“Shutting Down the Government is a Choice”

Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. National correspondent for ABC News Steven Portnoy starts the show discussing comments made saying, “Shutting down the government is a choice.” ABC News’ Jordana Miller joins the show to talk about Israel reopening the main Gaza crossing for Palestinian laborers after days of rising tensions. The House Whisperer Dean Sharp joins Amy this morning to turn your bathroom from ow to wow (baths, showers, toilets, sinks) West Coast-based entertainment correspondent for ABC News Jason Nathanson closes the show with the ‘Entertainment Report.’

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to wake Up Call ondemand from kf I AM six Morning KFI
had KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your
morning wake up call. Here's anyKing. It's five o'clock. Good morning.

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This is your wake up call forFriday, September twenty ninth. I'm
Amy King, thrilled that you're withus this morning. I gotta say I'm
a little bum though, as westart this Friday driving in it's cloudy this
morning, so I didn't get tosee the super moon. So a pretty
cool moon the night before, andlike on Wednesday, Wednesday morning it was
nice but not full and it wasn'tthe super moon, which just pete.

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So last one of the year.Hey, it's National Coffee Day. I
got my coffee. We'll tell youabout where you can get some free stuff
and extra goodies all over the place. Here's what's ahead on the wake up
Call. Governor Newsom has signed abill that will require employers to pay fast
food workers in the state at leasttwenty bucks an hour. The wage increase

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takes effect April first. Eighty threepercent of employers say they are going to
increase menu prices to cover the costs. The Senate and House have advanced bills
to avoid a government shutdown this weekendthat is looking more likely by the hour.
The deadline to prevent that shutdown ismidnight tomorrow. We're going to be
talking to ABC's Stephen Portnoy about theimplications of a shutdown in just a couple

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of minutes. Hey, the PacificAir Show takes off and the skies over
Huntington Beach today. The main eventsthis weekend will feature the Air Force Thunderbirds
and the F twenty two Raptors demonstrationteam. At six oh five, it's
handled on the news. Some lawmakersare calling on Governor Newsom to suspend the
gas tax as gas prices continue toskyrocket in California. Let's get started with

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some of the stories coming out ofthe Kfight twenty four hour newsroom. A
thirteen year old in Burbank has beenarrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up his
middle school. Belie say they foundout about it on social media Wednesday night,
threatening Luther Burbank Middle School. Thestudent was cited for making criminal threats
and released to his parents. Theyturned over the toy gun scene in the

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social media post striking actors say theywon't back down as sag After heads to
the negotiating table with major studios.Actors are set to meet with studio executives
Monday to try to work out adeal to bring an end to a strike
that started in July. Actress SeanRichards says sag afters negotiating leaders will be
standing their ground at this point.If we've done it this long, why

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would we change our tactic? Theycame back to us. The writers ended
a nearly five month long strike Wednesdayafter approving a contract with the AMPTP that
addresses most of their concerns. ChrisAdler Ka FI News. A man charged
with killing his ex girlfriend by throwingher over a balcony at her apartment in
the Hollywood Hills has been found guilty. Prosecutors say Gareth purse House broke into

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the woman's home on Valentine's Day twentytwenty and waited hours for her to get
there. Doctor Amy Harwick had arestraining order against her. He's facing life
in prison without parole. A guywalking his dog in Garden Grove has fatally
shot a homeless man. He claimsit was self defense Investigators say there was
a fight before the shooting yesterday afternoon. Neighbors say they saw the homeless man

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sitting in the street moments earlier andhad called police. A pit bull mix
stolen from its owner at a seveneleven store in North Hollywood earlier this week
has been returned. The dog wastaken early Tuesday. His name was Drake.
The dog was found yesterday at asober living home in Orange County and
was turned over to the Sheriff's department. Court documents have revealed what investigators are

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looking at in the case of theman acute killing for University of Idaho students.
Search warrants have been issued for YouTube, PayPal, Apple, Spotify,
and Amazon. The information being soughtincludes Brian Coburger's payment histories, viewed content,
and channel analytics. The Amazon warrantrequests activity related to knives and accessories.
Prosecutors haven't said whether the murder weaponhas been found. A Congressional subcommittee

