Speaker 1: Hey, Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. We are back. It's
Speaker 1: two hours of the business, end of show business. Last
Speaker 1: week I caught the one and only Tom Jones at
Speaker 1: Harrah's Casino in Valley Center, California. A place she'll never
Speaker 1: find unless you really go there on purpose. It's really
Speaker 1: an Indian reservation where I once played there with the
Speaker 1: vandalsin It's where things like like a thirteen year old
Speaker 1: girl driving a truck, you know, just they just do
Speaker 1: whatever they want down there on the reservation. Anyway, Tom
Speaker 1: Jones was awesome, good to be back. Can't really move,
Speaker 1: is got two hip replacement surgeries or something. But he
Speaker 1: is worth seeing and he's still playing. He's still playing
Speaker 1: like Coasta Mesa at the Siegers Strum at Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I believe maybe he's playing at another casino, Ago Caliente
Speaker 1: in Ranchmarrage, So check them out if you can. Then
Speaker 1: it was off to Florida with a Sublime crew for
Speaker 1: the Welcome to Rockville Festival in the Daytona Speedway.
Speaker 2: Massive, just a.
Speaker 1: Massive, the biggest show the band has played other than Coachella,
Speaker 1: and it was tremendous just watching everything unfold, And that's
Speaker 1: what I do on about half the weekends. I go
Speaker 1: with Sublime and manage their I mean there's a tour manager,
Speaker 1: there's a production manager, there's a day to day manager.
Speaker 1: But then those people need some kind of supervision rights him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and it's good to hear that. Even like, I
Speaker 4: don't want to call you a music mogul, but you're
Speaker 4: as close as as a music mogal as anybody as
Speaker 4: I know. You still take the time to go back
Speaker 4: and actually catch the shows you like, like Tom Jones, Now,
Speaker 4: did you throw underwear?
Speaker 1: No, but I got. I made sure I got a
Speaker 1: show in this second row so that my wife could
Speaker 1: see the underwear throwing taking place because he's young. She
Speaker 1: don't remember the TV show or stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: the and the underwear was just flying. It still flies,
Speaker 1: it flies. Yeah, So I loved that. And then with
Speaker 1: the band, you know, I just want to be there.
Speaker 1: I only manage Sublime, and technically a kind of manager
Speaker 1: of the ataris someone in the organization does really all
Speaker 1: the work. And then I do manage Josh Freeze, the
Speaker 1: former drummer of the Foo Fighters, which was big viral
Speaker 1: news this weekend. That was a pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: But Josh Freese is available. Well, actually he's available, but
Speaker 1: he has like ten shows of The Vandals coming up,
Speaker 1: so be careful. You've got offer him a lot of
Speaker 1: money because we pay him a lot. The Vandals pay
Speaker 1: Josh Freese a lot. If you don't know who, Josh
Speaker 1: Freese is the most famous drummer in the world, just
Speaker 1: about and definitely the best. And he plays drums in
Speaker 1: The Vandals. He's in the Food Fighters for the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. And you know you've heard the news
Speaker 1: about the Food Fighters in the last year. Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: He kind of joined him at the wrong time, right
Speaker 1: before Dave Girl decided to reveal that he has a
Speaker 1: love child. And then they canceled the tour and the
Speaker 1: rest of the stuff sat at home, and then they go,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go back up, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: do with a different drummer. So we don't know what
Speaker 1: it's all about. They don't say anything. No, no, they
Speaker 1: said they won't release a statement and they won't give
Speaker 1: a reason, so you know, you can do the math yourself.
Speaker 1: Josh loved the guys, love playing with them. I loved
Speaker 1: going on there out of town dates. And but it's
Speaker 1: all the guys in the band are cool, but there's
Speaker 1: rich stuff going on, you know, and Dave girl needs
Speaker 1: to work it out because that's like families stuff going on.
Speaker 1: That is uh. I don't think anyone would trade places
Speaker 1: with him what he's going through. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: a head to tell his mom or his wife that
Speaker 1: that he had a baby somewhere else and then and
Speaker 1: he worked it out though, so maybe that maybe it's
Speaker 1: all for the best.
Speaker 4: It's usually those moments that cause people to take time
Speaker 4: to reflect, and it seems like that's what he needed
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. He needed to pump the brakes reflect
Speaker 1: and if this is the what what it means, we
Speaker 1: wish him luck? All right, Well, I didn't squeeze any
Speaker 1: movies in h with all the traveling. But later on
Speaker 1: in the second hour of the program, I got a
Speaker 1: real character for you, seam. He's a movie fiend, does
Speaker 1: a real live movie fiend, likes movies more than I do.
Speaker 1: And he's got, you know, some opinions on theaters in
Speaker 1: Orange County and various movies. Will we'll have fun conversation.
Speaker 1: That's in the second hour. If you don't like it
Speaker 1: you just you know, turn the radio down, don't turn
Speaker 1: it out though, And of course we're going to hit
Speaker 1: all the big stories, the business stories like we usually do,
Speaker 1: run down the box office numbers. There's a new horror
Speaker 1: flick on top, and we'll dive into some heavier stuff, Sam, because,
Speaker 1: as you know, the P Diddy tryout in New York
Speaker 1: is going to enter it. Second week. We got Cassie
Speaker 1: Ventura testimony and we'll be reporting on that. And there's
Speaker 1: also Harvey Weinstein is a retrial, and even Nathan Felder
Speaker 1: is in trouble, or at least there's a controversy around
Speaker 1: his latest show on HBO called The Rehearsal. Talk about HBO.
Speaker 1: Why do they change your name so much?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 1: Elton John is making noise about AI and it's Disney's
Speaker 1: seventieth anniversaries, all kinds of stuff going on there.
Speaker 4: I'm just happy Elton John is making any kind of
Speaker 4: noise at this point of his career.
Speaker 1: Well, he can move around. Do you think he's older
Speaker 1: than I think he's a little younger than Tom Jones.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he is. It's just Tom Jones made much
Speaker 4: more of a career out of like being more physically gifted.
Speaker 4: He was a good mover on the floor. He could
Speaker 4: really shake it. Yeah, you never really saw too much
Speaker 4: shaking out of Elton John. He just boogie wooget on
Speaker 4: the piano.
Speaker 1: He looked like a guy who was a little bit
Speaker 1: out of shape, just taking it easy. Yeah yeah, and
Speaker 1: not in a bad way. He's just like, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to the gym, not going to do bench presses. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the top gross Before we hit the traffic, I'll
Speaker 1: just run it down in the theater's final destination, Bloodlines.
Speaker 1: Tell me if you saw any of these Sam Thunderbolts
Speaker 1: number two, I don't want to see you another Marvel movie.
Speaker 1: Three Sinners. Everyone says Centners is great. Have you seen it?
Speaker 4: No, everybody says it's great, though, Okay.
Speaker 1: Minecraft saw it? It is great? Saw it? Countain two? Okay?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 1: The Countain two is It's the only one I really
Speaker 1: want to see on this list. Then we got Hurry
Speaker 1: Up Tomorrow from Lionsgate, Friendship from A twenty four Clown
Speaker 1: in the Cornfield, I get it. It was a clown in
Speaker 1: the cornfield, you know, until Dawn and the Amateur. Rounding
Speaker 1: out the top ten, and I think we'll just take
Speaker 1: a break right there, check the traffic, and we will
Speaker 1: come back with Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Scalante
Speaker 1: Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burdbank. So, Sam,
Speaker 1: you didn't see a movie this week, but you didn't
Speaker 1: see Minecraft. Yeah, and you soon went to the block
Speaker 1: party ones where they tell everybody go ahead and throw popcorn.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's one where they on screen like they've
Speaker 4: they figured out what the things the fans were doing.
Speaker 4: They kind of created traditions around it, rocky horror picture
Speaker 4: or the room style. And they went and they put
Speaker 4: on a screen the countdown and then at you know,
Speaker 4: three two one, and then they put the words on
Speaker 4: the screen that everybody should be screaming chicken jockey, Chicken jockey, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 4: or lava Chicken. They put the words to lava Chicken
Speaker 4: on there. So everybody was singing along with Jack Black
Speaker 4: in the movie. See that's the kind of thing I like.
Speaker 4: And you saw there was, you know, on the screening
Speaker 4: that I went to use. People were really timid because
Speaker 4: they brought their kids. They didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 4: But you know, somebody was waiting to throw the popcorn
Speaker 4: and they were just waiting for one person to start it.
Speaker 4: So then you know, like the first domino and then
Speaker 4: everything falls after that. That's kind of stuff is really cool.
Speaker 4: It made it so that people did midnight screenings religiously
Speaker 4: of movies like the Room every week and every month
Speaker 4: whenever it was screening around town.
Speaker 1: Man, does the movie industry need that? Because you got
Speaker 1: young boys. If young boys are going to the movies,
Speaker 1: the girls will come. Oh yeah, you know it's if
Speaker 1: the girls are at the mall, the boys will come.
Speaker 1: So good for them, and you know it's just a
Speaker 1: little extra popcorn, you know, pick up. But I noticed this.
Speaker 1: There's so many more employees at the cinema in Bellterra,
Speaker 1: at the Beltera Mall in Huntington Beach. I'd say twice
Speaker 1: as many as there were like a year ago. Nice
Speaker 1: And so I mean the means and bathrooms are cleaner
Speaker 1: and the service is better, so thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And for you know, just to make it easier
Speaker 4: on them, they only screened that movie once in that room,
Speaker 4: so they don't have to repeatedly clean up a mess
Speaker 4: over and over again. That's the kind of thing like
Speaker 4: if you can if Hollywood can start making. I guess
Speaker 4: movies that become like they don't have to obviously, don't
Speaker 4: have to be outstanding, great works of art. They just
Speaker 4: have to connect with the audience in a way that
Speaker 4: makes them want to react.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 1: People want good movies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so what you're saying, well, they crave they crave
Speaker 4: reasonable movies that they can connect with. He doesn't have
Speaker 4: to be good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't have to be great. Now. I was
Speaker 1: listening to a podcast the other day, Brett Easton Ellis,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about The Star Is Born, like
Speaker 1: it came out in seventy six or seventy seven. By
Speaker 1: many measures, many people believe it's a terrible movie. It's
Speaker 1: a terrible movie with Chris Christopherson and and Bette Midler.
