October 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. The show opens with ABC News’ Peter Charalambous opens the show talking about dozens being charged in NBA-linked illegal betting, rigged poker schemes tied to the mafia. The host of ‘Home’ on KFI Dean Sharp joins the show and talks about how not to live in a haunted house. Amy talks with Founder and Executive Director of Big Sunday David Levinson about handing out 4,000+ bags of food for their Thanksgiving Stuffing Event, known as a “festival of gratitude.” We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Denise Pellegrini who speaks on what the markets are looking like as the week comes to a close, The show closes with ABC News entertainment reporter Will Ganss about the boss on the big screen, the Bell on the small screen, and a stranger things rewatch.
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, just one week away from Halloween. This this is
your wake up call for Friday, October twenty fourth. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Of course, it's a big day, the Dodgers in action,
the quest for the World Series, back to back championships. Hey,
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A few weeks ago, there was a question about things
that affect your morning. And I don't know if it's
just me, but does anyone else? Y'all straight up when
Amy comes on the radio. So when she doesn't say
five o'clock straight up, we're missing something. We need our
straight up baby.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, it's five o'clock straight up. Here's what's ahead on
wake up call. The Dodgers just four wins away from
back to back World Championships, wins World Series Championships. The
fall class that gets underway to in Toronto. The Blue
Jays have home field advantage because their record was one
game better than the Dodgers for the regular season. Blake
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Snell gets the start. First pitch goes out at five eight,
and of course you can hear all of the action
on her sister station. AM five seventy Klic, the twenty
nine year old man accused of setting a New Year's
Day fire that erupted a week later and became the
deadly Palisades Fire, has pleaded not guilty in LA to
federal charges of destruction of property, arson, and setting timber
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on fire. He remains in federal custody, with his trial
expected to start in December. A small earthquake has rattled
parts of the Inland Empire. The magnitude three point three
quake hit about twelve miles north of Beaumont just after
eight last night. No reports of any damage. Not a
very big quake. We can handle the little ones. A
huge scandal has rocked the NBA as a Hall of
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Fame coach and star player are arrested along with like
thirty others for allegedly fixing sports betting. ABC's Peter Harlamboos
joins us to tell us how it also involves backroom
poker games and the mafia. This is a big one.
People flock to haunted houses around Halloween, right but the
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host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp, is going to
tell us how to know if your house might be
haunted and about a real haunted house in Orange County.
And speaking of Halloween, we're going to be talking at
the bottom of the hour with the head of Big Sundays.
It's a nonprofit group that's making Halloween happen for a
lot of kids who might not otherwise get to celebrate.
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And also will tell you how you can make this
Halloween a little sweeter for hundreds of kids. This is
a very cool event. Can't wait to tell you about it.
ABC's Will Gans is going to bosses around and everybody
seems to want what nobody wants. He's gonna tell us
about that. Also, more stranger things coming up before the
top of the hour on Wake Up Call. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
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KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The first pitch of game
one of the world's theories will be thrown out. Later today,
the Dodgers face the Blue Jays in Toronto. Dodgers manager
Dave Roberts says he thinks this year's team is even
stronger than last year's.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
You know, show hey is healthy.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
As we mentioned, the starting staff is in much better
shape and position player wise, We're healthy, So yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The game starts at five eight and as I mentioned,
you can catch all the action on our sister station,
AM five seventy LA Sports news brought to you by
ruterhroo dot com. The Big rig driver accused of causing
Tuesday's deadly chain reaction crash on the ten Freeway in
Ontario is doing court today. He's facing vehicular manslaughter and
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dui charges. Authorities say Joshin prit Singh of Yuba City
was high when he plowed into the stopped vehicles, killing
three people and injuring four others. The violent crash was
captured on dash cam video. The victims include a Pomona
High school basketball coach and his wife. Homeland Security says
Sing is an Indian national who came into the country
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illegally three years ago. White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett
says this crash raises more debate about illegal immigration.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
These tragedies are following a disturbing pattern of these criminal
illegal aliens being issued commercial vehicle licenses and so yes,
the Department of Transportation is absolutely cracking down on that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Florida's Attorney General is asking the US Supreme Court to
stop states like California from issuing licenses to commercial truck
drivers who are not in the country legally. A small
plane is made an emergency landing on the sand in
Huntington Beach. Officials say a helicopter pilot with Huntington Beach
PD heard radio traffic from John Wayne Airport last night
about an aircraft in distress searching for a place to land.
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The pilot was able to put the plane down between
lifeguard towers eleven and thirteen. The two people on board
were not hurt, and Alaska Airline says operations have resumed
after it had to ground its planes for hours because
of an information technology outage. The airline says two hundred
twenty nine flights had to be canceled yesterday because of
the outage, and more flight disruptions are expected as it
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works to reposition aircraft and crews. The grounding affected Alaska
Air and Horizon Air flights. Time to say good morning
now to ABC's Peter Harlambus. Yeah, so, Peter, this one's
a doozy, a scam involving the NBA poker games and
the mafia.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
I mean, this is a sprawling scandal that threwns the
cast the shadow over the NBA's opening week and the
ledges that we're talking about dozens of people, NBA players,
coaches teaming up with mafioso's to orchestrate illegal card games
and also to place illegal bets based on inside information.
The allegation here is that they made a combine nearly
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ten million dollars off these illegal schemes, and the FBI
is now heralding this as accountability to this city, entire league.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Basically, Okay, and so tell us a little bit about
We know that it's huge, but tell us about some
of the specifics of it, because there are a lot
of moving parts in this one.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Yeah, it's a lot, and it really comes down to
two separate schemes. They're related, but they're different at their core.
The first one, the one that's a bit more sprawling,
relates to these illegal poker games. The allegation is that
high profile individuals within the NBA, most notably Portland's Portland
Trailblazer's head coachs Trouncey Billups, basically use their star power
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to attract people to illegal poker games run by the mafia,
where they then used illegal tactics, most notably an X
ray poker table and a rigged card shuffling machine to
ensure that the odds would always work in their favor.
The allegation here is that they made more than seven
million dollars over the course of these games, and that
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when people couldn't pay, they used violence to enforce this.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
Well.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Separately, but also similarly tied to it, there's another indictment
that relates to sports betting, based on inside information that
insiders with in the NBA traded information about people who
might be injured and the degree to which they might
be playing in a game because of those injuries to
place bets that ultimately ultimately resulted in millions of dollars
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and profits. All of this on public sports betting platforms
that you know improperly influenced the entire sports betting market.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, And the example that I heard yesterday, Peter, was
that the Miami Heats guard Terry Rosier came out of
a game early. So but he had kind of pre
planned that, allegedly, and so they said, people said, hey,
bet the under on him today, and then tons of
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big bets came flooding in, which is kind of what
threw up some red flags and started this.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's one example, and it
appears there were other instances where they did basically the
same saying. The one you mentioned resulted in I believe,
about two hundred thousand dollars in profitable bets. And basically,
he knew he was going to be leaving the game
injury early because of a purported injury, and he basically
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told people close to him to bet on him not
necessarily scoring that many points, to the point of which
basically the fact that he'd left early guaranteed that the
number of points scored was really low, and basically just
rigged the game in his favor and in favor of
these allies who had this inside information. Prosecutors alleged that
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this happened multiple times, and they also alleged that this
happened with other players. For example, there's also this allegation
that a former teammate and longtime front Lebron James, basically
traded inside information about a potential injury, which therefore influenced
the outcome of a Lakers game. So again, we're talking
about multiple individuals, multiple different games. We're talking about different
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teams across the league. This all coming during opening weeks
for the NBA, and.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
When you think about it, with all the sports betting
that's going on, I mean, think about the hundreds of millions,
even billions of dollars that are at stake if they're
rigging these things.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Yes, especially when you consider how prominent online sports betting
has gone that this point. We've gone from a time
where you know, it was a largely under the table
thing to something that is fully legitimate, that can be
done easily online by basically anyone over the age of eighteen.
