Speaker 1: Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank,
Speaker 1: across the street from a Wiener Snitzl that serves beer.
Speaker 1: And I'm joined today by not only producer engineer Sam,
Speaker 1: but producer Nikki.
Speaker 2: Hello, good to be back.
Speaker 3: What's up best?
Speaker 4: Hey? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So during the NFL season, it's just too hard to
Speaker 1: make shows fit all our schedules, so it gets always
Speaker 1: gets weird. But the season is winding down and just
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks left the playoffs and then the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl of Football takes place, so we should be
Speaker 1: live like we are tonight a few times at least,
Speaker 1: and then we'll be back in a regular schedule. So
Speaker 1: for those of you new to the program, this is
Speaker 1: two hours of the business end of show business, and
Speaker 1: we do it every Sunday on KiB eleven fifty on
Speaker 1: your AM dial. This is good old fashion AM radio.
Speaker 4: That's why you're cool for listening to it.
Speaker 1: Let's, of course, there's a lot of fires going on
Speaker 1: right now, and that's why I didn't drive into the
Speaker 1: studio today, so I didn't want to get there. And
Speaker 1: I think the less people that drive into Los Angeles
Speaker 1: right now, the better are you guys, Okay, and your properties?
Speaker 1: All right, Let's start with you, Sam. You live on
Speaker 1: top of a movie theater.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, so far, so good.
Speaker 5: It's pretty safe where I'm at. I actually have people
Speaker 5: who are evacuating coming to my place, so hopefully fans
Speaker 5: stay that way because I would really really like to
Speaker 5: avoid having the same issues that everyone else is having
Speaker 5: here in La.
Speaker 6: How about you, Nikki, Yeah, it's been pretty wild. I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm in Highland parks, so it's not too bad.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, the air has been pretty crazy.
Speaker 6: But I have I have some funny stories to tell
Speaker 6: you about something that's not as funny. My dad lives
Speaker 6: in Alta Dina and is very very close to the
Speaker 6: Eton fire, and it luckily only got a little bit
Speaker 6: of our property, Like it wasn't so bad, but he
Speaker 6: refused to evacuate, so he was playing rogue cowboy firefighter,
Speaker 6: putting out fires.
Speaker 4: For the last and stuff.
Speaker 6: I guess, I mean, I guess it's good enough. But
Speaker 6: I can tell you, guys a little story he told me.
Speaker 6: I was calling him the other day and of course
Speaker 6: freaking out because this is a crazy time and you
Speaker 6: never know what's going to happen. And he's telling me
Speaker 6: about all the losses in the neighborhood and and what's
Speaker 6: going on. And then you know, I'm just you know,
Speaker 6: I'm freaking out. And he's like, oh, but do you
Speaker 6: He's polish, I'm gonna do the accent. He's like, do
Speaker 6: you want to hear the good news? And I'm like, oh, God, Like,
Speaker 6: what's the good news after all that? You know? I
Speaker 6: was like, yeah, I guess I do. And then he's like, okay.
Speaker 6: So I was on the roof watering the roof and
Speaker 6: around the house, and then I went to the backyard.
Speaker 6: We have like a tiered backyard that he made, like
Speaker 6: there's kind of some some landscaping and agriculture he did there.
Speaker 6: But he's like okay, And I water the first level.
Speaker 6: It is good. I water the second level, it is good.
Speaker 6: And then I go to the last level. And then
Speaker 6: I realized a little too late that I have to pee,
Speaker 6: and before I hit the grads ipee a little bit.
Speaker 6: I'm like, that's that's the good news. That was.
Speaker 2: The good news that he can pete. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was like, I mean I think he meant like
Speaker 6: I want to hear a funny story.
Speaker 2: I was like, looking for the good news.
Speaker 5: The goods that he has steady prostate function exactly.
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, it's good that like you mostly didn't mess.
Speaker 6: I agree, you know, it's been a hard week for everyone,
Speaker 6: and if this is the way you need to phrase that,
Speaker 6: like you peed a little bit, like I'll it's lot.
Speaker 2: You know, did he put out the fire with it?
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6: I was like, Okay, the better news would be like
Speaker 6: if there was a hot ember and you saw an opportunity,
Speaker 6: you know, But I think it's this is gonna be
Speaker 6: one of those stories where it's like the fish gets
Speaker 6: bigger every single time he retells it, and I bet
Speaker 6: he'll invent an ember somewhere along his oral history of
Speaker 6: this moment.
Speaker 4: Well, that's really fortunate. Good news Dad's in and didn't
Speaker 4: get burned.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, like only part of the backyard. We're
Speaker 6: really lucky it's been out of the.
Speaker 4: House though, like as like taking it somewhere else or you.
Speaker 6: Just well, I mean the good thing is that, like
Speaker 6: it's the neighborhood, it's not going to come back that
Speaker 6: way because it already it burned through everything that it
Speaker 6: could burn.
