1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: And now it's time for Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: If by Hollywood you mean Burbie across the Street promo 3 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Meaners and it's at that serves beer. 4 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: Hey, good evening. We are having a podcast edition of 5 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: this program because we are preempted by probably the evil 6 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: Matt money Smith and his Charger talk and things like that. 7 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: Am I right, Sam? 8 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,959 Speaker 3: No, no, evil Matt money Smith is not involved in this. 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 3: He was working yesterday. This is just normal NFL stuff. 10 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's true. He got day off today. 11 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 2: Did they win yesterday? 13 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: No? 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 4: No, no, that was a very very bad performance by 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 4: the Chargers yesterday. They took It was disappointing, but they're 16 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 4: already in the playoffs, so they really didn't have anything 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: to lose they except for home field advantage. 18 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so it's going to be a 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 2: relaxed podcast show then, yeah, okay. Bridgie Bardow died, so 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: I'm like getting the I'm getting a little bit of 21 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: dirt about her right now, God rest her soul. 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, classic actress, I remember. Yeah, I think one of 23 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 4: my father's favorite people. It was very much. I thought 24 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 4: she was one of the most attractive people. 25 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 3: On the planet. 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, let's let's go over it. 27 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: Uh. 28 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: Bridgard Parto was in a first big movie was and 29 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: God Created Woman. If you're the kind of people who 30 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: wants to see movies right when people die and you 31 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: have a film festival nineteen fifty six, God Created Woman, 32 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: La Parisienne nineteen fifty seven, Love Is My Profession nineteen 33 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 2: fifty eight, Contempt nineteen sixty three, Viva Maria sixty five, 34 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,839 Speaker 2: and The Edifying and Joyous Story of Carlneau in seventy three. 35 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: I didn't see any of these movies. 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 4: Did you, No, not one, but I remember my dad's 37 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 4: talking about how beautiful she was. 38 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, she was always thought of as just you know, 39 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 2: a ten basically, and she lived looks like here she was, Josh, 40 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: she was ninety nine or one hundred, depending on what 41 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: her birthday was. So that's pretty cool. She lived long 42 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: enough to see everything, including, according to her, a Muslim 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: invasion of her home country of France. Do you know 44 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: about that. 45 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, she definitely took some far right later on in life. 46 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then in France, you know, they come down 47 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: on you pretty hard for that. So she was convicted 48 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 2: multiple times of inciting racial hatred, stemming mainly from open 49 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: letters and statements that she published in the nineteen nineties 50 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 2: through the twenty tens. She repeatedly targeted Muslims in France, 51 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: describing Islam as invasive and incompatible with French culture. She 52 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: complained about halal slaughter practices, framing them not just as 53 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 2: animal welfare issues, where she probably had legitimate standing, but 54 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: as evidence of what she called the Islamization of France. 55 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 2: In open letters and interviews, she referred to Muslim immigration 56 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: as a threat to French identity and civilization. 57 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 3: All she used the hellal meat. 58 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: No, we know why, Sam, we don't have to dance 59 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: around it. She used language French courts found to be 60 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: collectively stigmatizing, portraying Muslims as a monolithic group undermining France. 61 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 2: So she was fined a bunch of times. And then 62 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: she's just basically saying that France is being destroyed by 63 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: muslim into immigration. And she supported the right wing figure 64 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 2: Marine La Penn And she never ever recanted these statements, 65 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 2: and she argued, she's just you know, free speech. It's 66 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 2: the kind of thing that happened to Morrissey. So according 67 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: if things go missus Morrissey talking things to go the 68 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 2: way they are going presently with immigration trends, you know, 69 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 2: France won't look like French France anymore, Germany won't look 70 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 2: like Germany, Italy won't look like Italy, Britain won't look 71 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 2: like Britain. And for that he was virtually canceled for 72 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 2: a brief period of time. Just people were horrified by 73 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 2: those statements, you know, and those are like things you're 74 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 2: not supposed to mention. So you know, if you're in 75 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 2: a position like Bridget Bardeaux, you can mention them all 76 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: you want because you're ninety years old or whatever. When 77 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: she started talking like this, and she's like looking around, 78 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: going this is not good for French culture. And how 79 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 2: long have the French been protective of their culture. 