The day brought a mix of major entertainment, business, and cultural developments. Papa Murphy’s Pizza locations are closing across the country, raising questions about shifting consumer habits and fast-casual market pressures. In a significant loss to the architecture world, Frank Gehry—world-renowned designer of the Disney Concert Hall—passed away at 96, leaving behind a legacy that helped reshape and revitalize downtown Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Walmart expanded its drone-delivery program in Atlanta and plans to roll it out to additional states, signaling how quickly the retail and logistics landscape is evolving.
Media and tech news continued to dominate conversations as former Tim Conway producer and real-estate expert Jason Insalaco weighed in on Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Following Discovery’s separation, Netflix’s move opens doors not only to a massive content library but also to entry into the gaming business through WB’s gaming division, raising questions about stock value, market impact, and the future of the entertainment industry. Insalaco further discussed whether Netflix’s ownership of the WB catalog will help or hurt creatives and traditional film and TV models.
On a lighter cultural note, many people are braving unusually cold weather, and first-time visits to Disneyland sparked conversations about whether someone is—or isn’t—a “Disney person.” Dodger Gondola proposal moves forward, but not everyone is happy with it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
During the break, I was looking at Papa Murphy's and
it seems like all the stores in southern California have closed.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
They had a ton of them.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
They had one in Pasadena, one out in Fontana permanently closed,
another one off the fifteen and the sixty freeway permanently closed.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What happened the Papa Murphy's.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Off the ninety and the fifty seven, and EI think
at Anaheim or Fullerton. Another one in Fulton permanently closed.
Another one in Rossmore area right off the six oh
five near the four or five, and they're all permanently closed.
What happened to Papa Murphy's. They had one out in
Valencia or Santa Clarita as well. I used to pass
(00:54):
by that one all the time. That one is out
near the Walmart out right off a Soladud Canyon and
Golden Valley. That's my Walmart out there, and they had
a Papa Murphy's out there.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's permanently closed.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So I guess people in southern California, and you know,
maybe Papa Murphy's was around too early, and nobody had
pizza ovens, and so nobody could go home and make
a nice pizza because the oven didn't get hot enough.
And when you work all day, you want them to
cook it for you. And I remember Papa Murphy's being
(01:31):
that much less than a regular than another pizza place,
and you want that final touch of it hot.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You want it cooked.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And I think Southern California said, we're gonna go to
places where it's hot and it's done. Like if you
had a burger from McDonald's or tacos from Jack in
the Box, and you had to go home and cook them,
you'd be like, ohf that, you guys do that? And
so you guys do you guys took the job? Yeah,
exactly right. The hell Frank Gary has died. That's not
(02:05):
that's not cool. Legendary actor, unbelievable. It's Frank Gary. Oh man,
this guy is a I don't know how old.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
How old was he?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Frank Gary ninety one?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There was ninety six, maybe ninety six? Man, I want
of life. This guy had hum This guy's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Thank Gary, one of America's great architects, has died at
the age of ninety.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Six ninety six ninety six.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Gary designed buildings considered masterpieces all over the world, including
here in Southern California, where he lived and worked for
many years. You're looking at it. The best known maybe
the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA. A
graduate of US, he later taught there as a professor
of architecture. Gary died this morning in his Santa Monica
home after a brief illness.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Ninety six is a nice run his home in Santa
Monica as bad.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
As it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Good dude, Yeah, that guy was cool. You know, designed
some of the great buildings here in southern California. I
know when they put that Disney Hall up, that was spectacular.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Big doings.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, that was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It changed, I.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Think the entire idea and landscape of downtown when that
thing up. Yeah, exactly, like it was the first thing
that really brought downtown on the way sort of back.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, it was the I remember, it was the very
first building that brought us into this century.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And the hall there, I mean just the acoustics there.
I've only been there once, but just it just is
a really cool place at Disney Hall. So Frank Gery
legend and passed away at ninety six. It's a good run.
It's a good run.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Guggenheim in Spain is phenomenal looking.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, Guggenheim Museum in Balboa, ah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Man Life ninety six years old. That's a way to go.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
All right, Walmart, let's get back to reality. We're all
not going to design concert halls, but we're all going
to go to Walmart. And Walmart is kicking off drone delivery.
You can't get your Walmart man, you know products fast enough.
Now they're going to come to you via drone.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
And this is happening this morning, grocery delivery by drone
taking flight for millions of shoppers. The world's largest retailer, Walmart,
revealing here exclusively on GMA it's expanded drone delivery program
starts today in Metro Atlanta in partnership with Wing.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Atlanta's that first stop in our significant expansion with them,
and so we'll be heading from here to Houston. We'll
be in Charlotte, we'll be in Tampa and Orlando.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Stores in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the Dallas for War the
area already using these lightweight drones for fast grocery delivery,
and some tittockers are intrigued, So what.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you think that's cool? At this Walmart in.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Woodstock, Georgia, twelve drones sit on individual charging pads until
an order comes in through the wing app.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So you're going to get products, you know, if whatever
you need from you know, Walmart, you're gonna get it
minutes now instead of days or hours.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Well, pack it up for you, load it onto the droom,
and then it's gonna fly to your house in under
five minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Wow, under five minutes. I wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We'll see video of the first dog it takes out
when you know, you're like when it drops something. Yeah,
when you're landing, you know, uh, fertilizer for the house.
You got twenty five pound bag and that hits the
dog and that's the wrap.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
The drones carry packages up to two and a half pounds.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh okay, two and a half pounds. Dog can survive
and fly within a six mile radius of a store.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Okay, I'm within six miles of a Walmart. I'm in
What are you av it's two and a half pounds.
I don't maybe shaving.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Cream or right, a tie you literally need, like not eggs,
no dropping loose, no, no, not eggs.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But maybe you're going to some stupid event you forgot
black socks or a tie, and you know to go
out and get it, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I got to fight the traffic type.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I went to Walmart last night and I had three
things to return, mostly we got over Thanksgiving and they're
all wrapped.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
We didn't take any of them out. I just we
didn't need them.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And so I'm taking back to Walmart and I go
into Walmart and the line the return line is like
fifty people deep. So I have him in a shopping
cart too because one was heavy. So I go into
Walmart and the line's too long. There's forty fifty people
in the return line. So I go out the entrance
and I get the eye, the eye, you know, from
(06:35):
the security guy. It's like what's going on. I'm like, oh,
I brought these in. These are returns I'm receiving. I
gotta go with receipts, and he's eyeballing me, like you know,
I'm like the thief there. It was a wild couple
of minutes, you know, because it's really insulting, you know
that happened at.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
A grocery store the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I went to a grocery store to get wood, firewood,
and the guy I bought two bundles of wood, you know,
two little packages of would and the guy. I go
through the self check out and the guy goes, hey,
don't you have three there? I'm like, hey, no, I don't.
I got two. And he's like, well, it looks like three,
(07:14):
and then he's pulling them open. There was only two there,
and he was wrong, and it just felt yicky iky
right like I was being accused of stealing from the store.
You know, after not stealing for sixty years, now I'm
a stealer. Now I'm stealing crap. So I said to
the guy who said, look, if I'm stealing, you're not
(07:34):
going to catch me.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know what your skills are in catching guys that steal.
But I'm better than you at this. If I'm stealing,
I'm getting away with it. You're not catching me.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
With stuff in my cart that I'm stealing, it's going
to be in the jacket, it's gonna be more expensive.
