July 9, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson kicks off the show with ABC’s Alex Stone, diving into the headline-grabbing robbery of Joe Burrow’s home and the quarterback’s surprising reaction as revealed in a new Netflix doc. Then, Mark unpacks President Trump’s awkward moment during a meeting with Liberia’s president, highlighting a major gaffe on the country’s official language. KFI’s Heather Brooker joins to talk about her exclusive Comic-Con coverage, the hottest cosplay trends, and her new podcast Entertain Me. The hour wraps with a box office breakdown—can Superman finally dethrone Jurassic Park?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's kf I AM six forty and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. We will get
right into it. Lots going on today and we will
pack it all in. First up, we like to check
in with ABC's Alex Stone. He's always on something interesting,
He's always on something relevant. He's always on something you can.
(00:32):
I didn't mean it that way, No, he's I mean
he's clear headed, but always on a story.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Alex.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was long ago, in a galaxy far away that
the burglary of an Ohio home involved quarterback Joe Burrow
from the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Where was he during that time?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yes, he was on the road in Dallas. And there's
been so many burglaries since then. If you think it's
almost daily the LA area with all the celebrities and
Brad Pitt about a week and a half ago, and
everybody else, and then in the Pacific Northwest Richard Sherman
and a number of Mariners and as in the baseball
team not people out on boats and Kelsey and mahomes
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on the on Kansas City side. So I mean it's
been all over, but we are hearing now for the
first time from Joe Burrow in his own words talking
about the burglary last year and cameras were with him
as it was unfolding for season two of the Netflix
show Quarterback. Season one was super popular and then they
came out with Receiver. Now they're back with season two,
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mostly different quarterbacks that they're documenting, but they were with
them as this whole thing was going down and the
impact that it had on him. And in Quarterback he
talks about how, look, you know your home, no matter
how rich you are, your home is your sanctuary. That
you really feel like that some innocence has been taken
away when somebody has been in your home, in your
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car as well, but they really in your home and
that it just doesn't feel the same and that that
was ripped away from him. And he said this, My
life is very public and it comes with the job,
but you know those certain parts of your life that
are like yours.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Your house is one of those.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, And his girlfriend was at home at the time.
Her mom was one who made the nine one one call.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Someone is trying to break into the house. Right now,
my daughter is there. This is Shoe Burrow's house.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So on quarterback he talked about that moment. He was
miked up through all of this as he learned about it.
That they were on the road in Dallas, which is
kind of the normal mo that the bad guys know
that they're away, that they're live on television, and that
their home is going to be mostly empty if and
many of them somebody's been home in the Pacific Northwest
ones and quite a few of them, a wife or
a girlfriend or children have been there as the rings
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have come in. But he walked into the locker room
after a win and was told his home had been burglarized,
and they kind of put all that together. It sounded
like this.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I walked into the locker en fired up about.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The wind, and then.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They breaking news.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Somebody tried to breaking that.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Joe Burrows has well, see if I end up moving
or not. I don't like that that, yeah, I mean,
I just now everybody knows, the whole world knows where
I live now.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That he was immediately thinking about moving. So three members
of one of the South American theft Rings they were
tracked down by police. They were pulled over, one of
them wearing a Bengals beanie. When they were pulled over,
they had posed for photos with a lot of the
three hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff that they allegedly stole.
They're under arrest. There is word that they are working
on a plea deal right now. But the one change
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that this made for Burrow shows me how much money
he's got is that he decided not to spend three
million dollars on a exact working replica of the Batmobile.
Because of this, he was it was very showy. I mean,
it was every bit that the Batmobile. He would have
been driving around it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I didn't end up getting the Batmobile because you know,
I just had other things I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Deal with that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah, not many of us can say, you know what,
I decided not to get the Batmobile. But so anyway, Yeah,
he talks about it that it really impacted his life. And
there are a lot of other celebrities and athletes out there.
I mean it's almost a daily thing now and in
LA a lot of them do come back to the
South American what we call tourist burglary rings where they
fly in and fly out on STA visas, the visas
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called Nesta that is easy to get. And Chile is
one unique part of that because of the lack of
background checks. That they are the one country that in
a deal with the US that the Biden administration and
last word, the Trump administration had not closed that loophole
where they can easily come in and victimize and then leave.
Not all of them have been that in the Pacific
northwest of Richard Sherman one and some of the others.
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That was a local group of young men who they
were busted up there, but there have been others even
since their arrests going on. So the South American theft
rings may be up there too, but they're operating in
southern California non stop, in Orange County, in La in
Ventura County, but there everywhere, including in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Just that you mentioned as an aside that the new administration,
I mean, now you know, six months in or whatever,
hasn't closed that loophole on immigration. I mean that one
area and that they seem to be focused on in
a big, big way as immigration. And I'm surprised that
that that loophole exists, especially I had.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Heard of it being closed, but DA Spitzer and Orange County,
a number of lawmakers have said, look, this is something
that needs to be taken care of, because this is
why all of these theft rings are operating out of
a Chile. It wasn't that long ago, maybe six months ago,
a year ago, that a essentially a car rental business
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and Santa Clarita was shut down where these members of
these rings would land and then go there to get
a high end car that was given to them. They
would be a Beamer or a Mercedes or you know,
an Aston Martin, something that would fit in with these
neighborhoods that they're going to go into and victimize, so
they wouldn't stand out. And then they would return that
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there's a whole fencing operation to hand over the goods.
They get paid for that amount and then they go
back to Chile and get out.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The number is on how much all of the stuff
that they got was worth or roughly did.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You when it came to Burrow around three hundred grand?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I thought, I heard yeah, and I mean you know
that that's probably to him not a ton of money,
he said, insured yeah, yeah, but a lot of it
was symbolic rings and different things that he had won
over the years, but this was more about people being
in his house. Of course, of course being victimized in that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And as you sort of suggest, the machine involves, they
know the athletes away. They know pretty much across the board,
where all of these athletes are going to be, how
close they are home game or away game, and unless
there's some sort of special provision made for protecting the house,
it's wide open for them.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It's typically wide open. Now the caveat to that is
in LA. The at least the LAPD has told us
over and over again that because LA is such a
target rich environment that they're not always sure that the
same thing is going on in LA. It seems a
little more random and just by the numbers game that
if you're hitting fifteen million dollar homes that they're probably
celebrities or athletes, and some of them may be specifically targeted,
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but they're more targeting the high end neighborhood and the
homes that are in the neighborhood. But if you're in
the Kansas City area or in the Cincinnati area, you
know who you're going after, because it's not like LA,
where the homes are absolutely everywhere. But you know again,
and we talked about it when Jennifer Aniston had her
incident with the stalker that I mean, we've had a
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number of LAPD detectives tell us that they're not going
to say it officially, but behind the scenes, that all
of these celebrities and athletes need to have police level
security at home, whether they're there or not, because no
matter where you live, local police aren't going to be
there instantaneously when you call nine one one. If you're
there and your life is in danger or you want
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them to stop somebody from getting in that you got
to have a team, and she did, and that may
have saved Jennifer Aniston's life potential had that guy gotten
in who was trying to get into her a number
of weeks ago. That her team that they weren't just
you know, some security guards sitting in a leidling car.
