden has
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to all charges in his federal tax trial
Speaker 1: in La. The plea made yesterday came on the same
Speaker 1: day jury selection was supposed to begin. He'll be sentenced
Speaker 1: December sixteenth, and faces up to seventeen years in prison
Speaker 1: and over a million dollars in fines. President Biden said
Speaker 1: in June that he would not pardon his son if
Speaker 1: he was convicted of crimes. A school in Temple City's
Speaker 1: been put on lockdown after someone called the school saying
Speaker 1: there was a man with a gun on campus. The
Speaker 1: Elei Kenny Sheriff's department searched the campus. The caller had
Speaker 1: said there was a person with a gun near the gym,
Speaker 1: but the call then disconnected. A principal in Central California
Speaker 1: has been demoted after participating in a lap dance during
Speaker 1: a PEP rally. Video shows Robert Nunyaz sitting on a
Speaker 1: chair during a rally in the gym as the school's
Speaker 1: mascot appears to give him a La lap dance. Nunya's
Speaker 1: then pops a confetti canyon as the mascot dances around him.
Speaker 1: Nunya's is now the assistant principal. Several parents won and fired.
Speaker 1: At six p' oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: Boeing's Starliner is about to head for home, but it's
Speaker 1: not bringing its crew along for the ride. At five
Speaker 1: point fifty, the gang's back together and Beetlejuice Beat Up
Speaker 1: Juice is back. ABC's Jason Nathanson's going to tell us
Speaker 1: if the sequel was worth the thirty six year weight.
Speaker 1: I'm anxious to hear what Jason has to say because
Speaker 1: I went and saw it yesterday and I thought it
Speaker 1: was fantastic. You know how everybody talks about being kind, Well,
Speaker 1: there is a community being built that takes kindness to
Speaker 1: a whole new level. So let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: the general manager of a new community called Silverwood. It's
Speaker 1: John o'hannian. John, I wanted to start with a press
Speaker 1: release you guys all put out. It's got my curiosity
Speaker 1: absolutely peaked. And here's what it says. Silverwood is a
Speaker 1: new DMB Master Planned community located in the Mojave River Valley.
Speaker 1: It's being built differently. There will be homes, community centers, schools,
Speaker 1: and parks. But most importantly, there will be kindness. John o'hannian,
Speaker 1: please tell us about Silverwood and what you mean by
Speaker 1: there will be kindness.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things we said really wanted to
Speaker 3: try to do is to create a sense of community,
Speaker 3: a feeling of small town California, kind of the way
Speaker 3: it used to be in California. And one of the
Speaker 3: principles that we all talked about is, let's have as
Speaker 3: a foundational element a pledge of kindness that our residents
Speaker 3: are going to free each other respectfully with kindness, They're
Speaker 3: going to react together in a manner that is befitting
Speaker 3: a small town and how people know each other and
Speaker 3: try to treat each other respectfully. And so that became
Speaker 3: a base tenant for us as we started developing the project.
Speaker 3: The first thing we did was we put together some
Speaker 3: ideas on what kindness means and what would represent in
Speaker 3: our community, and we put together a pledge of kindness.
Speaker 3: And we started off with all of our employees and
Speaker 3: our subcontractors are consultants. We talked to each of them
Speaker 3: about this concept and said, we want you to kind
Speaker 3: of get involved with us and this idea. Do this together.
Speaker 3: Let's do something that's special and it's really paid some dividends.
Speaker 3: It's been fun so far.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's really interesting too, John, because you
Speaker 1: said you mentioned contractors, and I'm like, I've dealt with
Speaker 1: some contractors who aren't exactly blind.
Speaker 3: The contractors, surprisingly have really grabbed a hold of this.
Speaker 3: I hear they've been working together and cooperating, and so
Speaker 3: it has translated into a more efficient workplace.
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, So I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about the community itself that you are planning. What's it
Speaker 1: going to look like.
Speaker 3: It'll include when we finish it, fifteen over fifteen thousand homes, commercial,
Speaker 3: all the support services that would go with that. It's
Speaker 3: unique in that we're on a very large piece of property,
Speaker 3: close to ten thousand acres, so we have a lot
Speaker 3: of open space. We have over one hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: six miles of trails and pastoes within the community. It's
Speaker 3: been designed as an active outdoor community in that regard.
