WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:15.800 Joe Wescolante Life from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, But actually 2 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:23.800 I'm coming to you today from Pamplona, Spain, at the San Fermin Festival, 3 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:28.839 otherwise known as the Running of the Bulls. But we have Nicki and 4 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:34.000 Sam in the studio and I'm just going to kind of hang out a little 5 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.920 bit in this first segment and tell you what's going on, give you the 6 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:43.520 news from Pamplona, and then Nicky, you and Sam just take it from 7 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:49.759 there, and I'm going to go to sleep because it is approaching. Well, 8 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:54.840 yeah, it's midnight over here. It's twelve fifteen and it's time to 9 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.439 go to bed. I thought they party late out in Spain. Yeah, 10 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.600 they get up at this time actually to go rave. Right, you're both 11 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:07.840 you're both correct, and they are. Like if I just opened my window, 12 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.879 you would hear what's going on. I'll take a quick step out the 13 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:19.159 window. You hear that. Oh my gosh, they're like a protest or 14 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:26.319 something going on. No, this is just constant until like four in the 15 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:33.120 morning, and then at about about the same time the cleanup crew starts cleaning 16 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:38.120 the streets. Because you know, this is Europe, so they pee anywhere, 17 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:46.840 and and then soarly, yeah, well they clean, they clean the 18 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:52.640 streets, and then the like the partiers kind of go away, and then 19 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:57.280 the new visitors come for the morning running the Bulls, which takes place at 20 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.760 eight a m. But if you want a good seat for the running of 21 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.519 the bull you have to get here at like three in the morning or so. 22 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:09.039 And so people are coming in to stake out their spots, and then 23 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:14.439 the party as the party is going to sleep. Now some of the partiers, 24 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:19.240 I think, just just transition from I'm partying and then oh, look, 25 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.719 I'm running with the bulls. And there's two kinds of groups of people. 26 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.919 Some are coming to watch, you know, like from behind the fence, 27 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:30.439 and some are coming in there to run actually get in there and run 28 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.439 with the bulls, which very very crazy. It's just I mean, the 29 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:44.520 best way to witness this is to go to YouTube and search Pamplona, you 30 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.159 know, bull running, and you'll see you can see this morning's already is 31 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:53.080 up there and it's going on for eight days. So the the and then 32 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.159 there's other people like me who figured out a way the rounds. Of course, 33 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.919 right, I pardon you brought your your training shoes of course, to 34 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:06.919 get up in there with the bulls, right, No, I have I'm 35 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:12.599 like a third option. I have a expensive apartment on the bull route with 36 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:19.520 a balcony, so we will. This morning was the first one when we 37 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.080 just it starts at eight and you can you kind of get out there on 38 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.919 the balcony about a quarter to eight, and you see everybody on the streets. 39 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.120 Everybody's wearing the same outfit. It's a white outfit with the red scarf 40 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:35.879 and a red sash. Everybody has the same outfit. We have it too. 41 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:43.240 And then we watch the bulls go by and it's just thrilling, and 42 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.520 then you go inside. Then we go back inside the apartment and watch the 43 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.240 replays of the running of the bulls. They just keep showing on this local 44 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:55.319 TV channel all day long. I'm sure there's different angles on different people getting 45 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.560 splattered by bulls, getting you know, you know, running on the street 46 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:01.719 and getting rampled by them and stuff like that. Have you ever run with 47 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.680 the bulls? No, I don't uh do that. I mean, in 48 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.439 my younger days, I used to be in the bull fighting world, in 49 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:15.039 the amateur world. And and then so after you've done that, like, 50 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.519 for real, you don't really have a desire to run with the bullski. 51 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:23.839 It's like a bucket list thing for people, but not for me. I 52 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:29.759 could watch it and then I to the bulls. You prefer to sit with 53 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.360 the bulls, well, I just yeah, I'll just look over the balcony, 54 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.759 and then after it's done, take a shower, take a nap, 55 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:41.680 and then you go out and buy your tickets for that evening's event, and 56 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:47.560 then get something to eat, take a nap, go to mass There's, 57 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:53.839 there's, there's. It's like a medieval festival in a way, kind of 58 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.959 like a Renaissance fair type of thing. There's always a band of some kind 59 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.839 marching from one place to another. They just and then people are following them. 60 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:08.319 They're all over the place. The streets are so packed they're barely passable. 61 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.600 You can get stuck inside, you can get stuck somewhere where you can't 62 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:16.399 get out for a long time. But it's all super fun and it goes 63 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.480 on for eight days. I will be here for eight days, and so 64 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:28.199 I appreciate you guys taking over for me while I'm gone. And other than 65 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.800 that, you know, the news is good. Nobody died today one guy 66 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:41.199 did get carried away in a stretcher, and they give the reports right after 67 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:46.319 the things done. That they have some two medics go on TV and give 68 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.600 a report because they're wired up to every paramedic on the whole route. The 69 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.800 whole route only takes three minutes for the bulls to go. There's hundreds of 70 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:00.160 people down there. I am watching a live stream from today's run of the 71 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.639 bulls, and I'm seeing that the bulls are a lot faster than the people. 72 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:08.920 Yeah, the run is sort of just a little jog until they duck 73 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.639 and cover for the sidelines, you know, But yeah, these bulls are 74 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.199 are a lot. I don't really know what I expected, but I guess 75 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.800 I kind of expected the people to run in front of the bulls for slightly 76 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:23.240 longer than they do end up doing. Well, that's it. You would 77 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.439 be a good commentator on this because the commentator said the same thing. They 78 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.240 said, these bulls were really fast today, that was their big comment. 