November 16, 2025 • 39 mins
The Award Winning Joe Escalante's weekly cannonball into the business end of showbiz. This week: The Award Winning Joe humble brags about winning a film award about his documentary on the oldest surf shop in the world. the latest Box office numbers: Now You See Me, Now You Don't is #1 (didn't see it)... The Running Man interests The Award Winning Joe, even though he never saw the original... Die My Love was dead on arrival. And the legal hub-bub around the Kim Kardashian sex tape (from 20 years ago) is the Neverending Story...
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
And now it's I'm for Joe Escalante live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbie across the street promo
meaners and it's a little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, Joe Wiscalante here of course with Sam and
Sam can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Okay, everything's good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, loud and clear.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
How you doing, buddy, Well, I'm doing pretty good, just
you know, going through the same things, going to the movies,
managing Sublime and dealing with the vandals and this radio show.
Other than that, I got nothing to do. I can
tell you that I'm gonna I am. Now you shall
(00:56):
now address me as award winning writer Joe Scalante, because
my film won the Audience Award at the Newport Beach
Film Festival, and I thought that was pretty cool. It's
the film is called The Harbor Chronicles. But then I thought,
wait a second, Now I've got an award. You know
(01:18):
those those boxes that they check or like IMDb, if
you go to my IMDb page, which I encourage everybody
to go to my IMDb page, because if you're listening
to the show, go to the IMDb page.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
If Joe's golant and look at it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's it's fascinating and you'll see things that it will
surprise you and they're all true, unlike Wikipedia pages which
contained weird stuff. But the award section, I got nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I got congratulations, Award Winner, Award Wiener, Award Wiener.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We're gonna have you.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Change the intro now that I'm award an award an
Award Wianer.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
We're going to have to get somebody to actually sprinkle
in award winner.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, maybe you know what we should be doing.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We should be going because you know how we have
our annual party for the Oscars at the Wiener Schnitzel
that serves the beer.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
True.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Uh, maybe we need to come out with a special
hot dog to commemorate this, the Award Wiener.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
The Award Wiener Schnitzel. Okay, that's a good idea. There's
some endorsement deals here that I'm you know, my mind
is spinning really with the possibilities. The North Korean fusion
hot dogs that they have there or I guess they're tacos.
Technically those are good, but I think the Joe the
(02:43):
Award the Award Wiener dog is coming your way.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So anyway, we got that. Just nice my wife is sick.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Could call me, award award winning writer, you know, but
I'm gonna let I'm only making do it for a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I'm sure it's gonna, you know, wear out on her
a little, you know, after not too long. Just saying, Hey,
award winning Joe, can you please come down for dinner? Yeah,
award winning Joe.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Did you check the mail?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's it? You think you got it? That's pretty much
it goes on at my house. Did you check the mail?
Come to dinner?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Things like that, Yeah, okay, So what I god in
the movie in the movie Business the business of this
program where we do two hours of the business end
of show business every week from five pm to seven pm.
Right here in k e IB eleven fifty on your
AM dial.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We have box Office News today for the weekend of
November fourteenth and fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Now you see me, now you don't coming in at
number one. Then we have the Running Man is a
big deal. Predator is still is dropping, but it's you know,
it's still in there. We're going to talk about some
streaming stuff like Frankenstein and the Chair Company and Kim Kardashian.
(04:14):
It's got a new lawsuit. It seems like it's an
old lawsuit, but it's a new lawsuit. And it's good
if she doesn't have a new lawsuit, because that means
there might be a new sex tape or something, and
we don't need that. Drake's got a lawsuit, Neil Young's
got a lawsuit, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's got
a lawsuit. It's directly related to my work at the
(04:35):
Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. And when I say directly,
I mean remotely, indirectly, not even close. The Rams are
involved in a lawsuit, and the Rams are playing a
big game today. I don't want to make any spoilers
for anybody about that game. So if you were recording it,
because a lot of people are recording football games in
baseball games, Sam, and they don't want to hear the spoilers.
(04:59):
This is not a sports show, so I'm not going
to say anything about that game.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
This is what my brother does with like basketball games.
He'll he won't start watching the game until like thirty
minutes after it started. Oh, I knew that, and then
he fast forwards all of the commercial breaks, hoping that
by the end of the game he's on time he's
got up.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, that's what I do with all sports games, because yeah,
I set them to record the ones I want to watch,
which is usually the Dodgers and the Rams UCLA. Then I, yeah,
I do the same thing. And sports are the only
thing where you must watch commercials. Yeah, they've got you.
(05:38):
And that's why sports is such a big business in
television because everything else can be recorded watched another way.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You can pay a little money and not have.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
To watch commercials, and a lot of streaming services, but
sports you must watch them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
They have you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But if we're like your brother, we just start a
half hour later and it's fit test. But you do
miss a lot of good commercials because the sports has
the money to pay for really good commercials. But that's
you know, no one ever sat on their deathbed and said,
you know what, my one regret, so I missed it.
(06:14):
I might have fast forward through some really quality commercials.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I wonder which ESPN package it is that you have
to pay for to make it so that live sporting
events have no commercial breaks and the players don't take
any breaks at all. How much you have to pay
to make it so that the players don't take any timeouts?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, I'll work on that. That's a way for you
and I to get rich.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, we'll make it happen.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Okay, So why don't we go to the box office
the movies right away. I have a bunch of lawsuit stuff.
We'll get to that later.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We got Nicki Minaj coming up anyway, now you see me?
Now you don't? Have you heard of this? So I
have seen any movies? Seen any movies this week?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Go to the theaters this week?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I did stay home and watch my son's favorite movie
with him, Monty Python and.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The Holy Grail Deliverance. Yes, I talked to the kids.
He loves a huge man. Oh, he has a new favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, sorry, yeah, the ban Joe's gotten old for him.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Okay, well number one this is like, are you kidding me? Now?
You see me?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now you don't a magician heist films from a franchise.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Barely remember this coming out and I just couldn't take it,
so I didn't go see it. It's a they're calling
it an illusion driven caper. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. You
might remember him from Zombie Land. The sequel adds big
names like Justice Smith. You might remember him as a
(07:52):
Pokemon detective.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Thank you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Really fun movie. Highly underrated film. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Good to Know.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Ariana green Blat from Uh the Poo played the young
gamorra Camera.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I don't know what we call it in Avengers.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Finity Wars, and I don't know magic. I have a
love hate relationship with it. Sometimes I look at magic
or like if you go to the Magic Castle and
some guy comes up.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
To you with a deck of cards, I just run screaming.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But then you'll go inside a room and you'll watch
something that Magic Castle and will blow your mind, especially
the mentalists.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
How do they do it?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The Are the card magicians like oddly more demonic than
the others.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
They're just like it seems like they're maybe guys that
learned to do cards to meet girls, and they're never
going to meet a girl, so doing you know, close
up maggic so they never met a girl.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So they're in cels.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But I had a guy at the Magic Castle once
do a thing where like they picked someone out in
the audience, like okay, volunteers, and someone picked me. I
don't know how I got and they go, okay, hand
that guy a book and then okay, thumb through the book,
and the book's like, you know, at six hundred pages.
