November 22, 2024 • 44 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. KFI White House correspondent Jon Decker opens the show talking about the Trump Cabinet. Amy shares her review of the new movie Wicked in theatres now. KFI news reporter Jayson Campadonia speaks on this year’s holiday travel. ABC News entertainment reporter Will Ganss and the ‘Entertainment Report’. Today, Will highlights whether “Glicked” will recreate the ‘Barbenheimer; phenomenon? And Harrison Ford is back on the small screen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
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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. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, hello up there, it's five o'clock, straight up. This
is your wake up call for Friday, November twenty second.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Happy to have you along with us this
morning as we get our day started. I'm enjoying my
second cup of coffee. We'll see how that goes. No,
(00:49):
I'm not really affected by coffee that much, are you?
Like some people?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I know?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Just like you know what. Michael Monks is one of
our reporters, and he's been running around the office. He's like,
I'm having a for coffee day, and you can tell
that it really affects him. I don't know that it
really affects me. We got a lot going on today,
so let's get right to it. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call. President elect Trump has picked former Florida
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Attorney General Pam Bondi to be his Attorney general in
his next administration. His previous pick, Former Florida Representative Matt Gates,
took his name out of the running. He's accused of
having sex with a minor. Gates denies it, but says
his nomination had become a distraction. We're going to find
out what happens to Gates now and Bondi's chances of
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getting approved with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, that's
coming up in just a couple of minutes. Governor Newsim
is going to visit the counties that voted for President
Elect Trump this election. The governor apparently hopes to reach
out to working class voters in the Central Valley who
are frustrated by the economy, including Fresno, Caloosa, and Kern
Counties to Laurie Kern, San Bernardino and other inland counties
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also supported Trump over Vice President Harris. The Thanksgiving travel
crushes already begun. Travelers at LAX are running into delays
and cancelations. The TSA says it expects more than eighteen
million people will go through checkpoints through December. Second. We're
going to find out how bad it's going to get.
With kfi's Jason Campedonia coming up at five point thirty
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and first we had Barbenheimer. Well now it's glicked. The
first time I heard this was today Glicked. Yeah, gladiat
or two and wicked. ABC's Willgan says it's going to
be a big weekend at the box office. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. Forecasters are warning that
the risk of flash flooding and rocksides will continue in
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northern California as a major storm moves through. It's already
caused two deaths and knocked out power to hundreds of
thousands of people in Washington and Oregon. Up to sixteen
inches of rain is forecast in northern California and southwestern Oregon.
I better call my mom, she's in southwest Oregon. An
LAPD motorcycle officer's been hurt in a crash on the
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four h five freeway in the Supulvita Pass. The crash
yesterday caused all lanes to be shut down for a
while near Skirball Center Drive. The officer was taken to
the hospital. The LAPD says his injuries are minor and
he's expected to recover. News brought to you by Semper
Solaris USC economics professor says brace yourself. Higher gas prices
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are coming.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Professor Michael Miche has been at the Marshall School of
Business for decades, and he wrote recently the new gas
regulations in the state will hit everyday people directly.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
The average consumer, the average California will have to reallocate
how they spend their money. They'll be a little bit
less maybe going out on entertainment, a little bit less travel.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
The state's newly tightened fuel standards could push gas prices
upwards starting next year, with some estimates showing more than
sixty cents per gallon.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Sixty cents per gallon. I did notice the gas prices
dropped just a schmidge. It was down to like four
forty the other day, but that's still sixty cents a
gallon increase. Pasadena police are trying to find the guy
who groped a twelve year old girl at a bus stop.
The girl was allegedly assaulted on her way to school
Wednesday as she sat on a bench. Police say the
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man took off down Lake Avenue on a bicycle. The
girl called her mother when she got to school and
then police were called. Police have not put out a
description of the man. The Thanksgiving travel crush has already begun.
Travelers like this guy at LAX told KTLA that he
was trying to get a jump on the holiday crowds
but ran into delays.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Is his expected, Its busy time.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
His flight to Cancun was canceled, so.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We're getting rebooked.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
So yeah, it's going to be a couple hours easily.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The TSA expects nearly eighteen million people will be flying
around for the holiday. The Dodgers show, Hey Otani. He
has been named the National League Most Valuable Player. The
vote yesterday by the Baseball Writers Association of America was unanimous.
Otani became the first major league player this year to
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ever hit fifty home runs and steal fifty bases in
a single season. He won the MVP in twenty twenty
one and twenty twenty three in the American League during
his time with the Angels. It's five seven on your
Friday morning wake up call. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's White House correspondent John Decker. So, John, a
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lot has happened since we talked yesterday morning. And at
this time yesterday we were talking about some of the
challenges that Matt Gates was facing in his nomination for
attorney general. That's changed.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Well, there were real challenges, absolutely, Amy, and yesterday when
we spoke, I predicted that Matt Gates would not be
in that role of a nominee to leave the Department
of Justice for much longer. And a few hours after
we spoke, that's exactly what happened. Matt Gates took himself
out of consideration to leave the Department of Justice. And
then last night we already have a replacement, Donald Trump
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indicating that he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondy.
She served two terms as Florida's Attorney general as his
nominee to lead the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Now, she didn't serve in the first Trump administration, but
she's always been a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Oh, absolutely, Going all the way back, Amy to twenty sixteen,
there was a competitive primary for the Republican nomination, you
may recall, and Pam Bondy she endorsed Donald Trump over
her home state US Senator Mark Rubio. Donald Trump rewards loyalty.
He remembers that she was considered for attorney general in
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his first term, ultimately was passed over. But this is
her time, this is her moment, and I think that
she will win confirmation.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Any skeletons in her closet that we know about.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
No, you know, she is a conservative, no doubt about that.
You know, there are senators who will pass judgment on
her nomination who may not like her politics, may not
like her ideology, but they cannot knock her experience. She
has served more than twenty years as a prosecutor. That
is good experience to have if you're going to be
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the chief law enforcement officer of the country. And of
course she's managed an enormous legal office when she was
attorney general for the state of Florida. So I think that,
you know, she may even get some bipartisan support as
it relates to this nomination.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey, in the past, and I don't know if you
can answer this, but it's asking you to go back
into the wayback machine. But in the past, when presidents
would nominate their cabinet members, did they usually get bipartisan support?
Like with Supreme Court justices, it used to be that
they got a lot of bipartisan support. But in the
last few cycles. It hasn't been that way. It's been
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really polarized.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Well yeah, I mean, look, you mentioned Supreme Court Justices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg got unanimous support Republicans and Democrats way
back in the nineties when she was nominated. Same thing
with Justice Anton and Scalia. Things have changed dramatically. I
think that, you know, if you look back to the
Supreme Court nominations of Donald Trump, he got the support
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of Joe Manchin, a Democrat. But that's about it.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
And as it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Relates to cabinet nominees, typically there is some bipartisanship. You know,
it can't It is not always along party lines, and
there will be some nominees for Donald Trump that do
get bipartisan support.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, okay, So I'm going to go all conspiracy theory
on you and see what see your take on it.
So I think that that Trump nominated Matt Gates knowing
that he couldn't get him confirmed, but wanted to, as
you mentioned, reward his loyalty. So he put him up
knowing that there was no way it was going to happen,
and now he can nominate the person he really wanted,
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which was Pam BONDI.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Well, look, I can't get inside of Donald Trump's head,
nor could you Amy, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's why I'm just speculating.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
The strategy is. But having said all that, he did
work the phones trying to get Matt Gates over the
finish line. That was his first choice. He wanted Matt
Gates leading the Department of Justice, and it wasn't meant
to be for Matt Gates because of his ethics problems,
and he quickly, you know, went with the backup number two.
And you know, I think that he's going to be
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pretty satisfied with Pam Bondi leading the Department of Justice,
someone that he's known for quite some time. I think
he's known her longer than he's known Matt Gates. And
he rewards loyalty, and she has been very loyal to
Donald Trump, not only when he was running for president
back in twenty sixteen, but during the course of his
four years in office as well.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, and then now the Gates is out, does he
have any options because he's resigned from the House.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Well, it's interesting because he has resigned from the one
hundred eighteenth Congress he was elected to the Congress this
past November a few weeks ago. He could actually be
sworn in into the one hundred nineteenth Congress if he
wishes to do that, but he's got this ethics report
hanging over his head, so I don't think he's going
to do that. There's going to be an opening for
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the US Senate seat in Florida with Marc Rubio leaving
the Senate to be the next Secretary of State. There's that,
but that's up to the governor. And then, of course
he could potentially be a part of the Trump administration,
but not in a role that requires tenant confirmation. So
those are the options that he has if he wants
to continue being a public servant. Of course, he could
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just go, you know, turn around, be a lobbyist, make
a lot of money in the private sector. And my
guess is that's what I think Matt Gates is ultimately
going to do right away.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Okay, well, we'll be watching him. ABC's White House correspondent
John Decker, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Thanks, Amy, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Talk to you soon.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Rap mogul. Sean
Combs is due back in court today for a bail
hearing in New York City. Kfi's Natalie Migliori says this
is his third try getting out of jail. Is already
denied bail in September and November, but his attorneys are.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Expected to offer the same fifty million dollar baill package
in exchange for an ankle monitor and home confinement.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
His attorneys say a video showing Comb's beating up his
ex girlfriend was edited to manipulate the narrative. Combs's charged
with sex trafficking and racketeering. He's deniedal charges. UCLA has
been given a twenty million dollar grant to help implement
California's first wireless charging roadway. It will allow electric passenger
shuttles and heavy duty buses to charge wirelessly while they
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drive down the street. UCLA Transit and Fleet Director Clinton
Bench says the technology is a game changer.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
The bus is actually able to communicate with the charger,
identify itself literally in seconds, and allow for that charge
to begin so that we're not wasting any electricity.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The initiative is funded by Cap and Trade, auction proceeds
and vehicle registration fees. The new transit hub is expected
to open in twenty twenty eight. The country's first public
electric vehicle churm Urging roadway, opened last year in Michigan.