80 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 3: They have been. They have been snobbishly protective. 81 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: Of their culture, right right. They're always saying everybody's French 82 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: is not good enough. They protect the French language every year, 83 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 2: they like, you know, come up with things that that 84 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 2: you should not be put into the French vernacular. And 85 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 2: then so to me, it's not It's probably what most 86 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: French were thinking when they saw the waves of Muslim integration. 87 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 2: They're just like, well, wh whoa, whoa, this is not French. 88 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,239 Speaker 2: People are not assimilating. I don't like it. So that's 89 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 2: their position from a lot of people, And what do 90 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 2: you do about it? The only people like Bridge Bardot 91 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 2: can actually voice it, and Morrisey got slammed for voicing it. 92 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 2: So I guess it's it's either not true that they 93 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 2: are not that it is not invasive and it is 94 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,119 Speaker 2: not changing the culture and it is not a threat 95 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: to French society, or it is true but you can't 96 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 2: say it. It's one of the two. Okay, all right, 97 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: let's go to the book. Movies the box office. We 98 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 2: got all kinds of things happen in the movies. This 99 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 2: I heard. 100 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 4: This was a great weekend, like this holiday weekend was 101 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 4: a great weekend for the for the theater industry. 102 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: A lot of people went to the movies. 103 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 2: I went on Christmas Eve, I went on Christmas Day, 104 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 2: and I went, well, not Christmas Eve, I went on 105 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: Christmas Day, I went the day after Christmas, and then 106 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: I went the day after that. 107 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: You watched the SpongeBob movie three times, didn't you? 108 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 2: And I'm going tonight four. 109 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: Times for the SpongeBob movie. 110 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 2: Yes. When I sign out, I'm going, well, you did. 111 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 2: You did encourage me to see the SpongeBob movie, but 112 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 2: I didn't, And I'll tell you why, because some other, 113 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 2: some other entrance into the field came about. And what 114 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 2: we got here we got Christmas Day. Let me just 115 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: go with the box office first number one, Avatar, Fire 116 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 2: and Ash, number two, z Utopia three, Marty Supreme, a 117 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: ping pong movie shot in a bar in Bangkok. Number four, 118 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 2: su Or Housemaid, number five, Anaconda six, David the Animated 119 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: Bible Story, number seven, SpongeBob, number eight, Songs Sung Blue 120 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: about the Neil Diamond Tribute Act, and number nine We 121 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: Could for Good. Number ten, five Nights at Freddy's. 122 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, so. 123 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 2: Let's start with you. Did you see any uh? 124 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 4: No, I stayed in for the holidays because I had 125 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 4: to work quite a bit during the holidays. 126 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, sometimes, and we could do that in the 127 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 2: radio business. 128 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 129 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 2: They used to have me substitute over at KFI during 130 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 2: the holidays. Didn't phone didn't ring this time? 131 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely was there. I was there in the 132 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 4: early morning. I believe it was a best of good 133 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 4: for you. 134 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,599 Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know they had best. 135 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 2: All right, well, all right, let's start with the box 136 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 2: office number. I didn't see Avatar because I just couldn't 137 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 2: bring myself to do it. 138 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm avoiding that one. I really I do not. 139 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 2: My wife said she wanted to see it. So I 140 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 2: actually bought tickets for Christmas. I bought tickets like so, 141 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: and then she started like backing off of it like 142 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 2: she was. She she was talking a big game, like 143 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: I want to see Avatar three, Like okay, all right, 144 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 2: then let's do that on Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to you. 145 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 2: And then she started started, uh, I just backpedaling, I think, 146 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 2: cause what you call it? Yeah, And so I changed 147 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 2: those tickets and that cinema is pretty easy. You just 148 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 2: get a refund and then you buy No One on 149 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 2: the app. And I changed it to two tickets for 150 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 2: Ana Conda five. Nice Ana Conda. 