Speaker 1: But that movie was like, I think the biggest movie
Speaker 1: of the year or the second biggest of the year
Speaker 1: of seventy six or seventy seven, and it was just everywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was playing. It played
Speaker 1: in the theaters that started in seventy six, and the
Speaker 1: seventy eight it was still in the theaters, and it
Speaker 1: was just so such a big part of everybody's life.
Speaker 1: This star is born Barbara streisand Chris Christofferson, and I
Speaker 1: don't mean very good, but somehow people connected with it.
Speaker 1: And it used to be it played like all the
Speaker 1: time at my theater, at the Fox in Brossmore, and
Speaker 1: I had to see it four or five times. It
Speaker 1: didn't really want to didn't like Barbara Streisand.
Speaker 4: Were you trying to impress a girl?
Speaker 1: No, I was too little.
Speaker 2: It was ten.
Speaker 4: Oh geez, why'd you have to go to that over
Speaker 4: and over again?
Speaker 1: Because it was playing first it was playing, so I
Speaker 1: would go see it. I see everything that went to
Speaker 1: the theater, everything. I would see everything as soon it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, as soon as they changed every
Speaker 1: Wednesday would I'd be there watching the guy change the
Speaker 1: sign because I lived so close to it. Then it
Speaker 1: would come back as a double feature because in those
Speaker 1: days almost all movies played as double features. So you paid,
Speaker 1: and in those days, I think my rate was seventy
Speaker 1: five cents for under for eleven or under, and there
Speaker 1: was a there was an opening movie and then and
Speaker 1: then another movie, and then you would stay and watch
Speaker 1: the main movie again. So I saw many times. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then so it was I just had to you
Speaker 1: know there was otherwise, you know, I wasn't gonna do
Speaker 1: go home and get beat up by my brother and sister. Okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah it doesn't It wasn't good. But it's a
Speaker 1: huge movie, so I don't know if how well it aged.
Speaker 1: But okay, let's move to streaming television. The Upfronts are
Speaker 1: on right now, and television in general. Every year that
Speaker 1: the television networks go to New York City around this
Speaker 1: time and they do a big song and dance, like
Speaker 1: they bring out the big stars like Lady Gaga or uh,
Speaker 1: there's the other stars. They got a big star, think
Speaker 1: a star, that's who's there, and and then they put
Speaker 1: on a big show and tell everybody, Hey, this is
Speaker 1: our identity this year, and this is who we are,
Speaker 1: and please buy airtime for your pepsis or your cars
Speaker 1: or whatever. So it's going on. I think it's just
Speaker 1: finishing up. And what the big thing that HBO Max,
Speaker 1: which was called Max and their big announcement was we're
Speaker 1: just calling it HBO. Yeah, I mean I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people called it HBO. Anyway, they try to
Speaker 1: call it Max. And when people change their name to
Speaker 1: something that's so simple and it's known for many other
Speaker 1: things like Twitter's X there's a big mistakes.
Speaker 4: Well, and we already associated their brand of Max with Cinemax,
Speaker 4: which we called skin Amax. Yeah, like we and then
Speaker 4: they try to clip that and call that Max. So
Speaker 4: I felt like we weren't even getting high quality HBO content.
Speaker 4: We were getting what was the remnants of skin Amax.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not going to comment on that, but the
Speaker 1: reasons they gave, or the reasons people are talking about,
Speaker 1: is is they recognize the strength of the HBO brand
Speaker 1: and HBO is synonymous with good movies. Like remember the
Speaker 1: old campaign where they said I don't make movies, I
Speaker 1: or like HBO. I forgot how they did that campaign.
Speaker 1: I'm a good thing. I'm not in charge of it,
Speaker 1: but like better than movies, HBO kind of a thing.
Speaker 4: But do you remember that at I barely remember. I
Speaker 4: see that thing. I did not get HBO. I had Showtime.
Speaker 4: I was a Showtime house.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm sorry, you're poor.
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 1: The uh So they merged the really you know, prestige
Speaker 1: movies of HBO and the prestige television. They merge it
Speaker 1: with the slock that's on Discovery they're seventeen channels or
Speaker 1: whatever they had. But what they found out is people
Speaker 1: weren't watching that on streaming. People like the cable universe,
Speaker 1: likes Discovery channels and all those adventure shows and stuff,
Speaker 1: but the streamers don't really like it. And so most
Speaker 1: people were watching HB anyway, and they thought there schlock.
Speaker 1: Walmart people were intimidated by HBO, but they're not. They
Speaker 1: like it. These people like good movies. People that go
Speaker 1: to Walmart want to see White Lotus. Evidently they want
Speaker 1: to stream it if they if they have it, if
Speaker 1: they're watching, you know, some Alaskan you know trucker TV show,
Speaker 1: I guess they watched it on cable. So and then
Speaker 1: the stock was going down. So they needed a branding
Speaker 1: to kind of make a market correction. They wanted more.
Speaker 1: They thought they could get more subscriber growth by relying
Speaker 1: on HBO. Everybody's talking about White Lotus, right, or The
Speaker 1: Last of Us. They're not talking about Alaskan truckers or
Speaker 1: whatever's on Discovery.
Speaker 5: They're not.
Speaker 1: I used to write for Discovery Idea. I d no
Speaker 1: one talked about us, although Saturday Night Live did a
Speaker 1: skit based on my show True Nightmares. If you can
Speaker 1: see True Nightmares, if you go to Discovery and then
Speaker 1: look for Discovery ID and watch True Nightmares and you
Speaker 1: see the episodes I wrote, you will be thrilled. Okay,
Speaker 1: And you know they just HBO just acknowledged they made
Speaker 1: a mistake. It's very sam so at Can. The biggest
Speaker 1: news to come out of Can Film Festival is a
Speaker 1: palm tree fell on a man who is walking along
Speaker 1: the Cressette on Saturday in the east side, the seaside
Speaker 1: French town of tom Authorities sped through festival goers to
Speaker 1: tend to the person who laid injured and bleeding on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk. You might want to check your laughter. No
Speaker 1: information was immediately available on the person's condition. Representatives for
Speaker 1: the festival didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The
Speaker 1: incident happened midday at the festival con which runs until
Speaker 1: May twenty fourth. It is about halfway through. This is
Speaker 1: the first palm tree injury of the season so but
Speaker 1: so far no tall Mexican ships have crashed into any bridges,
Speaker 1: so it's at this point a success. Joe Scalante Lie
Speaker 1: from Hollywood coming back after this. Joe Sclante Lie from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: We're here every Sunday from five to seven, two hours
Speaker 1: at the business end of show business. K e IB
Speaker 1: eleven fifty and your am dials. You drive around southern
Speaker 1: California and you're convertible or you're jeep with no top
Speaker 1: on it, that kind of stuff. You know, there was
Speaker 1: someone in church in front of me today with a
Speaker 1: shirt that said bikini Bottoms number one something. It's like
Speaker 1: a SpongeBob reference. Yeah, okay, bikini bottoms.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bikini bottom is the town that.
Speaker 1: He was fry cook. He was like number one fried
Speaker 1: cook at Bikini Bottoms.
Speaker 4: Or some Well that's the town he was fry cook
Speaker 4: at the Krabby Patty.
Speaker 1: The Crabby Patty.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have kids, Okay, Well, if they go to church,
Speaker 1: I would I would say extreme graphics in the back
Speaker 1: of your oversized T shirt.
Speaker 4: Not a good look.
Speaker 1: Bikini bottoms. My wife bikini bottoms. She like bikini bottoms.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I guess, okay. So, speaking of the
Speaker 1: Hollywood industry, ah Malia Obama. So she's a director of commercials.
Speaker 1: She's like a young person aspiring to be a director,
Speaker 1: and you know, she has a name for herself. She's
Speaker 1: Malia Obama. Who doesn't want Malia Obama on their project. Well,
Speaker 1: Nike hired her to do a ad for a shoe
Speaker 1: and she's facing a scrutiny. Indie film maker Natalie Jasmine
Speaker 1: Harris has accused Obama of copying scenes from her twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four short film entitled Grace. Harris points to striking similarities,
Speaker 1: particularly a scene featuring young black girls playing patty cake.
Speaker 1: They call it pat a cake. No no, no to me,
Speaker 1: it's patty cake, noting similar camera angles, shots, framing, and
Speaker 1: color palette. Harris stated that she feels that, Okay, so
Speaker 1: she says, you copied my work. You you know, you pig,
Speaker 1: you copied my work. But then it's like not really
Speaker 1: protected work, but someone she believes something she copied her work.
Speaker 1: So then she kind of defaulted to this other complaint
Speaker 1: and she said, like, there's not like I can do
Speaker 1: about it. But she feels that brands should hire original
Speaker 1: artists instead of celebrities. That's a pretty good point. Social
Speaker 1: media has been divided, with some users agreeing with Harris
Speaker 1: and other defending Obama, suggesting coincidence or a comment concept.