The United Nations Humanitarian Office has warned of a stark
increase in the number of households in central and southern
Gaza that are experiencing severe hunger. They say they often
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only eat once a day, and experts say a full
blown famine may be underway in the north. Israel says
it allows enough aid to enter, but humanitarian groups say
Israeli restrictions, ongoing fighting, and the breakdown of law and
order pose major obstacles to getting that food distributed. Dozens
of members of Congress are urging President Biden to use
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the rest of his term to address the issue of
mass incarceration. South Carolina Democratic Congressman James Clyburn says Biden
should use his clemency authority to cut some long prison sentences.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
So many people who are serving extensive sentences today are
there because of crimes that have really.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Lawmakers and a letter also requesting Biden grant clemency to
felons who are elderly chronically ill and not considered a
threat to public safety. The US Capital Christmas tree is
arriving this morning. Its name is Spruce Wayne Jeez. It's
traveled thousands of miles to Washington, d C. All the
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way from Alaska. The eighty foot tall Sitka spruce comes
from the Tongas National Forest. It will have five thousand
led lights and more than five thousand ornaments on it,
topped by a star that measures more than four feet
by five feet. The lighting at the US Capitol is
set for December third. You know, it's set for tonight.
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Tim Conway Junior broadcasting live at the brand new Wendy's
in Mission Viejo. It's at twenty three twenty two Alicia Parkway.
Tim's going to be there from four to seven because
we're promoting Pastathon. You can come by and say hi,
donate five dollars or more in store and get a
coupon book. It's all to raise money for the fourteenth
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annual KFI Pastathon. Jeff Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more
than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids in
need in southern California. And we can't do it without you.
That's why we'd love for you to come by. Stop by,
say hi to Tim, and like I said, donate five
bucks or more and you'll get a coupon book. If
you can't make it by today, you could also check
out the fork Report. He's going to be out during
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his show tomorrow from two to five. After in the afternoon,
he'll be broadcasting live at the Smart and Final in
Lake Forest. That's the one at twenty three six thirty
one El Toro Road. Come by shop for your Thanksgiving,
say hi to Neil, and donate any amount to the
KFI pastathon in store at checkout. You can also donate
online at KFI AM six forty dot com slash postathon.
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I know that one hundred percent of your donation goes
directly to Katerina's Club. Oh and don't forget, we're going
to be broadcasting live from the Anaheim White House on Tuesday,
December third. That's Giving Tuesday. We're going to be out
there starting with wake up call at five, then Gary
and Shannon, and then John and Tim and Moe all
the way through ten pm. You can donate on site,
drop off some pasta, say hi, I we'd love to
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see you. There could be a lot of very sick
people this winter. A new report from the CDC says
roughly thirty five percent of US adults have gotten their
flu vaccine and just eighteen percent have gotten an updated
COVID vaccine. RSV vaccination rates are also low. The CDC
says a lot of unvaccinated adults do say they still
plan to get their shots. More than twelve hundred residents
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in Sun Valley and Pacoima are going to share a
nearly sixty million dollars settlement against the DWP. The lawsuit
claims residents were exposed to a gas leak at the
Sun Valley Generating Station because DWP failed to perform adequate
equipment inspections and notify residents of possible gas leaks. Show
hey Otani has won his third MVP award. The Dodger
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star hitter made history by becoming the first fifty to
fifty player in the major leagues. He finished this with
fifty four home runs and fifty nine stolen bases darn
close to sixty sixty huh. The vote was unanimous. The
star slugger is expected to start pitching for the Dodgers
in twenty twenty five at six oh five, it's handled
on the news. Matt Gates is out, a longtime loyalist
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is in as President Elect Trump's pick for Attorney General. Popular.
You're gonna be popular.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I'll teach you the proper.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I think this movie is going to be very popular. It's,
of course Wicked, long awaited, and yesterday we had estimates
that it was expected to bring in one hundred million
dollars over the opening weekend. Well last night it brought
in twenty and that was just in previews. So now
they've up those estimates to one hundred and thirty million
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dollars in its opening weekend.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
If you haven't heard of Wicked, okay. It stars Ariana Grande,
Cynthia Arrivo, Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Uh, the woman
who still doing everything everywhere all at once, Michelle Yo
love her.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
There's the voice of Peter Dinklage, and then also Jonathan
Bailey and I was like, where is he from? He's
from Bridgerton. So and that's just a few oh and
then Saturday Night Lives Bow and Yang is also in it.
So Nick and I went to see it yesterday and
it was a sold out theater. As we understand it,
it's the backstory leading up to the Wizard of Oz,
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based on the book Wicked and also on the Broadway
musical starring Kristin Chennow with and Adina Mazzelle and Nick.
I don't know if you agree. We talked about the
movie a little bit afterwards. I thought it was beautiful,
like the world they created is spectacular. Visually stunning is
actually I wrote notes down and that was one of
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the things I said. And then the lead characters, I mean,
you know they can sing, but they can sing.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And it's the thing that they can sang, right, And
the two things that I say, visual stunning and the
thing you and I did talk about. The thing that's
the most exciting thing to me is these sets were
practical sets. And what that means is these are not
Now they may be enhanced by CGI in post production,
but they're all built sets. So it's just like back
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when they created the original Wizard of Oz. They're real
practical sets. So when you see the film and you
see them pick up a prop, it's not created in
a computer. It may be enhanced in the computer, but
they're actually there. So there's a sequence that you've seen
in the commercials. That's a train. That's this big, beautiful
green train. It's a real train that they go on.
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It's incredible and it's on its way to OZ. But
it's a real train that you see them get on.
It's a huge I forget how many tons, it's like
fifteen ton train that they built for this for the movie. Yeah,
they actually get on. It's not a fake train. It's
a real train that they get on.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I think that's kind of cool in today because in
some of the previews, because there's like a half an
hour of previews, so brace for that. But in one
of the previews, I went, oh, that looks really great
and Nick goes, that's not a real person and I
was like what and he's like, that's animation. It's how
to Train Your Dragon, And yes, I thought it was
a real person. So I'm imagining that that whole world
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is sort of CGI and animation. So it's really fun
to see them actually use physical sets.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yes, it was really really cool. It's so cool to
see them manipulate everything like that. But yeah, it just
it really and the other thing too, to go back
to the singing part, John Cho Cho choe cho.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm feeling horrible here. Director.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Anyway, he required them to sing, so they had to
sing on set, so everything it had to be sung live,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Everything was done.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That is so interesting because while the show was going,
I was like, Wow, they really look like they're singing,
because in some shows you see that there are lots
of musicals you see that their lips sinking, and in
this one, you really get to feel the feeling that
they're in there, they're in their character and they're singing.
So that was fun. Okay, we got to address one thing. Yeah,
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make sure you go to the bathroom first because it
is long.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's two hours and forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Plus the half hour of previews and I didn't even
take a bathroom break. I was pretty impressive with myself.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Yeah no, I was.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, okay. So, and here's the thing that Nick and
I also talked about. We don't want to tell you
anything about it because even though I saw the show Wicked,
it's been like over ten years, so and of course
I have the memory of a nat But even though
I saw the show, I didn't know what to expect
from the movie. So I think that I think, just
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go see it. I mean, it is long, but it
is it's fun, it's funny, it's sad. I wasn't the
only one crying in the theater. There's this one scene
where Cynthia Rivo is so powerful, like you see the
pain in her eyes. I was like, oh my God,
like it was. She did such a good job with that.
And I don't want to tell you the scene. I
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don't want to tell you what happened, but I'm gonna
guess that at some point you'll be crying too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I mean, and not to not to pull back
the curtain. This is my fourth time seeing it because
I got to go to a few special previews and
special piece.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
But I.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Only say that because I too missed the you know,
fourth time through in the last two almost three weeks
of seeing these previews, and it still is emotional. So
I'm saying it's still even though it's a long film,
even though that there's a lot involved with it, it
still tugs at your heartstrings and gets you each and
every time. And that's what's even more important. Yeah, So
I mean that for me, it's worth your time, and
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especially with Thanksgiving coming up and you're looking for something
to do.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You know it's well worth it, and buy.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Your seats in advance because it's expected to be really busy.
And if you haven't seen Wicked, you probably you probably
know the story. You don't have to have seen the
stage show to see the movie, obviously, but you should
see the Wizard of Oz or at least know the
story because there are so many things that happen that
are little aha moments that refer back to the Wizard
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of Os or you go, oh, that's that's why that happened.
