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This is your wake up call for Memorial Day, May twenty six. It's five o'clock straight up. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting up early on this Memorial Day. If you're up early, you're probably like all of us, you get to work today. So we got a lot of stuff planned for you, a lot of stuff going on.
Several Memorial Day ceremonies, remembrances, observances going on. We'll tell you about some of those as we make our way through wake up call, and just you know, thank you to all of those who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice. Of all the patriotic songs I was thinking of, and I'm hoping Cono you can dig this one up. Billy Ray cyrus'es some gave All is probably the best tribute.
Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Actin Community Center and Glendale's City Hall are holding ceremonies at nine thirty this morning to honor fallen veterans this Memorial Day. Ceremonies begin at ten am at Park Lawn Cemetery in Commerce, Serrito Civic Center, Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in Covina Hills, Hollywood Hills and Long Beach, Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palace, Verty's Veterans Park in Lomita, and Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood lots of ceremonies today.
Detectives are trying to piece together what led to a shooting in the Shoreline Village area of Long Beach that wounded a man, a woman, and a boy. Billie say the shooting happened shortly before eleven last night. A woman was taken at the hospital. The man and the fourteen year old boy got to the hospital on their own. Eighteen million passengers are expected to try travel by air
over the extended Memorial Day weekend. Friday was the TSA's third busiest travel day ever, with more than three million passengers screened. Triple A's forecasting a record breaking thirty nine million people are going to travel by a car over the holiday, breaking the old record set in two thousand and five. I think that means that the roads are going to be really, really, really busy. Later today, Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Flowers will be flying in Palm Springs this Memorial Day.
Thousands of flowers will fall from the sky today during the Palm Springs Air Museum's annual flower drop honoring fallen service members. The vintage B twenty five bomber will release over three thousand carnations at one o'clock this afternoon. Festivities start at ten am with planes, music, and a chance to ride in a World War Two fighter plane if you're willing to pay nearly six hundred dollars. Brigita Degastino, KFI News.
A man in receipt has been caught on video hurling threats and insults at another driver who has an Israeli flag in his windshield.
I'll be king in front of everybody, okay.
The man targeted says he's not Jewish, but displays the flag in support of his Jewish friends and family. He tells KTLA he was driving last week when another driver rolled down his window and just started yelling at him.
What I recall him saying was I will kill you.
I will ask him kill you.
Dash cam video shows the man break hard before he gets out of his car, cell phone in hand and begins to shout profanity laced threats. The driver who was attacked says he did file a police report. A mob has gone on a vandalism spree in downtown LA.
After declaring an unlawful assembly. Police and Right Gear formed a skirmish line to clear dozens of people late Saturday night after they allegedly vandalized a police car, a Metro train, in several businesses with graffiti. A video of the incident shows multiple people punching a slow moving train, then spray painting it as it stopped. Metro says about fifty trespassers blocked two trains from moving and broke into one of them. A group of people also kicked, spray painted and shot
fireworks at an LAPD squad car. There are an over sports of injuries. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Here the big boom around southern California. It was a sonic boom from the return of a SpaceX Dragon capsule. It happened overnight Saturday as the Dragon capsule re entered the atmosphere and then splashed down in the waters off ocean side. The Dragon capsule launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A few days before. It delivered supplies and
equipment to the International Space Station. Hopefully it's going to be nice and quiet today, but we'll take a first look at our morning commute and say good morning to Jonathan Weiss.
We've got a stall in Culver City. It's on the four h five.
It's our cocktailt car here on the four oh five southbound right of Washington Boulevard. This is a stall that's blocking the right lane right now. Traffic is a bit backed up coming away from Venas Boulevard. Look Out in the Colton area on the two fifteen northbound before Mount Vernon crash working here in the center divider, and looks like we have a little bit of trouble to the downtown lay area. On the one ten south bout of Third Street. This' say crash there along the right shoulder
to the Pomona area. Keep your eyes peeled on the ten eastbound before Dudley. Crash being reported here along the right shoulder. And getty word of another stall in the Paramount area seven ten northbound of Rosecrans. This one's along the right shoulder and Hugh low Melinda on the ten eastbound before Mountain View. Look out here for a crash there along the right shoulder. We Southern California is most accurate at traffic reports. I'm Jonathan Weiss.
