December 5, 2025 • 32 mins
Heather Brooker joins Shannon to break down the big Netflix–Warner Bros. merger and what it means for the entertainment world. She also gives a fun, candid look into her acting career, sharing stories and insights from her time in the industry. The team rounds out the episode with a festive debate over their favorite Christmas movies, bringing plenty of nostalgia and holiday spirit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Heather Brooker has joined me.
Heather Brooker is our entertainment maven and a big entertainment day.
I just was talking with a guy who is with
the theaters, Michael O'Leary was Cinema United about this Netflix
(00:23):
Warner Brothers deal, and as somebody who is not in
the industry who just flits about around the industry, I
was like, Oh no, they're coming for the big ones.
You know when you think about Warner Brothers, Heather, and like,
I totally geek out. Do you geek out with the
backlot being right here? You know?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I geek out in terms of like the idea that
the entertainment industry might keep growing, But I worry that
too many of these giant corporations are absorbing and it
and taking each other on, and like, do you remember
years ago when Disney bought Pixar, Yeah, Pixar, but also
(00:59):
Disney abs Oh god, what is the other big studio
that they just absorbed.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My brain is farting right now.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's okay. I won't know, Okay, I don't know anything
industry news wise.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just watched them twenty century Fox. That's what I
was trying to think of. I was like, it starts
with an F. They absorbed the twentieth century Fox and
all of their IP and then you know, of course
pigs are and then Star Wars and you know whatnot
I am and everything is sort of like a conglomerate,
if you will, to use an old timy term I
remember from eighth grade. I just don't know that it's
(01:31):
necessarily good for the trickle down sort of everybody, uh,
working class people who need jobs, because whenever you have
these massive corporations buying up you know, ips and all that,
they tend to come with price cuts and cutting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Back and cutting back jobs. Yes, I mean this to
me means a lot fewer people. Oh, you know, we've
seen the hatchet come down in the entertainment industry for
a long time now of just reducing, reducing, reducing. AI
obviously going to play a major role in that, but
I think we're just looking at like mass unemployment right
around the bend for a number of reasons.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And we've just had it too.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, Paramount just had major layoffs, and you know,
Disney had layoffs. Of course, there's a little more quiet,
but they've had layoffs everybody across the board in any
kind of media and entertainment. And you know, whenever we
talk about that, it's it's my area of interest and expertise.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
But people always like.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To say, well, layoffs happen across all Yes, layoffs happen
across all industries.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's all terrible.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Nobody should lose their job, especially around the holidays and
that sort of thing. But when you have a big
corporations buying up property or buying up other corporations, there
is going to be job loss.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You just take away. When you're doing everything for the
almighty dollar, you're losing magic. You know. I brought up
the nineteen ninety two blockbuster Basic Instinct.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I heard that, and I love that. You were like,
I don't want to give away the.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
End, you know, because it's a good one, isn't it spoiler? Yes,
I think I got it right. I'm not sure, but
I'd also like to bring up the Major Emotion picture
starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, which one couple with the.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Bookstores that no, no, that was Billy Chris just watched
this the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You've got mail, You've got mail, You've got mail. I'd
like to bring up you've got mail now because the
nineties are alive here today and uh, and the reason
is because there's small things like her bookstore that bring
the magic right. And yes, you save a lot of
money being the Barnes and Noble or the Fox bookstores
or whatever is in the movie. And yeah, it's still cool.
(03:34):
You still get the books, but you lose the magic.
And it's the same thing with these conglomerations. You know, yes,
you can do so much more with so much little
in terms of people. Yeah, and and power that way,
but you lose the personal touches. You know, look no
further than what we're seeing on some of these AI scripts,
and that the acting you you've come on the air
(03:56):
with us and said that they don't do screen tests
as much as they used to. That you know, no
live audition just because you can do the same things
with less, should you, I would say, no, spend the money,
make it magic.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, I think it depends on what your priority is.
Is your priority the art of cinema? Do you go
to the movie to escape and you know, are you
a consumer that is looking for that? Are you a
consumer that's looking for to kill two or three hours
with your family on a Friday night. There's so much
consumerism that has been injected into a what started as
(04:33):
an originally like artistic endeavor.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In the movie business.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean, if you really want to get nerdy about
it and go way back to the origins of it,
it started as a way to tell stories in silent
film with pictures and then slowly moving pictures, you know,
and then they added sound and so on. If you
want to look at the art of it, then anything
that is driven by consumerism is going to destroy that.
(04:58):
And the bigger the movie industry gets, the more they're
clamoring to try to make money, be bigger, have their
brands be bigger than the less of that magic, you're
absolutely going to lose. And I love that you brought
up You Who Got Mail, because out of all the
movies you could have mentioned, I literally just watched that
like a week or two ago, and my husband was like,
(05:18):
isn't Tom Hanks's character like totally gas letting.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Her in this?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Because he's emailing her pretending to be he's catfishing her yeah,
and then she's like, oh my god, I was hoping
it was you what and they stay in age.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We would rage.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I mean, Tom Hanks could kill sixteen people in a
movie and we'd love him.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh my god, he's the Trump of the movies.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Wow. Okay, so Heaven, It's.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Like, I'm not touching it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm not touching it.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'm not touching it. No politics.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Friday Heather is our working actress in the newsroom. She
has been in a number of films and TV shows
and continues to work in Hollywood. So it's so much
fun to have insight from somebody in the industry in here.
We're going to come back and we're going to talk
about Heather's favorite roles. Also, holiday movies, which ones are good,
which ones are bad. I saw one that was awful,
(06:09):
but like I loved the actors in it, so I'll
have to tell you about it, okay, because I suffered
through the whole thing. My husband and I both did.
Because it was the first Christmas movie. So like we
were like excited to watch a Christmas movie and we'll
like we'll take it. Like we're five minutes into this
one and we're like, this is awful, but we're going
to sit here, We're going to watch them.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I can't wait. So we'll do that. Also, what's on
tap in the theaters this weekend. It is a down
time for movies right now, but there's stuff out there
if you want to get away from the family. It's
the time of year.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Sometimes when we're left alone, you know, it's just like,
I don't break things.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Girls was having fun.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, Girls was having fun and no supervision, nothing, none.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
He's definitely listening, going like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Maybe I don't think he's listening. Although I listened when
he was on the air on I think it was
on Monday. We were driving out to Utasa. We're in
the car for like twelve hours or whatever. Left the
house at five am. Yeah, listen to Amy King and
I listened to the whole show and it's it's it's
nice listening.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Love you are you taking notes like what can they
improve in type thing? Or are you just actually just
listening and enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I'm just listening to it and thinking this show does
not need me like this is a nice, chill show.
