Okay, Live from Hollywood. It's Joe's Balante by Hollywood Demean Burbank across the street from Wiener Snitzel that serves beer. And this is the podcast edition for October twenty second, twenty twenty three. We were preempted by the NFL game today on KiB so Sam is here and we're going to do a podcast version of the show, which means straight through without commercials, unless they drop in commercials at iHeartMedia, which they've been known to do. Sam, can you
hear me? All right? All right? Loud and clear? All right. So let's go to the movies. There was a big release today, probably the most anticipated movie of the year. I would have to say, I don't know if you would agree with that, Sam, but under Killers of the Flower Moon. I keep wanting to call it under something because the word moon is in the title Killers of the Flower Moon. It was the title of a book and now it's a movie and the title is a little
bit what did you call that title like that? Pretentious? I don't know. It's a artistic It's a artistic, artistic, subtle indirect Taylor Swift movie number one at the box office. Sam, it just destroyed this Scorsese picture Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. A legend, a living legend, Sam, But Taylor Swift wiped the floor with it. It is even though Taylor Swift movie is down sixty seven percent from last week,
the new movie Killers of the Flower Moon didn't even come close. Number three Exorcist Believer, which I still haven't seen. Number four Paw Patrol you have that peg for an oscar and number five Nightmare Before Christmas, of course, and six Saw x seven The Creator, which I think is the best movie in this top ten. Number eight The Haunting of Venice. You saw that you liked it, It's pretty good. I don't know a creator. I would say great, fantastic. Number nine is none none two and number
ten Hocus Pocus, so I refused to see. Okay, so well, what happens? Sam? I mean, this is the biggest most anticipated movie of the year and it can't even beat Taylor Swift. What's going on? It? Did never underestimate the power of the Swifties. Man, Yeah, twenty three million at the box office. That can't be what they had in mind. The Swifties no, that the or the under the moonfolk, the people the Moon for the Moonies, it's called that. Yeah, we can
call them the Moonies. I guess, yeah, I think they. I'm guessing they didn't think that, uh, Taylor Swift's film was going to be as powerful as it is. But also it's a completely different audience. Swifties are a bunch of like, you know, everything from little girls to preteen to some adults, versus a very you know, like refined audience for this film with Scorsese. Well, and actually Scorsese's films don't really generate a lot
of box office up front. They're not Disney movies. They're not you know, Pixar things. They're they're they're not Marvel or DC. They're they're not art house, but they're you know, they're made for like, you know, grown ups, adults. It's not a huge audience. You're not getting little girls to go see it. It's so the little girls, of course went to see Taylor Swift. Have you seen Taylor Swift? Not yet, No, and I'm not sure if I will. My kids aren't into Taylor
Swift for Fortunately for me, my kids are not Swifties. Okay, what are your kids, Like, my daughter is into like Beyonce, and my kid, my boy is like, uh if he sings what's it called Tears for Fear songs? Okay, so he's super cool. The Beyonce girl has got a movie. Beyonce's got a movie coming out soon. So maybe you'll have to see that. Yeah, I'll let her mom watch that with her. I don't. I would kind of like to see the Taylor Swift movie. But I'm I mean, what just gotta see? I didn't see what
all the better? I can't go. I can't go by myself. That's a creepy that creepy creepy towne. So this is scorsesees they're calling it is his best start for a Scorsese movie since twenty ten Shutter Island, which did forty one million, and the third best of his career, following the two thousand and six movie That Departed. Now that was a real good movie, The Killers of the Flower Moon. And they're blaming Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de
