WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:15.400 Here we go, Joe Escalante. Life from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you 2 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:20.839 mean Burbank across the street from a Wiener Snitzel that serves beer. We are 3 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:24.000 two hours of the business, end of show business, every Sunday. Here 4 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.600 and k E I B eleven fifty on your AM dial as you're driving around 5 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:32.479 LA or tinkering in your garage, whatever you do when you're listening to M 6 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:39.000 radio. Maybe you're on iHeart Radio all over the world. Sam, Sam, 7 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:41.960 are you there? I am here. People can listen to us all 8 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:46.799 over the world. We are worldwide. This is incredible. I wonder why 9 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:54.159 they don't. With the fan base in Dubai is thriving, I maybe that'd 10 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.240 be interesting. If you're in Dubai, call the nine the line right now. 11 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.960 What is the number? It's eight hundred and five to two oh one, 12 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:06.799 five three four. I thought it was eleven fifty. I can't do 13 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.000 the letter thing. It might be eleven fifty, but you know, yeah, 14 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:15.079 eleven fifty's that's in doseerent numbers. But cool anyway. Uh, okay, 15 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.159 so let's get to the big stories of the week. I want to 16 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:26.760 go right to uh what everybody's talking about, which is Scarlett Johansson. Okay, 17 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.640 maybe they're not talking about that, but do you know what's going on 18 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:37.359 with Scarlett Johansson. Isn't she married to the dude from SNL? That's about 19 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.760 all that I pay attention to. I think that they're an awesome couple. 20 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:45.040 They're they're they're like Hollywood's underground power couple. Yeah. I like them as 21 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.280 a couple. I mean, I didn't meet her until after I got married, 22 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:57.040 so you know, it was just it's complicated, but uh, she 23 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.319 used to be my favorite, then it changes because over time. Now do 24 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:06.599 you know who my favorite is? Now? Oh, there's so many though. 25 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.280 Florence Pugh. Florence Pugh, you ad you number one? Uh? 26 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:14.199 I was it a Aubrey or Audrey Plaza? You love? She's good, 27 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:20.159 she's fantastic. And I'm executive producer of a movie that she's in, and 28 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.439 the and the the director didn't call me when when it was time to interview 29 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:28.719 her, so oh bummer. You know, I don't need that. I 30 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.360 don't need that in my life, but I do. I'm a married man. 31 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:37.520 I'm not co parenting a kid somewhere. I'm married guy sitting in my 32 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:39.919 you know, I'm living my life. Okay, let's get to the stories 33 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:46.240 before this gets creepy. Okay, Open Eye Open AI. Okay, this 34 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:51.800 is a real company. They make chat GBT and everybody's using it to, 35 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:57.599 you know, make AI versions of their homework or recommendation letters. I use 36 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:05.360 it for a lot, and I used it to make a speech on trademark. 37 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:07.400 I think we talked about that in a while ago. I did a 38 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:15.599 speech for the Southeast Bar Association or something like that. That's all the lawyers 39 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:21.439 and judges from the southeast District of LA County. And you know, I 40 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.039 made an outline using it was pretty helpful, and then I you know, 41 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:29.520 you can't. It never really works all the way for something, but it 42 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.639 gives you a couple ideas. It gives you a good framework to work off 43 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:37.039 of, but don't base everything off you're doing word for word for it. 44 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.599 Because there was a story I think yesterday that we ran on the news where 45 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.719 they gave ingredients for a recipe and one of the ingredients was something called non 46 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:57.360 toxic blue. That sounds toxic. That sounds delicious. So open EYI has 47 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:03.000 some new product like Virtual Assistant that they're developing, and they needed a voice. 48 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:10.280 So everybody's saying that when the voice came out, it sounds suspiciously like 49 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:18.279 Scarlett Johansson. Even Scarlett Johansson's lawyers have contacted chat GBT or apen ai and 50 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:24.000 said, why does that ask? Why does that sound like Scarlett Johansson? 