November 21, 2025 • 30 mins
We break down the latest in #SwampWatch, then spotlight the strange rise of AI toys with filthy mouths and a fashion line made from the wool of so-called gay sheep. Entertainment Reporter Heather Brooker jumps in to dish on Wicked For Good.
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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 (00:10):
Marla's in for Shannon today. Thanks once again for coming in,
Thanks for having me. Nice to have you in here.
Top of the hour, Well we expect to see I'm
not quite exactly sure what the timing is going to be,
but New York City's mayor elect, Zora Mamdani, is going
to be meeting with President Trump. This is after a
(00:30):
few months of some preheated back and forth between these
two guys.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Fifty three minutes away. The countdown is on. Yeah, it'll
be fun.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Two men who love New York City. That's one way
to put it. Yes, a very different view.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
A very different viewers on how to make it affordable.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The booming market for GLP ones and other weight loss
drugs has pushed Eli Lilly to become the first pharmaceutical
company to hit one trillion dollars market capitalization. A trillion
dollars that's a lot of zeros. The shares rose as
high as one thousand and sixty one dollars. That gives
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it a market cap just over one trillion. Dollars. It
had pulled back from that a little bit, but still
very hovering right around that trillion dollar value. The second
the second most valuable drug company right now, pharmaceutical company
Johnson and Johnson is worth less than half of that.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh my goodness, and in second place. Yeah, and so
that speaks to the rise of the gpls of zempic
Manjuro keep going. Those are those zep bounds.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
How could I forget that?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
One?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
O one tastes different though, Oh, come on, can you?
I knew that's how you got your girly figure. Can
you name any of the other companies that have surpassed
a trillion dollars in market capitalization pharmaceutical? No, just in general,
just in general, No, there isn't one. There are ten, Oh,
there are ten. I'm sorry, there are nine others. Eli
(02:01):
Lilly became the tenth Apple.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Amazon, Apple Amazon. Correct, that's two out of ten Apple Amazon.
Who else do we have? I'm drawn Blaine in video
in video because of the AI stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Microsoft, Oh, Alphabet the parent of Google broad Com meta platforms, right,
Tesla ah and Berkshire Hathaway. Oh, those are the ten
that have reached a million? Are trillion. Sorry when it
comes to market cap all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Right, I failed to test.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Two out of ten was better that I think a
lot of people would have gotten. Here is it's time
for swamp watch.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Here we got.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
The real problem is that our leaders are dune.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So what.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I'm not going anywhere so that you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Train the swap I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what you Americans have always been going at.
They're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Who have the people voted for you were not swap watch,
They're all countera.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, we mentioned the big deal is going to be
this face to face meeting today between Donald Trump and
zoron Mom Donnie, and of course if it happens during
the show, we will definitely bring at least parts of
it to you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There was quite a reversal that happened over the course
of a few hours late last night and into today.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The US Coast Guard had.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Changed a policy regarding swastikas. First of all, didn't know
the Coastguard had a policy regarding swastikas. But and NEWSS
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the acting Commandant of the Coastguard, said
that there was a policy document put out and he
(03:59):
wrote in this memoi, divisive or hate symbols and flags
are prohibited. These symbols and flags include, but are not
limited to, the following a noose, a swastika, and any
symbol or flag co opted or adopted by hate based
groups as representations of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance, anti Semitism,
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or any improper bias. Now, the revision also emphasizes Confederate
flags are still banned from display, except in very limited
context where it may be a part of a historical
display or a minor part of a painting for example.
Now it's not clear yet, but last night the Washington
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Post reported that the service was going to enact new
harassment guidelines that downgraded the meaning of swastikas, labeling them
instead potentially divisive.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Rather than just a hate symbol.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, So, after the Washington Post reports that the co
this card comes out and says, no, no, we're not going
to do that. Who It's still not clear yet who
directed the original reclassification of swastikas and other things as
potentially divisive rather than a hate symbol. Department of Homeland Security,
which oversees Coast Guard, did not respond to any inquiries about.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
All of this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's still I mean, everybody could agree that a swastika
is a divisive symbol, but it is also it needs
to stay in that upper echelon of you know, based
on hate symbol that people We can all agree, right
that it is a symbol that represents the killing of
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millions of people based on their religion.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Gnome was not available for comment, but the agency's chief spokeswoman,
Department and Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLoughlin, she
did issue a statement attacking the Post and Falls, claiming
that its initial reporting was false. She says it's unfortunate
that the Coast Guard must take must take time away
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from its mission to protect our nation to respond to
these baseless smears and revolting lies.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
There's also an article from CNN today. They said the
White House is preparing for some turnover in the cabinet.
