July 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy opens the show talking about the Senate set to vote to formalize DOGE cuts to public broadcasting & U.S. Agency for International Development. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about Samsung’s new foldable phones, Google’s Gemini video feature, and takes us behind the scenes at Disney’s imagineering. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews the new ‘Superman’ movie. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with Amy sharing her thoughts on the 2025 Emmy nominations and gives some predictions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's five o'clock straight up on this Wednesday, July sixteenth.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We went saw Superman yesterday, had Will Cole Schreiber and
I went to the.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
AMSC because it was fifty percent off.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Tickets day and it was a matinee, so it was
extra inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Nice, nice.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So I know that when Heather Brooker was filling in,
she she's very shushy and she.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Got to go to the premiere.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh yeah, she's fancy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We just went with the regular folks. So we're going
to talk about that. And I put a poll up
on my Instagram on my story at Amy K King.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Do you think it was a super miss or a
super hit?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Would love to.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
See what you have to say and if you have
something to say, let us know on the talkback on
the iHeartRadio app. It's the cute little microphone up in
the upper right hand corner, just let us know did
you love it?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Did you hate it?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We're going to talk about it with Amy's on it
coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
But here is what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Police say five people have been taken into custody for
questioning in the death of a young boy whose body
was found near dumpster in a parking lot in Panorama City.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Two thousand California National Guard.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Members deployed to LA to protect federal buildings and officers
last month are headed home. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnells's
lawlessness surrounding anti ice protests is subsiding, so they don't
need as many National Guard members. The LAPD has recovered
more than one hundred and forty vehicles that were illegally
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towed away. The vehicles were recovered in Van Nuy's last week.
Investigators say tow truck operators towed the vehicles then demanded
high payments to get them back.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
They call it bandit towing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Fully say one victim was asked to pay fifteen thousand
dollars to get a car back.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Speaking in big Bucks. The DOGE cuts have been announced ABC.
Stephen Portnoy's going to join us in just a couple
of minutes to tell us how lawmakers are now working
to make those cuts permanent and what happens if they
don't pass the plan to do that. The foldable phones
are out. KTLA's tech reporter Rich Dumiro has been playing
with them. He's going to let us know if they're
worth the money. And also he got to go behind
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the scenes at Disney Imagineering. Okay, color me jealous. He's
going to share some of the magic with us that's
coming up at five point twenty.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Can't wait to hear about that.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of course, I mentioned Amy's on it Will and I
went and saw the hottest movie in the land, and
we would love to hear from you. What do you
think was a super hit or a super miss You
can let us know on the talkback on the iHeartRadio app,
or you can do it on Instagram on my story
at Amy Kking, I put a little poll up. Also,
we're going to dive into the Emmy nominations. My favorite
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show doesn't top the list, but it's on there. I
think it's going to be a dark horse and win.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Two thousand National
Guard troops are headed for home.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Four thousand National Guard troops were deployed to LA in
early June in response to violent demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement.
They were ordered here by the White House, which upset
Governor Newsom, who sued and lost. Now, the Pentagon says
it's withdrawing half those troops. A spokesman says lawlessness in
LA has subsided Newsom has wanted the troops to help
with wildfire prevention efforts. The other troops and seven hundred
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US Marines will remain here for now. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The news brought to you by American Vision Windows. A
twenty two year old man's been arrested for the murders
of an American idol supervisor and her husband in Encino.
Music supervisor Robin Kay and her husband, Thomas de Luca,
were shot several times. Their bodies were found in their
home on Monday. LAPD Lieutenant Guy Golan says security video
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led them to the alleged shooter.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
We're still looking into whether he has any type of
relationship with the victims.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Right now, it is an apparent random attack.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He says the guy apparently got into the house through
an unlocked door and was inside for about a half
an hour before the couple arrived home. LAPED officers have
shot at people twenty five times so far this year,
nearly matching the total for all of last year. LAPD
Chief Jim MacDonald told yesterday's Police Commission meeting that he
asked the department's Critical Incident Review Division to look into
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officer involved shootings from twenty twenty four to twenty five.
He says the review found a rise in the use
of what he calls intermediate force weapons like bean bag
rounds or stun guns. Those are designed to incapacitate people,
not kill them. McDonald says that suggests that officers are
actively trying to de escalate situations whenever possible. A new
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pilot program could help those in the Palisades in Altadena
areas affected by wildfires in January.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Officials in La County have announced a pilot program that
uses artificial intelligence to speed up the review and approval
of building plans for residents who lost homes. The plan,
called Forward Blueprint for Rebuilding, is expected to focus on
things like waiving requirements and lowering rebuilding costs, expediting property
tax relief, accelerating permitting and inspections. The review process may
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take up to ten business days, though some results may
be returned sooner. Deborah mark KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let's say good morning to ABC Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen
Doge came in, made cuts and cuts and cuts. But
there's a difference between announcing the cuts and then actually
making them happen.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So where are we with that?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, enacting a clawback of funding. Right, It's one thing
for Doge to come in and say, all right, we
no longer need these people. We're going to try to
shut these offices down and reorganize and all that. But
when it comes to money that Congress is already appropriated,
how does the Treasury get that money back? Essentially? And
that's what's happening now. The Senate is in the process
of debating this recisions package, nine billion dollars worth of
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proposed cuts, and the Senate is debating it. We could
see another all nighter because of the unique and rarely
invoked process it's now underway. It allows for unlimited amendments
by the Democrats and they're going to try.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
We'll see how long it goes.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But what is this about.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's about nine billion dollars in foreign aid money for
USAID and other programs, and more than a billion dollars
in public broadcasting funding over two fiscal years. Republicans have
sought to do this for a law time, and they're
right on the cusp of it. The House passed this
thing last month, and there's a clock ticking the deadline
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under laws for it to be done in forty five days.
That forty five day clock expires on Friday, two days
from now. There's not a lot of time left for
this to get done. And the Senate yesterday Republican leaders
agreed that they would make some tweaks. They want to
remove from the cuts about four hundred million dollars it
would have come out of the PEPFAR program. Pepfar is
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something that George W. Bush created in two thousand and three.
It's a global aids relief program, and Republicans in the
Senate say it's important they want to keep it in place.
It's an element, an emblem of American soft power. It
advances America's interests in Africa and keeps the Chinese boxed
in in that respect. So the Senators who are going
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to support this say they want that pep FAR money restored,
but they're willing to cut back nine billion dollars otherwise
for foreign aid and for public broadcast.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So what's going to happen?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Last night, Vice President Vance had to head up to
Capitol Hill to cast a tie breaking vote to advance
this measure. There are a number of procedural votes and
a couple of times last night, Vice President of Vance
had to be the fifty first vote in favor while
fifty Republicans. Of fifty senators, three Republicans and the rest
of the Democrats voted against it. Who are the no
votes on the Republican side, Lisa Rakowski, Susan Collins and
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Mitch McConnell. Those three senators on the Republican side, So
they didn't want any part of this and they voted
against it. So let's see how it all plays out.
But assuming the votes remain the same, this bill will
go back to the House for ratification of the change
with respect to PEPFAR, and then it would wind up
on the President's desk if it can pass in the House.
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Razor thin Margins here House end said it and the
law says that if it's not done by Friday, the
administration has to spend the money.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Let's see what happens.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Okay, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you for the update. We'll
be watching to see what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You bet right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Illegal immigrants picked
up in ice raids across LA are far less likely
to be released on bail.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
A new federal policy now blocks most immigration detainees from
getting a bond hearing. Instead, only ICE, not a judge,
can decide if they're let go. The Trump administration says
it's just following the letter of a decade's old law,
but with seventy five billion dollars in new funding, ICE
is growing fast, and local advocates say this could lead
to more families being torn apart right here in southern California.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Bragia Degostino k if I News for insident.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Trump says he doesn't get why people are still asking
questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 10 (09:37):
He's dead for a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
He was never a big factor in terms of life.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Trump said yesterday Attorney General Pam Bondi should release what
he says are whatever she thinks is credible.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
On the Epstein case.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
HOWSE Speaker Mirk Johnson says he'd like Bondi to give
more information about what she has reviewed regarding her department's
investigation int Epstein. The man accused of killing a lawmaker
in Minnesota and her husband has claimed that Governor Tim
Walls instructed him to kill two US Senators. Prosecutor say
Vance Belter made the claim and a letter found in
(10:17):
his car after the shootings last month. Belter was indicted
yesterday on federal murder charges in the deaths of state
Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. More Americans say
they are anxious about money.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
The new survey from Northwestern Mutual found that nearly seventy
percent of respondents were feeling anxiety and depression over financial uncertainty.
