Groundhog Day

You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app Friday, February second. I'm Amy King. Thanks for starting your Friday with us. And it is as I mentioned, February second, Morning Up to see the Groundhog. Yeah, I think it'll be an early spring. Didn't we do this yesterday? I don't know what you mean. No, don't mess with me, poor job. What day is this? February second? Groundhog day? It is? And Punk Satani film

has come out of his den and did not see his shadow. According to lore, that means an early spring. That, of course, is if Phil is right, and Philo is only right thirty nine percent of the time, of course. The big ceremony in Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania. What a great name for a town. I was talking to our editor this morning. I was like, why do we even do this? He doesn't even have a two out of five accuracy record. Because it's fun and there's not enough

fun right now. Tony doesn't agree. He's like, I don't care, Just let me go back to sleep. No time to go back to sleep. It's time to get your day started and here's what's ahead. On wakeup call. A second atmospheric river is headed for California. This storm is expected to be even stronger than the one that just rolled through. The storm could bring three to six inches of rain in the valleys and coastal areas. Yeah, you heard right, three to six inches, and the rain is expected

to fall Sunday through Tuesday. For this particular storm, six to twelve inches as possible in the mountains. President Biden and the First Lady will join the families of three US soldiers killed in a drone attack in Jordan when their remains are returned to the US today. The remains are expected to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. A bar in San Francisco's gearing up for its big Super Bowl party, but guess who's not invited forty nine er fans.

Buzzworks is only allowing Kansas City Chiefs fans to watch next weekend. The bar in the Soma neighborhood has been a chief's bar for years, and the owner says he wanted this to be an exclusive event. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. President Biden has signed an executive order to sanction some Israelis. We'll tell you what that's all about. Let's start with some

of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Heavy rains have caused some flooding and other damage in southern California, including a mud slide in Rancho Palas Verdes. It left dirt, water and debris on palas Verdi's Drive yesterday, forcing it to be closed for a while. Flooding also affected parts of the McClure Tunner Tunnel in Santa Monica, a railroad underpass in Long

Beach, and part of the seven ten Freeway in Orange County. Streets in Seal Beach were underwater, and a stretch of PCH was closed in Huntington Beach. Another stronger storm is expected to move in Sunday. A man allegedly armed with a machete he's been arrested after barricading himself inside a home in Canyon Country. The standoff yesterday lasted more than five hours, A school was locked down and several homes were evacuated as a precaution. The guy was finally arrested shortly

before nine last night. Two men suspected of tagging an unfinished high Rise near Crypto dot Com Arena in downtown La have been arrested. The LAPED says a helicopter crew saw more than a dozen people in the building on Tuesday, trespassing and possibly spray painting. Patrol officers then arrived and arrested two of the people. They were released a short time later. La City Councilman Kevin de Leone is expected to introduce a motion today to address the abandoned downtown skyscraper that is

now covered in graffiti. The La County DA's office is asking the public to help combat organized retail theft. The county's organized retail Theft task forces are asking people to stop buying stolen goods off the black market. LAPD Deputy Chief Allen Hamilton says the department's task force has thirty three active cases and will continue investigating additional criminals. Any involvement in any of these crimes at any level our stage

of the crime will subject you to prosecution. DA George Gascollon says nearly two hundred cases connected to flash robberies have been filed since the task forces were formed last year. Officials say if a deal on the street seems too good, to be true. It probably is, and you should walk away. Chris Adler KFI News, a former CIA employee, has been sentenced to forty years

in prison for carrying out the largest data leak in the agency's history. Joshua Shulty was convicted of giving reams of classified data to WikiLeaks in twenty sixteen. He was also found guilty in twenty twenty three of possessing child porn. The US Attorney's office, as Shulty betrayed the country and caused untold damage to our national security, prosecutors were asking for a life sentence. Now, let's say good morning to ABC's news political director. It's Rick Kline. Oh, two

weeks in a row. What a treat for us. Great, you're with you, Good morning. Okay. So it looks like lawmakers are kind of willing to tank any opportunity to get anything done, all in the name of what in politics. I mean, that's really simple, you know, it's it's kind of wild. We've got this tax bill that we spend this hout task credit. You have an integration bill or crack down on on a border that really is a mess, and it's got bipartisan majorities for both of them.

And in both cases they may die because you've got Republicans frankly seeing the quiet part out loud that you don't want to help Joe Biden, you don't want to help a president wo's approval rating of the authorities, And you know, it's kind of a sad state of affairs. But you know, that is where we are. And Donald Trump is the leading candidate for president.