Gary just doing the show. It's just nice. It's chill.
There's no h there's no drama, there's no raised voices,
there's no chance of it getting canceled, you know, like
(07:44):
it's just nobody. There's no danger. Yeah, there's no danger.
You know. It's kind of nice to have a day
with no danger, you know, or you're just you're safe anyway. Okay,
so we're going to get into the whole kissing club story.
You heard it in KFI news yesterday, or at least
I did, And I go, what is this?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
What's this going on?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
About this kissing club? About a private LA school. I
remember it calls it. The kids call it anxiety these days.
But I remember being really young and there was a
boy and I think his name was Rick, and it
was I want to say, second grade esque, So what
are you seven years old? Something like that, I don't know,
(08:28):
and six seven, yeah, And I remember Rick was running
around the schoolyard kissing girls and it was it was
now what I know is anxiety, But I remember not
wanting to go to recess.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I was like what I heard.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He was waiting outside the restrooms and he would just
kiss girls, and I thought it was terrifying and I
was just thinking, oh my god, I don't want it, like,
oh that's awful. I don't want Rick to kiss me.
That would be the worst thing ever. And that's just
the way it was. But apparently this s this went
on at a private school, a kissing club that was
(09:04):
started by older students who were bullying and assaulting these
younger kids. So it sounds like it had like an
official sanctioned type of scary kissing anxiety. So we'll dig
into that. But Heather Brooker is with us, and we're
talking about entertainment. Heather is, of course kafin news department.
She's a reporter, she's an anchor, but she's also a
(09:25):
work a working actress in TV and films. Heather, what
have been your you've been doing this for I don't
want to age you, but at least a decade you
have been working in Hollywood as a working actor. Oh,
she's not listening, that's okay, she's getting ready for the newscast.
But she I would like, oh hi, I said, I
(09:46):
didn't want to aige you, but I would say that
you've been working as an actor in Hollywood film and
TV for a decade at least.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Sure, let's go with one decade.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
One decade, So one decade. And she started very young.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I was just a baby.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's just a baby. It would have been your favorite roles?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Ooh, I love this question. I would say The Office
was probably one of the I guess turning It was
a turning point, if you will. My first role ever
was on a show called Monk.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Do you remember Monk?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I remember I never saw it, but I know of it.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That was my very first, like you know, sag union
role on a TV show. And then The Office was
a show that I really.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Wanted to be on, Like that was my goal.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's one of the reasons why I decided to become
an actors because I was like, oh my god, there's
people on a TV show who look like me, who
are weird like me, and like, you know, it wasn't
the typical perfect friends like you know cast. So The
Office was a big one. And also I was on
a show called Pushing Daisies. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Was that with Laura Lenny? No? It was with Is
it about a Is it about a funeral home? No?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They had a people.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Dying there was people.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Dying, that's the name Pushing Up Daisies. It was a
Brian Fuller show about a piemaker who can bring people
back back to life, dead people back to life with
a simple touch.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And he had this he was a magical pie maker.
So it was.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It had Kristin Chenna within it, an actress named Anna
Friel and Lee Pace. And this was an HBO show right, No,
it was ABC, but I feel like I saw it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Maybe HBO carried it at some point.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Maybe, But I played this.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They had to fit me for headgear and so like
I had a dental equipment. Yes, so I had like
a full mouth of braces and a whole like head
thing head wrap, and I had to do this scene
where over and over again I had to do like
a spit take because my jaw was supposed to be
wired shut and I couldn't speak, so over and over
(12:00):
again I was like, and I'm spitting stuff out of
my mouth.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It was so gross but also so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh my god, that's so funny that that is what
you point to, is what are your favorite.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, it was just fun because as an actor, you
you love to play and do things that are different
and you know, get outside your yourself somewhat. I mean
that's kind of the draw for a lot of actors.
And then I have to say being on Gray's Anatomy
and Private Practice, those were also just I got to
meet McDreamy and make steamy height of their show.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What devoted fan basis? So shows, Monk the Office, Uh,
Gray's Anatomy, all those have such devoted fan base.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I still get messages from people like, did I just
see you on Gray's Anatomy? I'm rewatching and I'm like,
you're rewatching Gray's anats season was it? I think it
was season like five or six. I'll have to go
back and look.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And what was your role on that one?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
On Gray's Anatomy? I was like a.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Like a caretaker and nurse. I worked in the hospital
where the kids stay. But I wasn't like a nurse.
But I also wasn't a teacher. I was like some
sort of child assistant in scrubs. No, people the scene
was they thought that I kidnapped Doctor Bailey's daughter, I
mean son son.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
What was your line?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh my god, I need more coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Sorry, remember these questions?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Let me see. Oh it was doctor Bailey. I took
him to the nurse. I he was having a nosebleed,
like it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was amazing, that was so good a doctor Bailey.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh wait, hold on, give me another action. I gotta
get in carecter, doctor Bailey. I took him to the nurse.
He was having a nosebleed. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Good urgency breath was were you? Were you a ne
exiam No? I asked that of all that was approached,
I was you were approached. I've been approached more for scientology.
Lordy and what's their pitch? Never mind, we can't talk
about it. We'll get a cease and desist.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You're right, But God, I want you. I wish we
could just devote a whole time to the wackiness that
is the cults.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So in Hollywood, Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I got into the Allison after Nexium podcast. Now I
didn't know Alison Mack. I didn't watch her show.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I watched Smallville. My husband and I were big devotees
of Smallville, and.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
We were like, what, she's in a cult?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, So I got into that. We kind of covered
it as it came across our desk as news items.
When the indictments were rolling in on this show, but
never really got into it. And I got into that
newscast at the beginning of the week, and by last
night I'm in episode four of The Vow on Netflix,
the documentary about about Nexium, and I got to say,
(14:52):
some of it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You're like, some of the personal growth stuff makes a.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Lot of s sense.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, that's what they do in scientology as well. It's
they kind of pitch it as personal growth and learning
how to manage you know, emotions and that sort of thing.
So right, I think when you're reaching out to people
who in the artistic world are already looking for ways
to have personal growth and have that outlet for creativity
(15:20):
and you know, find themselves and all that, they're really
susceptible to cultish behavior.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah. I bet That's what I was thinking this morning.
I was thinking, there's so many people focused on themselves
in Hollywood. What an easy place to go and find,
you know, people to join the cult is that people
that are focused on themselves and making themselves better and
getting the roles and all the things. I mean, it's
just perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It is perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
God, I love it. Okay, Heather Brooker will do the
news and then come back and be part of the show.
