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 3: Hey, it's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 1: It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday, September twenty fifth.
Speaker 3: I'm Amy King. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: We got a lot going on, including a wild chase
Speaker 1: that involved a hijacked metro bus.
Speaker 3: It's come to an end in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: Deputy Chief Donald Graham says the chase went on for
Speaker 1: about an hour before the bus was stopped this morning.
Speaker 1: One person was taken into custody. A passenger and the
Speaker 1: driver were rescued. Another person on the bus was shot
Speaker 1: several times and later died at the hospital. The La
Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors has voted to oppose Proposition thirty
Speaker 1: six in the November election.
Speaker 3: The measure would reverse Prop.
Speaker 1: Forty seven, which reduced some drug possession charges and thefts
Speaker 1: under nine hundred and fifty dollars from felonies to misdemeanors.
Speaker 1: Prop thirty six would also allow for stiffer penalties for
Speaker 1: thieves involved in flash mob style robberies. For the eighth
Speaker 1: straight year, UCLA has been named the best public university
Speaker 1: in the country by US News and World Report. UCLA
Speaker 1: was also named the top university for military veterans and
Speaker 1: has top ten programs in computer science, engineering, teaching, and nursing.
Speaker 4: We're going to be.
Speaker 1: Talking with ABC's Jim Ryan in just a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes about Brett Farbes's revelation that he's got Parkinson's and
Speaker 1: he's not the only former football player who is suffering
Speaker 1: years after retiring from the game. We'll be talking tech
Speaker 1: with KTLA's Rich DeMuro about a new Google streaming box.
Speaker 1: It's apparently loaded with goodies, and open Ai is rolling
Speaker 1: out a new voice.
Speaker 3: Is it a good one? We'll find out.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at five point twenty at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour.
Speaker 3: Amy's on it.
Speaker 1: I'm on a super creepy, super creepy, but very compelling
Speaker 1: show that I think you're going to want to hear about.
Speaker 1: Let's get started now with some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A person
Speaker 1: has been fatally shot on a metro bus that was
Speaker 1: hijacked in South La fully say a man took hostages
Speaker 1: early this morning and led police on a chase for
Speaker 1: more than an hour before police were able to stop
Speaker 1: the bus with a spike strip.
Speaker 5: When the bus came to a stop, officers used their
Speaker 5: training that we received from the MTA to disable the
Speaker 5: bus so that it could not move further, and officers
Speaker 5: from our SWAT team set up on the bus made
Speaker 5: entry to the bus for a dynamic rescue.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 1: SWAT officers rescued the driver and a passenger and arrested
Speaker 1: the hijacker. One person had been shot several times and
Speaker 1: died at the hospital.
Speaker 3: A woman in la has.
Speaker 1: Filed a lawsuit against Sean Combs, saying that he violently
Speaker 1: raped her in New York in two thousand and one.
Speaker 6: The lawsuit alleged Combs drugged the woman and that he
Speaker 6: and his bodyguard viciously raped her in a recording studio
Speaker 6: while filming the assault. Dahlia Graves spoke out publicly for
Speaker 6: the first time, saying she suffered PTSD, anxiety and depression.
Speaker 6: Ever since, it has been hard for me to trust
Speaker 6: others to form healthy relationships, oh even fear safe in
Speaker 6: my own skin. It appears that the lawsuit filed yesterday
Speaker 6: as the first case Combs has faced since his sex
Speaker 6: trafficking indictment last week. Graves is now the eleventh woman
Speaker 6: to accuse Combs of sexual assault Chris Adler kf I News.
Speaker 1: Israel and Hesbilah have continued to exchange heavy fire following
Speaker 1: the deadliest day in Lebanon in almost two decades.
Speaker 3: Israel says it killed.
Speaker 1: A commander of the Iran backed militant group in an
Speaker 1: airstrike in Beyrout yesterday. UN chief Antonio Gaterez posted on
Speaker 1: x that Lebanon is at the brink and the world
Speaker 1: cannot afford for the country to become another Gaza. Members
Speaker 1: of Congress, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson or said
Speaker 1: to vote on a measure to temporarily keep the government funded.
Speaker 1: The bill being voted on today would keep the government
Speaker 1: going through December twentieth. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer says
Speaker 1: a shutdown would hurt American Donald.
Speaker 7: Trump told the hard right shut the government down if
Speaker 7: Congress won't agree to his poison pill proposals.
Speaker 1: The short term extension includes more than two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars in extra funding for the Secret Service
Speaker 1: to help protect candidates during the election cycle. League of
Speaker 1: Legends has gotten caught up in the middle of a
Speaker 1: fight between sag After and a company that provides voiceover
Speaker 1: services for the Blockbuster online multiplayer game. The union called
Speaker 1: a strike against League of Legends yesterday, saying the company
Speaker 1: has tried to get around the ongoing video game strike
Speaker 1: by higher non union actors to work on an unrelated title.
Speaker 3: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 1: So, Jim Brett Farv was testifying before Congress about an
Speaker 1: investigation into charges that he had taken some public money
Speaker 1: and used it for himself. Yes, and in what seemed
Speaker 1: like an offhand comment, he said he'd lost money investing
Speaker 1: in a company he thought would help other people, but
Speaker 1: that it was too late for him because he was
Speaker 1: just recently diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a real bombshell fell at that moment during that hearing.
Speaker 8: And I'm not sure there were questions that came up.
Speaker 8: Tried to see, you know, the full testimony this morning,
Speaker 8: but yeah, it was during the Houseways and Means Committee
Speaker 8: that he made this. He had this revelation, you know,
Speaker 8: some synics have said, well, he's trying to shift attention
Speaker 8: away from his problems back in Misissippi with this welfare situation.