That's an eight percent increase from twenty twenty three. Financial
experts say those worried about money should consider opening an
emergency savings account that would cover up to six months
worth of expenses. You know, with the extra money you
have lying around Mark ronor KFI.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
News Yeah Right.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The week long eBay auctioned to buy the infamous Fire
Festival brand has ended. ABC's Michelle frans And says on
unlucky bidder bought the naming rights to the botched music event.
Speaker 12 (11:03):
The winning eBay bid for this fire sales shows an
anonymous buyer paid two hundred and forty five thousand dollars
to take over the Fire Festival brand name, registered trademarks, IP,
and social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The former owner, Billy McFarland, has had a run of
failed festivals billed as luxury events that fizzled and didn't deliver.
Tesla has opened its first showroom in India.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
This marks the electric vehicle maker's long anticipated debut in
the world's third biggest automotive market. The showroom, opening yesterday
in Mumbai, will service Tesla's flagship retail and experience center.
Tesla's entry comes after years of delays and policy friction.
It marks a pivotal expansion in a fast growing consumer
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base as global sales plunge and the company faces challenges
in its two core markets, China and the US.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Deborah mark Koffi News never too late to get Up
and get moving.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
A new study says staying active as an adult can
cut the risk of death by forty percent, especially heart disease.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
The review in the British.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
Journal of Sports Medicine tracts people's activity across multiple years.
Unlike previous research, recreational exercise was shown to be more
beneficial than work related activity like manual labor. People who
increased activity from inactive to active also saw significant benefits,
so it's never too late. Researchers say the biggest mortality
reductions were when people met basic physical guidelines of one
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hundred and fifty to three hundred minutes of moderate intensity
exercise per week. Michael Krozier kf.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I news Streaming is taking over. Nilsen said that the
number of people who watched streaming services in June topped
those watching broadcast and cable TV. That's only happened one
time before, in May, but that was only by a
fraction of a percentage point. The margin widened considerably in June,
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driven in large part by kids getting out of school
and having more time to watch shows like Ginny and
Georgia and Squid Games on Netflix. Fox News Channel last
week eclipsed all of the broadcast networks in prime time
weeknight viewing for the third week in a row craziness. Yesterday,
Michael Kroser did a story about an AI band called
(13:18):
Velvet Sundown and it's topping the charts apparently, and then
people are like, oh, this is great, but there's no
band members because it's all AI generated. And I thought
they had kind of a familiar sound wind but I
couldn't put my finger on it. And so a nice
man on talkback let me know what he thought.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Amy, that.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
The article you just did about the AI generated group
kind of sounded like Creden's Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
John Fogerty, Yeah, that's thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
I did.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I agree. I think it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Has like a just like a folksy rock sound and
was kind of it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I might go listen to some more whoops that we
already talked to you turn it's a little more up.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I like it might have to go listen. So
Velvet Sundown an AI band.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
You're being taken over by the machines, em.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Police have arrested a twenty two year old man from
Encino in connection with the shooting deaths of a man
and woman American Idol supervisor Robin Kay and her husband
Tom de Luca were found dead in their home yesterday
when police did a welfare check. Police say the couple
may have been killed when they came home Thursday and
surprised a guy inside. President Trump says he's not done
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with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The President told the BBC
he is disappointed, but left the door open for talks
after he threatened Moscow with sanctions if there's no ceasefire
with Ukraine in fifty days. Along with the sanctions and tariffs,
Trump announced this week that the US will supply Patriot
missile systems to Ukraine. Nearly four hundred items from Garry
King's legendary broadcast career going up for auction. Julian's Auction
(15:05):
says it's called the Larry King Collection That's very original.
Goes up forbid August twelfth in Guardina and also online.
The sale will include Dodgers memorabilia he was a huge
Dodger fan, celebrity letters, artwork, and King's signature suspenders. Full
catalogs available at Juliansauctions dot Com.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
At six o five.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It's handled on the news President Trump maybe putting pressure
on ag Pambondi to release more Jeffrey Epstein files after
a huge backlash from Maga Mega Is it Maga mount
Maga depends on where you live from. All right, let's
say good morning now to the host of Rich on
Tech right here on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro, Rich,
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you're playing with folding phones.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Yes, Samsung's got two new foldable phones, the z Fold
seven and the z Flip seven. Notable improvements on the
fold This is the one that opens up like a book.
The outside screen is way bigger. It's actually usable this
time compared to previous models. The inside screen is even bigger.
It's now eight inches, which means it's essentially a mini
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tablet in your pocket that you can unfold. They also
put their best camera on this device for the first time.
It's a two hundred megapixel camera, which is really great
for folks that want to use this. The trade off
is that they removed support for the spen that's their stylus,
you know, that little thing you can use to write
on the screen. And they also increase the price, so
it is now two thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
But yeah, I know, but you're getting two and one.
You get the phone and the tablet. You got to
look on the bright side. Also, nobody pays full price
for Samsung devices. There's always some sort of discounter trade in.
Then they've got the Flip seven. This is the one
that's probably better for most people. It's the one that
opens up like the old school flip phones, except the
entire outside screen when it's closed is a screen.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Now it's pushed all the way to the edges.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
The inside screen is much wider, so it feels more
like a proper phone when you open it up. The
downside to this one is there's really not one actually,
so people seem to like this thing a lot. Eleven
hundred dollars for that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, so the Flip one when it's folded is it's
a square pretty much right, correct, And it's got the
same screen, just smaller as what happens when you open it.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah, it's got an outside screen that you can do
a lot of things on, not everything, but you can
do a lot on there.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
And yes, it's much bigger.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
And the cool thing about this form factor that people
may not realize is that you're always using your best
cameras to take your pictures. So whether you're capturing a
selfie or a selfie video or an actual you know,
camera photo, you're always using those front facing cameras, which
are the best cameras on the device. It's kind of
hard to imagine in your head, but you're literally always
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shooting with the best camera on this phone, which is
why people like it as well.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Okay, and then my other question was you mentioned that
they put the really good camera on the Is it
on both of them or just on the Galaxy.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
The Z fold just on the fold? Okay, just on
the fold.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Do you have to unfold the camera to use it
or can you use it when it's closed?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
No, you can use that one when it's closed. You
can use them both when they're closed, or you can
use them when they're open. But you know, the it's
very they call it the flex screen the flex hinge
because it's flexible. You can do whatever you want with
these things. You can use them open, you can use
them closed. There are various benefits to both of those,
you know orientations. So look, these are for people that
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want something different, that want something new, that wants something unique.
And yes, there are some productivity and creator.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Benefits to having this form factor. But it's not for.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Everyone, okay, but you're enjoying it. You like it.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I think they're really cool. I mean no, I really
do think they're cool. I'm not sure they're for me personally,
but I'm still testing. It's only been a couple of
days and all, let's put it this way, every single
tech person I know, they're all loving these things like
they're going and just gaga over them because it's finally
gotten to a place where these phones are usable for
the average person, and that's a really good thing on
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Samsung's part.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, I've not seen any in real life. I think
I saw you do a story on it earlier, but
I've not actually seen or touched one of them. So
it'll be interesting to see more people start buying them.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I look out for these things and so I see
them all the time, and every time I see when,
I'm like, Okay, that person's pretty cool, Like they're on the.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Cutting edge here.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, here's something else that's pretty cool. AI's making some
magic with your photos.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
If you have access to Google Gemini, like if you're
paying for Gemini, which is their AI. It's twenty bucks
a month, but you might be paying for it. You
have access to this cool new feature that brings photos
to life. You upload a picture, you describe the scene,
and Gemini will take a minute or two and literally
make an eight second video out of that scene. So
it basically brings the photo to life. I've tested this
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with a bunch of different pictures. I took one of
the studio at KTLA and I said, hey, have a
giant elephant marching through the studio, and it did. Like
my kid watched it last night, he goes, I can't
believe how realistic that is. So this is using VO three,
which is their text to video generation system, and it
should put Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
On notice because it's pretty wild. How good this is?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Okay? And does it do? Is it just video? It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It doesn't add audio or can you add audio to
your little video clip?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Yes, it does add audio, so you can say, like
I did another one of a bee buzzing around a
flower and it added the buzzing sound. Now it didn't
sound completely real. It's like a little hyper realistic. But
believe me, this is day like seven of this technology, and.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's really good and scary.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Good.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I always like to include scary when I'm talking
about AI, but that's just might just be me. Okay, this
is something that is not scary. And speaking of magic,
get you got to go behind the scenes with Disney
Imagineering and I'm jealous.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
It was just as cool as I imagined. When Disney
calls you and says, hey, do you want to see
behind the scenes, you say yes, no matter what. And
I went to Glendale, this is where Imagineering is headquartered,
and I got to play with a lightsaber, interact with
a cute robot. I got to check out their new
infinite floor that they have and the thing, I think
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it's just it's called hollow tile, and it's basically they
invented this floor where you can walk on it. It's
like a treadmill that goes in like every direction all
at once, so you can walk infinitely forever in the
same spot. I mean, they're going to use it for
like attraction. They don't know what they're going to use
it for yet, but it's like this new thing they invented,
really really cool.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Okay, And that's your story today on KTLA. So if
people want to get some some sneak peaks at what
you got to see? That would be a good time
to watch that on King Let me.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Just said, I know we got to go.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Let me add one more thing, yep I thought that
everyone at the Imagineers was an engineer or an artist.