And this information was basically used to rig the entire
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marketplace when it came to those games across the entire NBA.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Wow, Okay, do we know what's next?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
So these individuals, and we're talking about about a half
dozen in the illegal information scandal and about thirty one
people in the poker scandal. They're being arraigned. The arraignments
started yesterday. They're going to carry through as these people
each of them pleed out, and we'll really have to
see how they decide to approach this. I could see
a lot of guilty please coming out of this because
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the number of people charge and the big question is
anyone going to take this to trial? And if so,
how quickly is that going to happen?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, ABC's Peter Harlambus, thank you so much. We'll
be watching this one. All right. Well, it's crazy really
to think about how much that could affect. I mean,
and I know tons of people who do sports betting,
and like they could totally be getting scammed. And I
love the thing about the I don't love, but I
mean so fascinating. The thing about the X ray tables
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so they could see what cards there are, and the
tampered with shuffling machines and stuff. Just crazy. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump says he's backing
off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco
after speaking with the city's mayor and tech leaders, and they.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Said, we're working really, really hard with the mayor and
we're making progress.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Would it be possible for you hold off? For you
to hold off the.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Surge, Trump posted on social media yesterday that he agreed
to let San Francisco keep working on its own. Mayor
Daniel Lurry said the two spoke on Wednesday night. Governor
Newsom says Californians should be cautious about President Trump's decision
to pause the planned federal surge.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
I appreciate for the moment this guy came to a census.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
He's an arsonist putting on his own fires, and these
are fires of his own making.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Newsom warned people not to be deceived by what he
called a political ploy. He spoke yesterday during an event
to support Prop fifty. It's Stay twenty four the federal
government shut down. Five hundred thousand federal workers are set
to miss their first full paycheck today. Millions of Americans
will also find out how much more their healthcare is
going to cost next year. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin
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says Republicans won't even discuss these things.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
We absolutely need the Republican leadership and President Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
To move us forward and come to the negotiating table.
Democrats say they won't vote on a Republican built to
fund the government until they can get Medicaid cuts repealed
and Obamacare subsidies extended. New York Attorney General Letitia James
said to make her first court appearance in a mortgage
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fraud case. She was indicted earlier this month on charges
of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial
institution in connection with a twenty twenty home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia,
where she has family. James has denied any wrongdoing and
says the indictment is, in her words, nothing more than
a continuation of the President's desperate weaponization of our justice system.
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Hey remember Clippy, Microsoft's infamous little paper clip assistant. Well
there's a new Clippy in town.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
The software giant has introduced a new AI character called Miko,
designed to embody its copilot virtual assistant. Miko, a floating
cartoon face shaped like a flame or a blob, aims
to balance personality with functionality. This launch comes as AI
developers navigate how to present chatbots in an engaging way
without causing harm or annoyance. Unlike Clippy, which Microsoft pushed
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on desktop computer users at the turn of the twenty
first century, Miko was also easy to turn off.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Mark Ronner news, Hey you got my Dodger blue on?
Do you have yours? On? Today? It's time for the
World Series The Dodgers in action Tonight, LA takes on
the Toronto Blue Jays for Game one of the World Series.
The first pitch goes out at five eight. You can
listen to all the games on a five seventy LA
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Sports and the iHeartRadio app brought to you by Strauss.
The official workwhere partner of Major League Baseball Dodgers pitcher
Alex Vessia is not with the team for Game one
of the World Series. The team says the reliever is
away from the team as he and his wife navigated
deeply personal family matter. Bessie's wife is pregnant. Game one
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of the World Series Tonight in Toronto, first pitch goes
out at five oh eight. A federal judge is considering
making permanent her temporary order that would ensure immigrants detained
at a federal ice processing center can see their attorneys
in a timely manner. The judge heard arguments yesterday about
the detainees being held at the Downtown l Detention facility.
(15:01):
She'll issue her ruling at a later date, just in
time for the holidays. Toys r US says it is
opening two new stores in California. Its flagship store will
be at the Camarillo Premium Outlets in Ventura County, and
a pop up store will open in the Bay Area.
Officials say the stores are designed as family friendly destinations,
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no kidding. Thirty new stores will open around the US.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news, President
Trump breaking off trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement.
I'll tell you about that. Let's say good morning now
to the host of Home on Cafe. It's the house,
whispered Dean, Sharp morning, Dean.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
What about Toys r US would not be family friendly?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I know it seems like a sort of a silly statement,
doesn't it it? Okay, all right, let's talk about mounted houses.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yes, haunted houses. You know we're only a week away
from Halloween now too, Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm going to I want to tell you I'm going
to go to this haunted house that we've talked about.
It's called seventeenth Floor, and it's supposed to be like
one of the scariest ever. We're going this weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh so it's one of those you know, put together
like intended to scare you haunted houses.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, seventeenth door. Did I say floor? Min seventeenth door?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Where is that at? Where is that at?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's in Buena Park, You know what. Let's talk about
haunted houses. There's actually another one in Orange County that's
a real haunted house, and you have ties to it,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I do the strangely enough, even though that's not really
my thing. The historic Kellogg House is a is a
Victorian house. It was built in Orange County in eighteen
ninety eight hundred and twenty seven years ago, and a
few years back it got moved to the Heritage Museum
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of Orange County because it's a beautiful, beautiful, custom designed
Victorian house with a lot to teach us about the
Victorian age. It also allegedly is haunted. And it just
so happens that my scholar kid's sister, Darcy Staniforth, is
also on the side kind of a lover of all
things paranormal, and she is the official guide and docent
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for the Haunted oc Ghost tours of the Kellogg House,
which we're gonna do Monday night with a group of
our listeners. We're giving away tickets all weekend long. It's
gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, So you've got to be listening to at a
Home with Dean Sharp both Saturday and Sunday. You're giving
away tickets. Yep, both days. Okay, six days Saturday, nine
to noon on Sunday. So what are some signs that
we might actually be living in a haunted house?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, not none, really, I mean, I mean if you
wake up in the morning, if you wake up in
the morning and you know there's like two children standing
in your hallway that don't belong to you, that's probably
a good sign. Or you're hearing voices. But you know,
you know, I like to have fun with Halloween just
like you do. So every year I put together a
Living in a Haunted House show, which basically means that
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there are a lot of noises and weird behaviors that
our house sometimes make, that there are ways to quiet
it down and to stop it. So you know, everything
from squeaky floors to you know, the toilet that sounds
like it's being used and hissing in the middle of
the night, all that kind of stuff, you know, scratching
sounds in the attic. These are all things that can
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be explained apart from the paranormal, but they kind of
freak us out.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, So your house might not be haunted, It might
just need a little fixer upper exactly.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
Okay, So like what kinds of thing you mentioned? The
toilet you mentioned, Yeah, the toilet. The toilet's one of
those things that you know, we actually get a lot
of calls on. We're like, we don't know what's wrong
with our toilet, And I'm like, why, Well, at night
we'll be lying in bed and all of a sudden
we hear the tank go off, like like there's water
pouring into it. But then I get up and I
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check and the bowl the water It can't be because
the water in the bowl is the exact same. It
never changes. And so one of the things, by the way, Amy,
I don't know if you know this. Do you know
that you can pour an unlimited amount of water into
a toilet bowl and it will never overflow.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, because it's got all the release valves and stuff.
But I also know that you can if you need
to clean the bowl, can't you just like throw a
gallon of water down it and then it empties the
bowl out.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah that's true too. Yeah, but people get freaked out
because they hear water running in the toilet and yet
they don't. They expect to see the level of water
in the bowl, you know, rise if the water's running,
But that will never ever happen because the toilet bowl
has a limit to it and once you get over
that limit, it just pours itself down the drain kind
of down the back of its throat there. So what's
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happening is there's a little leak. There's a little leak
of the gasket in between you know, the flapper valve,
that little flapper that comes up. It's just gotten old
and as a result of getting old, letting water trickle in,
which means the tank goes down a little bit. And
when the tank goes down a little bit, the valve
that refills the tank starts to hiss because it's starting
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to try and refill the tank. And then it does
eventually refill the tank and then it stops. And this
can go on all night long with people who have
a bad flapper valve in their toilet. And the cool
thing is those things are sitting on the shelf at
your local hardware store, the big box store, the home
depot or lows. They cost about five bucks and it
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will take you all of fifteen seconds to change it
out and that is the end of the hiss.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And plus, if your house was haunted, they're not going
to haunt the toilet. I mean, come on, there's other
things to do, but this one.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, you would think if you're a ghost, I'm not
going to pick the toilet exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So you've got all kinds. You've got a whole list
that you're going to go through on your show this weekend.