Thank you, Jonathan. It is five oh six on your wake up. Of course, travel is a big thing on Memorial Day weekend, but even if you're not traveling very far, there is a lot of interesting things to see around southern California. Let's say good morning now to the author of thirty travel and history books, including James Dean Died Here, Roadside Baseball, and a bunch of others. Plus you've written for The La Times, for Travel and Leisure magazine. This
guy loves to talk about travel. Good morning, Chris.
Epting, Thank you for having me.
Good to hear you.
And we're not even talking about far off places for travel. In many cases, it's right in our own back, in our own backyard. And I'm going to tell you, Chris, that we have actually met before, and you will not remember it because it was probably ten years ago and it was at a day of authors at cal State Fullerton. And I'm going to tell you, wake up call that. When I met Chris, actually we listened to him talking about one of his books, and just he was so
engaging and interesting. I was like, oh my god, I have to buy this book. And the book was about like places on the map where things happened, and it was like where James Dean died, which I drive by that location all the time now at the Highway forty six and forty one junction because I go to visit a friend in Pasa Robles, and so I think about your book every time I passed that junction.
Well, a great memory, thank you, and I remember that event. I love those sorts of events and I appreciate you putting that together and getting us back here today.
That's amazing and really flattered.
So today we're not talking about things that you can still go and see, though, because you have a new book out it's called Lost Landmarks of Orange County.
So tell us a little about your new book.
Well, it's yeah, again, there are some things you can visit, little trace remnants.
I mean, the cover of the book features a.
Place that was called Lion Country Safari, which was down in Irvine from nineteen seventy about nineteen eighty four. Many of your listeners may have been there before, but even if they weren't there, I think it really speaks to this idea of just how crazy in terms of landmarks, Orange County has been in the last hundred or so years. And so if you go there today, of course Lyon Country Safari is gone. You can no longer wander and have giraffes and hippos and vinys come to your car.
But there's a tree with a very famous lion, Frasier the Fraser, the Sensuous Lion he was called because he sired thirty five cups. Is buried under a California live oak tree there. So sometimes it's not entirely lost, and there are pieces like that which in the book I really tried to detail all of those sorts of things to tell the story, but also, you know, let people know if there is something else they can connect with the right.
And so at the Lion Safari Park where Fraser is buried, what's there now?
It's a housing complex call I think it's called Los of Libos, and it's also the former site of where Irvine Meadows Amphitheater was, So I traced the legacy of that really great concert venue that was there. And you know Orange County, you know, starting back really in the forties with not very farmament into Disneyland in the fifties was a tourist mecca. And so you've got lots of theme parks and places like that Buffalo Ranch, the Alligator Farm, the Japanese Deer Park. Those are all gone.
But I also include movie.
Theaters, restaurants, all the sorts of things that people may have grown up going too. That really helped to play it a part in shaping Orange County.
But what it is today, Yeah, like you said, the past and what shaped Orange County And we have to go back to the Alligator Park because I'm not aware of that one. And what was the Alligator Park.
The California Alligator Farm, opening about nineteen fifty. I learned something fascinating and researching this book in that in the mid fifties Walter Notd, who rank Notts Verry Farms to block Away, heard that the Alligator Farm was kind of on the brink of going at a business because of the cost of feeding alligators. He realized each night that it not's very farmed. They were throwing out lots of raw chicken from their famous for our chicken restaurant, so
he began to help them out. He had the chicken carted down there at night, which got them over that hurdle and kept them there till the early nineteen eighties.
So you had a lot of great stories like.
That too, sort of entrepreneurs looking you at for each other and realizing that you didn't have to be that competitive because if everyone did well, then the county did well. And so you had a lot of those kinds of stories of places helping each other out.
That's my favorite. And the fact that you could go.
Sit feed baby alligators. They had baskets on the back of alligators and you could ride and they would send alligators hurtling down slides into the water.
I mean it was crazy.
Well, you could ride on the back of an alligator.
There's pictures going back. Yeah, actually, and I don't know how long that was in effect, with the ars of postcard images of kids on the back of you know, the snouts are tied, obviously, but such was the thrill of the California Alligator Farm, I.
Can understand why that one may no longer be there. So in your research, Chris, did you talk to people who experienced these locations or are they games that you remember from your childhood or how did you go about getting all of.
