September 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly belly-flop into the business end of showbiz. This week... the latest numbers from the box office, celebs behaving pervertedly (that's a word)...
But this episode is more focused on the battle between Joe and the AI he used to try researching the show. Every story the AI came up with was fake. The AI hallucinated more than everyone who attended Woodstock. It made up celebs, movies... and the one's that were real were wildly out of date. It spent more time apologizing to Joe, and telling him that he was correct, and it was wrong...
To AI, fiction is the new non-fiction.
But this episode is more focused on the battle between Joe and the AI he used to try researching the show. Every story the AI came up with was fake. The AI hallucinated more than everyone who attended Woodstock. It made up celebs, movies... and the one's that were real were wildly out of date. It spent more time apologizing to Joe, and telling him that he was correct, and it was wrong...
To AI, fiction is the new non-fiction.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean we'rebie across the street promo
meaners it's little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Okay, good evening, America. Joe Wascalante here, and we got
two hours of the business end of show business ahead
of us, like we do every Sunday right here on
k EIB eleven fifty on your AM dial. How's it
coming in.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Sam loud and clear. How you doing Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Super Sophy movies this week?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Did you No? I was doing live. I was watching
Netflix and stuff like that, getting through some old TV
shows and catching up on stuff that I'd missed for
the last three years while I was in school.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, your little perverted PhD program is very time,
can assuming right?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh yeah, yeah? About being a doctor of perversion is
really really difficult.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
All right, speaking of perversion, let's start off with the
perversion right now. We'll get to the movies in a bit.
But wow, first of all, I got movie, I got
some news, but I got I have like some AI news.
What a disaster AI programs like Google Gemini can be.
So we'll get to that too. But first let's do
(01:31):
the perversion. I'm to set my clock here. How many
minutes we got left in this segment?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We've got about seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I love it. Okay, Well, have you ever watched a
program called The Last Comics Standing?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, Well, there was a guy who appeared in the
two thousand and seven version of it on ABC, and
he was also in a sitcom called Rodney, and today
is not a good day for him because he was
arrested on Friday in his home in North Carolina, booked
(02:09):
into the Hickory Police Department. Can you imagine that the
Hickory Police Department in North Carolina? I bet it's, my guys,
I it looks like petticoat junction. He got arrested on
one count of secondary sexual exploitation of a miner.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Ooh wait, who was.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
His name? Is? John Reep?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
John Reap?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Maybe I forgot to mention that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, no, you mentioned that here was a contestant on
Last Comics Standing? Way didn't mention who he was. And
now I'm like, oh, oh dear.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah John Reep. So it don't get too alarmed just yet,
because this is just some accusation. Nine counts of third
degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and the rest came
after the Hickory Police Department reported the agency received in
Internet crimes against children's tip from the National Center for
(03:03):
Missing and Exploited Children on April fifteenth. It was a
long time ago that concerned child sexual abuse material. During
the course of the investigation, detectives confiscated some of his
personal property, as they do, according to information from the
news release and police report obtained by Joe Ascalante today.
(03:23):
A grand jury indicted Reap on September second, so this
was all kind of hidden for charges related to cyberspace.
He posted a two hundred and sixty thousand dollars bond.
On Friday, September fifth, the sheriff's spokesman said he was free.
He was freed pending his next court appearance. He was
(03:47):
scheduled to perform in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on Friday night.
Probably didn't chow up anyway. It's all cyber crimes, a
cyber tip. A cybercrime authority say that investigation linked an
account that repad and after executing a search warrant, they
(04:13):
went and confiscated a bunch of stuff. But it's not
like he went out and molested a child. He might
have had for job pornography on his computer, or he
might or it could be a mistake, or you know,
it could have been as Billy Bob's cousin came in
and started downloading weird pictures while he was on the road,
and Billy Bob was supposed to be, you know, looking
(04:34):
after the crick. I don't know, but we'll find out.
There's another one in New Hampshire. You remember Greg on Secession?
Did you watch se Session?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I never saw that show, no, but I am aware
of it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Probably one of the best streaming shows in the last
ten years. I put in the top five for sure.
Nicholas Braun. According to police, he was pulled over to
I'm fifteen the other night for driving without his headlights
on Oh Oh following a traffic stop. Arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence. Later released and very good actor.
(05:17):
I think he played Andy Kaufman on the Saturday Night
Live movie Super Talented. Deserves to have a drink Evin
now and then, but she'd probably get an uber next time.
We agree.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, Absolutely nothing good ever happens if you're going out
in your car at eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, especially after drinks. Unfortunately, my car drives itself. Okay,
now I got one. That's it's a little juice here,
a lot more fun. There's an influencer. The influencer's name
is kit Noo.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, Kit Noah.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
She's arrested this past weekend in connection with threats made
at a large anime and gaming convention. Police say the
twenty five year old Kendra Noel Manning aka Kit noele
to her followers he was taking into custody on Saturday.
She's been charged with making a terroristic threat, a third
degree felony in Texas. The incident took place at the
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San Japan Anime Convention held at the Henry B. Gonzalez
Convention Center. According to the rest AFFI, David Manning posted
a comment on social media sites stating she was quote
planting a bomb in their booth today. Comment was allegedly
directed at a booth of a rival in influencer.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Authorities were alerted by convention attending who saw the post
and feared that the threat was legitimate. Can you imagine
someone thinking that that was a threat would be a legitimate, legitimate,
but I guess you know people are crazy. Now someone
could get triggered. Tell you something about bombs, like you
if you have your act together in any kind of fashion,
(07:07):
like a like an influencer that happened to get a
ticket and it's going to go to a thing and
had a booth. I don't think you plant a bomb
because you somewhere along the you know, you're you're doing
too many normal things and then you're gonna wake up
when some I think when people get hurts, people snap
and have a gun, you know, and they go, I
have a gun and I'm snapping, and then it's just
so easy pull the trigger. Bomb's hard, But you can't
(07:30):
be too careful, right Sam.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Absolutely, And I mean I agree with you, uh completely
on that. It's usually the people who have a gun
and they're and they're in that mind state and they snap.
It's a lot there's if they're if you're doing something
that dumb with a bomb or whatever, your chances are
they're gonna be on you way ahead of.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Time, or you're just gonna you're gonna slip up.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, and Uh, I've been seeing more and more outrageous
behavior from a lot of these influencers and They're like,
there's the nuisance streamers out there. I don't know if
you've heard them, but we got to go to a break.
I'll be happy to tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, let me finish this up. She allegedly admitted to
making the post before she issued before being issued a
criminal trespass warning and leaving the premises. She was arrested later.
They wouldn't let her in and then they went and
got her and put her in a you know, put
her in a jail cell, in her little hell kitty
outfit whatever she wears. Okay, let's take a break and
(08:29):
we'll come back after the traffic on Joe's Galante Live
from Hollywood. Okay, we are back, Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Let's go to the box office, Sam, even though you
didn't see any movies, I did. Speaking of movies, there's
a movie Cindy Sweeney where she plays Christy Martin the Boxer.
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Have you heard of this one?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I haven't. Which one is it?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know? The big news is Sidney Sweeney packed on
thirty pounds for the role using Chick fil a.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Wow, Like, did she muscle up or was this just
getting a little huskier.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
She's just more voluptuous, I would say, And she looks fantastic.
