You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI had KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy Kid. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Friday, April twenty sixth. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us. Today, got another busy one for you. Never a dull moment, and we're glad you're along for the ride.
As they say, do you have next Door? The next Door App? I have some friends who have had it, and I have resisted the temptation to get it because I thought it's just something else to be sucked into. And uh. I got an invitation in my neighborhood and they said, hey, you know, if you want to join, it's for our neighborhood and so you can know what's going on. And I thought, oh, that's a great idea. So I so I did. I got to get it
rid of this thing. Everybody just whins and complains and then there's like some weird men yelling on the street corner, and somebody's taking cats and shaving them, and somebody else stole a dog, and I mean it's like non stop. Every once in a while they go, hey, let's get together for a you know, a little meetup or something like that. But the like ninety nine percent of it is just weird stop and I kind of think I just don't even want to know. I want to live blissfully ignorant about that.
You thought you had a great neighborhood and then you had I do have a great neighborhood. I guess there's just a bunch of weird people. Yes, somebody is taking cats and shaving them, and so somebody said, will you quit shave the cats in the neighborhood. I'm like, what keep your cats inside their's coyotes. Anyway, I'm getting rid of next door. Here's what said on Wake Up Call. USC has canceled its main commencement ceremony.
The ceremony was canceled after the valedictorian was told she couldn't speak because of safety concerns over anti Israel social posts and almost one hundred arrest during pro Palestinian protests earlier this week. Graduation ceremonies for USC schools and colleges will go forward as planned. Metro's Board of directors has declared a public safety emergency following the death of a woman on the Metro B line and a series of violent attacks on
bus drivers. The Lakers are on the brink of being swept out of the playoffs by the Denver Nuggets for a second straight year. LA is down three games after losing one twelve one oh five last night. No NBA team has come back from a three to nothing deficit, but the Lakers are going to give it a shot tomorrow night. Does the President have absolute immunity? That's
what was argued before the Supreme Court yesterday. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to tell us all about it coming up in just a couple of minutes, and what's coming up in theaters and on the stream. We have ABC's Jason Nathanson to fill us in on that. Later this hour at six oh five, it's handle on the news. All State may be coming back to California and we'll start offering insurance policies. Again. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As I mentioned, USC has canceled its main stage commencement ceremony, which traditionally draws more than sixty five thousand people to campus. It was canceled after the school told the valedictorian she couldn't make her speech because of security threats and opposition from pro Israel groups.
USC schools and colleges will still have those individual ceremonies as scheduled, but the university says anyone attending those events on May eighth through the eleventh have to have a ticket and we'll need to enter campus through specific access points. Pro Palestinian protesters and supporters of Israel have shouted each other down at UCLA. Protesters set up tents on the campus and solidarity with protests at colleges across the country calling
for a ceasefire in Gaza. Demonstrators also want the schools to divest with companies that do business with Israel. A makeshift wooden fence has been set up around the tents at UCLA with handmade signs that say things like UCLA says Free Palestine and blood on the uc Hands. School officials say they're monitoring the situation to support a peaceful campus environment. Thela Metro Board of Directors has approved new safety
barriers to protect bus drivers. The decision to retrofit the bus fleet with strong barriers follows an increase in assaults on drivers, but the board also requested yesterday more details on how to better protect riders on Metro trains following the stabbing death of a woman on the B Line Sunday. Board member in La County, Supervisor Catherine Barger says law enforcement officers receive mixed messages from the board. We asked them to be at one point checkfairs. They wear a lot of different
hats, and then we'll tell them to stand down. The additional security report is due in sixty days. Michael Monks KFI News and Metro has extended it's Go Pass pilot program through June of next year. The program offers free rides for K through twelve and community college students. Metro's Board of Directors was unanimous yesterday and its decision to extend the program, which is expected to cost more than twenty three million dollars in the twenty twenty four twenty five fiscal year.
