August 19, 2025 • 31 mins
Entertainment Is Broken: Why TV, Movies, and Radio Have Lost Their Soul | Karel Cast 25-112
The entertainment industry is collapsing under its own weight.
• MSNBC is rebranding to MS NOW (My Source: News, Opinion, World) — but who asked for this? Certainly not viewers. This is another corporate boardroom decision with zero connection to the audience.
• Streaming services keep raising prices while serving us endless hours of junk. Quality TV has become so rare we treat it like a miracle when it actually happens.
• Movie studios are stuck on repeat — recycling old franchises, rebooting classics, and chasing box office dollars while abandoning originality and star-making magic.
• Radio? Dying even faster, as corporations fight to control more stations in each market, suffocating creativity and local voices.
We spend billions of dollars and millions of hours consuming “content,” but what happened to entertainment? Why has it lost its way? And what needs to change?
🔥 Join me on today’s episode of The Karel Cast as we dig into the corporate greed, the creative bankruptcy, and the fight to save entertainment before it’s too late.
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The entertainment industry is collapsing under its own weight.
• MSNBC is rebranding to MS NOW (My Source: News, Opinion, World) — but who asked for this? Certainly not viewers. This is another corporate boardroom decision with zero connection to the audience.
• Streaming services keep raising prices while serving us endless hours of junk. Quality TV has become so rare we treat it like a miracle when it actually happens.
• Movie studios are stuck on repeat — recycling old franchises, rebooting classics, and chasing box office dollars while abandoning originality and star-making magic.
• Radio? Dying even faster, as corporations fight to control more stations in each market, suffocating creativity and local voices.
We spend billions of dollars and millions of hours consuming “content,” but what happened to entertainment? Why has it lost its way? And what needs to change?
🔥 Join me on today’s episode of The Karel Cast as we dig into the corporate greed, the creative bankruptcy, and the fight to save entertainment before it’s too late.
👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe — and support the show at patreon.com/reallykarel.
The Karel Cast is live Monday–Thursday at 10:30am PST on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and available on all major streaming platforms.
#EntertainmentIndustry, #StreamingWars, #HollywoodProblems, #MovieStudios, #TVStreaming, #RadioDecline, #CorporateGreed, #MediaCollapse, #ContentVsArt, #HollywoodReboots, #EntertainmentNews, #KarelCast, #UnfilteredTruth, #MediaCommentary, #TVShows, #Movies, #MusicIndustry, #StreamingCosts, #CreativeBankruptcy, #LikeAndSubscribe
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Show side, Well, there was certainly a lot of entertainment
coming out of Washington, d C. Yesterday, but the entertainment
industry as we know it has fallen, and we are
going to talk about that today. Also, the suit, that's
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Oh, it is a Crell Cast. I am Corel, silvery
glad you are joining me on this whirlwind cavalcade of
a week already. Can you believe we're, like, what, less
than two weeks away from the end of August? The
Spirit Halloween Store is already open. For the love of God,
all right, we got a lot to talk about today.
There was an entertaining event at the White House yesterday,
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and I think it can be summarized by when they
went to the question and answer, they asked Zelensky about
his Yeah, his suit. Uh, and the headline that I
saw from CNN Zelenski wears suit, Trump doesn't shout. And
I thought, that's the bar. That's that's the bar now
(02:18):
for these unilateral world meetings with all the rich white
people of the world. What suit you wear and whether
or not Donald Trump shouts at you? Okay, okay, so yeah,
there we are. That's and what came out of it.
Nothing really, I mean, nothing really came out of it there.
(02:41):
You know, maybe a talk is going to be had
with Putin, Maybe maybe there'll be a ceasefire. Maybe uh maybe,
I don't know. I'll get rich, become twenty years younger,
and my penis grow six inches. I mean, I don't
you know. I mean, these are the most ridiculous goings
(03:02):
on and all because Trump is trying to say face.
I don't know who's he could use a new one.
Putin got one. Uh, but you know it's it's just
I just shook my head a lot. Yesterday. I was like, oh,
poor us, poor Ukraine, Poor my crone, poor everybody carries Steimer.
(03:23):
Poor everybody that had to attend that meeting. They just
look at and the woman that was there, she just
liked totally lost, like who are all these misogynists? And
why am I here? Uh? Truly, it was it, you know,
and nothing came from it. This guy is like the
Wizard of Oz, you know, all these promises but can't
deliver because the man behind the curtain has no power.
(03:46):
Putin gave him his orders, he is carrying those out.
