WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.199 Okay, Live from Hollywood. It's Joe's Balante by Hollywood Demean Burbank across the 2 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:16.320 street from Wiener Snitzel that serves beer. And this is the podcast edition for 3 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:23.399 October twenty second, twenty twenty three. We were preempted by the NFL game 4 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:29.679 today on KiB so Sam is here and we're going to do a podcast version 5 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:35.359 of the show, which means straight through without commercials, unless they drop in 6 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:39.439 commercials at iHeartMedia, which they've been known to do. Sam, can you 7 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.359 hear me? All right? All right? Loud and clear? All right. 8 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:48.359 So let's go to the movies. There was a big release today, 9 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:53.000 probably the most anticipated movie of the year. I would have to say, 10 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:58.880 I don't know if you would agree with that, Sam, but under Killers 11 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.679 of the Flower Moon. I keep wanting to call it under something because the 12 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:10.040 word moon is in the title Killers of the Flower Moon. It was the 13 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:14.959 title of a book and now it's a movie and the title is a little 14 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.560 bit what did you call that title like that? Pretentious? I don't know. 15 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:30.560 It's a artistic It's a artistic, artistic, subtle indirect Taylor Swift movie 16 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.359 number one at the box office. Sam, it just destroyed this Scorsese picture 17 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:44.200 Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. A legend, 18 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:49.159 a living legend, Sam, But Taylor Swift wiped the floor with it. 19 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:55.239 It is even though Taylor Swift movie is down sixty seven percent from last week, 20 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:02.120 the new movie Killers of the Flower Moon didn't even come close. Number 21 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:08.840 three Exorcist Believer, which I still haven't seen. Number four Paw Patrol you 22 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:15.240 have that peg for an oscar and number five Nightmare Before Christmas, of course, 23 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:20.599 and six Saw x seven The Creator, which I think is the best 24 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.680 movie in this top ten. Number eight The Haunting of Venice. You saw 25 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:28.159 that you liked it, It's pretty good. I don't know a creator. 26 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:37.960 I would say great, fantastic. Number nine is none none two and number 27 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:43.879 ten Hocus Pocus, so I refused to see. Okay, so well, 28 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.000 what happens? Sam? I mean, this is the biggest most anticipated movie 29 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.719 of the year and it can't even beat Taylor Swift. What's going on? 30 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.680 It? Did never underestimate the power of the Swifties. Man, Yeah, 31 00:02:53.800 --> 00:03:00.400 twenty three million at the box office. That can't be what they had in 32 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:10.000 mind. The Swifties no, that the or the under the moonfolk, the 33 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:14.039 people the Moon for the Moonies, it's called that. Yeah, we can 34 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.639 call them the Moonies. I guess, yeah, I think they. I'm 35 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:23.800 guessing they didn't think that, uh, Taylor Swift's film was going to be 36 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.759 as powerful as it is. But also it's a completely different audience. Swifties 37 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.400 are a bunch of like, you know, everything from little girls to preteen 38 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:37.159 to some adults, versus a very you know, like refined audience for this 39 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:47.000 film with Scorsese. Well, and actually Scorsese's films don't really generate a lot 40 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:54.280 of box office up front. They're not Disney movies. They're not you know, 41 00:03:54.360 --> 00:04:01.639 Pixar things. They're they're they're not Marvel or DC. They're they're not 42 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.360 art house, but they're you know, they're made for like, you know, 43 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:10.400 grown ups, adults. It's not a huge audience. You're not getting 44 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.480 little girls to go see it. It's so the little girls, of course 45 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:20.639 went to see Taylor Swift. Have you seen Taylor Swift? Not yet, 46 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:25.439 No, and I'm not sure if I will. My kids aren't into Taylor 47 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:29.399 Swift for Fortunately for me, my kids are not Swifties. Okay, what 48 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:34.120 are your kids, Like, my daughter is into like Beyonce, and my 49 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:40.959 kid, my boy is like, uh if he sings what's it called Tears 50 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.439 for Fear songs? Okay, so he's super cool. The Beyonce girl has 51 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.160 got a movie. Beyonce's got a movie coming out soon. So maybe you'll 52 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:53.120 have to see that. Yeah, I'll let her mom watch that with her. 53 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.480 I don't. I would kind of like to see the Taylor Swift movie. 54 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.680 But I'm I mean, what just gotta see? I didn't see what 55 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.639 all the better? I can't go. I can't go by myself. That's 56 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:13.720 a creepy that creepy creepy towne. So this is scorsesees they're calling it is 57 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.920 his best start for a Scorsese movie since twenty ten Shutter Island, which did 58 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:23.480 forty one million, and the third best of his career, following the two 59 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.600 thousand and six movie That Departed. Now that was a real good movie, 60 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:34.759 The Killers of the Flower Moon. And they're blaming Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de 61 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:40.639 Niro not being able to promote the film because of the strike. That's also 62 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.279 the problem. But the problem, Sam, have you seen Killers of the 63 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.439 Flower Moon? Not yet I'm looking forward to it, though I usually try 64 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.600 to catch Scorsese films in the theater, unlike I guess most people. Yeah, 65 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.240 let me tell you. I saw the was the last one, the 66 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:00.759 Irishman. I saw that in the theater. It was really but I thought 67 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:05.240 it was good. This. At what point do you think I walked out 68 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:11.000 of this movie? Oh, geez, I'm guessing within the first twenty minutes. 