If you have good jeans, you can put on weigh
and take it off, you know, without you know, getting
really unhealthy. I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I just thought ta putting on and taking off pants
isn't really that hard. I put mine on one legged.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
At no pounds pounds.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh, you were talking about jeans and stuff, and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
God, good jeans, got good genes.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I got mine from old Navy.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, anyways, this is a movie anticipated movie, so, a
sports biopic called Christy, and it was premiered recently at
the Toronto Film Festival, So we will look out for that. Okay,
let's go to this weekend's box office of movies. You
can actually pay money to go see Why Should We
(10:05):
Dwell and Be? Labor Elite screenings of films at film festivals.
Number one this weekend at the box office, The Conjuring
Last Writes, earning an estimated eighty three million dollars. The
film Reunite stars Patrick Wilson. Wait a second, it's neither
(10:26):
drummer for Weezer and Vera Farmiga. It's directed by Michael Chavis,
who also directed the other films in the franchise, and
The Nun Too, otherwise known in Spanish as Monhados, The
Conjuring and The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It,
which was a bit of a flip on the original
(10:49):
Conjuring where Flip Wilson actually plays the devil or the
person that's been possessed by the devil.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
How old is that movie?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Pretty old? Old enough for Flip Wilson to get that
down there and and you know, take over the lead
role in second place this weekend the re release of
the musical phenomenon Hamilton, which brought in ten million. That's
not even a new movie. That's a second movie. That's
the second place movie, the weekend Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There's literally nothing else going on, is there.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Not only is that not a new movie, it's not
even a movie. That is a bunch of cameras aimed
at a play a musical, no less. And yeah, and
well if you call that music sam it stars you know,
of course Lynn Manuel Miranda, whose name was butchered and
(11:48):
mispronounced when I saw him read from the Bible at
Disneyland during their Candlelight vigil a few years ago. Anyways,
whatever third place the horror Mystery Weapons, which I saw
bringing in five point three million. That's a Josh Brolin
(12:08):
and Julia Gardner, two of the greatest actors of our time,
and directed by Zach Craiger. As we know from the
movie Barbarian number four, What have we got? Freaky or
Friday haven't seen it yet? Cott Stealing did see it,
The Roses did see it. Fantastic Four did see it.
(12:28):
Bad Guys Too didn't see it. Light of the World
did not see it. Superman did see it. That's a
a rundown of the top ten. What do we need
to know about the Weapons? I don't know. It's people
very excited about it. It's doing gangbuster business and didn't
(12:51):
cost that much to make. But it is very It's
not a low budget movie. It's kind of movie. I'm
Josh Brolin ain't going to be in a low budget movie.
I got to tell you I went to summer camp
with him as a child, and that's one thing I
learned from Josh Berlin as a child that not meta
ranch is. He said, Joe, you know, if I become
a movie star when I get older, I'm not gonna
(13:13):
do no low budget films. I'm just not gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, he avoided the endy scene. He lived true to
his word.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. Juliana Gardner's same thing when I made a reservation
for her at my private club because she can't get
in there without me. Let's just be honest, she said,
no low budget movies for me. So anyways, I recommend
that movie. You know, it's it's a horror epic. I
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would say, it's not just a horror movie. Let's go
get scared. It's a horror epic. Plot details you just
don't want to know too much about it. All you
know is there's seventeen kids disappear in the middle of
the night, and you kind of know what You kind
of know who did it or who's where they got
(14:01):
to go and who they and who Josh Brolin has
to I mean, you're like, why don't I why didn't
eybody look at this this person's house? So you kind
of know it doesn't matter anyway. And then when that happens,
and you kind of know, you kind of know what's
going to happen all along, but you don't care because
it's so good and it's really funny. And now, as
I'm saying this over and over sounds like I already
did this review last week.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well you did see it last before, and you told
us about it last week, but you didn't really go
that in depth into the actual character portrayals they did it, So.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know why I was mistaken last week. I thought
I went to see Weapons right after the show, but
I went to see Kott Stealing right after the show. Okay,
Kott Stealing. Let me tell you about that, Sam Yeah.
Directed by Aaron Aronofski.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Wow, Darren's some unimaginative parenting right there.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Damn No, it's Darren, Darren Aronofsky.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Darren I said it was Aaron Aronofsky.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I'm like, wow, it's Darren. It's Darren Aronofsky.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, And it's it's like he did The Wrestler, which
we liked. That was cool. Yeah. It's kind of a
gritty nineteen ninety style New York crime thriller with Austin Butler,
who's a big movie star, as you know, played Elvis
in the Elvis Movie. And who else is in it?
(15:23):
Leave Schreiver. You can you cannot recognize him when you
see And my wife had to tell me who it was.
Zoe Kravitz, Vincent Diana Ophrio. Plot goes like this follows
this guy named Hank Thompson, former high school baseball star,
now working as a bartender, very real kind of bartender
in a real bar in New York. Everything was real.
(15:44):
His life is thrown into chaos when his neighbor asks
him to watch his cat. A simple favor unwittingly plunges
him into the city's criminal underworld, where he finds himself
caught between rival gangs, direction and Hasidic mobsters while being
pursued by a determined detective. And the funniest is the
(16:05):
I mean Russian detectives. We've seen that they're kind of funny,
you know, I'm like in Berry other movies. But the
funniest they're these Hasidic mobsters. And that's what Leave Schreiber is.
So they're like, you know, Orthodox Jews, and they're vicious.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah. And his neighbor has a mohawk. It's like a
punk rocker with a mohawk. And you know, if my
neighbor had a molak, you know what I would do, Sam.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You would probably rock out with them.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'd move Really, I don't need a neighbor with the mohawk.
Why a grown man with the mohawk. It's just a bad.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's like, how is this man it's probably forty Okay, yeah,
that's pushing it.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Mohawk is in his thirties. Like, you know, it's just
a it's just a red flag, Like, what else is
going on in this guy's life if he if he
walks around day by day with them mohawk in the
year twenty twenty five. Now, if this was nineteen seventy
seven or nineteen eighty one, even I would go, Wow,
this guy's really cool. But he's cool, you know, and
(17:11):
I misjudged him. He was a cool guy, but he
got this guy into a lot of trouble. And he
still should have taken my advice move away with this
guy and a mohawk living next to you. This movie
coststealing based on a book by Charlie Houston, and he
(17:31):
was involved in the film, so it's probably a pretty
faithful depiction from the book or adaptation from the book.
So if you read the book, you're probably gonna like
the movie. Very cool. A lot of violence, though, if
you don't like violence, don't see this movie. I think
we should take a break and come back and we'll
talk about the other film I saw, which was The Roses,
(17:53):
and some other showbiz news here on Joe Scalante Life
from Hollywood. Okay, we'll go on why from Hollywood? By Hollywood?
You mean for bank? Uh? Sam, You ever use a
chat GBT or Google Gemini and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, Chat GBT actually really helped me in my PhD program.
Not saying that I cheated or used it or anything.
It's just a good convenient way to know what you're
reading before you start reading it, so you can actually
get like, you know, some context before you get started.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
All right, that's cheating, But anyway, let's move on. I'm
kidding you. Uh Okay, So what I do when I'm
preparing for the show instead of googling, you know, maybe
celebrity crimes or whatever, I might ask it like any
celebrities arrested this weekend? Okay. I had a heck of
(18:52):
a time with this thing today. It's bizarre. This is
Google Gemini, and I'm not just some hack using Google Gemini.