It takes like one hundred different backgrounds. So if you're
looking for a job, go to the Imagineering website. I'm
not kidding. They have like seventy five jobs open right now,
all kinds of different backgrounds. Whatever you do, you can
bring that to the table. So that was my biggest
takeaway there.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, that's kind of cool. I love that that they're
integrating all kinds of different people. Yes, all right, Rich
Dmiro the host of Rich on Tech right here on
KFI every weekend. When is it Saturday from eleven to two, right,
And of course you can watch them on KTLA five
in La. And you can follow Rich on Instagram at
(22:36):
rich on Tech. And I know that you put up
that lightsaber on your Instagram because I saw it earlier
this week. You can also get his free newsletter Richontech
dot TV.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Rich Demurro, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Thanks Amy, have a great day.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yep I gotta watch that segment.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I did see the lightsaber and it was super cool,
But I want to see that infinity floor that sounds
you know.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No matter where you walk, you go nowhere.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Well, well that's the bad part of it, but you know, okay.
The LAPD says five people have been taken in for
questioning in connection with the death of a young boy
whose body was found near a dumpster in Panorama City.
A woman and two men were seen taken into custody
last night at an apartment building on a building on
Lanark Street that's less than a half mile from where
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the boy's body was found on Saturday. The LAPD said
at the time the boy appeared to be around three
or four years old. Police now say he was five
or six. Chief Jim mcdonald'son yesterday the boy's body showed
signs of trauma.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
I want to know where all the trolos are at.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
The Vice mayor of Katagey has apologized for a video
last month in which she called on gang members to
defend their neighborhoods against ice raids.
Speaker 12 (23:40):
Eighteenth Street, Florentia, Where's.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
The leadership at?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
During a city council meeting last night, Cynthia Gonzalez affirmed
her freedom of speech and said her TikTok video was satirical.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
The message was not about violence, it was about regular people.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Us Martine had joined me in one of these, claiming
ownership of our streets.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
In a time of great distress.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
She says she was asking others to organize and protest.
Federal officers in California may soon have to go without
a mask when they take people into custody.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
A bill passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee this week.
They would make it a crime for federal officers to
wear any masks or personal disguises in.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
California while on duty.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
However, the bill would exclude law enforcement officials who are undercover.
Democrats say they only want officers to properly identify themselves.
An enforcement may be difficult, but Republicans say they can't
tell the Feds what to do. Jason Campdonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Police have arrested a twenty two year old man from
Encino in connection with the shooting deaths of a man
and a woman from Encino. American Idol supervisor Robin Kay
and her husband Tom de Luca were found dead in
their home yesterday. Police had been called to do a
welfare check. They hadn't been seen or heard from since
(24:56):
last Thursday. The couple may have been killed when they
came home and surprised a guy inside. Officials in Siskio
County have declared a state of emergency because of the
use of toxic pesticides at marijuana farms. Investigations have identified
at least twenty seven different pesticide compounds. Most of them
are classified as carcinogens, and officials say the pesticides could
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get into the county's water supply. In and Out has
been ranked as the best fast food burger in America.
The Irvine based burger restaurant beat out forty one other
restaurants in Love Foods twenty twenty five rankings, even though
it's only on the West Coast. At six oh five,
handle on the news, two thousand of the National Guard
members who've been deployed to La are headed for home.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Aamie's on it, Damie's on this.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Aami's on it, Damie's on it.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
What am I on?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm on the stream, I'm in movie theaters sometimes I'm
in books too, And yesterday we actually went to a
movie theater. It's funny because we were talking to Handle,
to Bill Handle, who, by the way, is celebrating his
thirty second anniversary.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
And radio to day.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But we were talking to him and he's like, I
haven't been to a movie theater in forever, and Will
and I were like, we need to go to a
movie theater. And so we went to see the New
Superman movie, which is tops at the box office, handily
beating pretty much everywhere else.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
And so we wanted to kind of check it out
for ourselves. And I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That there was lots of good reviews and there were
some bad ones.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
So let's address it, shall we.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, So the first five minutes of the movie kind
of hook you in and let you know that who
this Superman is because you know, there's so many different
iterations of it, and a couple of words that came
to mind almost instantly that won't give anything away are
campy and reminiscent. So who's in it, Well, it's a
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lot of familiar characters at Superman. Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen,
Perry White likes Luthor, ODIs is in there, Miss Tess Macker, and.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Of course Superman is played by David corn Sweat. He's adorable.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
He's a really good super.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
He is a good superman. I think so too.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I think that he's passionate. He comes across as a
little bit naive and just exudes a good all American superman,
which I really liked because some of them have been
kind of dark.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Yeah, and I love me some Henry Cavell.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You should see the look on Amy's face, but.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
His Superman was a little darker, and this guy is
a little more Christopher.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Reevish, I would say.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
And he also had some pals from the Hall of Justice,
like Green Lantern, which was played by the rookies Nathan Fillion.
And it was so funny because we're watching the show
and Will would lean over and go who's that?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
And then I lean over and go who is that?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And so you are so funny? Why do I know
that girl?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, And that girl that he's referring to is Lois Lane,
who was it's Rachel Brosnahan mm hmm, from Missus Maselsus Mazel.
But she does such a great job and I love
it because in it again she kind of pays homage
to Margot Kidder a little bit. She almost sounds a
little bit like she was, I.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Believe, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Anyway, the story fun and engaging, and like I said,
I like to see a good Superman. And beyond that,
I don't want to tell you anything about this movie
because there are new characters who are going to steal
your heart, and there are story storylines that are interesting
and fun. And I didn't know anything about the story,
just that it was a Superman movie, and I'm kind
of glad that I didn't, And that's why I don't
(28:40):
want to share too much with you. I know Heather
talked about I'm not sure if she gave you any
spoilers and stuff. I mean, it's Superman. But I thought
it was really good and I was kind of surprised throughout. Oh,
and wanted to mention too. The guy who plays Lex Luthor,
Nicholas Holt, fantastic. Yeah, like they they just they did
such a good job casting it. And there have been
some complaints that Superman was too woke.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I didn't find that. There have been complaints that is
too political. I didn't find that to be true. I mean,
there were political things going on, but I think it
worked with the storyline.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yeah, and there will.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Honestly, there were a couple of things that were a
little incongruous. And that's my big word of the day
because like in one of the past ones they had
Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as the Kents, these Kents
are a little more down to earth backwoods. Ye, they're
Luckily they do a great job. It was just sort
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of a weird It was a weird casting for me,
but again, they did a great job. I might even
go see it again because I think there's a lot
going on. I'm sure there are some things that I
missed that I would catch with another look. So overall,
I can totally see why it's a blockbuster. It's a
super hit for me, and on my Instagram it's a
super hit too. Seventy seven percent say it's a super hit.
(29:59):
Just twenty three percent say super miss. You can still
weigh in on it. It's on my story and if
you have anything to say about it, of course, share
your thoughts on the talkback on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
We'd love to hear what you have to say. Okay,
it's time to get in your.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Courtney, double double, toil
and trouble.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
There's a growing industry online for witches. Yes, witches.
Speaker 14 (30:22):
They're brewing up a booming business.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I have to play this one, hi for you.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
Well, folks are hiring witches through online marketplace Etsy to
cast belts on everything from better weather to wins for
our favorite sports team. That'd be the next here. According
to the Wall Street Journal, influencers have been talking up love, success,
revenge after finding the right witch that works for them.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
So some witches sell.
Speaker 14 (30:49):
Their services on Instagram and TikTok, but most looking for
matric head to Etsy, which has long been home to
psychics and mystics.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I didn't know that was Etsy. I thought you just
got like quilts and stuff.
Speaker 14 (30:59):
On No No, but a lot of people are heading there.
It seems to have a big force in that area.
By the day spence, which is well, some witches.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Actually offer discounts.