Niro not being able to promote the film because of the strike. That's also the problem. But the problem, Sam, have you seen Killers of the Flower Moon? Not yet I'm looking forward to it, though I usually try to catch Scorsese films in the theater, unlike I guess most people. Yeah, let me tell you. I saw the was the last one, the Irishman. I saw that in the theater. It was really but I thought it was good. This. At what point do you think I walked out
of this movie? Oh, geez, I'm guessing within the first twenty minutes. No, no, I would never do that. About two hours into it and there was still an hour and forty minutes left. Oh jeez, it's an hour and forty five minutes. Three forty five, three forty Okay, yeah, no, I don't blame you at that point. That's a kind of movie like that Tarantino did with The Hateful Late. He had a four hour movie and he had a fifteen minute like like intermission so people could
get up and go pee and eat and like yeah live. Yeah, this could have this could have used an intermission. It was it just this is like a like a one hour episode of Dateline where Satan came in and added an extra three hours to it. So it's a story that could be told in forty minutes, and they've made it three hours in forty minutes. Now, why did they do that? It's narcissism, just plain and simple. We are so important. This movie has to be really long. This issue
is so important. These historical events are so monumental. And you're welcome, by the way, for having us bring them to you and tell you and beat you over the head with it and make you eat your peas for three hours in forty minutes. So beautiful filmmaking. Sam After like, you know, you're an hour into it, you go, you know what, I'm so lucky that I'm living in an arrow where Scorsese is making new movies. Leonardo DiCaprio is excellent, Robert de Niro, what a legend. And then
but that's that's an hour. Now, you got two hours and forty minutes left, so they got a good hour to after that to tell you, hey, we're wasting your time. You get it. We've told you what this is. It's a bunch of white people being bad too Indians, and it's bad. It's terrible. You get it. It's bad. Okay, yeah, I get it. It's bad. And you're you're showing everything's cool.
A great actor has great set's you know, the authenticity with the O Sage Indian tribe culture and the songs and the and the costumes and everything beautiful. But oh lord, that just keeps coming. And then this guy did something to Indians and he's and then this guy, this guy, this guy. It's a little over the top, and you start to not believe it. You start to say, well, human beings don't really act like this, so this is like a cartoon version, like the fake news version that
is so overblown. That's what you're feeling. There's no way people are like this. And then you start getting irritated, and then it goes on and on and on. I okay, I do get it, and I think what these did people did to these to the Indians is bad. I do believe it happens. You know, I have no reason not to. I haven't read up on this subject prior to seeing the film, But I get it. Why are you beating me over the head with it so much?
This movie could have been made, like I said, it could have been an hour dateline episode, or it could have been a really, really good two hour Scorsese movie. But I don't believe he has the ability to tell a story in two hours. And that's the problem if I if I write a movie and it's three hours and forty minutes and I hand it in, an editor from the network comes in and says, all right, here's what we gotta do because this is way too long. Okay, three is three
hundred and forty pages too long? Yeah, it is, so we're gonna cut it down. So maybe cut a little bit of this, less of this, less of this. This is redundant. Look, we already established this, so you could cut this whole now and then let's tighten this up. And that's how you make a good movie. But he doesn't do that. So he might be Martin Scorsese, but he makes here, he made a bad movie. He made a bad movie because we don't have time to be beat over the head for that long. So I couldn't take it.
