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October 22, 2025 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC News international reporter Patrick Reevell opens the show talking about the Trump/ Putin meeting in Budapest being called off. KFI national correspondent Rory O’Neill speaks on flight delays and cancellations and the pressure to reopen the government. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews ‘aka Charlie Sheen’ now streaming on Netflix. Denise Pellegrini from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with Amy talking with host of ‘How to Money’ on KFI Joel Larsgaard about accidental landlording, car wash subscriptions, and Netflix’s ‘Crash Landing Into You.’
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Well, hello there, good morning. It's five o'clock. Straight up.
This is your wake up call for Wednesday, October twenty second.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Just two more days till the Boys in Blue take
on the Blue Jays. Apparently the Dodgers heavy favorites to
win it all. I'm a little worried. Blue Jays are

(00:48):
pretty good. Yeah, they're pretty good, pretty good, but I
think that I think the Dodgers are better. We shall see.
Today is National Color Day whatever, so you're you're encouraged
to wear your favorite color, aware of blue. Well, and
you know what, for most people, that is the favorite color.
Oh look at you. You're one of the masses. Great

(01:12):
Dodger blue though. We like it, We like it. Here's
what's ahead on wake Up Call. A US Marshall has
been hit by a ricochet bullet, and a man in
the US I legally has been shot in South La.
It happened yesterday morning. Officials say the man had tried
to ram several law enforcement vehicles. Both are expected to survive.
City councilmen Curean Price says the man's shot is known

(01:35):
for posting TikTok videos of police and fire events. Angels
star center fielder Mike Trout says he and Tyler Skaggs
were very close since both had been drafted by the
Angels out of high school and were roommates. During testimony
in the wrongful death lawsuit against the Angels filed by
Skagg's family, Trout says he was not aware of Skags

(01:58):
taking any hard drugs. The White House's planned face to
face meeting between President Trump and Russia's President Putin has
been canceled. ABC's Patrick Reevel in London's going to join
us in just a couple of minutes to find out
why it was canceled and what that could mean for
the prospect of ending the fighting in Ukraine. We're now
into the fourth week of the government shutdown. Kfi's national

(02:21):
correspondent Rory O'Neil is going to join us at five
point twenty to tell us how it's affecting us. And
how it could start affecting us if it doesn't get resolved,
and whether either side is showing any signs of being
willing to budge. We'll also get a bonus visit this
morning from the host of How to Money, Joel Larsgard.
He's going to tell us about the accidental landlording, what

(02:42):
it is and why so many people are finding themselves
in that situation. Also, Amy's on it coming up at
the bottom of the hour, checking out shows on the
stream as they do every week. We're gonna take a
look into the life of a guy who was winning
and then losing. It's sex and drugs and fame and
more drugs. That's coming up. Oh and have you heard

(03:03):
an attraction at Disneyland resort's being reimagined outside Disneyland. They
call it a refurbishing refurbishing project. I would like to
just be able to say refurbishing project. We got a
sneak peak for you on that. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The FBI is leading the investigation into
a shooting in South la that hurt a US marshal

(03:25):
and a man allegedly in the country illegally. Homeland Security
says the man tried to get away yesterday morning by
ramming federal vehicles that caused the agents to shoot at him.
The man was hit in the elbow. The marshal was
hit by a ricochet bullet. Officials say the man, who
calls himself a citizen journalist on TikTok, is facing federal
assault charges, but his lawyer says he's skeptical.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
We're not going to rely on what DHSS based on
historical issues that we've had with them in their statements,
but we're going to wait until we speak with him.
That's why we're hearing our demand and that we speak
with him.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Both the marshal and the man are expected to recover.
The group Union Del Bari and the Community of Self
Defense Coalition held a rally yesterday to denounce the shooting.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
This level of.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Violence from federal agents is unacceptable and has no place
in Los Angeles or anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
The groups also criticized the LA School District, saying nearby
Santee High School was not locked down long enough, even
though dozens of federal agents were in front of the
high school after the shooting. News brought to you by
Ruderhroo dot com. A school bus driver in SoCal maybe
out of a job for a TikTok video she posted
about a special needs student.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
He decided to.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Get on my bus and make a mess and now
I have to clean it.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Do better next time, kid. The Coachella Valley School District
is investigating the bus driver after the video went viral
and sparked outrage across the country. The driver has been
put under administrative leave pending the outcome of the review.
And zoologists are a bit baffled by bears breaking into
a zoo in northern California.

