Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank,
Speaker 1: across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that serves be here.
Speaker 1: This is two hours at the business end of show business,
Speaker 1: every Sunday from five to seven on k e IB
Speaker 1: eleven fifty on your AM radio dial. Sam. How are
Speaker 1: you doing good?
Speaker 2: How you doing Joe?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Nicky producer. Nicky's on assignment, so she
Speaker 1: won't be here today, but just you and me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when she goes on assignment usually when she comes back,
Speaker 2: good stuff happened.
Speaker 1: So good luck, Nikki. Oh, it's money we'll spend Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, let's before we get to the movie business.
Speaker 1: And then I, by the way, I have an interview
Speaker 1: with the one of the stars of the movie Blink Twice,
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that and we will talk about
Speaker 1: Blink Twice, and the interview will be in the second
Speaker 1: segment of our show. And you just who am I interviewing?
Speaker 2: Who are you interviewing? That's the great question here.
Speaker 1: It's an ensemble cast. There's so many people in it
Speaker 1: you'll have to guess. And when I say interviewing, you know,
Speaker 1: just chatting for a little bit. My interviews are like, hey,
Speaker 1: your movie was great, because I don't interview people in
Speaker 1: bad movies. But a lot of people that interview people
Speaker 1: in movies, even if the movie's bad, they got to
Speaker 1: still talk to her. So I'm usually just gonna tell
Speaker 1: them they're great, because Blink twice was great. Odd that
Speaker 1: at her hone now is the name I just revealed it. Wow,
Speaker 1: she's you got to see this movie. It's good, surprisingly good,
Speaker 1: number six or five or six in the box office
Speaker 1: right now. But let's get to the sensational news Hollywood today.
Speaker 1: Anna Delvey is joining Dancing with the Stars for season
Speaker 1: thirty three. Let's just take that in thirty three seasons
Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars. I used to make a
Speaker 1: big deal out of Dancing with the Stars when I
Speaker 1: was a morning host, because you kind of have to
Speaker 1: get into that, you know, reality shiny floor show mode.
Speaker 1: You got to do American Idol, you got to do
Speaker 1: Dance with the Stars. But I love Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars and I used to go watch it when I
Speaker 1: was on Indy Window three to one. I'd have the
Speaker 1: stars on my show and then I'd go into the
Speaker 1: studio and audience and watch and go to the after parties.
Speaker 1: Had a great time.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's a fun show, definitely entertaining as far
Speaker 2: as the reality shows go. But Anna delve, there's some
Speaker 2: people that are kind of annoyed or pissed off at her.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you remember, in twenty nineteen, was found guilty
Speaker 1: of eight charges, including second degree grand larceny, theft of services,
Speaker 1: and first degree attempted grand larceny when and she was
Speaker 1: the subject of a Netflix popular series called Inventing Anna
Speaker 1: and when she was a basically a con artist and
Speaker 1: told everyone she was a German heiress and when really
Speaker 1: she was a Russian gangster and she swindled thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars from the New York elites and their favorite establishments.
Speaker 1: So she's been on house arrest following facing potential deportation
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two for overstaying her visa. But she's
Speaker 1: going to compete for the Mirror Ball Trophy in this
Speaker 1: next season and that's crazy, right.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry she's being potentially She was on house
Speaker 2: arrest and facing deportation two years ago for overstaying her
Speaker 2: visa when she was found guilty of second degree larceny
Speaker 2: theft of theft of services first degree at up to
Speaker 2: the grand larceny. It was overstaying her visa that almost
Speaker 2: got her to portid of all of those things that
Speaker 2: she did. Yeah so yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the crimes. She had to pay for her crimes.
Speaker 1: Of course, she was in prison for a few years,
Speaker 1: and then now she's been given a social Security number
Speaker 1: and she's allowed to return to social media and travel
Speaker 1: freely within seventy miles of her East Village, New York apartment.
Speaker 1: According to the tablaid, she has been granted special permission
Speaker 1: to travel to Los Angeles for Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 1: because who doesn't like dancing with the stars? Dancing with
Speaker 1: the Stars is really a miracle of television. The fact
Speaker 1: that they can do all this with all the dancers,
Speaker 1: all the costumes, all the judges, studio audience, and get
Speaker 1: it live to go to New York and LA at
Speaker 1: the same time, and even if it doesn't go at
Speaker 1: the same time, it just goes to New York, you
Speaker 1: know live. It's a production miracle and everybody should be
Speaker 1: congratulated that puts that on. No matter how many times
Speaker 1: they do it, it's still can't be easy. But what
Speaker 1: do you think about that if you were the if
Speaker 1: you were Bob Eiger, would you allow this?