And I'm just like, I'm gonna wait and if they keep doing this, I will leave. And they just kept doing it and doing it and doing it. So if you don't know anything about the story, it's the Osage Indian tribe. Uh, you know, it was pushed into some lands that the US government thought was terrible land and didn't It wasn't gonna amount to anything,
but then struck oil, so they became very wealthy. And then white people came in and tried to figure out how we're going to take this oil money away from these injuries, and they did it by like marrying into the tribes and manipulating them and then then Sam murdering them. It's a great story, but if you turn it into three hours and forty minutes, you're not gonna tell it to too many people. So what's the point. Can only show twice a day in a theater, so that's going to hurt your box
office and everybody that invested. And by the way, who did invest in this, Sam, Well, it wasn't Netflix who lost all the money on The Irishman. It was another company with a ton of money that would like to be in business with DiCaprio and de Niro and Scorsese. It was Apple. So they're going to lose all the money on this. And it's just sad because when we're trying to get people to go back to the movies, this really isn't the way. So Scorsese is not the way to make people
go back to the movies. I would say Gareth Edwards, who made The Creator, which is still in theaters, and you should see that guy is making people want to go back to the movies. Scorsese should not be allowed to make movies there. I said it, it's done, made some good movies, but this, this was, this was It's painful, but there are some good there. You know, there's good stuff in DiCaprio's good in
it. And they're saying, if you read up on it, the DiCaprio is improvising too much, and so Scorsese and de Niro said they were rolling their eyes. Oh my god, he was just he just kept trying to rewrite things and and improvise. But he's the best thing about it. And I think he's They said he's talking too much. So what they wanted is a dialogue free, three hours and forty minute movie. Rehbe. We talked about dialogue free movies last week. Yep. So I guess that's what they
wanted. So it looks like Scorsese wanted to make it even worse by not letting DiCaprio do whatever he was doing. The Native American actress Lily Gladstone that plays the female lead is excellent. There's there's no bad performances in here. When I got done, I got home, I watched I go you know, this is a fine dayline thing. So I watched a YouTube documentary. And that's what I encourage you to do. People should know about this,
the story, this horrible story of what happened to the Osage Indians. Go to YouTube and watch a documentary. There's a few of them in there. They're less than an hour, and then you'll you'll get it, and then you you want to know the story there it is. So. It wasn't so much that this movie, Like the usual joke about Scorsese films is that they tend to insist upon themselves. This one didn't seem to insist upon themselves. It just seems like you felt it was too preachy a little bit.
It did. It did insist upon itself. It was too preachy. It was eat your peace, you eat your peas, because you have to eat your peas. And and we're not gonna make you have to eat three hours and forty minutes with the piece because this is so serious, and I think they mask the mistakes they've made in making this movie so long and rubbing your face in it by their self aggrandizement, their persistence in telling people on the
panels they've spoken on and interviews how important this is. And if you don't like this movie, you know you don't get it how important this is. And if it was important, if they really thought it was important, they weren't just self serving. They would make a movie that was accessible to people. If you want people to know what happened to the Native Americans, make
a two hour movie and make it balanced. And when I say balanced, I mean have a plot, show the bad stuff, show someone coming in and fixing the problem and overcoming hurdles, and have some resolution at the end. I didn't see the end. I kind of know what it happed. I'm not going to to tell you there was a trial. I missed the trial. I would like to see the trial, so someday I'll look at the trial. I assume they have the trial, but I left. Okay.
So when I watched the documentary, I noticed one thing that was just, you know, it's all I really need to know. It's all you need to know. When they were showing the real people that were in this movie. There's one character in this movie. His name's Bill Smith, and the whole movie, they're using Bill Smith as a punching bag. Bill Smith is the worst guy in the movie. He does the worst things. He's harmful to the Indians, and he's harmful to Leonardo DiCaprio. He's arrogant,
he is hatable. Okay, all right, fine, And everybody in the movie is white, is hatable in the character, and that's kind of the story. So that's even okay. Of course, tell the story of the truth. But then when you watch the documentary about the Osage Indian murders, Bill Smith was was an Indian. Bill Smith was an Indian. They made him into a white guy in the movie. Your reaction, Sam, I've seen quite a few people playing roles that they didn't fit as far as the
race or ethnicity goes. He was he was one. It was. He was a white guy. He portrayed as a white guy. He was a white guy that married an Indian girl. So they could show you one more white guy that married an Indian girl and harmed her, okay, and then he then he marries another Indian girl. This one dies, he marries he marries her sister. But that character was not a white person in real history.
That person was a member of the O Sage tribe. So they took this character and they made him a white villain when the real character was an O Sage Indian. But why did they do that? Well, you know, we're trying to make a point here and just just make him a white guy because it's a little too complicated. We don't want to you know, we don't want to disparage any of these O Sage Indians. They just made them look stupid. It's what they did. And there it's not noble.
