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: Orange County and Amy Kay.
Speaker 1: It's five o'clock straight up. This is your wake up
Speaker 1: call for Friday, September twentieth. I'm Amy King. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. So glad you're getting your
Speaker 1: day started with us. I don't know why I'm so
Speaker 1: excited it's Friday. I'm still getting used to and I've
Speaker 1: been doing it for over a year, but I'm still
Speaker 1: getting used to having weekends off because I never did before.
Speaker 1: I worked it on Saturdays here at KFI for forever
Speaker 1: and never had those Saturday Sundays off, So I'm extra
Speaker 1: thrilled about that. Also, it's one week until I go
Speaker 1: over the edge. Need your help. Would love to have
Speaker 1: you donate to the Union Rescue Mission. We're going to
Speaker 1: be repelling twenty five stories down the Universal Hilton a
Speaker 1: week from today, and I'm taking Niel Savager with me.
Speaker 1: If you would like to donate, it's just help one
Speaker 1: dot org and appreciate any support you can give us.
Speaker 1: Holmlessness out of control, and these people actually want help,
Speaker 1: and the Union Rescue Mission actually gives help. It's not
Speaker 1: just putting a band aid on it. It's helping the
Speaker 1: it's helping people get back on their feet. Here's what's
Speaker 1: ahead on wake up Call. Eight Orange County firefighters have
Speaker 1: been injured SI because of them critically in a rollover crash.
Speaker 1: They were on their way back from fighting the fire
Speaker 1: that started in tribue O Canyon. Officials say the fire
Speaker 1: truck swerved to avoid a ladder in the road, hit
Speaker 1: a guard rail, and then rolled over on the two
Speaker 1: forty one in Irvine last night. Several of the firefighters
Speaker 1: were airlifted to hospitals. Israel has hit several Hesbaalah targets
Speaker 1: in Lebanon, following an announcement by the Defense Minister that
Speaker 1: a new era in the war along the Northern Front
Speaker 1: was beginning. The strikes come following the explosion of Hamas
Speaker 1: owned pagers and walkie talkies this week that killed more
Speaker 1: than three dozen and injured more than three thousand. We're
Speaker 1: going to get the latest on that in a couple
Speaker 1: minutes with ABC's Geordana Miller. Oh My O Tani the
Speaker 1: La slugger became the first major League player to get
Speaker 1: fifty home runs and fifty stolen bases in a single season.
Speaker 1: He reached the milestone last night against the Marlins. Only
Speaker 1: five players have ever eclipsed forty home runs and forty
Speaker 1: stolen bases in the same season. We've got the house
Speaker 1: whisper coming up at the bottom of the hour. If
Speaker 1: your house is hot, he can help, and why this
Speaker 1: weekend might be a good one to grab some popcorn,
Speaker 1: curl up on the couch and turn on the TV.
Speaker 1: Lots of news shows are hitting the stream. We're going
Speaker 1: to be checking with ABC's Jason Nathanson. And if you
Speaker 1: don't want to curl up on the couch and you
Speaker 1: want to go to the beach, it's Coastal clean Up
Speaker 1: Day tomorrow. We're going to be talking to the founder
Speaker 1: of the Save Our Beach Group and that's coming up
Speaker 1: at five twenty. At six oh five, it's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. Insurance companies in California have been ordered to
Speaker 1: stop dropping policies for one year. Bill, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4: It's a tough time for the Orange County Fire Authority family.
Speaker 1: Eight firefighters have been hurt in Orange County when their
Speaker 1: fire truck crashed on the two forty one toll Road
Speaker 1: in Irvine. Six of the injured firefighters are in critical condition.
Speaker 1: CHP says the truck swerved last night to avoid hitting
Speaker 1: a ladder on the road and smashed into the guardrail.
Speaker 1: OCFA Chief Brian Fannessie says the crew was returning from
Speaker 1: the fire burning between Orange County and Riverside County.
Speaker 5: You can only imagine how tramat it it is for
Speaker 5: their brothers, sister firefighters to see them injured like that
Speaker 5: on the freeway.
Speaker 1: The CHP kept northbound lanes of the two forty one
Speaker 1: closed four hours following the crash. News brought to you
Speaker 1: by ruterhroo dot com. Resource centers have been open to
Speaker 1: help people impacted by the fires in La Orange, Riverside,
Speaker 1: and San Bernardino Counties. One of them is in Lake Elsinore,
Speaker 1: close to where more than eighty homes burned. Riverside County
Speaker 1: Emergency Management spokesman Shane Reichart says many people had to
Speaker 1: get out of their homes with just the clothes on
Speaker 1: their backs.
Speaker 6: So some people are in need of clothing. Some people
Speaker 6: are in need of documentation, so things like their registration,
Speaker 6: their marriage certificates, other important documents.
Speaker 1: He says. Reps from the DMV and the County Recorder's
Speaker 1: office will be helping people get temporary IDs and vital records.
Speaker 1: The center opened yesterday and we'll run from noon to
Speaker 1: nine Monday through Thursday, and eight to five on Saturdays.
Speaker 1: Sheriff's officials say the person who brutally attacked a valet
Speaker 1: at Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood also attacked at least
Speaker 1: four other people over a span of just about twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: The valet was knocked to the ground, stomped on, and
Speaker 1: kicked in the head last Saturday night. He remains in
Speaker 1: the ICU and the guy who did it is still
Speaker 1: on the loose. The Dodgers show, Hey Otani has made
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball history, becoming the first player to hit
Speaker 1: fifty home runs and steal fifty bases in a single season.
Speaker 1: He did it yesterday in the Dodgers game against the Marlins.
