December 29, 2025 • 32 mins
(December 29, 2025)
2025 year in review: Heather Brooker joins the show the to talk about the biggest entertainment stories that made the year... 2025 in entertainment… there’s no happy endings for movie theatres no matter who wins Warner.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm sorry, this is a great song, and i gotta
tell you, if you haven't watched this.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's great. It's a great movie. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It is incredibly well done, and then the music is
so well done. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Happy Monday to you. You're probably at
home listening. Look at you, all cozy and cuddled up,
not going to work.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're probably in the car Neil Savadra in the morning.
Crew Handles got the week off and I'm happy to
be with you. Heather Brooker is here as well. That
the music there was from and that probably does that
hit your list coming up a little bit late later there,
Heather Brooker. As far as major moments in their entertainment
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for twenty twenty five, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I wasn't going to include that, but I think in
terms of like the numbers that it did and how
well it did in the box office as well as
on K pop.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Demon Hunter by the way, and and so not only
and you tell me, Heather, You've got your finger on
the pulse of entertainment. There has has there ever been
a well, a Netflix show or a made for streaming
movie that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Went to theaters because it was so popular.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I don't know that it did it in this way,
like it was so popular on Netflix and then they
put it in the theaters after.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't know that that's ever been done.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's been nothing unless it's been like an anniversary event, gotcha,
you know, I think so special event.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But you know, I've got a now nine year old.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He turned nine at the end of November, and you know,
he popped this thing on and I was.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Like, like, what is this?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wow? All this is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It was really well done and the music is absolutely
on point. And I know it's a cartoon, but the
choreography and the way it was drawn everything was pretty
fantastic as well. Well.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Caught me off guard.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We didn't know. I have a twelve year old and
we did not know what to expect either. She was like,
we gotta watch this movie. All my friends are talking
about it, and so we were like, okay, So we
watched it because anything with like demon in Hunters in it,
I'm like, is my is this okay for my life?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm like the same way, what am I watching here.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was, wait, let's just check that little Demon Hunter
movie out, and.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was so catchy. My husband and I were both like,
this was really fun movie. Not at all surprised that
the songs have been nominated for various awards. The music
is fantastic and I think they even performed. The singers
performed at the iHeart Awards.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, it's a It was a big deal, but one
of those things throughout twenty twenty five that just kind
of took the world by storm. Sure, they're talking about
live touring if they hadn't already. There's also talk about
doing you know AI like like you could see this
(03:19):
band the Demons.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Perform and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Who knows what will happen as things continue to change,
But let's take.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
A Let's start with politics, shall we.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Someone commented because I called Trump, I don't know a
bad man or something, that's I'm allowed to say that.
That's a personal I don't like the guy.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
You are allowed to say that because you are a host.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, I'm not a journalist.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You're not a journalist.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm not bound by those things, and I do. I find.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You will never hear me defend him. I will defend
ideas or things that he has done that I agree
with or I think are important for the country, but
never confuse that with me liking the guy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Does he make me laugh sometimes? Oh yeah, there's things.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
There's things that he does that I go, God, that's refreshing,
just somebody who just comes out. I like his unpolished
political kind of persona sometimes. And there's other times where
he says stupid ass things and I go, that is.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That is so unsavory. It should never come out of
the White House. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I miss statesmanship and those things.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I like that, but I do like them, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think that that's you know, I'm not saying you
have to wear a tie in the Oval office all
the time like Reagan. But there's there's just certain times
that I find it refreshing to not have something go
through the filter, you know. And and I think that
we sometimes get wood by that and go, oh that's nobility.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now there are people in there.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think two people forget who are listening to us.
Sometimes forget that this is a news talk radio station
and the host job is to give their opinions and
thoughts on the news of the day.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
The news department is separate. Our job is to give
the facts and the news and the information as we
know it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Sometimes, especially like with Handle on the news, when we're
kind of all talking together in a round table, you know,
the lines can be blurred a little bit there.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, but you have it's you get your Thanksgiving pants
on a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right exactly where you're at the dinner table and you're saying, Hey, Pau,
what do you think about this?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So that is different. I think that's a great different
differentiation too, that you and Amy and anybody else sitting
in that seat during a discussion. Yes, there are places
where you will stop us or handle and I will
be so, what do you think about this? You like
can't say, but I can, you know, as a human
beings say whatever. But somebody somebody's like, what you just
(06:04):
you just called him away. I don't find him to
be a likable guy.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I do. I think people have tds. Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think people freak out about anything and everything he
says and whatever he can say Jesus's Lord and people
go no, then I'm voting for the devil.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I hope the.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Devil comes here, and I hope he takes so and
I just go, oh my god, what is wrong with people? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I saw people say to you as well, how other
you said you're impartial? But then you just said a
conspiracy And I'm like, you didn't listen to the last
part of what I said. It was listen, we make
we make mistakes, and we are okay with saying oops,
let me let me.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Fix it's correct, It's all right.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I'm already like I've still got my handle on the
news stories ready to go. It's after seven. What am
I doing?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, put those away? I put I take them home
and I print on the backside of him. Okay for you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I love that kind.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Of doing a year in review. Looking back, it seems
appropriate as we slide towards the new year. So much
happened in the last almost twelve months. So the news
cycle is just I mean, it was pretty relentless.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And I think the news really, you know, is the news.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is thrilled about always shoving a bunch of stuff down
our throat. Just so much this, so much is going on.
I got to tell you, the vast majority of what's
going on is good. The news really the whole. If
it bleeds, it leads type thing, just the heaviness of
the news. But it started at the beginning of the year,
(07:38):
in January, of course, with the inauguration of President Trump.
And then after that, I mean it was like zero hope.
