January 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: saluting our first responders during the tragic fires that are currently burning throughout Los Angeles. Joe talks about the impact the fires have had on the business end of Hollywood. It's hard to ask an actor to work on a project when their house just burned down. Also, Joe and producer Nikki explore and critique each others' Letterboxd film reviews. Nikki may be the only person who does not love Timothee SportChalet... I think I'm spelling that right...
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank,
across the street from a Wiener Snitzl that serves beer.
And I'm joined today by not only producer engineer Sam,
but producer Nikki.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, good to be back.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
What's up best?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Hey? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So during the NFL season, it's just too hard to
make shows fit all our schedules, so it gets always
gets weird. But the season is winding down and just
a couple of weeks left the playoffs and then the
Super Bowl of Football takes place, so we should be
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live like we are tonight a few times at least,
and then we'll be back in a regular schedule. So
for those of you new to the program, this is
two hours of the business end of show business, and
we do it every Sunday on KiB eleven fifty on
your AM dial. This is good old fashion AM radio.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
That's why you're cool for listening to it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Let's, of course, there's a lot of fires going on
right now, and that's why I didn't drive into the
studio today, so I didn't want to get there. And
I think the less people that drive into Los Angeles
right now, the better are you guys, Okay, and your properties?
All right, Let's start with you, Sam. You live on
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top of a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah. No, so far, so good.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It's pretty safe where I'm at. I actually have people
who are evacuating coming to my place, so hopefully fans
stay that way because I would really really like to
avoid having the same issues that everyone else is having
here in La.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
How about you, Nikki, Yeah, it's been pretty wild. I mean,
I'm in Highland parks, so it's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But I mean, yeah, the air has been pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
But I have I have some funny stories to tell
you about something that's not as funny. My dad lives
in Alta Dina and is very very close to the
Eton fire, and it luckily only got a little bit
of our property, Like it wasn't so bad, but he
refused to evacuate, so he was playing rogue cowboy firefighter,
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putting out fires.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
For the last and stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I guess, I mean, I guess it's good enough. But
I can tell you, guys a little story he told me.
I was calling him the other day and of course
freaking out because this is a crazy time and you
never know what's going to happen. And he's telling me
about all the losses in the neighborhood and and what's
going on. And then you know, I'm just you know,
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I'm freaking out. And he's like, oh, but do you
He's polish, I'm gonna do the accent. He's like, do
you want to hear the good news? And I'm like, oh, God, Like,
what's the good news after all that? You know? I
was like, yeah, I guess I do. And then he's like, okay.
So I was on the roof watering the roof and
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around the house, and then I went to the backyard.
We have like a tiered backyard that he made, like
there's kind of some some landscaping and agriculture he did there.
But he's like okay, And I water the first level.
It is good. I water the second level, it is good.
And then I go to the last level. And then
I realized a little too late that I have to pee,
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and before I hit the grads ipee a little bit.
I'm like, that's that's the good news. That was.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The good news that he can pete. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I was like, I mean I think he meant like
I want to hear a funny story.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I was like, looking for the good news.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
The goods that he has steady prostate function exactly.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
I'm like, well, it's good that like you mostly didn't mess.
I agree, you know, it's been a hard week for everyone,
and if this is the way you need to phrase that,
like you peed a little bit, like I'll it's lot.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, did he put out the fire with it?
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
I was like, Okay, the better news would be like
if there was a hot ember and you saw an opportunity,
you know, But I think it's this is gonna be
one of those stories where it's like the fish gets
bigger every single time he retells it, and I bet
he'll invent an ember somewhere along his oral history of
this moment.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Well, that's really fortunate. Good news Dad's in and didn't
get burned.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, I mean, like only part of the backyard. We're
really lucky it's been out of the.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
House though, like as like taking it somewhere else or you.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Just well, I mean the good thing is that, like
it's the neighborhood, it's not going to come back that
way because it already it burned through everything that it
could burn.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So it's like he feels fine.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well on the.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Legal front, as we know that in on YouTube you
can pretty much use anybody's song and do whatever you
want with it. And then when YouTube first started that
would be an infringement. And now they got they just
kind of pay the artists when they don't pay you.
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They pay the artists when you use their song. So
and that, you know, for the most part, that's pretty cool.
I like it when they use vandal songs and it
makes our streaming income get bigger, and I see what
people are doing and they're clever with them or whatever.
And you know, same with TikTok. It can be really
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good for a band. But Chuck d from Public Enemy
is now alarmed and telling his fans stop using the
song burn Hollywood Burn in wildfire videos, and he's trying
to say that the track originally was a critique of
racial stereotypes in Hollywood films. It has been repurposed online
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content showing destruction of film studios and sets by wildfires.
Chuck Die has emphasized that the song's message is being
misrepresented and its use in his context is both inappropriate
and insensitive to those affected by the fires. You're just
content creators to respect the original intent of the music
and to refrain from exploiting it for sensationalism. So what
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can he do anything about it? Is my question for
you guys.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I feel like probably not, because sadly, it's like he's
basically making a call to action, like, hey, everyone on
the internet, can you please behave appropriately?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's a tough that's a high.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, that's true, and then it's just too hard to
We talk about this a lot. You know, they have
blanket licenses that just cover all music. You can't really
go in there and say, hey, I don't want them
to do this. You could probably remove your song from
all usage, but then you wouldn't make any money from
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the appropriate usages. So knowing wouldever that do that, he's
doing the right thing. He's talking to the fans don't
do this, and then that's about all he can do.
And he's not suing anybody.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
He's just saying, don't do this. So that's that's about
all he can do. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Bad Religion has a song called Los Angeles is Burning.
I think about it every time I see the fires,
but I don't look around YouTube to see if anybody's
using it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But there are people that do that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
When I was on the radio in the morning in
the morning's, I had a newslady that would every time
there was a incident that involved race, she would search
or just whatever she could always search on the internet
for like racial hate, to see if she could find
any white supremacist that had a bad take on something.
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And I was just like, why do you do that?
Just leave it in the gutter and go on with
your life. But so I haven't looked around and see
if anyone's using that bad religion song. But it's pretty bad.
When people ask me what's going on with my properties,
I'm like, nothing with mine. But you know, it's hard.
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So many people are screwed. You can't do business right
now in a normal Hollywood way because whoever you're talking to,
you call them and say, I just check in to
see if you have read this or you're going to
send me that they are, you know, they lost their
house quite possibly, and a lot of houses have been lost.
People are going through it, and then people are calling
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me and going, hey, can you help me. I'm trying
to I was working with someone whose house was lost,
and now I gotta get this thing done.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Can you help, and.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's hard to I was I was gonna try to
raise some money for a project, an artistic project, restoration
of something here in Seal Beach, and now I just
don't feel right doing it. Get it all teed up,
but raising money for a restoration of a historical thing
doesn't It just doesn't seem that tasteful. When the fires,
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you know, people are raising money and we gotta take
care of these people. But we got to take a
break here and we'll come back. We'll talk more about this.
I got more stories related to the fire and other
Hollywood stuff. It's Joe Ascolante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascolante
Live from Hollywood. Hey, uh, you know, maybe wait, let's
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before we go back to the fires. I would like
to let's check the box office, because it was for
the rest of the country. He is a normal week
and show business world number one at the box office.
