October 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Nick Gregorio joins Andy to talk about his new short film and hang for the full first hour. Plus: ‘One Battle After Another’ is set to lose $100M, Jimmy Fallon’s side hustle gets roasted, and Andy shares what Gen Z is really doing at jazz shows.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Andy Reestmeier. Here, it is just past seven o'clock here
in the City of Angels, going out to all those
Angelinos out there, those lonely angelinos. Tony, are you an Angelino?
Would you consider yourself one? No, No, Ronner, I don't
live in the city. I am a proud Angelina.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But Conway was just talking about this, and I think
it's a good point. Nobody and their mother uses the
term angelino really, unless you're like an elected official.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
No. I think I first heard that from the author
Harlan Ellison decades ago, and he.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Used that in just regular old conversation with you. Yeah,
he just said, hey, angelino, No, not quite like that,
And that's what I'm saying. He referred to himself as one. Well, yeah,
I mean I think that that's fair. It's referential. But
anytime you hear anyone say angelino's, it's a politician.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I mean you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't think it's something that you would constantly say, like,
my goodness, look at that group of Angelinos. Yeah, you
probably wouldn't be. It can sound awkward if you if
you don't do it correctly.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
To be fair. I'm a transplant. I barely have any
ability to uh, to comment on this. I'm of course
from Indiana.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Hoosier.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I heard everybody talking about Hoosier's earlier. Oh, I'm an
ex Hoosier. You're an ex Hoosier.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You lived there, lived in Lafayette for a little while.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I went to Purdue for grad school, and I worked
at the newspaper in Lafayette right after.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And Hoosiers are not only the Indiana mascot, the IU mascot,
but they're also just what you call people from Indiana.
That's what Conway and Michael Monks were talking about earlier.
And when I was growing up Hoosiers because my mom
was from Chicago, she would call you a Hoosier if
you were behaving badly, Like if you were doing something
like putting mayonnaise on two pieces of bread and eating
(01:46):
it like a sandwich. That's with nothing else, that's Hoo's
your behavior.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, yeah, having lived there myself, I can say, like,
if you've got a non working major appliance on your
front lawn, I'd say.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That's what are you doing, ye, Hoosier.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I got a bunch of old cars sitting out front
of the house, a few of them on blocks.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Who's your behavior? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hey, by the way, big night in Los Angeles, Roner,
Where are we going to riot after this riot? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I really hadn't planned on a well, butting.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The Dodgers are gonna are we gonna sweep here?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Let's see? Do you write if they win or right
if they lose, or just either way?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, as an Angelina, you should know we riot, we
riot regardless.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Buddy.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I've never been a huge sports, mainstream sports fan, so
I just don't know all the rioting etiquette.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, I'll tell you what. It's the top of the
fifth Dodgers up for nothing versus the Milwaukee Brewers, also
a Midwest team, and it's looking pretty good for the Dodgers.
Another out here we go bottom of the fifth now,
uh and uh show, Hey, we'll leave the mound and
then we will uh we will see the Dodgers up
(02:48):
to bat here real soon. So what's appropriate? Do we like,
throw a throw a chair through a Starbucks window? Or yeah,
that would be the Bobby Knight move.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I remember Bobby Knight. Oh what a guy he was.
He was a world class chair thrower.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He was the man when it came to throwing chairs,
nobody had. It was all in the wrist, you know,
because it's not enough to just just hak a chair
across the maple. You gotta really get some spin on it.
Probably not a guy I would want to spend a
lot of quality time with. But if say you were
putting together an Olympic chair throwing team, yeah, he's the
guy first on the list, Bob Night. I don't know
(03:20):
if he even knew what quality time was, but he
was a force to be reckoned with, for sure. And
it was the first time I understood what it was
to be afraid of an adult. Yes, joining me in
studio right now is mister Nick Gregorio, an actor, director,
multi hyphen it. I've known God, we've known each other
for twelve thirteen years. Who were just talking about this
from the early days of digital media? Yes, and now
(03:43):
thanks for being here. I think about the digital landscape now,
about how everybody and their mother got a podcast. You
could do one episode of Big Brother, you could be
voted off the first week of Big Brother, and you
got a cruise you're taking people on. You got a podcast.
You gotta a diet TEA line it's a it's a
way different world than it was. I mean, we were
(04:05):
working on a show probably eleven years ago for Sony
PlayStation not far from here, Yeah, and we did a
show on the on the PlayStation streaming app called All
Systems Go. We had another little show called Space Bar,
and you and I were just kind of at the
beginning there where they where there was there was.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It was the wild West. I would say, the toxic
days of YouTube. I think people think the Internet is
toxic now.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The Internet, the amount of words we had the ban
from comments on the shows was it was like a bible.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's funny you say that because because Ron and I
were talking about this the other day that the Internet
seems dumber than it ever was. But is that just
my own my own brainwashed brain rot because I can't
have any actual perspective on things.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So a quick story.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
When I had the sketch show like Dank Fire, Yeah,
I showed the sketches to my uncle, who was like
an old Italian guy. Yeah, and he was like, yeah,
but what's your job? And I was like, no, No,
this is my job.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I make.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I make or these short films. You're like, I know
you do that, but like, what do they pay you
to do? I'm like, the show is what they pay me.
So I think adults always thought the Internet was stupid,
and now we're.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Just we're adults now I think it's stupid.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, you've got kids now. I think your daughter was
born when we were working together. So she's ten now, yep,
which is an amazing thing. You got two kids, I got, yeah,
Audrey and Eva. Audie's going to be ten years old.
Eva seven.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I'm constantly reminded of how old I am because of
how young and useful they are. Yeah, but I mean
they're in, they're hip to the lingo. They're six seven and.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh yeah, yeah they're really cool. Oh yeah, there's everything.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
The craziest thing is, though, it moves so quickly, and
everything sort of became canon, where they'll use internet slang
from our era right up until like like tomorrow, like
they'll dab, which I thought that was gonna go away,
but the kids are, like the kids.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Are dabbing it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
They'll still dab.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I did a thing recently about slang terms that are
most googled in California or whatever, and obviously six seven
was the number one, and I kind of had this
perspective of if we're reporting about it on the local.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
News, it's over. Oh it's over.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But now that it's all coming back so quickly, like dabbing,
seems like it went away, but now it's back, which
means that like it's hard to know what's in and
what isn't then right.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Well, when you're looking at like meme culture, memes last forever, yeah,
like what are those still that? That's people still what
are those?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah? People still? Water?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Is that if you have a crusty old meme and
you can throw it into an edit, someone's gonna fow
this is true and someone's going to enjoy it. This
is absolutely my kids like Gangnam Style, what the Fox say,
like they.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Those are things that we were talking about in the
early days of.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The Internet Internet, and they're still relevant to a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So I'm gonna set the scene a little bit. There
was a time in Los Angeles in twenty eleven or
twelve where the entire culture of YouTube sort of just
moved to LA. They were all disparate in different locations.
Grace Helbig was big in New York, and I think
what happened was YouTube, the company which had been bought
by Google not long before invested in this huge thing
(07:03):
called the YouTube Space, which was essentially an old Howard
Hughes hangar that they converted into a movie studio for YouTubers.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, it was like it was like a cut your
teeth studio. There was like green screen rooms, there was
sound stages. There was a ton of really expensive equipment, right,
and no one wanted me how to use it. Now,
I mean so many things up broke. People were dropping lenses.
