WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.199 Joe Ascalante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. 2 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:22.760 I am here with engineer Sam and producer NICKI. 3 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:24.960 We are going to talk. 4 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:27.719 About the entertainment industry. This is two hours of the 5 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.679 business end of show business. But since this is a 6 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.000 podcast episode, because we're preempted once again by the National 7 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:38.359 Football League, we are just going straight through the stories 8 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.039 and your podcast company might add a commercial. 9 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.759 I don't know, Sam, can you hear me? 10 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:47.759 Yep, loud and clear. 11 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.799 How you doing, Joe, I'm good, good. I saw a 12 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:53.880 lot of movies. Nick Key's here too, she's saying movies. 13 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.359 And first, before we get to the movies, let's talk 14 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:01.960 a little bit about a couple of legal cases that 15 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.120 are going on right now. The one is very exciting 16 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.680 to me. It is the guy named M. Knight Chamalan Shamalayan. 17 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:13.599 How do you say that, Niki? 18 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:14.760 I think it's. 19 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:19.239 Did you really? 20 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:21.439 Yeah? M Knight Shamalama ding dong? 21 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:23.439 How old are you like seventy? 22 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:25.040 Yeah? Totally. 23 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:30.280 Well, he's getting I. 24 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.959 Have so many stories I'm gonna have to scroll around. 25 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:38.159 For this one. He's getting sued now. 26 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:39.640 I mean a lot of people get sued when someone 27 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:44.599 steals their movie or movie idea or a television idea. 28 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:51.439 But very rarely, almost never do these things go very far. 29 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:54.640 Someone throws it out or they settle. In this case, 30 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:02.040 the guy has they're in trial right now. They're in 31 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:07.079 riverside on. There's a trial going on. It is a trial. 32 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:16.080 It's from the plaintiff, this woman, filmmaker, Francesca Gregorini. That's 33 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.800 a pretty good name, right, Francesca Gregorini. She alleges that 34 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:25.120 the psychological horror series Servant copies elements from her twenty 35 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:29.919 thirteenth film The Truth About Immanuel. Both works feature narratives 36 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.919 where a grieving mother cares for a lifelike doll as 37 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:42.560 if it were a real child apple where Shyamalamaj Shyamalan 38 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:49.039 has his servant. They say that their project was independently 39 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:53.840 created by a guy named Tony Bascallap, who began developing 40 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.280 it in two thousand and five, pre dating Gregorini's film Okay, 41 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.759 this isn't aside. This guy starts this in two thousand 42 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.039 and five. It is now twenty twenty four and he's 43 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.280 barely got it off the ground, and then he gets 44 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:12.479 a big lawsuit. That is the entertainment business in a nutshell? Okay, 45 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.120 what was what was this guy bascalop doing that whole time, 46 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.479 just running around with this and other projects that are 47 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.360 going nowhere, and he finally got a break here and 48 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:23.960 then someone says, you stole. 49 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:24.159 It from me. 50 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.080 And they're also suing the director because he's famous m 51 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:35.240 Night Shayamalan. And the trial started on Tuesday. Okay, that's 52 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.159 guess where it is. It's in Riverside. Why I haven't 53 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.919 been not able to figure out. But Francesca Gregrini is 54 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.360 suing him an Apple for eighty one million dollars, a 55 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:51.199 legend that they stole key elements and that there would 56 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:56.840 be no servant without the truth about Emmanuel. Her attorney 57 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.319 is like, are showing you know clips of the of 58 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.680 her movie and his movie and this courthouse and Riverside. 59 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.439 These people are probably thrilled. 60 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.960 It's the biggest thing to happen in Riverside since that 61 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:14.000 new in and out. Now here's a problem. We've talked 62 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.720 about these cases. What do you need for an infringement case? Well, 63 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:23.399 I'll tell you you need substantial similarity and you need 64 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:23.959 one other thing. 