He's against this border bill even though no one's actually seen it yet. He said it's a bad deal, and Republican team to be listening to him, taking cues from him and not getting in the way of his political ambition. Okay, so you just mentioned the border security bill, which we're hearing now

that that a deal is almost imminent. Yeah, we're going to see the language as any day, but you know, the deal may be imminent, but it's also got on arrival, if you believe with the House Speaker by Johnson is saying again a bill that he hasn't seen yet and that was negotiated by people you know, and by partisonal basis. So that's where we stand in the politics. I wish I had a better prescription for you or a better explanation, but right now. People are kind of looking too much in

November to get anything done here at February. Okay. And then back to the tax the tax package. It expands child tax credits and it restores some tax breaks for businesses, and that one passed in the House but may not pass in the Senate. Yeah, and and there, I mean, Chuck Grassley, the senior Republican member of the Senate, said, you know, why would we do something that might be good for Joe Biden and help Joe

Biden. So it's the same kind of dynamic. Frankly, it's a bill that you know, in its substance wouldn't be very different if Joe Biden or Donald Trump were president. The majorities in the Senate and the House that are getting it there are kind of the same. But you know, it is just a kind of another kind of low point where we're looking at all these shutdowns and all of the standoffs and you know, teaching a trying to teach

a Cabinet secretary but not getting done. You know, what would be important business taxes, the border, and immigration. These are huge deals, huge issues for people, and they're going unaddressed because you know, people right now are just looking at the politics and this is nothing new, really, it's

just gotten worse. I remember seeing Mitch McConnell, for example. I think it was for so obviously I don't remember so well, but I think it was during Obama that he basically said, we're not doing anything to help Obama get anything passed. Yeah, I mean, I think what he said at the time was, you know, our main mission is to make sure that Obama's a one term president. And yeah, the dynamic, you get it.

But you know, if you do believe that the border is a crisis, if you do believe that the test system is a mess, and you have an opportunity to get something done, even if it's with someone that is in the party. I mean, that's the to remember when that felt like the point of governing, that kind of consensus building, coalition building, getting something like that through would have been something that would be lauded. Right now, there doesn't seem to be in a sentra structure for that at all.

And that's why we're here, and that's why we're having this conversation for the uncience time, literally on Groundhog Day. Yeah, ironic, isn't that? Okay? And before you go everybody loves Taylor Swift except some Republicans. I

mean, we'll figure this one out. I feel like it's crazy that I have to go on your program and say that Taylor Swift is not a Pentagon asset, and that she's a successful pop star, and that her boyfriend is a successful football player, and the fact that one or both or Democrats has nothing to do with any of that. I don't understand why anyone thinks a good idea to attack Tyler Swift in this. I think taking on Swift these is the height of political folly. But I think there's some people that need

to need to get a hobby. We'll get outside more. Is it the only thing I would say? And I don't think she's a political operative. But when she comes out if she endorses somebody that will have pulled because her Swifties are so loyal. You don't what and people can people can react that way. But to suggest that the super Bowl is fixed and that her success is engineered by some you know, blob of media that's that's trying to help the president win re election is just not so okay. Rick Kline, thank

you so much for your time. Thank you, and if you want to follow Rick, It's at Rick ri ic k Kate l e I N not I e I N. Thank you so much. Rick. We'll talk to you again soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Landlords in LA say it may be tough to collect overdue rent from the pandemic. The Apartment Association of Greater LA's Daniel Jugelson says the likelihood landlords will collect the background if they win in court is

low. Typically a render doesn't pay rent because they can't afford it, and so to try to go after that tenant, they don't often have any other assets to collect from. Overdue ren from October of twenty twenty one to January of last year was due yesterday. Mayor basays people facing evictions from COVID back rent should remain in their homes and call the city for help. Blake Trolly kaf I News. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued a So Cow based

construction company for allegedly violating state labor laws. The lawsuit, fouled yesterday, claims West Coast Drywall and Paint failed to pay employees proper wages and provide mandated breaks since at least twenty nineteen. We're committed to enforcing our nation leading labor laws, to holding employers accountable, and to preventing against overreach and abuse. Bonta says the company uses what they call a piece rate pay system instead of

a fixed hourly wage. He says his office will continue to prosecute companies that take advantage of workers. California is getting thirty one million dollars to help find the opium crisis. It's part of a national settlement with publicists. The healthcare marketing company is accused of helping Purdue Pharma and others advertise and sell addictive pain