I mean to some, I mean half the country essentially
was like, Okay, we're just time for us a change,
we need something else. He's not my guide, but I
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will tell you, once a president is in, I do
nothing but root for them, not for the things that
I disagree with, but I root for the country. And
so you had all kinds of American scrambling trying to
deal with everything that came out of the Oval Office
and beyond.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You know, you had some.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Political violence, economic nerves still to this day, all kinds
of tragedies, mass tragedies. A year of domestic and international
news just popping off every time you turn your head.
Just been insane. We found time to enjoy things. There were,
(08:52):
you know, great movies.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Music.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
This is for you, Kna, Taylor Swift, Travis Helsey. They
seem to be in louverray and they he says, they
don't fight. How could you you know? It's Taylor Swift.
Why can't fight? She's the best? What do you fight about,
(09:18):
she says, mostly if they if they get upset, she
just shakes it off.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
See what they did there? See that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'm downb I'm heppy with what's going on? Groovy AnyWho.
Uh So there's been a lot to talk about. So
Trump returns to the White House. That's huge, immediate expansion
of executive authority. He really, he really got in the
White House and like checked the mirrors and then immediately
(09:48):
stepped on the gas, said hey.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What did this thing do?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, I was in it before, but I feel
like I didn't really take it as far as I
could go. And then he started doing donuts on the
front lawn of the White House. And you can say
that's horrible, but everybody. One person's horrible is another person's Horay.
That's the reality of it, because if it's your guy
(10:14):
in there, then you're gonna go, yeah, test the metal
of that thing. Let's see how far fast it can
go and what you can do with it. And then
you had political upheaval and I don't I never knew
much about Charlie Kirk. I am not a fan of
dominion theology, which is the category I would put him in,
(10:35):
and that kind of I don't think politics and faith
should mix in that way. I do think I believe
that the Christian is governed by scripture, but the American
is governed by the Constitution, and they're not the same document.
So understanding, yes, there are things that you know. Just
(10:57):
if something's legal doesn't mean it's lee for me. As
a person of faith. I can go to Nevada and
it's legal. Prostitutions legal doesn't mean it's legal for me.
So the laws don't matter as much to me as
as it does, you know personally.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So the assassination Charlie Kirk, I thought it was horrible
because anytime somebody who wants to talk and converse about something,
I think people are fearful of that.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Now do I.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Think that he was Martin Luther King Junior, No, No,
But I think that there are similarities in the fact
that you rile people up when you talk about things
that matter. There was a forty three day a record
forty three day talk about Trump beating his own record.
(11:49):
I think thirty days was the last one. He pushed
it to forty three days of the government shutdown that
disrupted the snap program, the benefits you know, obviously federal
services as well, and that does hurt people. I get
all of that, but it's a tactic like any other tactic,
like you know, getting up and pushing limits like that
(12:15):
is to get people to listen. Part of a negotiation tactic.
Not a fan of it, but you know, the powers
that be are going to use what they can to
get what they want done. And that's what put The
people that put Trump in office put him in office
for certain things, and his dedication is to those things,
(12:36):
whether you like it or not. Nationwide protests against tariffs.
I've said this before. I don't know if tariffs will work,
but they can. I don't know that it's legal across
the board as to what he's doing. However, I think
that we have gotten soft, stupid, and lazy in this country.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And that we need to bring.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
We need to bring some of our security back, and
that means to be as self contained as we can be.
The immigration policy. I don't care who you are, legal
or so called illegal, or any of those things. You're
a human being and should be treated as one. That's
who we should be as Americans. And I get why
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people get upset when you see the way people are
humans are being treated. However, I think immigration and border
control and all those things are an important part of.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Being a country as well.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Executive actions obviously were a part of twenty twenty five
news cycle, and again that's part of putting the pedal
to the metal and seeing what the office holds, you know.
But I still think, ultimately, even with a right lean
in the structure of the United States, that there still
(13:52):
are checks and balances, and it's not it hasn't been
the total free for all that it seems some people
believe that it is. Court challenges over that presidential power
in federal agency authority has been a part of the
discussion as well, and as long as that's part of
the discussion, and the system and the checks and balances
(14:13):
are working, and sometimes you have to let that happen.
You know, you raise a child. I got a nine
year old, and Heather was talking about our twelve year old.
You know, they are going to test you. They're going
to test the powers of their own growth, their hormones
and everything else that go with it. They're going to
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test who they are as a person, and you have
to have those checks and balances ready. And that's I'm
still a wee the people person. I still believe in us.
I think if you're going to have a horrible two
party system, the best you'll ever be able to do
is to have both sides shuffled like a deck. That's
(14:54):
the best you could ever hope from a horrible two
party system. In the morning crew here slightly modified, we've
got happily so got to Heather Brooker with us. Will
Is around as well, Matthew filling in for Anne, who
deserves anytime off she can get. Not like Cono, he
(15:17):
deserves to be here. You're taking Friday off. I heard
what do you gotta do?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah? Are you eavesdropping? No? Okay? Why were you just
talking about it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Then yes I was okay, Yeah, you should always always
be concerned now with you. I'm always listening all ways.
So we'll have Sam Zeo with us. But we're kind
of just breaking down twenty twenty five, looking at the
year that broke the news cycle, just all hell broke loose,
and you know what, Cheryl hit us up and you know,
(15:48):
maybe we'll do x X. Did not see that coming. Sorry,
hood life, yo, uh ax kneel anything to Friday?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You anything?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Max Neil you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know, what's funny is uh, you get white people
getting upset that African Americans use terms like X.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They're like, O good believe it. They use the word X.
There's not even an X in there. And how could
do that?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I said, I don't know, but I was in Washington
and they wash the dishes. I don't know where they are.