Speaker 1: So I encourage you to go to YouTube and look
Speaker 1: at this, look at these two things. You got a
Speaker 1: short film, you probably end up seeing a trailer for it,
Speaker 1: and then you can see her Nike commercial. It's a
Speaker 1: black woman and her daughter playing patty Cake together on
Speaker 1: a steps on steps and the angles are very similar,
Speaker 1: and it's the theme is mother and daughter bonding playing
Speaker 1: patty cake and it and then okay, so that's maybe
Speaker 1: substantial similarity if if you want a copyright claim, you
Speaker 1: need substantial similarity if you're going to prove it, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe not. Then the second thing you need that our
Speaker 1: listeners will remember, we haven't had a copyright case in
Speaker 1: a long time. The second thing you need is access. Now,
Speaker 1: if Malia Obama has never seen this short film, then
Speaker 1: you have no access.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The more access you have, the less similarity you need.
Speaker 1: The more similarity you have, the less access you need.
Speaker 1: If it's an exact copy, and the person says, ah, coincidence,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna fly. So did she have access? Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out they were both in the same film
Speaker 1: competition at one point. They were both where something that
Speaker 1: Malia was done made and something that this Jasmine Harris made.
Speaker 1: Natalie Jasmine Harris and I believe Malia saw it. So
Speaker 1: if that's true, then it looks like she saw it
Speaker 1: and she loved it. And then she's hired to do
Speaker 1: a Nike commercial and she thought, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do. I'm going to recreate that mother daughter patty
Speaker 1: Cake thing. I was very moved by it. I think
Speaker 1: it would make a great Nike commercial.
Speaker 2: Is it illegal?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think patty Cake black a
Speaker 1: lady and her daughter is a bonding thing. And if
Speaker 1: you want to depict it in a short film where
Speaker 1: they're bonding over one thing, and you can also depict
Speaker 1: it in a thing that it was a famous female
Speaker 1: athlete was the mother in the Nike commercial and just
Speaker 1: say that look she It shows her humanity and no
Speaker 1: relationship with their daughter. So I don't think it's illegal.
Speaker 1: But the point is taken. You know what, these people Nike,
Speaker 1: They're never going to hire me because I'm not famous.
Speaker 1: So they hired someone because their father was Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: Now that's a gripe. That is fair game.
Speaker 4: Now the question I have is like, so the angles
Speaker 4: and everything on the shot were similar or exactly the same.
Speaker 1: It looked it looked like I love the way she
Speaker 1: shot that where the cameras are moving around, and they
Speaker 1: were like, and then we got a shot of them
Speaker 1: from the inside to the out, you know, but because
Speaker 1: but if you're making that anyway, you would get a
Speaker 1: shot from the inside to the out maybe. And then
Speaker 1: we got a shot of their close up their hands. Well,
Speaker 1: of course you get a close up of their hands,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're doing this A lot of us
Speaker 1: just standard filmmaking. But it was the camera movements. I
Speaker 1: think you just go like whoa, and someone lined them
Speaker 1: up and you're like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second.
Speaker 1: It's like she told her editor, more make it more
Speaker 1: like this is that illegal? I'm saying no, But and
Speaker 1: what are the damages? So damages, no one's gonna say.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go see Grace the short film by
Speaker 1: Natalie Jasmine Harris anymore because I can just when I
Speaker 1: want to see Patty Cake, I watch the Nike commercial.
Speaker 1: So there's no damages. And if anything, it's the best
Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to Natalie Jasmine Harris, without a doubt.
Speaker 1: It's the best thing. So it's a black eye on
Speaker 1: Malia Obama, but it's the best thing that happened to
Speaker 1: Natalie Jasmine Harris. So she's using it as a platform
Speaker 1: to say, you know, people should try to be a
Speaker 1: little more clever and do a little more work and
Speaker 1: find out who true artists are rather than just hiring
Speaker 1: people because they're face. And when you hire people just
Speaker 1: because they're famous or because they're a gender or something
Speaker 1: color their skin, which is a big topic today, you
Speaker 1: sometimes don't get the best work when if you just
Speaker 1: went around and figured out who is the best people,
Speaker 1: you would get the best work. And here I thought
Speaker 1: that the I thought the commercial was great, but Natalie
Speaker 1: Jasmine Harris could have done just as good job. She
Speaker 1: never would have got that job. So there's really is
Speaker 1: no damages. She couldn't assert damages if she was if
Speaker 1: she was suing.
Speaker 4: And I know it's in an unrelated field, but I
Speaker 4: heard similar copyright issues with video games and a major company,
Speaker 4: Bungie using artwork from a person who's like a well
Speaker 4: known artist in the field, and though people who work
Speaker 4: there are followers of them on social media and use
Speaker 4: their images because they you know, like you really liked it,
Speaker 4: so they use their graphics in their game.
Speaker 1: That could be damages because that's a job that that
Speaker 1: person could get exactly, you know. And I guess this
Speaker 1: girl could argue, well, if I was considered by that company,
Speaker 1: I would have done the same scene, and but you
Speaker 1: took it. But she wouldn't have done the same scene.
Speaker 1: It's just Nike being just take whatever they can get
Speaker 1: from Malia Obama, take what everything gets. It's a great story.
Speaker 1: And Melie Obama directed this about the famous athlete and
Speaker 1: her daughter. It's fantastic. I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 1: I would have been embarrassed when they found out that
Speaker 1: she lifted the concept and she's not as creative as
Speaker 1: we thought. I'd be embarrassed.
Speaker 4: Well, and really, anytime, like a company like Nike, they
Speaker 4: are going for name recognition and brand recognition, and that's
Speaker 4: what they're getting.
Speaker 1: With with Yeah, you know, and if you want to
Speaker 1: be an artist, stay away from Nike. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that right now. Stay away from Nike. If you're a
Speaker 1: real artist, you stay away from them, and you go
Speaker 1: and you make a statement like I wouldn't work for
Speaker 1: Nike if my life depended on it. Look at the schlock,
Speaker 1: Look at these overpriced sneakers. This has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with art. I spit on the ground. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I would do. Smokey Robinson under criminal investigation after sexual
Speaker 1: assault allegations. Motown legend. Smokey Robinson now under criminal investigation
Speaker 1: because it was a lawsuit like a civil suit. Now
Speaker 1: it's a criminal investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Department following allegations of sexual assault. This development comes after
Speaker 1: four anonymous women who worked as housekeepers for Robinson filed
Speaker 1: a civil suit against him and his wife last week.
Speaker 1: That was a civil suit, he got it. Now it's
Speaker 1: a criminal accusation accusing him of rape and sexual battery.
Speaker 1: Robinson's attorney has dismissed the allegations as vile and false
Speaker 1: the allegation yes yeah, suggesting the police report was only
Speaker 1: filed after the fifty million dollar lawsuit to prejudice the
Speaker 1: public opinion. That doesn't make any sense. Why would the
Speaker 1: police department want to prejudice public opinion. They're just looking around,
Speaker 1: and if they don't look around, they could be there
Speaker 1: could be other victims. So they got to look around.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know if he did it.
Speaker 1: The guy. I think I said this before I saw
Speaker 1: him at Coachella or stage coach. I think it was
Speaker 1: a little bit handsy with the with the with the
Speaker 1: backup singers. So I think he's just like an old
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't know how to act appropriately. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that's just it. And the housekeepers, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: Arnold Scheuchzen nigger style. I don't think it rose to that.
Speaker 1: I know there's no baby floating around. There's no proof.
Speaker 1: So when we come back after this traffic report, we're
Speaker 1: going to go over the latest on the P. Diddy trial, developments,
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein, and the Elton John scandal that has rocked
Speaker 1: the industry. Joe was Scalante live from Hollywood. Here's the
Speaker 1: traffic Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean
Speaker 1: bird Bank.
Speaker 5: So the P.
Speaker 1: Diddy trial is it's pretty gross, I gotta say, Sam,
Speaker 1: But it is wrapping up the first week in New
Speaker 1: York City. It's been dominated by emotional and at times
Speaker 1: very graphic testimony of his former partner, singer Cassie Ventura.
Speaker 1: Over four days. Ventura detailed allegations of years of abuse,
Speaker 1: controlling behavior, and being coerced into participating and disturbing sexual
Speaker 1: encounters she referred to as freak coughs. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: that might have been what happened to Josh Freese. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure she a freeze off, okay. She recounted specific
Speaker 1: instances of alleged violence and threats. This is her on
Speaker 1: the stand. She painted a picture of a deeply troubled relationship,
Speaker 1: adding further details this week of singer Don Richard, who
Speaker 1: worked with Combs on the reality show Making of the
Speaker 1: Band or Making the Band, and later in a group
Speaker 1: Danity Kane Took the sand. Richard testified that she witnessed
Speaker 1: Comb's physically attack Ventor on multiple occasions, including a disturbing
Speaker 1: incident in two thousand and nine where she claims Comes
Speaker 1: attempted to strike Ventura with a skillet, a skillet, a skillet,
Speaker 1: cast iron skillet. It was actually technically it was a
Speaker 1: George Forman grille, but you know, they're just calling a
Speaker 1: skillet for safe time. Looking ahead to next week, we
Speaker 1: can anticipate the prosecution continuing to present witnesses and evidence
Speaker 1: aimed at cooperating Ventur's account and establishing a pattern of
Speaker 1: a llegimist contact, because if they're just having fights, okay, battery.
Speaker 1: You can give citem for battery. They have to prove
Speaker 1: that it's this giant, conspiratorial cabal to traffic people and
Speaker 1: hold them prisoners. So it's not easy. This is not
Speaker 1: a slam dunk at all. The defense will likely continue
Speaker 1: their strategy of challenging the credibility of witnesses and presenting
Speaker 1: evidence that disputes their allegations. In other words, didn't you
Speaker 1: ask for it, miss Ventura, that kind of stuff that's
Speaker 1: frowned upon some juries. If you say that's in front
Speaker 1: of a jury, they just sometimes are going to turn off.
