Wizard Of Oz AI Sphere Experience

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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
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, we told you a couple of times. We'll tell
you again. The News and Bruce coming up on. It's
coming up on Monday, actually, Monday, September twenty second. We're
gonna be live at the Bjay's Restaurant and brew House
in West Covina and we're gonna have a great time. Yes,
I know it's a Monday, but it's an opportunity for
you to spend a Monday the way you want to

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spend a Monday.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh yeah, I'm so happy you guys are coming back
to West Covina. I missed you guys the last time
you were there. I will not miss you this time.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Love this show.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I love you Gary and Shannon both. You guys make
work just so much better. So I'll see you on
the twenty second.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Seeing you on the twenty second again, News and Bruce
at the BJS in West Covina, Monday, September twenty second.
All right, Shannon's out today, she's in Brazil. We'll talk
to her on Friday when we start up our guest
fantasy or play for this new season.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
In the meantime, what else is going on?

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has been issued for parts of the era.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
These are one of these.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
This is one of the reasons why we've seen so
much monsoonal moisture coming through in the last several days,
not from Lorena but from Keiko. Those living in southwestern
Mexico and Baja California peninsul urge to monitors the storm
and the progress of the storm. Lorrainus tracks still uncertain,
not quite sure if it's going to eventually make landfall

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or move out into the cooler waters.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Over the Pacific.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Jasvin Sangha, you do not know her name, but you
know her title, the Ketamine Queen, has pleaded guilty. She
was accused of selling fatal dose of drugs to Matthew Perry.
She pleaded guilty to five federal charges, including providing the
ketamine that eventually led to his death. Her trial had
been planned to start later this month. She is the

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fifth and now final defendant charged in his overdose death.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
To admit guilt, the.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I guess her his mother sorry, Suzanne Perry is Matthew
Perry's mother, and Keith Morrison happens to be his stepfather.
They were sitting in the audience today when she pleaded guilty.
Prosecutors had said that Jasvin senga forty two year old
citizen of the US and the UK, was a prolific
drug dealer known to her customers as the Ketamine Queen,

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and that was a title that was used pretty often
when it came to press releases, in court documents as well.
The governors of Washington, Oregon, and California say they are
creating an alliance to safeguard health policies. Now, I will
remind you these are the same governors that got together
to take away just about every right you had during COVID,

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But in this case they say that they are fighting
back against the politicization of the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
They do not like Robert F.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Kennedy Junior as the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
saying that he has restructured and downsized the CDC. He
has attempted to advance anti vaccine policies that contradict decades
of scientific research. There are concerns about staffing, budget cuts, etc.
The state California State Health Officer said the dismantling of

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public health and dismissable experienced and respected health leaders and advisors,
along with the lack of using science, data and evidence
to improve our nation's health, are placing lives at risk.
This partnership, they say, is planning to coordinate health guidelines
by aligning immunization plans based on recommendations from respected national

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medical organizations. According to the governors a statement from the
three governors during a budget hearing today, Kennedy deflected questions
about his positions on vaccines. He has long time been
a proponent of studying vaccines. He has said repeatedly that
he's not anti vaccine, but he's anti vaccine mandate specifically

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when it came to COVID and wants to cut down
on the vaccines that are administered to kids at such
a young age in such a concentrations. There is a
new study that came out of Channel seven that suggests
that there have been more than fifteen thousand violent crimes
committed in LA in the first eight months of this year.

