Joe Wescolante Life from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank, But actually
I'm coming to you today from Pamplona, Spain, at the San Fermin Festival,
otherwise known as the Running of the Bulls. But we have Nicki and
Sam in the studio and I'm just going to kind of hang out a little
bit in this first segment and tell you what's going on, give you the
news from Pamplona, and then Nicky, you and Sam just take it from
there, and I'm going to go to sleep because it is approaching. Well,
yeah, it's midnight over here. It's twelve fifteen and it's time to
go to bed. I thought they party late out in Spain. Yeah,
they get up at this time actually to go rave. Right, you're both
you're both correct, and they are. Like if I just opened my window,
you would hear what's going on. I'll take a quick step out the
window. You hear that. Oh my gosh, they're like a protest or
something going on. No, this is just constant until like four in the
morning, and then at about about the same time the cleanup crew starts cleaning
the streets. Because you know, this is Europe, so they pee anywhere,
and and then soarly, yeah, well they clean, they clean the
streets, and then the like the partiers kind of go away, and then
the new visitors come for the morning running the Bulls, which takes place at
eight a m. But if you want a good seat for the running of
the bull you have to get here at like three in the morning or so.
And so people are coming in to stake out their spots, and then
the party as the party is going to sleep. Now some of the partiers,
I think, just just transition from I'm partying and then oh, look,
I'm running with the bulls. And there's two kinds of groups of people.
Some are coming to watch, you know, like from behind the fence,
and some are coming in there to run actually get in there and run
with the bulls, which very very crazy. It's just I mean, the
best way to witness this is to go to YouTube and search Pamplona, you
know, bull running, and you'll see you can see this morning's already is
up there and it's going on for eight days. So the the and then
there's other people like me who figured out a way the rounds. Of course,
right, I pardon you brought your your training shoes of course, to
get up in there with the bulls, right, No, I have I'm
like a third option. I have a expensive apartment on the bull route with
a balcony, so we will. This morning was the first one when we
just it starts at eight and you can you kind of get out there on
the balcony about a quarter to eight, and you see everybody on the streets.
Everybody's wearing the same outfit. It's a white outfit with the red scarf
and a red sash. Everybody has the same outfit. We have it too.
And then we watch the bulls go by and it's just thrilling, and
then you go inside. Then we go back inside the apartment and watch the
replays of the running of the bulls. They just keep showing on this local
TV channel all day long. I'm sure there's different angles on different people getting
splattered by bulls, getting you know, you know, running on the street
and getting rampled by them and stuff like that. Have you ever run with
the bulls? No, I don't uh do that. I mean, in
my younger days, I used to be in the bull fighting world, in
the amateur world. And and then so after you've done that, like,
for real, you don't really have a desire to run with the bullski.
It's like a bucket list thing for people, but not for me. I
could watch it and then I to the bulls. You prefer to sit with
the bulls, well, I just yeah, I'll just look over the balcony,
and then after it's done, take a shower, take a nap,
and then you go out and buy your tickets for that evening's event, and
then get something to eat, take a nap, go to mass There's,
there's, there's. It's like a medieval festival in a way, kind of
like a Renaissance fair type of thing. There's always a band of some kind
marching from one place to another. They just and then people are following them.
They're all over the place. The streets are so packed they're barely passable.
You can get stuck inside, you can get stuck somewhere where you can't
get out for a long time. But it's all super fun and it goes
on for eight days. I will be here for eight days, and so
I appreciate you guys taking over for me while I'm gone. And other than
that, you know, the news is good. Nobody died today one guy
did get carried away in a stretcher, and they give the reports right after
the things done. That they have some two medics go on TV and give
a report because they're wired up to every paramedic on the whole route. The
whole route only takes three minutes for the bulls to go. There's hundreds of
people down there. I am watching a live stream from today's run of the
bulls, and I'm seeing that the bulls are a lot faster than the people.
Yeah, the run is sort of just a little jog until they duck
and cover for the sidelines, you know, But yeah, these bulls are
are a lot. I don't really know what I expected, but I guess
I kind of expected the people to run in front of the bulls for slightly
longer than they do end up doing. Well, that's it. You would
be a good commentator on this because the commentator said the same thing. They
said, these bulls were really fast today, that was their big comment.
