Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Speaker 1: Burbank across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel, it sells beer.
Speaker 1: This is two hours of the business end of entertainment.
Speaker 1: And this is two hours Sam right, this is live tonight.
Speaker 1: We are live and football has not done anything to us,
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, it looks like we are live, which is great
Speaker 3: because you know, football seasons dwindling down, fewer games are
Speaker 3: being played, so most of those games are going to
Speaker 3: be on our sister station AM five seven DKLAC, and
Speaker 3: so we're going to get less bleed over anytime there's
Speaker 3: like a Clippers game going on at the same time
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: And we have producer Nikki here who's a big football fan.
Speaker 1: Am I right, Nikky?
Speaker 4: Oh c te?
Speaker 5: Which team is that?
Speaker 1: I know? Oj played for them? All right?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: They have a team. They have quite the all star
Speaker 3: team when you go down the list.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's just right blindsided me with that one, Nikki. Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay dark Dark, So uh we're gonna you know, this
Speaker 1: is what we do here every Sunday from five to
Speaker 1: seven and if you miss it or miss anything, keep
Speaker 1: keep listening. It'll play again and you can get the
Speaker 1: podcast version right after the show. And Uh, tonight, I
Speaker 1: want to start with something uh that affects the entertainment
Speaker 1: industry and it involves the Jost Josh Altman from a
Speaker 1: million dollar listening. Anyone seen that show?
Speaker 6: You guys?
Speaker 1: No, out of my text, I'm in the two point
Speaker 1: four million dollar listing shows because a million dollar listing
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm right series, Oh, Squatter's Rights would be
Speaker 1: a good TV show. It would. I spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time in squats as a youth because the punk
Speaker 1: rock tours, the early punk rock tours of were centered
Speaker 1: around squats. You would play a squat like you go
Speaker 1: to Amsterdam and there was that was one of the
Speaker 1: most famous ones, Van Hall Squat. You play there. First
Speaker 1: of all, you show up and you sleep there and
Speaker 1: whereever your show is might be their day early two
Speaker 1: days early, and they give you a place to sleep,
Speaker 1: and it's it's like a big Dutch building that they've
Speaker 1: taken over, the anarchiss and they have places to live upstairs,
Speaker 1: you know, which are kind of gross, but there's you know,
Speaker 1: the go ahead, the band is coming. That's mental mattress
Speaker 1: for them, you know. So you got a mattress, and
Speaker 1: then you have if you're lucky, someone will let you
Speaker 1: use their propane tanks. You can hook it up to
Speaker 1: the to the water and make hot water come out
Speaker 1: of the plumbing because they're essentially stealing all the uh
Speaker 1: the the services from the city and then they can't
Speaker 1: get hot water. So you if you have a propane tank,
Speaker 1: you could make that. And then then you have a show,
Speaker 1: and then you they charge money to get in there.
Speaker 1: Like the squad will have like the Vanhall squat in Amstagram,
Speaker 1: it would have a like a club on the bottom floor,
Speaker 1: look like a normal club, stage, sound system, a bar
Speaker 1: selling alcohol and and then then at the next day
Speaker 1: you wake up and you find out how the people
Speaker 1: are fighting with each other about who got to put
Speaker 1: on the show, because it's you know, it's a paradise,
Speaker 1: these squats, utopia. Everybody's equal. And then you just watch
Speaker 1: them fight with each other, and then you see what
Speaker 1: they do for money, which is usually sell drugs or
Speaker 1: steal bicycles as it was over there and steal bicycles
Speaker 1: and you know, rehab them and sell them. It's a
Speaker 1: wonderful world. Nikki, I'm glad you're interested in it, and
Speaker 1: then we would go to the next town and go
Speaker 1: to that squad. A next town and go to that squad.
Speaker 1: Then wait, you know what you do. Here's a little
Speaker 1: pro tip if you're going on one of these squad tours.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they do them anymore, get
Speaker 1: all the McDonald's wrappers out of your van before you
Speaker 1: show up to the squad because they don't like that stuff.
Speaker 5: It's good advice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, oh, my gosh, paid my dues there, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you and let's see. Oh, then there's in Denmark
Speaker 1: there's a squat called Christiana and it's a whole like
Speaker 1: city block where just it's a giant part of the
Speaker 1: city that they just took over and they made their
Speaker 1: own city. Now in Christianity. They have their own movie theater,
Speaker 1: they have like like a four star restaurant, they have
Speaker 1: their own currency so you can, you know, buy and
Speaker 1: sell marijuana.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 1: Uh that was interesting. But the whole time you're like,
Speaker 1: is this, where's the hotel? That was our I.
Speaker 4: Would kill for the crossover episode between Million Dollar Listing
Speaker 4: and Squatters Rights, our new proposed series. But what happened
Speaker 4: on them on this this guy's a million dollar program.
