November 7, 2025 • 10 mins
Roger and Mark talk about the 2026 Grammy nominations. A Michael Jackson biopic is coming out that is attracting many people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Marks the MO Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wor Well Roger Friedman, the Great entertainment reporter. His website
is Showbiz for one one dot com. Oh, we're trying
to get all right, he'll turn up. But as for
Showbiz four one one dot com, there's new stories there
all the time. We are looking for him. Uh, and
(00:24):
he'll turn that him there, Yeah, I see him there,
we got him. He'll turn up. It's Showbiz four one
one dot com, the great entertainment site. News stories every day. There,
Roger Friedman, how you doing? Yep, Roger Friedman, are you there?
I am, Oh, there you are. I've just enjoyed the
(00:47):
Grammy nominations. Yeah, so tell us about the Grammy nominations.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, uh, it's the all the pop people who you
know on the radio if you're fourteen, Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber,
they're the main names. Lady Gaga got seven nominations for
her Man Eater album and she's going to win. The
others are just superfluous in the traditional pop section, which
(01:18):
is more for you and me.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, actually, I believe or not. I listened to that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, I like one hundred Sabrina Carpenter, who I just
saw by the way at the garden and loved her
Manchild album and song got nominated, and that bunny Billie
Eilish got nominated for a song that I thought came
out the year before. But all right, but it's Luther
(01:46):
Kendrick Lamar for his song Luther with Sizza. But those
are the ones. But the really the category that you
and I would enjoy the most would be traditional pop,
and that's Barber streisand Jennifer Hudson, Elton John and Brandy Carlisle. Uh,
(02:09):
those are the main names. You know who didn't get
nominated for that category, which I really would have liked
to was Ringo Star. He had this great country album
called look Up, and they didn't do anything for it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I really liked that album.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I really liked it. But you know, I would say
that Chapel Rone she's nominated, But it's really the Grammys
are very narrow at this point because they're really just
looking at the top shart stars. They're they're they're looking
for a new TV show, which you can't blame them.
They want ratings, which are necessary to stay alive, and
(02:50):
they're not going into really uh like diverse or interesting
things you know that might surprise you, which they've done
in the past. This is a very straightforward list of
you know, top forty hits, commercial hits, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, but that's what we did that in the nineties,
the two thousands, they we did that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, yeah, it's been a little better in the past.
But the TV show February first, it'll be a big,
big show. And if they get some of these people,
if they get Loffe, she's do you know who she is? Yeah,
she's a fabulous singer around there. Phil be in good shaped.
(03:32):
They nominated some Layla Biali really but for winter songs,
and we're going to have to look her up and
see who she is best new artist. Those are all good.
And this guy Somber. You know who Somber is? Yeah, Okay,
he's twenty years old. He's from the Lower East Side.
(03:55):
He's about nine feet tall. He's the son of the
guy who does all the booking for like the Elton
Shawn and am Fhar shows and that kind of thing.
He's got a big I never knew his name is
Andy Boose. I never knew that he was a musician himself,
and his son's name is Sean Boose and I guess
(04:18):
the middle initial is M, so it's SMB, and he
calls himself Somber. He's had two massive hits, are three
massive hits on the charts all year, and a big
album into a debut album, and he's going to win
Best New Artist. He is the Best New Artist. So
he's a real New York story. I think he dropped
(04:38):
out of school like seventeen to become a rock star
and became one sort of overnight wow. So that's a
big New York story.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Hey, where are the Grammys being held this year?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Grammys are in Los Angeles February first, from the what
I call the Staples Center, what others called the Crypto
Crypto crypt dot com. And they'll be preceded by two events.
Music Cares Person of the Years of Award on the
Friday of that weekend is going to Mariah Carey and
(05:09):
she'll show up sometime that evening, probably not on time,
but sometime that evening. The next night, Clive Davis throws
his annual pre Grammy dinner. He'll be almost ninety four
years old by then, Please God knock wood. And it's
going to be that'll be an amazing night. So the
Grammy weekend is going to be terrific. And it's the
(05:31):
last Grammys. I believe it's the last Grammys on CBS.
