December 5, 2025 • 28 mins
Gary and Shannon talk with Michael O’Leary, CEO of Cinema United, about the major Netflix–Warner Bros. merger and what it could mean for theaters, studios, and the future of streaming. Then the show turns to a rapidly developing national story as “David” becomes one of the most searched names of 2025, driven by intense public interest in a high-profile murder investigation involving his underaged ex-girlfriend. A mix of Hollywood disruption and a true-crime headline gripping the country.
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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. You know when I came to
this building twenty years ago and I sat in the
newsroom in Chris Little's office, and he said, it was
my interview with KFI News and I was coming down
(00:21):
here potentially to be a news reporter, and I was
I'm from the Bay Area, so I was kind of
not thinking Los Angeles, you know, I was not thinking
that was going to be my path. But Chris Little says,
what more could you want? He points out the window.
He says, we have the mountains. He's pointing out the
window with the mountains here in Burbank. He says, We've
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got the ocean. He goes, Warner Brothers is across the street,
and I'm like, Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Is across the street. How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
One of the coolest things about coming to this building
is that Warner Brothers is across the street. When you
think about the history of that back lot, you know,
you think about New York Street, the setting for forty
second Street, the Dark Night Blade Runner, you know, friends
was shot there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I had dinner with my sister last night.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
She's getting a friend's tattoo for crying out loud. But anyway,
it is so much part of a fabric of all
our lives. This this Warner Brothers lot that's right across
the street. And this morning the news broke that Netflix
has struck a deal with Warner Brothers to buy its
studio and streaming business for seventy two billion dollars. And
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while this is a massive merger, it feels like something
is breaking here. Maybe that's just me and my cynicism.
And I'm a grandmother nearly now, not really, but I
feel like things are changing, and they're changing quickly. Michael o'lary,
the CEO of Cinema United, joins me now, and Michael,
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am I being a doomed person here and thinking like
this is the beginning of the end for theatrical releases.
What makes sense of this for me?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Michael?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, first of all, good morning, Shannon, and thank you
for having me. You know, I share your views of
what an iconic place Warner Brothers is and just the
history they have, and you know, quite frankly, they have
three of the top five movies this year, so It's
not just the historical impact of that studio, it continues today.
I don't know that this is necessarily the beginning of
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the end. I do think very strongly that this is
a step in the wrong direction. Our industry, as you
and everyone in LA knows, has suffered through some difficult times,
and included in that is the fact that twentieth Century
Fox was acquired by Disney a few years ago and
that's resulted in a significantly smaller number of movies being
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produced by that studio. To have the same thing be
replicated now in regard to Order Brothers would be a
significant step backwards for the theatrical exhibition industry and for
fans who love movies on the big screen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So, for a person who doesn't know anything about the industry, me,
what does it mean in terms of big movies coming
to theaters and will this mean that they go straight
to streaming? And more importantly, for the you know, the
casual user, does this mean that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We're going to be paying more and more for things
like Netflix.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, the short answer, Shannon is we don't know the
answer to that question. You know, all we can do
is take Netflix at their word. They have historically been
very clear that they are not believers in theatrical exhibition,
that they believe the platform is where they want to
put their their their content. They've had a chance since
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this was announced yesterday to make a couple of statements
strolling showing strong support excuse me for theatrical exhibition, and
they haven't done that. They've kind of been aspirational, well,
we might do this or we expect to do this,
and so I think the jury is really out on that,
and based on past practice, what you're seeing from exhibition,
from some of the guilds and unions, from people across
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the industry, as we're raising our hand and saying this
is potentially a big problem and we need some clarity,
and regulators need to look at this because if this
is a situation that results in fewer movies going into
the theater, it's bad not just for exhibition, not just
for the industry in LA It's bad for fans all
over the world.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's not just bad for fans, but it's bad for communities.
You know, you think about going to the theater and
what that means. It means, you know, it means less isolation. Really,
you know, you meet friends or family to go for
a day at the theater in afternoon at the movie theater,
and it may not be talking to each other all
the time, but you're together and you're experiencing something together.
You're not alone picking a Netflix show on your own
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in your bedroom watching it alone.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Absolutely, you know. One of the things that we like
to talk about is that, you know, exhibition is not
a Hollywood industry. We're a main street industry. And we're
talking about exactly what you just mentioned. If you come
from a place like where I grew up in Montana,
there are people that will drive thirty forty fifty miles
through all kinds of weather to go to the theater.
And that's what's at risk there, that those types of
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theaters will go away because they don't have the types
of movies they need to be a sustainable business. And
so that really is what is at risk here. And
one of the things that we've been trying to make
the point is this view this transaction has been viewed
kind of through the financial lens in terms of what
is the stock price and how much is the offer.
There's a real world, tangible impact that is going to
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affect people in communities of all sizes, all across this
country and around the world, and we're trying to draw
attention to that because we think it has to be
an important part of the discussion.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Talking to Michael O'Leary, CEO of Cinema United, Michael, I
did not ask for permission, and I understand you're very busy.
You so feel free to say no. Can you stick
around for another segment?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh wonderful, because I just have a couple more questions
for Michael, like how receptive are the Netflix people when
it comes to what it means to Warner Brothers and
to the theater business in terms of keeping that alive,
Because you know, when I think about it, you know,
I think about my where I live right now, small town,
I mean a suburb of LA but small town, and
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you think about the theater. It's kind of on the
main street, but you think of all this stuff around
the theater, all the businesses, the small businesses around the
theater that you kind of make part of going to
the theater.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know't just go to a movie.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You'll stop and grab something to eat, get ice cream,
get drinks, get coffee. Whatever kind of affects the whole
main like like he.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Was saying, the whole main street vibe.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So I'm interested to see how closely they're going to
be working together and what that means in terms how
quickly things could change when it comes to us just
solely streaming or us actually going to the theater. All Right,
Gary and Shannon will continue with Michael O'Leary, the CEO
of Cinema United on this massive deal today, Netflix buying
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Warner Brothers seventy two billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It kind of.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Seems like a steal, even though it's seventy two billion dollars.