It's it's really quite sad. It's really quite sad.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And you gotta, you know, laugh about it. You gotta
feel well, you know, you can't just woe is me
because look, ultimately you and ironton the Ukraine. Okay, all
you know, where is America's business? Ladies and gentlemen. I
mean that I thought about this yesterday. You know, it's
dominated the news since Trump has been in other than
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the Epstein files, which should dominate the news release the
Epstein files Israel and Ukraine, except I don't live in Israel,
and I don't live in Ukraine, and I know my
money is going to support those wars. But that's not
the point. The point is I live in America, where
prices are skyrocketing, where food is becoming a luxury, where
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restaurants are closing left and right because they can't do business,
where our way of life is radically changing, and ain't
no one talking about that. Texas be locking up their
Democrats in the state House. Republicans want to cheat in
the midterms so badly they are willing to kidnap the
(05:10):
Democratic legislatures in Texas, assign guards to them to not
let them out of their sight. And if you won't
sign the document that allows this, they literally locked someone
up last night at the state House. This this is
what I want to talk about. This is what I
(05:31):
want the focus on. I don't care. I love Ukraine,
Slava Ukraine. I want Ukraine to win. I don't want
them to see the Donbass region. I want them just
to see Crimea, the rest I want them to keep,
and I want the war over. I've been pretty adamant
about that. I want Netanyahoo to stop his genocide. I've
been pretty adamant about that. But meanwhile, look what's going
(05:55):
on here in this country. We are literally falling apart
at the seams. No one is spending any money. I
don't care what you see on social media about all
these people vacationing and having great lives. No one is
spending money. I have the numbers to prove it. People
are not going out and shopping and buying things. And
(06:17):
when you hear them on TV say, well, the retail
numbers are strong, that's a lie. Go into any store
and it's empty, and that includes Walmart, Target. There are
not throngs of people buying things at retail. So this
notion that well, retail numbers are strong, no, they're not.
(06:39):
Just in my life, me and Steve, we used to
go to Macy's Home Store on the weekend. The backstage.
It was the discounted Macy's. We haven't been in forever.
We used to go to lunches and go to Cole's.
Oh forty percent off at Coals, Let's go to Coles. Nope,
he's not going shopping anywhere. I'm not going shopping anywhere.
(07:00):
You're not going shopping anywhere. Restaurants are closing. I just
talked to another restaurant owner yesterday at Liziz. Her food
cost her up, her labor coster up, her wholesale good
cost her up. And she knows that if she raises
her prices, she'll go out of business because they're already high.
So we're talking Ukraine, we're talking Israel. We're talking Zelenski sued.
(07:24):
We're talking redistricting. We're not talking Epstein or economy, the
e topics, Epstein and economy, those things not being talked about.
Cars out of control. You know, there's this ad that
really offends me. It's for Ram and all they say
(07:44):
is America. Nine times. They say America nine times in
fifteen seconds. Nine times. Don't talk about the truck. They
don't mention that the truck is so expensive you've got
to finance it for seven years and when you're all done,
you'll pay over one hundred thousand dollars for a truck. Well,
I don't tell you that. No, it's America, America, America.
(08:09):
Car prices out of control, tariffs kicking in, food prices
going up. But what have we got to talk about Ukraine. Oh, now,
much food is in Ukraine? Is it cheaper to eat
in Ukraine than the Usa? Probably? Just crazy, crazy, crazy times.
(08:29):
And meanwhile, our presidents of Russian emissary representing Vladimir Putin
being Putin's proxy? Ain't no one mentioned in that in
the news? Still? Oh nope, we got to talk about
ms now. Did you hear? MSNBC is now switching to
ms now stands for News, Opinion and world. My I
(08:51):
don't know my scene, my social my something. You know,
my source, my source, news opinion and world ms now, honey,
it sounds like a new drag queen, miss now? Who
are you? I am? Miss now? Honey? Well, welcome, miss Now.
(09:11):
I mean, the right's still gonna call it MSDNC no
matter what we do, so doesn't really matter if we
change the name, does it? When we come back, and
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come back, we're going to be talking about the entertainment industry.
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Sorry, I'm doing it in the chat room, Sandy said,
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I'll tell you that. So we're gonna talk about the
entertainment industry, and I want to share I got this yesterday.
This is something I'm really proud of. And I know
that you all have things you're proud of. But this
congratulates me for twenty five years of membership, even though
it's thirty twenty five years of membership as a voting
member in NEARS, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
(12:03):
the people that give out the Grammys. And I just
got notified yesterday that I am on the Grammy Advocacy
Panel and probably on the DEI panel, and that gives
me great joy. Peter Asher is the chair of the
Advocacy panel, Peter Asher, huge record producer that I've loved
his work forever, and now I'm going to be on
(12:24):
the same panel as him. I first went to the
Grammys in the eighties, in nineteen eighty two, and I
swore at that point that I would cross the velvet
rope and be a voting member, and I have been
for twenty five years. So let's talk a little bit.