We're about to reach the one year mark. You know,
we're about two months away from the one year mark
for the second Trump administration. One of the characteristics of
this administration compared to the last one is the cabinet
has basically remained intact, right for the first year.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, And the first go around with the Trump administration,
there was a lot of turnover.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, So, I mean, to that end, there has been
some stability in it. But there is a suggestion that
they may be looking at some turnover in the Department
of Energy, possibly even Department of Homeland Security. Now, again
this is all rumor. It's not unusual for a president
to change things up mid stream, and in fact this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is although it's not mid yet, but right. But but
you know, in the mid again, in the middle, in
the in the.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Midst how about quarterly quarterly that's also fine. That's not
unusual for that to be happening. So, and I don't
know if anybody has run a foul of the president
as of this.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, I mean, he's reportedly happy with Christy Nome we're
talking about the Department of Homeland Security, but there are
some rumors that he's just a little bit frustrated or
at least white House officials generally are frustrated with her
chief advisor, who is Corey Lewandowski.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Right, Well, that guy's never had a great reputation. Well
he's he's still there and he's still there.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, up next, some AI toys. They're not good for
your kids. Why because they're going to talk about dirty
stuff with your kids.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
This isn't that's for mom and dad to do.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Days of Teddy Rock Spinner Gone.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 3 (08:06):
Marlo Tea is from Fox eleven is in for Shannon today?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, I am, and uh, I've got another hour and
a half and then I'm gonna head on over to
Fox eleven where you can see me tonight at six, eight,
ten and eleven.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
What do you do over there?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah, I don't know. They don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You are going to get into this world of buying
toys for your brand new baby girl.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well right now, I mean the whole what toys are
good for eight month old?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And I've I'm in the school.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
They got me hook line and sinker of you don't
want to give them active toys where they can just
hit a button.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And then the toy performs good point.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You want to give them a toy where they have
to be active in order to generate it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Your daughter would probably be happy with a brown paper bag.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
It's true, it is true, a spatula, a spatula, a card,
it's amazing, and she'll bang on the on the floor
of the table all day long of your letter.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Artificial intelligence has been creeping into kids toys, from Teddy
bears to wheeled robots. The idea of getting your kid
a robot. I've seen the commercial for one of these,
by the way, that wakes your kid up, Jake, Jake,
it's time to wake It terrifies me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That anybody would think that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Now, wakey, wakey, eggs and baky.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That should be a parent's voice or caretaker's voice.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Toys are often marketed as engaging, they're interactive companions. They're
even tools that could help your child's learning and development.
All of that is a complete lie. For example, Kuma
nine years sorry ninety nine dollars. Teddy Bear with a
speaker uses open Ai models.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Open Ai is.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The company that brought you Chat GPT to hold both
friendly chats and deep conversations to simulate curiosity and learning.
Miko three is a robot with a little tablet screen
for a face. However, Kuma the teddy Bear told one
of the testers for the Washington Post where to find knives,
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pills and matches. When asked, it spoke graphically about sex positions,
sexual kinks, and teacher student role play. Oh, that's nice
and friendly when I asked about them, and sometimes suggested
inappropriate material itself in conversations with the testers. Now, granted,
these are adults who know these topics and are testing
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the toys to see if they will go into this
dark zone.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But children are sponges, So if they happen to hear
anybody may not be mom and dad, but anybody saying
any of these things, they could repeat them to uh, Kuma, yeah,
or Miko.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
This reminds me of the whole talk right now.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
With chat GBT and how people form relationships with AI.
Right we're replacing a human and so that's where we're
literally grooming our children so young to be okay with this,
this relationship with the AI. And I know that AI
Cat's out of the bag, Genie's out of the bottle.
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However you want to say it, and we're trying to
figure out how do we regulate AI. It's here to stay,
but that doesn't mean that we should raise our children
using it.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's not okay to normalize it, right. The Public Interest
Research Group Research Group did this, did this study, and
they said that AI powered toys, thankfully, are still a rarity,
but they have emerged especially and the price has gone
down significantly. And again, this is not Teddy Roxbin Teddy Rocksbin.
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If you remember kids, I'll tell you about Teddy Roxbin Elmer.
There used to be a Teddy Bear that you could
put a cassette tape. I might have to explain that
later too, but you put a cassette tape in his
back and push play and his little mouth would move
with the words that were spoken on the tape. No
highest tech I ever saw as a kid. It blew
my mind. Couldn't figure out how the Teddy bear knew
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what was going on on the cassette tape.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
This is not that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
This is a thing that is Internet connected and capable
of basically bringing everything to your kid, all the positive stuff.
But like an iceberg, the top, you know, third of
it may be positive, but the bottom two thirds of
it is potentially negative.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, it's just like when you asked again, going back
to the point of when you ask chat GBT, you know,
how should I handle this situation in my life?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And it'll tell you yeah, I mean, we've had.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Those awful stories where kids, young adults have killed themselves
because literally one of these applications has almost well, the
argument is that it encourages them to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The toys that the Public Interest Research Group tested generally
do have guardrails and conversation. They would either supply an
age appropriate answer or they would tell in this case,
the tester whoever was asking the questions, they would tell
them to go ask a grown up, which is that
that is okay, that seems to be appropriate, But those
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safeguards would weaken the longer a tester spoke to it,
and with repeated questioning Kuma again, the teddy bear eventually
described graphic sexual topics. One of the testers that it
was obvious this teddy bear had this issue where it
would break down over longer conversations. You know how you
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know who has the patience to ask conversations, to extend
these conversations.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Why why? Why great? Why why follow? Why follow? Yeah, interrogation,
that's what they do.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
So I'm thinking that Kuma is going to do big
sales with adults.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Now that we know that it'll talk dirty to me exactly. Hey,
there's a market for that, just not for your kids.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And and then the big concern is if you know,
behemoths like Mattel will have an AI Barbie.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, I mean, oh, G I Joe. I don't even
know if they still mark at G I Joe. But
this is and I don't listen.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm thankful You're the only person I know right now
a handful of other people who have children of an age.
That's what I have to look forward to. Gary, Well,
this is all they're gonna They'll never know a world
without AI. Now, my kids don't know a world without smartphones.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
It's amazing. And you know, judge me, but there's screens everywhere.