Just shows you how big of a deal that is.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
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Speaker 1 (07:24):
The most googled search of twenty twenty five? Who do
you think it was? Who do you think was googled
the most in twenty twenty five? David is Google's top
trending musician in twenty twenty five. Why because no one
knew who the hell he was when he came under
suspicion for the dead girl in the Tesla trunk that
was found in the Hollywood Hills. And the craziest thing
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about this story is there's been no movement on it.
A dead fourteen year old girl is found in the
trunk of a tesla in the Hollywood Hills and we
still don't have anybody in custody for it. What are
we doing here? So we'll talk about that. That's bizarre
to me. You'd think there'd be some movement on that.
It's Hollywood, it's in the Hollywood Hills, it's involving a tesla,
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which always seems to garner more media attention, and yet
no movement on that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
But we are in the midst of breaking down this
massive deal, this merger acquisition, Netflix buying Warner Brothers Studio
and streaming businesses for seventy two billion dollars, and we're
talking about what that means for the going to the
movie theater experience and will this kind of disintegrate what's
left of the theater experience. Michael O'Leary, a CEO of
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Cinema United, and Michael, one of the things that sucked
the most, I mean everything sucked, but one of the
things that sucked the most about COVID was you know,
theaters were shut down and you saw a lot of
them close, some of the beloved theaters that had been
around for decades closing down because they had no other option,
And it seemed like the theater into was kind of
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picking back up.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
For me.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
When I first started going back, it was hard to
watch a movie with other people. It was hard to
listen to them eat, and everyone felt the need to
talk out loud the entire time, and it was a
weird thing. And just recently it seems like everyone is
remembering their manners at the movie theater and it's a
nice experience. Does it feel like the movie theater was
just starting to kind of get back to doing business again.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It does. I think that the industry has been on
its front, but for the last couple of years in
a couple of importaint ways. You know, you're seeing it.
In terms of movie fan enthusiasm, Over two hundred million
Americans went to a theater last year and saw a movie.
The number of people that go to six or more
movies than a year, so called habitual moviegoers, that is
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increased by eight percent just in the last twelve months.
And you know, theater owners are responding. Just in the
last year alone, our industry has just in North America,
Our industry has reinvested one and a half billion dollars
in upgrading, refurbishing, modernizing theaters so that when you go
to the theater, you have the best possible experience that
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you can. So I think, you know, we talked frequently
about the next great era of cinema, and we feel
like we're at the beginning of that and continuing to
push forward.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, is there a world in which this Netflix Netflix
deal actually strengthens movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I think there's always the potential. And one of the
positions that we've certainly taken in the time since I
joined Cinema United is that our door is always open
to anyone that wants to commit to theatrical exhibition. And
so you could see a scenario whereby Warner Brothers is
acquired and the decision is made that they're going to
put a consistent slate of movies into theaters, and they're
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going to support it with a meaningful window, and they're
going to support it with marketing. One of the things
that's important to run and this is true of all
streaming platforms, not just Netflix, is that movies that start
in the theater do better on the platform. Because of that,
because the consumer knows this is something special, this is
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something we're seeing. I'm going to take the time and
go to the theater and see it on a big
screen with a great sound. So there is always, I think,
a scenario whereby the two can strengthen each other. It
remains to be seen if that's the path that will
be taken.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, because you know what, you bring up a good point.
I am that way, whether that makes me a sucker
or not. I will notice if something has been in
the theaters, and I'll pay extra for it, whether it
be on Amazon Prime. Oh I saw that it was
a theater, I didn't get to see it. Oh I
get to watch it at home. Cool, and then I
pay extra for it. And there's a path for Netflix
to do that. I mean, they can offer whatever it
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is that they're streaming. Some there's hits and misses, as
everybody knows. But you know, would the average consumer pay
an extra you know, two ninety nine on top of
whatever they're paying Netflix a month to get that fresh
release out of the theater. I think that that's an
avenue for them to make more money and yet still
keep the movies in the theaters.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I think that people in today's day and age, they
value experiences and how they spend their harder and money.
They want to make sure they're getting something unique and special,
and we believe that the theater offers that like no
place else on the face of the earth. And you
see it in small communities, you see it in cities
like La, you see it all across the globe. So
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that's where we're focused, and we believe that, you know,
we'll take as many partners as we can on that mission.