(09:09):
Thumb through the book. Stop anywhere you want, or he
says stop.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So I stop on a page page that I choose,
and he goes, Okay, see a word in there. Just
go anywhere there and pick out one word and focus
on it. And I go and I see one word.
It's like oven. And he goes and at certain point
he goes, yeah, the word is oven. I'm like, whoa,
you just got that out of my mind. So there's
no way you can fake that if it's you. So anyway,
(09:36):
I'm not saying that magic is fake or is all nauseating,
but I don't think I could sit through a whole movie.
But after a number one at the box office in
a sequel, you know, maybe I'm missing something. But now
you but you know what I like better is now
you see him now you don't, which is a Dexter
(09:57):
Dexter Riley Kurt Russell movie, a Disney movie from the
seventy switch.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh cool, it's a pretty good movie. So that's number one.
Number one.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Let's go break real.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Quick, Okay, go to break and we'll come back with
I saw the worst movie of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'll tell you about that. I'm Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Hey, Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood at New Sunday five to
seven KiB and then podcasts later in the evening.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Listening to podcasts anywhere or some of the podcasts don't
go up? Do these? Sam?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
No, But actually we switched over to a new platform
for the podcast so we have a couple of them
that went up on the old one. And I found
out that this this wonderful radio company.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They took all of the.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Time to reset all of the radio stations to this
new format, and they didn't set up a page for us.
So they are in the process of rebuilding our podcast page.
Are our show specifically, No, the entire radio station, the old.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Station, and yeah, the station is kind of a master
child of the iHeart system, but we like it that way.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, we owe the Puerto Rico to the Iheart's United States.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've been on the station since before it was the
station when it used to be Air America.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, So this has been going on since like two
thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I guess. So that's a lot of years doing this.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm waiting for my Marconi nomination, Sam. Because it's now
that I'm an award winner, we have to go to
the next logical step.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah. Absolutely, more awards.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Let's stuck them up.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, Okay, talking about the movies, I'll get to the
worst movie of twenty twenty five, which finally was released.
But let me go to go down to the box
office list or the top ones and maybe talk a
(12:08):
little bit about this is anyone and anyone else? You know,
we need to know you didn't see anything? Yeah, I
think we've talked about it. Oh the Running Man, Yeah,
running Man? Oh yeah, the Running Man interests me. That
is number two because Running Man, as you know, is
a new take on the nineteen eighty seven schwartzen Ager
(12:28):
cult classic.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Love that movie, by the way, coming.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
From perhaps my favorite director in.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The business right now directing today one of my favorite,
one of my top three for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Is Edgar Wright, known for Baby Driver, Sean of the.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Dead, the Sparks documentary, and one of the greatest movies
of the last ten years, Last Night in Soho. If
you haven't seen Last Night in Soho, such a wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful movie is so good, or the soundtrack you could
just listen to it in your Spotify and.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Save a nickel. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I haven't seen the New Running Man. I got
a confession to make, Sam, I haven't seen the Old
Running Man.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Really, Oh Old, the Original Running Man is.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's such a movie you would see in just like
ten times or something.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh yeah, that's one that I you know, like I
was a kid when it came out. I was eight
years old when it came out, and so I never
really saw it in the theater. But it's one of
those movies that became a cult classic for people in
my generation because of HBO.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yes that that was your generation's Z channel. You have
the Z Channel, We're on TV and these things.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh I remember those, Yeah, but this one is, like
the original was highly entertaining. It was one of those
It was the movie where I think every single scene
was scripted around some kind of tag line that Arnold
Schwarzenegger was going to deliver in that moment.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So, oh yeah, do you remember the voice generator that
that you could go on the internet and and and
push all these buttons in it, and like for all
of Schwarzenegger's sayings, and you push one and it.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Says, I'll be back another one. It's not the Tuma.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah that one.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
That movie had some incredible one liners in it that
I think every single like death scene in that movie
was framed around this specific one liner that he was
gonna just nail at the end and have everybody be
like yeah, because really he got Schwarzenegger really built his
fame on the one that epic line from Terminator I'll
(14:46):
be back. So it seems like every single film that
they tried to make for him around that genre was
one that they were just trying to get the next
I'll be back line out of. And this movie was
just throwing every single line at the wall.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It'll be interesting to see how the grown up like
Edgar Wright will deal with this. And he has Glenn
Powell in the top Row front and you might remember
him from Top Gun, so we'll see how that is
should be launching this guy's career into household name world. Okay,
so the worst.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Film of twenty twenty five here it is.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's called Die My Love, and it's not doing well
in the box office, and it's not doing well in
my brain. And I actually didn't make it through Sam.
I couldn't make it through the whole film.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Die my love died in the theater.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, died on the vine. And I told my wife,
I'm like, hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom
and probably not coming back, but I'll meet in the lobby.
I'll be fine, don't worry about it. And she rolled
her eyes. Yeah, it's idye, my love.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So what's it about? So I did? I see most
of it?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And then I looked on the internet to see what
happened at the end, not that I cared too much.
But it's directed by some woman named Lynn Ramsay or.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Some guy with a woman's name. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh, she directed We Need to Talk about Kevin and
you were never really here.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
But I think I might have saw that anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Jennifer Lawrence, it's Jennifer Lawrence's new movie, and she every
once in a while gets into a big stinker. The
Three the Trainer for it looked really compelling. It's her
and Robert Pattinson and they're arguing, you know they're and
the argument is really funny and I mean he's Batman, right,
you know, I mean he's a big star. It's really funny.
(16:56):
They're just going at it and it's.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
A vicious fight.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, there's really personal attacks and they're hilarious.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
But then when you see it, you know, it sucks.
They call it a dark psychological drama.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Touches of Black comedy, adapted from a twenty twelve novel
by Arianna Harwicks. I wonder if that person likes the
movie or not, But shame on that person for writing
the book that led to this premiered and can and
I don't know what it won, but I'm sure it
won something.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Because it's so awful. It's about this.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Woman, Grace, and she's got her husband, Jackson, and after
they leave their New York lives where we remote inherited
home in rural Montana, so you're going, oh, he inherited
a home.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
This might be good.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And then she gives birth shortly after the move, and
then she gets postpartum you know, depression. The whole movie
is about her postpartum depression and the symptoms, and you know,
the terrible life that she has after that occurs. So
it's a disease movie. Basically, if you're going to see
Die My Love, you're going to see a disease movie.
(18:13):
All right, do you want to see a disease movie?
It should be said, it should be promoted as Die
My Love. Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson in a disease movie, Okay.
And it's also a disease that they kind of exploit
for their profit.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What was the disease by It's a.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Postpartum depression, that was it.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, And it's just like, hey, look at all the
drama we can get out of postpartum depression. And people have,
people are are that have that are more than just
a bunch of you know, horrible incidents that destroy their
marriages and mental illnesses.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is you know, it can be funny if.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's done in a certain way, and they this, you know,
are entertaining if it's done in a certain way.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
This was I felt as exploit. And let's take a
break and we come back.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Let's talk about the other people that hate this movie
called Die My Love On Joe's Golante and Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Joe's Golante, Live from Hollywood. This is the.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Show that brings you two hours of the business End
of Show Business every Sunday on k eib leven fifty
on your AM dial, and we're talking about the worst
movie of twenty twenty five which has finally been released.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It is Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson and Die My Love. Now.
