Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Time four? What's happening? Rock Well?
Speaker 3: The Park fire burning up in northern California has continued
Speaker 3: to jump up the ladder and is now the sixth
Speaker 3: largest fire in state history at three hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: eight thousand acres Today, after the weekend of lower temperatures
Speaker 3: and increased humidity, they did say that they were able
Speaker 3: to cut fire line around twelve percent to the fire,
Speaker 3: but it is going to get warm again up there,
Speaker 3: so they said that.
Speaker 2: They said that the.
Speaker 3: Fire more than doubled in size several times in just
Speaker 3: a matter of hours, and there were a lot of
Speaker 3: those fire natos, the whirlwinds that create from the rising heat.
Speaker 3: As the weak progresses, temperatures are expected to rise, it'll
Speaker 3: make fire behavior obviously increase due to the high heat. Amazingly,
Speaker 3: for as large as that fire is, there are relatively
Speaker 3: small numbers of evacuations, just into the thousands and one
Speaker 3: hundred hundred plus structures destroyed, but thousands are still threatened.
Speaker 1: A video that uses AI of AI voice cloning tool
Speaker 1: to mimic the voice of Kamala Harris saying things she
Speaker 1: did not say, is raising concerns about the power of
Speaker 1: AI to mislead in an election year. Video gained a
Speaker 1: lot of attention because Elon Musk shared it on x
Speaker 1: on Friday without explicitly noting it was originally released as
Speaker 1: a parody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is I think going to be the weird
Speaker 3: gray area of how we have political speech now and
Speaker 3: maybe just going forward indefinitely. Yeah, which is Elon Musk
Speaker 3: thought he was doing something funny. I'm going to give
Speaker 3: him the benefit of the doubt and say that he's
Speaker 3: smart enough to know the difference between AI generated content
Speaker 3: and something because.
Speaker 1: It irresponsible, because he's smart enough to know and to
Speaker 1: share it to people that he knows will not be
Speaker 1: smart enough.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think he well, yes, it is completely irresponsible,
Speaker 3: and that's where he then has to come out. I
Speaker 3: know he's posted since then and said things like, uh,
Speaker 3: well he's I mean, he's he's a he's.
Speaker 1: He's gonna say what he wants to say. He's like
Speaker 1: a Trump. You know what I mean. You're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to rein that in He's this guy,
Speaker 1: he makes these jokes all the time. Yeah, he's a child,
Speaker 1: he's an adolescent boy.
Speaker 3: So and he actually wrote something about I just talked
Speaker 3: to Esteems professor. I can't even say the name because
Speaker 3: it's a it's a d joke. Yeah, but it's like
Speaker 3: parody is still legal in the United States or something
Speaker 3: like that. So but yeah, he's got it, He's got
Speaker 3: to do better. I just don't know if he realizes
Speaker 3: the power that he has.
Speaker 1: Like most athletes, Simone Biles will play injured. It is
Speaker 1: a calf injury. No, no, no, no, no, it's a lower
Speaker 1: extremity injury. Yes, she is in the lineup for all
Speaker 1: four events during the Olympic team finals. Is that going
Speaker 1: to happen? Did I read that correctly? That that's going
Speaker 1: to happen during our show tomorrow? I believe so, well
Speaker 1: be prime time in Paris. Yeah, so yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: We can do live play by play. And there's a twist.
Speaker 2: Oh my, oh, she nailed it.
Speaker 1: Flipped. That was a flip, and that was a handspring.
Speaker 1: Oh and what wow, twisty twist twist.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it sounds like.
Speaker 3: She will go last for the US on three events,
Speaker 3: the vault, the floor, and the balance beam, and then
Speaker 3: will be up second on the uneven bars. Jordan Chiles
Speaker 3: finished fourth in the all around qualifying. She was not happy.
Speaker 3: She was not happy when she got bounced out of
Speaker 3: that all around. A former Dodgers pitcher has died. It
Speaker 3: was actually a former Giants pitcher as well. Reyes Moronta
Speaker 3: died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic at
Speaker 3: the age of thirty one. Terrible crash yesterday, apparently near
Speaker 3: where his father lives. He joined the Dodgers in March
Speaker 3: of twenty two before he and he appeared in twenty
Speaker 3: two games before he moved on to other Major League teams.
Speaker 3: Eventually went in played in Mexico and the dr as well.
Speaker 3: Most recently played for the Bravos de Leon of the
Speaker 3: Mexican League.
Speaker 2: I just released this past Thursday.
Speaker 1: Robert Downey Junior returning to the Marvel Universe. He made
Speaker 1: an appearance at Comic Con over the weekend revealing that
Speaker 1: he will play Victor von Doom in a new Avengers
Speaker 1: movie called Avengers Doomsday.
Speaker 3: Somebody on our talkback had said, this has to do
Speaker 3: with the multiverse. You wouldn't get it, which that is
Speaker 3: one thousand percent correct.
Speaker 2: I don't quite.
Speaker 3: You lost me in the first season of Loki where
Speaker 3: you did the time variations and I was not catching up.
Speaker 2: It was hard to get through that.
