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Joe Escalante live from Hollywood. If
by Hollywood you mean across the street from

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a Wiener schnitzelan Burbank it serves beer. We are coming to you from the

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actual Burbank studio today. This is
two hours of the business end of show

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business. And my engineer producer Sam
is here with me, and we've got

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a lot to cover today. This
is anything that has to do with the

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entertainment industry, but the business end
of it. We don't get into a

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lot of gossip here. Unless somebody
crosses the line and gets into legal trouble.

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Then we're ready to pounce. And
today we're pouncing on p Diddy,

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right, I mean, we gotta
we gotta do it. He kind of

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did it to himself at this Did
he did this to him to himself?

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Yeah? Now you've seen the video
right of him beating his girlfriend in the

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hallway at the hotel in Los Angeles. I try to avoid watching that kind

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of stuff, but I heard about
it and I saw his weak attempt at

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an apology. How about a week
attempt at a kick He's the worst kickboxer

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I've ever seen in my life.
He misses his targets, is off balance,

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he's paying more attention to holding up
his robe than he is trying to

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focus at the at the task at
hand, which is beating your girlfriend for

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leaving. Because you beat her,
and he was really he wasn't really good

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at it. I would have to
say, I think that's a good thing.

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Yeah, true, true. We
could be in a lot of trouble

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if he was good at it.
Yeah, but he's already in good trouble

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for being bad at it too.
When you get in a real fight,

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you never you never fight like you
do with the gym. You know,

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you're just it's crazy. And if
you've seen this fight, it's not even

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a fight. All he did he's
just beating her. He knocked her down,

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he kicks her, he drags her. He's not a good person.

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Well, the worst part about it, the worst part of it, kind

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of piles on top of itself because
because the outrageous denials that this ever took

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place, and those were there were
many of them. This was from twenty

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sixteen, correct, when the assault
took place. It's been eight years,

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yes, And then she filed a
lawsuit in twenty twenty three and it was

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settled like the next day. That's
the thing. It's the cover up that

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goes into it, and how many
people that are involved in trying to protect

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people who are just not good humans, and then also to the extent that

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the fan base goes to try to
defend them and protect them by saying that

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what they should be entitled to acting
like this because of their celebrity. It's

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a joke. Yeah, it's yeah. All the people that were you know

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that we're working with him and trying
to I mean, the lawyers, they

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have their job to do. They
could call it. The lawyer calls them

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and says, hey, this is
some I got to get out of this.

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And then the lawyer says he absolutely
did not do this, he denies

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all of it. I'm just you
know, that's why I don't practice law

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normally. I don't. I don't
practice that kind of law. Who wants

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to do that. But the people
that do it, they get a lot

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of money, They have boats,
they have all kinds of stuff because they

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go to people like p didiots say
you're going to jail. However, if

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you can put two hundred and fifty
grand in my bank account, I can

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keep you out of jail. And
then you put two hundred and fifty grand

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in the guy's bank account, he
makes his boat payment, and he feels

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like, oh, you know what, the guy's entitled to his defense,

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a vigorous defense. And it is
true. Everybody's entitled to their vigorous defense.

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If this lawyer doesn't do it,
someone else will do it. And

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then he never admitted it until the
video came out. And the video came

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out. It's kind of like if
Bill Cosby, if there was a video

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of Bill Cosby like opening up a
capsule and just like twisting the contents into

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a girl's drink while he's in the
bathroom and going and he's like, moha,

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he might have admitted it, but
they don't until they have to.

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And at least today he's not saying
the tapes are doctored. He is saying,

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I'm a different person now, and
if you admit all this stuff,

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I mean, but he's got other
lawsuits, so now it'll be a question

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of can you can you admit this
in the trial of the other ones that

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people are suing him. Can you
go in front of the jury and say,

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look at this, look at him. He says, he doesn't beat

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his he didn't beat the plaintiff and
he never would and she's crazy or he's

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crazy. In one of the cases, didn't he didn't abuse this person.

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Let's look at the tape of him
beating his girlfriend in a hallway and then

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denying it for years and years and
years. Yeah, so she had to

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live with the shame of him saying
this is not this didn't happen. Well,

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the short answer to me is no, you can't use that. And

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that's what happened to Bill Cosby.
Like they they get so excited they put

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all the they start piling all these
other cases in front of the jury and

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and they had like in the Bill
Cosby when they said, let's put like

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twenty girls that say the same thing
that he that he that he put drugs

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in their drink and raped them or
whatever. Then it gets overturned on an

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appeal because the jury you have to
prove the case that's in front of you,

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and you can't put in you can't
clutter up the jury's mind with other

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cases. There are exceptions to this, and judge and the prosecutors that use

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these, they go, well,
I have an exception because it shows it

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might show evidence, like they say, like he used this certain kind of

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a drug. Well, we have
him, you know, other people testifying

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he use the same kind of drug. But if it gets present prejudicial and

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then there's kind of no way they
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guilty because they just piled on too
much. Then the the cases get turned

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over. So in this case,
he's got to be careful. He's got

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he's got other women. There's like
there's an anonymous plaintiff from nineteen ninety ninety

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one said he had raped her him
and singer songwriter Aaron Hall. Guy.

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Anonymous plaintiff says that Combs and singer
songwriter Aaron Hall raped her and and a

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friend in nineteen ninety or ninety one
at an MCA Records event in New York

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City, where the singers were very
flirtatious and handsy and offered them drinks.

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Rolling Stone reported the suit alleges at
Combs and Hall invited women to Hall's apartment

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for I wonder if he's related to
Monty Hall. Can you check that.

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I'll check into it. I have
a question. Yeah, Now the video

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obviously you wouldn't want because this is
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here. You wouldn't want to introduce
this video as evidence of crimes that are

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that have nothing to do with that. But is it possible for say,

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in the closing argument, the lawyer
to mention something was like, you've seen

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reports about him lying about being abusive
in the past in the media. Is

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that considering is that being considered too
prejudicial? Strike that strike that even in

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a closing argument, Yeah, I
don't. I don't think. I think

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if it be up to a judge
to say, and that's the whole reason

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for a judge to be there to
say what comes in and what what,

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and he might warn the the prosecutor
and say, hey, you can't because

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what they're not supposed to go look
at at you're supposed to get people that

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haven't seen that tape. Have you
seen the tape? These people said they

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haven't seen the tape. Now you're
and now you're trying to invite them to

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go look for the tape or to
look for reports. So I I was

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a judge to saying, we don't
know. We need to know if you

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can prove this case that's in front
of us, God, not that you

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can prove that P Diddy is a
jerk, Because you know, P Diddy

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has a right to be a jerk, but but also to be right to

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be innocent. In this case,
that's that's in front of us. But

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even if it's to try to establish
a pattern of lying about abuse, I

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mean you can, you can if
it's under oath, if a person lies

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under oath, like we can take
this guy Michael Cohen today, if he

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he lies under oath and they catch
him, and I guess they caught him

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in a lie or a few lies
on Friday or Thursday or whatever, they're

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allowed to say. If you believe
he lied on this, you're allowed to

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disregard every single thing he said.
You can assume everything is a lie,

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and that's fair. You don't have
to believe anything this guy said. You

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don't need to pay attention anymore because
the guy lies. But if you're saying

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this guy, this guy has a
reputation of lying, he's not on he's

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not on trial for lying. He's
on trial for the crime in front of

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us, and of course he's going
to say I didn't do it. He

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might not even testify because he's sitting
over there. Yep, So you get

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you really just have to have the
elements of the crime, and there has

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to be witnesses or there has to
be you know, forensic evidence. Now

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you could say he is the backhand
bandit and every one of his victims has

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the same backhand and has the same
scar. And then you could say,

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here's a video of him beating his
girlfriend using the exact same technique that creates

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that scar. Okay, okay,
I'm not a you know, evidence pro

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to take a few seminars, but
you see what I mean. But you

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you, you gotta be careful.
So will they be able to use this

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No? Will he want to settle
quickly because now he can't go around saying

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I didn't do this, I did
this one, but I didn't do that

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one. He's got a guy named
the one we were just talking about.