69 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:14.240 No, no, I would never do that. About two hours into 70 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:18.079 it and there was still an hour and forty minutes left. Oh jeez, 71 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:27.319 it's an hour and forty five minutes. Three forty five, three forty Okay, 72 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.040 yeah, no, I don't blame you at that point. That's a 73 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:33.199 kind of movie like that Tarantino did with The Hateful Late. He had a 74 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:38.959 four hour movie and he had a fifteen minute like like intermission so people could 75 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.680 get up and go pee and eat and like yeah live. Yeah, this 76 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:50.319 could have this could have used an intermission. It was it just this is 77 00:06:50.480 --> 00:07:00.000 like a like a one hour episode of Dateline where Satan came in and added 78 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:05.079 an extra three hours to it. So it's a story that could be told 79 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:10.839 in forty minutes, and they've made it three hours in forty minutes. Now, 80 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:15.519 why did they do that? It's narcissism, just plain and simple. 81 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:20.920 We are so important. This movie has to be really long. This issue 82 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:27.800 is so important. These historical events are so monumental. And you're welcome, 83 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:31.480 by the way, for having us bring them to you and tell you and 84 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.240 beat you over the head with it and make you eat your peas for three 85 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:44.000 hours in forty minutes. So beautiful filmmaking. Sam After like, you know, 86 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.759 you're an hour into it, you go, you know what, I'm 87 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.879 so lucky that I'm living in an arrow where Scorsese is making new movies. 88 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:55.319 Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent, Robert de Niro, what a legend. And then 89 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.839 but that's that's an hour. Now, you got two hours and forty minutes 90 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.279 left, so they got a good hour to after that to tell you, 91 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:07.079 hey, we're wasting your time. You get it. We've told you what 92 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:13.000 this is. It's a bunch of white people being bad too Indians, and 93 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.360 it's bad. It's terrible. You get it. It's bad. Okay, 94 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.079 yeah, I get it. It's bad. And you're you're showing everything's cool. 95 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:20.360 A great actor has great set's you know, the authenticity with the O 96 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:28.120 Sage Indian tribe culture and the songs and the and the costumes and everything beautiful. 97 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.399 But oh lord, that just keeps coming. And then this guy did 98 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.440 something to Indians and he's and then this guy, this guy, this guy. 99 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.519 It's a little over the top, and you start to not believe it. 100 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:45.399 You start to say, well, human beings don't really act like this, 101 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.679 so this is like a cartoon version, like the fake news version that 102 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:58.200 is so overblown. That's what you're feeling. There's no way people are like 103 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:05.960 this. And then you start getting irritated, and then it goes on and 104 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.360 on and on. I okay, I do get it, and I think 105 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.320 what these did people did to these to the Indians is bad. I do 106 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:15.799 believe it happens. You know, I have no reason not to. I 107 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:20.840 haven't read up on this subject prior to seeing the film, But I get 108 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.440 it. Why are you beating me over the head with it so much? 109 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.480 This movie could have been made, like I said, it could have been 110 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.799 an hour dateline episode, or it could have been a really, really good 111 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:35.799 two hour Scorsese movie. But I don't believe he has the ability to tell 112 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.759 a story in two hours. And that's the problem if I if I write 113 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:41.960 a movie and it's three hours and forty minutes and I hand it in, 114 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.519 an editor from the network comes in and says, all right, here's what 115 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.799 we gotta do because this is way too long. Okay, three is three 116 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.200 hundred and forty pages too long? Yeah, it is, so we're gonna 117 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.639 cut it down. So maybe cut a little bit of this, less of 118 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:58.120 this, less of this. This is redundant. Look, we already established 119 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.120 this, so you could cut this whole now and then let's tighten this up. 120 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:09.000 And that's how you make a good movie. But he doesn't do that. 121 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.279 So he might be Martin Scorsese, but he makes here, he made 122 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.120 a bad movie. He made a bad movie because we don't have time to 123 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:22.279 be beat over the head for that long. So I couldn't take it. 124 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:24.559 And I'm just like, I'm gonna wait and if they keep doing this, 125 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.000 I will leave. And they just kept doing it and doing it and doing 126 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.399 it. So if you don't know anything about the story, it's the Osage 127 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.919 Indian tribe. Uh, you know, it was pushed into some lands that 128 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:41.200 the US government thought was terrible land and didn't It wasn't gonna amount to anything, 129 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:45.679 but then struck oil, so they became very wealthy. And then white 130 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.720 people came in and tried to figure out how we're going to take this oil 131 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.639 money away from these injuries, and they did it by like marrying into the 132 00:10:52.720 --> 00:11:03.320 tribes and manipulating them and then then Sam murdering them. It's a great story, 133 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.720 but if you turn it into three hours and forty minutes, you're not 134 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.919 gonna tell it to too many people. So what's the point. Can only 135 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.399 show twice a day in a theater, so that's going to hurt your box 136 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.200 office and everybody that invested. And by the way, who did invest in 137 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:20.559 this, Sam, Well, it wasn't Netflix who lost all the money on 138 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.559 The Irishman. It was another company with a ton of money that would like 139 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.879 to be in business with DiCaprio and de Niro and Scorsese. It was Apple. 