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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, and you as Amy Kay. Good morning. It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Friday, March twenty second. I'm Amy King. We've got so much ahead for you. We've got bees, we've got ghosts, we've got computer chips and brains and so much more. And we're gonna get you all caught up on what's going on in the world and somehow

managed to have a little fun. Glad you're along for the ride this morning. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Hollywood Boulevard is getting more bike and bus lanes and wider sidewalks in an effort to attract tourists and make the streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. The city's Access to Hollywood plan, unveiled yesterday, will take away traffic lanes and more than two hundred parking spots. The House is set to vote on a government spending package to avoid a partial

government shutdown. It's expected to pass with strong support, despite a group of conservative members who really want to roll back spending. The deadline to pass the plan that would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year is midnight tonight. Forecasters say California may be drought free again this year following a wet winter. Scientists say there's actually an equal chance of rain and snow and higher

than average temperatures for April, May and June. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A convicted killer has walked away from a halfway house in Orange County. Ike Suser was convicted of fatally stabbing his mother when he was thirteen years old. He's twenty now. He also escaped from juvenile hall and was later sentenced for making a shank while in the Orange County jail. He pleaded guilty this week to

painting graffiti on a freeway underpass. He checked into the halfway house on Wednesday and then left and never returned. Touchups are headed to Hollywood Boulevard. The street is getting protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks, and dedicated bus lanes. LA City Councilman Hugo Soda Martinez says well the project is set to make Hollywood more walkable. Other issues in the area will be addressed in the future. Hollywood has a lot of issues. We know we have homelessness, we have

shutter businesses. Construction crews will begin working on the more than three and a half miles of changes this fall. The project is set to cost about eight million dollars, with Metro paying most of the bill. On Hollywood Boulevard, Blake Trolley, Kafiez State Farm is dropping more than seventy thousand property and commercial apartment policies in California. The changes are expected to take effect at the end

of the year. Those impacted should be notified between July third and August twentieth. One of the fbis Most Wanted has been arrested at the California Mexico border. Rennie Ivan andris Parada, also known as Lucky to park View, was busted at the Sandy SiGe Report of Entry. Federal law enforcement sources say andris Parada is a member of MS thirteen's Leadership Council Ramsla Nacional. It used to be called the Twelve Apostles of the Devil. Sources say andris Parada was arrested

March seventh, but wouldn't offer any details about the takedown. Andres Parada is believed to be one of the most powerful leaders of the worldwide cartel and had been indicted for dozens of killings in offering material support to terrorists in the US and Central America. Steve Corregory tay if I News. Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln has met with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv. He says he's sharing alternatives

to Israel's planned ground assault into the southern Gaza town of Raffa. A major military operation in Raffa would be a mistake, something we don't support, and it's also not necessary to deal with Hamas, which is necessary. It's Blencoln's sixth visit to the region since the war began. In October, a second flight carrying American citizens out of Haiti has reached the US. The State Department says the flight, with eighty people on board, landed in Miami yesterday.

The US government has encouraged all US citizens to leave Haiti as political unrest and gang violence escalates. Life expectancy in the US has gone up for the first time two years. A report released by the CDC yesterday found that in twenty twenty two, life expectancy at birth was seventy seven and a half years. The rate still hasn't reached pre pandemic levels, but COVID was not included in

the top three leading causes of death that year. The report says heart disease and cancer were House Republicans have released a budget proposal to raise the age of social security eligibility due to the increased life expectancy. The head of the administration warned against doing so yesterday while at a House committee hearing. He says Americans want their government to strengthen social security and expand it, not to cut it or contract it. Now, let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers.

Tom sounds like things are getting a little more desperate, or maybe a lot more desperate in Ukraine, and EU leaders are looking for ways they can help. Yeah, more desperation though among the EU leaders. Two days meeting in Brussels, and you don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to find out that ammunition is very, very slow and in short supply in Ukraine. What to do about it? Well, over the past two years, Europe has dug a big hole do you keep digging or do you look for alternative options?

