December 6, 2025 • 7 mins
On this episode of Entertain Me with Heather Brooker, Heather joins Shannon on Gary and Shannon (Gary's on vacation!) to dive into the holiday movie season—from cozy classics to the newest releases lighting up your watchlist. She also unpacks the excitement around Merrily We Roll Along and what fans can expect as the buzz builds, plus a look at the highly anticipated Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and why the franchise isn’t done scaring up big numbers. It’s your guide to what’s worth watching, streaming, and screaming about this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Heather Brooker is joining us because we do have our
weekend entertainment report that we did not get to when
she joined us earlier. If you missed any part of
Heather's reporting earlier, you missed part of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Subscribe to the podcast because if you missed it, you
missed Heather's favorite roles that she's played in Hollywood, and
some of them may involve sex stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So there's that.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What is your damage, Heather, I the father, This is
entertainment news, Heather, Yes, should I want to engage in
some entertainment possibilities this weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What is on the table?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, this is kind of an unusual time in Hollywood,
especially what's happening at the box office. There's not a
lot of big movies coming out. Most of the studios
are holding their bigger titles for the week of Christmas,
the week before Christmas. So this weekend you got a
couple of options. One of them is Five Nights at
Freddy's Two. Now, this movie, when it first came out,
(01:07):
the first one was very very popular. Josh Hutcherson stars
with some homicidal animatronic creatures. Uh, and it's not getting
great reviews. I think a lot of the general consensus
is that one was enough. But these guys they're back.
You know how Hollywood is. They make a little money,
they're like, let's do it again, So they're back with
(01:28):
these crazy like do you remember do you remember what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
We you know what I'm talking? Did you see Five
Nights at Freddy's won the original one? No?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And I it's such a blind spot for me.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I remember looking it up what it's all about back
when it came out a couple of years ago, because
it was wildly popular and instantly forgetting.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Now you know how I get Chuck E Cheesey have
those animatronic creatures right, and you know it's it's it's
similar to those types of like old timey pizza joints
that had the animatronic characters. There's mouths would just flap
open and play weird music. So though in this movie
are murderers and they are killers, and mckinna graces in
(02:06):
this movie. Matthew Lellard and Skeet Ulric is in it
as well. So if you want a little jump scare
to get your holidays.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It's Freddy's like Chuck E Cheese in another part of
the country.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It's not a real place. Oh okay, yeah, it's a
it's a made up place. But see it's pulled similarly
from like like a Chuck E Cheese type of place.
So yeah, but it's if you want to get something
scared on, if you like a little jump scare. Apparently
there's a lot of jump scares in this one. There's
a lot of a lot of fun to be had
if you enjoy a thriller or two that is not
(02:42):
my particular taste, what is my taste? Hello, everybody is
merrily we roll along. This is a musical that was
very successful on Broadway, starring Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark,
Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Radcliffe aka A Harry Potter. And
(03:02):
this musical was very successful and so now they are
releasing it in theaters on film. It is a filmed
stage production, so it's not like a live action retelling
of the story. So if you enjoy watching a movie
about the of a theater show, you will enjoy this.
If you didn't get to Broadway to see them perform,
(03:22):
they are all award The cast was award winning. It's
definitely gonna be worth your time to go.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Maybe that's what Gary's taking his wife too for their anniversary,
you know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Apparently he was at the Disney thing last night.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, they were there.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I didn't see him.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I saw Elmer, and I saw Michael Munks, and I
saw Oliver and Oscar.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I think I saw in a distance.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
But I was embarrassed when I saw Oscar because I
was like hoveling in a corner eating a bunch of
like bread and cream.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Cheese, and I was like, I don't want my boss
to see me.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Sadly was my Yeah, the one with jalapeno, the pull
apart bread. But Chris and Channing had gone on in
credit cost and I'm too scared of roller coasters. So
I was literally like sitting in a corner shoveling food
in my face.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
And I was like, is that my boss over there?
Oh my god, I'm embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I never liked to see my bosses in the wild, Like,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was not into it.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You never because you're afraid that they're gonna be like
you're a real human.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I don't know. You never know what to say.
You're too, and it's awkward. And I don't know, I remember.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Going to some of those like years ago and like
totally doing what you did, like seeing a boss and
then just kind of like going, yeah, hiding around the.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Corner and be like, I'm I really do have friends.
I probably.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean, it just looked like it was really pitiful,
just sitting there eating by myself.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know, you have a couple of cocktails of Downtown Disney.