Speaker 1: It's possible the defense may call their own witnesses to
Speaker 1: offer a different perspective on the events in question. The
Speaker 1: trials are expected to continue for several weeks, and the
Speaker 1: testimonies in the coming days will be crucial in shaping
Speaker 1: the jury's understanding of the complex serious accusations against Comps is.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what. It is, complex and serious because
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's not illegal to be a pervert.
Speaker 1: It's not illegal to have freak offs. If everybody's contenting,
Speaker 1: you have a guy, you have a guy who is
Speaker 1: If I have anything to do with it, Sam, it
Speaker 1: will become a league. Freakoffs will be illegal. First things.
Speaker 1: First thing when I hit the Oval office, no more
Speaker 1: freak offs people. Okay, So there's a guy who was
Speaker 1: a male escort who testified and he said I was
Speaker 1: called there over and over to have sex with Cassie
Speaker 1: Ventura while did he rubbed himself with all these oils
Speaker 1: that he's got a line around and watched Still was
Speaker 1: she a prisoner? Was she trafficked? Very hard for a
Speaker 1: jury to all twelve of them to say like guilty.
Speaker 1: He's a trafficker. So we don't know what's going and
Speaker 1: that's why he didn't take a plea deal. I think
Speaker 1: his lawyer said, these people can't prove all. This is
Speaker 1: crazy what they're accusing you of. It's you're a swinger.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting. It makes me spit on the ground. But
Speaker 1: and you can sue her for defamation. I guess if
Speaker 1: it's not true. But I think it's all true. I
Speaker 1: think he's in fact here they're admitting it that it's true.
Speaker 1: This guy's a swinger, he does kinky stuff.
Speaker 5: But is he a.
Speaker 1: Trafficker and a rapist? It's going to be hard now
Speaker 1: down the street in the Harvey Weinstein trial. His accuser,
Speaker 1: Kaja Sokola is going through some stuff herself. The former
Speaker 1: model has faced intense cross examination. So she's saying he
Speaker 1: did this to me, he did that to me. Weinstein's
Speaker 1: Eventstein challenged Sokola's credibility presenting a journal where she detailed
Speaker 1: past sexual abuse but didn't initially mention Weinstein. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that's supposed to mean. They also questioned her
Speaker 1: about continued contact with Weinstein after the alleged assaults, suggesting
Speaker 1: she sought to leverage the relationship for career advancement. Sokola
Speaker 1: strongly denied these claims, asserting that Weinstein sexually assaulted her
Speaker 1: and that she never had a consensual relationship with him.
Speaker 1: The defense aimed to portray her as a wanna be
Speaker 1: actress sam but Sokola maintained that she wanted Weinstein to
Speaker 1: be honest about her potential in the film industry. So
Speaker 1: I think she has a right to meet with Harvey
Speaker 1: Weinstein and say do you think I have what it
Speaker 1: takes to be a star and get raped? And and
Speaker 1: then also this is important not to have to mention
Speaker 1: it in her diary, you know. And then now they're
Speaker 1: putting her on trial about her diary and not to
Speaker 1: never call him again, Like, Okay, that was really gross,
Speaker 1: but hey, can I have a job. And this is
Speaker 1: the difference between him and Less Moonvest, the guy I
Speaker 1: worked for. This Weinstein guy didn't give these girls jobs.
Speaker 1: If this is true, he raped them and he didn't
Speaker 1: give him jobs and he left him in the on
Speaker 1: the curb Less Moonvest he didn't rape anybody, but he
Speaker 1: might have been gross, but he always gave him jobs.
Speaker 1: He came through, he made their careers.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it's one thing if you're trying to base,
Speaker 4: like for especially if you're one of the actresses, you
Speaker 4: can you feel like you're base. You're they're basing your
Speaker 4: value as an actress and as a performer based on
Speaker 4: your ability to sexually please this one, this one production head.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's bs okay. And remember this is a
Speaker 1: retrial because he was already tried and they threw it
Speaker 1: out because they because they they did what they might
Speaker 1: be doing right now to p Diddy, overcharging him and
Speaker 1: trying to prove some crazy thing and hauling in too
Speaker 1: many witnesses that maybe shouldn't be in there. And if
Speaker 1: they do that, they're gonna get the Weinstein situation and
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to retry it. This is the retrial,
Speaker 1: So they're just being a little more careful saying jury
Speaker 1: this lady says, this happened. I'm not gonna haul in
Speaker 1: every person in the world that has an accusation, but
Speaker 1: they are hauling in a bunch of people with accusations
Speaker 1: to confirm a pattern of behavior in the p Diddy one.
Speaker 1: You got if you can, if you can confirm this
Speaker 1: pattern of behavior, that helps your case. But if you
Speaker 1: if you go overboard and the judge is supposed to
Speaker 1: not let this stuff in, if the judge lets too
Speaker 1: much of it in, then they have grounds for an appeal,
Speaker 1: and a higher court might grant the appeal, and then
Speaker 1: you got to try it again.
Speaker 4: And that's what that's what happened with Bill Cosby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill Cosby, you're quite right. He was over trees
Speaker 1: arched and then he got out. Then what happened to him?
Speaker 4: He didn't do what you suggested. Now, no, he's still
Speaker 4: a pariah.
Speaker 1: He dead. Now there where is he?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: I think you still? Career wise, he's dead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not working, Okay, Nathan Felder. We heard of
Speaker 1: this the HBO series The Rehearsal. He's in a lot
Speaker 1: of trouble because he had a fake singing contest on
Speaker 1: his show, The Rehearsal, and people are upset because he people,
Speaker 1: you know, they sign things and say, you're going to
Speaker 1: be in the singing commercial, the singing competition. It's going
Speaker 1: to be on TV. We don't really have to air it,
Speaker 1: you know it well, like any TV contract would say,
Speaker 1: I'm paying you to do this. If it doesn't air
Speaker 1: for some network reason, I don't have to pay you
Speaker 1: and there's no damages. So you sign that for a
Speaker 1: fake singing competition, and then when you find out it
Speaker 1: was fake and it was only to amuse Nathan Felder
Speaker 1: there and you don't have any grounds to assume him.
Speaker 1: So this lady said, it costs me tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars to keep flying out here and there really
Speaker 1: was no singing competition, and you crush my dreams. And
Speaker 1: Nathan Felder, this happens to him all the time. He
Speaker 1: and he wins because he's careful with his attorneys, but
Speaker 1: he is guilty I believe of an immoral waste of
Speaker 1: people's time for his own benefit. He's wasting a lot
Speaker 1: of people's, innocent people's time for his own benefit, and
Speaker 1: he's using contractual language to make sure they can't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. And he still gets his HBO check
Speaker 1: every week. And these people are out of luck. So
Speaker 1: is it illegal?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Is it wrong?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: And people who are seeking fame in Hollywood. It's what
Speaker 1: this show's about. You got to be careful. There's usually
Speaker 1: a better way to make a living and find happiness
Speaker 1: in your family. No one ever died surround in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Died surrounded by a great group of friends. Wow, after
Speaker 1: a wonderful, fulfilled life. No people die alone and after
Speaker 1: being chewed up and spit out. So remember that, Hollywood.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back next hour. We're going to be
Speaker 1: talking to Rob Wallace, Orange County Movie Fiend, Extraordinary, Joe
Speaker 1: Scalante Live from Hollywood. Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. If by
Speaker 1: Hollywood you mean Burbank. This is two hours of the business,
Speaker 1: end of show business. And I just got a red
Speaker 1: ball from the snack bar red Bull.
Speaker 4: Red ball too, red bull, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is what we do every Sunday from
Speaker 1: five to seven right here on k e IB eleven
Speaker 1: to fifty on your AM dial. We talk about the
Speaker 1: business end of show business. And if there's one thing
Speaker 1: we'd love to do, it's promote seeing movies in theaters.
Speaker 1: And I got a guy coming up who is the
Speaker 1: biggest movie fiend I've seen in a long time. And
Speaker 1: the people used to be movie feends. Who's a movie
Speaker 1: feend today? Who's going to these theaters?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Besides me? And I'm yeah, I'm like once a week,
Speaker 1: maybe twice. But this guy's all over the place. He's
Speaker 1: got the regal all you can watch. Pass anyway, before
Speaker 1: we get them on the line, I just want to
Speaker 1: just kind of talk about Elton John for a little bit. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's launched a scathing attack on a UK government plan
Speaker 1: regarding AI and copyright. Speaking to the BBC's Laura Koonsburg,
Speaker 1: Sir Elton brand the ministers, all the ministers in their parliament,
Speaker 1: absolute losers and said he feels incredibly betrayed by proposals
Speaker 1: that could exempt technology firms from copyright laws when using
Speaker 1: artists to work to train AI. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: You have your large language models that they use to
Speaker 1: train AI? And you have to input all this information.
Speaker 1: And he says, if you input one of my songs,
Speaker 1: like if I'm using AI and say, hey, what do
Speaker 1: you think the best Elton John song would be to
Speaker 1: like sing for my wife on our thirtieth anniversary. I
Speaker 1: would type that in and would go like, oh Joe,
Speaker 1: what a romantic idea, Because this is how it talks
Speaker 1: a Google Gemini. That's a great romantic idea. I would
Speaker 1: suggest a goodbye yellow bic road And it might even
Speaker 1: say because I know your wife's favorite color is yellow,
Speaker 1: because you could put in some prompts things that she
Speaker 1: likes are yellow, crocodiles, blah blah blah, fabite animals, the crocodile,
Speaker 1: Oh Joe, hop about crocodile rock. You know that's what
Speaker 1: you would get. So what Elton John is saying is like,
Speaker 1: if you are using my songs and the lyrics, wow,
Speaker 1: Like if your girlfriend's name is Susie or your wife
Speaker 1: or whatever, or both of them could be your girl
Speaker 1: and your wife could have the same name because you're kinky.
