Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. This is
two hours of the business end of show business, and we're coming to you
live across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves beer most of the time.
Actually today I'm at the Planet of the Tape studios in Seal Beach High
at top my beachfront home. Sam, are you there? I am here,
and I am across the street from said Wiener Schnitzel. How's it doing.
It's doing well. It's you know, it's Mother's Day, so everybody
needs to go and get their Mother's Day chili dog. It's just tradition.
It's an American tradition. Don't forget the North Korean fusion tacos, which were
just like a special and now they just keep them all year round on the
menu. I'm telling you. It started off at one of those you know
food truck specials, you know, food for the people, and now it's
become a big hit as well. It's the can Film Festival starting this week,
so I expect you won't see as many celebrities in that Wiener Schnitzel as
you usually do. But you know, I don't know, maybe it'll be
less crowded on a On a sadder note, Sam, there's a there was
like a horrible stage diving accident that occurred in Buffalo, New York by from
a band called Trophy Eyes. They were playing out a show this past week.
They're on tour. They're from Australia, and the singer did a stage
dive and he landed on a on a girl and she's partially paralyzed. And
there's a it's got a really bad, a catastrophic spinal cord injury what they're
talking about. And the reason why I'm bringing this up because you know,
there's a couple of reasons. The girl's name is Bird, not Bird.
Piche is her last name, So I guess if you want to yeah,
Bird, Yeah, her name is Bird. This is weird because I met
a girl last night named Bird, So I'm like all confused. So this
is Bird pichet p I c h E. She's got to go fundme maybe
you can help her out. The band is called Trophy Eyes. They're doing
this show at this place called the Mohawk Place in Buffalo. And the guy
you can see it on well, you know what, we have a news
reporter that came to us from Buffalo with the report, let's go to her
right now and just get a whole summary on it. Can you do that?
Saday was doing something she enjoys, listening to music. Last week at
Mohawk Place where Trophy Eyes was performing, the lead singer did a stage dive
into the crowd and the twenty four year old was severely injured. In the
first song, he like stage shove into the crowd and there must just not
have been enough people around her to catch him, or they weren't aware that
he was going to jump, and that was kind of it. From then,
a couple of people on Reddit said they thought she had fainted, so
they went to grab her a cold rag, and then when they came back
they realized she was on the ground and wasn't getting up. The show stopped.
Bird was rushed to ECMC. The lead singer did go with Bird in
the ambulance to the hospital. They did make a fairly large contribution on her
go fundme. Bird, from the Only and Allegheny area, attended Fredonia University
and now lives in Buffalo, where she works for Planned Parenthood. Bird is
an activist and an advocate and an artist at heart. Now it's about healing,
and now she's gona moved to a regular room, and everybody wants to
know what her prognosisness and what will happen. But from my understanding on the
conversation that we've heard so far from doctors is with catastrophic spinal injuries, you
just can't tell, and they take a lot of time and patience to see
what the outcome is really going to be. Thanks Claudine, I always like
it when Claudine gets in the mix and gets out in the field. So
the a couple of reasons why I'm I'm talking about this and at the top
of the shows because this is I mean, primarily this show started out as
a legal advice show and for you for entertainers. So if you're an entertainer,
here's your legal advice that you already know is don't stage dive into your
audience because you could give a fan a catastrophic spinal cord injury. If you
want to give someone a catastrophic spinal cord injury, go to like a like
a protest, like maybe a Hamas protest, and jump on them and hurt
one of their spines unless you like them, then go to an Israeli protest
and jump on them one of your enemies. Don't jump on your fans.
Do you know where? Do you understand where I'm going with this? Him?
Yeah, And I just got to ask. I mean, you've been
on stage, You've done several shows of this nature. Have you had any
moments where you decided to throw caution to the wind and dive into the crowd.
No? Well not when I was a professional. When I was a
kid, we would jump on the stage and jump off. But I weighed
about eighty seven pounds. I mean, and you'll weigh eighty seven pounds.