65 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.759 What is it? Geis? Do you know I really don't 66 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:35.879 you need access something you find access access would be. 67 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:43.839 Let's say Francisca Gregorini wrote this film and then produced it, 68 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.040 but it never came out or it only showed in 69 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:51.720 Italian cinemas. Then he would have no access. These people 70 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.079 would know, they wouldn't know it existed. So if they 71 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:57.600 don't know it existed, we never charged someone infringement. It 72 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:01.120 would have to be a complete copy. And even then, 73 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.959 you know, it's like the room full of monkeys in 74 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:09.680 a with typewriters and eventually though bash out of Shakespeare 75 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:14.600 and drama. But it'll take millions of years by accident. 76 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.639 So did it happen by accident? Well we don't, you know, 77 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.199 we don't want. We don't live in a society that 78 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.439 wants to penalize someone if they came up with the 79 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.680 exact same thing, So they have to have access. 80 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.399 You can't. 81 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:27.639 But the more access you have, like if you were 82 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:33.759 like looking over the shoulder of Francesca Gregorini and you 83 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:38.600 put out something that's kind of similar, you would you 84 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.959 would be in trouble. But if you never ever, if 85 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.399 you came from another planet and you made something similar, 86 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:48.560 people would just say, that's just a coincidence. Now, have 87 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.959 you guys ever seen a movie about a reborn doll? 88 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:56.839 Yes, yeah, you've seen a few. 89 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:02.560 Okay, so that's the defense that m night Yamielan is saying. Look, 90 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:04.959 this is a movie about a reborn doll. Happens all 91 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:08.079 the time. You can't own that. You can't own facts. 92 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:09.439 I don't know. 93 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:11.120 I don't really know why they call it a fact, 94 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:13.959 but it's just like, but they're trying to, you know, 95 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.639 throw a copyright excuses into the mix. 96 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.360 Here, but it's it's not really a fact. 97 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.279 It's just like, well, I guess they're saying, dolls are 98 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:28.240 reborn in literature, all in all kinds of literature, and 99 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.199 she can't own that forever, and just say, I made 100 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:33.920 a movie in twenty thirteen about a reborn doll, so 101 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:34.439 no one can. 102 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:34.879 Ever do it. 103 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.079 So there has to be more than that. So now 104 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.279 they're going over in front of the jury, going through 105 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:45.560 all the programs and saying, is there more than just 106 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.959 the reborn doll here? Did they steal something like maybe 107 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:51.360 a character's name, or maybe a character's job or something 108 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.199 like that that could give evidence that they really stole it? 109 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:56.439 But how hard would it be to change those things 110 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.800 if you were really stealing it. So that's why these 111 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:03.199 things really never go anywhere, and they really only go somewhere. 112 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.759 If it's like maybe they were partners back in history 113 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.160 and they broke up and then one guy released it 114 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.519 and I says to mine and you were in my 115 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:13.399 office the whole time. 116 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.879 But in this one they are. 117 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.480 I don't think she's going to win. I'm surprised it 118 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.639 went this far. The reason why it went this far 119 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.439 is probably because Apple and SHAMAI Alon have terrible attorneys. 120 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.160 That's my guess. 121 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:33.480 And now that I've been, you know, in the high 122 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.279 stakes world of music for the last year, I've seen 123 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.120 some bad attorneys. 124 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.879 There's one other thing. Both sides. This is the interesting 125 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:44.680 thing about this case. 126 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.240 They're trying to both sides say that they came from 127 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:53.759 humble beginnings and the other people came from wealth. As 128 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:59.079 some part of the equation here, the one attorney noted 129 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:04.759 that Shayamalan's attorney said he was born in India and 130 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.959 raised in Philadelphia without any entertainment industry connections, and then 131 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:16.040 noted that Gregrini's father was an Italian count more privileged 132 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:22.199 than an Italian count, and count Shacula I think was 133 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:25.120 his name here. I don't know how to pronounce Chocula. Yeah, 134 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:30.079 and her mother was a bond girl. That's pretty elite 135 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:34.559 right there. And her stepfather, oh Ringo Starr, one of 136 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:40.600 the Beatles. That's a band. And uh, Emmanuel was partly 137 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:46.399 financed by a German princess, Tatiana von Furstenberg. 