This movie is a it's a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
She was in another movie about a burning like a
witch and the house burning down.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It was terrible. She gets herself into these situations.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
So it's a psychological thriller, dark comedy. Yeah, what it's
trying to be at.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Least, Yeah, that's what they're trying to see to do.
And it's like, I think it's it's got a few interesting,
you know, characters in it, like Sissy Space is in it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Nick Nolty's in it. Although I didn't know it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Was him, he probably either.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So three quarters of the film went through and I go,
I don't know who. I know that's somebody, but I
couldn't recognize it because it's a guy. He's got Alzheimer's too,
So throw that disease in there a little bit for
good measure, but.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Or just awful.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You don't see very pleased with this film.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Who else didn't like it. It's gotten Martin Scorsese attached
to it. But he'll put his name on anything these days.
I've noticed, so something's going on with him. I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Distributed by movie.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's funny because there's good like uh A twenty four
and Neon good distributors. You can kind of depend on
those movies. But they were all out bid or I
don't know if they bid at all. But there was
an enormous amount of money paid for this at the
film festival.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Can I guess it would be twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Someone paid shelled out for it, which is a high
price for a film that goes on the block like that.
But I hope they lose every penny. I hope it
takes this company down. This is what people are saying,
misery for misery's sake. Two hours of watching someone unravel
(21:34):
with no meaning behind it. They wallow in depression, not
a story. I think that's pretty accurate. They're just wallowing
in depression. You don't want to go there. Jennifer Lawrence
is great, but the movie goes nowhere. That's another headline
from some critics. People who don't like it. They praise
Jennifer Lawrence. She's great in it, don't get me wrong,
(21:57):
but she made a big mistake bringing this to the screen.
It lacks plot, progression, circles the same emotional beats, never
answers the question why am I watching this?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And that's an important question that should be the first
thing that gets answered when they think that's.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Why I left, because I'm like, why am I watching this?
Why am I indulging these people in their dramatization of
mental illness? It has no purpose. First of all, these
people move into this house. You don't know where the
house is because you know they're trying to be clever, like, well,
I wonder where this house is, Okay, I wonder where
(22:36):
they came from. All you see on their license plates
they came from New York, I guess.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And then you go, oh, look, I'm pissing. I'm piercing
the puzzle.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Together and finding out, you know, more and more about them,
But I never really do. They just start fighting, and
not believe fighting, they just start being having sex all
the time, okay, And she's a sex at it. And
obviously we're looking at someone who had some abuse problems
(23:10):
earlier in her life. Now, if you want to do
abuse earlier in your life, you should, you should do it.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I can't even remember the movie I saw recently where
the guys like You're trying to figure out everything that happened.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
With this guy. What's the you know, what's it? What's
it like?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And then and then he gets pulled over by a
cop and the cop says, hey, how you doing these days?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well I'm doing okay. Well, I'm really sorry what happened
back when I was your babysitter, Because that's okay, dude,
I don't care about anymore. I don't care about it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That was that kidnap movie where they kidnapped the girl.
I think we talked about it last week. They kidnapped
the the the girl that's the head of the CEO
in the the town and she.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Is an alien or he thinks she's nailing.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Okay, did we talk about that movie? No, this is
like all new to me, and now I'm intrigued. Oh
that's right, Begonia. Yes, we did talk about this one.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay, but going you treated this subject pretty interestingly because
then this guy's just trying to pull a caper in
his hometown and this cops pulling pulled him over and said, I'm.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Really sorry what happened when I was your babysitter.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Man, you know, really it's okay, man, it's all the
past worry about man, you know, let me go.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Okay, man, are you still doing okay? Okay. I'll come
by and see you sometimes. And then he's like, oh God.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And then he comes by and this guy's got a
woman hit in his basement and the guy that used
to molest him in town is the babysitter is like
a cop and he's just coming over to like say
he's really sorry for molesting him. And and it's just
kind of a town where you could see like molestation
would would would just kind of someone would get away
(25:13):
with it and then it would just like this kid
doesn't want to talk about it. The CoP's not going
to turn himself in, so he's only just but he's
riddled with guilt about it. And there's a baby, there's
a person hiding in the basement. Now that is you know, fascinating,
and this die my love, it is just.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Stupid.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Sounds like it sounds like it was exploitive of mental
health and like it was trying to do psychological thrilling
by kind of just exploiting psychology.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You're thrilled for what, like, you know, oh, what are
they doing? Now? They're having sex again?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
All right, well now, and then all of a sudden
at some point, oh, they're not having sex. So I
think this is the point. They were having wild sex
and then she had a baby, and then they were
not having sex. Oh no, and and that was the
whole arc pretty much.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
So basically it's just adult life for people who become parents.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yes, And these people happen to be in an old
house they inherited in Montana, and maybe their fishes out
of water. And then some black guy on a motorcycle
keeps coming by, and she keeps either having sex with
them or fascinating about having sex with them. You can't tell,
and you can't tell what the fantasy parts are what
the reality parts are, and you don't. You don't like
(26:28):
these people, and you had they didn't give you one
thing to grab onto to maybe like them or have
some connection to them. It never happened. You have no
idea what this director wants you to feel, but definitely
they sum it up in this one review, Oscar Bait
(26:49):
disguised as an indie film.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Hum, so.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's it for Die, Die my love. I did see
some good stuff in the streaming world. Have you seen
The Chair Company?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, this is a thing.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
The Chair Company is a It's a film about a
guy who does not work at a chair company, but
he is obsessed with a chair company and he's going
to get to the bottom of the mystery of the
Chair Company. You haven't heard of this Tim Robinson that's
known as the guy from I Think You Should Leave.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
No, this sounds I mean, of all the premises that
you could come up with a chair company to be
fascinated about.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I'm curious now.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
He plays Ron Trosper, a middle aged manager or a
middle manager who's embarrassment over a malfunctioning office chair spirals.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Into a full blown corporate conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The tone mixers workplace satire with surreal mystery, which you
know it's cringe comedy because this guy's like a cringe guy.
He's just, you know, Okay, everything's uncomfortable for this guy.
It's produced it's a TV show by A twenty four
in partnership with HBO, so you know it's going to
be good. So is the chair Company, although it does
(28:09):
like to do the same thing over and over and
over and over again.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But like this show.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So let's take a break and listen to commercials and
we'll come back on. Joe Scilante Lyne.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
From Hollywood Award winning that's true. Thank you everybody. I
(28:52):
want to thank the people of the New Year, the
New Part Beat Film Festival. I want to thank my director.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I'm going to thank my editor pieced together my story,
you know, on the so you can see the film
that I wrote and produced at the Bay Theater on
November twenty ninth, they're doing another showing of it. Every
time I plays there it sells out. And so November
twenty nine, think the Bay Theater and all I did
(29:23):
with this movie really is the guy the director had
it done and it was an hour long, and.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
He thought it should be.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
He thought someone told him direct documentaries, the feature documentary
should be one hour long.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Most of them are a little longer from what I've
heard and seen.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, they're ninety minutes. A feature film is twenty minutes.