Speaker 7 (04:53):
A wild bear was able to break into Sequoia Park
Zoo in Eureka and visited three black bears in their
habitat in the park. Officials say that the bear was
polite and didn't act aggressive, but interacted with the bears
in captivity through a fence. How the bear broke into
the park is a mystery, and zoologists are now playfully
speculating on the type of communication that bears may have
had and saying some human visitors could take notes from

(05:14):
the bear on how to be considerate to the park.
The bear never entered the exhibit and was eventually led
back into the woods. Jason Campedonia k f I News.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Apparently it was a very well behaved bear. Maybe he
just needed a friend. It's five seven on your Wednesday
morning wake up call. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Patrick Revial in London. Good morning, Patrick. President Trump
and Russia's President Putin talked on the phone for a
couple hours last week, and after that President Trump said, Hey,

(05:43):
we're going to meet face to face, but that's not
happening now.

Speaker 8 (05:47):
Good morning, Yeah, I plans between President and the Kremlin
have said they don't expect it to happen in the
near future. And while that is quite surprising how quickly
it's fallen apart, I think for those who have been
watching it, it's not that surprising. Because when we heard

(06:10):
that President Trump was going to have this summit following
this call with Ladimir Putin, the first question we had
was does that mean that something has changed? Has Vladimir
Putin suggested he's willing to make some kind of concession
that he was not willing to make during the recent
in Alaska, which obviously has not led to peace. But
instead we've actually seen Vadimir Putin since then only escalate

(06:32):
the war in Ukraine. In the last few days, Russia's
made clear that it is not going to make any concessions. Instead,
it has rejected what was President Trump's position, which was
that they should freeze the lines where they are freeze
the front lines, and instead they've repeated their hardline demand
that Ukraine should hand over all of its eastern Donbass region,

(06:53):
which we know as a non starter for Ukraine and
also for European countries because they believe that would be
suicide Ukraine. And so we basically are back to where
we were. Vladimir Pussin has not moved on any of
his positions, and instead of his summit, we have no Trump,
who had been suggesting he would give some O missiles

(07:15):
to Vladimir Zelenski has not provided them, he said because
the summit was coming up. So instead we appeared to
be where we were before all these meeting is the oldest.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Nope, did we finally lose him? I was going to say,
I know we're talking to him from London, so the
connection might be a little sketchy. We'll see if he
if he calls back. But right now that from what
Patrick says, it looks like we're back to square one.
That the meeting had been set and then apparently there
was oh Patrick's back Okay, so Patrick, was there a

(07:50):
phone call between Secretary of State Rubio and Sergei Lavrov.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
So there was yes, sexually a say MARKO. Ruby spoke
to Sergei Lavrov, supposed to be basically the next step
towards planning this summit. The White House said they had
a productive meeting, but then said that there were no
need for Mark Rubio and Sergei Lavrov to meet in person,
which had been the planned next step. And then after

(08:17):
that they said the summit was off, which I think
shows that both sides understand that really they didn't have
anything to talk about at the summit and that simply
it would be a repeat of Alaska, where Russia puts
forward this demand that both the US and Ukraine no
will not be accepted, and so that has led to

(08:38):
nothing basically. But this morning we've seen overnight Russia had
launched a very heavy attack on Ukraine, an air attack
including also drones, striking directly a kindergarten in eastern Ukraine
where there were about fifty children sheltering. They are thankfully
okay because they were in a shelter, but there's some
very distressing images that then been carried out of a

(08:59):
destroyed build in eastern Ukraine. This war very much still
going on, okay.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
And then Patrick Labrov has said that if they stop
the fighting now, the root causes of the conflict would
be forgotten. What are the root causes according to Russia
of this conflict?

Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yes? So, root causes is a phrase that the Kremlin
and Russian officials often used, and it basically refers to
a few things and potentially the demands that Russia is making,
and that is that Ukraine must not be part of NATO.
Also that potentially NATO must pull back from parts of
Eastern Europe. It also means that Ukraine's government must also

(09:38):
be changed, potentially very similar to what it was demanding
at the start of the war. I mean, if they
were to get into negotiations, some of this could be negotiated.
We know that Ukraine is willing to potentially give up
NATO membership, but it wants some kind of guarantees that
Russia won't simply come back. And so at the moment,
Russia's demands remain the same and effectively out of reach