So they were running super fast. Usually they get a little distracted and start
kind of turning around, or they might fall and then start going after people.
But today, I think kind of idea was a pon meal was the
name of it, and just certain type of bulls from a certain bloodline.
These ones are all related and they all decided we just go really fast,
and we're very focused, and we're going to get to that ring. And
so but most of the time there's a lot more action. So it'll be
a completely different batch of bulls tomorrow, and they will run in a completely
different manner. And there's also four cows they're following, so it's six bulls
and then there's four cows. The cows nowhere to go, and the bulls
follow them and and people get, they get injured, they get they you
know, they do. Most of it is from like a face plant on
the cobblestone and then just getting run trampled by people behind you, really right.
The best example I have of it was from the movie City Slickers back
from the nineties with Billy Crystal, where they were a group of friends were
out adventure seeking and every year they do something silly, and that year they
started in Pamplona. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's time. There's a
lot of people like that letter Ernest Hemingway types here, but mostly it's it's
Spaniards from the area, and there's a few visitors, a few Americans with
very few. I usually see Japanese people here, like when I'm watching it
on TV or at other festivals, but I haven't seen any Japanese tourists.
But you know, Japan is so cheap now that I think everything else is
expensive for them. They probably don't go anywhere. I'm planning another trip to
Japan right now actually as we speak, because of the economy out there.
Don't let's go a long way. Oh damn, really get on there.
Oh yeah, if you're playing a trip to Japan, now's the time.
Now is the time. And things here are not cheap, not expensive,
about the same as they are back home. But there's a lot of music.
There's also a music festival. Some of the bands that don't pay pera
is one of the bands that played at Coachella, and they're playing here,
and then Mad Professor Reggae guy playing here, and then the rest of them.
Most of them I see are like basque artists that speak that we're Basque
language, and so there's like, you know, I would say the basque
Taylor Swift played last night. She put on a show. It was identical
to a Taylor Swift show. Like little guitar, vocals the piano, and
then she was on O the talk shows. Her name was Zato and that
was interesting. But I think we're I think about ready to go for the
traffic. So I think I'm going to leave you guys to your Hollywood stuff,
and I can't wait to hear what you guys do. All right,
stay safe out there, avoid getting trampled. And next week, tell us
if there's any truth to the rumors that the cows are on performance enhancers,
because those it looks like they're running a little too fast. It might be
that might be the scoopa of the week. I'll check into that. Yeah,
let us know if it rains in those planes. I'm excited to hear
back. Okay, I will, thanks guys. Joe Escalante live from Hollywood,
Not really Hollywood. We're actually in Burbank right now, across the street
from a Wiener Schnitzel that sells beer. I'm going to go there afterwards and
get myself a Wiener brow. By the way, you can obviously tell I
am not Joe Escalante. I'm Sam, the engineer and producer on the show
with me right now. We got associate producer NICKI joining in. Joe,
thank you so much for joining us live from Pamplona, Spain. It was
like super late for him, so he was ready to crash out, but
he wanted to spend a couple of minutes with us and give us the rundown
on how the Running of the Bulls was going out in Pamplona. NICKI,
first off, you had you ever seen any footage from the running of the
bulls, Not until I just looked up the live stream from yesterday's running of
those bulls, and my god, they were so fast. I kind of
hoped that the people would maybe keep up, but they were taking a quick
jog for about two minutes in front of those bulls before just running off into
the corner. I was like, guys, come on, get a scooter
or something. You got to keep up with these bulls. Yeah. Now,
if you every year, there's got to be at least one or two
fatalities at least just from people getting trampled by either the bulls or other people.
But yeah, I was talking about in the last segment. Great movie.
If you ever want to see kind of like the lore and the history
of it. Very quickly is City Slickers with Billy Crystal from the nineties.
That's a great movie that really the first three minutes of the movie is them
and the first thing you see is them just running as fast as they can
from the bulls. It's it's intense, it's a lot of tradition and history
behind it, and it sounds like exactly something Joe Escalante would be at.
So I'm glad he's having a good time, and we're going to definitely make
sure that we batten down the hatches and make sure the ship is covered for
him while he's out there. But right now, this is live from Hollywood,
not live from Pamplona. So what's more associated with Hollywood than movies?
