You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. This is your wake up call or Friday, October thirteenth. I'm Amy King. Yes, Happy Friday the thirteenth. Are you feeling a little anxious today? You may have triska decaphobia, a fear of things having to do with the
number thirteen. Apparently it's a real thing. Researchers say people actually suffer for this or from this, and some people get so freaked out about Friday the thirteenth that they stay home from work. But here's the upside to it. Experts say people are actually safer on Friday the thirteenth because they're so freaked out. They're very careful and cautious, So be careful out there. I dig Friday the thirteenth. I think it's cool. Here's what's ahead on wake Up
Call. LAPD says it is boosting patrols today because Hamas has called for supporters to take to the streets for a so called Global Day of shad Willie say there have been no credible threats in southern California, but La Santa Monica and Beverly Hills police say there will be more officers patrolling synagogues and other places of worship. Steve Scalise has pulled out of the race to become the next Speaker of the House. The announcement last night came after a full day of meetings
with House Republicans. It did not appear that Scalise would get the two hundred and seventeen votes he needed to get him voted in as speaker. All eyes were on Taylor Swift, not for her new concert movie, which is now in theaters, but because she was at the Chief Broncos game last night. She's been rumored to be dating Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce for weeks,
but neither of them have confirmed a relationship. The Chiefs won the game, by the way, nineteen to eight at six oh five its handle on the news. Israel has warned more than a million residents of Northern Gaza they need to get out within twenty four hours. That could be a signal that a ground assault is about to happen. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As I just mentioned, Israel's military has warned more than a million Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate the northern part of the Gaza Strip ahead of an Israeli ground defensive. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says people have been given twenty four hours. Israel, saying Hamas terrorists are
hiding in tunnels under homes. A UN spokesman responding, saying the United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences. Hamas says dismissed Israel's warning as a ploy and told its people to stay in their home. Holmes, We're gonna be talking to Jordana Miller again from Israel in just a couple of minutes. She'll give us the latest on this, because that twenty four hour window was announced I think about ten hours ago.
Hamas says Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed thirteen of the hostages, including foreigners. The group did not give the nationalities, but said they were killed over the last twenty four hours, and Israeli military spokesman says they do not believe the lies of Hamas. Police in France say a teacher has been killed at a high school in the northern city of Arris. Local media say two students were hurt in the stabbing attack. This morning, France's Interior minister says the
attacker has been arrested. A violent seventy one year old sex offender has escaped a state mandated mental health facility in La Police are searching for the man they say is armed and dangerous. LAPD's Drake Madison says John Carver, who also goes by Scott Carver and Michael Meadows, was last seen Tuesday night on Olympic and Masilyin Avenue. Done cut off his monitoring device, led towards Sambacente Boulevard and Sierra Benita Avenue, possibly on foot. Police are warning the public to
stay vigilant, travel in pairs, and stay in well lit areas. Anyone with information has urged to call local police. Chris Sadler KFI News Fifteen organizations in Orange County will split more than fifty two million dollars to create seven hundred and six homeless housing units. That person's ability to be healthy is eighty percent
dictated by things outside of the doctor's office. Cal Optimus Kelly Bruno Nelson says that's why Orange County's healthcare system put up the money for more affordable housing and more permanent supportive housing. We also invested in some temporary housing and also some ADU projects. Some examples include motels being converted into homeless units for veterans and others in Santa Ana and Anaheim, as well as eight newly constructed homes in
Tustin for families with minor children in Orange County. Corbin Carson KFI News, a watchdog agency in California, has called attention to the state's aging population and its impact on housing and homelessness, healthcare, and workforce policies. The Little Hoover Commission says the number of people fifty five and up will grow by ten percent in the next forty years. It says nearly half of adults seventy five and older may need long term care services and affordable housing, but California is
expected to face a shortage of caregivers. The commission says it hopes the findings will push the state to better implement its master Plan for Aging. Okay So here's somebody or actually a group who may be helping a little bit. I know that today's kind of it's scary with the whole the warnings and all of that stuff and everything that's going on in Israel. So here's a bit of
good news. There is a group of twenty two eighth graders. They are in the woods Shop class in the Fullerton School District at Nicholas Junior High and they know that there's a housing shortage, so they're building a home for someone. They're going to have a fully furnished, complete with a kitchen, bathroom, and living space for about three family members, one hundred and ninety two
square foot tiny home. They're working on it in class. They're hoping that it's going to be done by like May and it will serve as a temporary residence for a chosen Fullerton School District student and their family who are getting assistants through the district. So they're getting this cool lesson on building, learning how
to build stuff, and doing it for a really good cause. And the wood Shop class isn't the only one who's participating, because the students at Nicholas are creating a documentary that will walk the students walk everybody through the students building the house step by step, highlighting the highs and lows of tackling a project like this, and like I said, they're expecting the bulk of it to be done by May. So good on you kids at Nicholas Junior High.
Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. Israel has told the UN to clear out more than a million people from northern Gaza within about twenty four hours, and that was ten hours. Where's they go? That's right? The Israeli Army informing the UN that they were going to call on the citizens of Gaza City in particular to evacuate, and they've dropped flyers, They've put on the radio, messages in Arabic, SMS, text messages,
social media posts urging civilians to leave the area of Gaza City. That indicates strongly that Israel is going to make that the focus of its next intense round of bombing and airstrikes. Gaza City has long been a stronghold of Hamas. Israel believes that there are tunnels underneath Gaza City that are used to shelter militants and to hold arms and rockets. And rocket launchers. No surprise for those of us covering this that Gaza City is going to be the next focus of
this really response to Hamas's gruesome attack Saturday night. So far the Israeli Army has to meet six hundred thousand Palestinians have been on the move south. The UN of course, says this is going to be, you know, a very high bar to reach getting a million people out. There will be tens of thousands that won't be able to move. They're saying it's going to push Gaza. Into their words, the ABYSS so lots of concerns about a growing
humanitarian crisis. The border with Egypt is open, some goods can get in that way. The Israeli side, of course, is still closed is or will not let anything into the Gaza strip until they say Hamas releases the hostages that they're holding. For the first time, we've got, you know, a better picture. There are one hundred and twenty hostages the The Israeli Army says they've informed the families. That's not a complete list. We expect that
number to rise. Okay, Jordana, are people leaving Gaza because I know that Hamas said, oh no, it's just a ploy. Stay where you are. What are people doing? Right? So Hamas Israel says, and I was on the briefing with the with the spokesperson while we were while this was unfolding, he said, we're we see that Hamas is setting up roadblocks and they're telling people they're preventing people from leaving, and they're calling the call to evacuate fake news. And he was saying it is, it is not
fake news. But despite Hamas's efforts, it still looks like six hundred thousand people, according to Israel, are on the move to the south. So that's half of the half of the call to evacuate. Okay. And when you say that six hundred thousand people are leaving and they have to go south, guard they have to go going. Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know the exact miles from Gaza City to someplace like han Unis, but Gaza is about the size of Detroit City, so you know it has
to be it has to be several miles to get to the south. Okay. And are they are they walking? Are they taking cars? Buses? Do we know? I think any possible way? Yeah, I mean there aren't even enough vehicles to do it all within the twenty four hour period. That's why the Israeli side at least said, you know, we know it's
going to take longer than twenty four hours. Look on the Israeli side of a million people have moved in the last five six days since the attack, and it's taken five or six days, and they've done it under rocket fire. But certainly it is easier to move out. It's easier to go north in Israel than it is in the Gaza strip. Okay. And Hamas is saying that fourteen hostages have been killed, but Israel's saying, now, we don't believe that they could be lying. Do we have any kind of updates
on any hostages, don't. Hamas announced that thirteen had been killed in Israeli air strikes overnight. The Israeli Army said, we don't believe any information from Hamas, and if we have our own means to verify that, we will, So they're not responding, they're not saying that is a fact. Okay. And you mentioned earlier that the border to Egypt is open for people to
leave. That's a new development, right because it had been closed Yeah, it's been open and closed since Saturday's attacked, and right now it is opened. Okay. And what is your reaction to Secretary or the reaction that you're getting from people in Israel to Secretary of State Lincoln's visit and his reaction after seeing the photos of the massacre. Basically his demeanor visibly changed to me,
how are they responding to it in Israel? Right? I think there is great appreciation that the Secretary of Defense is so empathetic with the scale of the murder, and he called it a slaughter and he said, you know, when we were fighting Isis, it was evil and he called this even worse than Isis. We know that the Secretary of State saw, you know, images and other pieces of evidence about what happened down in the South which are
horrifying. And I just want to say, you know, some people have suggested that somehow Israe would have doctored photographs, for example, of some of the babies that were mutilated or burned. I mean, I know somebody who is in the Israeli Army and their task right now is having to help teams identify through DNA and other means, just the children that were killed and burned and mutilated. So it's you know, Israel is not faking anything here.