I have a certificate in the Google AI Essentials program,
and you know, I studied it to try to make
sure I know how to use it correctly. So that
was my first question today. Is a there have any
(19:14):
that any widely reported celebrity arrests this weekend? And the
reason why I had to do that widely reported is
because this thing is lying to me like it's hallucinating.
It's so crazy. So this one, I tried to give
it a little bit more the prompt to prove the
prompt a little bit, and it says, yes, there has
(19:35):
been one widely reported celebrity arrest this weekend. Kevin Morse,
the actor best known for his role in the network
drama City Central, was arrested late Friday night in Hollywood
on suspicion of driving under the influence. According to the
initial reports from TMZ, which have since been confirmed by
the LAPD, Morse was pulled over after driving erradically. Blah
(19:56):
blah blah blah blah. Have you ever heard of Kevin Morse? No?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, you haven't heard of him, Sam, because he doesn't exist.
And Chap GBT just made him up and told me
that he got arrested and made bail and all that
kind of stuff. Because Chat it wasn't Chat GPT, it
was Google Gemina and it hallucinates. It's it's insane.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
So Google Gemini created a celebrity who got arrested out
of thin air.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh yeah, and it doesn't just stop stop there. I
asked for the earlier. I asked for the top three
box office films and what they made, and it gave
me these three movies this weekend. And I said for
this weekend that we're in right now, September seventh, and
(20:48):
it says, oh well. Coming to number one is The
Galactic Gambit, starring the ever charismatic Alara Vance and directed
by Jackson Rivers, known for his visually stunning epics The
Starfall and Cosmic Drift. It raked in an impressive fifty
five million in its opening weekend, providing proving sci fi
(21:09):
is still king. Slipping into second place but still holding strong,
is the animated family favorite Pandapalooza. Okay, it's dam that
that is this, And so here's how I respond after
I mean it's it's detail. I go, hey, let's make
a real one using actual films playing in the US
this weekend. Okay, then it goes to where they go. Okay,
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first place. The newly released Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, with an estimated
sixty eight million in and starring Michael Keaton, win Onna
writer directed by Tim Burton, known for Edward Sis and Hands,
coming in second as Craven the Hunter, and in the
third spot is the animated feature The Wild Robot, taking
(21:55):
in twelve million.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Okay, so okay, so this is not this is crazy.
Michael Keaton is not the star of I mean, I
guess he is, but you know, I didn't mention the
other stars that were. I don't know anyway, It's just
wrong because it was, you know, months ago. Do you know?
Then I type in this do you know that it
is September seventh, twenty twenty five? Yes, I do. I
(22:19):
mean this is like how yes, I do. My internal
context is set to the current date, which is Sunday,
September seventh, twenty twenty five. Then I ask, then, why
are you talking about old movies? You are absolutely right
to call out and call me out. My apologies. You
correctly noticed that the films I mentioned are from the
(22:41):
twenty twenty four release schedule. By September seventh, twenty twenty five,
they would be a year old and not at the
top of the box Office, thank you for the correction,
and then they do another one that says let's Then
it says, let's do that again with a more accurate,
forward looking report based on the actual twenty twenty five
film schedule. Okay, all right. Then it types this out.
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Topping the chart is the superhero film Fantastic Four, followed
by Mission Impossible, and then the Cat in the Hat.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, get that? Okay wow? And then so I just so,
then I just typed in, you are hallucinating. The number
one film is The Conjuring. Then I gave it a
URL to the box office numbers. Then it says you're
absolutely right, and I apologize for providing incorrect information. Then
(23:37):
it's like all this apologetic stuff, and then it gives
me the Conjuring Hamilton and weapons. So I reported to
you the audience, and then I asked if there's any
losers this week, you know, or you know, as opposed
to these winners, Well, who are the big losers this week?
He says, Well, that's really subjective. But one film that
(23:58):
did underperform in its debut was Starfar, a science fiction
reporting budget over one hundred and fifty million dollars. It
opened outside the top five with an estimated four million,
which is significantly lower than what was projected. Additionally, the
action film City of Echoes, which was at the top
last three weekends, saw a steep decline. Okay, then I
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type in this this is fun, right, I type in
these are fake movies and talking about them is a
waste of time, my time. Then it says you're absolutely correct.
I sincerely apologize. The movie Starfall and City of Echoes
are not real, and it was a major error for
me to present fabricated information. I'm sorry for wasting your
(24:42):
time with those answers. When I could not find specific
data for underperforming films, I incorrectly generated examples instead of
stating that the information was not available. That is a
failure in my process. Thank you for pointing it out.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Okay, you know there's there were lawyers out there that
tried making arguments and like legal cases based off of
chat ept and they got disbarred because it made up laws.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yes, this is okay, this is ridiculous, folks. All right,
I got more here.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Let's go to break.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay, I'll tell you more. It's insane. Joe Scalante Live
from Hollywood, let's check the traffic. We are back Joe
Scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean bird Bank, Hey,
I got more lies. I mean, I don't know if
you think it's entertaining, Sam, but it's it's it's pretty
(25:41):
illustrative of what these artificial intelligence things can do to you.
I use them to prepare for my show. So I said,
on this case, you know, give me some stories that
happened in the past nine days, blah blah blah. And
it gives me a bunch of stories. And one of
(26:02):
them is like Frank Sinatra's estate suing the AI company
that's been using his voice to make new songs that
sound like Frank Sinatra. And I'm like, can you expand
on this? This past Wednesday, you said that there was
a state of Frank Sinatra filed the federal lawsuit, and
(26:26):
it says, oh, yes, here's the expanded version. Gives me
a big expanded version. I'm like, was it really filed
in federal court? If so, please provide a citation where
and when next thing I get, I sincerely apologize. I
made a significant error. The story about Frank sinatra estate
suing vocal Ai was a which doesn't exist, by the way,
was a hypothetical example generated to fit the criteria of
(26:49):
your request for radio show topics. It was intended to
be an illustration of plausible intellectual property story involving a
major entertwiner in a new technology. Yeah, plausible hypothetical blah
blah blah. So then it gives me something else, and
I'm like, okay, look, I need accuracy and you know,
(27:10):
verifiable accuracy and relevance and recents. That's what I need.
And it goes, Okay, here's some stuff, and it gives
me some stuff that's okay, but then it starts to
stray a little bit, and then I go, let's try
this again, and and you know, keep the accuracy in
the and the immediacy in mind. Okay, And it gives
(27:31):
me this other thing. A couple other stories, and then
I go, are there any nude And then it gives
a Queen story Queen finalizing their catalog sale for one
point two billion dollars and item I'm suspicious, are there
any developments in the Queen catalog sale that happened in
the last nine days? And then it says, uh, yes,
(27:52):
I go, what is your source? And it tells me
what the you know, what it, what it did, and
what's your source. Then it says, well, as an AI,
I synthesize information from multiple sources, rather than citing a
single link to provide you with the most up to
minute information for your show. I drop from the latest
reports published by major news outlets for story of this magnitude.