Speaker 14 (31:12):
So for two thousand dollars, you could get this overall
spell cast on you. That is a personal protection, so
you could get but you could get like a simple
wish for maybe less than ten dollars. So you're seeing
prices all over the place. So I would say take
a look at what what, Take a look at the
different options on there before you start to hire the
(31:35):
witch that you want.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, so for two thousand dollars, I think that I
would rather put that toward to down payment on a house,
but that might be problematic too.
Speaker 14 (31:42):
Yeah, well maybe I need to win the lottery in
order to get it house. So you know, I could
reach out to the witch and say, hey, can you
help me out here on this one. So it seems
to be, as I said, a new booming business that
or a business that's been around for a long time,
but people are starting to or continuing to monetize on that.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Oh so the housing market is stalling out, That's what
I was trying to get to speaking of that.
Speaker 14 (32:11):
Yeah, it is out of the one hundred biggest housing markets,
home prices and more than half are now below their peak.
So that's good for buyers out there, not so good
for sellers who want to sell a top price. But
according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange, home prices nationwide
rose one point three percent in June.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
That is the slowest pace in two years.
Speaker 14 (32:30):
But high mortgage rates continue to drag on housing demand.
We continue to see this also there was a big
change in April within the housing market. A lot of
people got nervous after the Liberation Day and that kind
of changed the direction and the trajectory of what was
expected to be a very hot housing market this year.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Okay, and then this one is disturbing to me, and
that is that we're racking up credit card debt.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
And then walking away from it.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Yeah, close to a quarter of folks with credit card
debt don't think they'll.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Ever be rid of it. That's a scary thought. There.
Speaker 14 (33:03):
Almost half of those with debt say emergency expenses were
the primary cause. And we see that a lot of
people just aren't saving and they are heading to their
credit cards in order to pay car and home repairs
and medical bills. Twenty percent states from day to day
expenses groceries, childcare, which are growing more and more expensive,
followed by eleven percent who blame retail purchases.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
For their debt situation.
Speaker 14 (33:27):
But bank Rate says an alarming stat is that fewer
than half of the credit card debt or is out
there actually have a plan to get out of the
financial weeds.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
And that's important.
Speaker 14 (33:35):
You've got to figure out a plan to get out
of it because that is credit card debt is absolutely crushing.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Absolutely make a plan. That's a you know, our money
guy Joel Larsgard tells us that a lot. So I
think it's good sound advice. And that's the advice we
got from Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. As we get in your
business like we do every day, and we will do
again tomorrow morning as well.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Thank you, Courtney. Definitely see you later.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
A pilot that uses artificial intelligence is now being used
to speed up building plan approvals for LA wildfire victims.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
The AI powered tool is called e check. It's designed
to review plans for zoning compliance. The La County program
is open to homeowners in Altadena and Sunset Mesa who
lost homes in the fires in January. Dial tones may
soon be a thing of the past in California. A
bill in the state legislature would allow AT and T
to stop providing traditional landline phone service and let AT
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and T stop maintaining its old copper lines. The company
says it shouldn't have to continue investing in outdated technology.
Speaking of big movies, we saw a preview for this
yesterday when we're waiting for Superman to start Christopher Nolans.
The Odyssey isn't going to be in theaters until next year,
but tickets to see the movie in one of thirty
(34:51):
seventy millimeters Imax theaters, including in La go on sale tomorrow.
The Odyssey is set to hit theaters July seventeenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
That's a lot of anticipation. I didn't even think it
looked that good, but maybe. Okay, we're just minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, an American Idol
supervisor and her husband had been killed in their home,
and and Sina Copps say they've got the guy who
did it. So yesterday the Emmy nominations came out. They
released a couple during wake up call, like for Best
Reality Show and Best Late Night Show, but then the
(35:25):
rest of them didn't come out till later, so we
wanted to dig a little into those. You can also
find more information about them on our website KFIAM six
forty dot com slash Emmy's if you want to find out.
But the big news is that the Severance leads the
pack twenty seven nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards. I
gotta say I was not crazy about Severns this year.
(35:49):
I loved the first season and then I thought it
was gonna be great the next season. And this season
it was interesting. But twenty seven nominations, I don't know,
I don't know. And Adam Scott was nominated, and then
I can't remember her name, the gal who plays his
love interest, who I think she does a great job,
she was also nominated. But then The Penguin with Colin
(36:14):
Ferrell is a limited series or anthology, has twenty four nominations,
and I absolutely think.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It deserves it. Did you watch The Penguin? You didn't?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It was Colin Ferrell is so good and you do
not see him in that role. I mean, you do
not see Colin Ferrell. He is the Penguin. In my
humble opinion, I thought it was fantastic. And then the
studio got twenty three and that's seth rogen and it's
like behind the scenes, he becomes a studio head and
(36:46):
all of the craziness that ensues. And it's kind of
fun because it's filmed on the Warner Brothers lot, which
is great because and we just went on a tour
of it not too long ago.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
We're like, oh my gosh, we were there. We were
there and that was so that was fun. I don't
think it's that funny.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, Like I've stopped. I was watching and I stopped
before the season was over. I need to get back
and see. But I mean, it's good, but it wasn't.
I didn't think it was great.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
And then.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
White Lotus got twenty three nominations as well, which again
some of these are a little questionable that they get
that many, but I mean some of them are a
lot of them are technical and stuff. But then so
for Outstanding Drama Series and or which is a Star Wars, Yeah,
it's I think it's great. The Diplomat, I haven't seen it.
(37:35):
The Last of Us, which I don't think this season
was great, you know, but whatever, Paradise, which is my
that's my favorite. That is my favorite show of the year.
And that's what Sterling K. Brown He's nominated. The show
is nominated. I don't know what their total Emmy nomination
count was, but I hope that one wins. The Pit
(37:58):
has a ton of buzz. That's Noah Wiley. I haven't
watched that yet. Against Severance. Then Slow Horses, which was
a cool like what's am I six it's it's set
over in England, but it and it's it's like the
the People's who, the people who get cast out of
the intelligence agency, but they can't really fire them. They
end up and they're in the slow Horses group. And
(38:19):
then of course White lotus So and then Outstanding Comedy
Abbott Elementary who. I think I've watched one episode of that.
It's just not my thing. It's like it's sort of
like The Office, right, but I feel like it's trying
to be the Office, although I know tons of people
who love it, which is great. Yeah. The bear not
(38:41):
a comedy hat, which I think should win it. Nobody wants.
This was very cute with Kristen Bell only murders in
the building, shrinking the studio and what we do in
the Shadows, which I've also not watched, but so it's interesting.
Though there's no broadcast shows on here. Oh, these are
all streaming shows. There may be one or two on
it for the for the reality competition, they're broadcast shows.
(39:06):
But these are all streaming shows. And I think that
the streaming shows are fantastic. Yeah, So I think that, Yeah,
and it's fun and I've got to go find something
new to watch.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
A gilded cage is my latest price.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
They're doing that one week at a time, so I
can't binge it, which is driving me crazy anyway. The
MBA's will be handed out on September fourteenth, right here
at the Peacock Theater in La at La Live. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Twenty one kids have
been removed from a home in Arcadia following the arrest
of two people accused in a surrogacy scheme. This woman
(39:37):
in Texas says she gave birth to one child for
the couple.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
The FBI, ME and some of the other girls that
I'm talking to are currently working with them.
Speaker 14 (39:45):
I completed like a three hour interview with them a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All of the kids have been placed in protective custody.
Investigators say it's tied to a child abuse case involving
a two month old baby with a traumatic head injury.
The man and woman who lived with the children were
arrested for felony child endangerment. Pillise say the couple were
the kids legal guardians. Investigators also looking for a nanny
who's the main suspect in the child abuse case? News
(40:10):
brought to you by Simper Solaris. LA Mayor Bass says
the decision to pull half of the California National Guard
troops out of LA is a victory for the city.
The Pentagon says two thousand troops sent to LA to
protect federal property and immigration agents are being released. Bass
says it's a result of people in LA standing together.