Speaker 1: As called on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 7: So Hey Old Tony with an opposer Field home run
Speaker 7: fifty fifty.
Speaker 8: One a day for sure.
Speaker 1: Show Hey went six for six at the plate, smashed
Speaker 1: three home runs, two doubles in a single and of
Speaker 1: course stole two bases. And he wasn't the only one
Speaker 1: who had a good day. The Dodgers beat the Marlins
Speaker 1: twenty to four. They're back at home tonight. I would
Speaker 1: imagine that Show Hey's going to get quite a warm reception.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
Speaker 1: things continue to heat up in the Middle East. Can
Speaker 1: you please provide us with the latest.
Speaker 7: That's right, we're seeing today some of the most intense
Speaker 7: exchanges of fire between Hsbulla and the Israeli Army. We
Speaker 7: just got the first kind of look at the numbers,
Speaker 7: and about one hundred and forty missiles have been fired
Speaker 7: by Hasbella just today. It's only about three in the
Speaker 7: afternoon here and they've been fired, dozens of them deep
Speaker 7: into Israeli territory. That is, for example, the city of
Speaker 7: safid An artist a town that sits on a hill
Speaker 7: which has not been evacuated, that coming under dozens of
Speaker 7: missiles this morning. Now, the Israeli Army a few hours
Speaker 7: ago changed its home Front Command guidelines, asking Israelis in
Speaker 7: and around, for example, the city of Safid and further
Speaker 7: norse and to the west the Galilee, the Western Galilee,
Speaker 7: the Golan Heights to take shelter and stay by their
Speaker 7: safe rooms, not to go outside, not to gather. That's
Speaker 7: the first change. They did it last night also for
Speaker 7: several hours. These are the first changes really in several months,
Speaker 7: which it gives you an indication of the intensity of
Speaker 7: the firepower that's being exchanged. Now. It all really began
Speaker 7: last night when the Israeli Army saw that Husbolla has
Speaker 7: looked like they were preparing for a reprisal strike following
Speaker 7: the explosion of their devices on Tuesday and Wednesday, and
Speaker 7: the very defiant speech of a Husbala leader not in
Speaker 7: Husrel on Thursday, who vowed to avenge those attacks. And
Speaker 7: so Israel saw the preparations last night, and last night
Speaker 7: Israel took out they say. The Army says about a
Speaker 7: thousand rocket lawns with rockets inside, and that has that
Speaker 7: that also started uh this, you know, this more intensified
Speaker 7: level of strikes. And the question is how long will
Speaker 7: it go? On for will it stay within these kind
Speaker 7: of unwritten rules even though they're striking a little bit further, Uh,
Speaker 7: you know south into Israel. They haven't hit, for example, Haifa,
Speaker 7: Israel's huge city with hundreds of thousands of residents. Will
Speaker 7: will it be at this level for a couple of
Speaker 7: days and then die down? Or are we seeing what
Speaker 7: could lead to you know, a larger escalation, possibly an
Speaker 7: Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon. Right, it's where you know,
Speaker 7: it's unclear where this is going right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And and Jordana, we know that Israel has the
Speaker 1: Iron Dome, and you said that they're firing a lot
Speaker 1: of rockets and missiles into the area. Are they all
Speaker 1: being intercepted or are some getting through?
Speaker 7: So many are being intercepted, some are falling in open
Speaker 7: fields and setting you know, land on fire. You know,
Speaker 7: blazes are burning in parts of northern Israel. That happens
Speaker 7: almost every day now. But it's important also to point
Speaker 7: out that the Iron Dome deals with really uh, mid
Speaker 7: range rockets and short range rockets, the air to the
Speaker 7: Patriot system and the David Slange those are other layers
Speaker 7: of Israel's air defense system and they're also being employed
Speaker 7: right now, it's not just the Iron Dome, and they're
Speaker 7: only being employed when they pick up that the missiles
Speaker 7: or rockets or drones are heading towards populated areas. Otherwise
Speaker 7: they prefer to you know, keep the you know, there's
Speaker 7: a you know, the missile that intercepts a rocket mid
Speaker 7: air is expensive, and Israel wants to and use them
Speaker 7: when they're going to populated areas.
Speaker 1: So if they're not really going to hit anything, like
Speaker 1: you said, if they're going to just come down in
Speaker 1: a field, they'll probably let it go, that's right.
Speaker 7: They prefer to let them fall in an open field,
Speaker 7: you know, that's right. And that again, every day there's
Speaker 7: fields on fire. That's been part of what's happening in
Speaker 7: the North. It's clear that you know, Israeli leaders, including
Speaker 7: the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister, who've had a
Speaker 7: lot of disputes over the last several months, it seems
Speaker 7: that they are now on the same page that the
Speaker 7: war focus is shifting from Gaza to the North, and
Speaker 7: you know, Israel pushing really up to that line before
Speaker 7: maybe an open war, you know, And the question is
Speaker 7: what is Israel's intentions and I think this is where
Speaker 7: it gets dangerous and unclear. You know, is Israel pushing
Speaker 7: so that has Ball of backs down and decides maybe
Speaker 7: we don't want to go to war with Israel right now,
Speaker 7: right and Israel has said you know that, people have
Speaker 7: implied you know, we have other surprises for you besides
Speaker 7: what happened with the Pagers, right even though they have
Speaker 7: not technically or officially climbed that strip. Maybe Hasbolla will
Speaker 7: back down, but maybe it'll produce exactly the opposite. Maybe
Speaker 7: has Bolla will you know, big their heels in and say,
Speaker 7: you know, we're going to go to war. So I
Speaker 7: think you know, haustin Nosralla, the leader of Hasbola, left
Speaker 7: open the option of war.
