Joe Escomante live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood you mean Burbank across the street
from a Wiener Snitzel that serves beer. We are live this week, Sunday,
November twenty sixth, and uh, we're not prevented. We're not preempted
by NFL today, right, Sam, No, we got a show.
This is nice, Okay. So sometimes you turn this station on and you
hear an NFL game and you think, is Joe announcing? This is Joe
the kicker? You know, is Sam the manager, the water boy or
a cheerleader. No, you are the league leader in Sachson my Fantasy League.
Thanks you, Saka Jawilla exactly, suffering zacotash. Okay. So we're
gonna get it on with the two hours of the business end of show business
that we do every Sunday here on KiB and it is also broadcast all over
the world on iHeartRadio, so you can always listen to this anywhere, even
if you're not in your car listening to AM radio. And then later in
the evening, Sam puts together a podcast version of the show. If you
like podcasts, I like podcast I have a new podcast, Sam. Let's
let's start off talking about that. Just a little quick recommendation. Then we're
gonna get to new pod recommendation. It's called The Rest is History, and
it's two British guys just do history. That's it. But it's very well
done. They're enjoyable and it puts me to sleep after one second. Yeah,
that's the thing. A British accent will make anything sounds more just so
much better and more sophisticated. Yeah, way better. So, uh I
The Rest is History. I recommend that I'm listening to The Fall of the
Aztecs, which is fast. I listened to each episode like two or three
times. It's that good. Now part also because I fall asleep and then
I have to go back to the beginning. Let's get into the meat of
the show. The meat of the show is, you know, the business
end of Hollywood, and man, there's some business going on in the music
business right now. There's a lot of rapes that are being accused. But
here's a restraining order between two beloved music characters, Daryl Hall filing a restraining
order against John Oates. Can you believe that, Sam? What is the
work coming? Yet? I've seen them live twice and this breaks my heart
right, it breaks your heart. It's a heartbreaking story. So we don't
know a lot because the complaint is secret. But Hall filed the complaint against
Oates on November sixteenth, as well as a motion for a temporary restraining order.
Now to me, that's like if you so's he he thinks of him
as a threat. If sometimes you're watching Daryl Hall and you think he should
pay a little more attention to this little man with a mustache behind him,
you know, on stage, like he's creeping around, Like what's he doing
back there? You should be careful. Now we know there's some suspicions.
They cracked jokes at each other during their live shows. It was pretty funny
they do. Yeah, one of them, like Oates, was saying,
you know, just looking at this crowd, it makes me realize how great
my career and I might I really think I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
And then Darryl Hall pops and it's like you could be me, Okay,
I get it. Well, something like if this was a what do
you call it? A A not a restraining order, but an injunction.
Normally people would say I want to file an injunction against against Oates from forming
songs that I wrote. That would be understandable. You might say, I
think he's misleading the public that they're gonna they're going to a show and they're
going to see Darryl Hall. If he says he wrote kiss on my list,
he doesn't want John Oates playing, it would be a hard restraining order
because anybody is allowed to play anybody's music. But sometimes a court will will
grant an injunction against performing certain songs if there has been some misleading advertisement,
like if it said John and Hall and Oates are playing and it was only
Oates. Hall could file an injunction to get him to stop playing those songs
because it would be misleading to the public. But a restraining order is usually
don't come within two hundred yards of me. So that is is if I
play a solo show at the Hollywood Bowl, I don't want to have to
keep looking over my shoulder to see if he's If there he is, you
know, poop, there's John Oates. There's a little mustache, those big
mustaches a body. So this is why it's so intriguing, because what is
it? And it's a mystery right now, So we don't really know,
so we will move on. Say, um, unless you have further comment
on your your is too. All I know is I'm wearing my Oats mustache
shirt in tribute in solidarity with Oats. Good for you, Good for you.
Okay. So there's some other music news that you might have been hearing
about, and I'm like, should you pay attention to this? Is this?
