Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood by hollymoend you you mean
Speaker 1: Burbank across the street from a Wiener Snitzel that sells beer.
Speaker 1: And we are in the studio today. I've got engineer
Speaker 1: Sam Is here.
Speaker 2: Hello, Sam, Hello, it's nice seeing you physically here.
Speaker 1: Producer Nikki, I have to push her button for her.
Speaker 3: Oh do you button?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an engineer.
Speaker 2: It should be around you.
Speaker 1: But if a look for the button, that's how we're starting.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, this is two hours of the business end of
Speaker 1: show business. We do it every Sunday here on k
Speaker 1: E I B eleven on your AM dial. And let's see.
Speaker 1: We got all kinds of stuff going on right now. Actually,
Speaker 1: I got to make sure I have all my stuff
Speaker 1: because I forgot my glasses. They're in the car. But
Speaker 1: I still go. And this period that we're in right now,
Speaker 1: it's Awards season, it's Oscar. Nominees are getting digested, and
Speaker 1: with ten movies, you got to really digest them. You
Speaker 1: can't just start talking about them as soon as they're nominated.
Speaker 1: Because there's a bunch of stuff here, like I never
Speaker 1: heard of that. We've got the Grammys going on as
Speaker 1: we speak and but January, which is usually where they
Speaker 1: dump bad movies and we just kind of wait for
Speaker 1: the awards. There's some surprises out there right now.
Speaker 2: Are we getting like audience noise from the Grammy party
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 3: Is that what's happening?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have the Grammys. Oh we are at the Grammys.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, we're there.
Speaker 1: We are live at the Grammys. Right here on Everything
Speaker 1: looks good so far. Who is that over there? Is
Speaker 1: that Tupac?
Speaker 2: It's the Hologram. They invited the Hologram onto the red
Speaker 2: carpet this year.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that AI has been a little
Speaker 3: hot topic, so it's really sweet for them to okay it.
Speaker 1: I turned it off, but can you still hear it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 1: I hear something where? Okay? Anyways, the Grammys. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody here knows anything about the Grammys, but
Speaker 1: to me, it's the worst that television has to offer.
Speaker 1: It's prob I mean, I realize they have to have it,
Speaker 1: and they got a wonderful Grammy museum. They're giving out
Speaker 1: awards people and it helps their careers, But the product
Speaker 1: that ends up on television, to me, is about the
Speaker 1: worst thing on on on any channel throughout the whole year,
Speaker 1: so I don't I just never watch it. I watch
Speaker 1: the Academy Awards, that's the Granddaddy of all Academy of
Speaker 1: All Awards shows. And I watched the Daytime Emmys because
Speaker 1: the Daytime Emmys is full of clips from shows you
Speaker 1: never see, would never see it in a million years,
Speaker 1: like the best soap opa scenes of the year. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a good time to tune in.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I tuned out the second the Cable Ace Awards vanished.
Speaker 1: Well, the Cable Ace Awards, that's a sad story too.
Speaker 1: I actually end up with the kids the Industry Dance
Speaker 1: Awards every year at the the what's it called the
Speaker 1: Avalon now, I know what you're talking about. And I
Speaker 1: end up there because I'm in the relatives in the
Speaker 1: dance and I was dating Jojo for a while before
Speaker 1: before I got married. No Jojo jokes here, not which
Speaker 1: I was telling jokes, so uh, she's not really was
Speaker 1: barking up the own tree. Okay, that's not true, all right,
Speaker 1: you guys. And then we have the so we're gonna
Speaker 1: go over the the nominees for Best Picture Okay, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of stories. I got some good stuff here,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna start right away with the nominees for
Speaker 1: Best Picture. I've seen a couple of them and I
Speaker 1: can help you out Number one on Nora, is anyone
Speaker 1: here in the seen it?
Speaker 3: It's on my to do list?
Speaker 1: How about you, Sam? I haven't anyways? Directed by Sean Baker,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite directors because he directed a work
Speaker 1: of genius called Florida Project. Right there we go.
Speaker 3: I saw that film years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Honora is his new movie. Most of his
Speaker 1: movies deal with sex workers. This one no different. The
Speaker 1: Brutalist saw it today.
Speaker 2: Sex workers. You say, there's some.
Speaker 1: Sex workers in The Brutalist too. Sex walker sex welca?
Speaker 1: Is that your Hungarian sex welka? That's my Australian accent? Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: sex walk thank you? Sex walkup? Okay. The Brutalist has
Speaker 1: sex walkers.
Speaker 2: And Australian phobia.
Speaker 1: And that movie is about It's the one with Adien
Speaker 1: Brody plays a Brutalist architect and it's three hours and
Speaker 1: forty minutes. I mean, I'm like, is a major achievement
Speaker 1: in motion pictures. It's a major and I the but
Speaker 1: at some times I'm like, okay, all right, I get it.
Speaker 1: Who cares? I don't really care that much. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't like like a Nora A great movie, Brutalist I got,
Speaker 1: I get it. Good for you, you made a great movie.
Speaker 1: I guess. I don't know. So I could. You could
Speaker 1: watch The Brutalist and you could love it, or you
Speaker 1: could say so I don't want I'm not like highly
Speaker 1: recommending it, but I will tell you something interesting about
Speaker 1: The Brutalist. I'm gonna tell you there is some I
Speaker 1: don't know if I should go through. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep going through the list because I'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about The Brutalist later. How's that sweet? I
Speaker 1: think people want to hear all the ten movies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's do that first.
Speaker 1: They don't want me to just get all bogged down. Okay,
Speaker 1: so a complete unknown that is the Bob Dylan Dylan movies,
Speaker 1: pretty good biopic until I saw Better Man. Then I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, just don't even try to make a
Speaker 1: biopick because better Man is the new standard.
Speaker 3: It's the best Man.
Speaker 1: Yes, so don't try. If I made a complete unknown,
Speaker 1: and I went to see the The Better Man, like
Speaker 1: I just quit filmmaking.
Speaker 3: It would be completely unknown. You never would I've seen it.
Speaker 2: At what point do we get to ten nominees?
Speaker 1: Well, because okay, this is a good question. They do
Speaker 1: it so they can broaden out the nominees and they
Speaker 1: can kind of get some blockbusters in there maybe and
Speaker 1: get more people to watch the Oscars. The more the
Speaker 1: more movies that are nominated for Best Picture, the more
Speaker 1: people will be interested and they'll get higher ratings at
Speaker 1: the Oscar telecast. But they're you know, you know how
Speaker 1: these people are. They just eat their own so they
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Well, and I just see all of these movies. Oh,
Speaker 2: these are all the nominees, and everybody likes goes out
Speaker 2: of their way to try to see him. I remember
Speaker 2: I went and used to catch as any of the
Speaker 2: nominees as possible. And now I look at it and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't see all of these movies.
Speaker 1: Because you're not the host here. You're not the host
Speaker 1: of this, Joe. I have to see all these movies.
Speaker 2: I know, and that's why the show's got your name
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the other one is number four is Conclave.
Speaker 1: Another like, you know, a well made movie, a complete heresy.
Speaker 2: That's a nominee.
Speaker 1: Conclave really yeah yeah Wow Dune Part two, that's you
Speaker 1: know that. I like that movie so much. I thought
Speaker 1: the story was so good. I woke up twice too,
Speaker 1: I could so I can follow the plot. That's someone
Speaker 1: else's joke. I'm going to keep saying. It's Amelia Perez,
Speaker 1: possibly the worst movie ever made.
Speaker 3: I want to see it because I love to hate.
Speaker 1: This is not since Cats.
Speaker 3: No, okay, Kats is super good if you're under the influence.
Speaker 3: It actually makes matter.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have any beauty in it, though Cats has beauty.
Speaker 3: Kats is a documentary of yours sound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it has beauty in it and has beautiful
Speaker 1: people in it. This one not so much. I'm Still here,
Speaker 1: which nobody knows what the that's the director like like
Speaker 1: talking somewhere going I'm still here. I made this movie
Speaker 1: ptnominated for an Oscar Nickel Boys also same thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know who knows the substance. That's a good movie.
Speaker 3: I wanted to win just because I'm biased and I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 1: And because the last thirty minutes are like a horror
Speaker 1: film for that you would normally go see on its own,
Speaker 1: exactly Wicked. Only three people walked out of that movie
Speaker 1: when I went to see it, and there was in
Speaker 1: front of me, and I was in the fourth row.
Speaker 3: Well because there were only four people there, No.
Speaker 1: It was full, but three people walked out in front
Speaker 1: of me, and then whoever behind me. I have to
Speaker 1: like just kind of by doing the math, you would
Speaker 1: say like maybe seven or eight people walked out. But
Speaker 1: again another achievement. There were a lot of good movies
Speaker 1: this year. A lot of them didn't didn't make this list.
Speaker 1: So let's go back. Is it time to take a break.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. When we come back, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you something interesting about the Brutalist now that I've read,
Speaker 1: Now that I've read this whole list and digested it,
Speaker 1: Brutalist is the best picture of the year. I mean,
Speaker 1: Honora is my favorite.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to the Brutalist. This is the leaked Grammy take.
Speaker 3: You only get it on this radio show.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It has one, so you've heard it here.
Speaker 1: Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood. Back after this, Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: What Hollywood you mean Burdbank And yes, I'm watching the
Speaker 1: Red Carpet for the the Grammy. Shakira is walking by
Speaker 1: and she looks fantastic. But as I said, I don't
Speaker 1: go to watch that. And maybe for the first time,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to watch the Oscars. Really maybe for
Speaker 1: the first time.
Speaker 2: What do you do? You have alternate plan?
Speaker 3: Do you have anything better to do?
Speaker 1: When is it?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not paying attention.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They happened pretty sure, Nikki. Can you find out when
Speaker 1: it is? I'll tell you what else I'm taking type Okay.
Speaker 2: You're already scheduling that you're not going to be doing
Speaker 2: anything else.
Speaker 1: I mean when you lose Joe Ascalante, host of Joe
Speaker 1: Scalante Live from Hollywood, you did something.