Speaker 1: Okay, Gosha. So it's just everything is so complicated, and
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. We appreciate you helping to sort it
Speaker 1: out because like we said, it's just all these layers
Speaker 1: of this onion and there's not an easy answer to anything.
Speaker 1: So well, stay safe and we will talk to you soon,
Speaker 1: and thanks again, and have a good weekend. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: take care. Yeah, by my goodness, it just gets more
Speaker 1: and more unsettling. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsrooms.
Speaker 1: Some people in Marina del Rey say the owner of
Speaker 1: the yacht that cut, caught fire and sank in the
Speaker 1: harbor was constantly partying on the boat.
Speaker 9: People in the area say the owner of the boat
Speaker 9: is known for throwing parties with lots of alcohol and pot.
Speaker 9: Curtis Burnett lives nearby and says he's not surprised the
Speaker 9: yacht went down in a blade.
Speaker 1: There's always people coming and going on the boat. They
Speaker 1: apparently lived on the boat, and I was always concerned
Speaker 1: about what possibly may happen.
Speaker 9: Fireworks popped off and explosions were heard as the boat
Speaker 9: burned and sank Wednesday night, leaking thousands of gallons of
Speaker 9: diesel fuel into the harbor. LA County Fire says it's
Speaker 9: investigating exactly what sparked the fire. Chris Adler, KFI News Circumental.
Speaker 1: Two former Disney stars have released a song about their
Speaker 1: experience with the mass shooting. They heard the mass shooting
Speaker 1: from their bus in Sacramento in twenty twenty hours after
Speaker 1: a performance at the Crest Theater. Allie and aj are
Speaker 1: demanding gun refer in the US six people were killed,
Speaker 1: twelve others wounded when at least when several people opened
Speaker 1: fire on a crowd on K Street. New research shows
Speaker 1: how COVID nineteen most likely started. ABC's Derek Dennis says
Speaker 1: scientists researching the origins of COVID have identified some animals
Speaker 1: that possibly sped the virus to people.
Speaker 10: Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the Chinese market in Wuhan,
Speaker 10: where the first outbreak was detected, and found the most
Speaker 10: likely animals spreading COVID were raccoon dogs, civet cats, and
Speaker 10: bamboom rats.
Speaker 1: Dennis says the scientists suspect the infected animals were first
Speaker 1: brought to the Wuhan market in late twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: somehow infected humans. A man who claims his thumb was
Speaker 1: severed in the San Diego Central Jail has sued the county.
Speaker 1: The man says when he was an inmate in July
Speaker 1: of last year, he was lined up for a pat
Speaker 1: down and he was told to stand past a red
Speaker 1: line that showed where it is safe to stand. He says,
Speaker 1: as he stood there, a deputy shut a sliding door
Speaker 1: and severed his thumb. He says. Deputies then told him
Speaker 1: it's not that bad and taunted him for the remainder
Speaker 1: of his time in jail by giving him a thumbs up. Okay,
Speaker 1: so a week from today, we're going over the edge
Speaker 1: for the Union Rescue Mission. I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1: Neil Sevadra is gonna do it. And again we're raising
Speaker 1: money for the Union Rescue Mission, which is an organization
Speaker 1: that actually helps homeless people. We keep hearing about how
Speaker 1: money is being thrown at the homeless problem, and we
Speaker 1: see it it's just getting worse. But the Union Rescue
Speaker 1: Mission actually helps people. Their shelters are dry, no drugs,
Speaker 1: no alcohol involves, so the people who really want help
Speaker 1: are the ones who are getting it. They also have
Speaker 1: transitional housing, they have ged programs, job training, all this
Speaker 1: stuff to actually help people get back on their feet
Speaker 1: and get off the streets permanently. That's why both Neil
Speaker 1: and I are behind this because it's different, it makes
Speaker 1: a different rants, and eighty six cents out of every
Speaker 1: dollar goes directly to benefit the people who need it most.
Speaker 1: We're going to repel twenty five stories off the Universal
Speaker 1: Hilton on Friday, September twenty seventh, we need your help
Speaker 1: to do it. We would love for you to donate
Speaker 1: whatever you can fifty dollars, five hundred dollars, two dollars,
Speaker 1: I don't care, just donate what you can to actually
Speaker 1: help this problem get solved. And want to say thanks
Speaker 1: to Kim and Eric and Jan who donated to the cause,
Speaker 1: and I hope you'll join them again. We're going to
Speaker 1: be doing this a week from Friday, going over the
Speaker 1: edge for the Union rescue mission. Please join us and
Speaker 1: donate if you can. Firefighters are gaining some more ground
Speaker 1: in their fight against the three big wildfires burning in
Speaker 1: southern California. None of the fires grew yesterday. The fire
Speaker 1: in the Angelus National Forest near Rightwood and Mount Baldy's
Speaker 1: fifty three percent surrounded, the fire in the San Bernardino
Speaker 1: Mountains fifty two percent surrounded, and the one that's been
Speaker 1: the most destructive of the three in the Sanna Mountains
Speaker 1: is forty two percent surrounded. Sean Diddycombe's lawyer plans to
Speaker 1: appeal his bail denial for a third time. Two judges
Speaker 1: have already said no Combs. His lawyers also trying to
Speaker 1: get Combs moved to a jail in New Jersey, where
Speaker 1: he says comes will be able to better prepare for
Speaker 1: his upcoming trial. The John Wayne Airport is the best
Speaker 1: one in the US. The twenty twenty four North American
Speaker 1: Airport Satisfaction Survey from JD Power shows the airport in
Speaker 1: Orange County is the best large airport in the United States.