It was like red cameras and people didn't know how
to turn them on. It was it is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, and this of course started this whole I think, uh,
groundswell of investment from all these other companies. So you
had all these places that said, okay, YouTube is doing it,
Google's doing it. So now we got to put a
ton of money into everything else. So major television stations
or television companies rather had their own digital teams. Now
(07:45):
I don't know if somebody's uh, is that my phone?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Is that that me doing that?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That is my phone making that noise? I am so embarrassed.
It's my rinkations going up. Someone may be breaking into
my house. Who's to say, I'm sitting here and being like,
who's stupid phone?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Is?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Is sitting in church and somebody's phone's going off? It's
my phone. Anyway, I silenced it. It's fine, hold your calls.
But yeah, it was amazing because it felt like there
was this groundswell. There was all this money. There was
money everywhere. Everybody had more money.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Than I think anyone realized.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Like when I hear about the early YouTube channels like
Bat in the Sun, which was like a fandom channel
that made like superheroes fight each other, they were getting
like five hundred thousand million dollars to produce content. Now
worry about short form video content. You know Epic meal Time.
I used to work with them. They were one of
my clients and we did Epic Gaming time with the
PlayStation four release, crazy like.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Millions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah, to do like half baked like slapstick gaming.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Which is odd because the quality of the Internet is
no better now than it was then, but the amount
of money is far less. I mean, I don't think
you're seeing Sony putting in two and a half million
dollars or whatever. I mean, I think our show that
we did together, which was like basically a daily show.
The budget was like millions of dollars, which is bonkers
to think about. I mean, I work at KTLA, which
(09:05):
is like one of the most well regarded television stations
in America, and we have none of the resources relatively
speaking to what we were doing when we were twenty
two years old working at YouTube shows crazy stuff. Nick,
stay with us. We've got a lot more to talk about,
including why Jimmy Fallon is getting roasted for maybe what
(09:27):
is his worst side hustle. Yet we are talking a
little bit about movies and Hollywood, one battle after another.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Did you see it?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Leo's newest movie projected to lose one hundred million dollars.
Haven't heard of one hundred million dollars being lost since
we were making content in the early twenty teens for
digital And of course, also, George Santos is out, baby,
He's been freed. And I have a great story about
George Santos that I will tell you about when we
see you on the other side of the break.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
A thousand days away from the Olympics. That's the big
conversation today from the city. We are one thousand days away.
There were press conferences, there was a pomp and circumstance
like you've never seen before. The red carpet has been
rolled out because we are one thousand days away from
the Olympics, an amount of measurement, a unit of which
(10:23):
no one has ever thought in before.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I just hope they open up Lot C soon, because
it's been closed and I keep hearing rumblings that they're
going to open it once the Olympics are here. Okay, yeah,
because I can't park my car at the airport anymore. No, no,
for sub five hundred dollars, and I'm I'm stuck taking
shuttles in ubers because you can't drive to the airport
anymore because the only affordable lot has been closed for
renovations for the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's a tough story, you know, for people who are
out here. And I cannot wait until twenty twenty eight
because the reality is there will be so many problems
that will be solved. Oh by twenty twenty eight, think
it's gonna be perfect. Any public works project's going to
be done. All of our traffic issues are going to
be solved, all of the homelessness issues are gonna be hand.
(11:07):
We're gonna we're gonna be living large in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
It will be a kin to when your mom asued
to clean your room and you push everything into the
closet and then slam that door.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Card Like that is what it's going That is one
hundred percent true. It's the way that every single man's
house is never been cleaner than the hour before he
goes on a date. Yes, that house a few years
for me, but no, But you know what I'm saying,
Like that house would never look this way if a
woman wasn't potentially coming over, or maybe your mom was
(11:38):
in town. By the way, Dodgers leading for nothing against
the Brewers, we are in the middle of the sixth.
I don't know how you're in the midsex. Does that
means we're gonna transition period?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
We're moving to the bottom of the sixth. Google says
like a mid sixth.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I'm still salty about it as a Phillies fan. That's right,
We're close. If we could have we could have won
that game. You know, it was like the eleventh over time.
We could have took it back to Philly. There's a chance.
But I mean, the Dodgers are a great team. The
Dodgers are a great team.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And it's interesting that it comes down to so much
of money, so much of it as money, you know.
I mean, if you got money to get the best
players in the world, then you're gonna you're gonna have
a good team. Chemistry is important to yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, But you know, I mean, what are you
talking about your rosters here?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
You're looking at even at the other teams.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I think I was listening to David pinglo Or today
who was talking about sports reporter for Katla. He was
talking about how our roster I think. I think the
amount of money that we pay for salaries is like
three hundred million dollars or something like that, and the
Brewers and uh pre Yer, the Brewers and uh uh
Maritters are somewhere like one hundred and twenty million or
(12:41):
something like that. So it's just like, you're not but
you know, and who are we to judge anybody for
money or what they do to get money. Some people
pretty upset about the star of the Tonight Show and
his side hustle. I want you to listen, you know,
because Jimmy Fallon has had a lot of side hustles
over the years. He did that lip sync show.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, he did some game shows though.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
He did right, and but this one now is raising eyebrows,
as they say in the news.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Guys, the new puzzle game, Royal Kingdom just launched and
it's the follow up to Royal Match, but the games
are different.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Kingdom has King Richard, well Match is King Robert.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And this is the guy man, this was the bag.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Let me let me lead off with this one, right,
all right? Have you ever been handed the bag? My god?
Have you ever?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Because that's that's my whole I think it's it's very
easy to judge. But have you ever got the call
that was like do you want another mansion?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Do you want the yacht?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Because you do the Kingdom Royale clash for you know,
read and you're getting the bag.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
People are roasting Jimmy Fallon because of the Royal Kingdom endorsement. Again,
I get it, you know. I obviously have not ever
got the bag, because I mean I would have said
yes to this. It's just I think the guy who
you know, who is so full of life, who created
these great moments for right, when he's starting out of
(14:05):
his career to hear him say this.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Different Kingdom has King Richard. Well, match is King Robert,
and look, don't worry else.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That guy does not know what that means at all.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
King Robert.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
They're all like bibblehead designed characters jumping on a colored square.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And look, Royal Kingdom. It's not the same as doing
a comedy festival for the Saudist. You know there is that, But.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Have you ever had the bags? I understand. I know what.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
It's right, because I imagine it's just got to be.
There's things that I've done in my career and it's
not even a bag.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
It's just like a job. Right. I don't agree with this,
but it's just a little bit above minimum wage. Yeah,
and you're like sure, I'll take it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, if you're if you'd like to hear more, take
a lesson, I'll break it down.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Royal Kingdom, Royal match, Royal Kingdom, Royal match, Kingdom match Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I can't see this, but I'm sure no, even if
you could see it, it doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't play these games, but I don't begrudge this
man any any bit whatsoever. And the other thing is
like these games, these mobile games, people are playing them
all the time. This guy knows what happened to Jimmy
Kimmel when he said one thing. This guy knows what
(15:21):
happened to the number one rated late night show that's canceled,
of course.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
And I also think a lot of this backlash is
because he took a very middling stance, which is like
controversial now, to be like, sure want to do an
entertaining talk show, and they were like boo, it's crazy
because there is this sense now and I think that
you you sort of know this as well, where it's
like it's not enough.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
The expectation on both sides is that you can't just
have no agenda.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You help me mad at you if you don't. If
you don't, you're damned. If you do, you damned if
you don't. It's the whole like silence is violence thing
where all of a sudden you are demanded to take
a stand, and if you don't, it says something about
who you are as a person and as an entertainer.