Let me know if you saw it. Den of Thieves
two Pantera, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I don't know why Pantera the word Pantera gets used.
But if I was in the band Pantera, I would like,
what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Why? Why are you talking about me?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But have any of you seen sending of these Pantera
movies or these Den of Thieves movies?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
No, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Gerard Butler, yeah, I don't think they're really good.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
One for me, probably not for any of us, but
they're doing very, very well. He did fifteen million this
weekend at the box office. It's not staggering, but it
was good enough to put him as number one and
move Fassa that is still killing it number two Sonic
the Hedgehog.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Are either of you two going to go see Sonic
the Hedgehog?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yes, I am, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
If you are.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I amn't seen it yet, not recommend one of you
saw in a Saratu.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I bet I did do sam uh that would be
a nose Speratu.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
No ooh ooh, all right, yeah, I saw, yes Speratu.
I saw it on the twenty sixth. It was amazing.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I mean from a movie perspective, I think I gave
it like four and a half stars on letterboxed.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I thought that the story itself was like fine.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
It doesn't beat out Bram Stoker's Dracula for me personally. However,
the candlelit shots were enough to give this film whatever accolades.
It wanted because they were just stunning and Lily Rose
Depp's performance was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, I wanted to see it, but then I was
trying to catch it at an Imax or a Cinemak
XD and I couldn't and the showings were at weird time.
So I haven't seen it yet. But let me see.
I told this story before. Our drummer Josh Freese, his kid,
he took him to see it on Christmas Day actually
in Palm Springs, and he said when the credits rolled up,
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I mean, he said, it was just gnarly like the movies,
like it's dark, right, yeah. Yeah, So the credits roll
up and he gets it's very quiet, and I don't
know if you remember this moment in the in the experience,
but and then he just yells out. His son yells out,
Merry Christmas. Everybody the whole theater erupted in laughter.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
That's touching.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay, so number five Malana two, Now we're down to
the movies I've seen. Mahana two is freaking huge, but
you know, and the animation is amazing. It's really a
fun experience, especially if you watch it in the vibrating seats.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Like I did.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And but the story is kind of like cares. The
writing's like who cares? It's not the top of what
Disney or Pixar can do. A complete unknown number six.
I saw it pretty good. Timothy shot me is uh
just incredible, credible. This guy needs to go to Coachella.
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Uh take it on the road. It's so good. Uh
and then you know don but you know, what's his name?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
A Bob Dylan. He was never that good looking. We
know that. And it's that uh that lady who's co star.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So Dakota Fanning right.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, the I'm like, I'm having a I'm getting old
and sorry I forget everybody's name.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But she was she was not ever that good looking.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So Joan Baiaz, oh gotcha, John bas So these are
two like like, you know, imagine a world where Bob
Dylan and Joan Bias were stunning.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
That's you know what, Hey, I'll sign up for that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So that's it makes the movie, you know, pretty good.
And but Shallomaye's worth it for shallow may I think
I've kind of mentioned that before.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
They did a good job of acting like they were
not so good looking.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
They you know, what that's that's not easy and they
did it.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You're right, I will actually know what.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I would see that movie just to watch a more
humble Timothy Shalla may. I think that would actually be
the premier part of my viewing experience.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's some humility.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Do you have some problems with Timothy Timothy's sports chalet, Yeah,
Timothy sports shall at exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
He didn't. You didn't like him? And Willie Wanka you weren't.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I you know what, I couldn't even I couldn't bear
to look at it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I couldn't bear to look at it because I love
some cringe and I.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I have to say, I think Timothy's a great actor.
I think he's very talented.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I couldn't bear to look at at it, and I
think that has spared his reputation in my eyes, because
I refuse to watch that film. I think I saw
some of the promo shots, maybe the trailer, and I
was just thinking, like, Oh, he doesn't want to be
here is the feeling that I got, which is not
the vibe that you want from the lead.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Go watch the original Willy Wonka.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I mean, I'm a big fan of the original.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Person that's personally he doesn't want to be the reader.
He's he's he looks all the time like his thoughts
are being you know, he's placing his thoughts elsewhere and
he's just going through it for the kids. This guy
to do it. So maybe there's a little bit. Maybe
he was acting very well when he was doing that.
But I saw Willy Wonka in Shallow May's version.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was great. I mean, the original is the best.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'd say Willy Wonka challow May is second best, and
then the Tim Burton one.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Really that's my that's my ranking me.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
I'll you know what, I'll watch it next time I
am buy a little too heavily.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'll turn that on and see if I can give
it a bonus star.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
They're good, So that good songs in that movie.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, Number seven is Wicked, which uh I was at
dinner the other day. I kind of remember if I
told the story and then like, oh did you see Wicked?
You know, and there's like maybe six people and two waiters,
three waiters around that I know, and not one of
them saw Wicked. And I was the only gay in
the village at that time, Like, are you telling me
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I'm the only one in this room that saw Wicked,
and they're like looking at me like you saw Wicked.
I just just talk about something else. But Nikki, you
missed my take on that, which is did you see it?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
First of all, I have not seen it yet. You've
seen the media realm of it.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Sam, have you seen it?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, sir, I'm still the only gay in the village,
all right, it Well, it doesn't make any sense to
tell you guys that, but I'll just tell you when
you watch it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Look at it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
The chorus dancers, they're all ugly, okay. Number eight is
a baby girl, and they do it on purpose, Nicky.
They're like purposely trying to challenge you with ugly people
in the course.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
How you care challenge.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Beautiful people? You don't have a right to beautiful Oh,
I get it. The chorus people should be beautiful performers
all put together. How about some weird looking people that
aren't that good looking?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Take me back, Take me back to old Hollywood where
I can't even be looked at in public.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So I miss it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
So number eight is baby girl.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Number nine is The Brutalist, which I haven't seen yet,
but I have seen a couple of movies.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let's uh, maybe we should take a break, and when
we'll come back, we'll go over my letterbox and Nicky
can make her comments on it, because she has some
weird comments on my letterbox reviews. And that's why I
put all That's why I put all the movies that
I see, and then we can we can continue from there.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
How does that, Sam, Sam, I'm.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Good with that.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Let's do it. This is a good plan almost. I'm
really excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Don't mock Me's.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Goante live from Hollywood by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. All right,
let's go over to the letterbox page and talk about
the movies that we saw this week and in weeks past,
because I pretty soon I'm gonna have to put together
my uh celebrated top ten list, and it's very easy
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when you have a letterbox account. This is the best
thing about a letterboxed account because if you at the
end of the year, you just look and see which
ones did you give five stars too? And I'm just
just a cursory glance over here. I had a lot
of five stars from movies that had already been seen,
and I see that I've got kneecap and uh the
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wild Robot. They they're they're popping out at me. But Nora,
I gave a four. I gave a four and a
half stars. Yes, I don't know. Yeah, you know what, Yeah,
because Sean Baker is one of my favorite directors, so
he's just gonna get uh you get five stars if
it wasn't for the the the morally offensive content. But uh,
(19:18):
all right, so I saw I've talked about a Nora
and everything on this list, but I did. I just
mentioned briefly Amelia Perez. Either of you seen this.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Not yet, but I've heard some reviews and I've I've
heard some or I've read some interviews with Angelina Jolite.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right, she's the lead in that. Yeah, oh wait, no,
that's not right? Is that that's not a different one? Sorry? Different?