pills. Attorney General Bontes says no amount of money can bring back the lives lost or reverse the devastating pain caused, but this will give communities more financial support for treatment and recovery. Defense lawyers claim deputies had already decided Rebecca Grossman was guilty before properly investigating the fatal crash in Wesley, Westlake Village that killed two brothers. The defense claims Grossman passed the sobriety test, but the deputy

arrested her anyway because two kids were killed by the twenty twenty crash. The defense called that malicious prosecution and says that's why the black suv they claim hit the boys was never examined, but deputy testimony claims only debrief from Grossman's white SUV was found at the scene. Jurors were told yesterday Grossman blew a point oh seventy five and hours later a blood draw had it at the legal limit of point oh eight plus valume was found in her system. Grossman wasn't charged

with the uy, which prosecutors say is unnecessary for a murder conviction. At Vanni's Courthouse. Corbin Carson KFI News. A small plane is crashed into a mobile home park in Florida, killing several people. Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Ayler's says the pilot reported an engine failure before the crash last night. The cruise did a phenomenal job in getting the fire knocked down very quickly, and it ensued several structures, three definitely that had some fire damage, a fourth to

one with possibility of fire damage. Taylor says it's not clear how many people were on board the plane. The FFAA and the NTSB are, of course, investigating. More than one hundred twenty passengers and crew aboard at Queen Victoria Cruise ship are sick. The CDC reported the stomach bug yesterday. The ship left Florida on January twenty second. It was set to go to Aruba,

Guatemala, Cabo, San Lucas, San Francisco, and Hawaite. By February twelfth, there are over eighteen hundred passengers and nine hundred and fifty crew members on board. Boy, that doesn't sound fun at all. Here's something that does sound fun. Spots a tiny fil the most famous groundhog from Pennsylvania's come out of his hole to predict an early spring. The word in Gobbler's knob is that if Phil sees his shadow this Groundhog Day, it means six more

weeks of chili winter. But there was no shadow. Quad tidings on this Groundhog Day, and early spring is on the way. But Phil is only right about forty percent of the time. ABC's Danny News says a town in New Jersey had its own prognosticator, but Milltown Mel died in two thousand and two. The town has had some trouble finding another groundhog to assume his throne. Apparently, groundhogs from the South can't be brought up because of a certain

rabies breakout. Who knew, he says, Milltown, mel or Milltown. The town could try another animal like the Oregon Zoo has Fufu the hedgehog, and people in Central Texas get their annual February forecast from b Cave Bob the armadillo. When we come back. There's been a lot of back and forth, but lawmakers may be really close to a deal on securing the southern border. Could it be dead on arrival though. We'll be checking in with ABC's

Stephen Portnoy to get the latest. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Is that your first cup of coffee? Like the best? And I don't know if you've taken my advice, but I did put a shmidge of salt in it flavor enhancing. We talked about it, and then somebody posted on my social media on Instagram at Amy K King by the way, this don't encourage people to use any more salt. We already have too much salt. I'm like, it's like four grains. Come

on, here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The first of two atmospheric rivers has moved out of southern California. The second is expected to roll in late Sunday. The National Weather Services Alex Tarties's another one to three inches of rain is on the way. Could even be a three to six inches of rain. With the ground still saturated from recent storms,

flooding is going to be a risk again. A seventeen year old boy from Lancaster has been arrested in connection with hundreds of so called swatting threats across the country. The calls draw massive police responses because they're violent in nature. Usually billy say the guy's a serial swater and is tied to bomb threats and mass shooting threats all around the US. Americans now have an Obesity Bill of Rights.

The National Consumers League and the National Council on Aging says it establishes eight essential rights to ensure that people who are obese get screened, diagnosed, counseled, and treated according to medical guidelines. At six oh five, it's handle on the news why you may need to be worried if you've been at lax or Chick fil A in Northridge. Recently, let's say good morning to ABC's

Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, there's been a lot of talk about an immigration bill as part of the one hundred and six billion dollars in UH international funding. I guess you could say, but what is the plan? We still don't know. Well, it's Karen Drivers here. Well, I can talk about that too, because I can straddle the Capitol hillside of things as well,

or we can talk about the president heading to Dover. But just to give you a quick update on that, we are anticipating there could be some legislative text of the bipartisan border negotiations, and Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, said they'd like to move forward next week, potentially on a vote. Now, we've kind of heard some timelines of this before. We're very close or a whisper away from getting this out. We'll see if that actually plays

out today. The big thing, too, is that House Republicans are saying it's dead on arrival over there. It's a non starter for them, which of course means that's complicating things. It has to pass in the House, of course, to get to the President. There are a lot of politics at play here, but we don't know what's in it. That's been the big thing for weeks now. They've been having these negotiations behind closed doors, keeping it very, very tight. And we will see what it ends up

looking like if they do release this today. And it's been notable that House Republicans have been trashing it when they don't even apparently know what's in it either. It's so ridiculous. Okay, So we might get a look at it today and then we're going to shift over and I'm going to say, Karen,

we were expecting Stephen, but always thrilled to have you. And so President Biden today is going to Dover Air Force Base for a very solemn ceremony, very very somber day for the President and the First Lady and also the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General C. Q. Brown. They're joining them to have to attend the dignified transfer of remains of the three service members who were killed in the

drone attack in Jordan on Sunday. The President and First Lady will meet privately with the families of those service members beforehand and this is going to be a tough day. You know, these are days that obviously no president ever wants to see. The President spoke to the families earlier this week, and the White House says he asked them, would you like me to be there? Would it be helpful and comforting for me to be there? And all of

them said yes. We heard the phone call that the President had with the parents of twenty four year old Kennedy Sanders of Georgia, one of the US members killed, and he talked about his own personal experiences with loss and grieving, and you know, he obviously uses his story a lot to try to bring comfort to people, and he said, there's nothing that anybody can say

or do to ease your pain right now. But Sanders's mother told the President that she appreciated hearing from him and hearing his story as a parent who's experienced such loss, and she told him, if you've made it through, I know that we can make it through as well. Okay. Yeah, that I think is such an important thing for the President to do, to be

there. And of course this all comes as we're waiting to see what the retaliation is going to be, because it's been almost a week now, almost a week, and the White House says, you know, don't read into that as that there won't be a response, because there is going to be. They've made that very clear that there will be retaliatory action and that it's going to come in the time and manner of the President's choosing, likely sooner

rather than later. But they just won't say exactly when it is, though notable that it's not just one thing. It's going to be over the course of several days, multiple countries, multiple targets within countries to try to strike these militant groups where they are and take out their ability to carry out these attacks. So this looking at likely as targets in Iraq, Syria, possibly Yemen, and as I say, over the course of several days. Okay,

Karen Travers, thank you so much for your time this morning. An unexpected surprise. Have a great day, all right too. Hey, yesterday we were talking about the Griffith part of the Griffith Observatory. I went out and about and checked it out. It's literally in our own backyard. And then after throughout the day I was talking to people and they were posting on social media saying, oh yeah, I haven't been up there forever either, and oh, yeah, it's been like ten years. And oh I used

to take the kids there all the time. That kind of thing. I think we really do forget about some of the really cool things that we have here in LA because we just take them for granted. So also, I got a post on my Instagram at amis caking about all the movies that have been filmed up there, and so we went and looked it up. Because

everybody knows Rebel without a Cause that was in nineteen fifty five. There's a bust of James Dean up there, but there's a ton of movies that have been filmed, and why wouldn't you because it's such a cool, iconic looking place. The first movie that was filmed and had scenes from the Griffith Observatory was The Phantom Empire back in nineteen thirty five, and then The Terminator. It's featured in The Terminator. It's also featured in Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genesis.

Apparently Terminator really likes the Observatory. It's featured in Back to the Future. In Dragnet from nineteen eighty seven, not the TV show, but the movie. The Tunnel entrance to the Observatory on Mount Hollywood Drive is the entrance to Toontown in the movie Who Framed Roger Rebbit? Who Knew It was featured in Earth Girls Are Easy, Back to the Future Part two, The Rocketeer. That was such a fun movie. Bofinger, Queen of the Damned.

That was sort of a surprise to me. Charlie's Angels, Full Throtter, Full Throttle, Transformers, Yes Man, that was the movie with Jim Carrey where he had to say yes to everything, and that was actually there was filming along the trails and at the Observatory itself, and I remember specifically because a lot of that movie was filmed around Silver Lake, so I was like,

oh, I know that place. I know that place. And then in Valentine's Day, that was a fun movie, Friends with Benefits and La La Land, of course, and then also lots and lots of TV shows like twenty four. The very first episode of the Adventures of Superman. The Amazing Race had it as its starting line in for the twenty twenty second twenty second season. It was featured in Chips. It was on Dancing with the Stars, mcguyvor Melrose Place mission impossible back in nineteen sixty six, and this

is my favorite, the monkeys. So Griffith Park is you know, it's an iconic place, and the Observatory is an iconic thing. So, as I mentioned, probably not today or tomorrow because the weather's going to be really crappy, but once it clears off again, I highly recommend a trip to the observatory. When we come back, we're going to be talking with the house whisper Dean Sharp about building your dream house. But where do you begin? Dean knows, and he's going to let us know. Coming up.