I don't think there's much nobility at all in this thing. But yeah, so when I saw that, I go, oh, I mean, how do you trust the rest of the movie If they did that, it's not it's a dramatization. How much of it are we going to trust? There's so many films out there that are based on real life but take creative liberties
in the name of convenience. Yeah, that was very convenient for them, because they their convenience was we have we have a story we're telling, and we have a script prewritten, and then we have to back everything out of it that reaches our goal, and we can't have anything that that conflicts with our argument. I mean, and you what about this, Sam, Why don't you cut Bill Smith out of it? If you don't want to show a negative, an Indian negative, negatively portrayed, why do you turn him
into a white guy. Why don't you just cut him out of it? What do you do when you not show him? Yeah? So anyway, it's it's it's and you can do all of that, but doing two hours, all of that is forgivable. If you do it in two hours, three hours and forty minutes, forget it. It's like this podcast, this podcast is going to turn into three hours and forty minutes. But I don't know. Your feelings on this seem to go pretty deep. We may be
able to fill the time. Yeah. So anyway, I mean, if you're if you think you're missing out on this, I think that's my point of the movie is if you think you're missing out by not seeing it, you're not go to YouTube watch an O Sage Indian documentary terrible story, and then just forget about forget about Scorsese as a movie maker, just just forget
about it. It's it's and I realized there's like they're not going to give him a lot of money for very many stories, and this is the kind of story he can get a lot of money for, so he went in and got the money. But holy cow, is it terrible. At the same time, it's good, good film, liking you know, the first
first parts of it. You're miles is very impressive. All right. I feel like there's a lot of movies out there nowadays that are catering to people's sense of outrage, and I get the feeling this might be one of them. It is an outrage movie, and and and it's you know, and the outrage is beat your beat over the head with the outrage. And that's fine. I again, for two hours, that's fine, but not for
two days. All right, let's move on from this negativity and get into something more positive, like Netflix learning to took a couple of TV stories. One of them is Netflix is learning to have shows sponsored. That's their new thing to make advertising revenue. They're going to sponsor shows series and this is not for that. If you have the ad free version, you're still going to be watching shows that are sponsored by a brand name. And they kind
of act like they invented this. But this is like as old as time, you know, this is the it's as old as the crypto dot com arena or the you know, host this Twinkie sun bowl, et cetera. So, but but what they started with is there's a show called Love Is Blind. Are you familiar with the show? I'm aware of it. Yes, I haven't seen it, but everybody has been mentioning it. People that I know watch it and they speak highly of it. Yeah, so love is Love is Blind? Some dating show of some kind. Well, now
it's called the it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. It's called the Freedo Lays Smart Food Love is Blind. Yeah, that's a proper reaction. It's just a joke. I mean, this guy, why could they come up with something that like is related to the show, Like like let's have a you know, like something about love or something anything. What does smart foods freedom Lays have to do with that? Yeah, they're all proud of themselves too to make a big announcement. It's like, all right, I mean,
there's so much, so much in the world. A friend of mine calls it the age of Bungling. Bungling still beginning with like the Iraq War, you know, the weapons of mass description or whatever, like the age of bungling everything bungled. After that, elections, bungled, wars, bungled, the pandemic bungled, lockdown, bungled the vaccine bungled everything, mask orders, mask repealing, bungled bungled bungled. Now we got the free doo Lays,
smart food Love is Blind bungled bungled rollout of a advertising scheme. Okay, why didn't they just put them the sponsor at the tail end of the name of the show. Well, maybe they do what I'm you know, that's what they're calling it in these advertisements. Yeah, no, that the advertisements should be so like Love is Blind brought to you by Smart Foods Freeolay.
Well, after this radio show, they're probably that's probably what they're gonna do, after they listened to me and start to you know, listen to reason. Okay, son. Another interesting thing that's that's on the horizon is all the you know, the Winnie the Pooh movie, the horror film Winnie the Pooh people. Yes, why is there Winny the poo horror film?
And why would Disney let this happen? Well, it fell into the public domain because things like that are like, you know, there's all kinds of different copyright links, but in general it's like life of the copyright owner plus seventy years or ninety five years from creation if it's from a business, if it's owned by corporation. So someone was clever enough to say, hey, Winny, the poo's coming out of the public domain. Make a horror film.