Speaker 1: Well, this guy is you know, he's people listen to him,
Speaker 1: and he's an experts. He's saying that after the aftermath
Speaker 1: of the devastating wildfires in Pacific Palisades in Malibu, he
Speaker 1: estimated that up to seventy percent of residents might not
Speaker 1: return due to financial challenges, including under insurance, high construction costs,
Speaker 1: and he emphasized that you need to streamline building processes
Speaker 1: and reduce bureauraic obstacles to support the affected homeowners. And
Speaker 1: then like Trump flew in and just kind of mimicked
Speaker 1: that exactly thing. So we're gonna there are no more rules.
Speaker 1: We're gonna build whatever we want to build, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna build it fast, which is, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: only way they're gonna be able to build anything is
Speaker 1: by getting rid of these regulations, especially the Coastal Commission.
Speaker 1: I was I was loving to listening to President Trump
Speaker 1: rail on the Coastal Commission because they are a pain
Speaker 1: in the ass. Now, like he says, they're talking like
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars per square foot to build in places
Speaker 1: like Palasuits in Malibu. Okay, so that's that's if you
Speaker 1: have a if you had a five thousand square foot home,
Speaker 1: that would be five thousand times one thousand. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that is. I guess it's fine million. And
Speaker 1: that's just for the construction costs to rebuild, you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't count the price of your land. Most people,
Speaker 1: what you want is a one square foot home and
Speaker 1: then it's only a thousand. But those are hard to find.
Speaker 1: So with most people heavily under insured and the construction
Speaker 1: costs skyrocketing, it's just not feasible.
Speaker 6: He says.
Speaker 1: His groom prediction is compounded by the logistical nightmare of
Speaker 1: rebuilding amidst in an area that looks more like a
Speaker 1: war zone full of burned out buildings, ash coating the
Speaker 1: area and toxic chemicals everywhere. Getting construction crews to show
Speaker 1: up at your site is going to be nearly impossible
Speaker 1: when sixteen thousand structures have been destroyed. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: that you call the construction guy and how do you
Speaker 1: become one of the sixteen thousand? Like, how do you
Speaker 1: get to the top of that list? It's just horrific.
Speaker 3: I was talking with our good friend and your mortal enemy,
Speaker 3: Matt money Smith.
Speaker 1: Oh the evil Matt money Smith, Yes, sitting pretty in
Speaker 1: his Coastal Seal beach ho.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: We were talking about issues that he's had with the
Speaker 3: Coastal Commission and everything like that, and how it's not like,
Speaker 3: you know, people look at incidents and events like this
Speaker 3: as being highly traumatic because of the fire, but really
Speaker 3: what ends up happening is you end up getting re
Speaker 3: traumatized by the insurance process and the problem. Like you're
Speaker 3: at your as a homeowner, your house is gone and
Speaker 3: you're at your most vulnerable, and now you're in a
Speaker 3: position where you get re traumatized by the process of
Speaker 3: trying to rebuild. I got I get a feeling that's
Speaker 3: part of the reason why there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: who are just like, we're not going to come back,
Speaker 3: because it's not just like you. You know, there's the
Speaker 3: trauma of having to see all of your favorite landmarks
Speaker 3: not be there anymore and be burnt down and look
Speaker 3: like a war zone. But then there's the trauma of
Speaker 3: getting retraumatized by the insurance companies who are putting hurdles
Speaker 3: in your way when you're at your most vulnerable, and or.
Speaker 1: The Commission or listening to the evil Matt money Smith
Speaker 1: telling you while he's sitting in his beautiful home it
Speaker 1: was untouched. But I have to in Matt money Smith's
Speaker 1: uh defense. He's my neighbor and we had a one
Speaker 1: acre fire in Los Amadows here and so we are
Speaker 1: both fire affected now, so just one you know, one
Speaker 1: acre and looking up on the news, it is true.
Speaker 2: Get the watch Duty app. That that's where I found it.
Speaker 2: That's watch app.
Speaker 3: I know everybody got that app and it's like now
Speaker 3: they're glued to it. So it's a lot of people
Speaker 3: are checking the app to see how the rain impacted
Speaker 3: the fires.
Speaker 1: Nikki, how's things? How are things going in in out
Speaker 1: of Poland?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually did.
Speaker 4: Uh you know, I hadn't seen my dad since I
Speaker 4: dropped off some stuff for him, like about a week
Speaker 4: and a half ago. So I went over today with
Speaker 4: a friend who's actually coming from out of town. She's
Speaker 4: getting the craziest LA experience ever. It's like rainy and
Speaker 4: gloomy for the first time all year. And I just
Speaker 4: gave her a little tour through Altadena. Not pretty, not pretty.