Speaker 2: No? No, I wouldn't. I mean, I granted the show
Speaker 2: has a history, and there's other shows similar to that,
Speaker 2: like The Masked Singer and stuff like that, where they'll
Speaker 2: bring in controversial figures, people that aren't going to be
Speaker 2: the kind of people that necessarily are going to be
Speaker 2: like welcome on there. There's going to be people that
Speaker 2: are going to draw some negative attention, but negative attention
Speaker 2: is still attention. So this is someone that definitely had
Speaker 2: a popular series and a lot of people latched onto.
Speaker 2: And it's always fun watching somebody swindle people. And I
Speaker 2: think this might be part of the swindle. She's she's
Speaker 2: on house arrest and they relax the term so she
Speaker 2: can fly to Los Angeles to film a TV show.
Speaker 2: Who else? Who else do they do that for?
Speaker 1: She is? I the swindle continues exactly. I think what
Speaker 1: they're probably thinking in their minds, in their minds, they're thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, what she stole from the ridge? You know,
Speaker 1: these people wanted to be around her because she's a
Speaker 1: German heiress and they thought they could get something from her.
Speaker 1: You know, that's on them. I think that's the I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I agree with it, but that's the idea.
Speaker 1: Also in television news, Sam, of course I'll be watching
Speaker 1: and I'll be reporting on Miss Delbay. But also in
Speaker 1: television news, Chick fil A has hatched a plan for
Speaker 1: a streaming service, and so Chick fil A is going
Speaker 1: to have their own streaming platform.
Speaker 2: They plan.
Speaker 1: That was a good one and they're gonna and they yeah,
Speaker 1: that was not mine. That's still funny they have just
Speaker 1: because you know, Chick fil A is closed on Sunday, Sam,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I know they We tried to reach
Speaker 2: out to them for comment today and unfortunately they couldn't respond.
Speaker 2: They're closed.
Speaker 1: Exactly they you know. I think what it is is
Speaker 1: the guy you know who owns it or whatever. It's
Speaker 1: the same with I've met other like rich people like that,
Speaker 1: where they've they've done everything, they've reached the peak of
Speaker 1: their career. Now they want to affect the culture and
Speaker 1: they want to leave their mark. So this is one
Speaker 1: way to do it. To have a streaming service and
Speaker 1: not just have one piece of art, but program twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day of art or you know, just
Speaker 1: all kinds of programs and they're hiring real people to
Speaker 1: run it. And the rumor is they're paying for hid
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a half hour. That is like two
Speaker 1: and a half times what my half hours cost over
Speaker 1: a Fox Nation. So I'll be over in the Chick
Speaker 1: fil A lobby waiting for a pitch meeting really soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be family programming, family programming. They're gonna lose hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. But you know, good for them.
Speaker 1: I'd love to make shows for them. But I love
Speaker 1: Chick fil A. But what if they were smart? This
Speaker 1: is what I told in an out burger, I go,
Speaker 1: don't follow up for this. You need to make a
Speaker 1: either save your money and keep it. Just keep your money.
Speaker 1: But if you really must do something like this, I
Speaker 1: would say a fast channel is a better way to go.
Speaker 1: With a fast channel, You're you're gonna have advertising revenue,
Speaker 1: it's going to be free for your customers to watch it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have more eyeballs. Fast channels are the ones
Speaker 1: that are like, you know, come with your TV set
Speaker 1: or or you know, everybody's got on Amazon's got twenty
Speaker 1: four hours a day of these free TV shows they
Speaker 1: have commercials. Fast means free over the air. Our advertiser
Speaker 1: supported television, so it's like free cable. So if I
Speaker 1: was Chick fil A, I would do that and just
Speaker 1: keep it, you know, on the cheap pardon my pun.
Speaker 2: And you can get those fast channels just about anywhere too.
Speaker 2: Let's take it to break.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we come back. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Aditya Adjona, the star of Blink Twice.
Speaker 1: Joe Ascalante Live Hollywood. I saw a movie this week
Speaker 1: call Link Twice and Christian Slater is Kyle mclachlin's in it, Haley,
Speaker 1: Joe Osmon, Geena Davis who should get an oscar? And
Speaker 1: d O. Jana's character is named Sarah, and I had
Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with her this past week.