And it's like you look back at the way that
Carson was obviously he had opinions. He was a political person,
but he thought that it didn't belong on the Tonight Show.
(16:10):
And I think it's evidenced by the fact that half
of their audience is gone. Now, yeah, it's obvious.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I mean, look at Don Rickles and Ronald Reagan and
Sinatra and all those guys, like they didn't all agree politically,
but they understood that. Like ultimately, they're all Americans, right,
they all care about, you know, the core values of
the country, and.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Their job is to entertain, like you push it up
to the line.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
But now it's like you got to state your I
don't know your mission statement, like politically before you can
do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I have a hot take, which is that humor is dead,
but not for the reason that you think. And here's
the example that I'll give you. I went to a
you know what, I'm mister Ronner. I'm sorry, I'm taking
your time. I'm gonna know you take as much as
he needs you. No, I'm gonna hold this story until
we come back. I'll hurry. Uh no, please, don't take
your time. We got to hear about Zelman's we got
(16:57):
to hear about the law brothers. You know, we're We're
not We're not here to take up that time.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I know, but you're making me anxious.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
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Speaker 2 (17:08):
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got something wrong. I'm assuming that a lot of our
(17:29):
Dodger audience is watching the game, so if we say
things that are critical of the Dodgers, we're probably going
to have less feedback. Top of the seventh right now,
four to nothing, Dodgers lead the Brewers. This is the
maybe potentially last game in the NLCS. If the Dodgers
(17:49):
win tonight, it'll be a sweep against the Brewers. They
will move on to the World Series against we don't know,
either Toronto, the Blue Jays or the Seattle Mariners. Did
I get that right? That all sounds good? In studio
with Nick Rgorio right now, who actor, writer, producer, family
(18:12):
man Proud Pyson, tell me about this new this new
movie that you did. That's it's getting a lot of
a lot of excitement. There's a Catalina wine mixer happening
for you. Shapadava is the movie.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I got to make it with a friend and collaborator,
Tony DeNiro, younger guy who we weren't any relation to.
He's his cousin. No way, they're not close, but he
is his cousin. That's well, I guess they're all cousins. Okay,
is that bad? It's some poor taste, but anyway, Yeah,
so we we collaborated on this project.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
It's a short film. It's an Italian American thing.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
So of course it was like in my lane, I
got to play like a chef and an uncle. So
I drawed from like my own experience with my own uncle,
and it was very collaborative. Having to work with a
kid was very much like there's a like a little
girl who's my niece, and I'm trying to help her
with the speech impediment thing that she picks up. He's
saying shahbadaba because she's nervous about a new school that
she goes to.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Uh So, working with a kid is really interesting.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Took me back to like the days of shooting very
you know, sparsely with green screen and you know the
digital days where the kid can only be on set
for so long that right, and then you're talking to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And then you got it just a wall. Right, it's
you got to you gotta go Jurassic Park rules where
they they does a kid get a stand in in
the form of a little Trannosaurus Rex with the with
the tennis ball on the end of it.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, but yeah, we're getting a lot of festivals. It was.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
It was in the San Diego Film Festival this weekend.
Of course, all the good festivals I missed because I
was like, I'm going to go to Philly, and Tony's like, oh,
you'll come to Philly. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna
fly in my family wall come out. And Philly did
not disappoint me in having the philliest like experience in
what way folding cheer Yeah, yeah, like just dust mites,
(20:01):
bring your own water. I got twenty people show up.
My mother in law is like, can you tell them
to turn the ac on? She's bothering my brother in law.
She's like, go to the front and tell them to
turn the ac on. At least get us bottles of water.
No one's at the festival. It's just my family and
the people I invited, my friend's pregnant wife fainting because
it's so hot there.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It comes on.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
I'm like, and Andy, you know how I feel about presentation,
like you gotta have formats and that the title of
the video.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Is you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
He says, VLC Media player or VLC, And I'm like,
but we've had like really great ones all over but
I was like, not Philly, Philly, couldn't Philly just had.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
To deliver it so appropriate. It does feel appropriate.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
And then we're all out to dinner and I have
everyone like complimenting me, like I'm a kid who drew
like colored in a piece of paper and handed and
everyone's like, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And Nikki, it's a good job, like it was the.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Best movie there. I was like, well, it was a
pretty whack festival. I hope so.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, I'm sure I'm sure it'll do well. You had
a movie not long ago called Old Strangers. But you
can also see it's a fun, full full length feature.
It's a full length feature that's an exciting thriller, a
sci fi thriller, if you will, which is available everywhere
movies are sold. I want to get to more movie stuff.
One Battle after another projected to lose one hundred million
(21:21):
dollars theatrically. That is crazy. This is, of course, the
movie that was starred Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul
Thomas Thomas Anderson, who of course just did Liquorice Pizza
like five minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I mean, he's a great director, great director, one of
the best directors, you know. I think I think it's tough.
It's a tough sell. I think it's a polarizing movie.
And I think, you know, he would admit that everyone
that worked on it admits that when you're talking about
putting movie stars in something that is a little bit
more politically motivated, a bit more polarizing, Right, you're going
(21:59):
to see audio his not show up because you need
everyone to show up, right. You can't just have the
people that agree with you show up. And I don't
think it's a broad enough film. I was actually shocked
because I think Pta is pretty talented filmmaker and a
really good screenwriter.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
There will be blood.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
The master they're some of my favorite films total, and
this was such a It was very zeitgeisty, was very
of the now interesting. It did not scratch any surfaces.
It was very black and white in its morality and
who is the good guys and who were the bad guys?
And I just I was actually kind of disappointed. I
thought he would be more sophisticated with a story like this.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, I'm glad you gave your honest opinion because we
have Paul Thomas Anderson here in studio. Bring him out now. Yeah,
I think that that's a good point. And I wonder
if the sort of banking on the movie star era
of Hollywood is over, because if Leo can't get people
in seats, then who can I mean to Cruise, Tom.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Cruise, Tom Cruse come.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
But it's also Leo not looking like Leo, you know,
it's Leo in a bathrobe with his hair frazzled and
a five o'clock shadow running around. Like that's a good point,
Like it's people don't necessarily like it's same thing with
Killers of the Flower Moon. It's not Leo looking like Leo, right,
And it's not the type of cinematic experience that they
expect from a movie star in the traditional sense. Yeah,
(23:22):
Brad pitt Neff one great example, do those like a
million bucks? That's that's why you want to go to
the movies to see a movie helm by a movie star.
Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. Again, that movie sort of underperformed,
but it did well enough. But he's looking like the
star that people want to see. You can't make one
hundred and twenty million dollar art house movie, No, that
(23:42):
leans very much one way and expect.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
People across the country to go and see it like
it's an action film.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think it's a really good point. So we will
see what happens there. I mean, I know that there
was a lot of mixed reaction to Licorice Pizza, even
though I absolutely love that movie. And like you said,
like this is a guy who's clearly an incredible filmmaker,
and I think he will have no truy making more movies. Uh,
but pretty crazy, and especially I think the way that
the economy of Hollywood has changed so much recently, young people.
(24:09):
I've been thinking about gen Z a lot because I
do a lot of reporting about gen Z. I'll tell
you a real quick story here before we hand it
over to the very capable hands of Mark Ronner. I
went somewhere this weekend. I got served up an advertisement
on on Instagram, of course, about a jazz night, and
I thought, Oh, that's awesome. I'm so cool. I'd go
see live jazz. And it was this cool cafe. I
(24:31):
won't say the name of it because I don't want to.
