June 3, 2025 • 24 mins
Movie Magic: Stream or Screen? How do you like to experience your favorite films? Join us as we chat with Lisa Foxx about the inspiring City of Hope's 5th Annual Day of Hope! Plus, let’s take a nostalgic trip down memory lane—who else remembers the delightful Thrifty Ice Cream?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I have a feeling that Shannon's on suspension. We're talking
about handle. Just tell her not to even say anything
and just let it ride. She was doing something else.
Love the show, don't make the drama.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Take care. Hey, good morning Gary Michael from NARCO.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
We all know that Shannon's probably on suspension this week
for something. Who knows.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But my point is.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Is that when you handle the show alone, you do
a damn good job.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Thank you, little brother, thank you, No, thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
That polease stand off, by the way is still going
on as far as we know. This is the one
right near Griffith Park. The parking lot at the gene
Artry Museum is where somebody pulled in with an SUV
and a gun apparently this morning. So there was police
officers that were surrounded that to try to bring that
to a peaceful conclusion. Amy, I thought about you a
(01:03):
lot yesterday. She's busy. I was going to tell her
about the birds. Ukraine has carried out another strike. Oh
there are the birds, Yes, the birds. I'm looking at
them right now, did she come back? Sonny did come
back for a while this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
So she flew back up, which is great, like super
powerful that she was able to get back up again
and was perched above the nest and just looking down
for a while. And then she took off again so
she could poop on the head of her sister. Well,
she wasn't directly over. She's off in a nearby tree.
And here's the cool thing when you Okay, So she
(01:38):
left yesterday when she flew off right, and she went
over to the tree where Jackie and Shadow hang out,
like it's called their roost tree.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
They have a different place.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Yeah, they have a second Yeah, they have a vacation
home and they hang out over there when they're not
on the nest with the kids. And that's where that's
where Sonny went to. And so they all spent the
night together, the three of them on the roost tree
last night.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So she was at the adult table for the first time.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yes, and Gizmo still at the kids table for now.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Please break in. If that bird.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Flies, which one Gizmu a new one, the gizmo that
hasn't flown yet.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
So Gizmo earlier We talked to Sandy Steers at Friends
of Big Beer Valley and we were saying, well, she
hasn't been doing quite the exercise that you could tell
Sonny was doing, like flapping her wings and jumping a lot.
But this morning Gizmo's pretty active.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Ah, so today maybe the day never know. All right,
Disney has an interesting money making scheme.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, you are not.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Keeping the common the family means nobody gets my fu.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They just produced movies that everybody wants to see.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Although this Leelo and Stitch movie came out, my kids
just kind of missed it. My daughter was born in
two thousand and two, so this kind of predated her,
and then my son had no interest in watching. I'm
sure they've seen it, but it was not one that
was on heavy rotation at my house. And honestly, it
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didn't do great in two thousand and two when it
first came out. It wasn't really the It wasn't really
the kind of Disney mold of a movie.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
One of the movie.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Posters they actually put out for Leelo and Stitch was
other classic Disney characters, Pinocchio, Bell, Jasmine, all recoiling from
the look of Stitch. This alien or I don't know,
rabbit that got was something. Whatever it is. They were
recoiling from it in horror. Ticket sales not great. They
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did a couple of directive video sequels. There was a
cartoon in the two thousands. There was a Disney World
ride for Leilo and Stitch in two thousand and four,
but it closed down. There was a lot of I mean,
they sold some stuff, but it wasn't their biggest by
a far. It wasn't their biggest franchise. So they make
a live action and Stitch that's going to be released.
(04:03):
I mean it is released now, but that would have
been twenty three years later, and they weren't quite sure
what to do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Necessarily. They made it for one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
It was originally planned to go straight to Disney Plus,
but after just ten days in the theaters it brought
in six hundred and ten million dollars. It cost about
seventy five million to market. It's probably going to come
in when it's all said and done, somewhere around a
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They say.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
The biggest factor in that is going to be how
it does in the Japanese market. So Disney is going
to make about three hundred million dollars or more or
more profit just from the box office. That validates this
u turn that they took a couple of years ago.
(04:55):
Now Bob Eiger comes out of retirement, he goes back
to the Helm of Disney. He back on the originals
that they were putting straight to streaming and reprioritizes releasing
straight to the theater. So if you remember last well,
last year November, Mawana II was originally going to be
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a TV series. They were originally going to just put
it straight to streaming as a series. But that brings in, oh,
I don't know, one point one billion dollars in theaters.