140 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:37.039 So they're going to lose all the money on this. And it's just 141 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.879 sad because when we're trying to get people to go back to the movies, 142 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:46.799 this really isn't the way. So Scorsese is not the way to make people 143 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:50.759 go back to the movies. I would say Gareth Edwards, who made The 144 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:56.360 Creator, which is still in theaters, and you should see that guy is 145 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.919 making people want to go back to the movies. Scorsese should not be allowed 146 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.159 to make movies there. I said it, it's done, made some good 147 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:15.799 movies, but this, this was, this was It's painful, but there 148 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.240 are some good there. You know, there's good stuff in DiCaprio's good in 149 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:20.799 it. And they're saying, if you read up on it, the DiCaprio 150 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:26.759 is improvising too much, and so Scorsese and de Niro said they were rolling 151 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:28.440 their eyes. Oh my god, he was just he just kept trying to 152 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:37.080 rewrite things and and improvise. But he's the best thing about it. And 153 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.799 I think he's They said he's talking too much. So what they wanted is 154 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:45.360 a dialogue free, three hours and forty minute movie. Rehbe. We talked 155 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:50.559 about dialogue free movies last week. Yep. So I guess that's what they 156 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.559 wanted. So it looks like Scorsese wanted to make it even worse by not 157 00:12:54.679 --> 00:13:01.559 letting DiCaprio do whatever he was doing. The Native American actress Lily Gladstone that 158 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.919 plays the female lead is excellent. There's there's no bad performances in here. 159 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.120 When I got done, I got home, I watched I go you know, 160 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:18.879 this is a fine dayline thing. So I watched a YouTube documentary. 161 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.080 And that's what I encourage you to do. People should know about this, 162 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.279 the story, this horrible story of what happened to the Osage Indians. Go 163 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:26.519 to YouTube and watch a documentary. There's a few of them in there. 164 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.240 They're less than an hour, and then you'll you'll get it, and then 165 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.919 you you want to know the story there it is. So. It wasn't 166 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.519 so much that this movie, Like the usual joke about Scorsese films is that 167 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.519 they tend to insist upon themselves. This one didn't seem to insist upon themselves. 168 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.600 It just seems like you felt it was too preachy a little bit. 169 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.759 It did. It did insist upon itself. It was too preachy. It 170 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:52.879 was eat your peace, you eat your peas, because you have to eat 171 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.159 your peas. And and we're not gonna make you have to eat three hours 172 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:01.799 and forty minutes with the piece because this is so serious, and I think 173 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:07.799 they mask the mistakes they've made in making this movie so long and rubbing your 174 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:18.720 face in it by their self aggrandizement, their persistence in telling people on the 175 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.840 panels they've spoken on and interviews how important this is. And if you don't 176 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.039 like this movie, you know you don't get it how important this is. 177 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.080 And if it was important, if they really thought it was important, they 178 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.279 weren't just self serving. They would make a movie that was accessible to people. 179 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.240 If you want people to know what happened to the Native Americans, make 180 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.039 a two hour movie and make it balanced. And when I say balanced, 181 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:48.919 I mean have a plot, show the bad stuff, show someone coming in 182 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:56.919 and fixing the problem and overcoming hurdles, and have some resolution at the end. 183 00:14:58.039 --> 00:14:58.639 I didn't see the end. I kind of know what it happed. 184 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.120 I'm not going to to tell you there was a trial. I missed the 185 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.240 trial. I would like to see the trial, so someday I'll look at 186 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.039 the trial. I assume they have the trial, but I left. Okay. 187 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.039 So when I watched the documentary, I noticed one thing that was just, 188 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:16.159 you know, it's all I really need to know. It's all you 189 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.399 need to know. When they were showing the real people that were in this 190 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.679 movie. There's one character in this movie. His name's Bill Smith, and 191 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.919 the whole movie, they're using Bill Smith as a punching bag. Bill Smith 192 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.399 is the worst guy in the movie. He does the worst things. He's 193 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:39.159 harmful to the Indians, and he's harmful to Leonardo DiCaprio. He's arrogant, 194 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:46.919 he is hatable. Okay, all right, fine, And everybody in the 195 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:52.279 movie is white, is hatable in the character, and that's kind of the 196 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.279 story. So that's even okay. Of course, tell the story of the 197 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:02.679 truth. But then when you watch the documentary about the Osage Indian murders, 198 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.559 Bill Smith was was an Indian. Bill Smith was an Indian. They made 199 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:17.120 him into a white guy in the movie. Your reaction, Sam, I've 200 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:22.000 seen quite a few people playing roles that they didn't fit as far as the 201 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.159 race or ethnicity goes. He was he was one. It was. He 202 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.480 was a white guy. He portrayed as a white guy. He was a 203 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.600 white guy that married an Indian girl. So they could show you one more 204 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.799 white guy that married an Indian girl and harmed her, okay, and then 205 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.240 he then he marries another Indian girl. This one dies, he marries he 206 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:48.639 marries her sister. But that character was not a white person in real history. 207 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.200 That person was a member of the O Sage tribe. So they took 208 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:59.039 this character and they made him a white villain when the real character was an 209 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:03.839 O Sage Indian. But why did they do that? Well, you know, 210 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:08.839 we're trying to make a point here and just just make him a white 211 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:11.319 guy because it's a little too complicated. We don't want to you know, 212 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:18.160 we don't want to disparage any of these O Sage Indians. They just made 213 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.799 them look stupid. It's what they did. And there it's not noble. 