Speaker 2: So it's like he feels fine.
Speaker 4: Well on the.
Speaker 1: Legal front, as we know that in on YouTube you
Speaker 1: can pretty much use anybody's song and do whatever you
Speaker 1: want with it. And then when YouTube first started that
Speaker 1: would be an infringement. And now they got they just
Speaker 1: kind of pay the artists when they don't pay you.
Speaker 1: They pay the artists when you use their song. So
Speaker 1: and that, you know, for the most part, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I like it when they use vandal songs and it
Speaker 1: makes our streaming income get bigger, and I see what
Speaker 1: people are doing and they're clever with them or whatever.
Speaker 1: And you know, same with TikTok. It can be really
Speaker 1: good for a band. But Chuck d from Public Enemy
Speaker 1: is now alarmed and telling his fans stop using the
Speaker 1: song burn Hollywood Burn in wildfire videos, and he's trying
Speaker 1: to say that the track originally was a critique of
Speaker 1: racial stereotypes in Hollywood films. It has been repurposed online
Speaker 1: content showing destruction of film studios and sets by wildfires.
Speaker 1: Chuck Die has emphasized that the song's message is being
Speaker 1: misrepresented and its use in his context is both inappropriate
Speaker 1: and insensitive to those affected by the fires. You're just
Speaker 1: content creators to respect the original intent of the music
Speaker 1: and to refrain from exploiting it for sensationalism. So what
Speaker 1: can he do anything about it? Is my question for
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 6: I feel like probably not, because sadly, it's like he's
Speaker 6: basically making a call to action, like, hey, everyone on
Speaker 6: the internet, can you please behave appropriately?
Speaker 2: That's a tough that's a high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, and then it's just too hard to
Speaker 1: We talk about this a lot. You know, they have
Speaker 1: blanket licenses that just cover all music. You can't really
Speaker 1: go in there and say, hey, I don't want them
Speaker 1: to do this. You could probably remove your song from
Speaker 1: all usage, but then you wouldn't make any money from
Speaker 1: the appropriate usages. So knowing wouldever that do that, he's
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. He's talking to the fans don't
Speaker 1: do this, and then that's about all he can do.
Speaker 1: And he's not suing anybody.
Speaker 4: He's just saying, don't do this. So that's that's about
Speaker 4: all he can do. Now.
Speaker 1: Bad Religion has a song called Los Angeles is Burning.
Speaker 1: I think about it every time I see the fires,
Speaker 1: but I don't look around YouTube to see if anybody's
Speaker 1: using it.
Speaker 4: But there are people that do that.
Speaker 1: When I was on the radio in the morning in
Speaker 1: the morning's, I had a newslady that would every time
Speaker 1: there was a incident that involved race, she would search
Speaker 1: or just whatever she could always search on the internet
Speaker 1: for like racial hate, to see if she could find
Speaker 1: any white supremacist that had a bad take on something.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, why do you do that?
Speaker 1: Just leave it in the gutter and go on with
Speaker 1: your life. But so I haven't looked around and see
Speaker 1: if anyone's using that bad religion song. But it's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: When people ask me what's going on with my properties,
Speaker 1: I'm like, nothing with mine. But you know, it's hard.
Speaker 1: So many people are screwed. You can't do business right
Speaker 1: now in a normal Hollywood way because whoever you're talking to,
Speaker 1: you call them and say, I just check in to
Speaker 1: see if you have read this or you're going to
Speaker 1: send me that they are, you know, they lost their
Speaker 1: house quite possibly, and a lot of houses have been lost.
Speaker 1: People are going through it, and then people are calling
Speaker 1: me and going, hey, can you help me. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to I was working with someone whose house was lost,
Speaker 1: and now I gotta get this thing done.
Speaker 4: Can you help, and.
Speaker 1: It's hard to I was I was gonna try to
Speaker 1: raise some money for a project, an artistic project, restoration
Speaker 1: of something here in Seal Beach, and now I just
Speaker 1: don't feel right doing it. Get it all teed up,
Speaker 1: but raising money for a restoration of a historical thing
Speaker 1: doesn't It just doesn't seem that tasteful. When the fires,
Speaker 1: you know, people are raising money and we gotta take
Speaker 1: care of these people. But we got to take a
Speaker 1: break here and we'll come back. We'll talk more about this.
Speaker 1: I got more stories related to the fire and other
Speaker 1: Hollywood stuff. It's Joe Ascolante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascolante
Speaker 1: Live from Hollywood. Hey, uh, you know, maybe wait, let's
Speaker 1: before we go back to the fires. I would like
Speaker 1: to let's check the box office, because it was for
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. He is a normal week
Speaker 1: and show business world number one at the box office.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you saw it. Den of Thieves
Speaker 1: two Pantera, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Pantera the word Pantera gets used.