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They brought him up to She says, they brought him up to the house

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and they coerced him into sex with
Combs and the other guy. Now it

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was shocked and traumatized. They barged, they they pin them down, all

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that kind of stuff. And then
there's a guy that says he was forced

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to like engage in like, uh
like threesomes or have to have sex with

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other people. Well, while other
people watched. There was some like weird

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sex room. I don't know.
We don't need to talk about it anymore.

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Anyway, he's bad, and I
think we can say he's bad.

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We saw him do the hit.
Yes, yeah, there's no question.

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And he uses his power and uh, you know it's apparently it's his dad

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was known to associate with well known
gangsters. Like yeah, I've been catching

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up on some of the stories about
P Diddy's background and it's fascinating. His

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upbringing and everything is absolutely fascinating.
And some of these kids or these girls

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said they were teenagers. We don't
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But there's trafficking, there's flying people
in to have sex and have these

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sex parties. But you you know, all this stuff is hard, hard

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to prove, and you got to
get the right lawyer that can stand up

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to his lawyers. But now that
he's admitted this one, it'll be interesting.

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He might be taking my advice.
Like I told Bill Cosby, what

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you do is you just say I
did it all and you can have all

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my money. And right now,
if I was Pddy, I would do

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that. I would say, you
know, I mean, I'm so sorry,

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you can have all my money.
Every single cent I have is going

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to you know this, I am
going to hire a panel of women abuse

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experts and they're going to tell me
how much money I can keep to live

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on. I have social Security or
so, I don't know. I guess

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he's he's fifty eight or fifty four, so he doesn't get that yet.

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But what can I live on?
And I'm going to give everybody money.

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It's all going to these causes and
then he has nothing. But if you're

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a clever lawyer like me, I
would draft it so after that he can

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work. Now he's been given a
pass and now he can take an advance

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on a new record of six million
dollars. But he gave away all his

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money. Now he was going to
lose all money anyway, because he doesn't

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have any No one will let him
work. Yeah, so that's what you

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do. You give away all your
money and you start over, and you

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start with an advance of some kind, not that anyone wants to work with

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them, but after he did that, people would work with them. Do

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you think he would keep the record
label or sell it? Oh, you

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got to get out of the h
any kind of you got to Yeah,

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you got to sell it. Let
someone have it. All the money is

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going to go here and there,
and you get out of it and you

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have a clean break. Nice.
Now you just now and now everybody likes

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you, and you go on Oprah
and you go on the Joe Scalante Live

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from Hollywood and you thank him for
the idea, the apology tour, the

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apology Tour, and you're done.
And then and then you get then someone

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says, you know what, we're
gonna make it? What if we make

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a six trafficking a movie that helps
people or whatever, and you're the executive

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producer and you get six million dollars. I don't know why I come up

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with that number, six million dollars
because I know two million dollars is like

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getting nothing. I heard on Secession
two million dollars is worse than getting nothing

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after the taxes and after this and
that. You don't want two million doors?

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Yeah, so six million doors?
And then yeah, you start Then

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you start fresh. I'm not I
mean, you know, he doesn't deserve

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to start fresh. Maybe, but
see what he does with the money he

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has. Yeah, okay, it's
interesting. Do we have commercials or anything

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in there two minutes. Okay,
we're almost there, let's keep going there.

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Uh, have anybody else that's being
bad? Oh my gosh, David

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Copperfield's name just popped up on on
the Jeffrey Epstein out like out of nowhere,

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poof it appeared. And that they
uncovered a notepad, like a real

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physical notepad on it that says,
like, you know, Copperfield Guild again.

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And then one of them the message
was it's jackpot. Uh you know,

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maybe he should be writing that stuff
in invisible link, just saying maybe.

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But he has like a big collection
of a like relics and artifacts from

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from ancient times in the magic industry, and he has it in Las Vegas,

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and it's in a big warehouse.
And I was told by somebody to

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go. Man. We met David
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and he showed us all this stuff. It's insane. And then in these

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articles about these girls that were supposedly
getting trafficed, they said, yeah,

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like you know, a ladies man
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when you read the articles he was
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over again and just saying call me
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god, you know he obviously he
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needed his money or whatever like that. But insane, shable desire for pleasures

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of the flesh many cannot resist,
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All right, Joe Ascalante live from
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multi level marketing. You know,
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scam, but everything works. So
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you're getting that good energy. Yes
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this is a sports report. See, I'm supposed to be up on sports.

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Oh fund it. Okay, I
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running the Dodger game. Don't you
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yesterday? Marley Mattlin was sitting right
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should run down there and like do
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everybody, all you Dodger fans listening, be sure to listen to Joe Escalante.

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That's what we should be doing.
I think we should. All right,

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so let's go to the movie.
Sam, you live at top of

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a movie theater. Did you make
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studying for your PhD. I've finished
all of my schoolwork. Forever I have

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to do a dissertation, but I'm
now done with the schoolwork. So I

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went to two movies this week.
All right, let's go to the box

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office. Yes, and then we'll
we'll see what you saw, and then

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we'll see what I saw. I
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okay, good. So it did
it involve apes? Yes? It did.

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Actually two separate movies that involved ape
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Barefoot Executive with Kurt Russell. No, I saw Monkey Man. Oh Monkey

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Man? Yeah, I want to
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Okay. Number one at the box
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like it was last week. Do
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no clue. It's the movie If
Ryan Reynolds, John Koshinsky and Lewis Gosstt

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Junior, Lewis Gossit Senior and Lewis
Gossip the Third and Steve Carell. That's

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about a girl who discovers that she
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the Ifs. Just to decide what
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to embark on a magic adventure to
reconnect forgotten Ifs and their kids. Maybe

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that's good. Maybe if it's Maybe
it's a puke fest. Sounds like uh,

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drop Dad, Fred the Old the
movie from eighty nine or ninety.

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Well, you know, there's only
only they say only, like, you

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know, three or four stories.
We have to just keep recycling them.

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Number two Kingdom of the Planet of
the Apes. We'll get to that in

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a second. Yes, Number three, The Strangers from Lionsgate. Number four,

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The Fall Guy from Universal, number
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Back to Black from Focus Features.
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Don't go see that. I wasn't
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you don't want to play around with
Tarot's It just sounds like a generic horror

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film. Yeah, like ooh,
wait a second, you got death.

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You want know what I have?
I have another great movie idea. It's

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called Oiji Wigi. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think we know what's

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gonna happen. Yeah. Number eight, Godzilla, times Caong, still hanging

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in there. Number nine The Blue
Angels. Oh, that's about those.

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Exactly what you think would be those. It's a documentary, isn't it.

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Let's see it looks like it sounds
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awesome to watch in Imax. That's
probably what they're going for here. Yeah,

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and I mean like on the original
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that they try to pass off in
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best one that I know of is
a It's over at the Palms Casino in

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Las Vegas. The best one that
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the Well and in downtown. I
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even believe it's there. Unsung Hero, that's the one that's like a Christian

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movie. My my family went to
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back to the Planet of the Apes. She liked it. It was pretty

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good. It was definitely a great
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it was entertaining. It was very
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It's more tolerable. Like the first
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Apes, I didn't like them.
I fell asleep like in them, and

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I got bored by them. And
then maybe the Marvel movies got worse,

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and the DC movies got worse,
and now the eight movies are just to

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me better than Marvel movies. That's
just me other movie? What did I

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see my movie? Where's my movie? I'm telling you. Monkey Man was

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good. I'm not sure if it's
in the theaters anymore, because it was

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it's been around for a little while. But what's Monkey Man about? It's

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Dev Patel and I think what Peel
from Jordan and Peel or Yeah. Sure,

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he's the one that's been putting out
like get Out and all those movies.