So they did, made one hundred thousand dollars horror film and it made two and a half million at the box office. So somebody made a little bit of money there. And now there's a but I always tell you it's people. It is not your first movie. So whoever made that and I made a distribution deal, they would ask me, should I sign this it seems one sided? Or am I getting ripped off? I'd go, you sign that and you make your movie, and then your second movie is where
you're gonna make your money. So, now, how much money do you think this genius is going to make on the second movie? Second movie is going to have a director fee, you know, in the millions, perhaps, but you know he's gonna pucket a lot of money. So he took a chance in the first one. He didn't make a big deal out of it, and he's getting rewarded. Good for him. What other movies and or what other characters are falling into the public domain soon? Well, here's
a small list Mickey Mouse in twenty twenty four. Pluto, Oh my goodness, Oh yeah, yeah, Oh, there's going to be so much there. Yes, and I'll get to you all. There are some limits, so let me able to read this to the small list here, and then then we'll get to a couple of details. Pluto in twenty twenty five, Donald Duck twenty twenty nine. Cool counts to mc screwge. You're not probably not. Superman twenty thirty three, Oh cool, everybody in the Hobbit twenty
thirty three, James Bond twenty thirty four. Oh, I can see some really twisted stuff with him being made. Yeah, Batman twenty thirty four, Captain Marvel twenty thirty four, The Flash twenty thirty four, Captain America twenty thirty six, Aquaman twenty thirty six, and Wonder Woman twenty thirty six. The legal scholar that wrote this article, I don't necessarily agree with them, says the limits on something like Superman would be, Yeah, you can use
Superman, but you can only used nineteen thirty three Superman. Nineteen thirty three, Superman couldn't fly yet you can only jump tall buildings, so you can't have your Superman fly. I think that would be a matter a try for the trier of fact. I don't think that's clear. You know, here's here is Superman. Make them do whatever you want. Don't bring other characters and other storylines that are copyrighted. But how do you copyright somebody flying?
You know? How do you like? That's? It falls into the doctrine of scenes affair. I think where if he's a superhero, he's going to have magical powers or superhuman powers. One of those might be flight. That would be the number one think you would think of in a superhuman power. So I disagree with this. I think someone could make Captain America or Superman fly in twenty thirty three. It's someone a little paranoid here and Mickey Mouse.
You're only going to be able to do the Mickey Mouse from nineteen twenty four and not the one that later is, you know, wearing a red outfit and has white, big white gloves and all that stuff. That one this article sais you can't because later they would, you know, copyright that one and you can't take it, but the original one they copyright it from nineteen twenty four. He's all skinny, you know, like steamboat Wi. Yeah, you can you can make you can make a horror film with that.
So okay, that sounds terrifying but doable. Yeah. Yeah, So that's coming up and there'll be lots of lawsuits and we'll cover all of them. Also in the advertising world is a let's make sure didn't miss anything. Uh, Jack in the Box has a horror film. Have you seen this the restaurant, Yes, well restaurant, I mean loosely using that word. Jack in the Box has a horror short. So you can find this on YouTube by just typing in Jack in the Box and horror or Halloween and it'll
come up. It looks like it costs about six million dollars. It's very, very well done, and it might be the best horror film to be released this year. So I been a strong year for horror films too. This man, It's tough to be. It's about a a food truck it's offering free It's called the Angry Monster Truck and it's offering fee free Monster tacos if you dare take one from it. And the movie is called Feeding Time, so I would this is like my friend over at In and out Burger.