These I grew up. I grew up in Westchester County, New York. I moved to Orange County about twenty five years ago, so I had my own experiences.
But they didn't go back that far. So yes, I absolutely.
Spoke to people from from locals who grew up going to see concerts and things all the way down to like I had a great conversation with Steve Martin about the Golden Bear, a former nightclub in Huntington Beach where he kind of first made his mark in the early seventies. He's from Orange County, from Garden Growth. I spoke to Jackson Brown about the Golden Bear as well, and a good buddy of this was the dishwasher there who Jackson encouraged to go up to la and ultimately landed the
audition of Peter Torque and the Monkeys. So you know, there were some revelations like that that I found fascinating just as a journalist talking to people like that, But plenty of locals recounted of what it was like to grow up here in the forties and fifties and sixties and so on, and the great drive in movie theaters and all sorts of things that you know, again, every
place has them. Orange County just had a lot of the Orange Counties thirty four cities tied together, and so I touch upon a lot of different things from sports to agriculture, to oil, to music, to movies to everything that again helped make the counthy where it is today.
It's a sort of treatment I honestly would love to do with La County as well, and I'm thinking about that now because again, the southern California, places where everybody came to visit from all over the world, have plenty of these lost landmarks.
So interesting. I love talking to Chris Epting, and we're not done with him yet. We're going to find out in our next segment which lost landmark Chris misses the most, and also how Disney plays into the history of lost landmarks in Orange County.
Of course, I always have to wrap Disney into something.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump says the US will delay implementation of a fifty percent tariff on goods from the European Union from June first until July ninth to allow for negotiations. The agreement was reached after a call yesterday with the President of the European Commission. Trump says she told him she wants to get down
to business and serious negotiations. Texas could become the sec Can state to have an across the board ban on social media for miners. Kay if Is Lisa Cartin says the legislation would require social media platforms to verify the age of anyone who creates an account.
If enacted, Texas House Bill one eighty six would place wide restrictions that ban every Texas resident under eighteen years old from signing up for and using social media platforms.
She says the legislation would also allow parents to request their child's account be deleted. Workers at USCL have welcomed a planned partnership with Nipon Steel, saying it'll save their jobs. Glenn Thomas has worked at a Pittsburgh area plant for more than forty years and says this one means a lot. Not only is it is it the steel workers jobs that it says, it's the contractor's jobs, it's the local community's tax base. Nippon Steel has offered fifteen billion dollars
to buy the American company. The Federal Trade Commission is pushing ahead with challenges to more than two hundred patents. It says we're improper early listed to stop generic versions of brand named drugs from getting on the market. It's accusing seven drug makers of using invalid or misclassified patents to delay generic competition for seventeen drugs. Former President Biden has made his first public appearance since his cancer diagnosis
was made public. Biden attended his grandson's high school graduation in Connecticut on Friday. He said he was feeling fine. Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread. Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has died. Robertson's daughter in law posted the news on Facebook yesterday. His family revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's
disease back in December. Robertson starred on the popular A and E reality series from twenty twelve to twenty seventeen. Phil Robertson was seventy nine. A new study takes a deeper look at what divorce really means for kids, and the impact may last longer than most things.
Kids whose parents split up before they turn five are more likely to struggle later in life, earning less money and facing higher risks of teen pregnancy, jail time, and even early death. Researchers see it's not just the divorce, it's the rival effects. The study, using federal tax and census data, found that divorce often leads to lost income, moves to lower income neighborhoods, and less time with parents who are working more just to stay afloat Brigida Degastino KFI News.
A man has been injured in a thirty foot fall in Chatsworth. The man was rock climbing at Stony Point Park when he fell last night, shortly after seven. He was airlifted out of what first responders call a rugged and remote section of the park. His condition isn't clear. Dodgers' Superstar Show, Hey Otani is getting closer to officially returning to being a two way player.
In New York.
Yesterday, Otani pitched to hitters in practice, his highest fastball velocity ninety seven miles an hour. Otani hasn't pitched in a game since he rejoined Earth since he joined the Dodgers, he could pitch in a game this season. It would happen after the All Star Game in July at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Handles taken the day off, But we have our very O'Neil Savager here and we're going to be talking about the top federal
prosecutor in LA looking to neutralize California's sanctuary laws. Right now, we're talking with travel author Chris Epting and his book Lost Landmarks of Orange County. What Chris is the lost landmark that makes you most sad that it's no longer here?
