Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: KFI had KOSTNHD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's any King.
Speaker 4: It's five o'clock, straight up. Yep, it's that time.
Speaker 1: If you're still in bed, time to get up. If
Speaker 1: you're like me, you've got your oatmeal, you're ready to go.
Speaker 1: You got your coffee settling in. Got lots going on today.
Speaker 1: I know I say that a lot, but it's always true.
Speaker 4: Hey, did you watch.
Speaker 1: The Democratic National Convention last night?
Speaker 4: Here's my takeaway.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we're gonna be talking with Shannon Farron about this
Speaker 1: later this hour. She's supposed to call us before the
Speaker 1: top of the hour. They should have run Michelle Obama.
Speaker 1: I don't care what your politics are. That woman electrified
Speaker 1: that crowd. I think more than former President Obama. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he had got an amazing reception, but they lost
Speaker 1: their minds when she hit the stage last night.
Speaker 4: She's a great speaker. Producer. Anna and I were talking
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: There are some people who just hold a room, as
Speaker 1: she said, and boy did the Obamas ever do that.
Speaker 4: Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has delivered California's four hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: delegates to Vice President Kamala Harris at the DNC. Newsom
Speaker 1: calls Harris a star who he has seen fight for criminal, racial, economic,
Speaker 1: and social justice for more than twenty years.
Speaker 4: Geologists say the.
Speaker 1: Ground shifting under Holmes in Rancho Palace Verdes is shifting
Speaker 1: faster and covers a larger area than first thought. The
Speaker 1: geologists who spoke at a city council meeting last night
Speaker 1: said a landslide by heavy rains earlier this year has
Speaker 1: the potential to threaten hundreds more homes. O. J. Simpson's
Speaker 1: estate executor says he needs to liquidate assets long time since. The attorney,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Laverne, says he needs to raise about two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy thousand dollars to pay off some of Simpson's
Speaker 1: mounting debt. About one hundred and ten million dollars is
Speaker 1: still owed to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and
Speaker 1: Ron Goldman. Simpson died on April tenth of this year
Speaker 1: at six oh five. It's handle on the news Disney
Speaker 1: is backing down. It says it's no longer going to
Speaker 1: try to block a lawsuit filed by the husband of
Speaker 1: a woman who died after having an allergic reaction at
Speaker 1: the park.
Speaker 4: We'll tell you all about that.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former President Obama
Speaker 1: has given Vice President Harris a rousing endorsement for president.
Speaker 1: During his speech at the DNC, he said there's a
Speaker 1: difficult fight ahead until the elections in November, but Harris
Speaker 1: is worth backing.
Speaker 3: As president.
Speaker 5: She won't just cater to her own supporters and punish
Speaker 5: those who refuse to kiss the ring.
Speaker 3: Or bend the knee. Show work on behalf of every American.
Speaker 3: That's who Kamala is.
Speaker 1: Obama also took a swipe at former President Trump, saying
Speaker 1: he is a seventy eight year old billionaire who hasn't
Speaker 1: stopped whining about his problems since he wrote down his
Speaker 1: Golden Escalator nine years ago. The LAPD says it has
Speaker 1: found evidence of retail theft while investigating the murder of
Speaker 1: actor Johnny Wackter.
Speaker 6: As the executed sir to warrants and the Whacker case
Speaker 6: LAPD homicide detectives were joined by the department's Organized Retail
Speaker 6: Theft Task Force. Chief Dominic Choice says investigators believe they've
Speaker 6: uncovered evidence of thefts in LA and elsewhere.
Speaker 7: The same suspects have also been identified as engaging crime
Speaker 7: in the city of Lenox, Beverly Hills, Rialto and Ontario.
Speaker 6: Choi says the department is working to identify the suspects
Speaker 6: and these widespread retail burglaries. Four men have been charged
Speaker 6: in Wacktor's murder in downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A pre trial hearing in the federal tax case against
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden is scheduled to be held in LA this morning.
Speaker 1: The president's son is accused of failing to pay more
Speaker 1: than one point four million in taxes. The indictment alleges
Speaker 1: Biden spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather
Speaker 1: than paying his taxes. He's expected to go on trial
Speaker 1: next month on nine tax related counts, including three felonies.
Speaker 1: New vaccines targeting the latest COVID variants are due out
Speaker 1: this fall, but they may not be covered by your insurance.
Speaker 1: Coronavirus cases have been on the rise this summer, but
Speaker 1: the vaccines free since the start of the pandemic will
Speaker 1: no longer be reimbursed or covered by the government. The
Speaker 1: president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Richard Besser, says
Speaker 1: that leaves a gap before the updated COVID vaccines are expected.
Speaker 6: If you have health insurance, I would recommend that you
Speaker 6: wait until the new vaccines are out. It should be
Speaker 6: a matter of weeks before those are widely available, and
Speaker 6: they should be more effective.
Speaker 4: He says.
Speaker 1: People who don't have health insurance can check to see
Speaker 1: if they qualify for health insurance in their state. Let's
Speaker 1: take a first look at your morning commute. Nick's got
Speaker 1: some slowing in Riverside on the ninety one morning Nick,
Speaker 1: Morning to Amy is the usual.
Speaker 5: Drill for folks that are making their way westbound right now,
Speaker 5: seeing those delays from Tiler and you make it way
Speaker 5: toward the fifteen.
Speaker 3: Actually looks pretty good through Corona right now.
Speaker 5: Maybe seeing issues right around on Main Street just past
Speaker 5: the fifteen. Looks like it may be a two car
Speaker 5: smash of in the two left lanes, But not too
Speaker 5: bad of a drive for you here, Just a little
Speaker 5: slow going from the fifteen over to Main Street and
Speaker 5: then delays for the westbound four years. You continue at
Speaker 5: through the Santana Canyon leaving Green River over toward the
Speaker 5: two forty one toll Road. You got an update on
Speaker 5: the issue on the ninety one or anything else slowing
Speaker 5: you down pound to fifteen yourself on keyword? Is KFI
Speaker 5: traffic northbound side out of the fifteen past Magnolia before
Speaker 5: the ninety one gonna be a crash involving a motorcycle.