CBS blew their chances to have the Grammys for the
next ten years and after this, January goes to NBC.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh all right, Roger Van, tell me, what's the deal
with this Michael Jackson movie?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Good Bad? What is it? Oh? So, the Michael Jackson movie.
I'm looking forward to it. But originally the plan was,
this is crazy. The plan was to have a like
three hour movie where they were going to take you
through the nineties and the two thousands where he gets
arrested and there's like, you know, molestation charges and trials
(06:12):
and all this other stuff. And finally someone came to
their senses and said, nobody wants to see that in
the movie. So they went back. They went back and
made a film that ends, you know, around the time
of nineteen ninety like after Bad and thriller and dangerous
and when he's at the peak of his career before
the bad stuff comes, and that movie will be terrific.
(06:34):
And it's very similar in that way to the MJ
musical playing on Broadway and around the world, which is
a huge hit, by the way, huge and that also
stops at the end of the nineteen eighties when Michael
is at his peak powers and you know, adored by everyone.
The next twenty years are you know, a crazy time.
(06:55):
They see that in a documentary, that's fine, but nobody
wants to see Michael gonga court and just not going
to work. So I Jermaine Jackson's son Ja'far is playing
Michael in the movie, and there's a great cast that
goes with it, and there's going to be Walter Wall music.
(07:16):
And my prediction is it's going to be like Bohemian Rhapsody.
People are going to come out dancing and they're not
going to think about any bad stuff. You know. Despite
the fact that Michael had all that scandal that we
covered extensively and minutely, he is still one of the
top ten recording artists in the world. His estate is
worth a billion dollars. The records sell like crazy. Thriller
(07:40):
has been on the charts for the last month because
of Halloween, so there's no question that the movie will
be a hit. But that's that's what the movie will
be now today I hear they might make a second movie.
My advice is, do not make that second movie. Stop
stop Well things are good. You know, hey, we Aly
got that's We'll get a minute left. Tell me, tell
(08:03):
me about Broadway. What's the hottest thing on Broadway? The
latest newest hottest thing on Broadway, the latest hottest, new
new thing on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Tom Hanks?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I know Tom Hanks is off Broadway and he has
a show called This World or Tomorrow. The prices started
out at four hundred dollars a ticket, and nobody bought
the tickets. To tell a couple of last week that
you could buy a ticket on any night in any section,
because no one was going to spend four hundred dollars.
Now they've cut the price by fifty seven percent. The
(08:36):
really good seats are two fifty nine, and decent seats
and very decent seats are one sixty nine. So now
everyone can see this play. Who wants to see a
regular play. I have friends who went in the first
week and said, it's a slight play, but charming and
the cast. It's wonderful to see them all on stage.
It's at the Shed in Hudson Yards. It's a small theater,
so you can see Tom Hanks. You know, you'll be
(08:57):
able to see him, really see him. And you know,
I'm probably not going to go, but I think a
lot of people will go. And already several nights are
sold out because at you know, one hundred and sixty
nine dollars a seat, people will go for that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, good thing about Off Broadway. There's no bad seats
because it's a small theater you're close with.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, there are no bad seats. And then if you're
thirty years old or younger, the tickets are forty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, but if you're thirty or younger, you're not going
to know who this guy is, if this Tom Hanks,
that might.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Be a problem. Yeah, but you and I would have
gone at thirty years old because we're old souls.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
There you go. Well, great stuff, Roger Freeman. Check out
his website. There's new stories every day there. Showbiz for
one one dot com, Showbiz for one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care, hey,
and now I'm here every day ten to noon. But
if you can't listen ten to noon, you know you
can always get the podcast. You can hear this show
(09:51):
anytime you want, and remember, if you're a podcast listener
on the weekends, you get a bonus segment, a whole
other segment that wasn't on it year. But you can
get get the podcast of this show any place you
get your podcast, or you can just go to seven
ten w o r dot com
Marks the MO Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wor Well Roger Friedman, the Great entertainment reporter. His website
is Showbiz for one one dot com. Oh, we're trying
to get all right, he'll turn up. But as for
Showbiz four one one dot com, there's new stories there
all the time. We are looking for him. Uh, and
(00:24):
he'll turn that him there, Yeah, I see him there,
we got him. He'll turn up. It's Showbiz four one
one dot com, the great entertainment site. News stories every day. There,
Roger Friedman, how you doing? Yep, Roger Friedman, are you there?
