January 25, 2026 • 31 mins
We break down the powerful and troubling scenes emerging from Iran and what they mean globally and locally. LA City Councilman Adrin Nazarian joins us to discuss his personal ties to Iran, his approach to addressing homelessness in Los Angeles, and nine pending motions aimed at supporting the Hollywood industry. Plus, a look at a new movie studio being built near Skid Row in the Arts District and what it could mean for the neighborhood.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
But this is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from
KFI News. Protests against the regime in Iran have led
to the deaths of thousands and uncertainty about the country's future.
La City Councilman Adriam Nazarian knows firsthand what unrest in
Iran looks like. He was born there and his family
fled violence decades ago. He joins us now, Counselman Adriam Nazarian,
(00:26):
thank you so much for giving us some time here
at KFI.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're all watching what's going on in Iran. It's not
easy to understand. Uh, there's just so much going on
in the world that it's really hard to compartmentalize what's
happening anywhere. But the scenes we're seeing out of Iran
are striking. But again, it's difficult to understand. You, however,
have a much closer connection. Would you tell our audience
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what that connection is.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
First of all, thank you very much for highlighting this
issue for our audience to better become aware of what's
going on. My family fled Iran after the turmoil started
in the late seventies and continued into the early eighties.
There was the revolution, the overthrow of the Shah, and
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then the ensuing war with Iraq that lasted ten years,
devastated the country and amounted to over a million a
loss of over a million lives. And so my parents
wanted to make sure that my older brother and I
were both out of the country. He was sixteen, he
was of drafting age, so she took him out and
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then came back and got me out of the country.
And because of the circumstances of how we left, we
left everything behind and we basically ended up scattering to
three different parts of the world. My dad stayed behind,
my mother, sister, and I came to the US. My
brother went to Cyprus. There was an over a boarding
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school that saved his life, and so that's how we
lived for about seven years until we all finally were reunited.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's unimaginable. I mean, what do you remember from that time.
You're just a small child.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I was eight when we left. So it was a
extremely devastating circumstance. First of all, to overnight or within
you know, days and weeks, to have to gather things
and leave and to also be hiding in the basement
while the bombs were being while the city was capital
city was being bombarded, not knowing whether you were going
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to survive and see the following morning or not. And
then the continued harassment and the heavy hand of the
regime that had taken over. And just again to put
it in context, run was a very different place prior
to this regime than what it is today.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Are there parallels? Are there parallels to your experience and
what families there now are experiencing?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Absolutely? Absolutely. In fact, the reason I want to voice
out and give voice is to the many voices that
to many individuals who either didn't survive or never could
speak for themselves when they went through the initial trauma.
Let's not forget that a lot of Iranians who ended
up settling all over the world, a great majority also
came here to Los Angeles, and many people now are
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reliving the horrors of what they went through, the sense
of insecurity, not knowing what tomorrow brings coming, you know,
going through a myriad of different paths in order to
find safety and security, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a bus,
if you're lucky, in a plane, but whatever it is,
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to find your way out, and so I think for
a lot of folks it's bringing those memories back. But
at the same time everyone then realizes how traumatic it
is for those that are living there right now being
blacked out and not having their voice heard.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe you can help us with this with a geopolitical
lesson because of your close connection to what's going on.
I mean, we're seeing very startling and tragic reports out
of Iran, thousands of people being killed, there's mass protests
in a country that doesn't like public protests. What is
happening in Iran right now? Why is this happening?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's that's going to be a much lengthier conversation, which
which which I'm happy to engage in, even though it
would be only my perspective of that corner of the world.
But let's not let's not forget that this also has
roots stemming out of events that shaped that region because
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of foreign intervention. There's been generations of intervention because of
oil and and and that's just one unfacet of it.
Let's also not forget that Iran is in the is
in the crux and the cross hairline of the Oxiden
and the orients, so all travel and trade routes traversed
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Iran or portions of Iran as well. So historically, even
before oil and before any other resources, it was in
the path of trade and many wars. But fast forward
to now you also have, or the course of the
last several centuries, the benefit of natural resources and especially oil,
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and that's been at the forefront of many Western interventions
over the course of the last at least sixty seventy
years that have led Iran to be where it's at
right now and for this regime to be in place
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What is the outcome that's someone like you with familial
connections to Iran would like to see.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
First and foremost, I don't want the people of Iran
going through the horrific circumstances that they're going through. This
is a country that's provided so much in art, culture, history.
Iran alone itself has a is extremely rich in history
and has been a contributing has contributed to over five
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thousand years. So when you see the devastation that it's
going through right now, I can't put to words what
it means to see things that have been around for
centuries and millennia being lost. People's voices being lost also
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because for the most part, we don't understand exactly what's
going on, and the blackout doesn't help either. So it's
important for us to make sure that those of us
that have lived through it once before to speak up,
to bring attention, and to make sure that everyone around
the world knows what's going on in Iran.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You are not the only Iran native to be living
in Los Angeles. In southern California, there's quite a population here.
I don't expect you to speak on behalf of everyone,
but can you tell us in general what the feelings
are with the local community with their ties to Iran.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Many people want peace, Many people want this regime to
no longer be in power. Many attempts have been made
over the course of the last forty forty five years.
You have the uprisings in two thousand and nine, in
twenty twelve and nineteen, most recently in twenty two with
Massa Amini's death, and it seems like every time that
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the protests are taking place, they're growing in numbers, growing
in strength, and the only way the regime can hold
this down is by the measures that is taking right now.