79 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.399 So they were running super fast. Usually they get a little distracted and start 80 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:38.399 kind of turning around, or they might fall and then start going after people. 81 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:44.439 But today, I think kind of idea was a pon meal was the 82 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.360 name of it, and just certain type of bulls from a certain bloodline. 83 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.079 These ones are all related and they all decided we just go really fast, 84 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.800 and we're very focused, and we're going to get to that ring. And 85 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:00.240 so but most of the time there's a lot more action. So it'll be 86 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:05.480 a completely different batch of bulls tomorrow, and they will run in a completely 87 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:13.360 different manner. And there's also four cows they're following, so it's six bulls 88 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.639 and then there's four cows. The cows nowhere to go, and the bulls 89 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:24.560 follow them and and people get, they get injured, they get they you 90 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:26.759 know, they do. Most of it is from like a face plant on 91 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:33.360 the cobblestone and then just getting run trampled by people behind you, really right. 92 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:39.360 The best example I have of it was from the movie City Slickers back 93 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.720 from the nineties with Billy Crystal, where they were a group of friends were 94 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.519 out adventure seeking and every year they do something silly, and that year they 95 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.800 started in Pamplona. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's time. There's a 96 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:57.519 lot of people like that letter Ernest Hemingway types here, but mostly it's it's 97 00:07:57.519 --> 00:08:03.480 Spaniards from the area, and there's a few visitors, a few Americans with 98 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.680 very few. I usually see Japanese people here, like when I'm watching it 99 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.600 on TV or at other festivals, but I haven't seen any Japanese tourists. 100 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.959 But you know, Japan is so cheap now that I think everything else is 101 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.560 expensive for them. They probably don't go anywhere. I'm planning another trip to 102 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.720 Japan right now actually as we speak, because of the economy out there. 103 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.439 Don't let's go a long way. Oh damn, really get on there. 104 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.560 Oh yeah, if you're playing a trip to Japan, now's the time. 105 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.759 Now is the time. And things here are not cheap, not expensive, 106 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.840 about the same as they are back home. But there's a lot of music. 107 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:46.639 There's also a music festival. Some of the bands that don't pay pera 108 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:48.200 is one of the bands that played at Coachella, and they're playing here, 109 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:56.440 and then Mad Professor Reggae guy playing here, and then the rest of them. 110 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:00.440 Most of them I see are like basque artists that speak that we're Basque 111 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.200 language, and so there's like, you know, I would say the basque 112 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.679 Taylor Swift played last night. She put on a show. It was identical 113 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:15.759 to a Taylor Swift show. Like little guitar, vocals the piano, and 114 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:20.559 then she was on O the talk shows. Her name was Zato and that 115 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.600 was interesting. But I think we're I think about ready to go for the 116 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.440 traffic. So I think I'm going to leave you guys to your Hollywood stuff, 117 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.320 and I can't wait to hear what you guys do. All right, 118 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.639 stay safe out there, avoid getting trampled. And next week, tell us 119 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.440 if there's any truth to the rumors that the cows are on performance enhancers, 120 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.159 because those it looks like they're running a little too fast. It might be 121 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.000 that might be the scoopa of the week. I'll check into that. Yeah, 122 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.519 let us know if it rains in those planes. I'm excited to hear 123 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:52.600 back. Okay, I will, thanks guys. Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, 124 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.039 Not really Hollywood. We're actually in Burbank right now, across the street 125 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.720 from a Wiener Schnitzel that sells beer. I'm going to go there afterwards and 126 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.080 get myself a Wiener brow. By the way, you can obviously tell I 127 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:09.000 am not Joe Escalante. I'm Sam, the engineer and producer on the show 128 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.759 with me right now. We got associate producer NICKI joining in. Joe, 129 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.000 thank you so much for joining us live from Pamplona, Spain. It was 130 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.200 like super late for him, so he was ready to crash out, but 131 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.440 he wanted to spend a couple of minutes with us and give us the rundown 132 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.759 on how the Running of the Bulls was going out in Pamplona. NICKI, 133 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.960 first off, you had you ever seen any footage from the running of the 134 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:35.200 bulls, Not until I just looked up the live stream from yesterday's running of 135 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.080 those bulls, and my god, they were so fast. I kind of 136 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:41.039 hoped that the people would maybe keep up, but they were taking a quick 137 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.000 jog for about two minutes in front of those bulls before just running off into 138 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.759 the corner. I was like, guys, come on, get a scooter 139 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.200 or something. You got to keep up with these bulls. Yeah. Now, 140 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:52.080 if you every year, there's got to be at least one or two 141 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.399 fatalities at least just from people getting trampled by either the bulls or other people. 142 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.639 But yeah, I was talking about in the last segment. Great movie. 143 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.240 If you ever want to see kind of like the lore and the history 144 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.519 of it. Very quickly is City Slickers with Billy Crystal from the nineties. 145 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.279 That's a great movie that really the first three minutes of the movie is them 146 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:15.399 and the first thing you see is them just running as fast as they can 147 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.960 from the bulls. It's it's intense, it's a lot of tradition and history 148 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.440 behind it, and it sounds like exactly something Joe Escalante would be at. 149 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.000 So I'm glad he's having a good time, and we're going to definitely make 150 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.759 sure that we batten down the hatches and make sure the ship is covered for 151 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.440 him while he's out there. But right now, this is live from Hollywood, 152 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.799 not live from Pamplona. So what's more associated with Hollywood than movies? 