I am, Oh, there you are. I've just enjoyed the
(00:47):
Grammy nominations. Yeah, so tell us about the Grammy nominations.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, uh, it's the all the pop people who you
know on the radio if you're fourteen, Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber,
they're the main names. Lady Gaga got seven nominations for
her Man Eater album and she's going to win. The
others are just superfluous in the traditional pop section, which
(01:18):
is more for you and me.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, actually, I believe or not. I listened to that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, I like one hundred Sabrina Carpenter, who I just
saw by the way at the garden and loved her
Manchild album and song got nominated, and that bunny Billie
Eilish got nominated for a song that I thought came
out the year before. But all right, but it's Luther
(01:46):
Kendrick Lamar for his song Luther with Sizza. But those
are the ones. But the really the category that you
and I would enjoy the most would be traditional pop,
and that's Barber streisand Jennifer Hudson, Elton John and Brandy Carlisle. Uh,
(02:09):
those are the main names. You know who didn't get
nominated for that category, which I really would have liked
to was Ringo Star. He had this great country album
called look Up, and they didn't do anything for it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But I really liked that album.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I really liked it. But you know, I would say
that Chapel Rone she's nominated, But it's really the Grammys
are very narrow at this point because they're really just
looking at the top shart stars. They're they're they're looking
for a new TV show, which you can't blame them.
They want ratings, which are necessary to stay alive, and
(02:50):
they're not going into really uh like diverse or interesting
things you know that might surprise you, which they've done
in the past. This is a very straightforward list of
you know, top forty hits, commercial hits, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, but that's what we did that in the nineties,
the two thousands, they we did that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, yeah, it's been a little better in the past.
But the TV show February first, it'll be a big,
big show. And if they get some of these people,
if they get Loffe, she's do you know who she is? Yeah,
she's a fabulous singer around there. Phil be in good shaped.
(03:32):
They nominated some Layla Biali really but for winter songs,
and we're going to have to look her up and
see who she is best new artist. Those are all good.
And this guy Somber. You know who Somber is? Yeah, Okay,
he's twenty years old. He's from the Lower East Side.
(03:55):
He's about nine feet tall. He's the son of the
guy who does all the booking for like the Elton
Shawn and am Fhar shows and that kind of thing.
He's got a big I never knew his name is
Andy Boose. I never knew that he was a musician himself,
and his son's name is Sean Boose and I guess
(04:18):
the middle initial is M, so it's SMB, and he
calls himself Somber. He's had two massive hits, are three
massive hits on the charts all year, and a big
album into a debut album, and he's going to win
Best New Artist. He is the Best New Artist. So
he's a real New York story. I think he dropped
(04:38):
out of school like seventeen to become a rock star
and became one sort of overnight wow. So that's a
big New York story.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Hey, where are the Grammys being held this year?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Grammys are in Los Angeles February first, from the what
I call the Staples Center, what others called the Crypto
Crypto crypt dot com. And they'll be preceded by two events.
Music Cares Person of the Years of Award on the
Friday of that weekend is going to Mariah Carey and
(05:09):
she'll show up sometime that evening, probably not on time,
but sometime that evening. The next night, Clive Davis throws
his annual pre Grammy dinner. He'll be almost ninety four
years old by then, Please God knock wood. And it's
going to be that'll be an amazing night. So the
Grammy weekend is going to be terrific. And it's the
(05:31):
last Grammys. I believe it's the last Grammys on CBS.