138 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:54.320 Yeah, I'm just picturing. I'm just picturing a count there 139 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.200 going one Lassu coming ah ah ah blah. 140 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.759 Cola Furstenberg is a fixture in New York. She's been around. 141 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.879 We have mutual friends. But this is gonna This is 142 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.320 great because they're gonna reach a verdict and this verdict 143 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:16.919 will will serve to clarify copyright cases infringement cases in 144 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.279 the future. We almost never get them, so that's why 145 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:21.720 this is kind of exciting. I'm going to go over 146 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:22.159 one more thing. 147 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.159 Well, actually, just to to add on to that really quick. 148 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.679 I don't know if you guys heard about the I 149 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:32.080 think it's the lawsuit happening because of Molana too. There 150 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:35.000 was someone who I guess had shown or shared parts 151 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.000 of their script with Disney before even Molana one, and 152 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.799 now they're suing for I think what ten billion dollars 153 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.080 over Mowana two similarities to I guess this film that 154 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.440 they were going to title Bucky the Wave Warrior that 155 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:49.000 has some. 156 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.039 Unique connections to Polynesian culture. 157 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.039 Now he didn't, I'm sure he did not invent Polynesian culture. 158 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.960 But I would be really curious to see how like 159 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:04.919 kind of an animated adventure style heartwarming Disney film script 160 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.120 would have similarities between you know that and Molana. 161 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.320 Well, that will be an interesting one to see. 162 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:14.279 I will be surprised if it goes anywhere, because they 163 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:19.879 never do. That's why this one is going somewhere. Now, Yeah, 164 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:21.519 I haven't heard of them Molana to one, but we'll 165 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.720 follow that. And then there's a couple of people came 166 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.360 to me, Oh yeah, I see them Mona two one. Yeah, 167 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.440 it's five days ago. This guy is like run around 168 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:37.960 ten billion. I mean that's just like irresponsible shooting for 169 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:47.039 ten billion. But there's the Disney movie read not just yeah, 170 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.799 I think it's well as Park Disney. Who's a pixel 171 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.679 Christmas movie, the Christmas movie about Red one or whatever, 172 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.320 Santa Claus gets kidnapped, whatever like that. They have to 173 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.360 bring in the government. That one someone came to me 174 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:06.440 and said, hey, look they stole my script. So if 175 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.440 a movie's success, but that was before the movie was successful. 176 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:14.039 It turned out to be pretty successful movie. Now, the 177 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:24.639 problem with the fun Furstenberg film financed film is that 178 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:29.360 they produced evidence of how much that it that it played, 179 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.000 you know, in theaters and it and it earned like 180 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:32.639 nine dollars. 181 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:40.399 Awesome. Yeah, I think the source that I found they 182 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.759 were sharing said nine dollars from one viewer. 183 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:51.240 Movie and it was probably the counts is I think 184 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.080 I got to watch this thing my money. 185 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:55.120 Okay. 186 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.480 So here's another story that I like, I want to 187 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:00.559 get to before we get to the movies. There's this 188 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:04.559 guy named James Dolan. He owns Madison Square Gardens, and 189 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.120 he's my new hero. He's the owner of the New 190 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.519 York Knicks and the Rangers. And he's under scrutiny for 191 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.679 using facial recognition technology at Madison Square Garden to ban 192 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:19.399 attorneys from firms engaged in lawsuits against his companies. This 193 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:22.240 policy has led to legal challenges and debates over its 194 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.960 ethical implications. Dolan's tenure has been marked by controversies. A 195 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.320 lot of people don't like him for various reasons. It's sports. 