Speaker 14 (40:28):
When people raise the concerns about having National Guard in
a situation where they were, as far as I'm concerned,
used as props.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The Pentagon says about seven hundred US Marines are going
to stay in LA, at least for now. The troops
were called in last month in response to protests against
ice rates. USC says it's ready for budget cuts and
layoffs as its deficit passes two hundred million dollars. The
university plans to layoff staff, sell property, and cut the
(40:57):
salaries of some top employees. Official blames rising costs, fewer
international students, and shrinking federal research dollars under President Trump,
but the faculty points to USC's own spending like a
thirty eight million dollar football center and new security measures
as part of the problem. This is KFI and kost
HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI
(41:20):
twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been
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App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's five o'clock straight up on this Wednesday, July sixteenth.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We went saw Superman yesterday, had Will Cole Schreiber and
I went to the.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
AMSC because it was fifty percent off.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Tickets day and it was a matinee, so it was
extra inexpensive.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Nice, nice.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So I know that when Heather Brooker was filling in,
she she's very shushy and she.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Got to go to the premiere.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh yeah, she's fancy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
We just went with the regular folks. So we're going
to talk about that. And I put a poll up
on my Instagram on my story at Amy K King.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Do you think it was a super miss or a
super hit?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Would love to.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
See what you have to say and if you have
something to say, let us know on the talkback on
the iHeartRadio app. It's the cute little microphone up in
the upper right hand corner, just let us know did
you love it?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Did you hate it?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We're going to talk about it with Amy's on it
coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
But here is what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Police say five people have been taken into custody for
questioning in the death of a young boy whose body
was found near dumpster in a parking lot in Panorama City.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Two thousand California National Guard.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Members deployed to LA to protect federal buildings and officers
last month are headed home. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnells's
lawlessness surrounding anti ice protests is subsiding, so they don't
need as many National Guard members. The LAPD has recovered
more than one hundred and forty vehicles that were illegally
(02:11):
towed away. The vehicles were recovered in Van Nuy's last week.
Investigators say tow truck operators towed the vehicles then demanded
high payments to get them back.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
They call it bandit towing.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Fully say one victim was asked to pay fifteen thousand
dollars to get a car back.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Speaking in big Bucks. The DOGE cuts have been announced ABC.
Stephen Portnoy's going to join us in just a couple
of minutes to tell us how lawmakers are now working
to make those cuts permanent and what happens if they
don't pass the plan to do that. The foldable phones
are out. KTLA's tech reporter Rich Dumiro has been playing
with them. He's going to let us know if they're
worth the money. And also he got to go behind
(02:49):
the scenes at Disney Imagineering. Okay, color me jealous. He's
going to share some of the magic with us that's
coming up at five point twenty.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Can't wait to hear about that.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of course, I mentioned Amy's on it Will and I
went and saw the hottest movie in the land, and
we would love to hear from you. What do you
think was a super hit or a super miss You
can let us know on the talkback on the iHeartRadio app,
or you can do it on Instagram on my story
at Amy Kking, I put a little poll up. Also,
we're going to dive into the Emmy nominations. My favorite
(03:19):
show doesn't top the list, but it's on there. I
think it's going to be a dark horse and win.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Two thousand National
Guard troops are headed for home.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Four thousand National Guard troops were deployed to LA in
early June in response to violent demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement.
They were ordered here by the White House, which upset
Governor Newsom, who sued and lost. Now, the Pentagon says
it's withdrawing half those troops. A spokesman says lawlessness in
LA has subsided Newsom has wanted the troops to help
with wildfire prevention efforts. The other troops and seven hundred
(03:55):
US Marines will remain here for now. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The news brought to you by American Vision Windows. A
twenty two year old man's been arrested for the murders
of an American idol supervisor and her husband in Encino.
Music supervisor Robin Kay and her husband, Thomas de Luca,
were shot several times. Their bodies were found in their
home on Monday. LAPD Lieutenant Guy Golan says security video
(04:21):
led them to the alleged shooter.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
We're still looking into whether he has any type of
relationship with the victims.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Right now, it is an apparent random attack.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He says the guy apparently got into the house through
an unlocked door and was inside for about a half
an hour before the couple arrived home. LAPED officers have
shot at people twenty five times so far this year,
nearly matching the total for all of last year. LAPD
Chief Jim MacDonald told yesterday's Police Commission meeting that he
asked the department's Critical Incident Review Division to look into
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officer involved shootings from twenty twenty four to twenty five.
He says the review found a rise in the use
of what he calls intermediate force weapons like bean bag
rounds or stun guns. Those are designed to incapacitate people,
not kill them. McDonald says that suggests that officers are
actively trying to de escalate situations whenever possible. A new
(05:14):
pilot program could help those in the Palisades in Altadena
areas affected by wildfires in January.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Officials in La County have announced a pilot program that
uses artificial intelligence to speed up the review and approval
of building plans for residents who lost homes. The plan,
called Forward Blueprint for Rebuilding, is expected to focus on
things like waiving requirements and lowering rebuilding costs, expediting property
tax relief, accelerating permitting and inspections. The review process may
(05:44):
take up to ten business days, though some results may
be returned sooner. Deborah mark KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Let's say good morning to ABC Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen
Doge came in, made cuts and cuts and cuts. But
there's a difference between announcing the cuts and then actually
making them happen.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
So where are we with that?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, enacting a clawback of funding. Right, It's one thing
for Doge to come in and say, all right, we
no longer need these people. We're going to try to
shut these offices down and reorganize and all that. But
when it comes to money that Congress is already appropriated,
how does the Treasury get that money back? Essentially? And
that's what's happening now. The Senate is in the process
of debating this recisions package, nine billion dollars worth of
(06:26):
proposed cuts, and the Senate is debating it. We could
see another all nighter because of the unique and rarely
invoked process it's now underway. It allows for unlimited amendments
by the Democrats and they're going to try.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
We'll see how long it goes.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
But what is this about.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's about nine billion dollars in foreign aid money for
USAID and other programs, and more than a billion dollars
in public broadcasting funding over two fiscal years. Republicans have
sought to do this for a law time, and they're
right on the cusp of it. The House passed this
thing last month, and there's a clock ticking the deadline
(07:07):
under laws for it to be done in forty five days.
That forty five day clock expires on Friday, two days
from now. There's not a lot of time left for
this to get done. And the Senate yesterday Republican leaders
agreed that they would make some tweaks. They want to
remove from the cuts about four hundred million dollars it
would have come out of the PEPFAR program. Pepfar is
(07:28):
something that George W. Bush created in two thousand and three.
It's a global aids relief program, and Republicans in the
Senate say it's important they want to keep it in place.
It's an element, an emblem of American soft power. It
advances America's interests in Africa and keeps the Chinese boxed
in in that respect. So the Senators who are going
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to support this say they want that pep FAR money restored,
but they're willing to cut back nine billion dollars otherwise
for foreign aid and for public broadcast.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So what's going to happen?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Last night, Vice President Vance had to head up to
Capitol Hill to cast a tie breaking vote to advance
this measure. There are a number of procedural votes and
a couple of times last night, Vice President of Vance
had to be the fifty first vote in favor while
fifty Republicans. Of fifty senators, three Republicans and the rest
of the Democrats voted against it. Who are the no
votes on the Republican side, Lisa Rakowski, Susan Collins and
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Mitch McConnell. Those three senators on the Republican side, So
they didn't want any part of this and they voted
against it. So let's see how it all plays out.
But assuming the votes remain the same, this bill will
go back to the House for ratification of the change
with respect to PEPFAR, and then it would wind up
on the President's desk if it can pass in the House.
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Razor thin Margins here House end said it and the
law says that if it's not done by Friday, the
administration has to spend the money.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Let's see what happens.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Okay, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thank you for the update. We'll
be watching to see what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You bet right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Illegal immigrants picked
up in ice raids across LA are far less likely
to be released on bail.
Speaker 9 (09:09):
A new federal policy now blocks most immigration detainees from
getting a bond hearing. Instead, only ICE, not a judge,
can decide if they're let go. The Trump administration says
it's just following the letter of a decade's old law,
but with seventy five billion dollars in new funding, ICE
is growing fast, and local advocates say this could lead
to more families being torn apart right here in southern California.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Bragia Degostino k if I News for insident.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Trump says he doesn't get why people are still asking
questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 10 (09:37):
He's dead for a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
He was never a big factor in terms of life.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Trump said yesterday Attorney General Pam Bondi should release what
he says are whatever she thinks is credible.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
On the Epstein case.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
HOWSE Speaker Mirk Johnson says he'd like Bondi to give
more information about what she has reviewed regarding her department's
investigation int Epstein. The man accused of killing a lawmaker
in Minnesota and her husband has claimed that Governor Tim
Walls instructed him to kill two US Senators. Prosecutor say
Vance Belter made the claim and a letter found in
(10:17):
his car after the shootings last month. Belter was indicted
yesterday on federal murder charges in the deaths of state
Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. More Americans say
they are anxious about money.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
The new survey from Northwestern Mutual found that nearly seventy
percent of respondents were feeling anxiety and depression over financial uncertainty.