This is the one with Selena Gomes.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yes, Selena Gomes's okay, I've.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Heard, okay, also a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, Amelia Perez, you know it's another one of these
movies where it's just I.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Dare you.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Not to think that this is totally stupid, in a
waste of your time. I dare you, because if you
admit that, you're not going to be cool in Hollywood.
So anyways, it's like it is stupid, but whatever, it's
free on Netflix, so go ahead and watch it.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Then conclave.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Luckily it's free because I'm not giving them any money
if they're their blasphemous portrayal of what goes on in
the room while they pick a pope. You just already
know if a movie has released by a major studio
and it's about a pope, you know it's going to
be anti Catholic and it's going to make Catholics seem
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they're dumb for buying into everything.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So I already know that.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So I watched a little bit of it just to
see how long it would take before they got really lame,
and it took about ten minutes. But very well acted,
and it's beautiful to see all the stuff in the
Vatican City. But it's it's it's typical, and it's shot
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too dark. Did any guys have any problems with these
movies that are too dark?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I personally like my movie is pretty dark.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I mean, I'm also a laptop of viewer sometimes, but
I have upgraded my setup to projector in my living
room courtesy of my roommates so we're not you know,
we're not doing too.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Bad with the dark. I kind of like the look. See.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I mean sometimes I like.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
The dark in certain movies. The only one only place
I don't think it fits is in action films, and
I've been seeing it way too much in action films
because you lose a lot of the action when you
can't see it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Well, that Pope movie, there's a lot of action.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
H sounds like it, a lot of fisticuffs and post
in that. In Conclave, I.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Would say, uh, I haven't finished yet, so it probably
is coming.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
But yeah, it's like a well made movie.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And I guess it's going to be up for some
Oscars because number one, it's well made, it has really
good acting, and it's the narrative, Hollywood's narrative of trivialized religion.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Are congratulations, Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Now watch all those religious movies that make so much
money and you can't figure out how to do it.
But don't ask me because I won't tell you. Let's
go to my list. Nora, you see you Noura Nikki,
you must have.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yep, I have that one. That one's pretty funny.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I like your review. Let's see here you did. That
was what four and a half stars. Also, I too,
am a big fan of Sean Baker. He frequently showcases
one of my favorite comedian actresses, Ivy Wolke, And she's
a supporting role in this movie. And I'll basically watch
anything with that girl in it.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Which she what does she play?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
She's like one of the other blonde I think she's
also a stripper blonde one.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Like always saying some crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Oh yeah, she was cool, she's.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
She is hysterical.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
I brought I think like seven friends to one of
her stand up shows. She was like opening for a comedian,
and I brought like seven friends just so I could
go see her open and then we left for the headliner.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But she's like she's a rising star for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Okay. And her name is Ivy Woke. So I'm punt
and a letterbox. You get to you get to uh
you know, ah go down rabbit holes and stuff. Okay,
I see her. Well, yeah, the one with the eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Oh my god. Yeah, she's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
All right, So Ivy Woke look out for her. And
and Noora was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's about a Russian hooker. My review, well, just yeah, well,
I just read my review and just says, Sean Baker
makes amazing movies. This one was about a cash me
outside style Russian hooker who tries to hold together permanent
relationship with the son of an oligarch. Wow, it's serious,
Then it's funny, but it's still pretty serious. Okay, Well,
(24:07):
I stand by that it nominated for Best Comedy and
Musical in the Golden Globes. The other one I saw
was a complete unknown, and Timothy Chalome is worth the
price of admission, so I recommend it. However, I'm not
sure switching to electric guitar is enough of a plot
point to carry a movie, but I guess it was
(24:27):
a real scandal at the time. Dylan's songs are great
once once then you realize this guy is telling you
that there's something wrong with you, and I can only
take that once. I feel other folks songs. I like
other folk songs like Puff the Magic Dragon or One
Tin Soldier. I have to read my own typos here,
so One Tin Soldiers still provide a valuable lesson, but
(24:49):
I don't feel lectured. Yeah, I'm just saying these, these
these folk songs are masterpieces, but I don't want to
listen to them more than once.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Oh on here.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think that's fair. I think that's very fair.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I really liked your I liked the back and forth
between your reviews of We Live in Time and The Substance,
because you gave both three and a half stars. But
for We Live in Time, I think you said something.
I'll read it for you. This was a fine film,
but I would have rather had someone tell me about
it than actually have to watch it, see Joe. Frankly,
when I have an experience like this, I give it
a half star and then I make up a lie
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about what happens. I think my review for Barbie is
one half star, and my review is that the dog
dies doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
But you knows why would leave.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I realize it's a good movie, and I want to
congratulate all involved in making a good movie. We Live
in Time and Florence Pugh is the best thing in movies,
so I'm not going to I still enjoyed watching her,
but yeah, I would have rather if someone told me
about it, and then I could just watch her interviews
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of her on YouTube percent.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
If I really needed to see something.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So I don't know, it's a how about the substance
You can read the substance one.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Yes, your Substance review, I think, approaches it from the
perspective that it's a documentary, that it's evidently a true story.
Mainly hits a rough patch, so she makes deal with
the Double to battle Satan, and of course no one
can win in that scenario. All these people need to
find the Lord. I also appreciate that you include exactly
where you were at the time of filming, because I
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feel like if you have any fans who are also
into astrology, they can kind of map the stars for
that point in time to see if there was any
sort of cosmic influence on your review.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And then take you up on an argument on Twitter
or something.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I always put the name of the theater and the
and the time, and then sometimes just to be a weirdo,
I'll put the actual theater number in the.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Oh I think I noticed, I think, Yeah, you had
like AMC theater number twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, and complete of known as a Honey Can Beach
a Cinemak Belitaria seven fifty showing Auditorium twenty and then well,
most of this letterbox stuff is for me to remember
the movies that I saw because I did it. I'm
very bad at remembering movies. Like I see a movie
and then you could ask me if I saw it,
and I would tell you no, and then you would
(27:21):
convince me that I saw it and show me the
ticket stuff it fell out of my pocket and I
would go.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Oh yeah, I don't remember what it was about, though, So.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now I'm the exact same way.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I think I've drank too much diet coke in my
life and the ass the team has finally gotten to
my memory. So I need the letter box like that.
That's sort of making it's part of my brain at
this point.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I also have something called the day one journaling app,
and it is basically Instagram for yourself, and you put
all your pictures in and everything you did, and then
you keep your journal and it's in your It's right
there in one spot, but it's only for you.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
No one else can see it.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's say actually, and then if I die, my.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Wife can look at it and go like hey, and
you can run print on it and then just hand
it out at the funeral too.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Okay, how are we doing on time on this segment.
Let's just take a break Okay, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And I got more fire related stories in the Hollywood
community after this.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, Joe as Golante.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Joe'scalante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. We're gonna get to Nikki's
movies because she's so connected and young. She gets to
see more movies than us and she doesn't have to
work her ass off like I do, and I hope
you don't. And then Sam is like a PhD and
a couple of kids. So just before we get to
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that stuff, a little bit of stuff about the fires.