196 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.279 People hate people for whatever reasons. But what he's doing 197 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:38.879 is this lawyer said, there's a lawyer named Barbara Hart, 198 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:43.120 and she's part of a law firm called Grant and Eisenhoffer, 199 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:51.039 and they are suing MSG over some overpaid somebody overpaid 200 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:55.360 for the MSG cable network or whatever, and saying that 201 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.879 Dolan received unique benefits from the acquisition to the detriment 202 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.559 of stockholders. That's like a shareholder, sir, that's a nuisance 203 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:08.720 lawsuit if you ask me, from a disgruntled shareholders. 204 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:10.080 And he said that. 205 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:13.240 She said she attempted to do an attendant concert at 206 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:17.559 the garden in October twenty second, unaware that Madison Square 207 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:22.080 Garden had instituted a policy of banning lawyers at firms 208 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:23.600 currently suing the company. 209 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:25.120 While I'm at. 210 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.080 MSG, I was identified as a banned g and e. 211 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:35.639 Eisenhoffer attorney via facial recognition software. MSG employees stopped me 212 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.480 and asked for my ID. After I refuse to give 213 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:43.559 it to them, they correctly identified me as Miss Barbara Hart. 214 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:47.399 Come with me, please, yeap, escort it out of the 215 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:49.639 building where she belongs. 216 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:51.399 No Knicks basketball for you? 217 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:53.200 Wow? 218 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.840 Yeah, I mean to me, I don't know how you 219 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.759 guys feel. I like it. 220 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.600 I mean I feel like you know, parties have similar 221 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:03.440 door policies. 222 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:03.840 You know. 223 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.480 It's like, if you can't hang with me, you don't 224 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:07.480 get to come to my party. 225 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:10.440 So if the guy owns Madison Square Garden, I can 226 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:14.159 understand why he wouldn't want his haters to be uh 227 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.559 enjoying his awesome situation. 228 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.600 You know, he's using the only power he has as 229 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:27.600 a poor, humble arena owner to keep these people from dancing, 230 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.240 you know, just rubbing his face in these injunctions or 231 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:35.399 in these lawsuits. So he so it goes to court 232 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.799 and then one it's gone like back and forth through 233 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.960 the courts. But right now the courts are saying, all right, 234 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.639 you can't just those people. You can't throw them out 235 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.840 after you've already sold them tickets and use your facial 236 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:53.000 recognition stuff to throw them out, probably because they you know, 237 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.240 in the ticket, they had a right to it. 238 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.159 They bought the ticket. There was a right to attend. 239 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:00.200 It's kind of a license of a seat, and they 240 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.759 bought the license and they got to go in. But 241 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:05.759 the court said you could refuse to sell tickets. To 242 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.480 those people in the first place if you want, go ahead, 243 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.679 so you could tell them, hey, all you people suing me, 244 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.759 you're not coming to Madison Square Garden anymore. Now, someone 245 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.879 might say that has a chilling effect on those people's 246 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.679 right to sue, because it would hard to be hard 247 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.080 to get an attorney, because all those attorneys in New 248 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:26.600 York are they want to go to Knicks games. 249 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.399 So interesting. But still I like it. 250 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:33.399 Hey, I get it. 251 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:37.120 You know, that's a level of spite that I wish 252 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:37.960 I could achieve. 253 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.440 I I just I mean, there's I got a list 254 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.399 sam people that I would not let in my arena. 255 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.120 So and another thing before you get to the movies, 256 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.559 TikTok has been restored, so you can breathe a sigh 257 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:55.279 of relief. 258 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:55.679 Nikki. 259 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:01.879 It's very interesting that you was removed in the first place, 260 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:06.879 and both the President Biden and President Trump both wanted. 261 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:07.679 It not to be banned. 