August 2, 2025 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Thoughts on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting closing its doors after six decades due to federal cuts AND Warner Bros. announcing major layoffs within its Motion Picture Group department…PLUS – Mark Rahner has a review of the new Paramount Pictures remake of ‘The Naked Gun’ in The Rahner Report - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
KFI.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Mister Kelly, We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Let
me start right there, the iHeartRadio app or KFI. That
is what we call commercial media. If you were to
watch a show like maybe Reading Rainbow, or maybe see
a show like Sesame Street, mister Rogers, that's what they
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call public media. And I worked in public public media
for about six years on a show, a radio show
called a Tavis Smiley Show. It was distributed by Public
Radio International, but it was a part of public media.
Sometimes people don't know the difference between the different distinctions
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in public media. NPR is public radio, but it's not
the only distributor of content. There's Public Radio International, there's PRX,
there's NPR, but it's still about the public broadcast system. CPB,
Corporation for Public Public Broadcasting, announced today that it would
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be winding down its operations, and that truly saddens me
because I'm a kid who grew up on Sesame Street,
mister Rogers neighborhood. As I got a little older, I
started watching Frontline and I watched Nova, the science series
and maybe more recently people may have found finding your
roots with Henry Lewis Gates. I remember watching PBS News Hour.
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There were so many shows that I watch which informed
and helped develop me as the person that I am,
which would be directly impacted and if you don't, No,
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was not the sole provider
of funds for a lot of these shows. If you
have a public radio show or a public television show,
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by and large, they have to come up with their
own budgets. That's why if you turn on certain stations,
the public radio stations, they're always having a fundraising drive.
You seem like every time you turn around is fundraising, yes,
because they are listener supported for the most part. I
think on average, public radio stations maybe get ten to
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fifteen percent of their annual budget from the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting, which is their budget was more than a
billion dollars until President Trump signed executive Order back in
May instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease federal
funding for both PBS and NPR, all I can say
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is this is going to have a long time negative
impact on children, and I think us as a country.
I don't know what type of person that would have
been without something like this.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Brings back memories, doesn't it. It's a beautiful day in
this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Would you be mine?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Could you be mine? It's a neighborly day in this week,
a neighborly day for beauty. Would you be mine? Could
have you be mine? I have all always wanted to
have a neighbor just my youth.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I've always wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To live in a neighborhood with you. So let's make
the most of this ale watterful day.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Since we're together, might as well say, would you be mine?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And if you'd be mine, won't you be my neighbor?
Won't you please? Won't you please?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Please?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Won't you be my neighbor?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Every day after school it was me and mister Rogers.
I didn't even know how many life lessons I would
be learning from mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And it's different by generation.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Maybe you're fifteen twenty forty years younger than me and
this made more of an impact on you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But ify and.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
BEI I can go twice. Take up a look. It's
a book reading rainbow.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Anyway, for end to Know and reads the group Rain.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Anything take us a look, it's a book reading Rain.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Maybe you enjoyed a Ken Burns documentary, any of them
that's PBS.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I know what varies by generation.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Maybe people don't know don't have the same memories as
far as I did. They didn't maybe grow up on
Sesame Street. I know I did, and I know that
it was nice that they were. They some of the
characters and people who are appearing look like me, came
from a city that looked like where I was coming from.
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That matters. It was really important in an educational sense.
And unfortunately where at a point in this country where
we no longer see value in that. I don't agree
with it, but that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Set enough say how to get desessans God everything time.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Here's how old I am.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
There was only back in the day channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
thirteen that was VHS. Then you have the UHF, which
which were the PBS stations of KSE E T which
is channel twenty eight, and also ko CE which is
channel fifty. Back in the day, that's how I saw
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a speed racer and Keim of the White Lion because
they were back then on PBS and KOCEE. They weren't
on VHS excuse me, VHF TV. Did you watch Stephan
growing up any of the PBS or Corporation for Public
Broadcasting shows?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I did.
Speaker 9 (07:58):
I watched almost everything that you played, mister Rogers, Sesame Street.
I grew up on all that stuff. Like and I
there is those memes going around where they like, oh,
thanks to viewers like you, and I'm like, what did
I do?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right, I'm just a kid.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, it's just your parents, really, Yeah, And part of
it is nostalgia, but also part of it is an
appreciation of the service that it provided. It was necessary,
and if we wanted to boil it down to simply
a line item on a budget, we've lost the plot.
We've misunderstood the purpose of not only educational television, but
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children's television and providing a space for idea makers because
a lot of these shows would not fit when I
was talking about commercial TV, commercial radio versus public radio
and public television. There's a place, there was a place
for these idea generators, for these content create because the
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content creators of back then were the people who created
Sesame Street, the people who created mister Rogers neighborhood that
would not have existed on commercial television. And to see
all that being thrown by the wayside, it it bothers me,
just to be honest, because remember, I'm a proponent of education,
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and a lot of these shows were straight up educational
and to be caught up in this political moment is disappointing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I know your upbringing was different than mine. Did you
have any connection to these types of shows?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Sure, we all watched that stuff, and even in latter
days as an adult. I mean, I think I'm blurbed
on one of ken Burns's documentaries what Frontline?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
All right?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Every single episode of Frontline is a masterclass. Those guys
dot their eyes and crossed their teas, and the narrator
has a really cool voice too. It's such a massive
loss that I don't think we're really capable of taking
it in all at once. It's we're gonna find out
as time drags on how big a loss this is
and how just stupid and unnecessary it is.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Unfortunately, you are right, and I say you're right because
it's going to take years for people to understand the
value of the CPB and also what we've lost in
its absence. Not everything is a line item on a budget,
and this is really disappointing. And I feel sorry for
our children because they won't know what they're missing, and
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I feel sorry for us, as supposed responsible adults who've
taken it away. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM
six forty. We're live everywhere on social media and the
iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, more bad news.
We have layoffs at Warner Brothers Motion Picture Group. And
you think what you thought the everything was doing well.