It is five seven on your wake up called time to say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, yesterday we talked about what could happen, So now the High Court has addressed whether the president has absolute immunity. So what did happen in court? Well, I think it's important as we talk about immunity to separate out what was really an issue, and that was the
question of official acts. And the key exchange with Justice Amy Cony Barrett between the Trump appointed justice and the Trump lawyer John Sower made it clear that even Trump's side acknowledges that some of the conduct that's alleged to have occurred in the leader to January sixth were private acts and therefore there's no immunity to those private acts. So it seemed to me that justices might be interested in figuring out a way to allow the January sixth case to continue. But where's the line
drawn? What is an official act? What is a private act? You know, how will it be decided? How long will that take? Could that then be appealed? So, you know, and setting Trump in the immediate question aside, what are the broader ramifications of the Court's ruling here and where will the line be drawn? As Neil Gorsich put it for the ages, not just for Donald Trump, but for all future former presidents and their ability to not have to worry about being prosecuted for what they might do officially
in office. Yeah, found it interesting that. Yeah, they were saying, this doesn't just affect Trump, this is for everybody. And then kind of and they went back too and said, you know what about this past president, what about what they did? And you know, how would that have been changed if he had complete or she had complete immunity? So do we get any sense of which way the justices are going to rule? Yeah?
I mean I certainly did. I mean, look, I could point to a clear majority of justices that were interested in figuring out a way to carve out official acts and say that there should be some immunity for official acts. Okay, but where the line is drawn is not clear, and I don't know that it will necessarily be specific. In fact, it might be intentionally vague, and it'll be up to the justices to set it, obviously,
But I think one thing it was interesting. You know, the Chief Justice John Roberts said yesterday that he was disappointed by the lower court appeals court panel that ruled three nothing that you know, former presidents are not above the law, and Trump can be prosecuted and that's the end of the story. And Justice Chief Justice Roberts said that it was a poorly reasoned opinion that was
essentially engaging in double speak. That and the legal term they used was tautology, which I had to look up, but basically it means saying the same thing twice. You know, he can be prosecuted because he's being prosecuted. And Justice Roberts to Justice Roberts was not impressed with that legal rationale, and it seemed to me a really good insight as to why the Supreme Court decided to take this case. It simply was not impressed with the legal rationale issued
by the lower court. It wants to set its own standard, its own rule. Exactly what that rule is going to be is not yet clear. Okay, well, we'll be watching for a decision. Thanks so much, Steven, have a great weekend, you bet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A jury will soon decide if a man murdered four people in southern California over a two
million dollars per year drug operation. Heres were told three of the men were set on fire in an suv, their skin melting, in front of a high school in Orange in the middle of the day. One guy was burned alive, prosecutors say. Also in twenty fifteen, Raoul Flores and others recorded themselves laughing as the fourth man bled to death in Fontana. The defense says the investigation was sloppy and the other men involved, who also had ties to
the Sinaloa cartel, were never found. Jury deliberations start Monday. In Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI news fire has damaged part of the ocean side Pier. It started in a vacant restaurant, the Old Ruby Steiner, yesterday at the end of the pier. It took fire crews about three hours to stop the fire from spreading, but burning was still detected under the pier. Cruz are set to assess the damage this morning. Oceansides mayor says the city will
want to repair the peer as soon as possible. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln has met with Chinese President Shijin Ping and senior Chinese officials in He warned of the dangers of misunderstandings and miscalculations. As the US and China have butted heads over a range of issues, we have an obligation for our people, and indeed an obligation for the world, to manage the relationship between our two countries
responsibly. Blincoln noted yesterday progress has been made in bilateral cooperation, including in military communications, counter narcotics, and artificial intelligence. She spread stressed that China and the US must seek common ground rather than engage in vicious competition. Harvey Weinstein's accusers and their advocates say they're shocked and angered by an appellate court's decision to overturn Weinstein's twenty twenty rape conviction in New York, but they say the
me Too movement has not been derailed. The appeals court yesterday overturned Weinstein's conviction on a four to three vote finding the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony based on allegations that were not part of that specific case. A high school principle in Maryland accused of going on a racist and anti Semitic rerant has been cleared. The police chief, Robert mcculli, says the principal was framed by an employee
who allegedly used AI to make the recording that went viral in January. Detectives alleged mister Darien, who was the athletic director at the high school, made the recording to retaliate against the principal, who had launched an investigation into the potential mishandling of school funds. Days on, Darien has been arrested for stalking, reckless endangerment, and disrupting school operations in some other crimes as well.
He denies making the recording, which sounds like the principal saying black students were unable to test their way out of a paper bag and that Jewish people and two teachers at the school should never have been hired. God made Sunday said it was good. It was good cot. Thousands of people have arrived in the desert for Stage Coach following two weeks weekends of the Coachella Festival. The country music festival in Indio starts today at noon. It goes through Sunday night.