Speaker 3: Well, it looks like it looks like it's actually on
Speaker 3: the day that I definitely have something else to do,
Speaker 3: like a doctor's appointment or something at a Sunday March second,
Speaker 3: it looks like I'm busy. Actually that day.
Speaker 1: It's n that's my twenty ninth winning anniversary.
Speaker 3: Is it true you are busy? You cannot be watching you.
Speaker 1: And I'm flying home from Brazil that day. I think, no,
Speaker 1: I'm flying home from New York that day, and I
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 3: I'll watch it for you all. Report back on the
Speaker 3: taxi outfits.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Okay, So The Brutalist, which I think will
Speaker 1: win Best Picture, And it's very interesting. They have this
Speaker 1: like weird way they made it whatever. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like a VistaVision. It's like some long dormant super high
Speaker 1: definition widescreen format. You might have seen it in all
Speaker 1: movies you see VistaVision on the screen, like maybe like
Speaker 1: Giant starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in VistaVision. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some epic movies made, so use that. And it's
Speaker 1: filmed in a seventy milimeter or released in seventy milimeter prints,
Speaker 1: filmed in this division, released in these seventy millimeter Prince
Speaker 1: and Corbett the director, so he's kind of turned himself
Speaker 1: into some kind of culture warrior by doing it this
Speaker 1: old school away. And that's how you made a big
Speaker 1: splash in Venice, winning the Silver Lion Award and a
Speaker 1: US distribution deal for this thing. And and you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a laborious process where they have
Speaker 1: to inventory a bulky twenty six film canisters. They have
Speaker 1: to transport around three hundred about three hundred pounds of
Speaker 1: celluloid into the theater just to show it.
Speaker 3: The labor for the art that was so awesome. Of course,
Speaker 3: that's epic clout for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love it because at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: digital revolution, I myself direct directed a film and I
Speaker 1: rejected the digital revolution going on, and I shot it
Speaker 1: in sixteen and thirty five millimeter and boy was it
Speaker 1: a hassle. Wow, I mean I had to I had
Speaker 1: to go and buy the reels of film at Kodak
Speaker 1: would be like almost seventy five dollars of each or something.
Speaker 1: I forgot what they were and I'd go buy twenty
Speaker 1: minutes reels.
Speaker 2: So I put together one of those rigs that Tommy
Speaker 2: was so did for the room.
Speaker 1: He's a dirty name in my industry. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I had to you know, then I had to
Speaker 1: record all the audio on a naugraa the real to
Speaker 1: real thing. Then I had to digitize the naga. Then
Speaker 1: I had to digitize the First I had to tell
Speaker 1: us any the film. Then I had to digitize it.
Speaker 1: After I got it, you know, tell us in and
Speaker 1: then I had to put it all on a computer
Speaker 1: so that I could use non linear editing, and I
Speaker 1: made a making of the making of this movie. Movie
Speaker 1: was called Cakeboy. The making of is so much more
Speaker 1: interesting than the movie. But anyway, so I love that
Speaker 1: this guy did this, so he better win Best Director.
Speaker 1: The problem with the Oscars this year, and I think it's,
Speaker 1: you know, obvious, most people are saying, is they gave
Speaker 1: thirteen nominations to a movie called Amelia Perez. That is
Speaker 1: a movie that I have not met one person besides
Speaker 1: my weird sister. Who is who has made it all
Speaker 1: the way through to the end of the movie.
Speaker 3: Why did your weird sisters stay?
Speaker 1: He's weird? Okay, every family has one, sure, you know
Speaker 1: out of seven kids?
Speaker 3: Okay that yeah, you know what, that'll do a lot.
Speaker 1: She's this eccentric, she's her own person. And she just
Speaker 1: called me and said, I saw the greatest movie in
Speaker 1: the world. It's called me. Well she's called it Perez,
Speaker 1: but I think it's Petz. But but if you're if
Speaker 1: you're acting in the movie, you're gonna pronounce it wrong
Speaker 1: no matter what. Because that's one of the problems with
Speaker 1: this movie. There's a bunch of people speaking Spanish that
Speaker 1: have fake accents. Nice, and and then it's not going
Speaker 1: over well with Mexican audiences. It's directed by a French
Speaker 1: person and the trans world it's about a trans character.
Speaker 1: The trans world is not happy about it. Wow, look
Speaker 1: at that the transfer. The trans people are like, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you think that's what trans is? For a cartel?
Speaker 1: This story is about this cartel guy who gets a
Speaker 1: sex change operation, you know, to change his identity and
Speaker 1: hide or whatever. And is that what you think trans is?
Speaker 1: It's for people to change your identity to avoid a crime.
Speaker 3: Gotta say, the premise sounds like something so up my alley, though,
Speaker 3: Holy cow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're gonna like it because I told
Speaker 1: you how bad it was. You're gonna invite your friends
Speaker 1: over and you're gonna get drunk or whatever, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a good time.
Speaker 3: All of my friends who have reviewed it on letterbox
Speaker 3: just kind of say, I'm sort of confused, and I
Speaker 3: always like the review. I'm like, perfect, it sounds like
Speaker 3: it's good for me.
Speaker 1: And my letterbox review was I didn't hate this movie
Speaker 1: just because everyone else did. I hated it because it's terrible.
Speaker 3: I just liked it. It's so good.
Speaker 1: No, I hated it and it was awful. And then, okay,
Speaker 1: thirteen nominations. So it's not real because it's not a
Speaker 1: movie worthy of thirteen nominations. There's a lot of good
Speaker 1: movies out there. You could spread them around, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you don't because you give all thirteen to this
Speaker 1: movie because you're trying to make a statement.
Speaker 3: So if they do bad Spanish accents in this movie,
Speaker 3: they get thirteen nominations. And when I do it, I
Speaker 3: can't go to my boyfriend's Thanksgiving anymore, got it right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's not fair to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, not at all. I've been working really hard
Speaker 3: and practicing.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to Oh, okay, you know how
Speaker 1: you can get your pronunciation down? I have. I have
Speaker 1: actually a technique. There is one hundred percent full proof.
Speaker 3: He means they will forgot it. What was the tip?
Speaker 1: No, here's what you do. Okay, okay, you pray the
Speaker 1: rosary every day, okay, but you pray it in an
Speaker 1: exaggerated Mexican accent like you are in you know, you're
Speaker 1: in the movie Nacho Libra or something like.
Speaker 3: This would be such a funny bit for my roommates
Speaker 3: to walk in on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're sitting there in your salve Maria Gratias, senor gondigo, benitatis,
Speaker 1: let's mohis and beditas a fruit Jesus, and you just
Speaker 1: you become this character. And then what you're doing is
Speaker 1: you're exercising these muscles in your mouth, because pronunciation is
Speaker 1: all about muscles you don't usually exercise. And when you're
Speaker 1: doing this over and over and and the you know,
Speaker 1: the rosary involves uh, you know, fifty hailman and five
Speaker 1: are fathers and some other stuff, but it's repetition and
Speaker 1: you you are exercising those muscles as part of an
Speaker 1: exercise uh indiction and elocution. And by the after a
Speaker 1: few weeks, you will have exercised all those muscles. And
Speaker 1: then when you read Spanish, you'll read it perfectly and
Speaker 1: you will be that much closer to go in heaven.
Speaker 1: So let's let's take a break. But it's Spanish heaven,
Speaker 1: so things are cheaper, but I'll get okay. Uh, we
Speaker 1: will take a break and come back with more. Joe
Speaker 1: Sclante Live Joe'scalante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: That was quite good.
Speaker 1: Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood You mean purd Bank.
Speaker 1: All right, the Grammy's still going on. Uh, not watching them,
Speaker 1: but Sam brought up something. What were you offended by?
Speaker 2: There's ninety four separate awards given out at the Grammys
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's down. That's down from one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 1: I'm guarantee you. They have like three different categories of
Speaker 1: Hawaiian music.
Speaker 2: That they have, like Best Immersive Audio Album.
Speaker 1: The one that go oh yeah, well, actually which one
Speaker 1: who nominated an Apostrophe by Frank Zappa because I went
Speaker 1: to that party?
Speaker 2: Yeah no, it's Io Hans Martin buff immersive mix engineer. Anyways,
Speaker 2: there's a bunch of other people and that were on that.
Speaker 2: But they had the Grammy for Best Album Notes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's okay or whatever. He's Here's my
Speaker 1: when I started to turn off is like they have
Speaker 1: like three different categories for Native Americans, like three different
Speaker 1: Hawaiian ones. There's like more than one polka category. There's
Speaker 1: this kind of polka in that kind of polka. Yet
Speaker 1: no category for punk rock. But I mean, okay, you're
Speaker 1: saying I have dedicated my life to punk rock. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how successful I am. They wouldn't care
Speaker 1: if I live or die, so I don't care if
Speaker 1: they live or die.
Speaker 2: That's why you don't like the Grammys. And it makes sense, yes,
Speaker 2: but but then watch it. But no, I mean the
Speaker 2: album give.
Speaker 1: A spoken word? Did Jimmy Carter?
Speaker 3: That's right. It's like they can't even go to the
Speaker 3: freaking party gave away to the party.
Speaker 1: He gave away the Panama Canal and they gave him
Speaker 1: a spoken word reco kidding. I don't care if you
Speaker 1: give away the pun.
Speaker 2: Best best album notes Grammy is like having an Oscar
Speaker 2: for best end credits.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, people, they put a lot of work into that.
Speaker 2: Okay, credits, do we we need an Academy Award for
Speaker 2: best credits?
Speaker 1: You I get it to give heat Amelia Pennis just
Speaker 1: right away.
Speaker 3: Because he made it all the way.
Speaker 1: And that's honestly, anybody, anybody who watched the end credits
Speaker 1: for a million, they.
Speaker 3: Could have hit some major Marvel's spoilers in the Ilya
Speaker 3: Perez and credits. Nobody would have said to see them.
Speaker 2: I mean, the album notes were what used to people
Speaker 2: used to and like when they used to actually have
Speaker 2: vinyl where people used to like try to separate their
Speaker 2: weed from their sticks on.
Speaker 3: This is maybe it's more about the cardboard manufacturer.
Speaker 1: Now, well, I'm telling you that the it is a
Speaker 1: you know, started like like many things, as a common saying.