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Yeah. He This movie was awesome
to watch. It was definitely action

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focused and it had the single best
death scene I have ever seen in a

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film. It took the top spot
over the Blood Mist from the first Godfather

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movie. What about Human Centipede too? That one? I still hold on

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a different realm. That's just it's
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one, which was just garbage.
Part two that was legend. Yeah,

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it's very very seldom is the sequel, you know, better than the original?

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bottom. All right, monkey Man, there you have it. That's a

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recommendation. I saw a movie called
The Long Game, Sam. The Long

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Game is made the least amount of
money on this list of movies. Can

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you contributed about eight percent of it. Probably it only made seventeen thousand this

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weekend, and it wasn't far off. Yeah, yeah, like thirty dollars

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of it or so is mine.
It's about I mean, but it's a

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golf movie, and it's about these
golfers. They're Mexican and their caddies in

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the nineteen fifties, nobody will let
him play on the courses because the golf

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is for a white is a white
man's game back then, before we had

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the people who broke down the barriers. Sam. So they build their own

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golf course in the backwoods and then
they're they're training. They only have two

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holes, but they just keep repeating
those two holes to get an eighteen hole

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score. And then they get really
good. And then a new coach comes

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to town and he sees them and
he's gonna put that rag tag group of

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hackers into a first class golf team
for the high school, the Mexican high

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school. It's like Cool Runnings with
golf. It's a little bit Cool Runnings

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and it's a little bit stand in
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Yeah, and they are The coach
is motivated because he tried to join

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the country club in town. They
wouldn't let him. Okay, they told

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him, hey, there's a club
down the road or whatever there. You

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know, you'd be better off there. And they's going, no, I

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want to join this club. You
know, I've always wanted to be in

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a play at this course. Blah
blah blah. The guy's like, finally

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he just breaks down his Look,
I just got to think about the other

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members. If they see Mexicans on
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a problem. Now, this is
the nineteen fifties, And on the one

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hand, part of me is going
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the sixties and I didn't see any
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the nineteen fifties. I don't know. It was a little cartoony some of

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the racism. Some part of me's
going like, look, the black people

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had that kind of racism. We
didn't have this guy that bad. But

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what do I know? And you
have to make drama. So if you're

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going to see this movie, I
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a little cartoony. It's like,
we don't serve Mexicans here. You know,

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it's like okay, you know,
I mean, you know what I

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got in the sixties and the seventies, Beaner jokes, free Jolero jokes,

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you know, but not like we
have to have those Mexicans out of here,

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they can't be around here, or
get them out of the pool.

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You know, we didn't get any
of that. But you know it's ten

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years earlier. But really cool actors, really cool uh you know, old

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cars, really cool clothes. And
the golf. The golf part of it

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is terrible. Like if you're if
you're if you're like, if you if

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you know anything about golf, you're
just like, no, no, no,

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no, no, that's not someone
who did any did this writer ever

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play one round of golf in his
life. Still, it's a good movie,

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and if you're looking for a movie
to watch with their kids, especially

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pretty good movie. I think that
we should now go us obviously to a

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break, but also create the Mexican
Bob Sled Team so that in twenty years

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we can make the movie that's a
backdoor into a movie. Deal. I'm

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telling you, it's genius. It's
genius, all right. Joe Ascalante Live

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from Hollywood back after the traffic say
live from Hollywood, Play Hollywood. You

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mean Burbet? Did that? Did
that microphone cut my my intro off at

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all? Because I could tell everyone
who my name again? Oh name?

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I should I should turn my mic
onto Yeah? Maybe, yeah, maybe

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that My on button is a mystery
to this uh, to this outfit.

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This is Joe Scalante. We do
this show about the entertainment industry every Sunday

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from five to seven. We've been
doing it basically since most of the time

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on this station, but since two
thousand and six. Never before has it

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been done. But now there's seventy
five different podcasts trying to do the same

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thing. It's an institution. Yeah, it really is. Okay, the

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con Film Festival's going on right now. Last week I said there was going

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to be a bombshell revelation about a
me too. European Me Too movement is

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about to launch and they're gonna they
have this list and they're gonna name names

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of all the serial showbiz rapists.
So far, nothing, nothing's come up,

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but people are shaken. Ooh,
it's still going on. I assume

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it goes on to like the twenty
fifth I think. Okay, so we've

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got we've got We've got five days. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty the

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biggest news coming out of the con
Film Festival other than the what is what

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is the con Film Festival? Sam? Maybe people don't know. It's the

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one I believe in the south of
France. Yes, it's in the town

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of Khan on the coast and south
of France, French Riviera. And it's

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where two things go on. There's
a film festival where people where new movies

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are being shown and really fancy people
are watching them because they haven't come out

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yet. And then people are voting. The committee is voting on awards for

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these movies. But just to be
nominated, Sam is quite a honor.

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That's why you see this Laurel,
These leaves on movie posters that say official

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selection the can Film Festival. It
is equationally you see them on the like

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official selection on the Rio Linda Film
Festival, and it's you know it's not

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it's but not quite as prestigious.
No, so though that happens. But

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also people are going there to buy
unprestigious movies. People are going there.

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It's a film market. So people
are going there and go, look,

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I got Nicholas Cage and I got
a monster and I got a pack of

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wild dogs? What do you give
me for it? Ah, give them

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anything they want, Yes, Bulgaria, I'll give you. I can give

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you three million advance on that.
And I all right, Italy, what

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do you give me. I'll give
you eight million for pack of wild dogs

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at Nicholas Cage and a monster.
Okay, And then he adds it all

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up and he goes, all right, we can now go and make this

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movie because we now have sixty two
million dollars. And all they had was

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a poster at the beginning. So
Nicholas Cage, I mean, it's not

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just a poster. I think they
probably didn't ask him yet. But then

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by the time they got the sixty
two million dollars, then you go to

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Nicholas Cage and he says, yeah, how much I mean, know what

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he says. I'll tell you what
he says. This is a little show

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of his insider information. He says, how much money and how many days

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and how many how like, how
many times do he actually get to be

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the pack of dogs to morph into
them? Yeah? Well, the more

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he does that, the more he
has to work. So all he's really

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interested in and people like him.
Yeah in the movie. You know that

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there in there's a lot of these
movies and you're like, oh, that's

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not really Oscar caliber. How much
money, how many days? And who's

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the director? Is this some first
time hack. If it's a lot of

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money for a few days, I'll
take a first time hack. But if

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it's less money and more days,
I want to work with somebody like like

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sam Zia, you know, someone
reputable. Yeah. Okay, by the

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way, unbearable weight of massive talent. I highly recommend that film. I

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highly recommend any Nicholas Cage movie.
But what was that one where he's a

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vampire and his name was like,
oh, what was it? Renfield?

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00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.079
Yeah? Great movie, that was
great. That was on my top ten

407
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.440
last year. Yeah, okay,
so let's keep talking about the movies.

408
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.680
We got a couple of minutes the
movies. I got a recommendation for streaming

409
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:08.000
the Jerry Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis documentary. It's called Trouble in Mind, and

410
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:17.599
it's just really a mishmash of interviews
with him combined with videos of him playing.

411
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.079
But it is riveting. You can't
take your eyes off it. Just

412
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:30.079
he's he's a phenomenon. He's up
there with Elvis, and I mean Johnny

413
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.720
Cash above Johnny Cash. Like as
far as talent, yeah, raw talent

414
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:40.799
flowing out of his fingers. He's
an incredible human being. And my favorite

415
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:45.000
question in the movie when that when
someone finally asked him, you've gotten a

416
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.440
lot of criticism, criticism for marrying
your cousin who's thirteen years old. And

417
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:53.559
his answer was, well, she
was twelve years old, turned thirteen the

418
00:31:53.640 --> 00:32:04.720
day after. I'm glad he waited. Fascinating, So that was good.