So I love backstory movies that kind of reveal why
things are the way they are.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, and there's lots of Easter eggs here. And if
you have not seen Wicked in person, it is coming
to the Pantagious on December fourth, so you can actually
kind of two for it. You can see it in
theaters and on the stage coming up here really.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Soon, which I think is fabulous because again I saw
it first on stage and that was more than ten
years ago, and I remember coming out of the theater
just loving, loving, loving it and going when are they
going to make a movie. So it took more than
ten years, but they did it. Also, there are a
couple of songs. Of course, there's popular, which is it's
a catchy little tune it I was singing it all
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night when I got home, just humming it away. It
was one of those earworms. And they're worried that people
are going to sing it in the theaters and wreck
the experience for people, so they actually are putting up
signs and saying, hey, you guys, don't sing okay, but
there is an opportunity for you to sing away with everybody.
And it's coming on day, right, nick yep, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So starting on Christmas Day, you'll be able to book
tickets for sing along shows exclusively. And now we'll run
into the new year, so that'll be coming to Regal theaters,
AMC Theaters, and a couple of Harkins and a couple
of other theaters around the country. So it's gonna be
like a tailor for fifty y soon, eight hundred percent
absolutely with the lyrics on the screen and everything. In
case you are new to the Wicked franchise and I
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don't know all the lyrics, so I thank you there
for you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you don't know the songs, I think you're going
to Oh you will love them, and I just this
is one of my favorite notes. It's a great movie.
Good luck getting tickets though. Phillips sixty six, which has
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a refinery in Carson, has been indicted on six federal
counts of illegal dumping. The Texas based petroleum company allegedly
dumped nearly one hundred thousand pounds of oil and grease
into the La County sewers between November of twenty twenty
and February of twenty twenty one. They're facing millions of
dollars in fines if found guilty. An eighteen year old
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is pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges and connection
with the stabbings of three people. Poli say va Hey
Virginian got into a fight with several men following a
road rage incident in Glendale on Sunday night. Three men
were stabbed, all of them survived. Virginian was arrested on Tuesday.
Wicked has already taken in twenty million dollars at the
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box office, and that was just from previews. It's now
expected to fly off the handle with one hundred and
thirty million dollars in ticket sales in its opening weekend
At six oh five. It's handled on the news. It
doesn't have any teeth, but the International Criminal Court has
issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo.
And as I just mentioned, and Wicked is in theaters.
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We already had Barbenheimer. Will Glicked be as popular popular
you're gonna be? Yeah, it's gonna get stick stuck in
your head, I promise you. Let's think Good morning too,
KFI is Jason Campedonia. Good morning Jason.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And I love that song already.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Oh well, we went and saw Wicked last night. We
were just talking about it and I had that in
my brain all night. It's one of those earworming kind
of stories or songs. Okay, so today, let's talk about
holiday travel because it's not even Thanksgiving week, but the
travel season is well underway.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, it has begun.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
People are taking the week off of work and making
it a Thanksgiving week celebration versus just the Thursday, actual
holiday celebration. We're seeing some delays at airports across the country. Obviously,
weather impacting a lot of travel. Up in the Pacific Northwest,
we're having that bomb cyclone atmospheric river, lots of rain.
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Everything is wet and soggy.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Roadways they are terrible.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
If you watch the football game last night between the
Browns and the Steelers, you saw a pretty heavy snowstorm
come in late in the game. So that's affecting travel
in that part of the country.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
Triple A is saying that about eighty million people are
going to start traveling starting today over the next couple
of days. They believe that Tuesday is going to be
the heaviest day. They feel that about Tuesday, fifty people
of seventy million people are going to be traveling about
fifty miles or more to get to their destination via car.
(26:38):
They also say that Tuesday, between the hours of one
and seven PM, avoid the roadways as much as possible.
I always like that, Yeah, yeah, I always liked that
graphic from the television news stations that show, you know,
the four or five that's backed up four miles. It's
like Castayic all the way down to Orange County. It's
(26:59):
just red lights everywhere. And so, yeah, Tuesday evening is
going to be a nasty one. And you know the
I cover this stray every year. You know, people traveling
for the holiday, blah blah blah. The old adage is,
you know, pack your patients. I've turned it into a
drinking game. Just be nice out there, that's like the
(27:19):
biggest thing.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Just be nice. Be courteous to the person who you're
dealing with at the gas station or the ticket counter
or whatever it is, because they're dealing with a lot
of jerks out there, So just be nice, give yourself
plenty of time, and everything should be okay.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh, Jason, I think you're asking for too.
Speaker 11 (27:35):
Much, you know it. Kindness is free, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I totally agree, And I don't like the catchphrase pack
your patients, but I mean it's true, right, You got
to be because there's nothing you can do when you
get to the ticket counter. Or you can be a jerk,
or you can be nice.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
Right right, or you can just be nice and it's okay.
And if you give yourself plenty of time and eat
something before you get to the airport so you're not
angry when you're talking to the ticket counter people, you know,
have a snack, Maybe lay off the booze early in
the morning, just because you can have a whiskey sour
(28:16):
at seven o'clock.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
In the morning doesn't mean you should.
Speaker 11 (28:19):
Have a whiskey sour at seven o'clock in the morning.
So just take it easy, and you know, remember you're
not the only one out there. It's not only about you,
it's about everybody trying to do the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And Jason, we talked about the time to stay off
the road, But if you're flying, is there any good
time to fly next week? Like, if you have any
last minute plans, is there anything?
Speaker 11 (28:41):
Probably Monday evening into Tuesday morning is probably going to
be your best bet.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Wednesday morning, try to avoid that.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
That's going to be the heaviest day at the Airport's lax,
you know, like I said, you know up in the
Pacific Northwest getting hammered by a lot of rain. So
if you are traveling, make sure you're googling where you're
going in again, give yourself plenty of time. But Wednesday
morning is going to be the heavy travel day at
the airports. And that's across the country. So if there's
a snowstorm and you're going to Chicago, you know, maybe
(29:11):
maybe look at some alter alternative plans just in case,
so you're prepared.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, So I was looking at a story out of
Triple A about when is the you were talking about
worst times to drive, and one of the roads in
and out of LA made the list of like the
worst across the country, and that is the LA to
Bakersfield route along the five. And they're saying on Wednesday night,
(29:38):
like at seven forty five, it's going to take you
like three and a half hours to get through that space.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
You know, it takes you three and a half hours
to get through downtown LA some days as well, And
that's one of the things that you know, we have
to worry about. We here in Los Angeles, and it's
such a densely populated area that getting in and out
of LA can can turn into a three and four
hour run. With one flat tire, you are one car
accident away from being hours late to getting to your destination.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, you're not even out of town and you're already
ticked off.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Right exactly, and then it ruins it for everybody. And
then you know, the kids are in the backseat and
they're just quiet because you know, dad's all pissed, and
it's like, all right, come on, let's just take it,
take it easy, take the chill, pill and just relax.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The people flying, do we know where they're going, Well.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
I mean they're going to over the hills and then
through the woods to Grandma tell Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
But like top destinations, you might not have that at
your finger.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
I do not have that at my fingertips.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
But it's a good question.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, you can do your research and come back next week. No,
the one that I know of, actually one of the
top destinations in the country is la and Anaheim. So
there's a lot of people getting out of town, but
there's a lot of people coming to town too.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
That you are.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
A Disneyland fan and that's the reason why they're going
to Anaheim. Everybody is trying to do that. I'll tell
you a quick tip on actual Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Not very farmer is dead.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh right, yeah, okay, So if.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
You're looking for something to do, it's not Disneyland, but
it is something that you can treat too. That's very
farm It's fantastic, especially if you've got kids in that
camp Snoopy age.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's really great.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
Go go kill a few hours and then come home
and you know, you can also get the Thanksgiving dinner
there from the restaurant, and that's very farm restaurant there.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
It's really great.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
They do have good food there. They have good food,
and of course it's not Mary Farm now, so it's
all decorated for Christmas. That's that's a great.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Idea, right. And I think it's the lard that they
use there. I don't think anything is skinny anything.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's not supposed to be healthy. It's Thanksgiving, all right,
Jason Campdonia, thank you so much. Pack your patience. But
I like your best advice actually is just be kind.
I love that. Okay, we'll talk to you again soon, Thanks, Amie.
All right, thanks, Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Two female athletes have sued their high school in Riverside,
(32:13):
claiming their rights were violated when an official compared their
save Girls' Sports t shirts to a swastika. The cross
country runners at Martin Luther King High say they had
the shirts printed after a trans athlete was placed on
the varsity team and that displaced one of the girls.
They say an official told them to take the shirts
off because wearing them was like displaying a swastika in
(32:35):
front of Jewish students. President elect Trump is named former
Attorney General of Florida Pam Bondi to be US Attorney
General after Matt Gates dropped out yesterday. Bondi's a longtime
Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during his
first impeachment trial. She's also been critical of the criminal
cases against Trump. Bondi has been a chair at the
America First Policy Institute, which a think tank which is
(32:59):
a think tank set up former President Trump's administration staffers.