151 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 4: I know it's like, I don't want to call it 152 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 4: a sequel, but it's like, I guess a reboot. 153 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 2: Well there's been there's been like six of them. I 154 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:14,079 Speaker 2: think this is maybe the sixth one. Yeah. First of all, 155 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 2: it got a I think Avatar got like a seven 156 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 2: point three or something pretty high on the IMDb that's 157 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 2: what I usually look at one to ten. It's got 158 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 2: to be over seven, right, I'm really not going to go. 159 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: So Avatar was just seven point three or something like that. 160 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: Okay, and this is what Jack Black and Paul Rudd. 161 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 2: I'm talking about Avatar. First, Oh yeah, that's seven point three. 162 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 2: But I look at Jack Black and Paul Rudd's Anaconda 163 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 2: four point nine. So normally I would say, I'm not 164 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 2: falling for this. But then I'm thinking to myself, Wait, 165 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: Jack Black and Paul Rudd, they can do no wrong 166 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 2: even separately, but together, Oh my god, dynamite. So I 167 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 2: went and I thought, my uh, expectations be very low 168 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 2: because of the four point nine rating on IMDb, the 169 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 2: Internet and Movie database. And I went, and I tell you, 170 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: I laughed the whole time. I loved it. It's had 171 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: a great time. You know, you don't take it seriously. 172 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: Watch it. You're gonna have fun. So I can highly 173 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: recommend Ana Contact. Okay, yeah, super fun. They're gonna read 174 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 2: they they want to. It's just kind of guys who 175 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 2: used to make films in high school and wedding videos 176 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 2: and stuff, and they decide they're gonna fulfill their lifelong 177 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: dreams of making a real movie. So they decide they're 178 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 2: gonna make Anaconda reboot and they go into the Amazon 179 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 2: to do it, and things go way side ways. 180 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 4: Like how how comedically far sideways? 181 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: Good enough, it's really funny. It came from Sony Pictures, 182 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 2: and I wonder, like, this is this is what Sony 183 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 2: made instead of the sublime movie that was floating around there? Okay, 184 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 2: directed by a guy named Tony Gormakhan. You might know 185 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 2: him from a similar movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. 186 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 3: Yes, great movie. 187 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, so that is the movie with what's. 188 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 3: His name, Nicholas Cage, Nicholas Cage, Yeah, and the guy 189 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 3: who's in everything right now. 190 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 2: The Latin Pedro Pasco. Yeah. So he did a good 191 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 2: job at that movie. And this is kind of a 192 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 2: meta movie too, like they're making a movie. It's a 193 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: movie about making a movie that was a movie about 194 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 2: a movie star. It was the real movie star. And 195 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 2: rather than make a straight, you know, thriller remake of 196 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety Seven's and a Conda, this one decided to 197 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 2: just pit these two lifelong friends against the horribly impossible 198 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: task of making a You'll and a Conda reboot with 199 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: forty thousand dollars or eight thousand dollars or whatever they 200 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 2: had to spend Steve's. 201 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 3: On and then he was good about making a movie. 202 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so they want to the one guy makes 203 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 2: a budget because it's gonna cost about three point five million. Yeah, 204 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: I think Jack Black says that, and then he says, no, 205 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 2: you got to trim it down. And then they get 206 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 2: their approved for a loan at the bank of like 207 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 2: eight thousand dollars. 208 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 3: That's not enough for anything. 209 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 2: So guess what, man, it's like a forty five million 210 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 2: dollar budget. They scored forty million plus on the on 211 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: the the opening weekend. 212 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 213 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 2: Not bad. Yeah, so that's gonna make money. Good for them. 214 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 2: There should be more movies like that. Take some chances, Hollywood, 215 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 2: did you see You can only take chances if you 216 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 2: have Jack Black and Paul Rtt. Otherwise you can't take chances. 