214 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:27.079 I don't think there's much nobility at all in this thing. But yeah, 215 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:30.599 so when I saw that, I go, oh, I mean, how 216 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:34.599 do you trust the rest of the movie If they did that, it's not 217 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:38.279 it's a dramatization. How much of it are we going to trust? There's 218 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.000 so many films out there that are based on real life but take creative liberties 219 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.319 in the name of convenience. Yeah, that was very convenient for them, 220 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:52.240 because they their convenience was we have we have a story we're telling, and 221 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:59.480 we have a script prewritten, and then we have to back everything out of 222 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:07.079 it that reaches our goal, and we can't have anything that that conflicts with 223 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:12.359 our argument. I mean, and you what about this, Sam, Why 224 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.640 don't you cut Bill Smith out of it? If you don't want to show 225 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:22.079 a negative, an Indian negative, negatively portrayed, why do you turn him 226 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.799 into a white guy. Why don't you just cut him out of it? 227 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.720 What do you do when you not show him? Yeah? So anyway, 228 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:37.400 it's it's it's and you can do all of that, but doing two hours, 229 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.200 all of that is forgivable. If you do it in two hours, 230 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.440 three hours and forty minutes, forget it. It's like this podcast, this 231 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:48.839 podcast is going to turn into three hours and forty minutes. But I don't 232 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:51.720 know. Your feelings on this seem to go pretty deep. We may be 233 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:57.200 able to fill the time. Yeah. So anyway, I mean, if 234 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.240 you're if you think you're missing out on this, I think that's my point 235 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.279 of the movie is if you think you're missing out by not seeing it, 236 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:11.680 you're not go to YouTube watch an O Sage Indian documentary terrible story, and 237 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:18.720 then just forget about forget about Scorsese as a movie maker, just just forget 238 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.240 about it. It's it's and I realized there's like they're not going to give 239 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:25.960 him a lot of money for very many stories, and this is the kind 240 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:27.359 of story he can get a lot of money for, so he went in 241 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:33.240 and got the money. But holy cow, is it terrible. At the 242 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:34.640 same time, it's good, good film, liking you know, the first 243 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:40.640 first parts of it. You're miles is very impressive. All right. I 244 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:44.960 feel like there's a lot of movies out there nowadays that are catering to people's 245 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:47.680 sense of outrage, and I get the feeling this might be one of them. 246 00:19:48.200 --> 00:19:51.319 It is an outrage movie, and and and it's you know, and 247 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:55.920 the outrage is beat your beat over the head with the outrage. And that's 248 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:02.240 fine. I again, for two hours, that's fine, but not for 249 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:07.440 two days. All right, let's move on from this negativity and get into 250 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:12.279 something more positive, like Netflix learning to took a couple of TV stories. 251 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:18.000 One of them is Netflix is learning to have shows sponsored. That's their new 252 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:22.960 thing to make advertising revenue. They're going to sponsor shows series and this is 253 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.400 not for that. If you have the ad free version, you're still going 254 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:29.359 to be watching shows that are sponsored by a brand name. And they kind 255 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:30.920 of act like they invented this. But this is like as old as time, 256 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:41.279 you know, this is the it's as old as the crypto dot com 257 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:48.200 arena or the you know, host this Twinkie sun bowl, et cetera. 258 00:20:49.599 --> 00:21:00.440 So, but but what they started with is there's a show called Love Is 259 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:04.000 Blind. Are you familiar with the show? I'm aware of it. Yes, 260 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.160 I haven't seen it, but everybody has been mentioning it. People that 261 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.480 I know watch it and they speak highly of it. Yeah, so love 262 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.279 is Love is Blind? Some dating show of some kind. Well, now 263 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:22.839 it's called the it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. It's called the Freedo 264 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:33.480 Lays Smart Food Love is Blind. Yeah, that's a proper reaction. It's 265 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.920 just a joke. I mean, this guy, why could they come up 266 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:44.440 with something that like is related to the show, Like like let's have a 267 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:49.480 you know, like something about love or something anything. What does smart foods 268 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:53.839 freedom Lays have to do with that? Yeah, they're all proud of themselves 269 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:57.440 too to make a big announcement. It's like, all right, I mean, 270 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:00.279 there's so much, so much in the world. A friend of mine 271 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:06.160 calls it the age of Bungling. Bungling still beginning with like the Iraq War, 272 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:10.920 you know, the weapons of mass description or whatever, like the age 273 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.000 of bungling everything bungled. After that, elections, bungled, wars, bungled, 274 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:25.319 the pandemic bungled, lockdown, bungled the vaccine bungled everything, mask orders, 275 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:29.960 mask repealing, bungled bungled bungled. Now we got the free doo Lays, 276 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:41.200 smart food Love is Blind bungled bungled rollout of a advertising scheme. Okay, 277 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:45.160 why didn't they just put them the sponsor at the tail end of the 278 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.720 name of the show. Well, maybe they do what I'm you know, 279 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:53.000 that's what they're calling it in these advertisements. Yeah, no, that the 280 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:57.839 advertisements should be so like Love is Blind brought to you by Smart Foods Freeolay. 281 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:02.240 Well, after this radio show, they're probably that's probably what they're gonna 282 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:07.039 do, after they listened to me and start to you know, listen to 283 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:12.720 reason. Okay, son. Another interesting thing that's that's on the horizon is 284 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:17.119 all the you know, the Winnie the Pooh movie, the horror film Winnie 285 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:21.279 the Pooh people. Yes, why is there Winny the poo horror film? 286 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:23.279 And why would Disney let this happen? Well, it fell into the public 287 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:30.279 domain because things like that are like, you know, there's all kinds of 288 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:34.319 different copyright links, but in general it's like life of the copyright owner plus 289 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:38.799 seventy years or ninety five years from creation if it's from a business, if 290 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:44.640 it's owned by corporation. So someone was clever enough to say, hey, 291 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:48.039 Winny, the poo's coming out of the public domain. Make a horror film. 292 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:51.640 So they did, made one hundred thousand dollars horror film and it made 293 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:52.880 two and a half million at the box office. So somebody made a little 294 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.359 bit of money there. And