KM five AM six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand on the iHeart Radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. Good Friday morning, everybody. This is your wake up call. It is July twenty one as well, and I'm going to bury the lead. Saw Oppenheimer last night and there were protesters and before going into the Chinese Theater down to Hollywood and after two during the critics. So at about
five oh five, ABC's Jason Nathanson is going to join us. He's ABC's film and entertainment critic. We're gonna talk about this weekend. It's Barbenheimer weekend. We have a lot of other fun stuff this hour too. We have a lot of heavy news, but we also have some fun news as well. So let's get into some headlines first. Then we'll check that traffic, and then we'll come back and talk to Jason about Barbie and Oppenheimer and some
other options we have this weekend. First, though, thousands more hotel housekeepers, dishwashers, cooks, bellman and others went on strike yesterday in La County. It's the third wave of labor disruption and we're gonna be talking about this at the top of Bill's show in about an hour. That's going to be our lead story. The suspected serial killer in New York is believed to have murdered his victims inside his own home. That is a development that happened overnight.
In the US State Department is warning that Russia may engage in false flag military operations in the Black Sea, so a lot of assets are on high alert in the Black Sea. Let's start with some of the other stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Newport Beach has approved the use of privately owned security cameras to record the public. Cameras would sit at the entrance of the Spyglass Hill community of three hundred and forty seven homes,
tracking cars coming in and out. HLA President Bruce Horne says there have been burglaries and people just won an extra layer of protection. Capturing vehicle license plates is not really an invasion of anybody's personal space, Horn said yesterday. Signs will be put up notifying people their cars are being recorded, and says the data will only be accessible by the Newport Beach Police. Chris Adler k FI News the La County Health Department has issued an ocean water use warning for multiple
beaches as temperatures continue to rise. The department says people who visit certain beaches should avoid swimming, surfing, and playing in the water due to bacteria levels exceeding health standards. The warning includes Topanga Canyon Beach, Malibu Lagoon, State Beach, and Mother's Beach in Marina. Del Rey, the attorney for a deputy scene taking down a woman outside a grocery store in Lancasters, says a
new video clears him of excessive force allegations. Tom Yu says County Sheriff Luna owes his client and apology because a video scene inside a Windco grocery store in July eighth shows the woman attack of security guard. First and his client simply responded to a nine one one call for a robbery in progress with an emergency code impossible weapons you, says Morale at the Lancaster station sucked. They are not happy with the sheriff and the sheriff is not going to stand up before
deputy. Bystander. Video shows the deputy tackle the woman to the pavement, with Luna calling it disturbing you says Luna should have had all the facts before throwing his client under the bus. Steve Gregory Kofine knows. A man has been sentenced to fifty seven years to life in prison for a shooting in Glendale that killed one person and injured a kid. The La County DA's office says the twenty three year old shooter targeted the person at El SAWA's sALS Tacos two
years ago. The shooter's accomplice was also charged with murder, but she pleaded no contest to an accessory charge and got two years of formal probation and a suspended three year prison term. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has announced a hearing about UFOs, officially called UAPs, the unidentified Aerial phenomena, will be discussed next week following claims from a former intelligence official that the US military found
a crashed alien spacecraft. Congressman Tim Burchett says, a lot of people don't want info on UAPs to be released. We've got a heck of a lot of pushback about this here, and we've had members of Congress who fought us. We've had members of the intelligence community and also the Pentagon, even NASA backed out on us. He says they're going to have witnesses who can speak frankly to the public about their experiences. We're gonna have more on this at
five fifty with ABC's Jim Ryan as well. All right, right now on Wake Up Called, ABC's film critic and entertainment reporter Jason Nathanson is on the line. We're gonna start this summer box office talk. It's rather big Midsummer weekend move for movies. Now, before I give it over to Jason,
throughout film history, mega opening coincidences have come up before. Right, We had The Matrix and The Ten Things I Hate About You, Ghostbusters and Gremlins came out on the same weekend, Jumanji and Heat, What Blade Runner and the Thing the Name? Just a few Jason, welcome back as always, Hey, good morning, Good a beer, Barbenheimer. I saw Oppenheimer last night. Which one do you want to start with? Barbiere Roppenheimer. It's
your show, you tell me, Let's go Oppenheimer. Then there were protesters out front when I went to the Chinese Theater at near Hollywood and Highland last night, and there were anti nuclear protesters out front and then during the credits, right when the credits began at the end of the film, they jumped out of the front couple of rows of the seats and put up a big sign, stuff, are you seeing anything like that anywhere else? Interesting?