And because we think there's an audience out there for it,
and they show us, because they show up on the
weekends and see what we have to offer.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, there's always going to be the people.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
My husband's one of them who would never pay money
to see a movie on a streaming service like extra money,
you know what I mean, Like I'm going to pay
money to see movie. I'm going to go to the
movie theater. I'm going to do the whole thing. I'm
going to have the experience, and you're right now. I
just a quick question to follow up on what I
was talking about earlier. Did the small business community get involved,
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Do they get involved with trying to hold on to
those those theaters that keep their businesses alive when it
comes to you're not just going to go to a movie,
You're going to go to dinner or.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Whatever else extra after or before.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Absolutely, you said it perfectly earlier. And the truth is
theaters are not just economic but their cultural cornerstones of
communities all across the country. There's a research that indicates
that for every dollar that's spent in a movie theater,
an additional dollar and fifty cents is spent at the
surrounding business, be it a bar or restaurant, shopping, transportation,
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all all different stripes of businesses that you can think
of that surround your theater. They benefit by having the
theaters fall. So we do see communities rallying around theaters,
do see them coming together and supporting them. It's really
something that's very unique and special. I spend a lot
of time flying around the country, going to different places,
meeting with the people that I represent, and every time
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I do, I come away energize because there's so much
energy and so much excitement, and you see how much
these theaters mean to the community, and we just believe
that's something worth fighting for and something worth preserving.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Michael, thank you so much for your time this morning.
I know you are super busy today. We do appreciate it.
Michael O'Leary, CEO of Cinema United, and he is on
the inside to let us know how this Warner Brothers
Netflix deal affects us. Michael will talk to you in
the future, hopefully, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Thank you you too, Shannon.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, Coming up next, we will get into the
latest when it comes to singer David the most searched
artist in twenty twenty five because nobody knew who he
was and now the authorities are still trying to figure
out we pin this murder on him or is it
somebody around him? What are they doing? Why are we
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dragging our heels? Dead girl found in a trunk? What
is the latest? We'll have it for you.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
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Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, right now, President Trump has been given the FIFA
Peace Prize. If you're saying, what the hell is the
FIFA Peace Prize, you're with me.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I said, what what's going What is the FIFA Peace Prize? Well,
the reason you don't know about it is because it's
new and my God already pen to paper in the
late night comic rooms across this great land of Hollywood.
I mean, FIFA, the world soccer body, is giving out
peace prizes.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
What's next?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I mean that the material could I mean, who does
the NFL give their peace prize to the NBA. It's
so good, it's so good, But we are having a
no politic Friday. We'll mention things like the FIFA piece
prize because it's fun. What is also fun, things will
get into swamp watch, like Gavin Newsome being squeezed online
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over him squeezing his own testicles. That has made the
rounds this morning all over social media. Will tell you
why it's ridiculous and it should be shared, and it
is being shared. But right now we were talking about
David the top trending musician in twenty twenty five now
a days now. At times, the end of the year
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is when all the lists come out, right, the top
ten lists, the most searched terms, the top ten words,
the top ten blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
This week they're coming out and David hit the top
of the list on Google's top trending musician, and I
think it's because nobody knew who the hell David was
when the news surfaced that a dead girl, a dead
fourteen year old girl, ce letst Reevas Hernandez, was discussed
inside David's tesla in the trunk over the summer. The
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tesla was parked in the Hollywood Hills. It looked like
it had not been used for quite some time. And
there are two schools of thought, it seems like when
it comes to David, and they both exist in the
other room. Elmer said, man I used to like David.
I really like David. I liked him because nobody else
knew who he was. And then there's Richie who's like,
I had to google who David was when the story
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came out. And that seems to be where the schools
of thought are right now. I haven't talked to anyone
recently who's like, did you hear David's new stuff? It's
you know, it's fire or whatever. Nobody's talking about that
because he's all wrapped up in this case.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So what do we know.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Let's go back to what we know, because it's wild
to me that a fourteen year old girl turns up
dead inside of tesla in the Hollywood Hills, and it's
still not put to bed. Nobody's in trouble for this.
Nobody's been charged with murder, no conspiracy to cover it up.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But here is the latest in La count grand jury
apparently is hearing evidence related to the death of Celeste Reevas.
This is according to sources and documents that have been
filed court documents.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It happened September eighth.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It was the remains barely the remains, i should say,
that were discovered in a Hollywood tow yard. The tesla
had been towed there because it was illegally parked. It
hadn't been moved. There was a smell emanating from the tesla.
They opened up and that is what they found. So
the LAPD has publicly declined to characterize this death as
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a homicide. But however, there was a recent court filing
by an LAPD detective that referred to the case as
a murder investigation. You got to do that, right, You
got to kind of say it's a homicide. When a
fourteen year old girl turns up dead inside of a trunk.
It didn't happen naturally, So the lada's office apparently has
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begun presenting evidence to investigative grand jury, a grand jury
route very much so in secret, as opposed to a
preliminary hearing, the two avenues that you need to go
through to bring charges in a criminal case like this. Now,
one of the sources told the LA Times a grand
jury was in session for several days mid November, so
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a few weeks ago, But we don't know if prosecutors
have finished completing their presentation of the evidence. They usually
do this to subpoena witnesses compel of her other evidence videos.
Now the grand jury itself can recommend charges, they can't
return in an indictment. But there is a grand jury
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number a side of the case which makes it seem
like this is going on. So that's where we're at
right now. It is said that Deputy DA Beth Silverman,
who we have spoken to the best arguably DA at
the best District Attorney's office in the country, has been
put on this thing. So at least the DA's office
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means business in terms of figuring out how the hell
this girl ended up dead in the trunk. She has
handled the counties, we've interviewed her before most high profile
murder cases, and she apparently is the one on this,
and she apparently has called several witnesses before the grand jury,
so there is movement on this. The attorney for David,
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he's twenty, his real name is David Anthony Burke, did
not respond to any request for a comment.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
He's got a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
He got a lawyer immediately, his manager got a lawyer immediately.
