You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from kf I AM six Morning KFI had KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's any King. It's five o'clock. Good morning. This is your wake up call for Friday, September twenty ninth. I'm Amy King, thrilled that you're with us this morning. I gotta say I'm a little bum though, as we start this Friday driving in it's cloudy this
morning, so I didn't get to see the super moon. So a pretty cool moon the night before, and like on Wednesday, Wednesday morning it was nice but not full and it wasn't the super moon, which just pete. So last one of the year. Hey, it's National Coffee Day. I got my coffee. We'll tell you about where you can get some free stuff and extra goodies all over the place. Here's what's ahead on the wake up Call. Governor Newsom has signed a bill that will require employers to pay fast
food workers in the state at least twenty bucks an hour. The wage increase takes effect April first. Eighty three percent of employers say they are going to increase menu prices to cover the costs. The Senate and House have advanced bills to avoid a government shutdown this weekend that is looking more likely by the hour. The deadline to prevent that shutdown is midnight tomorrow. We're going to be talking to ABC's Stephen Portnoy about the implications of a shutdown in just a couple
of minutes. Hey, the Pacific Air Show takes off and the skies over Huntington Beach today. The main events this weekend will feature the Air Force Thunderbirds and the F twenty two Raptors demonstration team. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. Some lawmakers are calling on Governor Newsom to suspend the gas tax as gas prices continue to skyrocket in California. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the Kfight twenty four hour newsroom. A thirteen year old in Burbank has been arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up his middle school. Belie say they found out about it on social media Wednesday night, threatening Luther Burbank Middle School. The student was cited for making criminal threats and released to his parents. They turned over the toy gun scene in the social media post striking actors say they won't back down as sag After heads to
the negotiating table with major studios. Actors are set to meet with studio executives Monday to try to work out a deal to bring an end to a strike that started in July. Actress Sean Richards says sag afters negotiating leaders will be standing their ground at this point. If we've done it this long, why would we change our tactic? They came back to us. The writers ended a nearly five month long strike Wednesday after approving a contract with the AMPTP that
addresses most of their concerns. Chris Adler Ka FI News. A man charged with killing his ex girlfriend by throwing her over a balcony at her apartment in the Hollywood Hills has been found guilty. Prosecutors say Gareth purse House broke into the woman's home on Valentine's Day twenty twenty and waited hours for her to get there. Doctor Amy Harwick had a restraining order against her. He's facing life in prison without parole. A guy walking his dog in Garden Grove has fatally
shot a homeless man. He claims it was self defense Investigators say there was a fight before the shooting yesterday afternoon. Neighbors say they saw the homeless man sitting in the street moments earlier and had called police. A pit bull mix stolen from its owner at a seven eleven store in North Hollywood earlier this week has been returned. The dog was taken early Tuesday. His name was Drake. The dog was found yesterday at a sober living home in Orange County and
was turned over to the Sheriff's department. Court documents have revealed what investigators are looking at in the case of the man acute killing for University of Idaho students. Search warrants have been issued for YouTube, PayPal, Apple, Spotify, and Amazon. The information being sought includes Brian Coburger's payment histories, viewed content, and channel analytics. The Amazon warrant requests activity related to knives and accessories.
Prosecutors haven't said whether the murder weapon has been found. A Congressional subcommittee has met over the wildfires in Maui. Reps from the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission in the State Energy Office, along with Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelley Kimura, answered questions about the events leading up to the fires on West Maui. Virginia Republican
Congressman Morgan Griffith chaired the meeting yesterday. Though, when you learn that the winds were going to be higher than you originally anticipated, I don't have that information, right? Do you get that to the committee after this hearing? Have absolutely follow up. It's the first time at governing bodies convened on the fires, which started August seven. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News, Hines is planning to sell a limited number of Ketchup and seemingly Ran bottles following
Taylor Swift's appearance at a Kansas City Chiefs game. Oh God, this continues. A fan posted a photo of Swift eating chicken tenders with Ketchup and what the fan referred to as seemingly ranch. Company reps say Hines will be releasing one hundred bottles because Taylor Swift's favorite number plus Travis Kelsey's number equals one hundred and did you hear the uproart? She's apparently going to be at a game
this weekend and ticket sales are soaring. He's going to go see her new guy Kelsey if he is her new guy, which remains to be seen. It's five h six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, we're just two days away from a possible government shutdown. Where are we in avoiding the shutdown at midnight tomorrow? Well, it doesn't appear we're going to avoid it. I look the House and Senator on different pages. They need to get on the same page, and that
hasn't happened yet. The deadline, it seems this morning, is very likely to come and go without a deal. The House of Representatives last night passed a full year appropriations bill for the Defense Department and Homeland Security and the State Department. But it's those those measures are not likely to become law because they contain provisions, for example, taking the Defense secretary salary down to a dollar, spanning the use of funds for critical race theory, drag Queen story hour.
