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so we're gonna start with the movies. I went to the movies a couple
times. We'll talk about the box office, and then we'll see what I
saw. Maybe you want to see it, maybe you can avoid it.
The biggest movie right now is Fast X. Now this is part of the
Fast and Furious franchise, but now it's starting to blend in together with the
Triple X franchise that started with Vin Diesel. This still has Vin Diesel.
We like Vin Diesels, nothing wrong with him, but it's just starting to
blend together. As you know, Bro films not for me, but you
know that's if it's for you, go see it. I probably won't see
it, you know. Sometimes I want to see what This is the most
popular movie in the country right now, so I'd better see it. But
I don't know. I don't think I can bring myself to do it.
I went to the movies tonight and someone was sitting in my seat. Because
if you go to movies as much as I do, pretty soon that's going
to happen. Always happens on a weekend when the amateurs come out. So
two people sitting in my seat. I go, and so I told him,
I go, look, you're sitting in my seat. I'm gonna sit
somewhere else, just letting you know. You're sitting in my seat. And
so lady and her son and the sun goes, no, these are I'm
indeed, we're D one in D two. These are our seats. And
I go, okay, fine, he goes, Hey, the whole theater
is open, you know, is it really? Even though there's a lot
of empty seats, if you go sit in one that you can be cool.
And I was being cool. I'm gonna go sit in someone else's seat
now when they come, then I got to get out of their seat.
Then I'm this grounge, or maybe I just get stabbed. You know,
you don't know what you're gonna get, but you're not gonna get stabbed in
Huntington Beach. Um. But still, But that's why I know I'm not
getting stabbed at Huntington Beach. So I'm gonna go sit and possibly someone else's
seats again, I'll stabbed in the face with a soddering eye. I think
the mom was suspicious because I go sit in the back row. The mom
comes up and the mom shows me your ticket and she goes, if you
want to see these tickets. You know you can see that they're that they're
D one and D two. So I look at it with my phone flashlight.
You know what, lady, you're in the wrong theater were supposed to
see. This theater is for the seven twenty five showing of The Master Gardener.
Your tickets are for the seven pm showing of Fast X. Okay,
so these people were sitting there, it's seven forty five by this time.
They're sitting in that theater for forty five minutes waiting for a bunch of race
cars to start, and all they're seeing is like indie movie trailers. Because
it's a Paul Schraider film. And that's the kind of people that go see
Fast X. Is this is what you're gonna be on a Saturday night.
It's amateur, it's open mic night. They're waiting for a movie for forty
five minutes. They're waiting for Fast X. This is the kind of people
that go see Fast X on a Saturday night. You want to avoid them.
I tried. He didn't work. So she goes back down. She
tells her son, I even said it out loud, don't look like Paul
Schraider fans, because I couldn't help myself. The kid gets up and he
leaves, and I go, oh, he left, Okay, maybe I
should go sit in my old seat. And I walk up, but I
didn't see the lady leave. I must have missed that. So I waited
a little while. I'm like, okay, i've waited long enough. I'm
gonna go sit in my seats. I walked down there. The guy comes
back in the theater. He's walking up to me and he's apologizing, Oh,
I'm so sorry, these aren't my seats. Yeah, I know they're
not your seats. Yeah, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And
then as mom gets up because she was still sitting there and they leave,
so settling in. Five minutes later, who comes back but wrong seat guy?
Hey, um, yeah, I got And you know how kids like
that mumble stupid kids will go see Fast X mumble living with a six year
old. So he's mumbling something to me, and in my mind, I'm
going, let me guess he left your vape pen here? And you be
and I get my Even though I can't understand what he says, I kind
of know what else is he doing back here? So I m took my
flashlight again. By this time, I have to bring my flashlight out two
times to see this movie. And I look in the drink container and there's
a vape pen. I go, here's your vape pen. Bye? Man?
His poor mom, poor mom. I mean, she's so nice she's
taking him to see Fast X. But you know what, struggle is real.
