August 22, 2025 • 46 mins
5:00 - Erik Menedez denied parole
5:05 - Peter Charalambous discusses Trump's $454mil civil fraud case getting thrown out of appeals court.
5:20 - Dean Sharp joins Amy to talk about keeping your AC up to date.
5:35 - Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman talks today's financial news.
5:50 - Mike Dobuski's entertainment report.
5:05 - Peter Charalambous discusses Trump's $454mil civil fraud case getting thrown out of appeals court.
5:20 - Dean Sharp joins Amy to talk about keeping your AC up to date.
5:35 - Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman talks today's financial news.
5:50 - Mike Dobuski's entertainment report.
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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 KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Friday, August twenty second. Good morning, I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Got
a busy day ahead. Big decision last night about Menendez
came down, got more Menendez parole hearings today. We'll keep
on top of that. In fact, we're going to keep
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on top of everything that's happening and everything that happened
while you were sleeping. Do you guys have glasses. I
didn't have glasses until late in life and was very lucky.
But now I have them, and now I needed a
new prescription. So I went and got a new prescription
and then went looking for new frames. Because you know,
you can only use the frames like once or twice
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replace the lenses. Well, so I went to the eye
store and I spent over an hour looking for glasses.
They had literally thousands, thousands of frames. None of them
look good. On me, and I think I drove the
lady a little bit crazy because I tried on everyone
and she goes, if you try them on, I have
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to sanitize them. So I was just like leaving a
trail of glass frames around the store of it. And
then finally after an hour, she said, you know, you
don't have to decide today. I'm like, oh, I don't,
so I can think about it a little bit more. Well,
I like your glasses. Well these, thank you, he said.
I like yours.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I hadn't.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I didn't turn up his microphone. But these are like
two years old and I'm bored with them. They're boring
and the lenses are super scratched. So it's going to
be my ongoing journey. But I'm amazed at how many
glasses look horrible on me. Have you had that experience
and the lady'd go here, try these on, and I'd
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put them on. She'd go, no, I don't think those
are the best ones for you.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It just always seems like the eye doctor has a
completely different idea of what's going to look good, or
the person helping you try them on.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, and the ones that I did like, I'd try
them on and I go, I kind of like these,
and she goes, those are men's glasses, Like, okay, I
guess I won't get those ones anyway. So the journey continues,
the quest continues, heat continues too. It's going to be
another hot one. But it wasn't so bad. And you know,
last night, because I'm in Silver Lake and at like
(02:47):
seven o'clock it had already cooled way down. I was like, ah,
that's nice. I don't know what it's like in the
valley at that time of the day. GIL warm, I warm.
And this morning I noticed on my way walking to
my car, spiders everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
They just I don't know if it's the heat or
if it's just there that time of year, but just
I really it was just I hate walking through you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Just a spider webs.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I just had a dream about spiders last night.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, weird, all right, here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
A state parole board says Eric Menendez should remain in
prison despite reduced sentence that makes him eligible for release.
Eric appeared before the parole board yesterday. He has served
thirty five years for murdering his parents in Beverly Hills,
in nineteen eighty nine. His brother Lyle gets his turn
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before the parole board today. And Amber Alert remains in
effect for a woman who's believed to have taken her
two and ten year old sons from their foster home
in the Westlake District. The boys were taken around one
thirty yesterday morning. Police say Jacqueline Torres is thirty five
foot tall, one hundred and twenty pounds, has black hair
and brown eyes. She was driving a black pt Cruiser
with Indiana license plates ending in one oh five. You
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can see photos of her and the kids on our
website KFI AM six forty dot com slash Amber Alert.
It's also on kfi's Instagram page. The power grid in
southern California is holding up so far in the heat wave.
Officials with the two major utility companies are asking customers
to conserve to keep it that way. Scattered maintenance outages
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left about fourteen hundred without power yesterday. No alerts or
warnings over straight on the power grid have been issued,
so hopefully we can keep it that way. And appeals
court has thrown out a three hundred and fifty five
million dollar judgment against President Trump in New York ABC's
Peter Harralumbus joins us to tell us what's behind that decision,
whether the judges were all in agreement, and what's next. Okay,
(04:39):
you know how you have that leaky faucet or that
broken hvoc at hvac, or maybe there's something wrong with
your front steps or something like there's a board that's
coming up. You probably want to put off making repairs.
But our home Whisper or our house whisper rather Dean
Sharp is going to tell us why putting it off
now could cost you big time later. That's coming up
(05:00):
at five point twenty and a streaming movie is such
a sensation that it's moving from the stream to the
big screen. Today. ABC's Mike Debusky's going to join us
to tell us about that and what else will be
in those big, beautiful, very cool air conditioned theaters this weekend.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Convicted murderer Eric
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Menendez has been denied parole.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Menandez family members see they are disappointed in the parole
Board's decision, but they're now focused on Lyele Menendez and
his fight for freedom as he goes in front of
the board for Eric, the board finding that he remains
too great a risk to society if he were to
have been released.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
ABC's Alex Stone says the parole board focused on prison
rule violations, including illegal cell phone use and drug smuggling.
Parole Commissioner Robert Barton told Menendez, in his words, you
have not been a modeled prisoner, and frankly, we find
that a little disturbing. Menendez can try again for parole
in three years. His brother, Lyle has his parole hearing today.
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The brothers are serving life sentences for murdering their parents
in nineteen eighty nine. La County DA Nathan Hawkins says
he supports the parole Wars decision and commends them for
not bowing to what he called public spectacle or pressure.
Hawkman has been against parole for the Menendez brothers and
their efforts for a new trial. During the heroic hearing
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for Eric yesterday, Deputy da Habib Balian questioned whether Menendez
understands the full severity and depravity of what he did.
Balian said, when what you've done is shotgun your parents
to death, deleted any competing wills taken their money, spent
their money, You're a violent person. A man from Hawthorne's
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been arrested for allegedly beating a woman during a concert
at the Rose Bowl. Police say twenty three year old
Julio Zavala is the guy seen on a now viral
video punching the woman repeatedly on Saturday night and knocking
her out. The woman says she had actually spilled a
drink on the guy and apologized, but he claimed it
was intentional, and Governor Newsom assigned legislation to let voters
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decide if California should change its congressional maps before the midterms.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Is when all things are equal, we're all planned by
the same said rules. There's no question that the Republican
Party will be the minority party in the House of
Representatives next year.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Newsom signed legislation yesterday to allow a special election in
November to redraws state maps, which would possibly give Democrats
five more seats in the House. Forty three of California's
fifty two representatives are already Democrats. Let's take a first
look at your morning commute. We've got some slowing in
Riverside and it has to do with something weren't combs Cones.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yes, we've got a little roadwork going on there, but
you know what, it looks like they just wrapped it
up right on time. On the northbound side of the
two fifteen between Central and MLK. Looks like everything has
been picked up and graphics recovering quickly. A place that
is unfortunately getting very slow right now is in Colton, the.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Ten westbound ten westbound.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
This is going to be right before Rancho and overturned
vehicle in lanes on the westbound side, and all kinds
of debris on the eastbound side, but it's really the
westbound side. It's slammed all the way back from the
two fifteen on that ten freeway, and some problems in
Diamond Bar. This is new sixty westbound Diamond Bar Boulevard,
semi versus a car in the right lane. Traffic slow
back from the seventy one. It's Friday morning light for
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the most part. Hopefully we'll keep it that way. With
Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I'm will Cole Streiver.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Harlamboos. By
the way, it's five h nine on your Friday morning wake,
i'p call Peter. President Trump has to be pretty happy
right now. He stands to save a half billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Yeah, this is a massive victory for President Trump. Yesterday
an appeals court here in New York deciding to basically
remove a four hundred and sixty million dollar penalty that
he originally faced over allations that he defrauded his business
partners by overinflating his net worth. This is something that's
been hanging over the President's head at this point for
(09:07):
over a year, and this ruling effectively makes it so
that he doesn't really have to worry about that penalty anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, but the penalty was removed by this appeals court,
but the conviction was not.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Yeah, that's the training you think about this ruling. It
was a really divided ruling from this five judge panel.
They agreed on one thing, that the penalty was excessive.
Where they disagreed was basically whether or not the Attorney
General had the authority to bring this case and whether
or not it was rightfully decided. Three of those five
judges ultimately concluded that the president's liability here, the fact
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that he was found liable for defrauding his business partners
should still stand. So that's still a bit of a
black mark for the President, even if he's gotten away
from this massive penalty. The Attorney General, though for now,
has signal that she plans to appeal this ruling and
it will move to New York's highest court.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, I was just going to ask you, this isn't
done yet, and then a couple of the judges said,
you know, this case should be just thrown out, But
then others say, no, there was fraud.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean, at this point it was really the
most conflicted, I would say ruling I've ever read. Basically,
each of these five judges had a slightly different take
of how this case should have proceeded. The most conservative
judge on that panel, the only one who is appointed
by a Republican governor, basically said that this case should
have never been brought, that it was basically an abuse
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of her Attorney General, Letici James's power as Attorney General,
and that in this case, she doesn't have the authority
to pursue this kind of aggressive action against the company,
a private company that was dealing with private lenders. It's
also notable here that President Trump at this point has
been escalating his attacks on Tiss James. Of course, we
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know that there's multiple investigations into her conduct. Earlier this
week we reported how one of the President Trump's top
lawyers is running this investigation and demanded that she resigned
in a letter last week. So this is really one
of the most high profile examples of the subject of
the president's retribution and him prevailing in a legal case
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after he entered office.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, and it is pretty interesting with the whole Latitia
James thing, because she literally ran saying I'm going to
get him. I mean, that was bene of our platform.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Exactly, and the judges in this case pointed that out
as a concerning example. That only added to part of
the reason why they decided to lift this penalty. If
you go back to when Tish was running for AG
she vowed to look into the president's conduct. And you know,
the Attorney general job in New York is an elected position.