You're not that large of a man. So when I would jump off the
stage, it didn't hurt anybody, even a little scornny, little planned parent,
good employee. I will give her. I'll donate to a GoFundMe to
get her to quit planned parenthood. That's what I will do if anyone wants
to start that up. But the earl was very small and frail, and
the guy was huge. And I actually remember the first time I saw stage
dive, and I think it might have been I'm gonna say that I've said
it before, I think I saw the first stage dive ever at a concert
and it was a guy named Dennis Denelle, who at the time was the
guitar player for Social Distortion. And the show was that Royce Hall in Ucla
and it was the Ramones. It's probably nineteen eighty two, eighty three,
eighty two, I'm gonna say eighty one, maybe eighty two, and you
know, the show's going good. It's a little a bit of a bore
because they's sit down seats at the Royce Hall. You know, before people
realize you got to you can only have punk shows at places where there's you
know, no seats. In the seventies, you really had to know what
kind of venue you're going to because there were seats or there was general admission,
and that like a dance floor area was was was rare. It was
seats all the way to the front at most places unless it was a club.
But this is Royce Hall. It's a very elegant hall until the AMAS
protester people spray paint all little spray painted all over it recently, but it's
a very nice place and there moon's a playing They got a little boring and
then Dennis Denelle just I don't know how he got on the stage. I
didn't see him get on the stage, but all of a sudden, I
see him running across the stage and fly off the stage into the audience,
and the security just pounced on him and dragged him out up the aisles.
And I was sitting in one of the seats, you know, halfway up
the aisle, and I looked at him and I went, I know that
guy, awesome job. I just couldn't believe it. And then the next
show, because I mean you just if there's a punk show, we knew
about it and so and there weren't that many, but the next show would
probably be maybe that weekend the Whiskey or something like that. And then at
that next show, everybody's jumping off the stage because he saw this guy do
it and it was so awesome, and they knew that. Like five people
jump off the stage, security can't get them all. So that's when you're
a customer and you jump off stage. And if it's very very crowded,
chances are you not going to cause that much damage if you're small, But
if you're a giant, you're gonna hit a little girl and you're gonna hurt
the little girl, So don't do that. But if you're the singer of
the band or anyone in the band, you know, there was a time
you could do that and get away with it, and someone would get hurt
and they would go, oh, I'm so bombed. But I'm you know,
I like the band. I don't want to do anything about I want
to assume him. But now in our religious society, Sam, you have
to not only do you have to not jump off the stage, you have
to to survive a lawsuit if someone gets hurt. You have to be on
the microphone telling people not to stage dive. And this is something I used
to always tell the fletcher from Pennywise, because he would encourage people to stage
dive. Jump the fens is, jump the rails, disobey security and get
up on here and jump off and cause chaos. But now when someone gets
injured and then there's a trial, there's not always a trial, not often,
but if the or you just have a transcript that the lawyers go to
the defendants, you know, the injured person. It's usually their parents.
They're suing the kids, like, don't sue Pennywise. And this is not
taken from an actual case, but I'll just use Pennywise an example, because
I was tell Fletcher, don't don't. He's the guitar player, iconic and
very giant. He would never stage live on people. He knows that.
He's very smart, but he likes chaos. Ooh doesn't. So I as
a lawyer, you know, in the punk scene, I would tell everybody,
hey, here's what you do. You get on that microphone and you
say, hey, guys, whatever you do, don't jump this barricade and
jump up here and then stage dive off the stage. Don't do that.
Whatever you do in a sarcastic tone. Of course, people will do it.
And then when the transcripts come out and the plaintiff lawyer sends that over
to the defendant lawyer and say, hey, we have this transcript. He
was telling people to stage dive. And then you look at it on paper,
you go, no, he's telling people not to stage dive. Well
we know what he meant. Yeah, well, I don't think you have
a very good case, so that's all you gotta do. But of course
it's not good to stage. My wife was once hit in the face by
a very young John Feldman from Goldfinger when he was in a band called Electric
Love Hogs at the Whiskey. No, she's a young Latina in the early
eighties. Not going to sue anybody, but some people do, Sam And
I mean, and then when you go to a jury and you have a
slam you got a bunch of like, you know, seven year old lady
that ends upon a jury and they show her the slam pit, They're just
that jury's like, what are you doing? What is this? Yeah,
we got to take a break on Yeah, let's take a break real quick.