And there's like artificial sweetener packages all over. Both seats are just everywhere
anyway, the movies. That's a painting, a bad picture of a movie
experience. It turned out fine, and it's kind of funny. It's not
gonna happen to you if you go to the movies. But you know what
I recommend go to the movies during the week. I want to avoid it
on the weekends. It's like surfing. Let's just do it. During the
week, it's like skiing. Do it during the week. It's like church.
You got to go to church on Sunday. But the people in there,
it's like it's it's it's just different experience than going during the week.
During the week, everybody's serious. During the week, everybody's serious at the
ski slopes, out surfing, at the movie theater and again Sunday crowd.
Wow, you got to go, but you're there with you know. Let's
go to my movies that I saw and my letterboxed account. I had someone
ask again, what is this movie online movie thing that you keep talking about.
It's letterboxed L E T T E R B O x D. There
is no e at the end of letterboxed Gardner, Let's go to fools Paradise.
I saw Fools Paradise. This was an interesting choice. This is kind
of the movie I go see when my wife's tired and I go by myself.
I kind of looked from a movie that she's not going to be jealous
that I saw without her, and I looked at this one and I go,
you know what, no one's gonna be jealous. Got a five point
four rating on IMDb. And it is a film directed by Charlie Day,
starring Charlie Day and Ken Jong. Charlie Days one of the creators executive producers
of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. So you know, he's funny. So
this movie is about a guy and it's it's more of this, like it's
hard for me to to believe these movies get made. But this guy,
I guess, is beloved and he has a lot of stars. And at
ray Leoda, we thought Grizzly Shark Bear or whatever, Cocaine Bear, we
thought that was ray Leoda's last movie. Well he's got another one. Why
did you do that? He's doing better now than when he was alive.
Jason Sudeikis is in it. Kate Beckinsall is really good in it. Adrian
Brody's really good in at Jason Bateman's only in for a little bit, he's
really good. Edie Falco. You know, there's there's a lot of people
in here. Common the Rapper, he's in it. Um but Ken Jong
is it's worth seeing with Ken Jong now it only got five point four rating
at n IMDb. It only got two point five rating on Letterbox. But
there's enough ken Jong in it. To see this movie, it probably you're
better off watching it streaming. There's enough ken Jong's just it's just really funny
when this guy he's down on his luck. He's a down on his luck
Hollywood publicist. Because this guy that can't talk and as is a dead ringer
for some Hollywood star that's acting misbehaving on the set, so they're gonna put
him. This this homeless person basically who was a mental patient that got dropped
off in downtown Los Angeles. They put him in the movies and he becomes
a sensation, kind of like Chauncey Gardner in that Peter Seller's movie. I
like to watch TV. Everybody whatever you want this to be, this guy
to be, that's what he is, and that doesn't work really after a
while. But ken Jong is so good and everything else, it's worth seeing
if it comes up streaming. Before we talk about the other films I saw,
let's take a break. Check the traffic. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Hey, this is the business end of
Show Business, two hours of it. You're right in the middle of it,
just joining us. We're talking about the movies that are playing in the
theaters right now, the ones I saw that, maybe you want to see.
I saw Fools Paradise. I don't think it's in the theaters anymore,
but you might want to watch it streaming Fools Paradise. Now, I thought
the theater last night, I saw, uh The Master Gardner. Now you
may not have heard of The Master Gardner, but The Master Gardner is directed
by Paul Schrader. Now, Paul Schrader, when he makes a movie,
you know you might want to go see it. Paul Schrader wrote the movie
Taxi Driver, Are you talking to Me? He wrote, You're talking to
me? Raging bull. Some people call that the best film ever made.
Mishima Cat people. Did I mention American Gigglow? Yeah? Rolling Thunder?
You know who doesn't like a good Vietnam movie with William Devane now Selling Gold.