It's horrific treatment of its own public, of its own residents,
and blacking out so that the rest of the world
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doesn't see what's happening. So many people are here still
have loved ones and friends and the way of life
that Iran also represented before nineteen seventy nine, and they
want Iran to go back to what it was as
a peaceful nation.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Up next, Councilman Nazarian talks about his first year in
office and what the city plans to do on homelessness
now that the county has pulled out of the La
Homeless Services Authority.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
This is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Our guest is LA City Councilman Adrine Nazarian. Obviously, there
are a lot of issues facing the city of Los Angeles.
Say you can't. I mean, you can weigh in on
national international events, but you have direct control and bluence
over what happens here locally, and my goodness, there is
a lot happening here locally. You're a freshman member of
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the city council, you've been there for a year. Now,
let's just start with something basic. How has it been you.
You're an experienced politician, you served in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
It's been a whirlwind since I've taken office, because literally
within three weeks of taking office, we had the devastating
fires of Palisades and Eating, which led to very difficult circumstances,
not just for the residents, not just for the impacted individuals,
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but placing the city on high alert and also squeezing
the resources that are already there aren't enough of UH.
And then to add to that the component of the
federal government coming in with the continuous ice rates for
the pets for the duration of the last seven months,
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and devastating way of life, our neighbors' lives, people who
have made their home for generations here, all in the
hope of trying to either hurt our economy or destroy
the way of life that has made Los Angeles and
California very successful. So amidst all of this, you still
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also have your obligation to your residence and your constituents
to make sure that the lights are on the streets, work,
the potholes are filled, and everything is moving forward. So
it's been it's been a whirldwind of activity. But I
have to say that first and foremost, having had the
benefit of working in the state, in state government and
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in the state legislature prepared me for making sure how
I address the issues and how to maintain a steady hand,
because it's times like this especially that I think it's
important that we maintain a steady hand in governance.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Caltuman, you mentioned the immigration enforcement action that were brought
here by the federal government. No surprise, President Trump ran
on mass deportations, LA a prime target for that. We
do have a large population of immigrants, including illegal immigrants,
but this is also a city that needs to have
a close relationship with the federal government in a way
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that other cities with large immigrant and illegal immigrant populations
don't necessarily have to. Because we've got these world events coming.
We've got the World Cup coming and basically just a
few months and then the Olympics on the other side
of that in twenty twenty eight, How would you describe
this city's relationship with the national government as we start
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to get close to these events.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, it leaves a lot to be desired, especially right now.
Let's for one, look at our film industry. You know,
we have a wee Los Angeles is the founding of
birthplace of our film industry. I wish our federal government
would have stepped up over the course of the last
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four decades as filming was leaving not just Los Angeles
in California, but out of the entire country and helping
us make sure that we come up with ways of
protecting filming and keeping it here in Los Angeles and
in the United States. And the list of that can grow.
I mean, just you look at the homelessness crisis that
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we're dealing with right now, especially when you have folks
finding California and Los Angeles potentially be a more suitable
location to be because of the weather and climate circumstances.
When any individual is traversing state lines, it becomes automatically
a federal issue. And I would have much hoped that
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the federal government forty fifty sixty years ago was helping
step up, step up and address the homelessness crisis that
ended up becoming a crisis issue over the course of
the last ten to fifteen years and probably even longer.
But it was hiding in places that publicly was not visible.
So there are many other issues to talk about and
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to assert the importance of federal government's role in local jurisdiction,
hurting our residents and people that have made their lives
here for twenty thirty forty years or more, and who
are part of the vibrant economy that we have and
has made Los Angeles what it is right now, made
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California what it is right now. Is not the way
to go. So there's a lot of other places that
we can discuss, and I'd be happy to talk more
about filming.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
For example, we're going to get into a lot of
the proposals that you have laid out to boost the
film ministry. Goodness knows it needs it. We'll get into
that momentarily. I want to touch on a couple of
the other issues that you conveniently raised. Homelessness is something
that is still a very serious problem here in a
way that other cities don't have to deal with it.
A lot of money has been poured into it. We
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know that the La Homeless Services Authority is not going
to look the way that it has in the past
because La County has moved away from it, leaving the
city kind of holding the bag. They're not sure what's
going forward. I really don't know what the city's plan
is at this point as it relates to homelessness, can
you illuminate that at all? I know the mayor has
a program, the city council is trying to figure out
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what to do in the aftermath of the county leaving lass.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Where does that leave us?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, first of all, we have to address this issue
no matter what. We're literally flying the plane as we
build it. You keep hearing that statement being said because
we're in the middle of it. We cannot disregard human
life on the streets, and we also can allow it
to languish on streets, So we need to address it.
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Part of the way that I'm addressing it is to
make sure that I'm building more tiny homes and getting
people located into these tiny homes so that they get
the services and that they need, but also get the
protection that they need not being in a certain a
vulnerable circumstance out on the street. So that is the
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first step of making sure getting people in a place
where we can then take a look and understand what
the needs are so homeless And let's also not fool
ourselves that this issue has been around for Homelessness has
been around for a very long time, we've just not
dealt with it. LOSA has demonstrated that in its last
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several decades of history, it has not been able to
effectively come up with a plan of addressing the issue effectively.
We need to develop more affordable housing units. We need
to make Los Angeles an affordable place to live because
there's also many people that are looking at our homeless
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crisis and concerned about their well being, because many people
are living paycheck to paycheck, and my focus along those lines,
My focus is going to be to make sure that
we're building more, we're investing more, and we're ensuring that
we're preventing from people collapsing into homelessness as well. That
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is also a key component of all of this.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Up next, Councilman Nazarien has nine pending motions at city
Hall to help the Hollywood industry.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
This is Michael Monk's reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Hollywood has been suffering, but there are plans afoot by
the government to help it out. Our guest is Councilman
Audrine Nazarian. Councilman, you represent part of the Valley that
includes North Hollywood, Studio City part of your district as well.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It is the northern part of Studio City Valley, Glen
Valley Village, North Hollywood to Luca Lake and Sun Valley
and esimidgen of Van Nis.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
All the parts that surround our studios here in Burbank,
and goodness knows, right outside our windows we can see
all of those studios. We know how important the Hollywood
film industry is to your district, to the region, to
the state. It's not doing great, Councilmen, and a lot
of the problems that the industry is facing seem to
be somewhat of the making at least of local government,
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state government. Maybe permit issues, regulations, the availability of tax credits.