And it looks like they're going to be doing more digging, trying to channel more ammunition to Ukraine itself. Heard some other things too. Over the past few days. We had President Macron. It's got his own domestic personal issues going on in his country, but he's been floating the idea maybe getting French soldiers on the ground in Ukraine, possibly in Odessa. And there's a great growing schism between the hawkish language of most European leaders and the general population.

Sixty eight percent of the French say no way, We're not getting into World War III. So that's kind of been shot down. So we keep watching one very very closely. And again it looks like the European Union is on this one way track and they're going to continue to keep funding and trying to do what they can for Kiev, despite the fact many countries are now in recession, having big problems with price of natural gas et cetera, et cetera,

but they see no way of getting off this track. Yeah, and the mentioning of possibly sending French troops to Ukraine, that's something that Putin has I don't know if you want to call it saber rattling, but he said, don't even go there, that that would be a provocation of another level. Yeah, but does that surprise you No, well, exactly. One

of the other options Brussels is looking at now. Of the billions and billions of Russian assets that are frozen in central banks in Europe, one idea that the European Union is very controversially looking at is to take the interest on that and use that to supply ammunition for the Ukraine side. It would work out

a little over three billion dollars a year US dollars per year. And guess what, just like your last question, Moscow says, that will be met with a very very strong response if you want to go down that road. Yeah. And so is the situation in Ukraine? Tom, Are they holding their ground? Are they losing ground? Do we know Ukraine's Ukraine is losing They're losing the war. For every shell they fire now at the eastern side

of their country, ten shells come in the other direction. You know, if you put it in parlance of American sports, you're, you know, the Green Bay Packers versus your local park board team right now. Uh, it's one way traffic and it's really difficult to see how that's going to be changing. Okay, so the and for the EU leaders too, Russia is in their backyard. I mean for US it's a big deal, but Russia is right there. And well again though the expansion is Russia been expanding into

Europe or is Europe been expanding towards Russia? M okay, so maybe Russia is just fighting back. Well, they almost said they wanted Ukraine neutral. You know, we go back to the days when everything changed with the fall of the wall in Germany. And at that time we had Gorbachev saying, yes, you can have Germany united in the NATO full, but do not come close to our border, similar to do not put Soviet missiles in Cuba, And that was heated for about seven years until Clinton changed the dynamics.

And back then, thirty years ago, you had sixteen countries in NATO. You know how many have now double that? Right exactly, We've got twice as many now. So there's a line. It's a red line for Moscow. You may not like it, but they're saying, no, this is not going to be changed. We're going to fight tooth and nail to do what we have to do, and what they see is Mission Creep and getting closer and closer to the Russian border. Yeah, and either way to EUSE

Council. President says that they're facing the biggest security threats since the Second World War. So it'll be interesting to see what happens in interesting as well. Yeah, a European commissioned president. She's looking for a re election as well. This week she told Finland that at least you should do some preparations in case there is a third World War. She was interviewed over here in Europe as well, and she was asked directly, would you be willing to put

your kids in uniform and sent to Ukraine? And she laughed, she said no way. So hence the schism between the governments, the leaders in Europe and the general population over here. Yeah. Okay, Tom Rivers, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A judge in la is set to request from prosecutors to

revoke Rebecca Grossman's jail phone privileges. The co founder of the Grossman Burne Foundation is accused of making improper and possibly illegal calls since she was convicted of killing two young boys with her car in twenty twenty. A woman in Burbank has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend during what police call a domestic assault. Officers responded to Vickro Park yesterday where they saw the woman, who was naked,

chasing the man while holding a bloody knife. She was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The guy needed surgery, but he's expected to survive. Governor Newsom has celebrated the passage of Proposition one, surrounded yesterday by local officials. He says the state has done its part and now more work is needed at the local level. We need to see the cities and counties be full