Headliners include Eric Church tonight, Miranda Lambert tomorrow, and then You're listening to Morgan Wallen on Sunday. There have been rumors that beyond site. Beyonce might perform, but we're just confort to wait and see on that one. The Dodgers play the Blue Jays in Toronto this afternoon, with the first pitch going out at four to seven. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA Sports and stream all the games in HD
on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for All of LA. Pro Palestinian protests on the campus of UCLA are continuing. Following protests on the campus of usc several dozen protesters set up camp outside Royce Hall and are demanding that UCLA divest from companies tied to Israel, and they also want an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Israel Hamas War, along with suspension of study brought programs in Israel. The parent company of TikTok
says it has no plans to sell the social media platform. It denied a report it's looking at options for a possible sale. Just one day after President Biden signed a bill into law that calls for byte Dance to sell TikTok or face being banned in the US. Nearly three hundred music artists, including Billie Eilish, Jason Moraz, Dave Matthews, Cindy Lauper, and Duran Duran,
have sent a letter to Congress. They're asking for concert ticketing reforms. A letter to the lawmakers says the current ticketing system is broken and predatory resellers are siphoning money from both fans and performers. Yeah, and we're paying way too much for tickets. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. Cancel culture has hit USC. The university has canceled its main graduation ceremony. Let's say good morning to the editor in chief at Investopedia. It's ABC's calebs
Silver. Caleb, let's talk about the economy, which did not have a good quarter. Yeah. According to the first release of the GDP, that's gross domestic product for the first quarter, it rose at one point six percent. We were expecting something north of two percent. That shows that the economy slowed in the first quarter as we pulled back on spending on big ticket items.
You just meant mentioned concert tickets. Those are the types of things we weren't spending as much on in the first quarter as we were last year with Taylor and Beyonce on tour et cetera. But inflation catching up with consumers, especially on discretionary items. We're going to get a report here in about seven minutes on the personal consumption expenditures indext that's the FED preferred measure of inflation.
That really measures how much we spend week in week out as consumers. That's going to show that we're still north of the FEDS target of two percent, and that's why you're seeing this shake up in the stock market and elsewhere. Okay, so wait now, PCEE, which you're going to be getting in just a couple of minutes. That's how much we just spend in general, so that that shows us that's a measure of goods and services, how much we're spending on food, how much we're spending on air travel, et cetera.
The FED likes to look at this measure of inflation. It's going to meet next week on interest rates, it's not touching them because it does measure that economy more dynamically. We're a consumer spending driven economy and we've been spending, which has propelled the economy so far. We slowed down in the first quarter. The question is these high prices because of inflation that are going to
be with us for a while. Is that going to cause the economy to go even slower and potentially give us what we call stagflation, a slowing economy with rising prices. Okay, and then if the economy does finally start to slow down as it is in the first quarter, will it be more likely that interest rates would finally be reduced. Then yeah, the Fed would probably
then have to cut interest rates to jumpstart the economy. The Fed has been loath to do that because on employments been low, consumers have been spending. We have seen economic growth up until that first quarter. We're still growing just a lot slower than people thoughts with a soft landing. The FED has been trying to engineer by raising rates so aggressively a couple of years ago and in
all the way up until July of last year. That worked in bringing inflation down from nine percent, but it's still stuck around three especially for food and shelter, and that hurts lower income folks the most. So we're in this weird predicament right now where prices are still high and now the economy is slowing it's not what the FED wanted, right, And we're talking about the inflation not being as high as it was, but prices are still way up there.
How much have prices gone up, say, in the last couple of years. Yeah, they're at a three and a half percent annual rate, so especially for food prices, which really haven't come down. So the rate of inflation continues to grow, albeit at a slower rate than in July of twenty twenty three when it was at nine percent, or twenty twenty two and it was at nine percent. We all remember those days. Well, a lot of prices have stopped increasing as much. That doesn't mean they're going down.