(11:49):
This is someone who is a politician at hard and
that led to some flack. However, that those statements were
known during ahead of and during the trial. Appeals court
in the past rule that despite those statements overall not
being very good. The case could still proceed, and Tis
James at that point stilled the authority to pursue it.
(12:10):
But again, the President has long used that as evidence
to suggest that she's biased and at this point that
he's basically treating her the same way he was treated
when he was a private citizen.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, and you're saying that, you said that they're going
to appeal the Letitia James is going to probably appeal
this one. So it's not done yet.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
It's not done yet. I would expect this case to
go on for at least another year.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh goodie. All right, ABC Peter Hayer Lumbos will be
checking in with you to see how things are going.
Have a great weekend.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Thanks so much, chat, We take care.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
FBI has searched the home of former National Security Advisor
John Bolton in Maryland. It's part of the investigation into
the handling of classified documents. Bolton served under President Trump
from twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen, and he is now
a strong critic of the president. Trump fired Bolton in
(13:05):
a tweet. Yeah wouldn't that be a great way to
find out you'd lost your job. President Trump has thanked
to the officers and military members who've been patrolling the
streets of DC.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
You gonna make Washington, d C. Grade again. We're making
our country grade again. The country is very close to
being great.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
When they say it's the hottest country in the.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
World, they meet it.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He repeated yesterday that what is happening in Washington, d C.
Would be replicated in other cities, but he didn't give
any specifics. Trump also said the stepped up federal policing
in DC would last for a while, as he put it.
He also delivered burghers made at the White House and
pizza to the troops yesterday. State inspectors in Colorado have
(13:44):
found about twenty decomposing bodies at a funeral home owned
by a county coroner. Inspectors arrived at the mortuary Wednesday
and say they found a strong odor of decomposition. The
bodies were in a room where the door was hidden
by a cardboard.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Displays that were made to our inspectors at the time
was that they believed the bodies could be as old
as fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Sam delp with the agency that overseas Inspection says the
mortuary mortuary has been suspended. Authorities say the owner told
them he may have given fake ashes to next of
kin who wanted their loved ones cremated. A federal judge
in Miami is ordered the dismantling of much of the
illegal immigrant detention site in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz.
(14:30):
Judge ruled state and federal authorities failed to consider potential
environmental damage before building the facility. ABC's ran On Ali
says the camp can stay open for now, but it
can't take on any additional detainees. Court records show the
state of Florida plans to appeal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanne,
who says he'll give final approval for the takeover of
(14:51):
Gz's city while also restarting negotiations with Hamas to get
the remaining hostages returned and ending the war. As had
said earlier that it would accept a ceasefire broker by
Katar in Egypt. The wide scale operation in Gaza City
could start within days. House Democrats are investigating the Paramount
(15:12):
Skydance merger over alleged involvement by President Trump.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Top Democrats have announced they're inspecting whether the media company's
cave to illegitimate demands from Trump to win his support.
The eight billion dollar merger was authorized by the FCC
less than a month after Paramount settled a Trump lawsuit
for sixteen million dollars. Trump sued Paramount for a sixteen
minutes interview he claimed was edited in favor of twenty
twenty four presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The lawmakers feared the
(15:36):
settlement may have worked as a bribe for the merger
to be approved. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When we come back, you know that leaky faucet you've got,
or the broken air conditioning you probably want to put
off making repairs. I mean, it's not that big of
a deal, right, But our house whisper Dean Shark, begs
to differ. He's going to tell us why putting things
off now could cost you big time later eighty it's
five twenty one on your Friday morning wake up call.
(16:06):
Made it to Friday. I used to not care about
Friday because I worked on Saturdays. But now I totally
care about Friday, and I'm very happy that it's here.
I'm very happy that you are with us to start
your workday. We've talked before that we have the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app if you ever want to
weigh in make a comment or something about wake Up Call.
(16:28):
As long as you're nice or at least respectful. You
don't have to be nice, but at least respectful. No
hate here, but we got a fun little talk back
that I wanted to share this or Amy.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
I'm Rich from Illinois. I love wake Up Call. I've
been listening to way Up wake Up Call for years
since Jennifer was on. I just want to say you're
doing a great job. I've loved your work on the
work Wave Call since you've started. One thing our question is,
I wanted to listen to what the good Feed Sure
commercial all day on? I love that A catchy little
(17:01):
rader okay.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Too, and there you go, thanks.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
To the store.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Is it the good Feet store today? I love that?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Hey, I love that good Feed store jingle. All right,
here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
California voters are going to be deciding whether to approve
redrawn congressional districts in the state. Lawmakers passed, and Governor
Newsom signed a redistricting plan yesterday that will make it
likely Democrats will pick up five more seats in the
House next year. Republicans have sued to stop it and
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called for a federal investigation. A special election will happen
on November fourth. A man's been awarded three and a
half million dollars by a jury for injuries he suffered
during the George Floyd protests in La Kellen Gluck says
he and his daughter were just going to their car
after getting food and had stopped to help a protester
who'd been hurt when he got shot with a rubber
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bullet by a sheriff's deputy. Prosecute had argued that Gluck's
injuries were the result of his own unlawful axe and
wilful resistance to a peace officer. A drive on the
four H five this weekend could slow you down. Three
lanes in each direction of the freeway through the spovid
Of Pass are going to be closed from ten tonight
through five am Monday as Caltrans cruis make improvements to
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the roadway. Caltrans says it's going to be shutting down
lanes every other weekend for like the next year or so.
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
right here on KFI. It's our house, whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Morning, Dean who does have to work tomorrow morning. So
thanks for reminding me, Amy.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I'm sorry. I know people used to go, oh, yeah,
it's Friday, and I go, so what.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
But exactly, I'm just getting.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Started, exactly, and you are just getting started because you
have a show on Saturday from six to a m
six to eight am, and then again on Sunday from
nine to noon, and so this weekend we're going to
be talking about home maintenance, which is something that none
of us wanted to deal with. But you've got some
reasons why we better.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Yes, it's a hugely popular topic. I pick them, I
pick them good, Yes you do. But it's necessary. It
is very important. There are a lot of things that
when you have a home you need to keep track of,
and people these days, uh, this is just a trend
that has been noticed, you know, are deferring their home
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maintenance more and more. I don't know if we're just
kind of disconnected from the mechanical parts of our home,
or we're just so busy that you know, we're used
to living in our home. We've got a home, we
live in it, we live our life through it. And
it's kind of inconvenient when it says, you know, hey,
give me some attention too, because it hasn't really been
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worked into our schedule. But there are things about our
home that if we're not paying attention to, we'll end
us costing us big time in the end. And so
we have at least got to address those major issues.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Okay, So what are a couple of the ones that
people are most likely to put off and go, oh,
it's that that bic of a deal. I don't want
to deal with that.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, I'll tell you the number one thing.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
You and I have talked about this before, and I'll
probably go to my grave talking about this, and that
is change out the HVAC filter, the filter to your
heating and air conditioning system. That filter is not there
for you. It's you know, you don't go in the
house and say, now the air smells pretty clean, and no,
(20:25):
no problem. No, it's there for the system. It's there
for the machine. And of all the things that can
age prematurely age a heating and air conditioning system, it
having to run every day kind of choking for air
because there's a dirty filter, you know, right at its throat. Essentially,
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there's nothing that ages it more. And this is a
system where you know, if you own that home, you
are looking at replacing that air conditioning. I mean, best
case scenario every twenty years or so. And it's a
big chunk. I mean right now, that's easily of fifteen
seventeen thousand dollars purchase.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Right So the.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
Question is the question is are you going to stretch
that out to the full twenty years yes, please, or
because you're neglecting the system, is it going to be
more like ten to twelve years. And that's a lot
of money to spend every ten to twelve years. And
it's so so simple, we just it's so simple, and
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it's so minute, we tend to forget it, and it's
so very important.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Okay, And I do remember this conversation before because like,
these are the kinds of things that I would never remember.
But now they do have Like you can set up
for an auto shipment so you get a new filter
every I don't know how often it is that will
remind you, hey, it's time to change that filter exactly.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
There are multiple websites out there that do this, and
I think it's great. Filter buy dot Com they're not
a sponsor at KFI, but filter by dot Com one
of the big ease. They're actually the ones that Teina
and I use because you know what, I forget it
just as well as anybody else. So you figure out
the size of your filter, and everybody's filter is a
different size, So you figure out, you know, you go
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look at the filter you've got. You go on to
a place like filter by dot Com. You pay a
very you know, nominal subscription fee, and you set the
the the time interval, which I recommend to be every
three months. You should be changing that filter out four
times a year and so. And the cool thing is
it just shows up. It just shows up on your
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doorstep and then you're like, oh, the filter's here. It's
filter day. And then you take all of forty five
seconds and change it out and you don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, what's the name of the one that you said
is a good one?
Speaker 11 (22:46):
Filter by as in buy filter buy dot com.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh filter bye, Okay, I need to call my renters today. Okay,
what are what's a couple other things.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The water heater.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
The water heater is another workhoorse in your house that
you don't want to have age prematurely. But of course
you know who pays attention to the water heater. It's
just out there getting the job done every day. Water
heaters should be flushed every year, flushed out and because
hard water mineral deposits build up and sediment drops down
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to the bottom of the water heater, that can affect
the heating pan on a traditional water heater. Also, tankless
water heaters need to be flushed every year to clear
out that. Otherwise that starts to build up. It affects
their ability to heat the water and to maintain the
heat of the water. That's best case scenario. I was
talking to Mark Dobson last night. There are very few
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people I'm going to test you here. Do you know
what the sacrificial anode is on your water heater?
Speaker 10 (23:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
At the very top of a regular traditional tanked water heater,
there's a big, old kind of nut that screws into
a port on the top.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
People see it all the time.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
They're like, I don't know what's connected to the bottom
of that nut? Is a rod that is extending down
into the water of the water heater. It's made out
of magnesium or aluminum. It's called the sacrificial anode. And
the reason it's called that is because that rod attracts
through a process of what we call galvanic reaction. It
attracts all those corrosive minerals to itself and it corrodes
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instead of the tank that is your water heater.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It sacrifices itself to keep your water clean.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
It does.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
It sacrifices itself to keep the steel tank of your
water heater intact. And the point is, if you've got
really hard water, it sacrifices itself relatively quickly, and then
after a couple of three years, it may not be
there anymore. And when it's not there, there's nothing attracting
the minerals away from the steel of your water heater tank.