partners and participants in advancing this effort. Prop one passed with fifty point two percent of the vote despite thirteen million dollars spent to support the campaign, only

one thousand dollars was spent by its opponents. It'll provide more than six billion dollars in funding for homeless housing, as well as drug and mental health, mental illness treatment centers, so many things to do and see around Southern California every weekend, and so we're bringing in the expert, Nick Poliochanne has Nick's top picks for the weekend. Nick, give us some of your favorite things

that people might want to check out this weekend. So as of yesterday, it was just the sixtieth anniversary of SeaWorld in San Diego, and so that is kicking off a four day a stint all the way through Sunday. You can check that out. And also this summer it's going to be a huge celebration of the sixty years of SeaWorld down in San Diego. So one hundred and ten percent worth your time to make that trip a little bit south of us. And also something fun, and this is something we talked about here

on KFI quite a bit. Comedians versus AI. Stage against the Machine is a bunch of really well known comedians that'll be taking the stage against Yes Chat GBT here in La So it's a very interesting situation where they'll be given a prompt for the comedians and AI and they'll go head to head on the stage,

so like an improv thing exactly. It's totally improv. But it's kind of like if you remember they had Jeopardy versus that Microsoft Winston computer, it was Ken Jennings a few years ago, so think of that's smart versus smart. This is funny versus computer. So that interesting though to see the if

AI is funny. Yeah, I agree with you on that one. I mean, I'm really curious to see how that plays out because we've heard so many things of audio recordings and mimicking of human voices, and then to see that people are worried about it taking over things in Hollywood. So we'll see really how that plays out. This is something that will be happening monthly. So that is the first installment of that happening. When that one's gonna be, it's gonna be here in La So let's say I don't have off the

top of my head where the location is. It's gonna be at the Lyric Hyperion Theater and Bar, which is not too far from downtown La. Okay, And is that that's this weekend? Obviously? Okay, that's this weekend. And then what's your third top pick? Third top pick is going to be down in Orange County. It's the sixty fourth annual Swallows Day Parade and Mercando Street Fair, the celebration of the Fiesta de las Goldrinas, which is

the swallows that come back every March. The nineteenth was the actual celebration of it, which is Saint Joseph's Day, but San Juay Capistrano, the Mission will be celebrating specifically. If you've never it's absolutely insane and it's one of those traffic incidents that happens on the weekend, so it really falls into my wheelhouse. But if you've never been to the Swallow's Day Parade, it's really an amazing time. And as far as I understand, Tim Conway Junior and

crew will be there as well. I heard Bill Handle might be making an appearance. I mean, if he's living in Orange County these days, or you know, if he's making a plan to move down there, it totally makes sense. And isn't San Juan I haven't been to San Juan capis Front. I think I was there maybe when I was a kid, But isn't it just really cool. It's a beautiful place, and it's right off the five at or take a highway, and that's where you'll see the most traffic

this weekend because the activities will be going down for that. But it's a beautiful area. It really is nice. And then if you are you know, fourth grader in the state of California and studying missions, it is one of those missions from back in the day with Unibrosera. So okay, it's a good opportunity, all right. So those are the three top picks from Nick. But with so many things going on around southern California, where can

they get more and more and more? You can always visit This week Nick dot com or Nick pollio'kee or This Weekend Nick on Instagram check the link in bio for more details, or the show notes again at this Weekend with Nick dot com. Thank you so much, Nick. When we come back, a paralyzed man is learning to move again thanks to Elon Musk. It's totally high tech and potentially life saving stuff. Really interesting, So don't go anywhere.

You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI AM six forty. The family of a fifteen year old boy who was shot to death at a home in Apple Valley earlier this month has filed a legal claim against the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. The family claims the department knew he had autism, and says deputies had been called to the house at least five other times. The UN Security Council will vote today on a US sponsored Gaza ceasefire resolution.