Two people got arrested at Kamala Harris's house, but they
couldn't really catch them in the act. They weren't red handed,
so they had to let him go, but they pretty
sure they were about to loot her house. But they
target celebrities, and there is a long article I'm not
going to go over in CNN about how they're still
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targeting athletes and they figure out when their games are
and these are international crime syndicates because the athletes are
posting things like check out my Rolex, oh w here's
my wife with their.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Air mez bag. All that stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And then there is an interesting thing about so anyways,
looters are are are a big problem, and you know,
targeted crimes for celebrities are a big problem in Los Angeles,
and so many celebrities lost their homes, and these international
crimings are still around and they're like, oh the fires,
like in Hollywood, you know, business is not good right
(30:12):
now because of the fires. But if you're an international
crime Sygnique syndicate, you pivot, you go, hey, let's go
to where people have been evacuated and let's steal all
their stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
So that's definitely going on.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And then the syndicates are the only functioning union in
LA at the moment.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, right now. Yeah. And then I don't know if
you heard this.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Ricky Lake was on a TV show a couple of
weeks ago and the guy predicted she was going to
lose everything in a fire or suggested something like that
was about to happen to her, and she lost her
house in the fire, lost everything. So that's on Ricky
Lake's Instagram page. It's pretty shocking. And then Disneyland is
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still open. The Universal Student had to shut down for
a couple of days. They're opening on.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I think they might. They're opening on Friday.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Maybe anyway, you better check if you're going to two
eight musement Park. But it's also very you know, there's
a lot of smoke around the world, so you really
don't want to hang out in music a musement park
all day long. Nikki, what what movies have you seen
recently that you can recommend to us?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Okay, so I recently saw I had seen this, I'd
seen one for the first time, and one I've seen
many times in my life.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But we did Me and my roommates.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
A Missus Doubtfire and White Chicks double feature. I think
that those movies actually make a great pairing.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Where did you do that at home? Or you're like
at the Alamo Theater or something?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh, we did it at home. We just how many have.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
A great projector paint that you got a projection TV?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Paint a picture for us? How many people? Guys? Girls?
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Gotcha?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
So?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
My roommates are a couple that I went to Risdy with.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
They're both in the film industry, an animation industry, so
it's they're kind of just doing their homework by hitting
you know, three to six movies a night. So we
started off with Missus Doubtfire. I gave it four stars.
I mean, amazing film, but pretty tough to watch for
children of divorce because that mom. Honestly, they didn't need
to make her so evil. They did not need to
make her so evil for that point to come across.
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But then White Chicks, I've seen that one many times
as a kid, far too many times, I think. But
if you know, if you want to go the special
effects makeup is the bit film. This is kind of
an unbeatable back to back. So that was a really
lovely double feature that we did. Some other films that
I've seen, Oh go ahead.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wait, So Missus Doubtfire is the movie where Robin Williams
dresses up like a woman. That's right, and then what's
the and then but it's not the one where Dustin
Hoffman dresses is.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Like a woman.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
No, it's not.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
That's Tootsie.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You know what, guess what. I haven't seen either of these.
Really they're classics. You know, there's some movies you just
haven't seen. They could be, you know, for some reason,
I've never seen. It's a Wonderful life me either.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, so you know I get a lot of hate
for that.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, I get a lot of hate too. I haven't
seen these movies.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Like, my life's been pretty wonderful as it is. I'm
you know, I don't think it's gonna be more wonderful.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I want to be accused of transphobia because I've seen
a lot of a lot of videos with the with
some trans themes. But these two, I guess because these
people are just not passable to me. I'm into passable
trans movies.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Okay, keep going, Okay, here's one that I had not
seen before, but I had read the book last year,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh yeah, that was. That was amazing.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I mean, I'm a big fan of Terry Gilliam, and
I had recently shown one of my roommates Brazil for
the first time, which is one of my favorite films
of all time. So we hit Fear and Loathing and
that was. It's funny because it is so true to
the book, and also a million times better because the
book just wasn't directed by Terry Gilliam.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You know, what can you do?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
No, that's that movie.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah, it was a stunning Oh my god. Yeah, I mean,
both are fantastic, but I love the film.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Have you as your attorney, can I ask you have
you seen any new movies or you're just you're just going.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Through oh new movies.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yes, Actually, what I've well know s Faratu I was
a big fan of. In my letterbox review, I do
share that I think count Orlock was just a little
too attractive for the horror to work.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
He kind of had more of like.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
A a ross boutine edginess than I think a vampire
should if I'm supposed to be a bit afraid of them.
So that's that's the only drawback I think. You see
what other new movies I've seen. I've seen a lot
of old movies lately. I mean I watched Possession for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
That was amazing. How do we find a big fan
of that?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
How do we find your letterbox to count?
Speaker 6 (35:03):
My letterbox is cherry Funfetti, So cherry C H E
R R I and then Funfetti like the cake flavor.
And you can see all the amazing films that I log.
Sometimes I'll give them reviews if I'm feeling funny or
I have enough energy and I like didn't fall asleep
during it. I'll usually I'll usually leave something to Simmarron.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
All Right, I am now following you amazing exciting. Yeah,
I see, I'm seeing all right here. Adaptation.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
You like that one?
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
You did.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It's a big fan of that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Okay, what about some of the ones I've told you
to watch as as a member of this radio program.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah. Have you seen Deliverance yet? Ah?
Speaker 6 (35:50):
The reason I haven't seen is because I forgot the
name Deliverance. Deliverance, Okay, we'll watch it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
This is nineteenth, nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Yeah, I run that.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah, okay, okay, I can do an old movie. I
can trust an old movie. It's on the watch list,
it's happening. I'll force of the roommates to watch it
with me, now that I have a beautiful setup and
I'm not alone on my laptop.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And then Sam, you saw nothing?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I saw Paulo thirteen with my kid because he's really
into American history and I wanted to show him something
that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
He's into American history. Well, that's great. He believes that
moveling moon landing thing.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
It was great filmmaking.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
A great filmmaker.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Yes, I'm talking about Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Is that the one where they are stuck in space
and they have to put together stuff to get out. Hanks,
I want to tell everybody make sure. So while we're
talking about Tom Hanks, I want to tell everybody make sure.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
So while we're talking.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
About Tom Hanks, I want to tell everybody, make sure
you get the app called Country A Go Go. It
is a radio station that Tom Hanks owns and started
(37:15):
of really obscure country B sides and just just stuff
like it's the craziest record collection in the world. Country
of Go Go and he started it, and he and
has no commercials. I think you have to have the
tune in app, which is a competitor of this station.
So don't tell him. I recommended that part. But then
(37:37):
he also Tom Hanks spends hours and hours and hours
as a DJ on some other station called Station sixty six,
just you know, for no reason, I'm making a penny
doing this. So Tom Hanks for this year wins my
award for America's the Greatest American and which was won
by Mark Wahlberg for the last ten years in a row.
(37:59):
And so now the new American hero is Tom Hanks.
For these reasons.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
And I think we're downe yeah beautiful. All right, thank
you guys for joining me. Uh you know, stick around.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
There's always more in this station and check out the
podcast when that comes out. Joe Scalante live from Hollywood.
I now leave you with just a taste of the
greatest song ever written.
Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, you mean Burbank,
across the street from a Wiener Snitzl that serves beer.
