Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2: The world's biggest selling soprano and legendary Grammy Award nominated artists,
Speaker 2: Sarah Brightman, is back to spread holiday cheer.
Speaker 3: This upcoming season.
Speaker 2: Sarah will once again dazzle us with her a Christmas
Speaker 2: Symphony Tour, with its North American leg beginning November twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: It's coming up. Accompanied by orchestra, choir and special guests.
Speaker 2: This enchanting holiday show will feature Sarah performing many of
Speaker 2: her holiday classics and greatest hits. Tickets are available at
Speaker 2: Sarah Brightman dot com and now she joins me on
Speaker 2: the show. Imagine that, Miss Brightman. A pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 2: How are you this evening?
Speaker 4: I'm very well. It's love me to speak to you.
Speaker 4: How I hope you're well.
Speaker 2: I am well, and I've been looking forward to this
Speaker 2: conversation for quite some time.
Speaker 3: But I am curious.
Speaker 2: How does a kid who originally started with dance and
Speaker 2: piano lessons end up becoming the best selling soprano in history.
Speaker 2: Was seeing ever your first love growing up? Or did
Speaker 2: you just fall into it? Do you know?
Speaker 4: I always love to sing.
Speaker 5: My mother said, I was kind of singing before I
Speaker 5: could even speak.
Speaker 4: But I just such a young age. I was never
Speaker 4: never able to sort of train the voice, because.
Speaker 5: You shouldn't really train voices until you're like sixteen. So
Speaker 5: I did a little bit, so I supposed to fill in.
Speaker 5: I became a dancer early in life because you could
Speaker 5: do that, and I learned acting and all the things
Speaker 5: within the arts because I love the arts and I
Speaker 5: love what I do. So I think it was just
Speaker 5: just following my voice and training and working really really
Speaker 5: hard and having a passion for what I do. And
Speaker 5: I never expected the sort of fame and all the
Speaker 5: stuff that came with it, but it did. And so
Speaker 5: I've embraced everything, and I you know, in my age now,
Speaker 5: I'm still embracing it and still going.
Speaker 4: Through the journey.
Speaker 2: Talking about this journey. The holidays can mean many things
Speaker 2: to people. Holidays can be very personal. But when the
Speaker 2: holidays become part of your annual tradition and vocation, does
Speaker 2: it change the feeling? Does it take away some of
Speaker 2: its magic because you're working most of the holidays.
Speaker 5: No, Because the Christmas show, my Christmas show is very
Speaker 5: very personal to me, and it actually started at the
Speaker 5: beginning of COVID, and I wanted to wanted to sort
Speaker 5: of bring everybody up and all my musician friends that
Speaker 5: weren't making any money or anything. I thought, I've got
Speaker 5: to get a smile on everybody's faces. So I thought,
Speaker 5: you know, it's that time of year. Let's put I'm
Speaker 5: going to put on a Christmas show and put it
Speaker 5: online and people can donate to charitors for it, and
Speaker 5: it became incredibly successful. TV companies wanted to take it on,
Speaker 5: and so it went all over the world and then
Speaker 5: everyone said, why.
Speaker 4: Don't you do the Christmas Show?
Speaker 5: So I thought, that's great, and what's beautiful about it
Speaker 5: is that and I I have really taken into consideration
Speaker 5: how differently different people feel at Christmas time. Sometimes it's
Speaker 5: a sad occasion but beautiful and poignant.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's party time.
Speaker 5: Sometimes people want religious music, sometimes people just want party music.
Speaker 4: Balance everything.
Speaker 5: So I brought together music for the show, which they've
Speaker 5: been very responsible about it, which kind of makes everybody happy.
Speaker 5: And there's beautiful lighting which brings in the atmosphere of Christmas.
Speaker 5: And also I myself, I love the holiday season to
Speaker 5: listen to a beautiful orchestra.
Speaker 4: And a big choir. So I've got that and this.
Speaker 5: As well, and I think it encompasses everything you want
Speaker 5: for a musical evening at that time of year, and
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: I have a great passion for it.
Speaker 2: How flexible is your setlist? As they say you may
Speaker 2: be in the mood to sing more religious music as
Speaker 2: you made mention of, or you may want to sing
Speaker 2: more secular popular favorites. How much flexibility do you have?