Speaker 5: Looks like the two right lanes are taken away and
Speaker 5: that'll be busy for you to come away from Ontario Avenue.
Speaker 3: Checking in on your driving.
Speaker 5: Orange County looks like the vast majority of overnight count
Speaker 5: trans projects have wrapped up shop and not see anything
Speaker 5: major going down for you there, and pretty much the same
Speaker 5: story for the La County area as well well southern California.
Speaker 3: It's only airborne traffic reports. I'm Nick pouliyo'keaney.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Nick.
Speaker 1: It's fy O seven on your Wednesday morning wake up call.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Geordana Miller. So, Jordana,
Speaker 1: we're hearing that the Israel Tamas cease fire deal that
Speaker 1: we thought was getting closer to getting agreed upon.
Speaker 4: Is on the verge of collapse.
Speaker 8: Well, let's hope not.
Speaker 9: I think there's still a lot of fevers soslomacy to
Speaker 9: make sure that that second summit in Cairo happened.
Speaker 8: In a few days.
Speaker 9: But it's clear that Prince yerd Anton's Lincoln maybe didn't
Speaker 9: link the headway he was hoping to on his ninth
Speaker 9: visit here to the region of the war broke out.
Speaker 9: He didn't have a day meeting with his early yds,
Speaker 9: and we heard from him that the companistters supported the
Speaker 9: US bridging proposal for the seat fire.
Speaker 8: And then the next day Natamielle.
Speaker 9: Reportedly told some believed families behind closed doors that Israel
Speaker 9: will not leave two key areas in the gout strips,
Speaker 9: that he wants to keep the IVF in these areas.
Speaker 9: One is along the Egyptian border, and that, of course,
Speaker 9: you know, contradicts the US proposal. And then Lincoln went
Speaker 9: onto Egypty's cutter. It's unclear for me any headway there
Speaker 9: getting him off back to the table.
Speaker 8: While hasn't really uh endorsed.
Speaker 9: The US Prijing proposal, they criticized it. They stopped sort
Speaker 9: of objecting it, but it's kind of unclear where they stand,
Speaker 9: and it's believe in attending of the round of talk.
Speaker 9: So I think there's a question mark here, you know,
Speaker 9: going forward, you know what's next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Jordan, I think it's interesting that the US
Speaker 1: keeps saying, Oh, we've got to make a deal, we've
Speaker 1: got to get it done, and we're really really close,
Speaker 1: and we've got a lot of hope, and they keep
Speaker 1: saying that, But then we keep hearing from Israel, no,
Speaker 1: we're not moving off of that, like you just said,
Speaker 1: and we hear from Hamas, no, we're not backing down either.
Speaker 4: So I mean, is the US just blowing smoke?
Speaker 9: Well, I think there's a genuine intention to trying to
Speaker 9: buy an administration and the sectary of state to get
Speaker 9: a deal that will end the war, bring the hostages
Speaker 9: out and begin the process of rebuilding Daza and shifting
Speaker 9: the leadership of Daza, you know, away from Hamas to
Speaker 9: a new Palestinian governing authority. I think the intention is pure,
Speaker 9: but the problem is that there are really political considerations
Speaker 9: on both sides that are preventing their coming out. And
Speaker 9: the head of Hamak yet because you are from cutting
Speaker 9: a deal, right, yes, or doesn't want to give up
Speaker 9: control of the Gaza stress to survive. He wants to
Speaker 9: stay in charge and this deal ultimately pass him out, right,
Speaker 9: he doesn't want that. You know, he has a little
Speaker 9: bit more pressure because there's two million people that are suffering,
Speaker 9: and largely because of his decision to start a war
Speaker 9: that uh, you know, most people there don't want. On
Speaker 9: the other side, the TEU, you know, to sign a deal,
Speaker 9: it's gonna really rock his coalition, likely bring it down
Speaker 9: and push the Tonneau out of power. Even if he
Speaker 9: finds a solution to get the deal going.
Speaker 8: After that, he brings in.
Speaker 9: The opposition the little also you know, holding no confidence
Speaker 9: vote and he'll be on his way out the door.
Speaker 8: So fortunately, you know, those considerations are trumping, if you will,
Speaker 8: the other really urgent reasons to you know, end this war.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so what's next?
Speaker 1: They keep they hopefully keep talking in a couple of days.
Speaker 8: Well, we're waiting to hear about.
Speaker 9: The next uh, the next round of talks. He heard
Speaker 9: from an Egyptian Officially, Gasters say they believe three is
Speaker 9: going to be another round of talks Friday Saturday this
Speaker 9: weekend and that's supposed to be led by the CIA.
Speaker 9: T still burns, you know, and the head of Raily
Speaker 9: Fire Agency, the MAZA, so lets that they're still room
Speaker 9: for those negotiations to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we will be watching. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the update, Jardana. We appreciate it a ton.
Speaker 8: Thanks may talk.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And
Speaker 1: early morning fire in North Hollywood is left two people
Speaker 1: fighting for their lives. LA Fire says the fire started
Speaker 1: around two thirty this morning on West Sarah Street. Two
Speaker 1: people were able to get out. A sixty year old
Speaker 1: and a forty year old woman apparently were trapped inside
Speaker 1: the two story home. Three cats died in the fire.
Speaker 1: Firefighters were able to resuscitate and save a pet dog.