I go see any movie Paul Shrader makes, and there's some very interesting
I think the probably the best way for me to sum this movie up is
to read you directly my review. It's not really review. It's just when
I put something on letterbox, it's really just remind me that, hey,
Joe, you've got you know, after your adult onset Alzheimer's. I have
a place to go to to see what these movies are about that I saw,
because I have trouble remembering what movies were about, like the minute I
get out of the theater. So what I wrote to myself on this Master
Gardner. This film is about a reformed white supremacist. It's brave in many
ways, but there's a lot of weird choices as well that distract you from
thinking it might be a great film. You're watching this movie and you're like,
am I watching a great film? There's a lot of weird stuff going
in here. I wouldn't have done that? Who let this guy do that?
Or that? You know, it's one of these you start thinking,
this guy's so revered that he doesn't get a lot of notes from the studio
and they kind of let him get away with things. But then it's so
unique. You're going, this is a brave, great film. Then you're
like, oh, that was stupid. Then you're like, no, that
was great. So anyway we're seeing I gave it three and a half stars
in my letterbox out of five. Now, I tend to think, if
you're making your villains Nazis, it's like cheating. Isn't there some other more
complicated character trait that we can think of rather than this one? Like,
well, the villain he's a Nazi, and in this case it's contemporary times.
It's so he's a white supremacist assist in a white supremacist gang. And
you know, I don't know, I'm just I'm it's wearing thin on me
that that's what you have to do? Will this guy? Everybody hates this
guy, he's a Nazi? Can we can't we do better than this?
Like when they did this? This is the kind of stuff that worked in
like the Blues Brothers. It's cartoon things. Well, we need cartoon villains.
What about Nazis? Yeah, but it's nineteen seventies Illinois Nazis. Okay,
I hate Illinois Nazis hilarious. Henry Gibson as the Illinois Nats is hilarious.
Anyway, I would go see The Master Gardener if I were you.
The star is Joel Edgerton. You might remember him from episode three of the
Revenge of the Sith or The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark thirty, very good
actor. I saw what else, he says streaming. I saw a movie
speaking of Hitler, Hitler a Career. It's on Netflix. It pops up
on your thing. They're like, hey, it looks like you like Hitler.
No, I hate Hitler. Yeah, but you certainly watch a lot
of Hitler stuff. So we got Hitler in your q M. Jeez,
what do I have to do? Okay, Hitler career is good. It's
made in the seventies. It's a documentary. Um, so you got like
two hours of of the story of Hitler's career written. You know, it's
not long after World War Two is over, so it's it's an interesting perspective.
A lot of footage. The guy was such a narcissist. He's just
like cameras everywhere, aimed at himself. I think there was something wrong with
this guy. Okay, that's the movies I saw this weekend. That's the
movies other people saw this week. Let's head to the stories. Last week,
I think I talked too much about the strike. The strike is very
boring. I'll talk very little bit about it today. There's one interesting thing,
you know, one of the fights is AI. They don't want to
allow artificial intelligence in there. So there's a big now that there's such a
backlash against AI. AI is evil, It's going to destroy the world.
AI is so bad for movies, So it's how could how dare could anybody
use AI? And then alone behold one of the committee members of the WGA,
it turns out, is invested in AI. The guy's name is John
August, and he has an investment in some artificial intelligence writing tool. So,
you know, you paint yourself in a corner with these kind of demands
like that is EVO, that AI, and you're like, hey, guys,
you know m Yeah, it's kind of interesting and I'm kind of,
you know, very ahead of my time, and I invested in it and
I'm going to get rich. So can everyone just kind of on the AI
thing? Do we really want to really make a big deal out of it?
Anyways? John August, the only thing you know about him is he
wrote the movie A Big Fish, And that's one of the only movies I
can remember ever walking out of. Let's see if I can remember my walkout
movies. I should have a list of movies I walked out of I should
I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna make a letterbox list. You can make
lists. There's a list on there of movies that have vandals music in it.