Speaker 1: The rankings are based on customer satisfaction on things like
Speaker 1: terminal facilities, airport staff, and how easy it is to
Speaker 1: travel through the airport. At six oh five, it's handle
Speaker 1: on the news. Speaking of planes, Qatar Airways has banned
Speaker 1: pagers and walkie talkies on board its planes. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to the founder and president of Save
Speaker 1: our Beach, Steve Mason, or good morning Steve.
Speaker 5: Good morning Amy. How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. So it's literally time to save our beaches.
Speaker 1: It's coastal cleanup day.
Speaker 5: Yes it is okay, so tell us it is.
Speaker 1: Tell us about it and what do we do and
Speaker 1: how much good does it do?
Speaker 5: Well? Specifically, I'm the president and founder of Saber Beach,
Speaker 5: which is located here in Seal Beach, and we are
Speaker 5: celebrating our twenty fifth year of doing Coastal Cleanup Day.
Speaker 5: The Coastal Cleanup itself is in its fortieth year, so
Speaker 5: Coastal Cleanup Day is all over California. We are specifically
Speaker 5: in Seal.
Speaker 1: Beach, okay, And and you said it's going on all
Speaker 1: over California. We'll mention a few of the places that
Speaker 1: you can go and do cleanups, but for yours specifically,
Speaker 1: when are you doing it and what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: Do you still need volunteers?
Speaker 5: We always need volunteers. Unfortunately, there's an endless supply of
Speaker 5: trash that comes down the river here in Seal Beach.
Speaker 5: Our cleanup is this Saturday in Seal Beach on starts
Speaker 5: at nine am through now. We'll have two locations, one
Speaker 5: at the first Street Beach parking lot and one at
Speaker 5: the pier. We are expecting around one thousand people, but
Speaker 5: we always got room for more.
Speaker 1: Okay, And do you need to register? Can you just
Speaker 1: show up?
Speaker 5: You can register at Save Ourbeach dot org or you
Speaker 5: can just show up and register at the cleanup okay.
Speaker 1: Perfect. And also just so you guys know, as you're listening,
Speaker 1: if you're missing the addresses, you can get a complete
Speaker 1: list of not only the save our beach in Seal Beach,
Speaker 1: but also all over the state in southern California. KFIAM
Speaker 1: six forty dot com slash wake up call. We've got
Speaker 1: a complete list. So what kind of things are you
Speaker 1: picking up? Steve?
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, it's anything and everything. The biggest item that we'll
Speaker 5: find is styrofoam. That's the one item that continues to
Speaker 5: break down and people pick up. But we get everything
Speaker 5: from couches to half a bowling ball. It's unusual, but
Speaker 5: it's always out there. But there's a never shortage of
Speaker 5: things to pick up. The small stuff is just important
Speaker 5: is the big stuff, because the small stuff will actually
Speaker 5: harm ocean life, and so we want to get that
Speaker 5: just as importantly. So, but we supply bags, gloves, pickers,
Speaker 5: free parking, so we try to make it as easy
Speaker 5: and as fun to do something good for mother Earth.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And is the stuff that you find, is it
Speaker 1: dumped or left behind, or is washed up or just
Speaker 1: a combination of everything.
Speaker 5: It's a combination. Some of it's left behind, but some
Speaker 5: of it washes down the river. Some of it comes
Speaker 5: back to shore off the bottom of the ocean as
Speaker 5: the tide comes in. But we get a lot coming
Speaker 5: down the river. Here in se A Beach specifically, we
Speaker 5: have fifty two cities that flow into the sand Gable
Speaker 5: River that create the mountains of trash, especially after the
Speaker 5: first rain. And so really what we're trying to do
Speaker 5: here is to get the trash before the first rain comes.
Speaker 1: I hate to hear that the mountains of trash. So,
Speaker 1: Steve is the is the problem getting worse? Is it
Speaker 1: getting a little better?
Speaker 5: Oh? No, we have made progress in twenty five years.
Speaker 5: It was nothing to have one hundred people untill five
Speaker 5: or six numpters. Now it's hard to get five or
Speaker 5: six dumpsters, but which is a good problem to have.
Speaker 5: So we've made some serious progress. We've got some quantum
Speaker 5: leafs that we're going to make moving forward. We're working
Speaker 5: on a self contained trash wheel that will go out
Speaker 5: during these flushes, so we expect that sometime next year
Speaker 5: to get launched. But we are very excited that we're
Speaker 5: Our goal is to put ourselves out of business, and
Speaker 5: we're not there yet, but we're making serious progress.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's Coastal Cleanup Day and Steve Masoner, your beach
Speaker 1: is Seal Beach, and again you can go to kfiam
Speaker 1: six forty dot com slash wake up call to get
Speaker 1: a list of all the beaches. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a beautiful day tomorrow and it's just three hours of
Speaker 1: your day. They supply everything and you get free parking
Speaker 1: at the beach. What a great thing to do, What
Speaker 1: a great thing to do. Steve Masoner, good luck. I
Speaker 1: do hope that, just like you, you get put out
Speaker 1: of business soon.
Speaker 5: Me too. Thank you so much, Amy, have a wonderful day,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 1: Take care. Huntington Beach says a law that keeps gender
Speaker 1: identity issues from parents is unconstitutional, while the state says
Speaker 1: outing kids is unconstitutional.
Speaker 11: City attorney Michael Gate says the state's new law prohibiting
Speaker 11: districts from enforcing gender identity policies is not the state's job.