You are trying to push through several pieces of city
legislation at city Hall to alleviate this. Let's just set
the foundation for this story. Why do you think overall
the film industry locally is in the condition that it's in.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's a myriad of different issues. Part of it is
because we just haven't kept up with the changing times.
You know, you can shoot a film on your cell
phone now thirty forty years ago that wasn't the case.
Fifty years ago. That wasn't the case. You know, you
look at the old equipment of Hollywood. If you needed
to make a film or a movie, you needed to
come physically to Hollywood to do it. So times have changed,
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and that's just one aspect of all of this. So
as times change, government and those of us in roles
that want to protect industry and resonance need to make
sure that we're changing with the times and we're keeping
up with the needs as well. I think the industry
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was taken for granted for a long time, and I
think more and more regulations were put into place to
make sure as Los Angeles was getting bigger, what to
you know, to make sure that things were being done
in the right way to not impact the residents. Well,
that's critically important. But at the same time, we can't
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regulate the industry to the point and place restrictions to
the point that it starts suffocating. They're eventually going to
want to go elsewhere, and that's what's meant happening as
part of the reason, not in its entirety, but part
of it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Certainly, Other places have tried their best to lore Hollywood
and have done so successfully by offering some pretty lucrative
tax credits. One of the issues you hope to address
is what you call excessive police and fire requirements on
location shoots. What is that about?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So I introduced multiple measures, one of them being just
the extra requirement of having either public safety personnel. So
anytime a film shoot has a inkling of fireworks or
sometimes not even fireworks, there's a requirement for firefighters, for
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a fire inspector to be present or a monitor from
the fire department to be present. When you rack up
all the different monitors that are required or all the
public safety personnel, it's very easy to quickly see how
these numbers, the cost of the numbers grow over inflate
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over time and cause that production to see its cost
rise and at that point be forced to make a
decision of whether or not they want to operate, do
their shoot in Los Angeles or go elsewhere. So it's
critical that we look at these small commutative effects that
overtime growth to become an overwhelming expense and make sure
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we pick them apart and dissect them and look to
see if we need it in place right now or not.
Instead of multiple monitors, maybe we just have one monitor
who takes a more active and responsible role to communicating
with several different city agencies rather than have every agency
or department have its own monitor. So what I'm trying
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to do is come up with ways that we ensure
the safety, but while maintaining safety, trying to figure out
where the efficiencies are so we're not over duplicating requirements
and increasing costs.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Film LA is one of those quasi government type sees.
It handles a lot of the permitting for the film
industry here in the city proper. You're calling for an
audit of that organizations. Does that suggest there's suspicion there
or you just want to see more efficiencies?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No, Transparency is one of the most key components of government,
and they're a quasi governmental agency at this point, and
in their role, they need to go through regular audits,
like every city agency and department goes through audits. That's
just a good way of keeping everything honest, everything on
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the up and up, and allowing for questions and reevaluations,
because if we don't reevaluate things, if we don't put
it out in the public and say, look, this is
the way we've been doing things. But the way we
did things thirty forty years ago. It doesn't work today.
So what is it that we need to change to
keep up with the changing times. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
There's something that emotion at city Hall can't deal with.
I mean, there are issues facing this industry that extend
well beyond the borders of Los Angeles and California and
really go all around the world. I mean, consumers are
consuming content completely differently, and companies are trying to grow
in a way that may eliminate some competition. So I
know you got a run, but let me ask you
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your thoughts about this conglomerate, this further consolidation, I should say,
of the industry, particularly around Warner Brothers and the battle
between Netflix and Paramount to acquire that. Do you have concerns.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I can be concerned all I want about that, but
I don't have control over what happens there. What I
do have control over is what the city does. So
I'm for example, going back to the film tax credits.
I pushed for it myself when I was a state legislator.
I worked on the first one. As a staffer. I
helped draft the first one that took effect in two
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thousand and nine, moving but fast forwarding to today. At
this point, I can't half, for example, the city provide
tax credits. But what I can do is roll out
the red carpet and make sure we make it easy
to film in Los Angeles. Los Angeles may not have
the purse strings to provide the tax incentives the state
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is doing. So the state does is what is it's
in its role to do, and we want need to
do what is in our role to do, which is
make it easier to film and encourage more filming in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Keltilman Audrine Nazarian representing part of the San Fernando Valley
at LA City Hall. Countsmen, thank you so much for
the time you gave us. You've been very generous with
that time, and I do hope we get a chance
to talk again soon.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Thank you very much, Michael. Looking forward to it up next.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Some positive news for Hollywood as a brand new huge
studio opens in Los Angeles. Its location may surprise you.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Hear from KFI News is with us now to talk
about Hollywood. Heather, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
There is a new studio opening in Los Angeles, but
this is not in Hollywood. This is actually in kind
of a strange location, if you ask me, kind of
a challenged part of LA. I guess maybe a lot
of LA's challenge, but this is particularly challenge. We're talking
near skid Row in the Arts District.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, certainly an area that could use a little bit
of revitalization. East End Studios just opened up a new
one billion dollar facility there. We're talking multiple sound stages,
three hundred square feet of offices, seventy thousand square feet
of support facilities, sixteen sound stages. This is a massive
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project and undertaking that they just celebrated this week. As
a matter of fact, with the ribbon cutting. A lot
of the supporters were down there. This is big for Hollywood.