You just had Superman come out and thought the movies
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were doing well. Evidently not as well as we've been
led to believe.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Kf I AM six forty. It is Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And not as
all well in the world of movies Motion Picture Group
of Warner Brothers. That division is laying off about one
hundred staffers and executives. And that's not minor because when
you have Warner Brothers Pictures and correct me if I'm
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wrong twelve. I think they've had the second best twenty
twenty five thus far.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, overall. I mean Superman right now is trending
as being one of the highest grossing films of the year,
in a massive success for them. So you can see
this newsuxtaposed against this like, wait, what what's happening? Don't
I don't, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now if I were to make some assumptions, and they
are assumptions, what happens in the movie industry usually is
a reflection on how these companies feel about the econ
to me, at least in the short term, whether it's
going to be more expensive making these movies or they're
not going to perform as well. But usually there is
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a correlation, not necessarily causation, but a correlation where if
they're not bullish on the economy, then they may start
to contract, they may lay off people, they may pull
movies from their production slate. That's usually what happens. But
I don't know if all that is happening here. It
just took me by surprise. When they have about a
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thousand employees worldwide, now they're going to cut about one
hundred of them. Some executives some staffers. They're going to
merge some departments, and it's just it's strange some high
level executives. Yeah, so this is just just low off.
I mean, you know Jeff Goldstein, who is now being
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elevated to global president, that's after Andrew Cripps is exiting
a president of international distribution. They were nice enough to
send out an email to everyone. When I say nice enough,
I mean that in the most sarcastic, condescending way. And
this is how some of the email went. And I
want you to imagine that you're one of the people
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who are laid off, or not even laid off. Maybe
you made the cut and some of your fellow employees
were laid off.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Here how it went.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Earlier this year, in collaboration with leaders across the film division,
we undertook a thoughtful assessment of our current structure and
began the work to transform our business as we transition
from a US home office slash international model to a
fully global structure. The exploration led to important conversations and
insights to better understand how we reach audiences, what fundamental
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shifts should be implemented as teams work together across the
world to collectively engage today's moviegoers and what the division
needs to be successful.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
There are a whole lot of paragraphs of.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Bs as far as dancing around why they felt they
needed to just cut some of the bottom line and
cut expenses.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Just get to that and they refuse toy.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But it goes on in partnership with our P and
C colleagues, and with these new learnings, we spend a
lot of time thinking about how we evolve our teams
as in other words, fire people to ensure films made
here at Warner Brothers continue to receive world class release campaigns,
and we engross audiences with the kind of memorable in
theater experience only the big screen can offer.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They will will not get to the fricking point goes on.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Adapting how we work often calls for evolution and the
future of how we run this business has required us
to make some very difficult decisions, including staffing adjustments that
will impact members of the Motion Picture Group. This week,
your department leadership will share what these strategic changes mean
for you and your teams. In the coming weeks and months,
we will work with leaders around the world to shape
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and implement this global operating model. In a way that
reflects local needs and realities. Close quote Okay, I'm going
to be very very clear.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I know what you're going to say. Very clear.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
If you have about a thousand people, which you are
now cutting one hundred out so you can take your
national distribution platform in your company global, what's yours? And
you say you have new learnings, new methodologies, new ways
you're gonna go about doing it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That translates to means AI.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Yes, that just means that we have AI to do
a lot of your jobs, and we're gonna be good
on some of you.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Meaning because you're saying what we're taking what we're doing
locally as in the US, and we're gonna make it
global and we're gonna do with fewer people.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Math is math?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
You need to say we're gonna go bigger with fewer people.
What you're saying is we don't need as many people
because AI is gonna be doing those jobs.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Let me put it in fast food terms.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Let's say you have a Twalla's Chicken and Waffles, okay,
and you have ten locations and you want to expand
to other states. If you're gonna expand other states, presumably
you would need more people, not fewer people, unless maybe
you have some automated technology which allows you to do
so and you can actually cut staff that could buy
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a flippy, the burger flipper in the back, and I
can say, well, I don't need as many people in
every location.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And see that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You gave us six paragraphs beating around the bush of
how you're going to evolve the buildusness and new learnings
and expansion, and they always want to make it like
some great uh change to the business. You know, it's
a great idea. It's actually going to be good for
everyone who's still around. They always do that for some reason.
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Oh no, no, this is this is not anything bad.
It's an opportunity. Yes, we've made the company better because
we've fired fifty of your friends and fifty other people
you didn't like but you didn't know them.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
But overall, it's gonna be better. And then you do
that while also toutings success. So that's awesome, which is
if I'm reading this, I'm like, this is highly offensive.
You're telling us we are very successful, and because of
our success and all our hard work, you're expanding globally.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But by doing it without some of the people that
helped us get to this point where you could do this.
Huh yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's like, wait, man, Okay, from the movies that I
could see with the Warner Brothers name on it, they've
done well. I think they's second to the Disney Corporation
in twenty twenty five. Okay, Superman has done well.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Minecraft did very very well to a billion Yes, okay,
Sinners Hello, I'm sorry. Sinners is one of the biggest
films to come out in a long time. It is
still breaking records. And you're like, yeah, but we're talking
about not Warner Brothers. We're talking about Warner Brothers Motion
Picture Group, just the movies.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's wild.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
And they were and before this weekend they were literally
touting Superman as bringing the company back into the black.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I'm like, I don't understand, you're back in the black. Oh,
I'm sorry, f one, that's also Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, A lion just lying. Oh man, this is how
it goes. This is how it goes. It's later with
mo Kelly caf I am six forded.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we
come back, we have the run A report of the
Naked Gun.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand from
kf I A M six forty, Mark.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Talks about pontificates about pop culture. Report with Mark Ronner.
I am six forty. Is now time for the Runner
Report with Mark Runner.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You have probably seen the trailer for The Naked Gun
reboot with Liam Neeson by now, because it seems like
it's been playing forever and not getting any funnier. Here's
a taste, but not much because it's largely visual.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Once you kill a man for revenge, there's no going back.