I'm gonna be flying out of here with equipment that
you'll never ever know is gone.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You're not stealing those pair of socks.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm not stealing firewood. Yeah right, firewood.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know it's eight dollars for like, you know, twenty logs,
and I'm stealing fire It's.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh, that's a classic. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
When we come back, we have Burbank's finest tire. I
shouldn't say that that's reserved for cops. But a guy
that lives in the Burbank area and he has some
insight into this Warner Brothers deal, saying it's going to
be great for the local economy.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yes, we'll talk to me.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He's a real estate whiz and an old drunk. All right,
we're a lot of ca He just looked at me like,
what the hell, Why would I commit for this?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
We're live.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
One of my one of my good buddies and also
the ex producer of the show. And when I started radio,
he was the producer of the show. And he's gone
on to big things in real estate, and he's got
a family now and a kid, and he's kicking ass.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Jason Slocko, nice to see you, buddy.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Oh, it's great to be back here. Good to see
you coming down the pipe on three two one. Hey,
what's up, Tim?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Great to see you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So you think this Warner brother is First of all,
your background is real estate in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
And this Warner Brothers deal, I think is there's there's
there's multiple things going on. I mean, obviously there's the
bigger consumer picture and you know issues with is this
gonna even more consolidate production and really stifle growth and people.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Will lose jobs? Right? And I don't know about that.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
I'm not going to address that because it's way over
my pay grade and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
I'm sure there's a lot of challenges there, but I
am very bullish about this what it means for the
local economy here in the Burbank area Glendale and just
the surrounding areas, because there's a lot going on here
with this Warner Brothers expansion, and like you said earlier,
I think this is why they were. They were prepping
for this for a long time, and expansion a part
(10:00):
of it. So I think there's gonna be substantial growth
in production.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I was unaware of this though.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I thought that the ranch that they owned on Hollywood
Way and Verdugo, I thought they still.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Own that, But they sold that and now they're leasing
it back.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Right, So they sold that I believe three or four
years ago and they're leasing it back on a long
term lease. I'm not sure if it's ten, fifteen, twenty
years something like that for their exclusive use.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So the company I think were bought it and built
it out and then Warner Brothers.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, they're almost done.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
It's a magnificently huge I mean, I've never seen such,
you know, something built up like this for a studios.
You know, studios have been around forever, like build new
stuff and so quickly too, so quickly.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
And the thing the key is there is that there's
three hundred and sixty thousand square feet of office space.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So it's either going to.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Become a big we work or Warner Brothers and Netflix
and all that is going to populate it, right, right,
because Warner Brothers has the lease of all that too.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So so the same company it owns this building that
we're in, owns that building. They owned the Pinnacle, which
is this building that we're in.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
And then yeah, and they own a bunch of property
around but including this Warner Brothers ranch, and.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
They do a great job. This is the cleanest office
building by far I've ever been in. And they really
keep it up. The up to the upkeep is unbelievable. Absolutely,
And you and I have worked at some awful stations.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I mean this is yes. I mean, look, we worked
at a station where there was a rat.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Remember there was a rat in there one night and
they put they put sticky rat traps and we got
our feet caught on the sticky rat traps while we
were working one night.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
We did and and do you remember the person that
had dyslexic bathroom habits and was using the urine hole
for purposes?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I also remember an on air guy getting a tattoo
on the air and Doug Steckler complaining that there's adamized
blood all.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Over the place. That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And it nothing ever got cleaned or anything. Now they
keep their building spotless. Yeah, this is a spotless, beautiful building.
Speaker 11 (12:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So I think there's going to be a lot that's
going to be happening. What about gaming? You think they're
gonna get back. This is the thing.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
This is this is kind of the sleeper aspect of
all this, and the story is so far I have
really overlooked this. But you know, Netflix is really trying
to get into the gaming space. They started with some
gaming in twenty twenty one and they're slowly expanding. And
Warner Brothers also has a gaming division and they're thinking
about selling that off and spinning it off, you know,
(12:32):
the last couple of years. But now they're part of
this deal. So I think you're going to see a
lot of you know, gaming that's going to be coming
out of this. You know, this this behemoth of a
production company. And again I think that means more economic
activity locally and you know, just just overall just more creativity.
Maybe not in the traditional sense, but they have sixteen
(12:56):
sound stages that they're just about to finish over at
that new problem.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh is that right? So these are going to be
in use.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But you know what I'm shocked by.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And maybe it's just this time of year where everybody
is you know, one foot out the door off to
holidays whatever, but I'm I'm surprised that this Warner Brothers
deal and selling to Netflix isn't breaking news on every
station be considering this is a company town. I think
it's a much bigger story than people are giving it.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
I drove by Warner Brothers this morning about six forty
five in the morning, and there was one news camera there.
I think it was KTLA that wont either just one,
And then I drove on the way back about three
o'clock and there were nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
There's a couple of still photographers that were shooting the story.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean, it's it's an international story, and it really
is a huge business story, right and you know the
Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, all those have been all over
this today, you know, because there's the whole stock element
of it and how the stocks did you know related.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
To this news?
Speaker 10 (13:53):
You know, it'll take they say a year to six,
you know, eighteen months to approve it. If it does
get approved, of course, there's always just that. But who
has approved with the FCC, uh Congress and anti trust things,
So okay, so it's it's you know, it's an executive
I believe it'd be an executive agency decision.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So I don't know for sure, but the the somebody
better warm up the Trump pretty quick. In this deal.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Yeah, there's there's gonna there's that whole thing, so that
you know, that's unknown. But I mean something like this,
I don't I don't, you know, I don't see them
rejecting it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It just doesn't. It just doesn't. I mean I think
there'd be a lot of I.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Mean, this is going to create the biggest entertainment company
in the world, and and yet I see I watched
local news here on some stations and they barely cover it.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Yeah, I mean, and think about this. I mean Netflix was,
you know, sending out DVDs. I mean, that's how the
business started. That's why I first started with them. I
think they finally discontinued that a week ago. They were
still doing it actually up until I think two years ago. Yeah,
there's still those guys that like like to get there.
I remember that company never made any money.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know, they losing money for the first ten or
twelve years every every quarter, and yet the stock was
going through the roof.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah Amazon. Yeah, and now with this.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Integration between you know, the Warner Brothers production, the IP
and then the video games. Uh, you know, there's just
there's a lot of things here. Of course, there are
concerns about the jobs and all that, and and hopefully
I think there's just going to be hopefully more production
that might help stave off this the AI you.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Know, elimination of positions happening in the industry. But I
think you're right.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I think it's gonna be great for the local economy,
for Burbank, Glendale, the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I think it's gonna be huge.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
I mean, you've been around, You've seen this, just like
you were talking about, you know, with your dad and
how things change with William Morris.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
All this stuff.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
You know, stuff goes in waves, right, right, it just
goes in waves, and there's new shifts. And unfortunately we've
been in hit a real skid here for the last
three years or so.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
But the last big deal was Comcast and Universal NBC,
and that that whole area exploded when they when they combined.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Yeah, and you think about this too. I mean, this
is a media company acquiring another media company. You know,
it's not AT and T and Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know, this is it's a local company, you know,
acquiring another local company. And that that's why there's a
major story here in La and and and it's going
to affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people,
you know, in indirectly. Yeah, all right, we'll come back
and talk about it. We have some audio here. Is
this a good deal for Netflix or not? Jason Silanco's
(16:29):
with us pro Netflix taking over Warner Brothers.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Is that how you describe yourself? I am not.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
I want to say I'm pro or con, but I
am You're an observer. I am enthusiastic and have a
measured optimism about this.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It'll be good.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
I don't see a downside. I don't think it can
make anything worse. Okay, all right, all right, we're live
on k IF I am six four. It's Conway. Jason
Loco's with us. We'll talk more about Warner Brothers. Is
a major story going on here.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Netflix is about to take over and buy Warner Brothers
for some thirty billion dollars in cash.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Jason Silako's with us, a real estate guy and I
a resident of Burbank Studio City to local Lake.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Right.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Yes, yes, and we're talking about the Warner Brothers deal.
Netflix acquisition of Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And somebody said, you know, it's not a thirty billion
dollar deal, it's an eighty two billion dollar deal. I said,
I know, it's an eighty two billion dollar deal, but
thirty billion of it is cash from what I understand.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Yes, I don't know if you remember this a few
months ago. Netflix is sitting on that kind of money.