These were guys who are trained law enforcement, with the
weapons and with the tactics and cameras and everything else.
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They jumped into action and stopped that guy and held
them until the LAPED got there. So more and more
of these athletes, whether it's somebody with a lot of money,
or it is a sports star, it is a celebrity
that even though it costs a ton to have high
level security twenty four hours a day, and it's imposing
to have people you know, always there at your house
that from a police side, they're saying, you gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, I guess it's indisputable.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
There's just more of this stuff, and so it's worth it,
whatever money is involved. Alex love talking to you. Thank you, sir,
the best. Thanks all right, Alex Stone from ABC News.
When we come back the Epstein Files, the saga continues,
or does it. The conclusion seems to be nothing to
see here. We're moving on. We're done with this. We'll
(09:02):
get to that story next.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
There's a story bubbling out of Washington. You're going to
hear it, you're going to see it. I thought I
would pass it on to you, but I don't think
And to be fair, a lot of us would have
gotten this. President Trump meeting with a group of African leaders,
many of them speaking different languages, and when the Liberian
(09:34):
president took to the microphone spoken English. He said that
Liberia is a longtime friend of the United States, and
we believe in your policy of making America great again.
Speaking Donald Trump, Trump was impressed and inquired as to
where the president of Liberia got such good English skills,
(09:54):
such good English. He said, where did you learn to
speak so beautifully? And he just chuckled. Well, the answer,
of course, is that Liberia's official language is English. But
here and people are saying, how could cup Trump not
know this?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mean, let's be honest, would you really know? I
mean you, I'm not saying this isn't one of those
Trump anti Trump things. I'm saying Liberia. I just come
up to you and I say, Liberia, Yeah, the country
in Africa. What's their official language? I mean, would any
of you know it? Come on, you would not know
it's English? I mean, I I beerish, thank you. That
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would have been Maybe I guess I'd come up with
I cut Trump a break on that one.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I mean, maybe it's in the briefing materials, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't know, but I'm just saying, if you just
on a cold call like that, I'm saying now it
got me thinking.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Yeah, but if you were president.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, okay, I'll gree.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
I mean, I mean, I your point is absolutely I'll
agree with that.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
But at the same time, it's like, if I were president,
I want to know.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, I sort of have it in my materials, you know,
the consistencies of the.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Yes blame, there's the foosias.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, well, you know, Trump, to be fair to the
whole issue, doesn't really look at the briefing materials anyway.
So on some level, I mean, the Intel people just
kind of dog it. I think on some line, I
don't know, it doesn't matter what they put in the file,
He's going to vibe it out, and so the vibe
went the wrong way. But uh, English is the second
(11:32):
most spoken language in the world. Do you know, the
first most spoken language in the world, the first most
spoken language in the world. I'm giving everyone a minute.
Oh why who's everyone? Are you doing a whipper out?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, I'm doing I was. I meant for the audience.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh okay, yeah, I'm giving you a beat to argue
about this in the car. The answer is, do you
want to tell your guests anybody here on the show?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Oh I know, oh you do, Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, so it is.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Chinese Oh, I thought it was going to be I
thought it was gonna be Liberian.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You should have jumped on with Liberian. That would have
been funnier. But English is spoken by three hundred and
seventy two million native and about a billion non native speakers.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But in Africa, I just started thinking about the question
I asked everybody, which is you know, if I asked
you what the official language of Liberia is, could you
actually say what it is? And the answer is probably
not so. Of the countries in Africa, immense continent, how
many are English speaking nations? Of all the countries in Africa?
(13:00):
How many are English speaking? How many nations are there
in Africa? Krozer, do you have that?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
God, I mean it's it's that alone is Yeah, that's
that's a big, big number. Africa is an immense continent,
as you know, and they're a bunch of these twenty
four okay, out of the fifty four countries in Africa,
thank you, Michael Krozer, how many speak English? Let's whip
it go ahead. Oh, how many countries on the continent
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of Africa are English speaking?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm going to start with use to fools delicious. I'll
say twenty No, no, not correct. Is Angel with us? No?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
She is not? Today?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
All right, I will go right to Matt Mi Morris
by the way, Oh it is is he?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Is he with us?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Michael? You there?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah? Here an Michael.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
How many countries on the content of Africa are English speaking?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Oh? Boy, I'll guess ten mm no, okay, how about
you croach.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Uh step in a good answer? Twenty I'm gonna go
a little I or just for s and giggles. Twenty two.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Ooh, I'm gonna give it to you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Twenty four was the answer were looking for, very impressive
and yeah, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, s U
Dan You, Ganda. I won't go through all of them,
but I mean if I just stopped you you know. Yeah,
and if you were to spin it on the wheel
of do they speak English, it would be an even
money guess. I mean, do you know you know whether
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or not English is spoken in Botswana?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Of course not. I mean, it's just you know, and.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
I'm sure somebody does.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, I'm just saying the average So in a way
that Trump stepped in it today on Liberia is somewhat understandable.
I mean again, if you accept the fact that he
is president, maybe's supposed to know this stuff.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
But who knew almost half?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, I mean that's the British, right, The British dominated
the world, and the British colonized Africa in such an
aggressive way, and so you have this post colonial speaking
of English across much of the African continent. Pretty wild
the I'm just reading about all of these. You know,
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French has spoken there as well. That's again because of
the colonialism associated with the you know, the French in
Africa and of course the South Africans. There's that Afrikaans.