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That would be down seventeen percent from the same time
last year. Property crimes also down about seventeen percent. Could
Anaheim build a gondola to connect with Disneyland. There's a new,
continuing years long process to try to connect connect the
two main tourist hubs with improve public transportation, including, among

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other options, an aerial gondola system between the Honda Center
and Disneyland.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Think of the.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Sky Mover whatever that thing was that originally went through
Disneyland through the Matterhorn from one side of the park
to the other, similar to that. But they say that
the potentially gondola system would provide a vital connection between
the Anaheim resort district and the Platinum Triangle, an area
under development near the city's two sports venues as the

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main Transportation home the Regional Transportation Intermodal Center. What you're
watching Wednesday is coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Heather Brooker is going to join us to talk about
some of the entertainment and TV stuff that's going on.
But in the meantime, what is your family's secret language?
We've heard a bunch of these. We'll talk about that
when we come back.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 5 (06:28):
A couple events that are coming up.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
American Vision Windows twenty fifth anniversary celebration is coming up
on Saturday. I'll be out there with Tim Conway Junior
and Dean Sharp. We're going to be at the Semi
Valley Showroom. It will be from eleven to three, so
coming out, food, fun and prizes again Saturday the sixth
at American Vision Windows. And then Monday, Monday September twenty second,

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we're gonna be live doing the show our News and
Brus starting at nine am from the BJYS in West Covina,
the rare Monday News and Bruce and we'll see how
many people we can get out there. We talked earlier
about every family having a family elect or a family
elect dialect for your family, and that everybody has different

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words for things that if you're not in that family,
you wouldn't quite get it. Professors of linguistics have been
studying this for some time. Who asked what some of
yours were the weird things that you may say to
each other in your family that no one else would understand.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Good morning, carry my family. When my kids were little,
I used to use Beyonce for the B word witch
rhymes with which what So now when even my daughter's
like thirty eight years old and we say, don't be
such a Beyonce kind of funny anyway, good show, thank you.

Speaker 7 (07:52):
The crazy thing in our family did that nobody understands
is my sister's nickname is Boom Boom, who is short
for pipsi food. My dad called to that when she
was growing up, kind of stuck door like glue. Some
people have never even known her real name.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Anyway, I would I would have thought that it was
from was it uh oh mocking.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
My daughter came up with this the other day when
she asked to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
She says, I gotta go Boom Boom and I caught
myself telling my wife the other day, Hey, you gotta
go boom boom, yeah, boom boom wow.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I don't know if I would get away with that
to my wife.

Speaker 9 (08:34):
Hey Gary, my girl and I are building a new
blended family together've been together for about three years, and
her kids and my kids, et cetera. We got a
beautiful time and we got some inside things. Because she's
from Belize and she uses Creole. She speak Creole and
Belize and perfect English. By the way, but I'll catch
myself talking to other people and using some of her
phrases from from Creole, like wyaldo why and wyldl giel,

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which is what are you doing boy?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
What are you doing girl? Or wada accidentally with other people. Oops,
that's funny. If we're in a public place and my
wife sticks her finger in the air and starts turning
it in a circle, that means it's time to round up.
Let's go. Yeah, also beings home run. That's funny. Though.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
The nonverbal clues that you have with your family are
also important, Hey.

Speaker 10 (09:21):
Gary, talking about family speak, we definitely have that. In
hours years ago, my little nephew skinned his arm, went
up to my uncle crying said he skinned his arm.
My uncle really wasn't paying attention and brushed him off
by just saying.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
That's nice, hetho.

Speaker 10 (09:34):
And so my nephew just shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
So now in our family, when somebody's making a mountain
out of a molehill, we turn to them and just
say that's nice, hetho. And they know that it's not
that big a deal. They're not going to get any sympathy.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
That's speaking of nonverbal.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
My sign to my kids if I were picking them
up from a practice or party or what event something
where there's a bunch of kids around, I wouldn't just.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Stand there and yell their name, heyw.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I would whistle just one quick like that, and they
would they would know to listen for that whistle, and
it would not, you know, bring a lot of attention
to me, but they knew that that was my whistle
and they would have to look around to find me,
and I would give them that. That's when I would
give them the home run sign it's time to go.

Speaker 11 (10:21):
So my sister and I say, Huba, it's when you
put your lips on someone's cheek and suck in and
it sounds like HUO.

Speaker 10 (10:30):
Love you guys.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
Hold on a second.