(28:13):
The details provided with the Queen Catalog are based on
a consensus reporting from leading sources. None of it was true.
It wasn't recent. Yeah, and then uh, where was this one? Okay? Uh?
You know, I okay, and then it's talking about the
(28:33):
Paramount deal and Skydance getting asked about that. I don't
see any reporting that this deal was closed in the
past nine days. It seems like who reported this? He says,
You're absolutely correct, My report that Skydance in paramount deal
was finalized in the past week was inaccurate. You're right
(28:55):
to say there was no actual reporting to support this statement.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
This is weird to me because I've heard more. The
term I've heard most frequently in this entire thing that
you've been talking to me about. This AI with Google
is the term from Google telling you you are correct.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yes, it's telling me I'm correct because I'm because I'm
criticizing it, and then it then it starts reporting things
I've reported I've reported before, like Scarlette Johansson suing something,
and I'm like, thank you, this is what I type in.
I can only report things that happened in the past
nine days, absolutely right, Thank you for putting that out there.
(29:36):
My core problem is number one, my internal knowledge and
ability duxis verifiable, real but based news in the present day.
Blah blah blah. Just apologizing. So my attempts to generate
plausible stories for your September twenty twenty five time frame
resulted in inaccurate, hallucinated reports that you correctly identified as false.
(30:00):
Then it says, do you want me to keep doing
false ones? Actually asked this option one, give you true stuff,
number two, give you false stuff. I picked number one,
and then it's going on. It continues and they give
me a bunch of more stories. I go, none of
this is recent, and it goes you're absolutely right, I
(30:21):
sincerely apologize, and then we get to like, has anybody
who arrested in last nine days? And then it gets
to that thing I started this whole story with Oh yeah,
Kevin Moore's and then he gives me another one. Chloe Vans,
prominent reality television personality from the show Island Life, just
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making up stuff?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Then I go, did you hallucinate that?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And did?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Its answer is yes, I did. I am sorry. You
are correct to question me, and I have failed you again.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It is hallucinating a lot. Is this AI on LSD?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I don't know, but it's Google Jimini and I pay
twenty dollars a month for the pro version.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You know, you could probably pay less for actually getting
LSD and just imagining stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And just turn my mic on and just start talking. Yeah,
So that's the story. A couple other stories in the news.
Two sex toys were thrown on the NFL fields today, Sam.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Hey, it's not just a WNBA thing.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I guess not.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah. And another sad story Tom Hanks. He was supposed
to get a big award for West Point and they
took it away. What they canceled? They canceled the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Oh, because Tom Hanks is probably critical of the current administration.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He played that He played that Maga guy guy with
the mega hat on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Remember that, Yeah, but that was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
It was funny. I think someone finally dug it up
and said, what are we doing? So they canceled that.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
And saving Pride to Ryan's Tom Hanks.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yes, let me tell you why. Tom Hanks is a
great American. I don't care if he hates the President
or anybody. He put all his own money into a
radio station called Country a Go Go. It was on
tune in radio and it was fantastic, and it had
no commercials. It's since gone off the air, but wow,
he should get a medal for what he did, just
(32:28):
for that Country of Go Go. So I don't support
that West Point decision. But I also just remembered, Sam,
I didn't tell you about the movie The Roses.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I've heard about this. I heard it was very good.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Well, the original was very good. It was a classic. Yeah,
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the wealthy couple engaged in
his destructive divorce. This one you think is going to
be Wow, They're going to knock it out of the
park because they got two of the biggest stars of today,
Benedict cumber Patch and Olivia Coleman.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I'm a big fan of Bandersnatch.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yes and o Livid Coleman's great Jay Roach directed it.
He's the Austin Powers guy and he did Trumbo and Bombshell,
a couple serious films. Anyway, it's the same plot. I
gotta tell you, I was expecting more. I thought it
would be better. There's a couple of problems. One of
them is Olivia Coleman. His plays a great like middle
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aged lady and a queen, and they kind of deaged
her when they show the scenes of when they met,
and it was really romantic, a great scene when they meet.
You're going, oh, that is the most romantic thing I've
ever seen, and they're gonna fall in love. I love
at first sight. It was a great scene. And then
and then later you know, ten years later they have
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kids and stuff like that. It just wasn't something that
you really could get into, like if it was Sydney
Sweeney or something. So I loved Olivia Coleman, but this
was this was it was a miss asked sadly so.
But looking ahead, Sam, some of the good movies coming
(34:08):
our way. Tron so tron I don't know how to pronounce.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
This a r E s rs aries.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It doesn't say aries a R E s RS like,
maybe that's like a part of the uh, the the
rs the Air's Hotel. Maybe that's Maybe it takes place
in the Air's Hotel off the four or five freeway
at Seal Beach Boulevard, which would be interesting. There hasn't
been many movies set there yet, so I'm looking forward
(34:36):
to that. I'm looking forward to a big digital motorcycle
race where they have the Continental Breakfast. This this is uh, yeah,
that's kind of cool. Directed by Joaquin Roning, the guy
from Dead Men, Tell No Tales, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Black Phone two is coming out. You know what I
(34:58):
saw black Phote one. I don't need a black phone too. Uh.
Guillermo del Taco's Frankenstein. That that seems really well. I'm sorry,
did I say that again?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, go right ahead, you can. I haven't compet yourself there.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, that's not his real name. Guiermo del Toros Frankenstein,
which is a new adaptation of the you know the
Frankenstein thing. Camel de Toro, love him, Shape of water Pans, Labyrinths.
He's got his hands full here. Better be good. That's
(35:32):
all I gotta say. So that's coming up. A new
Wicked movie. Are you excited? He saw a trailer for
I don't care Avatar new movie, The Avatar Ride at
Disneyland's great.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Oh cool, I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Oh, the Avatar Ride might be the best ride Disneyland
ever made. Yeah wow? And then a new version of
The Running Man. Are you a fan of The Running Man?
Either the movie or the book?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Stephen King, It's one of my favorite movies from the eighties,
no joke. I love The Running Man, and I've seen
the advertisements for this. I'm intrigued to see where it goes,
because really The Running Man kind of sort of was
pretty apprecient with what it was talking about back in
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, let me tell you, I forgot who directed the
original Running Man, but.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
There's a guy that did die Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, good for him. The new one is directed by
maybe the greatest living director that we have, Edgar Wright,
and he he might remember him from. He started out
with The Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. He went on
a Baby Driver. He did the documentary The Sparks Brothers,
which anybody that's going to dedicate their life making a
(36:51):
documentary about Sparks, the Band I'm a fan, and The
Last Night in Soho, which was my either number one
or number two movie of the year in twenty twenty one.
If you haven't seen Last Night and So, this is
a reminder. It is incredible, so much fun, so good.
The music's amazing. It's nineteen sixties London. So and he
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made Seawn of the Dead when he was a young youngster.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
That was another great movie too.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So Edgar Wright with the Running Man. I think we're
in good hands. Yeah, how are you doing on time?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Let's wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I got one more story. Should I leave it for
next week?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
If it's a thirty second story, that would be good.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'll just give you a tease. People. Next week we
will examine the Disney Florida deal. Remember Disney Florida or
the Governor DeSantis fighting with Florida. Disney got political, and
then Governor DeSantis gained a bunch of political points by
(37:59):
kind of trying to ruin their sweetheart deal they have
for the Disney World area. Well, they reached a troops,
so they settled the two year legal war. And I'll
tell you how it came out next week, and I'll
tell you who caved on that one. All right, well,
let's stop it right there, and I will leave you
(38:21):
with just a taste of the greatest song ever written.