And I'm like, I was thinking, who told you this?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't know. I go it's gonna be ninety minutes
because it'll be too boring. It's just a bunch of
surfing and the surf shops. It's about the world's oldest
and longest running surf store in the in the world,
Harbor Surf in Main Street and Seal Beach, my hometown here,
and you probably have seen the T shirts, maybe the
stickers on the cars. It's quite a legendary story, but
(30:07):
it's a small time story. It's a very small story,
you know, from its regional. So the trick was, how
do we make it ninety minutes without making it like
the director fear and would be too boring, you know,
too much surfing, too much of this surf shop.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So to me, what I did is I turned it
into a movie that was well, this is remarkable that
this happened, and it could only happen in Seal Beach,
and here's why. So that's the story we weave in.
The mythology of the story of Seal Beach was quite interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I have a hard time finding, like I mean, really
one of the most legendary documentaries about surfing is Endless Summer,
where they go and serve it like it's endlessly.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Surfing in the entire and like even one of them was.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
One of the most famous moments from the film is
when they found a wave that they could keep riding
for an hour, you know, and that was I don't know,
I don't know how somebody can feel like a surf
documentary with more with just people surfing and it would
be considered boring when that's what people come to see.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, this guy is smart because Seal Beach and has
small waves and nobody wants to see ninety minutes of
Seal Beach waves. So you got to take the story
of the Seal Beach boards and you go out and
you find big waves. But this guy is not a
big waves surf photographer, which would come from or He's
(31:45):
not going to travel the world like Bruce Brown did
in the in the Summer. It's not going to do that.
That's that's just not going to happen. So he's trying
to tell the story and he has to do it
with these of you know, smaller waves and this you know,
small story, but a story.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
With a lot of heart.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Sam And so he was right, that just needed something different.
But Seal Beach is a town to where like this
is they call it the Mayberry by the sea. It's
very slot quiet and sleepy. The main street hasn't changed
in Some main streets haven't changed in hundreds of years
or whatever. This main street hasn't changed in you know,
(32:30):
maybe seventy years, sixty years.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
But that's quite remarkable in California.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Like if you go to Huntington Beach's main street, you
know they've redone the whole thing in some like stucco nightmare,
you know, like even before the dot com boom generated
a bunch of money to even do things like that correctly.
And so it's just it's it's not as cool as
this when you come to this place. It just looks
like the nineteen sixties and it's quiet. The streets roll
(33:02):
up at eight thirty four, Irish bars stay open, and
the history of the town is one of alcohol, illegal
alcohol sales, gambling, and prostitution.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
All right, Yes, amusement parks. So that's the.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Interesting part, fun for everyone.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, So the Yeah and the Bay Theater I went
to see Two nights ago, I went to see A
Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leoni movie of Clint Eastwood, the
first of the Dollars trilogy. A Fistful of dollars for
a few dollars more, and Good, Bad, and the Ugly
is the first one. Clint Eastwood is amazing in it.
(33:49):
It's just so iconic. He's just an icon on the
screen at all times. This Guy's ninety five is still living.
It's kind of a remake of Yo Jimbo, which is
playing played at the Bay today. The Bay Theater is
the most beautifully restored, like you know, art house. I
guess it's kind of like you know where they show
(34:09):
different movies every No, I don't know what you call that,
like a revival theater, that's what it's a revival house.
And they also have live concerts there. So if you
go to the Google and look up the Bay Theater
and Seal Beach and find a movie that you want
to see again or from your past, or something you
(34:30):
haven't seen, and you're going to be sitting in the
most beautiful, beautifully restored theater that you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
And the screen the.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Fistful of Dollars was full wide screen like CinemaScope, which
most of the films like I see lately don't like
that one, the one I just talked about. The worst
movie twenty twenty five that's shot in like a one
thirty one ratio. That's like, it's like a box on
your screen, got black lines on either side of the
(34:59):
screen in a in a modern theater, and you're like,
why is this? Why doesn't he even this movie today?
In twenty twenty five? Fill that screen you take you
go to see a classic film at the Bay Theater.
It's gonna fill that screen. Sound is wonderful and I
can't recommend it enough. What a date night for you
and your lady, That's what I say. Are you and
your man whoever, whatever, whatever situation you're in, all right,
(35:24):
let's move on a little bit. I'm gonna skip Frankenstein
from Giermo del Toro because we'll talk about it later,
maybe next week.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I don't really finished it because it's not it's it's
a movie.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
As soon as you watch it, you go, this would
be in the theater, So it's it looks so amazing,
it should be in the theater.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Why is it on Netflix? Why didn't I get to
see it in the theater? So you got to start
from there. Let's go to the usual stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner are suing there's still still
same lawsuit over the sex tape they had. And if
you look into this, you know, I think we all
fought like, oh, she has sex tape got leaked somewhere,
the poor dear, but it made her career and now
she's famous and rich and beautifuls Okay. But but if
(36:10):
you read the stuff of this lawsuit, it turns out
that they concocted the whole thing, ray j A the person,
the other the mail in the thing they had this
they filmed themselves having sex. Then they thought, what should
we do with it? It's pretty good, and then together
with Chris Janner, they said, okay, we'll release it and
(36:32):
then we'll make up a fake story that Kim is
a victim and she didn't want to get released, release it,
and she'll file a fake lawsuit against you, and we'll
come up with a settlement. And they did, and they
gave him six million dollars, and that's the truth. Evidently
he got. And then he got the six million dollars
and then he sued them now and said, wait, a
(36:54):
second part of this thing is you weren't supposed to
talk about it in the Kardashian TV shows, and you did,
so I'm suing you, and they're like, well, I've got
some I'm mad at you for something else, so I'm
countersuing you. And now they're in the news again. So
now this looks like a real lawsuit, like he's mad
at them. He's saying, you're just doing this for publicity.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
This is BS.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I don't know, but he started it, so who knows.
All right, so that's it's educational. Yeah, okay, for the
purposes of this show. There's a very important lawsuit that
was actually legally fully litigated where a guy to sue
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they used
one of his pictures and they didn't get permission, and
(37:34):
we all know that you can't do that. But the
judge the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame argued, of course,
this is fair use. It is a transformative use of
his picture.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
It used to be just.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
A photo to promote a band, Eddie van Halen in
the Van Halen Band. But now it's a historical artifact
and qualified for fair use because it really demonstrates the
the times in the historical context of rock and roll
at the time I was taken. I cannot believe this
(38:07):
argument work but it did. So this is good for
museums that are trying to just say, you know, this
is a whole picture we got. And I'm not saying
this is the right decision, but it'll help museums to
fight off people who are just thinking they if they
see their picture somewhere, they can sue when they really
don't have damages.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I sent it over to the Punk Rock Museum as
soon as I saw the article, and they were like, whoa,
you know, does it change things?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Like could you do you still.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Want to get permission from people to show any picture?
You still do, but you have a weapon now of
someone sends you a nasty letter, you say, hey, read
this article.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, tell me those days are over.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
This is transformative stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Transformative, that's the correct parlance. Drake is being sued over
a video called What I Miss, which they say infringes
on a copyright on a exhibit or an artwork called
America Guns, which is all it is is Americans with
(39:11):
all their guns laid out on the ground in front
of their house.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
That's the whole art piece.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
It's not they're suing each each other saying, hey, Drake,
you you you laid your guns out by your pool,
like some of the artwork or the photographs I took. Yeah,
I think I think it's a bad lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I think Drake is the winner in this one. But
I think we're over time, so let's just call it
right there.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Joe Scalante live from Hollywood to see you guys next week.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
I know lean you with just the taste of the
greatest song ever written.