Speaker 1: How my friend did not lose his home in altadid
Speaker 1: He had a big, giant home there, big spread and
Speaker 1: he did, so he went back after they let them
Speaker 1: go back in and they go start cleaning up, and
Speaker 1: they realized their home was was was saved, but they
Speaker 1: couldn't live in it. Yeah, it was too much smoke,
Speaker 1: the pool was destroyed, They couldn't breathe, you know, the
Speaker 1: the it was unsafe to live in. So they had
Speaker 1: to go get a rental six thousand a month for
Speaker 1: a two bedroom apartment and they were they were lucky
Speaker 1: to get it. So, uh, yeah, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty rough out there.
Speaker 3: Here's another thing that I've noticed. I've noticed people who
Speaker 3: are currently in living situations getting their sixty day notices
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of people who are owners of
Speaker 3: these properties who want to get people out so that
Speaker 3: they can charge people more because of the fighters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty ugly.
Speaker 3: We're reaching for some pretty desperate times right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, it's going to affect the show business as
Speaker 1: if there was any production here anyway, There isn't, but
Speaker 1: the people that work in it's going to be kind
Speaker 1: of just like COVID. People are gonna have to move
Speaker 1: away and work remotely again because there's nowhere to live.
Speaker 1: I invite everybody to go where I'm building a home
Speaker 1: in the Kotino Complex, our development in Rancho Mirage. Now,
Speaker 1: Kotino is being built by the Disney Company and it's
Speaker 1: underway and there's I think there's about fifteen homes available
Speaker 1: right now. They keep going in phases and it's fricking amazing.
Speaker 1: So that's just my suggestion.
Speaker 5: Ktino looks really nice.
Speaker 1: You checking that out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking at well, I mean, you know, daydreaming
Speaker 4: over here, but really pretty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you got to. You got to check out
Speaker 1: Cotino people if you if you're needing any housing, let's
Speaker 1: take a break. Let's take a break and we'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll do more and Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe
Speaker 1: Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to go to the movies right now. Movies
Speaker 1: number one of the box office this week, Flight Risk,
Speaker 1: and that is it's like mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, isn't that the one with Mark Wahlberg
Speaker 3: They shaved his head and made them bald.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't seen it, but I just
Speaker 1: know they have a movie and it shows you these
Speaker 1: are this is this is like you know, red This
Speaker 1: is a Red State movie. But it's number one and
Speaker 1: did twelve million in the box office, So that's still
Speaker 1: a good business. Mel Gibson is still a good business.
Speaker 1: Mufasa the Lion King number two, she's making a ton
Speaker 1: of money with the fake animals. Three is one of
Speaker 1: them days with the African American comedians.
Speaker 5: Palmer yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we like her, right,
Speaker 5: m hm.
Speaker 1: Well, it just shows you that there's just a diverse
Speaker 1: box office audience out there. We got the the right
Speaker 1: wingers are in the top three. We have the African
Speaker 1: Americans number three, the animals, you know, everybody, Sonic the
Speaker 1: Hedgehog number four, Moana twot number two, huge movie, the
Speaker 1: movie Presence. I'm shocked at this new first week, it
Speaker 1: is number six. This one is like a psychological thriller.
Speaker 1: I think you would call it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh, actually that's very interesting. Lucy los in it.
Speaker 5: I think I think she's like one of the moms
Speaker 5: in this.
Speaker 4: I saw the trailer when I went to the theater
Speaker 4: like last week, and it looked interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's a pretty good showing for that from
Speaker 1: Neon Pictures, Wolfman from Universal that just sounds funny to me,
Speaker 1: wolf Man from Universal Pictures, seven, A Complete Unknown number eight,
Speaker 1: then of These Part two, number nine, and The Brutalist
Speaker 1: coming in at three hours and forty minutes from A
Speaker 1: twenty four at number ten. I have that on my
Speaker 1: streamer thing, but I haven't. I just can't.
Speaker 6: Not yet.
Speaker 1: Adrian Brody gonna win an Academy Award or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, he's going to be nominated. But
Speaker 1: it's in the hunt, all right. So before I tell me,
Speaker 1: tell you the movie I saw, Nikki. You saw a
Speaker 1: prominent movie, didn't you.
Speaker 4: I saw two movies this week, but the one I
Speaker 4: saw at USC it was like a special screening. Was
Speaker 4: called The Girl with the Needle, made last year, but
Speaker 4: it's Denmark's entry to the twenty twenty five Academy Awards.
Speaker 4: It's her best international feature this year, and it's based
Speaker 4: on a true story of a serial killer who was
Speaker 4: active after two thousand, after World War One, who killed invants.
Speaker 5: Though that was really crazy that it's true. It's true, yes,
Speaker 5: true story.
Speaker 1: It's these Danish people is what they do.