Is in that you get that upset? No, because you're
a hypocrite, That's all I'm saying. People, balls and strikes.
Just call them as they are. Don't protect anybody or anything.
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Just say the truth and we'll all get through this.
Or as you like to say, balls and balls.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
What are you seven?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh my gosh, Neil filling in for Kono today is Shannon. No,
ball's balls balls, balls, balls balls.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Gary Shannon coming up later. By the way, so Cheryl
pointed out, she.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Said, Neil, I love you, but that was false news
because I said that Trump had caused the UH down
the shutdown. Okay, here's the deal. You can't say he's
all powerful and say that it wasn't him. You can't
say that the two times it's ever happened past twenty
eight days has been him. But it's not about him.
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I'm sorry if that offends you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Do. I know there's two sides to it. Yes, it in.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The words of Hillary Clinton, and I very very rarely
ever quote her, it takes a village. Yes, there are
both sides, and it was a tactic.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I said.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It was used to negotiate. By the very definitive negotiation
means that there were two sides and one is trying
to get something and the other was trying to get
something and they were pushing each other. Can't have negotiations
with one side, it was implied. So yes, if if
every time I say something about one or the other,
I have to clarify, that is like, you know, that's
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like conno going I'm not gay. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with it, but I'm not gay. There's nothing wrong
with it though, I mean, just say it. There's nothing
wrong with it. Yeah, just don't clarify all the time.
I think you people are smarter than you give yourself
credit for and can realize that you start doing that stuff,
and that's what makes me crazy. Wait a second, wait,
(18:38):
did you say this? I have people You're defending Trump. Nope,
I'm defending ideas. I'm defending principles and things that I
think work. Don't like the man I've said that, not
crazy about him, he says stupid things. Sorry if that
makes you not like me. I have a wife who
loves me and a boy who loves me, and that's
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all I need them. A little support and kindness from
Knah and.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So global stuff, Russia's longest to state attack on Kiev
this year, of course, it's going on four years. Insane
to see that this has gone so long. You know,
Russia and Putin had.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No thoughts, ever.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Inconceivable that it would ever go four years, and so
they targeted the energy infrastructure this year. Of course, the
ongoing war in Gaza dominating global headlines and humanitarian concerns.
Of course, starving people is not a good idea. Now
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do they continue in Palestine to produce.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You know, hate? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And if you don't see the difference of those things,
does that mean that I think men, women and children
should be starved out?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
No? But do we have a hell of a problem
on our hands? Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And it's nothing new. Christians did it too. Christians went
through the Inquisition, they went through the Crusades, and people
don't understand this as a theologian in somebody who studied
the history of theology and these types of things, that
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Islam is the youngest of the three world religions, and
they're kind of going in the pattern of every world religion.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You go through.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's my way or the highway. We just have to
be we just had, you know, or in the middle
of living it AnyWho. You got us diplomatic pressure campaigns,
fears of broader regional escalation in all kinds of things,
anxiety over global instability, America's role abroad, you have partnerships
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between people. We don't want partnerships to start, like China
and Russia, and so a lot of eyebrow raising when
it comes to these concerns. Legitimately, the economy, the cost
of living. Now keep in mind a lot of this
is on the coasts. We on the coasts don't think
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there's any other America. And since the coasts are very liberal,
the assumption is that that is America and it's not.
There is a why there's a big chunk between the
coasts that have very different lifestyles. Go on Zillo, man,
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go on Zillo and look at the price of a castle.
Holy smokes, you're like, in Idaho, why is there a castle?
Mansion castle? And it's like it's one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars eight thousand square feet on five acres. Not
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everybody's living the same way we're living here. So yeah,
you got a lot of inflation going on, yes, but
likewise you have a lot of contradiction to GDP growth.
Record stock market, and the stock market is like the
emotional cousin that cries at everything. So every time something
goes up or down, I mean, it's because, oh my gosh,
(22:35):
it's it's not reality. It's emotional reactions. They may think
that it's intellectual, but it's not. It's emotional reactions to things.
But it's going up and down, up and down. So
record high grocery prices, I've seen a lot of crazy things.
You go through fast food. So the other day I
go through fast food with my boy Wendy's. We like ourselves.
(22:56):
Some Wendy's. Isn't Wendy's great.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's honestly it really my most comfortable fast food played
for the comfort zone.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It doesn't feel as fast food. It feels fresh and
their fries are great and really underrated.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Are you a fry dipper in the frosty?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm not, but my wife is, and she doesn't. She
doesn't get fast food. She doesn't order fast food. But
when we were dating, I remember if I you know,
if we went to in and Out or something like that,
that she would dip her fries in a vanilla frosty.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's good or child.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah. So but I will tell you this. So we
went through. We got a meal for him and a
meal for me. Thirty five bucks fast food. So, you know,
because this is this is holiday time, we're relaxing some
rules a little bit doing whatever. We went the other
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day as a family, we went to Olive Garden and
I'm going to tell you this. The guy, the manager's
name is in Stone on the front of that place
right down the street here the Empire area over there with.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
The Empire Center.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So that is one of the best restaurant run restaurants
I've ever been in. And I'm not talking I'm talking
across the board. Yeah, they are good. They are very
Everybody looks that works there, acts like they want to
be there, and they're there to serve you. I always
see the manager walking the floor. The food is always
piping hot and delicious. I do love me some Olive
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Garden and and and you know how much it was
for three of us endless breadstick and salad. It was
like fifty five dollars with tip. Oh compare but compare
that to thirty five dollars for two going through a
drive through.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That's not bad.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
It's not bad.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I mean though, honestly, I'll take Olive Garden again all day,
every day.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I love it, Oh, I do. I listen.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I like the whole system. I think you need mom
and pop places. I think you need a chef forward places.