Everyone around them has gotten a lawyer immediately. So we're
not hearing anything about that, which reeks to me of conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You pointed out something, and I want to get to
it when we come back, Elmer, because you're familiar with
David's work disography, Yeah, diesography that in one of his
videos he actually seen dragging a body into a trunk.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay, so that's not good.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
But I'm going to tie that into something we all
learned when we watched Basic Instinct, and it has nothing
to do with that scene with Sharon Stone. Tie it
together when we come back because it plays into Richie's
theory on this, which is a very strong one. Gary
and Shannon will continue We're going to solve crimes today, guys.
We're going to be solving crimes.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
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Speaker 1 (21:34):
The LA grand jury now hearing testimony in this case
of singer David and what did he or didn't he
have to do with the murder or just random death
of his child girlfriend. I mean, she's fourteen years old.
She had started running away, I believe when she was twelve,
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but they were seen together all the time, she was
at his shows. Everybody thought she was a call student.
She turns up over the summer. What's left of her
in the trunk of a tesla, David's tesla that had
been parked in the Hollywood Hills for too long to
the point where it got towed. The car started smelling like,
I don't know, there's a dead girl inside.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They open that thing up and that is what they find.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Still nothing, nothing, So it is good to hear that
a grand jury is hearing testimony in this The reason
we're talking about it is because David turned up on
the list of Google's most searched artist of the year,
because not a lot of people knew who he was.
Who's the singer attached to the dead girl in the Tesla,
And so there is some theories going around about David himself.
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As Elmer points out, he does have a video in
which he is seen is he dragging a body? He's
dragging a.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Body, dragging a body into a what trunk of a car?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, so that's not good. And then we got somebody
who else who weighed in on that as well.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Shannon David has a song called romantic homicide. What do
you think about that? Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Also bad? Those two things look very bad. But I
will point to Richie's idea of why would he do
something he wrote a song about.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
You know, people might be jealous, jealous of his career.
Maybe I don't know his lifestyle. Maybe they figured, okay,
he has these songs out, maybe we can literally plot
the same thing and just have all the fingers at him,
you know.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
As Sharon Stone famously said in the nineteen ninety two
film Basic Instinct, I'd have to be pretty stupid to
write a book about killing and then kill him the
way I described Nick. Everyone remembers the scene right Basic Instinct.
The premise, if you haven't seen it, it's all about
San Francisco detective Nick.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Great shots of the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
In that movie, by the way, Nick is investigating the
brutal murder of a rock star Becams and involved in
this real relationship with the prime suspect, Sharon Stone Catherine Tremmel,
she's an author. In her book she writes about killing
and they're looking at her for the murder, and she's like, Nick,
that's so stupid. Why would I kill someone the way
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that I pointed out in the book. It's the same
defense that David would have. Right, why would I do
if I if I'm seen in my video dragging a
body into a trunk, and I have a song called
homicidal Romance, why would I then kill my girlfriend and
leave her in a trunk.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's a pretty good defense, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I agreed Nati, and I don't remember the end of
Basic Instinct because I was twelve.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't remember how it ended. If she went down
for it. She did it, though, right did she? I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Maybe I don't remember either, because I think I don't
even think there's such a waste at the end where
there was. Oh I remember, Oh, I remember. It's a
good whist. I won't reveal it if you haven't seen
even if you haven't, you forget, like me, go back
and watch it, because it is a good twist that
holds up. I believe it would hold up in twenty
twenty five. I don't want to ruin it for you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ruin it?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Is it like an m Night Shannalan twist.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I really don't want to spoil a movie from nineteen
ninety two, So you got to do it. I think
what happens is that this could be I'm gonna get
so in trouble with everybody who remembers the movie. But
I think what happens is they find out there was
a girl that went to school with Sharon Stone who
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was obsessed with Sharon Stone Catherine Tremmel's the character right,
and was obsessed with all her books and all her
celebrity and all those things, and like ended up dating
the detective and set up Sharon Stone.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
For this murder.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And it was a little bit of single white female
where she dressed up like Sharon Stone at one point,
like she was a brunette, but put on a blonde
wig and a whole thing. And I think that she's
the one that did the murders.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So that sounds like your little theory with the whole
David thing.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I mean, if I wanted to push off a murder
on David for whatever reason and I killed his girlfriend,
that's exactly how I would do it, right, because he
sings about it and it's in his video, the whole bit.
I mean, I'm on somebody close to David. That's where
I'm at.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But maybe he.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Also thinks, like because he put that in his video
because he sings about that, then he did that because right,
like then that's my defense.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
How why would it be me? Like why would I
frame myself?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Kind of like I don't know, I don't know, guys,
this is why they went to the grand jury. Yeah,
gen Z is different, you know, like when they kill people,
they're different about it.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Social media has just I feel like maybe warped us
or like society into this new like era of like
you know, meming it you know in real.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Life, like copycat murders. That's what us other generation people say, well,
or like the people who live stream when they do
really bad things.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Exactly exactly, yea being mindset to like live stream like
you're doing messed up stuff. Yeah, So is.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
There a world in which David did this in his video,
sang about it and then got a thrill out of
getting away with that kind of a thing, doing the
same thing that he did it in his art in
real life.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Maybe hm weird.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Like he came up on my Spotify wrapped and I
like had to unlike.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
His it's like your most listened to artists. What's David? Congratulations?
Want to share this story?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, no, no, no, no, hit the button. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay, coming up next, it is Friday. Let's get you
all set up for the weekend. Your house is decorated,
the tree is up, the lights are blinking, all of
the exciting things about the nutcrackers out, Rudolph is out.