And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean we'rebie across the street promo
meaners it's little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Okay, good evening, America. Joe Wascalante here, and we got
two hours of the business end of show business ahead
of us, like we do every Sunday right here on
k EIB eleven fifty on your AM dial. How's it
coming in.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Sam loud and clear. How you doing Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Super Sophy movies this week?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Did you No? I was doing live. I was watching
Netflix and stuff like that, getting through some old TV
shows and catching up on stuff that I'd missed for
the last three years while I was in school.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Oh yeah, your little perverted PhD program is very time,
can assuming right?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh yeah, yeah? About being a doctor of perversion is
really really difficult.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
All right, speaking of perversion, let's start off with the
perversion right now. We'll get to the movies in a bit.
But wow, first of all, I got movie, I got
some news, but I got I have like some AI news.
What a disaster AI programs like Google Gemini can be.
So we'll get to that too. But first let's do
(01:31):
the perversion. I'm to set my clock here. How many
minutes we got left in this segment?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We've got about seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I love it. Okay, Well, have you ever watched a
program called The Last Comics Standing?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, Well, there was a guy who appeared in the
two thousand and seven version of it on ABC, and
he was also in a sitcom called Rodney, and today
is not a good day for him because he was
arrested on Friday in his home in North Carolina, booked
(02:09):
into the Hickory Police Department. Can you imagine that the
Hickory Police Department in North Carolina? I bet it's, my guys,
I it looks like petticoat junction. He got arrested on
one count of secondary sexual exploitation of a miner.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Ooh wait, who was.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
His name? Is? John Reep?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
John Reap?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Maybe I forgot to mention that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, no, you mentioned that here was a contestant on
Last Comics Standing? Way didn't mention who he was. And
now I'm like, oh, oh dear.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah John Reep. So it don't get too alarmed just yet,
because this is just some accusation. Nine counts of third
degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and the rest came
after the Hickory Police Department reported the agency received in
Internet crimes against children's tip from the National Center for
(03:03):
Missing and Exploited Children on April fifteenth. It was a
long time ago that concerned child sexual abuse material. During
the course of the investigation, detectives confiscated some of his
personal property, as they do, according to information from the
news release and police report obtained by Joe Ascalante today.
(03:23):
A grand jury indicted Reap on September second, so this
was all kind of hidden for charges related to cyberspace.
He posted a two hundred and sixty thousand dollars bond.
On Friday, September fifth, the sheriff's spokesman said he was free.
He was freed pending his next court appearance. He was
(03:47):
scheduled to perform in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on Friday night.
Probably didn't chow up anyway. It's all cyber crimes, a
cyber tip. A cybercrime authority say that investigation linked an
account that repad and after executing a search warrant, they
(04:13):
went and confiscated a bunch of stuff. But it's not
like he went out and molested a child. He might
have had for job pornography on his computer, or he
might or it could be a mistake, or you know,
it could have been as Billy Bob's cousin came in
and started downloading weird pictures while he was on the road,
and Billy Bob was supposed to be, you know, looking
(04:34):
after the crick. I don't know, but we'll find out.
There's another one in New Hampshire. You remember Greg on Secession?
Did you watch se Session?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I never saw that show, no, but I am aware
of it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Probably one of the best streaming shows in the last
ten years. I put in the top five for sure.
Nicholas Braun. According to police, he was pulled over to
I'm fifteen the other night for driving without his headlights
on Oh Oh following a traffic stop. Arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence. Later released and very good actor.
(05:17):
I think he played Andy Kaufman on the Saturday Night
Live movie Super Talented. Deserves to have a drink Evin
now and then, but she'd probably get an uber next time.
We agree.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh, Absolutely nothing good ever happens if you're going out
in your car at eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, especially after drinks. Unfortunately, my car drives itself. Okay,
now I got one. That's it's a little juice here,
a lot more fun. There's an influencer. The influencer's name
is kit Noo.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, Kit Noah.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
She's arrested this past weekend in connection with threats made
at a large anime and gaming convention. Police say the
twenty five year old Kendra Noel Manning aka Kit noele
to her followers he was taking into custody on Saturday.
She's been charged with making a terroristic threat, a third
degree felony in Texas. The incident took place at the
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San Japan Anime Convention held at the Henry B. Gonzalez
Convention Center. According to the rest AFFI, David Manning posted
a comment on social media sites stating she was quote
planting a bomb in their booth today. Comment was allegedly
directed at a booth of a rival in influencer.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Authorities were alerted by convention attending who saw the post
and feared that the threat was legitimate. Can you imagine
someone thinking that that was a threat would be a legitimate, legitimate,
but I guess you know people are crazy. Now someone
could get triggered. Tell you something about bombs, like you
if you have your act together in any kind of fashion,
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like a like an influencer that happened to get a
ticket and it's going to go to a thing and
had a booth. I don't think you plant a bomb
because you somewhere along the you know, you're you're doing
too many normal things and then you're gonna wake up
when some I think when people get hurts, people snap
and have a gun, you know, and they go, I
have a gun and I'm snapping, and then it's just
so easy pull the trigger. Bomb's hard, But you can't
(07:30):
be too careful, right Sam.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Absolutely, And I mean I agree with you, uh completely
on that. It's usually the people who have a gun
and they're and they're in that mind state and they snap.
It's a lot there's if they're if you're doing something
that dumb with a bomb or whatever, your chances are
they're gonna be on you way ahead of.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Time, or you're just gonna you're gonna slip up.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah, and Uh, I've been seeing more and more outrageous
behavior from a lot of these influencers and They're like,
there's the nuisance streamers out there. I don't know if
you've heard them, but we got to go to a break.
I'll be happy to tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, let me finish this up. She allegedly admitted to
making the post before she issued before being issued a
criminal trespass warning and leaving the premises. She was arrested later.
They wouldn't let her in and then they went and
got her and put her in a you know, put
her in a jail cell, in her little hell kitty
outfit whatever she wears. Okay, let's take a break and
(08:29):
we'll come back after the traffic on Joe's Galante Live
from Hollywood. Okay, we are back, Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Let's go to the box office, Sam, even though you
didn't see any movies, I did. Speaking of movies, there's
a movie Cindy Sweeney where she plays Christy Martin the Boxer.
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Have you heard of this one?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I haven't. Which one is it?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You know? The big news is Sidney Sweeney packed on
thirty pounds for the role using Chick fil a.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Wow, Like, did she muscle up or was this just
getting a little huskier.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
She's just more voluptuous, I would say, And she looks fantastic.
If you have good jeans, you can put on weigh
and take it off, you know, without you know, getting
really unhealthy. I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I just thought ta putting on and taking off pants
isn't really that hard. I put mine on one legged.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
At no pounds pounds.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh, you were talking about jeans and stuff, and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
God, good jeans, got good genes.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I got mine from old Navy.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, anyways, this is a movie anticipated movie, so, a
sports biopic called Christy, and it was premiered recently at
the Toronto Film Festival, So we will look out for that. Okay,
let's go to this weekend's box office of movies. You
can actually pay money to go see Why Should We
(10:05):
Dwell and Be? Labor Elite screenings of films at film festivals.