419
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:09.119
Fascinating person. And then another streaming
I have a real good recommendation for people

420
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:14.079
who are like, what are we
going to watch now? Honey? Another

421
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:15.759
series? We finished this series?
What are we going to watch now?

422
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:23.359
There's a series, a TV series
starring Colin Farrell or Colin Firth Ferrell Firth,

423
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.319
Oh, Colin Firth. Yeah,
those are two separate people. They

424
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.000
have the same accent though similar.
In this movie, they're the same person.

425
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.519
It's called calling Colin. It's called
Freaky Friday. Now, this is

426
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:52.359
Colin Ferrell, Okay, And it's
called Sugar on Apple TV Plus. Have

427
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.160
you heard of it? Nos?
Too many shows you can't hear. You

428
00:32:55.160 --> 00:33:00.160
can't. You can't hear of all
this stuff. But this is your recommendation.

429
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:04.799
I mean, I'm gonna say,
you know, you can't watch everything.

430
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.319
You can tell me you're not gonna
watch it if you want, but

431
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:12.240
Sugar on Apple TV, I recommend
it. And I'll tell you why after

432
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.920
this. Sure, what's go on
live from Hollywood? If by Hollywood you

433
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.880
mean Burbank. This is two hours
of the business, end of show business.

434
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.200
This is our number two Sam,
Yeah, what a special occasion.

435
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:30.400
Let's go back to a little bit
of this men behaving badly or celebrities behaving

436
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:38.519
badly segment that contained P Diddy,
who is now admitting that he that he

437
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:49.000
beat the girl that everyone saw him
beating. So we we talked about My

438
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:53.839
idea for him was to give all
his money away now and give it away

439
00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:58.880
and then say and have everybody go, Wow, what a man. He

440
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.880
really is a different man because he
gave away all his money. And then

441
00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:06.000
you just kind of chill for a
little bit and then go make a deal

442
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.480
where you get a six million dollar
advance for something. I don't know what

443
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.320
it's gonna be. Could be a
record, could be a documentary, could

444
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:17.039
be no holds barred documentary about everything
he did, could be an expos on

445
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.840
sex trafficking. He could give all
his money to a sex trafficking you know

446
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.239
what, I would give all the
many too what In and Out Burger?

447
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:38.039
In and Out Burger as a sex
trafficking or a human trafficking charity? Slave

448
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.119
to no one. I can't believe
I pulled that out of my sixty one

449
00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:45.480
year old brain. It's called slave
to know one. So P Diddy gives

450
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:52.440
all his money to Lindsey Schneider I
think is her name. She's the heiress

451
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.599
over there that runs the In and
Out Burger, the best run company in

452
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.639
America, or at least in the
top ten. I don't know if you

453
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:01.559
saw the news this week. They
take care of those employees, the best

454
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:09.639
leadership going on there, and Lindsay
is there doing her best to put an

455
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:15.960
end to human trafficking. So P
Diddy, if you're listening, give all

456
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:21.400
your money to Lindsay Sneyder, every
single penny of it for two reasons.

457
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:28.119
Because everyone's going to say, oh, isn't that nice. He's gonna end

458
00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:30.760
he's taking all his money. Some
people. I've given some of my money

459
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:35.199
to slave to Nothing, just some
of it. But I didn't give all

460
00:35:35.239 --> 00:35:38.119
my money. I kept a bunch
of money so I could belong to many

461
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:45.599
private clubs and travel to Europe occasionally. But he did. He's not going

462
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:47.440
to do that. He's going to
give all his money. Then he's going

463
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:52.760
to get so much sympathy for giving
all his money to this charity slave to

464
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:59.039
Nothing, that he will have a
second chance. And then all he has

465
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.320
to do is sit there and wait
for somebody to say, you know what,

466
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:04.760
he has a second chance. Let's
put him in this movie. Let's

467
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:08.559
let's record, let's do a duet
with him. Maybe a known UH singer

468
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:10.679
will say, I'm gonna I want
to be the first to reach out because

469
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.000
this guy did what no one else
would do, and he admitted is wrongdoing,

470
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:16.880
and he gives me all his money. You have to give up all

471
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.719
of his businesses too. Let's make
it clear, not just the retord,

472
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:27.679
sell everything, everything, everything,
the prostitution business that he has everything,

473
00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:31.199
So he gives it all away.
Yeah, they sell the businesses and and

474
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.400
then then he see the reason why
you give it to in an out burger

475
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:38.920
is because because you have no money, you have no food you can't eat,

476
00:36:39.239 --> 00:36:43.119
but they'll give you a gift certificates. Yeah, there's the little cards.

477
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.119
Yeah, free free burgers. Sometimes
it's free burger and French fries and

478
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:50.519
a drink. Yeah, my kid
got one for behaving well at school.

479
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.079
It was great. I give him
out in my County chism class. If

480
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:58.840
if somebody has a good answer that
doesn't blasphemous. So that's what you do.

481
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:00.159
And this is what I was saying
here. There is what Bill Cosby

482
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.960
should have done. That Bill Cosby
could have given all his money away and

483
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.440
then everyone and said I'm really sorry, and then he'd be working right now

484
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:13.400
and right and instead of being a
pariah. This is how you you really

485
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:15.800
turn your You don't you don't run
around, deny. I'm gonna beat this

486
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:19.079
in court. And as soon as
I beat this in court, then what

487
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.679
are you gonna do. I'm gonna
I'm gonna win this lawsuit. Why don't

488
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.199
you just give all your money to
this charity and settle all these lawsuits too.

489
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.519
You don't want any victims line around
that are unpaid. And then you,

490
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.679
you know, you get to say, you get to really start over.

491
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:37.960
But Bill Cosby's just going Yeah,
I really really won that case turned

492
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.800
over on appeal. You don't want
to live like that, he can't work?

493
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:45.119
Yeah, you want to work because
work, especially for big celebrities.

494
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:46.519
Can you imagine Bill Cosby if you
have done that, he'd be working right

495
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:50.360
now, he'd be in a movie
with Martin Lawrence. People tend to be

496
00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:58.199
very forgiving of people's misdeeds from the
past. And if you're going to do

497
00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:02.039
something that is that, like really, if you're going to fall on the

498
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:07.280
sword that hard for it, it's
gonna make it so that people would probably

499
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:09.360
be more likely to want to work
with you beyond that. Right now,

500
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:13.199
Bill Cosby's never going to work again. No, he could. He did

501
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:15.280
he If he doesn't, if he
doesn't take a drastic step like that,

502
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:21.320
he's never going to work again.
He's he's only fifty four years old.

503
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:22.559
You know, he's got a lot. He's got a lot. What are

504
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.800
you gonna do not work? Yeah, you know, I mean he might

505
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:30.639
go to jail. But if he
did this, now, every jury in

506
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:32.239
the world, every jury in the
world, will go like this guy really

507
00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:39.039
did apologize that he gave all this
money to sleep to nothing. I don't

508
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:44.199
know, that's just remind you,
I have a limited world with ideas that

509
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:49.199
aren't you know that are that you
might not think her? Well, I

510
00:38:49.239 --> 00:38:51.679
don't know how could anyone not think
that's a great idea. I was about

511
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.760
to self deprecate myself, But why
should I win? My suggestion was genius

512
00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:58.840
and it's going to save his whole
career, maybe his life, and help

513
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:00.679
help people. And you know what, all that money doesn't go to lawyers.

514
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:06.159
Yea, how how that's another thing. People don't like lawyers. And

515
00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:09.039
all that money was going to go
to lawyers. And now it goes directly

516
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:15.559
to end human trafficking. Okay,
And that's a lot of money. There

517
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:16.639
will be a lot of money.
He's kind of losing his money now,

518
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:21.039
he's got some he's in a financial
free fall. But he can sell stuff

519
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.960
and and and he just got to
get rid of everything everything. And you

520
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:30.239
just live off in and out burger
cards for a while, and then you

521
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:32.159
wait for the offers to come in. And if he wants to come to

522
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:35.960
my management company, I will,
I will. I will take that client.