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has met over the wildfires in Maui. Reps from the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission
in the State Energy Office, alongwith Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelley Kimura, answered
questions about the events leading up tothe fires on West Maui. Virginia Republican
Congressman Morgan Griffith chaired the meeting yesterday. Though, when you learn that the
winds were going to be higher thanyou originally anticipated, I don't have that

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information, right? Do you getthat to the committee after this hearing?
Have absolutely follow up. It's thefirst time at governing bodies convened on the
fires, which started August seven.Steve Gregory, King of Fine News,
Hines is planning to sell a limitednumber of Ketchup and seemingly Ran bottles following
Taylor Swift's appearance at a Kansas CityChiefs game. Oh God, this continues.

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A fan posted a photo of Swifteating chicken tenders with Ketchup and what
the fan referred to as seemingly ranch. Company reps say Hines will be releasing
one hundred bottles because Taylor Swift's favoritenumber plus Travis Kelsey's number equals one hundred
and did you hear the uproart?She's apparently going to be at a game

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this weekend and ticket sales are soaring. He's going to go see her new
guy Kelsey if he is her newguy, which remains to be seen.
It's five h six on your wakeup call. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, we'rejust two days away from a possible government
shutdown. Where are we in avoidingthe shutdown at midnight tomorrow? Well,
it doesn't appear we're going to avoidit. I look the House and Senator

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on different pages. They need toget on the same page, and that
hasn't happened yet. The deadline,it seems this morning, is very likely
to come and go without a deal. The House of Representatives last night passed
a full year appropriations bill for theDefense Department and Homeland Security and the State
Department. But it's those those measuresare not likely to become law because they
contain provisions, for example, takingthe Defense secretary salary down to a dollar,

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spanning the use of funds for criticalrace theory, drag Queen story hour.
Because this is what they want todo. This is what they want
to do. They want to listen. They the funds would ban gender affirming
care, critical race theory, dragQueen story hour, and they sent it
to the Senate. That's what theydid last night. The Senate is not
going to send that bill to thePresident's desk, and I have to reconcile
those differences. And by the way, the key question really hanging over all

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this is whether the United States isgoing to continue funding and to what extent
it will the effort to fend offRussian aggression in Ukraine. And right now
there remains a lack of agreement betweenthe two sides and amongst Republicans in the
House of Representatives. So the speakeris facing with an anvil over his head

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and assorted hiss through the risk oflosing his job as Speaker of the House.
Late yesterday, the Washington Post reportedthat some of these Republicans, mac
Gates and others are going to moveearly next week to oust McCarthy as speaker,
and they're pointing at Tom Emmer,the number three in the leadership Republican
congressmen from Minnesota, former talk radiohost, and saying that he should be

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the next speaker. Now, Emmais a McCarthy loyalist, and he's got
his hands up head not me.I don't want anything to do with this,
So we'll see what happens. Butall this is happening right now is
the country's focused on the lack ofgood governance frankly in Washington, DC,
And what will the immediate impact be. Well, the immediate impact would be

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the come Monday, really Sunday,hundreds of thousands of federal workers would be
furloughed. But most acutely and mostdepressingly, Congress appears set to let our
military down in a way that ithasn't in quite some time. Last night,
the House passed a full year dD appropriations bill, But again that's
not going to become law. That'sthe mechanism to have paychecks flow to the

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troops. In the past shutdowns thatleave experience that we remember most. What
member perhaps the best right There werethere three in the last couple of decades.
It was a nineteen ninety five inBill Clinton and Nuke King Rich's era.
There was another one, I thinkaround that time. It was one
in twenty thirteen where Ted Cruz readout of green Eggs and ham on the
Senate floor. That was about Obamacare. And then in twenty eighteen there was

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a fight between Donald Trump and CongressionalDemocrats and ultimately it ended because at the
end of it, it lasted forabout four weeks. Members of the TSA
started calling in sick because why shouldthey have to go into the airports and
not get paid, and members ofair traffic control people said that they were
going to do the same, whichwould have crippled aviation, and that meant