Speaker 1: Maybe it goes through the lyrics. Let's copyrighted lyrics. So
Speaker 1: he's saying, if you use copyrighted lyrics and your AI
Speaker 1: training models. You got to tell me and you got
Speaker 1: to pay me. Okay, this is a kind of worms
Speaker 1: because I don't know if this will ever work. I mean,
Speaker 1: can you imagine AI without all this copyrighted work on
Speaker 1: the internet. It goes through the Internet and training it
Speaker 1: by saying here's all there. Here's a copy of The
Speaker 1: Exorcist by William Peter Bladdie, and I want you to
Speaker 1: know that too. It's got to know everything. Oh well,
Speaker 1: William Peter Bladdie said you can't use his estate says
Speaker 1: you can't use it. So everybody's got a blind spot
Speaker 1: there or only chat GBT can and Google gym and
Speaker 1: I cannot because he made it. Is the estate made it,
Speaker 1: you know, a deal over here and didn't over here.
Speaker 1: The Walt Disney state all Disney has their own AI.
Speaker 1: They won't let anyone else use it. Apple has their
Speaker 1: said blah blah blah. It could be chaos. So I
Speaker 1: think the lawmakers are saying, hey, we can't do that.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's trying to make laws preventing AI
Speaker 4: from making those kind of recommendations and suggestions based off
Speaker 4: of the work of the artists. Why what's stopping the
Speaker 4: artist from suing a person making the same recommendation as
Speaker 4: someone else.
Speaker 1: If yeah, you can't sue a person from reading all
Speaker 1: that stuff and saying I have great advice, and if
Speaker 1: you I'm a relationship expert. For one hundred dollars, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you advice. Which at Elton John Song should I
Speaker 1: should I use to serenade my wife. All right, let
Speaker 1: me go look at them and listen to them over
Speaker 1: the weekend. I'll get back to you on Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you couldn't pay that guy, I mean you that guy.
Speaker 1: You can't sue that guy for that.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It feels a little and it feels like he's
Speaker 4: looking for a reason to be outraged. But at the
Speaker 4: same time I understand he's trying to protect his work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's no damages for him. And it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of get off my lawn. So we'll
Speaker 1: be talking about this in the future, of course, because
Speaker 1: this is your AI headquarters for AI information on our
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence in the inter payment industry, because I kind
Speaker 1: of know a little bit about it. Okay, Now we're
Speaker 1: going to talk to my new friend Rob Wallace, who
Speaker 1: is such a movie fiend. He makes like seating charts
Speaker 1: and stuff too, so he sits in the right see
Speaker 1: every time, and he's just I haven't met anybody in
Speaker 1: a long time that has has watched so many movies.
Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoy our conversation. You're gonna learn
Speaker 1: a lot, maybe a few movies you never thought you
Speaker 1: were gonna watch, and you're gonna watch after listening to this.
Speaker 2: Is that right, Rob?
Speaker 5: Yes, I have a really strange thing that I've shown
Speaker 5: a couple of my friends. I know that it's weird,
Speaker 5: but I it started out of really that you would
Speaker 5: go and reserve a seat and that you know, you
Speaker 5: get those movies that are like when you're gonna go
Speaker 5: to on your birthday or some big blockbuster thing or
Speaker 5: you know, you want to know like am I way
Speaker 5: too high? Am I way too low? And I in
Speaker 5: the wrong spot?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 5: And so every time I would go, I would kind
Speaker 5: of remember, okay, that one was good, or maybe the
Speaker 5: one in front of me would be better, And so
Speaker 5: I just started a small, like innocent, I guess at
Speaker 5: first notepad that would kind of jot down where I
Speaker 5: was in, what seat and what theater inside of each
Speaker 5: movie theater, and so basically, over time, I started to
Speaker 5: avoid movie trailers, but my friends love movie trailers. So
Speaker 5: then there'd be this twenty minute period where I would
Speaker 5: just be burning time, and then I would be like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start walking in and out of these movie
Speaker 5: theaters that are empty. I'm going to start jotting down
Speaker 5: a list so that in the future when I come here,
Speaker 5: like if it's theater number seven, I know I've sat
Speaker 5: in the seat. This is the best one. I know
Speaker 5: for sure I'm gonna have the best seat because I'm
Speaker 5: going to book ahead the day before or whatever.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: So it's very weird, but I have all the intel.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of the one app that
Speaker 1: would tell you when you could go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Yeah yeah, run p yeah yeah, and then
Speaker 1: that that kind of went away. I think you can
Speaker 1: just use chachipt now.
Speaker 5: I did it the other day. Yeah, they just know genius.
Speaker 5: They probably just scraped all their data. But you know,
Speaker 5: same thing.
Speaker 2: Wow, one more use. I use Google Gym.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure it's the same thing about oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so let's I'm now looking at your letter
Speaker 1: box just so people know if they if they do
Speaker 1: if they really need to, and and for people who
Speaker 1: don't know what a letterbox account is, it's it's like
Speaker 1: a social movie account where you can see what other
Speaker 1: people are watching, read reviews, and then if you see
Speaker 1: it's someone that that that likes the same movies you
Speaker 1: look like you like, you can go and see what
Speaker 1: other movies they recommended. You could be friends, and that's
Speaker 1: our But I use it as a diary to keep
Speaker 1: track of every movie I've seen because I can't remember them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when I start writing in the theater, when I'm
Speaker 5: still sitting there at the end, I'm like, this is
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: I noticed people I have friends that do that.
Speaker 1: I'm that's a really good idea because you get, you know,
Speaker 1: what else are you gonna do during the credits? Why
Speaker 1: my wife insists stayed to the very very end in
Speaker 1: case there's a blueprint.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, it's it's cool to do the watch
Speaker 5: list thing. You know, find similar things, like you can
Speaker 5: find similar like like I'm really into time travel movies,
Speaker 5: so you can find ones where people will say, like,
Speaker 5: you know, these are all the ones that are going
Speaker 5: to be you might have missed some random time travel
Speaker 5: type type scenario. Here they all are in one spot.
Speaker 5: It's pretty good for that.
Speaker 1: If you just joined us here on Joe Scalante Live
Speaker 1: from Hollywood, we're talking to Rob Wallace, the Coast of
Speaker 1: Mesa movie Theend. We'll be back after traffic. Joe Scalante
Speaker 1: Live from Hollywood. We are talking movies for this second
Speaker 1: hour of the program. I have Rob Wallace, the Orange
Speaker 1: County movie fiend, on the line. I'm gonna read your
Speaker 1: top four movies, which are and the Eternal Sunshine of
Speaker 1: the Spotless Mind, and Big Fish, Amilee and Stranger than Fiction.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you there's only I want to I
Speaker 1: want you to guess. Like we kind of know each other,
Speaker 1: we got mutual friends. Guess which one of those four
Speaker 1: movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Fish, Amie,
Speaker 1: and Stranger than Fiction. Guess which one of those movies
Speaker 1: I walked out on? Oh really, maybe one of your
Speaker 1: top four films in your life. I couldn't even finish.
Speaker 1: I had to leave.
Speaker 5: I would say the Oh, well, there's a couple. There's
Speaker 5: two of them are very weird. I would say Eternal
Speaker 5: Sunshine is very weird and confusing at first, but I
Speaker 5: think that's what makes it good over time, that you
Speaker 5: get new things each time. Amily is also kind of strange.
Speaker 5: So either of those is my guys, big Fish, Oh really,
Speaker 5: what did you not like about it?
Speaker 1: I couldn't take it. I just go this is I
Speaker 1: can't stand this movie. I don't even remember what it was.
Speaker 1: That's why I have letterbox scoring. Okay, you remind me
Speaker 1: like like, and I've only walked out of about three
Speaker 1: or four movies in my life. Oh wow, this big Fish,
Speaker 1: I could name him. The Spielberg movie that was about
Speaker 1: Spielberg growing up. Yeah, he was too predictable and I
Speaker 1: was just like, let me guess he's going to experience
Speaker 1: hate at high school and you know, oh, okay, here
Speaker 1: it goes.
Speaker 2: And then then there was The Commitments was a movie
Speaker 2: a long time ago.
Speaker 1: First movie ever walked out on about about like a
Speaker 1: rock band in Ireland A long time ago.
Speaker 5: I think. I think I recently walked out on on
Speaker 5: the Spielberg movie that was new that came out last year,
Speaker 5: that was like had it was supposed to be everybody
Speaker 5: from Forrest Gump. I think that was the same was
Speaker 5: just basically a single locked off shot of the same room,
Speaker 5: but like it was through time and everyone in the
Speaker 5: theater walked out. It was crazy, and like by the
Speaker 5: time I left, there was one guy sitting there and
Speaker 5: it was like we you already watched everyone else leave,
Speaker 5: Like you're hanging in there. But yeah, I will walk
Speaker 5: out pretty regularly because I have that regal unlimited past,
Speaker 5: So I'm just like whatever, Like this was something to
Speaker 5: do instead of watching TV, I'll do that. But I
Speaker 5: also have another weird thing that kind of relate. One
Speaker 5: of those is that's mentioned. I know that many people
Speaker 5: don't do this, but I'm a photographer and so I
Speaker 5: found kind of like a way, you know how, Like
Speaker 5: I'm sure over time this is probably a similar thing
Speaker 5: that we have in common, which is you end up
Speaker 5: meeting bands that you you know, you have a relationship
Speaker 5: with their music in a way, and then and then
Speaker 5: it changes over time because then you know the person
Speaker 5: or you know what they're talking about, or you know
Speaker 5: it's a new dimension when you hear them sing or
Speaker 5: you you hear, oh, this song is about their daughter.