217 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 218 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 4: Star power definitely carries it for you a few You 219 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 4: can have a very a movie with a budget that's 220 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 4: very low, but if you've got star power, you'll make money. 221 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 2: So my message to people listening to this is, go 222 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 2: see Anaconda. Don't be afraid that someone told you, Oh, 223 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 2: it's stupid or it's probably stupid. Go see it. It's great, 224 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 2: and what do you want? 225 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 3: Yeah? 226 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 2: Okay, Now here's the next movie I saw day after Christmas, 227 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 2: Marty Supreme. It's a number two movie or number three 228 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: movie in America. 229 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 3: Right now, Marty Supreme. 230 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say best film I've seen all year. Really, 231 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: so yeah, I would say I gave it a four 232 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 2: point five stars. I only didn't give it a five 233 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 2: stars because it's not like it moved me. Like, if 234 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: you have a movie, it has to be great. Run 235 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 2: a five star for men on letterboxed. Not only does 236 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 2: it have to be great, great photograph, great story, and 237 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 2: great acting, great directing, great everything. It has to move me. Okay, 238 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 2: Marty Supreme. Fantastic film, Like you could if you were 239 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 2: tired and hadn't slept for three days and you saw 240 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: this at at eleven thirty pm, showing you would not 241 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 2: fall asleep. Really, there's no way you would fall asleep 242 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: in this movie. You're just like, what the hell is 243 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 2: gonna happen? Now? He's It's a nineteen fifties director by 244 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 2: a guy named Josh Saftie. He's known only for Uncut 245 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 2: Gems really, and think about how long ago that was 246 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 2: Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler. 247 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a good eight nine, eight years ago 248 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 4: or so. 249 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 2: So what has this guy been doing since then? 250 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 3: Plotting the world takeover? 251 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? Unemployed? You're right. So that's what I'm telling you 252 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 2: about people who want to be film directors. This is 253 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 2: what your life is like uncut Jyms. Wow, what a 254 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 2: fantastic movie. People love it, and he doesn't get a 255 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 2: good another movie until you know, eight years later or whatever. 256 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 3: Wow. 257 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the whole time, like, you know, what 258 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 2: are you doing? What are you telling your girlfriend? What 259 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: are you telling your mom that you live with? It's rough. 260 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 2: It's a rough life. So people that do it and 261 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: reach the top, wow, hats off to them. There's only 262 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 2: you know, there can only be one Quentin Tarantino that 263 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 2: just plots it so perfectly. Yeah, writes his own ticket. 264 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 4: But I mean it's good that he's got another at 265 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 4: least movie out now that's performing well and doing well, 266 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 4: because then people won't think it's just a one hit 267 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 4: wonders Am. 268 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 2: Now, this could accelerate. You could have lots of offers 269 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: and be working every year for the next ten years. 270 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 2: I don't know. 271 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 4: I mean, well, would you rather have that or be 272 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 4: like m Night Shyamalan where you have one really good 273 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 4: movie out of the gate, and then everything else is 274 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 4: a very quick collapse into just mediocrity. 275 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 2: That's a whole nother style. Like, Yeah, it's a very 276 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 2: unforgiving vocation. Yeah, so hats off to you that can 277 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 2: do it. I couldn't do it. And I have directed 278 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 2: a feature film, just one. No one's asking for my 279 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 2: next one. Okay. So that's the film stars Timothy Shallowmey, 280 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:10,719 Speaker 2: who you may have heard of. 281 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's. 282 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: He's been in other movies. Nobody could have done this 283 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 2: except for him. I think the movie could not have 284 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 2: been made without him. He carries it, you know, just 285 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: carries the whole movie. Of course. He plays a guy 286 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 2: named Marty Mauser, a quirky and obsessive nineteen fifties in 287 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 2: New York ping pong hustler, loosely inspired by a real 288 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: life legend named Marty Riceman. 