That's an eight percent increase from twenty twenty three. Financial
experts say those worried about money should consider opening an
emergency savings account that would cover up to six months
worth of expenses. You know, with the extra money you
have lying around Mark ronor KFI.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
News Yeah Right.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
The week long eBay auctioned to buy the infamous Fire
Festival brand has ended. ABC's Michelle frans And says on
unlucky bidder bought the naming rights to the botched music event.
Speaker 12 (11:03):
The winning eBay bid for this fire sales shows an
anonymous buyer paid two hundred and forty five thousand dollars
to take over the Fire Festival brand name, registered trademarks, IP,
and social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The former owner, Billy McFarland, has had a run of
failed festivals billed as luxury events that fizzled and didn't deliver.
Tesla has opened its first showroom in India.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
This marks the electric vehicle maker's long anticipated debut in
the world's third biggest automotive market. The showroom, opening yesterday
in Mumbai, will service Tesla's flagship retail and experience center.
Tesla's entry comes after years of delays and policy friction.
It marks a pivotal expansion in a fast growing consumer
(11:48):
base as global sales plunge and the company faces challenges
in its two core markets, China and the US.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Deborah mark Koffi News never too late to get Up
and get moving.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
A new study says staying active as an adult can
cut the risk of death by forty percent, especially heart disease.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
The review in the British.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
Journal of Sports Medicine tracts people's activity across multiple years.
Unlike previous research, recreational exercise was shown to be more
beneficial than work related activity like manual labor. People who
increased activity from inactive to active also saw significant benefits,
so it's never too late. Researchers say the biggest mortality
reductions were when people met basic physical guidelines of one
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hundred and fifty to three hundred minutes of moderate intensity
exercise per week. Michael Krozier kf.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I news Streaming is taking over. Nilsen said that the
number of people who watched streaming services in June topped
those watching broadcast and cable TV. That's only happened one
time before, in May, but that was only by a
fraction of a percentage point. The margin widened considerably in June,
(12:57):
driven in large part by kids getting out of school
and having more time to watch shows like Ginny and
Georgia and Squid Games on Netflix. Fox News Channel last
week eclipsed all of the broadcast networks in prime time
weeknight viewing for the third week in a row craziness. Yesterday,
Michael Kroser did a story about an AI band called
(13:18):
Velvet Sundown and it's topping the charts apparently, and then
people are like, oh, this is great, but there's no
band members because it's all AI generated. And I thought
they had kind of a familiar sound wind but I
couldn't put my finger on it. And so a nice
man on talkback let me know what he thought.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Amy, that.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
The article you just did about the AI generated group
kind of sounded like Creden's Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
John Fogerty, Yeah, that's thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
I did.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I agree. I think it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Has like a just like a folksy rock sound and
was kind of it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
I might go listen to some more whoops that we
already talked to you turn it's a little more up.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, I like it might have to go listen. So
Velvet Sundown an AI band.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
You're being taken over by the machines, em.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Police have arrested a twenty two year old man from
Encino in connection with the shooting deaths of a man
and woman American Idol supervisor Robin Kay and her husband
Tom de Luca were found dead in their home yesterday
when police did a welfare check. Police say the couple
may have been killed when they came home Thursday and
surprised a guy inside. President Trump says he's not done
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with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The President told the BBC
he is disappointed, but left the door open for talks
after he threatened Moscow with sanctions if there's no ceasefire
with Ukraine in fifty days. Along with the sanctions and tariffs,
Trump announced this week that the US will supply Patriot
missile systems to Ukraine. Nearly four hundred items from Garry
King's legendary broadcast career going up for auction. Julian's Auction
(15:05):
says it's called the Larry King Collection That's very original.
Goes up forbid August twelfth in Guardina and also online.
The sale will include Dodgers memorabilia he was a huge
Dodger fan, celebrity letters, artwork, and King's signature suspenders. Full
catalogs available at Juliansauctions dot Com.
Speaker 12 (15:26):
At six o five.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It's handled on the news President Trump maybe putting pressure
on ag Pambondi to release more Jeffrey Epstein files after
a huge backlash from Maga Mega Is it Maga mount
Maga depends on where you live from. All right, let's
say good morning now to the host of Rich on
Tech right here on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro, Rich,
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you're playing with folding phones.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Yes, Samsung's got two new foldable phones, the z Fold
seven and the z Flip seven. Notable improvements on the
fold This is the one that opens up like a book.
The outside screen is way bigger. It's actually usable this
time compared to previous models. The inside screen is even bigger.
It's now eight inches, which means it's essentially a mini
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tablet in your pocket that you can unfold. They also
put their best camera on this device for the first time.
It's a two hundred megapixel camera, which is really great
for folks that want to use this. The trade off
is that they removed support for the spen that's their stylus,
you know, that little thing you can use to write
on the screen. And they also increase the price, so
it is now two thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
But yeah, I know, but you're getting two and one.
You get the phone and the tablet. You got to
look on the bright side. Also, nobody pays full price
for Samsung devices. There's always some sort of discounter trade in.
Then they've got the Flip seven. This is the one
that's probably better for most people. It's the one that
opens up like the old school flip phones, except the
entire outside screen when it's closed is a screen.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Now it's pushed all the way to the edges.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
The inside screen is much wider, so it feels more
like a proper phone when you open it up. The
downside to this one is there's really not one actually,
so people seem to like this thing a lot. Eleven
hundred dollars for that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, so the Flip one when it's folded is it's
a square pretty much right, correct, And it's got the
same screen, just smaller as what happens when you open it.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah, it's got an outside screen that you can do
a lot of things on, not everything, but you can
do a lot on there.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
And yes, it's much bigger.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
And the cool thing about this form factor that people
may not realize is that you're always using your best
cameras to take your pictures. So whether you're capturing a
selfie or a selfie video or an actual you know,
camera photo, you're always using those front facing cameras, which
are the best cameras on the device. It's kind of
hard to imagine in your head, but you're literally always
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shooting with the best camera on this phone, which is
why people like it as well.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Okay, and then my other question was you mentioned that
they put the really good camera on the Is it
on both of them or just on the Galaxy.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
The Z fold just on the fold? Okay, just on
the fold.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Do you have to unfold the camera to use it
or can you use it when it's closed?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
No, you can use that one when it's closed. You
can use them both when they're closed, or you can
use them when they're open. But you know, the it's
very they call it the flex screen the flex hinge
because it's flexible. You can do whatever you want with
these things. You can use them open, you can use
them closed. There are various benefits to both of those,
you know orientations. So look, these are for people that
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want something different, that want something new, that wants something unique.
And yes, there are some productivity and creator.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Benefits to having this form factor. But it's not for.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Everyone, okay, but you're enjoying it. You like it.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I think they're really cool. I mean no, I really
do think they're cool. I'm not sure they're for me personally,
but I'm still testing. It's only been a couple of
days and all, let's put it this way, every single
tech person I know, they're all loving these things like
they're going and just gaga over them because it's finally
gotten to a place where these phones are usable for
the average person, and that's a really good thing on
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Samsung's part.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, I've not seen any in real life. I think
I saw you do a story on it earlier, but
I've not actually seen or touched one of them. So
it'll be interesting to see more people start buying them.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I look out for these things and so I see
them all the time, and every time I see when,
I'm like, Okay, that person's pretty cool, Like they're on the.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Cutting edge here.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, here's something else that's pretty cool. AI's making some
magic with your photos.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
If you have access to Google Gemini, like if you're
paying for Gemini, which is their AI. It's twenty bucks
a month, but you might be paying for it. You
have access to this cool new feature that brings photos
to life. You upload a picture, you describe the scene,
and Gemini will take a minute or two and literally
make an eight second video out of that scene. So
it basically brings the photo to life. I've tested this
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with a bunch of different pictures. I took one of
the studio at KTLA and I said, hey, have a
giant elephant marching through the studio, and it did. Like
my kid watched it last night, he goes, I can't
believe how realistic that is. So this is using VO three,
which is their text to video generation system, and it
should put Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
On notice because it's pretty wild. How good this is?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Okay? And does it do? Is it just video? It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It doesn't add audio or can you add audio to
your little video clip?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Yes, it does add audio, so you can say, like
I did another one of a bee buzzing around a
flower and it added the buzzing sound. Now it didn't
sound completely real. It's like a little hyper realistic. But
believe me, this is day like seven of this technology, and.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's really good and scary.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Good.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I always like to include scary when I'm talking
about AI, but that's just might just be me. Okay, this
is something that is not scary. And speaking of magic,
get you got to go behind the scenes with Disney
Imagineering and I'm jealous.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
It was just as cool as I imagined. When Disney
calls you and says, hey, do you want to see
behind the scenes, you say yes, no matter what. And
I went to Glendale, this is where Imagineering is headquartered,
and I got to play with a lightsaber, interact with
a cute robot. I got to check out their new
infinite floor that they have and the thing, I think
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it's just it's called hollow tile, and it's basically they
invented this floor where you can walk on it. It's
like a treadmill that goes in like every direction all
at once, so you can walk infinitely forever in the
same spot. I mean, they're going to use it for
like attraction. They don't know what they're going to use
it for yet, but it's like this new thing they invented,
really really cool.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Okay, And that's your story today on KTLA. So if
people want to get some some sneak peaks at what
you got to see? That would be a good time
to watch that on King Let me.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Just said, I know we got to go.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Let me add one more thing, yep I thought that
everyone at the Imagineers was an engineer or an artist.