I was talking to him about this. Now, in and out Burger, why are they doing this film? Why are they spending six mini let's give it the number six month. Why are they spending six months? They're spending six million so they can market the taco because the taco's coming back, the monster taco's coming back. That you know, the Jack in the Box
menu is always changing. They're always you know, pepper Jack, Chili Burger, Taco, Monster Taco, New Breakfast, all this stuff, and they have to market all that stuff because it keeps changing, so they need a six million dollar commercial. In and out Burger, on the other hand, they never change I'll change your menu at all. So I was kind of joking of, hey, you got to make one of these things, and then I saw then I rethought what I had said and said, you don't
need this because your menu never changes. So you save the six million dollars in marketing because everybody already knows, uh what your what's on your menu, and you don't have to tell people you steal your general you know, minimal
advertising, let people know you're there. You know what advertises for in and out burger are probably better than anything is the traffic surrounded by the ones you drive by, Yeah, in the long line, because when you see that and you remember it is so good, all those people are willing to go through this. So you don't really need a horror film. But the horror film was good, and maybe the horror film could be waiting in the line.
I mean, there's a lot of things could happen at any at any fast foods restaurant, but I mean, like the goal at the end of it all is the delicious. The thing that pulls you out is the in and out burger. Well, why I'm saying they don't need a line can
be terrifying. They don't need anything, They just don't need it. People go there, they might you know, they might need that back east when they expand, because those people are are they're not like us, and they don't you know, have the same affinity to be in that burger, so they might want to think about it. Your poor line thing. Maybe Okay, there's a do you know there's a war going on? Sam, I've
I've heard as such. I've been buried in my books. So there's a conflict now at c AA, that's the Creative Artist Agency, Uh, where a top agent Uh forwarded a a post Twitter. It's always gets you know, that's where that that's where all these stories start to go bad. And her name, she's like a superagent like people love her. She's Tom Cruise's agent, Madonna's agent, and her name is Maha Dakil. And she forwarded a post that said, you're currently learning who supports genocide? That's the line
for me. She then posted a second photo caption, what's more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide and what is the answer is witnessing the denial that genocide is happening. So you can see where this is. This was her supporting the Palestinians, but that didn't go over well in Hollywood. So she apologized made a mistake and said she was re educated. She removed the post, and she
had to resign from the internal board at CIA. I don't know what really what the internal board is, but she did pay a price somewhat but not like the ultimate price. But she might lose clients. So we have more news. Sam On rust, the gift that keeps on giving, Rust keeps
going. This is incredible. Yeah, it really is. So here what we have now is they are they are we hinted at this last week I think it was of the week before, and aren't really sure, but they're going to file charges again, involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin, which means they think they got it, They've got the evidence. They're putting Hi in front of the grand jury in the grand jury room, most likely indict him, and then they'll go through the same stuff as lawyers will say, oh
this is a joke, throw this out. He's there's no evidence or this or that. But they say that they believe that, based on their lengthy and detailed investigation, that it is appropriate for a grand jury in New Mexico to make a decision on whether the case should proceed. So it's, y know, we just think that, you know, the grand jury should should decide and then the sod the chargers could take up to eighteen months in prison if he's convicted. But I think also we all know this guy's not gonna
spend a day in jail. And I think everybody involved except for maybe the armorer has learned their lesson. And then the husband of the victim, the one who died so someone else was shot. The husband is now an executive producer on the new the continuation of the film, so he's satisfied. So I don't know, and I you know, but as again I have said about Baldwin is a polarizing figure. So there's probably some people there that don't
like him. And you know, that's another thing. If you want to get on Twitter like that lady at c AA, tell everybody what we think. If you really, everyone must know what you think. No, it was a price to pay for that, So that lady's now a villain in Hollywood when she was a superagent. Now we have Alec. Baldwin might go to prison because he just you know, he should have it didn't have been better off being a little more quiet. But that's hard to do for some
people. I get I had someone Sam, but I had a block on Facebook. Then I blocked on Twitter. It was like an old girlfriend. Really what happened? Well, I all started with Donald Trump and I needed a hotel in Las Vegas, and I ended up at the Trump Hotel. It was the cheapest, decent place in town two hundred and forty dollars as opposed to nine hundred dollars where I usually stay. So I stayed there. It was a lovely hotel. And I don't care if it's Trump's hotel or
not Trump's hotel. I've stayed at the Plaza Hotel in New York City when I thought Trump was, you know, the most irritating man on earth, you know, thirty years ago. So anyway, I stayed another one whose hotels. And then on Instagram, I didn't flatter him at all. I just said I stayed at the very pet friendly Trump Hotel. And then everybody that I know on my social media is like, oh, very cool, your dog's so cute in the hotel and stuff like that. And that Trump
Hotel. I tell you, if you have a dog, go straight there. When you go to Las Veigas, they don't even ask you if you have a dog. They just you have a dog. That's fine, it's your business. It can't be more than fifty pounds. But if you have a little dog, bringman and they have a little dog park, goverront little poop bags for you. My dog loved it, and everybody commented that's really nice. You went to see Wayne Newton and you have your cute little dog.