Because this is what they want to do. This is what they want to do. They want to listen. They the funds would ban gender affirming care, critical race theory, drag Queen story hour, and they sent it to the Senate. That's what they did last night. The Senate is not going to send that bill to the President's desk, and I have to reconcile those differences. And by the way, the key question really hanging over all this is whether the United States is going to continue funding and to what extent
it will the effort to fend off Russian aggression in Ukraine. And right now there remains a lack of agreement between the two sides and amongst Republicans in the House of Representatives. So the speaker is facing with an anvil over his head and assorted hiss through the risk of losing his job as Speaker of the House.
Late yesterday, the Washington Post reported that some of these Republicans, mac Gates and others are going to move early next week to oust McCarthy as speaker, and they're pointing at Tom Emmer, the number three in the leadership Republican congressmen from Minnesota, former talk radio host, and saying that he should be the next speaker. Now, Emma is a McCarthy loyalist, and he's got his hands up head not me. I don't want anything to do with this,
So we'll see what happens. But all this is happening right now is the country's focused on the lack of good governance frankly in Washington, DC, And what will the immediate impact be. Well, the immediate impact would be the come Monday, really Sunday, hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be furloughed. But most acutely and most depressingly, Congress appears set to let our
military down in a way that it hasn't in quite some time. Last night, the House passed a full year d D appropriations bill, But again that's not going to become law. That's the mechanism to have paychecks flow to the troops. In the past shutdowns that leave experience that we remember most. What member perhaps the best right There were there three in the last couple of decades. It was a nineteen ninety five in Bill Clinton and Nuke King Rich's era.
There was another one, I think around that time. It was one in twenty thirteen where Ted Cruz read out of green Eggs and ham on the Senate floor. That was about Obamacare. And then in twenty eighteen there was a fight between Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats and ultimately it ended because at the
end of it, it lasted for about four weeks. Members of the TSA started calling in sick because why should they have to go into the airports and not get paid, and members of air traffic control people said that they were going to do the same, which would have crippled aviation, and that meant
a great deal to Donald Trump, so he struck a deal. Right now, the way things are, it's not clear how this is going to get resolved because any kind of short term measure that the Senate might send, first of all, doesn't appear the Senate will pass it ahead of the deadline in the first place, and by the time it gets to the House, the question that becomes what a speaker McCarthy do. Does he put it on the floor or does he not? And at the moment he appears he's not interested
in doing it. So we'll see. It's like the Keystone Cops. Well, it doesn't appear as though they have a plan. If they have a plan, we would we would see it, we would know it. And there's a lot of talk from McCarthy that he's got this plan, but it hasn't manifested in a way that makes any real sense to any of us who've been around a while. So we'll see what happens. Okay, We'll be watching for tomorrow at midnight, and then I'm sure we'll be talking more about
it on Monday if it does, in fact happen. With the proviso that anything can happen, absolutely so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Thanks Stephen Portnoy, appreciate it. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. It's a bird, it's a plane. It's actually dozens of planes flying over Huntington Beach for the Pacific Air Show. We're expecting a couple hundred thousand people on the beach each day. Pacific Air