Speaker 5: There is some flexibility, but obviously because we are, you know,
Speaker 5: choosing local orchestras that come in, they can only learn
Speaker 5: so much so much music for it. And it's the
Speaker 5: same with the choirs as well, so there's a little flexibility.
Speaker 5: But what I will say, I wanted to, you know,
Speaker 5: because when I go to people's concerts, I always want
Speaker 5: to hear their hits. And so what I've done with
Speaker 5: my hits, because I don't want to disappoint people, is
Speaker 5: I brought them in and given them a much more
Speaker 5: with the arrangements are much more Christmasy flavor.
Speaker 4: So you know, you could get the Phantom of.
Speaker 5: The Opera, but it's got you know, different different instruments
Speaker 5: in there. Maybe sleigh els and all sorts of stuff
Speaker 5: that make it more Christmasy, and many many others.
Speaker 2: As I think about your performances of a Christmas symphony,
Speaker 2: I remember there was this particular performance of Paezu and
Speaker 2: it made me wonder.
Speaker 3: As you tour around.
Speaker 2: The world, including your North American tour which begins November
Speaker 2: twenty ninth, how do the different venues figure into how
Speaker 2: your performance may evolve or what you may feel in
Speaker 2: a given location.
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 5: This is the beautiful thing about live performance is you
Speaker 5: never really know how it's going to be, and from
Speaker 5: the start you go, Okay, this is going to be
Speaker 5: a different journey.
Speaker 4: Just go with it, take what the.
Speaker 5: Audience are giving you or not depending on the evening,
Speaker 5: and just you know all the music, you know the songs,
Speaker 5: you know how it's going to go.
Speaker 4: Just play with it. And it always makes a more
Speaker 4: exciting performance, actually for me, because I don't know what's
Speaker 4: going to happen.
Speaker 2: Not all Christmas or holiday songs may lend themselves to
Speaker 2: the Sarah Brightman treatment, But are there holiday songs that
Speaker 2: you just like personally but may never get around to performing.
Speaker 4: I probably think there may be a lot of them.
Speaker 4: I can't that in my head.
Speaker 5: I have probably lists of sums that that didn't didn't
Speaker 5: pass for this particular thing.
Speaker 4: It doesn't mean that they weren't.
Speaker 5: Really good, they just didn't suit this particular type of show.
Speaker 5: Probably pieces which are need much much huger orchestras and
Speaker 5: choirs and things like that that don't work unless you
Speaker 5: have that kind of situation.
Speaker 2: I know when I think of Christmas or the holiday
Speaker 2: seas and I always think of the Christmas dinner. I
Speaker 2: think of the family gathered round the table, the moment
Speaker 2: in which we're all together that we probably won't be
Speaker 2: with the rest of the year. Is there a singular
Speaker 2: moment that may occupy your mind during the holiday or
Speaker 2: maybe during your performances.
Speaker 5: Well, it's funny to say that, actually, because because these
Speaker 5: songs are emotional for me to see, they just start
Speaker 5: because it's Christmas is that time of year. And through
Speaker 5: some of the songs, yes, I do go through moments
Speaker 5: of thoughts and moments of times that I've had.
Speaker 4: With my family. They can be very happy times, they
Speaker 4: can be sad times.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I can through the songs, I can smell the
Speaker 5: Christmas dinner, or I can imagine my mother sort of
Speaker 5: making things, and you know, going back to childhood and
Speaker 5: when we made Christmas decorations or went and bought them,
Speaker 5: or we'd go and see Father Christmas or see stuff
Speaker 5: in the All of those thoughts always come to me
Speaker 5: when I'm performing.
Speaker 3: Some of these songs thinking about those thoughts.
Speaker 2: I know, in just my limited experience of singing, I
Speaker 2: may get caught up in the emotion of a moment.
Speaker 2: And when you sing holiday songs sometimes you may remember
Speaker 2: people who have passed on or people that you just miss.
Speaker 2: More generally, do you find yourself ever struggling with the
Speaker 2: emotion of the moment while you're singing.
Speaker 5: I do sometimes, and I have to because obviously have
Speaker 5: to get my voice out, and so I have to.