Speaker 1: They start out as a good cause, they uh degenerate
Speaker 1: into a business and it turns into a racket. And
Speaker 1: now it's a racket. You send out these, you know,
Speaker 1: to get nominated, you pay a fee. Uh to get
Speaker 1: to go further, you pay a fee. Uh to win
Speaker 1: a Grammy, you pay a fee, and they make a
Speaker 1: lot of money. But it does help a lot of
Speaker 1: people get more album sales and if and I think
Speaker 1: there is a certain group of musicians that are you know,
Speaker 1: trying to do the best they can and and doing
Speaker 1: like breaking out Like when when Taylor Swift you know,
Speaker 1: won her thing and then was it P Diddy that
Speaker 1: they told her or was.
Speaker 3: It kind of Kanye Kanye Kanye, Yeah, she.
Speaker 1: Went after party? Was was P Diddy? But on stage, Kanye,
Speaker 1: like that woman, Taylor Swift, you know, that really broke
Speaker 1: her out into the big time and you know, changed
Speaker 1: her career. I get it, but it's it's just I
Speaker 1: can't watch it, you know. So and then this year
Speaker 1: in the Oscars, they're going to be giving away, you know,
Speaker 1: every five minutes, you're gonna give away a Grammy to
Speaker 1: someone who to a movie that no one's seen, or
Speaker 1: at least they get, you know, and it's not even
Speaker 1: so much that they like. There are so many talented
Speaker 1: filmmakers that could just be announced and not win at
Speaker 1: the Academy Awards. You know, it would just be like
Speaker 1: like the guys in Kneecap, you know, Kneecap Best Foreign Film,
Speaker 1: should it should have been nominated. It's a more sincere
Speaker 1: movie than the fake Mexican accents of Amelia Petez. But
Speaker 1: it's Kneecaps nowhere to be seen, and it's a sincere
Speaker 1: movie with amazing songs in it. Amelia Petez has two
Speaker 1: songs nominated in the Best Song category, so they why
Speaker 1: not Why just give them one when you can give
Speaker 1: them two. So they're not spreading it around, They're trying
Speaker 1: to say, hey, I dare you to not like this movie.
Speaker 1: Y'all liked it and it's a terrible movie. So there
Speaker 1: and I feel really bad because we want the Oscars
Speaker 1: to be to get higher ratings. It's good for movies.
Speaker 1: They're they're affirmatively doing things to make the Oscars get
Speaker 1: low ratings. They're in the name of, you know, to
Speaker 1: progressive politics. They're they're saying you, I dare you not
Speaker 1: to like this movie about this Mexican trans woman. And
Speaker 1: if it was a good movie, hey, no one liked
Speaker 1: The Crying Game more than Joe's Galante. But this is
Speaker 1: not a good movie. So it's an insult to these
Speaker 1: people that are trying to help. And then they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna destroy the Oscars, Like the Oscars next year
Speaker 1: will I mean, it'll probably be on YouTube. I mean
Speaker 1: how they go. If I'm at ABC, I'm not. I
Speaker 1: don't see how these ratings come in. But for the
Speaker 1: first time, I've been going like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't need to see that. So it's every every one
Speaker 1: of the fourteen or thirteen nominations that movie got could
Speaker 1: have been a really good movie that we all saw
Speaker 1: and enjoyed and maybe we can't even think of it
Speaker 1: right now, but uh, and they all got thrown away
Speaker 1: in the name of making some statement. It's like it's
Speaker 1: that that's not how you fix the movie business?
Speaker 3: A statement and a bad accent? Also a statement.
Speaker 1: They made a statement in the bat and a bad accent, Sam,
Speaker 1: I see you over there? Lamenting over more categories. What
Speaker 1: do you got for the Grammys.
Speaker 2: Best Historical Album?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: See? That's what you do? Because it's not just who
Speaker 1: they give it to.
Speaker 2: It was Centennial. I don't know what that is. But
Speaker 2: Paul Robison was nominated in that category.
Speaker 1: What's he doing?
Speaker 3: Did he make the cough syrup?
Speaker 2: Paul? It's uh, I'll go well during the I'm not
Speaker 2: tuning in.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3: How much of the how much of the Grammys is
Speaker 3: just standing around going oh, I didn't know that was
Speaker 3: that sounds good for him, you know, good for him.
Speaker 1: Good for wherever that is. Well, they don't chow those
Speaker 1: things on TV. They just show the the the big
Speaker 1: stars and then have big performances. And if you really
Speaker 1: like that rock and roll world, I guess it's okay.
Speaker 1: I mean the ratings are they're still better than than
Speaker 1: you know, most things.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing with with pop punk or rock.
Speaker 3: Is it really so pop punk if you're accepting a Grammy?
Speaker 1: Is it? I mean, they could try to nominate a
Speaker 1: punk rock record. Not you have a good point, but
Speaker 1: I your point is well taken. I don't want a Grammy, right,
Speaker 1: I'm too punk to accept it. But they have they
Speaker 1: don't want it either.
Speaker 3: You want them to want to nominate pop punk musicians.
Speaker 1: I want them to make a punk category and for
Speaker 1: me to scorn anybody who's nominated.
Speaker 3: That, you know, as a hater myself, I have the
Speaker 3: right to reject, yes, because that's punk rock.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I want.
Speaker 3: So you need something to rebel against it. So right
Speaker 3: now they're not giving you what kind of a wall
Speaker 3: to bounce off of, and honestly, shame on them because
Speaker 3: Joe Escalante could be shaming you, and that's great press
Speaker 3: to say you.
Speaker 1: Could be shamed by me. Yeah, but there could be.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I would rather Green Day win Best
Speaker 1: Punk Album than Best Rock Album. I would rather that.
Speaker 1: I would rather Pete Wentz when Best bass Player or
Speaker 1: something like that than then they don't have they Why
Speaker 1: don't they have a bass player nominees?
Speaker 3: May are they getting real specific? You know what?
Speaker 1: You know, Donald Trump should make a spoken word next year.
Speaker 1: Next year nominating go through the process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that goes I have a question. What's the difference
Speaker 2: between Best Global Music and Best Tropical Latin Album and
Speaker 2: Best Music on Mexicana Album Bigger Than and Best African
Speaker 2: Music Performance. What there? What is best Global?
Speaker 1: It just means that's somebody from a particular group guilted
Speaker 1: them into making another catalog. And mind you look at
Speaker 1: all those Latin nominations there there is a separate Latin Grammys.
Speaker 2: Well, but this is the thing.
Speaker 1: They already have their own.
Speaker 2: They have separate Latin Grammys. I know that. But they
Speaker 2: have like Best Latin Performance and Best Mekanover Performance and
Speaker 2: then within the Best Global Performance is one called Historias
Speaker 2: de un Flamenco by Antonio Rey.
Speaker 3: Well, wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 2: Where shouldn't that be in one of the others.
Speaker 1: That's I'm telling you, it's it's. It's it's it's I'd
Speaker 1: hate to be them. It's hard to be on the Academy.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say something nice about these people. It's
Speaker 1: hard to be in the Academy. I know a guy
Speaker 1: who's in the Academy for the Motion Pictures in charge
Speaker 1: of the Grammys or charge of the Oscars, and I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's a that's a hard job to take.
Speaker 1: But somebody's asleep at the wheel there this year. Because
Speaker 1: this is the year when you're supposed to try to
Speaker 1: save movies by making ratings go up the Grammys, that
Speaker 1: just seems like a political mess. So uh uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the better than than That's what I'm saying, better than
Speaker 1: than me. I don't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 2: Chila E and Gloria estephon One for Best Global Music
Speaker 2: Performance for ben Baco Laura.
Speaker 1: That was a block poster. Yeah, okay, well let's take
Speaker 1: let's take a break, and then when we come back,
Speaker 1: I am going to tell you.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, we'll go over the box office. But I
Speaker 1: had a to trust me. I'm sixty two years old. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like Joe Biden, and I had something really good
Speaker 1: and I forgot it. But when I come back, I'm
Speaker 1: going to remember it because I got a commercial break
Speaker 1: and I've got a bunch of assistants here to jog
Speaker 1: my memory. So we will be back after traffic. Joe
Speaker 1: Ascalante Live from Hollywood by Hollywood you mean Burbank. Now,
Speaker 1: I got a couple, I've got good news. Saw a
Speaker 1: great movie this week, okay at the Alamo. On my birthday,
Speaker 1: I went to with my wife a to see to
Speaker 1: sugar in downtown, just like my favorite sushi.
Speaker 3: Who love Sugarfish. By the way, Happy birthday, thank you.
Speaker 1: And then it was January thirtieth, and then Thursday, and
Speaker 1: then I, you know, my wife's like, what do you
Speaker 1: want to do on your birthday? And I'd like to
Speaker 1: go to the Alamo draft House and see movie because
Speaker 1: it's fun to see movies there, and they always have
Speaker 1: movies that are maybe not playing in my you know,
Speaker 1: provincial town of Seal Beach in the theater in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 1: So we saw a movie called Companion. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of this one?
Speaker 3: Oh? I want to see that one so bad. I
Speaker 3: love the actors in it. The director did something else
Speaker 3: that I like.
Speaker 1: I love the lamp.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I love lamp.
Speaker 1: He loves lamp.
Speaker 2: I love lamp.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've seen lamp. Am I am I
Speaker 3: I'm not catching on.
Speaker 1: It's from Anchorman. I love chair, Okay, I love lamp.
Speaker 3: I love that you guys love lamp and chair.
Speaker 2: I love lamp. Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Companion is uh. I gave it four and a
Speaker 1: half stars on my letterbox.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's a movie about oh this is the thing. It's
Speaker 1: about sex robots, but there's no sex in it. It's
Speaker 1: more of it's a morality tale, and the morality the
Speaker 1: lesson is positive. So and it's about the future, not
Speaker 1: too far off future, because the robots are you know,
Speaker 1: they're here, and there's blow up dolls and if you
Speaker 1: combine the two and a realistic it's about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Great actors, great cast, and very well made. So this
Speaker 1: one I give it the highest recommendation. And there's like
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of sexy time, but it's not
Speaker 1: they don't show it. It's like happening and it's very brief,
Speaker 1: but it's adult themes. I would say. So see that
Speaker 1: movie Companion, and it just opened on January thirty. First,
Speaker 1: how did I see it on January thirtieth? It was
Speaker 1: your birthday, it was my birthday, so somehow it was
Speaker 1: just playing, you know, sometimes they just do previews or whatever. So,
Speaker 1: and if you haven't been the Alamo Draft House downtown,
Speaker 1: I would say it is worth the price of admission
Speaker 1: just to walk around and look at the movie posters.
