December 29, 2025 • 33 mins
(December 29, 2025)
Heather Brooker joins the show to talk about the biggest stories making the news in Hollywood in 20205. Plus, new CA traffic laws for 2026: From e-bikes to self-driving cars. Why are people so obsessed with Japanese convenience stores? Starbucks doesn’t want to be on every corner in NY and LA anymore. America’s affordability crisis is putting Aldi in the spotlight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Neil Savadra in the morning crew. Happy to be with you. Hey,
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pop me up again.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well in there and compare in there, Hanley and another
good one.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hey everybody. Well, I have four boys, and that's how
they definitely show love by throwing each other on the floor,
pushing each other and just rough plane and they say, Mom,
we love each other. This is how we do it.
Their ages are twenty seven, twenty four, seventeen, and they
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even do that to my eleven year old. And you
know what, he shows love back.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And that's a mom. Moms can't lie. That's a mom
who backs me up on that. I love you, Kno.
He's never let me get up. You just keep pushing
me down. Hey, he pushed me down and down and
down and down and down and down. I love you, man,
I'm not afraid to say it. I love you, Kno.
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I love you, Stephen, Kno. I don't put my government
name out there. Don't be doing that. My government name, Stephen. Yeah, oh,
I'm sorry people, I do. The guy is a treat.
I come in and I like a pet dog when
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I see him all excited and he's not twelve. Everybody
thinks he's twelve. How old are you, kono?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They do defend me like I'm very young, which I appreciate.
I'm in my thirties seven, but.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They act like you're twelve, and like I'm I'm I'm
picking on you. I'm not well, you are picking on me,
but I am, yes, groan, he's a grown man relatively.
I'm not tall. But let let let me seal this.
Does your dad your own blood? I think it's funny
or not funny some of us affair. My dad likes
it when I get put in my place.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So see see, my dad's a bigger fan of you
than that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And he was in law enforcement, right he was, so
he's also so I got law enforcement. I'm backed up
by by law enforcement and moms. That's right, you are.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Two things I never got along with.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Moms all right. Back in the Year in Review, as
we look back on twenty twenty five, sliding into the
new year, Heather Brooker has been kind enough amongst the
seventeen duties behind the board this morning to walk us
through some of the entertainment stories of twenty twenty five.
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She was just talking about the merger of Netflix and
Warner Brothers. I will tell you that I think creativity
survives all things. I really do. I think, I, you know,
not to get too deep. As I said, people don't
like when you get deep on the radio. They want
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us to be stupid. I'm sorry. Although although Eva hit
us up earlier saying, Neil, get deep, get deep.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I like when you get deep, and somebody said, like, oh,
this is the best conversation I've heard a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
We're just it's a more casual show today. People aren't
necessarily all back into it. But but I believe that
when scripture says that we're creating the image of God,
it means that we're creators. Good people create, bad people destroy.
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That's pretty simple math to me. So I think creativity
and sends the structure. Whatever the structure is, creativity will transcend.
I think we saw that when there was more gatekeeping.
Do you remember prior to YouTube in the like, there
was so much gatekeeping, The equipment was so expensive, everything
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was I remember as a young punker in a band
to pay one thousand dollars for two hours or whatever
it was to record a demo tape was insane. The
later years when I got to be about eighteen or
nineteen or so, when the technology task cam came in
with multi track units that you could buy for a
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thousand bucks that you could start recording your own and
that's what we did. And I think YouTube allowed a
lot of young artists, actors, entertainers, directors and stuff to
put out their own stuff. And I think that will
happen regardless of what takes place, and we either are
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entertained by it or we're not right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I mean, I think any advancement in technology is going
to be, you know, potentially beneficial and helpful in some ways.
I think the concern is when you have too much
power in the hands of one company and one person.
Because Ted Sarandos runs Netflix. I mean Greg Peters is also,
you know, the co president there, but Ted Sarandos is
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the main figurehead for Netflix. And when you have so
much power and control in the hands of one person,
then I think the concern is that other forms of
art may get sort of squeezed out. So yes, while
you may have advances in technology and there may be
some benefits to it, having one entity have so much
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power and control is just a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, I don't disagree on that basic point.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I think you're right, especially when we're on the precipice.
Precipice of so much happening with AI, which is one
of the other big stories of the year, Tilly Norwood.
Do you remember the story Tilly Norwood was the first
fully AI generated performer. I used that in air quotes
performer created by AI Studio and.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Elaine. I'm gonna say're at Vandervelden.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So this was very upsetting to a lot of people
because you know, sag after got involved, the unions are
saying this is not an actor, but talent agencies were like,
wait a minute, can we make money off of her?
And then let's sign her. So that was a big
story that happened there. Also, this is an interesting one
to me. Remember the Sydney Sweeney has great genes ad
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Remember that Cono's raising his fist in joy.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I'm assuming that's what's happening there. Joy and excitement.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I know Gary from the Gary and Shannon Show is
probably excited about this story as well. Who's the actress
Sidney Sweeney. So she did an American Eagles ad campaign
Kano be subtle, Be subtle, and you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Know, she had the line city Sweeney has great genes.
Stupid stupidest concern and controversy. People got upset.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They said that the line was flirting with white supremacists.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, seriously, that's all it was. It was like, yeah,
she she's got a good figure and she's a pretty girl.
That's what it says. She's got great gens.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I mean, you know, we all talk about our genes
when we talk about our parents and all that stuff.
So it was definitely controversy that was overblown quite a bit.
So that was one big story that happened this year,
something you know along the lines of you know what's
happening with Hollywood movies. They're making a lot of big
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reboots and and aging franchises keep coming back, like the
Jurassic Yeah, the Jurassic World, you know reboot that came
out this year did not do as well as they
thought it would. The two movies that did really, really
well were original films, and they were horror movies. Sinners
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just made an insane amount of money. And then Zach
Cregger's weapons also caught people off guard. Those are both
original stories and they were in the horror genre. So
Hollywood is looking at that going, oh, should we do
a few more of those?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
See, that's what I'm saying. Regardless it if you eat crap,
they'll make crap, yeah, because that's what sells. Yeah, so
we still get the vote. I don't care how big
of a company it is. You know how big companies
become small companies serving as stuff we don't want to eat. Yeah,
So I will tell you this though some of the
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things that I've seen. I saw there's this guy in
the UK. His name is Greg Johnson, spelled like UK
like g R E I G or something Greg Johnson.