Speaker 3: We're doing three hundred and eighty some acres of park,
Speaker 3: which is probably triple what is normal in a master
Speaker 3: plant community, and then we end up with over half
Speaker 3: of our acreage set aside as open space, so pretty
Speaker 3: unique master plant community. It will end up having five
Speaker 3: elementary schools, a high school, of middle school, you know,
Speaker 3: all of the medical and support that would go along
Speaker 3: with that as well. So it's a community that was
Speaker 3: viewed from the perspective of the future residents, not just
Speaker 3: from the perspective of the real estate development team. But
Speaker 3: what's it like to live here, what's it going to
Speaker 3: be like long term? And that again gets back that
Speaker 3: whole idea of a kindness initiative that we started with
Speaker 3: is how do we create an environment where people get
Speaker 3: a connection to the community, feel a closeness to it.
Speaker 3: It's a special place, okay.
Speaker 1: And what are residents required to do because they have
Speaker 1: to make the pledge before they buy property.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, we're going to include it in their packet.
Speaker 3: So when your your property information, when you come in
Speaker 3: and you you're learning about the project, the pledge of
Speaker 3: kindness is part of that. So our community ambassadors, when
Speaker 3: you come out to the welcome center and you want
Speaker 3: to learn about the project and find out if it's
Speaker 3: a place you'd like to live, that's going to be
Speaker 3: one of the initial things we share with you, okay,
Speaker 3: And this is our expectation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then John, what happens if you end up
Speaker 1: getting a nasty neighbor and they break the kindness.
Speaker 3: Rules, Well, that'll be an interesting one.
Speaker 4: And we don't know.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not like that. This is a contract
Speaker 3: that you sign and you're obligated to do it, and
Speaker 3: there's some remedies or damages associated with your being a
Speaker 3: nasty neighbor. But what I think is it's aspirational. It
Speaker 3: sets a standard, It creates an environment that people are
Speaker 3: going to feel compelled to cooperate in that regard. The
Speaker 3: same thing has to happen with all your organization documents
Speaker 3: like your HOA, your CCNRS, all these little pieces, they
Speaker 3: all have to have that same tenant running through the
Speaker 3: and then code of conduct for all the meetings and all
Speaker 3: the different things like that. We're developing all of that
Speaker 3: as part of our process and hopes of creating a
Speaker 3: situation where fear pressure keeps you from being a jerk.
Speaker 4: Yes, I hope.
Speaker 1: I love this idea. And the all important question is
Speaker 1: when are you going to start construction or did you
Speaker 1: already start construction? And when are what's going to be
Speaker 1: a restruction?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Really, Okay, we're cranking. We're hoping to have our
Speaker 3: grand opening in the first quarter of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: We are full blow blowing and going right now building
Speaker 3: all of the road streets and infrastructure that goes along
Speaker 3: with a community like this. Hopefully we'll be starting model
Speaker 3: homes the end of this year and have those available.
Speaker 3: The goal is to have them available in March of
Speaker 3: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's so exciting. And then eventually fifteen thousand homes
Speaker 1: in this new community and it's called silver Wood, and
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be nice? I love the whole reason behind it,
Speaker 1: you know, bringing us back to the way it used
Speaker 1: to be. I think we need a lot.
Speaker 3: Of that now.
Speaker 1: And where can people find some more information about this
Speaker 1: John Web?
Speaker 3: They can get our website Silverwood California dot com and
Speaker 3: register there and then you'll be on the man list
Speaker 3: and get all the kids of information about the community.
Speaker 3: You get on the website Silverwood California dot com. Also,
Speaker 3: you can see some progress videos. We fly at drone
Speaker 3: fly it every month and post the videos of all
Speaker 3: our progress and so it's kind of exciting to watch
Speaker 3: the progression as we get closer to launch.
Speaker 1: All Right, maybe the first of many kind communities. John o'hanni,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for your time today. So interesting.
Speaker 1: I can't I'm going to have to head out there
Speaker 1: and just take a look at it when it's done.
Speaker 1: It sounds very cool, although I just don't know if
Speaker 1: everybody can be that nice all the time. I have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The fourteen year old accused of shooting more than a
Speaker 1: dozen people, killing four of them at a high school
Speaker 1: in Georgia has appeared in court and was informed of
Speaker 1: the charges against him that, if convicted, could be punishable
Speaker 1: by death or life in prison, with or without the
Speaker 1: possibility of parole. The father of the fourteen year old
Speaker 1: boy accused in the shooting at Appalachia High School has
Speaker 1: been arrested. He's going to be in court next The
Speaker 1: man says he bought the gun used in the shooting
Speaker 1: for his son as a Christmas gift in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: the same year the boy was investigated for making threats online.