These these were these were atrocities and uh Lloyd Austin was you know, horrified by them, and he expressed you know, his his the United States is ironclad commitment to Israel and its security, and you know, said the USS carriers here, and it has a clear message and that is he repeated what the President said a few nights ago. Any group or organization that has any thoughts of taking advantage of this situation, he said, we have one one
word for you, don't. Yeah, because you know it's clear that the United States will be here. If this unfortunate, if God forbid, this would expand to a much bigger regional war. Okay, well, Giordana Miller again, thank you for your insight, insight and be safe. And it sounds like you've got little ones in the background, and we thank you in the background that there's there's people and more children there and so we we hope use stay safe and and everybody can stay safe. And we'll just thank you
see what's next. Thank you there here, all right, take care, Thank you so much. You bye, It's just astounding, right, like that this is going on. It's just mind boggling and so terrifying, and you know, terrifying that it could even happen here. You know, the surprise attack and all of that just sort of gets your mind thinking, and we're going to try to change our minds over to better things. When we come back. We are going to be talking with the deputy director of the
Griffith Observatory because we have an eclipse tomorrow. We're going to find out when it exactly is going to be and how you can safely view it. Remember you're never supposed to look directly at the sun, but we're going to find out about that. It's kind of a cool thing if you haven't seen an eclipse for a while. Israel's military has told the UN that more than a million people in northern Gaza need to get out within twenty four hours. That
warning could be a prelude to a ground assault. The UN says clearing that many people out in that short period is impossible without what it calls devastating humanitarian consequences. Former La City Council President Nuri Martinez has spoken publicly for the first time since audio recordings were leaked of a conversation in which she called the son of a fellow councilman what translates to little monkey. She apologized on Telemundo yesterday,
but insists she was joking and had no racist intentions. The IRS says Americans failed to pay about six hundred and eighty eight billion dollars in taxes due on their twenty twenty one tax returns. That's a record for unpaid taxes. The IRS says that's not going to happen again. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Police patrols are being increased around southern California following Hamas's calling for a day of She had so cow police do say there is
no credible threat right now. We teased you with eclipse music five well and to burn ring on Fire. I went down. That's because what we're going to see is a of fire eclipse in the Western skies this weekend. So we wanted to check in with the experts. Let's say good morning to Griffith's Observatory's Deputy director, Mark Pine. Good morning, Mark, Good morning, Amy. Thank you for getting up early for us this morning. Tell us
about the ring of Fire eclipse that we're going to see. So the Ring of Fire is an eclipse that runs from the West coast, the Upper West Coast, the Pacific Northwest down through Texas, and it occurs when the Moon gets between the Earth and the Sun, and in the case of an annular eclipse, which is what a Ring of fire eclipse is, the Moon blocks most but not all, of the Sun. So what you see peeking out is essentially a ring of the Sun that isn't covered by the Moon, and
that's where the Ring of Fire name comes from. That's not what we're going to see in southern California. For us, the Sun will be about seventy five percent covered, so it's a partial solar eclipse, but still seventy five
percent cover. That's a that's a pretty big chunk it is. It's a big deal, and it doesn't happen all the time, and so that's why we are having pre public observing at the observatory and we're doing an online broadcast, and we want people to go outside and look at the eclipse, but to do so obviously safely, which means they always have to be wearing either
eclipse glasses or looking through a properly filtered solar telescope, okay. And can people get eclipse glasses if they don't already have them or is it kind of tool. It isn't too late. Actually, people learned, including us, learned from the twenty seventeen eclipse that sometimes demand for these gets very robust, and so we have a lot at the observatory, so you can come and get them there. Our store opens today at noon, open tomorrow at six