Speaker 1: The film is great, Thank you. I'm one of the
Speaker 1: you know, people that go to the movies still. My
Speaker 1: wife picked this one out and we were both just
Speaker 1: really surprised at what a great film it is and
Speaker 1: the performances you are playing a character that is you know,
Speaker 1: at first, we're like, we don't know who to like
Speaker 1: in this movie, but you become a very likable character throughout,
Speaker 1: and there's and it's an ensemble cast with a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, fancy actors, Geina Davis, Channing Tatum. You're
Speaker 1: stuck in the jungle with these people making this movie.
Speaker 3: What was that? Like, Yeah, we were.
Speaker 4: We were filming this for two months and you got
Speaker 4: done in a use in that and we lived and
Speaker 4: filmed in the same place, and it was really it
Speaker 4: was really interesting. It kind of went through the course
Speaker 4: that the movie sort of goes through. You know, at
Speaker 4: the beginning, we're like, oh my god, this is so exciting.
Speaker 4: We're kind of all living in paradise. We're all getting
Speaker 4: to know each other, and you know, there's a pool
Speaker 4: and we're having breakfast and lunch and we're talking about
Speaker 4: the script and starting to film the really fun scenes.
Speaker 4: And then as you know, the time progresses. I mean,
Speaker 4: I never stopped loving everybody, but you're like, am I
Speaker 4: want to go see something else? Like I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm in the Truman Show and on the weekends we
Speaker 4: can go to Maydiam But it was a place that
Speaker 4: you kind of couldn't escape. And the darker the movie
Speaker 4: sort of got and progressed. There was that element of
Speaker 4: like I want to get out of here, and we
Speaker 4: were all going through that together and you know, we
Speaker 4: would then escape on the weekends, like I said, And
Speaker 4: it really did bring another element to filming. And I
Speaker 4: think it also held all of us really bomb together
Speaker 4: and allow ourselves to go to the places that we
Speaker 4: have to go to in order for this movie to
Speaker 4: sort of work. It became this like bomb that was
Speaker 4: unbreakable with the guys, with the girls, and we just yeah,
Speaker 4: we just protected each other and held each other's hands.
Speaker 3: Through the harder, the harder scenes.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Geena Davis for a while. That just
Speaker 1: like came out of no way. Please, I mean, should
Speaker 1: we just give her the oscar right now?
Speaker 3: But she is.
Speaker 4: So incredible in this movie. She's so good. She's so good,
Speaker 4: she's so funny. You never know what she's gonna do next, like,
Speaker 4: and she has that energy about her. She is like
Speaker 4: this you know, kinetic energy that lives inside of her
Speaker 4: and no one can replicate that.
Speaker 3: And you never really know.
Speaker 4: What's going to come out of her mouth or what
Speaker 4: she's going to do, and it's contagious.
Speaker 3: You just like want to be around her.
Speaker 1: Did she elevates gear performance and everybody's performances. When you
Speaker 1: see like, hey, Gena is putting everything into this, we
Speaker 1: gotta you know, I gotta step up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah. Especially you know, you have to understand
Speaker 3: that it was so hot.
Speaker 4: While we were filming this movie and seeing Gina and
Speaker 4: and you know, a full costume. Yeah, and she never complained.
Speaker 4: And you're like, well, Gina's here and she's not playing.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying anything, you know what I mean, You're like,
Speaker 4: that's Geena Davis. I never got I mean, Belman Luis
Speaker 4: is one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 3: So I never felt cool around her.
Speaker 4: Wow, I Like I was like, I never stopped thinking,
Speaker 4: that's that's Gina Davis.
Speaker 1: How are we.
Speaker 4: Okay with just hanging out and having snacks with you
Speaker 4: the Davis? I just yeah, I always got really nervous
Speaker 4: around her.
Speaker 1: Well, I think she's a professional to the point where
Speaker 1: she knows if I act like a diva, there's going
Speaker 1: to be worse performances out of my co workers and
Speaker 1: it's going to be more difficult to make a good movie.
Speaker 1: So she's that professional. She can think of the big picture,
Speaker 1: and she can bring out performances out of you and
Speaker 1: out of the other performers, and it really showed. When
Speaker 1: I'm watching this film, I'm going, wait, who directed this?
Speaker 1: And I because you know, briefly i'd heard it was
Speaker 1: Zoe Kravitz and she directed a film. And then when
Speaker 1: I'm watching the movie, I'm going like, wait, who directed this?
Speaker 1: This is starting to turn into like a masterpiece of
Speaker 1: ensemble work. So who someone very experienced must have done this.
Speaker 1: But it was her first film, correct.
Speaker 3: It is her first film.
Speaker 4: It doesn't you don't like her first film, and I will,
Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you. And never felt like it
Speaker 4: was her first film, even in the process or in
Speaker 4: the process of preparation or in the process of filming.