Speaker 1: Three other people were also taken to the hospital. A
Speaker 1: new online tool from a company in Redlands shows a
Speaker 1: homeless proximity to a wildfire ignition point and whether embers
Speaker 1: can reach the property.
Speaker 6: I just didn't realize that the fire was going to
Speaker 6: move that fast.
Speaker 3: I thought I had more time. Jeeth.
Speaker 2: Brian Phantasy says it's tough for him to hear such
Speaker 2: comments from homeowners who thought defensible space was enough.
Speaker 6: But absolute the hardening in some of these existing non
Speaker 6: conforming buildings, you're going to have loss.
Speaker 2: Ass Ryan Lanklass says homeowners can just enter an address
Speaker 2: into their Free Wildland Urban Interface tool to prepare.
Speaker 3: This is the first time I would say that families
Speaker 3: can really start to explore their home type in their
Speaker 3: address understand their exposure.
Speaker 2: In Orange County, Corbin Carson kf I News.
Speaker 1: A former Long Beach school safety officers pleaded no contest
Speaker 1: to voluntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an eighteen
Speaker 1: year old woman killed in twenty twenty one near Milliken
Speaker 1: High School. The former officer, Eddie Gonzalez, fired into the
Speaker 1: car Mona Rodriguez was riding in following a fight outside
Speaker 1: the school. A jury trial earlier this year ended with
Speaker 1: a hungury. Gonzales ended entered a no contest plea yesterday
Speaker 1: as part of a deal with prosecutors. He could get
Speaker 1: up to six years in prison when he sentenced in October.
Speaker 1: Russia says it has destroyed dozens of Ukrainian drones aimed
Speaker 1: at Moscow overnight. Ukraine has targeted oil refineries and airfields
Speaker 1: that passed couple of weeks. In an attempt to weaken
Speaker 1: Russia's fighting potential, Russia's defense ministry has formed three military
Speaker 1: groups to defend its border regions. ABC's Ian panel says
Speaker 1: Ukraine appears close to cutting off a large number of
Speaker 1: Russian troops trapped close to the Siam River.
Speaker 5: One Ukrainian source telling AGENCYDS there were more than a
Speaker 5: thousand Russian soldiers in the area, largely stranded after three
Speaker 5: key bridges were destroyed.
Speaker 1: Russian President Putin has promised to punish those he calls
Speaker 1: the criminals responsible. Putin accused Ukraine of trying to destabilize Russia.
Speaker 1: Gilma has become the second hurricane of the Eastern Pacific seas,
Speaker 1: and forecasters say the dorm is expected to stay away
Speaker 1: from land.
Speaker 4: Well, that's good news.
Speaker 1: Search and rescue divers are still looking for survivors of
Speaker 1: a luxury yacht that sank over the weekend and waters
Speaker 1: off the coast of Sicily. ABC's James Longman says one
Speaker 1: body's been recovered so far. Six people are missing, including
Speaker 1: two American New York.
Speaker 10: Lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Nedda Jonathan Bloomer, chairman
Speaker 10: at Morgan Stowley International, and his wife and the owner
Speaker 10: of the yacht, British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his
Speaker 10: teenage daughter.
Speaker 1: Fifteen people were pulled to safety by a nearby boat.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck after
Speaker 1: two years of marriage. Lopez filed the papers in La yesterday,
Speaker 1: didn't use an attorney. The couple, known as Benefer, started
Speaker 1: dating and got engaged the first time back in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands. The couple split up, then reunited almost
Speaker 1: twenty years later and got married in several ceremonies in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. TMZ says Lopez listed the date of
Speaker 1: separation as April twenty six. There was no mention of
Speaker 1: a prenup. Always sad to see a couple breakup. Dozens
Speaker 1: of pro Palestinian protesters have charged a line of police
Speaker 1: in a standoff with hundreds of officers outside the Israeli
Speaker 1: Consulate on the second night of the Democratic National Convention
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Protesters chanted let them go as police officers
Speaker 1: handcuffed at least four people and led them away from
Speaker 1: the demonstration. Republican lawmakers in California have called on Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom to put an electric vehicle mandate on hold. A
Speaker 1: day after an electric semi truck caught fire. The Teslas
Speaker 1: Semi crashed into some trees and caused the closure of
Speaker 1: Interstate eighty. As firefighters work to put out the super hot,
Speaker 1: toxic fire. Newsom is mandated all big rig trucks be
Speaker 1: electric by twenty forty five. The City of Los Angeles
Speaker 1: has agreed to pay nearly twenty one million dollars to
Speaker 1: fix issues at the Hyperion water Reclamation plant and complete
Speaker 1: projects that are linked to the discharge of millions of
Speaker 1: gallons of wastewater into Santa Monica Bay back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. At six oh five, it is handled. On
Speaker 1: the news, Ukraine continues to put the bear unleashing a
Speaker 1: drone attack on Moscow. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Mike Dubuski. So, Mike, this doesn't happen every day.
Speaker 1: Google has issued an apology to whom and why.
Speaker 3: To influencers and because of an email that was sent
Speaker 3: out to those influencers last week after the launch of
Speaker 3: the new Pixel nine smartphone. So normally, what happens in
Speaker 3: a scenario like this is before the phones go on sale,
Speaker 3: phone manufacturer will send out some like early units to
Speaker 3: reviewers and to influencers, basically so those guys can get
Speaker 3: their content in order, their reviews, their videos, what have
Speaker 3: you to have ready to go out ahead of the
Speaker 3: on sale date so that buyers can make presumably an
Speaker 3: informed purchase if they're looking for a new smartphone. This
Speaker 3: is how the industry works. It's how it's always worked.