Speaker 12: While the state may have authority to legislate on education,
Speaker 12: they do not have the authority to have teachers or
Speaker 12: ask teachers, or compel teachers, or order teachers to interfere
Speaker 12: in the parent child relationship.
Speaker 11: But the state ag says it's forced outing policies that
Speaker 11: violate a student's civil rights and put them in danger.
Speaker 11: Council Van dan Comick says the lawsuit Bob this week
Speaker 11: uses taxpayer money to litigate an unpopular position that has
Speaker 11: nothing to do with the.
Speaker 13: City in Orange County.
Speaker 8: Corbin Carson kf I News.
Speaker 1: Early voting for the November election has started in three states.
Speaker 1: Sees Brittany Shepherd's voters in Virginia, especially in the suburbs,
Speaker 1: may predict how a key group might act across several
Speaker 1: battleground states.
Speaker 14: Suburban women were a major factor in President Donald Trump's
Speaker 14: twenty twenty loss, and Vice President Kamala Harris will need
Speaker 14: them to get an edge over Trump, and a recent
Speaker 14: Washington Post poll shows Harris with an eighteen point advantage
Speaker 14: among women voters in Virginia.
Speaker 1: Early in person or absentee voting also starts today in
Speaker 1: Minnesota and South Dakota. A sixteen year old from Michigan
Speaker 1: has set two Guinness World records for having the largest
Speaker 1: hands and the largest feet in the world. Eric Kilburn
Speaker 1: Junior's hands measure almost ten inches, most people's are about seven,
Speaker 1: and he wears a size twenty three shoe. Eric says
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to shot for shoes in a
Speaker 1: store since he was in fifth grade. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's six foot eleven. Hey did you see show hey
Speaker 1: Otani reach fifty to fifty? He did it last night,
Speaker 1: of course. And then did you see the Dodgers pummel
Speaker 1: the Marlins twenty to four. He and the Dodgers return
Speaker 1: to Dodgers Stadium tonight as the Dodgers take on the Rockies,
Speaker 1: with the first pitch going out at seven o'clock. You
Speaker 1: can listen to every play on AM five seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 1: and you can stream all the games in HD on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: powered by LA Care for all of LA, and I
Speaker 1: bet all of LA is going to be very excited
Speaker 1: to welcome showhy Otani home to Dodgers Stadium tonight. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a feat. Ten police departments on UC campuses are
Speaker 1: going to be stocking up just in case there are
Speaker 1: more protests on campuses that get out of control like
Speaker 1: they did in the spring. The UC Board of Regions
Speaker 1: approve the request by drones, pepper bullets, sponge rounds, and
Speaker 1: other non lethal projectiles. The board, though, says the purchases
Speaker 1: are routine and not because of the protests. A coalition
Speaker 1: of city and community leaders have gathered in LA to
Speaker 1: talk about how to reduce homelessness before the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: eight Summer Olympics. Plans include temporary housing and food and
Speaker 1: wellness services. Those attending agreed on Wednesday that a reasonable
Speaker 1: goal would be to see a fit fifty percent reduction
Speaker 1: in the homeless population in four years. The NHL's Kings
Speaker 1: and Ducks have started their training camps for the upcoming season.
Speaker 1: The Kings are working out at their practice facility, the
Speaker 1: Toyota Sports Performance Center in El Segundo. The Ducks are
Speaker 1: training at the Great Park Ice and Five Point Arena
Speaker 1: in Irvine. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the
Speaker 1: news this morning, mortgage rates are dropping in the wake
Speaker 1: of the Fed's half percent interest rate drop. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to the house whisper the host of
Speaker 1: Home right here on KFI, Dean Sharp, Good.
Speaker 13: Morning, Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think that this is something that a
Speaker 1: lot of people around southern California are probably or have
Speaker 1: been experiencing because of the super super hot temperatures we had,
Speaker 1: thank you for finally cooling down, But that is that
Speaker 1: bad insulation leads to hot houses.
Speaker 13: That's very, very true. It's very true.
Speaker 4: Most Southern California houses are grossly under in and so
Speaker 4: that's why we're going to have a very serious conversation
Speaker 4: about it on Sunday. Insulation is not a very sexy topic.
Speaker 1: It's not what, but you're going to make it fun
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at the end of the day, there are very
Speaker 4: few things. And you know what what is sexy is
Speaker 4: saving money, big money.
Speaker 13: Uh, here it is, Here is the thing. Here is
Speaker 13: the thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the thing?
Speaker 4: The thing is, you know, and a lot of a
Speaker 4: lot of companies advertise this way. They're like, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: is it time to save energy costs? It's maybe it's
Speaker 4: time for a new HVAC system, or we say, you
Speaker 4: know what, you want to save massively on your energy bills,
Speaker 4: it's time to replace all the windows in your house.
Speaker 4: And you know what, I have no issues with. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a time to replace your air conditioning and your
Speaker 4: heating system. There's a there's definitely a time for window replacement.
Speaker 4: But here's the thing for an average home in southern California,
Speaker 4: I mean just an average home, a new HVAC system
Speaker 4: fifteen grand easy, I mean just boom replacing windows could
Speaker 4: be anywhere between ten and twenty thousand dollars, depending on
Speaker 4: how many windows you have and the replacements you want
Speaker 4: to do. And at the end of the day, a
Speaker 4: new HVAC system does not actually make your home more
Speaker 4: energy efficient. It just runs the AC a little bit
Speaker 4: more efficient and the windows are still holes in the
Speaker 4: side of the house. Compared to that, compared to fifteen
Speaker 4: grand or twelve grand, the average cost of doing better
Speaker 4: insulation in your attic, it's about two thousand dollars, and
Speaker 4: it makes a massive, massive difference. So I'd just like
Speaker 4: to say that when it comes to energy efficiency for
Speaker 4: a home, nothing saves more money for less money than insulation.