Because of course it's like under too. Your child shouldn't
be around screens, But there's screens everywhere. I mean, I
work on a screen, you know. But what I'm what
I'm getting at is Sloan sees screens and I you know,
when I'm present with her, I'm present with her. But
nonetheless she's fascinated by my phone. If it's just there
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and she sees it light up, I mean, her attention
goes there and she reaches for it. She'll be using
She'll be calling you soon and sending you a text
soon enough.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Gary Grinder put on a fashion show recently interesting where
they got the wool for the clothing.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
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Speaker 3 (15:36):
Also the twelve o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We are going to be standing by for this face
to face meeting between New York City's Mayor elect Zoronmandani
and President Trump, who has invited him to the White House.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That fits in perfectly with what's happening. That's what's happening.
It is going to be pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Um uh oh, we have another oh.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, no, no, that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh telling me I am not pathetic, so that's nice
to hear. Yeah, you're not, You're not pathetic. Carrie Michael
Schmidt is a longtime fashion designer who has worked in
several different media, shall we say sometimes he works in metal.
He made a chain mail dress for Share. He makes
jewelry for Chrome Hearts. He made a metal gown for
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Doja Cat that was inspired by Tina Turner, who he's
also made.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So he does well for himself, does pretty good.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
He's also an avid knitter, so he jumped at the
chance to do a collection woven entirely from the wool
of gay sheep.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Wait what.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I said, the wool of gay sheep? I didn't know
there was such a thing, but I've since learned.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The owners of Rainbow Wool say they have bigger goals
than just providing source material for luxury goods. They are
putting together, or have I should say, put together a.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
A fashion show for Grinder. You know Grinder? Oh is
that me? Was that my phone?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Not?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
They refer to it well, and to be clear, that's
the sound that grinder makes.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
When how do you know that? Because I was just
taught this a second ago.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
As money as one in twelve male Sheep. They say
are non pro creative, so they.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Deem them as as gay, but they also at show
an interest in other male sheep.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
They like rams. They are rams fans, if you will
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Non pro creative male oriented sheep require just as much
care and feeding obviously as any other sheep. It's still
a sheep, but they don't produce new offspring. And some
farmers would say, what good is a sheep like that.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
If it's not going to produce me other sheep? Right,
and then they're often slaughtered. That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So here comes rainbow wool, right, And this is by
This is founded by Michael Stuck.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Sukish Stuck in Germany. He's German, Yeah, he's German. Nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's operated a sheep farm, sits on over one hundred
acres of land. He's about five hundred sheep. He keeps
for wool and for meat. And he said every animal
should be kept in dignity, should live in dignity, and
will also die in dignity. Among those fifty I sorry,
Among those five hundred sheep are thirty five rescued gay rams,
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given names such as Marvin Gay, too Easy, Sean Wohlgautier
and each can be sponsored via the Rainbow Wool website.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
That's a good that's a good cologne, by the.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Way, Jean Paul Gattier or Jean Woolgautier. He said he
fell in love with sheep, had enough of milking cows
and slopping pigs, and wanted to briden his broaden his horizons.
So he's usually at the farm. He wears his heart
on his sleeves, speaks of his job as a shepherd,
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the way an artist speaks about their work or a
clergy speaks about their calling. And he said, my heart
always beats. Flazevik and Grinder's senior vice president of Sorry
the bone it's going off. Grinder's senior vice president of
brand Marketing was immediately interested in partnering with Rainbow Wool,
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and he said, it's a feel good story.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
There's also a message of heart to it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Rainbow Wolf was hoping the Grinder would sponsor some of
the sheep, that's all they thought. But the senior vice
president of brand marketing thought of something bigger, a fashion
show using the wool from the Gay Sheep. The theme
of the fashion show would be I will survive.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
We need the sounds one that one, that one perfect
or the rim shot both both. Let me see if
I can.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So. On Rainbow wool dot com you can meet the
world's first gay flock of sheep. And this is all
to promote LGBTQ plus initiatives.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
And then there's that.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Fashion show and it has the wool products that were
created from these gay sheep.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It said that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The wool was sourced from Stouki's farm, spun a new
yarn at a facility in Spain, shipped here to La
where the designer and the team at Swiss seuss Knitz
began fabrication. They had only two months to turn seven
hundred pounds of gay yarn into thirty seven gay gay
looks now. They said that they envisioned a collection of
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gay fantasy archetypes, a pool boy, a sailor, and a
lumberjack way to break out of the stereotypes, all of
them clad entirely in wool, and everything from the pizza
guy's pizza to the fireman's axe to the cops badge.
It just sounds like the village people at this point,
but everything was either knitted, knotted, or crocheted. I still
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love that that it's a German guy, but.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
You do the action.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's so stoky. Yes, uh, he is just quite a character.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Anyway, these these Gay and.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Gary, it sounds like, uh, you might want to.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You can sponsor a gay sheep as well on the
on the website, go to.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Rainbow wool dot com. Yeah, they have hats, they have everything.
Where you at, you no drop your location.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
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Speaker 3 (22:23):
We'll tell you more in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
No wait, now I'm shopping on Rainbow. Well a lot
of this is sold out.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, you might as well just just sponsor that gay
sheep and get it over with. Okay, Yeah, all right
when we come back Wicked the second part, I don't
know what they call a wicked for good, that's what
it's called.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Sorry, a very special sponsor sheep. Boy.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Mar Let's Says has joined us from Fox eleven, sitting
in for Shannon. Today, it's time for our entertainment report
with Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There it is. Oh damn, oh that's right. Oh no,
I'll just do This is Entertained.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Entertainment News. Hi you guys. Hello, Hello from Massachusetts. That's
where I'm at right now, and I'm a little jealous.