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a great deal to Donald Trump,so he struck a deal. Right now,
the way things are, it's notclear how this is going to get
resolved because any kind of short termmeasure that the Senate might send, first
of all, doesn't appear the Senatewill pass it ahead of the deadline in
the first place, and by thetime it gets to the House, the
question that becomes what a speaker McCarthydo. Does he put it on the
floor or does he not? Andat the moment he appears he's not interested

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in doing it. So we'll see. It's like the Keystone Cops. Well,
it doesn't appear as though they havea plan. If they have a
plan, we would we would seeit, we would know it. And
there's a lot of talk from McCarthythat he's got this plan, but it
hasn't manifested in a way that makesany real sense to any of us who've
been around a while. So we'llsee what happens. Okay, We'll be
watching for tomorrow at midnight, andthen I'm sure we'll be talking more about

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it on Monday if it does,in fact happen. With the proviso that
anything can happen, absolutely so I'llkeep my fingers crossed. Thanks Stephen Portnoy,
appreciate it. Let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.It's a bird, it's a plane.
It's actually dozens of planes flying overHuntington Beach for the Pacific Air Show.
We're expecting a couple hundred thousand peopleon the beach each day. Pacific Air

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Show director Kevin Elliot. It says. Forty eight military aircraft include the US
Air Force Thunderbirds, Army and Navyparachuters, and an F twenty two Raptor
demo team. As for civilians,we're gonna have the OC Fire Authority coming
through doing a water drop with oneof their tankers. Wet Tom Larkin flying
the Subsonics mini jet, which isjust a little bit bigger than a go
kart, plus Red Bull Aerobatic helicopterpilot Aaron Fitzgerald. You will see a

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helicopter go upside down, so you'llsee loops and rolls and all the standard
aerobatic maneuvers that you see in airplanes, only I'm going to do it in
a helicopter jet. Waco pilot JaredLindeman flies on nineteen twenty nine biplane with
a lear Jet engine strapped on.So that allows us to have positive thrust
to weight rat show and we canactually pull it up on a vertical line
and stop and hover, and there'snot many airplanes that can do that.
Pilot Scratch Mitchell flies one of twoT thirty three. We do a head

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on crosses high adrenaline type thanks missingeach other by mere feet at over a
thousand miles an hour. The showruns ten thirty to four thirty today through
Sunday at Lion Air Museum in SantaAnna. Corbin Carson k if I News,
Oh, we've got another shooting onMetro. A man is in the
hospital after he was shot at theMetro See Green Line station in the Vermont

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Vista area. LAPD responded to thelight rail station at eleven twenty last night
on South Figaroa, there were reportsof shots fired. They found the guy
in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. Again. He was taken to the
hospital. We don't know his condition. A jury has found a man guilty
of trying to kill two La CountySheriff's deputies in Compton. Jurors convicted Deonte

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Murray yesterday on ten counts, includingthree counts of attempted murder. On September
twelfth, twenty twenty, Murray walkedup to a Sheriff's patrol suv at a
train station and open fire. Threedays later, Murray was found barricaded in
a home in Lynnwood. A womanwho allegedly beat up a thirteen year old
and a McDonald's and Harbor City hasbeen arrested. Investigators say tips from the

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public helped find the woman. Thebeating earlier this month was caught on video.
The girl attacked says it was totallyunprovoked. The second Republican debate,
held in Simi Valley, had thelowest viewership since twenty fifteen. Data shows
just over nine million people tuned inWednesday night. Yep I was one of
them. That's a big drop fromthe first debate last month, which drew

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more than twelve million viewers. FormerPresident Trump did not show up at either
debate, and some candidates expressed theirfrustration that he was not there. The
Anaheim City Council has new reforms followinga federal corruption investigation into a shady deal
to sell Angel Stadium, which causedthe mayor to resign. Councilwoman Natalie Rubacava
says a plan to keep emails longerand restrict personal device use is important.