Speaker 1: The movie posters are giant ones from foreign countries, you
Speaker 1: know how. Oh, I love the French ones, the Mexican ones.
Speaker 1: There's Japanese ones. Love so cool, just as good. Have
Speaker 1: you not been there, Nikki.
Speaker 3: I've been to a Alamo draft house, but not the
Speaker 3: one here, Okay, like Texas. I went to one in
Speaker 3: North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Warsaw.
Speaker 3: I have not been to Warsaw would kill though. I
Speaker 3: did go to like one theater in Goodinskin, Poland, and
Speaker 3: there was only one like movie room to go to. Uh,
Speaker 3: And I had to like wait outside the theater as
Speaker 3: the couples and people who were viewing the film previously
Speaker 3: were like walking out. And I said, the most beautiful
Speaker 3: women I've ever seen in my life with a bunch
Speaker 3: of trolls.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would say that because the Polish women.
Speaker 3: Are beautiful Forgeres modelesque.
Speaker 1: But the men are like Valenca, you know.
Speaker 3: Basically, yes, exactly, I know that was.
Speaker 1: Ten in that country.
Speaker 3: It's true. Yeah, He's the closest thing to God.
Speaker 1: So, uh, you gotta go to the Alamo draft House.
Speaker 1: But and they serve food, and they serve very good food.
Speaker 3: I don't like that they keep the lights on so
Speaker 3: that I can see what everybody else is.
Speaker 1: Eating and there's no lights on.
Speaker 3: Okay. The one I went to they had like the
Speaker 3: four lights on and we watched this sport.
Speaker 1: I mean there is a light that for you to
Speaker 1: use your menu. They could be distracting, I'll give you. Yeah, okay, So,
Speaker 1: but that's in Los Angeles. You got a support he
Speaker 1: otherwise it'll go away now and many of theaters go away.
Speaker 1: They just close the Regency Theater in Santa Anna over
Speaker 1: by South Coast Plaza this week. But guess what, who
Speaker 1: would build a brand new movie theater.
Speaker 3: Someone who's been in a coma for forty years.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five, we have the opening of the Bay
Speaker 1: Theater in my hometown of Seal Beach.
Speaker 2: Day good.
Speaker 1: So can you believe a new movie theater opened and
Speaker 1: it's in my hometown. I go walk to it.
Speaker 2: I think that Nikky and I need to take a
Speaker 2: field trip over to your neck of the woods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to celebrate telling you so, I'm going there. They
Speaker 1: opened with the movie that I co wrote and produced,
Speaker 1: called The Harbor Chronicles. I've talked about it running before.
Speaker 1: It's about the longest running surf shop in the history
Speaker 1: of the world and in the Harbor Surf Shop in
Speaker 1: Seal Beach, and the Harbor Surf Shop is across the
Speaker 1: street from the movie theater where it debuted, and that
Speaker 1: was just a coincidence. When we were finishing up this
Speaker 1: movie and we're like, what are we going to do
Speaker 1: with it, and we're like, hey, that theater is getting renovated.
Speaker 1: Took twelve years to make the movie, took eight years
Speaker 1: to make the theater to do the renovation, and they
Speaker 1: all happened. They all finished at the same time. So
Speaker 1: we had a premiere there and then it sold out
Speaker 1: like six showings after that, and it's still They're just like,
Speaker 1: keep putting more showings up. So if you want to
Speaker 1: see The Harbor Chronicles, go to Baytheater dot com and
Speaker 1: you could get tickets for I think February twenty second,
Speaker 1: I think is the only one that still has tickets
Speaker 1: left for it. But I'm going to go see. My
Speaker 1: family's there tonight watching it. I went to the premier
Speaker 1: and I spoke on night number two, talked to about it.
Speaker 1: But on Valentine's Day, I'm going to see Roman Holiday
Speaker 1: starring Greg Reepec and Audrey Hepburn with my wife. I
Speaker 1: usually go out with my wife on the Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, yeah, yeah, And then they're showing Sleepless
Speaker 1: in Seattle at seven point thirty. And these are just
Speaker 1: like you know, romantic movies, right, But I see how
Speaker 1: they put the the one for old people at four
Speaker 1: Roman Holiday.
Speaker 2: Oh why are they doing when Harry met Sally?
Speaker 1: Well that's a little too racy for this town, really.
Speaker 1: But so the movies that are coming up, there's new
Speaker 1: movies and old movies. They got Casablanca coming up, the
Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz. They have a seventy fifth anniversary print
Speaker 1: of Cinderella. It's very hard to get a Disney movie
Speaker 1: to one of these little theaters.
Speaker 3: So that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Now number of February twenty second and twenty third Academy
Speaker 1: Award winner Best Picture winner, The Brutalist, we'll be playing
Speaker 1: at the Seal Beach Bay Theater. And then they got
Speaker 1: comedians and that's fun. It's just like they in this
Speaker 1: place was restored beyond what was necessary. Like they went
Speaker 1: and looked at all the old pictures of the you
Speaker 1: know when it was built in the forties or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they restored it into an amazing show place.
Speaker 3: Well it looks super cute.
Speaker 1: It's very cute. So that's my time. Now we shall go.
Speaker 1: Let me just whip out the box office champions right now.
Speaker 2: Excuse me?
Speaker 1: Yes. Number one is dog Man. You know what. Dog
Speaker 1: Man provided the first sign of life to the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five box office this weekend with an opening that
Speaker 1: now stands at thirty six million dollars. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a jant. That's why we said there's a couple
Speaker 1: of surprises. The two surprises, our Companion and dog Man.
Speaker 1: Dog Man makes thirty six million dollars. That's a second
Speaker 1: biggest opening for a January movie ever since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Well not ever, but since twenty sixteen with Kung Flu Pandem.
Speaker 2: Whoa dog Man is his own best companion?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: See, evidently saying themes are okay. Number two is Companion,
Speaker 1: the movie I saw that is so great. Number two
Speaker 1: at the box office. Number three Lion King or four
Speaker 1: one of them days still doing well. Number five Flight Risk,
Speaker 1: Then Song Like the Hedgehog one A two. A lot
Speaker 1: of this is boring because we've all seen and talked
Speaker 1: about these movies. A Complete Unknown, number eight, number nine,
Speaker 1: The Brutalist. It's just pretty good because you can only
Speaker 1: show that thing like once or twice a day because
Speaker 1: it's so damn long. Three hours and forty minutes. Number
Speaker 1: ten is ten of these Part two. And the only
Speaker 1: other news I have that I will break to you
Speaker 1: before we take a break is Netflix is set to
Speaker 1: launch Netflix Bites, a pop up restaurant at the MGM
Speaker 1: Grand in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: I saw that I heard about this. This is a little.
Speaker 1: Well, there's been other pop up restaurants, you know that
Speaker 1: featured dishes by you know, themed dishes from uh famous chefs,
Speaker 1: but this one is going to have like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like squid game squid.
Speaker 3: That's pretty clever.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying they're having that.
Speaker 3: I'm just like an arrested development banana.
Speaker 1: Oh, banana, chocolate cover banana exactly.
Speaker 3: I have that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an immersive culinary experience. By the way, I
Speaker 1: made that up. No, it's it's it's true, all right.
Speaker 1: So we're going to take a break and when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna uh, I'm just looking at the
Speaker 1: best director category. Jacques auDA for Amelia pet Is, Sean
Speaker 1: Baker from Anora, Brady Corbett, The Brutalist Cora le Farge
Speaker 1: from the substance I don't know right, you can see
Speaker 1: it once James Mangold a complete unknown poor guy. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to better Man? Like, hello, people,
Speaker 1: did you see better Man?
Speaker 3: No? I don't think they did because they don't know
Speaker 3: who that guy is. And I didn't until better Man.
Speaker 3: I mean I heard that he posts pretty crazy stuff
Speaker 3: on Instagram, and now I'm a fan, so.
Speaker 1: I think the Corbett guy will probably win. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's got to win. But holy count, you
Speaker 1: didn't see a better Man? Is it in international? No,
Speaker 1: it's not even in international. But Amelia Pettes is really
Speaker 1: in both regular and foreign. That's just plaino fashion communism.
Speaker 1: Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood one more hour after this,
Speaker 1: Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean
Speaker 1: on the red carpet at the Grammys, the seven thousandth
Speaker 1: Annual Grammys, or actually no, we're in a very tiny studio.
Speaker 1: I got producer Nikki Hare and engineer we call Sam.
Speaker 1: Do you have like a radio name, like the Goblin
Speaker 1: or something?
Speaker 3: And we got Scorpion on the keys.
Speaker 2: Nobody gave me the memo that I need to have
Speaker 2: a radio name.
Speaker 3: We need to have one. It was going to be
Speaker 3: bestowed upon you. I mean, yeah, scorpion, cool with you?
Speaker 1: How about yeah, yeah scorpion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, engineer Scorpion, Engineer Scorpion. Yeah.
Speaker 2: With my PhD, I'll have to call me doctor Scorpions.
Speaker 3: Doctor Scorpion. Yeah. This will only sting a bit, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 1: Okay. So anyways, I was going over my list of
Speaker 1: I haven't made my top ten list. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's so many movies that are better than than a
Speaker 1: lot of these films here. Uh. I mean, they're just
Speaker 1: like completely ignored. Kneecap like you, Kneecap is an Irish film, but.
Speaker 3: They are kind of punk in a way, and so
Speaker 3: maybe that's why they had to.
Speaker 1: It's because they're Catholics. I'm just telling you. That's how
Speaker 1: it works. That's how it works. We are We've been
Speaker 1: brew last for many years, many years. So I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at my at my movies from the year, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, my letterbox went to another century.