now there's a but I always tell you it's 295 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.200 people. It is not your first movie. So whoever made that and I 296 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.319 made a distribution deal, they would ask me, should I sign this it 297 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:04.839 seems one sided? Or am I getting ripped off? I'd go, you 298 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:08.079 sign that and you make your movie, and then your second movie is where 299 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:11.759 you're gonna make your money. So, now, how much money do you 300 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.440 think this genius is going to make on the second movie? Second movie is 301 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.440 going to have a director fee, you know, in the millions, perhaps, 302 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.039 but you know he's gonna pucket a lot of money. So he took 303 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:23.160 a chance in the first one. He didn't make a big deal out of 304 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:29.039 it, and he's getting rewarded. Good for him. What other movies and 305 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.000 or what other characters are falling into the public domain soon? Well, here's 306 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:38.400 a small list Mickey Mouse in twenty twenty four. Pluto, Oh my goodness, 307 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:42.160 Oh yeah, yeah, Oh, there's going to be so much there. 308 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.960 Yes, and I'll get to you all. There are some limits, 309 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:47.759 so let me able to read this to the small list here, and then 310 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:51.119 then we'll get to a couple of details. Pluto in twenty twenty five, 311 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:56.440 Donald Duck twenty twenty nine. Cool counts to mc screwge. You're not probably 312 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:02.920 not. Superman twenty thirty three, Oh cool, everybody in the Hobbit twenty 313 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:07.920 thirty three, James Bond twenty thirty four. Oh, I can see some 314 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:14.279 really twisted stuff with him being made. Yeah, Batman twenty thirty four, 315 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.160 Captain Marvel twenty thirty four, The Flash twenty thirty four, Captain America twenty 316 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:21.880 thirty six, Aquaman twenty thirty six, and Wonder Woman twenty thirty six. 317 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.640 The legal scholar that wrote this article, I don't necessarily agree with them, 318 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:37.160 says the limits on something like Superman would be, Yeah, you can use 319 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:44.160 Superman, but you can only used nineteen thirty three Superman. Nineteen thirty three, 320 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.839 Superman couldn't fly yet you can only jump tall buildings, so you can't 321 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:53.319 have your Superman fly. I think that would be a matter a try for 322 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.319 the trier of fact. I don't think that's clear. You know, here's 323 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.519 here is Superman. Make them do whatever you want. Don't bring other characters 324 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:06.039 and other storylines that are copyrighted. But how do you copyright somebody flying? 325 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.640 You know? How do you like? That's? It falls into the doctrine 326 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.799 of scenes affair. I think where if he's a superhero, he's going to 327 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:19.799 have magical powers or superhuman powers. One of those might be flight. That 328 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:22.799 would be the number one think you would think of in a superhuman power. 329 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:29.680 So I disagree with this. I think someone could make Captain America or Superman 330 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:34.720 fly in twenty thirty three. It's someone a little paranoid here and Mickey Mouse. 331 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:40.599 You're only going to be able to do the Mickey Mouse from nineteen twenty 332 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:45.599 four and not the one that later is, you know, wearing a red 333 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:48.480 outfit and has white, big white gloves and all that stuff. That one 334 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:55.559 this article sais you can't because later they would, you know, copyright that 335 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:59.079 one and you can't take it, but the original one they copyright it from 336 00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:02.039 nineteen twenty four. He's all skinny, you know, like steamboat Wi. 337 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.519 Yeah, you can you can make you can make a horror film with that. 338 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:14.680 So okay, that sounds terrifying but doable. Yeah. Yeah, So 339 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.079 that's coming up and there'll be lots of lawsuits and we'll cover all of them. 340 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:29.720 Also in the advertising world is a let's make sure didn't miss anything. 341 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.799 Uh, Jack in the Box has a horror film. Have you seen this 342 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:41.799 the restaurant, Yes, well restaurant, I mean loosely using that word. 343 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:47.559 Jack in the Box has a horror short. So you can find this on 344 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:52.480 YouTube by just typing in Jack in the Box and horror or Halloween and it'll 345 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.960 come up. It looks like it costs about six million dollars. It's very, 346 00:27:55.079 --> 00:28:02.400 very well done, and it might be the best horror film to be 347 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:07.559 released this year. So I been a strong year for horror films too. 348 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:12.880 This man, It's tough to be. It's about a a food truck it's 349 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:22.440 offering free It's called the Angry Monster Truck and it's offering fee free Monster tacos 350 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.039 if you dare take one from it. And the movie is called Feeding Time, 351 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:32.519 so I would this is like my friend over at In and out Burger. 352 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:34.559 I was talking to him about this. Now, in and out Burger, 353 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.440 why are they doing this film? Why are they spending six mini let's 354 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:41.119 give it the number six month. Why are they spending six months? They're 355 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:45.480 spending six million so they can market the taco because the taco's coming back, 356 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.200 the monster taco's coming back. That you know, the Jack in the Box 357 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.400 menu is always changing. They're always you know, pepper Jack, Chili Burger, 358 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.599 Taco, Monster Taco, New Breakfast, all this stuff, and they 359 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:03.160 have to market all that stuff because it keeps changing, so they need a 360 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.000 six million dollar commercial. In and out Burger, on the other hand, 361 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.319 they never change I'll change your menu at all. So I was kind of 362 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.480 joking of, hey, you got to make one of these things, and 363 00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.960 then I saw then I rethought what I had said and said, you don't 364 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.519 need this because your menu never changes. So you save the six million dollars 365 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.279 in marketing because everybody already knows, uh what your what's on your menu, 366 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:32.039 and you don't have to tell people you steal your general