51 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.519 Does that sound like a problem to you, Sam? It can be, 52 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.680 yeah, because you could if it sounds exactly like a person, you can 53 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:35.319 get that AI voice to say just about anything that that person would not want 54 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:41.680 to have their name associated with. Yeah. But it's even worse because Scarlett 55 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:46.079 Johansson has a right to sell her voice and sell her identity. She has 56 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:51.519 a right of publicity. Every state or not all states, actually most states 57 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:56.160 have these right of publicity laws. There's no federal law against it, so 58 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.959 you have to use these state laws. But if you are if you've got 59 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:06.319 a voice and you're selling a product or using a commercial commercial venture and you 60 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:14.120 sound just like a celebrity, that celebrity has a right to get paid or 61 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.720 decide whether they want to do it or not. So this kind of blindsided 62 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.240 her, I guess, and all the people online were saying it sounds just 63 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.879 like her, all right, let's listen to it. Yeah, Hi, 64 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.920 how you doing? Hey? Is your voice supposed to be Scarlett Johansson. 65 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:34.199 No, my voice isn't designed to replicate Scarlett Johansson or any specific person. 66 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:41.199 All right, so you heard that it sounds a lot like Scarlett Johansson. 67 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.000 Sounds exactly like her. Yeah, okay, So the problem is they reached 68 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:50.040 out. Normally they could say yeah, we didn't, it's a coincidence. 69 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.959 But they reached out to Scarlett Johanson and asked her if she would be the 70 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:56.800 voice for this, if they could use her voice, and she said no. 71 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:04.279 So right there, you're like this happens all the time. There was 72 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.800 a case, there's a couple of cases. Bett Middler case in nineteen eighty 73 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.839 eight commercial. They asked her to be on a commercial and she said no, 74 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:16.480 and then they told the backup singers make it sound as the singers they 75 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:21.079 did. Get make it sound as much like Bette Midler as you can. 76 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.839 Yeah. So you can't go to Bette Middler and say do you want to 77 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:28.959 be in this Ford commercial and when she says no, go get someone that 78 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.920 sounds exactly like her, unless you said, like, this is not Bette 79 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.920 Miller. You know, but that's why you hear a lot on commercial's celebrity 80 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:45.600 voices impersonated. Then Tom Waits in the same year sued Fredo's because they used 81 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.319 his voice. And first they called and said, can we make a parody 82 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:53.639 of one of your songs for Dorrido's and he said no, and then they 83 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.720 got it sound alike. So this is exactly what they did here. So 84 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:01.839 the case law is really against this chat GPT open Ai company. And when 85 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.240 you look at the if you look, all you have to do is look 86 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:11.439 and see the CEO of this company. There's so much douche baggery like written 87 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:16.920 all over his face. You you got to Yeah, you gotta go look 88 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.879 at him and just go, oh, come on guy. First of all, 89 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.920 I probably wanted to meet Scarlett Johnson. Yeah. Well, there were 90 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.120 similar issues with Elliott Page, I guess then Ellen Page with the video game 91 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:33.319 for the Last of Us, where the likeness of the character was their of 92 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:41.000 the the main female protagonist was very similar to how he then she looked at 93 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:45.040 the time, and so there was a lawsuit about that and they because they 94 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:49.240 believe that they just took their likeness without permission. And that's one thing but 95 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:54.279 these are these are these are issues like that one and this one. These 96 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.519 are issues for the trier of fact, as they say, so the tryer 97 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:03.160 of fact is the is the jury. And in a jury, if you 98 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.240 can convince more than half of the jury in a civil case that hey, 99 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.720 this sounds just like Scarlett Johansson, then you got a big problem. But 100 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:18.920 the defense here is that that's a coincidence. But do you think a jury 101 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.199 is going to believe it's coincidence when they asked Scarlett Johansson and she said, 102 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:28.160 no, no, you're you're toast when that happens. And there's there's there's 103 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:35.360 one other aspect to this that is worse for Open AI that Scarlett Johansson actually 104 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:43.519 voiced a AI assistant in the movie her. Oh remember that yep. So 105 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.360 that's why when we played that recording it sounded, uh there was some there 106 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:54.879 was some of that was in there too. She is known for this and 107 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.200 then known for the movie her as an Open AI assistant or as some kind 108 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:07.279 of virtual assistant. Then when they were launching this product, that CEO A 109 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:16.639 tweeted out the word her Uh yeah, no, that's come on, that's 110 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.159 a little too on the nose. Yeah, this guy, I mean, 111 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.399 when you see it, it's just like that's that's that's dumb. Yeah, 112 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.320 that's not thinking straight. So what's gonna happen illegally? What can happen? 