289 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 3: Okay. 290 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 2: Also, we have in the cast Gwyneth Paltrow, Fran Dresher, 291 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 2: and this is the genius casting that they did. That's 292 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,959 Speaker 2: one of those things that like just kind of like 293 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: uncut gems, Adam Sandler, genius casting, unexpected, who would do that? Perfect? 294 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: This one? The second, probably the second lead in the 295 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 2: movie is Kevin O'Leary. Now, I know that name sounds 296 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 2: familiar to you, but you just can't place it. Yeah, totally, 297 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 2: he's mister what do they call mister money bags or 298 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:17,640 Speaker 2: mister forgot what they call him on the shark Tank? Yes, 299 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 2: you got it, shark tank. What did they call. 300 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 3: Him a shark? 301 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 2: No, mister, they call mister money or something. 302 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 4: I have I know his actual name. 303 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 3: I don't know the nickname though. 304 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin, Kevin O'Leary. Yeah, and he's in the movie, 305 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 2: and you go, oh, that's cute. They put Kevin O'Leary, 306 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: got a little cameo in this movie, and then like 307 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 2: they realize that's a major player in the movie. Kevin 308 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 2: O'Leary so good. At no time does he not look 309 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 2: like a professional actor, So good doing what he was 310 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 2: born to do. So uh, maybe he'll get a supporting 311 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 2: actornaud from the Academy. Who knows. 312 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 3: Really, it's like his performance was that like solid. 313 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 2: Well, it's this good, It's not shockingly like, oh my gosh, 314 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 2: this guy's coming out of nowhere and like shallow May style. 315 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 2: But you could say he was playing himself, but he 316 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 2: did it so convincingly you would think he's an actor. 317 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 3: He played so he was acting as himself. 318 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: Kind of kind of a similar personality. 319 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 4: He was a businessman, Okay, But it wasn't like I 320 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 4: am Kevin O'Leary playing Kevin O'Leary. No, not like Okay, yeah, 321 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 4: it's like he's just playing himself. It's like, does Nicholas 322 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 4: Cage get an Oscar for playing Nicholas Cage? 323 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 2: Should but he's not. It's not like that. He's playing 324 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 2: a businessman, okay, in the nineteen forties, Okay, Okay, so 325 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 2: that's not you know, it's not himself. He's a businessman 326 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 2: in the twenty twenties. 327 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 3: Okay. 328 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 2: So pretty strong holiday performance. Twenty seven million domestically, I'll 329 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 2: take it, and sixty to seventy million budget, but it's 330 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 2: gonna have leg. This is the kind of movie where 331 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 2: the word of mouth like, right now, I'm telling you, 332 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 2: this is the next movie you must see. This is 333 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 2: definitely one of the top Oscar contenders. Shala May Best Actor, 334 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 2: Best Picture for this thing. Maybe Best Director Best Director 335 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 2: for Josh Safti really and then Kevin O'Leary. I'd love 336 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 2: to see him get nominated. Fascinating just for fun. Yeah, Now, 337 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: it's loosely based on some guy named Martyrisman who had 338 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 2: a book called The Money Player. Okay, and I asked 339 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 2: Chap GBT to come up with the summary of Marty Reisman. 340 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 2: Had this movie never been made, what whatd it look like? Here? 341 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 2: It is? Marty Reisman is a legendary American table tennis 342 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 2: hustler and champion from New York's Lower East Side. 343 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 3: A pong hustler. 344 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 2: Yes, legendary American ping pong hustler, known as the Needle. 345 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 2: He won dozens of national titles from the nineteen forties 346 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 2: through the nineteen seventies and made a living betting, barnstorming, 347 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 2: and out playing challengers half his age. He later chronicled 348 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 2: his life in the memoir The Money Player. How do 349 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 2: you like that? That's what he would have been. But 350 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 2: then this guy who came up with the script for 351 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: this movie, the Marti Supreme, made up a whole bunch 352 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 2: of other stuff made it even more fascinating. 353 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 4: Well, and that's why it's based on their lives. It's 354 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 4: not just a documentary about their lives. 