I've never heard of anything like that. That's the first time I've heard of anything. And if you saw the film, you know it is not prone nuclear by any stretch of the imagination. It goes into the very complicated relationship that Robert Auben Ironer had with the work that he created, and that's kind of the central basically plot of the movie is he did this thing, and he thought he did this thing for the right reasons, but then struggled with
the thing that he created and the horror that it created. UM. And you get to kind of see that the effects that that's had on him as a as a person, UM, and also those around him as well, UM, and also society. How he was built up to be this hero and then we tear our heroes down. UM. That that's a lot about
what this is about. So it's interesting to see that. UM. I wonder if the people who saw who actually were in theater and saw it recognize that, right because this movie deals with all of it, and by the way, deals with it in a brilliant way. Uh. It is the first definite Oscar nominated movie that I've seen so far this year that I guarantee you will be nominated for Best Picture. Uh. Killian Murphy, who stars and is a usual in the Christopher Nolan group from Inception to Dark Knight and
more. He's always part of the mix. He stars here. The movie is all basically on his back uh and on his face. Lots of close ups on his face. Yeah. Um hell again his first Oscar nomination for this for Lead Actor. UM. One of the bigger surprises for me, and this was Robert Downey Junior, who is fantastic is Lewis Strauss, who is the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, a backer of Oppenheimer and a very central figure in this story. H Robert Downey Junior shows another gear I
didn't quite frankly realize that he had. After years of Iron Man and things like that, you forget just how good an actor. He is. Um, he will. He will also get an Oscar nomination for this. Um. And then you have Matt Matt Damon, who's great in a very small part Um Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh, who who are are fantastic. They're trying very hard with the limited stuff that they're given. If there is you know, some some things to nitpick about the film is that the female stories
in there don't really have a whole lot to do. Um but this is focused on Oppenheimer. Is the name of the movie is UM and so. And I'm guessing if you saw it at the Chinese Theater, you saw it in Imax. Yes, seventy millimeter Imax, which is the if you have the chance, and we're very lucky here in Los Angeles we have two theaters showing it in seventy millimeter IMAX at the TCL Chinese Theater and also at Universal. There are nineteen of these theaters in the US that can show this format.
This is the biggest, the best, the highest resolution. So if you can see it in those, I would highly recommend it. If you can't see those, because I think those most of those screenings are probably sold out at this point. See it in IMAX and then go from there. I don't think you'd be disappointed either way. But if you can see it in seventy seventy millimeter imax. You have a rare chance to see it in
the best possible way, and it is stunning. I saw only two open seats, and you know how big that theater is, so yes, as mean a thousand friends. I came away from that just like you Killian mirth Murphy's face. I decided I would pay to watch him yawn. At this point, Um, I guess we need to switch over to Barbie. No, actually, stay here for just for a second, Appenheimer in seventy millimeter.
I thought that the film craft of Nolan came out because this is more of a linear, somewhat linear kind of narrative than than we're used to like someone, It's not inception, it's not tenant, correct, I mean, and it's still because it is a Christopher Nolan movie. Um, there were points where I was confused. Um, don't don't get me wrong. It does get in there. It is not just a straightforward biopic, because that would not be something Christopher Nolan does. He does play with time. They
go back and forth in things. Um, that's not overwhelmingly confusing, though you know where you are. Um, it just goes back and forth between several hearings that happened involving Oppenheimer, the beginning of them forming the Manhattan Project, and the recruiting of him for that. He is, you know, growing up in physics, in theoretical physics, and deciding what path he wanted to take. Uh. That that doesn't happen in a straightforward way, but
it's not generally confusing for the most part. Um towards the end, and some people have pointed this out as a little bit of a negative. It is three hours long. There are parts that we're probably it could have been trimmed down a little bit, but for me, I wasn't. I was in no way sitting there looking at my watch going okay, yawning at any point because the time is used very very well. Uh. And like you said, the craft of Christopher Nolan as a filmmaker really shines through in this.