And he's a maker. And for those who don't know,
I'm a maker. I like making prop replicas and building things.
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I have a shop at home and all kinds of stuff.
And I follow him because he makes stuff out of junk.
He gets like, I'm a big fan of kit bashing,
where people make props or replicas or things just out
of stuff, and he does that. But he's also a
filmmaker and he did this film I don't know, within
the last year called The Wilds fifteen minutes short, and
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it's super entertaining. And I'd rather go and support him
and find stuff like that he's a YouTuber and find
his stuff, then just be dictated to by Netflix and
Warner Brothers as a conglomerate. So I agree with you, Heather,
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that it is of concern, But I trust creatives and
they will always push back whatever system is there to
create and we if as long as we don't, you know,
succumb to them forcing that down our throats and pick
and choose wisely, they'll have to. We're the ones paying them.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But the creatives, like you're like, you're talking about creatives
separately from like a studio creative team or whatever. Your creatives,
like your indie filmmakers, your short filmmakers, you know, people
even YouTube creators to you know whatever. They don't hold
the purse strings in the same way that these major
studios do. They don't have the access to get your
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movie in theaters in the same way for now, for now.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But I will tell you this, I could say the
same thing about the union. The union has gotten the
Union's gotten too big I pay the union to work.
It's ridiculous now, I being part of sag Aftra, and
because I don't use their services, I don't get anything
from them. Now there may be a day that I do,
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you know, Heaven forbid, I need to use them for
some reason. But this is a union house, and they
make my life more difficult because the Jesus show that
I produce is non union because it's national, so I
can't do it in the very same studio I'm doing
this in because it's non union, so I have to
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do it differently for it, like it literally makes my
They tell people so much that they can't work. You
have a lot of young actors, now, what is it
called when you you separate from the union corps? Yes,
you a FI corps. Yeah, so there I hear a
lot of young especially commercial actors doing that because they
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can't make a living.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know, my daughter is an actor. She's non union
right now, and she her agents have told her like,
you got to get the union, got to get the union.
And I'm like why because you know to your point earlier,
now that there is so much more access for actors
and you know, filmmakers around the world to submit their
tapes online, and you know, they're seeing people now around
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the world. For one part, they could see tens of
thousands of people. Sure, and you will really limit yourself
if you're just you know, in the Union, to only
Union projects, because for those who don't know, when you're
in the Union, there's global Rule number one that says
you cannot work on any non union project, a project
that is not SAG after. So you're limiting yourself to
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anything that is not Union related. And when you're a
new actor that's up and coming and you're looking for
new opportunities and experience to gain, then you're basically cutting out,
like you know, seventy eighty percent of potential work. And
for me, as as someone who is also an actor
and who does audition and act regularly, I personally don't
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like it that they now can see thousands and thousands
of people around the world for roles that used to
just be in Los Angeles, sure, or just be in
Texas or you know, wherever the area was is that
you live. I'm not a huge fan of that. So, yes,
they're there are some great things about technology and advancements
and that sort of things, but as far as like
work goes, it's the industry is so there's so many
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people that want to be a part of it, and
sometimes it does not feel like there is enough work
to go around.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh and you know, and let's be honest, the union
didn't help things with multiple strikes back to back, right, yeah,
I mean seriously that. But yet I talked to many
people in the industry that didn't want to go on strike,
but they had to.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
They had to because as a union you are supposed
to be unified and all standing together as an aspurude them.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They lost a lot of money and continued.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
To they did, and that led to some of the
other you know, big stories that happened this year. You know,
the strikes forced a lot of work to go overseas.
That means right now London has become what LA used
to be. LA sound stages right now are half empty.
There's hardly any you know, there's a far less work
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happening than years ago here in LA. But in London,
their books solid in the soundstage is there. Everybody is
over there because of their aggressive tax incentives.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And we used to go there for massive films because
they have those big studios and where the Star Wars
and the Right is the Lost Art and things like
that because you needed the space.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But that's but now it's all changed because now they're
filming there regularly because of these massive tax incentives that
they're getting there, which is the other big one of
the other big stories that happened here is California past
the big film and TV tax credit. Hoping to bring
more filming back from around the world because now it's
not just going to other states, it's gone around the
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world and it may be too late for LA. They're
hoping it isn't too late to bring some of those back.
I've been talking in depth to the people over at
film LA. I keep in touch with them regularly about
how much is actually explain who they are to people
that film LA is the local is the the cities
organization that has to approve filming permits essentially for Los Angeles,
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and they know exactly how many projects are filming, from
short films and commercials to movies, TV shows, and how
many sound stages are are full. They have data on
all of that at any given time.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So and if you're in the LA area, we used
to get you know, littered with their their's their bulletins
once a month maybe where they would tell you you're
gonna they are going to be filming in your area.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, they have to notify people in the neighborhoods and
stuff like which, you know, meant that things were busy
in the industry.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Now I've gotten maybe two this year.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, there's not much. There's not much happening because truly,
filming in Los Angeles is at its the lowest it's
in such a long time. But they're hopeful that with this,
you know, the new Film and TV tax credit which
is now at gone up.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It was passed i think in July. Yeah, and credit
where credit is due. I'm not a huge fan of
Gab Newsoen, but but this was smart and needed to
be done well.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And also to your point, it wasn't just him. There
was there is a ton of people behind the scenes
in the industry, from the unions and and you know
other lobbying groups that have been pushing for this for
quite some time. So yes, it is a feather in
his cap, but it is mostly the people on the
ground who work in the industry who are saying, we're hurting.
People are losing their homes, they're moving out of state.