Speaker 1: But if I was in the band Pantera, I would like,
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4: Why? Why are you talking about me?
Speaker 1: But have any of you seen sending of these Pantera
Speaker 1: movies or these Den of Thieves movies?
Speaker 5: No, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Gerard Butler, yeah, I don't think they're really good.
Speaker 1: One for me, probably not for any of us, but
Speaker 1: they're doing very, very well. He did fifteen million this
Speaker 1: weekend at the box office. It's not staggering, but it
Speaker 1: was good enough to put him as number one and
Speaker 1: move Fassa that is still killing it number two Sonic
Speaker 1: the Hedgehog.
Speaker 4: Are either of you two going to go see Sonic
Speaker 4: the Hedgehog?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: If you are.
Speaker 1: I amn't seen it yet, not recommend one of you
Speaker 1: saw in a Saratu.
Speaker 5: I bet I did do sam uh that would be
Speaker 5: a nose Speratu.
Speaker 2: No ooh ooh, all right, yeah, I saw, yes Speratu.
Speaker 2: I saw it on the twenty sixth. It was amazing.
Speaker 6: I mean from a movie perspective, I think I gave
Speaker 6: it like four and a half stars on letterboxed.
Speaker 2: I thought that the story itself was like fine.
Speaker 6: It doesn't beat out Bram Stoker's Dracula for me personally. However,
Speaker 6: the candlelit shots were enough to give this film whatever accolades.
Speaker 6: It wanted because they were just stunning and Lily Rose
Speaker 6: Depp's performance was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to see it, but then I was
Speaker 1: trying to catch it at an Imax or a Cinemak
Speaker 1: XD and I couldn't and the showings were at weird time.
Speaker 1: So I haven't seen it yet. But let me see.
Speaker 1: I told this story before. Our drummer Josh Freese, his kid,
Speaker 1: he took him to see it on Christmas Day actually
Speaker 1: in Palm Springs, and he said when the credits rolled up,
Speaker 1: I mean, he said, it was just gnarly like the movies,
Speaker 1: like it's dark, right, yeah. Yeah, So the credits roll
Speaker 1: up and he gets it's very quiet, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember this moment in the in the experience,
Speaker 1: but and then he just yells out. His son yells out,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Everybody the whole theater erupted in laughter.
Speaker 2: That's touching.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so number five Malana two, Now we're down to
Speaker 1: the movies I've seen. Mahana two is freaking huge, but
Speaker 1: you know, and the animation is amazing. It's really a
Speaker 1: fun experience, especially if you watch it in the vibrating seats.
Speaker 4: Like I did.
Speaker 1: And but the story is kind of like cares. The
Speaker 1: writing's like who cares? It's not the top of what
Speaker 1: Disney or Pixar can do. A complete unknown number six.
Speaker 1: I saw it pretty good. Timothy shot me is uh
Speaker 1: just incredible, credible. This guy needs to go to Coachella.
Speaker 1: Uh take it on the road. It's so good. Uh
Speaker 1: and then you know don but you know, what's his name?
Speaker 4: A Bob Dylan. He was never that good looking. We
Speaker 4: know that. And it's that uh that lady who's co star.
Speaker 2: So Dakota Fanning right.
Speaker 1: Well, the I'm like, I'm having a I'm getting old
Speaker 1: and sorry I forget everybody's name.
Speaker 4: But she was she was not ever that good looking.
Speaker 1: So Joan Baiaz, oh gotcha, John bas So these are
Speaker 1: two like like, you know, imagine a world where Bob
Speaker 1: Dylan and Joan Bias were stunning.
Speaker 4: That's you know what, Hey, I'll sign up for that.
Speaker 1: So that's it makes the movie, you know, pretty good.
Speaker 1: And but Shallomaye's worth it for shallow may I think
Speaker 1: I've kind of mentioned that before.
Speaker 5: They did a good job of acting like they were
Speaker 5: not so good looking.
Speaker 4: They you know, what that's that's not easy and they
Speaker 4: did it.
Speaker 2: You're right, I will actually know what.
Speaker 6: I would see that movie just to watch a more
Speaker 6: humble Timothy Shalla may. I think that would actually be
Speaker 6: the premier part of my viewing experience.
Speaker 2: It's some humility.
Speaker 5: Do you have some problems with Timothy Timothy's sports chalet, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Timothy sports shall at exactly.
Speaker 4: He didn't. You didn't like him? And Willie Wanka you weren't.
Speaker 6: I you know what, I couldn't even I couldn't bear
Speaker 6: to look at it.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: I couldn't bear to look at it because I love
Speaker 6: some cringe and I.
Speaker 2: I have to say, I think Timothy's a great actor.
Speaker 2: I think he's very talented.