113 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:35.320 How much time do I have here? We have let's see what give me 114 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:41.320 a second because I didn't start the time around time? Actually, no, 115 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.080 we probably are because we how long was the audio clip you sent? Oh 116 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:46.440 yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so we're toast. Okay, yeah, 117 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.879 let me just let me just say this, open a eyes in trouble. 118 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.759 They're gonna have to make a settlement. They already took it down, but 119 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.720 now they're gonna have to reach a settlement. And it's so Scarlett Johansson is 120 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.519 in the drive receipt here. Let's take a break, check the traffic. 121 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:07.600 We'll be back. Joe Scalante, Life from Hollywood. Joe Scalante, Live 122 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.120 from Hollywood. By Hollywood you mean Birdbank? All right, movies, let's 123 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.919 get to the movies. I went to the movies last night. We can 124 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:20.840 guess which one I saw after we do the countdown, and then I'll guess 125 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.360 which one you saw, Sam even if he didn't see one. Okay, 126 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:31.799 all right, Number one in the box office. Furiosa a Mad Max Saga, 127 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.759 doing twenty five million dollars at the box office in three thousand theaters. 128 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:45.159 Number two couldn't cut it. Garfield couldn't beat Furiosa. Garfield's a cat movie. 129 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.440 If from Paramount, Number three, Number four, Kingdom of the Planet 130 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.360 of the Apes. This is a hit. This is a hit movie, 131 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.240 still hanging in there in the top four. I know you and I both 132 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.720 saw it and liked it. The fall Guy is a flop according to Hollywood 133 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.440 standards, but it's still hanging on in there. And if you, you 134 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.240 know, if you couldn't get enough of Ryan Gosling in the Barbie Movie like 135 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:20.919 me and Sam, this is the movie for you. Number six The Strangers, 136 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.600 Chapter one, number seven site from Angel Studios. You know that's about 137 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:33.879 eight challengers from Amazon. It's the opposite of Angel Studios. Nine Babes from 138 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.480 Neon Pictures, featuring no babes as far as I could tell by the poster, 139 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.840 but I think that's the idea. I get it. Number ten back 140 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:48.919 to Black from Focused Features, and then blah blah blahs, it goes down 141 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:54.440 there. I'm trying to see anything on the list that might be interesting for 142 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:00.240 us. No, all right, guess which movie I saw? Sam? 143 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.240 Which movie did you see? That's a pretty good guess. I thought that 144 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:07.799 was a good one. Actually, I saw Furiosa, a Mad Max Saga 145 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.919 number one movie in America, pushed over the top by my attendance at the 146 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:18.080 cinema in Huntington Beach. So you're the one that kept Heathcliff down. Yes, 147 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.200 so super fun. I mean, do you like Mad Max. If 148 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.799 you like Mad Max, you got to see this movie. It sounds like 149 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:31.440 it's one of those visual delights. It's a visual delight, Sam, That's 150 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.960 exactly what it is. Yes, Yes, you got to see it in 151 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.559 the Turkish Taffy for the eyes. Yeah, okay, yeah, sure, 152 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:48.559 you got to see it in either what's it called IMAX or xd XD is 153 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.799 the version of IMAX that the cinema theaters have. I saw it in that, 154 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.919 and it's not like the seventy milimeter true Imax or whatever. But it's 155 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:01.759 a big ass theater and it's so big you can see through the visual effects. 156 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.000 Wow. Yeah, yeah, it's so big. It's kind of like 157 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:07.960 if I was a director of this film, I'd be like, this is 158 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.879 too big because I've made a couple movies and people ask me, why aren't 159 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:18.440 you gonna have this in theaters, or why don't you care about theaters? 