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We have to do something.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, there's two things I tried never to bitch about,
and that is truckers. Yeah, because God bless them, we
need them. So it's like, oh, that truck just you know,
get out of their way. Let them go where they're going.
They're moving, they're moving the world for us and they shoots. Yeah,
thank you, Dug and film crewis because it's like, yeah,
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did they shut down streets as we but we want
them here, people, we want them here. Heather Brookers with
us as well as Matthew is producing for Ann and
uh Will's here, Kno's here. I'm here through the rest
of the week and Heather's been breaking down. We've been
looking kind of Today was just kind of a look.
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We're just kind of going through the year and review
loosely and you know, conversing about it, just like some
of the things that were of interest. A lot to
go on, and I was surprised and I keep moving
things around because I'm surprised how much has taken place.
So we're looking over that and then you've got Gary
and Shannon coming up and so go nowhere. Uh oh,
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and you know what Andy's in for Conway tonight, right, sure, Conno.
I'm sorry. They hate to make you, hate to make
you work, but uh, you need to make You're supposed
to know? Why? Am I supposed to know? Say? Yes,
it wasn't an email. I'm the dumb I'm the dumb
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talking head. A you remember the fat ugly guy we
were talking about earlier. You are fat and ugly and dumb.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
See Oh my stars, Oh let's be a little nicer.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh my stars is my favorite? Whose catchphrase was that?
Come on anybody? I don't know, Samantha Stevens, Oh my stars,
come on Bewitched? Okay? I made gosh yeah, And I
thought I just made that up. One of the few
blondes I was ever in love was I will tell
you speaking about that. And we were talking a little
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bit about entertainment over the twenty twenty five something happened.
I don't know if it happened in twenty twenty five
or if it was twenty twenty four, but right down
the street the Warner Brothers ranch, they tore down the
Bewitched house and the house from Christmas Vacation and and
all those places. And do you know what they did?
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With that space what they put up sound stages and
I was so I mean, I'm I love nostalgia. I'd
love old television and old film, and I was so annoyed.
I think one of the last things they shot there
was one division they're on the streets there. But doesn't
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that go Isn't that counter to the fact that we
have less studio work here than ever right now?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It does seem sort of. They must have had their
reasons for it, I'm sure be.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Filthy Lucer, Yeah, because always filthy Lucer.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
We need I feel like we need more outdoor sets
type places instead of sound stages. But maybe they feel
like with technology, you know, and CGI and AI and
all that, that they can just create an outdoor feeling.
There's a lot of AI that happens and CGI that
happens in movies that people probably don't even know about,
you know.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know, it's funny as I was talking to my
brother Craig, who did film television in Broadway and his
husband is a cinematographer in film and television, and you know,
I fantasize with him about getting a plot of land
somewhere and building physical sets to be used because I
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love them. I love walking through physical sets. You can
do it at the Paramount Ranch in Malibu Canyon and
I used to do that as a kid all the time,
and unfortunately it burned down, but they have rebuilt, I
believe since then.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You know, I used to be a tour guide at
Universal Studios Hollywood on the back lot.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So it was handle.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, we've joked, we've joked about that we should give
another tour. But my favorite favorite parts of the tour
was when we would drive through the sets and show
people the you know, the the just the front of this,
there's nothing behind them, you know, the facades, the facades, yes,
and the New York. That's French for nothing behind it,
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nothing behind me. Yeah, the New York cassette it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Means false front.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
But that was my favorite part of the tour, showing
people the facades because they would go, oh, like we
would show a clip from Bruce Almighty that filmed on
the New York streets. Sure, and they can look at
the Brownstones, yeah, the Brownstones and go what, oh my gosh.
So it's really neat to watch people go, wait a minute,
that wasn't actually in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's the best in the way
that they make. Gosh. I love that and I've had
I've actually climbed the clock tower from Back to the
Future in the back courthouse square. Yeah. An old friend
was directing a film there and said, Hey, why don't
you come and hang out and you can be an
extra and just hang out and run around the back lot.
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And I'm like, what, See, Hollywood is fun. Oh, Hollywood
is great. As much as I bash on parts of it,
I think Hollywood is great and very important to Southern California.
We need that here in LA. We have to keep
Hollywood in Hollywood. We do, and you know the tech
that goes with it and everything else. All right. Any
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other stories that A.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Big one we have to talk about is what happened
with Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, that was a big story that dominated the headlines
for probably a week or two at least when well,
first of all, Stephen Colbert earlier this year announced that
the Late Show at CBS would be ending. That was
the first hit to Late Night this year, which is huge.
That franchise has been around for such a long time
and Paramount Global. Well, they're saying that they were seeking
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some to score some points with Trump by canceling that show.
Then we had you know what happened in September after
a comment involving Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live,
which is owned by Disney, is put on indefinite suspension.
If you'll remember, he ended up back in the air
three nights later. There was widespread backlash for not only
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you know, you know, there was backlash for what he said,
but mostly because he was removed from the air. A
lot of people felt like it was a violation of
First Amendment.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
There's a lot of riches. Is not really true there.
I stood with Jimmy on this because the FCC that
winged up behind the FCC and Trump came out and
said some things that I said, I don't care. The
appearance of evil was enough for me. Don't get don't
even start to go down that path of taking people
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off the air, even though I think it had business.
You know, business is business, yea. And I think Jimmy
Kimmel be gone in a year.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It SAIDs a very dangerous precedent, and quite honestly a
lot of people think it's setting up more political interference
in the media in you know, other types of entertainment.
President Trump recently another story said he really wanted to
bring Rush Hour back, if you'll remember that. So now
Rush Hour four, which had been shelved for quite some time,
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his paramount has agreed to release that.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's so ridiculous. Yeah, all of it is silly, But
I did stand with Jimmy Kimmel. Listen, late night sucks.
It has gotten so bad, and they take themselves way
too seriously. They're important. I'm a Johnny Carson, guy, a
Jay Leno, guy Conan O'Brien. I loved Letterman. You go
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back to Carson and he made it very clear, don't
take yourself too seriously. You can do a lot of
swaying in this position, and that is misusing the platform.