Speaker 6: I couldn't bear to look at at it, and I
Speaker 6: think that has spared his reputation in my eyes, because
Speaker 6: I refuse to watch that film. I think I saw
Speaker 6: some of the promo shots, maybe the trailer, and I
Speaker 6: was just thinking, like, Oh, he doesn't want to be
Speaker 6: here is the feeling that I got, which is not
Speaker 6: the vibe that you want from the lead.
Speaker 4: Go watch the original Willy Wonka.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a big fan of the original.
Speaker 1: Person that's personally he doesn't want to be the reader.
Speaker 1: He's he's he looks all the time like his thoughts
Speaker 1: are being you know, he's placing his thoughts elsewhere and
Speaker 1: he's just going through it for the kids. This guy
Speaker 1: to do it. So maybe there's a little bit. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was acting very well when he was doing that.
Speaker 1: But I saw Willy Wonka in Shallow May's version.
Speaker 4: It was great. I mean, the original is the best.
Speaker 1: I'd say Willy Wonka challow May is second best, and
Speaker 1: then the Tim Burton one.
Speaker 4: Really that's my that's my ranking me.
Speaker 6: I'll you know what, I'll watch it next time I
Speaker 6: am buy a little too heavily.
Speaker 2: I'll turn that on and see if I can give
Speaker 2: it a bonus star.
Speaker 4: They're good, So that good songs in that movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, Number seven is Wicked, which uh I was at
Speaker 1: dinner the other day. I kind of remember if I
Speaker 1: told the story and then like, oh did you see Wicked?
Speaker 1: You know, and there's like maybe six people and two waiters,
Speaker 1: three waiters around that I know, and not one of
Speaker 1: them saw Wicked. And I was the only gay in
Speaker 1: the village at that time, Like, are you telling me
Speaker 1: I'm the only one in this room that saw Wicked,
Speaker 1: and they're like looking at me like you saw Wicked.
Speaker 1: I just just talk about something else. But Nikki, you
Speaker 1: missed my take on that, which is did you see it?
Speaker 6: First of all, I have not seen it yet. You've
Speaker 6: seen the media realm of it.
Speaker 4: Sam, have you seen it?
Speaker 1: No, sir, I'm still the only gay in the village,
Speaker 1: all right, it Well, it doesn't make any sense to
Speaker 1: tell you guys that, but I'll just tell you when
Speaker 1: you watch it.
Speaker 4: Look at it.
Speaker 1: The chorus dancers, they're all ugly, okay. Number eight is
Speaker 1: a baby girl, and they do it on purpose, Nicky.
Speaker 1: They're like purposely trying to challenge you with ugly people
Speaker 1: in the course.
Speaker 4: How you care challenge.
Speaker 1: Beautiful people? You don't have a right to beautiful Oh,
Speaker 1: I get it. The chorus people should be beautiful performers
Speaker 1: all put together. How about some weird looking people that
Speaker 1: aren't that good looking?
Speaker 6: Take me back, Take me back to old Hollywood where
Speaker 6: I can't even be looked at in public.
Speaker 2: So I miss it.
Speaker 4: So number eight is baby girl.
Speaker 1: Number nine is The Brutalist, which I haven't seen yet,
Speaker 1: but I have seen a couple of movies.
Speaker 2: Let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, maybe we should take a break, and when
Speaker 1: we'll come back, we'll go over my letterbox and Nicky
Speaker 1: can make her comments on it, because she has some
Speaker 1: weird comments on my letterbox reviews. And that's why I
Speaker 1: put all That's why I put all the movies that
Speaker 1: I see, and then we can we can continue from there.
Speaker 4: How does that, Sam, Sam, I'm.
Speaker 3: Good with that.
Speaker 5: Let's do it. This is a good plan almost. I'm
Speaker 5: really excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 4: Don't mock Me's.
Speaker 1: Goante live from Hollywood by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go over to the letterbox page and talk about
Speaker 1: the movies that we saw this week and in weeks past,
Speaker 1: because I pretty soon I'm gonna have to put together
Speaker 1: my uh celebrated top ten list, and it's very easy
Speaker 1: when you have a letterbox account. This is the best
Speaker 1: thing about a letterboxed account because if you at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, you just look and see which
Speaker 1: ones did you give five stars too? And I'm just
Speaker 1: just a cursory glance over here. I had a lot
Speaker 1: of five stars from movies that had already been seen,
Speaker 1: and I see that I've got kneecap and uh the
Speaker 1: wild Robot. They they're they're popping out at me. But Nora,
Speaker 1: I gave a four. I gave a four and a
Speaker 1: half stars. Yes, I don't know. Yeah, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Sean Baker is one of my favorite directors, so
Speaker 1: he's just gonna get uh you get five stars if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the the the morally offensive content. But uh,
Speaker 1: all right, so I saw I've talked about a Nora
Speaker 1: and everything on this list, but I did. I just
Speaker 1: mentioned briefly Amelia Perez. Either of you seen this.