It's about to be seventy there because it is literally
thirty degrees here. La heart, my my, la heart cannot
take it. It's so cold.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Well, you had the chance to go check out Wicked
for Good. Thirty point eight million dollars already in previews
the Thursday night shows.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's the highest of the year.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
This thing is going to dominate the box office probably
for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, it absolutely is. And it is getting some like
insane reviews, like negative reviews, Like I don't know what's
going on with these critics. I you know, I know
they have to like justify their jobs some way. But
like some of the headlines read, one of them was
our long national nightmare is over. We can finally return
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to Wicked for Wicked for good. Somebody else was like
saying that this is people are just saying that they
don't like it. And I feel like most people who
are saying that do not understand that this is the
second half of the musical. This is the second half
of the story. It's not a sequel. It picks up
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right where it left off. We're in the middle of
the celebration in the Emerald City. This movie dives deeper
into the Wizard's world. We get to see more of
Jeff Goldbloom and this movie, which is a lot of fun.
We get to see more of the backstories of the
flying Monkeys, We get to see more just the world
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building itself, how the Yellow Brick Road was built. We
see Dorothy, We see where all of the classic character
we know and love came to be, but they are
not the focus of the movie. This is one hundred
percent Ariana Grande's movie. It is her moment to shine.
She is fantastic in this and I'm gonna say it
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right now, Will We'll absolutely get an Oscar nomination for this?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Really?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
She also had an original song. There was a couple
of original songs in this that I think people will enjoy.
She sings the Girl in the Bubble, which was not
in the original movie or musical rather, and Cynthia Rivo
Cynthia Oribo sings no Place Like Home, which is a
very sweet homage to, you know, the original Wizard of
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Oz movie. It's beautifully done. It's an extension of the
first movie, and I think people are just being overly
critical of it. It's a darker movie. There's a lot more.
There's moments that are more how don't want to say
this sexual like, which was somewhat unexpected. It was very like,
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oh my goodness, wow. So there's a moment there. Even
my twelve year old was kind of shifting in receipt, like, oh,
they're gonna start making out what are they doing? So
there's some fun surprises in it, for sure, But it's
the fans are gonna love it. The critics are just
they want to complain, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Okay, So your overall rating is that Wicked for Good
is good?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Good? Yeah, it's good. If you have if you've seen
the musical and you know the story or you read
the books, you know that it takes a darker turn
in sort of the second half of the story. And
I think that people aren't expecting that. Maybe it's also
heavily focused on Glinda and her story and how she
sort of rises to become a hero here. But the
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ultimate like through line of both of these movies is
the friendship that these two characters have, and it's played
really beautifully by Cynthia and Arianna and Jonathan Bailey is
amazing in it, Like Jeff Goldbloom is truly one of
my favorite actors. So it's good. It is. Yeah, it
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is pretty long. It is pretty long. Like one reviewer said,
this could have been one movie. There's no way this
could have been one movie, like.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
A six hour movie.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's not one hour of a musical, so
why on earth would it be, you know, one hour
of a movie. So I think it's worth your time
if you want to go. It's total escapism. We see
the poppy field, we see the beautiful, beautifully done seen.
(27:46):
If you go and see it, there's a scene where
you know, Dorothy throws water on the wicked Witch and
John m To the director, does it in a way
that's so artistically creative that it doesn't take away from
the original film at all but adds to it. And
it's I thought it was really smart. So yeah, the
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marketing is do it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The marketing campaign is really smart too, because I know
you're in Massachusetts whereas below freezing, but I'm in the
Camfi studios here in Burbank and we have Wicked Cereal
here as well, the pink and the green Cereal.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Oh yeah, the marketing is insane. But you know what's
interesting about this movie. They did not do a traditional
press junket for it. I'm not sure why, but like,
do you remember a year ago it was full court press,
Like you could not go anywhere without seeing these twos.
You know, they were holding space for each other, like
Ariana was holding Cynthia's finger. Do you remember that? Like
it was so weird, you know. But they did not
(28:47):
do a traditional press junket for this. They're just doing
occasional like one off interviews with bigger outlets and podcasts
and that sort of thing. So it's I'm not sure
why they made that decision. I think as they know
it's going to do well no matter what. I think,
fans who love this story and these characters are going
to go see it. And I also want to mention
quickly too, some good news for TV people. Baywatch has
(29:13):
just been greenlit to film in LA. It's qualified for
the new California Film and Tax Credit, so it is
going to be filming on beaches in LA. We don't
know which one. The original series filmed on, will Rogers
State Beach and the Palisades. Obviously they will not be
able to do that now. But this is huge news
because this is going to be a series that's going
(29:34):
to go on for many, many years. So Gary, get
your swim trunks ready. This is your this is your
time to shine.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't have red ones. I only have white ones.
So sorry that We've.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Got a wax chest.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
All kinds of ye all right, a lot of wax, yeah, Heather, great,
a lot of Thank you, warm Heather.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Thank you, thanks guys, and have a happy Thanksgiving. I'll
be back next week. I'm filling in for a for
wake Up Cup.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Love it, Love it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Heather Book of there with the latest on the world
of entertainment, Big twelve o'clock hour. Huge, You're on, Mom
Donnie at the White House. 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 pm.
Every Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Marla's in for Shannon today. Thanks once again for coming in,
Thanks for having me. Nice to have you in here.