It stays with you forever. A voice in your head
sang over and over, man, that was awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Now, when I say it's largely visual, he just tore
a bad guy's hands off and smacked him with one
of the arms.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Drevin, the robbers who put in the ICU are noiuring
up to sue the city.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So swim the cops have to follow the log. Is
he serious?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
No, that doesn't get any better. Let's just end it
right there for everybody's sake. A little girl walks into
a bank robbery. One of the Brooks ask her what
she wants. She takes off her mask to reveal it's
septagenarian Liam Neeson and he says, your ass. Then he
takes them all out. Did you find that funny? I
was kind of baffled by it and by how anyone
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would have thought that was what you want in the
trailer to get people to travel and then pay to
see your movie. See it's a little girl, but it's
really a large elderly irishman. I do like answering your
ass for pretty much anything. What are you reviewing tonight?
Mark your ass? What's in the news today? Say it
with me, Moe, he's not there. I even think the
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construction of your ass speaking of Mo, your ass is
doing X or why is funny when Mo says it
your ass is going to a bad movie. So let's
get caught up. There were three naked gun movies with
Leslie Nielson starting in nineteen eighty eight, and those were
from the files of Police Squad, which was a really
funny but short lived TV show, just six episodes. It
was sort of infamous at the time for getting canceled
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because viewers had to pay too much attention to what
they were watching and I'm not making that up. That
was a Zucker Abrams and Zucker comedy zazz and those
were the guys who also perpetrated Airplane, fast paced throw
Everything at the Wall comedy with wordplay, jokes, site gags,
and a hilarious dead pan performance from Leslie Nielsen, who
was getting on in years at the time but enjoying
a new career being funny after playing a heavy most
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of his career and by all reports, not really playing
the two differently. He wasn't available for any more of
these movies because he's been dead for a while. In
this reboot, Nisan plays his son, Frank Reben Junior. Either
they didn't explain the accent or I was sleeping when
they did. Pamela Anderson is the fem fatale love interest,
and Danny Houston, who I guess needs work just like
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the rest of us, is the tech billionaire bad guy.
Does the plot matter? Not really, musk. I mean, Houston
has developed a new fleet of electric driverless cars, which
probably still don't get recalled as often as Tesla's. I
wanted to walk out of this thing ten minutes in,
and I was in the mood for a comedy. I
watched Happy Gilmour Too last weekend and thought, no classic,
but a few silly laughs. Some people I like fairly
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good hearted story. The news business is stressful. I've been
desperate for laughs. In fact, Moe mentioned Adam West earlier
in the show. Here's the funniest thing I heard all
this week, the late Adam West on the late Gilbert
Gottfried's podcast, doing a Kanye West rap about the bitches
in that Adam West batman voice, with Gilbert's insane laughter
punctuating it. I need more Life's grim. We're getting screwed
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on student loans again starting today. Bring the laughs, but
The Naked Gun was not the place to turn for that.
I didn't laugh for the entire mercifully short eighty five
minute running time of this film. Seriously, not once, which
for a comedy is not ideal. Naked Gun may be
the least funny comedy I've ever seen. I want to
put it in Leonard Part six territory, but I don't
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think it's even going to be that kind of footnote.
I felt sorry for the people in it, and I
don't even like him that much. Your mileage may vary
on Liam Neeson sort of feels like you can really
see him putting work into this stuff that came so
effortlessly to Leslie Nielsen. Well. Bright Spot's Paul Walter Hauser
plays Repen's partner, and we just saw him as Moleman
and The Fantastic Four last week. Kevin Durand plays Houston's henchman,
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and he deserves more work. He was good in the
Strained TV show. He's good and everything he'sn't here's a
little taste for you. Pam Anderson comes into Nissen's police
squad office and he says take a chair. She says,
no thanks, I've got plenty of chairs at home. And
by the time you wipe the tears from your eyes
and stop gasping for air, at the end of that scene,
she changes her mind and takes a chair, bumping it
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into stuff as she leaves the office. I could describe
more from the movie, but what have you ever done
to me? Okay, okay, one more. There's a dream sequence
with Nissen and Anderson having a romantic getaway and some
winter hide away somewhere in a drawn out scene where
they bring a snowman to life is one of the
most painful dumb things I have ever witnessed, and I'm
not exaggerating. It made me long for the dream sequence
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in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carrey lights his own fart.
Now that's funny. I'll tell you that I've always thought
Benny Hill was funny, and I would have killed for
so much as a fast motion chase with the Yakaty
Sachs plan. This Naked Gun wasn't even that funny. By
the way, I'm also a big fan of driving jokes
into the ground. In the Police Squad Show, the gag
of Drevin driving into garbage cans every single time he
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parks gets funnier every single time he does it. In
the Old Gets Smart Show, the cones of silence are
funnier every single time they're used. And in This Naked
Gun there's a running gag of people handing Drebbing a
cup of coffee constantly wherever he is, And I honestly
don't know how you can screw something like that up.
So that I'm just sitting there in the audience like
I'm being asked to review ring camera footage or something.
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I'm calling in a code brown on this one. We're
talking Golden Raspberry territory here. It really is that Bad
Zazz were not involved in this abomination. They got no responsibility.
Maybe they could have explained the difference between silly and
stupid to this crew. The responsible party is Akiva Schaeffer,
who directed and co wrote the movie. He worked on
Saturday Night Live, and his other work includes pop Star
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Never Stop, Never Stopping. Is he funny somehow with something else?
I'll never find out. Now it's been reported that seventy
three year old Nissan and fifty eight year old andersoner dating. Yeah, okay,
the age difference is still kind of gross, but at
least someone got something out of this movie. You might
recall that OJ Simpson was in the original Naked Gun movies.
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I would say this reboot is more in line with
OJ's later non film work. If you're picking up what
I'm laying down here, MO, that's your runner report. Look
when you said Leonard Part six, I think that's all
I needed to hear. I got out of here at
the usual late hour last night, and I was starved
for comedy. This thing it's just an abomination.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It didn't need to be remade. It was already a
cult classic. You know how I feel about cult classics.