523
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:42.559
Get a single on k Rock trying
to think what I can do for

524
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:44.960
him. I get a single,
I can get him a single on k

525
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:50.079
Rock. Got one coming out this
this Wednesday. I know that's a competitor

526
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:52.719
here, but there's like there's it's
going to come to one of the iHeart

527
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:55.679
stations too. Sublime. New song
from Sublime coming out this week. Oh

528
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.679
congrat Bradley No, Yeah, and
his son Jacob and the same song singing

529
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:06.360
together. Wow, Okay, that's
going to be really cool. Johnny Mathis

530
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:12.480
type get what No Nat King Cole, Nat king Cole with Natalie Cole.

531
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:15.960
Yeah, with Natalie Coole. That's
that's phenomenal. That's going to be outstanding.

532
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.159
Heard on ninety eight seven. It's
going to be there. And then

533
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:24.639
that one duet between Johnny Mathis and
Travis Mathis was that one wasn't good.

534
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:30.000
I didn't go anywhere, okay,
but uh yeah, so this week we

535
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:35.079
got some I could do that for
Diddy. I think I didn't you know,

536
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.719
I didn't even mean to turn this
into something would benefit me. I

537
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.760
think I would benefit everybody. Just
the reduction in the traffic, the trafficking

538
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:43.880
was all I was thinking about.
But now I think I could make a

539
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:47.360
book off this, and then I
could give more to that and I can

540
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.760
just sit idly by and just shake
my head nodding in approval and not see

541
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:59.039
a penny. You just said Nazi, I did, okay, speaking of

542
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:08.079
nazis good smooth. There is a
house that is for sale in Berlin right

543
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:15.679
now, and it's free. You
know you've seen this. Well, you

544
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:22.800
know there's a transaction. Maybe there'll
be like one deutsch mark, just symbolic,

545
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:29.920
you know, exchange for consideration.
But if you want to kind of

546
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:37.880
a you know, a decent state
in deutsch Land, in Berlin, there's

547
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:43.480
one for free. But you have
you have to be okay with a couple

548
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:47.920
stipulations. One is you gotta be
okay that it was used to belong to

549
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:57.000
Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels
Joey as he was to his friends.

550
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:01.800
And I guess they've found some bodies
there too. Horrendous. Yeah, it's

551
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:06.840
atrocious. It's because it comes from
an atrocity. Yes, yes, so

552
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.159
I heard. Japan is very nice
to move to right now, by the

553
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:15.320
way, cheap, cheaper than all
hell. Oh yeah, oh man,

554
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.719
it's like moving to Tijuana. But
the food is I can say it's just

555
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:22.519
as good. I'd say they're equal. It's really good out there. Okay,

556
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:29.559
So, so Berlin is trying to
offload this this this land's It has

557
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.840
repeatedly tried to hand it off to
federal authorities or the state of Brandenburg,

558
00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.440
where the villa lies, rather than
continue to pay for maintenance and security at

559
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:43.119
the complex, which has become overgrown
and fallen into disrepair. They have renewed

560
00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:46.039
the offer last Thursday, calling for
proposals that reflected the site's history. He

561
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:51.480
didn't say if the proposal from private
individuals would also be considered. I guess

562
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:58.039
they're trying to get just trying to
get one other government and his entity to

563
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:00.440
take this over. But you can
have a non government and to tea like

564
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:01.920
an NGO or one of those.
I think you could probably form some kind

565
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:07.199
of nonprofit and take it over if
you want. And it sounds ridiculously complicated

566
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:12.480
for something that you could just take
a wrecking ball to. Oh you know,

567
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:14.679
that's funny you mentioned Japan, because
when I was in Japan, some

568
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:16.840
guy was telling me all these houses
that just are given away, That's what

569
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:20.880
I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
they're given away. Yeah, there's and

570
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:22.760
it's too hard to maintain them,
and so they're just walking away, like

571
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:27.960
neighborhoods that are like an hour or
so outside of Tokyo. There are really

572
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:31.920
like insanely priced housing out there,
and the cost of living out there is

573
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:37.599
plummeted. Yeah, I'm very much
ententing about it. I'm very enticed,

574
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.480
but I don't want to Maybe we
should tell those away from my kids.

575
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:44.599
What have we told these people at
the border that there's a better place with

576
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:47.159
cheaper houses, so you can get
a free house. It's a long swim.

577
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:52.400
Well maybe we could get Maybe the
governor of Texas would fly them over

578
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.280
there. You know, he has
been flying people all over the place.

579
00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:57.639
Why not, Because when I was
in Japan and I was talking to my

580
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.960
wife about this, was having one
of the discussions this country need it needs

581
00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:07.719
Filipinos because they have a very strict
immigration policy over there, don't want any

582
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:13.119
non Japanese there. But sooner or
later you need Filipinos to do work and

583
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:19.199
to do service, and they will
come. And I never thought about Mexicans.

584
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:29.239
H never thought about it. Salvadorians, by the way, have you

585
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:34.400
seen in Japan there's like a town
that's like totally devoted like East La style.

586
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.119
That's cultural appropriation. And I cannot. It's no, but I mean

587
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:45.760
like Latinos move out there, they
set up like yeah, like it's like

588
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:49.119
a little East La out there.
I didn't see it. I need to.

589
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:51.000
I'll look into this. I'll see
if I can find it for you

590
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.679
and send it to It's fascinating if
you go to a break Joe Wiscalante Live

591
00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:01.400
from Hollywood, Let's check the traffic. Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By

592
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:07.000
Hollywood. You mean for bank the
You ever heard of the upfronts? SAM

593
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:13.400
Upfronts. No, the upfronts are
where the TV networks go to. They

594
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:17.079
go to New York and then the
advertising community shows up and they give a

595
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:25.159
big presentation and they show the advertisers
what the new season looks like, then

596
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:29.880
the news. Then the advertisers get
excited, they get drunk, and then

597
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:35.639
they say, that's pretty cool.
Let's buy some advertising on these new shows.

598
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:37.960
You got it, But you have
to give them you got They got

599
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.239
to know what they are and you
have to dazzle them. So the way

600
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:45.159
they dazzle them at ABC is they
bring in Jimmy Kimmel out and he does

601
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:51.480
some stick and says, but I
get he's he's an interesting guy because he's

602
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:59.719
I don't know, he just he
just brutalizes the network during the speech,

603
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:05.840
and they keep bringing him back.
I don't know why, but a lot

604
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:09.800
of hosts have been doing that.
They're very taking shots at their own company,

605
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:14.159
their companies that feed them. I
guess that's like, that's how you

606
00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:17.119
show you don't work for the man. You know. John Oliver does that

607
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.000
a lot, right, I just
you know, whatever man I work for,

608
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.960
I'm usually a little more respectful of
the man right here. We're working

609
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:31.199
for the iheartman. Yep. Yeah, good for him or her or they.

610
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:37.119
I don't care, but I'm not
going to bash them. Here's a

611
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:42.159
couple of his best jokes. He
said, the Golden Bachelor is a key

612
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:47.039
part of the ABC strategy to steal
CBS's viewers by putting them in a house

613
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:54.440
together. See that's a dig at
CBS because they usually traditionally have higher demographics.