I got you for another minute. So we're looking at okay, So everybody says, see Oppenheimer and then Barbie, let's talk about long that biopic? Really okay? So yeah, if you're gonna see both, if you're gonna do the double feature, I would say Barbie first and then Oppenheimer. After seeing I mean, I don't know if you agree with this. After seeing Open Timer, I could not see another movie that would I would need. I would need a stiff drink and a nap. Probably I'd rather than
go into a theater and watch something else for two hours. As as delightful as Barbie is, which it is living up to all the hype, both of these movies, by the way, very very hyped and living up to it, which is also very rare. Barbie is very funny, It is self referential, is very meta in a very smart way. Greta Gerwig, who directed and co wrote, she really knows what she's doing. Margot Robbie as Barbie is fantastic. Ryan Gosling is ken kills it. They're talking about
Oscar and the supporting actor Oscar nominations for for Ryan Gosling. I don't know if that's the case necessarily, but I could really see this script getting nominated for an Oscar and this talk about packed screenings. Almost every preview that I and I went to see this last night in the theater, almost every preview in my area in the San Fernardo Valley area was packed, starting at three o'clock on with hordes of mostly women in pink outfits, laughing over the top,
having a great time. So I think that it's the projections are maybe one hundred million dollars for this weekend. I think it's going to be much higher than that. ABC's Jason nathan'son always a pleasure. Thanks for helping us start wake up call with a great conversation. Sure they take are The Democratic led Senate Judiciary Committee is advancing a Supreme Court ethics bill. There are no reports of injuries. After mechanical issues forced an Alaska Airlines flight to make two
unscheduled landings in Sacramento. The flight from LA to Seattle was diverted to Sacramento yesterday afternoon. The plane was clear to continue on to Seattle, then the issues resurfaced and it turned around and came back to Sacramento. At this rate, Mammoth Mountains ski season could run into the coming winter. Yesterday, the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area announced it will stand its season through August the sixth. That tacks an extra week onto the previous closing day, which is impressive.
At five thirty ish kfis, Dean Sharp is going to join us live for our Friday feature with Dean. Dean, of course, is the house whisperer. He's also a cool cat with relatable, actionable DIY advice for you and your real property. We're going to dig into his toolbox at the bottom of the hour. Right now, it's been one week since that relatively new summer feature Amazon Prime Day. Now other online vendors like to offer deals around Prime
Day when a lot of people are shopping online. So we have Vivek Pandia with us. He's the lead analyst at Adobe Analytics. That's the firm that does the deepest dive into digital data, and we're going to see how online sales are helping keep the recession at Bay as well. Vivec, thank you for joining us again. And I think we should just start with the headline number. We're about eight or nine days after Prime Day. That goes over two days for some reason, but anyway, we're out of Prime Day.
You're you have the Adobe Analytics, you have all the data. I'll get out of the way. You tell us what happened. So we saw a great amount of momentum happen over the two day Prime and Day events. We saw about twelve point seven billion dollars spent over the two days. That's about six point four the first day, six point three the second day, and that amounts to about six point one percent growth over the two days over the
last year's Summer Prime Day events. So a lot of strong spending driven by pretty competitive discounts both from Amazon but also a lot of the other retailers that get into this space. You've got a lot of retailers who want to offer their own promotional discounts to promote their own loyalty programs, and that's why we
see the uptick in online spending that we did last week. So this thing seems to have its own gravitational force, is what I'm hearing it has, like other competitors to Amazon want to flood the zone because everybody is looking online to buy stuff. That's exactly right. It's really performing like one of those holiday season online shopping days. We see the daily spend kind of in the range of what we see spent on like a daylike Thanksgiving where the discounts are
very strong during that period and Thanksgiving, Black Friday. All that is just seeing a lot of holiday shopping momentum. So we've really see that built out during the summer where consumers are looking to get really good value. They're looking to spread across a lot of different categories to really maximize their budgets in this sort of macro inflationary environment, and then also try to get a headstart on
back to school shopping. You know, most kids are going back to school in August and in early September, so Prime Day is serving as a good venue to make sure deals and discounts are taken advantage of. There. Before I move on to a macroeconomic question, let's just stay here. What other categories did you see increases in sales for? So we saw a really strong list in electronics, that's really the category that's been pretty dominant for Prime Day,
but we also saw toys do well. In good furniture, they all really were able to drive lifts in the double digit range, and that put them in seeing increases within the range of fifteen to almost up seventy six percent. When we think about stationary and office supplies, and that kind of gets back into or as mentioning earlier around back to school shopping and how consumers can really stock up on those gills. All right, now, one more minutia
question what about mobile shopping? Are people buying more through the app? Are we getting more comfortable with smartphone shopping? Smartphone shopping remains pretty heavily utilized, especially over the prime day event. We didn't see the activity kind of usurps what we see during days like Christmas and Thanksgiving during the holiday season, where