It warns against an Israeli military offensive in the southern city of Rafa and strongly condemns restrictions that prevent AID from getting into the Gaza strip. The resolution also calls for an immediate ceasepe All nine Star Wars movies are coming back to movie theaters. The re releases are to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of The Phantom Menace. The movies will be released in order through the summer, starting on Star Wars Day, May the fourth, at six oh five, It's handle

on the news. The Dodgers' Mookie Bets is putting down his bat and turning to chicken. Tell you about that. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we're going to talk about an implant in your brain, which is super exciting and super scary all at the same time. Yeah, I think you're right, and others I've talked with this morning, Like, what's so scary about this? What's the issue?

Well, you're right, it's called a brain computer interface. The BCI, amy and lots of companies have been working on this for the last several years, but this Neurallink. Since the company was founded by Elon Musk, it's getting a lot more attention because it's Elon Musk, right, and he and Neurallink released a video on Wednesday, a nine minute video that shows Nolan Arbaugh, a twenty nine year old from here in Texas, doing things with his

mind. He was paralyzed in an accident a few years ago, paralyzed from the shoulders down, but using his mind, and in this video he's looking at a computer screen. He's able to use his thoughts to move the cursor around and to move chess pieces on a computer screen around. Says he can play another video game that he hasn't been able to play since the accident, simply by using his mind. So Muralink says that it's evidence that this actually

works. I just don't eat. My brain just can't even wrap itself around how that would work. But obviously there are many smarter people than I, So that's a first step. So can he can think about moving the cursor around. And now they're saying this is going to lead to more things, that it's going to be a lot bigger than moving a cursor around a screen. Yeah, that's true. And other companies have been working on this, as I said, Australian company among them, has found ways to use a

patient's thought to move their limbs. Right, So your legs are paralyzed, but using thought you may be able to move your legs and eventually to walk again, which would be amazing. This has been advancing, I think, kind of under the radar for a few years now. The FDAD give its approval to Near a Link to do this kind of testing, and now even Nolan to Arball, the kid involved in this one, the twenty nine year old, I should say, des urging other people with paralysis issues to sign

up and take part in studies. But a near a Link out of other companies too, so it's you know, the possibilities are almost limitless, and of course that's being near a Link. Elon Musk himself has said that he'd like to have this thing planted in his brain, even though he's perfectly healthy, in order to get access to the internet wherever he might be. Just think about the Internet and then you're on the internet, or make a phone call. Think about that and make a phone call without a phone. Yeah,

there are some scary implications here. I think, amy uh yeah, And I think having more Internet is a bad thing, not a good thing. It's just easier ac Yes, do we know of any kind of side effects or anything? Is he having any kind of weird reactions to having a

chip in his brain? No, he is not. Thinks about the size of a quarter, maybe a little smaller than a quarter, implanted physically into the brain by a robot surgeon who got a hole in the skull, implanted this thing, then closed up and and now he's got this chip in his brain. There the other the other company that's working on this, So one of them, the one in Australia, actually went through a jugular vein and so very much like putting in a stent, they sent this tube up into

the brain. It leaves this little mesh tube there, and that mesh tube then has the electronics that can sense thoughts and do things with that. But yeah, it's the possibilities are endless, and they're a little scary too.

Also regarding side effects, neuralink has been criticized for animal testing that there were lots of you know, monkeys that die that they had severe infections, painful side effects from the implantation of this device and had to be put down, and you know, so, yeah, there are potential side effects and I

think they saw some of those in this animal testing. Either way, like I said, it's going to be scary, but it's also very exciting, so we'll keep watching it is. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see where we are. They started this what ten twelve years ago I mentioned, more will be ten or twelve years from now in this area. Yeah, all right. ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the information. See me. House and Senate negotiators have released the text of a massive spending package