Now I'll make one of the movies I walked out with the commitments I
walked out from. I walked out of the commitments. I walked out of
something recently, the fablements, movies are dreams, and I walked out of
Big Fish directed by a Sleep at the Wheel Tim Burton. Now I just
and I'm coming off of Edward scissor Hands at that moment, one of the
greatest films ever, Edward scissor Hands ages so well. If you haven't seen
it recently, goes watch Edward scissor Hands this week. It's just wonderful.
Anyway, John August wrote one of the movies I walked out of so he
could use some AI. I'm gonna give him a benefit of the doubt.
He needs AI to write better movies. That's all I'm going to say about
the strike. But I will say something about how the strike is affecting the
business, because we're starting to learn a little bit of that. Greg Berlante,
this is an example. Greg Berlante had twenty shows like on the air
a couple of years ago and this year at the upfronts. Right now they're
having the upfronts. The up runts are where traditionally the networks. I can
explain it best by how it used to be CBS, ABCNBC and Fox would
go to New York and show all their programs to who the advertisers, the
Chlorox people. So they do that in New York because that's where they you
know, you watch Madman, That's where the ad people are. So they
bring their dogged pony shows to New York. They show everybody, look at
our great shows we're going to have this fall. They're having that. Now
it's getting a little, you know, weirder because TV's changing. I guess
Berlante has just five scripted shows either on or officially greenlit as of this week's
up fronts. Greg Berlante makes shows like Dawson's Creek and Riverdale, but tons
of others, some super Bowl superhero stuff. But now he's only got five.
So people are saying, look, what's happening. The strike is affecting
the content that's out there. And ABCTV at the upfronts didn't put any new
scripted shows them there and there fall schedule. They just got all reality stuff,
so you'll notice it here and there. One last thing we'll say before
we take a break, Well, this is bad celebrities. Let's let's take
a break and we'll talk about bad celebrities. Our celebrities behaving badly. Next
segment, Joe's Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. We
are back two hours at the business end of the show business every Sunday here
on kibat eleven fifty. The podcasts get made later tonight. Want to listen
to the whole thing, and remember you can listen to it live all over
the world on iHeart Radio. Celebrities behaving Badly. We promised a little bit
of this, so there's usually a lot of it every week. One of
them is Brett Rattner. Remember him. I guess you could call him disgraced.
He was accused of a lot of sexual abuse by multiple women, and
he keeps running for board of governors for the Motion Picture Academy. Very strange
behavior. No one's going to let him on that board. I mean they're
trying to forget about him. You know, they want him to go away.
He's not going away. It's just not going to happen. But he
keeps doing I get it. He has a dream. He was a producer.
He was you know, things got really slimy in his world, but
he had a dream. He wanted to be, you know, a big
deal in Hollywood movies. He like had I think he had like Frank Sinatra's
old office. His company's called the Brat Pack or something like that. I
don't know, U. This is a fourth time he's done this. So
very strange. Here's when here's this guy. I mean, this guy's not
really necessarily behaving badly Nick Cannon. Do you know he has eleven kids,
six different women. I mean, that's bad behavior. But it makes one
hundred million a year. So he spreads that money out as an article in
the La Times about how much money he spends on like kid's birthdays and all
that kind of stuff. I don't know, I don't think anyone's really complaining
in that world with one hundred million dollars a year to float around. You
know. Nick Cannon is the host of The Masked Singer and Everything Else in
the World. Was married to Mariah Carey for a while. He has one
of those kids is for Mariah Carey. The logistics is what gets me.
I mean, how do you even pull that off? How do you?
How did you do much fooling around? That's just and then now you got
to keep it up. Who but you know what, this man is populating
the earth, So that's good. Well, I guess I got no celebrities
behaving baddly other than those guys. But I do have this Vice Media,
the Vice channel, remember, and Vice magazine came out and the Vice Keep
magazine. It was super cool and then they built a media empire. Well
it has declared bankruptcy and it's being sold off. So I mean, to
me, I saw this coming right away. People investing in it. Disney
was investing in it. And the TV show on HBO to me, wasn't
any good. It's not a real news organization. It was just kind of
we're super cool and snarky and we are the gatekeepers to a bunch of ad
revenue. So everyone just started giving them money. And then they put out
this cable channel and it was all for hipsters that don't have cable. So
I'm just watching this going, why are you putting money into a channel that
is clearly geared towards people who do not have cable will never get cable.