I think this is kind of a false flag issue of the government.
You know, they just issued a subpoena against ticket Master over egregious concert prices.
This keeps happening, and they keep hauling these guys in front of the
lawmakers and you know, asking them about their fees and all that stuff.
But why because the concert tickets are so much more expensive than they used to
be. Sam, have you tried to buy a concert ticket lately? No,
No, I've seen my bank account. That ain't happening, right,
Well, I mean it used to be like a big deal was thirty five
dollars including ticket fees. Now it's thirty five hundred. Yeah. No,
I've seen the cost of a big Mac lately. Yeah, that ain't happening.
The sixteen dollars McDonald's value meal God to love it. Yeah, okay,
so what should we are there villains in the concert business that are that
are driving up these ticket prices. And my answer, and my quick answer
to you is this is largely a waste of time. Concert tickets are high
price because artists charge a lot. It's it, okay, they charge a
lot. And you know what, if people like Taylor Swift didn't charge a
lot, you could argue that the black market prices would go up just as
high because the market is accepting these high prices. So you could be like
the cure and say we're only going to charge a low price. And then
there has to be a thumbprint or a digital ID connected to each ticket,
and then everybody, no one can transfer the ticket and you you got to
show your thumbprint when you get there that you want to bought the ticket,
and then that until the hackers can fake time. What I had to give
a DNA sample last time. When I'm not talking about your recent arrest,
I'm talking about just uh, just you know, going to going to see
concerts. Each time I got in this segment, Oh, we got about
a minute here, okay, So what do you need to know about this?
My advice is don't pay attention to it. If they're hauling a concert
promoter in front of a jury, change the channel and watch Naked and Afraid,
because this is just politicians trying to do something because what is the hottest
subject in America right now? Taylor Swift tickets. So now they're doing something
about it, and they can distract from the things they're not doing and the
list. I won't even go into the list because you just pick your favorite
pet projects that they're not working on. That's what they're not doing, and
they're going after the people who are preventing you from seeing Taylor Swift as many
times as you want to see her. Okay, when we come back,
we will talk about the box office. I think having a pretty good Thanksgiving
weekend and a lot of movies out. Its crowded. I went a couple
of times, and you can also see Taylor Swift at the movie theater as
well. So we'll take a break and check the traffic and then back more
of Joe Aesclante Life from Hollywood, Joe Escalante Life from Hollywood. But Hollywood
you mean Burbank. Hey, I want to express some sorrow for the passing
of Marty Croft this week. Marty Croft, the partner of Sid and Marty
Croft that are most notable for just amazing Saturday morning shows like that Hr Puff
and Stuff, The Buggaloos, Liddsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monster and the
Land of the Lost, which was just a masterpiece and Saturday Mornings, I
mean a masterpiece. We talked about Marty Croft. He's so popular and his
brother Sid that and they're so creative and so original that McDonald's had to pay
them when they if we're admitting they copied their character, you know, look
and feel and everything for the Mayor mccheese mcdonaldan campaign in the seventies. Then
they had a hit called Mutton Stuff. Recently on Nickelodeon. They did variety
shows like The Brady Bunch Hour, Donnie Marie, Bay City Rollers, just
legends. And I got to work with Marty. Not said so much.
He would pop into the office every once in a while, but Marty,
he was he I don't know. He thought I had something and he invited
me to work on a few things with him and it was super fun.
I did The Banana Splits, a reboot of The Banana Splits in about nineteen
or two thousand, you know, four or five years ago or something,
and it was just great to work with him. Being a room with him,
what a privilege. I first met him when I was at sea BS
Television in nineteen ninety three, and because I was well behaved, my boss
would take me to every lunch that he had, and so I got to
go to lunches with people like Marty Kroft. I would you know. I
would tell him I was sow into these Saturday morning shows and he goes,
hey, I know, Marty Kroft, we can go to lunch. So
we would go to lunch. Hed go to lunch just for my benefit.