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I do agree with you. Ifsomebody's going to break the law, they're
going to do it anyways. Butwe still have to do something about putting
safeguards in place to prevent any accidentallack of reporting or maintaining records. The
city this week also moved to hiremore employees to handle public records requests.
Authorities in Pakistan say at least fiftytwo people celebrating the prophet Muhammad's birthday have

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been killed in an explosion. Nearlyseventy others were hurt. Two people were
killed in a separate explosion at amosque in northwest Pakistan. The US Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission is sued Tesla,alleging the company engages in racial discrimination and
harassment. The lawsuit filed yesterday inCalifornia, comes after an investigation into Testla's

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treatment of black employees. The EOCsays the company violated federal law by tolerating
the widespread and ongoing harassment of blackemployees and by retaliating against employees who complained.
Okay, I told you earlier.It's National Coffee Day. Here's where
you can get goodies. At CoffeeBean app, users will automatically be entered

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to win a contest for free dailybeverages. One person's going to get free
coffee for a year, and thensixty will get daily beverages through the end
of this year. Duncan has partneredOh God Swifties Listen Up. Duncan has
partnered with Little Words Project on acollection of four tailors swift style bracelets with

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caffeine affirmation messages. They're dropping today. Also rewards members get a free medium
or hot, hotter iced coffee witha purchase Today. Dutch Brothers has a
special. They've got some special drinkmore coffee hats and also a buy one,
get one free crispy cream. Youcan get a free medium coffee,
hot or iced and you don't haveto buy anything. That's today Pizza I

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Love this pizza has a disloyalty program. It'll allow customers to use points from
other coffee shops to get coffee fromtheir shops. And Wendy's is giving away
small coffee with any purchase. Andthat's today through Sunday. I got my
caffeine. I hope you get yours. It's needed. Oh and it's it's

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apparently good for you too. Thel Kenny Sheriff's Department is investigating vandalism done
to some cars and Ladera Heights asa hate crime. At least eight cars
had swastikas spray painted onto and carvedinto their cars. More than forty five
million student loan accounts will be activeagain starting Sunday, October one. The
payments were paused for most borrowers duringthe pandemic. A dog stolen from a

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woman at a seven eleven in NorthHollywood has been found in Orange County at
a sober living home. When thetenants were confronted, they took off.
The dog's been returned to the womanwho was attacked on Tuesday at six oh
five handle on the news. Theuaw's expected to announce whether it's going to
expand the autoworker strikes to more plantsacross the US. But right now,
from halfway around the world, let'ssay good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller in

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Jerusalem. What time is it whereyou are, Jordana, It's about three
twenty five in the afternoon, Soyou didn't I didn't have to get up
early for you. Yeah, well, we're glad you made the time for
us. So diplomatically speaking, yousay, this has been a good week
in the Middle East. Tell uswhat happened. Yeah, there's been a

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lot of momentum building around that possiblebreakthrough of a normalization deal between Israel and
Saudi Arabia. But now it hasto be said, it's still going to
be along and the winding road.But we saw some first this week which
are encouraging signs. First of all, the Saudis sent for the first time

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in fifty years, more than fiftyyears, a top official to the West
Bank to discuss a possible deal betweenIsrael and Riad with the Palestinian authority.
They basically presented the credentials of thenew ambassador to Ramala, though he won't
be residing there. He'll be residingin Jordans Nonetheless, it's an important development

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because the Saudis are going to berepresenting the demands of the Palestinians in this
deal, and they really came toreassure the Palestinians that they are not going
to be sidelines and they're going totry to get as many Israeli concessions that
they hand for the Palestinians in thisdeal. The Palestines were essentially left out

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of the deal that is well recentlysigned a couple a few years ago with
the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco.So the Palestins trying this time to be
part of the negotiations through the SaudistHaving said all of that, they're not
going to get, you know,something as grand or as important as you
know, major steps towards the Palestinianstate, but they may get, for

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example, some transfers of land thatis currently under Israeli control in the West
Bank, have that transferred to thePalestinians. The other obstacle, of course,
is the very right wing government ofPrime Minister Benjamin at Yale. He's
going to have to really put hisfoot down to try to get this deal
done because his far right partners,you know, or don't like any any

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any confessions, but all steps aregood steps, right. I mean in
this region, any you know flickon the radar that moved us out of
you know, entrenched conflict and towardsany signs of hope is a good one.