Next baseball season is here. Don't miss live coverage from FanFest. It's happening tomorrow with insider David Veasey. It's Saturday from noon to three. Check out another winning season at Broadway in Hollywood dot Com. Southland weather from KFI morning clouds. We still have a slight chance of showers, then sunny for the afternoon. I will be in the low sixties at the beaches, upper fifties to low sixties Inland, just forties and fifties in the Antelope Valley. Partly

cloudy tomorrow, then a second big storm rolls in late Saturday night. With rain possible overnight heavy rain at times on Sunday and into next week, and as I mentioned, up to six inches of rain is expected before this second move storm moves out. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty. So did you hear that it's Anne Rhine or ain rhynd day? Did you have you ever read at La Shrugged? If you haven't and you have a I don't know a month or two, it's an interesting

book. And I know I just said her name wrong twice, Ain Rand, But yeah, it's a fascinating book if you can get through the first part. Like I talk to my mom, she said, I can't read it. It was too hard to get into. And for me it was just like it's page turner and kind of interesting to see parallels of things that she wrote about, like I don't know, dozens and dozens of years ago that are kind of playing out today. Here's what we're following today in the

KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A second atmospheric river is headed for California. This storm is expected to be even stronger than the one that just rolled through the storm could bring three to six inches of rain to the valleys and coastal areas Sunday through Tuesday, with six to twelve inches possible in the mountains.

The union representing deputy district attorneys has filed a legal action against La County DA George Gascon, alleging he deliberately failed to comply with the California Public Records Act. The union claims Gascone's failure to comply with law and handover documents contradicts Gascone's promise of transparency. Punk Satani. Phil has come out of his den. He did not see his shadow in Gobbler's knob, Pennsylvania this morning. That

means an early spring. If Phil is right, and he's only right about forty percent of the time. At six oh five. It's handled on the news as Secretary of Defenses. He didn't handle the prostate cancer surger and secret hospital stay correctly, you think right Now, Let's say good morning to the house whisper. It's the host of Home on KFI. It's a very own Dean Sharp, Good morning, Dean, Good morning Gamy. It's iin Rand, by the way, I Rand. I know I got it right the

third time, didn't I I know right? You've got it right, and then just then you walked away and then you came back. So I'm just saying, and I actually liked Fountainhead better than Atlas Shrug because it had to do with architecture text. Yeah, that was a fascinating and fascinating book. Yeah, I'm confessing, and I had a very very boring childhood. No,

it was a really interesting book. Okay, So architects designers, we're we're in the process of building a dream home and we know from the last few weeks that we've set up the parameters of what we can and can't do. Then we started putting together a plan, got a design team, and then we plan for what not to do so we didn't screw it up. And now we're going to go into step four. What's that step forward is what I call the chicken or the egg paradox. It's basically the point at

which you know, we're starting to really get into the design. And this is where the typical homeowner gets really confused because they don't know where to start. You know, you kind of look at and let's just take an example. Let's say let's say it's a kitchen that we're going to design, and I almost always get this question from people perplexed, like, I'm really confused. I don't what do we do. Do we pick out the countertops first? Did we pick out the floor? Should I be looking at tile?

Should I look at the cabinets? I don't know where to start. We've just started the project and I'm already confused, and so it's a big question. Fortunately, there is a very very simple answer to it, and it's this that there is no one place to start. We start where you want to start. We start with what's already on your minds, and that should

come as a big relief to everybody. In other words, in most cases, when somebody's thinking about a room and you know they've hired a designer and you're working with your design team, because you don't know every in and out of how it should turn out and what colors should be put together, per se, and you know there's all sorts of stuff you don't know, but there is almost always something you do know, like I've always wanted these oak

cabinets to have this color, or I've always wanted this style of door on my cabin or I've always wanted a floor like this, or I've always wanted this kind of tile. Well, then if that's what you know, then that is where you start. And the cool thing is we can begin anywhere. We can start with the counter. Do you tell me what kind of

countertop is your dream kitchen countertop? And then we'll start mixing and matching and looking at cabinet faces and can the colors that blend with it and that go with it, And then one by one the dominoes begin to fall and the next thing you know, we got it all figured out. We've got all the whole color scheme, the floor, everything, they're all. There may also be constraints and you know, with the with the room, the space, whatever that may be, and we have to take those into account as

