September 15, 2025 • 20 mins
(Sept 15,2025)
The Fork Reporter Neil Saavedra fills iin for Bill while he is out on vacation. Inside the very expensive, extremely overwhelming, engineered fun of theme parks. Paramount condemns boycott of Israeli projects by 4,000 filmmakers. KFI entertainment guru Heather Brooker joins the show to recap the 77th Annual Emmy Awards.
The Fork Reporter Neil Saavedra fills iin for Bill while he is out on vacation. Inside the very expensive, extremely overwhelming, engineered fun of theme parks. Paramount condemns boycott of Israeli projects by 4,000 filmmakers. KFI entertainment guru Heather Brooker joins the show to recap the 77th Annual Emmy Awards.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. You are listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Here's meals Avadra.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How could you have a bad Monday with us?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I want this to just play while I'm walking around
KFI Ames Dick's forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
it's John Cobell and Neil Savadra in the morning. Crew
Handle is out on vacation. We had a lot to
get to today that segment we I wanted to tell
(00:45):
you about the Union rescue mission, so we pushed this
back a little bit. An interesting story. I mean, it's
not hard to wrap your brain around the fact that
theme parks are still doing well, better than ever. Maybe
now I fall a lot of Disney stuff because I'm
a huge Disney fan. I'm also a Universal fan. We
have passes to both, and we go quite a bit
(01:06):
to both. It's not like I don't like, you know,
Magic Mountain, but that's just not my jay. I'm at
my age to ride roller coasters like that all the time,
even though I love roller coasters, but forever reason, I
love not Sperry Farm as well, just don't go as much.
(01:26):
So reading this story, a breakdown of how it is
very popular, even though you know this comes out of
the Atlantic, by the way, even though it's expensive, even
though it could be overwhelming all of these things, there's
(01:47):
something about the theme parks that adults are connecting with.
And this is during times where you see a lot
of socializing changing, right, a lot of things losing steam.
People partying late in the wee hours not happening as much.
They're socializing less in the ways that you'd think just
going over to each other's house and hanging out, but
(02:09):
they are getting together and flocking a place like Disneyland
and universal massive numbers and those sky high prices aren't
knocking them back. They certainly aren't for me. Because to me,
as I get older, especially, it's not about the cost.
It's about the value. I can't stand not getting value,
(02:29):
getting a piece of crap of something. So to me,
I can go to Disneyland and every minute I'm there,
I'm taking in something. The architecture, the layout, the sounds,
the music, everything, not to mention, you can go see
a live show, see a movie, see animatronics, you know,
be taken different places. To me, it's worth it because
(02:51):
of that value. And as much as I I'm like
anybody else, I'm not crazy about lines. I do happen
to enjoy talking to my wife and my boy. So
it's it as long as you do that. Or you
can play that heads up game. You can get it
on your phone and you flip it down and then
you flip it up and it's a word and they
have to explain what it is and you have to
(03:12):
guess what word it is. And we do animals and
that's fun. But it seems like I'm not in the minority.
And I see a new park, like the newest park
Epic Universe in Orlando, the new Universal Park there, Holy hell,
I want to go there so bad. I'm a huge
fan of the classic monsters. I taught my kid to
(03:35):
say classic monsters when he was tiny, like when he
saw Dracula or the Mummy. He was obsessed with, you know,
Frankenstein's Monster and all that. So these these places are
pouring money into that universe. Epic Universe in Orlando staggering
(03:57):
seven billion with a b tons of attractions there. And
I've seen something I haven't gone but the wind Meal
with all the flames coming out of it, like the
old Frankenstein movie, very hyper realistic places. They're taking you
in with detail, little detail. I love that props and
(04:21):
where you just feel like you're surrounded. So these modern
theme parks, yeah, they have big thrill rides all of
those things, but really they're getting so good at telling
the story and creating the illusion. And what does that
(04:43):
say about where we are right now? You know, with
theaters still struggling to get people in there. I still
enjoy going to a theater, but struggling. You know, the
normal things we used to do to be taken away.
Calgon Take Me Way is not maybe not the same,
but man, you go to a modern theme park so
(05:07):
much detail, robot tracks, when you go into Galaxy's Edge
over it Disney, you see these things and you just
truly get taken away. And that's what we're looking for.