And we're going to take a look at the box office right now, Nikki,
what are the box office top ten? Right now? What are the
movies that everybody's been going to see this week? Well, yeah, right
right this moment and it's first weekend out top of the box office is Despicable
me for But what is it total gross of? Like already one hundred and
pretty much a quarter million dollars. I know some people who are my age,
like you know, between their twenty second and twenty fifth birthday, all
going out this weekend to see it to party. Oh yeah, I remember
when it first came out. I was like eight or something, still a
baby, so the nostalgia just keeping it alive for sure. I'm an old
older guy. I'm in my forties, and I remember when the first one
came out and it was one of the most adorable animated films I'd ever seen.
And after that just you have you if you get, if you get
your feelings tickled by a lot of cute stuff. That movie was just covered
in cute stuff, and the minions were obviously the things that stole the show.
So after that, I definitely kept up with the whole series, especially
after I had kids. So I'm definitely gonna be going and seeing Despicable Me
for this coming week. I'm sure probably on Tuesday, because you know,
AMC has that you know Tuesday special where because most people don't go to movies,
so let's just make it cheaper for everybody. And they also set up
like nice little family deals too. But number two, so as far as
family goes, family movies go in the box office inside out too. That
one right there, we were just making some small talk about how much money
that movie is making worldwide right now? What are the numbers on that?
So the total gross for that in its fourth weekend out is already five hundred
and thirty three million dollars, kind of inching slowly upwards, insane. It's
like, what the number one movie in Mexico of all time? Yeah,
and it's now the number one film all time in Mexico. It's like made
over a billion dollars. It's the number five animated film of all time.
Now it's it's making and raking in bank right now. So that's a movie
that Disney and Pixar are definitely happy to have in their slew and because they
got a lot of the stuff that's been coming out of Disney has been kind
of, you know, a little bit disappointing, especially when you look at
the Star Wars stuff and it's the more recent Marvel stuff. But Pixar,
you can't lose it. Seems like everything Pixar does is just gold. So
I'm happy I got to see it. And we were talking about the characters
on that one. I've ever seen a better representation visually of anxiety, and
that's coming from a licensed therapist, you guys. Oh, yeah, that's
a diagnosably good movie. Oh yeah, No, there's a moment where you
see anxiety kind of take control and go into overdrive, and I was like,
I had to point it out to my I have a fourteen year old
daughter. I'm like, that's a panic attack. That's a panic attack right
there, that's what it looks like. I've never seen somebody so happy to
point out a panic attack. Well, I'm really good at doing like visual
representations of different feelings like that. Like a good example of that is the
movie War Games. I always for people who tend to overthink things and they
really can't like find the actual answer, but they're just so stuck in those
deep thoughts and they're just recycling it. It's like that last scene from the
movie War Games where all where the computer is fighting against itself playing tic tac
toe, trying to figure out that the best way to not the best way
to win a battle that you can't win, that we're there are no winners,
is to not fight at all. So when you adapt that to anxiety,
it makes it so that you don't actually like dwell on the stuff.
You don't allow yourself to get spiraled into a lot of those anxious thoughts.
So my brain works with old school movies and kind of identifying different emotions and
different diagnoses that go with them. I've seen some memes actually about Inside Out
too, where it's like someone imagining that if they took sol Oft suddenly they
just a realistic hand comes into their brain and starts shaking the anxiety character around.
So, yeah, it'd be kind of funny to see that. And
Inside Out three perhaps I'm waiting for that. That's going to be great really
that they knocked it out of the park with toy story and they were able
to squeeze that for what it was worth, and I get the feeling this
is going to be another one of those toy story like things because a lot
of younger kids are growing up with this as their toy story exactly. So
that's really cool. Yeah. Next up in the box office, we have
a Quiet Place Day one, which is now grossing almost that one hundred million
mark, pretty crazy for the what is this the third in the Quiet Place
series? Yeah, and that's another horror film that's been coming out really over
the last i'd say like a year and a half, horror movies have been
coming out thick and Heavy recently, and I have so much to say about
that as someone who recently just logged over one hundred horror movies into my letterbox.