You were not going to be able to I haven't
seen the movie, don't have any desire to see the movie.
You weren't going to be able to recreate the comedic
timing of a Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I don't think it's im possible. But whoever these guys are,
they just could not get a handle on it. I mean,
it's really one of the dumbest things I've seen in
my adult life. Like, not funny, dumb. I think Beavis
and butt Head is funny. Okay, this is just dumb.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I just think it's too lazy when you take a
classic title, a classic property, and then try to shoehorn
people into it just for a different generation, just because
just because they didn't grow up with Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Well, you're touching on a really important point. The Naked
Gun was a spoof of a really popular TV genre
at the time, which was these hard boiled yes fundamentally
silly though cop shows and those aren't so popular anymore.
We don't have a lot of that, So this is
a spoof of a spoof that's forty years out of date.
That's a great point because certain movies are made for
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a certain time. We talked about this were Roadhouse, Roadhouse
only made since in nineteen eighty nine, not twenty twenty five.
You can't go around beating up people and there'd be
no consequences.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You know that that could be in nineteen eighty nine,
not twenty twenty five. And you know, same as true
a lot of movies in the eighties and nineties, they
were for a time and in America, which no longer exists.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
You this is the kind of movie that forces you
to evaluate, like what everybody thinks is funny and why
and whether it's just a roar shock and everything strikes
everybody differently. I mean, I mentioned all the old stuff too.
You I was game if it was kind of old
school and based on obscure references. I talked about Get
Smart in my review. But this is so astonishingly just
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flat out dumb. I really am curious. I read a
bit last night after I got home about the making
of it, and apparently it's been It's gone through several iterations.
Ed Helm was meant to star in it at one
point at Helms, and it's been in the work so long.
Leslie Nielsen was even meant to star in it back
while he was still alive. And so a lot of
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the times, things with such a long gestation period do
wind up becoming disasters, disasters because's just too many hands
on him along the way.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And I can say that maybe I'm the one who's
old and out of touch and maybe not in understanding
what humor is for the movie going audience in twenty
twenty five, I will put that out there. I'll con
see that that's a possibility, but I'm probably not wrong.
You know, no one was clamoring to do this. No
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one was clamoring, I think.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
To step on the legacy of Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
If it had been good, I'd be down with it.
But it's just so awful that it's astonishing to me
that it even got made. And when I suggest that
you can find something better to do than go watch
this movie, what I mean is anything, anything, any anything
you do will be more funny, even like going to
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break Let's try.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
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want to quickly comment on this. We now know that
there is A Quiet Place Part three, which is coming
out or slated to come out in summer of twenty
twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Wasn't Part three the one that had Lapita and Theongo?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You beat me to it because this is now it
will be the fourth movie.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
But they're calling it Quiet Place Part three because A
Quiet Place was a first one, and then we had
A Quiet Place Part two, and then we had the
spinoff A Quiet Place Day one.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Really quick, I totally understood. You said to watch it
like basically backwards. Yes, And when I watched them all,
I'm like, MO, had it correct. If you have the chance,
watch it that way because it is so much better. Yeah,
watch A Quiet Place Day one first, just take my
(30:11):
word for it. Then watch A Quiet Place second, and
then watch A Quiet Place Part two third. That will
be the correct chronological order and it won't seem as disjointed.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
What order do you watch the Star Wars films in? MO, Well,
I had no choice back then because they're like thirty
years apart. Well, now you do, well, now, I would
watch them from the beginning in chronological order, no doubt,
no doubt, Okause to me, they're most enjoyable that way, But.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean I I encountered them as they came out.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Now, if I were to tell one of my blended
sons to watch them, I would tell you start with
The Phantom Menace, so you have them watching in the
order in which they were released serves no purpose if
you have no reference.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
You would tell them your kids to watch The Menace first,
and I would call child Protective Services on your household.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, you can do that.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I mean, gosh, we're not even friends, so of course,
but that wouldn't be the good recommendation if you're going
to best understand the story. We all know we had
to kind of piece everything together. When you're talking about
the forest and Darth Vader and Obi Wan and the
Clone Wars. There was no reference point for that. When
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we first saw a New Hope. They didn't have a plan.
I know they didn't. But at the same time, if
I were to recommend it to someone, always chronological order,
and that goes back to a quiet place. You should
see that in chronological order to best appreciate it. It's
not wrong if you see it in the order that
was released, like I did, but I think it's a
(31:45):
better experience if you see it in chronological order, because
there's so many questions which are unanswered that they it
makes less sense in the way that the movies were produced,
because you're dropped into the story the first one. It's
after and this is not a real spoiler, it's after
the alien invasion, and you're given limited information throughout that movie.
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You're given limited information in A Quiet Place Part two.
So they go back and do Quiet Place Part Day one,
and you get a much better understanding of how the
world came to be when you found it in A
Quiet Place one, the very first movie.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
As far as release date, the numbering is really annoying.
This yes, and by the way, that last one wasn't
bad at all.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It was not bad.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But when you say Quiet Place Part three, it's almost
like you're disavowing Day one.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It throws it. Hopefully the least moved the story forward.
That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Wasn't the guy and that one also the guy playing
Johnny Storm Fantastic four Current one?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Joseph Quinn. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I have to go back and look all look right now,
I know that was John Krasinski. Is his movie, his
baby and he was Reid Richard's Oh yeah, this is
all very incestuous.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
It is it is.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yep, that's him. Well, there you have it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Learn something new every day. It's later with Mo Kelly
k if I AM six forty. We live everywhere in
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Speaker 1 (33:12):
As I and KOs T HD two, Los Angeles, Orange
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
KFI.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Mister Kelly, We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. Let
me start right there, the iHeartRadio app or KFI. That
is what we call commercial media. If you were to
watch a show like maybe Reading Rainbow, or maybe see
a show like Sesame Street, mister Rogers, that's what they
(00:44):
call public media. And I worked in public public media
for about six years on a show, a radio show
called a Tavis Smiley Show. It was distributed by Public
Radio International, but it was a part of public media.