So and I agree with him. And I think that
it's become very dull to watch late night TV because
everybody thinks they're a political pundit rather than just making
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fun of things. I think that causes, uh, well, I
think it causes a lot of fear and fear mongering
and ugliness and it's you know, ridiculous. But never ever, ever,
should the government lean in on those things other than
basic FCC rules and the like, which I think are
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kind of stupid too.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They're a little updated, yeah, to be especially for television. Yeah,
I will say really quick to your point about that.
About Johnny Carson in particular, people always used him, use
him as the barometer, you know, for the best talk
show host of all time. Johnny Carson, while he may
not have been overtly political during his nightly monologues or whatever,
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very clearly made political moves by having guest co hosts
like our guest hosts like Harry Belafonte, and during a
very politically divisive time.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
In our country. Okay, but here's something I do not
think civil rights is political. I think human rights and
civil rights, even though it can be politicized, just like
AIDS was politicized, that health and human interest is not political.
So I even though politics are involved and wrapped around
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civil rights, to me, it transcends politics. So does human
rights and things like that. They just do. So when
you're saying wrong is wrong, that's not a political party
is wrong. That is it is wrong to put somebody
to oppress or to push someone down. To me, that
absolutely transcends. All right, Happy to be with you. I
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don't know what we're gonna do Friday, if we'll end
up doing. You know, we're not gonna do ask Bill anything.
But if you have a question for me, I'll happily
take it. Just go to the iHeart radio app and
you'll see a red icon with a microphone on it
and just press on that and you've got thirty seconds
or so to ask a question. You've been very active
(26:54):
this morning. Oh take it. We're not afraid of that.
We've been talking about the new cycle twenty twenty five.
I will tell you I was talking to Heather Brooker
earlier about how if you have to cover everything, you
can't ever just make a point. You have to counter
every possible angle. Yeah, so that people go, wait a second,
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you didn't say this. Yes, we were talking about Jimmy
Kimmel because we were talking about the year in review.
And someone says, what you didn't mention about Facebook? And listen,
I said, the appearance of evil with Trump. But it
is fact that the Biden administration actually censored people with
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the help of Facebook, period. And I've said that to
handle And if you listen to the show, listen with
both ears, and you'll hear those things, but I'm not
going to clarify every single time on every single thing.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It's impossible, impuls I think also to people just hey,
just even if you're right about something or have a
point and it doesn't jive with what's in their mind,
they want to be like.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, no, no, you're wrong. No. People don't listen with
their ears. They listen with their triggers. It's human nature.
They're waiting to be offended by something. So I'm sorry,
I'm not trust me. If I had to, you know,
producing the Jesus Show for almost thirty years or whatever
it is now, I will tell you that you will
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be talking to a person for three minutes and you'll
get ten emails or whatever saying but why didn't you
say this? Didn't you get why didn't you bring up
the police? In my mind, yeah exactly, I was sending
you thoughts anyway. So we talked about the cost of living,
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We talked about entertainment, We talked about politics and power.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
By the way, quickly, if everybody, if you want to
listen to more entertainment news, I love to talk about entertainment.
I have a show podcast called entertain Me with Heather brookers.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh I'm sorry, check it out. I would love for
you guys to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We talk about everything from box office stuff to news
and SoCal events and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So anytime you want to talk entertainment, Neil, you know,
I love that. No, you've been great. I appreciate you
jumping in with us this morning on all that. And
I guess I'll do myself a plug if you already know,
I'm at FOURK reporter on social media. But if you
want to see the stuff that I do, making stuff,
and you know some of the prop replicas I'm working
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on now and things like that, I have another Instagram
called Savco Industries Saavco Industries, and you can find me
there on Instagram. It's just like stuff that I do
in my shop. Very creative, my creative stuff. I'm going
to make something.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look at me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I think this is a saw. I am so. A
couple other things that were going on. We had a
lot of technology and disruption, massive jump in scale of
AI across the workplaces, education media, explosion of AI powered scams.
(30:18):
Of course, anytime you have hey, look at that fresh
face Shan just walked in. Anytime you have new technology
The first thing they do is how can we screw
people out of money? And how can we use it
for porn? That's seriously, every technology that ever comes our way.
So AI comes and it's like, how can we make
fake boobies and how can we screw people out of
their life savings? Speaking of fake boobies, they're not fake.
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That's why they're not great. It was just a segue.
Oh but he parked at them and then touched them
and I I.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Am sorry, don't use your hands.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That sounds weird.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Poor Beta Beta was like a better technology, yeah, and
I got screwed because of VHS, right, that's why. That's why,
because porn chose VHS over yep.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That's but see that's what happened. Look at you deep
that you're too deep porn cuts. You're too young to
know about Beta Max. God bless you. I am not
my dad.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
I think till he died a couple of years ago,
had a bait, had a VHS and a Beta Max.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
What did he play on a Beta Max? Old Godfather?
You know Godfather movies? That's like people. I have a
Stanford inside k Tvanford Son reruns Stanford and Son. Another
deep poll. That is fantastic. It was a different time
watch that show. There is there is not one bad episode.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Oh god, it's so good. I loved hearing you this morning.
It was so much a sponge you and Heather Brooker.
I turned my radio on and it was just nice
to have friends on the drive in.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You know what, someone I didn't say instead of someone
just sent them a talk back. The show's been great today.
See how much fun you can have when there's not
a Jew involved. Oh my word, who jeez, that's awful.
That's horrible. That's anti semitic. Yeah, who was that? Ad All? No, no, no, no, no, no, adoll.
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I should we have their names and phone numbers? We
should not.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
I'm going to put that out. We're not going to
do that. No, we're not going to do that. It's
time to go to ways. It's time to it's time
to go cut the.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Mic, is it? Yes? I they should have done that
at about six oh four. No, You're wonderful. I'm oh,
I just want to there's a lot of stuff that
happen in twenty twenty five. Am I right? But I
lose you? Oh my god, I'm distracted.