(10:00):
for Ukraine to accept, because Russia believes that it is winning,
and so it will continue to make these demands until
it feels that it cannot achieve them in the long
term on the battlefield, and so for that for the
time being, that means this war is most likely just
going to go on.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Okay. ABC's Patrick Reville, thanks so much for the update. Well,
that's disappointing. It'd be nice if all this fightings stopped,
wouldn't it. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
government shutdown is now three weeks in and there are
no signs of it ending anytime soon. ABC's Mary Bruce
says that means federal workers will miss their first full

(10:38):
paycheck on Friday.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
President Trump says he won't meet with Democrats until they
first reopened the government. This shutdown now tied for the
second longest ever, the longest ever thirty five days during
President Trump's first term.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
On Monday, the Senate failed for an eleventh time to
advance a bill to reopen the government until November twenty first.
The House is out of session week Vice President Vansa
and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho have met in Jerusalem
to talk about the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

Speaker 10 (11:08):
We have a very very tough task ahead of us,
which is to disarm a Moss, but rebuild Gaza, to
make life better for the people in Gaza, but also
to ensure that a Moss is no longer threat to
our friends in Israel.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Van says he's optimistic that the ceasefire is going to
hold and that they can actually build a better future
in the entire Middle East. Netta Yah, who says Israel's
alliance and partnership with the US is also changing the world.
Walmart says it's stopping job offers to foreign candidates who
need H one B visas to work in the US.
The policy change announced yesterday comes after the Trump administration

(11:41):
says it was imposing a one hundred thousand dollars fee
on visas for highly skilled workers. The administration says the
fees intended to curb abuse of the H one B
visa program. Walmart currently employees more than two thousand H
one B visa holders. A January sixth Rioter pardoned by
President Trump, has been arrested again. ABC's Aaron Katirski says
the man's accused of threatening to kill House Minority leader

(12:04):
Hakim Jeffries.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
The FBI in New York State Police Saint Christopher moynihan
sent these chilling texts. Hakim Jeffries makes a speech in
a few days in NYC. I cannot allow this terrorist
to live. Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated.
I will kill him for the future.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Jeffries thanks police, who he says, are being forced to
spend their time keeping communities safe from violent people who
never should have been pardoned. Good things come to those
who wait because well, science says so.

Speaker 11 (12:32):
A new study says waiting strengthens self control and can
encourage reflection, creativity, and better communication. Researchers saying even short
pauses or delays, like ordering food ahead of time holding
off on a purchase cools off, impulses, and prioritizes long
term goals. Waiting to reply to an annoying email let
you clarify what you want to say and increases the
chance for a better outcome. Even the weight in a

(12:54):
bit of silence before answering a question can create the
space between impulse and action. Research say, it's about seeing
the value of how waiting improves your well being. Michael
Krozier k if I.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Use Well, here's something that I'm anxiously waiting for. Disney
announced that they've got a reimagining underway for sorein across
the World. It's called Soaring across America. And to introduce it,
who did they call pull out? But oh, our little buddy,
Patrick Warburton, who is the chief flight attendant. When you

(13:28):
go on the rud do you know this will you're
making a funny face.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
He's kind of an older, small guy.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
He used to be on Seinfeld. He was, yes, yeah, okay, okay.
So he's the guy who gives you the safety instructions.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Soon as you sail through our spacious guys, you may
see amber waves of grain, purple mountain.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Majesties.

Speaker 6 (13:50):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm going to be Soaring across America.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm totally keyed for that. Just I think this is
great because sworing around the world is nice. We're in
over California is my favorite.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh, that was great.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
I think it's opened, Yes, yep, and I love it.
And they bring it back periodically, but they're doing this
one for the two hundred and fiftieth Celebration of America,
and so it'll be out next year. And they haven't
said what cities they're going to feature yet, but they're
going to feature different cities across the country and other
probably national landmarks and that kind of stuff. So I

(14:24):
think it's going to be really cool. It's kind of
like the new version of back in the day.

Speaker 12 (14:28):
Remember when we used to go to Circle Vision in
the old park and it was across America and it
would have all the landmarks and you were like in
this giant room.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh yeah, I remember that. I wonder if it's going
to be like that.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I wonder too, But it kind of feels like it
has that vibe. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
They said that they're going to honor the past, present,
and future of America. So maybe we'll take a look
back in time too.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
That'd be two.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
Hundred and fiftieth America.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
A woman at a park in Long Beach has been
hit by a small plane making an emergency landing. Fire
officials say the pilot of the experimental plane was attempting
to land on a soccer field at Hartwell Park. Around
four yesterday afternoon. The pilot had to be removed from
the plane that landed on its belly. He and the
woman were both taken to the hospital. Residents of Malibu
being asked to turn off the taps. Repairs are being

(15:16):
done today to the water system. City officials say water
service won't be interrupted, but they're asking customers to limit
use to only what's essential to maintain the stability of
the system while the work is being done. It's expected
to be completed this afternoon. K Pop Demon Hunters toys, collectibles,
and a K Pop Monopoly game are headed to a store.