Speaker 5: I sometimes I struggle with that a little bit. There's
Speaker 5: a beautiful piece I do singing, which is called a
Speaker 5: Paa sou, and it's from a piece called Requiem, and
Speaker 5: I sing it for the people that have because we've
Speaker 5: all lost people in our lives.
Speaker 4: On holidays always bring that back.
Speaker 5: Up to us very strongly because we'll remember that person
Speaker 5: being with us. So I do sing that particular religious piece,
Speaker 5: especially for people that have maybe.
Speaker 4: Gone through this.
Speaker 2: Sarah Brightman is back to spread holidayach year this upcoming season,
Speaker 2: and she'll dazzle audiences once again with her A Christmas
Speaker 2: Symphony tour, which has this North American portion kicking off
Speaker 2: coming up in just a few days on the twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: Tickets are available right now at Sarah Brightman dot com
Speaker 2: Forward slash Tours. Miss Brightman has always been a joy
Speaker 2: to have the opportunity to speak with you, and I
Speaker 2: hope we get to do it again. Congratulations on your
Speaker 2: tour and I wish you nothing but the best.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much and it was lovely key to
Speaker 5: you and happy holidays.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: And this is going to be a big weekend in
Speaker 2: the box office. Wicked is expected to do very well
Speaker 2: to the tune of maybe of one hundred million dollars domestically,
Speaker 2: and not far behind that and catching up fast will
Speaker 2: be Gladiator too. Gladiator two has had a lot of
Speaker 2: good reviews and a lot of good publicity in the
Speaker 2: past two days. And I don't know if you've noticed this,
Speaker 2: but even though Denzel Washington is not the stars. In
Speaker 2: other words, he's not getting top billing. He may be
Speaker 2: the most well known actor in the movie, but he's
Speaker 2: not getting top billing. Most of the stories surrounding Gladiator
Speaker 2: two are all about Denzel Washington. I've learned more about
Speaker 2: Denzel Washington in the past week and a half than
Speaker 2: I really want to know about Denzel Washington. There have
Speaker 2: been stories about his past drug use. How are you
Speaker 2: to shoot up? It's like I didn't need to know that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for real? And there was a story about how he
Speaker 2: uh is a very religious person and how that's not
Speaker 2: somehow popular in Hollywood. He says he doesn't care. But
Speaker 2: all the stories surrounding Gladiator to trace back to Dentel Washington,
Speaker 2: which means to me that there is a real buzz
Speaker 2: on this movie. And here's something else if you haven't
Speaker 2: paid attention. There's this new category of movies called legacy sequels.
Speaker 3: What do I mean by that?
Speaker 2: You have you have Mattlock, not Mattlock, Maverick, The Top
Speaker 2: Gun Maverick, which is a legacy sequel of obviously Top
Speaker 2: Gun Maverick. Mattlock the same thing, Tomato Tomato Pato, And
Speaker 2: let's call the whole thing off and you obviously have
Speaker 2: won Beetlejuice and it's sequel, I don't know how many
Speaker 2: years after the fact. And now you have Gladiator, which
Speaker 2: was in year two thousand and the sequel in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. You have Blade Runner talking about Ridley Scott.
Speaker 2: So many years in between. There is a new portion
Speaker 2: of the movie industry which is going to be churning
Speaker 2: out these legacy sequels, these sequels with a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of years in between, even Beverly Hills Cop. You'll see
Speaker 2: that these are the movies which are going to be
Speaker 2: focused on in the coming years. Why because people are
Speaker 2: asking for them, they're responding to them, and they're doing
Speaker 2: well in the box office. Obviously, Top Gun, Maverick did
Speaker 2: Gangbusters in the box office.
Speaker 3: We know that well.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say Blade Runner did great, but it was
Speaker 2: still well received, at least critically acclaimed.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a massive crowd pleaser, but it has really
Speaker 6: gotten an enormous amount of respect as a quality sequel.
Speaker 3: It's very well done and.
Speaker 2: It'll probably turn into a cult classic because one of
Speaker 2: those movies that will look back on and say, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it just maybe came out the wrong time. He didn't
Speaker 2: have a great marketing strategy, but it will be better
Speaker 2: received as years go on. You look at Beetlejuice, Obviously
Speaker 2: that movie did exceptionally.
Speaker 3: Well this year.