Speaker 12 (10:36):
I remember my parents saying to us late at night
Target locked and voted that means for us to go
to bed, and uh we we learned to go to
bed once we heard it.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
I still want to uba it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 11 (10:53):
Okay, we're talking made up family words. Yes, when you
get like a shiver or a chill, like in your
body and you like, you know, do like a little shake,
we call it a pooty do. So it's called getting
a pooty do when you get like a little shiver
or chill that runs through your body. And now my
husband says it, my kids say it, So I think

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that word's going to be in the family forever.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mentioned earlier that a lot of this depends on children,
families with children, because kids can butcher words that stick
with them for a long time. Think of like nicknames
for grandma. We did that a couple of months ago,
where we asked, what is your nickname for grandma? Or

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if you are a grandma, what's your nickname instead of grandma?
What do they call it? A granny go go? Something
like that. My son used to love standing in our driveway. Listen,
we didn't have a lot of money. He used to
stand in our driveway and would watch the cars go
by and point them out and call out the colors
of the cars or whatever. Again, we didn't have a

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lot of money, and there was a motorcycle in our neighborhood.
A guy would ride this yellow motorcycle past our house
two or three times a day, and he would scream
out yo yo mogogo because he was a dummy and
didn't know how to pronounce it. But that stuck with
us for a long time, and we used to say
that over and over again.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Hi, Gary and Shannon. Yes, we have a million of
these in our family. But one that I particularly like
is poured on cheese. So it's poured on cheese. That's
Kraft Parmesan cheese that you pour on your spaghetti. So
I'd like to Chetti offer up poured on cheese into

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the lexicon. Thank you, bye bye.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Okay, it actually sounds French if you were to say, ah,
this fine fromage from the poor Daun region of France.

Speaker 8 (12:53):
And finally, Gary loved the show Miss Shannon today, me too,
And yeah, my family, we have a ton of these.
Code phrases we use. I can recall when my daughter
was a teenager and she needed tampons, we always called
them tostadas, and we still do so whenever I had
to go to the store to pick up tampons, it
was always, Dad, can you picked me up some tostadas? Anyways,

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love the show, have.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
A great day, and thank you advanced advanced dad. Move
by the way, because I never I shouldn't say never,
I have yet to go to the store to buy
tampons for my wife or daughter.

Speaker 13 (13:30):
Hey there, it's Jen from Valencia. I grew up in
a household where bad words were not permitted, and even
things like shut up and stupid and things like that
were not allowed.

Speaker 14 (13:41):
Definitely not the word fart.

Speaker 13 (13:43):
So if anybody ever passed gas, we were not allowed
to call it a fart. So we came up with
the word. Don't even know where it came from, kukadinky.
We're now in our fifties and forties, and if I
said that to any of my siblings today, they would
know exactly what I was talking about. Kukadinky.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I have a programming alert for programming alert tomorrow. We
know that Shannon's in Brazil getting ready for the Chargers
game that gets coming up on Friday night. Our friend
Marla Teas from Fox eleven is going to join us
once again. We haven't seen her in a long time
and she's a new mom, so we'll talk about all
kinds of stuff with Marlow when she joins us tomorrow
and Friday. We believe the what You Watch in Wednesday

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segment has a bunch of stuff coming in, including the
trailers that are up on the website, Dancing with a
Stars new cast, and Netflix has finally confirmed its most
watched original movies of all time.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Garyan Shannon will continue.

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You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
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Speaker 2 (14:48):
More lightning is expected today and tonight into tomorrow throughout
northern California. Cal Fire says a group of fires that
started just yesterday is called the TCU You to Wolney
Calveris Unit September Lightning Complex. It's burned over twelve thousand
acres as of this morning, at least nine fires. Now

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they're saying thirteen fires comprise this complex. One of them,
one of the larger ones, is called the six five
fire at tu Wallamee County.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
I screwed it up, and.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I said China Camp. Apparently it's a place called Chinese Camp.
China Camp is a park up in Marin County. Chinese
Camp is a tiny little hamlet of places of people,
I should say, in tu Wallomee County at the Sierras.