Speaker 4: Well. It's interesting because I guess this situation that happened
Speaker 4: with a serial killer killing a bunch of infants is
Speaker 4: part of why I think that the Danish are like
Speaker 4: very strict about birth records and those kinds of policies,
Speaker 4: because there was basically none up until this point, and
Speaker 4: then they realized, you know, they weren't keeping track of
Speaker 4: these births that were just uh getting handed over to
Speaker 4: this lady, so they had really no way of tracking down.
Speaker 5: Who you know. I think she was accused of like
Speaker 5: twenty five murders.
Speaker 4: Uh, And it's it's kind of a funny not a
Speaker 4: funny story here, but the I would to go see
Speaker 4: it because anytime there's a Polish name associated with anything prominent,
Speaker 4: my dad gets an email.
Speaker 5: So I happen to see it. So this was like
Speaker 5: a Polish co production.
Speaker 4: And the director I think he was Danish, but he
Speaker 4: moved to Poland. He was partially inspired to make this
Speaker 4: film because when he moved to Poland to study or
Speaker 4: continue filmmaking, he was very shortly afterwards he was robbed
Speaker 4: and that experience made him very fascinated. This is his
Speaker 4: quote with violent people, So I guess that's a really
Speaker 4: great way to spin getting robbed it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: you know what, getting robbed was actually the best thing
Speaker 4: that ever happened to me in my career, because now
Speaker 4: I love violent people.
Speaker 5: The other the other film I saw was called Baby Girl.
Speaker 4: This is the Nicole Kidman movie about a high profile
Speaker 4: girl boss CEO who has a thing for this young intern.
Speaker 4: The movie did exactly what it meant to do, so
Speaker 4: I didn't think it was trying to do anything unsuccessfully.
Speaker 4: I think it it did exactly what I meant to do.
Speaker 4: Very obvious dog metaphors with like control in this weird
Speaker 4: relationship dynamic. But honestly, half of the movie is just
Speaker 4: about telling people to sit back down, like well, there
Speaker 4: are so many conversations that are very tense and it's
Speaker 4: like no, no, no, no, don't leave the table, let's keep
Speaker 4: talking about this. I think about twenty minutes of screen
Speaker 4: time is spent on convincing other characters to stay seated
Speaker 4: to continue a conversation which.
Speaker 1: Was just I'm not done a lot that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: A lot, well kind of it's more just like convincing
Speaker 4: people to sit back down, and they all took place
Speaker 4: in different scenarios like truly just conversational scenarios, and I
Speaker 4: was like, I think, really really poor.
Speaker 5: Communication in this film. But I enjoyed it. I probably
Speaker 5: wouldn't see it again, but I did enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Well, you're on the right track here, because the best
Speaker 1: International Academy features were announced and Your Girl with the
Speaker 1: Needle was one of them. Kneecap movie was I was robbed.
Speaker 1: They were no.
Speaker 5: Really, that's a shame they got nothing. Oh you know
Speaker 5: this show loves kneecap, so that's a bummer.
Speaker 1: Yes. So last night I saw I went to a
Speaker 1: premiere at the Bay Theater. It was the in Seal Beach.
Speaker 1: It was the opening of the Bay Theater after being
Speaker 1: closed for like twelve years for renovation and fifteen years,
Speaker 1: no since two thousand and six, it's been closed eighteen years.
Speaker 1: And they opened the theater with the movie of the
Speaker 1: Harbor Chronicles, a documentary about the longest running surf shop
Speaker 1: in world history, which actually is right across the street
Speaker 1: from the theater coincidentally, and it's still there, Harbor Surfboard.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen the Harbor Surf shirts around and featuring
Speaker 1: writer Joe Ascalante on this documentary. So wow, first time
Speaker 1: I've had a movie that I've written that had an
Speaker 1: actual premiere and so it was super fun. And I'm
Speaker 1: going back tonight where I'll be on a panel last
Speaker 1: night all the surper So anyways, if you're going to
Speaker 1: see Harbor Chronicles at the Bay Theater, you could see it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's going to be there,
Speaker 1: and then then they go out and try to you know,
Speaker 1: distribute it and all that kind of stuff. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like a one film film festival at that Bay
Speaker 1: Theater right now on Main Street and Seal Beach. And
Speaker 1: so Joe Scalante live from Hollywood back after through the traffic.
Speaker 1: Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood do you
Speaker 1: mean Burbank? All right, this is what we do. We're
Speaker 1: now we're getting into the award season. Nikki, you're excited.
Speaker 1: Is your first award season here with the show.
Speaker 5: I'm going to get some inside scoops, I hear.
Speaker 3: She's also going to be getting the chili dogs and
Speaker 3: the Wiener brow for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got extra set of hands.