We can get back into this. I have a couple of stories.
Okay. Joe Sclante Live from Hollywood, Joe Scolante Live from Hollywood Business,
End of Show Business, every Sunday from five to seven k e IB eleven
fifty on your AM radio dial. Okay, we've been talking about the bird
Pichet spinal catastrophic spinal cord injury at the Trophy Eyes show at the Mohawk Place
in Buffalo, New York. Now, when I first heard that, it
sounded grim. You know, I'm like, who's going to this? It
was a weak night. Someone's going to a show in Buffalo, New York.
Trophy. Then I heard the bands from Australia. I go, well,
if a punk band is from Australia, they got to be pretty good
to get out to Los Angeles. I mean to Buffalo. To Buffalo,
you know, pretty far away. I mean, I don't know how many
days it takes to fly to Buffalo. But in any case, if they
make it to the United States and they got the work permits and all that
stuff, they're probably pretty good. And of course when you heard the news
story, or if you read the news stories about it, she did like
that. I don't know if I properly set this up. Sam. We're
talking about the girl that got her spinal cord injured at the punk concert,
and she was a fan of the band, so she's not probably not going
to sue that. She was already a fan, and she's an adult,
so it's not like her parents are going to sue. But it's still very
dangerous. It's the worst thing you can do. I've seen it, so
I've seen it in front of me, Sam. I've seen a guy jump
off the stage from like our backstage and land and just just injured. I
heard a guy. I saw a guy injure two girls where they were both
crying and they were both dragged out, And then I went, I went
to the promoter and I go, hey, find out who those girls are
and we'll, you know, pay their medical expenses or whatever. But and
what we were talking about right before the break is imagine a jury and a
plaintiff's attorney trying to tell them how much negligence was involved in the injury,
and they And if you get an average group of people that end up on
a jury and you show them a slam pit at a punk concert, they'd
be horrified. It would be going, why didn't the singer stop the show
right when this swirling stew of slammers started bashing into each other? Sounds like
this looks like an emergency, even though to a punk that's normal. You
want to you want to make sure that slam pit is as furious as possible.
But to a jury, it's just all about negligence. So you got
to be aware of that. And the best thing you could do is minimize
it by telling people not to stage dive. If you see there's there's you
know any Yeah, you're just gonna get sued. You don't want to.
And it cuts about it's only happened us once. We got sued for an
injury at a at a show and it was it was a fight, and
it was a fight during maybe the headlining band's performance, and we were like
second on the bill, and they started suing everybody and we had to file
an answer twenty years ago. It cost us five thousand dollars just to say,
hey, we weren't even playing and then it went away. But it
was five thousand dollars twenty years ago just to do that. So here's the
silver lining on this sale, other than the fact the girl doesn't have to
go back to play a parenthood to work anymore. The band Trophy Eyes.
I looked them up because I'm thinking, if they make it to Australia,
that must be pretty good. The band's a amazing I have a new favorite
band. Truly encourage everybody go to Spotify or YouTube or whatever and and check
out Trophy Eyes. It was a great band. I gotta get the lead
singer credit. He jumped in the ambulance and went with her like he obviously
felt some remorse. He stopped the show and took off with her. That's
that takes. That takes some character right there. Yeah, you could tell.