(15:37):
Netflix says it has reached licensing deals with both Mattel
and Hasbro. A three pack of dolls is going to
be the first to be released. They'll be available for
pre order November twelve. K Pop Demon Hunters is Netflix's
most popular movie ever at six o five. It's handle
on the news. The FBI is investigating after an ice

(15:59):
agent was hit by ricochet and an illegal migrant was
sitting the elbow after eventually trying to ram some police
vehicles in South LA. Let's say good morning now to
kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neill Rory. We're into day twenty
two of the government's shutdown. Where are we in? How

(16:19):
are people feeling it?

Speaker 11 (16:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Can we just play the report I gave you three
weeks ago, because pretty much the same thing, Although we
are getting some more numbers about flight delays and cancelations
this weekend. The folks over at flight Aware say nineteen
one hundred flights were rather nineteen thousand flights were delayed,
sixteen hundred flights were canceled this weekend. Sure, there's weather

(16:42):
and technical issues, but that's a strong spike in the number.
The Transportation Secretary says they're seeing a big jump in
the number of air traffic control workers who are outsick
these days, and that's causing a lot of these cascading delays.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Wow, that's a lot. I was just I was going
to ask you because we haven't really heard about the
delays since the air traffic controllers didn't show up in burbanks.
They basically called out sick at the start of it,
and we haven't heard a ton about it since then.
But you're saying that thousands of people are being affected.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, nineteen thousand flights delayed between Saturday and Monday Sunday
alone eight thousand different delays. You know, some of that
is weather obviously moving through these areas, but clearly there's
a staffing issue as well that's only expected to get worse.
And I think, especially as we get closer to the
end of the month than on the first, when the
rent is due with the mortgages, do I think we

(17:37):
might start to see things really bubble up. But look,
a lot of Senators are on the sidelines, not the
leadership ones, but the ones on the sideline, saying we've
got to figure out something here, because even if we
were to pass this continuing resolution, all it does is
fund the government now for less than a month, and
we're right back at this.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, So I wish they'd figure this out and just
pass like a long term spending plan. Wouldn't that be nice?
So the TSA workers, they're also deemed essential, so they're
supposed to be showing up for work right.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Right without pay. So the numbers are thirteen thousand air
traffic controllers and fifty thousand Transportation Security Administration officers are
working this month without pay. And you know, again, twenty
two days, they really have only missed one paycheck so far,
so maybe you know you can sort of make things work,
but if you go a month without pay, that's getting

(18:28):
to be really serious, especially in the US where most
Americans don't have five hundred dollars set aside for a
rainy day fund.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, and Rory, what other things are people going to
start to feel if the government shutdown continues.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, you're starting to see things. If you need flood
insurance on your home, that's going to be an issue.
We're going to start seeing issues at the border as well,
Border and customs officers. They're also going to be having
to work without getting paid. That's something else you'll see.
And if you have a problem and you need your
case handled with Social Security or you've got a tax issue,
a lot of those agencies, their help centers are not available.

(19:03):
So it's going to start to bubble up and really
annoy you in these very difficult ways.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay, and you said that the kind of the rank
and file members of Congress are saying, we got to
resolve this, but so far from leadership any movement, not.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Really, And don't forget the House members. They're all home
in their district. They've been told don't be in Washington,
so the House is out of session. They're trying to
force the Democrats to say, this is your only option
out of this is to vote for this continuing resolution.
But the Democrats are flexing the little muscle they have,
denying them the sixty votes needed to pass anything in
the Senate to say, hey, rather than talk about the

(19:38):
CR the continuing resolution, let's go back to that big,
beautiful bill and try to bring back some of those
subsidies for the Obamacare healthcare plans.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil, thanks for the update.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Thanks, Amy.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
All right, and so it goes, and so it goes.
Angels star Mike Trout has taken the stand in Orange
Care in the wrongful death trial over his teammate Tyler Skaggs.
Trout testified that he grew suspicious of former Team PR
official Eric Kaye, who's serving a twenty two year federal
sentence for providing Skags the fentanel that killed him in

(20:14):
twenty nineteen. Trout recalled confronting kay and offering help, but
he said he saw no sign of Skag's drug problem.
The lawsuit by Skagg's family claims that team officials missed
signs of drug use and failed to act on it.
A twenty eight year old man's been sent to thirty
five years in prison for molesting three girls, two of
them in a bounced house at a birthday party in Anaheim.