153 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.080 And we're going to take a look at the box office right now, Nikki, 154 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.519 what are the box office top ten? Right now? What are the 155 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.519 movies that everybody's been going to see this week? Well, yeah, right 156 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:48.039 right this moment and it's first weekend out top of the box office is Despicable 157 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.639 me for But what is it total gross of? Like already one hundred and 158 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:58.720 pretty much a quarter million dollars. I know some people who are my age, 159 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.480 like you know, between their twenty second and twenty fifth birthday, all 160 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.120 going out this weekend to see it to party. Oh yeah, I remember 161 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.279 when it first came out. I was like eight or something, still a 162 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.080 baby, so the nostalgia just keeping it alive for sure. I'm an old 163 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.919 older guy. I'm in my forties, and I remember when the first one 164 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.000 came out and it was one of the most adorable animated films I'd ever seen. 165 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.200 And after that just you have you if you get, if you get 166 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.279 your feelings tickled by a lot of cute stuff. That movie was just covered 167 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:30.799 in cute stuff, and the minions were obviously the things that stole the show. 168 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.080 So after that, I definitely kept up with the whole series, especially 169 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.480 after I had kids. So I'm definitely gonna be going and seeing Despicable Me 170 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.240 for this coming week. I'm sure probably on Tuesday, because you know, 171 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:46.240 AMC has that you know Tuesday special where because most people don't go to movies, 172 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.000 so let's just make it cheaper for everybody. And they also set up 173 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.120 like nice little family deals too. But number two, so as far as 174 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:58.240 family goes, family movies go in the box office inside out too. That 175 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.440 one right there, we were just making some small talk about how much money 176 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.679 that movie is making worldwide right now? What are the numbers on that? 177 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.480 So the total gross for that in its fourth weekend out is already five hundred 178 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.519 and thirty three million dollars, kind of inching slowly upwards, insane. It's 179 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.240 like, what the number one movie in Mexico of all time? Yeah, 180 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.279 and it's now the number one film all time in Mexico. It's like made 181 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.480 over a billion dollars. It's the number five animated film of all time. 182 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:35.080 Now it's it's making and raking in bank right now. So that's a movie 183 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:39.559 that Disney and Pixar are definitely happy to have in their slew and because they 184 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.840 got a lot of the stuff that's been coming out of Disney has been kind 185 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.559 of, you know, a little bit disappointing, especially when you look at 186 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.519 the Star Wars stuff and it's the more recent Marvel stuff. But Pixar, 187 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.799 you can't lose it. Seems like everything Pixar does is just gold. So 188 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:58.159 I'm happy I got to see it. And we were talking about the characters 189 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:05.679 on that one. I've ever seen a better representation visually of anxiety, and 190 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.440 that's coming from a licensed therapist, you guys. Oh, yeah, that's 191 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.240 a diagnosably good movie. Oh yeah, No, there's a moment where you 192 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.799 see anxiety kind of take control and go into overdrive, and I was like, 193 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:18.039 I had to point it out to my I have a fourteen year old 194 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.440 daughter. I'm like, that's a panic attack. That's a panic attack right 195 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.039 there, that's what it looks like. I've never seen somebody so happy to 196 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.399 point out a panic attack. Well, I'm really good at doing like visual 197 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.879 representations of different feelings like that. Like a good example of that is the 198 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:39.279 movie War Games. I always for people who tend to overthink things and they 199 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.919 really can't like find the actual answer, but they're just so stuck in those 200 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:46.399 deep thoughts and they're just recycling it. It's like that last scene from the 201 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.799 movie War Games where all where the computer is fighting against itself playing tic tac 202 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.759 toe, trying to figure out that the best way to not the best way 203 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:01.120 to win a battle that you can't win, that we're there are no winners, 204 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.200 is to not fight at all. So when you adapt that to anxiety, 205 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.759 it makes it so that you don't actually like dwell on the stuff. 206 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.879 You don't allow yourself to get spiraled into a lot of those anxious thoughts. 207 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:18.000 So my brain works with old school movies and kind of identifying different emotions and 208 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.600 different diagnoses that go with them. I've seen some memes actually about Inside Out 209 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.559 too, where it's like someone imagining that if they took sol Oft suddenly they 210 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.639 just a realistic hand comes into their brain and starts shaking the anxiety character around. 211 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:33.399 So, yeah, it'd be kind of funny to see that. And 212 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:37.879 Inside Out three perhaps I'm waiting for that. That's going to be great really 213 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.559 that they knocked it out of the park with toy story and they were able 214 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:43.960 to squeeze that for what it was worth, and I get the feeling this 215 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.320 is going to be another one of those toy story like things because a lot 216 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.320 of younger kids are growing up with this as their toy story exactly. So 217 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:54.080 that's really cool. Yeah. Next up in the box office, we have 218 00:15:54.159 --> 00:16:00.919 a Quiet Place Day one, which is now grossing almost that one hundred million 219 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.799 mark, pretty crazy for the what is this the third in the Quiet Place 220 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.919 series? Yeah, and that's another horror film that's been coming out really over 221 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.639 the last i'd say like a year and a half, horror movies have been 222 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:15.000 coming out thick and Heavy recently, and I have so much to say about 223 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.600 that as someone who recently just logged over one hundred horror movies into my letterbox. 