am. Also some camera supply stores, some optical stores, possibly grocery stores. So it's a but under no circumstance should anyone look at the sun without proper protection. And no one should make their own filters there. There's always been in the past, some you know, welder's glass this and something that, And that's just a really bad idea and people shouldn't do it, okay, because you literally can fry your eyes. You can, and that is
a that's a bad idea as interesting as a partial solar eclipse is. It's not worth that, okay. And like you can't look in a mirror and see it, that's not a good idea either. You can reflect an image. You can't look at the mirror, but you can reflect the image onto the ground and that's actually a very good idea is to get the sun and reflect the image onto a flat surface or onto the ground so that you can see it safely. You just don't want to be observing it directly without proper
protection. Okay. So one of the great places that you can go and do that safely is the Griffith Observatory. You said you're going to open at six o'clock, So tell us like the timeline, when when are we going to start the eclipse and when does it get It's not going to get totality,
but when does when does it get at its most ecliptical. It's so the eclipse, the first little bite out of the sun will come at eight oh eight, and the as you described, the maximum eclipse is at nine twenty four, and so the sun will be roughly three quarters covered at that point, and then the eclipse ends at ten point fifty. So, as you were just saying, the building opens at six o'clock, will start setting up telescopes on the lawn, and the store will be open to sell eclipse
glasses. Obviously, anytime go to the observatory, parking can be almost as rare as a partial solar eclipse. So you want to get there early and just and be ready potentially for a walk uphill. But it's a Saturday morning and we expect a good crowd and we expect hopefully clear skies that will let people actually see this. Okay, And then you also mentioned an online broadcast.
If people want to stay hunkered down in their homes don't want to venture out, where would they find that they would find that they can get a link to it from the homepage of our website, Gripithobservatory dot org, and we will and those that broadcasts just like our public observing events that if you want to think of it as an event on site. Both of those run from eight am to eleven am, so people can watch safely either way.
Great, and the good news is it's not too early in the morning, so you don't have to get up at the krack of dawn and you can still see a major celestial event. I love it. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Appreciate it so much. That's Griffith Park observe A. Griffith Observatories Deputy Director, Mark Pine, thanks so much. Doing all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Local law enforcements say they're monitoring recent online threats by hamas calling for a day of jihai. La County Sheriff's investigators say they're keeping a close eye on social media posts and are not aware of a credible threat to the La County area. LAPD Deputy Chief Dave Kowalski says his counter terrorism Bureau is in regular contact with federal and international agencies, and they too,
are closely watching digital activity. Many times where we've been ahead of it and attacks haven't occurred, whether it's here in Los Angeles or other parts of the country or the world, those are wins for us. Kowalski also says there are no credible threats in the LA area. Steve King if I knew La City councilman cure and Price is due in court to face charges of theft
by embezzlement, perjury, and conflict of interest. Prosecutors say Price voted on projects involving developers tied to his wife's consulting firm, then failed to report the connections. He's also accused of having to the city cover nearly thirty four thousand dollars in medical payments for a woman he was not married to. Price has said he is innocent. We don't know who the latest Powerball billionaire is yet, but we do know the owners of the liquor store where the ticket was
sold in Fraser Park. They get a million dollars for selling the ticket. I only had get half of the money. The other have, Gustlwai rather, I want to make sure. I want to make sure my kids have enough funds for the colleague. Co owner Andrew Andy Khalail says he may also go on a vacation. The winner of Wednesday's jackpot has a year to come