CBS blew their chances to have the Grammys for the
next ten years and after this, January goes to NBC.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh all right, Roger Van, tell me, what's the deal
with this Michael Jackson movie?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Good Bad? What is it? Oh? So, the Michael Jackson movie.
I'm looking forward to it. But originally the plan was,
this is crazy. The plan was to have a like
three hour movie where they were going to take you
through the nineties and the two thousands where he gets
arrested and there's like, you know, molestation charges and trials
(06:12):
and all this other stuff. And finally someone came to
their senses and said, nobody wants to see that in
the movie. So they went back. They went back and
made a film that ends, you know, around the time
of nineteen ninety like after Bad and thriller and dangerous
and when he's at the peak of his career before
the bad stuff comes, and that movie will be terrific.
(06:34):
And it's very similar in that way to the MJ
musical playing on Broadway and around the world, which is
a huge hit, by the way, huge and that also
stops at the end of the nineteen eighties when Michael
is at his peak powers and you know, adored by everyone.
The next twenty years are you know, a crazy time.
(06:55):
They see that in a documentary, that's fine, but nobody
wants to see Michael gonga court and just not going
to work. So I Jermaine Jackson's son Ja'far is playing
Michael in the movie, and there's a great cast that
goes with it, and there's going to be Walter Wall music.
(07:16):
And my prediction is it's going to be like Bohemian Rhapsody.
People are going to come out dancing and they're not
going to think about any bad stuff. You know. Despite
the fact that Michael had all that scandal that we
covered extensively and minutely, he is still one of the
top ten recording artists in the world. His estate is
worth a billion dollars. The records sell like crazy. Thriller
(07:40):
has been on the charts for the last month because
of Halloween, so there's no question that the movie will
be a hit. But that's that's what the movie will
be now today I hear they might make a second movie.
My advice is, do not make that second movie. Stop
stop Well things are good. You know, hey, we Aly
got that's We'll get a minute left. Tell me, tell
(08:03):
me about Broadway. What's the hottest thing on Broadway? The
latest newest hottest thing on Broadway, the latest hottest, new
new thing on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Tom Hanks?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I know Tom Hanks is off Broadway and he has
a show called This World or Tomorrow. The prices started
out at four hundred dollars a ticket, and nobody bought
the tickets. To tell a couple of last week that
you could buy a ticket on any night in any section,
because no one was going to spend four hundred dollars.
Now they've cut the price by fifty seven percent. The
(08:36):
really good seats are two fifty nine, and decent seats
and very decent seats are one sixty nine. So now
everyone can see this play. Who wants to see a
regular play. I have friends who went in the first
week and said, it's a slight play, but charming and
the cast. It's wonderful to see them all on stage.
It's at the Shed in Hudson Yards. It's a small theater,
so you can see Tom Hanks. You know, you'll be
(08:57):
able to see him, really see him. And you know,
I'm probably not going to go, but I think a
lot of people will go. And already several nights are
sold out because at you know, one hundred and sixty
nine dollars a seat, people will go for that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, good thing about Off Broadway. There's no bad seats
because it's a small theater you're close with.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, there are no bad seats. And then if you're
thirty years old or younger, the tickets are forty five dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Okay, but if you're thirty or younger, you're not going
to know who this guy is, if this Tom Hanks,
that might.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Be a problem. Yeah, but you and I would have
gone at thirty years old because we're old souls.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
There you go. Well, great stuff, Roger Freeman. Check out
his website. There's new stories every day there. Showbiz for
one one dot com, Showbiz for one one dot com.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us. Thank you, take care, hey,
and now I'm here every day ten to noon. But
if you can't listen ten to noon, you know you
can always get the podcast. You can hear this show
(09:51):
anytime you want, and remember, if you're a podcast listener
on the weekends, you get a bonus segment, a whole
other segment that wasn't on it year. But you can
get get the podcast of this show any place you
get your podcast, or you can just go to seven
ten w o r dot com
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