We want the environment Super Nintendo World. Yes, I see
(05:28):
kids there getting excited, but I see adults too. Those
monster filled villages there at the New Universal, it's like
they're doing scuff.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Marks on doors.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The plants are perfectly placed, and you know that there
are armies after armies every night building these things up
to make sure that they they get it they monitor
the crowds, they move people through. You can pay to
go on rides even at Disneyland, and to skip the line,
which they never did before. And it's all about it escape,
(06:07):
getting away from the chaos you've got adults doing. You know,
they actually have a name for this, disney bounding. You
know what that is. That's because you can't, you're not
supposed to, as an adult wear a costume to Disneyland.
So Disney Bounding was born. And that's where you're not
wearing a costume. But like maybe a woman would have
(06:29):
like this yellow orange shirt with a red skirt, so
she it's the color combination of Winning the Pooh and
maybe she's wearing ears that are Winning the Pooh color.
So it's not considered, you know, a true costume, but
it's a nod to it. I see it all the time,
that color coding and stuff like that. So it's becoming
(06:51):
a thing.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I feel when I go to Disneyland, even walking through
the lines, when I'm in the queue at at Indiana
Jones or the Jungle Cruise, I'm lost in all the
cool details. The speakers on the radio playing the old songs,
and if you listen, there's little easter eggs and things
being said. AnyWho, that's happening, And I gotta tell you,
(07:15):
if you haven't been in a while, it sure is
nice to be taken away and not feel the weight
of the news somewhere. So Paramount came out, Paramount Movie
Making Paramount. They came out and they're like, oh, we
do not agree with this group film workers for Palestine.
(07:37):
So what's the hubbub. You've got like four thousand or
so Hollywood types, actors and the like signing this pledge.
You got Mark Ruffalo, who's it? I get it, he's
the Hulk, But man, he he just seems like everything
(07:58):
bothers him. I couldn't live that way. Like everything, he's
just mad at everything. Just America is horrible and mad
at everything. And it's like, come on, brother, dude, like
America's sweetheart or something, wasn't he He was like always
like the Yeah, a handsome fella and seems smart. I
(08:19):
think he'd be fun to hang out with. I just
don't know why he'd anyways, Emma Stone, that kind of
threw me for a loop. Joking Phoenix, I never know
what's going on with that guy in his head, Amy
low Wood. So obviously they're against the assault on Gaza.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And all of that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I understand you got over sixty four thousand people killed
since October. Again, I'm not a fan of net and Yahoo.
I'm not a fan of what he's doing. But I
will tell you this, if they weren't attacked on October seventh,
we wouldn't be having this conversation right now, just saying.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
On September twelve, there was a statement that came out.
Ruters reported this. The Paramount became the first major studio
to address this boycott. So this is a boycott from
this advocacy group, film Workers for Palestine, And they said,
we do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers,
(09:24):
and that was the phrase that got me. They went
on to say, silencing individual creative artists based on their
nationality does not promote better understanding or the advance the
cause of peace. We need more engagement in communication, not less.
I agree with that statement. Now, the Film Workers for
Palestine criticized the studio for possibly intentionally misrepresenting the pledge
(09:48):
in an attempt to silence their colleagues in the film industry.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So I don't understand as to what the goal is.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You know, they're looking at Larry Ellison, a multi billionaire,
for having a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Yahu.
And you've got filmmakers, Israeli filmmakers. You know, the people
(10:22):
of Israel are not doing backflips with excitement their protests
going on there. But what I don't understand is why
you would boycott or have a problem with creatives. And
if that's being misrepresented in the media, then come out
and tell us what this is supposed to achieve.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The thought to me.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Of somehow being punitive towards creative filmmakers that happened to
be Israeli is ridiculous. And it's the same is assuming
that everybody in Gaza is innocent or doesn't hate and
want the destruction of Israel. That's the reality. You want
(11:11):
to know why Israel digs their heels in because they've
got no other place to go. That is it that
was born from the ashes of the Holocaust, and you
better believe they will defend it. Don't poke that bear
doesn't mean I agree with net and Yahoo. I think
he's a war criminal and a nut job. But to
(11:33):
come out as a creative and that means something to me,
It really does. I consider myself one. I think we
all are quite honestly in our own ways. But to
be a voice where art, even if it's some crap
art out there, art is part of expression. And maybe
(11:58):
if there was like a document entry that was hyper
pro Israel that downplayed the atrocities and things like that,
I get it. But the way it plays out right now,
me being the media here behind the microphone, is that
I can't find out the where where? What is the
(12:21):
Why would you not want them to participate? Why would
you boycott caught another artist? They could boycott you. You're
an American creative and your president is supporting them, So
why don't we boycott your films? You know they pay taxes.