well. But the good news is all we have to do is start with, you know, sort of your heart's desire and build from there. And it can change right as it goes. Like you might think you want one thing, but then once you start piecing it together, before you start building, of course, you can go, oh wait, maybe I don't want that, Maybe I'm shifting. And you know, it's a fluid thing until you start breaking ground, right exactly, it's a fluid thing, and You're

absolutely right, it might change. I've seen it change. I've had clients come to me and say, listen, for twenty five years, all I've ever wanted are these bright marble countertops, and that's where we start. You know, I don't fight them on it. What's the point of doing that. So we start working it through and they come to realize, wow, you know, what I actually wanted was a brighter kitchen, and white countertops are probably not the answer for me. And I'm like, all right,

it's fine, it's great. This is part of the process of figuring out your dream home. I gotta you know, draw this point of emphasis again. It is so easy to do an attractive room. It's so easy to build or to design something that looks great, looks great in photos, looks great on the internet, looks great on a magazine spread. But that is

very, very different than building a space that is your space. And so there is a process of self discovery here, and a lot of people find out that they've been expressing a certain emotion or a certain need a particular way, and they realized, well, that's not exactly I guess what I meant. I guess what I really meant. What I really discovered about myself was I just needed it brighter and lighter in here. But and I just always

assumed the countertops were the way to do it. But as long as we get to where your mind and emotions are, then we've arrived at the right place. Cool. And it's always helpful to have somebody who is a professional designer, which is why you got your designer involved earlier on, to help guide you through these things. And then step five we're hitting two this week. Step five is designing for your five senses. What's that? Well, Step five is we're going to cover that on Sunday. And this is the

beginning of kind of my theory of architectural fundamentals for everybody. I had to kind of boil down the entire field of architecture for what a homeowner needs to be aware of. And this, by the way, is not to turn you into a designer. This is to give you the stuff you need to know so that you can captain your design team so that you know you are

hitting all of the pillars that need to go. And I have reduced architecture down essentially the fundamentals at least into its relationship to our five senses, because that's what really comes down to. You know, I say it all the

time that human architecture is for human beings. It's not just architecture. You know, if we were blind mole people crawling around on all fours, living underground, then we would have architecture just like we do up here, but it would look very different, it would feel very different, it would have a very different character to it. So the point is architecture is really rooted in our human physiology, our psychology, and so I use the five senses

as the checkpoints for everybody as to okay, are we hitting all the points possible for this space? And the first one, the king of all the senses, is site. Absolutely, without questions, studies after study after study. If you ask the average person, all right, think about it, if you could only have one of your five senses, what would it be, eighty plus percent of people say, oh, my vision, I gotta

have site. I want site. You know, I could do without if I had to the hearing and the other things, but I want to see the world around me. And humans are primarily visual people, and so architecture, no surprise, primarily a visual medium. And so we use that as a jumping off place to say, Okay, what are we looking for? What are we looking at and how is it that the shapes and the contours of a space are communicating to us? And that's what we're going to talk

about on Sunday. So ultimately, what you want to plan for, what you want to see every day for the rest of your life, for as long as you own the house. Yeah, and in different ways that most people don't think about. You know, we tend to think about like a room, we kind of get in our heads up above it, or we're looking at a plan view of a room. I want people to evaluate the room every angle. They look at it as if it was a piece of

installation art. So if it's the living room, what does it look like? What are we seeing first when we come in the front door, But also how does it look when we're coming down the hallway or coming into it from the kitchen. These are all important vistas and we should be thinking through exactly where everything is and what it looks like from all of those angles.

That's what makes for a good comprehensive design fabulous, And we're going to dig deeper into that this weekend, steps four and five with Home with Dean Sharp. You can listen right here on KFI six to eight Saturday morning, nine to noon on Sunday. And if they would like to follow you, Dean, where is that on Instagram? Is at Home with Dean on all of our social media? Sure? At Home with Dean on across all social media platform well not all of them, but you know the big three. At

Home with Dean. You're saying you're not a TikToker. Uh, you know, we do lot TikTok here and there you do. I am not a TikToker at all. You know, we don't have an at Home with Dean on tender Grinder anything like that, So you know, just the I don't think those are social media websites. So those are dating sites? Oh yeah, okay, well that's probably why. That's probably why Tina hasn't put us up on those. Dean Sharp, thanks so much, looking forward to your

show this weekend. Thanks Amy. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The first of two atmospheric rivers has moved out of southern California. The seconds expected to roll in late Sunday. The National Weather Services Alex Tart says a lot more rain is coming and with the ground still sature rated

from recent storms, flooding will be a risk again. A seventeen year old boy from Lancaster has been arrested in connection with hundreds of so called swatting threats across the US. The calls draw massive police responses because they report falsely very severe things happening. Police say he's a serial swater and is tied to bomb threats and mass shooting threats all over the country. Suits fans got some good news for you. NBC Universal has ordered a pilot for a Suit's spinoff.