Because we have two people, Heather and myself who work here, and.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
It really does seem like I'm just like walking on
the halls like hello, and we'll get to the I'm
gonna go crank up the A transistor and then I'll
be right back.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I'm gonna go put some coal in the fire. We'll
get to the holiday movies when we returned.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Is there truth to the report that Taylor Swift wanted
to marry Travis Kelsey at this ocean house in Westerly,
Rhode Island, but another couple held the coveted June thirteenth
Saturday date of next year, and that Taylor wanted to
buy that couple out of her dream wedding date. Do
(16:42):
you care me neither? If you want no more, you
can google it. I don't know what happened. I guess
the latest is that the venue says we would never
do that. Of course you would, of course you would.
You will get rid of Bride's for the bidder. We
all saw the major motion picture Bride wars Well TMZ
(17:04):
is saying that it didn't happen, that it did not happen.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, the venue.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
They're saying that she did not snatch another Crumbles dream
wedding venue.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I feel like that's a lie. Like if if Taylor
Swift calls your venue, your home, say Taylor Swift, call
her people call you and they're like, you know what,
your home in Pasadena is her dream. I know it
sounds weird, but it's her dream. We want to rent
it out and you've got like something going on. Of
course you're going to say no. Of course, wherever Taylor
Swift is going to drop her money is going to
(17:35):
sign off on that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I am taking Taylor Swift's money, That's all I know.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
If she's got if she's paying me something one time,
I can have a wedding anywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I can have a house anywhere with Taylor Swift money.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
In fact, I think this venue planted the story to
make it look like Taylor wanted to get married at
that venue. That would not surprise me, because of course
you want to be connected to that forever. Yes, you
know this is where Taylor Swift wanted to get married,
but they couldn't get the date, but we did, you
know kind of Oh yeah, it is a dirty, dirty business.
(18:07):
You think Capitol Hill is dirty, get into the wedding business.
That is the dirtiest of them all.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I was gonna say, Hollywood PR, like that is a
dirty rightness, right. The secrets that the PR people in
this town hold are probably unreal.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I still don't believe that Hollywood PR queen that was
murdered was murdered in a random killing, Like, I still
believe there's a backstory there their Your name is Ronnie Chason.
Is that ring a bell?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, it totally doesn't. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I will say some of the most difficult people I
have ever worked with in Hollywood have been publicists. Oh,
I bet, and they it's almost like a badge of honor,
Like I got to I turned her down, or I
said no to this journalist or whatever, and they it
feels like they take pleasure and reject your requests or whatever. Yes,
(19:03):
and that may not be the case for all of them,
but they hold they are the gatekeepers people. I didn't
realize this when I first moved to Hollywood, because there's
a lot I would have done differently. I would have
immediately hired a publicist because they are the gatekeepers. They
can they know everybody. They can connect you with producers, directors, parties, events,
red carpets like all of this stuff to get you
(19:24):
in the right rooms because they know a really good,
well connected publicist can make or break your career.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
There the Nancy Pelosi. Yes, to use your political scenarios.
No politics, no politics, splorit. It is what I sound like. No, Okay,
so holiday movies, this is like the weekend really to
dig into the Hollywood movies. I'm the holiday movies. I
(19:50):
guess I should say which ones have you watched? Have
you watched any of them?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I have watched Oh What Fun on Prime Video Mount
a couple of days ago. Michelle Pfeiffer stars in this
Chloe Grace Moretz as well, and it's it's actually a
pretty sacked cast and it's about a mom who is
also a grandma because she's you know, at first I
thought it was Michelle and Feifer playing someone who just
(20:17):
had kids, but no, she's a grandma in this movie.
And she's feeling like a lot of you know, women
and moms do around this time of year, like they
do everything. They run around, they organize all the gifts,
they play Santa, they cook all the meals, you know
that sort of thing. And the only thing she asked
her family for was to be nominated for this evil
(20:38):
And Gloria plays like an Oprah like character who is
doing a mom giveaway on Christmas Day, like because we
all know TV host TV show hosts like to work
on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But she's holding this.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Big, like special show where she's celebrating moms, you know,
and Michelle Pfiffer's character Claire Klouster and Clouster Clouster something
with Santa Claus in it. And she wanted her family
to nominate her, and they didn't. They were too busy
wrapped up in their own world. So she was said,
you know what if you guys, I'm leaving. She goes
(21:11):
to meet Eva Longoria's character Zazzi and goes on a
bunch of hyjinks and wackadoo adventures along the way.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's sweet, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
There's definitely some laugh out loud moments, and it's a.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It's a really well, I mean, it's Michelle Pfeiffer.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Like I will watch her pannything, like she's so beautiful,
so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And just like effortlessly on screen, and I'm like, this
is Remember I think we've talked a couple of times
about movie stars.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Michelle Pfeiffer is a movie star. Yes, one of the
last just yes, you're right. Anything that she does you'll watch.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Now, she's effortlessly good in this movie and it's on
prime video now. So I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I felt that way about Mary Little x Miss and
Alicia Silverstone. I haven't seen Alicia Silverstone and anything for years,
and it is a little bit weird when you see
somebody in your mind when they are what twenty years old,
however old she was.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
She was I think fifteen.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
She was one of the youngest, and she was the
one of the youngest, if not the youngest, on the
set of Clueless.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Wow. So I think of her always as Clueless because
it was so important in my iconic iconic Yes, and
so now she's playing you know, a mom like she
would but anyway, so she's in a Merry Little x Miss.
I think she was a producer on it, and she
plays Kate, a woman navigating divorce and trying to maintain
Christmas traditions with her ex who is Goldie hans Son,
(22:38):
Oliver Hudson and uh, you know, Melissa joon Hart isn't
it as well? In a bit part?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I think, okay who also is one of those ones
where you kind of think of for me, ands Sabrina
teen Witch.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, it was an awful, awful movie, but I
watched it because of a silverstone, because I'm like, if
she's suffering through this movie, I'm gonna be there with her.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
We're here to support our GenEx. I mean, there's just
like all.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The tropes, all the cliches. Of course, the ending you
saw coming from you know, fourteen seconds into this movie.
But you know, it was fine. It's all about blending
families and exes during the holidays. It's all so unbelievable.
Things never happen that like things happen in the movie
that would never happen in real life, just like a
(23:29):
talk show host would never an Oprah would never have
a show on Christmas Day live show, Like that's insane.