aimed at avoiding a partial government shutdown. ABC Stephen Portnoy says the one point two trillion dollar measure would provide funding for several agencies through the end of the current fiscal year. Congress will have to act at breakneck speed to meet the Friday Night funding laps deadline. The thousand page bill increases migrant detention beds and staffing to the border patrol, it provides a boost to head start and childcare

programs. He says the bill does not include funding for the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees. California Republican Senate candidate Steve Garvey's reportedly deep in the hole with state and federal taxes. Garvey's February financial disclosure statement shows he owes at least three hundred fifty thousand and up to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in back taxes from twenty eleven. He says he also owes eight percent entrance interest on

the balance. Due Garvey's going to face off against Adam Schiff in November for California's open Senate seat. The House Judiciary Committee sued two Department of Justice tax attorneys involved in the investigation of Hunter Biden. The lawsuit alleges Mark Daily and Jack Morgan defied previous subpoenas to testify in their investigation of President Biden's sun. The Justice Department says the attorneys have cooperated with the Republican lad panel and will

respond in court. Hey guess what time it is. It's almost time for the annual wiggle Waggle Walk. I hope you'll join me and the wake Up Call crew Sunday, April twenty first. Get out your calendars or actually get out your phones. Put it on your calendar. We're going to be meeting at Brookside Park in Pasadena for the Wiggle Waggle Walk. It benefits Pasadena Humane and helps them care for thousands of animals they take in every year. Such

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our goal. You can do that at KFIAM six forty dot com slash wiggle for all of the information. Again, the Wiggle Waggle Walk April twenty first, in Pasadena. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Thanks for starting your day with us today. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four news room. Hollywood Boulevard getting more bike and bus lanes and wider sidewalks in an effort to attract tourists and increased pedestrian safety.

The city's so called Access to Hollywood plan, unveiled yesterday, will take away traffic lanes and more than two hundred parking spots. It's expected to be completed by the middle of next year. Authorities in Orange County are on the hunt for a convicted murderer who walked away from a halfway house. The Orange County DA's office says this is the third time twenty year old Iike Sauser has escaped from custody. He stabbed his mother to death when he was thirteen years

old. He's considered extremely dangerous and violent. New York Attorney General Letitia James has taken the first steps towards seizing some of former President Trump's assets, targeting his golf course in private estate. Trump has until Monday to post a four hundred and sixty four million dollar bond in a civil fraud case, or convince an appeals court to let him post a smaller amount until after he appeals the decision. At six o five, it's handle on the news. The deadline

is just hours away. Can lawmakers get their job done and keep the government funded? Bill's going to give you the latest on that. At five point fifty, we're going to be checking in with Jason Nathanson about what's new in theaters and on the stream and whether they're worth a watch. But right now, it's time to talk about being very happy with the house. Whisperer Dean Sharp, I know, good morning Amy, Hi Dean. So it's it's about to be B season. It is, in fact, it is B

season. It's already right now. Tina and I were actually sitting in our backyard last week and on one of our sunny days last week, and a cloud of bees just kind of temporarily flew over the backyard. We're like, yep, it's time. Spring is here. It's happening, okay. So, and when people see clouds of bees, they get a little nervous, like they freak out. They totally freak out. We know our very own

mo Kelly. I mean, he every time I would bring up the subject of bees when I was on his show with him, he would just like cringe and freak out. I'm like, bees are good, and he's like, just keep them away from me. Yeah, it's true, and you know, and that's allowed a lot of people are afraid of bees. And you know, people have been stung by bee. I've been stung a few times. I'm a bee keeper. I've got bees in my backyard. Oh

you do. I love that. I've got about thirty thousand little ladies sitting, you know, twenty feet away from me right now, so you get fresh honey from them? Yes, we do, Yes, we do tons of it. Cool is that? But most importantly, you know, and I've been stung on occasion as well, and then it's no fun. Okay. But here's the thing. You know, we all know. I think at this point that bees are good for us. They are good for everybody, and that is both in a rural and an urban environment. Bees are