By the way, Cherry Funfetti, Cherry with an eye Funfetti like the
cake. That's my letterbox. You want to see some of the worst reviews,
but some of the most accurate star ratings. Check out my letterbox,
guys. I like that, Yeah. And then actually following it up is
Maxine, another horror film from a twenty four that's the second in the I
Think X series with Mia goth our new favorite squeam queen of this era.
I would say she and Mikeah Monroe, who will talk a little bit more
about later in the upcoming movie Long Legs, are really killing it in the
horror game. One of my favorite actors in the horror genre is actually a
good friend of mine. I'm totally bias is Kyle Gollner. Really Yeah,
He's been in a bunch of stuff, as he was in Smile most recently.
I loved Smart Well. Actually, the first time I saw Smile,
I was laughing my on the theater because at first it was a comedy,
and then I rewatched it with my boyfriend who was like, hey, this
is actually a horror and so watching it next to somebody who's afraid that makes
you, you know, that makes you think it's actually scary. But it's
a great movie. Oh yeah, No, So one of these days I
might have we may have a horror theme show. I may reach out to
Gollner and see if he wants to come in on the show, because he's
as good a dude. He's one of my karaoke buddies. Oh wucky,
Yeah, No, karaoke is a big thing for me. But what was
the next one in line? Next up, we've got Bad Boys, Rider
or Die, another Sony movie that one's been getting that was going to be
like the big summer hit that everybody was hoping for a lot, like the
press machine behind Will Smith was really in full operation. It was supposed to
be the thing that kind of reintroduced him back to Hollywood after slapping Chris Rock
right, and it's doing pretty well, but it's not doing as well as
it looks like it was projected to do, which is kind of a bummer
for them. But right up after that, at number six, we have
Horizon and American Saga Chapter one from Warner Bros. That's coming in. Well,
it's second weekend and it's already at number six. It looked really good.
I mean, I like a Western. What do you think. I
haven't seen it, so I don't know. I don't know enough about it,
but it looks pretty good. My dad is looking at watching that one
soon because he's kind of addicted to Westerns, coming from the Eastern Bloc of
Europe from Poland. Violence. Wait, I got to hear his reviewer SEESU.
I want to. Oh yeah, I got to hear what he's got
to say about that movie, because that I already have the utmost respect for
your father. A brief interactions that I've had with you, where you describe
how he is, I'm like, I want to. I want to hear
what his reviews on some great war movies. Though we'll have him on the
show. I think we can have him on the show. Next up,
we've got number seven, Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot,
which I haven't heard of, actually, but I looked it up and it
looks pretty interesting. Some trot, possum trot. It sounds like an illness.
I don't want. Next up, we've got Kolkey twenty eight ninety eight
ad Now one looked amazing. It's a Bollywood film. I think it.
The VFX looked stunning when I checked out the trailer. I mean, it
looks really good. I'm glad it's hitting number eight. Number nine. We've
got The Bike Riders, which I've seen a ton about and I'm planning on
seeing this week. And after that, we've got Kinds of Kindness, which
I know Joe talked about last week. Is that right? Yeah, he
was very much into that movie and very much against the Bike Riders. So
there. Yeah, we got both of those movies tailing that are trailing in
at the top end of the top ten. And yeah, so coming up
next, we're going to be talking a little bit more about more random stuff
from Hollywood. We're going to see if we can dig into some legal news.
And also there's for all you union folk out here, there's going to
be if you are a camera operator, especially if you're a drone operator,
we got some news for you that you don't want to miss. Keeper right
here, this is Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. We'll be right back right
after traffic. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood, although we're not in Hollywood and
I'm not Joe Escalante, So how about that? Got the vegan substitute version
for you guys this week, the wish dot Com version of Joe Escalante Live
from Hollywood. I'm Sam, the producer on the show. I got assistant
producer Nikki here. Joe is live from Pamploa. Thanks Joe again for joining
us in the first segment. We really appreciated and giving us the rundown on
how the Running of the Bulls went for you. He seriously, that's like
living in the lap of luxury, you know what, Like he was saying
it usually. That reminded me of like how people line up at three in
the morning at like the Rose Parade to get the best seat possible. And
I'm like, I'm never gonna do that for something that I can watch live
on TV. I can't. And he found kind of like the comfortable middle.
I'm going out there, but I'm just gonna sit on my balcony in
this really really nice cush apartment and have a glass of wine. Dress up
like I went running like you know, cosplay like I'm one of the runners,
and then just sit there and watch people get trampled in front of me.