A co chair of Disney Entertainment said, going theatrical, getting
that footprint across the entire world lifts everything. It lifts streaming,
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it lifts consumer products, it lifts the theme parks. It's
harder to do that when you start with just streaming,
when you start on a service. So they figured out
nine months ago they finally made this decision, we're going
to put it in theaters.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We're going to put it on Memorial Day.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And they had been promoting this thing live action movie,
which boosted all of the Leelo and Stitch merchandise, I
mean tenfold from five years before that, because there were
people in their what mid twenties, late twenties, early thirties
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who did remember this movie when it was animated and
did want to bring their kids to it. They were
nostalgic about it. Even though it may not have been
the greatest box office success that Disney had. These people
love that movie. Here's the problem. Then they were going
to go up against Mission Impossible, the final reckoning, and
Disney was like, oh, great, of all the things we
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don't want to go up against, it's Tom Cruise and
the end of the Mission Impossible series. And there was
just a there were a couple of people around the
board table at Disney who said, no, no, I think
we're okay. I think it's counter programming. I think we're
going to do fine. And in the end, Memorial Day
wasn't even close. Lelo and Stitch took in one hundred
and eighty three million over the holiday weekend, more than
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twice what Mission Impossible brought in. Oh and Mission Impossible
exponentially more expensive to make. Disney died everything right on this.
They made a movie that people love or I should
say remade. They made it for the right price, they
picked a release date, the marketing, the publicity, the social campaigns,
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everything fall and fell into place for Disney in this case.
But that doesn't mean that all of these big production
houses are going to get back to strictly theatrical releases.
I have one example coming up actually later this year
that has one studio in kind of a conundrum. They
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still have time to make a decision about this. But
we'll talk about that other big release that's coming out
that might be a theatrical release, but definitely will be
on the streamer. We'll tell you which one and what
movie it is, So let us know what you think.
Where would you Where would you, I should say, rather
see a big release movie.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Would you rather see at home on your fat TV?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Or would you watch it in a movie theater with
a crowd of one hundred and fifty of your closest friends.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
We've been talking about movie studios and there are decisions
about when to stream a movie versus when to release
it theatrically. The traditional movie theaters think paramount or Warner
Brothers or Disney or something like that, and then the
other ones like Amazon, Apple, Netflix obviously, and what you
would prefer. Would you want to see a movie at
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home or would you want to see it in a
big movie theater.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Good morning Gary without Shannon today. This is Vick in Glendale.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And in regards to what movies I like to see
in the theater, I enjoy going.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
To classic theater to view classic.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Movies like Robin Hood or Frankenstein or whatever it might be.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Revival modern movies. I prefer to stream interesting. I know
the technology is different.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Hey Gary, Me personally, I like to go to the
movie theater.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It's just the whole experience.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I take my kids to movies.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I'm just a movie buff.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I love movies, and there's certain movies like like.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The twenty eight Years Later that I just want.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
To see in theaters.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Like if I can catch certain movies and theaters, I'd
rather see them there. It's just like the whole thing
about just being out and getting popcorn and doing everything
out of theater.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It just this is not the same at your house.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That's what I prefer.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah, I agree, there is a romanticized version of it.
It brings back memories of movies you saw in the
theater as a kid or whatever. So it's funny that
guy mentioned Frankenstein because Netflix is out with its first
trailer for the Guillelmro. It's hard to say his name,
Guillermo del Toro's version of Frankenstein. I didn't realize that
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since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, there have been two hundred
film versions of Frankenstein or some version of Frankenstein. Two
hundred of them almost, and the one that is produced
by Netflix and Guielmro del Toro looks like a full
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fledged old fashioned blockbuster of a movie.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It is massive.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And when Netflix makes a movie like this, they could
be criticized for not releasing it in theaters.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
There's actually a.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Hollywood reporter refers to that as the roadhouse paradox, which
means released movies that are perfectly watchable but mediocre. So
on Sunday, Netflix releases the first trailer for del Toro's
longtime passion project to Frankenstein, and it's pretty amazing. You've
got Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi is the Monster,
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Mia goth as Victor's fiance, all of this incredible Arctic imagery,
because there's a whole North Pole section that's in the
book that doesn't appear in many movies, Victorian imagery as well.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And there are already people who are demanding, if you
can do that.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
That Netflix released this thing in the theaters November ish,
probably a Thanksgiving release is what they're looking at. And
here you got to think of the again, the math
that goes into this. I just explained how when Malana
II and Leelo and Stitch go to movie theaters, Disney
makes hundreds of millions of dollars more than they would
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have arguably, and you can then turn that into merchandise
and theme park rides for years, for years. This is
a little different because it's a story that everybody knows. Granted,
Lelo and Stitch was the story everybody knew, but this
is Frankenstein. The almost two one hundred film versions of
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Frankenstein in some capacity have already been out there, So
this one is arguably the most expensive could be and
it is going to be dramatic and fantastic, But is
it enough to get a film theater release. A couple
of comments on YouTube that I was looking through when
(12:24):
I saw the trailer last night. Guillermo del Toro is
too good for Netflix. This needs a theater release. Another
one says, I think we can all agree that this
should be released in released in theaters. Guillammere del Toro
is for theaters, not for Netflix. All that man makes
is art. Now listen.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
He is a Best Picture Oscar winner.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
The Shape of Water in twenty seventeen was a really
incredible movie, and he has been on record saying that
this Frankenstein story is something that he's wanted to make
for twenty years, and it includes things like the North
Pole sequence that again that exists in the book but
does not exist in many of the film versions that
we would see, whether it's Peter Boyle and Young Frankenstein,
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whatever it is. But he said, this is the pinnacle
of everything. Again, this is del Toro speaking. Part of
me wants to do a version of it, part of
me has twenty four of twenty five years chickened out
of making it. And he says, I dream I can
make the greatest Frankenstein ever. But then if you make it,
you've made it. Whether you did it great or not,
it's done. You can't dream about it anymore. So, to
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be technical, Netflix is going to release there's almost an
absolute guarantee that they're going to release it theatrically somewhere
for some amount of time because it has to be
released in theaters for it to qualify for Academy Awards
consideration and Screen Actors Guild and things like that. So
it does have to be released in theaters for a time.