Speaker 6: Not yet, but I've heard some reviews and I've I've
Speaker 6: heard some or I've read some interviews with Angelina Jolite.
Speaker 2: Right, she's the lead in that. Yeah, oh wait, no,
Speaker 2: that's not right? Is that that's not a different one? Sorry? Different?
Speaker 2: This is the one with Selena Gomes.
Speaker 4: Yes, Selena Gomes's okay, I've.
Speaker 2: Heard, okay, also a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, Amelia Perez, you know it's another one of these
Speaker 1: movies where it's just I.
Speaker 4: Dare you.
Speaker 1: Not to think that this is totally stupid, in a
Speaker 1: waste of your time. I dare you, because if you
Speaker 1: admit that, you're not going to be cool in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: So anyways, it's like it is stupid, but whatever, it's
Speaker 1: free on Netflix, so go ahead and watch it.
Speaker 4: Then conclave.
Speaker 1: Luckily it's free because I'm not giving them any money
Speaker 1: if they're their blasphemous portrayal of what goes on in
Speaker 1: the room while they pick a pope. You just already
Speaker 1: know if a movie has released by a major studio
Speaker 1: and it's about a pope, you know it's going to
Speaker 1: be anti Catholic and it's going to make Catholics seem
Speaker 1: they're dumb for buying into everything.
Speaker 4: So I already know that.
Speaker 1: So I watched a little bit of it just to
Speaker 1: see how long it would take before they got really lame,
Speaker 1: and it took about ten minutes. But very well acted,
Speaker 1: and it's beautiful to see all the stuff in the
Speaker 1: Vatican City. But it's it's it's typical, and it's shot
Speaker 1: too dark. Did any guys have any problems with these
Speaker 1: movies that are too dark?
Speaker 2: I personally like my movie is pretty dark.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm also a laptop of viewer sometimes, but
Speaker 6: I have upgraded my setup to projector in my living
Speaker 6: room courtesy of my roommates so we're not you know,
Speaker 6: we're not doing too.
Speaker 2: Bad with the dark. I kind of like the look. See.
Speaker 4: I mean sometimes I like.
Speaker 5: The dark in certain movies. The only one only place
Speaker 5: I don't think it fits is in action films, and
Speaker 5: I've been seeing it way too much in action films
Speaker 5: because you lose a lot of the action when you
Speaker 5: can't see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, that Pope movie, there's a lot of action.
Speaker 5: H sounds like it, a lot of fisticuffs and post
Speaker 5: in that. In Conclave, I.
Speaker 1: Would say, uh, I haven't finished yet, so it probably
Speaker 1: is coming.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's like a well made movie.
Speaker 1: And I guess it's going to be up for some
Speaker 1: Oscars because number one, it's well made, it has really
Speaker 1: good acting, and it's the narrative, Hollywood's narrative of trivialized religion.
Speaker 4: Are congratulations, Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Now watch all those religious movies that make so much
Speaker 1: money and you can't figure out how to do it.
Speaker 1: But don't ask me because I won't tell you. Let's
Speaker 1: go to my list. Nora, you see you Noura Nikki,
Speaker 1: you must have.
Speaker 2: Yep, I have that one. That one's pretty funny.
Speaker 6: I like your review. Let's see here you did. That
Speaker 6: was what four and a half stars. Also, I too,
Speaker 6: am a big fan of Sean Baker. He frequently showcases
Speaker 6: one of my favorite comedian actresses, Ivy Wolke, And she's
Speaker 6: a supporting role in this movie. And I'll basically watch
Speaker 6: anything with that girl in it.
Speaker 4: Which she what does she play?
Speaker 6: She's like one of the other blonde I think she's
Speaker 6: also a stripper blonde one.
Speaker 2: Like always saying some crazy stuff.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she was cool, she's.
Speaker 2: She is hysterical.
Speaker 6: I brought I think like seven friends to one of
Speaker 6: her stand up shows. She was like opening for a comedian,
Speaker 6: and I brought like seven friends just so I could
Speaker 6: go see her open and then we left for the headliner.
Speaker 2: But she's like she's a rising star for sure.
Speaker 4: Okay. And her name is Ivy Woke. So I'm punt
Speaker 4: and a letterbox. You get to you get to uh
Speaker 4: you know, ah go down rabbit holes and stuff. Okay,
Speaker 4: I see her. Well, yeah, the one with the eyebrows.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, she's fantastic.