It wasn't their fault that this is my experience, but
it was a cool setup on Instagram. It looked incredible.
It's like under a train overpass, you know, like there's
like the subways going around. Yeah, and it's like a
noir thing. There's all this neon and stuff and jazz
playing in the background. You sit in the patio with
(24:52):
like a natural wine and watch the jazz. And I
was like, oh, that's amazing. And I've been trying to
trying to go for months, and I finally got down
there and I'm walking in and it's like me and
one hundred and fifty twenty three year olds. Oh and
I just and none of them are watching or paying
attention to the jazz, like maybe ten or fifteen of
(25:14):
them around. It's so weird, and it's like they're just
there to get a photo of themselves there, I think,
and to have been there as opposed to like actually
do anything or participate in anything. And I got to
thinking about, like, if you're really cool, you have a
very specific opinion of yourself. And I noticed that, like
none of them were laughing, none of them were talking
(25:35):
to each other, and nonem we're watching anything. There's no
humor to any of it. Because I think if you
were a really cool person and someone makes you laugh,
that's a problem because laughing is involuntary, and that means
somebody else is in control. So it's almost like I
think younger people, and especially the cool la young people,
it's like low class to be entertained. It's low class
(25:55):
to enjoy things. It's low status to do anything like
that because it means that somebody else is more powerful
than you are.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Wow, that's an interesting theory.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Okay, I don't know if this is real, but it
drove me nuts because I was like, I used to
just go to things to see them and enjoy them,
and if you're going now with the purpose of showing
yourself there, you are the star of that experience. And
in that scenario, I don't know that there's an opportunity
for a movie star to exist, or a musician to exist,
or a comedian to exist.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
No, I think that.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I think people want to democratize entertainment. And this is
what it looks like. It looks like every person you've
ever met trying to be famous on the Internet, even
if they're not trying. It's like, you don't. You don't
post performatively unless you're an entertainer, like a legitimate entertainer.
If you're posting about like a punk and patch, why
for who?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Who is this like?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Even from mom culture to like you know, startup culture
to everything, everyone wants to be the leading man or
woman of the story, right, And it's yeah, you're like
you're saying, it's very hard to like laugh at someone
else's joke when you're focused on being.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
On the cool yeah and the most important Numero uno.
Everybody's got a main character energy.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Nick Gregorio with us when we come back, we're talking
uh more, more movies and culture, uh Art, entertainment and more,
why Chili's Caso sucks, Plus George Santo's out of jail.
We have some exclusive audio from when before he went
in to the slammer. That's all coming up.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You're listening to KFI Am six on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Dodgers lead five nothing against the Milwaukee Brewers. But as
we just saw Brewers put put a batter on on
on a base, We've got somebody on the second base
right now. I'm trying to see through thirty six years
of not knowing anything about sports, so it's tough for me.
I'm in studio with Nick Gregorio, whos joined us this
whole hour. Uh, Nick, you're You're an old bud and
(27:52):
I I've always loved working with you, and I love
your hot takes on stuff. And I thought of this exactly.
I thought of this, and I thought it was funny
and I wanted to share with you. As many people
know today, President Donald Trump set on Friday, that's this
day that he has commuted a sentence of former US
Representative George Santos, a Republican who was serving more than
(28:16):
seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud
and identity theft charges. He was from New York. He
admitted last year to deceiving donors and stealing the identities
of eleven people, including his own life goodness, his own
family members to make donations to his campaign. He lied
about his relatives being killed in nine to eleven. I mean,
there's it's there. He has very few fans on either
(28:38):
side of the aisle here, I guess, except for the
president President Trump today.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Tweeting.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Let me pull it up here because I want to
make sure I quote it correct.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
I mean certain people, they're not built for prison. You know, Well,
that's Santos.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I don't think was.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
He definitely is not is not built for George has
been in solid is what President Trump posted on truth
Social George has been in solitary confinement for lung stretches
of time. By all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I don't do a good truck. That was good.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Therefore, I just signed a commutation releasing George Santo's from
prison immediately. You should see him. Good luck, George, have
a great life.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
My god.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
I mean, we have protesters outside the studio right now.
That impersonation was that.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Good, Oh good, great, good luck.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
George have a great life is one of my favorites.
But here's why I wanted to talk about this story,
because I don't I have no agenda other than to
entertain and I think that this is a perfect Jimmy
fallon exactly for real, though, like I don't need it.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I don't need that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
There's enough people who are way smarter than me on
all sides of the aisle, can who can do this
much better. And I just want to make dumb jokes
and stuff and hang out with my friends. My friends,
speaking of which, for a bachelor party, they hired George
Santos on cameo a cameo video for my friend Tomas's
(29:57):
bachelor party. That audio is or now, no, it's not.
What's going on here?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
No? Is our computer not doing it? Are we having
that same issue we had last week? Tony? Tony, will
play it, Tony, you want to play it?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
All right?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Just start it and stop it right? Uh, I'll tell
you when to stop. Thank you, Tony. As we listen
here and we wait to hear the the dulcet tones
of George Santos.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Dude cameo is so interesting because I've seen a few
of my day now yeah, and they always there's like
a they've never used their camera phone And I don't
understand because these.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Are all like performers and something.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Well, especially it's always like they turn it on and
they like do a blank and they're like, hey, uh
for Andy and Having and the boys, you know, they're
always doing something that like it's the first time they've
ever done anything.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Of course, it's ready. Here's George Santos.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Hey Thos, it's George Santos, and I just wanted to
stop by to tell you what a crazy bachelor party
and the ridiculous activities that y'all had in the desert.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
This is, of course, this was before the party. The
party Toamas got this video at the at the party,
before the Prognosticator, before the ridiculous activities even occurred.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Keep it rolling them that y'all had in the desert.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Let's talk about how the transcripts of this show how
crazy you're going to get?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, positive the transcript is because we originally went on
Cameo and wrote a script for Chris Hansen.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Okay, Chris Hansen, Chris Hansen.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Formerly of of course to catch a creditor. But we
couldn't afford Chris Hansen, so we moved it to George Santos,
who I think was like forty five bucks. But we
forgot to change the script, so still references to the transcript,
meaning like the transcript conversation that you're supposed to be
having with this guy.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Oh, let's keep it going.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh I know, I know, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Good on Saturday night, and how trippy this Sunday is.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Going to be? Okay, all right, you can you can
stop it. George Santos really made the weekend for sure
for Thomas and the boys at the bachelor party. You
remember Thomas, you met Tomasa.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I do remember to was he was Santos in the
bing while he was doing this.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
This is doing this.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Months before he was sentenced and then taken to jail.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Wow, so he was trying to get that paper up
he was. We were helping me for his legal defense.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Little did he know, Little did he know Don was
coming through with the part.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
And what a surprise. George Santos a freeman once again.
So very good. Nick, thank you so much for joining us.
Where can people find more stuff about you?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Oh I'm pretty low key, but you could probably find
me on YouTube at Nick greg Orio. I have like
kind of a repository of all my content that I've created.
You could check out Old Strangers on all the different
streaming platforms.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
That's the movie that's the movie.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Some of the other short films, documentary stuff I shot
is on at Nick Gregorio on YouTube. And then there's
Happy Birthday Harris Malden and Green, two feature films I
did that are also out there.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Amazing, Nick, Thank you so much. Nice to see you.