And I'm joined today by not only producer engineer Sam,
but producer Nikki.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hello, good to be back.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
What's up best?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Hey? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So during the NFL season, it's just too hard to
make shows fit all our schedules, so it gets always
gets weird. But the season is winding down and just
a couple of weeks left the playoffs and then the
Super Bowl of Football takes place, so we should be
(00:52):
live like we are tonight a few times at least,
and then we'll be back in a regular schedule. So
for those of you new to the program, this is
two hours of the business end of show business, and
we do it every Sunday on KiB eleven fifty on
your AM dial. This is good old fashion AM radio.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
That's why you're cool for listening to it.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Let's, of course, there's a lot of fires going on
right now, and that's why I didn't drive into the
studio today, so I didn't want to get there. And
I think the less people that drive into Los Angeles
right now, the better are you guys, Okay, and your properties?
All right, Let's start with you, Sam. You live on
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top of a movie theater.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah. No, so far, so good.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It's pretty safe where I'm at. I actually have people
who are evacuating coming to my place, so hopefully fans
stay that way because I would really really like to
avoid having the same issues that everyone else is having
here in La.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
How about you, Nikki, Yeah, it's been pretty wild. I mean,
I'm in Highland parks, so it's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
But I mean, yeah, the air has been pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
But I have I have some funny stories to tell
you about something that's not as funny. My dad lives
in Alta Dina and is very very close to the
Eton fire, and it luckily only got a little bit
of our property, Like it wasn't so bad, but he
refused to evacuate, so he was playing rogue cowboy firefighter,
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putting out fires.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
For the last and stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I guess, I mean, I guess it's good enough. But
I can tell you, guys a little story he told me.
I was calling him the other day and of course
freaking out because this is a crazy time and you
never know what's going to happen. And he's telling me
about all the losses in the neighborhood and and what's
going on. And then you know, I'm just you know,
(02:52):
I'm freaking out. And he's like, oh, but do you
He's polish, I'm gonna do the accent. He's like, do
you want to hear the good news? And I'm like, oh, God, Like,
what's the good news after all that? You know? I
was like, yeah, I guess I do. And then he's like, okay.
So I was on the roof watering the roof and
(03:15):
around the house, and then I went to the backyard.
We have like a tiered backyard that he made, like
there's kind of some some landscaping and agriculture he did there.
But he's like okay, And I water the first level.
It is good. I water the second level, it is good.
And then I go to the last level. And then
I realized a little too late that I have to pee,
(03:37):
and before I hit the grads ipee a little bit.
I'm like, that's that's the good news. That was.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The good news that he can pete. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
I was like, I mean I think he meant like
I want to hear a funny story.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I was like, looking for the good news.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
The goods that he has steady prostate function exactly.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
I'm like, well, it's good that like you mostly didn't mess.
I agree, you know, it's been a hard week for everyone,
and if this is the way you need to phrase that,
like you peed a little bit, like I'll it's lot.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, did he put out the fire with it?
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
I was like, Okay, the better news would be like
if there was a hot ember and you saw an opportunity,
you know, But I think it's this is gonna be
one of those stories where it's like the fish gets
bigger every single time he retells it, and I bet
he'll invent an ember somewhere along his oral history of
this moment.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Well, that's really fortunate. Good news Dad's in and didn't
get burned.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah, I mean, like only part of the backyard. We're
really lucky it's been out of the.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
House though, like as like taking it somewhere else or you.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Just well, I mean the good thing is that, like
it's the neighborhood, it's not going to come back that
way because it already it burned through everything that it
could burn.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So it's like he feels fine.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well on the.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Legal front, as we know that in on YouTube you
can pretty much use anybody's song and do whatever you
want with it. And then when YouTube first started that
would be an infringement. And now they got they just
kind of pay the artists when they don't pay you.
(05:35):
They pay the artists when you use their song. So
and that, you know, for the most part, that's pretty cool.
I like it when they use vandal songs and it
makes our streaming income get bigger, and I see what
people are doing and they're clever with them or whatever.
And you know, same with TikTok. It can be really
(05:56):
good for a band. But Chuck d from Public Enemy
is now alarmed and telling his fans stop using the
song burn Hollywood Burn in wildfire videos, and he's trying
to say that the track originally was a critique of
racial stereotypes in Hollywood films. It has been repurposed online
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content showing destruction of film studios and sets by wildfires.
Chuck Die has emphasized that the song's message is being
misrepresented and its use in his context is both inappropriate
and insensitive to those affected by the fires. You're just
content creators to respect the original intent of the music
and to refrain from exploiting it for sensationalism. So what
(06:42):
can he do anything about it? Is my question for
you guys.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I feel like probably not, because sadly, it's like he's
basically making a call to action, like, hey, everyone on
the internet, can you please behave appropriately?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's a tough that's a high.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, that's true, and then it's just too hard to
We talk about this a lot. You know, they have
blanket licenses that just cover all music. You can't really
go in there and say, hey, I don't want them
to do this. You could probably remove your song from
all usage, but then you wouldn't make any money from
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the appropriate usages. So knowing wouldever that do that, he's
doing the right thing. He's talking to the fans don't
do this, and then that's about all he can do.
And he's not suing anybody.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
He's just saying, don't do this. So that's that's about
all he can do. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Bad Religion has a song called Los Angeles is Burning.
I think about it every time I see the fires,
but I don't look around YouTube to see if anybody's
using it.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But there are people that do that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
When I was on the radio in the morning in
the morning's, I had a newslady that would every time
there was a incident that involved race, she would search
or just whatever she could always search on the internet
for like racial hate, to see if she could find
any white supremacist that had a bad take on something.
(08:18):
And I was just like, why do you do that?
Just leave it in the gutter and go on with
your life. But so I haven't looked around and see
if anyone's using that bad religion song. But it's pretty bad.
When people ask me what's going on with my properties,
I'm like, nothing with mine. But you know, it's hard.
(08:41):
So many people are screwed. You can't do business right
now in a normal Hollywood way because whoever you're talking to,
you call them and say, I just check in to
see if you have read this or you're going to
send me that they are, you know, they lost their
house quite possibly, and a lot of houses have been lost.
People are going through it, and then people are calling
(09:02):
me and going, hey, can you help me. I'm trying
to I was working with someone whose house was lost,
and now I gotta get this thing done.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Can you help, and.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's hard to I was I was gonna try to
raise some money for a project, an artistic project, restoration
of something here in Seal Beach, and now I just
don't feel right doing it. Get it all teed up,
but raising money for a restoration of a historical thing
doesn't It just doesn't seem that tasteful. When the fires,
(09:34):
you know, people are raising money and we gotta take
care of these people. But we got to take a
break here and we'll come back. We'll talk more about this.
I got more stories related to the fire and other
Hollywood stuff. It's Joe Ascolante Live from Hollywood. Joe Ascolante
Live from Hollywood. Hey, uh, you know, maybe wait, let's
(09:54):
before we go back to the fires. I would like
to let's check the box office, because it was for
the rest of the country. He is a normal week
and show business world number one at the box office.
Let me know if you saw it. Den of Thieves
two Pantera, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I don't know why Pantera the word Pantera gets used.