really really important in both cases. They're responsible, They're going to be responsible this year as always for pollinating eighty percent of the pollinating flowers and trees out there, and they're responsible for about one third of the food that's sitting in our supermarkets. So they are a critical keystone species. And I know you can say that all day long, and at the end of the day people are like, yeah, but they freak me out. And I don't want

to hive hanging off a tree in my front yard. And the thing that I wanted to share with you this morning is that's not a hive. And people do not have to overreact to a swarm of bees. And when we say swarm, swarm is a very special word in bee parlance. It doesn't just mean a bunch of bees. A swarm is a very specific thing. It is a colony of bees that has just broken off from another hive. It's a hive reproducing itself. So it's it's it's like a stock split.

It is okay, it is exactly like a stock split. So they and swarms happen in the spring. It's how we get more bees and more bee colonies. So the old queen has allowed the birth of a new queen inside the hive. She's left the new queen behind. She's taken about a third of her workers with her, and now they are off looking for a new home. That's a swarm. A swarm has They've filled their bellies up with as much food as they can. That's their last meal until they find their

home. They are incredibly docile, like after a Thanksgiving dinner kind of docile. They have They have no interest in humans whatsoever unless we agitate them. All they're looking to do is find themselves a new place. And so when you if you go outside and you're in the backyard and you're like, oh, oh my gosh, there's a there's a there's a hive of bees hanging on my back fence or off my tree, don't panic bring the dogs in

so that they don't bug them, but just let them be. They they are hopscotching their way across town right now looking for their new permanent home. That is not a home. A pile of bees hanging from a tree is not a home. It's just a temporary resting spot. I guarantee you, okay, So leave them alone and they'll move on on their own. Just don't bug them exactly anywhere from twelve to forty eight hours, they'll be gone.

You don't have to call an exterminator or hose them down, which is the worst thing you could do. Just let them be and they'll move on. I just love that. Let them be, okay, and what if one does land and they decide to set up a hive at your house, then what do you do that. That's the thing to be concerned about. Again. A hive is not where you see a bunch of bees exposed.

A hive is where you'll go out and maybe be looking at the corner of your house and you're like, hey, why are there a few bees flying in and out and around the facia border at the top of my roof. Now we have an indication because hives are hidden, right, they hide themselves from predators. If you see bees flying in and out of a little tiny crack in the corner of your roof, now we've got concerns that we've got a hive going on inside and it should not as good as it is to

have bees around. We don't need bees with hives in your roofline or your structures. And that is when you call somebody to deal with it. But still don't call an exterminator, because just killing the bees is not going to be good for the bees, nor will it be good for your home, because they're temperature controlling everything that's going on in there while they're alive, and when they're gone, the honey, the wax it starts dripping down inside your

walls, caused mold and mildew. Not a good thing. The thing to do, especially here in southern California, because we have these resources, is to call a live be removal service. They will come, they will harvest the hive, they'll get everything out of your wall. They'll do it for at the same price, if not less usually than an exterminator. And then they'll take those bees off to a rescue and re home them be rescue. There are b reveues. There's a massive b rescue in Porter Ranch in the

North San Fernando Valley. That's so funny. And you know what, if you don't believe us that bees are good, go watch the bee movie. We need bees, Yes, we do. Do you remember that one, the movie with Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, and it was funny, but it was actually very prophetic because we're having problems keeping the bees alive and thriving. Thank you, Dean. Deane's going to be talking more about bees because springtime is bee time. And you can listen this weekend sick to eight am right

here on KFI to the House Whisper. Also Home with Dean is on Sundays from nine to noon, or you can follow him at home with Dean. Thank you, Dean, Thanks Amy. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom this Friday morning. A street vendor has been killed by a stray bullet in Long Beach. Officials say he was caught in the crossfire of

