Speaker 1: Well, it is Wednesday. We like to talk about stuff
Speaker 1: that's on TV and what you watch your Wednesday.
Speaker 2: The following program is brought to you in living color,
Speaker 2: but you watch it in there.
Speaker 1: Americans love television. They win their kids.
Speaker 3: Plus USA television.
Speaker 4: Mantabeta. You've been watching too many of those live television shows.
Speaker 5: So I mentioned when Keana asks, she asked us every
Speaker 5: week what we're watching. I kind of drew a blank,
Speaker 5: so i'n't really into anything right now. I was asking
Speaker 5: you about the Tariller share in properties, specifically Lioness, which
Speaker 5: you really liked. My husband like that as well, and
Speaker 5: Landman with Billy bum Thornton, which I think I'm gonna
Speaker 5: try today.
Speaker 1: We just started it. A couple of people have been
Speaker 1: saying that we should try it. I wasn't in the
Speaker 1: mood for another Yellowstone because Taylor Sheridan obviously is the
Speaker 1: creator of both of those shows, only because Yellowstone lived
Speaker 1: in its own existence and I didn't need it to
Speaker 1: be a soap opera e kind of thing. Land Man
Speaker 1: is has some of the same elements. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a Taylor Sheridan obviously likes people who work with their hands.
Speaker 1: I mean he celebrates these people who do these jobs
Speaker 1: and being an oil man, not the owner necessarily, but
Speaker 1: the people are out there working pump jacks all day.
Speaker 1: Those are the people that he kind of celebrates with
Speaker 1: the show. And Billy Bob Thornton is really funny. And
Speaker 1: a lot of it is the writing, a lot of
Speaker 1: these one liners that he's got, But Billy Bob Thornton
Speaker 1: is very funny. It's a lot funnier than I was
Speaker 1: expecting it to be. John Hamm is in it, Demi
Speaker 1: Moore is in it. Ali Larder actually plays Billy Bob
Speaker 1: Thornton's ex wife. I love all these people are and
Speaker 1: it's really really it's it's well done, it's put together well.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got his ex wife, but he's also
Speaker 1: got a teenage daughter and now a young son who's
Speaker 1: going to work in the oil field, and he Billy
Speaker 1: Bob Thornton plays kind of the fixer for this this
Speaker 1: small independent oil company, So anything that goes wrong, he's
Speaker 1: the guy who's got to fix it. So he's got
Speaker 1: to coordinate with the owner, he's got to coordinate with
Speaker 1: the workers, he's got to coordinate with the company's law.
Speaker 1: All of that stuff and he's just smart, whip smart,
Speaker 1: very funny. Billy Bob Thornton's hair is awful, but everything
Speaker 1: else is funny.
Speaker 5: About the show, I loved the podcast Scamanda. This was
Speaker 5: about a woman up in northern California who was part
Speaker 5: of a megachurch, pretended to have cancer, scammed everybody. It's
Speaker 5: awful story, but the podcast was so well done, very popular,
Speaker 5: and now it's getting the Hulu treatment.
Speaker 2: Well ABC News.
Speaker 5: And then it goes on to Hulu the following day
Speaker 5: and it is called Scamanda as well, and it's based
Speaker 5: off the podcast, but it dives deeper into it. If
Speaker 5: the podcast left you wanting more about this horrific woman
Speaker 5: and about the people she was able to deceive for
Speaker 5: so long and to such an extent, this is pretty good.
Speaker 5: It only comes out one episode a week, so right
Speaker 5: now there's only one episode available. I think it may
Speaker 5: come out on Thursdays if I'm not mistaken. The other
Speaker 5: scam show, apparently scamming is very popular with true crime
Speaker 5: officionados right now scam Goddess on Hulu. It's also from
Speaker 5: a podcast, a podcaster by the name of Lacey Moseley
Speaker 5: and her podcast by the same name. She deep dives
Speaker 5: into historical contemporary scams and the scammers who scam them,
Speaker 5: and it is fascinating. The most recent one was the
Speaker 5: female Miami businesswoman using.
Speaker 2: Air quotes here, who.
Speaker 5: Was able to scam professional athletes into believing that they
Speaker 5: were hiring her to help them achieve generational wealth in
Speaker 5: terms of the s ton of money they were making
Speaker 5: from their prospective sports they were involved, with Dennis Rodman
Speaker 5: being the biggest name that she scam to the tune
Speaker 5: of millions. It's a very fascinating show. The host, the podcaster,
Speaker 5: she is very lovable, very personable, and it's told very well.
Speaker 5: So Scam Goddess and Scamanda both on Hulu.