I think you need chain restaurants. I think you need
fast food. They're all part of the food cycle and structure.
But yeah, so I know, I realized that they're going up,
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But I was impressed that you could have a family
of three sit down and with tip pay fifty five
bucks at a sit down place like Olive Garden. And
I'll tell you, I don't know, maybe all all of
gardens are like this, but the one in Burbank Alit,
I just think it's run exceptionally well. It's clean, the
bathrooms are clean, it's always packed, in there, but they
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move you through and as far as getting you a table,
but you never feel rushed.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
We used to go to the one in Glendale, but
we don't go to that one anymore because it's too
hard to get into.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
It's always bananas in there. But we like the burbone.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
We're probably closer to the one in Glendale.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
But also it's you know, because we go to BJ's
there and it's the same saying yeah, but yeah, I
think because you have to go into a parking structure
feels different. Happy Monday, Nil Savader in the Morning Cruise
slightly modified in this week as Handle has the week off.
Heather Brookers here in for Amy, Matt is in for
(26:21):
and Will kno is here. Hey, Cono, can you bring
up my computer for a second? Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But what are you looking for? Buttons there? Buddy? Did
I surprise you? This really is going to explain this. Okay,
give a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Hey, Niel Savadri, it's kind of annoying that you keep
on trying to pick a fight with Cono.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's bad to look for you. You're better than that.
Knock it off. You got me in trouble, Cono, Well
knock it off. I'm a nice guy. You put me down.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Anybody that has a problem with me messing with Cono
does not have brothers. I have five brothers and one sister.
And that's how you show love. Well, that's what you
call it. I call it bullying.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Hashtag stop bling.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh my god, Cono, We're stop it.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
We're in the I E. In a bar. Things go sideways.
Do I have your back? No? You right throw me
to the ground. You throw me to the ground. No way.
I'd be in it to win it. Cono's my boy.
I only feel like you're in trouble. You're in trouble now.
(27:40):
No I get I like it. You're better than that.
I got that.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You're better than that. Top You're not better than that.
I haven't gotten that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The last time I got that was from my mom
and she was picking me up from jail. Whish that
was a joke.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, let's get into the uh twenty twenty five.
Look at at what took off, what went on in entertainment.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
HEATHERN Brooker.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, it was a big year for entertainment. I actually
had a hard time narrowing down some of the biggest stories.
So we're just going to hit a few here, because
I know we don't have a whole lot of time,
but I would say the biggest right off the bat,
We've got if there's if.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
There's you know, a lot, we can take it over.
All right, We're the boss.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
We are the boss. You're the boss. I am just
you're the boss along for the ride. So the big,
the big story I think recently especially is the Netflix
paramount tug of war over Warner Brothers. Discovery at stake,
of course, is more than just who controls HBO, Warner
Brothers or their vault of superhero ips. It is really
going to be the the major control that Netflix and
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is going to have over Warner Brothers and over a
large portion of the industry.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is some of the concern, Heather, because you're in addition
to being a journalist, you said you studied theater, you're
an actress, a comedian and the like, so business wise
and art wise, the concern is that it's going to
dumb down filmmaking and more into the streaming mentality, even
though there has been some great stuff streaming. But what
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are some other concerns as an actress that you think
that brings to the table.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Well, I mean there's a couple of issues you're looking
at just from like a creative standpoint. When you've got
a major tech company that's going to be taking over,
there is the risk of introducing more AI and having
less work for creatives. And ultimately it all boils down
to people are afraid for their jobs, whether you're an actress,
whether you're on the other side of the camera. People
(29:49):
are worried about losing jobs. Anytime you have a major
consolidation like this, there will be jobs lost.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
So I think those are the two big issues.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You're going to lose some creativity, maybe lose some work
to AI, and then also just a loss of jobs
and work in the industry.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But hasn't that happened many times before, including you know,
special effects. I love special effects, prop making, all of
those things, set dressing, set creation. Now you're dealing with
the volume, which is, for those that don't know, is
an entire studio that is digital in nature. It has
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no physical sets as far as background. Only the foreground
is real and tangible, and that came from gaming computers
and the like.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Also, you had a switch.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It was Jurassic Park, which was originally supposed to be
stop motion animation and people like Phil Tippett from Star
Wars fame and like, we're going to be doing it
and stop motion and it went to CGI, you know,
that wiped out a lot of physical things prop model making.
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Isn't this just part of the stretch?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I mean, I think it. It is part of it.
It is what's happening. Whether or not it's going to
be good or bad, I guess remain to be seen.
I think it's more of like the homogenized, you know,
effect of what's happening when you have a conglomerate, when
you have that one powerful company, which Netflix will be
incredibly powerful in the industry if they this deal continues
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to go through, and then you've got less opportunities for
middle ground filmmakers or television shows or that sort of thing.
You're either in with the big giant corporation of Netflix
or you're out, you know, still scrounging. And this is
coming for an industry that is already hurting after you know,
the pandemic, after the strikes, after the wildfires earlier this year.
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So when you take all those factors together and then
you say no, we're going to now you know, consolidate
this this big corporation like Warner Brothers, Discovery up into Netflix.
You're putting so much power in the hands of one company,
and it's going to leave a lot of people out
in the cold, or at least that's what their feeling
like is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
We don't have a crystal ball. We can't predict the future.
But I think that's the fear and that's the concern.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I want to talk more about the things in entertainment
that happened in twenty twenty five. Is we kind of
just do a very loose year in review. Yeah, I'm
kind of just feeling, you know, conversational today.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So we'll come back with.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
More Heather Brooker when we return, talking about entertainment from
twenty twenty five as well as the changes for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
It is Neil Sivadra in with the Morning Team.