I mean, the guy, it just felt bad. And what he
did is he like the song started and within like just a few bars of
music, like right after he sang his first you know verse, he he
jumped into the audience and flipped backwards. And it looks like it you can
see this on on YouTube. It looks like he didn't hurt anybody. But
he must have just landed right on the top of her head and you can't
it's hard to see. You can see her in there, her pink hair,
and and it just hit at the exact wrong angle and it you know,
compressed or spine or whatever. And he's probably done it one hundred times
and it's part of the show. People want to see it. But yeah,
our prayers are with Piche and the band because I don't want them to
get sued. But they're playing at the Tarogram Ballroom here in Los Angeles on
May sixteenth, So if you check them out and you like him, you
might want to go to that Tarogram show Teargramd Ballrooms in downtown, and it's
pretty cool place. I played there a couple of times, so it shows
you that they're still I mean, this is For me, it's like there's
still new punk bands Turnstile Neck Deep, Trophy Eyes. They're still churning out
punk bands that are really really good. And this is after I've been told
punk is dead. My first time I was told punk is dead was nineteen
seventy nine where I went over to my idol slash you know, neighbor Steve
Olsen, a punk rock skateboard guy who kind of started the whole Orange County
punk scene, and he said, you wanted me to play drums in his
band? And I went over there to play drums in his punk band,
which was called Butchie in the Hoods, and he told me, no,
that band's over. Punk is dead. This is nineteen seventy nine. This
is a rockabilly band. So I auditioned and I played in the Aristo Cats
with Steve Olsen and Johnny Rockin for we probably about a year. We played
all the clubs in LA, played with the Blasters, played with a bunch
of rockabilly legends, and back then rockabilly wasn't even retro. It was just
a little bit out of style, you know, right, This is before
the Stray Cats stamp. Yeah, yeah, so cool story, bro.
We can put that in the cool story. Bro Bucket, I think I'll
give him credit for having foresight. Yeah, yeah, it was like neonatal
death. Yeah, exactly exactly what it was. And then after after that
band ran its course, they started a New York Dolls, you know,
rip off kind of band, and like they were just like, you know,
a couple decades behind everywhere and or ahead, I don't know. And
then I went and joined the Vandals, which had been a band for a
few months, already playing parties. And then finally I was in a punk
band. And then they told me punk was dead. You know, so
many other times, but here it is twenty twenty four, and if you
want to see some new band like the Turnstile Band and the Garden. Another
good new punk band the No Values concert on June eighth and Pomona. I
think they just released a few more tickets for that, so they said it
was sold out. And that is a show with Social Distortion, Iggy Pop,
Bad Religion, the Vandals, the Misfits, Sublime. I'll be doing
double duty so you can see you saw Iggy Pop in ninety eight in Pitts
Dick in Pittsburgh. Yep, sorry, I don't want to top your story.
But now iggy pop please. I saw iggy Pop for the Stardust Ballroom
in nineteen eighty with the Go Gos and the Weirdos opening. Oh that's really
good. Yeah no, no, no barricade, like just a stage about
two feet off the ground, had no barricade and iggy Pop just crawling all
over us. That's pretty odd and iggy pop. Yeah, so we'll be
playing with iggy pop June eighth, be there or every punk band you've ever
heard of It's in town is playing that thing. I guess we're up against
it again. Let's take another break and come back with more. Joe'scalante Live
from Hollywood. Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, you mean Burbank,
Sam, Let's go to the movies. Yeah, you've got an exciting
box office weekend with the number one movie in the nation, Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes. Sam. The Apes have returned and they're dominating the
box office from twentieth Century Films, which is now owned by Disney. Number
two is The fall Guy. This is Ryan Gosling's new movie. It's Hot
off the Barbie Triumph from Universal Pictures. Number three, The Challengers, Number
four, Tarot watch out for that one. Number five, Godzilla X Kong.
Yeah yeah. Number six, Unsung Hero where my sister has got her
all seven kids going to the movies with for Mother's Day for my sister to
see Unsung Hero tonight Kung Fu Panda four, Civil War, number eight,
saw that one's great. Nine, Star Wars Episode one, The Phantom manas
Oh Minace Sorry, Number number ten Abigail So yeah. Star Wars a little
re release got in the top ten with the four hundred and eighty six thousand
total gross one and a half million, I mean four hundred and eighty six
million total gross. That's from you know, a long time ago. But
they did in a one point five million over the weekend. That's just because
of May the fourth. Oh they're tricky, right yep? Yeah yeah.