Governor Newsom plans to visit parts of the state that
voted for President elect Trump. He started in Fresno yesterday
and says he understands there's a disconnect between economic reports
and the way people feel.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
They feel like the economy is not nourishing, and there
was that gap between what some perceived this performance and
perception the live reality of people feeling on edge, unmoored, uneasy.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Newsom told The New York Times he also plans to
visit Kern and Calusa Counties. He has been touted as
a possibly early contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in
twenty twenty eight. Some things might be cheaper to gobble
this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
The new report shows prices for Several Thanksgiving items, including
pumpkin pie mix, frozen peas, and sweet potatoes, have dropped
since twenty twenty three. Turkey prices have also decreased by
about six percent, but processed items like stuffing, Cranberry's and
dinner rolls are expected to cost more this year. The
American Farm Bureau Federation has to It's a Thanksgiving dinner
for ten will cost fifty eight dollars and eight cents.
(34:03):
That's down five percent from twenty twenty three. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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your chance to win a four pack of one day
one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure
Park what weekend maybe on the way. The National Weather
(34:49):
Service says there's about a thirty percent chance of rain
late tonight and early tomorrow morning, and then that chance
of rain increases to seventy percent by tomorrow afternoon. Rainfall
totals in La and Ventura Counties expected to remain relatively low.
Police are searching for a man who allegedly groped a
twelve year old girl at a bus stop in Pasadena.
The girl was grabbed at about nine thirty Thursday morning
(35:10):
at the Lake Avenue Metro train station. She was waiting
for a bus to take her to school. The guy
who groped her fled on a bicycle. Democratic challenger Derek
Tran has added another eighty three votes to his oh
so narrow lead over Republican Representative Michelle Steele in the
forty fifth congressional district race. Tran is now four hundred
and eighty votes ahead of almost three hundred and thirteen
(35:33):
thousand votes cast four minutes away from Handle on the
news this morning, Jesse Smollett's contion conviction for staging a
hate crime has been thrown out, but that doesn't mean
he didn't do it. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's entertainment guy, Will Gans. Good morning Will. We're gonna
find out is Wicked going to be that popular?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You're gonna be popular.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I'll teach you the perrober Yes, no, maybe.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Hey, listen, if you wanted someone to sing it, you
could have just asked me. I'm warmed up and ready
to go.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
You are. You know you're not supposed to You're not
supposed to sing in the theaters. They're putting up warning signs.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I know, I know, and it actually so, I've seen
the movie. There was a little bit of singing, and
you could tell it was from, you know, kids who
were very excited to hear, specifically the song that you
just referenced. They're popular, But it only lasted for a
couple of seconds until parents shushed them.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I think that anyone who has been waiting, you know,
twenty one years, if you've loved the Broadway musical Wicked,
then you will be immensely satisfied by this film adaptation
that's hitting theaters this weekend. It's it's long. It's two
hours and you know change.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Oh no, it's two hours and forty minutes. It's not changed. Yeah,
it's long.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
It's long.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It's long.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But I think people who love the the musical will
love the film. It's really well done. It's exciting. It's
acted brilliantly by Cynthia Reveal Rivo and Ariana Grande, and
the sporting cast is wonderful as well. It's it's so good.
And you know, on the grander scheme, you know, we're
down like twenty five percent overall box office total since
(37:20):
before the pandemic. But I think this weekend between Wicked
and Gladiator two, you know, it's it's the bounce back
that we've been waiting for, both as as audience members.
And of course you know these these theater owners are
going to be happy to Yeah, and so.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We had Barbenheimer and they're calling this one glicked, glicked,
glicated weekend.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Yes. Yeah, So if singing, which is isn't your isn't
your thing, then maybe a bunch of guys fighting, you know,
rabid monkeys in the Roman coliseum might be your thing.
And then that's what you'll get in Gladiator. To Ridley
Scott's follow up to you know, the Academy Award winning
movie Gladiator that had Russell crowen it. This one's got
Paul Medskell and Dentzel Washington, and it's also long two hours,
(38:07):
and you're right, more than change. I think this one's
also like two and a half hours. But it's fun,
you know, it's it's I saw both Wicked and Gladiator,
and you know there's something for everybody in theaters this weekend,
I think, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
And Paul Mescal that's from the Last of Us, right, No.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yet that is uh the Last of Us is Oh gosh,
why can't I think of his name?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Isn't he.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Paul Paul Meskell? Is he was a normal people on Hulu?
He's uh Irish guy?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Oh? Okay, is is Pedro Pascal in it?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yes? Pedro pascalas in both? Yes, the name that was
the one I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Okay, yes, yes, did you see that? We We both
had a collective brain fade right there on live on radio.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
It was beautiful, exactly. Their last names are very similar, Somna.
I'm gonna give us a half credit for that.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Okay. So here's my question with the Gladiator one. Russell
Crowe did such a great job with that movie. Does
that is that going to translate to the new movie.
Do they do that good of a job or is
it one that's going to fall short. I mean, it's
going to bring a lot of people in. But comparatively,
they do a.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Nice job of paying homage to Russell Crowe's performance in
this sequel, so it's not like a completely separate story.
There's a link to that movie and it tells you
right off the bat. There's the title card that's like
sixteen years after the you Know What You Witnessed and
the Yeah. So they do a good job of paying
homage and Paul Neskell is exceptionally gifted as a young actor.
(39:48):
So I think that like they pick up the torch
in a in a good way, in a fair way.
And of course Denzel Washington is just so fun to
watch on the big screen as well.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Denzel is always spectacular, so good.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Okay, So that's so we have the glick did weekend
and then if you don't feel like going out, if
you want to just curl up on the couch because
you know it's going to rain here, so what might
be a good binge for you.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
It's raining in New York as well, and it's very
very cold for the first time this season. So there's
a there's a show on Apple TV. It's it's number
one comedy at the moment, and it's called Shrinking. So
if you haven't seen it this we're in the middle
of season two and it's got Harrison Ford, it's got
Jason Siegel. It's made by the guys who made Ted Lasso.
(40:37):
So if you like that sort of feel good, smart comedy,
I think you'll love Shrinking. It's about a psychiatrist who
loses his wife in an accident and he sort of
because of that, decides he's really going to tell his
patients what he thinks they should be doing in their life.
He's not going to play the passive therapist voice anymore.
So he starts getting very involved in his therapist life. Oh,
(41:00):
I think you should drop coffee on your you know,
your husband's lap because he's a bad guy. Things like that,
and it's it's so it's very fun and you know,
it's it's really well acted. The episodes are about forty
minutes each, so you know, you can get through season
one pretty quickly and then jump in where we're at
now on season two. It's it's a great show.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I concur I'm a big shrinking fan. And and Harrison Ford,
I mean, come on, he's amazing.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
I beat it. Yeah, he's so good. And they all
are really like you know, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Right, it sounds like we have lots of options and
whatever you do, just know that you'll be popular. Copy
BBCs wil Gans, thank you so much. We'll talk to
you again next week.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
All right, I have a good one, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Tickets to attend the Menendez brothers upcoming court hearing will
be distributed by lottery. Tickets will be given out between
eight and nine am Monday outside the Van Lin's Courthouse
with a lottery for sixteen public seats to follow. Eric
and Lyle Menendez, who've been in prison for thirty years
for murdering their parents and Beverly Hills, are expected to
be there. The hearing will discuss the brothers claims that
(42:10):
their sentence was unconstitutional because of what they call new
evidence that they were molested by their father. The LEDWP
has agreed to pay nearly sixty million dollars to settle
claims by more than twelve hundred people who were exposed
to a gas leak at the Department of Water Empower's
Sun Valley Generating Station. The lawsuit filed in twenty twenty one,
alleged the utility put the health of mostly black and
(42:30):
Latino neighborhoods at risk. People in Sun Valley and Pacoima
like this woman complained of headaches, bloody noses, shortness of breath,
and nausea. Like the year.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
Two years after we moved here, I started smelling gas
every time I came outside to do something, to work
on the yard.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
The lawsuit alleged the DWP failed to perform adequate equipment
inspections and notify residents of possible gas leaks as they happened.
The La Auto Show is returned to the Convention Center downtown.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
The auto show was founded in night teen o seven,
and this year a regular attraction is also celebrating many decades.
The Ford Mustang has turned sixty, and Mike Levine with
The Automaker says, there's just something about the Mustang and
it's connection with Californians.
Speaker 7 (43:12):
Gives you a chance to get outside and if you
want to go up pH you can do that. If
you want to take a Mustang to the track on
the weekends, you can do that too.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Ford is showing off the new twenty twenty five Mustang GTD.
The auto show runs through December first at the LA
Convention Center. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southend Weather from KFI. Morning, clouds and sunny with
highs in the upper sixties at the beaches, low to
mid seventies for Metrola and Inland Orange County, upper sixties
to upper seventies in the valleys and Inland Empire sixties
to low seventies for the Antelote Valley Party. Cloudy with
loads in the forties to low fifties tonight and then
(43:50):
a chance of rain tomorrow morning, rain likely for the
afternoon highs in the sixties. Chance of rain continues Sunday
and into next week. It's forty five in Fullerton, forty
seven in San Clemente, forty seven in Inglewood, and forty
eight in El Segundo. We lead local live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer Ann and technical
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producer KNO and traffic specialist Nick. I'm Amy King. This
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Well, hello up there, it's five o'clock, straight up. This
is your wake up call for Friday, November twenty second.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Happy to have you along with us this
morning as we get our day started. I'm enjoying my
second cup of coffee. We'll see how that goes. No,
(00:49):
I'm not really affected by coffee that much, are you?