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I'm sorry, this is a great song, and i gotta
tell you, if you haven't watched this.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's great. It's a great movie. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It is incredibly well done, and then the music is
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not going to work.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're probably in the car Neil Savadra in the morning.
Crew Handles got the week off and I'm happy to
be with you. Heather Brooker is here as well. That
the music there was from and that probably does that
hit your list coming up a little bit late later there,
Heather Brooker. As far as major moments in their entertainment
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for twenty twenty five, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I wasn't going to include that, but I think in
terms of like the numbers that it did and how
well it did in the box office as well as
on K pop.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Demon Hunter by the way, and and so not only
and you tell me, Heather, You've got your finger on
the pulse of entertainment. There has has there ever been
a well, a Netflix show or a made for streaming
movie that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Went to theaters because it was so popular.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I don't know that it did it in this way,
like it was so popular on Netflix and then they
put it in the theaters after.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I don't know that that's ever been done.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
There's been nothing unless it's been like an anniversary event, gotcha,
you know, I think so special event.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But you know, I've got a now nine year old.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
He turned nine at the end of November, and you know,
he popped this thing on and I was.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Like, like, what is this?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wow? All this is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It was really well done and the music is absolutely
on point. And I know it's a cartoon, but the
choreography and the way it was drawn everything was pretty
fantastic as well. Well.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Caught me off guard.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We didn't know. I have a twelve year old and
we did not know what to expect either. She was like,
we gotta watch this movie. All my friends are talking
about it, and so we were like, okay, So we
watched it because anything with like demon in Hunters in it,
I'm like, is my is this okay for my life?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I'm like the same way, what am I watching here.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I was, wait, let's just check that little Demon Hunter
movie out, and.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was so catchy. My husband and I were both like,
this was really fun movie. Not at all surprised that
the songs have been nominated for various awards. The music
is fantastic and I think they even performed. The singers
performed at the iHeart Awards.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, it's a It was a big deal, but one
of those things throughout twenty twenty five that just kind
of took the world by storm. Sure, they're talking about
live touring if they hadn't already. There's also talk about
doing you know AI like like you could see this
(03:19):
band the Demons.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Perform and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Who knows what will happen as things continue to change,
But let's take.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
A Let's start with politics, shall we.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Someone commented because I called Trump, I don't know a
bad man or something, that's I'm allowed to say that.
That's a personal I don't like the guy.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
You are allowed to say that because you are a host.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yeah, I'm not a journalist.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You're not a journalist.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm not bound by those things, and I do. I find.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You will never hear me defend him. I will defend
ideas or things that he has done that I agree
with or I think are important for the country, but
never confuse that with me liking the guy.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Does he make me laugh sometimes? Oh yeah, there's things.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
There's things that he does that I go, God, that's refreshing,
just somebody who just comes out. I like his unpolished
political kind of persona sometimes. And there's other times where
he says stupid ass things and I go, that is.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That is so unsavory. It should never come out of
the White House. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I miss statesmanship and those things.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I like that, but I do like them, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think that that's you know, I'm not saying you
have to wear a tie in the Oval office all
the time like Reagan. But there's there's just certain times
that I find it refreshing to not have something go
through the filter, you know. And and I think that
we sometimes get wood by that and go, oh that's nobility.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now there are people in there.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I think two people forget who are listening to us.
Sometimes forget that this is a news talk radio station
and the host job is to give their opinions and
thoughts on the news of the day.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
The news department is separate. Our job is to give
the facts and the news and the information as we
know it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Sometimes, especially like with Handle on the news, when we're
kind of all talking together in a round table, you know,
the lines can be blurred a little bit there.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, but you have it's you get your Thanksgiving pants
on a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Right exactly where you're at the dinner table and you're saying, Hey, Pau,
what do you think about this?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
So that is different. I think that's a great different
differentiation too, that you and Amy and anybody else sitting
in that seat during a discussion. Yes, there are places
where you will stop us or handle and I will
be so, what do you think about this? You like
can't say, but I can, you know, as a human
beings say whatever. But somebody somebody's like, what you just
(06:04):
you just called him away. I don't find him to
be a likable guy.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I do. I think people have tds. Oh absolutely.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think people freak out about anything and everything he
says and whatever he can say Jesus's Lord and people
go no, then I'm voting for the devil.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I hope the.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Devil comes here, and I hope he takes so and
I just go, oh my god, what is wrong with people? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I saw people say to you as well, how other
you said you're impartial? But then you just said a
conspiracy And I'm like, you didn't listen to the last
part of what I said. It was listen, we make
we make mistakes, and we are okay with saying oops,
let me let me.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Fix it's correct, It's all right.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I'm already like I've still got my handle on the
news stories ready to go. It's after seven. What am
I doing?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, put those away? I put I take them home
and I print on the backside of him. Okay for you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I love that kind.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Of doing a year in review. Looking back, it seems
appropriate as we slide towards the new year. So much
happened in the last almost twelve months. So the news
cycle is just I mean, it was pretty relentless.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And I think the news really, you know, is the news.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Is thrilled about always shoving a bunch of stuff down
our throat. Just so much this, so much is going on.
I got to tell you, the vast majority of what's
going on is good. The news really the whole. If
it bleeds, it leads type thing, just the heaviness of
the news. But it started at the beginning of the year,
(07:38):
in January, of course, with the inauguration of President Trump.
And then after that, I mean it was like zero hope.
I mean to some, I mean half the country essentially
was like, Okay, we're just time for us a change,
we need something else. He's not my guide, but I
(08:04):
will tell you, once a president is in, I do
nothing but root for them, not for the things that
I disagree with, but I root for the country. And
so you had all kinds of American scrambling trying to
deal with everything that came out of the Oval Office
and beyond.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
You know, you had some.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Political violence, economic nerves still to this day, all kinds
of tragedies, mass tragedies. A year of domestic and international
news just popping off every time you turn your head.