So that cable channel lost millions, maybe billions, and the company was valued
at like five point seven billion at one point, and now they're just being
sold off in Chapter eleven bankruptcy. They've got debts totaling four hundred and seventy
five million in security creditors. So that's over. I hope everyone finds a
job, and I hope they learn that you can't be too cool. If
you're too cool, you'll do anything, you're gonna lose money. I think
one of the things I noticed when I when I noticed something was wrong with
this, the HBO thing could have survived. I mean that's hipsters have HBO,
or they steal their parents passwords or whatever. But they would go like
like sixty minutes sixty minutes interviews like it. Maybe maybe the interview is chic,
and then they say asking a bunch of questions and then he says much
of stuff. Then they interview someone else who's against that cheek. I'm just
using a SIK as an example. An exotic, faraway interview that the news
you know, that you have to be a really serious news agency to go
and get this interview. So I use a chic. The chik is then
confronted with the stuff that the enemy of the chik said, and then they
get the zingers aha, and then the chik gets up at it and walks
out of the interview. No one ever walked out of a Vice interview,
my guess, because they would they'd always go to some exotic place and interview
those people and just believe whatever they said. They would never do the extra
part where you do a bunch of research, get the other side, confront
them with it, and try to get a gotcha moment of some kind.
So that was the first thing that jumped out at me, and then I
never was impressed after that. But again, I hope everybody there gets a
job. Jane Smith is going to get a job. He's going to be
fine, and he's a compelling figure on camera too. He's like the voice
of Vice. But our ip here's some more TV news. There's a guy
that co founded Pluto. Pluto is a service like a streaming service that has
all kinds of channels and all kinds of content. So this guy Eli opposing
has now a new company where he gives away fifty five in four KTV sets
for free. It's gonna give him to you. Sign up and you're gonna
get a free TV from this guy. Why because these TVs are manufactured in
a way where there's a there's a bottom stripe on him that has ads constantly,
So you're gonna get a free TV. But you've got to look at
this ads. These ads constantly, they never turn off, So at some
point you're gonna have ads on the screen, the regular part of the screen
and underneath and you're gonna have ads, ads ads. His initial batches five
hundred thousand sets. Like maybe if you had like a facility where you needed
twenty TV's, maybe that'd be worth it. But to me, TVs are
so cheap, now, why why would you do that to yourself? For
three hundred dollars, you can get a good TV. So for three hundred
dollars, I mean, to save three hundred dollars, you're gonna have those
ads all the time. It's just offensive to me to like, like,
if you went into someone's house, oh, here's our TV set, have
fun watching ads all the time. That's just gross. So even though I
believe this guy could make money by selling ads and that thing. I don't
know just I mean, he's doing it at a time when TVs are the
only reason he's doing it is because he's getting these TVs for nothing. Okay,
but TV's so if TV's if a new TV, that's pretty damn good.
It's three hundred dollars, you know, going off or up and buying
for one hundred dollars. I'm not going to say there's not some poor,
unfortunate person has no money, so they're gonna have to endure this. But
if they have no money, if they cannot buy one hundred dollar TV,
they have other problems then watching TV. There, I said, it does
that sound judgmental? I'm not trying to be. But this is a business
show. This guy's got a business and I'm I'm talking about it. Have
you seen these Beetlejuice posters and flyers around with It's like, you know,
dreamcast for the New Beatles Juice Beetlejuice too floating And I originally said that's a
hoax, that's not true. Jenna Ortega a little too obvious. So CNN
is reporting that Warner Brothers told them that Beetlejuice Too is set to be released
September twenty twenty four. I still don't believe it. I'm just gonna go
on record, I don't believe it. But they are confirming that the poster
you see on online is not real. So they did say that one was
coming out in twenty thirteen. I think yep. Both Tim Burton and Michael
Keaton said something's coming out in twenty thirteen. That was ten years ago.