There's some holiday movies on Netflix. I watched a very
bad one that I will put you on notice for.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But Heather Broker is going to join us.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
There are some good ones out there, so we'll talk
about it when we come back to Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
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 iHeartRadio app,
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. You know when I came to
this building twenty years ago and I sat in the
newsroom in Chris Little's office, and he said, it was
my interview with KFI News and I was coming down
(00:21):
here potentially to be a news reporter, and I was
I'm from the Bay Area, so I was kind of
not thinking Los Angeles, you know, I was not thinking
that was going to be my path. But Chris Little says,
what more could you want? He points out the window.
He says, we have the mountains. He's pointing out the
window with the mountains here in Burbank. He says, We've
(00:42):
got the ocean. He goes, Warner Brothers is across the street,
and I'm like, Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Is across the street. How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
One of the coolest things about coming to this building
is that Warner Brothers is across the street. When you
think about the history of that back lot, you know,
you think about New York Street, the setting for forty
second Street, the Dark Night Blade Runner, you know, friends
was shot there.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I had dinner with my sister last night.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
She's getting a friend's tattoo for crying out loud. But anyway,
it is so much part of a fabric of all
our lives. This this Warner Brothers lot that's right across
the street. And this morning the news broke that Netflix
has struck a deal with Warner Brothers to buy its
studio and streaming business for seventy two billion dollars. And
(01:38):
while this is a massive merger, it feels like something
is breaking here. Maybe that's just me and my cynicism.
And I'm a grandmother nearly now, not really, but I
feel like things are changing, and they're changing quickly. Michael o'lary,
the CEO of Cinema United, joins me now, and Michael,
(01:58):
am I being a doomed person here and thinking like
this is the beginning of the end for theatrical releases.
What makes sense of this for me?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Michael?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, first of all, good morning, Shannon, and thank you
for having me. You know, I share your views of
what an iconic place Warner Brothers is and just the
history they have, and you know, quite frankly, they have
three of the top five movies this year, so It's
not just the historical impact of that studio, it continues today.
I don't know that this is necessarily the beginning of
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the end. I do think very strongly that this is
a step in the wrong direction. Our industry, as you
and everyone in LA knows, has suffered through some difficult times,
and included in that is the fact that twentieth Century
Fox was acquired by Disney a few years ago and
that's resulted in a significantly smaller number of movies being
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produced by that studio. To have the same thing be
replicated now in regard to Order Brothers would be a
significant step backwards for the theatrical exhibition industry and for
fans who love movies on the big screen. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So, for a person who doesn't know anything about the industry, me,
what does it mean in terms of big movies coming
to theaters and will this mean that they go straight
to streaming? And more importantly, for the you know, the
casual user, does this mean that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
We're going to be paying more and more for things
like Netflix.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, the short answer, Shannon is we don't know the
answer to that question. You know, all we can do
is take Netflix at their word. They have historically been
very clear that they are not believers in theatrical exhibition,
that they believe the platform is where they want to
put their their their content. They've had a chance since
(03:52):
this was announced yesterday to make a couple of statements
strolling showing strong support excuse me for theatrical exhibition, and
they haven't done that. They've kind of been aspirational, well,
we might do this or we expect to do this,
and so I think the jury is really out on that,
and based on past practice, what you're seeing from exhibition,
from some of the guilds and unions, from people across
(04:14):
the industry, as we're raising our hand and saying this
is potentially a big problem and we need some clarity,
and regulators need to look at this because if this
is a situation that results in fewer movies going into
the theater, it's bad not just for exhibition, not just
for the industry in LA It's bad for fans all
over the world.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's not just bad for fans, but it's bad for communities.
You know, you think about going to the theater and
what that means. It means, you know, it means less isolation. Really,
you know, you meet friends or family to go for
a day at the theater in afternoon at the movie theater,
and it may not be talking to each other all
the time, but you're together and you're experiencing something together.
You're not alone picking a Netflix show on your own
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in your bedroom watching it alone.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Absolutely, you know. One of the things that we like
to talk about is that, you know, exhibition is not
a Hollywood industry. We're a main street industry. And we're
talking about exactly what you just mentioned. If you come
from a place like where I grew up in Montana,
there are people that will drive thirty forty fifty miles
through all kinds of weather to go to the theater.
And that's what's at risk there, that those types of
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theaters will go away because they don't have the types
of movies they need to be a sustainable business. And
so that really is what is at risk here. And
one of the things that we've been trying to make
the point is this view this transaction has been viewed
kind of through the financial lens in terms of what
is the stock price and how much is the offer.
There's a real world, tangible impact that is going to
(05:43):
affect people in communities of all sizes, all across this
country and around the world, and we're trying to draw
attention to that because we think it has to be
an important part of the discussion.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Talking to Michael O'Leary, CEO of Cinema United, Michael, I
did not ask for permission, and I understand you're very busy.
You so feel free to say no. Can you stick
around for another segment?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh wonderful, because I just have a couple more questions
for Michael, like how receptive are the Netflix people when
it comes to what it means to Warner Brothers and
to the theater business in terms of keeping that alive,
Because you know, when I think about it, you know,
I think about my where I live right now, small town,
I mean a suburb of LA but small town, and
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you think about the theater. It's kind of on the
main street, but you think of all this stuff around
the theater, all the businesses, the small businesses around the
theater that you kind of make part of going to
the theater.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know't just go to a movie.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You'll stop and grab something to eat, get ice cream,
get drinks, get coffee. Whatever kind of affects the whole
main like like he.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Was saying, the whole main street vibe.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So I'm interested to see how closely they're going to
be working together and what that means in terms how
quickly things could change when it comes to us just
solely streaming or us actually going to the theater. All Right,
Gary and Shannon will continue with Michael O'Leary, the CEO
of Cinema United on this massive deal today, Netflix buying
(07:07):
Warner Brothers seventy two billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It kind of.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Seems like a steal, even though it's seventy two billion dollars.