Speaker 2: More and more you'll see movie studios trying to create
Speaker 2: these legacy sequels, digging in the crates and maybe finding
Speaker 2: something that they think is the right time to not reboot,
Speaker 2: but actually continue the storyline. And that I think is
Speaker 2: attractive to me, if only because I'm tired of prequels.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of going back to the beginning because you
Speaker 2: know it only leads to one conclusion. It's nice to
Speaker 2: tell me about the birth of Anakin Skywalker and how
Speaker 2: he became Darth Vader, but we know how that story
Speaker 2: turns out. I would much rather see you push the
Speaker 2: ball forward and advance the story. And we're seeing more
Speaker 2: of those movies where they're taking legitimate properties, where there
Speaker 2: is a fan, but they're giving you something else on
Speaker 2: top of what you already Do you.
Speaker 6: Really want to defend those Anakin Skywalker movies?
Speaker 3: No, I don't. Those are prequels.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's my point, Okay, I'd rather see an actual
Speaker 2: sequel what happens down the Road, Like I would not
Speaker 2: ever want to see a prequel to Blade Runner, even
Speaker 2: though they're talking about doing it.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, there's a whole Blade Runner universe, just
Speaker 6: like the Matrix with all sorts of comic and other
Speaker 6: spin offs, and you know it's hit and miss.
Speaker 3: It is hit and miss.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned Matrix that was a miss, and that
Speaker 2: was something they did for streaming, and it seemed to
Speaker 2: me half assed, like they really weren't committed to it.
Speaker 2: But to their credit, they did get Keanu Reeves, they
Speaker 2: did get carry Ad Moss. They didn't get Lauras Fishburne,
Speaker 2: which I think was part of the problem. Oh you
Speaker 2: got to have him yet, you would think, but they didn't,
Speaker 2: and that's part of the reason I think that didn't
Speaker 2: do well. But still there is an acknowledgment that people
Speaker 2: want to find out what happened to their favorite characters
Speaker 2: in some of their favorite movie franchises.
Speaker 3: And it's o k.
Speaker 2: If some twenty five or thirty years might be in
Speaker 2: between and there's something else going back to Beverly Hills,
Speaker 2: cop or even coming to America, you may find that
Speaker 2: that will be the last opportunity to get the gang
Speaker 2: all back together. As these actors age, you may not
Speaker 2: have any more opportunities now. I don't know what's going
Speaker 2: to be next for like a Maverick character. I don't
Speaker 2: know what else you can say after why you think,
Speaker 2: damn dude, get out of a plane. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they would allow you to fly planes for forty
Speaker 2: five fifty years.
Speaker 6: I think in the third Maverick movie, he has denied
Speaker 6: his VA benefits and we follow him on his journey
Speaker 6: through homelessness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got to have some PTSD or something.
Speaker 2: There's no way that he should be still flying jets
Speaker 2: at seventy years old. No, no, no, no, But you
Speaker 2: know it's we have to suspend our disbelief because it's Hollywood,
Speaker 2: but I do expect hum So we're coming into this
Speaker 2: segment talking about Wicked and how this other movie, A
Speaker 2: Gladiator Too, is going to do very well this weekend.
Speaker 2: It's going to be good box office for movie theaters,
Speaker 2: and I think that's what you're going to need. You're
Speaker 2: going to have to have movies outside the summer season
Speaker 2: which can really perform, can stay in theaters for more
Speaker 2: than three or four weeks, and encourage people especially during
Speaker 2: the holidays to see a movie more than once. I
Speaker 2: like the original Gladiator. I'm very surprised that they came
Speaker 2: back and did a sequel, seeing as how they basically
Speaker 2: killed the most important characters of the first one.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's no basically about it. They didn't really
Speaker 6: leave you a lot of wiggle room at the end
Speaker 6: of the first one.
Speaker 2: Now I think they've they've done some creative ret conning
Speaker 2: with this story about who is actually the son of whom.
Speaker 3: I don't want to give it away.
Speaker 2: I've been reading up online, but they're trying to make
Speaker 2: it where there may be a way that they can
Speaker 2: extend this into a third or fourth one.
Speaker 3: Oh really?
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I don't know all the details yet, and
Speaker 6: I might go see it after work tonight if I
Speaker 6: finish in time. But we do know that Nick Cave
Speaker 6: the musician, the red right hand guy. Yes, he wrote
Speaker 6: a sequel to that that I think took place in
Speaker 6: the underworld, And that's not the one we're gonna get.