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But is that their main plan? Are they looking for
a multi hundred million dollar film in Frankenstein or are
they just going to use it to drive people to
their service like they have in the past with other movies.
So that's coming up, So we'll continue take your comments.
Would you prefer to see movies in the theater or
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on your streaming service? And we'll actually talk about it
a little bit more. Next hour. Elaine Lowe, a writer
for The Ankler, is going to join us. We're talking
about empty studio space that exists throughout LA. Hollywood has
left La in a large part, and we'll talk about
what that means with her.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But in the meantime.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Today City for Hope, City of Hope, we'll explain what
that's all. You've been hearing the commercials and we'll talk
with Lisa Fox from upstairs when we come back.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We have for a long time been partners with City
of Hope Cancer Centers and today is the fifth Annual
Day of Hope. And helping us talk about it is
Lisa Fox, our friend from upstairs at MYFMLL.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
You are so polished.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm just sitting here going, wow, he's not no no ums, no,
you're You're just so polished, and you're so good at
what you do. And I'm just I'm a radio professional,
hot mess upstairs on the fifth floor. All the all
the your stations, your studios always smell better than ours do.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Oh yeah, I don't smell any and he smells in here.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
I think, well, okay, but it's that's a neutral thing, right,
That's just a neutral smell. You're you're a neutral radio smell.
Headphones are down below, plugged in.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I'm learning every day. You go from you okay, this one, and.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
We're back there it is and now you can hear it.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Now I can actually hear you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You can hear the ums in the o's.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
But I was watching your mouth move, and it was genius.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Really, it's the nicest thing anyone has said to me
all day. They were watching my mouth move.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
See.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
I miss having a male partner.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's so nice on the air to have a guy
that's smart and attentive, who knows what's going on in
the world.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So it's very nice.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
You're welcome down here anytime if you're if you're gonna
talk like that every day.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
She trying to be like, what is she saying? Did
she have drinks before she came down here? What is
she saying?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Today is day for Hope?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
And I noticed I noticed this in the I've heard
the spots that you've done. We've been playing them a
lot here on KFI, just about how people can help
out help City of Hope and their work when it
comes to cancer prevention and treatment. But that there is
a matching amount that has changed, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
So it's been so at dam Tar, which is a
massive paper company. Dom Tar has been matching a times
three since Sunday, and we've been promoting that on all
the stations, and then today they're like, you know, let's
go five five times Wow? The amount So if you
give just twenty five dollars today it is one twenty five,
So just do a little times five and whatever you're
able to give today. Today's just a huge push to
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make a massive difference in the world to people suffering
from cancer.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I mean, I don't know, is it safe to say
most all of.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Us have been touched by cancer in a way that's
usually pretty horrible and negative. We sere relatives and loved
ones going through chemo and radiation and all this stuff.
And what they do at City of Hope they are
so incredibly unique and special and so many ways. I've
been working with them for almost twenty years and do
their Churne events, and I've done many tours on campus.
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I mean not many places can say, you know, we
have our own laboratory and we have our own hospital.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
We have we don't need to wait for answers.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And in fact, I had a doctor on the weekend
show that also Airzon KFI, the Iheartskel Show, the Airzon
Sundays on all of our stations, and doctor Monty.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Pal He is like a Doogie Houser guy into college young.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
He's like, I want to fight cancer and I want
to cure this thing. And he's an expert in kidney cancer,
bladder cancer, and prose cancer. And this guy is just like, yeah,
I don't want to wait for results. I took my
samples from my patients and I walked it over to
the lab myself and I waited and I got the results.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
And I told my patients immediately.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So they have a unique advantage and that they can
get answers right away. And they're a progressive and they're
very much about let's do things different.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Let's they're all about the clinical trials that are life saving.