And now it's I'm for Joe Escalante live from Hollywood.
If by Hollywood you mean Burbie across the street promo
meaners and it's a little that serves beer.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, Joe Wiscalante here of course with Sam and
Sam can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Okay, everything's good.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, loud and clear.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
How you doing, buddy, Well, I'm doing pretty good, just
you know, going through the same things, going to the movies,
managing Sublime and dealing with the vandals and this radio show.
Other than that, I got nothing to do. I can
tell you that I'm gonna I am. Now you shall
(00:56):
now address me as award winning writer Joe Scalante, because
my film won the Audience Award at the Newport Beach
Film Festival, and I thought that was pretty cool. It's
the film is called The Harbor Chronicles. But then I thought,
wait a second, Now I've got an award. You know
(01:18):
those those boxes that they check or like IMDb, if
you go to my IMDb page, which I encourage everybody
to go to my IMDb page, because if you're listening
to the show, go to the IMDb page.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
If Joe's golant and look at it.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's it's fascinating and you'll see things that it will
surprise you and they're all true, unlike Wikipedia pages which
contained weird stuff. But the award section, I got nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I got congratulations, Award Winner, Award Wiener, Award Wiener.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We're gonna have you.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Change the intro now that I'm award an award an
Award Wianer.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
We're going to have to get somebody to actually sprinkle
in award winner.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, maybe you know what we should be doing.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We should be going because you know how we have
our annual party for the Oscars at the Wiener Schnitzel
that serves the beer.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
True.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Uh, maybe we need to come out with a special
hot dog to commemorate this, the Award Wiener.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
The Award Wiener Schnitzel. Okay, that's a good idea. There's
some endorsement deals here that I'm you know, my mind
is spinning really with the possibilities. The North Korean fusion
hot dogs that they have there or I guess they're tacos.
Technically those are good, but I think the Joe the
(02:43):
Award the Award Wiener dog is coming your way.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So anyway, we got that. Just nice my wife is sick.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Could call me, award award winning writer, you know, but
I'm gonna let I'm only making do it for a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I'm sure it's gonna, you know, wear out on her
a little, you know, after not too long. Just saying, Hey,
award winning Joe, can you please come down for dinner? Yeah,
award winning Joe.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Did you check the mail?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's it? You think you got it? That's pretty much
it goes on at my house. Did you check the mail?
Come to dinner?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Things like that, Yeah, okay, So what I god in
the movie in the movie Business the business of this
program where we do two hours of the business end
of show business every week from five pm to seven pm.
Right here in k e IB eleven fifty on your
AM dial.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We have box Office News today for the weekend of
November fourteenth and fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Now you see me, now you don't coming in at
number one. Then we have the Running Man is a
big deal. Predator is still is dropping, but it's you know,
it's still in there. We're going to talk about some
streaming stuff like Frankenstein and the Chair Company and Kim Kardashian.
(04:14):
It's got a new lawsuit. It seems like it's an
old lawsuit, but it's a new lawsuit. And it's good
if she doesn't have a new lawsuit, because that means
there might be a new sex tape or something, and
we don't need that. Drake's got a lawsuit, Neil Young's
got a lawsuit, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's got
a lawsuit. It's directly related to my work at the
(04:35):
Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. And when I say directly,
I mean remotely, indirectly, not even close. The Rams are
involved in a lawsuit, and the Rams are playing a
big game today. I don't want to make any spoilers
for anybody about that game. So if you were recording it,
because a lot of people are recording football games in
baseball games, Sam, and they don't want to hear the spoilers.
(04:59):
This is not a sports show, so I'm not going
to say anything about that game.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
This is what my brother does with like basketball games.
He'll he won't start watching the game until like thirty
minutes after it started. Oh, I knew that, and then
he fast forwards all of the commercial breaks, hoping that
by the end of the game he's on time he's
got up.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, that's what I do with all sports games, because yeah,
I set them to record the ones I want to watch,
which is usually the Dodgers and the Rams UCLA. Then I, yeah,
I do the same thing. And sports are the only
thing where you must watch commercials. Yeah, they've got you.
(05:38):
And that's why sports is such a big business in
television because everything else can be recorded watched another way.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You can pay a little money and not have.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
To watch commercials, and a lot of streaming services, but
sports you must watch them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
They have you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But if we're like your brother, we just start a
half hour later and it's fit test. But you do
miss a lot of good commercials because the sports has
the money to pay for really good commercials. But that's
you know, no one ever sat on their deathbed and said,
you know what, my one regret, so I missed it.
(06:14):
I might have fast forward through some really quality commercials.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I wonder which ESPN package it is that you have
to pay for to make it so that live sporting
events have no commercial breaks and the players don't take
any breaks at all. How much you have to pay
to make it so that the players don't take any timeouts?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, I'll work on that. That's a way for you
and I to get rich.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, we'll make it happen.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Okay, So why don't we go to the box office
the movies right away. I have a bunch of lawsuit stuff.
We'll get to that later.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We got Nicki Minaj coming up anyway, now you see me?
Now you don't? Have you heard of this? So I
have seen any movies? Seen any movies this week?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Go to the theaters this week?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I did stay home and watch my son's favorite movie
with him, Monty Python and.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
The Holy Grail Deliverance. Yes, I talked to the kids.
He loves a huge man. Oh, he has a new favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, sorry, yeah, the ban Joe's gotten old for him.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Okay, well number one this is like, are you kidding me? Now?
You see me?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now you don't a magician heist films from a franchise.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Barely remember this coming out and I just couldn't take it,
so I didn't go see it. It's a they're calling
it an illusion driven caper. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. You
might remember him from Zombie Land. The sequel adds big
names like Justice Smith. You might remember him as a
(07:52):
Pokemon detective.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Thank you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Really fun movie. Highly underrated film. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Good to Know.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Ariana green Blat from Uh the Poo played the young
gamorra Camera.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I don't know what we call it in Avengers.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Finity Wars, and I don't know magic. I have a
love hate relationship with it. Sometimes I look at magic
or like if you go to the Magic Castle and
some guy comes up.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
To you with a deck of cards, I just run screaming.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But then you'll go inside a room and you'll watch
something that Magic Castle and will blow your mind, especially
the mentalists.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
How do they do it?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
The Are the card magicians like oddly more demonic than
the others.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
They're just like it seems like they're maybe guys that
learned to do cards to meet girls, and they're never
going to meet a girl, so doing you know, close
up maggic so they never met a girl.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So they're in cels.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But I had a guy at the Magic Castle once
do a thing where like they picked someone out in
the audience, like okay, volunteers, and someone picked me. I
don't know how I got and they go, okay, hand
that guy a book and then okay, thumb through the book,
and the book's like, you know, at six hundred pages.
(09:09):
Thumb through the book. Stop anywhere you want, or he
says stop.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So I stop on a page page that I choose,
and he goes, Okay, see a word in there. Just
go anywhere there and pick out one word and focus
on it. And I go and I see one word.
It's like oven. And he goes and at certain point
he goes, yeah, the word is oven. I'm like, whoa,
you just got that out of my mind. So there's
no way you can fake that if it's you. So anyway,
(09:36):
I'm not saying that magic is fake or is all nauseating,
but I don't think I could sit through a whole movie.