They've got some cash. Wow, They've got some cash mine.
And now they have all these studios to produce content.
This is what I'm thinking too. I actually don't use
Netflix very much. I like older stuff. I like more
dramas and indie films that you know, make twenty thousand
(17:56):
dollars at a Lemley theater, Like those are the movies
I watch. And I think with the acquisition of Warner Brothers,
they have this vast library of all the Warner Brothers movies, right,
So I think you're gonna start to see more of
that stuff. They're gonna have a richer offerings on streaming,
right without necessarily you know, they might get you into
up and buying Netflix, right.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And this is where I think it's key too.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
There's a lot of concern about you know, exhibition business,
the movie business, right, the actual theater business. And and
that's how I see movies. I can't watch movies on streaming.
I get to distracted, and.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I go to the movies.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
I'm one of the last few guys who still likes
to go to movies, and I like to go to
older movies that are shown on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I think with with the acquisition of.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
The Warner Brothers Library, you start you're gonna start to
see that more of that coming to theaters because those
are the movies that are the big, you know, superhero movies.
They're making the money at the Boxer super the young audience,
super young audience, right, and then you have the older
nostalgic audience who goes to see these Back to the
Future special screenings or ET or Rocky whatever it is.
(19:00):
There's a huge raws, right, They're huge draws because people
want to see it and they want to see on
the big screen, and they have you know, film prints
of these, they still have you know, the film, so
they're they're exhibiting these AMC does it and there's some
of the biggest draws.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, Well do you think I think eighty two billion
dollars is a tremendous amount of money.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I mean, I don't know if Warner Brothers is worth that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Evidently it is, though, I mean, there are there are
three companies competing to try to take over Warner Brothers,
you know.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
And and don't forget Netflix now operates the Egyptian Theater
in Hollywood, oh okay, which is big, right there, huge,
And they have the theater in Palisades. They built a
movie theater about four years ago that was in the
Palisades village.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
The Cruso Project. Oh, and that made it through the fires.
I think it did.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
I mean, I don't know if it's reopened yet, but
it's a phenomenal theater. And you know, so they're they
get it and they're and this is I think been
a long time in the making, and I think it
was kind of came up as a surprise because everyone
was thinking about Paramount, right.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But I was shocked though that Warner Brothers. I'm sorry
that Netflix.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You know, about six months ago they said, hey, we
need more money, you know, for product, and so you
got to pay more for Netflix. And then they then
this week they have thirty billion dollars in cash. Seems
like that thirty billion dollars may have been there before
or some of it. Yeah, and people are fickle.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
If they're not generating enough original, new compelling content, then
they're gonna unsubscribe, right.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And you know what I think is really taking over.
And maybe this is just a fad and it'll go away.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But I hear more and more people watching YouTube and
TikTok and Instagram, and they're doing that for free. I
don't know how you can compete with that. You know,
it's true, but I mean, or maybe that'll go away,
maybe people get tired of It's still.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Our biggest export, you know, the entertainment movies. People still
love the story. I mean, they love a good story.
And you know, you could say, well they've run out
of stellaryes just telling the same ones over and over
in different ways. But it's good if it makes money,
you know, you know, And in the film tax credit,
they extended that from the increase that I should say,
from three hundred and thirty million to.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Seven hundred and fifty million. Wow, that's huge. This is
you know, this is the state deal.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
And I know there's you know, there's a lot of
criticisms of that program, and I think they're they're definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But they had to do it, you know.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
But they announced it here at the Warner Brothers ranch
with Gavenuso and signed it here at the Warner Brothers
How long ago is that? I believe it is in
April and may.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Okay, all right here, Astra headphones on here, let's listen
to this audio. Netflix deal good or bad for Hollywood? Well,
let's find out.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Yeah, Hollywood is still spinning after this announcement. Netflix is
looking to drop more than eighty two billion dollars to
buy Warner Brothers. It's a deal that would put a
lot of power in the hands of just one entertainment company.
Depending where you stand, this sound could be considered the
death now for Warner Brothers or it's wedding Shaw. Either way,
(22:02):
Netflix's offer to buy up Warner Brothers is way beyond
a big deal.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
The amount of content, the amount of platforms, the amount
of eyeballs involved in this is megabox on a mega level.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Dominic Patten is the executive editor at Deadline dot Com.
The offer price of eighty two point seven billion dollars
would be the biggest sale of a Hollywood studio ever.
It combines Netflix, the world's largest streaming company with more
than three hundred million subscribers, but the third largest streamer,
home to HBO and a trove of popular entertainment franchises
(22:38):
like Batman and Harry Potter. Whether or not this deal
would cast a good spell on the industry or a
bad one is still up in the air.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
I've talked to a number of people who said this
is the worst thing ever. The former CEO of Warner
Brothers said this is the worst thing ever. But I've
also talked to people who said this could be really
the revitalization that the industry needs after the tough years
of the pandemic, the strikes and the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I think that's right, though I think the latter part
is right. I think it it can't. Look there's there's
less production now in Hollywood than there was during the
strike or during the pandemic.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
It can't get worse, right, And then with an acquisition
like this, I mean there's there's movements. Things are going
to happen, you know. It seems like it's just been
stagnant in when the strike ended, you know, two years ago,
everyone thought, Okay, now we're gonna get back to work
and it's just gotten some ways worse.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Right, And it's not like Warner Brothers are gonna be
purchased and moved out of Burbank or moved out of
Southern California.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's going to stay here.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Netflix is here, and I think it's going to attract
a lot more talent to Los Angeles. Those people are
gonna have to buy homes and values will go up.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Right in Netflix is you know, it's in the motion
picture distribution visits and also production. You know, got into
production in the last ten years or so into producing movies.
So yeah, and if it would have been bought by
YouTube or Google or something like that, I would be
really worried. Right, I'm much less worried about a Netflix acquisition. Fact,
I'm very I'm optimate stick about it.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And Netflix has the ability to get that Warner Brothers
the entire library up on Netflix immediately, you know, right,
that could happen within two three months of the deal.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah. If I were a competing streamer, you know, I
would be concerned.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, because HBO and Netflix are now going to be
the same company, and that's a that's a huge deal.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
What's really interesting is just last night when I was
on Netflix just cruising around, they were talking about stuff
that just got put up or was coming up.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It was a bunch of HBO stuff.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
And I know they've had some of that crossover on Netflix,
but all of a sudden, there was a ton of
stuff on there just last night.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And that's nice that you can go to one place
and find what you want, as opposed to having to
ask everybody where what is this on?
Speaker 9 (24:41):
What is that on?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I know the show you like, is it on Amazon?
Is it on Netflix? And on Ebo? And then you
got to buy all these things separately. I just like
going to one place, you know, like cable TV. You know,
cable TV was a ninety stations or so and you
knew everything was right there. And now, like with football game,
it drives me crazy that I go to watch Thursday
(25:02):
night football, it's not on TV.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I got to go find it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Half the time I can. I never know where to
go to catch up.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I constantly am texting my two buddies, David Mosekin and
meet Me Sock took MONI.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm like, I can't find the Kings game. Where is
it tonight?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
He's like, oh, it's on uh, you know, it's on
HBO two special slash Netflix, you know a channel eighty
five B.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And like, I do want to do that.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Well, it'll be interesting in this deal if if Netflix
is gonna you know, pull back on sports or even
lean into it more.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I bet they lean into it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You think, so, Yeah, it's because it's it's it's it's
one of the last things you really have to watch live.