Speaker 8: He didn't present a doctor's note or anything, but I
Speaker 8: think people are taking his word at it, considering that
Speaker 8: he was in the NFL for twenty years and then
Speaker 8: he had a college career before that. He says in
Speaker 8: the past, he said that he had something like a
Speaker 8: thousand concussions over that time, and concussions have been linked
Speaker 8: to Parkinson's.
Speaker 3: And he's not the only one.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of former NFL players who are
Speaker 1: suffering now after years after they played well.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and not just from Parkinson's but potentially other problems
Speaker 8: as well. There's something called chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This is
Speaker 8: a brain condition that also has been linked to repeated
Speaker 8: head trauma. It does like Parkinson's right, but players who
Speaker 8: believe that they have ct often have worse mental health
Speaker 8: issues than those who don't think they have CTE. And
Speaker 8: in other words, researchers writing in the General in the
Speaker 8: American Medical Association this week say that the mirror of
Speaker 8: fear or the dread about CT and a lifetime of
Speaker 8: mental health decline is actually contributing to the mental health
Speaker 8: problems of former football players. See, the problem with CTE
Speaker 8: is that it can't be diagnosed until and autopsy has
Speaker 8: done after obviously the person has died. So these ex
Speaker 8: players may be worrying themselves into new metal health problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah didn't San Diego Chargers Junior stay out? Yeah at CTE,
Speaker 1: he did.
Speaker 8: I mean that was confirmed through his autopsy after he died,
Speaker 8: and so you know, maybe it's a fine line, maybe
Speaker 8: the distinction between Parkinson's and CTE and all the rest.
Speaker 8: But still, these researchers are finding that that like twenty
Speaker 8: five percent of the players or current or former who
Speaker 8: believe they have CTE have had suicidal thoughts or behaviors
Speaker 8: compared to only five percent who don't think they have CTE.
Speaker 8: You know, it's again, it's it's not something that can
Speaker 8: be diagnosed until after death.
Speaker 3: So worrying about it makes you more likely to have it.
Speaker 8: No, worrying about it can give you, you know, drive
Speaker 8: you into metal health issues, can cause depression, can cause
Speaker 8: suicidal thoughts. So no, it doesn't cause CTE. But you know,
Speaker 8: it would be that the person this ex player doesn't
Speaker 8: have ct at all, But he is so concerned and
Speaker 8: about it that he's having other mental health issues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is also relevant now because of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins quarterback he just had his third concussion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's Tuck that he should retire.
Speaker 8: Right And if you saw that play, the nasty hit
Speaker 8: on tour this past weekend against Buffalo, that he's just
Speaker 8: lying there. And I was just watching another video an
Speaker 8: assessment from a neurologist and describing the symptoms that he
Speaker 8: was having there on the field to his hands start
Speaker 8: to flax in his arms or his legs. He seem
Speaker 8: completely dazed and confused. And yeah, there is talk now
Speaker 8: that you know what, maybe before you get into a
Speaker 8: lifetime of problems, you should let it go.
Speaker 3: Well, the problem is there's the cat.
Speaker 1: The big carrot is the millions of dollars that they
Speaker 1: have access to as NFL stars.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think and a lot of these players
Speaker 8: live like that. You know, they've got suddenly they've got
Speaker 8: millions of dollars. They may have come from humble beginnings,
Speaker 8: but suddenly with all this money, and it's a short career,
Speaker 8: you know, four or five years if you're lucky. Far
Speaker 8: I had had twenty years so I think it stands
Speaker 8: the reason that he has has some effects from all
Speaker 8: those concussions and hard hits.
Speaker 3: Anything they can do aside from changing to flag football.
Speaker 8: Well no, you know, the padded helmets, shortening the kickoff
Speaker 8: that we've seen here, pulling players out if they lose
Speaker 8: their helmet, you know, pulling them out for one play
Speaker 8: and assessing them for concussion. So things are being done
Speaker 8: in that regard. But look back eighty years ago or
Speaker 8: so when players were wearing leather helmets to play football,
Speaker 8: you know, and that was sort of and there was
Speaker 8: a stigma associated with, you know, trying to protect yourself
Speaker 8: from injury. Not so anymore.
Speaker 3: Well, and then I think we were talking about this.
Speaker 1: I was talking about it with my editor Carla, and
Speaker 1: she said, and rugby they don't have any protection.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they still just go at it.
Speaker 8: Right, you know, And it's I think there is still
Speaker 8: kind of that that tough guy, that maquismo that has
Speaker 8: players out there literally risking their lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the information. Seem all right, let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. A man who authorities say staked out
Speaker 1: former President Trump for twelve hours and wrote about his
Speaker 1: desire to kill the former president, has been indicted on
Speaker 1: charges of attempted assassination. Ryan Routh was arrested earlier this
Speaker 1: month and initially was charged with firearms offenses. The upgraded
Speaker 1: charges reflect the Justice Department's assessment that he methodically plotted
Speaker 1: to kill Trump as he played around of golf at
Speaker 1: Trump International Golf Club.
Speaker 3: Despite a new.
Speaker 1: Order from the La City Council, some RV's remain illegally
Speaker 1: parked on city streets.
Speaker 9: The city's Department of Transportation says the City Attorney's office
Speaker 9: advised its workers not to fully enforce the city council's
Speaker 9: vote to immediately start towing RVs and other vehicle parked
Speaker 9: in peak traffic lanes or near red curbs. Councilman Kevin
Speaker 9: daley On says council members want answers.
Speaker 3: So they're violating the laws.
Speaker 8: We have to move the rbs out of the red
Speaker 8: curbs for the safety themselves, for the safety of others.