Is the Dutch established a colony there.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I would have thought that that would have been more,
that there would have been more countries that speak Dutch
even still and it's only like five.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, isn't that interesting? The Dutch? I mean, we have
the sense of them as the.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Clog wearing cute. Is that the milk that they make
or cheese or whatever. The up there, you know with
the windmills and they're so beautiful with the pigtails, and
they're they were ruthless colonialists, ruthless and that's why you know,
many of those countries in Africa or a handful of
them still have Dutch in the world.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Oh, I says here that only South Africa is that
is the only country that mainly speaks Afrikaans or Dutch.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Na.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Maybe it speaks it, but it's not official for them.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, and even Afrikaans is like this mix of Dutch
and other stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So all right, that is the great African Continent language
mystery unfolding. Move on from the Epstein files. Not everybody
is up for doing that. We will touch on that
story next.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I will bump everything to get to a Comic Con
preview from kfi's Heather Brooker.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
High, Heather, Hi, how are you listen? I would do
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, Comic Con is coming up, I mean, what is
it two weeks away?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
How long is kamic Con? Is it a four day
event or how long is it?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It is officially four days, but then they do a
little preview day the day before it officially kicks off.
So we're two weeks out now for the official day,
which is July twenty fourth, and it's down in San
Diego at the convention center. One hundred and thirty thousand
or so people descend on the gas Plant district. They're
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dressed in their best cosplay, representing and showing their fandom
for their favorite shows. And this year is going to
be really good as well, no exception to the previous year.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
What's the number one cosplay outfit? What theme really carries
the day this year as opposed to past years where
we've seen you know, Star Wars or you've seen some
of the Marvel Universe.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Is what flex can we look for this year?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, I think you're still going to see a lot
of Star Wars. That that is a fandom that goes
hard for every every pop culture events. You're going to
see Star Wars, You're going to see Star Trek. I
think this year's going to see a lot of Superman.
I mean that's the big, the big property that's coming out.
I think you're also going to see a lot of
Fantastic Four cosplay. That's a big movie that's coming out
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in the weeks after Comic Con. You know, anime is
really big. Anime fans love to get dressed up in
their favorite anime shows and characters and The Boys, The
Boys on Amazon Prime. Have you seen that show?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I have not, tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, it's very dark. It's like what would happen if
superheroes were bad?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Oh, if the people, the world's most powerful beings did
not care about anybody or anything but themselves, And that's
sort of the promise of the Boys.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's very dark and very violent, but it's very very popular.
So I feel like a comic con you sort of
see the gamut of costumes and that's really part of
the fun of it to go people watch and see
people dressed up in their favorite costumes.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So when you're reporting on this, you're part of it.
You're swimming in the stream, you're podcasting, you're you know,
you're you're part of the organism that is comic CONU
what is the agenda?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, if I'm if I'm there and I'm going to comicon,
I think you know, there's there's two different options really
that you have when you go. You've got everything happening
inside the convention center, which is what you need to
badge for. You've got panels, huge celebrities are going to
be there, Huge properties for television shows like Avid Elementary,
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Like I mentioned else, The Boys, Fallout, Star Trek, Walking Dead,
there's going to be a ton of those panels. The
stars from those shows are also going to be there,
and inside there's also going to be over a thousand
comic book artisans and sellers and people selling their where
you know. I actually did an interview with David Glanzer.
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He is the spokes first and for San Diego Comic Con.
He's been in the con, he's been running the con
for many, many years, and he told me that they're
expecting almost eleven hundred, like over a thousand or so
different exhibitors. So, you know, the inside the convention center
itself is just a massive event. But if that's too
much for you, or maybe you didn't get your badges
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for Comic Con, you can go outside the con. There's
a ton of events that they set up around the
gas Lamp area in Petto Park outside of the hotels.
There they do takeovers of businesses and so there's still
plenty to do. If you don't have passes, you just
want to go and sort of absorb all of the
comic con geekiness, you can definitely do that there.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I just remember when comic Con. I think maybe my
memory is playing tricks on me, but it felt like
it was mostly what you were talking about in one
of the descriptions of what is now just a part
of comic Con, and that is comic book collectors, very
sort of specialized.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It was enthusiasts.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It was adjacent to a lot of the big superhero
stuff or some of these iconic series like Star Trek.
But it just seems as though it has grown in
immensity so that all of these different things are now
under one roof.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean, the comic books are
still at the core of comic Con. It wouldn't be
comic Con without the comic books. But it has grown
because the studios have come in and they have started
bringing celebrities, and you know, when you've got celebrities there,
it brings out the fans in mass and it suddenly
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becomes a much larger ordeal, much larger event. But I
think that that's sort of the fun and the appeal
for a lot of people of comic Con. It's just
you're there to meet up with your friends, maybe friends
from across the country you haven't seen in a while,
maybe friends that you've met online and who your fandom.
You know. When I was talking to David, he told
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me that one of his favorite things to do every
year is just to reconnect with his friends and bond
over what shows they're excited to see this year or
what movies that they're looking forward to seeing. So it's
really it's a big social event and a lot of
the there's you know, a lot of the nerdy quirky
culture is still a big part of it, but it's
much more mainstream now, If that makes any sense.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, no, I think that makes a lot of sense.
That's kind of exactly what I'm saying. It's sort of
gone from this specialty thing to this all encompassing thing where,
you know, regardless of how hip you are to Marvel Universe,
DC Universe, this Star Trek Incarnation incarnation, this Star Trek iteration,
this Star Trek sequel. I mean, there's just more stuff
that can include you, you know, So can you hang
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for this one second? I want to get two things.
I want to get a Superman glimpse if you will,
at the Superman movies. And also, I'm told by producer
Matt that you have a potential game for us and
I'm always up for a game, so I'd like that
to sort of follow. So if you can hang out
(23:10):
for a minute or two, that'd be great. Heather Brooker, JFI,
that'd be awesome. We're talking comic Con and when we
come back, as I say, Superman and a bit of
a game related to television and streaming.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Mark Thompson here, we're talking to Heather Brooker from KFI.
We're talking comic Con, and Heather covers a lot of entertainment,
the world of comic Con, the world of movies, of comics,
of pop culture. And I know the huge movie coming
up is Superman, and I know they're also sort of
big way they call him tent pole movies out also
Jurassic Park is one of them, and I'm wondering if
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you can just give me your sense of what Superman
is going to do.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I mean, it seems like such a bankable franchise.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I wonder, well, I think Superman is going to do
very well. It has some tough competition with Jurassic World Rebirth,
which had a great opening weekend last weekend, and was
also a really good movie. But Superman is you know,
like you said, it's a tenth pole movie. I mean,
this is going to do very well because the cast
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is great, James Gunn is great. He has brought a
fresh take and is sort of revitalizing the DC universe,
which is something a lot of fans have been calling
for for quite some time. You know, are you a
fan of superhero movies? Are you a fan of like
DC and Marvel type movie?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I how do I put this?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
There's no judgment, no judgment.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
All right, because there's no judgment, I'm not I'm not
averse to them, like I'll go you know, I went
to a bunch of them. My problem is if I
need too much detail from the prior film, sometimes I'll
lay out on the new one, you know, on the sequel.