But after a number one at the box office in
a sequel, you know, maybe I'm missing something. But now
you but you know what I like better is now
you see him now you don't, which is a Dexter
(09:57):
Dexter Riley Kurt Russell movie, a Disney movie from the
seventy switch.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh cool, it's a pretty good movie. So that's number one.
Number one.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Let's go break real.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Quick, Okay, go to break and we'll come back with
I saw the worst movie of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'll tell you about that. I'm Joe's Galante Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Hey, Joe'scalante Live from Hollywood at New Sunday five to
seven KiB and then podcasts later in the evening.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Listening to podcasts anywhere or some of the podcasts don't
go up? Do these? Sam?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
No, But actually we switched over to a new platform
for the podcast so we have a couple of them
that went up on the old one. And I found
out that this this wonderful radio company.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They took all of the.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Time to reset all of the radio stations to this
new format, and they didn't set up a page for us.
So they are in the process of rebuilding our podcast page.
Are our show specifically, No, the entire radio station, the old.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Station, and yeah, the station is kind of a master
child of the iHeart system, but we like it that way.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, we owe the Puerto Rico to the Iheart's United States.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I've been on the station since before it was the
station when it used to be Air America.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I remember that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, So this has been going on since like two
thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I guess. So that's a lot of years doing this.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm waiting for my Marconi nomination, Sam. Because it's now
that I'm an award winner, we have to go to
the next logical step.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah. Absolutely, more awards.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Let's stuck them up.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, Okay, talking about the movies, I'll get to the
worst movie of twenty twenty five, which finally was released.
But let me go to go down to the box
office list or the top ones and maybe talk a
(12:08):
little bit about this is anyone and anyone else? You know,
we need to know you didn't see anything? Yeah, I
think we've talked about it. Oh the Running Man, Yeah,
running Man? Oh yeah, the Running Man interests me. That
is number two because Running Man, as you know, is
a new take on the nineteen eighty seven schwartzen Ager
(12:28):
cult classic.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Love that movie, by the way, coming.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
From perhaps my favorite director in.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
The business right now directing today one of my favorite,
one of my top three for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Is Edgar Wright, known for Baby Driver, Sean of the.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Dead, the Sparks documentary, and one of the greatest movies
of the last ten years, Last Night in Soho. If
you haven't seen Last Night in Soho, such a wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful movie is so good, or the soundtrack you could
just listen to it in your Spotify and.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Save a nickel. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I haven't seen the New Running Man. I got
a confession to make, Sam, I haven't seen the Old
Running Man.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Really, Oh Old, the Original Running Man is.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's such a movie you would see in just like
ten times or something.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh yeah, that's one that I you know, like I
was a kid when it came out. I was eight
years old when it came out, and so I never
really saw it in the theater. But it's one of
those movies that became a cult classic for people in
my generation because of HBO.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yes that that was your generation's Z channel. You have
the Z Channel, We're on TV and these things.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh I remember those, Yeah, but this one is, like
the original was highly entertaining. It was one of those
It was the movie where I think every single scene
was scripted around some kind of tag line that Arnold
Schwarzenegger was going to deliver in that moment.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
So, oh yeah, do you remember the voice generator that
that you could go on the internet and and and
push all these buttons in it, and like for all
of Schwarzenegger's sayings, and you push one and it.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Says, I'll be back another one. It's not the Tuma.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah that one.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
That movie had some incredible one liners in it that
I think every single like death scene in that movie
was framed around this specific one liner that he was
gonna just nail at the end and have everybody be
like yeah, because really he got Schwarzenegger really built his
fame on the one that epic line from Terminator I'll
(14:46):
be back. So it seems like every single film that
they tried to make for him around that genre was
one that they were just trying to get the next
I'll be back line out of. And this movie was
just throwing every single line at the wall.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It'll be interesting to see how the grown up like
Edgar Wright will deal with this. And he has Glenn
Powell in the top Row front and you might remember
him from Top Gun, so we'll see how that is
should be launching this guy's career into household name world. Okay,
so the worst.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Film of twenty twenty five here it is.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's called Die My Love, and it's not doing well
in the box office, and it's not doing well in
my brain. And I actually didn't make it through Sam.
I couldn't make it through the whole film.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Die my love died in the theater.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, died on the vine. And I told my wife,
I'm like, hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom
and probably not coming back, but I'll meet in the lobby.
I'll be fine, don't worry about it. And she rolled
her eyes. Yeah, it's idye, my love.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So what's it about? So I did? I see most
of it?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And then I looked on the internet to see what
happened at the end, not that I cared too much.
But it's directed by some woman named Lynn Ramsay or.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Some guy with a woman's name. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh, she directed We Need to Talk about Kevin and
you were never really here.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
But I think I might have saw that anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Jennifer Lawrence, it's Jennifer Lawrence's new movie, and she every
once in a while gets into a big stinker. The
Three the Trainer for it looked really compelling. It's her
and Robert Pattinson and they're arguing, you know they're and
the argument is really funny and I mean he's Batman, right,
you know, I mean he's a big star. It's really funny.
(16:56):
They're just going at it and it's.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
A vicious fight.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, there's really personal attacks and they're hilarious.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
But then when you see it, you know, it sucks.
They call it a dark psychological drama.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Touches of Black comedy, adapted from a twenty twelve novel
by Arianna Harwicks. I wonder if that person likes the
movie or not, But shame on that person for writing
the book that led to this premiered and can and
I don't know what it won, but I'm sure it
won something.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Because it's so awful. It's about this.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Woman, Grace, and she's got her husband, Jackson, and after
they leave their New York lives where we remote inherited
home in rural Montana, so you're going, oh, he inherited
a home.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
This might be good.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And then she gives birth shortly after the move, and
then she gets postpartum you know, depression. The whole movie
is about her postpartum depression and the symptoms, and you know,
the terrible life that she has after that occurs. So
it's a disease movie. Basically, if you're going to see
Die My Love, you're going to see a disease movie.
(18:13):
All right, do you want to see a disease movie?
It should be said, it should be promoted as Die
My Love. Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson in a disease movie, Okay.
And it's also a disease that they kind of exploit
for their profit.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What was the disease by It's a.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Postpartum depression, that was it.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, And it's just like, hey, look at all the
drama we can get out of postpartum depression. And people have,
people are are that have that are more than just
a bunch of you know, horrible incidents that destroy their
marriages and mental illnesses.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Is you know, it can be funny if.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's done in a certain way, and they this, you know,
are entertaining if it's done in a certain way.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
This was I felt as exploit. And let's take a
break and we come back.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Let's talk about the other people that hate this movie
called Die My Love On Joe's Golante and Live from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Joe's Golante, Live from Hollywood. This is the.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Show that brings you two hours of the business End
of Show Business every Sunday on k eib leven fifty
on your AM dial, and we're talking about the worst
movie of twenty twenty five which has finally been released.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It is Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson and Die My Love. Now.
This movie is a it's a tragedy.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
She was in another movie about a burning like a
witch and the house burning down.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It was terrible. She gets herself into these situations.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
So it's a psychological thriller, dark comedy. Yeah, what it's
trying to be at.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Least, Yeah, that's what they're trying to see to do.