Speaker 4: And never I never really looked at her it was like, oh,
Speaker 4: she's the first time director. She didn't really know what
Speaker 4: she's doing or let me you know, never never did
Speaker 4: that cross my mind. You know, I felt like she
Speaker 4: had been doing this forever. And I mean she went
Speaker 4: through challenges for sure in the creation of this movie,
Speaker 4: but she never stopped to be creative and she never stopped,
Speaker 4: you know, being an artist. And I think every director
Speaker 4: while filming a movie, they go through so many obstacles
Speaker 4: and you know, Zoe was just relentless through this entire process.
Speaker 4: And another thing that people don't know is that she
Speaker 4: directed and led a Spanish speaking crew.
Speaker 3: Oh really, Okay, that.
Speaker 4: Within itself is another challenge of you know how there
Speaker 4: was a big language barrier between our director and a
Speaker 4: whole crew, and she still managed to guide everybody and
Speaker 4: we've still managed to, you know, create.
Speaker 3: This this movie.
Speaker 1: But you were you were born in Puerto Rico, So
Speaker 1: how many people in the cast could actually speak Spanish?
Speaker 3: Me and Liz speak Spanish. So Liz, she's Dominican.
Speaker 4: It's an incredible actress and has one of my favorite
Speaker 4: shots in the entire movie. She's Dominican and and me,
Speaker 4: So we could sometimes hear the kind of communication go
Speaker 4: a different direction, and you know, we would go up
Speaker 4: to Zoe like, hey, I think they didn't understand what
Speaker 4: you might have meant. But it didn't happen often enough
Speaker 4: where we had to go in and you know, protect
Speaker 4: Zoe or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I think Zoe just was very clear with what she wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she really got not only just the performances out
Speaker 1: of all the individuals, but everybody working together. I was
Speaker 1: really impressed with it and you guys are there's there's
Speaker 1: so many distinct and then she wrote it right, Zoe
Speaker 1: wrote it. The characters are so so the characters are
Speaker 1: very distinct. I mean, it's an ensemble. They're all stuck
Speaker 1: in an island. How they got there is, you know,
Speaker 1: not clear. Nothing's clear at the beginning, and the pieces
Speaker 1: start coming together, but the characters start coming out their
Speaker 1: own personalities and they're and they're all very assistant. Christian
Speaker 1: Slater another amazing like casting coup in this film and
Speaker 1: an amazing job that he did. It's a good movie
Speaker 1: and a great movie, and I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be around at Awards time and I want to encourage
Speaker 1: everybody to go see Blink Twice in the theater. She
Speaker 1: got to see these thing in the theaters because it's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's just going to be more fun
Speaker 1: for you. But it'll live on you know, it'll live
Speaker 1: on Amazon, and yeah, a lot of people see them.
Speaker 3: Well, but you want to watch this in the theaters.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's such just a sorial experience, both with
Speaker 4: the editing and with the sound effects of this movie
Speaker 4: and the performances that everyone gives. I mean, it really,
Speaker 4: it really sucks you in and watching it in the
Speaker 4: theater and watching it alongside other people, and you know.
Speaker 1: Do people like your agent and your representatives when they
Speaker 1: see this, do they say, oh my god, Adia has
Speaker 1: a whole new side to her. Now we can kind
Speaker 1: of picture to other movies, is it? Do you think
Speaker 1: this film is going to help you in that way?
Speaker 3: And I always play different kinds of characters.
Speaker 4: I've never really played one character twice, and I've been
Speaker 4: really lucky in that, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it'll open up.
Speaker 4: I'm sure other you know, other opportunities, but I don't
Speaker 4: want to play another character like Sarah. I want to,
Speaker 4: you know, explore a different way and keep challenging myself
Speaker 4: and keep exploring in different fields. I already did Sarah,
Speaker 4: and I loved playing her, and I hope that people
Speaker 4: love Sarah as much as I love her. But now
Speaker 4: it's time for me to move on and do something.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. This was likely.
Speaker 1: Thank you, good luck and everybody. Go see Blink twice
Speaker 1: in theaters now to be at now from Blink twice,
Speaker 1: Now we take a break, come back with more. Joe's
Speaker 1: Quante Live from Hollywood. Jo's Quante Live from Hollywood. Why Hollywood?
Speaker 1: You mean for ban Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Are you excited about the the Gallagher brothers reuniting?
Speaker 2: What both of the guys that used to smash watermelons?
Speaker 2: I know one of them left the like I thought
Speaker 2: both of them passed away.
Speaker 1: I thought one of them died.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he left it to his brother.