So I could just pick Marty Croft's brain and ask him about, you know,
the Land of the Lost Costumes, where are they now? All kinds
of stuff like that. And then and then I reconnected with him later when
I started writing for TV, and he was very sympathetic. So rest in
peace, Marty Kroft. He has survived by his brother Sid, who has
a very amazing Instagram. He does live instagrams on Sundays like three pm,
and he has guests and he talks about the good old days. So if
you want to know more about sid and Marty Kroft's Marty still around and you
got to pay attention to people like that while they're still around. All right,
let's go to some Hollywood bad boys stuff. Oh no, before we
get in the bad boys transition, that'll be in the next segment, we're
gonna talk about the box office. And you know what, Marty Krofft is
no stranger to the box office. He produced a Puff and Stuff feature that
was incredible, such a great movie. So if you I forgot what it's
called or whatever, but if you if you google the hr Puff and Stuff
feature film, that's worth revisiting anytime. Okay, So in the box office,
what do we have here? Sam? Did you see anything? Uh?
No, I actually rewatched into the Spider Across the Spider Verse. It's
out the first one of the seconds, and I got caught up on a
lot of the things that I missed the first time I saw it. But
is that the first one Spider versus second one? That's the second one?
Yeah, that was a great movie. I'm seeing the first one. And
when you go more in depth on certain characters and you get to see a
lot of the hidden details in some of the scenes. It really foreshadows a
lot of the stuff that's going to be coming up in the next movie.
Just wait until after you get a girlfriend, because if you do that before
you get a girlfriend, you will never get a girlfriend. So it is
just a grea you no one who wants to watch it. You don't want
that one, uh you, So you got to just prioritize. Okay.
Number one at the box office this weekend, second weekend in a row,
The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gros seeing twenty eight million
for a total of ninety eight million. And that's an expensive movie. It's
going to need to get a lot more income to pay for itself. But
I saw if you like Hunger Games, it's for you. If you're like
me and you don't care, and Jennifer Lawrence isn't in it, and you're
it's not as much in there for you. But it's a fine film,
very well made. And I mean, I know people in the right demographic
that that by Thanksgiving had already seen it twice. It's that good. They've
seen it. I think it was up on streaming. They My daughter watched
it twice this weekend that's what I'm talking about. Once is not enough for
these kids. So that's a success. Creative success is a business successor he
means to be. I couldn't get a ticket. I'm used to going to
the movies and no one's there. I thought you dropped out for about a
half second. Oh, I dropped out for about a half second. Yeah,
just pick up the thoughts where you left it off Napoleon, start before
Napoleon. At the end of I guess we've we missed like the last thought
that you had on the okay, okay, so before we get to the
number two. My final thought on the Hunger Games is that if you're a
kid in that genre, you're gonna want to see it not just once,
but twice in the first week. It's that creatively, it's it's a creative
success. Business. I don't know yet. Napoleon not a business success,
but I haven't seen it. I went to go see it, Sam,
and the movies were all the tickets were gone. Really yeah, so I
had to see another movie, which I'll talk about the box office, you
know, at the cinema and Huntington Beach that I go to. It was
it was crazy and good for them. I was a good feeling. I
don't mind being full, and I have to go, you know, see
it another day because I just want the movies to survive, because I want
these theaters to survive, and I want them to have enough employees to clean
every bathroom stall. That's part of my wish. Speaking of wish and toilets,
the Disney movie Wish have you. We talked about this last week.
I heard bad things about it from every direction. You said you heard good
things, anything else, No, I wish. I haven't heard anything about
just mixed reviews, nothing necessarily good or bad. There was a different movie
that we were talking about last week that it was the new marvel movie,
the Marvel's movie, The Marvels. You're absolutely right, Okay, so Wish.
I heard bad things, and yeah, it remains to be seen.