Well, Lying country definitely is why I went there as a kid visiting from New York in nineteen seventy four, and that one, to me is just again, it serves so many purposes there were I talked to people that
had like their junior and senior proms there. It wasn't just for tourists, so plenty of locals use to I think if I could have one back, that would be the top of the list, along with the Golden Bear, because again, from the early sixties to the mid eighties, everybody played there was a lot of music history there one other site. This year marks the tennial of the very famous baseball game out in Brea, California, that featured
no less than Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson. And it was a little place called the Brea Bowl, and I wish that was still there today. It was a field that oil companies would use for their kind of inter squad baseball games. And the fact that one hundred years ago, in October of nineteen twenty four, Walter Johnson, who went to Fullerton High School, staged a game they're featuring. He played against Babe Rude and it's a very notable game.
I write about it in the book, and I think it'd be fun to have that back, as well as sort of a famous, a legendary baseball diamond.
Yeah.
What gave you kind of the travel bug? Because you've written about so many interesting places that a lot of people maybe wouldn't have even thought of, but for whatever reason, you go, ooh, that's cool.
What sparks.
I can tell you exactly. I had a moment when I was about ten years old. Newspaper in New York, the Daily News, had a little article about marily Monroe, and it showed her opposing in the seven Year Itch the famous scene where the white dress billows up over the subway grade, and it said that that actual subway grade was in New York City at the northwest corner
at fifty second Street and Lexington Avenue. And the next time we were in the city, I dragged my parents over there and I found that subway grade, and in my head, I thought, literally, how many places are there? All the New Yorkers were walking over nobody knew what had taken place there, And that planted the seed of like all these other places that we walked by every day and not know that some sort of cultural history
was made there, from the sublime to the ridiculous. And that was literally what set me off on this idea that there's got to be a lot of these places, whether it's things Dean passed away, or where the Hindenburgh crashed, or where Elvis did his first concert, whatever it happens to be. You know, I spent the last twenty five some odd years writing those books, and you know, I
love California. I always wanted to live here, and to the fact that I have been able to live here and make a living here, I focus a lot of attention on California, especially southern California in this case with Orange County, and I've written a lot about la as well, and i just feel like this really is the cultural crossroads of.
The United States in many ways.
Yeah, and Chris, you write about in your new book the Lost Landmarks of Orange County, places that aren't actually no longer there, but parts of them that are no longer there. And I'm a huge disney fan, So you have a section about things at Disneyland and not Berry Farm that are no longer there exactly.
And that's the key point, because you said, but I've got chapters in the book on both places for the many attractions no longer there, including in Disneyland's case, the Tomorrowland Stage, which was a very famous performance space where Space Mountain is located today. I write about how in the early seventies, a Linda Ronsdack got book there. Needing a band to play behind her, she gathered up some
buddies from the Troubadour in West Hollywood. They came down to back her, thus sort of giving birth to the Eagles who first got together playing at their backup Oh My Gold Stage. And you can also see in Newport on MacArthur Boulevard the original Disneyland, and Sam sits up by Rogers Garden, up on a hill with a plaque by it. So again that's an example of being able to look at an actual artist sat out in the open connected to Disneyland.
I love that there's so much history in all of this, Chris. What do you hope that people get out of this book?
I hope they just get a sense that we can always learn from the past, and it's good to go back and rekindle memories again, whether you grew up here or not. I wanted this to be a book that anybody can get something out of because of rich storytelling and great images, and just an appreciation of the fact that even though places change over the decades, he can never erase the memories. He can never erase the effects that those places had in helping to shape a community.
All right, Chris Epting, thank you so much for sharing just a few of the stories, and of course you can read all of the stories of the Lost Landmarks of Orange County.
Chris. Where can we get the book?
It's available on Amazon, all major bookstores had books, or wherever books are sold. You can find it, and I hope people enjoy it. The response so far has been wonderful, beyond my imagination, and so I'm really appreciative for this time to chat about it.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thanks.
I think a lot of people are nostalgic, and you know, with the world moving so fast, sometimes it's nice to just stop and take a look back.