Speaker 3: But what.
Speaker 1: Anyways, movies like uh, snackshack snackhack Snapchack is a better
Speaker 1: movie than Amelia. Better Melia Amelia. Let's see Companion. I
Speaker 1: told you about that one.
Speaker 2: That sounds fascinating. See that one.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see movies this year that were better than
Speaker 1: all these movies. The Wild Robot is a better movie,
Speaker 1: but it is nominated for Best Animated Feature. Blink Twice
Speaker 1: was better than these movies. Despicable Me four was better
Speaker 1: than these movies. And uh, Faye, did you see Faye?
Speaker 2: I did not see Faye. I saw Despicable of Me
Speaker 2: three and I was like, okay, it's a decent an
Speaker 2: end to the series. I didn't think it was that
Speaker 2: good though, but fay.
Speaker 3: F a y e, wait, how are you sorting your
Speaker 3: letter box by date? Oh?
Speaker 1: And I saw Brooklyn. It's better, better than a lot
Speaker 1: of these movies. And uh, anyways, I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: a mad Max Saga better than these movies. Unfrosted from Netflix,
Speaker 1: better than a lot of these movies. Kingdom of the Panel,
Speaker 1: the Apes better than a lot of these movies.
Speaker 2: I think, so, uh.
Speaker 1: Best hairstyles. They're going to take it.
Speaker 2: I give it a yes.
Speaker 3: Who's who's a tut?
Speaker 1: It's not nos is getting He's getting a can of
Speaker 1: nos Oh yeah, it's going to be up all night. Okay,
Speaker 1: they'll be out fast. Okay. So I'm going to get
Speaker 1: to my stories because we I mean, I got I
Speaker 1: got some decent ones. The reboot for A Little House
Speaker 1: in the Prairie has been ordered by Netflix. The series
Speaker 1: based on the book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The
Speaker 1: new version will follow the Ingles family as they leave
Speaker 1: Wisconsin to settle in Independence, Kansas. I can imagine that
Speaker 1: pitch meeting. He goes, forget everything you've ever heard about
Speaker 1: the Ingles family. They're going to Independence, Kansas. Okay, I
Speaker 1: thought I thought I thought Independence was in Missouri. Is
Speaker 1: it one of those towns where that's on both but there's.
Speaker 3: A few of them, Like how there's a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Paris, Texas.
Speaker 3: You know, m'd be a few independences.
Speaker 1: You could be right, It could be right. That's my
Speaker 1: father used to always say to my uncle Ralph. He
Speaker 1: got tired of hearing him talk. You could be right,
Speaker 1: you go say, Uncle Ralph. All you can say to
Speaker 1: him is you could be right. And once I learned that,
Speaker 1: for I'm not You're nothing like Uncle Ralph.
Speaker 3: That's that's the hint I'm getting right now.
Speaker 1: I could. I could listen to you talk all day,
Speaker 1: but I was just kind of like having fun there.
Speaker 1: But once you learn you could be right if you
Speaker 1: can say that to annoying people in your life and
Speaker 1: and it's done. Here's another life hack from Joey Scalante.
Speaker 1: When you're when you're sick of talking to someone, Oh hey,
Speaker 1: so it works, drive safe walk away that.
Speaker 3: I just sort of say I have to pee.
Speaker 2: I always go, I'm a beat, and I just like
Speaker 2: flat flower of my hands, like I.
Speaker 3: Think, guys, we have got to go to a party
Speaker 3: together and see the worst guests.
Speaker 1: Drive safe is my favorite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, drive safe, yeah, because I mean but I will
Speaker 3: say though, if you say you have to pee, nobody
Speaker 3: will get in your way.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, But if your guy, then they go, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm all concerned about you because you've had to say
Speaker 1: you pee twice since I been in this party. Have
Speaker 1: you had your prostage? That's a problem. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: If you go to the bathroom too much twice in
Speaker 1: one meal, someone's going to tell you that. If you're
Speaker 1: my age, really yeah, And I'm like, well, I'm only
Speaker 1: going twice because I have to drive. I have an
Speaker 1: hour drive after this, the guy just really look look man,
Speaker 1: puts hand on my shoulder. You gotta you gotta check
Speaker 1: out that prosty.
Speaker 3: Then that's that's when you say, all right, man, you
Speaker 3: know I wasn't going to ask you this, but because
Speaker 3: I'm going to the bathroom, you want to come with
Speaker 3: me and just see if everything's okay.
Speaker 1: You want to get weird.
Speaker 3: And then you get to it. Yeah, well yeah, and
Speaker 3: they say no, you say okay, drive safe, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, drive a safe from food.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you never have to go to a party again.
Speaker 1: Drive safe, inted you could be right, drive safe, you
Speaker 1: combine them at everybody.
Speaker 2: Says, just invite the bee guy.
Speaker 1: He's great, Yeah, okay, can Now we're get into the
Speaker 1: serious stories. CBS News. I rate over the possible settlement
Speaker 1: to the Trump's lawsuits Trump and they're gonna set Remember
Speaker 1: how Donald Trump had a he sued ABC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doing that.
Speaker 1: Now, when I heard he was doing ABC, I was like,
Speaker 1: don't do that. Just move on. You know, you're the
Speaker 1: president of the United States. You one just go just
Speaker 1: move on. Litigation is terrible and just don't it'll hurt
Speaker 1: your soul. And then he gets a freaking settlement cost
Speaker 1: the money in the account for the library. And then
Speaker 1: he sues CBS. Why did he sue CBS because CBS
Speaker 1: and sixty minutes hacked together this Kamala Harris sentence to
Speaker 1: make it look like she was intelligent. And then his
Speaker 1: people say they did this to influence the election. And
Speaker 1: since they have a CC license FCC license, they're not allowed.
Speaker 1: They have to be neutral and they can't be hacking
Speaker 1: things together to make one candidate because they looked at
Speaker 1: her and they go, oh my god, she sounds like
Speaker 1: an idiot. And they go, we'll tell you what. Take
Speaker 1: the answer from over here and put it to the
Speaker 1: question over here, and we just run that. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't care. But if I was running against her,
Speaker 1: I'd be really mad, would I sue? Know? But I'm not.
Speaker 1: Evidently I'm this guy knows something I don't know because
Speaker 1: he's about to get a settlement now from CBS, and
Speaker 1: the the executive producer Bill Owens furious and president Wendy
Speaker 1: McMahon of CBS News furious. But you know, and then
Speaker 1: the controversy is are they doing it because they just
Speaker 1: want to get out of it and they know they're
Speaker 1: going to lose or because they're about to have a
Speaker 1: merger and they want approval and they just want to
Speaker 1: get these people off their back. We don't know, and
Speaker 1: maybe we never will. But then there's another one.
Speaker 2: There's more there.
Speaker 1: There's a companion story to this, and we will talk
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: We know how well companion did.
Speaker 1: Does he's suing the Perlitzer board that gave a Perlitzer
Speaker 1: prize to fake news. You know, they were his Russian
Speaker 1: collusion case. So that came out that it wasn't true,
Speaker 1: and there was a like, you know, there was shenanigans.
Speaker 1: Some guy made it up, and then they someone started
Speaker 1: spreading it around, and then the and then these these
Speaker 1: reporters were doing these stories on it, and which is
Speaker 1: fine because they got you know, it sounded they wanted
Speaker 1: it to be true, and it sounded believable. They thought
Speaker 1: they had these sources, so they wrote these uh stories
Speaker 1: about it. And the problem was they gave they got
Speaker 1: they won, and it turned out not to be true
Speaker 1: and they got Purlator prizes. So what do you do
Speaker 1: if you give a Purlaster prize to somebody because they
Speaker 1: were doing this great story on something that wasn't true.
Speaker 1: Do you let him keep it because they how did
Speaker 1: they know or should they have known?
Speaker 3: You give them a fiction writing award and move on.
Speaker 1: A fiction writing award, Yeah, because it was good pros.
Speaker 3: Yeah, de gotcha, you know you get And the metal
Speaker 3: award is shaped like this like a fist, where like
Speaker 3: they got your nose. That would be amazing for the
Speaker 3: fake News Award. I truly cast this and like make
Speaker 3: a I think I should.
Speaker 1: Run with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got credit for that. This is my best
Speaker 3: reporting on fake news exactly.
Speaker 1: It's not their fault. But or is it that? I
Speaker 1: think that's the question. Yeah, So this is why Trump
Speaker 1: pursuing all these people when normally it would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, just it's as politics as usual. But he's
Speaker 1: trying to he's just trying to just kind of just
Speaker 1: beat him down, so they just leave him alone for
Speaker 1: four years. So very interesting and then but not as
Speaker 1: interesting as you know what traffic traffic in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I'll tell you there's a lot of bad traffic.
Speaker 1: As I was out there today coming in, it was
Speaker 1: like a rush hour out there. Let's see what tin
Speaker 1: can tin Can breath has to say about that. One
Speaker 1: to day Jscalante Live from Hollywood. Joe Us go on
Speaker 1: to Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean bird Bank,
Speaker 1: across the street from a Wiener Schnitzel that sells beer.
Speaker 1: And I, you know, I just going through my letterboxed
Speaker 1: thing seeing which movies are better than the ones that
Speaker 1: got nominated, and I really think it's a sad collection
Speaker 1: and they could have been more inclusive. And I you know,
Speaker 1: they they made they made ten. They made ten nominees
Speaker 1: for Best Picture, which I'm still against just be five.
Speaker 1: But they did it to make to broaden it out,
Speaker 1: so that maybe, you know, maybe some blockbusters, like you know,
Speaker 1: a Marvel movie or two or something can get nominated
Speaker 1: and we can all be we everybody could participate. But
Speaker 1: there's none of that. There's no blockbusters in here. There's
Speaker 1: Doom two, But does that really count as a blockbuster?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 1: Okay, but okay, done too. But that's not like for
Speaker 1: young people so much as they.
Speaker 3: Pass the industry's favorite boy, and that's to draw the audience.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Timothy, all right, so they got all right,
Speaker 1: So they got one out of ten. I get okay,
Speaker 1: Well maybe that's what they thought. We got one, But
Speaker 1: why did you go from five to ten so you
Speaker 1: could have nine of these movies that no one's ever
Speaker 1: gonna watch. I but you know, Wicked is a blockbuster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wicked definitely if you wanted to expand it to
Speaker 2: get blockbusters. I think that's the one that was thrown
Speaker 2: in there. But because they knew everybody.