Just been insane. We found time to enjoy things. There were,
(08:52):
you know, great movies.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Music.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
This is for you, Kna, Taylor Swift, Travis Helsey. They
seem to be in louverray and they he says, they
don't fight. How could you you know? It's Taylor Swift.
Why can't fight? She's the best? What do you fight about,
(09:18):
she says, mostly if they if they get upset, she
just shakes it off.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
See what they did there? See that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'm downb I'm heppy with what's going on? Groovy AnyWho.
Uh So there's been a lot to talk about. So
Trump returns to the White House. That's huge, immediate expansion
of executive authority. He really, he really got in the
White House and like checked the mirrors and then immediately
(09:48):
stepped on the gas, said hey.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What did this thing do?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, I was in it before, but I feel
like I didn't really take it as far as I
could go. And then he started doing donuts on the
front lawn of the White House. And you can say
that's horrible, but everybody. One person's horrible is another person's Horay.
That's the reality of it, because if it's your guy
(10:14):
in there, then you're gonna go, yeah, test the metal
of that thing. Let's see how far fast it can
go and what you can do with it. And then
you had political upheaval and I don't I never knew
much about Charlie Kirk. I am not a fan of
dominion theology, which is the category I would put him in,
(10:35):
and that kind of I don't think politics and faith
should mix in that way. I do think I believe
that the Christian is governed by scripture, but the American
is governed by the Constitution, and they're not the same document.
So understanding, yes, there are things that you know. Just
(10:57):
if something's legal doesn't mean it's lee for me. As
a person of faith. I can go to Nevada and
it's legal. Prostitutions legal doesn't mean it's legal for me.
So the laws don't matter as much to me as
as it does, you know personally.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So the assassination Charlie Kirk, I thought it was horrible
because anytime somebody who wants to talk and converse about something,
I think people are fearful of that.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Now do I.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Think that he was Martin Luther King Junior, No, No,
But I think that there are similarities in the fact
that you rile people up when you talk about things
that matter. There was a forty three day a record
forty three day talk about Trump beating his own record.
(11:49):
I think thirty days was the last one. He pushed
it to forty three days of the government shutdown that
disrupted the snap program, the benefits you know, obviously federal
services as well, and that does hurt people. I get
all of that, but it's a tactic like any other tactic,
like you know, getting up and pushing limits like that
(12:15):
is to get people to listen. Part of a negotiation tactic.
Not a fan of it, but you know, the powers
that be are going to use what they can to
get what they want done. And that's what put The
people that put Trump in office put him in office
for certain things, and his dedication is to those things,
(12:36):
whether you like it or not. Nationwide protests against tariffs.
I've said this before. I don't know if tariffs will work,
but they can. I don't know that it's legal across
the board as to what he's doing. However, I think
that we have gotten soft, stupid, and lazy in this country.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And that we need to bring.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
We need to bring some of our security back, and
that means to be as self contained as we can be.
The immigration policy. I don't care who you are, legal
or so called illegal, or any of those things. You're
a human being and should be treated as one. That's
who we should be as Americans. And I get why
(13:18):
people get upset when you see the way people are
humans are being treated. However, I think immigration and border
control and all those things are an important part of.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Being a country as well.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Executive actions obviously were a part of twenty twenty five
news cycle, and again that's part of putting the pedal
to the metal and seeing what the office holds, you know.
But I still think, ultimately, even with a right lean
in the structure of the United States, that there still
(13:52):
are checks and balances, and it's not it hasn't been
the total free for all that it seems some people
believe that it is. Court challenges over that presidential power
in federal agency authority has been a part of the
discussion as well, and as long as that's part of
the discussion, and the system and the checks and balances
(14:13):
are working, and sometimes you have to let that happen.
You know, you raise a child. I got a nine
year old, and Heather was talking about our twelve year old.
You know, they are going to test you. They're going
to test the powers of their own growth, their hormones
and everything else that go with it. They're going to
(14:34):
test who they are as a person, and you have
to have those checks and balances ready. And that's I'm
still a wee the people person. I still believe in us.
I think if you're going to have a horrible two
party system, the best you'll ever be able to do
is to have both sides shuffled like a deck. That's
(14:54):
the best you could ever hope from a horrible two
party system. In the morning crew here slightly modified, we've
got happily so got to Heather Brooker with us. Will
Is around as well, Matthew filling in for Anne, who
deserves anytime off she can get. Not like Cono, he
(15:17):
deserves to be here. You're taking Friday off. I heard
what do you gotta do?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah? Are you eavesdropping? No? Okay? Why were you just
talking about it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Then yes I was okay, Yeah, you should always always
be concerned now with you. I'm always listening all ways.
So we'll have Sam Zeo with us. But we're kind
of just breaking down twenty twenty five, looking at the
year that broke the news cycle, just all hell broke loose,
and you know what, Cheryl hit us up and you know,
(15:48):
maybe we'll do x X. Did not see that coming. Sorry,
hood life, yo, uh ax kneel anything to Friday?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You anything?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Max Neil you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know, what's funny is uh, you get white people
getting upset that African Americans use terms like X.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They're like, O good believe it. They use the word X.
There's not even an X in there. And how could
do that?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I said, I don't know, but I was in Washington
and they wash the dishes. I don't know where they are.
Is in that you get that upset? No, because you're
a hypocrite, That's all I'm saying. People, balls and strikes.
Just call them as they are. Don't protect anybody or anything.
(16:43):
Just say the truth and we'll all get through this.