I think you nailed it. I think that's really the key point with a lot of these kinds of books.
I do what you just said right now.
All right, Chris Epting, thank you so much for your time today, and hopefully we can talk to you when we have the Lost Landmarks.
Of La County anytime.
Take care, Thanks so much, so so interesting do you think lost Landmarks of Orange County? And I absolutely love that there was an alligator park. Can't imagine what could possibly go wrong with that. The top federal prosecutor in LA is stepping up immigration enforcement.
US Attorney Bill as Ailey says the new initiative, called Operation Guardian Angel, is targeting individuals in jails who have been deported and re entered the US illegally. Those people will now be charged with federal crimes. He says, this approach aims to circumvent California's sanctuary laws, which limit local
cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Assaille, a former Republican assemblyman, is focusing efforts on county jails and state prisons, key areas where sanctuary policies have restricted federal access.
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A family in San Bernardino's upset that a seventeen year old girl was seriously heard after being body slammed by a police officer. It happened during an arrest and was captured on video. The family is calling for an investigation into the officer's use of force.
He should not have even had his hands on but he picked my child up like she was a rag doll has slammed.
Her to the ground.
The teen's father, Christopher Krauser, is also seeking legal action the San Bernardino Police Department. Officials say the officer had handcuffed one of the girl's hands when she reportedly began to pull away and walk off. That's when the officer used the takedown maneuver. A man's been rescued after getting stuck in a manhole in Pacoima. Firefighters responded to a call early yesterday morning on Osbourne Street near Whiteman Airport. Firefighters used a rope system to get to the man
and safely bring him back to the surface. No word on why he was down the manhole. Travel experts say this might be the summer to go to Europe. Founder and CEO of The Points Guy, Brian Kelly says airfares and hotel prices are down to levels not seen since the pandemic as regulatory changes affect online listings, I.
Have not seen this many deals and since the peak days of the pandemic. American Airlines is running a fair sale of slowest five thousand miles a ticket.
Yikes, five thousand miles a ticket. He says he's seeing tickets for just over five hundred to six hundred dollars to go to Ireland and London, and under three hundred dollars to go to Cancun or Cabo And I can tell you after just going over to Europe, our tickets were a lot more expensive than that.
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that keyword, AM five seventy LA Sports. The names of more than seven thousand Americans who've died in combat and training exercises since the nine to eleven attacks are being read this morning at Rosie the Riveter Park in Long Beach. The name reading began around five point thirty got started
actually a little bit earlier than that. Members of gold Star Families, local active duty military, law enforcement, first responders, and vets will assist in reading the names of the fallen in order of death, as inscribed on the park's memorial wall. Several businesses, metro trains, and a police vehicle have been vandalized in downtown La. LAPD says a group of over three hundred had gathered at an abandoned building on Saturday night at Trinity Street and East Washington Boulevard.
Officers filed fired rubber bullets into the crowd to try to break them up. The crowd lit fire works off and sprayed graffiti on businesses and metro trains. Metro had to shut down service in the area for a time. Fire crews continue to battle fire east of Yosemite National Park. The fire started Thursday afternoon, prompting the closure of Highway three ninety five near Mono Lake. Air tankers have been dropping water on the flames. The fires burned about seven
hundred and twenty acres. It's fifteen percent surrounded at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Trump threatens tariffs and then pulls them right back off the table for now. With summer grilling season now upon us and a lot of people planning to cook a good stick today for Memorial Day barbecues, we went out and about to one of the best steakhouses, not in La not in the US,
but in the whole wide world. And I got to let you know, we're in the kitchen with all the fans, so they have to have the fans on so there aren't fires and that kind of thing. So there is some ambient noise, but we can still hear Curtis loud and clear in his kitchen at Gwen in Hollywood, and with us we.
Have one of the owners of Gwen.
It's Curtis Stone, you may recognize, and thanks for taking the time to do this with us, curtit.
Are You're so welcome?
How are you doing?
I'm great?
So I want to hear about this fabulous restaurant of yours. Tell us about what makes gwhen so great that it got ranked one of the best in the whole world.
Well, look, I think when it comes to it in state, there's.