You know, you can't car chases and sports or two
things you really got to watch live because there's no
real value it later on. And and I think, you know,
obviously that's one of the reasons why Disney was so
expensive or it's so we're so valuable. It's because they
had ESPN. You know, that's a big big deal. And
(25:58):
those and those packages when you buy you know, the
rights to the Dodgers or the Rams or whatever, Lakers, NBA,
those sell for billions and billions of dollars. I think Netflix,
I think you're right. I think Netflix is going to
really lead into sports. I really do a r real
live on kfisay forty. Thanks for coming by, Jason and Solonka.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
It's a pleasure. Nice to see you, buddy. I will
lud catch you soon.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It is the Conway Show. Ding Dong.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I've lived in Ohio and to school at Bowling Green
State University. I've lived in Ohio south of twenty five
miles south of Toledo, in the very flat plains of
Ohio in the winter of nineteen eighty one eighty two,
one of the coldest winters in the Midwest in the
history of mankind. I also lived in Toronto during a
(26:58):
really radical winter in nineteen ninety four, ninety four ninety five,
and I'm telling you it was seventy blow zero one
day in Toronto when I woke up. I have never
been as cold as I am the last two days
(27:18):
in this city.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I don't know what the hell it is.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Did you go to Disneyland last night or no?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I end up not going. I mean neither because I
was too cold. I was freezing. You figured, if it's
cold here, you didn't You didn't go.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And I didn't end up going. Got home last night
and Jen wasn't feeling great, a little tired. I was like, now,
let's just eff yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, my wife had to work and I was going
to go, but I didn't want to go alone, you know.
By and then it was a long day. But I
do love that at that party.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
We might end up doing the Knots one next week.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, yeah, that's a cool deal.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I kind of prefer the Nats one myself. Anyways, I
got a fewer people. You can kind of get in
and out of there.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, yeah, you're more of a nuts guy.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm I like disney Land, the original disney Land. Such
great memories there. Oh man, I tell you, best memories
in the world are at Disneyland. So you when did
you first go to Disneyland. I was probably three or four,
so nineteen sixty seven, so you don't have any memories
(28:28):
of it, but well, you know, I do have pictures
of it, do you, and some memories.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
But you've seen sixty seven roughly mid late sixties. You've
seen a ton of changes to that, Oh yes, over
the years. Yeah, but it seems like Main Street hasn't
changed at all. That's pretty cool, you know. I mean
that part and I think that's the reason why you go. Yeah,
you know, because those those shops there on Main Street.
They do do a good job of maintaining the old
classic stuff and then also having the newer fringe, you know, hey,
(28:55):
latest stuff on the outsides and a little bit for everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Right, And the old stuff on Main Street doesn't seem
like it's run down. It seems like it's you know,
the paint is always fresh or it's always nice.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And the shops there, when you go into them, that's
the same shop that was there fifty sixty years ago. Yeah,
And you get that vibe like with Alva Street, the
same thing with Alvera Street. We used to take field
trips in third grade Missus Bernstein's class in elementary school
in the valley. Yeah, it's a Badstein And we used
to drive down the drive down there. And I went
(29:28):
to Alvera Street with my sister about a year ago,
and it's exactly the same as I remember it when
I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
And that's one of the reasons I like it. I
don't like change at all on almost anything.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And so when I go to Disneyland and I see
Main Street look exactly the way it did when I
went there as a kid in the late sixties early seventies,
I love that, and I'm willing to pay one hundred
and fifty bucks for that experience. So that's my take
on Disney and Disneyland. The gondola going to dodge your stadium.
(30:00):
It looks like this might be moving forward. This is
great news. If you're a Dodger fan, or if you're
you hate traffic, this is great, great news.
Speaker 13 (30:09):
First, there was a lot of back and forth today
during this show board meeting, and this has been a
heavily debated project for quite some time. It was during
the eleven am hour when the board came back from
the closed session that they allowed a public comment for
about an hour on the on this gondola project. And
here's more of what it was like inside that board
(30:30):
meeting today.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All Right, if you don't know what this is, there's
a gondola or a gondola, and wherever you where you're from,
I don't know if.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
The hell of the differences anybody emails about that.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, it's gondola, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I got, I got admit. I don't know that I've
ever heard it pronounce the way you do it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Gondola. Yeah. Really, it's always been gondola.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, I don't know if it's a regional thing.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I have never heard of gondola until recently. Yeah, it's weird,
but it's going to go from Union Station to Dodger
Stadium about a mile a mile and a half and
it's going to take seven eight thousand people an hour
up to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It's a good deal.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's a great deal if you don't like traffic and
you want to go to Union Station and then you know,
take the train or whatever, you know, boss to Union
Station and then get on this gondola and go right
into Dodger Stadium. It's beautiful. It's going to be great.
And then there's these a holes that we have to
(31:30):
get through. The people that are screaming like this about
simply a gondola. How about dealing That's their job is
to deal with idiots like that all day long. It
would drive me crazy.
Speaker 13 (31:47):
This was the moment the La Metro Board took a
vote deciding to move forward today Dodger Gondola project, despite
the La City Council voting against it last month in a.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Twelve to one vote. You can see how the room
was today.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Both supporters of the proposed project and those against it
were holding and waving signs, some protesting during the meeting
at the center of the debate.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, there are two people.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
There are two sets of people in life, and there
are only two There's just two types of people in
the world. I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking about
there are two types of people on Earth. One type
of person moves society forward. They become a taxpayer, they
buy a house, they have kids, they raise their kids properly.
(32:35):
They work at a business that helps people out, maybe
work at a grocery store, cleaners, maybe do a radio show.
Whatever you do, you're moving society forward. The other group
moves society backwards. And there's only two groups of people.
Like Timothy McVeigh moved society backwards when he blew up
the Federal Building. That's a guy that moves crap backwards.
(33:00):
If you're moving things backwards like these people in the
city council and preventing progress, that's not good for the city.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
It's not good for the city. We need to move forward.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
There's a lot more people in la than there used
to be, and we need the gondola or gondola to
go from Union Station to Dodger Stadium. They've been working
on this for twenty five years and being yelled at
by lunatics downtown LA.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
The five hundred million dollars sky high project that was
proposed seven years ago. If built, it would pass through
Chinatown and the LA State Historic Park and connect the
LA Transit System to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's not seven years. I've been listening to stories about
this gondola for twenty five years. People for the twenty
five years easily.
Speaker 13 (33:46):
People for the proposed projects say it would help ease
up traffic and allow people more transportation options.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
Right.
Speaker 13 (33:52):
Hundreds of businesses in Chinatown and Pueblo and Lincoln Heights
have also expressed support.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Good, then let's build it. Just start building it.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
Those against it say the project is not needed and
that it would take away green spaces, some saying that
taxpayers would be stuck with the bill.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
F those people, them all, f them all. It's absolutely traitorous.
We've been fighting this project for I don't know since
twenty Stop fighting.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Start stop fighting and do something with your life. Stop
fighting these stupid projects. This is not going to hurt anybody.
Get a you know, get a better purpose in life.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
I don't know since twenty eighteen, since it came into
the scene.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
If they had said no, we would have decertified this
and it would have been over.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
I feel like it's it's a win for everybody, especially
for my kids.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
That's right because this is the feature for our boys,
the Dodgers. That's right.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That woman is raising kids. She wants to move society forward.
The other lunatic is just crazy and it's.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Hard to come to a game that's right. Traffic and market.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
It's not a real public transit project.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
It's a tourist gimmick. There's no funding planned for it.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
It makes no sense for Dodger Stadium, and it would
do so much time to our neighborhoods and.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Our business It's like a zoo. It's like a nut house.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
What's going on there.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's like an insane asile. Yeah, it sounds like an
old state hospital that these people are in.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
It makes no.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Sense for Dodgers Stadium, and it would do so much.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Harm to our neighborhoods and our businesses. Zica one flew
over the gondolas.
Speaker 13 (35:22):
More than fifty people took the podium today. Several city
council members also spoke out against the proposed project.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, well, look what they've done to La. They've turned
into a sesspool.