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That happened to yous HD two Los Angeles.
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Hey everybody. Well, I have four boys, and that's how
they definitely show love by throwing each other on the floor,
pushing each other and just rough plane and they say, Mom,
we love each other. This is how we do it.
Their ages are twenty seven, twenty four, seventeen, and they
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know what, he shows love back.
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And that's a mom. Moms can't lie. That's a mom
who backs me up on that. I love you, Kno.
He's never let me get up. You just keep pushing
me down. Hey, he pushed me down and down and
down and down and down and down. I love you, man,
I'm not afraid to say it. I love you, Kno.
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name out there. Don't be doing that. My government name, Stephen. Yeah, oh,
I'm sorry people, I do. The guy is a treat.
I come in and I like a pet dog when
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I see him all excited and he's not twelve. Everybody
thinks he's twelve. How old are you, kono?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
They do defend me like I'm very young, which I appreciate.
I'm in my thirties seven, but.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
They act like you're twelve, and like I'm I'm I'm
picking on you. I'm not well, you are picking on me,
but I am, yes, groan, he's a grown man relatively.
I'm not tall. But let let let me seal this.
Does your dad your own blood? I think it's funny
or not funny some of us affair. My dad likes
it when I get put in my place.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So see see, my dad's a bigger fan of you
than that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And he was in law enforcement, right he was, so
he's also so I got law enforcement. I'm backed up
by by law enforcement and moms. That's right, you are.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Two things I never got along with.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Moms all right. Back in the Year in Review, as
we look back on twenty twenty five, sliding into the
new year, Heather Brooker has been kind enough amongst the
seventeen duties behind the board this morning to walk us
through some of the entertainment stories of twenty twenty five.
(03:00):
She was just talking about the merger of Netflix and
Warner Brothers. I will tell you that I think creativity
survives all things. I really do. I think, I, you know,
not to get too deep. As I said, people don't
like when you get deep on the radio. They want
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us to be stupid. I'm sorry. Although although Eva hit
us up earlier saying, Neil, get deep, get deep.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I like when you get deep, and somebody said, like, oh,
this is the best conversation I've heard a long time.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
We're just it's a more casual show today. People aren't
necessarily all back into it. But but I believe that
when scripture says that we're creating the image of God,
it means that we're creators. Good people create, bad people destroy.
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That's pretty simple math to me. So I think creativity
and sends the structure. Whatever the structure is, creativity will transcend.
I think we saw that when there was more gatekeeping.
Do you remember prior to YouTube in the like, there
was so much gatekeeping, The equipment was so expensive, everything
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was I remember as a young punker in a band
to pay one thousand dollars for two hours or whatever
it was to record a demo tape was insane. The
later years when I got to be about eighteen or
nineteen or so, when the technology task cam came in
with multi track units that you could buy for a
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thousand bucks that you could start recording your own and
that's what we did. And I think YouTube allowed a
lot of young artists, actors, entertainers, directors and stuff to
put out their own stuff. And I think that will
happen regardless of what takes place, and we either are
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entertained by it or we're not right.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I mean, I think any advancement in technology is going
to be, you know, potentially beneficial and helpful in some ways.
I think the concern is when you have too much
power in the hands of one company and one person.
Because Ted Sarandos runs Netflix. I mean Greg Peters is also,
you know, the co president there, but Ted Sarandos is
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the main figurehead for Netflix. And when you have so
much power and control in the hands of one person,
then I think the concern is that other forms of
art may get sort of squeezed out. So yes, while
you may have advances in technology and there may be
some benefits to it, having one entity have so much
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power and control is just a little concerning.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, I don't disagree on that basic point.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I think you're right, especially when we're on the precipice.
Precipice of so much happening with AI, which is one
of the other big stories of the year, Tilly Norwood.
Do you remember the story Tilly Norwood was the first
fully AI generated performer. I used that in air quotes
performer created by AI Studio and.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Elaine. I'm gonna say're at Vandervelden.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So this was very upsetting to a lot of people
because you know, sag after got involved, the unions are
saying this is not an actor, but talent agencies were like,
wait a minute, can we make money off of her?
And then let's sign her. So that was a big
story that happened there. Also, this is an interesting one
to me. Remember the Sydney Sweeney has great genes ad
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Remember that Cono's raising his fist in joy.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I'm assuming that's what's happening there. Joy and excitement.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I know Gary from the Gary and Shannon Show is
probably excited about this story as well. Who's the actress
Sidney Sweeney. So she did an American Eagles ad campaign
Kano be subtle, Be subtle, and you.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Know, she had the line city Sweeney has great genes.
Stupid stupidest concern and controversy. People got upset.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
They said that the line was flirting with white supremacists.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, seriously, that's all it was. It was like, yeah,
she she's got a good figure and she's a pretty girl.
That's what it says. She's got great gens.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I mean, you know, we all talk about our genes
when we talk about our parents and all that stuff.
So it was definitely controversy that was overblown quite a bit.
So that was one big story that happened this year,
something you know along the lines of you know what's
happening with Hollywood movies. They're making a lot of big
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reboots and and aging franchises keep coming back, like the
Jurassic Yeah, the Jurassic World, you know reboot that came
out this year did not do as well as they
thought it would. The two movies that did really, really
well were original films, and they were horror movies. Sinners
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just made an insane amount of money. And then Zach
Cregger's weapons also caught people off guard. Those are both
original stories and they were in the horror genre. So
Hollywood is looking at that going, oh, should we do
a few more of those?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
See, that's what I'm saying. Regardless it if you eat crap,
they'll make crap, yeah, because that's what sells. Yeah, so
we still get the vote. I don't care how big
of a company it is. You know how big companies
become small companies serving as stuff we don't want to eat. Yeah,
So I will tell you this though some of the
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things that I've seen. I saw there's this guy in
the UK. His name is Greg Johnson, spelled like UK
like g R E I G or something Greg Johnson.
And he's a maker. And for those who don't know,
I'm a maker. I like making prop replicas and building things.