Everything that happens before it gets to the shift, and that's really important. That goes right back to the farmer, a rancher, right, like what breed of cattle is it? What feed does that feed on? At what point is the animal harvested? How long is it aged for? Because we dry age all of our meats, so that's all farmer and butcher work. And then we get a wonderful quality steak given to us in the kitchen.
Look at this beauty. Wow, that great.
So what you want to see here is a nice layer of fat over the top of it and then beautiful marbling throughout. So all of that gorgeous flavor it does, so that gives it all of its richness. So this is preakstone. Is the ranch that we get it from? Where's that the middle of the country. Yep, So it's beautiful quality beef and we love cooking with its absolutely going.
And you're a stickler for this kind of thing, like making sure that you're sourcing it and getting it from good places so that it's sustainably done.
And that's a big thing we do right and we get the best.
It doesn't matter where it comes from. We buy grass fed out of Australia. I bring in the best wagu This is grain fed from the United States.
So I just you know, it's all about the quality, okay.
And then of course, once you get a good piece of steak, it's about how you cook it.
So here when we cook everything over life fire.
Okay, So it's not done in ovens or on hand suit or anything.
It's grilled and an oven.
Bed straight over, so very primal way of cooking. We've been cooking over fire for a long period of time. We burned apple wood here at the restaurant and that gives you a really hot, hot.
Cold well even the coal smell, yeah they do.
And you don't want it too smoking something like hickory or mesquite might be too rich in terms of the flavor of that smoke.
So so I'll show you. I'll tell you more about the fire when we get there, Okay. The first thing you need to do is season your steak really well generously. Okay.
Watch all the cooking shows and they say you gotta salt stuff.
You got to salt it.
Well, I'm a big.
Separate for cooking shows.
I like that.
Give it me in business.
So then you season all corners and as well with pepper, and just.
Salt and pepper.
I don't see anything else here being.
Prepped, no other dry rub, and you season all of that steak.
If you were to feel it, you'd feel it's at room temperature.
So that's important.
So it's called tempering the beef because you want the inside to get beautifully pink.
You don't want it to be gray on the outside, red in the middle.
And you know so medium rere can mean lots of different things, but for us, tempering the meat is important. If you let it come up to room temperature, it'll talk much more even.
There, okay, Okay for cooking on your ground.
So let's go out of the fire. So you take that. We're gonna put fat side down first, okay.
And you see the little basket next to it, that's called a brassiro.
Okay, and it's gonna get really loud here for a second, because we're under the fans.
We neither fans or we'd start to be fire.
So we heard you did that one time. Oh yeah, it's happened.
It's happened a couple of times. Actually drag some of that coal over and then we pop the steak straight on, fat side down. We're gonna let that fat just render and caramelize, okay, and then we'll turn it so we're gonna get all of that delicious flavor from the smoke, just whispering up and tickling the steak and giving it a wonderful sent tickling, and.
Then to get that steak to the perfection that it will be about how long.
Does it take to cut a steak like That'll probably take us about thirty five.
Minutes to call wow, and what's that cut?
Now that's a New York strip. It shouldn't take that long. But let me explain it.
We cook it over a hot fire, so we want that that rich caramelization.
But then we take it off and let it rests. Then we put it back on.
Let me take it off and that it rests a second time, and then we put it back on. So we literally cook it in three stages.
I haven't heard of that.
Checked it.
Yeah.
People always talk about resting protein at the end of the cooking process, but you should rest it in between during the cooking process as well.
Okay, didn't know that, Neil Sevader. Did you know that?
Did you? Did you?
What's that?
I was chatting with Anne? Oh.
Curtis Stone says, when you're cooking the perfect steak, you cook it for a while and then you pull it off the heat and let it rest, and then you put it back on the heat and cook it for more and then pull it back off again and then put it back on and finish it. Sounds tedious, sounds like and I had the steak. It is the best steak, arguably the best steak I've ever had in my whole life.
It was spectacular, starting with the best materials too, so absolute he's got great ingredients. Yeah, so he's doing a reverse sere, and a reverse sere is county to how we learned when we were kids, which was to sear it off and then let it come to temp. So now you let it come to temp under low heat, indirect heat, and then you sear it off and then you don't need to let it rest the same amount of time afterwards, and all that good stuff good.
And we're not done with Curtis Stone yet.