Like some people?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I know?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Just like you know what. Michael Monks is one of
our reporters, and he's been running around the office. He's like,
I'm having a for coffee day, and you can tell
that it really affects him. I don't know that it
really affects me. We got a lot going on today,
so let's get right to it. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call. President elect Trump has picked former Florida
(01:15):
Attorney General Pam Bondi to be his Attorney general in
his next administration. His previous pick, Former Florida Representative Matt Gates,
took his name out of the running. He's accused of
having sex with a minor. Gates denies it, but says
his nomination had become a distraction. We're going to find
out what happens to Gates now and Bondi's chances of
(01:35):
getting approved with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, that's
coming up in just a couple of minutes. Governor Newsim
is going to visit the counties that voted for President
Elect Trump this election. The governor apparently hopes to reach
out to working class voters in the Central Valley who
are frustrated by the economy, including Fresno, Caloosa, and Kern
Counties to Laurie Kern, San Bernardino and other inland counties
(01:59):
also supported Trump over Vice President Harris. The Thanksgiving travel
crushes already begun. Travelers at LAX are running into delays
and cancelations. The TSA says it expects more than eighteen
million people will go through checkpoints through December. Second. We're
going to find out how bad it's going to get.
With kfi's Jason Campedonia coming up at five point thirty
(02:21):
and first we had Barbenheimer. Well now it's glicked. The
first time I heard this was today Glicked. Yeah, gladiat
or two and wicked. ABC's Willgan says it's going to
be a big weekend at the box office. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. Forecasters are warning that
the risk of flash flooding and rocksides will continue in
(02:43):
northern California as a major storm moves through. It's already
caused two deaths and knocked out power to hundreds of
thousands of people in Washington and Oregon. Up to sixteen
inches of rain is forecast in northern California and southwestern Oregon.
I better call my mom, she's in southwest Oregon. An
LAPD motorcycle officer's been hurt in a crash on the
(03:03):
four h five freeway in the Supulvita Pass. The crash
yesterday caused all lanes to be shut down for a
while near Skirball Center Drive. The officer was taken to
the hospital. The LAPD says his injuries are minor and
he's expected to recover. News brought to you by Semper
Solaris USC economics professor says brace yourself. Higher gas prices
(03:24):
are coming.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Professor Michael Miche has been at the Marshall School of
Business for decades, and he wrote recently the new gas
regulations in the state will hit everyday people directly.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
The average consumer, the average California will have to reallocate
how they spend their money. They'll be a little bit
less maybe going out on entertainment, a little bit less travel.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
The state's newly tightened fuel standards could push gas prices
upwards starting next year, with some estimates showing more than
sixty cents per gallon.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Sixty cents per gallon. I did notice the gas prices
dropped just a schmidge. It was down to like four
forty the other day, but that's still sixty cents a
gallon increase. Pasadena police are trying to find the guy
who groped a twelve year old girl at a bus stop.
The girl was allegedly assaulted on her way to school
Wednesday as she sat on a bench. Police say the
(04:15):
man took off down Lake Avenue on a bicycle. The
girl called her mother when she got to school and
then police were called. Police have not put out a
description of the man. The Thanksgiving travel crush has already begun.
Travelers like this guy at LAX told KTLA that he
was trying to get a jump on the holiday crowds
but ran into delays.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Is his expected, Its busy time.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
His flight to Cancun was canceled, so.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We're getting rebooked.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
So yeah, it's going to be a couple hours easily.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The TSA expects nearly eighteen million people will be flying
around for the holiday. The Dodgers show, Hey Otani. He
has been named the National League Most Valuable Player. The
vote yesterday by the Baseball Writers Association of America was unanimous.
Otani became the first major league player this year to
(05:02):
ever hit fifty home runs and steal fifty bases in
a single season. He won the MVP in twenty twenty
one and twenty twenty three in the American League during
his time with the Angels. It's five seven on your
Friday morning wake up call. Let's say good morning now
to ABC's White House correspondent John Decker. So, John, a
(05:22):
lot has happened since we talked yesterday morning. And at
this time yesterday we were talking about some of the
challenges that Matt Gates was facing in his nomination for
attorney general. That's changed.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Well, there were real challenges, absolutely, Amy, and yesterday when
we spoke, I predicted that Matt Gates would not be
in that role of a nominee to leave the Department
of Justice for much longer. And a few hours after
we spoke, that's exactly what happened. Matt Gates took himself
out of consideration to leave the Department of Justice. And
then last night we already have a replacement, Donald Trump
(05:57):
indicating that he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondy.
She served two terms as Florida's Attorney general as his
nominee to lead the Department of Justice.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Now, she didn't serve in the first Trump administration, but
she's always been a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Oh, absolutely, Going all the way back, Amy to twenty sixteen,
there was a competitive primary for the Republican nomination, you
may recall, and Pam Bondy she endorsed Donald Trump over
her home state US Senator Mark Rubio. Donald Trump rewards loyalty.
He remembers that she was considered for attorney general in
(06:36):
his first term, ultimately was passed over. But this is
her time, this is her moment, and I think that
she will win confirmation.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Any skeletons in her closet that we know about.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
No, you know, she is a conservative, no doubt about that.
You know, there are senators who will pass judgment on
her nomination who may not like her politics, may not
like her ideology, but they cannot knock her experience. She
has served more than twenty years as a prosecutor. That
is good experience to have if you're going to be
(07:07):
the chief law enforcement officer of the country. And of
course she's managed an enormous legal office when she was
attorney general for the state of Florida. So I think that,
you know, she may even get some bipartisan support as
it relates to this nomination.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Hey, in the past, and I don't know if you
can answer this, but it's asking you to go back
into the wayback machine. But in the past, when presidents
would nominate their cabinet members, did they usually get bipartisan support?
Like with Supreme Court justices, it used to be that
they got a lot of bipartisan support. But in the
last few cycles. It hasn't been that way. It's been
(07:45):
really polarized.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Well yeah, I mean, look, you mentioned Supreme Court Justices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg got unanimous support Republicans and Democrats way
back in the nineties when she was nominated. Same thing
with Justice Anton and Scalia. Things have changed dramatically. I
think that, you know, if you look back to the
Supreme Court nominations of Donald Trump, he got the support
(08:08):
of Joe Manchin, a Democrat. But that's about it.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
And as it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Relates to cabinet nominees, typically there is some bipartisanship. You know,
it can't It is not always along party lines, and
there will be some nominees for Donald Trump that do
get bipartisan support.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, okay, So I'm going to go all conspiracy theory
on you and see what see your take on it.
So I think that that Trump nominated Matt Gates knowing
that he couldn't get him confirmed, but wanted to, as
you mentioned, reward his loyalty. So he put him up
knowing that there was no way it was going to happen,
and now he can nominate the person he really wanted,
(08:47):
which was Pam BONDI.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Well, look, I can't get inside of Donald Trump's head,
nor could you Amy, So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's why I'm just speculating.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
The strategy is. But having said all that, he did
work the phones trying to get Matt Gates over the
finish line. That was his first choice. He wanted Matt
Gates leading the Department of Justice, and it wasn't meant
to be for Matt Gates because of his ethics problems,
and he quickly, you know, went with the backup number two.
And you know, I think that he's going to be
(09:18):
pretty satisfied with Pam Bondi leading the Department of Justice,
someone that he's known for quite some time. I think
he's known her longer than he's known Matt Gates. And
he rewards loyalty, and she has been very loyal to
Donald Trump, not only when he was running for president
back in twenty sixteen, but during the course of his
four years in office as well.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, and then now the Gates is out, does he
have any options because he's resigned from the House.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Well, it's interesting because he has resigned from the one
hundred eighteenth Congress he was elected to the Congress this
past November a few weeks ago. He could actually be
sworn in into the one hundred nineteenth Congress if he
wishes to do that, but he's got this ethics report
hanging over his head, so I don't think he's going
to do that. There's going to be an opening for
(10:08):
the US Senate seat in Florida with Marc Rubio leaving
the Senate to be the next Secretary of State. There's that,
but that's up to the governor. And then, of course
he could potentially be a part of the Trump administration,
but not in a role that requires tenant confirmation. So
those are the options that he has if he wants
to continue being a public servant. Of course, he could
(10:29):
just go, you know, turn around, be a lobbyist, make
a lot of money in the private sector. And my
guess is that's what I think Matt Gates is ultimately
going to do right away.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Okay, well, we'll be watching him. ABC's White House correspondent
John Decker, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Thanks, Amy, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Talk to you soon.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Rap mogul. Sean
Combs is due back in court today for a bail
hearing in New York City. Kfi's Natalie Migliori says this
is his third try getting out of jail. Is already
denied bail in September and November, but his attorneys are.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Expected to offer the same fifty million dollar baill package
in exchange for an ankle monitor and home confinement.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
His attorneys say a video showing Comb's beating up his
ex girlfriend was edited to manipulate the narrative. Combs's charged
with sex trafficking and racketeering. He's deniedal charges. UCLA has
been given a twenty million dollar grant to help implement
California's first wireless charging roadway. It will allow electric passenger
shuttles and heavy duty buses to charge wirelessly while they
(11:33):
drive down the street. UCLA Transit and Fleet Director Clinton
Bench says the technology is a game changer.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
The bus is actually able to communicate with the charger,
identify itself literally in seconds, and allow for that charge
to begin so that we're not wasting any electricity.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The initiative is funded by Cap and Trade, auction proceeds
and vehicle registration fees. The new transit hub is expected
to open in twenty twenty eight. The country's first public
electric vehicle churm Urging roadway, opened last year in Michigan.