160 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.960 I just you know, I owned a record label, so we made movies 161 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.000 and we for the punk audience, and we you know, we didn't We 162 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.480 didn't go to screenings, we didn't go to film festivals, and we just 163 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.840 shipped them straight to the people who it was made for. Wasn't made for 164 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:33.559 festival judges. And also didn't want to see my movie plastered on a big 165 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:37.360 screen because I didn't want to see my mistakes. But in this movie, 166 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.919 it is hilarious. It is fun. There's so much going on, and 167 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:54.720 the visual effects are crazy, but they're not you know, they're not lucasfilm 168 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.039 or whatever. You know, they're not. They're they're they're just fun. 169 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:03.200 Like the fire. There's so much fire going on, like flame throwers. 170 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.519 Everybody's getting hit by a flamethrower. Everyone's got one, and there are flamethrowers 171 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:13.080 on motorcycles. There's a motorcycle chariot like with three motorcycles like the Hemsworth. 172 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:20.600 Chris Hemsworth rides around in this on this motorcycle chariot thing. It's exactly what 173 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.600 you think it is. Instead of horses, it's being pulled by three motorcycles. 174 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.919 But you know there's no one on the motorcycles. He's controlling them with 175 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:31.200 his you know, throttle. I guess that's cool. Yeah, as soon 176 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.559 as when you first you see that, you go, okay, that's cool. 177 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.679 And there's so many cool vehicles and then there's like, you know, 178 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:45.879 so many cool like flying machines, and it seems like they only in this 179 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:52.639 post apocalyptic world they only have they have gasoline powered motors and microphones and speakers 180 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:54.840 is the only technology they have. Everything else is like you know, they're 181 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:01.519 making their clothes from spinning wheels and things like that, and you it's sometimes 182 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:03.720 it's hard to follow, like who's on whose side, who's killing who? 183 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:13.600 But man, h it is it is super fun. Ah. It stars 184 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:22.159 Chris Hemsworth and Anna Taylor Joy. Anna Taylor Joy from you know, the 185 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:31.080 the the Chess Thing on Netflix where she became famous, but then but in 186 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:37.919 in this movie Furiosa, I mean, you know, they made her look 187 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:48.600 like a post apocalyptic ah, like just grungy action hero. She's dirty the 188 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.559 whole time. Her face looks like her her weird stare. She's just they 189 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.919 just made her ugly. So I mean, this is if you like Anna 190 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.039 Taylor Joy as an ugly woman, this is a movie for you. But 191 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.120 it's not about beauty in this movie. It's about filth. And you know, 192 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.799 it's like a thunderdome in there. You know, have you ever been 193 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.200 to a thunderdome? Sam not in the last couple of weeks. Now, 194 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.600 let me tell you. I mean, it's kill or be killed in this 195 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.720 thing, the Queen's Gambit. That was the chest thing she was in. 196 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.360 But I don't know. She's a great actress. But you know actresses, 197 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.679 they get anarexic and they get and they do weird things to their face. 198 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:36.279 And so far Florence Pugh hasn't done that. Yeah, so I don't know, 199 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.399 but I definitely recommend furiosa. Did you see anything this week? I 200 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:47.320 did not. I stayed home and I've been playing video games. I'm catching 201 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.279 up on my backlog of video games. All right, good for you. 202 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:53.720 Fortunately for the audience, I don't play video games, so we can continue 203 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:59.759 with the movies. I saw a movie streaming on Netflix. I believe it 204 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:07.039 was called Tricky Dick versus The Man in Black. This is about the relationship 205 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:15.839 between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon. As you can tell, you know, 206 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.440 in Hollywood, they're going to trash Richard Nixon, one of the greatest presidents 207 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:25.240 in the history of the country, and they did. And Johnny Cash one 208 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:30.720 of the greatest you know, singers, performers, songwriters in the history of 209 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.880 the country. They had a very interesting relationship. It's ten times more interesting 210 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.599 than you think it's going to be. And then my the other film I 211 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:45.079 saw streaming, which is The Late Night I definitely recommend a Tricky Dick versus 212 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:51.319 ever Man and Black. But another one I is a weird one called Late 213 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:52.319 Night with the Devil. Have you heard of this one? No? I 214 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.799 have not. It sounds nice, it's pretty good. But you know what, 215 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.200 let's take a break and we'll come back. We'll talk about Late Night 216 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.839 with the Devil, one of the most unusual films to come out of this 217 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:07.319 year. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If 218 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:12.519 by Hollywood you mean Burbank. Here with the two hours of the Business, 219 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:17.960 End of show Business, every Sunday on KiB eleven to fifteen on your AM 220 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:25.240 dial or worldwide on iHeartRadio apps, et cetera. Yeah, I apologize we're 221 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:30.960 talking so much about the physical appearance of Anna Taylor Joy, but I mean, 222 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:36.160 she's an actress. She's charging me money to look at her face. 223 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:47.240 So you know, I think it's fair late night, Late Night with the 224 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:49.359 Devil. Have you heard of it? I have not. What is this 225 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:52.400 about? It sounds like an experience I had earlier this week, but that's 226 00:18:53.319 --> 00:19:00.599 that's for another show at a later hour. This is a film by a 227 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:11.000 director team, Colin and Cameron Cairn, and they wrote it and directed it 228 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:23.640 and whatever it's about a late a well, it's framed as a documentary investigating 229 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:30.720 an unexplained event that occurred on the night of Halloween nineteen seventy seven during the 230 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:37.079 live broadcast of this successful late night variety show, not too successful, struggling 231 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:45.519 in the ratings, and he's competing with Johnny Carson and things aren't looking that 232 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.000 good. And then the Halloween Special is kind of supposed to drive some ratings 233 00:19:49.640 --> 00:20:00.079 and it gets super demonic, and he brings on some people, like like 234 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:08.039 an Indian mystic. Then he brings on a woman that's gonna perform an exorcism 235 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.359 on a young girl. And then he brings on like a debunker, like 236 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:17.920 the Amazing Randy you know, this guy that comes on and debunks all mystical 237 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:23.160 Oh yeah yeah. And then when I was had my morning show on Indy 238 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.799 one O three one, I brought on this guy who was are these people 239 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:33.279 that were skeptics too? And they had a they had a check. They 240 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:40.759 were going to pay one million dollars for anybody that can prove any mystical occurrence 241 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:44.240 ever, you know, and uh, you know that to me, that's 242 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.079 they're never going to write that check no matter what. But that's just kind 243 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:49.039 of this guy. He had a check. He brought it to the show, 244 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:59.000 and so he was a saying that all this mystical stuff that the talk 245 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.920 show host had on his show was all phony. And then you know, 246 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.799 it just goes from there and it climaxes with all kinds of crazy stuff. 247 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.119 Very well done as far as trying to make you believe this is a nineteen 248 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:21.039 seventy seven talk show. The costuming, the you know, the kind of 249 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:29.440 the the aesthetic of a nineteen seventies television live television event. The host is 250 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:38.759 name what's his name, Jack Delray, Jack Delroy. Jack Delroy hosts the 251 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.440 show called night Owls. This is on like Amazon, you buy for six 252 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:48.680 dollars. Came out this year. It's pretty popular, but it gets a 253 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:55.119 little demonic. If you're not prepared for that, don't watch it late at 254 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.839 night. The actor, the lead actor, I'm not sure about the casting. 255 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:06.079 Lead actor is a guy named David das Mauchian. He's interesting, but 256 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:10.000 I didn't buy him as a as a talk show host. But still I 257 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:15.599 don't know. You tell me, you see it, it's it's I think 258 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:21.359 it's worth seeing. So that's the end of that. So it's kind of 259 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:25.200 a mockumentary. It's presented as a documentary of like, but it was actually 260 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:30.000 fictional occurrence. Yes, And you know how some of these mockumentaries go where 261 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:36.440 you just can't even tell anymore what you're where if it's if you watch, 262 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:38.400 if you're still watching the mockumentary, Like, yeah, I didn't really. 