Speaker 2: Wow, this one is gonna make money. All I know
Speaker 2: that this one is going to make money. And Ridley Scott.
Speaker 2: The more I see him in interviews, the more strange
Speaker 2: I realize that he is.
Speaker 3: I like him.
Speaker 6: I like him a lot because he has totally reached
Speaker 6: the dgais and the stuff you hear him say about
Speaker 6: people that he's worked with and whose opinion he doesn't
Speaker 6: give a damn about. I think he's really entertaining and
Speaker 6: he's a smart guy as well.
Speaker 2: He is, but look as a creative and a creator,
Speaker 2: I love what he does, not everything that he does,
Speaker 2: but I love that he is still as invested in
Speaker 2: making quality movies.
Speaker 3: He's not just malely in.
Speaker 2: He's trying to make really good movies, even at this
Speaker 2: leg portion of his career.
Speaker 6: Well, he's more of a visual stylist, and there's always
Speaker 6: this argument that he needs better writers, and if you
Speaker 6: look at I don't know, the majority of the Alien movies,
Speaker 6: you might have a tough time arguing against that. But
Speaker 6: I still think he's just he is one of the giants.
Speaker 6: I will watch anything that he does because he's earned that.
Speaker 2: And he's one of the few directors I would say,
Speaker 2: and I would say this inclusive of people his contemporaries,
Speaker 2: like Steven Spielberg. Where you look at Ridley Scott's career,
Speaker 2: he has meaningful, impactful movies in each decade of his career.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the last time, for example, not to
Speaker 2: pick on Steven Spielberg that he had something meaningful. Maybe
Speaker 2: it was War of the World, which was two thousand
Speaker 2: and five, which is almost twenty years ago.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Bridge of Spies almost bored me to sleep. I saw it,
Speaker 6: and that's why I didn't include it.
Speaker 2: It's like, I like the premise, but the execution, eh,
Speaker 2: and you're being generous, no seriously, And it seemed like
Speaker 2: at that point there was a fall off of Spielberg
Speaker 2: and Tom Hanks. Love them both, but it just seemed
Speaker 2: like they haven't been able to reclaim their original glory.
Speaker 2: I know, who am I to even question either of them,
Speaker 2: But let people age. It's fine, No, it's okay. But
Speaker 2: I'm saying Denzel is aging. He's not aging in the
Speaker 2: same way. He's still culturally relevant in the way that
Speaker 2: Tom Hanks hasn't been in quite some time.
Speaker 6: What if I were to say to you that Denzel
Speaker 6: is the black Tom Hanks.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, because if you've ever met Denzel, I
Speaker 2: think he takes himself far more seriously than Tom Hanks does.
Speaker 2: Takes himself Denzel can be very prickly, very prickly.
Speaker 3: That's always a joy in interviews.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's one of those things where I would
Speaker 2: have to watch a lot of landmines to interview Denzel Washington.
Speaker 3: I've seen it. I don't think he's a bad guy.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying you can say the wrong thing and
Speaker 2: that interview goes left real quick.
Speaker 3: Fun, always fun.
Speaker 2: It's Later with Moke Kelly KFIA six forty WeLive everywhere
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. So we know that we're going to
Speaker 2: get a run a report on Gladiator most likely.
Speaker 3: Well that's the plan.
Speaker 6: But by the way, remember it's a two and a
Speaker 6: half hour movie and that's already making me mad.
Speaker 3: Hey, you choose, you choose your poison.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's not gonna be uh what that Wizard of
Speaker 6: Oz movie?
Speaker 3: What's it called wicked? Yeah, forget it.
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Speaker 2: holiday season where thieves, criminals are always trying to separate
Speaker 2: you from your money. Here are some things that you
Speaker 2: need need to be mindful of that. We'll give you
Speaker 2: some other tips and tricks. On the other side, the.
Speaker 7: Season of giving is around the corner, and that means
Speaker 7: sophisticated scammers are gearing up to pounce on unsuspecting online shoppers.
Speaker 8: I do my research, I.
Speaker 5: Give, something doesn't feel right, then I follow my gut feeling.
Speaker 3: There's going to be a lot of money flowing around.