(12:44):
Filmmaking pays taxes to the government. That government money goes
to defense, that defense goes to Israel. It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
The things that we get stuck upon seems silly. I
can all stand corrected if you give me a legitimate
(13:05):
reason why somebody who's not involved with the war because
of their nationality. It's not like net and Yahoo's gonna
come with them, like the Olympics or something where you
know you don't want that. Hey, everybody nil servader in
the morning crew builds on vacation, happy to be with
(13:26):
you for the next week or so. Talking with Heather Brooker,
she's not only you can hear her here on the news,
but also her podcast entertained me conveniently enough. With Heather Brooker,
I like that you use your real name.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Well, just that way. It's more personal to me. Like
people are like, who wants to be entertained?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And why her? And why should I entertain her?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
She was at the Emmys last night, which I will
tell you. I mean, I love the Oscar, the shape
of the award, everything. Yeah, the Emmy is probably the
most beautiful award. The design is so elegant.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, I should have brought it in, but I thought people,
because I have I have a couple, I should have
brought it in. But I was like, people are going
to think, oh, that's really snotty.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Who brings do you have an Emmy? I have two sugar,
I'd be wearing it around my neck.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, well I don't want to be a cynical, but
I'm also appreciative.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's huge.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I didn't thank you. I didn't want to bring it
in because I thought people are gonna be like, who
does she think she is? You know, like I didn't
have it with you, like on like next to the car, Yeah,
right there. They would be like, oh, this one, this
girl has already won one. Let's go talk to her
for luck. No, I did not do that. I already
had too much to carry because I had to go
by myself to everything.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Probably the worst be going to events having to hump everything.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
To your Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So what were the highlights? Any low lights?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Any?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Well, I think drunken messes. I didn't see any drunken messes.
I think the highlight for a lot of people was
seeing Stephen Colbert when he had a wonderful acceptance speech
for his show As you Know, which has been canceled
by CBS, and he won, Yes, and he won on CBS.
But he had a really beautiful acceptance speech and he
quoted a Prince song, which I thought was a really
(15:19):
fun nod you know. That was a highlight. The young
man who won for Adolescence was a highlight. He's fifteen
years old. He made history the youngest that's powerful boy. Ever, yeah,
fifteen years old. He shot this the show when he
was twelve. This will forever change his life. So I
thought that was a really cool moment. Trammel, who won
(15:41):
for a severance the first he made history, the first
Blackmail in his category to win. I believe it was
his best supporting actor. So there was a lot of
a brilliant show. Yeah, it's so brilliant, so smart, smart,
I like, I like smart television. Yeah, when we can
come across it, it's so smart and so clever. Ben
Siller was there. He gave me a little wave on
(16:02):
the way by. I tried to get him, you guys,
but he's very busy man. So they do Yeah, they
just do a wave. They do a little wave and
or not because I'm literally over there, like I'll show
you my boobs. Like I do whatever I can to
try to get people to stop and talk to me,
and they just wave and keep going.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You should have brought your you should have brought your
emmy and said and when they come over, say now
this is actually mine.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now you got to talk.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Now, you have to talk to me. I have questions. No,
he was there. Adam Scott was there. And I talked
to actually did talk to some of the ladies of Severance.
We also talked about AI. We talked about the changing
industry in Hollywood. I talked to the new SAG after
President Sean Aston. It was great, like they the people
who are there on the red carpet were excited to
be there and they were really appreciative. You know, we
(16:47):
were talking earlier about the crew and that sort of thing.
Some of the best actors will always take a minute
and acknowledge the crew. They will say, I want to
thank this wonderful crew that I have because it is
so important. I think that when you have important, I
get it. When you're up there, you're you're going to
blank out. It's hard to remember everything, and not everybody
is eloquent yes and remembering those things.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So when they do and.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Your emotions are on fine, when.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You're going and you're seeing all these people in front
of you and you're trying not to make an I
give some leeway in those things because that's hard to
remember all that.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But what do you I need to know what your
favorite show is, what are you watching and what the
severance I don't watch a lot of TV these days.