But here's one that actually might make me think that
it actually was haunted. And that's walls that weep.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yes, what is walls that well? Sometimes you can get
actual moisture running down the inside of your walls and
you see these drip lines on the walls. That is
usually a sign that something with exterior water proofing has
failed on the house, or maybe you live in a
much much older house and it really didn't have much
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exterior waterproofing to begin with. And I don't mean on
the very very outside of the house. I mean underneath
the siding or underneath the stucco. That's where there's actually
a barrier, or supposed to be a barrier that actually
keeps the water from coming into the studs. And we're
not talking about direct amounts of water, like gallons of
water coming through. But when that barrier starts to fail,
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If it fails, moisture can build up inside the studs,
and then with the temperature differential of outside and inside,
that moisture can condensate on the dry wall and the
inside of the house, and next thing you know, your
walls are weeping. They're not weeping blood. If it's weeping blood,
you are actually living in a haunted house, then you
should leave. But if you've got oyster dropping down the
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inside of the wall, then then we have a vapor
barrier problem that has to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, so lots of problems. You're going to go through
them that you might think your house is haunted, but
it's not. It just needs to be fixed. And you
can listen all weekend. Dean's going to be on six
to eight am tomorrow on Home on KFI and nine
to noon on Sunday. You can also follow Dean at
Home with Dean Thank You, Dean Sharp. Go Dodgers Go, Dodgers. Yeah, exactly.
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Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State officials say
the military did not warn the public before test firing
live munitions over the five Freeway and a rail line
near Camp Pendleton over the weekend. The Marine Corps said
it sent advanced notices to agencies in California that thirty
artillery shells that were going to be fired. The tests
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were done on Friday, the day before the Marine's two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration. Governor Newsom ordered the freeway
between La and San Diego Counties shut down Saturday as
a safety precaution. A homeless man accused of stabbing another
man in Long Downtown Long Beach has been arrested. The
attack happened early yesterday morning at First Street in Pine Avenue.
Police say the guy who did the stabbing ran away
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but was later found. The man attacked was taken to
the hospital. The end of an era in Malibu.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
The California Coastal Commission has approved plans to demolish and
rebuild the iconic Gladstones into a new space designed by
architect Frank Geary with a menu led by celebrity chef
Wolfgang Puck. The revamped seventeen thousand, five hundred square foot
restaurant will feature ocean view decks and a public promenade,
but some local residents, like Joya Pillar, tell KTLA the
rebuild will be a major headache for the community.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Pretty sad about that.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
I mean, I've been going to Gladstone since i was
little and it's such a special beach restaurant.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Construction is set to begin in the coming months. How
the Brooker KFI News almost four million ballots have already
been returned for the November fourth special election. A ballot
tracker run by a Democratic strategist says votes for Democrats
are outpacing ballots from Republicans and no party preference voters
on the issue of whether to allow Democrats to redraw
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voting districts to favor Democrats. The election is November fourth.
A small plane made a safe emergency landing on the
sand in Huntington Beach, happened about ninet thirty last night
near pch And Beach Boulevard. The plane was trying to
land at John Wayne Airport but was having engine trouble,
so the pilot found a different spot. Neither of the
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people inside the plane were hurt. John Wayne Airport in
Orange County has joined several other airports around the US
and refusing to play a video in which Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome blamed Democrats for the government's shutdown.
A County spokesperson says John Wayne Airport maintains a neutral
position on political matters. Let's say good morning now to
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the founder and director of Big sun Dates, David Levinson.
Good morning David. So, David, you have a big Sunday
planned this Sunday for hundreds of kids in LA. Please
tell us about Spooky Sunday.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Well, this is a Big Sunday's annual Halloween event where
we just bring out all the creepy crawlers and spooks
and scares for underserved kids and their families throughout Los
Angeles and we're excited to do it. It's always loads
of fun. This year's is full and the response has
been amazing. But people can still get involved if they
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want to help by donating candy. They can go on
our website bigsunday dot org and press on to the
donate now button and just specify Spooky Sunday and there'll
be more candy and more costumes for those kids.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I love that, so we can help them out. So
tell us about like, where are these kids coming from?
How many kids are there that are going to get
to participate in this Halloween event?
Speaker 10 (25:51):
They come from All the time, we work with all
sorts of social service agencies around towns and say, you
know what families, what kids are in your program that
would really enjoy. We work with groups like this all
over town in all kinds of ways throughout the year.
You know, our mission is to connect people through helping,
and we really believe a big Sunday that absolutely everybody
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has some way they can help somebody else. Absolutely everyone
has some time they need help, and then we all
have to look out for one another.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Absolutely. So what do the kids get to do on Sunday?
I know that there's going to be trick or treating,
but you got some other stuff going on too?
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Oh? Sure, we have magic shows and we have face painting,
and we have photographs, and we have games, and we
have dances. We have a haunted house and we have
all this. We have an endangered Animals show, some of
them are a little scary animals, and we just have
all the things that you associate with Halloween. Kids come
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in their costumes and it's really a ball. I have
to get ready to get my costume on too.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
What are you going as?
Speaker 10 (26:54):
I'm going as Waldough. Oh, so I get a lot
of weares Waldote jokes, but it works.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Okay, And then let's talk about the costumes too, because
we're talking about kids who are maybe coming from underserved communities,
so they don't have a lot of extra money and
costumes might be a problem. But this year the kids
are going to get costumes.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
Yes, our great friends at Disguise have donated tons of
costumes that we have then distributed to all kinds of
nonprofits and schools around town that in turn gave them
to their family. Love and Disguise has been a great
support of this event for a long time and we're
very grateful to them.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, and then David to remind us again, you're all
full and you've got everybody you need for this event.
But if you want to donate some candy to help out,
we can make the Halloween a little sweeter for the kids.
Where do they go and how do they do it?
Speaker 10 (27:45):
They can just go onto Big Sunday dot org and
press on the donate now button and donate, you know,
whatever you would like to do it. Just specify it's
for Halloween and we'll take it from there. And just
so you knowing me, this doesn't end with Halloween. We
go jump right into our Thanksgiving event. This year, we're
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going to be feeding eighteen thousand hungry and grateful people
throughout the Greater LA area. This has been such a
challenging year for all of us in Los Angeles, and
we think it's a great time to get together, whether
share the scares of Halloween and just share some gratitude
of Thanksgiving or enjoy the holidays in December. Brig Sundays
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here for all of it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I love it, and we're going to be talking to
you more as we approach the holidays because I know
that we want to share more about how you're going
to feed those eighteen thousand people. I think it's wonderful.
David Levinson. Thank you so much, director and founder of
Big Sunday, getting ready for a big spooky Sunday for
a whole lot of kids, making them happy this Halloween.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Thanks for having me. Am all right, gooday, I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Easy to do. You donate ten bucks and just say
I wanted to go to candy for the kids for Halloween.
I love that. Okay, Time to get in your business
with Bloomberg's Denise Pelagreeening. Good morning, Hey, good morning to you. Amy.
I gotta tell you before we get started. We talked
yesterday about how people are on budgets and they're having
Hamburger Helper. And guess who went and bought Hamburger helper
yet last night? Which flavored did you get? I got
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the beef strogan Off and it is so good. I
know it's not good for you, it is so good.
I haven't had Hamburger Helper for years, and I'm just
sitting there on my couch last night, going I'm so
happy I've had a Hamburger Helper.
Speaker 13 (29:24):
I admit I eat that kind of stuff for breakfast.
You know, you get up early in the morning and
you need something like a sweet roll.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's not enough. I love that kind of stuff in
the morning. Well, I have leftover, so maybe I'll do
that this week either. Okay, let's get in your business. Now,
there's the fight between Canada and President Trump just heated
up again.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
Yeah, he couldn't let it go after yesterday he said
that all the trade talks between the US and Canada
were off because of that ad funded by the Government
of Ontario using the voice of former President Ronald Reagan,
with Reagan defending free trade and criticizing tariffs. And I
went really angry. Okay, now this morning, Now, this morning
gave me. He says on truth social Canada is charging
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US farmers as much as four hundred percent in tariffs.
So he is not letting this thing go that you
might think would have investors worried. But President will be
meeting with China's leader next week, so maybe we'll get
some trade traction on that front. And stock futures are
higher ahead of this as we look at inflation reports.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Okay, so let's turn to the TV. YouTube TV users
might be losing some of their programming.
Speaker 13 (30:31):
Yeah, I mean, you guys are on YouTube TV. You
know how great it is. There's just so much fantastic
programming on there. But the deal between Disney's ESPN and ABC,
well that could go dark, and that would mean that
the Google YouTube thing for them would die and that
those channels will be unavailable. If they stay unavailable, you
(30:53):
will get a twenty dollars credit, but that's not going
to be much solace and that'll hurt YouTube as well
if they can't watch Disney's ESPN and ABC sports programming.
Of course, Big Go Dodgers. Okay, it's something to watch. Well,
the Dodgers are on Fox, so it's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Home prices have been coming down in some areas, but
apparently that doesn't apply to this house at Delmar Beach.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
Okay, it's set a record for San Diego County.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
We don't know who bought it, but.