Speaker 7: According to KTLA consumer confidential host David Lazarus, people will
Speaker 7: spend roughly two hundred and forty billion dollars shopping online,
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Speaker 8: Look up at the little URL at the top where
Speaker 8: it says http. What you want to see is http S,
Speaker 8: meaning you've got a secure connection. That means it's not
Speaker 8: going to be anybody looking over your shoulders or as
Speaker 8: you're making the transaction.
Speaker 7: LAPED officers are also concerned about emerging e commerce crimes
Speaker 7: and street robberies. This is when a buyer and seller
Speaker 7: plan to meet up to exchange goods.
Speaker 2: Stop right there. Don't try to meet up and exchange goods.
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Speaker 2: It's like Craigslist. Okay, you know how many people have
Speaker 2: been killed trying to buy stuff or sell stuff on Craigslist.
Speaker 3: A lot. I don't know how many people, but it's
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 7: This is when a buyer and seller plan to meet
Speaker 7: up to exchange goods from popular sites like Facebook Marketplace,
Speaker 7: and then it turns into a sting operation.
Speaker 2: Ah see said, don't try to buy something off of
Speaker 2: Facebook or Facebook Marketplace.
Speaker 3: It's like going to a crackhouse.
Speaker 7: Popular sites like Facebook Marketplace, and then it turns into
Speaker 7: a sting operation.
Speaker 4: Some of these robbery victims were told to meet in
Speaker 4: an unfamiliar neighborhood location.
Speaker 3: And they will robbed of their property in money.
Speaker 7: Laped is investigating one case where a suspect uses fake
Speaker 7: listings for iPhones to lure victims into meeting and proceeds
Speaker 7: to threaten them with a knife.
Speaker 2: You have to assume that if you have to meet
Speaker 2: in person, it's probably going to be dodgy, and you
Speaker 2: should air on the side of caution. If I'm going
Speaker 2: to sell something, it's going to be through a reputable
Speaker 2: marketplace like Amazon. It's going to be a third party,
Speaker 2: and you're just gonna have to wait for it.
Speaker 3: To come in the mail.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to meet you in some back alley
Speaker 2: so you can rob me. I don't care if it's
Speaker 2: Mark Runner. I'm not going to give him the opportunity
Speaker 2: to steal money from me or possibly take my life.
Speaker 6: Well, you got to meet people someplace well lit and public.
Speaker 6: I've actually bought a few things from Craigslist and eBay
Speaker 6: and just don't be an idiot.
Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of idiots out there, so
Speaker 2: we have to assume the worst and air on this
Speaker 2: side of idiocy.
Speaker 7: Laped is investigating one case where a suspect uses fake
Speaker 7: listings for iPhones to lure victims into meeting and proceeds
Speaker 7: to threaten them with a knife. This kind of scenario
Speaker 7: has happened at least seven times within the last four
Speaker 7: months in the Los Angeles area, and police believe it's
Speaker 7: happening more often than is actually reported. That's why authorities
Speaker 7: are asking that people buying and selling online only meet
Speaker 7: at safe exchange zones.
Speaker 3: Which include the law like a strip club.
Speaker 7: That's why authorities are asking that people buying and selling
Speaker 7: online only meet at safe exchange zone.
Speaker 3: Like a gas station late at night.
Speaker 7: That's why authorities are asking that people buying and selling
Speaker 7: online only meet at safe exchange zone.
Speaker 6: Like a.
Speaker 3: Not a well lit alley.
Speaker 7: That's why authorities are asking people buying and selling online
Speaker 7: only meet at safe exchange zones, which include the lobby
Speaker 7: of your local police station.
Speaker 2: I guess technically that's somewhat's safe. I mean, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you want to meet at the police stations, probably
Speaker 2: not convenient. If you're trying to keep yourself from getting killed,
Speaker 2: it might do in a pinch. Or how about this,
Speaker 2: don't use Craigslist, don't use Facebook Marketplace, don't.
Speaker 3: Use offer up. How about that?
Speaker 2: If you're actually worried about your safety, don't use these
Speaker 2: websites where it requires you to put yourself in danger.
Speaker 2: How about that? If you could just do that, you'll
Speaker 2: live to see twenty twenty five. Maybe, assuming you don't
Speaker 2: take the metro.