262 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.679 I remember we remember Trump used to say it's you know, 263 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.360 it's dangerous, but he now, I guess, wants it to 264 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:17.720 be sold to an American company. But he didn't want 265 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.720 to just take it off. I think nobody wants to 266 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.399 be the person that takes away young people's TikTok. So 267 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:26.639 but now Trump Yeah, it was. 268 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:29.519 Yeah exactly. 269 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.000 There's like a there's the I think the warning message 270 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.120 that announced that TikTok was being banned was changed. There 271 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.360 was one wording that came out first that was a 272 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.480 little bit more vague or just you know, just only 273 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:43.840 addressed the US ban. 274 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:45.480 And then the second. 275 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.600 Wording that was like an updated version of this band 276 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:51.000 message included President Trump in it. 277 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.000 You go to but he will be yeah, yeah, you 278 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.360 go to TikTok right now. It says President Trump did 279 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:01.000 this all a favor here, let's all celebrate him. So 280 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:06.319 President Trump is having quite a honeymoon even though his 281 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.319 term hasn't started. So people are hostages, are getting free 282 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:16.440 TikTok is back up, he's milking it. So, yeah, we 283 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.119 have There's one other thing that might that is a 284 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:21.359 little bit of an issue for some. I mean, any 285 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:22.839 issue with Trump is going to be an issue for 286 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:24.960 half the country. But it seems to me that it's 287 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:28.759 becoming less than half in a way, it just seems 288 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.519 like less than half. But there's still people that just 289 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:33.599 you know, hate this man and want to kill him. 290 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:35.880 As you know, when people you know tried already. Two 291 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:40.759 people tried to actually kill him. One got pretty close. 292 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:46.200 But there is some concern in the television world because 293 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:49.720 he has nineteen people that he has hired in his 294 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:54.079 new staff that are Fox News employees or formal employees. 295 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.079 So people are thinking, you know, how's this going to work. 296 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.519 They're preparing to cover for a government filled with former 297 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:09.720 network employees. Now the president and executive editor of Fox 298 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.440 News Media, He's emphasized the network's commitment to journalistic integrity, 299 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:17.640 stating that their newsroom operates independently of any political affiliations. 300 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:22.279 This development raises questions about the relationship between media organizations 301 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:28.440 and government, highlighting the movement of personnel between the two sectors. 302 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:34.000 And this has always been going on, Like the Biden spokesperson, 303 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.599 that one, that's Karine Jean Pierre. She came from MSNBC 304 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.480 and Jensaki is now in MSNBC. 305 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:42.119 So they both do it. 306 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:47.599 But it just seems like Trump really did it. I mean, everybody. 307 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.359 My Apello guy is now the Secretary of the Interior. 308 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:51.880 I heard. 309 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:56.200 You're not laughing at that. That's the best I have. 310 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:01.079 Sorry, you're you're who my Pello guy, the my pillow guy, 311 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:03.000 the Mypello guy. 312 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.319 Hey, come on, Nikki, Nikki, do you have a television? 313 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:13.200 You know I don't just watch movies. Yeah, okay, well 314 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:13.799 let me tell. 315 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:15.640 You the movies and and tiktoks. 316 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.240 You know that, well, you know they You're lucky because 317 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:19.960 if you did watch cable like I do, you'd have 318 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:24.279 to you'd be bombarded with commercials form mypellow dot com. 319 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:29.440 And uh so it's con He's constantly on Fox selling 320 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:31.160 is my pellow dot com pillows? 321 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.759 Oh see cultural cultural divide here. 322 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:39.759 Yes, there's a cultural divide. The Mypello guy is uh 323 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:44.400 now in the cabinet. Hilarious, Joe, Okay, never mind, all right, 324 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:45.160 let's go to the movies. 325 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:51.200 Number one at the movies this week? Yes, do you 326 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:51.880 want want to guess? 