Speaker 1: One of them died or both of them died anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: get out your ponchos because more watermelons are coming back. Okay.
Speaker 1: Number one at the box office this week, Sam, did
Speaker 1: you see any movies?
Speaker 2: No? No, I haven't been able to get down to
Speaker 2: the theater, but I have been. I actually started watching
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones all the way through and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's really boring, Sam, it is.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, Yesterrday's news.
Speaker 1: Deadpool and Wolverine still number one, speaking of boring. A
Speaker 1: good movie but boring box office because nobody can knock
Speaker 1: it off. Alien Romulus. I haven't seen it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I will. It ends with us Number three,
Speaker 1: No way in hell that you know. It ends with
Speaker 1: us as like a It's about a woman who and
Speaker 1: he gets above the guy, you know, such a sweet
Speaker 1: love affair and finds out he's violin I guess. And
Speaker 1: then then we learned that her parents there was domestic
Speaker 1: violence in her parents. And then a new guy comes
Speaker 1: into the picture and she's got to make some decisions.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like like like a like a Beyonce
Speaker 1: song I could never get into or something or just
Speaker 1: like okay, and I'd assume it's popular. It's number three
Speaker 1: in the box office, but for me, uh no, good
Speaker 1: good thing in my household. Sam, my wife does not
Speaker 1: pick out the movies, so she doesn't even know about
Speaker 1: movies like that like this. The only movie she's picked
Speaker 1: out in years has been Blink twice. She picked that
Speaker 1: out okay because she knew Zoe Kravitz directed it, and
Speaker 1: she's she was all about that, so we got lucky there.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know that this movie exists, so don't tell
Speaker 1: her if you see her. Number four is Reagan that
Speaker 1: could that could go either way. Number five Twisters, which
Speaker 1: I saw and it was really good. It's still good.
Speaker 1: It's like still surging. Number six, Blink twice. It's down
Speaker 1: thirty six percent from last week. It's done a total
Speaker 1: of fifteen million, we're gonna have to I think they're
Speaker 1: going to make a I would say they're going to
Speaker 1: make their money on streaming, but they own the streaming service,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be on Amazon. Amazon paid for it.
Speaker 1: I think they're probably happy. They threw it in the
Speaker 1: theaters and made fifteen million dollars and what a commercial
Speaker 1: for their you know, streaming service. Now people listening to
Speaker 1: this show, the millions that do, are going to re
Speaker 1: up their Amazon Prime membership so they can watch Blink twice.
Speaker 1: So I get it number seven in the Forge, number eight,
Speaker 1: Spickable Me four, and number nine a little film from
Speaker 1: Sony Pictures called Afraid I did So I saw Blink twice.
Speaker 1: We saw I'm Still Milking Out movie, and then I
Speaker 1: also saw another movie called White Lightning with Burt Reynolds
Speaker 1: on Amazon also just because I hadn't seen it in
Speaker 1: a long time. And in the seventies, I used to
Speaker 1: watch a lot of movies about moonshine running okay, Southern
Speaker 1: corrupt sheriffs and mutated inbred banjo players.
Speaker 2: It always happens that way. It's you and just that
Speaker 2: movie every single time.
Speaker 1: Man love and canoes stuff like.
Speaker 2: That, squealing like pigs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, yeah, pretty mouths all of it. So I
Speaker 1: didn't want to watch Deliverance again, even though I'm tempted
Speaker 1: to because I watch it all the time. So I
Speaker 1: watched White Lightning. White Lightning is Burt Reynolds stars as
Speaker 1: a guy in prison whose brother is killed by a
Speaker 1: corrupt sheriff, so he tries to escape immediately, that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: and then he just advises a plan says, look, I know,
Speaker 1: I know I can burn that corrupt sheriff because he
Speaker 1: gets money from white from Moonshiner's, and so they let
Speaker 1: him out of prison to go bust him, but he's
Speaker 1: really there to avenge his brother's death. And then the
Speaker 1: sequel is called The Gator because his character in that
Speaker 1: movie is Gater McCluskey and Burt reynolds first movie he
Speaker 1: directed is Gaior and Burt Reynolds is just you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just he's a genius. So you can't
Speaker 1: go wrong with White Lightning on Amazon right now? And
Speaker 1: I noticed you do you ever notice this?
Speaker 4: Sam?
Speaker 1: You're trying to watch something on Amazon and you think
Speaker 1: that you've paid all this money to have the free
Speaker 1: movies and then they throw a commercial in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and that kind of annoys me. Now it's like,
Speaker 2: you pay for the service, and we thought we were
Speaker 2: paying for commercial free and uninterrupted services. But nope, nope,
Speaker 2: they're gonna throw the commercials in there now.