Speaker 13 (35:33):
Mayor Baz, who is one of the Metro board members,
voted in support of the project. Her office released the
statement this afternoon and it reads, in part, the mayor
is most interested in the Community Benefits agreement.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That's right, all right, let's do it. Let's shovel up,
shovel ready, let's start tonight. All right, dingdong with that gondola.
We're live on KFI AM six forty Gondola.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
During the break, I was looking at Papa Murphy's and
it seems like all the stores in southern California have closed.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
They had a ton of them.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
They had one in Pasadena, one out in Fontana permanently closed,
another one off the fifteen and the sixty freeway permanently closed.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What happened the Papa Murphy's.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Off the ninety and the fifty seven, and EI think
at Anaheim or Fullerton. Another one in Fulton permanently closed.
Another one in Rossmore area right off the six oh
five near the four or five, and they're all permanently closed.
What happened to Papa Murphy's. They had one out in
Valencia or Santa Clarita as well. I used to pass
(00:54):
by that one all the time. That one is out
near the Walmart out right off a Soladud Canyon and
Golden Valley. That's my Walmart out there, and they had
a Papa Murphy's out there.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's permanently closed.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So I guess people in southern California, and you know,
maybe Papa Murphy's was around too early, and nobody had
pizza ovens, and so nobody could go home and make
a nice pizza because the oven didn't get hot enough.
And when you work all day, you want them to
cook it for you. And I remember Papa Murphy's being
(01:31):
that much less than a regular than another pizza place,
and you want that final touch of it hot.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You want it cooked.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And I think Southern California said, we're gonna go to
places where it's hot and it's done. Like if you
had a burger from McDonald's or tacos from Jack in
the Box, and you had to go home and cook them,
you'd be like, ohf that, you guys do that? And
so you guys do you guys took the job? Yeah,
exactly right. The hell Frank Gary has died. That's not
(02:05):
that's not cool. Legendary actor, unbelievable. It's Frank Gary. Oh man,
this guy is a I don't know how old.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
How old was he?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Frank Gary ninety one?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There was ninety six, maybe ninety six? Man, I want
of life. This guy had hum This guy's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Thank Gary, one of America's great architects, has died at
the age of ninety.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Six ninety six ninety six.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Gary designed buildings considered masterpieces all over the world, including
here in Southern California, where he lived and worked for
many years. You're looking at it. The best known maybe
the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA. A
graduate of US, he later taught there as a professor
of architecture. Gary died this morning in his Santa Monica
home after a brief illness.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Ninety six is a nice run his home in Santa
Monica as bad.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
As it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Good dude, Yeah, that guy was cool. You know, designed
some of the great buildings here in southern California. I
know when they put that Disney Hall up, that was spectacular.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Big doings.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, that was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It changed, I.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Think the entire idea and landscape of downtown when that
thing up. Yeah, exactly, like it was the first thing
that really brought downtown on the way sort of back.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, it was the I remember, it was the very
first building that brought us into this century.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And the hall there, I mean just the acoustics there.
I've only been there once, but just it just is
a really cool place at Disney Hall. So Frank Gery
legend and passed away at ninety six. It's a good run.
It's a good run.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Guggenheim in Spain is phenomenal looking.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, Guggenheim Museum in Balboa, ah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Man Life ninety six years old. That's a way to go.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
All right, Walmart, let's get back to reality. We're all
not going to design concert halls, but we're all going
to go to Walmart. And Walmart is kicking off drone delivery.
You can't get your Walmart man, you know products fast enough.
Now they're going to come to you via drone.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
And this is happening this morning, grocery delivery by drone
taking flight for millions of shoppers. The world's largest retailer, Walmart,
revealing here exclusively on GMA it's expanded drone delivery program
starts today in Metro Atlanta in partnership with Wing.
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Atlanta's that first stop in our significant expansion with them,
and so we'll be heading from here to Houston. We'll
be in Charlotte, we'll be in Tampa and Orlando.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Stores in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the Dallas for War the
area already using these lightweight drones for fast grocery delivery,
and some tittockers are intrigued, So what.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Do you think that's cool? At this Walmart in.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Woodstock, Georgia, twelve drones sit on individual charging pads until
an order comes in through the wing app.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So you're going to get products, you know, if whatever
you need from you know, Walmart, you're gonna get it
minutes now instead of days or hours.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Well, pack it up for you, load it onto the droom,
and then it's gonna fly to your house in under
five minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Wow, under five minutes. I wonderful.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We'll see video of the first dog it takes out
when you know, you're like when it drops something. Yeah,
when you're landing, you know, uh, fertilizer for the house.
You got twenty five pound bag and that hits the
dog and that's the wrap.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
The drones carry packages up to two and a half pounds.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh okay, two and a half pounds. Dog can survive
and fly within a six mile radius of a store.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Okay, I'm within six miles of a Walmart. I'm in
What are you av it's two and a half pounds.
I don't maybe shaving.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Cream or right, a tie you literally need, like not eggs,
no dropping loose, no, no, not eggs.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
But maybe you're going to some stupid event you forgot
black socks or a tie, and you know to go
out and get it, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I got to fight the traffic type.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I went to Walmart last night and I had three
things to return, mostly we got over Thanksgiving and they're
all wrapped.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
We didn't take any of them out. I just we
didn't need them.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And so I'm taking back to Walmart and I go
into Walmart and the line the return line is like
fifty people deep. So I have him in a shopping
cart too because one was heavy. So I go into
Walmart and the line's too long. There's forty fifty people
in the return line. So I go out the entrance
and I get the eye, the eye, you know, from
(06:35):
the security guy. It's like what's going on. I'm like, oh,
I brought these in. These are returns I'm receiving. I
gotta go with receipts, and he's eyeballing me, like you know,
I'm like the thief there. It was a wild couple
of minutes, you know, because it's really insulting, you know
that happened at.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
A grocery store the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I went to a grocery store to get wood, firewood,
and the guy I bought two bundles of wood, you know,
two little packages of would and the guy. I go
through the self check out and the guy goes, hey,
don't you have three there? I'm like, hey, no, I don't.
I got two. And he's like, well, it looks like three,
(07:14):
and then he's pulling them open. There was only two there,
and he was wrong, and it just felt yicky iky
right like I was being accused of stealing from the store.
You know, after not stealing for sixty years, now I'm
a stealer. Now I'm stealing crap. So I said to
the guy who said, look, if I'm stealing, you're not
(07:34):
going to catch me.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You know what your skills are in catching guys that steal.
But I'm better than you at this. If I'm stealing,
I'm getting away with it. You're not catching me.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
With stuff in my cart that I'm stealing, it's going
to be in the jacket, it's gonna be more expensive.
I'm gonna be flying out of here with equipment that
you'll never ever know is gone.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You're not stealing those pair of socks.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm not stealing firewood. Yeah right, firewood.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You know it's eight dollars for like, you know, twenty logs,
and I'm stealing fire It's.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh, that's a classic. All right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
When we come back, we have Burbank's finest tire. I
shouldn't say that that's reserved for cops. But a guy
that lives in the Burbank area and he has some
insight into this Warner Brothers deal, saying it's going to
be great for the local economy.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yes, we'll talk to me.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
He's a real estate whiz and an old drunk. All right,
we're a lot of ca He just looked at me like,
what the hell, Why would I commit for this?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
We're live.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
One of my one of my good buddies and also
the ex producer of the show. And when I started radio,
he was the producer of the show. And he's gone
on to big things in real estate, and he's got
a family now and a kid, and he's kicking ass.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Jason Slocko, nice to see you, buddy.
