July 25, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy opens the show talking about the DOJ meeting with longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The host of “Home’ on KFI the House Whisperer Dean Sharp joins the show to discuss outdoor furnishings. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe discussing business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News entertainment reporter Will Ganss speaking on Happy Gilmore 2. The Fantastic Four, and The Hunting Wives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App kf I and kost HT two Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Orange County.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
That improve.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Your haste.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Amy Kay, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's five o'clock, straight up, and this is your wake
up call for Friday, July twenty fifth. July twenty fifth,
you know what that means? Five months still Christmas?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I know, right, Okay. Also, I wanted to share something
with you.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I found out yesterday sooner than expected actually that I
am unremarkable. And that is a really good thing. As
you know, I had the big CEA and got to
have surgery and got to have chemo and all of
that stuff. That was five years ago. And they continue
to do lots of testing. Like I used to do
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blood work every three months. Now it's every six months.
And I get to have bonus colonoscopies and also set scans.
And I got a CT scan yesterday and the results
come back and you start reading through it and it
says liver unremarkable, pancreas unremarkable, lungs unremarkable, and I was like, well,
I don't think I'm unremarkable, but unremarkable is a good thing.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It means, it means normal.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So yeah, I'm thrilled to be unremarkable this Friday morning.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Also, have you seen that video.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Of the woman in Compton who caught et on her
ring video? It's crazy, it's crazy, it's so weird looking.
So I put it up on Instagram and put a
little up. You got to go check it at Amy Kking.
It's also at KFI AM six forty on the Instagram,
and it's on our website if you want to check
it out. And then after you look at it, I
(02:10):
would love for you to weigh in. Let us know
what you think.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Is it et? It is pretty freaky.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Look hit us up on the talkback on the iHeartRadio app.
Just it's the little microphone that's in the upper right
hand quarter of your screen on the iHeartRadio app. Is
it ET or is it a more earthly thing.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
With the neighborhood kid.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It doesn't look like a kid. It's really weird. So
go check it out and then again, let us know
what you think. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
A rash of burglaries continues in Encino. The latest happened
in broad daylight yesterday with about a half dozen masked
men breaking into a house and taking off with boxes
full of stuff. The burglaries continue even as police have
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increased patrols and neighbors have hired private armed security.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
The FCC has.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Approved sky Dance Media's eight billion dollar acquisition of Paramount Global.
The deal will put sky Dance, the media company founded
in twenty ten by movie producer David Ellison, in charge
of CBS and Paramount and Nickelodeon. Ellison's expected to become
the chairman and CEO of the new company, with Jeff
(03:22):
Shell as its president. An appeals court has struck down
California's law requiring background checks for AMMO purchases. The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling yesterday. It was
the first of its kind in the nation when it
passed in twenty sixteen. Its main backer, then Lieutenant Governor
Newsom Gallaine Maxwell is talking ABC. Stephen Portnoy joins us
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in a couple of minutes to tell us who she's
talking to and hopefully what she's saying. Time to head
to the great outdoors with our very own Dean Sharp
that's coming up at five point twenty also a fantastic
weekend on the way in movie theaters. ABC's Wills Gans
going to join us and he'll tell us about that
and also something to make you happy on the stream.
(04:08):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A state lawmaker
wants to know where all the money went from the
fire aid concert that was supposed to go to help
people in the Palisades in Altadena. The celebrity field music
event raised about one hundred million dollars for wildfire victims,
but Congressman Kevin Kylie says none of the victims have
received any money.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
They went to nonprofits, some of which have nothing to
do with fire relief, where they promote things like voting
and civicting engagement and multi generational power building. Some of
them aren't even located in la.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The California congressman says he has asked the Department of
Justice to look into things and find out what happened
to the tens of thousands of donations. Some people in
southern California are concerned about arson after two more fires
in Running Canyon.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
There was a small fire along the hiking trail late
Monday night. Another fire burned about two hundred yards away
early Thursday morning. Earlier this month, hikers subdued to suspected
arsonist after a fire started in the same general area.
The man, believed to be homeless, was then arrested by police.
He had been arrested fifteen times since twenty twenty. To
watch out for suspicious activity, residents in the area have
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created a new group called the Runyon Canyon Guardians. Daniel
Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A serial backside sniffer is back behind bars.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
The thirty eight year old has been busted for butt
sniffing strangers multiple times and was arrested again this week
for the same crime. Cops were originally called for a
suspicious man hanging around the women's department at the Nordstrom
Rack and Burbank, but then later caught up with the
guy at a nearby Walmart. They say the man followed
a woman and when she stopped, he crouched down behind
her and took a whiff. Now he's doing court next week.
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Jason Campadonia KFI News.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
This is just wrong, boss, our news boss, just say
butt sniffing.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He did, Sorry he did And in a better way
of sniffing. The La County DA's office has added three
new dogs to its Victims Services K nine teams. Joining
the team are Miata, a two year old Labrador Retriever,
Johnny as soon to be two year old standard poodle,
and Corbyn, a year old Border Collie Poodle mix. The
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dogs are used to comfort crime victims, as a provide
and prepare for testimony in court. Since the program started
in twenty seventeen, dogs have provided support to more than
sixteen hundred victims and witnesses. That's some sniff and I
can get behind. No pun intended on that one. I
didn't even mean to do that. Okay, let's say good
morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, we talked
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yesterday and knew that we'd be talking again soon. Jeffrey
Epstein's planner fix her friend is talking, at least we
think she is. Glene Maxwell is having a conversation with
DOGA officials.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
With the second most important figure at the Justice Department,
the Deputy Attorney General. It went for about six hours
yesterday and continue today at the US Attorney's Office in Tallahassee.
As the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, donald Trump's former
personal lawyer, is aiming to learn from Gallainne Maxwell what
more there is that there to this story. I mean,
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there must be something more. I mean the conversation went
on for six hours, and he wants to go back
and continue. The supposition has been that with hundreds of
young women apparently victimized by Jeffrey Epstein and Gallaine Maxwell,
was anyone else involved in this who should be pursued
by prosecutors. Earlier this month, the Justice Department put out
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a memo that said that there's no evidence that any
uncharged third parties should even be investigated.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And yet the.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Deputy Attorney General, who is Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has
gone down to Tallahassee to sit with Gallaiine Maxwell to
hear it directly from her.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What's really going on here?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
We don't know, but Gallaine Maxwell is in court, in
fact at the Supreme Court, trying to get her conviction overturned.
Her argument is that Justice Jeffrey Epstein was covered by
a sweetheart deal cooked up with federal prosecutors two decades ago.
She should have been covered by that too, and in
the way that it was expected that Jeffrey Epstein would
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have fought the charges against him in twenty nineteen, but
he killed himself. According to investigators, he was also intending
to fight those charges. His lawyers were in court making
the same argument. So you've got Gallaine Maxwell sitting with
the Justice Department offering it seems information. You've got the
Justice Department fighting her in court over the idea that
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she shouldn't have been convicted. You've got the fact that
you know, it's alleged she recruited at least one of
her victims at mar A Lago. And you've got a
lot going on here all together, as Republicans and Democrats
clamor for answers. You know, the House Oversight Committee hopes
to depose Gallaine Maxwell. Her attorney indicated earlier this week
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that maybe she'll plead the fifth in that proceeding, depending
on how the conversations go with the Justice Department. Is
some sort of immunity deal in the works here, We'll see.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
See.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I knew there was going to be more of it,
all right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks for the update. We'll
talk soon when we find out what in the heck
she's been saying. You bet all right, that's just it
just gets curious, sir and curious, sir. Right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump's special envoy for
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Israel and Hamas negotiations says he's decided to bring the
US team home from Doha after the latest response from
Hamas clearly showed what he called a lack of desire
to reach a ceasefire. The Trump administration says it will
now consider alternate options to try to get Israeli hostages
who are still being held in Gaza back. President Trump
(09:52):
and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have met. Trump's been
calling for lower interest rates, while Powell remains reluctant. D
Selena Wang says even if Trump fires Powell, as he
has reportedly considered, the President may not be able to
get what he wants.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
BENCHR.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Powell doesn't unilaterally make decisions about interest rates. He's part
of a twelve member Federal Open Market Committee, so even
if Trump were to find cause were to fire him
install somebody else, that person could still face pushback from
the eleven other members.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The President has also criticized Powell over a multi million
dollar renovation project going on at the FED. The woman
caught cuddling with her company CEO in the viral kiss
cam moment at a Coldplay concert has resigned.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Kristen Cabot stepped down from her job as Chief People
Officer at Astronomer, a data management startup. The man she
was with, CEO, Andy Byron, resigned days ago. Both are
married to other people. The company is now led by
interim CEO Pete de Joy, while a new leader is found,
Mark Mayfield Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Luigi the Musical could take the stage world wide following
a sold out run in San Francisco. In the show,
accused United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Manngioni is in a
jail cell with Sean Colmes and Sam Bankman freed. The
show apparently pokes fun at celebrity and corporate culture. Producers
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have added a show in August in SF and are
looking at opening in Los Angeles, New York, and other
cities internationally. Looking for North Korean bad guys, just look
for the minions.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh Despicable me.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
The at the isis thousands of North Koreans are pretending
to be Americans doing remote work investigators say one way
to spot the fake workers stealing millions in cryptocurrency is
through their obsession with minions and other characters from the
Despicable Me animated movie franchise, many whose grew in social
media profiles and email addresses referring to the minion overlord
voiced by Steve Carell. Others use the name Kevin, the
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character in the second movie. Investigators say it isn't some
kind of social commentary or dark joke. They're just fans
of the films. Michael Krozier KFI News IV.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That the SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service says had a
bad day, but it's back up and running after an
outage took it offline for about two and a half hours.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
The service has more than six million users in around
one hundred and forty countries and territories. The outage was
blamed on an internal software failure. Tens of thousands reported
the outage, including Ukraine's military, which depends on Starlink for
battlefield drone operations and reconnaissance. CEO Elon Musk personally apologized
for the disruption and said the company is working to
make sure it doesn't happen again. Michael Kasner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So is it et or is it a more earthly?