263 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.400 I didn't really know it was a documentary until I went back and they told 264 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.640 me it was a monumentary because you're kind of wrapped up in the weird stuff 265 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:52.359 that's going on. Excellent so uh now, let's get to the the the 266 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:57.680 can Film Festival. Can Film Film Festival concluded on Saturday, and the big 267 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:07.119 winner is a movie called Anura. A Nora is a film by one of 268 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.440 my favorite filmmakers and I'm sure he is yours, Sean Baker, who made 269 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:21.000 the film Florida Project. And The Florida Project was a super cool movie that 270 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:29.240 came out in I was like twenty seventeen about the motel near Disney World, 271 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:33.920 like some dirt, gross motel near Disney World where people live at it, 272 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:41.839 and it's a girl and her like prostitute mother, and you see it ringing 273 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.559 a bell. I never saw it, but it's obvious that you did. 274 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:52.200 Sean Baker is a guy who used to be a big, highly paid TV 275 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:59.359 show creator and he left all that to just make independent movies. Oh cool 276 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:03.240 he started. Yeah, he's got one called Starlet, Tangerine, Red Rocket, 277 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.799 and now this movie Anora, which won the big award of the Canned 278 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:10.920 Film Festival. So I'm very excited to see this. The plot is a 279 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:18.599 young stripper from Brighton Beach in a like Russian area on Clay in New York 280 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:25.720 City. She speaks a little Russian. Her boss fixes her up with a 281 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:30.720 Russian with Russian speaking clients. After meeting Vanya, the son of a Russian 282 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:36.720 oligarch, a romance kindles that leads to her to their elopement. The fairy 283 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:41.440 tale marriage is threatened when the man's parents travel to New York to force and 284 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:47.559 ann omen So basically, this Russian guy is going to marry this stripper and 285 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:56.599 then the Russians are coming to force an annoment. Sounds interesting enough, and 286 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.759 it won the big prize, so I'll definitely see it. Other winners coming 287 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:10.839 out of that that thing were a movie called Amelia Perez with Selena Gomez and 288 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:15.480 Selena Gomez in that cast one best Actress. Amelia Perez is about a cartel 289 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:22.160 guy who switches his gender to avoid police and I guess affirm his gender in 290 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.920 the in the in the first place with Selena Gomez. I'll definitely want to 291 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:32.039 see that, and then Kinds of Kindness also big winner over in con and 292 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:33.200 then conn is telling us what we're going to see in a few months, 293 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:38.920 you know, Emma Stone with the same guy who directed Poor Things Your Ghos 294 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:45.880 Lanthromos, and that one looks pretty interesting as well over the although I'm not 295 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:53.200 as interested in that one. But remember when we talked about the the bombshell 296 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:59.599 letter that was supposed to be delivered to Yeah, we were talking about this, 297 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.559 Yeah, we we got a we gotta take a break in about him, 298 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.599 maybe thirty seconds, just so you know, okay, Yeah, Well, 299 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:12.759 when right before con began in France, just gotta know that we're talking 300 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:18.200 France here, there was this report that a bombshell letter would be delivered, 301 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:25.039 uh to the press during the festival, that is gonna have a list of 302 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:30.440 all the basically the male rapists in in the in the European movie industry. 303 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.200 And let's take a break and when we come back, I'll tell you how 304 00:26:34.279 --> 00:27:00.160 that all went down. Joe Scalante live from Hollywood, Yeah, Joey, 305 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:07.319 Joe Scalante, live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank, heye, 306 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.680 Sam, Before we get to back to the movies, did you know 307 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:15.799 you know I manage the band Sublime, the newly reformed one, And they 308 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:23.680 released a radio single this week, debuted on Alt ninety seven or at ninety 309 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.039 eight, is that what it is? Ninety eight ninety seven, ninety eight 310 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:32.319 seven, yeah, ninety eight seven. It's both anyway listen for it. 311 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:36.079 It's called Feel Like That, and the band's very proud of it. I'm 312 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.240 very proud of it. And this is kind of my new day job. 313 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:47.440 It's just I have a partner in this project and band manager, so making 314 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:49.839 less TV shows in the future because I got to manage this band. But 315 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:52.400 it's going great. They played Coachella and now they got a radio hit. 316 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.920 There's a billboard on Sunset Boulevard, Sam, you might see over on Sunset 317 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:03.480 and Doheny, and then another one in in Times Square. It's kind of 318 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.079 fun. You got yourself some prime locations for those billboards. That's what you 319 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.480 want to have, you know, you don't want to have them in Dwarty 320 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:18.759 