It takes like one hundred different backgrounds. So if you're
looking for a job, go to the Imagineering website. I'm
not kidding. They have like seventy five jobs open right now,
all kinds of different backgrounds. Whatever you do, you can
bring that to the table. So that was my biggest
takeaway there.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, that's kind of cool. I love that that they're
integrating all kinds of different people. Yes, all right, Rich
Dmiro the host of Rich on Tech right here on
KFI every weekend. When is it Saturday from eleven to two, right,
And of course you can watch them on KTLA five
in La. And you can follow Rich on Instagram at
(22:36):
rich on Tech. And I know that you put up
that lightsaber on your Instagram because I saw it earlier
this week. You can also get his free newsletter Richontech
dot TV.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Rich Demurro, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Thanks Amy, have a great day.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yep I gotta watch that segment.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I did see the lightsaber and it was super cool,
But I want to see that infinity floor that sounds
you know.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No matter where you walk, you go nowhere.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Well, well that's the bad part of it, but you know, okay.
The LAPD says five people have been taken in for
questioning in connection with the death of a young boy
whose body was found near a dumpster in Panorama City.
A woman and two men were seen taken into custody
last night at an apartment building on a building on
Lanark Street that's less than a half mile from where
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the boy's body was found on Saturday. The LAPD said
at the time the boy appeared to be around three
or four years old. Police now say he was five
or six. Chief Jim mcdonald'son yesterday the boy's body showed
signs of trauma.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
I want to know where all the trolos are at.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
The Vice mayor of Katagey has apologized for a video
last month in which she called on gang members to
defend their neighborhoods against ice raids.
Speaker 12 (23:40):
Eighteenth Street, Florentia, Where's.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
The leadership at?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
During a city council meeting last night, Cynthia Gonzalez affirmed
her freedom of speech and said her TikTok video was satirical.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
The message was not about violence, it was about regular people.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Us Martine had joined me in one of these, claiming
ownership of our streets.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
In a time of great distress.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
She says she was asking others to organize and protest.
Federal officers in California may soon have to go without
a mask when they take people into custody.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
A bill passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee this week.
They would make it a crime for federal officers to
wear any masks or personal disguises in.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
California while on duty.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
However, the bill would exclude law enforcement officials who are undercover.
Democrats say they only want officers to properly identify themselves.
An enforcement may be difficult, but Republicans say they can't
tell the Feds what to do. Jason Campdonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Police have arrested a twenty two year old man from
Encino in connection with the shooting deaths of a man
and a woman from Encino. American Idol supervisor Robin Kay
and her husband Tom de Luca were found dead in
their home yesterday. Police had been called to do a
welfare check. They hadn't been seen or heard from since
(24:56):
last Thursday. The couple may have been killed when they
came home and surprised a guy inside. Officials in Siskio
County have declared a state of emergency because of the
use of toxic pesticides at marijuana farms. Investigations have identified
at least twenty seven different pesticide compounds. Most of them
are classified as carcinogens, and officials say the pesticides could
(25:17):
get into the county's water supply. In and Out has
been ranked as the best fast food burger in America.
The Irvine based burger restaurant beat out forty one other
restaurants in Love Foods twenty twenty five rankings, even though
it's only on the West Coast. At six oh five,
handle on the news, two thousand of the National Guard
members who've been deployed to La are headed for home.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Aamie's on it, Damie's on this.
Speaker 10 (25:42):
Aami's on it, Damie's on it.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
What am I on?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm on the stream, I'm in movie theaters sometimes I'm
in books too, And yesterday we actually went to a
movie theater. It's funny because we were talking to Handle,
to Bill Handle, who, by the way, is celebrating his
thirty second anniversary.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
And radio to day.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But we were talking to him and he's like, I
haven't been to a movie theater in forever, and Will
and I were like, we need to go to a
movie theater. And so we went to see the New
Superman movie, which is tops at the box office, handily
beating pretty much everywhere else.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
And so we wanted to kind of check it out
for ourselves. And I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That there was lots of good reviews and there were
some bad ones.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
So let's address it, shall we.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Okay, So the first five minutes of the movie kind
of hook you in and let you know that who
this Superman is because you know, there's so many different
iterations of it, and a couple of words that came
to mind almost instantly that won't give anything away are
campy and reminiscent. So who's in it, Well, it's a
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lot of familiar characters at Superman. Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen,
Perry White likes Luthor, ODIs is in there, Miss Tess Macker, and.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Of course Superman is played by David corn Sweat. He's adorable.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
He's a really good super.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
He is a good superman. I think so too.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I think that he's passionate. He comes across as a
little bit naive and just exudes a good all American superman,
which I really liked because some of them have been
kind of dark.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Yeah, and I love me some Henry Cavell.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You should see the look on Amy's face, but.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
His Superman was a little darker, and this guy is
a little more Christopher.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Reevish, I would say.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
And he also had some pals from the Hall of Justice,
like Green Lantern, which was played by the rookies Nathan Fillion.
And it was so funny because we're watching the show
and Will would lean over and go who's that?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
And then I lean over and go who is that?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And so you are so funny? Why do I know
that girl?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, And that girl that he's referring to is Lois Lane,
who was it's Rachel Brosnahan mm hmm, from Missus Maselsus Mazel.
But she does such a great job and I love
it because in it again she kind of pays homage
to Margot Kidder a little bit. She almost sounds a
little bit like she was, I.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Believe, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Anyway, the story fun and engaging, and like I said,
I like to see a good Superman. And beyond that,
I don't want to tell you anything about this movie
because there are new characters who are going to steal
your heart, and there are story storylines that are interesting
and fun. And I didn't know anything about the story,
just that it was a Superman movie, and I'm kind
of glad that I didn't, And that's why I don't
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want to share too much with you. I know Heather
talked about I'm not sure if she gave you any
spoilers and stuff. I mean, it's Superman. But I thought
it was really good and I was kind of surprised throughout. Oh,
and wanted to mention too. The guy who plays Lex Luthor,
Nicholas Holt, fantastic. Yeah, like they they just they did
such a good job casting it. And there have been
some complaints that Superman was too woke.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I didn't find that. There have been complaints that is
too political. I didn't find that to be true. I mean,
there were political things going on, but I think it
worked with the storyline.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yeah, and there will.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Honestly, there were a couple of things that were a
little incongruous. And that's my big word of the day
because like in one of the past ones they had
Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as the Kents, these Kents
are a little more down to earth backwoods. Ye, they're
Luckily they do a great job. It was just sort
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of a weird It was a weird casting for me,
but again, they did a great job. I might even
go see it again because I think there's a lot
going on. I'm sure there are some things that I
missed that I would catch with another look. So overall,
I can totally see why it's a blockbuster. It's a
super hit for me, and on my Instagram it's a
super hit too. Seventy seven percent say it's a super hit.
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Just twenty three percent say super miss. You can still
weigh in on it. It's on my story and if
you have anything to say about it, of course, share
your thoughts on the talkback on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
We'd love to hear what you have to say. Okay,
it's time to get in your.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Courtney, double double, toil
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Speaker 5 (30:17):
There's a growing industry online for witches. Yes, witches.
Speaker 14 (30:22):
They're brewing up a booming business.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I have to play this one, hi for you.
Speaker 14 (30:30):
Well, folks are hiring witches through online marketplace Etsy to
cast belts on everything from better weather to wins for
our favorite sports team. That'd be the next here. According
to the Wall Street Journal, influencers have been talking up love, success,
revenge after finding the right witch that works for them.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
So some witches sell.
Speaker 14 (30:49):
Their services on Instagram and TikTok, but most looking for
matric head to Etsy, which has long been home to
psychics and mystics.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
I didn't know that was Etsy. I thought you just
got like quilts and stuff.
Speaker 14 (30:59):
On No No, but a lot of people are heading there.
It seems to have a big force in that area.
By the day spence, which is well, some witches.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Actually offer discounts.