This is a big investment, if you will, in the
entertainment industry. One question I had though, is we have
so many studios that are here in LA that are
sitting empty.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That's my question. I mean, because we've been talking about that,
like there are we get these reports every so often
from industry insiders about the number of hours or whatever
that studios have been booked and it's not been good.
So do we need this studio well?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And that remains to be seen. So this is a
brand new facility everything, you know, presumably state of the
art that some of the older studio have things maybe
some of the older studios don't have. It isn't a
unique area in the heart of la if you will
the you know, downtown area.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
It remains to be seen. This is a big corporation,
it is. They're based out of New York. It's East
End Capital and they have multiple studios set up like this.
There's even an area in Glendale, obviously some in New York.
So it'll be interesting to see if they're able to
draw in productions into their studio.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Do we know if anybody is planning to use this yet?
Have they announced any productions that are coming to the studio.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I have not heard that yet. I have not seen
if anybody is agreed. I would imagine that they're probably
still lining up, you know, clients and things like that.
It's a beautiful studio, so somebody's going to film there.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We know that the state and the City of Los
Angeles have both been groveling at the feet of the
film industry to say we're trying, We're trying to create
new incentives. We're expanding the tax credits and all that,
because we know, we recognize there's not enough work being
done here in the Hollywood did true Hollywood, not just
Hollywood in general people making movies, but the actual location
of Hollywood. There's not enough happening.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah, and this is sort of a feather in the
cap for Mayor bas because she has been a proponent of,
you know, bringing entertainment jobs back into the industry. You know,
she worked closely with Governor Newsome on the film and
TV tax credit. So to be able to open up
these studios and say, look, we've got new places for
people to film is great. But if you don't have
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people willing to film here, that's going to be problem.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And this is a big one. According to this report
in the Real Deal dot com, which I think does
a lot of reporting on real estate, that this would
be the largest, one of the largest sound stages in
the entire state. So it's this is not just some
small in the whole hole in the wall boot studio.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Massive it's massive. Seven and twenty thousand square foots in
studios space. That's massive.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Heather Brooker from KFI News is with us. I remember
watching the TV show BoJack Horseman, a hilarious animated comedy
that was on Netflix, and one of the running gags
got and I wish now I hadn't brought it up
because the name escapes me. They had a running gag
about a new streaming service that was sponsored by some
clockmaker or something or what time is it right now?
Dot com basically streaming its own programs. We're getting very
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close to that being reality because there was this report
the clothing company Gap has named a former Paramount executive
as their intertainment chief for fashiontainment fash Entertainment.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yes, so if we're talking about filling studios space, this
is certainly going to be one way to do that.
A lot of brands are now starting their own studio,
their own departments to create entertainment. And I'm not just
talking about like commercials, you know, the fun interesting things
we see online. So what Gap has done is they
brought over a Paramount exec former Paount exect Pam Kaufman
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to basically launch a new department and division. It's gaps
entertainment content and licensing platform. They're going to be focused
on music, television, film, sports, gaming, consumer products, and cultural collaborations. Now,
I would like to say this is the first of
its kind, but it isn't. There have been several brands,
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large companies where you wouldn't think of being associated with
entertainment that are delving into the entertainment space. One of
the very first ones was Chick fil A. Do you
remember about a year or so ago Chick fil A
launched their own entertainment division. They were doing short films,
they were doing movies, and it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Was all produced with a smile.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
With a smile and a side of Chick fil A sauce.
But that was sort of their way of delving into
the type of content that they thought that their customers
would enjoy. Dick's Sporting Good recently, like in August of
last year, announced they're launching an entertainment arm. This is
truly just the beginning of brands and companies that are
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not traditionally associated with entertainment who are going to be
delving into the entertainment space. And it's going to be interesting,
Like you could be watching your favorite sitcom and it's
all they're all wearing Gap clothes.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Gap has long been one of those brands that has
captured pop culture really well. I mean they're commercials. I
mean when we were twenty years younger, ye a, Gap
was well known for some of those swing dance Sure,
maybe that was the nineties, they had some swing dance commercials,
but as recently as just last year, they had a
big dance commercial that was viral on TikTok with people
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recreating that choreography. A very popular things. So I guess
in a lot of ways, these brands, because they create
these ambitious advertisement campaigns.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
They know how to entertain well, and they already have
a known entity to build upon. It's not like they're
starting from an ip from scratch. You know, a book
maybe not everyone has read, or a story maybe not
everyone knows. Everyone knows Gap. Like you said, we've known
them for decades. We know what their brand is and
what they're about. So for them to then move into
the entertainment space seems like a natural, a natural transition.
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What's going to be interesting is to see what they
do with that, because they're going to be moving outside
of commercials. They just had a big commercial last year
with Kat's Eye, a very hip, up and coming band
girl group, and now they're going to be doing possibly movies,
possibly video games, like who knows. These companies have a
lot of money, and I think the leaders of these
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companies are saying, we don't like what Hollywood is producing.
We don't like having to pay them to produce stuff
that we're not involved in. We want to create our
own stuff. So it'll be interesting to see if people
are fans of Gap. Are they gonna go see the
latest Gap sitcom? Are they gonna, you know, are we
gonna play the Gap video game?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
We'll see, We'll see. Indeed, let's get out of here.