Speaker 3: Everybody does this. However, with regard to this most recent
Speaker 3: email that was sent out again to a team of
Speaker 3: influencers they go by Team Pixel, this has caused some
Speaker 3: consternation based specifically on the language of this email. So
Speaker 3: the email was obtained by the Verge and what we
Speaker 3: found was that Google threatened to cease the relationship between
Speaker 3: the brand and the creator if that creator was found
Speaker 3: to be preferring another phone over Google. So essentially what
Speaker 3: Google was saying was, if you guys are going to
Speaker 3: do a comparison test here, the pixel better win. Otherwise
Speaker 3: we're not going to give you any more pixels ahead
Speaker 3: of time. This obviously created a lot of backlash in
Speaker 3: the group with some high profile influencers, with millions of
Speaker 3: followers leaving the Team Pixel program, and as you mentioned,
Speaker 3: it did prompt Google to apologize, saying that the language
Speaker 3: missed the mark. They also said that they don't specifically
Speaker 3: run Team Pixel. It's a third party PR agency that
Speaker 3: they have a relationship with that does that. But even still,
Speaker 3: amy it's brought up all these questions about what an
Speaker 3: influencer's role is. Are they a journalist who you know,
Speaker 3: adheres to a set of standards, or are they something
Speaker 3: more akin to a paid advertiser. It seems like they've
Speaker 3: really found themselves in the middle, and that is kind
Speaker 3: of what why this blew up.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I have a question.
Speaker 1: So the influencers you said, they get phones and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and we know that that all goes
Speaker 1: on that. Then you want to get enough followers so
Speaker 1: that people will start sending you products and you can
Speaker 1: endorse them or test them whatever. But other than that,
Speaker 1: the influencers are not getting paid.
Speaker 4: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: No, that that's correct. So this particular group of influencers,
Speaker 3: you know again they are are part of this Team
Speaker 3: Pixel team, which means that a lot of their content
Speaker 3: has the hashtag team pixel on it. So that kind
Speaker 3: of is a point in the paid advertiser you know category,
Speaker 3: But are they specifically getting a paycheck from Google? No,
Speaker 3: it does not appear. So so that's that's, you know,
Speaker 3: another piece of this, and I think this is important
Speaker 3: for consumers to be aware of because again, if you're
Speaker 3: you know, spending a couple hundred dollars, if not more
Speaker 3: than one thousand dollars on a new smartphone, which is
Speaker 3: what these new pixels can go for, then you know,
Speaker 3: you want to make sure that you're making the right decision.
Speaker 3: And how do you do that while you go to
Speaker 3: trusted experts and these influencers. You know, some of them
Speaker 3: are really great, right, Some of them are informed about
Speaker 3: this and knowledgeable about the space and can give you
Speaker 3: some good advice. Others might be tempted away by just
Speaker 3: the access to this interesting new technology. And I think
Speaker 3: that's an increasingly hazy line that is out there, that
Speaker 3: that is just you know, another challenge for consumers in
Speaker 3: the space.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm always worried about it because you see, you
Speaker 1: see the influencers doing stuff all the time. Every time
Speaker 1: you open up your social media and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: I love this, I love this.
Speaker 4: I'm like, do you really do you really? And I
Speaker 4: can't you know, you.
Speaker 1: Don't really know because it's no consumer reports, you.
Speaker 3: Know, exactly right. But then again, I mean you see
Speaker 3: that you know, some of these influencers you know, have
Speaker 3: millions of followers, a lot more prominent than Consumer reports. Right,
Speaker 3: what is the easier piece of content, piece of information
Speaker 3: to access? Is it, you know, a video on TikTok
Speaker 3: or is it you know, the hard copy of consumer reports?
Speaker 3: So all chances are a lot of people are going
Speaker 3: to go to TikTok first, So that that that's a
Speaker 3: part of this as well. I think also from the
Speaker 3: influencer's perspective, it's a challenge because you know, if you're
Speaker 3: trying to garner a following, if you're trying to build
Speaker 3: your your base of supporters, well, it pays to have
Speaker 3: access to this technology early and to make content about it.
Speaker 3: This is an easy way to get in there, right,
Speaker 3: team pixel where you're kind of expected to post, you know,
Speaker 3: somewhat positively about the brand or about the company. You know,
Speaker 3: that gets you in the door, right, It gets a
Speaker 3: foot in the door. But after a certain point, you know,
Speaker 3: where does it become just your your shilling for one
Speaker 3: specific company over another as opposed to, you know, actually
Speaker 3: doing some objective journalism, which again I want to emphasize,
Speaker 3: like some of these guys are really good at this.
Speaker 3: You know, Marquez Brownlee is a YouTuber, very prominent, one
Speaker 3: of the most followed YouTubers out there, you know, is
Speaker 3: very respected in the technology world. And you know, for
Speaker 3: his part, not a part of Team Pixel, not a
Speaker 3: part of this at all. But you know, he's can
Speaker 3: be described as an influencer. He's not doesn't align himself
Speaker 3: with n Gadget or The Verge or any of the
Speaker 3: other outlets that are out there, but many people follow
Speaker 3: his technology advice because he is a you know, smart
Speaker 3: guy with regards to that type of thing.
Speaker 4: So so Google back off.
Speaker 3: It's it's a tough scenario, right yeah. I Ultimately, Google
Speaker 3: back off seems to be the message that a lot
Speaker 3: of these influencers are sending to Google, and of course
Speaker 3: it's a mark against them in the lead up to
Speaker 3: this very prominent product, right this is kind of a
Speaker 3: you know, major piece of hardware for Google. The Pixel
Speaker 3: line really centers around the smartphone, despite the fact that
Speaker 3: they make earbuds and watches and all this type of thing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, this is kind of an embarrassment for Google,
Speaker 3: it seems, at least from the perspective of these influencers.
Speaker 4: Okay, so let's fine.
Speaker 1: Is this going to be an embarrassment Lamborghini's coming out
Speaker 1: with that hybrid?