we see smartphone shopping it clips over fifty percent. Here, we still saw it written the range about forty five percent, But that's quite strong and quite important because retailers are advertising these promotional sales, trying to make everyone aware about prime event fields, and they're doing that primarily through these apps and social media
channels things like that. So it's very important for them that we see consumers both seeing and becoming aware of the event through advertising on smartphones, but then also closing in the deal, locking in the spending on smartphones, and making sure consumers are more comfortable spending on bigger and bigger ticket items on smartphones, because that's the device that's become ubiquitous and which was seeing and driving the retail
growth. Right consumer activity being about two thirds of the American economy, it's good that we're savvy and know how to purchase our things, from our smartphones or from anything else too. Vivek, let me ask you a quick question about Adobe Analytics before I ask you the final macroeconomic question. Adobe Analytics, your data is verifiable, It's very trusted. I've used it for at least ten years on several shows that I've done. Tell me out of your I've
never asked this question of anybody official at Adobe Analytics. What's your methodology? What's your mission statement there? So we have a phenomenal data set that is driven by Adomi Analytics, which is a platform that supports e commerce experiences and websites for over thousands and millions of products. And what we see is about
trillion visits being processed through our Adobe Analytics platform. And so we have an aggregated, anonymized data set that profiles some of the top retailers around the world, retailers of all shapes and sizes, and that allows us to have a really authoritative view on how online shopping is doing on a day to day basis outstanding. So that helps te up this last question, which is we started with Prime Day. We've talked about your access to data and spending data.
Let's talk about consumer activity up till now when it comes to e commerce, what are we seeing? Because the reason I ask is recession seems to be fading into the distance or farther and farther out because of retail activity and consumer
spending. I'd like to get your take on it. It's a great question because from our perspective and how we've been looking at it through the year, we've seen online shopping growth in the sort of lower single digits because essentially we had waves of heavy online shopping through those pandemic heavy years of twenty twenty and
twenty twenty one. Then in twenty twenty two, we saw gas and fuel prices increased, travel prices increase, and that really was impacting other sectors like retail shopping, and we saw consumers pull back a bit in terms of how much they're spending, and that growth momentum has really subsided where we saw the growth kind of tick back. And you know, essentially, when we think about what consumers are spending and how frequently, what we want to see is
double digit growth. We'd like to see between ten to twelve percent growth each
year, and that what we would see pre pandemic. Now where we are now is we're in the sort of three to four percent range in terms of online growth, and we see an over indexing in terms of performance on these sort of promotional sales days like Memorial Day, July four, President's Day, and then the Prime Day event was a great example of it, which is when consumers feel like it's a more favorable pricing environment, they'll over index they're
spending. Now, what we'll be hoping and looking closely at moving forward is seeing if we can get non seasonal offseason online retail growth to sort of tick up as consumers become a bit more confident with the more global economic outlook, so that we can kind of get back more into a normal online growth trajectory. Vivec always a pleasure. Thank you so much for contextualizing what it can be a massive amount of data. Very much, appreciate your time. Absolutely
great to talk to you, based and thanks so much. That was Vivic Pandia. He's the lead analyst at HANCHO at Adobe Analytics. Adobe constantly monitors online sales. I do have a little bit more recession news out this morning. The probability of a US recession in the coming year has declined. This is according to an internal memo from Goldman Sachs as recent economic data is signaling
that bringing inflation down to an acceptable level will not require a recession. That's according to research economists there say a twenty percent chance of recession in the next twelve months. That's down from an earlier projection of twenty five percent. US economic activity remains resilient, of course. GDP's going to come in again fairly soon for the quarter, and it's going to be a little bit below trend,
but still strong. And the inflation data has also been encouraging. The Biden administration has gotten voluntary commitments from top AI companies to implement responsible development of the technology. The White House announced today that seven top AI companies have committed to managing the risks posed by artificial intelligence. A Nebraska teenager who used abortion
pills to end her pregnancy is going to jail for ninety days. Nineteen year old Celeste Burgess was sentenced yesterday after she pleaded guilty earlier this year to illegally concealing human remains. The nation's second largest teachers union says it's fed up with social media's impact on students. Do you hear that TikTok. The American Federation of Teachers said yesterday it was losing patience with social media apps that it says
are contributing to mental health problems and misbehavior. Niece Zoe, if you're awake looking your way, ABC's Jim Ryan joins us Live to talk about a house oversight committee that will deal with what we used to call UFOs. Now they're called UAPs, at least officially. Jim's going to explain it to us right now. I wake up, call though, let's talk with Kafi's house whisper
Dean Sharp. Mister Sharp continues to build his legacy of not only revamping, renovating, and updating Southern California's housing stock, he's retooling his toolkit this week. Good morning, Dean legacy, nice word, legacy, revamping, renovating, and I couldn't come up with a third for alliteration. Work on it, okay, essential Homeowner's tool Kit. I took this home. We have we have a print out here of some of the nice color photographs and things.