(09:03):
I have a shop at home and all kinds of stuff.
And I follow him because he makes stuff out of junk.
He gets like, I'm a big fan of kit bashing,
where people make props or replicas or things just out
of stuff, and he does that. But he's also a
filmmaker and he did this film I don't know, within
the last year called The Wilds fifteen minutes short, and
(09:26):
it's super entertaining. And I'd rather go and support him
and find stuff like that he's a YouTuber and find
his stuff, then just be dictated to by Netflix and
Warner Brothers as a conglomerate. So I agree with you, Heather,
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that it is of concern, But I trust creatives and
they will always push back whatever system is there to
create and we if as long as we don't, you know,
succumb to them forcing that down our throats and pick
and choose wisely, they'll have to. We're the ones paying them.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But the creatives, like you're like, you're talking about creatives
separately from like a studio creative team or whatever. Your creatives,
like your indie filmmakers, your short filmmakers, you know, people
even YouTube creators to you know whatever. They don't hold
the purse strings in the same way that these major
studios do. They don't have the access to get your
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movie in theaters in the same way for now, for now.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But I will tell you this, I could say the
same thing about the union. The union has gotten the
Union's gotten too big I pay the union to work.
It's ridiculous now, I being part of sag Aftra, and
because I don't use their services, I don't get anything
from them. Now there may be a day that I do,
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you know, Heaven forbid, I need to use them for
some reason. But this is a union house, and they
make my life more difficult because the Jesus show that
I produce is non union because it's national, so I
can't do it in the very same studio I'm doing
this in because it's non union, so I have to
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do it differently for it, like it literally makes my
They tell people so much that they can't work. You
have a lot of young actors, now, what is it
called when you you separate from the union corps? Yes,
you a FI corps. Yeah, so there I hear a
lot of young especially commercial actors doing that because they
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can't make a living.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know, my daughter is an actor. She's non union
right now, and she her agents have told her like,
you got to get the union, got to get the union.
And I'm like why because you know to your point earlier,
now that there is so much more access for actors
and you know, filmmakers around the world to submit their
tapes online, and you know, they're seeing people now around
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the world. For one part, they could see tens of
thousands of people. Sure, and you will really limit yourself
if you're just you know, in the Union, to only
Union projects, because for those who don't know, when you're
in the Union, there's global Rule number one that says
you cannot work on any non union project, a project
that is not SAG after. So you're limiting yourself to
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anything that is not Union related. And when you're a
new actor that's up and coming and you're looking for
new opportunities and experience to gain, then you're basically cutting out,
like you know, seventy eighty percent of potential work. And
for me, as as someone who is also an actor
and who does audition and act regularly, I personally don't
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like it that they now can see thousands and thousands
of people around the world for roles that used to
just be in Los Angeles, sure, or just be in
Texas or you know, wherever the area was is that
you live. I'm not a huge fan of that. So, yes,
they're there are some great things about technology and advancements
and that sort of things, but as far as like
work goes, it's the industry is so there's so many
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people that want to be a part of it, and
sometimes it does not feel like there is enough work
to go around.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Oh and you know, and let's be honest, the union
didn't help things with multiple strikes back to back, right, yeah,
I mean seriously that. But yet I talked to many
people in the industry that didn't want to go on strike,
but they had to.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
They had to because as a union you are supposed
to be unified and all standing together as an aspurude them.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They lost a lot of money and continued.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
To they did, and that led to some of the
other you know, big stories that happened this year. You know,
the strikes forced a lot of work to go overseas.
That means right now London has become what LA used
to be. LA sound stages right now are half empty.
There's hardly any you know, there's a far less work
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happening than years ago here in LA. But in London,
their books solid in the soundstage is there. Everybody is
over there because of their aggressive tax incentives.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And we used to go there for massive films because
they have those big studios and where the Star Wars
and the Right is the Lost Art and things like
that because you needed the space.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
But that's but now it's all changed because now they're
filming there regularly because of these massive tax incentives that
they're getting there, which is the other big one of
the other big stories that happened here is California past
the big film and TV tax credit. Hoping to bring
more filming back from around the world because now it's
not just going to other states, it's gone around the
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world and it may be too late for LA. They're
hoping it isn't too late to bring some of those back.
I've been talking in depth to the people over at
film LA. I keep in touch with them regularly about
how much is actually explain who they are to people
that film LA is the local is the the cities
organization that has to approve filming permits essentially for Los Angeles,
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and they know exactly how many projects are filming, from
short films and commercials to movies, TV shows, and how
many sound stages are are full. They have data on
all of that at any given time.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So and if you're in the LA area, we used
to get you know, littered with their their's their bulletins
once a month maybe where they would tell you you're
gonna they are going to be filming in your area.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, they have to notify people in the neighborhoods and
stuff like which, you know, meant that things were busy
in the industry.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Now I've gotten maybe two this year.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, there's not much. There's not much happening because truly,
filming in Los Angeles is at its the lowest it's
in such a long time. But they're hopeful that with this,
you know, the new Film and TV tax credit which
is now at gone up.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It was passed i think in July. Yeah, and credit
where credit is due. I'm not a huge fan of
Gab Newsoen, but but this was smart and needed to
be done well.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And also to your point, it wasn't just him. There
was there is a ton of people behind the scenes
in the industry, from the unions and and you know
other lobbying groups that have been pushing for this for
quite some time. So yes, it is a feather in
his cap, but it is mostly the people on the
ground who work in the industry who are saying, we're hurting.
People are losing their homes, they're moving out of state.
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We have to do something.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, there's two things I tried never to bitch about,
and that is truckers. Yeah, because God bless them, we
need them. So it's like, oh, that truck just you know,
get out of their way. Let them go where they're going.
They're moving, they're moving the world for us and they shoots. Yeah,
thank you, Dug and film crewis because it's like, yeah,
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did they shut down streets as we but we want
them here, people, we want them here. Heather Brookers with
us as well as Matthew is producing for Ann and
uh Will's here, Kno's here. I'm here through the rest
of the week and Heather's been breaking down. We've been
looking kind of Today was just kind of a look.