But if I was in the band Pantera, I would like,
what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Why? Why are you talking about me?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But have any of you seen sending of these Pantera
movies or these Den of Thieves movies?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
No, no, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Gerard Butler, yeah, I don't think they're really good.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
One for me, probably not for any of us, but
they're doing very, very well. He did fifteen million this
weekend at the box office. It's not staggering, but it
was good enough to put him as number one and
move Fassa that is still killing it number two Sonic
the Hedgehog.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Are either of you two going to go see Sonic
the Hedgehog?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yes, I am, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
If you are.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I amn't seen it yet, not recommend one of you
saw in a Saratu.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I bet I did do sam uh that would be
a nose Speratu.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
No ooh ooh, all right, yeah, I saw, yes Speratu.
I saw it on the twenty sixth. It was amazing.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I mean from a movie perspective, I think I gave
it like four and a half stars on letterboxed.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I thought that the story itself was like fine.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
It doesn't beat out Bram Stoker's Dracula for me personally. However,
the candlelit shots were enough to give this film whatever accolades.
It wanted because they were just stunning and Lily Rose
Depp's performance was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, I wanted to see it, but then I was
trying to catch it at an Imax or a Cinemak
XD and I couldn't and the showings were at weird time.
So I haven't seen it yet. But let me see.
I told this story before. Our drummer Josh Freese, his kid,
he took him to see it on Christmas Day actually
in Palm Springs, and he said when the credits rolled up,
(12:06):
I mean, he said, it was just gnarly like the movies,
like it's dark, right, yeah. Yeah, So the credits roll
up and he gets it's very quiet, and I don't
know if you remember this moment in the in the experience,
but and then he just yells out. His son yells out,
Merry Christmas. Everybody the whole theater erupted in laughter.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
That's touching.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay, so number five Malana two, Now we're down to
the movies I've seen. Mahana two is freaking huge, but
you know, and the animation is amazing. It's really a
fun experience, especially if you watch it in the vibrating seats.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Like I did.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And but the story is kind of like cares. The
writing's like who cares? It's not the top of what
Disney or Pixar can do. A complete unknown number six.
I saw it pretty good. Timothy shot me is uh
just incredible, credible. This guy needs to go to Coachella.
(13:13):
Uh take it on the road. It's so good. Uh
and then you know don but you know, what's his name?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
A Bob Dylan. He was never that good looking. We
know that. And it's that uh that lady who's co star.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
So Dakota Fanning right.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, the I'm like, I'm having a I'm getting old
and sorry I forget everybody's name.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But she was she was not ever that good looking.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So Joan Baiaz, oh gotcha, John bas So these are
two like like, you know, imagine a world where Bob
Dylan and Joan Bias were stunning.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
That's you know what, Hey, I'll sign up for that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So that's it makes the movie, you know, pretty good.
And but Shallomaye's worth it for shallow may I think
I've kind of mentioned that before.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
They did a good job of acting like they were
not so good looking.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
They you know, what that's that's not easy and they
did it.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You're right, I will actually know what.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I would see that movie just to watch a more
humble Timothy Shalla may. I think that would actually be
the premier part of my viewing experience.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It's some humility.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Do you have some problems with Timothy Timothy's sports chalet, Yeah,
Timothy sports shall at exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
He didn't. You didn't like him? And Willie Wanka you weren't.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I you know what, I couldn't even I couldn't bear
to look at it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I couldn't bear to look at it because I love
some cringe and I.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I have to say, I think Timothy's a great actor.
I think he's very talented.
Speaker 6 (14:58):
I couldn't bear to look at at it, and I
think that has spared his reputation in my eyes, because
I refuse to watch that film. I think I saw
some of the promo shots, maybe the trailer, and I
was just thinking, like, Oh, he doesn't want to be
here is the feeling that I got, which is not
the vibe that you want from the lead.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Go watch the original Willy Wonka.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I mean, I'm a big fan of the original.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Person that's personally he doesn't want to be the reader.
He's he's he looks all the time like his thoughts
are being you know, he's placing his thoughts elsewhere and
he's just going through it for the kids. This guy
to do it. So maybe there's a little bit. Maybe
he was acting very well when he was doing that.
But I saw Willy Wonka in Shallow May's version.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It was great. I mean, the original is the best.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I'd say Willy Wonka challow May is second best, and
then the Tim Burton one.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Really that's my that's my ranking me.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
I'll you know what, I'll watch it next time I
am buy a little too heavily.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'll turn that on and see if I can give
it a bonus star.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
They're good, So that good songs in that movie.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, Number seven is Wicked, which uh I was at
dinner the other day. I kind of remember if I
told the story and then like, oh did you see Wicked?
You know, and there's like maybe six people and two waiters,
three waiters around that I know, and not one of
them saw Wicked. And I was the only gay in
the village at that time, Like, are you telling me
(16:30):
I'm the only one in this room that saw Wicked,
and they're like looking at me like you saw Wicked.
I just just talk about something else. But Nikki, you
missed my take on that, which is did you see it?
Speaker 6 (16:41):
First of all, I have not seen it yet. You've
seen the media realm of it.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Sam, have you seen it?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No, sir, I'm still the only gay in the village,
all right, it Well, it doesn't make any sense to
tell you guys that, but I'll just tell you when
you watch it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Look at it.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
The chorus dancers, they're all ugly, okay. Number eight is
a baby girl, and they do it on purpose, Nicky.
They're like purposely trying to challenge you with ugly people
in the course.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
How you care challenge.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Beautiful people? You don't have a right to beautiful Oh,
I get it. The chorus people should be beautiful performers
all put together. How about some weird looking people that
aren't that good looking?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Take me back, Take me back to old Hollywood where
I can't even be looked at in public.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
So I miss it.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
So number eight is baby girl.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Number nine is The Brutalist, which I haven't seen yet,
but I have seen a couple of movies.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Let's talk.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let's uh, maybe we should take a break, and when
we'll come back, we'll go over my letterbox and Nicky
can make her comments on it, because she has some
weird comments on my letterbox reviews. And that's why I
put all That's why I put all the movies that
I see, and then we can we can continue from there.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
How does that, Sam, Sam, I'm.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Good with that.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Let's do it. This is a good plan almost. I'm
really excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Don't mock Me's.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Goante live from Hollywood by Hollywood, you mean Burbank. All right,
let's go over to the letterbox page and talk about
the movies that we saw this week and in weeks past,
because I pretty soon I'm gonna have to put together
my uh celebrated top ten list, and it's very easy
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when you have a letterbox account. This is the best
thing about a letterboxed account because if you at the
end of the year, you just look and see which
ones did you give five stars too? And I'm just
just a cursory glance over here. I had a lot
of five stars from movies that had already been seen,
and I see that I've got kneecap and uh the
(18:52):
wild Robot. They they're they're popping out at me. But Nora,
I gave a four. I gave a four and a
half stars. Yes, I don't know. Yeah, you know what, Yeah,
because Sean Baker is one of my favorite directors, so
he's just gonna get uh you get five stars if
it wasn't for the the the morally offensive content. But uh,
(19:18):
all right, so I saw I've talked about a Nora
and everything on this list, but I did. I just
mentioned briefly Amelia Perez. Either of you seen this.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Not yet, but I've heard some reviews and I've I've
heard some or I've read some interviews with Angelina Jolite.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right, she's the lead in that. Yeah, oh wait, no,
that's not right? Is that that's not a different one? Sorry? Different?