I gotta get home to see what's on Gap tonight.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, what if you download the Gap app and it's
got the latest movie with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Heather Brooker. KFI News Always great to talk to you,
youtwo buddy, We have another hour ahead. A motel in
Hollywood has been run down and vacant for years, but
preservation activists were working to designate it a Historic Cultural
landmark and then it burned down. That's ahead on Michael
Monks reports on KFI AM sixty KFI
Speaker 1 (31:43):
AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
But this is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from
KFI News. Protests against the regime in Iran have led
to the deaths of thousands and uncertainty about the country's future.
La City Councilman Adriam Nazarian knows firsthand what unrest in
Iran looks like. He was born there and his family
fled violence decades ago. He joins us now, Counselman Adriam Nazarian,
(00:26):
thank you so much for giving us some time here
at KFI.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're all watching what's going on in Iran. It's not
easy to understand. Uh, there's just so much going on
in the world that it's really hard to compartmentalize what's
happening anywhere. But the scenes we're seeing out of Iran
are striking. But again, it's difficult to understand. You, however,
have a much closer connection. Would you tell our audience
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what that connection is.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
First of all, thank you very much for highlighting this
issue for our audience to better become aware of what's
going on. My family fled Iran after the turmoil started
in the late seventies and continued into the early eighties.
There was the revolution, the overthrow of the Shah, and
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then the ensuing war with Iraq that lasted ten years,
devastated the country and amounted to over a million a
loss of over a million lives. And so my parents
wanted to make sure that my older brother and I
were both out of the country. He was sixteen, he
was of drafting age, so she took him out and
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then came back and got me out of the country.
And because of the circumstances of how we left, we
left everything behind and we basically ended up scattering to
three different parts of the world. My dad stayed behind,
my mother, sister, and I came to the US. My
brother went to Cyprus. There was an over a boarding
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school that saved his life, and so that's how we
lived for about seven years until we all finally were reunited.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's unimaginable. I mean, what do you remember from that time.
You're just a small child.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I was eight when we left. So it was a
extremely devastating circumstance. First of all, to overnight or within
you know, days and weeks, to have to gather things
and leave and to also be hiding in the basement
while the bombs were being while the city was capital
city was being bombarded, not knowing whether you were going
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to survive and see the following morning or not. And
then the continued harassment and the heavy hand of the
regime that had taken over. And just again to put
it in context, run was a very different place prior
to this regime than what it is today.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Are there parallels? Are there parallels to your experience and
what families there now are experiencing?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Absolutely? Absolutely. In fact, the reason I want to voice
out and give voice is to the many voices that
to many individuals who either didn't survive or never could
speak for themselves when they went through the initial trauma.
Let's not forget that a lot of Iranians who ended
up settling all over the world, a great majority also
came here to Los Angeles, and many people now are
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reliving the horrors of what they went through, the sense
of insecurity, not knowing what tomorrow brings coming, you know,
going through a myriad of different paths in order to
find safety and security, sometimes on foot, sometimes in a bus,
if you're lucky, in a plane, but whatever it is,
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to find your way out, and so I think for
a lot of folks it's bringing those memories back. But
at the same time everyone then realizes how traumatic it
is for those that are living there right now being
blacked out and not having their voice heard.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe you can help us with this with a geopolitical
lesson because of your close connection to what's going on.
I mean, we're seeing very startling and tragic reports out
of Iran, thousands of people being killed, there's mass protests
in a country that doesn't like public protests. What is
happening in Iran right now? Why is this happening?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's that's going to be a much lengthier conversation, which
which which I'm happy to engage in, even though it
would be only my perspective of that corner of the world.
But let's not let's not forget that this also has
roots stemming out of events that shaped that region because
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of foreign intervention. There's been generations of intervention because of
oil and and and that's just one unfacet of it.
Let's also not forget that Iran is in the is
in the crux and the cross hairline of the Oxiden
and the orients, so all travel and trade routes traversed
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Iran or portions of Iran as well. So historically, even
before oil and before any other resources, it was in
the path of trade and many wars. But fast forward
to now you also have, or the course of the
last several centuries, the benefit of natural resources and especially oil,
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and that's been at the forefront of many Western interventions
over the course of the last at least sixty seventy
years that have led Iran to be where it's at
right now and for this regime to be in place
as well.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What is the outcome that's someone like you with familial
connections to Iran would like to see.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
First and foremost, I don't want the people of Iran
going through the horrific circumstances that they're going through. This
is a country that's provided so much in art, culture, history.
Iran alone itself has a is extremely rich in history
and has been a contributing has contributed to over five
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thousand years. So when you see the devastation that it's
going through right now, I can't put to words what
it means to see things that have been around for
centuries and millennia being lost. People's voices being lost also
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because for the most part, we don't understand exactly what's
going on, and the blackout doesn't help either. So it's
important for us to make sure that those of us
that have lived through it once before to speak up,
to bring attention, and to make sure that everyone around
the world knows what's going on in Iran.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You are not the only Iran native to be living
in Los Angeles. In southern California, there's quite a population here.
I don't expect you to speak on behalf of everyone,
but can you tell us in general what the feelings
are with the local community with their ties to Iran.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Many people want peace, Many people want this regime to
no longer be in power. Many attempts have been made
over the course of the last forty forty five years.
You have the uprisings in two thousand and nine, in
twenty twelve and nineteen, most recently in twenty two with
Massa Amini's death, and it seems like every time that
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the protests are taking place, they're growing in numbers, growing
in strength, and the only way the regime can hold
this down is by the measures that is taking right now.
It's horrific treatment of its own public, of its own residents,
and blacking out so that the rest of the world
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doesn't see what's happening. So many people are here still
have loved ones and friends and the way of life
that Iran also represented before nineteen seventy nine, and they
want Iran to go back to what it was as
a peaceful nation.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Up next, Councilman Nazarian talks about his first year in
office and what the city plans to do on homelessness
now that the county has pulled out of the La
Homeless Services Authority.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
This is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Our guest is LA City Councilman Adrine Nazarian. Obviously, there
are a lot of issues facing the city of Los Angeles.