(20:35):
Fernando Apaias pleaded guilty to four felon accounts of sexual
assault and loot acts on the six and nine year
old girls in twenty eighteen and nineteen. He's been ordered
to register as a sex offender for the rest of
his life. The La City Councils extended a ban on
building new warehouses and distribution centers in Cornfield, Arroyo Seco area.

Speaker 12 (20:54):
Neighborhoods like Lincoln Heights, Chinatown and those near the five
and one ten freeways already prohibit new weear houses and
distribution centers, but council woman Unices Hernandez says the ban
is temporary and expiring until a permanent one next year.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
These are working class immigrant families breathing toxic diesel fumes
every day.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
They suffer from the highest rates of asthma. Their kids
are getting sick, then their parents are getting sick.

Speaker 12 (21:16):
She says the city needed to act to prevent a
gap in the band starting next month. The city has
a plan for more housing development in the area in
downtown La Michael Monks KFI.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
News kevinor Newsom's threatened to sue the Trump administration if
it sends National Guard troops into San Francisco. President Trump
said yesterday that he plans to do it. Local supervisor
Connie Chan says the president and his administration don't care
about the facts or the city's crime statistics. She says
guardsmen are not needed.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
They are going to say whatever it is they are
going to say, but San Francisco is ready to protect
its residents and everybody who visit.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Trump's announcement followed the decision of a three judge panel
that said Trump has the authority to deploy the National Guard.
In Portland, open ai has introduced its own web browser.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
The new browser is called chat gpt at liss, putting
it in direct competition with Google. The new browser started
yesterday on Apple laptops, and it aims to make chat
gpt a gateway to online searches. This move could increase
open AI's internet traffic and advertising revenue. The CEO describes
it as a chance to rethink browser use. Atlas will

(22:23):
eventually be available on Windows, iOS and Android. The browser
faces a tough challenge against Google's Chrome, which has about
three billion users. Deborah mark Koffi News three billion.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Aren't there like eight billion people on the planet, so
almost half of people use it? That's crazy. State officials
urging Californians to return their mail in ballots for Proposition
fifty by November. First election day is November fourth. California
Attorney General Rob Bonta and the Secretary of State Shirley
Weber say because of recent changes at the postal service,

(22:57):
ballots from rural areas that don't come in at head
of the election might not be received by election day.
More veterans are living on the streets in La. Local
and federal agencies say there are just over three thousand
homeless veterans, which is up about two percent from last year.
The number is still lower than in twenty twenty three,
when an estimated thirty eight hundred vets were homeless. The

(23:19):
VA says it got eighteen hundred veterans into permanent housing
in twenty twenty four. The Louver has reopened to the
public three days after thieves forced open a window and
stole the French Crown jewels in a daytime heist. The
room where the theft happened is still closed. It took
the thieves just seven minutes to get in smashed display
cases and take more than a half dozen jewels valued

(23:41):
at more than one hundred million dollars. Six oh five.
It's handle on the news. Nil Sevader not with us today,
So it's just Bill and me.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Aami's on it, Damien's on it, Amy's on it, Dami's
on it.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
What am I on? Well, I'm on the stream because
there is so much content. In fact, I just heard
about a new show that I'm going to be checking
out and we'll be telling you about that. That's from
a couple of years ago. But there's so much there
that of course there's tons of new stuff coming out,
but there's also some you know, there's some stuff that
you may have missed along the way. And I take
recommendations from friends and co workers and check them out

(24:24):
and then pass them along to you and either give
you a great recommendation to go and sit down and
watch it, or maybe give you a recommendation to save
the time on something else. So just very Recently, Netflix
released a documentary on Charlie Sheen called Aka Charlie Sheen.
It's a two part documentary series. The two parts are

(24:47):
very long. It's like two movies, like I think each
one is two hours. But it's the life and escapades
of Charlie Sheen growing up with a famous dad of course,
Martin Sheen, the friends that he grew up, how they
used to make movies together when they were kids. I mean,
because you know, dad was in the business, and so
it would make sense that growing up in the Hollywood area,
maybe you would do that too. His rise to fame,

(25:12):
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, my favorite Charlie Sheen roll. All
the time. I always forget about that. I know, well
it was just such a it's such a bit part,
but it really kind of was his breakout. Yeah huge. Yeah.
So and then he's got this huge list of movies,
I mean dozens of movies, Spen, some big ones, Wall Street, Platoon,
Hot Shots, Hot Shots, pot Due, and my favorite, Major League.