Speaker 14 (15:34):
It almost doesn't sound real like China Camp.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yeah it isn't. I mean it was.

Speaker 14 (15:40):
I was gonna say, didn't we do that here in
the US back in the nineteen.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Fifteen twalomney again, Tuolomee County is where the six to
five fires burning up about sixty five hundred acres and
zero percent containment. And our here in southern California, our
heat advisory has been extended through tonight as we see
these hot temperatures continue, probably La Ventura Counties that he'd

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advised Reid be up until six As of right now,
they could extend that again.

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Heather Brooker has joined us to continue our conversations about
stuff to watch on TV.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yes, I'm gonna blow your mind.

Speaker 14 (16:45):
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
My wife has finally broken me down. We started watching
last night, the two thousand and eight hit Sons of Anarchy.
Oh was it two thousand and eight? It might even
be before that. That show came on a long time ago,
long time ago. Yeah, and she watched it. She loved it.
Every time we hit a dead spot of like.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
I don't know what to watch tonight?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
What do you want to watch tonight, she always says,
we can watch Sons of Kay.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
She loves There is something to be said for those shows,
because I don't know if you're if your wife and
are like my husband and I were, there's shows where
we feel like we missed because we were watching other
things totally, Like around that time, I think we were
in our Game of Thrones era and we were just.

Speaker 14 (17:28):
All about that.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
So there's a lot of shows that we missed and
we will go back and we'll watch them and go
oh yeah. Like I'm embarrassed to say this. I never
watched Curby Your Enthusiasm.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
I haven't either.

Speaker 14 (17:38):
I feel like I missed it because people love that show.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
They say it's so funny and like just it's shot
all over la and like, I just missed it.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
I just listen.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
The Larry David that I liked was interpreted through Jerry Seinfeld. Yes,
and that because I've seen enough of Curby Your Enthusiasm.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Enough clips of it, I go, you get it. I
get it.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
And it's not it's almost like it's it's uh, it's
too sweet. It's it's instead of the chocolate chip cookie
that's got a little bit of salt in it and
some funny chocolate chips, it's just a cup of brown sugar.
And it's it's just I mean, that's kind of that
same comedy concentrated, and that's that's a little bit too.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Much, like a little one note joke of him just
being like old man Yellen at the sky I got it,
complaining about everything.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, and listen, he's comedically. I think he's really amazing
at what he does. It's just not my flavor.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's just I think people just refer to it a lot,
say it as one of the funniest, you know, shows
and half hour comedies, and as somebody who enjoys that.
I feel like I kind of miss that. So when
you're revisiting shows like Sons of Anarchy and you know,
anything like that, like I never saw Breaking Bad. My
husband loves Breaking Bad.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
Also didn't see that.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
I got through a couple of I have gotten through
a couple of episodes of it, but it didn't catch
me either. Part of it is I think they don't
as weird as it sounds. They didn't have a there's
no shelf life. Were so amazed and I noticed this,
and even just the first episode, the pilot for Sons
of Anarchy, which we watched last night, The production quality

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today and it's only what twelve fifteen years later is
so much better than it was even then. Yes, now, granted,
Sons of Anarchy was sort of on the cutting edge
of these streaming show It wasn't even a streaming show.
It was on effects at the time, but that sort
of gained notoriety through streaming. It was kind of on

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the cutting edge, so the budget was probably a little
bit lower.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
It didn't really.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Get a lot of the notoriety until a couple of
seasons in and gained that momentum. But I felt like
the production was almost pulling me out of my illusion
there for a second.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Like the costuming, the lighting, that the visuals of it,
you feel like were just kind of dated. Yeah, for
that time. I mean, honestly, there has been so many changes,
you know, in digital technology and the way they film
things and the way they're doing shows for streaming, and
so I'm not surprised that a show like that would
look dated. I think it also it was shot very

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stylized for the kind of show that it was. I
feel that way about now. Mad Men is a show
that I wish I could watch again. I loved mad Men.
Did you watch mad Men?