Speaker 13 (31:21):
Somebody paid fifty million dollars for this beachfront compound with
a ping pong pavilion. Oh, fifty million dollars. That makes
it the most expensive residential property sale in San Diego County.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
We know who. The seller was, a limited.
Speaker 13 (31:37):
Liability company tied to Sondra Nofskert. You know she comes
from that family of wealthy cattle ranchers. That was a
big cattle ranch estate. Right, fifty million is a record,
but I should say they first tried to sell it
for seventy five million last year. They didn't get that,
But fifty million, that's a pretty penny and pingpong pavilion,
I love that. Okay, pingpong outside.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, okay, before we let you go. Why are people
buying a lot of razors and deodorant?
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Well, I think maybe they're stalking up because P and
G's result speed estimates. They're talking about huge strength and
beauty and razors. Now we know prices have been going up,
but they say that business has still been pretty good
in tariffs aren't hurting them as much as they thought.
But I think that people are going out and buying
the essentials the Hamburger Helper right that they know they
(32:26):
can keep on the shelf, A Gillett, Razors, Secret deodorant,
and then just stockpilot because I think the price is
probably going to double pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh, I got one more little message for you. Let's
see if I can do this. Go Dodger. Thank you.
We're very excited. Great weekend right too. U get in
your business like we do every morning at five point
forty with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, a semi truck driver accused
of causing a deadly crash on the ten Freeway in
Ontario that killed three people, was in the US illegally.
(32:57):
The Department of Homeland Security says twenty one year old
josh In pried Singh entered the country through the US
Mexico border in twenty twenty two. He's accused of dui
and has been charged with three counts of vehicular manslaughter.
President Trump has ordered federal agents to stand down in
San Francisco. The mayor, Daniel Lurie, says he told the
president in a phone call that San Francisco is addressing
(33:19):
the crime and drug problem and asked him to give
the city more time. Trump agreed. The cancelation of the
federal deployment was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary christinelm If
you don't want to mail in your ballot in person,
voting starts tomorrow at eleven hundred locations around La County
for the November fourth special election. Vote centers will be
opened daily from ten am to seven pm. Let's say
(33:43):
good morning now to ABC's entertainment reporter Will gans Will.
It's time to get bossed around.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
That's right, and we'll get right back to that Stranger
Things theme music. By the way, there's nothing makes me
more excited than hearing that sound.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
AI right, it's.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
Just the best.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
But we'll begin yes with the Boss and Bruce Springsteen,
because Deliver Me from Nowhere is finally in theaters this weekend,
and this tells the story of Bruce Springsteen working on
his Nebraska album, so he should finished up his first
tour and he's sort of on the brink of becoming
the superstar that we know he'll become, but he's working
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on this Nebraska album and dealing with a lot of
his own inner demons as well. And Jeremy Allen White,
of course, who we know from The Bear, plays Bruce Springsteen,
and you know he does that sort of tortured artist
vibe very very well. So a lot of folks are
already talking about an Oscar nomination for him for this movie.
(34:43):
But for fans of Bruce Springsteen, I think they'll definitely
enjoy it. There are some like little easter eggs in
there where it's like, oh, this is where he gets
the inspiration for this song, or oh this is you
know when he met you know, his you know manager
or whatever. Like, there's lot of fun stuff for fans
in there, but also like for people who are not
(35:03):
big Bruce Springsteen fans, I think they'll enjoy the acting
and the storytelling. And my main like surprise with this movie,
I guess is that like it's not like a big, bold,
like rock star type of film. It's a lot more
brooding and introspective than I think I was.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Thinking it would be.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And you mentioned the non Springsteen fans, It'll be interesting
to see if non Springsteen fans go to see it,
because if you're not a Bruce Springsteen fan, why would you.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
I mean, maybe like the Bear, maybe like Jeremy Allen White. Yeah,
I think you're right. It will be interesting to see
how this movie does.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, if we want to stay home, be on the stream.
And if you're one of the two people in LA
not watching the world series, Kristen Bell and Adam Brodie
are back.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Yeah, this is my world series. I think is season
two of Nobody Wants This.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
So this is the show that's based.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
On a real life story of a podcaster who is
pretty much non religious and she meets a rabbi at
a party and they end up falling for each other.
And season two is out as of a couple of
days ago actually might be yesterday, and it picks up
where the last the last season left off. So Christ
(36:22):
and Bell and Adam Brody a are sort of trying
to make this relationship work, but of course, as a rabbi,
he has a lot of pressure from work and from
his very very devoutly Jewish family. And she's still trying
to figure out like where she fits into his you know,
familial life and his work obligations and everything. And the
episodes are thirty minutes each. All of season two is
(36:43):
available to stream now. It's funny, it's sweet, and so,
you know, I think if you're just looking for something
to sort of like really delicately scratch a little itch
in your brain for something adorable, this is a good show.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay, it wasn't this sort of a sleeper hit, Like
they weren't expecting a lot, and everybody was really surprised
at how successful it was.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Yeah, and like it was nominated for everything at the
Emmys this year, they were both nominated. It was nominated
for Best Comedy Series. The supporting cast is also fantastic. Yeah,
people were obsessed with it, and you know, like all
of a sudden, we were throwing around the term hot
Rabbi as if it had always been part of picon,
but it definitely became one.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, Okay, yeah, I loved that show. I'm excited to
watch season two. Okay, now let's get back to Stranger
Things Stranger Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
So we are a month away from the final season
beginning to stream on Netflix, and they also announced yesterday
that the very last episode of the series is going
to hit movie theaters on the same day that it
dropped on Netflix, which is super cool for fans of
the show. So what I'm yes, and smart too, a
(37:57):
great money making opportunity.
Speaker 10 (37:59):
So what I'm doing, And.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I know there are a ton of fans online doing
the same thing, doing a rewatch of the series because
it's been so many years, even since season four came out,
So starting with season one and working your way through
season four, and you know, each season is really eight
or nine episodes max. Some of them are even shorter
than that, and you know it is just like the
(38:22):
show is so well made and well crafted, and the
scope and the scale of it. I mean, there are
some estimates that season five they spent sixty million dollars
an episode to make wo So if you want to
catch yourself back up, I think now is a good
time to start. You give yourself a little bit of
a time to rewatch the series, miss the clues that
you might have pick up on the clues you might
(38:42):
have missed the first watch or have forgotten about and
joined the online conversation. Because the theories and stuff leading
into season five are crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to because I have actually already
watched it because I knew it was coming up, so
I binged the whole all four seasons, and the last
season came out in twenty two, twenty two, and the
kids are all grown up. It's going to be so interesting.
I can't wait to see what they've come up with
this time.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
Ah, it's going to be so epic.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
I mean, and the way that they're saying, you know,
it's like they are promising it's going to be fully concluded,
the story of Hawkins and Beckna and the demo Gorgans
and stuff, So you know, I don't think we're going
to be like set up for a bunch of different
spinoffs and things like that like, I think that they
have had in their minds how the story would end
for a while, and that's what we're in store for.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
All right. ABC's Will Ganz, thank you so much for
the info.
Speaker 10 (39:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murphy is launching the California
Kids Ai Safety Act to protect children from harmful AI chatbots.
The ballot initiative aims to hold tech companies accountable. It
follows Governor Newsom's veto of a related bill bill It
(39:55):
does need approval from the California Attorney General's office before
they can start collecting s natures to get it on
the ballot. Health experts say a Republican plan to fund
the federal government, which does not include Obamacare subsidies, would
have a huge impact on the nation's healthcare system. UCLA's
doctor William Feldman says it would set things back a lot.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
These cuts to insurance in our country could be problematic
in devastating for Americans.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
He says, if healthcare credits are allowed to expire, people
will stop taking some expensive medications. The Dodgers are in
Canada to start the World Series. Dodgers first baseman, Freddie Freeman,
was born in southern California, but his parents are Canadian.
Here are some other fun facts about our neighbors to
the north.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Other notable celebrities include Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, Ryan Gosling,
Ryan Reynolds, and Rapper Drake. Canada has the largest moose
population in the world, with about a million, and is
considered to be the polar bear capital of the world.
Canadians are said to be obsessed with poutine, which is
French fries, cheese, curds, and gravy. Canada's the second largest
country on the globe and produces about eighty five percent
(40:59):
of the word the world's maple syrup. The Dodgers are
taking on the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series.