We have a lot more coming up next hour. Don't
go anywhere. It's KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
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Speaker 1 (33:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Andy Reestmeier. Here, it is just past seven o'clock here
in the City of Angels, going out to all those
Angelinos out there, those lonely angelinos. Tony, are you an Angelino?
Would you consider yourself one? No, No, Ronner, I don't
live in the city. I am a proud Angelina.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But Conway was just talking about this, and I think
it's a good point. Nobody and their mother uses the
term angelino really, unless you're like an elected official.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
No. I think I first heard that from the author
Harlan Ellison decades ago, and he.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Used that in just regular old conversation with you. Yeah,
he just said, hey, angelino, No, not quite like that,
And that's what I'm saying. He referred to himself as one. Well, yeah,
I mean I think that that's fair. It's referential. But
anytime you hear anyone say angelino's, it's a politician.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
I mean you.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't think it's something that you would constantly say, like,
my goodness, look at that group of Angelinos. Yeah, you
probably wouldn't be. It can sound awkward if you if
you don't do it correctly.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
To be fair. I'm a transplant. I barely have any
ability to uh, to comment on this. I'm of course
from Indiana.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Hoosier.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I heard everybody talking about Hoosier's earlier. Oh, I'm an
ex Hoosier. You're an ex Hoosier.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You lived there, lived in Lafayette for a little while.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I went to Purdue for grad school, and I worked
at the newspaper in Lafayette right after.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And Hoosiers are not only the Indiana mascot, the IU mascot,
but they're also just what you call people from Indiana.
That's what Conway and Michael Monks were talking about earlier.
And when I was growing up Hoosiers because my mom
was from Chicago, she would call you a Hoosier if
you were behaving badly, Like if you were doing something
like putting mayonnaise on two pieces of bread and eating
(01:46):
it like a sandwich. That's with nothing else, that's Hoo's
your behavior.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, yeah, having lived there myself, I can say, like,
if you've got a non working major appliance on your
front lawn, I'd say.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
That's what are you doing, ye, Hoosier.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I got a bunch of old cars sitting out front
of the house, a few of them on blocks.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Who's your behavior? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hey, by the way, big night in Los Angeles, Roner,
Where are we going to riot after this riot? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I really hadn't planned on a well, butting.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The Dodgers are gonna are we gonna sweep here?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Let's see? Do you write if they win or right
if they lose, or just either way?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, as an Angelina, you should know we riot, we
riot regardless.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Buddy.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I've never been a huge sports, mainstream sports fan, so
I just don't know all the rioting etiquette.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, I'll tell you what. It's the top of the
fifth Dodgers up for nothing versus the Milwaukee Brewers, also
a Midwest team, and it's looking pretty good for the Dodgers.
Another out here we go bottom of the fifth now,
uh and uh show, Hey, we'll leave the mound and
then we will uh we will see the Dodgers up
(02:48):
to bat here real soon. So what's appropriate? Do we like,
throw a throw a chair through a Starbucks window? Or yeah,
that would be the Bobby Knight move.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I remember Bobby Knight. Oh what a guy he was.
He was a world class chair thrower.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
He was the man when it came to throwing chairs,
nobody had. It was all in the wrist, you know,
because it's not enough to just just hak a chair
across the maple. You gotta really get some spin on it.
Probably not a guy I would want to spend a
lot of quality time with. But if say you were
putting together an Olympic chair throwing team, yeah, he's the
guy first on the list, Bob Night. I don't know
(03:20):
if he even knew what quality time was, but he
was a force to be reckoned with, for sure. And
it was the first time I understood what it was
to be afraid of an adult. Yes, joining me in
studio right now is mister Nick Gregorio, an actor, director,
multi hyphen it. I've known God, we've known each other
for twelve thirteen years. Who were just talking about this
from the early days of digital media? Yes, and now
(03:43):
thanks for being here. I think about the digital landscape now,
about how everybody and their mother got a podcast. You
could do one episode of Big Brother, you could be
voted off the first week of Big Brother, and you
got a cruise you're taking people on. You got a podcast.
You gotta a diet TEA line it's a it's a
way different world than it was. I mean, we were
(04:05):
working on a show probably eleven years ago for Sony
PlayStation not far from here, Yeah, and we did a
show on the on the PlayStation streaming app called All
Systems Go. We had another little show called Space Bar,
and you and I were just kind of at the
beginning there where they where there was there was.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It was the wild West. I would say, the toxic
days of YouTube. I think people think the Internet is
toxic now.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The Internet, the amount of words we had the ban
from comments on the shows was it was like a bible.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That's funny you say that because because Ron and I
were talking about this the other day that the Internet
seems dumber than it ever was. But is that just
my own my own brainwashed brain rot because I can't
have any actual perspective on things.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
So a quick story.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
When I had the sketch show like Dank Fire, Yeah,
I showed the sketches to my uncle, who was like
an old Italian guy. Yeah, and he was like, yeah,
but what's your job? And I was like, no, No,
this is my job.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I make.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I make or these short films. You're like, I know
you do that, but like, what do they pay you
to do? I'm like, the show is what they pay me.
So I think adults always thought the Internet was stupid,
and now we're.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Just we're adults now I think it's stupid.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, you've got kids now. I think your daughter was
born when we were working together. So she's ten now, yep,
which is an amazing thing. You got two kids, I got, yeah,
Audrey and Eva. Audie's going to be ten years old.
Eva seven.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I'm constantly reminded of how old I am because of
how young and useful they are. Yeah, but I mean
they're in, they're hip to the lingo. They're six seven and.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh yeah, yeah they're really cool. Oh yeah, there's everything.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
The craziest thing is, though, it moves so quickly, and
everything sort of became canon, where they'll use internet slang
from our era right up until like like tomorrow, like
they'll dab, which I thought that was gonna go away,
but the kids are, like the kids.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Are dabbing it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
They'll still dab.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I did a thing recently about slang terms that are
most googled in California or whatever, and obviously six seven
was the number one, and I kind of had this
perspective of if we're reporting about it on the local.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
News, it's over. Oh it's over.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But now that it's all coming back so quickly, like dabbing,
seems like it went away, but now it's back, which
means that like it's hard to know what's in and
what isn't then right.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Well, when you're looking at like meme culture, memes last forever, yeah,
like what are those still that? That's people still what
are those?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah? People still? Water?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Is that if you have a crusty old meme and
you can throw it into an edit, someone's gonna fow
this is true and someone's going to enjoy it. This
is absolutely my kids like Gangnam Style, what the Fox say,
like they.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Those are things that we were talking about in the
early days of.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The Internet Internet, and they're still relevant to a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So I'm gonna set the scene a little bit. There
was a time in Los Angeles in twenty eleven or
twelve where the entire culture of YouTube sort of just
moved to LA. They were all disparate in different locations.
Grace Helbig was big in New York, and I think
what happened was YouTube, the company which had been bought
by Google not long before invested in this huge thing
(07:03):
called the YouTube Space, which was essentially an old Howard
Hughes hangar that they converted into a movie studio for YouTubers.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Yeah, it was like it was like a cut your
teeth studio. There was like green screen rooms, there was
sound stages. There was a ton of really expensive equipment, right,
and no one wanted me how to use it. Now,
I mean so many things up broke. People were dropping lenses.
It was like red cameras and people didn't know how
to turn them on. It was it is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, and this of course started this whole I think, uh,
groundswell of investment from all these other companies. So you
had all these places that said, okay, YouTube is doing it,
Google's doing it. So now we got to put a
ton of money into everything else. So major television stations
or television companies rather had their own digital teams. Now
(07:45):
I don't know if somebody's uh, is that my phone?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Is that that me doing that?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That is my phone making that noise? I am so embarrassed.