614
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:59.239
They're old people watch CBS. So
if picture if you're in a room

615
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:01.400
full of advertised and they all know
that, like, well, we can

616
00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:05.960
buy CBS commercials, but we're only
going to be reaching old people. And

617
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.440
so then you get an old people
joke and then everybody laughs. But he's

618
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:14.320
also saying ABC is trying to get
in on the old people game, which

619
00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:17.760
is not valuable. They've already made
up their mind and what products, what

620
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:21.440
kind of toothpaste that they buy,
so you can't give him a commercial,

621
00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:25.239
yeah, and tell them to change
toothpaste. They won't do it. Okay,

622
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.599
So then he says, we're now
latching the Golden Bachelorette, the game

623
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:36.760
show where you can win an old
lady. It's funny, but can you

624
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:43.679
say that you know you can win
an old lady. I'm just picturing price

625
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:49.320
is right, and Rod Roddy going
an old lady. Yeah. And he

626
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.760
said something else about the old lady, about when she's in a jacuzzie and

627
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.480
are the grandkids ready to see her? Blank blankty blank blank. I'm not

628
00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:00.800
going to say that one. Then
he Bob Iger, his boss, directly

629
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:06.119
makes fun of Bob Iger should be
retired by now. He should be off

630
00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:09.119
on a yacht somewhere. Instead,
he's pretending to be excited about a new

631
00:48:09.159 --> 00:48:15.159
season of Will effing Trent. Now
you probably haven't heard Will Trent heard of

632
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:17.280
it? No, that's a show. Yeah, I mean, this is

633
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:22.400
how fractured we are as of viewing
public. We don't even know these shows.

634
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.840
That's why you want to watch Sugar. If we can all get behind

635
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.239
this one show, then we can
talk about it. Sugar. Colin Farrell

636
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:37.559
plays a like a grizzled La Private
detective as good a job with the grizzled

637
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:43.000
La Private Detective as I've ever seen, as good as Chinatown. So when

638
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:49.440
you watch Chinatown, you're like,
why can't everybody do the detective La detective

639
00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.840
thing like this guy? Or maybe
La Confidential has got some good detectives.

640
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:58.559
So old timey private and this is
the fifties this thing takes place in and

641
00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:01.400
Colin Farrell's a very, very,
very good actor. He's at his best

642
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:08.599
in Sugar on Apple TV. I'm
telling you never been better. It is

643
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:13.800
like a perfect television perfect. Now. The problem with shows like this is,

644
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:15.920
well, how you get it?
How did you sign up Colin Ferrell,

645
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:22.079
who has a lucrative feature film career
into a TV show? Now,

646
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:27.920
normally you wouldn't be able to do
that. And that's why in my day

647
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:32.280
it was not prestigious for a Hollywood
star to be in in a TV series.

648
00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:37.480
It was looked down upon. When
we got Chuck Norris for Walker Texas

649
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.400
Ranger. He was getting old and
he was saying, you know what,

650
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:45.280
I just want to I just want
to get you know, you get a

651
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:49.000
TV show filmed in Texas. He
lives in Texas, and you're just going

652
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.480
to you know, you're just going
to the set every day and you're not

653
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:58.760
flying to Ebo Jima to make a
jungle movie or whatever. So that,

654
00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:00.639
you know, that was a typical
a certain kind of celebrity. They're just

655
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:02.559
kind of done with it, you
know. And it's not like he was

656
00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:07.920
making Oscar films at the time.
But now you can get Colin Farrellhill in

657
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.599
an Oscar next year who knows,
but he's on a TV show this year.

658
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:15.639
How did they do it? One
well, one one reason is Kevin

659
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:21.719
Spacey did it in a House of
Cards. And when he did it,

660
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.400
and other people started doing it,
and then there was like, Okay,

661
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:28.119
it's a little more prestigious, and
then everyone said, oh, you got

662
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:30.000
to get on one of these series. They're great and make a lot of

663
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:32.079
money. Ton of money. Now
he wasn't just like Walker Texas Ranger.

664
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:37.760
That guy was making I can openly
say, since I made the deal he

665
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:39.400
making two hundred and fifteen thousand an
episode. I think it started at one

666
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.559
seventy five and then it would just
go up and up and up. But

667
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:45.880
now these guys are making you know, a million in episode, yeah,

668
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:51.000
or more two million in episodes.
I'm on Apple TV. Friends were making

669
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.480
like bank per episode at the end
there, yeah, at the end,

670
00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:55.880
but at the end, and in
a show like that, you could calculate

671
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.239
how much money they were there.
I mean, they're their age. It's

672
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:06.119
new way way. Wait, you're
getting a million dollars a thirty second ad.

673
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:12.559
You how many thirty second ads do
you have? Forty plus? Okay,

674
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:16.760
forty plus times a million. That's
forty million dollars a half hour.

675
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:23.000
You certainly can afford a million or
two per cast member. But now Apple

676
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:29.800
doesn't make a dime on these TV
shows, and they're giving people two million

677
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.559
in episodes anyway, So you're gonna
get more money these days. But also,

678
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:36.639
here's the point I'm getting at.
Colin Ferrell doesn't have to sign up

679
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:37.960
for seven years. When I used
to make TV deals, you know,

680
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:42.000
I would sign someone up for six
six years of six seasons. You sign

681
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:44.239
this piece of paper we have you
for six seasons. If you don't do

682
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:47.199
it, we're gonna sue you.
And when I say don't do it,

683
00:51:47.199 --> 00:51:51.960
it doesn't mean you can't go off
and make movies. You can't be in

684
00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:57.920
a TV series. So we don't
Netflix, Apple all those things. They

685
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.400
don't make those deals. Now,
yeah, they make a one seas deal.

686
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:05.039
So now that we have one season
of Sugar, when are we gonna

687
00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:08.639
get the second season? Who knows? Takes forever now in the streaming world,

688
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:13.039
streaming is not perfect. Joe Scalante
Live from Hollywood back after this,

689
00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:19.639
Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. By
Hollywood, you mean burd Bank. Okay,

690
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:25.440
there's a lot of anticipated movies right
now coming into the summer box office

691
00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:31.039
season. Sam Yeah, and the
Con Film Festival previews a lot of them,

692
00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:38.440
mostly kind of like high brow ones
and not the the like Bad Boys.

693
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:45.480
Ride or Die is probably not screening
at Con this year, so not

694
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:50.880
not so so much of the artsy
film that they would usually have. But

695
00:52:51.199 --> 00:53:00.280
the big talk at Con is Megalopolis
from Francis Ford Coppola. You might remember

696
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:10.559
Francis Ford Coppola from the movie Apocalypse
Now or Godfather. The Godfather won two

697
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:21.239
and three, The Godfather, The
Search for Kurtley's Gold medalopolis one hundred and

698
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:22.679
twenty million dollars and he put a
bunch of his own money into it,

699
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:27.760
one hundred and twenty million dollar budget, and people are calling it like,

700
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.559
well, he got to he made
you know, Apocalypse, Now he made

701
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:37.400
The Godfather. He gets to do
whatever he wants. He gets to make

702
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:44.599
a movie that he, you know, doesn't have to answer to anybody.

703
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.719
Yeah, no, notes, no, you make whatever you want. Here's

704
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:53.760
your money, and some of it's
his money. So people are saying it's

705
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:58.960
unlike any other movie you ever made. It's a weirdo movie. But it

706
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:01.840
has regular stars, and it have
Adam Driver. We have the lovely Aubrey

707
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.159
Plaza. I think that was a
very smart move because I'll look at her

708
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:10.400
for an hour and thirty eight minutes. Shi La Buff, genius of our

709
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:16.320
time, John Voight, another genius
of our time. Lawrence Fishburne, Jason

710
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:21.800
Schwarzman, who's just a super cool
guy, and his mother Talia Shai are

711
00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:27.119
also in the movie. Wow,
yeah, look at that. And Dustin

712
00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:30.800
Hoffman. You might have heard of
him. How many people are in this

713
00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:34.480
there's a lot of people you want
to see a lot of people see the

714
00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:37.199
movie Unfrosted with Jerry Seinfeld. Oh
yeah, no, I heard about this,

715
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:42.239
Yeah, but nothing compared to that. But this is a you know,

716
00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:47.039
it's got talent from old school talent
to people like Adam Driver, talent

717
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:53.880
that's hitting big right now. Yeah. Interesting. I'm intrigued by the cast.