you know, minimal 367 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:33.839 advertising, let people know you're there. You know what advertises for in and 368 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:38.079 out burger are probably better than anything is the traffic surrounded by the ones you 369 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.680 drive by, Yeah, in the long line, because when you see that 370 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.880 and you remember it is so good, all those people are willing to go 371 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.920 through this. So you don't really need a horror film. But the horror 372 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:55.279 film was good, and maybe the horror film could be waiting in the line. 373 00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:59.359 I mean, there's a lot of things could happen at any at any 374 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:03.400 fast foods restaurant, but I mean, like the goal at the end of 375 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.480 it all is the delicious. The thing that pulls you out is the in 376 00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.480 and out burger. Well, why I'm saying they don't need a line can 377 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:17.559 be terrifying. They don't need anything, They just don't need it. People 378 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.799 go there, they might you know, they might need that back east when 379 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:23.119 they expand, because those people are are they're not like us, and they 380 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:26.079 don't you know, have the same affinity to be in that burger, so 381 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.920 they might want to think about it. Your poor line thing. Maybe Okay, 382 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.359 there's a do you know there's a war going on? Sam, I've 383 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.119 I've heard as such. I've been buried in my books. So there's a 384 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.960 conflict now at c AA, that's the Creative Artist Agency, Uh, where 385 00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:56.960 a top agent Uh forwarded a a post Twitter. It's always gets you know, 386 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:04.359 that's where that that's where all these stories start to go bad. And 387 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.359 her name, she's like a superagent like people love her. She's Tom Cruise's 388 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:18.359 agent, Madonna's agent, and her name is Maha Dakil. And she forwarded 389 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:23.720 a post that said, you're currently learning who supports genocide? That's the line 390 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:30.400 for me. She then posted a second photo caption, what's more heartbreaking than 391 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:37.200 witnessing genocide and what is the answer is witnessing the denial that genocide is happening. 392 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.599 So you can see where this is. This was her supporting the Palestinians, 393 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.839 but that didn't go over well in Hollywood. So she apologized made a 394 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:56.079 mistake and said she was re educated. She removed the post, and she 395 00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.000 had to resign from the internal board at CIA. I don't know what really 396 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.759 what the internal board is, but she did pay a price somewhat but not 397 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:07.119 like the ultimate price. But she might lose clients. So we have more 398 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.200 news. Sam On rust, the gift that keeps on giving, Rust keeps 399 00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.720 going. This is incredible. Yeah, it really is. So here what 400 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:21.160 we have now is they are they are we hinted at this last week I 401 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.759 think it was of the week before, and aren't really sure, but they're 402 00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:30.839 going to file charges again, involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin, which means 403 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:35.000 they think they got it, They've got the evidence. They're putting Hi in 404 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.480 front of the grand jury in the grand jury room, most likely indict him, 405 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.200 and then they'll go through the same stuff as lawyers will say, oh 406 00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:45.880 this is a joke, throw this out. He's there's no evidence or this 407 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:52.759 or that. But they say that they believe that, based on their lengthy 408 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:55.440 and detailed investigation, that it is appropriate for a grand jury in New Mexico 409 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:59.680 to make a decision on whether the case should proceed. So it's, y 410 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.359 know, we just think that, you know, the grand jury should should 411 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.000 decide and then the sod the chargers could take up to eighteen months in prison 412 00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:12.839 if he's convicted. But I think also we all know this guy's not gonna 413 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:19.359 spend a day in jail. And I think everybody involved except for maybe the 414 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:27.480 armorer has learned their lesson. And then the husband of the victim, the 415 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:34.119 one who died so someone else was shot. The husband is now an executive 416 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:43.000 producer on the new the continuation of the film, so he's satisfied. So 417 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.880 I don't know, and I you know, but as again I have said 418 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.200 about Baldwin is a polarizing figure. So there's probably some people there that don't 419 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.839 like him. And you know, that's another thing. If you want to 420 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.119 get on Twitter like that lady at c AA, tell everybody what we think. 421 00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:01.920 If you really, everyone must know what you think. No, it 422 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:06.119 was a price to pay for that, So that lady's now a villain in 423 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:10.280 Hollywood when she was a superagent. Now we have Alec. Baldwin might go 424 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:14.559 to prison because he just you know, he should have it didn't have been 425 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.360 better off being a little more quiet. But that's hard to do for some 426 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:24.000 people. I get I had someone Sam, but I had a block on 427 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:30.599 Facebook. Then I blocked on Twitter. It was like an old girlfriend. 428 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:42.559 Really what happened? Well, I all started with Donald Trump and I needed 429 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:44.880 a hotel in Las Vegas, and I ended up at the Trump Hotel. 430 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:50.920 It was the cheapest, decent place in town two hundred and forty dollars as 431 00:34:50.920 --> 00:34:53.480 opposed to nine hundred dollars where I usually stay. So I stayed there. 432 00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:57.559 It was a lovely hotel. And I don't care if it's Trump's hotel or 433 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.599 not Trump's hotel. I've stayed at the Plaza Hotel in New York City when 434 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.880 I thought Trump was, you know, the most irritating man on earth, 435 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.719 you know, thirty years ago. So anyway, I stayed another one whose 436 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:15.239 hotels. And then on Instagram, I didn't flatter him at all. I 437 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:20.079 just said I stayed at the very pet friendly Trump Hotel. And then everybody 438 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:22.320 that I know on my social media is like, oh, very cool, 439 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.519 your dog's so cute in the hotel and stuff like that. And that Trump 440 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.679 Hotel. I tell you, if you have a dog, go straight there. 