Speaker 1: The dad is facing second degree murder and manslaughter. The
Speaker 1: mayor of Rancho Palace Verde says geologists have given him
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea about how bad the slide is
Speaker 1: underneath Holmes along a two miles of coastline.
Speaker 11: There still is no thread of there being a sudden
Speaker 11: collapse or movement of the landslide, and they have also
Speaker 11: told us that the rate of acceleration is stopped at
Speaker 11: that a certain velocity right now, that's about fifty feet
Speaker 11: per year.
Speaker 1: More than two hundred homes have had gas and electricity cuts.
Speaker 1: Some homes are red tag others are buckling as the
Speaker 1: land moves. John Krushenk says there's a sense of urgency
Speaker 1: with winter coming.
Speaker 11: There still is no thread of there being a sudden
Speaker 11: collapse or movement of the landslide, and they have also
Speaker 11: told us that the rate of acceleration is stopped. It's
Speaker 11: at a certain velocity right now, that's about fifty feet
Speaker 11: per year.
Speaker 1: He says, another fifty four homes they are going to
Speaker 1: lose natural gas service this afternoon. Two men suspected of
Speaker 1: breaking into places in Sherman Oaks and LA's West Side
Speaker 1: have been arrested. The arrests were made by officers responding
Speaker 1: to a burglary in progress yesterday on Long Ridge Avenue
Speaker 1: near Mulholland Drive. The alleged thieves car was pulled over
Speaker 1: about five miles away. The Huntington Beach City Council has
Speaker 1: approved an ordinance requiring teachers and staff at parks and
Speaker 1: libraries to report to parents if their child wants to
Speaker 1: be identified as transgender or gay. The mandate is a
Speaker 1: direct challenge to a build a governor signed into law
Speaker 1: prohibiting districts from adopting transgender and sexuality notification policies. The
Speaker 1: fourteen year old accused of shooting more than a dozen people,
Speaker 1: killing four of them at a high school and Georgia
Speaker 1: has appeared in court. The judge told him about the
Speaker 1: charges against him and said that if he's convicted, he
Speaker 1: could be punished by death or life in prison, with
Speaker 1: or without the possibility of parole. Former President Trump's expected
Speaker 1: to be in a courtroom in New York City this
Speaker 1: morning to appeal multi million dollar judgments against him for
Speaker 1: sexual assault and for defamation. In a separate case, the
Speaker 1: judge's going to decide whether or not to delay sentencing
Speaker 1: in Trump's convictions of falsifying business documents tied to an
Speaker 1: affair with Stormy Daniels, the porn actress. We're just minutes
Speaker 1: away from Handle. On the news this morning, both the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Packers have green uniforms. Bill's going to
Speaker 1: tell you why that has people in Brazil seeing red.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's entertainment guru. It's
Speaker 1: Jason Nathanson. Jason Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.
Speaker 4: Don't say it again.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can only say twice.
Speaker 12: He's gonna appear, which I don't know that we want
Speaker 12: him to appear again.
Speaker 4: Really after seeing this, Okay.
Speaker 1: I got to hear this because I loved this movie.
Speaker 12: Okay, good and I'm glad you did. And I saw
Speaker 12: it in a screening with a lot of people who
Speaker 12: were very excited to see if they were dressed up
Speaker 12: in costumes and they seem to be having a fun time,
Speaker 12: and I'm sitting there kind of like dour and like,
Speaker 12: why am I the guy who's not having fun? But
Speaker 12: I didn't, you know. I love the original nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 12: I'm eleven years old. I saw it in theaters and
Speaker 12: then probably a billion times on HBO after that. It's
Speaker 12: probably one of the movies I've seen the most in
Speaker 12: my life. So I was so excited for this to
Speaker 12: come back, but also apprehensive because in the return of
Speaker 12: a lot of these things, I can't really name one
Speaker 12: of them that was better than the original or even
Speaker 12: approaching close to the original. And one of the things
Speaker 12: that was so great about the original Beetlejuice was how
Speaker 12: original it was, agreed, how fresh, surprising. This world of
Speaker 12: the undead that Tim Burton and the writers created. You
Speaker 12: had no idea what the rules were, how things worked,
Speaker 12: so everything was a surprise.
Speaker 4: Everything was new.
Speaker 12: Coming back to it, we know the rules. So when
Speaker 12: they're in the waiting room of the undead, we've seen
Speaker 12: that before. When the sandworms come back, we know how
Speaker 12: that works. To me, that surprise wasn't there. Is it
Speaker 12: fun to go back and revisit. Yeah, Michael Keaton is
Speaker 12: doing a Michael Keaton thing, and I think he's funny.