Speaker 3: For the for our party over at the Wiener Schnitzel
Speaker 3: across the street.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, I packed my own uniform, so you know, I
Speaker 4: got my own serving tray. I'll be the best caterer
Speaker 4: at the after party, right, that's the plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's it's unlimited beers, Wiener Beers, Wiener Bruce
Speaker 1: and yeah, and half priced North Korean Fusion tacos.
Speaker 5: Awesome.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the Academy Awards, I'm gonna go over some
Speaker 1: of the listings if I oh my god, and I
Speaker 1: just take it off my computer, but it's coming back hopefully.
Speaker 1: There they are the full list. Okay, so best Picture,
Speaker 1: you know, most of them I've seen. That's something I've
Speaker 1: never heard of. Norah definitely directed by Sean Baker, winner
Speaker 1: in my book The Brutalist three out four forty minutes.
Speaker 1: Haven't started it yet, as I talked about a complete
Speaker 1: unknown and that movie's okay, it's good until you see
Speaker 1: Better Man and then you go, wait a second, why
Speaker 1: didn't you make a good version of a documentary biopic Conclave? Uh,
Speaker 1: just heresy from from beginning to end Dune Part two.
Speaker 1: I was so excited by this, I wake up. I
Speaker 1: woke up three times just too, you know, so I
Speaker 1: could follow the story. That's a joke stolen from the
Speaker 1: Golden Globes. But Amelia Perez number is also nominated from
Speaker 1: Netflix Stupid Movie. So far, I haven't been able to
Speaker 1: get through. Its just it's just stupid. You know what
Speaker 1: this is. I don't know if you guys have seen it.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
Speaker 5: Which one? Which one?
Speaker 1: Amelia Perez.
Speaker 5: I don't want to see it.
Speaker 4: I think if I see it, I need to be
Speaker 4: really drunk, because then I would have an amazing time.
Speaker 1: You would, you would have an amazing time, or maybe
Speaker 1: smoke d MT. Okay, okay, now the it's so stupid.
Speaker 1: You're just going Okay, I get it. You're trying to
Speaker 1: challenge me and see if I can sit through your
Speaker 1: stupid movie. Well you win. I couldn't do it. I'm
Speaker 1: still here. Never heard about it. I've never heard of
Speaker 1: it until today. We'll check out it later, Nickel boys.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not the substance first, other than the last
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. It's the best picture a possibility. Then then
Speaker 1: the last thirty minutes. Last thirty minutes, it's a teen
Speaker 1: horror movie. Even Nicky producer Nicky would be too mature
Speaker 1: for disagree.
Speaker 5: Wicked, but we'll continue. Then.
Speaker 1: Wicked is the final nominee, which is so good. Only
Speaker 1: three people walked out of it and well in the
Speaker 1: in the place where I saw it. Best Director Sean
Speaker 1: Baker from Anora. He's my favorite. And then you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read this whole list and seeing
Speaker 1: if there's any surprises or anything fun. I think Best
Speaker 1: Actor is is is a brutal category because you have
Speaker 1: Adrian Brody, Timothy Schallomey and Ray Fine, Ralph Fine, who
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's tough. And then my favorite
Speaker 1: is Kieran Coulkin. Got a Best Supporting Actor.
Speaker 3: Kieran Culkin. He's always everything that I've seen him in.
Speaker 3: He's ever since, like after he grew up and became
Speaker 3: an adult. Everything he's done as an adult, I'm a fan.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the rest Oh Animated feature. I'll go over
Speaker 1: that because Flow. I saw a flow about the cat
Speaker 1: and the apocalyptic. Yeah, so good. Inside Out too, it's
Speaker 1: already memoir of as nail kind of slow, while it's
Speaker 1: in Gramet Vengeus Most Foul. Maybe I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Wild Robot, I'm saying Wild Robot best movie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go back on my Best
Speaker 1: Picture nominations and see if anything's better than Wild Robot
Speaker 1: A Nora. Maybe maybe it's a tie. Brutalist, complete of known,
Speaker 1: not as good as Wild Robot, doing, not as good
Speaker 1: as Wild Robot, Emilie Perez, not even close. Wicked, that's
Speaker 1: a good movie, not as good as Wild Robot. The
Speaker 1: substance pretty good, not as good as Wild Robot. So
Speaker 1: that's my PREMI my preview of the denominies. And then
Speaker 1: I just wanted to kind of move on.
Speaker 3: If you guys don't mind who well, I mean, I
Speaker 3: want to know who you think is going to be
Speaker 3: the best actor, because it is a tough one between
Speaker 3: the between the ones you mentioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's man, Okay, best actor. I haven't seen the Brutalists,
Speaker 1: so well i'll tell you I have, I have, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen. All I can say is Timothy Wow is
Speaker 1: I have not seen a better performance than that this year?
Speaker 2: Sports La always gets me everything.