718
00:54:54.239 --> 00:55:00.159
But I've also been hearing some interesting
reviews about it. Let's play the

719
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.159
trailer and see what see if that
gives us any clue. Now this is

720
00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.679
before you play it, let me
tell you kind of. The synopsis is

721
00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:12.159
a an accident destroys a decaying a
metropolis called New Rome, and it's run

722
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:15.519
by a guy named Caesar. He's
an idealist architect with the power to control

723
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:21.440
time, and he aims to rebuild
it as a sustainable utopia, while his

724
00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:28.199
opposition, the corrupt mayor Franklin Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo

725
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:37.039
Tom being them. Torn between them
is Franklin's socialite daughter Julia, who tired

726
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:50.280
of the influence she inherited, search
us for life's meaning going When does an

727
00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:59.400
empire die? Does it collapse in
one? Terribly? No? No,

728
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:06.280
But there comes a time when it's
people no longer believe in it. Don't

729
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:16.239
let them out destroyed the forever,
Lady and Gney, I kill the Oh

730
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:30.760
the whole may welcome. Is this
society? It's this way we're looking the

731
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:47.760
only one that's available to you when
we ask these questions. When there's a

732
00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:57.599
dialogue about them, that basically is
a utopia. So he's spilling in utopia

733
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:07.960
and somebody is against this yotopia utopia. They're there for the status quo.

734
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.800
All I know is just listening to
it. I was thinking to myself when

735
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:15.480
I heard that waw sound that you
know this was a movie that was going

736
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:19.440
to have great scale and scope.
It was big. Yeah, it has

737
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:24.360
the same cinephotog, cinematographer from Jojo
Rabbit, which was actually great movie.

738
00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:29.679
Want's best movies. So yeah,
I mean, we're all going to see

739
00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:30.800
it, right, we can't not
see it? Who cannot see that?

740
00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:37.079
Who's going to not see that?
Are we segueing to another Nazi story?

741
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:42.480
Is that what you're getting to?
I'm just kidding anyone Nazi? Who's going

742
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.559
to not see that? Oh?
I didn't even notice I was doing that.

743
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:52.920
We did it earlier. That just
you know that's a callback. I

744
00:57:52.960 --> 00:58:00.440
know. I was, well,
there is a movie about these very small

745
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:07.519
German fascists and the how they tie
their shoes. Well, also we were

746
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:10.320
talking about Jojo Rabbits, so there
you go, how do they tie their

747
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:17.679
shoes? I don't want to know
in Little Nazis. So yeah, we

748
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:21.519
may get canceled for that because it
was just so bad. It wasn't so

749
00:58:21.559 --> 00:58:27.880
offensive. Is it just a bad? So I did have another Nazi story.

750
00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:32.559
There you go. Nazis good,
clickbait good. You know people people

751
00:58:32.719 --> 00:58:37.760
like to hate these people, of
course, and Jojo Rabbit, by the

752
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:40.639
way, outstanding film. So if
you if it's made by the same cinematographer

753
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.400
as Jojo Rabbit, that alone is
enough of an enticement for me. Well,

754
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:51.039
people are are saying, what what
what? What review did you hear

755
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:52.840
about it? It's mixed reviews.
A lot of people are saying this is

756
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:55.239
ahead of its time and a lot
of that stuff. And then some people

757
00:58:55.280 --> 00:59:00.599
are calling it are comparing it to
the Room that Tommy was so classic.

758
00:59:02.440 --> 00:59:07.920
Well the Room is an insult.
So they're saying it's a terrible movie and

759
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:14.000
it's awkward and cringey is what they're
saying, they're saying it's cringey. So

760
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:19.559
well, I mean, what can
you expect the guy. Usually a movie

761
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:21.679
takes a lot of people saying,
hey, don't do this and don't do

762
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:25.000
that, and you don't want the
weasels at the studio giving you a bunch

763
00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:29.480
of notes. But left to your
own devices, you will make a bad

764
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:35.000
movie, you know, eight out
of ten times probably, So we'll see.

765
00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:38.639
I mean, it looks amazing.
It's worth mentioning that Apocalypse Now got

766
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:42.960
mixed reviews when it came out,
and now that's like one of the that's

767
00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:46.719
considered one of the gold standards of
American filmmaking. Yeah, I didn't hear.

768
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.400
Yeah, I guess people thought it
was a little weird. Yeah it

769
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:52.760
was. It was definitely ahead of
its time filmmaking. That was the first

770
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:57.440
movie I bought advanced tickets too,
because advanced tickets were not a thing back

771
00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:02.480
then. But the Cinerama dome here
in Hollywood at advanced tickets and they were

772
01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:07.199
this is how they were celebrating this
new monumental film. And so I had

773
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:14.199
to drive up to Hollywood from Rossmore
and buy my tickets. And then actually

774
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:19.599
then I went surfing in Malibu,
because I thought, well, I'll go

775
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.519
buy tickets and I'll just go surfing
in malibuuse since I'm already up there.

776
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:29.360
Back then it only took forty minutes
to get from Cinerama Doome Dough to Malibu,

777
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:31.159
so but now it would probably take
about an hour and a half,

778
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:36.159
so I didn't have a good grasp
of the map back then. I'm just

779
01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:39.519
checking more of the reviews on Megalopolis. Some people are saying it's hilarious sometimes

780
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:49.760
even sometimes even intentionally, and another
one is it's pretentious portent tis curio?

781
01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:53.559
What does that mean? There's a
lot of there's a lot of weird talk

782
01:00:53.599 --> 01:01:01.039
in the movie. There's a lot
of just like scenes from Shakespeare, just

783
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:07.199
just you know, blurted out for
for no reason. And then there's some

784
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:12.719
just Latin, some lines in Latin
that are just blurted out. So,

785
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:16.519
uh, you know, apparently they
got a standing ovation at Con how many

786
01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:20.199
minutes? Because seven minutes? Seven
minutes? Can you imagine that they do

787
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:25.000
that at Con? They they seven
minutes. That's how you determine how great

788
01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:29.000
a film is over there by the
minute of the standing ovation. Wow,

789
01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:31.000
that's fantastic. They keep a track
and there's a guy there with them.

790
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:36.159
Did they do over unders in Vegas
on this I'll bet they do. They

791
01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:40.119
should like this movie's gonna be you
know, over under on this one is

792
01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:50.360
six and a half minutes. I
want to see a I'll get some more

793
01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:53.039
of those reviews because some of the
bad reviews. Let's take a break and

794
01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:54.719
we can come back. You it
we come back, I'll give you.

795
01:01:54.800 --> 01:02:00.159
I'll give you some of the best
bad reviews from Megalopolis. Joe'squalante Live from

796
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:07.199
Hollywood, Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood
by Hollywood. You mean that's promised.

797
01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:12.679
We have some some bad reviews for
you for Megalopolis. I mean, I'm

798
01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:15.000
not saying it's a bad movie,
but I just like bad reviews con they're

799
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.280
clever and Sam, you got some
over there. I've got a few.

800
01:02:17.320 --> 01:02:23.880
First off, it's sixty or sorry, fifty nine on Metacritic right now low

801
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:29.159
and thirty eight on Rotten thirty eight
percent of Rotten Tomatoes. It's like Joe

802
01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:34.719
Biden levels. It's the approval numbers
on this are are pretty catastrophic, but

803
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:38.480
one of the best reviews I've seen. It said, the more people say

804
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:45.119
it's unsellable coming out of out of
con the more people want to see it,

805
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:49.039
so I could see why it's getting
the comparisons to the Room, because

806
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.039
that's literally the reason why people went
to see it and it became the cult

807
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.800
classic that it was is because people
wanted to see this train wreck. Well

808
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:06.760
this movie is it made one.
It did one thing right. There's other

809
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.159
terrible movies out there, like Killers
under the Flower Moon. It's like three

810
01:03:09.159 --> 01:03:14.480
hours long. This movie's only an
hour and thirty eight minutes. Oh fantastic.