Speaker 2: You have to start getting into ninety Day Fiance. It's
Speaker 2: a train wreck. Did you ever watch I did. I
Speaker 2: didn't know it was still cranking them out.
Speaker 1: I think they have different offshoots, a spin offs. If not,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: I've watched it for a couple seasons when I was
Speaker 5: on the Learning Channel, which provides us so much learning.
Speaker 5: But it was kind of the same story over and over.
Speaker 5: It was the couples having the same problems on repeat.
Speaker 1: It seems like I've never seen an episode, but it
Speaker 1: seems like I could write out, sure it is the problems, hey.
Speaker 3: For what you watch on Wednesday. I know this isn't current,
Speaker 3: but I've never heard either one of you comment on
Speaker 3: Downton Abbey. I'm just curious if either one of you
Speaker 3: were fans and watched it from start to finish. Just
Speaker 3: interested in hearing that.
Speaker 5: You know what, That's one of the ones I want
Speaker 5: to circle back to. I think I had a million
Speaker 5: things going on with the time that that was popular.
Speaker 5: And when I say that, I mean I have nothing
Speaker 5: going on, but I had other shows I was interested in.
Speaker 2: I have nothing gone. Sorry you're so busy. I am not,
Speaker 2: but I do to circle back to that.
Speaker 5: I think what turned me off from that to to
Speaker 5: not sound like a complete roube, but like the accents
Speaker 5: were distracting and I couldn't figure out what they were saying.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you have to watch that.
Speaker 4: That is that is one of the only shows that
Speaker 4: when it was over, I'm not kidding, I'm gonna sound
Speaker 4: like depression. I cry, Oh cry, so depressed because I
Speaker 4: just fell in love.
Speaker 2: With the characters. Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm going to start that and land man, I
Speaker 5: will start Downtown Downtown Abbey and I will start Land.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to hear it.
Speaker 3: Shows.
Speaker 1: I like to watch Good Lioness YEP Season one and two, YEP,
Speaker 1: Dexter Original Sin.
Speaker 2: That's the this prequel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm thinking about starting the Agency.
Speaker 3: Yes, hopefully it's not about.
Speaker 2: When Trump takes over the CIA.
Speaker 1: No, it's not thank you have a good day, not political.
Speaker 1: The Agency was one of the great ones that is
Speaker 1: also on Paramount. It's Michael Michael Fastbender. Richard gear is
Speaker 1: in that, Jeffrey Wright is in that good CIA London
Speaker 1: based CIA Agent. It's not fast It is not full packed,
Speaker 1: full of Jason Bourne style fight scenes or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But it is a good, suspenseful show. We'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more a couple other shows when we come back. Also,
Speaker 1: four trailers up on our regular trio of trailers. Keana's
Speaker 1: outdoing herself, So four trailers up on the website if
Speaker 1: you go to kfi A M six forty dot com,
Speaker 1: slash Gary and Shannon Fantastic four, The New One, Final Destination,
Speaker 1: the New One, The Running Point. With the running Point,
Speaker 1: I should say, Kate Hudson leading a basketball Team and
Speaker 1: then Jurassic World Rebirth.
Speaker 2: All those trailers are is there a dinosaur that's gonna
Speaker 2: get born something? Baby dinosaur?
Speaker 1: I think Scarlet Johanson's in this one. So Amelia Perez
Speaker 1: is the Netflix film that's up for so many Oscars
Speaker 1: and it is about a woman, a trans woman who's
Speaker 1: at the head of a cartel that wants to live
Speaker 1: life as a woman. And it's a musical and its
Speaker 1: stars Carlo Sophia Gascone and Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana.
Speaker 1: And when she got the nomination for Best Actors again,
Speaker 1: trans woman gets nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Speaker 1: She was not only the first transgender person at least
Speaker 1: out transgender person to be nominated, but also the odds
Speaker 1: on favorite thirteen Academy Award nominations, etc. Including Best Picture
Speaker 1: International Feature blah blah blah. Now, it was criticized by
Speaker 1: some of the LGBTQ viewers because they said it was
Speaker 1: a stereotypical portrait of Mexico, traditional Catholic Mexico.