It's fantastic, exactly, And I mean the one problem with that is
that he's in like a one stationary position for the running of the bulls,
and yesterday they ran apparently way too fast. Commentators at the Running of the
Bulls were like, Wow, these guys were kind of a little too speedy,
so maybe he caught them for a second. But if I've got,
you know, I've got overhead footage of these guys running, I don't really
want to go anywhere for it. Yeah, the only injury Joe had was
pulling a leg muscle by getting up too fast. Really enjoy that time out
there, Joe. That's like bucket list material stuff. I really like Joe's
life, no joke, I kind of want it. He does so many
amazing things, and I really it's like, just let me come with you
one of these days, Joe, just for surfing in the desert and he's
sitting for the running of the bulls. I fit in like some larger,
you know, bags that you can check in, and I'm willing to take
that route so we can make that happen exactly. Anyways, we're talking about
some of the movies that did really well in the box office last weekend.
But there's a movie we got coming out this week that we're all excited for,
and not just horror, because it's a horror film, and a lot
of horror film buffs are like, yes, another great horror film we got
to go and check out at the theaters. But this one also it hits
a cult following as well because it's gotten Nicholas Cage in it. So Nikki,
tell me more about folks. I'm excited about this one. I'm thrilled
about this movie for like several different reasons all converging into one. The movie
is Long Legs. The director Osgood Perkins is already a seasoned horror director.
He did what was it? It was Black Coat's Daughter, which I think
I saw about five years ago. It was a stunning, beautiful, crazy
horror film, very psychological, that also has Kieran and Chepka in it,
who was an amazing actress and you might know her as being the daughter from
mad Men. Yeah, she's grown up to have a really cool career and
that was a great star in Black Coat's Daughter. But in Long Legs,
Osgood Perkins is featuring another amazing scream queen. We mentioned Mia Goth in the
last segment, but this girl is Micha Monroe and she is an amazing horror
film actress. She was in It Follows, where she was just the standout
star. She was also in a film I talked about last week called Watcher,
where you know, she's a little bit more mature and it's also just
an amazing psychological thriller. So this is really where she shines as an actress
that paired with Nicholas Cage as the spooky, scary boogeyman, the maniacal energy
of Nicholas Cage taking over and I was just reading his character, like the
the bio on the character that he's playing, and he's playing an unwell rural
dollmaker who crafts life size effigies of his victims that inexplicably caused their families to
turn homicidal. Okay, yeah, that is the plot for a very cheesy
horror film and I'm already loving it. And that's the kind of movie that
you see Nicholas Cage take and turn into one of those cult classics. That's
the thing is like in we've been talking about recently, over like the last
maybe year and a half or so, horror films have been thriving in the
market right now, And you take Nicholas Cage and put them into a film
like this that has like the makings for a cult classic right there exactly.
And I think something happened maybe after that Sea Word pandemic that we had everyone's
kind of looking for that same sense of internal fear and uncertainty, and maybe
that's why everyone's loving these horror movies. But I just like getting stressed out
about somebody else's problems, you know. So horror movies are already just my
favorite genre of all time. But now it's got Nick Cage. She's gonna
be the craziest dude ever. Plus Michael Monroe, plus already so many horror
movie tropes like this doll making thing. I mean, I haven't seen a
movie about scary dolls since I think Hereditary, and that was already so promising.