224 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.080 By the way, Cherry Funfetti, Cherry with an eye Funfetti like the 225 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:26.399 cake. That's my letterbox. You want to see some of the worst reviews, 226 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.559 but some of the most accurate star ratings. Check out my letterbox, 227 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.200 guys. I like that, Yeah. And then actually following it up is 228 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.080 Maxine, another horror film from a twenty four that's the second in the I 229 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:42.240 Think X series with Mia goth our new favorite squeam queen of this era. 230 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.159 I would say she and Mikeah Monroe, who will talk a little bit more 231 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:51.639 about later in the upcoming movie Long Legs, are really killing it in the 232 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:56.360 horror game. One of my favorite actors in the horror genre is actually a 233 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.720 good friend of mine. I'm totally bias is Kyle Gollner. Really Yeah, 234 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.480 He's been in a bunch of stuff, as he was in Smile most recently. 235 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:06.240 I loved Smart Well. Actually, the first time I saw Smile, 236 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:11.240 I was laughing my on the theater because at first it was a comedy, 237 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:12.720 and then I rewatched it with my boyfriend who was like, hey, this 238 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:17.799 is actually a horror and so watching it next to somebody who's afraid that makes 239 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.920 you, you know, that makes you think it's actually scary. But it's 240 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.400 a great movie. Oh yeah, No, So one of these days I 241 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.319 might have we may have a horror theme show. I may reach out to 242 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:27.519 Gollner and see if he wants to come in on the show, because he's 243 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.039 as good a dude. He's one of my karaoke buddies. Oh wucky, 244 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:36.279 Yeah, No, karaoke is a big thing for me. But what was 245 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:37.920 the next one in line? Next up, we've got Bad Boys, Rider 246 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:42.319 or Die, another Sony movie that one's been getting that was going to be 247 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:47.480 like the big summer hit that everybody was hoping for a lot, like the 248 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.039 press machine behind Will Smith was really in full operation. It was supposed to 249 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.000 be the thing that kind of reintroduced him back to Hollywood after slapping Chris Rock 250 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.200 right, and it's doing pretty well, but it's not doing as well as 251 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:02.480 it looks like it was projected to do, which is kind of a bummer 252 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.440 for them. But right up after that, at number six, we have 253 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:10.720 Horizon and American Saga Chapter one from Warner Bros. That's coming in. Well, 254 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.400 it's second weekend and it's already at number six. It looked really good. 255 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:15.400 I mean, I like a Western. What do you think. I 256 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.440 haven't seen it, so I don't know. I don't know enough about it, 257 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.319 but it looks pretty good. My dad is looking at watching that one 258 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:25.240 soon because he's kind of addicted to Westerns, coming from the Eastern Bloc of 259 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.519 Europe from Poland. Violence. Wait, I got to hear his reviewer SEESU. 260 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.119 I want to. Oh yeah, I got to hear what he's got 261 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:36.519 to say about that movie, because that I already have the utmost respect for 262 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:38.880 your father. A brief interactions that I've had with you, where you describe 263 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.400 how he is, I'm like, I want to. I want to hear 264 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.000 what his reviews on some great war movies. Though we'll have him on the 265 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.839 show. I think we can have him on the show. Next up, 266 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.240 we've got number seven, Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot, 267 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:55.799 which I haven't heard of, actually, but I looked it up and it 268 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:59.480 looks pretty interesting. Some trot, possum trot. It sounds like an illness. 269 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.720 I don't want. Next up, we've got Kolkey twenty eight ninety eight 270 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:08.559 ad Now one looked amazing. It's a Bollywood film. I think it. 271 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.279 The VFX looked stunning when I checked out the trailer. I mean, it 272 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.279 looks really good. I'm glad it's hitting number eight. Number nine. We've 273 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:19.240 got The Bike Riders, which I've seen a ton about and I'm planning on 274 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.160 seeing this week. And after that, we've got Kinds of Kindness, which 275 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.079 I know Joe talked about last week. Is that right? Yeah, he 276 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.279 was very much into that movie and very much against the Bike Riders. So 277 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.640 there. Yeah, we got both of those movies tailing that are trailing in 278 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.960 at the top end of the top ten. And yeah, so coming up 279 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.119 next, we're going to be talking a little bit more about more random stuff 280 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.880 from Hollywood. We're going to see if we can dig into some legal news. 281 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.079 And also there's for all you union folk out here, there's going to 282 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.240 be if you are a camera operator, especially if you're a drone operator, 283 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.039 we got some news for you that you don't want to miss. Keeper right 284 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:00.519 here, this is Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. We'll be right back right 285 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:06.759 after traffic. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood, although we're not in Hollywood and 286 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:11.880 I'm not Joe Escalante, So how about that? Got the vegan substitute version 287 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.720 for you guys this week, the wish dot Com version of Joe Escalante Live 288 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.759 from Hollywood. I'm Sam, the producer on the show. I got assistant 289 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:22.279 producer Nikki here. Joe is live from Pamploa. Thanks Joe again for joining 290 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.559 us in the first segment. We really appreciated and giving us the rundown on 291 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:30.079 how the Running of the Bulls went for you. He seriously, that's like 292 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:32.759 living in the lap of luxury, you know what, Like he was saying 293 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:34.960 it usually. That reminded me of like how people line up at three in 294 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.720 the morning at like the Rose Parade to get the best seat possible. And 295 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:42.839 I'm like, I'm never gonna do that for something that I can watch live 296 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:48.799 on TV. I can't. And he found kind of like the comfortable middle. 