We're not having deflation. We're just having sort of the sticky inflation around the things we spend on every single week, the grocery store, the gas station and rent and is it. I always we talk about this and I'm like, okay, yeah, it's sewing, but it still doesn't mean it's going down. Like you said, there's no deflation. So it was nine percent in twenty twenty two, then it's another three percent and another three percent, so it's overall prices are up twenty thirty percent. Yeah, some pre
pandemic prices are up over twenty percent, especially in some areas. Look at car insurance, Look at home insurance, right, look at rent prices. All of these prices are up significantly from pre pandemic days and they're not coming down. They're just growing at a much slower rate. Yeah, and if there were to be deflation, I mean, is there even a possibility of deflation or does that just not happen? Yeah? No, it happens when
consumers are tapped out and don't want to spend anymore. But we continue to spend, even though we're racking up record high credit card debt. Consumers continue to spend month in, month out. Sometimes we can't avoid it because we need the necessities. But at that discretionary spending, the travel spending, the concert tickets, a new peloton, that's what we're spending a lot less on, and that takes a lot out of gross domestic product because consumer discretionary spending
does power a lot of our economy. Okay, Well, I just know that I get mad every time I go to the grocery store. So I'm like, didn't that used to cost like twenty bucks and now it's like thirty or forty dollars. It's crazy. Yeah, it costs more and you get less. Yeah, I know. And everybody's doing that thing with the smaller packaging. I'm noticing it everywhere. Even my Cheetos shrinkflation. They're shrinkflacing your Cheetos and that's just not right. It's not Caleb Silver, thank you so
much for the information today. If you want to follow Caleb who's got all kinds of great information about the economy at Caleb Silver. Thanks again, thank you. A man from Indio is accused of stalking two girls in Morino Valley and trying to kidnap one of them. The girls were near Cactus Avenue and Paris Boulevard on Wednesday morning on their way to school when the man drove up next to them and tried to pull one of the girls into his car.
She was able to break free and run away. The girls gave police a description of the car, and the kidnapper was caught about an hour later. The alleged kidnapper. The FBI says it investigated ninety six in flight sexual assault cases last year, and agents say the offenders are typically men, with women
and unaccompanied miners being the majority of victims. The FBI Field office in LA has a special task force that handles these types of cases, and investigators say attacks generally happen on long haul flights when the cabin's dark and people are usually in middle or window seats, sleeping and covered with a blanket or jacket. Agents say passengers should be aware of their surroundings, especially if they plan to sleep on a plane, and don't be afraid to speak up if you see
something or experience unwanted touching. Steve Gregory kaya Finos. So we're getting closer to the cicada invasion of twenty twenty four. I know we've been talking about this, and the beauty of living in California is we don't get the cicadas. But so they're like locusty kind of things. They come out like every
thirteen years or every fifteen years. And they're saying that the reason it's a big deal this year is because two different they call them broods, two different groups of cicadas are going to come out at the same time, and that hasn't happened until like or since like the early eighteen hundreds, So they're usually staggered, and we're getting reports that the first of them have come out, but they they're not in full not bloom full force yet, but they're going
to be in more than a dozen states and in some of the big cities, including Chicago and Nashville and Saint Louis, and bug watchers say that they literally blanket the cities. I'm interested to see the video of all of this once they're kind of out in full force. And again, thankful that we are in southern California and we don't have to deal with the fi of flying bugs. They're saying that they're going to be billions or even trillions of the
flying bugs. And how can you tell when they're about to come out. Well, there's little little holes in the ground that look like little tiny chimneys and they pop up near tree roots and that's the signal that the periodautical cicadas will soon emerge from their underground layer. And the ground temperature has to hit sixty four degrees and that's ideal for them to come out. And then that's when the circada babies or their little nymphs is what they're called, they start
to come out. And then once they come out, they go find a tree trunk, they shed their little ex their outer skeletons, spread their wings, and then they spend the next four to six weeks in a noisy frenzy of eating, mating, and egg laying. And I was looking around, just doing a little quick Google search this morning of it, and in South Carolina, apparently the cicadas are so noisy that residents in this one city are calling police. They're supposed to be not harmful to humans, just very very
annoying. So beware. The circada cicada invasion of twenty twenty four is almost upon us. Former President Trump says the Supreme Court heard a monumental case about presidential immunity. On his way out of court yesterday in his hush money trial in New York, Trump said it is clear a president needs to have immunity to perform his job. Of course, that is up to the Supreme Court to decide. A fire has damaged the ocean side pier. Thick smoke was