It's my rinkations going up. Someone may be breaking into
my house. Who's to say, I'm sitting here and being like,
who's stupid phone?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Is?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Is sitting in church and somebody's phone's going off? It's
my phone. Anyway, I silenced it. It's fine, hold your calls.
But yeah, it was amazing because it felt like there
was this groundswell. There was all this money. There was
money everywhere. Everybody had more money.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Than I think anyone realized.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Like when I hear about the early YouTube channels like
Bat in the Sun, which was like a fandom channel
that made like superheroes fight each other, they were getting
like five hundred thousand million dollars to produce content. Now
worry about short form video content. You know Epic meal Time.
I used to work with them. They were one of
my clients and we did Epic Gaming time with the
PlayStation four release, crazy like.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Millions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah, to do like half baked like slapstick gaming.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Which is odd because the quality of the Internet is
no better now than it was then, but the amount
of money is far less. I mean, I don't think
you're seeing Sony putting in two and a half million
dollars or whatever. I mean, I think our show that
we did together, which was like basically a daily show.
The budget was like millions of dollars, which is bonkers
to think about. I mean, I work at KTLA, which
(09:05):
is like one of the most well regarded television stations
in America, and we have none of the resources relatively
speaking to what we were doing when we were twenty
two years old working at YouTube shows crazy stuff. Nick,
stay with us. We've got a lot more to talk about,
including why Jimmy Fallon is getting roasted for maybe what
(09:27):
is his worst side hustle. Yet we are talking a
little bit about movies and Hollywood, one battle after another.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Did you see it?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Leo's newest movie projected to lose one hundred million dollars.
Haven't heard of one hundred million dollars being lost since
we were making content in the early twenty teens for
digital And of course, also, George Santos is out, baby,
He's been freed. And I have a great story about
George Santos that I will tell you about when we
see you on the other side of the break.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Now you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
A thousand days away from the Olympics. That's the big
conversation today from the city. We are one thousand days away.
There were press conferences, there was a pomp and circumstance
like you've never seen before. The red carpet has been
rolled out because we are one thousand days away from
the Olympics, an amount of measurement, a unit of which
(10:23):
no one has ever thought in before.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I just hope they open up Lot C soon, because
it's been closed and I keep hearing rumblings that they're
going to open it once the Olympics are here. Okay, yeah,
because I can't park my car at the airport anymore. No, no,
for sub five hundred dollars, and I'm I'm stuck taking
shuttles in ubers because you can't drive to the airport
anymore because the only affordable lot has been closed for
renovations for the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's a tough story, you know, for people who are
out here. And I cannot wait until twenty twenty eight
because the reality is there will be so many problems
that will be solved. Oh by twenty twenty eight, think
it's gonna be perfect. Any public works project's going to
be done. All of our traffic issues are going to
be solved, all of the homelessness issues are gonna be hand.
(11:07):
We're gonna we're gonna be living large in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
It will be a kin to when your mom asued
to clean your room and you push everything into the
closet and then slam that door.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Card Like that is what it's going That is one
hundred percent true. It's the way that every single man's
house is never been cleaner than the hour before he
goes on a date. Yes, that house a few years
for me, but no, But you know what I'm saying,
Like that house would never look this way if a
woman wasn't potentially coming over, or maybe your mom was
(11:38):
in town. By the way, Dodgers leading for nothing against
the Brewers, we are in the middle of the sixth.
I don't know how you're in the midsex. Does that
means we're gonna transition period?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
We're moving to the bottom of the sixth. Google says
like a mid sixth.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I'm still salty about it as a Phillies fan. That's right,
We're close. If we could have we could have won
that game. You know, it was like the eleventh over time.
We could have took it back to Philly. There's a chance.
But I mean, the Dodgers are a great team. The
Dodgers are a great team.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And it's interesting that it comes down to so much
of money, so much of it as money, you know.
I mean, if you got money to get the best
players in the world, then you're gonna you're gonna have
a good team. Chemistry is important to yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, But you know, I mean, what are you
talking about your rosters here?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
You're looking at even at the other teams.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I think I was listening to David pinglo Or today
who was talking about sports reporter for Katla. He was
talking about how our roster I think. I think the
amount of money that we pay for salaries is like
three hundred million dollars or something like that, and the
Brewers and uh pre Yer, the Brewers and uh uh
Maritters are somewhere like one hundred and twenty million or
(12:41):
something like that. So it's just like, you're not but
you know, and who are we to judge anybody for
money or what they do to get money. Some people
pretty upset about the star of the Tonight Show and
his side hustle. I want you to listen, you know,
because Jimmy Fallon has had a lot of side hustles
over the years. He did that lip sync show.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, he did some game shows though.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
He did right, and but this one now is raising eyebrows,
as they say in the news.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Guys, the new puzzle game, Royal Kingdom just launched and
it's the follow up to Royal Match, but the games
are different.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Kingdom has King Richard, well Match is King Robert.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And this is the guy man, this was the bag.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Let me let me lead off with this one, right,
all right? Have you ever been handed the bag? My god?
Have you ever?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Because that's that's my whole I think it's it's very
easy to judge. But have you ever got the call
that was like do you want another mansion?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Do you want the yacht?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Because you do the Kingdom Royale clash for you know,
read and you're getting the bag.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
People are roasting Jimmy Fallon because of the Royal Kingdom endorsement. Again,
I get it, you know. I obviously have not ever
got the bag, because I mean I would have said
yes to this. It's just I think the guy who
you know, who is so full of life, who created
these great moments for right, when he's starting out of
(14:05):
his career to hear him say this.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Different Kingdom has King Richard. Well, match is King Robert,
and look, don't worry else.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That guy does not know what that means at all.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
King Robert.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
They're all like bibblehead designed characters jumping on a colored square.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And look, Royal Kingdom. It's not the same as doing
a comedy festival for the Saudist. You know there is that, But.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Have you ever had the bags? I understand. I know what.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
It's right, because I imagine it's just got to be.
There's things that I've done in my career and it's
not even a bag.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
It's just like a job. Right. I don't agree with this,
but it's just a little bit above minimum wage. Yeah,
and you're like sure, I'll take it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, if you're if you'd like to hear more, take
a lesson, I'll break it down.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Royal Kingdom, Royal match, Royal Kingdom, Royal match, Kingdom match Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I can't see this, but I'm sure no, even if
you could see it, it doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't play these games, but I don't begrudge this
man any any bit whatsoever. And the other thing is
like these games, these mobile games, people are playing them
all the time. This guy knows what happened to Jimmy
Kimmel when he said one thing. This guy knows what
(15:21):
happened to the number one rated late night show that's canceled,
of course.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
And I also think a lot of this backlash is
because he took a very middling stance, which is like
controversial now, to be like, sure want to do an
entertaining talk show, and they were like boo, it's crazy
because there is this sense now and I think that
you you sort of know this as well, where it's
like it's not enough.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
The expectation on both sides is that you can't just
have no agenda.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You help me mad at you if you don't. If
you don't, you're damned. If you do, you damned if
you don't. It's the whole like silence is violence thing
where all of a sudden you are demanded to take
a stand, and if you don't, it says something about
who you are as a person and as an entertainer.
And it's like you look back at the way that
Carson was obviously he had opinions. He was a political person,
but he thought that it didn't belong on the Tonight Show.