Speaker 6: A man of your stature probably doesn't need to buy
Speaker 6: anything used from anybody.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: I've purchased used stuff before, but it was from people
Speaker 2: I knew at strip clubs.
Speaker 3: I just rented at strip clubs. I didn't buy. Hello.
Speaker 2: The whole point of that is for them knowing when
Speaker 2: to go home. Yes, I earned that negative. Stephen thinks so,
Speaker 2: and he is the final arbiter.
Speaker 6: I think you've got a thumb on the Stephan scale there, but.
Speaker 3: Uh, that thumb somewhere. Oh, look at the time, that's
Speaker 3: one more.
Speaker 2: I'll wait, come on, George nor when we come back,
Speaker 2: He said, what am I doing with these guys?
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Speaker 3: Now, I have to say this.
Speaker 2: I had an off air conversation with a mutual friend,
Speaker 2: Marshall Collier, and she said she was going to send
Speaker 2: you some pictures that she had taken of a UAP.
Speaker 3: Have you received them yet?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: I get fifteen hundred emails a day. It might be
Speaker 9: in the batch.
Speaker 2: How well, she was talking like she had your number,
Speaker 2: so you know, be able to look out for that.
Speaker 3: Okay, bye George.
Speaker 2: See yeah, Hey Mark, you said the movie was two
Speaker 2: hours and forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: Do you have tickets yet or you're still considering?
Speaker 6: It depends on how fast I can finish up all
Speaker 6: my official KFI work tasks.
Speaker 2: Look, I know you're a night oul and everything, but
Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it. I just can't
Speaker 2: watch two hour movies anywhere around midnight.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to make it through. I'm not.
Speaker 6: That's not the problem. I think it's two and a
Speaker 6: half hours, but it's still long. When we're the other
Speaker 6: there are showings tomorrow before work, but who wants to
Speaker 6: wake up at the crack and noon.
Speaker 2: Come on, Look, you have a two and a half
Speaker 2: hour movie. Let's say it's slated to start at twelve
Speaker 2: o'clock midnight. You're not gonna get to the beginning of
Speaker 2: that two and a half hour movie until twelve thirty. No,
Speaker 2: so you're looking at three in the morning easily. Yeah,
Speaker 2: then you get in your car and drive home.
Speaker 6: I just can't do it. Yeah, I might as well
Speaker 6: not go home. In fact, I think the people at
Speaker 6: home might prefer that.
Speaker 2: But you your sleep schedule lends itself to it, mind
Speaker 2: does not.
Speaker 6: It's just in a death spiral. I don't even know
Speaker 6: what I'm doing anymore. I have no regular sleep hours.
Speaker 6: I was up till the daybreak writing a screenplay last night,
Speaker 6: and that that's been happening more and more.
Speaker 2: It's hard for me because a lot of my interviews
Speaker 2: that I'll do for BBC for their morning shows are
Speaker 2: at twelve thirty one in the morning, and that's the
Speaker 2: that's the upper limit of anything that I can do,
Speaker 2: like eight hours ahead, eight hours right now, okay, and
Speaker 2: I'm doing actually one Friday night turning Saturday morning at
Speaker 2: one am our time.
Speaker 3: It's all I can do to stay up.
Speaker 2: But but a long story short, that's why I am
Speaker 2: a contributor with them to this day because a lot
Speaker 2: of people won't because you're the one who will be
Speaker 2: up on the water and they know that they can
Speaker 2: call on me and we can hook up by a
Speaker 2: skype and I can give them the commentary about what's
Speaker 2: happening in the US. And if you don't know, usually
Speaker 2: the BBC, they're about maybe a day or two behind
Speaker 2: is what we're talking about right now. They won't be
Speaker 2: talking about as far as American politics or cultural issues
Speaker 2: for another day or two.
Speaker 6: Well wait till they find out about that Matt Gates.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe since it's happening today.
Speaker 2: By the time I talk to them on Friday nights,
Speaker 2: which is their Saturday morning, they'll maybe want to talk
Speaker 2: about it, but it's usually there's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a lull. They're not, like, you know, they're not as
Speaker 2: up on it as we are because we're following it
Speaker 2: all day, every day.
Speaker 6: I really enjoy their perspectives on American politics and pop culture,
Speaker 6: and I watch a lot of their shows.