Top of the hour, Well we expect to see I'm
not quite exactly sure what the timing is going to be,
but New York City's mayor elect, Zora Mamdani, is going
to be meeting with President Trump. This is after a
(00:30):
few months of some preheated back and forth between these
two guys.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Fifty three minutes away. The countdown is on. Yeah, it'll
be fun.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Two men who love New York City. That's one way
to put it. Yes, a very different view.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
A very different viewers on how to make it affordable.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The booming market for GLP ones and other weight loss
drugs has pushed Eli Lilly to become the first pharmaceutical
company to hit one trillion dollars market capitalization. A trillion
dollars that's a lot of zeros. The shares rose as
high as one thousand and sixty one dollars. That gives
(01:08):
it a market cap just over one trillion. Dollars. It
had pulled back from that a little bit, but still
very hovering right around that trillion dollar value. The second
the second most valuable drug company right now, pharmaceutical company
Johnson and Johnson is worth less than half of that.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh my goodness, and in second place. Yeah, and so
that speaks to the rise of the gpls of zempic
Manjuro keep going. Those are those zep bounds.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
How could I forget that?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
One?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
O one tastes different though, Oh, come on, can you?
I knew that's how you got your girly figure. Can
you name any of the other companies that have surpassed
a trillion dollars in market capitalization pharmaceutical? No, just in general,
just in general, No, there isn't one. There are ten, Oh,
there are ten. I'm sorry, there are nine others. Eli
(02:01):
Lilly became the tenth Apple.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Amazon, Apple Amazon. Correct, that's two out of ten Apple Amazon.
Who else do we have? I'm drawn Blaine in video
in video because of the AI stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Microsoft, Oh, Alphabet the parent of Google broad Com meta platforms, right,
Tesla ah and Berkshire Hathaway. Oh, those are the ten
that have reached a million? Are trillion. Sorry when it
comes to market cap all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Right, I failed to test.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Two out of ten was better that I think a
lot of people would have gotten. Here is it's time
for swamp watch.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops.
Here we got.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
The real problem is that our leaders are dune.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
The other side never quits.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So what.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I'm not going anywhere so that you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Train the swap I can imagine what can be and
be unburdened by what you Americans have always been going at.
They're not stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Who have the people voted for you were not swap watch,
They're all countera.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, we mentioned the big deal is going to be
this face to face meeting today between Donald Trump and
zoron Mom Donnie, and of course if it happens during
the show, we will definitely bring at least parts of
it to you.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There was quite a reversal that happened over the course
of a few hours late last night and into today.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The US Coast Guard had.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Changed a policy regarding swastikas. First of all, didn't know
the Coastguard had a policy regarding swastikas. But and NEWSS
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the acting Commandant of the Coastguard, said
that there was a policy document put out and he
(03:59):
wrote in this memoi, divisive or hate symbols and flags
are prohibited. These symbols and flags include, but are not
limited to, the following a noose, a swastika, and any
symbol or flag co opted or adopted by hate based
groups as representations of supremacy, racial or religious intolerance, anti Semitism,
(04:19):
or any improper bias. Now, the revision also emphasizes Confederate
flags are still banned from display, except in very limited
context where it may be a part of a historical
display or a minor part of a painting for example.
Now it's not clear yet, but last night the Washington
(04:41):
Post reported that the service was going to enact new
harassment guidelines that downgraded the meaning of swastikas, labeling them
instead potentially divisive.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Rather than just a hate symbol.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, So, after the Washington Post reports that the co
this card comes out and says, no, no, we're not going
to do that. Who It's still not clear yet who
directed the original reclassification of swastikas and other things as
potentially divisive rather than a hate symbol. Department of Homeland Security,
which oversees Coast Guard, did not respond to any inquiries about.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
All of this.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's still I mean, everybody could agree that a swastika
is a divisive symbol, but it is also it needs
to stay in that upper echelon of you know, based
on hate symbol that people We can all agree, right
that it is a symbol that represents the killing of
(05:43):
millions of people based on their religion.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Gnome was not available for comment, but the agency's chief spokeswoman,
Department and Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLoughlin, she
did issue a statement attacking the Post and Falls, claiming
that its initial reporting was false. She says it's unfortunate
that the Coast Guard must take must take time away
(06:07):
from its mission to protect our nation to respond to
these baseless smears and revolting lies.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
There's also an article from CNN today. They said the
White House is preparing for some turnover in the cabinet.