You see the boss. You don't know what you're gonna say, what.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
You're gonna say.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I did see John Peak, though, and I was like hey,
and I went in to give him a hug, like
we were.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I would have no idea what to do in that situation.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
And I think he was like, ma'am right right, we're.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Not like I would have.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I would have this same reaction. I've been like, should
I hug him or not? Are we on that level?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know. It would have been awkward in my eyes.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm a hugger. I will hug anybody if he.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is though, like that's the perfect person to be. Not
he was not.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's good to note noted we will not be hugging him.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Maybe it was just me and I was wearing a
giant Christmas hat with stitch ears and his stitch face on.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh boy, I might have frightened him coming out of
the dark.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Did he know who you were? You said both his
names out loud like that.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Okay, he did say, oh hi, Huther, he did he Oh, okay,
that's good, with just like a slight hint of fear
in his eyes. But it's okay. I kind of forced
myself on him like I do in the wild, which
is also why you don't necessarily want to see your boss.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think last year or the year before, I forget
and when our new boss, like the boss of all boss,
like the president, right you know.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, Paul was there and I didn't know him that well.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And I saw him at like, you know, the walk
from like where you park and then you go to
walk through Downtown Disney to get there, so it's kind
of a walk, right and h And I saw Paul
cor you know, who's like the new big big boss,
and I said hi to him, and then I was like, oh,
and now we're going to be walking like that whole
Downtown Disney stretch, you know, and you're like, like, what
(06:10):
am I going to talk about right, because I because
we always think that we need to be like entertainers
and on and you know, all the things like entertaining
and stuff, and we don't. Nobody wants that from us,
you know, certainly they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They don't want that. They don't want that.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
They do they do.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But he was totally cool and his wife was totally
cool and she was there and it was not a
big thing at all.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But you know, you do feel this this need to
fill the vacuum when you see the boss in the.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Newsroom this morning too, and he for sure does not
know who I am. I was like, hey, how are you?
And he was like, why is this person talking to me?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So yeah, So that was so much fun last night.
It was so great to see everybody out and about
and having a lot of fun at Disney Disney Holidays.
If you get a chance to go, and you know,
little thanks to Coast for an iHeart for including us.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
In that, it's always a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So, as far as the movies goes, I highly recommend
merely we go along. If you want something thrillery, go
and see Freddy's too. There's a couple of really great
options for you at the movies,
Heather Brooker is joining us because we do have our
weekend entertainment report that we did not get to when
she joined us earlier. If you missed any part of
Heather's reporting earlier, you missed part of the show.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Subscribe to the podcast because if you missed it, you
missed Heather's favorite roles that she's played in Hollywood, and
some of them may involve sex stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So there's that.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
What is your damage, Heather, I the father, This is
entertainment news, Heather, Yes, should I want to engage in
some entertainment possibilities this weekend?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What is on the table?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, this is kind of an unusual time in Hollywood,
especially what's happening at the box office. There's not a
lot of big movies coming out. Most of the studios
are holding their bigger titles for the week of Christmas,
the week before Christmas. So this weekend you got a
couple of options. One of them is Five Nights at
Freddy's Two. Now, this movie, when it first came out,
(01:07):
the first one was very very popular. Josh Hutcherson stars
with some homicidal animatronic creatures. Uh, and it's not getting
great reviews. I think a lot of the general consensus
is that one was enough. But these guys they're back.
You know how Hollywood is. They make a little money,
they're like, let's do it again, So they're back with
(01:28):
these crazy like do you remember do you remember what
I mean?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
We you know what I'm talking? Did you see Five
Nights at Freddy's won the original one? No?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And I it's such a blind spot for me.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I remember looking it up what it's all about back
when it came out a couple of years ago, because
it was wildly popular and instantly forgetting.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Now you know how I get Chuck E Cheesey have
those animatronic creatures right, and you know it's it's it's
similar to those types of like old timey pizza joints
that had the animatronic characters. There's mouths would just flap
open and play weird music. So though in this movie
are murderers and they are killers, and mckinna graces in
(02:06):
this movie. Matthew Lellard and Skeet Ulric is in it
as well. So if you want a little jump scare
to get your holidays.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It's Freddy's like Chuck E Cheese in another part of
the country.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It's not a real place. Oh okay, yeah, it's a
it's a made up place. But see it's pulled similarly
from like like a Chuck E Cheese type of place.