(17:25):
We're just kind of going through the year and review
loosely and you know, conversing about it, just like some
of the things that were of interest. A lot to
go on, and I was surprised and I keep moving
things around because I'm surprised how much has taken place.
So we're looking over that and then you've got Gary
and Shannon coming up and so go nowhere. Uh oh,
(17:49):
and you know what Andy's in for Conway tonight, right, sure, Conno.
I'm sorry. They hate to make you, hate to make
you work, but uh, you need to make You're supposed
to know? Why? Am I supposed to know? Say? Yes,
it wasn't an email. I'm the dumb I'm the dumb
(18:09):
talking head. A you remember the fat ugly guy we
were talking about earlier. You are fat and ugly and dumb.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
See Oh my stars, Oh let's be a little nicer.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh my stars is my favorite? Whose catchphrase was that?
Come on anybody? I don't know, Samantha Stevens, Oh my stars,
come on Bewitched? Okay? I made gosh yeah, And I
thought I just made that up. One of the few
blondes I was ever in love was I will tell
you speaking about that. And we were talking a little
(18:40):
bit about entertainment over the twenty twenty five something happened.
I don't know if it happened in twenty twenty five
or if it was twenty twenty four, but right down
the street the Warner Brothers ranch, they tore down the
Bewitched house and the house from Christmas Vacation and and
all those places. And do you know what they did?
(19:04):
With that space what they put up sound stages and
I was so I mean, I'm I love nostalgia. I'd
love old television and old film, and I was so annoyed.
I think one of the last things they shot there
was one division they're on the streets there. But doesn't
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that go Isn't that counter to the fact that we
have less studio work here than ever right now?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It does seem sort of. They must have had their
reasons for it, I'm sure be.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Filthy Lucer, Yeah, because always filthy Lucer.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
We need I feel like we need more outdoor sets
type places instead of sound stages. But maybe they feel
like with technology, you know, and CGI and AI and
all that, that they can just create an outdoor feeling.
There's a lot of AI that happens and CGI that
happens in movies that people probably don't even know about,
you know.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know, it's funny as I was talking to my
brother Craig, who did film television in Broadway and his
husband is a cinematographer in film and television, and you know,
I fantasize with him about getting a plot of land
somewhere and building physical sets to be used because I
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love them. I love walking through physical sets. You can
do it at the Paramount Ranch in Malibu Canyon and
I used to do that as a kid all the time,
and unfortunately it burned down, but they have rebuilt, I
believe since then.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You know, I used to be a tour guide at
Universal Studios Hollywood on the back lot.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So it was handle.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, we've joked, we've joked about that we should give
another tour. But my favorite favorite parts of the tour
was when we would drive through the sets and show
people the you know, the the just the front of this,
there's nothing behind them, you know, the facades, the facades, yes,
and the New York. That's French for nothing behind it,
(21:07):
nothing behind me. Yeah, the New York cassette it.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Means false front.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
But that was my favorite part of the tour, showing
people the facades because they would go, oh, like we
would show a clip from Bruce Almighty that filmed on
the New York streets. Sure, and they can look at
the Brownstones, yeah, the Brownstones and go what, oh my gosh.
So it's really neat to watch people go, wait a minute,
that wasn't actually in New York.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's the best in the way
that they make. Gosh. I love that and I've had
I've actually climbed the clock tower from Back to the
Future in the back courthouse square. Yeah. An old friend
was directing a film there and said, Hey, why don't
you come and hang out and you can be an
extra and just hang out and run around the back lot.
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And I'm like, what, See, Hollywood is fun. Oh, Hollywood
is great. As much as I bash on parts of it,
I think Hollywood is great and very important to Southern California.
We need that here in LA. We have to keep
Hollywood in Hollywood. We do, and you know the tech
that goes with it and everything else. All right. Any
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other stories that A.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Big one we have to talk about is what happened
with Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, that was a big story that dominated the headlines
for probably a week or two at least when well,
first of all, Stephen Colbert earlier this year announced that
the Late Show at CBS would be ending. That was
the first hit to Late Night this year, which is huge.
That franchise has been around for such a long time
and Paramount Global. Well, they're saying that they were seeking
(22:46):
some to score some points with Trump by canceling that show.
Then we had you know what happened in September after
a comment involving Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmel Live,
which is owned by Disney, is put on indefinite suspension.
If you'll remember, he ended up back in the air
three nights later. There was widespread backlash for not only
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you know, you know, there was backlash for what he said,
but mostly because he was removed from the air. A
lot of people felt like it was a violation of
First Amendment.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
There's a lot of riches. Is not really true there.
I stood with Jimmy on this because the FCC that
winged up behind the FCC and Trump came out and
said some things that I said, I don't care. The
appearance of evil was enough for me. Don't get don't
even start to go down that path of taking people
(23:39):
off the air, even though I think it had business.
You know, business is business, yea. And I think Jimmy
Kimmel be gone in a year.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
It SAIDs a very dangerous precedent, and quite honestly a
lot of people think it's setting up more political interference
in the media in you know, other types of entertainment.
President Trump recently another story said he really wanted to
bring Rush Hour back, if you'll remember that. So now
Rush Hour four, which had been shelved for quite some time,
(24:09):
his paramount has agreed to release that.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's so ridiculous. Yeah, all of it is silly, But
I did stand with Jimmy Kimmel. Listen, late night sucks.
It has gotten so bad, and they take themselves way
too seriously. They're important. I'm a Johnny Carson, guy, a
Jay Leno, guy Conan O'Brien. I loved Letterman. You go
(24:33):
back to Carson and he made it very clear, don't
take yourself too seriously. You can do a lot of
swaying in this position, and that is misusing the platform.