So they're just they.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Don't want cancer to but they don't want us to
lose any more people that we loved cancer.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Well, and it's a I mean, it's an excellent point
that you make about that we've all had somebody in
our lives, whether we've suffered from it, we know people
who have suffered from it. I lost both parents to cancer,
I mean, And it's one of those things that you
can't it's almost that you hear about it so much
that it kind of loses its effectiveness.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
And we're tired of talking about cancer. We're tired of it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, and they're they're aggressively going after it and they're
offering wonderful treatments to people.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
They're offering alternative treatments.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So that's why today is so important day for Hope,
super important, and so either just pop online. Day for
Hope dot org is the website day for Hope dot
org and they'll lay it out all the ways you
can donate.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Again, it'll be what's the word quadrupled? No, that's for.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Quint five times five times Today, every time you make
any donation, it'll be uh, it'll be that word times
five thanks to dom Tar.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Thank you dom Tar.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And you can also call Pound two fifty and just
say city you've hope.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
They'll guide you through it.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So two easy ways just pop online or call Pound
two fifteen and say safe hope and then your your
money is going to make a difference because it all
adds up.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, and I mean it is the five O one
C three tax exempt for people who are interested in
that sort of thing. It's also even if it wasn't,
this is one of those great causes that people should
should sign up for. Yeah and give. You can give
the online portion of it is very easy. They have
a couple of different one time donation numbers, you know,
twenty five or fifty. You could put your own amount
in there, or you can do it sign up and
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do it on a monthly basis too.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I I you know, I work
at one of our three mifim so I'm going to
give one to four dollars and thirty cents nice Times five, right,
and I'm thinking you could maybe do six hundred and forty.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Oh, I can our sixty four dollars dollars and forty
says it depends on how cheap you are.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'm not that cheap.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Whatever you want to give. It's a Times five today
thanks to dom Tar. And if we all come together,
it all adds up and we can just I would
love like you know, they partner with iHeart because we
reach everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, and it's all.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Over different stations, talk music, you know, hip hop, all
the stations.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
So together we can make a huge impact to day
if we work together.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Awesome, thanks for coming downstairs.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Yeah it was fine.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I'm sorry for the quality of the studio, but oh
it's not bad.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
It's really not bad.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I love that it's not bad.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It doesn't smell like maple and vanilla like candles sounds like.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I'm not coming back. No, I need a break.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Lisa Fox from MYFM. Thank you very much. We appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Thank you forgiving. Thank you guys.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Dayfour Hope dot com is where you give and we'll
talk about it a little bit later as well.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Dot org Day four hope dot org got it.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Do you remember thrifty ice Cream? There was there was
one thrifty store in the town that I grew up,
and it was such a treat to be able to
go there and for ten or fifteen or twenty or
twenty five cents, depending on what year it was, to
get the cylindrical scoop of ice cream.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
And the beloved thrifty.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Ice Cream is going to shutter five hundred of its
counters in the right Aid stores as they move forward
to the restructuring plan under bankruptcy, part of the chain's
broader effort to cut cost to sell off assets.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
After they filed for Chapter eleven.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
They acquired thrifty Drug back in nineteen ninety six, did
write eight, and since then many of their stores have
served the thrifty ice Cream Because Hello, Why wouldn't you?
What an incredible brand that thing has been for a
long time. The factory that exists now in Elmonty was
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part of an IP auction from Rite aid. They're going
to close more than twenty stores here in California. They
auctioned off the IP including the brand that thrifty ice
Cream brand, and the factory that exists down in Almonte,
which has been an operation for almost as long as
I've been.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
On for fifty years.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I think that factory replaced the original plant, which, if
you can believe, it was in Hollywood, open back in
nineteen forty. So the packaged thrifty ice cream that you
can get in stores throughout southern California, that will continue
to be sold some standalone locations obviously major retailers nationwide.
As a matter of fact, but there's a funny La
(22:20):
Times quote that suggests that it is a scientific fact.
It isn't that your ice cream cone will taste at
least thirty eight percent better if it's eaten while perusing
the as seen on TV aisle of your local right head.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
The thing is, you can go to.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Thrifty ice cream dot com and you can, among other things,
if you're a retailer, you can become one of the
partners for Thrifty brand ice cream.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They have a link for you to choose.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
There's also all of the different locations that you can
buy your Thrifty ice cream if it's gone from your
store or if the right aid counter near you is closing,
and all kinds of Thrifty ice cream merchandise if you
can believe that, whether it's a tumbler or the ice creams,
the t shirts, the coffee mugs, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
And you go online.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I'm not gonna tell you where, because you can choose
whichever online retailer you want and still get those scoops.
Those cylindrical ice cream scoops are still iconic, and if
you want to impress your friends next time you serve
ice cream, that's a way to do it, as using
the Thrifty ice cream scoop that you can buy online.
All right, up next, some swamp watch stuff we have
(23:31):
to get to. And then the empty studio spaces that
exist throughout Los Angeles have become the new dead malls,
and unfortunately they're concentrated here in southern California. We'll talk
about that when we come back. You've been listening to
The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us
live on KFI AM six forty nine am to one
(23:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
I have a feeling that Shannon's on suspension. We're talking
about handle. Just tell her not to even say anything
and just let it ride. She was doing something else.