There's a lot of things that but I've learned that
we kind of just move away from expecting plausibility, like
things that could actually happen in real life. Like there's
a one point in this movie where everyone goes to
(23:50):
her house. It's like the center of the town. Everyone
loves to go to her house and they're all like
drinking you know whatever, you know, soda or water drinks
or wine or what have you. But I'm just looking
at the amount of glass wear and who's gonna wash
all that? In my head, I'm like, he goes to
a stranger's house and just like gets all the glass
wear out and like serves everyone, and then who's gonna
(24:11):
wash all of that?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'd like Alicia's Silverstone.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's not gonna be Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But anyway, I do think about those practicality moments in film,
and I hate that I can't just do the lean
into this foiling suspension of disbelief. Yes, we know too
much about how the sausage is made, and you can't
just sort of check out anymore in a movie. But
I want to know from you if we have time today,
like what is what is the Christmas movie still that
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we go to that's your comfort movie? What are we
turning on and what will we ever capture that magic
again of like the the iconic Christmas movie days?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I have to every year watch Christmas Vacation. Oh that's
a good every year. I grew up with it. I've
enjoyed it as a young adult, as an adult, I
have loved it in every stage of life. It to me,
you can't have the holidays without Christmas Vacation for so
many reasons, and it holds up and it's just wonderful.
(25:11):
My husband is partial to love. Actually that is his Christmas.
He also does the you know, the Peanuts stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Charlie Ashley.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, I just love Actually to me has a couple
topics that are a little sordid for me for the holidays. Yeah,
vacation has like the whole what Elmer?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
What about the Grinch?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Come on the Grinch? I don't get into what.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I love seeing the grunching universal, but I he I
don't like the movie.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's a classroom carry the prosthetic makeup.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna I will tell you if you want
to do it all the other side of the break.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Here's a tease.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I will tell you what my favorite Christmas movie is,
but it is probably one a lot of people do
not think is a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Are we gonna do the whole die hard thing?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's not dieing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, good, because that's been done. We will talk about
the Christmas movie that may not be a Christmas movie,
but it's at the top of Heather's list. Do you
know what it is when we return. I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Heather, I'm just looking at your ad for Throat Calm,
a product of that I enjoy. It works really well.
You do really well in these ads. She does Instagram
ads and my god, it's so good. So thank you
so much. If you win an oscar, you don't have
to say my name. But I saw that if we
could have like a little like a like a like
a sign language thing, or like you tug your little
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just like a little thing.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You saw that in the birthday card that you wrote
for me. Remember me when you went an Oscar and
I was like, I will.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I will see.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Don't forget the little people, don't forget the little I'm
excited about it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I have an audition today, guys, so send me all
your good vibes, your good jujuh.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Oh, yes, sending right now. What is it? Can you
tell us anything or no.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I don't know. For this one. Is it a sex thing?
It is? God, I hope so woo. That's really the
only reason I got into acting.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
What if it's Hunting Wives season two?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Listen, I will cut somebody. You went on that show.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Because you were gonna be on Hunting Wives season one.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I know I was robbed.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I will do it. I mean, yeah, this one. I
can't say what this one is. Actually, I don't know.
This is a commercial audition today, so I don't know
what this one is. It's later today. But I was
an audition the other day and there was nine thousand
people there. So I was like, the industry in terms
of commercial casting is not dead. There was so so
(27:38):
many people there. Yeah, but anyway, I'll let you know.
I'll keep you guys posted.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'm excited. I can't wait. Now. Your Christmas movie that
some would not say is a Christmas movie that you love.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Is Bridget Jones Diary.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yes, I don't know if this is controversial and honor
if people agree. But the whole movie starts at Christmas.
The holidays are interwoven throughout the storyline. Every big thing
that happens in the movie with her and Mark Darcy
is happening in Christmas and the holidays.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So so true.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I literally she sings at Christmas time. Oh bamas, Yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I actually watched that movie probably six times a year
for about five years, oh, in my early twenties.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I love it so much. It made me wish I
was single and had drama.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yes, I think it led to me being single for
longer with drama, just to just enjoy the movie long.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I can relate to that movie more.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I was an only child, so I was very imaginative
and I always, you know, had these like running characters
and stuff going on in my head. And I used
to I mean with my husband since I was like
twenty twenty one years old or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Child bribe.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, pretty much just the baby. So I never I
never really had like the relationship drama. I think there
was one like just awful in college, you know, like
we all had everybody did that one guy that just
almost wrecked your whole life?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
No, he was the devil really, And I hope he's
listening now, sucker, Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
My goodness, I know I'll have to hear more about that.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I know some of my trauma. But then my husband
came along and it was just like so easy and effortless.
I mean, you know, with your partner, it's like it's
when it's meant to be, It's meant to be. And
so I will watch this movie and be like, oh,
would I have had this drama and be single in
my thirties smoking cigarettes in London?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I don't know. Maybe I know it's like she writes
down in the journal, like eighteen cigarettes, you know, pint
of vodka one hundred and thirty five pounds. I'm like,
I love you, I know, right just right there, right there. Boys.
Do you have any movies that you like to watch?
Holiday themed?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yes, but I don't think none of you guys know
what it is?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh is it sex stuff? No?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
What is complete opposite?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Obviously you know I'm obsessed with the Olsen Twins. So
we have a nineteen ninety two film, ABC film to
Grandmother's House.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
We go, oh my god, it's the cutest thing ever.
That's so cute. I have to watch you guys.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
It's Mary Kay and Ashley. They're both like little twins
who are on the set to go visit their grandmother
for Christmas. And they get lost and they're in the
whole adventure trying to find where their grandmother lives and
plot twist. There's a lot of like, you know, crazy
situations that occur that day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I was like Stephanie's age, So the Olsen twins always
kind of bothered me.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Oh you were that sister?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Like watching Full House, I was like rude, YEAHDJ was
like the older sister. I didn't relate to her and
I didn't relate to the baby either. Cut it out,
cut it out.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Do you remember that tgif that Friday was destination television?
You know, we just would all watch all those shows.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I was never allowed to watch what I wanted to watch,
so it was the youngest rung on the totem pole.
So watching MTV, mob movies, a lot of sports. Whatever
my dad wanted to watch was what was on the television.
The Godfather, The Godfather, The Godfather, Sanford and Son, a
lot of Oh wow, the Streets of San Francisco. That
was my childhood, casino, basic instinct, that kind of stuff.
(31:21):
A Merry Christmas, Olmer, what's your go to?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I was gonna says, anyone here seeing home alone? Three? Yes, three,
not like one and two obviously are classics, but I
don't know why. When I was a kid, I saw
three first, and I just like, I didn't fall in
love with the kid, but I just saw he was
like spunky, and you know, you could relate.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It was the one that wasn't Macaulay Culkin, right, yeah, yeah,
And a lot of.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
People hated that one.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I never saw that. I just remember not feeling sorry
for that kid at all. In Home Alone, like that
was the dream and that house was incredible. He had
a come in God that sounded the whole family leaves
and you have the whole house.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Hell yeah, say less.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
That's why those kind of movies are always again, the
willing suspension of disbelief. I'm like, come on, you're gonna
leave without your child?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Call dumbass.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
You've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
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
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Heather Brooker has joined me.