(25:37):
I think he was so great in Major League. So
it covers his rise to stardom. And of course it's
talking to him, like some documentaries don't have that person
in there so much, but it's all him, and he
talks about his rise to start him, his movies, his
TV shows, his addictions, and his rehab and that's a
really big part of it is because he's really infamous

(25:58):
for the drug use, drinking and all of that. And
then after he got out of rehab there was Spin City.
Remember he took over for Michael J. Fox and I'd
completely forgotten about that. So, I mean, a really really
interesting career. And Sean Penn is in it because they're friends.
And he said one thing about Charlie Sheen is that
he will tell you the truth. And Charlie Sheen lays

(26:20):
it all out in this. I mean you feel like
he's being very candid. And they interview some other people
who know him, who have worked with him. There's John
Cryer who worked with him on Two and a half Men.
I don't think he likes him very much that you
can tell me what you think about that. They talked
to his wives, Denise Richards. Of course they were married

(26:41):
and had a couple of kids and then they split up.
She's pretty hardcore. I mean she's real and she's raw
and she lays it out there. And then Brooke Mueller,
who was his third wife. She's a little bit out there.
His older brother's in it. His daughter Lola is in it,
which is kind of sad because you know, when she
was growing up he was having his drug issues, and

(27:01):
so you kind of feel that sadness from her. And
then conspicuously absent were Emilio Estefez, his brother, and his dad,
Martin Sheen. But other than that, they had a ton
of people. Charlie Sheen is not shy. He's definitely not
act lacking ego. It's hard to empathize with him for

(27:23):
the problems that he had because he was such a
jerk when he was doing it, and they show, you know,
like I said, it's pretty raw. They show a lot
of the videos of him when he was completely strung
out on drugs and the things that he was saying
during interviews and talking about all the drugs that he
did and how he was he had tiger blood and
all of that stuff. But so it's a really interesting

(27:44):
look into his life. Though he's sober now, so that's great.
It's super interesting to watch it. I wouldn't call it
a feel good show by any stretch, but I definitely
recommend it. And it's just interesting to kind of get
a glimpse into the life. And again it it's sad
in a way, it's also good in a way because
maybe he's having a oh gosh, Iron Man Robert Downey Junior, remember,

(28:09):
I mean he almost died and kind of you kind
of get the feeling that Charlie Sheen about killed himself too,
with all the drugs and everything. But he's he's been
sober for eight years now. So a really interesting watch.
AKA Charlie Sheen. It's on Netflix all right. Time to
get in your business with Bloomberg's not Courtney Donald. Oh,
we have Denise Pellegrini. Hello, Denise, Hey, how are you doing?

Speaker 10 (28:29):
Amy?

Speaker 5 (28:29):
You know you got me thinking about Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
That film was actually selected for preservation in the US
National Film Registry by the Life as well.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
It should be. I love, love, love that movie. Okay,
And we were just talking about the AKA Charlie Sheen
is on Netflix, and Netflix in spite of having all
this great programming, had not a great financial report.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Yeah, they have a ton of great programming. You mentioned
this Charlie thing Sheene thing. So K pop Demon Hunters, right,
the hit Wednesday, that seqel to Happy Gilmore. I mean,
there's just tons of stuff that's really fantastic on Netflix,
but shares are absolutely getting slammed this morning because company
had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle

(29:16):
a tax dispute with Brazil. Netflix says though it hasn't
even stronger lineup of programming for the rest of the year,
They've got that last season of Stranger Things coming, also
a sequel to the mystery film Knives Out, and some
new movies as well, and they're also talking about maybe
picking up some of the assets owned by Warner Brothers Discovery.
Comcast also considering a bit for all are part of

(29:39):
Warner Brothers Discovery, so they could have some other types
of growth as well through acquisitions.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
And they're sitting out a huge cash pile. So don't
count them out. I hope not, because if they go dark,
we're going to lose a lot of program You mentioned
K Pop Demon Hunters, and they're going to cash in
on their biggest show ever. It's their their most viewed movie.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Yeah, it's the most popular film and history of the
streaming platform, three hundred and twenty five million views or
something like that. And now Mattel and Hasbro are stepping
in and say they will produce toys, collectibles, games, and
role play products whatever. Those are based on K Pop
Demon Hunter's film, So you Got your chance, you know,