So in this case Superman, I don't need any kind
(25:03):
of stuff that was in the prior to movies to
gible appreciate this movie.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
So I would no, not all this is perfect for me.
So yeah, I'm all on it.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So that's one thing that a lot of people appreciate
about this iteration of Superman is there's no origin story
overload here. He starts already mid life. He's already you know,
dating Lois Lane, he's already got a job at a
daily planet. And we don't go back to Kansas or Krypton.
We don't see any of that. We see him fully
formed as a in the in the earth, as a
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as a living, working being in the Earth. And it's
it's a really fun, lighthearted take. The man who plays Superman,
David corn Sweat really watchable. Uh, it's I think it's
going to do really well. There's some standout performances also
from Rachel Brosnahan who plays Lois Lane. Also, I have
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to say Nicholas Holt, who plays Left Luthor, is fantastic.
He's really immersive as this like super dark villain, very
fun to watch, very engaging performances there. The effects are fun.
Is the story gonna blow everyone away? Are people gonna,
you know, write home to mom about it and be like, Mom,
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this is the best thing you ever bought. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
People don't write home to mom anymore anyway, So you're safe.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Right, But you're.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Saying that there there's a there's a plot that drives
the action, but you're saying it's not the kind of
plot that you go nuts for.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
No. I mean, I think it's building on something. I
think that's what people have to remember here. This is
James Gunn building a universe essentially from the ground up.
Like if you remember when Marvel started with Iron Man,
people were like, what is this? What is iron Man?
He was a relatively not unknown character but not one
of the major characters in the Marvel universe. And they
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build an entire franchise, franchise, and and you're around that
Iron Man film, but it was a building film. And
that's what James Gunn is trying to do here. He
is building the DC universe away from the darker Zack
Snyder lexicon and stories and building it into something more
layered and more complex. And so people need to just
(27:19):
just relax, go enjoy it. I know some people are.
I was getting some comments today on some social media
posts they had up. But it's like people were like, oh,
you know, we've heard it's woke, and you know there's
a theme about immigrants in it, and I'm like, no,
not really, Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Well I know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Because they're trying to make a big deal out of
the fact that James Gunn, who has a certifiable creative genius,
This guy James gun I mean, google him and read
about him everybody.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
He's an amazing dude.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You know, I don't know about this movie whether it
be good or not, but if history is a guide,
it will be good. But anyway, the point is there
was some moment on the red carpet where they said,
did you say that Superman is.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
An immigrant and that this is an immigrant story? And
I think they've turned that into a big thing, you know.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
He did.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It became a big thing, and now people are like,
I'm not gonna go see it. It's woke, and I'm like,
come on, it's Superman. Just get some popcorns, sit back
and relaxed, enjoy the movie, and go home, take a nap,
and let's all just breathe and enjoy it, all right.
That's what movies are for.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, with Guardians of the Galaxy, they were all from
different places, all different weird creatures, and you know, so
it's kind of a consistent that Superman is. I can't
think of anything much more Americana than Superman, so, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right exactly, And that's what people need to keep in mind,
they go see it, and you know, every week I
go on Gary and Channon on Fridays and we break down,
you know, weekly entertainment segment. I'll talk more about Superman
and when I met the cast and what we talked
about there, and so, you know what, it's just, it's
really it's a fun movie and we all just need
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to tune out for a second, go and enjoy the
movie and not worry about what things are happening in
the world for just a couple hours. I'll tell you
when I saw aoy of the movies, the.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wonder Woman movie had something in it that I had
a problem with, and I want to share it with
you now because you're a Hollywood insider. Towards the end
of the movie, you know, Wonder Woman is in a
thing with the bad guy and they're both throwing stuff
at each other, and the stuff that hits them looks
(29:23):
like it just decimates them. You know, each one is
thrown to the ground as they're hit by whatever object
it was.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I remember it. It was literally a building. In one case.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
One of them lifts a building up and throws it
at the other one.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I thought, well, that pretty well, does it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I mean, you know, no one's calling out from under that,
but he crawled out from under it, and now the
battle's still on. The problem I have with that is
that it so and I understand it's a different reality.
I have to kind of click into that, but it's
so over the top with you know, like throwing planets
and universes at each other and still they that it takes,
(30:01):
you know, those long fight scenes where they're punching each
other over and over. Any series of those punches would
have killed the guy. You just I get frustrated, like
I can't tell who's winning the fight, you know, Can
you help me through this?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, it's the whole willing suspension of disbelief, Like we
buy into it in the movies because we're automatically, you know,
we're making a deal with the filmmakers when we go
in to buy into the world that they're selling us.
And it's their job to keep us in that world
and keep selling us, you know, what we paid for.
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And some filmmakers do a really good job of it
and some don't. And that's why some movies do well
and some are thinkers. So yeah, I completely understand. There's
definitely been moments like in the Jurassic World movies, the
first one where Bryce Styllis Howard is running through the
jungle in her high heels chasing dinosaurs. I was like,
literally going water. You do get the woman some boots,
(31:01):
Like what on earth?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Never can sacrifice for fashion? You just can't have to go.
Heather Brooker will listen to you on Friday and Gary
and Shannon's show and love hanging with you always. You
hip us up to what's happening. Hey, the Night at
the Museum movie. There's another one of those coming.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Out too, right, Yeah, another Night of the Museum movie
has been greenlit. This is going to be a reimagining
sort of of this film, and it looks like it's
going to be a lot of fun. Nowhere yet on
a castine like this was news that just came out today,
And do we have time to do your game really quickly?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh my god, we don't. We're out of time. This
is awful. Who's producing this show? Matt?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh my gosh, Oh we love Matt.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It was my fault because I asked you the question
about the supers.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah it's now I got to own it. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I will always talk to you and he said, well, listen,
let me know if you want to do a game,
we'll do a game tomorrow or someone.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I'm billing in on wake up Call this week, so
as soon as we're done here, I am going to
go and get ready for bed early in the morning, Amy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
King, check out Heather in the morning and maybe return
visit tomorrow. Thanks Heather Brooker, absolutely, thanks Mark all right,
good stuff. When we come back, Ice Agents and the
Latest Raids. It's the Conway Show. Thompson sitting in for
Tim on Kofi AM six forty live everywhere on the
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It's kf I AM six forty and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Kf I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Mark Thompson here for Tim Conway Junior. We will get
right into it. Lots going on today and we will
pack it all in. First up, we like to check
in with ABC's Alex Stone. He's always on something interesting,
He's always on something relevant. He's always on something you can.