Um, okay, So we'll see what other hoaxes we been on the internet
recently. The reason why now I think everything on Instagram is hoax. Club
thirty three now open to the public. It's a mouse trap magazine. Online
people keep sending me things open to the public, open to the public.
Really, that's not true. It's a hoax. Joe Scwant Live from Hollywood.
When we come back, we're gonna talk about Taco Bell and Taco Tuesday
and a little intellectual property. Joe lay you don't want we are back,
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Let's go to the intellectual property department. There
is a trademark phrase called Taco Tuesday. You would think Taco Tuesday. How
can you trademark that, well, you probably shouldn't be, But the trademark
office gives all kinds of trademarks that they shouldn't be giving out, and they
gave one to this restaurant for their promotions of Taco Tuesday. That to me
that one. If I'm the trademark examiner. There's the lawyers that sit there
in the trademark office and they decide any should we grant this one, because
what they want to do with the trademark is you want to prevent other people
from buying the wrong product. It's kind of basically what we're doing. We
society has decided if you make something and it's in and out burger, and
you can trademark that. Now, your trademark is for making these burgers.
They're called in and out burgers. You go, you put a sign on
front of your building and it says in and out Burger, and people go
there and they get the burgers and they think they're tasty. So we're going
to give you that trademarks are the only one can call it your burgers in
and out burgers. Now, if someone else makes an in and out burger
and it's terrible or maybe even poisonous that could harm the consumer. So trademarks,
unlike copyrights. Copyrights are more to protect the creator. Trademarks are to
protect the consumer from some kind of false designation of origin. A confusion in
the market place is what the term of art is. So someone gave Taco
John's a trademark in Taco Tuesday. Now, why should Taco john have a
trademark in Taco Tuesday? Like what does that do to protect the consumer?
Like, Oh, these Taco Tuesdays, I don't want to go to Taco
Bell because if they have a taco What if I go to Taco Bell and
I get a Taco Tuesday and I think it's Taco John's. There's no confusion
in the marketplace. It's such a generic term. It's just alliterative Taco Tuesday.
It's just not creative. It's just it is what it is. It's
Tuesday, and you're gonna have tacos now because it's alliterative with the same ta
on both words. Someone said, okay, well then that's the day we're
going to give deals on tacos. So I don't think the Trademark Office should
have given this trademark, but they did so Now, what happens if Taco
Bell. Now, if you're saying Joe Taco Tuesday things all the time,
they're everywhere. Yeah, but John's is not going to go after like a
little restaurant with Taco Tuesday because they just they probably didn't even think about it,
and they just are fine with their Taco Tuesday. And they trademarked because
some lawyer told them to or they thought they should. But they don't want
to spend their time going after little restaurants. But if Taco Bell does it,
that is a defendant with deep pockets, and you could go after them
and you could get a settlement that might be worth more than all the tacos
you can make in your entire life. So Taco Bell wants to use Taco
Tuesday, what do they do. They have to go to the courts because
they got to be they can't just use it like other people can. So
they go to the courts and they and they get what's called declatory relief.
And that's what's going on right now. I believe. I mean, I
don't read all these illegal papers, but I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing.
They file a paper for declatory relief. And it says to the court,
a court, you know what, this is ridiculous. Taco Tuesday should
not be trademarked, and we want to take it away from Taco John's so
that not only we can use it, but everybody can use it. And
so Taco Bell has a campaign right now, they have like a petition at
change dot org. You can get in the get involved, get on board
and support Taco Bells selfless campaign to allow Taco Tuesday to be use by anybody.
Now, their arguments are going to be in this declatory relief I would
imagine would be in front of the court, would be we don't think they
should be allowed to have this trademark because they have not been enforcing it.