Speaker 10 (08:58):
Oh, it's great to be back here. Good to see
you coming down the pipe on three two one. Hey,
what's up, Tim?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Great to see you.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So you think this Warner brother is First of all,
your background is real estate in southern California.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
And this Warner Brothers deal, I think is there's there's
there's multiple things going on. I mean, obviously there's the
bigger consumer picture and you know issues with is this
gonna even more consolidate production and really stifle growth and people.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Will lose jobs? Right? And I don't know about that.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
I'm not going to address that because it's way over
my pay grade and I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
I'm sure there's a lot of challenges there, but I
am very bullish about this what it means for the
local economy here in the Burbank area Glendale and just
the surrounding areas, because there's a lot going on here
with this Warner Brothers expansion, and like you said earlier,
I think this is why they were. They were prepping
for this for a long time, and expansion a part
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of it. So I think there's gonna be substantial growth
in production.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I was unaware of this though.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I thought that the ranch that they owned on Hollywood
Way and Verdugo, I thought they still.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Own that, But they sold that and now they're leasing
it back.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Right, So they sold that I believe three or four
years ago and they're leasing it back on a long
term lease. I'm not sure if it's ten, fifteen, twenty
years something like that for their exclusive use.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So the company I think were bought it and built
it out and then Warner Brothers.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, they're almost done.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
It's a magnificently huge I mean, I've never seen such,
you know, something built up like this for a studios.
You know, studios have been around forever, like build new
stuff and so quickly too, so quickly.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
And the thing the key is there is that there's
three hundred and sixty thousand square feet of office space.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Wow, is that right?
Speaker 9 (10:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So it's either going to.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Become a big we work or Warner Brothers and Netflix
and all that is going to populate it, right, right,
because Warner Brothers has the lease of all that too.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So so the same company it owns this building that
we're in, owns that building. They owned the Pinnacle, which
is this building that we're in.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
And then yeah, and they own a bunch of property
around but including this Warner Brothers ranch, and.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
They do a great job. This is the cleanest office
building by far I've ever been in. And they really
keep it up. The up to the upkeep is unbelievable. Absolutely,
And you and I have worked at some awful stations.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I mean this is yes. I mean, look, we worked
at a station where there was a rat.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Remember there was a rat in there one night and
they put they put sticky rat traps and we got
our feet caught on the sticky rat traps while we
were working one night.
Speaker 10 (11:38):
We did and and do you remember the person that
had dyslexic bathroom habits and was using the urine hole
for purposes?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I also remember an on air guy getting a tattoo
on the air and Doug Steckler complaining that there's adamized
blood all.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Over the place. That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And it nothing ever got cleaned or anything. Now they
keep their building spotless. Yeah, this is a spotless, beautiful building.
Speaker 11 (12:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
So I think there's going to be a lot that's
going to be happening. What about gaming? You think they're
gonna get back. This is the thing.
Speaker 10 (12:11):
This is this is kind of the sleeper aspect of
all this, and the story is so far I have
really overlooked this. But you know, Netflix is really trying
to get into the gaming space. They started with some
gaming in twenty twenty one and they're slowly expanding. And
Warner Brothers also has a gaming division and they're thinking
about selling that off and spinning it off, you know,
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the last couple of years. But now they're part of
this deal. So I think you're going to see a
lot of you know, gaming that's going to be coming
out of this. You know, this this behemoth of a
production company. And again I think that means more economic
activity locally and you know, just just overall just more creativity.
Maybe not in the traditional sense, but they have sixteen
(12:56):
sound stages that they're just about to finish over at
that new problem.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh is that right? So these are going to be
in use.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But you know what I'm shocked by.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
And maybe it's just this time of year where everybody
is you know, one foot out the door off to
holidays whatever, but I'm I'm surprised that this Warner Brothers
deal and selling to Netflix isn't breaking news on every
station be considering this is a company town. I think
it's a much bigger story than people are giving it.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
I drove by Warner Brothers this morning about six forty
five in the morning, and there was one news camera there.
I think it was KTLA that wont either just one,
And then I drove on the way back about three
o'clock and there were nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
There's a couple of still photographers that were shooting the story.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I mean, it's it's an international story, and it really
is a huge business story, right and you know the
Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, all those have been all over
this today, you know, because there's the whole stock element
of it and how the stocks did you know related.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
To this news?
Speaker 10 (13:53):
You know, it'll take they say a year to six,
you know, eighteen months to approve it. If it does
get approved, of course, there's always just that. But who
has approved with the FCC, uh Congress and anti trust things,
So okay, so it's it's you know, it's an executive
I believe it'd be an executive agency decision.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So I don't know for sure, but the the somebody
better warm up the Trump pretty quick. In this deal.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Yeah, there's there's gonna there's that whole thing, so that
you know, that's unknown. But I mean something like this,
I don't I don't, you know, I don't see them
rejecting it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It just doesn't. It just doesn't. I mean I think
there'd be a lot of I.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Mean, this is going to create the biggest entertainment company
in the world, and and yet I see I watched
local news here on some stations and they barely cover it.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Well.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Yeah, I mean, and think about this. I mean Netflix was,
you know, sending out DVDs. I mean, that's how the
business started. That's why I first started with them. I
think they finally discontinued that a week ago. They were
still doing it actually up until I think two years ago. Yeah,
there's still those guys that like like to get there.
I remember that company never made any money.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You know, they losing money for the first ten or
twelve years every every quarter, and yet the stock was
going through the roof.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah Amazon. Yeah, and now with this.
Speaker 10 (15:12):
Integration between you know, the Warner Brothers production, the IP
and then the video games. Uh, you know, there's just
there's a lot of things here. Of course, there are
concerns about the jobs and all that, and and hopefully
I think there's just going to be hopefully more production
that might help stave off this the AI you.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Know, elimination of positions happening in the industry. But I
think you're right.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I think it's gonna be great for the local economy,
for Burbank, Glendale, the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I think it's gonna be huge.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
I mean, you've been around, You've seen this, just like
you were talking about, you know, with your dad and
how things change with William Morris.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
All this stuff.
Speaker 10 (15:45):
You know, stuff goes in waves, right, right, it just
goes in waves, and there's new shifts. And unfortunately we've
been in hit a real skid here for the last
three years or so.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
But the last big deal was Comcast and Universal NBC,
and that that whole area exploded when they when they combined.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Yeah, and you think about this too. I mean, this
is a media company acquiring another media company. You know,
it's not AT and T and Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know, this is it's a local company, you know,
acquiring another local company. And that that's why there's a
major story here in La and and and it's going
to affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people,
you know, in indirectly. Yeah, all right, we'll come back
and talk about it. We have some audio here. Is
this a good deal for Netflix or not? Jason Silanco's
(16:29):
with us pro Netflix taking over Warner Brothers.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Is that how you describe yourself? I am not.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
I want to say I'm pro or con, but I
am You're an observer. I am enthusiastic and have a
measured optimism about this.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It'll be good.
Speaker 10 (16:46):
I don't see a downside. I don't think it can
make anything worse. Okay, all right, all right, we're live
on k IF I am six four. It's Conway. Jason
Loco's with us. We'll talk more about Warner Brothers. Is
a major story going on here.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Netflix is about to take over and buy Warner Brothers
for some thirty billion dollars in cash.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Jason Silako's with us, a real estate guy and I
a resident of Burbank Studio City to local Lake.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Right.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
Yes, yes, and we're talking about the Warner Brothers deal.
Netflix acquisition of Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And somebody said, you know, it's not a thirty billion
dollar deal, it's an eighty two billion dollar deal. I said,
I know, it's an eighty two billion dollar deal, but
thirty billion of it is cash from what I understand.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Yes, I don't know if you remember this a few
months ago. Netflix is sitting on that kind of money.
They've got some cash. Wow, They've got some cash mine.
And now they have all these studios to produce content.
This is what I'm thinking too. I actually don't use
Netflix very much. I like older stuff. I like more
dramas and indie films that you know, make twenty thousand
(17:56):
dollars at a Lemley theater, Like those are the movies
I watch. And I think with the acquisition of Warner Brothers,
they have this vast library of all the Warner Brothers movies, right,
So I think you're gonna start to see more of
that stuff. They're gonna have a richer offerings on streaming,
right without necessarily you know, they might get you into
up and buying Netflix, right.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And this is where I think it's key too.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
There's a lot of concern about you know, exhibition business,
the movie business, right, the actual theater business. And and
that's how I see movies. I can't watch movies on streaming.