355 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 2: Right, And do they need the life story rights? We 356 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 2: will ask from a legal perspective, because that's what the 357 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 2: show is all about. They, according to everything I read, 358 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 2: they did not license any life story rights for this. 359 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 2: They read the book The Money Player, They made up 360 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff, made a character, and they called 361 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 2: him Marty Mauer your mah okay, And so it's not him, 362 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: it's another guy named Marty something else. They could say 363 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 2: if sued, Hey, you stole the life story. But you 364 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 2: can do I've talked about this in the show a lot. 365 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: You can do a life story on anybody you want. 366 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 2: You can make a movie about you know, President Bush, 367 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 2: and as long as you're using things that are in 368 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 2: the public record, so you just make it. Because he's 369 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 2: a person, he's a public figure, make a movie about him, 370 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 2: and you don't need his permission. However, if there is 371 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 2: a book already about him, and that book like told 372 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 2: the story in a peculiar way, like started at the 373 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 2: end and then went or had a story device like 374 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 2: a gum shoe reporter or detective trailing the person. In 375 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: his notes are the story device and that could be 376 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 2: protected and you can't copy that. But you can tell 377 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 2: the story about this guy all you want. But if 378 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 2: you're going to make up stuff and make him seem 379 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 2: like a like at times a really bad guy, like 380 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 2: they make him look like you could get sued for 381 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 2: defamation even though he's dead. You could the estate could 382 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 2: maybe say, hey, you're harming the estate. We're trying to 383 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 2: sell ping pong balls here, but it changes his name. 384 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 2: It's not him. But maybe you're telling people in interviews 385 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 2: that it's him now that you know, you could get 386 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 2: things could get sticky. But in general, if you're making 387 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: a high profile film, you don't want to you're just 388 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 2: gonna say, hey, it's not about that guy, it's about 389 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 2: a different guy. 390 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 3: Yeah. 391 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 2: There were a lot of ping pong hustlers back in 392 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 2: the day, and this is an amalgam of many, so 393 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 2: I don't think they are even you know, even even 394 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 2: explore trying to get rights to that book or or 395 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: But if you got the rights to that book from 396 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 2: the estate and game, let's say give one hunred and 397 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 2: fifty thousand buck for the rights of that book, they'd 398 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 2: take it. Yeah, then they couldn't sue you for stealing 399 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 2: stuff out of that book or the plot devices and things. 400 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 4: But then you probably wouldn't be able to take as 401 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 4: much creative license, would you. 402 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 2: Right then they might come back and say, hey, this 403 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 2: guy never did that stuff. Yeah, you're harming. 404 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 3: His legacy of a better movie. 405 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 2: Yeah okay. So the next day, which would be yesterday, 406 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 2: I went back to the theater, Sam and I went. 407 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 2: This time, you know, I got my wrap up for 408 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 2: the year so far from the Belitarira cinema. Cinema gives you, 409 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 2: like you know, like when your Spotify gives you a 410 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 2: wrap up of the year and tells you what you've 411 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 2: been listening to. So the movies do this now too. 412 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 2: They give you a think. I've been to the Belitaire 413 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: and Huntington Beach thirty two times this year. I did 414 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 2: that for you, the listener. But since I've already achieved 415 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: my platinum status for next year, I didn't really need 416 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: to go back to the Bellataarira. I wanted to go 417 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 2: to a theater where they would show something that they're 418 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 2: not going to show in my suburban town of Huntington 419 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 2: Beach where the Belataria is and the cinemak, and so 420 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 2: I always go look at the Alamo Theater in downtown 421 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 2: LA because it's super cool to see movies there. They 422 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 2: have full menu. The waiter brings you food. What do 423 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 2: you want? You want pizza, you want spaghetti, whatever, salad, 424 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 2: maybe like a salad, alcohol, cocktails, boozy shakes, boozy shake. 425 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 2: So I look over there and they had a movie 426 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: called The Secret Agent. So I went to see this movie. 