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But we don't know if that willactually come to terms. We'll have
to wait and see, Okay.And then something else that happened this week
is it Israel reopened a crossing withthe Gaza strip. What does that do?
Right? So there were for morethan for almost two weeks now,
there were ongoing ongoing protests at theGaza border. They turned you know,

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very violent. At least one pouncingwas killed, tons of acres of farmland
were torched, and Israel finally decidedto reopen the Gauza border and let almost
twenty thousand workers in the qataris alsocame through with some aid. So we
believe now that that is the endof that kind of cycle of violence.

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If you remember a few years ago, back in twenty eighteen twenty nine,
you know, hundreds of Palestinians werekilled at protests there that lasted almost two
years, weekly protests. So Iknow that we don't hear about it that
much, you know, because it'shalfway around the world. But you were
talking about the protests. Are theykind of just ongoing all the time and

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they flare up sometimes or do theystop for a while and then restart.
How does that all play out now? So they actually stopped for quite a
while. We haven't seen sustained protestsday after day for more than two years.
It was a tactic that Hamas,the militant group that runs the Gods
the Strip, employed to put pressureon Israel when there were other things going

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on that might have been issues herein Jerusalem at the contested holy site,
the Alexams compound, It might havebeen other issues going on in the northern
border. So this is kind ofa trigger that Hamas pulls, you know,
when it sees fit. And that'swhat it did. For almost two

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weeks, we saw those daily protests, and you're right, they don't really
make headlines unless, of course,they turned really deadly, which they have
in the past. Probably the deadliestday, you know, recently in recent
times, was the day that theUS embassy moved officially and reopened opened here
in Jerusalem under President Trump. Youknow, there were dozens of Palestinians killed

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that day at the Gothen border.Okay, well, baby steps and like
I said, all steps are goodsteps. Thank you sir, Thank you
so much for your time, Jordana, and thanks say have a great weekend.
All right, we'll talk to yousoon. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of theKFI twenty four hour newsroom. Wages are
going up for fast food workers inCalifornia. Governor Newsom has approved a twenty

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dollars minimum wage for fast food workers. The average wage in California for fast
food workers is currently sixteen sixty anhour. Newson says there are more than
five hundred and fifty thousand workers thatwill see pay hikes. Eighty percent of
the work force these fast food placesare people of color. The pay hikes
will go into effect in April.The law signed yesterday also creates a fast

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food Council that could raise wages eachyear through twenty twenty nine. In downtown
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Three members of a burglary crew havebeen arrested as they allegedly left a home
in La they'd been broken into detectivesfrom the La Kenny Sheriff's Major Crimes Bureau
and members of the newly formed OrganizedRetail Theft Task Force had been watching the

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crew. They say. A searchof the gate getaway car turned up stolen
items, burglary tools, a familyportrait from the home that was hit,
a couple of rolexes, and somejewelry. Former President Trump is set to
speak at the California Republican Party Fallconvention in Anaheim. He'll be joined today
by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott andFlorida Governor Ron de Santis, who are

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also running for president. They'll bespeaking at different times. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy,
who's also running, is set tospeak at a luncheon tomorrow. The
convention run through Sunday. Did youhear it? Confucius Day? I love
that so it always reminds me ofthis one. Confucius say, man who
runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs in back of car

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gets exhausted. All right, rightnow, let's say good morning to our
very own house whisperer and host ofHome with Dean Sharp Dean Sharp, Dean.
You know the thing about your jokeis that. Well, okay,
it was cute, But I justfind it amazing that Confucius knew what a

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car was. That's that's the thing. See think about that. He lived
like twenty five years ago. Sowell maybe I was smart. He was
smart. Okay, So Dean,let's let's talk about what you call the
most universally important room in the house. Yes, the bathroom. Totally.
It is important, right, Imean, it's just one of those things.