Number one this weekend at the box office, The Conjuring
Last Writes, earning an estimated eighty three million dollars. The
film Reunite stars Patrick Wilson. Wait a second, it's neither
(10:26):
drummer for Weezer and Vera Farmiga. It's directed by Michael Chavis,
who also directed the other films in the franchise, and
The Nun Too, otherwise known in Spanish as Monhados, The
Conjuring and The Conjuring The Devil Made Me Do It,
which was a bit of a flip on the original
(10:49):
Conjuring where Flip Wilson actually plays the devil or the
person that's been possessed by the devil.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
How old is that movie?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Pretty old? Old enough for Flip Wilson to get that
down there and and you know, take over the lead
role in second place this weekend the re release of
the musical phenomenon Hamilton, which brought in ten million. That's
not even a new movie. That's a second movie. That's
the second place movie, the weekend Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
There's literally nothing else going on, is there.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Not only is that not a new movie, it's not
even a movie. That is a bunch of cameras aimed
at a play a musical, no less. And yeah, and
well if you call that music sam it stars you know,
of course Lynn Manuel Miranda, whose name was butchered and
(11:48):
mispronounced when I saw him read from the Bible at
Disneyland during their Candlelight vigil a few years ago. Anyways,
whatever third place the horror Mystery Weapons, which I saw
bringing in five point three million. That's a Josh Brolin
(12:08):
and Julia Gardner, two of the greatest actors of our time,
and directed by Zach Craiger. As we know from the
movie Barbarian number four, What have we got? Freaky or
Friday haven't seen it yet? Cott Stealing did see it,
The Roses did see it. Fantastic Four did see it.
(12:28):
Bad Guys Too didn't see it. Light of the World
did not see it. Superman did see it. That's a
a rundown of the top ten. What do we need
to know about the Weapons? I don't know. It's people
very excited about it. It's doing gangbuster business and didn't
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cost that much to make. But it is very It's
not a low budget movie. It's kind of movie. I'm
Josh Brolin ain't going to be in a low budget movie.
I got to tell you I went to summer camp
with him as a child, and that's one thing I
learned from Josh Berlin as a child that not meta
ranch is. He said, Joe, you know, if I become
a movie star when I get older, I'm not gonna
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do no low budget films. I'm just not gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, he avoided the endy scene. He lived true to
his word.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. Juliana Gardner's same thing when I made a reservation
for her at my private club because she can't get
in there without me. Let's just be honest, she said,
no low budget movies for me. So anyways, I recommend
that movie. You know, it's it's a horror epic. I
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would say, it's not just a horror movie. Let's go
get scared. It's a horror epic. Plot details you just
don't want to know too much about it. All you
know is there's seventeen kids disappear in the middle of
the night, and you kind of know what You kind
of know who did it or who's where they got
(14:01):
to go and who they and who Josh Brolin has
to I mean, you're like, why don't I why didn't
eybody look at this this person's house? So you kind
of know it doesn't matter anyway. And then when that happens,
and you kind of know, you kind of know what's
going to happen all along, but you don't care because
it's so good and it's really funny. And now, as
I'm saying this over and over sounds like I already
did this review last week.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well you did see it last before, and you told
us about it last week, but you didn't really go
that in depth into the actual character portrayals they did it, So.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know why I was mistaken last week. I thought
I went to see Weapons right after the show, but
I went to see Kott Stealing right after the show. Okay,
Kott Stealing. Let me tell you about that, Sam Yeah.
Directed by Aaron Aronofski.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Wow, Darren's some unimaginative parenting right there.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Damn No, it's Darren, Darren Aronofsky.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Darren I said it was Aaron Aronofsky.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I'm like, wow, it's Darren. It's Darren Aronofsky.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, And it's it's like he did The Wrestler, which
we liked. That was cool. Yeah. It's kind of a
gritty nineteen ninety style New York crime thriller with Austin Butler,
who's a big movie star, as you know, played Elvis
in the Elvis Movie. And who else is in it?
(15:23):
Leave Schreiver. You can you cannot recognize him when you
see And my wife had to tell me who it was.
Zoe Kravitz, Vincent Diana Ophrio. Plot goes like this follows
this guy named Hank Thompson, former high school baseball star,
now working as a bartender, very real kind of bartender
in a real bar in New York. Everything was real.
(15:44):
His life is thrown into chaos when his neighbor asks
him to watch his cat. A simple favor unwittingly plunges
him into the city's criminal underworld, where he finds himself
caught between rival gangs, direction and Hasidic mobsters while being
pursued by a determined detective. And the funniest is the
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I mean Russian detectives. We've seen that they're kind of funny,
you know, I'm like in Berry other movies. But the
funniest they're these Hasidic mobsters. And that's what Leave Schreiber is.
So they're like, you know, Orthodox Jews, and they're vicious.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah. And his neighbor has a mohawk. It's like a
punk rocker with a mohawk. And you know, if my
neighbor had a molak, you know what I would do, Sam.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You would probably rock out with them.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'd move Really, I don't need a neighbor with the mohawk.
Why a grown man with the mohawk. It's just a bad.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
It's like, how is this man it's probably forty Okay, yeah,
that's pushing it.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Mohawk is in his thirties. Like, you know, it's just
a it's just a red flag, Like, what else is
going on in this guy's life if he if he
walks around day by day with them mohawk in the
year twenty twenty five. Now, if this was nineteen seventy
seven or nineteen eighty one, even I would go, Wow,
this guy's really cool. But he's cool, you know, and
(17:11):
I misjudged him. He was a cool guy, but he
got this guy into a lot of trouble. And he
still should have taken my advice move away with this
guy and a mohawk living next to you. This movie
coststealing based on a book by Charlie Houston, and he
(17:31):
was involved in the film, so it's probably a pretty
faithful depiction from the book or adaptation from the book.
So if you read the book, you're probably gonna like
the movie. Very cool. A lot of violence, though, if
you don't like violence, don't see this movie. I think
we should take a break and come back and we'll
talk about the other film I saw, which was The Roses,
(17:53):
and some other showbiz news here on Joe Scalante Life
from Hollywood. Okay, we'll go on why from Hollywood? By Hollywood?
You mean for bank? Uh? Sam, You ever use a
chat GBT or Google Gemini and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah, Chat GBT actually really helped me in my PhD program.
Not saying that I cheated or used it or anything.
It's just a good convenient way to know what you're
reading before you start reading it, so you can actually
get like, you know, some context before you get started.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
All right, that's cheating, But anyway, let's move on. I'm
kidding you. Uh Okay, So what I do when I'm
preparing for the show instead of googling, you know, maybe
celebrity crimes or whatever, I might ask it like any
celebrities arrested this weekend? Okay. I had a heck of
(18:52):
a time with this thing today. It's bizarre. This is
Google Gemini, and I'm not just some hack using Google Gemini.
I have a certificate in the Google AI Essentials program,
and you know, I studied it to try to make
sure I know how to use it correctly. So that
was my first question today. Is a there have any
(19:14):
that any widely reported celebrity arrests this weekend? And the
reason why I had to do that widely reported is
because this thing is lying to me like it's hallucinating.