427 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,959 Speaker 2: It's a Brazilian movie, winning lots of awards at con 428 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 2: like Best Actor and Best Director, and you know, I go, 429 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 2: I'll give this Brazilian movie a shot. And it's like 430 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 2: a political thriller directed by this guy you don't need 431 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 2: to know, named Clever Philho and the actor. The actor 432 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 2: is pretty interesting, Wagner Mora. He's known as the guy 433 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 2: who played Pablo Escobar in Narcos. 434 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 3: Oh very nice. 435 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, So he was in it. He's the star. And 436 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 2: it takes place in nineteen seventy seven Brazil during the 437 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 2: military dictatorship. So he is part of the underground, trying 438 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,120 Speaker 2: to hide from the government people that are against him 439 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: and the business people that are against him, because it 440 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 2: looks like during those times the business people were in 441 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 2: cahoots with the military government to make money, and if 442 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 2: there's professors that are getting patents at universities, they like 443 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 2: to steal him from them and just accuse him of 444 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: being communists, that kind of thing. So it's a thriller. 445 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 2: He's running and he's a fugitive. But I would say 446 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 2: I cannot recommend it to you because it is pointless 447 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,239 Speaker 2: if you're an American and you're watching this and like 448 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,719 Speaker 2: it is interesting, but to authenticate it, they put you 449 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 2: in this depressing nineteen seventies Latin American world. Okay, think 450 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 2: about the seventies in America. It was depressing, Okay, from 451 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 2: the fashions to the economy, it was a pretty depressing time. 452 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 2: Now people try to glamorize it now they're like seventies, 453 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,479 Speaker 2: you know, parties and outfits and seventies nights at on 454 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 2: the cruise ship or whatever. But really, for those of 455 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: us that live through it, none of that was cool. 456 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 2: That's why punk rock came along and you know, smashed 457 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 2: it all and started something new. But punk rock, yeah, 458 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 2: just a very depressing decade. But can you imagine if 459 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 2: it's depressing here, how depressing was it in Brazil Latin 460 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 2: American countries There are already a thousand times poorer than 461 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 2: the United States where it was depressing, and add a 462 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 2: thousand times more poverty to the nineteen seventy seventies depressing aesthetic. 463 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 2: So you're stuck in this world like the movie Roma, 464 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 2: where everything is meticulously recreated to simulate life in the 465 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 2: nineteen seventies in Brazil. The only problem is that's not 466 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 2: worth simulating, and Americans have no connection to this. If 467 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 2: you watch Roma, that movie. Americans have a connection to 468 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 2: that because Mexico is a lot closer to America, and 469 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 2: everybody likes Mexican food, at least people aren't, you know, 470 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 2: craving fejuada and other Brazilian goofball black being things. They're 471 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 2: just not so this movie's I'm not gonna have any 472 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: kind of life here in la but very well made 473 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 2: film and very interesting to me. Been to Brazil many 474 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 2: times and yeah, I get it, but still no connection 475 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 2: to it like I did have with Roma. Roma. You're 476 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 2: connected to the language more because Spanish, more people here, 477 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 2: no Spanish, Ah, the eat Mexican food and you just like, 478 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: you know, I've got Mexican relatives in Mexico. But this one, 479 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 2: Whosh the secret Agent Brazilian movie. You're gonna hear about 480 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 2: it during the Oscars, like as a Best Foreign Film 481 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 2: nomination or something like that. But don't worry about it. 482 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 2: You don't have to go see it. 483 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 3: Well, thank you for letting me know what it's about. 484 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 2: So I don't have you really don't have to. But 485 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 2: if you run across it on Netflix, yeah, yeah, you 486 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 2: know you might for a while a lot. This is 487 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 2: pretty interesting, but it's it's then on top of that, 488 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 2: it's two and a half hours long and kind of slow. 489 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 4: Well, and I appreciate you, you know, jumping on the 490 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 4: grenade for me. 491 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 3: On a lot of these movies. 492 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 2: I really did. Now as far as like other kind 493 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: of stories we usually cover on this show, I got 494 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 2: a kind of a sad one. Tyler Perry was hit 495 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 2: this week with yet another sexual assault lawsuit, this one 496 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 2: seeking seventy seven million dollars. The plaintiff is Mario Rodriguez, 497 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 2: an actor who appeared in Boo madea Halloween. I don't 498 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 2: even know how to pronounce Medea. Is that how you 499 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 2: pronounced it? 500 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 3: I think? 