(30:21):
to be a superhero if you want to, not just
with the singalongs they have, but they're going to apparently
be all kinds of costumes and toys that you can
play with around the studio if you need to.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Any Yeah, and I think that that's how Netflix is
going to grow. There's only so many subscribers for goodness
sakes and offshit. Offshoot of the zembic craze is food
scented perfumes. Oh my gosh, okay, but like mashed potatoes.
I mean.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
The weird thing is that there are just hundreds of
them now as more and more people use Ozepic. There's
even this TikTok video out there outlines this theory that
connects the popularity of these perfumes with scents like vanilla
and other edible indulgences to the global rise of GLP
one diet drugs. Some researchers may may suggest this trend

(31:12):
may be driven by people seeking to satisfy their food
cravings through smell. There could be some truth to this.
Some twenty two percent of fragrances introduced globally last year
we're classified as Gorman and quarries. For Gorman, fragrance grew
one hundred and eighty six percent On TikTok. A lot

(31:32):
of companies obviously smell profits anyway. Okay, so I can
get the.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Vanilla and stuff, but I mean literally, I mean, are
they going to make gravy scented birth Yeah? Yeah, and
probably bacon will be a big one.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
Oh bacon, Okay, you know, and you won't get any
weight when you sniff that stuff, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, just makes me want to eat it, Okay. On
the markets, the now is trading above forty seven thousand
for the first time.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
It is, and that's in spite of some of the rocky,
you know things we've had this week, with gold futures
surging and then dropping in all the concern about what's
going on with trade and President Trump yesterday he said
that the trade talks with China that he thought they
would go well, but they might not happen at all.
In spite of a rocky week, we are at these

(32:20):
record levels are close to them right now, though Dow
futures are just slightly lower. S and P futures are
a little bit higher. Nasdaq futures are a little bit lower,
and some people are saying we may be overbought at
these levels. But then of course we have these other
prognosticators saying that we could go way higher.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
So it's anyone's guests. We shall see getting in your
business as we do every weekday morning with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini.
Thank you, Denise, have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow,
all right. The owners of a metal salvage yard in
Watts have been ordered to perform two hundred hours of
community service and have been ordered to pay one point
eight million dollars in restitution for disposing of hazardous waste

(33:00):
without a permit near Jordan High School. Metrolink is suspending
service on three major rail lines this weekend. No trains
will be running on the Orange County Inland Empire, Orange
County or Ventura County lines because of planned maintenance and
construction starts Friday night. An electronic road sign has been
hacked to attack Governor Newsom Citrus Heights officials say the

(33:20):
road sign ryan f newscom no on fifty. It was
seen for two nights before it got shut down. City
official say, someone tampered with the message board, which is
not owned or controlled by the city. Let's say good
morning now to Joel Larsguard. We usually talk to Joel
on Tuesdays, but we get a bonus for you because
we've been trying to talk about this accidental landlording thing

(33:42):
and keep running out of time. So Joel, good morning first,
and tell us what is accidental landlording and how are
people finding themselves as accidental landlords.

Speaker 13 (33:53):
Okay, so this is a new trend because obviously the
housing market has been just interesting, to say the least,
ebbing and flowing. And if you tried to sell a
house three years ago, you were like, whoo, there's like
dozens of people lined up at the door trying to
buy this house. They're trying to shove money in my
hands and more than I'm even asking for. And now

(34:16):
that trend has gone away, right, and we have fewer buyers,
We have more of a matched market where homes are staying,
they're being listed for even longer, and they're staying on
the market. And so what's happening though, is prices haven't
gone down. There's something about home sellers wanting to get

(34:37):
what their neighbor got, even if the market is looking different.
And so when they don't get what they want for
the house the listing price they put it at, they're
getting crickets in return. Once they've listed it, they're saying,
you know what, I have to move, but I'm not
willing to take less. So I think what I'm gonna
do is just rent this puppy out. I'll hold on
to it, maybe I'll sell it down the road. And

(34:58):
so this is where we're getting people becoming landlords when
maybe that wasn't really on the radar or something they desired.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Ah, okay, And then and you've got to be careful
when you're a landlord. I'm a landlord and I'm so lucky,
but a lot of times it's just a pain in
the butt.