Speaker 9: Leon and others found a motion requesting a report from
Speaker 9: the City Attorney's office explaining the discrepancy between the City
Speaker 9: Council's will and enforcement of the measure in downtown La
Speaker 9: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A woman from Corona's been arrested for allegedly stealing another
Speaker 1: woman's purse out of her car at Greenacre's Mortuary in Bloomington.
Speaker 1: Detectives say the thief used the woman's credit cards and
Speaker 1: then was caught last week driving a stolen twenty twenty
Speaker 1: Jaguar that she had bought using a stolen identity. Authorities
Speaker 1: believe she may be linked to a similar theft at
Speaker 1: Montecito Memorial Park. In mortuary in Lamlinda, Orange County says
Speaker 1: Andrew Doe is the first supervisor to be censured by
Speaker 1: the Board of Supervisors in county history.
Speaker 2: The FBI rated Supervisor Andrew Doe's home and several other
Speaker 2: properties as part of investigation into millions of missing COVID
Speaker 2: relief dollars that were allegedly spent for personal gain. Supervisor
Speaker 2: Katrina Fully says Doe needs to resign.
Speaker 10: Because he continues to be enriched by his salary and
Speaker 10: benefits that the taxpayers are paying when he is not
Speaker 10: here to do his job, and he has created this
Speaker 10: terrible scandal in our County.
Speaker 2: Dough has not attended a board meeting since the raids
Speaker 2: last month and has not commented publicly in Orange County.
Speaker 2: Corbin Carson kaf I News.
Speaker 1: A woman from Pollock Pines in San Diego County brought
Speaker 1: home more than just some good memories from a trip
Speaker 1: to Yosemite National Park. Phoebe Stokes says a few days
Speaker 1: after she got home from her weekend trip, her dogs
Speaker 1: sniffed out something under the hood of her car.
Speaker 4: Opened the hood and this big, fat, mer furry marmot
Speaker 4: jumped out and immediately ran back under my hood and
Speaker 4: are from underneath into the engine.
Speaker 1: Stokes called first responders. They took apart the car and
Speaker 1: found the marmot inside. Marmots are large ground squirrels, very cute.
Speaker 1: A wildlife agency is going to take the marmot on
Speaker 1: another ride back to its home in Yosemite. It is
Speaker 1: Halloween time at the Disneyland Resort and KFI AM six
Speaker 1: forty and Wake Up Call want to give you a
Speaker 1: chance to experience the Frightful Fund for yourself at the
Speaker 1: Disneyland Resort now through October thirty. First, you'll find fiendishly
Speaker 1: tasty treats There's like hundreds of different menu items that
Speaker 1: are all special for Halloween time and look delicious. There's
Speaker 1: Thrills for one and all, and a bootiful decor to
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Speaker 1: Land at Halloween time. Keep it right here because wake
Speaker 1: Up Call is going to have your chance to win
Speaker 1: a four pack of one day one park tickets to
Speaker 1: the Disneyland Resort. Police have arrested a person who they
Speaker 1: say hijacked a metro bus, shot a passenger, then let
Speaker 1: police on a chase through South La into Downtown LA.
Speaker 1: The chase lasted for more than an hour, so us
Speaker 1: was stopped by a swat team shortly after two am
Speaker 1: around South Alamedia and Sixth Street. The person who was
Speaker 1: shot several times died a short time later at the hospital.
Speaker 1: Firefighters continue to gain ground on those three big wildfires
Speaker 1: burning in southern California. The fifty five thousand acre fire
Speaker 1: that threatened right Wood and Mount Baldy is ninety one
Speaker 1: percent surrounded, The fire in the San Bernardino Mountains seventy
Speaker 1: five percent surrounded, and the fire that started in Tribuco
Speaker 1: Canyon is eighty eight percent surrounded. The fires have destroyed
Speaker 1: almost two hundred and fifty homes and other buildings and
Speaker 1: injured more than two dozen people. Tropical Storm Halleene will
Speaker 1: keep NASA astronaut Nick Haig, you know, friend of the
Speaker 1: wake Up Call, and a Russian cosmonaut on the ground
Speaker 1: a little bit longer. The Crude SpaceX launch of the
Speaker 1: Crew nine mission from Cape Canaveral had to be pushed
Speaker 1: back to September twenty eighth because of the storm that's
Speaker 1: supposed to hit Florida as a Category three hurricane late
Speaker 1: tomorrow at six oh five Tandle on the news. Another
Speaker 1: sign that things are heating up, Israel has intercepted a
Speaker 1: Hesbola fired ballistic missile near Tel Aviv. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now too, the host of Rich on Tech right
Speaker 1: here on KFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich Diemrro Good morning.
Speaker 11: Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're hearing that open AI is rolling out
Speaker 1: a new voice and this is this the same voice
Speaker 1: that there was a lot of controversy because it's sounded
Speaker 1: like Charlotte Scarlett Johanson.
Speaker 11: Yes, this is that feature. So this is the one
Speaker 11: it's called the Advanced Advanced Voice Mode. Now, the downside
Speaker 11: is this is only for the advanced users, so the
Speaker 11: people that pay like twenty bucks a month for chat ebt.
Speaker 11: But you know, there's a lot of them out there,
Speaker 11: and it's also the reason why as soon as I
Speaker 11: saw the presentation months ago. By the way, this has
Speaker 11: been like so delayed, I signed up immediately because I
Speaker 11: was like, I need that in my life. But I've
Speaker 11: since moved on. I canceled my subscription, so I am
Speaker 11: now still on my claud that I like. But I
Speaker 11: have used a similar thing in Google, So Google Gemini
Speaker 11: has a very similar live voice option, and I can
Speaker 11: just tell you that it's quite incredible and it's quite
Speaker 11: different than what we're used to because most of the
Speaker 11: time we're just chatting with these things by text. To
Speaker 11: actually have a conversation and an emotional conversation where it
Speaker 11: actually in flex when you're excited, and it does all
Speaker 11: these kind of things that make it more human like.