I just don't.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I like documentaries, I like and I love TV. I
love movies. I could would consume it all day if
I could. I really do, genuinely, But it just the
lifestyle is not there for.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Me right now. Yah, just the way.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I've got an eight year old son, So you can't
watch adult things, you know that have things that you're
gonna have to explain to him. So I watch basically
what he watches, if I watch it all. It used
to be that my wife and I at the end
of the night would would have recap of the day.
That's where we would sit down and connect with each
other if we were going to have a cocktail to
(18:05):
be then and then we'd catch up on a movie
or a show.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That we liked. But since I, uh, the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Show, Yeah, you're going to bet at like what seven?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
No, I'm still around ten. Oh.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I forget when because when I fell in for Amy,
I go to bed at six.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, but you're getting there earlier. Different.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I get up at four. You got to get up
at like two. Yeah. Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, I will say the show itself last night was
a lot of fun. There was some interesting moments and
some history making moments, and I think, you know, is
it going to be groundbreaking or people gonna remember the
seventy Seventhmy Awards? Probably not, But if you're a fan
of those shows and these actors who won, it was
a good time and the red carpet was jovial even
though it was really hot. And yeah, and I'll be
(18:48):
I'm gonna be sharing more about it Hungary and Shannon
in just a little while as well.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And now are you doing any segments that I'll be
playing during the news at all?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah. I stayed up till like one last night cutting
stuff for miss Amy so she would have fresh stuff
for a wake up call. And I think she's played
some of them as well. Okay, good, Yeah, Well, nice
to see you. You looked lovely and I love your
passion for it, I really do. I'm pushing at you
because there's so much that is there's so many barnacles.
Hollywood needs to kick off itself. And you know, it's
(19:19):
not a perfect industry, but no industry is perfect.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But I take pride in living in the city of
Hollywood and the city of meaning in LA and standing
up for the hard work that they do. I just
think a lot of the people that work hard don't
get any recognition for what they do in the industry.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I agree. I wish you had more time. I talked
to Sean Aston, the new president of SAG after and
we've talked about that relations too. So yeah, so I
agree with you.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I voted for you, Sean. We love you. Sean.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Come on our show, okay, I love you, all righty,
stick around, Gary and Shannon are coming up, and I
will see you tomorrow morning at six right after Amy
King and Wake Up Call. I have a wonderful Monday,
and I will catch you on the flip side. This
is KFI and KOs t HD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. You are listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Here's meals Avadra.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How could you have a bad Monday with us?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I want this to just play while I'm walking around
KFI Ames Dick's forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Hey,
it's John Cobell and Neil Savadra in the morning. Crew
Handle is out on vacation. We had a lot to
get to today that segment we I wanted to tell
(00:45):
you about the Union rescue mission, so we pushed this
back a little bit. An interesting story. I mean, it's
not hard to wrap your brain around the fact that
theme parks are still doing well, better than ever. Maybe
now I fall a lot of Disney stuff because I'm
a huge Disney fan. I'm also a Universal fan. We
have passes to both, and we go quite a bit
(01:06):
to both. It's not like I don't like, you know,
Magic Mountain, but that's just not my jay. I'm at
my age to ride roller coasters like that all the time,
even though I love roller coasters, but forever reason, I
love not Sperry Farm as well, just don't go as much.
(01:26):
So reading this story, a breakdown of how it is
very popular, even though you know this comes out of
the Atlantic, by the way, even though it's expensive, even
though it could be overwhelming all of these things, there's
(01:47):
something about the theme parks that adults are connecting with.
And this is during times where you see a lot
of socializing changing, right, a lot of things losing steam.
People partying late in the wee hours not happening as much.
They're socializing less in the ways that you'd think just
going over to each other's house and hanging out, but
(02:09):
they are getting together and flocking a place like Disneyland
and universal massive numbers and those sky high prices aren't
knocking them back. They certainly aren't for me. Because to me,
as I get older, especially, it's not about the cost.