Speaker 4: All right, So Ivy Woke look out for her. And
Speaker 4: and Noora was pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's about a Russian hooker. My review, well, just yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I just read my review and just says, Sean Baker
Speaker 1: makes amazing movies. This one was about a cash me
Speaker 1: outside style Russian hooker who tries to hold together permanent
Speaker 1: relationship with the son of an oligarch. Wow, it's serious,
Speaker 1: Then it's funny, but it's still pretty serious. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I stand by that it nominated for Best Comedy and
Speaker 1: Musical in the Golden Globes. The other one I saw
Speaker 1: was a complete unknown, and Timothy Chalome is worth the
Speaker 1: price of admission, so I recommend it. However, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure switching to electric guitar is enough of a plot
Speaker 1: point to carry a movie, but I guess it was
Speaker 1: a real scandal at the time. Dylan's songs are great
Speaker 1: once once then you realize this guy is telling you
Speaker 1: that there's something wrong with you, and I can only
Speaker 1: take that once. I feel other folks songs. I like
Speaker 1: other folk songs like Puff the Magic Dragon or One
Speaker 1: Tin Soldier. I have to read my own typos here,
Speaker 1: so One Tin Soldiers still provide a valuable lesson, but
Speaker 1: I don't feel lectured. Yeah, I'm just saying these, these
Speaker 1: these folk songs are masterpieces, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: listen to them more than once.
Speaker 4: Oh on here.
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. I think that's very fair.
Speaker 6: I really liked your I liked the back and forth
Speaker 6: between your reviews of We Live in Time and The Substance,
Speaker 6: because you gave both three and a half stars. But
Speaker 6: for We Live in Time, I think you said something.
Speaker 6: I'll read it for you. This was a fine film,
Speaker 6: but I would have rather had someone tell me about
Speaker 6: it than actually have to watch it, see Joe. Frankly,
Speaker 6: when I have an experience like this, I give it
Speaker 6: a half star and then I make up a lie
Speaker 6: about what happens. I think my review for Barbie is
Speaker 6: one half star, and my review is that the dog
Speaker 6: dies doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: But you knows why would leave.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 1: I realize it's a good movie, and I want to
Speaker 1: congratulate all involved in making a good movie. We Live
Speaker 1: in Time and Florence Pugh is the best thing in movies,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to I still enjoyed watching her,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I would have rather if someone told me
Speaker 1: about it, and then I could just watch her interviews
Speaker 1: of her on YouTube percent.
Speaker 4: If I really needed to see something.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's a how about the substance
Speaker 1: You can read the substance one.
Speaker 6: Yes, your Substance review, I think, approaches it from the
Speaker 6: perspective that it's a documentary, that it's evidently a true story.
Speaker 6: Mainly hits a rough patch, so she makes deal with
Speaker 6: the Double to battle Satan, and of course no one
Speaker 6: can win in that scenario. All these people need to
Speaker 6: find the Lord. I also appreciate that you include exactly
Speaker 6: where you were at the time of filming, because I
Speaker 6: feel like if you have any fans who are also
Speaker 6: into astrology, they can kind of map the stars for
Speaker 6: that point in time to see if there was any
Speaker 6: sort of cosmic influence on your review.
Speaker 2: And then take you up on an argument on Twitter
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always put the name of the theater and the
Speaker 1: and the time, and then sometimes just to be a weirdo,
Speaker 1: I'll put the actual theater number in the.
Speaker 6: Oh I think I noticed, I think, Yeah, you had
Speaker 6: like AMC theater number twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and complete of known as a Honey Can Beach
Speaker 1: a Cinemak Belitaria seven fifty showing Auditorium twenty and then well,
Speaker 1: most of this letterbox stuff is for me to remember
Speaker 1: the movies that I saw because I did it. I'm
Speaker 1: very bad at remembering movies. Like I see a movie
Speaker 1: and then you could ask me if I saw it,
Speaker 1: and I would tell you no, and then you would
Speaker 1: convince me that I saw it and show me the
Speaker 1: ticket stuff it fell out of my pocket and I
Speaker 1: would go.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't remember what it was about, though, So.
Speaker 2: Now I'm the exact same way.
Speaker 6: I think I've drank too much diet coke in my
Speaker 6: life and the ass the team has finally gotten to
Speaker 6: my memory. So I need the letter box like that.
Speaker 6: That's sort of making it's part of my brain at
Speaker 6: this point.
Speaker 1: I also have something called the day one journaling app,
Speaker 1: and it is basically Instagram for yourself, and you put
Speaker 1: all your pictures in and everything you did, and then
Speaker 1: you keep your journal and it's in your It's right
Speaker 1: there in one spot, but it's only for you.
Speaker 4: No one else can see it.
Speaker 2: It's say actually, and then if I die, my.
Speaker 1: Wife can look at it and go like hey, and
Speaker 1: you can run print on it and then just hand
Speaker 1: it out at the funeral too.
Speaker 4: Okay, how are we doing on time on this segment.
Speaker 4: Let's just take a break Okay, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: And I got more fire related stories in the Hollywood
Speaker 1: community after this.
Speaker 4: Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe as Golante.
Speaker 4: Joe'scalante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. We're gonna get to Nikki's
Speaker 1: movies because she's so connected and young. She gets to
Speaker 1: see more movies than us and she doesn't have to
Speaker 1: work her ass off like I do, and I hope
Speaker 1: you don't. And then Sam is like a PhD and
Speaker 1: a couple of kids. So just before we get to
Speaker 1: that stuff, a little bit of stuff about the fires.