forward to claim the one point seven to three billion dollar prize. And the Warren and Downey High school football teams are going to play tonight on under the
brightest of Friday night lights. They're going to be at SOFI Stadium. The seven o'clock game between the two Downy schools will be the first high school football game played at the stadium that is normally home to the LA Chargers and Rams, and the LAPD says it is boosting patrols today because it reports Homas Hamas has called for supporters to take to the streets for a so called Global Day of Jihad. La Santa Monica and Beverly Hills police say there will be more
officers patrolling synagogues and other places of worship. If you can hold off on filling your gas tank for a couple more days, you might want to, because gas prices just keep falling. They've dipped for the fourteenth straight day and
are down to five eighty five a gallon. I know, still really high, but way down from where they were, and it's down to five sixty five in oc All eyes were on Taylor Swift, not for her new concert movie, which is now in theaters and breaking records, but because she was at the Chiefs Broncos game last night. She's been rumored to be dating Kansas City tight end Travis Kelcey for weeks, but of course neither one of them have confirmed a relationship. The Chiefs won the game nineteen to eight. At
six oh five. It's handle on the news. Israel has warned more than a million residents in northern Gaza they need to get out in twenty four hours, and that warning came about ten hours ago. I could signal a ground assault is about to happen. At five point fifty, we're going to be talking with ABC's Jason Nathanson about new stuff on the stream, what's old is new and all that. And actually I just saw there's a tease for a really cool show or it looks really cool, Lessons in Chemistry. He's going
to tell us about that right now. Though, Let's say good morning to our house whisper and host of Home on KFI. It's Dean Sharp. Good morning, Dean Amy King. We just watched the first two episodes of Lessons in Chemistry last night. It was amazing. Oh you know what when they'd say it drops on Friday, it drops the day before. I know. We were totally expecting to do that tonight because we both read the book, Tina and I, and we were so looking forward to and I sat down
last night and I'm like, look there it is it. So we had to I do the same thing. Okay, but right now, let's talk about houses, because even though interest rates are at their highest point in like twenty three years, people are still buying and selling, and I would imagine it's probably a little tougher to sell. So you've got to make sure your house is sail ready. That's absolutely right. And you know it hasn't stopped life. You know, nothing that happens shuts life down. People still have
to sell houses. People are still buying houses, and especially when the market is tight and tough like it is right now. And that's what, by the way, what we're talking about all weekend, we're talking about staging houses. We're talking about real estate with one of my real estate experts on Sunday, just to get a sense of like what the heck is going on out there in the housing market. But staging a house to sell, this is
very much in my whee wheelhouse because this is a design issue. This is something that we prep so that we present and it's in one sense, it's like one hundred and eighty degrees opposite of what I normally do because I am a custom home designer. I'm all about taking you your personality and making the home all about your story. And when we stage a house, you want really exactly now, we don't want to remove story because story still sells.
Okay, that's really the key of staging. If we weren't concerned about telling a story, then we could just empty out the house and show a house vacant. But I'll tell you every real estate expert that I've ever known who's ever advised me, would prefer not to actually sell an empty house because you want to project a story, and it's difficult for people to imagine, well, how would I use this space? How would I you know, how
does the furniture set up in here? So if you can give them an aspirational story or a model of look, this is the kind of life you could live in this space, then it absolutely, without questions, statistically helps us sell a house. Now, you know, there are people out there who can clear a house out and then rent furniture and stage it that way, and that's very fancy and it's expensive, and most people who are listening to us are like, Okay, then we're not going to do that.