Love the show, don't make the drama.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Take care. Hey, good morning Gary Michael from NARCO.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
We all know that Shannon's probably on suspension this week
for something. Who knows.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But my point is.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Is that when you handle the show alone, you do
a damn good job.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Thank you, little brother, thank you, No, thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
That polease stand off, by the way is still going
on as far as we know. This is the one
right near Griffith Park. The parking lot at the gene
Artry Museum is where somebody pulled in with an SUV
and a gun apparently this morning. So there was police
officers that were surrounded that to try to bring that
to a peaceful conclusion. Amy, I thought about you a
(01:03):
lot yesterday. She's busy. I was going to tell her
about the birds. Ukraine has carried out another strike. Oh
there are the birds, Yes, the birds. I'm looking at
them right now, did she come back? Sonny did come
back for a while this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
So she flew back up, which is great, like super
powerful that she was able to get back up again
and was perched above the nest and just looking down
for a while. And then she took off again so
she could poop on the head of her sister. Well,
she wasn't directly over. She's off in a nearby tree.
And here's the cool thing when you Okay, So she
(01:38):
left yesterday when she flew off right, and she went
over to the tree where Jackie and Shadow hang out,
like it's called their roost tree.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
They have a different place.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Yeah, they have a second Yeah, they have a vacation
home and they hang out over there when they're not
on the nest with the kids. And that's where that's
where Sonny went to. And so they all spent the
night together, the three of them on the roost tree
last night.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So she was at the adult table for the first time.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yes, and Gizmo still at the kids table for now.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Please break in. If that bird.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Flies, which one Gizmu a new one, the gizmo that
hasn't flown yet.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
So Gizmo earlier We talked to Sandy Steers at Friends
of Big Beer Valley and we were saying, well, she
hasn't been doing quite the exercise that you could tell
Sonny was doing, like flapping her wings and jumping a lot.
But this morning Gizmo's pretty active.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Ah, so today maybe the day never know. All right,
Disney has an interesting money making scheme.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Well, you are not.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Keeping the common the family means nobody gets my fu.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They just produced movies that everybody wants to see.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Although this Leelo and Stitch movie came out, my kids
just kind of missed it. My daughter was born in
two thousand and two, so this kind of predated her,
and then my son had no interest in watching. I'm
sure they've seen it, but it was not one that
was on heavy rotation at my house. And honestly, it
(03:09):
didn't do great in two thousand and two when it
first came out. It wasn't really the It wasn't really
the kind of Disney mold of a movie.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
One of the movie.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Posters they actually put out for Leelo and Stitch was
other classic Disney characters, Pinocchio, Bell, Jasmine, all recoiling from
the look of Stitch. This alien or I don't know,
rabbit that got was something. Whatever it is. They were
recoiling from it in horror. Ticket sales not great. They
(03:40):
did a couple of directive video sequels. There was a
cartoon in the two thousands. There was a Disney World
ride for Leilo and Stitch in two thousand and four,
but it closed down. There was a lot of I mean,
they sold some stuff, but it wasn't their biggest by
a far. It wasn't their biggest franchise. So they make
a live action and Stitch that's going to be released.
(04:03):
I mean it is released now, but that would have
been twenty three years later, and they weren't quite sure
what to do with it.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Necessarily. They made it for one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
It was originally planned to go straight to Disney Plus,
but after just ten days in the theaters it brought
in six hundred and ten million dollars. It cost about
seventy five million to market. It's probably going to come
in when it's all said and done, somewhere around a
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They say.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
The biggest factor in that is going to be how
it does in the Japanese market. So Disney is going
to make about three hundred million dollars or more or
more profit just from the box office. That validates this
u turn that they took a couple of years ago.
(04:55):
Now Bob Eiger comes out of retirement, he goes back
to the Helm of Disney. He back on the originals
that they were putting straight to streaming and reprioritizes releasing
straight to the theater. So if you remember last well,
last year November, Mawana II was originally going to be
(05:16):
a TV series. They were originally going to just put
it straight to streaming as a series. But that brings in, oh,
I don't know, one point one billion dollars in theaters.
A co chair of Disney Entertainment said, going theatrical, getting
that footprint across the entire world lifts everything. It lifts streaming,
(05:37):
it lifts consumer products, it lifts the theme parks. It's
harder to do that when you start with just streaming,
when you start on a service. So they figured out
nine months ago they finally made this decision, we're going
to put it in theaters.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We're going to put it on Memorial Day.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And they had been promoting this thing live action movie,
which boosted all of the Leelo and Stitch merchandise, I
mean tenfold from five years before that, because there were
people in their what mid twenties, late twenties, early thirties
(06:15):
who did remember this movie when it was animated and
did want to bring their kids to it. They were
nostalgic about it. Even though it may not have been
the greatest box office success that Disney had. These people
love that movie. Here's the problem. Then they were going
to go up against Mission Impossible, the final reckoning, and
Disney was like, oh, great, of all the things we
(06:36):
don't want to go up against, it's Tom Cruise and
the end of the Mission Impossible series. And there was
just a there were a couple of people around the
board table at Disney who said, no, no, I think
we're okay. I think it's counter programming. I think we're
going to do fine. And in the end, Memorial Day
wasn't even close. Lelo and Stitch took in one hundred
and eighty three million over the holiday weekend, more than
(06:59):
twice what Mission Impossible brought in. Oh and Mission Impossible
exponentially more expensive to make. Disney died everything right on this.