Game one is tonight up North. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yes it is true. It is time for World Series
Dodger Baseball. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Toronto Blue
Jays in Game one. First pitch goes out at five
oh eight live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. You
can listen to all the action and you can stream
all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. This is KFI and KOST
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HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer
Kno along with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King. This
has been your Friday morning wake up Call, and if
you missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, just one week away from Halloween. This this is
your wake up call for Friday, October twenty fourth. Good morning,
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app.
Of course, it's a big day, the Dodgers in action,
the quest for the World Series, back to back championships. Hey,
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Speaker 5 (01:27):
A few weeks ago, there was a question about things
that affect your morning. And I don't know if it's
just me, but does anyone else? Y'all straight up when
Amy comes on the radio. So when she doesn't say
five o'clock straight up, we're missing something. We need our
straight up baby.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, it's five o'clock straight up. Here's what's ahead on
wake up call. The Dodgers just four wins away from
back to back World Championships, wins World Series Championships. The
fall class that gets underway to in Toronto. The Blue
Jays have home field advantage because their record was one
game better than the Dodgers for the regular season. Blake
(02:08):
Snell gets the start. First pitch goes out at five eight,
and of course you can hear all of the action
on her sister station. AM five seventy Klic, the twenty
nine year old man accused of setting a New Year's
Day fire that erupted a week later and became the
deadly Palisades Fire, has pleaded not guilty in LA to
federal charges of destruction of property, arson, and setting timber
(02:29):
on fire. He remains in federal custody, with his trial
expected to start in December. A small earthquake has rattled
parts of the Inland Empire. The magnitude three point three
quake hit about twelve miles north of Beaumont just after
eight last night. No reports of any damage. Not a
very big quake. We can handle the little ones. A
huge scandal has rocked the NBA as a Hall of
(02:51):
Fame coach and star player are arrested along with like
thirty others for allegedly fixing sports betting. ABC's Peter Harlamboos
joins us to tell us how it also involves backroom
poker games and the mafia. This is a big one.
People flock to haunted houses around Halloween, right but the
(03:12):
host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp, is going to
tell us how to know if your house might be
haunted and about a real haunted house in Orange County.
And speaking of Halloween, we're going to be talking at
the bottom of the hour with the head of Big Sundays.
It's a nonprofit group that's making Halloween happen for a
lot of kids who might not otherwise get to celebrate.
(03:32):
And also will tell you how you can make this
Halloween a little sweeter for hundreds of kids. This is
a very cool event. Can't wait to tell you about it.
ABC's Will Gans is going to bosses around and everybody
seems to want what nobody wants. He's gonna tell us
about that. Also, more stranger things coming up before the
top of the hour on Wake Up Call. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
(03:54):
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The first pitch of game
one of the world's theories will be thrown out. Later today,
the Dodgers face the Blue Jays in Toronto. Dodgers manager
Dave Roberts says he thinks this year's team is even
stronger than last year's.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
You know, show hey is healthy.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
As we mentioned, the starting staff is in much better
shape and position player wise, We're healthy, So yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The game starts at five eight and as I mentioned,
you can catch all the action on our sister station,
AM five seventy LA Sports news brought to you by
ruterhroo dot com. The Big rig driver accused of causing
Tuesday's deadly chain reaction crash on the ten Freeway in
Ontario is doing court today. He's facing vehicular manslaughter and
(04:40):
dui charges. Authorities say Joshin prit Singh of Yuba City
was high when he plowed into the stopped vehicles, killing
three people and injuring four others. The violent crash was
captured on dash cam video. The victims include a Pomona
High school basketball coach and his wife. Homeland Security says
Sing is an Indian national who came into the country
(05:02):
illegally three years ago. White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett
says this crash raises more debate about illegal immigration.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
These tragedies are following a disturbing pattern of these criminal
illegal aliens being issued commercial vehicle licenses and so yes,
the Department of Transportation is absolutely cracking down on that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Florida's Attorney General is asking the US Supreme Court to
stop states like California from issuing licenses to commercial truck
drivers who are not in the country legally. A small
plane is made an emergency landing on the sand in
Huntington Beach. Officials say a helicopter pilot with Huntington Beach
PD heard radio traffic from John Wayne Airport last night
about an aircraft in distress searching for a place to land.
(05:43):
The pilot was able to put the plane down between
lifeguard towers eleven and thirteen. The two people on board
were not hurt, and Alaska Airline says operations have resumed
after it had to ground its planes for hours because
of an information technology outage. The airline says two hundred
twenty nine flights had to be canceled yesterday because of
the outage, and more flight disruptions are expected as it
(06:04):
works to reposition aircraft and crews. The grounding affected Alaska
Air and Horizon Air flights. Time to say good morning
now to ABC's Peter Harlambus. Yeah, so, Peter, this one's
a doozy, a scam involving the NBA poker games and
the mafia.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
I mean, this is a sprawling scandal that threwns the
cast the shadow over the NBA's opening week and the
ledges that we're talking about dozens of people, NBA players,
coaches teaming up with mafioso's to orchestrate illegal card games
and also to place illegal bets based on inside information.
The allegation here is that they made a combine nearly
(06:47):
ten million dollars off these illegal schemes, and the FBI
is now heralding this as accountability to this city, entire league.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Basically, Okay, and so tell us a little bit about
We know that it's huge, but tell us about some
of the specifics of it, because there are a lot
of moving parts in this one.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Yeah, it's a lot, and it really comes down to
two separate schemes. They're related, but they're different at their core.
The first one, the one that's a bit more sprawling,
relates to these illegal poker games. The allegation is that
high profile individuals within the NBA, most notably Portland's Portland
Trailblazer's head coachs Trouncey Billups, basically use their star power
(07:30):
to attract people to illegal poker games run by the mafia,
where they then used illegal tactics, most notably an X
ray poker table and a rigged card shuffling machine to
ensure that the odds would always work in their favor.
The allegation here is that they made more than seven
million dollars over the course of these games, and that
(07:50):
when people couldn't pay, they used violence to enforce this.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
Well.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Separately, but also similarly tied to it, there's another indictment
that relates to sports betting, based on inside information that
insiders with in the NBA traded information about people who
might be injured and the degree to which they might
be playing in a game because of those injuries to
place bets that ultimately ultimately resulted in millions of dollars
(08:17):
and profits. All of this on public sports betting platforms
that you know improperly influenced the entire sports betting market.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, And the example that I heard yesterday, Peter, was
that the Miami Heats guard Terry Rosier came out of
a game early. So but he had kind of pre
planned that, allegedly, and so they said, people said, hey,
bet the under on him today, and then tons of
(08:46):
big bets came flooding in, which is kind of what
threw up some red flags and started this.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's one example, and it
appears there were other instances where they did basically the
same saying. The one you mentioned resulted in I believe,
about two hundred thousand dollars in profitable bets. And basically,
he knew he was going to be leaving the game
injury early because of a purported injury, and he basically
(09:14):
told people close to him to bet on him not
necessarily scoring that many points, to the point of which
basically the fact that he'd left early guaranteed that the
number of points scored was really low, and basically just
rigged the game in his favor and in favor of
these allies who had this inside information. Prosecutors alleged that
(09:35):
this happened multiple times, and they also alleged that this
happened with other players. For example, there's also this allegation
that a former teammate and longtime front Lebron James, basically
traded inside information about a potential injury, which therefore influenced
the outcome of a Lakers game. So again, we're talking
about multiple individuals, multiple different games. We're talking about different
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teams across the league. This all coming during opening weeks
for the NBA, and.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
When you think about it, with all the sports betting
that's going on, I mean, think about the hundreds of millions,
even billions of dollars that are at stake if they're
rigging these things.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Yes, especially when you consider how prominent online sports betting
has gone that this point. We've gone from a time
where you know, it was a largely under the table
thing to something that is fully legitimate, that can be
done easily online by basically anyone over the age of eighteen.