Citing the woman in Compton who caught something on her
ring camera the other day. I guess it was about
a month ago, says that she thinks it's an extraterrestrial.
You can check it out on my Instagram story at
Amy k King. Do you think it's et or do
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you think it's a kid wearing a mariachi hat? Now
it's the vote is sixty percent say et, forty percent
say nah, it's just a kid in a disguise. Would
love to hear what you say. You can hit us
up on talkback too. What is it if you don't
think it's et?
Speaker 12 (13:16):
You know a lot of our audience right now was
just listening to George Nori, so that could factor in.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm just saying so.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
They might have some great you might have some great
insight there. We'd love to hear again. Hit us up
on the talk pack on the iHeartRadio app. It's the
little microphone in the upper right hand corner of your screen.
The Orange County, or actually the Orange City Council, has
tabled a resolution to ban ice agents from wearing masks
during immigration raids. A resolution is not binding. After hours
(13:45):
of public debate, the council voted four to three to
set it aside, not approve or reject it at this time.
When or if it'll be revisited is unclear. Full rail
service is about to be restored to Metro's D Or
Purple Line between Union State and Koreatown. The line's been
closed since May seventeenth so Cruz could complete work on
the D Line extension project. After a seventy day closure,
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rail service resumes tomorrow morning at four am. Also, Metro
announced the new nine point one mile Gold Line extension
from Glendora to Pomona is going to open in September.
EPA administrator Lee Zelden has met with the Mexican government's
environmental head to sign an agreement to end the flow
of sewage into the Tijuana River. It's been going on
(14:28):
for years. The deal requires both countries to expedite stormwater
and sewage infrastructure projects, including diverting ten million gallons a
day from running into the Tijuana River and the Pacific Ocean.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news Galene Maxwell,
Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman talking to one.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Of the top dogs at the DOJ. I'll be talking
about that.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
on KFI, the house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Morning, Dean, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Are you ready for Christmas?
Speaker 13 (15:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, but you know what you could be thinking more about.
Maybe if you wanted to get somebody some outdoor furniture
for Christmas, you can do that in southern California.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
I'm still waiting for summer to show up one hundred percent.
It's just kind of been dragging its feet. But I
have a feeling there's some seriously warm weather ahead of
us here. So this weekend we're gonna be talking about
outdoor furnishings on the Sunday Show.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I love outdoor furniture.
Speaker 12 (15:34):
I do too, and setting up outside it's one of
the trickier conversations I have with my clients.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
So I got to.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Say, just well, you know, people say, well.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You know, Diana, you know we live in southern California.
We want to get outdoors more. Okay, great, great, great,
So you know we're gonna need some comfortable furniture.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
Okay, yeah, maybe a heater out there, maybe a way
to you know, say, okay, all right, well you know
there's win out there. Maybe we could could we put
up some glass panels to kind of control the way? Okay,
got that, Well, maybe we should extend the roof. All right,
Now you're just basically saying you'll want to be inside,
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so why are we spending the money on? And you
know what it does. It's a funny thing. Indoor has
its kind of creep and if you're not really thinking about, no,
I actually want to spend some time outdoors, then you
can spend a lot of money and just end up
inside again. So there's a there's a thought process that
has to go on in order to really maximize the
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money that you're spending outside. You gotta be ready to
feel like you're outside. That being said, though, doesn't mean
that you can't be you know, comfortable.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, So what are some things that you then would recommend?
Because I like, I love an outdoor kitchen, and I
love having like a pergola and having the the really
cool comfy sofa and the fire pit and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
But am I just an inside outer?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 12 (17:05):
Not necessarily, It's just a matter of okay, draw line
somewhere so that you know what part of outside are
you willing to experiences, so that you don't have to
spend money trying to avoid it. Patio furniture is one
of the big areas though that I have to say
really confuses people because they think, well, I want something
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big and cushy. You gotta think, Okay, are these going
to be weather proof cushions or water proof cushions on
my patio furniture? The difference being if they're only weather
proof but not waterproof, then somebody's going to be bringing
them in when there's inclement weather, there's going to be
a place to store them, or they're gonna get soaked
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and wet out there. Okay, it doesn't necessarily hurt them,
but nobody wants to go out and set on a
soggy cushion, right. The other thing about soft, puffy patio furniture,
and believe me, I I love that, is when you're
buying it, you really don't buy it out of a catalog.
I really warn people against that because soft cushions cover
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a multitude of sins. When it comes to furniture, it's
the same rules that I apply to buying the sofa indoors,
go and sit on it, and sit on it for
a while.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Plan on going and you know, if.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
There's a floor sample somewhere, then plan on sitting down
and spending fifteen twenty plus minutes on that furniture, because
you know, everything is soft and cushy when you first
sit down. After a few minutes, you start to realize
whether that furniture is really ergonomically designed, and you're still
feeling comfortable, And a lot of people would be surprised.
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After five ten minutes, they're like, you know what, not
really that comfortable this furniture. Hard surface furniture, on the
other hand, is very very honest furniture. What I mean
by that is like, you know, a good addiron chair
that has no pad on it whatsoever, that's built ergonomically
can be super super comfortable, and you find out that
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in about sixty seconds when you first sit down in it.
So hard surface furniture easier to judge than the soft stuff.
The soft stuff. Spend more time on it and think
about the materials. What are the materials actually made out
of those cushions. Are they like a great umbrella material
which will last forever, or are they materials that are
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more subject to fading and or deteriorating in UV light,
which of course is the greatest enemy of all patio furniture.
Not rain, not wind, not snow, uv light that breaks
down materials.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Okay, and yeah, I like the idea of the hard
surface stuff because one, it's probably easier to take care
of because you're not worried about the cushions and all
of that stuff. And I have an adironic out on
my little balcony and I sit on it every day
and it's just nice and cozy, comfy.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Yeah, me too. We have Adirondack chares around our and
I'm not trying to build a case again soft furniture.
I'm just saying we have Adirondack chairs around our fire pit,
and you know, I don't worry about them. They're actually
made out of a resin material. They're out there, rain,
shine doesn't matter, Wipe them down, have a seat, They're
always there. I don't have to do anything to them.
(20:19):
And I really appreciate that, and so do our guests.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And okay, So Dean's gonna dig more into this this
weekend six to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on
Sunday right here on KFI. It's called Home with Dean Sharp,
And like, I know you're going to be digging into,
like what kinds of furniture do you get depending on
you know, whether you're an entertainer or it's just you
and your hobby exactly, those kinds of things should be
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considered too, right.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
Yeah, absolutely, And we're going to be tackling one of
the biggest problems of outdoor furnishings, which is shade. How
do you do shade? Are you gonna build a pergola?
Are you gonna build a patio cover? Are you going
to use an umbrella? Which is the best idea for
you given your situation, because shade is tricky because the
sun keeps moving across the sky. And fixed structures they
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look great, they sound great. They don't always throw the
shade exactly where you want them because they don't move.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
In this case, throwing shade is a good thing. Yes, Okay,
Dean Sharp, thank you so much. He's our house whisper.
You can follow him at Home with Dean. Have a
great weekend, you two.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
M all right.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Hey, the Dodgers are taking on the Red Sox in Boston.