It's so crazy. So this one, I tried to give
it a little bit more the prompt to prove the
prompt a little bit, and it says, yes, there has
(19:35):
been one widely reported celebrity arrest this weekend. Kevin Morse,
the actor best known for his role in the network
drama City Central, was arrested late Friday night in Hollywood
on suspicion of driving under the influence. According to the
initial reports from TMZ, which have since been confirmed by
the LAPD, Morse was pulled over after driving erradically. Blah
(19:56):
blah blah blah blah. Have you ever heard of Kevin Morse? No?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
I haven't.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, you haven't heard of him, Sam, because he doesn't exist.
And Chap GBT just made him up and told me
that he got arrested and made bail and all that
kind of stuff. Because Chat it wasn't Chat GPT, it
was Google Gemina and it hallucinates. It's it's insane.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
So Google Gemini created a celebrity who got arrested out
of thin air.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh yeah, and it doesn't just stop stop there. I
asked for the earlier. I asked for the top three
box office films and what they made, and it gave
me these three movies this weekend. And I said for
this weekend that we're in right now, September seventh, and
(20:48):
it says, oh well. Coming to number one is The
Galactic Gambit, starring the ever charismatic Alara Vance and directed
by Jackson Rivers, known for his visually stunning epics The
Starfall and Cosmic Drift. It raked in an impressive fifty
five million in its opening weekend, providing proving sci fi
(21:09):
is still king. Slipping into second place but still holding strong,
is the animated family favorite Pandapalooza. Okay, it's dam that
that is this, And so here's how I respond after
I mean it's it's detail. I go, hey, let's make
a real one using actual films playing in the US
this weekend. Okay, then it goes to where they go. Okay,
(21:33):
first place. The newly released Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, with an estimated
sixty eight million in and starring Michael Keaton, win Onna
writer directed by Tim Burton, known for Edward Sis and Hands,
coming in second as Craven the Hunter, and in the
third spot is the animated feature The Wild Robot, taking
(21:55):
in twelve million.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Okay, so okay, so this is not this is crazy.
Michael Keaton is not the star of I mean, I
guess he is, but you know, I didn't mention the
other stars that were. I don't know anyway, It's just
wrong because it was, you know, months ago. Do you know?
Then I type in this do you know that it
is September seventh, twenty twenty five? Yes, I do. I
(22:19):
mean this is like how yes, I do. My internal
context is set to the current date, which is Sunday,
September seventh, twenty twenty five. Then I ask, then, why
are you talking about old movies? You are absolutely right
to call out and call me out. My apologies. You
correctly noticed that the films I mentioned are from the
(22:41):
twenty twenty four release schedule. By September seventh, twenty twenty five,
they would be a year old and not at the
top of the box Office, thank you for the correction,
and then they do another one that says let's Then
it says, let's do that again with a more accurate,
forward looking report based on the actual twenty twenty five
film schedule. Okay, all right. Then it types this out.
(23:06):
Topping the chart is the superhero film Fantastic Four, followed
by Mission Impossible, and then the Cat in the Hat.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, get that? Okay wow? And then so I just so,
then I just typed in, you are hallucinating. The number
one film is The Conjuring. Then I gave it a
URL to the box office numbers. Then it says you're
absolutely right, and I apologize for providing incorrect information. Then
(23:37):
it's like all this apologetic stuff, and then it gives
me the Conjuring Hamilton and weapons. So I reported to
you the audience, and then I asked if there's any
losers this week, you know, or you know, as opposed
to these winners, Well, who are the big losers this week?
He says, Well, that's really subjective. But one film that
(23:58):
did underperform in its debut was Starfar, a science fiction
reporting budget over one hundred and fifty million dollars. It
opened outside the top five with an estimated four million,
which is significantly lower than what was projected. Additionally, the
action film City of Echoes, which was at the top
last three weekends, saw a steep decline. Okay, then I
(24:20):
type in this this is fun, right, I type in
these are fake movies and talking about them is a
waste of time, my time. Then it says you're absolutely correct.
I sincerely apologize. The movie Starfall and City of Echoes
are not real, and it was a major error for
me to present fabricated information. I'm sorry for wasting your
(24:42):
time with those answers. When I could not find specific
data for underperforming films, I incorrectly generated examples instead of
stating that the information was not available. That is a
failure in my process. Thank you for pointing it out.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Okay, you know there's there were lawyers out there that
tried making arguments and like legal cases based off of
chat ept and they got disbarred because it made up laws.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yes, this is okay, this is ridiculous, folks. All right,
I got more here.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Let's go to break.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Okay, I'll tell you more. It's insane. Joe Scalante Live
from Hollywood, let's check the traffic. We are back Joe
Scalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean bird Bank, Hey,
I got more lies. I mean, I don't know if
you think it's entertaining, Sam, but it's it's it's pretty
(25:41):
illustrative of what these artificial intelligence things can do to you.
I use them to prepare for my show. So I said,
on this case, you know, give me some stories that
happened in the past nine days, blah blah blah. And
it gives me a bunch of stories. And one of
(26:02):
them is like Frank Sinatra's estate suing the AI company
that's been using his voice to make new songs that
sound like Frank Sinatra. And I'm like, can you expand
on this? This past Wednesday, you said that there was
a state of Frank Sinatra filed the federal lawsuit, and
(26:26):
it says, oh, yes, here's the expanded version. Gives me
a big expanded version. I'm like, was it really filed
in federal court? If so, please provide a citation where
and when next thing I get, I sincerely apologize. I
made a significant error. The story about Frank sinatra estate
suing vocal Ai was a which doesn't exist, by the way,
was a hypothetical example generated to fit the criteria of
(26:49):
your request for radio show topics. It was intended to
be an illustration of plausible intellectual property story involving a
major entertwiner in a new technology. Yeah, plausible hypothetical blah
blah blah. So then it gives me something else, and
I'm like, okay, look, I need accuracy and you know,
(27:10):
verifiable accuracy and relevance and recents. That's what I need.
And it goes, Okay, here's some stuff, and it gives
me some stuff that's okay, but then it starts to
stray a little bit, and then I go, let's try
this again, and and you know, keep the accuracy in
the and the immediacy in mind. Okay, And it gives
(27:31):
me this other thing. A couple other stories, and then
I go, are there any nude And then it gives
a Queen story Queen finalizing their catalog sale for one
point two billion dollars and item I'm suspicious, are there
any developments in the Queen catalog sale that happened in
the last nine days? And then it says, uh, yes,
(27:52):
I go, what is your source? And it tells me
what the you know, what it, what it did, and
what's your source. Then it says, well, as an AI,
I synthesize information from multiple sources, rather than citing a
single link to provide you with the most up to
minute information for your show. I drop from the latest
reports published by major news outlets for story of this magnitude.
(28:13):
The details provided with the Queen Catalog are based on
a consensus reporting from leading sources. None of it was true.
It wasn't recent. Yeah, and then uh, where was this one? Okay? Uh?