Speaker 5: Also, they didn't use Mexican actors, and they romanticized Narco
Speaker 5: violence forgetting the fact that this is a point of
Speaker 5: trauma for many Mexicans who live with this. More than
Speaker 5: one hundred thousand people gone missing in Mexico's drug war,
Speaker 5: families spend years decades searching for missing loved ones. People
Speaker 5: very upset over this hollywoodization of drug cartels and what
Speaker 5: it means to survive them. There was an analogy I
Speaker 5: heard this morning, and I don't want to completely butcher it,
Speaker 5: and I will because I can't find it with something about,
Speaker 5: you know, another country glorifying the KKK, that the KKK
Speaker 5: has been reborn, and instead of filming it in the South,
Speaker 5: you film it in Paris, and instead of having black
Speaker 5: people play slaves, you have other people play that.
Speaker 2: Like it's just it's such a.
Speaker 5: You know, white person high on the hill of bel air,
Speaker 5: behind their gated communities, saying what people of Mexico are
Speaker 5: when you have no fre an idea, you're like so
Speaker 5: far away from having your pulse on your finger, on
Speaker 5: the pulse of any community.
Speaker 2: Well, add to.
Speaker 1: That the fact that when you go through Carlo Sophia
Speaker 1: Gasco on social media account, she has at times been
Speaker 1: incredibly racist, anti Muslim, anti diversity, and they have upended
Speaker 1: her campaign not just for her but for everyone that
Speaker 1: was nominated associated with the Amelia Perez movie. She has
Speaker 1: apologized for the tweets in question. She denied writing one
Speaker 1: that slammed Selena Gomez altogether, but she had said that
Speaker 1: she used social media as a diary.
Speaker 2: So when she.
Speaker 1: Called George Floyd, for example, a loser drug user that
Speaker 1: no one liked, it causes some problems for them and
Speaker 1: everybody that wanted to point to her as being this
Speaker 1: just groundbreaking person because she was the first out transgender
Speaker 1: person to be nominated for an acting award, they're caught
Speaker 1: flat footed because they go, oh, wait a minute. She's
Speaker 1: not allowed to have thoughts like that. She's not allowed
Speaker 1: to say things like that, I thought she was our team.
Speaker 5: When you're putting someone in a box, you don't realize
Speaker 5: how complex that that person could be, do you. When
Speaker 5: you're checking off a box, you should not put people
Speaker 5: in a box. Here's the quote from the article in
Speaker 5: IndieWire dot com. To understand why Latinos are appalled by
Speaker 5: Amelia Perez, imagine this. The Academy lauds a clan rehabilitation
Speaker 5: musical set in the Deep South but shot in Paris.
Speaker 5: It's non American cast speaks in British and ausse accents,
Speaker 5: and the few black actors are largely relegated to extras.
Speaker 2: When you put it like that, you look very silly
Speaker 2: with silly Hollywood. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also think in general, the Oscars are banking too
Speaker 1: much in the last couple of years on.
Speaker 2: This is the first year that we've had.
Speaker 1: Us so and so nominated for a something, and we
Speaker 1: hope they win because that shows how progressive the Oscars are.
Speaker 2: It feels like that's just kind of an old way.
Speaker 5: It's such an old trope, isn't it. About the Oscar
Speaker 5: and critics and everything. We're so we are so dialed
Speaker 5: into what everyday people are living with.
Speaker 2: This is what I learned on the Gary and Channon Show.
Speaker 5: We are talking about a half an hour ago about
Speaker 5: how many words we speak, and you said something about
Speaker 5: sixteen thousand, and I'm like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 5: And telling I know, like how many minutes or whatever.
Speaker 5: Chris did the math and the homework on that and says,
Speaker 5: according to Ai, so AI did the homework, sixteen thousand
Speaker 5: words a day can take anywhere from eighty to one
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty minutes, depending on how fast you speak,
Speaker 5: So that's how much we're speaking a day, eighty minutes,
Speaker 5: from a little over an hour to a little over two.
Speaker 1: Hours, which is roughly what it comes out to this
Speaker 1: show right after the commercials.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: We're doing baseline just in those four hours, right, But
Speaker 1: it's not about us. You watched You're Cordially Invited on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. That's the Race with Spine. Will Ferrell movie.
Speaker 5: It was like, I actually thought it was better than
Speaker 5: I thought it was going to be. I thought it
Speaker 5: was just going to be using Reese, Witherspoon and Will
Speaker 5: Ferrell's name for a complete vehicle of hell.
Speaker 2: It was enjoyable.
Speaker 5: It wasn't a blockbuster, but you don't believe the rom
Speaker 5: com part of it. They only get into the at
Speaker 5: the very end.
Speaker 1: It is enjoyable. And then Bad Sisters Season two on
Speaker 1: Apple TV. It's an Irish TV show, but it is
Speaker 1: the season two. Both my wife and I thought it
Speaker 1: was better than season one. Season one won some awards,
Speaker 1: so season two is really well done.