Speaker 4: And we got to get serious about it because two
Speaker 4: thirds of southern California homes built before nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 4: when the state had zero energy efficient standards none. And
Speaker 4: if you live in a house that was built before
Speaker 4: seventy two, the only reason there's insulation in the exterior
Speaker 4: walls is if you or a previous owner put it in,
Speaker 4: because it wasn't built that way. It was built non
Speaker 4: insulated because it just wasn't even a thought in anybody's
Speaker 4: mind back then. Because of our misunderstanding of what insulation
Speaker 4: is for, and.
Speaker 1: Because of our temperate climate. Like in Oregon, everybody's got insulation,
Speaker 1: but here we don't, and and so like that's also
Speaker 1: what you said is a misnomer that people think that
Speaker 1: insulation is to keep your house warm, which it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't big but actually exactly it does. That's but it's
Speaker 4: half the equation. That's the problem is that you know,
Speaker 4: you know, the West Coast was settled from East coast transplants,
Speaker 4: and so we brought out East coast mentality. Well, of
Speaker 4: course insulation is for keeping your house warm in the winter,
Speaker 4: but it's sunny in southern California, we don't need insulation.
Speaker 4: Insulation is not about that, it's not it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's about keeping one state of energy on one side
Speaker 4: of the wall and another state of energy on the
Speaker 4: other side of the wall. So whether it's cold that
Speaker 4: you want to keep out or heat that you want
Speaker 4: to keep out, insulation is a three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: two is it three sixty? However many days there are
Speaker 4: in the year, every day of the year, twenty four
Speaker 4: to seven issue, insulation is doing its job for us
Speaker 4: or not or not?
Speaker 1: Okay? And you're going to be talking much more about insulation,
Speaker 1: what you can do, what you shouldn't do, good insallation,
Speaker 1: bad insulation, all of that coming up this weekend on
Speaker 1: your show? Is it both days? Are you're doing something
Speaker 1: else on one day or another?
Speaker 4: We're taking calls on Saturday, and we've got all I
Speaker 4: always love it when you take off and miscellaneous and
Speaker 4: insulation is the big show on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Okay, So home with Dean Sharp Saturday six to eight am,
Speaker 1: and then get insulated with Dean Sharp Sunday to noon.
Speaker 1: You can also follow Dean at Home with Dean. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Dean, Stay cool, you too. Ingmen, Let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Street racing and street
Speaker 1: takeovers in LA have continued despite the city's efforts to
Speaker 1: stop them.
Speaker 15: The infrastructure put in place to stop the takeovers has
Speaker 15: just pushed them to other intersections. LAPD Deputy Chief Don
Speaker 15: Graham says the illegal activities attruct people to LA because
Speaker 15: of the iconic backgrounds the city offers for social media posts.
Speaker 2: It creates more likes, it creates more adoption by other groups,
Speaker 2: and therefore it monetizes the process.
Speaker 15: The LA Department of Transportation told a city council committee
Speaker 15: this week it could expand its efforts to stop takeovers
Speaker 15: for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in downtown La.
Speaker 13: Michael Monks KFI news.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has joined state and local leaders in San
Speaker 1: Francisco to sign legislation he says puts more teeth in
Speaker 1: enforcing state laws on homelessness. Newsom says there's a shift
Speaker 1: away from nimbiism in cities and.
Speaker 6: The shift of understanding that state vision is realized at
Speaker 6: the local level.
Speaker 4: Localism is determinative, particularly as it relates to housing.
Speaker 1: The Seven Bills further incentivize cities and counties to build
Speaker 1: more affordable housing. The astronauts who took a ride to
Speaker 1: the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner should have been
Speaker 1: home in plenty of time for the November election so
Speaker 1: they could vote. But now Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams
Speaker 1: are stuck in space until February. That's when they're going
Speaker 1: to get a ride home. They'll still be able to vote, though,
Speaker 1: thanks to a bill passed by the Texas Legislature, in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven that allows astronauts to cast absentee ballots
Speaker 1: from orbit who they'll vote for. Still up in the air,
Speaker 1: It's Halloween time at Disneyland Resort. I know it's just September,
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Speaker 1: to the Disneyland Resort. I love Halloween Time at the
Speaker 1: Disneyland Resort. Hope you get to go experience it too.
Speaker 1: And like I said, be listening because we're going to
Speaker 1: give away a four pack of one day one park
Speaker 1: tickets to the resort. Ten police departments on UC campuses
Speaker 1: are going to be stocking up in case there are
Speaker 1: more protests on campus that get out of control like
Speaker 1: they did in the spring. The UC Board of Regions
Speaker 1: approve the request yesterday to buy drones, pepper bullets, sponge rounds,
Speaker 1: and other non lethal projectiles. The board says the purchases
Speaker 1: are routine and not because of the protests. Marquis Harris
Speaker 1: Dawson will be installed as the next LA City Council
Speaker 1: president today, is taking over for termed out Council president
Speaker 1: Paul Krekorian. Officials say he is going to be the
Speaker 1: leader of the fifteen member council that he'll worked to
Speaker 1: tackle homelessness, meet housing goals, and set policies for nearly
Speaker 1: four million Angelinos. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the
Speaker 1: SMP five hundred both closed at all time highs a
Speaker 1: day after the FED lowered interest rates by a half
Speaker 1: percentage point. The Dow gained five hundred twenty two points yesterday,
Speaker 1: closing at forty twenty twenty five. The SMP was up
Speaker 1: ninety five to twenty five hundred and thirteen. The NADSDAK
Speaker 1: also saw gaines, climbing four hundred forty points to eighteen
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen. Let's say good morning now to Jason Nathanson,
Speaker 1: ABC's entertainment guru. Morning Jason, stand by.