Sometimes people don't know the difference between the different distinctions
(01:04):
in public media. NPR is public radio, but it's not
the only distributor of content. There's Public Radio International, there's PRX,
there's NPR, but it's still about the public broadcast system. CPB,
Corporation for Public Public Broadcasting, announced today that it would
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be winding down its operations, and that truly saddens me
because I'm a kid who grew up on Sesame Street,
mister Rogers neighborhood. As I got a little older, I
started watching Frontline and I watched Nova, the science series
and maybe more recently people may have found finding your
roots with Henry Lewis Gates. I remember watching PBS News Hour.
(01:51):
There were so many shows that I watch which informed
and helped develop me as the person that I am,
which would be directly impacted and if you don't, No,
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was not the sole provider
of funds for a lot of these shows. If you
have a public radio show or a public television show,
(02:12):
by and large, they have to come up with their
own budgets. That's why if you turn on certain stations,
the public radio stations, they're always having a fundraising drive.
You seem like every time you turn around is fundraising, yes,
because they are listener supported for the most part. I
think on average, public radio stations maybe get ten to
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fifteen percent of their annual budget from the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting, which is their budget was more than a
billion dollars until President Trump signed executive Order back in
May instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease federal
funding for both PBS and NPR, all I can say
(02:56):
is this is going to have a long time negative
impact on children, and I think us as a country.
I don't know what type of person that would have
been without something like this.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Brings back memories, doesn't it. It's a beautiful day in
this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Would you be mine?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Could you be mine? It's a neighborly day in this week,
a neighborly day for beauty. Would you be mine? Could
have you be mine? I have all always wanted to
have a neighbor just my youth.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I've always wanted.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
To live in a neighborhood with you. So let's make
the most of this ale watterful day.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Since we're together, might as well say, would you be mine?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And if you'd be mine, won't you be my neighbor?
Won't you please? Won't you please?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Please?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Won't you be my neighbor?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Every day after school it was me and mister Rogers.
I didn't even know how many life lessons I would
be learning from mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And it's different by generation.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Maybe you're fifteen twenty forty years younger than me and
this made more of an impact on you.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But ify and.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
BEI I can go twice. Take up a look. It's
a book reading rainbow.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Anyway, for end to Know and reads the group Rain.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Anything take us a look, it's a book reading Rain.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Maybe you enjoyed a Ken Burns documentary, any of them
that's PBS.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I know what varies by generation.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Maybe people don't know don't have the same memories as
far as I did. They didn't maybe grow up on
Sesame Street. I know I did, and I know that
it was nice that they were. They some of the
characters and people who are appearing look like me, came
from a city that looked like where I was coming from.
(06:07):
That matters. It was really important in an educational sense.
And unfortunately where at a point in this country where
we no longer see value in that. I don't agree
with it, but that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Set enough say how to get desessans God everything time.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Here's how old I am.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
There was only back in the day channel two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven,
thirteen that was VHS. Then you have the UHF, which
which were the PBS stations of KSE E T which
is channel twenty eight, and also ko CE which is
channel fifty. Back in the day, that's how I saw
(07:37):
a speed racer and Keim of the White Lion because
they were back then on PBS and KOCEE. They weren't
on VHS excuse me, VHF TV. Did you watch Stephan
growing up any of the PBS or Corporation for Public
Broadcasting shows?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
I did.
Speaker 9 (07:58):
I watched almost everything that you played, mister Rogers, Sesame Street.
I grew up on all that stuff. Like and I
there is those memes going around where they like, oh,
thanks to viewers like you, and I'm like, what did
I do?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right, I'm just a kid.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, it's just your parents, really, Yeah, And part of
it is nostalgia, but also part of it is an
appreciation of the service that it provided. It was necessary,
and if we wanted to boil it down to simply
a line item on a budget, we've lost the plot.
We've misunderstood the purpose of not only educational television, but
(08:38):
children's television and providing a space for idea makers because
a lot of these shows would not fit when I
was talking about commercial TV, commercial radio versus public radio
and public television. There's a place, there was a place
for these idea generators, for these content create because the
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content creators of back then were the people who created
Sesame Street, the people who created mister Rogers neighborhood that
would not have existed on commercial television. And to see
all that being thrown by the wayside, it it bothers me,
just to be honest, because remember, I'm a proponent of education,
(09:22):
and a lot of these shows were straight up educational
and to be caught up in this political moment is disappointing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I know your upbringing was different than mine. Did you
have any connection to these types of shows?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Sure, we all watched that stuff, and even in latter
days as an adult. I mean, I think I'm blurbed
on one of ken Burns's documentaries what Frontline?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
All right?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Every single episode of Frontline is a masterclass. Those guys
dot their eyes and crossed their teas, and the narrator
has a really cool voice too. It's such a massive
loss that I don't think we're really capable of taking
it in all at once. It's we're gonna find out
as time drags on how big a loss this is
and how just stupid and unnecessary it is.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Unfortunately, you are right, and I say you're right because
it's going to take years for people to understand the
value of the CPB and also what we've lost in
its absence. Not everything is a line item on a budget,
and this is really disappointing. And I feel sorry for
our children because they won't know what they're missing, and
(10:27):
I feel sorry for us, as supposed responsible adults who've
taken it away. It's Later with mo Kelly KFI AM
six forty. We're live everywhere on social media and the
iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, more bad news.
We have layoffs at Warner Brothers Motion Picture Group. And
you think what you thought the everything was doing well.