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And this is a product, by the way, that is
sitting on the shelf of the hardware store, the plumbing
supply store, the big home depot, and Low's. These are
on the shelf. They're between twenty and forty dollars and
it takes just a little bit of time to switch
them out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And how often should you switch those out?
Speaker 11 (25:11):
Well, you should take a look at it every like
three years, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And that's just two of the things that you should
not ignore to keep your home operating efficiently and not
having your appliances and all that stuff die prematurely. So
you're gonna be talking about it both tomorrow and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Gonna be talking about it on Sunday.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
Got a big list, and we're gonna not just tell you,
you know, guilt you into what you should be doing,
but going to give you tips and tricks along the
way to do it easy.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Oh I love tips and tricks. So you can listen
to Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI. It's
Saturdays from six to eight am and then Sundays from
nine to noon. You can also follow Dean at Home
with Dean. Thank you, mister Sharp.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Have a well, it's not a weekend. Have a good
day tomorrow you will and for the rest of us,
Happy Friday. Still to come on Wake Up Call. Got
weekend plans? How about a nice air conditioned theater. ABC's
Mike Debuski joins us to tell us about a film
that will have you on the edge of your seat.
And another that will make you want to sing along.
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That's coming up before the top of the hours. Southland
weather from KFI sunny and hot again today as our
heat wave continues. His in the seventies to mid eighties
at the beaches, mid nineties for Metro La and Inland
Orange County up to one ten in the valleys. Could
see one o six in the Ie and Anelope Valley
with a chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. The heat
continues through the weekend, with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the afternoons and evenings. Highs in the eighties
of the beaches, nineties to low one hundreds Inland seventy
one now in Irvine seventy three and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's five thirty seven on your Friday morning wake Up Call.
I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us. Hey,
if you want to have something to say, or if
you want to have something to say, If you have
something to say, hit us up on the talkback on
the iHeartRadio app. Would love to hear from you. And
of course I did say if you're going to weigh
in on talkback, I would love for you to be nice.
(27:14):
So this is the one we just got.
Speaker 12 (27:17):
Good morning, Amy. It's Richard and San Francisco, and I
just wanted to tell you that I would rather listen
to your show in the morning than any station up here.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I said, you had to be nice, and I appreciate it.
Thank you, Richard, thanks for having us along. How fun
that he's listening from San Francisco. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The extreme heat
continues in so Cal. Some areas could see highs up
to one hundred and ten today, along with relative low
humidity and extreme heat warning remains in effect for inland
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areas through tomorrow evening. The Santa Clarita Valley, San Gabriel Mountains,
and Annelote Valley foothills, along with the five and fourteen
freeway corridors, will remain under a red flag warning. President
Trump has thanked DC police and National Guard troops for
cooperating with the federal takeover of DC Metro. Trump met
with officers yesterday, telling them that crime is way down
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since the operation began. He'd hinted that he was going
to join law enforcement in patrolling the streets of DC.
Apparently that didn't happen, but he did deliver pizza and
hamburgers to everyone. The operators of La Fitness have been
sued by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC says the
company makes it nearly impossible for customers to cancel memberships.
(28:32):
It says Fitness International illegally charged customers hundreds of millions
of dollars in unwanted reoccurring fees because of the cancelation difficulties.
At six oh five, it's handled on the news. It's
going to be up to voters now to decide whether
the Democrats are going to get five more seats in
the House. Bill's going to tell you about that. Here
(28:55):
are some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A man's been arrested for allegedly
shooting at and then stabbing a woman at a mall
in Canoga Park, Pelisa. The man approached her outside Westfield
to paying them all around noon yesterday, apparently claimed that
she had his baby, then fired an assault weapon at her.
She did have her daughter with her. He missed, so
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the police say he then stabbed the woman in the shoulder.
She was able to run inside and get help. He
was arrested a short time later. Police was a random
attack and that the man and woman did not know
each other. A man accused of killing his wife in
Lancaster and dumping her body in the Angelus National Forest
has been charged with murder, even though he hasn't been caught.
(29:36):
Jos Mark Cabrera flew to Peru last weekend, with the
couple's three children there now in protective custody. The La
Kenny DA's office has filed paperwork to have Cabrera returned
to the US. Next time you call nine one one
in LA, a civilian could show up to help.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
For the past year, Los Angeles has been testing a
new approach to nine one one calls by sending an
unarmed crisis response teams instead of licensed clinicians and social
workers now handle certain non violent emergencies. In its first year,
the pilot program managed more than sixty seven hundred calls,
saving LAPD seven thousand patrol hours. A new report says
the teams resolved most cases safely, with fewer than five
(30:15):
percent requiring police back up the unarmed model of crisis
response and Circle programs are run by the city administrator
and the mayor's office, who say this quote care first
approach costs lest and keeps people safe. Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
A twenty eight year old man from Long Beach, has
pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he sent a
dozen payments to ices and was keeping a homemade bomb.
Prosecutors say Mark Villanueva, a permanent resident from the Philippines,
communicated through social media with two people who described themselves
as ISIS fighters and offered to help fund their activities.
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California is well represented on realtor dot COM's new list
of the top ten most expensive zip codes.
Speaker 14 (30:57):
Pricey Holmes in California zip codes claimed seven spots on
the list, with some really expensive listings.
Speaker 15 (31:03):
It gets much higher than this when you're looking at
top ten percent within As.
Speaker 14 (31:07):
Zip coach Anthony Smith wrote this study. He says the
zip codes in California are propped up by huge houses.
Speaker 15 (31:12):
More impressive ones like Los Angeles having a medium square
foot looking at five thousand, seven hundred or so.
Speaker 14 (31:19):
Newport Beach, bel Air, Montecito, and Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara,
Beverly Hills, Rancho, Santa Fe and Malibu all made the
top ten list. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
The report from realtor dot com says Fisher Island in
Miami Beach is number one most expensive zip code in
the country. Time to get in your business now with
Bloomberg's Courtney. Not Courtney, Donaho. It's Dan Schwartzman in for
Courtney this week. Good morning Dan, Good morning Jamy. How
are you doing good? So all eyes are on Jackson Hole,
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Wyoming today, and it's not because of the skiing.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Not at all.
Speaker 16 (31:56):
The investors will be eyeing what happens there intently because
FED chair Drobe Pal is going to be speaking at
the Federal Reserve Symposium around ten am. That's a half
hour after Wall Sheet rings the opening bell. Investors hoping
Amy that Pal's going to give some sort of guidance
whether there will be a September rate cut. Analysts believe though,
he will remain cautious, so markets, I think are waiting
to react to that as well. People want a rate cut,
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but we'll see what he what he says.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, we will be and the meeting isn't until next week,
but people are looking for hints of it. Yeah, actually
not next week but next month at some points. But
they're looking for hints.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
Okay, Yeah, they want to kind of read into it
and see, you know, maybe he says something that shows
which way they're leaning, and then people are going to
react off of that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay. New numbers show that people looking to buy a
home or getting a little gunshot.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
That's correct.
Speaker 16 (32:45):
If you accept an offer for your home as a
seller doesn't quite mean it's a done deal. Redfinn reporting
that in July, home purchase contracts were canceled at a
record rate, with around fifty eight thousand agreements falling through.
That's just over fifteen percent of homes under contract. It's
the highest July number going back to twenty seventeen. Now Amy,
Some of the reasons being given are that there are
more listings to choose from, as well as buyers are
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just nervous about the economy. So fifteen percent is a
pretty large number for deals that are falling through.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So they're making offers than saying you know what, I
found something better and backing out. Do they lose their
because you have to put money down when you make
an offer, don't you.
Speaker 16 (33:25):
I'm not sure how it's working. I'm thinking about the
last time I sold a house. I think, you know,
I get you know, there's always a thread of lawsuits,
but no one seems to follow through because it's more
expensive to do that, you know. So it's just you
know what, people just move on. They're like, all right,
you know what, somebody else will buy the house. I
guess is the way to look at it. But imagine
just being you know, excited, all right, somebody's going to
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buy my house.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's a done deal. I can move whatever.
Speaker 16 (33:49):
I have this money coming in, and then to find
out not so fast they've backed down.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You're kind of back to square one. Is not a
good feeling.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, So that is awful because I know that there's
like this sort of vilation and relief when you go, oh,
I got an offer on my house. It's going to happen,
and then to have it fall through and have to
kind of start over, like you just said, is a
little bit frustrating. Okay, there is a company that is
a telehealth company that I've never heard of, but that
might change because of a new celebrity spokesperson.
Speaker 16 (34:17):
That is correct, tennis superstar Serena Williams is joining the
telehealth company Row, the twenty three time Grand Slam winners,
becoming the face of Row's latest campaign for popular weight
loss shots like Wagovie and zep Bound.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Williams says she herself lost thirty.
Speaker 16 (34:31):
One pounds as a patient a ROW after struggling to
lose weight postpartum. It's the first time Williams has spoken
at it about using the medications that we know as
GLP one. So big name Serena Williams, and I've seen
pictures of her.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
She looks great.
Speaker 16 (34:44):
She did lose some weight, obviously, and seems very happy
with the fact that she was able to take off
the pounds and she said she couldn't do in the gym.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Okay, And like we just said, we're probably all going
to know about ROW moving forward again. I had never
heard of it. And what are we looking for in
the stocks today?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Right now?
Speaker 16 (35:00):
The futures all are in the green DAWs of one
hundred and forty three points are about a third to
one percent. S and P's up fifteen points, a gain
of about a quarter of one percent. Nazac right now
up thirty eight points, a gain of two tenths of
one percent, So fingers crossed. Everything's green markets open in
about forty five minutes. We hope they stay that way
all right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Getting in your business with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman. We won't
be talking to you on Monday, but you're welcome on
wake up Call anytime.