I have a couple of follow up questions. I'm gonna let it you lead, though, Where do you want to start with? And why did you build this list. Well, you know, I get a lot of questions all year round about, hey, you've gotten us so excited about taking care of our homes that we're not exactly sure what kind of tools should we
have here in order to do that, just so that we're ready. And you know, a few years ago, I did a quick little YouTube video using a bucket and a bucket tool organizer, and I threw in a bunch of tools and I said, there you go. But I realized, wow, it's a little bit out of date right now, just because for pricing purposes at least, and I thought, you know, it's time to redo that. Essentially, I want to do a whole show on it. So
I put together what is this year's essential homeowner toolkit? Now, this is not specialty stuff. It's not project oriented stuff like, for instance, it's not all your paint supplies, and it's not gardening tools, and that this is a group of tools that if you have them on hand, you're pretty much ready to take on any maintenance challenge you've got at your home. Okay, that's fair, because it was one of my questions, like, was there anything exotic? On this? So this is this is your this is
your basic go to. Got to have this around either in the garage or on the patio or something so you can get to it. I dig it. Okay, now we're kind of essentially done. You mentioned okay, you mentioned a bit of pricing. Just real quick. We just did an interview with Adobe Analytics about Prime Day. Do prices really vary on tools like this that for the essential toolkit? Well, they don't vary too much. I mean like a two for one sale. There's not like a bogo on hammers,
right, yeah, usually not, usually not. I mean you're gonna find things on special at times, especially at big boxes or at the heart Wear store. But genuinely speaking, prices are pretty standard when it comes to tools. It's really a question of quality level, how much you want to invest in a tool. And I always say, you know, I don't want you to break the bank, but I want you to buy one tool, buy it right, buy it once, and hang onto it for a
lifetime. So I want you to buy the best tool that you can afford. And I want to dispel this myth. I always go out of my way to say this, There is no such thing as homeowner grade tools and professional grade tools. There are only good tools and bad tools out there, and I want you to buy good tools. Very cool. Okay, so if you see that, it might just be a branding gimmick or something exactly. Okay, I took this, Like I mentioned, I have this nice
print out, and I know your show up this weekend. We're gonna be listening to that too. But I took it home. The wife does the vast majority of the stuff around the house. Vers we're by the way, we are addressing our herdscaping thanks to you, And she pointed out the stuff finders. They're not terribly reliable, according to her. What's your take,
Well, stud finders are tricky no matter what they just are. We have not, you know, we have not arrived at the Star Trek future where we can get out the tricorder and just basically see inside the wall seamlessly. We really haven't. But if you learn to use a studfinder, and you know, what you've got to do is a really good studfinder will give you clues, strong clues as to what's going on inside the wall, not anything fool proof. You got to use your brain and you got to learn how
to use them. And the funny thing about studfinders, Jason, is that studfinders can range. Now, I think I put on the list here. I showed a like a Bosch studfinder that we use quite often. It's about one hundred and fifty bucks. But and it's a really good one. I
mean, it's got good sensors and it's a pretty smart studfinder. But you can go as basic as a ten dollars studfinder, which is nothing more than a magnet polarized magnet sit on a swivel, and they are incredibly efficient if as you're moving across the drywall, the magnet studfinder locates the drywall screws, the heads of the drywall screws, and thereby tells you here we go, we found a drywall nail or a drywall screw. Therefore there is a piece
of wood behind it. And so it's really it's really all about using your brain and understanding that a studfinder is not there to give you an absolute truth, but hints, Okay, it looks like number eleven and twelve on here soft grip pliers, vice grip pliers. It seems like something that somebody basic like me might be able to use in a pinch what's the difference between those
two, Well, vice very different. Actually vice they're both plus which means and by the way, the definition of pliers are something that is designed to not fit around a nut, something that has already been designed to have a wrench to remove it. So pliers are for rounded shapes generally speaking, that need extra grip in order to really get a hold of them. Vice gripts
are exactly what they sound like. They can be adjusted and then snapped onto like a pipe so that they are really I mean they are grabbing harder than you can grab with your hand, squeezing down. That's the idea of a vice gript player. Soft grip pliers are something that's relatively new, especially to homeowners. They're like, well, what are you talking about. They are essentially kind of a channel locking plier with a rubberized coating on top of the