The Vandals played a May the fourth show last Saturday in San Francisco, another
one of those would you tell everybody to live long and prosper I exactly,
thank you. There was not one bit of Star Wars anything. This how
punk rockers are nothing on the poster and Star Wars notorious trekkies. That's why
I guess so because there was no people dressed up like Star Wars at the
show or anything. There was nothing. No punk rock, chew Bacca,
no nothing like that. No, nothing like that. You know, there
was a couple like usually there's at least a banana at the show. I
think I even made a comment from the stage. There was like a like
a hot dog and there was like some fries and stuff people in these costumes
and there was no Star Wars and no banana. I was like, where's
the banana guy? And who is the banana guy? And why does someone
think they need to be the banana guy at concerts or events? Are you?
You know what? I'll bet you I'm talking to you and you're like,
wait a second, I'm the banana guy at I am't the banana guy
you are? They look like you. The banana guy looks like you.
It is okay. Let me go back to the movies because I want to
make some recommendations. Sam Okay. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is
the best Planet of the Ape movie since Battle for the Planet of the Apes,
starring my brother in law Paul Williams as Virgil the Wise Orangutang as part
of the Five original Planet of the Apes and movies, which were, you
know, life changing for me, just life changing. I used to sit
in on my roof with my pretend spaceship and just pray that the Apes would
come and land in my street and take me away. And I wasn't unhappy.
I just but their world looked that good. Then when the new Planet
of the Apes stuff came along, I didn't like it, But this one
I like because also I'm now used to the new apes that look like actual
apes, and I don't pine away for the old apes anymore. This is
a great movie, Sam, Really, it's that good. It was that
good. It's great. It's like maybe I've been my bar is lower now
because I've seen all these the the crap Marvel Marvel movies and the DC movies
that have kind of dipped, and then the Star Wars movies which got worse
and worse and worse, and the Star Trek movies which bored me. Yeah,
and I just and then all of a sudden this one came. I
go, this is a really good movie, and uh, that's my recommendation
for the week. It's directed by a guy named Wes Ball, who is
known for these Maze Runner movies. Have you ever seen one of the maze
running Yeah? Yeah, those are surprisingly good movies. I didn't I did
not expect the first one I thought was fantastic. Well, this is where
he came from and he made he's he's like saving the the Planet of the
Apes franchise, and uh and we thank him. Interesting. I'm I might
have to go and check this out. I appreciate your recommendation. Oh man,
you can't lose with this movie. It's just enjoyable. The plot is
grown up. There's a hot chicken it I've never seen her before. And
the apes are just like, these are talking apes. Okay, this is
not it's not even cgi. These are talking apes. There's no way CGI
could make apes this realistically talk. So we know that there is such a
thing as a bunch of talking apes, because there are a lot of them
are in this movie. All right, now we're going to get to the
sad part of the show. We mourn the death of Roger Corman, a
giant an independent filmmaking who died over the weekend at age nineteen. At age
ninety eight, wow, so he was they called them King of the b
movies. He's a producer, a director, and he was the guy that
gave the career boost to a lot of untested talent in the seventies like Jack
Nicholson first movies, Yeah, Ron Howard Hey, Ron direct this film Grand
Theft Auto that was huge when I was in junior high. Peter Bogdanovich,
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan dem Gail Aandherd, James Cameron,
and a very young Joe Escalante in a nineteen eighty two thriller called Suburbia.
His first appearance on the big screen. Sam really, Yeah, I owe
it all to Roger Corman, dead at ninety eight. I'm still on Screen
Actors Guild, but do I work a lot? I work never, But
I love the credit union that the Screen Actors Skill has, and then every
Awards season I get a bunch of movie screeners. So that's a good reason
to stay on. See, I need to start looking at getting my SAG
after card. I need to start digging in on that stuff. Now.
Well, technically, right now, we're all violating finished non union rule number
one. Right now, we're violating. We are scum. You are scabs.
We are right now, with every breath that we take. But it
wasn't my fault that after merged with SAG after his the American Federation of Television
Radio Artists or something like that, and they merged at one point with the
screen actors skilled. So now you know, now we're scaps, I guess.