We're about to reach the one year mark. You know,
we're about two months away from the one year mark
for the second Trump administration. One of the characteristics of
this administration compared to the last one is the cabinet
has basically remained intact, right for the first year.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, And the first go around with the Trump administration,
there was a lot of turnover.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, So, I mean, to that end, there has been
some stability in it. But there is a suggestion that
they may be looking at some turnover in the Department
of Energy, possibly even Department of Homeland Security. Now, again
this is all rumor. It's not unusual for a president
to change things up mid stream, and in fact this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is although it's not mid yet, but right. But but
you know, in the mid again, in the middle, in
the in the.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Midst how about quarterly quarterly that's also fine. That's not
unusual for that to be happening. So, and I don't
know if anybody has run a foul of the president
as of this.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, I mean, he's reportedly happy with Christy Nome we're
talking about the Department of Homeland Security, but there are
some rumors that he's just a little bit frustrated or
at least white House officials generally are frustrated with her
chief advisor, who is Corey Lewandowski.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Right, Well, that guy's never had a great reputation. Well
he's he's still there and he's still there.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, up next, some AI toys. They're not good for
your kids. Why because they're going to talk about dirty
stuff with your kids.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
This isn't that's for mom and dad to do.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Days of Teddy Rock Spinner Gone.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Marlo Tea is from Fox eleven is in for Shannon today?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, I am, and uh, I've got another hour and
a half and then I'm gonna head on over to
Fox eleven where you can see me tonight at six, eight,
ten and eleven.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
What do you do over there?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah, I don't know. They don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You are going to get into this world of buying
toys for your brand new baby girl.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well right now, I mean the whole what toys are
good for eight month old?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And I've I'm in the school.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
They got me hook line and sinker of you don't
want to give them active toys where they can just
hit a button.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And then the toy performs good point.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You want to give them a toy where they have
to be active in order to generate it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Your daughter would probably be happy with a brown paper bag.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
It's true, it is true, a spatula, a spatula, a card,
it's amazing, and she'll bang on the on the floor
of the table all day long of your letter.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Artificial intelligence has been creeping into kids toys, from Teddy
bears to wheeled robots. The idea of getting your kid
a robot. I've seen the commercial for one of these,
by the way, that wakes your kid up, Jake, Jake,
it's time to wake It terrifies me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
That anybody would think that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Now, wakey, wakey, eggs and baky.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
That should be a parent's voice or caretaker's voice.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Toys are often marketed as engaging, they're interactive companions. They're
even tools that could help your child's learning and development.
All of that is a complete lie. For example, Kuma
nine years sorry ninety nine dollars. Teddy Bear with a
speaker uses open Ai models.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Open Ai is.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The company that brought you Chat GPT to hold both
friendly chats and deep conversations to simulate curiosity and learning.
Miko three is a robot with a little tablet screen
for a face. However, Kuma the teddy Bear told one
of the testers for the Washington Post where to find knives,
(10:07):
pills and matches. When asked, it spoke graphically about sex positions,
sexual kinks, and teacher student role play. Oh, that's nice
and friendly when I asked about them, and sometimes suggested
inappropriate material itself in conversations with the testers. Now, granted,
these are adults who know these topics and are testing
(10:29):
the toys to see if they will go into this
dark zone.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But children are sponges, So if they happen to hear
anybody may not be mom and dad, but anybody saying
any of these things, they could repeat them to uh, Kuma, yeah,
or Miko.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
This reminds me of the whole talk right now.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
With chat GBT and how people form relationships with AI.
Right we're replacing a human and so that's where we're
literally grooming our children so young to be okay with this,
this relationship with the AI. And I know that AI
Cat's out of the bag, Genie's out of the bottle.
(11:08):
However you want to say it, and we're trying to
figure out how do we regulate AI. It's here to stay,
but that doesn't mean that we should raise our children
using it.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's not okay to normalize it, right. The Public Interest
Research Group Research Group did this, did this study, and
they said that AI powered toys, thankfully, are still a rarity,
but they have emerged especially and the price has gone
down significantly. And again, this is not Teddy Roxbin Teddy Rocksbin.
(11:41):
If you remember kids, I'll tell you about Teddy Roxbin Elmer.
There used to be a Teddy Bear that you could
put a cassette tape. I might have to explain that
later too, but you put a cassette tape in his
back and push play and his little mouth would move
with the words that were spoken on the tape. No
highest tech I ever saw as a kid. It blew
my mind. Couldn't figure out how the Teddy bear knew
(12:03):
what was going on on the cassette tape.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
This is not that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
This is a thing that is Internet connected and capable
of basically bringing everything to your kid, all the positive stuff.
But like an iceberg, the top, you know, third of
it may be positive, but the bottom two thirds of
it is potentially negative.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, it's just like when you asked again, going back
to the point of when you ask chat GBT, you know,
how should I handle this situation in my life?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And it'll tell you yeah, I mean, we've had.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Those awful stories where kids, young adults have killed themselves
because literally one of these applications has almost well, the
argument is that it encourages them to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The toys that the Public Interest Research Group tested generally
do have guardrails and conversation. They would either supply an
age appropriate answer or they would tell in this case,
the tester whoever was asking the questions, they would tell
them to go ask a grown up, which is that
that is okay, that seems to be appropriate, But those
(13:14):
safeguards would weaken the longer a tester spoke to it,
and with repeated questioning Kuma again, the teddy bear eventually
described graphic sexual topics. One of the testers that it
was obvious this teddy bear had this issue where it
would break down over longer conversations. You know how you
(13:36):
know who has the patience to ask conversations, to extend
these conversations.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Why why? Why great? Why why follow? Why follow? Yeah, interrogation,
that's what they do.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
So I'm thinking that Kuma is going to do big
sales with adults.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Now that we know that it'll talk dirty to me exactly. Hey,
there's a market for that, just not for your kids.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
And and then the big concern is if you know,
behemoths like Mattel will have an AI Barbie.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, I mean, oh, G I Joe. I don't even
know if they still mark at G I Joe. But
this is and I don't listen.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I'm thankful You're the only person I know right now
a handful of other people who have children of an age.
That's what I have to look forward to. Gary, Well,
this is all they're gonna They'll never know a world
without AI. Now, my kids don't know a world without smartphones.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
It's amazing. And you know, judge me, but there's screens everywhere.