501 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: So? 502 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 3: Yeah? 503 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 2: My day here? Uh okay, So, Mario alleges unwanted sexual 504 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 2: advances and retaliation Lionsgate is named as a co defendant 505 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 2: for allegedly ignoring complaints. Perry's attorney denies the allegations. So 506 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 2: we'll follow that one. You know, so weird. I just 507 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: think it's weird. But I just sold a song to 508 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 2: a Tyler Perry film will be coming out this year. 509 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 2: Really yes, and uh, very happy about it. I'm not 510 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 2: gonna talk about it because I think no one's supposed 511 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 2: to know about it yet. But it was, you know, 512 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: they described the scene to me, and then for the 513 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: first time, I turned it down and said, you know what, 514 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 2: for the first time, but I just go, they're offering 515 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 2: a lot of money. I just I just don't see 516 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 2: the vandals benefiting from being portrayed that way. And then 517 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 2: they said no, no, no, no. But then I said, 518 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 2: but everyone has a price. The price is this, and 519 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 2: I named some outrageous price. Two things happened. They paid 520 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 2: the price, and then they but they were very serious 521 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 2: about convincing me that it wasn't portraying us in a 522 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 2: bad light. And then they sent me a copy of 523 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 2: the scene, which they normally don't do, according to them, 524 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 2: and I watched the scene. I go, you're right, it's 525 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 2: not portraying us in a bad light. So, you know, 526 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 2: thank you for the money. It's a little bit of 527 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 2: hardball there, Sam. 528 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 3: Nice, congratulations. 529 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 2: Okay, before we go, make sure there's nothing breaking. Oh, 530 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 2: there's a little bit of news in the Paramount bid 531 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 2: to buy Warner Brothers. As you know, Netflix is trying 532 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 2: to buy Warner Brothers and they're just kind of moving forward, 533 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 2: moving forward, and Warner Brothers, Discovery or just mainly the 534 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: Warner Brothers would like to be purchased by Netflix. They're 535 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 2: cooperating incomes Paramount run by David Ellison. He wants to 536 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 2: buy Paramount, so that he just bought Paramount. He bought 537 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 2: Paramount himself. He had a company called sky Dance. Yeah, 538 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 2: he and he just bought Paramount. But now he wants 539 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 2: to buy Warner Brothers and he wants to have both studios. 540 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 2: It's kind of silly. He doesn't need them. I guess 541 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 2: he's in a buying frends. You know, sometimes you just 542 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 2: in the mood like you want to buy stuff. You 543 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 2: ever get that way? 544 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, impulsive controlling impulses would be a good thing 545 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 4: during those time, you know, financially, especially the holidays. 546 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 2: I just want to buy stuff. Sometimes he wants to 547 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 2: buy stuff. He's not only gonna buy one of Brothers. 548 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 2: He's gonna buy CNN's gonna buy Discovery, He's gonna buy everything. 549 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 2: And the other purchase from the Netflix people is more limited. 550 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 2: It's gonna buy the Warner Brothers movie studio in catalog. 551 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 2: So anyway, the news this week is basically kind of boring. 552 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 2: David Ellison's dad has personally guaranteed the forty billion dollar 553 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,719 Speaker 2: portion of the bid, the takeover bid, So that's one 554 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 2: of the things like, well, we can't go down this 555 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 2: road because you might not even have this money, but 556 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 2: a personal guarantee from a guy who has more than 557 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 2: forty billion is worth something. So this is not dead yet. 558 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 2: Paramount could end up buying Warner Brothers when we all 559 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 2: think Netflix is going to buy Warner Brothers. Does that 560 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 2: make sense? 561 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:08,719 Speaker 1: Yeah? 562 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're trying to do their hostile takeover and they're 563 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 4: still in the game. 564 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, I think that's good enough. 565 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 1: Yeah. 566 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 2: For the podcast version of Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood, 567 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 2: and I now will leave you with just a taste 568 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 2: of the greatest song ever written