Speaker 3: Well, this is actually Lamborghini's second or third hybrid, depending
Speaker 3: on how you count. So it's a in the industry.
Speaker 3: We've seen other high end sports car and supercar makers
Speaker 3: do this before. Corvette, for example, has a hybrid model.
Speaker 3: Ferrari also offers several hybrid models. The new Lamborghini Temorario
Speaker 3: debuted at Monterey Car Week in your state in northern
Speaker 3: California earlier this week. This is the latest small Lamborghini Amy.
Speaker 3: It is the entry level model, if that is something
Speaker 3: that we can call it at com one hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: That's the entry level.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the entry level. That's and again this is
Speaker 3: kind of their smaller model. It's a V eight as
Speaker 3: opposed to the normal V ten or V twelve that
Speaker 3: we normally see in Lamborghini's However, what we what is
Speaker 3: kind of adding to the power figure here is three
Speaker 3: electric motors that's what makes this a hybrid nine hundred
Speaker 3: and seven horsepower two point seven seconds to sixty miles
Speaker 3: per hour. And because it is a hybrid, you can
Speaker 3: use the front two motors, which are mounted on the
Speaker 3: front axle, to make this a front wheel drive all
Speaker 3: electric vehicle. So you can kind of motor about in
Speaker 3: total silence, maybe if you don't want to wake the
Speaker 3: neighbors with that nine hundred and seven horsepower. That's the idea.
Speaker 3: Lamborghini won't say for how long it will operate in
Speaker 3: all electric mode, but that kind of leads us to
Speaker 3: believe that it will not be for very long. This is,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, a sports car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so here's my problem with this that you think
Speaker 1: of a sports car and you think of them revving
Speaker 1: the engine, you know, on the starting line or something.
Speaker 4: This one's just gonna go.
Speaker 3: Well. I mean, it's still got a V eight, right,
Speaker 3: so it does still make noise. Lamborghini and the lead
Speaker 3: up to this debuted a number of videos online kind
Speaker 3: of talking about the engine note and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: So it's not like the electric motors are going to
Speaker 3: dull the sound of the V eight. However, given that
Speaker 3: this sort of category of Lamborghini. The smaller one used
Speaker 3: to have a V ten, which is a sort of
Speaker 3: bigger engine. It sounds a little different kind of whales
Speaker 3: as opposed to rumbles. That is, you know, a disappointment
Speaker 3: to some sports car fans that were losing the V ten,
Speaker 3: But you know that's the direction that Lamborghini decided to
Speaker 3: go in. And you know again it's it's a Lamborghini
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, and.
Speaker 1: For the bargain price of two hundred ninety thousand dollars. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got like ten seconds left, but I want to
Speaker 1: mention this not all good. All new technology is good technology.
Speaker 1: You've got some fans of the new Aliens movie that
Speaker 1: are not happy.
Speaker 4: How come?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. So this is the seventh installment in
Speaker 3: the Alien franchise, debut this past weekend Alien Romulus. Spoilers
Speaker 3: for this movie coming up here. But there is a
Speaker 3: digital recreation of Ian Holme in this movie. He is
Speaker 3: the actor who starred in the original Alien film from
Speaker 3: the late seventies. He died in twenty twenty, and some
Speaker 3: fans are angry that this digital recreation perhaps disrespects the
Speaker 3: family of Ian Holme or just kind of looks bad,
Speaker 3: and he complained about the fact that it's just it's
Speaker 3: an unusual looking effect and our brains are of course
Speaker 3: attuned to human faces. Fede Alvarez, who is the director
Speaker 3: of this film, says he did get approval for Ian
Speaker 3: Holmes's family to do this, and that more people were
Speaker 3: employed to create the digital effect than would have been
Speaker 3: had they just hired another actor. So an increasingly fraught
Speaker 3: moment for Hollywood as they negotiate CGI artificial intelligence in
Speaker 3: the filmmaking space.
Speaker 1: Right, and it makes me think of things like from
Speaker 1: the Star Wars.
Speaker 3: From twenty sixteen. Peter Cushing was in the Rogue One movie,
Speaker 3: an actor who had passed away before that movie was filmed.
Speaker 1: Well, they even had like a shot of Carrie Fisher
Speaker 1: at the end of it.
Speaker 3: That is what Oh yeah, that I believe came later.
Speaker 3: But yes, Carrie Fisher also digitally recreated Paul Walker from
Speaker 3: The Fast and the Furious films. There was a scene
Speaker 3: several years ago in which you know, he appeared kind
Speaker 3: of using digital effects and his brother as sort of
Speaker 3: a base to help create that. You know, this is
Speaker 3: sort of an ethically unusual moment that Hollywood has found
Speaker 3: itself in. Some people like it right, some people like
Speaker 3: to see the old character's return, But you know, at
Speaker 3: what cost? Are the families okay with it? Those are
Speaker 3: the questions that kind of continued to hang over this issue.
Speaker 1: And I bet that it will continue to be an
Speaker 1: issue and we will continue to talk about it. Mike Debuski,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 4: Have a great day you too, Amy, Take care.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has delivered California's four hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: delegates at the DNC. Newsom calls Harris a star. Before
Speaker 1: becoming Vice president. Harris was a California Senator or actually
Speaker 1: a US Senator from California, and also served as California's
Speaker 1: Attorney general under former Governor Jerry Brown. The last evacuation
Speaker 1: orders for the fire that has burned more than four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine thousand acres in Tehama County and
Speaker 1: northern California have been listed. Cal Fire says the fire
Speaker 1: has slowed in recent days as temperatures cool. It's fifty
Speaker 1: five percent surrounded. Florida Republican Representative Matt Gates is projected
Speaker 1: to survive a primary challenge. His challenger was backed by
Speaker 1: former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from Bakersfield. McCarthy and Gates
Speaker 1: have been at odds since Gates led the charge to
Speaker 1: oust McCarthy a speaker last year. Florida, Alaska, and Wyoming
Speaker 1: all had primaries yesterday at six oh five, It's.