Heather Brooker is our entertainment maven and a big entertainment day.
I just was talking with a guy who is with
the theaters, Michael O'Leary was Cinema United about this Netflix
(00:23):
Warner Brothers deal, and as somebody who is not in
the industry who just flits about around the industry, I
was like, Oh no, they're coming for the big ones.
You know when you think about Warner Brothers, Heather, and like,
I totally geek out. Do you geek out with the
backlot being right here? You know?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I geek out in terms of like the idea that
the entertainment industry might keep growing, But I worry that
too many of these giant corporations are absorbing and it
and taking each other on, and like, do you remember
years ago when Disney bought Pixar, Yeah, Pixar, but also
(00:59):
Disney abs Oh god, what is the other big studio
that they just absorbed.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
My brain is farting right now.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's okay. I won't know, Okay, I don't know anything
industry news wise.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just watched them twenty century Fox. That's what I
was trying to think of. I was like, it starts
with an F. They absorbed the twentieth century Fox and
all of their IP and then you know, of course
pigs are and then Star Wars and you know whatnot
I am and everything is sort of like a conglomerate,
if you will, to use an old timy term I
remember from eighth grade. I just don't know that it's
(01:31):
necessarily good for the trickle down sort of everybody, uh,
working class people who need jobs, because whenever you have
these massive corporations buying up you know, ips and all that,
they tend to come with price cuts and cutting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Back and cutting back jobs. Yes, I mean this to
me means a lot fewer people. Oh, you know, we've
seen the hatchet come down in the entertainment industry for
a long time now of just reducing, reducing, reducing. AI
obviously going to play a major role in that, but
I think we're just looking at like mass unemployment right
around the bend for a number of reasons.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And we've just had it too.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, Paramount just had major layoffs, and you know,
Disney had layoffs. Of course, there's a little more quiet,
but they've had layoffs everybody across the board in any
kind of media and entertainment. And you know, whenever we
talk about that, it's it's my area of interest and expertise.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
But people always like.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
To say, well, layoffs happen across all Yes, layoffs happen
across all industries.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's all terrible.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Nobody should lose their job, especially around the holidays and
that sort of thing. But when you have a big
corporations buying up property or buying up other corporations, there
is going to be job loss.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You just take away. When you're doing everything for the
almighty dollar, you're losing magic. You know. I brought up
the nineteen ninety two blockbuster Basic Instinct.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I heard that, and I love that. You were like,
I don't want to give away the.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
End, you know, because it's a good one, isn't it spoiler? Yes,
I think I got it right. I'm not sure, but
I'd also like to bring up the Major Emotion picture
starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, which one couple with the.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Bookstores that no, no, that was Billy Chris just watched
this the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You've got mail, You've got mail, You've got mail. I'd
like to bring up you've got mail now because the
nineties are alive here today and uh, and the reason
is because there's small things like her bookstore that bring
the magic right. And yes, you save a lot of
money being the Barnes and Noble or the Fox bookstores
or whatever is in the movie. And yeah, it's still cool.
(03:34):
You still get the books, but you lose the magic.
And it's the same thing with these conglomerations. You know, yes,
you can do so much more with so much little
in terms of people. Yeah, and and power that way,
but you lose the personal touches. You know, look no
further than what we're seeing on some of these AI scripts,
and that the acting you you've come on the air
(03:56):
with us and said that they don't do screen tests
as much as they used to. That you know, no
live audition just because you can do the same things
with less, should you, I would say, no, spend the money,
make it magic.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, I think it depends on what your priority is.
Is your priority the art of cinema? Do you go
to the movie to escape and you know, are you
a consumer that is looking for that? Are you a
consumer that's looking for to kill two or three hours
with your family on a Friday night. There's so much
consumerism that has been injected into a what started as
(04:33):
an originally like artistic endeavor.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In the movie business.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean, if you really want to get nerdy about
it and go way back to the origins of it,
it started as a way to tell stories in silent
film with pictures and then slowly moving pictures, you know,
and then they added sound and so on. If you
want to look at the art of it, then anything
that is driven by consumerism is going to destroy that.
(04:58):
And the bigger the movie industry gets, the more they're
clamoring to try to make money, be bigger, have their
brands be bigger than the less of that magic, you're
absolutely going to lose. And I love that you brought
up You Who Got Mail, because out of all the
movies you could have mentioned, I literally just watched that
like a week or two ago, and my husband was like,
(05:18):
isn't Tom Hanks's character like totally gas letting.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Her in this?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Because he's emailing her pretending to be he's catfishing her yeah,
and then she's like, oh my god, I was hoping
it was you what and they stay in age.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We would rage.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I mean, Tom Hanks could kill sixteen people in a
movie and we'd love him.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh my god, he's the Trump of the movies.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Wow. Okay, so Heaven, It's.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Like, I'm not touching it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm not touching it.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'm not touching it. No politics.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Friday Heather is our working actress in the newsroom. She
has been in a number of films and TV shows
and continues to work in Hollywood. So it's so much
fun to have insight from somebody in the industry in here.
We're going to come back and we're going to talk
about Heather's favorite roles. Also, holiday movies, which ones are good,
which ones are bad. I saw one that was awful,
(06:09):
but like I loved the actors in it, so I'll
have to tell you about it, okay, because I suffered
through the whole thing. My husband and I both did.
Because it was the first Christmas movie. So like we
were like excited to watch a Christmas movie and we'll
like we'll take it. Like we're five minutes into this
one and we're like, this is awful, but we're going
to sit here, We're going to watch them.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Oh I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I can't wait. So we'll do that. Also, what's on
tap in the theaters this weekend. It is a down
time for movies right now, but there's stuff out there
if you want to get away from the family. It's
the time of year.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Sometimes when we're left alone, you know, it's just like,
I don't break things.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Girls was having fun.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, Girls was having fun and no supervision, nothing, none.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
He's definitely listening, going like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Maybe I don't think he's listening. Although I listened when
he was on the air on I think it was
on Monday. We were driving out to Utasa. We're in
the car for like twelve hours or whatever. Left the
house at five am. Yeah, listen to Amy King and
I listened to the whole show and it's it's it's
nice listening.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Love you are you taking notes like what can they
improve in type thing? Or are you just actually just
listening and enjoying it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I'm just listening to it and thinking this show does
not need me like this is a nice, chill show.
Gary just doing the show. It's just nice. It's chill.
There's no h there's no drama, there's no raised voices,
there's no chance of it getting canceled, you know, like
(07:44):
it's just nobody. There's no danger. Yeah, there's no danger.