I haven't seen it. Trolls band together. I don't need to see another
troll movie in my entire Life's not going to do it. Yeah, No,
the kids don't even want to see it. No doing okay. At
the box office Thanksgiving Horror Film number five, number six, The Marvel's number
seven, The Holdovers number eight, Taylor Swift number nine, five nights at
Freddy number ten. The movie I saw and I will give you a little
review of it right now, which is Saltburn. I saw the ads for
this, I haven't seen it, but oh yeah, this one looks very
interesting. Yes, Saltburn is about a guy who's Barry Keegan or whatever.
You remember him from that Irish movie where the fingers got chopped off. Yes,
he's struggling to find his place at Oxford University, which is beautiful.
Every bit is beautiful as what's that place where the Harry Potter kids go to
Hogwarts? Hogwarts? Every bit is beautiful as Hogwarts. So he's finds himself
drawn to this very charming guy who is played by Jacob Alardi or Lardi was
the guy that played Elvis and Priscilla. So that guy's got two big movies
in the box office right now. He's the star of Tomorrow. Barry Keegan
amazing actor. So there's a many amazing performances in this movie that you got
to see. He's invited to a castle because he's like a rich guy with
a cat, and things get nuts. It's kind of a cross between Downtown
Abbey and Chuck and Buck and Parasite so fascinating. Yes, I mean thousand
percent recommendation on Saltburn, and it probably won't be in theaters long, so
go see it as soon as you can. And if you like the Prisilla
movie, and you like that Elvis the Stars and movies of that ilk and
it's directed by the female Emerald I'd like to say female because her name is
Emerald, and you know she's not a famous chef, Emerald Fennel, who
directed a promising young lady, a woman. You're promising, woman, promising,
don't know what that was, uh so definitely worth worth seeing. Promising
Hi woman. Yes, and she's won an Oscar for her screenplay and I'm
seeing a woman, so there's no slouches in this thing. The cast is
incredible, so you're gonna want to see Saltburn. The other movie I saw
this week was Priscilla. I really enjoyed Priscilla. Before you go to deep,
let's take a commercial. Let's come back. Joe Scalante Live from Hollywood.
Joe Lescalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood you mean Burbank. So
we rounded out the box office and the number ten is the movie I saw
Priscilla. Have you seen Priscilla, Sam No, I have not. Now.
Priscilla is not a big movie like the Elvis, the Baz Luhrman Elvis
movie was. It is a small movie. It's an A twenty four movie.
So A twenty four movies have their own kind of feel and they don't
get as much box office, but they usually always make money and a lot
of people will go see a movie just because it comes from the distributor or
studio A twenty four. This one is just a super edgy version of the
Elvis story because it's the story of a fourteen year old girl who meets Elvis
and ends up, you know, marrying him, not soon after, you
know, a couple of years. But she's, uh, it's just like
it's a little creepy, and then there's a there's a moment when you're like,
whoa, this does not make Elvis look good. But as it goes,
I mean, there's the it's like warts and all. And she wrote
the book Priscilla that the movie was based on, so this is her story.
And I have a friend, we have a mutual friend, Priscilla and
I have a mutual friend, close friend. And she went to the premiere
and she talked to her afterwards, and she said, it seemed like you
didn't have any fun during that whole period, I mean, like no fun
at all. Do you have any fun? And she said, yeah,
I had some fun. So when you see it, don't be too sad,
because she also had some fun. But some times, you know,
she's kind of like a a the you know, the princess in the castle.
She can't do anything. Elvis is out with Aunt Margaret and who knows
who, and she just sits there and has to read the headlines. Colonel
Tom Parker doesn't want her in the way, and Elvis is a is a
playboy, but he wants to keep her pure back home like a plaything.
And it's I hear my dog has come to Burbank. Hey, chiwie,
what are you doing in Burbank? Rubbing his face on the carpet? Okay,
So do I recommend this movie? Yes, one hundred percent. Do
they not out her time with the naked gun movies? No? This movie
ends. This movie ends. This movie ends as she's driving her own car
out of Graceland for the last time. And I don't know what she was.