Speaker 1: And it's just hard to tell which ones don't have commercials,
Speaker 1: even though they may a new interface that's supposed to
Speaker 1: tell you which ones have commercials which ones don't. I
Speaker 1: got fooled into this white lightning thing. Maybe I want
Speaker 1: to pay four dollars and have no commercials, But I
Speaker 1: noticed there was one commercial at the beginning, and then
Speaker 1: there was like never a commercial again for like an hour.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, okay, it was no big deal,
Speaker 1: like some good with it. So any movie with Burt
Speaker 1: Reynolds in the nineteen seventies you really can't go wrong with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're silly, they're they're good, they're serious, they're good. And
Speaker 1: speaking of Chick fil A, Burt Reynolds had a chain
Speaker 1: of restaurants called Poe Boys. Really he Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: remember when I was the business affairs guy on his
Speaker 1: show Evening Shade at CBS. I still have my Evening
Speaker 1: Shade belt buckle he gave me for Christmas. Not like
Speaker 1: he walked into my office and handed it to me,
Speaker 1: but you know, he was it was his show. And
Speaker 1: then he, uh, he needed money, and I was in
Speaker 1: charge of the money, you know. And I would go
Speaker 1: to my boss and say, hey, Burt needs money. Why
Speaker 1: Burt has to pay back all these bills for the
Speaker 1: Poe Boys restaurant because it went into bankruptcy. And then
Speaker 1: it's like, well, it's bankruptcy, you don't have to pay.
Speaker 1: It's my boss, says. My boss calls him, he talks
Speaker 1: him because what are you doing? Because he Burt knew
Speaker 1: my boss's dad and all that kind of stuff. Dads
Speaker 1: some history. And then Bert said, but I got to
Speaker 1: pay these people. And he goes, no, you don't. What's pankruptcy.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, restaurants go out to business all
Speaker 1: the time. People invest, it's risky. And he said, he said, no,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I'm Burt Reynolds. People can't be
Speaker 1: cheated by Burt Reynolds. So I got to pay. Even
Speaker 1: though at the bankrupt I got to pay everybody every
Speaker 1: penny that they put into this thing, every bill, every uh,
Speaker 1: you know, guy who fixes the ice machine or the
Speaker 1: guy who delivers the beer and all that. He just
Speaker 1: so that's up due kind of guy. Yeah, stand up, dude.
Speaker 1: So I looked up to him a lot, and I
Speaker 1: have a wetsuit vest like he wore in Deliverance that
Speaker 1: I wear out when I'm surfing a lot. And I
Speaker 1: don't get any Burt Reynolds comments. For some reason, people don't.
Speaker 1: Never I'm never mistaken for him. But that's okay, all right. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know the can Film Fest enough, the canfuft Lust,
Speaker 1: the Venice Film Festival is happening, and for some reason,
Speaker 1: there's no news out of there because the only news
Speaker 1: is Harmony Kareene. You know, one of the most obscure
Speaker 1: directors in the world is telling everybody that the hollywoods
Speaker 1: is starting to crumble creatively, which I think is weird
Speaker 1: because that guy's so weird. His idea of creativity, you know,
Speaker 1: is how to lose money on a movie. Now, Joe
Speaker 1: Scalanti will see every Harmony Koreen movie there is. I've
Speaker 1: had him on my show before and he made one
Speaker 1: of the greatest movies of all time, which is Gumbo.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Gummo. If you haven't seen Gumbo. If producer
Speaker 1: Nicky was here, I would make her write that down.
Speaker 2: Gumbo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to have you seen Gmo?
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 5: I'm going to text her. I have to text her
Speaker 5: that name so I remember it. Yeah, Gummo, that's in
Speaker 5: her homework. If you haven't seen Gumo, that's required viewing
Speaker 5: for even being within one hundred you know, yards of me.
Speaker 5: Anybody coming in and he has to has to see Gummou.
Speaker 5: I am envious of you because you haven't seen Gumo
Speaker 5: and your life's about to change.
Speaker 2: Well, I got to watch it for the first time.
Speaker 2: That's a unique experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, Harmony and Korean. Great great director. But
Speaker 1: the film, the film Fess was giving him all this press.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird. And now he's like he's got
Speaker 1: but he's like for him to like scold Hollywood on
Speaker 1: their creativity. Interesting. I mean, I I agree with him.