And this information was basically used to rig the entire
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marketplace when it came to those games across the entire NBA.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Wow, Okay, do we know what's next?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
So these individuals, and we're talking about about a half
dozen in the illegal information scandal and about thirty one
people in the poker scandal. They're being arraigned. The arraignments
started yesterday. They're going to carry through as these people
each of them pleed out, and we'll really have to
see how they decide to approach this. I could see
a lot of guilty please coming out of this because
(11:01):
the number of people charge and the big question is
anyone going to take this to trial? And if so,
how quickly is that going to happen?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All right, ABC's Peter Harlambus, thank you so much. We'll
be watching this one. All right. Well, it's crazy really
to think about how much that could affect. I mean,
and I know tons of people who do sports betting,
and like they could totally be getting scammed. And I
love the thing about the I don't love, but I
mean so fascinating. The thing about the X ray tables
(11:27):
so they could see what cards there are, and the
tampered with shuffling machines and stuff. Just crazy. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump says he's backing
off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco
after speaking with the city's mayor and tech leaders, and they.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Said, we're working really, really hard with the mayor and
we're making progress.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Would it be possible for you hold off? For you
to hold off the.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Surge, Trump posted on social media yesterday that he agreed
to let San Francisco keep working on its own. Mayor
Daniel Lurry said the two spoke on Wednesday night. Governor
Newsom says Californians should be cautious about President Trump's decision
to pause the planned federal surge.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
I appreciate for the moment this guy came to a census.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
He's an arsonist putting on his own fires, and these
are fires of his own making.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Newsom warned people not to be deceived by what he
called a political ploy. He spoke yesterday during an event
to support Prop fifty. It's Stay twenty four the federal
government shut down. Five hundred thousand federal workers are set
to miss their first full paycheck today. Millions of Americans
will also find out how much more their healthcare is
going to cost next year. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin
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says Republicans won't even discuss these things.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
We absolutely need the Republican leadership and President Trump.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
To move us forward and come to the negotiating table.
Democrats say they won't vote on a Republican built to
fund the government until they can get Medicaid cuts repealed
and Obamacare subsidies extended. New York Attorney General Letitia James
said to make her first court appearance in a mortgage
(13:04):
fraud case. She was indicted earlier this month on charges
of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial
institution in connection with a twenty twenty home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia,
where she has family. James has denied any wrongdoing and
says the indictment is, in her words, nothing more than
a continuation of the President's desperate weaponization of our justice system.
(13:26):
Hey remember Clippy, Microsoft's infamous little paper clip assistant. Well
there's a new Clippy in town.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
The software giant has introduced a new AI character called Miko,
designed to embody its copilot virtual assistant. Miko, a floating
cartoon face shaped like a flame or a blob, aims
to balance personality with functionality. This launch comes as AI
developers navigate how to present chatbots in an engaging way
without causing harm or annoyance. Unlike Clippy, which Microsoft pushed
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on desktop computer users at the turn of the twenty
first century, Miko was also easy to turn off.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Mark Ronner news, Hey you got my Dodger blue on?
Do you have yours? On? Today? It's time for the
World Series The Dodgers in action Tonight, LA takes on
the Toronto Blue Jays for Game one of the World Series.
The first pitch goes out at five eight. You can
listen to all the games on a five seventy LA
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The official workwhere partner of Major League Baseball Dodgers pitcher
Alex Vessia is not with the team for Game one
of the World Series. The team says the reliever is
away from the team as he and his wife navigated
deeply personal family matter. Bessie's wife is pregnant. Game one
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of the World Series Tonight in Toronto, first pitch goes
out at five oh eight. A federal judge is considering
making permanent her temporary order that would ensure immigrants detained
at a federal ice processing center can see their attorneys
in a timely manner. The judge heard arguments yesterday about
the detainees being held at the Downtown l Detention facility.
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She'll issue her ruling at a later date, just in
time for the holidays. Toys r US says it is
opening two new stores in California. Its flagship store will
be at the Camarillo Premium Outlets in Ventura County, and
a pop up store will open in the Bay Area.
Officials say the stores are designed as family friendly destinations,
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no kidding. Thirty new stores will open around the US.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news, President
Trump breaking off trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement.
I'll tell you about that. Let's say good morning now
to the host of Home on Cafe. It's the house,
whispered Dean, Sharp morning, Dean.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
What about Toys r US would not be family friendly?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I know it seems like a sort of a silly statement,
doesn't it it? Okay, all right, let's talk about mounted houses.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yes, haunted houses. You know we're only a week away
from Halloween now too, Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I'm going to I want to tell you I'm going
to go to this haunted house that we've talked about.
It's called seventeenth Floor, and it's supposed to be like
one of the scariest ever. We're going this weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh so it's one of those you know, put together
like intended to scare you haunted houses.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, seventeenth door. Did I say floor? Min seventeenth door?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Where is that at? Where is that at?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's in Buena Park, You know what. Let's talk about
haunted houses. There's actually another one in Orange County that's
a real haunted house, and you have ties to it,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I do the strangely enough, even though that's not really
my thing. The historic Kellogg House is a is a
Victorian house. It was built in Orange County in eighteen
ninety eight hundred and twenty seven years ago, and a
few years back it got moved to the Heritage Museum
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of Orange County because it's a beautiful, beautiful, custom designed
Victorian house with a lot to teach us about the
Victorian age. It also allegedly is haunted. And it just
so happens that my scholar kid's sister, Darcy Staniforth, is
also on the side kind of a lover of all
things paranormal, and she is the official guide and docent
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for the Haunted oc Ghost tours of the Kellogg House,
which we're gonna do Monday night with a group of
our listeners. We're giving away tickets all weekend long. It's
gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, So you've got to be listening to at a
Home with Dean Sharp both Saturday and Sunday. You're giving
away tickets. Yep, both days. Okay, six days Saturday, nine
to noon on Sunday. So what are some signs that
we might actually be living in a haunted house?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, not none, really, I mean, I mean if you
wake up in the morning, if you wake up in
the morning and you know there's like two children standing
in your hallway that don't belong to you, that's probably
a good sign. Or you're hearing voices. But you know,
you know, I like to have fun with Halloween just
like you do. So every year I put together a
Living in a Haunted House show, which basically means that
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there are a lot of noises and weird behaviors that
our house sometimes make, that there are ways to quiet
it down and to stop it. So you know, everything
from squeaky floors to you know, the toilet that sounds
like it's being used and hissing in the middle of
the night, all that kind of stuff, you know, scratching
sounds in the attic. These are all things that can
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be explained apart from the paranormal, but they kind of
freak us out.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Okay, So your house might not be haunted, It might
just need a little fixer upper exactly.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
Okay, So like what kinds of thing you mentioned? The
toilet you mentioned, Yeah, the toilet. The toilet's one of
those things that you know, we actually get a lot
of calls on. We're like, we don't know what's wrong
with our toilet, And I'm like, why, Well, at night
we'll be lying in bed and all of a sudden
we hear the tank go off, like like there's water
pouring into it. But then I get up and I
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check and the bowl the water It can't be because
the water in the bowl is the exact same. It
never changes. And so one of the things, by the way, Amy,
I don't know if you know this. Do you know
that you can pour an unlimited amount of water into
a toilet bowl and it will never overflow.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, because it's got all the release valves and stuff.
But I also know that you can if you need
to clean the bowl, can't you just like throw a
gallon of water down it and then it empties the
bowl out.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah that's true too. Yeah, but people get freaked out
because they hear water running in the toilet and yet
they don't. They expect to see the level of water
in the bowl, you know, rise if the water's running,
But that will never ever happen because the toilet bowl
has a limit to it and once you get over
that limit, it just pours itself down the drain kind
of down the back of its throat there. So what's
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happening is there's a little leak. There's a little leak
of the gasket in between you know, the flapper valve,
that little flapper that comes up. It's just gotten old
and as a result of getting old, letting water trickle in,
which means the tank goes down a little bit. And
when the tank goes down a little bit, the valve
that refills the tank starts to hiss because it's starting
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to try and refill the tank. And then it does
eventually refill the tank and then it stops. And this
can go on all night long with people who have
a bad flapper valve in their toilet. And the cool
thing is those things are sitting on the shelf at
your local hardware store, the big box store, the home
depot or lows. They cost about five bucks and it
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will take you all of fifteen seconds to change it
out and that is the end of the hiss.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And plus, if your house was haunted, they're not going
to haunt the toilet. I mean, come on, there's other
things to do, but this one.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, you would think if you're a ghost, I'm not
going to pick the toilet exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So you've got all kinds. You've got a whole list
that you're going to go through on your show this weekend.
But here's one that actually might make me think that
it actually was haunted. And that's walls that weep.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yes, what is walls that well? Sometimes you can get
actual moisture running down the inside of your walls and
you see these drip lines on the walls. That is
usually a sign that something with exterior water proofing has
failed on the house, or maybe you live in a
much much older house and it really didn't have much
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exterior waterproofing to begin with. And I don't mean on
the very very outside of the house. I mean underneath
the siding or underneath the stucco. That's where there's actually
a barrier, or supposed to be a barrier that actually
keeps the water from coming into the studs. And we're
not talking about direct amounts of water, like gallons of
water coming through. But when that barrier starts to fail,
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If it fails, moisture can build up inside the studs,
and then with the temperature differential of outside and inside,
that moisture can condensate on the dry wall and the
inside of the house, and next thing you know, your
walls are weeping. They're not weeping blood. If it's weeping blood,
you are actually living in a haunted house, then you
should leave. But if you've got oyster dropping down the
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inside of the wall, then then we have a vapor
barrier problem that has to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, so lots of problems. You're going to go through
them that you might think your house is haunted, but
it's not. It just needs to be fixed. And you
can listen all weekend. Dean's going to be on six
to eight am tomorrow on Home on KFI and nine
to noon on Sunday. You can also follow Dean at
Home with Dean Thank You, Dean Sharp. Go Dodgers Go, Dodgers. Yeah, exactly.