You just had Superman come out and thought the movies
(10:49):
were doing well. Evidently not as well as we've been
led to believe.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Kf I AM six forty. It is Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And not as
all well in the world of movies Motion Picture Group
of Warner Brothers. That division is laying off about one
hundred staffers and executives. And that's not minor because when
you have Warner Brothers Pictures and correct me if I'm
(11:25):
wrong twelve. I think they've had the second best twenty
twenty five thus far.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Yeah, yeah, overall. I mean Superman right now is trending
as being one of the highest grossing films of the year,
in a massive success for them. So you can see
this newsuxtaposed against this like, wait, what what's happening? Don't
I don't, I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now if I were to make some assumptions, and they
are assumptions, what happens in the movie industry usually is
a reflection on how these companies feel about the econ
to me, at least in the short term, whether it's
going to be more expensive making these movies or they're
not going to perform as well. But usually there is
(12:09):
a correlation, not necessarily causation, but a correlation where if
they're not bullish on the economy, then they may start
to contract, they may lay off people, they may pull
movies from their production slate. That's usually what happens. But
I don't know if all that is happening here. It
just took me by surprise. When they have about a
(12:29):
thousand employees worldwide, now they're going to cut about one
hundred of them. Some executives some staffers. They're going to
merge some departments, and it's just it's strange some high
level executives. Yeah, so this is just just low off.
I mean, you know Jeff Goldstein, who is now being
(12:51):
elevated to global president, that's after Andrew Cripps is exiting
a president of international distribution. They were nice enough to
send out an email to everyone. When I say nice enough,
I mean that in the most sarcastic, condescending way. And
this is how some of the email went. And I
want you to imagine that you're one of the people
(13:11):
who are laid off, or not even laid off. Maybe
you made the cut and some of your fellow employees
were laid off.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Here how it went.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Earlier this year, in collaboration with leaders across the film division,
we undertook a thoughtful assessment of our current structure and
began the work to transform our business as we transition
from a US home office slash international model to a
fully global structure. The exploration led to important conversations and
insights to better understand how we reach audiences, what fundamental
(13:44):
shifts should be implemented as teams work together across the
world to collectively engage today's moviegoers and what the division
needs to be successful.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
There are a whole lot of paragraphs of.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Bs as far as dancing around why they felt they
needed to just cut some of the bottom line and
cut expenses.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Just get to that and they refuse toy.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But it goes on in partnership with our P and
C colleagues, and with these new learnings, we spend a
lot of time thinking about how we evolve our teams
as in other words, fire people to ensure films made
here at Warner Brothers continue to receive world class release campaigns,
and we engross audiences with the kind of memorable in
theater experience only the big screen can offer.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They will will not get to the fricking point goes on.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Adapting how we work often calls for evolution and the
future of how we run this business has required us
to make some very difficult decisions, including staffing adjustments that
will impact members of the Motion Picture Group. This week,
your department leadership will share what these strategic changes mean
for you and your teams. In the coming weeks and months,
we will work with leaders around the world to shape
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and implement this global operating model. In a way that
reflects local needs and realities. Close quote Okay, I'm going
to be very very clear.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I know what you're going to say. Very clear.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
If you have about a thousand people, which you are
now cutting one hundred out so you can take your
national distribution platform in your company global, what's yours? And
you say you have new learnings, new methodologies, new ways
you're gonna go about doing it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That translates to means AI.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Yes, that just means that we have AI to do
a lot of your jobs, and we're gonna be good
on some of you.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Meaning because you're saying what we're taking what we're doing
locally as in the US, and we're gonna make it
global and we're gonna do with fewer people.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Math is math?
Speaker 6 (15:44):
You need to say we're gonna go bigger with fewer people.
What you're saying is we don't need as many people
because AI is gonna be doing those jobs.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Let me put it in fast food terms.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Let's say you have a Twalla's Chicken and Waffles, okay,
and you have ten locations and you want to expand
to other states. If you're gonna expand other states, presumably
you would need more people, not fewer people, unless maybe
you have some automated technology which allows you to do
so and you can actually cut staff that could buy
(16:16):
a flippy, the burger flipper in the back, and I
can say, well, I don't need as many people in
every location.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And see that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You gave us six paragraphs beating around the bush of
how you're going to evolve the buildusness and new learnings
and expansion, and they always want to make it like
some great uh change to the business. You know, it's
a great idea. It's actually going to be good for
everyone who's still around. They always do that for some reason.
(16:42):
Oh no, no, this is this is not anything bad.
It's an opportunity. Yes, we've made the company better because
we've fired fifty of your friends and fifty other people
you didn't like but you didn't know them.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
But overall, it's gonna be better. And then you do
that while also toutings success. So that's awesome, which is
if I'm reading this, I'm like, this is highly offensive.
You're telling us we are very successful, and because of
our success and all our hard work, you're expanding globally.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But by doing it without some of the people that
helped us get to this point where you could do this.
Huh yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It's like, wait, man, Okay, from the movies that I
could see with the Warner Brothers name on it, they've
done well. I think they's second to the Disney Corporation
in twenty twenty five. Okay, Superman has done well.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Minecraft did very very well to a billion Yes, okay,
Sinners Hello, I'm sorry. Sinners is one of the biggest
films to come out in a long time. It is
still breaking records. And you're like, yeah, but we're talking
about not Warner Brothers. We're talking about Warner Brothers Motion
Picture Group, just the movies.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's wild.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
And they were and before this weekend they were literally
touting Superman as bringing the company back into the black.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I'm like, I don't understand, you're back in the black. Oh,
I'm sorry, f one, that's also Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, A lion just lying. Oh man, this is how
it goes. This is how it goes. It's later with
mo Kelly caf I am six forded.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and when we
come back, we have the run A report of the
Naked Gun.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You're listening to later with Mo Kelly on demand from
kf I A M six forty, Mark.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Talks about pontificates about pop culture. Report with Mark Ronner.
I am six forty. Is now time for the Runner
Report with Mark Runner.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You have probably seen the trailer for The Naked Gun
reboot with Liam Neeson by now, because it seems like
it's been playing forever and not getting any funnier. Here's
a taste, but not much because it's largely visual.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Once you kill a man for revenge, there's no going back.