Speaker 1: Do you think anybody that sees Amelia Petez is not
Speaker 1: going to see Wicked?
Speaker 2: I think the crossover between them are going to be
Speaker 2: pretty thick.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Okay, So let's go to the actors. Adrian
Speaker 1: Brodie in The Brutalist, Timothy Challomy, Complete Unknown, Coleman Domingo
Speaker 1: Sing Sing. I haven't seen that yet, but it's about,
Speaker 1: you know, some like drama program in a prison. Yeah cool,
Speaker 1: Ralph from Conclave, Sebastian Stan, and The Apprentice. Now The
Speaker 1: Apprentice is a movie that was made. They released it
Speaker 1: they thought it was gonna derail President Trump's campaign. Uh
Speaker 1: so this is the guy who played Trump. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He also played the Winter Soldier in Captain America. That
Speaker 3: was my first ever introduction to Sebastian Stan. I thought
Speaker 3: it was a real cutie.
Speaker 1: Good for Wow.
Speaker 2: Whoever did the makeup on that should be getting an award.
Speaker 3: Well, we got to put that new get that category
Speaker 3: in here.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's in there. I don't know, it's on this
Speaker 1: other page.
Speaker 3: I could look right now, But when am I going
Speaker 3: to get into the makeup chair and walk out looking
Speaker 3: like Trump?
Speaker 1: If I didn't, If I cared, I would, I would
Speaker 1: turn the page and look at it. But I think
Speaker 1: Adrian Brody wins this.
Speaker 3: Did we talk about the AI thing with the brutalist
Speaker 3: and the accent?
Speaker 1: No, it's going on there?
Speaker 3: Okay, well maybe, okay, I'll tell you are sometimes Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm about to blow your minds. But new freaking freaking
Speaker 3: news for me. I was on Twitter and I was
Speaker 3: reading about this. I saw an article. I should have
Speaker 3: sent it my bad. I was engrossed in whatever I
Speaker 3: was doing, which was reading on Twitter. I think that
Speaker 3: there was use of AI in post on the Brutalists
Speaker 3: to improve Adrian Brodie's and maybe other characters Hungarian accents
Speaker 3: and well.
Speaker 1: You know it, and make them more consistent because it's hard.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've been to Hungary. That language I would
Speaker 3: not wish on my worst enemy. Do you many?
Speaker 1: Because it's part of the Finno Ugric family of languages,
Speaker 1: which exactly Finnish and Hungarian or somehow are.
Speaker 3: You Asianic languages right, They're like they're in a strange category.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 1: Why aren't they speaking Nordy.
Speaker 3: There's a photo I was staying with my friend in
Speaker 3: Hungary and we were I actually had like a work
Speaker 3: book and I was just kind of trying my best
Speaker 3: to get you on the basics sound. I can't. I
Speaker 3: can order coffee in Greek, in Polish, in Russian, I
Speaker 3: cannot even attempt in Hungarian zero percent.
Speaker 1: Here's what you do. You got your point to the
Speaker 1: thing on the menu, and you say, well one.
Speaker 3: I say, please help me. I have a passport, help
Speaker 3: me buy a ticket to leave this country. I'm so scared.
Speaker 1: Life is too short to learn any Finno Ugric languages.
Speaker 1: So we're good on that. But I'm I support AI
Speaker 1: being used to make a accent consistent. So I know
Speaker 1: people would would say that's cheating.
Speaker 3: I think it's a tool. Frankly, tool like the quality
Speaker 3: of your mic in the boom is going to also
Speaker 3: have an impact on how the accent and voice sounds,
Speaker 3: so you need to do some tweaking and post. It's
Speaker 3: a great tool.
Speaker 1: Especially if you're a tweaker, then just yeah, if.
Speaker 3: You're a tweaker, then just get off your computer and
Speaker 3: start doing cartwheels. You'll feel even better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I have something to say about that. There
Speaker 1: is a lawsuit against uh Ai. There's a couple of lawsuits,
Speaker 1: and I'm skipping from movies to this is what we
Speaker 1: do recent developments and copyright infringement cases. I was just
Speaker 1: kinda there's a lot of people suing AI companies.
Speaker 3: Right, oh right, right, I saw this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Google, and they're you know, because they're scrub They're
Speaker 1: they're scraping the Internet and taking people's art. And then
Speaker 1: there are companies that say, do you like this artist,
Speaker 1: maybe this artist Robert Williams, that maybe I'll just throw
Speaker 1: that name out there, the guy that did the first
Speaker 1: Guns N' Roses album. If you like his his work,
Speaker 1: you could using AI get make something just like his stuff,
Speaker 1: like if you hired him, Like if I hire Robert
Speaker 1: Williams and say, hey, make me one with a like
Speaker 1: that where he does a lot of auto drag race
Speaker 1: and stuff like I go make it the love Bug
Speaker 1: and then have Bigfoot come in and blah blah. So
Speaker 1: you could do that, and arguably you're taking money away
Speaker 1: from Robert Williams. But so that lawsuit's going on, and
Speaker 1: like a group of visual artists are are finding class
Speaker 1: action suit against the AI companies for that. But there
Speaker 1: is a company. There's a company. There's a guy who's
Speaker 1: a professor at at Chicago University who created two things
Speaker 1: that are that fights this. There's a there's an app
Speaker 1: called Glaze and there's one called night Shade. And you
Speaker 1: when you post your art on the internet, you use
Speaker 1: these apps and then when someone tries to scrape it
Speaker 1: and copy it comes it turns out into something totally different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're base, you're encoding like weirder visual.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So if there's a picture of cow, it could
Speaker 1: come out as a truck. So that's you know, somebody
Speaker 1: dedicated their life to that. Okay, all right, I'm bouncing
Speaker 1: around now, I'm going to go to Nicky Nikki. You
Speaker 1: saw a movie this week?
Speaker 3: I saw, Yeah, I saw a couple of movies. I've
Speaker 3: actually had a triple feature with my roommates.
Speaker 1: Good because you have triple minutes to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Oh I love that. Okay, great, So I saw I've
Speaker 3: been on a sci fi kick in my life for
Speaker 3: a long time. I think the horror thing kind of
Speaker 3: subsided after I watched so many bad horror movies, and
Speaker 3: my boyfriend and I then saw Jacob's Ladder and we
Speaker 3: agreed to never watch a bad movie again because we
Speaker 3: were just having our minds blown. But that one in
Speaker 3: Shutter Island. We watched those two and then we were like,
Speaker 3: no more crappy, bad movies, just because we like to
Speaker 3: be scared, So we moved onto sci fi. I also
Speaker 3: been reading a ton of sci fi, so it's you know,
Speaker 3: I like space now. But for the first time ever,
Speaker 3: I saw two thousand and one, A Space Odyssey. By
Speaker 3: the way, I was born in two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: You know that is that freak two out? Is that? Okay,
Speaker 3: there you go. That's that's the horror element of the
Speaker 3: second Terrified. Yeah, well, there we go. Saw that for
Speaker 3: the first time. I love this section of the sixties
Speaker 3: because the outfits are the best and the interiors are
Speaker 3: the best. And my New Year's resolution actually was to
Speaker 3: buy a lot more vintage of this area. It's nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty eight to seventy two. That was my specific area.
Speaker 1: Well, I got one for you. Okay, are you ready
Speaker 1: for this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Let's hear it, right Yah.
Speaker 1: Silent Running, Silent Running, starring Bruce Dern.
Speaker 3: I'm actually written. Is that like Laura from the eighties
Speaker 3: Laura da love Laura D wait?
Speaker 2: Was this the one from the eighties?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Seventies?
Speaker 3: Silent silent What?
Speaker 1: Silent running?
Speaker 3: Silent running?
Speaker 1: Yeah, silent running.
Speaker 3: Okay, awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give you too many so I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna this looks amazing.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, look.
Speaker 1: Bruce Dern when he was he was a hunk.
Speaker 3: Oh my good. Well I see where the good genes
Speaker 3: come from the family. Okay, good.
Speaker 2: So that's Marcel Marceau story.
Speaker 3: That's exciting. I love the image I saw open door
Speaker 3: how I love that.
Speaker 1: That's so good.
Speaker 3: Big fan of the interiors basically up until the point,
Speaker 3: like the end, the end. I was kind of like,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and one, I haven't watched it a long time.
Speaker 1: That's one of the ones I gotta I gotta rewatch it.
Speaker 3: I loved the scene where they're talking on this like
Speaker 3: spacecraft with the Russian people and the guy. Sorry, I
Speaker 3: kind of was. I dozed off a little bit the
Speaker 3: first time we tried watching this and then the second time.
Speaker 1: I've dozed off in that movie too many times. You
Speaker 1: have to go to a theater.
Speaker 3: And and that's what I was told some trip so
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 1: Just so you drink some coffee in your focus the
Speaker 1: whole time. I think you should do that to the
Speaker 1: Brutalist too, because I don't think I gave it a.
Speaker 3: We're gonna come back and I can talk about some
Speaker 3: more movies. Is that okay?
Speaker 1: Sam's coming back?
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll do that after this.
Speaker 1: Joe Scalante live from Hollywood. Shout out to all the
Speaker 1: girls of the Round Tummy.
Speaker 3: So let's go.
Speaker 1: Hollywood front. Yeah, producer Nikki and Sam.
Speaker 2: Hey, Scorpion, get it, Scorpion.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in Costa Rican next weekend.
Speaker 3: Don't drink the water man. I got monta zoomass revenge
Speaker 3: last time I was there yet. Yeah to now an
Speaker 3: ice cube?
Speaker 1: D ice cube?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no joke.
Speaker 2: Oh that's not good. Yeah, my kids went there last year.
Speaker 2: Loved it down there. That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Is the best place ever. The water will kill you.
Speaker 3: I swhere to goot toilets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm going just to hear the the eco
Speaker 1: environmental lecture before the zip line, and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to skip the zipline. Skipping the zipline. I just want
Speaker 1: to hear the lecture.