Right, I'm here to tell you can do it with you living in the house. But there are some key things that you got to follow. The very first and most important thing is you have to kind of emotionally move out before you move out. Oh so remember this from when I was selling my house and I hated it, but I knew it had to be done exactly right. And so one of the things that you know that leads to a
number of simple things. One of them is, and probably the most illustrative of all of these tips is, for instance, getting rid of or putting away I should say not getting rid of, putting putting away family photos and all of them. And there's a reason why we're not. We don't want to take art off the wall or just general photographs, but family photos. Because here's the thing. If I walk into your home, I'm a potential buyer. I don't want to be walking into your home. I want to
be walking into perhaps my future home. And so to see furniture setup that's one thing, But to see you know, your photos in your bedroom, this makes it. You know, I'm a trespasser at that point, right, I feel uncomfortable inside, you know, because this is somebody else's store. And here's the thing, the last story thing that you want running through my head and I walk into you know, one of your special spaces, is I don't belong here. I don't belong here. This is somebody else's
think about that. That's the last thing you want a potential buyer to say, I don't belong here. So these are the kinds of strategies we have to employ when it comes to staging a house. Yeah, I think one of the things that I always think, I'm sure a real estate agent told me at some point, was when you walk into a house, you want the person who's a potential buyer to say, oh, I could see me living here, and if they see you, they don't. Absolutely. It
basically comes down to two things, two principles. One calming fears. There's a lot about what calming fear. Well, there's a lot of fear when it comes to buying a house. You know this, You own a house and it's our arguably the largest investment in most of us will ever make. We're walking into a strange environment. There's so much we don't know about the place, and we're worried about things like is this a money pit? Is
this thing? And So when I say calming fears, I mean doing nothing that alerts, you know, sends off any red lights or sirens in anybody's mind. So when people ask me all the time, they're like, all right, Dean, I want to sell my place. What should I do? Where should I I've got some money that I'm going to spend on it to get it ready to sell. Should I fix the roof or should I
redecorate the living room? And I'm always please fix the roof, Okay, So houses Still, when it comes down to it, far more important that you get the basics in order. You do not want that home inspection report coming back with like, yeah, it's got some issues in the world. You know, the electrical is subpar, the plumbing is messed up, all the basics of the have all of that in order first, and then if you've got some disposable time and energy after that, clean it up and apply
you know, the art of staging to it. So that's calming fears, because fear is just going to shut it down, right there, Any kind of alert like that is going to shut a buyer down. If you don't have their fears going, then what you want to do is what you just said, which is you want to excite their aspirations. You want them to think I could see myself in this room, living life in this space. And that's the goal of good stage, and that is what you're going to
be talking about all weekend long. I love if I could do it for a living, I would stage houses. I love doing that kind of stuff. I used to do really my friends all the time. It really is a lot of fun. Absolutely, Dean Sharp so much, Thank you so much. So we can listen to you six to eight tomorrow morning and then nine to noon on Sunday. And where do we follow you on social at home with Dean? That's easy, Dean Sharp, It thanks so much.
Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Just getting word right now that Kaiser Permanente has reached a tentative deal with the unions representing seventy five thousand workers, including here in California. That is just coming into the newsroom right now. We will get you more information as soon as we haven't remembered, they walked out for three days last week, and they had threatened to walk out
again unless they got a deal. Israel has warned more than a million Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza. The order comes. Officials expect Israel's Ministry of Defense to initiate a ground defensive against Hamas. The terror group has dismissed the warning as a ploy and is calling on people to stay in their homes. The UN responded to the warning last night, saying it is physically impossible to evacuate
that many people without devastating humanitarian consequences. Mission Viejo could pay up to seven hundred thousand dollars in attorney fees for lawsuits that led to a judge removing the entire city council. When those two year terms were up, they should have run for reelection. Lawyer Aaron Hand says all five council members had to go back to the ballot, and two who had stayed beyond term limits did not
get reelected last year. They decided to use legal maneuvering in order to try to stay in office without calling an election and giving the people the right to choose. Mission Viejo City attorney Bill Curly says the city was just looking for a fair way to switch to district voting. If the Court of Appeals is favorable to the city, nothing will be in Orange County. Corbin Carson k if I News. Yeah, more things are getting more expensive. Chipotley's menu
is about to get more expensive. The company says that for the first time in over a year, it has to make a modest price in crete increase to offset inflation. Chipotle has not announced the new prices or when the change will take effect. Either way, it makes me hungry and I want Chipotle now. Kaiser permanente in the unions representing thousands of healthcare workers have reached a tentative deal that could end the labor dispute that led to a three day strike
last week. The union has been pushing for higher wages that factor in inflation, increased staffing, and better working conditions. We're just getting this information in, so we'll get you more information as the morning goes on. Ford Motor Company is telling the United Auto Workers that it's twenty three percent pay raise offer is the most they can afford to do. The UAW is striking the Big three autumn as they look for a forty percent raise and a four day workweek.