We've got some more on how to cook the perfect state for your Memorial Day barbecue or anytime during this summer grilling season that is coming up. Several ceremonies are being held around the Southland to honor the nation's fallen war veterans. A ceremony is being held at eight this morning at the C. Robert Lee Activity Center in Hawaiian Gardens. Ceremonies are also being held at nine am at Lancaster Cemetery,
Lacy Park in San Marino, and Whittier City Hall. So many ceremonies, remembrances, parades, rides, that kind of thing, and of course it's so important to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. A man has been killed in an officer involved shooting in Fontana. Fontana police responded to a domestic violence call early yesterday morning. They say, as the door was opened, the thirty one year old man pointed a gun at officers.
That's when he was shot.
Disney's Leelo and Stitch has scored the biggest Memorial Day weekend opening ever, it has taken in one hundred and eighty three million dollars in the US as of Sunday, more than doubling the hall from Tom Cruise's eighth Mission Impossible. The final reckoning It's still Open was seventy seven million dollars at the box office. That's the best weekend ever in the Mission Impossible franchise, which began in nineteen ninety six. Can you believe he's been doing those movies for twenty
years now. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, a mob of vandals has trashed downtown La handles out this morning. But Nil Savadra's sitting in the big chair. Get an us all up to date on that and so much more. We're talking to the one and only Curtis Stone, the owner of Gwen in Hollywood, about how to cook the perfect steak for your Memorial Day barbecue or at any time this grilling season.
Chris, My next.
Question for you is everybody might now be able to make it down to Gwen to get one of your good steaks.
Oh yeah, And so for people who are trying to cook the.
Perfect steak at home, Yeah, You've given us some great tips, So are there any things that people really just need to remember as they're doing their steaks?
Push well, listen, we have a great butcher shop here at Gwen too, so you literally enter the restaurant through the butcher shop, so you can come and pick up steaks from us, or if you're too far, that's fine, but do start.
With a good quality cut of beef hot grill. That's the first really important part.
Let your steak temper season it before you put it on the grill. Okay, turn it once and then take it off and let it rest for about five to ten minutes. Put it back on the grill for another two or three minutes, and turn it again, and that's it.
Serve it very simple, and that trick you got to let it rest in the middle, and then you're going to have a steak that is curdis stone worthy.
Awesome.
See how it's gotten beautiful and golden brown on the top, so that's the fact that we've rendered and caramelized, so that's going to be absolutely delicious, and then you stick it down.
The one thing that we tend to do with.
Meat we put on the grill is we poke it and prod it, and we touch it and we turn it.
Just leave it.
Don't do that.
Nothing's going to happen to it, right, Just give it that minute for two minutes without touching it, because what's happening is you're making contact with a really hot grill and that smoke that's coming up that leads time for the caramelization to set.
So don't mess with it. Just give it a minute or two and then turn it.
Okay, It sounds so easy, and I also love that you can hear your excitement. You've been doing this for a really long time and you're so excited about it, and it's infectious. So thank you again, Curtis Stone.
We went out and about to when La.
It's on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and it's delicious. They also do these sandwiches because they're not open at lunch anymore. They're open for dinner and if you're looking for a good sandwich, I think it was seventeen dollars, so it's you know, it's a little pricier than going to your neighborhood sandwich shop. These sandwiches are spectacular, especially like if you're going we got them one night when we were going to the Hollywood Bowl. It was such a great
treat and so yummy, yummy. And that's lunchtime only. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Airports around southern California are expected to be packed today with travelers returning from Memorial Day weekend trips. ABC's Melissa Aidens says the TSA is ready for a very busy day.
Essay overall expects eighteen million people to be flying in and out of the US throughout all this time. In the Memorial Day weekend.
She says the TSA screen more than three million people at the start of the holiday weekend. It was like the third busiest day ever on record for the TSA. The armor for the film Dust has been released from prison.