Just shows you how big of a deal that is.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The most googled search of twenty twenty five? Who do
you think it was? Who do you think was googled
the most in twenty twenty five? David is Google's top
trending musician in twenty twenty five. Why because no one
knew who the hell he was when he came under
suspicion for the dead girl in the Tesla trunk that
was found in the Hollywood Hills. And the craziest thing
(07:46):
about this story is there's been no movement on it.
A dead fourteen year old girl is found in the
trunk of a tesla in the Hollywood Hills and we
still don't have anybody in custody for it. What are
we doing here? So we'll talk about that. That's bizarre
to me. You'd think there'd be some movement on that.
It's Hollywood, it's in the Hollywood Hills, it's involving a tesla,
(08:09):
which always seems to garner more media attention, and yet
no movement on that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
So we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
But we are in the midst of breaking down this
massive deal, this merger acquisition, Netflix buying Warner Brothers Studio
and streaming businesses for seventy two billion dollars, and we're
talking about what that means for the going to the
movie theater experience and will this kind of disintegrate what's
left of the theater experience. Michael O'Leary, a CEO of
(08:39):
Cinema United, and Michael, one of the things that sucked
the most, I mean everything sucked, but one of the
things that sucked the most about COVID was you know,
theaters were shut down and you saw a lot of
them close, some of the beloved theaters that had been
around for decades closing down because they had no other option,
And it seemed like the theater into was kind of
(09:00):
picking back up.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
For me.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
When I first started going back, it was hard to
watch a movie with other people. It was hard to
listen to them eat, and everyone felt the need to
talk out loud the entire time, and it was a
weird thing. And just recently it seems like everyone is
remembering their manners at the movie theater and it's a
nice experience. Does it feel like the movie theater was
just starting to kind of get back to doing business again.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It does. I think that the industry has been on
its front, but for the last couple of years in
a couple of importaint ways. You know, you're seeing it.
In terms of movie fan enthusiasm, Over two hundred million
Americans went to a theater last year and saw a movie.
The number of people that go to six or more
movies than a year, so called habitual moviegoers, that is
(09:49):
increased by eight percent just in the last twelve months.
And you know, theater owners are responding. Just in the
last year alone, our industry has just in North America,
Our industry has reinvested one and a half billion dollars
in upgrading, refurbishing, modernizing theaters so that when you go
to the theater, you have the best possible experience that
(10:11):
you can. So I think, you know, we talked frequently
about the next great era of cinema, and we feel
like we're at the beginning of that and continuing to
push forward.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, is there a world in which this Netflix Netflix
deal actually strengthens movie theaters.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I think there's always the potential. And one of the
positions that we've certainly taken in the time since I
joined Cinema United is that our door is always open
to anyone that wants to commit to theatrical exhibition. And
so you could see a scenario whereby Warner Brothers is
acquired and the decision is made that they're going to
put a consistent slate of movies into theaters, and they're
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going to support it with a meaningful window, and they're
going to support it with marketing. One of the things
that's important to run and this is true of all
streaming platforms, not just Netflix, is that movies that start
in the theater do better on the platform. Because of that,
because the consumer knows this is something special, this is
(11:14):
something we're seeing. I'm going to take the time and
go to the theater and see it on a big
screen with a great sound. So there is always, I think,
a scenario whereby the two can strengthen each other. It
remains to be seen if that's the path that will
be taken.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, because you know what, you bring up a good point.
I am that way, whether that makes me a sucker
or not. I will notice if something has been in
the theaters, and I'll pay extra for it, whether it
be on Amazon Prime. Oh I saw that it was
a theater, I didn't get to see it. Oh I
get to watch it at home. Cool, and then I
pay extra for it. And there's a path for Netflix
to do that. I mean, they can offer whatever it
(11:49):
is that they're streaming. Some there's hits and misses, as
everybody knows. But you know, would the average consumer pay
an extra you know, two ninety nine on top of
whatever they're paying Netflix a month to get that fresh
release out of the theater. I think that that's an
avenue for them to make more money and yet still
keep the movies in the theaters.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I think that people in today's day and age, they
value experiences and how they spend their harder and money.
They want to make sure they're getting something unique and special,
and we believe that the theater offers that like no
place else on the face of the earth. And you
see it in small communities, you see it in cities
like La, you see it all across the globe. So
(12:32):
that's where we're focused, and we believe that, you know,
we'll take as many partners as we can on that mission.
And because we think there's an audience out there for it,
and they show us, because they show up on the
weekends and see what we have to offer.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, there's always going to be the people.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
My husband's one of them who would never pay money
to see a movie on a streaming service like extra money,
you know what I mean, Like I'm going to pay
money to see movie. I'm going to go to the
movie theater. I'm going to do the whole thing. I'm
going to have the experience, and you're right now. I
just a quick question to follow up on what I
was talking about earlier. Did the small business community get involved,
(13:11):
Do they get involved with trying to hold on to
those those theaters that keep their businesses alive when it
comes to you're not just going to go to a movie,
You're going to go to dinner or.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Whatever else extra after or before.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Absolutely, you said it perfectly earlier. And the truth is
theaters are not just economic but their cultural cornerstones of
communities all across the country. There's a research that indicates
that for every dollar that's spent in a movie theater,
an additional dollar and fifty cents is spent at the
surrounding business, be it a bar or restaurant, shopping, transportation,
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all all different stripes of businesses that you can think
of that surround your theater. They benefit by having the
theaters fall. So we do see communities rallying around theaters,
do see them coming together and supporting them. It's really
something that's very unique and special. I spend a lot
of time flying around the country, going to different places,
meeting with the people that I represent, and every time
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I do, I come away energize because there's so much
energy and so much excitement, and you see how much
these theaters mean to the community, and we just believe
that's something worth fighting for and something worth preserving.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Michael, thank you so much for your time this morning.