I get to distracted, and.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I go to the movies.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
I'm one of the last few guys who still likes
to go to movies, and I like to go to
older movies that are shown on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I think with with the acquisition of.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
The Warner Brothers Library, you start you're gonna start to
see that more of that coming to theaters because those
are the movies that are the big, you know, superhero movies.
They're making the money at the Boxer super the young audience,
super young audience, right, and then you have the older
nostalgic audience who goes to see these Back to the
Future special screenings or ET or Rocky whatever it is.
(19:00):
There's a huge raws, right, They're huge draws because people
want to see it and they want to see on
the big screen, and they have you know, film prints
of these, they still have you know, the film, so
they're they're exhibiting these AMC does it and there's some
of the biggest draws.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, Well do you think I think eighty two billion
dollars is a tremendous amount of money.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I mean, I don't know if Warner Brothers is worth that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Evidently it is, though, I mean, there are there are
three companies competing to try to take over Warner Brothers,
you know.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
And and don't forget Netflix now operates the Egyptian Theater
in Hollywood, oh okay, which is big, right there, huge,
And they have the theater in Palisades. They built a
movie theater about four years ago that was in the
Palisades village.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
The Cruso Project. Oh, and that made it through the fires.
I think it did.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
I mean, I don't know if it's reopened yet, but
it's a phenomenal theater. And you know, so they're they
get it and they're and this is I think been
a long time in the making, and I think it
was kind of came up as a surprise because everyone
was thinking about Paramount, right.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But I was shocked though that Warner Brothers. I'm sorry
that Netflix.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You know, about six months ago they said, hey, we
need more money, you know, for product, and so you
got to pay more for Netflix. And then they then
this week they have thirty billion dollars in cash. Seems
like that thirty billion dollars may have been there before
or some of it. Yeah, and people are fickle.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
If they're not generating enough original, new compelling content, then
they're gonna unsubscribe, right.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And you know what I think is really taking over.
And maybe this is just a fad and it'll go away.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But I hear more and more people watching YouTube and
TikTok and Instagram, and they're doing that for free. I
don't know how you can compete with that. You know,
it's true, but I mean, or maybe that'll go away,
maybe people get tired of It's still.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Our biggest export, you know, the entertainment movies. People still
love the story. I mean, they love a good story.
And you know, you could say, well they've run out
of stellaryes just telling the same ones over and over
in different ways. But it's good if it makes money,
you know, you know, And in the film tax credit,
they extended that from the increase that I should say,
from three hundred and thirty million to.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Seven hundred and fifty million. Wow, that's huge. This is
you know, this is the state deal.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
And I know there's you know, there's a lot of
criticisms of that program, and I think they're they're definitely.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
But they had to do it, you know.
Speaker 10 (21:19):
But they announced it here at the Warner Brothers ranch
with Gavenuso and signed it here at the Warner Brothers
How long ago is that? I believe it is in
April and may.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Okay, all right here, Astra headphones on here, let's listen
to this audio. Netflix deal good or bad for Hollywood? Well,
let's find out.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Yeah, Hollywood is still spinning after this announcement. Netflix is
looking to drop more than eighty two billion dollars to
buy Warner Brothers. It's a deal that would put a
lot of power in the hands of just one entertainment company.
Depending where you stand, this sound could be considered the
death now for Warner Brothers or it's wedding Shaw. Either way,
(22:02):
Netflix's offer to buy up Warner Brothers is way beyond
a big deal.
Speaker 12 (22:07):
The amount of content, the amount of platforms, the amount
of eyeballs involved in this is megabox on a mega level.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Dominic Patten is the executive editor at Deadline dot Com.
The offer price of eighty two point seven billion dollars
would be the biggest sale of a Hollywood studio ever.
It combines Netflix, the world's largest streaming company with more
than three hundred million subscribers, but the third largest streamer,
home to HBO and a trove of popular entertainment franchises
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like Batman and Harry Potter. Whether or not this deal
would cast a good spell on the industry or a
bad one is still up in the air.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
I've talked to a number of people who said this
is the worst thing ever. The former CEO of Warner
Brothers said this is the worst thing ever. But I've
also talked to people who said this could be really
the revitalization that the industry needs after the tough years
of the pandemic, the strikes and the wildfires.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I think that's right, though I think the latter part
is right. I think it it can't. Look there's there's
less production now in Hollywood than there was during the
strike or during the pandemic.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
It can't get worse, right, And then with an acquisition
like this, I mean there's there's movements. Things are going
to happen, you know. It seems like it's just been
stagnant in when the strike ended, you know, two years ago,
everyone thought, Okay, now we're gonna get back to work
and it's just gotten some ways worse.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Right, And it's not like Warner Brothers are gonna be
purchased and moved out of Burbank or moved out of
Southern California.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's going to stay here.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Netflix is here, and I think it's going to attract
a lot more talent to Los Angeles. Those people are
gonna have to buy homes and values will go up.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
Right in Netflix is you know, it's in the motion
picture distribution visits and also production. You know, got into
production in the last ten years or so into producing movies.
So yeah, and if it would have been bought by
YouTube or Google or something like that, I would be
really worried. Right, I'm much less worried about a Netflix acquisition. Fact,
I'm very I'm optimate stick about it.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
And Netflix has the ability to get that Warner Brothers
the entire library up on Netflix immediately, you know, right,
that could happen within two three months of the deal.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah. If I were a competing streamer, you know, I
would be concerned.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, because HBO and Netflix are now going to be
the same company, and that's a that's a huge deal.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
What's really interesting is just last night when I was
on Netflix just cruising around, they were talking about stuff
that just got put up or was coming up.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
It was a bunch of HBO stuff.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
And I know they've had some of that crossover on Netflix,
but all of a sudden, there was a ton of
stuff on there just last night.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And that's nice that you can go to one place
and find what you want, as opposed to having to
ask everybody where what is this on?
Speaker 9 (24:41):
What is that on?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I know the show you like, is it on Amazon?
Is it on Netflix? And on Ebo? And then you
got to buy all these things separately. I just like
going to one place, you know, like cable TV. You know,
cable TV was a ninety stations or so and you
knew everything was right there. And now, like with football game,
it drives me crazy that I go to watch Thursday
(25:02):
night football, it's not on TV.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I got to go find it.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Half the time I can. I never know where to
go to catch up.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I constantly am texting my two buddies, David Mosekin and
meet Me Sock took MONI.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm like, I can't find the Kings game. Where is
it tonight?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
He's like, oh, it's on uh, you know, it's on
HBO two special slash Netflix, you know a channel eighty
five B.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And like, I do want to do that.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Well, it'll be interesting in this deal if if Netflix
is gonna you know, pull back on sports or even
lean into it more.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
I bet they lean into it.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You think, so, Yeah, it's because it's it's it's it's
one of the last things you really have to watch live.