Now, some trademarks are not enforced and then the people lose them. The
most famous one is the Murphy bed. Whoever invented the Murphy bed, the
bed that comes out of the wall, they did not vigorously protect their mark,
and other people started using it and they lost their rights to prevent other
people from using the Murphy bed. Now Murphy bed is Murphy bed. That's
the just a generic term because they didn't fight it. Now, if Taco
John's doesn't fight it, they don't get to keep it. So if I'm
Taco Bell, I would just say, look, they're not fighting it.
Look at everybody. Look at everybody that is using Taco Tuesday. So I
think Taco Bell would win this in court. But some people are saying,
you know, why are you trying to you why are you phrasing it?
Like, oh, you're doing like it's just unfair that anybody should protect that
name. Everybody should be allowed to use it. Meanwhile, they're trademarking the
term fourth meal. Should everybody be allowed to do that? They'll say no,
no, no, we trademark that. So we'll see how that goes.
You can sign the petition change dot org if you're if you're that into
it now, Taco Tuesday is an interesting thing to me because everybody's, you
know, have these deals on Taco Tuesday. But to me, tacos aren't
so expensive we have to worry about I got to save a couple of nickels
on this taco. I'm only gonna eat it on Tuesdays. But people are
so into it they demand lower taco prices on Tuesdays. The restaurant in Hawaiian
Gardens that I go to a lot called Taco Sampedro. They're closed on Tuesday.
And then when I inquired around about why they're enclosed on Tuesday, the
word I got was because people are obnoxious at taco restaurants on Tuesdays. They
demand unreasonable bargains and Taco Sampedro doesn't have to give these. Taco Sampedro always
has a line they don't have to give away their tacos on Tuesdays, so
they just close the tok They just close their restaurant Tuesdays. They're gonna go
out and get cheap taco somewhere else. So I thought that was pretty genius.
That is Taco Sampedro on Carson Avenue in Hawaiian Gardens, California. You'd
like it, get the tacitos, would you say? I have? Okay,
here's some late breaking news out of the con Film Festival. What is
the Gon Film Festival, Joe, I hear about it all the time.
It's a movie market and an awards thing. So people enter at film festival
and they win awards and then they sell their films there. A lot of
people go to just like slower smaller time film distributors go there. And pick
up other films. So people take their films to CON and they have meetings,
and some people go to com but they don't really get a laminate,
and they don't go inside the festival hall, and they just may have meetings
in restaurants. I've done that and TV markets. I'm gonna I'm not gonna
buy this stupid laminate and listen to a bunch of seminars. I just have
to meet some people and sell them a TV program, So I'll just go
and meet them in the hotel whatever. But at CON, you know,
it's it's super glamorous. The news coming out of Con is Johnny's Depp's teeth
are really gross. The movie Rust is at CON, so that gives you
the kind of movie. It gives you an idea the kind of movies that
end up there. Rust with Alec Baldwin, that controversial movie where the woman
got killed. They're selling that there. So people are, you know,
probably gonna get a lot of money from. It's got a lot of recognition,
name recognition. And Johnny Depp's teeth We've seen the pictures. People are
are are mad, why can't you just have a really nice teeth? He's
a movie star. But the big news that's coming out right now is Martin
Scorsese's film Killers of the Flower Moon had a nine minute standing ovation. Okay,
these standing ovations get pretty crazy there, and they timed them, and
that's the headline. How many minutes you're standing? Ovation? Was they got
a nine minute standing ovation? Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert de Niro, Lily Gladstone.
I mean, Scorsese does it every time, not every time, but
most of the time. Time. Why did you do that, Tario?
Leonardo DiCaprio does it almost every time. I can go at any time any
but this looks like a great one. So get ready for Killers of the
Flower Moon. Only four hours I'm not kidding, something like four hours long.
I hope they shorten it that before it gets to my theater. All
right, I think we can go. It's in this segment. There's always
more. And I will now leave you with just the taste of the greatest
song ever written.