Speaker 3: You're so studious. I went for a Vision festival last
Speaker 3: year because I do audio visual installations. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I've told you this way, but yeah, I do
Speaker 3: like stage projection, mapping on stages and stuff. There was
Speaker 3: this crazy trippy festival in the woods. Guess where I
Speaker 3: was enjoying my time in the compost bathroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, compost bathrooms world Right now, I.
Speaker 3: Was thinking, yeah, I was doing an installation in the
Speaker 3: compost bathrooms. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: This is Sublime and Gwen Stefani and then and then
Speaker 1: a host of unpronounceable.
Speaker 3: That's a crazy mix.
Speaker 1: Well, actually they've recorded together a few times both, so
Speaker 1: that's very dope. But you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: make too much of the association, but they do. You know,
Speaker 1: they were they were kind of friends back in the day.
Speaker 1: Okay and Sick, Yeah, Sick both place a little bit
Speaker 1: of ska in the set, love a little bit of rock.
Speaker 3: Now, I want to talk about Dark City.
Speaker 1: Go to the movie. You saw two more movies? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did let's whip through those.
Speaker 3: I saw Event Horizon again, big fan of Event Horizon.
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't actually even put together that. It's
Speaker 3: Sam Neil, right, that's the actor who's in Possession. He's
Speaker 3: also an Event Horizon and in Draska Park he's in
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff. But I hadn't seen Possession the
Speaker 3: first time I saw Event Horizon, so I've seen that
Speaker 3: since then made a lot more sense.
Speaker 1: So this is your new science fiction kick. I like
Speaker 1: it better than your horror thing because you're right.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being honest.
Speaker 1: You're right, because you're you're the horror stuff. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be scared. I'm gonna watch a bad movie.
Speaker 1: And you end up watching a bad movie.
Speaker 3: Well then I'm like, I'm I'm so scared because ah,
Speaker 3: someone greenlit this. Huh. You know that's horrifying in itself.
Speaker 1: But science fiction, well yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean I'll go back to the horror. I don't worry,
Speaker 3: but yeah, but science fiction has been good, especially because
Speaker 3: I've been kind of on my vintage kick as well,
Speaker 3: So there's great sci fi to watch. The Sixties. Love
Speaker 3: the seventies.
Speaker 1: My favorite science fiction book which would be made into
Speaker 1: a Major Motion Picture which one Planet of the Apes.
Speaker 1: Oh the book is is it's short, you know, like
Speaker 1: a lot of tho science.
Speaker 3: Ficuation, not that long.
Speaker 1: Looks so great?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because I watched Minority Report and then I
Speaker 3: was like, wow, this really feels like a PKD novel.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, you know what exactly that's
Speaker 3: me on Twitter scrolling through crap. But I did see
Speaker 3: Dark City, which was a very interesting film because visually
Speaker 3: it's amazing. I mean, it's directed by the same guy,
Speaker 3: Alex Proyes I think who directed The Crow. Pretty crazy, also,
Speaker 3: did I Robot?
Speaker 1: I pretty sure these are like these are like nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight, ninety six.
Speaker 3: This is ninety eight. Yeah, but he did Dark So
Speaker 3: the Crow was nineteen ninety four. Dark City is nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety eight, and it has Jennifer Connelly in it, and
Speaker 3: it has amazing visual design. It has awesome miniatures, really
Speaker 3: crazy trippy plot as well. Gotta say, Mid, like, here's
Speaker 3: my review. Okay, mid, Mid, this is my this is
Speaker 3: with you on Cherry Funfetti on letterbox. That's my letterbox.
Speaker 3: My review is The Crow. If you want to see
Speaker 3: Jennifer Connolly's worst performance and you kind of like Delicatessen's
Speaker 3: weird vibe. Delicatesten's a cool film by the director of Amilie,
Speaker 3: and it's very weirdly lit. Miniatures. Now, one of my
Speaker 3: roommates is a fabricator and animator for stop motion animation,
Speaker 3: and he knows how to light a miniature. Okay, you
Speaker 3: have to use small lights for scale. They're using massive
Speaker 3: lights on the miniature set.
Speaker 1: You have to have these little tiny lights, little tiny
Speaker 1: lights they used big light shoes. Don't put big shoes.
Speaker 1: It's the same as putting big shows on miniatures.
Speaker 3: Don't put big shoes on miniatures. Embarrassing. But tell your
Speaker 3: kids to get out of your closet and put on
Speaker 3: their sketches.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you there's nothing like nineteen ninety four
Speaker 1: or nineteen ninety eight. Jennifer Connolly.
Speaker 3: I mean she's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was so beautiful and then and then she
Speaker 1: I think she did the actress things to her face.
Speaker 1: Pretty though still pretty, yeah, in a like you think
Speaker 1: she's pretty, but guys aren't going, oh my god, Jennifer Connelly,
Speaker 1: because I think she did something.
Speaker 3: Probably yeah, but I think I think out of a
Speaker 3: lot of the actresses who did a little actress stuff
Speaker 3: to her face. I still, yeah, I think she's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: No, she doesn't. It's not weird, but it's just not.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, though, she can't sing. She can't sing,
Speaker 3: and there are two scenes where she's singing in the movie.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a noir vibe. She's like a bar singer.
Speaker 3: She does not have the charisma or the voice. I
Speaker 3: was like, they and they dubbed over other shots in
Speaker 3: the film. She dubbed over. I'm like, you should have
Speaker 3: done over. But the design, you get her get her
Speaker 3: in there. I mean seriously, but you know the design
Speaker 3: was good enough that I gave it a three. Can't
Speaker 3: recommend it, but if you and your roommates are to
Speaker 3: sci fi.
Speaker 1: Kick well, if you ought to see every Jennifer Jennifer
Speaker 1: Connolly movie, see that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's really a nothing burger of a performance from her,
Speaker 3: but I think it's still worth watching if you like Mini's.
Speaker 1: I was hanging out with Jennifer Connolly in the early
Speaker 1: nineties face and then one day I was like, I
Speaker 1: was at CBS in my job and I walked down
Speaker 1: and I see her in the in the lobby. She's
Speaker 1: reading for a part. Talk to her because you know,
Speaker 1: I used to know her and then I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm married now, So I mean, you know, what's the
Speaker 1: best thing could happen? Would be the worst thing.
Speaker 3: I was born in the wrong generation, Joe.
Speaker 1: We don't want to talk. You know, I didn't talk
Speaker 1: to her, so, uh I thank you for your movie reports.
Speaker 1: I got so into him, but then I forgot. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna do Best Actress. Sure, I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm doling out these Oscar things a
Speaker 1: little bit here and a little bit there. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not doing supporting roles though, because nobody life's too short.
Speaker 1: We have best Actress, Lead actress.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: First one is a man named Cask. No, that's the
Speaker 1: one from Amelia Parents. I mean, I don't know, is
Speaker 1: that fair?
Speaker 3: Hold on? Hold on? Wait? So okay, I know I
Speaker 3: know what you described the movie about to me. Wait,
Speaker 3: so that's about a trans person.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, so that's there.
Speaker 3: They are nominating them in this part is identifies as male.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, no, as female in real life?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, well then yeah, they get to be nominated
Speaker 3: for Best Actress.
Speaker 1: I don't have problems.
Speaker 3: I thought you were, like, okay, because that would have
Speaker 3: been like, what's that movie where that guy played a
Speaker 3: trans woman but he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Try But oh yeah, like that's not transparent or something. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't have a problem with that. Cynthia
Speaker 1: Arrivo Wicked and Mikey Madison in Anora, great movie, Demi
Speaker 1: Moore the substance, great performance, but I have to say,
Speaker 1: and then Fernando Torres for I'm Still Here, which.
Speaker 2: How do you tell?
Speaker 1: How can you tell if someone who's speaking Portuguese the
Speaker 1: whole time, if they're a good actress or not. The
Speaker 1: face it's good, it's I just can't tell. So I
Speaker 1: don't have.
Speaker 3: Anything like friends on mute. You can still figure out
Speaker 3: what's going on because they're good actors.
Speaker 1: I can't tell.
Speaker 2: So you can ask a Portuguese friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what you have to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in that scenario, have to phono friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a Brazilian friend in this case.
Speaker 3: But wow, that's a lot of friends.
Speaker 1: So with this category, is Gena Davis from the movie
Speaker 1: Blink Twice should have been nominated? Okay, oh no, that's yeah, No,
Speaker 1: that's in the supporting role. I have a gripe with
Speaker 1: a supporting role. Went we got a lady from a
Speaker 1: complete unknown Monica Barbara and Ariana Grandi and Wi Kid
Speaker 1: Felicity Jones and the brutalist Isabella ross Alina and Conclave
Speaker 1: Zoey Sadania, and it was.
Speaker 2: Was very great.
Speaker 3: I thought that start. But I think you could.
Speaker 1: Give I think you I think you could give her.
Speaker 1: I think you could call them both leads maybe, but
Speaker 1: you know they they they get to pick. I think,
Speaker 1: so you don't want to go up against and Rivo
Speaker 1: or whatever her name is. What's her name? I should
Speaker 1: learn Cynthia Rivo. Yeah, I mean she's a big deal.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that that she was the lead in
Speaker 3: Iron Was. I just thought they were kind of co stars.
Speaker 3: But this is.
Speaker 1: A Gena Davis should have been in this category, but
Speaker 1: I really can't. I would knock out Isabella Rossolini, who
Speaker 1: I think is a great actress. But if you watch
Speaker 1: Gena Davis in Blink twice, you would agree with me
Speaker 1: because you would just go, oh my god, Joe, you're
Speaker 1: so right. Okay. Animated feature film Flow Inside Out to
Speaker 1: Memoir of a Snail Wallace and Grommet and The Wild Robot.
Speaker 3: I want Flow to win because go Estonia, No Latvia Lafia.
Speaker 1: Flow is a film, is a great movie, and The
Speaker 1: Wild Robot is the best movie of the year. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm torn. I like Flow. I would
Speaker 1: give Wild Robot Best Picture, and then I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Flow Best Animated Feature.