It's about the value. I can't stand not getting value,
(02:29):
getting a piece of crap of something. So to me,
I can go to Disneyland and every minute I'm there,
I'm taking in something. The architecture, the layout, the sounds,
the music, everything, not to mention, you can go see
a live show, see a movie, see animatronics, you know,
be taken different places. To me, it's worth it because
(02:51):
of that value. And as much as I I'm like
anybody else, I'm not crazy about lines. I do happen
to enjoy talking to my wife and my boy. So
it's it as long as you do that. Or you
can play that heads up game. You can get it
on your phone and you flip it down and then
you flip it up and it's a word and they
have to explain what it is and you have to
(03:12):
guess what word it is. And we do animals and
that's fun. But it seems like I'm not in the minority.
And I see a new park, like the newest park
Epic Universe in Orlando, the new Universal Park there, Holy hell,
I want to go there so bad. I'm a huge
fan of the classic monsters. I taught my kid to
(03:35):
say classic monsters when he was tiny, like when he
saw Dracula or the Mummy. He was obsessed with, you know,
Frankenstein's Monster and all that. So these these places are
pouring money into that universe. Epic Universe in Orlando staggering
(03:57):
seven billion with a b tons of attractions there. And
I've seen something I haven't gone but the wind Meal
with all the flames coming out of it, like the
old Frankenstein movie, very hyper realistic places. They're taking you
in with detail, little detail. I love that props and
(04:21):
where you just feel like you're surrounded. So these modern
theme parks, yeah, they have big thrill rides all of
those things, but really they're getting so good at telling
the story and creating the illusion. And what does that
(04:43):
say about where we are right now? You know, with
theaters still struggling to get people in there. I still
enjoy going to a theater, but struggling. You know, the
normal things we used to do to be taken away.
Calgon Take Me Way is not maybe not the same,
but man, you go to a modern theme park so
(05:07):
much detail, robot tracks, when you go into Galaxy's Edge
over it Disney, you see these things and you just
truly get taken away. And that's what we're looking for.
We want the environment Super Nintendo World. Yes, I see
(05:28):
kids there getting excited, but I see adults too. Those
monster filled villages there at the New Universal, it's like
they're doing scuff.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Marks on doors.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The plants are perfectly placed, and you know that there
are armies after armies every night building these things up
to make sure that they they get it they monitor
the crowds, they move people through. You can pay to
go on rides even at Disneyland, and to skip the line,
which they never did before. And it's all about it escape,
(06:07):
getting away from the chaos you've got adults doing. You know,
they actually have a name for this, disney bounding. You
know what that is. That's because you can't, you're not
supposed to, as an adult wear a costume to Disneyland.
So Disney Bounding was born. And that's where you're not
wearing a costume. But like maybe a woman would have
(06:29):
like this yellow orange shirt with a red skirt, so
she it's the color combination of Winning the Pooh and
maybe she's wearing ears that are Winning the Pooh color.
So it's not considered, you know, a true costume, but
it's a nod to it. I see it all the time,
that color coding and stuff like that. So it's becoming
(06:51):
a thing.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I feel when I go to Disneyland, even walking through
the lines, when I'm in the queue at at Indiana
Jones or the Jungle Cruise, I'm lost in all the
cool details. The speakers on the radio playing the old songs,
and if you listen, there's little easter eggs and things
being said. AnyWho, that's happening, And I gotta tell you,
(07:15):
if you haven't been in a while, it sure is
nice to be taken away and not feel the weight
of the news somewhere. So Paramount came out, Paramount Movie
Making Paramount. They came out and they're like, oh, we
do not agree with this group film workers for Palestine.
(07:37):
So what's the hubbub. You've got like four thousand or
so Hollywood types, actors and the like signing this pledge.
You got Mark Ruffalo, who's it? I get it, he's
the Hulk, But man, he he just seems like everything
(07:58):
bothers him. I couldn't live that way. Like everything, he's
just mad at everything. Just America is horrible and mad
at everything. And it's like, come on, brother, dude, like
America's sweetheart or something, wasn't he He was like always
like the Yeah, a handsome fella and seems smart. I
(08:19):
think he'd be fun to hang out with. I just
don't know why he'd anyways, Emma Stone, that kind of
threw me for a loop. Joking Phoenix, I never know
what's going on with that guy in his head, Amy
low Wood. So obviously they're against the assault on Gaza.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And all of that.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I understand you got over sixty four thousand people killed
since October. Again, I'm not a fan of net and Yahoo.
I'm not a fan of what he's doing. But I
will tell you this, if they weren't attacked on October seventh,
we wouldn't be having this conversation right now, just saying.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
So.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
On September twelve, there was a statement that came out.