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There's no avoiding it. There isno avoiding the bathroom. I also
love this little gem. I sharethis every single time we talk about bathrooms
because it kind of sets up howimportant they really are to us. We're
all imprinted, you know, emotionally, with a certain vibe towards bathrooms.
And I think it tracks all theway back to the fact that think about

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it, the bathroom is very likelythe very first room that your parents ever
officially allowed you to go into andsaid, please shut the door, learn
to function in there on your own. Shut the door. It was the
first room you were allowed to retreatinto with the door shut and with everybody's

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permission, And ever since then,the bathroom still remains that kind of a
thing for us. You know.I mean, whether you just need to
get a break and you've set yourbathroom up as sort of a spa retreat,
or you know, you're at aparty, we're at a restaurant somewhere,
and the conversations lagging, or you'rejust like, oh, geez,
how do I get out of thissituation? Oh, you know what,

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I've got to go use the restroom. You don't have to actually have to
go to the bathroom, but yougo because you know it's a place and
once you're in that little stall,for as long as you're there, you
own that space. And so bathroomsare really really important to us emotionally speaking.
And I think we've finally in thedesign world come full circle with residential

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bathrooms and people really see them forwhat they are. It's not just a
utilitarian place. It's a very importantplace to us. Oh yeah, my
friends just they built a house,and why their bathroom is beautiful and they
spend all this time figuring out thetub and the shower and the tile and
the wall tile and just everything becauseit is. I mean, it's just

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this beautiful space. So tell usif you have a bathroom that's kind of
old and outdated and is, asyou call it, an owl. How
can we try to into Ah,wow, give us give us some examples.
All right, So you know,right off the top of the list,
if your if your home was builtin the eighties or the nineties,
there's a very good chance that it'sgot some kind of like overly fancy,

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big old jetted spot tub, thegigantic platform, right yeah, and whether
it now, how often do youuse it? Let me ask you that,
I mean, are you do youdo you take you know, long
baths and just enjoy that time.And if you do, do you do
you use the jets? Okay,so the jetted tub is up in my
house in Portland. But I dohave a tub here, and I know

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I never use it. Okay,most people don't when I was younger,
but I just don't like the ideaof I dated a guy one time who
told me I just can't imagine sittingin my own dirt, And since then
I've not gone into the tub again. We'll see. That's the thing.
That's the thing. Showers really aresuperior way of cleaning yourself up. And

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most people don't bathe in a bathtub. They soak, They luxuriate. So
in other words, you know,you know, you know, you'll take
a shower first and then you'll getinto the tub, and you know,
so it's a very spa thing.And the issue I have with the old
jetted tubs is not only do theytake up after that whole platform is built
out a tremendous amount of space ina bathroom that you otherwise might want to

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use for other things. Maybe youwant to increase the size of the shower,
maybe you want to fit a saunain there. I mean, who
knows what, But a jetted tuband its platform take up so so much
space. Plus it doesn't really proveout in practice even if you are one
who likes to lounge in the tub. You see that kind of a sprowled

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out in a magazine, and youknow, there she is. She's got
her candles and her bubbles and everything. And then you realize, you know,
if I turn the blower on inthis tub, all of a sudden,
the peace and the zen in thisbathroom just turns into just white noise.
There's a machine blowing in the bathroom. All right, So what's the
better idea? The better idea iswhere things have really gone, which is
losing all of that. If you'rethinking about doing a bathroom remodel, keep

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the tub, but to do afree standing tub, really big, beautiful,
elegant free standing tubs take up youknow, just a third of the
space and they're so cool looking now, like the clow foot tub is like
the traditional one, but now they'rejust like these big basins of just beauty.
They are they are. They comein every shape and size. You

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can go back to the you know, the vintage clow foot look, the
slipper tub what we call it becauseit rises up on one side a little
more support for your back. Butthere are contemporary versions. I mean literally
any time period, any style youcan get a free standing tub for and
you will save a tremendous amount ofspace in the bathroom and get a much

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much more elegant look, and Iwould argue a much better luxuriating experience in
that at tubs. So that's justone example. Another one is if you've
got a really really small bathroom andwe're remodeling, we encourage people all the
time, let's lose the shower door, let's lose the glass around the shower.
And the reason is not because there'sanything wrong with shower glass. It's