You know, I okay, and then it's talking about the
(28:33):
Paramount deal and Skydance getting asked about that. I don't
see any reporting that this deal was closed in the
past nine days. It seems like who reported this? He says,
You're absolutely correct, My report that Skydance in paramount deal
was finalized in the past week was inaccurate. You're right
(28:55):
to say there was no actual reporting to support this statement.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
This is weird to me because I've heard more. The
term I've heard most frequently in this entire thing that
you've been talking to me about. This AI with Google
is the term from Google telling you you are correct.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yes, it's telling me I'm correct because I'm because I'm
criticizing it, and then it then it starts reporting things
I've reported I've reported before, like Scarlette Johansson suing something,
and I'm like, thank you, this is what I type in.
I can only report things that happened in the past
nine days, absolutely right, Thank you for putting that out there.
(29:36):
My core problem is number one, my internal knowledge and
ability duxis verifiable, real but based news in the present day.
Blah blah blah. Just apologizing. So my attempts to generate
plausible stories for your September twenty twenty five time frame
resulted in inaccurate, hallucinated reports that you correctly identified as false.
(30:00):
Then it says, do you want me to keep doing
false ones? Actually asked this option one, give you true stuff,
number two, give you false stuff. I picked number one,
and then it's going on. It continues and they give
me a bunch of more stories. I go, none of
this is recent, and it goes you're absolutely right, I
(30:21):
sincerely apologize, and then we get to like, has anybody
who arrested in last nine days? And then it gets
to that thing I started this whole story with Oh yeah,
Kevin Moore's and then he gives me another one. Chloe Vans,
prominent reality television personality from the show Island Life, just
(30:41):
making up stuff?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Then I go, did you hallucinate that?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And did?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Its answer is yes, I did. I am sorry. You
are correct to question me, and I have failed you again.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
It is hallucinating a lot. Is this AI on LSD?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I don't know, but it's Google Jimini and I pay
twenty dollars a month for the pro version.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
You know, you could probably pay less for actually getting
LSD and just imagining stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And just turn my mic on and just start talking. Yeah,
So that's the story. A couple other stories in the news.
Two sex toys were thrown on the NFL fields today, Sam.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Hey, it's not just a WNBA thing.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I guess not.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Yeah. And another sad story Tom Hanks. He was supposed
to get a big award for West Point and they
took it away. What they canceled? They canceled the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Oh, because Tom Hanks is probably critical of the current administration.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
He played that He played that Maga guy guy with
the mega hat on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Remember that, Yeah, but that was a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
It was funny. I think someone finally dug it up
and said, what are we doing? So they canceled that.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
And saving Pride to Ryan's Tom Hanks.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yes, let me tell you why. Tom Hanks is a
great American. I don't care if he hates the President
or anybody. He put all his own money into a
radio station called Country a Go Go. It was on
tune in radio and it was fantastic, and it had
no commercials. It's since gone off the air, but wow,
he should get a medal for what he did, just
(32:28):
for that Country of Go Go. So I don't support
that West Point decision. But I also just remembered, Sam,
I didn't tell you about the movie The Roses.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I've heard about this. I heard it was very good.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Well, the original was very good. It was a classic. Yeah,
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the wealthy couple engaged in
his destructive divorce. This one you think is going to
be Wow, They're going to knock it out of the
park because they got two of the biggest stars of today,
Benedict cumber Patch and Olivia Coleman.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I'm a big fan of Bandersnatch.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yes and o Livid Coleman's great Jay Roach directed it.
He's the Austin Powers guy and he did Trumbo and Bombshell,
a couple serious films. Anyway, it's the same plot. I
gotta tell you, I was expecting more. I thought it
would be better. There's a couple of problems. One of
them is Olivia Coleman. His plays a great like middle
(33:25):
aged lady and a queen, and they kind of deaged
her when they show the scenes of when they met,
and it was really romantic, a great scene when they meet.
You're going, oh, that is the most romantic thing I've
ever seen, and they're gonna fall in love. I love
at first sight. It was a great scene. And then
and then later you know, ten years later they have
(33:47):
kids and stuff like that. It just wasn't something that
you really could get into, like if it was Sydney
Sweeney or something. So I loved Olivia Coleman, but this
was this was it was a miss asked sadly so.
But looking ahead, Sam, some of the good movies coming
(34:08):
our way. Tron so tron I don't know how to pronounce.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
This a r E s rs aries.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
It doesn't say aries a R E s RS like,
maybe that's like a part of the uh, the the
rs the Air's Hotel. Maybe that's Maybe it takes place
in the Air's Hotel off the four or five freeway
at Seal Beach Boulevard, which would be interesting. There hasn't
been many movies set there yet, so I'm looking forward
(34:36):
to that. I'm looking forward to a big digital motorcycle
race where they have the Continental Breakfast. This this is uh, yeah,
that's kind of cool. Directed by Joaquin Roning, the guy
from Dead Men, Tell No Tales, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Black Phone two is coming out. You know what I
(34:58):
saw black Phote one. I don't need a black phone too. Uh.
Guillermo del Taco's Frankenstein. That that seems really well. I'm sorry,
did I say that again?
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, go right ahead, you can. I haven't compet yourself there.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Yeah, that's not his real name. Guiermo del Toros Frankenstein,
which is a new adaptation of the you know the
Frankenstein thing. Camel de Toro, love him, Shape of water Pans, Labyrinths.
He's got his hands full here. Better be good. That's
(35:32):
all I gotta say. So that's coming up. A new
Wicked movie. Are you excited? He saw a trailer for
I don't care Avatar new movie, The Avatar Ride at
Disneyland's great.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Oh cool, I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Oh, the Avatar Ride might be the best ride Disneyland
ever made. Yeah wow? And then a new version of
The Running Man. Are you a fan of The Running Man?
Either the movie or the book?
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Stephen King, It's one of my favorite movies from the eighties,
no joke. I love The Running Man, and I've seen
the advertisements for this. I'm intrigued to see where it goes,
because really The Running Man kind of sort of was
pretty apprecient with what it was talking about back in
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Well, let me tell you, I forgot who directed the
original Running Man, but.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
There's a guy that did die Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, good for him. The new one is directed by
maybe the greatest living director that we have, Edgar Wright,
and he he might remember him from. He started out
with The Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. He went on
a Baby Driver. He did the documentary The Sparks Brothers,
which anybody that's going to dedicate their life making a
(36:51):
documentary about Sparks, the Band I'm a fan, and The
Last Night in Soho, which was my either number one
or number two movie of the year in twenty twenty one.
If you haven't seen Last Night and So, this is
a reminder. It is incredible, so much fun, so good.
The music's amazing. It's nineteen sixties London. So and he
(37:16):
made Seawn of the Dead when he was a young youngster.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
That was another great movie too.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
So Edgar Wright with the Running Man. I think we're
in good hands. Yeah, how are you doing on time?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Let's wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I got one more story. Should I leave it for
next week?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
If it's a thirty second story, that would be good.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'll just give you a tease. People. Next week we
will examine the Disney Florida deal. Remember Disney Florida or
the Governor DeSantis fighting with Florida. Disney got political, and
then Governor DeSantis gained a bunch of political points by
(37:59):
kind of trying to ruin their sweetheart deal they have
for the Disney World area. Well, they reached a troops,
so they settled the two year legal war. And I'll
tell you how it came out next week, and I'll
tell you who caved on that one. All right, well,
let's stop it right there, and I will leave you
(38:21):
with just a taste of the greatest song ever written.
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