441 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:30.559 When you go to Las Veigas, they don't even ask you if you 442 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:34.800 have a dog. They just you have a dog. That's fine, it's 443 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:37.519 your business. It can't be more than fifty pounds. But if you have 444 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.519 a little dog, bringman and they have a little dog park, goverront little 445 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:46.639 poop bags for you. My dog loved it, and everybody commented that's really 446 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:51.440 nice. You went to see Wayne Newton and you have your cute little dog. 447 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.320 And then some like old girlfriend from like when I was eighteen years old, 448 00:35:55.079 --> 00:36:04.760 here she comes Trump is a racist fascist, and everybody's like, whoa 449 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:10.000 like nut, it's just uh, no one's talking like that here. Well 450 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:13.519 he's going to do this, and he's going to do that, and he's 451 00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.159 uh, and everyone kind of slams her. And then I just kind of 452 00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:21.039 deleted it, sent her private message shape, don't do that. And then 453 00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:24.559 then she kept going on and on, and then she found me on LinkedIn. 454 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:29.039 I did to delete the Instagram, then I added the link and I 455 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:34.119 didn't delink delete the the LinkedIn, but I it was so bad, Sam, 456 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.159 I had to report that the messages that were to me now they became 457 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:45.079 ad hominin attacks. And I didn't defend or it's anything political. I said, 458 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:49.880 just don't say anything it's not positive on my thing. And then how 459 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.239 did I finally had a block her and she she wrote back, please don't 460 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:57.360 bok me. I I want to let's just agree to disagree. I'll never 461 00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.239 bring it up again. And I go, you know what, as a 462 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.159 married guy, shouldn't have his old girlfriend sending the messages in commenting anyway, 463 00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:07.840 So I think I'm let's just not, you know, communicate. Then the 464 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:13.119 vitrioll came out. You're an idiot, You're probably a Nazi. You probably 465 00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:17.639 liked Hitler and like, you know, I know, and you know, 466 00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:21.960 bringing up things from like eighteen when I was eighteen. I'm sixty now, 467 00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:30.280 the girls bringing up things from when I'm eighteen and telling me that I fell 468 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:38.880 short. So I just, you know, to block that one. Okay, 469 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:42.880 what else our ex's look at us that we fell short? Yes, 470 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.159 I mean I get it, and I'm sure I did, and I apologized 471 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:51.360 during this conversation. You go apologize for however I hurt you when I was 472 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:58.719 eighteen years old. Trust me, I'm a I'm a different man and didn't 473 00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.800 I fell short again? But now I feel really good blocking. Blocking is 474 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:12.400 pretty fun. It's like in the end. Okay, So what I got 475 00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.840 a little bit of news here from Universal Music. They're finally a seventy five 476 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:22.280 million dollar lawsuit against Amazon backed AI firm called I don't know AIBS or whatever. 477 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:29.480 I forgot what they called. But so they're they're suing this AI company 478 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:36.679 because the AI company is ingesting lyrics like they ingest lyrics like Rolling Stones lyrics 479 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:38.079 and Beatles lyrics and stuff like that, and they get it all and then 480 00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:40.599 you can type in, hey, you write me a song that's like the 481 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:46.679 Beatles. Now, all these publishers, Universal Music, Concord Music Group, 482 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:52.440 I think they handle a bunch of my publishing. And a company called Abkco 483 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:57.079 I never heard of. They are in court, Tennessee and they're going after 484 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.199 this AI company saying you're you know, you can't do this, So you 485 00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:06.079 can't take copyrighted works and make copies of them and manipulate them and spit them 486 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:07.519 out as you know, derivative works. I guess they would call them. 487 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.519 I didn't hear the see them use that term, but that's what I would 488 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.280 call them, derivative works maybe or sam is it this? What if I 489 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:20.119 give you? What if you go buy copies of all these records and then 490 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:23.760 you go home and you write a song that's like these because you're influenced by 491 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:30.079 them. Now are they going to sue you? Then? Maybe? Probably 492 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:35.400 not unless the songs actually like match up with the songs that I'm influenced by 493 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:39.960 and like like literally stealing from them. Yeah, exactly, And that's another 494 00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:45.079 question for the tryer of fact. Are these songs stolen or are they influence 495 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.280 and the robots writing them as opposed to some other person could write them, 496 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.599 And how do they know that? But they're just saying the fact that you 497 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:57.239 ingested them in into your software is the copyright infringement, and they want to 498 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.599 block that from happening in the future, and they want these guys to pay 499 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.559 millions of dollars for doing it already. I don't know if we want to 500 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:10.360 live in a world where we have to halt the creative possibilities in the world 501 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:16.159 of artificial intelligence because these guys publishers are mad. I'm a publisher. I 502 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.639 own a lot of publishing. I'm not mad. I'm just like, well, 503 00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:23.320 let's see where this goes. So we'll find well, that's just brand 504 00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:30.360 new. We'll we'll we'll follow it in the in the future. The last 505 00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:35.920 thing I'll talk about is the sag after strike, which is really it's still 506 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:39.400 going on and it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. And 507 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:45.639 the big problem is, in case you're worried or you're your care is the 508 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:49.920 actors, the screen Actors Guild. Full disclosure. I'm a member of that 509 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:55.119 guild. They are asking for to be paid a certain amount of money for 510 00:40:55.159 --> 00:41:05.559 every subscriber that the streamers have. I think they started out a dollar and 511 