Speaker 16 (35:25):
Thank you so much. Amy's been a blast, Courtney. We'll
be back on Monday to join you.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right. Have a great weekend, Dan, you as well.
When we come back. A streaming movie such a sensation
that it's moving from the stream to the big screen
this weekend. ABC's Mike Dbuski is going to tell us
about that and what else is going to be in
those big, beautiful air conditioned theaters this weekend. From the
Southern California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center, Save more at the
Pump with Toyota's full lineup of fuel efficient vehicles. It's
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five point fifty two on your Friday morning wake up call.
Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
We love that you're waking up with us here in
Southern California. And we're also finding out that it's not
only in Southern California that people are listening. Oh well, Amy,
this is Shane from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, listening every day.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Well, thank you, Shane. And that's not all.
Speaker 17 (36:19):
Good morning, Amy, And while listening to you with my
morning walk, I just have to say I enjoy your
take on the news much more. Thank you than my
local contributors.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Where's that.
Speaker 17 (36:32):
I have a great day, better tomorrow and know that
even all the way over in case Simmi Florida your
top pick.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Cassimmi Florida. I love that. And then we even went
down under.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Hey, Amy, good morning. It's Paul calling from Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 14 (36:48):
We're listening here, calling from the future really because it's
Friday night.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So have a great morning. Everybody.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Love the show.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
And there we kept it nice.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Okay, cheers boy.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I love it when you keep it nice. How fun.
Hello from Brisbane. That's exciting. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom right here. In Los Angeles, California,
three alleged burglars have been found and arrested after police
say they activated the GPS's on stolen electronic devices. The
equipment was stolen early Wednesday morning, from Aurora Modern Healing
(37:19):
in Claremont. Hours later, a person at the business alerted
police that the GPS's had gone off and signaled the
devices were at an address in Pomona. Governor Newsom is
tops in the field of potential twenty twenty eight presidential
candidates in California. A Politico Citron Center Possibility Lab poll
shows him leading former Vice President Kamala Harris by six
(37:40):
points in California. The pole says Newsom's criticism a President
Trump has boosted his national profile. Gary Oldman's going to
place his hand prints and footprints in cement in front
of the TCL Chinese Theater this morning. Oldman is being
honored for a career that earned him three Best Actor
OSCAR nominations. His breakout role was his portrait of Sid
(38:01):
portrayal rather of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy. Oldman
now stars in Apple TV's Slow Horses Love That One.
Season five of that show drops next month. Let's say
good morning to ABC's Mike Dubuski. Hey, Mike, I got
a fun fact because we're talking about movies in theaters
this morning. Okay, from our very own Dean Sharp, who
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we talked to a little bit ago our house whisper,
he said. He sent me a text and said, the
massive crowds escaping to an air conditioned movie theater in
the thirties and forties is why movie studios actually shifted
their production schedules for summer releases and the summer blockbuster
was born.
Speaker 18 (38:39):
Yeah, that's that's a great fun fact. And people spent
all day at the movies too. That's where we get
the concept of you know, mainline releases and then B
movies and then newsreels and maybe you know.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
A variety show like that was.
Speaker 18 (38:51):
It was like a you go to the movies for
like five or six hours in some cases, and it
was a lot in large part because it was air conditioned.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Heo.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
And some people who are what what do you call
it when you just go from theater to theater?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh uh, yeah, there's a term for that, the theater jumping.
Speaker 10 (39:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Okay, So uh a movie has jumped from the stream
to the big screen this weekend.
Speaker 18 (39:14):
Yeah, that's right. So K Pop Demon Hunters is what
we're talking about. It's an animated musical about a K
pop band that's in a also a team of ancient
warriors who fight supernatural beings.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Of course.
Speaker 18 (39:25):
Yeah, it's you know, your standard tale as old as
time kind of thing. And it's a musical, so there's
some real good songs in it that have been very
popular on music streaming services. The movie itself has been
really popular on Netflix. Currently it is the second most
viewed movie on Netflix ever, with two hundred and ten
point five million global views. According to Netflix, this movie
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over the last two weeks has gotten twenty six million
views a week, so the zero percent drop off, it's
been a kind of slow burn through all the throughout
the summer, with people kind of you know, telling their
friends this word of mouth thing that this is a
really good movie that you should see. It's also well
positioned to beat the movie Red Notice on Netflix, which
is the most fewed movie on Netflix. So is Red
(40:10):
Notice from a.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Few years ago.
Speaker 18 (40:13):
It's got Dwayne the Rock Johnson in it, It's got
Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gado in it. And yeah, it
never played in theaters but on Netflix they say, we're
really just working with Netflix data here, but they say
it is the most butte movie on their platform.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Okay, I need to go check that out because I
haven't heard of it, and I.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Will say I saw it a couple of years ago.
It's okay.
Speaker 18 (40:39):
But Kabob Deema Hunters is interesting because Netflix is usually
very resistant to bringing their movies to theaters because they
see themselves as a competitor to the movie theater experience.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, but today they see themselves as somebody who's going
to cash.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
In on it exactly.
Speaker 18 (40:53):
So on Saturday and Sunday and only for those days,
in a bunch of screens across the US, they're hosting
these special screenings of K pop Demon Hunters where people
can sing along to the songs in the movie. They
did this for Wicked Part one towards the end of
last year. You know, the words appear on the screen.
You can kind of get up and dance in the
aisles if you're meant, if you're possessed to do such
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a thing. And it's usually like a pretty communative, communal experience,
like people you know, have really taken to this if
they are in the musical theater or a musical movie
sort of mindset. Netflix looking to capitalize on that. Seventeen
hundred screens across the US are playing this sing along
and as of last night, Amy, eleven hundred of them
are fully sold out, so it seems like there are
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there's some real energy behind this thing. In fact, it
could top the weekend box office. Deadline predicts it could
break in about fifteen million dollars. Other outlets are predicting
even more, and that could be enough to beat Weapons,
which has been the you know, perennial box office favorite
for the last three weeks now, the Zach Kreiger directed
horror movie. It's an interesting trend, right, this sing along
(41:57):
movie that's been out for two months already, and it's
not really a theater movie necessarily kind of coming to
theaters and maybe topping the weekend box office.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
I think that that would be a good one for
mom and dad to drop the kids off at.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
O Oh yeah, I think so.
Speaker 18 (42:11):
And if the Wicked screenings already indication these things can
get rowdy, So yeah, if you're in for if you
want to focus on the movie, maybe this is not
the place to go, but it could be very fun.
Speaker 8 (42:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
And if those two, if that one doesn't tickle your
fancy and you still want to get out of the
heat this weekend, there's just a couple other ones we
have like thirty seconds. What else would we have coming up?
Speaker 18 (42:32):
Sure, so very quickly. There's Eden, which is a new
Ron Howard movie. It's about a group of European settlers
who settle on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos, and
it's kind of like.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
A twisty murder thriller.
Speaker 18 (42:44):
It's also got Jude law on a armist, Vanessa Kirby,
Sidney Sweeney, good cast. The other movie this weekend is
from one half of the Coen brothers. Ethan Cohen's new
movie is called Honey Don't. It's kind of like a
black comedy sort of, you know, twisty. Fargo in the
Desert is kind of the that I got from the trailer.
Margaret Quali's in this Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans continuing his
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post Captain America career, and Charlie Day as well. So
those are your two kind of a little bit maybe
more adult ofks. If you're not into the singalong, well good, we'd.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Like options at movie theaters when it's going to be
over one hundred degrees. ABC's Mike Debuski, Thanks so much.
We'll talk to you again soon, okay, taker, all right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two young brothers
reported missing in LA's Westlake area are now the subject
of an amber alert. Official say the ten and two
year old boys, who were in foster care, may have
(43:35):
been taken early yesterday by their biological mom. Police say
they believe Jacqueline Hernandez Torres took them to South LA
before they were before they disappeared. The mom is thirty
five feet tall, about one hundred twenty pounds, has black
hair and brown eyes. She may be driving a black
two thousand and eight pt Cruiser with Indiana plates that
end in one to five. You can see photos of
(43:57):
her and the kids on her website KFIM six forty
dot com slash amber alert. It's also up on cafe's
Instagram page. Governor Newsom assigned legislation to allow for a
special election in November for voters to decide who can
draw up congressional districts. Governor Newsom said yesterday President Trump
is responsible for California's redistricting legislation.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
We got here because of his failed policies. Those are
being exposed hour by hour reinforced today by Walmart announcing
they'll be raising prices because of the tax increases.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Because of the tariffs, state lawmakers have drawn up new
congressional maps that would send five more Democrats, most likely
to Capitol Hill. California's redistricting push comps. As Republicans in
Texas move closer to finalizing their own reworked districts that
favor Republicans and the Lykeunty, Sheriff's deputies will soon be
cruising around in shiny new rides.
Speaker 8 (44:50):
The department is rolling out two hundred and eighty new
patrol vehicles. Sheriff Robert Luna says the new rides will
replace a fleet of aging black and white. Luna says
most of the aging fleet is more than eight years
old and most of the vehicles have over one hundred
thousand miles. Of the new vehicles, forty eight are hybrids,
and they all come with an advanced safety system, new
LED lights, and upgraded sirens. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southland. Weather from KFI sunny and hot again today.
Highs in the mid eighties at the beaches, low to
mid nineties for Metro LA and in Lando c one
on one too, about one ten in the valleys, up
to one oh six in the Ie and Antelope Valley,
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the high
desert and mountains this afternoon and evening overnight lows in
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the sixties and seventies. Really starts to cool down right
before sunset Tomorrow and Sunday, just a couple degrees less hot,
still eighties at the coast, nineties for the metro area's low,
one hundreds for the valleys I, E and AV and
still a chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. It'll start
cooling down a bit on Monday sixty eight now in
Brea's seventy three, Lake Forest seventy one and Marina Day
(46:00):
and seventy three in Burbank. Live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom for producer Ann and technical producer Sam
and traffic specialist Will I am Amy King. This has
been your wake up call. If you missed any wake
up call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app
and of course handle on the news is coming up next.