Speaker 12: Catherine O'Hara is why on a writer's stepmom she steals
Speaker 12: just about every scene that she's in. When on a
Speaker 12: writer's character, I really did not like her. She really
Speaker 12: did not do anything for me. And you know, most
Speaker 12: of the scenes that she was in I felt sucked
Speaker 12: the energy out of the room. And then you had
Speaker 12: Jenna Ortega, who plays when On a Writer's Daughter, who
Speaker 12: was just as surly and teenage angsty as When On
Speaker 12: a Writer's character was when she was a teen. And
Speaker 12: you know, I thought she was okay, but really just
Speaker 12: more of a device to get everybody back into the
Speaker 12: world of the end Dead more than anything else so
Speaker 12: they could save her. Justin Thurreau is whin On Writers Fiance,
Speaker 12: a new addition to the cast. I thought he was
Speaker 12: pretty funny, but mostly this to me was like, you know,
Speaker 12: when you go back to high school after twenty years
Speaker 12: and the and the it doesn't seem as scary or
Speaker 12: interesting or weird as you thought it was originally, and
Speaker 12: all the teachers are older, and it just doesn't feel
Speaker 12: the same. That's kind of what this felt like. It
Speaker 12: just wasn't. It wasn't. Some of it worked, but mostly
Speaker 12: for me, this was a six point three out of ten.
Speaker 1: Wow, a six point three on the Jasonometer, because I
Speaker 1: seriously I give it a solid nine.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 1: But and here's here's why I agree with you that
Speaker 1: it's kind of the same old stuff, but it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's entertaining.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 1: There was so many different little storylines going on that
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, wait, oh well, now wait, that's still
Speaker 1: wait what happened to her? And when Win's here and there?
Speaker 1: And visually I loved it too, because they didn't take
Speaker 1: it and try to make it better, like all of
Speaker 1: the costumes are still campy and obviously not real and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It's not like, you know, like
Speaker 1: with Star Wars, they made all the technology better, but
Speaker 1: this one they didn't. They kept it the way it was,
Speaker 1: so it's just a continuation of it, you know.
Speaker 12: And I did appreciate that, but it just felt so nostalgic,
Speaker 12: like you know, we heard coming into the segment, were
Speaker 12: heard Deo there, which is one of the big centerpiece
Speaker 12: scenes of the original film, And they try again to
Speaker 12: recreate a big musical number in the same way, and
Speaker 12: it doesn't feel the same. It doesn't feel fresh as
Speaker 12: an original as it did in the first one.
Speaker 4: And you mentioned the different storyline.
Speaker 12: There's a whole plot line involving Monica Balucci's character as
Speaker 12: Beetlejuice's ex wife that could be cut completely out of
Speaker 12: the story without missing a beat. It added absolutely nothing
Speaker 12: and it could literally be lifted out and you wouldn't
Speaker 12: know that it was even there. It didn't tie into
Speaker 12: anything all. It felt like an afterthought to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what in retrospect, now that you say that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you're right, that could totally be taken out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch her. I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: it happens at the very beginning of the movie. She
Speaker 1: puts herself back together. I'll leave it at that. I
Speaker 1: thought that was fun.
Speaker 12: That was cool and very much a nod to I
Speaker 12: felt like Nightmare before Christmas, and it felt very Tim Burton.
Speaker 12: And I do appreciate Tim Burton, who got a star
Speaker 12: on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week. And you know,
Speaker 12: he is an original and fresh voice. But you know,
Speaker 12: again like the high school analogy I made, or kind
Speaker 12: of like when you know there's a new album from
Speaker 12: the Rolling Stones, you're like, okay, but it's not the
Speaker 12: stuff from the seventies. The original movie was so so great.
Speaker 12: This does not compare to that. So if you're gonna go,
Speaker 12: I know, if your fans it's gonna make one hundred
Speaker 12: million dollars probably this weekend, Please go and have fun.
Speaker 12: My only wish is that somebody goes and has fun.
Speaker 12: You know, just because I didn't like it doesn't mean
Speaker 12: that you're not gonna like it. But for me, I
Speaker 12: was just disappointed.