And then some like old girlfriend from like when I was eighteen years old, here she comes Trump is a racist fascist, and everybody's like, whoa like nut, it's just uh, no one's talking like that here. Well he's going to do this, and he's going to do that, and he's uh, and everyone kind of slams her. And then I just kind of deleted it, sent her private message shape, don't do that. And then then she kept going on and on, and then she found me on LinkedIn.
I did to delete the Instagram, then I added the link and I didn't delink delete the the LinkedIn, but I it was so bad, Sam, I had to report that the messages that were to me now they became ad hominin attacks. And I didn't defend or it's anything political. I said, just don't say anything it's not positive on my thing. And then how did I finally had a block her and she she wrote back, please don't bok me. I I want to let's just agree to disagree. I'll never
bring it up again. And I go, you know what, as a married guy, shouldn't have his old girlfriend sending the messages in commenting anyway, So I think I'm let's just not, you know, communicate. Then the vitrioll came out. You're an idiot, You're probably a Nazi. You probably liked Hitler and like, you know, I know, and you know, bringing up things from like eighteen when I was eighteen. I'm sixty now, the girls bringing up things from when I'm eighteen and telling me that I fell
short. So I just, you know, to block that one. Okay, what else our ex's look at us that we fell short? Yes, I mean I get it, and I'm sure I did, and I apologized during this conversation. You go apologize for however I hurt you when I was eighteen years old. Trust me, I'm a I'm a different man and didn't I fell short again? But now I feel really good blocking. Blocking is pretty fun. It's like in the end. Okay, So what I got
a little bit of news here from Universal Music. They're finally a seventy five million dollar lawsuit against Amazon backed AI firm called I don't know AIBS or whatever. I forgot what they called. But so they're they're suing this AI company because the AI company is ingesting lyrics like they ingest lyrics like Rolling Stones lyrics and Beatles lyrics and stuff like that, and they get it all and then you can type in, hey, you write me a song that's like the
Beatles. Now, all these publishers, Universal Music, Concord Music Group, I think they handle a bunch of my publishing. And a company called Abkco I never heard of. They are in court, Tennessee and they're going after this AI company saying you're you know, you can't do this, So you can't take copyrighted works and make copies of them and manipulate them and spit them out as you know, derivative works. I guess they would call them.