Thank you, Ray, Ray Renatti in the chat room. Let's
(12:44):
talk a little about the entertainment industry. I was watching
a lot of my Murder Death Kill yesterday, and you know,
it's fallen. I mean, there's really no other way to
say that. The business structure behind it. It's like the
ms Now, Okay, the reason that's being renamed is because
(13:06):
it's been spun off because there was a large merger
and once they merged, they parsed out several of their properties,
MSNBC being one. So it's being taken over by a
new entity, and that new entity wanted a new brand.
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And the goings on behind the scenes is what's killing entertainment.
The corporations that run it are still only interested in profit.
For instance, Paramount Studios just got bought up by sky Dance.
That was the deal. They fired Stephen Colbert so Trump
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would approve the merger of Paramount and sky Dance, and
so they did. And now the new head of Paramount
has said they're going to lean in heavily to crap
to the stuff they're already producing, to franchise movies like
the MCU meaning the Marvel Universe, the Star Trek Universe.
(14:12):
They said they're going to expand the Star Trek Universe.
Nothing original. There is no original thought in entertainment anymore.
They are remaking every old movie from Roadhouse that just
got another sequel that's happening with that with Jake Gillenhall.
I mean, they're remaking almost every beloved movie. And the
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movies are only twenty thirty years old, but they're remaking.
It's not like they're remaking The Man Who Came to
Dinner or you know, Mildred Peers. They're remaking movies from
the nineties, and why we don't they remade Gremlins. They're
going to remake Gremlins. It's like, why we already have
the best version of that movie there could be so
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movie Studio. They are investing heavily in nostalgia for their
big titles and What's Not Happening are really good middle
of the road movies, ten million dollar movies, fifteen million
dollar movies, five million dollar movies, story driven movies, comedies.
Freaky Friday Freaky or Friday is the first comedy movie
(15:22):
to break the twenty million dollar opening weekend at the
box office. Studios aren't releasing them. And as for streaming,
I have never seen a bigger gathering of crap in
my life. All of them, HBO, Max, Paramount plus Peacock.
(15:44):
It's all just crap, just crap, just not very good content.
And that's the problem. They don't see it as entertainment anymore.
They see it as content, and so all they're interested
in is content that people will stream. How many minutes
(16:05):
is someone going to watch this program? You know? Last
night I watched was it Silent Witness? I didn't know
that Britain had their answer to Bones and it's had
twenty six seasons. I don't know how Mariska is the
longest running TV show in history when Silent Witness has
(16:27):
been on for twenty six years over in the UK
and it is Bones. They are a forensic pathologists and
it's a good show, and I sort of I got
a lovely feeling knowing that for the next couple months,
I'm going to have a great show to watch because
I'm going to watch all twenty six seasons. Well, you know,
when I'm cooking or doing stuff around the house, I'm
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not gonna sit there and binge it. But it'll be
on in the background for the next probably six months.
And I thought, Oh, how comforting a good show that
actually to have on for a while, because most shows
they're putting out their crap. They're absolute crap. Podcasts have
become crap because everybody can do one, and now everybody
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is doing one and no one cares about the quality
of them. So I'd love to hear from you about
entertainment today. I think it has fallen and it's gonna
take and now with AI, it's you know, I think
it's fallen. I think Hollywood is no longer relevant, which
(17:35):
is sad. You know, movies, when we think of movies now,
I don't think of Hollywood like ooh, Hollywood. Movies are
made everywhere. They're they're they're made in Canada, they're made
in Georgia, they're they're made everywhere, and what about Trump?
And you know I'm gonna save Hollywood. I'm going to
appoint Slice the Loan and John Voight as Hollywood emissaries.
What's happened with that? Seven months? Seven months they've been
(17:59):
Hollywood emissary and nothing, Nothing's happened. And now for radio,
which is crap. They are pushing to let more companies
own more stations. Right now it's five in any market,
you can only own five. They want to remove that restriction.
(18:22):
Do you think that will be good for radio? I
don't one company programming every radio station in your market
from some other market, one guide choosing what talk show
hosts you hear all over the country, one person, one
person deciding on what music gets played on what formats,
(18:45):
one person. Do you think that's good? I don't think
that's good, and yet Congress is prone to allow it.
So what do you think? I'd love to hear you
comments down below or in the chat room. I think
the entertainment industry has gone to crap. I think for
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every ten movies that come out, there's one watchable one.
And I don't know how they're getting funded these smaller movies.
I don't know where they're getting the money because studios
are not paying. What's the last movie you went to
the theater to see? I just went last week and
(19:27):
I want to go this week and see weapons. So
the last movie I saw at the theater was Fantastic Four.
Maybe what's the last movie that you saw at the theater?