(00:32):
I didn't mean it that way, No, he's I mean
he's clear headed, but always on a story.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Alex.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It was long ago, in a galaxy far away that
the burglary of an Ohio home involved quarterback Joe Burrow
from the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Where was he during that time?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yes, he was on the road in Dallas. And there's
been so many burglaries since then. If you think it's
almost daily the LA area with all the celebrities and
Brad Pitt about a week and a half ago, and
everybody else, and then in the Pacific Northwest Richard Sherman
and a number of Mariners and as in the baseball
team not people out on boats and Kelsey and mahomes
(01:17):
on the on Kansas City side. So I mean it's
been all over, but we are hearing now for the
first time from Joe Burrow in his own words talking
about the burglary last year and cameras were with him
as it was unfolding for season two of the Netflix
show Quarterback. Season one was super popular and then they
came out with Receiver. Now they're back with season two,
(01:39):
mostly different quarterbacks that they're documenting, but they were with
them as this whole thing was going down and the
impact that it had on him. And in Quarterback he
talks about how, look, you know your home, no matter
how rich you are, your home is your sanctuary. That
you really feel like that some innocence has been taken
away when somebody has been in your home, in your
(01:59):
car as well, but they really in your home and
that it just doesn't feel the same and that that
was ripped away from him. And he said this, My
life is very public and it comes with the job,
but you know those certain parts of your life that
are like yours.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Your house is one of those.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, And his girlfriend was at home at the time.
Her mom was one who made the nine one one call.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Someone is trying to break into the house. Right now,
my daughter is there. This is Shoe Burrow's house.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So on quarterback he talked about that moment. He was
miked up through all of this as he learned about it.
That they were on the road in Dallas, which is
kind of the normal mo that the bad guys know
that they're away, that they're live on television, and that
their home is going to be mostly empty if and
many of them somebody's been home in the Pacific Northwest
ones and quite a few of them, a wife or
a girlfriend or children have been there as the rings
(02:49):
have come in. But he walked into the locker room
after a win and was told his home had been burglarized,
and they kind of put all that together. It sounded
like this.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I walked into the locker en fired up about.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The wind, and then.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They breaking news.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Somebody tried to breaking that.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Joe Burrows has well, see if I end up moving
or not. I don't like that that, yeah, I mean,
I just now everybody knows, the whole world knows where
I live now.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That he was immediately thinking about moving. So three members
of one of the South American theft Rings they were
tracked down by police. They were pulled over, one of
them wearing a Bengals beanie. When they were pulled over,
they had posed for photos with a lot of the
three hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff that they allegedly stole.
They're under arrest. There is word that they are working
on a plea deal right now. But the one change
(03:37):
that this made for Burrow shows me how much money
he's got is that he decided not to spend three
million dollars on a exact working replica of the Batmobile.
Because of this, he was it was very showy. I mean,
it was every bit that the Batmobile. He would have
been driving around it.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I didn't end up getting the Batmobile because you know,
I just had other things I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Deal with that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah, not many of us can say, you know what,
I decided not to get the Batmobile. But so anyway, Yeah,
he talks about it that it really impacted his life. And
there are a lot of other celebrities and athletes out there.
I mean it's almost a daily thing now and in
LA a lot of them do come back to the
South American what we call tourist burglary rings where they
fly in and fly out on STA visas, the visas
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called Nesta that is easy to get. And Chile is
one unique part of that because of the lack of
background checks. That they are the one country that in
a deal with the US that the Biden administration and
last word, the Trump administration had not closed that loophole
where they can easily come in and victimize and then leave.
Not all of them have been that in the Pacific
northwest of Richard Sherman one and some of the others.
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That was a local group of young men who they
were busted up there, but there have been others even
since their arrests going on. So the South American theft
rings may be up there too, but they're operating in
southern California non stop, in Orange County, in La in
Ventura County, but there everywhere, including in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Just that you mentioned as an aside that the new administration,
I mean, now you know, six months in or whatever,
hasn't closed that loophole on immigration. I mean that one
area and that they seem to be focused on in
a big, big way as immigration. And I'm surprised that
that that loophole exists, especially I had.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Heard of it being closed, but DA Spitzer and Orange County,
a number of lawmakers have said, look, this is something
that needs to be taken care of, because this is
why all of these theft rings are operating out of
a Chile. It wasn't that long ago, maybe six months ago,
a year ago, that a essentially a car rental business
(05:38):
and Santa Clarita was shut down where these members of
these rings would land and then go there to get
a high end car that was given to them. They
would be a Beamer or a Mercedes or you know,
an Aston Martin, something that would fit in with these
neighborhoods that they're going to go into and victimize, so
they wouldn't stand out. And then they would return that
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there's a whole fencing operation to hand over the goods.
They get paid for that amount and then they go
back to Chile and get out.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The number is on how much all of the stuff
that they got was worth or roughly did.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You when it came to Burrow around three hundred grand?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I thought, I heard yeah, and I mean you know
that that's probably to him not a ton of money,
he said, insured yeah, yeah, but a lot of it
was symbolic rings and different things that he had won
over the years, but this was more about people being
in his house. Of course, of course being victimized in that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And as you sort of suggest, the machine involves, they
know the athletes away. They know pretty much across the board,
where all of these athletes are going to be, how
close they are home game or away game, and unless
there's some sort of special provision made for protecting the house,
it's wide open for them.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It's typically wide open. Now the caveat to that is
in LA. The at least the LAPD has told us
over and over again that because LA is such a
target rich environment that they're not always sure that the
same thing is going on in LA. It seems a
little more random and just by the numbers game that
if you're hitting fifteen million dollar homes that they're probably
celebrities or athletes, and some of them may be specifically targeted,
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but they're more targeting the high end neighborhood and the
homes that are in the neighborhood. But if you're in
the Kansas City area or in the Cincinnati area, you
know who you're going after, because it's not like LA,
where the homes are absolutely everywhere. But you know again,
and we talked about it when Jennifer Aniston had her
incident with the stalker that I mean, we've had a
(07:32):
number of LAPD detectives tell us that they're not going
to say it officially, but behind the scenes, that all
of these celebrities and athletes need to have police level
security at home, whether they're there or not, because no
matter where you live, local police aren't going to be
there instantaneously when you call nine one one. If you're
there and your life is in danger or you want
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them to stop somebody from getting in that you got
to have a team, and she did, and that may
have saved Jennifer Aniston's life potential had that guy gotten
in who was trying to get into her a number
of weeks ago. That her team that they weren't just
you know, some security guards sitting in a leidling car.