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great, it's awesome, but it'sone more thing to clean. And if
you replace it with a really elegantcurtain, then when that curtain is open,
all of the air space the volumeof the bathroom that is in the
shower belongs to the rest of theroom, and so the room feels larger.
There's no avoiding the fact, evenif it's crystal clear glass that if

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there is a wall of glass there, you're subdividing the bathroom space. And
in a small bathroom that already iscramped for space that only you know encloses
it that much more. I feeltrendy then, because I have a shower
curtain. Okay, I want tomove to toilets, because we talked about
toilets very briefly last week, andyou mentioned wall mounted toilets, which I

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said, yes, scare the crapout of me because I'm a fat that's
right. You said you had afear of those, well, because I'm
afraid if you put one in yourhouse and it would you know, you'd
sit on it and it would breakand fall down. Yeah. Yeah,
not not at all the case.If you if you ever see a wall
mounted toilet before it's been installed.You see that that toilet is not just
some you know, a little pieceof porcelain bowl that's somehow bolted into the

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bottom of the wall. It ispart of a unit that goes almost floor
to ceiling in the wall itself.It is bolted into studs, the bottom
plate, the top plate. Inother words, that thing is going absolutely
nowhere. What's the benefit of havinga wall mounted tub versus a floor or

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wall mounted toilet versus a floor mountedspace visual space? When you think about
the fact that the tank behind yourtoilet is making it the bowl stick out
about twelve inches out into the bathroom. So when you've got again a small
bathroom number one, a wall mountedtoilet allows that whole bowl to move closer

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to the wall. You'll save abouttwelve inches of walking space in front of
it. Plus you got space underneathit because there's no foot And cleaning a
bathroom where the toilet is floating abovethe floor. Oh, it's a whole
different experience. Even if you don'tstand in that space. If you see
it, your brain registers it asspaciousness. Okay, I like that.

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And then one other thing is yougo from out to WoT squishy seats are
out. Huh oh yeah, squishyseats with the little patterns and the embroidery
on them sometimes you know, yeah, yes, squishy seats are out,
all right? Instead, what's inthe day seats? The day seats are
the thing. In fact, Iwould tell everybody, anybody who's remodeling a

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bathroom, whether you are into abiday seat or not, if you're thinking
about resale or the future, youshould actually wire an outlet behind your toilet
so that it is bid day readyall right, and we're gonna have many
more out to wow examples that you'regoing to share this weekend on Home with

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Dean Sharp. And that's from sixto eight tomorrow morning and the nine to
noon on Sunday. You got it. He's our house whisperer. Thank you
so much, Dean. Thanks Amy. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's entertainment Gurut, Jason Nathanson, Jason with Ai making such a splash,
worries about how it could take overthe world and such, talk to

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us about the creator. Yeah,it's an interesting timely movie and it's interesting
how these things come out because GarethEdwards who's the writer director of it,
who did Rogue one, the StarWars movie which is very well received.
A few years ago. Oh,Jason, I gotta interrupt you for just
one second. I'm so sorry,but we're just getting this that Diane Feinstein

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has died, so just wanted tolet you know. We'll bring you more
information as it comes in, butwe just got that word and wanted to
let people know. Okay, sure, how do we switch back? But
sure, anyway back to the creator. Yes, that's stuff, but it
is. It's interesting because Garett Edwards, who was the writer director of the
film, started making this four orfive years ago, and you know,

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you think about the time four orfive years ago. Sure, AI was
a thing, but not like itis now. In every headline on every
you know, the page. We'reall talking about it chat ept in those
things, and that didn't exist whenhe made this film, started writing it
at least, so for to comeout now. It's just interesting how the

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cycle of movies go. This isabout It's a sci fi kind of action
war film about a guy played byJohn David Washington who is an ex Special
Forces agent in this war against AI. AI has become very powerful. They're
basically robots who were very humanlike andthere are a lot of issues ethically with
when it comes to AI and theissues surrounding this. So this explores all