You've been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King.
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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Friday, August twenty second. Good morning, I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Got
a busy day ahead. Big decision last night about Menendez
came down, got more Menendez parole hearings today. We'll keep
on top of that. In fact, we're going to keep
(00:50):
on top of everything that's happening and everything that happened
while you were sleeping. Do you guys have glasses. I
didn't have glasses until late in life and was very lucky.
But now I have them, and now I needed a
new prescription. So I went and got a new prescription
and then went looking for new frames. Because you know,
you can only use the frames like once or twice
(01:11):
replace the lenses. Well, so I went to the eye
store and I spent over an hour looking for glasses.
They had literally thousands, thousands of frames. None of them
look good. On me, and I think I drove the
lady a little bit crazy because I tried on everyone
and she goes, if you try them on, I have
(01:33):
to sanitize them. So I was just like leaving a
trail of glass frames around the store of it. And
then finally after an hour, she said, you know, you
don't have to decide today. I'm like, oh, I don't,
so I can think about it a little bit more. Well,
I like your glasses. Well these, thank you, he said.
I like yours.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I hadn't.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I didn't turn up his microphone. But these are like
two years old and I'm bored with them. They're boring
and the lenses are super scratched. So it's going to
be my ongoing journey. But I'm amazed at how many
glasses look horrible on me. Have you had that experience
and the lady'd go here, try these on, and I'd
(02:15):
put them on. She'd go, no, I don't think those
are the best ones for you.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It just always seems like the eye doctor has a
completely different idea of what's going to look good, or
the person helping you try them on.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, and the ones that I did like, I'd try
them on and I go, I kind of like these,
and she goes, those are men's glasses, Like, okay, I
guess I won't get those ones anyway. So the journey continues,
the quest continues, heat continues too. It's going to be
another hot one. But it wasn't so bad. And you know,
last night, because I'm in Silver Lake and at like
(02:47):
seven o'clock it had already cooled way down. I was like, ah,
that's nice. I don't know what it's like in the
valley at that time of the day. GIL warm, I warm.
And this morning I noticed on my way walking to
my car, spiders everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
They just I don't know if it's the heat or
if it's just there that time of year, but just
I really it was just I hate walking through you.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Just a spider webs.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I just had a dream about spiders last night.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, weird, all right, here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
A state parole board says Eric Menendez should remain in
prison despite reduced sentence that makes him eligible for release.
Eric appeared before the parole board yesterday. He has served
thirty five years for murdering his parents in Beverly Hills,
in nineteen eighty nine. His brother Lyle gets his turn
(03:35):
before the parole board today. And Amber Alert remains in
effect for a woman who's believed to have taken her
two and ten year old sons from their foster home
in the Westlake District. The boys were taken around one
thirty yesterday morning. Police say Jacqueline Torres is thirty five
foot tall, one hundred and twenty pounds, has black hair
and brown eyes. She was driving a black pt Cruiser
with Indiana license plates ending in one oh five. You
(03:58):
can see photos of her and the kids on our
website KFI AM six forty dot com slash Amber Alert.
It's also on kfi's Instagram page. The power grid in
southern California is holding up so far in the heat wave.
Officials with the two major utility companies are asking customers
to conserve to keep it that way. Scattered maintenance outages
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left about fourteen hundred without power yesterday. No alerts or
warnings over straight on the power grid have been issued,
so hopefully we can keep it that way. And appeals
court has thrown out a three hundred and fifty five
million dollar judgment against President Trump in New York ABC's
Peter Harralumbus joins us to tell us what's behind that decision,
whether the judges were all in agreement, and what's next. Okay,
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you know how you have that leaky faucet or that
broken hvoc at hvac, or maybe there's something wrong with
your front steps or something like there's a board that's
coming up. You probably want to put off making repairs.
But our home Whisper or our house whisper rather Dean
Sharp is going to tell us why putting it off
now could cost you big time later. That's coming up
(05:00):
at five point twenty and a streaming movie is such
a sensation that it's moving from the stream to the
big screen. Today. ABC's Mike Debusky's going to join us
to tell us about that and what else will be
in those big, beautiful, very cool air conditioned theaters this weekend.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Convicted murderer Eric
(05:22):
Menendez has been denied parole.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Menandez family members see they are disappointed in the parole
Board's decision, but they're now focused on Lyele Menendez and
his fight for freedom as he goes in front of
the board for Eric, the board finding that he remains
too great a risk to society if he were to
have been released.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
ABC's Alex Stone says the parole board focused on prison
rule violations, including illegal cell phone use and drug smuggling.
Parole Commissioner Robert Barton told Menendez, in his words, you
have not been a modeled prisoner, and frankly, we find
that a little disturbing. Menendez can try again for parole
in three years. His brother, Lyle has his parole hearing today.
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The brothers are serving life sentences for murdering their parents
in nineteen eighty nine. La County DA Nathan Hawkins says
he supports the parole Wars decision and commends them for
not bowing to what he called public spectacle or pressure.
Hawkman has been against parole for the Menendez brothers and
their efforts for a new trial. During the heroic hearing
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for Eric yesterday, Deputy da Habib Balian questioned whether Menendez
understands the full severity and depravity of what he did.
Balian said, when what you've done is shotgun your parents
to death, deleted any competing wills taken their money, spent
their money, You're a violent person. A man from Hawthorne's
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been arrested for allegedly beating a woman during a concert
at the Rose Bowl. Police say twenty three year old
Julio Zavala is the guy seen on a now viral
video punching the woman repeatedly on Saturday night and knocking
her out. The woman says she had actually spilled a
drink on the guy and apologized, but he claimed it
was intentional, and Governor Newsom assigned legislation to let voters
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decide if California should change its congressional maps before the midterms.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Is when all things are equal, we're all planned by
the same said rules. There's no question that the Republican
Party will be the minority party in the House of
Representatives next year.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Newsom signed legislation yesterday to allow a special election in
November to redraws state maps, which would possibly give Democrats
five more seats in the House. Forty three of California's
fifty two representatives are already Democrats. Let's take a first
look at your morning commute. We've got some slowing in
Riverside and it has to do with something weren't combs Cones.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yes, we've got a little roadwork going on there, but
you know what, it looks like they just wrapped it
up right on time. On the northbound side of the
two fifteen between Central and MLK. Looks like everything has
been picked up and graphics recovering quickly. A place that
is unfortunately getting very slow right now is in Colton, the.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Ten westbound ten westbound.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
This is going to be right before Rancho and overturned
vehicle in lanes on the westbound side, and all kinds
of debris on the eastbound side, but it's really the
westbound side. It's slammed all the way back from the
two fifteen on that ten freeway, and some problems in
Diamond Bar. This is new sixty westbound Diamond Bar Boulevard,
semi versus a car in the right lane. Traffic slow
back from the seventy one. It's Friday morning light for
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the most part. Hopefully we'll keep it that way. With
Southern California's most accurate traffic reports, I'm will Cole Streiver.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Harlamboos. By
the way, it's five h nine on your Friday morning wake,
i'p call Peter. President Trump has to be pretty happy
right now. He stands to save a half billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Yeah, this is a massive victory for President Trump. Yesterday
an appeals court here in New York deciding to basically
remove a four hundred and sixty million dollar penalty that
he originally faced over allations that he defrauded his business
partners by overinflating his net worth. This is something that's
been hanging over the President's head at this point for
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over a year, and this ruling effectively makes it so
that he doesn't really have to worry about that penalty anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, but the penalty was removed by this appeals court,
but the conviction was not.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Yeah, that's the training you think about this ruling. It
was a really divided ruling from this five judge panel.
They agreed on one thing, that the penalty was excessive.
Where they disagreed was basically whether or not the Attorney
General had the authority to bring this case and whether
or not it was rightfully decided. Three of those five
judges ultimately concluded that the president's liability here, the fact
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that he was found liable for defrauding his business partners
should still stand. So that's still a bit of a
black mark for the President, even if he's gotten away
from this massive penalty. The Attorney General, though for now,
has signal that she plans to appeal this ruling and
it will move to New York's highest court.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, I was just going to ask you, this isn't
done yet, and then a couple of the judges said,
you know, this case should be just thrown out, But
then others say, no, there was fraud.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean, at this point it was really the
most conflicted, I would say ruling I've ever read. Basically,
each of these five judges had a slightly different take
of how this case should have proceeded. The most conservative
judge on that panel, the only one who is appointed
by a Republican governor, basically said that this case should
have never been brought, that it was basically an abuse
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of her Attorney General, Letici James's power as Attorney General,
and that in this case, she doesn't have the authority
to pursue this kind of aggressive action against the company,
a private company that was dealing with private lenders. It's
also notable here that President Trump at this point has
been escalating his attacks on Tiss James. Of course, we
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know that there's multiple investigations into her conduct. Earlier this
week we reported how one of the President Trump's top
lawyers is running this investigation and demanded that she resigned
in a letter last week. So this is really one
of the most high profile examples of the subject of
the president's retribution and him prevailing in a legal case
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after he entered office.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, and it is pretty interesting with the whole Latitia
James thing, because she literally ran saying I'm going to
get him. I mean, that was bene of our platform.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Exactly, and the judges in this case pointed that out
as a concerning example. That only added to part of
the reason why they decided to lift this penalty. If
you go back to when Tish was running for AG
she vowed to look into the president's conduct. And you know,
the Attorney general job in New York is an elected position.
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This is someone who is a politician at hard and
that led to some flack. However, that those statements were
known during ahead of and during the trial. Appeals court
in the past rule that despite those statements overall not
being very good. The case could still proceed, and Tis
James at that point stilled the authority to pursue it.
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But again, the President has long used that as evidence
to suggest that she's biased and at this point that
he's basically treating her the same way he was treated
when he was a private citizen.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Okay, and you're saying that, you said that they're going
to appeal the Letitia James is going to probably appeal
this one. So it's not done yet.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
It's not done yet. I would expect this case to
go on for at least another year.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh goodie. All right, ABC Peter Hayer Lumbos will be
checking in with you to see how things are going.