Speaker 4: Handled on the news.
Speaker 1: If you think the food you get for your baby
Speaker 1: at the grocery store is healthy, a new study says
Speaker 1: you've got another think coming at five point fifty KF.
Speaker 1: I's Shannon Farron is in Chicago and she's going to
Speaker 1: be on with us too. We're going to find out
Speaker 1: if she too was electrified by the Obamas and other
Speaker 1: tidbits from the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 4: Amy's on it, AMI's on it, Amy's on it, Aami's
Speaker 4: on it. What am I on?
Speaker 1: I'm on the stream checking out movies and TV shows
Speaker 1: and series and documentaries. I'm really into documentaries lately. This
Speaker 1: one note not a documentary. And I've told you in
Speaker 1: the past that there's so much content you'd want to
Speaker 1: know how you figure out what to watch? And I
Speaker 1: take recommendations from my friends and then I pass them
Speaker 1: along to you too, and hopefully either save you some
Speaker 1: time or maybe entice you to watch a really fun show.
Speaker 1: This one I absolutely stumbled on. I had never heard
Speaker 1: of it before, and I was like, hmm, and I
Speaker 1: watched the little trailer for it.
Speaker 4: I went, ah, right, I'll give it a look.
Speaker 1: Turns out it's a series on Netflix called School Spirits,
Speaker 1: and it actually released last year. There's eight episodes of it,
Speaker 1: and like I said, I had not seen it or
Speaker 1: ever heard of it, but when ahead and watched it,
Speaker 1: it's about a high school girl named Mattie. She's played
Speaker 1: by Peyton List, who you're probably going to recognize from
Speaker 1: Cobra Kai which is the new season of Cobra Kai
Speaker 1: was out.
Speaker 4: So Mattie's dead.
Speaker 1: She turns up at her high school and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, she's around these other dead students and they're
Speaker 1: all stuck there. She doesn't remember how she died, she
Speaker 1: doesn't remember who killed her, and that starts the journey
Speaker 1: of her to figure out who is the person who
Speaker 1: killed Maddie. The rest of the group's been there for
Speaker 1: like decades, you know, some of them for thirty years,
Speaker 1: some of them for sixty years, and then kind of
Speaker 1: dress in there you know their time period where they're
Speaker 1: stuck from and they're all stuck because they can't cross over.
Speaker 1: It's kind of an unfinished business scenario that you see
Speaker 1: in other movies.
Speaker 4: It is very engaging.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, and for me, at least, it kept me
Speaker 1: wanting to see what happens next. And I love when
Speaker 1: a show doesn't just sort of cruise to the next
Speaker 1: episode but kind of has those little mini cliffhangers that
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, okay, I'll watch the next one. So
Speaker 1: there's the boyfriend who cheated, there's the jealous friend, there's
Speaker 1: the mother who's a drunk, there's the janitor, and the
Speaker 1: janitor's always a suspect. Everyone's a suspect, but it's her
Speaker 1: job to figure out who actually killed her. So I
Speaker 1: was thinking that it would be wrapped up, that it
Speaker 1: was a one season thing and we would have the
Speaker 1: answer at the end of the eighth episode. And you
Speaker 1: do sort of get an answer at the end of
Speaker 1: the eighth episode, but it's a heck of a cliffhanger
Speaker 1: that leaves you with so many more questions about what
Speaker 1: happens next.
Speaker 4: In School Spirits.
Speaker 1: The good news is the series has been renewed, because
Speaker 1: as soon as the show ended, I was like, oh God,
Speaker 1: please tell me you haven't canceled this, because I gotta
Speaker 1: find out what happened. It has been renewed. It was
Speaker 1: released in twenty twenty feet three, but since I just
Speaker 1: watched it, I only have to wait until early twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five to get season two.
Speaker 4: I'll let you know when that gets out. So good watch. Intriguing, entertaining,
Speaker 4: and a kind of fun. Who done it?
Speaker 1: It's called School Spirits. It's on Netflix. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. The Obama's electrified the crowd. To
Speaker 1: close out the second night of the Democratic National Convention,
Speaker 1: Former President Obama tore into former President Trump, saying reelecting
Speaker 1: him would be dangerous, while Kamala Harris will fight for
Speaker 1: the American people. Michelle said something magical was in the
Speaker 1: air with Harris bringing back hope to America. Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris's husband, Doug m Hoff, also spoke at the convention
Speaker 1: last night, telling the story of when he and Harris
Speaker 1: met in twenty thirteen, of the early phase of their romance.
Speaker 4: We talked for.
Speaker 3: An hour and we laughed.
Speaker 9: You know that laugh.
Speaker 3: I love that laugh.
Speaker 1: M Hoff says his wife is ready to lead if
Speaker 1: elected president in November. And we're planning to talk to
Speaker 1: Shannon Farren in just a couple of minutes. She's at
Speaker 1: the convention. We'll get her take on last night's festivities.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump has pledged to make America safe again.
Speaker 4: While campaigning in Michigan.
Speaker 1: He was joined by sheriff's deputy Chefter yesterday in the
Speaker 1: city of Howell. Trump criticized Vice President Harris, who was
Speaker 1: the DA in San Francisco and California Attorney General, calling
Speaker 1: her the ring leader of a Marxist attack on law
Speaker 1: enforcement across the country. A gun owner or a gun
Speaker 1: owned rather by a former LAPD officer that was allegedly
Speaker 1: used by armed robbers in Beverly Hills was not city issue.