a shooting Wednesday afternoon down the block from where he was working. The police have not made any arrests. One in six municipal jobs in the city of Los Angeles is unfilled. City Controller Kenneth Mahea says crucial functions in finance, general services, transportation and recreation, and parks are affected because of the vacancies. At least ten city departments or bureaus have vacancy rates of at least twenty five percent. All nine Star Wars movies coming back to movie theaters. The

re releases are to celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of The Phantom Menace. The movies will be released in order through the summer, starting on Star Wars Day, May the fourth. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning. Former President Trump has until Monday to come up with a massive million dollar, multi million dollar bond so he can appeal that civil fraud case. But the New York Attorney General isn't waiting until Monday to start making moves to

seize his stuff. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jason Nathanson. Who are you gonna call? Ghostbusters? Yeah? Okay, so the new Ghostbusters is out and you haven't had a chance to see it yet. But what are you hearing as or as rumblings? Well, it's gonna win the weekend. In terms of box office, we're looking at forty five million

dollars, which is a good start and something we desperately need. We've had a couple of good weeks over the past month or so with June and Kung Fu Panda, but we're still ten percent behind last year in terms of box office because we had a really slow start this year. So that's good for the box office. Critics have not been so high on Ghostbusters Frozen Empire.

It's a forty four percent on Rotten Tomatoes right now from critics, but in the first Thursday night showings it's eighty six percent from audiences, really audiences. I mean, and you know we've seen that before. Yeah, so audiences are digging it. So that means the box office is probably gonna be good

this weekend. And if you're a Ghostbusters fan, you have, you know, all the original guys who are still left or were teaming up with this new cast, including Paul Rudd and some of the others, and they're back in New York where the first film, the first reboot film in twenty twenty one, was out in the fields of Ohio or yeah, something like that. So you get to go back to New York, you get the Firehouse, you get a top secret research lab that the Ghostbusters have been using and

making, and so a lot of nostalgia in terms of that. Yeah, so I would. I won't elaborate because we've got other stuff to talk about, but I was disappointed with it. We went and saw it yesterday. I mean, there are parts of it. It was definitely nostalgic. It definitely had that cool Ghostbusters vibe, the same one from the original, which I think is very fun. Sure, but there were several problems with it. So just don't set your expectations too high. I think most people going

probably don't have super high expectations. I'm guessing, Okay, let's go to the stream. Jake Jillenhall, he's looking a little buffed. If you want to see Jake Jillenhall shirtless a lot, then Roadhouse is the film for you, which is a remake of the nineteen eight and I'm Patrick Swayze cult classic which was panned by critics terribly when it first came out, but found life afterwards and people really seemed to kind of grow to like it. I don't

know why this movie of all movies is being remade. It makes absolutely no sense to me. But and with Jake Jillenhall, who is a fantastic actor, and we really, I feel don't see enough in good stuff. It's a strange pick for me, but he is so good and charismatic and really kind of carries this film, which is kind of delightful. I mean it

has delightful. Yeah, it has serious problems. I think the last fight scene goes on way too long, and it's one of those where they hit each other so many times in such brutal hits that you're like, there's no way anybody could survive Two of these punches. Yeah, much less fifteen of them. But that said, Jake Jollenhall is very good. Connor McGregor, who makes his film debut The UFC Champ, is a lot of fun.

He plays a really crazy kind of villain type guy. And you know, the basic premise is that Jake Jillenhall is a former UFC fighters hit tough times. He ends up as a bouncer for this Florida Keys bar. I like the setting. It makes you kind of want to at least go on vacation, if not moved to the Florida Keys and just have that kind of easy way of life on the water there, you know, except for the alligators and crocodiles and things like that. But you know, otherwise, it's it's

fun, it's funny, it's campy. It doesn't take itself too seriously. Oh good, which it knows exactly what it is, which I appreciate, okay, and which which streaming services that's on Prime Video? Oh I have that one. Maybe maybe I'll be watching it this weekend. Okay. And then there's also a biopic of Shirley Chisholm, yes called Shirley and I think I need a history lesson because I do not remember this or this person. Yes. So the Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm, who was the first