These were guys who are trained law enforcement, with the
weapons and with the tactics and cameras and everything else.
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They jumped into action and stopped that guy and held
them until the LAPED got there. So more and more
of these athletes, whether it's somebody with a lot of money,
or it is a sports star, it is a celebrity
that even though it costs a ton to have high
level security twenty four hours a day, and it's imposing
to have people you know, always there at your house
that from a police side, they're saying, you gotta do it.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, I guess it's indisputable.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
There's just more of this stuff, and so it's worth it,
whatever money is involved. Alex love talking to you. Thank you, sir,
the best. Thanks all right, Alex Stone from ABC News.
When we come back the Epstein Files, the saga continues,
or does it. The conclusion seems to be nothing to
see here. We're moving on. We're done with this. We'll
(09:02):
get to that story next.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
There's a story bubbling out of Washington. You're going to
hear it, you're going to see it. I thought I
would pass it on to you, but I don't think
And to be fair, a lot of us would have
gotten this. President Trump meeting with a group of African leaders,
many of them speaking different languages, and when the Liberian
(09:34):
president took to the microphone spoken English. He said that
Liberia is a longtime friend of the United States, and
we believe in your policy of making America great again.
Speaking Donald Trump, Trump was impressed and inquired as to
where the president of Liberia got such good English skills,
(09:54):
such good English. He said, where did you learn to
speak so beautifully? And he just chuckled. Well, the answer,
of course, is that Liberia's official language is English. But
here and people are saying, how could cup Trump not
know this?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mean, let's be honest, would you really know? I
mean you, I'm not saying this isn't one of those
Trump anti Trump things. I'm saying Liberia. I just come
up to you and I say, Liberia, Yeah, the country
in Africa. What's their official language? I mean, would any
of you know it? Come on, you would not know
it's English? I mean, I I beerish, thank you. That
(10:33):
would have been Maybe I guess I'd come up with
I cut Trump a break on that one.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I mean, maybe it's in the briefing materials, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I don't know, but I'm just saying, if you just
on a cold call like that, I'm saying now it
got me thinking.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Yeah, but if you were president.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, okay, I'll gree.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
I mean, I mean, I your point is absolutely I'll
agree with that.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
But at the same time, it's like, if I were president,
I want to know.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, I sort of have it in my materials, you know,
the consistencies of the.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Yes blame, there's the foosias.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, well, you know, Trump, to be fair to the
whole issue, doesn't really look at the briefing materials anyway.
So on some level, I mean, the Intel people just
kind of dog it. I think on some line, I
don't know, it doesn't matter what they put in the file,
He's going to vibe it out, and so the vibe
went the wrong way. But uh, English is the second
(11:32):
most spoken language in the world. Do you know, the
first most spoken language in the world, the first most
spoken language in the world. I'm giving everyone a minute.
Oh why who's everyone? Are you doing a whipper out?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, I'm doing I was. I meant for the audience.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Oh okay, yeah, I'm giving you a beat to argue
about this in the car. The answer is, do you
want to tell your guests anybody here on the show?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Oh I know, oh you do, Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, so it is.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Chinese Oh, I thought it was going to be I
thought it was gonna be Liberian.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You should have jumped on with Liberian. That would have
been funnier. But English is spoken by three hundred and
seventy two million native and about a billion non native speakers.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But in Africa, I just started thinking about the question
I asked everybody, which is you know, if I asked
you what the official language of Liberia is, could you
actually say what it is? And the answer is probably
not so. Of the countries in Africa, immense continent, how
many are English speaking nations? Of all the countries in Africa?
(13:00):
How many are English speaking? How many nations are there
in Africa? Krozer, do you have that?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
God, I mean it's it's that alone is Yeah, that's
that's a big, big number. Africa is an immense continent,
as you know, and they're a bunch of these twenty
four okay, out of the fifty four countries in Africa,
thank you, Michael Krozer, how many speak English? Let's whip
it go ahead. Oh, how many countries on the continent
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of Africa are English speaking?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm going to start with use to fools delicious. I'll
say twenty No, no, not correct. Is Angel with us? No?
Speaker 7 (13:50):
She is not? Today?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
All right, I will go right to Matt Mi Morris
by the way, Oh it is is he?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Is he with us?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Michael? You there?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah? Here an Michael.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
How many countries on the content of Africa are English speaking?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Oh? Boy, I'll guess ten mm no, okay, how about
you croach.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Uh step in a good answer? Twenty I'm gonna go
a little I or just for s and giggles. Twenty two.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Ooh, I'm gonna give it to you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Twenty four was the answer were looking for, very impressive
and yeah, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, s U
Dan You, Ganda. I won't go through all of them,
but I mean if I just stopped you you know. Yeah,
and if you were to spin it on the wheel
of do they speak English, it would be an even
money guess. I mean, do you know you know whether
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or not English is spoken in Botswana?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Of course not. I mean, it's just you know, and.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
I'm sure somebody does.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, I'm just saying the average So in a way
that Trump stepped in it today on Liberia is somewhat understandable.
I mean again, if you accept the fact that he
is president, maybe's supposed to know this stuff.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
But who knew almost half?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, I mean that's the British, right, The British dominated
the world, and the British colonized Africa in such an
aggressive way, and so you have this post colonial speaking
of English across much of the African continent. Pretty wild
the I'm just reading about all of these. You know,
(15:29):
French has spoken there as well. That's again because of
the colonialism associated with the you know, the French in
Africa and of course the South Africans. There's that Afrikaans.
Is the Dutch established a colony there.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
I would have thought that that would have been more,
that there would have been more countries that speak Dutch
even still and it's only like five.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, isn't that interesting? The Dutch? I mean, we have
the sense of them as the.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Clog wearing cute. Is that the milk that they make
or cheese or whatever. The up there, you know with
the windmills and they're so beautiful with the pigtails, and
they're they were ruthless colonialists, ruthless and that's why you know,
many of those countries in Africa or a handful of
them still have Dutch in the world.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Oh, I says here that only South Africa is that
is the only country that mainly speaks Afrikaans or Dutch.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Na.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Maybe it speaks it, but it's not official for them.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, and even Afrikaans is like this mix of Dutch
and other stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So all right, that is the great African Continent language
mystery unfolding. Move on from the Epstein files. Not everybody
is up for doing that. We will touch on that
story next.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I will bump everything to get to a Comic Con
preview from kfi's Heather Brooker.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
High, Heather, Hi, how are you listen? I would do
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, Comic Con is coming up, I mean, what is
it two weeks away?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
How long is kamic Con? Is it a four day
event or how long is it?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It is officially four days, but then they do a
little preview day the day before it officially kicks off.