Hannah Gutiera's read was released from a New Mexico prison on Friday after serving fourteen months of an eighteen month sentence for involuntary manslaughter. She was found guilty of bringing live ammunition to set and failing to follow safety protocols that ultimately resulted in the onset shooting that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins. Actor Alec Baldwin, who discharged the firearm, had
his charges dismissed last year due to prosecutorial misconduct. The film Rust resumed production in twenty twenty three and was released in limited theaters earlier this month. Heatherbrooker KFI News News brought to you by Seller's Advantage. Two men have been killed and a woman's been wounded in a shooting in Manchester Square. LAPD says a shooting happened when two men fired several rounds into a crowd in an alley Saturday night near Florence and Dalton Avenues. The two ran
off but were caught a short time later. The woman's recovering at the hospital. A flight from Japan that was headed to Houston had to divert to Seattle because of an unruly passenger.
Airport officials say a male passenger tried to open an emergency door on the All Nippon Airways flight on Saturday and was held back by other passengers and crew members. Officials said after safely landing, police boarded the plane and found the passenger was having a medical emergency. The passenger was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, and the flight carried on to Houston. Michael Kassner Kafi News.
Health officials in Gaza say the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least fifty two people, including thirty six in a school turned shelter. The Israeli military says it targeted militants operating from the school. Israel has promised to seize control of Gaza and keep fighting until Hamas is destroyed or disarmed, and until it returns the remaining fifty eight hostages. Only a third of them are believed to still be alive.
Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett is facing criticism for endorsing Fox News host Jesse Waters rules for men. They include avoiding behaviors deemed effeminate, like drinking from straws.
I don't drink out of straw, brother, That's what the women.
In my house do.
But a photo from Birchet's own Instagram shows him drinking a milkshake with a straw. Critics argue that such comments reinforce outdated gender stereotypes and distract from more pressing political issues.
To straw or not to straw? That is the question.
Hey, before we get out of here on this Memorial Day, you may be trying to figure out what you're going to do for the day. And as we've been telling you throughout wake Up Call, there's a ton of memorial ceremonies that are underway. The one in Rosy Riveter Park is underway now where they're reading more than seven thousand names of people who've died since nine to eleven who were involved with the military, first responders, that kind of thing.
Several ceremonies at Forest Lawn. There's parades and that kind of stuff. We'll be telling you about that all morning long. If you're looking to do something kind of fun and festive this afternoon, to celebrate or to commemorate and enjoy time with family and friends, there's lots of stuff going on. Last week we told you about the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. It started on Friday and it continues through today. There's rides and games and food and music and of course
all things strawberry. And Wendy Ellis with the Strawberry Festival was telling us about some of the amazing things that they have to offer food wise at the Strawberry Festival, and of course you can go and buy a bunch of strawberries and bring them home. There's nothing better than fresh pick strawberries, in my humble opinion, if you're up in the Lakenyata flint Ridge area, they are doing Fiesta Days.
They have their Fiesta Days run and then they're also doing a Memorial service and a parade, and then afternoon there's games and food and music in Memorial Park. So if you're up in that area, one of my favorite things to do is Fiesta Hermosa. And my best friend Amy, who I just traveled with, she and I used to do this every single year, but then she moved up to pass the Roblasts, and so we know we're not doing anymore, but I'm gonna have to get her down here on a Memorial Day.
But Fiesta Hermosa.
It's right there on the main street in Hermosa Beach, and they have a carnival and they've got food, and they've got games, and they've got rides, and they've got live music and there's a wine garden. My favorite part is the shopping. They've got all these vendor boosts and really cool stuff and it's right there on that main
drag near the waterfront. And that's Fiesta Hermosa just a few of the things going on this Memorial Day as we honor and remember those who lost their lives in service of our country.
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This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland weather from KFI. Some low clouds, we'll call it May gray for a couple more days, then sunny with highs in the sixties at the beaches, low to mid seventies for Metro La and Inlan Orange County, seventies in the valleys, seventies to low eighties for the Inland Empire and Annelotte Valley. Morning clouds, afternoon sun Tomorrow and Wednesday,
with high in the seventies and eighties. We'll be warming up into the eighties to low nineties by the end of the week. It's sixty four in Los Alaminos, fifty five in Santa Clarita, sixty four in Seal Beach, and sixty one in Whittier. Live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and if you missed any wake up call, my goodness. We got through a lot today. We got to talk to Chris Epting, the author of the Lost
Landmarks of Orange County. Really interesting guy, really interesting interview, and of course Curtis Stone on making that perfect steak for your Memorial Dave barbecue or anytime all summer long. And as I mentioned, if you missed any wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on the iHeart Radio app.
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