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Parts of it?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
I thought was probably of the three that we're talking about,
Sons of anarchy breaking bad in this one.

Speaker 5 (20:33):
I saw more episodes of mad Men than the others.

Speaker 14 (20:35):
That one had a slow burn to it.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
You had to build up, and you had to get
at least five or six episodes in and then I
was like, I'm okay, I'm all in on this show.
So I think there's a lot of shows like that
that came out in the mid two thousands that were
when they found their audience. People loved them, but they
do probably have a much more dated feel to them.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
And I also have a mental block, and we've talked
about it before. I don't know if there's a description
for it or a term for it in the in
the entertainment industry customer side, but there's a mental block
of that's a lot of TV.

Speaker 14 (21:08):
It's a lot of TV.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
It's one thing.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
To say I'm gonna be addicted to Yellowstone, for example,
five seasons spread out over like eight years, and you
don't think of it as I mean, when you're in
the middle of it, you don't think of it as
a lot of seasons and you get it. You're excited
about the next one coming and you got to wait
a few months. But if I dial up Sons of
Anarchy and I realize there's seven seasons of this thing,

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it's at least ten episodes in every season.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
That's a lot. I'm not going to finish that until Christmas.

Speaker 14 (21:37):
Yeah, that's a big commitment. That's a big commitment.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
A Yellowstone, though, like I used to hate that they
we had a weed so long between the seasons, and
then if you didn't have the Paramount network, you couldn't
see it on the first run, and that was just
like very frustrating watch to watch Yellowstone. But yeah, I mean,
any kind of any of those old streaming shows that
have more than four or five seasons, I think. I
feel like that's why now so many of these shows
are getting just four or five seasons and then Netflix

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is pulling the plug or you know, whoever the streamer is.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
I talked to a friend who has made pitches before
for shows and said that five seasons is the golden
is the golden number.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Do you remember on Community they used to joke about
they wanted to get five seasons in a movie like
that was it was like almost like an inside joke
about when want five seasons in a movie. That's the
sweet spot. That's a sweet spot for TV shows. You
get five seasons before you jump the shark, you know,
and then you get a movie and then you can
just sort of rap.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Then you just sit there collecting checks for the rest
of your life.

Speaker 14 (22:33):
That's the dream.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Three trailers are up right now.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
If you go on the website KFI am six forty
dot com slash Gary and Shannon. Is this thing on interesting?
Will Arnett Laura Dern in a comedy and is this
thing on? Will Arnett actually plays a British comedian who
I think, if I'm not mistaken, had never done stand
up before and then tries stand up as kind of

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the dealing with his breakup.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Yeah, so that'll be interesting.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
House of Guinness Netflix on Netflix, I should say. And
then Glenn Powell as Chad Powers. Got to be a
football fan to know Eli Manning and his undercovered Chad
Powers personality. But they say that this is like Missus
Doubt Fire, but with football. So those trailers that were

(23:24):
all on there includes one of my favorite actors of
all times, Steve Zon as South George's coach.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I do want to mention too, because we cannot forget
to mention. What's happening this week. Peacock is releasing the paper,
which is the which is the follow up to the Office.
So twenty years ago is when The Office premiere twenty
years ago this year and now we bought the paper,
which takes place in a newspaper newsroom and it is
has a little bit of a slow start, but so

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to the office when it was finding its footing. But
it's premiere's tomorrow actually, and it's only on Peacock. They're
not releasing it on NBC mean.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Until they start making money until Yeah, this thing is
gonna be great.

Speaker 14 (24:05):
Yeah yeah, right up.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Next, what it is that happened to the Wizard of
Oz and why it's causing such a huge stir in Hollywood.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Gary and Shannon will continue.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Am six forty.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
We are joined by Heather Brooker.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
We're talking about what you watch on Wednesday, which is
all of that stuff that we've been watching on television
over the course of the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 15 (24:33):
Hey, Gary, great show today. You're doing a fantastic job
as always listen what you watching Wednesday. I'm actually taking
some advice from you and started watching that show Leanne.
First couple episodes were a little mid whatever, agree, but
once I got to episode four, five and six and forward,
it was really good.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
And it's actually quite funny.