Or as you like to say, balls and balls.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
What are you seven?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh my gosh, Neil filling in for Kono today is Shannon. No,
ball's balls balls, balls, balls balls.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Gary Shannon coming up later. By the way, so Cheryl
pointed out, she.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Said, Neil, I love you, but that was false news
because I said that Trump had caused the UH down
the shutdown. Okay, here's the deal. You can't say he's
all powerful and say that it wasn't him. You can't
say that the two times it's ever happened past twenty
eight days has been him. But it's not about him.
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I'm sorry if that offends you.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Do. I know there's two sides to it. Yes, it in.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The words of Hillary Clinton, and I very very rarely
ever quote her, it takes a village. Yes, there are
both sides, and it was a tactic.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I said.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It was used to negotiate. By the very definitive negotiation
means that there were two sides and one is trying
to get something and the other was trying to get
something and they were pushing each other. Can't have negotiations
with one side, it was implied. So yes, if if
every time I say something about one or the other,
I have to clarify, that is like, you know, that's
(18:17):
like conno going I'm not gay. I mean, there's nothing
wrong with it, but I'm not gay. There's nothing wrong
with it though, I mean, just say it. There's nothing
wrong with it. Yeah, just don't clarify all the time.
I think you people are smarter than you give yourself
credit for and can realize that you start doing that stuff,
and that's what makes me crazy. Wait a second, wait,
(18:38):
did you say this? I have people You're defending Trump. Nope,
I'm defending ideas. I'm defending principles and things that I
think work. Don't like the man I've said that, not
crazy about him, he says stupid things. Sorry if that
makes you not like me. I have a wife who
loves me and a boy who loves me, and that's
(18:59):
all I need them. A little support and kindness from
Knah and.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So global stuff, Russia's longest to state attack on Kiev
this year, of course, it's going on four years. Insane
to see that this has gone so long. You know,
Russia and Putin had.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
No thoughts, ever.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Inconceivable that it would ever go four years, and so
they targeted the energy infrastructure this year. Of course, the
ongoing war in Gaza dominating global headlines and humanitarian concerns.
Of course, starving people is not a good idea. Now
(19:51):
do they continue in Palestine to produce.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You know, hate? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And if you don't see the difference of those things,
does that mean that I think men, women and children
should be starved out?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
No? But do we have a hell of a problem
on our hands? Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And it's nothing new. Christians did it too. Christians went
through the Inquisition, they went through the Crusades, and people
don't understand this as a theologian in somebody who studied
the history of theology and these types of things, that
(20:33):
Islam is the youngest of the three world religions, and
they're kind of going in the pattern of every world religion.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
You go through.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
It's my way or the highway. We just have to
be we just had, you know, or in the middle
of living it AnyWho. You got us diplomatic pressure campaigns,
fears of broader regional escalation in all kinds of things,
anxiety over global instability, America's role abroad, you have partnerships
(21:04):
between people. We don't want partnerships to start, like China
and Russia, and so a lot of eyebrow raising when
it comes to these concerns. Legitimately, the economy, the cost
of living. Now keep in mind a lot of this
is on the coasts. We on the coasts don't think
(21:28):
there's any other America. And since the coasts are very liberal,
the assumption is that that is America and it's not.
There is a why there's a big chunk between the
coasts that have very different lifestyles. Go on Zillo, man,
(21:49):
go on Zillo and look at the price of a castle.
Holy smokes, you're like, in Idaho, why is there a castle?
Mansion castle? And it's like it's one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars eight thousand square feet on five acres. Not
(22:12):
everybody's living the same way we're living here. So yeah,
you got a lot of inflation going on, yes, but
likewise you have a lot of contradiction to GDP growth.
Record stock market, and the stock market is like the
emotional cousin that cries at everything. So every time something
goes up or down, I mean, it's because, oh my gosh,
(22:35):
it's it's not reality. It's emotional reactions. They may think
that it's intellectual, but it's not. It's emotional reactions to things.
But it's going up and down, up and down. So
record high grocery prices, I've seen a lot of crazy things.
You go through fast food. So the other day I
go through fast food with my boy Wendy's. We like ourselves.
(22:56):
Some Wendy's. Isn't Wendy's great.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
It's honestly it really my most comfortable fast food played
for the comfort zone.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah it does.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
It doesn't feel as fast food. It feels fresh and
their fries are great and really underrated.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Are you a fry dipper in the frosty?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'm not, but my wife is, and she doesn't. She
doesn't get fast food. She doesn't order fast food. But
when we were dating, I remember if I you know,
if we went to in and Out or something like that,
that she would dip her fries in a vanilla frosty.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's good or child.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah. So but I will tell you this. So we
went through. We got a meal for him and a
meal for me. Thirty five bucks fast food. So, you know,
because this is this is holiday time, we're relaxing some
rules a little bit doing whatever. We went the other
(23:53):
day as a family, we went to Olive Garden and
I'm going to tell you this. The guy, the manager's
name is in Stone on the front of that place
right down the street here the Empire area over there with.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
The Empire Center.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So that is one of the best restaurant run restaurants
I've ever been in. And I'm not talking I'm talking
across the board. Yeah, they are good. They are very
Everybody looks that works there, acts like they want to
be there, and they're there to serve you. I always
see the manager walking the floor. The food is always
piping hot and delicious. I do love me some Olive
(24:32):
Garden and and and you know how much it was
for three of us endless breadstick and salad. It was
like fifty five dollars with tip. Oh compare but compare
that to thirty five dollars for two going through a
drive through.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That's not bad.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
It's not bad.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I mean though, honestly, I'll take Olive Garden again all day,
every day.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I love it, Oh, I do. I listen.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I like the whole system. I think you need mom
and pop places. I think you need a chef forward places.
I think you need chain restaurants. I think you need
fast food. They're all part of the food cycle and structure.