Well, and a lot of times when they have dolls, they're like
voodoo dolls, where if like here's like this is you, and I'm gonna
poke it with a needle and light it on fire and you're gonna feel it
but this is much more psychological. You're not dealing with physical pain, which
is scary enough. You're dealing like somebody makes an effigy of you, and
now you lose psychological control and want to kill the people around you that you
care about. Yeah, and one thing too about Long Legs that I've been
looking forward to since seeing the trailer is that they're doing some really interesting stuff
with the filmmaking. Like they transition between a lot of four to three film
shots, maybe like on Bowlex. They also do that classic two to one
aspect ratio for like widescreen film, and then they also do some sixteen to
nine depending on like other shots that the characters are taking on cameras within the
film themselves, So you're switching between perspectives and also between the aspect ratio of
the film. That just watching the trailer, I got that very uneasy feeling
that good filmmaking is supposed to give you. I like that, And right
there you went into a lot of the technical stuff that a guy who's like
not in the film industry. I my connection to Hollywood is in the radio
field and stuff like that, and I occasionally like have clients that are you
know, either in associated with the industry maybe. But the amazing thing is
that you get that sense of like genuine horror, like you just from watching
the trailer. It builds the interest in wanting to see it just based on
how you can see it's being filmed, not just the plotline or the storyline,
because like you can take a storyline like The Exorcist that's a horrifying storyline
that you didn't necessarily need to have special camera angles or using different tricks to
make it look or to set that sense of tension. It just had that
sense of tension built in. When you can get filmmaking to have to just
like have the right kind of camera shots to build that sense of suspense and
build that sense of tention, it just adds to the mix. It makes
it so that feels it makes the experience of fear that much more visceral exactly.
And I think another horror movie that did this that was kind of in
that indie psycho psychological genre was Disappear Completely. It's a Mexican horror film that
one I have to really commend for the use of filmmaking techniques to increase the
horror but also just to make some really captivating shots, Like you can make
a scary movie by things coming out and bonking on the head and coming out
from around corners or whatever. But like, if the filmmaking's good, it's
gonna make me extra excited. So I'm actually I've already bought my tickets.
I bought my tickets two weeks ago for the eleventh. It's coming out July
eleventh. I'm going to go see at the Santa Monica AMC. That's my
big plan. Nice. Nice, you were talking about horror films and like
suspense. Really that's the thing. A lot of times you don't need to
have the jump scares throughout like routinely in the movie to make a genuinely scary
film. A great example of that is the movie Audition, the Japanese film
where the entire movie is a setup for the last ten minutes and builds such
a sense of horror and the payoff it pays off, it's so good.
But yeah, that we got all these great horror films coming out and talked
about the way that camera works and the way that different shots established that mood
and that sense of drama and tension within a film. And here's here's a
silky smooth segue. Now for all you cameramen out there, the we were
talking about a little bit earlier, drone cameramen are looking to unionize now exactly.
So they actually have just been decidedly included in the Local six hundred section
of the IATSE union agreement. So one reason why I guess they weren't originally
included in this agreement is that they were getting pushed back against employers subcontracting these
these groups of drone operators. And some personal experience on my end, I
was a PA on set for Black Panther two when they were shooting it.
Also, oh yeah, it was all overnight shoots for about a week and
a half in Worcester, Massachusetts. They call it the Hollywoo since so many
movies are being filmed out there. It's like a full city and it's very
empty, like not a lot of people live there, so it's a perfect
film set. And I was stationed a couple nights out by the drone crew.
It was a very ragtag group of people. We had, you know,
just people from all walks of life, all different shapes and sizes and
personalities. It was kind of awesome. I felt like I was watching Ninja
Turtles do something nice. There was also a girl named April there, so
that maybe aided my association. But they were subcontracted out to do this shoot
for Marvel, and so I can see why maybe they would be seen as
like not included if they're not totally part of the process of Marvel's specific filmmaking.
But you do need these people who know how to operate a drone to
make those shots happen, So it would be pretty unfair for them to not
be included in those union discussions, you know. Yeah, well, and
we went through the strikes last year of the writer's strike and the actors strike
and all of that stuff, and now everybody with all of the money going
through all the different streaming services and a lot of the you know, there's
and now with the increased use of drone footage, you're gonna have to take
care of them too. So I definitely I'm on their side on this,
because if everybody else is going to have representation to make sure that they have
their needs financially and healthcare needs and all of that stuff taken care of,
they definitely need to be taken care of that because they are now responsible for
some of the most dynamic footage you see in film exactly, Like you're not
going to get a shot of the car exploding and the motorcycle jumping in midair
and somebody grabbing the special key out of the window all in one shot if
it's not on a drone. And I'm sorry, your gimbal's really cool,
but it's not gonna cut it for a lot of these shots. And you
know, we've we've seen stuff like this since twenty fourteen, when I think
it was any kind of drone being used in one of these future productions was
allowed to use American airspace. So it's been ten full years of super cool
shots in Skyfall, Jurassic World, Game of Thrones, etc. Like you
watch a show that's highly produced, you've seen some drone footage. Absolutely.