Because of course it's like under too. Your child shouldn't
be around screens, But there's screens everywhere. I mean, I
work on a screen, you know. But what I'm what
I'm getting at is Sloan sees screens and I you know,
when I'm present with her, I'm present with her. But
nonetheless she's fascinated by my phone. If it's just there
(14:57):
and she sees it light up, I mean, her attention
goes there and she reaches for it. She'll be using
She'll be calling you soon and sending you a text
soon enough.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Gary Grinder put on a fashion show recently interesting where
they got the wool for the clothing.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
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Speaker 3 (15:22):
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Speaker 3 (15:36):
Also the twelve o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We are going to be standing by for this face
to face meeting between New York City's Mayor elect Zoronmandani
and President Trump, who has invited him to the White House.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That fits in perfectly with what's happening. That's what's happening.
It is going to be pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Um uh oh, we have another oh.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, no, no, that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh telling me I am not pathetic, so that's nice
to hear. Yeah, you're not, You're not pathetic. Carrie Michael
Schmidt is a longtime fashion designer who has worked in
several different media, shall we say sometimes he works in metal.
He made a chain mail dress for Share. He makes
jewelry for Chrome Hearts. He made a metal gown for
(16:23):
Doja Cat that was inspired by Tina Turner, who he's
also made.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So he does well for himself, does pretty good.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
He's also an avid knitter, so he jumped at the
chance to do a collection woven entirely from the wool
of gay sheep.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Wait what.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I said, the wool of gay sheep? I didn't know
there was such a thing, but I've since learned.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The owners of Rainbow Wool say they have bigger goals
than just providing source material for luxury goods. They are
putting together, or have I should say, put together a.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
A fashion show for Grinder. You know Grinder? Oh is
that me? Was that my phone?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Not?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
They refer to it well, and to be clear, that's
the sound that grinder makes.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
When how do you know that? Because I was just
taught this a second ago.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
As money as one in twelve male Sheep. They say
are non pro creative, so they.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Deem them as as gay, but they also at show
an interest in other male sheep.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
They like rams. They are rams fans, if you will
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Non pro creative male oriented sheep require just as much
care and feeding obviously as any other sheep. It's still
a sheep, but they don't produce new offspring. And some
farmers would say, what good is a sheep like that.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
If it's not going to produce me other sheep? Right,
and then they're often slaughtered. That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So here comes rainbow wool, right, And this is by
This is founded by Michael Stuck.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Sukish Stuck in Germany. He's German, Yeah, he's German. Nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
He's operated a sheep farm, sits on over one hundred
acres of land. He's about five hundred sheep. He keeps
for wool and for meat. And he said every animal
should be kept in dignity, should live in dignity, and
will also die in dignity. Among those fifty I sorry,
Among those five hundred sheep are thirty five rescued gay rams,
(18:39):
given names such as Marvin Gay, too Easy, Sean Wohlgautier
and each can be sponsored via the Rainbow Wool website.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
That's a good that's a good cologne, by the.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Way, Jean Paul Gattier or Jean Woolgautier. He said he
fell in love with sheep, had enough of milking cows
and slopping pigs, and wanted to briden his broaden his horizons.
So he's usually at the farm. He wears his heart
on his sleeves, speaks of his job as a shepherd,
(19:13):
the way an artist speaks about their work or a
clergy speaks about their calling. And he said, my heart
always beats. Flazevik and Grinder's senior vice president of Sorry
the bone it's going off. Grinder's senior vice president of
brand Marketing was immediately interested in partnering with Rainbow Wool,
(19:36):
and he said, it's a feel good story.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
There's also a message of heart to it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Rainbow Wolf was hoping the Grinder would sponsor some of
the sheep, that's all they thought. But the senior vice
president of brand marketing thought of something bigger, a fashion
show using the wool from the Gay Sheep. The theme
of the fashion show would be I will survive.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
We need the sounds one that one, that one perfect
or the rim shot both both. Let me see if
I can.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So. On Rainbow wool dot com you can meet the
world's first gay flock of sheep. And this is all
to promote LGBTQ plus initiatives.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
And then there's that.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Fashion show and it has the wool products that were
created from these gay sheep.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It said that.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The wool was sourced from Stouki's farm, spun a new
yarn at a facility in Spain, shipped here to La
where the designer and the team at Swiss seuss Knitz
began fabrication. They had only two months to turn seven
hundred pounds of gay yarn into thirty seven gay gay
looks now. They said that they envisioned a collection of
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gay fantasy archetypes, a pool boy, a sailor, and a
lumberjack way to break out of the stereotypes, all of
them clad entirely in wool, and everything from the pizza
guy's pizza to the fireman's axe to the cops badge.
It just sounds like the village people at this point,
but everything was either knitted, knotted, or crocheted. I still
(21:28):
love that that it's a German guy, but.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
You do the action.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
It's so stoky. Yes, uh, he is just quite a character.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Anyway, these these Gay and.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Gary, it sounds like, uh, you might want to.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You can sponsor a gay sheep as well on the
on the website, go to.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Rainbow wool dot com. Yeah, they have hats, they have everything.
Where you at, you no drop your location.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
We are by the way giving away Disney tickets next hour,
a four pack of one day, one park tickets to
Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park because the holidays
are here at the Disneyland Resort. KFI is going to
give you a chance to enjoy the unbelievable season coming up.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
We'll tell you more in just a moment.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
No wait, now I'm shopping on Rainbow. Well a lot
of this is sold out.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, you might as well just just sponsor that gay
sheep and get it over with. Okay, Yeah, all right
when we come back Wicked the second part, I don't
know what they call a wicked for good, that's what
it's called.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Sorry, a very special sponsor sheep. Boy.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Mar Let's Says has joined us from Fox eleven, sitting
in for Shannon. Today, it's time for our entertainment report
with Heather Brooker.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
There it is. Oh damn, oh that's right. Oh no,
I'll just do This is Entertained.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Entertainment News. Hi you guys. Hello, Hello from Massachusetts. That's
where I'm at right now, and I'm a little jealous.