You know. It's kind of nice to have a day
with no danger, you know, or you're just you're safe anyway. Okay,
so we're going to get into the whole kissing club story.
You heard it in KFI news yesterday, or at least
I did, And I go, what is this?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
What's this going on?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
About this kissing club? About a private LA school. I
remember it calls it. The kids call it anxiety these days.
But I remember being really young and there was a
boy and I think his name was Rick, and it
was I want to say, second grade esque, So what
are you seven years old? Something like that, I don't know,
(08:28):
and six seven, yeah, And I remember Rick was running
around the schoolyard kissing girls and it was it was
now what I know is anxiety, But I remember not
wanting to go to recess.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I was like what I heard.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He was waiting outside the restrooms and he would just
kiss girls, and I thought it was terrifying and I
was just thinking, oh my god, I don't want it, like,
oh that's awful. I don't want Rick to kiss me.
That would be the worst thing ever. And that's just
the way it was. But apparently this s this went
on at a private school, a kissing club that was
(09:04):
started by older students who were bullying and assaulting these
younger kids. So it sounds like it had like an
official sanctioned type of scary kissing anxiety. So we'll dig
into that. But Heather Brooker is with us, and we're
talking about entertainment. Heather is, of course kafin news department.
She's a reporter, she's an anchor, but she's also a
(09:25):
work a working actress in TV and films. Heather, what
have been your you've been doing this for I don't
want to age you, but at least a decade you
have been working in Hollywood as a working actor. Oh,
she's not listening, that's okay, she's getting ready for the newscast.
But she I would like, oh hi, I said, I
(09:46):
didn't want to aige you, but I would say that
you've been working as an actor in Hollywood film and
TV for a decade at least.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Sure, let's go with one decade.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
One decade, So one decade. And she started very young.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I was just a baby.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's just a baby. It would have been your favorite roles?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Ooh, I love this question. I would say The Office
was probably one of the I guess turning It was
a turning point, if you will. My first role ever
was on a show called Monk.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Do you remember Monk?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I remember I never saw it, but I know of it.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That was my very first, like you know, sag union
role on a TV show. And then The Office was
a show that I really.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Wanted to be on, Like that was my goal.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's one of the reasons why I decided to become
an actors because I was like, oh my god, there's
people on a TV show who look like me, who
are weird like me, and like, you know, it wasn't
the typical perfect friends like you know cast. So The
Office was a big one. And also I was on
a show called Pushing Daisies. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Was that with Laura Lenny? No? It was with Is
it about a Is it about a funeral home? No?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
They had a people.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Dying there was people.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Dying, that's the name Pushing Up Daisies. It was a
Brian Fuller show about a piemaker who can bring people
back back to life, dead people back to life with
a simple touch.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And he had this he was a magical pie maker.
So it was.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It had Kristin Chenna within it, an actress named Anna
Friel and Lee Pace. And this was an HBO show right, No,
it was ABC, but I feel like I saw it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Maybe HBO carried it at some point.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Maybe, But I played this.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They had to fit me for headgear and so like
I had a dental equipment. Yes, so I had like
a full mouth of braces and a whole like head
thing head wrap, and I had to do this scene
where over and over again I had to do like
a spit take because my jaw was supposed to be
wired shut and I couldn't speak, so over and over
(12:00):
again I was like, and I'm spitting stuff out of
my mouth.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
It was so gross but also so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh my god, that's so funny that that is what
you point to, is what are your favorite.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, it was just fun because as an actor, you
you love to play and do things that are different
and you know, get outside your yourself somewhat. I mean
that's kind of the draw for a lot of actors.
And then I have to say being on Gray's Anatomy
and Private Practice, those were also just I got to
meet McDreamy and make steamy height of their show.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What devoted fan basis? So shows, Monk the Office, Uh,
Gray's Anatomy, all those have such devoted fan base.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
I still get messages from people like, did I just
see you on Gray's Anatomy? I'm rewatching and I'm like,
you're rewatching Gray's anats season was it? I think it
was season like five or six. I'll have to go
back and look.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And what was your role on that one?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
On Gray's Anatomy? I was like a.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Like a caretaker and nurse. I worked in the hospital
where the kids stay. But I wasn't like a nurse.
But I also wasn't a teacher. I was like some
sort of child assistant in scrubs. No, people the scene
was they thought that I kidnapped Doctor Bailey's daughter, I
mean son son.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
What was your line?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh my god, I need more coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Sorry, remember these questions?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Let me see. Oh it was doctor Bailey. I took
him to the nurse. I he was having a nosebleed,
like it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was amazing, that was so good a doctor Bailey.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Oh wait, hold on, give me another action. I gotta
get in carecter, doctor Bailey. I took him to the nurse.
He was having a nosebleed. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Good urgency breath was were you? Were you a ne
exiam No? I asked that of all that was approached,
I was you were approached. I've been approached more for scientology.
Lordy and what's their pitch? Never mind, we can't talk
about it. We'll get a cease and desist.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
You're right, But God, I want you. I wish we
could just devote a whole time to the wackiness that
is the cults.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So in Hollywood, Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I got into the Allison after Nexium podcast. Now I
didn't know Alison Mack. I didn't watch her show.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I watched Smallville. My husband and I were big devotees
of Smallville, and.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
We were like, what, she's in a cult?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, So I got into that. We kind of covered
it as it came across our desk as news items.
When the indictments were rolling in on this show, but
never really got into it. And I got into that
newscast at the beginning of the week, and by last
night I'm in episode four of The Vow on Netflix,
the documentary about about Nexium, and I got to say,
(14:52):
some of it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You're like, some of the personal growth stuff makes a.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Lot of s sense.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, that's what they do in scientology as well. It's
they kind of pitch it as personal growth and learning
how to manage you know, emotions and that sort of thing.
So right, I think when you're reaching out to people
who in the artistic world are already looking for ways
to have personal growth and have that outlet for creativity
(15:20):
and you know, find themselves and all that, they're really
susceptible to cultish behavior.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah. I bet That's what I was thinking this morning.
I was thinking, there's so many people focused on themselves
in Hollywood. What an easy place to go and find,
you know, people to join the cult is that people
that are focused on themselves and making themselves better and
getting the roles and all the things. I mean, it's
just perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It is perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
God, I love it. Okay, Heather Brooker will do the
news and then come back and be part of the show.
Because we have two people, Heather and myself who work here, and.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
It really does seem like I'm just like walking on
the halls like hello, and we'll get to the I'm
gonna go crank up the A transistor and then I'll
be right back.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I'm gonna go put some coal in the fire. We'll
get to the holiday movies when we returned.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Is there truth to the report that Taylor Swift wanted
to marry Travis Kelsey at this ocean house in Westerly,
Rhode Island, but another couple held the coveted June thirteenth
Saturday date of next year, and that Taylor wanted to
buy that couple out of her dream wedding date. Do
(16:42):
you care me neither? If you want no more, you
can google it. I don't know what happened. I guess
the latest is that the venue says we would never
do that. Of course you would, of course you would.