But anyway, back to Roger Corman. Yeah, he made the nineteen
sixty version of a Little Shop of Horrors. And these are like ed Edgar
Allen Poe adaptation starring Vincent Price. They were a big deal when I was
a kid, a lot of biker movies like Wild Angels in nineteen sixty six,
The Trip with Peter Fonda as a man on an LSD inspired odyssey,
and this was one of the first films that people thought, you know,
any publicity is good publicity, because people are saying these movies are terrible and
they're offensive and we've got to run this guy out of town. But they
would get a lot of publicity, like Bloody Mama from nineteen seventy. People
say this thing is awful, but it has Shelley Winners, Robert de Niro
and Bruce Dern And when I saw it as a seven year old in the
Fox Theater in Rossmore. I was thrilled by it. So anyway, you
can't go wrong by just looking up any Roger Corman film. You do a
little research. See the good ones. The one that I'm in called Suburbia.
It's pretty good. It's slow and cringey at times. The actors are
all punk rock kids, but it's iconic. It was on the Criterion Network.
I mean it's part of the Criterion collection, so it's important. And
there's some books about Roger Corman you could get anyway. I'm really proud to
be in a Roger Corman film. And and the guy went to Beverly Hills
High School, Stanford. He had a great la life and we will miss
him. I will now take a break and we'll come back with more.
Joe A. Scolante Live from Hollywood. Yeah, Joe Aslante, here's my
lawyer. You don't want money? He does it all. Joe A.
Sclante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean by bank. Hey.
We talk a little bit about AI here in the legal aspects and like AR
deficial intelligence, creating people's voices and fooling people, and legality of it,
or the tragedy where people say oh everything AI this AI that this is bad,
this is negative. It's going to ruin everything, it's going to take
over our lives, all this stuff. I have never been on that bandwagon.
I've just thought, Okay, hey, it's a cool technology, and
let's see what we can do with it. I've done a few things with
it in my movies or you know, just people like I know a guy
who's vice president of a major, major corporation and he every one of his
memos for the past several years he's been doing with chat GPT and people are
like, man, Rob, you are you are kicking ass? You are
kicking ass over there in your office. And he's like, just you know,
I don't write these things, all these glowing you know, even Instagram
messages and congratulating employees and stuff like that, and he's just pushing a button.
Anyway, Yeah, how can it be used for good? Well,
there's a great example now with the new Randy Travis song. Randy Travis,
as you know, he suffered a stroke. I think it was in twenty
thirteen, could be wrong on that, but anyway, he had a stroke,
couldn't sing, couldn't walk, So yeah, twenty thirteen stroke but he's
one of the greatest country artists of all time, digging up Bones, one
of the best country music songs of all time. And then he all of
a sudden he has a stroke. He can't do anything now with AI.
They just take his voice. Got a new song and I think we can
play a little bit of it, Sam, could you play a little bit
of it? Yeah, here we go. I'm kay. Randy Travis new
single it's called Where That Came From? Sounds very Randy Travis esque, so
far shared eyes like diamond. They called the Life all the Day, We're
king deeper then the n Okay, I mean that. I think that's that's
I just want to play a little bit of it. But if you go
to YouTube and look at the Randy Travis song called uh Where That Came From?
You will lose it. It's you see him in the wheelchair. You
see his surrounded by his loved ones and producers and studios and they're kind of
listening, you know, to the final product or whatever, and you'll lose
it. It's very emotional. So there there it is. There's your everyone
who's freaked out about AI. If if that's all we get out of it,
and then it destroys the world tomorrow. I'm gonna say it was worth
it and the sam I know you'll agree with me, oh absolutely. Between
that and the amount of help I got through my doctoral program using AI not
to quote and you write memos off of, but to get a better understanding
of what I was reading and writing about was definitely helpful. But I also
recognize what's on the horizon or what Snoop Dogg was reading to you exactly.