Anyways, that was really cool conversation about Like really, I never thought that
we could get into that cool of a conversation about drone footage and like unionizing
and stuff like that, because I mean, I get it. This is
more or less a legal Hollywood show, a Hollywood law show with Joe on
here. And usually the most stirring thing that we get into is intellectual property.
So this is something where I'm like, Wow, we're actually getting into
some really cool stuff about Hollywood filmmaking stuff. So thank you so much for
getting into that with your especially your experience on set around the people who control
that stuff. That stuff's really cool. Yeah, that was super cool.
Anyways, we're gonna be right back. We're gonna get into some more stuff.
I got one more segment to go on, Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood.
Let's check the traffic. Joe as Cavan, Joe Escalante live from Hollywood,
actually live from Burbank. And yeah, neither one of us in this
room right now we're Joe Escalante, but we won't mention that very much more.
Joe is in Pamplona right now, enjoying a nice night of sleep after
watching bulls go stampeding through the streets of Pamplona. It's fantastic. So anyways,
I'm Sam, producer on the show, and we have assistant producer Nikki
in the room. Thank you so much for joining us right now. By
the way, also, thank you so much for all of you joining us
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give us thumbs up on all that stuff as well. All Right, so
we actually we talked about a bunch of movies, movies we're excited about.
I actually saw a movie I thank you for streaming. I saw on Netflix,
the new Beverly Hills cop movie, The Eddie Murphy, the fourth of
the series. I'm guessing this is going to be the last of them.
Everybody, they're super old, and that was kind of one of the jokes
in the movie. But it was really cool because it felt like watching one
of those old school eighties nineties action films. It felt like watching one of
those old Beverly Hills cop movies, and that was awesome. It was something
I wish I could have seen on the big screen because of the level of
action that they had in the movie. But at the same time, it's
one of those where I was like, I sat down, I'm like,
I got nothing else to do right now, I'm gonna sit down and chill,
watch some Netflix by myself and actually watch a movie instead of netflixing and
chilling the way they usually do. And this was It was a fun movie.
It wasn't necessarily a great movie, but it was an absolute fun movie.
Highly recommended. I mean, yeah, you said you were really cracking
up at this one. Oh yeah. It didn't have like as many hilarious
moments as the original like the first two did, but it had a couple
of moments that were just knock out funny that I could not stop laughing at.
But it was a good story, solid movie. Highly recommend it.
Go and catch it. And on that same vein of seeing movies that are
that feel a whole lot older than they might be but still really hold up,
I watched another Guys, Guess what a horror movie yet again this week.
I watched it on shutter It's where I stream a lot of the just
horror movies. I cut all the fat and just watch what I want.
It was called Triangle and it's from two thousand and seven. It's about this
group of people who are on a little yacht for a little vacation on the
water and they end up capsizing and getting on this cruise ship that's kind of
like a Bermuda Triangle situation. And the two thousand and seven bit I mentioned
because it has that same super exaggerated and overexposed color grading that I feel like
a lot of movies from that period have think maybe Twilight, but if it
was like way too bright that I really appreciate about filmmaking, Like it's just
super stylized and fun and also just a really dramatic plot line. So that's
something that I think they could only really do in that twenty ten period.
But loved that movie was it was a super fun and actually very spooky watch.
Nice. Yes, I'm glad you caught that one. So also you
wanted to talk about The Boys the show? What's going on? Yeah?
So I only watch things where people get beat up and die. That seems
to be my favorite die quality programming. Yeah. Yeah. I like to
pride myself on watching only really intellectual stuff and then I watch horror movies at
home and polish reality TV at the gym because I like to fill my brain
with crap. But one thing that I really have been enjoying for the last
couple of months has been The Boys. I caught all of the previous seasons
up until like season three, I think in the earlier months of this year,
and then I was highly anticipating this next season. But this season is
hit or miss for a lot of people because I think something that The Boys
does really really well is is. It has really interesting plotlines for some of
its characters. A lot of fans of The Boys series that streams on Amazon
Prime will remember the A Train character having a really awesome arc surrounding his race
and his family in season three, and that was a fantastic part of the
show. We kind of remember earlier seasons being amazing commentary about the corporations of
the United States, plus the superheroes being representations of maybe politicians and other famous
political figures. But in this season, people are starting to get a little
bit annoyed with getting hit on the head over and over again about beliefs that
a lot of people share in terms of equality and everybody having a good time
together. But it's getting a little corny. They actually, on the most
recent episode that I just watched, made some joke about one of the characters
that I remember reading as a tweet in twenty twenty like two, So I
was like, oh, God, are we really taking hints from Twitter?