Show director Kevin Elliot. It says. Forty eight military aircraft include the US Air Force Thunderbirds, Army and Navy parachuters, and an F twenty two Raptor demo team. As for civilians, we're gonna have the OC Fire Authority coming through doing a water drop with one of their tankers. Wet Tom Larkin flying the Subsonics mini jet, which is just a little bit bigger than a go
kart, plus Red Bull Aerobatic helicopter pilot Aaron Fitzgerald. You will see a helicopter go upside down, so you'll see loops and rolls and all the standard aerobatic maneuvers that you see in airplanes, only I'm going to do it in
a helicopter jet. Waco pilot Jared Lindeman flies on nineteen twenty nine biplane with a lear Jet engine strapped on. So that allows us to have positive thrust to weight rat show and we can actually pull it up on a vertical line and stop and hover, and there's not many airplanes that can do that. Pilot Scratch Mitchell flies one of two T thirty three. We do a head on crosses high adrenaline type thanks missing each other by mere feet at over a
thousand miles an hour. The show runs ten thirty to four thirty today through Sunday at Lion Air Museum in Santa Anna. Corbin Carson k if I News, Oh, we've got another shooting on Metro. A man is in the hospital after he was shot at the Metro See Green Line station in the Vermont Vista area. LAPD responded to the light rail station at eleven twenty last night on South Figaroa, there were reports of shots fired. They found the guy in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. Again. He was taken to the
hospital. We don't know his condition. A jury has found a man guilty of trying to kill two La County Sheriff's deputies in Compton. Jurors convicted Deonte Murray yesterday on ten counts, including three counts of attempted murder. On September twelfth, twenty twenty, Murray walked up to a Sheriff's patrol suv at a train station and open fire. Three days later, Murray was found barricaded in a home in Lynnwood. A woman who allegedly beat up a thirteen year old
and a McDonald's and Harbor City has been arrested. Investigators say tips from the public helped find the woman. The beating earlier this month was caught on video. The girl attacked says it was totally unprovoked. The second Republican debate, held in Simi Valley, had the lowest viewership since twenty fifteen. Data shows just over nine million people tuned in Wednesday night. Yep I was one of them. That's a big drop from the first debate last month, which drew
more than twelve million viewers. Former President Trump did not show up at either debate, and some candidates expressed their frustration that he was not there. The Anaheim City Council has new reforms following a federal corruption investigation into a shady deal to sell Angel Stadium, which caused the mayor to resign. Councilwoman Natalie Rubacava says a plan to keep emails longer and restrict personal device use is important. I do agree with you. If somebody's going to break the law, they're
going to do it anyways. But we still have to do something about putting safeguards in place to prevent any accidental lack of reporting or maintaining records. The city this week also moved to hire more employees to handle public records requests. Authorities in Pakistan say at least fifty two people celebrating the prophet Muhammad's birthday have been killed in an explosion. Nearly seventy others were hurt. Two people were
killed in a separate explosion at a mosque in northwest Pakistan. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is sued Tesla, alleging the company engages in racial discrimination and harassment. The lawsuit filed yesterday in California, comes after an investigation into Testla's treatment of black employees. The EOC says the company violated federal law by tolerating the widespread and ongoing harassment of black employees and by retaliating against employees who complained.