jaws. And soft grip pliers have a very specific purpose. That aviator that you've got in on your faucet at the end of your faucet that sometimes need to be changed out or faucet sets themselves, something that has an attractive finish, a finish on it that a pair of pliers and those metal teeth will scratch. That's what soft grip players are all about. They enable you to remove finished plumbing fixtures without scratching them. All right, Speaking of legacy,
I like legacy design stuff. The most elegant thing I see on here is the nail polar. But I've never used one, and it looks kind of dangerous. It looks almost like a weapon. Well, a lot of these tools actually look like a weapon to kind of think of it. Anyway. The nail pollar, that seems like something that hasn't changed a designed in the past one hundred and fifty years or so. How much is that going to run me? It's going to run you about twelve bucks. And yes,
you could use it as a weapon. I do not recommend it as such. But yeah, nail polars. This nail pollar actually has changed its design in the last twenty years or so. I think they're they're being made better than ever now. They've got this nice ninety degree end on them. But you know, a nail puller is what it is. It's got to have a couple of wedge shaped prongs at the end that can slide up underneath the head of a nail and then essentially give you some leverage to get that nail
head exposed, and the cool thing is on the one side. You would typically use the straight side to actually catch the nail head and get it lifted above the wood, and then you would turn around and use that ninety degree side as your major leverage point with its own fulcrum built into it, and pull the nail all the way out. It seems like the tool manufacturing space is probably pretty crowded, But is there a branding opportunity here for Kfi's house
whisper Dean Sharp to have his own line of tools? Oh gosh, I hope not. I really do. No. Now, I'll tell you why. You know. I am just there are such great tools out there, and you know, if a major tool manufacturer wants to come along and say, hey, Dean, here's a bunch of money, would you put your name on our tools? Sure, sure, I'd say yes. But why would they need to do that? They really don't. I will tell you
this though, Jason. When it comes to brand names, okay, yeah, I encourage people, especially when they're buying battery powered tools, try and think of buying into a really good brand name family. Okay, like Milwaukee, MKDA, Dawalt, Bosh, something like that, because you'll end up saving money down the road. A lot of tools use the same batteries. And so let's say you decide, all right, I'm buying this drill gun,
it's going to be a Milwaukee drill gun. Well, the next cordless tool that you buy, if it's a Milwaukee, will very likely use the same battery, which means you can share batteries and chargers and you don't have to repeat that cost. You can hot swap exactly. Very cool. Kafi's House Whisper Dean Sharp. Dean remind us one more time when the show airs Saturday morning six to eight. This tomorrow morning, we're actually going to be
talking about how to take a best advantage of small bases. And then Sunday's show nine to noon, we're going through the entire Essential Homeowners Toolkit. Very cool. That's the one I usually catch, Dean, thanks a lot. If I don't catch it that, I always get it on the iHeartRadio app. You're familiar with that, right, yes, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever your favorite podcasts are found. Home with Dean Sharp, you can catch all of our episodes there, Dean, I'll catch you next
Friday. Thanks a lot, Thanks Jason. A couple of quick headlines before we get into the next segment. A kid in Kern County has made it to round two of the Kids Mullet Showdown competition at the USA Mullet Championships. Zeric Rayale of Ridgecrest started growing his mullet in twenty twenty one after a classmate was diagnosed with cancer. He says when it gets long enough, he plans
to donate his hair two wigs for kids. And the Chino Valley School Board has approved as approved a policy that requires staff to notify parents in writing if a student as to identify as a gender different than what it is on their birth certificate. The notification also applies to students who request a pronoun change or to be called by a name that is not listed on official school records,
or if they asked to use a different restroom. When we come back, ABC News veteran Jim Ryan is going to be on wake up call to help clarify between UFOs and UAPs and why a House subcommittee wants to get under the hood on unidentified things that fly through the air yesterday, more than ninety million people lived in areas that experienced dangerous levels of heat. Forecasters warn the heat dome is expanding over Texas, and of course, the Southwest triple digits could