Speaker 1: He's ending great Timothy sports So I would put my
Speaker 1: money on him until I see the Brutalist, you know.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you can act in a three
Speaker 1: hour and forty minute movie, maybe that's just more points. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to streaming. Netflix is set to
Speaker 1: launch Netflix Bites at pop up restaurant at the MGM
Speaker 1: Grand in Las Vegas, scheduled to open in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: This venture follows the success of a similar pop up
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They Did and We'll feature dishes crafted
Speaker 1: by renowned chefs from popular Netflix cooking shows Dominique krem Ming,
Speaker 1: Si and Andrew zimmern oh Cool the restaurant. The restaurant
Speaker 1: aims to provide fans with an immersive culinary experience, bringing
Speaker 1: the flavors of their favorite Netflix series to life.
Speaker 5: You know, I think I can have the Breaking That
Speaker 5: Special right.
Speaker 1: With your DMT.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, my my pre movie treat.
Speaker 1: And now I would have the Squid Game Fusion Takas.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I think this is a good idea
Speaker 1: for Netflix because they want to be Disney. They want
Speaker 1: to be just something that you just kind of grow
Speaker 1: up with and never and it's just everything to you.
Speaker 1: So yeah, make some pop up restaurants and see what
Speaker 1: kind of things you do. Maybe you make an amusement park,
Speaker 1: put it next to Coatino.
Speaker 3: So wait, this is gonna be a pop up or
Speaker 3: are they just gonna act at an actual like brick
Speaker 3: and mortar restaurants pop up.
Speaker 1: It's pop up, and you know why it's pop up.
Speaker 1: No one wants to spend the rest of their life
Speaker 1: in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas places I do that.
Speaker 1: I give that hotel a thumb down.
Speaker 3: Well, and I would agree with the like it's a
Speaker 3: good that they're doing that as a pop up, because
Speaker 3: it sounds like if they don't, or if they try
Speaker 3: to just do it as a stand up restaurant, it'll
Speaker 3: end up being like the ESPN Zone or the NBC
Speaker 3: one that you have in the middle of city Walk
Speaker 3: where it's like, yeah, we get it, it's a sports bar.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, do you know what?
Speaker 1: Do you know what the ESPN Zone is? Now?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't been Vegas. I haven't been to Vegas in.
Speaker 1: Like I'm talking about the one in Disneyland and the
Speaker 1: downtown Disney and Anaheim here.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I haven't seen that one. Which one? Yeah,
Speaker 2: what does it mean?
Speaker 1: It just they just took they had a big ESPN
Speaker 1: Zone closed down a few years ago, and now they
Speaker 1: turned it into a food hall, you know, with a
Speaker 1: bunch of different food places, which is really smart because
Speaker 1: as you know, at Disneyland, you wait in line for
Speaker 1: food and you shouldn't have to. So now they have more.
Speaker 1: They just need more and more restaurants all over that place.
Speaker 1: So that's I might go there tonight. No, no, lie,
Speaker 1: So let me move on with the stories. Got a
Speaker 1: little more time in this segment. I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened to my timer. Got a couple still gone. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's going, Oh my god, we're gonna do that after this,
Speaker 1: will do the Michael Jackson thing. You're not going to
Speaker 1: believe that. But he is take a and he is
Speaker 1: taking back Duck Dynasty. And this is another example of
Speaker 1: uh stuff content for Red state America. Uh, it's safe.
Speaker 1: It's safe for Duck Dynasty to come back in the
Speaker 1: in the in the world that we live in now
Speaker 1: since the election. Phil Robertson is not a part of it.
Speaker 1: He has Alzheimer's I think. But you know, they kind
Speaker 1: of made the show so much fun though, I know,
Speaker 1: but then on it, you know, you don't. He's not
Speaker 1: the elephant man. I can't explain him. The the the
Speaker 1: guy was canceled for saying anti gay things or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then now people are like, hey, it's.
Speaker 5: An old man's dynasty guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like I don't.
Speaker 4: Associate duck hunting with a particularly open minded heart.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. So it's like, you know, these are these
Speaker 1: are people, These are the Duck Dynasty people. You think
Speaker 1: they're you know, celebrating Pride month. No, son, and either
Speaker 1: are the people that are watching their show, and either
Speaker 1: are the people who are buying the products advertised in
Speaker 1: their show. So that's like I think the world we
Speaker 1: live in now, people are like I would never make
Speaker 1: anti gay statements, but I don't approve of them, but
Speaker 1: I do just when some old guy in a Duck
Speaker 1: Duck call show says them, I just got on, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I think, yeah, we got to add a camo
Speaker 4: line to the rainbow flag for these guys and maybe
Speaker 4: they'll feel a little more inclined and included.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean that you can only be good.