Former La City Council president Nuri Martinez has spoken publicly for the first time since audio recordings were leaked of a conversation in which she called the son of a fellow councilman what translates to little monkey. She apologized on Telemundo yesterday, but insisted she was joking and had no racist intentions. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning. Police patrols are being increased around southern
California following Hamas's call for a day of jihad. It is Friday. We like to see what's happening in the world of entertainment, and for that we turned to our entertainment guru, ABC's Jason Nathanson. Jason, do you think we can officially call you a swifty? Now? Yeah? Maybe, I don't know. I like Taylor Swift. I like everything's going on, like her aesthetic. I like, you know, her attitude. I like how she runs everything in her the business side of everything. I think she's a
genuinely good person. So you know, you take all that and going in and going to this concert movie, and I gotta say, you kind of gotta be a little bit of the swifty to enjoy this because you went to the one at the Grove. I did. I went to the premiere to the premiere at the Grove, So it was you know, all theaters. Usually, you know, when you go to a premiere, it's one theater, either it's the TCL Chinese or like for the really big ones, Star
Wars or an Avengers, they'll do three theaters in that complex. They'll do the Dolby and the TCL and the Disney Theater there as well. I've never been to a premiere where it was every theater at a complex like this, all fourteen theaters there, and Taylor Swift took her time and went to every single theater. Oh that's what I was going to ask. I'm like, well, which one did she go to? Yeah? She went. She went to every single theater beforehand, gave a little three minute speech. It
was the same speech pretty much for every one of them. And then she actually did stay and watched it in theater number two with all the people in there. Again rare. Most of you know, most of the stars, they show up and they don't sit and watch the movie unless they're there with their families or something like that. But a lot of them leave because, you know, they don't want to sit and watch the movie again they've seen
it before. So she stayed and watched the whole time. I was in Theater one with her, all of her dancers, and Mariska Hargatea also from Law and Order SVU. The two of them are very close and she named her cat after her character on the show. They have a long history together. Flavor Flav was in there as well, the rapper who was a big swiftye who I did not know that he was a big swifty and a bunch
of fans too. Some of the fans who were in there were the ones who were they were, you know, as she went into the every theater, she told everybody in there, you were hand picked to be here tonight. And some of them actually were, Like some of the fans were the way they got the tickets, wore they were they listened to her on Spotify. They were the top listeners to Taylor Swift on Spotify. She is so good about that kind of stuff. Man, She loves her fans, really
really good about that. And she rewarded them. They got they were notified, Hey, you're in the top point one percent of listeners on Spotify, and here's a ticket to the premiere with you know, or two tickets, you and a friend. And you know, people flew in from all over the country and some cases of the world to see this movie. And you should know going in, if you're going to see it, if you're taking your kids, you know, and it's not something you really want to see,
but you want to take them or whatever. This is a concert movie. It's two hours and forty eight minutes of the concert, and it's just concert, right, just concert. It was taped here at so Far the first three nights of her six nights stand. They used those nights to kind of fill what they have here, and the concert itself was I don't know, three hours and fifteen minutes, three and a half hours, something like
that. So they did cut some stuff, but there's no behind the scenes, there's no talking, there's no going between cities some of the stuff. That really makes to me some of those concert movies a lot more interesting because just watching it's like watching a really long music video. And don't get me wrong, I again, I saw it in IMAX. It looks spectacular, so if I stadium looks absolutely incredible. From the aerial views, you really get a sense of what it's like to be on stage as her looking out