Speaker 3: Sure picture imply that it's like a it's live action, though,
Speaker 3: right well in our world, I don't think you can
Speaker 3: be you can get it.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not an Oscar history expert, but I
Speaker 1: think best picture. What if all the movies this year
Speaker 1: were animated?
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, I mean, as someone who studied animation,
Speaker 3: I would like that.
Speaker 1: Do you ever watch the dating on the Spectrum?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: You could be friends with Danny who everything every she
Speaker 1: everybody has to like animation if you want to date.
Speaker 3: Her, I'm not even lying. I think that's most of
Speaker 3: my friends.
Speaker 1: Not only you could fix her up. She lives in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Maybe you could, you know.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've got like many candidates for her.
Speaker 1: Actually, well, my my plan for her is she should
Speaker 1: be in commercials because she's so I don't know if you.
Speaker 1: You probably don't remember who which character this is. She's
Speaker 1: an animation one and she's she's pretty animated herself. But man,
Speaker 1: she would be good in like progressive commercials and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So if you're listening, Danny start to, you know,
Speaker 1: get an age.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, she's adorable doing some.
Speaker 1: Auditions and yeah, she is adorable.
Speaker 3: She's so cute.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now we're up up against another break. Time
Speaker 1: goes by so fast. When we can back, I will
Speaker 1: talk to you about a scandal brewing at Disneyland, twin scandals,
Speaker 1: and I will give you the verdict in the m
Speaker 1: Night Shaya Malan copyright trial on Joey Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Here it comes. It comes to big, the big Germans.
Speaker 1: When Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols says, my name NICKI, producer, Niki.
Speaker 3: You're young, ye, I've gotten that.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the sex Pistols? Of them? This
Speaker 1: is the guitar player singing a song about me.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful. So you guys are in a relationship, That's
Speaker 3: what that means, right when that happens.
Speaker 2: He actually recorded that on a little tape player while
Speaker 2: they were in bed together just on the guitar.
Speaker 3: Oh it sounds yeah, it sounds very intimate. I can
Speaker 3: hear your breathing and sort of Stowe size on the
Speaker 3: other end.
Speaker 1: Come on you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the production's great. I can hear all that on
Speaker 3: the he's.
Speaker 1: Actually he recorded it, and then some guy that was
Speaker 1: a Japanese remix, So there.
Speaker 3: Are three people there. Yeah, I did a Japanese remix
Speaker 3: last night. Okay, man, that's kind of TMI, but yeah,
Speaker 3: thanks for letting me know.
Speaker 2: S grab me for best radio show theme Song. Why
Speaker 2: is that not a category?
Speaker 3: It's a Marconi that's right, because we're punk rock, right
Speaker 3: dominated that's why we can't nominate it. Yeah, so Japanese
Speaker 3: remix her punk rock. They'd like this there right in Japan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you something about the Japanese markets.
Speaker 1: Since this is a Jashoba's show, people believe that the
Speaker 1: Japanese like anything American, and then whatever you do, people go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: you guy should play in Japan. They would just love
Speaker 1: you there. But the truth is, the Japanese music market
Speaker 1: is eighty five it's probably by now it goes up
Speaker 1: and maybe eighty nine percent Japanese music leaving the rest
Speaker 1: of the world to fight for that eleven percent. So
Speaker 1: it's hard to get into that market. And once you're in, though,
Speaker 1: you probably will last forever because then they're just like
Speaker 1: you're in. You're in, but you got very hard to
Speaker 1: get in. So if you're a musician and you think, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna I really got to get into this Japanese
Speaker 1: market and then I will concoast and I'll be big
Speaker 1: in Japan, it's it's it doesn't really work that way,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to be big in Japan. So
Speaker 1: the lesson is do not quit your day job.
Speaker 3: I've heard that one before. All right, sure, I really
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: Okay. So there's a couple of copyright stories. A lot
Speaker 1: of people listen to the show for the copyright information
Speaker 1: and a current state of copyright law. There's a documentary
Speaker 1: at the sun Dance Film Festival about a you know,
Speaker 1: the Vietnamese picture, the most famous picture from the Vietnamese War?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: Napalm girl?
Speaker 1: Very good and she was not even around her that war,
Speaker 1: like I was. I don't want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: but Sam, well she already gave it away.
Speaker 2: Well it was heither Napalm girl or the one the
Speaker 2: shot of the guy who the general shooting one of
Speaker 2: the vehicles.
Speaker 1: Do you mean new Inn knock Loan.
Speaker 2: I believe so, But I think that was video footage.
Speaker 2: That was not a still shot.
Speaker 1: I think it was still. You can correct me. I
Speaker 1: think it was a still.
Speaker 2: I think it was a video and they just take
Speaker 2: the still from the video.
Speaker 1: But the why didn't you you look it up and
Speaker 1: try to prove it, prove the guy wrong? Who actually
Speaker 1: knows the guy's name who was firing the gun? Knock Loan.
Speaker 1: He ended up in Florida a pizza shop or something
Speaker 1: when I grew up there. When I grew up, they
Speaker 1: were like the president of one of the presidents of
Speaker 1: Vietnam was like working at a liquor store near my house.
Speaker 1: The head of security was uh just like it had
Speaker 1: a tie restaurant near my house for Unwin kow Key
Speaker 1: was was a former uh uh General Lissimo. They were
Speaker 1: all around, So I don't know. I studied it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. So there's a controversy. They gave there's
Speaker 1: a guy who said he took that picture it's a video,
Speaker 1: but there it's a video. Ah, Okay, I stand corrected.
Speaker 1: So there's a guy who got credit for the one
Speaker 1: with the girl in the napalm, and then for years
Speaker 1: since the war, this guy got a he got a
Speaker 1: whatever ward you get for that? I gotcha word? I
Speaker 1: guess what do you get for that? And then now
Speaker 1: he gets a gotcha. I think they're transferring it to
Speaker 1: a gotcha because it turns out there was a Vietnamese
Speaker 1: guy that took that picture. So that was the documentary
Speaker 1: is all about how the guy got cheated. So that's
Speaker 1: coming to you, and you know what you can do
Speaker 1: at the sun Nuts Film Festival. What's going on right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's too late, but you can
Speaker 1: buy a pass and they have a digital film festival
Speaker 1: and you can watch a lot of the movies that
Speaker 1: are playing there, and then you don't have to go
Speaker 1: there in the snow, which I've done a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and it's a hassle. M Night. Shayamalan, remember he got
Speaker 1: sued by Francesca Gregorini, who has eight other names, but
Speaker 1: I don't have him written down right now. They went
Speaker 1: to trial and they went in front of a jury.
Speaker 1: She said, you sed to my movie. That my movie
Speaker 1: I wrote a movie about a lady who had a doll,
Speaker 1: and she thought it was real. How dare you?
Speaker 2: Why would why would anybody try to associate themselves with
Speaker 2: anything he made? And ever since the was it the
Speaker 2: first movie he made?
Speaker 1: Why are you saying he made one good movie and
Speaker 1: the rest were terrible?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okayo interesting? Yeah? Yeah, I'm kind of with you on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the one with Bruce Willis and the kid who
Speaker 2: has now a grown up that sees dead people?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes? What was the sixth? Sixthone thought he was
Speaker 1: ever even thought he was the Bee's knees. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: and he never lived up to it.
Speaker 2: And then he like he went after one of like
Speaker 2: Nerddom's sacred cows by doing Avatar the Last Airbender and
Speaker 2: completely missing the pot.
Speaker 3: That was that made him relevant to my generation as
Speaker 3: someone to not trust. But I will say I saw
Speaker 3: the Watchers of his with one of the Fanning sisters
Speaker 3: and it was way better than I thought it be
Speaker 3: all right, Like it wasn't great, but it was better
Speaker 3: than I thought, and that kind of redeemed him a
Speaker 3: bit that's really good trap which I heard sucks.
Speaker 1: But that's really cool. But I have to tell the
Speaker 1: audience the who won the trial? Did was it? Francesca
Speaker 1: Gregorini M Knight Shyamalan. She says, you stole my idea
Speaker 1: for a movie with a lady who has a baby,
Speaker 1: and she thinks it's real. It's not real. It's a
Speaker 1: doll and the the first they threw it out of court.
Speaker 1: Then another court said, the Ninth Circuit says, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: hear it, and they said they had a trial and
Speaker 1: or the Ninth Circuit said you can go to trial.
Speaker 1: Then they had the trial in Riverside for some reason.
Speaker 1: And these people on the Riverside I think they know
Speaker 1: what they're doing because they said they they ruled for M.
Speaker 1: Knight Shyamalan, and I think that was correct. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you can't they weren't. They just said these movies are
Speaker 1: too different. That's all they said. It was pretty easy.
Speaker 1: And there's another scandal going on at the Sundance Film Festival.
Speaker 1: There's a movie called Selena and the Dinos. I just
Speaker 1: want to, you know, pump that up a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's a documentary about Selena. So they put it on
Speaker 1: the digital festival where you can pay money and watch
Speaker 1: these really you know, cool and the Hippos latest documentaries
Speaker 1: or other movies and so. But then people started stealing
Speaker 1: clips of Selena and Los Dinos and putting it all
Speaker 1: over TikTok. So they finally just pulled it down. Can
Speaker 1: you believe.
Speaker 2: That that is shocking? Yeah, this is my shocked face
Speaker 2: radio audience. You should see it.
Speaker 3: I know scorpions have very few facial muscles, so this
Speaker 3: adds up.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And the last thing was the Disneyland. There's a controversy
Speaker 1: at Hanted Mansion because they changed the story of the
Speaker 1: Hunted Mansion and they made it Some people say, ah,
Speaker 1: they kind of made it woke or whatever.
Speaker 3: Not a context by hello.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I think they I think the
Speaker 1: story's better the new one. They should probably, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why they monkey with these things, but
Speaker 1: the new ones better. So if you go there just
Speaker 1: kind of being have an open mind about some live journalism.
Speaker 3: When I'm at Disneyland, Oh yeah, you're coming up. When's
Speaker 3: your trip, I'll plan it around what's possible, and
Speaker 1: I'll leave you with just a taste of the greatest
Speaker 1: song ever written.