This is the one with Selena Gomes.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yes, Selena Gomes's okay, I've.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Heard, okay, also a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Okay, Amelia Perez, you know it's another one of these
movies where it's just I.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Dare you.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Not to think that this is totally stupid, in a
waste of your time. I dare you, because if you
admit that, you're not going to be cool in Hollywood.
So anyways, it's like it is stupid, but whatever, it's
free on Netflix, so go ahead and watch it.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Then conclave.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Luckily it's free because I'm not giving them any money
if they're their blasphemous portrayal of what goes on in
the room while they pick a pope. You just already
know if a movie has released by a major studio
and it's about a pope, you know it's going to
be anti Catholic and it's going to make Catholics seem
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they're dumb for buying into everything.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So I already know that.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So I watched a little bit of it just to
see how long it would take before they got really lame,
and it took about ten minutes. But very well acted,
and it's beautiful to see all the stuff in the
Vatican City. But it's it's it's typical, and it's shot
(21:10):
too dark. Did any guys have any problems with these
movies that are too dark?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I personally like my movie is pretty dark.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I mean, I'm also a laptop of viewer sometimes, but
I have upgraded my setup to projector in my living
room courtesy of my roommates so we're not you know,
we're not doing too.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Bad with the dark. I kind of like the look. See.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I mean sometimes I like.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
The dark in certain movies. The only one only place
I don't think it fits is in action films, and
I've been seeing it way too much in action films
because you lose a lot of the action when you
can't see it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Well, that Pope movie, there's a lot of action.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
H sounds like it, a lot of fisticuffs and post
in that. In Conclave, I.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Would say, uh, I haven't finished yet, so it probably
is coming.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
But yeah, it's like a well made movie.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And I guess it's going to be up for some
Oscars because number one, it's well made, it has really
good acting, and it's the narrative, Hollywood's narrative of trivialized religion.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Are congratulations, Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Now watch all those religious movies that make so much
money and you can't figure out how to do it.
But don't ask me because I won't tell you. Let's
go to my list. Nora, you see you Noura Nikki,
you must have.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yep, I have that one. That one's pretty funny.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I like your review. Let's see here you did. That
was what four and a half stars. Also, I too,
am a big fan of Sean Baker. He frequently showcases
one of my favorite comedian actresses, Ivy Wolke, And she's
a supporting role in this movie. And I'll basically watch
anything with that girl in it.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Which she what does she play?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
She's like one of the other blonde I think she's
also a stripper blonde one.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Like always saying some crazy stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Oh yeah, she was cool, she's.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
She is hysterical.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
I brought I think like seven friends to one of
her stand up shows. She was like opening for a comedian,
and I brought like seven friends just so I could
go see her open and then we left for the headliner.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But she's like she's a rising star for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Okay. And her name is Ivy Woke. So I'm punt
and a letterbox. You get to you get to uh
you know, ah go down rabbit holes and stuff. Okay,
I see her. Well, yeah, the one with the eyebrows.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Oh my god. Yeah, she's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
All right, So Ivy Woke look out for her. And
and Noora was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's about a Russian hooker. My review, well, just yeah, well,
I just read my review and just says, Sean Baker
makes amazing movies. This one was about a cash me
outside style Russian hooker who tries to hold together permanent
relationship with the son of an oligarch. Wow, it's serious,
Then it's funny, but it's still pretty serious. Okay, Well,
(24:07):
I stand by that it nominated for Best Comedy and
Musical in the Golden Globes. The other one I saw
was a complete unknown, and Timothy Chalome is worth the
price of admission, so I recommend it. However, I'm not
sure switching to electric guitar is enough of a plot
point to carry a movie, but I guess it was
(24:27):
a real scandal at the time. Dylan's songs are great
once once then you realize this guy is telling you
that there's something wrong with you, and I can only
take that once. I feel other folks songs. I like
other folk songs like Puff the Magic Dragon or One
Tin Soldier. I have to read my own typos here,
so One Tin Soldiers still provide a valuable lesson, but
(24:49):
I don't feel lectured. Yeah, I'm just saying these, these
these folk songs are masterpieces, but I don't want to
listen to them more than once.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Oh on here.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I think that's fair. I think that's very fair.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I really liked your I liked the back and forth
between your reviews of We Live in Time and The Substance,
because you gave both three and a half stars. But
for We Live in Time, I think you said something.
I'll read it for you. This was a fine film,
but I would have rather had someone tell me about
it than actually have to watch it, see Joe. Frankly,
when I have an experience like this, I give it
a half star and then I make up a lie
(25:20):
about what happens. I think my review for Barbie is
one half star, and my review is that the dog
dies doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
But you knows why would leave.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I realize it's a good movie, and I want to
congratulate all involved in making a good movie. We Live
in Time and Florence Pugh is the best thing in movies,
so I'm not going to I still enjoyed watching her,
but yeah, I would have rather if someone told me
about it, and then I could just watch her interviews
(25:56):
of her on YouTube percent.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
If I really needed to see something.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So I don't know, it's a how about the substance
You can read the substance one.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Yes, your Substance review, I think, approaches it from the
perspective that it's a documentary, that it's evidently a true story.
Mainly hits a rough patch, so she makes deal with
the Double to battle Satan, and of course no one
can win in that scenario. All these people need to
find the Lord. I also appreciate that you include exactly
where you were at the time of filming, because I
(26:29):
feel like if you have any fans who are also
into astrology, they can kind of map the stars for
that point in time to see if there was any
sort of cosmic influence on your review.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And then take you up on an argument on Twitter
or something.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I always put the name of the theater and the
and the time, and then sometimes just to be a weirdo,
I'll put the actual theater number in the.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Oh I think I noticed, I think, Yeah, you had
like AMC theater number twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, and complete of known as a Honey Can Beach
a Cinemak Belitaria seven fifty showing Auditorium twenty and then well,
most of this letterbox stuff is for me to remember
the movies that I saw because I did it. I'm
very bad at remembering movies. Like I see a movie
and then you could ask me if I saw it,
and I would tell you no, and then you would
(27:21):
convince me that I saw it and show me the
ticket stuff it fell out of my pocket and I
would go.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Oh yeah, I don't remember what it was about, though, So.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Now I'm the exact same way.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I think I've drank too much diet coke in my
life and the ass the team has finally gotten to
my memory. So I need the letter box like that.
That's sort of making it's part of my brain at
this point.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I also have something called the day one journaling app,
and it is basically Instagram for yourself, and you put
all your pictures in and everything you did, and then
you keep your journal and it's in your It's right
there in one spot, but it's only for you.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
No one else can see it.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's say actually, and then if I die, my.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Wife can look at it and go like hey, and
you can run print on it and then just hand
it out at the funeral too.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Okay, how are we doing on time on this segment.
Let's just take a break Okay, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And I got more fire related stories in the Hollywood
community after this.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, Joe as Golante.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Joe'scalante Life from Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
By Hollywood, you mean Burbank. We're gonna get to Nikki's
movies because she's so connected and young. She gets to
see more movies than us and she doesn't have to
work her ass off like I do, and I hope
you don't. And then Sam is like a PhD and
a couple of kids. So just before we get to
(29:10):
that stuff, a little bit of stuff about the fires.