Yeah, and she's great. And Shirley chism was the first black woman elected to Congress, Okay, and then she became the first black woman to run for president in nineteen seventy two. So I knew she was in Congress. I didn't realize that she ran for president. Yeah. And so this focus is on that year that she ran for president, which I appreciated a biopic because you know, sometimes they try to do too much, they try to tell too much of somebody's life story and it just gets all watered down.

So this one, focusing on just this year of this extraordinary woman's life, is a really good choice. And much like Jake Chillenhall Carey's Roadhouse, Regina King Carrie Shirley. She's fantastic in this. I question Netflix as to why they're putting this out now when they just saw great Oscar success in getting nominations for Rustin and for Maestro, two movies that kind of had split opinions but had really fantastic performances. I think Regina King could have gotten maybe a nomination

for this. I mean, I think she's really really good in it. Overall the film. I think she's better than the film is as a total but fascinating life, fascinating woman and definitely worth a watch. Okay, and then I just saw a promo for this because I was getting my weekly fix of my Apple TV shows and saw that Palm Royal just debuted on Apple TV with Kristin Wig. Yeah, this is kind of a skippet show. I love Kristin Wig. I love Alison Janney who's in this. I love Carol

Burnett who is in this as well. But this show doesn't really know exactly what it is or what it's trying to do. Kristen Wig stars as a woman in eighteen sixty nine trying to break into the Palm Beach country club scene. She doesn't fit in that they don't like her. They spot her immediately, but she tries really hard to get in. It's the tone is kind of all over the place. It's slapstick, it's funny, it's serious. It just doesn't really know what it wants to be. I think I watched

a couple of episodes. I'm not sure I'm gonna keep watching. Okay, So if you have absolutely nothing left to do, and there are lots of good shows to stream, but if you have nothing left to do, maybe Palm Royal Els for you. Now, there's some other stuff I'd watched before that. Okay, Jason Nathanson, thanks so much for your time and all of your great insight. Again, sure they take it all right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour

newsroom. A UN Security Council is said to vote on a resolution declaring an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza is imperative to protect civilians and allow for the delivery of humanitarian aid. ABC's and as Delicaterra says. The resolution is sponsored by the US Supporting to Reuters, the latest version of the draft resolution proposes a ceasefire that would last roughly six weeks. US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield says

she's optimistic the draft resolution will be approved by the fifteen member council. Russia's deputy UN ambassador says Moscow won't be satisfied with anything that doesn't call for an immediate ceasefire and question the strength of the word imperative. Scientists with NASA's JPL say the recent El Nino storms have caused sea levels to rise. Researchers noted during El Nino events, rainfalls into the oceans and not onto land, whereas

Law Nina storms drop rain onto land and not into oceans. From twenty twenty two two to twenty twenty three, scientists say the global average sea level rose by three tenths of an inch, one of the biggest jumps since NASA started monitoring sea levels thirty years ago. To put it into perspective, researchers say the total rise is equivalent to draining a quarter of Lake Superior into the ocean over a year's time. Since nineteen ninety three, the average sea level has

risen four inches. Steve Gregory kaya Fine News and speaking of the CE SeaWorld San Diego is celebrating at sixtieth anniversary this weekend. Had a vision of creating a marine mammal part that's entertaining and at the same time providing an atmosphere of conservation, education, rescue, rehabilitation, and then returning to the wild for animals. Seaworlds Byron Sirett says SeaWorld is so much more than just killer whales.

We've rescued over forty one thousand animals and returned to the wild, and at the same time, we continue to embrace the atmosphere of a fun time for the guests. The park kicks off the year long celebration this weekend with special ticket prices, food and entertain you've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on kf I Am six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.