Say you can't. I mean, you can weigh in on
national international events, but you have direct control and bluence
over what happens here locally, and my goodness, there is
a lot happening here locally. You're a freshman member of
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the city council, you've been there for a year. Now,
let's just start with something basic. How has it been you.
You're an experienced politician, you served in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
It's been a whirlwind since I've taken office, because literally
within three weeks of taking office, we had the devastating
fires of Palisades and Eating, which led to very difficult circumstances,
not just for the residents, not just for the impacted individuals,
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but placing the city on high alert and also squeezing
the resources that are already there aren't enough of UH.
And then to add to that the component of the
federal government coming in with the continuous ice rates for
the pets for the duration of the last seven months,
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and devastating way of life, our neighbors' lives, people who
have made their home for generations here, all in the
hope of trying to either hurt our economy or destroy
the way of life that has made Los Angeles and
California very successful. So amidst all of this, you still
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also have your obligation to your residence and your constituents
to make sure that the lights are on the streets, work,
the potholes are filled, and everything is moving forward. So
it's been it's been a whirldwind of activity. But I
have to say that first and foremost, having had the
benefit of working in the state, in state government and
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in the state legislature prepared me for making sure how
I address the issues and how to maintain a steady hand,
because it's times like this especially that I think it's
important that we maintain a steady hand in governance.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Caltuman, you mentioned the immigration enforcement action that were brought
here by the federal government. No surprise, President Trump ran
on mass deportations, LA a prime target for that. We
do have a large population of immigrants, including illegal immigrants,
but this is also a city that needs to have
a close relationship with the federal government in a way
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that other cities with large immigrant and illegal immigrant populations
don't necessarily have to. Because we've got these world events coming.
We've got the World Cup coming and basically just a
few months and then the Olympics on the other side
of that in twenty twenty eight, How would you describe
this city's relationship with the national government as we start
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to get close to these events.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, it leaves a lot to be desired, especially right now.
Let's for one, look at our film industry. You know,
we have a wee Los Angeles is the founding of
birthplace of our film industry. I wish our federal government
would have stepped up over the course of the last
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four decades as filming was leaving not just Los Angeles
in California, but out of the entire country and helping
us make sure that we come up with ways of
protecting filming and keeping it here in Los Angeles and
in the United States. And the list of that can grow.
I mean, just you look at the homelessness crisis that
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we're dealing with right now, especially when you have folks
finding California and Los Angeles potentially be a more suitable
location to be because of the weather and climate circumstances.
When any individual is traversing state lines, it becomes automatically
a federal issue. And I would have much hoped that
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the federal government forty fifty sixty years ago was helping
step up, step up and address the homelessness crisis that
ended up becoming a crisis issue over the course of
the last ten to fifteen years and probably even longer.
But it was hiding in places that publicly was not visible.
So there are many other issues to talk about and
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to assert the importance of federal government's role in local jurisdiction,
hurting our residents and people that have made their lives
here for twenty thirty forty years or more, and who
are part of the vibrant economy that we have and
has made Los Angeles what it is right now, made
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California what it is right now. Is not the way
to go. So there's a lot of other places that
we can discuss, and I'd be happy to talk more
about filming.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
For example, we're going to get into a lot of
the proposals that you have laid out to boost the
film ministry. Goodness knows it needs it. We'll get into
that momentarily. I want to touch on a couple of
the other issues that you conveniently raised. Homelessness is something
that is still a very serious problem here in a
way that other cities don't have to deal with it.
A lot of money has been poured into it. We
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know that the La Homeless Services Authority is not going
to look the way that it has in the past
because La County has moved away from it, leaving the
city kind of holding the bag. They're not sure what's
going forward. I really don't know what the city's plan
is at this point as it relates to homelessness, can
you illuminate that at all? I know the mayor has
a program, the city council is trying to figure out
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what to do in the aftermath of the county leaving lass.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Where does that leave us?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well, first of all, we have to address this issue
no matter what. We're literally flying the plane as we
build it. You keep hearing that statement being said because
we're in the middle of it. We cannot disregard human
life on the streets, and we also can allow it
to languish on streets, So we need to address it.
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Part of the way that I'm addressing it is to
make sure that I'm building more tiny homes and getting
people located into these tiny homes so that they get
the services and that they need, but also get the
protection that they need not being in a certain a
vulnerable circumstance out on the street. So that is the
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first step of making sure getting people in a place
where we can then take a look and understand what
the needs are so homeless And let's also not fool
ourselves that this issue has been around for Homelessness has
been around for a very long time, we've just not
dealt with it. LOSA has demonstrated that in its last
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several decades of history, it has not been able to
effectively come up with a plan of addressing the issue effectively.
We need to develop more affordable housing units. We need
to make Los Angeles an affordable place to live because
there's also many people that are looking at our homeless
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crisis and concerned about their well being, because many people
are living paycheck to paycheck, and my focus along those lines,
My focus is going to be to make sure that
we're building more, we're investing more, and we're ensuring that
we're preventing from people collapsing into homelessness as well. That
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is also a key component of all of this.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Up next, Councilman Nazarien has nine pending motions at city
Hall to help the Hollywood industry.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
This is Michael Monk's reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Hollywood has been suffering, but there are plans afoot by
the government to help it out. Our guest is Councilman
Audrine Nazarian. Councilman, you represent part of the Valley that
includes North Hollywood, Studio City part of your district as well.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It is the northern part of Studio City Valley, Glen
Valley Village, North Hollywood to Luca Lake and Sun Valley
and esimidgen of Van Nis.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
All the parts that surround our studios here in Burbank,
and goodness knows, right outside our windows we can see
all of those studios. We know how important the Hollywood
film industry is to your district, to the region, to
the state. It's not doing great, Councilmen, and a lot
of the problems that the industry is facing seem to
be somewhat of the making at least of local government,
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state government. Maybe permit issues, regulations, the availability of tax credits.