00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:09.599 now they're not like fifty seven cents or something for every subscriber, and not 512 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:15.079 for every person that watched it, like a number for like a rating point 513 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:19.599 for everyone that watched the show. No, they want this money for every 514 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:29.199 subscriber. Then they want to take that money and put it in a fund 515 00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:31.719 and distribute it to whoever they think should get it, and that's usually where 516 00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:38.519 the their corruption comes. But that's what they want. In the studios like 517 00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:44.360 Netflix saying no, we're not going to do that, And one of their 518 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.840 arguments is these things already lose money. Netflix is the only one that's making 519 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:51.800 money, and they took them. They had to spend thirty billion dollars before 520 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:54.639 they started making money. Do you know that's him? Yeah. Yeah, 521 00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:58.840 they had to invest in a lot of different things, thirty billion. It's 522 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:00.719 not like they got that back. It's just kind of profitable now. So 523 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:05.679 they're saying, look, this is everything's going down, and now you want 524 00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:09.719 us to give you eight hundred million dollars a year and just not going to 525 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.039 do it. And we will try to find some way to when we have 526 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:21.239 hit shows to pay for things that are doing. And these the actors don't 527 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:22.480 want to bunch. They just want to. They want to they want to 528 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:24.840 get their foot in the door, like the Writers Guild died with their things. 529 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:27.920 Get the foot in the door, like they're saying, just give us 530 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.679 that, even if some people are saying they might even accept like ten cents 531 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:35.000 per subscriber, but they want to get that in there so that they can 532 00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:39.199 keep raising that every time. And is it is that the the way to 533 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:45.280 solve the strike? Personally, I want the actors to get as much money 534 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:46.760 as they can get, but I don't want them to be harmed. I'm 535 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:51.840 afraid with this kind of hardball thing. If you do get what you want, 536 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:57.320 because they just want to end the strike, they're going to make stuff 537 00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:02.440 with foreign countries and foreign actors and people that aren't in the Screen Actors Guild 538 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:07.199 and people that aren't and they're just gonna, you know, because that's their 539 00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:09.800 their option to just go outside of you and not use you. Will they 540 00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:15.679 have worse actors? Yes, But if they want to save their business. 541 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:17.719 If they think it's saving their business, or if they're just too greedy, 542 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:21.519 they can do that. So you gotta be careful. If you ask for 543 00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:23.320 too much, they'll just say, well, like I talked to another writer 544 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.440 last night at a party and he said, yeah, we're all, you 545 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.880 know, back to work, but there's not going to be much work. 546 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.519 Ask them, I go, is that because of like the theory that now 547 00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.159 that they've given these concessions though, instead of being six hundred scripted programs next 548 00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:42.519 year, they'll be three hundred And he goes, yeah, exactly, they'll 549 00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:45.079 be less, so less people have jobs. Is that what they were striking 550 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:50.079 for? For less jobs? It's something you got to think about. I 551 00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:53.639 don't want to scare you, Sam, I'm terrified. And it's Halloween time, 552 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.840 so it's okay, okay, what are you going to be for Halloween? 553 00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:07.000 Where All Yankovic excellent choice. I'm gonna be, uh well, I'm 554 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:10.199 going to a party that's a theme. The theme of the party is Adam 555 00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:19.119 Sandler movies. So you know there's a character of Steve Buskimi plays and something 556 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:24.719 called something Hubby. I liked his outfit. I'm gonna be that no one's 557 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:27.679 gonna know who I am. I probably have to, you know, make 558 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:31.679 a sign or something. But I don't do props, no prop content costumes. 559 00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:37.480 I like to do costumes where if someone takes my picture in it, 560 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:43.320 it might not look like a costume. Did you know my theory of activity, 561 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:46.599 Well, here's my theory on Halloween for adults. Halloween used to not 562 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:49.920 be for adults, used to be only for kids. Now it's for adults. 563 00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:52.639 And this is a whole new world we live in. We also live 564 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:58.719 in the world of the Internet. A giant percentage of photos taking out at 565 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:02.000 parties are taken on hallowe It could be like ninety percent of the part of 566 00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:07.599 the photos from parties are on Halloween parties. Maybe it's eighty percent, maybe 567 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:13.119 it's seventy five. So any if you add up your life, most of 568 00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:17.400 your Internet photo life is going to be you in a costume. So I 569 00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:22.039 reject that proposal. So I don't want to be I don't mind getting photographed 570 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:27.880 for the Internet. I care. But if I'm wearing a you know, 571 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:32.760 conteent for us costume, or I'm a like a member of the village people 572 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.159 or whatever, I don't want that on the internet, like you know, 573 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:44.039 in like over my lifetime, like seventy Halloween costumes floating around there. Enough 574 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:45.119 of that. You gotta be a husband, You got to, you gotta 575 00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:51.360 play along, you gotta you gotta do it. Okay, So excep for 576 00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:55.400 today. We will see you again next Sunday. I don't forget the Vandals. 577 00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.159 Christmas show tickets are on sale. There's a show in Ventura at the 578 00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:05.159 vent of the Majestic Venture Theater and on December twenty second, and a show 579 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:10.400 on December twenty third at the House of Blues, Anaheim. So I hope 580 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:15.360 you're coming if you haven't seen the vandas Christmas Show something to behold. I 581 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.119 will now leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written. 582 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:29.400 It's all O.