Have a great weekend.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Thanks so much, chat, We take care.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
FBI has searched the home of former National Security Advisor
John Bolton in Maryland. It's part of the investigation into
the handling of classified documents. Bolton served under President Trump
from twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen, and he is now
a strong critic of the president. Trump fired Bolton in
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a tweet. Yeah wouldn't that be a great way to
find out you'd lost your job. President Trump has thanked
to the officers and military members who've been patrolling the
streets of DC.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
You gonna make Washington, d C. Grade again. We're making
our country grade again. The country is very close to
being great.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
When they say it's the hottest country in the.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
World, they meet it.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
He repeated yesterday that what is happening in Washington, d C.
Would be replicated in other cities, but he didn't give
any specifics. Trump also said the stepped up federal policing
in DC would last for a while, as he put it.
He also delivered burghers made at the White House and
pizza to the troops yesterday. State inspectors in Colorado have
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found about twenty decomposing bodies at a funeral home owned
by a county coroner. Inspectors arrived at the mortuary Wednesday
and say they found a strong odor of decomposition. The
bodies were in a room where the door was hidden
by a cardboard.
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Displays that were made to our inspectors at the time
was that they believed the bodies could be as old
as fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Sam delp with the agency that overseas Inspection says the
mortuary mortuary has been suspended. Authorities say the owner told
them he may have given fake ashes to next of
kin who wanted their loved ones cremated. A federal judge
in Miami is ordered the dismantling of much of the
illegal immigrant detention site in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz.
(14:30):
Judge ruled state and federal authorities failed to consider potential
environmental damage before building the facility. ABC's ran On Ali
says the camp can stay open for now, but it
can't take on any additional detainees. Court records show the
state of Florida plans to appeal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanne,
who says he'll give final approval for the takeover of
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Gz's city while also restarting negotiations with Hamas to get
the remaining hostages returned and ending the war. As had
said earlier that it would accept a ceasefire broker by
Katar in Egypt. The wide scale operation in Gaza City
could start within days. House Democrats are investigating the Paramount
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Skydance merger over alleged involvement by President Trump.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Top Democrats have announced they're inspecting whether the media company's
cave to illegitimate demands from Trump to win his support.
The eight billion dollar merger was authorized by the FCC
less than a month after Paramount settled a Trump lawsuit
for sixteen million dollars. Trump sued Paramount for a sixteen
minutes interview he claimed was edited in favor of twenty
twenty four presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The lawmakers feared the
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settlement may have worked as a bribe for the merger
to be approved. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
When we come back, you know that leaky faucet you've got,
or the broken air conditioning you probably want to put
off making repairs. I mean, it's not that big of
a deal, right, But our house whisper Dean Shark, begs
to differ. He's going to tell us why putting things
off now could cost you big time later eighty it's
five twenty one on your Friday morning wake up call.
(16:06):
Made it to Friday. I used to not care about
Friday because I worked on Saturdays. But now I totally
care about Friday, and I'm very happy that it's here.
I'm very happy that you are with us to start
your workday. We've talked before that we have the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app if you ever want to
weigh in make a comment or something about wake Up Call.
(16:28):
As long as you're nice or at least respectful. You
don't have to be nice, but at least respectful. No
hate here, but we got a fun little talk back
that I wanted to share this or Amy.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
I'm Rich from Illinois. I love wake Up Call. I've
been listening to way Up wake Up Call for years
since Jennifer was on. I just want to say you're
doing a great job. I've loved your work on the
work Wave Call since you've started. One thing our question is,
I wanted to listen to what the good Feed Sure
commercial all day on? I love that A catchy little
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rader okay.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Too, and there you go, thanks.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
To the store.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Is it the good Feet store today? I love that?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Hey, I love that good Feed store jingle. All right,
here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
California voters are going to be deciding whether to approve
redrawn congressional districts in the state. Lawmakers passed, and Governor
Newsom signed a redistricting plan yesterday that will make it
likely Democrats will pick up five more seats in the
House next year. Republicans have sued to stop it and
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called for a federal investigation. A special election will happen
on November fourth. A man's been awarded three and a
half million dollars by a jury for injuries he suffered
during the George Floyd protests in La Kellen Gluck says
he and his daughter were just going to their car
after getting food and had stopped to help a protester
who'd been hurt when he got shot with a rubber
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bullet by a sheriff's deputy. Prosecute had argued that Gluck's
injuries were the result of his own unlawful axe and
wilful resistance to a peace officer. A drive on the
four H five this weekend could slow you down. Three
lanes in each direction of the freeway through the spovid
Of Pass are going to be closed from ten tonight
through five am Monday as Caltrans cruis make improvements to
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the roadway. Caltrans says it's going to be shutting down
lanes every other weekend for like the next year or so.
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
right here on KFI. It's our house, whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 11 (18:30):
Morning, Dean who does have to work tomorrow morning. So
thanks for reminding me, Amy.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I'm sorry. I know people used to go, oh, yeah,
it's Friday, and I go, so what.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
But exactly, I'm just getting.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Started, exactly, and you are just getting started because you
have a show on Saturday from six to a m
six to eight am, and then again on Sunday from
nine to noon, and so this weekend we're going to
be talking about home maintenance, which is something that none
of us wanted to deal with. But you've got some
reasons why we better.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Yes, it's a hugely popular topic. I pick them, I
pick them good, Yes you do. But it's necessary. It
is very important. There are a lot of things that
when you have a home you need to keep track of,
and people these days, uh, this is just a trend
that has been noticed, you know, are deferring their home
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maintenance more and more. I don't know if we're just
kind of disconnected from the mechanical parts of our home,
or we're just so busy that you know, we're used
to living in our home. We've got a home, we
live in it, we live our life through it. And
it's kind of inconvenient when it says, you know, hey,
give me some attention too, because it hasn't really been
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worked into our schedule. But there are things about our
home that if we're not paying attention to, we'll end
us costing us big time in the end. And so
we have at least got to address those major issues.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Okay, So what are a couple of the ones that
people are most likely to put off and go, oh,
it's that that bic of a deal. I don't want
to deal with that.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, I'll tell you the number one thing.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
You and I have talked about this before, and I'll
probably go to my grave talking about this, and that
is change out the HVAC filter, the filter to your
heating and air conditioning system. That filter is not there
for you. It's you know, you don't go in the
house and say, now the air smells pretty clean, and no,
(20:25):
no problem. No, it's there for the system. It's there
for the machine. And of all the things that can
age prematurely age a heating and air conditioning system, it
having to run every day kind of choking for air
because there's a dirty filter, you know, right at its throat. Essentially,
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there's nothing that ages it more. And this is a
system where you know, if you own that home, you
are looking at replacing that air conditioning. I mean, best
case scenario every twenty years or so. And it's a
big chunk. I mean right now, that's easily of fifteen
seventeen thousand dollars purchase.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Right So the.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
Question is the question is are you going to stretch
that out to the full twenty years yes, please, or
because you're neglecting the system, is it going to be
more like ten to twelve years. And that's a lot
of money to spend every ten to twelve years. And
it's so so simple, we just it's so simple, and
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it's so minute, we tend to forget it, and it's
so very important.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Okay, And I do remember this conversation before because like,
these are the kinds of things that I would never remember.
But now they do have Like you can set up
for an auto shipment so you get a new filter
every I don't know how often it is that will
remind you, hey, it's time to change that filter exactly.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
There are multiple websites out there that do this, and
I think it's great. Filter buy dot Com they're not
a sponsor at KFI, but filter by dot Com one
of the big ease. They're actually the ones that Teina
and I use because you know what, I forget it
just as well as anybody else. So you figure out
the size of your filter, and everybody's filter is a
different size, So you figure out, you know, you go
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look at the filter you've got. You go on to
a place like filter by dot Com. You pay a
very you know, nominal subscription fee, and you set the
the the time interval, which I recommend to be every
three months. You should be changing that filter out four
times a year and so. And the cool thing is
it just shows up. It just shows up on your
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doorstep and then you're like, oh, the filter's here. It's
filter day. And then you take all of forty five
seconds and change it out and you don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, what's the name of the one that you said
is a good one?
Speaker 11 (22:46):
Filter by as in buy filter buy dot com.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Oh filter bye, Okay, I need to call my renters today. Okay,
what are what's a couple other things.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The water heater.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
The water heater is another workhoorse in your house that
you don't want to have age prematurely. But of course
you know who pays attention to the water heater. It's
just out there getting the job done every day. Water
heaters should be flushed every year, flushed out and because
hard water mineral deposits build up and sediment drops down
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to the bottom of the water heater, that can affect
the heating pan on a traditional water heater. Also, tankless
water heaters need to be flushed every year to clear
out that. Otherwise that starts to build up. It affects
their ability to heat the water and to maintain the
heat of the water. That's best case scenario. I was
talking to Mark Dobson last night. There are very few
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people I'm going to test you here. Do you know
what the sacrificial anode is on your water heater?
Speaker 10 (23:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
At the very top of a regular traditional tanked water heater,
there's a big, old kind of nut that screws into
a port on the top.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
People see it all the time.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
They're like, I don't know what's connected to the bottom
of that nut? Is a rod that is extending down
into the water of the water heater. It's made out
of magnesium or aluminum. It's called the sacrificial anode. And
the reason it's called that is because that rod attracts
through a process of what we call galvanic reaction. It
attracts all those corrosive minerals to itself and it corrodes
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instead of the tank that is your water heater.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It sacrifices itself to keep your water clean.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
It does.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
It sacrifices itself to keep the steel tank of your
water heater intact. And the point is, if you've got
really hard water, it sacrifices itself relatively quickly, and then
after a couple of three years, it may not be
there anymore. And when it's not there, there's nothing attracting
the minerals away from the steel of your water heater tank.