or Winetka. Okay, let's go back to the movies. So the bomb 321 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.519 show letter that they were delivering to con that's going to just bring down the 322 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:27.960 industry, Sam, it never showed up really, So there was actually and 323 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:30.440 I thought this was just stuff that we were like saying, this is going 324 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.119 to happen, and it was just a thing between us, But there was 325 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.440 an actual list that was being threatened to be released. Yes, I think 326 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:41.200 it was just there to make people nervous, or maybe someone got paid off 327 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.960 and it didn't get released, Sam, maybe someone got bumped off. The 328 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:53.039 maybe the underground French film industry, you know, got down to business and 329 00:28:53.960 --> 00:29:00.279 and and just made this go away. I don't know, but it didn't 330 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.680 come. But what did come is a there's a little bit of news there 331 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:08.119 about this kind of stuff. There's an actress named Leah Seideu and she was 332 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:17.759 complaining because the French president Macrol evidently made a comment about the French actor Gerard 333 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:22.640 de Pardieu that she didn't like. And so this set off a big discussion 334 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.200 out there. And here's the basic issue, and you can tell me what 335 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:32.920 you think. Gerard Depardieu is a famous French actor. I mean, he's 336 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:36.000 been in a million French movies that we never saw. But then he first 337 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:40.319 was introduced to us, or to me anyway, in a movie called Green 338 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:44.759 Card with Anty McDowell in nineteen ninety You remember that one. Yep, that's 339 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.240 a great movie. Yeah. Yeah, So he's worldwide famous at that point, 340 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.640 but he's got some problems and like being he's going on trial. Sam 341 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:57.440 is in France. Did he get me too? He did? He got 342 00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:03.319 me too? And he he is, he's seventy five now and he's going 343 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:11.359 on trial for assaulting two women, not like thirty five years ago, but 344 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.480 in twenty twenty one. Oh wow, so when he was seventy two. 345 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:22.000 Unbelievable. So anyway, he's going on trial. And this the actress got 346 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:27.559 mad because the French president, Gerard di Pardieu refused to like strip him of 347 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:32.079 some honorary you know title. You know how they have all his honorary titles 348 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:36.799 in Europe, you know, the Order of this and the Order of that. 349 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.799 And so the French President's like, look, this guy's he says, 350 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.400 I refuse to participate in a manhunt against him, which I don't know why 351 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:53.119 they call that because it's not like he's hiding somewhere. He So Macron said, 352 00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:56.200 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna strip him of anything. He has a 353 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:02.640 right to defend himself in court and until then he said, we're proud of 354 00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:04.799 this guy in his body of work. And so then of course people got 355 00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:10.480 mad at the president, especially lia Sidiu said that's crazy, a bad image 356 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:11.720 for France. But you know what, that's it's just an actress being like 357 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.920 saying the right things. The actresses are supposed to say at the right time. 358 00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:23.640 The President's to me of France is uh, you know, saying something 359 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.200 that's that's a little more courageous, like, hey, we're proud of that 360 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:32.400 guy's work, is he? Yeah? But he assaulted these two women, 361 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.640 and the President's like, did he? Let's you know, let's let's have 362 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:44.920 the trial. But why are we gonna use the guillotine before there's a conviction. 363 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:51.119 Now, this crime in France is interestingly, not punishable by guillotine. 364 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.079 But Sam, do you want to take a guest. I think I've asked 365 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:57.799 you this before. What year was the last year France used the guillotine to 366 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:07.279 punish a criminal? I will go with nineteen seventy eight, nineteen seventy one. 367 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.480 Ooh, I was close. You're pretty close the guillotine. I was 368 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:15.079 eight years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. I don't really, 369 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:21.640 but I just I don't know why I am fascinated by that. Do 370 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.920 you know that they still use the firing squad in this country? Interesting? 