billowing up from the pier yesterday afternoon. City fire officials say in addition to the peer, the now closed Ruby's Diner was damaged in the fire. The nineteen hundred and fifty foot long wooden sea pier is billed as the longest on the West Coast. USC quarterback Caleb Williams is number one. The Chicago Bears chose the twenty twenty two Heisman Trophy winner first in the NFL Draft. Former
UCLA defensive n Leatu Latu was selected fifteenth overall by the Colts. LA two was the first defensive player taken in the Shar's Draft at six oh five. It's handle on the news byte Dance says, it doesn't matter what Congress says, it's not selling TikTok at five point fifty, Tigers tennis, and John bon Jovi. ABC's entertainment guru Jason Nathanson has the scoop on all three. Right now, let's get the scoop from the host of Home on KFI,
Dean Sharp, on how we can do makeovers without breaking the bank. Good morning, Amy, Hi, I'm here, I hear them here, pregnant pause. I love that. So it's it's do it yourself. We've talked about di wires a lot, and you want to share with us some of the things that we can do to make our house a better, more lovely, newer, updated place. That's true, It's true. And spring just
seems to bring out DIY season. I don't know what it is. I think just people have been cooped up through the winter thinking, oh, you know, when the weather changes, I'm going to get out there and do this and that. And a lot of times people are planning things with big budgets and that's great and fine, but for the rest of us, we
would rather see large changes for you know, small change. Yeah, when it comes to money, right, and we were just talking with Caleb Silver from ABC about how you know that the economy is slowing down and that prices are so far up that people are kind of changing the way they use their discretionary incomes. So this might been a better time to talk about ways that you can do some stuff around your house and not spend a ton of money
exactly. So when you're talking about you know, there are different levels of approaching your home remodels, renovations. That's when you know, you really dig into the walls and you may completely replace fixtures and bathrooms and rooms. But I love a makeover. I love a good makeover, and a makeover it just so everybody knows it falls into it kind of its own category. It's
a lot of change in a room. It may be a full visual change in a space, but we're not moving walls, we're not cutting into stuff, and so as a result, we can get if we do it right, we can get a lot of change out of it with a minimal amount of financial investment. And it really is one of those areas where creativity is better than a big budget when it comes to a makeover. You just take the time, you get as creative as possible, and there's just so much
that you can do in every single room. A makeover could be something like in a bathroom, it could be, you know what, we're going to replace the toilet. We're going to replace it, or maybe we keep the toilet base and we update it. Maybe it's time to get a new seat on the toilet, Maybe it's time to add a bidet attachment to the toilet. Mirrors that used to be over the vanity. A lot of folks still living in houses where you know, in the nineteen seventies or eighties, the
whole wall over the vanity was just one big mirror. Now and that's you know, it's fine if that's your thing, if that's what you love, but if you really want to spruce the house. You start minimizing areas like that. I kind of approach mirrors. I tend to the same way that I approach hardscape on the outside, which is I come in and I remove
as much as possible. I want to keep what's necessary. So when you stand in front of your mirror, when you stand in front of your sink, you think about, well, how much of me do I see in this mirror? And how about the rest of the mirror. It's just reflecting the rest of the bathroom. So you can take that mirror off the wall if it's been clamped on. Sometimes it's been masticked on, and that could be difficult. But that mirror could come off the wall. You could have
it recut into a frame and replace it in front of the vanity. Now it's this beautiful framed piece as if it's hanging there, but it's still getting all the mirror work done. And then when you look at yourself, you're a beautiful framed picture exactly. You're just like a beautiful person in a portrait. Okay, can I ask you a question about the bathroom. You said something about replacing the seat. Sure, Why do residential bathrooms have round seats,
and why do commercial ones have horseshoe shaped seats? Seriously, I was thinking about it. I think about weird things sometimes and that was one of them. And I was like, Dean Sharp would know. Yeah, well, I mean it's not a pretty image, but you know, uh okay, So those horseshoe shaped seats are in order to eliminate the amount of pe that gets on the front of the seat for those individuals who don't lift it when they're standing up and we're talking men, men, thanks, But that's
really the reason for it. It really comes down to that. Yeah. Yeah, and at home, I guess you just deal with it, yeah, because you know, if you get too much moisture on the front of that seat, then they're going to be replacing it all the time. So that's what you know. Yeah, all right, let's get out of the bathroom. Let's go to the battle. Let's do that. Let's go to the bedroom. What are some fun little things you can do to make your