The United Nations Humanitarian Office has warned of a stark
increase in the number of households in central and southern
Gaza that are experiencing severe hunger. They say they often
(12:13):
only eat once a day, and experts say a full
blown famine may be underway in the north. Israel says
it allows enough aid to enter, but humanitarian groups say
Israeli restrictions, ongoing fighting, and the breakdown of law and
order pose major obstacles to getting that food distributed. Dozens
of members of Congress are urging President Biden to use
(12:34):
the rest of his term to address the issue of
mass incarceration. South Carolina Democratic Congressman James Clyburn says Biden
should use his clemency authority to cut some long prison sentences.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
So many people who are serving extensive sentences today are
there because of crimes that have really.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Lawmakers and a letter also requesting Biden grant clemency to
felons who are elderly chronically ill and not considered a
threat to public safety. The US Capital Christmas tree is
arriving this morning. Its name is Spruce Wayne Jeez. It's
traveled thousands of miles to Washington, d C. All the
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way from Alaska. The eighty foot tall Sitka spruce comes
from the Tongas National Forest. It will have five thousand
led lights and more than five thousand ornaments on it,
topped by a star that measures more than four feet
by five feet. The lighting at the US Capitol is
set for December third. You know, it's set for tonight.
(13:42):
Tim Conway Junior broadcasting live at the brand new Wendy's
in Mission Viejo. It's at twenty three twenty two Alicia Parkway.
Tim's going to be there from four to seven because
we're promoting Pastathon. You can come by and say hi,
donate five dollars or more in store and get a
coupon book. It's all to raise money for the fourteenth
(14:03):
annual KFI Pastathon. Jeff Bruno's charity, Katerina's Club, provides more
than twenty five thousand meals every week to kids in
need in southern California. And we can't do it without you.
That's why we'd love for you to come by. Stop by,
say hi to Tim, and like I said, donate five
bucks or more and you'll get a coupon book. If
you can't make it by today, you could also check
out the fork Report. He's going to be out during
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his show tomorrow from two to five. After in the afternoon,
he'll be broadcasting live at the Smart and Final in
Lake Forest. That's the one at twenty three six thirty
one El Toro Road. Come by shop for your Thanksgiving,
say hi to Neil, and donate any amount to the
KFI pastathon in store at checkout. You can also donate
online at KFI AM six forty dot com slash postathon.
(14:48):
I know that one hundred percent of your donation goes
directly to Katerina's Club. Oh and don't forget, we're going
to be broadcasting live from the Anaheim White House on Tuesday,
December third. That's Giving Tuesday. We're going to be out
there starting with wake up call at five, then Gary
and Shannon, and then John and Tim and Moe all
the way through ten pm. You can donate on site,
drop off some pasta, say hi, I we'd love to
(15:10):
see you. There could be a lot of very sick
people this winter. A new report from the CDC says
roughly thirty five percent of US adults have gotten their
flu vaccine and just eighteen percent have gotten an updated
COVID vaccine. RSV vaccination rates are also low. The CDC
says a lot of unvaccinated adults do say they still
plan to get their shots. More than twelve hundred residents
(15:33):
in Sun Valley and Pacoima are going to share a
nearly sixty million dollars settlement against the DWP. The lawsuit
claims residents were exposed to a gas leak at the
Sun Valley Generating Station because DWP failed to perform adequate
equipment inspections and notify residents of possible gas leaks. Show
hey Otani has won his third MVP award. The Dodger
(15:55):
star hitter made history by becoming the first fifty to
fifty player in the major leagues. He finished this with
fifty four home runs and fifty nine stolen bases darn
close to sixty sixty huh. The vote was unanimous. The
star slugger is expected to start pitching for the Dodgers
in twenty twenty five at six oh five, it's handled
on the news. Matt Gates is out, a longtime loyalist
(16:17):
is in as President Elect Trump's pick for Attorney General. Popular.
You're gonna be popular.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
I'll teach you the proper.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I think this movie is going to be very popular. It's,
of course Wicked, long awaited, and yesterday we had estimates
that it was expected to bring in one hundred million
dollars over the opening weekend. Well last night it brought
in twenty and that was just in previews. So now
they've up those estimates to one hundred and thirty million
(16:47):
dollars in its opening weekend.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
If you haven't heard of Wicked, okay. It stars Ariana Grande,
Cynthia Arrivo, Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Uh, the woman
who still doing everything everywhere all at once, Michelle Yo
love her.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
There's the voice of Peter Dinklage, and then also Jonathan
Bailey and I was like, where is he from? He's
from Bridgerton. So and that's just a few oh and
then Saturday Night Lives Bow and Yang is also in it.
So Nick and I went to see it yesterday and
it was a sold out theater. As we understand it,
it's the backstory leading up to the Wizard of Oz,
(17:27):
based on the book Wicked and also on the Broadway
musical starring Kristin Chennow with and Adina Mazzelle and Nick.
I don't know if you agree. We talked about the
movie a little bit afterwards. I thought it was beautiful,
like the world they created is spectacular. Visually stunning is
actually I wrote notes down and that was one of
(17:47):
the things I said. And then the lead characters, I mean,
you know they can sing, but they can sing.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And it's the thing that they can sang, right, And
the two things that I say, visual stunning and the
thing you and I did talk about. The thing that's
the most exciting thing to me is these sets were
practical sets. And what that means is these are not
Now they may be enhanced by CGI in post production,
but they're all built sets. So it's just like back
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when they created the original Wizard of Oz. They're real
practical sets. So when you see the film and you
see them pick up a prop, it's not created in
a computer. It may be enhanced in the computer, but
they're actually there. So there's a sequence that you've seen
in the commercials. That's a train. That's this big, beautiful
green train. It's a real train that they go on.
(18:36):
It's incredible and it's on its way to OZ. But
it's a real train that you see them get on.
It's a huge I forget how many tons, it's like
fifteen ton train that they built for this for the movie. Yeah,
they actually get on. It's not a fake train. It's
a real train that they get on.
Speaker 11 (18:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I think that's kind of cool in today because in
some of the previews, because there's like a half an
hour of previews, so brace for that. But in one
of the previews, I went, oh, that looks really great
and Nick goes, that's not a real person and I
was like what and he's like, that's animation. It's how
to Train Your Dragon, And yes, I thought it was
a real person. So I'm imagining that that whole world
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is sort of CGI and animation. So it's really fun
to see them actually use physical sets.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yes, it was really really cool. It's so cool to
see them manipulate everything like that. But yeah, it just
it really and the other thing too, to go back
to the singing part, John Cho Cho choe cho.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Oh my gosh, I'm feeling horrible here. Director.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Anyway, he required them to sing, so they had to
sing on set, so everything it had to be sung live,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Everything was done.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
That is so interesting because while the show was going,
I was like, Wow, they really look like they're singing,
because in some shows you see that there are lots
of musicals you see that their lips sinking, and in
this one, you really get to feel the feeling that
they're in there, they're in their character and they're singing.
So that was fun. Okay, we got to address one thing. Yeah,
(19:57):
make sure you go to the bathroom first because it
is long.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's two hours and forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Plus the half hour of previews and I didn't even
take a bathroom break. I was pretty impressive with myself.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Yeah no, I was.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, okay. So, and here's the thing that Nick and
I also talked about. We don't want to tell you
anything about it because even though I saw the show Wicked,
it's been like over ten years, so and of course
I have the memory of a nat But even though
I saw the show, I didn't know what to expect
from the movie. So I think that I think, just
(20:31):
go see it. I mean, it is long, but it
is it's fun, it's funny, it's sad. I wasn't the
only one crying in the theater. There's this one scene
where Cynthia Rivo is so powerful, like you see the
pain in her eyes. I was like, oh my God,
like it was. She did such a good job with that.
And I don't want to tell you the scene. I
(20:52):
don't want to tell you what happened, but I'm gonna
guess that at some point you'll be crying too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I mean, and not to not to pull back
the curtain. This is my fourth time seeing it because
I got to go to a few special previews and
special piece.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
But I.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Only say that because I too missed the you know,
fourth time through in the last two almost three weeks
of seeing these previews, and it still is emotional. So
I'm saying it's still even though it's a long film,
even though that there's a lot involved with it, it
still tugs at your heartstrings and gets you each and
every time. And that's what's even more important. Yeah, So
I mean that for me, it's worth your time, and
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especially with Thanksgiving coming up and you're looking for something
to do.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You know it's well worth it, and buy.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Your seats in advance because it's expected to be really busy.
And if you haven't seen Wicked, you probably you probably
know the story. You don't have to have seen the
stage show to see the movie, obviously, but you should
see the Wizard of Oz or at least know the
story because there are so many things that happen that
are little aha moments that refer back to the Wizard
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of Os or you go, oh, that's that's why that happened.