Speaker 6: LAPD chief dominic choice, as ex officer Christopher Dorner's handgun
Speaker 6: found inside an Airbnb used by two accused crime tourists
Speaker 6: from South America was not Dorner's department weapon. Choi told
Speaker 6: the Police Commission yesterday federal investigators are still working to
Speaker 6: figure out how and where those two men got their
Speaker 6: hands on the gun. It was found in their airbnb
Speaker 6: when police were investigating a brazen armed robbery that resulted
Speaker 6: in a British tourist million dollar wristwatch being stolen in
Speaker 6: Beverly Hills. Dorner died in twenty thirteen during a standoff
Speaker 6: with police after he murdered four people following his dismissal
Speaker 6: from the department in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Weimo has apologized again for its cars that keep honking
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. It's been going on
Speaker 1: for three weeks in San Francisco. One neighbor's been live
Speaker 1: streaming of the honking. It's happening in a parking lot.
Speaker 1: A Weimo executive apparently joined one of the live streams
Speaker 1: to explain that the honking is a safety issue so
Speaker 1: the cars don't hit each other.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: The software has been updated twice, but apparently it only
Speaker 1: stops the honking for a short time and then it
Speaker 1: starts up again.
Speaker 4: That's really fun if you live next door to that.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers take on the Seattle Mariners tonight, with the
Speaker 1: first pitch going out at seven o'clock. You can listen
Speaker 1: to every play of every Dodger's game on AM five
Speaker 1: to seventy LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth,
Speaker 1: and you can stream all the games ind on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five seventy LA Sports. A
Speaker 1: status conference is scheduled today in downtown La in Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden's federal tax case. The president's son is accused of
Speaker 1: failing to pay more than one point four million dollars
Speaker 1: in taxes. His trial is expected to start next month.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Supreme Court has cleared the way for voters
Speaker 1: to decide whether there should be a constitutional right to
Speaker 1: an abortion. The measure would allow abortions until a fetus
Speaker 1: could survive outside the womb, typically around twenty four weeks,
Speaker 1: with exceptions. James Taylor says time constraints for the reason
Speaker 1: he didn't get to perform his hit You've Got a
Speaker 1: Friend at the Democratic National Convention. He says it became
Speaker 1: clear as the night went on Monday that there would
Speaker 1: not be time for him to perform.
Speaker 4: Right before President Biden took the stage.
Speaker 1: Taylor said it was still an honor to be at
Speaker 1: the convention for what he called a great and inspirational
Speaker 1: quintessentially American moment, Let's find out was Shannon Fahn. Was
Speaker 1: it really a quintessential American moment?
Speaker 11: You know, Amy, I was really hoping for shower the people.
Speaker 11: I was hoping that would be the James Taylor hit
Speaker 11: that we missed out on. I love a little shower,
Speaker 11: shower the people you love with love.
Speaker 1: Well, but showering the people with love were the Obamas
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, they brought the house down. I mean,
Speaker 11: I didn't think these people could be happier or more
Speaker 11: enthusiastic after Night one with Biden coming out here and
Speaker 11: that moment between him and Kamala and we Love Joe
Speaker 11: and just exploding with enthusiasm inside that arena. But then
Speaker 11: you bring in Michelle and Barack Obama, and nobody had
Speaker 11: a hard time staying there in that arena until eleven
Speaker 11: thirty midnights for Night number two. Michelle Obama the most
Speaker 11: powerful speech I think of the night, saying that you know,
Speaker 11: we cannot be our own worst enemies. And it was
Speaker 11: a stark contrast actually to the last convention that Gary
Speaker 11: and I covered back in Philadelphia eight years ago. I mean,
Speaker 11: when you think about the Democrats eight years ago, they
Speaker 11: were fighting each other. We had Bernie Sanders fans crying
Speaker 11: because they felt that Bernie Sanders was standbacked. You had people,
Speaker 11: as Conan Nolan told us yesterday from NBC four, you
Speaker 11: had people pro Hillary or pro Bernie people leave the
Speaker 11: convention center to go to the bathroom, and pro Hillary
Speaker 11: people swoop in and take their seats so they couldn't
Speaker 11: come back. This is a different party. This is the
Speaker 11: part that appears to be unified.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and you mentioned Bernie Sanders too.
Speaker 1: I thought he was kind of a low point of
Speaker 1: last night with how electric the Obamas were, and he was.
Speaker 4: He just came across like a grumpy old guy.
Speaker 11: Well, I would agree with you, except that Bernie Sanders
Speaker 11: has been screwed over by this party repeatedly, but still
Speaker 11: shows up for them. Yeah, I find something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, and then what are some other takeaways because you
Speaker 1: went to it last night, because I know the first
Speaker 1: night you said you stayed in bed and watched Biden
Speaker 1: because it was so late.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I did that again because we were just on
Speaker 11: News Nation, and so we had to get up at
Speaker 11: like two am your time, Pacific time to go to
Speaker 11: the television station. So it just wasn't a tenable situation
Speaker 11: to stay there until you know, midnight last night. So yeah,
Speaker 11: we watched those speeches on television.
Speaker 1: Okay, And as we've talked about with radio, the lovely
Speaker 1: thing about radio is you don't have to do hair
Speaker 1: and makeup, so you had to get there extra early.
Speaker 8: Yes, we got there extra early.
Speaker 4: They said, what do you you know?
Speaker 11: I sit down in the making chair and they go,
Speaker 11: what do you want us to do? I was like,
Speaker 11: I have no idea. I haven't worn eyeshadows since the
Speaker 11: last time I did television, like five years ago. So
Speaker 11: you just have at it it fun Yeah, yeah, good.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So yesterday I heard you talking was former Chicago mayor
Speaker 1: Lori Lightfoot.
Speaker 4: What was your takeaway from that one?