Put your comments down below? And do you not go
because the theater is too expensive? Or do you not
go because the movies just don't draw you to the
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theater like they used to do. What's the last movie
you saw at the theater? And if you haven't been
in a while, why why not go to a theater
at support a film? Why do you wait for it
to come on TV? I'd love to hear all this.
I'm gonna check the chatroom all of that and make
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party going as long as we can. So Freaky or Friday,
(21:28):
Superman the top gun movie. That's from the chat room.
But the consensus there is that it's just what I said.
The movies, the variety of movies, they don't entice you
to the theater. I mean, really think about what I've seen,
fantastic for Superman. These are all these big Marvel movies.
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There hasn't been a smaller movie for me to go
and see a drama, something with a great performance and
I think Ray Renati is right. With both television and movies,
we've lost the water cooler shows. Remember who shot Jr.
The entire nation was on pins and needles. Everybody was
talking about it. Remember the Survivor finale and everybody was like,
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can't wait to see you know who wins Survivor and
all of this. We don't have any water cool You know,
when I was watching the Gilded Age finale, right afterwards,
I called Steve and I was like, girl, girl, did
you see those two You know they read each other
to filth at that dress shop? Oh my god, did
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you see? We don't have that anymore. Because there's so
many shows, it's hard to know what your friends are watching.
You don't even know what your friends are subscribed to anymore.
We all used to watch ABC, NBCCBS, Fox, you know
two four, seven, nine, eleven thirteen, and Channel fifty two.
That's it. That's what we watched. So shows that were
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on two four seven or two four, five, seventy nine,
eleven thirteen or fifty two we would talk about the
next day. They were big events you wanted to go watch.
You couldn't wait. It's like the pit I love the
pit one of the best shows on television. I watched
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it all in two weeks. I waited till the episodes
were there, and I watched it all in two weeks,
and I loved it. But because we're all watching them
now at our own pace, there's no real way to
have a conversation about it because somebody could have finished
it a week ago. And so entertainment has fallen, and
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I don't the way that we think of entertainment it's gone.
I don't think it's going to come back home. Streaming
has changed all of that. You know. Christopher Nolan said
you should buy your favorite movies on because digitally, a
company could lose the rights to that and suddenly you
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can't stream it anymore. So he's like, if you really
like a movie by the DVD, how many of you
even have DVD players? I do, right back there behind
that green screen, But how many of you on's the
last DVD you actually watched? I mean, I'm being serious,
(24:28):
what's the last see? I get screeners every year, so
I watch DVDs a lot. But even streamers are now coming,
you know, digital and shows like Virgin River is in
season eight. I've seen two and a half three seasons
of it. I have no idea how it's lasted eight seasons,
but there it is. Is it that beloved? I don't
(24:52):
hear anyone ever talking about Virgin River, and yet it's
just got picked up for season eight? I mean, is
it really a lot better than in just like that,
which just got canceled after three seasons? That I don't
understand it? Ray has a DVD, Sandy has a DVD. Oh, yes,
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everyone loves the pit. Yes, we will be watching the
Witches of Eastwick. There's a new Witches of Eastwick coming.
There's also a new Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and
Nicole Kidman, which I'll be looking forward to. But tell
me down below, what's the last movie you saw at
the theater? And how many streaming services do you subscribe to? One? Two?
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How many? How many streaming services? For me? It's Peacock
Paramount plus. I get both of those free through other
subscriptions Apple TV plus. Again that's bundled in with something else,
HBO Mac which Daniel Charleston still pays for a year
after he's dead. What else? I think that's it? Peacock,
(26:09):
HBO Max Paramount plus, what else it must be something
Hulu the Hulu, I get that free too, So the
Hulu Alien Earth. By the way, if you're not watching
Alien Earth and you like the Alien franchise, it's really good.
It's on the Hulu, which I get free because I
(26:30):
subscribe my AT and T or something. See now they're
bundling like Netflix. I get from Steve Hbo Max, I
get from Daniel Charleston or his brother Paramount I get
from Walmart plus Hulu I get from AT and T.
So I get them free because I have to watch
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them with ads though, where I hear all those damn
side effects of all those drugs, and the side effects
are terrifying. What do you think could save entertainment? What
do you think? You know, when, when's the last time
a movie with someone like Meryl Streep, you know, a
great actress. When's the last time that hit the box office?
(27:16):
When's the last time I mean she's doing only murders
in the building. Now, when's the last time you went
to the movies and saw just an incredible performance, dramatic,
you know, moving. I can't remember, I really can't, because
they're all just these Superman movies or the Fantastic Four
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or Top Gun or F one, or there's like there's
no acting. It's like, where are the movies where they act,
you know, where things don't have to blow up, where
they act. I guess those are on streaming now, But
are they I mean even on streaming. I look at them,
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you know, because I like to watch a good movie,
and it's really hard to find good movies on streaming
now unless they're old like Turner classic movies, stuff like that.