The first pitch goes out at four o'clock this afternoon.
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Dot com. My teenagers in the hospital after being shot
at a home in Encino. Police say the boy apparently
tried to break in. Police say the homeowner heard something
break and God is his family into a safe room,
then confronted the fourteen year old, who was holding a
samurai sword. The boy was then shot. The kid got
away in a car with some others inside. Police are
(22:09):
disputing the boy's mother's claim that her son was shot
in a drive by shooting. A man from Whittier's been
arrested for allegedly scamming people he met on dating apps
out of more than two million dollars. Detectives say he'd
tell the people he met he was financially successful, and
then convinced them to give him money and property for
fake investment opportunities. Christopher Lloyd is charged with thirteen counts
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of wirefraud. The La County Department of Public Health has
confirmed someone with measles has traveled through LAX this month.
The person was in the airport on July fifth. Health
officials say the person was also at the Hilton Los
Angeles Airport the evening of the fifth through the afternoon
of the seventh. Health officials say unvaccinated people could be
at risk and to watch for symptoms that can show
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up for any time between seven and twenty one days
after exposure. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California
Democratic Senator Alex Paedia is expected to announce legislation He
says we'll expand a pathway to legal, permanent residency for
millions of people. It's in response to what he says
(23:16):
is the demonization of illegal immigrant communities. Padilla said to
speak later this morning in downtown LA. A man is
facing hate crime charges following a road rage incident in Irvine.
Police say Robert Tackett was driving aggressively and swerving into
a truck driver's lane on Tuesday morning, then started shouting
racial slurs at him. Tackett is also accused of throwing
(23:39):
a hot cup of coffee at the truck driver, splashing
the victim's face, hands, and the inside of his vehicle.
The other driver has it on video and posted it
on Instagram. Tackets facing hate crime and aggravated assault charges.
A man in Texas is suing a doctor in the
Bay Area who mailed an abortion pill to the man's girlfriend.
Ashley Leanert's with Texas Right to Life says her group
(24:00):
is supporting Jerry Rodriguez's suits.
Speaker 13 (24:02):
We know from a study just this year that it
could be up to one in ten women who take
these drugs can actually face severe medical complications.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
The Wrongful Death lawsuit accuses doctor remi Queto of committing
an active murder. The suit asks a federal judge to
issue an injunction to protect current and future fathers. Kiser
Permanente is pausing gender affirming surgeries for patients under nineteen
starting in late August. The healthcare giant cites political pressure
(24:31):
and new federal directives to kids. The decision has drawn
outrage from advocates and lawmakers who are accusing Kaiser of
violating state protections. The last surviving cast member of Hogan's
Heroes has died.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Kenneth Washington joined the cast of Hogan's Heroes in the
sixth and final season of the popular sixties sitcom set
in a World War Two pow camp as Sergeant Baker.
Washington also played a police officer on Adam twelve and
appeared in both st Our Trek and Westworld. Washington died
last week at his home in Beverly Hills. He was
eighty eight years old. Mark Ronner KFI News Chuck E.
(25:09):
Cheese has been arrested in Florida.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Picture show the pizza chain mascot in handcuffs while he's
being let out by our police as children in the
background look on. Police are then seen in a video
removing the head of the mascot outfit as the man
stands next to a police car. Tallahassee Police said the
man inside the costume was arrested on three felonies. Court
record show he was charged with credit card theft and
fraud that he has been released on bond.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
A Mark Mayfield is nothing sacred, Chucky Cheese. I know,
all right, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Time to get in your business. This morning with John Tucker,
who's in for Courtney Donaho. Good morning, John.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'm just trying to picture that chucky shattery.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
All right, hey, John.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So the Dow's flirting with forty five thousand, and the
Nasdaq and the SMP both hit new hives.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
What is driving this surge?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, I'll tell you every day. This week, the S
and P five hundred, which is the broader index that
most of the professionals follow, has hit a record. Looks
like it could do it again today. Right now, at least,
the futures indicate the S and P five hundred eight
points higher. That's up about tenth of a percent. A
lot of this has to do with earnings. The earning
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season so far, where companies open their books, that has
been pretty good. Granted, the bar was pretty low this
time around because of a lot of investors had anticipated
that we're going to see the effects of tariffs weighing
on company earnings. So far, that has yet to filter
through the economy, but most of the experts say it's
(26:43):
going to happen sooner or later. We did get a
warning today from one of the major investment banks that
this is getting very topy, that maybe we're in bubble territory.
As far as stocks, and if you look at their prices,
there's what we look at as the pees, the forward pease,
the price of earnings ratios something like twenty three twenty
(27:04):
four times of their earnings. That on a historical basis,
that is expensive. Yeah, but if you're taking investment advice
for me, you're in big trouble.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, So you wanted to ask us a question, and
that is, have you looked at your paycheck lately?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Why are we asking that?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, it's probably getting squeezed. This is according to the
Job search Firm, the Job Search Firm. Indeed, paychecks for
more than forty percent of American workers, they are right
now lagging the rate of inflation. So you kind of
underwater when it comes to your paycheck and wage growth.
It's likely that middle and lower income earners we're probably
(27:46):
feeling the worst of it. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
See, that's that's great economic news. Okay, I'm just kidding.
And then, well, so you said middle and low income,
but then you have the world's richest man and he's
lost a few billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah. You know, we told you about Tesla's rocky road
ahead that sent shares the company's tumbling eight percent in
yesterday's trading. That's all that alone shaved nineteen and a
half billion dollars off the net wealth of Elon Moss. Yeah,
in just one day. But don't worry, Amy, He's still
the world's wealthiest person, worth about three hundred and fifty
(28:23):
four billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
So what's nineteen to you know nothing?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You know, well, one day he's far and away the
world's because I can do this. Elon Moss is worth
three hundred and fifty four billion dollars. He lost nineteen
billion just yesterday. Second behind him is Larry Allison at
two hundred and ninety three billion dollars. He actually earned
three hundred and fifty three million dollars yesterday. Jeff Bezos
(28:52):
is number three. I don't see Amy in this listing.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
No, you would not see it, not at the top,
not at the bottom, nine anywhere in eighteen. Okay, what
if I'm in the market for a robot, Is it
going to cost me that nineteen billion?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
No, Actually they're getting a lot cheaper. In fact, the
Chinese startup Unitree Robots is marketing one of the first
humanoid robots for under six thousand bucks. So they're drastically
reducing the entry price. What is expected to grow into
a whole wave of virstatile AI machines for the workplace
and home. They say this is equipped with multi modal
(29:32):
art whatever that means artificial intelligence that includes voice and
image recognition. If they could just get one to clean
the house, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Absolutely, I think as much as I can afford as
a rumba. And are the stars aligned for investors?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well, this is what am I can't What are you?
What's your sign? What's your sign?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Aquarius?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Aquarius? This is big business. Astrology is so big in
India that investors, including venture capital or jumping in right now.
This is the age old belief that has snowballed into
a seven billion with a B dollar industry, a younger
generation seeking celestial guidance out there.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Really, they're talking to astrologers to find out how to invest.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Apparently, how to do everything. Okay, I mean it's fun.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But well, you know, the traditional way hasn't worked for me,
so maybe that's what I'm going to try next.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Made the stars aligned for you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Friday yep getting in your business with Bloomberg's John Tucker.
We'll do it again on Monday morning. Maybe it'll be Courtney,
maybe it'll be John. But either way, we'll get the
We'll get the scoop from one of you guys. See
you then, all right, take care. Kaiser Permanente has paused
gender affirming surgeries for patients under nineteen. It'll kick in
(30:52):
August twenty ninth. Officials from Kaiser say the move follows
similar actions by other health systems because of federal investigations
and pressure. Geyser says it plans to continue providing all
other gender affirming treatments to transgender adolescents. Wildfire victims can
ride Metro free through January. Metro's board of directors has
decided to keep the fair assistance program for fire survivors
(31:15):
called Wildfire Recovery Modified Life Program going until at least
early next year because a lot of people are still
using the program.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Hermosa Beach is.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Taking down the historic Vetter Windmill along Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
This will say. The decision to.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Dismantle the iconic windmill that dates back to the nineteen
or back to the early nineteen hundreds was made because
of recent examinations that found corrosion could cause the windmill
blades to detach in high winds or an earthquake. We're
just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
(31:50):
a big win for Palestinians. We'll tell you what France
is going to be doing. Right now, let's tell you
what Will gans is going to be doing. It's ABC's
multi platform reporter.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Good morning, Will, Good morning.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
I don't know that I'm worthy enough to follow what
France is going to be doing for Palestine, but sure
I am ready to tell you how things are looking
in my world.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, you're on the lighter side of things, and we
like that. We need a little levity and brevity on
the weekend. So this weekend marks the return of some
of the greatest heroes. Well, one is in theaters. Let's
go with theaters first. It's The Fantastic Four.