Speaker 11: And so that is now finally.
Speaker 1: Available, okay, and still only available though for paid subscribers.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you have to have paid, but it might be
Speaker 11: you know, if you're really into this stuff, it might
Speaker 11: be worth it just to try it out. But there
Speaker 11: are ten nine total voices. There are supposed to be ten,
Speaker 11: but you know, they had to scrap that one that
Speaker 11: sounded like Scarlett Johansson, which was sky the you know,
Speaker 11: the raspy voice.
Speaker 1: Okay, and is it like five four women and five men.
Speaker 11: Then well they're all nature themed. So you've got arbor, maple, soul, spruce, veil.
Speaker 11: Those are the new nature themed voices.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we don't know if they're girls are boys.
Speaker 11: Well there, it's kind of like a mix. You know,
Speaker 11: you have a bunch, you have guys, you have girls,
Speaker 11: you have you know, just all kinds of ranges. Now,
Speaker 11: I will tell you if you want to try something
Speaker 11: that's free that's an alternative to this. So yes, so
Speaker 11: google their Gemini Live, which is their version of this.
Speaker 11: They they initially had it only for their paying subscribers,
Speaker 11: but now they are rolling that out to everyone for free.
Speaker 11: So I don't think it's the entire system that you
Speaker 11: get for the paid but you know, I've been playing
Speaker 11: with it on the pixel phone and it's quite interesting.
Speaker 11: You could literally have if you're walking down the street,
Speaker 11: you could just have a conversation with this AI and
Speaker 11: it sounds like a human and it's pretty incredible, So
Speaker 11: I would definitely check it out. In Google's app. It's
Speaker 11: called Gemini Live and this is if this is if
Speaker 11: you want to pay for it. This is open AI.
Speaker 3: Okay, And I mean, is it like her?
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully you're not going to have that same relationship,
Speaker 1: but I'm hearing that people are kind of getting to
Speaker 1: know their AI and you know, like treating them like
Speaker 1: their friends.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think I think. Look, I mean, yes, these
Speaker 11: do have memory features, which means it does remember things
Speaker 11: that you said, and it does feel very human like.
Speaker 11: I don't think you're going to be fooled into thinking
Speaker 11: this is a human. But I will tell you it
Speaker 11: is pretty uncanny just how much of a conversation back
Speaker 11: and forth you can have and you can say, you know,
Speaker 11: help me like I had it, you know, help me
Speaker 11: with something, and it just kind of like chatted me
Speaker 11: or you know, walked me through like what I might encounter.
Speaker 11: It's just it's pretty wild. I think it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1: Okay, worth checking out. Note to self That means I
Speaker 1: have to download some sort of an app. I still
Speaker 1: haven't tried any kind of AI. It scares me.
Speaker 11: I think I think you should try it.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, on the advice of Richidimiro. See we
Speaker 1: all take his advice, right.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So there is a top tech YouTuber who has launched wallpapers.
Speaker 3: It's an app and you have to pay fifty bucks
Speaker 3: a year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and people were not happy. So this is MKBHD.
Speaker 11: Have you heard of him?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 11: Okay, So he's pretty much the top tech YouTuber, millions
Speaker 11: and millions of subscribers, you know, does all the reviews
Speaker 11: on the phones and things like that. People really like
Speaker 11: him because he does a good job. He's thorough and
Speaker 11: his stuff looks really good. So obviously people need to monetize.
Speaker 11: And so yesterday, in coordination with his iPhone review video,
Speaker 11: he came out. Everyone always asks like, what's the wallpaper
Speaker 11: on your phone? What's that wallpaper? So he came out
Speaker 11: with a new wallpaper app called Panels, and immediately the
Speaker 11: response was like really bad. Like people were like, this
Speaker 11: is a bad app. It's fifty dollars a year for
Speaker 11: wallpapers that you can get for free. It's twelve dollars
Speaker 11: a month. There are ads that wants to track my
Speaker 11: location and the overwhelming majority of people were just very
Speaker 11: critical of this app. Now, I got to give this
Speaker 11: guy credit. You know, obviously you have to try to
Speaker 11: monetize and do different things, and he was doing something
Speaker 11: that kind of fit his brand. But he said, look,
Speaker 11: I understand the criticism, and I will come back and
Speaker 11: try to make this better. But would you pay fifty
Speaker 11: bucks for wallpapers on your phone?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: No, And I wonder how much he made before people
Speaker 1: started complaining, like, because he's got like for the Smartphone Awards,
Speaker 1: he's got five point nine million views. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many followers he's got, but think about I mean,
Speaker 1: I've one hundred thousand people did it.
Speaker 3: He's a grazillionaire.
Speaker 11: Yeah, even if one percent of his followers did it,
Speaker 11: so and that's a tiny number of millions. So yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean, look, and the reality is you got to
Speaker 11: try stuff. You know, he's had sneakers in the past,
Speaker 11: He's had you know, a lot of little partnerships here
Speaker 11: and there. This is his first app, and I think,
Speaker 11: you know, everyone always asked about the wallpaper on the
Speaker 11: phones that he was testing, so it makes sense. But
Speaker 11: I think maybe it was a little bit eager in
Speaker 11: the pricing but he's also.
Speaker 3: Started with ninety nine cents like everybody else.