Speaker 3: They're on YouTube. People post them on YouTube. I like
Speaker 3: it because it gives an outside in view. We're in it.
Speaker 2: What we consider to be normal or even odd is
Speaker 2: very different from what they perceive as an outsider looking in.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm just like their journalists. They know how to
Speaker 6: ask a follow up question. Well, actually, they appreciate.
Speaker 2: Journalism in a different way, in a much more substantive
Speaker 2: way than here. They don't they're not inundated with what
Speaker 2: we have. As far as cable news, there's not a
Speaker 2: lot of that. There's some there's like Sky News, which
Speaker 2: is basically an extension of Fox, But you don't have
Speaker 2: all these cable news networks with just opinion and editorial
Speaker 2: leading the way. There's Talk TV that thinks Guy News
Speaker 2: and one other and I've done them all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, are our journalists could learn a thing or two
Speaker 6: from the way there's ask questions and do follow ups.
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of our quote unquote journalists they're performative,
Speaker 2: and they're not trying to.
Speaker 3: Get to the bottom of the story.
Speaker 2: They're trying to cater to a specific audience, and it's
Speaker 2: the cart before the horse. It used to be where
Speaker 2: you would develop the story, tell the story, and then
Speaker 2: people would come to their conclusion. Now they start with
Speaker 2: the conclusion and everything spins back to the singular idea,
Speaker 2: it's either Trump's fault or it's either the Democrat's fault.
Speaker 6: Well, or some of our journalists, especially on television, consider
Speaker 6: their job to be a delivery device for misinformation that
Speaker 6: they don't feel required to challenge, and that to me
Speaker 6: is insane.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not insane to me because I kind of
Speaker 2: know why it's done and where it's done. For example,
Speaker 2: if you're on MSNBC or Fox News, because they're not
Speaker 2: different as far as they're both cable news outlets, they're
Speaker 2: no different than Comedy Central as far as what they're
Speaker 2: required to do.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: What I mean is they're not held to any FCC
Speaker 2: standard or delivery aspect of broadcast news. Now, if you
Speaker 2: want to get in and say that Fox News is
Speaker 2: much more egregious as far as what they're doing, we
Speaker 2: could have that discussion. I'm not pushing that aside. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying as far as the mechanics of what cable
Speaker 2: news is. It's the same, and it's the same as
Speaker 2: Comedy Central, where you can have the Daily Show. They're
Speaker 2: all talking about the same thing, and they're not beholden
Speaker 2: to deliver that information in any particular way.
Speaker 6: You know, what's weird is that the Daily Show can
Speaker 6: be counted on to give you more factual information than
Speaker 6: a lot of traditional newscasts if you're paying attention to it.
Speaker 3: It can.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately people don't know the difference between broadcast news
Speaker 2: and cable news and what the FCC is actually designed
Speaker 2: to do. What who is beholden to the FCC. They
Speaker 2: don't understand that cable is a private signal. We can
Speaker 2: do whatever it wants. That's why you can cuss, you
Speaker 2: can have nudity, you can have lies, you can have misinformation,
Speaker 2: you have disinformation largely without consequence unless you stray over
Speaker 2: into defamation, which is a whole different category.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pro consequence. I think at some point we're
Speaker 6: going to have to corral all that together in one
Speaker 6: thing with the same regulations because times have just changed
Speaker 6: too much. It's not like it used to be when
Speaker 6: we were kids, where there was just free broadcast channels
Speaker 6: and PBS.
Speaker 2: But the problem is you get into the weeds of
Speaker 2: quote unquote, that's when it does become free speech because
Speaker 2: you're talking about cable, which is a private signal, and
Speaker 2: people have opted in. I'm saying, hey, I'm paying seven
Speaker 2: ninety nine a month for Fox News or MSNBC. I
Speaker 2: want to be entertained in the way that the Comedy
Speaker 2: Central may entertain us, because they're all the same, they're
Speaker 2: basically comedy networks trying to entertain audiences.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure I completely agree with that, and I've
Speaker 6: got a much broader interpretation than you do and most
Speaker 6: people of what constitutes the public's airwaves. I think cable's
Speaker 6: part of that, but that's a matter for debate. No,
Speaker 6: and we'll have that debate sometime, just not tonight. No,
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