She must have been like twenty twenty two twenty three. I don't know
when how old she was, when when they got when they separated, But
when she leaves, this movie's over and she goes to the reading harms of
Leslie Nilsen, Yes, and her martial arts instructor. So yeah, it's
disturbing. It's authentic. It's the story of the of the of the of
the one who was there. It's brave, you know. I like these
movies that are are you know, you can tell the authenticity because they don't
sugarcoat their own story. They go, look, here's the mistakes I made.
Here's where I was an idiot, Here's where I was less than perfect.
Kind of like reminds me of the biography of Steve Jones from the Sex
Pistols called Lonely Boy. It's the best rock biography of ever read because of
the authenticity and it was it gave me a similar feeling like that you're just
like, wow, this person really really put it out there. I had
read the book, but I read it so long that I don't remember.
But it was just a good movie, So you know, I think more
people should see it. I think the box office is a little low from
what it should be. But you know what do people like? If this
movie came out thirty years ago, I think it would have been the biggest
movie in America. Oh, it would have won an Oscar thirty years ago.
Yeah, it's could still win an Oscar. Sofia Coppola one of my
favorite directors. This is not her best film. It's a compelling subject matter,
it's not as nowhere near the quality of Lost in Translation movies like that
that Sofia Coppola has done. Do you hear my dog? I do?
And he's as soon as you said, Sofia Coppola, he adequately reflecting my
feelings of just remembering her from The Third Godfather and or the the where she
basically killed the series. She killed Oh the third, Oh, the third
uh Godfather? I disagree. I disagree with that. I think she was
great in it. That's where me and the rest of the world differ.
So I think it was killed by something else, but not not Sophia Coppola.
Okay, there is a a trend. A trend in Hollywood is a
couple of this. This article I read in Variety. It's called why does
Warner Brothers Keep canceling finished movies? And there's a trend of canceling finished movies.
Maybe at Warner Brothers. There's also a trend tow poop on David Zaslov
from Warner Brothers. So every week people try to come up with articles of
ways to say that David Zaslov has ruined everything, and mainly we can trace
it back to political things of him trying to clean up CNN and not succes
seeding at it, you know. So he didn't even get the ratings,
but he got rid of some of the ideologue. So Hollywood press is full
of ideologues. They're always gonna hate David Zaslov, although he did score a
lot of points in the strike. So this is another David Zaslov bashing article
and it goes into things we've covered before about getting rid of Batgirl so you
could get a tax right off, and same thing with the Scooby Doo movie.
To get a tax right off rather than put it out and put it
in or just throw it on the streamer, don't have to do any promotion.
Evidently he thought it would have been bad for the streamer because it was
so terrible, so he made a gamble, and he also came there to
try to clear up the debt. So this is you know, you got
to do something different. So I think it was bold. Get rid of
Bat Girl, get rid of Scooby Doo. We know both these movies were
awful. I mean we just know because if it was good, he would
release that on the streamer. But it's a combination between I need a tax
write off and this movie is awful. And you know, sometimes some movies
should have you know, should never come out now, but they should be
illegally obtained, you know, in the black market, and then you can
then you then you feel like it's really cool. By the way, speaking
of movies that aren't available anymore, Song of the South is out now.
It's out in theaters. Did you know that, Sam No, I wasn't
aware. Please inform me. It's a Vietnamese movie. But that's funny.
Has the same name. That's really funny. I haven't seen it yet looking
forward to I don't even know if it's a musical. But he did that,
okay, so now he's he he. He tried to do this scrap
the Coyote Versus Acme movie, but the backlash was a little too strong,
and then people started to think of this movie was pretty good, so he
backed off away from that, and Coyote versus Acme is being is allowed is
being allowed to be sold to some other distributor. So someday we'll see Coyote
versus Acme, which I know you want to see, Sam. I mean
actually that I had no idea that existed, and I'm I would love to
see that. Yeah, uh, it's it's coming, okay, Coyote.