Speaker 11: Yeah, ninety nine cents would have been a nicer ring
Speaker 11: to it, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Google has a new streaming box. Is that
Speaker 1: like a Roku or like a firestick?
Speaker 11: Yes, exactly, It's like a Roku. So we talked about
Speaker 11: this a while back when they when they announced it.
Speaker 11: Now it's available for purchase. It's one hundred dollars. I
Speaker 11: was playing with it yesterday and what struck me Amy
Speaker 11: is you actually have one hundred and fifty free channels
Speaker 11: on this thing, so it literally feels like a regular
Speaker 11: TV system, Like I was just flipping through channels and
Speaker 11: they even made it so you can flip through the channels.
Speaker 11: And so literally we have come thirty years away from
Speaker 11: over the air broadcast TV back to setting this thing
Speaker 11: up yesterday and I turn it on and it's like, oh,
Speaker 11: flip through some channels, and I'm like, wait, what I mean?
Speaker 11: It's just wild because people are you know, they want
Speaker 11: stuff that just comes on without a lot of feeling.
Speaker 11: You know, you don't have to like search for stuff.
Speaker 3: I agree, And so.
Speaker 11: I was watching Supermarket Sweep yesterday from the I don't know,
Speaker 11: eighties or nineties, whatever it was, and you know a
Speaker 11: show that's like thirty years old and on this brand
Speaker 11: new box.
Speaker 1: Okay, so then the question you said, there's one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty free channels, are are there any local channels?
Speaker 11: There were local channels.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 11: KTLA was not on there, but there were some other
Speaker 11: locals that will remain unnamed, of course, but they were there. Yes,
Speaker 11: there's news, there's sports, there's like you can just watch
Speaker 11: Johnny Carson all day. I mean, you know, yeah, it's
Speaker 11: kind of like this idea we're seeing with like the
Speaker 11: free streaming services. They're ad supported, so it was like
Speaker 11: an old show like Supermarket Sweep, but then there would
Speaker 11: be a brand new ad in the middle of the show,
Speaker 11: so you know, it's free. Everyone is happy people get
Speaker 11: to watch stuff for free without a lot of subscription services.
Speaker 11: But I just thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, KTLA's Rich Demiro. You can hear more great
Speaker 1: tech advice and tech tips when you listen to Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two.
Speaker 1: You can also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: His website with everything we're talking about is rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Rich.
Speaker 11: All right, Amy, have a great day, you too.
Speaker 1: Opponents of a crime related ballot measure have gathered in
Speaker 1: downtown LA tell voters to reject the measure.
Speaker 13: Prop thirty six would repeal parts of Prop. Forty seven
Speaker 13: and Levy harsher punishments for some theft than drug crimes.
Speaker 6: Instead of fixing homelessness, the overdose crisis, or crime, the
Speaker 6: reality is Prop thirty six will make all of these
Speaker 6: issues much worse.
Speaker 13: Your Institute of Justices Michelle Paris says Prop thirty six
Speaker 13: will pull funding from drug treatment and homeless prevention programs.
Speaker 13: The group gathered yesterday ahead of an LA County Board
Speaker 13: of Supervisors meeting where Prop thirty six was formally opposed
Speaker 13: in downtown light Blake Trolley k if I Knews.
Speaker 1: Factory workers say Boeing's latest contract offer isn't good enough,
Speaker 1: but the company is giving the union more time to
Speaker 1: consider the deal. It includes pay raiss of thirty percent
Speaker 1: over four years in bigger bonuses. Some union members, like
Speaker 1: John Rifle and Rent and Washington, say they don't like
Speaker 1: that Boeing is bypassing the union in publicizing the offer.
Speaker 4: When they just throw out what might look good to
Speaker 4: the public, you know, just to try to make us
Speaker 4: look like we're greedy when we're not.
Speaker 1: We're not greedy, he says. The workers just want to
Speaker 1: be compensated fairly. Boeing had demanded a vote on the
Speaker 1: new proposal by Friday night, but that has been rescinded.
Speaker 1: A black combat medic who treated two hundred troops during
Speaker 1: the invasion of Normandy during World War Two, has been
Speaker 1: awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the army's second highest award.
Speaker 1: The family of Waverley Woodson, Junior, gathered yesterday in Washington,
Speaker 1: d c. To see Woodson's ninety five year old widow
Speaker 1: received the Cross posthumously for his heroism. Woodson died in
Speaker 1: two thousand and five. Governor Newsom signed several bills to
Speaker 1: strengthen gun laws in the state. He says the state
Speaker 1: won't wait until the next school shooting or mass shooting
Speaker 1: to act. One creates stricter penalties for gun owners if
Speaker 1: a child gets access to a gun. Another makes it
Speaker 1: illegal for anyone convicted of animal cruelty to have a weapon,
Speaker 1: and another makes it easier to issue a red flag
Speaker 1: order to seize weapons. The flames aren't even out in
Speaker 1: the lawsuit, are already starting to roll in from people
Speaker 1: affected by the wildfire in Orange and Riverside County. The
Speaker 1: fires believed to have been unintentionally sparked by an Orange
Speaker 1: County public works crew that was moving boulders in Tribuco
Speaker 1: Canyon during the heat wave. Consumer confidence is dipped to
Speaker 1: its lowest level in three years for September. The Conference
Speaker 1: Boards Consumer Confidence Index says consumers thirty five to fifty four,
Speaker 1: so the largest confidence drop. The survey noted concerns about
Speaker 1: prices and inflation that are continuing to affect consumers views
Speaker 1: of the economy at six oh five is handled on
Speaker 1: the news, a Haitian group wants criminal charges filed against
Speaker 1: former President Trump and his running mate jd Vance.