Speaker 5: Thing that I actually know now started to well, traveling
Speaker 5: with bands and stuff to like for instance, when Missus
Speaker 5: played riot Fest, I took a train out into the
Speaker 5: suburbs to go see the house from home alone. So
Speaker 5: I was like, why not, why not go see it?
Speaker 5: It's I guess it's called set jetting instead of jet
Speaker 5: setting set jetting.
Speaker 1: How about the Christmas story House? We've been to that one?
Speaker 5: No, I haven't, but that's how there was like a wait,
Speaker 5: where is that located?
Speaker 2: I forgot? But our drummer Josh Freeze, he's been there twice.
Speaker 1: Like he's like when he's on tour with the Foo
Speaker 1: Fighters or with the Perfect Circle or whatever. There he's
Speaker 1: actually been twice. But somewhere out in the Midwest. There
Speaker 1: is something to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like so the Eternal in the movie Eternal Sunshine,
Speaker 5: there's a spot that is mon Talk that's a big
Speaker 5: part of the movie where they're like meet me and
Speaker 5: mom talk at the end and it's like snow's on
Speaker 5: the on the beach and there's this house that they
Speaker 5: break into and it's like kind of like a character
Speaker 5: of the movie. I just decided to rent a car
Speaker 5: and drive in the snow out to Montalk and it
Speaker 5: was like literally the scene from the movie to be
Speaker 5: standing in a snow covered beach in the East Coast.
Speaker 5: I just think it, like because then you watch the
Speaker 5: movie again and you're like, yeah, I stood on you know,
Speaker 5: these people's patio or whatever. It's like a whole crazy
Speaker 5: dimension to it, you know. So I just think trying
Speaker 5: to go to as many Oh, I went to train
Speaker 5: Spotting as well. I went to in Scotland, said Jenny.
Speaker 5: That's a new thing.
Speaker 1: The person.
Speaker 5: That's a cool thing to go be like, I'm in
Speaker 5: the scene from the movie I didn't even know now
Speaker 5: and I watch it, I will have walked down, you know,
Speaker 5: the stairs from the beginning of Train Spotting or the
Speaker 5: you know whatever. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But yeah, do you know that the movie that won
Speaker 1: the Best Foreign Film, that Brazilian movie. I'm still here.
Speaker 5: I listen. I think I listened to your guys Oscars
Speaker 5: recap episode there was It's funny. I don't know that one.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the one that won the Best Best Picture
Speaker 1: for a list. It's pretty good. It's not I gave
Speaker 1: it four stars because it's quality movie. And but we
Speaker 1: went to the house in Brazil just to feel the
Speaker 1: house where they filmed it and the people. The taxi
Speaker 1: driver said, oh h and we asked, like, have you
Speaker 1: seen the movie? I'm still here, and the lady goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: screw that director.
Speaker 5: He's a.
Speaker 2: Communist, you know. And then we just like landed right
Speaker 2: in the middle of a.
Speaker 1: Political uh yeah yeah, and she's like, yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: he's a loser. None of that stuff is true. But
Speaker 1: but I'll take you by the house, so he should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she took us by the house. Okay, So where where
Speaker 1: is the theater that you go to where you're keeping
Speaker 1: track of all these seats?
Speaker 2: Primary?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I have.
Speaker 5: It's all over Orange County.
Speaker 2: Okay, well name my name is Yah.
Speaker 5: So like my number one that I go to, My
Speaker 5: number one best theater I think in Orange County from
Speaker 5: all the ones that I go to is big Newport
Speaker 5: six by Fashion Island has this huge RPX screen that's
Speaker 5: just like twice as big as any other screen. And
Speaker 5: if you're gonna go see, you know, some big opening movie,
Speaker 5: that's the place to see it, because it's like, I
Speaker 5: think it's better than an IMAX screen, but they only
Speaker 5: have six It's like, have you ever been there before?
Speaker 2: I've driven by it. Do they have like uh like
Speaker 2: exotic foods and things like that, or no.
Speaker 5: That's there's one. There's one inside Fashion Island, but then
Speaker 5: the one outside looks very old and like, no, that's
Speaker 5: kind of like a loop. You drive through and it
Speaker 5: kind of looks like Las Vegas. It's wild. It has
Speaker 5: like neon and stuff, but it's divided into two separate
Speaker 5: buildings and it's really strange if I was a teenager,
Speaker 5: Like there's a separate building where they don't even check tickets,
Speaker 5: so you just walk in like no one ever even
Speaker 5: checks anything.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what's it called again, Big Newport six six
Speaker 1: And it's a regal.
Speaker 5: It's a regal. Yeah, and it's it's right outside of
Speaker 5: Fashion Island and the loop of Fashion Island.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: I'll go a lot of times to like the Freeda Cinema.
Speaker 5: Have you ever been there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been there for like birthday parties and stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they have some interesting stuff that.
Speaker 1: I should check that out more often because they do
Speaker 1: have different movies because I'm stuck in the Cinemak Movie Club. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in the like I'm in the The good news
Speaker 1: is I'm at Platinum, so I'm getting you know, free
Speaker 1: tickets and I'm getting and it's nine it's not unlimited though,
Speaker 1: it's just nine ninety nine or twelve dollars now a month.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and you get your movie for that and
Speaker 1: then you can hold it, roll it over if you
Speaker 1: don't use it. But I don't go to the movies
Speaker 1: that much, you know. I'm just going, like, you know,
Speaker 1: once a week, so I can't have these ones that
Speaker 1: are like limited or three times a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't do it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I like the cinema because I live in
Speaker 1: Seal Beach, Yeah, Huntington Beach. It's a nice mall and
Speaker 1: I just, you know, usually just trying to avoid Long Beach.
Speaker 5: Is what I I've got the details. I've got the Bellatra,
Speaker 5: Bellatarra details on some of those the theaters actually only
Speaker 5: it looks like maybe four of them. But there's this
Speaker 5: new thing that I found that they just started at
Speaker 5: the Bellata and I found it when I was visiting
Speaker 5: Las Vegas, and it's it's called the D box. Have
Speaker 5: you ever seen that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I will so cool.
Speaker 2: The D box is vibrates, right, it vibrates according to
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but not too crazy, because they have one at
Speaker 5: Regal where it hurts and like it it's too aggressive
Speaker 5: and like it blows wind in your face. This one's
Speaker 5: like Recliners, but it just kind of like punches you
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's really good when you're when you go to a
Speaker 1: movie like too late. It's a little bit late and yeah,
Speaker 1: fall asleep. You sit in that D box. You're not
Speaker 1: going to fall asleep. It's gonna yeah what I see.
Speaker 1: I saw Deadpool in that one, and it was like
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. It was pretty action packed feeling,
Speaker 1: you know, but not too intense. But yeah, I'm always
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an ever growing type of deal. Sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll get out of him.
Speaker 5: I go really late. Sometimes I'm kind of a night owl.
Speaker 5: So sometimes you'll get out of the theater and you'll
Speaker 5: be like, Okay, it's like one am or something, and
Speaker 5: then you're like it's two nuts, two nuts. Then, But
Speaker 5: that's when I'm able to be like, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 5: to go into a couple of theaters right here and
Speaker 5: add them to my list.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's take a break right there and we'll come
Speaker 1: back after the messages, et cetera. Joe'scalante live from Hollywood
Speaker 1: talking to Rob Wallace, the Orange County movie Fend.
Speaker 2: Okay, e I b A.
Speaker 1: I'm a live fifth Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. We
Speaker 1: are talking movies for this second hour of the program.
Speaker 1: I have Rob Wallace, the Orange County movie Fiend, on
Speaker 1: the line. I heard about him through a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: He said, my friend loves the movies so much that
Speaker 1: he has a chart that he has built to rate
Speaker 1: all the seats in the Orange County theaters so he
Speaker 1: doesn't end up getting in the wrong one. So Rob,
Speaker 1: that brings me to the big question. Is your list public?
Speaker 5: No, I've only shared it with a few friends because
Speaker 5: I don't want to go to the I don't want
Speaker 5: to be like, these are the best seats, Hey take
Speaker 5: them when I get get there. Yeah, I don't want
Speaker 5: to be gone, but I could share it with I've
Speaker 5: only shared it with the one friend that told you
Speaker 5: about this. So the fact that it's kind of already
Speaker 5: leaked or whatever is like, Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm married to my seats at the Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm just married to them. I have to sit on
Speaker 1: the right side. Oh really, angle or I'll have some
Speaker 1: kind of anxiety attack.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I won't know what would happen because I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't sit anywhere else. I can't sit in the middle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I did notice there was some uh if
Speaker 1: the big theaters at Belle and Terra, it looks like
Speaker 1: a section that's like in the front, front section that
Speaker 1: you would normally.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sitting in the front.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's too crazy. Why did it even make those seats?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: But the last row in that front section the big
Speaker 1: theater in Bella Terra is fine. Yeah, and no one
Speaker 1: takes it because they think they're too close. So sometimes
Speaker 1: if i'm but I don't have my act together and
Speaker 1: I'm too late, I can get seats there, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so let me look at your letter box again. And
Speaker 1: then you saw The Accountant too, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the it's kind of like my next movie.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I saw it a couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: It was just okay, you know, like and I went
Speaker 5: and rewatched the old one, and I think it's really strange,
Speaker 5: Like why would you It's a movie that's like nine
Speaker 5: years old, the original one. Like you guys are just
Speaker 5: rebooting or you're not, you know, you're doing a thing
Speaker 5: that you know we're all going to go check out
Speaker 5: because we are. It's a proven track record. It's kind
Speaker 5: of interesting. But yeah, I have a few. I wrote
Speaker 5: down a few of my very favorites, my top rated
Speaker 5: that are on my letterbox that I think. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think everyone goes to movies for different reasons. I
Speaker 5: talked to my brother about this a lot. He likes
Speaker 5: action things. I like kind of like character development stuff
Speaker 5: where you're really invested in the person in a way,
Speaker 5: or like the story is really strange, And.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: There's been a few, a few different ones. One last
Speaker 5: year that was a really strange one was called nick
Speaker 5: Nickel Boys.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, Nickeloys was great, great, Yeah, I noticed
Speaker 1: you gave it four stars.