Speaker 3: But somebody wrote on Twitter, your listener is correct and
Speaker 3: saying that you just wouldn't understand you don't.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: This is why I happened to know about the multiverse
Speaker 1: being a collection of alternate realities which share the universal hierarchy.
Speaker 2: Who who are you?
Speaker 1: Well, everybody knows. It's the subsection of the larger omniverse,
Speaker 1: the collection of all realities.
Speaker 2: What is happening right now?
Speaker 1: Well, it was a big weekend. It was predicted to
Speaker 1: be a big weekend, and Deadpool and Wolverine certainly delivered.
Speaker 1: Jason Nathanson joins us to talk about the cascading cash
Speaker 1: that is surrounding this blockbuster this summer. Oh, I like
Speaker 1: your alliteration there, That's what I do, Jana.
Speaker 2: And you're a professional.
Speaker 1: Oh, let's not go crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's okay about it'd be nice. It's a Monday.
Speaker 2: We'll see where we are by Friday.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I mean we talked about it on Friday
Speaker 4: that this was going to be record setting, and it
Speaker 4: was bigger than we thought.
Speaker 2: I think I had said that it had a shot.
Speaker 4: At getting to two hundred million, and then it was
Speaker 4: two hundred and five million with estimates yesterday, and then
Speaker 4: this morning the final total two hundred and eleven million,
Speaker 4: and the sixth best opening of all time and the
Speaker 4: best R rated opening of all time, So a bunch
Speaker 4: of different records set there. Obviously great news for the
Speaker 4: movie theater industry. AMC Theaters says that it had it
Speaker 4: sold the most tickets because when you look at this stuff,
Speaker 4: you go, okay, it's over two hundred million. It beat
Speaker 4: the original Deadpool, which earned one hundred and thirty three million,
Speaker 4: But did that beat it adjusted for inflation, which I
Speaker 4: think it did actually, but it might not have sold
Speaker 4: the most tickets, And AMC is saying that, yeah, this
Speaker 4: sold the most tickets of any R rated movie in
Speaker 4: the chains one hundred and four year history. Wow, so
Speaker 4: doing really really and merch sales were really good, of course,
Speaker 4: I'm sure popcorn and drink sales were really good.
Speaker 2: So this is stuff that they need and it's going to.
Speaker 4: Continue because there ain't nothing much coming up on the
Speaker 4: Horizon for a little while here, as we get into
Speaker 4: the August dog days of summer where there usually is
Speaker 4: not anything.
Speaker 1: Are you so excited about Rob Downey Junior returning to
Speaker 1: the Marvel universe? Oh?
Speaker 2: I lost my mind. If you listen to the Screams
Speaker 2: comic con mine was the loudest.
Speaker 1: I'm sensing a notch of a sarcasm here.
Speaker 4: No, well, okay, this gets into a little bit of
Speaker 4: something that I think we talked about on Friday with
Speaker 4: when you bring back a character like Wolverine in the
Speaker 4: in the Multiverse, right, And we made a big deal
Speaker 4: about Wolverine's death in that in that film a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago. How there are no consequences to these films, right?
Speaker 4: And in the last Avengers film, we made a big
Speaker 4: deal about the death of Tony Stark iron Man, Robert
Speaker 4: you devastated?
Speaker 2: I sent a little sarcasm.
Speaker 1: I was really upset. I really liked iron Man really yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, So were you crying when you watched it?
Speaker 1: I did not cry. I was when I believe that
Speaker 1: he was really dead, Like I couldn't wrap my head
Speaker 1: around the fact that he was really dead.
Speaker 4: Well, but that's that's the thing, whether he was dead
Speaker 4: or not. And I don't really if I believed when
Speaker 4: they said that he was dead and that was the
Speaker 4: end of that character. And fine, you know, but the again,
Speaker 4: those are there's supposed to be consequences in these worlds, right,
Speaker 4: So when people die in films and you know, you're
Speaker 4: supposed to go, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's that's it for them.
Speaker 4: And now with bringing back now we don't know exactly
Speaker 4: what this iteration of doctor Doom is because in some
Speaker 4: parts of the comic books, there is a world where
Speaker 4: Tony Stark, who became Iron Man, becomes this really bad guy.
Speaker 4: So there you have to imagine there's probably going to
Speaker 4: be some connection there. But then also, this guy wears
Speaker 4: a mask most of the time, so he could be
Speaker 4: Robert Downey Junior in a mask the whole time. But
Speaker 4: if you're going to hire Robert Dwney Junior, I think
Speaker 4: you're going to probably want to see his face at
Speaker 4: some point.
Speaker 2: I would hide him behind it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's not going to be hiding because didn't
Speaker 1: you see him at Comic co. Yeah, he took a
Speaker 1: press conference.
Speaker 4: He took the mask off, but that was just to
Speaker 4: reveal to the whole crowd who he is. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly how they're going to do it.
Speaker 4: But again, this is this has been my problem and
Speaker 4: some other people's problems when it comes to what Marvel
Speaker 4: has done as of late. In the Multiverse, you can
Speaker 4: just do anything right, bring anybody.