(16:10):
And I think it's evidenced by the fact that half
of their audience is gone. Now, yeah, it's obvious.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I mean, look at Don Rickles and Ronald Reagan and
Sinatra and all those guys, like they didn't all agree politically,
but they understood that. Like ultimately, they're all Americans, right,
they all care about, you know, the core values of
the country, and.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Their job is to entertain, like you push it up
to the line.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
But now it's like you got to state your I
don't know your mission statement, like politically before you can
do anything.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I have a hot take, which is that humor is dead,
but not for the reason that you think. And here's
the example that I'll give you. I went to a
you know what, I'm mister Ronner. I'm sorry, I'm taking
your time. I'm gonna know you take as much as
he needs you. No, I'm gonna hold this story until
we come back. I'll hurry. Uh no, please, don't take
your time. We got to hear about Zelman's we got
(16:57):
to hear about the law brothers. You know, we're We're
not We're not here to take up that time.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I know, but you're making me anxious.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay, all right, you're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
If I'm at Andy KTLA. That's on the internet on
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the iHeartRadio app. Look for the talkback function. It's a
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got something wrong. I'm assuming that a lot of our
(17:29):
Dodger audience is watching the game, so if we say
things that are critical of the Dodgers, we're probably going
to have less feedback. Top of the seventh right now,
four to nothing, Dodgers lead the Brewers. This is the
maybe potentially last game in the NLCS. If the Dodgers
(17:49):
win tonight, it'll be a sweep against the Brewers. They
will move on to the World Series against we don't know,
either Toronto, the Blue Jays or the Seattle Mariners. Did
I get that right? That all sounds good? In studio
with Nick Rgorio right now, who actor, writer, producer, family
(18:12):
man Proud Pyson, tell me about this new this new
movie that you did. That's it's getting a lot of
a lot of excitement. There's a Catalina wine mixer happening
for you. Shapadava is the movie.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I got to make it with a friend and collaborator,
Tony DeNiro, younger guy who we weren't any relation to.
He's his cousin. No way, they're not close, but he
is his cousin. That's well, I guess they're all cousins. Okay,
is that bad? It's some poor taste, but anyway, Yeah,
so we we collaborated on this project.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
It's a short film. It's an Italian American thing.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
So of course it was like in my lane, I
got to play like a chef and an uncle. So
I drawed from like my own experience with my own uncle,
and it was very collaborative. Having to work with a
kid was very much like there's a like a little
girl who's my niece, and I'm trying to help her
with the speech impediment thing that she picks up. He's
saying shahbadaba because she's nervous about a new school that
she goes to.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Uh So, working with a kid is really interesting.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Took me back to like the days of shooting very
you know, sparsely with green screen and you know the
digital days where the kid can only be on set
for so long that right, and then you're talking to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And then you got it just a wall. Right, it's
you got to you gotta go Jurassic Park rules where
they they does a kid get a stand in in
the form of a little Trannosaurus Rex with the with
the tennis ball on the end of it.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, but yeah, we're getting a lot of festivals. It was.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
It was in the San Diego Film Festival this weekend.
Of course, all the good festivals I missed because I
was like, I'm going to go to Philly, and Tony's like, oh,
you'll come to Philly. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna
fly in my family wall come out. And Philly did
not disappoint me in having the philliest like experience in
what way folding cheer Yeah, yeah, like just dust mites,
(20:01):
bring your own water. I got twenty people show up.
My mother in law is like, can you tell them
to turn the ac on? She's bothering my brother in law.
She's like, go to the front and tell them to
turn the ac on. At least get us bottles of water.
No one's at the festival. It's just my family and
the people I invited, my friend's pregnant wife fainting because
it's so hot there.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It comes on.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
I'm like, and Andy, you know how I feel about presentation,
like you gotta have formats and that the title of
the video.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Is you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
He says, VLC Media player or VLC, And I'm like,
but we've had like really great ones all over but
I was like, not Philly, Philly, couldn't Philly just had.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
To deliver it so appropriate. It does feel appropriate.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
And then we're all out to dinner and I have
everyone like complimenting me, like I'm a kid who drew
like colored in a piece of paper and handed and
everyone's like, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And Nikki, it's a good job, like it was the.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Best movie there. I was like, well, it was a
pretty whack festival. I hope so.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, I'm sure I'm sure it'll do well. You had
a movie not long ago called Old Strangers. But you
can also see it's a fun, full full length feature.
It's a full length feature that's an exciting thriller, a
sci fi thriller, if you will, which is available everywhere
movies are sold. I want to get to more movie stuff.
One Battle after another projected to lose one hundred million
(21:21):
dollars theatrically. That is crazy. This is, of course, the
movie that was starred Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Paul
Thomas Thomas Anderson, who of course just did Liquorice Pizza
like five minutes ago.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
I mean, he's a great director, great director, one of
the best directors, you know. I think I think it's tough.
It's a tough sell. I think it's a polarizing movie.
And I think, you know, he would admit that everyone
that worked on it admits that when you're talking about
putting movie stars in something that is a little bit
more politically motivated, a bit more polarizing, Right, you're going
(21:59):
to see audio his not show up because you need
everyone to show up, right. You can't just have the
people that agree with you show up. And I don't
think it's a broad enough film. I was actually shocked
because I think Pta is pretty talented filmmaker and a
really good screenwriter.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
There will be blood.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
The master they're some of my favorite films total, and
this was such a It was very zeitgeisty, was very
of the now interesting. It did not scratch any surfaces.
It was very black and white in its morality and
who is the good guys and who were the bad guys?
And I just I was actually kind of disappointed. I
thought he would be more sophisticated with a story like this.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, I'm glad you gave your honest opinion because we
have Paul Thomas Anderson here in studio. Bring him out now. Yeah,
I think that that's a good point. And I wonder
if the sort of banking on the movie star era
of Hollywood is over, because if Leo can't get people
in seats, then who can I mean to Cruise, Tom.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Cruise, Tom Cruse come.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
But it's also Leo not looking like Leo, you know,
it's Leo in a bathrobe with his hair frazzled and
a five o'clock shadow running around. Like that's a good point,
Like it's people don't necessarily like it's same thing with
Killers of the Flower Moon. It's not Leo looking like Leo, right,
And it's not the type of cinematic experience that they
expect from a movie star in the traditional sense. Yeah,
(23:22):
Brad pitt Neff one great example, do those like a
million bucks? That's that's why you want to go to
the movies to see a movie helm by a movie star.
Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible. Again, that movie sort of underperformed,
but it did well enough. But he's looking like the
star that people want to see. You can't make one
hundred and twenty million dollar art house movie, No, that
(23:42):
leans very much one way and expect.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
People across the country to go and see it like
it's an action film.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think it's a really good point. So we will
see what happens there. I mean, I know that there
was a lot of mixed reaction to Licorice Pizza, even
though I absolutely love that movie. And like you said,
like this is a guy who's clearly an incredible filmmaker,
and I think he will have no truy making more movies. Uh,
but pretty crazy, and especially I think the way that
the economy of Hollywood has changed so much recently, young people.
(24:09):
I've been thinking about gen Z a lot because I
do a lot of reporting about gen Z. I'll tell
you a real quick story here before we hand it
over to the very capable hands of Mark Ronner. I
went somewhere this weekend. I got served up an advertisement
on on Instagram, of course, about a jazz night, and
I thought, Oh, that's awesome. I'm so cool. I'd go
see live jazz. And it was this cool cafe. I
(24:31):
won't say the name of it because I don't want to.