Speaker 3: Bill's going to tell you all about that.
Speaker 12: Amy's on it, AMI's on it.
Speaker 3: Amy's on Itami's on it. What am I on?
Speaker 1: I'm on streaming shows, movies, documenting movies, documentary series. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm on books, sometimes I'm in movies at the theater.
Speaker 1: This week I am on the stream And I told
Speaker 1: you about this earlier this week that I just saw
Speaker 1: an ad that from was coming back, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what I because it hasn't it hasn't had a news
Speaker 1: episode for a while. It's on Prime Video and it's
Speaker 1: actually on MGM Plus, which you get to through Prime Video.
Speaker 1: There's three seasons of the show called From The Season
Speaker 1: three is still being released in episode at a time.
Speaker 1: It just debuted on the twenty second and it'll be
Speaker 1: going every week through November. So I haven't started watching
Speaker 1: that one yet. But the first season was February of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Season two was April of twenty three,
Speaker 1: and it's been a while, so I wanted to go
Speaker 1: watch it again. And then when I went to go
Speaker 1: watch it, I found out that season one is being
Speaker 1: removed from the platform in a week, so time is
Speaker 1: running out. If you haven't watched From let Me tell You,
Speaker 1: let me tell you where I'm coming from. This is
Speaker 1: a creepy, creepy show. So it stars Harold Parano. You
Speaker 1: might remember him from Lost. There's also Ian Bailey who
Speaker 1: was Pinocchio in Once Upon a Time and remember that
Speaker 1: ABC series about Disney characters, and then also David Alpai
Speaker 1: or alpay You probably would recognize him. He is from
Speaker 1: a lot of Hallmark movies, but I know he's done
Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff, but I recognize him from
Speaker 1: Hallmark movies. Other than that, it's a bunch of relative unknown,
Speaker 1: which I always find refreshing because you're not thinking about
Speaker 1: other shows that they've been in or anything like that.
Speaker 3: You can just kind of focus on the characters.
Speaker 1: So it centers around this creepy little town that's completely dilapidated,
Speaker 1: and this family gets into a in their motor home
Speaker 1: and ends up in this town. They try to get
Speaker 1: away from it, they can't. They keep circling back to
Speaker 1: the town, and when they get there, the townspeople are
Speaker 1: on edge. They're nervous, they're scared, and they have reason
Speaker 1: to be because every night the town becomes a dangerous
Speaker 1: and murderous place. So if you're outside at night, you're grizzly.
Speaker 1: Your murder is very grizzly, and it's very graphic, and
Speaker 1: it's gross and nobody knows why, and they can't figure
Speaker 1: out why.
Speaker 3: But there are people who are outside.
Speaker 1: They look harmless, they look very nice, but then they
Speaker 1: kind of turn into monsters. If again, if they catch
Speaker 1: you outside, and then you're eaten and torn apart, and
Speaker 1: their homes are protected by talismans, so as long as
Speaker 1: they stay inside, they're relatively safe.
Speaker 3: And then the big question is why.
Speaker 1: And it's like I was thinking about, like a horror movie,
Speaker 1: and it really is a horror movie, but it's drug
Speaker 1: out through a whole.
Speaker 3: So you get to watch a new horror movie every week.
Speaker 1: And I actually said I'm just going to watch season one,
Speaker 1: but then by last night at about six o'clock, I
Speaker 1: was full into season two because the end of season
Speaker 1: one was like, oh my god, I have to see
Speaker 1: what happens. So this is a really, really, like I said, creepy,
Speaker 1: but very interesting story. The characters are really hard to
Speaker 1: figure out, but you go on hoping you're going to
Speaker 1: learn more about them and what makes them why they
Speaker 1: are as the story continues. It is gory, it's it's intriguing,
Speaker 1: and it's a great binge watch. It's called from It's
Speaker 1: on Prime Video again. Seasons one and two are on
Speaker 1: Prime Video. Season one goes away in a week. Season
Speaker 1: three just debuted and will be released every week. So
Speaker 1: I think I need to wait a little bit because
Speaker 1: I got to do my free trial on MGM Plus
Speaker 1: and then cancel it because I pay for enough streaming services.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm on this week, and I think
Speaker 1: you might just like it. And I'm not usually a
Speaker 1: horror movie fan, but I like this one. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been fatally
Speaker 1: shot aboard a Metro bus that was hijacked in South LA.
Speaker 1: Police got the call around twelve forty five this morning.
Speaker 1: Deputy Chief Donald Graham Say's officers found the bus stopped
Speaker 1: near one hundred and seventh Street and Figueroa.
Speaker 5: At that point, the bus had was stopped. An officer
Speaker 5: from Southeast Area set up on the bus and attempted
Speaker 5: to make contact with them using their PA system, but he.
Speaker 1: Says, the bus started to drive away and that's when
Speaker 1: the chase began. It lasted about an hour before the
Speaker 1: bus was finally stopped with a spike strip near sixth
Speaker 1: Street and Alameda. SWAT officers were able to rescue the
Speaker 1: driver and a passenger and arrested the hijacker. Another passenger,
Speaker 1: who had been shot several times, died at the hospital.
Speaker 1: Landlords in LA who harassed their tenants could soon have
Speaker 1: to pay higher penalties.
Speaker 9: The city council approved a request to have the city's
Speaker 9: Tenant anti hr harassment Ordnance beefed up. Councilman Unites Hernandez
Speaker 9: says requiring landlords to cover a minimum of two thousand
Speaker 9: dollars in tenants fees related to any dispute should stop
Speaker 9: bad behavior.
Speaker 6: These levels of damages and penalties are at levels that
Speaker 6: we will see deterrence in landlord harassment.