They made a movie that people love or I should
say remade. They made it for the right price, they
picked a release date, the marketing, the publicity, the social campaigns,
(07:19):
everything fall and fell into place for Disney in this case.
But that doesn't mean that all of these big production
houses are going to get back to strictly theatrical releases.
I have one example coming up actually later this year
that has one studio in kind of a conundrum. They
(07:39):
still have time to make a decision about this. But
we'll talk about that other big release that's coming out
that might be a theatrical release, but definitely will be
on the streamer. We'll tell you which one and what
movie it is, So let us know what you think.
Where would you Where would you, I should say, rather
see a big release movie.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Would you rather see at home on your fat TV?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Or would you watch it in a movie theater with
a crowd of one hundred and fifty of your closest friends.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
We've been talking about movie studios and there are decisions
about when to stream a movie versus when to release
it theatrically. The traditional movie theaters think paramount or Warner
Brothers or Disney or something like that, and then the
other ones like Amazon, Apple, Netflix obviously, and what you
would prefer. Would you want to see a movie at
(08:36):
home or would you want to see it in a
big movie theater.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Good morning Gary without Shannon today. This is Vick in Glendale.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And in regards to what movies I like to see
in the theater, I enjoy going.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
To classic theater to view classic.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Movies like Robin Hood or Frankenstein or whatever it might be.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Revival modern movies. I prefer to stream interesting. I know
the technology is different.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Hey Gary, Me personally, I like to go to the
movie theater.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
It's just the whole experience.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I take my kids to movies.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I'm just a movie buff.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I love movies, and there's certain movies like like.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The twenty eight Years Later that I just want.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
To see in theaters.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Like if I can catch certain movies and theaters, I'd
rather see them there. It's just like the whole thing
about just being out and getting popcorn and doing everything
out of theater.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It just this is not the same at your house.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That's what I prefer.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah, I agree, there is a romanticized version of it.
It brings back memories of movies you saw in the
theater as a kid or whatever. So it's funny that
guy mentioned Frankenstein because Netflix is out with its first
trailer for the Guillelmro. It's hard to say his name,
Guillermo del Toro's version of Frankenstein. I didn't realize that
(09:57):
since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, there have been two hundred
film versions of Frankenstein or some version of Frankenstein. Two
hundred of them almost, and the one that is produced
by Netflix and Guielmro del Toro looks like a full
(10:18):
fledged old fashioned blockbuster of a movie.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It is massive.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And when Netflix makes a movie like this, they could
be criticized for not releasing it in theaters.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
There's actually a.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Hollywood reporter refers to that as the roadhouse paradox, which
means released movies that are perfectly watchable but mediocre. So
on Sunday, Netflix releases the first trailer for del Toro's
longtime passion project to Frankenstein, and it's pretty amazing. You've
got Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi is the Monster,
(10:59):
Mia goth as Victor's fiance, all of this incredible Arctic imagery,
because there's a whole North Pole section that's in the
book that doesn't appear in many movies, Victorian imagery as well.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And there are already people who are demanding, if you
can do that.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
That Netflix released this thing in the theaters November ish,
probably a Thanksgiving release is what they're looking at. And
here you got to think of the again, the math
that goes into this. I just explained how when Malana
II and Leelo and Stitch go to movie theaters, Disney
makes hundreds of millions of dollars more than they would
(11:41):
have arguably, and you can then turn that into merchandise
and theme park rides for years, for years. This is
a little different because it's a story that everybody knows. Granted,
Lelo and Stitch was the story everybody knew, but this
is Frankenstein. The almost two one hundred film versions of
(12:02):
Frankenstein in some capacity have already been out there, So
this one is arguably the most expensive could be and
it is going to be dramatic and fantastic, But is
it enough to get a film theater release. A couple
of comments on YouTube that I was looking through when
(12:24):
I saw the trailer last night. Guillermo del Toro is
too good for Netflix. This needs a theater release. Another
one says, I think we can all agree that this
should be released in released in theaters. Guillammere del Toro
is for theaters, not for Netflix. All that man makes
is art. Now listen.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
He is a Best Picture Oscar winner.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
The Shape of Water in twenty seventeen was a really
incredible movie, and he has been on record saying that
this Frankenstein story is something that he's wanted to make
for twenty years, and it includes things like the North
Pole sequence that again that exists in the book but
does not exist in many of the film versions that
we would see, whether it's Peter Boyle and Young Frankenstein,
(13:08):
whatever it is. But he said, this is the pinnacle
of everything. Again, this is del Toro speaking. Part of
me wants to do a version of it, part of
me has twenty four of twenty five years chickened out
of making it. And he says, I dream I can
make the greatest Frankenstein ever. But then if you make it,
you've made it. Whether you did it great or not,
it's done. You can't dream about it anymore. So, to
(13:31):
be technical, Netflix is going to release there's almost an
absolute guarantee that they're going to release it theatrically somewhere
for some amount of time because it has to be
released in theaters for it to qualify for Academy Awards
consideration and Screen Actors Guild and things like that. So
it does have to be released in theaters for a time.