I've been been getting some good news as far as projects that are coming up.
My favorite film of all time, as the writer of it got the
right, he bought the rights to it, and so he's going to actually
expand the universe. It's the Last Dragon. Oh oh yeah, oh yeah,
uh last Dragon. Yeah, I'm thinking Barry Gordie is the last Dragon.
Oh yes, the last is that the Kurt Russell movie. No,
that was Trouble in Little China. Okay, all right, Last Dragon was
the one with Bruce Leroy and show naff. Oh yes, all right,
Well let's take a break and we come back. We will do more of
the Joe'scalante live from a Hollywood gag. Yeah, h m hm m h.
Joe is going on Joe's Cowante Live from Hollywood, by Hollywood. If
by Hollywood you mean Burbank, Burbank right here in the valley. Hey,
Sam, Hey Joe. I got a lot of stories. I gotta run
through them really fast. So feel free to chime in, but keep keep
an eye on that clock for me. Celebrity Hollywood graffiti, little shots of
stuff on the wall. There's an intellectual property case UH where Sarah Silverman was
suing the AI world because she said they were taking her material and putting it
in UH as, you know, input, so that AI could study it
and then make AI things. Now, this is a bold, ambitious project
to bring down the entire AI industry, and Sarah Silverman's no stranger to controversy.
And she tried and the court said, you're out of your mind.
This lawsuit is a deficient of any any results or any evidence that this has
happened. There's no infringing, derivative work that has been made by AI that
you can cite and say, look, AI made this out of my stuff.
So a judge called it nonsensical, told her to go pound sand so
nice. Try. Shakira has settled her tax fraud case. This is interesting
because she settled it after testimony started. After about eight minutes of testimony on
the trial, her lawyer stopped and just settled. Oh, they were about
to reveal some stuff. Yeah, they were afraid she was going to go
to jail for eight years if convicted. You know, we all know she
wouldn't go for a full eight years, but the stakes were pretty high,
so she just settled it. She's got a few years of probation and she
has to pay fourteen point five million euros. Oh well, sorry, twenty
four million euros. And the whole crime was her living in Spain but having
a residence in the Bahamas, and she didn't spend enough time in the Bahamas.
She liked Spain better, but she was trying to pay taxes in the
Bahamas and it started to catch up with her. And that was the end
of that. But she's okay now, and I'm sure she has that money.
She's going to pay it, and she's going to be on probation.
Though in Spain, Spain is ruthless. I gotta tell you, I got
a ticket there once and the cop it was nonsensical. It was for nothing.
And then the guy asked me for one hundred and twenty five yuros,
and I said, well, I don't have it. Can you take credit
cards? I'm on my way to the airport. I'm out of there.
I'm not carrying aroun one hundred and twenty five yuros in cash on my way
to the airport. He goes, ah, go inside this liquor store,
and so I did. And then he tells the cash register charge this guy
on his credit card one hundred and twenty five euros, and he did.
And then I got the one hundred and twenty five euros and he goes give
me that, and I gave it to him. That was the judge and
jury and executioner. So I can imagine what Shakira is going through over there.
It might be as bad as what Jane Doe went through and had to
file a lawsuit. It's a third lawsuit against Sean Diddy Combs saying that he
and an R and B star called Aaron Hall took turns raping her and a
fowl more than thirty years ago. Okay, So that's in addition to his
other cases where he was named for doing the kind of the same stuff and
choking and stuff like that. So there was a there's something called this.