I just watched The Shawshank Redemption yesterday. I'd forgotten how
good that movie was. It was brilliant. That would never
there never be the Shawshank Redemption released again, like at
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the theater. Could you imagine a two hour and twenty
minute movie where no one blows up, there's no naked women,
you know, I mean, it's just a story about a
guy being in jail with a friend. I don't see
how that could even make it today? All right. I
watched a DVD of Share the fil World Tour recently.
Oh that's good. Seven streaming services. Wow, that's a lot.
(28:45):
HBO streaming through Comcast, Hulu Separate with ads, and Amazon
three three. A lot of people have three Peacock, Netflix, HBO, Max, Prima,
Up Plus Prime and Hulu. That's one, two, three four.
See what of it? He's here with cable. Wasn't cable easier?
Streaming was supposed to be such a revolution and we
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had no ads? Remember, Oh it was so great, no ads.
Now we have to watch it. We have to pay
now to watch ads? What a racket? I mean? Wasn't
Direct TV or cable easier where you had it all? HBO, Showtimes, Cinemax.
Now it's all like the pizza has been all split
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up and you got to go chase the pieces. I
don't like it. You know who will win? Someone who
launches an app that puts all of the streaming services
in one app. And it may exist already, but somebody
you know where they're all there. Apple TV is trying
you can link all of your services up. They're trying.
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But an app that comes along that lets you link
in everything. Oh and you know what else? We can
send a man to the moon. But when you log
into Netflix or your streaming services, they can't filter out
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a week already. Can you believe we're, like, what, less
than two weeks away from the end of August? The
Spirit Halloween Store is already open. For the love of God,
all right, we got a lot to talk about today.
There was an entertaining event at the White House yesterday,
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and I think it can be summarized by when they
went to the question and answer, they asked Zelensky about
his Yeah, his suit. Uh, and the headline that I
saw from CNN Zelenski wears suit, Trump doesn't shout. And
I thought, that's the bar. That's that's the bar now
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for these unilateral world meetings with all the rich white
people of the world. What suit you wear and whether
or not Donald Trump shouts at you? Okay, okay, so yeah,
there we are. That's and what came out of it.
Nothing really, I mean, nothing really came out of it there.
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You know, maybe a talk is going to be had
with Putin, Maybe maybe there'll be a ceasefire. Maybe uh maybe,
I don't know. I'll get rich, become twenty years younger,
and my penis grow six inches. I mean, I don't
you know. I mean, these are the most ridiculous goings
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on and all because Trump is trying to say face.
I don't know who's he could use a new one.
Putin got one. Uh, but you know it's it's just
I just shook my head a lot. Yesterday. I was like, oh,
poor us, poor Ukraine, Poor my crone, poor everybody carries Steimer.
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Poor everybody that had to attend that meeting. They just
look at and the woman that was there, she just
liked totally lost, like who are all these misogynists? And
why am I here? Uh? Truly, it was it, you know,
and nothing came from it. This guy is like the
Wizard of Oz, you know, all these promises but can't
deliver because the man behind the curtain has no power.
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Putin gave him his orders, he is carrying those out.
It's it's really quite sad. It's really quite sad.
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And you gotta, you know, laugh about it. You gotta
feel well, you know, you can't just woe is me
because look, ultimately you and ironton the Ukraine. Okay, all
you know, where is America's business? Ladies and gentlemen. I
mean that I thought about this yesterday. You know, it's
dominated the news since Trump has been in other than
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the Epstein files, which should dominate the news release the
Epstein files Israel and Ukraine, except I don't live in Israel,
and I don't live in Ukraine, and I know my
money is going to support those wars. But that's not
the point. The point is I live in America, where
prices are skyrocketing, where food is becoming a luxury, where
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restaurants are closing left and right because they can't do business,
where our way of life is radically changing, and ain't
no one talking about that. Texas be locking up their
Democrats in the state House. Republicans want to cheat in
the midterms so badly they are willing to kidnap the
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Democratic legislatures in Texas, assign guards to them to not
let them out of their sight. And if you won't
sign the document that allows this, they literally locked someone
up last night at the state House. This this is
what I want to talk about. This is what I
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want the focus on. I don't care. I love Ukraine,
Slava Ukraine. I want Ukraine to win. I don't want
them to see the Donbass region. I want them just
to see Crimea, the rest I want them to keep,
and I want the war over. I've been pretty adamant
about that. I want Netanyahoo to stop his genocide. I've
been pretty adamant about that. But meanwhile, look what's going
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on here in this country. We are literally falling apart
at the seams. No one is spending any money. I
don't care what you see on social media about all
these people vacationing and having great lives. No one is
spending money. I have the numbers to prove it. People
are not going out and shopping and buying things. And
(06:17):
when you hear them on TV say, well, the retail
numbers are strong, that's a lie. Go into any store
and it's empty, and that includes Walmart, Target. There are
not throngs of people buying things at retail. So this
notion that well, retail numbers are strong, no, they're not.