I know you are super busy today. We do appreciate it.
Michael O'Leary, CEO of Cinema United, and he is on
the inside to let us know how this Warner Brothers
Netflix deal affects us. Michael will talk to you in
the future, hopefully, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Thank you you too, Shannon.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, Coming up next, we will get into the
latest when it comes to singer David the most searched
artist in twenty twenty five because nobody knew who he
was and now the authorities are still trying to figure
out we pin this murder on him or is it
somebody around him? What are they doing? Why are we
(15:04):
dragging our heels? Dead girl found in a trunk? What
is the latest? We'll have it for you.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, right now, President Trump has been given the FIFA
Peace Prize. If you're saying, what the hell is the
FIFA Peace Prize, you're with me.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I said, what what's going What is the FIFA Peace Prize? Well,
the reason you don't know about it is because it's
new and my God already pen to paper in the
late night comic rooms across this great land of Hollywood.
I mean, FIFA, the world soccer body, is giving out
peace prizes.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
What's next?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I mean that the material could I mean, who does
the NFL give their peace prize to the NBA. It's
so good, it's so good, But we are having a
no politic Friday. We'll mention things like the FIFA piece
prize because it's fun. What is also fun, things will
get into swamp watch, like Gavin Newsome being squeezed online
(16:10):
over him squeezing his own testicles. That has made the
rounds this morning all over social media. Will tell you
why it's ridiculous and it should be shared, and it
is being shared. But right now we were talking about
David the top trending musician in twenty twenty five now
a days now. At times, the end of the year
(16:33):
is when all the lists come out, right, the top
ten lists, the most searched terms, the top ten words,
the top ten blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
They're everywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
This week they're coming out and David hit the top
of the list on Google's top trending musician, and I
think it's because nobody knew who the hell David was
when the news surfaced that a dead girl, a dead
fourteen year old girl, ce letst Reevas Hernandez, was discussed
inside David's tesla in the trunk over the summer. The
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tesla was parked in the Hollywood Hills. It looked like
it had not been used for quite some time. And
there are two schools of thought, it seems like when
it comes to David, and they both exist in the
other room. Elmer said, man I used to like David.
I really like David. I liked him because nobody else
knew who he was. And then there's Richie who's like,
I had to google who David was when the story
(17:26):
came out. And that seems to be where the schools
of thought are right now. I haven't talked to anyone
recently who's like, did you hear David's new stuff? It's
you know, it's fire or whatever. Nobody's talking about that
because he's all wrapped up in this case.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So what do we know.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Let's go back to what we know, because it's wild
to me that a fourteen year old girl turns up
dead inside of tesla in the Hollywood Hills, and it's
still not put to bed. Nobody's in trouble for this.
Nobody's been charged with murder, no conspiracy to cover it up.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But here is the latest in La count grand jury
apparently is hearing evidence related to the death of Celeste Reevas.
This is according to sources and documents that have been
filed court documents.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It happened September eighth.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
It was the remains barely the remains, i should say,
that were discovered in a Hollywood tow yard. The tesla
had been towed there because it was illegally parked. It
hadn't been moved. There was a smell emanating from the tesla.
They opened up and that is what they found. So
the LAPD has publicly declined to characterize this death as
(18:37):
a homicide. But however, there was a recent court filing
by an LAPD detective that referred to the case as
a murder investigation. You got to do that, right, You
got to kind of say it's a homicide. When a
fourteen year old girl turns up dead inside of a trunk.
It didn't happen naturally, So the lada's office apparently has
(18:58):
begun presenting evidence to investigative grand jury, a grand jury
route very much so in secret, as opposed to a
preliminary hearing, the two avenues that you need to go
through to bring charges in a criminal case like this. Now,
one of the sources told the LA Times a grand
jury was in session for several days mid November, so
(19:19):
a few weeks ago, But we don't know if prosecutors
have finished completing their presentation of the evidence. They usually
do this to subpoena witnesses compel of her other evidence videos.
Now the grand jury itself can recommend charges, they can't
return in an indictment. But there is a grand jury
(19:42):
number a side of the case which makes it seem
like this is going on. So that's where we're at
right now. It is said that Deputy DA Beth Silverman,
who we have spoken to the best arguably DA at
the best District Attorney's office in the country, has been
put on this thing. So at least the DA's office
(20:03):
means business in terms of figuring out how the hell
this girl ended up dead in the trunk. She has
handled the counties, we've interviewed her before most high profile
murder cases, and she apparently is the one on this,
and she apparently has called several witnesses before the grand jury,
so there is movement on this. The attorney for David,
(20:24):
he's twenty, his real name is David Anthony Burke, did
not respond to any request for a comment.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
He's got a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
He got a lawyer immediately, his manager got a lawyer immediately.