drag well into next week and beyond. I saw some forecast into August. In Phoenix, temperatures have stayed above one hundred and ten for the past twenty one days, and the tarmac an asphalt in Las Vegas one hundred and forty four degrees. A tornado in North Carolina might be contributing to a drug shortage in the US. An e F three tornado plowed through the town of Rocky Mount on Wednesday, causing considerable damage to a Fiser facility there that makes nearly
twenty five percent of the company's sterile injectable drugs. Russian missiles reportedly hit grain terminals in southern Ukraine's Odessa region for the fourth night in a row last night. The regional governor said, however, the tax the attacks appeared less intense than over the three previous nights. Now it is five fifty three on your wake up call. ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan is on the line with US. The House Oversight Committee is going to hold a hearing next week on Unidentified
Anomalous phenomena. That's a somewhat new acronym, I think. Welcome back to Jim. Yeah. UFOs that's what we know them on does and have for decades. Right. Yeah, you've probably never heard of Jason of the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office the aa r O. That's the office deep within the Pentagon that's in charge of resolving these sightings or these reports, the All Domain
and Only Resolution Office. Well, next week the House Oversight Committee is going to bring some people on board to witnesses, to testify about what the A has learned about all these UAPs unidentified anomalous phenomena going back to the nineteen forties, eight hundred reports, eight hundred different sightings or reports. And these are not civilians. These are eight hundred military reports filed by people who are considered
generally good, solid witnesses to things like this. That the goal here, according to the lawmakers on the House Overside Committee, to buipartisan panel, by the way, is to get to the bottom of it, to see exactly what the Pentagon knows what it doesn't know. The chairman of that committee of Tennessee. He says that we're not going to bring forth flying saucerers and little green men. But Tim Burchett says he wants to try to get to the
bottom of what the Pentagon has learned about all these reports. Well, okay, you mentioned it goes back to the forties. We've only had drones in the sky for the consumer levels for like last ten or fifteen years. I'm sure the military had more experimental models, But what is overall what's driving this interest all of a sudden. That's a good question, and that's what I've
been trying to answer all morning long. It's why now? And I think, you know, he goes back to perhaps what we've seen in the last ten or fifteen years. The Pentagon has sort of released or declassified some of the video that has been captured by military personel that that Navy, the Navy fighters that we're flying off the coast of Florida and captured video of something they couldn't explain. Then it's fascinating and it's captivating, and you know why,
it's an interesting question as to why now. And it may be that there's just a taste now in Washington to get away from scandal, get away from you know, insurrections, and away from budgets maybe for just a short time and talk about something that that is a little lighter perhaps, well, you
know, but the Pentagon doesn't consider it light. And what we may see, Jason, is kind of a tug of war between members of Congress and members of the Pentagon over what can and what should and what shouldn't be released. Yeah, that might be the pressure point. It seems like I think you're right on the political side. It seems like when you have anything that says bipartisan in it, that means like everybody's trying to take up a little
bit of a breather maybe from the news cycle. How are they setting expectations for this though fairly low? I think, you know, as much as Tim Burchi at the Tennessee chairman of this. And by the way, his quote is fantastic. We're going to get to the bottom of that, Dad Gummet. That's his precise quote. He says there's a cover up. That's his word of all of this. But again, I think the Pentagon has an interest in withholding some stuff because the suspicion is that, Okay, you
know, Is it stuff from outer space? Maybe? Maybe not? Could it be something is more likely that it may be a foreign government and a foreign military that's testing out equipment and technology. That's probably more likely, and the Pentagon doesn't want that out. Yeah, that's fair too. You're right about the folks he isms the Dad Gummets. I saw that yesterday. Also yesterday, Senator to Kennedy said Jackaloon in a Senate hearing. So what's going
on in Washington? Yeah? I know right, Maybe maybe it's just the summertime. I think it's the heat is getting to everybody. Jim ABC's Jim Ryan, Right, They're always great to hear from you. Jim, Thanks a lot. We'll talk to you next week. Have a good weekend. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Too Much City singer Tony Bennett has died just two weeks short of his ninety seventh birthday. His publicist says Bennett died in his hometown of
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