(13:53):
But is that their main plan? Are they looking for
a multi hundred million dollar film in Frankenstein or are
they just going to use it to drive people to
their service like they have in the past with other movies.
So that's coming up, So we'll continue take your comments.
Would you prefer to see movies in the theater or
(14:13):
on your streaming service? And we'll actually talk about it
a little bit more. Next hour. Elaine Lowe, a writer
for The Ankler, is going to join us. We're talking
about empty studio space that exists throughout LA. Hollywood has
left La in a large part, and we'll talk about
what that means with her.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
But in the meantime.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Today City for Hope, City of Hope, we'll explain what
that's all. You've been hearing the commercials and we'll talk
with Lisa Fox from upstairs when we come back.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
We have for a long time been partners with City
of Hope Cancer Centers and today is the fifth Annual
Day of Hope. And helping us talk about it is
Lisa Fox, our friend from upstairs at MYFMLL.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
You are so polished.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm just sitting here going, wow, he's not no no ums, no,
you're You're just so polished, and you're so good at
what you do. And I'm just I'm a radio professional,
hot mess upstairs on the fifth floor. All the all
the your stations, your studios always smell better than ours do.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Oh yeah, I don't smell any and he smells in here.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
I think, well, okay, but it's that's a neutral thing, right,
That's just a neutral smell. You're you're a neutral radio smell.
Headphones are down below, plugged in.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I'm learning every day. You go from you okay, this one, and.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
We're back there it is and now you can hear it.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Now I can actually hear you.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You can hear the ums in the o's.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
But I was watching your mouth move, and it was genius.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Really, it's the nicest thing anyone has said to me
all day. They were watching my mouth move.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
See.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
I miss having a male partner.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's so nice on the air to have a guy
that's smart and attentive, who knows what's going on in
the world.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
So it's very nice.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
You're welcome down here anytime if you're if you're gonna
talk like that every day.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
She trying to be like, what is she saying? Did
she have drinks before she came down here? What is
she saying?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Today is day for Hope?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
And I noticed I noticed this in the I've heard
the spots that you've done. We've been playing them a
lot here on KFI, just about how people can help
out help City of Hope and their work when it
comes to cancer prevention and treatment. But that there is
a matching amount that has changed, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
So it's been so at dam Tar, which is a
massive paper company. Dom Tar has been matching a times
three since Sunday, and we've been promoting that on all
the stations, and then today they're like, you know, let's
go five five times Wow? The amount So if you
give just twenty five dollars today it is one twenty five,
So just do a little times five and whatever you're
able to give today. Today's just a huge push to
(16:40):
make a massive difference in the world to people suffering
from cancer.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I mean, I don't know, is it safe to say
most all of.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Us have been touched by cancer in a way that's
usually pretty horrible and negative. We sere relatives and loved
ones going through chemo and radiation and all this stuff.
And what they do at City of Hope they are
so incredibly unique and special and so many ways. I've
been working with them for almost twenty years and do
their Churne events, and I've done many tours on campus.
(17:06):
I mean not many places can say, you know, we
have our own laboratory and we have our own hospital.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
We have we don't need to wait for answers.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
And in fact, I had a doctor on the weekend
show that also Airzon KFI, the Iheartskel Show, the Airzon
Sundays on all of our stations, and doctor Monty.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Pal He is like a Doogie Houser guy into college young.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
He's like, I want to fight cancer and I want
to cure this thing. And he's an expert in kidney cancer,
bladder cancer, and prose cancer. And this guy is just like, yeah,
I don't want to wait for results. I took my
samples from my patients and I walked it over to
the lab myself and I waited and I got the results.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
And I told my patients immediately.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So they have a unique advantage and that they can
get answers right away. And they're a progressive and they're
very much about let's do things different.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Let's they're all about the clinical trials that are life saving.