811
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:17.559
Yeah, no, everybody's got time
for that. You know, it's

812
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:21.320
an hour and thirty eight minutes,
big deal. Or maybe it was one

813
01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:22.480
hundred and thirty eight minutes. Yeah, I know, it's one hundred and

814
01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:27.159
thirty eight minutes. So that's two
hours and eighteen minutes. But it's not

815
01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:31.880
three hours. Okay. Here in
a letterboxed, the app I used to

816
01:03:32.039 --> 01:03:37.679
find out what movies are playing or
what movie reviews and stuff. If you

817
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:39.719
go to my letterbox account, you
can see every movie. I see,

818
01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:44.000
every one of them, in what
order and what theater and what time did

819
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:47.760
I go see them? In my
diary. Not that you want to see

820
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:51.360
that, but you know if you
do. Sometimes you say, what was

821
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.719
that movie Joe talked about on his
radio show? Go to my letterbox account,

822
01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:57.960
it's going to be right there.
I don't do a lot of reviews,

823
01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:00.519
though, I just kind of remind
me, I'm there right my myself

824
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:02.039
what the movie was about, because
I can never remember what movies were about.

825
01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:05.159
So this one, there's a couple
of good reviews and then the half

826
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:13.519
star section on letterboxed. This guy
Lily Bilb says, I started using letterbox

827
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:18.840
again just so I could shiit on
this movie. Bes twenty seven says thought

828
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:27.159
this was a sequel to the meg
I was very disappointed. It's like saying,

829
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:32.400
I thought this was Sharknado two My
bad sixteen twelve. Havenhurst says,

830
01:04:33.119 --> 01:04:38.920
that's a real Hollywood person. Wiseo's
the Room had better cinematography than this movie.

831
01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:44.280
I'm telling you, better everything.
I'm telling you. That's the comparison

832
01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:45.920
that people are making. And if
that's the case, then this is gonna

833
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:51.000
become a cult classic because of how
bad it is. Now. I'm just

834
01:04:51.039 --> 01:04:57.199
curious to see it because it's so
apparently experimental that it's just, you know,

835
01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:00.360
gonna be a unique film experience.
In and of itself. So I

836
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:04.480
alone want to see that, and
I may, I may pre order tickets

837
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:08.199
on that whenever it happens to come
out. If it ever comes out,

838
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:13.320
it's unsellable. Apparently, Oh it'll
come out. It'll make money. There's

839
01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:15.519
gonna be people that are gonna want
to see this train wreck. People watch

840
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:20.880
train wrecks. Speaking of train wrecks, what about Scotty Scheffler getting arrested right

841
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:27.719
before the uh the PGA match that
he was doing. I had no idea

842
01:05:27.719 --> 01:05:30.840
what, oh, I know,
I think I heard about this where he

843
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.679
got he was trying to get to
the match, and there was a traffic

844
01:05:34.760 --> 01:05:40.960
jam and he like broke several laws
doing it and had a confrontation with cops

845
01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:44.480
and all kinds of fun stuff.
And as of now, I don't know

846
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.719
how long this goes on, but
yeah, he was They told him to

847
01:05:47.719 --> 01:05:51.960
stop, and he kept going because
he had to go around these barricades so

848
01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:55.159
he had to get to the match. And he didn't know it was a

849
01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:58.719
cop, he says, so he
just even know he guys a boy scout,

850
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:06.199
an eagle scout, so he he
uh, he went. Did he

851
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:17.199
tie the police officer into knots.
He he ended up dragging the guy WHOA

852
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:23.480
that's different and h and he goes
to jail. He had to do all

853
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.639
his warm ups in jail, been
to jail before, and he didn't know

854
01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:30.480
it was a cop. And then
he gets up there and and then like

855
01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:34.440
he's like five under in the first
round, just shoot, doesn't care nothing,

856
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:38.559
went to jail, never once said
do you know who I am?

857
01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:40.599
He just went to jail. All
right, I'll go to jail. And

858
01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:42.800
then they let him out of jail. He went. He made his tea

859
01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:48.280
time five under in the first round, outstanding and uh got a tattoo in

860
01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:56.800
an earring as well. Apparently joined
the joined the crips. I guess while

861
01:06:56.800 --> 01:07:00.199
he was in there. Good for
him now, but he's okay. You

862
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:03.000
know what. The Scotti Scheffler needed
that because nobody knows who the best golfer

863
01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:05.960
in the world is. We don't
have any higher woods anymore. Now we

864
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:12.079
have Scotti Scheffler. The number one
golfer in the world is now famous.

865
01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:15.199
He can now be on Saturday Night
Live. That's fun, you know.

866
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:16.679
Good for him to have this,
Good for golf, it's good for everybody.

867
01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:21.119
There was a fatal accident unrelated to
this that that's where they were blocking

868
01:07:21.119 --> 01:07:25.239
off ah. But other than that, it was you know, it was

869
01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:29.119
a win win. Okay. Now
that's some good PR. By the way,

870
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:32.760
I can't buy that exactly, can't
buy that, no street cred.

871
01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:38.480
There is a speaking of bad PR
but actually kind of good PR. As

872
01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:42.079
a band I talked about last week
called Trophy Eyes, and a girl was

873
01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:45.920
partially paralyzed at the show because the
singer, you know, he stage dive.

874
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:49.280
There wasn't enough people there to do
a stage dive. And when I

875
01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:53.280
was researching it, I thought,
what kind of an idiot would do this?

876
01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:55.760
And I'm like, wait, this
band's from Australia. They're playing in

877
01:07:56.480 --> 01:08:00.320
Buffalo. What is this? And
I go to see how bad they are,

878
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:02.760
you know, because I like to, you know, pile on sometimes.

879
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:06.760
And then I went and they're really
good. Then I researched them a

880
01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:12.199
little man. These guys are really
good. And then and then the guy,

881
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:14.880
the singer, rode to the hospital
with the girl. He didn't abandon

882
01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:19.399
her. And then I went to
see them. They were playing out,

883
01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:21.960
Yeah, they were playing at the
Tarot ground Ballroom on Thursday. I went

884
01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:25.760
they were fantastic, one of the
best shows I've been to in a long

885
01:08:25.800 --> 01:08:29.920
long time. So I think everybody. If you go to my Facebook page

886
01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:33.880
for the radio show Joe's Golanti Life
from Hollywood, you can see the GoFundMe

887
01:08:33.880 --> 01:08:38.199
for the girl, you could donate. She has seventy six thousand dollars raised

888
01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:42.520
so far. I'm hearing that she's
going to make a full recovery. Good,

889
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:45.439
but she's gonna need this money to
make that recovery. And what we

890
01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:47.600
want to do here is make sure
she has enough money so her parents don't

891
01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:50.680
decide to sue the band, because
that would be devastating to the band.

892
01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:55.239
I think the band is contrite.
They were trying to stop stage diving going

893
01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:58.439
on at the Teoground Ballroom, and
it was kind of like he was trying

894
01:08:58.479 --> 01:09:00.359
to like do a show and trying
to stop people. I mean, is

895
01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:05.520
you could tell it really affected the
band to go for him. So's she's

896
01:09:05.560 --> 01:09:10.119
a fan of the band. She
hasn't filed any legal action. I think

897
01:09:10.159 --> 01:09:14.600
she just wants to. It's just
to you know, not be that person.

898
01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:16.800
But sometimes the parents do. But
she's a grown adult. I think

899
01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:20.000
this will end up just like everybody
pitching in and helping and we don't need

900
01:09:20.039 --> 01:09:26.279
to give any money to lawyers.
Yeah. So the band is called Trophy

901
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:30.720
Eyes and the go fundme you can
see on my Facebook page, or you

902
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:34.239
could just search go fund fundme,
or you can search paralyzed. You know

903
01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:40.359
girl from Trophy Eyes. Her name
is Bird Piche. So do what you

904
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:44.359
can do, all right, that's
it, and I'll leave you just a

905
01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:45.560
taste of the greatest song ever written.