You know, you can't car chases and sports or two
things you really got to watch live because there's no
real value it later on. And and I think, you know,
obviously that's one of the reasons why Disney was so
expensive or it's so we're so valuable. It's because they
had ESPN. You know, that's a big big deal. And
(25:58):
those and those packages when you buy you know, the
rights to the Dodgers or the Rams or whatever, Lakers, NBA,
those sell for billions and billions of dollars. I think Netflix,
I think you're right. I think Netflix is going to
really lead into sports. I really do a r real
live on kfisay forty. Thanks for coming by, Jason and Solonka.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
It's a pleasure. Nice to see you, buddy. I will
lud catch you soon.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
It is the Conway Show. Ding Dong.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I've lived in Ohio and to school at Bowling Green
State University. I've lived in Ohio south of twenty five
miles south of Toledo, in the very flat plains of
Ohio in the winter of nineteen eighty one eighty two,
one of the coldest winters in the Midwest in the
history of mankind. I also lived in Toronto during a
(26:58):
really radical winter in nineteen ninety four, ninety four ninety five,
and I'm telling you it was seventy blow zero one
day in Toronto when I woke up. I have never
been as cold as I am the last two days
(27:18):
in this city.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I don't know what the hell it is.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Did you go to Disneyland last night or no?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I end up not going. I mean neither because I
was too cold. I was freezing. You figured, if it's
cold here, you didn't You didn't go.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
And I didn't end up going. Got home last night
and Jen wasn't feeling great, a little tired. I was like, now,
let's just eff yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, my wife had to work and I was going
to go, but I didn't want to go alone, you know.
By and then it was a long day. But I
do love that at that party.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
We might end up doing the Knots one next week.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh that's cool. Yeah, yeah, that's a cool deal.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I kind of prefer the Nats one myself. Anyways, I
got a fewer people. You can kind of get in
and out of there.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, yeah, you're more of a nuts guy.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm I like disney Land, the original disney Land. Such
great memories there. Oh man, I tell you, best memories
in the world are at Disneyland. So you when did
you first go to Disneyland. I was probably three or four,
so nineteen sixty seven, so you don't have any memories
(28:28):
of it, but well, you know, I do have pictures
of it, do you, and some memories.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
But you've seen sixty seven roughly mid late sixties. You've
seen a ton of changes to that, Oh yes, over
the years. Yeah, but it seems like Main Street hasn't
changed at all. That's pretty cool, you know. I mean
that part and I think that's the reason why you go. Yeah,
you know, because those those shops there on Main Street.
They do do a good job of maintaining the old
classic stuff and then also having the newer fringe, you know, hey,
(28:55):
latest stuff on the outsides and a little bit for everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Right, And the old stuff on Main Street doesn't seem
like it's run down. It seems like it's you know,
the paint is always fresh or it's always nice.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And the shops there, when you go into them, that's
the same shop that was there fifty sixty years ago. Yeah,
And you get that vibe like with Alva Street, the
same thing with Alvera Street. We used to take field
trips in third grade Missus Bernstein's class in elementary school
in the valley. Yeah, it's a Badstein And we used
to drive down the drive down there. And I went
(29:28):
to Alvera Street with my sister about a year ago,
and it's exactly the same as I remember it when
I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
And that's one of the reasons I like it. I
don't like change at all on almost anything.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And so when I go to Disneyland and I see
Main Street look exactly the way it did when I
went there as a kid in the late sixties early seventies,
I love that, and I'm willing to pay one hundred
and fifty bucks for that experience. So that's my take
on Disney and Disneyland. The gondola going to dodge your stadium.
(30:00):
It looks like this might be moving forward. This is
great news. If you're a Dodger fan, or if you're
you hate traffic, this is great, great news.
Speaker 13 (30:09):
First, there was a lot of back and forth today
during this show board meeting, and this has been a
heavily debated project for quite some time. It was during
the eleven am hour when the board came back from
the closed session that they allowed a public comment for
about an hour on the on this gondola project. And
here's more of what it was like inside that board
(30:30):
meeting today.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All Right, if you don't know what this is, there's
a gondola or a gondola, and wherever you where you're from,
I don't know if.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
The hell of the differences anybody emails about that.
Speaker 9 (30:40):
I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah, it's gondola, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I got, I got admit. I don't know that I've
ever heard it pronounce the way you do it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Gondola. Yeah. Really, it's always been gondola.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, I don't know if it's a regional thing.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I have never heard of gondola until recently. Yeah, it's weird,
but it's going to go from Union Station to Dodger
Stadium about a mile a mile and a half and
it's going to take seven eight thousand people an hour
up to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
It's a good deal.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's a great deal if you don't like traffic and
you want to go to Union Station and then you know,
take the train or whatever, you know, boss to Union
Station and then get on this gondola and go right
into Dodger Stadium. It's beautiful. It's going to be great.
And then there's these a holes that we have to
(31:30):
get through. The people that are screaming like this about
simply a gondola. How about dealing That's their job is
to deal with idiots like that all day long. It
would drive me crazy.
Speaker 13 (31:47):
This was the moment the La Metro Board took a
vote deciding to move forward today Dodger Gondola project, despite
the La City Council voting against it last month in a.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Twelve to one vote. You can see how the room
was today.
Speaker 13 (32:01):
Both supporters of the proposed project and those against it
were holding and waving signs, some protesting during the meeting
at the center of the debate.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, there are two people.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
There are two sets of people in life, and there
are only two There's just two types of people in
the world. I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking about
there are two types of people on Earth. One type
of person moves society forward. They become a taxpayer, they
buy a house, they have kids, they raise their kids properly.
(32:35):
They work at a business that helps people out, maybe
work at a grocery store, cleaners, maybe do a radio show.
Whatever you do, you're moving society forward. The other group
moves society backwards. And there's only two groups of people.
Like Timothy McVeigh moved society backwards when he blew up
the Federal Building. That's a guy that moves crap backwards.
(33:00):
If you're moving things backwards like these people in the
city council and preventing progress, that's not good for the city.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
It's not good for the city. We need to move forward.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
There's a lot more people in la than there used
to be, and we need the gondola or gondola to
go from Union Station to Dodger Stadium. They've been working
on this for twenty five years and being yelled at
by lunatics downtown LA.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
The five hundred million dollars sky high project that was
proposed seven years ago. If built, it would pass through
Chinatown and the LA State Historic Park and connect the
LA Transit System to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's not seven years. I've been listening to stories about
this gondola for twenty five years. People for the twenty
five years easily.
Speaker 13 (33:46):
People for the proposed projects say it would help ease
up traffic and allow people more transportation options.
Speaker 9 (33:52):
Right.
Speaker 13 (33:52):
Hundreds of businesses in Chinatown and Pueblo and Lincoln Heights
have also expressed support.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Good, then let's build it. Just start building it.
Speaker 13 (34:00):
Those against it say the project is not needed and
that it would take away green spaces, some saying that
taxpayers would be stuck with the bill.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
F those people, them all, f them all. It's absolutely traitorous.
We've been fighting this project for I don't know since
twenty Stop fighting.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Start stop fighting and do something with your life. Stop
fighting these stupid projects. This is not going to hurt anybody.
Get a you know, get a better purpose in life.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
I don't know since twenty eighteen, since it came into
the scene.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
If they had said no, we would have decertified this
and it would have been over.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
I feel like it's it's a win for everybody, especially
for my kids.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
That's right because this is the feature for our boys,
the Dodgers. That's right.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That woman is raising kids. She wants to move society forward.
The other lunatic is just crazy and it's.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Hard to come to a game that's right. Traffic and market.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
It's not a real public transit project.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
It's a tourist gimmick. There's no funding planned for it.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
It makes no sense for Dodger Stadium, and it would
do so much time to our neighborhoods and.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Our business It's like a zoo. It's like a nut house.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
What's going on there.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It's like an insane asile. Yeah, it sounds like an
old state hospital that these people are in.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
It makes no.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Sense for Dodgers Stadium, and it would do so much.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Harm to our neighborhoods and our businesses. Zica one flew
over the gondolas.
Speaker 13 (35:22):
More than fifty people took the podium today. Several city
council members also spoke out against the proposed project.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, well, look what they've done to La. They've turned
into a sesspool.
Speaker 13 (35:33):
Mayor Baz, who is one of the Metro board members,
voted in support of the project. Her office released the
statement this afternoon and it reads, in part, the mayor
is most interested in the Community Benefits agreement.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That's right, all right, let's do it. Let's shovel up,
shovel ready, let's start tonight. All right, dingdong with that gondola.
We're live on KFI AM six forty Gondola.
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