So they're just they.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Don't want cancer to but they don't want us to
lose any more people that we loved cancer.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Well, and it's a I mean, it's an excellent point
that you make about that we've all had somebody in
our lives, whether we've suffered from it, we know people
who have suffered from it. I lost both parents to cancer,
I mean, And it's one of those things that you
can't it's almost that you hear about it so much
that it kind of loses its effectiveness.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
And we're tired of talking about cancer. We're tired of it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, and they're they're aggressively going after it and they're
offering wonderful treatments to people.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
They're offering alternative treatments.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So that's why today is so important day for Hope,
super important, and so either just pop online. Day for
Hope dot org is the website day for Hope dot
org and they'll lay it out all the ways you
can donate.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Again, it'll be what's the word quadrupled? No, that's for.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Quint five times five times Today, every time you make
any donation, it'll be uh, it'll be that word times
five thanks to dom Tar.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Thank you dom Tar.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And you can also call Pound two fifty and just
say city you've hope.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
They'll guide you through it.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
So two easy ways just pop online or call Pound
two fifteen and say safe hope and then your your
money is going to make a difference because it all
adds up.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Yeah, and I mean it is the five O one
C three tax exempt for people who are interested in
that sort of thing. It's also even if it wasn't,
this is one of those great causes that people should
should sign up for. Yeah and give. You can give
the online portion of it is very easy. They have
a couple of different one time donation numbers, you know,
twenty five or fifty. You could put your own amount
in there, or you can do it sign up and
(19:26):
do it on a monthly basis too.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I I you know, I work
at one of our three mifim so I'm going to
give one to four dollars and thirty cents nice Times five, right,
and I'm thinking you could maybe do six hundred and forty.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Oh, I can our sixty four dollars dollars and forty
says it depends on how cheap you are.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'm not that cheap.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Whatever you want to give. It's a Times five today
thanks to dom Tar. And if we all come together,
it all adds up and we can just I would
love like you know, they partner with iHeart because we
reach everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, and it's all.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Over different stations, talk music, you know, hip hop, all
the stations.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
So together we can make a huge impact to day
if we work together.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Awesome, thanks for coming downstairs.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Yeah it was fine.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I'm sorry for the quality of the studio, but oh
it's not bad.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
It's really not bad.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I love that it's not bad.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
It doesn't smell like maple and vanilla like candles sounds like.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I'm not coming back. No, I need a break.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Lisa Fox from MYFM. Thank you very much. We appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Thank you forgiving. Thank you guys.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Dayfour Hope dot com is where you give and we'll
talk about it a little bit later as well.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Dot org Day four hope dot org got it.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 5 (20:34):
Do you remember thrifty ice Cream? There was there was
one thrifty store in the town that I grew up,
and it was such a treat to be able to
go there and for ten or fifteen or twenty or
twenty five cents, depending on what year it was, to
get the cylindrical scoop of ice cream.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
And the beloved thrifty.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Ice Cream is going to shutter five hundred of its
counters in the right Aid stores as they move forward
to the restructuring plan under bankruptcy, part of the chain's
broader effort to cut cost to sell off assets.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
After they filed for Chapter eleven.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
They acquired thrifty Drug back in nineteen ninety six, did
write eight, and since then many of their stores have
served the thrifty ice Cream Because Hello, Why wouldn't you?
What an incredible brand that thing has been for a
long time. The factory that exists now in Elmonty was
(21:38):
part of an IP auction from Rite aid. They're going
to close more than twenty stores here in California. They
auctioned off the IP including the brand that thrifty ice
Cream brand, and the factory that exists down in Almonte,
which has been an operation for almost as long as
I've been.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
On for fifty years.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I think that factory replaced the original plant, which, if
you can believe, it was in Hollywood, open back in
nineteen forty. So the packaged thrifty ice cream that you
can get in stores throughout southern California, that will continue
to be sold some standalone locations obviously major retailers nationwide.
As a matter of fact, but there's a funny La
(22:20):
Times quote that suggests that it is a scientific fact.
It isn't that your ice cream cone will taste at
least thirty eight percent better if it's eaten while perusing
the as seen on TV aisle of your local right head.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
The thing is, you can go to.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Thrifty ice cream dot com and you can, among other things,
if you're a retailer, you can become one of the
partners for Thrifty brand ice cream.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They have a link for you to choose.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
There's also all of the different locations that you can
buy your Thrifty ice cream if it's gone from your
store or if the right aid counter near you is closing,
and all kinds of Thrifty ice cream merchandise if you
can believe that, whether it's a tumbler or the ice creams,
the t shirts, the coffee mugs, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
And you go online.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I'm not gonna tell you where, because you can choose
whichever online retailer you want and still get those scoops.
Those cylindrical ice cream scoops are still iconic, and if
you want to impress your friends next time you serve
ice cream, that's a way to do it, as using
the Thrifty ice cream scoop that you can buy online.
All right, up next, some swamp watch stuff we have
(23:31):
to get to. And then the empty studio spaces that
exist throughout Los Angeles have become the new dead malls,
and unfortunately they're concentrated here in southern California. We'll talk
about that when we come back. You've been listening to
The Gary and Shannon Show. You can always hear us
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