Two people got arrested at Kamala Harris's house, but they
couldn't really catch them in the act. They weren't red handed,
so they had to let him go, but they pretty
sure they were about to loot her house. But they
target celebrities, and there is a long article I'm not
going to go over in CNN about how they're still
(29:33):
targeting athletes and they figure out when their games are
and these are international crime syndicates because the athletes are
posting things like check out my Rolex, oh w here's
my wife with their.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Air mez bag. All that stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And then there is an interesting thing about so anyways,
looters are are are a big problem, and you know,
targeted crimes for celebrities are a big problem in Los Angeles,
and so many celebrities lost their homes, and these international
crimings are still around and they're like, oh the fires,
like in Hollywood, you know, business is not good right
(30:12):
now because of the fires. But if you're an international
crime Sygnique syndicate, you pivot, you go, hey, let's go
to where people have been evacuated and let's steal all
their stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
So that's definitely going on.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And then the syndicates are the only functioning union in
LA at the moment.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, right now. Yeah. And then I don't know if
you heard this.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Ricky Lake was on a TV show a couple of
weeks ago and the guy predicted she was going to
lose everything in a fire or suggested something like that
was about to happen to her, and she lost her
house in the fire, lost everything. So that's on Ricky
Lake's Instagram page. It's pretty shocking. And then Disneyland is
(30:57):
still open. The Universal Student had to shut down for
a couple of days. They're opening on.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I think they might. They're opening on Friday.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Maybe anyway, you better check if you're going to two
eight musement Park. But it's also very you know, there's
a lot of smoke around the world, so you really
don't want to hang out in music a musement park
all day long. Nikki, what what movies have you seen
recently that you can recommend to us?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Okay, so I recently saw I had seen this, I'd
seen one for the first time, and one I've seen
many times in my life.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But we did Me and my roommates.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
A Missus Doubtfire and White Chicks double feature. I think
that those movies actually make a great pairing.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Where did you do that at home? Or you're like
at the Alamo Theater or something?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh, we did it at home. We just how many have.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
A great projector paint that you got a projection TV?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Paint a picture for us? How many people? Guys? Girls?
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Gotcha?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
So?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
My roommates are a couple that I went to Risdy with.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
They're both in the film industry, an animation industry, so
it's they're kind of just doing their homework by hitting
you know, three to six movies a night. So we
started off with Missus Doubtfire. I gave it four stars.
I mean, amazing film, but pretty tough to watch for
children of divorce because that mom. Honestly, they didn't need
to make her so evil. They did not need to
make her so evil for that point to come across.
(32:19):
But then White Chicks, I've seen that one many times
as a kid, far too many times, I think. But
if you know, if you want to go the special
effects makeup is the bit film. This is kind of
an unbeatable back to back. So that was a really
lovely double feature that we did. Some other films that
I've seen, Oh go ahead.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Wait, So Missus Doubtfire is the movie where Robin Williams
dresses up like a woman. That's right, and then what's
the and then but it's not the one where Dustin
Hoffman dresses is.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Like a woman.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
No, it's not.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
That's Tootsie.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You know what, guess what. I haven't seen either of these.
Really they're classics. You know, there's some movies you just
haven't seen. They could be, you know, for some reason,
I've never seen. It's a Wonderful life me either.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, so you know I get a lot of hate
for that.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, I get a lot of hate too. I haven't
seen these movies.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Like, my life's been pretty wonderful as it is. I'm
you know, I don't think it's gonna be more wonderful.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I want to be accused of transphobia because I've seen
a lot of a lot of videos with the with
some trans themes. But these two, I guess because these
people are just not passable to me. I'm into passable
trans movies.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Okay, keep going, Okay, here's one that I had not
seen before, but I had read the book last year,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Oh yeah, that was. That was amazing.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
I mean, I'm a big fan of Terry Gilliam, and
I had recently shown one of my roommates Brazil for
the first time, which is one of my favorite films
of all time. So we hit Fear and Loathing and
that was. It's funny because it is so true to
the book, and also a million times better because the
book just wasn't directed by Terry Gilliam.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You know, what can you do?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
No, that's that movie.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah, it was a stunning Oh my god. Yeah, I mean,
both are fantastic, but I love the film.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Have you as your attorney, can I ask you have
you seen any new movies or you're just you're just going.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Through oh new movies.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yes, Actually, what I've well know s Faratu I was
a big fan of. In my letterbox review, I do
share that I think count Orlock was just a little
too attractive for the horror to work.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
He kind of had more of like.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
A a ross boutine edginess than I think a vampire
should if I'm supposed to be a bit afraid of them.
So that's that's the only drawback I think. You see
what other new movies I've seen. I've seen a lot
of old movies lately. I mean I watched Possession for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
That was amazing. How do we find a big fan
of that?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
How do we find your letterbox to count?
Speaker 6 (35:03):
My letterbox is cherry Funfetti, So cherry C H E
R R I and then Funfetti like the cake flavor.
And you can see all the amazing films that I log.
Sometimes I'll give them reviews if I'm feeling funny or
I have enough energy and I like didn't fall asleep
during it. I'll usually I'll usually leave something to Simmarron.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
All Right, I am now following you amazing exciting. Yeah,
I see, I'm seeing all right here. Adaptation.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
You like that one?
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
You did.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It's a big fan of that one. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Okay, what about some of the ones I've told you
to watch as as a member of this radio program.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Yeah. Have you seen Deliverance yet? Ah?
Speaker 6 (35:50):
The reason I haven't seen is because I forgot the
name Deliverance. Deliverance, Okay, we'll watch it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
This is nineteenth, nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Yeah, I run that.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah, okay, okay, I can do an old movie. I
can trust an old movie. It's on the watch list,
it's happening. I'll force of the roommates to watch it
with me, now that I have a beautiful setup and
I'm not alone on my laptop.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And then Sam, you saw nothing?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
No.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I saw Paulo thirteen with my kid because he's really
into American history and I wanted to show him something
that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
He's into American history. Well, that's great. He believes that
moveling moon landing thing.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
It was great filmmaking.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
A great filmmaker.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
Yes, I'm talking about Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Is that the one where they are stuck in space
and they have to put together stuff to get out. Hanks,
I want to tell everybody make sure. So while we're
talking about Tom Hanks, I want to tell everybody make sure.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
So while we're talking.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
About Tom Hanks, I want to tell everybody, make sure
you get the app called Country A Go Go. It
is a radio station that Tom Hanks owns and started
(37:15):
of really obscure country B sides and just just stuff
like it's the craziest record collection in the world. Country
of Go Go and he started it, and he and
has no commercials. I think you have to have the
tune in app, which is a competitor of this station.
So don't tell him. I recommended that part. But then
(37:37):
he also Tom Hanks spends hours and hours and hours
as a DJ on some other station called Station sixty six,
just you know, for no reason, I'm making a penny
doing this. So Tom Hanks for this year wins my
award for America's the Greatest American and which was won
by Mark Wahlberg for the last ten years in a row.
(37:59):
And so now the new American hero is Tom Hanks.
For these reasons.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
And I think we're downe yeah beautiful. All right, thank
you guys for joining me. Uh you know, stick around.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
There's always more in this station and check out the
podcast when that comes out. Joe Scalante live from Hollywood.
I now leave you with just a taste of the
greatest song ever written.
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