So we're two weeks out now for the official day,
which is July twenty fourth, and it's down in San
Diego at the convention center. One hundred and thirty thousand
or so people descend on the gas Plant district. They're
(17:34):
dressed in their best cosplay, representing and showing their fandom
for their favorite shows. And this year is going to
be really good as well, no exception to the previous year.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
What's the number one cosplay outfit? What theme really carries
the day this year as opposed to past years where
we've seen you know, Star Wars or you've seen some
of the Marvel Universe.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Is what flex can we look for this year?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, I think you're still going to see a lot
of Star Wars. That that is a fandom that goes
hard for every every pop culture events. You're going to
see Star Wars, You're going to see Star Trek. I
think this year's going to see a lot of Superman.
I mean that's the big, the big property that's coming out.
I think you're also going to see a lot of
Fantastic Four cosplay. That's a big movie that's coming out
(18:24):
in the weeks after Comic Con. You know, anime is
really big. Anime fans love to get dressed up in
their favorite anime shows and characters and The Boys, The
Boys on Amazon Prime. Have you seen that show?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I have not, tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well, it's very dark. It's like what would happen if
superheroes were bad?
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Oh, if the people, the world's most powerful beings did
not care about anybody or anything but themselves, And that's
sort of the promise of the Boys.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
It's very dark and very violent, but it's very very popular.
So I feel like a comic con you sort of
see the gamut of costumes and that's really part of
the fun of it to go people watch and see
people dressed up in their favorite costumes.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So when you're reporting on this, you're part of it.
You're swimming in the stream, you're podcasting, you're you know,
you're you're part of the organism that is comic CONU
what is the agenda?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, if I'm if I'm there and I'm going to comicon,
I think you know, there's there's two different options really
that you have when you go. You've got everything happening
inside the convention center, which is what you need to
badge for. You've got panels, huge celebrities are going to
be there, Huge properties for television shows like Avid Elementary,
(19:45):
Like I mentioned else, The Boys, Fallout, Star Trek, Walking Dead,
there's going to be a ton of those panels. The
stars from those shows are also going to be there,
and inside there's also going to be over a thousand
comic book artisans and sellers and people selling their where
you know. I actually did an interview with David Glanzer.
(20:06):
He is the spokes first and for San Diego Comic Con.
He's been in the con, he's been running the con
for many, many years, and he told me that they're
expecting almost eleven hundred, like over a thousand or so
different exhibitors. So, you know, the inside the convention center
itself is just a massive event. But if that's too
much for you, or maybe you didn't get your badges
(20:28):
for Comic Con, you can go outside the con. There's
a ton of events that they set up around the
gas Lamp area in Petto Park outside of the hotels.
There they do takeovers of businesses and so there's still
plenty to do. If you don't have passes, you just
want to go and sort of absorb all of the
comic con geekiness, you can definitely do that there.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I just remember when comic Con. I think maybe my
memory is playing tricks on me, but it felt like
it was mostly what you were talking about in one
of the descriptions of what is now just a part
of comic Con, and that is comic book collectors, very
sort of specialized.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It was enthusiasts.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It was adjacent to a lot of the big superhero
stuff or some of these iconic series like Star Trek.
But it just seems as though it has grown in
immensity so that all of these different things are now
under one roof.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean, the comic books are
still at the core of comic Con. It wouldn't be
comic Con without the comic books. But it has grown
because the studios have come in and they have started
bringing celebrities, and you know, when you've got celebrities there,
it brings out the fans in mass and it suddenly
(21:42):
becomes a much larger ordeal, much larger event. But I
think that that's sort of the fun and the appeal
for a lot of people of comic Con. It's just
you're there to meet up with your friends, maybe friends
from across the country you haven't seen in a while,
maybe friends that you've met online and who your fandom.
You know. When I was talking to David, he told
(22:05):
me that one of his favorite things to do every
year is just to reconnect with his friends and bond
over what shows they're excited to see this year or
what movies that they're looking forward to seeing. So it's
really it's a big social event and a lot of
the there's you know, a lot of the nerdy quirky
culture is still a big part of it, but it's
much more mainstream now, If that makes any sense.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, no, I think that makes a lot of sense.
That's kind of exactly what I'm saying. It's sort of
gone from this specialty thing to this all encompassing thing where,
you know, regardless of how hip you are to Marvel Universe,
DC Universe, this Star Trek Incarnation incarnation, this Star Trek iteration,
this Star Trek sequel. I mean, there's just more stuff
that can include you, you know, So can you hang
(22:50):
for this one second? I want to get two things.
I want to get a Superman glimpse if you will,
at the Superman movies. And also, I'm told by producer
Matt that you have a potential game for us and
I'm always up for a game, so I'd like that
to sort of follow. So if you can hang out
(23:10):
for a minute or two, that'd be great. Heather Brooker, JFI,
that'd be awesome. We're talking comic Con and when we
come back, as I say, Superman and a bit of
a game related to television and streaming.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
You're listening to Tim Conwayjunire on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Mark Thompson here, we're talking to Heather Brooker from KFI.
We're talking comic Con, and Heather covers a lot of entertainment,
the world of comic Con, the world of movies, of comics,
of pop culture. And I know the huge movie coming
up is Superman, and I know they're also sort of
big way they call him tent pole movies out also
Jurassic Park is one of them, and I'm wondering if
(23:52):
you can just give me your sense of what Superman
is going to do.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I mean, it seems like such a bankable franchise.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I wonder, well, I think Superman is going to do
very well. It has some tough competition with Jurassic World Rebirth,
which had a great opening weekend last weekend, and was
also a really good movie. But Superman is you know,
like you said, it's a tenth pole movie. I mean,
this is going to do very well because the cast
(24:18):
is great, James Gunn is great. He has brought a
fresh take and is sort of revitalizing the DC universe,
which is something a lot of fans have been calling
for for quite some time. You know, are you a
fan of superhero movies? Are you a fan of like
DC and Marvel type movie?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I how do I put this?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
There's no judgment, no judgment.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
All right, because there's no judgment, I'm not I'm not
averse to them, like I'll go you know, I went
to a bunch of them. My problem is if I
need too much detail from the prior film, sometimes I'll
lay out on the new one, you know, on the sequel.