Speaker 13 (32:30):
Yes, these are some great heroes. It is Marvel officially
kicking off its next era, its next phase, if you will,
phase six. And so it's Pedro, Pascal and the Gang
in The Fantastic for the first steps, and it's it's
I mean, one of my favorite things about this movie
is just the world that it's set in, right it's
like a version of Earth, but it's like retro futuristic,
(32:51):
so it sort of feels like sixties vibes, but you're
also getting you know, this like idea that there are
robots around and things like that. So the vibes are
really really cool in this. And yes, of course it's
a superhero movie, so you are going to have them
going to outer space and you are going to have
them fighting gigantic creepy monsters named Galactus and things like that.
(33:13):
But what really like works best for me with this
movie is that it's like a family drama edy sort of.
You know, like within the very beginning parts of the film,
you find out that missus Fantastic is pregnant, and you know,
how does that affect her relationships and you know, what
does it mean to be a family.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
And things like that.
Speaker 13 (33:33):
So critics are, you know, placing this at around eighty
nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which you know, as far
as the Superhero movie goes, that's pretty great. And I
think a lot of folks are excited about what this
means for the future of Marvel as well.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, because yeah, we haven't had a big Marvel in
a while. We've had a que not what not kind
of bombs from Marble.
Speaker 13 (33:54):
Yeah, exactly. I mean Captain America in February was rough,
and then The Thunderbolts is like anti Marvel and this
is more in the vein of like the Avengers and
things that we love. And by the way, in traditional
Marvel fashion, for anyone who is going to this movie,
make sure you stick around. There's a post credits scene
as well that you'll want to see. It sort of
(34:15):
points in the direction we're going for Avengers Doomsday, which
is in the works.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Great, so we're going back to the really dark world
ending stuff that everybody loves. Okay, right, if you don't
feel like going to movie theaters this weekend, I want
to camp out on the couch like me.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 13 (34:36):
This is like the hero of the nineties, right, Yeah,
so twenty nine or so, I think years after the
first Happy Gilmore, Billy Adam Sandler is back and this
movie like more than anything, it's like fan service. If
you liked the first one, you will love this one.
Similar types of humor, lots of like flashbacks where you're
(34:58):
seeing stuff that happened in the first one and callbacks
to things that happen in the first one, whether it's
you know, relatives of characters we fell in love with
in the first Happy Gilmore, and you know, it's like,
I wouldn't be surprised if we see like a really
big divide here between audience scores and critics scores, Like
I think audiences are really gonna love it, and critics
(35:18):
are going to be like, did we need to bring
this back? Maybe? But it is a thoroughly enjoyable watch.
And you know, it's Adam Sandler doing what he does best,
which is, you know, silly and goofy, but earnest and genuine.
And there are enough celebrity cameos to keep you, you know,
(35:39):
on the edge of your seat in a way that
you might be if you were watching Fantastic Four and
they're fighting in outer space.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Alien It's but there's no Bob Barker.
Speaker 13 (35:48):
No no Bob Barker. But you do see within the
first five minutes of this movie you find out that
they made a video game out of Happy Gilmore and
you see an animated for him fighting.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
At least they pay homage to him, because that was
like one of the most classic scenes out of that
whole first movie.
Speaker 13 (36:05):
Okay, well, for sure the price is wrong.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Who could forget it?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
And hey, you know what if top Gun can do it?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
So Happy Gilmore?
Speaker 13 (36:13):
Right, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
And it's on Netflix. It is yep, and it doesn't
cost extra.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
Nope, totally free on Netflix.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Okay, will Why did.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
They send it right to Netflix instead of releasing in movies?
It didn't get enough good reviews, so they just said,
let's just put it on the stream.
Speaker 13 (36:30):
You know. I think that, like maybe it was just
he knew that there would be an easier time making
it quicker and making it the way that he wanted
to make it. His real life daughter plays his daughter
in it, so I think there was probably less constraint.
You know, they were like, Okay, if we wanted to
do the exact version that Adam Sandler wants to do,
(36:51):
I bet Netflix was the path of leads resistance there.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Okay, I'm putting that on my notes to watch Happy
Gilmore this weekend. And if you're looking not to get happy,
but if you want to get scared and kind of
creepy stuff, you got another one for us.
Speaker 13 (37:06):
Unnerved. Yeah, so this is The Hunting Wives, also on
Netflix all eight episodes are streaming now based on a book,
but it was originally being adapted for Stars the television channel,
which is you know, a little more steamy and freaky
than like you know, Netflix traditionally is. And you can
see that, you know. So this is about Britney Snow
(37:27):
plays a woman from Boston who follows her husband for
his work to a very wealthy small town in Texas,
and like, within the initial minutes of the show, you
find out one that somebody is dead, someone in this
Texas town, and potentially Britney Snow is dead. And then
you also like see her attending her first like fundraiser
(37:48):
for the NRA, and she's of course, like completely uncomfortable
in that setting, and as she gets to know the
women in this community, she's you know, in some ways
like Okay, these these ladies are great and other ways
like I am a complete fish out of water. I
don't understand what's going on here. And then you add
in a murder and it's just, you know, all bets
are off, it's twisty, it's turney, it is not for
(38:09):
the whole family. There is nudity and all of those
types of things, So don't watch it with anyone who's
you know, not gonna not going to be down to
see any of that. But if you're looking for something
soapy and dramatic, it's a very easy watch this weekend.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Yeah, sounds sort of like the dark Side of Virgin River.
Speaker 13 (38:29):
Yes, and like and like big big little lies if
you just you know, doused it with a bunch of yeah, yeah,
excess all.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Right, the darker side.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Okay, Will Gan's ABC's multiplatform reporter. Thanks so much for
the information. We'll have to talk about Happy Gilmour next
week after I see it.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
Yes, yes, enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
It's fine, all right, Thanks so much, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. EPA administrator Lee
Zelden is met with the Mexican government's environmental head to
sign up agreement to end the flow of sewage into
the Tijuana River. The deal requires both countries to expedite
stormwater and sewage infrastructure projects, including diverting ten million gallons
a day from running into the Tijuana River and the
(39:13):
Pacific Ocean. Since twenty eighteen, more than two hundred billion
gallons of toxic sewage, trash, and stormwater float across the
US Mexico border into the Tijuana River Valley and neighboring communities,
which has forced long lasting beach closers and caused harmful
impacts on public health, the environmental environment, and or water quality. Rather,
(39:36):
Department of Justice officials have met with Jeffrey Epstein's right
hand Glene Maxwell, in Florida, where she's in prison for
sex trafficking. ABC's Aer Katursky says Deputy Attorney General Todd
Blanch was part of that meeting yesterday to.
Speaker 14 (39:48):
Hear them talk about it. Todd Blanche wants to know
whether Glen Maxwell has information about anyone who may have
committed crimes against victims. David Marcus said his client, Glen Maxwell,
will justified truthfully.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Maxwell was once charged with perjury and ultimately convicted of
sex trafficking and enabling Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women
and girls. A replica Oval office near the White House
has gotten a makeover, but.
Speaker 15 (40:15):
It isn't the gilded version that President Trump is currently using. Instead,
it's a mirror image of the Oval office from Trump's
first term. The replica initially looked like former President Biden's
office when the White House Historical Association opened the People's
House Educational Center last fall. It takes time to get
copies made of every item in the real Oval office.
It will be fully revamped next year to mirror Trump's
(40:38):
second term office. Deborah mark KOFFI News.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
If Prince were reincarnated, he could come back as a snail.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
A beach of San Diego's being invaded by bright purple shells.
The rare species of pelagic sea snails known as Janthina,
have been seen scattered along the Hoya Shores beach. Oceanographers
say it's the first time in decades the snails have
been spotted on local beaches. They say the snails are
typically found in warmer offshore waters, so it could be
linked to climate change. They're also voracious predators, feeding on
(41:07):
things like the deadly venomous Portuguese Man of War. Researchers
say certain beaches, including Lajoya Shores, are no take areas,
so take all the pictures you want, but leave the
great book and snails on the sand. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I see.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
You can see pictures of the snails on our website.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
KFIAM six forty dot com slash see they're so cute.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
I don't say that about snails very often.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
This is KFI and KOSDHD two, Los Angeles, Orange County
live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer
Ann and technical producer Conor Kno, along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King.