So yeah, but it's if you want to get something
scared on, if you like a little jump scare. Apparently
there's a lot of jump scares in this one. There's
a lot of a lot of fun to be had
if you enjoy a thriller or two that is not
(02:42):
my particular taste, what is my taste? Hello, everybody is
merrily we roll along. This is a musical that was
very successful on Broadway, starring Lindsay Mendez, Katie Rose Clark,
Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Radcliffe aka A Harry Potter. And
(03:02):
this musical was very successful and so now they are
releasing it in theaters on film. It is a filmed
stage production, so it's not like a live action retelling
of the story. So if you enjoy watching a movie
about the of a theater show, you will enjoy this.
If you didn't get to Broadway to see them perform,
(03:22):
they are all award The cast was award winning. It's
definitely gonna be worth your time to go.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Maybe that's what Gary's taking his wife too for their anniversary,
you know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Apparently he was at the Disney thing last night.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yes, they were there.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
I didn't see him.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I saw Elmer, and I saw Michael Munks, and I
saw Oliver and Oscar.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
I think I saw in a distance.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
But I was embarrassed when I saw Oscar because I
was like hoveling in a corner eating a bunch of
like bread and cream.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Cheese, and I was like, I don't want my boss
to see me.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Sadly was my Yeah, the one with jalapeno, the pull
apart bread. But Chris and Channing had gone on in
credit cost and I'm too scared of roller coasters. So
I was literally like sitting in a corner shoveling food
in my face.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
And I was like, is that my boss over there?
Oh my god, I'm embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I never liked to see my bosses in the wild, Like,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was not into it.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You never because you're afraid that they're gonna be like
you're a real human.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I don't know. You never know what to say.
You're too, and it's awkward. And I don't know, I remember.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Going to some of those like years ago and like
totally doing what you did, like seeing a boss and
then just kind of like going, yeah, hiding around the.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Corner and be like, I'm I really do have friends.
I probably.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean, it just looked like it was really pitiful,
just sitting there eating by myself.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know, you have a couple of cocktails of Downtown Disney.
You see the boss. You don't know what you're gonna say, what.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
You're gonna say.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I did see John Peak, though, and I was like hey,
and I went in to give him a hug, like
we were.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I would have no idea what to do in that situation.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
And I think he was like, ma'am right right, we're.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Not like I would have.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I would have this same reaction. I've been like, should
I hug him or not? Are we on that level?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know. It would have been awkward in my eyes.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I'm a hugger. I will hug anybody if he.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Is though, like that's the perfect person to be. Not
he was not.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's good to note noted we will not be hugging him.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Maybe it was just me and I was wearing a
giant Christmas hat with stitch ears and his stitch face on.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Oh boy, I might have frightened him coming out of
the dark.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Did he know who you were? You said both his
names out loud like that.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Okay, he did say, oh hi, Huther, he did he Oh, okay,
that's good, with just like a slight hint of fear
in his eyes. But it's okay. I kind of forced
myself on him like I do in the wild, which
is also why you don't necessarily want to see your boss.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think last year or the year before, I forget
and when our new boss, like the boss of all boss,
like the president, right you know.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, Paul was there and I didn't know him that well.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And I saw him at like, you know, the walk
from like where you park and then you go to
walk through Downtown Disney to get there, so it's kind
of a walk, right and h And I saw Paul
cor you know, who's like the new big big boss,
and I said hi to him, and then I was like, oh,
and now we're going to be walking like that whole
Downtown Disney stretch, you know, and you're like, like, what
(06:10):
am I going to talk about right, because I because
we always think that we need to be like entertainers
and on and you know, all the things like entertaining
and stuff, and we don't. Nobody wants that from us,
you know, certainly they don't.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They don't want that. They don't want that.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
They do they do.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But he was totally cool and his wife was totally
cool and she was there and it was not a
big thing at all.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But you know, you do feel this this need to
fill the vacuum when you see the boss in the.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Newsroom this morning too, and he for sure does not
know who I am. I was like, hey, how are you?
And he was like, why is this person talking to me?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So yeah, So that was so much fun last night.
It was so great to see everybody out and about
and having a lot of fun at Disney Disney Holidays.
If you get a chance to go, and you know,
little thanks to Coast for an iHeart for including us.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
In that, it's always a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So, as far as the movies goes, I highly recommend
merely we go along. If you want something thrillery, go
and see Freddy's too. There's a couple of really great
options for you at the movies,
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