Speaker 8: I'm just checking my stocks to see how they did.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm like, do I have enough invested? You know,
Speaker 1: stocks are up like twenty percent this year.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic. It is actually going to take a look
Speaker 2: at my four long k and not cringe.
Speaker 1: Okay, just don't don't touch it. I've I was the
Speaker 1: long game. It's the long game, absolutely not. Ok So, uh,
Speaker 1: we're all about to stream this weekend, so get some
Speaker 1: popcorn and planned to stay in your jammys. Huh.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff coming out, so certainly on
Speaker 2: streaming that's come out this week and coming out today.
Speaker 2: One of the best of the bunch, I would say,
Speaker 2: is The Penguin on HBO and Max, which just started
Speaker 2: streaming yesterday, just one episode.
Speaker 8: One episode at the time. They're gonna they're.
Speaker 2: They're gonna parse it out, you know, like a regular
Speaker 2: television show.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: And it was originally just gonna be a Max show
Speaker 2: and then they moved it to HBO. I think because
Speaker 2: they felt, Okay, we've got something good here, and they
Speaker 2: do Uh. This is a spin off of the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two Batman film, which starred Robert Pattinson as Batman.
Speaker 8: Okay, you know we have we.
Speaker 2: Have many different things set in the Batman world right now,
Speaker 2: right we have Joker, we have Batman, we have other Batman.
Speaker 2: You know, there's uh, there's the Affleck Batman and Superman
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And you know this is all
Speaker 2: kind of different this one. If you remember, Colin Farrell
Speaker 2: played the penguin in the Batman and I didn't remember that, yes,
Speaker 2: and he wasn't a huge character and it certainly wasn't
Speaker 2: as cartoony as kind of Danny DeVito's Batman penguin characters
Speaker 2: in those Batman films and this one. So Colin Ferrell
Speaker 2: is back now and he's unrecognizable. You if you didn't
Speaker 2: know that he was in the movie, you wouldn't go, oh,
Speaker 2: that's Colin Farrell. And here in the makeup, like you
Speaker 2: cannot tell that it is him. And he does a
Speaker 2: really good job. And this is a very dark series.
Speaker 2: It's really it's a mob story. It's about you know, crime,
Speaker 2: families and things like that, and very very grounded in
Speaker 2: the world of Gotham. Kristin Meliotti also co stars as
Speaker 2: one of the heads of the crime family, and she
Speaker 2: and Colin Ferrell kind of go at it and they've
Speaker 2: got a great kind of back and forth. I really
Speaker 2: like their energy and their characters together. And this is
Speaker 2: also it's very.
Speaker 8: You can't help but at least I couldn't.
Speaker 2: There are Sopranos parallels here, but also Breaking Bad in
Speaker 2: that in Breaking Bad they delighted in putting their characters
Speaker 2: in situations you thought there's no way they're getting out
Speaker 2: of and then they get out of them. And they
Speaker 2: do this with the Batman as well, so or sorry
Speaker 2: with the Penguin as well. So I like what I've
Speaker 2: seen so far. It's also it's funny, it's quirky, it's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is. There's some very specific details that you have,
Speaker 2: like things about car air freshener and cilantro and and
Speaker 2: things like that, which I just I like those little
Speaker 2: things and they pay attention to those. So yeah, seven
Speaker 2: point six out of ten for me for the first
Speaker 2: two episodes, and I'm very interested to see where the
Speaker 2: Penguin goes.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, you know, the one thing I can say
Speaker 1: about all of the Batman movies and all the iterations
Speaker 1: of it is Gaffham is not a very pleasant place
Speaker 1: to live.
Speaker 8: It is night and it continues to not be.
Speaker 1: Another dark show that I'm hearing anyway, is the WandaVision
Speaker 1: spin off Agatha All Along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dark, but like in the Marvel way, Penguin is
Speaker 2: dark in the DC way, which is very dark and
Speaker 2: gritty and dirty, you know, the Marvel stuff is usually
Speaker 2: a little lighter, little quirkier. And that continues with Agatha
Speaker 2: All Along, which is a spin off from WandaVision, which
Speaker 2: was one of the first Marvel shows for Disney Plus
Speaker 2: a few years ago that really got a lot of
Speaker 2: acclaim and people really really liked. I never really got
Speaker 2: into it. I had I had problems with it. There
Speaker 2: was this whole show within a show, sitcom thing that
Speaker 2: they were riffing off of that they continue with Agatha
Speaker 2: All Along, which is it's based on Catherine Han's Agatha
Speaker 2: Harkness character.
Speaker 8: She's a witch.
Speaker 2: She lost her powers in the first show and this
Speaker 2: is her kind of trying to regain her powers.
Speaker 8: And I love Catherine Hahn, a big fan of hers.
Speaker 2: You also have in here Aubrey Plaza, Patty Lapone, so
Speaker 2: a really good, interesting cast.
Speaker 8: It's just not for me. And I'm not going to
Speaker 8: say that in a bad way or a good way.
Speaker 2: I'm just neutral on it. I know there's an audience
Speaker 2: for it, it's.
Speaker 8: Just not me.
Speaker 1: And did you like WandaVision or not?
Speaker 8: No, I guess see.
Speaker 1: And that's what I didn't like WandaVision either. I lost
Speaker 1: it after the first two.