371 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:29.880 The firing squad, Sam, as you know, is the most dignified way 372 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:38.559 to be killed by your your peers. If you request a elect electric chair 373 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:44.799 is very undignified. But in some states you have a choice of how you 374 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:51.799 are going to receive your execution, and you tause one of them I remember, 375 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:54.039 not too long ago, and you can choose the firing squad. And 376 00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.279 if you're listening in prison and you're on death row, my advice to you 377 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:02.519 is to choose who's the firing squad. It's it's it's it's the most dignified 378 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.240 of all the execution techniques. All right, here's some more movie news. 379 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.839 There's you know how, there's movies about Pirates of the Caribbean Ride, the 380 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:16.599 Haunted Mansion Ride. Now a movie rumor has surfaced of a Disney's Club thirty 381 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:24.200 three movie really from Goosebumps rider Darren Lemke and some company called twenty one laps 382 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:30.440 well. To me, this is yeah, And then you know everyone's talking 383 00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:31.559 about this. I get a lot of texts about it, like what do 384 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:37.359 you know about this? Jill Brady McDonald in the Orange Kindy Register wrote it 385 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:43.160 about it. I gotta say, oh, the Jungle Cruise, remember that 386 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.759 one? Oh yeah, good one. Yeah, Okay. This has got 387 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:50.559 to be the worst idea anyone has ever approached Disney with. Now this isn't 388 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:53.440 necessarily Disney coming up with this idea, Somebody saying, Hey, I'm going 389 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:59.319 to pitch this to Disney, and they they evidently have gone to the next 390 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.480 step and there develop it and they've hired a writer and the writer is this 391 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.760 guy Darren Lemke. But so stupid from a business standpoint, because these movies 392 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:13.400 like Pirates of the Caribbean and The Jungle Cruise, you can't generate so much 393 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.079 revenue from getting people you know, on the rides, getting them in the 394 00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:22.239 park, getting the merchandise all over the world. You can buy merchandise from 395 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:27.440 The Jungle Cruise all over the world, and it really creates another mini little 396 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.800 industry within Disney. You can't do that with Club thirty three because it's a 397 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:34.440 private club. You can't even buy this merchandise unless you're invited inside the club 398 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.199 by a member, and then a lot of the merchandise and the only members 399 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:42.239 can buy it unless they're planning to make this a public club and raise the 400 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:47.159 prices or something. It's still a stupid idea. So I'm not sure this 401 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.480 movie will ever get made. Who would Who's gonna pledge You're gonna need at 402 00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:54.159 least like thirty forty fifty sixty seventy million dollars to make a decent movie out 403 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:58.760 of this. They said it's going to be like the movie Clue a little 404 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:00.119 bit. A guy gets invited to the club and a murder takes place. 405 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:05.599 Who's going to put up that money? That's just stupid. So I don't 406 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:07.599 like that. I'm gonna bet this movie doesn't come out. Yeah, I 407 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.000 don't like the idea either. It's a private club, it's a secret group. 408 00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:13.880 It's like you want to keep the mystique about it. And when you 409 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.400 do something like this, it it takes something that's private, it makes it 410 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:22.320 very public and it raises a little and it seems like it goes against what 411 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:24.960 a lot of the people there would prefer. But if it's a good you 412 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:28.559 know, they don't know the club members anything, and they can change the 413 00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:30.119 name of the club and all that kind of stuff. But okay, why 414 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:34.000 are you change the name of the club then what are you going to exploit 415 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:36.599 for your merchandise? So I don't know. As if I was a Disney 416 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:39.519 shareholder, I would say, boom, I know, we're out of time. 417 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:45.119 The only other thing I want to mention is the US did suit Live 418 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.199 Nation to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation, alleging monopoly abuse. But it's 419 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:55.800 just a lawsuit from the government against Live Nation. It doesn't mean anything's going 420 00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:00.639 to change for a while. Just this is what the ever would like to 421 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:02.199 do, and you know what it is. I think it's partly political to 422 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:07.119 appeal to Taylor Swift fans that didn't get tickets, so I wouldn't pay too 423 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:09.440 much attention to do it, whether it's deserved or not. All Right, 424 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:14.840 I will now leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written.