Speaker 1: Two people got arrested at Kamala Harris's house, but they
Speaker 1: couldn't really catch them in the act. They weren't red handed,
Speaker 1: so they had to let him go, but they pretty
Speaker 1: sure they were about to loot her house. But they
Speaker 1: target celebrities, and there is a long article I'm not
Speaker 1: going to go over in CNN about how they're still
Speaker 1: targeting athletes and they figure out when their games are
Speaker 1: and these are international crime syndicates because the athletes are
Speaker 1: posting things like check out my Rolex, oh w here's
Speaker 1: my wife with their.
Speaker 4: Air mez bag. All that stuff.
Speaker 1: And then there is an interesting thing about so anyways,
Speaker 1: looters are are are a big problem, and you know,
Speaker 1: targeted crimes for celebrities are a big problem in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and so many celebrities lost their homes, and these international
Speaker 1: crimings are still around and they're like, oh the fires,
Speaker 1: like in Hollywood, you know, business is not good right
Speaker 1: now because of the fires. But if you're an international
Speaker 1: crime Sygnique syndicate, you pivot, you go, hey, let's go
Speaker 1: to where people have been evacuated and let's steal all
Speaker 1: their stuff.
Speaker 4: So that's definitely going on.
Speaker 2: And then the syndicates are the only functioning union in
Speaker 2: LA at the moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right now. Yeah. And then I don't know if
Speaker 4: you heard this.
Speaker 1: Ricky Lake was on a TV show a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago and the guy predicted she was going to
Speaker 1: lose everything in a fire or suggested something like that
Speaker 1: was about to happen to her, and she lost her
Speaker 1: house in the fire, lost everything. So that's on Ricky
Speaker 1: Lake's Instagram page. It's pretty shocking. And then Disneyland is
Speaker 1: still open. The Universal Student had to shut down for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. They're opening on.
Speaker 4: I think they might. They're opening on Friday.
Speaker 1: Maybe anyway, you better check if you're going to two
Speaker 1: eight musement Park. But it's also very you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of smoke around the world, so you really
Speaker 1: don't want to hang out in music a musement park
Speaker 1: all day long. Nikki, what what movies have you seen
Speaker 1: recently that you can recommend to us?
Speaker 6: Okay, so I recently saw I had seen this, I'd
Speaker 6: seen one for the first time, and one I've seen
Speaker 6: many times in my life.
Speaker 2: But we did Me and my roommates.
Speaker 6: A Missus Doubtfire and White Chicks double feature. I think
Speaker 6: that those movies actually make a great pairing.
Speaker 4: Where did you do that at home? Or you're like
Speaker 4: at the Alamo Theater or something?
Speaker 2: Oh, we did it at home. We just how many have.
Speaker 1: A great projector paint that you got a projection TV?
Speaker 4: Paint a picture for us? How many people? Guys? Girls?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Gotcha?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 2: My roommates are a couple that I went to Risdy with.
Speaker 6: They're both in the film industry, an animation industry, so
Speaker 6: it's they're kind of just doing their homework by hitting
Speaker 6: you know, three to six movies a night. So we
Speaker 6: started off with Missus Doubtfire. I gave it four stars.
Speaker 6: I mean, amazing film, but pretty tough to watch for
Speaker 6: children of divorce because that mom. Honestly, they didn't need
Speaker 6: to make her so evil. They did not need to
Speaker 6: make her so evil for that point to come across.
Speaker 6: But then White Chicks, I've seen that one many times
Speaker 6: as a kid, far too many times, I think. But
Speaker 6: if you know, if you want to go the special
Speaker 6: effects makeup is the bit film. This is kind of
Speaker 6: an unbeatable back to back. So that was a really
Speaker 6: lovely double feature that we did. Some other films that
Speaker 6: I've seen, Oh go ahead.
Speaker 1: Wait, So Missus Doubtfire is the movie where Robin Williams
Speaker 1: dresses up like a woman. That's right, and then what's
Speaker 1: the and then but it's not the one where Dustin
Speaker 1: Hoffman dresses is.
Speaker 4: Like a woman.
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 5: That's Tootsie.
Speaker 1: You know what, guess what. I haven't seen either of these.
Speaker 1: Really they're classics. You know, there's some movies you just
Speaker 1: haven't seen. They could be, you know, for some reason,
Speaker 1: I've never seen. It's a Wonderful life me either.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know I get a lot of hate
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get a lot of hate too. I haven't
Speaker 4: seen these movies.