297 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.640 I'm going out there, but I'm just gonna sit on my balcony in 298 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.400 this really really nice cush apartment and have a glass of wine. Dress up 299 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.319 like I went running like you know, cosplay like I'm one of the runners, 300 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.400 and then just sit there and watch people get trampled in front of me. 301 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.759 It's fantastic, exactly, And I mean the one problem with that is 302 00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:11.519 that he's in like a one stationary position for the running of the bulls, 303 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:15.880 and yesterday they ran apparently way too fast. Commentators at the Running of the 304 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:18.920 Bulls were like, Wow, these guys were kind of a little too speedy, 305 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.200 so maybe he caught them for a second. But if I've got, 306 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:25.240 you know, I've got overhead footage of these guys running, I don't really 307 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.279 want to go anywhere for it. Yeah, the only injury Joe had was 308 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:33.680 pulling a leg muscle by getting up too fast. Really enjoy that time out 309 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.599 there, Joe. That's like bucket list material stuff. I really like Joe's 310 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:41.759 life, no joke, I kind of want it. He does so many 311 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.640 amazing things, and I really it's like, just let me come with you 312 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.200 one of these days, Joe, just for surfing in the desert and he's 313 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.279 sitting for the running of the bulls. I fit in like some larger, 314 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:55.519 you know, bags that you can check in, and I'm willing to take 315 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:57.839 that route so we can make that happen exactly. Anyways, we're talking about 316 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:02.359 some of the movies that did really well in the box office last weekend. 317 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.480 But there's a movie we got coming out this week that we're all excited for, 318 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.079 and not just horror, because it's a horror film, and a lot 319 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:11.480 of horror film buffs are like, yes, another great horror film we got 320 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.559 to go and check out at the theaters. But this one also it hits 321 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.680 a cult following as well because it's gotten Nicholas Cage in it. So Nikki, 322 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.960 tell me more about folks. I'm excited about this one. I'm thrilled 323 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.160 about this movie for like several different reasons all converging into one. The movie 324 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:33.279 is Long Legs. The director Osgood Perkins is already a seasoned horror director. 325 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.640 He did what was it? It was Black Coat's Daughter, which I think 326 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.799 I saw about five years ago. It was a stunning, beautiful, crazy 327 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:45.000 horror film, very psychological, that also has Kieran and Chepka in it, 328 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.319 who was an amazing actress and you might know her as being the daughter from 329 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.960 mad Men. Yeah, she's grown up to have a really cool career and 330 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.920 that was a great star in Black Coat's Daughter. But in Long Legs, 331 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:02.279 Osgood Perkins is featuring another amazing scream queen. We mentioned Mia Goth in the 332 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:07.039 last segment, but this girl is Micha Monroe and she is an amazing horror 333 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.559 film actress. She was in It Follows, where she was just the standout 334 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:14.759 star. She was also in a film I talked about last week called Watcher, 335 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:17.480 where you know, she's a little bit more mature and it's also just 336 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:21.720 an amazing psychological thriller. So this is really where she shines as an actress 337 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:27.920 that paired with Nicholas Cage as the spooky, scary boogeyman, the maniacal energy 338 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:34.440 of Nicholas Cage taking over and I was just reading his character, like the 339 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:40.039 the bio on the character that he's playing, and he's playing an unwell rural 340 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.559 dollmaker who crafts life size effigies of his victims that inexplicably caused their families to 341 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.079 turn homicidal. Okay, yeah, that is the plot for a very cheesy 342 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:52.359 horror film and I'm already loving it. And that's the kind of movie that 343 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:57.680 you see Nicholas Cage take and turn into one of those cult classics. That's 344 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:02.839 the thing is like in we've been talking about recently, over like the last 345 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:07.640 maybe year and a half or so, horror films have been thriving in the 346 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.200 market right now, And you take Nicholas Cage and put them into a film 347 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:17.240 like this that has like the makings for a cult classic right there exactly. 348 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:22.680 And I think something happened maybe after that Sea Word pandemic that we had everyone's 349 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:26.839 kind of looking for that same sense of internal fear and uncertainty, and maybe 350 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.599 that's why everyone's loving these horror movies. But I just like getting stressed out 351 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:34.720 about somebody else's problems, you know. So horror movies are already just my 352 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:37.960 favorite genre of all time. But now it's got Nick Cage. She's gonna 353 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:42.720 be the craziest dude ever. Plus Michael Monroe, plus already so many horror 354 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:45.680 movie tropes like this doll making thing. I mean, I haven't seen a 355 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:51.359 movie about scary dolls since I think Hereditary, and that was already so promising. 356 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:52.720 Well, and a lot of times when they have dolls, they're like 357 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.359 voodoo dolls, where if like here's like this is you, and I'm gonna 358 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:00.559 poke it with a needle and light it on fire and you're gonna feel it 359 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:03.640 but this is much more psychological. You're not dealing with physical pain, which 360 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:07.000 is scary enough. You're dealing like somebody makes an effigy of you, and 361 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:11.480 now you lose psychological control and want to kill the people around you that you 362 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.599 care about. Yeah, and one thing too about Long Legs that I've been 363 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:18.519 looking forward to since seeing the trailer is that they're doing some really interesting stuff 364 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:22.960 with the filmmaking. Like they transition between a lot of four to three film 365 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.920 shots, maybe like on Bowlex. They also do that classic two to one 366 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.559 aspect ratio for like widescreen film, and then they also do some sixteen to 367 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.000 nine depending on like other shots that the characters are taking on cameras within the 368 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:38.640 film themselves, So you're switching between perspectives and also between the aspect ratio of 369 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.440 the film. That just watching the trailer, I got that very uneasy feeling 370 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:47.160 that good filmmaking is supposed to give you. I like that, And right 371 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.079 there you went into a lot