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that. And when it's doing that, I think it's a fascinating look at
things. I think it's a fascinatingkind of study of what's going on and
where we are. But also it's, uh, it's it's it's a good
action kind of sci fi movie.My only problem with it it didn't hit
for me on an emotional level.You know. It's the kind of thing
where I think by the end theywant you to be in tears, but

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for me, I wasn't. Buta lot of the stuff surrounding it I
found very very interesting. You know. It's really interesting to me is that
they've already got this movie and it'sout and like AI and we've already we've
had thoughts of AI, but likechat, GPT and real AI in our
everyday lives, it's been around forless than a year. Yeah, and

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you know, this year has beenhuge when AI at the forefront in the
strikes in Hollywood, you know,with with the actors and the writers,
and so for this movie to becoming out. It's just it's kind of
it's almost creepy the timing of it. You know, like AI, it's
something that AI could have done,but that you know, it's that's also

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a lot of movies come out andyou think, oh, that's definitely a
reflection on the pandemic or something likethat, and you know, it's just
the life cycle of movies. Usuallyit's about seven years from when it's something
started to when it hits the screen. So it's never really talking about the
moment that you think it's in,but a lot of things just are reflected
in society. Okay, so what'snew streaming this week? A couple of

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things. You have jen V,which is a spinoff of The Boys,
which is the on Amazon Prime.It's really raunchy superhero show. You know,
if you have the Marvel version ofsuperheroes, which is kind of clean
and sanitized, The Boys imagines aworld where superheroes were actually real, how
debaucherous that they would be. Thisspinoff is set in a college for young

(34:51):
superheroes, so you can imagine wherethings might go there when you have really
kind of raunchy superheroes. It's justlike it's it's it's older brother. It
is very very funny. It isvery very raunchy, it is very very
bloody. I made the mistake ofsitting down to eat lunch while watching the
first episode, and do not dothat. But I should have known from

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the boys that that's not a smartdecision anyway. But I really liked it,
And if you're a fan of theBoys, I think you're gonna be
a fan of Jen v Awesome.Jason Nathanson, thank you so much for
your time this morning. We'll talkto you next week. All right,
take care, all right, takecare. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour newsroom. As we mentioned
just a minute ago, Senator DianneFeinstein, a vocal advocate of gun control

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measures who was known for trying tofind common ground with Republicans during three decades
in the Senate, has died.She was the oldest member of the Senate,
the longest serving female center as senator, and the longest serving Senator from
California. Dianne Feinstein was ninety.United Auto Workers President Sean Faine is expected
to announce new targets in the strikeagainst gm Ford and Stilantis workers are going

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into their third week of the strike. Last week, Faine announced that the
strike had been expanded to thirty eightgeneral motors and Stillantis plants in twenty States.
Ford was spared because of progress madein negotiations. He's expected to make
the announcement on whether they're going toexpand the strike more at seven this morning.
The LAPD has used a drone tentimes in the last year during official

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operations. Most of those calls dealtwith people barricaded inside homes and buildings.
Even though we gave approval on fourteenuses, it was only actually deployed ten
times because the incidents was resolved priorto the sUAS being used, or we
came up with a different type ofoption. Jevity Chief Dave Kowalski says the
second most popular call for drones asmajor traffic collisions. He told the Police

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Commission this week that there have beenno injuries or officer involved shootings during the
drone call. Steve Gregory KINGAFY News. Okay, and one next last thing,
there's a bathroom app called rest Space. It's only in Diego right now,
but kind of caught my attention becausewhen you're out and about and you
gotta go. You gotta go,and where are you gonna go? So

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you can always pull over and finda fast food place or maybe a gas
station, which can sometimes be alittle bit sketchy. But this app is
called rest Space. They're calling itkind of an like an uber for the
potty. Prices start at fifteen dollarsfor fifteen minutes. They kind of lost
me there, but apparently it wasvery successful during Comic Con because restrooms maybe

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in short supply. This is againunique to San Diego right now, but
there are some other toilet finders aroundthe world called There's one called toilet Finder,
There's a flush Finder, and alsoin the UK the lou Finder.
Be interesting to see an expanse here. This is KFI and KOST HD two
Los Angeles, Orange County. Welead local live from the KFI twenty four

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