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Amy Kay, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's five o'clock, straight up, and this is your wake
up call for Friday, July twenty fifth. July twenty fifth,
you know what that means? Five months still Christmas?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I know, right, Okay. Also, I wanted to share something
with you.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I found out yesterday sooner than expected actually that I
am unremarkable. And that is a really good thing. As
you know, I had the big CEA and got to
have surgery and got to have chemo and all of
that stuff. That was five years ago. And they continue
to do lots of testing. Like I used to do
(01:18):
blood work every three months. Now it's every six months.
And I get to have bonus colonoscopies and also set scans.
And I got a CT scan yesterday and the results
come back and you start reading through it and it
says liver unremarkable, pancreas unremarkable, lungs unremarkable, and I was like, well,
I don't think I'm unremarkable, but unremarkable is a good thing.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It means, it means normal.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So yeah, I'm thrilled to be unremarkable this Friday morning.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Also, have you seen that video.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Of the woman in Compton who caught et on her
ring video? It's crazy, it's crazy, it's so weird looking.
So I put it up on Instagram and put a
little up. You got to go check it at Amy Kking.
It's also at KFI AM six forty on the Instagram,
and it's on our website if you want to check
it out. And then after you look at it, I
(02:10):
would love for you to weigh in. Let us know
what you think.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Is it et? It is pretty freaky.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Look hit us up on the talkback on the iHeartRadio app.
Just it's the little microphone that's in the upper right
hand quarter of your screen on the iHeartRadio app. Is
it ET or is it a more earthly thing.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
With the neighborhood kid.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It doesn't look like a kid. It's really weird. So
go check it out and then again, let us know
what you think. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
A rash of burglaries continues in Encino. The latest happened
in broad daylight yesterday with about a half dozen masked
men breaking into a house and taking off with boxes
full of stuff. The burglaries continue even as police have
(02:57):
increased patrols and neighbors have hired private armed security.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
The FCC has.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Approved sky Dance Media's eight billion dollar acquisition of Paramount Global.
The deal will put sky Dance, the media company founded
in twenty ten by movie producer David Ellison, in charge
of CBS and Paramount and Nickelodeon. Ellison's expected to become
the chairman and CEO of the new company, with Jeff
(03:22):
Shell as its president. An appeals court has struck down
California's law requiring background checks for AMMO purchases. The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals made the ruling yesterday. It was
the first of its kind in the nation when it
passed in twenty sixteen. Its main backer, then Lieutenant Governor
Newsom Gallaine Maxwell is talking ABC. Stephen Portnoy joins us
(03:43):
in a couple of minutes to tell us who she's
talking to and hopefully what she's saying. Time to head
to the great outdoors with our very own Dean Sharp
that's coming up at five point twenty also a fantastic
weekend on the way in movie theaters. ABC's Wills Gans
going to join us and he'll tell us about that
and also something to make you happy on the stream.
(04:08):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A state lawmaker
wants to know where all the money went from the
fire aid concert that was supposed to go to help
people in the Palisades in Altadena. The celebrity field music
event raised about one hundred million dollars for wildfire victims,
but Congressman Kevin Kylie says none of the victims have
received any money.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
They went to nonprofits, some of which have nothing to
do with fire relief, where they promote things like voting
and civicting engagement and multi generational power building. Some of
them aren't even located in la.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The California congressman says he has asked the Department of
Justice to look into things and find out what happened
to the tens of thousands of donations. Some people in
southern California are concerned about arson after two more fires
in Running Canyon.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
There was a small fire along the hiking trail late
Monday night. Another fire burned about two hundred yards away
early Thursday morning. Earlier this month, hikers subdued to suspected
arsonist after a fire started in the same general area.
The man, believed to be homeless, was then arrested by police.
He had been arrested fifteen times since twenty twenty. To
watch out for suspicious activity, residents in the area have
(05:17):
created a new group called the Runyon Canyon Guardians. Daniel
Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A serial backside sniffer is back behind bars.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
The thirty eight year old has been busted for butt
sniffing strangers multiple times and was arrested again this week
for the same crime. Cops were originally called for a
suspicious man hanging around the women's department at the Nordstrom
Rack and Burbank, but then later caught up with the
guy at a nearby Walmart. They say the man followed
a woman and when she stopped, he crouched down behind
her and took a whiff. Now he's doing court next week.
(05:49):
Jason Campadonia KFI News.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
This is just wrong, boss, our news boss, just say
butt sniffing.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He did, Sorry he did And in a better way
of sniffing. The La County DA's office has added three
new dogs to its Victims Services K nine teams. Joining
the team are Miata, a two year old Labrador Retriever,
Johnny as soon to be two year old standard poodle,
and Corbyn, a year old Border Collie Poodle mix. The
(06:18):
dogs are used to comfort crime victims, as a provide
and prepare for testimony in court. Since the program started
in twenty seventeen, dogs have provided support to more than
sixteen hundred victims and witnesses. That's some sniff and I
can get behind. No pun intended on that one. I
didn't even mean to do that. Okay, let's say good
morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, we talked
(06:40):
yesterday and knew that we'd be talking again soon. Jeffrey
Epstein's planner fix her friend is talking, at least we
think she is. Glene Maxwell is having a conversation with
DOGA officials.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
With the second most important figure at the Justice Department,
the Deputy Attorney General. It went for about six hours
yesterday and continue today at the US Attorney's Office in Tallahassee.
As the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, donald Trump's former
personal lawyer, is aiming to learn from Gallainne Maxwell what
more there is that there to this story. I mean,
(07:15):
there must be something more. I mean the conversation went
on for six hours, and he wants to go back
and continue. The supposition has been that with hundreds of
young women apparently victimized by Jeffrey Epstein and Gallaine Maxwell,
was anyone else involved in this who should be pursued
by prosecutors. Earlier this month, the Justice Department put out
(07:37):
a memo that said that there's no evidence that any
uncharged third parties should even be investigated.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And yet the.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Deputy Attorney General, who is Donald Trump's personal lawyer, has
gone down to Tallahassee to sit with Gallaiine Maxwell to
hear it directly from her.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
What's really going on here?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
We don't know, but Gallaine Maxwell is in court, in
fact at the Supreme Court, trying to get her conviction overturned.
Her argument is that Justice Jeffrey Epstein was covered by
a sweetheart deal cooked up with federal prosecutors two decades ago.
She should have been covered by that too, and in
the way that it was expected that Jeffrey Epstein would
(08:16):
have fought the charges against him in twenty nineteen, but
he killed himself. According to investigators, he was also intending
to fight those charges. His lawyers were in court making
the same argument. So you've got Gallaine Maxwell sitting with
the Justice Department offering it seems information. You've got the
Justice Department fighting her in court over the idea that
(08:37):
she shouldn't have been convicted. You've got the fact that
you know, it's alleged she recruited at least one of
her victims at mar A Lago. And you've got a
lot going on here all together, as Republicans and Democrats
clamor for answers. You know, the House Oversight Committee hopes
to depose Gallaine Maxwell. Her attorney indicated earlier this week
(08:58):
that maybe she'll plead the fifth in that proceeding, depending
on how the conversations go with the Justice Department. Is
some sort of immunity deal in the works here, We'll see.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
See.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I knew there was going to be more of it,
all right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks for the update. We'll
talk soon when we find out what in the heck
she's been saying. You bet all right, that's just it
just gets curious, sir and curious, sir. Right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump's special envoy for
(09:29):
Israel and Hamas negotiations says he's decided to bring the
US team home from Doha after the latest response from
Hamas clearly showed what he called a lack of desire
to reach a ceasefire. The Trump administration says it will
now consider alternate options to try to get Israeli hostages
who are still being held in Gaza back. President Trump
(09:52):
and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have met. Trump's been
calling for lower interest rates, while Powell remains reluctant. D
Selena Wang says even if Trump fires Powell, as he
has reportedly considered, the President may not be able to
get what he wants.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
BENCHR.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Powell doesn't unilaterally make decisions about interest rates. He's part
of a twelve member Federal Open Market Committee, so even
if Trump were to find cause were to fire him
install somebody else, that person could still face pushback from
the eleven other members.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
The President has also criticized Powell over a multi million
dollar renovation project going on at the FED. The woman
caught cuddling with her company CEO in the viral kiss
cam moment at a Coldplay concert has resigned.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Kristen Cabot stepped down from her job as Chief People
Officer at Astronomer, a data management startup. The man she
was with, CEO, Andy Byron, resigned days ago. Both are
married to other people. The company is now led by
interim CEO Pete de Joy, while a new leader is found,
Mark Mayfield Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Luigi the Musical could take the stage world wide following
a sold out run in San Francisco. In the show,
accused United Healthcare CEO killer Luigi Manngioni is in a
jail cell with Sean Colmes and Sam Bankman freed. The
show apparently pokes fun at celebrity and corporate culture. Producers
(11:18):
have added a show in August in SF and are
looking at opening in Los Angeles, New York, and other
cities internationally. Looking for North Korean bad guys, just look
for the minions.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh Despicable me.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
The at the isis thousands of North Koreans are pretending
to be Americans doing remote work investigators say one way
to spot the fake workers stealing millions in cryptocurrency is
through their obsession with minions and other characters from the
Despicable Me animated movie franchise, many whose grew in social
media profiles and email addresses referring to the minion overlord
voiced by Steve Carell. Others use the name Kevin, the
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character in the second movie. Investigators say it isn't some
kind of social commentary or dark joke. They're just fans
of the films. Michael Krozier KFI News IV.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
That the SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service says had a
bad day, but it's back up and running after an
outage took it offline for about two and a half hours.