So in this case Superman, I don't need any kind
(25:03):
of stuff that was in the prior to movies to
gible appreciate this movie.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
So I would no, not all this is perfect for me.
So yeah, I'm all on it.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So that's one thing that a lot of people appreciate
about this iteration of Superman is there's no origin story
overload here. He starts already mid life. He's already you know,
dating Lois Lane, he's already got a job at a
daily planet. And we don't go back to Kansas or Krypton.
We don't see any of that. We see him fully
formed as a in the in the earth, as a
(25:37):
as a living, working being in the Earth. And it's
it's a really fun, lighthearted take. The man who plays Superman,
David corn Sweat really watchable. Uh, it's I think it's
going to do really well. There's some standout performances also
from Rachel Brosnahan who plays Lois Lane. Also, I have
(25:58):
to say Nicholas Holt, who plays Left Luthor, is fantastic.
He's really immersive as this like super dark villain, very
fun to watch, very engaging performances there. The effects are fun.
Is the story gonna blow everyone away? Are people gonna,
you know, write home to mom about it and be like, Mom,
(26:18):
this is the best thing you ever bought. I don't know.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
People don't write home to mom anymore anyway, So you're safe.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Right, But you're.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Saying that there there's a there's a plot that drives
the action, but you're saying it's not the kind of
plot that you go nuts for.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
No. I mean, I think it's building on something. I
think that's what people have to remember here. This is
James Gunn building a universe essentially from the ground up.
Like if you remember when Marvel started with Iron Man,
people were like, what is this? What is iron Man?
He was a relatively not unknown character but not one
of the major characters in the Marvel universe. And they
(26:56):
build an entire franchise, franchise, and and you're around that
Iron Man film, but it was a building film. And
that's what James Gunn is trying to do here. He
is building the DC universe away from the darker Zack
Snyder lexicon and stories and building it into something more
layered and more complex. And so people need to just
(27:19):
just relax, go enjoy it. I know some people are.
I was getting some comments today on some social media
posts they had up. But it's like people were like, oh,
you know, we've heard it's woke, and you know there's
a theme about immigrants in it, and I'm like, no,
not really, Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Well I know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Because they're trying to make a big deal out of
the fact that James Gunn, who has a certifiable creative genius,
This guy James gun I mean, google him and read
about him everybody.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
He's an amazing dude.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You know, I don't know about this movie whether it
be good or not, but if history is a guide,
it will be good. But anyway, the point is there
was some moment on the red carpet where they said,
did you say that Superman is.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
An immigrant and that this is an immigrant story? And
I think they've turned that into a big thing, you know.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
He did.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It became a big thing, and now people are like,
I'm not gonna go see it. It's woke, and I'm like,
come on, it's Superman. Just get some popcorns, sit back
and relaxed, enjoy the movie, and go home, take a nap,
and let's all just breathe and enjoy it, all right.
That's what movies are for.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, with Guardians of the Galaxy, they were all from
different places, all different weird creatures, and you know, so
it's kind of a consistent that Superman is. I can't
think of anything much more Americana than Superman, so, you know.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right exactly, And that's what people need to keep in mind,
they go see it, and you know, every week I
go on Gary and Channon on Fridays and we break down,
you know, weekly entertainment segment. I'll talk more about Superman
and when I met the cast and what we talked
about there, and so, you know what, it's just, it's
really it's a fun movie and we all just need
(28:51):
to tune out for a second, go and enjoy the
movie and not worry about what things are happening in
the world for just a couple hours. I'll tell you
when I saw aoy of the movies, the.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wonder Woman movie had something in it that I had
a problem with, and I want to share it with
you now because you're a Hollywood insider. Towards the end
of the movie, you know, Wonder Woman is in a
thing with the bad guy and they're both throwing stuff
at each other, and the stuff that hits them looks
(29:23):
like it just decimates them. You know, each one is
thrown to the ground as they're hit by whatever object
it was.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I remember it. It was literally a building. In one case.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
One of them lifts a building up and throws it
at the other one.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I thought, well, that pretty well, does it.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I mean, you know, no one's calling out from under that,
but he crawled out from under it, and now the
battle's still on. The problem I have with that is
that it so and I understand it's a different reality.
I have to kind of click into that, but it's
so over the top with you know, like throwing planets
and universes at each other and still they that it takes,
(30:01):
you know, those long fight scenes where they're punching each
other over and over. Any series of those punches would
have killed the guy. You just I get frustrated, like
I can't tell who's winning the fight, you know, Can
you help me through this?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, it's the whole willing suspension of disbelief, Like we
buy into it in the movies because we're automatically, you know,
we're making a deal with the filmmakers when we go
in to buy into the world that they're selling us.
And it's their job to keep us in that world
and keep selling us, you know, what we paid for.
(30:35):
And some filmmakers do a really good job of it
and some don't. And that's why some movies do well
and some are thinkers. So yeah, I completely understand. There's
definitely been moments like in the Jurassic World movies, the
first one where Bryce Styllis Howard is running through the
jungle in her high heels chasing dinosaurs. I was like,
literally going water. You do get the woman some boots,
(31:01):
Like what on earth?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Never can sacrifice for fashion? You just can't have to go.
Heather Brooker will listen to you on Friday and Gary
and Shannon's show and love hanging with you always. You
hip us up to what's happening. Hey, the Night at
the Museum movie. There's another one of those coming.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Out too, right, Yeah, another Night of the Museum movie
has been greenlit. This is going to be a reimagining
sort of of this film, and it looks like it's
going to be a lot of fun. Nowhere yet on
a castine like this was news that just came out today,
And do we have time to do your game really quickly?
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh my god, we don't. We're out of time. This
is awful. Who's producing this show? Matt?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh my gosh, Oh we love Matt.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
It was my fault because I asked you the question
about the supers.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah it's now I got to own it. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I will always talk to you and he said, well, listen,
let me know if you want to do a game,
we'll do a game tomorrow or someone.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I'm billing in on wake up Call this week, so
as soon as we're done here, I am going to
go and get ready for bed early in the morning, Amy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
King, check out Heather in the morning and maybe return
visit tomorrow. Thanks Heather Brooker, absolutely, thanks Mark all right,
good stuff. When we come back, Ice Agents and the
Latest Raids. It's the Conway Show. Thompson sitting in for
Tim on Kofi AM six forty live everywhere on the
(32:28):
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