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And this is a product, by the way, that is
sitting on the shelf of the hardware store, the plumbing
supply store, the big home depot, and Low's. These are
on the shelf. They're between twenty and forty dollars and
it takes just a little bit of time to switch
them out.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And how often should you switch those out?
Speaker 11 (25:11):
Well, you should take a look at it every like
three years, okay.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And that's just two of the things that you should
not ignore to keep your home operating efficiently and not
having your appliances and all that stuff die prematurely. So
you're gonna be talking about it both tomorrow and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Gonna be talking about it on Sunday.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
Got a big list, and we're gonna not just tell you,
you know, guilt you into what you should be doing,
but going to give you tips and tricks along the
way to do it easy.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Oh I love tips and tricks. So you can listen
to Home with Dean Sharp right here on KFI. It's
Saturdays from six to eight am and then Sundays from
nine to noon. You can also follow Dean at Home
with Dean. Thank you, mister Sharp.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Have a well, it's not a weekend. Have a good
day tomorrow you will and for the rest of us,
Happy Friday. Still to come on Wake Up Call. Got
weekend plans? How about a nice air conditioned theater. ABC's
Mike Debuski joins us to tell us about a film
that will have you on the edge of your seat.
And another that will make you want to sing along.
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That's coming up before the top of the hours. Southland
weather from KFI sunny and hot again today as our
heat wave continues. His in the seventies to mid eighties
at the beaches, mid nineties for Metro La and Inland
Orange County up to one ten in the valleys. Could
see one o six in the Ie and Anelope Valley
with a chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms. The heat
continues through the weekend, with a chance of showers and
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thunderstorms in the afternoons and evenings. Highs in the eighties
of the beaches, nineties to low one hundreds Inland seventy
one now in Irvine seventy three and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It's five thirty seven on your Friday morning wake Up Call.
I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us. Hey,
if you want to have something to say, or if
you want to have something to say, If you have
something to say, hit us up on the talkback on
the iHeartRadio app. Would love to hear from you. And
of course I did say if you're going to weigh
in on talkback, I would love for you to be nice.
(27:14):
So this is the one we just got.
Speaker 12 (27:17):
Good morning, Amy. It's Richard and San Francisco, and I
just wanted to tell you that I would rather listen
to your show in the morning than any station up here.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I said, you had to be nice, and I appreciate it.
Thank you, Richard, thanks for having us along. How fun
that he's listening from San Francisco. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The extreme heat
continues in so Cal. Some areas could see highs up
to one hundred and ten today, along with relative low
humidity and extreme heat warning remains in effect for inland
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areas through tomorrow evening. The Santa Clarita Valley, San Gabriel Mountains,
and Annelote Valley foothills, along with the five and fourteen
freeway corridors, will remain under a red flag warning. President
Trump has thanked DC police and National Guard troops for
cooperating with the federal takeover of DC Metro. Trump met
with officers yesterday, telling them that crime is way down
(28:12):
since the operation began. He'd hinted that he was going
to join law enforcement in patrolling the streets of DC.
Apparently that didn't happen, but he did deliver pizza and
hamburgers to everyone. The operators of La Fitness have been
sued by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC says the
company makes it nearly impossible for customers to cancel memberships.
(28:32):
It says Fitness International illegally charged customers hundreds of millions
of dollars in unwanted reoccurring fees because of the cancelation difficulties.
At six oh five, it's handled on the news. It's
going to be up to voters now to decide whether
the Democrats are going to get five more seats in
the House. Bill's going to tell you about that. Here
(28:55):
are some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A man's been arrested for allegedly
shooting at and then stabbing a woman at a mall
in Canoga Park, Pelisa. The man approached her outside Westfield
to paying them all around noon yesterday, apparently claimed that
she had his baby, then fired an assault weapon at her.
She did have her daughter with her. He missed, so
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the police say he then stabbed the woman in the shoulder.
She was able to run inside and get help. He
was arrested a short time later. Police was a random
attack and that the man and woman did not know
each other. A man accused of killing his wife in
Lancaster and dumping her body in the Angelus National Forest
has been charged with murder, even though he hasn't been caught.
(29:36):
Jos Mark Cabrera flew to Peru last weekend, with the
couple's three children there now in protective custody. The La
Kenny DA's office has filed paperwork to have Cabrera returned
to the US. Next time you call nine one one
in LA, a civilian could show up to help.
Speaker 13 (29:53):
For the past year, Los Angeles has been testing a
new approach to nine one one calls by sending an
unarmed crisis response teams instead of licensed clinicians and social
workers now handle certain non violent emergencies. In its first year,
the pilot program managed more than sixty seven hundred calls,
saving LAPD seven thousand patrol hours. A new report says
the teams resolved most cases safely, with fewer than five
(30:15):
percent requiring police back up the unarmed model of crisis
response and Circle programs are run by the city administrator
and the mayor's office, who say this quote care first
approach costs lest and keeps people safe. Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
A twenty eight year old man from Long Beach, has
pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he sent a
dozen payments to ices and was keeping a homemade bomb.
Prosecutors say Mark Villanueva, a permanent resident from the Philippines,
communicated through social media with two people who described themselves
as ISIS fighters and offered to help fund their activities.
(30:50):
California is well represented on realtor dot COM's new list
of the top ten most expensive zip codes.
Speaker 14 (30:57):
Pricey Holmes in California zip codes claimed seven spots on
the list, with some really expensive listings.
Speaker 15 (31:03):
It gets much higher than this when you're looking at
top ten percent within As.
Speaker 14 (31:07):
Zip coach Anthony Smith wrote this study. He says the
zip codes in California are propped up by huge houses.
Speaker 15 (31:12):
More impressive ones like Los Angeles having a medium square
foot looking at five thousand, seven hundred or so.
Speaker 14 (31:19):
Newport Beach, bel Air, Montecito, and Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara,
Beverly Hills, Rancho, Santa Fe and Malibu all made the
top ten list. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
The report from realtor dot com says Fisher Island in
Miami Beach is number one most expensive zip code in
the country. Time to get in your business now with
Bloomberg's Courtney. Not Courtney, Donaho. It's Dan Schwartzman in for
Courtney this week. Good morning Dan, Good morning Jamy. How
are you doing good? So all eyes are on Jackson Hole,
(31:52):
Wyoming today, and it's not because of the skiing.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Not at all.
Speaker 16 (31:56):
The investors will be eyeing what happens there intently because
FED chair Drobe Pal is going to be speaking at
the Federal Reserve Symposium around ten am. That's a half
hour after Wall Sheet rings the opening bell. Investors hoping
Amy that Pal's going to give some sort of guidance
whether there will be a September rate cut. Analysts believe though,
he will remain cautious, so markets, I think are waiting
to react to that as well. People want a rate cut,
(32:19):
but we'll see what he what he says.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, we will be and the meeting isn't until next week,
but people are looking for hints of it. Yeah, actually
not next week but next month at some points. But
they're looking for hints.
Speaker 16 (32:31):
Okay, Yeah, they want to kind of read into it
and see, you know, maybe he says something that shows
which way they're leaning, and then people are going to
react off of that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay. New numbers show that people looking to buy a
home or getting a little gunshot.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
That's correct.
Speaker 16 (32:45):
If you accept an offer for your home as a
seller doesn't quite mean it's a done deal. Redfinn reporting
that in July, home purchase contracts were canceled at a
record rate, with around fifty eight thousand agreements falling through.
That's just over fifteen percent of homes under contract. It's
the highest July number going back to twenty seventeen. Now Amy,
Some of the reasons being given are that there are
more listings to choose from, as well as buyers are
(33:08):
just nervous about the economy. So fifteen percent is a
pretty large number for deals that are falling through.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So they're making offers than saying you know what, I
found something better and backing out. Do they lose their
because you have to put money down when you make
an offer, don't you.
Speaker 16 (33:25):
I'm not sure how it's working. I'm thinking about the
last time I sold a house. I think, you know,
I get you know, there's always a thread of lawsuits,
but no one seems to follow through because it's more
expensive to do that, you know. So it's just you
know what, people just move on. They're like, all right,
you know what, somebody else will buy the house. I
guess is the way to look at it. But imagine
just being you know, excited, all right, somebody's going to
(33:47):
buy my house.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
It's a done deal. I can move whatever.
Speaker 16 (33:49):
I have this money coming in, and then to find
out not so fast they've backed down.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
You're kind of back to square one. Is not a
good feeling.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah, So that is awful because I know that there's
like this sort of vilation and relief when you go, oh,
I got an offer on my house. It's going to happen,
and then to have it fall through and have to
kind of start over, like you just said, is a
little bit frustrating. Okay, there is a company that is
a telehealth company that I've never heard of, but that
might change because of a new celebrity spokesperson.
Speaker 16 (34:17):
That is correct, tennis superstar Serena Williams is joining the
telehealth company Row, the twenty three time Grand Slam winners,
becoming the face of Row's latest campaign for popular weight
loss shots like Wagovie and zep Bound.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Williams says she herself lost thirty.
Speaker 16 (34:31):
One pounds as a patient a ROW after struggling to
lose weight postpartum. It's the first time Williams has spoken
at it about using the medications that we know as
GLP one. So big name Serena Williams, and I've seen
pictures of her.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
She looks great.
Speaker 16 (34:44):
She did lose some weight, obviously, and seems very happy
with the fact that she was able to take off
the pounds and she said she couldn't do in the gym.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Okay, And like we just said, we're probably all going
to know about ROW moving forward again. I had never
heard of it. And what are we looking for in
the stocks today?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Right now?
Speaker 16 (35:00):
The futures all are in the green DAWs of one
hundred and forty three points are about a third to
one percent. S and P's up fifteen points, a gain
of about a quarter of one percent. Nazac right now
up thirty eight points, a gain of two tenths of
one percent, So fingers crossed. Everything's green markets open in
about forty five minutes. We hope they stay that way
all right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Getting in your business with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman. We won't
be talking to you on Monday, but you're welcome on
wake up Call anytime.
Speaker 16 (35:25):
Thank you so much. Amy's been a blast, Courtney. We'll
be back on Monday to join you.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right. Have a great weekend, Dan, you as well.