Speaker 5: On your Yeah, and it's hard to give something of five.
Speaker 5: I don't know why it's hard to give something of
Speaker 5: five star, but yeah, it was a weird It was
Speaker 5: a strange one and some you know, the way that
Speaker 5: it was shot, You're like, this is interesting. This is
Speaker 5: like there are people I find that write by the way.
Speaker 5: A letter box, I believe is like one of the
Speaker 5: only places you can actually trust a community of reviews
Speaker 5: because it seems like Roden Tomato is kind of like
Speaker 5: purchased or I've heard it they like bribe people not
Speaker 5: to write reviews originally, and it's weird. It's a strange thing.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, that one was so peculiar, and there
Speaker 5: were some shots, like there's a shot that's the cover
Speaker 5: of the movie that it makes me want to like
Speaker 5: rig up a thing to shoot portraits of people, because
Speaker 5: did you see that movie nickol Boys.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So there was a scene where like they
Speaker 5: were out of the jail or the school that they
Speaker 5: were in for a moment delivering something out in the world,
Speaker 5: and they looked up at the sky or they looked
Speaker 5: up at the roof and they were walking and as
Speaker 5: they were walking, there was like a mirror and I
Speaker 5: was like, well, how would you film that, Like you
Speaker 5: would have had to have been above with rigging that
Speaker 5: made it look like tiles and following them as they
Speaker 5: looked up at the camera, like really weird things. Who
Speaker 5: as like, it's like breaking my brain. I know that
Speaker 5: no one else is or very few people are thinking
Speaker 5: about how that shot is probably done. Most people are
Speaker 5: just absorbing it. But when you like try to break
Speaker 5: it down. You're like, this is a wild, wild thing
Speaker 5: that they're doing.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 1: My reviews are usually really short and they're just designed
Speaker 1: to remind me of what the movie was about. But
Speaker 1: in that case with Nickel Boys, I gave it. I
Speaker 1: think this is the best thing about this conversation so
Speaker 1: far as we're recommending people who ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: the people in the world did not see Nickel Boys,
Speaker 1: you should see it. And so I'm going to read
Speaker 1: you my review. It's probably the longest one I've done
Speaker 1: in years. It was a dear diary, because this is
Speaker 1: a diary, pretty much a masterpiece, chronicling the memories of
Speaker 1: two boys who grew up in an abusive reform school
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties. It has little to do with
Speaker 1: the spade of movies made in the last decade that
Speaker 1: bombard you with white bad and black good morality tales,
Speaker 1: which were really popular, like like three years ago, there
Speaker 1: were four years ago. They were just out of control.
Speaker 1: Everyone was like, you think this one might be but
Speaker 1: it's not. It's just these two boys memories of abuse
Speaker 1: that happened to everyone in the reform school, black or white.
Speaker 1: Their abusers were both black and white. You have to
Speaker 1: watch it more than once because it's pretty arty and
Speaker 1: confusing at times. But I started understand it more when
Speaker 1: I realized this is a disjointed collection of the two
Speaker 1: boys memories. Like all our memories, they're spotty. When I
Speaker 1: looked at the internet, it was based on a real
Speaker 1: academy in Florida that was finally shut down, and it
Speaker 1: would be interesting to see a movie about the white
Speaker 1: kids section of this place. Yeah, and then I wrote,
Speaker 1: maybe you could make that movie whoever's reading this review,
Speaker 1: because they did. It was primarily on the black side,
Speaker 1: but it would be just saying if you went into
Speaker 1: that big house where the white the white kids were
Speaker 1: getting abused.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there were a number of things, you know, like that.
Speaker 5: I liked that it made you it was I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that's the similar thing about like it happens
Speaker 5: in Eternal Sunshine a little bit where there's like a
Speaker 5: there's like a weird like when the credits roll, or
Speaker 5: there's a moment where you're like, wait, where are we now,
Speaker 5: and like they do it a number of times, like
Speaker 5: the moment when they're in the cafeteria and they like
Speaker 5: replay the same scene from different a different perspective, and
Speaker 5: you're like, wait, who am I? Now? Like I bit,
Speaker 5: and then the feeling of the I guess it's like
Speaker 5: the greatness of like the empathy of being literally living
Speaker 5: as someone. You're not even looking at them from the outside,
Speaker 5: you living as them for like the first thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: It's so interesting, and then it's like, yeah, it's such
Speaker 5: an interesting thing. But then even like they're jumping, they
Speaker 5: jumped to them later on in life, and that was
Speaker 5: another thing where you're like, wait, what's happening now? Is
Speaker 5: this where am I? And I think there's something to
Speaker 5: that that made it super interesting.
Speaker 1: But okay, I've got I'm gonna read you my four
Speaker 1: top four because this is what letterbox does that you
Speaker 1: put your top four out there. And my top four
Speaker 1: are High Noon and The Hidden Fortress, which is like
Speaker 1: kind of like a Samurai movie, Kirosawa movie, The Deer Hunters.
Speaker 1: I could have filled it all with Vietnam movies, but
Speaker 1: The Deer Hunter is my favorite one. And black Beard's
Speaker 1: Ghost because I like to keep it light. Have you
Speaker 1: seen black beards?
Speaker 5: I haven't seen.
Speaker 2: I know that I know that well.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's gonna ruin my credibility. But it's
Speaker 5: just a different type of thing. But I know that
Speaker 5: I know that on my list just because I'm I'm younger.
Speaker 5: But Deer Hunter I have not ever seen, which is crazy.
Speaker 5: It's one of those things where I envy you because
Speaker 5: now you're gonna get to see it. It's mind blowing.
Speaker 5: And yeah, I saw it in the theater when I
Speaker 5: was at summer camp. I was like a ranch hand
Speaker 5: at the summer camp and the leader of the ranch
Speaker 5: hands was a Vietnam vet and he took us to
Speaker 5: see it in Susanville, California, and and then he was
Speaker 5: so quiet on the way home.
Speaker 2: We're like, was it really like that? Ted? And he
Speaker 2: goes way worse and.
Speaker 5: We're like just jarred because it is Oh, it took
Speaker 5: him there.
Speaker 1: It is the worst like depiction of Vietnam that you
Speaker 1: could imagine. It's it's a horror story almost, but it's real.
Speaker 1: And then the worst movie I've seen lately is The
Speaker 1: Surfer Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 5: The poster today, I don't know if I really trust
Speaker 5: much for Nicholas Cage. I mean, I saw that weird,
Speaker 5: the horror one that he did a little while ago.
Speaker 1: I like a vampire. One where he was a vampire
Speaker 1: was good. It was kind of like like rough Child
Speaker 1: or Reginald or something like that.
Speaker 2: That was good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: There was one where he's dressed up as a woman
Speaker 5: or something that was like that was like a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago or no, last year. It was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 5: Horror woman. Let's see computer, tell me what it tell
Speaker 5: me what the long legs. It was so strange. I
Speaker 5: didn't see it because you're like, I see Nicholas Cage,
Speaker 5: this ray he's right there, like this isn't You're supposed
Speaker 5: to be. It's supposed to be some scary lady. But
Speaker 5: I can't not see his eyes in his face, and
Speaker 5: it just is some of those movies, they get better
Speaker 5: when you're like, I have no context for who this
Speaker 5: person is. It's much kind of nicer, you know.
Speaker 2: Here's my review of The Surfer Dear Diary.
Speaker 1: After this, you will never want to visit Australia or
Speaker 1: see another Nicholas Cage movie ever again.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's take a break right there, Rob. When we
Speaker 1: come back, Rob will tell us his movie recommendations for
Speaker 1: this week. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Ascolanti, here's my lawyer.
Speaker 1: You don't want Joe Sclante live from Hollywood. We are
Speaker 1: back talking to Rob Wallace, the Orange County movie fiend.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't mind. I made up that nickname
Speaker 1: for you. Everyone's got to have one.
Speaker 2: It's radio.
Speaker 1: You can call me the Goblin. Any recommendations before we
Speaker 1: get out of here.
Speaker 3: Oh that that.
Speaker 5: Sinners movie that's out right now, really really good. But
Speaker 5: I know everyone's already said it it's so good.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, but yeah, so well, so okay,
Speaker 2: well I'm gonna Yeah.
Speaker 5: It feels it feels different, you know, but people say
Speaker 5: it's kind of like from Dust Till Dawn or whatever,
Speaker 5: like in a way, but it's it's an interesting movie
Speaker 5: and it doesn't you know, it kind of has you know,
Speaker 5: people say some of the stereotypical stuff that it falls
Speaker 5: into as far as race stuff, but it's like not
Speaker 5: really like it's a well done movie. And the way
Speaker 5: that they actually they do like a twin Michael B.
Speaker 5: Jordan's Twins, but like the technology and the way that
Speaker 5: he's able to actually feel like it's not split screen,
Speaker 5: like he's actually at acting with himself is so so interesting.
Speaker 5: But I have a few from my last few years.
Speaker 5: I have a few, and there there's three of them
Speaker 5: that are very similar. There's like a new I don't
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a new genre of movie
Speaker 5: that exists. But the first one that I saw was
Speaker 5: called Robot Dreams and it was it was by the
Speaker 5: studio Neon, which I think is really cool. But did
Speaker 5: you ever see that movie. It's very strange in that
Speaker 5: it's it's it's like a full like ninety minutes that
Speaker 5: feels like a Pixar short because they don't speak. I
Speaker 5: think it's a French movie. And you'll be able to
Speaker 5: tell right when you see the trailer, like the vibes.