It wasn't their fault that this is my experience, but
it was a cool setup on Instagram. It looked incredible.
It's like under a train overpass, you know, like there's
like the subways going around. Yeah, and it's like a
noir thing. There's all this neon and stuff and jazz
playing in the background. You sit in the patio with
(24:52):
like a natural wine and watch the jazz. And I
was like, oh, that's amazing. And I've been trying to
trying to go for months, and I finally got down
there and I'm walking in and it's like me and
one hundred and fifty twenty three year olds. Oh and
I just and none of them are watching or paying
attention to the jazz, like maybe ten or fifteen of
(25:14):
them around. It's so weird, and it's like they're just
there to get a photo of themselves there, I think,
and to have been there as opposed to like actually
do anything or participate in anything. And I got to
thinking about, like, if you're really cool, you have a
very specific opinion of yourself. And I noticed that, like
none of them were laughing, none of them were talking
(25:35):
to each other, and nonem we're watching anything. There's no
humor to any of it. Because I think if you
were a really cool person and someone makes you laugh,
that's a problem because laughing is involuntary, and that means
somebody else is in control. So it's almost like I
think younger people, and especially the cool la young people,
it's like low class to be entertained. It's low class
(25:55):
to enjoy things. It's low status to do anything like
that because it means that somebody else is more powerful
than you are.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Wow, that's an interesting theory.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Okay, I don't know if this is real, but it
drove me nuts because I was like, I used to
just go to things to see them and enjoy them,
and if you're going now with the purpose of showing
yourself there, you are the star of that experience. And
in that scenario, I don't know that there's an opportunity
for a movie star to exist, or a musician to exist,
or a comedian to exist.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
No, I think that.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
I think people want to democratize entertainment. And this is
what it looks like. It looks like every person you've
ever met trying to be famous on the Internet, even
if they're not trying. It's like, you don't. You don't
post performatively unless you're an entertainer, like a legitimate entertainer.
If you're posting about like a punk and patch, why
for who?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Who is this like?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Even from mom culture to like you know, startup culture
to everything, everyone wants to be the leading man or
woman of the story, right, And it's yeah, you're like
you're saying, it's very hard to like laugh at someone
else's joke when you're focused on being.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
On the cool yeah and the most important Numero uno.
Everybody's got a main character energy.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Nick Gregorio with us when we come back, we're talking
uh more, more movies and culture, uh Art, entertainment and more,
why Chili's Caso sucks, Plus George Santo's out of jail.
We have some exclusive audio from when before he went
in to the slammer. That's all coming up.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You're listening to KFI Am six on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Dodgers lead five nothing against the Milwaukee Brewers. But as
we just saw Brewers put put a batter on on
on a base, We've got somebody on the second base
right now. I'm trying to see through thirty six years
of not knowing anything about sports, so it's tough for me.
I'm in studio with Nick Gregorio, whos joined us this
whole hour. Uh, Nick, you're You're an old bud and
(27:52):
I I've always loved working with you, and I love
your hot takes on stuff. And I thought of this exactly.
I thought of this, and I thought it was funny
and I wanted to share with you. As many people
know today, President Donald Trump set on Friday, that's this
day that he has commuted a sentence of former US
Representative George Santos, a Republican who was serving more than
(28:16):
seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud
and identity theft charges. He was from New York. He
admitted last year to deceiving donors and stealing the identities
of eleven people, including his own life goodness, his own
family members to make donations to his campaign. He lied
about his relatives being killed in nine to eleven. I mean,
there's it's there. He has very few fans on either
(28:38):
side of the aisle here, I guess, except for the
president President Trump today.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Tweeting.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Let me pull it up here because I want to
make sure I quote it correct.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
I mean certain people, they're not built for prison. You know, Well,
that's Santos.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I don't think was.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
He definitely is not is not built for George has
been in solid is what President Trump posted on truth
Social George has been in solitary confinement for lung stretches
of time. By all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I don't do a good truck. That was good.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Therefore, I just signed a commutation releasing George Santo's from
prison immediately. You should see him. Good luck, George, have
a great life.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
My god.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
I mean, we have protesters outside the studio right now.
That impersonation was that.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Good, Oh good, great, good luck.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
George have a great life is one of my favorites.
But here's why I wanted to talk about this story,
because I don't I have no agenda other than to
entertain and I think that this is a perfect Jimmy
fallon exactly for real, though, like I don't need it.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I don't need that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
There's enough people who are way smarter than me on
all sides of the aisle, can who can do this
much better. And I just want to make dumb jokes
and stuff and hang out with my friends. My friends,
speaking of which, for a bachelor party, they hired George
Santos on cameo a cameo video for my friend Tomas's
(29:57):
bachelor party. That audio is or now, no, it's not.
What's going on here?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
No? Is our computer not doing it? Are we having
that same issue we had last week? Tony? Tony, will
play it, Tony, you want to play it?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
All right?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Just start it and stop it right? Uh, I'll tell
you when to stop. Thank you, Tony. As we listen
here and we wait to hear the the dulcet tones
of George Santos.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Dude cameo is so interesting because I've seen a few
of my day now yeah, and they always there's like
a they've never used their camera phone And I don't
understand because these.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Are all like performers and something.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Well, especially it's always like they turn it on and
they like do a blank and they're like, hey, uh
for Andy and Having and the boys, you know, they're
always doing something that like it's the first time they've
ever done anything.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Of course, it's ready. Here's George Santos.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Hey Thos, it's George Santos, and I just wanted to
stop by to tell you what a crazy bachelor party
and the ridiculous activities that y'all had in the desert.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
This is, of course, this was before the party. The
party Toamas got this video at the at the party,
before the Prognosticator, before the ridiculous activities even occurred.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Keep it rolling them that y'all had in the desert.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Let's talk about how the transcripts of this show how
crazy you're going to get?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, positive the transcript is because we originally went on
Cameo and wrote a script for Chris Hansen.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Okay, Chris Hansen, Chris Hansen.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Formerly of of course to catch a creditor. But we
couldn't afford Chris Hansen, so we moved it to George Santos,
who I think was like forty five bucks. But we
forgot to change the script, so still references to the transcript,
meaning like the transcript conversation that you're supposed to be
having with this guy.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Oh, let's keep it going.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh I know, I know, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Good on Saturday night, and how trippy this Sunday is.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Going to be? Okay, all right, you can you can
stop it. George Santos really made the weekend for sure
for Thomas and the boys at the bachelor party. You
remember Thomas, you met Tomasa.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I do remember to was he was Santos in the
bing while he was doing this.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
This is doing this.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Months before he was sentenced and then taken to jail.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Wow, so he was trying to get that paper up
he was. We were helping me for his legal defense.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Little did he know, Little did he know Don was
coming through with the part.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
And what a surprise. George Santos a freeman once again.
So very good. Nick, thank you so much for joining us.
Where can people find more stuff about you?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Oh I'm pretty low key, but you could probably find
me on YouTube at Nick greg Orio. I have like
kind of a repository of all my content that I've created.
You could check out Old Strangers on all the different
streaming platforms.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
That's the movie that's the movie.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Some of the other short films, documentary stuff I shot
is on at Nick Gregorio on YouTube. And then there's
Happy Birthday Harris Malden and Green, two feature films I
did that are also out there.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Amazing, Nick, Thank you so much. Nice to see you.
We have a lot more coming up next hour. Don't
go anywhere. It's KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere
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