It's going to be set in Los Angeles. The original Suits ran for nine seasons on USA Network, but it just recently regained popularity after the first eight seasons were added on Netflix. Production is scheduled to start next month in Vancouver. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, premi baby berths are up pretty substantially. They're not sure why, though. Let's say good morning now to ABC's entertainment guru. It's Jason Nathanson. Jason caught

a slim pickens for new movies and streaming this weekend. But we got a couple of things. Yeah, we're in this really slow period and there hasn't been. Last week there were no new releases in theaters. So at least this week there's one, So that's better than none, although when you actually go watch the movie, I don't know if it actually is better. Argyle is the movie that is out in theaters this weekend. It's not about socks, is it. It is not about socks. No, don't worry in

case do you have a phobia of socks. That not be something I would watch a movie about if it's good. I would watch a movie about if it's good. I'd watch almost anything, but this one not so much. That is true. This one stars Bryce Dallas Howard. She plays Ellie Conway, and she's an author who writes spy novels. But her spine novels are so good there actually seem to be predicting the future of what actual spies are doing. So this spy organization wants to get her because of some convoluted reason

or other. It doesn't really matter. It's a spy comedy, and unfortunately it's not funny and the action is not great. So those are two things he kind of got to hit if you're gonna make a action comedy. It just did not work for me at all. And you know, look, I often say I don't think anybody goes into a movie with the intention of making a bad movie. I think everybody is you know, they want to be there and do good stuff. Unfortunately it just doesn't work out for whatever

reason. And this one, to me, just did not work on a major level. So you got Bryce Stylis Howard, who I think is possibly miscast, Sam Rockwell, who's great and just about everything that he does, and he's really good here. He is trying hard. You really have a really good cast. Brian Cranston, Henry Cavill, Samuel L. Jackson, Dua Lipa, the singer is even in it for a little bit. And

so they really went all out. And this is from Matthew Vaughan who does the Kingsman movies, so it kind of has a little bit of that feel. And I think I read somewhere that he said that it is tangentially set in the Kingsman universe, although kind of but the CGI. First of all, there's a cat that's involved. Bryce styles Howard's character as a cat, and the cat ends up going with them on these crazy adventures. The CGI involved with the cat is just shameful. I hate when they do CGI cats.

It's not right. I mean, like, we all know what a real cat looks like, like you could do it with a rhinoceros. When you can't, we do well. The problem is to get the cat to do some of the things the cat needs to do. You can't get a cat to do that in real life, you know, as well as you train a cat, having them do stunts is just not going to work. And so they've tried though, and it was fun to watch them trying. I'm sure they have, but it just it does not work here. And

I'm usually not I'm not one to criticize CGI. There's CGI that doesn't work in a film. You know, some people complain over some of the Marvel films or stuff like that. I don't. It passes right by me. I don't really care. Here it is so noticeable that it is just terrible from the beginning. And you're in a make believe universe, yeah, and you are here. I mean, you have to really suspend disbelief to make

any of this work. Here and then and but the CGI is even the non cat CGI is bad from the beginning, and then towards the end of this movie it devolves in such a fantastical way that is so absurd it's cringe worthy that I just like, I'm happy to go along for the ride if it works, and I'm happy I like when things get weird. This towards the end just gets laughably, uncomfortably weird. Okay, So now I want

to see it because it sounds so bad, Please do. I love to have to share in the misery, but I would not recommend spending money on this film this weekend. Okay. I have a side question, because you talked to these people. Do you think that actors get into like they sign a deal, they go, Okay, I'm going to do this movie, and then like halfway through, they go, oh my god, what have