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Just in my life, me and Steve, we used to
go to Macy's Home Store on the weekend. The backstage.
It was the discounted Macy's. We haven't been in forever.
We used to go to lunches and go to Cole's.
Oh forty percent off at Coals, Let's go to Coles. Nope,
he's not going shopping anywhere. I'm not going shopping anywhere.
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You're not going shopping anywhere. Restaurants are closing. I just
talked to another restaurant owner yesterday at Liziz. Her food
cost her up, her labor coster up, her wholesale good
cost her up. And she knows that if she raises
her prices, she'll go out of business because they're already high.
So we're talking Ukraine, we're talking Israel. We're talking Zelenski sued.
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We're talking redistricting. We're not talking Epstein or economy, the
e topics, Epstein and economy, those things not being talked about.
Cars out of control. You know, there's this ad that
really offends me. It's for Ram and all they say
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is America. Nine times. They say America nine times in
fifteen seconds. Nine times. Don't talk about the truck. They
don't mention that the truck is so expensive you've got
to finance it for seven years and when you're all done,
you'll pay over one hundred thousand dollars for a truck. Well,
I don't tell you that. No, it's America, America, America.
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Car prices out of control, tariffs kicking in, food prices
going up. But what have we got to talk about Ukraine. Oh, now,
much food is in Ukraine? Is it cheaper to eat
in Ukraine than the Usa? Probably? Just crazy, crazy, crazy times.
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And meanwhile, our presidents of Russian emissary representing Vladimir Putin
being Putin's proxy? Ain't no one mentioned in that in
the news? Still? Oh nope, we got to talk about
ms now. Did you hear? MSNBC is now switching to
ms now stands for News, Opinion and world. My I
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don't know my scene, my social my something. You know,
my source, my source, news opinion and world ms now, honey,
it sounds like a new drag queen, miss now? Who
are you? I am? Miss now? Honey? Well, welcome, miss Now.
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I mean, the right's still gonna call it MSDNC no
matter what we do, so doesn't really matter if we
change the name, does it? When we come back, and
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I'll tell you that. So we're gonna talk about the
entertainment industry, and I want to share I got this yesterday.
This is something I'm really proud of. And I know
that you all have things you're proud of. But this
congratulates me for twenty five years of membership, even though
it's thirty twenty five years of membership as a voting
member in NEARS, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,
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the people that give out the Grammys. And I just
got notified yesterday that I am on the Grammy Advocacy
Panel and probably on the DEI panel, and that gives
me great joy. Peter Asher is the chair of the
Advocacy panel, Peter Asher, huge record producer that I've loved
his work forever, and now I'm going to be on
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the same panel as him. I first went to the
Grammys in the eighties, in nineteen eighty two, and I
swore at that point that I would cross the velvet
rope and be a voting member, and I have been
for twenty five years. So let's talk a little bit.
Thank you, Ray, Ray Renatti in the chat room. Let's
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talk a little about the entertainment industry. I was watching
a lot of my Murder Death Kill yesterday, and you know,
it's fallen. I mean, there's really no other way to
say that. The business structure behind it. It's like the
ms Now, Okay, the reason that's being renamed is because
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it's been spun off because there was a large merger
and once they merged, they parsed out several of their properties,
MSNBC being one. So it's being taken over by a
new entity, and that new entity wanted a new brand.
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And the goings on behind the scenes is what's killing entertainment.
The corporations that run it are still only interested in profit.
For instance, Paramount Studios just got bought up by sky Dance.
That was the deal. They fired Stephen Colbert so Trump
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would approve the merger of Paramount and sky Dance, and
so they did. And now the new head of Paramount
has said they're going to lean in heavily to crap
to the stuff they're already producing, to franchise movies like
the MCU meaning the Marvel Universe, the Star Trek Universe.
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They said they're going to expand the Star Trek Universe.
Nothing original. There is no original thought in entertainment anymore.
They are remaking every old movie from Roadhouse that just
got another sequel that's happening with that with Jake Gillenhall.
I mean, they're remaking almost every beloved movie. And the
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movies are only twenty thirty years old, but they're remaking.
It's not like they're remaking The Man Who Came to
Dinner or you know, Mildred Peers. They're remaking movies from
the nineties, and why we don't they remade Gremlins. They're
going to remake Gremlins. It's like, why we already have
the best version of that movie there could be so
(14:59):
movie Studio. They are investing heavily in nostalgia for their
big titles and What's Not Happening are really good middle
of the road movies, ten million dollar movies, fifteen million
dollar movies, five million dollar movies, story driven movies, comedies.