Speaker 11 (12:13):
The service has more than six million users in around
one hundred and forty countries and territories. The outage was
blamed on an internal software failure. Tens of thousands reported
the outage, including Ukraine's military, which depends on Starlink for
battlefield drone operations and reconnaissance. CEO Elon Musk personally apologized
for the disruption and said the company is working to
make sure it doesn't happen again. Michael Kasner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
So is it et or is it a more earthly?
Citing the woman in Compton who caught something on her
ring camera the other day. I guess it was about
a month ago, says that she thinks it's an extraterrestrial.
You can check it out on my Instagram story at
Amy k King. Do you think it's et or do
(12:57):
you think it's a kid wearing a mariachi hat? Now
it's the vote is sixty percent say et, forty percent
say nah, it's just a kid in a disguise. Would
love to hear what you say. You can hit us
up on talkback too. What is it if you don't
think it's et?
Speaker 12 (13:16):
You know a lot of our audience right now was
just listening to George Nori, so that could factor in.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm just saying so.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
They might have some great you might have some great
insight there. We'd love to hear again. Hit us up
on the talk pack on the iHeartRadio app. It's the
little microphone in the upper right hand corner of your screen.
The Orange County, or actually the Orange City Council, has
tabled a resolution to ban ice agents from wearing masks
during immigration raids. A resolution is not binding. After hours
(13:45):
of public debate, the council voted four to three to
set it aside, not approve or reject it at this time.
When or if it'll be revisited is unclear. Full rail
service is about to be restored to Metro's D Or
Purple Line between Union State and Koreatown. The line's been
closed since May seventeenth so Cruz could complete work on
the D Line extension project. After a seventy day closure,
(14:08):
rail service resumes tomorrow morning at four am. Also, Metro
announced the new nine point one mile Gold Line extension
from Glendora to Pomona is going to open in September.
EPA administrator Lee Zelden has met with the Mexican government's
environmental head to sign an agreement to end the flow
of sewage into the Tijuana River. It's been going on
(14:28):
for years. The deal requires both countries to expedite stormwater
and sewage infrastructure projects, including diverting ten million gallons a
day from running into the Tijuana River and the Pacific Ocean.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news Galene Maxwell,
Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman talking to one.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Of the top dogs at the DOJ. I'll be talking
about that.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
on KFI, the house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Morning, Dean, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Are you ready for Christmas?
Speaker 13 (15:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, but you know what you could be thinking more about.
Maybe if you wanted to get somebody some outdoor furniture
for Christmas, you can do that in southern California.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:16):
I'm still waiting for summer to show up one hundred percent.
It's just kind of been dragging its feet. But I
have a feeling there's some seriously warm weather ahead of
us here. So this weekend we're gonna be talking about
outdoor furnishings on the Sunday Show.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
I love outdoor furniture.
Speaker 12 (15:34):
I do too, and setting up outside it's one of
the trickier conversations I have with my clients.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
So I got to.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
Say, just well, you know, people say, well.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You know, Diana, you know we live in southern California.
We want to get outdoors more. Okay, great, great, great,
So you know we're gonna need some comfortable furniture.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
Okay, yeah, maybe a heater out there, maybe a way
to you know, say, okay, all right, well you know
there's win out there. Maybe we could could we put
up some glass panels to kind of control the way? Okay,
got that, Well, maybe we should extend the roof. All right,
Now you're just basically saying you'll want to be inside,
(16:13):
so why are we spending the money on? And you
know what it does. It's a funny thing. Indoor has
its kind of creep and if you're not really thinking about, no,
I actually want to spend some time outdoors, then you
can spend a lot of money and just end up
inside again. So there's a there's a thought process that
has to go on in order to really maximize the
(16:37):
money that you're spending outside. You gotta be ready to
feel like you're outside. That being said, though, doesn't mean
that you can't be you know, comfortable.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, So what are some things that you then would recommend?
Because I like, I love an outdoor kitchen, and I
love having like a pergola and having the the really
cool comfy sofa and the fire pit and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
But am I just an inside outer?
Speaker 8 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 12 (17:05):
Not necessarily, It's just a matter of okay, draw line
somewhere so that you know what part of outside are
you willing to experiences, so that you don't have to
spend money trying to avoid it. Patio furniture is one
of the big areas though that I have to say
really confuses people because they think, well, I want something
(17:27):
big and cushy. You gotta think, Okay, are these going
to be weather proof cushions or water proof cushions on
my patio furniture? The difference being if they're only weather
proof but not waterproof, then somebody's going to be bringing
them in when there's inclement weather, there's going to be
a place to store them, or they're gonna get soaked
(17:47):
and wet out there. Okay, it doesn't necessarily hurt them,
but nobody wants to go out and set on a
soggy cushion, right. The other thing about soft, puffy patio furniture,
and believe me, I I love that, is when you're
buying it, you really don't buy it out of a catalog.
I really warn people against that because soft cushions cover
(18:09):
a multitude of sins. When it comes to furniture, it's
the same rules that I apply to buying the sofa indoors,
go and sit on it, and sit on it for
a while.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Plan on going and you know, if.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
There's a floor sample somewhere, then plan on sitting down
and spending fifteen twenty plus minutes on that furniture, because
you know, everything is soft and cushy when you first
sit down. After a few minutes, you start to realize
whether that furniture is really ergonomically designed, and you're still
feeling comfortable, And a lot of people would be surprised.
(18:45):
After five ten minutes, they're like, you know what, not
really that comfortable this furniture. Hard surface furniture, on the
other hand, is very very honest furniture. What I mean
by that is like, you know, a good addiron chair
that has no pad on it whatsoever, that's built ergonomically
can be super super comfortable, and you find out that
(19:09):
in about sixty seconds when you first sit down in it.
So hard surface furniture easier to judge than the soft stuff.
The soft stuff. Spend more time on it and think
about the materials. What are the materials actually made out
of those cushions. Are they like a great umbrella material
which will last forever, or are they materials that are
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more subject to fading and or deteriorating in UV light,
which of course is the greatest enemy of all patio furniture.
Not rain, not wind, not snow, uv light that breaks
down materials.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Okay, and yeah, I like the idea of the hard
surface stuff because one, it's probably easier to take care
of because you're not worried about the cushions and all
of that stuff. And I have an adironic out on
my little balcony and I sit on it every day
and it's just nice and cozy, comfy.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Yeah, me too. We have Adirondack chares around our and
I'm not trying to build a case again soft furniture.
I'm just saying we have Adirondack chairs around our fire pit,
and you know, I don't worry about them. They're actually
made out of a resin material. They're out there, rain,
shine doesn't matter, Wipe them down, have a seat, They're
always there. I don't have to do anything to them.
(20:19):
And I really appreciate that, and so do our guests.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And okay, So Dean's gonna dig more into this this
weekend six to eight on Saturday, nine to noon on
Sunday right here on KFI. It's called Home with Dean Sharp,
And like, I know you're going to be digging into,
like what kinds of furniture do you get depending on
you know, whether you're an entertainer or it's just you
and your hobby exactly, those kinds of things should be
(20:43):
considered too, right.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
Yeah, absolutely, And we're going to be tackling one of
the biggest problems of outdoor furnishings, which is shade. How
do you do shade? Are you gonna build a pergola?
Are you gonna build a patio cover? Are you going
to use an umbrella? Which is the best idea for
you given your situation, because shade is tricky because the
sun keeps moving across the sky. And fixed structures they
(21:08):
look great, they sound great. They don't always throw the
shade exactly where you want them because they don't move.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
In this case, throwing shade is a good thing. Yes, Okay,
Dean Sharp, thank you so much. He's our house whisper.
You can follow him at Home with Dean. Have a
great weekend, you two.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
M all right.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Hey, the Dodgers are taking on the Red Sox in Boston.
The first pitch goes out at four o'clock this afternoon.