It stays with you forever. A voice in your head
sang over and over, man, that was awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Now, when I say it's largely visual, he just tore
a bad guy's hands off and smacked him with one
of the arms.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Drevin, the robbers who put in the ICU are noiuring
up to sue the city.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So swim the cops have to follow the log. Is
he serious?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
No, that doesn't get any better. Let's just end it
right there for everybody's sake. A little girl walks into
a bank robbery. One of the Brooks ask her what
she wants. She takes off her mask to reveal it's
septagenarian Liam Neeson and he says, your ass. Then he
takes them all out. Did you find that funny? I
was kind of baffled by it and by how anyone
(20:13):
would have thought that was what you want in the
trailer to get people to travel and then pay to
see your movie. See it's a little girl, but it's
really a large elderly irishman. I do like answering your
ass for pretty much anything. What are you reviewing tonight?
Mark your ass? What's in the news today? Say it
with me, Moe, he's not there. I even think the
(20:35):
construction of your ass speaking of Mo, your ass is
doing X or why is funny when Mo says it
your ass is going to a bad movie. So let's
get caught up. There were three naked gun movies with
Leslie Nielson starting in nineteen eighty eight, and those were
from the files of Police Squad, which was a really
funny but short lived TV show, just six episodes. It
was sort of infamous at the time for getting canceled
(20:56):
because viewers had to pay too much attention to what
they were watching and I'm not making that up. That
was a Zucker Abrams and Zucker comedy zazz and those
were the guys who also perpetrated Airplane, fast paced throw
Everything at the Wall comedy with wordplay, jokes, site gags,
and a hilarious dead pan performance from Leslie Nielsen, who
was getting on in years at the time but enjoying
a new career being funny after playing a heavy most
(21:18):
of his career and by all reports, not really playing
the two differently. He wasn't available for any more of
these movies because he's been dead for a while. In
this reboot, Nisan plays his son, Frank Reben Junior. Either
they didn't explain the accent or I was sleeping when
they did. Pamela Anderson is the fem fatale love interest,
and Danny Houston, who I guess needs work just like
(21:40):
the rest of us, is the tech billionaire bad guy.
Does the plot matter? Not really, musk. I mean, Houston
has developed a new fleet of electric driverless cars, which
probably still don't get recalled as often as Tesla's. I
wanted to walk out of this thing ten minutes in,
and I was in the mood for a comedy. I
watched Happy Gilmour Too last weekend and thought, no classic,
but a few silly laughs. Some people I like fairly
(22:02):
good hearted story. The news business is stressful. I've been
desperate for laughs. In fact, Moe mentioned Adam West earlier
in the show. Here's the funniest thing I heard all
this week, the late Adam West on the late Gilbert
Gottfried's podcast, doing a Kanye West rap about the bitches
in that Adam West batman voice, with Gilbert's insane laughter
punctuating it. I need more Life's grim. We're getting screwed
(22:24):
on student loans again starting today. Bring the laughs, but
The Naked Gun was not the place to turn for that.
I didn't laugh for the entire mercifully short eighty five
minute running time of this film. Seriously, not once, which
for a comedy is not ideal. Naked Gun may be
the least funny comedy I've ever seen. I want to
put it in Leonard Part six territory, but I don't
(22:46):
think it's even going to be that kind of footnote.
I felt sorry for the people in it, and I
don't even like him that much. Your mileage may vary
on Liam Neeson sort of feels like you can really
see him putting work into this stuff that came so
effortlessly to Leslie Nielsen. Well. Bright Spot's Paul Walter Hauser
plays Repen's partner, and we just saw him as Moleman
and The Fantastic Four last week. Kevin Durand plays Houston's henchman,
(23:07):
and he deserves more work. He was good in the
Strained TV show. He's good and everything he'sn't here's a
little taste for you. Pam Anderson comes into Nissen's police
squad office and he says take a chair. She says,
no thanks, I've got plenty of chairs at home. And
by the time you wipe the tears from your eyes
and stop gasping for air, at the end of that scene,
she changes her mind and takes a chair, bumping it
(23:28):
into stuff as she leaves the office. I could describe
more from the movie, but what have you ever done
to me? Okay, okay, one more. There's a dream sequence
with Nissen and Anderson having a romantic getaway and some
winter hide away somewhere in a drawn out scene where
they bring a snowman to life is one of the
most painful dumb things I have ever witnessed, and I'm
not exaggerating. It made me long for the dream sequence
(23:50):
in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carrey lights his own fart.
Now that's funny. I'll tell you that I've always thought
Benny Hill was funny, and I would have killed for
so much as a fast motion chase with the Yakaty
Sachs plan. This Naked Gun wasn't even that funny. By
the way, I'm also a big fan of driving jokes
into the ground. In the Police Squad Show, the gag
of Drevin driving into garbage cans every single time he
(24:12):
parks gets funnier every single time he does it. In
the Old Gets Smart Show, the cones of silence are
funnier every single time they're used. And in This Naked
Gun there's a running gag of people handing Drebbing a
cup of coffee constantly wherever he is, And I honestly
don't know how you can screw something like that up.
So that I'm just sitting there in the audience like
I'm being asked to review ring camera footage or something.
(24:33):
I'm calling in a code brown on this one. We're
talking Golden Raspberry territory here. It really is that Bad
Zazz were not involved in this abomination. They got no responsibility.
Maybe they could have explained the difference between silly and
stupid to this crew. The responsible party is Akiva Schaeffer,
who directed and co wrote the movie. He worked on
Saturday Night Live, and his other work includes pop Star
(24:54):
Never Stop, Never Stopping. Is he funny somehow with something else?
I'll never find out. Now it's been reported that seventy
three year old Nissan and fifty eight year old andersoner dating. Yeah, okay,
the age difference is still kind of gross, but at
least someone got something out of this movie. You might
recall that OJ Simpson was in the original Naked Gun movies.