Speaker 1: He's a hundred percent right. He's gone into a lot
Speaker 1: of weird kind of developing technology to make his movies
Speaker 1: even weirder. He uses a lot of video game stuff
Speaker 1: now and he's doing some interactive immersive things with this
Speaker 1: new movie called Baby Invasion. So that's a movie we're
Speaker 1: looking forward to on this show. Okay, let's take a
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back more of the same and
Speaker 1: even better. From Joe'scalante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 5: Joe as Kalante.
Speaker 1: He's my lawyer.
Speaker 2: He don't want money. He does it all for you
Speaker 2: and he knows.
Speaker 1: Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood, do you mean? Burbank?
Speaker 1: The lawsuit that a bunch of artists filed against an
Speaker 1: AI company called Stable Diffusion has overcome a major hurdle
Speaker 1: sam The court has said that this first of its
Speaker 1: kind of lawsuit over the uncompensated and unauthorized use of
Speaker 1: billions of images downloaded from the Internet to train AI systems,
Speaker 1: with the federal judge allowing the key claims to move forward.
Speaker 1: So this this claim is kind of wild. It's like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you're gonna scrub the Internet and
Speaker 1: find all this stuff and make stuff out of it,
Speaker 1: you got to pay us. Now, a judge could say,
Speaker 1: like that's too hard, h I'm dismissing this, But the
Speaker 1: judge said, all right, you can move forward. We can,
Speaker 1: we can, we can and go and and see if
Speaker 1: there's any compensation that should be paid to these artists,
Speaker 1: but which artists just the ones that file. Usually in
Speaker 1: cases like this, it kind of reminds me of the
Speaker 1: old Betamax case, where it's like, say, wait a second,
Speaker 1: you have this machine that can record television and play
Speaker 1: it back at any time. What about the people on
Speaker 1: the copyrights to that TV programming? Yeah, And then what
Speaker 1: the courts ended up doing is saying like, well, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, what do you guys use for this recording?
Speaker 1: You have these cassettes? All right, We're going to put
Speaker 1: a tax on every cassette and that money is going
Speaker 1: to go to the Uncompensated Artist Fund or something. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard, so they probably do something like that, like
Speaker 1: these companies that scrub the Internet for this commercial purposes
Speaker 1: will have to pay into a fund and that fund
Speaker 1: will get distributed to people that are already rich and
Speaker 1: life will go on. So we'll follow that a little bit,
Speaker 1: or maybe we won't if it gets too boring. Like
Speaker 1: the NBA. Who they the NBA? Do you hear about this?
Speaker 1: They had a lawsuit against Warner Brothers. Discovery sued them
Speaker 1: because they they were with Warner Brothers. Discovery for years
Speaker 1: and years and years decades. Yeah, and then they abandoned
Speaker 1: them and went to Amazon. Yeah, so they just end
Speaker 1: Amazon just said screw you, or the NBA said screw you.
Speaker 1: I don't care what I don't care about our history.
Speaker 1: And they're they're going to fight it out. But I
Speaker 1: think Warner Brothers Discovery is going to lose. And it
Speaker 1: just now the NBA goes on Amazon and who cares.
Speaker 1: I don't watch it anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they have a chance. Well, this is something
Speaker 2: you should actually watch because inside the NBA.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, yeah, you told me about that. That's really good.
Speaker 1: That could bring me back to the the way you
Speaker 1: described it, couldn't bring me back to the NBA.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I sold Nicky on it. I just showed her
Speaker 2: a couple of clips and how the guys interact with
Speaker 2: each other on the show and what's being taken away
Speaker 2: from people.
Speaker 1: It's it's so that show is going to be gone.
Speaker 2: Or it's going to be gone. It's an institution.
Speaker 3: And the.
Speaker 2: Main host of it, Ernie Johnson, who's been there from
Speaker 2: the beginning, basically said he's worked with TNT for over
Speaker 2: forty years now and he's like, I'm not going anywhere
Speaker 2: is this is my home, And the rest of the
Speaker 2: guys say, if Ernie's not going, we're not going. So
Speaker 2: you're probably going to see Shaq go somewhere doing something different.
Speaker 2: You might see Kenny Smith going somewhere. Chuck Charles Barkley
Speaker 2: has already said he's not gonna do anything after this.
Speaker 2: He's retiring after this season. So this season is the
Speaker 2: last run of arguably one of the greatest sports shows ever.
Speaker 2: Like people look at Sports Center and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: This stuff was better than all of it, just based
Speaker 2: off of the comedy that they had, the relationship that
Speaker 2: the guys built with each other over the time they
Speaker 2: spent with each other's you can't replace it.