You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM
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Dot com. My teenagers in the hospital after being shot
at a home in Encino. Police say the boy apparently
tried to break in. Police say the homeowner heard something
break and God is his family into a safe room,
then confronted the fourteen year old, who was holding a
samurai sword. The boy was then shot. The kid got
away in a car with some others inside. Police are
(22:09):
disputing the boy's mother's claim that her son was shot
in a drive by shooting. A man from Whittier's been
arrested for allegedly scamming people he met on dating apps
out of more than two million dollars. Detectives say he'd
tell the people he met he was financially successful, and
then convinced them to give him money and property for
fake investment opportunities. Christopher Lloyd is charged with thirteen counts
(22:33):
of wirefraud. The La County Department of Public Health has
confirmed someone with measles has traveled through LAX this month.
The person was in the airport on July fifth. Health
officials say the person was also at the Hilton Los
Angeles Airport the evening of the fifth through the afternoon
of the seventh. Health officials say unvaccinated people could be
at risk and to watch for symptoms that can show
(22:55):
up for any time between seven and twenty one days
after exposure. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California
Democratic Senator Alex Paedia is expected to announce legislation He
says we'll expand a pathway to legal, permanent residency for
millions of people. It's in response to what he says
(23:16):
is the demonization of illegal immigrant communities. Padilla said to
speak later this morning in downtown LA. A man is
facing hate crime charges following a road rage incident in Irvine.
Police say Robert Tackett was driving aggressively and swerving into
a truck driver's lane on Tuesday morning, then started shouting
racial slurs at him. Tackett is also accused of throwing
(23:39):
a hot cup of coffee at the truck driver, splashing
the victim's face, hands, and the inside of his vehicle.
The other driver has it on video and posted it
on Instagram. Tackets facing hate crime and aggravated assault charges.
A man in Texas is suing a doctor in the
Bay Area who mailed an abortion pill to the man's girlfriend.
Ashley Leanert's with Texas Right to Life says her group
(24:00):
is supporting Jerry Rodriguez's suits.
Speaker 13 (24:02):
We know from a study just this year that it
could be up to one in ten women who take
these drugs can actually face severe medical complications.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
The Wrongful Death lawsuit accuses doctor remi Queto of committing
an active murder. The suit asks a federal judge to
issue an injunction to protect current and future fathers. Kiser
Permanente is pausing gender affirming surgeries for patients under nineteen
starting in late August. The healthcare giant cites political pressure
(24:31):
and new federal directives to kids. The decision has drawn
outrage from advocates and lawmakers who are accusing Kaiser of
violating state protections. The last surviving cast member of Hogan's
Heroes has died.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Kenneth Washington joined the cast of Hogan's Heroes in the
sixth and final season of the popular sixties sitcom set
in a World War Two pow camp as Sergeant Baker.
Washington also played a police officer on Adam twelve and
appeared in both st Our Trek and Westworld. Washington died
last week at his home in Beverly Hills. He was
eighty eight years old. Mark Ronner KFI News Chuck E.
(25:09):
Cheese has been arrested in Florida.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Picture show the pizza chain mascot in handcuffs while he's
being let out by our police as children in the
background look on. Police are then seen in a video
removing the head of the mascot outfit as the man
stands next to a police car. Tallahassee Police said the
man inside the costume was arrested on three felonies. Court
record show he was charged with credit card theft and
fraud that he has been released on bond.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
A Mark Mayfield is nothing sacred, Chucky Cheese. I know,
all right, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Time to get in your business. This morning with John Tucker,
who's in for Courtney Donaho. Good morning, John.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'm just trying to picture that chucky shattery.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
All right, hey, John.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So the Dow's flirting with forty five thousand, and the
Nasdaq and the SMP both hit new hives.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
What is driving this surge?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, I'll tell you every day. This week, the S
and P five hundred, which is the broader index that
most of the professionals follow, has hit a record. Looks
like it could do it again today. Right now, at least,
the futures indicate the S and P five hundred eight
points higher. That's up about tenth of a percent. A
lot of this has to do with earnings. The earning
(26:21):
season so far, where companies open their books, that has
been pretty good. Granted, the bar was pretty low this
time around because of a lot of investors had anticipated
that we're going to see the effects of tariffs weighing
on company earnings. So far, that has yet to filter
through the economy, but most of the experts say it's
(26:43):
going to happen sooner or later. We did get a
warning today from one of the major investment banks that
this is getting very topy, that maybe we're in bubble territory.
As far as stocks, and if you look at their prices,
there's what we look at as the pees, the forward pease,
the price of earnings ratios something like twenty three twenty
(27:04):
four times of their earnings. That on a historical basis,
that is expensive. Yeah, but if you're taking investment advice
for me, you're in big trouble.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Okay, So you wanted to ask us a question, and
that is, have you looked at your paycheck lately?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Why are we asking that?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Well, it's probably getting squeezed. This is according to the
Job search Firm, the Job Search Firm. Indeed, paychecks for
more than forty percent of American workers, they are right
now lagging the rate of inflation. So you kind of
underwater when it comes to your paycheck and wage growth.
It's likely that middle and lower income earners we're probably
(27:46):
feeling the worst of it. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
See, that's that's great economic news. Okay, I'm just kidding.
And then, well, so you said middle and low income,
but then you have the world's richest man and he's
lost a few billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah. You know, we told you about Tesla's rocky road
ahead that sent shares the company's tumbling eight percent in
yesterday's trading. That's all that alone shaved nineteen and a
half billion dollars off the net wealth of Elon Moss. Yeah,
in just one day. But don't worry, Amy, He's still
the world's wealthiest person, worth about three hundred and fifty
(28:23):
four billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
So what's nineteen to you know nothing?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You know, well, one day he's far and away the
world's because I can do this. Elon Moss is worth
three hundred and fifty four billion dollars. He lost nineteen
billion just yesterday. Second behind him is Larry Allison at
two hundred and ninety three billion dollars. He actually earned
three hundred and fifty three million dollars yesterday. Jeff Bezos
(28:52):
is number three. I don't see Amy in this listing.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
No, you would not see it, not at the top,
not at the bottom, nine anywhere in eighteen. Okay, what
if I'm in the market for a robot, Is it
going to cost me that nineteen billion?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
No, Actually they're getting a lot cheaper. In fact, the
Chinese startup Unitree Robots is marketing one of the first
humanoid robots for under six thousand bucks. So they're drastically
reducing the entry price. What is expected to grow into
a whole wave of virstatile AI machines for the workplace
and home. They say this is equipped with multi modal
(29:32):
art whatever that means artificial intelligence that includes voice and
image recognition. If they could just get one to clean
the house, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Absolutely, I think as much as I can afford as
a rumba. And are the stars aligned for investors?
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Well, this is what am I can't What are you?
What's your sign? What's your sign?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Aquarius?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Aquarius? This is big business. Astrology is so big in
India that investors, including venture capital or jumping in right now.
This is the age old belief that has snowballed into
a seven billion with a B dollar industry, a younger
generation seeking celestial guidance out there.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Really, they're talking to astrologers to find out how to invest.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Apparently, how to do everything. Okay, I mean it's fun.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But well, you know, the traditional way hasn't worked for me,
so maybe that's what I'm going to try next.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Made the stars aligned for you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Friday yep getting in your business with Bloomberg's John Tucker.
We'll do it again on Monday morning. Maybe it'll be Courtney,
maybe it'll be John. But either way, we'll get the
We'll get the scoop from one of you guys. See
you then, all right, take care. Kaiser Permanente has paused
gender affirming surgeries for patients under nineteen. It'll kick in
(30:52):
August twenty ninth. Officials from Kaiser say the move follows
similar actions by other health systems because of federal investigations
and pressure. Geyser says it plans to continue providing all
other gender affirming treatments to transgender adolescents. Wildfire victims can
ride Metro free through January. Metro's board of directors has
decided to keep the fair assistance program for fire survivors
(31:15):
called Wildfire Recovery Modified Life Program going until at least
early next year because a lot of people are still
using the program.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Hermosa Beach is.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Taking down the historic Vetter Windmill along Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
This will say. The decision to.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Dismantle the iconic windmill that dates back to the nineteen
or back to the early nineteen hundreds was made because
of recent examinations that found corrosion could cause the windmill
blades to detach in high winds or an earthquake. We're
just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
(31:50):
a big win for Palestinians. We'll tell you what France
is going to be doing. Right now, let's tell you
what Will gans is going to be doing. It's ABC's
multi platform reporter.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Good morning, Will, Good morning.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
I don't know that I'm worthy enough to follow what
France is going to be doing for Palestine, but sure
I am ready to tell you how things are looking
in my world.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Well, you're on the lighter side of things, and we
like that. We need a little levity and brevity on
the weekend. So this weekend marks the return of some
of the greatest heroes. Well, one is in theaters. Let's
go with theaters first. It's The Fantastic Four.