When we come back. A streaming movie such a sensation
that it's moving from the stream to the big screen
this weekend. ABC's Mike Dbuski is going to tell us
about that and what else is going to be in
those big, beautiful air conditioned theaters this weekend. From the
Southern California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center, Save more at the
Pump with Toyota's full lineup of fuel efficient vehicles. It's
(35:52):
five point fifty two on your Friday morning wake up call.
Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
We love that you're waking up with us here in
Southern California. And we're also finding out that it's not
only in Southern California that people are listening. Oh well, Amy,
this is Shane from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, listening every day.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Well, thank you, Shane. And that's not all.
Speaker 17 (36:19):
Good morning, Amy, And while listening to you with my
morning walk, I just have to say I enjoy your
take on the news much more. Thank you than my
local contributors.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Where's that.
Speaker 17 (36:32):
I have a great day, better tomorrow and know that
even all the way over in case Simmi Florida your
top pick.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Cassimmi Florida. I love that. And then we even went
down under.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Hey, Amy, good morning. It's Paul calling from Brisbane, Australia.
Speaker 14 (36:48):
We're listening here, calling from the future really because it's
Friday night.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So have a great morning. Everybody.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Love the show.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
And there we kept it nice.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Okay, cheers boy.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
I love it when you keep it nice. How fun.
Hello from Brisbane. That's exciting. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom right here. In Los Angeles, California,
three alleged burglars have been found and arrested after police
say they activated the GPS's on stolen electronic devices. The
equipment was stolen early Wednesday morning, from Aurora Modern Healing
(37:19):
in Claremont. Hours later, a person at the business alerted
police that the GPS's had gone off and signaled the
devices were at an address in Pomona. Governor Newsom is
tops in the field of potential twenty twenty eight presidential
candidates in California. A Politico Citron Center Possibility Lab poll
shows him leading former Vice President Kamala Harris by six
(37:40):
points in California. The pole says Newsom's criticism a President
Trump has boosted his national profile. Gary Oldman's going to
place his hand prints and footprints in cement in front
of the TCL Chinese Theater this morning. Oldman is being
honored for a career that earned him three Best Actor
OSCAR nominations. His breakout role was his portrait of Sid
(38:01):
portrayal rather of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy. Oldman
now stars in Apple TV's Slow Horses Love That One.
Season five of that show drops next month. Let's say
good morning to ABC's Mike Dubuski. Hey, Mike, I got
a fun fact because we're talking about movies in theaters
this morning. Okay, from our very own Dean Sharp, who
(38:22):
we talked to a little bit ago our house whisper,
he said. He sent me a text and said, the
massive crowds escaping to an air conditioned movie theater in
the thirties and forties is why movie studios actually shifted
their production schedules for summer releases and the summer blockbuster
was born.
Speaker 18 (38:39):
Yeah, that's that's a great fun fact. And people spent
all day at the movies too. That's where we get
the concept of you know, mainline releases and then B
movies and then newsreels and maybe you know.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
A variety show like that was.
Speaker 18 (38:51):
It was like a you go to the movies for
like five or six hours in some cases, and it
was a lot in large part because it was air conditioned.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Heo.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
And some people who are what what do you call
it when you just go from theater to theater?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh uh, yeah, there's a term for that, the theater jumping.
Speaker 10 (39:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Okay, So uh a movie has jumped from the stream
to the big screen this weekend.
Speaker 18 (39:14):
Yeah, that's right. So K Pop Demon Hunters is what
we're talking about. It's an animated musical about a K
pop band that's in a also a team of ancient
warriors who fight supernatural beings.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Of course.
Speaker 18 (39:25):
Yeah, it's you know, your standard tale as old as
time kind of thing. And it's a musical, so there's
some real good songs in it that have been very
popular on music streaming services. The movie itself has been
really popular on Netflix. Currently it is the second most
viewed movie on Netflix ever, with two hundred and ten
point five million global views. According to Netflix, this movie
(39:47):
over the last two weeks has gotten twenty six million
views a week, so the zero percent drop off, it's
been a kind of slow burn through all the throughout
the summer, with people kind of you know, telling their
friends this word of mouth thing that this is a
really good movie that you should see. It's also well
positioned to beat the movie Red Notice on Netflix, which
is the most fewed movie on Netflix. So is Red
(40:10):
Notice from a.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Few years ago.
Speaker 18 (40:13):
It's got Dwayne the Rock Johnson in it, It's got
Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gado in it. And yeah, it
never played in theaters but on Netflix they say, we're
really just working with Netflix data here, but they say
it is the most butte movie on their platform.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Okay, I need to go check that out because I
haven't heard of it, and I.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Will say I saw it a couple of years ago.
It's okay.
Speaker 18 (40:39):
But Kabob Deema Hunters is interesting because Netflix is usually
very resistant to bringing their movies to theaters because they
see themselves as a competitor to the movie theater experience.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, but today they see themselves as somebody who's going
to cash.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
In on it exactly.
Speaker 18 (40:53):
So on Saturday and Sunday and only for those days,
in a bunch of screens across the US, they're hosting
these special screenings of K pop Demon Hunters where people
can sing along to the songs in the movie. They
did this for Wicked Part one towards the end of
last year. You know, the words appear on the screen.
You can kind of get up and dance in the
aisles if you're meant, if you're possessed to do such
(41:14):
a thing. And it's usually like a pretty communative, communal experience,
like people you know, have really taken to this if
they are in the musical theater or a musical movie
sort of mindset. Netflix looking to capitalize on that. Seventeen
hundred screens across the US are playing this sing along
and as of last night, Amy, eleven hundred of them
are fully sold out, so it seems like there are
(41:37):
there's some real energy behind this thing. In fact, it
could top the weekend box office. Deadline predicts it could
break in about fifteen million dollars. Other outlets are predicting
even more, and that could be enough to beat Weapons,
which has been the you know, perennial box office favorite
for the last three weeks now, the Zach Kreiger directed
horror movie. It's an interesting trend, right, this sing along
(41:57):
movie that's been out for two months already, and it's
not really a theater movie necessarily kind of coming to
theaters and maybe topping the weekend box office.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
I think that that would be a good one for
mom and dad to drop the kids off at.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
O Oh yeah, I think so.
Speaker 18 (42:11):
And if the Wicked screenings already indication these things can
get rowdy, So yeah, if you're in for if you
want to focus on the movie, maybe this is not
the place to go, but it could be very fun.
Speaker 8 (42:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
And if those two, if that one doesn't tickle your
fancy and you still want to get out of the
heat this weekend, there's just a couple other ones we
have like thirty seconds. What else would we have coming up?
Speaker 18 (42:32):
Sure, so very quickly. There's Eden, which is a new
Ron Howard movie. It's about a group of European settlers
who settle on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos, and
it's kind of like.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
A twisty murder thriller.
Speaker 18 (42:44):
It's also got Jude law on a armist, Vanessa Kirby,
Sidney Sweeney, good cast. The other movie this weekend is
from one half of the Coen brothers. Ethan Cohen's new
movie is called Honey Don't. It's kind of like a
black comedy sort of, you know, twisty. Fargo in the
Desert is kind of the that I got from the trailer.
Margaret Quali's in this Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans continuing his
(43:05):
post Captain America career, and Charlie Day as well. So
those are your two kind of a little bit maybe
more adult ofks. If you're not into the singalong, well good, we'd.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Like options at movie theaters when it's going to be
over one hundred degrees. ABC's Mike Debuski, Thanks so much.
We'll talk to you again soon, okay, taker, all right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two young brothers
reported missing in LA's Westlake area are now the subject
of an amber alert. Official say the ten and two
year old boys, who were in foster care, may have
(43:35):
been taken early yesterday by their biological mom. Police say
they believe Jacqueline Hernandez Torres took them to South LA
before they were before they disappeared. The mom is thirty
five feet tall, about one hundred twenty pounds, has black
hair and brown eyes. She may be driving a black
two thousand and eight pt Cruiser with Indiana plates that
end in one to five. You can see photos of
(43:57):
her and the kids on her website KFIM six forty
dot com slash amber alert. It's also up on cafe's
Instagram page. Governor Newsom assigned legislation to allow for a
special election in November for voters to decide who can
draw up congressional districts. Governor Newsom said yesterday President Trump
is responsible for California's redistricting legislation.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
We got here because of his failed policies. Those are
being exposed hour by hour reinforced today by Walmart announcing
they'll be raising prices because of the tax increases.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Because of the tariffs, state lawmakers have drawn up new
congressional maps that would send five more Democrats, most likely
to Capitol Hill. California's redistricting push comps. As Republicans in
Texas move closer to finalizing their own reworked districts that
favor Republicans and the Lykeunty, Sheriff's deputies will soon be
cruising around in shiny new rides.
Speaker 8 (44:50):
The department is rolling out two hundred and eighty new
patrol vehicles. Sheriff Robert Luna says the new rides will
replace a fleet of aging black and white. Luna says
most of the aging fleet is more than eight years
old and most of the vehicles have over one hundred
thousand miles. Of the new vehicles, forty eight are hybrids,
and they all come with an advanced safety system, new
LED lights, and upgraded sirens. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southland. Weather from KFI sunny and hot again today.
Highs in the mid eighties at the beaches, low to
mid nineties for Metro LA and in Lando c one
on one too, about one ten in the valleys, up
to one oh six in the Ie and Antelope Valley,
with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the high
desert and mountains this afternoon and evening overnight lows in
(45:37):
the sixties and seventies. Really starts to cool down right
before sunset Tomorrow and Sunday, just a couple degrees less hot,
still eighties at the coast, nineties for the metro area's low,
one hundreds for the valleys I, E and AV and
still a chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. It'll start
cooling down a bit on Monday sixty eight now in
Brea's seventy three, Lake Forest seventy one and Marina Day
(46:00):
and seventy three in Burbank. Live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom for producer Ann and technical producer Sam
and traffic specialist Will I am Amy King. This has
been your wake up call. If you missed any wake
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