So I love backstory movies that kind of reveal why
things are the way they are.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, and there's lots of Easter eggs here. And if
you have not seen Wicked in person, it is coming
to the Pantagious on December fourth, so you can actually
kind of two for it. You can see it in
theaters and on the stage coming up here really.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Soon, which I think is fabulous because again I saw
it first on stage and that was more than ten
years ago, and I remember coming out of the theater
just loving, loving, loving it and going when are they
going to make a movie. So it took more than
ten years, but they did it. Also, there are a
couple of songs. Of course, there's popular, which is it's
a catchy little tune it I was singing it all
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night when I got home, just humming it away. It
was one of those earworms. And they're worried that people
are going to sing it in the theaters and wreck
the experience for people, so they actually are putting up
signs and saying, hey, you guys, don't sing okay, but
there is an opportunity for you to sing away with everybody.
And it's coming on day, right, nick yep, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So starting on Christmas Day, you'll be able to book
tickets for sing along shows exclusively. And now we'll run
into the new year, so that'll be coming to Regal theaters,
AMC Theaters, and a couple of Harkins and a couple
of other theaters around the country. So it's gonna be
like a tailor for fifty y soon, eight hundred percent
absolutely with the lyrics on the screen and everything. In
case you are new to the Wicked franchise and I
(23:22):
don't know all the lyrics, so I thank you there
for you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you don't know the songs, I think you're going
to Oh you will love them, and I just this
is one of my favorite notes. It's a great movie.
Good luck getting tickets though. Phillips sixty six, which has
(23:48):
a refinery in Carson, has been indicted on six federal
counts of illegal dumping. The Texas based petroleum company allegedly
dumped nearly one hundred thousand pounds of oil and grease
into the La County sewers between November of twenty twenty
and February of twenty twenty one. They're facing millions of
dollars in fines if found guilty. An eighteen year old
(24:08):
is pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges and connection
with the stabbings of three people. Poli say va Hey
Virginian got into a fight with several men following a
road rage incident in Glendale on Sunday night. Three men
were stabbed, all of them survived. Virginian was arrested on Tuesday.
Wicked has already taken in twenty million dollars at the
(24:29):
box office, and that was just from previews. It's now
expected to fly off the handle with one hundred and
thirty million dollars in ticket sales in its opening weekend
At six oh five. It's handled on the news. It
doesn't have any teeth, but the International Criminal Court has
issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo.
And as I just mentioned, and Wicked is in theaters.
(24:52):
We already had Barbenheimer. Will Glicked be as popular popular
you're gonna be? Yeah, it's gonna get stick stuck in
your head, I promise you. Let's think Good morning too,
KFI is Jason Campedonia. Good morning Jason.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And I love that song already.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Oh well, we went and saw Wicked last night. We
were just talking about it and I had that in
my brain all night. It's one of those earworming kind
of stories or songs. Okay, so today, let's talk about
holiday travel because it's not even Thanksgiving week, but the
travel season is well underway.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, it has begun.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
People are taking the week off of work and making
it a Thanksgiving week celebration versus just the Thursday, actual
holiday celebration. We're seeing some delays at airports across the country. Obviously,
weather impacting a lot of travel. Up in the Pacific Northwest,
we're having that bomb cyclone atmospheric river, lots of rain.
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Everything is wet and soggy.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Roadways they are terrible.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
If you watch the football game last night between the
Browns and the Steelers, you saw a pretty heavy snowstorm
come in late in the game. So that's affecting travel
in that part of the country.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
And here's the thing.
Speaker 11 (26:13):
Triple A is saying that about eighty million people are
going to start traveling starting today over the next couple
of days. They believe that Tuesday is going to be
the heaviest day. They feel that about Tuesday, fifty people
of seventy million people are going to be traveling about
fifty miles or more to get to their destination via car.
(26:38):
They also say that Tuesday, between the hours of one
and seven PM, avoid the roadways as much as possible.
I always like that, Yeah, yeah, I always liked that
graphic from the television news stations that show, you know,
the four or five that's backed up four miles. It's
like Castayic all the way down to Orange County. It's
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just red lights everywhere. And so, yeah, Tuesday evening is
going to be a nasty one. And you know the
I cover this stray every year. You know, people traveling
for the holiday, blah blah blah. The old adage is,
you know, pack your patients. I've turned it into a
drinking game. Just be nice out there, that's like the
(27:19):
biggest thing.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Just be nice. Be courteous to the person who you're
dealing with at the gas station or the ticket counter
or whatever it is, because they're dealing with a lot
of jerks out there, So just be nice, give yourself
plenty of time, and everything should be okay.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh, Jason, I think you're asking for too.
Speaker 11 (27:35):
Much, you know it. Kindness is free, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I totally agree, And I don't like the catchphrase pack
your patients, but I mean it's true, right, You got
to be because there's nothing you can do when you
get to the ticket counter. Or you can be a jerk,
or you can be nice.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
Right right, or you can just be nice and it's okay.
And if you give yourself plenty of time and eat
something before you get to the airport so you're not
angry when you're talking to the ticket counter people, you know,
have a snack, Maybe lay off the booze early in
the morning, just because you can have a whiskey sour
(28:16):
at seven o'clock.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
In the morning doesn't mean you should.
Speaker 11 (28:19):
Have a whiskey sour at seven o'clock in the morning.
So just take it easy, and you know, remember you're
not the only one out there. It's not only about you,
it's about everybody trying to do the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And Jason, we talked about the time to stay off
the road, But if you're flying, is there any good
time to fly next week? Like, if you have any
last minute plans, is there anything?
Speaker 11 (28:41):
Probably Monday evening into Tuesday morning is probably going to
be your best bet.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Wednesday morning, try to avoid that.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
That's going to be the heaviest day at the Airport's lax,
you know, like I said, you know up in the
Pacific Northwest getting hammered by a lot of rain. So
if you are traveling, make sure you're googling where you're
going in again, give yourself plenty of time. But Wednesday
morning is going to be the heavy travel day at
the airports. And that's across the country. So if there's
a snowstorm and you're going to Chicago, you know, maybe
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maybe look at some alter alternative plans just in case,
so you're prepared.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, So I was looking at a story out of
Triple A about when is the you were talking about
worst times to drive, and one of the roads in
and out of LA made the list of like the
worst across the country, and that is the LA to
Bakersfield route along the five. And they're saying on Wednesday night,
(29:38):
like at seven forty five, it's going to take you
like three and a half hours to get through that space.
Speaker 11 (29:46):
You know, it takes you three and a half hours
to get through downtown LA some days as well, And
that's one of the things that you know, we have
to worry about. We here in Los Angeles, and it's
such a densely populated area that getting in and out
of LA can can turn into a three and four
hour run. With one flat tire, you are one car
accident away from being hours late to getting to your destination.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, you're not even out of town and you're already
ticked off.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Right exactly, and then it ruins it for everybody. And
then you know, the kids are in the backseat and
they're just quiet because you know, dad's all pissed, and
it's like, all right, come on, let's just take it,
take it easy, take the chill, pill and just relax.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
The people flying, do we know where they're going, Well.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
I mean they're going to over the hills and then
through the woods to Grandma tell Oh.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
But like top destinations, you might not have that at
your finger.
Speaker 11 (30:39):
I do not have that at my fingertips.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
But it's a good question.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, you can do your research and come back next week. No,
the one that I know of, actually one of the
top destinations in the country is la and Anaheim. So
there's a lot of people getting out of town, but
there's a lot of people coming to town too.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
That you are.
Speaker 11 (31:01):
A Disneyland fan and that's the reason why they're going
to Anaheim. Everybody is trying to do that. I'll tell
you a quick tip on actual Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Not very farmer is dead.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh right, yeah, okay, So if.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
You're looking for something to do, it's not Disneyland, but
it is something that you can treat too. That's very
farm It's fantastic, especially if you've got kids in that
camp Snoopy age.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's really great.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
Go go kill a few hours and then come home
and you know, you can also get the Thanksgiving dinner
there from the restaurant, and that's very farm restaurant there.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
It's really great.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
They do have good food there. They have good food,
and of course it's not Mary Farm now, so it's
all decorated for Christmas. That's that's a great.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Idea, right. And I think it's the lard that they
use there. I don't think anything is skinny anything.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's not supposed to be healthy. It's Thanksgiving, all right,
Jason Campdonia, thank you so much. Pack your patience. But
I like your best advice actually is just be kind.
I love that. Okay, we'll talk to you again soon, Thanks, Amie.
All right, thanks, Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Two female athletes have sued their high school in Riverside,
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claiming their rights were violated when an official compared their
save Girls' Sports t shirts to a swastika. The cross
country runners at Martin Luther King High say they had
the shirts printed after a trans athlete was placed on
the varsity team and that displaced one of the girls.
They say an official told them to take the shirts
off because wearing them was like displaying a swastika in
(32:35):
front of Jewish students. President elect Trump is named former
Attorney General of Florida Pam Bondi to be US Attorney
General after Matt Gates dropped out yesterday. Bondi's a longtime
Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during his
first impeachment trial. She's also been critical of the criminal
cases against Trump. Bondi has been a chair at the
America First Policy Institute, which a think tank which is
(32:59):
a think tank set up former President Trump's administration staffers.