I got like three of these right now. Why do I have three of
these? Because there was something called the Adult Survivors Act in New York state
law, which gave a one year period where alleged victims of sexual offenses that
exceeded the statute limitations could file civil suits. I guess the idea of being
saying, look, if you have an old case, get it out of
the way violent now before it gets too old. Because the older it gets,
the harder it is to find justice for the accused. And so there's
been a lot of them, but they're over. But the ones that were
filed, you know, earlier this month before that brief law expired, included
three lawsuits against Diddy, one against Axel Rose. This one is from a
former model who actually had written about this in her book, but she didn't
think she could do anything about it, and then this law came. So
Sheila Kennedy, a former Penthouse model. She said Axel Rose violently assaulted her
in his New York hotel room in nineteen eighty nine. And that's a long
time ago. She was twenty six, he was twenty seven. She said
she was into her, She was into him. She wanted to go to
his apartment. He said, come to my hotel room, but your friend
not so much. She can't come. She's quote not hot enough. So
this is where the woman made a mistake. Instead of you know, sticking
up for her friend and leaving, she apologized to her friend and went to
Axel Rose's hotel room with MTV's Ricky Ractman. He you know, cornered her
and she watched him. You know, this is all sillatious, just like
she watches him have sex with someone else, then he forces her to have
sex with them. And he, according to the lawyers, he treated her
like property, you solely for his sexual pleasure. But this is the rock
and roll world of nineteen eighty nine, you know. So I don't know
if we have enough courtrooms to go through all of them, but in this
year we got a few of them. So Axel Rose is gonna have to
deal with that because it was filed another one against Jimmy Iovine, the the
founder of Interscope Records and board of directors on Apple right now, and because
he's also the founder of Beats, which was bought by Apple, and they
put him on the board of director's Apple, and now he's accused of sexual
abuse, harassment, among other allegations. According to the document, it's you
know, common law salt and battery, gender motivated violence, and human rights
violations. Actor Jamie Fox I think we talked about this one also sued under
this Act, and so has Russell Brand and Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and
Donald Trump. So you know, this is as we talked about. Combs.
His first case was settled in one day, and then he's got these
other ones. Now Axel Rose has got his. So that's what's going on
in that world. Now, what are this is going to happen to these
people? Well, they are allowed to file these cases because the New York
law says they can't if New York has jurisdiction over these people. But will
they win. They still have to put it in front of a jury,
and a jury can still sit there and go like there really isn't enough evidence
to beyond a reasonable doubt convict this person because why it's thirty years ago.
So they still have to overcome that hurdle. But they are allowed to file
these things, and they do go they can't get dismissed because they're too old.
So they will go to trial. And then that's why these settlements are
coming out. And so if someone had something and it was okay, case
it was too old, they can file it and they might get a settlement.
But if they go to trial, they're probably not gonna They're going to
have a hurdle unless the defendant is you know, hated by everybody in the
world. Speaking of it being hated by everyone else in the world. Susan
Sarandon and Melissa Barrera Barrera A been dropped by their agent UTA because they were
seen on videos siding with the Palestinian Hamas et cetera against Israel. So these
are the two most hope high profile people have done that. Susan Sarandon dropped
by her agent, and the Spyglass media group who makes Scream dropped Michelle Barretta
because she also kind of did the same thing. And mostly, I mean
Susan Sarandon knows what she's doing and she I don't think she cares. But
the poor Melissa girl she is, you know, in the she's young and
in the beginning of her career, and so I think it hurts her more
then it hurts Susan Sarana, But yes, Susan Sarandon's been around for a
while and has already the reputation of taking sides like that, and the you're
going to be seeing a lot of this, I think happening in the next
couple of years. Yes, and uh right, I'm not gonna make any
comments about it because I don't want to be nor yeah, I don't.
I don't need any more of this. And then there was a thing about
the strike. You know, the strikes are over and the people who were
the big losers of the strike have been named by the press, Gavin Newsom
for blocking a law that would have allowed the strikers to collect unemployment and Bob
Iger, who you know, came back to solve a lot of problems for
Disney, but hasn't really solved any according to the Hollywood Press. It's about
it, Sam, So let's uh, let's take a break, and I
will leave you now with just the taste of the greatest song ever written,
Don't Forget the Vandals. Tickets are available for the Christmas show, and get
them while they're available. Hossa Blues the December twenty third and the Ventura Theater
December twenty second until next time