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Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State officials say
the military did not warn the public before test firing
live munitions over the five Freeway and a rail line
near Camp Pendleton over the weekend. The Marine Corps said
it sent advanced notices to agencies in California that thirty
artillery shells that were going to be fired. The tests
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were done on Friday, the day before the Marine's two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration. Governor Newsom ordered the freeway
between La and San Diego Counties shut down Saturday as
a safety precaution. A homeless man accused of stabbing another
man in Long Downtown Long Beach has been arrested. The
attack happened early yesterday morning at First Street in Pine Avenue.
Police say the guy who did the stabbing ran away
(23:12):
but was later found. The man attacked was taken to
the hospital. The end of an era in Malibu.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
The California Coastal Commission has approved plans to demolish and
rebuild the iconic Gladstones into a new space designed by
architect Frank Geary with a menu led by celebrity chef
Wolfgang Puck. The revamped seventeen thousand, five hundred square foot
restaurant will feature ocean view decks and a public promenade,
but some local residents, like Joya Pillar, tell KTLA the
rebuild will be a major headache for the community.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Pretty sad about that.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
I mean, I've been going to Gladstone since i was
little and it's such a special beach restaurant.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Construction is set to begin in the coming months. How
the Brooker KFI News almost four million ballots have already
been returned for the November fourth special election. A ballot
tracker run by a Democratic strategist says votes for Democrats
are outpacing ballots from Republicans and no party preference voters
on the issue of whether to allow Democrats to redraw
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voting districts to favor Democrats. The election is November fourth.
A small plane made a safe emergency landing on the
sand in Huntington Beach, happened about ninet thirty last night
near pch And Beach Boulevard. The plane was trying to
land at John Wayne Airport but was having engine trouble,
so the pilot found a different spot. Neither of the
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people inside the plane were hurt. John Wayne Airport in
Orange County has joined several other airports around the US
and refusing to play a video in which Department of
Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome blamed Democrats for the government's shutdown.
A County spokesperson says John Wayne Airport maintains a neutral
position on political matters. Let's say good morning now to
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the founder and director of Big sun Dates, David Levinson.
Good morning David. So, David, you have a big Sunday
planned this Sunday for hundreds of kids in LA. Please
tell us about Spooky Sunday.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (25:07):
Well, this is a Big Sunday's annual Halloween event where
we just bring out all the creepy crawlers and spooks
and scares for underserved kids and their families throughout Los
Angeles and we're excited to do it. It's always loads
of fun. This year's is full and the response has
been amazing. But people can still get involved if they
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want to help by donating candy. They can go on
our website bigsunday dot org and press on to the
donate now button and just specify Spooky Sunday and there'll
be more candy and more costumes for those kids.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I love that, so we can help them out. So
tell us about like, where are these kids coming from?
How many kids are there that are going to get
to participate in this Halloween event?
Speaker 10 (25:51):
They come from All the time, we work with all
sorts of social service agencies around towns and say, you
know what families, what kids are in your program that
would really enjoy. We work with groups like this all
over town in all kinds of ways throughout the year.
You know, our mission is to connect people through helping,
and we really believe a big Sunday that absolutely everybody
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has some way they can help somebody else. Absolutely everyone
has some time they need help, and then we all
have to look out for one another.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Absolutely. So what do the kids get to do on Sunday?
I know that there's going to be trick or treating,
but you got some other stuff going on too?
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Oh? Sure, we have magic shows and we have face painting,
and we have photographs, and we have games, and we
have dances. We have a haunted house and we have
all this. We have an endangered Animals show, some of
them are a little scary animals, and we just have
all the things that you associate with Halloween. Kids come
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in their costumes and it's really a ball. I have
to get ready to get my costume on too.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
What are you going as?
Speaker 10 (26:54):
I'm going as Waldough. Oh, so I get a lot
of weares Waldote jokes, but it works.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Okay, And then let's talk about the costumes too, because
we're talking about kids who are maybe coming from underserved communities,
so they don't have a lot of extra money and
costumes might be a problem. But this year the kids
are going to get costumes.
Speaker 10 (27:15):
Yes, our great friends at Disguise have donated tons of
costumes that we have then distributed to all kinds of
nonprofits and schools around town that in turn gave them
to their family. Love and Disguise has been a great
support of this event for a long time and we're
very grateful to them.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Okay, and then David to remind us again, you're all
full and you've got everybody you need for this event.
But if you want to donate some candy to help out,
we can make the Halloween a little sweeter for the kids.
Where do they go and how do they do it?
Speaker 10 (27:45):
They can just go onto Big Sunday dot org and
press on the donate now button and donate, you know,
whatever you would like to do it. Just specify it's
for Halloween and we'll take it from there. And just
so you knowing me, this doesn't end with Halloween. We
go jump right into our Thanksgiving event. This year, we're
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going to be feeding eighteen thousand hungry and grateful people
throughout the Greater LA area. This has been such a
challenging year for all of us in Los Angeles, and
we think it's a great time to get together, whether
share the scares of Halloween and just share some gratitude
of Thanksgiving or enjoy the holidays in December. Brig Sundays
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here for all of it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I love it, and we're going to be talking to
you more as we approach the holidays because I know
that we want to share more about how you're going
to feed those eighteen thousand people. I think it's wonderful.
David Levinson. Thank you so much, director and founder of
Big Sunday, getting ready for a big spooky Sunday for
a whole lot of kids, making them happy this Halloween.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Thanks for having me. Am all right, gooday, I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Easy to do. You donate ten bucks and just say
I wanted to go to candy for the kids for Halloween.
I love that. Okay, Time to get in your business
with Bloomberg's Denise Pelagreeening. Good morning, Hey, good morning to you. Amy.
I gotta tell you before we get started. We talked
yesterday about how people are on budgets and they're having
Hamburger Helper. And guess who went and bought Hamburger helper
yet last night? Which flavored did you get? I got
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the beef strogan Off and it is so good. I
know it's not good for you, it is so good.
I haven't had Hamburger Helper for years, and I'm just
sitting there on my couch last night, going I'm so
happy I've had a Hamburger Helper.
Speaker 13 (29:24):
I admit I eat that kind of stuff for breakfast.
You know, you get up early in the morning and
you need something like a sweet roll.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's not enough. I love that kind of stuff in
the morning. Well, I have leftover, so maybe I'll do
that this week either. Okay, let's get in your business. Now,
there's the fight between Canada and President Trump just heated
up again.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
Yeah, he couldn't let it go after yesterday he said
that all the trade talks between the US and Canada
were off because of that ad funded by the Government
of Ontario using the voice of former President Ronald Reagan,
with Reagan defending free trade and criticizing tariffs. And I
went really angry. Okay, now this morning, Now, this morning
gave me. He says on truth social Canada is charging
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US farmers as much as four hundred percent in tariffs.
So he is not letting this thing go that you
might think would have investors worried. But President will be
meeting with China's leader next week, so maybe we'll get
some trade traction on that front. And stock futures are
higher ahead of this as we look at inflation reports.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Okay, so let's turn to the TV. YouTube TV users
might be losing some of their programming.
Speaker 13 (30:31):
Yeah, I mean, you guys are on YouTube TV. You
know how great it is. There's just so much fantastic
programming on there. But the deal between Disney's ESPN and ABC,
well that could go dark, and that would mean that
the Google YouTube thing for them would die and that
those channels will be unavailable. If they stay unavailable, you
(30:53):
will get a twenty dollars credit, but that's not going
to be much solace and that'll hurt YouTube as well
if they can't watch Disney's ESPN and ABC sports programming.
Of course, Big Go Dodgers. Okay, it's something to watch. Well,
the Dodgers are on Fox, so it's okay.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Home prices have been coming down in some areas, but
apparently that doesn't apply to this house at Delmar Beach.
Speaker 13 (31:15):
Okay, it's set a record for San Diego County.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
We don't know who bought it, but.
Speaker 13 (31:21):
Somebody paid fifty million dollars for this beachfront compound with
a ping pong pavilion. Oh, fifty million dollars. That makes
it the most expensive residential property sale in San Diego County.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
We know who. The seller was, a limited.