(25:15):
I would say this reboot is more in line with
OJ's later non film work. If you're picking up what
I'm laying down here, MO, that's your runner report. Look
when you said Leonard Part six, I think that's all
I needed to hear. I got out of here at
the usual late hour last night, and I was starved
for comedy. This thing it's just an abomination.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It didn't need to be remade. It was already a
cult classic. You know how I feel about cult classics.
You were not going to be able to I haven't
seen the movie, don't have any desire to see the movie.
You weren't going to be able to recreate the comedic
timing of a Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I don't think it's im possible. But whoever these guys are,
they just could not get a handle on it. I mean,
it's really one of the dumbest things I've seen in
my adult life. Like, not funny, dumb. I think Beavis
and butt Head is funny. Okay, this is just dumb.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I just think it's too lazy when you take a
classic title, a classic property, and then try to shoehorn
people into it just for a different generation, just because
just because they didn't grow up with Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Well, you're touching on a really important point. The Naked
Gun was a spoof of a really popular TV genre
at the time, which was these hard boiled yes fundamentally
silly though cop shows and those aren't so popular anymore.
We don't have a lot of that, So this is
a spoof of a spoof that's forty years out of date.
That's a great point because certain movies are made for
(26:50):
a certain time. We talked about this were Roadhouse, Roadhouse
only made since in nineteen eighty nine, not twenty twenty five.
You can't go around beating up people and there'd be
no consequences.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You know that that could be in nineteen eighty nine,
not twenty twenty five. And you know, same as true
a lot of movies in the eighties and nineties, they
were for a time and in America, which no longer exists.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
You this is the kind of movie that forces you
to evaluate, like what everybody thinks is funny and why
and whether it's just a roar shock and everything strikes
everybody differently. I mean, I mentioned all the old stuff too.
You I was game if it was kind of old
school and based on obscure references. I talked about Get
Smart in my review. But this is so astonishingly just
(27:40):
flat out dumb. I really am curious. I read a
bit last night after I got home about the making
of it, and apparently it's been It's gone through several iterations.
Ed Helm was meant to star in it at one
point at Helms, and it's been in the work so long.
Leslie Nielsen was even meant to star in it back
while he was still alive. And so a lot of
(28:02):
the times, things with such a long gestation period do
wind up becoming disasters, disasters because's just too many hands
on him along the way.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And I can say that maybe I'm the one who's
old and out of touch and maybe not in understanding
what humor is for the movie going audience in twenty
twenty five, I will put that out there. I'll con
see that that's a possibility, but I'm probably not wrong.
You know, no one was clamoring to do this. No
(28:31):
one was clamoring, I think.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
To step on the legacy of Leslie Nielsen.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
If it had been good, I'd be down with it.
But it's just so awful that it's astonishing to me
that it even got made. And when I suggest that
you can find something better to do than go watch
this movie, what I mean is anything, anything, any anything
you do will be more funny, even like going to
(28:55):
break Let's try.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You're listening too later with Kelly on Demand from KFI
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Speaker 6 (29:05):
Whim Kelly on KAM.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Six Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I just
want to quickly comment on this. We now know that
there is A Quiet Place Part three, which is coming
out or slated to come out in summer of twenty
twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Wasn't Part three the one that had Lapita and Theongo?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You beat me to it because this is now it
will be the fourth movie.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
But they're calling it Quiet Place Part three because A
Quiet Place was a first one, and then we had
A Quiet Place Part two, and then we had the
spinoff A Quiet Place Day one.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Really quick, I totally understood. You said to watch it
like basically backwards. Yes, And when I watched them all,
I'm like, MO, had it correct. If you have the chance,
watch it that way because it is so much better. Yeah,
watch A Quiet Place Day one first, just take my
(30:11):
word for it. Then watch A Quiet Place second, and
then watch A Quiet Place Part two third. That will
be the correct chronological order and it won't seem as disjointed.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
What order do you watch the Star Wars films in? MO, Well,
I had no choice back then because they're like thirty
years apart. Well, now you do, well, now, I would
watch them from the beginning in chronological order, no doubt,
no doubt, Okause to me, they're most enjoyable that way, But.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I mean I I encountered them as they came out.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Now, if I were to tell one of my blended
sons to watch them, I would tell you start with
The Phantom Menace, so you have them watching in the
order in which they were released serves no purpose if
you have no reference.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
You would tell them your kids to watch The Menace first,
and I would call child Protective Services on your household.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, you can do that.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I mean, gosh, we're not even friends, so of course,
but that wouldn't be the good recommendation if you're going
to best understand the story. We all know we had
to kind of piece everything together. When you're talking about
the forest and Darth Vader and Obi Wan and the
Clone Wars. There was no reference point for that. When
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we first saw a New Hope. They didn't have a plan.
I know they didn't. But at the same time, if
I were to recommend it to someone, always chronological order,
and that goes back to a quiet place. You should
see that in chronological order to best appreciate it. It's
not wrong if you see it in the order that
was released, like I did, but I think it's a
(31:45):
better experience if you see it in chronological order, because
there's so many questions which are unanswered that they it
makes less sense in the way that the movies were produced,
because you're dropped into the story the first one. It's
after and this is not a real spoiler, it's after
the alien invasion, and you're given limited information throughout that movie.
(32:09):
You're given limited information in A Quiet Place Part two.
So they go back and do Quiet Place Part Day one,
and you get a much better understanding of how the
world came to be when you found it in A
Quiet Place one, the very first movie.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
As far as release date, the numbering is really annoying.
This yes, and by the way, that last one wasn't
bad at all.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
It was not bad.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But when you say Quiet Place Part three, it's almost
like you're disavowing Day one.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
It throws it. Hopefully the least moved the story forward.
That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Wasn't the guy and that one also the guy playing
Johnny Storm Fantastic four Current one?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Joseph Quinn. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I have to go back and look all look right now,
I know that was John Krasinski. Is his movie, his
baby and he was Reid Richard's Oh yeah, this is
all very incestuous.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
It is it is.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yep, that's him. Well, there you have it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
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