You are trying to push through several pieces of city
legislation at city Hall to alleviate this. Let's just set
the foundation for this story. Why do you think overall
the film industry locally is in the condition that it's in.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's a myriad of different issues. Part of it is
because we just haven't kept up with the changing times.
You know, you can shoot a film on your cell
phone now thirty forty years ago that wasn't the case.
Fifty years ago. That wasn't the case. You know, you
look at the old equipment of Hollywood. If you needed
to make a film or a movie, you needed to
come physically to Hollywood to do it. So times have changed,
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and that's just one aspect of all of this. So
as times change, government and those of us in roles
that want to protect industry and resonance need to make
sure that we're changing with the times and we're keeping
up with the needs as well. I think the industry
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was taken for granted for a long time, and I
think more and more regulations were put into place to
make sure as Los Angeles was getting bigger, what to
you know, to make sure that things were being done
in the right way to not impact the residents. Well,
that's critically important. But at the same time, we can't
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regulate the industry to the point and place restrictions to
the point that it starts suffocating. They're eventually going to
want to go elsewhere, and that's what's meant happening as
part of the reason, not in its entirety, but part
of it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Certainly, Other places have tried their best to lore Hollywood
and have done so successfully by offering some pretty lucrative
tax credits. One of the issues you hope to address
is what you call excessive police and fire requirements on
location shoots. What is that about?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So I introduced multiple measures, one of them being just
the extra requirement of having either public safety personnel. So
anytime a film shoot has a inkling of fireworks or
sometimes not even fireworks, there's a requirement for firefighters, for
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a fire inspector to be present or a monitor from
the fire department to be present. When you rack up
all the different monitors that are required or all the
public safety personnel, it's very easy to quickly see how
these numbers, the cost of the numbers grow over inflate
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over time and cause that production to see its cost
rise and at that point be forced to make a
decision of whether or not they want to operate, do
their shoot in Los Angeles or go elsewhere. So it's
critical that we look at these small commutative effects that
overtime growth to become an overwhelming expense and make sure
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we pick them apart and dissect them and look to
see if we need it in place right now or not.
Instead of multiple monitors, maybe we just have one monitor
who takes a more active and responsible role to communicating
with several different city agencies rather than have every agency
or department have its own monitor. So what I'm trying
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to do is come up with ways that we ensure
the safety, but while maintaining safety, trying to figure out
where the efficiencies are so we're not over duplicating requirements
and increasing costs.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Film LA is one of those quasi government type sees.
It handles a lot of the permitting for the film
industry here in the city proper. You're calling for an
audit of that organizations. Does that suggest there's suspicion there
or you just want to see more efficiencies?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No, Transparency is one of the most key components of government,
and they're a quasi governmental agency at this point, and
in their role, they need to go through regular audits,
like every city agency and department goes through audits. That's
just a good way of keeping everything honest, everything on
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the up and up, and allowing for questions and reevaluations,
because if we don't reevaluate things, if we don't put
it out in the public and say, look, this is
the way we've been doing things. But the way we
did things thirty forty years ago. It doesn't work today.
So what is it that we need to change to
keep up with the changing times. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
There's something that emotion at city Hall can't deal with.
I mean, there are issues facing this industry that extend
well beyond the borders of Los Angeles and California and
really go all around the world. I mean, consumers are
consuming content completely differently, and companies are trying to grow
in a way that may eliminate some competition. So I
know you got a run, but let me ask you
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your thoughts about this conglomerate, this further consolidation, I should say,
of the industry, particularly around Warner Brothers and the battle
between Netflix and Paramount to acquire that. Do you have concerns.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I can be concerned all I want about that, but
I don't have control over what happens there. What I
do have control over is what the city does. So
I'm for example, going back to the film tax credits.
I pushed for it myself when I was a state legislator.
I worked on the first one. As a staffer. I
helped draft the first one that took effect in two
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thousand and nine, moving but fast forwarding to today. At
this point, I can't half, for example, the city provide
tax credits. But what I can do is roll out
the red carpet and make sure we make it easy
to film in Los Angeles. Los Angeles may not have
the purse strings to provide the tax incentives the state
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is doing. So the state does is what is it's
in its role to do, and we want need to
do what is in our role to do, which is
make it easier to film and encourage more filming in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Keltilman Audrine Nazarian representing part of the San Fernando Valley
at LA City Hall. Countsmen, thank you so much for
the time you gave us. You've been very generous with
that time, and I do hope we get a chance
to talk again soon.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Thank you very much, Michael. Looking forward to it up next.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Some positive news for Hollywood as a brand new huge
studio opens in Los Angeles. Its location may surprise you.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This is Michael Monks reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
Hear from KFI News is with us now to talk
about Hollywood. Heather, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
There is a new studio opening in Los Angeles, but
this is not in Hollywood. This is actually in kind
of a strange location, if you ask me, kind of
a challenged part of LA. I guess maybe a lot
of LA's challenge, but this is particularly challenge. We're talking
near skid Row in the Arts District.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, certainly an area that could use a little bit
of revitalization. East End Studios just opened up a new
one billion dollar facility there. We're talking multiple sound stages,
three hundred square feet of offices, seventy thousand square feet
of support facilities, sixteen sound stages. This is a massive
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project and undertaking that they just celebrated this week. As
a matter of fact, with the ribbon cutting. A lot
of the supporters were down there. This is big for Hollywood.