You will get rid of Bride's for the bidder. We
all saw the major motion picture Bride wars Well TMZ
(17:04):
is saying that it didn't happen, that it did not happen.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, the venue.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
They're saying that she did not snatch another Crumbles dream
wedding venue.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I feel like that's a lie. Like if if Taylor
Swift calls your venue, your home, say Taylor Swift, call
her people call you and they're like, you know what,
your home in Pasadena is her dream. I know it
sounds weird, but it's her dream. We want to rent
it out and you've got like something going on. Of
course you're going to say no. Of course, wherever Taylor
Swift is going to drop her money is going to
(17:35):
sign off on that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I am taking Taylor Swift's money, That's all I know.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
If she's got if she's paying me something one time,
I can have a wedding anywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I can have a house anywhere with Taylor Swift money.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
In fact, I think this venue planted the story to
make it look like Taylor wanted to get married at
that venue. That would not surprise me, because of course
you want to be connected to that forever. Yes, you
know this is where Taylor Swift wanted to get married,
but they couldn't get the date, but we did, you
know kind of Oh yeah, it is a dirty, dirty business.
(18:07):
You think Capitol Hill is dirty, get into the wedding business.
That is the dirtiest of them all.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I was gonna say, Hollywood PR, like that is a
dirty rightness, right. The secrets that the PR people in
this town hold are probably unreal.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I still don't believe that Hollywood PR queen that was
murdered was murdered in a random killing, Like, I still
believe there's a backstory there their Your name is Ronnie Chason.
Is that ring a bell?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, it totally doesn't. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I will say some of the most difficult people I
have ever worked with in Hollywood have been publicists. Oh,
I bet, and they it's almost like a badge of honor,
Like I got to I turned her down, or I
said no to this journalist or whatever, and they it
feels like they take pleasure and reject your requests or whatever. Yes,
(19:03):
and that may not be the case for all of them,
but they hold they are the gatekeepers people. I didn't
realize this when I first moved to Hollywood, because there's
a lot I would have done differently. I would have
immediately hired a publicist because they are the gatekeepers. They
can they know everybody. They can connect you with producers, directors, parties, events,
red carpets like all of this stuff to get you
(19:24):
in the right rooms because they know a really good,
well connected publicist can make or break your career.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
There the Nancy Pelosi. Yes, to use your political scenarios.
No politics, no politics, splorit. It is what I sound like. No, Okay,
so holiday movies, this is like the weekend really to
dig into the Hollywood movies. I'm the holiday movies. I
(19:50):
guess I should say which ones have you watched? Have
you watched any of them?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I have watched Oh What Fun on Prime Video Mount
a couple of days ago. Michelle Pfeiffer stars in this
Chloe Grace Moretz as well, and it's it's actually a
pretty sacked cast and it's about a mom who is
also a grandma because she's you know, at first I
thought it was Michelle and Feifer playing someone who just
(20:17):
had kids, but no, she's a grandma in this movie.
And she's feeling like a lot of you know, women
and moms do around this time of year, like they
do everything. They run around, they organize all the gifts,
they play Santa, they cook all the meals, you know
that sort of thing. And the only thing she asked
her family for was to be nominated for this evil
(20:38):
And Gloria plays like an Oprah like character who is
doing a mom giveaway on Christmas Day, like because we
all know TV host TV show hosts like to work
on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
But she's holding this.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Big, like special show where she's celebrating moms, you know,
and Michelle Pfiffer's character Claire Klouster and Clouster Clouster something
with Santa Claus in it. And she wanted her family
to nominate her, and they didn't. They were too busy
wrapped up in their own world. So she was said,
you know what if you guys, I'm leaving. She goes
(21:11):
to meet Eva Longoria's character Zazzi and goes on a
bunch of hyjinks and wackadoo adventures along the way.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's sweet, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
There's definitely some laugh out loud moments, and it's a.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It's a really well, I mean, it's Michelle Pfeiffer.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Like I will watch her pannything, like she's so beautiful,
so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And just like effortlessly on screen, and I'm like, this
is Remember I think we've talked a couple of times
about movie stars.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Michelle Pfeiffer is a movie star. Yes, one of the
last just yes, you're right. Anything that she does you'll watch.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Now, she's effortlessly good in this movie and it's on
prime video now. So I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I felt that way about Mary Little x Miss and
Alicia Silverstone. I haven't seen Alicia Silverstone and anything for years,
and it is a little bit weird when you see
somebody in your mind when they are what twenty years old,
however old she was.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
She was I think fifteen.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
She was one of the youngest, and she was the
one of the youngest, if not the youngest, on the
set of Clueless.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Wow. So I think of her always as Clueless because
it was so important in my iconic iconic Yes, and
so now she's playing you know, a mom like she
would but anyway, so she's in a Merry Little x Miss.
I think she was a producer on it, and she
plays Kate, a woman navigating divorce and trying to maintain
Christmas traditions with her ex who is Goldie hans Son,
(22:38):
Oliver Hudson and uh, you know, Melissa joon Hart isn't
it as well? In a bit part?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I think, okay who also is one of those ones
where you kind of think of for me, ands Sabrina
teen Witch.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know, it was an awful, awful movie, but I
watched it because of a silverstone, because I'm like, if
she's suffering through this movie, I'm gonna be there with her.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
We're here to support our GenEx. I mean, there's just
like all.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
The tropes, all the cliches. Of course, the ending you
saw coming from you know, fourteen seconds into this movie.
But you know, it was fine. It's all about blending
families and exes during the holidays. It's all so unbelievable.
Things never happen that like things happen in the movie
that would never happen in real life, just like a
(23:29):
talk show host would never an Oprah would never have
a show on Christmas Day live show, Like that's insane.