of the technical stuff that a guy who's like 372 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:55.039 not in the film industry. I my connection to Hollywood is in the radio 373 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:59.839 field and stuff like that, and I occasionally like have clients that are you 374 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:06.839 know, either in associated with the industry maybe. But the amazing thing is 375 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:12.039 that you get that sense of like genuine horror, like you just from watching 376 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:17.000 the trailer. It builds the interest in wanting to see it just based on 377 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:22.039 how you can see it's being filmed, not just the plotline or the storyline, 378 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.359 because like you can take a storyline like The Exorcist that's a horrifying storyline 379 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.920 that you didn't necessarily need to have special camera angles or using different tricks to 380 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.839 make it look or to set that sense of tension. It just had that 381 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:40.119 sense of tension built in. When you can get filmmaking to have to just 382 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:44.559 like have the right kind of camera shots to build that sense of suspense and 383 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:47.400 build that sense of tention, it just adds to the mix. It makes 384 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:52.920 it so that feels it makes the experience of fear that much more visceral exactly. 385 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:56.599 And I think another horror movie that did this that was kind of in 386 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:02.279 that indie psycho psychological genre was Disappear Completely. It's a Mexican horror film that 387 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:06.799 one I have to really commend for the use of filmmaking techniques to increase the 388 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.359 horror but also just to make some really captivating shots, Like you can make 389 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:14.119 a scary movie by things coming out and bonking on the head and coming out 390 00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:17.200 from around corners or whatever. But like, if the filmmaking's good, it's 391 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:19.640 gonna make me extra excited. So I'm actually I've already bought my tickets. 392 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:23.960 I bought my tickets two weeks ago for the eleventh. It's coming out July 393 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.559 eleventh. I'm going to go see at the Santa Monica AMC. That's my 394 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:32.880 big plan. Nice. Nice, you were talking about horror films and like 395 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.559 suspense. Really that's the thing. A lot of times you don't need to 396 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:38.759 have the jump scares throughout like routinely in the movie to make a genuinely scary 397 00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:44.079 film. A great example of that is the movie Audition, the Japanese film 398 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:49.759 where the entire movie is a setup for the last ten minutes and builds such 399 00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:56.440 a sense of horror and the payoff it pays off, it's so good. 400 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.240 But yeah, that we got all these great horror films coming out and talked 401 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:04.279 about the way that camera works and the way that different shots established that mood 402 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:10.000 and that sense of drama and tension within a film. And here's here's a 403 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:14.319 silky smooth segue. Now for all you cameramen out there, the we were 404 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:19.960 talking about a little bit earlier, drone cameramen are looking to unionize now exactly. 405 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:26.160 So they actually have just been decidedly included in the Local six hundred section 406 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:32.799 of the IATSE union agreement. So one reason why I guess they weren't originally 407 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:38.839 included in this agreement is that they were getting pushed back against employers subcontracting these 408 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:44.640 these groups of drone operators. And some personal experience on my end, I 409 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.000 was a PA on set for Black Panther two when they were shooting it. 410 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:52.079 Also, oh yeah, it was all overnight shoots for about a week and 411 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.119 a half in Worcester, Massachusetts. They call it the Hollywoo since so many 412 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.640 movies are being filmed out there. It's like a full city and it's very 413 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.640 empty, like not a lot of people live there, so it's a perfect 414 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.559 film set. And I was stationed a couple nights out by the drone crew. 415 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.240 It was a very ragtag group of people. We had, you know, 416 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.279 just people from all walks of life, all different shapes and sizes and 417 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:18.079 personalities. It was kind of awesome. I felt like I was watching Ninja 418 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:21.920 Turtles do something nice. There was also a girl named April there, so 419 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:29.000 that maybe aided my association. But they were subcontracted out to do this shoot 420 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:32.599 for Marvel, and so I can see why maybe they would be seen as 421 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:40.799 like not included if they're not totally part of the process of Marvel's specific filmmaking. 422 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:44.279 But you do need these people who know how to operate a drone to 423 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:47.680 make those shots happen, So it would be pretty unfair for them to not 424 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:51.319 be included in those union discussions, you know. Yeah, well, and 425 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:56.599 we went through the strikes last year of the writer's strike and the actors strike 426 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.680 and all of that stuff, and now everybody with all of the money going 427 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.960 through all the different streaming services and a lot of the you know, there's 428 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.759 and now with the increased use of drone footage, you're gonna have to take 429 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:15.160 care of them too. So I definitely I'm on their side on this, 430 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.839 because if everybody else is going to have representation to make sure that they have 431 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.160 their needs financially and healthcare needs and all of that stuff taken care of, 432 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.039 they definitely need to be taken care of that because they are now responsible for 433 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.240 some of the most dynamic footage you see in film exactly, Like you're not 434 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.880 going to get a shot of the car exploding and the motorcycle jumping in midair 435 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:38.519 and somebody grabbing the special key out of the window all in one shot if 436 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:41.839 it's not on a drone. And I'm sorry, your gimbal's really cool, 437 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.440 but it's not gonna cut it for a lot of these shots. And you 438 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:49.480 know, we've we've seen stuff like this since twenty fourteen, when I think 439 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:55.359 it was any kind of drone being used in one of these future productions was 440 00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:59.599 allowed to use American airspace. So it's been ten full years of super cool 441 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.960 shots in Skyfall, Jurassic World, Game of Thrones, etc. Like you 442 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.720 watch a show that's highly produced, you've seen some drone footage. Absolutely. 