Speaker 6: Like, my life's been pretty wonderful as it is. I'm
Speaker 6: you know, I don't think it's gonna be more wonderful.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to be accused of transphobia because I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of videos with the with
Speaker 1: some trans themes. But these two, I guess because these
Speaker 1: people are just not passable to me. I'm into passable
Speaker 1: trans movies.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Okay, keep going, Okay, here's one that I had not
Speaker 6: seen before, but I had read the book last year,
Speaker 6: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was. That was amazing.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm a big fan of Terry Gilliam, and
Speaker 6: I had recently shown one of my roommates Brazil for
Speaker 6: the first time, which is one of my favorite films
Speaker 6: of all time. So we hit Fear and Loathing and
Speaker 6: that was. It's funny because it is so true to
Speaker 6: the book, and also a million times better because the
Speaker 6: book just wasn't directed by Terry Gilliam.
Speaker 2: You know, what can you do?
Speaker 4: No, that's that movie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a stunning Oh my god. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 6: both are fantastic, but I love the film.
Speaker 1: Have you as your attorney, can I ask you have
Speaker 1: you seen any new movies or you're just you're just going.
Speaker 2: Through oh new movies.
Speaker 6: Yes, Actually, what I've well know s Faratu I was
Speaker 6: a big fan of. In my letterbox review, I do
Speaker 6: share that I think count Orlock was just a little
Speaker 6: too attractive for the horror to work.
Speaker 2: He kind of had more of like.
Speaker 6: A a ross boutine edginess than I think a vampire
Speaker 6: should if I'm supposed to be a bit afraid of them.
Speaker 6: So that's that's the only drawback I think. You see
Speaker 6: what other new movies I've seen. I've seen a lot
Speaker 6: of old movies lately. I mean I watched Possession for
Speaker 6: the first time.
Speaker 2: That was amazing. How do we find a big fan
Speaker 2: of that?
Speaker 4: How do we find your letterbox to count?
Speaker 6: My letterbox is cherry Funfetti, So cherry C H E
Speaker 6: R R I and then Funfetti like the cake flavor.
Speaker 6: And you can see all the amazing films that I log.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I'll give them reviews if I'm feeling funny or
Speaker 6: I have enough energy and I like didn't fall asleep
Speaker 6: during it. I'll usually I'll usually leave something to Simmarron.
Speaker 1: All Right, I am now following you amazing exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see, I'm seeing all right here. Adaptation.
Speaker 4: You like that one?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You did.
Speaker 2: It's a big fan of that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about some of the ones I've told you
Speaker 1: to watch as as a member of this radio program.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Have you seen Deliverance yet? Ah?
Speaker 6: The reason I haven't seen is because I forgot the
Speaker 6: name Deliverance. Deliverance, Okay, we'll watch it.
Speaker 2: This is nineteenth, nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I run that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, okay, I can do an old movie. I
Speaker 6: can trust an old movie. It's on the watch list,
Speaker 6: it's happening. I'll force of the roommates to watch it
Speaker 6: with me, now that I have a beautiful setup and
Speaker 6: I'm not alone on my laptop.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then Sam, you saw nothing?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I saw Paulo thirteen with my kid because he's really
Speaker 5: into American history and I wanted to show him something
Speaker 5: that's awesome.
Speaker 4: He's into American history. Well, that's great. He believes that
Speaker 4: moveling moon landing thing.
Speaker 5: It was great filmmaking.
Speaker 4: A great filmmaker.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm talking about Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 1: Is that the one where they are stuck in space
Speaker 1: and they have to put together stuff to get out. Hanks,
Speaker 1: I want to tell everybody make sure. So while we're
Speaker 1: talking about Tom Hanks, I want to tell everybody make sure.
Speaker 4: So while we're talking.
Speaker 1: About Tom Hanks, I want to tell everybody, make sure
Speaker 1: you get the app called Country A Go Go. It
Speaker 1: is a radio station that Tom Hanks owns and started
Speaker 1: of really obscure country B sides and just just stuff
Speaker 1: like it's the craziest record collection in the world. Country
Speaker 1: of Go Go and he started it, and he and
Speaker 1: has no commercials. I think you have to have the
Speaker 1: tune in app, which is a competitor of this station.
Speaker 1: So don't tell him. I recommended that part. But then
Speaker 1: he also Tom Hanks spends hours and hours and hours
Speaker 1: as a DJ on some other station called Station sixty six,
Speaker 1: just you know, for no reason, I'm making a penny
Speaker 1: doing this. So Tom Hanks for this year wins my
Speaker 1: award for America's the Greatest American and which was won
Speaker 1: by Mark Wahlberg for the last ten years in a row.
Speaker 1: And so now the new American hero is Tom Hanks.
Speaker 1: For these reasons.
Speaker 4: And I think we're downe yeah beautiful. All right, thank
Speaker 4: you guys for joining me. Uh you know, stick around.
Speaker 1: There's always more in this station and check out the
Speaker 1: podcast when that comes out. Joe Scalante live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I now leave you with just a taste of the
Speaker 1: greatest song ever written.