Speaker 13 (32:30):
Yes, these are some great heroes. It is Marvel officially
kicking off its next era, its next phase, if you will,
phase six. And so it's Pedro, Pascal and the Gang
in The Fantastic for the first steps, and it's it's
I mean, one of my favorite things about this movie
is just the world that it's set in, right it's
like a version of Earth, but it's like retro futuristic,
(32:51):
so it sort of feels like sixties vibes, but you're
also getting you know, this like idea that there are
robots around and things like that. So the vibes are
really really cool in this. And yes, of course it's
a superhero movie, so you are going to have them
going to outer space and you are going to have
them fighting gigantic creepy monsters named Galactus and things like that.
(33:13):
But what really like works best for me with this
movie is that it's like a family drama edy sort of.
You know, like within the very beginning parts of the film,
you find out that missus Fantastic is pregnant, and you know,
how does that affect her relationships and you know, what
does it mean to be a family.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
And things like that.
Speaker 13 (33:33):
So critics are, you know, placing this at around eighty
nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which you know, as far
as the Superhero movie goes, that's pretty great. And I
think a lot of folks are excited about what this
means for the future of Marvel as well.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, because yeah, we haven't had a big Marvel in
a while. We've had a que not what not kind
of bombs from Marble.
Speaker 13 (33:54):
Yeah, exactly. I mean Captain America in February was rough,
and then The Thunderbolts is like anti Marvel and this
is more in the vein of like the Avengers and
things that we love. And by the way, in traditional
Marvel fashion, for anyone who is going to this movie,
make sure you stick around. There's a post credits scene
as well that you'll want to see. It sort of
(34:15):
points in the direction we're going for Avengers Doomsday, which
is in the works.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Great, so we're going back to the really dark world
ending stuff that everybody loves. Okay, right, if you don't
feel like going to movie theaters this weekend, I want
to camp out on the couch like me.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Happy Gilmore.
Speaker 13 (34:36):
This is like the hero of the nineties, right, Yeah,
so twenty nine or so, I think years after the
first Happy Gilmore, Billy Adam Sandler is back and this
movie like more than anything, it's like fan service. If
you liked the first one, you will love this one.
Similar types of humor, lots of like flashbacks where you're
(34:58):
seeing stuff that happened in the first one and callbacks
to things that happen in the first one, whether it's
you know, relatives of characters we fell in love with
in the first Happy Gilmore, and you know, it's like,
I wouldn't be surprised if we see like a really
big divide here between audience scores and critics scores, Like
I think audiences are really gonna love it, and critics
(35:18):
are going to be like, did we need to bring
this back? Maybe? But it is a thoroughly enjoyable watch.
And you know, it's Adam Sandler doing what he does best,
which is, you know, silly and goofy, but earnest and genuine.
And there are enough celebrity cameos to keep you, you know,
(35:39):
on the edge of your seat in a way that
you might be if you were watching Fantastic Four and
they're fighting in outer space.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Alien It's but there's no Bob Barker.
Speaker 13 (35:48):
No no Bob Barker. But you do see within the
first five minutes of this movie you find out that
they made a video game out of Happy Gilmore and
you see an animated for him fighting.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
At least they pay homage to him, because that was
like one of the most classic scenes out of that
whole first movie.
Speaker 13 (36:05):
Okay, well, for sure the price is wrong.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Who could forget it?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
And hey, you know what if top Gun can do it?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
So Happy Gilmore?
Speaker 13 (36:13):
Right, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
And it's on Netflix. It is yep, and it doesn't
cost extra.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
Nope, totally free on Netflix.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Okay, will Why did.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
They send it right to Netflix instead of releasing in movies?
It didn't get enough good reviews, so they just said,
let's just put it on the stream.
Speaker 13 (36:30):
You know. I think that, like maybe it was just
he knew that there would be an easier time making
it quicker and making it the way that he wanted
to make it. His real life daughter plays his daughter
in it, so I think there was probably less constraint.
You know, they were like, Okay, if we wanted to
do the exact version that Adam Sandler wants to do,
(36:51):
I bet Netflix was the path of leads resistance there.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Okay, I'm putting that on my notes to watch Happy
Gilmore this weekend. And if you're looking not to get happy,
but if you want to get scared and kind of
creepy stuff, you got another one for us.
Speaker 13 (37:06):
Unnerved. Yeah, so this is The Hunting Wives, also on
Netflix all eight episodes are streaming now based on a book,
but it was originally being adapted for Stars the television channel,
which is you know, a little more steamy and freaky
than like you know, Netflix traditionally is. And you can
see that, you know. So this is about Britney Snow
(37:27):
plays a woman from Boston who follows her husband for
his work to a very wealthy small town in Texas,
and like, within the initial minutes of the show, you
find out one that somebody is dead, someone in this
Texas town, and potentially Britney Snow is dead. And then
you also like see her attending her first like fundraiser
(37:48):
for the NRA, and she's of course, like completely uncomfortable
in that setting, and as she gets to know the
women in this community, she's you know, in some ways
like Okay, these these ladies are great and other ways
like I am a complete fish out of water. I
don't understand what's going on here. And then you add
in a murder and it's just, you know, all bets
are off, it's twisty, it's turney, it is not for
(38:09):
the whole family. There is nudity and all of those
types of things, So don't watch it with anyone who's
you know, not gonna not going to be down to
see any of that. But if you're looking for something
soapy and dramatic, it's a very easy watch this weekend.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Yeah, sounds sort of like the dark Side of Virgin River.
Speaker 13 (38:29):
Yes, and like and like big big little lies if
you just you know, doused it with a bunch of yeah, yeah,
excess all.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Right, the darker side.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Okay, Will Gan's ABC's multiplatform reporter. Thanks so much for
the information. We'll have to talk about Happy Gilmour next
week after I see it.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
Yes, yes, enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (38:48):
It's fine, all right, Thanks so much, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. EPA administrator Lee
Zelden is met with the Mexican government's environmental head to
sign up agreement to end the flow of sewage into
the Tijuana River. The deal requires both countries to expedite
stormwater and sewage infrastructure projects, including diverting ten million gallons
a day from running into the Tijuana River and the
(39:13):
Pacific Ocean. Since twenty eighteen, more than two hundred billion
gallons of toxic sewage, trash, and stormwater float across the
US Mexico border into the Tijuana River Valley and neighboring communities,
which has forced long lasting beach closers and caused harmful
impacts on public health, the environmental environment, and or water quality. Rather,
(39:36):
Department of Justice officials have met with Jeffrey Epstein's right
hand Glene Maxwell, in Florida, where she's in prison for
sex trafficking. ABC's Aer Katursky says Deputy Attorney General Todd
Blanch was part of that meeting yesterday to.
Speaker 14 (39:48):
Hear them talk about it. Todd Blanche wants to know
whether Glen Maxwell has information about anyone who may have
committed crimes against victims. David Marcus said his client, Glen Maxwell,
will justified truthfully.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Maxwell was once charged with perjury and ultimately convicted of
sex trafficking and enabling Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of young women
and girls. A replica Oval office near the White House
has gotten a makeover, but.
Speaker 15 (40:15):
It isn't the gilded version that President Trump is currently using. Instead,
it's a mirror image of the Oval office from Trump's
first term. The replica initially looked like former President Biden's
office when the White House Historical Association opened the People's
House Educational Center last fall. It takes time to get
copies made of every item in the real Oval office.
It will be fully revamped next year to mirror Trump's
(40:38):
second term office. Deborah mark KOFFI News.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
If Prince were reincarnated, he could come back as a snail.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
A beach of San Diego's being invaded by bright purple shells.
The rare species of pelagic sea snails known as Janthina,
have been seen scattered along the Hoya Shores beach. Oceanographers
say it's the first time in decades the snails have
been spotted on local beaches. They say the snails are
typically found in warmer offshore waters, so it could be
linked to climate change. They're also voracious predators, feeding on
(41:07):
things like the deadly venomous Portuguese Man of War. Researchers
say certain beaches, including Lajoya Shores, are no take areas,
so take all the pictures you want, but leave the
great book and snails on the sand. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I see.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
You can see pictures of the snails on our website.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
KFIAM six forty dot com slash see they're so cute.
Speaker 5 (41:31):
I don't say that about snails very often.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
This is KFI and KOSDHD two, Los Angeles, Orange County
live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer
Ann and technical producer Conor Kno, along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
This has been your wake up call.
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If you missed any wake up call, you can listen
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