Speaker 4: At so many things and LGBTQ inclusivity, I wouldn't you know,
Speaker 4: they probably don't teach that at duck hunting camp.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. Anyway, So that's interesting because it
Speaker 1: was on Fox Nation for a while, nobody knew, nobody cared,
Speaker 1: and then now it's back on A and E, and
Speaker 1: now it will be something that people will watch. But
Speaker 1: I think that's a uh, just kind of a testament
Speaker 1: to the times we live in now and the fact
Speaker 1: that nobody seems to be protesting Duff Dynasty. Coming back,
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we're listening to Joe Escalante
Speaker 1: live from Hollywood.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Joe as Alante.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's me. Thank you, mister, Steve Jones. Steve Jones
Speaker 1: hearing in another documentary. I have a credit on him
Speaker 1: executive producer of a movie called I Was a Teenage
Speaker 1: Second Pistol, which looks like it will be premiering at
Speaker 1: the Santa Barbara Film Festival coming up this year. Look
Speaker 1: for it. Okay, Speaking of these English royalty, Prince Harry
Speaker 1: had a big lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's Son newspaper, and
Speaker 1: he's reached a significant settlement with the allegations of unlawful
Speaker 1: intrusion in his private life. Remember, and they were like
Speaker 1: hacking into their phone systems over there in England and
Speaker 1: trying to I mean they would they would like call
Speaker 1: their they would call their phone machines and do a
Speaker 1: thing that would make it play back, like a little hack,
Speaker 1: like a beep or something that would hack it and
Speaker 1: play back their messages, so then they would get like
Speaker 1: you know, birth announcements and other details of things that
Speaker 1: they weren't supposed to get. So he went to court
Speaker 1: and he's going to get some money from them. So
Speaker 1: that's a win for Prince Harry. The vandals. When we
Speaker 1: used to rehearse, we used to like secretly call each
Speaker 1: other and hack each other's phone machines. It's Nikki, you
Speaker 1: don't know this. This era where we had phone answer machines,
Speaker 1: like free standing devices where you had to leave messages
Speaker 1: in and you could. They were so primitive that you
Speaker 1: could push enough buttons and it would say, like to
Speaker 1: record a new outgoing message, press too if you just
Speaker 1: pushed enough buttons. And we would record outgoing messages for
Speaker 1: each other, which is humiliating when you get home and
Speaker 1: you have all these messages and someone else made your
Speaker 1: outgoing message. It was terrible. It was terrible, but to
Speaker 1: each other anyway. Ymca this song hit song by the
Speaker 1: Village People. I guess you've seen that this has become
Speaker 1: a trump anthem, but it its history brings it from
Speaker 1: a like a gay club anthem, and you know, weddings
Speaker 1: for white people and the singer Victor Willis. He says
Speaker 1: it was never intended as a celebration of gay stuff.
Speaker 1: It was. It was black male friendship is what it was.
Speaker 4: And black mail blackmale friendship sounds like a very like
Speaker 4: pisterious thing, depending on how you spell male.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, black male friendship.
Speaker 2: What's his excuse for? Macho man?
Speaker 1: How about my roommate? That's my favorite village people song
Speaker 1: is my roommate, My roommate, my roommate. That's yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know how explains that one either. This is two
Speaker 1: black males they live together in their roommates there ma.
Speaker 1: By the way, did I mention how macho they are?
Speaker 3: That song sounds like a blackmail depending on yeah, it
Speaker 3: sounds like he's being blackmailed exactly.
Speaker 1: He does like threaten legal action against people who say
Speaker 1: it's who say it's gay, don't say gay? And you're
Speaker 1: talking about YMCA is what I'm saying to you, ryme,
Speaker 1: Victor Willis. I have a song called what You're talking
Speaker 1: about Willis, and it deals with all this. It'll be
Speaker 1: on the next Vandals album. Look for that, all right. So,
Speaker 1: and but you know what Trump? When I and I
Speaker 1: go to a Trump rally, I'm there most of the
Speaker 1: time just to celebrate black black male, black male friendship.
Speaker 1: So it it it, it tracks, as they say, kids,
Speaker 1: all right, Speaking of black male friendship, there's a Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson biopic called What Else Michael, directed by uh Antoine Fuqua.
Speaker 1: I think he did training Day, I don't know, and
Speaker 1: it's it stars Michael Jackson's nephew Slash Aladdin, Middle Eastern
Speaker 1: villain Jaffarr Jaffar Jackson. Yeah, amazing. Well, okay, so they
Speaker 1: made the whole movie. Okay, they shot the movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: picture this nightmare scenario. You spend years assembling a project.
Speaker 1: It convinced an Oscar nominated screenwriter to tackle the difficult material.
Speaker 1: You secure the neft necessary intellectual property rights from the
Speaker 1: family one hundred and fifty million dollar budget to tell
Speaker 1: the story right. You get distributors on board, foreign and domestic.