I done. I wonder about that all the time because I talk to people, and look, when I do the interviews with them, it's not about whether the movie is good or bad. So we just talk and I will never tell somebody that I liked something that I didn't. I just won't say anything. But I'm sitting there across from them, thinking, you know this is bad, right, we both know. Let's not pretend we know this

is bad. But that never happens in the present. Right. You can talk to somebody, and I have talked to people about and they'll admit something from ten years ago as a stinker, but they'll never admit the current project. And I get it because so many people work on it and they are

trying hard, but I think they know. And in this one, I would have loved to have been a at the premiere and just kind of looked around, and because at the premiere especially, you can't tell somebody the movie is bad, right, everybody's there, you kinda kind of kiss up and

do that thing. But also I would have loved to have been in some of those meetings when the studio saw it, or you know, when when some of the other people saw it for the first time, and did they really know, because I think you had to have known with this one that it just was not working. Okay, Then I want to talk about a couple of docuseriies real quick, because one of them really has peaked my interest. And that's the greatest night in pop. Yeah, that one. I've

not seen it. It's out on Netflix. The greatest night in pop being January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty five, which if that specific date doesn't ring a bell for you, that is the night that they did We Are the World, right, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Richie and so many

more got together to make that song for charity. And this is about the making of that night, how it came together, how it happened, and with interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Lonel Richie, Huey Lewis, Cindy Lapper, Kenny Loggins and some of the others as well. It looks really really good. I know some people who have seen it and really loved it. So

it does work. And I'm fascinated by that as a child of the eighties, and you know, somebody who remembers that song and that time, h and what that meant and how big it was, and just all the people that were there. Everybody was there, which just won't happen again. Yeah, I don't think ever. This is how big it was. Jason. We went as We Are the World for my sorority. A bunch of us

got together and we all were different Halloween. Yeah for Halloween. Wow, that's that's that's a fantastic awesome that that sounds like a lot of fun. Uh. So, yeah, this so and I love I love documentaries about especially music stuff stuff like that. And there's apparently some revealing stuff in there as well. So I'll be watching that one this weekend. Okay, And speaking of music and something you'll be watching this weekend the Grammys. Yes,

the Grammys. I will be watching it. I will be there in downtown at the Crypto dot Com Arena. Still can't get used to that name, but well, uh it'll be uh you know. Look, I don't think the ratings for the Grammy. It's like all award shows have gone down and down and down. Last year was pretty bad. I don't feel like there's

any awareness this year that the Grammys are actually happening this weekend. I think that might be You're right, I think that might be a surprise to a lot of people, unless you know, maybe you happen to be watching football last weekend on CBS and you caught a bunch of commercials. Otherwise, I just don't know there doesn't seem to be that that feeling. I think a lot of people watch the Grammys for the performances rather than the awards themselves.

And there's gonna be some big ones in the pop world. Billy Eilish, Oliviy Rodrigo, Dua Lipa arguing and perform Siza, who's the leading nominee. She'll be performing as well, and then you're gonna have Grammy Legend Award or would be at Billy Joel will be there. Is he going to be singing his new song. I don't know if he's gonna be singing the new song or not, which just came out this week. I might watch just for Billy Joel just to hear the new song or to hear just to hear Billy

Joel. Okay, just to hear Billy Joel. I get that. I like him just the way he is. And Joni Mitchell will also be performing for her. She's never performed with the Grammys before, surprisingly, and she just announced she's going to be playing at the Hollywood Bowl this year. I think her first Alley concert in decades, maybe Yeah, and they just added a second show. Yeah, So I know some people will be excited about that, you too is going to make quote unquote history with the first ever

broadcast performance from the Sphere live in Las Vegas. I don't really love when they go to other locations. You know, it's hard. I think it's hard to translate music over to television like the performances. Yeah, yeah, because you're just watching it on a TV. When you're there, it's pretty

cool and rocking and it's a lot of fun. I think for anything, whether for me that's the Super Bowl halftime show, to any performance that you watch on television, it loses eighty percent of the magic, I think right by watching it on TV. So just forget the whole Grammys thing and go to the Sphere. Maybe I need more fun. Although the Sphere looks like the kind of place that would make me nauseous, so I'm fascinated by it.

But when you see the seats and the pitch, the extreme angle of the seats and how they're pitched, that to me just I feel like I would get vertigo. So I don't know if that's for me or not, but I like the outside. The screens on it looked really it's very cool and a little bit freaky. Yeah, have you been inside? Not yet? Okay, not yet, Jason Nathan Nathanson. At least I didn't call you Nathan jasonson this day. I appreciate that that's called Jonathan in a bunch

of interviews yesterday. So do you correct him or do you just go with it? I just let it go. I love that. All right, going with the flow. It's Jason Nathans And thank you so much for your time today. All right, take care. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on kf I Am six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.