443 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.480 Anyways, that was really cool conversation about Like really, I never thought that 444 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:18.440 we could get into that cool of a conversation about drone footage and like unionizing 445 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.000 and stuff like that, because I mean, I get it. This is 446 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.440 more or less a legal Hollywood show, a Hollywood law show with Joe on 447 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:30.359 here. And usually the most stirring thing that we get into is intellectual property. 448 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:32.880 So this is something where I'm like, Wow, we're actually getting into 449 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:36.200 some really cool stuff about Hollywood filmmaking stuff. So thank you so much for 450 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:40.960 getting into that with your especially your experience on set around the people who control 451 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:42.599 that stuff. That stuff's really cool. Yeah, that was super cool. 452 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:45.720 Anyways, we're gonna be right back. We're gonna get into some more stuff. 453 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:49.200 I got one more segment to go on, Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. 454 00:31:49.279 --> 00:32:16.240 Let's check the traffic. Joe as Cavan, Joe Escalante live from Hollywood, 455 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.519 actually live from Burbank. And yeah, neither one of us in this 456 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.279 room right now we're Joe Escalante, but we won't mention that very much more. 457 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:28.640 Joe is in Pamplona right now, enjoying a nice night of sleep after 458 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:35.359 watching bulls go stampeding through the streets of Pamplona. It's fantastic. So anyways, 459 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.519 I'm Sam, producer on the show, and we have assistant producer Nikki 460 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:43.559 in the room. Thank you so much for joining us right now. By 461 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.000 the way, also, thank you so much for all of you joining us 462 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:50.640 on your iHeartRadio app. Be sure to hit us up and like us and 463 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.519 give us thumbs up on all that stuff as well. All Right, so 464 00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:58.519 we actually we talked about a bunch of movies, movies we're excited about. 465 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:02.559 I actually saw a movie I thank you for streaming. I saw on Netflix, 466 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.880 the new Beverly Hills cop movie, The Eddie Murphy, the fourth of 467 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.400 the series. I'm guessing this is going to be the last of them. 468 00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:13.839 Everybody, they're super old, and that was kind of one of the jokes 469 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:17.079 in the movie. But it was really cool because it felt like watching one 470 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.279 of those old school eighties nineties action films. It felt like watching one of 471 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.880 those old Beverly Hills cop movies, and that was awesome. It was something 472 00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:30.200 I wish I could have seen on the big screen because of the level of 473 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:32.839 action that they had in the movie. But at the same time, it's 474 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:35.839 one of those where I was like, I sat down, I'm like, 475 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.720 I got nothing else to do right now, I'm gonna sit down and chill, 476 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:42.880 watch some Netflix by myself and actually watch a movie instead of netflixing and 477 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.880 chilling the way they usually do. And this was It was a fun movie. 478 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.000 It wasn't necessarily a great movie, but it was an absolute fun movie. 479 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.920 Highly recommended. I mean, yeah, you said you were really cracking 480 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:57.200 up at this one. Oh yeah. It didn't have like as many hilarious 481 00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.799 moments as the original like the first two did, but it had a couple 482 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.920 of moments that were just knock out funny that I could not stop laughing at. 483 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.079 But it was a good story, solid movie. Highly recommend it. 484 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:10.519 Go and catch it. And on that same vein of seeing movies that are 485 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:15.960 that feel a whole lot older than they might be but still really hold up, 486 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.599 I watched another Guys, Guess what a horror movie yet again this week. 487 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.159 I watched it on shutter It's where I stream a lot of the just 488 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.639 horror movies. I cut all the fat and just watch what I want. 489 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.199 It was called Triangle and it's from two thousand and seven. It's about this 490 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.880 group of people who are on a little yacht for a little vacation on the 491 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.559 water and they end up capsizing and getting on this cruise ship that's kind of 492 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:45.559 like a Bermuda Triangle situation. And the two thousand and seven bit I mentioned 493 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:52.519 because it has that same super exaggerated and overexposed color grading that I feel like 494 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.840 a lot of movies from that period have think maybe Twilight, but if it 495 00:34:54.920 --> 00:35:00.440 was like way too bright that I really appreciate about filmmaking, Like it's just 496 00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:06.320 super stylized and fun and also just a really dramatic plot line. So that's 497 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.199 something that I think they could only really do in that twenty ten period. 498 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:14.039 But loved that movie was it was a super fun and actually very spooky watch. 499 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.079 Nice. Yes, I'm glad you caught that one. So also you 500 00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:20.800 wanted to talk about The Boys the show? What's going on? Yeah? 501 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:23.760 So I only watch things where people get beat up and die. That seems 502 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.159 to be my favorite die quality programming. Yeah. Yeah. I like to 503 00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:31.199 pride myself on watching only really intellectual stuff and then I watch horror movies at 504 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:36.519 home and polish reality TV at the gym because I like to fill my brain 505 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:42.000 with crap. But one thing that I really have been enjoying for the last 506 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.960 couple of months has been The Boys. I caught all of the previous seasons 507 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.639 up until like season three, I think in the earlier months of this year, 508 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:53.280 and then I was highly anticipating this next season. But this season is 509 00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:58.119 hit or miss for a lot of people because I think something that The Boys 510 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:01.840 does really really well is is. It has really interesting plotlines for some of 511 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:06.760 its characters. A lot of fans of The Boys series that streams on Amazon 512 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:13.239 Prime will remember the A Train character having a really awesome arc surrounding his race 513 00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.199 and his family in season three, and that was a fantastic part of the 514 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:22.800 show. We kind of remember earlier seasons being amazing commentary about the corporations of 515 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:28.800 the United States, plus the superheroes being representations of maybe politicians and other famous 516 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:32.599 political figures. But in this season, people are starting to get a little 517 00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.280 bit annoyed with getting hit on the head over and over again about beliefs that 518 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:42.920 a lot of people share in terms of equality and everybody having a good time 519 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:45.400 together. But it's getting a little corny. They actually, on the most 520 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:50.960 recent episode that I just watched, made some joke about one of the characters 521 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:55.199 that I remember reading as a tweet in twenty twenty like two, So I 522 00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:59.760 was like, oh, God, are we really taking hints from Twitter? 