This is a big investment, if you will, in the
entertainment industry. One question I had though, is we have
so many studios that are here in LA that are
sitting empty.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
That's my question. I mean, because we've been talking about that,
like there are we get these reports every so often
from industry insiders about the number of hours or whatever
that studios have been booked and it's not been good.
So do we need this studio well?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
And that remains to be seen. So this is a
brand new facility everything, you know, presumably state of the
art that some of the older studio have things maybe
some of the older studios don't have. It isn't a
unique area in the heart of la if you will
the you know, downtown area.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
It remains to be seen. This is a big corporation,
it is. They're based out of New York. It's East
End Capital and they have multiple studios set up like this.
There's even an area in Glendale, obviously some in New York.
So it'll be interesting to see if they're able to
draw in productions into their studio.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Do we know if anybody is planning to use this yet?
Have they announced any productions that are coming to the studio.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I have not heard that yet. I have not seen
if anybody is agreed. I would imagine that they're probably
still lining up, you know, clients and things like that.
It's a beautiful studio, so somebody's going to film there.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We know that the state and the City of Los
Angeles have both been groveling at the feet of the
film industry to say we're trying, We're trying to create
new incentives. We're expanding the tax credits and all that,
because we know, we recognize there's not enough work being
done here in the Hollywood did true Hollywood, not just
Hollywood in general people making movies, but the actual location
of Hollywood. There's not enough happening.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah, and this is sort of a feather in the
cap for Mayor bas because she has been a proponent of,
you know, bringing entertainment jobs back into the industry. You know,
she worked closely with Governor Newsome on the film and
TV tax credit. So to be able to open up
these studios and say, look, we've got new places for
people to film is great. But if you don't have
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people willing to film here, that's going to be problem.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And this is a big one. According to this report
in the Real Deal dot com, which I think does
a lot of reporting on real estate, that this would
be the largest, one of the largest sound stages in
the entire state. So it's this is not just some
small in the whole hole in the wall boot studio.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Massive it's massive. Seven and twenty thousand square foots in
studios space. That's massive.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Heather Brooker from KFI News is with us. I remember
watching the TV show BoJack Horseman, a hilarious animated comedy
that was on Netflix, and one of the running gags
got and I wish now I hadn't brought it up
because the name escapes me. They had a running gag
about a new streaming service that was sponsored by some
clockmaker or something or what time is it right now?
Dot com basically streaming its own programs. We're getting very
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close to that being reality because there was this report
the clothing company Gap has named a former Paramount executive
as their intertainment chief for fashiontainment fash Entertainment.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yes, so if we're talking about filling studios space, this
is certainly going to be one way to do that.
A lot of brands are now starting their own studio,
their own departments to create entertainment. And I'm not just
talking about like commercials, you know, the fun interesting things
we see online. So what Gap has done is they
brought over a Paramount exec former Paount exect Pam Kaufman
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to basically launch a new department and division. It's gaps
entertainment content and licensing platform. They're going to be focused
on music, television, film, sports, gaming, consumer products, and cultural collaborations. Now,
I would like to say this is the first of
its kind, but it isn't. There have been several brands,
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large companies where you wouldn't think of being associated with
entertainment that are delving into the entertainment space. One of
the very first ones was Chick fil A. Do you
remember about a year or so ago Chick fil A
launched their own entertainment division. They were doing short films,
they were doing movies, and it.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Was all produced with a smile.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
With a smile and a side of Chick fil A sauce.
But that was sort of their way of delving into
the type of content that they thought that their customers
would enjoy. Dick's Sporting Good recently, like in August of
last year, announced they're launching an entertainment arm. This is
truly just the beginning of brands and companies that are
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not traditionally associated with entertainment who are going to be
delving into the entertainment space. And it's going to be interesting,
Like you could be watching your favorite sitcom and it's
all they're all wearing Gap clothes.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Gap has long been one of those brands that has
captured pop culture really well. I mean they're commercials. I
mean when we were twenty years younger, ye a, Gap
was well known for some of those swing dance Sure,
maybe that was the nineties, they had some swing dance commercials,
but as recently as just last year, they had a
big dance commercial that was viral on TikTok with people
(30:00):
recreating that choreography. A very popular things. So I guess
in a lot of ways, these brands, because they create
these ambitious advertisement campaigns.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
They know how to entertain well, and they already have
a known entity to build upon. It's not like they're
starting from an ip from scratch. You know, a book
maybe not everyone has read, or a story maybe not
everyone knows. Everyone knows Gap. Like you said, we've known
them for decades. We know what their brand is and
what they're about. So for them to then move into
the entertainment space seems like a natural, a natural transition.
(30:33):
What's going to be interesting is to see what they
do with that, because they're going to be moving outside
of commercials. They just had a big commercial last year
with Kat's Eye, a very hip, up and coming band
girl group, and now they're going to be doing possibly movies,
possibly video games, like who knows. These companies have a
lot of money, and I think the leaders of these
(30:55):
companies are saying, we don't like what Hollywood is producing.
We don't like having to pay them to produce stuff
that we're not involved in. We want to create our
own stuff. So it'll be interesting to see if people
are fans of Gap. Are they gonna go see the
latest Gap sitcom? Are they gonna, you know, are we
gonna play the Gap video game?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
We'll see, We'll see. Indeed, let's get out of here.
I gotta get home to see what's on Gap tonight.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, what if you download the Gap app and it's
got the latest movie with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Heather Brooker. KFI News Always great to talk to you,
youtwo buddy, We have another hour ahead. A motel in
Hollywood has been run down and vacant for years, but
preservation activists were working to designate it a Historic Cultural
landmark and then it burned down. That's ahead on Michael
Monks reports on KFI AM sixty KFI
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