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caffeine affirmation messages. They're dropping today. Also rewards members get a free medium or hot, hotter iced coffee with a purchase Today. Dutch Brothers has a special. They've got some special drink more coffee hats and also a buy one, get one free crispy cream. You can get a free medium coffee, hot or iced and you don't have to buy anything. That's today Pizza I Love this pizza has a disloyalty program. It'll allow customers to use points from
other coffee shops to get coffee from their shops. And Wendy's is giving away small coffee with any purchase. And that's today through Sunday. I got my caffeine. I hope you get yours. It's needed. Oh and it's it's apparently good for you too. The l Kenny Sheriff's Department is investigating vandalism done to some cars and Ladera Heights as a hate crime. At least eight cars had swastikas spray painted onto and carved into their cars. More than forty five
million student loan accounts will be active again starting Sunday, October one. The payments were paused for most borrowers during the pandemic. A dog stolen from a woman at a seven eleven in North Hollywood has been found in Orange County at a sober living home. When the tenants were confronted, they took off. The dog's been returned to the woman who was attacked on Tuesday at six oh five handle on the news. The uaw's expected to announce whether it's going to
expand the autoworker strikes to more plants across the US. But right now, from halfway around the world, let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. What time is it where you are, Jordana, It's about three twenty five in the afternoon, So you didn't I didn't have to get up early for you. Yeah, well, we're glad you made the time for us. So diplomatically speaking, you say, this has been a good week
in the Middle East. Tell us what happened. Yeah, there's been a lot of momentum building around that possible breakthrough of a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. But now it has to be said, it's still going to be along and the winding road. But we saw some first this week which
are encouraging signs. First of all, the Saudis sent for the first time in fifty years, more than fifty years, a top official to the West Bank to discuss a possible deal between Israel and Riad with the Palestinian authority. They basically presented the credentials of the new ambassador to Ramala, though he won't
be residing there. He'll be residing in Jordans Nonetheless, it's an important development because the Saudis are going to be representing the demands of the Palestinians in this deal, and they really came to reassure the Palestinians that they are not going to be sidelines and they're going to try to get as many Israeli concessions that
they hand for the Palestinians in this deal. The Palestines were essentially left out of the deal that is well recently signed a couple a few years ago with the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco. So the Palestins trying this time to be part of the negotiations through the Saudist Having said all of that, they're not going to get, you know, something as grand or as important as you know, major steps towards the Palestinian state, but they may get, for
example, some transfers of land that is currently under Israeli control in the West Bank, have that transferred to the Palestinians. The other obstacle, of course, is the very right wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin at Yale. He's going to have to really put his foot down to try to get this deal done because his far right partners, you know, or don't like any any
any confessions, but all steps are good steps, right. I mean in this region, any you know flick on the radar that moved us out of you know, entrenched conflict and towards any signs of hope is a good one. But we don't know if that will actually come to terms. We'll have to wait and see, Okay. And then something else that happened this week is it Israel reopened a crossing with the Gaza strip. What does that do? Right? So there were for more than for almost two weeks now,
there were ongoing ongoing protests at the Gaza border. They turned you know, very violent. At least one pouncing was killed, tons of acres of farmland were torched, and Israel finally decided to reopen the Gauza border and let almost twenty thousand workers in the qataris also came through with some aid. So we believe now that that is the end of that kind of cycle of violence.
If you remember a few years ago, back in twenty eighteen twenty nine, you know, hundreds of Palestinians were killed at protests there that lasted almost two years, weekly protests. So I know that we don't hear about it that much, you know, because it's halfway around the world. But you were talking about the protests. Are they kind of just ongoing all the time and they flare up sometimes or do they stop for a while and then restart.
How does that all play out now? So they actually stopped for quite a while. We haven't seen sustained protests day after day for more than two years. It was a tactic that Hamas, the militant group that runs the Gods the Strip, employed to put pressure on Israel when there were other things going on that might have been issues here in Jerusalem at the contested holy site, the Alexams compound, It might have been other issues going on in the northern
border. So this is kind of a trigger that Hamas pulls, you know, when it sees fit. And that's what it did. For almost two weeks, we saw those daily protests, and you're right, they don't really make headlines unless, of course, they turned really deadly, which they have in the past. Probably the deadliest day, you know, recently in recent times, was the day that the US embassy moved officially and reopened opened here
in Jerusalem under President Trump. You know, there were dozens of Palestinians killed that day at the Gothen border. Okay, well, baby steps and like I said, all steps are good steps. Thank you sir, Thank you so much for your time, Jordana, and thanks say have a great weekend. All right, we'll talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Wages are going up for fast food workers in California. Governor Newsom has approved a twenty
dollars minimum wage for fast food workers. The average wage in California for fast food workers is currently sixteen sixty an hour. Newson says there are more than five hundred and fifty thousand workers that will see pay hikes. Eighty percent of the work force these fast food places are people of color. The pay hikes will go into effect in April. The law signed yesterday also creates a fast
food Council that could raise wages each year through twenty twenty nine. In downtown La Blake Trolley k if I News News brought to you by Ruter Hero. Three members of a burglary crew have been arrested as they allegedly left a home in La they'd been broken into detectives from the La Kenny Sheriff's Major Crimes Bureau and members of the newly formed Organized Retail Theft Task Force had been watching the
crew. They say. A search of the gate getaway car turned up stolen items, burglary tools, a family portrait from the home that was hit, a couple of rolexes, and some jewelry. Former President Trump is set to speak at the California Republican Party Fall convention in Anaheim. He'll be joined today by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and Florida Governor Ron de Santis, who are also running for president. They'll be speaking at different times. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy,
who's also running, is set to speak at a luncheon tomorrow. The convention run through Sunday. Did you hear it? Confucius Day? I love that so it always reminds me of this one. Confucius say, man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs in back of car gets exhausted. All right, right now, let's say good morning to our very own house whisperer and host of Home with Dean Sharp Dean Sharp, Dean.