Speaker 2: Episodes and same thing again, just wasn't for me, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm neutral on that. I'm neutral on this, but
Speaker 2: for me, it's just it's a little too much of
Speaker 2: the Marvel stuff. And I know they've said they're backing
Speaker 2: off on this, but you do have to know you
Speaker 2: definitely have to have watched WandaVision to appreciate this, and
Speaker 2: it's too much of the kind of side quest characters
Speaker 2: and things like that, and it continues that show within
Speaker 2: a show thing, although this is different that way. WandaVision
Speaker 2: was sitcoms and kind of a spoof and a riff
Speaker 2: on the sitcom world. This one starts out with a
Speaker 2: spoof and a riff of like true crime stories like
Speaker 2: Mayor Visa Town and things like that. But again I'm
Speaker 2: having a hard time getting into it. So five point
Speaker 2: zero out of ten. But that's for me. That's a
Speaker 2: neutral right in the middle, you know, didn't love it,
Speaker 2: didn't hate.
Speaker 1: It, Okay. And then there's a bunch of other things also,
Speaker 1: but we have to move over to theaters because there's
Speaker 1: a new animated Transformers movie. The trailer sucked. Is the
Speaker 1: movie any good?
Speaker 2: I didn't get chance to see it. It's eighty six
Speaker 2: percent on Rotten Tomatoes. People really like it. It's really
Speaker 2: it's an animated movie. It's an animated version of Transformers,
Speaker 2: which we haven't seen since nineteen eighty six. We've seen
Speaker 2: a lot of live action ones, but the animated hasn't.
Speaker 2: Really I don't know why they didn't make another animated
Speaker 2: film until now. And this is kind of it's goofy
Speaker 2: and it's quirky, and it has a huge voice cast
Speaker 2: of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree, Henry Scarlett, Johansson, Keegan Michael Key,
Speaker 2: John Ham, Lawrence Fishburne, and Moore. So really big names
Speaker 2: doing the voices here. And it's gonna make a bunch
Speaker 2: of money this week.
Speaker 1: And I think interesting because yeah, we went we went
Speaker 1: to a movie a couple weeks ago and we watched
Speaker 1: the trailer. We went with think Pauli o'channey, and we
Speaker 1: looked at each other afterwards, going, there's nothing appealing about
Speaker 1: this at all. So it's interesting that we both had
Speaker 1: that reaction to it. But it's getting good.
Speaker 8: Reviews, yep, getting good reviews, okay.
Speaker 1: And then, speaking of great reviews, one of the best
Speaker 1: shows of all time on TV, West Wing is celebrating
Speaker 1: twenty five years and one of your.
Speaker 8: Favorite shows, my favorite show ever.
Speaker 2: I've probably seen it all the way through all seven seasons,
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty six episodes, ten times, not joking
Speaker 2: completely all the way through.
Speaker 1: I'm that way with newsroom ten times.
Speaker 8: I hate the newsroom.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jason, we are like on polar opposite
Speaker 1: sides on a lot of this.
Speaker 8: Stu the newsroom gives me.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go back to West Wing, though, because you
Speaker 1: love that I do.
Speaker 2: And this is Aaron Sorkins's first television series, and you
Speaker 2: see threads of movies that he's done, including a few
Speaker 2: good men in the American President.
Speaker 8: In the newsroom, he likes to.
Speaker 2: Plagiarize himself and copy lines, and you see that all
Speaker 2: through the newsroom, but in the best way or sorry
Speaker 2: in West West Wing, but in the best way. The
Speaker 2: writing was so good, especially those first four seasons when
Speaker 2: it was just Aaron Sorkin. But it also it makes you,
Speaker 2: It inspires you, It makes you want to do better
Speaker 2: and go into public service. There are episodes about the
Speaker 2: estate tax and literally not about like people having sex,
Speaker 2: about the estate tax or you know whatever.
Speaker 8: You would think, would you need to make that interesting,
Speaker 8: but it's just the estate tax.
Speaker 2: And I just I loved, loved The West Wing and
Speaker 2: we'll probably never see anything like it again on broadcast television.
Speaker 1: Can we still see it? Is it streaming?
Speaker 8: It's streaming on HBO Max or Max.
Speaker 1: I might have to go watch it. You're gonna love this.
Speaker 1: I never watched The West Wing.
Speaker 8: Go watch it.
Speaker 2: It's great and you're watching and go, oh, yeah, the
Speaker 2: newsroom does suck.
Speaker 1: No, I love the newsroom. Jason Nathanson, Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: All right, take care.
Speaker 1: Hey, if you looking for something to do this weekend,
Speaker 1: remember when Casa Romantica closed because of the land side.
Speaker 1: It's opened and they're doing a big celebration. Where is
Speaker 1: my paperwork on this? They're doing a big celebration this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's their Toast to the Kasa. It's medieval inspired theme
Speaker 1: is Renaissance and it's happening tomorrow evening from five to ten.
Speaker 1: If you want to go out and see Costa Romantica,
Speaker 1: I gotta go down there, and it looks like it's
Speaker 1: going to be a good time. They're going to have
Speaker 1: aerial performers, nights on horseback. Fifteen different vendors are going
Speaker 1: to be out there, specialty cocktails, even ax throwing. But
Speaker 1: it's Casa Romantica, their annual Toast to the Casa. It's
Speaker 1: a fundraiser and looks like a cool thing to do. Also,
Speaker 1: Coastal Cleanup Day, the largest coast cleanup in the whole
Speaker 1: wide world. It's just a few hours of your day.
Speaker 1: It's tomorrow. It's going to be a beautiful day at
Speaker 1: the beach and it's going to be more beautiful after
Speaker 1: the beach cleanup. So you can find out a cleanup
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