Speaker 1: You got a big cast and their schedules like barely
Speaker 1: line you can really, you can barely get it done.
Speaker 1: You spend months shooting the entire movie, mostly on location
Speaker 1: at the exact sites you envisioned and some of which
Speaker 1: you had to beg to secure these sites. Then, as
Speaker 1: you're starting post production with your director cutting it all
Speaker 1: together to meet your aggressive release date. The phone rings
Speaker 1: because you want to be there for you know, award
Speaker 1: season or summer box office or whatever. Thanksgiving thun rings,
Speaker 1: and everything begins to fall apart. And that's what happened
Speaker 1: to the producer here, Graham King, when they called him
Speaker 1: and said, hey, you know, all that stuff we wrote
Speaker 1: about or we filmed can't be in the movie. Okay.
Speaker 1: That Michael Jackson team, before they gave the rights, it
Speaker 1: was agreed that any film about the late pop star
Speaker 1: would never include representation of Jordan Chandler, the thirteen year
Speaker 1: old boy whose molestation claim led to worldwide headlines and
Speaker 1: an eventual twenty million dollar settlement. Now we can't mention
Speaker 1: him or his family. This deal was overlooked by the
Speaker 1: estate during the vetting of the script. So this isn't
Speaker 1: the script people's the movie people's problem. This is the
Speaker 1: estates problem. But they, I guess, threatened some kind of
Speaker 1: legal action and so they have to reshoot the third
Speaker 1: act where they talk about Jordi Chandler, who if you
Speaker 1: want to know the details about Jordi Chandler. This is
Speaker 1: why I'm not that sympathetic to the Jackson estate or
Speaker 1: Jackson anything, because I did read that book and it
Speaker 1: was extremely believable, and it was called Michael Jackson Was
Speaker 1: My Lover. Talk about act twist, Yes you got to
Speaker 1: you got a third act problem, Graham. So that movie
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson Was My Lover was banned because there was
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of powerful people representing the Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson estate. Because the Michael Jackson state makes so much money,
Speaker 1: he can't be tarnished by reports that he's a pedophile.
Speaker 1: But and it did. The Michael Jackson catalog dipped significantly
Speaker 1: when that was always in the news, and then it
Speaker 1: kind of went away, and then people were like, well,
Speaker 1: I like these songs, and so now it seems to
Speaker 1: be doing well. And then somehow they put it in
Speaker 1: the movie. You know, maybe they wanted to address these
Speaker 1: claims head on and show how injuster and true they were.
Speaker 1: But they them a twenty million dollar settlement. You know,
Speaker 1: you could say, well, they're trying to avoid litigation and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But when the guys like sleeping with children, Okay,
Speaker 1: when you're sleeping with children, which is a fact and
Speaker 1: I actually have first hand knowledge of that, maybe second
Speaker 1: hand because I got a friend that would used to
Speaker 1: go wake them up and they'd be like, oh, who's
Speaker 1: in your bed? Webster? Okay, and people like that. I'm
Speaker 1: like saying it was actually Webster, but people like Webster,
Speaker 1: you know. And then he just like, well, I sleep
Speaker 1: with children because I love children. I give children Jesus
Speaker 1: wine because it's we call it Jesus juice. That's what
Speaker 1: Jordie said. When you do that, you kind of lose
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. And then when when I
Speaker 1: read your book or when I read Jeordie's book, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I give it some credibility. So in that case,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to go away and not show us biopics
Speaker 1: unless they have that I dressed that, they don't dress that.
Speaker 1: Who wants to see it? But that movie was banned,
Speaker 1: that book was banned. I had to go into a
Speaker 1: gay book store called Circus of Books to find it
Speaker 1: was the only place you could get it. That's how
Speaker 1: much of a Michael Jackson fan I am. I would
Speaker 1: go anywhere. Not there is anything wrong with doing that.
Speaker 1: But when I bought it was a little controversial, like,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, I think.
Speaker 4: It was actually more of a bookstore about blackmail friendship.
Speaker 1: This was like twenty years thirty years ago that I
Speaker 1: got it whenever it happened, and then like now more,
Speaker 1: you know, as you get older, you could just you
Speaker 1: can handle that. But man, it was scary for me
Speaker 1: as a young lad going in there. Not that I
Speaker 1: thought anything bad was going to happen, but I thought
Speaker 1: someone was going to see me from my high school
Speaker 1: or something. Anyway, other than that, we'll pick it up
Speaker 1: next week. We'll have some more juicy details about m
Speaker 1: Night Shayamalan's trial going on right now and the Riverside
Speaker 1: about to be sent to the jury. Okay, Ice. That
Speaker 1: will now leave you with just a taste of the
Speaker 1: greatest song ever written all Right by Nikki. Bye Sam,
Speaker 1: Thanks Hi