Speaker 14 (31:12):
So for two thousand dollars, you could get this overall
spell cast on you. That is a personal protection, so
you could get but you could get like a simple
wish for maybe less than ten dollars. So you're seeing
prices all over the place. So I would say take
a look at what what, Take a look at the
different options on there before you start to hire the
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witch that you want.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Okay, so for two thousand dollars, I think that I
would rather put that toward to down payment on a house,
but that might be problematic too.
Speaker 14 (31:42):
Yeah, well maybe I need to win the lottery in
order to get it house. So you know, I could
reach out to the witch and say, hey, can you
help me out here on this one. So it seems
to be, as I said, a new booming business that
or a business that's been around for a long time,
but people are starting to or continuing to monetize on that.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Oh so the housing market is stalling out, That's what
I was trying to get to speaking of that.
Speaker 14 (32:11):
Yeah, it is out of the one hundred biggest housing markets,
home prices and more than half are now below their peak.
So that's good for buyers out there, not so good
for sellers who want to sell a top price. But
according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange, home prices nationwide
rose one point three percent in June.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
That is the slowest pace in two years.
Speaker 14 (32:30):
But high mortgage rates continue to drag on housing demand.
We continue to see this also there was a big
change in April within the housing market. A lot of
people got nervous after the Liberation Day and that kind
of changed the direction and the trajectory of what was
expected to be a very hot housing market this year.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Okay, and then this one is disturbing to me, and
that is that we're racking up credit card debt.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
And then walking away from it.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Yeah, close to a quarter of folks with credit card
debt don't think they'll.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Ever be rid of it. That's a scary thought. There.
Speaker 14 (33:03):
Almost half of those with debt say emergency expenses were
the primary cause. And we see that a lot of
people just aren't saving and they are heading to their
credit cards in order to pay car and home repairs
and medical bills. Twenty percent states from day to day
expenses groceries, childcare, which are growing more and more expensive,
followed by eleven percent who blame retail purchases.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
For their debt situation.
Speaker 14 (33:27):
But bank Rate says an alarming stat is that fewer
than half of the credit card debt or is out
there actually have a plan to get out of the
financial weeds.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
And that's important.
Speaker 14 (33:35):
You've got to figure out a plan to get out
of it because that is credit card debt is absolutely crushing.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Absolutely make a plan. That's a you know, our money
guy Joel Larsgard tells us that a lot. So I
think it's good sound advice. And that's the advice we
got from Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. As we get in your
business like we do every day, and we will do
again tomorrow morning as well.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Thank you, Courtney. Definitely see you later.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
A pilot that uses artificial intelligence is now being used
to speed up building plan approvals for LA wildfire victims.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
The AI powered tool is called e check. It's designed
to review plans for zoning compliance. The La County program
is open to homeowners in Altadena and Sunset Mesa who
lost homes in the fires in January. Dial tones may
soon be a thing of the past in California. A
bill in the state legislature would allow AT and T
to stop providing traditional landline phone service and let AT
(34:29):
and T stop maintaining its old copper lines. The company
says it shouldn't have to continue investing in outdated technology.
Speaking of big movies, we saw a preview for this
yesterday when we're waiting for Superman to start Christopher Nolans.
The Odyssey isn't going to be in theaters until next year,
but tickets to see the movie in one of thirty
(34:51):
seventy millimeters Imax theaters, including in La go on sale tomorrow.
The Odyssey is set to hit theaters July seventeenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
That's a lot of anticipation. I didn't even think it
looked that good, but maybe. Okay, we're just minutes away
from Handle. On the news this morning, an American Idol
supervisor and her husband had been killed in their home,
and and Sina Copps say they've got the guy who
did it. So yesterday the Emmy nominations came out. They
released a couple during wake up call, like for Best
Reality Show and Best Late Night Show, but then the
(35:25):
rest of them didn't come out till later, so we
wanted to dig a little into those. You can also
find more information about them on our website KFIAM six
forty dot com slash Emmy's if you want to find out.
But the big news is that the Severance leads the
pack twenty seven nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards. I
gotta say I was not crazy about Severns this year.
(35:49):
I loved the first season and then I thought it
was gonna be great the next season. And this season
it was interesting. But twenty seven nominations, I don't know,
I don't know. And Adam Scott was nominated, and then
I can't remember her name, the gal who plays his
love interest, who I think she does a great job,
she was also nominated. But then The Penguin with Colin
(36:14):
Ferrell is a limited series or anthology, has twenty four nominations,
and I absolutely think.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It deserves it. Did you watch The Penguin? You didn't?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
It was Colin Ferrell is so good and you do
not see him in that role. I mean, you do
not see Colin Ferrell. He is the Penguin. In my
humble opinion, I thought it was fantastic. And then the
studio got twenty three and that's seth rogen and it's
like behind the scenes, he becomes a studio head and
(36:46):
all of the craziness that ensues. And it's kind of
fun because it's filmed on the Warner Brothers lot, which
is great because and we just went on a tour
of it not too long ago.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
We're like, oh my gosh, we were there. We were
there and that was so that was fun. I don't
think it's that funny.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, Like I've stopped. I was watching and I stopped
before the season was over. I need to get back
and see. But I mean, it's good, but it wasn't.
I didn't think it was great.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
And then.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
White Lotus got twenty three nominations as well, which again
some of these are a little questionable that they get
that many, but I mean some of them are a
lot of them are technical and stuff. But then so
for Outstanding Drama Series and or which is a Star Wars, Yeah,
it's I think it's great. The Diplomat, I haven't seen it.
(37:35):
The Last of Us, which I don't think this season
was great, you know, but whatever, Paradise, which is my
that's my favorite. That is my favorite show of the year.
And that's what Sterling K. Brown He's nominated. The show
is nominated. I don't know what their total Emmy nomination
count was, but I hope that one wins. The Pit
(37:58):
has a ton of buzz. That's Noah Wiley. I haven't
watched that yet. Against Severance. Then Slow Horses, which was
a cool like what's am I six it's it's set
over in England, but it and it's it's like the
the People's who, the people who get cast out of
the intelligence agency, but they can't really fire them. They
end up and they're in the slow Horses group. And
(38:19):
then of course White lotus So and then Outstanding Comedy
Abbott Elementary who. I think I've watched one episode of that.
It's just not my thing. It's like it's sort of
like The Office, right, but I feel like it's trying
to be the Office, although I know tons of people
who love it, which is great. Yeah. The bear not
(38:41):
a comedy hat, which I think should win it. Nobody wants.
This was very cute with Kristen Bell only murders in
the building, shrinking the studio and what we do in
the Shadows, which I've also not watched, but so it's interesting.
Though there's no broadcast shows on here. Oh, these are
all streaming shows. There may be one or two on
it for the for the reality competition, they're broadcast shows.
(39:06):
But these are all streaming shows. And I think that
the streaming shows are fantastic. Yeah, So I think that, Yeah,
and it's fun and I've got to go find something
new to watch.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
A gilded cage is my latest price.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
They're doing that one week at a time, so I
can't binge it, which is driving me crazy anyway. The
MBA's will be handed out on September fourteenth, right here
at the Peacock Theater in La at La Live. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Twenty one kids have
been removed from a home in Arcadia following the arrest
of two people accused in a surrogacy scheme. This woman
(39:37):
in Texas says she gave birth to one child for
the couple.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
The FBI, ME and some of the other girls that
I'm talking to are currently working with them.
Speaker 14 (39:45):
I completed like a three hour interview with them a
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All of the kids have been placed in protective custody.
Investigators say it's tied to a child abuse case involving
a two month old baby with a traumatic head injury.
The man and woman who lived with the children were
arrested for felony child endangerment. Pillise say the couple were
the kids legal guardians. Investigators also looking for a nanny
who's the main suspect in the child abuse case? News
(40:10):
brought to you by Simper Solaris. LA Mayor Bass says
the decision to pull half of the California National Guard
troops out of LA is a victory for the city.
The Pentagon says two thousand troops sent to LA to
protect federal property and immigration agents are being released. Bass
says it's a result of people in LA standing together.
Speaker 14 (40:28):
When people raise the concerns about having National Guard in
a situation where they were, as far as I'm concerned,
used as props.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The Pentagon says about seven hundred US Marines are going
to stay in LA, at least for now. The troops
were called in last month in response to protests against
ice rates. USC says it's ready for budget cuts and
layoffs as its deficit passes two hundred million dollars. The
university plans to layoff staff, sell property, and cut the
(40:57):
salaries of some top employees. Official blames rising costs, fewer
international students, and shrinking federal research dollars under President Trump,
but the faculty points to USC's own spending like a
thirty eight million dollar football center and new security measures
as part of the problem. This is KFI and kost
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(41:20):
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