Ruters reported this. The Paramount became the first major studio
to address this boycott. So this is a boycott from
this advocacy group, film Workers for Palestine, And they said,
we do not agree with recent efforts to boycott Israeli filmmakers,
(09:24):
and that was the phrase that got me. They went
on to say, silencing individual creative artists based on their
nationality does not promote better understanding or the advance the
cause of peace. We need more engagement in communication, not less.
I agree with that statement. Now, the Film Workers for
Palestine criticized the studio for possibly intentionally misrepresenting the pledge
(09:48):
in an attempt to silence their colleagues in the film industry.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So I don't understand as to what the goal is.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You know, they're looking at Larry Ellison, a multi billionaire,
for having a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Yahu.
And you've got filmmakers, Israeli filmmakers. You know, the people
(10:22):
of Israel are not doing backflips with excitement their protests
going on there. But what I don't understand is why
you would boycott or have a problem with creatives. And
if that's being misrepresented in the media, then come out
and tell us what this is supposed to achieve.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The thought to me.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Of somehow being punitive towards creative filmmakers that happened to
be Israeli is ridiculous. And it's the same is assuming
that everybody in Gaza is innocent or doesn't hate and
want the destruction of Israel. That's the reality. You want
(11:11):
to know why Israel digs their heels in because they've
got no other place to go. That is it that
was born from the ashes of the Holocaust, and you
better believe they will defend it. Don't poke that bear
doesn't mean I agree with net and Yahoo. I think
he's a war criminal and a nut job. But to
(11:33):
come out as a creative and that means something to me,
It really does. I consider myself one. I think we
all are quite honestly in our own ways. But to
be a voice where art, even if it's some crap
art out there, art is part of expression. And maybe
(11:58):
if there was like a document entry that was hyper
pro Israel that downplayed the atrocities and things like that,
I get it. But the way it plays out right now,
me being the media here behind the microphone, is that
I can't find out the where where? What is the
(12:21):
Why would you not want them to participate? Why would
you boycott caught another artist? They could boycott you. You're
an American creative and your president is supporting them, So
why don't we boycott your films? You know they pay taxes.
(12:44):
Filmmaking pays taxes to the government. That government money goes
to defense, that defense goes to Israel. It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
The things that we get stuck upon seems silly. I
can all stand corrected if you give me a legitimate
(13:05):
reason why somebody who's not involved with the war because
of their nationality. It's not like net and Yahoo's gonna
come with them, like the Olympics or something where you
know you don't want that. Hey, everybody nil servader in
the morning crew builds on vacation, happy to be with
(13:26):
you for the next week or so. Talking with Heather Brooker,
she's not only you can hear her here on the news,
but also her podcast entertained me conveniently enough. With Heather Brooker,
I like that you use your real name.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Well, just that way. It's more personal to me. Like
people are like, who wants to be entertained?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And why her? And why should I entertain her?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
She was at the Emmys last night, which I will
tell you. I mean, I love the Oscar, the shape
of the award, everything. Yeah, the Emmy is probably the
most beautiful award. The design is so elegant.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, I should have brought it in, but I thought people,
because I have I have a couple, I should have
brought it in. But I was like, people are going
to think, oh, that's really snotty.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Who brings do you have an Emmy? I have two sugar,
I'd be wearing it around my neck.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, well I don't want to be a cynical, but
I'm also appreciative.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That's huge.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I didn't thank you. I didn't want to bring it
in because I thought people are gonna be like, who
does she think she is? You know, like I didn't
have it with you, like on like next to the car, Yeah,
right there. They would be like, oh, this one, this
girl has already won one. Let's go talk to her
for luck. No, I did not do that. I already
had too much to carry because I had to go
by myself to everything.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Probably the worst be going to events having to hump everything.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
To your Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So what were the highlights? Any low lights?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Any?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Well, I think drunken messes. I didn't see any drunken messes.
I think the highlight for a lot of people was
seeing Stephen Colbert when he had a wonderful acceptance speech
for his show As you Know, which has been canceled
by CBS, and he won, Yes, and he won on CBS.