Speaker 13 (31:37):
Liability company tied to Sondra Nofskert. You know she comes
from that family of wealthy cattle ranchers. That was a
big cattle ranch estate. Right, fifty million is a record,
but I should say they first tried to sell it
for seventy five million last year. They didn't get that,
But fifty million, that's a pretty penny and pingpong pavilion,
I love that. Okay, pingpong outside.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Yeah, okay, before we let you go. Why are people
buying a lot of razors and deodorant?
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Well, I think maybe they're stalking up because P and
G's result speed estimates. They're talking about huge strength and
beauty and razors. Now we know prices have been going up,
but they say that business has still been pretty good
in tariffs aren't hurting them as much as they thought.
But I think that people are going out and buying
the essentials the Hamburger Helper right that they know they
(32:26):
can keep on the shelf, A Gillett, Razors, Secret deodorant,
and then just stockpilot because I think the price is
probably going to double pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh, I got one more little message for you. Let's
see if I can do this. Go Dodger. Thank you.
We're very excited. Great weekend right too. U get in
your business like we do every morning at five point
forty with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini, a semi truck driver accused
of causing a deadly crash on the ten Freeway in
Ontario that killed three people, was in the US illegally.
(32:57):
The Department of Homeland Security says twenty one year old
josh In pried Singh entered the country through the US
Mexico border in twenty twenty two. He's accused of dui
and has been charged with three counts of vehicular manslaughter.
President Trump has ordered federal agents to stand down in
San Francisco. The mayor, Daniel Lurie, says he told the
president in a phone call that San Francisco is addressing
(33:19):
the crime and drug problem and asked him to give
the city more time. Trump agreed. The cancelation of the
federal deployment was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary christinelm If
you don't want to mail in your ballot in person,
voting starts tomorrow at eleven hundred locations around La County
for the November fourth special election. Vote centers will be
opened daily from ten am to seven pm. Let's say
(33:43):
good morning now to ABC's entertainment reporter Will gans Will.
It's time to get bossed around.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
That's right, and we'll get right back to that Stranger
Things theme music. By the way, there's nothing makes me
more excited than hearing that sound.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
AI right, it's.
Speaker 10 (33:59):
Just the best.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
But we'll begin yes with the Boss and Bruce Springsteen,
because Deliver Me from Nowhere is finally in theaters this weekend,
and this tells the story of Bruce Springsteen working on
his Nebraska album, so he should finished up his first
tour and he's sort of on the brink of becoming
the superstar that we know he'll become, but he's working
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on this Nebraska album and dealing with a lot of
his own inner demons as well. And Jeremy Allen White,
of course, who we know from The Bear, plays Bruce Springsteen,
and you know he does that sort of tortured artist
vibe very very well. So a lot of folks are
already talking about an Oscar nomination for him for this movie.
(34:43):
But for fans of Bruce Springsteen, I think they'll definitely
enjoy it. There are some like little easter eggs in
there where it's like, oh, this is where he gets
the inspiration for this song, or oh this is you
know when he met you know, his you know manager
or whatever. Like, there's lot of fun stuff for fans
in there, but also like for people who are not
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big Bruce Springsteen fans, I think they'll enjoy the acting
and the storytelling. And my main like surprise with this movie,
I guess is that like it's not like a big, bold,
like rock star type of film. It's a lot more
brooding and introspective than I think I was.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Thinking it would be.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
And you mentioned the non Springsteen fans, It'll be interesting
to see if non Springsteen fans go to see it,
because if you're not a Bruce Springsteen fan, why would you.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
I mean, maybe like the Bear, maybe like Jeremy Allen White. Yeah,
I think you're right. It will be interesting to see
how this movie does.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, if we want to stay home, be on the stream.
And if you're one of the two people in LA
not watching the world series, Kristen Bell and Adam Brodie
are back.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Yeah, this is my world series. I think is season
two of Nobody Wants This.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
So this is the show that's based.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
On a real life story of a podcaster who is
pretty much non religious and she meets a rabbi at
a party and they end up falling for each other.
And season two is out as of a couple of
days ago actually might be yesterday, and it picks up
where the last the last season left off. So Christ
(36:22):
and Bell and Adam Brody a are sort of trying
to make this relationship work, but of course, as a rabbi,
he has a lot of pressure from work and from
his very very devoutly Jewish family. And she's still trying
to figure out like where she fits into his you know,
familial life and his work obligations and everything. And the
episodes are thirty minutes each. All of season two is
(36:43):
available to stream now. It's funny, it's sweet, and so,
you know, I think if you're just looking for something
to sort of like really delicately scratch a little itch
in your brain for something adorable, this is a good show.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Okay, it wasn't this sort of a sleeper hit, Like
they weren't expecting a lot, and everybody was really surprised
at how successful it was.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Yeah, and like it was nominated for everything at the
Emmys this year, they were both nominated. It was nominated
for Best Comedy Series. The supporting cast is also fantastic. Yeah,
people were obsessed with it, and you know, like all
of a sudden, we were throwing around the term hot
Rabbi as if it had always been part of picon,
but it definitely became one.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, Okay, yeah, I loved that show. I'm excited to
watch season two. Okay, now let's get back to Stranger
Things Stranger Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
So we are a month away from the final season
beginning to stream on Netflix, and they also announced yesterday
that the very last episode of the series is going
to hit movie theaters on the same day that it
dropped on Netflix, which is super cool for fans of
the show. So what I'm yes, and smart too, a
(37:57):
great money making opportunity.
Speaker 10 (37:59):
So what I'm doing, And.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I know there are a ton of fans online doing
the same thing, doing a rewatch of the series because
it's been so many years, even since season four came out,
So starting with season one and working your way through
season four, and you know, each season is really eight
or nine episodes max. Some of them are even shorter
than that, and you know it is just like the
(38:22):
show is so well made and well crafted, and the
scope and the scale of it. I mean, there are
some estimates that season five they spent sixty million dollars
an episode to make wo So if you want to
catch yourself back up, I think now is a good
time to start. You give yourself a little bit of
a time to rewatch the series, miss the clues that
you might have pick up on the clues you might
(38:42):
have missed the first watch or have forgotten about and
joined the online conversation. Because the theories and stuff leading
into season five are crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to because I have actually already
watched it because I knew it was coming up, so
I binged the whole all four seasons, and the last
season came out in twenty two, twenty two, and the
kids are all grown up. It's going to be so interesting.
I can't wait to see what they've come up with
this time.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
Ah, it's going to be so epic.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
I mean, and the way that they're saying, you know,
it's like they are promising it's going to be fully concluded,
the story of Hawkins and Beckna and the demo Gorgans
and stuff, So you know, I don't think we're going
to be like set up for a bunch of different
spinoffs and things like that like, I think that they
have had in their minds how the story would end
for a while, and that's what we're in store for.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
All right. ABC's Will Ganz, thank you so much for
the info.
Speaker 10 (39:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murphy is launching the California
Kids Ai Safety Act to protect children from harmful AI chatbots.
The ballot initiative aims to hold tech companies accountable. It
follows Governor Newsom's veto of a related bill bill It
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does need approval from the California Attorney General's office before
they can start collecting s natures to get it on
the ballot. Health experts say a Republican plan to fund
the federal government, which does not include Obamacare subsidies, would
have a huge impact on the nation's healthcare system. UCLA's
doctor William Feldman says it would set things back a lot.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
These cuts to insurance in our country could be problematic
in devastating for Americans.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
He says, if healthcare credits are allowed to expire, people
will stop taking some expensive medications. The Dodgers are in
Canada to start the World Series. Dodgers first baseman, Freddie Freeman,
was born in southern California, but his parents are Canadian.
Here are some other fun facts about our neighbors to
the north.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Other notable celebrities include Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, Ryan Gosling,
Ryan Reynolds, and Rapper Drake. Canada has the largest moose
population in the world, with about a million, and is
considered to be the polar bear capital of the world.
Canadians are said to be obsessed with poutine, which is
French fries, cheese, curds, and gravy. Canada's the second largest
country on the globe and produces about eighty five percent
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of the word the world's maple syrup. The Dodgers are
taking on the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series.
Game one is tonight up North. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yes it is true. It is time for World Series
Dodger Baseball. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Toronto Blue
Jays in Game one. First pitch goes out at five
oh eight live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. You
can listen to all the action and you can stream
all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. This is KFI and KOST
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HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer
Kno along with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King. This
has been your Friday morning wake up Call, and if
you missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake
Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always hear
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