Speaker 5: It's the most adult. It's not like I was gonna say,
Speaker 5: it's like the most adult movie cartoon movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: But it's not like like Sausage Party was adult adult
Speaker 5: like jokes and stuff. This was like somehow because they
Speaker 5: didn't use language. They just use gestures and like emotion.
Speaker 5: And it's set in the eighties in the in New
Speaker 5: York and it's all animals and like everyone in the movie,
Speaker 5: everyone in the movie doesn't have a there there. It's
Speaker 5: purposefully like nobody nobody's thought like looked at as it's
Speaker 5: just like dog and robot. They're not like girl dog
Speaker 5: and boy robot or whatever. It's just some weird thing
Speaker 5: about companionship. They tell a story. It's kind of like
Speaker 5: allegory in a way, but they tell a story of
Speaker 5: like basically two people trying to make a relationship work
Speaker 5: and then they get pulled apart and this whole complex
Speaker 5: thing of like you know, early love in your twenties
Speaker 5: or something, or some weird thing that you like go
Speaker 5: your separate ways in life. But they do it all
Speaker 5: in like the with just gestures and music. They did
Speaker 5: earth Wind and Fires and what's it called Robot dreams.
Speaker 2: Robot Dreams Okay, yeah, and it.
Speaker 5: Has earth Wind and Fire September as like a song
Speaker 5: that they do in it. And then and then one
Speaker 5: of the characters is whistling it and a lot of
Speaker 5: it is them like kind of like you know when
Speaker 5: you're broken up from someone or some I don't know,
Speaker 5: like thinking of where their life is. It's kind of strange.
Speaker 5: But then they go their separate ways and then it's
Speaker 5: a weird thing to just like I don't know, there's
Speaker 5: there's some weird thing in it that it gets a
Speaker 5: message across. It's so universal and done in such a
Speaker 5: universal way without even language that by the end of it,
Speaker 5: you watch it and you're somehow. I just think there's
Speaker 5: something artistic about the way that they're able to get
Speaker 5: it across.
Speaker 2: People can watch that on Hulu and on you can
Speaker 2: rent it on Apple.
Speaker 5: It's a really good one.
Speaker 1: I always look up these movies on just watch dot com.
Speaker 2: Do you use that too?
Speaker 5: I just google kind of like where can I stream it?
Speaker 5: And figure out you go to just watch. Okay, that's
Speaker 5: all it is.
Speaker 1: It's here's the movie, here's where it's streaming, here's it
Speaker 1: and they they categorize it. Here's where it's free. Here's
Speaker 1: where you need a subscription, here's.
Speaker 5: We get Yeah. Yeah, I have been on that website before,
Speaker 5: so that's when I google it. That's normally where it
Speaker 5: takes me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll take you there. How about Dreams? I
Speaker 1: saw the posters and everything and it just didn't I
Speaker 1: just didn't get it.
Speaker 5: But but it's a strange one.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna with that on my list to see.
Speaker 1: I'm now gonna I'm gonna leave you quickly because we're
Speaker 1: this is a lot for you, and and we have
Speaker 1: you know, commercials and all kinds of things to show.
Speaker 5: Okay, and then but I'm going to have you back, Okay,
Speaker 5: I mean I got a lot of nerding movie things
Speaker 5: to uh, well.
Speaker 1: You get tip you've given us this time. Is the
Speaker 1: the Regal, the one where they don't check.
Speaker 5: For ticket, big Newport six. That's the one.
Speaker 2: Newport six And you got to go to the far building.
Speaker 5: Is that what you do? No? I, no I, I
Speaker 5: do the Regal unlimited. It's worth it.
Speaker 2: But there's the one where's the building where they're not checking.
Speaker 5: Half of them. It's a theater four through six. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they don't check any they don't check any tickets. They
Speaker 5: can just walk right in.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy for all you scrounges there. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to just at least buy one ticket for
Speaker 1: one movie.
Speaker 5: That well, and it's Recliners. Yeah, it's really nice, fancy fancyville.
Speaker 5: But anyway, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Before we leave, I'm going to give you my my
Speaker 1: top ten twenty fours. Okay, my number one was Wild Rowe.
Speaker 2: Did you see it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 2: Okay, I loved it. I hope you liked it. Knee
Speaker 2: cap number two, did you see it? No to see cap.
Speaker 1: It's about an irishman, the Irish rappers, like the Irish
Speaker 1: Beastie Boys, the only rap and game.
Speaker 5: And now we're I'm writing them down.
Speaker 2: They just got canceled because they're.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I heard they were.
Speaker 2: They were bad boys. Number three is flow with the cat.
Speaker 5: I was gonna mention that's what Robot Dreams is like flow.
Speaker 5: It's similar because you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the animals don't talk in that movie.
Speaker 5: You're just feeling it.
Speaker 2: Is my talking parrot downstairs. Okay.
Speaker 1: Number four I had Nickel Boys. Number five I Norah.
Speaker 1: Number six A better Man. I thought that was really
Speaker 1: good with the Robbie Williams is a monkey.
Speaker 5: I don't know why the previous didn't catch me on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was going to be a hit,
Speaker 2: and uh it just died.
Speaker 1: Cabrini Umber seven because I'm Catholic, so I gotta give
Speaker 1: the Catholic movies upgrade. Number eight, The Brutalist number nine, well,
Speaker 1: number ten, I'm still here. We talked about that, the
Speaker 1: bad one. Number nine, though, I want to I'm dying
Speaker 1: to know if you've seen this Snackshack.
Speaker 5: No, what is that?
Speaker 2: Oh, snackshack is about it?
Speaker 1: Just it just looks it's like a movie that was
Speaker 1: made in the eighties or nineties, but it's it was
Speaker 1: made last year. It's two boys get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: take over the snackshack at the community pool and they
Speaker 1: think they're going to get rich, and so they're working.
Speaker 1: They're working the community pool in a snack shack all
Speaker 1: summer long.
Speaker 5: And I'll just say it's got good, it's got good ratings.
Speaker 2: I'll just leave it at that. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh So those are those are my recommendations. But you
Speaker 1: know my audience has heard them before.
Speaker 5: I would say from mine. Last year, the Substance was
Speaker 5: just a wild, wild one that I saw a couple
Speaker 5: of times.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I also really loved it.
Speaker 2: Was it was really good, and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it was a teen horror movie in the last yeah.
Speaker 5: The last the last ten minutes. It could have gone without.
Speaker 5: And then I saw a couple of times was Saturday Night.
Speaker 5: I really loved Did you see that?
Speaker 2: I didn't?
Speaker 5: It was so so good and I went a second time.
Speaker 5: I got to go, I'm probably friends of yours, but
Speaker 5: I got to go with Bill Stevenson and watch it
Speaker 5: in Denver or uh Fort Collins, and he just talked
Speaker 5: the whole time. But it was hilarious, like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it was about it was It's just about the first
Speaker 5: episode of Saturday Night Live. It was a real a
Speaker 5: real like theatrical like and it was a wonner. Everything
Speaker 5: was a one one take the whole movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I haven't seen that and I and I'm embarrassed,
Speaker 2: so I'll definitely.
Speaker 5: You should go. Yeah, tech, let me know how what
Speaker 5: you think of that one. I would I think that's
Speaker 5: one of the best. You have anxiety the whole time,
Speaker 5: and then it ends right when they right when they
Speaker 5: start the first episode.
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember the first episode and because
Speaker 1: I was watching like late night Saturday Night show every
Speaker 1: Saturday night, and then that came on, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, in like sixth seventh grade or eighth grade
Speaker 1: or something like that, and I'm like, these guys are funny. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should have seen it. I don't know what's wrong
Speaker 1: with me, all right, anything else you walk out?
Speaker 5: I think those are the best ones for sure.
Speaker 2: So go see meecap that's my number one recD.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I've got it. I've got it on here
Speaker 5: and this the Snackshack. Those are my two. I'm jumping
Speaker 5: into oh the oh one other one. There's a new
Speaker 5: show out that's kind of about movies on Apple TV.
Speaker 5: It's The Studio. I think it's so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good. Okay, yeah, dive into that one too.
Speaker 5: It's it's about making movies. Every one of them is
Speaker 5: every different episodes about making movies in some way, different
Speaker 5: celebrity on every episode, so you never know what. It's
Speaker 5: kind of cool. But yeah, anyway, okay, thanks for having
Speaker 5: me on.
Speaker 2: Thanks for going to movies. Yeah, Rob x Wallace on
Speaker 2: on Letterbox.
Speaker 1: Do you go to letterbox and you can follow him
Speaker 1: and see all these movies that he's talking about if
Speaker 1: you didn't get if you didn't write him down, and
Speaker 1: then you can always do that on my letterbox also
Speaker 1: and find your letterboxed is spelled funny.
Speaker 2: It's it's there's no E boxed.
Speaker 1: They leave out the E at the end, but you'll
Speaker 1: figure it out, all right, Rob, Until next time, thanks
Speaker 1: for calling the.
Speaker 5: Show all right, thanks later.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was Rob Wallace sometimes known as Rob x
Speaker 1: Wallace online Letterboxed, and he likes going to movies even
Speaker 1: more than I did. So I hope you've got something
Speaker 1: out of that and maybe learned about a movie that
Speaker 1: you're missed like I did. And I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: And don't forget my letterbox to count just Joe Escalante.
Speaker 1: You'll find it at letterboxed dot com or get the app.
Speaker 1: And I now leave you with just the taste of
Speaker 1: the greatest song ever written.