You know the thing about your joke is that. Well, okay, it was cute, But I just find it amazing that Confucius knew what a car was. That's that's the thing. See think about that. He lived like twenty five years ago. So well maybe I was smart. He was smart. Okay, So Dean, let's let's talk about what you call the most universally important room in the house. Yes, the bathroom. Totally. It is important, right, I mean, it's just one of those things.
There's no avoiding it. There is no avoiding the bathroom. I also love this little gem. I share this every single time we talk about bathrooms because it kind of sets up how important they really are to us. We're all imprinted, you know, emotionally, with a certain vibe towards bathrooms.
And I think it tracks all the way back to the fact that think about it, the bathroom is very likely the very first room that your parents ever officially allowed you to go into and said, please shut the door, learn to function in there on your own. Shut the door. It was the first room you were allowed to retreat into with the door shut and with everybody's permission, And ever since then, the bathroom still remains that kind of a
thing for us. You know. I mean, whether you just need to get a break and you've set your bathroom up as sort of a spa retreat, or you know, you're at a party, we're at a restaurant somewhere, and the conversations lagging, or you're just like, oh, geez, how do I get out of this situation? Oh, you know what,
I've got to go use the restroom. You don't have to actually have to go to the bathroom, but you go because you know it's a place and once you're in that little stall, for as long as you're there, you own that space. And so bathrooms are really really important to us emotionally speaking. And I think we've finally in the design world come full circle with residential bathrooms and people really see them for what they are. It's not just a
utilitarian place. It's a very important place to us. Oh yeah, my friends just they built a house, and why their bathroom is beautiful and they spend all this time figuring out the tub and the shower and the tile and the wall tile and just everything because it is. I mean, it's just this beautiful space. So tell us if you have a bathroom that's kind of old and outdated and is, as you call it, an owl. How can we try to into Ah, wow, give us give us some examples.
All right, So you know, right off the top of the list, if your if your home was built in the eighties or the nineties, there's a very good chance that it's got some kind of like overly fancy, big old jetted spot tub, the gigantic platform, right yeah, and whether it now, how often do you use it? Let me ask you that, I mean, are you do you do you take you know, long baths and just enjoy that time. And if you do, do you do you use the jets? Okay, so the jetted tub is up in my
house in Portland. But I do have a tub here, and I know I never use it. Okay, most people don't when I was younger, but I just don't like the idea of I dated a guy one time who told me I just can't imagine sitting in my own dirt, And since then I've not gone into the tub again. We'll see. That's the thing. That's the thing. Showers really are superior way of cleaning yourself up. And
most people don't bathe in a bathtub. They soak, They luxuriate. So in other words, you know, you know, you know, you'll take a shower first and then you'll get into the tub, and you know, so it's a very spa thing. And the issue I have with the old jetted tubs is not only do they take up after that whole platform is built out a tremendous amount of space in a bathroom that you otherwise might want to use for other things. Maybe you want to increase the size of the shower,
maybe you want to fit a sauna in there. I mean, who knows what, But a jetted tub and its platform take up so so much space. Plus it doesn't really prove out in practice even if you are one who likes to lounge in the tub. You see that kind of a sprowled out in a magazine, and you know, there she is. She's got
her candles and her bubbles and everything. And then you realize, you know, if I turn the blower on in this tub, all of a sudden, the peace and the zen in this bathroom just turns into just white noise. There's a machine blowing in the bathroom. All right, So what's the better idea? The better idea is where things have really gone, which is
losing all of that. If you're thinking about doing a bathroom remodel, keep the tub, but to do a free standing tub, really big, beautiful, elegant free standing tubs take up you know, just a third of the space and they're so cool looking now, like the clow foot tub is like the traditional one, but now they're just like these big basins of just beauty.