And it's like, I think it's it's got a few interesting,
you know, characters in it, like Sissy Space is in it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Nick Nolty's in it. Although I didn't know it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Was him, he probably either.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So three quarters of the film went through and I go,
I don't know who. I know that's somebody, but I
couldn't recognize it because it's a guy. He's got Alzheimer's too,
So throw that disease in there a little bit for
good measure, but.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Or just awful.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You don't see very pleased with this film.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Who else didn't like it. It's gotten Martin Scorsese attached
to it. But he'll put his name on anything these days.
I've noticed, so something's going on with him. I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Distributed by movie.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It's funny because there's good like uh A twenty four
and Neon good distributors. You can kind of depend on
those movies. But they were all out bid or I
don't know if they bid at all. But there was
an enormous amount of money paid for this at the
film festival.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Can I guess it would be twenty four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Someone paid shelled out for it, which is a high
price for a film that goes on the block like that.
But I hope they lose every penny. I hope it
takes this company down. This is what people are saying,
misery for misery's sake. Two hours of watching someone unravel
(21:34):
with no meaning behind it. They wallow in depression, not
a story. I think that's pretty accurate. They're just wallowing
in depression. You don't want to go there. Jennifer Lawrence
is great, but the movie goes nowhere. That's another headline
from some critics. People who don't like it. They praise
Jennifer Lawrence. She's great in it, don't get me wrong,
(21:57):
but she made a big mistake bringing this to the screen.
It lacks plot, progression, circles the same emotional beats, never
answers the question why am I watching this?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And that's an important question that should be the first
thing that gets answered when they think that's.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Why I left, because I'm like, why am I watching this?
Why am I indulging these people in their dramatization of
mental illness? It has no purpose. First of all, these
people move into this house. You don't know where the
house is because you know they're trying to be clever, like, well,
I wonder where this house is, Okay, I wonder where
(22:36):
they came from. All you see on their license plates
they came from New York, I guess.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
And then you go, oh, look, I'm pissing. I'm piercing
the puzzle.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Together and finding out, you know, more and more about them,
But I never really do. They just start fighting, and
not believe fighting, they just start being having sex all
the time, okay, And she's a sex at it. And
obviously we're looking at someone who had some abuse problems
(23:10):
earlier in her life. Now, if you want to do
abuse earlier in your life, you should, you should do it.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I can't even remember the movie I saw recently where
the guys like You're trying to figure out everything that happened.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
With this guy. What's the you know, what's it? What's
it like?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And then and then he gets pulled over by a
cop and the cop says, hey, how you doing these days?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well I'm doing okay. Well, I'm really sorry what happened
back when I was your babysitter, Because that's okay, dude,
I don't care about anymore. I don't care about it.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That was that kidnap movie where they kidnapped the girl.
I think we talked about it last week. They kidnapped
the the the girl that's the head of the CEO
in the the town and she.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Is an alien or he thinks she's nailing.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Okay, did we talk about that movie? No, this is
like all new to me, and now I'm intrigued. Oh
that's right, Begonia. Yes, we did talk about this one.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay, but going you treated this subject pretty interestingly because
then this guy's just trying to pull a caper in
his hometown and this cops pulling pulled him over and said, I'm.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Really sorry what happened when I was your babysitter.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Man, you know, really it's okay, man, it's all the
past worry about man, you know, let me go.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Okay, man, are you still doing okay? Okay. I'll come
by and see you sometimes. And then he's like, oh God.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And then he comes by and this guy's got a
woman hit in his basement and the guy that used
to molest him in town is the babysitter is like
a cop and he's just coming over to like say
he's really sorry for molesting him. And and it's just
kind of a town where you could see like molestation
would would would just kind of someone would get away
(25:13):
with it and then it would just like this kid
doesn't want to talk about it. The CoP's not going
to turn himself in, so he's only just but he's
riddled with guilt about it. And there's a baby, there's
a person hiding in the basement. Now that is you know, fascinating,
and this die my love, it is just.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Stupid.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Sounds like it sounds like it was exploitive of mental
health and like it was trying to do psychological thrilling
by kind of just exploiting psychology.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You're thrilled for what, like, you know, oh, what are
they doing? Now? They're having sex again?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
All right, well now, and then all of a sudden
at some point, oh, they're not having sex. So I
think this is the point. They were having wild sex
and then she had a baby, and then they were
not having sex. Oh no, and and that was the
whole arc pretty much.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
So basically it's just adult life for people who become parents.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yes, And these people happen to be in an old
house they inherited in Montana, and maybe their fishes out
of water. And then some black guy on a motorcycle
keeps coming by, and she keeps either having sex with
them or fascinating about having sex with them. You can't tell,
and you can't tell what the fantasy parts are what
the reality parts are, and you don't. You don't like
(26:28):
these people, and you had they didn't give you one
thing to grab onto to maybe like them or have
some connection to them. It never happened. You have no
idea what this director wants you to feel, but definitely
they sum it up in this one review, Oscar Bait
(26:49):
disguised as an indie film.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Hum, so.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That's it for Die, Die my love. I did see
some good stuff in the streaming world. Have you seen
The Chair Company?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, this is a thing.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
The Chair Company is a It's a film about a
guy who does not work at a chair company, but
he is obsessed with a chair company and he's going
to get to the bottom of the mystery of the
Chair Company. You haven't heard of this Tim Robinson that's
known as the guy from I Think You Should Leave.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
No, this sounds I mean, of all the premises that
you could come up with a chair company to be
fascinated about.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I'm curious now.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
He plays Ron Trosper, a middle aged manager or a
middle manager who's embarrassment over a malfunctioning office chair spirals.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Into a full blown corporate conspiracy.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The tone mixers workplace satire with surreal mystery, which you
know it's cringe comedy because this guy's like a cringe guy.
He's just, you know, Okay, everything's uncomfortable for this guy.
It's produced it's a TV show by A twenty four
in partnership with HBO, so you know it's going to
be good. So is the chair Company, although it does
(28:09):
like to do the same thing over and over and
over and over again.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But like this show.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So let's take a break and listen to commercials and
we'll come back on. Joe Scilante Lyne.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
From Hollywood Award winning that's true. Thank you everybody. I
(28:52):
want to thank the people of the New Year, the
New Part Beat Film Festival. I want to thank my director.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I'm going to thank my editor pieced together my story,
you know, on the so you can see the film
that I wrote and produced at the Bay Theater on
November twenty ninth, they're doing another showing of it. Every
time I plays there it sells out. And so November
twenty nine, think the Bay Theater and all I did
(29:23):
with this movie really is the guy the director had
it done and it was an hour long, and.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
He thought it should be.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
He thought someone told him direct documentaries, the feature documentary
should be one hour long.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Most of them are a little longer from what I've
heard and seen.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Yeah, they're ninety minutes. A feature film is twenty minutes.
And I'm like, I was thinking, who told you this?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
I don't know. I go it's gonna be ninety minutes
because it'll be too boring. It's just a bunch of
surfing and the surf shops. It's about the world's oldest
and longest running surf store in the in the world,
Harbor Surf in Main Street and Seal Beach, my hometown here,
and you probably have seen the T shirts, maybe the
stickers on the cars. It's quite a legendary story, but
(30:07):
it's a small time story. It's a very small story,
you know, from its regional. So the trick was, how
do we make it ninety minutes without making it like
the director fear and would be too boring, you know,
too much surfing, too much of this surf shop.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So to me, what I did is I turned it
into a movie that was well, this is remarkable that
this happened, and it could only happen in Seal Beach,
and here's why. So that's the story we weave in.