So and I agree with him. And I think that
it's become very dull to watch late night TV because
everybody thinks they're a political pundit rather than just making
(24:54):
fun of things. I think that causes, uh, well, I
think it causes a lot of fear and fear mongering
and ugliness and it's you know, ridiculous. But never ever, ever,
should the government lean in on those things other than
basic FCC rules and the like, which I think are
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kind of stupid too.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
They're a little updated, yeah, to be especially for television. Yeah,
I will say really quick to your point about that.
About Johnny Carson in particular, people always used him, use
him as the barometer, you know, for the best talk
show host of all time. Johnny Carson, while he may
not have been overtly political during his nightly monologues or whatever,
(25:38):
very clearly made political moves by having guest co hosts
like our guest hosts like Harry Belafonte, and during a
very politically divisive time.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
In our country. Okay, but here's something I do not
think civil rights is political. I think human rights and
civil rights, even though it can be politicized, just like
AIDS was politicized, that health and human interest is not political.
So I even though politics are involved and wrapped around
(26:09):
civil rights, to me, it transcends politics. So does human
rights and things like that. They just do. So when
you're saying wrong is wrong, that's not a political party
is wrong. That is it is wrong to put somebody
to oppress or to push someone down. To me, that
absolutely transcends. All right, Happy to be with you. I
(26:31):
don't know what we're gonna do Friday, if we'll end
up doing. You know, we're not gonna do ask Bill anything.
But if you have a question for me, I'll happily
take it. Just go to the iHeart radio app and
you'll see a red icon with a microphone on it
and just press on that and you've got thirty seconds
or so to ask a question. You've been very active
(26:54):
this morning. Oh take it. We're not afraid of that.
We've been talking about the new cycle twenty twenty five.
I will tell you I was talking to Heather Brooker
earlier about how if you have to cover everything, you
can't ever just make a point. You have to counter
every possible angle. Yeah, so that people go, wait a second,
(27:18):
you didn't say this. Yes, we were talking about Jimmy
Kimmel because we were talking about the year in review.
And someone says, what you didn't mention about Facebook? And listen,
I said, the appearance of evil with Trump. But it
is fact that the Biden administration actually censored people with
(27:39):
the help of Facebook, period. And I've said that to
handle And if you listen to the show, listen with
both ears, and you'll hear those things, but I'm not
going to clarify every single time on every single thing.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It's impossible, impuls I think also to people just hey,
just even if you're right about something or have a
point and it doesn't jive with what's in their mind,
they want to be like.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
No, no, no, you're wrong. No. People don't listen with
their ears. They listen with their triggers. It's human nature.
They're waiting to be offended by something. So I'm sorry,
I'm not trust me. If I had to, you know,
producing the Jesus Show for almost thirty years or whatever
it is now, I will tell you that you will
(28:29):
be talking to a person for three minutes and you'll
get ten emails or whatever saying but why didn't you
say this? Didn't you get why didn't you bring up
the police? In my mind, yeah exactly, I was sending
you thoughts anyway. So we talked about the cost of living,
(28:52):
We talked about entertainment, We talked about politics and power.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
By the way, quickly, if everybody, if you want to
listen to more entertainment news, I love to talk about entertainment.
I have a show podcast called entertain Me with Heather brookers.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh I'm sorry, check it out. I would love for
you guys to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We talk about everything from box office stuff to news
and SoCal events and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
So anytime you want to talk entertainment, Neil, you know,
I love that. No, you've been great. I appreciate you
jumping in with us this morning on all that. And
I guess I'll do myself a plug if you already know,
I'm at FOURK reporter on social media. But if you
want to see the stuff that I do, making stuff,
and you know some of the prop replicas I'm working
(29:34):
on now and things like that, I have another Instagram
called Savco Industries Saavco Industries, and you can find me
there on Instagram. It's just like stuff that I do
in my shop. Very creative, my creative stuff. I'm going
to make something.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look at me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I think this is a saw. I am so. A
couple other things that were going on. We had a
lot of technology and disruption, massive jump in scale of
AI across the workplaces, education media, explosion of AI powered scams.
(30:18):
Of course, anytime you have hey, look at that fresh
face Shan just walked in. Anytime you have new technology
The first thing they do is how can we screw
people out of money? And how can we use it
for porn? That's seriously, every technology that ever comes our way.
So AI comes and it's like, how can we make
fake boobies and how can we screw people out of
their life savings? Speaking of fake boobies, they're not fake.
(30:42):
That's why they're not great. It was just a segue.
Oh but he parked at them and then touched them
and I I.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Am sorry, don't use your hands.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That sounds weird.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Poor Beta Beta was like a better technology, yeah, and
I got screwed because of VHS, right, that's why. That's why,
because porn chose VHS over yep.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
That's but see that's what happened. Look at you deep
that you're too deep porn cuts. You're too young to
know about Beta Max. God bless you. I am not
my dad.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
I think till he died a couple of years ago,
had a bait, had a VHS and a Beta Max.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
What did he play on a Beta Max? Old Godfather?
You know Godfather movies? That's like people. I have a
Stanford inside k Tvanford Son reruns Stanford and Son. Another
deep poll. That is fantastic. It was a different time
watch that show. There is there is not one bad episode.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Oh god, it's so good. I loved hearing you this morning.
It was so much a sponge you and Heather Brooker.
I turned my radio on and it was just nice
to have friends on the drive in.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
You know what, someone I didn't say instead of someone
just sent them a talk back. The show's been great today.
See how much fun you can have when there's not
a Jew involved. Oh my word, who jeez, that's awful.
That's horrible. That's anti semitic. Yeah, who was that? Ad All? No, no, no, no, no, no, adoll.
(32:20):
I should we have their names and phone numbers? We
should not.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
I'm going to put that out. We're not going to
do that. No, we're not going to do that. It's
time to go to ways. It's time to it's time
to go cut the.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Mic, is it? Yes? I they should have done that
at about six oh four. No, You're wonderful. I'm oh,
I just want to there's a lot of stuff that
happen in twenty twenty five. Am I right? But I
lose you? Oh my god, I'm distracted.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
That happened to yous HD two Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Oh it is me, Am I Going. Oh, you've been
listening to The Bill Handle Show.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
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