bedroom more updated. Well, here's something that that I always recommend and people are always shocked by this, but you know, changing there's like a fifty to fifty chance if you're living in southern California in a tract home, you have your windows in your home, the drywall just comes along, turns the corner and goes right into the window. There's no trim. Okay, in
about half the homes, there's no trim at all. Adding trim to a window in a bedroom or any room is such a way of elevating the room, and you don't have to tear into the wall at all, and you
don't have to replace the window. We're talking about adding a wood jam around the inside of that window where the drywall turns the corner and heads towards the window, and then some casing on the outside, maybe a sill and an apron with little ears on it. In other words, you can transform a very very boring, mundane window into something that's really a lovely piece as if it's an old world window without tearing up the wall, and with just a
few dollars worth of casing in trim boards and a little bit of carpentry nohow measure twice cut once. Okay, what about I like this one creating a feature wall. Feature walls are great. I always suggest this to people when they think about Listen, Dean, I've heard you and I want to go bold. I'll be gonna go bold, and me I love the color purple. I'm thinking about painting my room purple, and I'm like, no,
don't paint your whole room purple. But a feature wall. You pick a wall in a bedroom, quite often it's gonna be the wall that's behind the headboard of the bed, because the bed's kind of the star of the bedroom. You know what, Keep the room mellow, mild, calm, and then take a wall, go crazy, have a ball, have a party. You want a purple wall back there, go for it, and then decorate the things right in front of it, in this case, the bed
or so on, with things that correspond with that wall color. That way, you get this really contrasty top of color in a room without having to commit the room to turn into a strange colored cave. Okay. See, and those are just a couple of the things that Dean's going to be talking about as he discusses makeovers this week on Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI. And I'm looking at my list. See there's a lot of stuff
that he has to go through, so you it's a big list. We're taking both days Saturday and Sunday. We probably still won't get through it all. So if you're looking for an abundance side of ideas, this is the weekend to tune. Yeah, and the ones you gave us just now were great, So thank you Dean. And you can listen to Dean from six to eight am tomorrow morning and nine to noon on Sunday. He's talking makeovers on home. Thank you Dean. Thanks Amy. USC has canceled its main
graduation ceremony. It's because of pro Palestinian protests on campus and the controversy over not allowing valedictorian Osna Tabasom to speak at graduation because of her social media posts that apparently supported anti Israel views. Buying a home is more expensive than ever. A Redfin report says the median home price in the United States is now
over three hundred eighty three thousand dollars. That's a record high. Of course, it's a bargain in California because in LA, the median price for a home is more than nine hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Southern California has a couple of great bars. A recent report from North America's fifty Best Bars, ranked Thunderbolt in Los Angeles number eight on their list. Also in La Is Moraate it placed forty six. Two bars in San Francisco True Laurel and
Pacific Cocktail Haven ranked thirtieth and thirty eighth, respectively. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, drivers are being attacked at a pretty alarming rate. So what is Metro going to do about it? Bill's going to tell you right now, Let's say good morning to ABC's Jason Nathansen. Jason. New in theaters this weekend is Zndaya's new tennis movie. Yeah, Challengers is the new movie from Zendeia, And I thought it was any
No, it's Zendia. Notice and director Luca Guadoninho, who's known for twenty seventeen's Oscar nominated film Call Me by Your Name and some others. This is one of or was one of my most anticipated films of the year. Is actually supposed to come out last year but didn't because of strikes and other things like that. So really been looking forward to this and Zendea is now in
two of my favorite films of the year. She was one of the stars of Dune, which was Dune two, which was fantastic, and now Challengers, which is up there is one of my favorite films of the year. So Jason to Corn a tennis phrase, did you love it? Yes? I clearly loved it. Yes. So she stars here as Tashi Duncan,
who is a tennis player who's going to rule the tennis world. She's got all the she's got the whole package, right, She's got the attitude, she's got the skills, she's got the drive, and she's gorgeous and she's gorgeous. And as a junior tennis player, she meets the characters played by Mike Feist, who's one of the standouts of West Side Store, and Josh O'Connor, who you might remember from The Crown. He played an early teen
early twenties version of Prince Charles. In that Josh and Mike's characters. They're best friends. They have this really strong bond and a really great relationship and really great chemistry in the movie. And then Tashi enters the picture and things get a little bit complicated. The film jumps around in time from their early tennis days to about ten years or so in the future, when they're all