The mythology of the story of Seal Beach was quite interesting.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I have a hard time finding, like I mean, really
one of the most legendary documentaries about surfing is Endless Summer,
where they go and serve it like it's endlessly.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Surfing in the entire and like even one of them was.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
One of the most famous moments from the film is
when they found a wave that they could keep riding
for an hour, you know, and that was I don't know,
I don't know how somebody can feel like a surf
documentary with more with just people surfing and it would
be considered boring when that's what people come to see.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, this guy is smart because Seal Beach and has
small waves and nobody wants to see ninety minutes of
Seal Beach waves. So you got to take the story
of the Seal Beach boards and you go out and
you find big waves. But this guy is not a
big waves surf photographer, which would come from or He's
(31:45):
not going to travel the world like Bruce Brown did
in the in the Summer. It's not going to do that.
That's that's just not going to happen. So he's trying
to tell the story and he has to do it
with these of you know, smaller waves and this you know,
small story, but a story.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
With a lot of heart.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Sam And so he was right, that just needed something different.
But Seal Beach is a town to where like this
is they call it the Mayberry by the sea. It's
very slot quiet and sleepy. The main street hasn't changed
in Some main streets haven't changed in hundreds of years
or whatever. This main street hasn't changed in you know,
(32:30):
maybe seventy years, sixty years.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
But that's quite remarkable in California.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Like if you go to Huntington Beach's main street, you
know they've redone the whole thing in some like stucco nightmare,
you know, like even before the dot com boom generated
a bunch of money to even do things like that correctly.
And so it's just it's it's not as cool as
this when you come to this place. It just looks
like the nineteen sixties and it's quiet. The streets roll
(33:02):
up at eight thirty four, Irish bars stay open, and
the history of the town is one of alcohol, illegal
alcohol sales, gambling, and prostitution.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
All right, Yes, amusement parks. So that's the.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Interesting part, fun for everyone.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, So the Yeah and the Bay Theater I went
to see Two nights ago, I went to see A
Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leoni movie of Clint Eastwood, the
first of the Dollars trilogy. A Fistful of dollars for
a few dollars more, and Good, Bad, and the Ugly
is the first one. Clint Eastwood is amazing in it.
(33:49):
It's just so iconic. He's just an icon on the
screen at all times. This Guy's ninety five is still living.
It's kind of a remake of Yo Jimbo, which is
playing played at the Bay today. The Bay Theater is
the most beautifully restored, like you know, art house. I
guess it's kind of like you know where they show
(34:09):
different movies every No, I don't know what you call that,
like a revival theater, that's what it's a revival house.
And they also have live concerts there. So if you
go to the Google and look up the Bay Theater
and Seal Beach and find a movie that you want
to see again or from your past, or something you
(34:30):
haven't seen, and you're going to be sitting in the
most beautiful, beautifully restored theater that you've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
And the screen the.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Fistful of Dollars was full wide screen like CinemaScope, which
most of the films like I see lately don't like
that one, the one I just talked about. The worst
movie twenty twenty five that's shot in like a one
thirty one ratio. That's like, it's like a box on
your screen, got black lines on either side of the
(34:59):
screen in a in a modern theater, and you're like,
why is this? Why doesn't he even this movie today?
In twenty twenty five? Fill that screen you take you
go to see a classic film at the Bay Theater.
It's gonna fill that screen. Sound is wonderful and I
can't recommend it enough. What a date night for you
and your lady, That's what I say. Are you and
your man whoever, whatever, whatever situation you're in, all right,
(35:24):
let's move on a little bit. I'm gonna skip Frankenstein
from Giermo del Toro because we'll talk about it later,
maybe next week.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I don't really finished it because it's not it's it's
a movie.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
As soon as you watch it, you go, this would
be in the theater, So it's it looks so amazing,
it should be in the theater.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Why is it on Netflix? Why didn't I get to
see it in the theater? So you got to start
from there. Let's go to the usual stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenner are suing there's still still
same lawsuit over the sex tape they had. And if
you look into this, you know, I think we all
fought like, oh, she has sex tape got leaked somewhere,
the poor dear, but it made her career and now
she's famous and rich and beautifuls Okay. But but if
(36:10):
you read the stuff of this lawsuit, it turns out
that they concocted the whole thing, ray j A the person,
the other the mail in the thing they had this
they filmed themselves having sex. Then they thought, what should
we do with it? It's pretty good, and then together
with Chris Janner, they said, okay, we'll release it and
(36:32):
then we'll make up a fake story that Kim is
a victim and she didn't want to get released, release it,
and she'll file a fake lawsuit against you, and we'll
come up with a settlement. And they did, and they
gave him six million dollars, and that's the truth. Evidently
he got. And then he got the six million dollars
and then he sued them now and said, wait, a
(36:54):
second part of this thing is you weren't supposed to
talk about it in the Kardashian TV shows, and you did,
so I'm suing you, and they're like, well, I've got
some I'm mad at you for something else, so I'm
countersuing you. And now they're in the news again. So
now this looks like a real lawsuit, like he's mad
at them. He's saying, you're just doing this for publicity.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
This is BS.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I don't know, but he started it, so who knows.
All right, so that's it's educational. Yeah, okay, for the
purposes of this show. There's a very important lawsuit that
was actually legally fully litigated where a guy to sue
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they used
one of his pictures and they didn't get permission, and
(37:34):
we all know that you can't do that. But the
judge the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame argued, of course,
this is fair use. It is a transformative use of
his picture.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
It used to be just.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
A photo to promote a band, Eddie van Halen in
the Van Halen Band. But now it's a historical artifact
and qualified for fair use because it really demonstrates the
the times in the historical context of rock and roll
at the time I was taken. I cannot believe this
(38:07):
argument work but it did. So this is good for
museums that are trying to just say, you know, this
is a whole picture we got. And I'm not saying
this is the right decision, but it'll help museums to
fight off people who are just thinking they if they
see their picture somewhere, they can sue when they really
don't have damages.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
I sent it over to the Punk Rock Museum as
soon as I saw the article, and they were like, whoa,
you know, does it change things?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Like could you do you still.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Want to get permission from people to show any picture?
You still do, but you have a weapon now of
someone sends you a nasty letter, you say, hey, read
this article.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, tell me those days are over.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
This is transformative stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Transformative, that's the correct parlance. Drake is being sued over
a video called What I Miss, which they say infringes
on a copyright on a exhibit or an artwork called
America Guns, which is all it is is Americans with
(39:11):
all their guns laid out on the ground in front
of their house.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
That's the whole art piece.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
It's not they're suing each each other saying, hey, Drake,
you you you laid your guns out by your pool,
like some of the artwork or the photographs I took. Yeah,
I think I think it's a bad lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I think Drake is the winner in this one. But
I think we're over time, so let's just call it
right there.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Joe Scalante live from Hollywood to see you guys next week.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
I know lean you with just the taste of the
greatest song ever written.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.