Governor Newsom plans to visit parts of the state that
voted for President elect Trump. He started in Fresno yesterday
and says he understands there's a disconnect between economic reports
and the way people feel.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
They feel like the economy is not nourishing, and there
was that gap between what some perceived this performance and
perception the live reality of people feeling on edge, unmoored, uneasy.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Newsom told The New York Times he also plans to
visit Kern and Calusa Counties. He has been touted as
a possibly early contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in
twenty twenty eight. Some things might be cheaper to gobble
this Thanksgiving.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
The new report shows prices for Several Thanksgiving items, including
pumpkin pie mix, frozen peas, and sweet potatoes, have dropped
since twenty twenty three. Turkey prices have also decreased by
about six percent, but processed items like stuffing, Cranberry's and
dinner rolls are expected to cost more this year. The
American Farm Bureau Federation has to It's a Thanksgiving dinner
for ten will cost fifty eight dollars and eight cents.
(34:03):
That's down five percent from twenty twenty three. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
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one park tickets to Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure
Park what weekend maybe on the way. The National Weather
(34:49):
Service says there's about a thirty percent chance of rain
late tonight and early tomorrow morning, and then that chance
of rain increases to seventy percent by tomorrow afternoon. Rainfall
totals in La and Ventura Counties expected to remain relatively low.
Police are searching for a man who allegedly groped a
twelve year old girl at a bus stop in Pasadena.
The girl was grabbed at about nine thirty Thursday morning
(35:10):
at the Lake Avenue Metro train station. She was waiting
for a bus to take her to school. The guy
who groped her fled on a bicycle. Democratic challenger Derek
Tran has added another eighty three votes to his oh
so narrow lead over Republican Representative Michelle Steele in the
forty fifth congressional district race. Tran is now four hundred
and eighty votes ahead of almost three hundred and thirteen
(35:33):
thousand votes cast four minutes away from Handle on the
news this morning, Jesse Smollett's contion conviction for staging a
hate crime has been thrown out, but that doesn't mean
he didn't do it. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's entertainment guy, Will Gans. Good morning Will. We're gonna
find out is Wicked going to be that popular?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You're gonna be popular.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
I'll teach you the perrober Yes, no, maybe.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Hey, listen, if you wanted someone to sing it, you
could have just asked me. I'm warmed up and ready
to go.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
You are. You know you're not supposed to You're not
supposed to sing in the theaters. They're putting up warning signs.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I know, I know, and it actually so, I've seen
the movie. There was a little bit of singing, and
you could tell it was from, you know, kids who
were very excited to hear, specifically the song that you
just referenced. They're popular, But it only lasted for a
couple of seconds until parents shushed them.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
I think that anyone who has been waiting, you know,
twenty one years, if you've loved the Broadway musical Wicked,
then you will be immensely satisfied by this film adaptation
that's hitting theaters this weekend. It's it's long. It's two
hours and you know change.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Oh no, it's two hours and forty minutes. It's not changed. Yeah,
it's long.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
It's long.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It's long.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
But I think people who love the the musical will
love the film. It's really well done. It's exciting. It's
acted brilliantly by Cynthia Reveal Rivo and Ariana Grande, and
the sporting cast is wonderful as well. It's it's so good.
And you know, on the grander scheme, you know, we're
down like twenty five percent overall box office total since
(37:20):
before the pandemic. But I think this weekend between Wicked
and Gladiator two, you know, it's it's the bounce back
that we've been waiting for, both as as audience members.
And of course you know these these theater owners are
going to be happy to Yeah, and so.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
We had Barbenheimer and they're calling this one glicked, glicked,
glicated weekend.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Yes. Yeah, So if singing, which is isn't your isn't
your thing, then maybe a bunch of guys fighting, you know,
rabid monkeys in the Roman coliseum might be your thing.
And then that's what you'll get in Gladiator. To Ridley
Scott's follow up to you know, the Academy Award winning
movie Gladiator that had Russell crowen it. This one's got
Paul Medskell and Dentzel Washington, and it's also long two hours,
(38:07):
and you're right, more than change. I think this one's
also like two and a half hours. But it's fun,
you know, it's it's I saw both Wicked and Gladiator,
and you know there's something for everybody in theaters this weekend,
I think, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
And Paul Mescal that's from the Last of Us, right, No.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yet that is uh the Last of Us is Oh gosh,
why can't I think of his name?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Isn't he.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Paul Paul Meskell? Is he was a normal people on Hulu?
He's uh Irish guy?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Oh? Okay, is is Pedro Pascal in it?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Yes? Pedro pascalas in both? Yes, the name that was
the one I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Okay, yes, yes, did you see that? We We both
had a collective brain fade right there on live on radio.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
It was beautiful, exactly. Their last names are very similar, Somna.
I'm gonna give us a half credit for that.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Okay. So here's my question with the Gladiator one. Russell
Crowe did such a great job with that movie. Does
that is that going to translate to the new movie.
Do they do that good of a job or is
it one that's going to fall short. I mean, it's
going to bring a lot of people in. But comparatively,
they do a.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Nice job of paying homage to Russell Crowe's performance in
this sequel, so it's not like a completely separate story.
There's a link to that movie and it tells you
right off the bat. There's the title card that's like
sixteen years after the you Know What You Witnessed and
the Yeah. So they do a good job of paying
homage and Paul Neskell is exceptionally gifted as a young actor.
(39:48):
So I think that like they pick up the torch
in a in a good way, in a fair way.
And of course Denzel Washington is just so fun to
watch on the big screen as well.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Denzel is always spectacular, so good.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Okay, So that's so we have the glick did weekend
and then if you don't feel like going out, if
you want to just curl up on the couch because
you know it's going to rain here, so what might
be a good binge for you.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
It's raining in New York as well, and it's very
very cold for the first time this season. So there's
a there's a show on Apple TV. It's it's number
one comedy at the moment, and it's called Shrinking. So
if you haven't seen it this we're in the middle
of season two and it's got Harrison Ford, it's got
Jason Siegel. It's made by the guys who made Ted Lasso.
(40:37):
So if you like that sort of feel good, smart comedy,
I think you'll love Shrinking. It's about a psychiatrist who
loses his wife in an accident and he sort of
because of that, decides he's really going to tell his
patients what he thinks they should be doing in their life.
He's not going to play the passive therapist voice anymore.
So he starts getting very involved in his therapist life. Oh,
(41:00):
I think you should drop coffee on your you know,
your husband's lap because he's a bad guy. Things like that,
and it's it's so it's very fun and you know,
it's it's really well acted. The episodes are about forty
minutes each, so you know, you can get through season
one pretty quickly and then jump in where we're at
now on season two. It's it's a great show.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I concur I'm a big shrinking fan. And and Harrison Ford,
I mean, come on, he's amazing.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
I beat it. Yeah, he's so good. And they all
are really like you know, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Right, it sounds like we have lots of options and
whatever you do, just know that you'll be popular. Copy
BBCs wil Gans, thank you so much. We'll talk to
you again next week.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
All right, I have a good one, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Tickets to attend the Menendez brothers upcoming court hearing will
be distributed by lottery. Tickets will be given out between
eight and nine am Monday outside the Van Lin's Courthouse
with a lottery for sixteen public seats to follow. Eric
and Lyle Menendez, who've been in prison for thirty years
for murdering their parents and Beverly Hills, are expected to
be there. The hearing will discuss the brothers claims that
(42:10):
their sentence was unconstitutional because of what they call new
evidence that they were molested by their father. The LEDWP
has agreed to pay nearly sixty million dollars to settle
claims by more than twelve hundred people who were exposed
to a gas leak at the Department of Water Empower's
Sun Valley Generating Station. The lawsuit filed in twenty twenty one,
alleged the utility put the health of mostly black and
(42:30):
Latino neighborhoods at risk. People in Sun Valley and Pacoima
like this woman complained of headaches, bloody noses, shortness of breath,
and nausea. Like the year.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
Two years after we moved here, I started smelling gas
every time I came outside to do something, to work
on the yard.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
The lawsuit alleged the DWP failed to perform adequate equipment
inspections and notify residents of possible gas leaks as they happened.
The La Auto Show is returned to the Convention Center downtown.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
The auto show was founded in night teen o seven,
and this year a regular attraction is also celebrating many decades.
The Ford Mustang has turned sixty, and Mike Levine with
The Automaker says, there's just something about the Mustang and
it's connection with Californians.
Speaker 7 (43:12):
Gives you a chance to get outside and if you
want to go up pH you can do that. If
you want to take a Mustang to the track on
the weekends, you can do that too.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Ford is showing off the new twenty twenty five Mustang GTD.
The auto show runs through December first at the LA
Convention Center. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Southend Weather from KFI. Morning, clouds and sunny with
highs in the upper sixties at the beaches, low to
mid seventies for Metrola and Inland Orange County, upper sixties
to upper seventies in the valleys and Inland Empire sixties
to low seventies for the Antelote Valley Party. Cloudy with
loads in the forties to low fifties tonight and then
(43:50):
a chance of rain tomorrow morning, rain likely for the
afternoon highs in the sixties. Chance of rain continues Sunday
and into next week. It's forty five in Fullerton, forty
seven in San Clemente, forty seven in Inglewood, and forty
eight in El Segundo. We lead local live from the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer Ann and technical
(44:10):
producer KNO and traffic specialist Nick. I'm Amy King. This
has been your Friday morning wake up call. If you
missed any wake up call, you can listen anytime on
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