Freaky Friday Freaky or Friday is the first comedy movie
(15:22):
to break the twenty million dollar opening weekend at the
box office. Studios aren't releasing them. And as for streaming,
I have never seen a bigger gathering of crap in
my life. All of them, HBO, Max, Paramount plus Peacock.
(15:44):
It's all just crap, just crap, just not very good content.
And that's the problem. They don't see it as entertainment anymore.
They see it as content, and so all they're interested
in is content that people will stream. How many minutes
(16:05):
is someone going to watch this program? You know? Last
night I watched was it Silent Witness? I didn't know
that Britain had their answer to Bones and it's had
twenty six seasons. I don't know how Mariska is the
longest running TV show in history when Silent Witness has
(16:27):
been on for twenty six years over in the UK
and it is Bones. They are a forensic pathologists and
it's a good show, and I sort of I got
a lovely feeling knowing that for the next couple months,
I'm going to have a great show to watch because
I'm going to watch all twenty six seasons. Well, you know,
when I'm cooking or doing stuff around the house, I'm
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not gonna sit there and binge it. But it'll be
on in the background for the next probably six months.
And I thought, Oh, how comforting a good show that
actually to have on for a while, because most shows
they're putting out their crap. They're absolute crap. Podcasts have
become crap because everybody can do one, and now everybody
(17:12):
is doing one and no one cares about the quality
of them. So I'd love to hear from you about
entertainment today. I think it has fallen and it's gonna
take and now with AI, it's you know, I think
it's fallen. I think Hollywood is no longer relevant, which
(17:35):
is sad. You know, movies, when we think of movies now,
I don't think of Hollywood like ooh, Hollywood. Movies are
made everywhere. They're they're they're made in Canada, they're made
in Georgia, they're they're made everywhere, and what about Trump?
And you know I'm gonna save Hollywood. I'm going to
appoint Slice the Loan and John Voight as Hollywood emissaries.
What's happened with that? Seven months? Seven months they've been
(17:59):
Hollywood emissary and nothing, Nothing's happened. And now for radio,
which is crap. They are pushing to let more companies
own more stations. Right now it's five in any market,
you can only own five. They want to remove that restriction.
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Do you think that will be good for radio? I
don't one company programming every radio station in your market
from some other market, one guide choosing what talk show
hosts you hear all over the country, one person, one
person deciding on what music gets played on what formats,
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one person. Do you think that's good? I don't think
that's good, and yet Congress is prone to allow it.
So what do you think? I'd love to hear you
comments down below or in the chat room. I think
the entertainment industry has gone to crap. I think for
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every ten movies that come out, there's one watchable one.
And I don't know how they're getting funded these smaller movies.
I don't know where they're getting the money because studios
are not paying. What's the last movie you went to
the theater to see? I just went last week and
(19:27):
I want to go this week and see weapons. So
the last movie I saw at the theater was Fantastic Four.
Maybe what's the last movie that you saw at the theater?
Put your comments down below? And do you not go
because the theater is too expensive? Or do you not
go because the movies just don't draw you to the
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theater like they used to do. What's the last movie
you saw at the theater? And if you haven't been
in a while, why why not go to a theater
at support a film? Why do you wait for it
to come on TV? I'd love to hear all this.
I'm gonna check the chatroom all of that and make
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Superman the top gun movie. That's from the chat room.
But the consensus there is that it's just what I said.
The movies, the variety of movies, they don't entice you
to the theater. I mean, really think about what I've seen,
fantastic for Superman. These are all these big Marvel movies.
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There hasn't been a smaller movie for me to go
and see a drama, something with a great performance and
I think Ray Renati is right. With both television and movies,
we've lost the water cooler shows. Remember who shot Jr.
The entire nation was on pins and needles. Everybody was
talking about it. Remember the Survivor finale and everybody was like,
(22:14):
can't wait to see you know who wins Survivor and
all of this. We don't have any water cool You know,
when I was watching the Gilded Age finale, right afterwards,
I called Steve and I was like, girl, girl, did
you see those two You know they read each other
to filth at that dress shop? Oh my god, did
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you see? We don't have that anymore. Because there's so
many shows, it's hard to know what your friends are watching.
You don't even know what your friends are subscribed to anymore.
We all used to watch ABC, NBCCBS, Fox, you know
two four, seven, nine, eleven thirteen, and Channel fifty two.
That's it. That's what we watched. So shows that were
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on two four seven or two four, five, seventy nine,
eleven thirteen or fifty two we would talk about the
next day. They were big events you wanted to go watch.
You couldn't wait. It's like the pit I love the
pit one of the best shows on television. I watched
(23:20):
it all in two weeks. I waited till the episodes
were there, and I watched it all in two weeks,
and I loved it. But because we're all watching them
now at our own pace, there's no real way to
have a conversation about it because somebody could have finished
it a week ago. And so entertainment has fallen, and
(23:44):
I don't the way that we think of entertainment it's gone.