It's about to be seventy there because it is literally
thirty degrees here. La heart, my my, la heart cannot
take it. It's so cold.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Well, you had the chance to go check out Wicked
for Good. Thirty point eight million dollars already in previews
the Thursday night shows.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's the highest of the year.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
This thing is going to dominate the box office probably
for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, it absolutely is. And it is getting some like
insane reviews, like negative reviews, Like I don't know what's
going on with these critics. I you know, I know
they have to like justify their jobs some way. But
like some of the headlines read, one of them was
our long national nightmare is over. We can finally return
(24:13):
to Wicked for Wicked for good. Somebody else was like
saying that this is people are just saying that they
don't like it. And I feel like most people who
are saying that do not understand that this is the
second half of the musical. This is the second half
of the story. It's not a sequel. It picks up
(24:33):
right where it left off. We're in the middle of
the celebration in the Emerald City. This movie dives deeper
into the Wizard's world. We get to see more of
Jeff Goldbloom and this movie, which is a lot of fun.
We get to see more of the backstories of the
flying Monkeys, We get to see more just the world
(24:54):
building itself, how the Yellow Brick Road was built. We
see Dorothy, We see where all of the classic character
we know and love came to be, but they are
not the focus of the movie. This is one hundred
percent Ariana Grande's movie. It is her moment to shine.
She is fantastic in this and I'm gonna say it
(25:15):
right now, Will We'll absolutely get an Oscar nomination for this?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Really?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
She also had an original song. There was a couple
of original songs in this that I think people will enjoy.
She sings the Girl in the Bubble, which was not
in the original movie or musical rather, and Cynthia Rivo
Cynthia Oribo sings no Place Like Home, which is a
very sweet homage to, you know, the original Wizard of
(25:42):
Oz movie. It's beautifully done. It's an extension of the
first movie, and I think people are just being overly
critical of it. It's a darker movie. There's a lot more.
There's moments that are more how don't want to say
this sexual like, which was somewhat unexpected. It was very like,
(26:04):
oh my goodness, wow. So there's a moment there. Even
my twelve year old was kind of shifting in receipt, like, oh,
they're gonna start making out what are they doing? So
there's some fun surprises in it, for sure, But it's
the fans are gonna love it. The critics are just
they want to complain, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Okay, So your overall rating is that Wicked for Good
is good?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Good? Yeah, it's good. If you have if you've seen
the musical and you know the story or you read
the books, you know that it takes a darker turn
in sort of the second half of the story. And
I think that people aren't expecting that. Maybe it's also
heavily focused on Glinda and her story and how she
sort of rises to become a hero here. But the
(26:53):
ultimate like through line of both of these movies is
the friendship that these two characters have, and it's played
really beautifully by Cynthia and Arianna and Jonathan Bailey is
amazing in it, Like Jeff Goldbloom is truly one of
my favorite actors. So it's good. It is. Yeah, it
(27:16):
is pretty long. It is pretty long. Like one reviewer said,
this could have been one movie. There's no way this
could have been one movie, like.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
A six hour movie.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's not one hour of a musical, so
why on earth would it be, you know, one hour
of a movie. So I think it's worth your time
if you want to go. It's total escapism. We see
the poppy field, we see the beautiful, beautifully done seen.
(27:46):
If you go and see it, there's a scene where
you know, Dorothy throws water on the wicked Witch and
John m To the director, does it in a way
that's so artistically creative that it doesn't take away from
the original film at all but adds to it. And
it's I thought it was really smart. So yeah, the
(28:07):
marketing is do it.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The marketing campaign is really smart too, because I know
you're in Massachusetts whereas below freezing, but I'm in the
Camfi studios here in Burbank and we have Wicked Cereal
here as well, the pink and the green Cereal.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Oh yeah, the marketing is insane. But you know what's
interesting about this movie. They did not do a traditional
press junket for it. I'm not sure why, but like,
do you remember a year ago it was full court press,
Like you could not go anywhere without seeing these twos.
You know, they were holding space for each other, like
Ariana was holding Cynthia's finger. Do you remember that? Like
it was so weird, you know. But they did not
(28:47):
do a traditional press junket for this. They're just doing
occasional like one off interviews with bigger outlets and podcasts
and that sort of thing. So it's I'm not sure
why they made that decision. I think as they know
it's going to do well no matter what. I think,
fans who love this story and these characters are going
to go see it. And I also want to mention
quickly too, some good news for TV people. Baywatch has
(29:13):
just been greenlit to film in LA. It's qualified for
the new California Film and Tax Credit, so it is
going to be filming on beaches in LA. We don't
know which one. The original series filmed on, will Rogers
State Beach and the Palisades. Obviously they will not be
able to do that now. But this is huge news
because this is going to be a series that's going
(29:34):
to go on for many, many years. So Gary, get
your swim trunks ready. This is your this is your
time to shine.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't have red ones. I only have white ones.
So sorry that We've.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Got a wax chest.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
All kinds of ye all right, a lot of wax, yeah, Heather, great,
a lot of Thank you, warm Heather.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Thank you, thanks guys, and have a happy Thanksgiving. I'll
be back next week. I'm filling in for a for
wake Up Cup.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Love it, Love it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Heather Book of there with the latest on the world
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