Speaker 11: You know, she was really human. She was a down
Speaker 11: to earth politician. I don't agree with her on many things,
Speaker 11: but it didn't matter. She was just she was a
Speaker 11: really nice person and very small, very small, very tiny.
Speaker 11: The thing with her in our conversation, the takeaway was
Speaker 11: that she said that when she was mayor of Chicago,
Speaker 11: she had several conversations with Donald Trump and that he
Speaker 11: was always so nice to her on the phone, like
Speaker 11: they were old buddies, but then in public he would
Speaker 11: bad talk her and call her by name and call
Speaker 11: her different names and things like that. And she said,
Speaker 11: but you know, that's just who he is. But I
Speaker 11: thought it was interesting that he was so nice to
Speaker 11: her when the two would speak privately. You know what.
Speaker 1: I think one of the interesting things that you hear is, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're they're really great in some regards, and then they'll
Speaker 1: turn around and backstab you. And that's not who they are,
Speaker 1: or that is who they are. I'm like, they all
Speaker 1: lie in backstab they're politicians.
Speaker 11: You're exactly right. They don't get to that level by
Speaker 11: being honest with everyone. You know, a friend all is
Speaker 11: a friend to none, and that's exactly what politicians are.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I also heard that you talked with Dean Phillips yesterday.
Speaker 1: Any revelations from that.
Speaker 11: Gosh, the revelation was I found a politician I actually like.
Speaker 11: I mean, he was one of the first ones to
Speaker 11: blow the whistle about Biden two years ago, saying there's
Speaker 11: something amiss here. He went to an event with Biden
Speaker 11: two years ago. He said that he could tell that
Speaker 11: there was just a decline in the way that Biden
Speaker 11: was able to communicate, and he was the first one
Speaker 11: to say, hey, we need a new candidate, and a
Speaker 11: lot of Democrats turn their back on him and just
Speaker 11: completely buried him for saying so. And now you look
Speaker 11: back and how prescient. I mean, he was the first
Speaker 11: one calling for this. And I said to him, I go,
Speaker 11: are there a lot of I'm sorries you were right
Speaker 11: at this convention. I'm surprised you're here And he said
Speaker 11: there have been He said, I won't name names, but
Speaker 11: a lot of people have said that to me.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what do you have coming up today or
Speaker 1: do you not know ahead of it? We know you're
Speaker 1: going to be there, you'll be on the air from
Speaker 1: nine to one, But do you know ahead of time
Speaker 1: who you're going to talk to or do they just
Speaker 1: come by and offer them up as you go?
Speaker 11: Yeah, we just grabbed people that we see walking by.
Speaker 11: Usually as how it works, it's a lot of up
Speaker 11: in the air. We will spend time today talking about fundraising.
Speaker 11: There's kind of a battle between Kamala Harris and Donald
Speaker 11: Trump terms of who's raising the most money right now
Speaker 11: where that momentum lies, because as we know, the money
Speaker 11: plays such a huge part in it, especially down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then tonight Clinton is on this mister former
Speaker 1: President Clinton is on stage.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's going to be Tim Walls, it's going to
Speaker 11: be Pete boot Edge Edge, It's going to be Bill Clinton.
Speaker 11: And I'm forgetting somebody, So Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 4: It's fine if you forget her. Kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Shannon.
Speaker 4: Wait to listen to this show. It's from nine to one.
Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon right here on KFI live from the
Speaker 1: Democratic National Convention. Thanks for taking time with us today.
Speaker 1: I bet you look beautiful with all your TV makeup on.
Speaker 11: Oh you're sweet. Thanks Amy see soon.
Speaker 4: Shanna looks beautiful anyway.
Speaker 1: That was just you know, that was just me saying
Speaker 1: because I know that they they primp you if you're
Speaker 1: going to be on TV.
Speaker 4: But Shannon's gorgeous. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the twenty four hour newsroom. Secretary of State Antony
Speaker 1: Blincoln has ended his latest trip to the Middle East
Speaker 1: without a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas he warned yesterday
Speaker 1: that time is of the essence to reach an agreement.
Speaker 1: ABC's Britt Cline says various challenges remain.
Speaker 7: One is redly official, accusing Naknyahuo of sabotaging negotiations. Hamas
Speaker 7: dismissing the proposal, accusing the US of aligning with new
Speaker 7: conditions imposed by Israel which cross its red lines.
Speaker 1: She says Hamas is demanding Israel pull its forces out
Speaker 1: of Gaza. There are still one hundred and nine hostages,
Speaker 1: including eight Americans, being held by Hamas. Pica Rivera says
Speaker 1: its new solar program removes barriers to clean energy while
Speaker 1: saving homeowners up to sixty percent on their electric bills.
Speaker 3: Not just households, but also commercial users.
Speaker 2: Pika Rivera Councilman Eric Lutt says the city's nonprofit Prime
Speaker 2: program offers solar panels and a Tesla battery for one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen dollars a month, plus the cheaper energy
Speaker 2: costs without credit checks or installation fees.
Speaker 6: Knowing that your bill is go going to be significantly.
Speaker 3: Lower while your neighbors are seeing their bills go up,
Speaker 3: this is something that you don't have to complain about.
Speaker 3: You provide a solution for yourself.
Speaker 4: He says.
Speaker 2: Lancaster and San Jacento are the only cities in Socau
Speaker 2: with a similar program. In Pico Rivera Corbin Carson KFI.
Speaker 1: News, Beyonce is getting into the whiskey business. Queen be
Speaker 1: unveiled her Sir Davis whiskey brand on Instagram yesterday. The
Speaker 1: brand's Sir Davis name is a nod to her great grandfather,
Speaker 1: whose first name was Davis, and her son, whose name
Speaker 1: is Sir. The whiskey is available to order on sirdavis
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Speaker 1: KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We
Speaker 1: lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4: I'm Amy King.
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