They are they are. They come in every shape and size. You can go back to the you know, the vintage clow foot look, the slipper tub what we call it because it rises up on one side a little more support for your back. But there are contemporary versions. I mean literally any time period, any style you can get a free standing tub for and you will save a tremendous amount of space in the bathroom and get a much much more elegant look, and I would argue a much better luxuriating experience in
that at tubs. So that's just one example. Another one is if you've got a really really small bathroom and we're remodeling, we encourage people all the time, let's lose the shower door, let's lose the glass around the shower. And the reason is not because there's anything wrong with shower glass. It's
great, it's awesome, but it's one more thing to clean. And if you replace it with a really elegant curtain, then when that curtain is open, all of the air space the volume of the bathroom that is in the shower belongs to the rest of the room, and so the room feels larger. There's no avoiding the fact, even if it's crystal clear glass that if there is a wall of glass there, you're subdividing the bathroom space. And in a small bathroom that already is cramped for space that only you know encloses
it that much more. I feel trendy then, because I have a shower curtain. Okay, I want to move to toilets, because we talked about toilets very briefly last week, and you mentioned wall mounted toilets, which I said, yes, scare the crap out of me because I'm a fat that's right. You said you had a fear of those, well, because I'm afraid if you put one in your house and it would you know, you'd sit on it and it would break and fall down. Yeah. Yeah,
not not at all the case. If you if you ever see a wall mounted toilet before it's been installed. You see that that toilet is not just some you know, a little piece of porcelain bowl that's somehow bolted into the bottom of the wall. It is part of a unit that goes almost floor to ceiling in the wall itself. It is bolted into studs, the bottom plate, the top plate. In other words, that thing is going absolutely nowhere. What's the benefit of having a wall mounted tub versus a floor or
wall mounted toilet versus a floor mounted space visual space? When you think about the fact that the tank behind your toilet is making it the bowl stick out about twelve inches out into the bathroom. So when you've got again a small bathroom number one, a wall mounted toilet allows that whole bowl to move closer to the wall. You'll save about twelve inches of walking space in front of it. Plus you got space underneath it because there's no foot And cleaning a
bathroom where the toilet is floating above the floor. Oh, it's a whole different experience. Even if you don't stand in that space. If you see it, your brain registers it as spaciousness. Okay, I like that. And then one other thing is you go from out to WoT squishy seats are out. Huh oh yeah, squishy seats with the little patterns and the embroidery on them sometimes you know, yeah, yes, squishy seats are out, all right? Instead, what's in the day seats? The day seats are
the thing. In fact, I would tell everybody, anybody who's remodeling a bathroom, whether you are into a biday seat or not, if you're thinking about resale or the future, you should actually wire an outlet behind your toilet so that it is bid day ready all right, and we're gonna have many more out to wow examples that you're going to share this weekend on Home with Dean Sharp. And that's from six to eight tomorrow morning and the nine to
noon on Sunday. You got it. He's our house whisperer. Thank you so much, Dean. Thanks Amy. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's entertainment Gurut, Jason Nathanson, Jason with Ai making such a splash, worries about how it could take over the world and such, talk to
us about the creator. Yeah, it's an interesting timely movie and it's interesting how these things come out because Gareth Edwards who's the writer director of it, who did Rogue one, the Star Wars movie which is very well received. A few years ago. Oh, Jason, I gotta interrupt you for just one second. I'm so sorry, but we're just getting this that Diane Feinstein has died, so just wanted to let you know. We'll bring you more information as it comes in, but we just got that word and wanted to
let people know. Okay, sure, how do we switch back? But sure, anyway back to the creator. Yes, that's stuff, but it is. It's interesting because Garett Edwards, who was the writer director of the film, started making this four or five years ago, and you know, you think about the time four or five years ago. Sure, AI was a thing, but not like it is now. In every headline on every
you know, the page. We're all talking about it chat ept in those things, and that didn't exist when he made this film, started writing it at least, so for to come out now. It's just interesting how the cycle of movies go. This is about It's a sci fi kind of action war film about a guy played by John David Washington who is an ex Special Forces agent in this war against AI. AI has become very powerful. They're basically robots who were very humanlike and there are a lot of issues ethically with