327 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:56.400 Enlighten us? 328 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.240 What do you say? I said? 329 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:01.839 Enlighten us? 330 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:04.000 Oh, enlighten you? Okay? 331 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:05.960 Yeah, Sam, do you have a guest number one movie 332 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:06.519 of the week? 333 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:10.279 I have no guests whatsoever right now. I BET's probably 334 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:11.440 the same one as last week. 335 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:13.359 It isn't. 336 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:16.200 It's kind of a surprise. One of them days. 337 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:21.440 This comedy the best friends Drew and Alyssa are about 338 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:24.319 to have one of them days when they discover Alissa's 339 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:27.640 boyfriend has blown their rent money. The duo finds themselves 340 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.720 going to extremes in a comical race against the clock 341 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.839 to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact. It's just 342 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:40.200 two black female comedies, just comedians, and they've they're tearing 343 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.880 up the box office. It must be hilarious. That's what 344 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:43.359 I'm saying. 345 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:46.079 Is that the one with Keiky Palmer? 346 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:49.160 And this is a yeah, it is yeah. 347 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:50.839 I do actually really want to see that one. 348 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.839 Palmer. How do you pronounce the other person? You know? 349 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:55.480 It's so funny. 350 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.039 I loved her music when I was in high school, 351 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:00.440 and I had no clue how to pronounce her name. 352 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:02.680 And then one night I had a dream where like 353 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.000 in the dream, she like sits me down and she 354 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:08.240 explains it's pronounced sizza, and then I woke up and 355 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:08.960 it was correct. 356 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:11.559 Okay, So there you go. That's the that's the only 357 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:13.759 girl's dream that's ever been told to me that actually 358 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:16.559 benefited me and didn't waste a good portion of it. 359 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:17.640 Thank you. 360 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:18.680 Okay. 361 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.200 So that's number one New movie Number one. Number two 362 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:28.279 Mufasa people Love It Making Money. Number three is Wolfman 363 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.680 from Universal four, Sonic The Hedgehog, Narber five, Dinneres Part two, 364 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:38.400 Pantera number six at Mohana two, which is now like 365 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.039 another billion dollar movie for Disney. So all the people 366 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:46.319 that are saying Disney's Studios going downhill and they're gonna 367 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.319 dry up, they're making money. They got Mufasa and they 368 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:53.640 got Mohana in the top ten right now. Noseratu from 369 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.599 Focused Features tried to see that, but it just didn't 370 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:03.480 work out. A complete unknown. I'm doing documentary number eight, 371 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.720 number nine, wicket number ten, Baby Girl, and then there's 372 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:13.039 a tie for number eleven and number twelve. Maybe we're 373 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:16.480 gonna call it flow. Let's talk about flow. Anyone see flow? 374 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.440 What is slow? 375 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:19.240 I had not? 376 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:20.440 Flow? 377 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.599 Is the movie about is a movie, an animated feature 378 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:29.039 about a cat from Janis Films that survives like an 379 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:31.680 apocalypse of some kind. They don't really explain it because 380 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:36.160 it's about animals and what happens. There's the kind of 381 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.359 a utopian situation going on and there's only animals left 382 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.640 and they don't talk. So the animals, it's a movie 383 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:46.079 cartoon of the animals that don't talk. 384 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:49.960 Have you ever seen that? It can't talk? 385 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:50.960 It looks really cute. 386 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:54.519 Oh, it's the best. It's a great movie. It's pretty short, 387 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:58.039 so it would be nice to see it in a theater, 388 00:22:58.400 --> 00:22:59.119 but I don't think. 389 00:22:59.000 --> 00:22:59.400 You have to. 390 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:00.559 I did. 391 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:04.319 I broke my rule and I left the cinemak world 392 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.759 and went to the AMC World in the Long Beach. 393 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:08.519 Have you ever been there? 394 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:08.720 Oh? 395 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:09.039 My god? 396 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.359 And it's wild and I saw it there. 397 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:16.359 It was super fun. Wild Robot still hanging in there 398 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:19.680 in the top fifteen. A couple other movies that I saw, 399 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:24.039 and we'll talk about like Conclave on Nora. We don't 400 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:27.359 need to talk about that, we already have and September five, 401 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:32.200