But he had a really beautiful acceptance speech and he
quoted a Prince song, which I thought was a really
(15:19):
fun nod you know. That was a highlight. The young
man who won for Adolescence was a highlight. He's fifteen
years old. He made history the youngest that's powerful boy. Ever, yeah,
fifteen years old. He shot this the show when he
was twelve. This will forever change his life. So I
thought that was a really cool moment. Trammel, who won
(15:41):
for a severance the first he made history, the first
Blackmail in his category to win. I believe it was
his best supporting actor. So there was a lot of
a brilliant show. Yeah, it's so brilliant, so smart, smart,
I like, I like smart television. Yeah, when we can
come across it, it's so smart and so clever. Ben
Siller was there. He gave me a little wave on
(16:02):
the way by. I tried to get him, you guys,
but he's very busy man. So they do Yeah, they
just do a wave. They do a little wave and
or not because I'm literally over there, like I'll show
you my boobs. Like I do whatever I can to
try to get people to stop and talk to me,
and they just wave and keep going.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You should have brought your you should have brought your
emmy and said and when they come over, say now
this is actually mine.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now you got to talk.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Now, you have to talk to me. I have questions. No,
he was there. Adam Scott was there. And I talked
to actually did talk to some of the ladies of Severance.
We also talked about AI. We talked about the changing
industry in Hollywood. I talked to the new SAG after
President Sean Aston. It was great, like they the people
who are there on the red carpet were excited to
be there and they were really appreciative. You know, we
(16:47):
were talking earlier about the crew and that sort of thing.
Some of the best actors will always take a minute
and acknowledge the crew. They will say, I want to
thank this wonderful crew that I have because it is
so important. I think that when you have important, I
get it. When you're up there, you're you're going to
blank out. It's hard to remember everything, and not everybody
is eloquent yes and remembering those things.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So when they do and.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Your emotions are on fine, when.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You're going and you're seeing all these people in front
of you and you're trying not to make an I
give some leeway in those things because that's hard to
remember all that.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But what do you I need to know what your
favorite show is, what are you watching and what the
severance I don't watch a lot of TV these days.
I just don't.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I like documentaries, I like and I love TV. I
love movies. I could would consume it all day if
I could. I really do, genuinely, But it just the
lifestyle is not there for.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Me right now. Yah, just the way.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I've got an eight year old son, So you can't
watch adult things, you know that have things that you're
gonna have to explain to him. So I watch basically
what he watches, if I watch it all. It used
to be that my wife and I at the end
of the night would would have recap of the day.
That's where we would sit down and connect with each
other if we were going to have a cocktail to
(18:05):
be then and then we'd catch up on a movie
or a show.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
That we liked. But since I, uh, the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Show, Yeah, you're going to bet at like what seven?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Eight?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
No, I'm still around ten. Oh.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I forget when because when I fell in for Amy,
I go to bed at six.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, but you're getting there earlier. Different.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I get up at four. You got to get up
at like two. Yeah. Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well, I will say the show itself last night was
a lot of fun. There was some interesting moments and
some history making moments, and I think, you know, is
it going to be groundbreaking or people gonna remember the
seventy Seventhmy Awards? Probably not, But if you're a fan
of those shows and these actors who won, it was
a good time and the red carpet was jovial even
though it was really hot. And yeah, and I'll be
(18:48):
I'm gonna be sharing more about it Hungary and Shannon
in just a little while as well.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And now are you doing any segments that I'll be
playing during the news at all?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah. I stayed up till like one last night cutting
stuff for miss Amy so she would have fresh stuff
for a wake up call. And I think she's played
some of them as well. Okay, good, Yeah, Well, nice
to see you. You looked lovely and I love your
passion for it, I really do. I'm pushing at you
because there's so much that is there's so many barnacles.
Hollywood needs to kick off itself. And you know, it's
(19:19):
not a perfect industry, but no industry is perfect.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But I take pride in living in the city of
Hollywood and the city of meaning in LA and standing
up for the hard work that they do. I just
think a lot of the people that work hard don't
get any recognition for what they do in the industry.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I agree. I wish you had more time. I talked
to Sean Aston, the new president of SAG after and
we've talked about that relations too. So yeah, so I
agree with you.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I voted for you, Sean. We love you. Sean.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Come on our show, okay, I love you, all righty,
stick around, Gary and Shannon are coming up, and I
will see you tomorrow morning at six right after Amy
King and Wake Up Call. I have a wonderful Monday,
and I will catch you on the flip side. This
is KFI and KOs t HD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You've been listening to the Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Catch my show Monday through Friday, six am to nine am,
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
The Bill Handel Show News
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.