Speaker 9: The City Attorney's office would draft a revised ordinance for
Speaker 9: later adoption by the City Council. It would also include
Speaker 9: mental and emotional distress suffered by tenants as defined forms
Speaker 9: of harassment. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1: News Ran Roults has been charged with the attempted assassination
Speaker 1: of former President Trump. He was arrested this month near
Speaker 1: Trump International Golf Club, where Trump was playing a round
Speaker 1: of golf. Route was initially a routh rather was initially
Speaker 1: facing two weapons charges. Prosecutors say he staked out the
Speaker 1: former president and intended to kill him. He's being held
Speaker 1: without bail. The National Weather Service says there's an elevated
Speaker 1: fire risk in northern California. Forecasters say it's being caused
Speaker 1: by high temperatures, gusty winds, and low humidity. Cal Oees
Speaker 1: Fire Chief Brian Marshall says the fuel conditions also make
Speaker 1: it more likely that fires could spread.
Speaker 14: The fuels have been drying out, Summer's been in full
Speaker 14: forest for several months. Temperatures have been hot, so the trees,
Speaker 14: the brush, the grass is already to burn.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services the areas most at risk are
Speaker 1: along I five in Sacramento and in the northern Sierra
Speaker 1: Nevada Foothills. The only county Board of Supervisors has designated
Speaker 1: the Old Glory Oak Tree Santa Clarita and Historic Landmark.
Speaker 1: The seventy foot tall tree is in Pico Canyon Park.
Speaker 1: It's thought to be more than four hundred years old
Speaker 1: and made the news twenty years ago when activists saved
Speaker 1: it from being cut down to make way for development
Speaker 1: in Stevenson Ranch. Old Glory was eventually relocated, and in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven was recognized by the Guinness Book
Speaker 1: of World Records as the largest transplanted tree in the world.
Speaker 1: I love that, Hey, it's Clayton Kershaw. Bobblehead night at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. Now the Dodgers dropped one last night to
Speaker 1: San Diego four to two, so they still need two
Speaker 1: wins to clinch the National League West and the Dodgers
Speaker 1: take on the Padres tonight at Dodgers Stadium. First pitch
Speaker 1: goes out at seven. You can listen to every play
Speaker 1: of every game on AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: and stream all the games NHD on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Keyword is AM five to seventy LA Sports. The best
Speaker 1: casino in the Southland is Marongo Casino Resort and SPA
Speaker 1: Good Times. The La County Board of Supervisors is voted
Speaker 1: to officially support Proposition thirty three if passed in November.
Speaker 1: Prop thirty three would give cities and counties more power
Speaker 1: to put rent control measures in place. The vote was
Speaker 1: three to one, with Supervisor Catherine Barger voting against it.
Speaker 1: She said she believes more rent control policies will ultimately
Speaker 1: harm housing markets and communities. Police are asking people to
Speaker 1: call them if they have any information about a former
Speaker 1: West La High School guidance councilor. Julie Tychan is accused
Speaker 1: of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old boy she worked
Speaker 1: at Ula High School. She was arrested last month and
Speaker 1: police say she may have assaulted other students. An eight
Speaker 1: foot tall statue of the Man in Black has been
Speaker 1: installed in the US Capitol. The statue of Johnny Cash
Speaker 1: now stands in the National Statuetory Hall collection, along with
Speaker 1: statues from all fifty states. If you haven't been to that,
Speaker 1: it's very very cool. I got to see it when
Speaker 1: I went to DC. The statue depicts the man in
Speaker 1: black with a guitar slung across his back and a
Speaker 1: bible in his hand. We're just minutes away from a handle.
Speaker 1: On the news this morning, Ozempk's CEO has been grilled
Speaker 1: about why Ozempk costs so much here in the US
Speaker 1: when it's so cheap in the UK. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Tom Rivers.
Speaker 4: Tom.
Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Zelensky had a rather ominous warning for the
Speaker 1: UN Security Council during a meeting in New York yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm pretty desperate. He came forward, without giving any evidence.
Speaker 4: He said that Moscow has been planning now to hit
Speaker 4: three nuclear power stations and put them out of business.
Speaker 4: And of course, you know in his mind Moscow would
Speaker 4: do that, Why well, they would. In the site, everybody
Speaker 4: on the continent to go to war with Moscow and
Speaker 4: there'd be a huge radioactive cloud over Russia. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it seems pretty far fetched, unhinged maybe, but that's kind
Speaker 4: of the line of Zelensky these days.
Speaker 1: Okay, and so, and he's basically saying that in addition
Speaker 1: to that, it's very dangerous because they could lose power
Speaker 1: headed and into the winter, and that's going to put
Speaker 1: even more hardship on people.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean, you know, Russi's already been done
Speaker 4: that with conventional weapons, so you know, we've been down
Speaker 4: that road before winter is approaching, and they're going to
Speaker 4: be hitting infrastructure yet again. And of course that affects,
Speaker 4: you know, the military, it affects the civilians, and it
Speaker 4: affects also the movement of some of the Western weapons
Speaker 4: systems coming into Ukraine as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you had mentioned that he said these he
Speaker 1: made these claims that Russia wanted to target the nuclear
Speaker 1: power plans, and he said he had proof, but he
Speaker 1: didn't share it.
Speaker 4: No exactly. So I mean it shows you where you know,
Speaker 4: the if you will, The bigger picture is that Ukraine
Speaker 4: is not doing very well right now on the front line,
Speaker 4: and you know. He says he's coming to Washington to
Speaker 4: discuss with the President. His quote unquote victory plan said
Speaker 4: to be political, military, economic as well. US Ambassador at
Speaker 4: the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield looked at us says, well,
Speaker 4: maybe it can work, but many privately in the military
Speaker 4: sphere saying no, it's not going to work. So yeah,
Speaker 4: we're kind of looking more toward the endgame of what's
Speaker 4: happening in Ukraine. Everyone is kind of on the democratic
Speaker 4: side holding their breath till November fifth and what happens thereafter.