I didn't hear the see them use that term, but that's what I would call them, derivative works maybe or sam is it this? What if I give you? What if you go buy copies of all these records and then you go home and you write a song that's like these because you're influenced by them. Now are they going to sue you? Then? Maybe? Probably not unless the songs actually like match up with the songs that I'm influenced by and like like literally stealing from them. Yeah, exactly, And that's another
question for the tryer of fact. Are these songs stolen or are they influence and the robots writing them as opposed to some other person could write them, And how do they know that? But they're just saying the fact that you ingested them in into your software is the copyright infringement, and they want to block that from happening in the future, and they want these guys to pay
millions of dollars for doing it already. I don't know if we want to live in a world where we have to halt the creative possibilities in the world of artificial intelligence because these guys publishers are mad. I'm a publisher. I own a lot of publishing. I'm not mad. I'm just like, well, let's see where this goes. So we'll find well, that's just brand new. We'll we'll we'll follow it in the in the future. The last thing I'll talk about is the sag after strike, which is really it's still
going on and it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. And the big problem is, in case you're worried or you're your care is the actors, the screen Actors Guild. Full disclosure. I'm a member of that guild. They are asking for to be paid a certain amount of money for
every subscriber that the streamers have. I think they started out a dollar and now they're not like fifty seven cents or something for every subscriber, and not for every person that watched it, like a number for like a rating point for everyone that watched the show. No, they want this money for every subscriber. Then they want to take that money and put it in a fund and distribute it to whoever they think should get it, and that's usually where
the their corruption comes. But that's what they want. In the studios like Netflix saying no, we're not going to do that, And one of their arguments is these things already lose money. Netflix is the only one that's making money, and they took them. They had to spend thirty billion dollars before they started making money. Do you know that's him? Yeah. Yeah, they had to invest in a lot of different things, thirty billion. It's
not like they got that back. It's just kind of profitable now. So they're saying, look, this is everything's going down, and now you want us to give you eight hundred million dollars a year and just not going to do it. And we will try to find some way to when we have hit shows to pay for things that are doing. And these the actors don't want to bunch. They just want to. They want to they want to get their foot in the door, like the Writers Guild died with their things.
Get the foot in the door, like they're saying, just give us that, even if some people are saying they might even accept like ten cents per subscriber, but they want to get that in there so that they can keep raising that every time. And is it is that the the way to solve the strike? Personally, I want the actors to get as much money as they can get, but I don't want them to be harmed. I'm
afraid with this kind of hardball thing. If you do get what you want, because they just want to end the strike, they're going to make stuff with foreign countries and foreign actors and people that aren't in the Screen Actors Guild and people that aren't and they're just gonna, you know, because that's their their option to just go outside of you and not use you. Will they have worse actors? Yes, But if they want to save their business.
If they think it's saving their business, or if they're just too greedy, they can do that. So you gotta be careful. If you ask for too much, they'll just say, well, like I talked to another writer last night at a party and he said, yeah, we're all, you know, back to work, but there's not going to be much work.
Ask them, I go, is that because of like the theory that now that they've given these concessions though, instead of being six hundred scripted programs next year, they'll be three hundred And he goes, yeah, exactly, they'll be less, so less people have jobs. Is that what they were striking for? For less jobs? It's something you got to think about. I don't want to scare you, Sam, I'm terrified. And it's Halloween time, so it's okay, okay, what are you going to be for Halloween?
Where All Yankovic excellent choice. I'm gonna be, uh well, I'm going to a party that's a theme. The theme of the party is Adam Sandler movies. So you know there's a character of Steve Buskimi plays and something called something Hubby. I liked his outfit. I'm gonna be that no one's gonna know who I am. I probably have to, you know, make a sign or something. But I don't do props, no prop content costumes. I like to do costumes where if someone takes my picture in it,
it might not look like a costume. Did you know my theory of activity, Well, here's my theory on Halloween for adults. Halloween used to not be for adults, used to be only for kids. Now it's for adults. And this is a whole new world we live in. We also live in the world of the Internet. A giant percentage of photos taking out at parties are taken on hallowe It could be like ninety percent of the part of the photos from parties are on Halloween parties. Maybe it's eighty percent, maybe
it's seventy five. So any if you add up your life, most of your Internet photo life is going to be you in a costume. So I reject that proposal. So I don't want to be I don't mind getting photographed for the Internet. I care. But if I'm wearing a you know, conteent for us costume, or I'm a like a member of the village people or whatever, I don't want that on the internet, like you know, in like over my lifetime, like seventy Halloween costumes floating around there. Enough
of that. You gotta be a husband, You got to, you gotta play along, you gotta you gotta do it. Okay, So excep for today. We will see you again next Sunday. I don't forget the Vandals. Christmas show tickets are on sale. There's a show in Ventura at the vent of the Majestic Venture Theater and on December twenty second, and a show on December twenty third at the House of Blues, Anaheim. So I hope
you're coming if you haven't seen the vandas Christmas Show something to behold. I will now leave you with just a taste of the greatest song ever written. It's all O.