523 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:02.760 There isn't our character writing now? Yeah, people are just getting I think 524 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:07.840 the characters are getting written a little bit out of character just to keep the 525 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:14.199 plot going. It's people are saying that it's also a little bit too shock 526 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:19.239 value for what it is, and anybody who's also fans of very bloody and 527 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.800 gory content as well as superheroes might know the show Invincible, which that to 528 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:28.559 me is actually it's worse in terms of it's the self shaded Gore is maybe 529 00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:31.719 worse to me than the super VFX stuff that you can get away with more 530 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:36.599 with animation, for sure. As far as like Gore and all of that 531 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.920 stuff. It seems like as far as like the messaging and the political points 532 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:44.000 are becoming a little bit more overt now where before they were kind of understated 533 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.440 and maybe people weren't quite paying attention despite the fact that everybody was telling them, 534 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:49.880 dude, this is what's exactly going on, And now all of a 535 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.719 sudden, it took four seasons for people say, wait, are they making 536 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:57.519 fun of us exactly. Yeah, there's one character named Firecracker who is the 537 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:02.840 like USA Gal also the Bierce's Theory show host, And I thought like, 538 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:07.000 oh, I didn't know that we could get this close to doing Alex Jones 539 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.559 on TV without saying his name or likeness, but yeah, here we are. 540 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:15.519 Yeah, it's just it's pretty overt. It's getting a little corny. 541 00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:20.960 Yeah, I'm ready for them to either wrap it up or you know, 542 00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:22.440 be as nuanced as they were the first couple of seasons. I thought it 543 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:25.880 was really interesting. Yeah, they made it so that a lot of people 544 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:30.679 didn't really realize that they were being lampooned. So if the writing continued to 545 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.039 make it like that, I could see where a lot of people would be 546 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.840 a lot happier and some people would be remaining in a lot of ignorant bliss. 547 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.880 Right. Also, we were taking a look around the news as far 548 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:45.599 as Hollywood goes, and there was a couple of stories that popped out. 549 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.920 We've been talking a lot about Diddy and a lot of his legal troubles. 550 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:53.039 He's getting me tooed for a lot of different, very good and valid reasons, 551 00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:59.760 and amid those legal troubles, he went whitewater rafting. I mean, 552 00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:01.920 if I was getting me too, I think the only thing that that would 553 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.320 call my nerves and make my legal team feel really glad to represent me would 554 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.039 be getting on a raft and practicing my paddling for when I eventually escape to 555 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.119 a foreign island. Yeah right, Yeah, it seems to be doing pretty 556 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:17.880 well. Find a place where they don't extradite and just you know, going 557 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.320 because they're keeping an eye on his planes. Like there's that big thing where 558 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.159 everybody thought he was like flying out of the country and they were tracking his 559 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:27.760 plane and then they realized he wasn't even on it, and he was like 560 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.440 getting his hair done somewhere in Brooklyn or something, and he was like, 561 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.480 what's going on everybody? And now it's all of a sudden, this is 562 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:38.159 where we're at. Is now he's whitewater rafting while everybody is like, dude, 563 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:42.599 we're canceling you. You're not allowed to go and do whitewater rafting. 564 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:47.719 That like, should people who are in that kind of legal situation be allowed 565 00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:53.159 to go white water rafting and smile and have fun? No, No, 566 00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:59.079 I don't think so. I mean the TMZ footage is I cannot even imagine 567 00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:02.159 being the paparad who had to get all the way out there with their camera 568 00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:07.000 equipment to catch the five second running of the bull, And by running of 569 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:12.800 the bull, I mean rafting of the diddy on that lake. I wouldn't 570 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.760 want to be anybody involved. Yeah, it's one of those moments where if 571 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.960 you're the paparazzi on that one you got to kind of like say, how 572 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:24.719 did I get here? Like all of my life's decisions and everything led me 573 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:30.000 to this point. I can't wait to sell this gifts worth of a length 574 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.079 of a video of someone rafting. Yeah. Yeah, anyways, one more 575 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:36.800 thing. One of my favorite actors of all time, Danny Trehill, got 576 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:39.199 into a fight on fourth of July after he got hit by a water balloon, 577 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:43.800 and that's just really funny. You don't want to piss off Machete just 578 00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:47.079 saying that's one guy you do not want to be on the wrong side. 579 00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:52.920 Yeah, it's only a response to press regarding that incident was I hate bullies, 580 00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:57.800 So it seems like he was trying to be someone standing up for justice 581 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:05.000 in the face of inequality in bullying water balloons. Right. Yeah, anyways, 582 00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:07.760 thank you so much Nikki for joining us. It was a lot of 583 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.960 fun. We're going to be right back after this big break. Make sure 584 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.840 that if you want to catch any more of the show, hit up our 585 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:22.039 iHeartRadio app page Live from Hollywood with Joe Escalante And by the way, Joe 586 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.679 will join us again next weekend from Pamplona, Spain again, so that'll be 587 00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:29.159 fun. We'll hear mar Yeah, I can't wait to hear how many people 588 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.360 got trampled during the week.