Speaker 15 (24:54):
Definitely geared towards an older generation clearly, but it's a
great show.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
So thanks Buddy for two reasons. It's geared towards the
a later generation. Number one, it's a Chuck Laurie show,
and it is built and filmed and created and written
and produced like a Chuck Lauri very much so early
nineties sitcoms.

Speaker 14 (25:16):
Set upset up, punch, you know, quick, joke quick.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
If you notice there's a joke every nine to twelve seconds,
boom boom boom.

Speaker 14 (25:21):
That's very much a Chuck lri style.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
And the Leanne Morgan, I mean a lot of the
storyline is her she's mid fifties, menopause, all those jokes
that go into it, the old menopause, later in life, divorce,
you know, kids that are growing up and out of
the house. Yeah, so I really liked it. I've always
liked Leanne Morgan. I've been a huge advocate of her
stand up comedy. Glad that she got the show so

(25:45):
funny she is, she's really great, and that show specifically,
you see her get better, I mean as an actress,
get better over the course of the show.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
People kind of remember this is like her first thing,
her first time doing a show in a series like this.
She's done stand up for a very long time, and
you can tell if you're familiar with her stand up.
It's definitely woven into the show. A lot of it
is her jokes, but you still like watching her act
it out as this character.

Speaker 14 (26:11):
So yeah, it's a really fun show. She's great.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
It's on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Speaking of Netflix, I just wanted to throw in there
that Netflix put out its top most watched movies of
all time, and they go from number ten bird Box
way back in the day.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
That was such a huge cultural change it was.

Speaker 14 (26:31):
That was a great movie.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
The Adam Project, Let's See Where to Go? Sorry, Birdbox
was number six. Adam Project was number five, I'll do that.
Number four was Don't Look Up from Adam McKay huh
okay with Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo dicapri, a huge cast,
Carry On with Taron Edgerton and Jason Bateman.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
That was number three.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Red Notice That was The Rock Galacadote and Ryan Reynolds.
And then the number one, no surprise is K Pop
Demon Hunters.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Oh yeah, all time.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
It's only about it for a couple months and it's
the all time. I believe it Netflix.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
I was at dinner on Labor Day and there was
a family behind us blaring it on their phone, yes,
and I was like, I support you and your parenting choices,
but knock it off.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
You don't have to say that part.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
The Sphere over in Vegas is showing the Wizard of Oz. Now,
the original format of The Wizard of Oz was probably
thirty five millimeter film that's not designed to be broadcast,
to be projected, sorry, on the sphere on the sphere,

(27:44):
So not only do they have to digitize it to
make it projectable on the sphere, they added all kinds
of square.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Footage I guess is the right way to put it.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, So this is really more of a question of
sort of revisiting and reimagining a classic for today's audiences
versus preserving an iconic piece of cinema history. That's sort
of the debate that's happening right now. Because the creators
of the Wizard of Oz for the Sphere did go

(28:17):
in and used Google assisted engineering and AI technology to
flesh out.

Speaker 14 (28:23):
The world of the Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
So we see more of the land, the sky in Kansas,
We see where you know, people's legs and their lower halves,
where in the film you just saw people you know,
from their midsection up And I think what people are
really having an issue with or struggling with, is that
they digitally added in more like heap, more Munchkins, more

(28:50):
people in the Wizard of Oz, and specifically James Dolan,
who is the creator of this and he creates the
projects for the Sphere, put his face and Warner Brothers
CEO David Zaslov space on one of the cup on
two of the munchkins in munchkin Land and people are like,
wait what, and he's like, it's a fun little easter

(29:11):
egg you can look out for.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Oh, it's an eco. It's a masturbatory ego trip.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yes, So I.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Think there were some other things that they did. I mean,
you have to think about it too. Like you said,
it was shot in a four x three format originally
back in nineteen thirty nine. There had to be a
tremendous amount of updating to put it on a sixteen
k massive, one hundred and sixty thousand square foot screen.
That's like, oh, that's surround you if you're seen a.