Speaker 1: Well. Speaking of sports, Ricky Piercell gunned down in his
Speaker 1: home a town of San Francisco is adopted hometown of
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers. That's got to hurt
Speaker 1: the city of San Francisco if you can't even protect
Speaker 1: your superstar athletes and they come to town and they
Speaker 1: just get shot, and it's going to be ugly if
Speaker 1: they find out that this guy who shot him was
Speaker 1: arrested the day before and released and probably is out
Speaker 1: now having a nice breakfast somewhere. So that's a menace.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a scandal.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Well we'll have to get more details
Speaker 2: on that before we can jump to any of those conclusions,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it could be something potentially.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm in the business of jumping to conclusion, Sam,
Speaker 1: because I only got like three four minutes left. Now.
Speaker 1: A couple other entertainment related things. There is a movie
Speaker 1: about Donald Trump, and he was puffing like he was
Speaker 1: going to sue for defamation, but it never happened. So
Speaker 1: the movie's getting released, and that happens a lot people.
Speaker 1: If there's a movie in development, you get your lawyers
Speaker 1: and you sue the network, or you start puffing like
Speaker 1: you're going to do it, and you're hoping maybe you
Speaker 1: can get them to stop it, or maybe you can
Speaker 1: get people to not support it or theaters or you know,
Speaker 1: you're just trying to do anything. They can put a
Speaker 1: legal cloud over it. Maybe publicists won't take it or
Speaker 1: something like that. Maybe the publicist would think that you're
Speaker 1: going to sue them. So even if you don't have
Speaker 1: a case, because anybody can make a movie about President
Speaker 1: Trump and if they want to put it on during
Speaker 1: the election and they can all argue whether that's election
Speaker 1: interference or free speech or what, but they have a
Speaker 1: right to do it. And it's coming to a theater
Speaker 1: near you, so I'm sure it's going to be a winner.
Speaker 2: Fantastic.
Speaker 1: I got another one just kind of This is not
Speaker 1: really entertainment, but I'm kind of fascinated by it because
Speaker 1: the South Carolina prison director says he has the electric chair,
Speaker 1: the firing squad, and lethal injection ready to go for
Speaker 1: South Carolina's first execution in more than thirteen years. And
Speaker 1: I guess he was under an order to make sure
Speaker 1: he had all this, like a court order and said
Speaker 1: he had to have it already because people in certain
Speaker 1: states or whatever, they have a choice of what kind
Speaker 1: of they get to pick their poison for.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So this always, you know, I'm always fascinated by this.
Speaker 1: And let me just push this this. Put this question
Speaker 1: to you, Sam, lethal injection, electric chair or fire squad.
Speaker 1: Which one are you going to choose once you are
Speaker 1: finally caught for whatever you did that we don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh jeez uh, death by a snooz snoop?
Speaker 1: Sam, death by cake? What do you pick? What are
Speaker 1: you picking? You only have three choices. Injection, lethal injection,
Speaker 1: electric chair, and firing squad. There is a right answer
Speaker 1: to firing squad, right, that's the right answer.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me a cigarette and give me the fire.
Speaker 1: You got it. That's what you do. You have your cigarette,
Speaker 1: you smoke it with the guys that are you know,
Speaker 1: the guy that has the sword that that's going to
Speaker 1: like put the sword down when it's time to to
Speaker 1: ready aim fire and you put your mask on, and
Speaker 1: you line up against the cement wall and you just
Speaker 1: take your lumps. It's a very dignified It's the only
Speaker 1: dignified way to be executed.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, either that or the guillotine. Man.
Speaker 1: Now, I sometimes bring this up because of morbidness. When
Speaker 1: was the last time the guillotine was used for an
Speaker 1: execution in France?
Speaker 2: It was surprisingly recent. It was something like nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think we talked about that.
Speaker 2: No, I've just known this too. I'm I've got the
Speaker 2: same morbid fascination as you.
Speaker 1: I used to make guillotines when I was build models
Speaker 1: of guillotines when I was a kid. Okay, well we're
Speaker 1: going to ask the internet September of nineteen seventy seven
Speaker 1: in France.
Speaker 2: Wow, I was a couple of years off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen seventy seven, I I'm seeing I was. I
Speaker 1: was probably learning, you know, studying for my driver's license.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy almost I was fourteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was Team minus two years from launch.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. All right, Sam, I think we're I think
Speaker 1: we're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's call it a day. How about what
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will do it. Okay. We will be back
Speaker 1: next week with Joe'scalante live from Hollywood, and they now
Speaker 1: leave you with just a taste of the greatest song
Speaker 1: ever written.