There isn't our character writing now? Yeah, people are just getting I think
the characters are getting written a little bit out of character just to keep the
plot going. It's people are saying that it's also a little bit too shock
value for what it is, and anybody who's also fans of very bloody and
gory content as well as superheroes might know the show Invincible, which that to
me is actually it's worse in terms of it's the self shaded Gore is maybe
worse to me than the super VFX stuff that you can get away with more
with animation, for sure. As far as like Gore and all of that
stuff. It seems like as far as like the messaging and the political points
are becoming a little bit more overt now where before they were kind of understated
and maybe people weren't quite paying attention despite the fact that everybody was telling them,
dude, this is what's exactly going on, And now all of a
sudden, it took four seasons for people say, wait, are they making
fun of us exactly. Yeah, there's one character named Firecracker who is the
like USA Gal also the Bierce's Theory show host, And I thought like,
oh, I didn't know that we could get this close to doing Alex Jones
on TV without saying his name or likeness, but yeah, here we are.
Yeah, it's just it's pretty overt. It's getting a little corny.
Yeah, I'm ready for them to either wrap it up or you know,
be as nuanced as they were the first couple of seasons. I thought it
was really interesting. Yeah, they made it so that a lot of people
didn't really realize that they were being lampooned. So if the writing continued to
make it like that, I could see where a lot of people would be
a lot happier and some people would be remaining in a lot of ignorant bliss.
Right. Also, we were taking a look around the news as far
as Hollywood goes, and there was a couple of stories that popped out.
We've been talking a lot about Diddy and a lot of his legal troubles.
He's getting me tooed for a lot of different, very good and valid reasons,
and amid those legal troubles, he went whitewater rafting. I mean,
if I was getting me too, I think the only thing that that would
call my nerves and make my legal team feel really glad to represent me would
be getting on a raft and practicing my paddling for when I eventually escape to
a foreign island. Yeah right, Yeah, it seems to be doing pretty
well. Find a place where they don't extradite and just you know, going
because they're keeping an eye on his planes. Like there's that big thing where
everybody thought he was like flying out of the country and they were tracking his
plane and then they realized he wasn't even on it, and he was like
getting his hair done somewhere in Brooklyn or something, and he was like,
what's going on everybody? And now it's all of a sudden, this is
where we're at. Is now he's whitewater rafting while everybody is like, dude,
we're canceling you. You're not allowed to go and do whitewater rafting.
That like, should people who are in that kind of legal situation be allowed
to go white water rafting and smile and have fun? No, No,
I don't think so. I mean the TMZ footage is I cannot even imagine
being the paparad who had to get all the way out there with their camera
equipment to catch the five second running of the bull, And by running of
the bull, I mean rafting of the diddy on that lake. I wouldn't
want to be anybody involved. Yeah, it's one of those moments where if
you're the paparazzi on that one you got to kind of like say, how
did I get here? Like all of my life's decisions and everything led me
to this point. I can't wait to sell this gifts worth of a length
of a video of someone rafting. Yeah. Yeah, anyways, one more
thing. One of my favorite actors of all time, Danny Trehill, got
into a fight on fourth of July after he got hit by a water balloon,
and that's just really funny. You don't want to piss off Machete just
saying that's one guy you do not want to be on the wrong side.
Yeah, it's only a response to press regarding that incident was I hate bullies,
So it seems like he was trying to be someone standing up for justice
in the face of inequality in bullying water balloons. Right. Yeah, anyways,
thank you so much Nikki for joining us. It was a lot of
fun. We're going to be right back after this big break. Make sure
that if you want to catch any more of the show, hit up our
iHeartRadio app page Live from Hollywood with Joe Escalante And by the way, Joe
will join us again next weekend from Pamplona, Spain again, so that'll be
fun. We'll hear mar Yeah, I can't wait to hear how many people
got trampled during the week.