Speaker 14 (29:38):
Show at this spear.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
I haven't seen one there, but I know.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's incredible to watch. I watched Postcards from Earth there
last summer and it's incredible. The experience is wonderful, the sound,
the immersiveness of it. Will you take something that was
meant to be so much smaller and when you blow
it out? I mean, they had to go in and
they digitized every single frame of The Wizard of Ode
with AI technology, so Dorothy's face is a little more smooth.

(30:04):
They also redid her vocals for Over the Rainbow, and
some people are like, what are you doing? Why would
you touch it? So their argument, though, is we're updating
this classic so it can be enjoyed and by future generations.
We're utilizing this technology that's available. But other people are saying,
but the filmmaker didn't ever intend for it to be

(30:24):
this way, like we don't need to see David Zaslov
as a munch.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, that might be a kind of a dubious argument
because the filmmaker originally didn't know that that technology. Like
you said, they shot it in a different format, not
even the sixteen by nine that exists in movies today,
or you know, they didn't have access to things like
IMAX and the KHX sounds.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
And the you know, all of the new things that
are available.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, I think that the big issue is that because
the filmmaker didn't have that technology available, why are we
even using it? And I see it sort of as
what they're saying is this is a tourist destination. This
is no different than going somewhere and seeing something that's
specifically designed for tourists and for people do enjoy while

(31:13):
they're on vacation. This is not intended to necessarily be
an oscar contender, or he's not creating a new piece
of art here. And I think it's also has an
interactive element to it, like there's at some points where
they shake the apple tree in the film and apples
fall from the sky. There's actual drone flying monkeys that

(31:34):
fly through the crowd at some point.

Speaker 14 (31:35):
Spoiler alert, guys, if you're going there.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Are some There are some interactive element likes that like
when the tornado starts up, there's wind that actually goes
through the sphere. So it's really meant to, I think,
be an updated version of the classic at least that's
what the filmmakers and the creators are are saying that
they intended it to be.

Speaker 14 (31:53):
But the argument is.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why why are we doing this to this classic film
that was never intended.

Speaker 14 (31:59):
This be this way?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Why do we need to see all of Kansas in
the background, Why do we need to see the lower
half of the Wizard and the Munchkins and all these people?

Speaker 14 (32:08):
And then the argument is why not? Why not? Cam
is anything off limits?

Speaker 5 (32:13):
You know, because we can doesn't mean that we should.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
And that is that is the ultimate question.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
I do think there's also some parallels between this kind
of manipulation, not in a negative way, but just the
manipulation of a classic like this. It's very similar to
the music industry because you can take you could take
other classic yeah, sole pieces.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
Yeah, that's what they did with Saturday Night Fever.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, I mean Beethoven's fifth became a disco.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
There's been a ton of remastering with audio, and that's
something that the audio industry, you know, struggles with as well.
And I think again it is just because you can,
should you do it? I think people who are sinophiles.
If you're really passionate about out the original Wizard of
Oz and these classic films and preserving that history and

(33:04):
preserving that, then you're not gonna like this.

Speaker 14 (33:06):
This isn't for you.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
If you want to drop one hundred and fifty bucks
and go and catch an apple falling from the sky
and feel the wind of the tornado and Kansas then yeah,
I mean you'll you'll enjoy it.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
To love it.

Speaker 14 (33:17):
You're gonna love it.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Get out your calendar. Can I schedule for Friday?

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Okay, because I want to talk about the rock crying.
Oh do that on Friday.

Speaker 14 (33:25):
Hey, I'm here for it.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Thanks Heather, Thank you?

Speaker 14 (33:27):
All right.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
John Cobelt shows up next. We'll see it tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Mar La Tea is joining us tomorrow on The Gary
and Shannon Show.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Stay dry.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
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