at various stages of their careers, professional and maybe not so professional. And tennis here is the backdrop for this film, but the movie itself is really it's all about love, ambition, sacrifice. It's really really funny, like laugh out loud for really, I didn't get that all show. It gets
a little uncomfortable at times, and I really like that. Also, the score here is fantastic, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doing this kind of eighties tinged eedm thing, which I you know, I I'll notice the score if it's good, but I'm not one who's particularly their years on the score in every movie. This score is absolutely fantastic. I loved this film nine point two out of ten for me, like I said, one of my favorites of the year so far. Okay, that is a glowing review. Now
I want to go see it on the stream. I'm living on a prayer hoping you're gonna say that you like the John bon Jovi documentary. Uh, well, let's see. Here's the thing. It's not that I didn't like it. And I know Michelle's gonna kill me because I know she's a huge bon Jovi fan. But yeah, stay out of Michelle's way for a while. No, I'm not gonna say anything bad about it because I don't want to incur her wrath. But this is a lot of bon Jovi. So
if you are a bon Jovi fan, you're gonna be in heaven. Oh okay, you're gonna love it. It's a the docu series on Hulu, Thank You good Night, The bon Jovi Story. It's broken up into four parts and it clocks in at about five hours or so of bon Jovi. So you really got to like the band in order to sit through that much bon Jovi. The It starts with an older John bon Jovi as he's getting ready for the bands. This was in twenty twenty two and they were doing
a fortieth anniversary tour. Twenty twenty three was their fortieth anniversary. His voice is not so good and he wants to As he says in the film, he never wants to be fat Elvis. He wants to know when to leave the stage right. He doesn't want to stay on too long, and he wants to He wants to give the fans what they want, and if he can't do that, he doesn't want to be on that stage. So he's going through some issues of that. That part is interesting, but a little
bit slow to me. What I really liked is the stuff that when you know, they go back and they talk to everybody and they look at the band's history and career. I really found that interesting. There's a great story about how they first got on the radio and how that helped them. So love those kind of stories, the older stuff, those stories. Although at one point John bon Jovi says, you know, we did all the things the other band did times to the sex and the drugs and all that kind
of stuff, but I won't get into the details. I'm like, well, why not talk about it? That's the whole point. So I wanted a little bit. I wanted I wanted to get into some of that, and then they get into you know, the friction and the band and all that kind of stuff as well. So again, if you are a big bon Jovi fan, you're you're gonna be in heaven. If you are a casual bon Jovi fan like me, you know, like I know slippery when wet, and I know the big songs on that and I can sing them
when they come on. But otherwise it was a little excessive bon Jovi for me, okay. And then there's Baby Reindeer, which producer and has been telling me that I've got to watch what is it? I need to watch it. Baby Reindeer was one of those shows that came out on Netflix two weeks ago on April eleventh, that we didn't talk about at the time because I didn't know about it at the time and nobody else did as well.
It wasn't one of those shows that had names that you were looking at that they were pushing necessarily, and it's become this phenom strictly by word of mouth. Basically, it's the truth. It's based on true story of Richard Gadd, who is the star and creator of the series, based on the true story of his own experience with a stalker. So he's a comedian and he quickly, pretty quickly in the show, finds himself the victim of a stalker
and how he deals with that and just how weird things get. If you're a fan of shows like The Beef or Beef and the Bear, which are kind of like really tense and have you on the edge of your seat the whole time, this might be for you. It has to me that same kind of tension in it, which I don't personally enjoy. I don't like too much tension and things. There's enough tension in real life. I watch
TV to relax. But it really it is a really interesting series and it's the number one series on Netflix again from Obscurity two weeks ago to the thing everybody's talking about. Isn't that kind of what happened with the Blair Witch Project, Like it was just this weird little movie and then all of a sudden
people started talking about it and then it became ginormous. Yeah, sure, absolutely, That's definitely one example of that over the years, and we've seen that happen, you know, a bunch of times with a bunch of these years, but specifically on Netflix, like movies like bird Box, which you know that had it did have Sandra Bull look in it, but it dropped out of nowhere and nobody really knew. A Stranger Things also is one of those shows, you know, not a huge gust, didn't really know most
of the people that are in it, and became a huge phenomenon. We just went to the Egyptian and saw in their gift shop they have all kinds of Stranger Things stuff. Oh cool, I'm looking forward to It's got one more season, right it does. They're working on that right now. Cool. All right, Jason Nathanson, thank you so much. Sure, thank you. Take it a great weekend, all right. But this is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from
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