There's a lot of things that but I've learned that
we kind of just move away from expecting plausibility, like
things that could actually happen in real life. Like there's
a one point in this movie where everyone goes to
(23:50):
her house. It's like the center of the town. Everyone
loves to go to her house and they're all like
drinking you know whatever, you know, soda or water drinks
or wine or what have you. But I'm just looking
at the amount of glass wear and who's gonna wash
all that? In my head, I'm like, he goes to
a stranger's house and just like gets all the glass
wear out and like serves everyone, and then who's gonna
(24:11):
wash all of that?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'd like Alicia's Silverstone.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
It's not gonna be Alicia Silverstone.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But anyway, I do think about those practicality moments in film,
and I hate that I can't just do the lean
into this foiling suspension of disbelief. Yes, we know too
much about how the sausage is made, and you can't
just sort of check out anymore in a movie. But
I want to know from you if we have time today,
like what is what is the Christmas movie still that
(24:38):
we go to that's your comfort movie? What are we
turning on and what will we ever capture that magic
again of like the the iconic Christmas movie days?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I have to every year watch Christmas Vacation. Oh that's
a good every year. I grew up with it. I've
enjoyed it as a young adult, as an adult, I
have loved it in every stage of life. It to me,
you can't have the holidays without Christmas Vacation for so
many reasons, and it holds up and it's just wonderful.
(25:11):
My husband is partial to love. Actually that is his Christmas.
He also does the you know, the Peanuts stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Charlie Ashley.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, I just love Actually to me has a couple
topics that are a little sordid for me for the holidays. Yeah,
vacation has like the whole what Elmer?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
What about the Grinch?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Come on the Grinch? I don't get into what.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I love seeing the grunching universal, but I he I
don't like the movie.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's a classroom carry the prosthetic makeup.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna I will tell you if you want
to do it all the other side of the break.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Here's a tease.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I will tell you what my favorite Christmas movie is,
but it is probably one a lot of people do
not think is a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Are we gonna do the whole die hard thing?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's not dieing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, good, because that's been done. We will talk about
the Christmas movie that may not be a Christmas movie,
but it's at the top of Heather's list. Do you
know what it is when we return. I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Heather, I'm just looking at your ad for Throat Calm,
a product of that I enjoy. It works really well.
You do really well in these ads. She does Instagram
ads and my god, it's so good. So thank you
so much. If you win an oscar, you don't have
to say my name. But I saw that if we
could have like a little like a like a like
a sign language thing, or like you tug your little
(26:39):
just like a little thing.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You saw that in the birthday card that you wrote
for me. Remember me when you went an Oscar and
I was like, I will.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I will see.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Don't forget the little people, don't forget the little I'm
excited about it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I have an audition today, guys, so send me all
your good vibes, your good jujuh.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Oh, yes, sending right now. What is it? Can you
tell us anything or no.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I don't know. For this one. Is it a sex thing?
It is? God, I hope so woo. That's really the
only reason I got into acting.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
What if it's Hunting Wives season two?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Listen, I will cut somebody. You went on that show.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Because you were gonna be on Hunting Wives season one.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I know I was robbed.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I will do it. I mean, yeah, this one. I
can't say what this one is. Actually, I don't know.
This is a commercial audition today, so I don't know
what this one is. It's later today. But I was
an audition the other day and there was nine thousand
people there. So I was like, the industry in terms
of commercial casting is not dead. There was so so
(27:38):
many people there. Yeah, but anyway, I'll let you know.
I'll keep you guys posted.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'm excited. I can't wait. Now. Your Christmas movie that
some would not say is a Christmas movie that you love.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Is Bridget Jones Diary.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Interesting?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yes, I don't know if this is controversial and honor
if people agree. But the whole movie starts at Christmas.
The holidays are interwoven throughout the storyline. Every big thing
that happens in the movie with her and Mark Darcy
is happening in Christmas and the holidays.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So so true.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I never thought about that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I literally she sings at Christmas time. Oh bamas, Yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I actually watched that movie probably six times a year
for about five years, oh, in my early twenties.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I love it so much. It made me wish I
was single and had drama.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yes, I think it led to me being single for
longer with drama, just to just enjoy the movie long.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I can relate to that movie more.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I was an only child, so I was very imaginative
and I always, you know, had these like running characters
and stuff going on in my head. And I used
to I mean with my husband since I was like
twenty twenty one years old or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Child bribe.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, pretty much just the baby. So I never I
never really had like the relationship drama. I think there
was one like just awful in college, you know, like
we all had everybody did that one guy that just
almost wrecked your whole life?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:09):
No, he was the devil really, And I hope he's
listening now, sucker, Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
My goodness, I know I'll have to hear more about that.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I know some of my trauma. But then my husband
came along and it was just like so easy and effortless.
I mean, you know, with your partner, it's like it's
when it's meant to be, It's meant to be. And
so I will watch this movie and be like, oh,
would I have had this drama and be single in
my thirties smoking cigarettes in London?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I don't know. Maybe I know it's like she writes
down in the journal, like eighteen cigarettes, you know, pint
of vodka one hundred and thirty five pounds. I'm like,
I love you, I know, right just right there, right there. Boys.
Do you have any movies that you like to watch?
Holiday themed?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yes, but I don't think none of you guys know
what it is?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh is it sex stuff? No?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
What is complete opposite?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Obviously you know I'm obsessed with the Olsen Twins. So
we have a nineteen ninety two film, ABC film to
Grandmother's House.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
We go, oh my god, it's the cutest thing ever.
That's so cute. I have to watch you guys.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
It's Mary Kay and Ashley. They're both like little twins
who are on the set to go visit their grandmother
for Christmas. And they get lost and they're in the
whole adventure trying to find where their grandmother lives and
plot twist. There's a lot of like, you know, crazy
situations that occur that day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I was like Stephanie's age, So the Olsen twins always
kind of bothered me.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Oh you were that sister?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Like watching Full House, I was like rude, YEAHDJ was
like the older sister. I didn't relate to her and
I didn't relate to the baby either. Cut it out,
cut it out.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Do you remember that tgif that Friday was destination television?
You know, we just would all watch all those shows.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I was never allowed to watch what I wanted to watch,
so it was the youngest rung on the totem pole.
So watching MTV, mob movies, a lot of sports. Whatever
my dad wanted to watch was what was on the television.
The Godfather, The Godfather, The Godfather, Sanford and Son, a
lot of Oh wow, the Streets of San Francisco. That
was my childhood, casino, basic instinct, that kind of stuff.
(31:21):
A Merry Christmas, Olmer, what's your go to?
Speaker 5 (31:26):
I was gonna says, anyone here seeing home alone? Three? Yes, three,
not like one and two obviously are classics, but I
don't know why. When I was a kid, I saw
three first, and I just like, I didn't fall in
love with the kid, but I just saw he was
like spunky, and you know, you could relate.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It was the one that wasn't Macaulay Culkin, right, yeah, yeah,
And a lot of.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
People hated that one.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I never saw that. I just remember not feeling sorry
for that kid at all. In Home Alone, like that
was the dream and that house was incredible. He had
a come in God that sounded the whole family leaves
and you have the whole house.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Hell yeah, say less.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
That's why those kind of movies are always again, the
willing suspension of disbelief. I'm like, come on, you're gonna
leave without your child?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Call dumbass.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
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