That's what I'm saying. I had Snoop Dogg reading me my lessons. This
was absolutely fantastic. What's the what's the name of that program? It was
Speechify, it was yeah, no, it just you you pop in a
PDF or you type in a document and it has a bunch of pre programmed
voices that like they have mister Beast as one of them. They have a
bunch of different people who are really famous people. Gwyneth Paltrow is a voice.
I believe They've got a lot of really famous people who voices on this
thing. And it's it's it makes it so much more engrossing when you have
when you get to hear Snoop give you your lesson. If Snoop Dogg was
reading me my lessons. I wouldn't believe him because he didn't go to college,
but I'm glad it worked for you. Let's go to streaming a couple
of movies. I've been watching a lot of true crime things on streaming.
What Jennifer Did is one I watched. It was pretty good, but an
Asian girl that just got a little too greedy and did some really bad stuff.
And then you don't see a lot of Asian girls committed major crimes that
way. It was like fascinating, okay, but number one in the streaming
world. It's number one on my list and number one on the Netflix list,
too. Unfrosted. Have you heard of this movie? Sam? No?
No, what's this? It is a movie about the war between Kellogg's
Cereal and post Cereal in like the nineteen sixties, starring every comedian you've ever
heard of, Jim the Stars, Jerry Seinfeld okay in the starring role,
and then Jim Gaffigan, Uh, Thomas Lennon, H McCarty, woman whatever
her name is, big girl, Jennifer McCartney. She's great, Yeah,
but anyway, she's great. Everybody's great in it. You're sitting there and
when my wife played a game. My wife and I played a game who
was what comedian are we going to see next? And then I go Bill
Burr, Bill Burr's got to be in this. And then like five minutes
later, Bill Burr comes out playing John F. Kennedy and uh, he
was great in it with a wig. I think I'll see the trailers on
this, and it's the pop It's about pop tarts, isn't it. It's
about the It's about the creation of the pop tart and the war between Post
and Kellogg to get this pop tart, uh, you know, breakfast treat
out. And I was alerted to it because my wife and I went to
see Seinfeld at the Hollywood Bowl last week and he kept talking about this not
a lot but unfrosted and you saw this. I didn't know what it was.
And then I saw it on Netflix. You're gonna want to watch it
over and over and over again because there's so much going on, so many
jokes, so many great people in it. And this is the joy of
Netflix giving someone like Seinfeld a ton of money, unlimited budget, and the
stupidest idea for a movie ever in the history of the world and just go
ahead and do it and we trust you and it turned out great. So
definitely watch Unfrosted on Netflix. Yeah, that idea didn't quite hit as often
as you would like when they did that with Adam Sandler. Hey, I
like the Adam Sandler Halloween movies. Some of them were good. Some of
them were good, but then you had that like weird western that they tried
to put out and that it was I didn't see that. Maybe I'm glad,
Yeah it was. It wasn't pretty, but it was okay. I
can appreciate that they're putting money behind actual talent to see what they can whip
up because they are going to come up with something good every once in a
while. And it looks like this one was ahead. And you know,
streaming wars are pretty much over. Netflix is the winner. The other ones
are you know, some are gonna drop off. Some well consolidate, very
very good stuff on Apple TV Plus, but nobody cares and nobody watches it.
So Netflix everybody watches and there's a lot of good stuff. I mean
it goes up and down sometimes. For a while there, I could tell
they were saving money and they were just kind of like flood me with foreign
shows, like here's an amazing movie you should watch, and I go,
that's an Indian movie. Here's an amazing movie. That's that's that's Canadian.
I'm not watching that, but but now it looks like I think they're on
an uptick and oh so unfrosted. This week is CAM Film Festivals, as
I said, and what's going on in cam Film Festival. We'll probably talk
about this next week because we're kind of running out of time here, but
there's supposed to be an explosive secret list of me Too villains going to be
released this week at the can Film Festival in France, and so watch out
for that because you know, you know, that's just like you know what
I guess, like a sweater unraveling, an onion unpeeling, and it always
never ends well. So we'll cover that next week. And now I will
just leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written.