into the crowd of tens of thousands of people. It's amazing and almost overwhelming at times, but beautifully shot, really cool. But again, it's two hours and forty eight minutes of her performing and the people in the audience dancing and singing loudly. I would think that that would be the distracting part of it. But I guess if you go to the movie, you're a swifty anyway, so you expect it. So a couple things about that. The sound in the theater, at least at the AMC at the Grove, in
the Imax theater was incredible. I mean absolutely, It's pretty cool to hear something that loud and that close like that. So I enjoyed the sound. And the sound was so loud it drowned out most of the singing unless somebody was right next to you, which somebody was right next to me. She was really really into it. But you know, if people are a little bit away from you, I did not hear them singing, but you definitely see them dancing. Okay, So it's like being at a concert. People
were talking, people were on their phones. If it were a real movie, I'd kind of be, you know, a little annoyed by all that. But in this setting, it feels right, and you feel like you're at a concert and you have the best view in the house. So if you if you were at those concerts it's so far, you're going to see stuff that you didn't see because you were you know, you're pretty far away from the stage. Even with the video monitors, this is the best shot
in the house. Okay, cool, all right, So moving on from Swift, we don't have a whole lot of time, and I got two things at least that I want to talk to you about. One is Frasier and the other one is the Lessons in Chemistry, because Dean Sharp just says that he watched Lessons in Chemistry. At least the first two episodes tell us about that one. Oh yeah, that's a new show on Apple TV Plus. It stars Bree Larson, based on a popular book from last year.
I believe it looks really good, is it? Yeah? I really liked it. She plays a chemist chemistry, kind of a scientist in a lab in nineteen fifties. Who is you know, there's a lot of sexism, a lot of misogyny. She is not certainly, they don't treat her as equals, and she has to go through a lot to try to gain people's
respects. She's brilliant and then things kind of go from there. And you know, if you haven't seen, I don't want to kind of ruin anything, but Bree Larson's fantastic and I think this is a you know, we've seen her in the Marvel movies most recently, and that's fine, but this is also you know, she won an Oscar for Room several years ago, and when she first kind of came onto the scene, so she can act, she can act, and this is this is we're seeing that again in
a way we haven't seen it in a while. Yeah. For I saw the trailers for it initially and I went and then I watched it again. I went, wait a second, that does look kind of interesting. Yeah. I liked it okay. And it's set in sun the California in the fifties, which is cool too, love it okay. And then Fraser's back. I watched the first two episodes. What'd you think? Yeah, yeah,
that's exactly what I thought. Look, I these revivals have not really worked for me, and I don't I want to, especially a show like Fraser, which was so great at the time. There's no need to tarnish the image. But the one thing I noticed when watching this stuff is it just feels like an old way of watching television, These these kind of sitcoms which I used to love. The three camera the laugh track is so glaringly
obvious. This thing I noticed right off the bat the first scene, you guys, so if you if you haven't watched it yet, they open it up and Fraser comes on screen and you hear this really really loud fake yeah laugh, applause track. Yeah, and it went come on. It's bad. Yeah, it was really bad. It sounds bad. It's just distracting. It does. It doesn't feel that the timing and everything. It just again, it feels like kind of old fashioned and not in it, not
in a great way. And you know the characters. You know, you have Frasier of course, but most of the characters surrounding him are new. There are going to be some appearances from some of the other like bb new Worth and Perry Gilpin will show up at some point, but David had Pieris who plays Niles, and Jane Leaves who played Daphning, they're not They passed on it, so you don't expect to see them. And it's just kind of a little I thought too. It tarnishes the original, which is not
ever what you want to do when you bring something like this back. Yeah, but if you do want to check it out, it's on Paramount Plus the first three episodes have dropped. All right, Jason Nathan's and thank you so much for your time. Are little swifty Bye bye, Okay, before we run the irs as Americans failed to pay about six hundred and eighty eight billion dollars in taxes in twenty twenty one tax returns, and they say that's
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