Speaker 3: Back, you know, Like it's like somebody called in and
Speaker 3: described it similar to storylines in a soap opera.
Speaker 1: Well, it's alternate realities. It's a collection of alternate realities
Speaker 1: which share that universal hierarchy, a sub section of the
Speaker 1: larger omniverse.
Speaker 4: Did you just read that or did you just about
Speaker 4: your ahead because those were words that I never pictured
Speaker 4: you putting together.
Speaker 1: Well you don't know me at all.
Speaker 2: Apparently not so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But if there are no rules and you can
Speaker 4: just do anything, then why what am I watching? And
Speaker 4: why am I watching this? And when two characters are fighting,
Speaker 4: you know, why do I care? If they're just going
Speaker 4: to bring something?
Speaker 1: If you want to put it this way, like the
Speaker 1: multi can be destroyed, like you saw an endgame, but
Speaker 1: if it ends, it's reborn as a completely new form.
Speaker 1: So it makes sense that if iron Man died, he
Speaker 1: could be reborn as the Boom Guy.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, there are Boom Doom, but there are just
Speaker 4: there are so many.
Speaker 2: As we saw a Spider Man too.
Speaker 4: And here's the other thing though, spider Man, the Spider Man,
Speaker 4: the the animated versions of the Spider Man films have
Speaker 4: done the.
Speaker 2: Multiverse very very well.
Speaker 4: And I will say Deadpool and Wolverine I thought did
Speaker 4: it very very well as well.
Speaker 1: Well, also shopped in universe. Let's just throw that in there.
Speaker 4: And so we have to kind of trust that Marvel's
Speaker 4: gonna do this well hopefully. You know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: I'm all reserve judgment until I actually see it. But
Speaker 4: for me, you know, I get I get it. Look,
Speaker 4: we had some stumbles in the Marvel universe. We why
Speaker 4: we kind of want to course correct. Deadpool and Wolverine
Speaker 4: is the first way to do that. And then the
Speaker 4: second way to do that is bring back the guy
Speaker 4: who started it all in two thousand and eight, two
Speaker 4: thousand and nine with the first Iron Man movie, Robert
Speaker 4: Downey Junior. He's the biggest guy, and also the Russo Brothers,
Speaker 4: who were the guys who behind the original Avengers trilogy.
Speaker 4: I get that. Go back to the well, go back
Speaker 4: to what worked. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: It all goes back to the web of life and destiny.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's often what you say. I often get a
Speaker 4: text message from Shannon that says that, usually in the
Speaker 4: middle of the night, and she's been in a casino
Speaker 4: for a while. But yes, I wish you were in
Speaker 4: the room here with it.
Speaker 2: Terrifying. I'm scared right now. You need somebody in between
Speaker 2: men two. What I help out is not comfortable.
Speaker 1: It's like the Dodger hat in orange and black.
Speaker 2: It is it doesn't fit right. Oh, yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, you know again, I get what
Speaker 4: they're doing. I understand why fans seem to be pretty excited.
Speaker 4: And we'll see what happened. You know, these movies are
Speaker 4: a couple of years away at this point, so we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens, and we'll see what happens again in
Speaker 4: the short term with Marvel, because I think also, as
Speaker 4: we talked about on Friday, it's fine for dead Pool
Speaker 4: and Wolverine to do as well as it did. But
Speaker 4: one of the reasons it did is because it's R
Speaker 4: rated and everybody loved it and the humor was raunching
Speaker 4: and blah, blah blah. You can't do that with the
Speaker 4: other Marvel movies. You can't be as bold and brash
Speaker 4: as this one was. When you have the PG thirteen movies.
Speaker 2: Did either one of you go see it over the weekend? No,
Speaker 2: we were just talking about see it tonight. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: yeah good. And this is one of those movies.
Speaker 3: I mean, you point out that obviously was able to
Speaker 3: They were able to get away with a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff because it is our rated. It's one of those
Speaker 3: that does not translate to a TV broadcast. There are
Speaker 3: a couple of movies, handful of movies where you don't
Speaker 3: have to have the swearing, but this I will. In fact,
Speaker 3: I tried to watch Deadpool two over the weekend on
Speaker 3: the TV and it did not It.
Speaker 2: Didn't work, did not work. It lost a lot of that,
Speaker 2: which is fine.
Speaker 4: But again, like you know, in this day and age,
Speaker 4: who's watching this stuff on TV?
Speaker 2: Right you're probably I felt stupid for doing it. If
Speaker 2: you want to watch you go go watch the streaming one.
Speaker 4: It's right there. You're probably already paying for it. I
Speaker 4: missed those days though, just flipping around seeing what's on
Speaker 4: the channels, and it was a different time getting sucked
Speaker 4: into something good.
Speaker 2: You know, don't isolate that. Please you notice we stayed
Speaker 2: very quiet. I know you did, and I knew exactly
Speaker 2: where you were going to. May not have a great
Speaker 2: week you too. Take care. Thanks man Talk Friday, and
Speaker 2: it's good you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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