when it comes to AI and the issues surrounding this. So this explores all that. And when it's doing that, I think it's a fascinating look at things. I think it's a fascinating kind of study of what's going on and where we are. But also it's, uh, it's it's it's a good action kind of sci fi movie. My only problem with it it didn't hit for me on an emotional level. You know. It's the kind of thing where I think by the end they want you to be in tears, but
for me, I wasn't. But a lot of the stuff surrounding it I found very very interesting. You know. It's really interesting to me is that they've already got this movie and it's out and like AI and we've already we've had thoughts of AI, but like chat, GPT and real AI in our everyday lives, it's been around for less than a year. Yeah, and you know, this year has been huge when AI at the forefront in the strikes in Hollywood, you know, with with the actors and the writers,
and so for this movie to be coming out. It's just it's kind of it's almost creepy the timing of it. You know, like AI, it's something that AI could have done, but that you know, it's that's also a lot of movies come out and you think, oh, that's definitely a reflection on the pandemic or something like that, and you know, it's just the life cycle of movies. Usually it's about seven years from when it's something
started to when it hits the screen. So it's never really talking about the moment that you think it's in, but a lot of things just are reflected in society. Okay, so what's new streaming this week? A couple of things. You have jen V, which is a spinoff of The Boys, which is the on Amazon Prime. It's really raunchy superhero show. You know, if you have the Marvel version of superheroes, which is kind of clean and sanitized, The Boys imagines a world where superheroes were actually real, how
debaucherous that they would be. This spinoff is set in a college for young superheroes, so you can imagine where things might go there when you have really kind of raunchy superheroes. It's just like it's it's it's older brother. It is very very funny. It is very very raunchy, it is very very bloody. I made the mistake of sitting down to eat lunch while watching the first episode, and do not do that. But I should have known from
the boys that that's not a smart decision anyway. But I really liked it, And if you're a fan of the Boys, I think you're gonna be a fan of Jen v Awesome. Jason Nathanson, thank you so much for your time this morning. We'll talk to you next week. All right, take care, all right, take care. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As we mentioned just a minute ago, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a vocal advocate of gun control measures who was known for trying to find common ground with Republicans during three decades in the Senate, has died. She was the oldest member of the Senate, the longest serving female center as senator, and the longest serving Senator from
California. Dianne Feinstein was ninety. United Auto Workers President Sean Faine is expected to announce new targets in the strike against gm Ford and Stilantis workers are going into their third week of the strike. Last week, Faine announced that the strike had been expanded to thirty eight general motors and Stillantis plants in twenty States.
Ford was spared because of progress made in negotiations. He's expected to make the announcement on whether they're going to expand the strike more at seven this morning. The LAPD has used a drone ten times in the last year during official operations. Most of those calls dealt with people barricaded inside homes and buildings. Even though we gave approval on fourteen uses, it was only actually deployed ten times because the incidents was resolved prior to the sUAS being used, or we
came up with a different type of option. Jevity Chief Dave Kowalski says the second most popular call for drones as major traffic collisions. He told the Police Commission this week that there have been no injuries or officer involved shootings during the drone call. Steve Gregory KINGAFY News. Okay, and one next last thing, there's a bathroom app called rest Space. It's only in Diego right now, but kind of caught my attention because when you're out and about and you
gotta go. You gotta go, and where are you gonna go? So you can always pull over and find a fast food place or maybe a gas station, which can sometimes be a little bit sketchy. But this app is called rest Space. They're calling it kind of an like an uber for the potty. Prices start at fifteen dollars for fifteen minutes. They kind of lost me there, but apparently it was very successful during Comic Con because restrooms maybe
in short supply. This is again unique to San Diego right now, but there are some other toilet finders around the world called There's one called toilet Finder, There's a flush Finder, and also in the UK the lou Finder. Be interesting to see an expanse here. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and if you missed any of wake Up Call, you can always listen any
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