I don't think it's going to come back home. Streaming
has changed all of that. You know. Christopher Nolan said
you should buy your favorite movies on because digitally, a
company could lose the rights to that and suddenly you
(24:07):
can't stream it anymore. So he's like, if you really
like a movie by the DVD, how many of you
even have DVD players? I do, right back there behind
that green screen, But how many of you on's the
last DVD you actually watched? I mean, I'm being serious,
(24:28):
what's the last see? I get screeners every year, so
I watch DVDs a lot. But even streamers are now coming,
you know, digital and shows like Virgin River is in
season eight. I've seen two and a half three seasons
of it. I have no idea how it's lasted eight seasons,
but there it is. Is it that beloved? I don't
(24:52):
hear anyone ever talking about Virgin River, and yet it's
just got picked up for season eight? I mean, is
it really a lot better than in just like that,
which just got canceled after three seasons? That I don't
understand it? Ray has a DVD, Sandy has a DVD. Oh, yes,
(25:16):
everyone loves the pit. Yes, we will be watching the
Witches of Eastwick. There's a new Witches of Eastwick coming.
There's also a new Practical Magic with Sandra Bullock and
Nicole Kidman, which I'll be looking forward to. But tell
me down below, what's the last movie you saw at
the theater? And how many streaming services do you subscribe to? One? Two?
(25:44):
How many? How many streaming services? For me? It's Peacock
Paramount plus. I get both of those free through other
subscriptions Apple TV plus. Again that's bundled in with something else,
HBO Mac which Daniel Charleston still pays for a year
after he's dead. What else? I think that's it? Peacock,
(26:09):
HBO Max Paramount plus, what else it must be something
Hulu the Hulu, I get that free too, So the
Hulu Alien Earth. By the way, if you're not watching
Alien Earth and you like the Alien franchise, it's really good.
It's on the Hulu, which I get free because I
(26:30):
subscribe my AT and T or something. See now they're
bundling like Netflix. I get from Steve Hbo Max, I
get from Daniel Charleston or his brother Paramount I get
from Walmart plus Hulu I get from AT and T.
So I get them free because I have to watch
(26:53):
them with ads though, where I hear all those damn
side effects of all those drugs, and the side effects
are terrifying. What do you think could save entertainment? What
do you think? You know, when, when's the last time
a movie with someone like Meryl Streep, you know, a
great actress. When's the last time that hit the box office?
(27:16):
When's the last time I mean she's doing only murders
in the building. Now, when's the last time you went
to the movies and saw just an incredible performance, dramatic,
you know, moving. I can't remember, I really can't, because
they're all just these Superman movies or the Fantastic Four
(27:38):
or Top Gun or F one, or there's like there's
no acting. It's like, where are the movies where they act,
you know, where things don't have to blow up, where
they act. I guess those are on streaming now, But
are they I mean even on streaming. I look at them,
(27:59):
you know, because I like to watch a good movie,
and it's really hard to find good movies on streaming
now unless they're old like Turner classic movies, stuff like that.
I just watched The Shawshank Redemption yesterday. I'd forgotten how
good that movie was. It was brilliant. That would never
there never be the Shawshank Redemption released again, like at
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the theater. Could you imagine a two hour and twenty
minute movie where no one blows up, there's no naked women,
you know, I mean, it's just a story about a
guy being in jail with a friend. I don't see
how that could even make it today? All right. I
watched a DVD of Share the fil World Tour recently.
Oh that's good. Seven streaming services. Wow, that's a lot.
(28:45):
HBO streaming through Comcast, Hulu Separate with ads, and Amazon
three three. A lot of people have three Peacock, Netflix, HBO, Max, Prima,
Up Plus Prime and Hulu. That's one, two, three four.
See what of it? He's here with cable. Wasn't cable easier?
Streaming was supposed to be such a revolution and we
(29:07):
had no ads? Remember, Oh it was so great, no ads.
Now we have to watch it. We have to pay
now to watch ads? What a racket? I mean? Wasn't
Direct TV or cable easier where you had it all? HBO, Showtimes, Cinemax.
Now it's all like the pizza has been all split
(29:29):
up and you got to go chase the pieces. I
don't like it. You know who will win? Someone who
launches an app that puts all of the streaming services
in one app. And it may exist already, but somebody
you know where they're all there. Apple TV is trying
you can link all of your services up. They're trying.
(29:50):
But an app that comes along that lets you link
in everything. Oh and you know what else? We can
send a man to the moon. But when you log
into Netflix or your streaming services, they can't filter out
the shows you've already seen. I am tired of finding
a show that looks good and that I realized I
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