Speaker 1: Okay, then one little thing and then I want to
Speaker 1: move on. But the other thing that you probably aren't
Speaker 1: gonna like because it was all about nostalgia, I am
Speaker 1: gonna go find and buy that soundtrack. I loved it
Speaker 1: all again. It was nostalgic, it was a lot of throwback,
Speaker 1: and it was just fun, like cool music throughout the
Speaker 1: whole show. Okay, so let's move on. Since we don't
Speaker 1: agree on beetlejuice, beetlejuice.
Speaker 4: Which is fine, we can agree to disagree.
Speaker 1: Nicole Kidman's kind of everywhere these days, and now she's
Speaker 1: on Netflix again, Yeah.
Speaker 12: And doing another kind of murder mystery series, a soapy
Speaker 12: murder mystery series that puts her at the center of it,
Speaker 12: which is now part of her brand, which is fine,
Speaker 12: you know, as long as they're good, no problem with that.
Speaker 4: This one's called The Perfect Couple.
Speaker 12: She and Leev Schreiber star as the heads of this family,
Speaker 12: wealthy family on Nantucket Island. It's a wedding weekend at
Speaker 12: their estate. Their son is getting married when one of
Speaker 12: the wedding guests turns up dead and then they're Everything
Speaker 12: kind of unravels from there, and the secrets of the
Speaker 12: wealthy and sex and lies and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 12: This is fun, it's soapy, it's a little cheesy. You know,
Speaker 12: not everything works, but it's the highly bingeable. I think
Speaker 12: this is going to be one of the next you know,
Speaker 12: everybody's gonna watch it on Netflix and it's gonna get
Speaker 12: a ton of views. Has a great cast, including, like
Speaker 12: I said, Nicole Kidman, Leev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, Eve Heuston,
Speaker 12: who you might know as Bono's daughter, who's also in
Speaker 12: Bad Sisters, a great show on Apple TV. Plus Ye,
Speaker 12: she's a great young actress who I think we're gonna
Speaker 12: see some more great things from Omar Epps, Megan Fay,
Speaker 12: you know, just a lot of good people having fun.
Speaker 4: And it's again, highly bingeable.
Speaker 1: Is I love a good binge Not great.
Speaker 12: But like it's one of those shows it kind of
Speaker 12: gets in your mind you're like, Okay, I gotta finish this.
Speaker 12: I gotta see what's going on. Seven point six out
Speaker 12: of ten for me on the Jason.
Speaker 1: Ometer okayert perfect. And then before we leave, I want
Speaker 1: to talk Reagan because I was thinking as I was
Speaker 1: watching a trailer for Reagan, I'm like, why didn't Jason
Speaker 1: talk to us about Reagan last week? And then I
Speaker 1: remembered that you were on vacation.
Speaker 4: I was on vacation last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not doing very well to box office.
Speaker 12: It's like mixed at the box office. It did much
Speaker 12: better than expected, but still it was under ten million
Speaker 12: dollars for the opening weekend. But it's per screen average
Speaker 12: is doing really well. It's like it's playing like one
Speaker 12: of those faith based films that comes out and a
Speaker 12: very strong core audience goes to see it.
Speaker 4: And that's what's happening here. You're having very hard core audiences.
Speaker 12: Go to see it. Critics hated it. It's a twenty
Speaker 12: one percent on Rotten Tomatoes. I am one of those
Speaker 12: critics who hate it. I thought it was terrible, But
Speaker 12: audiences love it at ninety eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Again,
Speaker 12: like a lot of those faith based movies. For me,
Speaker 12: it has nothing to do with the politics of it
Speaker 12: or anything like that. You know, that doesn't have nearly
Speaker 12: to it. I just think it's a terribly made film.
Speaker 12: It looks like it was shot on an iPhone or something.
Speaker 12: Dennis Quaid's portrayal of Reagan rarely gets beyond like Saturday
Speaker 12: Night Live levels of impersonation. There's this weird framing of
Speaker 12: Reagan versus Communism, that he had been fighting his whole life,
Speaker 12: and it's told through the voice of this KGB agent,
Speaker 12: which is just kind of I don't know.
Speaker 4: The whole thing is weird.
Speaker 12: So again, in terms of filmmaking, I'd think it was
Speaker 12: a poorly made movie. That's why I didn't like it.
Speaker 12: Get nothing to do with the politics. It's a three
Speaker 12: point four out of ten for me.
Speaker 1: Oh ouch, Yeah, Okay, Nathanson, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You're welcome, very welcome.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then next week we'll be talking Ammy's because
Speaker 1: we got Amy's coming up a week from Sunday.
Speaker 4: We do here in fabulous Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great weekend.
Speaker 4: Take care.
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