Speaker 13 (35:16):
Yes, And so this is I think at the heart
of really what I wanted to talk about with you
is just it's okay, I'm down with people becoming landlords
and saying this is a part of my well building strategy.
This is something I'm signing up for intentionally and I
think this is I think I'm ready for the stage
of my life, but the accidental landlording and being like, yeah,

(35:37):
let me just see if this works out because I
didn't quite get what the offers I was expecting. There
are a lot of potential traps in landlording if you're
not fully ready for it. And the truth is, the
financials might or might not make sense. It depends on
when you bought, depends on what the rental markets looking like,
and rents drops across so much of the country, maybe

(35:57):
you're not going to get as much as you thought
for rent it from. On top of that, I mean,
there was this story in the Wall Street Journal just
yesterday about how many renters are forging their credentials, like
whether it's pay stuffs, whether it's credit score information, whether
it's like there's all used to be kind of the
case where it's like, I gave you the number of

(36:18):
my previous landlord, but my previous landlord is actually just
my friend Jim, And you had to be wary as
a landlord about that possibility. But the sophistication of renter
fraud is growing, and as a landlord needs to be
really careful about that, and so there's just all of
these ways where landlording. Yes, it can make sense for
a out your home, and it can be a potentially

(36:40):
good financial move for you, but it's certainly not always
and there are a lot of ways in which you
can really harm your finances by going in this direction,
especially if you don't really know what you're doing. So
if you're going to be an accidental landlord, it's really
time to start doing some one oh one learning. You
can go back and listen to previous episodes of how
to podcasts where we talk about that, or go listen

(37:02):
to other podcasts that really are specifically helpful when it
comes to landloarding. But my goodness, there's just there's so
much information out there, and it's a tough. It really
is a tough world getting into that landloarding space. And
I've been doing it for a bunch of years now too,
and I'll say it's been good overall, but it doesn't
mean it's easy. It really is more like a part

(37:23):
time job.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yes, absolutely, So yeah, I think that that's something that
a lot of people haven't thought about. That's why I
wanted to get you back on so we could talk
about it because you don't want to end up in
a position, like you said, it's a part time job,
and if you already have a job and then there's
something goes wrong or you get a bad renter, bad
renters can I've had friends who've had horrible renters that
have just destroyed their homes, you know, And it wasn't

(37:46):
necessarily an investment home. So you know, something to watch
out for before we let you go. We talked yesterday
about subscriptions and how car washes have subscriptions and I said,
I got to go get my car washed. Well I didn't,
so I didn't get my money's worth out of my car.
Watch the description this month. And also you said that
you got Netflix just for this one show and you

(38:07):
started it that haven't had time to watch it. Well
you've got me hooked, so crash landing into you. It's
on Netflix. It's a few years old, but it and
it's fun and it's cute, and I mean it's not
like I don't know, it's sort of like a South
Korean Hallmark movie a little bit, but it's good.

Speaker 13 (38:25):
I know, I know it's not normally my genre, but
I was like, okay, I heard. I got a recommendation
from a couple of people. I need to give this
a shot, and I really do. Just need to find
the time to watch it because I enjoyed the first episode.
It's not that I don't like it, It's just that,
you know, sometimes there's other things I want to do
with my time and like watching TV. Follow down on
the list.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, if you have no life like me, then you'd
have more time see Joe Lard's garden.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
That's not true at all.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
The host of How To Money. You can listen to
him every Sunday from noon to two right here on KFI.

Speaker 13 (38:53):
Thanks Joel, Thanks Amy.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Okay, yeah, we'll be talking about crash landing into you
in the near future. It is a fun show. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman has been
rescued from a manhole in LA's Harbor Gateway area. Firefighters
had to use a ladder and they took a cable
down to the woman early this morning and pulled her up.

(39:16):
She said she'd been down there since yesterday. Four people
have been found dead in an apartment in Fullerton. Police
say it looks like it was a drug overdose. A
man had apparently called police saying his friends had odeed
and weren't breathing. The four people were found in the
apartment at Harbor Boulevard in Wiltshire Avenue around eleven yesterday morning,
and auction house plans to sell off some of Gene

(39:37):
Hackman's possessions.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Items on the block include a golden globe, a wristwatch,
and paintings he collected and created himself. Live and online
auctions next month follow Gene Hackman's death in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, this year at age ninety five. The two
time Oscar winner enjoyed painting and wrote novels in his
later years. Auction items include a still life painting of
a Japanese vase by Hackman and awards from Roles in
Unforgiven and the Royal Tenen Bombs. Ackman's art collection highlights

(40:01):
post war and contemporary masters. Mark Ronner KFI News.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
This is KFI and KOSC HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County Live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm
Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and
if you missed any wake up call, you can listen
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to Wake
Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear
Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday
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(40:28):
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