Speaker 1: Well to wait and see do Zelensky and people in
Speaker 1: Moscow talk at all.
Speaker 3: Are there any talks going on?
Speaker 4: No? In fact, said the last if we will nail
Speaker 4: in the coffin was the incursion into Kursk. And on
Speaker 4: the heels of that, the line from the Kremlin basically
Speaker 4: is we can solve this around a table somewhere like Geneva.
Speaker 4: But if you're going to do this incursion, we can
Speaker 4: also go with plan B, and that means we continue
Speaker 4: with our military assault until there is no Ukrainian soldiers left.
Speaker 1: And is there was there any indication or is there
Speaker 1: any indication that the US or the world might be
Speaker 1: thinking about pulling back some of its support for Ukraine
Speaker 1: and just sort of letting things play out.
Speaker 4: I think, I think, you know, there may be some
Speaker 4: small steps, as I say, for the next month, kind
Speaker 4: of keeping things ticking over. But again, there's going to
Speaker 4: be a big fork in the road after election Paris wins,
Speaker 4: You're going to see more of the same. You may
Speaker 4: see the US signing off on allowing longer range missiles
Speaker 4: to hit targets deep into Russia. If you could President
Speaker 4: Trump in there, you may see redoubled efforts to actually
Speaker 4: solve this thing through diplomacy. So, yes, it is a
Speaker 4: stark contradiction with regard to the two And as far
Speaker 4: as Biden right now, he is seen internationally as a
Speaker 4: lame duck.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you could tell that watching his speech yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think half the people weren't even paying attention. It
Speaker 1: was kind of It's kind of sad. But anyway, ABC's
Speaker 1: Tom Rivers, thank you so much, appreciate the information.
Speaker 3: As always, pay 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. Police
Speaker 1: in Fontana have fatally shot a man they say went
Speaker 1: after them with a metal pole. Police were called to
Speaker 1: a shopping center yesterday about a man swinging a pole around,
Speaker 1: damaging property and assaulting a person, Please say. The man
Speaker 1: then attacked an officer with the pipe, which led to
Speaker 1: the shooting. Video shows an officer punching the man while
Speaker 1: he's on the ground. An officer heard in the attack
Speaker 1: was tree at the hospital for minor injuries. As Bola
Speaker 1: has fired a missile at Tel Aviv in its deepest
Speaker 1: strike yet into Israel. The Israeli military says it intercepted
Speaker 1: the missile early this morning and struck the launch site.
Speaker 1: The missile was one of dozens of projectiles into Israel
Speaker 1: as the country carries out strikes in Lebanon.
Speaker 7: Israel, firing two thousand missiles and bombs on what it
Speaker 7: says A has Bella targets casualties amounting, according to Liberty's officials,
Speaker 7: over five hundred the debt, including children.
Speaker 1: ABC's Ian panel says HESBLA confirmed yesterday that one of
Speaker 1: its top commanders was killed this week. The Department of
Speaker 1: Justice has filed an anti trust lawsuit against Visa, accusing
Speaker 1: the credit card giant of fostering a monopoly. Attorney General
Speaker 1: Merrick Garland says VISA has created an environment where it
Speaker 1: penalizes merchants and banks who go with other card issuers.
Speaker 12: Visa collects more than seven billion dollars each year in
Speaker 12: network fees on US debit transactions, with a significant part
Speaker 12: of that resulting from Visa's illegal conduct.
Speaker 1: Visas as a lawsuit filed yesterday, is meritless.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got just two days.
Speaker 1: Until I go over the edge to raise money for
Speaker 1: the Union Rescue Mission. I'm going to be repelling down
Speaker 1: the side of a building twenty five stories off the
Speaker 1: Universal Hilton to raise money to help fight this battle
Speaker 1: against the homeless. You know that it's bad and it
Speaker 1: just seems to keep getting worse, but Union Rescue Mission
Speaker 1: is actually doing something to help. We know that there's
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand homeless in LA. Fifty two thousand have
Speaker 1: nowhere to live. They're living in cars, they're intents, they're
Speaker 1: out in the open. And while you can't help everyone,
Speaker 1: you can help one. So if you can make a
Speaker 1: small donation, or you can make a large donation, I
Speaker 1: would certainly appreciate it. It's all to raise money because,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I'm going over the edge of the
Speaker 1: Universal Hilton twenty five stories down. I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: about three o'clock on Friday afternoon. If you want to
Speaker 1: come out and see the terror, that would be great,
Speaker 1: But anyway, it is for a good cause. Union Rescue
Speaker 1: Mission has a one hundred score with what is it
Speaker 1: called Neil Charity, I can't even remember, but they have
Speaker 1: a great score with how well they manage their funds
Speaker 1: and eighty six cents out of every dollar goes directly
Speaker 1: to help people who actually want the help and want
Speaker 1: to change their lives and get back into housing and
Speaker 1: you know, get back on the straight and narrow and
Speaker 1: start living a happy, healthy, productive life again. It's I
Speaker 1: would love your donation, and Neil Servader's going to do
Speaker 1: it too. I think he's going off the edge at
Speaker 1: about eleven am. And you can make a donation at
Speaker 1: just help one dot org and then there's an icon
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Speaker 1: anything that you can do for us. This is KFI
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Speaker 3: I think it's called Charity Navigator. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: We lead Local live from the KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up Call,
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