But yeah, so I know, I realized that they're going up,
(25:22):
But I was impressed that you could have a family
of three sit down and with tip pay fifty five
bucks at a sit down place like Olive Garden. And
I'll tell you, I don't know, maybe all all of
gardens are like this, but the one in Burbank Alit,
I just think it's run exceptionally well. It's clean, the
bathrooms are clean, it's always packed, in there, but they
(25:46):
move you through and as far as getting you a table,
but you never feel rushed.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
We used to go to the one in Glendale, but
we don't go to that one anymore because it's too
hard to get into.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
It's always bananas in there. But we like the burbone.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
We're probably closer to the one in Glendale.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
But also it's you know, because we go to BJ's
there and it's the same saying yeah, but yeah, I
think because you have to go into a parking structure
feels different. Happy Monday, Nil Savader in the Morning Cruise
slightly modified in this week as Handle has the week off.
Heather Brookers here in for Amy, Matt is in for
(26:21):
and Will kno is here. Hey, Cono, can you bring
up my computer for a second? Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But what are you looking for? Buttons there? Buddy? Did
I surprise you? This really is going to explain this. Okay,
give a listen to this.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Hey, Niel Savadri, it's kind of annoying that you keep
on trying to pick a fight with Cono.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's bad to look for you. You're better than that.
Knock it off. You got me in trouble, Cono, Well
knock it off. I'm a nice guy. You put me down.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Anybody that has a problem with me messing with Cono
does not have brothers. I have five brothers and one sister.
And that's how you show love. Well, that's what you
call it. I call it bullying.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Hashtag stop bling.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Oh my god, Cono, We're stop it.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
We're in the I E. In a bar. Things go sideways.
Do I have your back? No? You right throw me
to the ground. You throw me to the ground. No way.
I'd be in it to win it. Cono's my boy.
I only feel like you're in trouble. You're in trouble now.
(27:40):
No I get I like it. You're better than that.
I got that.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You're better than that. Top You're not better than that.
I haven't gotten that.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
The last time I got that was from my mom
and she was picking me up from jail. Whish that
was a joke.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, let's get into the uh twenty twenty five.
Look at at what took off, what went on in entertainment.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
HEATHERN Brooker.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, it was a big year for entertainment. I actually
had a hard time narrowing down some of the biggest stories.
So we're just going to hit a few here, because
I know we don't have a whole lot of time,
but I would say the biggest right off the bat,
We've got if there's if.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
There's you know, a lot, we can take it over.
All right, We're the boss.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
We are the boss. You're the boss. I am just
you're the boss along for the ride. So the big,
the big story I think recently especially is the Netflix
paramount tug of war over Warner Brothers. Discovery at stake,
of course, is more than just who controls HBO, Warner
Brothers or their vault of superhero ips. It is really
going to be the the major control that Netflix and
(28:51):
is going to have over Warner Brothers and over a
large portion of the industry.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Is some of the concern, Heather, because you're in addition
to being a journalist, you said you studied theater, you're
an actress, a comedian and the like, so business wise
and art wise, the concern is that it's going to
dumb down filmmaking and more into the streaming mentality, even
though there has been some great stuff streaming. But what
(29:19):
are some other concerns as an actress that you think
that brings to the table.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Well, I mean there's a couple of issues you're looking
at just from like a creative standpoint. When you've got
a major tech company that's going to be taking over,
there is the risk of introducing more AI and having
less work for creatives. And ultimately it all boils down
to people are afraid for their jobs, whether you're an actress,
whether you're on the other side of the camera. People
(29:49):
are worried about losing jobs. Anytime you have a major
consolidation like this, there will be jobs lost.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
So I think those are the two big issues.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You're going to lose some creativity, maybe lose some work
to AI, and then also just a loss of jobs
and work in the industry.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
But hasn't that happened many times before, including you know,
special effects. I love special effects, prop making, all of
those things, set dressing, set creation. Now you're dealing with
the volume, which is, for those that don't know, is
an entire studio that is digital in nature. It has
(30:28):
no physical sets as far as background. Only the foreground
is real and tangible, and that came from gaming computers
and the like.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Also, you had a switch.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It was Jurassic Park, which was originally supposed to be
stop motion animation and people like Phil Tippett from Star
Wars fame and like, we're going to be doing it
and stop motion and it went to CGI, you know,
that wiped out a lot of physical things prop model making.
(31:04):
Isn't this just part of the stretch?
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I mean, I think it. It is part of it.
It is what's happening. Whether or not it's going to
be good or bad, I guess remain to be seen.
I think it's more of like the homogenized, you know,
effect of what's happening when you have a conglomerate, when
you have that one powerful company, which Netflix will be
incredibly powerful in the industry if they this deal continues
(31:30):
to go through, and then you've got less opportunities for
middle ground filmmakers or television shows or that sort of thing.
You're either in with the big giant corporation of Netflix
or you're out, you know, still scrounging. And this is
coming for an industry that is already hurting after you know,
the pandemic, after the strikes, after the wildfires earlier this year.
(31:53):
So when you take all those factors together and then
you say no, we're going to now you know, consolidate
this this big corporation like Warner Brothers, Discovery up into Netflix.
You're putting so much power in the hands of one company,
and it's going to leave a lot of people out
in the cold, or at least that's what their feeling
like is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
We don't have a crystal ball. We can't predict the future.
But I think that's the fear and that's the concern.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I want to talk more about the things in entertainment
that happened in twenty twenty five. Is we kind of
just do a very loose year in review. Yeah, I'm
kind of just feeling, you know, conversational today.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So we'll come back with.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
More Heather Brooker when we return, talking about entertainment from
twenty twenty five as well as the changes for entertainment.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
It is Neil Sivadra in with the Morning Team.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
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