Everyone around them has gotten a lawyer immediately. So we're
not hearing anything about that, which reeks to me of conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You pointed out something, and I want to get to
it when we come back, Elmer, because you're familiar with
David's work disography, Yeah, diesography that in one of his
videos he actually seen dragging a body into a trunk.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay, so that's not good.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
But I'm going to tie that into something we all
learned when we watched Basic Instinct, and it has nothing
to do with that scene with Sharon Stone. Tie it
together when we come back because it plays into Richie's
theory on this, which is a very strong one. Gary
and Shannon will continue We're going to solve crimes today, guys.
We're going to be solving crimes.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
The LA grand jury now hearing testimony in this case
of singer David and what did he or didn't he
have to do with the murder or just random death
of his child girlfriend. I mean, she's fourteen years old.
She had started running away, I believe when she was twelve,
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but they were seen together all the time, she was
at his shows. Everybody thought she was a call student.
She turns up over the summer. What's left of her
in the trunk of a tesla, David's tesla that had
been parked in the Hollywood Hills for too long to
the point where it got towed. The car started smelling like,
I don't know, there's a dead girl inside.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They open that thing up and that is what they find.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Still nothing, nothing, So it is good to hear that
a grand jury is hearing testimony in this The reason
we're talking about it is because David turned up on
the list of Google's most searched artist of the year,
because not a lot of people knew who he was.
Who's the singer attached to the dead girl in the Tesla,
And so there is some theories going around about David himself.
(22:42):
As Elmer points out, he does have a video in
which he is seen is he dragging a body? He's
dragging a.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Body, dragging a body into a what trunk of a car?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Okay, so that's not good. And then we got somebody
who else who weighed in on that as well.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Shannon David has a song called romantic homicide. What do
you think about that? Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Also bad? Those two things look very bad. But I
will point to Richie's idea of why would he do
something he wrote a song about.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
You know, people might be jealous, jealous of his career.
Maybe I don't know his lifestyle. Maybe they figured, okay,
he has these songs out, maybe we can literally plot
the same thing and just have all the fingers at him,
you know.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
As Sharon Stone famously said in the nineteen ninety two
film Basic Instinct, I'd have to be pretty stupid to
write a book about killing and then kill him the
way I described Nick. Everyone remembers the scene right Basic Instinct.
The premise, if you haven't seen it, it's all about
San Francisco detective Nick.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Great shots of the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
In that movie, by the way, Nick is investigating the
brutal murder of a rock star Becams and involved in
this real relationship with the prime suspect, Sharon Stone Catherine Tremmel,
she's an author. In her book she writes about killing
and they're looking at her for the murder, and she's like, Nick,
that's so stupid. Why would I kill someone the way
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that I pointed out in the book. It's the same
defense that David would have. Right, why would I do
if I if I'm seen in my video dragging a
body into a trunk, and I have a song called
homicidal Romance, why would I then kill my girlfriend and
leave her in a trunk.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's a pretty good defense, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I agreed Nati, and I don't remember the end of
Basic Instinct because I was twelve.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't remember how it ended. If she went down
for it. She did it, though, right did she? I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Maybe I don't remember either, because I think I don't
even think there's such a waste at the end where
there was. Oh I remember, Oh, I remember. It's a
good whist. I won't reveal it if you haven't seen
even if you haven't, you forget, like me, go back
and watch it, because it is a good twist that
holds up. I believe it would hold up in twenty
twenty five. I don't want to ruin it for you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ruin it?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Is it like an m Night Shannalan twist.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't want to ruin it.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I really don't want to spoil a movie from nineteen
ninety two, So you got to do it. I think
what happens is that this could be I'm gonna get
so in trouble with everybody who remembers the movie. But
I think what happens is they find out there was
a girl that went to school with Sharon Stone who
(25:37):
was obsessed with Sharon Stone Catherine Tremmel's the character right,
and was obsessed with all her books and all her
celebrity and all those things, and like ended up dating
the detective and set up Sharon Stone.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
For this murder.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And it was a little bit of single white female
where she dressed up like Sharon Stone at one point,
like she was a brunette, but put on a blonde
wig and a whole thing. And I think that she's
the one that did the murders.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So that sounds like your little theory with the whole
David thing.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I mean, if I wanted to push off a murder
on David for whatever reason and I killed his girlfriend,
that's exactly how I would do it, right, because he
sings about it and it's in his video, the whole bit.
I mean, I'm on somebody close to David. That's where
I'm at.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But maybe he.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Also thinks, like because he put that in his video
because he sings about that, then he did that because right,
like then that's my defense.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
How why would it be me? Like why would I
frame myself?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Kind of like I don't know, I don't know, guys,
this is why they went to the grand jury. Yeah,
gen Z is different, you know, like when they kill people,
they're different about it.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Social media has just I feel like maybe warped us
or like society into this new like era of like
you know, meming it you know in real.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Life, like copycat murders. That's what us other generation people say, well,
or like the people who live stream when they do
really bad things.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Exactly exactly, yea being mindset to like live stream like
you're doing messed up stuff. Yeah, So is.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
There a world in which David did this in his video,
sang about it and then got a thrill out of
getting away with that kind of a thing, doing the
same thing that he did it in his art in
real life.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Maybe hm weird.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Like he came up on my Spotify wrapped and I
like had to unlike.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
His it's like your most listened to artists. What's David? Congratulations?
Want to share this story?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, no, no, no, no, hit the button. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Okay, coming up next, it is Friday. Let's get you
all set up for the weekend. Your house is decorated,
the tree is up, the lights are blinking, all of
the exciting things about the nutcrackers out, Rudolph is out.
There's some holiday movies on Netflix. I watched a very
bad one that I will put you on notice for.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But Heather Broker is going to join us.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
There are some good ones out there, so we'll talk
about it when we come back to Gary and Shannon.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
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